"the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain" - Wealth Making Men Blindly Content Leads to Fatal Crisis such as Corona-Pandemic

 

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Wealth Making Men Blindly Content Leads to Fatal Crisis such as Corona-Pandemic

If anybody of today met Satan who told them to give any wealth, success, and reputation only if he revered and followed Satan, probably he would accept and follow Satan to be rich and happy. 

Not believing in existence of the God, Satan, Heaven, the hell, etc. should not assure that such a person would reject such an offer of Satan who might disguise itself as a Lady Luck.

This issue has become so critical nowadays as the mankind have become so rich after 2000 years since the first appearance of Christ Jesus. 

(https://www.visualcapitalist.com/2000-years-economic-history-one-chart/)

The increase in wealth of the mankind suggests realization of not only rich life but a dangerous world.  It should be supported by development of science and technology.  The mankind should surely acquire dangerous weapons and other means strong enough to destroy the human civilization.  And this corona-pandemic suggests a possibility of biological weapons.

Development of medical science and biological science would surely bring about improvement of human health and welfare.  But, it might also accelerate danger of development of biological weapons or wrong application of such technology to the human body.

Although today men cannot yet create effective medicines to suppress any wrong viruses, such medicines, if any, must have unseen adverse effects.  Or men might find a way to handle human genes or DNA to be free from dangers such viruses should cause.  But such handling of human genes or DNA would lead to unforgivable interference with biological conditions of human beings. 

Now the mankind have obtained wealth over restriction set by Christ Jesus.  This level of wealth can be only obtained by selling men's souls to Satan, which Christ Jesus did not.  Based on such wealth, men should create dangerous technologies.  For example, as stated, the mankind might start to handle genes or DNA, which might lead to biological crisis if used by evil men or terrorists.  The mankind might develop computer systems that can efficiently handle monetary economy with a possibility of global economic destruction if used by evil men or terrorists.

So, today with this dangerous level of wealth, any crisis can happen.  And, this corona-pandemic is a warning.  It is symbolic that this pandemic was first generated in China getting rich with its GDP increasing.

With unforgivable wealth and success, men would have a desire to be further richer by use of their wealth, in which they would break restrictions set by the God.  In this scenario, men would finally face an unexpected tragedy, which means that the end of the world should come.

This pandemic, where tiny viruses generated in China have attacked the global civilization in such a large scale, is really a warning to the mankind whose wealth has explosively increased in these centuries.        

The fatal crisis or the end of the world should really come when and where people, being content with and blind due to their wealth, never dream of it, like none could expect the corona-pandemic in 2020.

  

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Matthew 4, King James Version

7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

"Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey" - Not Fighting Satan must Mean Betraying the God

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Not Fighting Satan must Mean Betraying the God

It is true that Christ Jesus talked about fear of death, soul, and the hell:

Matthew 10, King James Version

28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

His words also imply existence of the God and Heaven.

Followers of Christ Jesus is enemies of Satan who hates the God and Christ Jesus.  Accordingly Satan tries to kill followers of Christ Jesus.  But it cannot kill the souls of the followers of Christ Jesus.  However, the God or Christ Jesus can destroy bodies and souls of followers of Satan in the hell to erase their existence and annihilate them.  And Christ Jesus would say that they should not have been born.

This might look like a fantasy, but to believe in Christ Jesus and the Bible means to believe his words.

Conversely, if we follow Christ Jesus and get saved by Him, our bodies and souls should be allowed into Heaven. 

However, Heaven is not a material world like the hell is not.  We cannot see the God and Heaven in the same manner we see material things and phenomena.  Even when we die, we can preserve our souls.  Even Satan can stop our souls from entering into Heaven.  We, each, will have the spiritual body and soul after death.  Even Satan cannot kill our souls, but the God can destroy bodies and souls of followers of Satan in the hell.  

So, if men could actually see the spiritual world, they should all follow the God and leave Satan because of the fear of being annihilated by the God in the hell.  However, it seems that the God does not want men to see the real states in the hell and accordingly follow Him due to the fear.  But the God seems to see us follow Him without seeing the actual states in the hell.

Those who can live forever in Heaven and others who are destroyed to be nothing in the hell are very different.  Followers of the God and other followers of Satan are very different.  The God and Satan are very different from each other.   Heaven and the hell are so different from each other.

The important issue is that Christ Jesus recommends us to fear the God.  If we are not 100% completely following the words of the God, we cannot claim that the God should love us, save us, and give us happiness, fortunes, and money.  Instead, we should think that the God might be angry at us because of our insufficient belief.

Indeed, we have no qualification and right to demand good treatment from the God.  We have nothing to offer to the God in exchange.  But, as Satan is an enemy of the God, our fighting Satan must please the God.  So, Christ Jesus said not to be afraid of Satan but have fear of God.

In this context, the God might have created men as Its soldiers in fight against Satan.  So, not fighting Satan must mean betraying the God.  If we love money more than the God as we are brainwashed by Satan, we should be annihilated to be nothing in the hell.    

This is a reasonable understanding of the words of Christ Jesus.      

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John 4, King James Version
6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

"as he sowed, some fell by the way side" - God's World, the Spiritual World, and the Human World

 

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God's World,  the Spiritual World, and the Human World

The most important issue for the mankind is whether the God can control everything in the human world as He wishes.  For example, if He can do, the God can at any time put the end to the corona-pandemic.  Or the God might have caused this pandemic for some reason.  Then all the mankind should do is to pray and ask the God to terminate this pandemic.

Based on the ideology of non-nonsense religions, such as Christianity, the God can do, since those religions are based on the belief that the God is almighty and is the Creator of the physical world and the spiritual world.  At least, in the Bible, it is written that the God can do anything the mankind cannot do.

In my view, the God had existed before anything that can exist started to exist due to the power of the God.  Or, from a human point of view, we might say that everything that can exist actually exists as the God wishes so.  Conversely, if the God had not wanted to exist, nothing should have started to exist.  The God is above existence.  He does not need to exist, but for certain reasons, He decided to exist.  And, subsequently, Angels started to exit, Heaven started to exist, the spiritual world started to exist, the physical world started to exit, the university started to exit, the stars started to exist, the earth started to exist, the living things started to exit, and finally the human beings started to exist with their minds that are linked to the spiritual world, in addition to Satan, devils, demos, evil spirits, the hell, etc.  And, most importantly, the human history started to exit, where the Son of the God came to appear 2000 years ago.  

Of course, everyone of the human beings exists doe to this power of the God.  None exists due to his own power, capacity, or ability but by the power of the God or due to His intention.

It is easily understood that the nature moves as the God determined: the stars and the molecules move as the God wishes.  But, it is a little difficult that the human world and the minds of people can be controlled by the God.  Or the human history or any one's life can be controlled by the God.

However, the human world is based on the mass of the minds of all the people.  And every one has the free will.  Yet, it is not inconsistent that the God can control the human world and human minds and every one has freedom of thought and action.

If the  mankind finds reasons why the God has given freedom of thought and action to everyone, while the God can control the human world and everybody, they might simply try to follow the will and intention of the God.

Most importantly, it seems that Satan hates the God while it understands the reason why the God gives freedom of thought and action to the mankind in addition to Satan.  Anyway, Christ Jesus said to love the God as much as possible but not to be loved by the God as much as possible.  We have to love the God, but not to try to be loved by the God as much as possible, although we should be surely loved by the God if we love the God as much as possible.   

While we live in this human and material world, the spiritual world is a mystery.  But if we live in the spiritual world, God's world might be still a mystery, assuming that God's world is above the spiritual world that is above the human and material world. 

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Mark 4, King James Version
3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.