Be Poor Enough to See the Heavenly Truth
In anything, truth is simple. Therefore, the teaching of Christ Jesus should be simple. Except his teaching to love the God with all of our strength and hearts and love our neighbors like ourselves, the most simple teaching of Christ Jesus is that the rich cannot enter into Heaven.However, this teaching on the rich being unable to enter into Heaven leads to creation of various and many deliverables that need volumes of books on theology.
The underlying truth of this teaching should be that being rich means being evil. Every issue concerned with evil and wickedness in the human society is related to this underlying truth. Therefore, to save this world means to suppress evil so that people should be stopped trying to be rich. For this reason, Christ Jesus said the truth that rich men cannot enter into Heaven after their death in this world. In other words, Christ Jesus said to be poor if we wanted to be accepted in Heaven after our death in this world.
Indeed, if all the people stopped trying to be rich, most of evil and wickedness in this world would disappear. The poor should be helped by the rich, and the rich would try to be poor by abandoning their wealth and giving it to the poor so as to be accepted in Heaven after their death in this world.
A poor man, when he dies and goes into the spirit world, would be rejoiced to see light of the love from the God, since the love of the God is given free and unconditional. But, a rich man would try to buy happiness with their money in the spirit world in vain, since he cannot trust anything that cannot be bought by money. Such rich men should join Satan who praises those with much money and the capacity of doing any evil for money. Therefore, poor men go up to the bright Heaven from the spirit world, but rich men go down to the dark hells from the spirit world spontaneously as witnessed by Swedenborg who observed the afterlife while living in this world in the 18th century.
Christ Jesus meant that although poor men are suffering in this world, they will be accepted in Heaven and become happy in the afterlife. This is a simple and effective teaching to the poor suffering in this world. Their salvation is promised, although which should come true after their death in this world. But, if Christ Jesus had not come from the God, none should have believed this teaching.
So, Christianity depends on people's belief that Christ Jesus came from the God or He is the Son of the God. And, to make people believe that Christ Jesus came from Heaven and He is the Son of the God, Christ Jesus had to fight against Satan, defeating evil spirits, and heal the sick, even reviving the dead.
However, to see that Christ Jesus came from the God, one needs spiritual eyes. To have spiritual eyes, one must have sound spiritual sense like that possessed by little children.
Otherwise, one must be poor enough so that his eyes and senses are not contaminated or blurred by desires, wealth, and evil minds to see that Christ Jesus came from Heaven and He should be the Son of the God.
Anyway, a priest in every church should proclaim that their aim is to be poor and thus get accepted in Heaven after death in this world.
++++ ++++ ++++
1 Peter 1, King James Version
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 1, King James Version
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;