This is what actually happened in a world history class. The teacher of the class once had a chance to study the history of the Jews when they come out of Egypt. She did not believed in God and the bible, and she said in a discrediting way that the biblical description of the crossing of the Red Sea is completely untrue. To prove her points, she mentioned about the origin of the Red Sea and the name was originally “the Sea of Reeds,” and just as the reeds are growing in a shallow water, the part of the Red Sea the Israelites crossed was very shallow and the water reached only up to ankle. That is why it was possible even for a kid to cross the water.
While she was explaining in that way, one of the students of the class said, “Amen” in a loud voice. He was believing in God and the bible. The Teacher got surprised and looked at the student and asked, “What did you say “Amen” for?” The Student replied in a confident voice. “It was because I saw the true miracle of God in your story.” The teacher who tried to discredit the bible got shocked and asked if he could explain the reason. And the student said, “If the water of the Red Sea the Jews crossed was so shallow that even the little kids could cross, how could all the warriors and soldiers of Egyptians who must have been all grown-ups and all the horses of the armies could get drowned in the water. If that happened, I can conclude it was only the work of God. God is the only one who could drown all the Egyptian armies in that shallow water. It is a true miracle of God.”
After listening to the explanation of the student, the teacher could not say anything. How gracious is God giving wisdom to a young man like him to silence the wisdom of man!
In the parable of wedding banquet, we can see a man who was not allowed to take part in the wedding banquet because he was not properly dressed for the ceremony. As we already know through the parable, all the parable contains the secret of the kingdom of heaven; and therefore, this parable is also about the kingdom of heaven. The person without wedding clothes was not allowed in the wedding banquet actually means he will not be able to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, all the guests or God’s people must properly dressed for the banquet to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Then what are the clothes that we must prepare and wear for heaven?
Wedding Clothes for God’s People
Matthew 22:8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless. 13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
In this parable who are the guests, they are described as “chosen” people by God and they must be God’s chosen people who are allowed to enter the kingdom of heaven. However, in this parable one was found to be not wearing wedding clothes and taken out from the wedding banquet and thrown out into the darkness (or Hell). Then what is the wedding clothes he did not prepare?
The bible teaches that people of the world can be divided into two groups: People who belong to God and people who belong to Devil. To distinguish them, spiritually different clothes are given to each of them to wear. If we look at a competition when two or more parties are involved in it, each team wear different costumes so that they can distinguish themselves from people of other group. Spiritually it is the same and in the spiritual level a war is going on between the armies of God and Devil. To distinguish them from each other spiritual clothes are given to each of them.
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
In this spiritual war what is the clothes we should wear to let people know that I belong to God?
One Example From the Bible
We can see one example from the bible which was given to us to teach us how God will distinguish his people from the evil ones. And also through this God is teaching us the importance of clothes we choose to wear.
2 Kings 10:18 Then Jehu brought all the people together and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much. 19 Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal. 20 Jehu said, “Call an assembly in honor of Baal.” So they proclaimed it. 21 Then he sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one stayed away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was full from one end to the other.
Under the pretense that he was holding a great offering for Baal (the sungod which was worshiped by Ahab, the previous king), Jehu gathered all the Baal worshipers and prophets ultimately to kill and destroy them all in one day. So all the prophets of Baal gathered in the place of sacrifice and each of them were given special clothes to wear so that they could be easily recognized by everybody.
2 Kings 10:22 22 And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe, “Bring robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.
All the Baal worshipers were given special clothes to wear and then all of the people who were wearing the clothes killed at the moment without missing even one.
2 Kings 10:24 24 So they went in to make sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had posted eighty men outside with this warning: “If one of you lets any of the men I am placing in your hands escape, it will be your life for his life.” 25 As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers: “Go in and kill them; let no one escape.” So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.
In this way, all the Baal worshiper were separated from the worshipers of God and got destroyed completely.
What is the wedding clothes that we have to wear?
Spiritual Clothes For the People of God
Even though this was fulfilled physically, this was given to us to teach us what is going to happen in the last days on the Day of Judgment when God is going to separate and destroy all the evildoers who belong to Devil.
Matthew 13:30 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”
At the time of this spiritual harvest, those who are allowed to enter into the kingdom of heaven must wear spiritual clothes as sign to let the angels know that they are the ones that belong to God. Then what is the spiritual clothes and how can we get one? In the book of Revelation, God let us know about the spiritual clothes we must wear in the last days to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Revelation 22:14 “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
According to the bible those who can enter into the holy city (or the kingdom of heaven) are the ones who would wash their robes and therefore we have to wear washed robes. What are the washed robes that we must prepare? Let us find out the mated verse to know the meaning correctly.
Revelation 7:9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Here John in the vision saw the chosen people of God who would be saved and would stand before God in the kingdom of heaven, gathered together from all the corners of the earth and they have one characteristic: white robes, in other words, they have washed their robes white. Therefore, we can say these are the same ones from Chapter 22 who were blessed to enter the heaven after washing their robes. Then how could they wash their robes white?
Revelation 7:13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?” 14 I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
The great tribulation must be the last disaster that would destroy the earth and the bible teaches the characteristic of the people who would be saved out of the disasters and enter into the holy city that is the kingdom of heaven: “They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Therefore, the wedding clothes that we have to prepare for the Day of Judgment is the white robes washed in the blood of the Lamb.Then how can we wash our robe in the blood of the Lamb.
Passover and White Robes
According to the bible, we are sinners and because of our sins we became impure and unclean. Spiritually, we can say our robes got stained and dirty because of our sins. When our clothes are dirty with stains and dirt, we wash our clothes in the clean water to make them clean and white, right? In the same way, when our spiritual clothes are dirty and stained because of our sins, we have to wash them to make them white. Without making them white and clean, we cannot take part in the wedding banquet with our dirty clothes because the most essencial condition of the guests in the wedding banquet is that they must be clean and pure.
Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. 8 Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.” (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people.)
The only way for God’s people to enter into the kingdom of heaven is to become the ornament of the bride in the wedding banquet and the qualification to be the ornament is purity and cleaness. There should not be any impure or unclean thing to be the people of God. When they made themselves pure and clean like this, then they can become the ornament for the bride and when the bride goes back to the heaven, they would be allowed to enter along with the bride.
Isaiah 49:17 Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you. 18Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the Lord, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.
Then how clean and pure the linen should be to be the wedding clothes for the bride in the heavenly wedding banquet? The bride represents our Mother and the ornaments to reveal Mother’s glory should extremely good and high in quality. Any material which shows any impurity and stains would not be able to be used as ornament for Heavenly Mother. Then how can we–who are already stained and spotted with our sins–make us pure and clean to be the ornaments for God’s wedding ornaments? The bible says that we must wash ourselves with the blood of the Lamb. Then what is the blood of the Lamb that we must wash our robes with to make us clean?
The blood of the Lamb (or Jesus) that cleanses us our sins and impurity is the Passover through which we can receive the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 26:26 26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Conclusion
Therefore, the robe we must prepare for the wedding banquet to enter into the kingdom of heaven is the clean robe washed of sins and impurities through the Passover bread and wine which represent the flesh and blood of Christ. Only those who cleansed themselves with the blood of Christ through the Passover are the ones who would be clean and bright to be the fine linen for the bride and they would be able to enter into the kingdom of heaven as ornaments for the bride. And also it is not just the Passover, but all the regulations of the new covenant such as Sabbath, Third Day, festivals which gives us the cleanseness. Therefore, let us keep the commands of God which would make us clean and beautiful enough to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
On that day everyone will receive a reward from God; he who keeps the feast and becomes cleansed will receive the Holy Spirit of the latter rain, and he who doesn’t keep it and remains unclean will receive the plagues.
From The Law of Moses and the Law of Christ by Christ Ahnsahnghong
A rich man went to heaven.
He looked around here and there and he found a beautiful house and said to the angel, “Who is the owner of the house?”
“This is the house of the one who was working as servant at your house?”
The rich man was surprised at the angel’s answer.
“How that could be!!” He said, “How could he have such a nice house as this in Heaven?”
The angel answered, “The house in Heaven is built with the materials sent from the earth. And this house was also built with the material he sent from the earth while he was living.”
He walked a long way and he saw another house which looked old and very shabby.
“Who in the world can live in this house?”
The angel answered to the question of the rich man. “This is the house for you.”
The rich man got surprised and shocked. “What? Why is my house so shabby?”
The angel answered, “There is no error or mistake in the kingdom of God. This house was built with the very material you sent from the earth.”
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We can store up blessings whenever we give love and sacrifice to others by obeying the words and command of God through our good deeds. For the house to dwell forever what materials am I preparing while living?
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
In the previous post, I have explained about one parable of Jesus: The Heavenly Wedding Banquet and its meaning. Through the parable, actually God was teaching us that there would appear a bride of Jesus in the last days. She is the one who would be able to give us the eternal life and salvation. Therefore, we must know the bride of Jesus who would appear to us in the form of woman along with the Christ who was to appear in the form of man. Our Father and Mother appear as man in the flesh and give the water of life.
How To Recognize the Christ and His Bride
Now the question is if she is to appear one of women on this earth how we can know who the true bride of Christ is since there are so many women living on this earth. When she comes, will she have certain undeniable signs through which we can immediately recognize her? That would not be true because the appearance of the Christ as male or female is not easy to recognize as it happened 2000 years ago when Christ Jesus came for the first time. His or her appearance must be kept as secret until the appointed time.
Matthew 8:4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone.”
Matthew 17:9 As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
All throughout the gospel, Jesus said to his disciples and people not to reveal his true identity to others until the appointed time. It was because he must come in secret and nobody is supposed to know the true identity of Jesus through his physical appearance. The only way, we can know him was through the fulfillment of the prophecies of the bible. In this way, God was separating two types of people: those who have spiritual eyes and those who don’t. Those who have spiritual eyes were those who believed the prophecies of the bible and accepted Jesus as Christ even though he looked just like a man in the outward appearance.
It is the same with the appearance of the Second Coming Christ and His bride in the last days. In the outward physical appearance they would be like exactly one of us; therefore, through the appearance we will not be able to recognize them. The only way for us to know them is through the fulfillment of the prophecies of the bible. The bible prophecies that the Spirit and the Bride would appear and give the water of life. Then how can we know the Spirit and the bride? It is through the water of life (eternal life) they give. Whoever it may be, the one who brings the water of life is the Spirit and the Bride and the water of life is the words of God that gives the eternal life. And the words of God is:
John 6:53 53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
And the flesh and blood of Christ was the Passover the New Covenant. Therefore, the one who brings the Passover is the Spirit and the bride in the bible. The one who restored the Passover which was abolished in AD 325 was Christ Ahnsahnghong and the one who came as the Heavenly Jerusalem, the reality of the new covenant is Our Mother. Therefore, the prophecies were fulfilled by Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother and we can know they are the Spirit and the bride once we remove their physical appearance.
The Bride Revealed
Since they are coming in secret, we must know how to recognize them correctly. In this parable of Wedding, what is hidden is the bride of Christ and she is the key for the kingdom of heaven. Then how can we know the bride? The bible says all the physical things on this earth was given to us to teach us the spiritual things in heaven. (Romans 1:20) Therefore, to know the bride first we must look at the wedding on this earth. In a wedding ceremony at first the bride is veiled. And then who is it that reveals the bride to the guests? It is the bridegroom.
Bride in Veil
In the same way, in this spiritual wedding banquet too, it should be the bridegroom (the Second Coming Christ) who would reveal the bride. To confirm this let us, take a look at some of the prophecies of the bible.
Isaiah 62:6 I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, 7 and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
When this prophecy was written in BC 700 by Prophet Isaiah the physical Jerusalem and its Temple was already established by King David and Solomon about 300 years ago. And he is talking about a Jerusalem which is going to be established in the future. Then what is this Jerusalem? He must be speaking about the heavenly Jerusalem and he says that the Heavenly Jerusalem is going to be established by God himself. It means the Second Coming Christ, who is God (Romans 9:5) will reveal the spiritual Jerusalem our Mother to the guests (God’s people).
Adam Established Eve
This can be confirmed through the story of Adam and Eve. The story of Adam and Eve in Genesis is not just a story of past, but it is story of Christ and his bride. According to the bible, Christ is compared to Adam.
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.
The one to come in the bible is the Christ who is coming as Savior, but especially, this Christ in the Book of Romans is about the Second Coming Christ because this book was written after the first coming of Christ. Then why is Christ compared to Adam? It is because through the work and life of Adam God is teaching us the work of Christ. So the work and life of Adam in Eden was given to us to teach us the spiritual Adam who would come and fulfill the work spiritually. Therefore, we can say Adam was given to us as prophecy to teach us about the Christ.
Since Adam represents Christ, the bride of Adam or Eve means the bride of Christ. Then in the story of Adam who was the one who revealed Eve? This is very important because through this we can see who is going to reveal the bride of Christ the spiritual Eve.
Genesis 2:22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
Genesis 3:20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
In this story of Garden of Eden who was it that revealed Eve the bride of Adam? It was not God who testified about Eve or named Eve. It was Adam himself. He gave Eve the role and definition as the life-giver and also he reveals that Eve is his own flesh and blood. Since Adam signifies the Christ and Eve the bride of Christ, just as Adam revealed Eve, the Christ himself will reveal his bride. Therefore, by listening to the testimony of the Second Coming Christ we can know who the true bride is who can give us the water of life. God let Adam to testify about Eve and it means nobody is supposed to know the existence of the spiritual Eve until Adam appears and reveals her to people. That is why Eve or the bride of Christ is the last hidden secret for the kingdom of heaven.
To fulfill this wedding banquet, Christ Ahnsahnhong revealed our Mother as His Bride who can give us eternal life. In 1984, he commanded his disciples to prepare for the Passover in a Wedding Hall. Since the Passover is a festival of God through which we can eat and drink the flesh and blood of Christ and have the forgiveness and eternal life, usually it was kept in Zion, the city of God’s festivals. But in 1984 Christ Ahnsahnghong directed to prepare the Passover in a wedding hall, and through the Passover he wanted to reveal the reality of the flesh and blood of Christ as Adam, that is, the spiritual Eve.
He directed them to light the blue and red candles, which is the symbol of a wedding ceremony and in the wedding banquet he revealed our Mother the spiritual Eve who would become “the Mother of all the Living.” And he taught his disciples.
Peter Followed Jesus, Joshua Followed Moses, Elisha Followed Elijah, And I Follow Mother.
Through this he completed the parable of the wedding banquet and commanded us to obey Mother because she is the one who fulfilled all the prophecies of the bible and came down to this earth to give us the water of life.
Conclusion
Zechariah 14:6 On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. 7 It will be a unique day—a day known only to the Lord—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light. 8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.
To fulfill the prophecies of the bible, Mother came and giving us the water of life. Come to the Jerusalem our Mother for the eternal life.
As we have already seen in another post, a parable contains the secret of the Kingdom of Heaven. A parable works as key for the heaven through which we can open the door of heaven and enter. That is why to understand the true meaning of a parable is very important to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Heavenly Wedding Banquet
To teach us the kingdom of heaven, Jesus gave us one parable of “Heavenly Wedding Banquet.”
Matthew 22:1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. 4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ 5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
Here the kingdom of heaven is compared to a king who prepared the wedding banquet for his son. In the bible the king of heaven is God and the son of God is Jesus. Therefore, this parable is actually about Jesus’ Wedding. Jesus is comparing the heaven to his wedding banquet. Then what is the meaning of it? What is the secret contained in this parable that we must know to enter into the kingdom of heaven?
Who is the bride of the Lamb?
To understand this we have to first think about the wedding ceremony. For the wedding ceremony to occur, there should be three components: Bridegroom, Bride, and Guests. As we read this parable to the end, however, we cannot see any mention of bride. We can see the bridegroom is Jesus and the guests God’s people. But why is there no bride? Is bride not necessary for this parable? This cannot be true. If a bride is not needed, Jesus would not have given this parable in the first place.
Since we have to find a secret in each parable, we can definitely say, “Ah, the bride is the secret of this parable. Therefore, if we understand who the bride is, then we can have the key for the kingdom of heaven.” Therefore, to know who the bride is extremely crucial to enter the heaven. Then who is this bride who holds the key for the heaven? Since she is the bride of Jesus, the bride will appear along with Jesus, right? Since the bride did not appear in Jesus’ first coming, however, she must appear in his second coming. Therefore, we can guess when Jesus comes for the second time, he will come with his bride and she is the one we must know to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Lamb and His Bride
Then let us find out the second coming Christ and his bride through the Revelation which describes what is going to happen in the last days: the time frame for his second coming. In the Revelation we can see the testimony of the fulfillment of his wedding and the appearance of his bride.
Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
8 Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people.)
9 Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the weddingsupper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”
In this book we can see the fulfillment of Wedding of the Lamb (Second Coming Jesus): Bridegroom (Jesus), his bride, and Guests (Those invited or God’s people). Since the most important secret for heaven in this parable is the bride, therefore, we must find out who the bride is. Mistakenly, people says the bride is God’s church or people. In this parable, however, we can see the bride and the church is not the same. Also the bible says that the bride of Jesus has made herself ready in the last days. If the church is the bride of the parable, we cannot say the bride was not ready 2000 years ago. There WERE God’s church. But this bride is ready only in the last days.
Then who is this bride which would appear only in the last days? Let us follow the testimonies of the bride throughout the bible so that we can know who the true bride is.
Revelation 21:9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
The angel who was to show the bride of Jesus actually showed John the Heavenly Jerusalem who was to appear in the last days. So the bride Jesus is bringing in the last day is the Heavenly Jerusalem and this Jerusalem is represented as the Most Holy Place of the temple.
Revelation 21:16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.
1 King 6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there. 20 The inner sanctuary (the Most Holy Place) was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high.
According to the bible the Most Holy Place of the temple is described as cube and we can see the description in the establishment of the physical temple in the time of Solomon. But we cannot understand that physcially a cube-like city would fall out of heaven to this earth in the last days as bride of God. Then what is the true meaning of the Heavenly Jerusalem? To understand this we must know the reality of the temple, that is, the Christ. Christ is the reality of the temple and the physical temple in the Old Testament was given to us to teach us the Christ who is coming as the reality of the temple.
And Jesus Christ represents the Holy Place of the temple (Hebrews 10:19) and then what does the Most Holy Place signify?
The Reality of the Heavenly Jerusalem
Galatians 4:26 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
The bible says that the reality of the Most Holy Place of the temple is our Mother. 2000 years ago the reality of the Holy Place of the temple came down to this earth in the name of Jesus, who was the reality of the temple. Even though he came as man in the flesh, he was God our Father who came down to this earth to give us eternal life. And the bible says that in the last days the reality of the Most Holy Place of the temple would appear to us. Then how would she appear? Just as our Father in Heaven came down to this earth as man in the flesh by putting the Spirit of God in his body of temple, our Mother in heaven would appear to us in the same way as woman int the last days.
Even though she would appear in the flesh, she is the true Christ and true Savior we must know in the last days. Through these prophecies of the bible, we can know that the heavenly wedding banquet would be completed by the appearance of the Lamb and His Bride in the last days and the last secret of the bible or the key for the kingdom of heaven is our Mother who appears in the human form in the last days. Through her appearance in this earth the parable of the wedding would be made complete.
Then what would happen when the parable of wedding banquet is completed? To understand this we must look at the purpose of the wedding on this earth. Why does a couple join together as husband and wife and forms a family? It is to give life to the children just as God said, “Be fruitful and increase in number.” (Genesis 1:28) Through this physical wedding banquet we can understand the spiritual meaning in it. Why must our Father and Mother appear as man in the flesh in the last day and complete the wedding ceremony which was not fulfilled in his first coming? To give eternal LIFE to the spiritual children. That completion of the parable of wedding banquet and the eternal life is testified in the Revelation.
Invitation to the Heavenly Wedding Banquet by the Spirit and the Bride. Come and join.
Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
After the completion of the Heavenly wedding banquet, the Spirit (God the Father) and his bride (God the Mother) give the water of life to whoever wishes to receive. About the water of life Jesus said:
John 4:14 but whoever drinks the water I gave him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
The water of life is the water that gives us the eternal life, but Jesus said that he would give the eternal life in the last days.
John 6:39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
The wedding banquet could not be completed 2000 years ago in his first coming since it was not the time for the bride to appear. The bible teaches that the eteral life is given in the last days to complete the salvation work of God. And for this purpose John testifies that our Mother would come down from heaven as the bride of Jesus our Father.
Concusion
Through this parable God teaches us that the last hidden secret of the bible is the bride of God who completes the salvation work by giving the water of life or eternal life in the last day. In other words, God the Mother is the key for the kingdom of heaven that we must receive. Without mother’s appearance on this earth in the flesh there is no salvation for the people of God.
To fulfill the prophecy of this parable, God the Mother appeared to us and calling us to come to receive the water of life. We must realize that God the Mother is the last secret of the bible hidden for ages to be revealed only to the people of God who are living in the age of fulfillment, even us. Come to the bride of God, our Mother who is the true source of salvation.
All throughout the bible, one of the most important characteristics of God’s people is waiting. God made his plan of 6000 years for salvation and since then all God’s people who received the words of God are waiting for the day of redemption. Since God revealed his knowledge to Adam to start the salvation work, 6000 years has passed up to the present time and that is why many say mockingly, “Where is his coming?” and they deny the words of God in the bible. But the bible teaches we should wait patiently until everything is fulfilled according to the pleasing and perfect will of God and then God will finish his salvation work by saving his people and leading them to the kingdom of heaven.
Some Testimonies of the Forefathers and Their Waiting
Again and again the bible says that the forefathers of faith led the life of waiting until God fulfilled everything according to his promise as we can see in Noah, in Abraham, and all others in the bible. They received the promise of God and believed the promise. Despite many difficulties and hardships they endured and waited patiently until the promise of God fulfilled since they believed God and his words.
Isaiah 8:16 Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.17 I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
They trusted in God and his words, and therefore, they waited patiently until God fulfilled the promise. It is the same with us. God already gave his promise of salvation, and therefore, we must trust in his word and wait until the time of fulfillment.
Isaiah 25:9 At that time people will say, “Here is our God! He is the one we have been waiting for. He has come to save us. We have been waiting for our Lord. So we will rejoice and be happy when he saves us. (ERV)
Here again we can see the most important characteristic of God’s people: waiting until the time of salvation. King David poetically describes the waiting for God:
Palms 130:5 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. 6 I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. 7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. 8 He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.
How eagerly he had been waiting for God to come and grant salvation to his people by giving them forgiveness of sins. He believed in the promise of God and he now believes there is only one thing left for him to do, that is, waiting patiently until God fulfills his promise.
The Mindset of God’s People
According to the bible there would be people who deny the power of God and do not believe the promise of God in the last days.
2 Peter 3:3 3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”
In the same way, there are people nowadays who says, “Where is his coming? Everything is the same day by day, and there is life in peace as usual. Let us eat, drink and be merry.” They speak and act as if this world will go on and on forever. But it is not true God already declared the destruction and disasters for the earth in the end. Even though this word has not been fulfilled yet, just like other words of God this will be fulfilled at God’s appointed time.
Then what is the mindset we must have as God’s people? Who is God pleased with and grant his salvation? Peter continues to say:
2 Peter 3:11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. 14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.
The present heaven and earth is going to be destroyed by the disasters and God is leading his people to a new heaven and new earth, that is, the kingdom of heaven. Then who are those who can enter into the new heaven and earth? They are the ones who live holy and godly lives and make every effort to make themselves spotless and blameless. God teaches us that we must make effort to make ourselves holy and righteous while we are waiting for him. This is the life God’s people must lead as the ones who believe in the words of God in the bible.
God gave his promise and he said that I will destroy everything that belongs to this world and only those who are righteous will inherit the new heaven and earth I am going to establish for them. Up until now this promise has not been fulfilled for the last 6000 years. That is why many say that this is not true and deny the promise God gave us, saying, “Where is the end? Where is his coming? Where is the new heaven and new earth? Isn’t it just a story?”
Abraham received the words from God that his offspiring will be like the sand on seashore and they will inherit the Promised Land. Even though this promise was not fulfilled in his life time, but later in the time of Moses it came true and the Israelites conquered Canaan, the Promised Land. How about Noah? He received the words of God, and started to build an ark which was almost impossible to build in terms of its size and the effort they should have made to build it. It is said to have taken 40 to 100 years to build an ark of that size with the technology of the time. He must have been mocked and ridiculed by the people around him as crazy old man who is building a ship when there was no rain at all (Genesis 2:5) and they must have said, “Noah, when would it rain?” But what happened in the end? All the mockers got destroyed by the flood.
Mind of Waiting
That is why the bible testifies that all God’s people have been waiting patiently even though they did not receive inheritance promised in the words of God. About all the forefathers of faith, Paul says that they did not receive what was promised for them. It was because the time of fulfillment of promise has not come yet for them.
Hebrews 11:39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had be promised.
Even though they did not receive what was promised to them in their life time, but they waited patiently and kept their faith in God because they knew God’s word would surely be fulfilled at God’s appointed time. That is why throughout all the ages one of the most important characteristics of God’s people is patience. Since they trust in the words of God and they know that God will surely do as he promised, they have waited until the time of fulfillment. This should be our own attitude too.
Romans 8:19 Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when he will show the world who his children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen. ….22 We know that everything God made has been waiting until now in pain like a woman ready to give birth to a child. 23 Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children. I mean we are waiting for our bodies to be made free. 24 We were saved to have this hope. If we can see what we are waiting for, that is not really hope. People don’t hope for something they already have. 25 But we are hoping for something we don’t have yet, and we are waiting for it patiently.
God’s creation work will finish when the children of God are revealed. Until the time God’s children are made perfect and righteous enough to inherit the kingdom of God, God’s creation is in labor pain to give birth to His children. That labor pain started at the moment when God revealed his knowledge to the first man Adam 6000 years ago, and since then God was working to make his children holy and perfect so that they can receive salvation. That work of God has been in progress up until now. Now is the appointed time of God when he finishes his creation work and all the true children of God is to be revealed soon.
In this age of fulfillment, what kind of mindset should we have? We have HOPE which is given through the words of God and we have not received what has been promised in them. In this situation, the only thing we can do is “waiting for it patiently” since we believe in the words of God.
Conclusion
There might be times of trials and hardship. But we know God and we know that he will do whatever pleases him in his due time.
Isaiah 14:24 The Lord Almighty has sworn, “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen.
Hebrews 6:17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. 18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.
God gave promise of eternal life and the kingdom of heaven and to confirm the promise God gave his oath. Just as the bible says, God cannot lie and all the promises are “YES” in God, what we have to do is to wait patiently. Let us wait with excitement in our heart for the glorious day of redemption. Paul said nothing can separate us from the love of God: no hardships, no difficulties, no physical things or materials, no worldly fame or honor, no wisdom or knowledge of the people.
When we overcome the world and wait to the end, we will be able to see the glorious day when the birth pain is over and the promised eternal life is given to all the children of God. On that day, we will go back to the eternal home, praising our Elohim God Father and Mother.
Hebrews 9:28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Many people who believe the words of God in the bible says that God is one and cannot be plural. Seemingly that seems to be true because through the bible we can find testimonies of God as one.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God.
With these evidences of the bible they say that there is only one God and God is singular in nature.
God as Gods in the Bible
Surely there are some verses proving that God is one, but there are more evidences that we cannot deny that God is plural Gods. Originally the bible is written in the Hebrew language and in the Old Testament God is referred as Elohim or Gods in English. This Elohim is used 2,500 times in the bible and God is working together as Elohim from the Genesis to Revelations.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…”
And also the God who destroyed the Babel tower is also Elohim.
Genesis 11:7 The Lord (God) said, “…..Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
And also God is working as Elohim in choosing Isaiah as a prophet.
Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
In the creation, in the punishment of the people of Babel, and also in choosing a prophet, God is working together as Elohim (Gods), not as God. Therefore, God is plural, not singular.
God in the Perspective of Jews
Jews are the people who were given the knowledge in the beginning. And the Jews have known God as Elohim. To the Jews God was always plural, not singular. In the time of Moses while they were travelling in the desert, once Moses went up to Mountain Sinai to receive the stone tablets of Ten Commandments and stayed there for 40 days. Ar the moment Israelites thought he was dead in the mountain and they lost their leader. And they wanted to make the image of God who could lead them in front of them. The idol was made in the likeness of God who had led them out of Egypt.
Exodus 32:4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning i with a tool. Then they said, “these are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.
They made an idol calf as their God and interestingly enough they call the singular calf as plural gods. Through this we can see to the Israelites God is one and also two. In other words God is singular and also plural. Let us take look at another example.
While referring to the golden calf, singular and one, why did the Israelites cried out, “Look, these are your gods.” To the Israel people, God was always plural to them. That is why they recorded God as Elohim which means “Gods” in the correct form.
In the times of kings after Solomon the second king of Israel, the kingdom was divided into two: South Juda and North Israel. At that time the Temple of God was in Jerusalem in South Juda and Jeroboam the king of North Israel got worried that his people might go up to Jerusalem to worship God and finally they might desert him by allying with the king of South Juda. Out of fear of betrayal he made idols and set them up one in Bethel and the other in Dan.
1 Kings 12:28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
He also recognized God as plural. These evidences tell us that the Israelites understood God as plural, not as singular. The God who led them out of Egypt was to them Elohim (Gods). To them God was always plural.
God of Israel in the Perspective of Gentiles
Even the Gentiles of Canaan understood the God of Israel as plural. When there was a war between the Jews and the Philistines, Jews brought the Ark of the Covenant to the battle field hoping to receive help of God and defeat the enemy. When the Ark was brought to the Israel camp, the Philistines got afraid because they knew God of Israel is with them.
1 Samuel 4:5 When the ark of the Lord’s covenant came to the camp, all Israelites raised such a great shout that the ground shook. Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, “What’s all this shouting in the Hebrew camp?” When they learned that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp, the Philistines were afraid. “A god has come into the camp. …. Who will deliver us from the hands of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck the Egyptians….”
Through the knowlege of God both the Jews and Gentiles had we can confirm that God was plural to them. The God who gave salvation and freedom to the Jews was actually Elohim Gods, not God.
Elohim is the plural form of God which is used 2500 times in the bible. God who created heaven and earth is Elohim or Gods, God the Father and God the Mother.
Conclusion
Therefore Gods is working together as plural from the beginning to the end. The Elohim Gods are the ones who completes the salvation work at the last day by giving eternal life. That God Elohim is testified as the Spirit and the Bride (or God the Father and God the Mother).
Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let them who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
The Spirit and the bride, the Elohim Gods fulfilled the prophecy by appearing as Christ Ahnsahnghong and the Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem.
Whatever is created on this earth was given to us to teach us spiritual and invisible things in heaven.
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
God and spiritual things are invisible, but the bible says those invisible things are made clearly visible through the created things on this earth so that we can know the invisible things in heaven and cannot make any excuse to God that we did not know the spiritual world. That is why we must first look at the created things on this earth to know the spiritual things in Heaven.
Physical Temple and Spiritual Temple
One of things created by God on this earth is God’s Temple in Jerusalem or Jerusalem Temple where God promised that he would put his Spirit in it and dwell among his people on this earth. Through this physical Jerusalem Temple God is teaching us the reality of Jerusalem Temple in Heaven. In the Old Testament people went to Jerusalem Temple in Israel for the forgiveness of sins and salvation.
But as God’s people who are living in the age of fulfillment, we must seek the true temple of God to receive the forgiveness of sins and salvation. Out of ignorance, however, many people come to visit the temple in Jerusalem for the worship of God. But the bible says those who worship God in the earthly Jerusalem Temple was given as copy and shadow to teach us the reality of Heavenly Jerusalem which would appear at God’s appointed time.
First, let us find out the true reality of the temple. What is the spiritual temple? A temple is God’s dwelling place where he put his Spirit. In the Old Testament it was the physical building located in Jerusalem since God promised that he would put his Spirit inside the Temple, sitting enthroned between the cherubim in the Most Holy Place.
However, Jesus taught us the reality of the Temple that we must seek as people of God who are living under the new covenant. The physical temple was given to the people who were under the old covenant.
John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” 20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Through this Jesus taught that the reality of the Temple is Christ himself because God put his Spirit in the body of Christ and dwelled among his people. That is why to truly worship God now we must come to the Christ who is the true holy temple of God. And wherever the Christ is, that is the place we should go to worship God.
Earthly Jerusalem and Heavenly Jerusalem
With this in mind, let us think about Jerusalem Temple, the dwelling place of God. In the time of Solomon, the king established the temple of God so that people would come to worship God and to receive the forgiveness and salvation. This earthly Jerusalem Temple was also given as copy and shadow to teach us the reality of Heavenly Jerusalem Temple, where we should go to receive the forgiveness of sins and salvation. Apostle Paul teaches us about the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Galatians 4:24 These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Paul explains the spiritual meaning of Abraham’s family through this two sons: Isaac and Ishmael. Ishmael was born through Hagar who had been a slave girl serving Sarah and Isaac who was born through Sarah, the legitimate wife of Abraham. In bible, symbolically Abraham represents God himself so Abraham’s children represent God’s people who would be the heirs of God to inherit the kingdom of heaven. Among the two sons of Abraham, Isaac was chosen as heir even though he was not the firstborn to Abraham. That is why we must become like Isaac to receive salvation as heir of God. Then how can we become Isaac?
Paul explains the parabolical meaning of Abraham’s family history. It can be represented as table below.
Hagar Sarah Old Covenant New Covenant Law of Moses Law of Christ Mountain Sinai Mountain Zion Earthly Jerusalem Heavenly Jerusalem Children of Slave woman Children of Free woman Death Salvation
What is the Heavenly Jerusalem Temple?
God gave the earthly Jerusalem Temple to those who were under the old covenant, but to his true people who are to be saved he prepared the heavenly Jerusalem Temple that we must go to worship God. Then how can we find this spiritual Heavenly Temple to meet God? Paul said, “But the Jerusalem that is above (in heaven) is free and she is our mother.” He was teaching that the heavenly Jerusalem we must seek was in heaven.
Here we are put under a dilemma: as sinner we must receive the forgiveness of sins on this earth to go to heaven, but the only way for us to receive salvation is through the Jerusalem in heaven. Without receiving the forgiveness of sins we cannot go to heaven, but to receive the forgiveness of sins we must go to heaven to go to Jerusalem in heaven which is the true reality of the temple we must go to worship God. This was the same situation for God’s people 2000 years ago.
Even though Jews were given the physical temple in Jerusalem to worship God, it could not give them complete salvation that is why they were still under the slavery of sins. In this hopeless state the Christ who was the reality of the temple came down as man in the flesh to this earth to give them the complete salvation. Since it was impossible for a sinner to go to heaven to worship God in the true temple of God, the heavenly temple came down to this earth to give the true forgiveness of sins.
It would be the same today. Since we cannot go to heaven to worship God in heavenly Jerusalem, that Heavenly Jerusalem must come down to us to give us the true forgiveness of sins just like the Christ 2000 years ago.
Heavenly Jerusalem Coming Down to this Earth
Now the question is when the Heavenly Jerusalem comes down to this earth.
Revelation 21:9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
The spiritual Jerusalem is coming down to this earth and makes its dwelling among the people so that people can come to this heavenly Jerusalem to receive the forgivenss of sins and salvation. But we cannot imagine that a temple building is going to fall down from heaven to this earth. But then how would it appear to us? 2000 years ago, the reality of Temple God himself came down to this earth in the flesh and put his Spirit in his body. Through this we can see God is the reality of temple and God establishes the heavenly temple on this earth by coming as man in the flesh.
Therefore, the Heavenly Jerusalem which is coming down out of heaven actually means God who is coming down as man with a physical body. 2000 years ago it was only God the Father came in the form of male to give us the forgiveness of sins. But according to the bible in the last days, it is the Lamb (Jesus Christ) and his Bride (Heavenly Jerusalem) that are coming down to this earth in the human form. Then who is the bride of God, the heavenly Jerusalem?
Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother
The bible teaches that we have our mother in heaven too. And she is going to come down to this earth in the human form. Elohim God (our Father and our Mother) comes together as man in the flesh in the last days as true temple of God and will give us the forgiveness of sins and salvation.
Conclusion
Therefore, we who are living in the last days must seek the Heavenly Jerusalem our Mother who came down to this earth as the true temple of God to dwell among us and to give us salvation. That is why those who want to worship God in spirit and truth must come to Heavenly Jerusalem our Mother. To fulfill the prophecy God the Father and God the Mother came down to this earth. They are the reality of the temple.
Revelation 21:22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
Father and Mother are the true temple of God and they are God’s dwelling place which are going to be established in the last days. And we must come to this God’s dwelling place to worship God.
Revelation 21:2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
That true reality of Temple came down to this earth to give the salvation, the water of life. Come to our Mother Heavenly Jerusalem. Come to the World Mission Society Church of God and receive the salvation.
Christ gave all the information of his coming so that we would correctly recognize the one who is to come and receive salvation. Through the prophecies of the bible he let us know how, when, and where he would come. And also he let us know the true sign of Christ so that we can be sure who the true Christ is even though he would appear as ordinary man in the flesh as he appeared 2000 years ago. However, the disciples could correctly recognize him through the sign he brought, the Passover. In the same way, the Second Coming Christ would bring “the hidden manna” as his sign. Then what is the hidden manna?
Undercover Prosecutor In Chosun Dynasty
In the Korean history when people’s complaint reached the king, the king would sent his messenger to the place to inspect the governor of the town. And the messenger would enter into the town in the appearance of beggar or passerby in worn and patched clothes to hide his identity. If the rumor was true and people are mistreated and exploited by the governor, the messenger was given authority to depose the corrupt official. At that time, one undeniable sign was given to him by the king so that everyone could recognize the true identity of the messenger despite his unlikely outward appearance: that is, Ma-Pae, which allowed him to mobilize soldiers and people to punish the corrupt governor.
This medallion was the sure sign of King’s messenger; therefore, when people see the medallion, they must listen to the person who carried it. However poor or pathetic may a person look, he must be obeyed as soon as he showed this medallion because he was the one who was sent by the king.
The Sign of the Second Coming Christ
Then in the same way, the bible says that when Christ is coming for the second time in the last days, he is to bring a sure sign that people can easily recognize him no matter what his appearance look like. Whether he is tall or short, rich or poor, handsome or not, all these things do not matter. What is important is the sure sign he is showing to reveal his identity. Then what is the sign of the Second Coming Christ so that we can recognize him? Without knowing the sign we might miss him when he comes and lost our chance for the salvation. Therefore, let us see one prophecy of his coming to find out the sign he is bringing to let us know his true identity.
Revelation 2:17 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
What is the stone with a new name? According to the bible, Christ is called stone because he would appear as ordinary man (stone) who are so common like stones and cannot be recognized with outward appearance. (1 Peter 2:4) Just like one stone is not different from another, outwardly Christ would not be different from any of us. So the meaning of this prophecy is Christ who is coming as man in the flesh with a new name.
So according to this prophecy there is no way for us to recognize the second coming Christ because he would not have any physical signs in his appearance to reveal his divinity or we cannot know him even through his name Jesus because he is not coming with the name Jesus anymore. Rather, he is coming with a completely different name, hence the new name. In this situation, how can we know who the Christ is and accept him for the salvation. For that purpose, he brings one sign, that is, “Hidden Manna” as sure sign so that we may distinguish Christ from the ordinary men and also from many false christs and prophets.
Manna, the Bread from Heaven
Then what is “hidden manna”? To understand this first we should know what manna is and then think about the meaning “hidden.” Then what is manna? Originally, manna was the bread from heaven given to the Israelites while they were travelling in the desert for 40 years after they came out of Egypt. The bread was given as sign of salvation so that people of Israel could provide themselves in the desert and survive.
Exodus 16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
When people of Israel complained for the lack of food or water, God gave them bread from heaven so that they could eat and live in the desert. And people called this bread “manna.”
Exodus 16: 31 The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. 32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.
This was the origin of manna in the bible. Then in the last days will God rain down bread from heaven so that we can support ourselves for our physical life? Probably not.
True Bread From Heaven
Then what is the true manna? Let us find out through the teachings of Jesus. To the Israelites of the time who was asking for the sign of Christ by giving them bread from heaven, Jesus teaches them the true manna that gives life for the soul (eternal life).
John 6:30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
The Israelites were demanding a sign to prove that he is the Christ, God who came as man in the flesh to give them salvation. And they told Jesus to give them bread from heaven as sign just like what God had done in the time of Moses to save his people. To the people Jesus taught the true bread of God which gives eternal life to the people.
John 6:34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.” 35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
To the people who asked bread from heaven which could sustain their physical life, Jesus taught the true bread of God which can sustain the spiritual life by giving them eternal life. And he said that he was the bread from heaven, that is, he is spiritual manna.
John 6:48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
He taught them he was the spiritual manna from heaven that could give eternal life to them.
John 6:53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
He taught them how to eat the spiritual manna to receive eternal life: you must eat my flesh and drink my blood. In other words, his flesh and blood was the spiritual manna that gives salvation to people.
The Hidden Manna, the Passover of the New Covenant
Passover, the Spiritual Manna
Then how can we eat his flesh and blood, the true manna? It is through the Passover. On the night of the Passover, Jesus took bread and wine which represents his flesh and blood and gave the blessings of forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
Matthew 26:26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” 27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Through these teachings Jesus was teaching people that the true manna is Christ himself and the way we can eat the manna is to eat the bread and wine of the Passover which symbolize his flesh and blood. Therefore, the bread from heaven or manna is the Passover that gives us the forgiveness of sins and eternal life. Just as God gave manna to the physical Israelites to sustain them their physical life in the desert, Christ (God) gave us the spiritual manna to the spiritual Israel people so that we can sustain our spiritual life in the spiritual desert of faith. 2000 years ago, Jesus himself taught this precious lesson that he is the bread from heaven which gives eternal life, but people deserted him and could not eat the true manna that could give them salvation. Only the twelve disciples took part in the Passover and ate the spiritual manna.
John 6:66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. 67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
Hidden Manna
After receiving the spiritual manna from the Christ, the disciples of Jesus kept this Passover until 325 AD. However, in 325 in the council of Nicaea, Emperor Constantine abolished the Passover and since then the manna became hidden from the sight of man and nobody could eat the bread from heaven to receive the eternal life. But in the Book of Revelation, Christ already prophesied that he would come bringing the hidden manna back again. Therefore, the undeniable sign of Christ is the manna, the Passover of the new covenant which is going to be restored in the last days. Only through this Passover we can know the Christ who is appearing as stone without any outward distinguishable characteristics.
To fulfill this prophecy, Christ Ahnsahnghong restored the Passover of the new covenant which was abolished for about 1600 years since 325 AD. Finally, in our time he restored the hidden manna to give us eternal life through his flesh and blood. Then who is Christ Ahnsahnghong? Even though he came as stone by hiding his glory, through this sure sign of Christ we should know and recognize him as the true Christ who is coming with a new name. Even though he came from the small land of Korea, even though he worked as stone mason breaking stones, even though there was no beauty or majesty in his outward appearance, even though he lived an ordinary life without any significant title or authority, we must be able to see his divinity through the sign, “hidden manna” which only the Christ could bring to us according to the prophecy.
God Coming as Man
People during the Chosun Dynasty in Korea could know the Messenger from King through the medallion with horses on it and they did need to have any more signs. In the same way, God gave the sure sign of Christ through which we can recognize the true Second Coming Christ. We can finally eat the bread from heaven that gives us eternal life. We should not lose this chance just like the Israelites who rejected Jesus Christ because of his outward appearance. We should not be deceived by the appearance of Christ Ahnsahnghong, but must look at the fulfillment of the prophecies of the bible. And we should be able to say like Peter, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
Give thanks and praise to God Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem.
The Bible prophesies that the Christ would come from the East when he comes for the second time. Where is the East in the prophecy? Let us first take a look at the prophecy of Jesus Christ. The first coming Christ came to the land of Israel and he was born in Bethlehem. Then was this just a coincidence? No, this happened to fulfill the prophecies of the bible.
Micah 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
According to this prophecy, the ruler or the king of Jews must come from Bethlehem and to fulfill this prophecy Christ came from the land of Bethlehem. Therefore, the work and life of Christ was the fulfillment of all the prophecies. In the same way, the bible already prophesied that he would come for the second time and the bible also teaches us the place where he is coming from.
Lightning From the East
Matthew 24:27 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
2000 years ago, Jesus compared his second coming to a lightning that comes from the east. What is the meaning of this phrase? Lightning is bright light and according to the bible light represents words of God or gospel. So the lightning from the east means that he would come from the east with words of God and shine the glory of God in the gospel from the east.
About this Christ’s coming from the east, Apostle John also prophesied that Christ would come from the east, bringing the true words of God for salvation.
Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” 4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
Just before the destruction of the world with four winds, an angel is coming from the east with the seal of God to give protection from the disasters to God’s people. In the original Greek version of the bible, it says that the angel is coming from the rising of the sun, which means he must come from the east where the sun rises from to shine the land. Then who is this angel bringing the seal of God? To teach us who will bring this seal of protection, God gave us certain signs so that we can know who is it bringing this seal. This work of God’s putting his seal is happening after a certain event (After this). Then what is this event. In just previous chapter, we can see what the event is.
Revelation 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
To let us know the time of his putting the seal, he gave a series of signs: the darkening of sun and moon and the fall of stars and figs. After the sun and moon lose their light, another angel is coming from the east to start to give the seal of salvation to protect the people of God from the disasters. To find out the time frame let us take a look at a mated verse because each verse of the bible has its own mate. (Isaiah 34:16)
Matthew 24:29 “Immediately after the distress of those days “‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
2000 years ago Jesus also taught the same thing to let us know the time of his coming. We can see the same series of signs such as the darkening of the sun and moon, and the fall of stars as we have already seen in Revelation 16. And in Revelation after these signs, an angel is coming from the east with the seal of God to save them from the four winds. But in this book of Matthew Jesus teaches that it is he who comes at this time frame.
Matthew 24:30 “Then (or After this) will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
In the Book of Matthew Jesus says that the Son of Man (Jesus) is coming after these signs to gather his elect (his people) from the four winds (disasters). Therefore, the angel who is coming with seal of God in Revelation is actually Jesus who is coming for the second time as man in the flesh (or coming on the clouds) to give salvation to his people. And where is the place he is coming from? From the EAST. When Jesus is coming he is coming from the east bringing the seal of God.
More Prophecies Of Christ’s Coming From the East
In the Old Testament, too, God let us know the Christ would come from the land of East.
Isaiah 46:11 From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do. 12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, you who are now far from my righteousness. 13 I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.
As we can see in the verse 13, this is a prophecy about God’s bringing salvation to his people in Zion and Israel. To fulfill this purpose of God’s salvation, he is summon a bird of prey or an eagle. But even though an eagle is very brave and strong, it cannot bring salvation to God’s people. Then what does eagle represent? Parabolically Eagle represent God himself. (Exodus 19:4, Deuteronomy 32:11) It means God himself is coming, but right in the next sentence he is summon a man. Therefore, we can conclude that to bring his salvation God is coming as man in the flesh, namely, as Christ.
The bible prophecies that Christ would appear two times, first for the forgiveness of sins and second for salvation. (Hebrews 9:28) And in this prophecy Christ is bringing salvation to Zion and we can say this is a prophecy about the Second Coming Christ. The Second Coming Christ must come to bring salvation. But where is he coming from? He is coming from the east and from the far-off land. Since this book was recorded by Prophet Isaiah who lived in the land of Israel, we can say that the Second Coming Christ must come from the one of the countries from the east of Israel, and also not from the near-eastern country but from the far-off eastern country.
Savior From the East Bringing the Living Water
In the Book of Isaiah 41 we can see the same prophecy of Christ’s coming from the east.
Isaiah 41:2 “Who has stirred up one (a man)from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow. 3 He pursues them and moves on unscathed, by a path his feet have not traveled before.
Who is this man summoned by God and what is the purpose of his coming? If we look at verse 17 and 18 of the chapter, we can see he is coming to bring the living water. He brings water as source of living water to give life to the dried and parched land. But according to the bible who is the only one who can bring the living water to give life to the soul of man? It is Christ. (John 4:14) Then is this prophecy about the First Coming Christ? No, as we have already seen, Jesus Christ came from the land of Israel, but according to this prophecy Christ must come from the east of the land of Israel. And also He must come from a completely different place where he had never set his feet before.
Far-off Land of East, Korea
Then what is the land which is located in the east? To find out this we must have a standing point. Since the earth is round, without a certain standard point we cannot tell the direction.
First, the book of Revelation was written by Apostle John and when he wrote this book, he was staying at the Patmos Island, sent as prisoner. And he said that Christ is coming with the seal of God from the rising of the sun. and the book of Isaiah was written by Prophet Isaiah from the land of Israel. And he said that Christ is coming from the east from a far-off land. Then what is this land of east where Christ is coming from? It is the land of South Korea.
If we look from the Patmos Island and the land of Israel where the prophecies were written, Korea is the land of the east they saw the Christ is coming from. Some might say there are many countries in the east of Israel. That is true. Even though there are many countries in the east of Patmos and Israel, Korea should be the land where Christ came from. We can find the reason from the purpose of his coming: He must bring the seal of God, the Passover of the New Covenant to give us protection from the last disasters and salvation. Then where did the seal of God, the Passover start from? From Korea, the far-off land from the east.
Christ Ahnsahnghong, the Angel from the East
Christ Ahnsahnghong fulfilled the prophecies of the bible and he came from the far-off land of East Korea as angel with seal of God. He started his ministry along with blossoming of fig tree (the idenpendence of Israel) in 1948 and preached the seal of God, the Passover until he ascended back to heaven in 1985 after fulfilling the prophecy of David.
According to the prophecies of the bible, when the work of putting the seal is over, the four wind would be released to destroy everything on this earth. Only those who received the seal of God the Passover will be able to escape the disasters and receive the salvation and enter into the new heaven and earth. Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother Jerusalem are calling us to receive the seal of God. Whoever listens to the words of God in the bible must come to the Spirit and the bride who can give us the living water of salvation.
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