"at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant" - Job's Story and the Mankind in the Corona-Pandemic

 

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Job's Story and the Mankind in the Corona-Pandemic

The Book of Job presents one of the most significant issues for the Jewish people and others since Nazi's attempt to exterminate Jewish people in Europe during WWII till 1945.  Indeed, Nazi demonstrated the greatest attempt of Satan to inflict the Jewish people since the Jewish-Roman wars in the 1st century.  Beside, if people in the world are really suffering from the corona-pandemic now, they should really refer to the Book of Job. 

The theme of the story of Job is often summarized as follows:

Job is an investigation of the problem of divine justice. This problem, known in theology as the problem of evil, can be rephrased as a question: "Why do the righteous suffer?" The conventional answer in ancient Israel was that God rewards virtue and punishes sin (the principle known as "retributive justice"). This assumes a world in which human choices and actions are morally significant, but experience demonstrates that suffering is frequently unmerited.

Yet, as the main hidden theme of the Gospels or the New Testament is the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan, the true theme of the Book of Job should be related to Satan rather than to divine justice on human beings alone.

We may have to think that the God's concern was more on how to punish Satan, like in the case of the Gospels, than to how to make Job more understand and respect the God.  As Job was not the Son of the God, like Christ Jesus, the God must have thought that it was also necessary to promote Job's faith and educate Job through divine hardships, but the matter of Satan must have been much more important for the God, since Satan had been once closer to the God as an angel than a mere soul of Job even if Job had died and his soul had been uplifted to Heaven.

In other words, the Book of Job without the existence Satan and its communications with the God, as depicted in the opening of the story, should have no impact on human beings including ancient Israelites and modern Christians, etc.  Satan is the essential player in the Book of Job.  Indeed, Job can be replaced by anybody, such as Abraham, or St. Paul or St. Peter, but Satan cannot be replaced by any spiritual entity.

Human beings, such as the Jewish people and Christians, should understand that matters related to Satan are more important for the God than those related to the human beings, such as happiness and blessings.  To make Satan get humble and confirm that it is nothing to the God, the God might use one or more people such as Job or even His Son.  The God might even use the least faithful man for such a purpose.      

If the God had been another Satan, He might have left and forgotten Job who had been used as a tool, after He had completely subdued Satan.  But, as the God was not another Satan, He kindly showed mercy to Job even in terms of material aspects not to mention the spiritual aspects. 

The lesson we should learn from the Book of Job is that our unhappiness, predicaments, worldly pains, etc. might be simple or complicated effects of the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan, which seems to be still going on since the 1st century, or of punishment of Satan by the God.  If you have a complete or enough faith in God to believe that it is impossible that the God is displeased with you, you have to all the more think so.  Your unhappiness, predicaments, worldly pains, etc. should be related to punishment of Satan by the God.  It should be so, since the God must punish and destroy Satan completely finally someday.

On the other hand, looking from Satan's side, it would try to make as many people as possible unhappy, suffering, and inflicted before it is exterminated by the God.         

In this context, although it may sound crazy, when we are unhappy, we should be convinced that we may be contributing, to whatever small degree, to the God or Christ Jesus in His disposing of Satan.

There are three hundred billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, while there are three hundred billion galaxies in the whole universe.  How our earth, just one of planets accompanying our sun that is just one of three billion stars in our galaxy that is just one of three hundred billion galaxies in the whole universe, can claim that the God should take care of it in terms of material and physical aspects more than other planets, stars, and galaxies?  We are not in the position to claim our priority to the God.  We have to be content to have received the Son of the God once 2000 years ago.  

Job did not kill Christ Jesus, so that he had no reason for fearing the God.  But, the mankind once killed Christ Jesus, thus we may have a reason for fearing the God.  A man should surely take revenge on others who killed his son.  In this context, it must be unbelievably great love that the God has not punished the mankind yet fully.  If the God sent extremely fatal viruses to the mankind in the early 21st century to eradicate them, we should not be in the position to raise a protest to the God. 

  

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Mark 12, King James Version

12 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.'

”The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life” - A Mirror and A Doctor of Psychiatry (a fiction)

 

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A Mirror and A Doctor of Psychiatry (a fiction)

There were three insane patients in a mental hospital, each claiming that he was a god.  Satan in a doctor of psychiatry in the hospital was happy to see each of them behaving like someone who believed that he was a god, since they could be good subjects of study.   

So, the doctor with Satan inside called the God using a special spiritual method with a mirror to show them and said to Him, "You are the fourth god who is actually the fourth insane man in essence!"  Then, somebody appeared from behind a mirror to which the doctor was facing, saying, "Indeed, you are the fourth insane man."  Then, the three insane patients attacked and kicked out the doctor with Satan inside.  The doctor with Satan inside and his image on the mirror fled the hospital room.  

That someone said to the three insane patients, "The fourth and fifth gods have gone!"  The three insane patients looked satisfied and watched their images on the mirror.  However, that someone told the three images of the three insane patients on the mirror to go away before being punished.  Then, the three images of the three insane patients got out of the mirror and fled the room, since these images on the mirror were Satan's minions. 

Now that, the three insane patients could not see their images on the mirror as they had seen them often before, so that they stopped claiming that they were gods, since they could not explain why they who were gods could not have their figures reflected by the mirror.  

That someone said to them to go back to the spirit world.  The three evil spirits got out of the bodies of the three insane patients and left the room, and the three bodies left behind also gradually disappeared.  

   

After Satan left the body of the doctor, he came back to his sense, finding no records of the three insane patients who claimed that they were gods, respectively.  He understood that no man alive could continue to be alive if he saw the God.  Fortunately, the doctor had no memory of having seen the God when Satan had been occupying his soul. 

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Proverbs 11, King James Version

28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

"I am meek and lowly in heart" - In What Status Are the Hells?

 

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In What Status Are the Hells

Some spirit mediums say that everybody who has died will live happy in the spirit world: so there is nothing to worry about the afterlife.  But, Swedenborg, an 18th century elite scholar and psychic, warned that every soul who entered into the spirit world after death in this world should go to either Heaven or the hells.

  

So, it is necessary to see what Swedenborg saw in the hells through his spiritual experiences:

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There is nothing spirits want more when they are arriving in the other life from this world than to get into heaven. Almost all of them expect to because they believe that heaven is simply a matter of being let in and accepted. Because this is what they want, then, they are taken to some community of the outmost heaven. If they are devoted to love for themselves and the world, then the moment they reach the first border of that heaven they begin to feel pain and to be so tormented within that they feel as though they were in hell rather than in heaven. So they themselves dive down headlong and are not at rest until they are with their own kind in the hells.

Even souls of bad and evil men want to enter into Heaven.  But, they cannot bear to see bright light in Heaven coming from the God, so that they will run away from Heaven to gather themselves and hide in the hells.   The hells are not the place to punish souls of bad and evil men but the place where bad and evil men would go and hide spontaneously.

But specifically what are those souls of bad and evil men doing in the hells?

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They also said that thousands choose to live in hell rather than outside it. It was also found that they have no other delight than doing as much evil as they dare and are able to do to whomever they see.

In the hells, stronger and more evil souls would attack weaker ones among them.  Satan, the strongest and worst one, requests others to call him the god and revere him.  All the souls in various hells would do evil things as much as possible to one another without restrictions in the human world, which rejoices them so much.  But some evil spirits that cannot withstand attacks from others would flee to a wilder hell where they roam like wild animals.  However, slight light from the God can reach to the hells to save any repenting souls, although fear rules the hells.       

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It ought to be known that the sole means of restraining the violence and fury of those who are in the hells is the fear of punishment. There is no other way.

So, the hells reflect the inner nature of the dark side in this world.  Even in this world, bad and evil guys would do any harm to others as much as possible to satisfy their insane desires, if they were not stopped by laws, social restriction, Heavenly interference, etc.

Various hells where the souls of bad and evil men would choose and go depending on their tastes are the place opposite to Heaven where souls of poor and faithful men receive eternal life as promised by Christ Jesus.     

  

Bad and evil men love evil things and the hells.  That is why they try to create hells in this human world to others who are especially poor and faithful.  And, they do so specifically by being rich and holding worldly power.  That is also why being rich, elite, socially successful, and materially happy in this world is evil, so that Christ Jesus said that rich men cannot enter into Heaven as a camel cannot go through the eye of a needle.

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Matthew 11, King James Version

25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

"Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question" - The Flesh Came into Being because of Spirit

 

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The Flesh Came into Being because of Spirit

The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 includes scores of words of Christ Jesus as heard by somebody called Thomas.  Therefore, those words might not have precisely reflected true words or intensions of Christ Jesus, since some interpretation by Thomas should been mingled there.　

However, there are some words that cannot be ignored due to depth of the meaning of them.  One of them is as follows:

(29) Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty."

(https://web.archive.org/web/20050116023247/http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html)

Everybody admits that he has a body as well as a mind.  And, everybody thinks that a man was born with his body and mind.  But, it is clear to any body that a mind exists because there is a body.  The mind exists in the body or specifically in the brain because there is the body or the brain.  The mind alone cannot exist. Therefore, the body should be first generated, and then the mind comes to exist in the brain of the body.

However, the spirit or the soul is the source of the mind.  When the body or the brain is sufficiently materially/biologically formed to a certain degree enough to hold and keep work of a mind, the spirit or the soul coming from the spirit world starts to generate the human mind in the body or the brain. 

Anyway, the spirit world takes priority over the physical world.  So, it is no wonder that the mind comes into being in the body because of work of the spirit.  And, the material body itself comes into being in the material world that was originally generated by energy from the spirit world.

Put simply, every thing spiritual takes precedence over every thing material.  (The God and angels, as spiritual entities, are above material existence of human beings.) The mind is an effect of work of the spirit or the soul in the human body or brain.  So, it is difficult to comprehend objectively one's spirit or soul through the mind in the body.

It is a wonder that one's spirit or soul with the mind leaves one's body in a rare case when his body is not dead. 

Inside the body, there is the mind.  Inside the mind, there is work of the spirit or soul.  But, externally, it seems that the body generates the mind, and the mind forms the spirit or the soul.      

It is a matter for regret that the Books Canon do not include this Gospel of Thomas.  But, as the start of the end of the world, predicted as 2060 by Isaac Newton, came near, this Gospel of Thomas came to appear in 1945 probably by spiritual interference by the God or Christ Jesus.   

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Mark 11, King James Version

27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,
28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
29 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.