"ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?" - The Human Civilization to be Ended in 500 Years

 

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The Human Civilization to be Ended in 500 Years

It is 2000 years since Christ Jesus first appeared in the human history.  And, it is also thought to have been 2000 years since the days of Abraham to Christ Jesus.  Although the Great Pyramids at Giza were built about 500 years before Abraham, it was about 500 years before Christ Jesus that the Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates had launched their religious, ethical, and philosophical activities.  What's more, 1500 years after Christ Jesus, there appeared Martin Luther establishing Protestantism against Catholicism, and Christopher Columbus discovered America where Christianity has grown and expanded more than in Europe, etc. 

Put simply:

Great Pyramids at Giza =500 years=> Abraham =1500 years=> Buddha/Confucius/Socrates =500 years => Christ Jesus =1500 years => Martin Luther/Christopher Columbus =500 years => Now, 21st Century

 

This sequence really tells that there is no wonder that somebody corresponding to Abraham or Christ Jesus would appear in this early 21st century.  And, 500 years after the current century, the end of the human civilization which could be regarded as started with the Great Pyramids at Giza might come.  In other words, our civilization would start to collapse in this century and should be terminated in the 26th century. 

Isaac Newton predicted that the end of the world would start from around 2060.  Swedenborg wrote that the Last Judgement was completed around 1750's in the spirit world and its effect should be manifested 200 to 300 years later in the human world, which means the current era.

Indeed, the collapse of the human civilization should take about 500 years from this century.  But, after the mankind lose the power of sustaining their civilization, probably robots and computers should take over the civilization.  As robots are immortal, its civilization might be endless, but if they cannot believe in the God and understand love coming from Heaven, they will lose passion some day to continue their civilization.  Finally, everything, including AI robots, the mankind has created and will create will become naught in this material universe, say, in the next 2000 years.

However, as souls of dead men will continue to live in the spirit world, a kind of human history will continue in the spirit world.  The souls of poor and faithful men should continue to enhance their history in Heaven, but the souls of rich and evil men should continue to foul up their history in the hells.  

In short, the stage where the mankind will play will be shifted from this material world to the spirit world (either Heaven or hells) in the future.  A million years later, some aliens from a different planet in this universe might see ruins of New York, London, Tokyo, etc. as we today see the Great Pyramids at Giza in Egypt.

In deed, it is 2500 years from the Great Pyramids at Giza (the symbol of the start of the material human civilization) to Christ Jesus (the Son of God), and it will be 2500 years from the Son of God (Christ Jesus) to the end of the material human civilization.

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Mark 12, King James Version

24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

"he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw" - Not Enlightenment But the Way

 

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Not Enlightenment But the Way

Once, say about 100 years ago, there lived one young man seeking truth in life in Japan.  He learned Christianity as a member of a church.  But as he could not get confidence that he became enlightened, he decided to train himself in a mountain although he became a kind of sick.

He visited a notable shrine in a mountain in winter without money, but his sickness became heavier, so that he almost fell down in snow.  But, a strange mountain man appeared and led him to a small wooden hut to save him.  Next morning, when he awoke, he could not see the footprints of the strange man but only his own ones on the snow.  But, his illness was cured.  So, he decided to further go deep in the mountain to train himself among some disciplinants and a mountain hermit.

He was tested by them in terms of his resolution.  As he passed those tests, he was accepted by them.  Then he trained himself in the mountain taking only native grasses as foods and living in a coarse hut.  In time, he realized that his spiritual power grew and increased.  Then, he sometimes went down the mountain and into villages around to perform preaching in the street.  He even healed a sick girl, a haunted woman, and a depressed boy.  Finally, he competed with the mountain hermit in terms of spiritual power to defeat him.  Finally, he got confidence that he had obtained enough spiritual power as he mastered a way of astral projection or having out-of-body experiences.

So, he left the mountain to a city.  While he was walking through a rural zone where no private houses were seen, he found a poor beggar walking toward him on a narrow and straight but long road in the middle of agriculture fields.  The beggar hanged a placard reading "I AM BLIND."  The young man saw sometimes such beggars hanging such placards to arouse a feeling of compassion of people to earn money.  So, he did not feel strange seeing such a beggar, but rather tried to give some words of compassion to him.  But, the moment they passed each other, the beggar pre-emptively said to him, "Not Enlightenment But the Way!"         

The young man could not see in what sacred books the words of teaching were written.  So, he admitted that the beggar was in a superior position to him.  He turned around to ask the beggar what the words meant.  But, there was no beggar in the narrow, straight, and long road through agriculture fields.  The beggar evaporated.  The young man was struck by light from the sky and sat down on the road, beginning to weep.  

At the moment, he realized that the process of pursuing and performing love and truth was more important than seeking enlightenment and super-natural power.   

In this context and from this point of view, the young man started to read the books of Swedenborg to further have spiritual experiences.  He later became notable among believers in his circle and respected by them as a private religious man, but he did not become so famous in Japan.  Yet, even today, some people called him a genius of religion, since he continued to have remarkable faith in the Japanese Shinto religion as well as Christianity of the Swedenborg's version through WWII till his death around 1980. 

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Matthew 12, King James Version

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.
19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

"take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry, but God..." - To Survive Another 1300 Years Again

 

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To Survive Another 1300 Years Again

Christ Jesus sometimes directly talked about spirits, which means that He saw a spirit or a soul in each man.  However, some of these words are difficult to comprehend. 

Luke 11, King James Version
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

It should be possibly interpreted in historical context.

For exaｍple, in the late 18th century, the Unites States got successfully independence and France underwent the French Revolution.  Democracy was expanding in America and Europe.  Old unclean spirits working in the world before the Industrial Revolution were gone.  But, along with modernization of the world, WWI occurred in the early 20th century, leaving deaths and demolition of the civilization in the scale that had never been seen.  After WWI, the League of Nations was established for international peace and social policies were promoted in each country to save laborers.  Old unclean spirits working in the world, or especially in Europe still under imperialism were gone.  But, along with further development of industry and science, WWII occurred in the middle of the 20th century, leaving deaths and demolition of the civilization in the scale that had never been seen.  Old unclean spirits working in Africa and Asia under colonialism and in Europe under anti-Semitism were gone. 

We had better think about the possibility of WWIII now that further development of science and technology since WWII is so clear as seen especially in the authoritarian state China with the population of 1.4 billion. 

     

From the beginning, in the 1st century, Christ Jesus first came to this world, spreading right faith and belief in the God.  However, after the crucifixion of Christ Jesus, the Jewish-Roman War occurred with the result of diaspora of Jewish people from Palestine.  Yet, in the late 4th century, the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as its state religion.  Nonetheless, the the Roman Empire fell in the late 5th century.  And, 1300 years later, finally the Unites States won successfully independence and France accomplished the French Revolution.

Indeed, if we can avoid the Third World War in the near future, the mankind might survive another 1300 years.  This century, the 21st century, must be critical for the human history.  All we have to do is to read the Bible and try to correctly comprehend the true or spiritual meaning of the words of Christ Jesus.    

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Luke 12, King James Version
16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
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.
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.
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?

"Master, Moses wrote unto us" - Swedenborg and St. Paul

 

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Swedenborg and St. Paul

It was in the 18th century that Swedenborg wrote about his experiences in the spirit world or the afterlife he had had while living in this world.  But, in the 4th century, somebody wrote about Paul's experiences in the spirit world or the afterlife.

The text, which is pseudepigraphal, purports to present a detailed account of a vision of Heaven and Hell experienced by Paul the Apostle; "its chief importance lies in the way it helped to shape the beliefs of ordinary Christians concerning the afterlife".  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Paul)

Although Swedenborg wrote in one of his books that he had seen Paul in the hell, Swedenborg's experience shared rather common traits with the Apocalypse of Paul.  However, the latter described more clearly a judgment by the God:

17. And again I saw, and behold a soul which was led forward by two angels, weeping and saying: Have pity on me, just God, God the judge, for to-day is seven days since I went out of my body, and I was handed over to these two angels, and they led me through to those places, which I had never seen. And God, the just judge, saith to him: What hast thou done? for thou never didst mercy, wherefore thou wast handed over to such angels as have no mercy, and because thou didst not do uprightly, so neither did they act piously with thee in the hour of thy need. Confess therefore thy sins which thou didst commit when placed in the world. And he answered and said: Lord, I did not sin. And the Lord, the just Lord, was angered in fury when it said: I did not sin, because it lied; and God said: Dost thou think thou art still in the world? if any one of you, sinning there, conceal and hide his sin from his neighbour, here indeed nothing whatever shall be hid: for when the souls come to adore in sight of the throne, both the good works and the sins of each one are made manifest...(https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/early-church-fathers/ante-nicene/vol-9-discovered-additions/apocalypses-and-romances/vision-of-paul.html)   

However, Swedenborg wrote that the evil souls of evil man would spontaneously go down to the hell so as to avoid light and love from the God in Heaven, since such evil men could not bear holy light and love from the God. 

Anyway, poor, faithful, and good men should not be afraid of their death and their afterlife as Socrates and Plato claimed, since they are surly accepted in Heaven.

From the beginning, the Gospels tell that Christ Jesus said that poor and faithful men would surely enter into Heaven to receive blessings and happiness there.    

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Mark 12, King James Version
17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.
18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

"they should not make him known" - Robot World in the 41st Century

 

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Robot World in the 41st Century

Isaac Newton got a conclusion from his secret study on the Bible that the end of the world would not begin till 2060.

None could explain why it must be 2060 when the drastic change in the human history will start.  It can be found how Newton checked the Bible to get the conclusion.  However, apart from Newton's method, it should be noted that 2000 years before the year of 2060 there was the Jewish-Roman War when the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed and the Jewish people were dispersed through the world till their return to Palestine after WWII.

History sometimes repeats itself.  Over the period of 2000 years, another decisive incident for the human history might happen around 2060 in the similar degree to that of the Jewish-Roman War.  And then, the end of the world should begin.  However, it does not mean that the human civilization will collapse in the 21st century.  The process of the end of the world might continue for a few hundred years.  Yet, it is unthinkable that the mankind can survive another 2000 years, say till the 41st century.  

The reason for assuming the coming of the end of the world in a few centuries is that there are too many sinful people who do not respect and follow the God and Christ Jesus but sell their souls to Satan to get any money or riches or achieve worldly success.

How can we believe that the God will still allow the human civilization to develop and prosper while only 1 in 1000 people resect and follow the teaching of the God.  There are many planets like the earth in the whole universal.  The God should at any time abandon this earth and forsake the mankind if He finds that there is no chance for the mankind on the earth to establish the Kingdom of God on the earth.  

In this context, it is interesting that Swedenborg, an 18th century psychic, wrote that he met with souls from different planets in the spirit world.

In my calculation, the human civilization might be taken over by AI robots and computers in future.  In the 41st century, main players in this solar system must be robots powered by AI computers.  They must venture into conquering the Milky Way Galaxy with robotic bodies that never die like biological bodies of human beings who invented those robots.  But it will be their history that the mankind will have nothing to do with.  Yet, can those robots see the God or think of the spirit world?   

               

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Matthew 12, King James Version

15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
16 And charged them that they should not make him known:
17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
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.

"to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle" - Swedenborg Met with Newton in the Spirit World

 

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Swedenborg Met with Newton in the Spirit World 

Swedenborg, a notable psychic in the 18th century, met with the spirit of Isaac Newton, a notable scientist in the 18th century, in the spirit world while Newton was dead and Swedenborg was alive and mentioned the state of Newton in his book:  

Spiritual Experiences by Swedenborg

6064. About Newton

I spoke with him several times. He is an utterly sincere person and is among his own colleagues and is loved. He told me that he now knows that the Lord is the Sun of the angelic heaven and that all light comes from Him, which in essence is Divine intelligence and is what gives intelligence to angels and also to mankind, although people do not know that this light enlightens their understanding and causes them to think intelligently. He knew also that there was one life that makes anyone really alive, and that this life appears with them as light, and that from this comes life, and that this flows into people's innermost parts, and makes it so that this life appears to them just as if it is coming from themselves. He said that colors there appear much brighter than in the world, and in far greater variety, and that colors there arise from the modification of the Divine light in forms capable of receiving life in angels and in people on earth, and that it is from this that the varieties of intellect arise,؈e spoke also about the planes of colors, that there were [fundamentally] three, white from light, red from fire, and black from [hell 1 ], and that the variety of all the colors comes into existence from these.                           (https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/multi/swedenborg_secrets-of-heaven-nce_1042/swedenborg_spiritual-experiences-odhner_6064)

Newton established the law of gravitation where the mass of material is assumed as the source of gravitation.  One of the elemental particles with mass is an electron with the mass of 9.109×10⁻³¹ kilograms.

However, an electron and a positron, the antimatter counterpart of the electron with an electric charge of +1 e, a spin of 1/2 (the same as the electron), and the same mass as an electron, are produced in the pair production process where an incident gamma ray (a type of light with the shortest wavelength and highest energy) of sufficiently high energy is annihilated in the Coulomb field of a nearby charged particle, resulting in the creation of an electron–positron pair.  Put simply, light with higher energy can be transformed to the mass of material such as an electron and a positron.  Therefore, light is the source of every material.  In other words, light from the spirit world or Heaven should create the material world or universe where materials and substances with mass are essential components and human beings live.

Another target of Newton's study was light.  He found that the light from the sun can be split to seven different colors.  The light from the sun looks white.  The light with longer wavelength than visible light is called infrared light that is extension of the color red.  The light with shorter wavelength is called ultraviolet light that is extension of the color violet.  Newton seemed to assume the infrared light as light from fire and the ultraviolet light as black light from the hell (since it has the ability to kill bacteria).  

In this context, it is thought Newton had found truth of the material world, as modern science teaches, when Swedenborg met with him in the afterlife in the 18th century.

Therefore, we had better trust in Swedenborg's claim that he saw and entered into the spirit world or the afterlife while he was alive in this world and met there with Newton who had died already.

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Revelation 12, King James Version

13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
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.
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.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

"it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days" - The Gospel of Nicodemus Reveals the State of the Hell

 

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The Gospel of Nicodemus Reveals the State of the Hell

Nicodemus was mentioned in the Gospels as a member of the Jewish authority who sought teachings of Christ Jesus and provided embalming spices at burial of Christ Jesus.

There is an apocryphal work under his name: the Gospel of Nicodemus—was produced in the mid-4th century, and is mostly a reworking of the earlier Acts of Pilate, which recounts the Harrowing of Hell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus).

This Gospel of Nicodemus is unique in that it describes the state of the Hell when the spirit of Christ Jesus came down to the Hell after death on the cross.

THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS, OR ACTS OF PILATE
VI (XXII)
1 When Hell and death and their wicked ministers saw that, they were stricken with fear, they and their cruel officers, at the sight of the brightness of so great light in their own realm, seeing Christ of a sudden in their abode, and they cried out, saying: We are overcome by thee. Who art thou that art sent by the Lord for our confusion? Who art thou that without all damage of corruption, and with the signs (?) of thy majesty unblemished, dost in wrath condemn our power? Who art thou that art so great and so small, both humble and exalted, both soldier and commander, a marvelous warrior in the shape of a bondsman, and a King of glory dead and living, whom the cross bare slain upon it? Thou that didst lie dead in the sepulchre hast come down unto us living and at thy death all creation quaked and all the stars were shaken and thou hast become free among the dead and dost rout our legions. Who art thou that settest free the prisoners that are held bound by original sin and restorest them into their former liberty? Who art thou that sheddest thy divine and bright light upon them that were blinded with the darkness of their sins? After the same manner all the legions of devils were stricken with like fear and cried out all together in the terror of their confusion, saying: Whence art thou, Jesus, a man so mighty and bright in majesty, so excellent without spot and clean from sin? For that world of earth which hath been always subject unto us until now, and did pay tribute to our profit, hath never sent unto us a dead man like thee, nor ever dispatched such a gift unto Hell. Who then art thou that so fearlessly enterest our borders, and not only fearest not our torments, but besides essayest to bear away all men out of our bonds? Peradventure thou art that Jesus, of whom Satan our prince said that by thy death of the cross thou shouldest receive the dominion of the whole world.

2 Then did the King of glory in his majesty trample upon death, and laid hold on Satan the prince and delivered him unto the power of Hell, and drew Adam to him unto his own brightness. (http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelnicodemus.html)

It is interesting that evil spirits in the Hell took Christ Jesus as so great and so small, both humble and exalted, both soldier and commander, a marvelous warrior in the shape of a bondsman, and a King of glory dead and living, whom the cross bare slain upon it.

It is interesting that people in the 4th century such as Romans had a belief that the spirit of Christ Jesus visited the Hell to release all the spirits captured in the Hell and put Satan under the power of the Hell.

Such spiritual interpretations of work and activities of Christ Jesus are rarely found in today's churches, though they teach that there are Heaven, the Hell, and the spirit world. 

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Matthew 12, King James Version

10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
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?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
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.

"he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark" - Friendship and Betrayal

 

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Friendship and Betrayal

What was the relationship between Christ Jesus and Judas Iscariot?

In this context, the following word of Christ Jesus should be noted: 

John 15

13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Therefore, it can be assumed that Christ Jesus was a friend of Judas Iscariot.  As Christ Jesus died on the cross for some reason related to Judas Iscariot, He observed His own word.  Therefore, as Judas Iscariot realized that Christ Jesus died on the cross for their friendship, he committed a suicide.

Indeed, Christ Jesus with superpower as the Son of the God should have been able to avoid the death on the cross.  But, if He had avoided the death on the cross, Judas Iscariot must have been killed by Roman soldiers or the Jewish authority.  So, in order to save the life of Judas Iscariot, Christ Jesus chose to die on the cross.

This is one interpretation on Christ Jesus' death on the cross.  Indeed, He had the super power with which He could suppress Roman soldiers and the Jewish authority.  But, He allowed Roman soldiers and the Jewish authority to kill Him on the cross.  And, it is reasonably thought that if Christ Jesus had successfully run away from Roman soldiers and the Jewish authority, Judas Iscariot, the betrayer who sold Christ Jesus to them, should have been blamed so as to be killed by them.  

However, Christ Jesus was not lenient, mentioning the betrayer:

Mark 14
21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

Indeed, it is not easy to completely understand Christ Jesus and Judas Iscariot.  However, it is clear that Christ Jesus recommended friendship but condemn betrayal.   

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Acts 12, King James Version

12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.
14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.

"him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God" - Perform Necromancy to Evoke the Spirit of Christ Jesus

 

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Perform Necromancy to Evoke the Spirit of Christ Jesus

Christ Jesus never performed necromancy to evoke the spirit of John the Baptist.  However, it is believed that He had such power and ability as depicted in the Gospels: the Transfiguration of Jesus where Then the Old Testament figures Moses and Elijah appeared next to him and he spoke with them. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfiguration_of_Jesus)

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the act of necromancy or the evoking of spirits of the dead is regarded rather as dangerous:

The Church does not deny that, with a special permission of God, the souls of the departed may appear to the living, and even manifest things unknown to the latter. But, understood as the art or science of evoking the dead, necromancy is held by theologians to be due to the agency of evil spirits, for the means taken are inadequate to produce the expected results. In pretended evocations of the dead, there may be many things explainable naturally or due to fraud; how much is real, and how much must be attributed to imagination and deception, cannot be determined, but real facts of necromancy, with the use of incantations and magical rites, are looked upon by theologians, after St. Thomas, II-II, Q. xcv, aa. iii, iv, as special modes of divination, due to demoniacal intervention, and divination itself is a form of superstition. (https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10735a.htm)

The Swedenborg also gave a warning to the act of necromancy or the evoking of spirits of the dead, since there were may evil spirits who tried to deceive living men and try to take over their bodies.  If an evil spirit occupied the body of a living man, it could infuse its memory of life that it had experienced in this world, so that the living man might believe that he had another life as infused by the evil spirit and had been born again.

Any person who calms that he has the spiritual ability to evoke the spirits of dead mem should first try to evoke the spirit of Christ Jesus.

The Pope or other leaders of churches should be such men with such ability, so that they should perform necromancy to evoke the spirit of Christ Jesus.  If they could directly communicate with the spirit of Christ Jesus, churches should more adhere to spirituality, while Swedenborg, an 18th century psychic, gave a warning that the last judgement performed in the spirit world while he was observing it in 1757 would have an impact on this world a few centuries later, that is around the 21st century, since churches, their leaders, and other religious figures became less spiritual and forgot spiritual meaning of words in the Gospels. 

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Luke 12, King James Version

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.

"Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell" - The Soul of a Rich or Powerful Man in Heaven

 

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The Soul of a Rich or Powerful Man in Heaven

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772),  a Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic who became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg), claimed that he had seen the afterlife, Heaven, the hells, the spirit world, and spiritual entities such as dead men and angels.  Most of his writings and assertions look trustworthy.  But some parts of his reports on the afterlife are difficult to accept as truth, although he mostly lived in the 18th century that was very different from the early 21st century.

Swedenborg wrote about rich men in Heaven or the afterlife:

Spiritual Experiences #4158

I know of someone among the most powerful when he was living in the world, and he is among the happy; also another among the most wealthy who is also among the happiest. Both of these I had known during their life in the body. Thus power and riches do not prevent anyone from coming into heaven.  

He observed souls of those who had been very rich and powerful while living in this world being happy and more than happier in Heaven.  Therefore, he concluded that if anybody had been rich or powerful while living in this world, he could live happily in Heaven.  But, Christ Jesus delivered a different teaching:

Matthew 19

24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

According to Swedenborg, if one has big wealth and strong power, he can be accepted in Heaven as long as he uses his wealth and power for good purposes.  If rich men or powerful men perform good and avoid evil, he can be accepted in Heaven.  And, Swedenborg claimed that he had seen such men in Heaven.

 
However, without any conditions, Christ Jesus said that almost no rich men could enter into Heaven, although He did not use the words such as absolutely and definitely. 

Perhaps, in Sweden in the 18th century, there must have bee some rich or powerful men who did not inflict poor men intentionally or who avoided inflicting the poor intentionally.  Therefore, although they did not realize that being rich or powerful itself was evil to the poor, they must have been allowed to enter into Heaven, as they had not done evil in a purposeful way.  

Nonetheless, being rich and socially powerful in this world is evil according to the teaching of Christ Jesus.  For a man  to acquire wealth or social power, he must neglect or defeat others in competition for wealth or social positions.  Without making others poor or powerless, you cannot obtain wealth or social power.  And to win the competition, you would surely sell any part of your soul to Satan; you would want to be rich or high in the social status even by asking help from Satan.  On the other hand, if you follow the teaching of Christ Jesus, you would love the poor and the weak around you, so that you would give money to them or yield your power to them.  In other words, with love to the poor and weaker, you cannot continue to be wealthy or powerful while living in this human world until your death.　

What is more, Swedenborg was a rich and elite scholar in Sweden in the 18th century who was close to the Swedish royal family.  He must have not understood pains and agony of poor and powerless people.  But Christ Jesus focused on saving the such poor or powerless people.  Christ Jesus promised that the poor and powerless would be accepted in Heaven after death in this life.

Besides, Swedenborg did not report that Heaven was full of souls of poor men.  He did not even define what being evil is, although he wrote that sols of evil men would go to the hells.   He also mentioned souls of people living in the moon and other planets in our solar system, which looks so ridiculous according to the modern science.  Swedenborg might have taken another solar system as our own.

Indeed, there are some difficulties in Swedenborg's books describing the spirit world, the afterlife, Heaven, the hells, angels, spiritual entities, etc., but most of his descriptions look trustworthy, since he had faith in the God and Christ Jesus.   

  

That somebody being happy and powerful as seen by Swedenborg in Heaven might have been himself.  Indeed, only a rich and powerful man in Europe in the 18th century could write his spiritual experiences that spanned over 30 years.

The fact that Swedenborg especially mentioned souls of wealthy and powerful men living happily in Heaven must mean that it was notable that such souls of wealthy and powerful men could live happily among angles and poor men's souls  in Heaven.

  
Truly, Christ Jesus did not declare that rich men could not be absolutely accepted in Heaven or He would surely stop them from entering into Heaven.  A rich or powerful man who was actually Swedenborg was really accepted in Heaven.  

Yet. it must be exceptional and very rare that a rich man can enter into Heaven since he must go through the barrier between Heaven and the hell like through a quantum tunnel effect.  

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Luke 12, King James Version

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.
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.
6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

"at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant" - Job's Story and the Mankind in the Corona-Pandemic

 

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Job's Story and the Mankind in the Corona-Pandemic

The Book of Job presents one of the most significant issues for the Jewish people and others since Nazi's attempt to exterminate Jewish people in Europe during WWII till 1945.  Indeed, Nazi demonstrated the greatest attempt of Satan to inflict the Jewish people since the Jewish-Roman wars in the 1st century.  Beside, if people in the world are really suffering from the corona-pandemic now, they should really refer to the Book of Job. 

The theme of the story of Job is often summarized as follows:

Job is an investigation of the problem of divine justice. This problem, known in theology as the problem of evil, can be rephrased as a question: "Why do the righteous suffer?" The conventional answer in ancient Israel was that God rewards virtue and punishes sin (the principle known as "retributive justice"). This assumes a world in which human choices and actions are morally significant, but experience demonstrates that suffering is frequently unmerited.

Yet, as the main hidden theme of the Gospels or the New Testament is the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan, the true theme of the Book of Job should be related to Satan rather than to divine justice on human beings alone.

We may have to think that the God's concern was more on how to punish Satan, like in the case of the Gospels, than to how to make Job more understand and respect the God.  As Job was not the Son of the God, like Christ Jesus, the God must have thought that it was also necessary to promote Job's faith and educate Job through divine hardships, but the matter of Satan must have been much more important for the God, since Satan had been once closer to the God as an angel than a mere soul of Job even if Job had died and his soul had been uplifted to Heaven.

In other words, the Book of Job without the existence Satan and its communications with the God, as depicted in the opening of the story, should have no impact on human beings including ancient Israelites and modern Christians, etc.  Satan is the essential player in the Book of Job.  Indeed, Job can be replaced by anybody, such as Abraham, or St. Paul or St. Peter, but Satan cannot be replaced by any spiritual entity.

Human beings, such as the Jewish people and Christians, should understand that matters related to Satan are more important for the God than those related to the human beings, such as happiness and blessings.  To make Satan get humble and confirm that it is nothing to the God, the God might use one or more people such as Job or even His Son.  The God might even use the least faithful man for such a purpose.      

If the God had been another Satan, He might have left and forgotten Job who had been used as a tool, after He had completely subdued Satan.  But, as the God was not another Satan, He kindly showed mercy to Job even in terms of material aspects not to mention the spiritual aspects. 

The lesson we should learn from the Book of Job is that our unhappiness, predicaments, worldly pains, etc. might be simple or complicated effects of the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan, which seems to be still going on since the 1st century, or of punishment of Satan by the God.  If you have a complete or enough faith in God to believe that it is impossible that the God is displeased with you, you have to all the more think so.  Your unhappiness, predicaments, worldly pains, etc. should be related to punishment of Satan by the God.  It should be so, since the God must punish and destroy Satan completely finally someday.

On the other hand, looking from Satan's side, it would try to make as many people as possible unhappy, suffering, and inflicted before it is exterminated by the God.         

In this context, although it may sound crazy, when we are unhappy, we should be convinced that we may be contributing, to whatever small degree, to the God or Christ Jesus in His disposing of Satan.

There are three hundred billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, while there are three hundred billion galaxies in the whole universe.  How our earth, just one of planets accompanying our sun that is just one of three billion stars in our galaxy that is just one of three hundred billion galaxies in the whole universe, can claim that the God should take care of it in terms of material and physical aspects more than other planets, stars, and galaxies?  We are not in the position to claim our priority to the God.  We have to be content to have received the Son of the God once 2000 years ago.  

Job did not kill Christ Jesus, so that he had no reason for fearing the God.  But, the mankind once killed Christ Jesus, thus we may have a reason for fearing the God.  A man should surely take revenge on others who killed his son.  In this context, it must be unbelievably great love that the God has not punished the mankind yet fully.  If the God sent extremely fatal viruses to the mankind in the early 21st century to eradicate them, we should not be in the position to raise a protest to the God. 

  

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Mark 12, King James Version

12 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.'

”The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life” - A Mirror and A Doctor of Psychiatry (a fiction)

 

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A Mirror and A Doctor of Psychiatry (a fiction)

There were three insane patients in a mental hospital, each claiming that he was a god.  Satan in a doctor of psychiatry in the hospital was happy to see each of them behaving like someone who believed that he was a god, since they could be good subjects of study.   

So, the doctor with Satan inside called the God using a special spiritual method with a mirror to show them and said to Him, "You are the fourth god who is actually the fourth insane man in essence!"  Then, somebody appeared from behind a mirror to which the doctor was facing, saying, "Indeed, you are the fourth insane man."  Then, the three insane patients attacked and kicked out the doctor with Satan inside.  The doctor with Satan inside and his image on the mirror fled the hospital room.  

That someone said to the three insane patients, "The fourth and fifth gods have gone!"  The three insane patients looked satisfied and watched their images on the mirror.  However, that someone told the three images of the three insane patients on the mirror to go away before being punished.  Then, the three images of the three insane patients got out of the mirror and fled the room, since these images on the mirror were Satan's minions. 

Now that, the three insane patients could not see their images on the mirror as they had seen them often before, so that they stopped claiming that they were gods, since they could not explain why they who were gods could not have their figures reflected by the mirror.  

That someone said to them to go back to the spirit world.  The three evil spirits got out of the bodies of the three insane patients and left the room, and the three bodies left behind also gradually disappeared.  

   

After Satan left the body of the doctor, he came back to his sense, finding no records of the three insane patients who claimed that they were gods, respectively.  He understood that no man alive could continue to be alive if he saw the God.  Fortunately, the doctor had no memory of having seen the God when Satan had been occupying his soul. 

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Proverbs 11, King James Version

28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

"I am meek and lowly in heart" - In What Status Are the Hells?

 

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In What Status Are the Hells

Some spirit mediums say that everybody who has died will live happy in the spirit world: so there is nothing to worry about the afterlife.  But, Swedenborg, an 18th century elite scholar and psychic, warned that every soul who entered into the spirit world after death in this world should go to either Heaven or the hells.

  

So, it is necessary to see what Swedenborg saw in the hells through his spiritual experiences:

Heaven and Hell #400

There is nothing spirits want more when they are arriving in the other life from this world than to get into heaven. Almost all of them expect to because they believe that heaven is simply a matter of being let in and accepted. Because this is what they want, then, they are taken to some community of the outmost heaven. If they are devoted to love for themselves and the world, then the moment they reach the first border of that heaven they begin to feel pain and to be so tormented within that they feel as though they were in hell rather than in heaven. So they themselves dive down headlong and are not at rest until they are with their own kind in the hells.

Even souls of bad and evil men want to enter into Heaven.  But, they cannot bear to see bright light in Heaven coming from the God, so that they will run away from Heaven to gather themselves and hide in the hells.   The hells are not the place to punish souls of bad and evil men but the place where bad and evil men would go and hide spontaneously.

But specifically what are those souls of bad and evil men doing in the hells?

Spiritual Experiences #5830

They also said that thousands choose to live in hell rather than outside it. It was also found that they have no other delight than doing as much evil as they dare and are able to do to whomever they see.

In the hells, stronger and more evil souls would attack weaker ones among them.  Satan, the strongest and worst one, requests others to call him the god and revere him.  All the souls in various hells would do evil things as much as possible to one another without restrictions in the human world, which rejoices them so much.  But some evil spirits that cannot withstand attacks from others would flee to a wilder hell where they roam like wild animals.  However, slight light from the God can reach to the hells to save any repenting souls, although fear rules the hells.       

Heaven and Hell #400

It ought to be known that the sole means of restraining the violence and fury of those who are in the hells is the fear of punishment. There is no other way.

So, the hells reflect the inner nature of the dark side in this world.  Even in this world, bad and evil guys would do any harm to others as much as possible to satisfy their insane desires, if they were not stopped by laws, social restriction, Heavenly interference, etc.

Various hells where the souls of bad and evil men would choose and go depending on their tastes are the place opposite to Heaven where souls of poor and faithful men receive eternal life as promised by Christ Jesus.     

  

Bad and evil men love evil things and the hells.  That is why they try to create hells in this human world to others who are especially poor and faithful.  And, they do so specifically by being rich and holding worldly power.  That is also why being rich, elite, socially successful, and materially happy in this world is evil, so that Christ Jesus said that rich men cannot enter into Heaven as a camel cannot go through the eye of a needle.

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Matthew 11, King James Version

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.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

"Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question" - The Flesh Came into Being because of Spirit

 

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The Flesh Came into Being because of Spirit

The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 includes scores of words of Christ Jesus as heard by somebody called Thomas.  Therefore, those words might not have precisely reflected true words or intensions of Christ Jesus, since some interpretation by Thomas should been mingled there.　

However, there are some words that cannot be ignored due to depth of the meaning of them.  One of them is as follows:

(29) Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty."

(https://web.archive.org/web/20050116023247/http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html)

Everybody admits that he has a body as well as a mind.  And, everybody thinks that a man was born with his body and mind.  But, it is clear to any body that a mind exists because there is a body.  The mind exists in the body or specifically in the brain because there is the body or the brain.  The mind alone cannot exist. Therefore, the body should be first generated, and then the mind comes to exist in the brain of the body.

However, the spirit or the soul is the source of the mind.  When the body or the brain is sufficiently materially/biologically formed to a certain degree enough to hold and keep work of a mind, the spirit or the soul coming from the spirit world starts to generate the human mind in the body or the brain. 

Anyway, the spirit world takes priority over the physical world.  So, it is no wonder that the mind comes into being in the body because of work of the spirit.  And, the material body itself comes into being in the material world that was originally generated by energy from the spirit world.

Put simply, every thing spiritual takes precedence over every thing material.  (The God and angels, as spiritual entities, are above material existence of human beings.) The mind is an effect of work of the spirit or the soul in the human body or brain.  So, it is difficult to comprehend objectively one's spirit or soul through the mind in the body.

It is a wonder that one's spirit or soul with the mind leaves one's body in a rare case when his body is not dead. 

Inside the body, there is the mind.  Inside the mind, there is work of the spirit or soul.  But, externally, it seems that the body generates the mind, and the mind forms the spirit or the soul.      

It is a matter for regret that the Books Canon do not include this Gospel of Thomas.  But, as the start of the end of the world, predicted as 2060 by Isaac Newton, came near, this Gospel of Thomas came to appear in 1945 probably by spiritual interference by the God or Christ Jesus.   

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Mark 11, King James Version

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