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5.31.2015

The True Meaning of God’s Love

The True Meaning of God’s Love



Main reference: 1 Jn 4:8




 What is the meaning of love? Love means life and peace.


 All creation of heaven and earth are preserved through love; even the evil animals, thornbushes, and poisonous grass produce offspring because of love. They live by being preserved with love.



 God, the Creator of all things, is love. And those who are born of God love one another because they have been created by God, who is love.


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(1 Jn 4:7-11) Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.  This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.  Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 



God dwells only within a person who knows God’s love; this is because God is love.


(John 15:9-12) "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.  I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.  My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 





(1 Cor 13:12-13) Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.  And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.


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 God, Jesus, John, and Paul spoke in the same manner regarding love. God’s world was a world of love, a world of peace, and a world of freedom. This world was God’s kingdom, the kingdom of heaven. The one who broke apart this world of love was the devil, the betrayer. He made the earth confused (formless) and empty, and made the heavens become dark. This is like mixing water into wine, or two different ideologies fighting one another in one’s heart; these two ideologies were good and evil. This world of confusion continued on for the next 6,000 years, and God even sprinkled the blood of sheep to rid the evil within men (Lv 16:14-16; Heb 9:13). Jesus prophesied that this era (the Second Coming), to which the confused world continued on for 6,000 years, would be like the times of Noah and Lot (Lk 17:26-30). The times of Noah and Lot were times of destruction, in which only a few people were saved. The time of the Second Coming is the time of destruction and the end of the churches, but also a new era to create a new kingdom once again through a few seeds (refer to Is 1:9; 6:13). This is the time Christians have been waiting for.



 In every era, God appointed a prophet. He then gave the revelation to that prophet and had him make known all things. Jesus said, “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32). The truth is God’s Word (Jn 17:17). One can avoid destruction by perceiving and knowing the promised words of the New Testament, and such a person is able to escape from where he is kept as the enemy’s captive. Without the word of truth, which is the light, it is only a dark night. The night refers to the darkness that people cannot see, the time people sleep. Peace comes by being saved through the truth.


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 As it says that “the Word in the beginning” is life and the light, when one is born again through the Word in the beginning, he also becomes the Word, like God and Jesus. One must first have the Word for God to be with him and to be guided by God. Truly blessed is the one who is guided by God; he does not fall into death, but reaches eternal life. As the God of love left men’s hearts, how could God’s love remain within men? What should one have in order to have God and love return to his heart? God’s Word must be within the person’s heart.





 As can be seen in John 1:1-5, God was with the Word since the beginning. God is where the Word is; God’s Word can be found in the place where God is. The Word is God. It is life, light, love, truth, and peace.



 Believers who believe in God in today’s era must know the true God (Jn 17:3), must know God’s lineage and the history of the past 6,000 years, and must know what happened in the past in order to acknowledge and take it as evidence. This is how one can believe and love. As God loves us, we must love God. 


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 Although God and the people became like enemies because of evil and sin that took place for a long time, we have now become God’s sons (children) and family as we are atoned for our sins through Jesus’ blood, and are born again with God’s seed that is truth. Loving, visiting, and seeing each other face to face, all within faith, is according to the principle of nature as one family, the Father and the son.



 We were like orphans who were forsaken and people who had not been atoned for our sins before becoming reborn. But now we can be filled with the joy and love of meeting the Father and can see the Father’s face, as described in Rv 22:1-5. We will reign as kings for eternity as princes. 


 Amen!


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5.28.2015

From the Tens of Thousands of Religions, Which Religion is the Greatest?

From the Tens of Thousands of Religions, 
Which Religion is the Greatest?



Main reference: Gn 1, Jn 1:1-5, Rv 21



There are tens of thousands of different religions in the world. From these religions, which one is the greatest? Those who practice these religions believe in their own respective religions and share their teachings, because they think that it is the greatest. The words and actions of a person born and raised in China will reflect the Chinese culture, and the words and actions of a person born and raised in Russia will reflect the Russian culture. There are huge differences in cultures among the countries, nations, and races in the world today of the 21st century.




As stated in the main reference verses, there is the work of re-creation in Genesis, and according to John 1:1-5, without God and the Word, “nothing was made that has been made.” Why would the one God create tens of thousands of different religions? Did God really create them? Perhaps a deceiving spirit who acts like the true God exists and deceives mankind.  Perhaps this deceiving spirit created many different kinds of religions.  Then how many gods and spirits exist? The world is complicated. The world is formless and empty and filled with darkness due to the countless religions. Which one is true and which one is false? 

  



We saw in the 6,000 years of history in the Bible, the differences among the worlds that God once guided—the world of Adam, the world of Noah, the world of Moses, and the world of Jesus’ First Coming. The world in the Second Coming has its differences too. There is a reason why many religions exist today and a reason for their differences. The Bible states, “Do not believe every spirit.”  Take a look at 1 Jn 4:1. 




Even though there is only one true God, there was also an archangel created by God, who trusted in its own strength and wisdom. The archangel betrayed its own Creator, the true God, and called himself a god (refer to 2 Thes 2:1-4, Isa 14:12-20, Ez 28:1-19, Gn 3). The archangel who betrayed in the spiritual realm became Satan, and as a result, a group of Satan came to existence even in the physical realm. Satan declared war against the true God (refer to Rv 13, 12). Many religions exist today, because there is a religion created by the true God and other religions created by the spirit who betrayed.



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Man tends to think that all that he has—what he received, his thoughts, and all he invented—came from the true God. He teaches them to others, thinking that he is delivering the best moral instructions and the best truth.  However, there is only one true God, and all that comes from the true God is consistent and one. Then, where did all these religions and scriptures come from? Just because a religion teaches to speak kind words does not mean that these instructions are from the true God. It is written in 2 Cor 11:13-15, “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.” Satan imitates God and creates his own “Way” to deceive and mislead the people. This is false religion. There are many false religions, and their believers have the misconception that these came from the true God.              




The true religion from God has continued since the time of Genesis to the time of Revelation. Never did it unlawfully imitate other religions nor pretend to be them.  However, false religions have unlawfully imitated God in many ways in the 6,000 years of history as seen in the Bible. This is a scheme to deceive. The word and the work of God provide clear and thorough evidence of the genealogy and eras that came down through the years. God had made a covenant (prophecy), and when the gospel of the kingdom of heaven was preached to the whole world as a testimony to all nations (Mt 24:14), He fulfilled the prophecy accordingly.



The covenant (prophecy) God had made with Abraham fulfilled at the time of Moses, the covenant made with the Old Testament prophets fulfilled during Jesus’ first coming, and the prophecies of the New Testament made through Jesus and Apostle John has fulfilled without adding or taking away  from them (refer to Jn 19:30, Rv 21:6). God does nothing without revealing His plan (refer to Am 3:7). If there are no prophecies and fulfillment, then on what basis are you going to believe?




Being good and kindhearted are basic etiquettes for man to keep. These are not enough for religion. Religion is the teaching of the Spirit. Instructions to be good and kindhearted are taught in schools and homes in the world. They are simply the knowledge and the commandments of man that are completely different from the promises God prophesied. God told us to believe when the promises are fulfilled (Jn 13:19, 14:29).




In Deuteronomy 18:18-22, God said, “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.  But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death. You may say to yourselves, ‘How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?’  If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.”




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If a religion and its scripture are indeed from the true God, the scripture should have contents on history, moral instructions, prophecy and fulfillment. If it only has history and men’s commandments and no prophecies that are to fulfill and no content about their fulfillment, then the words on that scripture are not from the true God. There is no need to continue waiting or believing in it. A scripture that has promises that will fulfill in the future is believable if it also has contents about the physical entities that appeared according to the ancient prophecies. A religion cannot call itself a religion simply because it teaches the empty commandments of men such as, “Be good and kindhearted, and lead a good and kind life.” 



The time of judgment has come for the religions. All religions must become one. Each must bring its scripture, and before the people of all nations, must examine and confirm‍ which one is the true religion. We must select the religion and scripture that are the most believable. From my observations, the scriptures and religions of the world are simply the knowledge and commandments of men. And their believers have fallen deeply into their own religion.




The Christian scripture is one of many scriptures available. It consists of 66 books and contains many prophecies written by different prophets who saw and heard them from God. It also has contents on their fulfillment. The content covers from the time of Adam until today, and how promises were made in advance in each era about the coming of a pastor. This scripture is called the Bible. The Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Protestant Church use the same Bible for their lives of faith. 




 God fulfilled the covenant He had made with Abraham at the time of Moses, and He fulfilled the promises He had made with the Old Testament prophets at the First Coming of Jesus. Jesus was the promised pastor of the Old Testament. Many prophets prophesied about him. Prophet Isaiah wrote, “The virgin will be with a child (Jesus)” (Isa 7:14). Prophet Micah wrote, “But you, Bethlehem […] out of you will come for me one who will be a ruler over Israel” (Mi 5:2). Prophet Hosea wrote, “out of Egypt I called my son” (Hos 11:1).  And Prophet Zechariah wrote, “See your king comes to you […] riding on a donkey […] He will proclaim peace to the nations” (Zec 9:9-10).  All these prophecies fulfilled. Wouldn’t you believe in the promise and wait for it to fulfill if, in the past, there had already been fulfillment of the promises (prophecies)? The promised pastor of the New Testament is also prophesied in this manner. But other scriptures, other religions, have neither prophecies nor fulfillment. 




God has spoken regarding Today, the era of the New Testament, that all religions in the world are corrupt. Even if believers possess the true holy Scripture, they themselves have become corrupt. That is why the end of age for religion has come. Although the holy Scripture, the Bible, is perfect, if the believers are corrupt, the Scripture becomes a useless book. God will fulfill the promises of the New Testament. Anyone who perceives and knows the promises will receive salvation like Noah, Lot, and the disciples of Jesus. But those who do not perceive due to their corruption, their own thoughts, their own judgment, will not escape destruction. Therefore, we must act according to God’s will.



The true God has given us the true Bible, in which He recorded thorough details of the things that will fulfill at the time of the New Testament. There are contents about the betrayers, the destroyers, and the savior. There are details on who the betrayers are and how and why they betrayed. It is written that the destroyers are the pastors of Satan, as well and explains how they destroyed, who they destroyed, and with what they destroyed.  God also made known in detail about the kind of individual He chooses, in the midst of these events, to be the savior. He explains how, when, where, and what the savior uses to bring salvation. 



How can anyone receive salvation if he does not know the three mysteries and the physical entities of the betrayer, the destroyer, and the savior? To whom can he give salvation if he himself is corrupt and ruined? How can he know these things when his way to the door of heaven is blocked? This is the reason the events of the end of age are like those in the days of Noah and Lot (Lk 17:26-30). Isn’t the devil killing the pastors who belong to him, and are not the pastors killing their own congregation members and leading them to the devil? Young adults and students criticize, swear, and curse others in anti-café (blogs and discussion forums). Their words of lawlessness show that the morals of this world have plummeted to the ground. These actions are not taught in schools or at home. If the young adults and students did not learn these actions from the pastors of their denominations, where else did they learn them? Their churches should be called, the “churches of the devil” rather than the “churches of the world.”   What would God do with these corrupt religions? That is why He spoke of the end of the world, the end of age for religions, and promised that He will re-create everything.   



Re-creation is happening now. Come!  Check for yourself. Believe and receive salvation. Amen!  




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5.25.2015

The Time for Humanity to Receive the Highest Truth


The Time for Humanity to
Receive the Highest Truth






If the process of revealing God’s theology were like the life of a student, Adam’s generation would be kindergarten, Noah’s generation would be elementary school, Moses generation would be middle school, Jesus’ first coming would be high school, and Jesus’ second coming (the time of Revelation) would be university.

God has been working from the time of Adam to the time of Jesus’ second coming. It is at the time of Revelation’s fulfillment that God finally bestows the highest truth upon the world (Rv 10, Rv 2:17; Mt 24:45-47). God spoke through Jesus at the time of the first coming. “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear,” (Jn 16:12). Jesus also said that he would no longer use figurative language when the Counselor, the spirit of truth, comes. He promised to tell us plainly about the father (Jn 16:13-15, 25). According to Jn 17:17, the word of God is truth. Thus, the spirit of truth is a holy spirit who brings God’s word.

This spirit of truth comes in the name of Jesus and dwells within a person (Jn 14:26; Rv 10).


John the Baptist came in the name of Elijah (Mt 11:10-14; Lk 1:13-17), and Jesus came in the name of God the father (Jn 5:43). The Counselor, the spirit of truth, comes in the name of Jesus (Jn 14:26), and the person in whom the spirit of the Counselor dwells comes in the name of the Counselor. Since Jesus came in the name of God, seeing Jesus was the same as seeing God (Jn 14:8-10). In the same way, since the Counselor comes in the name of Jesus, seeing the Counselor is the same as seeing Jesus. The spirit of Jesus dwells in that person (refer to Rv 3:12, 21, Rv 22:16; Jn 14:26). In addition, believing the words of that person who comes in the name of the Counselor is the same as believing Jesus.





Since the physical fulfillment of the prophecies is being testified at the time of the second coming, people are able to see face to face instead of seeing only the figurative language (Jn 16:25; 1 Cor 13:10-12). This is why the time of Revelation’s fulfillment is the time when God’s highest truth of the past 6,000 years of God’s work is proclaimed.


Mere flesh is ignorant of God’s words. It will be difficult for them to understand and believe in the physical fulfillment of the prophecies even if they hear the testimony over and over again. Those who see and believe the physical fulfillment, however, will be given the best blessing of the truth and they will receive salvation.


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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