Don't just say that you are a Christian or Believer of God and Jesus just because you are attending a church or read the Bible.
You have to live up to who you claim to be.
Do you really believe the Words of the Bible?
John 1:1 In the veginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
If you are a true believer, you should beleive every Word in the Bible.
God, the Bible, and Me
Main
references: Hos 6:6; 1 Cor 15:20-24
Hos 6:6 “For I desire
mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burn
offerings.”
Who is God? God is self-existent. His name is Jehovah, and he is
spirit (Ex 3:13-15; Jn 4:24). God is the creator of the heavens and earth. He is
the origin of all blessings and the father of all creation. He is a living being
(Gn 1).
God created Adam and Eve as his creatures, but they were deceived
by the serpent. As a result, all things in heaven and on earth became the
possessions of a mere creature, the serpent—the dragon, Satan, and the devil (Rv
12:9; Rv 20:2). God also had to leave mankind (Gn 3; Gn 6). Would there be any
greater mortification than what God had to go through in this way? God had to
retrieve what he had lost. He deserves happiness by restoring all things in
heaven and on earth and mankind, who has fallen into death (1 Cor 15:27-28).
The Old and New Testaments, the Bible, were given to us through
the prophets so that such facts could be made known to the world. The scriptures
cannot be broken (Jn 10:35). God promised what he would fulfill in the future,
and he has been fulfilling all his promises accordingly (Jn 19:30; Rv 21:6). It
was also noted to us that no one must add to or subtract from Revelation in the
New Testament (Rv 22:18-19), and that it was given to us, so that when it
happens, we will believe (Jn 14:29).
God established promises with Abraham in Gn 15. Four generations,
after the descendants of Abraham went to Egypt, God fulfilled his promises to
Abraham through Moses. God also established promises with the Old Testament
prophets. Roughly about 600 years later, God fulfilled them through Jesus. The
promises in the New Testament have also been fulfilled, today, at the time of
Revelation (Rv 21:6). The Lord told us prophecies in advance, so that when they
happen, we will believe (Jn 14:29). We, therefore, must see the embodiment of
the prophecies (the physical realities) and believe in them.
The prophets of old were persecuted, as it was written in Acts
7:51-53 and Mt 5:11-12. Likewise, persecution continues even today. Those who
persecute others are the pastors of Satan, just like Adam, who betrayed the
Lord. Such people shout as if they were the orthodox pastors of God, but on the
inside, they are filled with the spirits of the devil and untruth. These are the
ones who killed the prophets and the apostles. They faced death in their attempt
to pass the word of God on to us.
How can we say that we are true believers, if we disregard the
Bible, which they gave us under such circumstances? If we neglect the Bible,
will we be able to live in heaven with them, who were martyred for our sake? (Rv
20:4-6) Everyone must strive to know the Bible so that they can understand the
meaning of the Bible and act according to it.
God chose people who were born of the gene of Adam—the sinner, who
received the spirit of Satan—to restore his kingdom. They also ended up
betraying God. Cain (Gn 4:1-15), Ham and Canaan (Gn 9:20-27), Balaam (Num 22),
and Solomon (1 kgs 11) broke the covenants with God and betrayed him just like
Adam (Hos 6:7). Since this was a fact, there was a need for God to promise a new
work through Jeremiah, about 2,600 years ago (Jer 31:22, 27, 31). The new work
was to promise, not the sinful gene of Adam, but the holy seed of God, a seed
without sin or defect. The new work was also to promise God’s new kingdom and a
new people (Mt 26:26-29; Lk 22:14-20; Heb 8:10).
Roughly about 600 years after these promises were established, God
sent his Son Jesus. He was born of a virgin, Mary, through God’s seed (Is 7:14;
Mt 1:18-23). God was with Jesus and planted his seed (Lk 8:11), the secrets of
heaven, through Jesus (Mt 3:16-17; Mt 13:24). This gospel of the kingdom of
heaven (God’s spiritual seed) was to be proclaimed to the whole world as a
testimony to all people. Jesus promised in the NT that the end of the world
would come if the gospel would be proclaimed to the whole world (Mt 24:14), and
that he would return to harvest the crops of the seed that was sown (Mt 13:30,
39; Mt 26:26-29; Heb 8:10).
It has been about 2,000 years since Jesus sowed God’s seed (Mt
13). Two thousand years was the time period during which God’s seed of the
gospel was sown, and the gospel was proclaimed to the whole world. The gospel of
God has been preached to the ends of the world today, and the time of the
harvest has come. Jesus has returned with his angels, and the harvesting has
begun (Rv 14:14-16).
Jesus planted his seed in his field, but the devil came and
scattered his seed as well. Two types of seed have been growing together until
the time of harvest (Jer 31:27; Mt 13:24-30). At the time of Revelation’s
fulfillment, harvesting angels (Mt 13:39) harvest good grain-like believers with
sickles and bring them to the barn (Mt. Zion), where the throne of God is (Rv
14). The sickles, in the hands of the harvesters, symbolize the believers who
have the word and do the work of harvesting. The firstfruits, that are to be
harvested, are those born of the word of truth (Jas 1:18). God creates his new
kingdom through these firstfruits (Rv 7; Rv 14). Just as God had promised, to
the prophet, Jeremiah, God came to Jesus and established the new covenant. And
according to that very promise, God is finally creating his new kingdom.
The weeds—which indicate the children of the devil, born of the
devil’s seed—are first tied up in bundles to be burned. Those who tie the weeds
in bundles are false pastors like the Pharisees in Mt 23. The place where they
are tied up, is their own church.
Do you believe in this word of promise? This is the new covenant,
which is the New Testament. This is the promise and the fulfilled physical
realities. This is the physical fulfillment that the believers must see,
understand, and believe in order to attain salvation. This is what the believers
must put their faith in.
The following is the summary of what has been discussed thus far:
God promised to sow two types of seed about 2,600 years ago. God came to Jesus
roughly 600 years after the promise was made. God sowed his seed, whereas, the
Pharisees planted the seed of the devil, the beast. Before Jesus’ ascension, he
promised to return at the end of the world to harvest. From that time on, Jesus’
promise has been proclaimed to the whole world, over the course of 2,000 years.
The harvest, in fact, has begun today at the appointed time. This time of
harvest, is the time for Mt 24 and the events of all the chapters of Revelation,
to be fulfilled.
For the sake of the churches, the Lord has chosen a person who saw
and heard the physical fulfillment [of Revelation] at the very location it was
fulfilled. He appointed that person as his messenger and has sent him to testify
to the churches, today, on his behalf, about the fulfillment of his promises in
the New Testament.
In the world, there are the believers of God, who believe in the
gospel of the kingdom of heaven (prophecy), and who anticipate its fulfillment,
just as recorded in Mt 24:14. For their sake, we are making known that it has
been fulfilled. Whoever verifies this testimony and believes in it, will acquire
heaven and eternal life. This is the New Testament promise. This is the actual
faith that will lead people to salvation.
God fulfilled his promise with Abraham at the time of Moses, and
he also fulfilled his promises with the Old Testament prophets at Jesus’ first
coming. Likewise, Jesus’book of Revelation,
has been fulfilled today. If someone refuses to hear and believe in this, he
proves to be born of the seed of the weeds, just like the Pharisees at the first
coming. The one who believes in it and is harvested, on the other hand, proves
to be born of God’s seed.
