Zion is the dwelling of God, which means God is in Zion. Therefore, to meet God we must come to Zion.
Pslam 132:13 For the Lord has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling, saying, 14 “This is my resting place for ever and ever; here I will sit enthroned, for I have desired it.
Since God is in Zion, we can find God in Zion, who can forgive our sins. We can be set free from sins and death in Zion. And we can receive salvation of God in Zion.
Isaiah 33:20 Look on Zion, the city of our festivals…..21 There the Lord will be our Mighty One…….22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; it is he who will save us….. 24 No one living in Zion will say, “I am ill”; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.
As true and righteous judge, God in Zion gives us forgiveness and salvation. Just like a judge in the world makes a judgment on the basis of a law, God as judge in Zion makes a judgment based on the law of God. Then what is the law in Zion that gives us forgiveness and salvation. What is the law that justifies us that we are not a sinner any more. We must be under that law to receive salvation.
According to the bible, there are two different laws of God. The first law or the old covenant was the law God gave to the Israelites when he led them out of Egypt, the land of slavery. With the old covenant (the Law of Moses) God gave them freedom for the slavery and led them to the Promised Land of Canaan. The Law of Moses or the old covenant was declared to the Israelites on Mountain Sinai among thunders and lightnings. The Jews kept the old covenant for the blessings of forgiveness.
However, in the time of the new covenant, the law of the new covenant or the Law of Christ is coming from Mt. Zion to the holy people of God to give them forgiveness and salvation. Christ established the new covenant for us, all the people of God. (Luke 22:19) Through the new covenant, we can be set free from the slavery of sins and death. And the Christ is leading us to the spiritual Canaan, that is, heaven.
Jeremiah 31:31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah……..“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……“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
God declared that he would establish the new covenant. Unlike the old covenant which was written in the tablets of stone and could be broken when Moses threw them down the mountain, the new covenant would be written in the tablets of our heart and can never be broken or taken away. Through this new covenant, we can be the people of God and God gives us forgiveness of sins.
Therefore, as people of God, we must keep the new covenant. 2000 years ago, Jesus established the law of the new covenant through his sacrifice on the cross. He established the Sabbath of the new covenant and the Passover of the new covenant. When we keep the laws of the new covenant in Zion, we can be under the love and grace of God and receive abundant blessings from God.
2000 years ago, Jesus taught that we must worship God in spirit and in truth. Then how can we worship God in spirit and in truth?
John 4:19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
Today many so-called Christians say that the Sabbath was abolished and we don’t have to keep the Sabbath Day as the day of worship. However, Jesus gave us an example of keeping the Sabbath Day. It is true that we must not keep the Sabbath day according to the Law of Moses by sacrificing animals. But still we should keep the Sabbath according to the Law of Christ by worshiping God in the Spirit and in truth just as Jesus taught. Then how can we worship God in the Spirit and in truth? Apostle Paul and Peter teaches us about the spiritual act of worship that we have to practice.
Paul says:
Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Paul teaches that we must offer our bodies as a living sacrifice instead of an animal sacrifice. And he says that this is the spiritual act of worship, or the worship of God in the Spirit and in truth.
Also Peter says:
1 Peter 2:5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Apostle Peter also teaches that we must offer spiritual sacrifice, which is the true act of worship acceptable to God. We can worship God in spirit and in truth when we offer spiritual sacrifices to God by offering our bodies as a living sacrifice. Then how can we offer our bodies to God? What is the meaning behind it?
Romans 6:13 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
Romans 6:16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 6:19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
In these teachings Paul teaches that we offer our body to God for the righteousness. This is worshiping God in spirit and in truth. Once we offered our body for the sinful things and as a result we were under the slavery of sin and death. Now since we are freed from the slavery of sins and death through the blood of the Christ, we must make efforts to walk in the righteous path by listening and obeying to the words of God. When we obey to the words of God, God is creating us to be holy like himself.
Even though there was a very disobedient son, he would listen to the last words of his dying parents and try to accomplish them. Also, even though there was a person who was seldom listened to while he was living, people would pay attention to his last words. The last words left by a person are considered as something important or even sacred that we should listen to even though the person who are giving those words might be a complete stranger to us. And the bible says that we also might have been a very disobedient son to our spiritual parents, but we must listen to the will or the last words of our spiritual parents to fulfill them.
Then what is the will of God that we must listen to?
Hebrews 9:16 In the case of a will (or a covenant), it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, 17 because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.
The Old Covenant and the New Covenant
Old Covenant Made with the Blood of a Lamb
Here Paul explains about the meaning of a will and shows that it takes effect after the death of the testator. Another word for “will” is a testament and thus the bible itself can be considered as a will since it is called a testament, an Old Testament and New Testament whose testator is God himself. Just as Paul explains, a will or testament can take effect only when the testator died. In the same way, God gave his will with his blood or death to enforce the terms of his will.
Hebrews 9:18 This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
God proclaimed his will or the covenant for his people to bless them and give them the Promised Land as inheritance. And to make his will set in force the one who made the will or the covenant, that is, God himself must die and to symbolize his death he ordered his people to shed the blood of animals, especially a lamb calling the blood as his own blood to represent his own sacrifice and death.
Even today the Jews keep the Passover with the sacrifice of a lamb to keep the covenant God gave them through Moses.
Exodus 34:25 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.
To the blood of the Passover lamb, God said that it is not just the blood of a lamb, but his own blood he shed to put into effect his will or the covenant he made with his people so that they could receive the full blessings promised in the covenant. Therefore, we can say that the bible is a promissory note God wrote with his own blood and everything in it would take effect according to the terms recorded in it to his people who receives this promise. The Old Testament was the will given to the physical Israelites with the blood of animals to make it effective. But this will was not the reality, but a shadow to teach the reality, that is, the New Testament or the new covenant which would be established with his own blood, not through the blood of animals.
New Covenant Made with the Blood of Christ, the Lamb of God
Relation Between the New Covenant and Old Covenant
Hebrews 10:1 The law (or the old covenant) is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves.
And also it is written:
Colossians 2:16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
The old covenant which was made with the blood of animals was only a shadow given to us to teach us the reality, that is, the new covenant which would be put into full effect through the death of Christ by shedding his own blood. The blood of the lamb in the past was given until the time when the Christ who is the reality of the lamb would appear and make a covenant with his people through his own blood. Therefore, the Old Testament was given as shadow to lead us to Christ who would come and give us a New Testament or the new will to give us the true blessings of the forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
Since the bible itself is the will of God, how much more we should listen to the words of God in the bible. Even when a man makes a will, people listens to it. Then how about the will of God? We must listen to his will and make every effort to make his will come true. That is the way we can also remain in the terms of the covenant to receive the blessings contained in the terms.
What is the New Covenant by Jesus?
Then what is the will of God that we should listen to and keep? As we have already seen above, another word which can represent “the will” is the covenant. The covenant and the will means the same in this context. The original Greek word for “will” in Hebrews 9:16 is “διαθήκη diathēkē,” which means covenant or will (or testament). Therefore, by looking at the covenant Jesus made we can know the will of God, his last wish that we must listen to and obey. Then what was the covenant he made with his own blood?
On the night of the Passover he made a covenant with his disciples and gave his words of promise so that they could receive blessings of the eternal inheritance in heaven. And to make his covenant or will come true, he sacrificed himself by his death on the cross.
Luke 22:15 And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
And also he says about the Passover they were eating on the night:
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.
Jesus came as Lamb of God and sacrificed himself by shedding his own blood and gave us the new covenant or will that we have to keep.
Passover, the Will of God
Therefore, the covenant or the will Jesus made with his people was the new covenant of the Passover. After making his will, he died on the cross to put his will in force so that his people who kept the terms of the will would receive blessings promised in the terms. That is why Paul says that Christ was sacrificed as the Passover lamb to fulfill the covenant promised in the Passover.
1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Through all these things we can confirm that the will Jesus made with his people 2000 years ago is the words he promised in the Passover. The Passover was the last will of God he wanted us to keep so that we can be blessed by him. Let us confirm that the new covenant of the Passover was the will of God and through the Passover God’s people can receive the eternal inheritance of the heaven as heir of God.
The will is given to an heir in this world and the heir can inherit the estate in accordance with the terms of the will of the testator. It is the same with the will given by Jesus and confirmed through his death on the cross. His people were cast out from heaven to this earth because of their sins and were destined to die because of the wages of the sins. Their inheritance in heaven was taken away including all the positions given to them as heirs of God and the eternal life they could enjoy in heaven. On this earth, they were living a life of pain and sufferings and they were under the agony of death until the sentence would be carried out. And in this miserable life they had no hope for the eternal life.
The Last Wish of God, Keeping the New Covenant
To this gloomy and dark world, Christ came and he took up all our sins. And through his death on the cross he cancelled all our sins and gave us the forgiveness of sins and freedom from the slavery of death granting us eternal life through the new covenant of the Passover. And he opened the way for the heavenly kingdom again so that we could go back to our eternal inheritance as heir of God. All these blessings are promised in the new covenant of the Passover. Therefore, we can conclude that the new covenant of the Passover is the true will of God that we must keep. We must listen to his earnest voice for our salvation.
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Again and again he is teaching us to keep the new covenant of the Passover and after giving us these words of covenant, he died on the cross right the day after the Passover to put the words of promise in effect. Therefore, the most precious truth that we must keep is the new covenant of the Passover.
Jesus and His Disciples Keeping Passover
Restoration of the New Covenant
Even though Jesus gave his will through his death, the will of God was forgotten by his people by the deceptive works of Satan. Instead of keeping the Passover, Satan deceived people to follow the Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and all other man-made festivals which contain no promise of God for the blessings. What blessings can we find in Christmas? Is there any promise of the forgiveness of sins or eternal life? No. But people’s eyes and minds are covered up and they do not realize that they are nothing but useless things made by man.
Now God is teaching us again to open our spiritual eyes and know the truth of the new covenant. To this dark and gloomy world, Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother came to us and now they are teaching us to listen to the terms of the covenant of God so that we can be blessed by God. Even at this moment they are shedding their own blood again to give us the forgiveness of sins and calling us to come back to God leaving the way of sins behind. Now we must gather again on Mount Zion and renew our covenant with God by keeping the new covenant of the Passover which God made with his own blood.
Psalm 50:1 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.”
Keep the New Covenant
Those who want to be under the terms of covenant of God must gather together in Zion, the city of God’s festivals and must keep the festivals of God. This is the time of harvest when all the good seeds are gathered together into the heavenly barn. Only those who made covenant with God through the blood of Christ in the Passover can be considered as sons of heaven and they can go back to heaven. Come to Zion, to World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG), to the Heavenly Jerusalem, to the City of Living God, to the firstborns of the heaven, to the place where God Elohim grants eternal life to their children.
According to the bible the laws of God comes from two different places. First, there is Mt. Sinai where the law of Moses came from for the physical Israelites.
Nehemiah 9:13 “You came down on Mount Sinai; you spoke to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and laws that are just and right, and decrees and commands that are good. 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.
God proclaimed the Old Covenant from Mt. Sinai. Then what is the law which would be given from Mt. Zion? Is it a physical mountain in Jerusalem? Or does it have some spiritual meaning?
This was the law given to the Israel people from Mt. Sinai when they were coming out of Egypt after freed from 430 years of slavery. But according to the bible there is another law that is coming out of Mt. Zion. What is this law from Zion? What is Zion? Does it represent the city of Jerusalem where the city of David was built by King David? Or Does it have some figurative representation? All these questions are very important because all the law coming from Mt. Zion is a prophecy concerning the last days and the people who are living in our time must know the law from Zion for the salvation.
Micah 4:1 In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. 2 Many nations will come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
This is a prophecy concerning the last days and God is teaching his people directly on this mountain Zion. Then what is the teaching of God? In another version of the bible it says directly like this, “Then God will teach us his way of living. And we will follow him.” (ERV) The teaching coming from Mt. Zion is the law that gives us “living” or eternal life. That is why people who are living in the last days must go to Mt. Zion and they must learn the way of living directly from God there. Then what is Mt. Zion? Is it Jerusalem in Palestine and should we go to Jerusalem to learn the way of living? The bible says that it is not a physical Zion we should go to, but a spiritual Zion.
Hebrews 12:18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched ……22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven.
Paul teaches us that Zion is not a physical place, but a spiritual one: assembly of God’s people, or the church of God’s firstborns who will inherit the kingdom of heaven. Then what is the spiritual Zion where God’s people gather together and they can learn the way of living from God?
Isaiah 33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals….
The laws of God coming from Zion are the festivals of God such as Sabbath, Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, etc… They gather together on Mt. Zion and keep the festivals of God (the seven festivals in three times) according to the new covenant which was established by Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. Through the festivals God is teaching them the way of living: the forgiveness of sins and eternal life through the Passover, eternal rest in heaven through the Sabbath, the gift of the Holy Spirit through the Pentecost…
It is only World Mission Society Church of God (or WMSCOG) where God’s people gather together and keep all the festivals of God according to the direct teaching of God, Christ Ahsahnghong and Heavenly Mother. World Mission Society Church of God is the city of the living God and joyful assembly of angels and God’s firstborn. Come to Zion and learn the way of living and follow the teaching of God!
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