The Importance of Knowing the Word of God
In the same way that a primary
or secondary school student acquires knowledge of the world to know the things
of the world, a believer must acquire knowledge of God in order to know the things
of God. God is the word (Jn 1:1) and everything in the spiritual and physical worlds
have been created through the word (Jn 1:3) so it through the word alone - that
is, the 66 books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation - that one can understand
God’s history, heart and His will for our individual lives and for the world. Because
God is the word and our Creator (Gen 1:1), we must go to Him to find the
answers we desperately seek.
There is one place which God and Jesus promised: ‘Shincheonji’, or ‘New Heaven New Earth’ recorded in the New Testament Book of Revelation (Rv 21). The church’s full name is 'Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony’ (hereon ‘Shincheonji church'). Jesus - not man - is the head of the church as he is the one who promised about the future events recorded in the Book of Revelation and he is the one who opens the scroll (Revelation) that has been sealed for 2000 years (Rv 5). Shincheonji church is the ‘tabernacle of the covenant law’ (Rv 15:5) where the testimony of the fulfilment of Revelation is plainly and freely made known to believers. It is, ultimately, the promised ‘New Heaven New Earth’ where God promises to dwell with His people and end all mourning, death, crying and pain (Rv 21:3-4); a promise which must be fulfilled.
Why has Shincheonji church -
which began with a handful of believers in March 1984 - grown to having 205,000
members worldwide today with an average of 2000 people coming monthly to study
the word at Shincheonji church’s Zion Christian Mission Centers?
Firstly, as explained above,
it is a church promised by God and Jesus in the Bible. People who come and learn
the word at Shincheonji church perceive a huge difference between the word taught here against that of traditional churches. Shincheonji church has the true, pure and crystal-clear word that serves for the healing of all
nations (Rv 22). It testifies to the meaning of the entire 66 books of the
Bible with the Bible alone as the standard. The reason this greatest truth has
been hidden for 2000 years until the appointed time today is to hide it from
the enemy who has led the whole world astray (Rv 12:9).
Secondly, in the same way that
Jesus Christ came as the promised pastor 2000 years ago to fulfil the
prophecies recorded by the Old Testament prophets, there is a pastor Jesus
promised who comes today to fulfil the prophecies recorded in the New Testament.
He is Jesus’ promised messenger who testifies to the churches all the events of Revelation that
he has seen and heard (Rv 22:8, 16). He is not a traditional
pastor ordained by man who preaches about Jesus’ coming 2000 years ago, but a
pastor who, by Jesus’ command, testifies to what he has seen and heard without
adding to, or taking away from, the words of the Bible (Rv 22:19). Many spiritual
leaders may claim to know the meaning of the Book of Revelation but one must actually be at the location of the events in order to testify about them.
Jesus, who is in spirit (Acts
1:11), is with the promised pastor today who teaches the new covenant that all believers
must keep, which Jesus promised in his blood (Rv 1:5-6). Those who oppose
this work of light oppose God, Jesus and the martyrs who sacrificed their lives
for God’s church. If one claims that Shincheonji church is not the place promised in the Bible,
then one must provide clear evidence without distorting the true meaning of the Bible.
The Necessity of Knowing the
Word of the Bible
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