Shinceonji - Warfare in the New Testament

Main reference: Mt 24, all the chapters of Revelation

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!




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[Shincheonji Revelation] Regarding the seven churches (Rv 1:4)

Regarding the seven churches (Rv 1:4)
Korean commentaries on Revelation

Author	Author’s opinion	Page #
Jae Joon Kim	The seven churches represent all the churches of the world in every generation.	96
Eung Jo Kim	The seven churches were literally seven churches in Asia Minor. Figuratively,they represent all the churches from the time of the prophecy to the time of the second coming.	667
Yong Gi Cho	Revelation is a prophecy that divides church history into seven parts.	37
Soo Ahm Park	The word is given to all the churches of the world from the time of the first coming to the time of the second coming.	48
Sang Guen Lee	The revelation is sent to all the churches of the world through the seven churches at that time.	64
Won Tae Suk	The seven churches refer to all churches in all generations.	81
Yoon Sun Park	The seven churches represent all the churches in the time of the NT.	69, 73, 76, 79, 95, 97, 100

Non-Korean commentaries on Revelation

Author	Author’s opinion	Page #
Dake	The seven churches refer to all churches until the rapture.	643
Johnson	The seven churches represent all churches in all generations.	341
Biederwolf	The seven churches figuratively refer to the history of the church from the time of Apostle John until the second coming.	324-325
Hendricksen	They represent all churches at that time.	58
Lenski	The seven churches are symbolic archetypes of churches in every generation.	72
Wolvrood	The seven churches were locatd in the western half of Asia Minor.	37
Ladd	Seven was one of John’s favorite numbers, and it seems to symbolize completeness. John chose these seven churches with which he was well acquainted as representative of all churches.	24

The correct testimony
The seven churches mentioned in Rv 1:4 are the same seven churches mentioned in Rv 2-3. Apostle John summarized the entire book of Revelation in Rv 1:1-8 after he saw and heard all its events. This summary is key to understanding Revelation. Apostle John did not send his letters to the seven churches before he was taken to the Island of Patmos. He was in the spirit on the Island of Patmos when the Lord commanded him in a vision to send the letters. John sent those letters in a vision. Since they were sent in vision, no one in reality actually received John’s letters. No one who sends someone a letter in a dream could possibly expect that person to receive anything in reality.Today, as the prophecies of Revelation have been and are being fulfilled, Jesus has sent the letters through his promised pastor who overcomes. The letters were seven letters sent to seven messengers. They were not sent to the all pastors of the world or to all the world’s churches.The seven letters Apostle John sent in his vision are letters that had to be sent in the future. The letters are a prophecy. When the prophecy is fulfilled, real letters are sent in the physical world, not in a dream or vision. These letters are sent in the end times by the one who overcomes to the seven messengers (seven churches) at the one tabernacle (i.e. the church of the seven golden lampstands), which was invaded by the Nicolaitans (Rv 2-3).This is the testimony of the one who saw and heard everything and who sent the letters according to Jesus’ command. This is the true testimony.


References:Korean commentaries

Author	Title	Date	Publisher
Jae Joon Kim	Revelation	1969	Christian Literature Society of Korea
Eung Jo Kim	Commentary on the Bible	1981	Sung Chung Publishing
Yong Gi Cho	Commentary on Revelation	1976	Youngsan Publishing
Soo Ahm Park	Revelation	1991	Christian Literature Society of Korea
Sang Keun Lee	Revelation	1968	Sung Deung Publishing
Won Tae Suk	Commentary on Revelation	1984	Kyung Hayng Publishing
Yoon Sun Park	Commentary on Revelation	1964	Yungeumsa

Non-Korean commentaries

Author	Title	Date	Publisher
F. J. Dake	Revelation expounded: Eternal mysteries simplified (Korean translation)	1980	Sung Won Publishing
Alan F. Johnson	The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Revelation (Korean translation)	1990	Jihae Christian Publishing
W. E. Biederwolf	The Second Coming Bible (Korean translation)	1989	Jang Ahn Publishing
William Hendriksen	More Than Conquerors: An Interpretation of the Book of Revelation (Korean translation)	1989	Agape Publishing
R. C. H. Lenski	The Interpretation of St. John’s Revelation (Korean translation)	1981	Baekhap publishing
John F. Walvoord	The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Korean translation)	1991	Voice Publishing
G. E. Ladd	A Commentary on the Revelation of John	1990	WM. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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Shincheonji - God’s Kingdom and Salvation In the New Testament

Main reference: Rv 12


When does the kingdom of God, salvation and the promised pastor, spoken of by Jesus, appear in the New Testament?

The fulfillment of Revelation begins in Revelation chapters 1, 2, 3 with the appearance of the messengers of the seven golden lampstand (7 stars), at the location of the tabernacle of the seven stars. The tabernacle of heaven recorded in Revelation chapters 13, 12 is also this tabernacle of the seven stars.

After the time of Jesus’ first coming, the work of first heaven and first earth continues until the time of the messengers who prepare the way, the pastors-the messengers of the seven golden lampstands, created at the time of the fulfillment of Revelation (Rv 6). After this, the promised kingdom in the New Testament – the era of the new heaven and new earth, is opened (Rv 7).

In other words, the prophecies of the New Testament, the prophets (pastors), and the era of the church (Jesus’ church), the era of first heaven and first earth, ends at the time of the seven messengers who prepare the way. From this time on, the promised kingdom, Shincheonji Church of Jesus, New Heaven and New Earth begins and there is salvation for the people through the promised pastor, the one who overcomes. The one who correctly examines Scriptures will know this to be true. However, if one does not examine them correctly, they will not know who, when, or where the savior, the promised pastor is coming.

Currently, the pastors and congregation members of the world believe, regardless of who it is, all will be saved and enter the kingdom of heaven. However this is an incorrect understanding, and they do not know the Scriptures or the will of God, which is why they are being mislead into believing this misunderstanding (refer to Mt 22:29). This thinking is just like the people of Israel believing they received salvation through the Law of Moses.

There is a will and purpose to the New Testament (new covenant), and since it was promised that this purpose was going to be fulfilled, it must absolutely be fulfilled. This is the same as when Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament.  

In Revelation chapter 13, the messengers who prepared the way lost the battle with the beast – the pastors of the dragon (Satan). In Revelation chapter 12, the male child (born of the woman clothed with the sun), and his brothers fight the group of the dragon and overcome. From that time on, there is salvation and God’s kingdom upon this world. This child is the promised pastor, born of the woman in front of the dragon.  

This male child becomes Israel after he overcomes (refer to Gn 32:28), and creates the 12 tribes, just like Jacob and Jesus. It is no longer about receiving salvation simply because one says, “I am saved, I received the Holy Spirit, and I am orthodoxy.” That is not meeting the requirements to go to heaven. All these are only words of lies which man has made up.

Both, the person who has the spirit of God within him, and the person who has the spirit of Satan within him, proclaim they each have received the spirit of God. They each claim they are orthodoxy, and consider the other a cult. This problem can only be resolved by the Holy Spirit. It is orthodoxy and the true creation of God, only if it is fulfilled and created according to the Scriptures. After the first heaven and first earth are destroyed in Revelation chapter 6, the new heaven and new earth are created in Revelation chapter 7. This new heaven and new earth is also the kingdom that is spoken of and created in Revelation chapter 14.

The congregation members, who are one and unite with the savior and the promised 12 tribes recorded in the scriptures, distinguishing the location and events of betrayal, destruction and salvation, are those who will gain salvation and enter heaven. The one who overcomes is the promised pastor, the savior. He is the one who receives the promised blessings recorded in Revelation chapters 2 & 3.

I pray everyone will read, believe and inherit salvation.

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Shincheonji - Church of Jesus, Calvin’s Presbyterian Church, and Shincheonji Church of Jesus

Main reference: Matthew 5

The teaching of the Church of Jesus is the education, which God is with. It is the education of heaven that brings the dead to life, grants the forgiveness of sin, resurrects people, makes people born again, and leads people from death to life. Calvin (1509-1564), the founder of the Presbyterian Church, received the authority from people in Geneva. He used his predestination theory to murder people. He also denied God’s and Jesus’ book of Revelation. Shincheonji Church of Jesus keeps the new covenant by having the Bible as its standard. It is creating God’s will here on earth just as it is done in heaven. It forgives, loves, and blesses others. It also educates people with the new song (the revealed word, the word that testifies about the physical fulfillment of the New Testament).

There are a few Christian denominations in this globe that lack the word. The one that lacks the word the most is the Unification Church, second is the Catholic Church, third is Calvin’s Presbyterian Church, and fourth is the Full Gospel Church. It has been said that Protestantism emerged from Catholicism due to its sin and untruth. This Protestantism, however, has also been divided into hundreds of denominations due to the same reasons. If one closely investigates such divided denominations, he will be unable to see any biblical basis. The names and the doctrines of those denominations were created by people’s personal judgments. Even the pastors and church workers were appointed by men’s will. Moses built the tabernacle according to what he had seen and heard in heaven. The Law with which he educated people was also granted by heaven. Likewise, Jesus went up to heaven, and he saw, heard, and received the command to teach the revelation (refer to Jn 3:13; Mt 11:27). The denominations that have been created since Jesus’ ascension are not like Moses and Jesus. They have been created merely based on men’s own will.

God and Jesus promised one pastor while they were still here on earth. Jesus also made promises regarding this one pastor even after his ascension. This pastor promised by Jesus is the pastor at the time of the Lord’s second coming. He is someone who overcomes just like Jesus (Jn 16:33; Rv 2, Rv 3, 12:11). It was promised in the Bible that the spirit of truth, the counselor, who comes in the name of Jesus, will be working in the promised pastor (Jn 14:16-17, 26) just as God was working in Jesus at the first coming (Jn 14:10-11). It was promised in Revelation 2 and 3, what God had granted Jesus will also be given to the promised pastor. If someone does not have the blessings promised in Revelation 2 and 3, he cannot become the promised pastor. Nor can salvation and the kingdom exist. Whether someone is a false pastor or a true pastor can be proved by whether or not that person has received the blessings in Revelation 2 and 3. No one can attain salvation at the Lord’s second coming, not even one person, unless they go through the promised pastor. Whoever knows the Bible will speak the same word as this.

At the Lord’s second coming when the Spiritual Israelites have faced their end, the pastors and the congregation members of this world claim to have received salvation and the holy spirit. They also claim they are the orthodoxy and will go to heaven. They are mistaken because they neither know God’s will nor the Bible (Mt 22:29). They do not know how the world of their life of faith has come to an end, how God left them, and how they have turned into gentiles. Just like Adam’s family (people in Adam’s world) during Noah’s time and just like the Physical Israelites during Jesus’ first coming, people do not realize that God left them, and thus, their hearts and spirits have become night. They do not know they have fallen from heaven just like the sun, moon, and stars that have gone dark and have fallen from the sky. The purpose of the Lord’s second coming is to harvest and seal good crops from Jesus’ field (the church), which he sowed good seeds, to create God’s new kingdom (the twelve tribes of Shincheonji) and the priests (the 144,000). It is also to make the great multitude who streams after the 144,000 to be God’s people.

 In the midst of the world where the religious world has faced its end of the age, Shincheonji transcends national borders, races, and religions. Just like the light, rain, and air from the sky, Shincheonji is uniting everyone as one through the same love and same grace. Heaven is being created by sealing those who are born of God’s seed because all the religions in this world have become corrupt. This is the New Testament, and it is the purpose of God. Regarding the creation of God’s new kingdom, people do not realize it just like how people did not understand until the flood came and destroyed them all during Noah’s time (refer to Mt 24:37-39).

Not only has the promised pastor at the Lord’s second coming mastered the Bible, but he also knows its purpose and the fulfillment of all the chapters of the New Testament. At a time like this, there are people who will attain salvation and people who will not. Those who will attain salvation will be able to receive salvation not just through any churches or pastors in this world, but only through one person, the promised pastor. This has been the same in each and every generation. The promised pastors have existed in each era, and people have gained salvation only through those pastors. How can one recognize who the promised pastor is? One can recognize it by the work he is carrying out and by the fulfilled work. In other words, one can recognize the promised pastor by examining if he fights against and overcomes the designated people and carries out the work of harvesting, sealing, and creating of the twelve tribes.

The saints in the era of the New Testament have been anticipating the fulfillment of God’s promises in the New Testament (the work of salvation and the appearing of the savior). Since the New Testament has been fulfilled, it is the time for them to believe in it. Whoever refuses to believe in the words of the new covenant, which was promised through the blood, and whoever refuses to believe in the physical fulfillment of the New Testament despite it being made known to them, will be unable to blame others even if they receive the condemnation of hell. We in Shincheonji who are aware of this consequence are wholeheartedly praying for the salvation of all people.


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Shincheonji - The seven stars and the seven golden lampstands

Main reference : Rv 1,2,3

What are the seven stars and the seven golden lampstands that were prophesied in Revelation?

Jesus said to John, ‘The mystery is this, the seven stars are the angels, and the seven golden lampstands are the seven churches.' (Rv 1:20) Then, who are the seven messengers and what are the seven churches, when and from where do they appear and from which church? John saw Jesus holding seven stars in his right hand standing among the seven golden lampstands (seven churches) (Rev 1:12-16)

Is Jesus in flesh or in spirit? Is John who saw this in the flesh or in spirit? Jesus was among the seven golden lampstands in the spirit. John was the flesh that was moved when he saw and heard the holy spirit and the word in flesh.


New John saw the fulfillment of the prophecies to the main reference which took place in Gwachon, Korea in 1979. Jesus worked with the seven angels who were the chosen messengers; they are the lampstands - messengers who prepare the way at the time of the end (at Revelation's fulfillment). The seven golden lampstands is the body or church, who do the work of unveiling. As seen in Rv 4, the light on top of the candlestand is God's seven spirits blazing before Gods throne. The reason this is clearly made known is according to Jesus' promise because it is not the era to speak figuratively but to speak clearly through the reality (Jn 16:25).


The seven messengers and the seven golden lampstands who were in the tabernacle (heaven) are connected to each other.

It was made like this at the time of Moses (Ex25:31-40) everything was exactly made according to the things that were seen in heaven. It is the same at Jesus' First Coming (Jn 5:35, Mt 11:12-13). John the Baptist worked as the light of a lamp.

According to the promise in Rv 1, first there is a work of a lampstand - the messengers from the church of the golden lampstands - that prepares the way  even at Jesus' second coming. The work of the seven golden lampstands or lampstands, is to prepare the way for the bridegroom who is Jesus at the time of the end.

Jesus doesn't come at until the messengers who are the seven golden lampstands prepare the way at the time of the end. When the work of the messengers who prepare the way is seen, then Jesus will come again soon.


Believers must perceive this and repent. What we first need to know from the Bible is that when the messengers who prepare the way do their work, there is someone who comes before Jesus at the time of the end. This is the group of destruction who are Satan's Nicolaitans (beast with seven heads and ten horns). Like this, the work of religion begins with the work of God. God works through men who then work together with Him. This is the same with those who belong to God and those who belong to Satan. The messengers of the seven lampstands and the messenger of Revelation 22:16 are different.

When the spirits of the seven lampstands before God's throne chooses a person on earth and works together with them, if that person falls into Satan's deception the spirit working within that person leaves (reference Rv 2:5), and Satan's spirit dwells together with them.

The summary of the messenger who prepares the way - the seven golden lampstands reveal the way to the Lord, this is not Jesus but he is the one who comes before the Lord to prepare the way for him. We must never forget that the Lord comes out from the place where the messenger who prepares the way appears from.

As recorded, Satan's group invaded through the appearance of the messengers who prepare the way and started a war between them. The messenger who prepares the way is defeated and flees in seven directions (Dt 28:25) at the time of the first coming and the second coming. Then, Jesus comes to fight and overcome Satan's pastors who destroyed the first tabernacle and establishes God's nation.


Therefore, if you don’t know the purpose of the Bible then you will not know the reality of the promises even if you see it according to the fulfillment. By perceiving the word you enter into the heaven you have hoped for through faith and receive salvation. Those who are defeated from the war flee in seven directions as recorded in the Scripture and the One Who Overcomes becomes Israel and creates the twelve tribes. How can you say that you are a believer even after seeing this? We at Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of Testimony have fought and overcome Satan and the Nicolaitans and created the twelve tribes. God and Jesus Christ are with Shincheonji as promised in Revelation chapter 2 and 3 (Rv 3:12, 21, 21:1-7).

Amen!


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