The Apocalyptic Women's Marathon at the 2008 Olympics

The Apocalyptic Women's Marathon at the 2008 Olympics




The women's marathon race in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games ended with surprises and shocks, while I was observing it from Japan.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/so20080818t1.html

Only several days before the race, Ms. Noguchi, the Japanese gold medalist in the marathon race at the 2004 Athens Games, announced her default due to injury at the upper leg she had found this July.

Yet, Ms. Kastor, the U.S. runner who won a bronze medal in Athens, too, also retired at the 5km point from the start due to bad conditions.

At the 25km point from the start, Ms. Tosa, a Japanese bronze medalist in the marathon race of World Championships in athletics in 2007, abandoned her race due to injury on her toe bone, leaving a young Japanese runner alone in the race who eventually finished the race as the 13th in the stadium.

It was also shocking to see Ms. Radcliffe of the U.K., the world record holder, stopping and walking to a fence to do some stretching and then slowly starting again to finish the marathon race as the 23rd.

More surprise must be that Ms. Catherine Ndereba who finished as the second to win the silver medal said after the race that she had not realized that Ms. Constantina Tomescu changed her pace at the 20km point to speed up and shake off the rest of runners, since Ms. Ndereba had been behind the top group and could not see Ms. Tomescu, though she had realized it when the goal, the National Stadium, was near.

So, the result is that the Japanese Olympic gold medalist in 2004 was hit by God just before the race;
the U.S. Olympic bronze medalist in 2004 was hit at 5km;
the Japanese bronze medalist of 2007 World Championship was hit at 25km;
the British fastest female marathon runner was hit similarly but completed the race somehow; and
the Kenyan Olympic silver medalist in 2004 was made blind to finish the race as the silver medalist again in 2008, though she might have caught up with Ms. Constantina Tomescu if Ms. Ndereba had realized the situation more quickly.

The winner in 2008 is Ms. Constantina Tomescu of Romania nobody had expected before the race to overwhelmingly win the women’s marathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

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The main race of the Olympic Games is a marathon from a historical point of view.

The God must have caused some apocalyptic incidents as I have been so interesting in the race.

So, I have to analyze the race over again, since I woke up early on August 17 to see the live broadcast of the women’s marathon from Beijing.

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From the beginning, Ms. Takahashi (born in 1972), the Japanese gold medalist in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, tried hard to join the race in Beijing, since she had failed to be qualified for the entry into the 2004 Athens Olympic Games due to her bad conditions.

She also failed in winning a women’s marathon race held in Japan this March to select the last female marathon runner of the Japanese female marathon team to be sent to Beijing.

But, Ms. Lidia Simon (born in 1973), the Romanian silver medalist in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, ran this race at Beijing to finish as the eighth.

Ms. Constantina Tomescu (born in 1970) is three or four years older than Ms. Simon.

In this context, Romania finally won Japan, taking eight years since the 2000 Sydney Olympics, since Ms. Takahashi failed this May and Ms. Noguchi (born in 1978) failed this July.

But, the God did not allow the U.S. and the U.K. to be more celebrated in Beijing, for some reasons.

It must be Romania, since the country name "Romania" means the nation of the Romans. The ancient Roman Empire is still honored there, though, just symbolically.

It must be so, because the Glory of the Olive in the Olympic marathon must be given to a nominal Roman so that St. Malachy's prophecy can be more clearly understood in terms of the inauguration of the current Pope in 2005 after the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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I have some other facts that might have displeased God in terms of behaviors and movements, mostly related to commercialism in Japan, around the three Japanese female marathon runners who joined the Olympic race in Beijing.

Those who are around them may be wrong, too.

Anyway, consequently, Japan that won the women’s marathon gold medal in Sydney and Athens has completely failed in Beijing as the God so wished for some holy reasons that may be related to the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 to 1945) causing death to millions of Chinese people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War


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Nonetheless, we have to check "Bread and Circuses" in the Roman Empire.

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... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man,
the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time
handed out military command, high civil office, legions - everything, now
restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things:
bread and circuses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
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It is so, because the U.S. is engaged in more dangerous military operation and potential crises with the EU, Russia, and Iran than China.






Dan 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

DANIEL 8:16 - 8:27

(Scenes in Japan on August 15, 2008)


DANIEL 8:16 - 8:27


"And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true."



(http://www.hpmix.com/home/kitano/images/sc4_57_3.mid ;
Source: http://www.hpmix.com/home/kitano/C4_3.htm#9)




Dan 8:16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

Dan 8:17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.

Dan 8:18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.

Dan 8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

Dan 8:20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

Dan 8:21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Dan 8:22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.

Dan 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

Dan 8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.

Dan 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

Dan 8:26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

Dan 8:27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

Olives and the Glory (4) - Japan's August 15

(Mt. Fuji 60 Miles Distant on August 14, 2008, Taken by EEE Reporter for You)


Olives and the Glory (4) - Japan's August 15



Now, His Majesty Emperor and Her Majesty Empress are gravely attending Japan's National Ceremony to Commemorate the End of the Great War (World War II) as the live TV news program is reporting while the noon has come.

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Last night, around 11:30 p.m., I was watching a cable TV program featuring ancient Georgia or Jason and Medea.

Around 0:00 a.m. this morning, I was watching a Japanese movie on TV featuring the last days of the Empire of Japan and the super battleship Yamato.

Then, I checked the late-night TV news program to know that Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are still in heated campaigns with 48% and 42% support from U.S. voters, respectively.

Today, at the dead of night, they will broadcast a women’s volleyball match of the Olympic Games between Japan and Cuba.

Indeed, Japan is now in the middle of the Buddhist festival period called "Bon" to piously respect ancestors, though I have some work to do in these days.


SECTION I: August 15, 1945

Today, August 15, is one of the most important days for Japan.

You must respect January 1 and August 15 so piously in Japan, since August 15 is the day when Emperor Showa ordered the ceasefire to all the Imperial troops to put an end to World War II.


SECTION II: The Glory of the Olive

Pope John Paul II was inaugurated on October 16, 1978.

As his reign was so long, people wondered even just for curiosity when and how the next Pope would come to the Papal See.

But, the answer was crystal-clear: the Glory of the Olive as St. Malachy prophesied 800 years ago.

It should be interpreted as follows: “When the Olympic Games are held in Athens, the next Pope will succeed Pope John Paul II.”

So, when the 2004 Athens Olympic Games were officially scheduled, Pope John Paul II must have realized when he had to give his holy seat to his successor being symbolized by the Malachy’s word “the Glory of Olive.”

You might forget it, but as John Paul II’s reign was so long that people in the world really wondered when and how the next Pope would come to put on the Papal Crown, while the Cold War was over, Japan became the second largest economy in the world, China was introducing the market economy, and Islamic terrorists started to directly attack the U.S. interests after the Persian Gulf War.

In 1980’s, 1990’s, and early 2000’s, the only non-nonsense question in the Christian world was when and how the next Pope would come to the Papal See (rather than who would).

(However, the factional struggle to pursue initiatives at the Vatican leadership must have been severe, since the Soviet Union and Israel were highly concerned with the Holy See's influence and U.S. Democratic-style Christianity was globally spreading with commercialism, which was finally resulted in the victory of cardinals who respected St. Augustine, the Olive of the Catholic sphere.)

Therefore, "the Glory of the Olive" has a very significant meaning, since it tells that the next Pope would come when the Olympic Games are held in Athens.

Within a year after the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Pope Benedictus XVI assumed the highest office in the Vatican as you know.

Indeed, if someone is in an official position for almost 30 years, you would really want to know when his successor will appear. And St. Malachy gave an answer 800 years ago.


SECTION III: Electric Power Plants

Japan has been the greatest Asian center of electric power consumption.

But, how small number of people in the world have ever read documents, texts, comments, and sentences any Japanese has ever written in English to global readers! That is why you have to read EEE Reporter, since it gives you reliable information on the world.

Current Global State of Nuclear Power Plants
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Country……No. in Operation……Due to be Built

USA………………………100……………………35
FRANCE…………………59………………………0
JAPAN………………55…………………13
RUSSIA…………………27………………………48
UK…………………………19………………………0
GERMANY………………17………………………0
INDIA……………………17……………………26
CHINA……………………11……………………30

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However, safe methods for disposing of nuclear waste are yet to be fully established.

Therefore, my suggestion is to review the coal-fired power plants.

China and the U.S. are major users of the coal-fired power plants, but their facilities and systems are not suitable in the era of anti-global warming and anti-pollution.

If we can contain heat and gas emitted from the coal-fired power plant more effectively, we can do away with oil-fired power plants.

The amount of coal reserves in the world is large and enough to sustain the global civilization for almost 200 years while crude oil can do only for 50 years or so.

My idea is to build a coal-fired power plant below the ground. Heat and other emissions should be guided and led deep into the underground through special structures and equipment.

You throw coal into the underground plant and then only electric power is sent back to the surface and grids without being accompanied by heat and emissions.

Consequently, the consumption of crude oil will be drastically reduced all over the world and the global warming will be deterred deep under the ground until the next Little Ice Age comes.

By way of caution, it is very important for you to read any proposals written in English by a non-nonsense Japanese, since Japan understands the nuclear power more than Russians, Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, and North Koreans (who have abducted a hundred or so Japanese for covert operations).

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That is all for today.

I recommend you a good rest, since you must have been working hard these days without going for vacation, say, in Hawaii.

But, if you finally fail in enjoying super endless holidays in Heaven after death, you will not even remember how you have enjoyed fabulous vacations in this world.

Anyway, I don’t think the Vatican people are in a state to take a vacation, since Peter the Roman is yet to come.

August 15 is yet to come for the Vatican and the U.S.




(If you don't mind Bach, since you may like an angel, tender or stern:
http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/midi.html )



2Ki 8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

2Ki 8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Je hoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

2Ki 8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2Ki 8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

2Ki 8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.

Olives and the Glory (3)

Olives and the Glory (3)



Something may be wrong, friends, since an evil spirit seems to be seeing down to something.

It might be related to the injury Ms. Noguchi, the Japanese female marathon gold medalist in Athens in 2004, has been suffering since the end of this July to the extent to abandoning her scheduled entry into the Beijing’s race to be held soon with an expectation that Ms. Radcliffe will erase the horrible image of her fall in the middle of the race in Athens’ Olympic Games.

Otherwise, it may be so, since U.S. President Mr. George W. Bush looked like nobody but a super-rich sightseer in Beijing.

http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/olympics/2008-08/10/content_9152565.htm

It must be so, because immediately after the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games armed conflicts started in the border area between Russia and Georgia. In early September of 2004, a school near the area was attacked by insurgents, resulting in at least 334 hostages killed, including 186 children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis

Or it may be related to a dishonest Chinese taxi driver a Japanese newspaper reporter encountered on his way back to an air port from a hotel in a Northern Chinese city where diplomatic negotiations were held yesterday or the day before between Japan and North Korea on the subject of Japanese citizens North Korean secret agents had abducted in the past decades.

( http://abirur.iza.ne.jp/blog )



SECTION I: Pope Leo XIII and John Paul II

I know some Japanese Christian priests who cannot understand such things as a spirit, a soul, an angel, a devil, and any other intangible and invisible things and miracles being described in the Bible. They regard the Bible and the Gospel as a kind of moral stories full of exaggerations.

Now, I am afraid that some Americans supporting Mr. Barack Obama might be the same as those Japanese priests who do not even believe the world beyond, namely existence of Heaven and the hell.

Anyway, you have to admit that a Pope can be allowed sometimes to hear a conversation between God and the devil.

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Exactly 33 years to the day prior to the great Miracle of the Sun in Fatima, that is, on October 13, 1884, Pope Leo XIII had a remarkable vision…
As he listened, he heard the following conversation:
The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to Our Lord:
"I can destroy your Church."

The gentle voice of Our Lord:
"You can? Then go ahead and do so."

Satan:
"To do so, I need more time and more power."

Our Lord:
"How much time? How much power?

Satan:
"75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service."

Our Lord:
"You have the time, you will have the power.
Do with them what you will."

http://www.stjosephschurch.net/leoxiii.htm
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Then, WWI and WWII occurred. And the USSR and the U.S. started to aim nuclear war-head ballistic missiles at each other, though the cold war ended with the fall of the Berlin Walls in 1989, namely five years after the year 1984 the Devil had set as the longest time limit.

No all-out nuclear war was set off between NATO and the Soviet Block, though the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union was accidentally blown off in 1986, containing the possible global nuclear disaster only into a part of the former USSR.

What’s more, referring to the above site but pondering the contents in the opposite direction, we must find that Pope John Paul II advanced his understanding on the love of God to mankind as the Pope admitted:
5/6/80:
All men are saved;
11/17/80:
Luther had a profound religious spirit; and
6/17/84:
Buddhism is a great religion.

Indeed, Pope John Paul II is said to have respected Pope Leo XIII very much:
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At the same time, we should not forget that no less a figure than Pope John Paul II paid a great tribute to Pope Leo XIII by publishing Centesimus Annus in 1991 on the one hundredth anniversary of Leo's Rerum Novarum. John Paul II looked back to Leo XIII in commemorating the fall of communism, and he re-affirmed Leo's social teaching in favor of a qualified version of private property, capitalism, and workers' rights. Pope John Paul II's anti-communism and affirmation of the dignity of labor are deeply indebted to the spirit of Leo XIII.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pope+Leo+XIII+and+the+Catholic+response+to+modernity.-a0177859966
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Nonetheless, as the 2004 Athens Olympic Games (symbolized by the Glory of the Olive) and the 2005 inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI are almost within a moment for Malachy who lived more than 800 years ago, this time limit the Devil imposed on himself cannot be trusted unconditionally, since the Devil is a devil.

Until the Lord God interferes with the continued evildoing by the Devil, the Devil must continue his cruel attacks on mankind despite the expiration of his self-declared time limit.




SECTION II:　Modernity, Globalization, and the Vatican

This issue must be reviewed later; but the above site on Pope Leo XIII is useful in this study, since the Devil started to launch full-scale attacks on mankind in 1884 as witnessed by the then Pope Leo XIII.

Yet, if modernity and economic globalization are the stage where the Devil is playing his game, the Vatican must be fully engaged in it.

But the alarming fact is that the Vatican has been very reluctant to fight against the Devil in the various sectors of the global society, including the political sector, the diplomatic sector, the defense sector, the industry sector, the labor sector, and the financial sector or specifically Wall Street and the City.



SECTION III: The Glory of the Olive

It does not seem to be simply enough for Cardinal Mr. Joseph Ratzinger to name himself Pope Benedict XVI.

It is not so in order to fulfill the prophecy written by St. Malachy more than 800 years ago as allegedly.

Pope Benedict XVI must move the headquarters of his religious organization from Rome to Jerusalem.

Many Judaists in the world returned to Palestine after WWII.

Now, the Vatican must return to Jerusalem.

All the cardinals and officials now living and working in the Vatican, Rome, must move to Jerusalem to show their utmost respect for their Lord Jesus Christ.

This great return of the headquarters of the Catholic Church to Jerusalem must be carried out during the reign of the incumbent Pope; accordingly, the Malachy’s prophecy shall be fulfilled precisely with the holy words “The Glory of The Olive.”

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The last fall I went to the Tokyo National Stadium to see a women’s marathon race Ms. Noguchi joined.

She won it. But, one of pictures I took there showed some dark shadow around her. That is why I was cautious about mentioning the women’s marathon race in the Beijing Olympic Games until recently. Finally, Ms. Noguchi announced yesterday her default in the Beijing Olympic marathon race, which shocked so many Japanese people.

Nonetheless, it is a surprise that a Japanese male fencer got the silver medal in Beijing following a German gold medalist, though fencing was originally established in France.

Likewise, there might be something we are still missing in things and events now happening in the venue of the 2008 Olympic Games, since the Great Sichuan Earthquake could have happened in these days but not a few months ago, taking 70,000 innocent lives.



(If you don’t mind listening:
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/folk/amazinggrace.html )


Gen 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

Gen 8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,

Gen 8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Gen 8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

Gen 8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:

Gen 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

Gen 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Gen 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Olives and the Glory (2)

Olives and the Glory (2)



Haven’t you heard of those miracles, if so terrible and horrible?

Ms. Noguchi has decided not to run in this Olympic Games’ women’s marathon race, though she is still young.

China has admitted that they used many dishonorable tricks in the Olympic Games’ opening ceremony.

But, haven’t you heard of more miracles, if so terrible and horrible?

(We are, though, of course part of a specific miracle. And don’t you think that as the olive is for the Mediterranean, rice is for Japan as so much? I definitely love the picture of my own.)



SECTION I: 2004 Athens Olympic Games and “the Glory of the Olive”

Yesterday I wrote the following sentence:
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Probably, the olive must have nothing to do with the Olympic Games but something to do with the nation Israel.
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But, you can interpret the Malachy’s prophecy on the incumbent Pope, the Glory of the Olive, as implying that Pope Benedict XVI will be inaugurated when the Olympic Games are held in Athens.

Though this prophecy was made more than 800 years ago, it really tells that soon after the Olympic Games are held in Athens in 2004, the new Pope will be elected, namely in 2005.

Then the Malachy’s prophecy on Pope Benedict XVI is confirmed to be quite correct.

The Glory of the Olive actually means that a new Pope who will succeed Pope John Paul II will be inaugurated when or after 2004 Athens Olympic Games are held.

Indeed, the Malachy’s prophecy on Pope Benedict XVI is confirmed to be quite correct, so reasonably and simply, since Pope Benedict XVI assumed his holy office in 2005 far before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Explicitly the "Olive" means the "Olympic Games in Athens" but not in other cities. Yet, as I suggested yesterday, the Olive must also mean implicitly Israel and St. Augustine.



SECTION II: Fake Prophecies?

It is well known that the Malachy’s prophecies on the recent Popes really hit the mark:
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Flos Florum - Flower of flowers
Pope Paul VI
Pontiff from 1963 to 1978.
Giovanni Battista Montini. In his coat of arms there are three "fleurs de lis"

De medietate Lunae - Of the half moon
Papa Juan Pablo I ' Abino Luciani
Pontiff for 33 days.
After a life dedicated to the Church as a priest, he was elected Pope during the second day of the Conclave in August 26, 1978. He died of cardiac attack in September 28 1978, thirty three days after the beginning of his papacy.

De Labore Solis - From the toil of the sun - or - Of the eclipse of the sun.
Pope John Paul II
Pontiff from 1978 to 2005
The second meaning of "De labore solis" is a solar eclipse, in which the sun seems to struggle in order to give its light. Perhaps the fact that John Paul II, was a very Marian Pope who had a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, the woman clothed with the sun that appears in the Apocalypse, suggests that the sun (Our Lord) has been temporarily eclipsed by the moon (Our Lady).

Gloria Olivae - The Glory of the olive
Benedict XVI
Joseph Ratzinger
Starts Pontificate in April 2005
He chose his name in honor of Saint Benedict, author of the very strict rule of the Benedictines

http://www.theworkofgod.org/Pope/saint_malachy_prophecies.htm
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If the prophecies had been faked in the 16th century, it must have been a holy and miracle fake. You may call it holy interference.

It is because Pope Paul VI is said to have been the most colorfully talented cardinal among other cardinals like the flower of flowers;
Papa Juan Pablo I executed his holy office actually only for half a month;
Pope John Paul II was from a socialist state and thus respected by laborers in his mother country while the Pope paid special attention to the miracle of Fatima well know for the bright dancing of the sun; and
Pope Benedict XVI was elected after the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Therefore, it is reasonable that we assume that the prophecy on the last Pope will be true and holily authentic, though any miracle-over-miracle can happen at any moment.



SECTION III: The Last Pope and the End of the World?

Let’s check what is specifically said about the last pope in the Malachy’s prophecy.
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Petrus Romanus:
"In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock among many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people".
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Yet, we had better refer to other information, say, from Saint Francis of Assissi (1226 A.D.), since the saint is said to have been able to communicate with birds and other harmless animals.
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Saint Francis of Assissi (1226 A.D.)

Prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi (d. 1226): “There will be an uncanonically elected Pope who will cause a great schism, there will be diverse thoughts preached which will cause many, even those in the different orders to doubt, yea, even agree with those heretics which will cause my Order to divide, then will there be such universal dissensions and persecutions that if those days were not shortened even the elect would be lost.” (Rev. Culleton, The Reign of Antichrist, Tan Books, 1974, p. 130.).

Some believe this prophecy referred to the controversy surrounding the election of Pope John XXIII and Cardinal Siri. But it could refer to the next and last pope (Peter the Roman). The last pope may just cut Catholics loose from unity and the papacy, causing total disruption and confusion.

John Paul II said he saw the ongoing defection. John Paul II also believed in the second prophecy of Fatima about the Apostasy coming in the Catholic Church. It is noteworthy that John Paul II appointed 185 of the Cardinals who elected Benedict XVI. It may be that John Paul II took steps to ensure a conservative pope followed him.

http://www.bibleprobe.com/last10popes.htm
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The outlook for the coming last Pope and the situations surrounding him does not look blessed at all.

It is as if the end of the world is near, though Isaac Newton predicted mysteriously that the end of the world would not come until 2060 even in the worst case.

No matter how the next Pope and the situations surrounding him look on the Vatican’s side, it can be an opening of the New Era for more peace and prosperity of mankind.

Yet, when observing the world today, we have to admit that there is a chance that the future of mankind is doomed to undergo a large-scale crisis along with the declining fate of the Vatican, since smart and innocent people are blindly shouting CO2, hedge funds, and terror so much while billions of poor people are living without sufficient energy, money, and security on the earth.


SECTION IV: New Peters and New Vaticans

The Malachy’s prophecies on the termination of the Vatican must be regarded as a reference or a measure which indicates a level of the crisis mankind is going to face in the near future.

As for Christians, it is better for them to have each new Vatican in their own country. Italy must have its new Vatican; France must have its own Vatican; Germany must have its own Vatican; and the Philippines must have its own Vatican.

Every new Pope must call himself Peter, or Peter the Roman, Peter the Parisian, Peter the Berliner; and Peter the Manila.

The hierarchy of the old Vatican should be abolished.

Jesus Christ never called himself the Pope; He never appointed a Cardinal, a Bishop, a Priest, or any other titles.

Nobody in this world is allowed to enjoy any titles if he is a follower of Jesus Christ.

Christians must belong to a holy organization where nobody has a title superior to others.

Titles, privileges, salaries, allowances, benefits, and payment must be all forbidden in management of a holy organization of Christians in the coming Era after the Vatican's dominance.

The Era of the Vatican with full of titles and money should be ended.

Nobody should live on benefits obtained, for example, from being a priest or a clergyman.

Peter the Roman should work in an ordinary company in Rome; Peter the Parisian should work in a shop in Paris; Peter the Berliner should work in a factory in Berlin; and Peter the Manila should work in a governmental office in Manila. No holy Peters should live on gift of money to churches.

New Peters in each city should just live and work as ordinary citizens while performing the role of Popes of the past.

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The Vatican has many defects but it has performed one special function, which is indisputable.

The Vatican has contained Evil of a special kind for a long time since the Era of St. Peter.

Without the Vatican, the Evil must have prevailed and destroyed the human civilization.

That is why the Vatican fought with Marxists, since Marxists were considered to be worse than Nazis and closer to the Evil.

But, Marxists are just one party that joined the Evil, the archenemy of the Vatican since the era of St. Peter who literally followed Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.

Today, the total global financial assets are said to reach $170 trillion or so.

The Evil, the archenemy of the Vatican, must be around this huge amount of global money. But, nobody thinks that the Vatican can cope with it. The Vatican has never declared a holy war to the global financial sectors, while the trillion dollars they have accumulated without a faith in God are not going to be distributed to poor people in the world.

It is these $170 trillion that are threatening the world but not CO2 or Islamic terror.

If the Vatican has no capability to deal with it, it must dissolve; and world Christians should be reorganized as I mentioned above so as to holily fight against the archenemy of Christianity, namely $170 trillion.

If you are serving God, how can you love money, even if it is your own which is absolutely part of those 170 trillion dollars?



(If you do not mind listening:
http://www.dream-orgel.net/diary.cgi?no=251&continue=on )



Mat 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Mat 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

Olives and the Glory

(Ex-Olympic Main Stadium in Tokyo)


Olives and the Glory



This morning in Japan, when I happened to listen to shortwave radio broadcasting from Seoul, Korea, they said in a Japanese program that the manager of the Chinese cheerleader team organized for the Olympic Games was a Korean woman.

As she had various experiences as a cheerleader in international events including ones in China, a Chinese authority chose her to lead Chinese girls who were also selected to do cheerleading in stadiums and fields during the Olympic Games competitions.

China can adopt Tai Chi or taijiquan to their cheerleading in Olympic Games, since it looks nice even when Japanese young ladies are practicing it.


(I do not perform it myself, since I loved to feel the invisible passing of time quietly rather than the emodied and tangible passing of atmosphere around myself, though it was a thing observed when I was young.)



SECTION I: The Vatican and Olives

The Vatican will be the last sovereign nation that sends its athletes and players to Olympic Games, even if the God should encourage it.

Jesus Christ never mentioned Socrates, Plato, Euclid, or any other heroes of ancient Greece, including Alexander the Great.

Jesus Christ never mentioned Pyramids, the Sphinx, Cleopatra, and any other splendors of ancient Egypt.

Yet, Jesus Christ picked up a Roman coin to mention Caesar.

Accordingly, the Pope seems to be forbidden to respect the ancient Greek civilization and Egyptian civilization, though he can assume a successor of Caesar or a Roman Emperor.

But the issue here is an olive, a branch of which is given to a winner in an Olympic game. Is an olive Hellenistic? Yet Israel’s national emblem has olive branches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Israel

The point at issue here is which Saint Malachy meant in his notable prophecies on Popes, a Hellenistic olive or an Israeli olive.



SECTION II: Gloria Olivae - The Glory of the Olive

There are two deemed successors of the Roman Emperor today: the Pope of the Vatican and the U.S. President.

But, it is Popes that were referred to in the famous prophecy Saint Malachy made 870 years ago.

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The "Glory of the Olive" (Gloria Olivae).

That's what St. Malachy's famous prophecy has to say about our latest Pope. Everyone thought that was a sign that the new Pope would come from the Benedictine order, which is symbolised by the olive. He isn't. However, he did take on the name of Benedict XVI, which makes one wonder if he is intentionally encouraging belief in the Malachy Prophecies. This is the second time recently that the catholic church's chosen decisions have seemed designed to agree with the Malachy Prophecy, the first being when they decided to hold John Paul II's funeral on the day of an eclipse, when his Malachy Prophecy had described him as the Pope "of the eclipsed sun".

http://www.dailygrail.com/node/1333
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According to a theory, Isaac Newton thought that the end of the world would come in 2060 or later.

Malachy’s prophecy can be interpreted as the end of the world would come when the next Pope is inaugurated.

Will Pope Benedict XVI survive until 2060?

But, how the incumbent Pope is really associated with the Glory of the Olive? Will he join the pagan Olympic Games, like the U.S. President as one of the audience?

Probably, the olive must have nothing to do with the Olympic Games but something to do with the nation Israel.

In my feeling, there must be some secret agents of governments being mingled in athletes and officials involved in the Olympic Games.

I also feel that Israel must have been promoting undercover work in the Vatican after WWII. The Vatican was a big factor in Europeans’ attitudes toward the anti-Judaist policy of Nazis. It must have given a grave lesson to Israelis. So, it is natural that Israel has been working on the Vatican in a very serious manner after WWII.

In short, I think the conclave in 2005 must have been targeted by Israeli secret agencies. And, they succeeded in contributing to the then Cardinal Mr. Joseph Ratzinger’s inauguration of the Pope.

Therefore, the then Cardinal Mr. Joseph Ratzinger’s inauguration as the Pope means also a victory of Israel, since the Pope looks very cool to Muslims, though in 2006 he visited Turk, an Islamic nation exceptionally friendly to Israel.

According to my theory, the current Pope can be really described as “the Glory of the Olive.”



SECTION III: Pope Benedict XVI and St. Augustine

In another interpretation of Malachy’s prophecy, we have to focus on Pope Benedict XVI’s inclination to teaching of St. Augustine.
St. Augustine was born in the fourth century in a city of a North African region presently called Algeria.

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In a gesture of rapprochement with a theologian whose relations with the Vatican have sometimes been strained, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the church's top doctrinal official, was the featured speaker at an Oct. 27 symposium marking Fr. Johann Baptist Metz's 70th birthday.

While some hailed Ratzinger's action as an olive branch for church dissidents, liberal Swiss theologian Fr. Hans Kung blasted Metz for sharing a stage with Ratzinger without pressing him on issues of church reform.

Metz is known as one of Germany's leading theological minds and the father of "political theology," arguing that Christianity must be involved in political and social struggles. His work in the 1960s and 1970s was foundational for liberation theology, a movement criticized by both Ratzinger and the pope for allegedly stressing this-worldly political progress at the expense of eternal salvation….

Cardinal Ratzinger, of course, has gone on to become Pope Benedict XVI and one of the main reasons that liberal Catholics were so appalled by his elevation was precisely because of the key role he played in breaking the liberation theology movement, which had essentially sought to supplant Catholic dogma with Marxist ideology and turn the clergy into political activists. So this appearance with one of the leaders of the movement, and one whom he'd disciplined at that, is a famous/infamous incident

In my view, one can best understand Ratzinger by locating him within the movement known as la nouvelle theologie (the new theology). This movement, associated primarily with the Jesuit School of Studies in Lyon, France, and especially the work of Henri de Lubac, has several characteristics. It sought to reform the dominant neo-scholastic theology of its time by going back and retrieving both the theology (especially Augustine) and the liturgical practices of the patristic period. This retrieval focused not on the historical criticism of the scriptures, but on the multiple senses of the scriptures that the fathers of the church elaborated. In addition, this retrieval sought to modify the post-Tridentine liturgy through a retrieval of the liturgical practices of the early church

http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1536/
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A saint from Algeria can be regarded as having an olive color of the skin. As St. Augustine can be symbolized by the olive, the victory in the ideological dispute of the cardinal who respected St. Augustine so much can be described as “the Glory of the Olive.”


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As excellently explained by Tarsisius van Bavel O.S.A., Roman North Africa was originally state property, and then given in huge tracts to wealthy Roman families as absent owners.

North Africa supplied much of the grain and olive oil consumed in Rome. It was produced by poor tenant farmers and seasonal workers.

By the time of Augustine, the protection of individual rights of the weak within the Roman Empire had in effect ceased.

This was because the authority and status of the Empire had greatly declined.

Augustine assumed the role of a political activist in order to protect those on the margins of society (the marginalised), defend the rights of the poor.

Government officials were often corrupt and not interested in the poor. They levied high taxes on those least able to pay them.

Hence the frequently unemployed seasonal workers - the harvesters of the grain, the tillers of the soil and those tending the olive trees - were victims of exploitation, and lacked political power...

http://www.augnet.org/default.asp?ipageid=221
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In this context, Malachy’s prophecy on Pope Benedict XVI is proved to be very reasonable.

Liberals in the Vatican who respect Karl Marx have lost influential power in the church system as Pope Benedict XVI was inaugurated, which can be likened to "the Glory of the Olive."



SECTION IV: The Vatican and China

If Mr. Barack Obama won the US Presidential Election, you may call it “the Glory of the Olive,” too.

But, it is likely that supporters of Mr. John McCain love the teaching of St. Augustine more than supporters of Mr. Barack Obama do.

Whichever will be elected as the next US President, China will continue to influence the U.S. President as we today observe.

In fact, President Mr. George W. Bush is apt to take easy measures in diplomacy these days as shown in the Take-Shima case, though he seems to stop changing his view on North Korea in terms of support for terrorism, while North Korea still holds the Japanese abductees.

The relationship between the Vatican and China, a nation today based on institutional Marxism, is also a big issue in a different context from that of the relationship between the Vatican and Israel.

From this point of view, "the Glory of the Olive" must mean that the Vatican will not be influenced by China to the extent U.S. leaders look so nowadays.

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The last pope is described as "Petrus Romanus - Peter Roman" by the prophet Malachy.

When Israel and China start to play a critical or threatening role each with the United States in the near future, the era of Peter Roman may come.

The unholy relationships between the Vatican (with non-Marxian Europe) and Israel, China, and the United States might provoke a huge crisis.

For example, a tie-up of the Vatican with Israel may push the U.S. to take more military measures against Islamic enemies, while triggering a civil war-like turmoil in China, all as the aftermath of the "Glory of the Olive."

In this scenario, the organization of the Vatican can dissolve or be disintegrated leaving only "Pope Peter" in Rome where followers of Jesus Christ will not make a pilgrimage any more, since the Messiah will come again to create a new church system for survival of mankind for another 1000 years.

Otherwise, the Newton’s mysterious prediction might come true around 2060.




(If you don’t mind listening even in Tokyo:
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-folk2/toisekaini.html )




Luk 8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.



　

Causality from 2008 to 2060

Causality from 2008 to 2060



Though Angles sometimes caution me for easily dreaming of cleanup of enemies of God, have you recently confirmed any miracles?

If the God condemns somebody, He will really do it.

All we have to do is just believe in Him to level condemnation so fairly.

It is because anybody involved in politics as well as sports would claim his or her own cause and justice, while cool causality must be working around mankind.




SECTION I: Japanese Athletes and Leaders

I did not happen to see the controversial match between Ms. Ryoko Tani and the Romanian Judo player.

Even a Japanese politician whose controversial political behaviors are being tried in a court doubted of the judgment of the referee who found a fault in Ms. Tani’s manner in fighting, which led to the gold medal of the Romanian player.

Ms. Tani was expected to win the gold medal as usual in the Olympic Judo matching of her class.

But, she married a few years ago a popular baseball player in the most popular team in Japan; more critically, she could not even win the first prize of her class in the domestic Judo contest held recently to select Beijing entries, though her past glory weighed in her favor.

The Japanese male soccer team was defeated by the U.S. and Nigeria. They have apparently lost a chance to win any medal in Beijing.

But, the coach of the team who selected the members of the Japanese Olympic team said before flying to China that he did not need over-age players since he had selected all the promising young players.

It is reportedly said that Ms. Mizuki Noguchi, the female marathon gold medalist in Athens, has an injury at her foot, though so acute, and would probably give up her entry to the race in Beijing.

But, the Japanese National Track and Field Association already released the sole reserve runner at the end of July, so that the runner could get prepared for another marathon race without being put in restraint as a fill-in in case of an emergency that might happen to the three duly selected female marathon runners one of whom is Ms. Noguchi.

I do not blame Japanese athletes and players.

But, coaches, managers, and related bodies of the Japanese sports community are responsible.

(One of the Japanese national lawmaker that love the marathon is Mr. Muneo Suzuki who has praised Ms. Ryoko Tani in his blog.

[ http://www.muneo.gr.jp/html/page001.html ]

As Mr. Putin of Russia is a Judo fan, if Mr. Suzuki once talked only about Judo in Moscow or so, his very aggressive involvement in activities of the Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs might not have alarmed Japanese and American parties concerned with the Japanese-Russian relations.

Yet, a politician should be judged by voters in election but not by amateur judges in a judicial court, since Mr. Suzuki loves the marathon, just like the comedian-turned popular governor of Miyazaki Prefecture Mr. Higashikokubara, so much as to write a book on how to run a marathon.)

What I want to emphasize here is causality. Controversial acts by leaders could damage promised success of younger generations in the fields of sports as well as politics and journalism.



SECTION II: Isaac Newton and John Maynard Keynes

Newton is now said to have been an arrogant man as a politician in England in the 17th and 18th centuries, since he never expressed his view in the British Parliament, though he was the only genius who discovered the law of gravity in a scientific manner.

Probably, as Newton had some grave secrets in his work on the Bible, he must have realized that he must have been a silent and aloof man to any others.

So, he could predict the establishment of the nation Israel in 1947, as John Maynard Keynes obtained and studied many hand-written private documents of Newton.

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According to John Maynard Keynes who published a biographical study of Sir Isaac Newton in Essays and Sketches in Biography (Meridian Books, 1956), Newton was absolutely obsessed with the study of the Bible. Keynes, a historically notable economist, upon becoming the Provost at Cambridge University in England, discovered papers packed away in 1696, when Newton retired from his position as Cambridge Provost. To Keynes's amazement, most of the million words recorded by Newton, in his own handwriting, were not about mathematics or astronomy, but they were about esoteric theology and the Bible. Newton believed that the Bible held a hidden code and he wanted to "read the riddle of the Godhead, the riddle of the past and future events divinely fore-ordained." Therefore, Newton spent much of his life trying to find the Bible code, which he believed was a "cryptogram set by the Almighty." However, despite his attempts to apply mathematical models to the Hebrew text, Newton was unsuccessful and was still searching for the Bible code when he died.

In his book, Newton detailed from Daniel's prophecy the future rebirth of Israel as a nation at the hands of a friendly nation, although he did not know when the event would occur. True to Newton's understanding of the prophecies, at the urging of America, on the evening of November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to allow the re-establishment of the nation of Israel, and, in May of 1948, Israel became a state. Also, as a part of Newton's translation and interpretation of Chapter 9 of Daniel, he predicted the Jubilee return of the Messiah after the restoration of the nation of Israel in political autonomy, an event for which Christians and the Jewish nation of Israel still await. If Newton's translation and declaration regarding the Jubilee return of the Messiah are accurate, then the Second Coming of Christ appears to be imminent.

http://www.csg.net/eschatology/Newton.htm
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So, the popular novel The Da Vinci Code is completely wrong; Rather, it must be The Newton Code, since it could also lead to the Keynes Code.



SECTION III: 2060 - The Battle of Armageddon

I once confirmed that the year 2060 would be a critical year for the earth:
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EEE Reporter on Wednesday, May 28, 2008

By 2041, solar activity will reach its minimum according to a 200-year cycle, and a deep cooling period will hit the Earth approximately in 2055-2060. It will last for about 45-65 years, the scientist added.

"By the mid-21st century the planet will face another Little Ice Age, similar to the Maunder Minimum, because the amount of solar radiation hitting the Earth has been constantly decreasing since the 1990s and will reach its minimum approximately in 2041," he said.

http://en.rian.ru/science/20080122/97519953.html
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And, Newton’s biblical study has also pointed at the year 2060 as a decisive year for mankind:
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In a library in Jerusalem lies an intensely curious document. It was written about 300 years ago, and only a handful of scholars have ever examined it. The author was arguably the most important scientist of all time, a genius who uncovered the laws of physics that govern the entire cosmos, Sir Isaac Newton.

The subject? Newton's calculation of the date the Bible said the world as we know it would end in the Battle of Armageddon: the year 2060.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3217_newton.html


And when it came to predicting the end of the world, Sir Isaac Newton was just as precise.
He believed the Apocalypse would come in 2060 – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, according to a recently published letter.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401099-details/The+world+will+end+in+2060%2C+according+to+Newton/article.do
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Yet, there is a theory that Newton actually suggested the end of the world would be 2255.

http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc022403.html

Nonetheless the peak oil and even peak uranium might trigger the Battle of Armageddon in 2060:
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Uranium— Estimates for peak uranium range around 2055 – 2060 given current nuclear electrical power production and power plant replacement expected over the next 20 years (Heinberg 2005, Darley 2004)….

Oil Wars and Terrorism— Wars over oil and other resources are not new. Germany's first industrial empire expansion was frustrated by defeat in World War I, and punitive war reparations caused the Weimar economic collapse that helped produce Hitler and the Third Reich. When Hitler re-armed and restarted German manufacturing in the 1930s, Nazi Germany needed oil, and North Africa, Romania and Soviet Russia had oil. The rapidly industrializing Japanese invaded Manchuria, China and Malaysia for oil, rubber, and coal. When the US instituted an embargo of oil and steel in July 1941 against Japan, the Japanese concluded that war with America was worth the risks and attacked Pearl Harbor. It is no coincidence that Japan invaded and secured oil and rubber resources in Indochina and Indonesia soon after their attack on the US Pacific Fleet.

Oil is not the only reason why we are entangled in the Middle East. As the world's only superpower after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and having the world's largest military and weapons arsenal, it was probably inevitable that we would start acting like an empire. We are no different from the Mongols, the British, the Dutch, the Spanish, and the Romans – all who expanded and formed empires when local resources were limited and military advantage was in place. But oil is the huge majority reason the Middle East is strategic to us. In the short arc of the Persian Gulf lies Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran – the final repository of 66% of the remaining oil in the world. Iraq accounts for 112 billion barrels of oil – the world's second largest proven reserves. Iraq also contains 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (EIA 2007b).

Even if the real reasons for our involvement in the Middle East were altruistic (to spread democracy), our behavior in the oil region for the past 75 years (along with the British), has certainly given the locals plenty of reasons to hate our guts. This fact was even acknowledged by the 9–11 Commission Report....These actions, along with our staunch support of Israel, have produced the inevitable consequences…

http://www.dougcraftfineart.com/PeakOilandOurFutureEssaybyDougCraft.pdf
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Though non-nonsense argument, in order to be widely accepted, needs a positive view of the global economic, political, and industrial situations in the future, there is still a possibility that an Armageddon-like war will happen around 2060.

But, in 50 years, mankind will be probably able to develop and produce more effective and horrible weapons than we expect today, since science is evolving without interruption.

As the anthrax bacteria terror incident, carried out in 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 Terror, proved, even a single ill-minded scientist could deliver such awesome biological weapons to the society.

Probably, in 2060, a single ill-minded scientist will be able to trigger an Armageddon-like war using a new type of biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons he will invent secretly.

It can be only prevented if mankind starts in 2008 to make every possible effort to stop it.

EEE Reporter is one of such efforts that was started as the first globally in this context.

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If senior leaders can be prevented from badly influencing younger generations, I really think that the 2060 catastrophe can be prevented.

Mankind will then be prepared for the 2255 tragedy as predicted by Newton in another way.

I wonder if EEE Reporter will be remembered or rediscovered around 2060 or 2255.

It may be unearthed involving you, since some of you may develop true faith in God in coming years.



(If you don’t mind listening:
http://home.att.ne.jp/star/ELS/sailing.html )





Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

WITH LOVE TO BEIJING?

(August 8, 2008, Japan)



WITH LOVE TO BEIJING?



It was very nice to watch the Olympic Games opening ceremony on TV in Japan, since the Tokyo time is just one hour ahead than the Beijing time.

Except half an hour interruption to observe a late-night TV news program, I watched the whole show conducted at the main stadium and all over the city Beijing, China.

It was not so bad, since Mr. Henry Kissinger was there as televised and Tokyo Governor Mr. Shintaro Ishihara must have been there, though, not spotted on a TV screen.

(Tokyo City is willing to hold the Olympic Games after London.)

The huge collective performance in the stadium and the abundant use of pyrotechnics all over Beijing really touched the nerve of a Japanese female reporter dispatched for reporting, though she told that ordinary citizens in Bejing seemed to be encouraged by the authority to stay at home and watch TV.

(I personally think it offended against morality to depict gigantic foot steps in the night sky with pyrotechnics, having people look up to be amazed at huge soles advancing from the Tienanmen Square to the National Stadium, since it must be against the moral codes ancient China called Zhou had enthusiastically observed and Confucius so admired. Mankind is only under Heaven but not someone's sole.

So, be careful about the modern Chinese mind-set!)


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Some Japanese media are discussing that China will change after the Olympic Games if not over a short amount of time, since 70,000 local Chinese youths are being mobilized as volunteer guides for visiting foreigners. They will learn something from people coming from all over the world. China will have a more sound view on the world.

Yet, the Japanese media was reporting last night that thousands of Tibetans made demonstration before the Chinese consulate or embassy in Nepal against the Beijing Olympic Games, resulting in arrest of 1,000 demonstrators.

In addition, a Uighur terrorist with an AK-47 rifle behind issued a warning in the TV news program.

China had better grant Tibetans and the Uighur people independence.

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Former National Diet member of Japan Mr. Katsuhiko Shirakawa wrote in his blog that it is nice for Tokyo Governor Mr. Shintaro Ishihara to visit China along with Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, though Mr. Ishihara’s anti-China stance was well known.

However, he also presented a picture of the entrance of the Tokyo National Stadium where the 1964 Olympic Games were held. One corner therein is full of weeds and wild grass. No one seems to take care of it any more, while the Stadium is still used often for various sports events.

http://www.liberal-shirakawa.net/tsurezuregusa/index.php?itemid=716

Mr. Shirakawa called himself liberal; but he is actually a kind of conservative, since he has patriot love as proven by his chagrin at the forgotten spirit of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.

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In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, the U.S.

In 1984, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, the U.S.

In 1996, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Atlanta, the U.S.

Who felt in 1932 that the U.S. was soon going to play a key role in the world?

Who felt in 1984 that the U.S. was soon going to overwhelm the Soviet Union?

Who felt in 1996 that the U.S. was soon going to behave like the Roman Empire leveraging power at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center?

But, in 1964, it became apparent that Japan would soon restore its status as the major global power the Empire of Japan had enjoyed before WWII, though democratic and pacifist-Constitution-based post-WWII Japan has abandoned the use of military capability to enrich itself.

In 2008, what you are feeling in Beijing may become prophetic to China, Asia, and the world, though Tokyo City is willing to hold the Olympic Games after London.

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Today, they hold the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victims Memorial Peace Prayer Ceremony in Japan.

Indeed, we have to still review the history of the Roman Empire, since the Romans boasted that they inherited the glory of ancient Greece.

And, the Romans would not have hesitated to use a nuclear bomb, if they had had it, on any formidable enemy, including ancient China or modern Japan.



(If you don’t mind listening in Beijing:
http://www.geocities.jp/qqbjj485/XPX/index.htm )




Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Japanese King of Gag Cartoons: Fujio Akatsuka

Japanese King of Gag Cartoons: Fujio Akatsuka



Japanese manga comic artist Mr. Fujio Akatsuka died recently.
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Fujio Akatsuka is one of Japan's greatest humor comic artists of the time. His humorous style and many anti-heroic comic characters have transformed the field of manga, and continue to attract fans as more and more of his series are adapted as animated cartoons.

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/akatsuka_fujio.htm
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If the late Mr. Osamu Tezuka is an aristocrat in the Japanese manga world, Fujio Akatsuka is a lord of a local clan.

Osamu Tezuka graduated from the faculty of medicine of Osaka University. He could have simply enjoyed a proud life with the first-rate certificate in the Japanese society. But he knew where his talent lied so as to become the King of Manga after WWII. The essential lack of meanness, indecency, and violence is the main feature of Tezuka’s works. But, as Tezuka was a genius, his works appealed not only to children of middle class families but also to families of the working class.

Fujio Akatsuka only graduated from a middle school or a junior high school, which did not promise an automatic escalation to the middle class at all. You had to work typically as a salesclerk in a small shop or a manual laborer in a small factory. Unconcealed meanness, indecency, and violence were always close. What is worse, Japan has been always an education-conscious society. You must be always worried that your lack of education might bring you to contempt or put you to shame in your behaviors when you talk to someone with a background of higher education.

Osamu Tezuka and Fujio Akatsuka once lived in the same humble wooden apartment house in Tokyo when Tezuka was already a top manga artist moving up to Tokyo from Osaka; but Akatsuka also moving up to Tokyo alone was a young man yet trying hard to come up with his own hits in the manga comic industry in the era when TV broadcasting had just begun in Japan.

Cheap comic books or manga-bon have been always easy entertainment for children and youths in general in Japan. Even today, TV, manga, and baseball are three major opportunities for Japanese children to enjoy themselves, though nowadays a cellular phone and the Internet are penetrating with a sense of hidden danger.

Akatsuka’s manga title featuring sextuplet boys was a big hit. As one of the sextuplets was named “Osomatsu” with an implication of poor behaviors, the work was actually titled “Osomatsu-Kun.”

After WWII or in the middle of the high-growth era in Japan, though the majority of people did not have a car and never traveled overseas or did not live in a condominium building, there was a vibrant atmosphere in the whole society. Children were everywhere running, shouting, and playing on the street or in any empty lot yet to be developed. Energy of the sextuplets really mirrored the era.

All the characters Akatsuka depicted in Osomatsu-Kun are apparently born poor and living poor. They are all residents of the down-town kingdom. But, there is one exception: a character called "Iyami" meaning affectation.

Iyami was depicted ugly in that he boasted that he had come back from France while his manner was so mean and his behaviors so poor. He pretended to be a middle-class person who once travelled to and lived in Paris. Akatsuka made him take a really comical posture when Iyami was surprised, which became a great hit not only among readers but also in the whole society of Japan.

A conceited man who abruptly took a comical posture no others, poor and humble, would dare to take was actually proving that he was just a fool. But, the gesture amused so many Japanese readers of those days, including grown-ups.

However, Akatsuka did not politically attack the Iyami type of persons in the society. It is just funny and super funny to see a man boasting his past travel to Paris which only rich men could do then taking a stupid posture. Akatsuka was really a professional manga entertainer.

But, it is still interesting to know that Akatsuka’s daughter after growing up went to London to work as a modern artist, though she does not look mean at all.

What I want to say is that behaviors of Japanese political conservatives can be regarded as being on the extension of the spirit of characters of Akatsuka’s manga comics.

On the other hand, behaviors of Japanese political liberals, brainwashed by Europe-born Marxism and mainly driven by coarse hate for political enemies, are not on the extension of the spirit of characters of Akatsuka’s manga comics.

When China and North Korea produce or accept an artist like Fujio Akatsuka, they will abandon the authoritarianism and start to think that North Korea must release Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean secret agencies for these decades.

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Osamu Tezuka and Fujio Akatsuka could draw attractive lines in depicting their manga characters. Their touches were soft, careful, and humane, though Tezuka’s is of the middle class flavor and Akatsuka’s of working class’.

Yet, there was a real Japanese artist painter who was senior to Tezuka and Akatsuka and could paint and draw better than they in presenting portraits of girls and women.

He might have influenced those manga artists, since the painter had traveled to and worked in Paris in late 1920's gaining high reputation.

http://www.fukiyakoji-museum.com/goods.htm

What I mean is that a genius is a product of the whole tradition of the society.

Indeed, Fujio Akatsuka and Osamu Tezuka had their big hits in a genre of comics for girls, though I cannot still understand their motivations to professionally earn money in such a genre.

Nonetheless, who the gold medalist in the women's marathon in Beijing will be is the only my concern nowadays.



(If you don’t mind listening even in Beijing:
http://homepage3.nifty.com/yodonokofune/m_pianoconcert_no1_op23f_tchaikovsky.mid
Source: http://homepage3.nifty.com/yodonokofune/concert2_017.htm)



Luk 8:8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Aurelius Augustinus in the Summer of 386

(All Around the North of Tokyo Metropolitan Area)


Aurelius Augustinus in the Summer of 386



After having checked a late-night TV news program last night, I referred to some sites each of which presented a unique view of Japan and the United States.

For example, an old article a newspaper reporter wrote last summer in his blog tells that hedge funds in New York and London would start to buy uranium since the mortgage business was facing a downturn and they would even start to persuade the US President Mr. Bush to regard North Korea as a future business partner due to rare metal mines so rich and promising in the poorest country of the Far East.

( http://tamurah.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/281182/ )

However, a funny TV news report invoking a smile would really help me sleep better.

So, after observing on TV the shapes of cookies made by Mrs. McCain and Mrs. Obama, I fell into a restful sleep, since those shapes are of a kind a cookie monster would simply love.


SECTION I: AT THE END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

The Roman Empire, 360 years after the execution of Jesus Christ, repented and converted into Christianity just to survive 100 more years as "The City of God" must have been written.

378–395: Theodosius I, Roman emperor, bans pagan worship, Christianity is made the official religion of the Empire.

395: Roman Empire splits into West Rome and East Rome.

410: St. Augustine writes The City of God.

452: Pope Leo I talks around Attila the Hun in order to Protect the city Rome.

476: The Fall of Rome in the West.

It will be truly a fan to study the end of the United States in a history class in the future. Students all over the world, say, in the 22nd century will love to read this part of history.

But, so far as now, we have to first discuss the end of the Roman Empire.

When Jesus Christ came among ancient Israelites to equip people with the Gospel, the history of ancient Israelites since Abraham who had left the Mesopotamia around 2000 B.C. ended.

Likewise, when St. Augustine came among Romans, the history of the ancient Roman Empire ended.

It is as if the ancient Israelites had existed, lived, and worked only to wait for the coming of Jesus Christ.

Likewise, it is as if ancient Romans had existed, lived, and worked only to wait for the coming of St. Augustine.

I think so because without the prior emergence of St. Augustine Pope Leo I could not have wisdom and guts to meet and deal with the king of the Huns.

I think so because without the prior emergence of St. Augustine the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation would not have been possible at all.

Likewise, I think that without the emergence of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago descendants of ancient Israelites could not have survived and descendants of the Roman citizens, namely West Europeans, would not have evolved as we observe them today.


SECTION II: Augustine of Hippo

Just like St. Paul, St. Augustine was given sudden divine advice.

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In the summer of 386, after having read an account of the life of Saint Anthony of the Desert which greatly inspired him, Augustine underwent a profound personal crisis and decided to convert to Catholic Christianity, abandon his career in rhetoric, quit his teaching position in Milan, give up any ideas of marriage, and devote himself entirely to serving God and the practices of priesthood, which included celibacy.

Key to this conversion was the voice of an unseen child he heard while in his garden in Milan telling him in a sing-song voice to tolle lege ("take up and read").

He grabbed the nearest text to him, which was Paul's Epistle to the Romans and opened it at random to 13:13-14, which read: "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires."[13]

He would detail his spiritual journey in his famous Confessions, which became a classic of both Christian theology and world literature. Ambrose baptized Augustine, along with his son, Adeodatus, on Easter Vigil in 387 in Milan, and soon thereafter in 388 he returned to Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
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This is a miracle.

It is a kind of miracle that happened only once in Europe in these 2000 years after the conversion or the metanoia of St. Paul.

Based on this miracle, the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation were actually made possible.

As the miracle of St. Paul’s conversion led to the end of ancient Jerusalem, the miracle of St. Augustine led to the fall of ancient Rome.

The significance of these incidents in terms of causality is deep and profound.

For example, if you wish the fall of America, you still need this kind of miracle.


SECTION III: HISTORICAL INEVITABILITY

Ancient Jerusalem must have prospered so as to fall with St. Paul.

Ancient Rome must have prospered so as to fall with St. Augustine.

The fall of ancient Jerusalem became a foundation of development of Christianity in the Roman Empire.

The fall of ancient Rome became a foundation of development of Christianity in Europe.

Then, with whom to fall must America prosper?

Whose foundation of development of faith in God or Allah will the possible fall of America become?

Millions of knowledgeable people, critics, pundits, scholars, experts, journalists, politicians, and awaken citizens in the world are talking about the possible end of supremacy of the United States; but nobody argues the need of another St. Augustine.

For example, you may happen to be super rich in Wall Street; but you cannot happen to be super powerful enough to destroy Wall Street.

There you need a paradigm change to realize a real change. And such a paradigm change is only possible in the context called inevitability in history.

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After having checked a late-night TV news program last night, I referred to some sites each of which presented a unique view of Japan and the United States.

For example, Mr. Bill Totten wrote in his blog that the U.S. wanted to militarily attack Iran since the U.S. Government, Republican or Democratic, was characterized by violence and arrogance in addition to greed for crude oil, which however would turn to a great crisis of the world economy.

( http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/corporate/totten/column/1187325_629.html )

However, a funny TV news report invoking a smile would really help me sleep better.

So, after observing on TV the Olympic torch relay in Beijing, an unthinkable event if decades ago with the huge portrait of Chairman Mao behind in the Tiananmen Square, I fell into a restful sleep, since Mao Tse-tung looked like poorly helpless seeing off a relay runner from the great wall of the Square.

I mean that another St. Augustine does not look like emerging from China or the United States at all, since they do not look like being able to make distinction between the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the laity, and the kingdom of the Devil, all on the earth.


(If you don’t mind listening:
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/movie/proudones.html )



Exo 8:7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

Exo 8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.

Exo 8:9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?

Exo 8:10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.

Exo 8:11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.

Exo 8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.

Exo 8:13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.