"when all men shall speak well of you" - This Pandemic in the Historic Context

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 This Pandemic in the Historic Context

It is strange that people in the world under the corona-virus pandemic have not yet turned to the God.

It can be easily estimated that new viruses more harmful or double digit or 100 times more deadly  than the current corona-virus would force major cities in the world to be locked out for more than a year, resulting in collapse of global economy and destruction of countries with tens of millions of deaths.  This scale of tragedy cannot be handled and solved by any individuals, politicians, or governments.

But, as a member of the mankind, each of us should be allowed to think of meaning of this pandemic in the historic context.  What is wrong about our civilization?  To see it, we had better focus on a representative index of material civilization: GDP.  The material civilization of the mankind has continued to increase even in the 21st century as the following graph of growth of GDP shows.

This graph does not  show a trend of strengthen faith but expanded desires of the mankind.  To pursue material desires is against the teaching of Christ Jesus and the God.  Rather, it shows success of Satan trying to brainwash men so as to make them love money more than the God. 

After the start of the Christian history with the First Coming of Christ Jesus, namely A.D. 1, this kind of tragedy has occurred several times.  But in each case, people repent somewhat and must have showed enough respect to the God to be exempted from decisive destruction of the society at issue in each case.

The first case must be the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem around A.D. 70 when Jewish people were enjoying great success in survival since Abraham who had come to appear in the history 2,000 years before.  Then the second case must be the destruction of the Roman Empire around the 5th century when the Empire was enjoying the hegemony over then-most civilized areas in the world.

After the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, some Jewish people started to follow Christ Jesus, which pleased the God who then allowed Jewish people to survive with Christians.  After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Christians in the Empire succeeded in continuing their faith and establishing the Vatican, which satisfied the God who then allowed Europe to be recovered and developed in later centuries.

In the third case, Europeans tried to invade Jerusalem to occupy the holy city by force and violence　between the end of the 11th century and the 13th century, which must have made the God angry.  Then, in the 14th century, the Black Death took place, killing more than 100 million people or 22 percent of the then global population.  Europeans repent, and the Renaissance was started, which must have somewhat pleased the God.  Europe was allowed to continue development of its civilization.

In the early 20th century, modernized European countries, Russia, China, and Imperial Japan got into the era of wars and bloody revolutions, which must have alarmed the God.  Then, that historical  1918 Spanish Flu occurred, infecting 500 million people and killing tens of millions of people.  But the United States started to join the global politics while keeping respect to the God as strong as that of the Vatican.  The God must have placed His hope in faith in the U.S.  The mankind was allowed to further survive and develop despite the successive Great Depression and WWII.

But the mankind never ceased to pursue material wealth, which can be seen in the figure showing the trend of global GDP.  In the early 21st century, namely 2000 years after the First Emergence of Christ Jesus, GDP in the world, further expanded with China's economic rise,  has reached the level so high and dangerous even to the earth with so many other species.  So, it is no wonder that the God has decided to destroy the material human civilization.  However, the benevolent God must have decided to first give a warning to the mankind, which must be this coronavirus pandemic.

Put simply, the God must be waiting for the mankind to reach a decisive level of their material civilization so that there would be no excuse for their blasphemy, since such a high level proves that the mankind has sold their souls to Satan to the unforgivable degree.

In this context, the mankind would have to face repetition of the fall of the Temple in Jerusalem around A.D. 70 and the debacle of the Roman Empire around the 5th century.  The end of this material civilization would start around 2070, as predicted by Isaac Newton, and come to a decisive point when the mankind will be exterminated or allowed to survive around 2500.

The future is yet not known.  The God might somewhat tolerate general foolish and evil nature of the human civilization due to strength of faith found in some pious people.  If the mankind repent enough after receiving warnings prior to 2070 or 2500, they may be allowed to further survive and develop to conquer even the Milky Way Galaxy in the 30th or 40th century.

Anyway, it is strange that people don't feel historic graveness in this corona-pandemic in association with the historical trend of GDP, an index symbolizing the strength of material desires of men and the degree of their inclination to the teaching of Satan.

So, we should think that if all the Jewish people and Judaism had been eradicated around A.D. 70 or the Roman Empire had been completely destroyed and uprooted with emerging Christianity around the 5th century, the human being should not be able to build their civilization as we see and enjoy today.  It means that we need more faith than that found in those preceding cases, if we are to survive and develop toward the 30th and 40th century.               
 

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Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Luk 6:25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Luk 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Luk 6:27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

"Behold the fowls of the air" - Influences of Autonomous Nerves on Cancers

A Village Shintoism Shrine around Tokyo

Influences of Autonomous Nerves on Cancers

In June last year, Japanese scientists conducted a research on influences of autonomous nerves on cancers.

They found that cancer patients with high density of sympathetic nerves showed a poor prognoses after medical operation.  This result coincides with the fact that chronic stresses accelerate cancer progress.  Indeed, when the body receives stress, it judges that it is in an emergency event, so that autonomous nerves show accommodative disorder leading to cancer progress.

They also found that increase of cancers and distant metastases were suppressed when sympathetic nerves distributed over a cancer tissue were removed.

So, it is clear that nerve systems of the body influence cancers.  Stress such as tobacco, high-salt diets, unhealthy lifestyle, etc. woks on autonomous nerve systems that incidentally work on cells including cancer cells.

However, there are other factors that work on autonomous nerve systems.  When Christ Jesus healed sick people, His love and spiritual power must have also worked on autonomous nerve systems which subsequently carried love and spiritual power of Christ Jesus to cancer cells and other damaged cells to cure them.

Today, there are three major methods to cure cancer: surgical operation, anticancer drug treatment, and radiation therapy.  However, the method adopted by Christ Jesus was to work on autonomous nerves by giving something, opposite to stress, to the body and cells through nerve systems.

Indeed, without poor conditions or unhealthy conditions, cancers do not develop.  So, in some good conditions to cells, cancers should stop emerging and growing.  And, to give favorable stimulus to autonomous nerves of patients is the method adopted by Christ Jesus when healing the sick people.

In this context, medical doctors themselves should have minds that can be tools and medicines to cure the sick.  But it is often nurses that have suitable minds for curing the sick rather than medical doctors.

Finally, if a medical doctor has a mind with love and spiritual power like that of Christ Jesus, he can heal cancer patients and cure cancers without advanced medical devices and medicines. 

This theory should also apply to patients infected by corona viruses.

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Matthew 6 King James Version (KJV)

24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

"Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles" - No Nightingale Preceding to 2020

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No Nightingale Preceding to 2020

Due to corona-viruses, many people, otherwise health, have experienced the state of being sick.  They must be, if recovered after receiving medical care, thankful to medical doctors and other staff in charge as well as medical science.  However, whom or what should recovered people most appreciate?  Whom or what does the God want recovered people to most appreciate, since the corona-pandemic must not have occurred without God's approval.

Those who are always close to patients are not medical doctors or but clinical nurses.  And it is well known that the one who mostly contributed to professionalising nursing roles for women more than a century ago was Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).

Florence Nightingale  wrote:

In watching diseases, both in private houses and in public hospitals, the thing which strikes the experienced observer most forcibly is this, that the symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different—of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these. And this quite as much in private as in hospital nursing. 

The reparative process which Nature has instituted and which we call disease, has been hindered by some want of knowledge or attention, in one or in all of these things, and pain, suffering, or interruption of the whole process sets in. 

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12439/pg12439-images.html

This notion seems to have become an underlying principle of modern medication.  And it seems to reflect the spirit of Christ Jesus curing sick people without using the 21st modern medication.

After Nightingale had died, the Spanish Flu was set off (as well as WWI).  And after having killed 20 million to 50 million victims world wide, "by the summer of 1919, the flu pandemic came to an end, as those that were infected either died or developed immunity (https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic#section_13)".

So, those who suffered the Spanish Flu could not receive modern effective medications.  To them, nursing conditions must have been critical.  And, there must have been great contribution from Nightingale to such nursing contributions. 

Nonetheless, in this 2020 corona-virus pandemic, we have had no Nightingale who should have made great contribution to improvement of nursing conditions to corona-virus infected people, while such improvement is highly required as development of vaccines seems to need further months. 

In other words, the God had given Nightingale to the world preceding to the 1918 Spanish Flu, but no Nightingale to the 2020 corona-virus pandemic.  It may be an ill omen.

Christ Jesus healed people based on His love to them.  Nightingale put importance on maternal love in nursing.  So, it is thought that as the material civilization has developed so much as to pay less attention to love to people than to money, the God must have stopped protecting people by preventing the corona-virus pandemic.  No Nightingale preceding to 2020 must be indeed an ill omen.

Nightingale did not discuss economic efficiency in nursing.  But, contemporary elites must not be unable to stop thinking about economic efficiency even in fighting corona-viruses.  In any modern society, medical treatment is expensive.  Drug companies develop medicines for profits rather than from love to people.  It is expected that manufacturers of vaccines for corona viruses will get big profits, although people will appreciate the vaccines.

Indeed, in the vaccine market, corporate integration was recently promoted, so that four major companies now account for 80% of the global vaccine market whose value is about 45 billion dollars.

Anyway, believers must wonder why the God or Christ Jesus has not yet sent their Angels to the human world to save them from the pandemic.  But, if this pandemic is a warning to the mankind for the end of the world, which the God has already decided, it can be understood.

In this context, future people facing the end of the world, say, in the end of the 21st century, must think that their ancestors, namely us, should have repent more in the 2020 corona-virus pandemic.



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John 6 King James Version (KJV)
24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

"Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy" - Cells, DNA, Genes, and Mind

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Cells, DNA, Genes, and Mind

A drosophila (a genus of flies) has 14,700 genes, and an Indian corn has about 45,000 genes.

However, as genome sequence quality and the methods for identifying protein-coding genes improved, the count of recognized protein-coding genes (of a man) dropped to 19,000-20,000. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome)

Genes are part of genome or total chromosomal deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA) in a cell nucleus.

The total length of the human genome is over 3 billion base pairs. The genome is organized into 22 paired chromosomes, termed autosomes, plus the 23rd pair of sex chromosomes (XX) in the female, and (XY) in the male. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome)


(http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/03/chromosomes-dna-genes-and-alleles.html)

This means that there are many parts of DNA whose work as genes is not identified, although a gene gives information to create a specific type of proteins that builds an organism and eventually the human body.

The point at issue is that it is not thought there is a gene that creates a human mind.  It means that a human mind is not in DNA, any chromosome, or any human cell that is a basic building block of the body, while the human body is solely made of human cells whose number is between 30 to 60 trillion.

Indeed, if a human mind is in genes, a fly or even a corn must have its mind as such a living thing has as many genes as, or more genes than, a human being has.

However, it is apparent that a human mind is in the brain that is created according to some genes or unknown genes in DNA.  So, a human mind is created after the brain is built or while the brain is functioning.  And the function of the brain is to handle information transmitted from various parts of the human body through nerve systems.  This information is in the form of electric signals.  Handling of electric signals produces micro-electromagnetic fields in the brain that cannot be turned off, like a computer that is never powered off, since the birth of a man as long as the man lives.

The brain cells take energy from glucoses and mitochondria.  Glucoses give energy without oxygen (the glycolytic energy system) but mitochondria need oxygen to produce energy (the mitochondria energy system).  Based on this energy, brain cells or nerve cells in the brain handle numerous electric signals 24 hours per day per year as long as a man lives.

So, it is beyond imagination how complicated micro-electromagnetic fields have been created in the human brain.  This degree of complex nature must be the key of emergence of a human mind, since the brain is a kind of computer that is never powered off since the birth of the man.

But after the brain has acquired the necessary degree of complex nature of micro-electromagnetic fields, the soul or spirit must come from the spiritual space, like energy that came from the spiritual space to create this material universe.  And, eventually, a man is established with a human mind supported by his spirit or pneuma.

In this context, with great advancement of science and technology, the mankind might someday create human cells and the brain that functions to create a human mind, but to establish a human being, it must be essential to receive a spirit from the spiritual space.  And, it is dubious that the God will send a spirit to such an artificial brain.  In this sense, the mankind can even create an artificial biological man-like robot without a spirit, but it surely cannot create a human being with a spirit like the God does.       

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Luke 6 King James Version (KJV)
21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

"Herod on his birthday made a supper" - Natural Killer Cells to Kill Viruses

Around the Tokyo Station

Natural Killer Cells to Kill Viruses

There are special cells in human bodies that provide rapid response to virus-infected cells, which are called NK cells (natural killer) cells.  They act around three days after inspection.  As they have the strong ability (cytolytic potential) to destroy other cells and even sound cells, their function is strictly controlled.  NK cells account for 10 to 30% of lymphocyte cells in blood which detect disease germs and tumor cells.

So, if activity of NK cells is strong, a man can be well protected from viruses.  But this protective activity decreases as a man gets older after reaching its peak at around the age of 25.


(https://more.hpplus.jp/odekake/o-matome/43145)

The vertical scale is the cytopathy rate (NK activity), while the horizontal scale is the age.

After birth, NK cells increase their activity to kill virus-infected cells together with viruses till around the age of 25, but they gradually decrease their activity till around 65, and then their activity rapidly falls till the death.

That is why corona-viruses can be a garver threat to old men.

But it is not only by aging that NK cells lose its activity.  NK activity is also decreases when a man is subjected to stress (fear, distress, unhealthy lifestyle, etc.).

However, Christ Jesus seemed to have the ability to enhance the function of natural killer cells.  By directing His love and compassion to sick persons, He could take stress from them and thus make NK cells work fully.

Indeed, the mental status of a man influences work of his immune system in his body.  If a man strongly wishes that he never dies, the probability of man's survival gets larger than when he abandons his life as he is succumbed to stress.

Christ Jesus must have been able to work on the mental status of a sick person with His love, so that He can enhance immunity of the man and activity of his NK cells.

Therefore, it is recommended for a man infected by corona-viruses to think of love and curing power of Christ Jesus, wishing that Christ Jesus would make His Angel use natural killer cells to kill viruses.

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Mark 6 King James Version (KJV)
19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:
20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.