"This was the Lord's doing" - 37 Miracles of Christ Jesus

Imperial Palace Plaza (old Edo Castle of Samurai Shogun)

37 Miracles of Christ Jesus

The miracles Christ Jesus performed are listed below:

The Miracles of Jesus

37 Miracles of Jesus
#	Miracle	Matthew	Mark	Luke	John
1	Jesus Turns Water into Wine				2:1-11
2	Jesus Heals an Official's Son				4:43-54
3	Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit		1:21-27	4:31-36
4	Jesus Heals Peter's Mother-in-Law	8:14-15	1:29-31	4:38-39
5	Jesus Heals Many Sick at Evening	8:16-17	1:32-34	4:40-41
6	First Miraculous Catch of Fish			5:1-11
7	Jesus Cleanses a Man With Leprosy	8:1-4	1:40-45	5:12-14
8	Jesus Heals a Centurion's Servant	8:5-13		7:1-10
9	Jesus Heals a Paralytic	9:1-8	2:1-12	5:17-26
10	Jesus Heals a Man's Withered Hand	12:9-14	3:1-6	6:6-11
11	Jesus Raises a Widow's Son in Nain			7:11-17
12	Jesus Calms a Storm	8:23-27	4:35-41	8:22-25
13	Jesus Casts Demons into a Herd of Pigs	8:28-33	5:1-20	8:26-39
14	Jesus Heals a Woman in the Crowd	9:20-22	5:25-34	8:42-48
15	Jesus Raises Jairus' Daughter to Life	9:18, 23-26	5:21-24, 35-43	8:40-42, 49-56
16	Jesus Heals Two Blind Men	9:27-31
17	Jesus Heals a Man Unable to Speak	9:32-34
18	Jesus Heals an Invalid at Bethesda				5:1-15
19	Jesus Feeds 5,000	14:13-21	6:30-44	9:10-17	6:1-15
20	Jesus Walks on Water	14:22-33	6:45-52		6:16-21
21	Jesus Heals Many Sick in Gennesaret	14:34-36	6:53-56
22	Jesus Heals a Gentile Woman's Demon-Possessed Daughter	15:21-28	7:24-30
23	Jesus Heals a Deaf and Dumb Man		7:31-37
24	Jesus Feeds 4,000	15:32-39	8:1-13
25	Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida		8:22-26
26	Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind				9:1-12
27	Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon	17:14-20	9:14-29	9:37-43
28	Miraculous Temple Tax in a Fish's Mouth	17:24-27
29	Jesus Heals a Blind, Mute Demoniac	12:22-23		11:14-23
30	Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman			13:10-17
31	Jesus Heals a Man With Dropsy on the Sabbath			14:1-6
32	Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers			17:11-19
33	Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead				11:1-45
34	Jesus Restores Sight to Bartimaeus	20:29-34	10:46-52	18:35-43
35	Jesus Withers the Fig Tree	21:18:22	11:12-14
36	Jesus Heals a Servant's Severed Ear			22:50-51
37	Second Miraculous Catch of Fish				21:4-11

http://christianity.about.com/od/biblefactsandlists/a/Miracles-Of-Jesus.htm

However, Christ Jesus preached just for a few years.

A chronology of Jesus typically has the date of the start of his ministry estimated at around 27-29 AD/CE and the end in the range 30-36 AD/CE.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Jesus 

Suppose that there is another Jesus today.  He is accompanied by some followers.  If They traveled, say, from Washington DC to New York in three years, They will meet so many people per day.  In this case, Christ has to perform one miracle at least every hour.  Then, 12 miracles per day for three years can total more than 13,000 miracles.

Of course, 2000 years ago not so many people lived between Galilee and Jerusalem.    

Tacitus declares that Jerusalem at its fall contained 600,000 persons; Josephus, that there were as many as 1,100,000 slain in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, along with 97,000 who were sold as slaves.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jewish_population_comparisons

However, we may assume that Christ Jesus performed one miracle at least every week.  Then in three years, he must have done 140 or so miracles.  The number of miracles listed in the above table is just 37.  It is almost one miracle per month, though the Bible said that there were many other miracles the Bible could not contain.

Joh 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. 

But the Four Gospels present Jesus' miracles in an overlapping way. Why could not they report very different miracles if the authors of the Gospels had chosen miracles to report independent of one another?

The answer might be that Christ Jesus had at least 11 close followers each of whom remembered miracles they saw and loved.  So, when one follower wrote down what Christ Jesus did for his own reference, he would surely choose miracles he had observed closely and he had been moved so much.  If all the sources of the Four Gospels had been one, it would be very reasonable that total only 37 miracles are mentioned in the Four Gospels in a strong overlapping manner.

But as there were 11 Disciples, we may assume that at least total 400 or so miracles Christ worked (11 x 37 = 407).   There may be still double counting.  So we can assume that the real number was one third of 400.  It is very roughly 140.  Then Christ Jesus performed miracles at least every week, four in months, 48 in a year, and 140 in three years of His mission.

Anyway, it seems to be sure that there was only one source for the Four Gospels, since the total number of Jesus' miracles reported there was just 37.  

But why one per week?  Was the band of Christ Jesus 2000 years ago mostly walking through desolate wilderness or paths?  It seems so, indeed.  But how could they feed themselves?  A mystery still remains.

By the way, there is a theory that the number 37 means a hexagram, God, and greatness.  Can this be a minor miracle?




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Mar 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
Mar 12:11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

"shall be denied before the angels of God" - Many, Many Holy Prophecies

Around Parliament Bldg., Tokyo

Many, Many Holy Prophecies

As Christ Jesus was God, His birth even as a human being must have been a super big event not only in this universe but also in the spiritual sphere.

Something extraordinary must have happened prior His birth.  For example, dinosaurs should have gone extinct if they had still survived 2000 years ago.  Mt. Everest should have emerged, if it had not been existent 2000 years ago.  Or otherwise the moon must have created, if it had not been formed 2000 years ago.  But such spectacles never happened 2000 years ago.

Instead, the God used the Old Testament to provide glory adequately needed for His first coming to the human world as Jesus the Nazareth.  And it is proved in terms of probability.

There are many characteristics and distinctive features ancient Hebrews specified in the Old Testament as evidence with which to identify a man, to be born in future, as the Messiah.  To meet all these conditions is very difficult for any one.  Mathematically, it is almost impossible.  But there came a man who crossed the extremely high hurdle.  It is Christ Jesus Himself that finally fulfilled the holy promise described through many, many prophecies in the Bible of ancient Judaists.  

Mathematical Probability that Jesus is the Christ

How true, then, it must be that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, if he had 456 identifying characteristics well in advance, and fulfilled them all! In fact, what does the science of probability make of this? 

The science of probability attempts to determine the chance that a given event will occur. The value and accuracy of the science of probability has been well established beyond doubt - for example, insurance rates are fixed according to statistical probabilities. 

Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, Peter Stoner, has calculated the probability of one man fulfilling the major prophecies made concerning the Messiah. The estimates were worked out by twelve different classes representing some 600 university students. 

The students carefully weighed all the factors, discussed each prophecy at length, and examined the various circumstances which might indicate that men had conspired together to fulfill a particular prophecy. They made their estimates conservative enough so that there was finally unanimous agreement even among the most skeptical students. 

However Professor Stoner then took their estimates, and made them even more conservative. He also encouraged other skeptics or scientists to make their own estimates to see if his conclusions were more than fair. Finally, he submitted his figures for review to a committee of the American Scientific Affiliation. Upon examination, they verified that his calculations were dependable and accurate in regard to the scientific material presented (Peter Stoner, Science Speaks, Chicago: Moody Press, 1969, 4). 

For example, concerning Micah 5:2, where it states the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem Ephrathah, Stoner and his students determined the average population of BETHLEHEM from the time of Micah to the present; then they divided it by the average population of the earth during the same period. 

They concluded that the chance of one man being born in Bethlehem was one in 300,000, (or one in 2.8 x 10^5 - rounded), 

After examining only eight different prophecies (Idem, 106), they conservatively estimated that the chance of one man fulfilling all eight prophecies was one in 10^17. 

To illustrate how large the number 10^17 IS (a figure with 17 zeros), Stoner gave this illustration : 

If you mark one of ten tickets, and place all the tickets in a hat, and thoroughly stir them, and then ask a blindfolded man to draw one, his chance of getting the right ticket is one in ten. Suppose that we take 10^17 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They'll cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would've had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man, from their day to the present time, providing they wrote them in their own wisdom (Idem, 106-107). 

In financial terms, is there anyone who would not invest in a financial venture if the chance of failure were only one in 10^17? This is the kind of sure investment we're offered by god for faith in His Messiah. 

From these figures, Professor Stoner, concludes the fulfillment of these eight prophecies alone proves that God inspired the writing of the prophecies (Idem, 107) - the likelihood of mere chance is only one in 10^17! 

Another way of saying this is that any person who minimizes or ignores the significance of the biblical identifying signs concerning the Messiah would be foolish. 

But, of course, there are many more than eight prophecies. In another calculation, Stoner used 48 prophecies (Idem, 109) (even though he could have used Edersheim's 456), and arrived at the extremely conservative estimate that the probability of 48 prophecies being fulfilled in one person is the incredible number 10^157. In fact, if anybody can find someone, living or dead, other than Jesus, who can fulfill only half of the predictions concerning the Messiah given in the book "Messiah in Both Testaments" by Fred J. Meldau, the Christian Victory Publishing Company is ready to give a ONE thousand dollar reward! As apologist Josh McDowell says, "There are a lot of men in the universities that could use some extra cash!" (Josh McDowell, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, California: Campus Crusade for Christ, 175). 

How large is the number one in 10^157? 10^157 contains 157 zeros! Stoner gives an illustration of this number using electrons. Electrons are very small objects. They're smaller than atoms. It would take 2.5 TIMES 10^15 of them, laid side by side, to make one inch. Even if we counted 250 of these electrons each minute, and counted day and night, it would still take 19 million years just to count a line of electrons one-inch long (Stoner, op. cit, 109). 

With this introduction, let's go back to our chance of one in 10^157. Let's suppose that we're taking this number of electrons, marking one, and thoroughly stirring it into the whole mass, then blindfolding a man and letting him try to find the right one. What chance has he of finding the right one? What kind of a pile will this number of electrons make? They make an inconceivably large volume. 

This is the result from considering a mere 48 prophecies. Obviously, the probability that 456 prophecies would be fulfilled in one man by chance is vastly smaller. According to Emile Borel, once one goes past one chance in 10^50, the probabilities are so small that it is impossible to think that they will ever occur (Ankerberg et. al., op. cit., 21). 

As Stoner concludes, 'Any man who rejects Christ as the Son of God is rejecting a fact, proved perhaps more absolutely than any other fact in the world (Stoner, op. cit., 112).'   

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/radio034.htm

Of course, the probability that you were born as such a human being with such features in this era might be also almost zero, though we don't know where you were prophesied.

Maybe in some book in Heaven your birth must have been prophesied.  But it is unknown if it is a book for eternal life or for the hell.

A Statute of Christ of Broken Church in Kobe City Surviving the 1995 Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in Western Japan
http://roteki.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/suisai/christ.html





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Luk 12:8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
Luk 12:9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
Luk 12:10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.

"Herod would have brought him forth" - Jesus to Punish the Rich

Part of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Jesus to Punish the Rich

A major source of man's suffering is poverty.

Conversely, to be rich and keep the status of being rich, rich men would do anything horrible to others.  They will make the poor poorer, so that they can be richer.

They will take political power to control society where they live with poor people, namely their enemy.  Indeed, the rich regard the poor as their enemy, so that they will take any cruel measures to suppress the poor and make them unable to challenge the rich.

Even ancient rich Judaists didn't feel pain when they saw poor Judaists.  Rich Israelites acted like strangers to poor Israelites. There had no neighborly love, no friendships, and probably even no love for brothers, provided that neighbors, friends, and brothers are poor.  So, despite a strong religious tie among Israelites, there was a clear gap between the rich and the poor among Judaists.

What is worse, the rich Israelites tied up with Romans.  So, it must have been expected that someday soon poor Israelites would spark a revolution targeting rich Israelites and Romans.  However, it was impossible for poor Judaists to defeat Roman troops.  They would be defeated and put into a more horrible state.  

Then Christ Jesus emerged to give the last chance for rich Israelites to repent and save unity of all the Judaists.  Accordingly, His teaching was focused on poverty and wealth or economics.

Jesus, the Radical Economist
June 11, 2012 

If the teachings of Jesus were really taken seriously, the Christian Right wouldn’t be devoting so much time to protecting the wealth of the wealthiest. True Christians would be demanding redistribution of the world’s riches in ways far more radical than modern politicians would dare propose, as Rev. Howard Bess explains.

By the Rev. Howard Bess
....... 

Torah is very straightforward. Land and ultimately all wealth belong to God, who places property in the control of human beings, not as owners but as stewards who must share it and return it to God every 49 years for redistribution.

For Israelites, time was divided into blocks of seven years. Land was not tilled in the seventh year. After a series of seven, seven-year blocks of time, a Year of Jubilee was declared. During the Year of Jubilee, all land was to be returned to the control of the priests, who, in the name of God, were to make a new and fresh distribution of all land.

In other words, the wealthy were supposed to surrender their stewardship and the poorest of the poor were given land with the encouragement to be productive for God and their fellow Israelites. All slaves were set free and all debts were canceled.

At the time when the Israelite system of Sabbaths and a Jubilee was codified, the economic and political structures may have accommodated such radical economic and social changes in a one-year observance of Jubilee.

Hundreds of years later, however, when Jesus lived and taught, the combination of Roman rule, compliant fat-cats and religious elites made the observance of Jubilee impossible. So, almost every Israelite knew what Torah said, but the prescription had not been followed in anyone’s memory. The poor had given up on the idea of a Year of Jubilee, but apparently not Jesus.

According to Luke’s gospel, early in the public ministry of Jesus, he went to a synagogue gathering and read a passage from Isaiah:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. God has sent me to bring good news to the poor. God has sent me to proclaim release of captives and liberty to the oppressed. This is the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Everyone in his hearing understood what he was saying. Israelites had gone too long without a Year of Jubilee. It was time for the wealthy to turn loose what they had accumulated. It was time for the poor to receive their full stewardship.

But most poor people had taken on the understanding of life that their oppressors presented and taught. It was true then; it is still true today. So, the Year of Jubilee code was regarded as impractical. However, the principles of the ownership of God, the end of slavery, and economic justice still were possible.

The Israelites who held wealth and power knew what was in Torah, but they were not interested in reading it with new eyes of compassion and justice. (When Jesus finally took his message to Jerusalem – riding in on a donkey to mock the rich who favored horses and turning over the money tables at the Temple to protest religious corruption – he was deemed an insurrectionist and was executed.)

Jesus died almost 2,000 years ago, but the laws of Sabbaths and Jubilees are still on the books today. Torah still has a powerful message, especially since the evils of greed and mindless ownership are with us in ever growing magnitude. Resulting inequities and injustices surround us. 

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/11/jesus-the-radical-economist/

Put simply, a state of being rich means a lack of love of one's neighbors.  If a rich man loves his poor neighbors as Jesus taught, he would distribute all his money among the poor neighbors to be one of them eventually.

You cannot stay rich, if you have great love of your neighbors.  You would be surely as poor as they are.  You cannot make money sacrificing or neglecting your poor neighbors.

So, economics can be translated into a matter of love of neighbors.  Indeed if there were no rich men in this world, no economics theories now being respected would be of no use.

Jesus' teaching to love your neighbors as much as you love yourself tells everything about His economics.  It means that money should be equally possessed by all the people.  But you can earn money as much as possible, so that you distribute it among the poor.  You may have big money to distribute to your neighbors.



http://antioligarch.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-year-of-jubilee/


In addition, there some movement today concerning this spirit.

Jubilee 2000 was an international coalition movement in over 40 countries that called for cancellation of third world debt by the year 2000. This movement coincided with the Great Jubilee, the celebration of the year 2000 in the Catholic Church. From early 2001, Jubilee 2000 split into an array of organisations around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_2000

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Act 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
Act 12:6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
Act 12:7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

"how that on the sabbath days" - Japanese Cuisine and Rice

Tokyo, Toward West

Japanese Cuisine and Rice

Japanese cuisine is of course a product of its long history, its nature, its racial features, and its spiritualism and religion.

Japan welcomes listing of "washoku" as UNESCO intangible heritage 

English.news.cn   2013-12-05 15:09:48  

TOKYO, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Japan said Thursday that it welcomes the news that its traditional cuisine, washoku, has been registered on UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 's (UNESCO) Intangible Heritage List, hoping it could attract more visitors to Japan. 

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday that the news is "delightful" and Japan "sincerely welcome" it, adding the traditional cuisine embodies Japan's spirit of respecting nature. 

The Japanese government's proposal was approved by UNESCO at a meeting of its Intergovernmental Committee in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday, making washoku the 22nd Japanese asset to be listed on the intangible heritage list, which also covers Japan's Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku. 

Japan's Agriculture Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi also said the registration will be "a major tailwind to spread Japanese food overseas," adding it is "not a goal but a start," according to local media.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2013-12/05/c_132943667.htm  

Of course the base of the Japanese cuisine is rice.

Before modernization and Westernization of Japan in the late 19th century, rice was delivered by farmers to samurai lords as tax in lieu of money.  It might be like colonies of the Roman Empire sent wheat or flour to Rome as tax.

And this rice is a main component in the shinto religion, a unique Japanese religion where spirits of ancestors are deified and enshrined in shinto shrines.  Accordingly only Japanese can taste Japanese foods based on rice in a correct manner and sense.

(Of course other Asians who eat rice as the chief article of food like Chinese might have different attitudes toward rice.)

But, it is just what a man eats.  It must be open to mankind.

Truly the body is more important than foods as Christ Jesus said.

(Wa is one of special forms of words meaning Japan.  Shoku means food.  So, washoku is a Japanese food.  Western cuisine is called "yo-shoku" in Japanese.  And Chinese cuisine is "chuka ryori [simply chuka]" or "chugoku ryori."  Chuka, a classic word, and chugoku mean China.  Ryori is cuisine.)




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Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Mat 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

"sent him away shamefully handled" - Faith among Americans

Tokyo

Faith among Americans

America is not collapsing as Europe is not.

It is because most of Americans have a concept of or  faith in God.

Most Americans still pray, believe in God
BY LESLIE GRIMARD
Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:12 EST 

July 16, 2013 (Heritage) - A new Pew Forum poll shows that 48 percent of Americans say a decline of religion is bad for American society. But do fewer Americans consider themselves faithful these days? 

Over the past two decades, the number of Americans who mark their religious preference as "none" has undoubtedly grown. Only 8 percent checked that box in 1990. As of May of this past year, 20 percent of all Americans identified themselves as having no religion.

Despite an increase in these "nones," the majority of Americans are still religious. Over 90 percent of Americans believe in God or a higher power, and almost 40 percent attend religious services weekly. 

Even among those who claim no particular religious affiliation in an earlier Pew Forum survey, roughly 80 percent still believe in God or a universal spirit, and a majority describe themselves as "religious" or "spiritual." According to a recent survey by researchers at Baylor University, most of those who say they have “no religion” also pray.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/most-americans-still-pray-believe-in-god

A survey reports a simpler result on this theme: how much do Americans believe in God?

July 28, 2008
Majority of Americans Believe in God 

A large majority of Americans (78%) say they believe in God and 15% say they don't believe in God, but do believe in a higher power.
http://www.gallup.com/video/109111/Majority-Americans-Believe-God.aspx

This rate might be comparable with a result on the same topic in any Islamic nation.  However Muslims have only one type of image of Allah, since the Koran is so demanding.  Americans are freer in this context:

Americans View God in Four Different Ways (Froese, Bader 2010)
How Americans View God
By Austin Cline 

Belief in God is popular in America, but not everyone who believes in God believes the same things about God.... 

In the end, they collected all the data into four different types of gods:
Authoritative God: 28%
Benevolent God: 22%
Critical God: 21%
Distant God: 24% 

According to Froese, believers in the Authoritative God "divide the world by good and evil and appeal to people who are worried, concerned and scared. They respond to a powerful God guiding this country, and if we don't explicitly talk about (that) God, then we have the wrong God or no God at all."
...
Many believers in the Distant God would probably prefer to be called spiritual rather than religious and it's an attitude that taps into old, long-standing Deistic attitudes that can be traced back to the founding of America. Believers in the Distant God seem to adopt the attitude that morality, politics, and social structures are ultimately their responsibility to develop and get right. For whatever reason, they don't believe God is actively looking out for them or is going to fix things they get wrong.

http://atheism.about.com/od/American-Beliefs-God/a/Americans-View-God-Four-Different-Ways.htm

 

These images of God can be reasonable distributed almost equally.  Men are unique among themselves.  So, images of God they have can be different.

And the 3/11 Great Tsunami Disaster of Japan in 2011 has served as the catalyst of studying concrete contents of Americans' belief in God.

56% Say that God Controls Everything that Happens (PRRI/RNS 2011)
Americans Believe God Controls Everything
By Austin Cline 

The Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service conducted a survey on Americans' views about God in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. When asked how much they agree or disagree with the statement "God is in control of everything that happens in the world," people responded: 

Completely Agree: 35%
Mostly Agree: 21%
Mostly Disagree: 17%
Completely Disagree: 17%
Don't Know / Refused: 2% 

http://atheism.about.com/od/American-Beliefs-God/a/God-Controls-Everything.htm


18% Have Doubts About God due to Innocent Suffering
Suffering Causes Few Doubts About God
By Austin Cline

The Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service conducted a survey on Americans' views about God in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. When asked how much they agree or disagree with the statement "Seeing innocent people suffer sometimes causes me to have doubts about God," people responded: 

Completely Agree: 5%
Mostly Agree: 13%
Mostly Disagree: 24%
Completely Disagree: 48%
Don't Know / Refused: 2% 

http://atheism.about.com/od/American-Beliefs-God/a/Doubts-About-God-Innocent-Suffering.htm

The God is almighty and omnipotent.  What looks complicated to human eyes can be simple to the God.  What looks like an unbearable tragedy for mankind can be nothing to the God, since He can compensate for any pains, fear and burdens of victims and the sacrificed.  So, the rate of 48% of Americans who trust in the God despite so many terrible incidents in the human world is somewhat sound. 

So, America is not collapsing due to those believers.  And if the US should tumble and fall, Americans will be probably able to survive and revive like Western Europe after the great collapse of the Roman Empire though it was centuries after.



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Mar 12:4 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.
Mar 12:5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
Mar 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mar 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
Mar 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar 12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.

"shall be heard in the light" - Armageddons and Armageddon

A Tokyo River

Armageddons and Armageddon

Will Christ Jesus come and appear in our world again?

The Bible says that he will come back in the middle of war between believers and evil men.

Rev 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Rev 22:8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
Rev 22:9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
Rev 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Rev 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

If this Book of the Bible is not holy or genuine, the whole church system of Christianity should collapse.  

The sentence "Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star" is very critical.  If Jesus had not said so but they wrote this part, it would be the greatest blasphemy.

But what this prophecy means is clear.  Despite great activities of believers, there would still many bad guys who would never repent and believe.  No one would be able to correct them.  But believers should keep faith to have righteous lives.  And then Christ Jesus will come back to save the believers and punish the bad.

Of course, people live and die while this prophecy is not fulfilled.  So, you may wonder what effect of this prophecy has.  However, a situation each individual lives cannot be easily judged by others.  A believer who died before this era must have caught a glimpse of a similar situation to what was written in Revelation.  And in a wider scope of the 2000 year history, the following description seems to come to fit more and more to this era we now live in: "Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."  

List of wars by death toll 

This is a very incomplete list of wars (an estimated 3,023 wars have taken place in recorded human history...). 

60,669,200-84,589,300 – World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)
30,000,000–60,000,000 – Mongol conquests (1206-1324)[2][3][4][5]
27,000,000 – Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)[6]
25,000,000 – Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty (1616–1662)[7]
20,000,000 – Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)[8]
16,563,868-30,000,000 – World War I/Great War (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties)
16,000,000 – White Lotus Rebellion (1794-1804)[citation needed]
13,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (755–763)[9]
10,000,000 – Era of Warring States (475 BCE–221 BCE)
10,000,000 - Red Eyebrows Rebellion (9-24)
8,000,000–12,000,000 – Dungan revolt (1862 –1877)
7,500,000 – Chinese Civil War (1927–1949)[10]
7,000,000–20,000,000 – Conquests of Tamerlane (1370–1405)[11][12]
7,000,000 - Reconquista (711-1492)
5,000,000–9,000,000 – Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1922)[13]
5,000,000 - Conquests of Aurangzeb (1681-1707)
5,000,000 - Gothic War (535-554)
5,000,000 – Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882–1898)[14][15]
4,000,000 - Three Kingdoms War in Ancient China (189-280)
3,500,000–6,000,000 – Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
3,000,000–11,500,000 – Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)[16]
3,000,000–7,000,000 – Yellow Turban Rebellion (184–205)
3,000,000 - Second Northern War (1655-1660)
3,000,000 - French Wars of Religion (1562-1598)
3,000,000 - Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
2,500,000–5,400,000 – Second Congo War/Great War of Africa (1998–2003)
2,500,000–4,000,000 – Conquests of the Hunnic Empire (408–469)
2,500,000 – Russian–Circassian War (1763–1864)
2,000,000–4,000,000 – Huguenot Wars (1562-1598)[21]
2,000,000 - French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
2,000,000 - Crusades (1096-1272)
2,000,000 – Shaka's conquests (1816–1828)[22]
2,000,000 - Fang La Rebellion (1120-1122)
1,500,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)
1,200,000[23] – Korean War (1950–1953)
791,000-1,141,000[24] – Vietnam War/Second Indochina War (1955-1975)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll

Indeed, the 20th century is called a century of wars.  The most significantly six million Judaists were killed in Europe under strong influences of the Vatican during WWII.  This greatest tragedy of mankind in these 2000 years must have been really foretelling the coming of Armageddon.

Nonetheless Christ Jesus first appeared before the great war between Islaelites and Romans in the first century.  Hence we may be allowed to assume that Christ Jesus will surely come after the great Holocaust for his second emergence.  It is because the age of Revelation must start with a decisive tragedy for Israelites and end with another decisive tragic affair for them.  Truly the God must have chosen Judaists for this critical role.

Now I think very personally that it is time that people come to hear rumors about the second advent of Christ Jesus.  He might appear in a subway car of New York or in a street of Shanghai if not in Jerusalem.




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Luk 12:3 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.

"Martha served" - The Most Important Question in our Universe

A Shinto Shrine, Japan

The Most Important Question in our Universe

One thing sure about this universe is that it is finite.

They say it has the width of 47 billion light years.  It is very huge but still finite.  For a space which is finite, there is the outside.  Then what is there outside the universe?

If something or other universe exists outside our universe that is also finite, what exists outside it.  Maybe this structure might be repeated infinitely.  But will it satisfy our mind and sense?

From a religious point of view, it doesn't matter what structure, simple or complicated or finite or infinite, our universe and other universes take.  It is the very act of God.  He can exercise his infinite ability and power in handling material universes.  But there must be one important sphere called Heaven in addition to the hell.

Our minds and souls are linked to some functions or spirits which exist in Heaven or some spiritual sphere.  When we were born and grow, gradually a link between a physical human and a spirit in the heavenly sphere must be established.  A human being as a physical entity lives following various physical and biological conditions, but the mind and soul of each man is linked to a corresponding spirit in Heaven or the spiritual sphere.

According to the Gospel, Christ Jesus was directly linked to the spirit of God.  But ordinary persons cannot have their souls connected to God.   However, as Christ Jesus told to accumulate treasure in Heaven, we can have our souls linked to higher-ranking spirits in Heaven through good work we do on the earth.

In contrast, if we do wrong, neglecting the poor, the weak, the oppressed, etc., we will be surely connected to the hell.

When we die, leaving our physical bodies and this world, our souls will be completely united with other ourselves in Heaven or the hell.  Then we will start a new life in the spiritual world.  And such a life can be infinitely long.  Further, if we are united with our own remote spirits in Heaven, no one would like to come back to this wild, namely the rotten, and painful material world.  If we can live more closely to God in Heaven, why do we like to leave it to live in this incomplete material world so far away from God?

So, it is far more meaningful for us to think about Heaven than imagine what exists beyond our finite material universe and beyond.  

Nonetheless, we may ask why God created this material universe?  Was it to create human beings who will eventually enter Heaven or fall in to the hell?  Why does God need us?  According to Christ Jesus, it is love.  But mankind cannot yet fully comprehend the love of God toward us.

Finally can mankind believe that God loves us so much, while there are so many people who have to live a horrible life and die a terrible death?  This is the most important question for us who will die someday at 100%.
    

http://tacchan.hatenablog.com/entry/2013/01/20/133250
Our Material Universe in Gray and Other Universes

Anyway God can be defined, if so humanly, as the one that governs everything, including Himself, that exists and does not exist.







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Joh 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Joh 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
Joh 12:3 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.
Joh 12:4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
Joh 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Joh 12:6 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.
Joh 12:7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
Joh 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

"Take my yoke upon you" - Three Elements and Three Religions

Park, Museum, and Shrine in Autumn, Japan

Three Elements and Three Religions

A basic element of the universe or around us is hydrogen.

This very small atom consists of one  proton and one electron which in large quantity becomes electric current.  An electron is a super-small particle which cannot be divided or which has no internal structure.  But a proton has three quarks of two types of up and down.

If the electric charge an electron has is negative one, an up quirk has plus 2/3 while a down qurik has negative 1/3.  A proton has two up quirks and one down quirk, thus having an electric charge of plus one.  So, the total electric charge of a hydrogen atom becomes zero.

    e (-1)-----------------[u (2/3), d (-1/3), u (2/3)]    

This structure calls something about religion to my mind.

d might be Judaism; u could be Christianity; and e should be Islam.  Note that a neutron is composed of two ds and one u.  

[d (-1/3), u (2/3), d (-1/3)]

So, d and u can be regraded as changing each structure to have a total electric charge of +1 (a proton) or zero (a neutron).

Judaism and Christianity share some holy books, thus constituting a common domain.  In reality, a Judaist can convert into Christianity more easily while a Christian man doesn't avoid marrying a Judaist woman.  But Muslims are more separated from Judaists and Christians.  The religion Islam moves around the religious domain Judaism and Christianity build, like an electron moves around a proton or a neutron.  Religious traditions of Islam largely depend on legacies of Judaism and Christianity.  Islam is bound to Judaism and Christianity.  But it can leave one atom for other atoms, thus creating electric current.

When an element grows to become larger than hydrogen, it needs more protons and neutrons.  Electrons follow them to balance electric charges.  But to create a molecule, two or more atom cores are linked to one another through binding electrons.  In the religious sphere, Judaism is only for descendants of the ancient tribe of Hebrews, basically.  Christianity is controlled and supervised by the Pope or heads of various denominations through hierarchy.  But Muslims are essentially equal among themselves.  Whenever they go, they lack anything functionally in practicing their religion.  Like electrons, they can move around in the world leaving a trace of complete faith in the God.

And no more elemental particles are needed to create every component of this world, including the air, soils, plants, animals, and every industrial product.

It is also said that Islam is the last religion so that the God would not endow mankind with any more religions.  The human world must be completed with the three religions (with other special ones such as Hinduism and Buddhism), like this material universe is completed with the three types of elemental particles basically.

http://wadingintobuddhism.blogspot.jp/2010/10/kinda-funny.html
  

http://www.ipp.phys.ethz.ch/outreach/review




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Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

"By what authority" - Two Great Miracles for Men

Mt. Fuji 100 Km Far from the Tokyo Suburbs

Two Great Miracles for Men

There are two great miracles given to mankind by the God.

One is in the sky and another is on the ground.

The first miracle is how the sun and the moon look from the earth.  They look alike almost in the same size to our eyes.  There are no scientific reasons that in a solar system the central fixed star and a secondary planet orbiting a planet should look in the same size from the ground of the planet.  In other word, the moon must look smaller or larger from the earth when compared with the sun.

But though hundreds of millions of years ago the moon looked far larger than it looks today, the fact that the moon and the sun have looked in a similar size since emergence of mankind through evolution had a great influence on culture and civilization of mankind.  By watching the bright and strong sun mankind came to have a concept of something positive and major, and the pale and soft moon led to a concept of something negative and minor.  It helped development of intellect of human beings.  Dualism is basics for intellect.  And it started with the great configuration of the sun and the moon in the sky of the historical epoch when mankind has been growing, though this epoch just occupies a small portion in the whole history of the earth.

And the second miracle is that the God chose a tribe as His own which settled in Judea or Palestine which is situated in the key location connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia.  For this purpose, the God called Abraham out of Ur, a city state in Mesopotamia, 4000 years ago.

So, the God did not choose Egyptians who resided in the corner of Africa or Sumerians who occupied a domain along the Euphrates river in Asia.  The God did not even send His Son to Greeks or Romans who prospered in Southern Europe.  God's Son must be sent to the center of the world to manifest glory of the God, so that Judaists or descendants of Abraham were required to move to the central region of the world.  This is why Abraham and his family had to leave Ur for Palestine 4000 years ago.  Then 2000 years ago, the God sent His Son to the heart of the world geographically and culturally, Palestine.

In a sense, by doing so, the God protected uniqueness of each domain, Europe, Africa, and Asia while giving all the three regions a kind of equal chances for religious development and deployment.    

Now we live surrounded by the two miracles, each in the sky and on the ground.  Without the great miracles, mankind even today must be in a state of just being a kind of Neanderthal men.

And the third miracle is that this era is 2000 years after the emergence of Christ Jesus and 4000 years after the journey of Abraham.  We all share this third miracle.  We have to respond to this great condition.  But how?

http://www.evidencetoconsider.com/astronomical/the-solar-eclipse-odds

http://www.israelimages.com/see_image_details.php?idi=1238






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Mar 11:27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,
Mar 11:28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
Mar 11:29 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mar 11:30 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
Mar 11:31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
Mar 11:32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
Mar 11:33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

"a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice" - Koran Chapter 17

Parliament Building near Imperial Palace, Tokyo

Koran Chapter 17

There is an important Chapter in Koran.

Since Chapter 17 is related to the legendary travel by the founder of Islam to Jerusalem.  In Jerusalem it is said that he was hoisted up to Heaven to see Allah.

17. Children of Israel - Al-Isra 

Chapter 17 of Koran 

17:2 And We gave Musa the Book and made it a guidance to the children of Israel, saying: Do not take a protector besides Me; 

17:4 And We had made known to the children of Israel in the Book: Most certainly you will make mischief in the land twice, and most certainly you will behave insolently with great insolence. 

17:101 And certainly We gave Musa nine clear signs; so ask the children of Israel. When he came to them, Firon said to him: Most surely I deem you, O Musa, to be a man deprived of reason. 

17:104 And We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land: and when the promise of the next life shall come to pass, we will bring you both together in judgment.

http://www.en.knowquran.org/koran/17/

These passages are important, since it might tell the fate of Israel or Israelites.  Christianity has claimed its holy glory in parallel with Judaism.  Then Islam seems to put Judaism to hard testing.

The paragraph 17.4 might imply that Judaists now occupy Judea or Palestine as its second time.  And Israelis today are not friendly and kind to Muslims at all.  Further, it is 2000 years since the emergence of Christ Jesus and 4000 years since the great journey of Abraham.  So, it might be now that "the promise of the next life shall come to pass."

From a wider scope, it is natural that all the Israelis leave Israel for the US.  And then real development of Islamic nations might start.

As for the US, America had better accommodate all the Judaists, since Europe has the Pope.  Americans seem to mention the God more often than Christ Jesus.  They are closer to Judaists than European Christians are.




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Luk 11:27 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.
Luk 11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

" the reproach of Christ greater riches"

National Diet Building, Tokyo








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Heb 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
Heb 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

"he findeth it swept and garnished" - Jesus after Resurrection

A Museum

Jesus after Resurrection 

Where did He go?

Of course He went to a road leading to Damascus.

But we can assume that the spirit of God left the body of Jesus after he revived to life again in a tomb.  Then as Jesus and His close aids, whom one of His disciple mistook as Moses and Elijah, had discussed on the mountain, Jesus was helped out of the tomb　by them.  For the time being, He could still act as a demi-god, making an appearance before His disciples sometimes.  But finally, the last of the Holy Spirit left the physical entity of Jesus, ascending to Heaven while everybody was watching.  Then where did He go as a plain man, like the one who He had been?

This speculation has led to creation of various stories.  Some novel reads that Jesus married and had children to live a long life.  Other reads that Jesus traveled to as far as India and Tibet.

In one of my theories, Jesus went to Rome.  Then Titus Flavius Josephus (37-100) came to the capital of the Roman Empire as he had fought against the Romans during the First Jewish–Roman War, lost the War and defected to the Roman side.  Jesus taught Josephus how to write about the War and eventually Antiquities of the Jews.

These two books are too great for us to believe that they were just written by Josephus alone relying on his knowledge and judgment.  Somebody must have helped Josephus, and it must have been Jesus as a plain man after Resurrection.

The Jewish War or Judean War (in full Flavius Josephus's Books of the History of the Jewish War against the Romans, Greek), also referred to in English as The Wars of the Jews, is a book written by Josephus, a Jewish historian of the 1st century. 

It is a description of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 170 BC to the fall and destruction of Jerusalem in the First Jewish–Roman War in 70 AD. The book was written about 75, originally in Josephus's "paternal tongue", probably Aramaic, though this version has not survived. It was later translated into Greek, probably under the supervision of Josephus himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_War 

Antiquities of the Jews, also Judean Antiquities (see Ioudaios) is a twenty-volume historiographical work composed by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the thirteenth year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian which was around 93 or 94 AD.[1] Antiquities of the Jews contains an account of history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. In the first ten volumes, Josephus follows the events of the historical books of the Hebrew Bible beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve. The second ten volumes continue the history of the Jewish people beyond the biblical text and up to the Jewish War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_of_the_Jews

These two books had better be regraded as other Bible, since Jesus might have been behind the author Flavius Josephus who could have been a son of Jesus.





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Luk 11:24 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.
Luk 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
Luk 11:26 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.

"shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day"

Merry Christmas if You are Somewhere








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Joh 11:23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
Joh 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

"The desire of the righteous is only good" - Fukushima Daiichi vs. Tokyo Olympics

Mt. Fuji 100 km Far on Nov. 23, 2013

Fukushima Daiichi vs. Tokyo Olympics

Presently recovery work in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant is in a very difficult condition, though the Japanese Government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) do not make it widely known in the world.

It is a scarcity of manpower.  Many workers in the Plant have already received doses to their allowable limit.  Though 3,000 workers are engaged in recovery work, more and more real experienced workers are leaving Fukushima Daiichi.  Each worker is not allowed to receive radiation over 50 mSv per year.  This regulation eliminates many veteran Fukushima Daiichi workers of TEPCO and its subcontractors.  As a result, there are now many amateur workers and dubious laborers mobilized by suspicious subcontractors, including ex-homeless persons and a kind of gangsters.

In addition, the Government launched a massive decontamination operation around residential areas and individual houses situated around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Plant.  So, many subcontractors opt to dispatch workers to the decontamination work rather than to Fukushima Daiichi.

What is worse, TEPCO is losing its employees.  Many engineers and office workers of TEPCO are leaving the company due to deterioration of business environment caused by the nuclear accident.  In 2012, total 712 workers quit jobs in TEPCO.  Those who were engaged in core business of the utility accounted for 40% of the 712 men and women who left TEPCO.  So, the management of TEPCO is somehow at stake.

Moreover, since all the 50 nuclear power plants in Japan are now halted due to exhaustive checks and inspections imposed after the Fukushima Daiichi accident, TEPCO has expected that nuclear workers who lost jobs in other nuclear plants would come to Fukushima Daiichi.   But those workers with reasonable technical skills can easily find jobs in other factories and plants in industries other than the nuclear industry.  They have not come to Fukushima Daiichi where they should receive higher doses.

So, the situation around Fukushima Daiichi is too early to be optimistic.  In the worst case, some parties concerned think that TEPCO will be forced to use some foreign hands, since suitable Japanese workforce for Fukushima Daiichi can be depleted sooner or later.

And if construction work should start for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Fukushima Daiichi will face a more serious condition while many workers and subcontractors will go and find easy jobs in Tokyo.

So, you had better request the Japanese Government to abandon the Olympics scheduled in Tokyo in 2020.




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Pro 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Pro 11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Pro 11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

"the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem" - A Legacy of John Kennedy

From Shinagawa to Tokyo Haneda Airport

A Legacy of John Kennedy

The US in 1960s was in big confusion.

It had the first Catholic President who was assassinated so badly.  It confronted the Cuban crisis, which had a long influence on its diplomatic policy.  Its African American leader who won a Nobel Prize was assassinated badly.  A brother of the assassinated President was also killed during his presidential campaign.  The US military sent 500,000 soldiers to South Vietnam.  But it finally succeeded in sending astronauts to the moon.  

However after the Vietnam War ended for the US and the Watergate Scandal emerged and ended with President Nixon being forced to resign, the US entered a rather peaceful and boring era till the Persian Gulf War in 1990.  Along with collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US proceeded to a new growth era riding on the personal computer boom and subsequently the Internet boom.

Anyway, the turmoil of 1960s suddenly ended in the US through the anti-Vietnam War movement which was of course put an end to with the withdrawal of the US troops from South Vietnam.  But where had the dangerous momentum in the US society gone, leaving the remains of JFK, MLK, and RFK?

The answer seems to have been the Vietnam War.

Those who killed JFK, MLK, and RFK  seem to have been all satisfied with big money they got by participating in business related to the Vietnam War.  Those dangerous guys behind the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK must have greatly benefited from the wartime boom.  As they had become so rich, they must have come not to mind advance in society of African Americans.

Indeed the US Government paid $111 billion for the Vietnam War, which can be converted to the current value of $686 billion.  So, those behind those assassinations must have been lucratively paid or accumulated profits.  In addition, the War led to wider contamination of the US society by drugs.  Even the Mafia and other gangsters enjoyed the boom.  They had probably no need to assassin a US President, a civil right movement leader, or a Presidential candidate who were against those being engaged in Mafia business covering Chicago to Cuba, illegal profit making, unlawful manipulation of political power, unfair business with the defense-related industry.    

In other word, the Vietnam War must have made rich enough those having played decisive roles in the era of assassinations of 1960s to change their lifestyle.  And, finally President Nixon was forced to resign after the Vietnam War in a disgraceful manner while his main concern looked like something related to the era of the JFK Presidency.

But, history might still hide some linkage between the era of 1960s and present days.  So, I will not be surprised even if it has become clear that the success of Barack H. Obama depends on a legacy of John F. Kennedy.



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Act 11:21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Act 11:22 Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
Act 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

"would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes" - 50 Years since JFK

Tokyo Haneda Airport since 1931

50 Years since JFK

It is 50 years after the occurrence of the JFK Assassination.  But how has the US changed?

                                       1963                        2013
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 Population                       189 million                317 million

Real GDP
Growth Rate                     4.4%                        2.8%

Ratio of
Non-Hispanic Whites          88%                        63%

Poverty Rate                    19.5%                      15%
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Now, how many shooters will you employ if you should hit a US President?

It cannot be one who usually works in a school textbook deposit.  You will hire some of the best shooters of the era.  And as you are afraid of a failure, you will post four or five men, if any.

So, on November 22, 1963, you must have put one on the Grassy Knoll, one on the second floor of the Texas School Book Depository, one on the sixth floor of the Depository, and the last one on the roof of the Dal-Tex Building.

Then you must be sure that one of four bullets will really work.  Of course, in order to hide shooters and make it difficult to find where bullets come, you have to order each shooter to fire just one bullet each.

Conversely, suppose that you fail in this operation; then you will be laughed at forever by all the people concerned around Johnson, Nixon, Dulles, Hoover, etc.   So, you need four or more assassins.

http://www.mexicoarmado.com/rifles/167743-duda-sobre-el-tiro-kennedy.html


But we only know Oswald and Ruby, super third-class players.  Any scenario writer will use more figures if not like in the case of the mission on Osama of 2011.
 　

Anyway 50 years after the assassination, nobody predicted in 1963 that President Kennedy's daughter would become US Ambassador to Japan where Oswald had been once stationed as a US Marine, since Caroline's younger brother died so mysteriously in 1999.




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Mat 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.