"he tarried so long in the temple" - The True Meaning of Jesus' Teaching

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The True Meaning of Jesus' Teaching

It is said that Christ Jesus said that a man who was poor was blessed.  And people who heard this word became to believe in Him although they had no deep and wide knowledge about religion and philosophy.

But in these 2000 years, this teaching of Christ Jesus had been interpreted and discussed in various ways by those with deep and wide knowledge about religion and philosophy, resulting in denial or negligence of the true meaning of His teaching.

The reason is simple.  Scholars, professors, learned persons, priests, etc. in these 2000 years have not thought that the poor were blessed as Christ Jesus had truly meant.  So, they sometimes said that Christ Jesus had not talked about a materially or worldly poor man but a man whose mind was humble and thus poor without worldly desire.  They sometimes said that a man could be rich because this teaching of Christ Jesus did not forbid a man to be materially or worldly rich.    

But would Christ Jesus give a teaching whose true meaning could be only understood by modern scholars, professors, learned persons, priests, etc. to poor Jewish people living 2000 years ago without learned wisdom?

Christ Jesus simply said and meant that a poor man was blessed, since such a man would be accepted, consoled, and healed in Heaven.  Since a man's being poor proves that he has not sold his soul significantly to Satan or he has not committed a grave sin to be any rich.      

Scholars, professors, learned persons, priests, etc. usually have materially rich or satisfactory live while there are poor men around them without knowledge, skills, physical or spiritual power, worldly wisdom, etc.  But those scholars, etc. usually would not sufficiently give money to those poor people.  Christ Jesus meant that such a way of living rich by those scholars, etc. should eventually lead them to the hell, and thus they were not blessed.

Money cannot be obtained by a man without his committing any sins.  Money is a tool with which Satan makes a man commit any sins.  Poor men are less under rule of Satan, therefore he has a bigger chance to be accepted in Heaven.

Any poor man without learned knowledge knows that he cannot be rich if he does not neglect other poor men.  In other words, everybody knows that he has to sell any part of his soul to Satan to become and stay rich, competing against others, defeating them, neglecting them, and abusing them in any way.  Therefore, a man who has not become and stayed rich through such a way of life can be more easily accepted in Heaven than rich men who have succeeded in this world by selling their souls to Satan.

So, Christ Jesus simply said that a rich man cannot easily enter Heaven, but a poor man can be more easily accepted in Heaven.  In this context, a poor man is blessed.

However, poverty generates crimes, and poverty produces criminals.  This worldly phenomenon seem to betray the teaching of Christ Jesus.  But if we see that it is rich men who first created poverty among those who were defeated in social and economic competition, we may understand that why Christ Jesus so severely condemned rich men who caused poor men to stumble.          

A poor man is a victim of a society or an economic system.  Such a man should be pardoned by the God more easily if he has committed any sins as a poor man, and thus be blessed.

Otherwise, scholars, professors, learned persons, priests, etc. are mad to think that they have to treat this teaching of Christ Jesus in a more difficult way so that ordinary or poor people cannot understand. 

Most of rich men are brainwashed by Satan with power of money, which must be the true meaning of Jesus' teaching that the poor were blessed.

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Luke 1  King James Version

20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.

"which shall be fulfilled in their season" - Appearance of a Great Saint in a Crisis such as this Pandemic

 

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Appearance of a Great Saint in a Crisis such as this Pandemic

It is said that a great saint appeared when the world was in a crisis.

Christ Jesus appeared 2000 years ago when the Jewish world faced a crisis of a possible war with the Roman Empire.  Moses appeared when Jewish people faced a crisis of extinction through slavery in Egypt.  Abraham appeared when the ancient kingdom of Ur was being destroyed in the Mesopotamia.   

Now, in the early 21st century after 2000 years of Christ Jesus, whose era had been 1300 years after Moses who had appeared 700 years after Abraham, the mankind and especially the U.S. are facing a crisis due to the corona-pandemic and the division within the nation and the society.

But can a great saint today appear in the world or the U.S.?

A crisis often causes madness or an abnormal psychological state in the society or the world.  This corona-pandemic, the political and social division in the U.S., and the dangerous rise of economic and military power of China have posed a great risk to the world and the U.S.

Usually such a situation leads to a competition or battles among mad parties rather than between a sound party and a mad party.  But,  a great saint such as Christ Jesus has finally fixed the situation.  Without such a great saint, the world or the society would start to get degenerated through such a crisis.

In this context, it can be said that if the U.S. society cannot produce such a great saint in this political confusion triggered by Trump, it might politically or socially undergo regression.  Or if the world cannot produce such a great saint in this international confusion triggered by China, it might enter into a more dangerous era as the world after WWI and the Spanish Flu had led to the rise of Nazis and the outbreak of WWII.

A crisis in civilization or the world must be triggered by battles among mad parties.  A crisis that might cause the end of the world should occur in such a situation.  China seems to become one of mad parties as it generated this pandemic, in addition to various reports of its negligence of human rights and Christian values.  But the U.S. might be also at the brink of political disruption, which would make it unable to effectively cope with the threat from China.

When darkness and desperation were so deep and strong, a great saint such as Christ Jesus appeared to save not only local or limited people but also eventually the human civilization and the world.

If Biden is not such a saint, we have to further wait and see the right time.  But, in my feeling, this 21st century is a decisive time in terms of avoiding the end of the world, which is predicted in the Bible.

If a great saint such as Christ Jesus appears in the world or the U.S. in the early 20th century, the mankind would be able to survive this century and subsequent centuries or next 2000 yeas.  But, in the worst case, WWIII would occur involving China, the U.S., etc.

Anyway, 2000 years have already passed since Christ Jesus.  Anything historically decisive can happen in the world.  We may be facing the decisive era like Jewish people after WWI and the Spanish Flu had faced the early 20th century or the era of Nazis and Hitler. 

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Luke 1  King James Version
19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.