Tuesday, January 24, 2023

"after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived" - Love Poverty to be Admitted into Heaven


Mt. Fuji covered by Snow from around Tokyo

Love Poverty to be Admitted into Heaven 

The main teaching of Christ Jesus is simple: Be poorer than your neighbor and be poor as much as possible so as to be happy in the afterlife leading to Heaven.

If all the people accepted this teaching, this world would be a place for competition for being poorer and living in poverty as much as possible.  This world would be the world of holy poverty.  And, as one becomes poorer, one can understand more truth and exercise more love to the poor and the God, so that he wants to be all the more poorer.  And, every problem in this world and each one would be solved.  

The highest poverty is the state of having nothing worldly but everything heavenly.  But this state of having nothing can be a source of everything as the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tse said.   

According to Lao Tse, a cup can contain water as it is empty; if a cup is full of something else, water cannot be poured in it.  The cup is the human mind, and water is truth and love coming from Heaven, so that a poor man with nothing in his mind and his body or as his assets can absorb truth and love coming from Heaven.

So, the states of a man in the human world in terms of faith can be summarized as follows:
State 1: One feels nothing when seeing the poor and poverty.
State 2: One despises the poor and hates poverty.
State 3: One dislikes to poor and avoids poverty.
State 4: One has compassion to the poor and tries to help them as much as possible.
State 5: One tries to be poor himself and live in poverty as much as possible.

At the State 1, the man is in moratorium in terms of responsible spontaneous judgment.  All the infants and small children are in this state.

At the State 2, Satan and evil spirits are dominating the man by teaching him worldly wisdom.  They teach him that only fools cannot earn money enough to buy necessary and luxurious goods.  So, he thinks that such fools deserve contempt.

At the State 3, the man has acquired commonsense that someone must be poor in this world, and he tries not to see losers and the defeated in the society while trying not to become poor.  He wants to be a member of rich or ordinary people.  He may feel sense of guilt or he may not at all, according to how much he is brainwashed by Satan and evil spirits.

At the State 4, the man comes to realize that he might also become poor by misfortune or due to devil's play, so that it is better for his security and safety to help the poor as much as possible while securing his own riches and worldly happiness.     

At Stage 5, the man discovers that the God loves the poor so that He sent Christ Jesus to the human world to teach people to love poverty.  But, he also understands through words of Christ Jesus that the poor in this world can be happy in the afterlife.  Therefore he tries to be poor enough to be admitted into Heaven after death.      

In summary, those who do not know the meaning of poverty cannot defeat those who despise poverty; those who who despise poverty cannot defeat those who have compassion to the poor; those who have compassion to the poor cannot defeat those who love the poor to help them; those who love the poor to help them cannot defeat those who have become poor for themselves so as to enter into Heaven.   

Satan and evil spirits completely rule those at State 2 and 3, sometimes penetrating into minds of those at State 4.  But, those at State 1 and State 5 are protected by God's angels.

Any scholars, doctors, experts, religious leaders, elite members of churches, etc. cannot see truth of the human world and the spirit world as much as the poorest man in the world can see.  I think that even the Pope must be missing something that can be only realized by the poorest man in the world.

In other words, the major issue and focus of the Gospels are related to poverty where every evil is concentrated.   


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Luke 1, King James Version

22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.