"the blind and dumb both spake and saw" - Be Humble and Moneyless like Little Children

Tokyo Sky-Tree Tower and Mt. Fuji

Be Humble and Moneyless like Little Children

What are conditions to be accepted in Heaven?  There are the following descriptions on this issue in the Gospel (Matthew 18).

18 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

Conversely, there are too many arrogant people in this world.  The more a man gets money, the more arrogant the man becomes.  But, a little child without money is humble.  His judgment is not biased due to influence of money.  He must see power and wisdom of the God in everything.  And as overwhelmed by God's wisdom and power, he cannot help but become humble.      

So, the one who feels and finds God's power in everything to become humble as much as possible is accepted in Heaven.  In other word, the most humble one looking the smallest one in this world will become as great as possible in Heaven.  Therefore, rich men are too small to be accepted in Heaven.

By the way, historically many emperors, kings, etc. tried to obtain eternal life.  In quest for eternal life, they asked scholars, religious people, wise men, etc. about the way to obtain eternal life.  They also sent expedition teams afar off to search for secret medicines for longevity.  But, the Son of God Jesus Christ taught poor people that eternal life could be obtained if they would become humble like little children who had no money.

So, it is no use for rich men to spend big money in their quest for the way to obtain longevity and eternal life.  They have to abandon their wealth so as to keep no money like small children.

The mankind has developed material civilization so much to date in their quest for happiness, longevity, and eventually eternal life.  But, to achieve their ultimate goal, obtaining eternal life, they have to abandon material civilization.  Indeed, little children are useless in developing, maintaining, and keeping material civilization.

However, little children before being brainwashed by material civilization sometimes show supernatural or psychic power.  They can bend a spoon by psychic power, speak with spirits of plants, see future incidents, recall their previous lives, etc.  Indeed, little children are near the spirit world.

Therefore, to obtain eternal life we have to die as poor and humble men like little children.  It means that eternal life is not what can be obtained in this world.  It is given to us after our death.  Eternal life is in the afterlife or in the spirit world.

As this teaching of the Son of God Jesus Christ is so impressive and truthful, most of Europeans from Roman citizens to contemporary European citizens have had faith in Christianity.  That is why Christianity has never faded away from Europe.

However, Satan has almost succeeded in making Christianity powerless nowadays.  Indeed, most of people of today would choose money in this world over the teaching of Christ Jesus related to the afterlife or the spirit world.  They are arrogantly neglecting or suppressing the poor who are as poor as little children.

We have to truly seek for eternal life, abandoning material wealth and money that are useless for entering into Heaven where we are given eternal life.    

                   

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Matthew 12, King James Version
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:
26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

"till he send forth judgment unto victory" - From Science/Engineering to Psychic World

Farewell to Autumn Around Tokyo

From Science/Engineering to Psychic World

A Japanese doctor in engineering named Kazumi Masaki (1916-2002) made 3,000 inventions in his life.  Indeed, he was a major player behind the scene in industrial development of Japan after WWII.  But, he was not a simple engineer who worked in Osaka University for 40 years as head of work shop center of the engineering faculty.

Masaki wrote that he could put his brain in the state of emitting the alpha or theta waves through a special method of breathing.  In the alpha wave state, a man can make an invention; in the theta wave state, a man can cause a miracle, according to Masaki.

He mastered this method when he was a teenager.  He lay down on the floor, taking in air to the lower abdomen for seven seconds, holding the breath for seven second, and exhaling the air in seven seconds.  He continued this way of breathing for an hour in his home every day.  Then, suddenly one day he saw bright light in darkness and got some supernatural ability such as future prediction.  But as someone said to him that such breading would make him die an early death, he stopped the practice, but its effect seemed to continue.     

Before WWII, he entered into Osaka University to learn in various academic disciplines.  After graduation, he remained in the university for further study and finally became a staff.  Although he was offered a faculty position, he did not accept it but worked as a technical staff member.  

Masaki filed 3,000 patent applications in his lifetime, but he did not pay registry fees for most of inventions after patent approval.  Indeed, he married a daughter of a rich man so that he did not have to earn big money.  Therefore, manufacturers could use his inventions for free, which brought new energy mainly to the electric and electronics industry in Japan after WWII. 

Masaki did not believe in existence of spirits and the afterlife till he saw Uri Geller performing spoon bending in a Japanese TV program around 1970.  He measured a spoon used in a test of supernatural power of a Japanese boy using his psychic power to bend a spoon in a TV studio.  Superficially the spoon did not look being bent, but Masaki found that it was slightly warped as Masaki used a special measurement tool.  It shocked Masaki, and he started to study supernatural power and psychic power.  Then various miracles happened around him such as apparition of a wooden statue of deity of Buddhism.  The, he wrote several books on his experiences, also making inventions to enhance psychic power.  

According to Masaki, the mankind made three evil inventions: gasoline engines, dynamite, and nuclear power.  But, artificial intelligence might become the fourth one.  It looks like turning into an easy tool to make money or help criminals.

Anyway, Masaki later came to believe that he had been a famous Japanese monk of Buddhism in one of his previous life in the 13th century. 

Anyway, Masaki who had believed in only science and engineering till his 50s of age finally came to admit existence of psychic power and spiritual energy.  He also heard voices of a holy spirit telling him that his duration of life would be extended to 90s as Masaki contributed to welfare and happiness of people with his free patents of inventios.  But, for some unknown reason, he died in his 80s.

What should be also noted is that Masaki believed that carbon dioxide caused global warming when the gas was near the ground, but it caused global cooling when it was floating at high altitude reflecting more solar light.   

                               
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Matthew 12, King James Version
18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

"to God the things that are God's" - With all of Hearts, all of Souls, and all of Minds

 

Around Tokyo (with Tokyo Sky-Tree Tower far

With all of Hearts, all of Souls, and all of Minds

Rules of life are important for you to live your life safely, meaningfully, and success fully.  Wise parents would teach rules of life to their children so that they will not at least make fatal mistakes to become unhappy.  Clever young men should ask their parents, reliable teachers, excellent seniors for advise concerning rules of life. 

So, it is understandable that a young man asked Christ Jesus a question about the most important commandment in the law 2,000 years ago: 

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22)

But, today most parents, teachers, etc. would answer that the most important things in life is to consider yourself first and make money as much as possible.  Even Satan would give advise that love money and respect richer men while neglecting the poor.  Indeed, Satan's intent is to make people respect and revere it.  Truly, Satan is above the richest men in this world where most people are occupied by appetite for wealth and money.  Virtually, money has become a global religion where Satan is respected and revered as a god, since money is another form of Satan  

From this point of view, the above words of Christ Jesus to a young man should be regarded as aimed at Satan around him.

In other word, it is common that people love money (Satan) with all of their hearts, all of their souls, and all of their minds, and neglect poor neighbors while trying to be richer than rich neighbors. 

However, based on other words of Christ Jesus, it is apparent that poor and faithful men will enter into Heaven after death in this world to enjoy eternal and happy life.

Anyway, you must not love Satan (also known as money) with all of your hearts, all of your souls, and all of your minds.   

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Mark 12, King James Version
13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

"he had spoken the parable against them" - A Chinese Christian who Fled China

 
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A Chinese Christian who Fled China

A Chinese Christian was arrested and put into a prison sometimes in 1980s and 1990s.

In the prison he prayed to the Lord Jesus Christ to hear His words: 8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. (Revelation 3)

Then Satan spoke to him to abandon faith.  But, the believer recollected the following words in the Bible to fight against Satan: 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. (Micah 7)

He was finally set free to find an asylum in Germany in 1997.  Later he wrote a book on his experiences, which was translated into Japanese in 2004. 

I hope that China will be fully democratized to accept freedom of religion. 

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

"many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus" - May Peace Prevail among Believers!

A Christmas Tree around Tokyo

May Peace Prevail among Believers!

Mahayana (greater vehicle) Buddhism was started to develop around the same time when our Lord Jesus Christ started His mission on the earth. So, it is thought that there is some linkage between Buddhism and Christianity, since some early Christians moved, after the collapse of the Jerusalem Temple in the war with the Roman Empire, to Syria and Persia under some influence from the original Buddhism established some 500 years ago by the Buddha.

In the history, it is well known that a sect of Christianity reached the Tang dynasty of China (618-907) while many monks came from Japan to Tang to learn Buddhism.  It is also believed that one of the 12 Disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ reached India.  Indeed, there seems to be some influence of original Buddhism in Christianity and influence of Christianity in Mahayana Buddhism.      

Especially Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism launched by Kukai (774-835) who went to Tang to learn Tantric Buddhism seems to have been influenced by a sect of Christianity that was then accepted in Tang.  Indeed, Shingon means the true words.  

Anyway, religions in the world handling human death and the spirit world should be connected to one another.  So, Judaism and Islam should be connected in the spirit world.  We have to pray and hope that the current war in Gaza will be immediately stopped.  Indeed, believers of Judaism and those of Islam should not fight in the sprit world.  May peace prevail among believers of any religions!

 

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John 12, King James Version
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.

"even the very hairs of your head are all numbered" - Discern Eventually Coming Anger from the God

 

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Discern Eventually Coming Anger from the God  

To obtain the ability to see the future is what everybody wants.  But according to our Lord Jesus Christ, this ability was given to men. 

53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?  (Luke 12)

Indeed, these words were delivered 2,000 years ago, so that it means that the mankind has been in the time of crises for every year of these 2,000 years.  And, truly many men have died every year in this period.  For them, the years they died should have been the years of crises, and they died without realizing that they had the ability to see the future.

When a man has died, the world he has left should mean nothing to him, and in addition usually he is not sure about whether there is the afterlife and Heaven or the hells.  So, essentially he mainly thinks of gain and loss while he is alive.  But having the ability to see gain and loss should mean having the ability to see the state or conditions of his time.  But, to secure one's own profits, a man seems to neglect the state or conditions of his time without deepening the understanding of the meaning of his time.  So, the mankind have been living every year in these 2,000 years without finding the true status of the year.  

Every year in theses 2,000 years the mankind should face a grave crisis without realizing it.  The crisis should mean the coming of God's anger upon them.  But, the God has refrained from executing His holy destroying power on the mankind each year, so that the human history has been able to continue to date in these 2,000 years after the death of our Lord Jesus Christ in this world.          

But what has not changed in these 2,000 years?  Is there anything that has not been changed in these 2,000 years?  The answer is the desire for money.  And any man's life has been driven by this desire for money.  So, the total desire for money of all the mankind must have influenced the state of this world.  And, we were requested to choose either the God or money by our Lord Jesus Christ.  Yet we have continued to choose money over the God.  Therefore it is no wonder that the God gets angry at mankind to destroy them.  But, the God has waited for 2,000 years.  Nonetheless, the anger and discomfort of the God must have increased every year in these 2,000 years.  

So, when a man died still with desire for money in these 2,000 years, he should feel God's anger that might lead the world to extinction.  Indeed, the end of one's life in these 2,000 years should have meant the end of the world to him, even if he could continue to live in the afterlife or the spirit world.

In other word, the situations around the mankind have never changed in these 2,000 years: living with the unfaithful desire for money over the God.  So, in every year the God might have destroyed the mankind.  It is a miracle that this world has continued for 2,000 years despite the mankind having unrighteous desire for money over the faith in the God.

Anyway as Judas betrayed our Lord Jesus Christ for money, we should have more hated and abhorred money.  But, as we continued to choose money over the God, we have been in danger of being destroyed by the God at any moment in these 2,000 years.  So, what we should always check in these 2,000 years is a sign of coming execution of God's power in His anger at and hatred against the mankind trying to satisfy their desire for money.

But, the period of 2,000 years is enough.  As the mankind are still pursuing money even in this century, the God will forsake the mankind, and the mankind will have to see tragedies caused by their desire for money in this 21st century.  Even the Holy Mother predicted in her apparition in Fatima in 1917, etc. that the God would not protect the mankind any more from coming tragedies, since the human civilization had corrupted and deteriorated so much.

Finally, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza should be a prelude to the coming WWIII, and the abnormal weather in recent years should be a prelude to the coming great natural disaster such as a pole shift, the little ice age, etc.

But, energy coming from the spirit world must be able to prevent occurrence of these tragedies.  And to use this spiritual energy, we have to repent and have more faith in the God.

Additionally, money is another form of Satan.  That is why the God and our Lord Jesus Christ hate and abhor, so much, the mankind seeking for money for these 2,000 years.                         

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Luke 12, King James Version
6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence" - Those Who Believe and Those Who Do Not

 
Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo, 100 km far

Those Who Believe and Those Who Do Not

A Japanese medical professor came to believe in the afterlife as he experienced a seance to talk with the spirit of his dead mother, while he had felt guilty about his mother's death as he thought that he had not taken care of her enough while she had been alive. 

According to a female psychic who used a female medium in whom the spirit came down, the spirit of his dead mother came to communicate spiritually with her, as both the women had been acquainted with each other, asking her whether the psychic helped her communicate with her son.  So, the psychic decided to host a seance with a female medium, and then invited the professor to a seance or a meeting with a spirit.  And, in the seance the medical professor could really talk with the spirit of his dead mother who told her son that she was sorry to have died so suddenly and he should not feel guilty about her sudden death.  The professor believed that he could rally talk with the spirit of his dead mother through the body and mind of the medium.

The professor wrote a book about this experience.  As the professor worked in the University of Tokyo Hospital, the book sold well.  In the mainstream of academy such as the University of Tokyo, the after life and other spiritualism matters have been neglected.  So, the professor must have needed some courage to publicly express his belief in the existence of the afterlife or the spirit world.   

After this experience, the professor started his personal study on spiritualism and other supernatural phenomena.  In these activities, he talked with a Japanese master of chi or life energy.  The master told the professor one special example of effects of chi: A Chinese expert at chi sent his chi to a Japanese young woman in Beijing who was making a phone call to her sick father in a hospital in Tokyo to cure the father.  Then, the father over the phone call was healed although his daughter in Beijing felt disturbance in her body.  So, chi was sent from Beijing to Tokyo by the Chinese chi mater through the daughter in Beijing talking with her father in Tokyo over the phone line.

Indeed, chi or life energy can work over restrictions of time and space like spiritual energy that can work between this world and the afterlife.

However, another ex-professor of the University of Tokyo who had specialized in anatomical science wrote a book on death where he emphasized that only a dead body remained and existed after man's death; there should be nothing spiritual after death; and the world after one's death means nothing to a dead man.   

So, there are two types of scientists: those who believe in supernatural phenomena such as spirits, the afterlife, etc. and others who deny them. 

Yet, although human science can handle only materials or physical entities, it cannot deny phenomena beyond the scope where science is effective.  Science should keep silence or show its ignorance about the matters that do not belong to the material world.

So, as something beyond the scope of the material world or physical laws, religion, spiritual matters, psychic matters, etc. exist.   

Put simply, this material world or the whole universe was created by the God with energy in the spirit world.  After God's creation of this material world, the spiritual energy can penetrate into this material world.  As the physical laws are in the lower level than the spiritual energy, the spiritual energy can supersede the physical laws.  Therefore, communications with spirits of dead men, supernatural phenomena in using chi, or even spoon bending can be possible if you can use the spiritual energy.  Those called psychics, chi masters, or men with supernatural power have such ability acquired through hard training, as congenital talent, or in religious faith.  

Although our Lord Jesus Christ did not recommend to communicate with spirits of dead men, He did not especially forbid it.  It is rather thought that He sometimes communicates with people through spiritual energy.  And, prayer should be a method for us to connect our minds to the God in the spirit world.

So, we have to pray to the God for peace in Ukraine and Gaza.       

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John 12, King James Version
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

           

"he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye" - Do Not Curse but Heal

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Do Not Curse but Heal

As I stated before, there is energy coming from the spirit world to this material world.  This energy from the spirit world can produce spiritual force that can surpass the material force.  So, if you can use this spiritual force, you might be able to bend a spoon without using physical force or any tools.  Further more, you might be able to cure the sick without using any modern medications as our Lord Jesus Christ said.  

A Japanese faith healer or a psychic was one day performing his practice to heal a sick old woman suffering from certain illness for a decade, with his son standing behind as an witness in his office.  But, when the healing was almost completed in several minutes, his son suddenly fell on the floor.  The healer checked the mind of the son to find that he did not believe in spiritual healing and had antagonism to spiritual healing.  So, this son was cursing on the healer during the healing.  But, this malicious cursing returned to him, making him fall on the floor and suffer spiritually and physically.  

Indeed, evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.  Or in Japan, they say that there will be two burial pits if you curse somebody, which means that both the cursing one and cursed one will die.   

So, it is forbidden to use psychic power or spiritual force to attack and inflict harm on another man.  But, it is said that people often come to a man with psychic power and ask him to perform his cursing on their enemies.  And bad brujos or psychic men sometimes accept the offer in return to big money.  It is actually murder, but no laws are applied to such a spiritual incident.   

However, in Japan's history there are such incidents of cursing an enemy to death.  In the age of provincial wars of Japan in the 15th to 16th century, most of federal lords hired shinto or Buddhist shamans with spiritual power to attack their enemies or defend themselves.  

For example, the powerful samurai lord Oda Nobunaga was in the process of conquering and dominating over whole Japan, but he was betrayed by one of his generals to be killed in a temple in Kyoto in 1582 while Nobunaga had been attacking Tantric Buddhism.  Who was behind Nobunaga's death is still a mystery in Japan to date. But, it is thought that esoteric Buddhist monks should be behind the scene. Tokugawa Ieyasu who survived the age of provincial wars to establish Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo (presently Tokyo) designed the city of Edo with a help from a priest of esoteric Buddhism, so that Tokugawa Shogunate continued to the middle of the 19th century.

However, the anti-Tokugawa camp with the emperor at its center defeated the Tokugawa camp in 1868 to establish the Meiji government.  It is believed that Imperial Japan could defeat the Russian Empire in 1905 due to spiritual power originated from the imperial house.  So, Japanese people came to follow the imperial government and ventured into the wars with China and eventually the U.S.  Most of Japanese people believed that spirits of deities linked to the imperial family would finally defeat China and the U.S. in WWII.  In reality, although the Japanese military was not defeated by Chinese military, it could not occupy whole China, and finally Imperial Japan had to surrender to the U.S. and its allies.  Yet, some Japanese believed that the then U.S. President Roosevelt was cursed to death by spirits of Japanese deities, although Imperial Japan had to suffer Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombing.  Anyway, after WWII, Japan introduced the democratic constitution planned by General McArthur of the Christian nation U.S.; yet, the Japanese imperial family has survived to date as the symbol of the Japanese people, which might at least prove spiritual power of the imperial family of Japan. 

So, anyway Japan is a country whose history is based on spirits.  However, it has been proved that Christian spirits surpass spirits of deities of Japanese Buddhism and shintoism.  This world is governed by the spirit of the absolute God who created this material world as well as the spirit world.  And, it is the mainstream of the mankind to believe in our Lord Jesus Christ as the absolute almighty God.

So, we should not use the spiritual energy, even if we could use it, so as to curse others to death, but we should use our psychic power to heal others or see truth of this world and the spirit world.

Anyway, if we deny spiritual energy, our science will not be able to solve various mysteries concerning the universe and atomic physics.   

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Luke 12, King James Version
12 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

"they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it" - The Material World and Spirit World

 

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The Material World and Spirit World

This world or the universe was created by the God in Heaven with His power of idea, imagination,  thinking, etc. without any machine, tools, etc.  This power should be called the spiritual power, and it should still work in this material world or the universe as remnants of the creation of this world by the God.

So, the mystery in the material world cannot be completely solved without taking into account this truth.  The beginning of the universe cannot be completely explained without this notion: the energy from the spirit world made possible the creation of this universe.  The behaviors of unique and mysterious phenomena of elemental particles cannot be completely explained without this notion: the energy from the spirit world made possible the creation of all the elemental particles, atoms, molecules, and other material basic elements.  So, the establishment of living things and human cells in addition of life cannot be completely explained;  even the mystery of our mind works as well as the conscious in addition to the mystery of life and death cannot be completely explained without this notion: the energy from the spirit world made possible establishment of living things, human beings. their mind works as well as the conscious, and our life and death are linked with states of the energy from the spirit word.  Therefore, all things in this universe are related to the energy from the spirit world or the God.  The united theory or unification theory on the energy from the spirit world should be discovered to explain every mystery in this world.  Our science cannot be perfect till we find such a theory.

So, it is no wonder that human souls directly created with the energy from the spirit world can continue to live in the afterlife or the spirit world after material death of our bodies.  In other words, death is not something to be afraid of.  From our souls our mind works are generated; with our souls entering the spirit world, our minds should work there as in this world. This must be truth of death.  Indeed, as our Lord Jesus Christ said, we should not be afraid of enemies who can kill us only in this world, but we have to be afraid of the God who can negate our souls in the spirit world.

From the above point of view, new religion and science should be built.

This spiritual energy should be controlled by the force in the spirit world called the spiritual force.  Both the spiritual energy and the spiritual force should penetrate in this material world, superseding material energy and material force.  Therefore, miracles could be performed by our Lord Jesus Christ.

In this context, someone whose mind, imagination, thinking, etc. is linked with the spiritual energy and force can perform miracles such as spoon bending and other psychic phenomena including miracle healing.

But what are the necessary conditions of the brain of such a man?  Regardless what religion he believes in, his brain should link to the spirit world.  He may look an ordinary man, but he should have certain faith deep in his mind.  At the bottom of his mind, he should be extremely faithful to the God, ie. the Creator of this material world and the spirit world.  Indeed, our Lord Jesus Christ must have looked just an ordinary man till He started His mission.

Yet, there are not only angels and good spirits in the spirit world.  Satan and evil spirits who are against the God and our Lord Jesus Christ.  Angels and good spirits should protect the faithful, but Satan and evil spirits could attack them, too.  Even ordinary people can be not only protected by angels or good spirits but also attacked by Satan or evil spirits.

Therefore pious people might perform levitation in their absorption into religious acts.  But those haunted by Satan can also perform levitation.  In addition, some pious people could perform miracle healing.  But, those whose minds happen to connect to the spirit world through near-death experiences, etc. could perform miracle healing.  Anyway, if we have true faith in the God as our Lord Jesus Christ declared, any miracles should become possible for us.  So, some small children without doubt of our spiritual ability can sometimes perform spoon bending, etc. 

Finally, we have to review every miracle or strange phenomenon in this world from the above point of view.  There might be ghosts, UFOs, etc., and reincarnation, clairvoyance, astral projection, etc. might be real.

However, the most interesting miracle is that some faithful can see the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ or some religious men see Satan.  But, our history is based on the battles or interaction between good spirits and evil spirits.  Indeed, human history to date should be a kind of miracles to the eyes of entities in the spirit world.   

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Luke 11, King James Version
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

"whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die" - Healing all Manner of Sickness and all Manner of Disease

Mt. Fuji and Sunset around Tokyo
 

Healing all Manner of Sickness and all Manner of Disease

It is well known that the Lord Jesus Christ healed many sick men, but without specific medicines or tools.   

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. (Matthew 4)

He did not set a clinic with nurses and other aids.  But he occasionally healed the sick on the spot while travelling here and there.  Indeed, He did not distribute and give money but cured disease of people in addition to preaching the gospel and teaching of the God.

Even today there are some people who can heal the sick without applying modern medical science or medications.  They use their spiritual power, psychic power, or mind's power.  It is well known that such people are working in the U.K., Brazil, the Philippines, etc.  In some parts of Africa, Asia, and Americas, shamans are still performing traditional healing practices.  Such people can be found in Japan, too.     

Typically, some psychics find one day that they have such power in the course of nature on their own, after suffering illness in their bodies, through spiritual vicissitudes or their own efforts to acquire such ability, or hearing a divine voice to give them such ability.  But, they are not given medications or taught how to heal the sick.  Their minds realize or discover how to use their minds or physical energy to heal the sick.  In some cases, they mysteriously acquire the healing ability after near-death experiences.      

Indeed, the Lord Jesus Christ gave such power to His disciples when He sent them to the world for preaching and saving people.

10 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.  (Matthew 4)

According to a Japanese psychic healer, illness is caused by unhappy ancestral spirits or the spirits who carry a grudge against a sick man or his family.  Therefore, to heal the sick man, a special ritual for purification is needed.  A kind of exorcism is sometimes performed by a Japanese monk of the Shingon sect, psychic, faith healer, shaman to drive out such ill spirits from the body of a patient.        

Although medical practices by persons other than medical doctors are forbidden in Japan, such practices in religious acts without medications or medical appliances are overlooked.  So, it is estimated that about one-sixth of the whole Japanese population have experienced alternative therapy every year.

Anyway, this material world is thought to have been generated by spiritual energy of the God in the spirit world.  The spiritual energy can penetrate into this material world especially trough prayers or psychic power like the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.  This spiritual energy can surpass physical or material force in this world.  Accordingly, some saints could perform levitation or miracle healing.  Even persons with supernatural power or the ability to use the spiritual energy, whether conscious or unconscious, can perform various miracles such as spoon bending.

Indeed, after physical death in this world, a dead man should have a healthy and sound body made of spiritual materials in the spirit world.  Even a person with disability should have body integrity in the afterlife.  There should be no sick men in the afterlife or the spirit world.

Therefore, it is natural to cure disease by using the spiritual energy.  So, a man with the ability to invoke the spiritual energy should be able to heal the sick.  And the most reliable and trustworthy way to invoke the spiritual energy is to have faith in the God and pray to the God.  Any person with faith in any god of any religion should be able to perform such miracle healing with a help of its deities, but those with a spiritual help from Christian angels or saints are most reliable and trustworthy.  In addition we have to remind ourselves that even Satan or evil spirits can use spiritual energy.

By reading the Bible and praying to the God or the Lord Jesus Christ each man should get a spiritual help and obtain the ability to use the spiritual energy and cure his disease.  The Bible can be great a medication.                    

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John 11, King James Version
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man" - ye are of more value than many sparrows

 

Around Tokyo and the Tokyo Sky-Tree Tower

ye are of more value than many sparrows

This world is under supervision of the God; this world is under authority of the God.  And the God governs not only this material world but also the spirit world.  This is stated in the Gospel.  

28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. (Matthew 10)

These words of Christ Jesus means that death in this world is not real death where one loses his body and mind.  But, the true death means losing one's soul and body in the hells.  And, the real death is caused by the God. 

Therefore, after death in this world one can continue to live in the spirit world with his soul and spiritual body, although his physical body with the head might be destroyed in the material world.  

Furthermore, the God loves victims of criminals or those who have sold their souls to Satan.  Without approval of the God, one cannot be victimized.  There must be a deep and complicated reason for you to be victimized, since the God finds more value in His follower than criminals or those who have sold their souls to Satan.  It is because the God knows every detail of life of anybody; the God should know when and how one sells secretly his soul to Satan.

Finally, followers of the God or believers should not be afraid of anybody who has power and ability to kill him.  

In addition, true death means that one is forced to fall into the hell after physical death to be destroyed there by the God.  According to other words of Christ Jesus, any rich man or elite person who has sold his soul to Satan should face this final and decisive death in the hell.  There should be nothing after this second and true death in the hells.  

But, more importantly, one's fate is governed by the God.  So, there should be reasons for any incidents in your life, which the God has taken into account.  Your fate is determined by the God based on His detailed observation and judgment.     

So, we should find true reasons for any unlucky incidents we might think to have been caused by the God.  They should happen to increase our faith in the God or to cause future incidents where the glory of the God appears.  Bad luck at present might lead to good luck in the future, since the God loves us more than sparrows or persons who sold their souls to Satan.  

However, what we should learn from those passages is that it is the God who can destroy men's souls and any forms of men's bodies in the hells but not human enemies or Satan.  If we are killed in this world by human enemies or Satan, we can continue to live in the spirit world or Heaven while those killers should be destroyed in the hells by the God.  So, we should have fear in God as well as faith in Him.     

Indeed, I am afraid that that the God night finally find that all the mankind have lost value as they have all come to seek and revere money which is another form of Satan.  The more we become rich, the more we should resemble sparrows sold for a small amount of money to the eye of the God and Christ Jesus.        

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Luke 11, King James Version
23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

"Have faith in God" - Disaster-Prone Era Requires Individual Spiritualism

 

                                                Around Tokyo

Disaster-Prone Era Requires Individual Spiritualism

In 2011, Japan suffered a great natural disaster caused by the great earthquake and tsunamis around Fukushima, etc. in the north of Tokyo.  And about 20,000 people died of the disaster.  What should be noted is that after the disaster, many families of those victims experienced spiritual phenomena such as seeing ghosts of the dead or spiritual communications with them.  So, a Japanese journalist made a survey on spiritual matters by sending questionnaires to more than 1,000 monks of Buddhism, etc. to have answers from 65% of them.

According to the result of the survey, 53% of them visited the sites of the disaster; 31% of those who visited the sites heard talks about ghosts or spirits or saw them directly on the spot, and 60% of those who visited the sites performed religious acts at the disaster-stricken areas such as holding a mass and making a prayer to get rid of ghosts.    

From the beginning, 17% of those monks of Buddhism, etc. did not believe in existence of souls and spirits while they had professions in the religious field.  However, 29% of them answered that they found around them other people who were making business concerning spiritual matters such as conjurors and faith healers.

The reason why there are 17% of monks of Buddhism who do not believe in existence of souls and spirits lies in the fact that the Buddha himself did not mention about the afterlife, although he took a never-ending cycle of life and death as a matter of course.  But there are more people than monks or priests of the authentic religions such as Buddhism and Christianity, who are working in business on spiritual matters as spiritualism professionals such as conjurors and faith healers.  Indeed, many local people, especially those in the disaster-stricken areas, have had various spiritual experiences concerning their family members who died in the disaster.  Yet, 30% of monks of Buddhism, etc. who performed religious acts such as holding a mass and making a prayer to get rid of ghosts at the spot in disastrous areas answered that their religious acts seemed to result in repose of souls of the victims.     

The modern monks of Buddhism in Japan are well educated in the modern educational system where modern science and technology are respected.  They tend not to come close to irrational matters such as questions about the afterlife.  But ordinary people have strong interest on spiritual matters and the afterlife.  The 2011 natural disaster in Japan emphasized this contrast.  Nonetheless, Buddhist monks and faith healers with psychic power in Japan play a similar role to that of Western exorcists or Christian priests in getting rid of evil spirits or devils.   

Put simply, survivors of the 2011 earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan became more spiritual as they faced tragic death of family members, while monks and other people of religion rediscovered their roles in spiritual matters although they had become so materialistic seeking business success and money.

The corona pandemic that started in 2020 contributed also to this general atmosphere, although the ratio of deaths due to the corona-virus in Japan has been smaller than in most of other countries. 

As with Japan, people in the world who have seen the War on Terror, the Ukraine War, and military conflicts around Gaza since the start of the 21st century might become more spiritual, and the Vatican and other religious bodies might rediscover their roles in this period of the early 21st century proceeding to WWIII.

Anyway, the present time or era seems to require us to read the Bible from a more spiritual point of view.  It is not a monopoly of religious people to read and interpret the Bible and religious/spiritual books.  We had better even master how to pray to get rid of evil spirits and Satan.  Indeed, spiritual matters are individual matters.   

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Mark 11, King James Version
19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

"if I by Beelzebub cast out devils" - Japanese Deities under the Sole and Absolute God

 

Around Tokyo

Japanese Deities under the Sole and Absolute God

There are about more than 80,000 shinto shrines and 70,000 Buddhist temples in Japan.  And, it is thought that there are tens of thousands of professional conjurors, faith healers, shamans, and persons with spiritual power in Japan who are associated with shintoism or Buddhism.  Indeed shamanism is a tradition of the Japanese culture like in other East Asian countries like China, Korea, etc.  

For example, it was reported decades ago that a woman running a small and humble Japanese cookshop in Kyoto had such psychic power.  She had married a man and divorced him but remarried him again who finally died as her husband in 30 years of troubled family life, while her daughter also died of a disease.  In sadness in losing her daughter, she started to visit periodically a certain temple where Kukai, officially called Kobo Daishi, a historically notable priest of Tantric Buddhism, was enshrined.  And one day she heard a voice of Kukai saying that he would give her special virtue so that she should help other people with her psychic power.  Since then, she could exert supernatural power and heal sick people with her hand power.  Due to her psychic power, many customers with some physical or mental troubles came to her small and humble cookshop.  She found that a spirit sometimes told her where the disease was and how to send power to the affected areas. She cured 100 patients with hemorrhoid and cancer in a decade.  Her life was successfully established as a cookshop owner with psychic power.  Truly there are may legends about miracle works of Kukai in various local areas in Japan.  

Indeed Kukai is still revered in Japan as he founded the Shingon sect in Japan about 1,100 years ago after learning in China and inheriting Tantric Buddhism from a Chinese old master who admitted that Kukai was the only proper successor of Tantric Buddhism, which means Tantric Buddhism came to Japan from India through China.  After coming back to Japan, Kukai performed many miracles to help people and the Imperial Court through healing the sick and making the rain fall during drought.  The tantric Shingon sect had strong influences even in the following era of samurai dominance.  And the samurai Tokugawa family ruled Japan from the early 17th century till the middle of the 19th century based on the Tendai sect of Tantric Buddhism that is another notable tantric sect.  Truly, it is said that the city of Tokyo (then called Edo) was designed by a monk of the Tendai sect called Tenkai who was close to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa regime. 

And, there are other Buddhist monks, mountain ascetics, and conjurors who got inspiration from Kukai or other deities of shintoism or Buddhism even today.  Japan has been really a country full of spiritual tradition.  And such monks or conjurors are said to have played secret but decisive roles behind historic incidents.  The authority of the Japanese Imperial Family is rooted in this tradition; although special psychic power is not found in the Imperial Family today, it is thought the family had special power given by deities of the Japanese myths more than 2,000 years ago.  In this meaning, the Imperial Family is sacred for the Japanese people, although the family started to rely on psychic power of Buddhism since the capital of Japan had moved to Nara and Kyoto about 1,300 years ago.  Yet, there are still psychic people who have tried to build new religions or sects based on shintoism or Buddhism.  That is why most of Japanese do not find any need to study, believe in, or rely on Christianity.  Japan has already had strong spiritual tradition where spiritualism of today is rooted.        

Indeed, even today there are thousands of conjurors, tantric monks, psychics. oracles, fortune-tellers, etc. in Japan.  People with difficult diseases sometimes would ask help from them if their conditions could not be improved after visiting medical doctors.  Although Japan owes its economic success to modern technology and science imported from Europe and the U.S. since the middle of the 19th century, the Japanese society has not anyhow inclined to Christianity as a religion ruling its people.  In the underflow of the Japanese society, reverence to deities of the Japanese Buddhism, shintoism, etc. never disappear.

Yet, in the world, monotheistic faith is mainstream.  Probably the Japanese people should admit that there is the sole Creator of the spiritual world and the material world, and believe that under this Creator various deities of the Japanese Buddhism, shintoism, etc. exist and work.  So, there should not be contradictions even if Japanese Buddhists started to believe in the God of Christianity.

Truly, there must be spirits of deities of the Japanese Buddhism, shintoism, etc. such as Kukai in the spirit world in parallel with angels of Christianity.  Those Japanese good spirits might come to this world to guide or help pious people like angels of Christianity.  Put simply, paganism can come into effect under the sole and absolute God who created and ruled the spirit world and material world.

However, the concept that Christ Jesus is a human form of such sole and absolute God is not smoothly accepted by the Japanese people.  Nonetheless, although individual or personal matters may be treated well by Japanese deities, more large-scale issues, such as global warming and international wars, must need help from the sole and absolute God in solving these problems.  Furthermore, to solve global spiritual matters should need faith in the sole and absolute God or the Creator of the spirit world and the material world.   

We should hope that the sole and absolute God in any form would help people in troubles like the spirit of Kukai helped and saved the woman in Kyoto decades ago. 

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Luke 11, King James Version
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:

”this is Elias, which was for to come” - Being Spiritual and Being Materialistic

 

Tokyo Sky-Tree Tower

Being Spiritual and Being Materialistic  

The difference between spiritual matters and material matters was emphasized by Christ Jesus, although people living in the material world could not simply understand spiritual matters:

5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 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)

In other word, a man who was born and has been living in this material world should learn spiritual matters and change his mind from material-oriented to spiritual-oriented one.  

Otherwise, this teaching of Christ Jesus is thought to mention metempsychosis or a cycle of life and death.  After physical death in this world, a man or his soul should be born in the spirit world as a spirit.  Then, his spirit may be allowed to enter Heaven or the kingdom of the God.  But, if it cannot enter Heaven, it must be born again in the human world.  And what human body a soul will enter is only known by the God.    

But, who is the one who was born of flesh?  Such a man should have been born without linkage with the spirit world.  He should not believe any spiritual matters and cannot understand the words of Christ Jesus in spiritual meaning.  

However, while living in this world, a materialistic man can become a new man who is spiritual by learning and believing words of Christ Jesus and spiritual truth.  Indeed, it is said that words of Christ Jesus are water of life.     　

Therefore a man who has become spiritual by believing in the words of Christ Jesus is closer to the kingdom of the God than a materialistic man who believes only power of money and values of materials, seeking material happiness.  

Finally we have to be spiritually born again leaving material desire behind while living in this world before going into the spirit world after physical death.  Anyway, being spiritual must be very different from being materialistic like between a living man and a dead man.     

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Matthew 11, King James Version
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

"No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever" - Be Poor as Much as Possible

 

Around Tokyo

Be Poor as Much as Possible

What is the most important word of Christ Jesus?  It is simple: 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God (Mark 10).

No other founders of any religion clearly stated hatred to the rich as the above word of Christ Jesus.  It is indeed recommendation to be poor, which is so revolutionary that is against the commonsense in this human world of seeking money or praising the rich.  But, Christianity based on words of Christ Jesus has survived these 2,000 years, although the movement of pursuing poverty has not yet prevailed in the human world.    

The core of Christianity is to pursue poverty but not money and wealth.  It seems absurd in this human world where money is believed to have power to make a man happy.  Indeed, people think that unhappiness in this world comes from poverty.  To solve any human problems needs money, or money can solve any problems in the human world.  So, people envy or praise the rich.  But, Christ Jesus clearly stated that the rich could not enter Heaven or "the kingdom of God."   

To understand true meaning of this word of Christ Jesus should mean to learn Christianity.  And, Christ Jesus gave the answer or truth that men should take either of the God or money.  It means that money is another form of Satan.

However, this material civilization is based on wealth, which means our civilization has been driven by human desire used by Satan in its defiance against the God.  Satan induces men to acquire money and more money by selling their souls to Satan.  And, souls of such men would be those of Satan.  Accordingly, the rich men go to the hells.

Therefore, the Gospels are books telling people to enter Heaven through poverty, since material wealth or civilization based on Satan's machinations should finally collapse to make men distressed and despair.  

So, if you have no goal in your life, you had better follow Christ Jesus and try to be poor as much as possible to see how the Holy Spirit sent by the God would help you become spiritually happy.  This is an interpretation of the original Christianity. 

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Mark 11, King James Version
12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

”after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them"

 

Deep Autumn around Tokyo

Satan even in Ukraine and Gaza

According to a branch in England of a Christian organization, the most popular passage in the Bible is the section 16 of John 3.

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  (John 3)

Whoever wrote this passage must have been guided by a holy spirit in writing.  Otherwise, who could know whether and what the God loved or hated.  It should be an angel or a holy spirit in the spirit world around the God. 

As the God is almighty, whatever He tries should not fail; whatever He plans should be realized.  Therefore, whoever believes in Christ Jesus should not perish but should have everlasting life.  So, the human world should be full of happy people with everlasting life or at least promise of everlasting life, but in reality none seems to have eternal life or such a promise, but everyone seems to be in the process of perishing.  Has the God failed?  Something must be wrong. 

Otherwise, from the beginning can the Bible be trusted?  Was the author really being guided by a holy spirit in writing?  Most fundamentally does the God exist?  Could there be such a holy spirit that would guide the author?  What is everlasting life?  Could the God beget a son?  What does it mean: believing in His Son and not perishing?  Finally, why and how does this passage appeal to people?   

Anyway, if you believe that the Bible is trustworthy, you should be happy reading this passage telling that you can get everlasting life without perishing.  Therefore, it depends on whether or not you believe the Bible.  And, it seems natural and reasonable to believe the authenticity of the Bible that survived these 2,000 years, while you can live at most 100 years or so, in the human civilization established mainly on Christianity.   

From a different point of view, even if you do not believe in the God, you should believe that you exist living in this world.  As even you who did not give life to yourself exist and live, the God Almighty must exist, since He gave life to you.  As you with small power and ability can exist and live, the God with infinite power and ability should exist and live.

So, how benevolent and merciful the God is, giving everlasting life to us through "his only begotten Son."      

Yet, there is Satan trying to make the God and the human beings fail.  And this 2,000 year history since the God sent His Son Christ Jesus to the human world has become the history of battles between Satan and Christ Jesus. Now, Satan seems to be busy in wars in Ukraine and Gaza, using Russians, Islamic soldiers and Israeli troops.

Indeed, Satan so hates the God and the world, that it killed Christ Jesus, trying to make people perish and lose everlasting life.  This is the real aspect of the world of today.  Truly, the real enemy of the mankind is Satan even in Ukraine and Gaza.  

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Revelation 11, King James Version

8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.