The Second Coming of Jesus

New York Times NY, New York Jan. 4, 2015 Dear Editors, Second Coming of Jesus Jesus promised His disciples He would come again. It's in the Bible, John 14:1-3: "Let not your heart be troubled. You are trusting God, now trust in Me. There are many homes up there where my Father lives, and I am going to prepare them for your coming. When everything is ready, then I will come and get you, so that you can always be with Me where I am. If this weren't so, I would tell you plainly. And you know where I am going and how to get there." The return of Jesus will be literal and real. It's in the Bible, Acts 1:10-11: "It was not long afterwards that He rose into the sky and disappeared into a cloud, leaving them staring after Him. As they were straining their eyes for another glimpse, suddenly two white-robed men were standing there among them, and said, 'Men of Galilee, why are you standing here staring at the sky? Jesus has gone away to heaven, and some day, just as He went, He will return!'" How will Jesus come again? It's in the Bible, Luke 21:27: "At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory." How many will see Him when He comes? It's in the Bible, Revelation 1:7: "Look, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of Him." What will we see and hear when He comes? It's in the Bible, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17: "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." How visible is His coming to be? It's in the Bible, Matthew 24:27: "For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man." Christ's coming will be unexpected and dramatic. It's in the BIble, 2 Peter 3:10: " But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up." What warning has Jesus given so we won't be fooled about the second coming? It's in the Bible, Matthew 24:23-26: "At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is Jesus!' or 'There He is!' do not believe it. For false Jesus and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. So if anyone tells you, 'There He is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here He is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it." Does anyone know the exact time of Jesus coming? It's in the Bible, Matthew 24:36: "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." Knowing how human it is to procrastinate, what does Jesus tell us to do? It's in the Bible, Matthew 24:42: "Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming." What warning has Jesus given that we might not be taken by surprise by this great event? It's in the Bible, Luke 21:34-36: " But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthyto escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." Why is Jesus second coming taking so long? It's in the Bible, II Peter 3:8-9: "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." While we wait for Jesus, how should we live? It's in the Bible, Titus 2:11-14: " For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works." What will the world be like when Jesus comes? It's in the Bible, Matthew 24:37-39: "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." Will the Jesus coming be a time of reward? It's in the Bible, Matthew 16:27 and Revelation 22:12: "For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's glory with His angels, and then He will reward each person according to what he has done." "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with Me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done." Why is Jesus coming back? It's in the Bible, Hebrews 9:28: "So also Christ died only once as an offering for the sins of many people; and He will come again, but not to deal again with our sins. This time He will come bringing salvation to all those who are eagerly and patiently waiting for Him." With Jesus and His second coming, we will fully experience the reality of our salvation. It's in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 1:7-8: "Now you have every grace and blessing; every spiritual gift and power for doing His will are yours during this time of waiting for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. And He guarantees right up to the end that you will be counted free from all sin and guilt on that day when He returns." What is the last promise Jesus gives us in the Bible? It's in the Bible, Revelation 22:20: "He who testifies to these things says, 'Surely I am coming quickly.' Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus" For us Filipino heretics, freethinkers, and unbelievers of the faith - this is all great and wonderful. What, however, is sad, painful, and regrettable is to see tens of millions of Filipino Catholics all thrilled and excited anticipating not the coming of Jesus from heaven, but the arrival of Pope Francis, the Vicar of Jesus, ( Jan. 15-19, 2015 ) in the Philippines - the poorest and most backward and the only Catholic country in Asia today!! Sincerely, Poch Suzara Pasay City, Philippines pochsuzara@yahoo.com

God So Loved the World

It is clearly written in the bible that: "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." However, in the same bible, it is also clearly written that the beloved Son of God Jesus, crucified on the cross, cried out loud: 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?" Matt. 27:46. Well, listen also to the same Jesus, uttering nonsense in the bible: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; for everyone that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened." Matt. 7:7-8... But according to Luke 13:24, Jesus said the exact opposite: "Strive to enter in at the straight gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." Poch Suzara twitter# facebook# Google#

The Truth Shall Make You Free

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32. . . On the contrary, as a matter of truth, only those who enjoy the freedom of thought will know something of the truth. Never, however, will know the whole truth. The whole truth has yet to be discovered. In the meantime, the good life can only be lived not in a sick society, only in a healthy society. . . Thanks however to the millions of Filipinos with college education as products of Catholic universities we Filipinos are proud to live in a sick society as we are famous as the Sick man of Asia down here; specially for the greater glory of Jesus up there... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God's Divine Plan and Man's Free Will

God has a divine plan and everything that happens or does not happen is according to his will. "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." (Isaiah 45:7). "Whatever the LORD desires he does in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the depths" (Psalms 135:6). "Indeed, she (Wisdom) spans the world from end to end mightily, and governs all things well." (Wisdom 8:1). St. Thomas Aquinas says that God's will is the cause of things (Summa Theologica)... In other words, even if it is a kind of weird animal, free will is a myth, a farce, a fraud, and a ceremony. Free will does not exist. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

China Today Compared to the USA and Philippines still Under Religious Insanity

I have the greatest respect and admiration for the Chinese people in China... It is not only because the Chinese people have been and still are atheistic as a people since the 11th century; but also because in this 21st century China has been the only country in this world that was able to recreate peacefully two great evils together into one great world reality... They have, quite successfully, after much thinking, and with much courage, and indeed, with great leadership managed to merge the evils of Communism and the evils of capitalism working together for them making China the richest, the most economically powerful, and the greatest nation in the world today... What America has accomplished as a nation in 200 years, China accomplished much more as a nation in less than 50 years! In the meantime, in the Philippines, the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century, millions of college-educated Filipinos in this already 21st century are still hoping, dreaming, and praying for a SAVIOR to return and to save us as a people, and to provide for us as a nation! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Read Great Books

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. -Glenn Clark. But if you want travel at much less expense, while acquiring at the same time a real education - read great books. - Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Self-Deception - the Worst Tragedy of the Filipinos as a Peoplexxx

China Under One Great Reality in the World Today

I have the greatest admiration for the Chinese people in China. It is not only because the Chinese people have been and still are atheistic as a people since the 11th century; but also because in this 21st century China has been the only country in this world that was able to transform peacefully two great evils together into one great reality. They have, quite successfully, with much thought and with much courage, and indeed, with great leadership managed to merge the evils of Communism and the Evils of capitalism working together for them making China the richest, the most powerful, and the greatest nation in the world today. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

We Atheists Do Not Control People

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them... We atheists, however, offer people the exact opposite. We want to free people by offering to them the truth; especially by giving back to them something priceless. It was stolen away from them in school - their own precious minds and hearts. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Breeding and Populating for More Fun in the Philippines

In our sick society, as products of a sick system of education, we Filipinos are never into more studying, more reading, more learning, more discovering, more doubting, more questioning, more improving, more understanding; indeed, we are never into more and deeper thinking. Only more hoping via more praying. In fact, in our sick country, the whole idea of success in life after our so-called college education is to make money. In this way, we can have more fun with money as it more fun in the Philippines; especially breeding and populating for our country with more babies. It explains why we Filipinos are so proud and successful in producing 3 babies every single minute of the day, or 180 babies every hour; or 4,320 babies every day; or 129,600 every month; or 1.5 million babies yearly; especially for the sake of promoting Christianity in our country down here as blessed historically by a silly divinity up there. But then again, we produce babies in the streets! Why not! After all, most our streets are no longer streets. They have already transformed into"baby factories." In the meantime, it is a spectacular sight to see: the existence of many pregnant teen-agers and many pregnant mothers carrying, breast-feeding babies or walking with a hungry child in the streets of our major cities. Most of them looking for food. What, however, is even more spectacular is seeing pregnant dogs, pregnant cats, and pregnant rats in the same streets of our major cities also searching for food. Indeed, breeding and populating is more fun in the Philippines. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

More and More People are Turning to Atheism

"God's fences keep you within the bounds of His blessings. Philippine Star, Dec. 29, 2014... Oh God, my dear God, I am so happy that you are still at it with your endless childish antics, infantile pursuits, and silly drama. More and people are beginning to see just how ridiculous you are not as a supernatural being, but as a supernatural Sap. They are turning to appreciate more and more to the beauty and sanity behind atheism. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google# and truth

Noise as a Torture To All Intellectual People

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it... Noise is a torture to all intellectual people... The superabundant display of vitality which takes the form of knocking, hammering, and tumbling things about, has proved a daily torment to me all my daily life... Arthur Schopenhauer. We poor Filipinos love noise; specially noise to celebrate New year's eve celebration. We waste billions of pesos exploding firecrackers around us to make lots of meaningless noises. Indeed, we are not intelligent as a people. We have no mental capacity to feel disturbed or tortured by exploding noises... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Death of an Atheist

Oh yes, I am getting old, sick, and dying. My days on this earth are getting shorter. Soon I will be dead, cremated, and gone. Forever. Before I leave this world, however, whatever time I have that's left for me, I should only wish to carry on and on the promise I made to myself. To keep on doing what I have been doing daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly what I started to do when I reached the age of reason - play a role, no matter how small, in bringing the evils of Christianity out of our sick country. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God is not a Necessary Part in the Existence of the Universe

Parsimony ( Occam's Razor ) suggests that we should not add features to a theory about the world that increases complexity without strong evidence. That is -- the simpler the model, the better. 'God' is an unnecessary add-on to our working hypothesis about the universe -- and one that is not supported by hard evidence. This is the Atheist's perspective. Indeed, it is needless, if not useless, in fact, it is mindless to do with more what can be done with fewer! The Existence of the universe is complicated enough. Why make it more complicated by insisting that God created the universe? Who is God? Where in hell did God come from? Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

Nobody Wants to Die

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die to get there. As a matter of fact, nobody wants to die because to begin with, nobody knows where heaven is located; or, by what means of transportation do we embark on in order to get to heaven! In the meantime, since not wanting to die is also a sin against God, we shall surely end down in hell. Well, as an atheist, since I do not care to go to heaven, I am told that I will end down deeper in hell for having accomplished a bigger sin against God for not wanting to go to heaven. But then again, where is HELL located? How come the existence of HELL is not even mentioned in the Bible? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

We are a Sick People

We are a sick people because we faithfully follow the sick messages in the sick bible written thousands of years ago by sick superstitious primitives. Indeed, written by sick authors of the bible. All of them inspired by a sick God. Consider: "Love not this world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15. My dear reader, do you still have to wonder why we live in a sick, troublesome, and a loveless world? ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Good Will versus Free Will

We can only live better by seeking to become better via knowledge and wisdom. It is, in this sense that it is better to be creative with good will than it is to be destructive with free will. Especially for the sake of winning nothing except later in another silly world God's silly kingdom . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Jews As The Chosen People of God

The Jews, are not only the greatest people in this world, but are also known to be the Chosen people of God. Why not? After all, the Jews did God a great favor. They got Jesus crucified on a cross for being such as dramatic sap always claiming that He was the Savior of the world, especially the Savior of the Filipinos in the Philippines. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Only the Catholic Pope, the Holy Father, Not God, visit the Philippines

Notice the millions of Catholics in the Philippines. They all would welcome the visit of the the holy father, the pope, the Vicar of Christ. But not one of them would dare ask the pope - where is our superior - your real boss? Our creator? It has already been almost 400 years now. How come we have never seen Him? We have never met Him? He continues to only be perpetually omni-absent. Never omnipresent? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Non-Existence of Invisible Nonsense

It is a fallacy to state that something exists just because it can't be proven that it doesn't. Indeed, it is a fallacy to state that God, Devil, angels, heaven, hell, purgatory, etc exist even if in fact such invisible nonsense do not exist. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#