"these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away" - The Last Judgment in the Spirit World and Newton's Prediction in 1700's

 

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The Last Judgment in the Spirit World and Newton's Prediction in 1700's

A mystery of Swedenborg (1688-1772), a Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic who claimed that he saw the spirit world, Heaven, and the hell while living in this world, is that he witnessed the Last Judgment in 1757:

One of Swedenborg's lesser-known works presents a startling claim: that the Last Judgment had begun in the previous year (1757) and was completed by the end of that year and that he had witnessed it. According to The Heavenly Doctrine, the Last Judgment took place not in the physical world but in the World of Spirits, halfway between heaven and hell, through which all pass on their way to heaven or hell. The Judgment took place because the Christian church had lost its charity and faith, resulting in a loss of spiritual free will that threatened the equilibrium between heaven and hell in everyone's life. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg)

After 1757, the French Revolution occurred; the Industrial Revolution occurred; and WWI and WWII happened.   With advancement of science and technology, the world is still going on in the 21st century.

One thing looking relevant to Swedenborg's claim is that influence of Christian churches, especially the Vatican, has been lost more and more since 1757.  On the other hand, material power and wealth the mankind acquired have drastically increased through the Industrial Revolution and WWII.  Today the world is completely a different place than that in the 18th century where there were no TV sets, smart phones, other home electronics, cars, jet planes, other modern machines in addition to the Internet.

Isaac Newton who died in 1727 predicted that the end of the world might start in 2060.  Both Swedenborg and Newton died in 1700s and left their words concerning the end of the world, although their contents are very different.  But, they seemed to have some pessimistic views on the future of the world before the start of modern material civilization.

Now, it is 300 years after the era of Swedenborg and Newton.  If the Last Judgment had been really ended and the fate of the mankind had been decided 300 years ago and the mankind had continued their sinful way of living till the 21st century, the end of the world might come at any time.  And, this corona-pandemic must be taken from this spiritual point of view, although it seems that nobody thinks that this pandemic will lead to the end of the world.

Our solus will continue to live in the spirt world after death in this world.  But, it is so sad that our civilization will end sooner or later.  Due to overwhelming majority of the mankind who have sold their sols to Satan, our civilization might be ended according to Swedenborg's Last Judgment and Newton's prediction made 300 years ago.  It means that there will be no 22nd century for the mankind.

However, if we repent in this pandemic to turn to the God, He might allow us to continue to live, say, even in coming 2000 years.  

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Luke 8, King James Version
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

"And he left them, and entering into the ship again" - Poor Men Assumed to be Faithful Should be Accepted in Heaven

 

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Poor Men Assumed to be Faithful Should be Accepted in Heaven

If everybody is taught in primary school that there is the afterlife and his soul will continue to live in the spirit world after death in this world, would it save the world?

Rich men will still continue to be rich in the afterlife, and poor men will still be afraid that they may be still poor in the afterlife.

Or, people might think that it does not matter whether they are rich or poor in this world and they will all alike be happy in the afterlife with help and support from angels, etc.  So, it is stupid not to try to be rich while living in this world, since rich men and poor men will be happy in the afterlife.  Furthermore, people would think that there is no need for rich men to be afraid of judgement by the God after death.   

Therefore, the knowledge that there is the afterlife and people's souls will continue to live in the spirit world after death in this world does not necessarily make this world better or give salvation to poor people suffering in this world.  Rather, Satan seems to be trying to diffuse the notion that everybody will be happy in the life after death or in the spirit world, so that everybody should try to be rich and happy in this world.  However, Christ Jesus clearly said that rich men could not enter into Heaven but fall into the hell after death in this world.

The teaching of Christ Jesus that poor men can be accepted in Heaven but rich men should fall into the hell to be destroyed by the God is really good news for poor people suffering in this world.  In this teaching, it is implied that faithful men are poor and evil men are rich from a material view point.

In this context, Christ Jesus proclaimed that poor men should not be afraid of death, since the God loved them.  Since Christ Jesus launched his mission with this teaching 2000 years ago, very many poor people in the Roman Empire, later Europe, America, Africa, Asia, etc. came to believe in Christ Jesus.  Even today in the world, there are more than 2 billion people who believe in Christ Jesus, Christianity, or the Vatican.     

However, scholars, priests, preachers, and even the elite in the Vatican do not emphasize this simple teaching of Christ Jesus.  They do not even show their hatred against wealth, money, and worldly happiness and success that will lead them to the hell in the afterlife.  They mostly focus on love of ambiguous sort that must indicate their love to worldly happiness based on power and wealth under control of Satan.        

So, it is Satan's teaching that no matter good or evil one is, he can live happily in the spirit world after death in this world.  But Christians must believe that poor men, assumed to be faithful, would be welcomed in Heaven but rich men, assumed to be evil, should fall into the hell to be finally destroyed by the God.  


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Mark 8, King James Version
12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.
14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

"The seed is the word of God" - Psychic Phenomena and Psi Phenomena Based on Faith in the God

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Psychic Phenomena and Psi Phenomena Based on  Faith in the God

One of impressive sayings of Christ Jesus concerning faith and miracles is :

20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. (Matthew 17)

This saying is a key to understanding of spiritual power influencing on substance and material.  Although there have been many reports on psychic phenomena and psi phenomena, people related to such phenomena seem to lack faith in the God and Christ Jesus.

Basically, all substance and material in this universe was generated through the generation of this universe some 14 billion years ago.  In other words, there had been no material and substance before the generation of this universe.  However, there must have been the spirt world, Heaven, and the hell.  Otherwise, the spirt world, Heaven, and the hell were created at the same time or later when this material universe was created.  Therefore, spiritual force must take priority over physical force, so that it is no wonder that Christ Jesus who had come from the spirit world could perform many miracles that can not be scientifically explained.

However, since there is linkage between this material world and the spirit world, some people without faith might happen to acquire an ability to use spiritual power.  However, as they do not know why they can use spiritual power, their performance should remain as mystery.

In this context, the words of Christ Jesus are important, since they imply that faith has a special effect on believers.  They can work on material and substance by invoking spiritual power through their mind work based on faith in the God.  For example, it was reported that certain believers in Christ Jesus who had near-death-experiences came to have healing power to cure and heal sick men.  In some cases, they put their hands over sick men while praying that they would be healed.  The human body is made of material and substance, so that it must be possible that spiritual power can work on the human body.

There is a theory in traditional Chinese medicine such as Qigong that human spirit can work on the human body.  It is based on truth that this physical universe was generated through work of spiritual energy.  A trained master of Qigong seems to be able to invoke spiritual energy that can work on the human body even without faith in Christ Jesus or the God.

However, Christ Jesus encouraged believers to have faith in the God, so that they could have this supernatural power.  Indeed, if a man acquires the ability to invoke spiritual power to perform miracles without faith but by chance or through technical training, he may abuse it for his own interest but not for the God, which must be dangerous for the society.                   

The God should set a rule that only believers with faith in the God can invoke spirit energy to perform miracles.  This theory is reflected in the process of the Vatican to judge saints.  

Therefore, for the mankind to elucidate psychic phenomena and psi phenomena, faith in the God should increase and grow.  

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Luke 8, King James Version
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

"Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst" - Poverty, the Afterlife, and Heaven in Trinity

 

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Poverty, the Afterlife, and Heaven in Trinity

Now that almost everybody admits that there is the afterlife based on many reports on near-life-experiences, we have to focus on what Christ Jesus really wanted to teach us.

Even if men only believe that there is the afterlife, it would not save the poor, the unhappy, and the inflicted by the society.  Their poor, unhappy, and inflicted lives might continue to the afterlife after death in this world.   And, rich and happy men would try to continue their materially blesses lives even in the afterlife.  But, if poor, unhappy, and inflicted men know that they would be blessed in the afterlife to be accepted in Heaven, their souls should be saved.

To continue to be rich, happy, and successful in this world, men have to sell any part of their souls to Satan to be helped by it.  So, those who cannot sell any part of their souls at any critical moments in their lives should rejoice the God.  However, they should become poor and unsuccessful in this world under strong influence of Satan.  In other words, you cannot even earn one dollar unless you sell any part of your soul to Satan.

And, Christ Jesus said that good and faithful men could be accepted in Heaven while bad and faithless men should go to the hell.  But He emphasized that the measure with which to judge a man is good or evil is whether he is poor or rich.  Therefore, poor men are promised to be accepted in Heaven, which is really good news for poor men.

So, the focus of the teachings of Christ Jesus is not simply the existence of the afterlife but the fate or fact that poor and faithful men would be accepted in Heaven after death in this world.  Indeed, some philosophers tell that there is no need for good men to be afraid of their death.

Without believing the existence of the afterlife, Christianity, the teachings of Christ Jesus, or the Gospels are meaningless, nonsense, or simply a fairy tale.  Truly, there must be many priests or preachers who do not believe in the existence of the afterlife.  They must think that there is no way to prove the existence of Heaven and the hell, so that their unbelief cannot be disclosed or found.  They must believe in any profits or advantages of being priests or preachers in this world.  However, being poor or rich cannot be hidden.  As a result, they would not focus on or make people pay attention to this core of the teaching of Christ Jesus. 

There is the afterlife.  But, what is more important is the holy rule that only poor men can enter into Heaven in the afterlife.  Poverty, the afterlife, and Heaven are in trinity.  This trinity must have been able to be understood by unlettered poor fishermen, farmers, etc. who lived in Palestine 2000 years ago.         

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John 8, King James Version
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.