"now shall the prince of this world be cast out"- Critical Years after a Tragic Period to Come So Soon

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Critical Years after a Tragic Period to Come So Soon

Before Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772), and Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) participated actively in each field, London had suffered the great tragedy:   

The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331 (the first year of the Black Death), and included related diseases such as pneumonic plague and septicemic plague, which lasted until 1750.　(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London)

But, theses geniuses in science, Christian mysticism or spiritualism, and philosophy, respectively, were surely alive between 1724 and 1727.   they were all associated with England: Newton, a British; Swedenborg wrote almost all of his books in London; and Kant were highly influenced by a British philosopher in forming his view on difference between rational thoughts and belief in God.

After the era of these great scholars, the human civilization started to undergo the scientific revolution and the industrial revolution.  Through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, science and technology never ceased to develop through James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein, DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for the Internet, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for PCs, and other AI engineers. 

But, Christian mysticism or spiritualism also never ceased to progress through appearances of many mediums, prevalence of spiritual communications or seances, and supernatural power booms through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.  Even in Japan today the spiritual business has a 10 billion dollar-sized market.

Yet, study on the spirit world based on Kant's theory has not yet started.  The ability to understand the spirit world is different from the ability to understand the nature, mathematics, or the human world.  To understand the God, a man has to have unique ability like the mind to choose good over evil or the God over money.  

Anyway, if the Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, had been more destructive, Newton, Swedenborg, and Kant might have lost chances to contribute to the human civilization.  In this context, the historical fact that all the three lived between 1724 and 1727 is symbolic.

Now 300 years later after the above period, other critical people might survive the recent corona-pandemic.  Indeed, it will be 2024 from tomorrow.  You had better think about the God in a way different from that for rationally making money or pursuing material happiness.       

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John 12, King James Version
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.

"He that is not with me is against me" - The Holy Mystery of the Heart

 

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The Holy Mystery of the Heart

Our Lord Jesus Christ was aware that we wanted to eat fully delicious foods but He thought that it was absurd.

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (Matthew 6)

What gives life to our body is not the brain but the heart that pushes blood to the brain and other parts of the body.  The blood is created in the bones; it is not generated in the heart.  The blood carries oxygen and other nutrition to the brain, etc.  The heart works without interruption while we are alive, repeating expansion and contraction 100,000 times a day to circulate the blood flow.

So, what gives life to our bodies is the hearts and blood.   According a Japanese heart specialist, even the hearts of old men aged 90 or more look fresh.  The heart working 100,000 times a day without interruption never gets old.  But its cells cannot be reproduced like brain cells.  The heart and the brain are still mysterious.   

In addition, in any languages, the word meaning the heart also means the mind or the center of sentiment, although the brain is the center of consciousness.

The heart takes oxygen and nutrition from the blood, too.  However, it should work with the spiritual energy.  Those whose hearts were transplanted from donners sometimes find that their tastes have changed to those of donners.  The heart should not have memory, but the spirit of the donner should come to his/her heart transplanted in another man/woman from the spirit world, influencing the soul and mind of the person who underwent the heart transplant.    

So, the heart must be a gate for a spirit to the human body, and it turns to be a soul in the brain to generate a mind.  With the spirit, the spiritual energy should come into the heart, so that due to the spiritual energy it can work repeating expansion and contraction 100,000 times a day as long as a man lives.

The brain and the heart are the places closely linked to spiritual energy, so that their cells should not be reproduced and changed.  This linkage should need stable physical conditions.  In religious rituals like in Christianity, procedures have been fixed from long time ago without frequent changes.  The place with linkage to the spirit world should be conservative.

So, it cannot be said that everything liberal and progressive is good or holy.  I am afraid that the heart of the U.S. is losing its linkage to the spirit world.   

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Matthew 12, King James Version
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.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

"how much more will he clothe you" - Think about Life in the Afterlife

 

A Shinto Shrine around Tokyo

Think about Life in the Afterlife

Jesus Christ said that those who believed in Him would never die, since they believed in the life, namely Him, so that they should live even though they got into the state of death:

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? (John 11)

Therefore, Christians believed that they would enter Heaven after death in this world.  But as the time wend by, people came to lose their faith in Heaven or the afterlife.  Especially when the science revolution and the Industrial Revolution started in England in the 18th century, materialism started to prevail and people chose material happiness more than happiness in Heaven after death in this world.

It is ironic that Isaac Newton (1642-1727) who was a diligent researcher of the Bible launched various scientific theories to promote modern science, which led to development of materialism.  But, in the same period, our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), promising him to show the afterlife while living in this world, and Swedenborg wrote many books on his experiences in the afterlife or the spirit world.  His work led to later development of spiritualism.  As Swedenborg died in London, his influence was strongly seen in England.           

In the period from the late 19th century prior to WWI, spiritualism grew so much in England and France, so that necromantic parties or seances prevailed.  This trend has continued to date.  But, it has not led to renovation of Chistianity and Christian churches.  Yet, during WWI, the Holy Mother appeared in Fatima, Portugal, to give warnings about tragic future of the mankind, and She continued to make her apparition in Garabandal, Medjugorje, etc. while the material civilization has further grown through WWII, electronic revolution, Internet revolution, and AI revolution.

Finally we have come to this early 21st century, but we have not yet seen another Swedenborg or Mary apparition while WWIII seems to come closer with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and abnormal weather has been intensified with global warning.

For any individual, his own death is more important than collapse of the human civilization.  But as he is so observed to his material live, pursuing material happiness, he must lose interest in the fate of the mankind or the human civilization.  Modern materialism based on modern technology driven further by computers and AI makes people forget about words of Christ Jesus and coming fate in the afterlife or the spiritual world.   

Put simply, the God has sent warnings many times to the mankind through the Holy Mother, Swedenborg, etc., while Satan has brainwashed the mankind with money as material civilization has further developed.  But, as it is now 2,000 years after Christ Jesus in the human world and 4,000 years after Abraham, the hour of destiny should come.  WWIII would happen and great natural disasters should ensue in the 21st century if our repentance is not enough.

We have to think about why our lord Jesus Christ emphasized the afterlife.  Life in the afterlife in the spirit world should be more important than life in this world.  It should be because those allowed to enter into Heaven are given eternal life and happiness while others fall into the heals to be ultimately exterminated with Satan by the God.  

We should stop pursuing money and promoting material civilization while being brainwashed by Satan in the form of money.  We should study the Bible like Newton and explore the spirit world like Swedenborg.  And, we have to build spiritual civilization rather than material civilization.  Then, we may be allowed to survive to the 22nd century and for another 2,000 years.  If the human world can continue, our spirits in the afterlife or the spirit world in the future should be rejoiced more.  

Anyway, the spirit world is said to be another face of the human world.  Our faith in this world should help us in the afterlife.  But, rich men who have sold their souls to Satan should not be helped in the afterlife.  To improve our spiritual status, we have to read the Bible and think more about the words of Christ Jesus but not about money.       

       

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Luke 12, King James Version
25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

"which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?" - A Japanese Psychic Saw Satan in Putin

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A Japanese Psychic Saw Satan in Putin 

According to a survey by an American research company, about 60% of the Japanese answered to a question about religion that they believe in no religion.  But according to a survey by the Japanese government, Japanese who believe in shintoism (the religion unique to Japan where gods in the nature are revered) account for about 49% and those who believe in Buddhism account for about 46%; most of the Japanese believe in shintoism or Japanese Buddhism; but although Christians in Japan account for about 1% of the whole population, almost everybody enjoys Christmas and show respect to Christ Jesus.

The Japanese culture has been based on respect to and belief in deities of shintoism even before Buddhism was officially imported into Japan from China through the Korean peninsula in the 6th century; shintoism and Buddhism have penetrated so deep into Japanese minds that Japanese do not especially realize that they are believers in shintoism or Buddhism in the sense of Christianity or Judaism.  But, every year about 65 million Japanese visit shinto shrines or Buddhist temples to celebrate a new year in early January or at the end of the year.  It is part of social custom and not a practice of religion such as Christians' going to churches every week.  

Japanese usually do not believe in any specific deities of shintoism or Buddhism, and they seldom join rituals of any religions except on special occasions such as wedding, funeral rites, new year celebration, etc., so that they would answer that they have no religion (like Christianity) to religion surveys, since they do not perform regularly any religious rituals like Christians going to churches every Sunday.  Indeed, shitoism and Japanese Buddhism do not require their followers, except professional priests or monks of the religions, to follow strict disciplines like Christianity, etc.  So, Japanese think they do not belong to any religions in the global sense.   

But, their lives and social environments are highly influenced by essence of shintoism and Buddhism.  Japanese daily use the word of "kami-sama hotoke-sama" (gods or Buddha) as holy entities or deities having spiritual or super-natural power to be respected.  But, as there are so many deities of shintoism and Buddhism, Christianity has no specific appeals to the Japanese.  Japanese are living surrounded by too many deities and religious spirits, so that spiritualness of Christianity is not needed in their daily lives.  Yet, as the modern civilization is based on technology, science, democracy, etc. generated in Europe based on Christianity, most of the Japanese admit power of Christianity.  Besides, the current Japanese constitution was based on a draft made by America after WWII, so that the constitution of Japan is highly influenced by Christianity. 

So, the structure of the nation and society of Japan is based on Christianity like other G7 countries, but spiritualism based on shintoism and Japanese Buddhism is at the core of Japanese minds.  Therefore, a new religion where a certain deity of shintoism or Buddhism is adopted as its main god is sometimes built.  There are about 80,000 independent religious bodies/organizations in each category of shinto and Buddhism systems.  Therefore, Japan is filled with spiritual influences of shintoism and Buddhism.

That is why Japanese psychics see deities of shintoism or Buddhism and hear their words.  In their view on the spirit world, the spirit of Christ Jesus is just one of great spirits at the highest level in the spirit world.  Some believe that there is the supreme deity of shintoism or Buddhism above those highest spirits such as Christ Jesus.

Anyway, there are many psychics in Japan associated with shintoism or Buddhism.  And they claim that they can see deities, angels, and even evil spirits and Satan through their psychic eyes.

One of them recently wrote in his blog in the internet that he could see Satan on Putin, Russian President.  Satan would force Putin to further continue the war in Ukraine.  It is so dangerous.  Therefore we have to pray that Satan will leave Putin.  He recommended to chant a spell of mantra: "Nomakusanmanda Bazaradansenda Makarosyada Sowatayauntarata Kanman," to drive Satan out of Putin. 

In any religions, the concepts of the supreme god, holy spirits, and evil spirits as well as Satan are common.  We have to accept various interpretations on the spirit world.  What is important is that people admit the difference between good and evil, namely good spirits and evil spirits.

As for me, it is so impressive that when Swedenborg, an 18th century great psychic, met a mysterious figure who promised him to show the afterlife or the spirit world, the figure told Swedenborg that he was the creator of the universe, God, and Christ.  Indeed, Christ Jesus must be above any deities of shintoism and Buddhism, although some Japanese believe their deities are above Christian deities such as Christ Jesus.            

Anyway, there must be the God who created the human world, this material world including the whole universe, and the spirit world. 

The mankind should believe in the God through any religions.

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Luke 12, King James Version
24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

"because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?" - Foolishness of God vs. Men's Wisdom

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Foolishness of God vs. Men's Wisdom

One of the most impressive passages in the Bible is as follows:

25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ( Corinthians 1)

Those who are called fools following God's teaching are actually wiser than those who are called wise men in this world.  Those who look weak following God's teaching are stronger than those with worldly strength such as physical power and economic power.  In other word, those who look foolish and weak from a point of view in this world are in essence wiser and stronger from a point of view in the spirit world than those who are wise and strong in the human world.

According to teaching by our Lord Jesus Christ, everybody goes to the spirit world after death in this world, and money has no power in the spirit world or the afterlife.  But those who have lived poor and faithful lives while accumulating wealth in Heaven through their righteous lives and good conducts are paid in the spirit world.  So, believers would not seek for opportunities in this world where big money can be earned.  But others who know that big money makes them materially happy and strong despise those who do not try to get big money as fools.  Yet, those despised as fools in this world know that they would be accepted in Heaven where eternal lives and happiness should be given while rich men should fall into the hells in the spirit world.     

Therefore, fools in this world are wise in the afterlife.  The weak in this world are stronger in the afterlife.   

To understand this truth is what people should learn in the afterlife or the spirit world.  So, any religion should teach this lesson.  The essence in any religions should be that there is afterlife in the spirit world; money has no power in afterlife in the spirit world; and physical strength is meaningless there.  

In this world it is said that money and knowledge are power to make people happy.  However, it is love and faith in the God that make people accepted in Heaven in the afterlife or the spirit world.  Physical strength is meaningless in the afterlife or the spirit world where no spirits or souls have physical bodies

Indeed, it is said that one can realize anything he wants through thinking or power of imagination in the spirit world.  But, love and faith in the God should be obtained and formed while living in the human world.  It seems too late to realize after death that love and faith in the God are keys to enter into Heaven.  That must be why some people have to be born again in the human world.  In this context, this human world may well be called the place for ascetic training.      

Indeed, according to a spirit in the afterlife who had been a prince of a samurai clan in a territory around Tokyo some 400 years ago and was invoked in a seance or spiritual communications, she had to continue spiritual training in the after life.  As she had been a Japanese woman in the samurai era, she was not helped and guided in the afterlife by Christian spirits but by a great spirit in Japanese shintoism.  She said that she was taught to abandon adhesion to the human world.

Therefore, in any religions in this world in any periods, truth in the spirit world or the afterlife is same.

Material happiness or greatness in this world means nothing in the afterlife or the spirit world.  Even knowledge and wisdom in the human world turn to nothing in the afterlife or the spirit world.  Only the ability to feel and accept the teaching of the God counts.   

So, the more you look foolish in terms of commonsense in the human world, the more you have a chance to be accepted in Heaven after death.  Be foolish rather than being too cute by half.   

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Mark 12, King James Version
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

"the blind and dumb both spake and saw" - Be Humble and Moneyless like Little Children

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Be Humble and Moneyless like Little Children

What are conditions to be accepted in Heaven?  There are the following descriptions on this issue in the Gospel (Matthew 18).

18 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

Conversely, there are too many arrogant people in this world.  The more a man gets money, the more arrogant the man becomes.  But, a little child without money is humble.  His judgment is not biased due to influence of money.  He must see power and wisdom of the God in everything.  And as overwhelmed by God's wisdom and power, he cannot help but become humble.      

So, the one who feels and finds God's power in everything to become humble as much as possible is accepted in Heaven.  In other word, the most humble one looking the smallest one in this world will become as great as possible in Heaven.  Therefore, rich men are too small to be accepted in Heaven.

By the way, historically many emperors, kings, etc. tried to obtain eternal life.  In quest for eternal life, they asked scholars, religious people, wise men, etc. about the way to obtain eternal life.  They also sent expedition teams afar off to search for secret medicines for longevity.  But, the Son of God Jesus Christ taught poor people that eternal life could be obtained if they would become humble like little children who had no money.

So, it is no use for rich men to spend big money in their quest for the way to obtain longevity and eternal life.  They have to abandon their wealth so as to keep no money like small children.

The mankind has developed material civilization so much to date in their quest for happiness, longevity, and eventually eternal life.  But, to achieve their ultimate goal, obtaining eternal life, they have to abandon material civilization.  Indeed, little children are useless in developing, maintaining, and keeping material civilization.

However, little children before being brainwashed by material civilization sometimes show supernatural or psychic power.  They can bend a spoon by psychic power, speak with spirits of plants, see future incidents, recall their previous lives, etc.  Indeed, little children are near the spirit world.

Therefore, to obtain eternal life we have to die as poor and humble men like little children.  It means that eternal life is not what can be obtained in this world.  It is given to us after our death.  Eternal life is in the afterlife or in the spirit world.

As this teaching of the Son of God Jesus Christ is so impressive and truthful, most of Europeans from Roman citizens to contemporary European citizens have had faith in Christianity.  That is why Christianity has never faded away from Europe.

However, Satan has almost succeeded in making Christianity powerless nowadays.  Indeed, most of people of today would choose money in this world over the teaching of Christ Jesus related to the afterlife or the spirit world.  They are arrogantly neglecting or suppressing the poor who are as poor as little children.

We have to truly seek for eternal life, abandoning material wealth and money that are useless for entering into Heaven where we are given eternal life.    

                   

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Matthew 12, King James Version
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.

"till he send forth judgment unto victory" - From Science/Engineering to Psychic World

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From Science/Engineering to Psychic World

A Japanese doctor in engineering named Kazumi Masaki (1916-2002) made 3,000 inventions in his life.  Indeed, he was a major player behind the scene in industrial development of Japan after WWII.  But, he was not a simple engineer who worked in Osaka University for 40 years as head of work shop center of the engineering faculty.

Masaki wrote that he could put his brain in the state of emitting the alpha or theta waves through a special method of breathing.  In the alpha wave state, a man can make an invention; in the theta wave state, a man can cause a miracle, according to Masaki.

He mastered this method when he was a teenager.  He lay down on the floor, taking in air to the lower abdomen for seven seconds, holding the breath for seven second, and exhaling the air in seven seconds.  He continued this way of breathing for an hour in his home every day.  Then, suddenly one day he saw bright light in darkness and got some supernatural ability such as future prediction.  But as someone said to him that such breading would make him die an early death, he stopped the practice, but its effect seemed to continue.     

Before WWII, he entered into Osaka University to learn in various academic disciplines.  After graduation, he remained in the university for further study and finally became a staff.  Although he was offered a faculty position, he did not accept it but worked as a technical staff member.  

Masaki filed 3,000 patent applications in his lifetime, but he did not pay registry fees for most of inventions after patent approval.  Indeed, he married a daughter of a rich man so that he did not have to earn big money.  Therefore, manufacturers could use his inventions for free, which brought new energy mainly to the electric and electronics industry in Japan after WWII. 

Masaki did not believe in existence of spirits and the afterlife till he saw Uri Geller performing spoon bending in a Japanese TV program around 1970.  He measured a spoon used in a test of supernatural power of a Japanese boy using his psychic power to bend a spoon in a TV studio.  Superficially the spoon did not look being bent, but Masaki found that it was slightly warped as Masaki used a special measurement tool.  It shocked Masaki, and he started to study supernatural power and psychic power.  Then various miracles happened around him such as apparition of a wooden statue of deity of Buddhism.  The, he wrote several books on his experiences, also making inventions to enhance psychic power.  

According to Masaki, the mankind made three evil inventions: gasoline engines, dynamite, and nuclear power.  But, artificial intelligence might become the fourth one.  It looks like turning into an easy tool to make money or help criminals.

Anyway, Masaki later came to believe that he had been a famous Japanese monk of Buddhism in one of his previous life in the 13th century. 

Anyway, Masaki who had believed in only science and engineering till his 50s of age finally came to admit existence of psychic power and spiritual energy.  He also heard voices of a holy spirit telling him that his duration of life would be extended to 90s as Masaki contributed to welfare and happiness of people with his free patents of inventios.  But, for some unknown reason, he died in his 80s.

What should be also noted is that Masaki believed that carbon dioxide caused global warming when the gas was near the ground, but it caused global cooling when it was floating at high altitude reflecting more solar light.   

                               
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Matthew 12, King James Version
18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

"to God the things that are God's" - With all of Hearts, all of Souls, and all of Minds

 

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With all of Hearts, all of Souls, and all of Minds

Rules of life are important for you to live your life safely, meaningfully, and success fully.  Wise parents would teach rules of life to their children so that they will not at least make fatal mistakes to become unhappy.  Clever young men should ask their parents, reliable teachers, excellent seniors for advise concerning rules of life. 

So, it is understandable that a young man asked Christ Jesus a question about the most important commandment in the law 2,000 years ago: 

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22)

But, today most parents, teachers, etc. would answer that the most important things in life is to consider yourself first and make money as much as possible.  Even Satan would give advise that love money and respect richer men while neglecting the poor.  Indeed, Satan's intent is to make people respect and revere it.  Truly, Satan is above the richest men in this world where most people are occupied by appetite for wealth and money.  Virtually, money has become a global religion where Satan is respected and revered as a god, since money is another form of Satan  

From this point of view, the above words of Christ Jesus to a young man should be regarded as aimed at Satan around him.

In other word, it is common that people love money (Satan) with all of their hearts, all of their souls, and all of their minds, and neglect poor neighbors while trying to be richer than rich neighbors. 

However, based on other words of Christ Jesus, it is apparent that poor and faithful men will enter into Heaven after death in this world to enjoy eternal and happy life.

Anyway, you must not love Satan (also known as money) with all of your hearts, all of your souls, and all of your minds.   

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Mark 12, King James Version
13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

"he had spoken the parable against them" - A Chinese Christian who Fled China

 
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A Chinese Christian who Fled China

A Chinese Christian was arrested and put into a prison sometimes in 1980s and 1990s.

In the prison he prayed to the Lord Jesus Christ to hear His words: 8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. (Revelation 3)

Then Satan spoke to him to abandon faith.  But, the believer recollected the following words in the Bible to fight against Satan: 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. (Micah 7)

He was finally set free to find an asylum in Germany in 1997.  Later he wrote a book on his experiences, which was translated into Japanese in 2004. 

I hope that China will be fully democratized to accept freedom of religion. 

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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.'
8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

"many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus" - May Peace Prevail among Believers!

A Christmas Tree around Tokyo

May Peace Prevail among Believers!

Mahayana (greater vehicle) Buddhism was started to develop around the same time when our Lord Jesus Christ started His mission on the earth. So, it is thought that there is some linkage between Buddhism and Christianity, since some early Christians moved, after the collapse of the Jerusalem Temple in the war with the Roman Empire, to Syria and Persia under some influence from the original Buddhism established some 500 years ago by the Buddha.

In the history, it is well known that a sect of Christianity reached the Tang dynasty of China (618-907) while many monks came from Japan to Tang to learn Buddhism.  It is also believed that one of the 12 Disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ reached India.  Indeed, there seems to be some influence of original Buddhism in Christianity and influence of Christianity in Mahayana Buddhism.      

Especially Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism launched by Kukai (774-835) who went to Tang to learn Tantric Buddhism seems to have been influenced by a sect of Christianity that was then accepted in Tang.  Indeed, Shingon means the true words.  

Anyway, religions in the world handling human death and the spirit world should be connected to one another.  So, Judaism and Islam should be connected in the spirit world.  We have to pray and hope that the current war in Gaza will be immediately stopped.  Indeed, believers of Judaism and those of Islam should not fight in the sprit world.  May peace prevail among believers of any religions!

 

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John 12, King James Version
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.

"even the very hairs of your head are all numbered" - Discern Eventually Coming Anger from the God

 

Around Tokyo

Discern Eventually Coming Anger from the God  

To obtain the ability to see the future is what everybody wants.  But according to our Lord Jesus Christ, this ability was given to men. 

53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?  (Luke 12)

Indeed, these words were delivered 2,000 years ago, so that it means that the mankind has been in the time of crises for every year of these 2,000 years.  And, truly many men have died every year in this period.  For them, the years they died should have been the years of crises, and they died without realizing that they had the ability to see the future.

When a man has died, the world he has left should mean nothing to him, and in addition usually he is not sure about whether there is the afterlife and Heaven or the hells.  So, essentially he mainly thinks of gain and loss while he is alive.  But having the ability to see gain and loss should mean having the ability to see the state or conditions of his time.  But, to secure one's own profits, a man seems to neglect the state or conditions of his time without deepening the understanding of the meaning of his time.  So, the mankind have been living every year in these 2,000 years without finding the true status of the year.  

Every year in theses 2,000 years the mankind should face a grave crisis without realizing it.  The crisis should mean the coming of God's anger upon them.  But, the God has refrained from executing His holy destroying power on the mankind each year, so that the human history has been able to continue to date in these 2,000 years after the death of our Lord Jesus Christ in this world.          

But what has not changed in these 2,000 years?  Is there anything that has not been changed in these 2,000 years?  The answer is the desire for money.  And any man's life has been driven by this desire for money.  So, the total desire for money of all the mankind must have influenced the state of this world.  And, we were requested to choose either the God or money by our Lord Jesus Christ.  Yet we have continued to choose money over the God.  Therefore it is no wonder that the God gets angry at mankind to destroy them.  But, the God has waited for 2,000 years.  Nonetheless, the anger and discomfort of the God must have increased every year in these 2,000 years.  

So, when a man died still with desire for money in these 2,000 years, he should feel God's anger that might lead the world to extinction.  Indeed, the end of one's life in these 2,000 years should have meant the end of the world to him, even if he could continue to live in the afterlife or the spirit world.

In other word, the situations around the mankind have never changed in these 2,000 years: living with the unfaithful desire for money over the God.  So, in every year the God might have destroyed the mankind.  It is a miracle that this world has continued for 2,000 years despite the mankind having unrighteous desire for money over the faith in the God.

Anyway as Judas betrayed our Lord Jesus Christ for money, we should have more hated and abhorred money.  But, as we continued to choose money over the God, we have been in danger of being destroyed by the God at any moment in these 2,000 years.  So, what we should always check in these 2,000 years is a sign of coming execution of God's power in His anger at and hatred against the mankind trying to satisfy their desire for money.

But, the period of 2,000 years is enough.  As the mankind are still pursuing money even in this century, the God will forsake the mankind, and the mankind will have to see tragedies caused by their desire for money in this 21st century.  Even the Holy Mother predicted in her apparition in Fatima in 1917, etc. that the God would not protect the mankind any more from coming tragedies, since the human civilization had corrupted and deteriorated so much.

Finally, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza should be a prelude to the coming WWIII, and the abnormal weather in recent years should be a prelude to the coming great natural disaster such as a pole shift, the little ice age, etc.

But, energy coming from the spirit world must be able to prevent occurrence of these tragedies.  And to use this spiritual energy, we have to repent and have more faith in the God.

Additionally, money is another form of Satan.  That is why the God and our Lord Jesus Christ hate and abhor, so much, the mankind seeking for money for these 2,000 years.                         

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Luke 12, King James Version
6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence" - Those Who Believe and Those Who Do Not

 
Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo, 100 km far

Those Who Believe and Those Who Do Not

A Japanese medical professor came to believe in the afterlife as he experienced a seance to talk with the spirit of his dead mother, while he had felt guilty about his mother's death as he thought that he had not taken care of her enough while she had been alive. 

According to a female psychic who used a female medium in whom the spirit came down, the spirit of his dead mother came to communicate spiritually with her, as both the women had been acquainted with each other, asking her whether the psychic helped her communicate with her son.  So, the psychic decided to host a seance with a female medium, and then invited the professor to a seance or a meeting with a spirit.  And, in the seance the medical professor could really talk with the spirit of his dead mother who told her son that she was sorry to have died so suddenly and he should not feel guilty about her sudden death.  The professor believed that he could rally talk with the spirit of his dead mother through the body and mind of the medium.

The professor wrote a book about this experience.  As the professor worked in the University of Tokyo Hospital, the book sold well.  In the mainstream of academy such as the University of Tokyo, the after life and other spiritualism matters have been neglected.  So, the professor must have needed some courage to publicly express his belief in the existence of the afterlife or the spirit world.   

After this experience, the professor started his personal study on spiritualism and other supernatural phenomena.  In these activities, he talked with a Japanese master of chi or life energy.  The master told the professor one special example of effects of chi: A Chinese expert at chi sent his chi to a Japanese young woman in Beijing who was making a phone call to her sick father in a hospital in Tokyo to cure the father.  Then, the father over the phone call was healed although his daughter in Beijing felt disturbance in her body.  So, chi was sent from Beijing to Tokyo by the Chinese chi mater through the daughter in Beijing talking with her father in Tokyo over the phone line.

Indeed, chi or life energy can work over restrictions of time and space like spiritual energy that can work between this world and the afterlife.

However, another ex-professor of the University of Tokyo who had specialized in anatomical science wrote a book on death where he emphasized that only a dead body remained and existed after man's death; there should be nothing spiritual after death; and the world after one's death means nothing to a dead man.   

So, there are two types of scientists: those who believe in supernatural phenomena such as spirits, the afterlife, etc. and others who deny them. 

Yet, although human science can handle only materials or physical entities, it cannot deny phenomena beyond the scope where science is effective.  Science should keep silence or show its ignorance about the matters that do not belong to the material world.

So, as something beyond the scope of the material world or physical laws, religion, spiritual matters, psychic matters, etc. exist.   

Put simply, this material world or the whole universe was created by the God with energy in the spirit world.  After God's creation of this material world, the spiritual energy can penetrate into this material world.  As the physical laws are in the lower level than the spiritual energy, the spiritual energy can supersede the physical laws.  Therefore, communications with spirits of dead men, supernatural phenomena in using chi, or even spoon bending can be possible if you can use the spiritual energy.  Those called psychics, chi masters, or men with supernatural power have such ability acquired through hard training, as congenital talent, or in religious faith.  

Although our Lord Jesus Christ did not recommend to communicate with spirits of dead men, He did not especially forbid it.  It is rather thought that He sometimes communicates with people through spiritual energy.  And, prayer should be a method for us to connect our minds to the God in the spirit world.

So, we have to pray to the God for peace in Ukraine and Gaza.       

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John 12, King James Version
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

           

"he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye" - Do Not Curse but Heal

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Do Not Curse but Heal

As I stated before, there is energy coming from the spirit world to this material world.  This energy from the spirit world can produce spiritual force that can surpass the material force.  So, if you can use this spiritual force, you might be able to bend a spoon without using physical force or any tools.  Further more, you might be able to cure the sick without using any modern medications as our Lord Jesus Christ said.  

A Japanese faith healer or a psychic was one day performing his practice to heal a sick old woman suffering from certain illness for a decade, with his son standing behind as an witness in his office.  But, when the healing was almost completed in several minutes, his son suddenly fell on the floor.  The healer checked the mind of the son to find that he did not believe in spiritual healing and had antagonism to spiritual healing.  So, this son was cursing on the healer during the healing.  But, this malicious cursing returned to him, making him fall on the floor and suffer spiritually and physically.  

Indeed, evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.  Or in Japan, they say that there will be two burial pits if you curse somebody, which means that both the cursing one and cursed one will die.   

So, it is forbidden to use psychic power or spiritual force to attack and inflict harm on another man.  But, it is said that people often come to a man with psychic power and ask him to perform his cursing on their enemies.  And bad brujos or psychic men sometimes accept the offer in return to big money.  It is actually murder, but no laws are applied to such a spiritual incident.   

However, in Japan's history there are such incidents of cursing an enemy to death.  In the age of provincial wars of Japan in the 15th to 16th century, most of federal lords hired shinto or Buddhist shamans with spiritual power to attack their enemies or defend themselves.  

For example, the powerful samurai lord Oda Nobunaga was in the process of conquering and dominating over whole Japan, but he was betrayed by one of his generals to be killed in a temple in Kyoto in 1582 while Nobunaga had been attacking Tantric Buddhism.  Who was behind Nobunaga's death is still a mystery in Japan to date. But, it is thought that esoteric Buddhist monks should be behind the scene. Tokugawa Ieyasu who survived the age of provincial wars to establish Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo (presently Tokyo) designed the city of Edo with a help from a priest of esoteric Buddhism, so that Tokugawa Shogunate continued to the middle of the 19th century.

However, the anti-Tokugawa camp with the emperor at its center defeated the Tokugawa camp in 1868 to establish the Meiji government.  It is believed that Imperial Japan could defeat the Russian Empire in 1905 due to spiritual power originated from the imperial house.  So, Japanese people came to follow the imperial government and ventured into the wars with China and eventually the U.S.  Most of Japanese people believed that spirits of deities linked to the imperial family would finally defeat China and the U.S. in WWII.  In reality, although the Japanese military was not defeated by Chinese military, it could not occupy whole China, and finally Imperial Japan had to surrender to the U.S. and its allies.  Yet, some Japanese believed that the then U.S. President Roosevelt was cursed to death by spirits of Japanese deities, although Imperial Japan had to suffer Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombing.  Anyway, after WWII, Japan introduced the democratic constitution planned by General McArthur of the Christian nation U.S.; yet, the Japanese imperial family has survived to date as the symbol of the Japanese people, which might at least prove spiritual power of the imperial family of Japan. 

So, anyway Japan is a country whose history is based on spirits.  However, it has been proved that Christian spirits surpass spirits of deities of Japanese Buddhism and shintoism.  This world is governed by the spirit of the absolute God who created this material world as well as the spirit world.  And, it is the mainstream of the mankind to believe in our Lord Jesus Christ as the absolute almighty God.

So, we should not use the spiritual energy, even if we could use it, so as to curse others to death, but we should use our psychic power to heal others or see truth of this world and the spirit world.

Anyway, if we deny spiritual energy, our science will not be able to solve various mysteries concerning the universe and atomic physics.   

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Luke 12, King James Version
12 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

"they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it" - The Material World and Spirit World

 

Around Tokyo 

The Material World and Spirit World

This world or the universe was created by the God in Heaven with His power of idea, imagination,  thinking, etc. without any machine, tools, etc.  This power should be called the spiritual power, and it should still work in this material world or the universe as remnants of the creation of this world by the God.

So, the mystery in the material world cannot be completely solved without taking into account this truth.  The beginning of the universe cannot be completely explained without this notion: the energy from the spirit world made possible the creation of this universe.  The behaviors of unique and mysterious phenomena of elemental particles cannot be completely explained without this notion: the energy from the spirit world made possible the creation of all the elemental particles, atoms, molecules, and other material basic elements.  So, the establishment of living things and human cells in addition of life cannot be completely explained;  even the mystery of our mind works as well as the conscious in addition to the mystery of life and death cannot be completely explained without this notion: the energy from the spirit world made possible establishment of living things, human beings. their mind works as well as the conscious, and our life and death are linked with states of the energy from the spirit word.  Therefore, all things in this universe are related to the energy from the spirit world or the God.  The united theory or unification theory on the energy from the spirit world should be discovered to explain every mystery in this world.  Our science cannot be perfect till we find such a theory.

So, it is no wonder that human souls directly created with the energy from the spirit world can continue to live in the afterlife or the spirit world after material death of our bodies.  In other words, death is not something to be afraid of.  From our souls our mind works are generated; with our souls entering the spirit world, our minds should work there as in this world. This must be truth of death.  Indeed, as our Lord Jesus Christ said, we should not be afraid of enemies who can kill us only in this world, but we have to be afraid of the God who can negate our souls in the spirit world.

From the above point of view, new religion and science should be built.

This spiritual energy should be controlled by the force in the spirit world called the spiritual force.  Both the spiritual energy and the spiritual force should penetrate in this material world, superseding material energy and material force.  Therefore, miracles could be performed by our Lord Jesus Christ.

In this context, someone whose mind, imagination, thinking, etc. is linked with the spiritual energy and force can perform miracles such as spoon bending and other psychic phenomena including miracle healing.

But what are the necessary conditions of the brain of such a man?  Regardless what religion he believes in, his brain should link to the spirit world.  He may look an ordinary man, but he should have certain faith deep in his mind.  At the bottom of his mind, he should be extremely faithful to the God, ie. the Creator of this material world and the spirit world.  Indeed, our Lord Jesus Christ must have looked just an ordinary man till He started His mission.

Yet, there are not only angels and good spirits in the spirit world.  Satan and evil spirits who are against the God and our Lord Jesus Christ.  Angels and good spirits should protect the faithful, but Satan and evil spirits could attack them, too.  Even ordinary people can be not only protected by angels or good spirits but also attacked by Satan or evil spirits.

Therefore pious people might perform levitation in their absorption into religious acts.  But those haunted by Satan can also perform levitation.  In addition, some pious people could perform miracle healing.  But, those whose minds happen to connect to the spirit world through near-death experiences, etc. could perform miracle healing.  Anyway, if we have true faith in the God as our Lord Jesus Christ declared, any miracles should become possible for us.  So, some small children without doubt of our spiritual ability can sometimes perform spoon bending, etc. 

Finally, we have to review every miracle or strange phenomenon in this world from the above point of view.  There might be ghosts, UFOs, etc., and reincarnation, clairvoyance, astral projection, etc. might be real.

However, the most interesting miracle is that some faithful can see the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ or some religious men see Satan.  But, our history is based on the battles or interaction between good spirits and evil spirits.  Indeed, human history to date should be a kind of miracles to the eyes of entities in the spirit world.   

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Luke 11, King James Version
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

"whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die" - Healing all Manner of Sickness and all Manner of Disease

Mt. Fuji and Sunset around Tokyo
 

Healing all Manner of Sickness and all Manner of Disease

It is well known that the Lord Jesus Christ healed many sick men, but without specific medicines or tools.   

23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. (Matthew 4)

He did not set a clinic with nurses and other aids.  But he occasionally healed the sick on the spot while travelling here and there.  Indeed, He did not distribute and give money but cured disease of people in addition to preaching the gospel and teaching of the God.

Even today there are some people who can heal the sick without applying modern medical science or medications.  They use their spiritual power, psychic power, or mind's power.  It is well known that such people are working in the U.K., Brazil, the Philippines, etc.  In some parts of Africa, Asia, and Americas, shamans are still performing traditional healing practices.  Such people can be found in Japan, too.     

Typically, some psychics find one day that they have such power in the course of nature on their own, after suffering illness in their bodies, through spiritual vicissitudes or their own efforts to acquire such ability, or hearing a divine voice to give them such ability.  But, they are not given medications or taught how to heal the sick.  Their minds realize or discover how to use their minds or physical energy to heal the sick.  In some cases, they mysteriously acquire the healing ability after near-death experiences.      

Indeed, the Lord Jesus Christ gave such power to His disciples when He sent them to the world for preaching and saving people.

10 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.  (Matthew 4)

According to a Japanese psychic healer, illness is caused by unhappy ancestral spirits or the spirits who carry a grudge against a sick man or his family.  Therefore, to heal the sick man, a special ritual for purification is needed.  A kind of exorcism is sometimes performed by a Japanese monk of the Shingon sect, psychic, faith healer, shaman to drive out such ill spirits from the body of a patient.        

Although medical practices by persons other than medical doctors are forbidden in Japan, such practices in religious acts without medications or medical appliances are overlooked.  So, it is estimated that about one-sixth of the whole Japanese population have experienced alternative therapy every year.

Anyway, this material world is thought to have been generated by spiritual energy of the God in the spirit world.  The spiritual energy can penetrate into this material world especially trough prayers or psychic power like the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.  This spiritual energy can surpass physical or material force in this world.  Accordingly, some saints could perform levitation or miracle healing.  Even persons with supernatural power or the ability to use the spiritual energy, whether conscious or unconscious, can perform various miracles such as spoon bending.

Indeed, after physical death in this world, a dead man should have a healthy and sound body made of spiritual materials in the spirit world.  Even a person with disability should have body integrity in the afterlife.  There should be no sick men in the afterlife or the spirit world.

Therefore, it is natural to cure disease by using the spiritual energy.  So, a man with the ability to invoke the spiritual energy should be able to heal the sick.  And the most reliable and trustworthy way to invoke the spiritual energy is to have faith in the God and pray to the God.  Any person with faith in any god of any religion should be able to perform such miracle healing with a help of its deities, but those with a spiritual help from Christian angels or saints are most reliable and trustworthy.  In addition we have to remind ourselves that even Satan or evil spirits can use spiritual energy.

By reading the Bible and praying to the God or the Lord Jesus Christ each man should get a spiritual help and obtain the ability to use the spiritual energy and cure his disease.  The Bible can be great a medication.                    

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John 11, King James Version
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?
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.

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man" - ye are of more value than many sparrows

 

Around Tokyo and the Tokyo Sky-Tree Tower

ye are of more value than many sparrows

This world is under supervision of the God; this world is under authority of the God.  And the God governs not only this material world but also the spirit world.  This is stated in the Gospel.  

28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. (Matthew 10)

These words of Christ Jesus means that death in this world is not real death where one loses his body and mind.  But, the true death means losing one's soul and body in the hells.  And, the real death is caused by the God. 

Therefore, after death in this world one can continue to live in the spirit world with his soul and spiritual body, although his physical body with the head might be destroyed in the material world.  

Furthermore, the God loves victims of criminals or those who have sold their souls to Satan.  Without approval of the God, one cannot be victimized.  There must be a deep and complicated reason for you to be victimized, since the God finds more value in His follower than criminals or those who have sold their souls to Satan.  It is because the God knows every detail of life of anybody; the God should know when and how one sells secretly his soul to Satan.

Finally, followers of the God or believers should not be afraid of anybody who has power and ability to kill him.  

In addition, true death means that one is forced to fall into the hell after physical death to be destroyed there by the God.  According to other words of Christ Jesus, any rich man or elite person who has sold his soul to Satan should face this final and decisive death in the hell.  There should be nothing after this second and true death in the hells.  

But, more importantly, one's fate is governed by the God.  So, there should be reasons for any incidents in your life, which the God has taken into account.  Your fate is determined by the God based on His detailed observation and judgment.     

So, we should find true reasons for any unlucky incidents we might think to have been caused by the God.  They should happen to increase our faith in the God or to cause future incidents where the glory of the God appears.  Bad luck at present might lead to good luck in the future, since the God loves us more than sparrows or persons who sold their souls to Satan.  

However, what we should learn from those passages is that it is the God who can destroy men's souls and any forms of men's bodies in the hells but not human enemies or Satan.  If we are killed in this world by human enemies or Satan, we can continue to live in the spirit world or Heaven while those killers should be destroyed in the hells by the God.  So, we should have fear in God as well as faith in Him.     

Indeed, I am afraid that that the God night finally find that all the mankind have lost value as they have all come to seek and revere money which is another form of Satan.  The more we become rich, the more we should resemble sparrows sold for a small amount of money to the eye of the God and Christ Jesus.        

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Luke 11, King James Version
23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.