"when he went into the temple of the Lord" - After Knowing the Truth

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After Knowing the Truth

Christ Jesus said: "There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs."

So, people should be afraid that their wrong deeds and crimes would be exposed to the public sooner or later.  But people could also expect that their good conducts and kindness would be appreciated by the public someday. 

Through the history, past mysteries have been studied, revealed, and explained one after another.  Past conspiracies have been broken.  And real aspects of past incidents have been exposed.

But, still there are many mysteries in the history, and scholars, professors, and researchers in addition to organizations publicly or privately established for quests of truth have been working to unravel riddles in the history.

The largest mystery must be the fact that the God once appeared among people or the Son of the God or a saint from the God once appeared among people as a physically ordinary man to be killed by men.

How could the Son of the God who is almighty be killed by men?  And how could Son of the God be put to death, while He was almighty?  This is the largest mystery in this world.

We have not yet been able to present the clear answer.  But due to this incident of the killing of the Son of the God by men, the mankind has obtained the clear concept of the God.  Today, the concept or the image of the God has prevailed in the world due to development of Christianity, being accompanied by Judaism and Islam.

Any secrets will be revealed, which is said in the Bible.  And the biggest secret is what Christ Jesus was.  So, the history of the mankind will at least continue till people come to understand what He was.   

But what will happen or what we should do if a mystery is revealed is not clearly stated in the Bible. Following the relevant phrases in the Gospel, there are words as follows:
“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.   But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him."

We will know that we should be afraid of the God at last after knowing the truth.


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Luk 1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Luk 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Luk 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Luk 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luk 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

"And Solomon begat Roboam" - If his Faith is Not Complete

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If his Faith is Not Complete

There are many poor and unhappy people even today.  But there are also many rich and happy people.

When Christ Jesus came to this world, He focused on poor and unhappy people.  He never visited rich and happy people, although He did not reject rich people coming to Him for any spiritual salvation and from any religious motives.

People live and die as poor and unhappy men or as rich and happy men.  And it is often said that poor men tend to become poorer and rich men tend to be richer.

However, if rich and happy men love poor and unhappy men subject to the teaching of Christ Jesus, the former would give any part of their riches and happiness to the latter.  Then, these righteous rich and happy men would become less rich and happy.  Finally, a faithful man with 2 dollars would give 1 dollar to a poorer man with no dollars.  Then, there would be no rich and happy men who have faith in the God and Christ Jesus.

But this world is full of those who do not honestly follow the teaching of Christ Jesus.  Rather, rich and happy men tend to try to be richer and happier by sacrificing poor and unhappy people.  And everybody wants to be rich and happy, thus neglecting poor and unhappy people.  But this attitude is clearly against the teaching of Christ Jesus.

However, Christ Jesus said that poor and unhappy people in this world could enter Heaven after their physical death in this world.  And in Heave, they would be no more poor and unhappy.

The key to this teaching is not whether or not a man has a soul that will survive his or her death.  But it is whether a poor man can really enter Heaven even he does not faith in the God and Christ Jesus while he lives in this world.   How would the God and Christ Jesus treat a poor and unhappy man who had no faith in the God and Christ Jesus while he lived in this world?

In the line of the teaching of Christ Jesus in terms of love to poor neighbors, such a poor and unhappy man without faith in the God and Christ Jesus during his lifetime should be also able to enter Heaven despite his lack of love to the God and Christ Jesus.

The meaning of being poor and unhappy during one's lifetime in this world must be more profound than we usually assume.  Similarly, the meaning of being rich and happy during one's lifetime in this world must be more profound than we usually assume.

Anyway, Satan would be glad to see a poor and unhappy man cannot enter Heaven unless he has enough faith in the God and Christ Jesus while those who become rich and happy due to support by Satan are rejected from Heaven.

To defeat Satan who hates Heaven and wants everybody to fall down to the hell, the God and Christ Jesus must allow a poor and unhappy man to enter Heaven if his faith is not complete.

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M't:1:6: And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
M't:1:7: And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
M't:1:8: And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;

M't:1:16: And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
M't:1:17: So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

"wait for the promise of the Father" - Love the God without Conditions

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Love the God without Conditions

What Christ Jesus said is put simply to love our God.

Based on this teaching, the religion Christianity was established.  It is, however, reasonable for the mankind to love their God, if the God had created this world and the mankind even without the teaching of Christ Jesus.

But if the mankind could not believe that the God exited or if the mankind thought that there was nothing good or meaningful to them even if the God existed, the teaching of Christ Jesus would lose meaning.

A majority of the mankind seem to believe that the God exists.  But even the majority seem to be not sure about whether the God would make them happy in this world even if they believed existence of the God.  In other world, what is good in believing in the God if the God would not make us happy in this world seems to be what the majority think.

People tend to think that what makes them rich and happy in this world should be respected.  But if the God would not make them rich and happy in this world, why should they respect the God?

This wrong attitude and thinking stem from our misunderstanding that what is the most important thing for us is for us to be rich and happy in this world.

Christ Jesus did not put any conditions to his teaching to love the God.  If we were not rich and happy and if the God would not make us rich and happy, we should love the God.

It is the God that is important but not human beings.  This is the essence in the teaching of Christ Jesus to love the God.  But how can we love the God who would not make us rich and happy while He must have such ability?  The God seems to be indifferent about our worldly state of being rich and happy.  Then, human beings who want to be rich and happy above anything would not in real respect and love the God.

But, nonetheless Christ Jesus told to love the God.  And Christianity has developed in these 2000 years to be the major religion of the mankind.

The answer to this question must be that there is a right and legitimate reason for Christ Jesus told us to love the God without conditions, that is, if the God would not immediately make us rich and happy.  And many people in the history have had admitted that Christ Jess is right, so that they have thought we have to love the God without conditions.
       
Perhaps everybody must feel it right what Christ Jesus told, but nobody could clearly explain why.  So, Christianity was established, survived, and developed.

It is a mystery from a rational point of view that Christianity has succeeded while Christ Jesus told to love the God without conditions, but if the God created the mankind so as to make them love Him, the mankind must love the God without conditions. 

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Ac:1:3: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Ac:1:4: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Ac:1:5: For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.