"and his disciples believed on him" - The God Knows What We Need

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The God Knows What We Need

According to a report in 2016 on states of belief in America, not all the Americans are brainwashed by Satan trying to make people love and revere money and material wealth:

Most Americans don’t buy the prosperity gospel—especially if they have money.
Two-thirds (63 percent) disagree with the idea that God will always reward true faith with material blessings. A quarter agree. Twelve percent are not sure.
Men (28 percent) are more likely to believe in the prosperity gospel than women (22 percent). Poor Americans—those with incomes under $25,000—are more likely (28 percent) to agree than those with incomes over $100,000 (20 percent).
Those with high school degrees or less (33 percent) are more likely to believe that God blesses the faithful with material blessings than those with graduate degrees (18 percent).

(https://lifewayresearch.com/2016/09/27/americans-love-god-and-the-bible-are-fuzzy-on-the-details/) 

From the beginning, the history tells that Christ Jesus did not walk around in the world to distribute money to people.  It is written in the Gospels that Christ Jesus denied temptation by a devil promising Him wealth and money.

Money and material wealth might make people materially happy, but they are useless for salvation of souls of people for which Christ Jesus came to this world.  Rather, to become materially happy by acquiring money and material wealth, people tend to accept any evil, wrong doing or crimes, denying the teachings of the God and Christ Jesus.

It is reasonable that many Americans who have obtained higher education and incomes have found that their achievements do not contribute to solving their internal problems and relieving them of internal problems.  But Americans without sufficient educational records and wealth might think that their problems would be solved only if they have enough education and wealth.

Wise and experienced men must find that money creates more problems that it solves problems at hand.  Thoughtful, sensible, and pious men must find that desire for material happiness, success and money is the source for evil, since men tend to justify their wrong doing with necessity for money.  People often think that they have to be happy so that they have to get money and thus they have to do any evil to get money, which rejoices Satan.

The core of the teaching of Christ Jesus is that rich men cannot enter into Heaven but poor men can.  It is the basic conditions before the issue whether a man has faith in the God or not.  Christ Jesus is unique in declaring that a man cannot love both the God and money at the same time.  Being rich means to accept every evil necessary for a man to get money and become rich, which is what Satan wants.

The Gospels should read as a report of the battle between the God or Christ Jesus and Satan.  Men must not pursue money with which for them to be rich.  Men must be satisfied only with what the God gives to them.

Matthew 6　
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 

To believe that the God knows what we need before we ask Him is the faith according to teaching by Christ Jesus.

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John 2  King James Version
11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

"And she brought forth her firstborn son" - What We Have to See through this Pandemic

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What We Have to See through this Pandemic

As people have come to rarely think of life after the death while the material civilization is developing, people come to be less afraid of the God and the hell.

More and more people have come not to believe in existence of Heaven and the hell taught by various religions.  Most of people do not believe existence of the God and Satan.  Nobody seems to think about the meaning of their own existence, this world, life after death, Heaven, the hell, Satan, the God, and thus God's teaching.

Science has not proved that there is life after death, the spiritual world, a soul above a mind, and the God and Satan.  So, people only think of worldly matters, turning their eyes away from the God, the source of existence of everything including this world, the spiritual world, etc.  At least, people think of money more than the God.     

People pray to the God, asking to make their dreams come true.  But in most cases, the God seems not to listen to them.  Therefore, they tend to think that there is no God or they have nothing to do with the God.  Indeed, science has not yet proved that there is the God.  But it cannot prove either that there is no God.  

In my view, it is more likely that science proves that we do not exist before it proves that the God exists.  In other words, science developed by unbelievers would gradually go out of rationality.  Science might finally prove that there is no truth in science.  Science might finally prove that there are no human minds that generated science itself.

But none denies that everybody dies someday.  Then, the body stops biologically functioning.  Nerve cells in the brain stop their work.  The phenomenon called a mind should disappear.  But, the content of a human mind should move to a soul above the mind, and the soul enters into the spiritual world where there is Heaven and the hell.  This must be a mechanism of life set by the God.   

From the beginning, without this universe, there cannot be human beings.  And according to science, the probability that this universe with so many scientific laws was generated accidentally by chance is almost zero.  Somebody must have planned the creation of such universe, the galaxies, the solar system, the earth, the nature in the earth, and emergence and evolution of living things, including the human kind.  So, it is natural that some people believe that the God created this universe and everything in it.

If it is the God who created this world, He must be displeased as human beings created by Him have come to stop thinking of the God with respect.  The angry God may decide to exterminate such human beings.  To believe that the God has power to exterminate human beings, even if He does not seem to listen to our wish, must be the core of any religions. 

This corona-pandemic must be a warning.  The God must find it offensive that more and more people have come to less and less think of the God.  Indeed, 2000 years have passed since Christ Jesus, and 4000 years have passed since Abraham.  Seeing these states of minds of human beings, there is no wonder that the God decided to show His displeasure to human beings at the start of this millennium or in the early 21st century.

In other word, what we have to see through this pandemic is the wrath of the God on godless human beings.    

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Luke 2  King James Version
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.