The Gospel of Jesus Christ revealed through the apostles (general)

The Gospel of Jesus Christ revealed through the apostles (general)

Index

Ⅰ God's Kingdom.................................................................................... 4

1. God's Kingdom.................................................. 4

2. heaven............................................................. 5

Ⅱ Angels................................................................................................ 10

1. Angels who sinned........................................... 10

2. Garden of Eden Story....................................... 10

3. Satan and his angels......................................... 12

4. Angels............................................................ 30

Ⅲ Creation of heaven and earth.......................................................... 31

1. Creation of the world....................................... 31

2. Creation of the human...................................... 37

Ⅳ God's Salvation Plan........................................................................ 43

1. Son of God and Daughters of Man........................ 43

2. Flood Judgment and Ark.................................... 45

Ⅴ Christ................................................................................................. 49

1. Trinity........................................................... 49

2. Identity of Jesus Christ.................................... 52

3. death on the cross........................................... 59

4. Resurrection................................................... 63

5. Second coming................................................. 68

Ⅵ Millennium and Hell............................................................. 75

1. Millennium..................................................... 75

2. Hell and pussy................................................ 78

3. Spiritual war.................................................. 88

4. The life of one who is saved............................. 96

Ⅶ Judgment

1. White throne judgment................................... 102

2. Second death................................................. 105

Ⅰ. God's Kingdom

1. Kingdom of God

No matter how well humans try to explain the spiritual kingdom of God, they cannot. However, it will be easier to understand the kingdom of God through the eyes of humans living in the world through the Trinity. The Trinity is God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and saints born of the Holy Spirit. God the Father can be called the first heaven, Jesus Christ the Son is the second heaven, and saints born of the Holy Spirit can be called the third heaven. This is a means to help us understand the kingdom of God.

(1) First Heaven

The first heaven refers to the kingdom of God where the Father is on the throne. It is the kingdom of God where God the Father is present as the Spirit. No one has ever seen God the Father. However, saints can be known through Jesus Christ. In 1 Timothy 6:16, “Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

(2)Second heaven

The second heaven is the kingdom of Jesus Christ, the kingdom of the Son of God who exists in a spirit body. The resurrected Jesus said in Luke 24:39, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.』

(3) Third heaven

It refers to the temple built in the hearts of believers, and is referred to as heaven in the Gospel of Matthew. The kingdom of God is one, but it can be understood as the first heaven, the second heaven, and the third heaven. The kingdom of God is connected by the Holy Spirit and operates according to the word of Jehovah God. The kingdom of God is one, but because of angels who sinned in the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God is visible to human eyes in three forms. It has the same meaning as the Trinity.

2. Heaven

(1) Heaven

In Matthew 3:2, “And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” A distinction must be made between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God.

The Hebrew word "ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν" is translated as the kingdom of heaven, which is the kingdom of God in the heart. Jesus tells the people to turn to God as God draws near into their hearts. The kingdom of heaven is Jesus Christ. For those who repent, Jesus Christ enters their hearts.

Angels who sinned in the kingdom of God took off their clothes and their spirits were imprisoned in a pot and became humans. Humans are beings trapped in the world. So humans die twice.

In Genesis 2:17, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” The Hebrew Bible says, “die and die.” there is. And in John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” It is expressed as “be born again.” The previous one is to die (twice) and be born from heaven. Regarding the two deaths, the first death is death to sin (baptism in water), and the second death is death to the soul (baptism in fire).

The death of the cross is the process of dying to sin and taking off the dirty clothes of the soul. So Jesus preached the gospel to the spirits in prison. In other words, He entered into the hearts of all humans and revealed to them that you must die. In 1 Peter 3:19-20, “By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.』

Water baptism means death to sin. Romans 6:6-7 『Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.』

The death of the soul is a baptism of fire, the death of the soul (the first man, Adam) that came from the body. A believer changes from a physical body to a spiritual body (clothes of Christ). In Matthew 3:11-12, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance.” but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.』

There are three days between the death and resurrection of Jesus. The third day signifies the building of the temple. In John 2:19, “Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The saints who die with Jesus have a temple built in their hearts. And resurrection is a change of clothes from a physical body to a spiritual body (new soul). In 1 Corinthians 15:44-47, “It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam created a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterwards that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; The second man is the Lord from heaven.』

Those who die on the cross with Jesus (water baptism) and believe that their physical body (soul) has died (fire baptism) will wear clothes from heaven. This is resurrection. Resurrection is not the resurrection of the former body, but the putting on of a spiritual body (clothes of Christ) from heaven. That is why saints become priests and wear the priest’s holy clothes.

Ascension means that the believer enters the temple built in the heart. This is because the temple means the kingdom of God. In 1 Corinthians 3:16, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

And Jesus told the Pharisees to repent, for the kingdom is at hand. Heaven becomes the kingdom of God in the heart. This foreshadows Jesus’ death on the cross, resurrection, and ascension to the kingdom of God. Therefore, saints are also at the right hand of the throne in the kingdom of God.

The Second Coming is God entering the temple in the hearts of believers. This is Immanuel, and in Greek it is Parousian. It means the presence of God. Church people still wait for the second coming of Jesus, but the second coming of Jesus has come true for those whose temple has been built in the hearts of believers. So, the saints and Christ meet in the temple and have a heavenly wedding feast.

(2) The concept of the third heaven

In 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught. up to the third heaven (Tritu Uranu). And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to speak.』

The Bible describes the Third Heaven as Tritu Uranu. Ton Uranon (τῶν οὐρανῶν) is the kingdom of God that comes into the hearts of believers. Tritu Uranu is the third heaven and is the kingdom of God that comes into the hearts of believers. The third heaven was expressed as paradise (Paradison παραδεισον).

In Luke 23:43, “And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. (paradeiso παραδεισω).” Jesus said this to one of the two men who were crucified with him. He says in chapter 23 verse 41, “And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.』This is the appearance of a person who repents. And in verse 42 of chapter 23, “And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.” Regarding your country, he used the expression kingdom. Ultimately, it means the kingdom of God. At this time, the kingdom of God spoken of by the evildoer who died with Jesus on the cross was thought to be the country where the body goes when it dies, while the kingdom of God spoken of by Jesus is paradise.

The third heaven, called paradise, is the Garden of Eden before the man Adam and the woman Eve were driven out. There is a saying that God will restore the Garden of Eden. In Isaiah 51:3, “For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.』

(3) The restored Garden of Eden

Isaiah describes the restored Garden of Eden as follows: In Isaiah 65:25, “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat.” They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.』

In Revelation 21:1-2, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.』

John again represents the city of New Jerusalem in his Revelation. Revelation 21:18-21『And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it was transparent glass.』

It talks about the materials of the wall and foundation stone of New Jerusalem. The reason these jewels are listed like this is not to explain the meaning of the jewels themselves, but rather to mean that the New Jerusalem that God has allowed is filled with precious jewels like this.

Looking at Exodus 28:17-20, the breastplate worn on the high priest's chest had twelve precious stones, and the names of the twelve tribes were engraved on them. This means that in the future, with the completion of God's glorious plan of salvation, each tribe and God's people will shine beautifully and flawlessly like God's jewels.

All those in Christ are like jewels of God. Even jewels are not all shining with the same color and shape, but are beautiful jewels with various colors and shapes. However, gems are rare and precious beings that are difficult to find. Among jewels, pearls are a symbol of suffering. It is also for those who have overcome hardships to enter.

In the end, it can be said that the third heaven is paradise, the restored Garden of Eden, the new heaven and new earth, and the millennium. The saints living in the world become a sanctuary where the third heaven enters the heart.

Ⅱ Angels

1. Angels who sinned

The story of angels who sinned in the kingdom of God is told in Jude 1 and 2 Peter 2:4. In Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.』 In 2 Peter 2:4『For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;』 God imprisoned the angels who sinned in darkness. This darkness is this world.

2. The story of the Garden of Eden

The fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is a symbolic expression of the story of the angel who sinned. The contents of Genesis chapters 1-3 express the story before the creation of the world. The main crime of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was their desire to become like God. The core of sin is not breaking the commandments, but developing a desire to become like God. So because of that, the commandment was broken.

The angels who sinned did not keep their position and opposed God because they wanted to be like God. The angels who sinned symbolize Eve. And God imprisoned them in a dark pit (hell), and humans were created by combining the angelic spirit with the dust. The first man was created in this world to pass on the body of sin to all humans. The first person was Christ, who sacrificed himself to create a body of sin.

And the first people were separated and created man and woman. In the Bible, the man is called Adam and the woman is called Eve. However, in the English Bible, the first man is referred to as Adam and the man is referred to as Adam, so it is confusing. The first man, Adam, is not a name; it is Adam, meaning a person. The second man, Adam, is the name Adam. So, there is a story about Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden after eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This is a symbolic expression of being expelled from the kingdom of God.

3. Satan and his angels

(1) Satan acts as an adversary.

In the Old Testament, Satan was mostly expressed as a man (adversary). In 1 Samuel 29:4, “And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary (Heb. :Satan) to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?』 The English Bible expresses Satan as an adversary. adversary means Philistine. In addition, places where the adversary is expressed include 1 Samuel 5:18, 1 Kings 11:4, and Psalm 109:6. Every time Israel betrayed God and served idols, God used an adversary to judge Israel. And when Israel repented, turned around, and served idols again, we can see that they were repeatedly attacked through their adversaries.

(2) Satan is the king of the world and holds the power of air.

Satan is spiritually expressed as one who holds the power of the air. Revelation 12:8-9『And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.』 Satan is the archangel of God, He brought out the sinful hearts of the angels, but ultimately turned them into sinners. In the end, the evil angels go to the prison called the world, and Satan goes out into the world as their manager. He is represented by it as the ruler of the power of the air. Revelation 12:10『And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.』

(3) Satan accuses sinners.

Satan is also expressed as a spiritual being. In particular, he appears as an accuser in the Book of Job. Through Job, Satan accuses those who have legalistic faith to God. Therefore, it can be said that those who are under the law are under the control of Satan. Satan (the devil) is an accuser (category κατηγορῶν). The devil accuses sinners under the law to God. Satan accuses Job. In John 5:45, “Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.” Moses plays the role of Satan. This is because Moses is synonymous with the law. The law continues to accuse believers. In heaven, Christ won the battle. So there is no longer any need for the law in heaven. Saints in Christ are not accused. It expresses that Jesus Christ was victorious. So, salvation and the kingdom of God came through Christ.

(4) Satan does not allow those who are in the law to escape.

John 8:44 『Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer(Andropoktonos ἀνθρωποκτόνος) from the beginning(Arkes ἀρχῆς) , and abode not in the truth(Ente Aledea ἐν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ) , because there is no truth(Aledea ἀληθείᾳ) in him. When he speaketh a lie (pseudos ψεῦδος), he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar (pseutes ψεύστης), and the father of it.』

Epidymias means desire, longing, etc. Arke means leader or first. Andropoctonos means murderer, murderer. Eledea is truth, En Auto is in him, En te Aledea is in truth, Pseudus is a lie, Pseustes is a liar.

The devil is Satan. Satan is the king of the world and acts like a prison director who follows the law. He does not listen to the words of truth, such as God's special pardon. He only accuses those who sin according to the law. Although he is a creature created by God, he is the first murderer who drove evil angels to spiritual death. Although he knew the evil angel's desire to become like God, he played the role of causing the evil angels to sin instead of the one who should have made the angels repent from their sins. So he cannot stand in the truth and has become a liar to other creatures. He appears as if he is trying to set a trap and trip his opponent. God created the material world to imprison evil angels and had Satan manage it.

This is similar to the way the Jews at the time of Jesus tried to trap him and trap him. When Jesus saw that the Jews were not standing for the truth, he fiercely said that they were the children of Satan. Satan does not want to give sinners a chance to be free. He does not convey the fact that God gives the grace of pardon to those who repent and turn away, but sets traps to prevent them from escaping from the law.

(5) Satan gives believers a thorn in the flesh

In 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, “And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above.” measure. For this thing I thought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in confirmations, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong』

Apostle Paul also had a body while doing God's work, so there may have been times when he thought about the things of men. Every time he faces a physical challenge or reaches a physical limit, sometimes pessimistic thoughts pass by. Each time, God gave Apostle Paul a stimulus through a thorn to help him break away from thinking about human things.

(6) Satan approaches believers when they do human work.

God's work is to believe in the one sent from God (Christ). Peter confessed to Jesus, “You are the Son of God,” but he suddenly rebelled against what Jesus said. In other words, you should not die. In Matthew 16:21-23, “From that time forth began to Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised.” again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.』Because Peter does something like denying the work of God for a moment, the moment Satan (the prosecutor) tries to indict Peter, Jesus Christ defeats Satan to protect Peter. And he scolded Peter. He is trying to trip up Jesus because he thinks about human things.

Peter denied Jesus three times until the rooster crowed three times. And Jesus died on the cross. Peter, who denied it three times, says in Matthew 26:75, “And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.” And he went out, and wept bitterly. 』However, the resurrected Jesus Christ visited Peter and gave him the task of spreading the kingdom of God once again.

The same case as Peter is in Acts 21:10-14. 『And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.』

Many of the disciples, who had heard through the Holy Spirit that Paul would be delivered into the hands of the Gentiles, advised him not to go up to Jerusalem. Paul was already doing God's work and was trying to fulfill his mission as a preacher of God's will without thinking about his own life, but the disciples who told him not to go to Jerusalem stopped him because they were worried about Paul's death. That is, they think about human affairs. God's work is to preach the death and resurrection of the cross. Jesus' death on the cross and resurrection were to save all mankind, and the disciples must also convey this. This is God's work.

(7) Satan (the devil) tests believers.

Satan's temptations appear not only to Jesus, but also to believers in the church. Looking at the example of Jesus, the purpose of Satan's temptation is to select those who believe in the wrong soteriology, to select those who accept both the gospel and the law, and to select those who serve both God and the world. That is why we accuse the wrongdoer to God.

First, the wrong soteriology is that you can be saved just by believing in Jesus. One must be born from heaven through water and the Holy Spirit to achieve salvation.

Second, Satan selects those who accept both the gospel and the law. Although a believer has been forgiven of his sins through the blood of Jesus Christ, if he keeps the provisions of the law or always thinks about not committing sins in the present and the future, Satan will screen him out.

Third, anyone who serves both God and the world is guilty of spiritual idolatry. Since believers are fully armed with the words of the Bible, there will be no problem, but believers who are not born of the Holy Spirit will not have an easy time passing the devil's test. If you do not pass the devil's test, you cannot be free from the prison of the world.

(8) Satan and the woman’s descendant (Jesus Christ) meet.

Matthew 4:1-11 『Then was Jesus led up the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning. thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil takes him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee henceforth, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.』

In worldly terms, Satan and Jesus play the roles of prosecutors and lawyers. God can be likened to a president. According to the law, the president created a prosecutorial system and gave it the power to prosecute criminals. The whole world is made up of sinners, so it has become a prison. That is why the president is attempting to grant pardons to those who repent in prison. He left the power of pardon to his son, who would act as his lawyer. However, the prosecutor naturally did not find this lawyer challenging his role. And to make people doubt whether they really have the power, we will meet them countless times in the future, where the lawyer introduces his position to the prosecutor, and the prosecutor tests the lawyer. The President's Chief of Staff took on the role of bringing prosecutors and lawyers face to face. Lawyers have been preparing measures to pardon criminals for a long time.

『Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.』 The Holy Spirit symbolizes the President's Chief of Staff. The phrase “fast and starve for 40 days and 40 nights” means that the lawyer had to find repentant sinners and made a lot of preparations. Lawyers achieve their goals, but they are hungry. The prosecutor asked the lawyer three questions, and a tense battle ensued.

The first question is, “You say you have the power to absolve sins, but you brought a sinner here. Why don’t you pardon him here?” However, the lawyer responded by saying that he would not pardon just any sinner, but only those who repent. A repentant heart is one who realizes the sin that broke his father's heart and turns to him. However, the prosecutor cannot respond to the lawyer's words.『And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.』 These stones represent sinners under the law. The loaves of bread are life-giving bread and represent those who have taken off their sins and become righteous. In other words, what Satan means is to pardon sinners and make them righteous. This is what causes people to misunderstand that they can be saved just by believing in Jesus. Jesus, the lawyer, says that those who eat the word of God become righteous. It is not enough to just eat the bread (life in heaven); sinners must first eat the Word. At this time, the Word will be the Old Testament. Every sinner killed an animal and offered it as a sacrifice to God. It means that through this sacrifice, we must look to Christ (the promised seed who is the descendant of the woman) who will come in the future. The Word contains the meaning of death on the cross and resurrection.

This is the second question. A strange question arises, since you have the power to pardon sinners, should you allow yourself to pardon yourself if you commit a sin? This question subtly leads to the idea that lawyers are also subject to the laws of the world. When the President sends a lawyer to the prison of the world, he decides that he will not be subject to the laws of the world. However, if a lawyer falls for the prosecutor's leading questions, law enforcement becomes possible, and at any time, if the prosecutor, even a lawyer, violates the provisions of the law, he or she can be prosecuted. However, the lawyer firmly tells the prosecutor's leading questions not to test the president's authority. So this time, the prosecutor could say no more.

『Then the devil takes him up into the holy city, and sets him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge. concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.』

When a person jumps from the top of a temple, it is an act of suicide. The law prohibits harming one's own body. What will God do if Jesus breaks the law? So, Satan's leading question is that Jesus must also be someone who strictly obeys the law. In the church today, we are talking about the active and passive obedience of Christ. These are people who have fallen for Satan’s questions.

Active obedience means that Christ observed the law for sinners as a condition for gaining eternal life. Passive obedience is said to mean that Christ suffered by paying the penalty for sin and paying the debt of all his people. So, Christ's subjection to suffering and death is part of his active obedience, and Christ's living in subjection to the law and working in the image of a servant are part of his passive obedience. The idea contained in the meaning of active obedience is that salvation is achieved only when Jesus' work on the cross and Jesus' legal obedience are combined. These are truly heretical remarks. Jesus was above the law, but he died according to the law to save all mankind.

This is the third question. The President has given me all the power to prosecute criminals, but if you have the President's power to pardon, then my power means nothing. Since you are no different from the President, you should say a word of sorry to me. Wouldn't you? Then, they are saying, “I will hand over all prosecution rights to you and you can do everything.” So, the lawyer said, although I am granted the power to pardon, the president values procedure, so he is not taking away your power. Jesus, the lawyer, responded by saying, “The President has made such a big decision out of a desire to show grace by freeing repentant sinners, so please do your best as instructed by the President.” Then the prosecutor could not say anything, so he left the scene. This is the story of how the lawyer also left the place after receiving guidance from the Presidential Office administrator.

『Again, the devil takes him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.』This Bible verse is from Matthew 4:8-10.

However, if you look at Luke 4:5-8, it says, “And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power.” will I give them, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.』

When Satan says, “Because it was handed over to me,” it means that God has handed over to Satan the right to prosecute sinners. The Greek word for “worship” in 『If thou therefore wilt worship me』 is the word proskuneses (προσκυνήσῃς basic form proskuneo). It has meanings such as flattering, prostrating, showing respect, and worshiping. Here, proskuneses refers to a degree of respect that is apologetic rather than worship. But internally, it is a test of whether one can serve both God and the world. This is equivalent to spiritual adultery. The meaning of returning the world to Jesus is equivalent to spiritual adultery.

In the church today, most people say that the spiritual war is a war against Satan. The criminal naturally fights with the prosecutor to avoid going to jail. When a criminal looks at the prosecutor, he will seem like the reaper of the underworld. However, if one escapes the law and is born from heaven, like Jesus Christ, the saints in Christ have nothing to do with Satan (the prosecutor). Because he is dead to sin, he is terminated with no right to prosecution. Therefore, the enemies of believers are false prophets and the fleshly self. First, false prophets distort the Bible and speak evilly toward God. Second, the physical self is something that must be fought. Jesus told him to deny himself. He is his physical self. The spiritual self fights with the physical self until death. It is the same principle as the Israelites entering Canaan and fighting the seven nations. Jesus' words to deny oneself correspond to this. If you think that your physical self is good and your spiritual self is good, then you are committing spiritual adultery because God is good and idols are good. Believers can only live by standing on the truth and not being deceived by untruth.

4. Angels

Church people think that Satan and his messengers (ghosts, dark spirits) do evil, and guardian angels do good, but angels follow all humans. Angels are with humans from the moment they are born into the world. However, since people are born sinners, the angel plays the role of a watchdog. That's why people think the angel's appearance is evil. To them, angels become Satan, devils, and ghosts.

However, when people repent and come to Christ, the angel serves as a guardian angel to spread the gospel and help them avoid falling into sin. He becomes an angel under the care of saints. It is not that there are separate Satans and separate angels, but that angels also have different roles depending on the state of the person.

Ⅲ Creation of heaven and earth

1. Creation of the material world

Genesis 1:1-2 『In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 』

Church people say that God created the heaven and the earth in the beginning. The word ‘heaven and earth’ must be understood well. Heaven and earth are heaven and earth. Heaven does not mean the sky we see with our eyes, but the kingdom of God. The land is not the land we live in, but the world (material world) that is contrary to the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is the place where God resides, and the world is the material world where God does not exist, which God separated from the kingdom of God.

The words that appear in Genesis 1:1 are important. It is necessary to pay attention to 『Heaven (Shamayim), Earth (Eretz), Creation (Bara)』. Regarding heaven (Shamayim), in the Old Testament, all heaven we know is called Shamayim. The blue sky is also called Shamayim, outer space is also called Shamayim, and the kingdom of God where God dwells is also called Shamayim. In the Old Testament, all heaven is Shamaim. When it comes to Shamayim in the Old Testament, we must first think about what kind of Shamaim this is. This means that you have to consider which of the three heavens it is by looking at the context.

In Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” In other words, in Deuteronomy, in 『God created Shamaim and Eretz』, in Deuteronomy 26:15, 『Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.” Here, “thy holy habitation” refers to the kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is written as Shamayim. This Shamayim is the Shamayim used in Genesis 1:1.

In 1 Kings 8:30, “And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.” The heaven mentioned in the table is also Shamayim, the kingdom of God. So where is Shamaim in Genesis 1:1? In Genesis 1:8, “God called the firmament (Shamaim) Heaven.” This firmament can be seen to have been created in Genesis verse 7. If we consider the Heaven mentioned in Genesis 1:1 to be the same as the Heaven in Genesis 1:8, it does not fit logic because the heaven created in the beginning and the heaven created in Genesis 1:7 overlap. Therefore, it is clear that the Shamaim of Genesis 1:1 is not the sky we are looking at. Heaven mentioned in Genesis 1:1 can be said to refer to the kingdom of God.

Next is the land (Eretz), and in Genesis 1:9 it says, “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” That land is Eretz. Then, it overlaps with Eretz mentioned in Genesis 1:1. Some may say that the land spoken of in Genesis 1:1 and the land spoken of in Genesis 1:9 are the same land.

However, the land mentioned in Genesis 1:1 can be understood to refer to the material world we are talking about. This is because the land is said to have been “made” in Genesis 1:1, and it is also said to be land in Genesis 1:9. In other words, because it results in a duplicate name, we can see that the land in Genesis 1:1 refers to the material world, not the land of the Earth. We can see that the material world created by God is covered with water.

The Hebrew word translated as “create” is “bara.” However, in order to accurately understand the meaning of the word ‘bara’, if we look at Isaiah 45:7, it says, ‘I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.’ Here, the word 『form, make』 is the word 『Bara』. Here, ‘darkness’ is the same word as darkness mentioned in Genesis 1:2.

Darkness appears automatically when light disappears. When peace disappears, it automatically becomes tribulation. In 1 John 1:5, “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” There is no darkness in God. So, because God blocks the light, it becomes darkness. The meaning of the word bara is 『separate, cut out』. Therefore, because this material world blocks the light of God's kingdom, a material world called darkness was created.

『In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth』 This means that the material world (world) was separated from the kingdom of God. When God separated the material world, the earth (material world) was chaotic and empty, and darkness was over the deep. The material world was made of water. 『The Spirit of God moved over the surface of the water.』The word moving means enveloping, like incubating an egg.

Why did God separate the material world from the kingdom of God? He was meant to imprison those who did not maintain their position in the kingdom of God and left their place. In Isaiah 53:6, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.』

Sheep have poor visual discernment. So, it was expressed as an animal that is easily deceived. To have gone astray means to have fallen into delusion. 『Everyone went to his own way (Ish).』 God created the first man, Adam, and brought out the woman from the man (Ish). Here, the Hebrew word ish means that through Adam, each person who sinned in the kingdom of God entered this world.

Adam is a symbol of the one who is to come. The one who comes (Christ) has the meaning of the one who took on sin. When God sent out the spirits of those who committed sins in God's kingdom to the material world, a living being like a sacrificial lamb with a body was needed. That is exactly what Adam played. Then, Eve was separated from Adam, and descendants were born through them. That is why God imprisons sinful spirits in the body.

Spirits who sinned in the kingdom of God fell into the temptation that they could become like God without God. This temptation also appeared in the Garden of Eden. So, Eve fell into the temptation of wanting to be like God first, and gave her husband the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so they were driven out of the Garden of Eden and into this world.

Although the Garden of Eden happened on this earth, it serves to explain the events of God's kingdom. In the Book of Revelation, the new heaven and new earth have no darkness, only light. Because God is light. So, in the material world where darkness exists, God does not exist.

In 1 John 2:15, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.” If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.』

However, God enters the material world through His Word to predestine Christ before the creation of the world and to save sinful spirits. Through the Word, God informs people who are trapped in the darkness of this world that God is waiting.

2. Creation of Man

(1) Soullike existence

Genesis 2:7『And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 』 (kjv)

Not only humans but also all animals become the same living being (Hebrew: nephishhai, Greek: pushke). God breathed life into the dust that formed form to give it life. What is the breath of life? It refers to spirit.

When spirit and earth met, they became soul, life. However, this soul living being is born with the destiny of death. There is a meaning that sinners against God must die. It can be said that being born into the world is itself trapped in matter and is the first death.

(2) Spirit and body

In Ecclesiastes 12:7, “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.” When a person dies, the spirit goes to God, and the body returns to the dust. In other words, the spirit is released from the prison of dust and returns to God. By the way, in order for him to return to God, he must put on holy clothes. The holy garment is the soul. In the world, the soul, a living entity, is like clothes contaminated with sin. The spirit must change its clothes into the clothes of Christ. In other words, the spirit must be changed into a new soul body (clothes of Christ). So this changing of clothes is called baptism.

(3) Baptism

In Mark 1:7, “And preached, saying, There cometh (Erchemai ἔρχεται) one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.”

Regarding John the Baptist, there were many people who thought he was the Messiah. In John 1:6-8, “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but he was sent to bear witness of that Light.』 John the Baptist made a proclamation about the Messiah in Matthew 3:1-3. 『In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.』

However, John the Baptist also wondered whether Jesus was the Messiah. So, there is a scene where he sends his disciples to ask Jesus while he is in prison. However, it is said like this. In Matthew 11:3-5, “And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? Jesus answered and said to them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.』Jesus is the Messiah.

Mark 1:7-8 talks about the water baptism given by John and the baptism of the Holy Spirit given by Jesus. Water baptism is an expression of dying to sin. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is fire and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The baptism of fire comes first, and then the baptism of the Holy Spirit. In Matthew 3:11, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance.” but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:』

Baptism with fire and the Holy Spirit means that the soul (like clothes from the body) is burned to death by the fire of the Holy Spirit and is replaced with new clothes (clothes of Christ). The death of one's former clothes by fire represents the death of one's old self and the judgment of God. Therefore, saints are also considered to have already been judged if they died on the cross with Jesus Christ.

Baptism in the Holy Spirit means being born from heaven with the Holy Spirit and the clothes of new life. It means resurrection. Galatians 3:27 『For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.』

At the time of the early church, many people would have heard about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Those who received the baptism of the Holy Spirit were so happy that they could not bear it. So, in the eyes of non-believers, they said, “Those people are drunk.” When you get drunk, you forget everything. Likewise, it is said that after receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit, he became “drunk on new wine.” The new wine means ‘Heaven is coming’ because the gospel is to be spread. It is to preach the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In order for this salvation to be delivered, we seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The disciples said, “Isn’t it morning? No one has been drinking here.”

In the Gospel of Matthew, John the Baptist refers to the Holy Spirit and the baptism of fire, and it is used once in Luke 12:49. 『I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?.』What Jesus did for three years was to throw fire on the earth. In chapter 12, verse 50, “But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!” Baptism by fire symbolizes the death (judgment) of Jesus Christ on the cross. It tells us that all people will be judged by fire like the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah. And the baptism of the Holy Spirit symbolizes the resurrection of Jesus.

Everyone passes through the second death. The first death is death to sin (baptism in water), and the second death is death to the soul (baptism in fire). The soul refers to the physical body received from parents. This is expressed as a physical body (fresh), which means physical life, unlike body, which means flesh. So we find people making every effort to cleanse this physical body. However, the physical body we received from our parents contains the desire (idol) to become like God, so it must die. People in the world have a religious spirit, and this religious spirit for self becomes an idol (Greek sarex: fleshly body).

Ⅳ God’s plan of salvation

1. The Son of God and the Daughters of Man

Genesis 6:1-7『And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; And also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.』

The sons of God represent angels (spirits) who sinned. The daughters of men represent bodies made of dust. The marriage of the Son of God and the daughters of Man metaphorically expresses the spirit combining with the dust to become a human being. In God's view, humans are the expression of beings who want to be like God. So God trapped the spirits of his sons, angels, in the dust and created humans, which he regrets.

Although God caused them to die, he presents a motif to save them. It was an ark. This means that all humans must die in the flood. However, it means that salvation will be provided through the ark. The ark symbolizes Jesus Christ. Entering the ark means being united with Jesus who died on the cross. If a believer believes that he died in union with Jesus Christ, he will be united in union with Christ and be resurrected. Resurrection is the new creation and getting off the ark.

2. The flood judgment and the ark

Luke 17:26-27 『And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.』

The Bible tells us through the time of Noah that all humans are beings who must die by drowning. In 2 Peter 2:4-5, “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And he spared not the old world, but he saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the unholy;』

Peter connects the time of Noah with the angel who sinned in the kingdom of God, because God's Son (the angel who sinned) took the daughter of a man (an image made of clay) as his wife. So, because the two are combined, one becomes a person of the soul. Without exception, humans in the state of soul want to be like God and thus reveal their righteousness. All soul people must die. God trapped the spirits of angels in the dust and turned them into humans, so the world is a prison, and humans are sinners from birth.

The time of the Son of Man means the second coming of Christ. The Second Coming of Christ is the Parousian (presence) of the Word (Ho-Logos) and the Holy Spirit for believers in present-day resurrection. However, other people (believers) say that they believe in God, but they are absorbed in worldly affairs such as ‘eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage,’ and so they are destroyed. So only Noah and his seven family members were saved.

Only those who understand the meaning of the end can move on to new life. In the end, for those who are in Christ, a temple will be built in their hearts, Jesus will return, they will become one, and the kingdom of God will be established, but for those who do not, the second coming of Jesus will come as judgment.

The apocalypse is not some point in the future, it is happening now. Currently, heaven has come to believers, but believers under the law live in hell every day, because they are caught in the net of the law. Even though Jesus gives believers freedom, false prophets prevent them from escaping.

Believers must realize that they have left the kingdom of God and are trapped in the dirt of this world, discover that their greed to become like God is hidden in their fleshly selves, and repent and turn back.

Repentance begins with the realization that the old man (the first man, Adam) must die, because all humans bear traces of the old man. The terrible enemies of believers today will be false prophets and fleshly egos. Above all, most churches have been tainted by humanism, legalism, and gnosticism. Faith in blessings and blessings overflows within the church. Even though the Bible talks about the kingdom of God, believers do not even know what the kingdom of God is. They think of resurrection, the second coming of Jesus, and salvation as something in the distant future.

The carnal self wants to be more interested in the world than in the kingdom of God. The carnal self causes one to focus not on spiritual eating, drinking, getting married, and getting married, but on physical things. Saints must spiritually eat the flesh of Jesus, drink his blood, and enter the wedding feast with the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. This is not something that will happen in the distant future; it is something that is happening now.

In Luke 17:30-31, “Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.』

Those on the roof are those in Christ, and those in the house are those confined in the law. The Bible tells us not to go back into the law while remaining in Christ.

V Christ

1. Trinity

Tritheism is the theory of three Gods in three persons. Modalism is the theory that God is one God in one person who appears in the form of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit depending on the times. Modalism is the claim that God acts as the Father in the Old Testament, as the Son in the New Testament, and as the Holy Spirit after the New Testament. Subordination theory is the theory that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are completely one subject, but the Son and the Holy Spirit are subordinate to the Father. Adoption theory is the claim that Jesus became the son of God because God adopted him.

Most pro-Trinity denominations and denominations are denominations that inherit the theological tradition of Christianity, recognize only the Old and New Testaments as scriptures, and accept the theological standards of the era of the universal church as apostolic guidelines. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, and Protestant denominations include the Lutheran Church, the Reformed Church, the Anglican Church, the Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Church, the Holiness Church, and the Pentecostal Church.

Most denominations opposing the Trinity are denominations that emerged after the 19th century, and they regard the current theological tradition of mainstream Christianity as apostasy. As the early church passed through the period of the universal church, the current church was cut off due to apostasy. They argue that since the Trinity is also a theory of disconnection, rejecting it is the way to bridge the disconnection. They are restorationists who reject the Nicene Creed and the doctrines of the Universal Council, including Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter-day Saints of Jesus Christ, and Unitarians.

To summarize, believers should know that "the doctrine of the Trinity is a doctrine to explain the work that occurred during the period between Jesus' physical coming to this world as the Son of God the Father and his death on the cross."

We must believe that before Jesus came to this world, he was the only God, Jehovah God, and that even after Jesus was resurrected, he returned to the position of the only God, Jehovah God. Although God is one, not three, God imprisoned the angels who sinned in God's kingdom in the world (creation of heaven and earth, including humans), and he performed the role of Christ to bring them back to the kingdom of God (salvation). When seen through the eyes of people in the human world, he appears to be the God of the Trinity.

However, although Jesus Christ died on the cross, was resurrected, and returned to God's place, it would be difficult for believers to regard Christ, who will return, as one of the Trinity. For example, is the Holy Spirit who came to the disciples at Pentecost different from Christ? Most Christians today still think of the Holy Spirit, Christ, and the Father separately. It is difficult for them to say that there are three Gods, so they use the strange logic of saying that they are one God in three persons. Although the story could be accepted when Jesus Christ was in this world, it would be difficult to talk about the second coming of Christ according to the Trinity in the current situation.

2. Identity of Jesus

In Mark 9:1-3, “And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.” . And after six days Jesus took with him Peter, and James, and John, and led them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.』

The Jews and even the disciples of the time were confused about the identity of Jesus. Most Jews thought that Jesus was Elijah or Moses reincarnated. However, Jesus' disciples thought that Jesus was a person with the power of God. Peter confessed, “You are the Christ, the Son of God.” However, since the Bible does not say what the other disciples thought, I do not know, but they may have thought of Jesus as a god or a demigod.

The disciples had no concept of resurrection. How will the disciples react when Jesus shows them what the resurrection is like? Jesus was concerned that when they saw the resurrection scene, they would think of him as God. Although Jesus is the Son of God, he was also a man, the Son of Man. Jesus before his resurrection was neither god nor “half-god, half-man”. Today, there are many people in the church who refer to Jesus as God. I understand the purpose, but then Jesus becomes God. Believing in Jesus as God is a kind of idolatry.

In Mark 9:4-5 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.』

The disciples who saw Jesus and Elijah and Moses thought of them as gods because the disciples knew very well that Elijah was transformed into a fiery chariot and ascended to heaven. They would have read through the Pentateuch that Moses also had radiance on his face. So, Peter is saying that he will build three tabernacles (temples) and worship. This is serving idols. It is in the same context that church people today say that they are God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It's like making Jesus a god.

However, God the Father gives justice. He is my Son and came to the world to do the work of death and resurrection, so you must follow his words. Mark 9:6-7 『For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid. And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.』

Some disciples may have thought that Jesus was Elijah reincarnated. However, the scribe said that Elijah must come first, which is an expression that the scribe said in reference to what the prophet said in Malachi chapter 3. They must have been curious. In Mark 9:11-12, “And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? And he answered and told them, Elias verily cameth first, and restored all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.』

Jesus said to John the Baptist that Elijah must come first. Therefore, the Bible tells us that Jesus is neither Elijah nor God, but the Son of God who is responsible for the work of death and resurrection. In chapter 9, verse 13, “But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.” Jesus did the work of the cross, and John the Baptist did the work of the cross. Jesus made the path straight for His ministry.

Matthew 3:3『For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness (Te Eremo τῇ ἐρήμῳ), Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight .』

Te Eremo (τῇ ἐρήμῳ) represents the person who has left God. He is a person thrown into the world. Repentance is returning to God. If the road back to God was winding, John the Baptist now makes it straight and makes it easier to move forward.

In the Old Testament (Malachi), God said, “Before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes, God will send the prophet Elijah to bring back the people.” According to the words of the prophet Malachi, the Israelites believed that Elijah must come first before the Messiah comes.

John the Baptist is the spirit of Elijah who was born as a human being. That is why John the Baptist does that. In Luke 1:17, “And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.』 Here the Father is God. Children refer to Israel. He is the one against whom Israel rebels. So, in order for those who have left God to return to God, the people established for the Lord (John the Baptist) are prepared.

John the Baptist came and called for the Israelites to repent. He said to bring forth worthy fruits of repentance. The saying “the law and the prophets were until the time of John” applies here. The point of John the Baptist's cry is that God's judgment is imminent, so repent, realize that you are a sinner under the law, and find Christ. The fruit of repentance is discovering Christ. This is 『returning the heart of a father to his children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous』. This is to make the way smooth and prepare the way.

The purpose of John the Baptist being born into this world was for this purpose. The Israelites believe that if they keep the law well, they will become righteous, but this is wrong and they should repent. In that law, he realizes that he is a being who cannot escape from sin and must turn back. He is John the Baptist calling out to them to find Christ and turn to Christ. Then, it contains the message, “Christ will come and provide a way to return to God.”

John the Baptist came into the world before Jesus and spoke words that made the way forward smooth (repent), but the Pharisees and scribes who were among the leaders of the Jews did not understand. “The Son of Man will also suffer of them in the same way.” Not only did the Jews treat Jesus like John the Baptist, but the Bible also said that Jesus would suffer.

In Isaiah 40:3, “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God,” where are the wilderness and desert referred to? The wilderness and desert that John the Baptist cries out for are Israel and become a cry to the world.

The disciples thought that the kingdom of God and the world were separate, and although most believed in resurrection, they thought that the body was resurrected after death. Jesus shows his disciples in advance how the resurrection will take place. Resurrection is the story of God's kingdom. However, Jesus showed his disciples that it is not something that arises after the body dies, but something that is happening now. He also showed that the kingdom of God is coming in the world.

『After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John up a high mountain by themselves, and was transfigured before them.』”he was transfigured before them. "(kjv, niv). Metemorphode (μετεμορφώθη) is a compound word of mete (return) and morphode (image of God). God is also expressed as a shining figure in the Book of Revelation.

Resurrection will transform. In other words, it becomes a different being. Resurrection means ‘transfigure’ in English.

“The reason why resurrection is not used as the word change” is that it is not a concept of gradual change. Resurrection is a change of clothes. It is a change from leather clothes to the clothes of Christ. It is a return from the position of a human being to the form of a god. When saints are resurrected, they also become like that. Returning to the form of an angel. That is why the resurrected saints are referred to as the sons of God. Resurrection transforms the soul from the old soul into a new spirit body. The reason why clothes turn white means that previous clothes cannot become that way.

3. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross

In Matthew 20:28, Jesus said that he came to the world to provide a ransom for many people. The day before Jesus died on the cross, he said, “How I longed to eat the Passover meal.” The Passover lamb symbolizes Jesus. Eating the Passover food was an attempt to explain the meaning of Jesus dying as a ransom.

In John 6:54, Jesus said, “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” However, in verse 40 of chapter 6, it says, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” In other words, eating and drinking the flesh and blood of the Son of Man is the same as seeing and believing in the Son. “Believe” is not a word that relies on an object or believes in the words of a person like in other religions, for example, but means “unite.”

『Drinking the flesh and blood of the Son of Man means uniting with Jesus.』 I believe that Jesus Christ died in my place as a sinner who had no choice but to die on the cross. Everyone who believes that Jesus Christ died on the cross and was resurrected believes that “in union with Jesus, I am accomplished on the cross.”

In Luke 22:19-20, “And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.” Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.』 Jesus dying on the cross like this is to atone for the sins of all sinners in this world, that is, my sins. The same expression is found in Isaiah 53:1-6. Jesus Christ suffered the punishment that all humans should have to endure.

If you say, “What does Jesus’ death on the cross have to do with me?”, you do not know the meaning of dying for sin. Sin is leaving God. Many angels took off the clothes of the kingdom of God and became naked spirits, thinking, “You can become like God without God.”

However, due to God's wrath, being driven out to this world and the spirit being trapped in the body is the very nature of humans and the result of sin. In order to return to the Kingdom of God, we must repent of the mistakes we made in the Kingdom of God and return, but there are two obstacles caused by the flesh. It is a sin.

We must return after eliminating the evil in our flesh (the attribute of wanting to be like God: the old self) and all the sins committed in the world due to the old self. However, humans do not have the ability to eliminate the problem of sin on their own. Because he is a sinner. However, Jesus Christ solved the problem of sin through the atonement blood shed on the cross. I believe that I died on the cross with Jesus Christ. I believe that dying means dying to sin and evil (the old man).

Regarding sin, my sins are put to death through the atonement of Jesus Christ, but my old self is saved only when I die in union with Jesus Christ. I, my old self, must die. He must take up his cross. Jesus Christ does not eliminate the evil old man's desire to leave God, but everyone must bear his own cross. Of course, he dies on the cross with Jesus, but the subject of his old self dying is not Jesus, but himself. People mistakenly believe that Jesus solved the evil old man. However, sin was purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ.

Romans 6:3-7 says, “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.』

4. Resurrection

Church pastors today are not interested in resurrection. Because they believe that Jesus was resurrected, they have faith that someday believers will also die and be resurrected. For them, resurrection means physical resurrection after death, so being resurrected while alive is unthinkable.

People who believe that the body they received from their parents is resurrected after death value the body. So, even after death, they did not cremate and buried their bodies. Some people even freeze and store dead bodies, thinking that they will one day be revived.

Resurrection and surviving again are completely different. Jesus raised the dead many times. He raised Lazarus, Mary's brother, the daughter of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue, and the son of a widow. There are also examples of Paul and Peter raising the dead. However, it is true that those who die and come back to life do not have bodies of eternal life, but bodies that come from the ground, so they return to the ground. In Ecclesiastes 12:7, “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.”

Since Jesus raised the dead, people in the church may think of it as resurrection, but resurrection does not refer to the flesh, but rather spiritual resurrection from the dead. Resurrection means that the physical body dies and a spiritual body is born.

In 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, “So also is the resurrection of the dead.” It is sown in corruption; it is raised in corruption:

It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.』

In 1 Corinthians 15:16-18, the metaphor of a seed is that when it falls to the ground, it dies, but because there is life within it, life creates form. Inside the seed is life in the shape of a cotyledon. To put it in human terms, it is spirit. In John 6:63, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; In ‘the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.’, the subject who brings life is the Holy Spirit, and the object of life is the dead spirit. So, the life within the seed is spirit, but the form of the spirit body is given through the power of the Holy Spirit. So, the spirit takes on a spirit body and is born as a glorious body called resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15:36-38 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.』

And in 1 Corinthians 15:49-50, it clearly states that the corruptible body does not receive the inheritance of heaven. “And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.』

The spiritual body is the body that inherits the kingdom of heaven, the clothing of Christ, and the spiritual body of Christ's resurrection. The resurrected body is a body that is transformed, has no spatial limitations, and lives eternally. The physical body does not change and become a spiritual body, but the physical body dies and is reborn as a spiritual body. This is called new creation. Resurrection means new heaven and new earth.

Today's church only emphasizes the death and blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. We receive forgiveness of sins through the blood of Jesus and attain salvation. A church without resurrection becomes a half-gospel. That is why we deviate from living a life according to the Bible. It's like pastors telling believers to live according to the Bible, even though they don't live according to the Bible.

There is a fundamental difference between the beliefs of those who believe in present resurrection and those who believe that they will be resurrected after death. Those who believe in the present resurrection have realized the present second coming of Christ. That is why the kingdom of God (heaven) is established in the hearts of believers. However, those who believe that they will be resurrected after death believe that the second coming of Christ will not occur now, but sometime in the future (the end). They think of the coming of the Holy Spirit and the second coming of Christ separately. So they still believe in the Trinity of God. They even consider God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They are speaking as if there are three Gods.

For those who do not believe in the present resurrection, there is no present second coming of Christ, there is no heaven in the heart, there is no millennium in the heart, and there is no book of life in the heart. Since they do not believe in a present resurrection, they will not believe in a present ascension with Christ. The words of Colossians 3:1-3 are also unbelievable.『If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.』

Those who believe in present resurrection have their identity changed from flesh to spirit, their fleshly identity dies, and their spirit wears a spiritual body and is with Christ. Christ is on the throne and in the hearts of the saints. Therefore, saints also exist in Christ, in God on the throne, and also in the heart. Those who believe in present resurrection are those who live according to the Bible. So they preach the death and resurrection of the cross. Resurrection means that the old disappears and a new creation emerges.

5. Second Coming

When Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected, he stayed on this earth for forty days. And Jesus told his disciples that he would come again, and that he would be my witnesses to the ends of the earth. After he had finished speaking, he ascended to heaven in full view of his disciples. However, in Acts 1:11, “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.』 Strictly speaking, we must realize that the scene the disciples saw was not a spatial concept of heaven, but something that happened in their hearts.

And on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came to the disciples. Is the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost a different event from the second coming of Jesus? Basically, the answer varies depending on how believers know God. Church people know that God is the Trinity. What does the Trinity mean? It is confusing whether there are three Gods or whether there is one God.

While the developed doctrine of the Trinity is not explicit in the books that constitute the New Testment, it was first formulated as early Christians attempted to understand the relationship between Jesus and God in their scriptural documents and prior traditions.

An early reference to the three "persons" of later Trinitarian doctrines appears towards the end of the first century, where Clement of Rome rhetorically asks in his epistle as to why corruption exists among some in the Christian community; "Do we not have one God, and one Christ, and one gracious Spirit that has been poured out upon us, and one calling in Christ?" A similar example is found in the first century Didache, which directs Christians to "baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit".

Believers should know that "the doctrine of the Trinity is a doctrine to explain the work that occurred during the period between Jesus' physical coming to this world as the Son of God the Father and his death on the cross."

So, for believers who believe that Christ died on the cross with Jesus and was resurrected with Christ, the second coming of Christ comes into the hearts of believers through the power of the Holy Spirit. Of course, for believers (and other people) who do not believe that, the second coming of Christ has not occurred. The second coming of Christ does not come as a judge for believers, but as a comforter to help them avoid difficulties in order to spread the gospel in the world. Of course, Christ's second coming will be as judgment for those who are not saints on the last day. This is the White Throne Judgment. Church believers who are waiting for the second coming of Jesus must realize that the second coming has not occurred. Believers who say they are waiting for the Second Coming are the same as waiting for the White Throne Judgment. Therefore, believers waiting for the Second Coming are still under the law.

In John 16:7, “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.』 The part that suggests that God is one is John 16:15: 『All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.』

In Revelation 22:7, “Behold, I come quickly (taqi ταχύ) (er komai ἔρχομαι), and blessed is he who keeps (theron τηρῶν) the words of the prophecy of this scroll.” Taqi (ταχύ) means hastily. all. Erkomai (ἔρχομαι) means coming now. Does this mean the second coming of Jesus or the presence of Jesus in the heart? If it is the Second Coming, it will be the end of the world. However, it is not the end, but rather an expression of Christ present in the hearts of believers. Theron (τηρῶν) is also present tense. Christ will come quickly to those who keep the prophetic words of the scroll (the Book of Revelation).

Those who keep the Word are those for whom Christ is Lord and who live within His Word. Protecting means preserving. It means staying in the truth so that the meaning of the word is well preserved. It is not easy to preserve the truth in today's mostly untruth churches.

In John 14:2-3, 『In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.』 This refers to the temple that will be built in the hearts of believers. Jesus enters the temple in the hearts of believers, and saints also meet God in the Holy of Holies.

In 1 John 4:13, “Hereby know we that we dwell in him(ἐν αὐτῷ), and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.” En auto (ἐν αὐτῷ) means in Christ. When the Holy Spirit comes, believers become in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Christ also exists within the saints through the power of the Holy Spirit. It is Christ who gives the Holy Spirit. Strictly speaking, Jehovah God gives the Holy Spirit to believers. The one who gives the baptism of the Holy Spirit is Christ and Jehovah God. In the kingdom of God, the Father is Jehovah God, and the resurrected Christ is also Jehovah God. That is, there is only one Jehovah God. However, Jesus Christ, who lived in the flesh on this earth, is the Son of God the Father who came to this world in the flesh (the Son of Man).

Therefore, God's work on this earth appears as a relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And since saints are also on this earth, they establish a relationship with Jehovah God through the Father, the Son (Christ), and the Holy Spirit. If the saint is in Christ, the saint is to the Father (Jehovah God) by the power of the Holy Spirit, and if Christ is in the saint, the Father (Jehovah God) is to the saint by the power of the Holy Spirit.

When the second coming of Christ takes place in the hearts of believers, they become the kingdom of God. In Matthew 3:2, “And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Heaven refers to the kingdom of God in the hearts of believers. Thus, because Christ becomes the Lord of the saints, the name of the saints becomes 144,000, and they become kings and priests of the thousand-year kingdom.

Today, when Jesus returns at the end and the millennium is established, believers believe that they will reign with Jesus Christ. However, for those who believe in the present resurrection and the present second coming of Christ, the thousand-year kingdom will be realized right now and they will reign as kings. Satan was the king of the world, but now he reigns in Christ. Therefore, if you have received this kind of grace, you must confidently spread the gospel of truth. Today, we must rescue those who are trapped in untruth and build the kingdom of God.

Ⅵ Millennium and Hell

1. Millennium

Millennial kingdom is another name for heaven. For a believer to go to heaven, the believer passes the test from Satan (the prosecutor), does not go to hell, and becomes a citizen of heaven. When a saint becomes a citizen of heaven, he or she is in the millennium. There is a tendency to equate the millennium or heaven with the kingdom of God. The kingdom of heaven that appears in the Gospel of Matthew is translated in Greek as “He basileia ton uranon,” and is the kingdom of God in the hearts of believers. Of course, the kingdom of God is a concept with a comprehensive meaning.

Heaven (millennial kingdom) is when believers establish the kingdom of God while their bodies are alive. In Matthew 3:2 it says, “And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Heaven means Jesus Christ. A saint is a person who believes that Jesus Christ died on the cross and was resurrected, and a temple (Holy of Holies) is built in his heart, and when Christ enters his heart, he becomes heaven. Therefore, those who do not believe in the present resurrection, those who do not believe that Christ has returned and entered into the hearts of believers, cannot be considered to have come to heaven to them.

Revelation 20:1-3『And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.』

It means putting Satan into the abyss for a thousand years. So Satan becomes inactive. Satan's authority to accuse sinners is suspended for a certain period of time. The concept of a thousand years is the concept of God’s reign. The millennium is the kingdom of God that is ruled by God for a thousand years. The kingdom of God is not a concept of time and space, but a concept of God's reign, and the millennium refers to the people of the kingdom of God.

Those who do not attain the millennium are spiritually dead. These are those who have not achieved resurrection. In Ephesians 2:2-5, “Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)"

The saints, the church of the millennium, are born from heaven and are protected by God and have escaped Satan's control. However, God briefly restores Satan's right to prosecute. Satan still prosecutes sinners. So a fierce war breaks out again between prosecutors and lawyers, and the saints, disciples who have been given power by Jesus Christ, also fight against Satan and his angels. In the end, the saints in Christ win.

2. Hell and Hades

The meaning of hell is distorted because church people think of it as “burning hell.” In the Bible, the meaning of “hell” as thought by church people is expressed variously as Tartaro, Hades, and Gehenna.

First, regarding Tartar, in 2 Peter 2:4, 『For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (Tartaro), and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 』 was expressed.

Tartaro, described as hell, means that the spirit is trapped in the body. Since all people are born sinners, people are in hell. This means present hell. This is a concept that contrasts with heaven. Heaven and hell are not spatial concepts but represent the spiritual state of humans.

Second, Hades means Hades, which represents the second death. In other words, Hades symbolizes fire. In Revelation 20:14, “And death and hell (Hades) were cast into the lake of fire.” This is the second death.』

Hades, expressed as hell, is not a concept of hell being trapped, but receiving fire. In other words, it represents the second death. The second death is a fire. Then, the first death is seen as the spiritual first death when the spirit is trapped in the dust. These are the spiritually dead (Necros). And the second death is being judged by the fire of the Holy Spirit and the word of God (the lake). Death and Hades are personified expressions. And in Revelation 20:9, “And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.”

Fire has two meanings. The old self dies through fire baptism and is reborn as a new person through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and there is fire given to believers as a means of refinement. Baptism by fire has the meaning of salvation, leading from hell to heaven, and fire has the meaning of refinement.

The first baptism of fire is in Genesis 19:24, “Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;” It represents God's judgment on the city of Sodom, and its purpose is to save Lot and his family. In 2 Peter 2:7, 『And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:』

Baptism by fire represents judgment and salvation. The side that gets hit by the fire is judgment, and the side that escapes the fire is salvation. Those in Sodom are those who are in untruth, and Lot, who is suffering, is those who are in truth, and God is bringing out those who are in truth through fire baptism. Baptism by fire burns the old self (the clothes of the physical soul) with fire and creates a new person (the clothes of Christ).

Those who have passed the second death (baptism of fire: union with death on the cross) while the body is alive participate in the first resurrection (new person). In Revelation 20:4-5, “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God.” , and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, nor had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.』

These words were expressed figuratively. Those who die on the cross with Jesus Christ will be resurrected together and achieve the millennium (heaven). The concept of the millennium is not a concept of a period of time, but symbolizes the kingdom of God in the heart. So, the first resurrection takes place while the saints are alive. This means that when the first resurrection takes place, one will reign with Christ. This means that saints become royal priests.

In Revelation 20:6, “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 』The first resurrection and the second death are contrasted. The second death symbolizes dying on the cross with Jesus Christ, so we are no longer subject to the second death. Saints no longer experience spiritual death. This is resurrection. Of course, death occurs physically, but that is not the meaning of death in the Bible.

In John 5:25, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that shall hear live.” The dead are spiritually dead, but when they hear the voice of God and repent and turn back from being sinners, they become spiritually alive. So, resurrection means that it occurs spiritually (spiritual body), not physically.

Colossians 1:13 『Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:』. In Ephesians 2:6, “And he hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” This means heaven arising in the heart. Salvation is moving from the kingdom of death (the law) to the kingdom of eternal life (the baptism of the Holy Spirit) through fire baptism.

Judgment and salvation are present events that occur in believers. For saints, judgment is dying on the cross with Jesus (water baptism: dying to sin, fire baptism: dying to soul, second death), and salvation for saints is being resurrected with Jesus. Those who do not believe this will one day go to the resurrection of judgment and be judged. Heaven and hell become a story of the present. If you have eternal life right now, it is heaven, and if you do not, it is hell.

In Revelation 20:15, “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” ἐβλήθη εἰς τὴν λίμνην τοῦ πυρός. The word hurede (εὑρέθη: to discover) is not translated here.

This means that anyone whose name is not found in the Book of Life will be thrown into the lake of fire. The Book of Life is in everyone's heart, but we must open it and discover a name. Otherwise, you are living in hell. It means that only those who understand the name will know it. When the dead spirit in the heart is resurrected and arises, a temple is built and Christ enters the temple. So the name becomes Christ. So Christ becomes my master.

And there is a refining fire. Who makes fire? Fire is made by people. He submits himself to judgment. The reason God allowed this fire is in 1 Peter 1:7, “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory.” at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 』Revelation 3:18『I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.』Fire has the meaning of refinement. Experiencing hellfire while alive is something that God allows for refinement. That refinement is what makes gold.

When a believer realizes the meaning of fire and escapes from untruth, it becomes gold. It's like Lot coming out of Sodom. When believers suffering from hellish untruth come out of there and enter the truth, they become heaven. Therefore, fire allows one to come out of previous untruth (physical self) and move towards truth (spiritual self). To a son who is going astray, his father's whip is seen as fire, but in the end, it leads to a good life. Whether a son regards his father as a scary person or as a loving person depends on how the son looks at his father. In the end, if believers recognize fire as a path to salvation, it leads to heaven, but if they perceive fire as pain, it becomes hellfire. Although believers experience hell and are refined spiritually, when they move toward the truth, they become those who enjoy heaven. He will become one hundred and forty-four thousand saints, the millennium, and the new heaven and new earth. Heaven and hell are experienced by believers while they are alive and remain until they die. That is why believers must fight and overcome the fleshly nature within them.

Third, Gehenna has the meaning of burning garbage. Fire has the meaning of refinement, but fire that is not refined becomes a fire that causes pain. However, the meaning is confusing because Gehenna is translated as hell. In Mark 9:47, “And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell (Gehenna) fire:”

Gehenna refers to slaughtering a sacrifice in the courtyard of the sanctuary and burning the animal's carcass outside the gates. It is a garbage disposal site. In Jeremiah 7:31-32, “And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.』 Gehenna appeared in the Valley of Hinnom. The Valley of Hinnom was a garbage dump to the southeast outside Jerusalem. Burning animal corpses. Maggots come out of the corpse.

In Mark 9:48, “Where their worm died not, and the fire is not quenched.” However, in the Valley of Hinnom, among the Israelites, they sacrificed their children to Molech. This signifies the corruption of the temple at that time. To compare it to today, church people kill the Son of God and offer his blood to God every day in order to receive forgiveness for their sins. This is what happens in corrupt churches.

This is a different concept from Gehenna and Tartaro, which are translated as hell. Tartaro represents the trapped darkness, but Gehenna is intended to represent burning with fire rather than hell. The meaning of burning trash is different from baptism of fire. Baptism of fire has the meaning of salvation and judgment, but Gehenna has the meaning of burning garbage. The fire of the tongue in a person's heart is intended to burn others, and even the Son of God. When a believer burns himself, it becomes a refinement, but when he burns others, it literally becomes hellfire. He will live in hellfire.

Heaven and hell are things that are currently happening to everyone, and are things that extend even after the body dies. Currently, those who are in Christ become heaven, and those who are outside of Christ become hell. This means that those who are outside of Christ repent and receive the baptism of fire (the second death) and enter Christ into heaven, and those who are in Christ are also refined by fire and become more like pure gold.

Those who have received the baptism of fire participate in the first resurrection. Those who do not do so will undergo the second resurrection after their physical death and will be judged by fire. The first resurrection means putting on Christ. Saints become royal priests.

3. Spiritual War

Spiritual warfare is literally an invisible war. Many people living in the world live with their own religion, and there may also be people who do not have a religion. However, a significant portion of them have Christianity as their religion, and if you ask them about spiritual warfare, most of them will say that the target is Satan or an evil spirit.

Spiritual war, like physical war, is a state in which you cannot fight if you do not know how to identify enemies. If you do not know who you are in a spiritual war and who you are fighting against, you will lose the war.

When a person is born, passes through infancy and enters adolescence, he or she begins to develop self-consciousness. This is how people come into contact with their identity. If he doesn't know me, he can't go to war. The self that everyone appears at birth is the physical self. This physical self is a collection of approximately seven characteristics. These are the nature of the body, blood relations, experience and knowledge, thoughts and ideologies, religiosity, self-righteousness, and the desire to dominate. This may develop or shrink as we grow, but overall it does not change. However, because this physical self stands in hostile opposition to God, it ignores the spirit trapped in the body or rejects its very existence. So it also rejects the words of the Bible.

Only when we are clearly aware of the existence of spirit can we properly stand on our own identity. The Bible speaks of humans as beings in which body and spirit are combined. However, the spirit is trapped in a body called dust. So the spirit does not know God and is in darkness. To use a metaphor, it is like a person who committed a crime while living in the world and is in prison. So, the person lives freely in the world, but then their clothes and everything they used to wear in the world are taken away, and it is like living in prison for a certain period of time wearing a prison uniform with a number on it. In prison, a person's identity will be the number on their prison uniform. The spirit trapped in the human body is likewise trapped in the body by sinning in the kingdom of God, and is wearing the clothing of a soul.

In order for someone imprisoned to realize their former identity, they will have to remember their parents, think about the house they lived in, and think about the family they lived with. Likewise, humans also get a glimpse of what spiritual identity is only when they are interested in the spirit. At that time, confusion in the believer's identity arises. In the Bible, the secrets of heaven are explained through the parable of the sower. Just as the buds of life grow by plowing the soil, sowing seeds, watering, and cultivating, they come to realize the spirit trapped in the body through countless meditations and reading the words of the Bible.

In the Bible, it is said that the fundamental reason why the spirit was trapped in the body was because the spirit wanted to become like God. That is greed and idolization. That is why the Bible says that this is a sin against God. Sin means opposing God and turning away from Him. The Bible says in Genesis 2:17 that sinners against God must die twice. “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” The translated Bible says you will surely die, but the Hebrew Bible says you will die and die. Those who realize that they must die twice like this are those who realize that they are sinners who have left the kingdom of God and are trapped in the dust, and have a desire to repent. He realizes that he has no choice but to die to God and begins to ask God for forgiveness. This is repentance. So they participate in the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.

The first death is that we must die to sin. This is water baptism. Romans 6:3-7 talks about baptism and sin. 『Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.』

Since humans cannot die on their own, God uses His Son Jesus Christ to redeem those who repent by dying on the cross. It is a method that allows sinners to be forgiven of their sins by making them believe that not only did Jesus die on behalf of humans, but that saints also died with Jesus. So, those who become saints have already been judged. The White Throne Judgment will be received by all those who are in the law.

The second death is the death of the soul. This is a baptism of fire. Take off your previous clothes and burn them in the fire. The soul is like a leather garment that becomes a human being when the body and spirit meet. This is the clothing that God gave to the first man, Adam. However, since these are clothes that come from the flesh, we must take them off and change into clothes that come from heaven. This is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This is called the clothing of Christ. Those who change into the clothes of Christ wear new clothes (spiritual bodies), so their spirit receives light and comes to life. In 1 Corinthians 15:43-44, Apostle Paul explains the spiritual body. The spiritual body can be said to be the body of a resurrected person. Since we have a body, we just don't recognize it. If he does not believe that he is resurrected, then he has not changed his clothes. When we believe in the resurrection, a temple is built in the hearts of believers. This is called the kingdom of God (heaven) in the world. The kingdom of God in the hearts of believers is also called the third heaven. That is why Christ enters the temple in the hearts of believers. This is the Second Coming. Those who do not believe in the second coming of Christ will not find heaven in their hearts.

So, in the body, the self-identity revealed from the flesh and the spiritual self-identity born from heaven through the Holy Spirit become mixed. Here, identification of enemies became possible. The true me is a spiritual identity born from heaven, and my enemy is none other than an identity born from the flesh. This is where most Christians get mistaken. Since they cannot “discern their enemies,” they do not know the meaning of Jesus’ words to deny oneself. The object of self-denial is the physical self, and the subject that must be denied is the spiritual self. These two fight until their bodies die.

Humans are born into the world, but unfortunately, the world is like a prison for the spirit. There are people in this world who manage prisons. There is a prison warden, and there will also be subordinates. They can control prisoners by law, punish them by law when they commit illegal acts, and even make them do labor. To use a spiritual analogy, we could say that these people are public officials who play a villainous role against sinners. The prison director is Satan, and those under him are angels who play villains. That is why it is expressed as a dark spirit (devil, etc.). Everyone just does their part.

However, God stamps those who die twice to the flesh acknowledging their innocence even before they leave the world (prison). You are no longer a sinner. They are the guards who played the role of the villain and no longer intervene and cannot do anything. We only live in the world because of our bodies. In 1 John 3:9, “Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God..” In 1 John 5:18, “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; But he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 』However, even if a believer escapes from the bondage of a sinner, it is not Satan or a dark spirit that torments him, but the fleshly self. That is why there is a constant battle with oneself.

4. What should the life of a saved person be like?

Ephesians 2:8-9 『For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, least any man should boast.』

When a believer is under the law, he is like a spiritual child, tossed about by the winds of deceit, crafty temptation, and all kinds of teachings. However, when a believer is under the Holy Spirit, he becomes one in believing and knowing the Son of God. Ephesians 4:13-15 『Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, where by they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:』

What is important here is to become one in believing and knowing the Son of God.

τὴν ἑνότητα τῆς πίστεως καὶ τῆς ἐπιγνώσεως τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ Faith in the Son of God and intimate knowledge of God the Father (Hebrew yada) become one. Saints must become one through faith in the Son of God and knowledge (Hebrew yada) with God the Father. So we move forward to the full size of Christ. This is accomplished in Christ.

Faith in the Son of God means death on the cross and resurrection. The faith of the Son of God is the belief that he must die on the cross for the work of salvation and that God the Father will resurrect him. When the faith of this Son of God becomes one through knowledge (yada) with God the Father, the salvation of all mankind begins. Likewise, when saints become united with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the cross, they become one with God the Father. Therefore, believers become perfect people.

『unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:』How is it achieved for a believer to be converted and become a perfect person? It will not be easy for a sinner to be converted and immediately become a perfect person. God's salvation is not inductive, but deductive. God first declares salvation through the covenant to those who repent to God. Hwagae means death on the cross with Jesus.

If a North Korean defector goes to the United States after many twists and turns and thinks he has suddenly gained American citizenship, he will become an American, but he will not be able to live a life in the United States. Although he is legally an American, he is lacking in all areas including language, culture, and economy, so he cannot be considered a complete American. So he will work hard to overcome obstacles. In order to reach the full stature of Christ, the obstacle becomes the believer's fleshly self. Jesus told us to deny ourselves.

Galatians chapter 5 reaches a mature level and is like a guidebook. The idea is to overcome obstacles while looking at this. In Galatians chapter 5, the Bible contrasts those who are born of the Spirit and those who are under the law. In Galatians 5:19-21, “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I told you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.』and in chapter 5 verses 22-23『But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.』

The same thing is said in 1 Peter chapter 2. 1 Peter 2:1-2 『Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may thereby grow』. In 1 Peter 2:11, it is translated as “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;” fleshly lusts are the passions of the flesh. Fleshly lusts can be expressed in roughly seven ways, and those that are firmly established in the hearts of believers include the nature of the flesh, blood relations, experience and knowledge, thoughts and ideologies, religious feelings, self-righteousness, and the desire to dominate.

In 2 Peter 1:4, 『Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

In 2 Peter 1:5-7, “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.』(kjv)

In 2 Peter 1:5-7, “For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.』 (niv)

In the English Bible (niv), it is translated as “make every effort to add.” Of course, the King James Bible says 『giving』, and in the Greek Bible, παρεισενέγκαντες (pareisenencantes: apply) ἐπιχορηγήσατε (epichoregesate: give)』(eight virtues) are given and applied.

This is not achieved through human efforts, but it is said that when one becomes one with God, divinity appears in this way. Virtue (excellence) is created through faith, and gifts are received through knowledge (unity with God), so people can become arrogant. He who realizes this becomes self-controlled. So it is connected to patience (hypomone). Hypomone is the saints’ stay at the throne of the Lord. So it becomes piety (Eusebeian: loving God). That is why brotherly love and agape love are achieved.

2 Peter 1:5-7 also serves as a guide for believers. This is a biblical message that tells believers to remember and see this and achieve spiritual growth. Those who are in Christ also continue to grow to the full stature of Christ. Spiritual saints fight with their physical identity, fall, rise, and grow. He grows up like a child. The full stature of Christ means that saints also become sons of God. The Son of God becomes the one who achieves the death and resurrection of the cross and the kingdom of God in the heart.

VII Judgment

1. White Throne Judgment

Revelation 20:11-12『And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.』

This represents the White Throne Judgment. Judgment is done by Christ. Regarding the One who judges, Matthew 16:27-28 says, "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto You, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.” You are not judged when you die, but you are judged before you die. In John 5:27-29, “And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.”

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and he shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." In Philippians 2:9-10, "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;"

Judgment is something that happens in the heart. Christ enters the heart as the "Ho-Logos, the Word" and judges the saints' original nature. The old man wants to become like God. This means that it is a sin. So, those who are dead to sin have already been judged. Those who die to sin have the book of life in their hearts. Those who do not have the Lamb's book of life will be judged. Those who are not in Christ and who are spiritually dead will be judged by God. Necrus are spiritually dead people. According to his own deeds, as written in the books, it means a person who dies with Jesus Christ and is resurrected together with him, thereby establishing a thousand-year kingdom.

There are two types of books. These are books other than the Lamb’s Book of Life. “The dead were judged according to their deeds (erga) as written in the books.” The books are books about deeds. The book of life is the book in Christ. However, those who are not in Christ are judged by other books. They are the ones who do not find the book of life in their hearts. Even though there is the Book of Life, you cannot see it. This is because even if you read the Bible, you cannot accept God’s good will. Only they discovered other books. The other books are the Bible, the law. Those who are subject to the law are judged according to the law. However, those who have the book of life have already been judged by the first death, so there is no judgment of the second death.

2. The second death

In Revelation 20:14-15, “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.” This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.』

“Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire (He Rimne to Pyros)” Death and Hades refer to the state of the human spirit. This means whether one is in a state of union with Christ or not. He who is in Christ has the book of life within him. Those who do not have the book of life are judged by the law according to their deeds. Baptism is being judged by fire and the Holy Spirit. Baptism means death. It is the death of an old person. The old people are judged. Death refers to the spiritually dead (old self), and Hades refers to the place where those who face the second death go. In “He Limne (Pot) to Pyros (Fire),” the lake is the Word of God, and the fire is the fire of the Holy Spirit. We will be put to the second death by the Word of God and the fire of the Holy Spirit. Is his identity an old man or is he a new man with the book of life? He becomes what he thinks and believes. All of these things happen to individual believers.

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