Judgment and the standard for a true life of faith

References: Rv 22:18-19, Mt 7:15-20

The prophets in the time of the Old Testament and Jesus and his apostles in the New Testament were all called heretics, persecuted, and even killed by the religious leaders of their respective generations (Mt 5:10-12, Acts 7:51-53, Mt 23:30-31, Heb 11:35-39, Lk 20:9-15).

The pastors of every generation have persecuted and killed the messengers sent by God. If these pastors and their people claim to believe in God, why would they do this? If they killed the messengers of heaven, to whom do they really belong? According to 1 Cor 3:9 and 1 Cor 3:16, people’s hearts are temples in which spirits can dwell. Isn’t it clear that the spirit of the devil was living in the hearts of these pastors who murdered all those messengers sent from heaven. Their deeds have revealed the identity of the spirit dwelling within their hearts.

Should we believe in these pastors? Although most people are unaware of it, more than through non-believers, the devil has been working in every generation through pastors claiming to belong to God. Believers must choose whom they will follow, God or Satan. Should believers just give up on faith because of these pastors? What should be done in this type of situation?

We can’t really ask God, Jesus, or the angels because they are invisible. Doesn’t the Bible tell us to trust the teachings of pastors? What kind of pastors does God want us to trust? Believers must ask God, who becomes accessible through the word (Jn 1:1). The one true God and his promised pastor are in the word. Today, the pastors of the world claim to believe in and teach the Bible on behalf of the Lord. If they are really God’s true pastors, why did God promise to send another pastor from whom everyone must learn?

Jesus is the pastor God promised in the Old Testament to send. The New Testament promises another pastor—the one who overcomes who has witnessed the fulfillment of all the events of Revelation (Rv 2-3). God gave Ezekiel the word of revelation and told him to eat it. God then commanded Ezekiel to testify to the rebellious people of Physical Israel (Ez 3). Later, God sent Jesus in fulfillment of this prophecy (Mt 15).

The one who overcomes at the time of the second coming is the male child to whom the woman in Rv 12 gives birth. He is also the new John who receives the word of revelation in Rv 10. The one who receives the scroll is commanded by God to testify about what he has received from heaven. The nations, peoples, languages, and kings represent all the churches and denominations of the world. They must learn from the one who has received the open scroll.

The New Testament says that the pastors of this generation kill the witnesses who stand before the Lord just as people did at the time of Jesus’ first coming (Rv 11). At the time of the second coming, Jesus comes to harvest with his angels like a thief in the night (1 Thes 5:2, 2 Pt 3:10, Rv 3:3, Rv 16:15, Rv 14:14-16). During this time, pastors block the way to prevent people from being harvested. They label the harvesters as a cult just like at the time of the first coming (Mt 23:13). God’s word will judge orthodoxy from heresy. God’s word will judge who is acting according to the will of God: the people who are working as harvesters or the people who are interfering with the work of the harvest.

Today, the churches of the world (i.e., the earth) do not have God, Jesus, or the revealed word. The only things they do have are persecution and rage toward the one church that does have the revealed word.

The promised pastor, the one who overcomes, is preaching the word of revelation he has received. Why can’t the pastors of the world verify this word of revelation using the Bible together with their congregation members?

The teachings of churches that do not have the word of revelation come from the earth and belongs to the earth; they are not from heaven (Jn 3:31). Only those who receive the revelation that is given according to Rv 10 can know the Lord and attain salvation. Since so many people are gathering to the place with the word of revelation, the pastors and believers of the world should confirm the word that place is teaching with the Bible instead of persecuting it.

Those who listen to the word of revelation and believe it cross over from death to life. Among the dead who died in Adam, those who listen to the word of revelation and believe will rise to life. People who do not believe and instead persecute those who believe using their ecclesiastical authority will rise to be condemned (Jn 5:24-29).

The true standard that judges our lives of faith does not come from the ecclesiastical authority of the world’s pastors because they have received their power from men. We are judged only through the Bible, the word of promise. Judgment is made only according to the word of Jesus (Jn 12:48). Over the past 6,000 years of biblical history, many pastors have claimed to be true pastors all while deceiving their congregation members in the name of God.

How can people who do not believe in God’s word be God’s pastors? How can God’s kingdom be created through their usurped ecclesiastical power that goes against God’s word? This is clearly not God’s will (Mt 7:21).

Do you believe in God’s new covenant (i.e., the New Testament)? Are you satisfied with the ecclesiastical authority of men? Do you lust after that power? Everyone wants ecclesiastical authority, but no one is interested in the word of God. Anyone who believes in the New Testament, which is the word of the new covenant, will gather to receive the word of revelation from Shinchonji. The word from Shinchonji is the revelation of heaven—the word of God.

Paul threw away the law and knowledge he had learned so that he could learn and teach the revelation of Jesus Christ that he received from heaven (Gal 1). Apostle Paul, however, claimed only to know in part and testify in part (1 Cor 13). Today, Shinchonji is testifying the perfect revealed word and the fulfillment of the whole book of Revelation—God’s final work.

God will not acknowledge the faith of people who reject this revelation and they will not be saved.