"for they shall be filled" - Life after Death Confirmed

 

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Life after Death Confirmed

It is a matter of course that there is the spirit world, Heaven, and the hell for any people who believe in any non-nonsense established religion.

In 1990s, a notable Japanese Christian author promised a popular female writer that he would come back to this world after his death and tell her whether there is really the world after death.

Accordingly he died in 1996 and came back to this world as a spirit in 1997. However, she could not directly see his spirit, but her friend who was a psychic consultant saw an image of his coming to her home and wandering her reading room, when he was talking with her by phone late in the night.

The spirt of the author said, "The world after death is almost like what we thought before my death, though, with some minor difference."  The psychic consultant told her that the author had been accepted in Heaven or into a higher level of the spirit world.   The spirt of the author said, "I think I have been accepted in Heaven because I was a good Christian, contributing much to charity, etc."  

Whether you believe or not, the dead author and the female writer could confirm that there was life after death, although they did not communicate directly.

It is said that spirits in the spirit world cannot easily come to or interfere with this world, or communicate with living men like living men in this world cannot easily visit the spirit world.  However, as Christ Jesus seems to have been able to freely go into and come back from the spirit world, there must be such a possibility even if it is very rare.   

For example, there is a bird, such as penguins, that can dive into the sea and swim there; there is a mammal, such as bats, that can fly in the sky; there is a fish, such as eels, that can crawl on the ground; and there is a primate, namely the mankind, that can fly in the space and visit the moon.  So, a man may visit the spirit world or communicate with someone in the spirit world, if the God allows it.

Anyway, it seems reasonable that a man consists of three parts, the physical body, the mind, and the soul.  When he dies, the body is destroyed, the mind based on the bran disappears, but the soul leaves the mind with memory of the mind to the spirit world.       

Christ Jesus did not tell how the soul or mind enters into the spirit world while the body is living in this world.  However, He said that a man could even move a mountain only if he has enough faith.  So, a man should be able to see the spirit world or communicate with sprits in the spirit world if he has enough faith or he is allowed so by the God. 

Anyway, it is not clearly shown to the mankind by the God that life after death exits, but the Christian Bible, the Islamic Koran, the Buddhist sutras, etc. are all based on the notion that life after death exists.  However, it is not really clear whether life after death exists for viruses such as corona-viruses.   


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Matthew 5, King James Version
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

"thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God" - Christ Jesus in and out of the Spiritual World

 

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Christ Jesus in and out of the Spiritual World

Christ Jesus performed some miracles and exercised supernatural power according to the Gospels.

Most of people, including Christians and non-Christians, think that they are exaggerated descriptions, since such miracles cannot be possible in real world.  However, as Christ Jesus seemed to be able to go into the spiritual world while living in this world, it is thought that they were real.

When Christ Jesus went into the spiritual world, He could surely talk with sprits and those living in the spiritual world and get necessary information about people in this world.  Therefore, He could see past experiences of people as well as what they were thinking.

Christ Jesus must have been able to see what people were hiding by asking spirits who had been in the minds of those people.  In addition, He could see how spiritual power or power in the spiritual world could act and work on materials and substances in this world.

So, the Gospels should be read from a point of view that Christ Jesus was a man who could freely enter into and exit out of the spiritual world with supernatural power given by the God.

In this context, Christ Jesus must not have been afraid of His own death in this world, since He could continue to live in the spiritual world after His death in this world.  So then, why was He depicted as a man who agonized  over the crucifixion?  He had supernatural power even to destroy Satan.  But He became a victim of those who had worldly power but had been brainwashed by Satan.  

At least, it is thought that Christ Jesus forgave human beings who were brainwashed by Satan to follow it and do every evil thing, thus showing great love to human beings.  But when He entered into the spiritual world after the crucifixion, Christ Jesus must have punished and destroyed Satan.

However, devils under Satan must still survive in this world or another Satan must have emerged, still trying to degrade and corrupt people so as to make them live and move against the God.  Although it must be easy for the God and Christ Jesus to destroy Satan in the spiritual world, they seem to like to have human beings destroy Satan by power of love, so that Christ Jesus showed an example to human beings as the Gospels reported.

Or, by fighting Satan, human beings must be able to become what the God and Christ Jesus want them to become.  Anyway, when a follower of Christ Jesus or a true Christian dies, he will be allowed to enter into the spiritual world and Heaven without a fear of or a worry about Satan.   


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Acts 5, King James Version
3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.

"Jesus went up to Jerusalem" - Robots to Take Over due to Viruses in Hundreds of Years

 

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Robots to Take Over due to Viruses in Hundreds of Years

Reality felt by a man depends on measure of precision when observing a phenomenon.  For example, a movie is played at a rate of 24 frames per second.  This rate makes a man feel smooth movement of events in the movie.

There are about 100 billion nerve or neuron cells and more than 100 trillion synapses or neuronal junctions in the human brain.  And electric signals are passed through synapses when the brain works as a man feels or thinks.  The whole brain may be regarded as a mass of networked micro computers that are never powered off since the birth of the man. 

It is not clear how many spiritual frames or units are generated per second in our brain while nerve cells and synapses are working in collaboration.  As every computer works according to a clock in the computer, a computer works through frames of calculation stages, and its operation looks halted momentarily observed in a minute fraction of period of time within a second.  Likewise, our brain should look halted momentarily if observed in a minute fraction of period of time.  

However, we never feel such discontinuation or gaps in work of the brain or mind.  We feel our mind works smoothly without time gaps, never losing its identity.  It is because there are so many nerve cells and synapses.  Even if they were all not completely synchronized, the time gap between working stages of the cells and synapses when no conscious is generated should be very minimal.  

Moreover, the brain only consists of material substances or physical entities made of atomic elements that cannot generate spiritual phenomena.  A substance or an atomic element that can generate conscious has never been discovered.  Even a chemical molecule or compound that can generate conscious has never been discovered.  Further, a biological cell that can generate conscious has never been discovered.  But the human brain made of 100 billion nerve or neuron cells and more than 100 trillion synapses surely generate conscious without discontinuation.

From this view, it is inferred that conscious is generated from working or actions of the mass of 100 billion nerve or neuron cells and more than 100 trillion synapses.  And, major physical phenomenon of nerve cells and synapses is transmitting, receiving, and handling electric current.  It is like transmitting, receiving, and handling of electric current in a TV set or a smartphone where visual images and sounds are reproduced on its screen, etc.  Electromagnetic fields generated in the brain with flow of electric current, though very minute, under control of a soul should work as electronic circuits in a TV set or smartphone to reproduce images and sounds from electric signals.  

As long as electric power and signals are provided for a TV set or a smartphone, it functions, reproducing images and sounds.  Similarly, as long as a man lives and oxygen contained in blood is provided for the brain, it continues to work like a computer system that is never powered off.  And, electric currents continue to flow in the brain, generating small but complicated electromagnetic fields whose existence is never interrupted, forming the basis of human conscious and mind.

However, it must not be possible that only one nerve cell or a few synapses can also generate electromagnetic fields working as the basis of human conscious and mind.  For the brain to generate human conscious and mind, it should need 100 billion nerve or neuron cells and more than 100 trillion synapses that are electrically networked and integrated.  As a human body consists of about 50 trillion cells, its mind needs electrically networked and integrated 100 billion nerve or neuron cells and more than 100 trillion synapses whose number of possible combinations in their network surpasses the number of whole stars in the universe beyond our Milky Galaxy.

So, to simulate a human mind, we may need networked 100 trillion computers.  A robot with artificial intelligence based on networked 100 trillion processors should work and function to show a kind of conscious and mind that can be perceived as a human mind by a man. 

That is why I assume that such robots will take over the earth from human beings in future, say, in hundreds of years.  They should think, feel, and behave like men, although they must work as machine in every very minimum fraction of time.

Anyway, it looks possible, though not desirable, that human civilization is inherited by robots that are not vulnerable against viruses and pandemics such as the current corona-pandemic.  In this case, the earth looks like continuing the human prosperity if observed from distant stars many light years away.  

    　     

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John 5, King James Version
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

"passing through the midst of them" - Even if They Die due to the Corona-Pandemic

 

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Even if They Die due to the Corona-Pandemic

It is said in the Gospel that "But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered (Luke 12).  It means that the God can see you although He is not seen by you.

Everybody has eyes to see things outside the brain.  Observed objects are converted to electric signals that are transmitted through nerves to the brain cells where images of the objects are reconstructed.  But how can your mind see the reconstructed images?

The eyes are kind of digital cameras that transmit electric signals carrying electrically converted images from the eyes to the brain cells.  And the brain cells work as a TV set to decode the electric signals to show images of the objects.  Then, your mind sees the images.  However, your mind is a result of work of brain cells whose number is tens of billions or more.  And it is thought that the major part of the work of the brain cells is based on electromagnetic behaviors of the cells.  Can your mind based on electromagnetic force see images of observed objects decoded from electric signals?  

If you put a video camera in front of a TV screen, can we think that the video camera is watching TV.  A human viewer is needed to see TV.  So, a soul is needed to see encoded images in the brain cells.  The soul that can control the mind in the brain is needed to see images decoded from electric signals sent from the eyes.

Object => Eyes => Electric signals => Brain cells => Images => Mind & Soul          

The mind cannot exist apart from the brain cells, although some people claim that they have had out-of-body experiences.  But, as for the spirit, the Gospel reads as follows: The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit (John 3).

The mind is based on electromagnetic force bound to physical entities or human cells or nerves.  But the soul or spirt must follow another low superseding the natural laws in this world.  Therefore, it is natural that the soul simulates the function of the mind to see images of objects.  And thus, the soul must be able to exist out of the human body.  And as an angel is an entity made of the spirit, it can see a man out of his body and count the number of his hairs. 

When a man dies, his brain stops functioning, even, electromagnetically, and thus his mind creases to exist, but his soul controlling his mind can leave the body and move to the spiritual world.  In this context, the spirit of a man enters into Heaven or the hell as Christ Jesus mentioned: And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise (Luke 23).

Christians are those who believe in Christ Jesus and accordingly believe that Heaven and the hell exist.  Even if they die due to the corona-pandemic, they shall be accepted in Heaven unless they have sold their souls to Satan while living in this world.      

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Luke 4, King James Version
26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

"because the harvest is come" - The Spiritual World outside the Physical World

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The Spiritual World outside the Physical World

Plato described, about 400 years before the appearance of Christ Jesus, the Myth of Er where the afterlife was depicted, which is one of early reports on near-death experiences (NDE).

Er died in a battle, but he was revived on his funeral-pyre and told others of his journey in the afterlife, "including an account of reincarnation and the celestial spheres of the astral plane. The tale includes the idea that moral people are rewarded and immoral people punished after death." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_Er)

Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321) also wrote the Divine Comedy, a long Italian narrative poem, displaying the state of the soul after death, presenting "an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward, and describing Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy).  William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) also wrote Hamlet, his masterpiece, handling ghosts, showing his interest in the spiritual world.

In addition, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772), a Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic, wrote many books on the afterlife, Heaven and the hell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg); and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) presented Faust, a tragic play, focusing on human souls, the devil, Heaven, etc. 

In Gospels, Christ Jesus seems to take it as read that the soul of a man goes into the spiritual world after his physical death in this world.  Therefore, the European Christian civilization and culture are based on the notion that a man has a soul that will live in the spiritual world after his biological death in this world. 

Therefore, there is no wonder that Eben Alexander III (1953 -), an American neurosurgeon and author, wrote a book on his near-death experience that happened in 2008 under medically-induced coma when treated for meningitis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Alexander_(author)).

"Alexander's second book, The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife, was published in October 2014, where he again asserted the existence of an afterlife and that consciousness is independent of the brain. Alexander framed his observations with quotations from spiritual teachers and paired them with the recent work of scientists with the aim of bridging religion and science." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Alexander_(author)#Proof_of_Heaven)

There are many people who experienced near-death-experiences in the world.  According to recent research, 40% of Americans have experienced near-death experiences at the point of death or under critical conditions.　Most of contents of their experiences include peaceful access to the spiritual world but they were told to return to this world and thus they were revived.  Interestingly, most of them did not face judgement by the God.

Anyway, as the critical era as to whether the mankind can be allowed to avoid the end of the world seems to come closer in the 21st century, information on near-death experiences, Heaven and the hell, the God and Satan, etc. must be all the more focused on.  More and more people should be given such information by the God, Angels, etc. 　　

In my view, Satan should also interfere with this trend, sending false prophets and sorcerers with evil spirits.  People should be confused or brainwashed with wrong images of the spiritual world.  Otherwise, some people should all the more stick to atheism. 

However, as everyone believes that he has a mind in addition to his physical body, there is no wonder that there is the spiritual world outside the physical world where we are living. 

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Mark 4, King James Version
28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

"I that speak unto thee am he" - Corona-Pandemic Came from Cupidities

 

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Corona-Pandemic Came from Cupidities

According to Emanuel Swedenborg (8 February 1688 – 29 March 1772), a Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic, who became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758), diseases of human beings can be explained as follows:

CONCERNING DISEASES. ((All diseases, with man, exist from no other source [than that just described], and very many only from cupidities, as for instance, from excessive indulgence of various vices, and from the number of them, as from the various bodily delights from lascivious practices, and from anxiety about the future. These are the real causes of all diseases. Nor is death itself from any other source, than by reason of sin. These things vitiate the blood: when this is vitiated, they obstruct and choke up the very small vessels - wherefore diseases break out. Hence it is that diseases correspond to those spheres which are from hell. If mankind had lived in a state of good, then a man would wane, even to the utmost feebleness of age; and then, when the body could no longer minister to the internal man, that man would pass away from its earthly body, without disease.)) (

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Although he did not especially mention infectious diseases by viruses, all diseases must include such infectious diseases.  It is not clear how infectious diseases by viruses are related to human cupidities such as desires for wealth or carnal desires, but this corona-pandemic was generated in the world seeking for wealth and worldly pleasures. 

If the mankind had been engaged in pursuing justice, welfare, promotion of peace and environment preservation, and love of humanity, they should have put all resources to disease eradication and succeeded in creating veritable panaceas or medical treatments.

The the total amount for medical expenses in the world in 2016 was about 7.5 trillion dollars, while total amount of military spending in the world in 2019 was about 1.9 trillion dollars.  In addition, the market scale of entertainment service and leisure industries in the world is about 1.5 trillion dollars; and the total market scales of food and beverage industries in major 34 countries in 2015 was about 8 trillion dollars.

Therefore, the mankind are spending medical expenses almost equal to costs for foods and beverages and twice larger than military and entertainment expenses combined.

However, to conquer all diseases, it seems necessary to cut military and entertainment expenses as much as possible and further introduce more healthy foods and beverages.  And, more importantly, men should adapt a new religion, philosophy, and mind sets on their life to decrease material cupidities as much as possible.  　

Diseases ultimately lead to death.  In this sense, diseases must be handled spiritually.  And to clean up and purify the environment where diseases are generated, men should be first sublimed.   For this purpose, reading Swedenborg might be useful, as reference, as well as the Bible, since he saw the spiritual world while living in this world. 

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John 4, King James Version
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

"those which were possessed with devils" - No Religions Accept Fatal Viruses

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No Religions Accept Fatal Viruses

It is 1,000 years ago that the Japanese Buddhism entered into a new era setting a frame work leading to today's Japanese spiritual paradigm.

Genshin (942 – July 6, 1017), also known as Eshin Sōzu , was the most influential of a number of scholar-monks of the Buddhist Tendai sect active during the tenth and eleventh centuries in Japan. Genshin, who was trained in both esoteric and exoteric teachings, wrote a number of treatises pertaining to the increasingly popular Pure Land Buddhism from a Tendai viewpoint, but his magnum opus, the Ōjōyōshū ("Essentials of Birth in the Pure Land") had considerable influence on later Pure Land teachers such as Honen and Shinran. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshin) 

It was the pre-Crusader era in Europe when the Caliphate of Córdoba, an Islamic state, ruled by the Umayyad dynasty in Iberia collapsed.  In this period, as a Danish prince, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016, in the wake of centuries of Viking activity in northwestern Europe.

Buddhism was imported to Japan through China and Korea before the 6th century and adopted by the Imperial court, encouraging building of Buddhist temples in Nara, Kyoto, etc., but the religion was mostly revered, studied, and practiced by noble people and elites of Japan.  But, around 10th century, many monks started to make Buddhism prevail in ordinary people in society.  Genshin was one of such progressive monks.

Genshin is still well known as a pioneer monk who contributed to foundation of Pure Land Buddhism that is still a major sect of Buddhism among Japanese people.  So, images about Heaven and the hell for Japanese people of today are still based on Genshin's Ojoyoshu.

To write the Ojoyoshu, Genshin studied various Buddhist sutras and collected descriptions about the pure land and the hell, which he introduced in the Ojoyoshu.  Those descriptions about the pure land and the hell were a kind of real, and people believed the content of the book, whose influence can be even seen today.  The book, the Ojoyoshu, was introduced to China to help revival of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty of China. 

In the Ojoyoshu, Genshin encouraged people to chant the name of the Buddha while imaging the state of the pure land.  He also encouraged people to do good in order to be admitted into the pure land.  Even a sinful man could be accepted in the pure land only if he repented and prayed to the Buddha.  It is not known how Genshin himself saw the pure land and the hell, but his description was compelling. 

Even today, images a Japanese would see in his near-death experience are mostly influenced by the content of the Ojoyoshu or by contents of Japanese Buddhist sects in the 'Jodo' line based on the Ojoyoshu.

So, the paradigm of Christian Heaven and hell and the encouragement of good in Christianity can be easily understood by Japanese, since they are parallel with the images of the pure land and the hell and teachings depicted by Genshin 1,000 years ago.  

If a Japanese thinks that Heaven and the hell or the spiritual world exists, it is not only because he blindly accepts Christian teachings, but it is because he can find similar teachings and images in traditional Japanese Buddhism.  Therefore, it is likely that Heaven and the hell or the spiritual world exists, although Buddhism regards the Buddha as the highest personality both in this world and in the spiritual world.

In addition, the concept of Satan or Evil One is also found in the Japanese Buddhism as a false god that hinders people from accepting and following the Buddha.

As the crisis leading to the end of the world is near nowadays, the God should invoke spiritual tradition of every tribe and religion in the earth so that the mankind can conquer the crisis and survive for future centuries.  And, it is lucky that Japan as a member of leading G7 countries share a similar concept on Heaven and the hell with other members that are all Christian.

Anyway, no religions accept fatal viruses that would cause the hell in the earth.

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Matthew 4, King James Version
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.

"Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh" - The Corona-Pandemic, a Warning just before the Preparatory Period prior to the Crucial Year of 2070

 

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The Corona-Pandemic, a Warning just before the Preparatory Period prior to the Crucial Year of 2070

In 1995, Japan suffered a big earthquake around Kobe City, west of Osaka and Kyoto, resulting in more than 6,000 deaths.

In 2011, Japan suffered again a big earthquake and huge tsunamis around Sendai City and the Fukushima Prefecture, north east of Tokyo, resulting in more than 20,000 deaths and missing persons in addition to the Fukushima Nuclear accident. 

In 2020, Japan was attacked by the corona-pandemic, resulting in about 9,000 deaths and postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, which is still going on as of April 2021.  

It is 16 years from 1995 to 2011, and 9 years from 2011 to 2020.  So, it is assumed that another tragedy might happen in 2024, since it would be 4 years from 2020 to 2024.  Indeed, 16 is a square of 4, 9 is a square of 3, and 4 is a square of 2.  The series of crises in Japan looks like following the series of year gaps in squares of 4, 3, and 2.

In my view, the end of the century still continues since 1995 for Japan.  For the U.S., the end of the century seems to have started around 2001 with the 9/11 Attacks.  And, the U.S. underwent the 2007/2008 Financial Crisis and the 2020 corona-pandemic.  It is 7 years from 2001 to 2008 and 13 years from 2007 to 2020.  The series of crises in the U.S. looks like following a series of prime numbers in terms of the years interval.  Therefore, the U.S. might face a more critical crisis around 2039, since it is 19 years from 2020 to 2039 in a series of 7, 13, and 19.

For comparison with the 1st century when Christ Jesus first appeared in the human world, in AD 24 Christ Jesus was about 28, being prepared for His mission prior to being Baptized in the Jordan, and in AD 39, after the crucifixion and ascendance to Heaven of Christ Jesus, Paul had been converted on the way to Damascus and already started his mission.

So, between 2024 and 2039, Christ Jesus might come the second time and perform His second mission in this world, although we might not be able to realize it.

But, around 2070, a clear catastrophe to the world, such as WWIII, might happen, since the destruction of Jerusalem through the Roman-Jewish War happened in AD 70, which is 50 years later from now.

And, if the God decides to forgive and save the mankind, the human history should be allowed to continue through the 22nd century and thereafter, though, with a new mindset or notion about the God or the relationship between the God and men. 

In this context, this corona-pandemic might be an episode or a warning just before the preparatory period prior to the crucial event around 2070.   

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John 4, King James Version
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

"To preach the acceptable year of the Lord" - Please Forgive our Sins and Save us from this Pandemic!

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Please Forgive our Sins and Save us from this Pandemic!

The God said to Moses:
14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you. (Exodus 3, King James Version)

If we trust in the Bible, the God actually spoke to Moses about 3300 years ago, saying that He described Himself as somebody that could exist only due to Himself alone. 

Everything and everyman that exist can only exist due to certain appropriate preceding conditions.  Everything exists due to certain appropriate physical or natural conditions.  Everyone exists due to certain appropriate biological and spiritual conditions.  But the God's existence does not owe itself to anything but itself or the God Himself.  Existence of anything depends on the God or His intention to allow such existence.   In this context, the God is equivalent to existence in logic or discussion.  

Above the concept of existence or non-existence, there must be some ascendant concept that the mankind cannot still understand.  And the God must be originally there.  It means that the God does not have to even exist, since He is above existence.  But the word "I am" implies that He decided to exist for Himself and execute the power of existence.

If this material universe had not been created about 13.7 billion years ago, which means that no mankind could be also created 250,000 years ago, the God should exit or more than exist.

With continuation of development of man's science, the mankind may understand and explicate all the wonders, mysteries and secrets of what can exist, but it must be theoretically impossible for us to know the full aspects of the God who is also above existence.

We think that the God somewhat resembles us, and thus we often think that the God should save us immediately if He finds we are at risk, in danger, or in a trouble.  If we have faith in the God, He should surely save us, but He might save us in a way and manner we cannot understand.  For example, He might not save our life in this world, but He might decide and plan to accept us in Heaven after our life in this world.

Therefore, men with faith in the God are not afraid of the corona-virus and other fatal disease germs and viruses.

In addition, traditionally it is thought that the God is the highest good.  We might have to think of the God from this point of view other than the point that the God has the power to save us in a predicament such as a pandemic.  

And in that case, we must have a wonder if the God would save us without a higher level of goodness or virtue the God should expect.  Indeed, it looks sure that the God would surely save the mankind from any pandemic immediately if all the mankind are good enough to rejoice the God who is also the highest good.  

Finally, all we can do is still pray to the God, saying, "Please forgive our sins and save us from this pandemic!"        

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Luke 4, King James Version
17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

"From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent" - Some Significant Crisis should Happen in 2038, 2054, and 2072

 

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Some Significant Crisis should Happen in 2038, 2054, and 2072

It is reasonable to check what happened when Christ Jesus first appeared in the human world 2000 years ago, since 2000 years have already passed.

6 AD Herod Archelaus deposed by Augustus; Samaria, Judea and Idumea annexed as Iudaea Province under direct Roman administration, capital at Caesarea. Quirinius became Legate (Governor) of Syria, conducted Census of Quirinius, opposed by Zealots (JA18, Luke 2:1–3, Acts 5:37)

7–26 Brief period of peace, relatively free of revolt and bloodshed in Iudaea and Galilee

9 Pharisee leader Hillel the Elder dies, temporary rise of Shammai

14–37 Tiberius, Roman Emperor

18–36 Caiaphas, appointed High Priest of Herod's Temple by Prefect Valerius Gratus, deposed by Syrian Legate Lucius Vitellius

19 Jews, Jewish proselytes, astrologers, expelled from Rome

26–36 Pontius Pilate, Prefect (governor) of Iudaea, recalled to Rome by Syrian Legate Vitellius on complaints of excess violence (JA18.4.2)

28 or 29 John the Baptist begins his ministry in the "15th year of Tiberius" (Luke 3:1–2), saying: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near" (Matthew 3:1–2), a relative of Jesus (Luke 1:36), a Nazirite (Luke 1:15), baptized Jesus (Mark 1:4–11), later arrested and beheaded by Herod Antipas (Luke 3:19–20), it is possible that, according to Josephus' chronology, John was not killed until 36 (JA18.5.2)

Jesus begins his ministry after his baptism by John and during the rule of Pilate, preaching: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near" (Matthew 4:12–17). 

While the historicity of the gospel accounts is questioned to some extent by some critical scholars and non-Christians, the traditional view states the following chronology for his ministry: Temptation, Sermon on the Mount, Appointment of the Twelve, Miracles, Temple Money Changers, Last Supper, Arrest, Trial, Passion, Crucifixion on Nisan 14th (John 19:14, Mark 14:2, Gospel of Peter) or Nisan 15th (Synoptic Gospels), entombment by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, Resurrection by God and Resurrection appearances of Jesus to Mary Magdalene and other women (Mark 16:9, John 20:10–18), Simon Peter (Luke 24:34), and others, (1Cor.15:3–9), Great Commission, Ascension, Second Coming Prophecy to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, and establishment of the Kingdom of God and the Messianic Age.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Christianity)

Especially, about the crucifixion of Christ Jesus:

Scholars have provided estimates in the range 30–33 AD, with Rainer Riesner stating that "the fourteenth of Nisan (7 April) of the year A.D. 30 is, apparently in the opinion of the majority of contemporary scholars as well, far and away the most likely date of the crucifixion of Jesus." Another preferred date among scholars is Friday, April 3, 33 AD.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_of_Jesus#Chronology) 

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the U.S. has experienced the following major events:

2001: September 11 attacks in New York City; Washington, D.C.

2008: Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President and the 1st African American President of the United States.

2020: The corona-pandemic generated in China attacked the U.S., taking out almost a half million Americans.

By analogy with the first century, we are thought to be still in the brief period of peace.  However, we may face a drastic event as the era comes closer to 2030s when some potentially sacred and significant movement should happen, although it might not be the Second Coming of Christ Jesus but it must be an auspice of the drastic event. 

Indeed, after 60 AD:

66–73 First Jewish–Roman War: destruction of Herod's Temple and end of Judaism according to Supersessionism; Qumran community (site of Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1947) destroyed...

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Christianity)   

It is 7 years from 2001 to 2008, and 19 years from 2001 to 2020; therefore 37 years after 2001, that is 2038, 53 years after 2001, that is 2054, and 71 years after 2001, that is 2072 might be critical, since these intervals are of primary numbers. 

If Americans and other peoples do not fully repent, some significant crisis should happen in 2038, 2054, and 2072 with a more catastrophic event more devastating than the corona-pandemic.

As Christianity grew and expanded after the First Jewish-Roman War (66-73), the new era of the mankind based on the right and legitimate belief in the God should start over those difficult years in the 21st century, if the mankind are allowed to further develop and prosper through the next 2000 years.  And, we may need the Second Coming of Christ Jesus for this proceeding.

Indeed, only the power of Christ Jesus should defeat any fatal viruses that might be generated by some evil and mad people in the future.  We had better reflect on our vulnerability against some biological threats such as viruses.  Otherwise, robots without biological vulnerability might take over the world from humans.            

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Matthew 4, King James Version
16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

"Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not" - Repent and Repair Defects of this Civilization so Vulnerable to Viruses

 

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Repent and Repair Defects of this Civilization so Vulnerable to Viruses

There are 7 billion (7 x 10^9) people in this world.  Each man has 37 trillion (37 x 10^12) cells.  And each human cells is supposed to have 10^14 atoms.  Finally, (7 x 10^9) x (37 x 10^12) x 10^14 or 259 x 10^35 (2.59 x 10^37) atoms work in men in the earth.  And, it is thought that all these atoms are the same in their structure and functions.  Or, more than 10 to the 37th power of atoms in this earth are used to make human beings, and all these atoms are the same.

If this universe was created by chance, it must be impossible to allow 7 billion people to live and exist with same 37 trillion human cells, each consisting of 10^14 atoms, although with some variations in terms of their functions controlled by genes and DNA in these cells.

This universe is systematically and scientifically built without mentioning human bodies, cells, and atoms inside them.

The possibility that this well harmonized and sophisticatedly built universe and human beings are created by chance as a result of random trials must be almost zero or zero as much possible as tomorrow will never come on April 15, 2021.   

So, it is natural and reasonable that somebody had planned and designed creation of this universe and human beings, and this somebody must be called the God but not Satan. 

By the way, if all the human beings died of corona-viruses, Satan could not find any souls to brainwash and make betray the God.  So, Satan should not annihilate human beings but want people to love and pursue money and wealth more than the God.  But, the God might put the end to the human history to stop Satan from interfering with God's plan for human beings if He gets angry enough at Satan and human beings.   

However, the God would not so easily exterminate the human beings as He had created this universe and the mankind in such a refined and elaborated manner, although it might be a very easy trial for Him but it has give a chance to Satan to interfere with His some sacred plan.  What's more, He sent His Son to the human world for His love to the mankind.  It is unthinkable that the God cruelly intended to exterminate the mankind with this corona-pandemic in the early 21st century.

However, this estimation does not mean that the God is not angry at human beings for their rotten civilization, so that the God might try to persuade the mankind to repent and change their way to run and manage their civilization.

Indeed, the human civilization is still vulnerable to viruses, which means something is wrong in the current human civilization, so that we have to repent and repair defects of this civilization. 

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John 4, King James Version
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

"Know ye not this parable?" - 67 Generations have Passed since Christ Jesus with Corona-Virus Warning

 

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67 Generations have Passed since Christ Jesus with Corona-Virus Warning

According to Christ Jesus, 25% of people are ready for following Satan.  Another 25% of people opt for the worldly matters and systems more than God's words.  Another 25% of people love the riches and success in the world more than God's words.  And the remaining 25% of people love God's words to follow the God and set an example of followers of the God, influencing 100% of people in the next generation.

If this series of selection of people continues, there are always 25% of people in any generation who accept God's words and follow the God, although 75% of people in any generation do not accept or hold God's words to follow Him.

In this context, we had better think that only one among four people is allowed to enter into Heaven but other three go to the hell.  Or, four people will be divided into two groups.  And each group consisting of two is divided to two or separately.  And only one in a specific group is allowed to enter into Heaven.

The reasons why three of four people cannot enter into Heaven, but one in four can are (1) Satan directly brainwashes one, (2) the worldly power controlled by Satan dominates another, and (3) worldly desires pushed by Satan capture another, but (4) inherent love for the God makes the remaining one follow the God and help the mankind continue to survive. 

In other words, without god-loving 25% of people in the world, the mankind should perish.

So, it is recommended to teach children that three of four people they will meet in society would surely be condemned to the hell, but one in four might be allowed to Heaven.  The reasonable advice to good children is that a majority of people are bad, and a half of a half of all might be not so bad.

Even in the case of Christ Jesus, only a few among 12 disciples helped next generations carry the faith in the God and Christ Jesus through the Gospels.  And, 2000 years after the era of the direst mission by Christ Jesus, things do not seem to be much improved.  Or, the ratio of believers might be getting deteriorated.            

From a different view, 2000 years mean almost 67 generation of the mankind.  And faith is found only in 25% among every generation; therefore this succession of 25% through 67 generations results in 4.6 x 10 to the power of minus 41 or 4.6 x 10^(-41).

Indeed, as the world population is almost seven billion, 7 x 10 to the power of 9, or 7 x 10^9, the purity of faith must be almost 10 to the power of minus 32 or 10^(-32), which is almost nil or zero.  Consequently, it is no wonder that the God might put the end to the human history.

Conversely, if the corona-virus loses its harming power at the ratio of 25% per infection, it should be almost harmless after 67 generations of its continued existence.  Put imply, after infection to 67 people, the virus should lose its harming power.  If it takes two weeks for one infection (or one person), in 134 weeks or 2.8 years this pandemic should be ended.  So, this corona-pandemic must continue from January 2020 to September 2022.

Indeed, when everyone dies, no evil should exist in this world.  If the God wants Satan to be completely destroyed with extermination of the mankind, the human history might be said to have been doomed to finish at the proper time the God had originally set.  Anyway, 67 generations have passed, the time might really come.  We had better read the Bible as the corona-pandemic must be a warning.     

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Mark 4, King James Version
13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
14 The sower soweth the word.
15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.

"the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain" - Wealth Making Men Blindly Content Leads to Fatal Crisis such as Corona-Pandemic

 

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Wealth Making Men Blindly Content Leads to Fatal Crisis such as Corona-Pandemic

If anybody of today met Satan who told them to give any wealth, success, and reputation only if he revered and followed Satan, probably he would accept and follow Satan to be rich and happy. 

Not believing in existence of the God, Satan, Heaven, the hell, etc. should not assure that such a person would reject such an offer of Satan who might disguise itself as a Lady Luck.

This issue has become so critical nowadays as the mankind have become so rich after 2000 years since the first appearance of Christ Jesus. 

(https://www.visualcapitalist.com/2000-years-economic-history-one-chart/)

The increase in wealth of the mankind suggests realization of not only rich life but a dangerous world.  It should be supported by development of science and technology.  The mankind should surely acquire dangerous weapons and other means strong enough to destroy the human civilization.  And this corona-pandemic suggests a possibility of biological weapons.

Development of medical science and biological science would surely bring about improvement of human health and welfare.  But, it might also accelerate danger of development of biological weapons or wrong application of such technology to the human body.

Although today men cannot yet create effective medicines to suppress any wrong viruses, such medicines, if any, must have unseen adverse effects.  Or men might find a way to handle human genes or DNA to be free from dangers such viruses should cause.  But such handling of human genes or DNA would lead to unforgivable interference with biological conditions of human beings. 

Now the mankind have obtained wealth over restriction set by Christ Jesus.  This level of wealth can be only obtained by selling men's souls to Satan, which Christ Jesus did not.  Based on such wealth, men should create dangerous technologies.  For example, as stated, the mankind might start to handle genes or DNA, which might lead to biological crisis if used by evil men or terrorists.  The mankind might develop computer systems that can efficiently handle monetary economy with a possibility of global economic destruction if used by evil men or terrorists.

So, today with this dangerous level of wealth, any crisis can happen.  And, this corona-pandemic is a warning.  It is symbolic that this pandemic was first generated in China getting rich with its GDP increasing.

With unforgivable wealth and success, men would have a desire to be further richer by use of their wealth, in which they would break restrictions set by the God.  In this scenario, men would finally face an unexpected tragedy, which means that the end of the world should come.

This pandemic, where tiny viruses generated in China have attacked the global civilization in such a large scale, is really a warning to the mankind whose wealth has explosively increased in these centuries.        

The fatal crisis or the end of the world should really come when and where people, being content with and blind due to their wealth, never dream of it, like none could expect the corona-pandemic in 2020.

  

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Matthew 4, King James Version

7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.