The core teaching of God in the bible is the new covenant Passover. God teaches that we can be the people of God through the Passover new covenant and we can inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Jeremiah 31:31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah……33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
By keeping the new covenant, we can be the people of God and go back to heaven our spiritual home. Moreover, Apostle Paul teaches that we can be the children of God through the Passover. In the Book of the Second Corinthians, he quotes from the verse above from Jeremiah and reveals that we can be the children of God through the new covenant.
2 Corinthians 6:16 For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Right after quoting from the Book of Jeremiah, he continues to explain the meaning of the verse by saying that those who became the people of God through the new covenant are considered as the children by God.
17 Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” 18 And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
We who kept the new covenant Passover can be the children of God. Even though once we did not have anything with God. We were considered as aliens and strangers toward God. Through the new covenant, however, we can be regarded as the people, and ultimately the children, of God. Then how can we be the children of God through the Passover, the new covenant.
The Passover is the ceremony through which we can participate in the flesh and blood of God by the promise of God. Since we can receive the flesh and blood of God, God becomes our Father and Mother, and we can become the children of God who has the same flesh and blood as God.
I give thanks and honor to Father and Mother for allowing us sinners to be the children of God through the new covenant Passover.
Jesus Christ taught us the condition for the salvation: we have to endure to the end.
Matthew 10:22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Jesus taught us that we should keep the faith to the end to be saved in the last day. That is why the disciple emphasized the patient endurance in our life of faith. We have to endure in every situation and stand firm to the end for the salvation.
Then how can we have such patience and endurance and be saved? There may happen many things in our life of faith that lead us away from the truth. The Bible teaches us about many people who left God for numerous reasons. Some went back to the world leaving God behind for the worldly pleasure, others to evade persecution. Some for the wealth, others for the fame.
There are many things that can be traps and snares in our life of faith. Then how can we overcome all these hardships and temptations, and stand firm to the end. Let us find out the answer through the bible.
In the Book of the First Corinthians, God teaches us about the people who kept the faith to the end by enduring all the hardships and tribulations of the world. This chapter is well-known as the chapter of the love of God. It teaches us about what love is. Ultimately it teaches us about God, who is the epitome of love.
1 Corinthian 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, it isn’t jealous, it doesn’t brag, it isn’t arrogant, 5 it isn’t rude, it doesn’t seek its own advantage, it isn’t irritable, it doesn’t keep a record of complaints, 6 it isn’t happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth. 7 Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things.
The bible teaches us that we can endure everything through the love, that is, the love of God. When we realize the love of God, we cannot help but endure everything. Then what is the love of God that motivates us to endure and overcome everything that happens around us?
Apostle John teaches us about the love of God. He says over and again that God is love. Why does he emphasize love among so many characteristics of God. God is power, knowledge, wisdom, wonder, miracle, etc. He is calling God as love.
1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
Why does he highlight love in God? God has shown many other things too such as wonder, knowledge, wisdom, power. He did many miraculous things. Why is “love” praised as the main attribute of God? It is because whatever God has done He did and does those things out of love for his children.
All his wisdom, all his power, all his authority, all his glory, all of these have been displayed out of his love and pity. We are sinners from heaven and under the agony of death. We have been living on this earth as the slave of sin and death. God has love for these sinners and came down to this earth. He cancelled our sins by carrying our sins in our stead. He suffered the death to give us the forgiveness for the sins we committed.
John 3;16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God himself came down to this earth leaving the heavenly throne behind and he suffered in our stead taking up our sins and iniquities. When the disciples realized this love God had shown to them who are sinners, they had no choice but to endure whatever happens. They could complete the mission given to them even through the sacrifice of their life.
The same God who is love came down as the Spirt and the Bride to save us. Even though they are not guilty, they take up all our sins upon them and going though suffering in our stead. God is granting the full love of God to us the sinners of heaven and on this earth.
We also should realize the true love of God. When we realize the love God has shown to us, we also cannot help but endure everything because we know that nothing can be compared to the suffering Father and Mother go through for us. This realization gives us faith and we can endure and stand firm in the faith to the end.
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The love of God gives us patient endurance and we can endure to the end.
God teaches that He already planned everything from the beginning to the end. And He revealed the end of His plan in the beginning.
Isaiah 46:10 I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’
Therefore, if we want to know what is to come in the end, we have to look at the beginning of the plan of God, that is, Genesis. Genesis is working as parable for what is going to come. Thus, by looking at Genesis, we can come to know what is coming in the future.
Creation of Adam
In Genesis, we can see the creation of God from the first day to the sixth day. After creating everything, God created man on the last or sixth day of the creation work. God created Adam and Eve on the sixth day according to the image of God.
Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female (Adam and Eve) he created them.
The creation of man is working as parable for the one who was to come in the last day. The bible says of Adam as the type or pattern for Christ.
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.
God created Adam to teach us about the one to come, that is, Christ. (Revelation 22:20) Adam signifies Christ or God the Father who would come to save us.
Creation of Eve
Then if Adam represent God the Father, who does Eve (the bride and wife of Adam) represent? Eve must signify God the Mother (the bride and wife of Christ), who would appear in the last day to give us salvation. The Spiritual Adam and Eve is testified as the Spirit and the Bride in the Book of Revelation. (Revelation 22:17)
The bible teaches the bride of Christ (the Spiritual Eve) is coming down from heaven in the last day. And she is giving the water of eternal life to those who are thirsty in the last days.
The Appearance of God the Mother
Then when she appears in the last day, how can we recognize the last Eve, the bride of Christ who gives the water of life? The answer can be found in the creation of Adam and Eve. First God created Adam and later he created Eve with the flesh and the bone (or the blood) of Adam.
Genesis 2:20 But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
God created Eve after He put Adam into a deep sleep. What is the meaning behind this story?
According to this parable, to create Eve, God first put Adam into a deep sleep. And with the flesh and bone of Adam God created Eve. According to the bible, the figurative meaning of “sleep” is death. (John 11:11) It is because the spirit of man is not destroyed with the death of body. It will rest in heaven until the time of resurrection. In this sense, the death of body can be compared to a deep sleep.
Then what is the meaning of Adam’s sleep for the creation of Eve? This means God the Mother would appear after the death of the last Adam that is God the Father. The bible also let us know how we can know the last Eve God the Mother. In Genesis, it was Adam who testified about Eve.
Genesis 2:23 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.
Adam named his wife Eve, which means the Mother of all the living. This teaches that the last Eve God the Mother is the one who gives life to the children.
These verses teaches us that it is Adam who can testifies about his bride Eve. And also Adam teaches the purpose assigned to Eve, that is, “a life-giver” because Eve means “a life-giver”.
Last Adam and Last Eve
These creation of Adam and Eve was given as pattern for what is going to happen in the last day. According to this prophecy, the last Adam God the Father must come first and testify about the last Eve God the Mother. And after the death of the last Adam, the last Eve will appear and fulfill the purpose of God by giving the water of life to all the peoples and all the nations of the world.
This prophecy of Adam and Eve was fulfilled in our time. Christ Ahnsahnghong came as the last Adam to give us life. (1 Corinthians 15:45) And he revealed the last Eve God the Mother by testifying about her throughout his ministry. Come to the Spirit and the Bride the last Adam and Eve who came to give the water of life.
Even for the people knowledgeable in the bible, it is hard to believe the existence of God the Mother. This idea seems to be new and strange. And since it is not an commonsensical idea based on the traditional teachings of the Christianity, people tend to think that the idea is nonsensical and blasphemous.
However, the existence of God the Mother is recorded even from the beginning of the bible. 2000 years ago, when Jesus came and preached the gospel, people thought that the idea of God’s coming as man is nonsensical and nontraditional, they refused to accept the teachings of Jesus Christ. However, Jesus is God who came as man in the flesh and he was prophesied in the bible even from the beginning. It is the same today.
The Parable of the Sun, Moon, and Stars
The bible gives one parable to teach us the appearance of God the Mother. Joseph was one of 12 sons of Jacob and he was the youngest one among them. Just like any father who cherishes the youngest son, Jacob loved Joseph more than any sons of his.
And one day Joseph told his dream to his family and this incident aroused much anger from other siblings. Finally, his old brothers took Joseph and sold him as slave. The dream of Joseph is interesting in many ways. This is the dream:
Genesis 37:9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
The meaning of the dream was interpreted by Jacob. The sun, moon, and stars signify the father (Jacob), the mother, and his brothers. Joseph’s dream foretold that his family would come to him and bow down to him.
Joseph tells his dream to his family. He saw the sun, moon, stars bowing down on him in his dream.
The Glory of God the Father and God the Mother
This story has many interesting points to think about. Today, let us focus on the comparison of the heavenly bodies to the family system. According to this teaching of the bible, each heavenly body corresponds to a member in the family. This connotation can be applied spiritually, not just in the physical sense.
The Sun signifies the father, the moon the Mother, and the stars children respectively. The relationship between the heavenly bodies reveals that of the family members. Apostle Paul also compares the family members to the heavenly bodies and explains their glory.
1 Corinthians 15:41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
The splendor or the glory of the sun can mean the glory of God the Father; the glory of the moon that of God the Mother; and the glory of stars that of the children. According to this comparison, the glory of God the Father and the glory of God the Mother and the Glory of the children of God are all different. Then how are they different? The light of the sun is the brightest and when there is the sun on the sky, we cannot see the light of the moon or stars. The moon and the stars are still there in the sky, but we cannot see their lights because they are outshone by the light of the sun.
However, when the light of the sun sets, we can see the lights of the moon and the stars. What is the meaning of this comparison? For the glory of God the Mother to be revealed, the glory of God the Father was to be dimmed. Only after the glory of God the Father was eclipsed, the glory of God the Mother can appear. And along with God the Mother, the glory of the stars or the children of God can be revealed.
Conclusion
For this reason, Christ Ahnsahnghong already prophesied the appearance of God the Mother long before the fulfillment. In one book, he foretold that one child would appear after him. And though the fulfillment of the heavenly wedding banquet, he officially revealed God the Mother. By teaching us “I follow Mother”, he finally revealed the glory of God the Mother.
And through the death of his body, not his Spirit since his Spirit went back to heaven after the death of his body, he wanted to reveal the glory of God the Mother and the children of God. Since the ascension of Christ Ahnsahnghong, the light of God the Mother has started to shine throughout the world.
According to the prophecies of the bible hidden in the parable of the sun, moon, and the stars, the glory of the moon or God the Mother can be revealed only by overshadowing the light of the sun. I give thanks and honor to Father and Mother for fulfilling all the prophecies to give us faith.
Probably the most wonderful promise God made in the bible is that God will be with his people on this earth and save them from the slavery of death. The Book of Isaiah prophesied that God would be with his people.
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Immanuel: God Coming as man in the flesh and dwelling among his people.
This was the prophecy of God coming as son of man (or simply, as man in the flesh) and God would be with his people dwelling among them. And this prophecy was fulfilled by Jesus Christ coming down to this earth as man in the flesh even though he was God himself. (Matthew 1:22)
About the meaning of Immanuel (“God with us”), Apostle John gives a further explanation in the Book of John.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning……14 The Word (God) became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John says that the Word (that is, God) “became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” It means God himself came as man in the flesh and put his dwelling among his people.
The Dwelling of God
As we already know this is a description about the birth of Jesus Christ. Even though he was God, he came as man and dwelt among his people to save them from their sin. (Jesus means “The LORD saves”. So if we put the two words “Jesus and Immanuel” together, it means God is with his people and saves them from their sins.)
John parallels God’s coming as man in the flesh to God’s putting his dwelling among his people. Through this we can see the physical body of man is compared to the dwelling of God. This can be confirmed by the words of Jesus too. In the Old Testament, the dwelling of God was the temple of God where God put His Spirit to dwell among his people. (Act 7:46, Exodus 15:17, 1 Kings 8:13)
However, Jesus declared that the temple of God is his own body because God put His Spirit in the body of Jesus Christ.
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.
In one of the famous scenes in the bible, Jesus teaches a Samaritan woman that the true temple of God is not in the city of Jerusalem anymore. (John 4:21) It means that he is the reality of the temple (God coming as man in the flesh). Since the reality had appeared, it was not necessary anymore to worship God in the physical temple.
The Prophecy of God’s Dwelling
Holy City New Jerusalem, the Dwelling of God
In this sense, we can know that the true temple or the dwelling of God is the Christ, God coming as man in the flesh. The body of Christ is the reality of the temple of God.
This is very important because God is going to come down as man in the flesh again. The Book of Revelation teaches that God will come down from heaven and put the dwelling of God among his people in the last days.
Revelation 21:1 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 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. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
Jesus healing people from all kinds of diseases and saving them from the sins and death.
Heavenly Jerusalem, God the Mother
In this vision, John saw Heavenly New Jerusalem is coming down from heaven. And this heavenly Jerusalem is the dwelling God establishes for His people in the last days. Then what is the meaning of this prophecy?
As we have already seen in Jesus Christ, this temple does not mean the physical temple in Jerusalem, but the spiritual temple God would establish on this earth to dwell among his people. In this sense we can understand that God is coming down in the flesh in the last day and put the Spirit of God in the physical body of Christ. In this way, God will be with His people and save them from their sins.
Then who is the Heavenly New Jerusalem that comes down from heaven to this earth as the dwelling of God? In the Book of Galatians, Apostle Paul testifies about the meaning of the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Conclusion
The Heavenly Jerusalem signifies God the Mother. Therefore, the phrase “the Heavenly Jerusalem comes down and makes the dwelling of God among His people” means God the Mother coming down from heaven in the flesh and dwell among Her people to save them.
This prophecy was already fulfilled by God the Mother coming down from heaven to this earth in the flesh. Now She is dwelling among Her people to redeem them from their sins and iniquities. She is God who even the highest heaven cannot contain. But She humbled herself and came down to this earth in flesh to fulfill the prophecies of the bible and to save us.
Let us give all thanks and praise to God Elohim, Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem for coming to us in the flesh and dwelling among us. Truly, God is with us and saves us!
On this earth everyone has at least one or two ceremonial days for himself or herself such as the birthday, and wedding anniversary. Everybody congratulates him or her for the event on that day. Then what about God? 2000 years ago, God came down to this earth to save the sinners. However, nobody knows even the day of his birth.
His birth should be a great day of celebration for all of us. He did not come to this earth for his own glory. Rather he came down to us for the sake of us. He walked the path of sacrifice for over 30 years only for the sake of us the sinners who are destined to die.
Even though his coming was the most important day that they had to celebrate as everlasting festival, the fact is that nobody surely knew when he was born. His birth was not regarded as something to remember by the people of the time.
While staying on this earth, he taught his disciples the festivals of God so that God’s people can celebrate. He could have given them the festivals as days of worship and honor for him. He could have given them the festivals that he might be glorified.
He could have set up the festivals for his glory and the celebration of his great work. He could have command people to bring gifts and offering to him on those festivals for his honor. But he did not. On the contrary, Jesus established the festivals through his sacrifice. He had to go through sufferings to set up the festivals. The festivals were the days of pains and tribulations for him.
To set up the Passover, for example, he sacrificed his own body as sin offering for his people that their sins could be forgiven. All the festivals contain the blood Christ sacrificed for us that we might be blessed through those festivals.
While living, he did not set aside even one day for his own sake. His life on this earth was constant days of pains and sufferings for us. He was mocked, ridiculed, and persecuted because of the gospel that he delivered for our benefit, not for his own.
Today too, Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem came down to this earth and restored all the festivals of God through their own sacrifice that we can be forgiven of our sins. While living on this earth, they cannot have even a day for their own joy and glory even though they are God who should be honored forever and more.
David Daning in front of the Ark of the Covenant with the mind of gratitude and joy for the blessings he received from God. What kind of mindset should we have when we keep the festivals of God?
The festivals should be the days of joy and thanks for us. However, even today people feel that they are doing favors to God by keeping the festivals. We do not realize the true meanings of the festivals. We act as if God wanted to be honored by us on the day, and the days were days of burden to us that we should sacrifice ourselves for God’s sake. Then is this true? Are we doing any good things to God by keeping the festivals? No.
In reality, the festivals are the days when God has to suffer for us. The days are the days of joy and happiness for us, granted through the sacrifice of Father and Mother. This year, I will keep the festivals with the mind of joy and thanks all the time, remembering the love and sacrifice of Father and Mother for our sake.
Luke 22:19 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Matthew 7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
The bible teaches we have to follow the narrow gate for the life even though finding and following the road might hard and difficult and not many will be able to do so. However, it is easy to find and follow the wide and broad gate, which leads us to the destruction and most will follow the way.
Jesus Christ, The Narrow Gate
What is it that God is teaching us through this parable? The answer is in finding the reality of the gate. What is the gate in the bible?
John 10:7 Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
While teaching about the true shepherd and the false ones, Jesus teaches that he himself is the gate, which leads to the good pasture. In this sense, we can see the meaning of the parable of the gate.
Narrow Gate and Wide Gate
The Meaning of the Narrow Gate
The narrow gate means the true shepherd or the Savior that we have to meet for the salvation. And the wide and broad ones are those false prophets and false Christs who would come to mislead many to destruction.
Then why is it that Jesus compares himself to the narrow gate which is difficult to find? 2000 years ago when Jesus came to save the Jews, people could not recognize him as the Savior. Deceived by his physical appearance, people disregarded him and rejected him. He was a narrow gate to them hard to find.
John 1:9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Jesus Coming As Man in the Flesh
They thought that God is Almighty and He cannot come as man in the flesh. God had to appear with all the glory and splendor of God that no one could deny the presence of God. However, unlike their expectation, Jesus hid all the glory of God in the flesh. People could see only a weak and vulnerable mortal man in Jesus.
They were so sure that he was not the Christ that they poured curses on their own heads and their children’s. And out of this conviction they could shout confidently that the blood of Jesus would be on them and on their children.
To them Jesus was the narrow gate, small and narrow, hard to find and even more difficult to follow to the end. Just as Isaiah said, Jesus was “a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” Only a few people could receive Jesus as the Christ and be saved.
Second Coming Christ Coming as the Narrow Gate
Prophecies about the Second Coming Christ
The bible testifies that the Christ will come again for the second time. (Hebrews 9:28) And many people believe that he would come with all the glory of God when he appears for the second time.
However, Jesus prophesied that he would come as the narrow gate in his second appearance. While prophesying about his appearance in the last days, he describes his coming like this:
Luke 18:26 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
If the Second Coming Christ should appear with all the power and glory of God, who would make God suffer and who would reject God? But Jesus said that the Christ would suffer and be rejected by the people of the time. What does this mean?
Second Coming Christ Coming as Man in the Flesh
The meaning of Jesus’ message is clear that he would come as man in the flesh for the second time, hiding all the power and glory of God in the flesh. When he comes, people would not recognize him even though he is the one whom they have waited for. They would reject him.
The only way we can recognize the Christ is through the prophecies of the bible. We should not look at his appearance, making the same mistake as the Jews 2000 years ago. We should have the spiritual eyes to see the spiritual glory of God hidden in the flesh.
Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother
Christ Ahnsahnghong came to the earth for the second time for our salvation. Even though he is the second coming Christ prophesied in the bible, not many people know him and receive him. He is the narrow gate. It is the same with God the Mother. Even though she is testified in the bible, she is rejected by people. She is the narrow gate too.
Instead of looking at the fulfillment of the prophecies of the bible, people just focus on the physical appearance of Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem. And they shout that you are a mere man claim to be God. In the meanwhile, they pour down curses on their own head.
Conclusion
We have to listen to the message in the bible. Peter said that the words of eternal life is in Jesus and since he had faith in those words of God in the bible, he could remain in Jesus to the end. We are small in number, but we were chosen to know the secrets of the bible and come to the narrow gate and we could recognize the glory of God, the salvation of souls granted through God Elohim, Father and Mother.
We should not be deceived by the physical appearance of Father and Mother, but we have to heed the fulfillment of the prophecies of the bible. Father and Mother appeared to us in the flesh for our salvation. They came and went through many pains and sufferings all because of us. To fulfill the prophecies of the bible, they, even though God, were rejected by most people since they were the narrow gate to them. Unlike most of them, we, even though small in number, must have faith in Father and Mother to the end.
The bible teaches us that we should have understanding for our salvation. Then why is it important to have understanding?
Knowing the Savior Through Understanding
The bible teaches that we can know our Savior when we have understanding, which means we cannot know who our Savior is without understanding.
1 John 5:20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
According to this verse, we can know the reason why God gives us understanding. Through the understanding God gives us, we can know the Christ or the Savior and receive eternal life through him. This means that without the understanding we cannot know or recognize the Savior and receive salvation.
How to Have Understanding
Keep the Laws of God
Therefore, it is of uttermost importance to have understanding for our salvation. Then how can we have the understanding and recognize the second coming Christ?
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
Wisdom Through the Laws of God
To have good understanding the bible teaches us to follow the commands of God. When we keep the laws of God, we can have understanding and open our spiritual eyes and know the Christ who can save us.
Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. 8 The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous.
The writer of Psalm clearly states that the laws of God gives wisdom and opens our spiritual eyes that we can have understanding to know the Savior. Let us take the law of Sabbath for example.
Law of Sabbath and Understanding
Why did God give his people the law of Sabbath? All the laws of God has God’s promise in it which God gave for our blessings. Then what is the blessings that we can receive by keeping the Sabbath day.
Exodus 31:12 Then the Lord said to Moses, 13 “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy.
Blessings Promised on Sabbath
God says that we can receive a lot of blessings through the Sabbath Day. On this day, we can take a rest and we can be made holy on this day. One of the blessings of keeping the Sabbath Day is that we can know God the Savior through the Sabbath Day.
Those Who Keep the Laws of God and Those Who Don’t
That is why Jesus Christ kept reminding us of the importance of keeping the laws of God by saying, “If you love me, keep my commands”. Apostle John also confirms this again.
1 John 2:3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.
Only those who keep the command of God can come to know God. All those who do not keep the laws of God cannot know. If they say they could, they are lying. This is the conclusion God gives through the bible.
Laws of God and Traditions of Man
Then let us think about the situations of the Christians today. They do not keep the laws of God such as Sabbath and the Passover. Instead, they are keeping pagan traditions such as Sunday worship, Christmas, and Easter. And they say that they know the Christ and the Christ in them and they are in Christ. Can this be true? Definitely, not. Because God teaches that we should keep the laws of God to have wisdom to know the Christ.
Wisdom to Know the Second Coming Christ
The Bible teaches us that the Christ will come again for the second time for our salvation. (Hebrews 9:28) At that time, only those who keep the commands of God will have wisdom and spiritual eyes to know and recognize the second coming Christ. And they will be ones who can receive salvation.
The First Coming Christ and Those Who Rejected Him
2000 years ago, even though there were many who claimed to have faith in God and know God. However, when their Savior came to them in the name of Jesus, they did not recognize him and rejected him. They could not receive salvation. It was because they did not keep the laws of God, but the traditions of man. Because of the lawlessness, they did not have wisdom or understanding to correctly know the Savior.
Mark 7:6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ 8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
The Result of Following Man’s Tradition
And Prophet Isaiah said that those who keeps the command of man cannot have wisdom and understanding to know God.
Isiah 29:11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.” 13 The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught. 14 Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”
Conclusion
Again and again, God teaches us that we can have wisdom and understanding to know God only through the laws of God. The laws of God opens our spiritual eyes and gives us wisdom to know God. Therefore, it is not too much to say that our salvation depends on the laws of God.
If we want to know the Spirit and the Bride in the last day who give the water of life and receive the living water from them, first we have to keep the laws of God such as baptism, Sabbath, Passover, etc. Then God will open our eyes and we will know and receive the Savior in the last days.
Just as Jesus said in the Book of John (John 5:39), the bible is the book that testifies about the Christ. The bible teaches about the Christ who was to come in many ways. One of the way most commonly used in the bible to teach the Christ is to use the figures of the Old Testament such as Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses, Elijah, etc..
Christ Coming as Adam
First Coming Christ and Adam
One of the figures used to foreshadow the Christ is Adam. The bible teaches the first man Adam was created to signify the last Adam Christ who was to appear in the last days.
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.
Paul argues that Adam was created as “a pattern” or representation of “the one to come,” that is, Christ. (Revelation 22:20) 2ooo years ago Jesus fulfilled this prophecy by coming as man (or Adam, which means earth or dust in the Hebrew language) in the flesh. Adam, therefore, means a man in the flesh. To fulfill the prophecy of Adam, Jesus Christ who was God came as man in the flesh.
Second Coming Christ and Adam
However, this prophecy of Adam was to be fulfilled by the Christ who is coming in the last days since the Book of Revelation concerns about what is going to happen in the last days. In this sense, Adam was given to us to let us know about the second coming Christ who was to appear in the flesh in the last days.
We can confirm this through the creation work of God in the Book of Genesis. In the creation work of God, Adam was created on the sixth day, which was the last day of God’s creation work. The bible teaches that this Six-Day Creation actually represents the Six-Thousand-Year Salvation Work of God.
2 Peter 3:8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
This means that the six-day creation signifies the six-thousand-year salvation work of God. The creation of Adam on the sixth day foreshadows the coming of the Second Coming Christ who was to appear as man in the flesh at the end of the six-thousand-year salvation work.
The Purpose of Christ’s Coming
And the bible also teaches us about the purpose of his coming as Adam in the last days.
1 Corinthians 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
He is coming to give us “life” that is, eternal life. To give us salvation, he must come again as man in the flesh.
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.
When he comes, he must bring “life” to us. 2000 years ago, Jesus who came as spiritual Adam also brought life to the world through the bread of life (John 6:35), that is, his flesh and blood of the Passover. And he testified about himself that He is the life. (John 11:25) Likewise, when he comes in the last days, he is coming as “life-giving spirit,” which means he must give us life, the Passover, the bread of life.
The Reality of Life, Eve
Creation of Adam and Eve
Jesus, who was Adam, gave his flesh and blood as life that the world could have eternal life. However, there is a deeper secret in this prophecy of Jesus coming as Adam. In Genesis, God created Adam with the dust of the ground and with his flesh and bone (or blood since the marrow in the bone produces blood) God created Eve, which literally means “life”. (Genesis 3:20) Through this creation work of God, God teaches us the reality of “life” of Adam (or Christ) is Eve, the last secret and creation of God.
According to the prophecy, at the end of the six-thousand-year salvation work, God would appear as Adam and he will reveal Eve, his flesh and blood. Just as the first man Adam testified and revealed the first Eve as his flesh and blood (Genesis 2:23), the last Adam will reveal the last Eve, the reality of his flesh and blood of the Passover.
Life Through God the Mother, the Last Eve
And the bible testifies about the last Adam and the last Eve as the Spirit and the bride who gives life through living water to the world.
Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.
According to the prophecy, the Spirit is the last Adam, the Second Coming Christ. Then who is the bride, the wife of the Second Coming Christ (or the last Adam)? She is the last Eve, the Mother of all the living, who is the reality of the flesh and blood of Christ. (Genesis 3:20)
Conclusion
Now the time of the fulfillment of the prophecies of the bible has come. And the last Adam and Eve, the Spirit and the bride has come and calling us to come for the water of life. Those who has faith in God and the words of God in the bible must listen to the voice of God and come to the Spirit and the bride, God the Father and God the Mother. Even though they are God, they left the glory of heaven and came down to this earth in the human form. They hid their glory in the flesh and came as the last Adam and Eve to give us life.
Let us receive them and they will give us the free gift of the water of life. Thanks to Father Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem for the great love and sacrifice for us sinners.
The bible teaches us that we must call on the name of God for our salvation. It does not just say that we have to believe in God. Rather, the bible says that we have to know the name of God the Savior and when we pray in the name of God we can be saved.
Joel 2:32 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
For this reason, God gave the name Jehovah to His people that they maybe saved with the name of God; and Jesus 2000 years ago. Then how about in the last day? Can we be saved in the name of Jesus in the last day too? The bible says that we have to know the new name of Jesus for our salvation.
The Names of Savior in the Last Day
Jesus’ New Name
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.
2000 years ago, Jesus foretold what would happen in the last days to Apostle John. And in this prophecy, Jesus says that he would give a new name to his people in the last days. Then whose name is this?
Revelation 3:11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. 13 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
In this prophecy, he teaches us that he would reveal “his (Jesus’) new name” in the last day. This is the name of the Savior in the last day. Therefore, those who want salvation in the last day must know the new name of Jesus and call on his new name for their salvation. Not only that, he teaches that we have to know the name of the new Jerusalem coming from heaven.
The Name of the Heavenly Jerusalem
Then who is this heavenly Jerusalem and why should we know the name of the heavenly Jerusalem? First, let us find out who the heavenly Jerusalem is. The Book of Revelation shows us about the heavenly Jerusalem coming down from heaven in the last day.
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.
Here, Apostle John was shown through a vision, the heavenly Jerusalem coming to the earth as the bride of the Lamb. Since the Lamb signifies Jesus Christ, the wife of the Lamb means the wife of Jesus and She is the heavenly Jerusalem.
The Spirit and the Bride
God the Father and the Water of Life
Then what is the purpose of her coming down to this earth?
Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.
The water of life is eternal life as we can confirm through the words of Jesus. (John 4:13-14) Therefore, we can know this is the prophecy about the Savior in the last day who was to come and give the water of eternal life to his people who are thirsty and who wishes.
Then who are coming as Savior in the last day? The verse above says it is the Spirit and the bride who give the water of life. The Spirit is Jesus who also appeared as the Lamb in Chapter 21, who was the bridegroom in the prophecy. And according to the Trinity, the Spirit or the Lamb is God the Father who can give us eternal life.
God the Mother and the Water of Life
Then who is the heavenly Jerusalem, the bride of the Lamb who comes down from heaven in the last day to give the water of life?
Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
Here Apostle Paul teaches us the identity of the heavenly Jerusalem and he says that she is “our mother”, which means God the Mother. By connecting the verses from Revelation and Galatians we can know these are the prophecies of the appearance of God the Mother in the last day. God the Mother would appear as the bride of the Lamb (God the Father) to give the water of life.
The Names of God the Father and God the Mother
Therefore, these are the prophecies of the appearance of God the Father and God the Mother for our salvation in the last day. Then when they appear, how can we receive the salvation of the water of life? To receive the water of life, we must call on the names of the Savior. That is why Revelation says that we have to know the names of God in the last days.
Revelation 3:11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. 13 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
In this prophecy God teaches us that we have to receive two names in the last day: that is, the name of the heavenly Jerusalem and the new name of Jesus. What are these names? They are the name of the Saviors in the last day who gives the water of life: the name of God the Father and the name of God the Mother.
Drink Living Water from Heavenly Mother
Conclusion
Then do you know the name of the Spirit and the bride for your own salvation? If not, how can you call on the name of God in the last days? Find the names of the Spirit and the bride in the Church of God. Then your salvation will become complete.
