What kind of warfare does the New Testament refer to? The battle prophesied in the NT is not a physical battle. It is a spiritual battle. Who fights against whom? It is a battle between God the creator and the devil the created being. It is a battle between God’s chosen people, the tabernacle of Jerusalem, and the gentile Babylon (Rv 13; Rv 12). It is also a battle between God’s chosen people, the Spiritual Israelites, and the group of the spiritual Babylon (false pastors).
In Rv 13, the beast of the dragon, the seven heads and ten horns (false pastors) waged war against the saints in the tabernacle of heaven. The beast prevailed over them and gave his mark on the foreheads and the hands of the saints in the tabernacle. Not only did the saints receive the mark, but they also worshiped the beast. Consequently, they became the people of the kingdom of the beast. In short, the chosen people of God betrayed God and worshiped the gentile god, the dragon of Babylon, instead. The pastors of the tabernacle (seven stars) were defeated, and they left the tabernacle and split into seven directions (Dt 28:25).
At a time like this, a male child born from a woman clothed in the sun in Rv 12 and his brothers witnessed the events of Rv 13. They shot the arrow (figuratively referring to the bloodshed word of testimony) and destroyed the group of the dragon, the beast with seven heads and ten horns. The male child and his brothers drove them out into seven directions. Therefore, the beast lost in the battle, and the victory went into the male child and his brothers. Hallelujah! They are the victors in the NT. As a result of their victory, New Spiritual Israel was able to be created (Rv 12:10-11).
God has granted all the blessings promised in Rv 2 and Rv 3 to the one who overcomes. The one who overcomes carries out the work of harvesting promised in Mt 13 and Rv 14 in the NT. He also carries out the work of sealing according to Rv 7, and in doing so, the 12 tribes were established. This is how God has fulfilled his word of promise, the NT. These 12 tribes are God’s new creatures created according to the scenarios of the sealed scroll in Rv 5. They are new Israelites and Shincheonji—the new heaven and new earth, the new kingdom of God's chosen people (Rv 21:1).
The Bible speaks about battles throughout the history: the battle between the worlds of Noah and Adam (the floods), the battle between Moses' world of Israel and Noah's world of Canaan, the battle between the first coming Jesus and the Physical Israelites, and the battle today between Shincheonji, the new heaven and new earth, and the Spiritual Israelites that have become spiritual Babylon. The spiritual Israelites, which have turned into spiritual Babylon, are those who received the mark from the group of the dragon, the beast with seven heads and ten horns, and who worshiped them and united with them as one.
There was a need for God to call a new era due to the corruption of one generation. The new era God opened after having cleared up the previous corrupt era is Shincheonji. God brought to an end the corrupt sun, moon, and stars (God's chosen people) in Rv 6, and he established a new era in Rv 7. The tabernacle in Rv 6 and Rv 13 was the figurative heaven where the sun, moon, and stars from the previous heaven used to dwell. Its people are referred to as the earth, the people who returned to mere soil. They are, in fact, the first heaven and first earth in Rv 21. Rv 7 and Rv 14, in contrast, make references to the new heaven (the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Rv 15:5) and new earth (those who are sealed in Rv 7) that are re-created after the end of the previous heaven. This was the prophecy and scenarios recorded in the sealed scroll, and it was God's will and the promise in the NT.
The warfare in the NT is a religious and a doctrinal battle (Rv 12). The pastors who testified about the battle in the NT being a worldly war are false pastors. They are the ones who sowed the seed of weeds, and the weeds are the children of the devil (Mt 13:38-39). Whoever associates with the devil, receives his seed and gives sermons with it feeds people with the wine of adulteries (Rv 17). False pastors have done their trade with the wine of adulteries, which is the seed of Babylon, the kingdom of demons. They have also caused all nations to collapse (Rv 18). To whom, then, do all nations belong? Who is control over them? All nations have become the world of the devil.
The dragon and his group were defeated by the male child and his brothers in Rv 12. Now they are making an attempt to wage war against Shincheonji by mobilizing the kings of all nations and the spirits of demons, according to Rv 16. At a time like this, the location where all the demons of the earth are gathered is the place where Rv 16 takes place. As a matter of fact, this place becomes the worst battlefield.
The actions of the people in the very country where these demons are mobilized are identical to the actions of the demons. The male child and his brothers, however, fought against and overcame the dragon and his group. Who, then, could dare to fight against them?
The devil is seized at that time. False prophets are also captured, and the dragon is locked up. The Sabbath-rest and peace can finally be launched. The first resurrection, the unity between spirits and flesh, can take place. The warfare between God and Satan for the last 6,000 years comes to an end. The world of peace can be accomplished here on earth today. Now God reigns over the whole world. If there is no one who overcomes both in the spiritual and physical worlds today, this world will be eternally the world of the devil. God will be unable to reign over the world. Today, however, the NT has been fulfilled, and the overcomer has appeared and has carried out his work both in the spiritual and the physical worlds. Through the appearance of the overcomer in both worlds, everyone in this world receive an opportunity of salvation. God can also retrieve what he lost, and he can establish his eternal kingdom. The world can be a place where God reigns.
Amen! Hallelujah!
Shincheonji: Healing All Nations
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