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50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open.54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”
55 Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs. 56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph,[f] and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.Journal of Crime & Punishment 2nd June 2014
On the previous page I mentioned Earthquakes. There have been several earthquakes recently. On Sunday 26th December 2004 there was a massive earthquake near Indonesia. Shortly before this a finished a painting of a Tsunami, which has Japan's national flower on it. It was inspired by a famous Japanese woodblock print, and a vase I have which has on it a picture of the deity (God as a female form) and a young child holding up a flower for rain. I understand the name of God in this picture is Justice, Tranquility and Harmony, and I painted my picture to give to my cousin Margaret, and her husband Colin for Christmas. It would have ben "opened" by them on Boxing Day that year, after christmas day. However, it was even more clear to me that the Tsunami in Japan was an even more powerful and destructive event, causing over 200 billion in damage, including the closure of four or five nuclear power stations. So what? I believe that shortly before the Haiti earthquake of 2010 God asked me (and this was before I was born, so don't ask me what mechanism enabled me to be both here on earth in 2010 and somewhere else, in a former life, presumably on planet Pluto), asked me how big an earthquake I wanted on Haiti. This was a real responsibility, my first earthquake, so I quickly assessed the damage various magnitudes would do, and replied magnitude 7. The next Wellington earthquake which is expected later this year, at least within five years of the Christchurch earthquake, will be a magnitude 8.6 causing in excess of 20 billion worth of damage. Why does God allow earthquakes? We don't have to live where they are predicted to occur. We don't have to live in a Tsunami zone, or in a building which is designed to be weak, or to fall down. We are all going to die at some point, and many will be reborn many times. Do you know how many times I have died, and which ways?
This was a real responsibility, my first earthquake, so I quickly
assessed the damage various magnitudes would do, and replied magnitude
7. The next Wellington earthquake which is expected later this year, at
least within five years of the Christchurch earthquake, will be a
magnitude 8.6 causing in excess of 20 billion worth of damage. Why does
God allow earthquakes? We don't have to live where they are predicted to
occur. We don't have to live in a Tsunami zone, or in a building which
is designed to be weak, or to fall down. We are all going to die at some
point, and many will be reborn many times. Do you know how many times I
have died, and which ways? Before the Christchurch earthquake I had a job cleaning the toilets at a Kiwifruit packhouse in Te Puke, and I had taken some of my paintings with me to Japan when I went there in 1991. I took them to the Mitsubishi Bank but nobody could speak English. In the early days I invented Steel in Japan, but that is another story.
Before we get on to the subject of the people I have been who are currently alive, I want to mention a few more dead people, like the man called Samauri because these are the easiest for somebody to accept. Many of my Shaolin Monestry friends believe in and remember past lives. They brought with them a gladius, which I believe was my gladius which I used in the arena, the Colosseum. The gladius the Shaolin Monks brought me is as blunt as anything could be, and almost useless, but much loved by me.'I'm not sure what history records, but I know that the attempt to assassinate Commodus in his bath was unsuccessful, because again, there was not just a single Commodus. His death had to be public for people to believe it. There were 100 days of games, I believe.
Another name I'd like to believe is mine is the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. If there is an antichrist it has been Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, both different men, and if there is a satan it will have been Herman Goering. We will have to wait another 3,000 years to see him again, but i am not afraid of him and any powers God gives him can just as easily be taken away. There were several fine generals fighting during the second world war, but of all the ones I remember being, Genghis Khan must be among the best.
Anybody who doesn't know Michael Jackson hasn't been living on this planet for the last fifty years. Jesus could have told us about Jackson, but he didn't bother, if he remembered. Michael used some of his wealth to pay a woman to have his child, even though he didn't use any of his own DNA. Then there is Prince, who is still alive. He could be the Prince that Jesus spoke of as the comforter. Once when I was living in China as the son of the Emperor, my father married a black woman who is my mother. It mde me partly chinese and partly black, and there is still a lot of resistance to people of differing races. It is a lot better now that we have a black president of the USA, but it shouldn't make any difference to anyone. Back then in China, I didn't even bother getting married, because I didn't want a child of mine to have to put up with what I had to, evne though my father was well respected. While we are on this theme, there is Venus Williams who I spoke about earlier, and that should be nearly enough, but I have to mention David Bowie, one of my very favourite singers, and Ringo Star, who won the audition to play drums for the Beatles, and David Beckham who I have already mentioned. There are others around who I could mention, and perhaps I will, but I think I'll give them a little privacy. Then there are those who I am not full time, but for whom I can and do make an occasional cameo appearance, because some of these are people who commonly share with other men, but who never thought to wonder if God and Jesus were aware of what they were doing and whether God cared, or could stop them. To me a man who lets another man have sex with his wife, and doesn't tell her what is happening, is a rapist, and should forfeit all rights to her matrimonial property. I've written several letters to this effect to politicians, but they appear to be unresponsive and unsympathetic.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake.[5][6] The resulting tsunami was given various names, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, South Asian tsunami, Indonesian tsunami, the Christmas tsunami and the Boxing Day tsunami.[7]
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin?) was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011,[2][3][8] with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 30 km (19 mi).[2][9] T
The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east and shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in),[19][20][21] .