The Last Adam and the Last Eve, Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Mother

Category: BASIC TRUTH

Truth of the new covenant

  • [WMSCOG] Once Your Obedience Is Complete

    God gave his words out of love for the mankind so that they could be protected from the deceiving and evil words of Satan. That is why God teaches complete obedience to the words of God. When we obey the words of God, we can be protected and blessed. But when we disobey his words, we could be easily influenced by the evil scheme of Satan and put into a dangerous situation spiritually. Therefore, we must completely obey the words of God. Then let us find out why we should obey to the words of God through the bible.

    Hebrews 5:8   Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10 and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

    Jesus Christ gave us the perfect example to follow. Even though he was God himself who came as man in the flesh, he showed us the example of obeying to the words of God even to the point of death on the cross. And the bible says that he could be made perfect through the obedience to the words of God. God wants us to be perfect in every way because only those who are perfect can enter the kingdom of heaven. That is why the bible says that we must be created into the image of God. Since God is perfect, thus we must be perfect too to be considered as God’s people.
     
    Matthew 5:48   Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
    Then how can we be made perfect? The bible says that Christ was made perfect through the obedience. Obedience turns us to be a perfect creation who can enter into the kingdom of heaven. Also when we obey the words of God, we can be blessed, but we can be cursed and punished when we disobey the words of God.
     

    Romans 5:19    For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

    God is creating his people into a new creation and in this creation everybody must be perfect and complete. If one person disobeys the words of God, the disobedience of one man cause pains and sufferings for everyone. And if one man completely obeys the words, through the obedience of one man many can be blessed and receive salvation. Let us think about the disobedience of one man Achan. When God’s people are entering the land of Canaan, the promised land, God commanded his people not to take for himself “devoted things to God” such as silver, gold, bronze articles, or iron.
     
    Joshua 6:17    The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. 18 But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”

    But Achan took some devoted things for himself and because of this sin of one man all the Israelites were defeated in a war and suffered a heavy loss. Just because of the disobedience of one man, all the people were put in danger and they could not enter and conquer the Promised Land. Finally when the sin of the one man was punished, they could conquer the city.

    Jonah’s Preaching by Leonaert Bramer

    But also we can see the obedience of one man could bring salvation to everyone in the city. When Jonah was sent to the city of Nineveh, which was a enemy city of Israel, so Jonah became frightened and ran away to another place to save himself. But later he repented and obeyed the words of God and preached his words, to his surprise people of the city–whom he once thought as enemy of Israel–listened to his words and they could be saved from the impending disasters which were proclaimed by God.

    Jonah 3:3 Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. 4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” 5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth….10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

    When Jonah completely obeyed the words of God, he could save 120,000 Ninevites from the destruction. One man’s disobedience can bring calamity to everyone, but also one man’s obedience can bring salvation to many. And the bible says all these things are recorded to teach us a lesson. (Romans 15:4) Then what is the lesson that we should learn from the bible? Just like the Israelites who were conquering the land of Canaan to possess it by fighting against the enemies living in there, in the same way the spiritual Israelites or God’s people are waging a war against the enemy Satan to enter into the Promised Land Canaan, the kingdom of heaven. In this spiritual war, one man’s disobedience can bring disasters to everybody just like Achan who stole devoted things from God and punished for his disobedience. Because of the sins of one man all the nation suffered a heavy loss and defeated from the war.

    And also many of the Israelites could not enter the land of Canaan because of their disobedience. Even though 600,000 started journey to the Promised Land, only Joshua and Caleb could enter the land and all other people from the first generation died in the desert as punishment for their disobedience.

    Hebrews 3:16    Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

    Those who disobeyed could not enter the rest in the Promised Land and died in the desert. In the same way, we are also in the middle of journey to the Promised Land for eternal rest in heaven, and when we completely obey the words of God, we can enter the rest prepared by God. When one man disobeys the words of God, the disobedience does not cause sufferings only to the person who committed sin, but it also affect all others who are making the same journey. Because of one man’s disobedience everyone could be punished and the journey could be delayed for everyone. That is why everyone chosen by God into this journey toward the heaven must obey the words of God with one mind as the 144,000 who are prophesied in the bible.
     

    Revelation 14:1    Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. …….They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

    According to the bible the main characteristic of the last remnants of God 144,000 is their complete obedience to the words of God: they follow the Lamb (the second coming Christ) wherever he goes. When the obedience of all the people of God becomes complete as it was prophesied in the bible, then they can enter into the land of Canaan, the heaven for the eternal rest promised by God.
     
    We are in the middle of the spiritual war, and we can defeat the enemy Satan and enter the heaven when our obedience becomes complete.
     

    2 Corinthians 10:3     For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

    When we are not perfect, how can we judge the imperfection of others? God is waiting patiently until our obedience becomes complete. When we completely obey the words of God, He will punish all the people who disobey the words of God, even the Satan. And those who are made perfect through the obedience will be blessed to enter the heaven. We are still in the middle of our journey, and it is not because the enemy is too strong, but because our obedience is not complete. From now on we should completely obey the words of God Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother who are waiting patiently sacrificing themselves for our sins until our obedience is made complete. On that day, we would be able to punish all the lawlessness in this world in the flames of fire, and will enter the eternal rest with our Father and Mother.
     
    Thanks to Heavenly Father Christ Ahnsahnhong and Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem for your patience for these sinners. We know we could be a new creation because of your love for us. We Love You!!
  • [WMSCOG] Six Day Creation: Introduction

    [WMSCOG] Six Day Creation: Introduction

    Meaning of Six Day Creation
    Creation of Adam

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–The first chapter of the Book of Genesis speaks about the creation work of God and many people dismiss this chapter because scientifically or realistically many parts of the chapter do not match one another and do not make sense even in terms of the common senses.

    Figurative and Parabolic Meaning In Genesis

    Then what causes problems in understanding this Book of Genesis? God is perfect, and thus his words must be perfect. But why are there so many misunderstandings about the book? The problem is that the book just like all other books of the bible cannot be understood with common sense of man because it is intrinsically written in a figurative language.

    Matthew 13:34   Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. 35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–What Jesus did 2000 years ago was to reveal the hidden things since the creation of the world. But since the creation of the world is recorded in the Book of Genesis, it means the Book of Genesis contains hidden things that must be revealed. It means the book cannot be understood in the literal sense, but must be understood in a figurative sense. In other words, just like all other words of God in the bible the book itself is a parable. Then how should we understand the book?

    Some Obvious Contradictions in the Book of Genesis

    Creation of Light

    First, let us think about some of the contradicting parts in the book when it was interpreted literally. The most conflicting part is the day one and the day four when God is creating the light. In the Day One, God created light:

    Genesis 1:3   And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.”

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–What is the light that gives light to day? It is the sun. Therefore, if we understand this Day one literally, we must say God created the sun on the first day. But in Day Four, God created another sun which does not make sens at all in the physical term.

    Genesis 1:16    God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–Logically, what would be “the greater light to govern the day” which was created by God on the fourth day? Isn’t it the sun? Then are there two suns in our solar system? Scientifically, it is false to say there are two suns in the solar system. That is why people say that the creation in Genesis does not make sense at all.

    The True Meaning of Light

    Then how should we understand this? We must interpret the book figuratively. Then what is the light which was created on the first day? About this Paul let us know the figurative meaning behind it.

    2 Corinthians 4:6    For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–Paul quotes from the verse 3 of Genesis Chapter 1 and explains the meaning of the light. The light created on the first day is the light of the knowledge of God or the light of gospel that shone on the heart of people who accepted the gospel. Before the creation the world was in the complete darkness and there was no knowledge of God at that moment.
    But for the first time in human history, to Adam and Eve God revealed himself and let them know the true God who could give salvation through the knowledge of God. That knowledge of God that gives salvation appeared for the first time to human being and it was described as light figuratively. Also the light which was created on Day Four is also figurative lights. Then what are the lights that was created on the fourth day?

    Psalm 119:105   Your word is a lamp for my feet,
    a light on my path.

    What is the light in a figurative sense? It is the words of God. So on the fourth day, what was created God were actually two words of God: the Old Testament in the time of Moses and the New Testament in the time of Jesus.

    Creation of Mankind

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–Let us take a look at another example which cannot be understood in the worldly viewpoint. The first man created by God were Adam and Eve and later they had sons, Cain and Abel. Out of hatred Cain killed Abel and at that moment, logically how many people should exist on the earth? Three, Adam, Eve and Cain. But right after Cain killed Abel, he was banished from the place he was living. But he was afraid of PEOPLE that might kill him when he left his hometown.

    Genesis 4:13     Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, andwhoever finds me will kill me.”

    There should be only three of them at that moment, but surprisingly there are many living around them and after this verse Cain surprises us again by marrying a woman that should never be there at that moment.

    Genesis 4:17    Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–Where is his wife from? Through all these things what we can understand is there were people living around the three of them already. The earth was not empty of people at the moment, but the bible itself shows that there were many people living around Adam and Eve. Then who were their contemporaries? Why are they not included the creation work of God? Why does the bible describe only Adam and his family as man, not others?

     How to Correctly Understand Genesis

    Figurative Meaning Of Mankind

    To understand this mystery we must understand the figurative meaning behind the word ‘man’ in the bible. Biologically many people were living on this earth at the time, but spiritually only three of them were considered as man in the eyes of God. Then who are man spiritually? Man are those who have the knowledge of God. When God shone his light, it was shone to Adam and his family and they came to have the knowledge of God. And they were considered as man spiritually.
    Then what about other people who did not have the knowledge of God who did not receive the light of gospel at the moment? They were not man in the spiritual sense? Then what were they? Jesus compares them to a pig or dog. In other words they are considered as animals in God’s eyes. When Peter saw a sheet that contained a lot of different unclean animals in a vision, he interpreted the meaning like this:

    Acts 11:18    When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

    Man and Animal

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–Those unclean animals or Gentiles also could receive the words of God and came to have the knowledge of God as Jews. When they have the light of knowledge of God, the animals could be changed into man and accepted as man. So those people who were living along with Adam and Eve could not be categorized as man in those days since they were not allowed to have the knowledge of God like Adam and Eve. These are just a few examples from the book, and actually all the contents of the book must be understood figuratively. Then how can we understand the book?

     Figurative Explanation About Six Day Creation

    The Six-Day Creation in the book is 6000 years of God’s salvation work in the spiritual sense. The bible teaches a day can be calculated as a 1000 years so according to this system 6 days are actually 6000 years. Then when was the starting point? It was the moment when God revealed himself to Adam and Eve. When he revealed his identity to man for the first time in human history, that was the moment he started his salvation work. So according to this creation work, the sixth day is the last day when God finished his work.
    The spiritual meaning is that God will work for the salvation for 6000 years from the time of Adam and he will finish his work of salvation after 6000 years. Therefore, we can say that Chapter 1 of Genesis is actually the blueprint for God’s salvation work and he was fulfilling all the creation work according to this plan.

    Six Day Creation as Contents of the Bible

    We can confirm this through the words of Prophet Isaiah.

    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.’

    The Meaning  Of Six Day Creation–He already foretold the end even from the beginning and therefore if we want to know about the end of God’s salvation work we must take a look at the beginning. Then what book is concerned with the beginning? It is the Book of Genesis. The book was a plan for God’s salvation and God is working according to his plan in the book of Genesis. Then let us find out the meanings of each day one by one so that we can understand the true meaning behind the book. And we can be sure that the Spirit and the Bride are actually our Savior who is coming in the last day of the creation, Our Father and Our Mother.
    All these teachings are coming from God Ahnsahnhong and Our Mother Heavenly Jerusalem. Let us give thanks to God Elohim for giving us the light of the knowledge of God to us Gentiles who were like animals and and making us man who can receive salvation.

  • [WMSCOG] The Tree Of Life And Ten Commandments

    In Genesis, God created the Garden of Eden and planted the Tree of Life in the middle and He gave free access to the tree to Adam and Eve so that they could eat from the tree and have eternal life. But when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, disobeying the words of God, they could not eat from the Tree of Life and they could not live forever. This is how death enter into the human being.

    The Tree of Life

    Genesis 3:22   And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

    Because of their sin, Adam and Eve was driven out from the Garden and they were not allowed to eat from the Tree of Life. To stop the sinner from eating the tree of life, God place angels and a flaming sword to guard the way. After this they were destined to die since they could not eat from the tree of life. And the bible says that this story is not just a story of Adam and Eve, but it tells what happened to all human beings on this earth who were destined to die just like Adam and Eve. Therefore, if we could eat somehow from the tree of life, we can live forever. Then how can we find the tree of life and how can we disarm the angels and flaming sword to enter into the garden to eat from the tree of life?

    First, we must understand that this story of the Garden of Eden is just a parable. No where on this earth can we find a actual place which is called the Garden of Eden. Therefore, first we must understand this figuratively. Then in reality what is the tree of life that we must eat to live forever? It is the words of God, the Ten Commandments. God gave the Ten Commandments as the reality of the tree of life so that people can eat and live forever.

    Tree of life
    Moses’ Ten Commandments

    The Reality of the Tree of Life

    Jesus said that the true bread is the words of God.

    Matthew 4:4   Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

    God gave his words so that people could eat and they could live forever when they kept the words.

    Ezekiel 20:11   I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.

    We can confirm this through the sanctuary in the Old Testament. God gave the Israelites the Ten Commandments or the words of God so that people who obeyed them could live by them. And He commanded Moses to put the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in the Most Holy Place of the Temple in the Ark of the Covenant under the Wings of the two cherubim.

    Exodus 25:17   “Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 18 And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. 19 Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends. 20 The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover. 21 Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you. 22 There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.

    God commanded Moses to make an atonement cover to put on the ark of the covenant which contained the Ten Commandments. And he said he would sit enthroned on the cover between the cherubim and that is why this cover was once called “a mercy seat” or “the throne of God.” Moses made this atonement cover in accordance with the commands of God and put the ark and cover in the Most Holy Place with the two stone tablets in the ark of covenant.

    Then why did God command Moses to make a two cherubim on either side of the atonement cover? What were the cherubim doing? God gave the Ten Commandments as the reality of the tree of life so that people could eat and live forever. But not everybody could enter into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain and get near to the tree of life, the Ten Commandments. If sinners tried to enter into the Most Holy Place and eat from the words of God, they could be killed as we can see in many places in the bible. (1 Samuel 6:19, 2 Samuel 6:6)

    Leviticus 10:1   Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, contrary to his command. 2 So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

    When the two sons of Aaron the high priest tried to enter into the Most Holy Place which was contrary to the command of God, they were immediately put to death by fire. Why did this happen? It was because the two cherubim and the flaming sword was guarding the way to the ark of the covenant in the Most Holy Place. Through this God was teaching us that the reality of the tree of life is actually the Ten Commandments and the cherubim on the ark of the covenant was the same cherubim guarding the way of the tree of life in the garden of Eden. Therefore, we can confirm that the Ten Commandments or the words of God was given as the tree of life so that we can eat and live forever.

    Tree of Life
    Why did God command Moses to fashion Cherubim on either end of the atonement cover?

    How To Eat From The Tree of Life

    However, the tree of life was guarded by cherubim and a flaming sword and a sinner could be put to death if he tried to enter into the garden to eat from the tree. Therefore, the tree of life was useless to them since they could not eat from it. In the same way, the Ten Commandments was given as tree of life, but it is useless to a sinner because he could be killed as soon as he tries to enter the Most Holy Place. Then why did God give something that is meaningless to a sinner? Did the work of God for the salvation fail because no sinner can eat from the tree of life and everybody is a sinner and nobody can eat from the tree of life? In conclusion, the work of God is not meaningless. Every single thing in God is important and given to us for our salvation. If then, how can we enter into the Most Holy Place and receive eternal life promised in the Ten Commandments? The answer is the law of God given along with the Ten Commandments. A sinner cannot enter into the Most Holy Place to eat from the tree of life, but when the sinner was forgiven of his sins, then he could enter and eat from the tree of life.

    When Aaron’s two sons tried to enter into the Most Holy Place by their own opinions, they got killed, but God allowed the access to the inner room when a priest was purified of their sins through the blood of animals on the Day of Atonement.

    Leviticus 16:1   The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the Lord. 2 The Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover. …3 “This is how Aaron is to enter the Most Holy Place: He must first bring a young bull for a sin offering[a] and a ram for a burnt offering. ….6 “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. …..11 “Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering. 12 He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain. 13 He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.

    God allowed a sinner to enter into the Most Holy Place to eat from the tree of life only when his sins were forgiven through the blood of animals. And also God said not to enter whenever he wanted to enter, but he must enter according to the laws and regulations of God. When God gave the Ten Commandments, God also gave them a guideline to let them know how and when to enter into the Most Holy Place to eat from the tree of life.

    Deuteronomy 31:24   After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end, 25 he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord: 26 “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God.

    Right next to the ark which had the Ten Commandments or the tree of life was placed the Book of the Law. What was this book of the law and why was it place along with the ark? It was because this Book of Law was given to teach them how to enter into the Most Holy Place and eat from the Tree of Life so that they could live forever. Then what was recorded in the book? What was the law given along with the Ten Commandments?

    Exodus 34:27   27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

    The covenant or the Ten Commandments was given according to “these words.” Then what are these words? If we read some verses right before verse 27, we can see the festivals of God. From verse 18 of the same chapter up to verse 26 God is speaking about the festivals such as Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. And he said in accordance with the law of feasts, he made the covenant with his people and as the sign of covenant he gave the two stone tablets. Therefore, the law which was given along with the Ten Commandments or the tree of life was actually festivals of God. In the Old Testament all the festivals of God was kept with animal sacrifices by shedding the blood of animals for the purification of sins. In short, a sinner cannot enter into the Most Holy Place for the tree of life, but when the sinner was forgiven of his sins through the blood of animals according to the regulations of the festivals, they could enter and eat from the tree of life.

    Spiritual Fulfillment

    It is the same with us who are living in the New Testament. We also can enter into the Most Holy Place and eat from the tree of life through the blood of Christ who is the reality of the animal sacrifice.

    Heb 10:19   Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body

    Through the sacrifice of Christ our sins can be purified and we can enter into the inner room and eat from the tree of life. Then how and when can we be purified of our sins? Through God’s appointed times, the Festivals of God. Once the festivals of God was abolished by the work of Satan and no sinner could eat from the tree of life, but now Christ Ahnsahnghong brought back all the festivals of God and opened the way to the Most Holy Place through his blood. And he also let us know the true reality of the Most Holy Place and the ark of covenant, that is, Our Mother who is the true source of water of life. We must come to Zion, the city of festivals and keep all the festivals and then we can eat from the tree of life. The World Mission Society Church of God is the only place which was established by Christ Ahnsahnghong. Come to Zion and Father and Mother will forgive our sins and give us eternal life. Amen.

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  • [WMSCOG] Covenant Made With Blood

    Even though we are sinners, God gave the forgiveness of sins and the promise of eternal life through the blood of God by establishing the new covenant. Let us find out the true value of this new covenant.

    Romans 6:23   For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    All the people on this earth lives life of pain and suffering and the end that is waiting for them is the death. Nobody can escape the death penalty and it is because everyone on this earth committed sin in heaven and because of the sin all of them are given death penalty.

    Romans 5:12   Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.

    For this reason, all the people on this earth is under the slavery of sin and death. While all the people have been mourning and groaning under the slavery, God remembered them and planned his work for the salvation.

    Exodus 2:23   23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

     
    When God’s people were under the slavery and going through sufferings, God remembered them and took pity upon them. And he made a covenant with them to set them free from the slavery. So God’s people who kept the covenant with God could be set free and receive the land of Canaan for their inheritance. Then what was the covenant God made with them? How did God make the covenant? It was called “the old covenant” which God established with his own blood. He commanded his people to keep the Passover by shedding the blood of a lamb and putting the blood on the door frames. When Israelites kept the Passover, they could receive freedom from the slavery. And the blood that gave them freedom was not just the blood of a lamb, but God let them know that it is actually his own blood he shed for his people to give them freedom.
     

    Exodus 34:25   Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. (KJV)

    The sacrifice of the Lamb on the day of the Passover was in reality the sacrifice of God himself. God shed his own blood and made a covenant with his people to give them freedom. And this law of the Passover in the old covenant was given to us as copy and shadow to let us know the reality to be fulfilled by Christ who is the reality of the Lamb.
     
    Christ came as sacrificial lamb and shed his own blood and established the new covenant. Then why did he shed blood on the cross? It is because of our sin. Just as God’s people are under the slavery in the time of Moses, now God’s people are under the spiritual slavery of sin and death. After this momentary and meaningless life on this earth is over, everyone must be put to death. But God remembered their pain and suffering, and took pity upon them.
     
     
    Just as he made a covenant with his people in the old days to set them free, now he made another covenant which is called a new covenant with his people to set them free from the slavery of sin and death.
     

    Hebrews 8:7   For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.
    8 But God found fault with the people and said:
    “The days are coming, declares the Lord,
    when I will make a new covenantwith the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.

    Then how did he make the new covenant and why?
     

    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 (new) covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. (Look also at Luke 22:20)

    On the night of the Passover Christ Jesus made a covenant with his flesh and blood and called it as “the new covenant” in the Book of Luke Chapter 22. God fulfilled the prophecy of Jeremiah by coming down to this earth to the land of sin and death and by establishing the new covenant with his own blood to give the forgiveness of sins, that is the freedom from the slavery of sins and death. He cancelled our sins through his blood and saved his people from the pain of eternal death so that they can have eternal life. Then why was it necessary for God to shed his own blood? The sins of people could be nullified only through the blood or the death of the person who committed sins.
     

    Hebrews 9:22   In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

    For the sinner to be forgiven of his own sin there is only one way, that is, the shedding of his own blood or his death. But how can a sinner live if he was already put to death according to the penalty? That is why a sinner cannot cancel his sins by his own blood. Therefore, a sinner need a someone who could be given as ransom for his sins and who would die on behalf of him so that his sins could be forgiven. For that purpose God himself came down to this earth and shed his blood to give forgiveness for the sins of his people.
     

    1 Timothy 2:3   This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people.

    Christ gave his own body as ransom so that our sins could be forgiven. Therefore, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, the covenant God made with his people by shedding his own blood is the Passover. God’s people in the Old Testament kept the Passover with the blood of lamb as the sign of the covenant with God. In the same way, in the New Testament We also as God’s people must keep the Passover of the new covenant with bread and wine which represents Christ’s flesh and blood which he shed on the cross for the forgiveness of sins of his people so that they could be set free from the slavery of sins and death. Therefore, only those whose sins are forgiven through the blood of Christ can be considered as his people and they can receive the eternal inheritance of the spiritual Canaan, the Kingdom of Heaven.
     
    The bible says God is gather his people who made the covenant with blood of sacrifice. What is the blood of sacrifice we must receive to remain in the covenant of God? It is the Passover.
     

    Psalm 50:1 The Mighty One, God, the Lord,
    speaks and summons the earth
    from the rising of the sun to where it sets.
    2 From Zion, perfect in beauty,
    God shines forth.
    3 Our God comes
    and will not be silent;
    a fire devours before him,
    and around him a tempest rages.
    4 He summons the heavens above,
    and the earth, that he may judge his people:
    5 “Gather to me this consecrated people,    who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”6 And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,
    for he is a God of justice.

    God’s people are those who made a covenant with God by sacrifice or the blood of the lamb of the Passover. Once this precious truth of the Passover which Christ established with his blood to give us the forgiveness of sins was abolished by the work of Satan in 325 AD. But God heard the groaning of his people and took a pity upon them. He shed his own blood by coming down to this earth for the second time to give us the forgiveness of sins so that we can be set free.
     

    Psalm 102:19   “The Lord looked down from his sanctuary on high,
    from heaven he viewed the earth,
    20 to hear the groans of the prisoners    and release those condemned to death.”21 So the name of the Lord will be declared in Zion
    and his praise in Jerusalem
    22 when the peoples and the kingdoms
    assemble to worship the Lord.

    Christ Ahnsahnghong came down to this earth for the second time and established Zion, the city of God’s festivals and he restored the new covenant of the Passover so that we can receive the forgiveness of sins by the blood of covenant given by God. In the World Mission Society Church of God, we are keeping the Passover and receive the blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins. We must remember that nobody on this earth can cancel his own sins with his own blood and can have eternal life; for this reason, we had to wait for the Christ to appear so that our sins could be forgiven through the blood of Christ who was to give himself as ransom for the sins of his people. Now Christ has appeared to the sinners to give them salvation. Come to Zion and keep the Passover. Then your sins can be forgiven through the blood of the new covenant Christ made with his people and you would be God’s people who can receive salvation. Give thanks to Heavenly Father Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother New Jerusalem!

  • [WMSCOG] Remain In Me And I In You

    Today let us think about how we can remain in God. Jesus taught his disciples about the importance of remaining in God. One day Jesus who was the master for the disciples brought a water basin and started to wash the feet of the disciples. Peter who believed Jesus to be God who came as man in the flesh could not let Jesus wash his feet who are a mere sinner. So he rejected what Jesus was trying to do to him, and said that Jesus should not wash his feet because it is a servile work belonging to a servant.

    Jn 13:8   “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.” 9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!

    When Jesus said that he who did not wash his feet had nothing to do with him, Peter was alarmed because he wanted to have every part with Christ so he immediately changed his thought and asked Jesus to wash his head and body as well as feet if that is that much important. Sharing a part with someone who is important to you is natural for both of them. That is why Peter more than anything else wanted to share every part with Christ. This is also a teaching of Christ too. He taught us that if we are the disciples of Christ, we must share everything with him. And we should be completely one with Christ by sharing everything with Christ.
     
     
     

    John 15:4   Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

    Jesus emphasized over and over again that God’s people must remain in him and then they can bear much fruit and give glory to God. If they do not remain in him, they are like dead branches which would be thrown into fire. It means to receive salvation we must remain in Christ and Christ must remain in us. When we remain in God we can receive abundant blessings from God just as a branch can receive a lot of water and nutrients from the vine when it remain in the vine. Then how can we have Christ in us?
     

    1 John 2:24   As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is what he promised us—eternal life.

    How can we remain in Christ and Christ in us? Christ said we must have in us what we have heard from the beginning. Then what was it that the disciples heard from the beginning?
     

    1 John 2:7   Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.

    What is the thing that they had already heard and known even from the beginning? What they had already heard is “the message” or the commands of God which Jesus taught them. Therefore, to remain in Christ, we must remain in the words of God and the words of God remain in us. Then we can remain in Christ.
     

    1 John 3:24   The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

    Therefore, it is the words of God that must remain in us and if we remain in the words of God by obeying the words, then we can remain in God and God in us. Then what is the commands of God we must have in us? In the past, God gave the old covenant to the physical Israelites, but for the spiritual Israelites God gave a new covenant. The new covenant is the words of God that must remain in us and we must remain in by obeying it.
     

    Jeremiah 31:31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will make a new covenantwith the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.
    32 It will not be like the covenant
    I made with their ancestors
    when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,
    because they broke my covenant,
    though I was a husband to[d] them,[e]”
    declares the Lord.
    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.

    The law of God that we must remain in and that must remain in us is the new covenant and through the new covenant we can become God’s people who can receive salvation. Therefore, the message we already heard which should remain in us is the word of God in the new covenant. When the new covenant is in us, we can remain in God and God in us. Let us confirm how God remain in us through the new covenant.
     

    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.

    On the night of the Passover, Jesus gave bread and wine which symbolizes his flesh and blood and he established the new covenant through his flesh and blood. Then why did he give the new covenant of the Passover? Through the new covenant Christ can remain in us and we can remain in Christ.
     

    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. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

    What is the promise of Christ in the new covenant? Through the new covenant of the Passover, his flesh and blood can remain in his people and his people can remain in Christ because they belongs to Christ through his flesh and blood. By eating his flesh and blood we can become his people and he gives eternal life to everyone who belongs to him. This is the blessing of the new covenant. Through the new covenant we can have everything with Christ and we can become one body with Christ. (1 Corinthians 10:17) Since we are one with Christ, just as God put his Spirit in Christ, God will put his Holy Spirit in us too who have become one with Christ. And through the Spirit in us we can have eternal life.
     

    John 6:63    The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.

    In conclusion the words of God is the Spirit that gives life. And to those who heard the words of God and obeyed his commands, God puts his Spirit in them and they can remain in God and God in them. And the words that we must have in us is the words of God in the new covenant. When we keep the Passover of the new covenant, Christ’s flesh and blood (or the word of God) can remain in us and through the words of God in us we can receive salvation, the eternal life. This mysterious work of God’s salvation is hidden in the new covenant of the Passover. Therefore, we must keep the new covenant of the Passover.
     
    Even though there is no other church on this earth which keeps the new covenant of the Passover according to all the regulations of the Passover, there is only one church which keeps the truth of the new covenant including the feet washing ceremony which Peter rejected to receive at first. This is the World Mission Society Church of God or WMSCOG, which was established by the Second Coming Christ Ahnsahnghong. He restored the new covenant of the Passover so that his people can remain in him and him in them. And he let us know the true reality of the new covenant, the Heavenly Jerusalem our Mother who is the true source of eternal life. Let us keep the new covenant of the Passover by obeying the words of God so that we may remain in God bearing many fruits. Amen

  • [WMSCOG] Sins Committed By God’s People

    The bible says that the wage of sins is death and everybody suffers the pain of death because everybody committed sins. And also even though they are sinners, Christ came down to this earth and shed his blood to give us the forgiveness of sins so that we can be freed from the sentence of death given to us as sinners. Therefore, not to commit a sin anymore we must understand what sins are and we must eradicate the source of sins from us so that we would not entangle into the same sins over again. Then first we must know what are considered as sins in the eyes of God. What are sins?

    Jeremiah 2:13   “My people have committed two sins:
    They have forsaken me,
    the spring of living water,
    and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

    God teaches us that two things are considered as sins by God: first, forsaking God, and second digging their own cisterns. Then what are the meanings of these verses? First, let us think about God’s rebuking for forsaking God, the spring of living water. What is the living water?

    Isaiah 12:2   Surely God is my salvation;
    I will trust and not be afraid.
    The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense;
    he has become my salvation.”
    3 With joy you will draw water
    from the wells of salvation.

    The living water means “the well of water” that gives salvation. So living water simply means salvation. Let us confirm this through the teaching of Jesus. Christ taught what the living water was to a Samaritan woman.

    John 4:10   Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”  13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

     

    The living water is the spring of water welling up to eternal life. Then who is the source of living water? It means, “Who is the source of eternal life?” It is only God who can give us eternal life. That is why in the Book of Jeremiah God the Father Jehovah said that he is the source of living water and in the Book of John Jesus said that he is the source of living water. It was because Jehovah and Jesus were the names of God given to God’s people in accordance with the plan of God for the salvation of his people. Therefore, the first sin of God’s people of forsaking the source of living water means that they forsook God who could give them eternal life and they depend on themselves or someone else for the salvation.

    sins of God's people seeking the way of salvation by themselves

    If we take a look at the time of Jeremiah, we can understand the situation a little bit better. In those days, God’s people did not obey the commands of God and they depended on different things for salvation both physically and spiritually. In the time of Jeremiah, God warned his people of coming disasters through Prophet Jeremiah so that they might repent of their sins and return to God for the salvation. When the Babylonians invaded the land of Judah and destroyed the city of Jerusalem, God taught them for the reasons of disasters and destruction that came to them.

    Jeremiah 16:10  “When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’ 11 then say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors forsook me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law. 12 But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me. 13 So I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

    The reason for the disaster was that they forsook their Savior who could give them salvation and they followed and worshiped different gods. Through this God is teaching us the greatest sin is forsaking the true Savior and following different gods who could not grant salvation. It was not just things that happened in the time of Jeremiah or the Old Testament, but the same thing happened in the time of Jesus and even in our time. Jesus who was the Savior in the Age of Son appeared to God’s people and gave them the new covenant through his flesh and blood that they might receive the salvation, the living water. He taught them, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day.”

    But after Jesus’ ascension and the death of his 12 disciples, his people started to forsake Jesus the true Savior and they followed different gods and laws. The law of Sabbath was changed into Sunday worship, the day for the sungod. And the new covenant of the Passover was changed into the Christmas, another day for the sungod worship. These pagan teachings exist even in our time under the excuse of worshiping the true God. But what does God say about those who follow different laws and different gods? God says that they are committing sins and they would not receive salvation because they forsook the source of living water, the true Savior.

    Then what is the second sin of God’s people? It is that they dug their own cistern which cannot hold water. What does this mean? Cistern is a place where you can store the water, in other words, the source of living water. But who prepared this cistern? God should be their cistern, but they prepared their own cistern. However what is the problem with this cistern? It is a broken cistern and cannot hold water. It means it cannot be the source of living water and it cannot give salvation. But instead of depending on God, God’s people they depend on their own ways and methods for the salvation. In the time of Jeremiah, God commanded King Zedekiah to surrender to the Babylonians and go to their land until the appointed time, and then God would bring them back from the Babylonian land to the land of Canaan back again and he would restore them to their own land. But King Zedekiah made an allegiance with the king of Egypt and tried to defeat the Babylonians. He tried to save himself and his country by his own method, disobeying the command of God.

    Jeremiah 36:6   Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet: 7 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt. 8 Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.’ 9 “This is what the Lord says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not! 10 Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down.”

    For the salvation they should have listen to the command of God, but Zedekiah disobeyed and finally he and his sons got captured. All his sons got killed in front of his own eyes and after that his own eyes were put out by the king of Babylon. Let us think about our time. Even though–as the bible says–there are Christians like sands on the seashore, how many of them truly depend on God for salvation? In the time of disasters, God already taught us that we must receive the seal of God through the Passover, and then we will be protected from all the disasters and receive salvation. This was already given through the Passover in the time of Moses as copy and shadow. On the night of the Passover, even though all the Egyptian firstborns got killed by the disaster, but all God’s people who kept the Passover could be protected from the disaster.
     

    Exodus 12:12   “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

    Just as the bible says, today we hear the news of impending disasters. There are climate change, natural disasters, wars, and plagues that can cause pandemic, and all these things can bring about total destruction for all the living things on this earth. To save themselves from these disasters people prepare their own methods such as underground cities, submarines, mountain city, space station or human colonies on moon or other planets. Rather than depending on the words of God for the salvation, they also try to dig their own cisterns which are broken and cannot hold water. Those who depend on themselves will not be able to save themselves.
     

    Amos 9:2 Though they dig down to the depths below,
    from there my hand will take them.
    Though they climb up to the heavens above,
    from there I will bring them down.
    3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
    there I will hunt them down and seize them.
    Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent to bite them.
    4 Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
    there I will command the sword to slay them.

    This prophecy was given to Prophet Amos who lived about 750 BC. Through this prophecy God already foretold what people would do to save themselves, but he also said all the man-made things would be useless in the time of disasters. And people would not be able to save themselves with their own method. We are now living in the time of fulfillment of all the prophecies of the bible. As people of God, we must return to God and obey his words for the salvation. In our time, Christ Ahnsahnghong came to us again for the second time and he restored all the truth of the new covenant so that we may receive salvation. Forsaking God and disobeying God’s commands are considered as sins and all the sinners would be put to death according to the words of God. Therefore, now for salvation, we must return to God Ahnsahnghong who is the true Savior in our time and obey his commands.

  • [WMSCOG] How To Be Born Again with Spirit

    Jesus said that those who can enter the kingdom of heaven are those who are born of the Spirit. What is the meaning of it and how can we born of the Spirit?

    John 3:5   Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

    “Unless” means there is no other way. Therefore, to enter into the kingdom of heaven we must be born of the water and the Spirit. Then how can we born of the Spirit? This can be found in the example shown by Jesus himself? Jesus taught that the true reality of the temple was his own body because God put the Spirit of God in the body of Christ. That is why Jesus said that his body was the temple of God.

    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?” 21But the temple he had spoken of was his body.

    The temple of God is the place where the Spirit of God dwells, so if the body of Christ was the reality of temple, when did God put his Spirit in the body of Christ? It was when Jesus got baptized that God put his Spirit in Jesus.

    Luke 3:21   When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove.

    Whatever was done by Jesus was done to give us an example so that we can follow: “I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.” (John 13:15) Jesus showed us the example of baptism to teach us that we can receive also the Spirit of God when we get baptized and through the Spirit we receive we can be born again as children of God.

    Romans 8:14   because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.

    Those who received the Spirit of God is testified as sons of God and they can inherit the kingdom of heaven as heirs of God. That is why the very first thing we must do to enter into the kingdom of heaven is to get baptized. We can witness through the book of Acts how people eagerly wanted to get baptized and they got baptized immediately after they realized that Jesus Christ is the Savior. Then what kind of God’s plan is hidden in the baptism? How can we receive the Spirit of God through the baptism? To understand this we must first take a look at the physical temple of God.
    The temple of God is a holy place and for the Spirit of God to dwell in the temple all the things in the temple must be purified with the sacrificial blood of animals. It is the same with out body of temple. According to the bible, human beings were once angels in heaven who were cast down from heaven to this earth because of their sins. And the sins make their body of temple impure and unclean. Then what is the way we can cleanse the body of temple? Through the example of baptism Jesus was teaching that our body of temple can be purified from sins through baptism.

    Acts 2:38   Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of you sins.”

    Baptism is the ceremony through which we can receive the forgiveness of sins and through the baptism of the forgiveness of sins our body of temple is cleansed and our body can become the holy vessel for the Spirit of God. Therefore, the forgiveness of sins is the most important condition to receive the Holy Spirit. We can confirm this through the Passover regulation. The Passover is the ceremony taught by Christ which can cleanse our body of temple of its impurities and uncleanness. 2000 years ago Jesus taught the disciples the true meaning of the Passover. On the night of the Passover, when they reclined at the table, he taught his disciples:

    Mt 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.” 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.

    Just as the physical temple could be purified of uncleanness through the blood of animals, Jesus teaches that the spiritual temple our body can also be purified through the blood of Christ who is the reality of a sacrificial lamb. On the night of the Passover, he gave his blood so that the body of temple of his people could be purified through his blood. When they kept the Passover and their body of temple was purified, then the Spirit of God could dwell in the spiritual temple, the body of disciples.

    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. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.

    By eating the flesh and blood of Christ through the Passover, our body of temple is purified and Jesus said that he would remain in us. What does it that he would remain in us? It means that he would dwell in us. Then how would Christ dwell in us? He would dwell in us by putting his Spirit in our body of temple. If we look at all the festivals of God, they were celebrated with the blood of animals such as bull, lamb, goat, birds. Through the blood of animals the temple of God could be consecrated and the Spirit of God could dwell in the temple. (Hebrews 9:22) Through this God was already teaching us how we would be able to consecrate our body of temple. Our body of temple can be purified with the blood of Christ. Then how can we receive the blood of Christ? Through the festivals of God. When we keep the festivals of God, our body of temple are cleansed of all our sins and impurities and finally God put his Spirit in us. And our body can be the holy temple of God where God dwells in Spirit.
    And those who receive the Spirit of God are called sons of God who can inherit the kingdom of heaven. Even though once all the festivals of God was taken away by the work of Satan, Christ Ahnsahnghong appeared a second time according to the prophecies of the bible and he restored all the festivals of God so that we can be purified to be the temple of God. God’s true blessings are given through the seven festivals of three times: Unleavened Bread, Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. Many people are keeping man’s traditions such as Christmas, Easter, or Thanksgiving. But nowhere in the bible says that we can receive the Spirit of God through these things. Rather the bible says we must come to our Mother Heavenly Jerusalem to keep the festivals of God to receive the Spirit of God.

    Zechariah 14:16   Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 17 If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. 18 If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.

    Only those who go up to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles will be able to receive the rain. Then what is the rain they would receive? In the Book of Joel Prophet Joel says the rain is the Spirit of God whom God’s people would receive in the last days. (Joel 2:23, 28) Therefore, the only way for us to receive the Spirit of God is through the festivals of God. Through the festivals of God we can receive the blood of Christ which cleanses our body of temple from all the impurities and we can become a holy temple of God where God’s Spirit can dwell. And those who received God’s Spirit are called children of God who can inherit the kingdom of Heaven. Jesus said, “Unless you were born of the Spirit, you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Therefore, only those who come to Our Mother Heavenly Jerusalem to keep the festivals of God, can be purified with the living water and receive the Spirit of God. Let us come to Jerusalem our Mother!

  • [WMSCOG] Diaspora of Jews and Restoration

    “Diaspora” means “dispersion” or “scattering” of Jews outside the land of Israel. Throughout the Jewish history Jews got invaded and lost its nations and they became scattered all throughout the world many times. It happened during the Babylonian Captivity which happened around 600 BC and also it happened again by the Roman Empire when it captured Jerusalem and all the Jews got scattered around A.D. 70. All these dispersion or Diaspora happened to fulfill the prophecy of the bible. Again and again God warned his people that he would destroy them and scatter them because they did not listen to the laws of God.

    Deuteronomy 29:25   And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. 26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. 27 Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book. 28 In furious anger and in great wrath the Lord uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

    In the time of Jeremiah, this words of God was fulfilled by the Babylonian Captivity. God warned his people to keep the covenant of God and not to worship the idols, but God’s people did not listen to the messages of God sent by Prophet Jeremiah. So they fell into the Babylonian Captivity and sent into Diaspora, living in the land of Babylon for 70 years as slaves to them.

    Jeremiah 16:12   But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me. 13 So I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

    Diaspora can be used to describe the spiritual condition of God’s people. Just as the physical Jews got scattered because of their sins and wickedness, the spiritual Jews, the true people of God got dispersed from heaven to this earth because of their sins in heaven. The bible testifies that we were once beautiful angels or the sons of God, but because of our rebellion against God we were cast down to this earth, the land of slavery of sin and death. Through the Diaspora of Jews, actually God was teaching the story of heaven. God’s people got separated from each other and scattered among the nations of this earth. Even though they were once glorious angels, they now lost the memory of the heaven and are living on this foreign land, going through many pains and suffering without knowing their origin.

     

    In Korea there are stories of family reunion. Recently there was a movie describing the life of the generation who went through the cataclysmic times in the modern Korean history: the Korean War, the reconstruction period after the war, and the Vietnam war. The movie Gukjesijang or International Market illustrated the life of Koreans who lived through the painful times in the Korean history. It is a story of man who lost his father and sister while they are travelling to south to escape the Korean War in 1950. Finally, he arrived at Busan and started his new life in Gukjesijang, a famous market place in Busan as a teenage boy. To feed himself and his family he volunteered to go to Germany as coal miner and met his wife who was working as nurse there. He became crippled during the Vietnam war.

    This is not just a story of Deoksoo Yoon who was the main character of the story; rather it was a story of all the Koreans living through the turbulent time. More than 25 % of Koreans were living the life of a diaspora like him, separated from his family members. Their life was harsh and difficult, and they had to put their lives in danger many times to feed the remaining family. Finally, at the end of the movie, we can meet a scene which is working as moment of “catharsis” through which all the pain and suffering built up throughout the movie can find its vent to produce a emotional purification with a lot of tears and joy. This was the moment of climax of the movie: the family reunion. This was what actually happened in Korea.

     

    To commemorate the 30th year of the Korean War, KBS, a broadcasting company in Korea prepared a program for the scattered family members: “Finding Family Scattered.” They planned this program for the families who lost their family members during the war. This program was a great hit and so many people came to KBS to tell their story through the program that the company had to extend the five-day program into 4 month project for about 138 days. The number of families who could find their lost family members were 10198 families. For 138 days all the Koreans had one mind with the families who were telling their stories: where they lived, who they lost, how they looked like, what their name were, all the information they could remember of their lost family. Family after family told their stories, and when there came a phone call to the studio from a would-be lost family member or his relative, all the people in Korea waited silently to see the result. Through the phone call they checked every bit of information they could remember even about small scar or mole they had on them and if they turned out to be the family, they wept and called each other’s names loudly. All the things happening in the studio was directly sent to all the people who were watching the program. When a family got united and wept out of joy, all the Koreans wept too. This was truly a great moment of reunion after a diaspora.

     
    This would be also true with the spiritual Jews who are in Diaspora all throughout the world. Over and over again God said that he would bring them back to their land again. Even though once they got scattered because of their wickedness, God also had compassion on them and let them come back to their own land.
     

    Jeremiah 12:14   14 This is what the Lord says: “As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the people of Judah from among them. 15 But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country.

    After 70 years of the Babylonian slavery, God’s people were restored back to their own land again. Also in the time of Vespasian, a Roman Emperor, the city of Jerusalem was destroyed and God’s people got scattered all throughout the world, but they got restored back again after World War II. Through this history of the physical Jews, God is actually teaching a lesson for the spiritual Jews, the true God’s people who were scattered because of their wickedness and sins and will be restored back again to their original land, that is, the kingdom of heaven.
     

    Ezekiel 34:11   11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. 12 As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. 13 I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land. 

    This is a prophecy of the last days, the day of clouds and darkness and God will gather them back to the promised land even though they got scattered among the nations. In the last days, God himself would come as shepherd and gather all his flock together and bring them back to the land of Canaan, the promised land. This would be a glorious moment for God’s people who will inherit the kingdom of heaven. At this time of Restoration, God will check his people of all the information to find out if they are truly his people just as Koreans asked their age, hometown, family members, their appearance, the words they used to say, the surroundings of their town. All the information they could remember were used to find out if the person is truly the one who he is looking for. Likewise, God will check all the characteristics of his people to find out if they are truly the ones who belongs to heaven.
     
    If they turn out to be his lost ones, they would be gathered back again to the promised land, their original hometown. This completion of restoration is the end of God’s work on this earth. According to the prophecy to complete the restoration and to gather all his people God himself will come in the last days. Finally, this prophecy was fulfilled by God Ahnsahnghong the true Shepherd coming down to this earth where his people got scattered and gathering them together to Zion, the City of David. And our Mother the New Jerusalem came down to this earth to lead us to the promised land, the Kingdom of Heaven.
     

    Jeremiah 50:4   4 “In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
    “the people of Israel and the people of Judah together
    will go in tears to seek the Lord their God.
    5 They will ask the way to Zion    and turn their faces toward it.
    They will come and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant
    that will not be forgotten.

    According to the bible, God’s people who were in Diaspora would gather together to Zion in the last days. Now Father and Mother are calling their children to come back to Zion. We must listen to the voice of God and with the tears of repentance and tears of joy let us return to God in Zion and keep the new covenant with God.

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  • [WMSCOG] Born Again Into A New Life

    Many of the Christians say that they are a born-again Christians. Whether they know the meaning of it or not, Christians knows that they must be born again to go to the kingdom of heaven. That is why Christians call themselves as a born-again Christian. Then what is the meaning of “Born-Again”? In the time of Jesus, there was a man who wanted to know how to be born again and he asked Jesus how he could be born again.

    John 3:3   3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” 4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!” 5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

    Nicodemus could not understand what Jesus was teaching about the rebirth, and also he truly wanted to know how to be born again so that he can also receive salvation. Jesus felt compassion for this man and taught him that he must be born with water and the Spirit to be born again. This is also the same in our age. Many says that he or she is a born-again Christians, but actually they do not know what it means. Neither do they have the humble mind of Nicodemus who truly wanted to know the way of being born again. People believe what they want to believe and say that they are born again. Whatever people might say about themselves, it is God who will make a judgment to decide whether a person is truly born again or not. That is why we must have the humble mind like Nicodemus and ask God how to be born again.
     
    The bible testifies that there are two different lives in human beings.
     
    1 Corinthians 15:44  It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body….48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
    We know we could be born on this earth into the natural body through our natural parents. We are aware of our physical body every moment of our life and we check our physical body if it is in good or poor condition, if there is anything lacking or full, etc…But since we do not see the spiritual body, we do not take much care of the spiritual body. Even many times we live without realizing the existence and the importance of it. While we provide good things such as food, water, exercise for our physical body, we do not know what to do to provide the spiritual body. But the bible says that we also have the spiritual body.
     
    Therefore, we can conclude that “to be born again” means to be born into the spiritual body so that we can enter into the eternal kingdom of heaven. Apostle Paul teaches when we will receive the spiritual body.
     
    1 Corinthians 15:51  51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
    At this time of transfiguration, our physical body will be changed into the spiritual body and we will enter into the kingdom of heaven.
     
    Phil 3:20   20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
    The citizens of the heaven are those who would be able to receive this glorious body or the spiritual body. The perishable cannot inherit the imperishable; thus, with this perishable body we cannot enter into the imperishable world. To enter the spiritual world, our lowly body should be changed into the glorious body like Jesus and then we can enter into the kingdom of heaven. Then now the question is how we can receive the glorious body at the last moment. Many says, “I am born again,” but at the last moment in the time of transfiguration if nothing happens in their body, people will have a time of rude awakening, but there will be no chance for them any more at that moment. That is why we must know and make sure if we are truly born again or not when we still have time.
     
    To make sure if we were truly born again or not, let us take a look at the teachings of Jesus Christ about the characteristics of the person who could be born again. Jesus said a person must be born of water and the Spirit. “Born of water” means to be baptized in the name of the Savior to receive the forgiveness of sins. Then what does “born of the Spirit” mean? When we receive the forgiveness of sins through baptism, our body of temple is cleansed and God pours his Holy Spirit in us and in this way we can be born again. Therefore, to be born again we must know the true Savior and receive the baptism in the name of the true Savior. In the age of Father it was Jehovah who could give salvation to his people, but in the time of Son now it was in the name of Jesus that they could receive salvation. Then what about us? Jesus said that we must also know the name of Savior in the last days.
     

    Christ gave us an example to teach us how to be born again with water and spirit. He got baptized with water and anointed with the Holy Spirit after baptism.

     
    Matthew 28:19   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.
    Jesus taught that people who are living in the last days must be baptized in the name of the Holy Spirit. About this name of the Holy Spirit, Jesus also said:
     
    Revelation 3:12  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.
    Jesus who is speaking as the Spirit prophesied that he would bring his new name in the last days. Therefore, in the last days, people must know the new name of Christ to be born again so that they can enter into the eternal kingdom of heaven.
     
    Just as physically to be born on this earth we must have physical parents; in the same way to be born spiritually at least we must know our spiritual Father and spiritual Mother who can give us our spiritual body. That spiritual Father who can give us the new life is coming with a new name in the last days. This prophecy was fulfilled by Christ Ahnsahnghong by coming with a new name. He appeared for the second time as the Savior in the age of the Holy Spirit and let us know the name of Savior so that we can know who our Father and Mother are who can give us a new birth into the spiritual body. Let us accept our spiritual parents and be born again. Then we can truly say that we are born-again Christians. How can you say you could be born again without know your parents?

  • [WMSCOG] Noah’s Ark And Zion

    God already planned his salvation work from the beginning and let his plan known through the bible so that people can follow his plan to receive salvation. One of the teachings God gave us to reveal the last days is through the histories of the past. Specifically, one historical event is very important to know the salvation work of God. Jesus compares the last days to the time of Noah:

    Noah’s Ark from The Walters Art Museum

    Matthew 24:36  36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

    In the time of Noah people became wicked and all the thoughts in man’s mind were evil. Because of their wickedness God punished them with flood destroying all the living things on the earth except for Noah and his family including all the animals in the ark built by Noah. Noah could be saved because he was considered as righteous and blameless among the wicked people of the world of his time. Then what is the relationship between the time of Noah and the last days? What did Jesus want to teach us?

    This story contains several messages from God. First, Noah’s time was the time of disasters destroying all the living things of the earth. Second, even though all the people and animals of the earth perished because of the punishment of God, Noah and all the people and living things in the ark could be saved by the grace of God. Then what is the meaning of this story and how is it related to the last days? According to the bible there would be disasters destroying all the living things on this earth with fire.

    2 Peter 3:5  But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed….But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. 11 Sinceeverything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? ……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.

    Apostle Peter is also comparing the time of Noah with the last days. In Noah’s time all the things was destroyed by water, but in the last days, all the things will be destroyed by fire. But just as all the living things in the ark could be saved by the grace of God, there would be those who would receive salvation from the disasters in the last days too. Peter describes them as the ones who will enter into the new heaven and the new earth, in other words, the kingdom of heaven. Then who are those who will enter into the kingdom of heaven. For the protection from the disasters, God commanded Noah to build an ark of huge size and God gathered Noah and his family and all the animals living on this earth.
     
    In the same way, to give protection from the disasters in the last days, God prepared a spiritual ark where God’s people would be able to receive protection from the disasters. Then what is the spiritual ark God prepared in the last days?
     

    Jeremiah 4:5   “Announce in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say: ‘Sound the trumpet throughout the land!’ Cry aloud and say: ‘Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities!’ 6 Raise the signal to go to Zion! Flee for safety without delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, even terrible destruction.”

    The spiritual ark of God is Zion which God established to give protection from the disasters. In the time of Noah all the animals of the earth gathered in the ark. Then what does the animals represent? Peter saw in his vision a sheet coming down from heaven containing all the unclean animals. And a voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat the animals. What is the meaning of the vision and who do the animals represent?
     

    Acts 11:7   7 Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’ 8 “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ 9 “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ 10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again…..18 When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

    Then what are the impure and unclean animals purified by God’s words? There were the Gentiles who were considered impure and unclean once, but who could be purified and cleansed with the words of God. So the animals actually represents peoples of the world who could receive salvation. Then through this we can see all God’s people who are chosen by God to be saved must gather together in Zion, the spiritual ark in the last days. We can confirm this through the book of Revelation. John describes God’s people who are considered as righteous and blameless by God gather together in Zion in the last days.
     

    Revelation 14:1   14 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. ….. 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

    In the last days the ark of God is Zion and all the people who have the name of God are standing on Mount Zion. Then who would have the name of God on their forehead? They are those who belongs to God and that is why God is writing his name on them to show that they belong to God. According to the bible the reason they could be chosen is because they did not defile themselves and they are considered as blameless and righteous. 2000 years ago, Jesus was teaching God’s people about the way of salvation. The disaster will come just as God has already planned, but in the plan of God there is a secret place he has prepared for his people, Zion. Let us gather together in Zion. Even though Zion was once in ruin because of the work of Satan, but Christ Ahnsahnghong established Zion for the second time as spiritual King David as dwelling place for him and his people.
     
    Flee to Zion! Do not delay! Let us listen to the voice of God and obey his commands.
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