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| On 10th December 2021, Cheonji Ilbo (Cheonji Daily) published an article, in Korean, entitled, “What is the Actual Meaning of the 'Heavens Departed' in Revelation 6?". 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.
"It means that the spirits in the spiritual world departed from those who once belonged to God but became Satan's possession"
Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
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What is heaven likened to in the Bible? In Genesis 37, Jacob's family was likened to the sun, moon and stars, and the tent where they lived to heaven. Through this, it can be seen that the tent (tabernacle) of the chosen people belonging to God is likened to the sky and the chosen people are likened to the sun, moon and stars.
In Isaiah 34, the Old Testament prophet, there is a prophecy similar to one recorded in the book of Revelation that the stars of the heavens will disappear and the heavens will recede like a scroll being rolled up. This prophecy was fulfilled at the first coming about 700 years later. The 12 tribes of physical Israel, which became as numerous as the stars in the sky, was the tent where God dwelled - that is, the spiritual heaven. However, they were deceived by the words of the Pharisees, the scribes of Satan, and did not accept Jesus, but rather persecuted and crucified Him, thus breaking the covenant with God.
As a result, physical Israel, which passed down through physical lineage, moved from God to Satan's possession, and the world of the chosen people came to an end, and a new chosen people, spiritual Israel, began.
Jesus said in Matthew 21 that the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, would be taken away from the people of Israel, and this prophecy that the heavens would disappear like a scroll was actually fulfilled.
Likewise, at the Second Coming, the kingdom of God's chosen people, which is likened to heaven, will appear. Let's find out where this nation is through the Book of Revelation.
In Revelation 1, the seven angels whom Jesus worked through are likened to seven stars, and the seven churches they lead are the seven golden lampstands. The reason why the seven churches led by the seven angels are called the seven golden lampstands is because the seven Spirits of God before the throne of God in Revelation 4 were with them.
Therefore, in Revelation 13:6, the place where the spirits of God and the seven angels are is called 'heaven', that is, the tabernacle of the seven golden lampstands. Therefore, the heaven prophesied in the Book of Revelation is a tabernacle (church) where the seven angels whom Jesus chose to work with, and appear in reality. As such, the Bible speaks of heaven as the tabernacle of the chosen people belonging to God.
Although the seven angels who led the tabernacle of heaven were angels belonging to God, according to the contents of Revelation chapters 2 and 3, they became one with the Nicolaitans belonging to Satan, ate food sacrificed to idols and committed an act of betrayal. So, in the letter sent to these people, Jesus urges them to take note of the fact that they have fallen from the hand of Jesus, and must repent and act.
Jesus also told them that if they did not repent, they would have the seven Spirits of God taken away from them. However, in Revelation 13, the dragon gave power to the beast with seven heads and ten horns that came out of the sea - who were the destroyer-like Nicolaitans of Revelation chapters 2 and 3 - and they warred against the shepherds and congregation of the tabernacle of heaven led by the seven angels, and defeated them. They then ruled over them for forty-two months. Through this, it can be seen that the tabernacle of the chosen people, likened to heaven, did not repent, and therefore the Spirit of God departed from them.
Therefore, the words recorded in Revelation 6 of the heavens departing means that the Spirit in the spiritual world left them. Secondly, it means that the tabernacle of the seven golden lampstands, set apart as heaven in the world, had left its belonging to God to now belonging to Satan. As a result, the era of God being with the chosen people comes to an end in Revelation 6, and as in Revelation 7, the creation of a new kingdom and new people of God becomes absolutely necessary.
As we have seen through the Bible, we can see that the departure of heaven does not mean the departure of the literal heaven, nor does it refer to the political stage. Interpreting the book of Revelation, which records the work of God, according to world events is evidence that you are not a shepherd of God, but a shepherd of the world and Satan.
"These are changes in the Sun, Moon and Stars of the Sky, and Heaven, and politics. The sky in the natural world is destroyed by an earthquake"
Korean Church
Pastor, Full Gospel Church
"When the sixth seal is opened, a great earthquake occurs. When an earthquake occurs, a volcano erupts, and dust, smoke and steam fill the sky, and the sun turns black like gunpowder. The whole moon becomes like blood, and why does the moon become like blood? The moon shines with the light from the sun, and the sun just turns black like a gunpowder. Even the moon that receives that sunlight cannot shine. The moon just doesn't shine like red blood. The sun just looks black because of this great earthquake. The sun loses its light, the moon is reddish, and the stars in the sky just shake."
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