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The shelter of salvation Jesus promised in the New Testament

The eastern prophets Siddhartha and Confucius both described a shelter of salvation that would be a place of victory by way of a cross (궁을지간십승지). Where is the shelter of salvation described by Jesus? When does it appear?
 

The reality of today's Christian world

Today is the end of the religious world and the time of Revelation's fulfillment. What has happened over the course of Christian history and what is happening today?
 

Creation of the temple according to plan

There are two kinds of temples: spiritual and physical. Physical temples are buildings made of physical materials, but spiritual temples are houses made of the word (1 Cor 3:9, 16-17). Just as physical houses are built from physical blueprints, spiritual houses are built from spiritual blueprints—the Bible.
 

Salvation is for sinners

Salvation is for sinners, not for the righteous. The expression, "salvation for the righteous," is incorrect.
 
People who call Shinchonji Church of Jesus (SCJ) a cult are speaking nonsense just like John Calvin. It is so disconcerting when they use the expression, "salvation for the righteous." They sound as arrogant as the devil. Jesus said, "Those who are healthy don't need a physician, but those who are sick do. Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners," (Mt 9:12-13).

The path of religion that leads to righteousness

The root of true religion is God, which means Christianity has its roots in the time of Adam. If we understand this, then Christianity has a 6,000 year history and can be considered the world’s oldest religion. The great number of arguments and incidents that have occurred over this long history indicates that both the true God and many false gods have been working and fighting one another within Christianity. These incidents have occurred because the false gods were working to interfere with God’s will (2 Thes 2:4), which is in the future of Christianity.

Cults and the end of churches

Let us discuss cults and the end of each generation within over the 6,000 years of biblical history. If we compare Adam to Noah, Adam was the corrupt, worn-out tradition and Noah was considered orthodox. Adam’s world, which had been considered orthodox, became a cult, and Noah’s world was the new orthodoxy. Adam became a possession of Satan, but Noah belonged to God. Later, however, Noah’s sons Canaan and Ham became heretics just like Adam. At that time, Moses was appointed as the new orthodoxy. Canaan became a possession of Satan, but Moses belonged to God.

Hee’s oath and appointed task

An innocent young man named Hee was chosen by heaven one day. He wrote an oath in his own blood promising to be faithful to heaven. It was then that he began to suffer. It was a rough and narrow path that he had to walk (Rv 11). God compensated him for his suffering by revealing to Hee the word of truth (Rv 10). Ever since he received it, Hee has had to live with and within the word. He has walked in accordance with every command of the word. The word Hee received allowed him to understand sin, faith, and salvation. Sin is not believing in God.

Deception, sin, and righteousness

Jesus said that many people will come in his name to deceive others (Mt 24:5). They will not hesitate to persecute and even kill people who disagree with them (Jn 16:2-4). Who acts in this way?
 
The Old Testament describes many wars between the chosen people and various gentile nations. Since the time of the New Testament, however, the wars have been about religious persecution and ecclesiastical authority. The chosen people have become gentiles because they betrayed God and persecuted God's chosen pastor and God’s true saints. This is prophesied in the New Testament.

Qualifications of believers of Shinchonji Church of Jesus

The Bible shows us that people in every generation persecuted and killed those sent by God—the prophets in the Old Testament as well as Jesus and his apostles at the time of the first coming—instead of accepting their testimonies (Mt 23:34-35; Acts 7:51-60). Why did they refuse to receive those sent by God and why did they kill them? God comes to and works through the one person God chooses and sends. The chief priests and elders at the time of the first coming were eagerly awaiting God’s arrival.

Regarding church names, people’s names, and place names

The names of churches, people, and places in the New Testament prophecies are either figurative or literal. The names of people and places in the prophecies often make figurative reference to the Old Testament. Church names come either from God or from men. There are two kinds of temples: spiritual and physical. A spiritual temple is the temple of a person’s heart (Eph 2:20-22; 1 Cor 3:16), and a physical temple is a physical building where people, who are themselves spiritual temples, gather to worship.