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“Assuredly, I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power.” Mark 9:1

Why dost Jesus say thus? I mean, its really nasty to say unto mortals that they wont die unless something really divine happens and “The Kingdom of God coming in power” is the most sinister of all bible quotes next to the flesh and blood quote what made most of the disciples of Jesus forsake him, for a Jew can never eat human flesh and suffer to live in a religious way. Again Jesus is checking the very foundations of Judaism itself and the way faithful followers perceive their everyday life and religion. I mean this quote got handed to the Jews as destruction of the temple and the exile of Israel from their fatherland for the course of thousand years and then some. Who could have perceived it to be such a vile curse and not a blessing at all? Those who listened to Jesus to say thus, he talked about, what it costs to follow him. Lets see about the cost section.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:26

For a religious Jew, it was impossible to disrespect his parents or siblings, for that was in contempt with the Law of God. That wasn't a small favor to ask.

“He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” Mat 10:39

That's some nasty things to say as a Jewish rabbi! A Jew could only loose his life for God himself and that's what Jesus called himself – although we know it today through the Gospel and course of history, it wasn't known by the contemporary Jews of Jesus time. They didn't have the King James version of the Bible on their back pocket. The Torah was so holy that the Rabbis argued for real whether the book being in a wasted state is still holy if you could only read the first verse of Exodus as a verse; or the same verse as words dispersed among the entire Torah; or the same verse dispersed as mere vowels on the entire Torah. And each of these philosophical discourses had its followers. Upholding the holiness of the Torah became such a nuisance that it hemmed down normal conversation. How can you aspire philosophical insight then your counterparts argue about a manuscript being holy if you can only decipher one verse of it. I mean for a person who never read the Torah, this is a useless thing to own. It's only meaningful if you sometime in your life have seen the full version in order to know the meaningfulness of that quote.

For instance, if I would yell: “My cabbages!” and hold my head in a frustrated look, than most people would perceive me either as insane or at least goofy. But those who have seen Avatar – the last airbender, will perceive the quote and recognize the cosplay. Because there are no cabbages around me, so why would I yell that! And now Jesus is speaking about the Kingdom of God being presented unto the Jews. The very thing every Jew has been longing for so long. They thought the Kingdom of Solomon is being reinstated and the entirety of the Roman empire handed unto them. But instead Ikabod happened.

Why should a follower of Jesus Christ hate himself and everything he is standing for to forsake it in order to claim something what is not tangible? What's in it for him! I mean, look at all those beautiful churches and cathedrals – have they ever renounced themselves… Well? If you want to be a thriving church, then you have to go the way of Peter; Judas and the brothers of Sebedee. They all dies for Christ in different ways. Peter and Judas betrayed Jesus by renouncing Him and not themselves. One being a poor fishermen and not owning any religious pride or social status at all, could weep heavily and come back to Christ, the other was to proud to see the eyes of the other followers and Christ for deeming the value of Christ to be only 30 sheckels of silver, the price of an average slave. So in our money 1000 dollars. That's how cheap Jesus was for him. And if he understood that he had made a bad bargain it was too late to change it. And he couldn't forgive himself bad judgment. In the end it was pride what condemned him and not suicide or betrayal itself.

The reason, why we should forsake everything is quite simple.

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Mat 6:21

You cannot focus on anything then you are thinking on something else. Professor Quirell wanted to hand the philosophers stone to Voldemort so bad that he couldn't perceive it inside his own pocket like Harry Potter did. He always perceived thing outside of himself and not inwardly. And thus he failed being burned by his own arrogance and petty greed, unable to even touch an innocent boy. If holy things touch you, and you are in contempt with holiness, then you shall burn. Even then flames wont incite from your body, like in an anime-show you will still feel the unquenchable lust. People want to survive – they want their egos to survive. The Ghoul Jason was once captured by humans and tortured by one very vicious and sadistic warden, being made to count back from 1000 with sets of seven to keep his sanity so the warden could torture him further – for you cannot feel true pain, if you are insane… That's why some people coming face to face about the ugly truth of malice and despair – that they must do something about it and not God; or the army or the government, or even Superman, lest to be speaking about mommy – become insane or embrace it to get rid of responsibility. Jason became the very copy of that warden torturing ghouls and humans the same way. And in the end Ken Kaneki, who was as tough as an Easter-bunny and as cute as a lost puppy, embracing his madness was able to subdue him and make him a puppet of pain again like he started, counting 1000-7…-7…-7! For only the strong are allowed to have ego-trips, while the weak are not. This kind of philosophy in the end makes you suffer the same medicine you arbiter…

For instance if your opponent is using terror against you, it will be like using black magic as being taught by Severus Snape or Bartemius Crouch Jr. If you are about to break the law, you wont do it fairly. For instance, if you gonna blast a building, it has a better terror value, if women and children and pregnant women are the victims and not able men or even soldiers, for they know how to die, just like Touka Kirishima could not take it that a pacifist ghoul was murdered and not a warrior ghoul, murdering a geek dove instead someone who was able to fight back – and even then she could kill the culprit who murdered her friend, it didn't bring her peace. The Hatred raged on between the doves and the ghouls. That's why terror is directed on the meek, for if they suffer it shall hurt the just more, than the death of the just itself. For they are inside the heart of the just. You can always train about your own life to be meaningless as a soldier or a security officer or inside of police force or in anywhere there it is expected to protect and serve. But nothing can make you ready to see the meek meaninglessly die and wither away seeing their eyes haunting you, for you couldn't save them. That is the message of terror, why it's being used and why it's next to land mines the cheapest weapon available. It says to the soldier: “You efforts are in vain and we will have our way nevertheless!” Not many people will suffer it through. The very reason why only 40% of navy seal trainees suffer the rigors of training while half of these also burn out when they can't take their first defeat. For their heart is inside of victory and not inside of something more important than each individual battle. While it is important to win battles it becomes meaningless if you loose the war. And if you opponent is fighting against your core values he doesn't have to win a resounding victory, he just has to make your win as costly as possible or take the meaning of winning away by simply cheating. One martial artist master was teaching his pupil about that by the egg-parable. The pupil was expected to fetch the egg unspoiled using all what he had learned – but couldn't. Even then he began to suffer it through the master just glared at him and broke the eggs, for he didn't need em to win – his pupil needed it. So the best meaningful way to halt his pupil in winning was taking the win away and the pupil had to admit defeat. The same happens always in war. There is no just war – the only reason why wars are justified is the same reason why war-heroes are forged and medals of valor are handed to them. It doesn't make their friends and comrades or their people who died in war to resurrect, it merely comforts them, that their suffering is noted and respected.

Many war veterans, coming back from the war complain, that they didn't suffer all that because of how this world looks today. For if to use the US army in WW II they thought against nazi germany with the naive faith, that if they don't, they have to be the slaves of the Third Reich while now they are free people; that their ways will be ridiculed and some of them are being persecuted because they are not arian enough. And now coming back from the war they have to see that the banking system itself and the liberal government is very much arian in their action. It always strikes me, the irony of “Occupy Wall-street” - To go a long way while buying gas from the same corporation and buying food from the same corporation and rebelling against those very same corporations who hold the majority of everything in America – to believe that when you poor 20 gallons of water into the basin in a fixed amount of time and make a hole into it what only drain 5 gallons of it on the same time period – that this basin would run dry one day. That's about the meaningfulness of such conducts. They have no way of harming anybody but yourself! For your heart is still in the world and not in your cause… If they really wanted to hurt those corporations, it should have been a fasting pilgrimage with no cars; no food; no tents; no nothing – and 100K people mass suiciding on wall-street sends a more strong message than what happened there. 100K potential clients who wont be buying anything or paying any taxes in the future. That's gonna hurt the capitalist. That's a real cause of action and not a fantasy. And immediately the corporations will address it as madness and try to arrest all its leaders and fight it publicly claiming that there is no need to enforce your political views in that way.

If you expect tangible restitution, you will be rewarded with nothing because that price will corrupt you. Your opponent may just play with you either offering you that price or black-mailing you with aspects of its destruction. That's why nice people will always finish last, for they don't know how to kill – its not about pointing a gun and shooting. Its about the knowledge that you are gonna take someones life and he deserves to live. That this action makes you a killer and not a nice person anymore. What Cain couldn't handle in the curse what God put on him for being the first murderer of man, that someone could do that to him also. That his life was no longer safe in his eyes, for he witnessed first person how easy it was to take one life. Holyness is there only if you choose to yield under it becoming vulnerable, but if you choose life by fistycuffs then it means, that the stronger fistycuff shall defeat; enslave or possibly kill you.

So what does the Power of the Kingdom of God mean to you – is it physical power or is it spiritual power! Only a true enlightened person can answer that. Everybody else are thinking about cities to erect like Cain did, to avoid being killed. For God said unto him that he will avenge his death but Cain didn't suffer to trust that. His contempt with God didn't allow him to own that kind of trust. If your core beliefs are about the Sermon of the Mount then sometimes it may mean that your enemy shall come and point a gun not at you but at something you dearly love and kill it, unless you renounce your faith – who is a Christian then! For your heart is in them, and for that you must hate them and yourself so your enemy could not defeat you in your home. That's why 9-11^th happened to defeat Americans in the heart, so they would forsake they freedoms to have more technocratical tyranny. For Muslims have no freedom of speech; no freedom of election; no freedom of anything. Everything is submitted to Allah and no other God exists to them nor way of life. That doesn't give much room for freedom the American way. So if America chooses despotism in order to be safe from terrorism, they may defeat terror from the enemy but will be defeated by they own weapons like the Jedi there killed by the clone troopers made to help the republic because of the hidden prerogative inside their training calling all the Jedi traitors of the republic. For they there fashioned by Sith agenda in the name of a dead Jedi leader, but that didn't change the angle of that agenda. Especially if the sith was the very leader of the republic playing both ends.

If you believe in some kind of Freedom what is in itself Divine and Holy – then you cannot care about your own life nor anybody elses life. For that care will become your bribe. Judas Iscariot couldn't take it that a prostitute would be equally important in the Kingdom of God then he lamented about the pricy oil being squandered away. His heart was not with Jesus but in the purse of Jesus from which he took money for himself – that's why he couldn't believe that someone could give away one years pay on ointment and perfume. Would you be able to give say 300k money on that to wash a holy-mans feet with it. I would have a problem with it. I would only take the cheapest soap from the market and as little as ointment possible to have the nice smell and the though that counts. For you could do so much more with 300.000 dollars!!! Why only waste it on Jesus?!? But this prostitute somehow knew, this is her last chance for that and gave it her all. I am humbled at this woman's conduct – for she is my betters. I would not be able to do that, because my honor and pride would deny me that. But a prostitute is a nobody, she has no honor and pride to begin with. That's why Jesus speaks to the nobodies of the world and not to the exalted of the world, they payment is already with them why would they need more!! Whats in it for you to have Freedom in your life – how much are you able to forsake for that! Amen!