"And all went to be taxed" - many other things which Jesus did

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many other things which Jesus did

There are many various Gospels in addition to the Canonical Gospels according to Mathew, Mark, and Luke as well as the Gospel of John.

Gnostic gospels
Gospel of Thomas – possibly proto-Gnostic; 1st to mid 2nd century; collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, 31 of them with no parallel in the canonical gospels
Gospel of Marcion – 2nd century; potentially an edited version of the Gospel of Luke or a document which predates Luke (see: Marcionism)
Gospel of Basilides – composed in Egypt around 120 to 140 AD; thought to be a gnostic gospel harmony of the canonical gospels
Gospel of Truth (Valentinian) – mid 2nd century; departed from earlier gnostic works by admitting and defending the physicality of Christ and his resurrection.
Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms – mid 2nd century; thought to be a gnostic cosmology, most likely in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples.
Gospel of Mary – 2nd century
Gospel of Judas – 2nd century
Greek Gospel of the Egyptians – second quarter of the 2nd century
Gospel of Philip
Pseudo-Gospel of the Twelve – A Syriac language gospel titled the Gospel of the Twelve. This work is shorter than the regular gospels and seems to be different from the lost Gospel of the Twelve.[1]
Gospel of Perfection – 4th century; an Ophite poem that is only mentioned once by a single patristic source, Epiphanius[2] and is referred to once in the 6th century Gospel of the Infancy
The Gospel of the Lots of Mary - 6th century. 

Jewish-Christian gospels
Gospel of the Hebrews
Gospel of the Nazarenes
Gospel of the Ebionites
Gospel of the Twelve

Infancy gospels
Armenian Infancy Gospel[citation needed]
Protoevangelium of James
Libellus de Nativitate Sanctae Mariae (Gospel of the Nativity of Mary)
Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
History of Joseph the Carpenter
Infancy Gospel of Thomas
Latin Infancy Gospel (Arundel 404)[citation needed]
Syriac Infancy Gospel

Other gospels 

Gospel of the Lots of Mary (Coptic collection of 37 oracles; ca. A.D. 500)[3] 

Partially preserved gospels 

Gospel of Peter 

Fragmentary preserved gospels[α] 

Gospel of Eve – mentioned only once by Epiphanius circa 400, who preserves a single brief passage in quotation.
Gospel of Mani – 3rd century – attributed to the Persian Mani, the founder of Manichaeism.
Gospel of the Saviour (also known as the Unknown Berlin gospel) – highly fragmentary 6th-century manuscript based on a late 2nd- or early 3rd-century original. A dialogue rather than a narrative; heavily Gnostic in character in that salvation is dependent upon possessing secret knowledge.
Coptic Gospel of the Twelve – late 2nd century Coptic language work – although often equated with the Gospel of the Ebionites, it appears to be an attempt to re-tell the Gospel of John in the pattern of the Synoptics; it quotes extensively from John's Gospel. 

Reconstructed gospels[β] 

Secret Gospel of Mark – suspect: the single source mentioning it is considered by many to be a modern forgery, and it disappeared before it could be independently authenticated.
Gospel of Matthias
Lost gospels[edit]
Gospel of Cerinthus – ca. 90–120 AD – according to Epiphanius[4] this is a Jewish gospel identical to the Gospel of the Ebionites and, apparently, a truncated version of Matthew's Gospel according to the Hebrews.
Gospel of Apelles – mid-to-late 2nd century; a further edited version of Marcion's edited version of Luke.
Gospel of Valentinus[5]
Gospel of the Encratites[6]
Gospel of Andrew – mentioned by only two 5th-century sources (Augustine and Pope Innocent I) who list it as apocryphal.[7]
Gospel of Barnabas – not to be confused with the 16th century pro-Moslem work of the same name; this work is mentioned only once, in the 5th century Decree of Gelasius which lists it as apocryphal.
Gospel of Bartholomew – mentioned by only two 5th-century sources which list it as apocryphal.[8]
Gospel of Hesychius – mentioned only by Jerome and the Decree of Gelasius that list it as apocryphal.[9]
Gospel of Lucius[9] – mentioned only by Jerome and the Decree of Gelasius that list it as apocryphal.
Gospel of Merinthus[10] – mentioned only by Epiphanius; probably the Gospel of Cerinthus, and the confusion due to a scribal error.
An unknown number of other Gnostic gospels not cited by name.[11]
Gospel of the Adversary of the Law and the Prophets[12]
Memoirs of the Apostles – Lost narrative of the life of Jesus, mentioned by Justin Martyr. The passages quoted by Justin may have originated from a gospel harmony of the Synoptic Gospels composed by Justin or his school. 

Fragments of possibly unknown or lost (or existing) gospels[α] 

Papyrus Egerton 2 – late 2nd-century manuscript of possibly earlier original; contents parallel John 5:39–47, 10:31–39; Matt 1:40–45, 8:1–4, 22:15–22; Mark 1:40–45, 12:13–17; and Luke 5:12–16, 17:11–14, 20:20–26, but differ textually; also contains incomplete miracle account with no equivalent in canonical Gospels
Fayyum Fragment – a fragment of about 100 Greek letters in 3rd century script; the text seems to parallel Mark 14:26–31
Oxyrhynchus Papyri – Fragments #1, 654, & 655 appear to be fragments of Thomas; #210 is related to MT 7:17–19 and LK 6:43–44 but not identical to them; #840 contains a short vignette about Jesus and a Pharisee not found in any known gospel, the source text is probably mid 2nd century; #1224 consists of paraphrases of Mark 2:17 and Luke 9:50
Gospel of Jesus' Wife – 4th century at the earliest.
Papyrus Berolinensis 11710 – 6th-century Greek fragment, possibly from an apocrpyhal gospel or amulet based on John.
Papyrus Cairensis 10735 – 6th–7th century Greek fragment, possibly from a lost gospel, may be a homily or commentary.
Papyrus Merton 51 – Fragment from apocryphal gospel or a homily on Luke 6:7.
Strasbourg Fragment – Fragment of a lost gospel, probably related to Acts of John.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gospels

The reason why only the four Gospels were selected as authentic has not been explained by the Vatican.

Especially, no gospels written in Hebrew or Aramaic were became authentic.  And, the contents of the four Gospels, written in Greek, resemble one another.  In addition, the New Testament includes many documents believed to have been written by St. Paul.  Documents written by St. Paul or possibly by those close to Paul account for a majority of documents, other than the four Gospels, included in the New Testament.  And, Paul's mother tongue is believed to have been Greek.

Accordingly, it is reasonable to think that the four Gospels were also written under Paul's influence.  But it was impossible that those Gospels were written based on what Paul spoke or testified about  the actual mission of Christ Jesus, because Paul had never seen Christ Jesus alive and preaching in his life.

Therefore, it is likely that those four Gospels were written by translating or interpreting a source Paul had.  The source document must have been written in Hebrew or Aramaic.  And it must have a big volume so that Mark, Mathew, Luke and John could select parts of it for their writing, which caused some variations in episodes among them and even some differences in interpretation.

In deed, the last section of the Gospel of John looks like suggesting it:

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

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Luk 2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
Luk 2:2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
Luk 2:3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

"into Capernaum after some days" - Judaists, Romans, and Christianity

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Judaists, Romans, and Christianity

The Roman Empire destroyed the temple in Jerusalem in the Jewish-Roman War fought between 66 and 73.   And then after the Bar Kokhba revolt fought between 132 and 136, Israelites or Judaists were all expelled out of Palestine.  And then the Jewish diaspora began, leading to the tragedy of Judaists in Europe in WWII of the 20th century.

Therefore Romans were critical enemies for Judaists.  Judaists never tried to invite Romans to join their religion.  But early Christians preached to Romans and invited them to join their religion.

Even Christ Jesus, a Judaist, was killed by Roman soldiers in Jerusalem.  But, as the Gospels indicate, there were no anger, hatred, and a sense of revenge on Romans in early Christians.  Rather, early Christians made full efforts to disseminate their religion in Rome and the Empire.  And, about 300 years after the death of Christ Jesus, the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as its state religion.

But how did this proceeding of  infiltration of Christianity look to the eyes of Judaists living in Rome and the Empire?

Ex-Judaists who converted to Christianity and tried to disseminate Christianity to Romans must have looked like enemies and betrayers of Judaists who must have had still hold a grudge against Romans who destroyed Jerusalem.  And eventually Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire.  It means to Judaists that Christianity became the religion of their enemies.

Later Christians in Europe blamed Judaists for having betrayed Christ Jesus and helped the Crucifixion.  But for Judaists, Romans killed so many Judaists in the Jewish-Roman Wars and the Bar Kokhba revolt.  It is Judaists that have more reasons for hating the opposite than Christians, since Christianity that had emerged among Judaists became the religion of the enemy of Judaists.

So, probably any Judaists having right sense would not accept Christianity especially after Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire.  Christianity became the religion of their enemies who had killed so many Judaists and destroyed the temple of Jerusalem.  Even today, Judaists must have this complex feelings to Christianity: Christianity betrayed Judaists and became the religion of their enemies who had killed hundreds of thousands of their ancestors and destroyed Jerusalem around the first century.

So, it must not be the matter of religious principles that Judaists even today would not accept Christianity, but it must be the historical reason that Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire that killed hundreds of thousands of Judaists and destroyed Jerusalem around the first century, forcing Judaists to suffer the diaspora.         

However, one of the critical reasons why the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the middle of the 5th century, or 200 years after the Empire adopted Christianity as the state religion must be that Christianity greatly influenced the mind sets of Romans.  The Roman Empire had been supported by a kind of militarism.  But due to penetration of Christianity, a religion of peace and love, the Empire came to be unable to maintain the strong army.  So, the Empire was forced to give up occupation of its vast territories before invasion by many and formidable foreign tribes.  

In this context, Christianity avenged the defeat of Judaists by Romans in the first century.

Therefore, if Judaists today admitted that their ancestors' enemy, the Roman Empire, collapsed due to Christianity, they might change their views and attitudes to Christianity.

Accordingly, it must be Christianity that made the Western Roman Empire collapse more than any other reasons such as a drastic climate change and great invasion by Asian tribes.



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Mar 2:1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.

"shalt call his name JESUS" - Jesus from Qumran to Egypt

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Jesus from Qumran to Egypt

In addition to the discovery of the Dead Sea Documents, there is another discovery of documents related to early Christianity in the 20th century: the Nag Hammadi library.

The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the "Chenoboskion Manuscripts", or as the "Gnostic Gospels"[1]) is a collection of Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Twelve leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman.[2] The writings in these codices comprised fifty-two mostly Gnostic treatises, but they also include three works belonging to the Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation/alteration of Plato's Republic. In his introduction to The Nag Hammadi Library in English, James Robinson suggests that these codices may have belonged to a nearby Pachomian monastery, and were buried after Saint Athanasius condemned the use of non-canonical books in his Festal Letter of 367 A.D. The discovery of these texts significantly influenced modern scholarship into early Christianity and Gnosticism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library   

However, any of the Gospels according to Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John are not included in the discovered library.  It means the origins of these Gospels were not around Jerusalem since Jerusalem is close to Egypt.  These Gospels must have been translated from a Hebrew/Aramaic source or the Q-source Paul had obtained in Qumran and brought in Rome.

My theory is that those who had lived in Qumran left for Egypt after the first Jewish-Roman War.  And, as there were early Christians in Qumran, they practiced the religion in Egypt, resulting in producing an environment where Nag Hammadi documents were later made. 

Furthermore, in those who traveled from Qumran to Egypt, Jesus who had resurrected from the death on the cross and subsequently lived in Qumran must have been included.  Therefore, this miracle of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library occurred in the 20th century together with the discovery of the Qumran documents.   In other words, Christ Jesus was originally from Qumran where Paul before his own mission visited and got a kind of Q-source document from Christ Jesus. The Dead-Sea scrolls, the Nag Hammadi library, Qumran, Christ Jesus after the Resurrection, and the Q-source document must be all linked.

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Luk 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luk 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Luk 1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

"into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John" - Mystery of Resemblance of the Four Gospels

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Mystery of Resemblance of the Four Gospels

Why do the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John resemble one another in their contents about the mission by Christ Jesus?

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

As Christ Jesus preached for three years, namely 1,000 days, there must have been at least 1,000 episodes to be written in each Gospel.  But each of them contains only about 100 episodes, at most.  If these Gospels had used different sources, their contents should have differ from one another significantly.

The answer must be that there was only one source.

My theory is that it was written by Jesus after the Resurrection in Qumran in Aramaic or Hebrew.  This document was handed to Paul when he came to Qumran from Damascus.  And Paul made it secret, since there were many enemies.  But with this source of evidence of Christ Jesus, Paul could preach to Judaists and gentiles so passionately with strong confidence.

When Paul came to Rome, he allowed some of his followers, such as Luke (his close aid or personal medical doctor), and even followers of Peter (such as Mark), when Peter came to Rome, to translate the secret document into Greek, one of the then common languages in the Roman Empire.   So, according to translators, some variations came to emerge.  And, as the original author was Jesus, they called their translation the Gospel according to Mathew, the Gospel according to Mark, the Gospel according to Luke, and the Gospel according to John.  This "according to" means "translated from the original source by."

 But, it might have been Paul who chose about 100 episodes from original 1,000 episodes Jesus had written.  Or as it took three years for Paul to come to Jerusalem after his encounter of the spirit of Jesus on the road to Damascus, it is thought that Paul stayed in Qumran for three years.  Then Paul might have written the original source as he saw and heard directly words of Jesus in Qumran like Muhammad later heard words of an angel in a cave and wrote them down.

Anyway, the direct source of the Gospels must have been Paul in Rome.  And he must have the original source where the mission of Christ Jesus was written with 100 or more episodes in Aramaic or Hebrew.  And it was translated by Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John.  However, as there are some difference among them, the original source must have been larger in volume.  The translators had discretion to choose or spare some episodes or interpret episodes.

The key factors are the linkage of Jesus with Qumran, Paul's three years from Damascus to Jerusalem, and Paul's strong confidence that he knew Christ Jesus spiritually or personally.



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Mar 1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
Mar 1:29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
Mar 1:30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
Mar 1:31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

"the virgin's name was Mary" - Qumran and Jesus in the Dead Sea Documents

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Qumran and Jesus in the Dead Sea Documents

There are some arguments about the relationship between Christ Jesus and the sect living and practicing their religious belief in Qumran.  But in most cases, the conclusion is that Christ Jesus was not from Qumran.  However, the basis of their argument is not so persuading.  One example is as follows:

Jesus’ movement shows some similarities to the Qumran sect/Essenes, such as the holding of communal meals and the pooling of possessions. Furthermore, both were apocalyptic Jewish movements that anticipated the imminent arrival of the end of days and a messianic era. However, differences between these two groups indicate that Jesus could not have been an Essene. For example, members of the Qumran sect/Essenes anticipated the arrival of not one but two Messiahs: a royal Messiah of Israel descended from David and a priestly Messiah descended from Aaron. Perhaps the most striking differences concern the observance of biblical purity laws and the admission of new members. Whereas the Qumran sect/Essenes strictly observed priestly purity laws, Jesus reportedly came into contact with the most impure members of Jewish society, including hemorrhaging women, lepers, and even corpses; and whereas the Qumran sect/Essenes were exclusive, with only unblemished adult males eligible to apply for full membership (the same qualifications necessary to serve as a priest in the temple), Jesus’s movement was inclusive and welcomed everyone. 

https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/places/main-articles/dead-sea-qumran.aspx

Even if Christ Jesus had been a pure believer of the Qumran sect, He should not have started His holy mission while being guided by a holy spirit.  Qumran must have been a place for young Jesus to learn and study traditions of Judaism.  It does not necessarily mean that Jesus turned to be a 100% follower of the sect.

Jesus must have grown up to find a need to see John the Baptists who was working among people and on the River Jordan.  It meas that Jesus advanced in His fath toward a more universal standpoint.  Jesus must have been wise enough to establish His own theory on religion before He came to the River Jordan where He received a holy spirit sent by God.

It is no wonder that no direct linkage between Christ Jesus and the Qumran sect was found in the Dead Sea documents found in Qumran caves.  Christ Jesus started His mission as the Son of God but not as a teacher of Qumran.

So, anyway where did young Jesus learn and study traditions of Judaism?  In the local village Nazareth or the temple of Jerusalem?  God indicated that the place was Qumran by revealing existence of the Dead Sea scrolls and allowing discovery of them 2000 years after Qumran was destroyed by Roam troops.  This miracle of the Qumran discovery means that we have to at lease focus on Qumran as 2000 years have passed since Christianity emerged.   There must be a holy meaning in Qumran.  



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Luk 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Luk 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Luk 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

"when the unclean spirit had torn him" - St. Paul and "Arabia" or Qumran

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St. Paul and "Arabia" or Qumran

How could St. Paul suddenly become a follower of Christ though the Spirit of Jesus appeared to St. Paul on the road to Damascus?

And, how could St. Paul learn about the mission  and the deeds of Christ Jesus to the depth and extent that allowed St. Paul to preach the gospel of Christ Jesus to others with such confidence.  Who taught St. Paul the life of Christ Jesus, although St. Paul had been a great persecutor of followers of Christ Jesus?  Just one appearance of the Spirit of Christ Jesus to St. Paul could not give St. Paul such knowledge about Christ Jesus and confidence in following Christ Jesus.   Where and from whom did St. Paul learn about Christ Jesus?   It must be in Qumran.

After his conversion, Paul went to Damascus, where Acts 9 states he was healed of his blindness and baptized by Ananias of Damascus.[44] Paul says that it was in Damascus that he barely escaped death.[2 Cor. 11:32] Paul also says that he then went first to Arabia, and then came back to Damascus.[Gal. 1:17][45] Paul's trip to Arabia is not mentioned anywhere else in the Bible, and some suppose he actually traveled to Mount Sinai for meditations in the desert.[46][47] He describes in Galatians how three years after his conversion he went to Jerusalem. There he met James and stayed with Simon Peter for 15 days.[Gal. 1:13-24] Paul located Mount Sinai in Arabia in Galatians 4:24-25. 

Paul asserted that he received the Gospel not from man, but directly by "the revelation of Jesus Christ".[Gal 1:11-16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle#Post-conversion

After the miracle on the road to Damascus, St. Paul went to "Arabia" or "Mt. Sinai."  He spent there three years.  And then, he came to Jerusalem for the first time to see St. James, a brother of Jesus, and St. Peter, the leader of the followers of Christ Jesus in Jerusalem.

But it was only for 15 days that St. Paul was in Jerusalem to live and talk with St. James and St. Peter.  It is not enough for St. Paul to learn about Christ Jesus from the two men.  St. Paul must have learnt enough about Christ Jesus in the three years when he was in "Arabia" or "Mt. Sinai."  And, the only place St. Paul could learn about Christ Jesus was Qumran, since Jesus had come out of Qumran to the River Jordan to be baptized by Prophet John and Jesus must have returned to Qumran as His mission as Christ Jesus after the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.

Jesus must have written a document today called the Q source, the original source of the Gospels according to Mark, Matthew, Luke and John.  St. Paul must have met Jesus or read the document written by Jesus in Qumran, no matter what manner.  That is why St. Paul wrote later that he "received the Gospel not from man, but directly by 'the revelation of Jesus Christ'."  

And, after his first visit to Jerusalem, St. Paul did not come to Jerusalem to see St. James and St. Peter for 14 years.  It means that St. Paul thought that he knew enough about Christ Jesus as much as the two key figures, who had actually seen living Christ Jesus, of followers of Christ Jesus in Jerusalem knew about Christ Jesus.  St. Paul did not need to ask questions about Christ Jesus to them.  It is because in Qumran St. Paul had met Jesus or read the source document of the Gospels written by Jesus.

The key to understanding the extremely strong confidence that St. Paul thought that he knew Christ Jesus so much that he could start his own mission with such great passion must be his experiences in Qumran which he called "Arabia" for some reason.

Qumran (Hebrew: קומראן‎‎; Arabic: خربة قمران‎‎ Khirbet Qumran) is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park.[1] It is located on a dry plateau about 1.5 km (1 mi) from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalya. The Hellenistic period settlement was constructed during the reign of John Hyrcanus, 134-104 BCE or somewhat later, and was occupied most of the time until it was destroyed by the Romans in 68 CE or shortly after. It is best known as the settlement nearest to the Qumran Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden, caves in the sheer desert cliffs and beneath, in the marl terrace.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran



http://www.drshirley.org/geog/map01.html
Damascus and Qumran



http://www.lifeintheholyland.com/views_vanished_david_bivin_1960s.htm
Qumran and the Dead Sea

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Mar 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
Mar 1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

"Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias" - Secret of the Gospels

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Secret of the Gospels

Christ Jesus preached for about three years.

But only 100 or so episodes are described in each Gospel.  It is strange.  Since three years is almost 1,000 days, there must have been  1,000 episodes written in each Gospel.  Or each of the four Gospels must be significantly different in their contents.  However, the contents of the four Gospels are roughly similar to one another.

(Refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_key_episodes_in_the_Canonical_Gospels)

It means the basic sources of the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John must be the same.

Furthermore, it is also strange that they are called the Gospel according to Matthew, that according to Mark, that according to Luke and that according to John.  Why aren't they called the Gospel by Mathew, etc.?

Those Gospels must have been originally written by a very authentic person, and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John must have just re-written or edited it.  Mathew, etc. were probably afraid that they were wrongly identified as original authors.  And they were also afraid to reveal the name of the original author.

Taking into account various conditions, the original author seems to have been Jesus who seems to have left Jerusalem for Qumran after the resurrection when the holy spirit having been given to Him by God on the River Jordan left Him. 

Jesus who returned to a natural man must have written a memoir of His mission in Qumran.  But He had to write about Himself in the past mission  in the third person, since Jesus as a natural man was different from Christ Jesus who had been engaged in the holy mission with the holy spirit. 

Therefore, the four Gospels based on this original memoir by Jesus are very authentic, so that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John could not claim their authorship.  It also means that they must have known or believed that the original source had been written by Jesus Himself.

This must be one of secrets of Christianity.


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Act 1:23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
Act 1:24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
Act 1:25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place

"The mystery of the seven stars" - A Newer Testament (resurrection and the Q source)

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A Newer Testament (resurrection and the Q source)

After the resurrection three days after the Crucifixion, Jesus came back to life.

At the same time, His followers in white from Qumran arrived at the tomb where the dead body of Jesus had been laid down.  They persuaded guards before the tomb to leave the place and rolled out the big stone having been set at the entrance to the tomb cave.  With the sun rays coming into the cave, Jesus got up from the floor and came outside with help from the followers.

Subsequently, women and disciples of Jesus arrived at the tomb, and some of them met and exchanged words with one of the followers of Jesus from Qumran as depicted in the Gospels.

However, when Jesus resurrected, the holy spirit having been given by the God on the River Jordan separated from the mind of Jesus.  This spirit continued to appear before His disciples for a while.  But, resurrected Jesus went back to Qumran with his followers from the religious center of a certain sect of Judaism.

Jesus must have continued to live in Qumran till the the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) when all the residents of Qumran left the site as Roam troops advanced there.

But what did Jesus do while living in or after leaving Qumran?

He must have written His memoir that later became the Q source and an underlying source of the Gospel of Mark:

The Q source (also Q document, Q Gospel, Q Sayings Gospel, or Q from German: Quelle, meaning "source") is a hypothetical written collection of Jesus' sayings (logia). Q is (part of) the common material found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke but not in the Gospel of Mark. According to this hypothesis, this material was drawn from the early Church's Oral Tradition.

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

Indeed, there are some descriptions about certain incidents in the Gospels that no other than Jesus could know and Jesus would not say to any others.

So, a theory based on this version of the Gospel is that parts of the Gospels were really written by Jesus Himself, though the holy spirit having been given to Him on the River Jordan by God had already left Him.


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Rev 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

"When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph" - A Newer Testament

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A Newer Testament

In Nazareth, one day Joseph, the father of Jesus, found that some villagers were collecting tax for the Roman authority but they did not fully handed the collected money to Roman officers and used the rest of the money for themselves.

So, Joseph accused those villagers of their deceiving act.  However, Joseph was overwhelmed by them to be threatened to kill.  So, Joseph decided to leave Nazareth for Egypt like he had once left Palestine with his wife Mary and son Jesus.  And, at the time, Jesus who had followed Joseph in accusing bad villagers also left Nazareth with His father Joseph.  But Jesus did not flee to Egypt with Joseph, but He decided to go and live in Qumran.  At the time, Jesus was about 13 years old.

As time went by, when Jesus became 30 years old or so, He started His holy mission.

So, that is why some evil priests knowing this past episode involving Joseph and his accusation of some villagers of Nazareth for their deceit with tax money asked Christ Jesus whether tax should be paid or not.

Thais also why when Christ Jesus visited his home village Nazareth for preaching there, some villagers who still held a grudge on Joseph and Jesus mobilized other villagers to push Christ Jesus out of a cliff to kill him in revenge.

But what became of Joseph who had left for Egypt? It is unknown, but most probably he went to Alexandria with a large population of Judaists at the time. Joseph, a carpenter, might have helped Hero of Alexandria who was a great engineer at the time.

Hero of Alexandria (Greek: Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Heron ho Alexandreus; also known as Heron of Alexandria c. 10 AD – c. 70 AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity[1] and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.[2] 

Hero published a well recognized description of a steam-powered device called an aeolipile (sometimes called a "Hero engine"). Among his most famous inventions was a windwheel, constituting the earliest instance of wind harnessing on land.[3][4] He is said to have been a follower of the atomists. Some of his ideas were derived from the works of Ctesibius. 

Much of Hero's original writings and designs have been lost, but some of his works were preserved in Arabic manuscripts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria

Indeed, everything is possible for God, so that He must never leave Joseph unhonored.
  


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Mat 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
Mat 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

"he saw Simon and Andrew his brother" - Followers of Christ Jesus from Qumran

Sunset and Mt. Fuji, Japan

Followers of Christ Jesus from Qumran

Jesus had lived, learnt, and taught in Qumran probably between 13 to 30 years old before he appeared on the River Jordan as I mentioned before (on January 14, 2017; http://eereporter.blogspot.jp/2017/01/many-shall-rejoice-at-his-birth.html).

So, when He was mediating in one of caves in Qumran, an angel must have visited Him like in the case of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, six centuries later.

And then, Jesus left Qumran to see John the Baptist.  Jesus must have had intention to help and assist John, although Jesus could have continued His peaceful life in Qumran.

While some people were living according to principles of their own religion and practicing their own religious codes in Qumran, John the Baptist was preaching among people to save them from evil of Herod and risk his life.  And, the fact that Jesus was baptized by John means that Jesus decided to work with John for people suffering evil of Herod and priests of the temple in Jerusalem.  Accordingly, God was rejoiced by Jesus.  So,  a voice from heaven then said, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased." (Mark 1:1-8).

John the Baptist must have some relationship with Essenes who must have shared a majority of Qumran residents.  That is why Jesus heard of him and went out to see him.

The point at issue is that Jesus as a man decided to leave caves of Qumran and go out to the public in order to save people, which rejoiced God.  Till this decision, Jesus must have been a mere man devoted in study and practice of a school of Judaism in Qumran (which must be the Essenes).  But at the moment on the River Jordan, Jesus became the Son of God, since God sent the spirit to Jesus.

However, Jesus' connection with Qumran was not completely cut down.  There were some members of the Essenes that secretly followed Christ Jesus preaching and organizing His own sect.  And sometimes, they met Christ Jesus secretly.  One of such occasions must have been the scene of the Transfiguration on a mountain before Christ Jesus started his final and fatal journey to Jerusalem.  Those described as Elijah and Moses in the Gospels must have been those followers of Christ Jesus from Qumran.  To the eyes of disciples of Christ Jesus, those who came from Qumran must have looked so holy as if they had been such saints.

On the mountain, the followers appeared wearing white clothes as they did in Qumran and Christ Jesus also wore white clothes.  They must have discussed what would happen when Christ Jesus entered Jerusalem and how Judas would betray Him.  And, most importantly, they arranged with one another about how Christ Jesus should resurrect three days after the coming crucifixion.

The point at issue is that there were secret followers from Qumran always around Christ Jesus since He started preaching after John the Baptist.  And, they must have secretly recorded what Christ Jesus said and did, since Christ Jesus called and invited only poor and illiterate men for his Disciples.  The Gospels must be originally based on the records made by followers of Christ Jesus from Qumran, since they could well read and write.  




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Mar 1:16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mar 1:18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

"This was he of whom I spake" - Mystery about Joseph

Tokyo in Summer

Mystery about Joseph

There is one big mystery about Christ Jesus.  Who and what was His worldly father?

While none of the Gospels mentions Joseph as present at any event during Jesus's adult ministry, the synoptic Gospels share a scene in which the people of Nazareth, Jesus's hometown, doubt Jesus's status as a prophet because they know his family. In Mark 6:3, they call Jesus "Mary's son" instead of naming his father. In Matthew, the townspeople call Jesus "the carpenter's son," again without naming his father. (Matthew 13:53-55) In Luke 3:23 "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was [the son] of Heli."(Luke 4:16-30) In Luke the tone is positive, whereas in Mark and Matthew it is disparaging.[14] This incident does not appear at all in John, but in a parallel story the disbelieving neighbors refer to "Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know" (John 6:41-51).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph

The point at issue is that there must have been many persons who knew who and what Jesus' worldly father was when Christ Jesus was carrying out His mission.  And thus, the Gospel writers must have been able to obtain information about His worldly father Joseph, since followers and disciples of Christ Jesus must have heard about Joseph from Jesus' mother, brothers, and the like.

But the Gospel writers avoided mentioning Joseph clearly or in details.  But they did not write that Joseph had been dead when Christ Jesus launched His mission.  Joseph must have left his family for some reason.  And, probably he was not in Nazareth, Judah or Palestine during Jesus' mission.  Even Jesus' enemies, priests of the Temple in Jerusalem and the Roman authority in Jerusalem, did not try to find Joseph or make an issue of Joseph.  They must have also known that Joseph had gone out of Palestine and had nothing to do with Jesus.

Anyway, it is a wonder that so many people have read the Gospels and the Bible in these 2000 years, but nobody could make clear who and what Joseph was.  Or has truth been revealed already?

The Catholic Encyclopedia citing the texts contained in the apocryphal writings writes that:
When forty years of age, Joseph married a woman called Melcha or Escha by some, Salome by others; they lived forty-nine years together and had six children, two daughters and four sons, the youngest of whom was James (the Less, "the Lord's brother"). A year after his wife's death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Judah a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age. Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates; a miracle manifested the choice God had made of Joseph, and two years later the Annunciation took place.

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





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Joh 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

"many shall rejoice at his birth" - Young Jesus in Qumran

Around Fukushima City, Japan

Young Jesus in Qumran

The Gospels do not contain episodes of Christ Jesus at his age approximately between 12 and 30.

For example:

Age 12 Jesus visits the Temple in Jerusalem
Age 12 - 30 Jesus works as a carpenter in Nazareth

Timeline of Jesus aged 30
Jesus is baptised in the River Jordan in Judea by John the Baptist
Jesus in the Wilderness - Judea
Jesus hails Andrew, Simon, Philip, And Nathaniel - Bethabara
Miracle of turning the water into wine and drives the moneymakers from the temple - Cana. Jerusalem
Nighttime visit Of Nicodemus—Christ enlightens him - Jerusalem.
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria - Samaria: Sychar
Miracle at Cana in Galilee
Pool of Bethesda - Jerusalem
Jesus Reads in the Nazareth Synagogue - Nazareth. Capernaum

http://www.datesandevents.org/people-timelines/36-timeline-of-jesus.htm

However, it is unlikely that Jesus had just lived in Nazareth as a carpenter.  He must have learnt Judaism somewhere.  He must have learnt how to read and write somewhere.

Especially, the Gospels depicted a scene where Jesus at 12 discussing religious matters with priests in the temple of Jerusalem and His parents, when finding Him talking with religious leaders, getting surprised.  And then, the Gospels do not provide any episodes about young Jesus till He appeared on the River Jordan at an age about 30. 

So, if Jesus had been living with His parents in Nazareth till He became 30 years old, there must have been many witnesses of His deeds in this period of time.  At least His brothers must have witnessed His deeds and later told His disciples and writers of the Gospels about many and various episodes of young Jesus in Nazareth.   But the Gospels keep silence on young Jesus in this period of time.  So, it is thought naturally that there were no witnesses of young Jesus in this period.  It means that Jesus was not near His family and not in Nazareth.  But where was He?

Although Jesus could discuss religious matters with priests in the temple of Jerusalem at 12 years old, He looked like having full and detailed knowledge about the holy books of Judaism or the Old Testament when He started His mission at 30.  He must have extensively learnt Judaism somewhere like a college or a theological school.  And there was one place suitable for this purpose: Qumran caves.

Today Qumran is well known for discovery of the Dead Seas Scrolls after WWII. 

The Dead Sea Scrolls, in the narrow sense of Qumran Caves Scrolls,[notes 1] are a collection of some 981 different texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 in eleven caves (Qumran Caves) in the immediate vicinity of the Hellenistic-period Jewish settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the eastern Judaean Desert, the modern West Bank. The caves are located about two kilometres (1.2 miles) inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name.[3] The consensus is that the Qumran Caves Scrolls date from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. 

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

As proven by the discovery of the Dead Seas Scrolls, there were many holy books of Judaism in Qumran.  And, some scrolls are believed to have been written there.  So, Qumran was the best place for young Jesus to exhaustively learn traditions of Judaism in addition to how to read and write.

It is also a miracle that the so many Dead Sea Scrolls have been kept and preserved there for 2000 years, since it is believed that Roman troops also occupied Qumran and dispelled Israelits living and practicing a school of Judaism there during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE).  It is as if power of Christ Jesus who had once lived and studied there allowed those scrolls to be preserved for 2000 years.  It is indeed a miracle that Qumran was discovered by the world 2000 years after the era of Christ Jesus.  It is as if God had given those scrolls to the mankind as His present to celebrate the 20th century.

In summary, we have to assume that young Jesus between 13  to 30 years old was living, studying, and working in Qumran.

That is why His brothers and His friends living in Nazareth in this period could not offer any episodes and material about young Jesus to Gospel writers, since they did not know about living status and conditions of young Jesus in Qumran.  That is why there are no episodes of young Jesus from 13 to 30 years old mentioned in the Gospels.

Christ Jesus was in Qumran before his appearance on the River Jordan; this is a very natural and reasonable conclusion.  It means that Christ Jesus was close to the Essenes.

A little later, Josephus gave a detailed account of the Essenes in The Jewish War (c. 75 CE), with a shorter description in Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94 CE) and The Life of Flavius Josephus (c. 97 CE). Claiming first hand knowledge, he lists the Essenoi as one of the three sects of Jewish philosophy[7] alongside the Pharisees and the Sadducees. He relates the same information concerning piety, celibacy, the absence of personal property and of money, the belief in communality, and commitment to a strict observance of Sabbath. He further adds that the Essenes ritually immersed in water every morning, ate together after prayer, devoted themselves to charity and benevolence, forbade the expression of anger, studied the books of the elders, preserved secrets, and were very mindful of the names of the angels kept in their sacred writings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenes

So, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls must mean that God wants the mankind to review creeds and principles of the Essenes.  It is because holy miracles never occur without reasons, purposes or intents of God.

The Dead Sea Scrolls:

Material Papyrus, parchment and bronze

Writing Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Nabataean-Aramaic

Created Est. 408 BCE to 318 CE

Discovered 1946/7–1956

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

http://www.slideserve.com/overton/map-of-herodian-palestine

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Luk 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
Luk 1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

"in the wilderness forty days" - Foolish Emperors and Foolish President

Matsushima Bay Hit by the 2011 Great Tsunami, Japan

Foolish Emperors and Foolish President

The Roma Empire collapsed after an era of foolish emperors.

Now that the US looks like entering an era of foolish presidents with coming inauguration of Donald Trump, we had better check how incidents proceeded in the Roman Empire with those foolish emperors.

The two emperors who came just after Hadrian were different from any that had gone before. They were scholars and wise men, and liked the quiet of their libraries much better than the noise of armies and battles, or the traveling of which Hadrian had been so fond. But they both governed with the single purpose of making the people under their rule as happy as possible; so when it became necessary to make war to defend the empire, they did not hesitate to give up their own desires and march at the head of their armies. This became more and more necessary during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the second of these two emperors; and finally he met his death on the bank of the river Danube, fighting against the Germans who dwelt along that stream. 

With the death of this great and good emperor, the "golden age" of the empire came to an end. From now on the barbarians pressed more closely on the empire, and it became more difficult to defend it against their attacks. The Romans and the Italians had lost the old bravery and skill in fighting, which had enabled them to conquer the whole world; while the barbarians had learned much about war from their long struggles with Rome. Besides this, the government now fell once more into unworthy hands. Ignorant soldiers gave the rule to men who were not fit for it; and once the position of emperor was even put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. 

So a hundred years of war and bloodshed followed. This did not cease, until at last a strong ruler named Diocletian got the power, and divided the empire into an eastern and western half, each with its own ruler, so that the people might be better defended from the barbarians, and better governed in their own countries. Many other changes were made by Diocletian; then when his work was finished, he resigned his power and spent the rest of his days in quiet, far from the struggles of war and politics. 

Soon after Diocletian had resigned his power, a new emperor arose who once more united the rule over both the eastern and western halves of the empire. His name was Constantine, and he is called "the Great." He did two things which were very important. In the first place, he was the first emperor to become a Christian himself, and to allow the Christians to practice their religion openly. In the second place, he moved the capital of the Roman empire to the shores of the Black Sea, and there built a, new city which was called from his name, "Constantinople," or "the city of Constantine." Sometime after the death of Constantine the empire was again divided into an eastern and a western part; and this time the division was a lasting one. After that there was an empire of the East, with its capital at Constantinople; and an empire of the West, with its capital at Rome. 

Meanwhile, the barbarians, especially the Germans, had been growing more and more troublesome. Great hordes of them at last broke through the line of forts along the Rhine and the Danube, and wandered up and down the lands of the empire, plundering and destroying for many years. Battle after battle was fought with them, and sometimes the Germans were the victors, and sometimes the Romans were; but the armies of the emperors were never again strong enough to drive the Germans out of the Roman lands.

http://www.heritage-history.com/?c=read&author=harding&book=seven&story=after

If all the emperors of the Roman Empire had been wise and decent, the Empire should have lasted centuries more.

The key to understanding the fall of the Roman Empire must be its foolish emperors more than other factors.

So, the US of today might face the same crisis.

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Mar 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

"praying without at the time of incense" - Unless this Commercialism is Controlled.

Around Tokyo

Unless this Commercialism is Controlled

No schools in the world teach children and students that the aim of life is to earn money, become rich, and satisfy their desire as much as possible.

No schools in the world teach children and students that the aim of life is to earn money, become rich, and satisfy their desire by any means to the extent that they are not legally punished.

But, rather, educations is to teach children and students who would, in the case of receiving no education, pursue their desire by any means as much as possible even if they have to take legal risks that they should observe laws and rules, contribute to maintenance and development of civilization and culture, and avoid violence and other crimes that would harm the sound framework of the society where so many people are living their precious lives.

This is a basic concept of education: men can be as bad as possible without education and they will surely harm and destroy society and civilization eventually.

However, today's economy is based on a different concept.   If consumers stopped buying products and services companies provide and manufacture, business should be stopped and employees should be dismissed.  So, for a majority of members of the society to earn money, companies must have consumers buy their goods and services.  The more consumers buy, the more companies and employees get money.  And, the easiest way to increase consumption is to arouse and cause desire in consumers.  It means that companies try to make consumers pursue their desire and want products and services they provide.   However, desire makes human being corrupt, rotten, and evil.   Put simply, commercialism makes the society corrupt, rotten, and evil.

This commercialism is in the extension of capitalism that emerged after the Industrial Revolution that started around 1800 in the UK and Europe.  And, with advancement of science and technology and social systems, the history now enters the era of commercialism.

Today,  a majority of Western nations, developing countries, and Muslims put the highest priority in money.  To get money, ordinary people have to work in companies.  And for companies to make profits and pay salaries and dividends, they have to sell more goods and services to consumers.  To make consumers buy more goods and services, businesses are arousing their lusts and desires.  However, lusts and desires make people indecent, lousy, mean, rotten, corrupt, and evil.

Of course, before this era of commercialism, the era of capitalism and the era of the Industrial Revolution, there had been many social factors and cultural elements that demoralized people.  However, the scale and intensity of this commercialism leveraging advanced technologies have never been experienced by peoples in the world.  At every corner in the world, people are exposed brain-washing, indecent commercial videos, sounds, pictures, and works through TVs, smartphones, the Internet, etc.  This is a situation that has never been experienced by the mankind.

Put simply, the mankind might be destroyed by their own inflated desires, unless this commercialism is controlled.

The danger of today's economic system and commercialism  must be taught in schools in addition to in churches, mosques, synagogues, and other temples.




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

This curve also indicates expansion of commercialism and the degree of resultant corruption of the society.


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Luk 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Luk 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luk 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

"and Achaz begat Ezekias" - Holy Spin and Revolution of the Earth

Around Fukushima City, Japan

Holy Spin and Revolution of the Earth

The earth is rotating around its axis running from the north pole to the south pole, specifically at a rate of 500 meters (about half a mile) per second on the surface on the equator.

The earth is rotating around the sun at a rate of 30 km (about 20 miles) per second.  However, human beings had not realized it for three million years since they had been established as a species till a few centuries ago.

Even today, you cannot feel the speeds of the earth's self rotation and revolution around the sun, though these movements are real.

There are other things men cannot realize and sense, though they are essential for existence of human beings.  For example, most of us cannot realize existence of God.

Maybe the power of God is working around us like earth's spin on its axis and revolution around the sun that we cannot conceive as real.

So, we sometimes wonder why God would not help us and other poor people suffering from worldly tragedies, but we might not have ability to realize how God is saving and helping us and other poor people.

Anyway, God is protecting us and the earth by ensuring stable movements of the earth and the solar system.  Only for this reason, we had better praise and thank God.




Man travels nearly 67,000 miles per hour in yearly orbit around the Sun. But, man’s lifetime or lifespan is determined by alternating periods of Day and Night caused by Earth’s rotational spin.
https://bhavanajagat.com/2016/05/03/love-defined-as-fundamental-force/


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Mat 1:9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
Mat 1:10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
Mat 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:

"the latchet of whose shoes" - Goethe's Episode Facing a Charge of Spying

A Shinkansen-Express Line Station around Tokyo

Goethe's Episode Facing a Charge of Spying

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) traveled to Italy in 1786.

In a boarder town between Italy and Austria, Goethe found an interesting scenery around an old castle.  He started to sketch it.  Local people started to gather around him, since it was very rare for them to see anyone to make a sketch of or paint the castle.      

Then a policeman and a local officer came to check why the foreigner, namely Goethe, was making a sketch of an old castle on the border.  They suspected that Goethe might be a kind of spy.  So, Goethe improvised a speech on how it was meaningful to record a nice scenery since he was a traveler from a German city to Rome.  Many local people watching the incident agreed with Goethe.  But the policeman and the local officer were not convinced, claiming that they had to take him to a central town in the region to further investigate this case.

But one of local people came forward, saying that he had once lived for several years in the German city Goethe mentioned.  And Goethe and this local man talked about their memory of the city.  So, this local man told the policeman and the officer that it was true that Goethe was just traveling from the German city to Rome and he could not be a spy.

So, finally, the policeman and the local officer gave up the idea to arrest Goethe.  They left the place around the old castle.  And, Goethe could continue his travel to Rome without problems.

This episode looks like a typical case that shows how God rescues someone He wants to rescue.  Of course, if Goethe had been arrested on suspicion of spying, sooner or later he must have been released.  But, it must have some negative influence on Goethe's impression on Italy.

Anyway, it is said that the modern German language started to be formed and shaped by Martin Luther (1483-1546) and was finally completed by Goethe.

Maybe due to completeness of the German language, the German culture has survived the two world wars.  Especially, Germans could rebuild the nation after it had been destroyed by evil of Nazis.



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Mar 1:7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

"THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea" - Discussions about Trump's Ascending

The Tokyo Station 

Discussions about Trump's Ascending

There are still many arguments even in Japan about why Donald Trump was elected as US president.

Some critic wrote that it was not poor whites but rich or educated whites and white women that truly contributed to Trump's victory.  Another critic specialized in diplomacy wrote that it was anti-Washington and anti-elite whites, mostly white workers, that helped Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.

But there seems to be less arguments made from the racial point of view in Japan.  The racial issue is one of the themes in which Japanese intellectuals do not have much interest and insight.  However, I think the 2016 US Presidential Election should be reviewed from this point of view.

Obama has occupied the White House for eight years as the first African American president.  He has been the highest-ranked representative of the American people though still about 70% of the Americans are white or the like.  It must have invite some strong reaction from white Americans who don't regard themselves as the same kind of human beings as African Americans.

From the beginning, there were very special and rare conditions when Barack Obama was elected as president.  His predecessor W. Bush made many and various mistakes.  He made up false evidence that Saddam Hussein had been linked with Al Qaeda.  He could not successfully chase and take on Osama bin Laden while his father, the former President W.H. Bush, had a business tile with the bin Laden family.  Bush's linkage with the Enron top management was also revealed.   And, further, President Bush could not prevent the subprime loan scandal and the subsequent 2008 Financial Crisis triggered by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.  What is worse, the US economy eventually plummeted down as symbolized by the bankruptcy of GM, resulting in about 10% unemployment rate.  So, most of American white workers who faced a threat of unemployment came to opt for a clever  African-American president to a precarious white president from an elite family.  Disappointment and disillusion with white elites among white workers pushed Obama to US presidency.

However, as time went by, the memory of Bush's presidency has become a history.  It is as if Obama's  mission were completed with the execution of Osama and recovery of the US economy.  The very rare emergency period was now gone.  White workers don't need a clever African American president any more.  Now they have come to think that the one who represents them as US president must be one of them, white people.

This trend has been also driven by antagonism toward intellectual elites one of whom is Obama.  Obama had to be one of intellectual elites to become US president despite his racial identity.  Antagonism to Obama is intensified by that fact that he is also one of intellectual elites that include Bill and Hilary Clinton.

So, Trump who is white and looks like anti-intellectual elites has become their choice.

And, it is also why the American mainstream media failed to correctly predict the outcome of the Presidential Election.  Elite whites working in elite media companies could not grasp the moods, feelings, and antagonism white workers had deep in their minds and hearts.      

Indeed, an African American who is an intellectual elite can be US president, but it is only during a very exceptional period.   But the period of the dark aftermath of the 9/11 Terror and the War on Terror and the gravest US economic crisis since the Great Depression in 1930s has gone.  Now, white American workers don't need a black president and an intellectually elite or progressive president.

That is why American white workers and racially proud whites, including rich whites, educated whites, and white women, have overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump over Barack Obama and the Clintons.

However, in a sense, history repeats itself.  The US might face another 9/11 Terror and another financial crisis under Trump's presidency.   And, anther disenchantment with white presidents might pave the way for another very unique American, in terns of race and probably religion, ascending to US presidency.

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Luk 1:5 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

"And Aram begat Aminadab" - Satan, Western Industrial Leaders, and Islamic Terrorist Leaders

Around Fukushima City, Japan

Satan, Western Industrial Leaders, and Islamic Terrorist Leaders

In any society, there are rules and order to maintain integrity of the society.  However, such social structure is built to meet a need for securing common interest but not to promote love among people.

Social justice is mainly related to securement of order.  If every member of a society starts to attack one another to steal money and other assets, the whole society would be destroyed, which would not benefit anybody.  So, contribution to maintenance of social order is highly praised and regarded.  But after the order is secured or as long as the order is ensured, people will try to make profits and satisfy their desire as much as possible even by sacrificing other members of the society.  Every evil will be executed to the extent that the social order is not broken.  It is because the order was built for profits and interest but not for love.

So, followers of God have to know that love has higher priority than loyalty to the social order.  But as they are obliged sometimes to transcend the worldly order, they are hated and doubted by ordinary people who blindly follow social customs.

So, when executing the word of God, His followers are vulnerable, since they give an excuse to their opponents for their blaming the followers as they sometimes have to transcend social rules and break social frameworks to achieve a holy goal.

However, Satan is still more crafty, abusing this doctrine to mislead innocent people to making terrible crimes, such as terror, in the name of Heaven.  Leaders of the so-called Islamic terrorists are truly disciples of Satan.

But where did this Satan come from?  Did he come from the Koran or the Western materialism and commercialism?   Is it  possible for native and genuine Muslims born and living in their homeland to think about such acts of terror on other Muslims?

It might be Western materialism and commercialism that have brainwashed leaders of the so-called Islamic terrorists.  If so, the key to solving the bloody tragedies now going on in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, etc. should be found in Western countries.

For example, no Western countries look like losing big profits due to civil wars and armed conflicts now going on in Islamic regions.  Or rather, their defense-related and  military industries seem to earn big profits due to civil wars and armed conflicts now going on in Islamic regions.

So, Satan looks like using some leaders of some industries in Western countries to make Muslims fight one another.  It is one of the worst conspiracies.



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Mat 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Mat 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
Mat 1:3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
Mat 1:4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;

"most excellent Theophilus" - A Lack of Respect and An Insult to God

Moon, Venus, Mt. Fuji and Sunset at the Dusk of January 3, 2017

A Lack of Respect and An Insult to God

The history looks like a kind of repeating itself.

But it is alarming that the mankind have lost respect to their history and ancient legacies.  Due to a lack of respect to their own history, the mankind might get caught in a great crisis.

The first urban civilization started in Mesopotamia.  But the US launched the War on Iraq in 2003 in the wake of the 2001 Terror on New York and Washington DC, sending troops to the region including Mesopotamia to topple the Saddam Hussein's regime.  The US also sent troops to Afghanistan where once Alexander the Great marched in his most eastward campaign of conquer.  And, subsequently Syria was put in turmoils of a civil war when the US started to withdraw its troops from Iraq.  Syria and its capital Damascus were once occupied by the Roman Empire.  Syria has a long history even from the era of conflicts between Greeks and Persians.

These historically important regions have been key regions of today's international tragedies in these years.  And they have become sources of millions of immigrants and refugees.

As the US and its allied nations have not fully respected the past history, bloody tragedies have ensued there with the rise of an evil group called IS or ISIL.  If this trend should continue, Western Europe might face another tragedy, since the region was once occupied by the Roman Empire.

However, the more decisive tragedy can happen in Israel if it should face a critical turmoil or war in this context.  It means all the historic regions of the ancient period for the European Civilization in the west of the Indus River suffer tragedies, since the mankind do not respect the history.

So, before such a tragedy happens in Israel or Palestine, we have to show more respect to the history.  Otherwise, the more drastic bloody situation might happen in and around Israel, which should involve the US and Russia in a very dangerous manner.

Anyway, about 2000 years ago, the current border area between Syria and Turkey was one of the most active areas for ancient Greek and Roman troops against Persia and other Asian opponents.  And still today, there are many bloody military operations in the area.  Then what is the progress of the mankind along the history?  Where is the progress of the mankind along the history?

God might look at these situations as an insult to Him, since He had given great religions to the mankind and especially Europeans in those regions.  God might judge that the mankind should perish due to wars in those areas since they cannot save themselves by leveraging the religions they received there from the God.

In this context, the situations in Syria and Iraq might lead to a real crisis of the mankind and especially Europeans as well as Americans and Judaists.



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Luk 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
Luk 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.