"him will my Father honour" - Otherwise the God might Punish the Mankind with a New Pandemic

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Otherwise the God might Punish the Mankind with a New Pandemic

One of historical mysteries is the cool relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

Judaism never recommends Jewish people to revere, respect, and worship Christ Jesus, while Christianity is based on the Bible implying the death of Christ Jesus caused by Jewish priests and authority 2000 years ago.

Although Jewish people and Christians believe in the one same God, they never think that they belong to one same religion.  And, in these 2000 years, the two religions have never been merged to form one great religion.

Indeed, Abraham, Moses, and other Jewish prophets or heroes never clearly stated that the God would send His son, named Jesus, to the human world around AD 1.  And, Christ Jesus, St. Peter, St. Paul, etc. had never told not to regard Jewish people with hostility.   

However, there have been many serious things and events that have occurred in these 2000 years but that have never been prophesized by Abraham, Moses, and other Jewish prophets or heroes who had lived more than 2000 years ago.  

And, for early Christians, to have the Roman Empire adopt Christianity as its state religion was the largest object for expansion of Christianity to the wider world beyond the Jewish community, so that they even accepted the Christian theology established under authority of a Roman Emperor.  Even the Bible written in the Roman Empire reflects their inclination to make clear the difference between followers of Christianity and Jewish people.    

Apart from these past situations, as a historical fact, today Christianity is supported by billions of people all over the world while Judaism is still practiced by most of Jewish people superficially neglecting Christianity.  As a result, there must have been confusion and doubt about power, authority, intentions, etc. of the God.

But, if this state in the relationship between Christianity and Judaism is against the mind of the God, it is grave and serous.  If the God wishes that Jewish people admit Christ Jesus and Christians accept Jewish people while they don't, the God might punish Jewish people and Christians alike.

As the first step to solve this issue, the Jewish authority should recommend that Jewish people respect Christ Jesus if not as the God but at least as the Son of the God, the Savior, or a successful great rabbi.  Christian churches should declare that the Bible should not be read as accusing ordinary and general Jewish people of causing death on Christ Jesus.

Otherwise, the God might further punish the mankind with a new pandemic after the current corona-pandemic.    

  

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John 12  King James Version
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

"Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come" - Like One Sun in the Sky, One Unified Religion for the One God

Mt. Fuji 100 km far from around Tokyo

Like One Sun in the Sky, One Unified Religion for the One God

It is said that there are about 10 to the 80th power of atoms in this universe.  But there are no proven theories denying that all of them follow one system of physics and have the same structure.

If this universe had happened to be generated from a chance through random processes, the estimation about identicalness of all the atoms in the universe cannot be established.  In other words, there must have been various types of atoms with different structure.  However, scientists have confidence that carbon atoms and oxygen atoms in any stars are the same as those in the earth, therefore CO2 in any stars are the same as those in the earth.

Consequently, we have to assume that there is a designer of this universe.  And it is natural to call the designer the God or the Creator of the universe, since it is truly an act of the God to create or produce anything in quantity of 10 to the 80th power precisely in the same manner. 

Besides, if any one denies the existence of the God, he cannot deny his own existence.  They may think what exists captures the higher ground than what does not exist.  By denying the existence of the God, such a man puts himself above the God.  It is a blasphemy.  You should better think that as a lower entity such as you exists, the God with higher capacity must surely exists.

So, we must admit that the God exists as the Creator of the universe and the human world in addition to Heaven, the hell, and the spiritual world.  Therefore, the most important matter for the mankind must be the relationship between the God and the mankind or each member of the mankind.

Most importantly, it is not like that one day an individual realized that there is the God above men and started to bring the notion among his family, his clan, his tribe, and all other peoples.  But, the notion about the God was generated and prevailed among a tribe as a guardian god of the clan.  There were many tribes in the world in ancient times, but only the Jewish people could succeed in making almost all the mankind accept their guardian god as the God of the mankind.  Christianity and Islam, the two major religion of the mankind, believe in the same God as the God of Judaism. 

But it is not because Jewish people proved scientifically that their God is the Creator of the universe.  It is rather because the God taught them to be ethically right and good.  Jewish people must have seen the God as the source of goodness and justice, and accordingly, they accepted the God, which seemed to please the God.

Then, Christ Jesus came to teach that the God is also the source of love, which was accepted by some Jewish people and other people, leading to the establishment of Christianity.

However, most of Jewish people have denied Christianity mostly because they have not been able to accept the idea that Christ Jesus is the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God.  Indeed, the God has not sent any prophets among Jewish people in these 2000 years to openly or officially declare and announce that Christ is the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God.

This fact has caused many confusions, troubles, and tragedies in Christians as well as Jewish people.  Is Christ Jesus the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God?  This has been the most important issue for the mankind in these 2000 years, to which the mankind cannot give a clear answer even today.  What is more, the God has been silent on this issue.  What is the intention of the God?  Or what does the God expect from the mankind?

If Judaism is right, all the Christians of today and in the past should be said to have believed in a wrong religion.  If Christianity is right, all the Jewish people in these 2000 years have displeased the God.

But, it is thought that most of Jewish people living today secretly accept Christ Jesus as the Son of the God or a messiah sent by the God, if not as the God Himself, at the bottoms of their hearts, since the effect of power of Christianity has been manifested through these 2000 years. 

Rationally and logically, the mankind should have only one common belief in the God.  The human history must be the process for such a belief to be established.  As everyone sees only one sun in the sky through their similar eyes, all the mankind should believe in only one God through a common religion in their minds.

In this context, it is unthinkable that the mankind will go extinct due to any tragedies or disasters, such as the current corona-pandemic, before unification of religions.  However, if the God judges that there is no possibility for the mankind to reach the state of having the common belief in the God, He may not stop the coming of extinction of the mankind.

Individually, I think that Judaism should be absorbed in Christianity where Christ Jesus promises to give eternal life to each believer while what would happen after death of even an honest Jewish man is unclear in Judaism.    

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John 12  King James Version
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

"in his name shall the Gentiles trust" - What is Impossible without Interference by the God

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What is Impossible without Interference by the God

It is astonishing that Jewish people have survived these 4000 years as a unique and independent tribe since God's approval of Abraham and his becoming the ancestor of Jewish people around 2000 BCE.

But they had faced the danger of extermination or disappearance in history thrice before the emergence of Christ Jesus.

They were made salves of Egyptians but were led out of Egypt by Moses and rescued by the God around 1200 BCE.  Then they fell in the Babylonian captivity around 590 BCE but freed by a Persian king around 540 BCE to return to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple.  Finally, the Jewish people got into the fatal confrontation with the Roman Empire to lose their Temple in Jerusalem and get dispersed from Palestine.

However, by compiling the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, etc., they consolidated a new phase of Judaism to survive as a tribe although members of the tribe were scattered across the Roman Empire and beyond.

But, it was after Christianity was born that Jewish people launched fatal wars against Romans.  And while Jewish people were wondering across the Roman Empire, Christianity was gaining public notion and recognition in the Empire to become the sate religion of the Roman Empire, although, through severe struggles and frictions.  

Therefore, it is rather thought that there must have been some influence of Christianity favorable for Jewish people.  Romans must have come to realize importance of the Jewish tribe from which Christianity had been born.  Even many Jewish documents such as the Talmud were compiled while the Christian Bible was being created, so that Jewish people could keep their integrity and uniqueness.  It is as if Judaism had been competing with Christianity in making sacred documents.

Although the Roman Empire collapsed around AD 500, Christianity continued to survive and prevail in whole Europe, making Europeans have special interest in Jewish people, which must have strengthen self-consciousness of Jewish people to save them from oblivion in history.

Jewish people must have fled to various regions around Palestine after the Jewish Roman Wars and the fall of Jerusalem, but Jewish people who mostly moved to the territory of the Roman Empire, which finally accepted Christianity as its state religion, could survive to date.  Christianity must have contributed to survival of Jewish people in whatsoever mysterious ways.

It is true that Jewish people have suffered persecution in Europe some times, but there must have been also conditions necessary to save them from such godless hideous acts.  For example, it is mostly Christian Americans that saved Jewish people from Hitler and Nazis.       

No matter how much Jewish people think that Christians believe in a wrong religion, it is in the world where Christianity has been dominant that Jewish people has succeed in surviving.  Real Christians cannot deny that their religion is based on Judaism and Christ Jesus was born as a Jewish man, so that they cannot exterminate Jewish traditions and Jewish people.  This traditional condition of Christianity must have saved the Jewish tribe from extermination and oblivion in history in these 2000 years or since the era of the Roman Empire.

In this context, it can be thought that the God sent His Son among Jewish people before the fatal wars against Romans, so that the Jewish tribe would not be lost.  The God sent Moses when Jewish people were about to disappear in Egypt; He sent Daniel and other prophets when they were in captivity in Babylonia; and finally He sent His Son when they were almost doomed to perish in wars against the Roman Empire.

Put simply, Jewish people owe their existence today to Christ Jesus from this historical point of view as much as to Moses, Daniel, and other prophets.  Indeed, it must be impossible without interference by the God for a tribe to survive 4000 years.

As other examples in terms of survival of major tribes over thousand years, we may point to the Han Chinese and Japanese.  But, their histories and stories might belong to other paradigms of culture and religion.  (So, the fact should not be held low account that the corona-pandemic was generated in China.)

      

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Matthew 12  King James Version
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.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

"I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods" - The Pandemic, a Warning to the Money-Corrupted Mankind

 

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The Pandemic, a Warning to the Money-Corrupted Mankind

It must have been a big incident not only for the mankind in this world but also for angels and Satan in the spiritual world that the God decided to send His Son to the human world 2000 years ago.  Accordingly, angels and Satan must have taken necessary measures to respond to the holy action, which must have been reflected in the human history in these 2000 years.

It would be easier to understand the human history in these 2000 years from this point of view.  Put simply, the God sent His Son to the human world, especially among Jewish people, and inevitably Satan started to interfere with God's action and plan and harass believers in the God. 

Satan would persuade Jewish people not to believe that Christ Jesus is the Son of the God while persuading Christians to believe that Jewish people who would not accept Christ Jesus were enemies of Christians.  Satan would further tell Muslims that Christ Jesus cannot be the Son of the God since the God must not have a son while making Christian believe that Islam is a wrong religion.

Satan must have also penetrated into Christian churches and the Vatican, telling believers, priests, the Popes, etc. that they could succeed without faith, which means that there is no God, so that they should enjoy wealth in this world rather than abandon it due to the teaching of Christ Jesus.

Satan must have set Jewish people against Christians, Muslims against Christians, some Christians against other Christians, etc.  For this purpose, Satan helped the mankind develop science and technology to increase wealth in the world and make the mankind love wealth and money more than the God.

Indeed, whether a man believes in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or any other religion, he loves money and wealth.  None wants to be poor for the teaching of Christ Jesus, but everyone wants to be rich.

Consequently, the human civilization gets rotten and debased as Satan wishes.  What is worse, people have become less and less think about the God.  Men do not concentrate on the God with all of their strength, wisdom, and ability.  But they try to be richer with all of their strength, wisdom, and ability. 

Satan might say that there cannot be the God as you cannot see Him and money has real power as you see it.  In this way, Satan has almost completely brainwashed people.  And people who have lost faith would do every stupid thing for money, and thus the human civilization is going to be further corrupted.  Probably the mankind would finally destroy its civilization.

But, the God should give a warning to the mankind.  And, this corona-pandemic must be such a warning.  It must remind the mankind of their vulnerability.  The mankind should recall that their safety and prosperity are only possible due to mercy of the God.

For example, if new corona-viruses that are 100 times more fatal than the current ones appear somewhere in the world, there would have been 30 million deaths in the U.S. already.  And, Satan would not save people from the new corona-pandemic.  All the mankind should do is to pray to the God and ask Him for salvation. 

This corona-pandemic must be a warning to the money-corrupted mankind.  The God must request the mankind not to be brainwashed by Satan.

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Luke 12 King James Version
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?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

"they heard that he had done this miracle" - Satan is Here, There, and Everywhere like Corona-Viruses

 

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Satan is Here, There, and Everywhere like Corona-Viruses

The devil does not exist in Jewish scriptures.  However, In mainstream Christianity, the devil is usually referred to as Satan. This is because Christian beliefs in Satan are inspired directly by the dominant view of Second Temple Judaism, as expressed/practiced by Jesus, and with some minor variations. Some modern Christians consider the devil to be an angel who, along with one-third of the angelic host (the demons), rebelled against God and has consequently been condemned to the Lake of Fire. He is described as hating all humanity (or more accurately creation), opposing God, spreading lies and wreaking havoc on their souls. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil#Christianity)

Put simply, the Christian Gospels are records or stories about the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan.  The main theme of the Bible is how Satan tried to influence or destroy the Jewish people and Christ Jesus along with followers of Him.  Or the Bible can be easily understood from the point of view of the battle between the God and Satan.

Since the God had decided to choose and help Abraham, Satan could not help but interfering with the God's intention and trying to destroy descendants of Abraham.

Satan tried to destroy Jewish people in Egypt, but the God helped Moses lead his people out of Egypt.  Satan further tried to destroy Jewish people by use of Babylonia, but the God sent many Jewish prophets, including Daniel, and finally released them from captivity in Babylon.  Yet, Satan used Alexander the Great to defeat Israel and give Greek influence on Judaism and contaminate the Jewish religion.  But Jewish people stuck to Judaism.  So, finally, Satan helped the Roman Empire occupy Jerusalem, resulting in ethnical and religious crises of Jewish people.  It looked inevitable that Jewish people would revolt against the Roman Empire and lost the war to be dispersed in the Empire and disappear in the history.  But, the God sent His Son to Jewish people to strengthen their faith in the God and renovate Judaism.

So, Satan tried to make full efforts to destroy the Son of the God, who was called Jesus or the son of man.  And this battle between the Son of the God (Jesus) and Satan was later described in the Gospels.

Therefore, the Bible should be read to see the real state of the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan.

Finally, followers of Christ Jesus succeeded in establishing a new religion, Christianity, although most of Jewish people did not join Christianity.  Then, Satan tried to make Jewish people hate Christians by infusing the idea that the God should not send His Son to the human world.  Satan also made Christians hate Jewish people by infusing the idea that Jewish people were following Satan.  Satan partly succeeded in coming between Christians and Jewish people.  

The God also gave holy words to Arabs so as to become followers of the God.  But Satan made Muslims hold disbelief in Christianity and built a sense of disbelief in Judaism among Muslims.  This state has continued to date. 

In this context, the relationships between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be clearly understood by taking Satan into consideration.  So, it it not only the God but also Satan that has affected Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.      

Christ Jesus came to this world rather to show how evil Satan was.  And, He taught about Satan as much as about the God.  We could even read the Gospels as books about Satan.

Indeed, Satan is here, there, and everywhere like corona-viruses.   

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John 12 King James Version
18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.
19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.

"Recompense to no man evil for evil" - Forget about any other Matters in your Religion except the God

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Forget about any other Matters in your Religion except the God

According to Wikipedia, "Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance."  But, it is often neglected in most of non-Christian, non-democratic, and non-culturally modernized countries.

Christianity: According to the Catholic Church in the Vatican II document on religious freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, "the human person has a right to religious freedom", which is described as "immunity from coercion in civil society". This principle of religious freedom "leaves untouched traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion." 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

Judaism: Possibly because of this history of long term persecution, Jews in modernity have been among the most active proponents of religious freedom in the US and abroad and have founded and supported anti-hate institutions, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union. Jews are very active in supporting Muslim and other religious groups in the US against discrimination and hate crimes and most Jewish congregations throughout the US and many individual Jews participate in interfaith community projects and programs.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

Islam: Conversion to Islam is simple, but Muslims are forbidden to convert from Islam to another religion. Certain Muslim-majority countries are known for their restrictions on religious freedom, highly favoring Muslim citizens over non-Muslim citizens. Other countries[who?] having the same restrictive laws tend to be more liberal when imposing them.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#Christianity)

However, Judaism denies deity of Christ Jesus, claiming that Christ Jesus cannot be even the Son of the God.  Islam also denies deity of Christ Jesus.  As long as Judaism and Islam cannot accept the doctrine of Christianity, real freedom of religion cannot be possible among the Jewish community and the Islamic community.

On the other hand, Christian churches never teach that Judaism and Islam are right and authentic and it is worth believing in them.  Jewish people and Muslims are enemies of Christ Jesus, they imply.  As long as Christians despise Jewish people and Muslims, there cannot be true freedom of religion.     

From the historical point of view, Christianity has dominated the world, since it was adopted as the state religion of the Roman Empire in AD 392.  Since then, the religion has contributed to success of Europe without interruption.  Europe has never been conquered by Jewish people, Muslims, Hindus, Mongols, or Chinese.  Rather, European powers colonized various regions in Africa, Asia, and Americas.  Most European Christians did not want to convert to another religion being practiced by people ruled by them.  On the other hand, there has been strong unspoken pressure on Jewish people and Muslims to inhibit or prevent conversion.

However, there is no proof that any religion is wrong or right.  It is because the God had not shown the proof over and over again clearly to all the mankind.  The God is, so to speak, silent.  It is as if the God were waiting for the mankind to realize truth.  Then, what is the truth?

The answer must be meaninglessness of human religions.  The truth is the God and only the God.  Compared with the magnitude of meaning of the God, any human religions must be zero.  A man can be accepted by the God not because he believes in any specific religion but because he believes in the God.  In this context, the freedom of religion is the secondary matter.

If you are a Christina, you had better believe in the God more than any other Christian.  If you are a Jewish man, you had better believe in the God more than any other Jewish man.  If you are a Muslim, you had better believe in the God more than any other Muslim.  And, if you concentrate on the God, you would forget about what religion you belong to.  Or you had better forget about any other matters in your religion except the God.

Ideally, if you are asked, you should answer that you have forgotten about what religion you belong to, since you have been absorbed too much in thinking of the God.  

Conversely, men might have already caused offence to the God by thinking about their own religions but by spending less time in thinking about the God.  In addition, there is no freedom for believing in Satan or money, although a man of any religion would love money and thus Satan. 

In China, actually it is forbidden to freely believe in and practice any religion but a kind of religion called the Chinese Communist Party doctrine.  In this context, it may be thought that it is natural that corona-viruses were generated in China as a kind of God's punishment. 

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Romans 12 King James Version
14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

"But Peter continued knocking" - After this Corona-Pandemic What will Happen?

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

After this Corona-Pandemic What will Happen?

It is said that more and more people are leaving Christian churches in Europe and the U.S., the most culturally advanced regions in the world. 

But, without influence of any attitudes of human beings, the God exists if He exists.

With advancement of science and society, people have come to think that traditional teaching in churches is outdated.  Especially as churches were linked to the worldly power and structure as shown by the Vatican, they have lost influence on people as the world and society have been modernized.   

However, it does not mean that the mankind has proved that there is no God.  It rather means that people have come to be able to get what they want not by praying to the God but by relying on modern science, technology, and social systems.  It is as if people had forgotten significance of relationship between their life in this world and after death and the God.  It seems that as they could not prove that the God exists and there is life after death, they have started to concentrate on life in this world, trying to be materially happy, for which the faith in the God seems to be useless.  Consequently, many Europeans and Americans have started to leave churches.  However, this trend can be interpreted as victory of Satan who have been trying to brainwash people with power of money.  Satan seems to have succeed in making people choose money but not the God.

In deed, scientifically it cannot be said that the God had not created this universe, since science cannot say how the universe was generated.  Or more specifically, science cannot say what or who triggered the explosion of vacuum energy from which space and time of this universe were generated from naught.

Non-nonsense religions tell that this world was created by the God.  But before proving it scientifically, the mankind seems to be brainwashed by Satan, forgetting significance of the God and pursuing worldly wealth.  The biggest concern of modern Europeans and Americans is not life after death but material happiness in this world for which faith in the God seems to be useless.  So, it may be natural that they are leaving churches.

From the traditional religious view, it is the sate that Satan has almost won against the God.  Satan has succeeded in brainwashing people with money.  People have become richer by applying science and technology to their society, and they further pursue more wealth, forgetting about the God.  As people have come to spend most of time in earning money, they have come to less and less think of the God.   

         

Put simply, it does not matter how people show their respect to the God, or it does not matter what religion people believe in.  The key is believing in the God, the Creator of this universe.  And, it must be reasonable to try to find teaching of the God in traditional non-nonsense religions.  Consequently, people should find that there is a strong warning in the Bible that Satan has been trying to make people leave faith in the God through temptation with money.    

The civilization was initially built on non-nonsense religion, but it is now eroded by teaching of Satan.  More and more people are leaving the teaching of the God and pursuing worldly wealth while selling their souls to Satan who would penetrate into the mind of anybody.

If this trend continues, the God will forsake the mankind, so that human civilization should collapse and the mankind might go extinct.  But before such a tragedy, the God should give a warning to the mankind.  And, this corona-pandemic may be such a warning.  The fact that the mankind cannot completely protect themselves even from such minuscule viruses shows how foolish they are or how faithless they are.  Their faith in the God has become too shallow to be helped by the God.

After this corona-pandemic, if the mankind still continues the current trend toward wealth through Satan's temptation, the real anger of the God might come down from Heaven to put the end of the human history since the beginning of this universe.  


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

"the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood" - If the God Finds No Use of Men

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If the God Finds No Use of Men

It is interesting that both Martin Luther (1483-1546) and the Jewish Babylonian Talmud (compiled in the 3rd to 6th centuries) focus on the Gospel of John.  So, what is the Gospel of John?

"It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "signs" culminating in the raising of Lazarus (foreshadowing the resurrection of Jesus) and seven "I am" discourses culminating in Thomas's proclamation of the risen Jesus as "my Lord and my God"; the concluding verses set out its purpose, "that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John#Comparison_with_other_writings)

And, more specifically in comparison with other Gospels (synoptic gospel) of Mark, Matthew, and Luke:

Material found in the Synoptics but absent from John	Material found in John but absent from the Synoptics
Narrative parables	Symbolic discourses
The Kingdom of God	Teaching on eternal life
The end-time (or Olivet) discourse	Emphasis on realized eschatology
The Sermon of the Mount and Lord's Prayer	Jesus's "farewell discourse"
The baptism of Jesus by John	Interaction between Jesus and John
The institution of the Lord's Supper	Jesus as the "bread of heaven"
The Transfiguration of Jesus	Scenes in the upper room
The Temptation of Jesus by Satan	Satan as Jesus's antagonist working through Judas
Exorcism of demons	No demon exorcisms

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John#Comparison_with_other_writings)

The right religion should be based on the notion that this human world and the human history are reflections of the battle between God's angles and Satan with its soldiers.

If the God sent His Son to the human world to teach and save the mankind, Satan would do anything to destroy the Son of the God.  Satan would find it to be its best chance to harm the God only if it could destroy the Son of the God.  The gospels or records about Christ Jesus were written to record and show the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan.  In the Gospels, the main character is of course Christ Jesus, but the enemy role is Satan.   

Satan must have thought that it would be its great victory if Christ Jesus was rejected by His fellows, namely Jewish people.  And, Satan must have thought that it would be a great failure for Christ Jesus that He failed to choose all the right disciples and one of His disciples betrayed Him, which Christ Jesus could not prevent.  In these points, Satan succeeded.  What's more, Satan could make the mankind kill Christ Jesus.  Satan must have laughed at the God, pointing at Christ Jesus on the cross.  But, the story did not end there.  2,000 years after the temporary victory of Satan, billions of people in the world are revering Christ Jesus.

So, Satan must have changed its strategy.  It must have started to corrupt Christian churches and priests, deprave the civilization based on Christianity, and make people love money more than Christ Jesus and the God.  In deed, today there are almost no Christians who hate money as much as they hate Satan.  In this context, Satan has almost succeeded.  But, can there be complete victory of Satan?  And, what does it mean that Satan has won the battle against the God? 

The point at issue in this analysis can be found in the Gospel of John.  And the core of John's message is eternal life Christ Jesus promised and the God would give to believers.    

In my thought, those who were given eternal life after their death due to their faith in Christ Jesus and the God would hate this human world highly and heavily influenced and contaminated by Satan, so that they would never come back to this human world.  And those who were condemned to the hell should perish and go extinct there, so that they would never come back to this human world.

Finally, all we should do is love Christ Jesus and the God more than Satan and money so that we will be allowed to enter Heaven and obtain eternal life.   

In this context, believers must not be afraid of viruses.  They will not be contracted due to protection by effect of strong belief, and if contracted, they will not indicate serious disease; in case of falling in serious disease, they will not die; and in the case that they die of corona-viruses, they will enter Heaven.

Put simply, Satan would prefer the case that people live and get rotten to another case that people go extinct due to corona viruses.  Without living human beings, there cannot be any chances for Satan to harass the God.  Therefore, the mankind would not easily go extinct due to corona-viruses or any other pandemics.

However, if the God judges that there is no use of human beings, they can be exterminated at any moment.

       

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Revelation 12   King James Version
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.

”behold, thy King cometh” - Victims include Many European/American Christians, Muslims, and Israelis

 

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Victims include Many European/American Christians, Muslims, and Israelis

Put simply, the human history is a reflection of the battle between the God and Satan, although the God has set the scenario that Satan would be finally crashed by His Angels from the beginning.

When the God was pleased and rejoiced by Abraham's belief in Him, Satan tried to destroy Abraham's son, which the God prevented.

So, Satan worked to make descendants of Abraham slaves in Egypt, the then superpower, whom the God saved and helped leaving Egypt with Moses to whom the God gave the Ten Commandments based on which David and Solomon established and developed a Jewish kingdom.

Then, Satan used Babylon to make descendants of David and Solomon captives in Babylonia, whom the God liberated by using Persia, the then strong empire, so that liberated Jewish people could build a new temple in Jerusalem.

Then, Satan tried to help Alexander the Great occupy Jerusalem with expectation that Judaism would be replaced by the Greek civilization, which the God prevented by causing early death in Alexander the Great in Babylon.

Then, Satan helped Romans occupy Jerusalem and brainwash Jewish people by unprecedented worldly power and wealth symbolized by Caesar and Cleopatra, which gave a warning to the God so that He decided to send His Son to Jewish people.

Then, Satan further brainwashed priests of Judaism in Jerusalem and Roman officers to kill God's Son, in which Satan actually failed since God's Son resurrected from His death on the cross to launch and establish a new faction of Judaism to be later called Christianity which billions of people in various tribes, nations, and kingdoms in the world would believe.

Afterwards, Satan concentrated on corrupting Christianity, with which God's Son, called Christ Jesus, interfered to save believers.

So, Satan helped Arabs launch and establish Islam to attack and confuse Christians; however the history shows that Muslims have finally become enemies of Jewish people, which should confuse Satan.

But, as there have been three established religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam under one God, Satan have never lacked chances for interference with God's plan on the mankind, since the situation can be complicated at any time.  One of such examples is the massive massacre of millions of Jewish people in Christian Europe in WWII, and another is suppression of Muslims in Palestine by Jewish people after WWII.

Now the history is still gong in on as a reflection of the battle between the God and Satan.

The latest issue in this context is how the current corona-pandemic generated in China can be positioned in this history.  It seems more reasonable to regard the pandemic as a punishment by the God to the corrupted human civilization than Satan's attack on the corrupted human civilization.

Therefore, victims of the corona-viruses include many European/American Christians, Muslims, and Israelis (but comparatively less Buddhists).             

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John 12  King James Version

14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.

"Stretch forth thine hand" - Pray to the God so that He will Send His Son Again

 

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Pray to the God so that He will Send His Son Again

The Spanish Flu of a century ago lasted about two years from February 1918 to April 1920, almost 26 months.  So, even with effect of vaccination, the current corona-pandemic is estimated to continue till the summer of 2021, almost 17 months.

None seems to take this pandemic as a prelude to WWIII or a punishment by the God on the human civilization.  However, the timing of occurrence of this pandemic should be focused on.

It is 75 years after WWII, 100 years after cessation of the Spanish Flu at the end of WWI, 360 years after the Great Plague of London in 1665 when Isaac Newton launched the scientific revolution, 900 years after the Black Death spreading along the Silk Road and sweeping through Asia, Europe and Africa when the little ice age started and continued till the middle of the 19th century and the renaissance started in Italy, and 1700 years after the the Plague of Justinian in the 6th century in confusion due to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. 

So, from the historical point of view, this pandemic should be seen as symbolizing a change of the trend in the world history.  All through the history from the end of the Western Roman Empire, the renaissance, the era of Isaac Newton, the era of Einstein, and the high-tech age with artificial intelligence and gene engineering, pandemics have repeatedly occurred as if to give the mankind a warning of the God.  

Maybe, today, the human civilization has reached the state where it would start to destroy itself.  Or the human civilization has got rotten and debased too much through contamination by money and material wealth to be overlooked by the God.

It should be noted that 2000 years have passed since the emergence of Christ Jesus.  It may be the time for the mankind to be judged by the God.  If the mankind continues the current course with advanced technology and unrestricted material desire, it would be destined to go extinct through total corruption of humanity, WWIII between global powers such as the U.S., China, Russia, etc. or any other tragedies or acts of madness.    

It is symbolic that the current pandemic started from China, an authoritarian country with 1.4 billion population and big economic power but little respect to the Western value system based on Christianity.

China has achieved its success with help from the U.S., Japan, Germany, etc., but China has no intention to adapt democracy and other humanitarian systems the U.S., Japan, Germany, etc. have built after WWII.  Greed for material wealth by the U.S. and other Western countries is driven and led by Satan.  However, there are religious and ethic traditions and mechanisms to suppress it in those Western countries.  Satan cannot easily lead these countries to total destruction.  But China lacks such conditions and is likely to be more easily handled by Satan.

So, this China-origin pandemic must be a warning from the God, so that the world should take heed of material success of non-Christian China rather than that of the Christian U.S. and other Western countries.

Anyway, no Christians and Jewish people must expect that the end of the world will be brought by viruses generated in China in the 21st century.

However, if this pandemic is simply a warning to the mankind, how terrible the real tragedy leading to destruction of the human civilization will be.  All we have to do is to pray to the God so that He will send His Son again to the human world.    

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Matthew 12  King James Version
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.

"The Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say" - Like Christ Jesus had Appeared after Moses

 

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Like Christ Jesus had Appeared after Moses

It is a great thin and an unforgivable act for any Jewish man to call himself the God of Abraham, Moses, Jewish people, and all the mankind without proving that he is the God himself.

But not being able to identify such a man as the God while he is the God is an act of extraordinary blasphemy for any body, including Jewish men.

So, in the case of Christ Jesus, we have to judge as follows:

1. Christ Jesus is the God as the Vatican and other churches claim.

2. Christ Jesus is not the God at all as Judaists claim.

3. Christ Jesus is the God for Christians but not the God for Jewish people.

4. The concept about the God among Jewish people and/or Christians is wrong.

5. From the beginning, it is impossible for men to identify anybody as the God, even if somebody is the God as long as the God wants to make it secret.

For example, if we admit the case 1, we have to answer the question about how it can be possible for a Jewish man could be the God while Jewish people denied it.

If we admit the case 2, we have to answer the question about how the God gave ability and approval for Jewish people to judge as to whether Christ Jesus was not the God.

So, based on faith they believe they have,  Christians claim that Christ Jesus is the God while Jewish people claim that Christ Jesus is not.    

Nonetheless, the God has fully punished neither Jewish people nor Christians due to their judgment about the God and Christ Jesus.

But, it had been 2000 years from Abraham to Christ Jesus and has been also 2000 years from Christ Jesus to the 21st century.  As it is thought that the first emergence of Christ Jesus had been based on to the result from God's observation of Jewish people and the mankind since the era of Abraham, the God might send Christ Jesus again to the human world or take any decisive action since the same time of 2000 years has passed today since the first emergence of Christ Jesus.  And the reason for God's decisive action must be based on His observation of Jewish people and the mankind having still wrong views on the God and/or Christ Jesus.    

It may be extraordinary subservience to the God for men to take as the God another man as whom the God has disguised Himself so as not to be identified as such, in case that they have made a big or fatal mistake.  But it can be extraordinary discourtesy for men to call another man the God, who is not the God at all, no matter how much holy or even a saint, an Angel, or the Son of the God he may be.  In this context, however, the God might laugh and forgive timidity of Christians in the worst case, if Christ Jesus is not the God. 

But it is also extraordinarily foolish for Jewish men not to be able to identify as the God a man as whom the God has disguised Himself, which the God might laugh to forgive due to extraordinary foolishness of Jewish people.

So, it is thought punishment Jewish people or Christians would receive from the God is minor and light if they are wrong in judgment on Christ Jesus.

From the beginning, it cannot have influence on the God if Jewish people cannot see the God in Christ Jesus or Christians cannot see that Christ Jesus is not the God.  Nothing harms the glory and supremacy of the God.  Rather, the God might have mercy on Jewish people and/or Christians if they are making such a mistake.  The God should laugh and forgive them due to their foolishness or timidity.

But two grave issues remain:

1. How would Satan use their foolishness or timidity to attack the God?

2. What is the right or expected attitude toward Christ Jesus?   

Anyway, the same 2000 years have passed since the emergence of Christ Jesus as the period of time from Abraham to the emergence of Christ Jesus.  Something decisive must happen in the 21st century.

Like Moses had appeared among Jewish people after Abraham, Islam was introduced to the mankind after Christ Jesus.  Indeed, God's Son should appear among the mankind like Christ Jesus had appeared after Moses.        

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Luke 12 King James Version
12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
13 And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.
14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

"The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner" - Why Judaism Could Survive

 

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Why Judaism Could Survive

One of mysteries about Judaism is that it does not give clear definition about Heaven and the hell.  On the other hand, Christianity gives clear definition about Heaven.

According to the Gospel of Christianity, a beggar sitting at the gate of a rich man's house was, after his death, allowed to enter Heaven and was greeted by Abraham while the rich man fell down to the hell to be tormented wishing the poor man persuading the God to let him enter into Heaven in vain. 

Christ Jesus further said that whoever believed in Him and performed the words of the God would get eternal life.  But, Judaism is mainly based on Moses Ten Commandment where no promises or conditions were given about Heaven or the hell.

Therefore, Jewish people seem to have liberty in thinking about Heaven or the hell although they must admit that the God is in heaven and this world is not Heaven.  In this context, Judaism is imperfect.

In most cases, people get confident about authenticity of Christianity because it tells that poor men are allowed to enter Heaven as Christ Jesus said so and His followers extended the idea.  Christ Jesus set conditions for acceptance in Heaven: belief in the God and Him and poverty.

This can be understood if we realize that the God and Christ Jesus reject Satan who uses money and worldly wealth to make men obey it and reject the God and Christ Jesus.

Even if Jewish people observe all the teachings of Judaism and Moses Ten Commandments, they may accept Satan in the bottom of their minds to be rich and achiever worldly success and wealth, since there seems to be no Jewish teaching not to accept Satan, get rich with help from Satan, or accumulate money, which is a tool of Satan.

However, Christianity or Christ Jesus clearly focuses on Satan as His enemy, since Satan is opposed to teachings of the God.  Therefore, if a man is against Satan, rejecting money and worldly wealth Satan provides, he will be approved to enter Heaven.  Even if such a man does not know doctrines of Christianity and anything about Christ Jesus, the God would allow him to enter Heaven.  Being a member of the Jewish tribe or the religion Judaism is not necessary for a man to be allowed to enter Heaven.      

So, it is possible that an outwardly pious Jewish man cannot enter heaven but a pious man, without knowledge of Judaism or even Christianity, rejecting Satan from the depth of his heat is allowed into Heave.

Observing Moses Ten Commandments is only good for a man but not for the God, since the God is above Ten Commandments.  But, rejecting Satan is also good for the God, since Satan is opposed to the God.  Therefore, the God should love more a man rejecting Satan than another simply observing Moses Ten Commandments. 

Of course, the God might allow a Jewish man who observes every teaching of Judaism to enter Heaven.  But the God must 100% accept a man rejecting Satan into Heaven, according to Christ Jesus, which is Christianity.       　　

Probably, 2000 years ago, there must have been many Jewish men who fully observed teachings of Judaism but accepted Satan, so that Christ Jesus came to the world to set new conditions for acceptance into Heaven.  In other words, the God must have realized that even Jewish men fully observing teachings of Judaism could accept Satan so as to be rich or wealthy.  Therefore, the God sent Christ Jesus to the human world 2000 years ago, which however did not mean that He decided to abolish Judaism as well as Moses Ten Commandments.

That must be why Judaism could survive even to date in parallel with Christianity, while Christianity has been accepted by billions of people in these 2000 years, but Judaism has remained only as the religion of Jewish people.

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Mark 12    King James Version
9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

"I will have mercy, and not sacrifice" - Use 1 instead of 0.999999999... to Fight Satan

 

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Use 1 instead of 0.999999999... to Fight Satan

The significant difference between Judaism and Christianity of course lies in the concept about the God, but also in the concept of Satan, devils, and evil spirits. 

It should be understood that Christ Jesus, who was at least God's Son, was attacked and finally killed by Satan and its minions, since Satan is an enemy of the God.  To kill Christ Jesus and crush the good wishes and good intents of the God to save people, Satan used Roman soldiers, priests of Judaism, and Judas.  The story of the Bible (New Testament) tells what Satan is: a complete enemy of the God and, therefore, men.  But, Judaism does not take the same view, although it has its version of the concept about Satan. 

According to the Gospels, Satan is an enemy of the God, Christ Jesus, and His followers.  Satan represents evil spirits trying to destroy men's faith in the God and Christ Jesus.  Satan is the main source of evil and every bad thing for human beings.  Satan is an enemy of Christianity and followers of Christ Jesus, but for Jewish people, the sin of Christ Jesus calling Himself a Son of the God might be more significant and graver than the sin of Satan obstructing some intentions of the God.

Judaism does not put a great weight on the concept of Heaven, the hell, Satan, and the fight between good and bad.  Judaism thinks much of worldly peace, prosperity, morality, virtue, etc. in addition to the pride that Jewish people were uniquely and especially chosen by the God. 

Christianity regards the fight against evil spirits and Satan, in addition to having faith in the God and Christ Jesus, as the highest mission as well as the sacred duty.

You may judge some Jewish men to be the best from their words, attitudes and ways of living.  But there is no way to judge any Christians to be the best from their words, attitudes, and ways of living; only the God and Christ Jesus who can see their insides and content of their belief can judge them.  In this context, being a priest or even the Pope cannot assure that he is the best Christian.  Satan can enter a mind of any body some time.

Moses did not say that the God had said to him not to follow Satan, which was therefore not written on the slate with the Ten Commandments.  Christ Jesus also did not say to watch out for Satan when He was temporarily dying on the cross.  

But Satan appeared in person before Christ Jesus in the wilderness to destroy Him, which it failed.  How could Christ Jesus forget about or forgive Satan?  The hidden theme of the Gospel should be the fight between Christ Jesus and Satan.

On the other hand, the story of Judaism is also based on the fight between the God and Satan, which however seems not to be realized by Jewish people.  The God purged Adam and Eve from the paradise, which tells that Adam and Eve sold their souls to Satan.  The God once tried to destroy all the people except Noah, which tells everybody except Noah sold its soul to Satan.  The God sometimes forsook Jewish people so that they became slaves in Egypt and prisoners of war in Babylon and they were defeated and ruled by Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire, which tells that the God must have found many among Jewish people who sold their souls to Satan.  It looks like when Jewish people sold their souls to Satan, the God neglected Jewish people but when they repented, the God saved them.

Satan has not targeted only Jewish people but all the mankind.  Therefore, Christ Jesus sent his disciples to the world to fight Satan and save all the races, tribes, and people from Satan.  However, Judaism has no strong sense of mission to fight against Satan.  If Satan says that it believes in Judaism, Jewish people might accept it.  But even Satan says that it believes in Christianity, no Christians would accept it, since Satan is an incontestable enemy of Christ Jesus.

In this context, Jewish people might believe that even if they accepted Satan, the God would finally forgive them.  But Christians must know that if they accept Satan, Christ Jesus would not accept them.        

However, it is difficult to reject Satan, as none dislikes money, a tool of Satan.  Even Christian priests and the Pope like money like Judas who sold his soul to Satan for money.  But Jewish people seem not to find the sense of sin in loving money, since they are not followers of Christ Jesus and Moses did not say not to love money.   

If the God is the infinite, Satan is metaphorically 0.999999999... (= 1/3 x 3　= 1) which is mathematically 1.  Satan imitates the God by taking a figure of 0.99999999... in the form of a decimal number that accesses one forever as if taking access to the infinite.

Judaism looks like a religion to accept 0.999999999... instead of 1.  Christianity looks like a religion not to accept 0.999999999... but to use 1 instead not to accept Satan. 

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Matthew 12    King James Version
5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.