"when Jesus came into the ruler's house" - The Priority of the God

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The Priority of the God

The mission of the mankind is to clearly and correctly understand the mission the God gave to mankind from the beginning of the history of the mankind.

And, in this context, it is very kind that Christ Jesus told men what to do.

Lu:10:27: And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

But what does it mean to love the God?  From the beginning, this teaching assumes that men have the ability to know the God and love somebody.

However, men mostly spontaneously love themselves and money but not the God.  So, for men to love the God, they must be taught to love the God by somebody with authority.  Therefore, the first step for men to live right life or correct life is to see authority in Christ Jesus.

In the human history, the God has never appeared before men in a manner where men can easily see the God.  But the God sent certain prophets to a certain tribe or sent angels or holy spirits to certain men of certain religious groups.  In other word, the God sent Abraham, Moses and other prophets to the Jewish people and Christ Jesus or His Son to some Jewish people, etc. who became the early followers of Christ Jesus in addition to Muhammad.

And, if the reason why the God created the mankind is to make them love the God but the mankind do not love the God sufficiently, it is naturally expected that the God will abandon and destroy the mankind someday.

However, it does not mean that Satan defeats the God.  When all the men die, there will be no room for Satan to survive by occupying minds of the men.  So, it is possible that the God abandons and destroys the mankind only to exterminate Satan with the mankind.  But if the mankind duly find their mission and love God, they may be allowed to further survive and Satan will be defeated.  So, in any way, Satan will be lost with men or without men.

And the God might dislike to see the mankind fully contaminated by Satan.  The God might like the mankind to perish with Satan.  And from the beginning, the target of the God might be Satan, and the mankind may be just involved in this process where the God destroys Satan.  In other word, salvation of the mankind may be the secondary matter for the God, and the priority of the God may lie in defeating Satan.

In any way, it seems to be reasonable that the God loves a man when he loves the God more than Satan.       


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M't:9:23: And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
M't:9:24: He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
M't:9:25: But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.

"all things are possible to him that believeth" - Interpretations of the God and the Bible

 Bound for Tokyo

Interpretations of the God and the Bible

Where is the God?

He is outside this universe, inside this universe and in the nature, and also in men's minds, since He is omnipresent.  But it seems that we are expected to think that the God is in Heaven.

Heaven is the place where Satan's influence cannot reach, and men's souls and spirits as well as angels are all protected from Satan.

Thinking from a different angle of views, the God is the source of everything men see, think, and imagine.  The God is the source of existence of everything and otherwise non-existence.

However, the God is also the source of every possibility and otherwise non-possibility.  And the God is the source of every rule and order.  But the God does not have to follow any rules and order He has set.  The God is the source of love.  But the God does not only create Heaven but also the hell.

The God creates everything positive in its nature, but  the God is also the source of everything negative in its nature.  But did the God create Satan?  Or who created Satan for what purposes?

However, even if the God created Satan who then created evil, who could blame the God?  And even if it is so, all we have to do when we are troubled by evil is to ask help from the God.

In other word, the God is the source of good and evil, but we are requested to ask help from the God when we are attacked by Satan.  The true meaning of the relationship among the God, Satan, and men is beyond men's intellectual ability, but it is apparent that we are requested by the God to hate Satan and love the God.

To make it clear, the God sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to the human world.  And the Bible was written as a record of the incident.  This is one of interpretations of the human history. 

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Mar 9:20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
Mar 9:21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
Mar 9:22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
Mar 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

"my son, which hath a dumb spirit" - This people honoureth me with their lips

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This people honoureth me with their lips

The first question is, of course, whether or not you believe existence of God.   It is said that about 70% of Americans believe in God.

However, according to an article of Christian Today (a Japanese net media sit) in 2018:
Those who believe in God among American Protestants: 76%
Those who believe in God among American Catholics: 64%
Those who believe in God among American Jewish people: 30%

Globally, more than 70% of the mankind believe in existence of God, according to a Filipino paper.  However, among 68 countries targeted in the survey, China has the largest ratio of people who don't believe in God: 67% of Chinese don't believe in God.  Next to China, Japan has the second largest ratio of people who don't believe in God: 29%.  Following Japan, the ratio of atheists is 28% in Slovenia, 25% in Czech,  23% in South Korea, and so on.

However, this kind of survey on belief in God must be useless in Islamic countries.  Even Osama bin Laden was once popular among Muslims as a kind of Islamic savior, although he was the mastermind of the 9/11 Terror.  God or Allah cannot approve such a killing.

Men have freedom to deny God.  Men have freedom to sell their souls to Satan.  And Satan is in money that is wanted by everybody.  So, if a man said he believed in God while seeking wealth, we cannot believe his word or he does not understand God and Satan.

Those numbers of the ratios of believers in God in various countries are, therefore, not so reliable.  Some don't understand what God means; others don't understand what believing means.  Even we have to doubt the Pope in this context as he puts on expensive clothes.  Also we have to doubt any leaders of Islamic terrorist groups.

M'r:7:6: He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

To prove that a man believes in God, probably he has to be poor with less money, which is Satan, than religious people who might be, could be, and actually are betrayers of God.


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M'r:9:17: And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
M'r:9:18: And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

"can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?" - Advanced Robots and Machines as Extraterrestrial Intelligences

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Advanced Robots and Machines as Extraterrestrial Intelligences

Are there extraterrestrial intelligences or spacemen?  However, they must not be a kind of living organisms but robots or machines.

The diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy is about 100,000 light years.  Probably, no living things in the universe can live 100,000 years with the ability of traveling at the light speed.  But advanced robots or machines can live a million years or their memories can be easily conveyed by other versions of robots or machines.

For the human beings on the earth in this solar system,  the nearest solar system is more than 4 light years away.  It is impossible for men to travel to the nearest solar system during their life time.  If they travel to other solar systems to find other earths where intellectual living things live, it would take time for 1,000 or more generations of them.  But one generation of advanced robots or machines might function and live in the time needed for interstellar travel.

Advance robots or machines invented by spacemen or living organisms in another planet of another solar systems, if any, would live and travel in the space for 1000 years or more through their generations or versions.   But probably, living orgasms in another planet cannot live such a length of life, as implied by us, the humankind.

So, if we should encounter extraterrestrial intelligences, they must be advanced robots or machines, which means that we will meet advanced robots that were created and built, say, more than a million years ago by living things in another planet in another solar system that might be already extinct.

If there had been such living things in the universe, they should have created advanced robots that would reach the earth over space travel taking, say, a million years.

But as we have not yet found, in the space around us, any signs and traces suggesting any trial for contact with us, it is likely that we are the only advanced intelligences, probably, in the Milky Way Galaxy at least in these one million years.

However, in other word, we, the mankind, will crate and build advanced robots or machines that will make interstellar travel without minding how much it will take to reach another earth in another solar system.  And these advance robots or machines will appear before another mankind in another planet as extraterrestrial intelligences.  But by such time, we, the mankind, might perish.

It will not be any living organisms that will conquer the universe but advanced robots or machines.  And we, the mankind, might be now marching the way to the status where finally we, living things, will be taken over by advanced robots and machines.  And even after the end of life time of the species of our mankind, advanced robots and machines will go on making interstellar travel.

The matter at issue is how these advanced robots and machines will find and revere the God.

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Joh:9:16: Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
Joh:9:17: They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

"but sinners to repentance" - Like Homo sapiens and Australopithecine, New Name and Christianity

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Like Homo sapiens and Australopithecine, New Name and Christianity

Australopithecine, the so-called ape-man, appeared 7 million years ago. 　This creature walked with two legs and is regarded as the direct ancestor of the modern men. Then around 2 million years ago, Homo erectus appeared and started to use fire.   Finally, 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens, namely the only extant human species, was established. It means that in these 200,000 years, we, the mankind, have not evolved or changed biologically.  And around 160,000 years ago, Mitochondrial Eve was born in Africa, whose mitochondria has been alive even in every man of today.

And, what's more, 100,000 years ago, some of the mankind left Africa.  And, 50,000 years ago, some of them reached Australia.

But 38,000 years ago, it is said that a kind of intellectual revolution occurred among the mankind.  They started to create mythology.

Then each tribe created its mythology, and mythology of the mankind is divided into two types according to a theory: one that does not include a story of creation of the universe and another that includes such a story.

According to the former type of mythology, the universe or the world existed from the beginning.  According to the latter type of mythology, gods or a god created the universe or the world for men.

For a man to think that the universe or the world was created by gods or a god, he must have had a civilized view on the world.  And the human civilization of today seems to have been established based on the latter type of mythology.

So, the history of the mankind can be said to go back to the era 38,000 years ago.  Before that era, it was the history of a specie of animals that later became the mankind.

Then, 4000 years ago a tribe appeared that believed that they had some strong tie with one and only god.

And 2000 years ago, some people came to believe that God sent His Son to the human world to save people.  And, a major part of today's civilization has been built by those who believe this mythology.   But there are also other types of people who think that they can deny the son of God, as long as they believe in the one and only god.

However, if the mankind should exit, say, 100,000 years later, it is still unknown which type of people with their unique belief will survive or perish.  As the only one type among various types of primates became the modern mankind, only one religion should survive.

And, it may be soon but not 100,000 years later that the God will send His Son to the human world again.

However, even in such a case, the surviving religion might not be called Christianity but some new name.  It is just like Homo sapiens, we the mankind, is not called Australopithecine any more.


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M't:9:11: And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
M't:9:12: But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
M't:9:13: But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

"A man that is called Jesus" - Animals Need O2 but Plants Need CO2

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Animals Need O2 but Plants Need CO2

It is said that the green area on the earth has increased in these 35 years by the size equal to the U.S.  And, it is thought to be due to an increase of CO2.

Plants flourishing 65 million years ago when a huge meteorite exterminated dinosaurs became the source of crude oil.  Plants flourishing about 250 million or more years ago when dinosaurs came to evolve became the source of coal.  And today the mankind is burning crude oil and coal to increase CO2.

So, from a wide point of view, CO2 is coming back to plants again as it came out of plants.

Animals need O2 but plants need CO2.  This balance is the basic of the environment on the earth.  To keep this balance, we have to increase the amount of CO2.  As in the case of recent 35 years, the present conditions are suitable for growth of plants.  We have to take advantage of it.

With gene engineering, we may increase the capacity of plants to capture CO2.  Then, more CO2 will be absorbed by plants.

We can wait for mutation in plants to acquire such ability to absorb more CO2.  However, genetically engineered plants might be a solution of our age.     


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Joh:9:10: Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
Joh:9:11: He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
Joh:9:12: Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

"I am the light of the world" - History is God

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History is God

What if Christ Jesus had not come to this world 2000 years ago?

Sooner or later the Jewish people should have revolted against Roman rulers in the first century.  And, they would have been defeated and compelled to leave Jerusalem and Palestine by Romans.  And they should have been dispersed in and around the Roman Empire.  And then what should have happened to Judaism and the Jewish people?   Probably they must have started to distinction.

On the other hand, the Roman Empire should have been defeated by other tribes invading the Empire from the east and the north.  So, Rome would have gotten desolate.  In a thousand years after the fall of the Empire, some other kingdoms should have emerged in Europe or specifically in the north of the Alps.

But without the core of civilization, the Vatican, any succeeding kingdoms should have been unable to set a new foundation of civilization of Europe.

In that case, Europe today would not become the center of the human civilization, and Jewish people today should be living in various parts of Europe as a minor tribe almost forgotten by people around them.  And most importantly, various religions should be practiced in Europe, and Judaism should be covered or hidden by them.

Without Christianity, the world today must be very different what we see today.  And most decisively, the human kind would not understand the concept of the one and only God who created and ruled this universe.

Conversely, as there is the one and only God who created and ruled this universe, and the mankind needs to understand this truth, Christ Jesus should have emerged 2000 years ago, and in reality He did.

So, the truth related to God surely comes true.

In fact, Satan has not been able to destroy the teachings of God and Christ Jesus in these 2000 years ago.  Incidentally, Judaism has also survived.  In this context, Christ Jesus came to this world to save the Jewish people and Judaism, too.

Probably, all we have to do is to try to find any pieces of the truth related to God in the human history.  And if it is destined that the mankind will go extinct in the distant future, the last man should think that it is the intention and will of God that the history of the mankind expresses.  Accordingly, he will surely praise God, saying or thinking that history is God. 


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Joh:9:4: I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Joh:9:5: As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Joh:9:6: When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Joh:9:7: And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

"Take nothing for your journey" - True Culprit behind Judas

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True Culprit behind Judas

There are always true perpetrators in any criminal incidents.  Even behind a man who has committed suicide, there is often somebody who has pushed him to a corner and a predicament.

In other words, if a man has family members and friends who would protect him from those evil men, he would be saved.

In the case of Christ Jesus, there must be also such a true culprit who slyly led Judas to betraying his Master, although the true culprit was not identified in the Gospels.  From the beginning, it is not even described in the Gospels why Judas betrayed Christ Jesus, although it was suggested that Judas acted on his own motive.  But there must have been somebody that had given such motive to Judas.

Of course, ultimately it is Satan that was behind the incident leading to the crucifixion of Christ Jesus.  But Satan must have used somebody that could influence Judas.

It seems to be a minor matter to Christ Jesus who was behind Judas, probably because He must have been well aware that Satan was finally responsible for Judas' act of the betrayal.

That is why we should not easily blame any criminal who had a direct hand in a crime.  True culprits must be protected by Satan.  But Christ Jesus said that everything hidden would be publicly exposed.

So, until we discover truth of the story of Christ Jesus and the crucifixion, probably there will be no Second Coming of Christ Jesus, because it is thought that we cannot be fully prepared for welcoming again Christ Jesus without knowing truth of His First Coming.

Therefore, to make His Second Coming true or accelerate it, we had better study the Gospels to fully understand the most known story over centuries or 2000 years of Christ Jesus as well as Judas.   


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Lu:9:2: And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
Lu:9:3: And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
Lu:9:4: And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
Lu:9:5: And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

"Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John" - Which is Crazy, Jesus or Satan?

Tokyo Bay

Which is Crazy, Jesus or Satan?

Everybody is afraid of being poor and being dead.  And every evil deed comes from this fear.

So, it is natural that Christ Jesus who fought with evil and ungodliness presented solution to this issue.

If a man has come to know the solution Christ Jesus presented, he will never be afraid of poverty and death.  That can also tell the secret of martyrdom.  In other word, if a man finds something more precious than money and the life in this world, he will surely abandon money and even his life in this world.

However, economy in this world relies on the ideology that men individually pursue money and worldly success, and they want money as means to protect their life and enhance quality of their life in this world.

Therefore, they will obey Satan who brainwashes them to love and make money and encourages to do any evil deed to earn money.  However, the Gospel reads as follows:
M't:6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Mammon can be gained by doing evil deed.   You cannot even earn and keep $1 if you do deny doing any evil deed.   If there is one man even without $1, your gaining and keeping $1 is a sin.  And your spending this $1 for yourself but not for saving the poor man without $1 is an act without love to him and thus can be regraded as an evil deed.

Anyway Christ Jesus promised that no matter what happens to a man due to his lack of money and no matter if he dies in such a state, as long as he believes in God and performs the teaching of God, he will be given eternal life and be admitted into Heave.

This is crazy to modern people, since nothing is sure after one's death.  But one thing sure is that a man lives in this world, so that it is natural for him to pursue happiness in this world.  And to get happiness, he needs money in this world.  So, it is clever and natural to try to get money as much as possible by whatever means he can use.  This is the commonsense.  However, Christ Jesus said to accumulate wealth in Heaven where it never gets rotten like in this world.

To true believers, this world is crazy.  For believers it is real that there is Heaven.  And for believers, it is an act of madness to deny God and Heaven but to pursue money and wealth for happiness in this world, while Christ Jesus said that such a man would surely fall into the hell.

So, which is crazy, Christ Jesus who denies money or Satan who encourages to pursue money?

Satan cannot tell that it is God and Christ Jesus is a liar.  But, Satan only shows money and tell people to follow him.  Satan does not write the Bible for his version, partly because it does not need the Bible to brainwash people.  But mostly because God will be angry.       


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M'r:9:2: And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
M'r:9:3: And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
M'r:9:4: And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

"And as Jesus passed by" - Gain the Whole World, and Lose His Own Soul

Tokyo at Dusk

Gain the Whole World, and Lose His Own Soul

One of the most interesting parts of the Gospel is as follows:
M't:16:22: Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
M't:16:23: But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
M't:16:24: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
M't:16:25: For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
M't:16:26: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
M't:16:27: For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
M't:16:28: Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Christ Jesus clearly used the word Satan, even when facing and rebuking Peter.  So, Christ Jesus clearly knew that His enemy was Satan.

Christ Jesus also declared that whosoever would lose his life for His sake should find it.  So, for men to get life after their death, they have to lose their life for Christ Jesus' sake.  Accordingly, believers in Christ Jesus do not have to be afraid of death.

But what does it mean that "the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works"?  It must mean the incident in the spiritual world.  After physical death, a man, in the form of soul, would live in the spiritual world where Christ Jesus should come with angels to save the soul and, probably, lead it to Heaven.

Yet what does it mean that "There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom"?

Pious men must see Christ Jesus coming in his kingdom when they come close to the end of their lives.  It also means that pious men live not only in this world but also in the kingdom of God.

However, the criteria for salvation is not low, because even Peter was called Satan at least on one occasion when he thought in a worldly manner following human laws and standards of living.


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Joh:9:1: And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
Joh:9:2: And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Joh:9:3: Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

"many devils were entered into him" - Chance of Salvation over Time and Space

Tokyo east of Mt. Fuji and with Tokyo Tower

Chance of Salvation over Time and Space

You can recall what you thought abut 2 minutes ago.  You can recall what you were doing 2 hours ago.  You can remember what was going on 2 days ago.  You can remember what you planned 2 weeks ago.  You can remember what your family was doing 2 months ago.  You must be able to evoke the situations surrounding you, your family, your friends and your colleagues 2 years ago.  You must be able to call up what important things happened in your community and society 2 years ago.  You must be able to call to mind what critical things occurred in your nation 20 years ago.  You must be able to look back to what decisive things occurred in the world 200 years ago.  And you have to recapture what God allowed to happen among the human beings 2000 years ago.

I mean that the historical fact that Christ Jesus emerged in the human world is linked to your presence in the community of your country at this moment of today in this month of this year in this century of this second millennium.

In other word, you are connected in seamless manners to Christ Jesus beyond any geological conditions and over time.

And what is the most important is that hundreds of millions or more of learned and pious people have believed or could not deny that Christ Jesus was the Son of God.

So absolutely, the power, the dignity, and the glory of the Son of God must cover you beyond any geological conditions and over time.

Accordingly, effect of the love and anger of God should cover you.  However, if you do not have ability to sense it, you had better think of what you are.

If you can see the bright light shining and coming to you from far away geologically and in terms of time, say, over 2000 years, you may have a chance of salvation by Christ Jesus.   

       
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Lu:8:28: When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
Lu:8:29: (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
Lu:8:30: And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

"John the Baptist: but some say, Elias" - Accumulate Wealth in Heaven

North of Tokyo, Winter

Accumulate Wealth in Heaven

It was 2000 years ago that Christ Jesus lived in Palestine. 

However, people living today did not even live 200 years ago.  And they will not surely live 200 years later.  Yet, nobody feels fear if they find that they did not live 200 years ago, although they may be afraid that they cannot live 200 years later.

Or for most people, they will not even live 100 years later, and when they think of it, they may be afraid that their death will surely come within 100 years.  But nobody would feel fear when they find that they did not exist and live 100 years ago.

Before the birth of anybody, the world existed and history was going on.  And, nobody feels fear that they did not exist, say, 100 years ago.  But when they think that they will not live and exist 100 years later, which means that they will die within 100 years, they may feel fear. 
 
The only solution to this fear is that God can give eternal life to believers.

From the beginning, why don't people feel fear when finding that they did not exist, say, 100 yeas ago?  But they are surely afraid that they will die within 100 years.

People do not feel fear knowing that there was the world even before they were born.  But they would feel fear thinking that they will die sooner or later while the world is going on.

Before people were born, they did not exist in this world.  After they die, they will not exist in this world.  It is as if people were going from nothing to nothing or from naught to naught, and going for no purposes.

However, Christ Jesus said to accumulate and keep wealth in Heaven but not in this world where wealth gets rotten.  It must mean that there is a chance to enjoy wealth in Heaven after death.  And the purpose of life in this world is to accumulate and keep wealth in Heaven.

To have faith in Christ Jesus is to believe this teaching.  However, wealth and treasure meant here should not be material, since Heaven is not material.  And life people will be given in Heaven must not be material, too. 


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M'r:8:27: And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
M'r:8:28: And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
M'r:8:29: And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
M'r:8:30: And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.

"And he took the blind man by the hand" - Miracle on a Man Pretending to be Disabled

Tokyo Bay

Miracle on a Man Pretending to be Disabled

There must have been poor men who pretended to be physically handicapped, such as being blind or with paralyzed or disabled legs, to raise sympathy and accept charity, even in Jerusalem 2000 years ago.

When Christ Jesus met with such a man, He did not scold the poor man but show His love to the man.  The pretending panhandler felt His love and stopped his pretension.  It is because while no others could see his pretension but he felt that Christ Jesus saw not only his histrionic behavior in the street but also his life of misery.

However, it is thought that Christ Jesus could really heal the sick, in addition to pretenders who tried to look sick or handicapped.  Christ Jesus must have been able to charge His physical energy to the bodies of sick people.  The energy must have got into their bodies to activate cells and immune systems to overcome sickness or recover lost physical functions.  And His sense of love to the sick and the disabled must have conveyed His healing energy.

So, even today, what medical doctors need is this sense of love to the sick and the disabled more than modern medicines and medical treatment.

For example, no modern medical care could allow men to live forever.  But Christ Jesus said that if a man believed in Him, the man could get eternal life.  Indeed, eternal life is the most valuable thing for anyone.  But to believe Him means to hear teachings of God or Christ Jesus and practice them.

Truly, Christ Jesus said to women that those who believed Him and act according His words are His mother and sisters.

Therefore, even a poor man who begs money from passersby by pretending a disabled man could be welcomed as a brother of Christ Jesus in Heaven if only he believed Him and practiced His teachings.  Then, it would be really called a miracle on a man pretending to be disabled.     


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M'r:8:22: And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
M'r:8:23: And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
M'r:8:24: And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

"no man laid hands on him" - Right View on History

The Arakawa River around Tokyo

Right View on History

No animals than the mankind have a sense of history.  Animals mostly concern about their individual existence, subsistence, and survival.  In this context, the mankind left the realm of animals when it came to think about history.  So, the human civilization began when a myth was created by each tribe.  But God seems to have been pleased with the myth by Jewish people more than the myths by ancient Egyptians, Greeks, etc.

Without a sense of history, even a man will do any stupid thing like, say, Trump.  However, with misunderstanding of history, men will do more stupid things like Chinese leaders in Beijing.  What is worse, without a spirit to candidly observe history and understand the meaning of history, a tribe will also behave madly like South Koreans stupidly and hollowly attacking Japan, since Japan occupied Korea between 1910 and 1945, while Japan provided huge aid to South Korea after WWII.   

In this context, it is very dangerous to have a king or an emperor in a nation who believes that he is a descendant of a god.  And one of such royal families is the Imperial Family of Japan.  That is why all the Japanese people fought, like brainwashed members in a cult religious group, the wars against the US and China in WWII.

However, the focus here is on the Vatican.  The Pope is virtually an emperor of the Christian kingdom on the earth.   But it does not seem that he is living in the history of the Vatican, Christianity, and Judaism.  The Vatican should explain what it has performed in the past.   And the Pope should tell every communication by each predecessor with God and Christ Jesus.

Nonetheless, God was, is, and will be forever.  Only God has the complete and perfect view on the history of the mankind.

Anyway, learning of and having right view on history are essential for human beings to be civilized and pious before God.   


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Joh:8:20: These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
Joh:8:21: Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.

"the testimony of two men is true" - The Second Coming of Christ Jesus in the Early 21st Century

From Tokyo Bay to the Pacific Ocean

The Second Coming of Christ Jesus in the Early 21st Century

It is unknown when Christ Jesus would come back to this world.

Christianity is a religion to believe this creed that Christ Jesus will come back to this world to judge and save people.  So, for the so-called Christians, the Gospel or the story of Christ Jesus is not completed.

In the past, there were some people who claimed that he was Christ Jesus coming back or the second Christ Jesus; however none has been officially judged to be such.

To be judged to be Christ Jesus coming back to the world, the man has to show authority he has been given by God.  He must be able to perform various miracles, healing the sick and driving out demons.  And people see the glory of God through him.

However, in these 2000 years, many people, including the past Popes, have died without seeing the second coming of Christ Jesus.  So, it might mean that these dead are not truly dead, but their souls are waiting for the second coming of Christ Jesus, too.  When Christ Jesus comes back, these dead people might be also judged and saved or cursed finally.  Until then, their souls must be held in special status between Heaven and the hell.

For Christ Jesus to come back to this world, the history of the mankind must reach a decisive point of time.  It may be the time when a kind of annihilation of the mankind is close like 65 million years ago when a huge meteor fell onto the earth to wipe out dinosaurs.  Or it may be the time when the mankind starts to apply genetic technology to themselves for them to violate the field of God.  But most probably it must be the time when all the mankind starts to loose respect and faith in God, which means the time when Satan starts to completely control the mankind.

This material civilization has made the mankind move away from the teaching of God.  For example, people have come to mostly think of economy or money, what can be bought by money, and riches realized by money.  And in reverse proportion, people have come to talk less and less about God.  So, some day there may be the last man that is talking and thinking about God.  And, at least in this situation, it is likely that God will allow Christ Jesus to come back to this world and restore faith in God among people.

When Satan thinks that he has defeated God and Christ Jesus as there is almost nobody that believes in God, the God or Christ Jesus should throw the world in reverse.  And this effect must also cover the space of human souls and the spiritual world.

Anyway, 2000 years have passed since the first coming of Christ Jesus while it had been 2000 years after Abraham that Christ Jesus first came to this world.  A great crisis must be today coming close to us in terms of our faith in God as the entire mankind.   In this context, it is no wonder that Christ Jesus come back to this world in the early 21st century. 

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Joh:8:17: It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
Joh:8:18: I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.

"Samaria had received the word of God" - Seek Good, and Not Evil

Tokyo Bay to the Pacific Ocean

Seek Good, and Not Evil

There are certain passages in the Old Testament that symbolize Judaism as follows:

Amo 5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Isa 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Judaism clearly emphasizes importance to choose good over evil.  And good is to take care of the minorities and the oppressed people, orphaned minors and widows.

This religion does not depict Heaven and the hell in details, but encourages to do good and avoid evil.  And this characteristics was further intensified by Christ Jesus.  Without Judaism and Christianity, people would naturally pursue their own profits even if they have to sacrifice goodness.

Consequently, we now know that God loves goodness but Satan likes evil.  And, the reason why God recommends human beings to seek goodness must be that He loves them.  Unless doing good, human being will come to be familiar with evil, and eventually they will be captured by Satan.   God must be sorry for human being to be controlled by Satan whose aim is to destroy human beings.  As long as human beings are trying to do good and avoid evil, they can be free from Satan and will not fall into the hell.

 Goodness or virtue and badness or evil are the main theme of Judaism and Christianity.   Human beings are requested to do good before they are admitted into Heaven.  No other complicated or sophisticated creeds might not be necessary for men to be saved.



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Act 8:14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
Act 8:15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
Act 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Act 8:17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

"shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" - Gun Control is Essential More than Religion

Tokyo Bay

Gun Control is Essential More than Religion

According to the Embassy of Japan in the United States of America:
The difference in the number of murder cases per 100,000 citizens between Japan and the US is 0.8 to 4.8 as of 2010.
The difference in the number of injury cases between Japan and the US is 20.7 to 252.3.
The difference in the number of robberies between Japan and the US is 3.1 to 119.1.

However, the US with population three times larger than Japan's is a Christian country while Japan is a kind of Buddhist country.  For example, a US President always concludes his official message with the word, "God Bless You!," but no Japanese Prime Ministers have ever used such a Christian term in public.  And, no one in real thinks about why America is more dangerous than Japan is.

More specifically, the murder rates in countries per 100,000 citizens as of 2017 are as follows:
USA: 5.32
Israel: 1.38
France: 1.27
UK: 1.20
S Korea: 0.59
China: 0.56
Norway: 0.53
Indonesia: 0.43
Qatar: 0.37
Hong Kong: 0.33
Japan: 0.24

So, Japan is safer than the leading Christian country US, the Jewish country Israel, the typical Western European countries, other East Asian countries, Islamic countries, and even well controlled city countries.

It should be noted that Japan had been the world No.2 GDP country in the late 20th century and before 2010 next to the US.

And it is true that possession of guns and other fire arms is almost completely forbidden in Japan.  No ordinary households in Japan have guns and other fire arms since the late 16th century when arquebus hackbuts or matchlocks were introduced in Japan by Lusitanians or Portuguese.

However, it is deplorable to see that a mad Japanese uses gasoline as a weapon to revenge himself for any cause no one can understand.

In a non-Christian country, Japan, if guns could be purchased freely by citizens, tens or hundreds of people must be killed every day.  So, gun control is essential for peace of lives of people, no matter what religion the society respects.  

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Mat 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Mat 8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.

"when Jesus was entered into Capernaum" - Power of God against Diseases

 Tokyo Bay

Power of God against Diseases

It is apparent that Christ Jesus could heal any sick persons.  But what medical methods did He use?

He did not use any medicines but his own salvia and His hands to touch a sick man.  Then, the blind could get his sight, a lamed man could come to move normally, and a leaper and a sick woman were healed.  What's more, a crazy wild man haunted by a devil could be freed from the devil.

Physically and spiritually sick persons were healed by receiving super-natural healing power of Christ Jesus.

It is said that cancer cells die at the temperature of 42.5℃ or more and other disease germs die at about 100℃. Today, sterilization is also made by irradiating ultraviolet rays with the wavelength between 300 and 200 nm.  So, healing of a sick man may be possible only by using heat, ultraviolet rays, acids and alkalies, etc. without modern medical drugs.

Christ Jesus must have had the special ability even to physically extinguish causes of diseases by using those factors, because any incidents in this world must follow the law of nature.  But how Christ Jesus could exert His ability only with His body to achieve healing effect is a mystery.

Human bodies are made of chemical compounds, molecules and atoms.  And these substance can emit heat, electromagnetic rays, etc. and produce acids and alkalies.  So, if we could help our body cells work against diseases, we may cure ourselves.  But to acquire this ability, we have to have super structure in our bodies so that molecules and cells in our bodies can be properly controlled through our will and work of the minds.

In this context, Christ Jesus must have been born, even as a man, with special physical structure only God can give.  It should reflect the power of God against diseases.

To find the structure of the body that can work against diseases must be the ultimate aim of medical science.   



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Mat 8:4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Mat 8:5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
Mat 8:6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.