The non-public life of Jesus.

The public life of Jesus is written in several historybooks. For example Flavius Josephus {also about Jesus' brother (Mark 3.21, John 7.1-13, Galatians 1.19)}, Cornelius Tacitus, Lucian of Samosata, Pliny The Younger, Celsus, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Thallus, Mora Bar Cepurian, The Talmud, Aristides The Athemian, Justin Martyr, Ignatius of Antioch, Hegesippus, Clement of Rome, the koran, Mishna, Midrashin, Phlegon, Julius Africanus, Philo of Alexandria.
But what about the non public life of Jesus??
What did he do before. And..... after.
He  physicaly resurrected (Lucas 24.39-42; "a spirit has no flesh and bones as You see I have" and he ate some fish) and after 40 days disappeared in a cloud, the Bible writes. But there are no specifics if he left the Earth immediately or what. Only that he "sits on the right hand of Power" (a.o. Matthew 26.64) till the "day" he (Luke 17.30) is revealed again (αποκαλυπτεται). This 'right hand of Power' is a position a title. There is for example also an expression in the Bible; 'from heaven' meaning coming from above, from God'S domain, and coming 'from earth' meaning coming from matter, from below, worldly. If you don't know these, it can confuse things in for example 'heavenly Kingdom' which don't means living upthere. Also aeon meaning worldage and kairós as parts of that for another example, and worldhours pankósmies óres, and 'days', aeons goes about very big periods uptill millions of earthyears, but just translating aeon with 'world' it can support the teaching that the Earth is going to be demolished; 'this world (aeon) ends', there where the Bible for example a.o. in Psalms 104.5 writes "the earth is for ever and ever".

This article is not about acknowledging claims about Jesus been uptill Shingo Japan, but about the principle that Jesus resurrected in the flesh (Give me something to eat so that You see that I am no spirit which has no flesh and bones as I have, they gave some fish and honeycomb, Bible Luke 24.36-43) and the meaning of Jesus retracting from publicity to the position of the right hand of Power.

There are several stories about that Jesus, before and after (resurrected) his public life, traveled to the East and even uptil Herai, now called Shingo, near Hatsidate Japan. 

There are stories on top of stories and facts but if you cut away the weeds there is something left.

There was a vivid travelroute from East to West and vice versa in that time. You only had to join into the group of travelers. Inns where literal everywhere every so much kilometers.
Via India Tibet further China, where stories about Jesus passing there, still are very alive. Swami Abhedananda founder Vedanta Society New York, tried to debunk the story of Jesus been in India Tibet and further China region (a.o. Nicolas Notovitch, Nicholas Roerig) but discovered copies of original hidden documents.
Also in Islam.
Apart from this it is of some interest that Jesus and Siddharta Gautama (Buddha) did simular things as signs teachings anyway, Jesus could be welcomed there anyway. 
Why stating at forehand that a thing like this is impossible? However don't swallow things just like that. 
A Shinto high priest Kiyomaro Takeuchi who's family is connected to the emperor which is high(est) Shinto priest, for millennia, recognized officialy this matter in 1936.

If you cut away the weeds (a lot) there is something left. 

Search "The lost years of Jesus" and you find on the line Israël-Japan a lot. 
Writers and researchers about Jesus traveling to the East: Charroux, Kiku Yamane, Rowland G. Gould, Y.S Matsumara, Aziz Kashmiri, Jandai Monji, Laurent J. Teisseire, Prof. J. Meulman, Joseph Eidelberg, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Marvin Tokayer, Nicolas Notovich, Edward T. Martin, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, Nicholas Roerich (Roerich pact core element in foundation United Nations, 3 times nominated Nobelprice for peace, Nicholas Roerich museum New York), Holger Kersten, Swami Abhedananda (Vedanta Society New York), Gloria Basque (head of International Fellowship of Faith), Elizabeth Caspari (a.o. founder montesorischools and trainingscentres throughout America), sir Francis Younghusband, palm leaf books, many Islamic and Hindu historical works, and more.

Suwa Taisha shrine Ontohsai 15th of the 4th each year, in Nagano prefectuur; festival illustrating the story of Isaac, Bible Genesis 22, one of the important rituals in Shinto religion. Mount Moriya is the holy place there, Genesis 22.2 Moria. The original Japanese Shinto belief is free of idols, like the Bible is. It is very surprising that the Shinto religion rituals are same as in the Bible for that part. 
The standingpoint that matter, places, is spirit related, in Shinto, is right in the sense that things always represent/embody something, only their explanation that you should please, pay honour and pray to spirits because of the fact that they are in that matter, places, differs of course from the Bible where the praying must point to GOD Who puts everything/-body where it is.

Spirit(ual) (reason) in everything.

Honour GOD first next to honour spirit(s) of people in the flesh or spirit or other spirits, with GOD above that.
There is however one Absolute Creator in Shinto, the holy couple Izanagi & Izanami are on the eighth place in the creationorder, the line of emperors are still the highpriests. The Kami in things means 'that what is above (it)'. The Divine spirit demands life on Earth for joy, happiness, fulfilment, the goal is to come in unity with the DIVINE. Harmony is the word. Here and now is the characteristic.
God is absolute monarch in the Bible. Idol honouring or calling on anybody or anything only pointing to GOD in this perspective. Compare the apron of Paul healing Bible Acts 19.11-12 and 2Kings 13.21 where close to the bones of Elisha somebody came to life again, works by {(sub)conscious} agreement of the participants.
The purity rituals in Shinto are striking, symbolizing getting to the the purity, orginality, of all things.
Some simularities with the Bible are striking. The offering on Moriya I mentioned. Also the Mikoshi, shape and purpose very similar as Tabernacle, is put inside the building called Jikkenroh and compared with the Ark. 75 Dearheads (no sheeps in ancient Japan) are offered where 75 heads of lambs are offered in the Biblical Samarian Passover Festival, dears and lambs are Kashrut in the Bible. Survey of the Jikkenroh is same size as Sanctum Tabernacle and both a roof without walls and skeleton of a building with pilars arranged at regular intervals. Branches of Sakaki, flowering evergreen, are used, also to clarify the body, as hyssop (Bible) for the same purpose. Onbashira, over there, wooden poles on each corner as in temples Jerusalem. A Mikoshi is indispensable in festivals of Shinto shrines. There are festivals in every small town in any season.

Isukiri in the documents Jesu Christi Jesus Christ.
The beauty in Shinto tells something.
Also in the area around Herai traditions alien to the rest of Japan as; dialect, place name as in Hebrew, foreign looking facial features, clothing as toga-like robes for men, veils worn by women, babies in woven baskets and wrapping them in robes embroidered with a star of David like symbol, crosses on their forehead of charcoal as talisman.

They renamed the village in 1955 Shingo which was Herai resembling Heburai Japanese for Hebrew.

Eli Cohen ambassador of Israel dedicated a plaque in 2004 about the Hebrew ties between Shingo and Israël.

HOWEVER IN THE BIBLE YOU ONLY PRAY TO the "unpersonal"*-everybodies-Father-GOD revealed by the Bible and Jesus Christ - *Who doesn't seek  personality cult- WHO GIVES ALL THE REST, AND FOR EXAMPLE A HANDKERCHIEF OR APRON (Bible Acts 19.11-12) OF PAUL HEALS POINTING TO GOD.
IN SHINTO YOU HONOUR THE KAMI WHICH IS SEEN BEHIND THINGS.
IN ROMAN CATHOLICISM THEY HONOUR AND CALL ON SAINTS WITH THEIR PERSONAL CHARACTER AND SPECIALITIES (gets blown up), AND SO INFLUENCE IN PRAYING, AND ALSO ANGELS (gets blown up), TO PLEA WITH GOD.

So you can state that we cannot say what Jesus did between his 12th and thirty-something 
AND what he did after getting out of sight, seperating from the more intimate followers; Luke 24.50-51: "and he let them out as far as to Bethany and having lifted up his hands he blessed them and it came to pass as was blessing he them he was separated from them and was carried up into the heaven" not mentioned which, as sky, spiritual or (further) universe,  Enoch went up to heaven not saying ending up where 2Kings 2.11 Elijah sended a letter after that 2Chronicles 21.12, Mark 16.19, Acts 1.9-11, -where Jesus' 'sitting on the right hand of Power' started because HE WAS READY, FINISHED HIS WORK FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH and was taken up to Heaven(ly position).

Stephen saw the Son of man (Jesus) next to the glory of GOD, "full of Spirit Holy having looked intently into heaven" and: "the heavens opened" Bible Acts 7.55, here we have a representing image, the position of Jesus not the dwellingplace, Bible Acts 7.54-60.
He left publicity like that. 
Jesus; 'It is better that I go, then the Comforter can come' John 16.6, 
John 14.16-17: "I will petition THE FATHER , and another Paraclete (Comforter) He will give You, that He abide with You forever, the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, whom the world (worldly of this aeon) is not able to receive, because not it sees Him, nor knows Him".
He left public life like that.
But where Jesus precisely "bodyly" went is not said.
Immediately to (a) heaven as dwellingplace or what is not explaned in the Bible.

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Read life as a book, not as a formula.

You cannot read life, appearing in your field of view, as a formula. "This or that confirmation happened, so I am on the right track". It is not like that. Take for example protestant Mary sisters in Germany, reporting about for example a quarrel that's disturbing things and having ended the quarrel a printingmachine started working again, so it appeared later, at the very time they ended the quarrel. But you must watch not to start a superstitional pact with your surrounding believing like that. 
WHEN THE WIND IS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD WONDER WHY. 
'After I went there, this or that happened after it' and you start an explanation in the sense of it giving a direction to go'. Keep that sober. God'S coincidences CAN work that way. Considder what I mentioned before; Stevie Wonder's hit: "Writings on the wall....the Devil is on his way". Because at certain moment you connect to the writing on the wall instead of the Spirit. 
DON'T TURN IT AROUND, IT GETS ON ITS HEAD, UPSIDE DOWN.
Because it gets out of proportion coming into a relation with creation more than the Creator (Bible Romans 1.25) looking for/anticipating on the precize also to reach things.
So it is like this;
You have to draw a distinction in God'S prints, between symbols you see on the wall, are they a situation-copy? or telling something else, and (general) adversity should making you wonder why.
So in the end it is the sincere act that counts for rewarding circumstances.

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Getting into superstition.

Two people on the street; "Can I ask You a question?". "Yes" I said. "You believe in God?". I said "In the Bible and in God" "and in Jesus" I should have added I am thinking now, but at that moment it went like that.
So I said to them that the problem is that people think that I come with the things they hear about churches, about their deviant teachings and practisings, and so I have to overcome that to let them listen.....
And they kept talking and talking and you couldn't get a word between that. "No it is no pentecostal" they said, "Oh that would fit me" I said. I said that because a.o. the practise of the falling unconscious as a sign convulsion attacks and occult-paranormal coming in etc. you see in pentecostal churches. But it happened again that people deny these sort of pentecostal happening and that it just that appears to be. Here too, you HAVE to speak in tongues, they said to my answer that I didn't. 
The Bible writes that there is an early rain of the Holy Spirit in the first age and also a late rain and also the Bible writes that if there are languages (gift of), they will be abolished, etc., because our knowledge is PARTLY; Bible 1 Corinthians 13.8-13. Also that not everybody speaks languages; Bible 1 Corinthians 12.28-31. 
So the people I met had the forced system of anticipation to the gifts as a precondition, which gets into superstition. 
If You know how Spiritists sing and pray and still end up wrong because of their ANTICIPATIONS. 
I preach the New Endowment after the late Rain.
For the Glory Period of God to come on Earth.

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Sitting with your butt on a volcano.

If you look at inspector Clouseau (Peter sellers), you see he always gets in 'commings together' with funny things. I had an uncle, who had a word he always used, and it striked me that he managed to use that word 3 times in 15 minutes I counted ones even more. How is it possible that the conversation goes like that, that you are able to fit that in for some reason: "Well, that's a joke!". (In Dutch "Ook een bak!").
One example of Clouseau is a scene that you see a bench, well there are benches. But this bench is predestined to give place to the buttock of Clouseau. 
Because it is not standing straight and: IT STANDS TOO CLOSE TO THE WATER. 
So you already know that Clouseau is gonna sit on a thing like that. 

Cato, housekeeper of Clouseau did sudden attacks. Subonsciously people are able to connect to things and pick up things, normaly. Healthy intuition nothing more for the healthy scene and to come out right this belongs under the surface for the healthy correlation and cooperating and perspective of all things.

There is a cycle called: the fire in the Earth melts the matter and this comes out and becomes soil again, etc. etc., volcanic activity. 

But you don't NEED to sit with your buttock on the edge trying to avoid it. Some pentecostals make that mistake, Bible Mark 16.18: "Snakes they will take and if they drink something deadly it will not harm them", doesn't mean that you should handle snakes as they do in their church to practise that.
THAT IS WHY I SAY THAT THERE IS ALWAYS A COMING TOGETHER OF THINGS, THAT IF NECESSARY......

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Communism.

The believers shared everything and had all things together and they sold the possessions and distributed to all who needed (Bible Acts 2.44-45). I cannot live like that, one needs personal expression in things. To a rich guy Jesus said; Sell everything and give that to the poor and follow me. Sadly the rich man went on because he couldn't (Bible Luke 18.22-30). I cannot sell everything either. I live already simple. But if you cut the exaggeration I am a (Biblical) communist. Economical motives which are not based on serve eachother but eat eachother are murder: you don't do the things because of the things but because it gives you money. 
BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE LOVE THEIR JOB AND DON'T SEEK FOR MORE MONEY. 
In Rotterdam they demolish the houses of poor people to build for the rich to mix rich and poor. So the poor are not clustering. Well let's hope that the rich this way can learn from the poor. 
I sold lottery tickets for homeless children; in the poor neighbourhood I sold at every door, even "Give me two", and in the very-little-bit-less-poor neighbourhood I sold not one lot. And in the more better neighbourhood they madly punched the window with a mad face and gestures "What are You disturbing me!". The whole picture is very social in the poorer neighbourhood. The headmaster of my lower school wrote after his pension that he was very impressed of the people of the Oude Noorden (Old North) of Rotterdam how they are with eachother, and are there for eachother.
The Little Red Book of Mao Tse Toeng; ......notice a dangerous inclination and unwillingness to share prosperity and adversity with the mass and a craving to get personal glory and profit. This is a very evil inclination" (message 255).
We all know that later Mao Tse Toeng lost the right perspective of things as history learns, to put it very mildly.
I still have the Little Red Book. HOW THINGS DERAIL.

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YOU RECOGNIZE A HINT?? OR JUST FOLLOW CRAZY COINCIDENCE?

I WANTED TO SEE SOMEBODY WHO MOVED TO THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN, FROM WHICH I REGRETED POSTPONING TO GET IN CONTACT WITH, AND WHAT HAPPENED; for something I didn't had I went to the shop on the corner (You know how it is, you get things with the supermarket but then there are things you still need, so you go around the corner) AND WHO CAME AROUND THAT CORNER!? So we talked and exchanged telephonenumbers. 
Of course You know how it is with these things; you need the PRECISE SECOND to let that CLICK. It needs to be very precise to let that come together, the whole bunch of things connected, for you, and the other person. Considder how many "ties" there are so that consecutive happenings and also THEIR connections, influence vice versa, to the arriving at that moment.
Another example; same thing happened to me with a dessert that appeared to be spoiled, I jumped on the bicycle to change that, OF ALL THINGS twenty minutes after closingtime! This shop doesn't close precisely but this is crazy, and who did I see; somebody I also liked very much to see but did not feel free to call. 
Had an important conversation and skipped the changing of the dessert.
Madly impulsive jumping on the bicycle.
BUT DOES THIS WORKING TOGETHER COMES FROM UPHIGH? For my concern you could be connected with other atmospheres that incline, instead of God'S soberness, which inclines to things. 
A Chinese woman I know had burglars, she said, "I did something, now or in my former life why this happens". The burglars exist, but there is a coming together in this. However, the fact is there that you can make your heavenly works/deeds-account as good as possible and there is forgiveness in the Bible. So there is more to that than that ALONE. 
Today I saw a pamphlet under the wiper of a car while going on my bicycle and got an impression about a market but was already past it and went on. After that I passed by a square on distance but saw the roofs of something and had the strong inclination to go there. But I strongly refused, no, no, I am not gonna do it. And then passing the crossing I thought I maybe better take it as a hint seeing that one pamphlet and the strong FEELING. So I stepped down from my bicycle and walked back , over the bridge and there appeared to be a market and found a few books , one Chinese and a little Chinese ship with musicians on it for 0,50 cents.
SO YOU BETTER NOT BE AT THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME
OR THE WRONG PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME
OR THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME
OR HAVE THE WRONG THINGS AT THE RIGHT...
WELL YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN...

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A FLYING raven catches always SOMETHING.

A flying RAVEN CATCHES ALWAYS something. IF THERE IS MOVEMENT THERE IS life you could say. 
Do everything you can. Go places, read books, make a walk, go take a look here or there, do something on a hobby, to cut it short; do things. 
You often don't know the co-ordinate of things that are useful. You see things, hear things, feel things, that also subconsciously are used. Sow, harvest, sow, harvest, and see you have "a garden". 
I write this so extensive because -me too- people have an inclination 'why should I do this or that, go here or there, is it enough useful?'. But if you go after your feeling, it is alright. Motion creates the appearance of motion you need, there is a coming together of certain things which play a part somehow and see also the writing on the wall.
THERE IS A HAND IN COINCIDENCE. IT IS NOT SO THAT THERE ISN'T A HAND IN COINCIDENCE........ 
And if you believe in God you have that extra because God isn't knocking for nothing on everybodies door, reading your souldesires, because the part of the free will (has to) co-operate(s) (sub)consciously, on top of God'S consideration anyway, it is you who opens up or not to the treasures passing by.

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