The Keys of Heaven

(The Recipe for Getting Into Heaven)

The Last Prophecy - The Cathar Prophecy of 2021

Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John did not have the Keys of Heaven. Only Peter did.  He was the legitimate successor of Jesus. This is stated in Matthew 16:19 and is confirmed by his having been the leader of the apostles and the Catholic church itself after Jesus's was gone.

Unfortunately, the only part of his gospel that survived covers the days after Jesus's arrest up to the visit of Mary to the tomb and has nothing about the keys or rules of behavior for earning a place in Heaven.

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As you read consider that this is just a brief outline. Most issues are complex and may have legitimate exceptions or be tempered by special circumstances. 

Putting in the Hours

It is unclear whether it is easy to get into Heaven or not. Perhaps, in trying to measure one's worth or merit, an easy question is "have you put in your time?" Have you worked a life in your lifetime or have you chosen to live off society when you were physically and mentally capable of working?

Paying One's Debts

You may have put in your time, but have you spent more than you have earned is the next question.  If that is the case, you will be leaving debts to others at the end of your life and your net value will be less than a life. 

Paying Your Taxes

If you were capable to and have worked a life in your lifespan, you have essentially met your own needs. But, that does not add up to the modern world's standards of living, especially in middle and high income countries. Think of all the social safety networks, medical services, etc. that are there for you.

If you enjoy modern living, then paying taxes becomes part of the requirements for paying your way through life.

Going Over and Beyond

Some people choose to go above the standard and support others in addition to paying their own way through life. They think above and beyond their own selves. They give a life to those who are unable support themselves. This is obviously meritorious.

If survival on the planet is the measure that is used to assess a successful life, then the above would all pass.

Stealing as a Way of Living

There are people who choose to steal their way through life. Not only do they not earn a life (-1) in their lifetime, but they steal one (- 1) from others. That is a deficit of two lives. 

In addition they cost society a lot of money. Think of theft monitoring in shopping stores, cameras everywhere, street lights at night, locks on doors, alarm systems, safety vaults in banks, bullet-proof glass, passwords on accounts, two-step verification, guns for self defense, police services, prisons, etc.

There are also often psychological costs associated with crimes. When your house is broken into, you lose your sense of security. Someone living off theft makes dozens of victims a month, perhaps even a week. How many is that over a lifetime!

Life is not easy for many, and we start unequal. The real problem is that most thieves lack willpower. Working 40 hours a week and living on a modest wage is too demanding for them. 

Choosing to steal your way through life is starting down a slippery slope that quickly accelerates. 

The Law of the Jungle

Violence has a severe impact on people. It can result in long-lasting suffering, whether at home, in schools, or in the streets. It gives power to bigger and more muscular people and criminals at the expense of smaller individuals (children, women, men of smaller size, etc.). Severe or prolong violence or intimidation can result in decades of suffering even after it has ended.

Society overall has rejected violence so that life is based of fairness and justice rather than muscle power, the law of the jungle. Physical intimidation also empowers despite the lack of actual violence.

Violence and intimidation give a person the power to obtain what they would not otherwise get. It is effective stealing from others just like theft, but with significant suffering resulting. 

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