"shall the prince of this world be cast out" - The More Money Is, The More Viruses Are

 

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The More Money Is, The More Viruses Are

Money represents the worldly political and economic system.  With money, one can buy anything priced.  Money has strong power and effectiveness, and it is not asked usually how you get or earn money.  Money was not invented or given by the God.  On the contrary, Christ Jesus said to choose the God or money.  Put simply, explicit hatred against money is the most unique and significant teaching of Christ Jesus.

Money, wealth, happiness, and success are major elements denied by Christ Jesus.  The God loves the poor, the deprived, the sick, and the failed.  The less you have money, the more you are loved by the God and Christ Jesus.

If all of one's neighbors are kind and the social system is based on love, one does not need money.  On the contrary, if one has big money, he does not need neighbors' love and he would not mind social system based on love.

If you think you cannot take others into confidence, you would rely on money.  If you have big money, you might find no need to take others into confidence.

Put simply, money ultimately denies love.  So, Satan uses money as an effective tool to brainwash people and capture their souls.  Men brainwashed by Satan would ultimately do anything to get more money.  And as Satan has made brainwashed people built society according to its will, one cannot get any money, even one dollar, unless he sells his soul to Satan.

Indeed, in the Bible, there are descriptions of Christ Jesus earning money and spending money.  Ultimately, people have to abandon use of money in society.  Economy in the world should be rebuilt on the principle that money should not be used.

Ideally, everyman should get everything he needs for free.  Economic activities in society should aim at other objectives than making profits.  There should be no competence for money.  And, people should eventually forget about what money is.   

At least, there is no money in Heaven or the Kingdom of the God.  Probably, in the hell, bad souls are fighting one another for money that is no use even in the hell except as something causing the fight.         

Therefore, the current world with full of money looks suitable for proliferation of corona-viruses, although this corona-pandemic seems to be part of God's warning to the mankind.   Maybe the more money is, the more viruses are.

Anyway, the God knows what we need before we ask it from Him.

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John 12  King James Version
31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

"But rather seek ye the kingdom of God" - This Pandemic: the Crucial Moment for the Mankind Facing God's Judgment

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This Pandemic: the Crucial Moment for the Mankind Facing God's Judgment

It can be thought that the current corona-pandemic was caused due to anger of the God.

This human society and human civilization have collapsed so much that the God has shown His displeasure.  So many people have sold their souls to Satan to get money and material wealth and happiness.  Accordingly the God has sent the Angel of Death with corona viruses to the human world.

Otherwise, this rotten human society under influence of Satan has harmed, attacked, tormented, afflicted, and damaged true believers of the God and true followers of Christ Jesus, so that the God must have decided to punish the whole human society.

If a man was infected by corona-viruses, he would not show symptoms only if he has true faith in the God.  If a man showed symptoms, he would not suffer an advanced disease only if he has true faith in the God.  If a man suffered an advanced illness, he would not die only if he has true faith in the God.  If a man died from the corona-pandemic, he would be allowed to enter Heaven only if he has true faith in the God. 

According to this theology, Satan wants people to further prosper and pursue more wealth so that they would love money more.  If all the mankind died down due to pandemics, Satan would not be able to tempt, brainwash, and capture human souls any more.  Annihilation of the mankind, if it ever happens, must be an act of the God but not of Satan.

However, the God is merciful and benevolent, He would not at once wipe out the mankind if He gets so angry.  The God must give enough warnings to the mankind and chances for repentance.  And, it is natural and reasonable to think that this pandemic is one of such warnings and chances.

However, unless the mankind reflect on their conducts and regret their attitudes, the real end of the world should happen in near future.  Indeed, if new viruses 100 times worse and more fatal than the current ones should be generated, the real end of the world should come.      

Otherwise, we should think that the God has waited for 2000 years after the crucifixion of Christ Jesus, the Son of the God, by the mankind, and the time must be coming for the God to judge on the human beings.  The God would rather exterminate the mankind before Satan tempts, brainwashes, and captures all the mankind with power of money.

In this context, the current pandemic is not a simple episode in the human history but must mean the crucial moment for the mankind facing God's judgment.    

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Luke 12  King James Version
29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

 

"except he first bind the strong man?" - To Suppress Corona-Viruses, Read the Bible and...

 

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To Suppress Corona-Viruses, Read the Bible and...

Christ Jesus healed and cured many diseases and invalids, according to the Bible:

Matthew 4  King James Version
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

How could Christ Jesus perform these medical acts without using medicines and medical devices without mentioning modern medical technology?

Christ Jesus just directed His mind to a sick man, showed His compassion and mercy, and certainly wished recovery of the man, which made the man well.  Or when a sick woman touched a fringe of His clothes, Christ Jesus felt power going out of Him to cure the woman, and she was cured the moment.  

However, it is said that even followers of Satan or devils can perform a magic to cure a sick man, effect of which, though, should not last long.   

For a sick man to be cured, his body must function well; his internal organs, nerves, bloods, etc. must correctly function; his immune systems must work normally; and his brain must not be troubled.  So, Christ Jesus must have been able to achieve setting these physical elements of a sick man to the normal status by outputting power to the man, which can work on those elements of his body.

Usually physical objects cannot be moved by psychic power.  It is common sense that a mountain cannot be moved by power of prayers or faith.  However, to the contrary, Christ Jesus said that a mountain could be moved to another place if a man wished so with sufficient faith without doubt.  It is opposite to teaching of modern science.  Physical entities are only influenced by physical power whether is kinetic, electro-magnetic, chemical, etc.  But, what has created physical elements in this universe?  Faithful men should answer that the God created them all.  And Christ Jesus said that the God is also spirit.  Therefore, put simply, as God's spiritual power created physical elements in the world, His spiritual power must be able to move them.  And, if a man has sufficient faith to be approved by the God and given part of God's spiritual power, he must be able to move a mountain with the spiritual power.

As Christ Jesus must have such spiritual power, He could work on every necessary part of the sick man's body to heal and cure him.

In summary, if one believes that the God created the whole universe and human bodies with His spiritual power, he can heal and cure a sick man through his spiritual power with his faith strong, pure, and deep enough to be accepted by the God, since every physical element in this universe, including human bodies, was made based on God's spirit.

Satan with strong spirit, no matter how evil it is, may also work on physical elements in this world and in human bodies.

And modern science has not been developed to the level where scientists can discover how God's spirit worked to create this whole universe.  And even if they should find truth of the creation of the universe by the God, it is a different matter to have faith and part of God's spiritual power.

Finally, we should try to have faith in Christ Jesus and the God to be given spiritual power enough to move a mountain and cure the sick.  However, it still depends on the God that even such a faithful man can effectively exercise such spiritual power.  

 

Anyway, Christian missionaries and Jewish people have never all died out and disappeared through many pandemics in the human history.  As Chinese, Hindus, Arabs, Africans, etc. have also survived through various ages of crisis, there must be many people with any type of faith, apart from what religion they believe in, that can be accepted by the God.

To suppress corona-viruses, which are also physical entities like other living or half-living things, we should read the Bible, purify our minds and souls, strengthen immunity, and activate necessary genes in cells.         


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Matthew 12  King James Version
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

"If then God so clothe the grass" - The God Gave No Prophecy on Jesus like 2020 Pandemic

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The God Gave No Prophecy on Jesus like 2020 Pandemic 

Why cannot Judaism accept Christ Jesus if not Christianity and its doctrine?  This is the most important issue for the mankind in the last 2000 years.

Why do Judaists deny, dislike, and doubt Christ Jesus so much?  Even Christians are taught to love enemies, including Judaists, by Christ Jesus and the Bible.  However, holy books of Judaism, such as the Talmud, teaches Jewish people that Christ Jesus was a failed rabbi and Christianity is a false religion.

From the crucifixion of Christ Jesus to the Holocaust in WWII in 1940's, Judaism had denied and despised Christianity, teaching Jewish people hatred or contempt for Christianity, although Christianity prevailed in Europe and America where most of Judaists and Jewish people lived.     

It is indeed an act of madness for Jewish people to believe hatred and contempt for Christ Jesus and Christianity taught by Jewish rabbis and Judaism, while they have to live in the world led and controlled by Christians.  For Jewish people to live, they have to communicate and deal with Christians in good faith.  But their religion, Judaism, teaches them that Christ Jesus was a failed rabbi or a fake messiah and Christianity is a fake religion.  Put extremely, if Jewish people were a majority in Europe and America, they would stand before Christian churches to shout at them, "Fake religion!"  However, as Jewish people are a minority, they would only keep silent to Christianity.

This abnormal state had continued for 1900 years with some violent backlashes from Christians.  But, Judaism has never changed its doctrine and policy.  It is as if Judaists were laughing at, cursing, and despising Christians, while they are feeling power of Christianity and Christians as proven through the history.

From contents of Judaism, Christ Jesus cannot be the God, the Son of the God, the messiah, or a great rabbi, which is the basic concept held by Jewish people.  Therefore, Christians who believe in and follow Christianity are fools or enemies of Jewish people, according to Judaism.

Put extremely, there would be no wonder if Nazis and Hitler had been Judaists, and victims in Auschwitz had been Christians, from this point of view.  Hatred and contempt in Judaism for Christ Jesus and Christianity are so strong and so deeply rooted.  However, after WWII, Judaists seem to well hide their hatred and contempt for Christians.   

Of course, Christianity is also responsible by adopting the Gospels where Jewish people are blamed for the crucifixion of Christ Jesus.  Those Gospels present an opinion against Jewish people.  So, some Christians who read the Bible might hate Jewish people who deny Christ Jesus, their God.

But, we have to remember that Satan has been working secretly behind the scene against Christ Jesus and the God.  So, it is natural that Satan brainwashed Judaists so as to hate Christ Jesus and Christianity.  Satan also brainwashed some Christians to abhor Jewish people.  Satan has made full efforts to make Christians and Judaists hate each other, which caused the Holocaust in WWII.

It is most likely that the God would say to its believers: "Do not think of other religions but concentrate on my teaching."  Indeed, the God has never directly said to any Jewish man that Christ Jesus was a phony man.  Put extremely, Jewish people should abandon some parts of its sacred books so that they would not hate and despise Christianity.

As the God did not clearly foretell that a big pandemic would occur in 2020, He had not clearly foretell that His Son would be born among Jewish people around AD 1.  But it does not mean that a big pandemic has not occurred in 2020, and the Son of the God was not born among the mankind around AD 1.     

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Luke 12  King James Version

27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

"I have both glorified it" - Unification of Christianity and Judaism or the End of the World

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Unification of Christianity and Judaism or the End of the World 

Judaism is primarily the religion for Jewish people.  Judaism has been supported by Jewish people as it would give peace and prosperity to them.  Judaism never encourages Jewish people to pray to the God for peace and prosperity of other tribes and nations.

On the other hand, Christianity has been based on the teaching of Christ Jesus to love one's brothers, neighbors, and even enemies, including all the people in the world.  Therefore Christianity basically encourages its believers to love Jewish people, although its Bible can be read as blaming Jewish people and Jewish authority of 2000 years ago for the crucifixion of Christ Jesus.

However, Judaism has taught Jewish people that Christ Jesus was a failed rabbi and not the Son of the God, the messiah, or a great Jewish prophet.

This difference in their attitudes to the other rival religion is stark.  Judaism fundamentally regards Christianity as a false religion based on a man who was a so-called false god.  Christianity regards Judaism as its preceding religion to which Christ Jesus belonged.

In this context, it can be understood why the Holocaust in WWII occurred.  Since the crucifixion of Christ Jesus, Judaism had denied divineness of Christianity for 1900 years till WWII where millions of Jewish people were killed by Nazis and Hitler that belonged to the European Christian culture.  After the tragedy in WWII, Judaism seems to have stopped loudly and openly criticizing and denying Christianity and Christ Jesus, although it has never admits that Christ Jesus was a holy and sacred man.    

How can true believers of Judaism and Christianity stand this situation?  How can Jewish people stand the world where Christians in Europe and America are dominant, leading the world civilization.  How can Christians accept Jewish people who follow the religion where Christ Jesus is called only a failed rabbi?  

From a historical point of view, power of Christianity has been proved with success of Europe and the U.S. in leading and developing the world, although their activities have not been totally benevolent and based on love to neighbors.  If Christianity is a religion started by a failed rabbi or a so-called false Son of the God, the religion must have collapsed and faded away to oblivion in the 2000 year history.  

On the other hand, if Jewish people had not been especially and uniquely chosen and loved by the God, they should have collapsed and  faded away to oblivion in the 4000 year history.

The relationship between the God and the mankind or any individual is the most important thing for the mankind and each individual. We have to at least make it clear the relationship between Christianity and Judaism and God's intention to each religion.

If Judaism is correct, it is no wonder that the God might use the Angel of Death having corona-viruses to punish Christians and its civilization.  If Christianity is right, it is no wonder that the God might again allow a tragedy to happen in Jewish people in WWIII, like in WWII, where viruses and biological weapons are to be used like the corona-pandemic.  Or, the God might bring the end of the world, including Jewish people and Christians, in this century at the earliest. 

All the people, including Jewish people and Christians, should anew start to think about their relationship with the God.  They had better unify Christianity and Judaism or establish a new religion based on Judaism and Christianity.   

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John 12  King James Version
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.

"him will my Father honour" - Otherwise the God might Punish the Mankind with a New Pandemic

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Otherwise the God might Punish the Mankind with a New Pandemic

One of historical mysteries is the cool relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

Judaism never recommends Jewish people to revere, respect, and worship Christ Jesus, while Christianity is based on the Bible implying the death of Christ Jesus caused by Jewish priests and authority 2000 years ago.

Although Jewish people and Christians believe in the one same God, they never think that they belong to one same religion.  And, in these 2000 years, the two religions have never been merged to form one great religion.

Indeed, Abraham, Moses, and other Jewish prophets or heroes never clearly stated that the God would send His son, named Jesus, to the human world around AD 1.  And, Christ Jesus, St. Peter, St. Paul, etc. had never told not to regard Jewish people with hostility.   

However, there have been many serious things and events that have occurred in these 2000 years but that have never been prophesized by Abraham, Moses, and other Jewish prophets or heroes who had lived more than 2000 years ago.  

And, for early Christians, to have the Roman Empire adopt Christianity as its state religion was the largest object for expansion of Christianity to the wider world beyond the Jewish community, so that they even accepted the Christian theology established under authority of a Roman Emperor.  Even the Bible written in the Roman Empire reflects their inclination to make clear the difference between followers of Christianity and Jewish people.    

Apart from these past situations, as a historical fact, today Christianity is supported by billions of people all over the world while Judaism is still practiced by most of Jewish people superficially neglecting Christianity.  As a result, there must have been confusion and doubt about power, authority, intentions, etc. of the God.

But, if this state in the relationship between Christianity and Judaism is against the mind of the God, it is grave and serous.  If the God wishes that Jewish people admit Christ Jesus and Christians accept Jewish people while they don't, the God might punish Jewish people and Christians alike.

As the first step to solve this issue, the Jewish authority should recommend that Jewish people respect Christ Jesus if not as the God but at least as the Son of the God, the Savior, or a successful great rabbi.  Christian churches should declare that the Bible should not be read as accusing ordinary and general Jewish people of causing death on Christ Jesus.

Otherwise, the God might further punish the mankind with a new pandemic after the current corona-pandemic.    

  

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John 12  King James Version
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

"Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come" - Like One Sun in the Sky, One Unified Religion for the One God

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Like One Sun in the Sky, One Unified Religion for the One God

It is said that there are about 10 to the 80th power of atoms in this universe.  But there are no proven theories denying that all of them follow one system of physics and have the same structure.

If this universe had happened to be generated from a chance through random processes, the estimation about identicalness of all the atoms in the universe cannot be established.  In other words, there must have been various types of atoms with different structure.  However, scientists have confidence that carbon atoms and oxygen atoms in any stars are the same as those in the earth, therefore CO2 in any stars are the same as those in the earth.

Consequently, we have to assume that there is a designer of this universe.  And it is natural to call the designer the God or the Creator of the universe, since it is truly an act of the God to create or produce anything in quantity of 10 to the 80th power precisely in the same manner. 

Besides, if any one denies the existence of the God, he cannot deny his own existence.  They may think what exists captures the higher ground than what does not exist.  By denying the existence of the God, such a man puts himself above the God.  It is a blasphemy.  You should better think that as a lower entity such as you exists, the God with higher capacity must surely exists.

So, we must admit that the God exists as the Creator of the universe and the human world in addition to Heaven, the hell, and the spiritual world.  Therefore, the most important matter for the mankind must be the relationship between the God and the mankind or each member of the mankind.

Most importantly, it is not like that one day an individual realized that there is the God above men and started to bring the notion among his family, his clan, his tribe, and all other peoples.  But, the notion about the God was generated and prevailed among a tribe as a guardian god of the clan.  There were many tribes in the world in ancient times, but only the Jewish people could succeed in making almost all the mankind accept their guardian god as the God of the mankind.  Christianity and Islam, the two major religion of the mankind, believe in the same God as the God of Judaism. 

But it is not because Jewish people proved scientifically that their God is the Creator of the universe.  It is rather because the God taught them to be ethically right and good.  Jewish people must have seen the God as the source of goodness and justice, and accordingly, they accepted the God, which seemed to please the God.

Then, Christ Jesus came to teach that the God is also the source of love, which was accepted by some Jewish people and other people, leading to the establishment of Christianity.

However, most of Jewish people have denied Christianity mostly because they have not been able to accept the idea that Christ Jesus is the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God.  Indeed, the God has not sent any prophets among Jewish people in these 2000 years to openly or officially declare and announce that Christ is the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God.

This fact has caused many confusions, troubles, and tragedies in Christians as well as Jewish people.  Is Christ Jesus the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God?  This has been the most important issue for the mankind in these 2000 years, to which the mankind cannot give a clear answer even today.  What is more, the God has been silent on this issue.  What is the intention of the God?  Or what does the God expect from the mankind?

If Judaism is right, all the Christians of today and in the past should be said to have believed in a wrong religion.  If Christianity is right, all the Jewish people in these 2000 years have displeased the God.

But, it is thought that most of Jewish people living today secretly accept Christ Jesus as the Son of the God or a messiah sent by the God, if not as the God Himself, at the bottoms of their hearts, since the effect of power of Christianity has been manifested through these 2000 years. 

Rationally and logically, the mankind should have only one common belief in the God.  The human history must be the process for such a belief to be established.  As everyone sees only one sun in the sky through their similar eyes, all the mankind should believe in only one God through a common religion in their minds.

In this context, it is unthinkable that the mankind will go extinct due to any tragedies or disasters, such as the current corona-pandemic, before unification of religions.  However, if the God judges that there is no possibility for the mankind to reach the state of having the common belief in the God, He may not stop the coming of extinction of the mankind.

Individually, I think that Judaism should be absorbed in Christianity where Christ Jesus promises to give eternal life to each believer while what would happen after death of even an honest Jewish man is unclear in Judaism.    

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John 12  King James Version
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

"in his name shall the Gentiles trust" - What is Impossible without Interference by the God

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What is Impossible without Interference by the God

It is astonishing that Jewish people have survived these 4000 years as a unique and independent tribe since God's approval of Abraham and his becoming the ancestor of Jewish people around 2000 BCE.

But they had faced the danger of extermination or disappearance in history thrice before the emergence of Christ Jesus.

They were made salves of Egyptians but were led out of Egypt by Moses and rescued by the God around 1200 BCE.  Then they fell in the Babylonian captivity around 590 BCE but freed by a Persian king around 540 BCE to return to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple.  Finally, the Jewish people got into the fatal confrontation with the Roman Empire to lose their Temple in Jerusalem and get dispersed from Palestine.

However, by compiling the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, etc., they consolidated a new phase of Judaism to survive as a tribe although members of the tribe were scattered across the Roman Empire and beyond.

But, it was after Christianity was born that Jewish people launched fatal wars against Romans.  And while Jewish people were wondering across the Roman Empire, Christianity was gaining public notion and recognition in the Empire to become the sate religion of the Roman Empire, although, through severe struggles and frictions.  

Therefore, it is rather thought that there must have been some influence of Christianity favorable for Jewish people.  Romans must have come to realize importance of the Jewish tribe from which Christianity had been born.  Even many Jewish documents such as the Talmud were compiled while the Christian Bible was being created, so that Jewish people could keep their integrity and uniqueness.  It is as if Judaism had been competing with Christianity in making sacred documents.

Although the Roman Empire collapsed around AD 500, Christianity continued to survive and prevail in whole Europe, making Europeans have special interest in Jewish people, which must have strengthen self-consciousness of Jewish people to save them from oblivion in history.

Jewish people must have fled to various regions around Palestine after the Jewish Roman Wars and the fall of Jerusalem, but Jewish people who mostly moved to the territory of the Roman Empire, which finally accepted Christianity as its state religion, could survive to date.  Christianity must have contributed to survival of Jewish people in whatsoever mysterious ways.

It is true that Jewish people have suffered persecution in Europe some times, but there must have been also conditions necessary to save them from such godless hideous acts.  For example, it is mostly Christian Americans that saved Jewish people from Hitler and Nazis.       

No matter how much Jewish people think that Christians believe in a wrong religion, it is in the world where Christianity has been dominant that Jewish people has succeed in surviving.  Real Christians cannot deny that their religion is based on Judaism and Christ Jesus was born as a Jewish man, so that they cannot exterminate Jewish traditions and Jewish people.  This traditional condition of Christianity must have saved the Jewish tribe from extermination and oblivion in history in these 2000 years or since the era of the Roman Empire.

In this context, it can be thought that the God sent His Son among Jewish people before the fatal wars against Romans, so that the Jewish tribe would not be lost.  The God sent Moses when Jewish people were about to disappear in Egypt; He sent Daniel and other prophets when they were in captivity in Babylonia; and finally He sent His Son when they were almost doomed to perish in wars against the Roman Empire.

Put simply, Jewish people owe their existence today to Christ Jesus from this historical point of view as much as to Moses, Daniel, and other prophets.  Indeed, it must be impossible without interference by the God for a tribe to survive 4000 years.

As other examples in terms of survival of major tribes over thousand years, we may point to the Han Chinese and Japanese.  But, their histories and stories might belong to other paradigms of culture and religion.  (So, the fact should not be held low account that the corona-pandemic was generated in China.)

      

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Matthew 12  King James Version
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

"I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods" - The Pandemic, a Warning to the Money-Corrupted Mankind

 

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The Pandemic, a Warning to the Money-Corrupted Mankind

It must have been a big incident not only for the mankind in this world but also for angels and Satan in the spiritual world that the God decided to send His Son to the human world 2000 years ago.  Accordingly, angels and Satan must have taken necessary measures to respond to the holy action, which must have been reflected in the human history in these 2000 years.

It would be easier to understand the human history in these 2000 years from this point of view.  Put simply, the God sent His Son to the human world, especially among Jewish people, and inevitably Satan started to interfere with God's action and plan and harass believers in the God. 

Satan would persuade Jewish people not to believe that Christ Jesus is the Son of the God while persuading Christians to believe that Jewish people who would not accept Christ Jesus were enemies of Christians.  Satan would further tell Muslims that Christ Jesus cannot be the Son of the God since the God must not have a son while making Christian believe that Islam is a wrong religion.

Satan must have also penetrated into Christian churches and the Vatican, telling believers, priests, the Popes, etc. that they could succeed without faith, which means that there is no God, so that they should enjoy wealth in this world rather than abandon it due to the teaching of Christ Jesus.

Satan must have set Jewish people against Christians, Muslims against Christians, some Christians against other Christians, etc.  For this purpose, Satan helped the mankind develop science and technology to increase wealth in the world and make the mankind love wealth and money more than the God.

Indeed, whether a man believes in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or any other religion, he loves money and wealth.  None wants to be poor for the teaching of Christ Jesus, but everyone wants to be rich.

Consequently, the human civilization gets rotten and debased as Satan wishes.  What is worse, people have become less and less think about the God.  Men do not concentrate on the God with all of their strength, wisdom, and ability.  But they try to be richer with all of their strength, wisdom, and ability. 

Satan might say that there cannot be the God as you cannot see Him and money has real power as you see it.  In this way, Satan has almost completely brainwashed people.  And people who have lost faith would do every stupid thing for money, and thus the human civilization is going to be further corrupted.  Probably the mankind would finally destroy its civilization.

But, the God should give a warning to the mankind.  And, this corona-pandemic must be such a warning.  It must remind the mankind of their vulnerability.  The mankind should recall that their safety and prosperity are only possible due to mercy of the God.

For example, if new corona-viruses that are 100 times more fatal than the current ones appear somewhere in the world, there would have been 30 million deaths in the U.S. already.  And, Satan would not save people from the new corona-pandemic.  All the mankind should do is to pray to the God and ask Him for salvation. 

This corona-pandemic must be a warning to the money-corrupted mankind.  The God must request the mankind not to be brainwashed by Satan.

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Luke 12 King James Version
18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

"they heard that he had done this miracle" - Satan is Here, There, and Everywhere like Corona-Viruses

 

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Satan is Here, There, and Everywhere like Corona-Viruses

The devil does not exist in Jewish scriptures.  However, In mainstream Christianity, the devil is usually referred to as Satan. This is because Christian beliefs in Satan are inspired directly by the dominant view of Second Temple Judaism, as expressed/practiced by Jesus, and with some minor variations. Some modern Christians consider the devil to be an angel who, along with one-third of the angelic host (the demons), rebelled against God and has consequently been condemned to the Lake of Fire. He is described as hating all humanity (or more accurately creation), opposing God, spreading lies and wreaking havoc on their souls. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil#Christianity)

Put simply, the Christian Gospels are records or stories about the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan.  The main theme of the Bible is how Satan tried to influence or destroy the Jewish people and Christ Jesus along with followers of Him.  Or the Bible can be easily understood from the point of view of the battle between the God and Satan.

Since the God had decided to choose and help Abraham, Satan could not help but interfering with the God's intention and trying to destroy descendants of Abraham.

Satan tried to destroy Jewish people in Egypt, but the God helped Moses lead his people out of Egypt.  Satan further tried to destroy Jewish people by use of Babylonia, but the God sent many Jewish prophets, including Daniel, and finally released them from captivity in Babylon.  Yet, Satan used Alexander the Great to defeat Israel and give Greek influence on Judaism and contaminate the Jewish religion.  But Jewish people stuck to Judaism.  So, finally, Satan helped the Roman Empire occupy Jerusalem, resulting in ethnical and religious crises of Jewish people.  It looked inevitable that Jewish people would revolt against the Roman Empire and lost the war to be dispersed in the Empire and disappear in the history.  But, the God sent His Son to Jewish people to strengthen their faith in the God and renovate Judaism.

So, Satan tried to make full efforts to destroy the Son of the God, who was called Jesus or the son of man.  And this battle between the Son of the God (Jesus) and Satan was later described in the Gospels.

Therefore, the Bible should be read to see the real state of the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan.

Finally, followers of Christ Jesus succeeded in establishing a new religion, Christianity, although most of Jewish people did not join Christianity.  Then, Satan tried to make Jewish people hate Christians by infusing the idea that the God should not send His Son to the human world.  Satan also made Christians hate Jewish people by infusing the idea that Jewish people were following Satan.  Satan partly succeeded in coming between Christians and Jewish people.  

The God also gave holy words to Arabs so as to become followers of the God.  But Satan made Muslims hold disbelief in Christianity and built a sense of disbelief in Judaism among Muslims.  This state has continued to date. 

In this context, the relationships between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be clearly understood by taking Satan into consideration.  So, it it not only the God but also Satan that has affected Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.      

Christ Jesus came to this world rather to show how evil Satan was.  And, He taught about Satan as much as about the God.  We could even read the Gospels as books about Satan.

Indeed, Satan is here, there, and everywhere like corona-viruses.   

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John 12 King James Version
18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.
19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.

"Recompense to no man evil for evil" - Forget about any other Matters in your Religion except the God

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Forget about any other Matters in your Religion except the God

According to Wikipedia, "Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance."  But, it is often neglected in most of non-Christian, non-democratic, and non-culturally modernized countries.

Christianity: According to the Catholic Church in the Vatican II document on religious freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, "the human person has a right to religious freedom", which is described as "immunity from coercion in civil society". This principle of religious freedom "leaves untouched traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion." 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

Judaism: Possibly because of this history of long term persecution, Jews in modernity have been among the most active proponents of religious freedom in the US and abroad and have founded and supported anti-hate institutions, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union. Jews are very active in supporting Muslim and other religious groups in the US against discrimination and hate crimes and most Jewish congregations throughout the US and many individual Jews participate in interfaith community projects and programs.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

Islam: Conversion to Islam is simple, but Muslims are forbidden to convert from Islam to another religion. Certain Muslim-majority countries are known for their restrictions on religious freedom, highly favoring Muslim citizens over non-Muslim citizens. Other countries[who?] having the same restrictive laws tend to be more liberal when imposing them.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

However, Judaism denies deity of Christ Jesus, claiming that Christ Jesus cannot be even the Son of the God.  Islam also denies deity of Christ Jesus.  As long as Judaism and Islam cannot accept the doctrine of Christianity, real freedom of religion cannot be possible among the Jewish community and the Islamic community.

On the other hand, Christian churches never teach that Judaism and Islam are right and authentic and it is worth believing in them.  Jewish people and Muslims are enemies of Christ Jesus, they imply.  As long as Christians despise Jewish people and Muslims, there cannot be true freedom of religion.     

From the historical point of view, Christianity has dominated the world, since it was adopted as the state religion of the Roman Empire in AD 392.  Since then, the religion has contributed to success of Europe without interruption.  Europe has never been conquered by Jewish people, Muslims, Hindus, Mongols, or Chinese.  Rather, European powers colonized various regions in Africa, Asia, and Americas.  Most European Christians did not want to convert to another religion being practiced by people ruled by them.  On the other hand, there has been strong unspoken pressure on Jewish people and Muslims to inhibit or prevent conversion.

However, there is no proof that any religion is wrong or right.  It is because the God had not shown the proof over and over again clearly to all the mankind.  The God is, so to speak, silent.  It is as if the God were waiting for the mankind to realize truth.  Then, what is the truth?

The answer must be meaninglessness of human religions.  The truth is the God and only the God.  Compared with the magnitude of meaning of the God, any human religions must be zero.  A man can be accepted by the God not because he believes in any specific religion but because he believes in the God.  In this context, the freedom of religion is the secondary matter.

If you are a Christina, you had better believe in the God more than any other Christian.  If you are a Jewish man, you had better believe in the God more than any other Jewish man.  If you are a Muslim, you had better believe in the God more than any other Muslim.  And, if you concentrate on the God, you would forget about what religion you belong to.  Or you had better forget about any other matters in your religion except the God.

Ideally, if you are asked, you should answer that you have forgotten about what religion you belong to, since you have been absorbed too much in thinking of the God.  

Conversely, men might have already caused offence to the God by thinking about their own religions but by spending less time in thinking about the God.  In addition, there is no freedom for believing in Satan or money, although a man of any religion would love money and thus Satan. 

In China, actually it is forbidden to freely believe in and practice any religion but a kind of religion called the Chinese Communist Party doctrine.  In this context, it may be thought that it is natural that corona-viruses were generated in China as a kind of God's punishment. 

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Romans 12 King James Version
14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

"But Peter continued knocking" - After this Corona-Pandemic What will Happen?

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After this Corona-Pandemic What will Happen?

It is said that more and more people are leaving Christian churches in Europe and the U.S., the most culturally advanced regions in the world. 

But, without influence of any attitudes of human beings, the God exists if He exists.

With advancement of science and society, people have come to think that traditional teaching in churches is outdated.  Especially as churches were linked to the worldly power and structure as shown by the Vatican, they have lost influence on people as the world and society have been modernized.   

However, it does not mean that the mankind has proved that there is no God.  It rather means that people have come to be able to get what they want not by praying to the God but by relying on modern science, technology, and social systems.  It is as if people had forgotten significance of relationship between their life in this world and after death and the God.  It seems that as they could not prove that the God exists and there is life after death, they have started to concentrate on life in this world, trying to be materially happy, for which the faith in the God seems to be useless.  Consequently, many Europeans and Americans have started to leave churches.  However, this trend can be interpreted as victory of Satan who have been trying to brainwash people with power of money.  Satan seems to have succeed in making people choose money but not the God.

In deed, scientifically it cannot be said that the God had not created this universe, since science cannot say how the universe was generated.  Or more specifically, science cannot say what or who triggered the explosion of vacuum energy from which space and time of this universe were generated from naught.

Non-nonsense religions tell that this world was created by the God.  But before proving it scientifically, the mankind seems to be brainwashed by Satan, forgetting significance of the God and pursuing worldly wealth.  The biggest concern of modern Europeans and Americans is not life after death but material happiness in this world for which faith in the God seems to be useless.  So, it may be natural that they are leaving churches.

From the traditional religious view, it is the sate that Satan has almost won against the God.  Satan has succeeded in brainwashing people with money.  People have become richer by applying science and technology to their society, and they further pursue more wealth, forgetting about the God.  As people have come to spend most of time in earning money, they have come to less and less think of the God.   

         

Put simply, it does not matter how people show their respect to the God, or it does not matter what religion people believe in.  The key is believing in the God, the Creator of this universe.  And, it must be reasonable to try to find teaching of the God in traditional non-nonsense religions.  Consequently, people should find that there is a strong warning in the Bible that Satan has been trying to make people leave faith in the God through temptation with money.    

The civilization was initially built on non-nonsense religion, but it is now eroded by teaching of Satan.  More and more people are leaving the teaching of the God and pursuing worldly wealth while selling their souls to Satan who would penetrate into the mind of anybody.

If this trend continues, the God will forsake the mankind, so that human civilization should collapse and the mankind might go extinct.  But before such a tragedy, the God should give a warning to the mankind.  And, this corona-pandemic may be such a warning.  The fact that the mankind cannot completely protect themselves even from such minuscule viruses shows how foolish they are or how faithless they are.  Their faith in the God has become too shallow to be helped by the God.

After this corona-pandemic, if the mankind still continues the current trend toward wealth through Satan's temptation, the real anger of the God might come down from Heaven to put the end of the human history since the beginning of this universe.  


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Acts 12  King James Version
14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.

"the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood" - If the God Finds No Use of Men

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If the God Finds No Use of Men

It is interesting that both Martin Luther (1483-1546) and the Jewish Babylonian Talmud (compiled in the 3rd to 6th centuries) focus on the Gospel of John.  So, what is the Gospel of John?

"It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "signs" culminating in the raising of Lazarus (foreshadowing the resurrection of Jesus) and seven "I am" discourses culminating in Thomas's proclamation of the risen Jesus as "my Lord and my God"; the concluding verses set out its purpose, "that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John#Comparison_with_other_writings)

And, more specifically in comparison with other Gospels (synoptic gospel) of Mark, Matthew, and Luke:

Material found in the Synoptics but absent from John	Material found in John but absent from the Synoptics
Narrative parables	Symbolic discourses
The Kingdom of God	Teaching on eternal life
The end-time (or Olivet) discourse	Emphasis on realized eschatology
The Sermon of the Mount and Lord's Prayer	Jesus's "farewell discourse"
The baptism of Jesus by John	Interaction between Jesus and John
The institution of the Lord's Supper	Jesus as the "bread of heaven"
The Transfiguration of Jesus	Scenes in the upper room
The Temptation of Jesus by Satan	Satan as Jesus's antagonist working through Judas
Exorcism of demons	No demon exorcisms

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John#Comparison_with_other_writings)

The right religion should be based on the notion that this human world and the human history are reflections of the battle between God's angles and Satan with its soldiers.

If the God sent His Son to the human world to teach and save the mankind, Satan would do anything to destroy the Son of the God.  Satan would find it to be its best chance to harm the God only if it could destroy the Son of the God.  The gospels or records about Christ Jesus were written to record and show the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan.  In the Gospels, the main character is of course Christ Jesus, but the enemy role is Satan.   

Satan must have thought that it would be its great victory if Christ Jesus was rejected by His fellows, namely Jewish people.  And, Satan must have thought that it would be a great failure for Christ Jesus that He failed to choose all the right disciples and one of His disciples betrayed Him, which Christ Jesus could not prevent.  In these points, Satan succeeded.  What's more, Satan could make the mankind kill Christ Jesus.  Satan must have laughed at the God, pointing at Christ Jesus on the cross.  But, the story did not end there.  2,000 years after the temporary victory of Satan, billions of people in the world are revering Christ Jesus.

So, Satan must have changed its strategy.  It must have started to corrupt Christian churches and priests, deprave the civilization based on Christianity, and make people love money more than Christ Jesus and the God.  In deed, today there are almost no Christians who hate money as much as they hate Satan.  In this context, Satan has almost succeeded.  But, can there be complete victory of Satan?  And, what does it mean that Satan has won the battle against the God? 

The point at issue in this analysis can be found in the Gospel of John.  And the core of John's message is eternal life Christ Jesus promised and the God would give to believers.    

In my thought, those who were given eternal life after their death due to their faith in Christ Jesus and the God would hate this human world highly and heavily influenced and contaminated by Satan, so that they would never come back to this human world.  And those who were condemned to the hell should perish and go extinct there, so that they would never come back to this human world.

Finally, all we should do is love Christ Jesus and the God more than Satan and money so that we will be allowed to enter Heaven and obtain eternal life.   

In this context, believers must not be afraid of viruses.  They will not be contracted due to protection by effect of strong belief, and if contracted, they will not indicate serious disease; in case of falling in serious disease, they will not die; and in the case that they die of corona-viruses, they will enter Heaven.

Put simply, Satan would prefer the case that people live and get rotten to another case that people go extinct due to corona viruses.  Without living human beings, there cannot be any chances for Satan to harass the God.  Therefore, the mankind would not easily go extinct due to corona-viruses or any other pandemics.

However, if the God judges that there is no use of human beings, they can be exterminated at any moment.

       

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Revelation 12   King James Version
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.