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| On 16th December 2021, Cheonji Ilbo (Cheonji Daily) published an article, in Korean, entitled, “In Revelation 6, What Does 'Every Mountain and Island Was Removed from Its Place' Mean?" This is a translation of that report. |
π°The Bible is one of the best-selling and most widely distributed books in history, yet it is also considered to be among the least understood. The Bible, which is referred to as the New Covenant and Promise of God, in which 'the way to heaven and salvation' is presented, differs in theologians' interpretations that make it difficult to understand. These differing interpretations have been the cause of the rise of denominations with each one establishing their own doctrine. With the increase in online church services and gatherings resulting from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, there has been growing interest in the comparison of various church doctrine. This paper, therefore, attempts to provide readers with the opportunity to compare differing Biblical teachings without interpretation. Among a host of online sermons and Bible-based teachings, the contrasting doctrine between the established Church and Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which has drawn public interest throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, is hereby compared and summarised. Best efforts have been made to provide a summary of Shincheonji Church of Jesus' understanding of the Bible. Judgment as to what is right or wrong is left to the reader’s discernment.
"These were the branch churches of the tabernacle of the seven golden lampstands that began as God's possession but became Gentile possession"
Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
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In the main reference, when the sixth seal is opened, a great earthquake occurs, the sun turns black like sackcloth, the moon becomes like blood, the stars in the sky fall to the earth, the sky recedes like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island is removed from its place. Let's understand the true meaning of the expression that 'every mountain and island was removed from its place.'
Some established denominations claim that when the time of the Second Coming comes, the continental plates will shift and earthquakes and tsunamis will kill many, and there will be a humanitarian catastrophe. Is this Biblical?
Does the God who created heaven and earth want mankind today to be destroyed through tectonic shifts and crustal movements, and for mountains and islands to be dislodged from their places at the time of Revelation? Or does He want everyone to live? God wants all people to live and to be saved.
What believers looking at the Bible should know is that the Bible is not a book that can be understood purely by reading it literally. This is a book that can only be understood once we know the will of God who has given us these words. Jesus, who came to this earth 2000 years ago, hid the secrets of the kingdom of heaven in parables and promised to reveal them when the time comes. This time is today.
The mountain God spoke of is a spiritual mountain that is likened to a physical mountain, and the mountain we see in Ezekiel 36:1–4, Isaiah 2, Zechariah 8:3, and in other reference verses, refers to a city or church. Have you ever heard of the saying, “people mountain people sea”? Just as the place where many people are gathered is expressed in this way, a spiritual mountain refers to a church or organisation where many believers, who are made of the dust of the earth, gather.
Also, an island is a small piece of land in the middle of the sea, and the sea is called the world in Daniel 7:3 and 17. God likens the dust of the earth to people (Genesis 2:17, Luke 8:15), so the island God speaks of refers to a church where believers, who are formed out of the dust of the earth, gather in the midst of the world. Therefore, the removal of every mountain and island from their place means that the churches in the world like the sea are removed from their place.
If so, how can a church move from its place? In Jeremiah 6:9~13, we see that Jerusalem, the chosen people of God, broke the covenant with God and betrayed. As a result, it is written that they would be put to an end by the Gentile destroyers, and that their houses, lands and wives would be transferred to another people's possession. Therefore, the possession of Jerusalem, the tabernacle of God, became the possession of the tabernacle of Satan, the Gentile destroyer, due to their betrayal, and Jerusalem was removed from its place as it became Satan's possession.
Then, let's look at the reality of the Book of Revelation that is being fulfilled today.
In Revelation 1, a church known as the tabernacle of the seven golden lampstands that prepared the way for the Lord appeared. But as we see in Revelation 2 and 3, this tabernacle of the seven golden lampstands, the tabernacle of heaven, who were the chosen people, committed an act of betrayal and broke the covenant with God.
In order to bring them back, Jesus sent His messenger to send them letters of repentance. However, instead of despising their own actions and repenting, like Adam they ended up being driven out and went to the Gentile denominations of the mountains, rocks and their pastors in Revelation 6.
Therefore, the removal of every mountain and island from its place in the main reference does not refer to the disappearance of land or a church.
When the headquarters of the Tabernacle Temple (Tabernacle of the Seven Golden Lampstands) that betrayed was transferred to Gentile property, the branch churches of the Tabernacle of the Seven Golden Lampstands, in the world like the sea, changed from being God's possession to Gentile possession.
The great earthquake that appears when the sixth seal is opened is a spiritual earthquake, meaning that the hearts of the believers of the tabernacle, like the soil, were greatly shaken. When the sun and moon darken and turn to blood, it means that the light, the word of life, disappeared from the pastors and evangelists of the tabernacle temple that betrayed. The falling of the stars from heaven to the earth indicated that the chosen people who betrayed became people who belonged to God but now became the possession of the Gentiles, who are mere flesh (Jeremiah 17:13). The fact that the heavens recede like a scroll being rolled up means that the Spirit in the spiritual world departed, and the tabernacle of the seven golden lampstands and its branch churches, which was once heaven in the world, was removed from its original place.
The event in this main reference is a sign of the Second Coming that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24; and as the sun, moon and stars darkened and fell, the era of spiritual Israel comes to an end and Jesus, who returns as the light in the night, harvests the ripened grain-like believers from all directions. As promised in Revelation chapter 7, the 12 tribes of Israel will be created anew. Therefore, all believers need not become the sun, moon and stars of spiritual Israel that is judged and destroyed, but can belong to the 12 tribes of new spiritual Israel that is created through the promised pastor, the one who overcomes, and receive the blessing of heaven and eternal life.
"Movements of tectonic plates, earthquakes and major shifts in axis between Antarctica and the North Pole"
Korean Church
Pastor A, Presbyterian Church
"The 'Great Earthquake' is a serious earthquake! It has been said that such a large-scale earthquake will come. No one knows what the mantle will do when such a cataclysm occurs. That's why every mountain and island is dislodged. Such a phenomenon will occur at that time."
Pastor B, Presbyterian Church
"What is expressed in verse 12? That an earthquake will take place. The sun turns black and the moon is stained with blood. In verse 13, the stars fall, and in verse 14 the skies are gone, and the mountains and islands are removed from their places. This refers to the situation in which the plates move due to a change in the crust."
Pastor C, Presbyterian Church
"Mountains and islands have been removed from their places, caused by other tectonic shifts and resulting in tsunamis."
Pastor D, Holiness Church
"An earthquake big enough to move mountains and islands and to shift the Earth's axis of rotation will suddenly explode on this Earth. Wait and see. There may come a moment when the earth rotates rapidly in an instant in the aftermath of such a quake. Do you understand?
Or such a catastrophe would occur, in which the South Pole and the North Pole would change, and the Earth's axis change."
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