"What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?" - Only the Poor Can Understand the Teachings of Christ Jesus

 

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Only the Poor Can Understand the Teachings of Christ Jesus

What are the conditions to be admitted as followers of Christ Jesus, even if not authorized as Christians by churches?

First, you have to be poor enough to be accepted in Heaven by the God.

Secondly, you have to be poorer than your neighbors.

Thirdly, you have to follow a teaching of Christ Jesus that you have to love the God with all of your hearts and might and then love your neighbor as much as you love yourself.

Fourthly, you have to believe another teaching of Christ Jesus that the rich cannot enter into Heaven, but the poor can.

Naturally, you have to repent of your past sinful life and abandon your  money, wealth, social status or reputation, happiness, worldly power, etc., although you may not be requested to die for Christ Jesus at any time for any reason and sacrifice yourself for others around you.  

From the beginning, happy men in this world do not need the God or Christ Jesus as Christ Jesus said, according to Luke 5:

"31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

This saying can be translated as rich, happy, or materially satisfied men do not need Christ Jesus.  Or, only faithful men enough to repent of whatever sins they think have need Christ Jesus.  But any men who have some money, while there are others who do not have as much money as they have but repent of whatever sins, must not need Christ Jesus.

In other words, evil in this world can be found in money or wealth.  If there are no poor and unhappy men in this world, there is no need for Christ Jesus to come to save the world and people.  Therefore, it is reasonable that Christ Jesus focused on "rich and poor" without mentioning "evil and good" or "unfaithful and faithful."   

Put extremely, there is no evil that is not related to money or wealth.  To be completely faithful and good, you should not have money or wealth at all like Christ Jesus had not.

However, can men follow poor priests or bishops who are poorer than any other member in their churches?  Can people like to see the Pope of the Vatican being poorer than any other human being in the world?  Can people believe that such priests or bishops, or such Pope bless them and promise happiness in the afterlife to them?  Do you like to see the Pope in the form of a beggar or a homeless standing before you and blessing you?  But, it was Christ Jesus was doing. 

To put it simply, Christ Jesus can be truly understood by poor men or the poorest men.  It is because Christ Jesus tried to save poor men, so that only poor people can truly understand love of Christ Jesus to the poor.           

In this context, Christianity is the religion for the poor, recommending everybody to be poor in this world, although they will be happy and satisfied in Heaven after death in this world.  Conversely, men have to be poor in this world to become happy and blessed in the afterlife.

Christianity must mean poverty in this world but happiness in the afterlife.  But, Satan has made people believe that there cannot be the afterlife or the hells where those who live rich in this world should go and suffer.  That is why we have to fight Satan.  In other word, finally, you have to fight Satan to be recognized as followers of Christ Jesus. 

To make it sure, the God hates the rich, since there is Satan behind them.

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John 2, King James Version

17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

"Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth" - Christ Jesus Expected Again to Suppress Evil Spirits and Satan

 

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Christ Jesus Expected Again to Suppress Evil Spirits and Satan

The Gospels clearly mention Christ Jesus fighting against evil spirits and Satan:

(Matthew 12)
22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

So, it is clear that when Christ Jesus came to this human world 2,000 years ago, it was widely observed that evil spirits and Satan captured human minds to occupy people and make them obey to Satan. 

The belief in Christ Jesus and Christianity should be based on this notion that human beings are targeted by evil spirits and Satan who wish to penetrate in minds and bodies of human beings to eventually destroy them.  Indeed, Swedenborg, a notable 18th century psychic, wrote that many evil spirits were trying to find a chance to penetrate into a human mind to eventually destroy the human being.    

Even today, some psychics in Japan claim that they can see evil spirits around men causing physical or spiritual pains or slumps and madness in men in addition to guardian spirits for them.  They perform spiritual healings on such men and even establish new religions as founders of sects.  Indeed, there are 300 to 400 new religions in Japan today, and the number of total members of these religions account for 10% of the whole Japanese population. (Japanese Christians account for only about 1% in the Japanese population.) The founders of such new religions often display their spiritual ability to see and judge evil or good spirits possessing their members or drive evil spirits out of them.  Shintoism and Japanese Buddhism (including many sects), the two major religions in Japan, were established centering around the traditional sense of Japanese culture admitting existence of holy spirits and evil spirits (the Japanese imperial family is also based on this sense in the Japanese myth).

Eve, the knowledge about evil spirits and holy spirits, including Christ Jesus, in Christianity is sometimes introduced into creeds of those new religions in Japan, although they do not adopt or observe creeds of Christianity.            

This situation in Japan alone tells that people are aware of existence of holy and evil spirits around them in their lives.  Therefore, we had better assume that there are billions of people in the world possessed by evil spirits or Satan, although billions of faithful Christians, etc. should be protected by holy spirits or angels from evil spirits.   
For example, reverence for money and wealth is seen in every country regardless of each culture or religion.  It is a kind of global common religion.  And, according to the Bible, money and wealth are tools of Satan to brainwash men.  In this sense, human beings in the world are still under influence of Satan.

Therefore, it is reasonable to wish the second coming of Christ Jesus to the human world to suppress, clean up or drive evil spirits and Satan out of the human world.  We should expect that it will happen sooner or later in the 21st century, since 2,000 years have already passed since the birth of Christ Jesus in His first coming.  



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Matthew 2, King James Version

13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.