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  • The Golden Hour of Salvation

    The Golden Hour of Salvation

    The definition of “golden hour” is the first hour after the occurrence of a traumatic injury, considered the most critical for successful emergency treatment. Since the golden hour is the most critical moment in the treatment, if we lose this moment, we can lose a life.

    Spiritually, it is the same. There is a golden hour for the salvation and if we lost the time, we can lose our salvation. In the parable of the ten virgins, the golden hour is the time period between the opening and the closing of the city door. They must enter the city before the door closes.

    2000 years Jesus taught the importance of the golden hour through the prophecy of the fall of Jerusalem. He prophesied about the fall of Jerusalem and taught his people that they must be warned and escape the coming disasters.

    Luke 21:20 “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

    The Wise and Foolish VirginsWilliam Blake, 1826Matthew 25:1-6

    As he taught through this prophecy, actually Jerusalem was surrounded by the Roman army about 40 years later. The Jews were rebellious and the emperors of Rome tried many times to put an end to their disobedience by destroying the city.

    Nero sent his General Vespasian to conquer the Jerusalem and the Roman army surrounded the city of Jerusalem in 68 AD. Jesus told them that they should get out of the city to save themselves. Just as Jesus said the golden hour came for them to get out of the city.

    Miraculously, there were a brief span of time during the political upheaval after the death of Nero when the Jews could get out of the city. Vespasian withdrew the army during the time of turmoil and went back to Rome. The siege was broken and the Jews were given a golden hour to escape the imminent death.

    Those who listened to the teaching of Jesus fled to another city and could save themselves. However, those who did not listen stayed in Jerusalem. When Titus, the son of Vespasian, surrounded the city again in 70 AD about two years later, the golden hour for the salvation was over.

    The city was under the siege for about six months and finally it was captured by the Roman army. They devastated the city and killed about 1.1 million Jews. And about 100,000 Jews were enslaved and they were sent away throughout the world. That was the fall of Jerusalem. Even though God gave them two years of the golden hour so that they could save themselves. When they lost the time, however, they were all destroyed.

    Then what is the lesson this history gives us. In the parable of the ten virgins, those who prepared the lamp with the oil could enter the wedding banquet, which means they could receive salvation. But the five foolish virgins did not prepare the oil and left behind when the door was shut. And they lost their chance of salvation.

    God gave us this precious time of “golden hour” so that we can prepare our lamp and oil. We must be ready for the Christ’s coming and must enter the wedding banquet as chosen people of God.

  • Mile Posts to Heaven

    Mile Posts to Heaven

    Do you know where you are heading to?

    To find a right way to a direction, we often consult to the mile posts. When we follow the right mile posts, we can get to the place we started our journey for. It is the same with the way to heaven. How can we find the way to heaven? To get to heaven we have to consult to the spiritual mile posts?

    To lead us to heaven, God set up many mile posts throughout the bible. When we follow the mile posts in the bible, we can find the way to heaven. Today, there are many churches around the world with many different names. Then what is the true church that God established to lead us to heaven.

    To give us the right direction God gave us many mile posts in the bible. Let us find several of the mile post so that we may know what is the true church that we should go.

    First, the true church must have the feast of God, the Passover since Christ Jesus and his disciples including the members of the early churches kept it. (Matthew 26:26, Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 5:7)

    Second, the true churches kept the Sabbath Day, not the Sunday worship. (Luke 4:16, Acts 17:1)

    Third, the true churches had the veil regulations. (1 Corinthians 11:1~16)

    Fourth, the true churches had the truth of God the Mother. (Galatians 4:26, Genesis 1:26)

    Fifth, the true churches were called Zion, the city of God’s festivals. (Isaiah 33:20, Hebrews 12:22)

    Sixth, the Second Coming Christ would come with a new name, not with the name Jesus. (Revelation 2:17, 3:12)

    These are some of the mile post that we can find to lead us to heaven. There are many more in the bible, but these would be enough to lead us to the true church, World Mission Society Church of God, which Christ Ahnsahnghong, the Second Coming Christ, established for our salvation. All the mile posts in the bible point to the Church of God or Zion as the true church that we should go to go to heaven.

  • Spiritual Martyrdom

    Spiritual Martyrdom

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    2000 years ago, the saints of the early church had to suffer death because of their religious faith. Instead of surrendering to the world and following the traditions of the world, they received martyrdom and kept their faith to the end. Just as Paul said, they considered their life worth nothing in keeping their faith.

    Today, nobody forces us to sacrifice our life for keeping the faith. Then is it easy to keep the faith and receive salvation? It is not so. There are so many things that lead us astray and make us fall away from the faith. For this reason, Father and Mother teaches us that we must become spiritual martyrs. Then what is the spiritual martyrdom?

    When we keep ourselves away from the worldly things, we are doing the spiritual martyrdom. Especially, we can find many things that lead us away from God: such things that entice us away from God as games, movies, dramas, immoral things. We are exposed to these things every moment of our life. When fall into the habit of doing these things, spiritually it is like we come into terms with the world by following the worldly customs.

    When we say no to these practices, spiritually we are sacrificing ourselves to keep the faith. In other words, we become the spiritual martyrs. Father and Mother want us to overcome the worldly things that corrupt our mind and soul. We should all become spiritual martyrs and stand firm in the faith to the end.

  • Opportunity Lost and Gained

    Opportunity Lost and Gained

    The Meaning of Opportunity

    When the situation is right for you to do something you’re interested in doing, you have the opportunity to do it. The word comes from the Latin phrase, ob portum veniens “coming toward a port” which refers to a favorable wind blowing ships into the harbor. Think of an opportunity as something a good wind blew your way. From Vocabulary.com

    Opportunity means the most favorable time or moment to do something. To emphasize the importance of “opportunity”, people in Korea say that opportunity comes three times in one’s life. How important the opportunity would be! How sad and terrible it would be if we lose the precious opportunity which comes only three times in one’s life time! Therefore, we have to seize the opportunity when it is available.

    Spiritually, it is the same. God grants each person an opportunity to receive salvation. Those who seize the precious opportunity will receive great reward in the Kingdom of Heaven; those who lose the opportunity will receive great punishment in Hell. Therefore, we have to cherish the opportunity granted by God and seize it when it is available.

    The bible teaches us about the importance of seizing the opportunity. Esau was born to receive the blessings of God as the firstborn of Isaac, but he despised the birthright and sold it to his brother Jacob. And later he begged blessing with tears but could not receive any because he lost his opportunity.

    Hebrews 12:16 See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. 17 Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had done.

    God has been working for 6000 years for our salvation. And he gave the mankind opportunities for three times to give them salvation as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Now is the precious opportunity for us to receive great blessings from God. If we lose this opportunity, we will not have another one. We should seize this opportunity given by God by receiving Father Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother.

  • My Distance From God and Devil

    My Distance From God and Devil

    Sometimes, we might ask of our faith in God. How far am I from God? And how far am I from the devil? How can we know our distance from God and the Devil?

    We can imagine a situation of a man standing between two objects which exist at either end of the man opposite from each other. One is on the right side of the man and the other on the left. Then we can know the distance of the man from those objects easily. If the man is moving away from one object, automatically he is moving closer to the other object and vice versa.

    Our distance from God and the Devil is the same. God and Devil are standing at the opposite sides from each other. God is in heaven and the Devil is in hell which is exactly opposite of heaven. Therefore, if we are moving toward God, our distance to the Devil becomes greater. And when we move toward the devil, our distance toward God gets bigger and bigger.

    Therefore, to know our distance from God and Devil, we have to ask ourselves where we are moving to. We must move toward God by obeying the words of God and doing the will of God. In that way, we can move away from the Devil. Let us watch ourselves and we must make sure that we are moving toward God.

    God is waiting for us and calling us to come toward heaven: ‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues.

  • What Is Imprinted In Us

    What Is Imprinted In Us

    Salmon and Homing Instinct

    First, it is hatched in the shallow freshwater and later it goes out into the ocean. For two years or more, it stays in the ocean migrating all around the vast seas. Finally, when it is the time for them to lay eggs, they make a long journey back to their home to the shallow freshwater where they were hatched many years ago. This is the story of salmons.

    What is amazing in their life story is the way they find their way back home. Once a man found a salmon among a group of salmons which were heading back upward the river to their home. What was strange about it was that it had unusually protruded eyes and he sent it to scientists for study. And they have found out nothing wrong with it except that it had very poor eyesight. How could a salmon with eyes almost blind travel around the oceans and find its way back home?

    It is said that salmons have a technology in it through which it can find the exact direction to the place it was born, what is called “homing instinct”. It is assumed that salmons can find their way home through two mechanisms. First, people say that they imprint the smell of the environment where they were born and later the ocean near their birth place. And also they said to use the earth’s magnetic field to find the way.

    Pigeons and Magnetite

    This kind of homing instinct can be found in birds too. Many migratory birds has a certain substance in its neurons in the brain and through this they can find their way home. This phenomenon is called “magnetoreception” since those birds use the magnetic field of the earth to find direction. One of the birds with this amazing technology in it is a pigeon. Scientists says that a pigeon has a sensor which uses “magnetite”-“a magnetic iron mineral that could act as tiny compass needles”. This mineral contained in the neurons of the brain of the bird makes it possible for the bird to find its way home in whatever circumstances it is.

    What Is Imprinted In Us

    God has imprinted an ability to find the way back home to these creatures. It is the same with us. God has imprinted in us something that we can find our way back home.

    Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

    On this earth everything has its time and it looks glorious at that time. However, sooner or later its glory vanishes and it dies. As human beings, we cannot be satisfied with this temporary glory. We all have yearning for the better. And the bible teaches the reason for those yearnings. It is because God has imprinted in us “eternity”. Since we have eternity in our hearts, we can never be satisfied with the temporary things of the earth. And we yearn for a better country, our eternal home. We are created to long for the eternal home, the kingdom of heaven.

    When we are wanderers on this earth without knowing where to go, Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heaven Mother came to us. They taught us about our home heaven and opened the way to the eternal home. Now I know how happy I am to know what I have been seeking for. Thanks to Father and Mother.

  • Sabbath Worship or Sunday Worship

    Sabbath Worship or Sunday Worship

    Today we can find many Christian congregations all around the world. What they have in common is that they believe in Christ as the Savior. Except for this, almost all the churches have different doctrines and follow different regulations. They all believe that their worship of God is acceptable to God since it is done out of their love toward God. However, is this true to believe that all the worship services are acceptable to God if it is done in the name of God and Christ? We can find one example in the story of Cain and Abel.

    Genesis 4:2 Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

    According to this story, Cain was a farmer and naturally he offered grains he produced with his sweat; and Abel, fat portions from the firstborn of his flock. Each of them offered the best they  could in their perspective. Then did God accept both offerings with a willing and pleasing mind? That was not the case. God accepted Abel’s offerings with pleasure, but not Cain’s.

    What was the reason for this favoritism shown toward Abel? Was it God’s preference? No. The answer can be found in the next verse in the words of God to Cain: “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

    Through this we can know that there was something that is not right in the offerings of Cain. According to the bible, the cleansingness or the forgiveness of sins are obtained by shedding the blood.

    Hebrews 9:18 This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. 19 When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20 He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”[e] 21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

    Even from the beginning, God set up the law that the forgiveness of sins can be achieved only through shedding blood. And there is no forgiveness without shedding blood. God already made know this fact to Cain and Abel; Abel obeyed the words of God, but Cain did not. For this reason the offerings of Cain was not acceptable in the eyes of God. This means the offerings must be done according to the words of God. And the offerings which are perform arbitrarily without the words of God are not pleasing in the eyes of God.

    It is the same to day with the spiritual offerings, that is, the worship services. The worship services done according to the words of God are like Abel’s offering and God will willingly accept that kind of offering. It is because that offering is done in the obedience to the words of God. Then what about the worship services done like the offerings of Cain? However much may one put his mind and soul for the service, it is not acceptable in the eyes of God and those who offer in this way out from their own opinions cannot receive blessings from God. Rather, as God said to Cain, things which are not done according to the words of God are not right and those who do what is not right are committing sins against God because sin is lawlessness, in other words, disobedience to the words or the laws of God.

    Then let us think of the worship services done among the churches today. Some churches practice the Sunday worship and others the Sabbath worship. And they all believe that they are doing the will of God. Then which practice is done according to the words of God in the bible. In the Book of Exodus, God commanded clearly that we must keep the Sabbath day, not Sunday.

    Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

    Then according to this verse what is the law of God? Keeping the Sabbath Day holy is the law of God. Then what is the Sunday worship? It is an act like the offering of Cain who practiced lawlessness when he did not obey the commands of God. Those who take part in the Sunday worship are doing the same as Cain and they are practicing lawlessness in the eyes of God. Consequently, their offerings will not be pleasing in the eyes of God and they cannot receive any blessings out of their worship services.

    God teaches us that we must have knowledge in the worship of God. Today so many people emphasize only the faith and love toward God. They say what is important is faith in God, not the work we have done such as keeping the laws and regulations. But God says to those who have faith in him: “If you love me, keep my commands.” We as believers who have faith in God have to obey the commands of God to show our faith toward God. This is the will of God.

  • The Covenant between God and His People

    The Covenant between God and His People

    The Bible, The Book of the Covenant

    The definition of the word “covenant” is an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified. A covenant is a kind of promise made between people. In this sense, the covenant is also a promise made between God and His people.

    In the time of Moses, God made a covenant with the Israelites, which is called the old covenant. It was given specifically to the physical Jews.

    Deuteronomy 5:1 Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 It was not with our ancestors that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today. 4 The Lord spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. 5 (At that time I stood between the Lord and you to declare to you the word of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.)

    As a sign of the covenant, God gave them the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Israelites could receive blessings from God when they kept the covenant. In reality, however, they disobeyed and violated the covenant, and as a result they were cursed and received a lot of calamities.

    In the time of Prophet Jeremiah, God foretold the Israelites about the coming disasters and taught them the reason for those disasters coming to them. It was because they violated the covenant they made with God.

    Jeremiah 11:1  This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. 3 Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— 4 the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. 5 Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.” I answered, “Amen, Lord.” 6 The Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them. 7 From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, “Obey me.” 8 But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.’”

    The bible teaches that whatever was written in the past were written to teach us a lesson. Through the blessings and curses of the Jews, God is teaching us about the importance of keep the covenant God established for us. 2000 years ago, Jesus came down and established the new covenant for all the people of God, not only the Jews. This covenant was given to the peoples of the world who would like to receive the blessings from God.

    Through his flesh and blood, Jesus made a covenant and he gave the promise of eternal life and forgiveness of sins to those who keep the covenant. He named the covenant “a new covenant” in contrast to “the old covenant” given to the Jews.

    Luke 22:19  And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 20 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.

    Through his blood of the Passover, Jesus established the new covenant and commanded to his people to keep the Passover in remembrance of him. Obeying the command of Jesus disciples of the early churches kept the new covenant, telling us that we have to keep the new covenant until the Christ comes again.

    1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

    However, due to the work of Satan, during the Dark Age, the new covenant was broken and since then people did not keep the covenant. Because of this, people got cursed under the slavery of sin and death.

    The bible teaches us again and again that we have to keep the covenant God established for our salvation. We should come back to God and keep the new covenant Passover. Then we can be under the blessings of God. If we follow our stubbornness like the Israel people in the past, however, we will be under curses and cannot receive salvation.

    Moses receving the Ten Commandments, the Covenant of God for His People

    Deuteronomy 30:11  Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. …..19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

    Let us choose life by keeping the covenant God gave for our salvation. The command of God is not burdensome.

  • Spiritual Act of Worship

    Spiritual Act of Worship

    2000 years ago, Jesus taught that we must worship God in spirit and in truth. Then how can we worship God in spirit and in truth?

    John 4:19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

    Today many so-called Christians say that the Sabbath was abolished and we don’t have to keep the Sabbath Day as the day of worship. However, Jesus gave us an example of keeping the Sabbath Day. It is true that we must not keep the Sabbath day according to the Law of Moses by sacrificing animals. But still we should keep the Sabbath according to the Law of Christ by worshiping God in the Spirit and in truth just as Jesus taught. Then how can we worship God in the Spirit and in truth? Apostle Paul and Peter teaches us about the spiritual act of worship that we have to practice.

    Paul says:

    Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

    Paul teaches that we must offer our bodies as a living sacrifice instead of an animal sacrifice. And he says that this is the spiritual act of worship, or the worship of God in the Spirit and in truth.

    Also Peter says:

    1 Peter 2:5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

    Apostle Peter also teaches that we must offer spiritual sacrifice, which is the true act of worship acceptable to God. We can worship God in spirit and in truth when we offer spiritual sacrifices to God by offering our bodies as a living sacrifice. Then how can we offer our bodies to God? What is the meaning behind it?

    Romans 6:13 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

    Romans 6:16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

    Romans 6:19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.

    In these teachings Paul teaches that we offer our body to God for the righteousness. This is worshiping God in spirit and in truth. Once we offered our body for the sinful things and as a result we were under the slavery of sin and death. Now since we are freed from the slavery of sins and death through the blood of the Christ, we must make efforts to walk in the righteous path by listening and obeying to the words of God. When we obey to the words of God, God is creating us to be holy like himself.

  • The Declaration of Heavenly Family Mission

    The Declaration of Heavenly Family Mission

    TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – MAY 14: In this handout from the GPO, David Ben Gurion, who was to become Israel’s first Prime Minister, reads the Declaration of Independence May 14, 1948 at the museum in Tel Aviv, during the ceremony founding the State of Israel. (Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** David Ben Gurion

    Heavenly Mother opened 2023 by giving us a mission to complete as members of the heavenly family. She proclaimed the Declaration of the Heavenly Family Mission to all the people of Zion. And she encouraged us to make efforts to complete the mission by the end of the year.

    • We will complete the gospel mission of the heavenly kingdom.
    • We will find all the members of the lost heavenly family assigned to us.
    • We will make the whole world repent and lead them to heaven.

    On the Heavenly Parents Day, Mother reminded us of the mission given to us this year. In one video about the independence activists of Israel and Korea, Father Ahnsahnghong urged us to be the independence activists. He taught us that whatever happened in the past were given to us as copy and shadow. Through the examples of independence activists of Israel (or Zionists) and Korean independence activists he wanted to teach us to be the heavenly independence activists.

    Our Heavenly family members are currently under the spiritual Babylonian slavery. To free us from the slavery of sins and death, Father came down for the second time, and also Mother came. Through their life as model, they are teaching us that we must follow their example because we are the members of the heavenly family chosen by God. We as firstborns of the family must find our younger brothers and sisters, and also we must take care of them.

    Just as the Jews had two families, physical family and the Jewish people since they are their own kind. They have taken responsibility for one another considering a Jew as their own family member. We as a spiritual Jew also have two families: physical family and spiritual family (or the heavenly family). Father and Mother teach us to take responsibility for one another, taking care of every one of the heavenly family members that they may not suffer pain alone.

    The Jews had a hope and endured all the sufferings with the hope:

    L’Shana Haba’ah B’Yerushalayim
    (Hebrew:     לשנה הבאה בירושלים)

    It means “Next year in Jerusalem”. They understood that the cause of all the pains and sufferings that they had to go through as a Jew was in the fact that they have no country. From this realization, the Zionists worked hard to get their nation back and finally they could proclaim independence in 1948.

    This history of the physical Jew was given to us as example. As a spiritual Jew, we must also work for the heavenly kingdom our home by finding all our brothers and sisters scattered around the world. In the course of time, we might have to go through many difficulties, but this is the mission given by Father and Mother.

    “Next year in the Kingdom of Heaven”

    This must be our hope and we must endure this painful life with the hope for heaven. Father and Mother teaches us to be the sons who will be the heirs of heaven by taking part in the gospel work. Father gives us a lesson: The heavenly patriot is the true prophet. As prophets of God, Father and Mother wants us to work for the independence of the heavenly family.

    Father earnestly urges us to work for the gospel by saying, “Restoring the truth is like restoring the country”. He is teaching us that we are the independence workers and our mission is in preaching the truth of the new covenant. To the heavenly family members, Mother gave us a mission: Complete the gospel work and restore the kingdom of heaven by finding all our heavenly family. And then we can go back to heaven, our eternal home. Even though we are nothing—we are like a child, God is calling us to be the workers giving us an errand:

    Matthew 28:28 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

    Once a Korean poet described his life on this earth like this: “I was born on this earth to do the errand of mother, and now finishing the errand I have come back to mother”. Our life is like this. We came here to do the work of God and finishing all the work we will go back to Father and Mother. Mother is waiting for us without any rest. She is in worries until we come back safely after completing the errand. Let us finish all the errands assigned to us and go back swiftly to Mother and tell her that we have completed the mission and found all our heavenly family members.

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