crown of thorns

Love, love, if love equals ignorance, I would like to use my life to be with you, the dawn of ignorance.

……………………………………………………………—— "The Book of Light·Psalms"

When man begins to prosper on earth, it is also the period when angels love and hate each other.Many peoples arose on the earth, and the angels also had adulterous affairs with the daughters of human beings, and gave birth to many heroic ancestors of human beings.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the angels will develop their selfishness, and God will no longer care about the matter of the angels admiring each other over the same kind.Therefore, there are many angels who rejoice with each other and live together in one place.

Before that, Cain had intercourse with his wife, and his wife conceived and gave birth to Enoch (Hanokh).Cain built a city, and called that city Enoch after the name of his son.

These words are recorded in the Bible, and ordinary people cannot understand them, because the Bible says that Cain built the city, referring to Cain as king.Because at that time, the people on the earth were very ignorant, how did they know how to build a city?Only Cain was wise and different from ordinary people. He built a big city, lived in it, and was able to resist the attack of foreign tribes, and people respected him as a king.

The kings of this world began with Cain.

Since Enoch means first and also teacher, this means hereditary kings, beginning with Enoch. These words are not mentioned in the Bible, and ordinary people cannot clearly understand these things.

I saw that Enoch was extremely handsome, like an angel, so I went down and blessed him.I am the only one among the angels who did this.

Although I liked Michael, I thought he was very straightforward in doing things for others, but I found that he was too sticky to the one I love, so that I seldom came and went freely after that, because he was worried that I would move If you don't fall in love, I can't go down to the world at will.However, I am a secretary, and it is necessary for me to observe all things in the world from the lower realms, so every time I go back, I will be interrogated.

"Is there any man on earth more handsome than me?"

"No." I replied helplessly.

"Is there any woman more perfect than me?"

"No."

"Where did you go and who did you talk to?"

"Because it was by the grace of God that he traveled all over the earth and wrote down the words of many peoples, but he did not speak to them."

"Did you lie?"

"Your Highness, you are really annoying sometimes."

Michael snorted and laughed loudly: "I heard that men and women on the ground have daily greetings and greetings to each other. I don't know what the people on the ground say. I think these words are my I want to ask you something every day."

"It's boring to listen to those love stories too much, do you want to learn too?" I said while flipping through today's records.

"Would you be bored if I told you?"

"..." I blushed and dared not answer.

For some reason, Michael suddenly asked me to look him in the eye. He stood at attention and began to read aloud:

"Raziel, although the kingdom of heaven is very quiet, if you are there, my heart cannot be peaceful. Your voice is like a harp, and every time you speak, the voice flows into my heart; your face is like light, It illuminates everything about me so brightly. When I see your face, I love you endlessly, and even have troubles, and I don’t know how to tell you. When I don’t see your face, I feel the pain of missing you. Save. If it is love, if it is love, it is ignorance. I would like to use my life to be a dawn of your ignorance."

"Pfft..." I was checking the records with all my heart, but I was so amused by these words, "What kind of vulgar words are these, who taught you."

Michael: "What! Lucifer, the damn guy, he said that you will be happy to hear this."

"Pfft ha ha ha." I laughed, "I'm really... really happy... hahaha."

Seeing this, Michael yelled, "Lu-si-fa!!!" and slammed the door away.

At this moment, Lucifer was in the library of the kingdom of heaven. He knew that Michael was looking for him, so he deliberately let out a bright light, because in the kingdom of heaven, the library was the brightest, and Michael must know that he was there.

"Lucifer!!! Look at what you did!" Michael asked him angrily when he saw Lucifer.

"Yeah, Michael is here." Lucifer still smiled slightly.

"Hey! Can you stop calling me by my nickname? It's not my fault that I can't pronounce trill."

"Okay, okay." Lucifer smiled even wider.

It turns out that angels are not perfect creations, and each has a little flaw. Michael’s flaw is that the tongue trembles r in the language of the kingdom of heaven [Note: Similar to the big tongue roll in Russian, but it is more crisp], Mi Caleb couldn't pronounce it, so he could only pronounce it as a side sound or a tongue-alveolar sound [Note: The side sound is similar to the pronunciation of l in Chinese, and the tongue-alveolar sound is like the pronunciation of English r].Therefore, a group of bad friends of His Royal Highness Michael nicknamed him "Michael" to laugh at his pronunciation.

"Wait, I was almost fooled by you, I said, the few words you taught me, after listening to the summary, I said it was a cliché! It made me lose face in front of him, you bastard already knew it! You deliberately let me Embarrassment."

"Yeah, I think it's quite sincere."

"You're still playing dumb!" Michael bristled angrily.

"It's the first time I've seen you look so pompous." Lucifer said lightly.

"What? I haven't always been very lively." Michael thought he had always been cheerful and happy.

"No, no, no, although you used to be cheerful, you were very lonely. Have you forgotten that you and I went to the ground to look at the stars together?"

"How could you forget this?" Michael sat down and put his legs on the table.Hold your head in your hands like a cushion

"Hey, library, be careful!"

"Anyway, you're the only one here, so it doesn't matter."

"You're really not alone now." Although Lucifer's tone seemed quite happy, there was a hint of sadness, "That day, I remember you complaining to me about the boredom of heaven."

Michael immediately jumped up: "Now that things have happened, you can't talk nonsense!"

"Didn't you say that there is no one, and it doesn't matter."

"Oh, that's all, let you say it, indeed, I said this at that time, but it was different at that time. I just felt it intuitively at that time, and I didn't mean to accuse this place of being bad."

"What's wrong with the kingdom of heaven? Although you don't need to eat, there are delicious foods that are incomparable to all kinds of delicacies in the world for you to eat; although you don't need to listen to them, there are tunes that are more subtle than all kinds of music in the world for you to enjoy. There is no coercion or suppression , killing, bondage, no theft, fear, calamity, disease, no angel looks ugly, nothing damaged or unclean. Holy light is everywhere, and the buildings you see are beautiful and magnificent. The words you speak are gentle It is peaceful, and everything you do is stable. Everything is so perfect and peaceful. If you don’t want to see, you can’t see it, and if you don’t want to hear it, you don’t have to listen. Although there will be disputes between angels occasionally, if you always seal yourself in One place, no one will bother you. The kingdom of heaven is really a realm beyond human imagination."

"If you put it this way, I really think that the previous complaints are really ridiculous. It makes me feel uneasy. I seem to have said something I shouldn't have said! Wait, why do I end up turning into you every time I come to settle accounts with you? Come and preach to me!" Michael pouted to express his dissatisfaction.

"I think you're right." Lucifer turned around, grabbed a book to read, and said while reading, "I thought you were right then."

"Huh? Didn't you say that the kingdom of heaven is a perfect state? Why do you agree with me?"

"Because it's too perfect, it's boring." Lucifer said lightly, "This book is called "Divine Comedy". It was written by a man named Dante on earth thousands of years later." Lucifer turned around and put the book Pass it to Michael.

"Huh? Thousands of years later? How can you see books thousands of years later?"

"Going to the future is naturally possible, and I can indeed go back to the past, but there are some restrictions."

Michael stared at him with wide eyes: "Really? Can you really go to the future?" Michael stood up and held his hand and said, "Brother, what will happen to me and Raziel in the future?"

"Ah, sorry, the restriction I said is that, similar to God, if God goes to the future, he knows what will happen in the future, but he can't get the things in the future, and I get things in the future, but I can't remember that I am in the future. My experience, that is, I can’t know the future. God has seen the future, but he can’t speak directly, because if he speaks, He is no longer God.”

"What do you mean by that?"

"If people know what will happen in the future, they must be the same as God, so God can't say anything."

"Ah... wait, what you said is too informative, let me digest it." Michael seemed to be a little frightened, his mind was spinning fast and he still couldn't understand what Lucifer said, "But, God is omniscient and omnipotent. Bar!"

"Yes, but this sentence cannot be understood in this way. Omniscience means omniscience means knowing the past and future, while omnipotence means omnipotence at this moment." Lucifer also sat down, "In other words, in the future, He may not be omnipotent, but at this moment , He may not know everything. Just like we are talking at this moment, He may not know what we said, especially what I said. "

"What, it makes you equal to God." Michael sat down again and said, "Forget it, anyway, since you don't know about me and Raziel, I won't force it."

"You suggest that you read this book. Although I went to the future, I basically can't remember anything. When I came back, I was holding this book tightly in my hand. I knew there must be some reason, so I went to Read it."

"what reason?"

"The Divine Comedy is divided into three parts: Paradise, Hell, and Purgatory."

"What? Heaven? Hell? What is that?" Michael was a little strange. [Note: At that time, there was no concept of heaven and hell.After a person dies, he is buried in the earth. There is no mention of hell in the earlier chapters of the Bible. The description of hell is only completed in the New Testament. Many chapters, such as "Job" and "Genesis", the home of people after death is the earth.The famous saying comes from God’s curse on man: “Man has come from dust, and he will return to dust.” The writing background of the Bible is complex, and the writing time span is very large. In the earlier volumes of prophetic books , there is no such thing as hell, and the words that are often seen to describe death are "his days are full, his breath is cut off and he dies", "sleeping with his ancestors" (sleep means buried in the ground for a long sleep, not ascended to Heaven and the like, people at that time believed that when a person died, he went to the ground, that is, he returned to the dust), "returning to his ancestors".But this creates a problem. Some wicked people lived a very good life and enjoyed all the glory and wealth, while some good people who abide by the rules lived in unbearable pain, but like these wicked people, they will all die and return to the earth. Then why should I be a good person?This proposition was a very profound proposition before the dualistic concepts of heaven and hell appeared, that is, why people do good deeds. Because the number of words is too large, I cannot expand it in the main text. For details, see the author has something to say. 】

"Heaven is here. Hell is the place where God punishes sinners. Under the ground, it is extremely terrifying and full of evil."

"How could there be such a place? Will it appear in the future?" Michael asked.

"I don't know. Maybe."

"Forget that you don't know the future." Michael sighed.

"Although it's scary, it's surprisingly interesting. I almost finished reading "Hell" and "Purgatory" in one sitting. But "Paradise", compared to the other two, is a thin volume, and I read it for a long time. Because I feel so boring." Lucifer took a deep breath and said, "I don't know if Dante has really traveled to the kingdom of heaven in the future, but it is roughly as he said."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Michael, since everything is perfect, there is nothing to say."

"Everything perfect? ​​Nothing to say?"

Lucifer's eyes suddenly became extremely sad: "I envy you, because it's great to have love. It doesn't matter if you run over angrily and complain to me, or miss your lover all night long, the words I write to you are the ones I have always what you want."

"If you like it, you can also find one. There are not a few angels who admire you."

Lucifer smiled at him and said nothing.

The author has something to say: First of all, I declare that as a novel, I will still write about hell at the end, just to explain that the time of hell appears very late, which is basically equal to the time when human beings start to construct hell in their minds, so Michael is in What hell is not known in this chapter.On the topic of heaven and hell, we will continue to discuss in depth here.The text notes have explained that if the same destination of good and evil people is the earth, then there is no limit to doing good and evil.So this is also the purpose and original intention of people to build heaven and hell later, to create a world after death, so that the wicked will be punished in the world after death. Because the "Bible" was not written by one person, but a compilation of chapters written by many Israeli prophets, kings, and later disciples of Jesus, there are often contradictions between the thoughts and chapters before and after, including within a chapter. There are contradictions.Modern Bible interpretation finds that Genesis itself is composed of three volumes, and there are many inconsistencies, but the existence of these contradictions is not meaningless.For example, when the Great Flood was written in Genesis, for the first time God asked Noah and everything in the world to bring a male and a female into the ark. As a result, the next verse became seven males and seven females.And so on, you will find out if you read carefully.The existence of this contradiction, from a theological point of view, is a test of faith and a Scriptural description of Yahweh.We will talk about this issue in the next chapter. What this chapter wants to say is that the system of heaven and hell was finally established (mainly hell, because the kingdom of heaven already exists, and hell is a destination specially designed for wicked people), which has a profound impact on the entire world. .But from a purely theoretical point of view (without a religious point of view, believers generally cannot accept such views), the hell system is a vulgarization of the Bible. One of the important issues discussed in the famous "Book of Job" in the Bible is "why do people suffer because of righteousness?" At that time, there was no theory of hell. Job was originally a "completely upright man" with a wealthy family. Be kind and generous, and honor the LORD.Yahweh let Satan (at that time, Satan was the name of the angel who was responsible for testing the loyalty of mankind to Yahweh, and had nothing to do with hell or sin) to take away everything from him, let his wife and children die, let his property be taken away, let He lost everything, he was sick, he had boils, he was poor.Job was in great pain, and his three friends appeared here, and they began to express their opinions on Job’s current experience, expressing their opinions, thinking that Job had committed some crimes, such and such crimes, and asking Job to repent. Some believers keep looking for other people's sins and ask you to repent, especially when other people's lives are in trouble, more people will tell you what sins you committed.But judging from Jehovah’s final attitude towards the three people, what these three people did was fundamentally wrong.And Job also called the three of them "fake doctors" because the problem is not here.But Job himself didn’t know what the problem was, and his heart began to waver. He questioned what mistakes Jehovah had made that led to this situation (this kind of questioning was not direct).But Jehovah didn't answer him at first.In the end, a young man named Elihu suddenly appeared, angrily reprimanded Job's three friends, and then reprimanded Job, telling Job that you cannot question your Lord.Then Jehovah appeared and spoke a long passage, which was extremely subtle and profound, and finally restored Job’s body, allowed his family to return, and his inheritance was greater than before. The Book of Job is one of the most difficult and deeply thoughtful passages in the Bible.Let me make a simple and superficial analysis of the above story: First, Satan and Jehovah had a dispute. Satan believed that Job was not "righteous" because of his faith, and Jehovah allowed Satan to take everything from him. There is something in it. Meaning: Job’s belief lies in religion, not Jehovah himself. (That is to say, like many people, they think that religious belief can bring blessings, such as good health and smooth career, and the foundation of his integrity is not on Jehovah, but on his wealth and the prosperity of his family) Because the weird thing is that, Jehovah initially argued that Job was a perfectly upright man, but later He actually agreed with Satan and deprived him of everything.This is abnormal everywhere else, as if God is negating his own opinion.But this actually symbolizes that Job’s faith is not in Jehovah himself, so Jehovah himself denied himself in the dispute, that is, Job’s faith “abandoned” Jehovah, and Jehovah must also “abandon” Job, allowing Satan to take him away. everything of.The actions of the three friends later showed that there was something wrong with the three of them “advising and counseling” Job. That is, how could a person represent God to accuse others of committing a crime when they did not fully know God?This is "prejudice", so none of these three friends has the approval of Jehovah.Just like many believers today like to find the "root of sin" for others. If a person's life is in trouble, he must have committed some crime, but this practice is actually the practice of abandoning Jehovah. This is called "self-righteousness" in theology ( self-righteousness, self-righteousness), that is, you believe in Jehovah on the surface, but in fact you are completely fabricating your belief in Jehovah, looking for other people’s sins, finding your own sins, you are not Jehovah, and it is impossible for you to find the true Where is the sin, this is false belief, self-satisfaction. The Book of Job clearly states who Jehovah will lift up and whom he will let fall, and there is no need to report to anyone.Therefore, when a person’s life is suffering, no one can casually accuse him of committing any sins, but it depends on Jehovah himself, as long as he wholeheartedly trusts in Jehovah.Therefore, Job did not listen to his three friends. Although his questioning of Jehovah was incorrect, his questioning showed from another angle that he was not a "self-righteous person." His condemnation, which is the starting point for Jehovah to re-bless Job's past and double his reward.After that, Elihu, as a young man (this identity is worth discussing, and the space is limited, so I can’t go into details), denied the four elders one by one, and at the end of the chapter, Elihu disappeared (some people doubt The section on Elihu was added later), and finally Jehovah appeared and spoke a long passage, refuting Job’s questioning and his three friends, and giving Job everything back.Then it explains a problem, when there is no hell to punish the wicked, if the wicked occupy wealth, reputation, status, what is the attitude of ordinary people?Yahweh gave Job the last gift, but there are still many good people who are suffering.First of all, we need to discern whether these good people really believe in Jehovah.Is their belief based on the desire to enter the kingdom of heaven and gain wealth, fame, and status in the future? Secondly, and most importantly, in the era of "Job", doomsday theory has already appeared, that is, Eber The new people (the ancestors of Israel) have realized that the world will be destroyed in the end, but they believe that Jehovah will re-create the world and restore the order of the world after the destruction.At this time, there is a problem. Although the good and the evil are all buried underground, those who can be inspired to go to the new heaven and new earth can only be those who truly trust in Jehovah. This expectation will last until the world is destroyed.And judging from the issues I have explained in the previous chapters, since man chooses wisdom between eternal life and wisdom, then eternal life in the new heaven and new earth is the ultimate proposition for the Hebrews.Instead of creating hell to torture these dead people, the dead people are already dead. After the final world is destroyed, there will be no place for them in the new heaven and new earth, that's it.If you admit that the dead have souls, isn't this contradictory to the eternal life that human beings pursue?Isn't the immortality of the soul still a kind of eternal life?Therefore, the hell system is a means for the church to attract the bottom-level people to accept their faith because many people cannot understand the level of "Job". The villain, for a group of ignorant people, is the best psychological comfort to take revenge on others who are more talented, wealthy, and status than themselves.But in fact, these people still do not understand the original intention of the Bible.They never knew that the final salvation of human beings lies in the rebirth after destruction.