"I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God" - The Last Words of Christ Jesus on the Cross

 

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The Last Words of Christ Jesus on the Cross

It is said that when a man dies, he tells truth.  In this context, the last words of Christ Jesus before His death on the cross are important:

(Luke 23)
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This Is The King Of The Jews.
39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

Therefore, followers of Christ Jesus and those who have faith in Him should believe that there is paradise or Heaven.  It means that there is the afterlife, which means that death is not the end of one's life but introduction to the spirit world.

If death means complete nullification, extinguishment, or evaporation of one's life or soul that leads to sheer nothingness of one's existence, Christ Jesus should not have said those words: Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

His words meant that there are the afterlife, the spirit world, Heaven and the hell.  Therefore, death is the transition of one's life or soul out of this world to such a world.  However, even in Christian countries, there are many who think that death might bring complete evaporation of one's life or soul with nothing left.  It might be caused by behaviors or orientation of the Vatican, churches, priests, etc.  They do not emphasize the teaching of Christ Jesus that those who believe in Him shall never die.

But, if the Vatican and all the churches and priests start to yell out that your soul will enter the afterlife after death in this world so that you have not to worry about death, the world should be changed.  If everybody comes to have no fear in death and dying, the world should be changed drastically.

But, to prevent evil men, criminals, terrorists, etc. from committing harmful acts without fear of death, another teaching of Christ Jesus is critical.   It is that the poor and faithful will be accepted in Heaven but the rich and evil should go to the hell, after death in this world.

Indeed, if you cannot enter into Heaven in the afterlife after death in this world, it will lose meaning or value that there is the afterlife.  Yet, I think that the Vatican and all the churches and priests should yell out that there is the afterlife in order to strengthen the faith of believers and save them from the fear of death. 

Physical bodies die some day in this world.  But, one's soul in one's body should survive physical or biological death in this material world.  Indeed, one's body will suffer complete nullification, extinguishment, or evaporation but one's soul should make the shift to the afterlife or the spirit world.

From the view point of material or biological death, it should be true that there is only nothingness after one's death.  But for those who believe in Christ Jesus, death in this world is happy departure of their souls from this world to Heaven in the spirit world. 

But, as the mission of Christ Jesus was to lead people to Heaven, it should be big sadness that He felt when He found that men were so bad and evil even to try to kill Him on the cross, thus losing His heart as other last words on the cross suggested.    

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John 11, King James Version

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

"he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" - Cayce's View on the Life of Christ Jesus

 

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Cayce's View on the Life of Christ Jesus

According to Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945), an American clairvoyant who claimed to channel from his higher self (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce), Christ Jesus had traveled to India, Persia, and Egypt in his youth before His appearance on the Jordan River in the Gospels.  

Specifically Christ Jesus had spent four years in His travel and training in Persia and India, and then at death of Joseph, His father in this world, He returned to Palestine and further traveled to Egypt where He made some ritual in the Pyramid at Giza with John the Baptist. 

Although this Cayce's reading on life of Christ Jesus has not been proved academically, it is interesting especially as it presented a different view to the life of Christ Jesus than the conventional one.  Especially, it seems reasonable that Joseph and Mary had lived in the environment surrounded by the Essenes before their marriage and Joseph had been an oracle of the Essenes.  The life of Christ Jesus in young ages was not that of a son of a carpenter in a village, but His family closely associated with the Essenes.

According to Cayce, Christ Jesus had a kind of red hairs, although He looked strong and tough.  He delivered jokes at the last supper.  His image in His last days should be changed somehow if we trust in Cayce.  Anyway, Cayce was a pious Christian different some other psychics or clairvoyants.        

Although, the spirit of Christ Jesus had been sent by the God to this world to form the body of a baby in Mary, He had to learn religious matters, etc. as a human being in this world.  For this purpose, He might have really travelled to Persia, India, and Egypt.  He did not learn knowledge and wisdom He would later teach people in Palestine while just living as a carpenter in village.  He should have accomplished His spiritual search through efforts as a mere man by the time He came to the Jordan River as depicted in the Gospels, so that when the God saw the grown-up Jesus with consolidated faith in the God, He praised Jesus.      

(Matthew 3)
13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Anyway, when the Gospels were written, the Essenes seemed to be still active in Palestine until the Jewish Roman War.  Titus Flavius Josephus (37 - 100), a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, mentioned the Essenes in his writings.  Therefore, it is a mystery that the Gospels do not mention the Essenes.  Early followers of Christ Jesus and the authors of the Gospels might have tried to hide some privacy of Christ Jesus by omitting descriptions about Essenes having close relationships with the family of Christ Jesus.

According to Cayce, Christ Jesus had a sister called Lutz who married a Roman soldier and later lived in Athens.  These spiritual revelations have not been academically corroborated.  And, there is no need for us to know details of privacy of the family of Christ Jesus, since Christ Jesus said that those who heard the teaching of the God and behaved and acted following the teaching were His brothers, sisters, and mother.     

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John 11, King James Version

20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

"Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God" - Satan is More Vicious than Viruses

 

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Satan is More Vicious than Viruses

The last words believed to be so according to the Gospel by Mark are as follows:

Mark 16

15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

Therefore, Christianity has survived many tragedies, wars, and pandemics, since followers of Christ Jesus have not been harmed by any deadly things such as corona-viruses and, more than that, they have been able to cure the sick.  Therefore, the Vatican and other churches should send their priests, etc. to the world of today suffering from the corona-virus.   

However, there is something worse and more dangerous than the current corona-pandemic.  It is Satan.  Satan, demons, and other evil spirits coming from the hells in the spirit world are brainwashing many people, abusing them, and having them attack followers of the God and Christ Jesus.

Therefore, any reliable psychics should see Satan, demons, and other evil spirits in the spirit world.  In this context, it is reasonable that Swedenborg, an 18th century psychic, gave warning against evil spirits living in the spirit world.  

According to Swedenborg, those spirits had been once human beings in this world, but as they loved evil, they went to various hells after death in this world.  In the spirit world, they could exercise their evil power without restrictions under which they had lived in the human world, so that these evil spirits became evil as much as possible; they even tried to destroy living human beings.  Swedenborg wrote that one evil spirit once tried to take over his body when his soul left his body to see the spirit world, which he could narrowly escaped.

Therefore, according to the Gospels and Swedenborg, evil spirits always tried to occupy and control living human beings.  Demoniac persons can be found sometimes in any society.  Therefore, the Vatican cannot repeal exorcism if it is not completely occupied and controlled by Satan.

From the beginning, if there had not been influences of Satan in this world, there should not have been any needs for the God to send His Son Christ Jesus to the human world.  Accordingly, the life of Christ Jesus was featured by fight against Satan and people brainwashed, dominated, and controlled by Satan.  Without this fight, no Gospels should be written.

In other words, Christianity and the Gospels are based on this fight of Christ Jesus against Satan and His victory.  It is not Judas Iscariot that paradoxically contributed to the establishment of the Gospels and Christianity but Satan and its followers including Judas.  The Gospels are the books that tell how dangerous and harmful Satan is.  Satan came from the hell in the spirit world immediately when it knew that the God sent His Son Christ Jesus to the human world.  And then, the story of Christ Jesus began as written in the Gospels.

The image of Christ Jesus on the cross in every church even today tells people how dangerous and harmful Satan is.  It is more dangerous than the corona-virus.  Now the corona-pandemic have infected more than 250 million people in the world.  But, those brainwashed or controlled by Satan can be estimated at 10 times the number.   

Satan is more vicious than viruses.       

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Mark 11, King James Version

20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.