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Danger for the Mankind after the Corona-Pandemic
According an old story related to Buddhism, complied about four centuries before the era of Christ Jesus, a field rat who was the Buddha in his previous life destroyed a wild dog that killed and ate other field rats.
In certain woods, there was a wild dog who tried to gather field rats to eat them. For this purpose, he pretend to be a saint. So, he stood on his two legs instead of four. When field rats saw the wild dog, they asked why he stood on two legs. He answered that he was reducing the burden of the earth supporting his weight, because two legs instead of four would give less weights on the earth.
So, all the field rats thought that the wild dog was a saint and came to see him everyday. But when they went back home in the evening, the wild dog attacked the last one of the field rats leaving for their homes and ate it. Day after day, the number of field rats decreased. So, the field rat who was the Buddha in his previous life suspected what had happened to those lost field rats.
One day, he decided to leave the wild dog on his two legs as the last one. And, the wild dog attacked the Buddha in life of a field rat. The field rat found that the wild dog was just a pretender, so that the field rat struck back at the wild dog to bite it to death. Although it is a little bloody, the story tells that the Buddha, as a field rat in one of his previous lives, killed an evil wild dog to save other field rats.
So, even centuries before the era of Christ Jesus in India far from Palestine, people knew that there was a false saint or Satan pretending to be a saint to gather people with a trick to kill them.
In the Bible, there is warning to a false prophet who would give false warning to people:
Matthew 24
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Although nobody seems to have predicted this occurrence of the corona-pandemic, if there had been any pundit who had predicted this pandemic before 2020, people might have been easily handled according to his intention as such a man must have gained a reputation.
However, after this corona-pandemic, people would be more afraid of another pandemic than before. They might be psychologically unstable and get easily duped by false prophets, evil politicians, etc. offering false solutions to people's anxieties. And, if Christ Jesus does not come as the second time to destroy them, people might be drawn to real danger of losing their souls.
Anyway, this corona-pandemic would open a new era where the fate of the mankind should get at stake. Even after the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Hitler emerged, results of which people still do not forget.
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Luke 3, King James Version
18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.