"I will put my spirit upon him" - You Must Not Trust the Pope

Yokosuka Naval Base, Tokyo Bay

You Must Not Trust the Pope

There are many people who are engaged in Christianity, namely, priests, clergymen, bishops, scholars of religion, etc. but who cannot understand any spiritual matters.

These people don't think that there are Heaven and the hell.  They think what is described in the Bible is just fantasy or a simple story.  They think the teaching of Christ Jesus is just mere ethical codes or lessons.  They cannot believe miracles and spiritual matters.  They don't even think that men have souls.  They think if a man dies, nothing is left and nothing happens to his soul; they are virtually atheists.  

But, they are engaged in professions related to Christianity because of worldly reasons.  For example, their parents have been priests so that they can easily take the same path.  Or they think that they can have middle class lives if they become priests.  Sometimes, they have found that they have no other ability but become priests.

Such priests or clergymen may function to support the social framework of Christianity.   But they are not holy at all.  From the beginning, they cannot understand what is holy and what is evil.  Ultimately, they will join Satan rather than God.  What they want is that they are respected as priests, though they don't even know they are not true followers of God, by others who also don't understand Christianity.  They want to just enjoy social status as priests, though they are harming society in an inexplicit manner.

But they are not acutely so harmful that other leaders of cults.  Leaders of cults think that they can abuse religion to earn money.  They intentionally cheat people into believing that they are holy.  For them, religion is an easy mean to make money.  They think that there are many stupid people who believe God.  All they have to do is to show some religious knowledge, and then those innocent people would believe and respect them.  They deserve being cheated and deceived, they think.  By taking advantage of good nature or weakness of others, they sell their phony religion to these victims.  They are harming society through their mean-spirited religious activities in an explicit manner.

So, how can we make difference between true followers of God or holy men from phony religious professionals?

If those who are engaged in religious matters are rich, you must not trust them.  If those who are engaged in religious matters have any titles or high status in their religious bodies, you must not trust them.  If those who are engaged in religious matters show a lack of understanding of social justice, spiritual matters, or compassion to the poor or victims, you must not trust them.

If they are homeless, you may trust them.

In this context, you must not trust the Pope and those who are surrounding him.

  

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Mat 12:18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

"I have no room where to bestow my fruits" - Money Makes People Hate One Another

Tokyo

Money Makes People Hate One Another

Wherever you may go, you find rich people and poor people.

There are no countries where all the people are equally rich or poor.  In any human societies, there are rich people and poor people.  Or in any eras in the past there were rich people and poor people.

And, in any societies, to become rich and keep wealth, you have to neglect poor people, commit any crimes, and control society with intention to keep yourself rich.

In other words, most of crimes in a society are rooted in this gap between the rich and the poor or in evil acts and deeds the rich commit to protect their wealth.  And the less the rich have love to the poor, the more they will harm and damage the poor.

The point at issue is that it is not what God expected the mankind to do.  God did not expect that the rich occupy wealth by sacrificing the poor and accumulate wealth by exploiting the poor.  However, the mankind clearly started this mode of living at a certain period of time.

It looks like having been triggered when the mankind started agriculture in a large scale like in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, etc.  And, then it seems to have been intensified by introduction of money.  And, people came to think that it was natural to think hat the aim of their lives was to become rich.   Some people even came to think that being rich was good and being poor was evil.

The first man who has ever clearly pointed at evil of the rich and condemned the rich for their evil ways of living is Christ Jesus.  He even told that rich men would be thrown to the hell after their death.

So, we have to think that God sent Christ Jesus to the human world to proclaim that God hates the rich and does not admit them into Heaven.

The significance of Christ Jesus and Christianity is in this regard: God hates rich men.  Indeed most of tragedies in this world are rooted in the situation that no rich men help poor men or rich men are abusing poor men, or money makes people hate one another.  




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Luk 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
Luk 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

"Peter continued knocking" - It is Evil People that are Wrong but not God

Tokyo Bay

It is Evil People that are Wrong but not God

Allah has not helped Syrians, Iraqis, and other Muslims.

So, you may think that Allah has nothing to do with plights Muslims have faced.  You may think Allah exists but He has no intention to save Muslims.

The same thing happened with Judaists in WWII.  God did no save Judaists from Nazis.  Judaiats might have thought that God has nothing to do with their plight, and God exists but He has no intention to save Juadaits.

However, many Muslims as well as Judaiats and Christians seem to think that it is not God that has made people suffer but bad people.  God gave freedom to human beings, so that bad men can act on his evil motivations, harming and killing others without reference from God.  And victims who have lost all hopes can still pray to God, since God is the creator of the universe and soles of human beings.

God is not ordering bad people to attack, harm, and kill the innocent.  Bad people are attacking, harming, and killing others on their own initiatives without any relation to God.  God is not responsible for all these tragedies.  It is human beings who were given freedom by God that are responsible for the Holocaust, the wars in Syria and Iraq, and any other wars in the past.

God has never used bad people to make the faithful suffer.  God is not responsible.

You cannot deny existence of God only because God has not interfered to save lives of the victims, such as Judaists in WWII and Muslims of today.

Besides, God is the creator of lives of human beings.  He can create new human lives as many as possible while compensating losses of lives of those victims.

Anyway, we should not doubt existence of God only because of the Holocaust and the current tragedy in Syria and Iraq.  It is bad human beings that have made the faithful suffer and get harmed and killed.  It means that there were chances that human beings could prevent those tragedies beforehand.

Wars are not caused by God but by bad and evil people.  Based on the principle that the mankind is responsible collectively for what they have done, we should not expect that God immediately comes and saves lives of victims of a war human beings have started.

It is evil people that are wrong but not God at all in terms of tragedies such as war.



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Act 12:16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
Act 12:17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.

"as a flood after the woman" - Love God with all of Ability and Power

Tokyo

Love God with all of Ability and Power

Christ Jesus said to love God with all of our ability and power.  But specifically what should we do?

The first step is to think about God: how great God is; how omnipotent God is; and how wonderful God is.  The second step is to appreciate and praise God: how wonderful that God gave birth to us; how wonderful that God created this universe; and how wise God is in His creating this world.

But at the third step, we have to do something based on our recognition and appreciation of God to show our love to God.

Maybe we have to leave our rooms, houses, communities, towns, cities, provinces, etc. to the places God would indicate to us.  And when reach the places, God would show us what to do.

All we have to do is do what is requested by God with all of our heart, ability, and power.

Then, what the whole world will be if the whole mankind honestly follow this teaching of Christ Jesus?





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Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Rev 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

"Stretch forth thine hand" - True Holy Trinity

A Local Area North of Tokyo

 True Holy Trinity

There are three cases: a case (C1) that Jesus is an ordinary man, another case (C2) that Jesus is is God, and the third case (C3) that Jesus is a prophet.

If the history was not embodied or before the history proceeded, the state must be a combination of C1+C2+C3.  In this state, Jesus might be God, an ordinary man, and a prophet at the same time.

Or, it tells that in principle any man can be an ordinary man, God, and a prophet.  But it is the state before he was born.  After he was born, he must be either of  an ordinary man, God, or a prophet.  And out of 10 billion people, 9,999,999,990 persons are ordinary people.  And out of 10 billion people, only nine become prophets.  Finally only one out of 10 billion human beings who have ever lived turned to be God, who is Christ Jesus.

However, Jesus has preserved all these three potential states all through His life and after His life as an ordinary man and a prophet in this world.

So, Judaists have seen only an ordinary man in Him; Muslims have seen only a prophet in Him.  But, some people, mostly called Christians, have seen God in Him.

More specifically, Jesus is also the Messiah (savior), the son of God, or the son of man (a holy spirit in the form of a man).

Anyway, before you were born, you were in the state of a combination of a rich man, a poor man, and a tragic man.  But as your life is getting embodied, you state comes to be fixed as a rich man, a poor man, or a tragic man.  In theory, you can maintain the original state of the combination, as Jesus could, but in reality your state is fixed to either of them.

So, Christ Jesus was in the state of combination of C1+C2+C3.   But the state of God is the most important.  Compared with significance that He was God, other possible states had almost no meaning.

Indeed, Christ Jesus is meaningful as he can be in the state of C2: He is God.  We may as well forget about C1 and C3.

Truly, God is almighty so that He can be an ordinary man, God, and a prophet at the same time or either of them on each different occasion.  This must be the true Holy Trinity.


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Mat 12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Mat 12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Mat 12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

"the head of the corner" - Infinity, Miracle and God

Mt. Fuji viewed from around Tokyo

Infinity, Miracle and God

You cannot point at a specific on a sheet of paper such as one designated as (1, 1) in a coordination system.

There are an infinite number of points on the sheet each of which can be expressed as (x, y) while x and y can take any real numbers such as (0.01, -0.95)

The possibility that you can correctly indicate the one point (1, 1) is one divided by infinity, which is virtually zero.  Or it means you have to try to point at points in an infinite number of times.  The number of your trial is counted from one to two, two to three, and further to a million or a trillion.  But as long as it is counted, it cannot reach infinity.

However, there exist infinite number of points on the sheet from the beginning, though you cannot confirm it by counting every point.

Something that is infinity from the beginning always exceeds an effort to count the number from one toward infinity.  It means you cannot point at any single point, on a sheet with an infinite number of points, which is specified with an coordinate unvisible.  

But by chance, you may just point at the point (1, 1).  It is a miracle.

If you beforehand mark an appropriate point with a notion of (1, 1), you can then easily point at the point (1, 1) on a sheet with an infinite number of points.  It is because you acted like a creator of the universe when you marked the point.

If something that is only possible by an infinite number of trials is realized, it is a miracle.  That is why the fact that this universe exists is a miracle.  The fact that you live at this moment is a miracle.  And a miracle is an act of God.  Therefore, this universe was created by God.

If an infinite number of times the Big Bang occurred, it would be still impossible to create this universe.  There are an infinite number of incomplete universes produced after an infinite number of  times of Big Bangs; however their is just only one complete universe suitable for emergence of our life, which is of course this universe.  So, this universe was created by a miracle, that is, by God.

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What I want to emphasize is that something that is infinity from the beginning always exceeds an effort to count the number from one toward infinity.

God is from the beginning infinity to us who have to count from one toward infinity to realize infinity.



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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?

"the Son of man is Lord" - More Peace Loving God Followers Needed

Shinkansen super-express train, east of Tokyo

More Peace Loving God Followers Needed

When the Empire of Japan decided to launch a war against the US in 1941, only 10 to 20 persons were involved in the decision making: the emperor, the prime minister, other ministers and the Cabinet members, top generals of the Imperial Army and Navy.  But as a result of this war fought as part of WWII, three million Japanese were killed.

When the US decided to launch a war against Iraq in 2003, only several persons were involved in the decision making: the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, etc.  But as a result, hundreds  of thousands of Iraqis and subsequently Syrians as well as thousands of US soldiers faced fatal fates.  And, indirectly, due to the rise of ISIS, millions of Muslims have been forced to flee their countries as far as to Western Europe.

Whether in a totalitarian country or a fully democratic country, a decision made by a small number of top politicians could cause a grave consequence.  And if more people were involved in such decision making,  such a tragedy could not be prevented probably.

However, if there is common strong understanding in the society that a war must be avoided at any costs, the situation must be different.  Those top leaders must be influenced by the voice of citizens.

So, we need more peace loving God followers in any society to prevent war.  Only righteous citizens can stop war.  We should not trust and rely on top leaders of a nation.



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Mat 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

"I will have mercy" - Contribution to Improvement of the Society

The Tokyo Skytree, 634 meters high

Contribution to Improvement of the Society

There are too many crimes in this world.  But justice should be maintained.  However, it does not necessarily mean punish criminals.

Everyone lives in an given environment.  Through bidirectional relationship between his mind and the environment, his response is shaped.  There are so many factors in the environment that work on his mind that has also various conditions.  If there are strong discrepancies between factors around him and his mind state, acute stress will apply to his mind.  And, if he cannot solve the difficult state in an ordinary and lawful manner, he might resort to illegal, sinful, or criminal measures.

This can happen to anyone.   If anyone faces a situation that is beyond his capacity to handle it, he might act in an abnormal or criminal way.  It looks like a matter of relativity.

No matter how evil a man is, still he lives through relationship with an environment that surrounds him.  His evil act is a product of the relationship.  If his inner ungodliness accounts for 99% of responsibility, there is still 1% of responsibility on the environment.

Therefore, we have to contribute to improvement of ethics in the society while keeping ourselves off the dark domain of humanity rooted to human desires, in order to reduce crimes.  In other words, making no efforts to improve the society is a grave sin or crime if one  superficially behaves well observing sternly laws and regulation.  

You may say that you don't do anything wrong, but it is not enough.  You may as well say that you are actively contributing to improvement of the society though you might sometimes do something wrong, if minor.

Christ Jesus did not live as a man whose mind was simply righteous but as a man who was contributing to improvement of the society.




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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.

"And again he sent another" - Japanese: Good Learners and Experts

Tokyo (a Sunday night)

Japanese: Good Learners and Experts

Since Japan abolished the samurai rule in 1868 through a civil war, Imperial Japan started modernization and Westernization.  To achieve this goal, the Imperial Government invited and employed many Western experts in various fields.  Breakdown of the number of those foreigners, who were hired between 1868 and 1900, into each country is as follows.
UK...4,353
France...1,578
Germany...1,223
US...1,213

More than 8,000 Western experts in engineering, science, art, literature, etc. were employed by the Imperial Government of Japan, municipalities, universities, schools, private companies, and other entities.  On average, 250 Westerners were newly employed each year between 1868 and 1900.  Most of them were paid well and left Japan after completion of their contract terms.

Japan could avoid being colonized by Western nations unlike other Asian nations.  But it paid big money to learn products of the Western civilization and culture.  Due to this effort, the Empire of Japan became one of the seven largest economies in the world with strong military powers when the League of Nations was established after WWI in 1919.

GDP in 1929 (in $1 billion):
US: 844
UK: 240
USSR: 238
France: 192
Germany: 176
JAPAN: 123
Italy: 122

Good or bad, Japanese have been long involved in the global competition among strong nations in the modern history.  And, as Japan is an Asian nation, it is very unique in the world.

Nobel prize winners as of 2015:
No.1 US...339
2. UK...110
3. Germany...82
4. France...58
5. Sweden...32
6. Switzerland...27
7. JAPAN...22
8. Russia/USSR...20
9. Netherlands...16
10. Canada...14
10. Italy...14

Japanese have been not only good learners but also good experts.  It is because disciples cannot surpass their masters as the Bible reads.



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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.

"Be not afraid of them that kill the body" - Effect of Sacred Books

Tokyo

Effect of Sacred Books

To reach any given number or integer, basically we have to add one to one; one or two to two; one, two, three, or four to three or four; and so on.  That is 1+1; 1+2 or 2+2; 1+3, 1+4, 2+3, 2+4, 3+3 or 3+4; and so on.  Basically, by adding one to N, we can reach a number larger by one than N, that is N+1.  However, this is time-consuming.

But if we know all the prime numbers, we can reach any number by multiplying prime number to other prime numbers as many as necessary times.  This must be faster.

For us to understand any matter in this world, we have to accumulate experiences step by step.  But if we are given some crucial knowledge such as prime numbers in arithmetic, we can swiftly reach a necessary level of understanding and comprehend truth or true meaning of the matter.

The Bible, the Koran, Buddhist scriptures, Confucian books, etc. would give us crucial knowledge about human matters in this world.  So, if you learn well these holy books, you can comprehend truth more swiftly than ordinary people who have to accumulate their own experiences and extract truth from them.  This is a great effect of reading sacred books.

Nonetheless, without proper experiences but only with knowledge obtained from reading sacred books, you cannot set a target number to calculate or you only know methods to calculate numbers.

That is why Christ Jesus said to abandon everything, including religious bodies, religious titles and positions, and religious arguments and follow him in paths through wilderness, villages, towns, and great cities.


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Luk 12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luk 12:5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

"whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness" - Fukushima Daiichi Accident Victims in Schools

Fukushima field with disposal bags from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Fukushima Daiichi Accident Victims in Schools

There are still deplorable reports on children who left their hometowns in Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear accident of 2011, though almost six years have passed.

Specifically, one family that voluntarily moved from Fukushima to Yokohama City, immediately south of Tokyo, has complained publicly recently that their son, now a junior high school student, had been treated badly when he went to primary school in Yokohama.

When the boy started to go to the primary school, he was in the second grade.  But, his new classmates called him a germ, since they knew the boy came from Fukushima where the nuclear accident had occurred and a high level of radioactive doses had been reported.

Through the second to the fourth grades, the boy was sometime mocked at or bullied by classmates.  But when he advanced to the fifth and sixth grades, some classmates started to extort money from the boy for playing in a gaming arcade, a video  game parlor, etc.  Those bad boys said to the victimized boy that his family must have received big compensation money from the electric power company that owned the Fukushiama Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.   For two years, they extorted total 1.5 million yen ($15,000) from the poor boy.  The boy sometimes stopped going to school.

Of course, the boy sometimes asked help from teachers, but they did not sincerely respond to the boy's appeal.   And, even when teachers knew that the boy was extorted money from, the school management did not inform boy's parents of the fact.   In fact, other parents who heard of the extortion case from their children having not joined the bullying requested the school management to take some action to this problem.  Then a meeting was held with the teachers, the parents, and the boy, but the teachers said that the family had to report the extortion case to the police, and as for bullying due to the Fukushima matter, the boy had to behave well and take care of himself.

After the boy graduated from the primary school and advanced to a junior high school, the parent asked a lawyer to handle this case.  And then, this incident was exposed publicly, since newspapers, TV stations, etc. took up this case.

So, there must be not a few children who had moved from Fukushima Prefecture to other prefectures and started to go to new primary schools and then faced cold attitudes of some of their new classmates.  Some children in other prefectures seem to believe that Fukushima children were contaminated by radioactive doses like getting plagued.  And some of them think that their new classmates coming from Fuksuhima are dirty like germs.

As newspapers and TV critics and journalists criticize, the attitudes of those teachers who did not try to protect children from Fukushima Prefecture are graver and more alarming.

Finally, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan has issued official instructions to Yokohama City and its Education Commission to officially investigate into and respond to the case of bullying and extortion of pupils who moved from Fukushima Prefecture.

Though not all the schools and children who have received Fukushima boys and girls after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident have alienated, discriminated, insulted, bullied or intimidated the new classmates, this incident revealed how deplorable and foolish some Japanese are without learning correct things after the the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

There have been no reports that any medical doctors and staff have been physically damaged by radiation doses when they treated patients who were exposed to large radiation doses in Japan.

However, to children, radiation doses must look like something horrible.  And, their instinct that people who have been exposed to strong radiation doses must continue to be under terrible influence cannot be simply dismissed.  So, it is essential to educate primary school children on radiation and nuclear accidents.   But how deplorable it is that children have to learn such things.

And it is more deplorable for teachers and adults to think that there is no need to build friendship between children who experienced a nuclear accident and other children.

However, this sort of prejudice once prevailed in Japan after WWII against the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb victims.  Indeed, radiation doses even destroy ethics of people.



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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.

"my yoke is easy" - Japanese or Non-Japanese, That Matters

A Local Station around Fukushima Prefecture

Japanese or Non-Japanese, That Matters

After WWII, Taiwan got independent from Japan.

But there existed close ties between some Japanese and Taiwanese, though the diplomatic relationship between Taiwan and Japan was cut after Japan admitted the Beijin Government in 1972.  There are many Taiwanese or descendants of Taiwanese living in Japan.  And it seems that Taiwanese can get Japanese nationality more easily than any other foreigners.  On the other hand, there are many Taiwanese who like Japan today despite the Japanese occupation of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945.

There are many Japanese who look like Taiwanese and many Taiwanese who look like Japanese.  If some Taiwanese claim that one of their parents is Japanese, you would soon believe their words, since some Taiwanese look like Japanese.   It is said after WWII some pure Taiwanese living in Japan pretended that they had Japanese blood.  But why?  Does it matter whether one is half-Japanese or non-Japanese?

Japanese don't much mind the color of the skin of people.  But, Japanese do mind if someone is Japanese or not.  For this reason, there might be many Taiwanese, Chinese, Koreans, etc. who are living in Japan while pretending that they have some Japanese blood.  It would be much easier for a half-Japanese to live in Japan than 100% foreigners if they are Taiwanese Chinese, Koreans, etc.

So, Christ Jesus said to be kind to foreigners.  No matter what religion you believe, you have to be kind to foreigners, no matter what religion they believe.  





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Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

"again to Jerusalem" - World Trade Center in 1974 and Obama in 2008

Mt. Fuji viewed from Tokyo

World Trade Center in 1974 and Obama in 2008

In 1974, a man walked on a wire rope set between the two towers of the World Trade Center, New York.

It was made into a movie in 2008, winning various prizes.

The man named Philippe Petit, French, could successfully play performance over 40 minutes in the air 400 meters above the ground.  Nothing tragic happened.  He came back to the ground to be a hero.

However, 27 years later the World Trade Center was demolished by an act of terror.  About 3,000 people were killed there.  And this incident triggered the US War on Terror, with invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq both of which turned to be nonsense as we look back today to the sequence of the subsequent events.  Afghanistan and Iraq were not attacking the US.  But, this American movement caused great instability in the Islamic world, resulting in today's tragedies in Syria and Iraq as well as other Islamic nations.

God saved the life of one performer walking in the space between the roofs of the two World Trade Center towers in 1974, but He did not save lives of 3,000 people in the World Trade Center in 2001.

Had America committed grave sins in those 27 years that caused the change of attitudes of God on human lives around the World Trade Center?

Accordingly, the first African American President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, like a performer walking in the space between two tall towers.  But will he be the first and only performer in politics like the French performer in terms of the wire act at the top of the World Trade Center?



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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?

"O Father, Lord of heaven and earth" - In Theory, There is God

Tokyo

In Theory, There is God

None control the whole situation of the world by himself.  None grasp all the aspects and depths of the human minds and hearts.  Of course none know all the secrets of the universe.  Even none can predict correctly and clearly what will happen tomorrow.

In theory, there are two possibilities: none can be omnipotent in this universe or someone can be.

But everybody knows that he has ability to plan a scheme and execute it successfully as he wants at least in his own domain.  Men have ability to create a situation, though limited in a scope,  where they have full command and full detailed knowledge of it and they can correctly and clearly predict future in it.

If a man can obtain infinite ability in extension of presently limited ability of him, he would be, as is estimated, able to create another universe where  another mankind would be born.  And, this man can act as if he were omnipotent in this universe.  He would be God to this another mankind.

Conversely, there must be God who created our universe and created each man in resemblance to Him.

So, in advanced theory, we have to admit that there is God.

In other words, this universe is structured to allow existence of God.  If there is no God, this universe is not so structured, since there is no need to take such structure without a possibility of existence of God.

If a house is built in  a manner to allow a man to live there, there must be someone living there.



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Mat 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Mat 11:26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

"whosoever shall say unto this mountain" - Rich Men vs. Pious Men

Tokyo

Rich Men vs. Pious Men

If you don't believe in God, you will place yourself at the center of your world.

You love yourself as the most important one in this world.  So, you will try to rejoice him, that is yourself,  as much as possible.  So, you find that you need money.  And, you will think that you are allowed to make money as much as possible.

But how much are you important to yourself?  Isn't there anything or anybody more important than you?  If you cannot, you regard yourself as the supreme existence in this universe.

However, if you see things objectively, you are so powerless before your own fate.  You could not even give life to yourself.

If you believe in God, you must place God at the center of your world.  You must also admit that God is more important than you.  Then, you must think that you have to rejoice God more than yourself.  And, you must know that God is not pleased with any money you earn.

Those who don't believe in God always think how to make more money, which is so simple.  Those who believe in God always think how to please God, which is not so simple.

Accordingly, rich men become foolish eventually.  Faithful men become so wise eventually.

Te more you get rich, the more you get foolish.  The more you get pious, the more you get wise.





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Mar 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mar 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

"When a strong man armed" - Democracy vs. God

Tokyo

Democracy vs. God

Christ Jesus did not try to diffuse democracy.

The underlying condition of democracy is that people have right sense as well as sound commonsense.

But democracy practiced by people who do not believe in God and Christ Jesus is very different from democracy in a society where a majority of voters are believers of God.  In the former case, democracy might result in tragedy and misery, but in the latter case, the Kingdom of God might come closer.

You can play a game in democracy but you cannot in the domain of faith in God.  Democracy is a kind of power game, but in the domain of faith, power is always in God but not in people.

No matter how much democracy is advanced, it cannot reach the Kingdom of God.  But God might use democracy for some holy purpose.  At least we can measure, with democratic systems, how strongly people are affected by human, social, and political desires.  It might tell sometimes how strong they are against God.

Democracy for  people should be ultimately replaced by the rule of God, though Islamic societies show how difficult to accept and follow the rule of God over democracy to realize salvation of people.



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Luk 11:21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
Luk 11:22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Luk 11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

"If Satan also be divided against himself" - Satan and American Voters

Tokyo Bay

Satan and American Voters

Christ Jesus talked about Satan.  It shows that not only Christ Jesus but also people around Him believed existence of Satan.  But how many people believe existence of Satan today?

Majority of Americans believe in the devil - especially Republicans, blacks and women 

A survey found that 57 percent of respondents believe that the devil exists, including 72 percent of African Americans, 65 percent of Republicans and and 61 percent of women 

Most believers are Christian and live in the South

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426645/Majority-Americans-believe-devil--especially-Republicans-blacks-women.html

The victory of Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election is said that Republicans and women opted for Trump  over Hillary Clinton, and blacks did not support her as much as they had supported Obama in 2012.  It means that those who believe in Satan found more evil in Hillary and her supporters than in Trump and his supporters.

However, the billionaire Trump cannot enter Heaven if Hillary is allowed into Heaven.

What God has done often looks mysterious to human eyes.

In addition, those American voters who believe in Satan are not necessarily promised to be allowed into Heaven.


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Luk 11:18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
Luk 11:19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.

"Then when Jesus came" - $23,000 and $10,400 as Result of the Industrial Revolution

Tokyo, Japan

$23,000 and $10,400 as Result of the Industrial Revolution

The total amount of financial assets owned by individuals world wide was $168 trillion in 2015.　　The number of the global population was about 7.1 billion.   It meas the amount of financial assets per person worldwide was $23,000.

The total amount of GDP worldwide was $73.5 trillion in 2015.  It means the amount of GDP per person worldwide is $10,400.

So, if this was truly a fair and equal world, each person in the world would have $23,000 assets and produce or earn $10,400 per year.

In other words, if you have personal assets of more than $23,000  and earn $10,400 year, you are a sinner.

It should be noted that the economy of today is in the extension of the Industrial Revolution:

The commencement of the Industrial Revolution is closely linked to a small number of innovations, beginning in the second half of the 18th century.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

However, it was in the 19th century that the effect of those innovations came to clearly appear in Europe, North America, and Japan.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy

So, the issue is whether the world gets into another Industrial Revolution to further expand its GDP, the world starts to collapse due to evil of the Industrial Revolution, or the world may shift to the Kingdom of God leaving the paradigm of the Industrial Revolution in future.




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Joh 11:16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
Joh 11:17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
Joh 11:18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:

"And the four and twenty elders" - An Effect of an Additional Element

Mt. Fuji, Japan

An Effect of an Additional Element

When there is a simple relation ship between X and Y, we can add a simple element to it.  Then we think that the relation will not change drastically.  But, in fact, it can be when some operation is applied to the relationship.

For example, by reversing X to 1/X and Y to 1/Y in a mathematical expression of the relation, we can get a drastic change.

You may suppose that X and Y is a man and wife and an additional element is a child.  A couple with a child faces a very different situation from that of another couple without children.

Or, you may suppose that X and Y is a holy spirit and a man and an additional element is another person.   The tie between a holy spirit and a man changes to a very different state when another person is involved.

It means that you cannot make little of any additional change in a situation.  Even a tiny little element introduced into your spiritual world might cause a big change.

One mathematical example is as follows:

Y = X is one of the simplest functions as Y =2 if X = 2.

http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&aq=-1&p=Y+%3D+X&meta=vc%3D&fr=sfp_as#mode%3Ddetail%26index%3D28%26st%3D800

Y = X + 1 looks also simple as Y = 3 if X =2.

http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search;_ylt=A2RCKwR3dixYAD4AuxuU3uV7?p=Y+%3D+X+%2B+1&aq=-1&oq=&ei=UTF-8#mode%3Ddetail%26index%3D25%26st%3D500


If Y and X of Y = X are reversed, 1/Y = 1/X.
Then by multiplying both the sides by XY, we can obtain: X = Y which is basically the same as Y = X.

If Y and X of Y = X +1 are reversed, 1/Y = 1/X + 1.
Then by multiplying XY, we can obtain X = Y + XY.
As Y + XY is Y(1+X), X = Y(1+X).
It can be changed to Y = X/(X+1)
In this function, Y is always less than 1 since X < X+1.

Y = X + 1 means Y - X =1, like 3 - 2 = 1; 5 - 4 = 1; 11 - 10 = 1 and so on.
 1/Y = 1/X + 1 means 1/Y - 1/X = 1, like Y =  1/3 and X = 1/2; Y = 1/11 and X = 1/10.

Both the equations have simple meaning.  The first one means that the difference between Y and X is one.  The second one means that the difference between 1/Y and 1/X is also one.

But the second one is expressed as Y = X/(X+1) in the non-reversed form, which is a little complicated in graphical expression.   And the value of Y is always less than 1, no matter how big X becomes.   But in Y = X, Y can be as large as X over 1.





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Rev 11:16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 11:17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

"he shall reign for ever and ever" - Sins caused by Randomness

Mt. Fuji viewed from around Tokyo

Sins caused by Randomness

If there are two men: one with money and another without money.  Then what would happen?

One might kill another to protect his money, or another might kill other to steal money.  Or one with money give some to another or even share the money with another.

In most cases, they would surely get into a trouble with each other over the money.   Their relationship will get tense.  Their friendship will be broken.  One of them might get angry at and hate another.  One with the money would try every trick to protect his money, while another would take any measures to get some or all of the money from the other.

There are many cases.  You may easily imagine 10 or more possible incidents that can happen between them over the money.  And only a few cases show that they can get along well with each other despite the money or even due to the money.

Most probably, 98 or 97 out of 100 possible scenarios would end up with a trouble between them.   And in only a few case, they will increase their friendship over the money.

This is like physical phenomena involving entropy.  A state of an physical entity will proceed to the direction where randomness is increased.  To keep the state in order, special potential is needed.

Therefore, a sate of human society would change toward randomness or disruption, mess, confusion, or violence eventually.  To keep the state in peace and harmonization, special potential is needed.  And this potential is religious teaching or guidance given by God.

For example, without the Koran, societies and communities in Arabic regions, etc. would change toward randomness, disruption, mess, confusion, or violence eventually.

For another example, without the Bible,  societies and communities in Europe and Americas would change toward randomness, disruption, mess, confusion, or violence eventually.

The teaching of Christ Jesus has been working to keep the state of human society from falling into randomness and disruption.

Christ Jesus said that his sheep could hear and discern his voices.  If one hears holy voices inside him, he would try to keep order and avoid falling into sins caused by his mind state in randomness and disruption.


State change:
1: XXXXXOOOOO
2: XXXOXOXOOO
3: XXOXOOXXOO
4: XOOXXOXOXO
5: OXOOXOXXOX
6: OXXOXOOXOX
7: OXOXOOXXXO
8: XOOXOXOOXX
9: XOXOXOOXXO
10: XOXOXOXOXO


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Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

"this is Elias" - The First will be the Last

Tokyo

The First will be the Last

There is a philosophy in the Japanese Buddhism that one should abandon relying on himself to be spiritually saved but has to wholly rely on Buddhist deities, and therefore bad men would be more easily saved than good men.

It is because a human being has only limited capacity in doing good or evil.  Even his power of self salvation is limited.  If he relies on himself, he would turn back to infinite power of the Buddha and other Buddhist deities.

In this context, one who has been living a decent life is proud of himself as a good man.  So he would stick to himself and his goodness in the final moment of his life and rely on his capacity to be saved.   But as a result, he makes it difficult for him to be saved by the Buddha and other Buddhist deities.

In contrast, one who has committed various sins and crimes is aware of his small capacity to save himself.  He knows that he cannot be saved by himself.  So, such a bad man would rather turn to  the Buddha and other Buddhist deities for salvation.  As a result, he makes it easier for him to be saved by the Buddha and other Buddhist deities.

This teaching denies superficial judgment on good and evil of people.  Those who look good and live good are not necessarily easily saved.  Rather those who live a sinful life can be more easily saved as they would have no meas to save themselves except relying on the Buddha and other Buddhist deities.

The life in this world is a matter of finiteness.   However, salvation of souls is a matter of infinity.  There will be great reversion or changeover of order and value when we get across the border from finiteness to infinity.  But none can comprehend it clearly and totally while they live.


So, Christ Jesus said, "The first will be the last while the last will be first."


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Mat 11:14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Mat 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"give the Holy Spirit to them" - Supermoon Miracle

 Supermoon around Tokyo

Supermoon Miracle

It takes about 1 second for light to travel from the moon to the earth.

So, Go could foresee that the mankind would set an hour by dividing a day into 24 hours, a minute by dividing an hour into 60 minutes, and a second by dividing a minute into 60 seconds, when He created the earth long before the establishment of the Sumer Civilization and the Greek Civilization.

God set the distance between the earth and the moon so that light would travel between them in one second when the mankind emerged on the earth and developed science, so that the mankind would know that God created the earth, the moon, and the universe.

The moon we see now is a moon one second before.

Average distance to the moon: 385,000 km
Distance to the supermoon: 356,500 km
Speed of light: about 300,000 km

Second

Based on subdivisions of the moon cycle

• Circa 1000, the Persian scholar al-Biruni, writing in Arabic, used the term second, and defined the division of time between new moons of certain specific weeks as a number of days, hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths after noon Sunday.^[10]
• In 1267, the medieval scientist Roger Bacon, writing in Latin, defined the division of time between full moons as a number of hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths (horae, minuta, secunda, tertia, and quarta) after noon on specified calendar dates.^[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second#History_of_definition


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Luk 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

"Then said his disciples, Lord" - Bill vs. Trump

Tokyo

Bill vs. Trump

The key figure in this 2016 US Presidential Election was Bill Clinton, though it was his wife Hillary that was running for presidency.

Bill Clinton was blamed of his mischievous conduct involving a young woman in the White House when he was president.  It really harmed honor of President Bill Clinton.  He was a kind of laughed at globally, though he could avoid forced resignation.  But this incident did not result in divorce of the couple.  However, the wife Hillary started to make her own political career, becoming a senator and then running for the Democratic primary election for the 2008 Presidential Election, though, in vain.

Hillary Clinton became the Secretary of State under Obama's presidency and then ran for the 2016 Election.  These movements were all driven by her passion to save herself from her husband's scandal.   The underlying factor for her intention to be US President is her anger and shame caused by Bill Clinton at the end of the term of his presidency.

If Hillary Clinton had been elected this year, Bill Clinton would come back to the White House with her next year, which however cannot be accepted from an ethical viewpoint.
  
On the other hand, Donald Trump is really a deplorable person.  He virtually evaded tax, conducted a kind of fraud in his business, abused women, and insulted Hispanics, Muslims, women, etc. with mean and violent words.  Such a billionaire should be prevented from assuming the office of the US President.

So, the issue is which sin is graver, Bill Clinton's or Trump's.

As a matter of fact, American voters have judged that Bill Clinton would soil the White House more than Trump.

It should be noted that 53% of white women voted for Trump.  Those women must have been determined not to vote for Hillary from the beginning.  But opinion polls could not catch their minds, probably because surveyors assumed that it was Hillary vs. Trump but not as Bill vs. Trump.

Indeed, if Bill Clinton had not committed a kind of adultery in the White House, Hillary should have been supported by 60% of white women to defeat Trump this November 8.  Truly, a man and wife cannot be separated even in terms of political popularity.  The spirit of America forbade Bill Clinton to come back to the White House.

  



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Joh 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
Joh 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
Joh 11:14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Joh 11:15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.

"I send my messenger before thy face" - Cannot be a War on Mexico

Fukushima, Japan

Cannot be a War on Mexico

To tell the truth, a month before November 8, a holy spirit indicated me that Trump would win.

But later, I wondered how Trump could win, since The New York Times presented its prediction on the election against this indication.  For example, it estimated that the chance of Trump's victory in Florida and North Carolina at 30% or so.   It also declared that the chance for Hillary's victory is above 80%.  And, I listened to another holy spirit and got the word, "Something would escape his hands."  I judged that the chance for victory of Trump would be lost.  But it was the result that escaped The New York Times.

This series or trend of the American politics started with President Bill Clinton's trouble with a young woman.  It had an influence on the 2000 Presidential Election where Al Gore was forced to concede to W. Bush, though it looked like Al Gore virtually wan even in controversy Florida.

W. Bush was faced with the 9/11 Terror, though the responsibility for this large-scale terror on the mainland America should be shared by Bill Clinton and W. Bush.  However, the War on Iraq President W. Bush launched was found later to be based on false or concocted information.  W. Bush was also responsible for the Enron scandal, the subprime loan fiasco, and the Financial Crisis.  Later angry people started a movement called "Occupy Wall Street."

Disenchantment with W. Bush and other white elite politicians spread widely across the U.S.  Accordingly, Barack Obama was elected as the first African American US President in the middle of the economic crisis and high unemployment,  All Obama had to do is help recovery of the US economy.  It took almost the two terms of his presidency that the US economy has been almost fully recovered.  And now, most of American voters, which mean white voters, do not need an African American President any more.  They rather want somebody who can take back the White House to white voters from Obama and those who are close to him.

Hillary Clinton is too close to Obama and other minorities.  Sanders might be more appealing but he is clearly against the American mainstream economic system.  Jeb Bush is out of question, since he is a younger brother of W. Bush.  Cruz and Rubio lack experiences, skills, and passionate agendas.  Only Trump riding an influential power of commercialism has looked like sharing the same culture with whites in general and having passion and energy matching the anger held by ordinary or poor white voters who think they are neglected by elites in Washington DC and New York.

So, it is racial, cultural, and economic aspects of  relationship between Presidential candidates and ordinary or poor white voters that has decided the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election.

President Trump is expected to be helped by recovered US economy, owed mostly to Obama's administration, and without doing anything special, he will not be blamed in terms of the US economy.  If general economic situations should be more improved, disgruntled white voters will not blame Trump, since the unemployment rate will continue to decrease.    But the real issue for Trump is diplomacy on which Obama's performance has been poor due to lack of his experiences.

Past Republican Presidents had all faced grave security issues: Reagan with the Star Wars challenge and the falling Soviet Union, W.H. Bush with the Gulf War, and W. Bush with the War on Terror.

So, the issue for Trump's administration is what war or what grave security incident will emerge, though it cannot be a war on Mexico.



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Mat 11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

"cried, saying, Hosanna" - Victory of American Christians?

Around Tokyo

Victory of American Christians?

The US Presidential Election ended with the victory of Trump, though The New York Times predicted that Hillary would win in a probability of 80%.

However, a holy spirit told me not to trouble myself.  So, whatever this outcome is, it will not harm us.

Another indication by the spirit is that "he would be handed to gentiles."  This world might symbolize what president Trump would be.

One of remarkable results of election analysis is the following by The New York Times:
58% of Protestants and other Christians voted for Trump.
52% of Catholics voted for Trump.
71% of Jewish voted for Hillary.
62% of other religion followers voted for Hillary.
68% of the non religious voted for Hillary.

God might have heard more prayers from Christians who wanted to stop non-religious movements led by liberal and progressive Democrats and Hillary Clinton.

Consequently, it might be regarded as a kind of victory of American Christians rather than Donald Trump.


Nonetheless, Christians might not have voted for Trump if Hillary cannot be their choice:

Donald Trump

• Christian who fears God (No, Biblically unqualified)

• Has a reprobate mind, doesn’t care if grown men use the bathroom with little girls.

• Doesn’t fear God by including transgenders in the Miss USA beauty pageant, which is rebellion to God (Deuteronomy 22:5)

• Would persecute Christians including the founding fathers, approves sending Christians to jail since Trump states same-sex marriage is the law of the land

• Prays with Muslims and false gods.

• Couldn’t name favorite Bible verse when asked, hasn’t asked God for forgiveness

• Notes

• Trump is immoral, being called a “sexual predator” and a “dirty old man” for going after another man’s wife.

• Known for covetousness, common belief is Trump serves Mammon (money) not God

https://www.usa.church/christian-voting-guide/

By contrast, Hillary Clinton has pledged to nominate justices who will uphold Roe v. Wade. Additionally, she refuses to place any restrictions on abortion, regardless of reason for or the timing of the abortion.   

Abortion is not the only issue that should be of concern to conscientious Christians.  Over the last eight years, the Obama administration has launched an all-out attack on religious liberty in America by suing the Little Sisters of the Poor Catholic charity, forcing Christians schools to allow men in women’s locker rooms under Title IX requirements for transgender rights, and being a willing accomplice in bankrupting Christians who try to exercise their faith through their businesses.  

This war against religious liberty will only escalate under Hillary Clinton who is resolved to nominate Supreme Court justices, as well as dozens of federal judges with lifetime appointments, who embrace an expansionist view of the Constitution  and will force the secular progressive agenda down the throats of Americans.  Remember, the next president will serve only 4 or 8 years, but these justices and judges will impact our nation for decades.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/01/why-christians-must-vote-in-this-election-staying-home-is-not-option.html

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Mar 11:9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
Mar 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

"as Jesus had commanded" - Billionaire vs. President

Fukushima Station, Japan

Billionaire vs. President

I wondered if Trump would win the Presidential Election.  Then a holy spirit indicated that "it escaped his hands."

Probably the chance to become US President has gone before Trump.  However, none seem to be 100% sure about Hillary Clinton's victory.

For example, it is unthinkable that the Mafia and other gangsters are supporting Hillary, but it is no wander that Trump has support from them, since you cannot earn such huge amount of money as Trump has without having any relationships with some criminals.

In the democratic system, such billionaires as Trump are expected to be excluded from public office.  It is because at least 51% of people cannot be rich, super-rich, or billionaires.  Through long history, society has come to be aware that the modern society cannot function well if a majority of people are politically neglected.  And, those who represent a majority of people must share some economic, financial, social, cultural, and religious environment with those people.  If a billionaire becomes president of a nation where 80% of people are not even millionaires, there must be serious discrepancy and danger between the president and people.  It cannot be accepted by modern democratic nations.

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Mar 11:5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?
Mar 11:6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.
Mar 11:7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.

" ye shall find a colt tied" - Birth of Religious Leaders

Fukushima City, Japan

Birth of Religious Leaders

A Japanese author thought about why the Buddha had been born rich in a royal family of ancient India.

He thought that the poor envied the rich without exemption and this feeling of poor people was reflected in the biography of the Buddha.

It would take more attention of people if a founder of religion had been born in a royal family but he had left the materially blessed environment to seek for truth, enlightenment or salvation of people.

The Bible also told that Christ Jesus was a descendant of glorious King David.  It made Judaists easily accept Christ Jesus as a savior, a saint, or a holy prophet.

Even in Japanese Buddhism, some notable monks in the past have been regraded as having been born as illegitimate children of certain noble men close to the imperial family.  People seem to really like the contrast between images of notable monks living poor lives for religious reasons and their worldly noble backgrounds.

However, if a religious leader clams that he is a son of God, his human birth would not be counted, only if people believe him.

Anyway, Christ Jesus said that God can create descendants of Abraham even from stones.  People should change to accept the teaching of God that is superior to any teachings of any religious leaders or holy monks.


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Mar 11:2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.