Distinguishing Between the Man of Heaven & the Man of the Earth

 

Distinguishing Between the Man of Heaven

& the Man of the Earth

 

 

 

Main references: Jn 8:23; Phil 3:20

(refer to Jn 5:24-29, 6:1-6; Mt 13; Jn 15:18-24; 1 Cor 15:51-54; 2 Cor 5:17)

 

 

How can one distinguish between the man born of heaven and the man born of the earth? It is through their seed and fruit they can be distinguished. They can also be recognized as their transformed images appear, and as they take a test through the word planted in their hearts.

 

Adam was dust. He became a living being, that is, a living spirit, as the breath of life (the word of life) entered into this dust. It is stated clearly in John 6:51-53, people will have eternal life as the breath of life enters into them. Jesus also said in John 3:5-6, one can enter into God’s house, heaven, by being born again of God’s seed and His holy spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, and spirit gives birth to spirit.

 

Since Adam’s fall, the living spirit within a person has been dead because of sin. The dead spirit within a person, however, becomes alive as God’s word of life (the breath of life) enters into a dead man. This is the resurrection of the spirit, which was dead in the grave [the flesh] (Jn 5:24-29). Furthermore, whoever is born of Adam is his numerator (i.e. children), and he also becomes someone who ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, since Adam originally ate the fruit. The one born of Adam is a person born with sinful genes, and he is nothing but dust and mere flesh whose living spirit is dead. Concerning this, Paul states that death came through one man, and life also came through one man.

 

The thoughts of the devil want man to die, whereas the thoughts of God want man to live. If Adam, who became a living spirit, had not eaten the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, would his flesh still have returned to dust?

 

According to Genesis 6, the sons of God became one with the daughters of the earth (flesh), and as a result, they became the same flesh and mortal and returned to dust. Their life (life expectancy) was determined to be one hundred twenty years, and eventually they were destroyed and died.

 

The history of the Bible portrays the work of God which has been carried out in order to save people whose spirits are dead. God allows people to be born again through the cross of Jesus and the seed of God. God’s will (Mt 7:21) is that we are born again of God’s seed and the spirit, just as it says in John 3:5-6. If anyone is born of God’s seed and the spirit, he is born from heaven. He becomes God’s child and His family. This is the man of heaven born from above. That which is born of dust, the earth, is flesh, and this flesh returns to dust. That which is born of heaven, in contrast, goes to heaven. In other words, the seed of heaven is sown into the flesh, which is dust; once it grows and becomes bigger, the spirit of God, which is likened unto the bird of the holy spirit, comes and perches in it. This illustrates how God (the holy spirit) comes to His Son and unites Himself with His Son as one.

 

In this way, the one born of heaven differs from the one born of the earth. The place each of them ends up going to, also differs from one another. The one born of the earth does not know what is of heaven (the Bible).

 

Not all believers are true believers. Just because someone says he believes does not mean he truly believes. A false believer is only a believer superficially, and in fact, he is worse than non-believers. Just because someone claims to be a pastor does not mean he is a true pastor. Only the pastor whom God acknowledges is the true pastor. There were numerous pastors at Jesus’ first coming, but not even one person was a true pastor. All of them were the devil’s pastors. Likewise, there are several pastors at the time of Jesus’ second coming [at the time of Revelation] (Mt 24; Rv 18). However, the only pastor of whom God approves is one pastor: the promised pastor.

 

Among this great number of pastors, to whom will God entrust the secrets of the kingdom of heaven and the events of the covenant which are yet to be fulfilled?

 

At the end of the religious world when all nations have fallen down (Rv 18), those who follow their own pastors will be unable to attain salvation. Only when people follow the promised pastor, will they receive salvation. At the end of the religious world, falling from heaven to earth, and returning from the work of the holy spirit to being mere flesh is referred to as the end of the age or the end times (Rv 13). At a time like this, one will not become the man of heaven unless he is born again of the seed of heaven. Someone who is not born of the seed of heaven is born of the earth and is part of the earth, and he eventually returns to dust. Moses, Elijah, and Jesus went up to heaven, and they were not buried under the ground. Anyone born of the seed of heaven is guided by the holy spirit. His citizenship is in heaven (Phil 3:20), and he will resurrect and bear the holy image of heaven, just like the ones who appeared on the Mount of Transfiguration.

 

God’s true purpose after Adam’s fall was to remove from people the inherited sin, and to make people reborn of God’s seed and spirit. As the holy spirit of God rests on the people born of God’s seed (the sons), their lives of faith are made perfect, and the purpose and hope of their lives of faith are accomplished.

 

God has made the betrayers, destroyers, and the savior appear just as He promised in the New Testament Revelation. God has allowed us to know the pastor whom God is with through the appearance of those three entities. He has also permitted us to understand what kind of people will be saved and what God’s promised new kingdom and His promised temple are. Knowing the betrayers, destroyers, and the savior promised in the New Testament is the qualification for one’s salvation. If someone does not know these three entities, how can he be considered a believer?

 

If one is not born of heaven will be unable to attain salvation, nor will the one born of the earth enter into the kingdom of heaven. It is only those born of God who will be able to go to the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who has perceived the word of promise will say amen to this word.

 

 

 

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The Man of Heaven & the Man of the Earth.

 

The Man of Heaven & the Man of the Earth

 

 

Main references: Phil 3:20-21 (Jn 15:18-27)

 

 

How is the man of heaven different from the man of the world (earth)?

The man of heaven is born of heaven through the seed of God. His image is like God and in His likeness (Gn 1:26). It is like the transformed image of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration (refer to Mt 17). On the other hand, the man of the world is born from the world, the earth. His image is the image of the earth, the likeness of flesh.

The one born of heaven speaks and listens to the words of heaven, whereas the one born of the world speaks and listens to the words of the world. This is the difference between the one born of heaven and the one born of the world, the earth. Jesus, the son of God, referred to himself as the way, the truth, and the life (Jn 14:6). He also stated no one could come to the father except through this way, truth, and life. According to 1John 1, the word in the beginning is Jesus. It says in John 1:1-4, the way, truth, and life is the word of God. Jesus is with God (Rv 3:21), and it is only through Jesus, who is the way, truth, and life, people can go to the Father. Jesus himself becomes the way and the bridge which allows people to go to God. Without Jesus, there is no way, no truth, no life, and no bridge.

 

Paul said in Romans 8, "If anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ." In addition to this word, it says in Revelation 3:20, "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." These scriptures show who is the one whom the spirit of Christ is with. If Christ is with someone, that person will also know the way and the truth just like Christ. He becomes someone who is led by the Lord, and he becomes the word just like Jesus. People's superficial claims of believe is a part from the will of Christ. Those people are nothing but outsiders.

 

The difference of heaven and the world is enormous, and so is the difference between the sons of God and the daughters of the earth. Their very origins are different: the seed of heaven and the seed of the earth, the world. If someone who is born of the seed of heaven betrays, becomes part of the earth, and unites with the daughters of the earth, then he becomes the same as the earth, that is, mere flesh, just like Adam. The origins of the man of heaven and the man of the earth differ because of their seed. The one born of the earth loves the world; he will listen to the words of the world and follow the world. The one born of heaven, in contrast, loves heaven, which is the kingdom of heaven; he will listen to the words of heaven and follow heaven.

 

Jesus said in Matthew 23, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate." A hen receives the seed of the rooster, lays eggs, and gathers them. She incubates those eggs for 21 days and then hatches and protects them. She also makes sure her chicks follow her through her own voice, and protects them. She looks for food to feed her chicks and knows and recognizes each of her chicks' voices, and raises them. Chicks, too, recognize their mother hen's voice and follow her. If the mother hen is out of their sight, they look for her. The mother hen, who knows the voices of her chicks, quickly runs to her chicks when they call out to her. Chicks know their own mother, look for her, and only follow her. The mother hen protects her chicks, feeds and raises them. On a cold night, the mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings to protect them. The chicks go under the wings of their mother or sometimes they go up on the back of their mother. Jesus, just like a mother hen who lost her chicks, was trying to gather us several times, but people, who were worse than chicks, were not willing according to Jesus' word. Will people ever know that they are actually worse than chicks? 

 
God spoke with a grieving heart in Isaiah 1 when He said, "Hear, O heaven! Listen, O earth! I reared the children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner's manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand." He continued, saying, "Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their back on him." God also had Jeremiah record the same story in the book of Lamentations. People sinned just as Adam had sinned. If people are captured by the spirit of the devil, their mentality changes.

 

According to what is recorded in Revelation 13, 17, and 18, the events of the Lord's second coming (today), the Spiritual Israelites betrayed the Lord and followed the pastors of the gentile spirits. In fact, it is all nations which have committed such actions. All nations fell by eating the fruit of the kingdom of demons, in other words, by drinking the wine of adulteries. All nations also married the devil. This shows how they have become one with the devil instead of being one with God. At a time like this, the messenger who speaks on behalf, the one sent by the Lord, comes to the place where the people are held in captivity. He delivers the people and calls them out of this place, harvesting them like a thief. This is the work of salvation, which leads people from death to life at the time of the second coming. Aren’t all the pastors of the nations today persecuting the messenger who speaks on behalf, going against him with every possible means at their disposal, just like at the time of the first coming? Despite such work of persecution, one person overcomes, and the Lord, who is the way, truth, and life, is with the one who overcomes. Because the Lord is with him, the one who overcomes is able to fulfill the New Testament and establish the 12 tribes, the new kingdom of God, and he is also able to judge Babylon, the kingdom of the devil.

 
Up to this point, the actions of betrayal which occurred in the times of the Old and New Testaments, and in the times of the first and the second comings, have been examined.

 

How can those who have become one with the devil recognize God and the one sent by God? Only those who receive the revelation (i.e. the revealed word) will be able to recognize them. God said in John 10, "His sheep follow him (the pastor) because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice." Depending on who people are born from, they are destined to follow the masters who gave them birth. The one who knows Jesus' voice will open up his heart and accept it, but those who do not know his voice, the ones who belong to a stranger, will not follow Jesus' voice. Today the one born of God's seed will listen and follow the voice of Jesus, the voice of the holy spirit of truth. The word of the New Testament, the Bible, is the voice of Jesus.

 

Men's words come out of the denominations which were founded and named by men. The temple of heaven, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, on the other hand, was created and named by heaven itself. God dwells in this temple, and His word of life comes out of it. That which is created according to the word of the Bible (the promise) is an object of heaven, just like the tabernacle created in Moses' time. All things, except for the tabernacle previously mentioned, the pastors of the world created and named after their own will are nothing but the things of the world.

 

Where can God’s kingdom be found and which of these people is is God's people?

 
Let us attain salvation by believing in the God of truth, and let us become the citizens of heaven.

 

Amen.

 

 

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