Showing posts with label blessing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blessing. Show all posts

8.25.2013

The Words to be testified throughout the history of God’s Work and Their fulfilled Realities

 

 

 
The Words to be testified
throughout the history of God’s Work
and Their fulfilled Realities
 
 
 
1. Testimony of Noah's world
After Adam, what did the chosen people of Noah's generation testify? Those who came out of the ark testified and passed down the testimony of how they had been saved in the ark, when the world of Adam which died of their sin and Adam's world was destroyed by the great flood (Gn 6-8).
 
2. Testimony of Moses’ world
The world of Moses, which God promised to Abraham (Gn 15) later and fulfilled, that is, Israel, would testify how they had exited Egypt (Ex 12) and conquered Noah's world Canaan. Theirs would be the testimony of the Law which God gave them (Ex 33 ~ 34; Jn 1:17).
 
3. Testimony of the spiritual Israel
What God had prophesized to the prophets of the Old Testament was fulfilled by God coming to Jesus (Lk 24:44; Jn 19:30). What the spiritual Israel that is Jesus' family (disciples) testified was a fulfilled reality of the Old Testament. Right now all the pastors and saints of the global village testify about what Jesus fulfilled from the Old Testament. However they can not testify what Jesus promised in the New Testament. The reason is because he prophesized in parables (Mt 13:34-35). Prophesizing in parables is hiding from the enemy of God's secrets which are to be fulfilled (Mt 13:10-15; Mk 4:10-12).

4. Testimony of Spiritual New Israel
The prophecies of the New Testament are fulfilled by Jesus who promised them. The prophecy to be fulfilled is the book of Revelation. The one who comes in the name of Jesus is the advocate, the teacher, the holy spirit (Mt 23:39; Jn 14:26, 15:26, 16:13). This Counselor, the holy spirit becomes one with the one who overcomes and fulfills Revelation (Rv 19:10, Rv 10). When the promises in the New Testament are fulfilled, the fulfilled realities become the eternal gospel (Rv 10:7, 14:6). What has been fulfilled in the New Testament is God's kingdom and priests which are the 12 tribes (Rv 1:5-6, 5:9-10, Rv 7, 14:1-5). Just as spiritual Israel testified about the work of Noah, Moses and Jesus' fulfillment of the Old Testament, the New Testament’s promised nation – the nation of heaven’s people, the 12 tribes which is New Spiritual Israel - will testify to the establishment of God's kingdom. This is he testimony regarding the fulfillment of the New Testament. testimony. Other than the people of the 12 tribes, there will not be any pastor that testifies about the new nation, being fulfilled in the New Testament.
 
5. Shinchonji Church of Jesus that testifies what is witnessed as reality
Fulfilling the New Testament's promises and prophecies, Shinchonji church of Jesus (Shinchonji) does not deny what was fulfilled in the time of Noah, Moses, and Jesus’ first coming. However, Jesus too said in his first coming that when the Old Testament is fulfilled the prophets, laws, and prophecies will come to an end (Mt 11:13; Lk 16:16). Likewise, when the New Testament is fulfilled, the churches, pastors, and the prophecies of the New Testament come to an end as well (refer to Mt 24:29; Rv 6). We, Shinchonji the 12 tribes, testify what the pastors of this era have not seen, which are the prophecies in the New Testament and the realities of the fulfillment as promised.
 
In order to obtain salvation, the believers who live in time of the fulfillment of the New Testament need to have faith in what is fulfilled in the New Testament and not just what was fulfilled in Jesus' first coming. Having faith and testifying the fulfillment of the Old Testament is needed until the fulfillment of the New Testament arrives.
 
We - as Shinchonji - see and testify the meaning of figurative prophecies in the New Testament and also the fulfillment of these prophecies.
 
 
 
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7.25.2013

God’s plans – written by a member of Shinchonji

 God’s plans – written by a member of Shinchonji
 
 
 
Romams 8:28

 

Throughout my life, various people have reminded me of the verse Romans 8:28, “All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose”. This verse often encouraged me, but as I went along in life and encountered difficult situations, I found myself not loving God, although I was searching for Him. I couldn’t understand how I could live my life as such a sinner and still consider myself a “Christian”, let alone someone who loves God and expects His “blessing”.

Not till the fall of 2010 did God make His plan and purpose clear to me. After much turmoil in my life, I decided to move back to the city where I had gone to college. As details started to work out for my job and living situation, an acquaintance from my college days contacted me about a job opening at their own work place, and also invited me to join their Bible study. I had actually been concerned about my spiritual walk since I had never found a church home that I really felt was a place to grow and serve in my college town. My friend’s invitation to study God’s Word together was just the beginning of my prayers being answered.

As I have gone through the study, I have felt so relieved and incredibly blessed to receive this word of life. Since God is life and John 1:1 says that God is the Word, then the only way we can become spiritually alive and flourishing is by spending time not just reading the Bible but even writing this Word on our hearts. I have spent so much of my life praying to God to make my plans and dreams come true, completely ignoring and missing the fact that God has plans too. We so often think that God’s plans are for each of our individual lives- to “prosper us” by giving us a good job, a house, etc. However, we can clearly find in His Word that his plans are for His kingdom to come and for His dwelling place to be once again with mankind. Only when we truly know what God’s heart and plans are can we fully obey him- love Him-and be a part of the plan of blessing.
 
 
MAtt 13 - four fields
 
 
 
I am so thankful to the promised pastor for having the heart and courage to be obedient to his appointed task, and- like Jesus- to deliver the message of God’s kingdom to us. Just like the Jews at the time of Jesus’ 1st coming, the hearts of Christians today are hard and unwilling to accept the truth because it doesn’t fit the fantasy that they’ve created in their heads. If we want to be true Christians, then we must be those who work hard to get the weeds out of our hearts, so that we can accept God’s seed and plan and have the ability to discern the truth according to God’s Word. This is how we can be those who are obedient and those who will receive blessings.

I thank God for pursuing me and giving me the opportunity to hear and take to heart the Word of life. I pray that I would have a heart that God loves and that He would be able to use me to give many others the chance to hear this Word!



 
 
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