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Material Civilization based on Human Material Desires
At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein found a new theory of physics and other physicists discovered quantum phenomena in their quest for true states of material, which changed the human view on the nature. Along with this trend, technologies were drastically developed, and products of the material civilization of the mankind were explosively increased with inventions of cars, airplanes, electrical communication methods, etc. Human populations and GDP grew in a large extent. The mankind seemed to go on enjoying a higher level of prosperity than before. And, the United Kingdom was at the center of this tide of history. There is still a remaining atmosphere in the U.K. today; indeed, the Industrial Revolution had begun in the U.K. in the middle of the 18th century.
In 1904, the Japanese-Russo war erupted, resulting in a narrow victory of Japan with support from the U.K. and the U.S. and eventually leading to the Russian Revolution in 1917. Subsequently, international wars and civil wars happened many times in the 20th century with WWI, WWII, the civil war in China, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, wars around Israel, Iran and the Middle East, the Gulf War, the civil war in Afghanistan, etc. Hundreds of millions of people died in these wars in the 20th century. The last symbolic incidents in the 20th century were deaths of Mother Teresa and Princess Diana in 1997 in addition to death of JFK Jr. in 1999. And, the 20th century of great material development and full of wars ended, followed by the 21th century that started with the 9/11 Terror Attack on the U.S. in 2001.
And, in 2005, John Paul II and Lucia dos Santo, the only survivor of Marian apparitions in Fatima in 1917, died leaving the controversial third secret of warnings delivered by Mother Mary in Fatima.
Subsequently, the War on Terror, the global financial crisis from Wall Street, military and economic expansion of China, Russia's invasion into Crimea, etc. occurred in the 21st century in addition to the corona pandemic. Even in this year 2022, Russia started to launch a full-scale war in Ukraine, while the former prime minister of Japan Abe was shot to death for his relation with a dubious religious body and Queen Elizabeth II died of old age.
According to Mother Mary in her apparitions (La Salette, Lourdes, Garabandal, Medjugorje, etc.) since the middle of 19th century, the mankind has to face a great tragedy in the 21st century, namely 2,000 years after the fist coming of Christ Jesus, which she especially emphasized in her apparition in Fatima.
And, according to a Japanese doctor in engineering who was also engaged in spiritualism study till his death in 2002, the population of the mankind would reduce to one hundredth of the current number due to catastrophe of their material civilization in coming 250 years. But, after this tragic period, the population of the mankind would increase to the current level of billions in 15,000 years or so. A similar sequence of events had once happened on the earth in the past, according to the doctor Kazumi Masaki who also claimed that some of spirits of the mankind had come to the earth using UFOs from another (now lost) planet of our solar system 360 million years ago.
Anyway, no matter if you believe or not, it might be centuries later that future mankind will be able to live in the new world and nature without wars and contaminations brought by past material civilization based on human material desires. They must be living in a spiritual civilization.
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Matthew 9, King James Version
14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.