10.12.2014

The Proof for Believing in God


The Proof for Believing in God
 



God is the one and only God (Jn 17:3). He is the creator of heaven and earth and the source of all blessings (Gn 1:1; Rom 1:20). What is the evidence for believing in God?
 
God is the founder of religion and the author of the scriptures (i.e. the Bible). Christians must carry out their lives of faith based on the scriptures. Living people have neither been to heaven, nor have they seen God. We believe in both heaven and God, however, because of the scriptures and because of the spiritual path that has been passed down to us.
 
What acts as evidence to prove a person believes in God? What do we need for God to acknowledge our faith?
 
Since we cannot see him, believing in God’s word is the same as believing in God (refer to Rom 10:17; Heb 11:1). Faith in God’s word, therefore, provides evidence that a person believes in God. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was fully God.” Wherever the word is, there is God; wherever God is, there is the word. Thus, believing in God’s word is the same as believing in God.
 
 
Since the word is life and light, people with the word become light and possess life (Jn 1:1-4, Jn 8:12). The word is also symbolized by the seed of God. Hence, a person born of God’s seed is God’s son (refer to Mt 13:37-38; Jas 1:18; 1 Jn 3:9) and can be created in God’s image and likeness. People without the word, however, do not have God, light, or life. Without being born of God’s seed, they cannot be created into God’s image or likeness.
 
Jesus was the son of God and he was the true light and life. He was also the word created in God’s image and likeness (refer to 1 Jn 1:1-3) because he was born of God’s seed. If we, like Jesus, also receive and are born of God’s seed, we will become like Jesus. This is, in fact, God’s will.
 
The type of faith God acknowledges is faith in the words God promised. When the fulfillment appears according to the words of promise, the faith of people who believe in that fulfillment proves that they really believe in God.
 
Just because a person claims to believe in God with his lips, attends church, makes monetary offerings, does volunteer service, and serves his pastor does not mean that he is acknowledged by God as a true believer. People who are zealous without knowing God’s will or the true meaning of righteousness are simply trying to lift themselves up above others (refer to Rom 10:2-3). More than offering money or giving worship, God wants us to truly know him (refer to Hos 6:6). We prove we believe in God by knowing God and by believing in and obeying his promises (Rv 1:2-3).
 
If we were to give a group of Christians 100 or even 1,000 questions from the New Testament, how many people could answer just one question properly? It wouldn’t surprise me if none of them could answer those questions properly. If this is the case, is it right for these people to claim that they are orthodox or that they have already received salvation and the holy spirit? The Bible says, “Now this is eternal life—that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent,” (Jn 17:3). The Bible also says, “For the spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God,” (1 Cor 2:10).
 
We must be honest before others and even more honest before God. Our yes should be yes and our no should be no. We should claim to know only what we really know and admit that we do not know what we do not know. It is only when we earnestly pray to God—when seek to know him and his will—that God will reveal himself to us.
 
Today is the same as the times of Noah and of Jesus’ first coming (Mt 24:37-39; Rv 11:8). The kingdom of heaven is indeed near. Everyone must repent. The words of the promises in the New Testament are being fulfilled. Believing in the words of the promises is believing in Jesus. No one can attain salvation unless they know the words of the promises and their physical fulfillment.
 
All the wealth, fame, and power in the world are nothing but empty dreams. They are not eternal life. We will become believers whom the Lord acknowledges when we seek eternal life and when we understand and obey the Lord’s will.

 

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10.07.2014

Reality of Today's Christian World


Reality of Today's Christian World





Today is the end of the religious world and the time of Revelation's fulfillment. What has happened in Christian world and what is happening today?


 


The seven stars which are the messengers who prepare the way and the tabernacle of the seven golden lampstand appeared as promised in Rv 1, 2 and 3. Satan's pastor, the Nicolaitan too appeared there. The messengers of the tabernacle received the teaching of the Nicolaitans, ate the food sacrificed to the idols and committed sexual immorality with the satan's pastors. Jesus showed what happened in the tabernacle to one person (pastor) and sent a letter of repentance to them through him.



The seven messengers did not repent even after receiving the letters. Thus, they were thrown out of God's house in Rv 6 just t as Adam was thrown out. After this, the angel coming up from the east seals people with God's word.



Satan's pastor enters the tabernacle of heaven in Rv 13. They fought the saints there and defeated them. In result, they marked the mark of the beast on their head and hand, and those who received the mark worshipped the beast (false pastors). 144,000 people of the twelve tribes who are sealed learn a new song in Rv 14. The seven bowls of wrath were poured out onto the kingdom and throne of the beast (denominations) and those who received the mark of the beast in Rv 15 and 16. All nations drank the Satan's maddening wine of adultery and collapsed in Rv 17 and 18. All nations were judged because they married the spirit of demon and they led astray in Rv 17 and 18.



Today, the guests to the wedding banquet of the lamb are gathered to Mt. Zion in Rv 19. Children (believers) of the light who belong to the day know this fact although they live in the world of darkness and this is how God's kingdom and priests are created (refer to Rv 1:6, 5:9-10). Those who came to the light of the Bible after awakening will see this fact to believe and confess. Children of darkness who belong to the night will not know this just like the people at the first coming (refer to 1 Thes 5:1-5). The New Testament was given to us before it happens so that when it does happen we will believe (Jn 14:29). How would those who belong to the night know it?



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8.02.2014

Summary of the New Testament Prophecies and Their Physical Fulfillment

Summary of the New Testament Prophecies and Their Physical Fulfillment
 
 


Just as God had fulfilled the prophecies in the Old Testament (Jn 19:30), he made prophecies in the New Testament and will fulfill them (Mt 26:26-29; Lk 22:16-20; Rv 21:6). In particular, the book of Revelation summarizes all the prophecies spoken throughout the New Testament. Revelation begins to be fulfilled as the work of the seven lamps of the seven messengers appear (Rv 1:19-20). In addition, the events to be fulfilled in Revelation are the work of betrayal, destruction, and salvation. Precisely, Revelation is fulfilled when the betrayers, destroyers, and the savior appear in the same place and carry out each one’s tasks according to the prophecies. In the midst of fulfilling this work, an inevitable spiritual war takes place between God’s army and Satan’s army. At the end, the victory goes into God’s hand as Satan is seized (Rv 12).

Thus, this process explains the end of one generation (the generation of churches, Spiritual Israel), and the creation of another generation (New Spiritual Israel). Rv 6 shows how one generation is put to an end. Rv 7, on the other hand, shows how a new generation is created. Rv 13 explains the destruction of the former generation as a result of receiving a mark from the beast, Satan. Rv 14, in contrast, explains the creation of a new world as its people are sealed by God. Rv 18 portrays how all nations become deceived and get married to the devil, and how they are eventually ruined by the devil. Unlike Rv 18, Rv 19 describes the new generation and the marriage between believers and the Lamb, Jesus, after a judgment takes place in Rv 18. The 144,000 of the twelve tribes, the firstfruits who are harvested (Rv 7; Rv 14), become people of the new world as they are sealed by the revealed word from heaven. What have been stated above are God’s prophecies (i.e. promises) and the physical fulfillment, which requires our faith (Jn 14:29).

It is not surprising that many pastors are cursing and criticizing Shincheonji Church of Jesus (SCJ) today, but what is ironic is that many of them have been plagiarizing and teaching the revealed word of SCJ to their own congregation members (Jer 23:30). If they refuse to belong to us and yet continue stealing SCJ’s teachings just like the fallen angels (2 Pt 2:4), they will not be able to escape from God’s punishment. If they are, however, willing to become one with us, they, too, will be blessed.

Believers—who have realized how churches have become corrupt today and how truthful SCJ’s revealed word is—have been flocking to SCJ. If anyone labels SCJ as a cult simply because members of his church left him, his words are no different from the words of the religious leaders at the first coming (Mt 12)—those who kept believers from going to Jesus by calling him a cult leader (Mt 23:13).

Shincheonji Church of Jesus is not a cult; it is a clear-cut orthodoxy (Rv 15; Rv 21). True heretics are those who label the orthodoxy as a cult—those who called Jesus and his disciples heretics at the first coming; and Babylon is the true cult that appears in Rv 17 and Rv 18 at the second coming. Even at this moment, a great number of pastors and believers are coming to SCJ to receive the revealed word. 
 
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8.01.2014

Meeting the Lord in the Clouds of the Air


Meeting the Lord
in the Clouds of the Air

 
Main references: 1 Thes 4:17; Ex 19:4; Mt 16:28; Mt 17:1-5; Mt 24:15-17; Rv 14:1-5; Lk 17:22-24; Jn 16:8-11; Jn 14:26; Mk 12:24, 27
 



It should be first pointed out that the New Testament includes scriptures that were written figuratively.

Meeting the Lord in the clouds of the air (1 Thes 4:17) refers to welcoming Jesus at the figurative Mt. Zion in his second coming (Rv 14). The Lord will come in the spirit, but the believers who welcome him are flesh. If this is the case, isn’t it unreasonable to think we will see the Lord with our naked eyes? Even if Jesus does come flying through the air, however, it will surely be impossible for us to levitate up to meet him. Both Jesus and Apostle John were inspired by the holy spirit and went up to heaven in the spirit (Jn 3:13; Rv 4). When Paul wrote 1 Thes 4:17, he referred to the same event that Jesus referred to in the gospels (Mt 24:30; Mk 13:26; Lk 21:27). We should remember that God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts (Is 55:9).

After the 70 disciples Jesus sent returned to him, Jesus told them, “Rejoice that your names stand written in heaven,” (Lk 10:20b). Jesus also said that his disciples did not belong to the world (Jn 15:19). Paul testified that our citizenship is in heaven (Phil 3:20). Taken together, these passages make it clear that going to the place where God dwells is going to heaven. When Jesus told Peter and his brother Andrew that he would make them fishers of men (Mt 4:18-20), he used fish as a metaphor for people. A fish that is caught and pulled up from the sea (Mt 13:47-48) is a person who is lifted up to be with the Lord (the owner of the ship).

Jesus also told his disciples, “There are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom,” (Mt 16:28). Six days after he said this to his disciples, he took three of his disciples and went up into the clouds on top of a high mountain (i.e. the mountain of transfiguration). Jesus showed them his appearance as it would be revealed at the time of the second coming (Mt 17:1-5).
 
In Ex 19:4, God told his people, “You [the Israelites] yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I lifted you [approximately 600,000 men, not counting  their families (Ex 12:37)] on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.” Were there real physical eagles that lifted God’s people out of Egypt at that time? One of God’s four living creatures (Rv 4) is an eagle. Thus, these eagles undoubtedly represent spirits. When Ex 19 says the Israelites were lifted up on eagles’ wings, it means that God’s angels delivered them out of Egypt and led them to be with God.

 
What, then, does it mean for us to be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air?
 
This means that our spirits—not our flesh—are lifted up into the air like Ezekiel was (Ez 3:12-15). Just as John was lifted to heaven in the spirit (Rv 4), being caught up in the clouds means that the four living creatures lift up the living spirits of those who are still physically alive with the living spirits of those who are physically dead. Since the spirits of those who have died physically are invisible, it is as if they are hidden by clouds. After being lifted up, both the spirits of those who are physically dead and the spirits of those who are still alive will be gathered together at the figurative Mt. Zion. This is what it means for us to be lifted up into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. According to Jn 3:13, Jesus went up to heaven before his crucifixion. At that time, it was Jesus’ spirit, not his body, that was lifted up to heaven. Only later did the spirit of Apostle John also get lifted up to heaven in Rv 4. If our physical bodies will really be taken up to heaven, then, shouldn’t the bodies, and not the spirits, of Jesus and John have been taken up to heaven too? If Jesus ascended into heaven with his physical body, shouldn’t he be able to return with the same body? Why then did Jesus warn his followers that they would no longer be able to see him (Mt 23:39; Lk 13:35; Jn 16:8-10)? He was pointing out that he will not be coming in the same form when he returns; he will be coming in the spirit. In addition, if Jesus were coming back in his physical body, then the spirit of truth—the Counselor who comes in the name of the Lord—would not have any work to do. In that case, we would not need to fight against and overcome Satan; we would not need the wedding banquet. The 144,000 of the twelve tribes, the great multitude in white robes, and Mt. Zion, which God promised to create on Earth, would be unnecessary if our physical bodies are going to be lifted up to heaven.

The Physical Israelites were compared to the sun, moon, and stars (Gn 37:9-11) in the sky (heaven). When Paul talked about being caught up in the sky in 1 Thes 4:17, he was talking about the place where the twelve tribes of New Spiritual Israel are with God, Jesus, the four living creatures, and the 24 elders (Rv 7, 14:1-5). Heaven is the location of God and the twelve tribes of his chosen people—the sun, moon, and stars of heaven (Rv 15).
 

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5.31.2014

The Sealed Scroll and Revelation


 
 
The Sealed Scroll and Revelation
 





 
 
 


 

What is the sealed scroll and what is revelation?




The Lord Jesus said in Mt 11:27, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the son and anyone to whom the son decides to reveal him.” He is saying that only the one who receives the revelation is able to know the Father. He also stated in Jn 17:3, “Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.”



According to the prophecies in Is 29:9-13, pastors are blind because the revelation is nothing but a sealed scroll to them. This is why pastors preach the teachings of men; this is why those who learn the teachings of men from them say “Lord! Lord!“ paying mere lip-service to God. Despite their outward confessions of faith, their hearts are far from God. Habakkuk said that the revelation’s fulfillment awaits an appointed time (Hb 2:2-3). The book of Ezekiel explains that the revelation is opened at the appointed time when God’s chosen people are seized by gentiles. According to the prophecies in Ez 1-3, Jesus came into the world when the Israelites were under the control of gentiles. Jesus received the revelation from God and delivered it to the people (Mt 15:24; Mt 11:27). In the midst of this situation, Jesus proclaimed that no one knew the son except the Father, and that it was only the son, who had received the revelation, that knew the Father. He also proclaimed that eternal life was to know the only true Father and his son, Jesus.



“The revelation of Jesus Christ” is again mentioned in Rv 1:1. This revelation is passed down to God’s people in a very specific way. First, Jesus takes the sealed scroll from God’s hand in Rv 5. He begins to break the seals in Rv 6 and fulfills the prophecies according to what is written in the scroll. Beginning in Rv 8, the seven trumpets are sounded to proclaim the fulfillment. Then, in Rv 10, Jesus gives the opened scroll to one pastor and tells him where to go to deliver the message. Before the revelation is made known, it is only the teachings of men that are being taught; no one knows the true revelation. Although those who lack knowledge of the revelation draw near to God with their lips, their lives of faith are inadequate because their hearts are far from God.   
 


No one knows God, Jesus, and the one who overcomes except those who have received the revelation of Jesus Christ (i.e. the book of Revelation) through SCJ today. For this reason, no one truly has eternal life except these people in SCJ (Rv 1:1-3; Rv 7; Rv 10). Those who receive the revealed word from above will be able to know the only true God, Jesus, and the one who has come in the name of the Lord—the one who overcomes within whom the spirit of the Counselor dwells (Jn 14:26; Jn 17:3). Knowing these entities is eternal life. Today, God has granted everything to SCJ where the one who overcomes is (Rv 2-3; Rv 21:1-7). Among all the nations of the world, it is only SCJ that has mastered the book of Revelation. Just as Apostle Paul and Apostle John taught the revelation (Gal 1:11-12; Rv 10), people should forsake the teachings of men and learn the revelation from heaven in SCJ. I sincerely pray that everyone will obtain salvation by doing so. 


5.30.2014

True Believers

True Believers
 



Roughly 3,500 years ago, a man named Moses appeared in Egypt (Ex 2). Many people followed him because God was with Moses (Ex 3). Those who followed Moses were all believers. Moses was harshly persecuted by the Egyptians and by gentiles from other nations who did not believe in God (Ex 7; Ex 17). Roughly 2,000 years ago, a man named Jesus appeared in the nation of Israel (Mt 1). Many people followed Jesus because God was with him (Mt 3; Mt 21). This is why Jesus was intensely persecuted by many Israelites (Mt 27; Jn 8). Another 2,000 years have passed since that time. Now, a man named Manhee Lee has appeared in the nation of Korea. Because the spirit of the Counselor―the one who comes in the name of the Lord and speaks on his behalf―is with Manhee Lee (Jn 14; Jn 16), many believers follow him. This is why he is being persecuted by a great number of people in Korea (Rv 11; Rv 16).



If these men were ordinary they would not have been persecuted; ordinary men are not persecuted. They were persecuted because of the presence of the spirit of God with them. Religion was created by God in heaven. The book of scriptures of true religion is the book of God; it contains the will of God (2 Tm 3:16; 2 Pt 1:21; Gal 1:11-12). No one can carry out a proper life of faith according to the will of God without mastering his book and his will. The lives of faith that people carry out without knowing the will of God are carried out based on their own understanding. Anyone who carries out this kind of life of faith is not a believer who belongs to God, the founder of religion. It is only when God comes and reveals the meaning of the divine scriptures that we can truly understand the meaning of his book. Books people wrote after having studied the scriptures on their own simply present their author’s opinions (Ez 13:1-3).



The Bible says that God is the word, and Jesus, the son of God, is also the word (Jn 1:1-5; 1Jn 1:1-3). The one who has mastered the scriptures is the word made flesh (Jn 1:14; Rv 10) and truly knows the path. Those who walk without knowing the proper path have not mastered the word (i.e. the way). The testimony of God differs from the testimonies of men (Is 55:8-9). True believers who have mastered the word (i.e. the way) are persecuted because their testimonies come from God. The true meaning of the scriptures differs from a human understanding of the scriptures. True believers who have mastered the word are persecuted because they speak about the true meaning of the scriptures. No one in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth knows the meaning of God’s prophecies (Rv 5:1-4). We are able to understand the meaning when God comes and makes it known to us (Jn 14:26; 1 Cor 2:10; Rv 10).



We in SCJ declare that we have mastered the scriptures and have been testifying about the physical fulfillment of God’s prophecies. You can only truly understand what it is we have if you come and verify for yourself whether our claims are true. Regardless of whether people believe in our testimony, we will still proclaim God’s will, God’s word, and the physical fulfillment of his word (Ez 3:11). We earnestly pray that you will understand and believe in our testimony so that you will attain heaven and eternal life.

3.02.2014

Fulfillment of Prophecies and Faith

Fulfillment of Prophecies and Faith


Main reference: Jn 14:29 (Jn 19:30; Rv 21:6)

Within God’s 6000 years of work there were prophecies and fulfillment. Prophecy was given so that when it fulfills one can see and believe (Jn 14:29). Also, one must first know the prophecies in order to see and believe when it fulfills.

Therefore, one must first write the prophecies that God promised in one’s heart to see and believe at the time of fulfillment. That is why if one does not know the promised prophecies, one will not know and believe when God fulfills the prophecies He promised.

The Old Testament prophets recorded future events that they saw and heard from God. The future events that the Old Testament prophets saw and heard were a whole vision given by God from heaven. Before the whole vision is fulfilled, no one is able to neither see nor touch the reality. It is like the sealed book. The prophet Habakkuk said in chapter 2 (NKJV), “write the vision and make it plain on tablets that he may run who reads it.” If one does not write the vision of prophecies in one’s heart, how will he know the reality when the vision fulfills?

Jesus proclaimed the revelation of the Old Testament vision that was opened (fulfilled). But because the Israelites did not write God’s word of the covenant (vision) in their hearts, they did not believe the revelation of the fulfillment proclaimed by Jesus. After Jesus ascended into heaven, he gave John the vision of the New Testament (Revelation). Since the appointed time of fulfillment will come again, one must write it in his heart and be someone who waits for this era. But there is not even one person among the pastors of the worldly churches or any church members who has recorded these words in their hearts. Then how can anyone possibly believe and be obedient? That is why Jesus said when he returns will he find faith on the earth (Lk 18:8). Today, those who did not write the vision of the New Testament (prophecy) in their hearts claim they are orthodox and call those who don’t belong to them a cult. Can people like this receive salvation?

Jesus said in Jn 12:48, “that very word which I spoke will condemn him (the one who forsakes and does not accept the Word) at the last day.” This is referring to the sin of leaving the Word of promise.

Just like it is written, since Revelation will fulfill (Rv 21:6) one must write it in his heart. If one adds and subtracts then he will not be able to enter into heaven and will also receive curses (Rv 22:18-19). The one who adds and subtracts is one who will receive curses. Just because the one who is not able to enter into heaven, the one who receives curses, calls the one who does not add or subtract from Revelation (the one who has mastered) a cult, does that make him a cult? That person himself is the cult. This is just like the 1st coming when the pastors called Jesus a cult. The Korean proverb explains this situation: one who did wrong will be the one to blame the other who has not done wrong.

Today, the pastors of the CCK, who love money and authority, again call Shincheonji a cult. Shincheonji does not add to or subtract from Revelation but are those who mastered the Bible. The pastors of CCK add and subtract from Revelation. Who is truly the real cult?

Shincheonji is called a cult for freely operating Bible mission centers. In the Bible it says to freely give for you have freely received the free gift of the water of life (refer to Mt 10:8, Rv 22:17)

The CCK is not able to teach the Word at seminary schools because they do not know. However, they still receive money. Because congregation members do not have money, they are unable to attend and also graduate from seminary schools. Why is it that they don't have the Word? It is because the holy spirit is not at the seminary schools. Why is it that the holy spirit is not there? It is because they love money, power, being honored and worshiped, and lies, that the holy spirit cannot be together with them. That is why they have become the worldly seminary schools that do not have the Word. According to God's Word, they are the false seminary schools. They are not acting according to God's will but are operating these seminary schools according to their own. To confirm‍ the reality of this, if a Bible exam is given to a student who attends the free Bible mission centers and also to a CCK seminary student, one will know. The difference will be like heaven and earth. Therefore, the "study of revelation" from heaven and the "study of the earth" from the world is different (refer to Jn 3:31-34)

Regardless of who it is, everyone was born with sin and the original sin of Adam having good and evil. Adam's descendants were people of Adam's original sin of good and evil. In other words, it means to be born with the ideologies of good and evil. The reason why Jesus said to be born again is because people are formless and empty (refer to Jn 3:3-7). It is because good and evil were mixed together that people have to be born again. But with what must one be reborn with? It is neither through heredity nor physical lineage (Jn 1:13) but one must be reborn through God's seed and spirit. Jesus and the disciples, who were born through God's seed, did not betray, but went on the road of martyrdom dutifully. Those who were born with Adam's original sin betrayed just like Adam but the martyrs born with God's seed never betrayed.

By being reborn with God's seed, one becomes God's family and receives salvation just like at the time of Noah. Is the person born with God's seed and the person born with Adam's original sin the same? The reason why one does not obey God nor act according to God's will is because he is born with Adam's original sin. Who will the one born with God's seed and the one born Adam's original sin be one with, respectively? The one who receives the evil spirit will have evil actions, and the one who receives the good spirit will have good actions. There are those who believe God's word of promise and act according to that purpose, but there are also those who do not act according to God's word and purpose. This is how one is able to know who they belong to.

We at Shincheonji do not add to or subtract from God's Word but act according to God's purpose. The name and creation of our temple and even our actions are according to God's purpose. Because this is the location where Jesus is one with, it is a place that Satan's pastors hates. Just like Jesus, we are those helping the world receive salvation through the Word (refer to Rv 22:1-2).
 


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2.18.2014

Distinguishing a Good Person and an Evil Person

 
 
Distinguishing a Good Person
and an Evil Person
 
Main reference: Mt 7:13-14
 
 
After the sin of Adam, Adam who had consumed good and evil had good and evil within himself, and anyone born of his gene would also carry good and evil.

From the time of Genesis 4 to Revelation in the New Testament, there was opposition between good and evil, and even though God sent His prophets in every era, the pastors in that era who said that they believed in God, persecuted and killed them all.

Similarly, at Jesus’ First Coming, in Lk 20 (vs. 9-15), Jesus and his disciples whom God was with were killed by them. The very pastors who killed the prophets and the disciples – who is true and false, and who are the chosen people of God? And whose spirit is using the pastors who killed the messengers sent by God?

At the First Coming, Jesus called the teachers of the law and the Pharisees who persecuted him ‘the snakes that deceived Adam and Eve,’ and those whom they guided, the people of Jerusalem, ‘the brood of vipers’ (Mt 23:33). Today, when Revelation of the New Testament is being fulfilled, Jesus said in Rv 22:16 that he sent his messenger to the churches to testify to the fulfilled events of Revelation. However, how many will truly believe and acknowledge him? Just as they did to Jesus at the First Coming, will they persecute and kill him? We are asking the pastors of today for their honest answer!

Today, we, Shincheonji (New Heaven, New Earth), have mastered the entire Scriptures (1 Cor 2:10), have seen, heard and understood the fulfillment and have testified to the churches. The pastors of today do not accept this good news and accuse Shincheonji that testified, through persecution. Even now, the worldly churches have proclaimed war with Shincheonji, and just like Jesus’ First Coming, they have mobilized together to tighten around Shincheonji’s neck. In 2007, the members of Christian Council of Korea united with those who sinned within Shincheonji and left, and in order to kill Shincheonji, they fabricated 14 lies and televised them through MBC PD Note, and even without confirm‍ing the truth at all, conducted a biased, distorted report twice (one was 50 minutes, another short version of approximately 15 minutes) to the people of the country, and condemned Shincheonji as a cult, the way the pastors and elders did to Jesus at the First Coming. Through this, they prosecuted a detailed investigation on Shincheonji, and broadcasted their biased distorted reports, but in October of 2009, the MBC PD Note program showed a correction report, and a counterargument.

Even after this, Christian magazine publishers and broadcasting companies constantly published false articles and reports about Shincheonji. Is this an act of love, forgiveness and blessing? How can persecution, cursing, judging and lies be of God’s truth and very love that Jesus taught us?

The Christian Council of Korea, just like Calvin, labels anyone who does not belong to them as a cult. Heresy Countermeasure Committee (이단대책위원회), who belongs to the Christian Council of Korea, deceive the parents whose children go to Shincheonji by convincing the parents to believe that their children have fallen into hell, and tells them that for multiple payments of hundreds of dollars per child, they will convert their children back; they use the parents to force handcuffs on their child’s hands and feet, tape over their mouths, and forces them in a car and locks them up in a room for compulsory conversion education. The content of this education is false, which they made into a DVD and their own website (café, blog, home page, etc), which is the start of their personal attacks. Is this the truth? Is this the Bible?

Currently churches buy and sell board seats for money, and the pastors that belong to them do not even graduate from seminary but give money to become ordained as pastors. This shows that the church is more corrupt than the world. Can this place and Shincheonji Temple of Tabernacle of the Testimony become united as one?

Jesus, in Mt 19:27-29 said, “at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel, for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.” Not only this, but in Rv 21, heaven and God will come down upon Shincheonji (New Heaven New Earth) (Rv 3:12) and there will be no more death and pain in this kingdom and will instead receive the inheritance.

Could this place belong to the currently existing denominations that have thrown away this promise and have become corrupted? These churches today are divided because of titles, authority and fame (The Christian Council of Korea and 한교연), calling each other cult and judging one another. Their respective magazine publishing companies condemn Shincheonji and make books filled with lies, selling them to all the church members to make money, while broadcasting companies are showing lies about Shincheonji, slandering and raising their viewer ratings. How will they avoid the judgment of hell?

We ask Jesus and his disciples these questions.

 “Are the actions of the current existing churches sincere and true?”

 “Will we become true orthodoxy if we become united with them? Or must we become one with Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of Tabernacle of the Testimony, promised according to the Bible, and according to the promises in the Bible, be reborn through God’s seed and His holy spirit, be harvested, be sealed, belong to the 12 tribes of the promised kingdom, do not add to or subtract from Revelation, and be written in the book of life?

“Please define good and evil between these two. Please make this known to them. We want to keep the promises of the Bible, becoming a congregation member of God and Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of Tabernacle of the Testimony, so that we can eternally become the family of our Father God.”

 Those born of the seed of persecution whether then or now will still persecute, and those born of truth and love will be as they are today and back then (Jn 15:18-34).

Mt 23:29-36

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers! “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.”

Acts 7:51-53

“You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him – you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it.”

Mt 5:11-12

“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

Jn 15:18-23

“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father as well.”

Jn 16:1-4

“All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you.”

Lk 20:9-16 He went on to tell the people this parable: 

“A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out. “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.’ But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. When the people heard this, they said, “May this never be!”

Jesus ended corrupted Physical Israel and established Spiritual Israel promised in the New Testament, which is now the former heaven at the end of age, the Lord’s Second Coming. The churches of the former heaven at the Second Coming have become corrupted, and not one stone will be left on another, but it was said that everyone one will be thrown down (Mt 24:1-2). This appears in Rv 18, where the nations have become drunk and are destroyed, and this is like the falling of the sun, moon and stars that belong to heaven, and it is said that heaven and earth will disappear (Mt 24:29, Rv 6:12-13). And the Second Coming is said to be like the time of Noah and Lot (Mt 24:37-39, Lk 17:26-30).

However, the Christian Council of Korea, who do not have Jesus’ words of prophecies, call themselves orthodoxy and say they are saved. Should we believe in Jesus’ words or believe in the words of the Christian Council of Korea? The Bible is telling us the answer. We at Shincheonji absolutely will believe in the words of the Bible. Those who belong to the Christian Council of Korea will believe in the words of the Christian Council of Korea. Who is truly saved then?

We of Shincheonji have learned the prophecies and reality of the fulfillment from Rv 1 to Rv 22:21, and have taken an exam, graduated with 90% and above, and have not added to or subtracted from the words of Revelation. The Christian Council of Korea, like Calvin, have completely added to and subtracted from Revelation. Will they truly go to heaven, or hell? Look at Rv 22:18-19. Is this truly orthodoxy? No matter how much you look at it, they are scoundrels.

We know the realities of the betrayers, destroyers, and savior that appear in Revelation. Does the Christian Council in Korea know? A fool will not know this.

We of Shincheonji are receiving persecution like Jesus did at the First Coming, and just as it is written in Mt 7:13-14, we are walking on the road that leads to life.

The broad road, Christian Council of Korea and [Christian Council of Korea that loves money and Communion of Churches in Korea that came out of it], is going down to its destination of the fiery hell, isn’t it?

The reason why the Christian Council of Korea persecutes Shincheonji is because Jesus dwells within Shincheonji (Jn 15:18 If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first).

Jesus in Jn 14:20, taught in regards to today, “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you” and as written, we know of this. The Christian Council of Korea do not know this because Jesus is not within them.

Those who want to know the Word and receive salvation can find refuge if they come to Shincheonji. This is what Jesus spoke (Rv 7, 12, 19). We are the sealed 12 tribes!

Amen!
 
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