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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About Adding and Taking Away from Revelation

About Adding and Taking Away 

from Revelation

Main reference: Rv 22:18-19

Revelation is the summary of the promise God made in the New Testament. God made this promise so that when it does happen we will believe (Jn 14:29). Just as Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament at the First Coming (Jn 19:30), he also fulfills the New Testament at the Second Coming (Rv 21:6). The people at the First Coming (the Jews) persecuted and killed Jesus, whom God was with, because they did not know that all of the Old Testament was fulfilling at that time. Likewise, if one does not know that the New Testament is fulfilling at the Second Coming, they will also persecute in the same way Jesus was persecuted at the First Coming.

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God said that no one in heaven or on earth can open or even look inside the book sealed with seven seals, the book of Revelation (Rv 5). This has been a mystery that God (and Jesus) will fulfill. If one does not recognize when the fulfillment takes place, how can he believe in it? Jesus fulfilled this work and made it known to the churches through the messenger (the One Who Overcomes) who saw and heard these things (Rv 22:16). Just as God fulfilled the Old Testament and preached the fulfillment through Jesus at the First Coming, Jesus fulfills the New Testament at the Second Coming and preaches the fulfillment through the One Who Overcomes as he promised in Revelation 2 and Revelation 3. Therefore, all the congregation members and pastors in the entire world must meet and listen to the messenger sent by Jesus to know about the fulfillment. If they defy the promised messenger, they will not know about the fulfillment of Revelation, nor believe in it. As a result, they will not receive salvation in the same way physical Israel didn't receive salvation at the time of the First Coming.

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The work of the betrayer, the work of the destroyer, and the work of the savior are recorded in Revelation. These three types of people appear and carry out their work as recorded. How can one receive salvation if they do not see or know about these people? Church members say that they have faith in their pastors, but their pastors do not know Revelation.

Furthermore, the end of the age, the time of Revelation, is the time when all the earthly pastors are corrupt. Anyone who knows the New Testament of the Bible will admit to this. It is recorded in Revelation 6 and Revelation 21 that Spiritual Israel ends in the era of Jesus’ Second Coming which is the time of Revelation, just as Adam’s generation ended at Noah’s time, Noah’s generation at Moses’ time, and Moses’s generation of physical Israel at the time of Jesus’ First Coming.

Even though the corrupt Spiritual Israel of today are turning the churches into the pastors’ own business enterprises, pastors deceive their congregation into thinking that the pastors have received salvation, and that they are leading the congregation to salvation. Despite their lack of knowledge of the Word of God in the New Testament, the pastors today are guiding their church members by their own thoughts and own knowledge.

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Because the church members regard their pastors’ words above God’s Word, God is now fulfilling the prophecy—he is ending the corrupt world of religion and starting a new era.

The believers of today are not even acknowledging the words in Lk 17:26-30 that Jesus’ Second Coming will be like the days of Noah and Lot. Even though it is recorded that one will receive curses (plagues) if he adds or takes away from Revelation (Rv 22:18-29), they do not take it to heart.

Both pastors and church members alike have added and taken away from Revelation, and they are not taking these words to heart. It is written that one must be harvested to receive salvation, but they are fearful of being harvested and fearful of being sealed by the Word of revelation. How can they not be Satan’s army? They are also afraid of becoming a part of the twelve tribes of the promised nation. Therefore, they are not believers of God, but people who oppose God. They are unlawful children and enemies who refute and stand against God. They are no different from the pastors and the church members at the First Coming.

In this era, those who believe in God and do not add or take away from Revelation are those born of God’s seed, the promised people of God, and the eternal children of God. They open a new era and become the people of heaven who live eternally with their Father God in heaven.

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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.

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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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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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