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The Faith and the Promised Pastor



The following was written to promote proper knowledge of the word and a proper life of faith for all believers.

Religion is the will of God, and God himself is the Lord of religion. Religion should not be something that humans can simply alter on a whim for their own convenience. Our faith should be based upon the promises (prophecies) of the holy God. Who is the pastor promised in the Old and New Testaments?

1. The true pastor promised in the Old Testament

Jesus, because he overcame the world (Jn 16:33), was pastor promised for the time of the Old Testament’s fulfillment (approximately 2,000 years ago). Jesus came according to the prophecies of the Old Testament and fulfilled everything in them concerning himself (Jn 19:30). God, the Old Testament prophets, the scriptures, and even Jesus himself testified that Jesus was the promised pastor at that time (Jn 5:36-43). Although there were so many people serving as pastors in Israel at the time of the first coming, none of them were the promised pastors themselves. Jesus was the only true pastor at the time of the first coming because God, who had promised him in the Old Testament, descended upon Jesus (Mt 3:16; Lk 3:22). God and the kingdom of heaven came only to Jesus because he was the one who overcame at that time (Mt 4:17). In other words, except for Jesus, God and heaven had nothing to do with any of the pastors of the time. Jesus was the only one to receive the authority to judge, the authority over all nations, and the food of eternal life. It was only through Jesus that believers could find these blessings (Jn 5:22, 26-27, 6:48-58).
Jesus was the only one to receive the revealed word (Isa 29:9-14; Hab 2:2-3; Eze 1-3; Mt 11:27). God, heaven, the food of eternal life, and salvation could only be found in Jesus. This is why going to Jesus (Jn 14:6) and being in him was going to God, being in heaven, and receiving salvation. Those who refused to believe in Jesus were unable to be with God, in heaven, or attain salvation. These people had no choice but to go to hell (Rv 21:8).

If the Jewish pastors had been true pastors and if their congregation members had been true believers at the time of the first coming – the time when God came to Jesus – do you think they would have persecuted and murdered him? Since Jesus warned that the spiritual situation at the time of the second coming would be like that of the first coming (Lk 18:8, Lk 21:12, 24), we should be careful not to make the same mistakes that the Jewish people made. We must not regard God’s will of prophecy (Is 29:9-23) as will of people to turn the truth word into heresy. The only standard should be not the thought of people but the only the God and his word in bible (Jn 10:35).

2. The pastor promised in the New Testament

God had prophesied future events through the prophets in the Old Testament. At the appointed time, God came to Jesus and fulfilled everything through him (Jn 19:30). In the same way, almost 2,000 years have passed since Jesus prophesied about the future in the New Testament. Jesus promised to fulfill everything through the one who overcomes Satan and his group of the Nicolaitans at the time of the second coming (Rv 21:6-7). According to the New Testament, God, Jesus, and heaven will descend upon the one who overcomes Satan and his Nicolaitans (Rv 3:12, 21). In addition, Jesus promised to grant the one who overcomes (Rv 2 ~ 3) the authority to judge and the food of eternal life (Rv 2).
All of this takes place in a time just like that of the time of the first coming when a myriad of pastors are working in this world. God, Jesus, and heaven, however, have not come to these pastors. They haven’t received the revealed word, the authority to judge, or the food of eternal life either. Who is it then, that God, Jesus, and heaven descend according to the NT prophecies (Rv 3:12)? How can Christians go to heaven? How can they be with God and Jesus? Who is the one who receives and the authority to judge, authority over all nations, and the food of eternal life? From whom can we receive these things (Rv 21:7)? With whom will Jesus sit on his throne (Rv 3:21)?

If no one in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth can read or look inside the scroll of God because it is sealed (Rv 5), how can we understand it? From whom should we receive the explanation of the sealed scroll (Rv 10)? The Lord has entrusted these things only to the one who overcomes (Rev 2, 3, 12, 15, 19, 21). Jesus has commanded him to preach what he has received (Rv 10, Rv 1:1-3). In the time of the second coming, it is only through the one who overcomes that believers meet God, Jesus, and can go to heaven; it is only from the one who overcomes that we can receive the food of eternal life and the revealed word. This is because Jesus has granted everything to the one who overcomes been promised (Rv 2, 3, 12, Rv 21:7; Jn 10:35). The one who overcomes preaches the revealed word after uniting with the spirit of the counselor, who comes in the name of the Lord (Jn 14:16-17, 26, Jn 16:13-14). This is similar to the time of the first coming when God came to Jesus (Mt 3:16; Jn 1:32) and united with him (Jn 10:30). Once he had united with God, Jesus was the one who came in the name of God (Jn 5:43).

3. The evidence of the one who overcomes and of those who are defeated at the time of the New Testament's fulfillment

Spiritual warfare is a battle between God and the devil (Eph 6:10-12); but it is also a battle between God's pastors and Satan's pastors. The person who defeats the enemies of God (i.e. Satan’s group of the Nicolaitans prophesied in Rev 2, 3) becomes Israel just like Jacob (Gn 32:28) and Jesus (Jn 16:33) did. When he becomes Israel, the one who overcomes is able to create the 12 tribes of God’s kingdom and receive the promised inheritance (Rv 12:7-11, Rv 7, Rv 2, 3, Rv 21:7). Those who are defeated, in contrast, will lose everything and be scattered into seven directions (Dt 28:7, 25). These act as evidence that allow us to distinguish the one who overcomes from those who are defeated.
What is the weapon used in this spiritual battle between the Nicolaitans and the one who overcomes? Since the time of Adam and Eve (Gn 3), God and Satan have been fighting one another with the words of testimony. This is how it happened at the time of the first coming (Mt 4), and how it happens at the time of the second coming (Rv 12, 16). Both spirits and flesh are involved in spiritual warfare because the spirits work through the flesh (Rv 12). By overcoming in the battle against Satan, the salvation, power, and the kingdom of God can finally come to Earth (Rv 12:10).

Even if people claim to read and believe in God’s prophecies in the Bible, if they refuse to believe in the physical fulfillment of those prophecies, they are nothing but false believers. Just look at the Israelites at the time of the first coming. As God’s chosen people, they claimed to believe in God and the prophecies he wrote in the Old Testament. When they refused to believe in Jesus, who came as the physical fulfillment of those prophecies, they proved themselves to be false believers. If we are living in the generation of the New Testament’s fulfillment, we cannot allow ourselves to be superficial believers like the Israelites of the time of the first coming. We must be believers in sincerity and truth (refer to Rom 2:28-29). By believing in both the prophecies and their physical fulfillment we can attain salvation! The pastor promised in the Old Testament was Jesus – the one who overcame (Jn 5:39, 16:33); the pastor promised in the New Testament is the one who overcomes mentioned in Rev 12. There is only one God, one Bible, one pastor promised in the New Testament – the one who overcomes – and one place where today’s believers must go to worship God (Rv 15:4-5).

It is a mistake for Christians to believe that they will attain salvation just by following their own pastors. Salvation at the end times is only given to those who understand, believe, and belong to the pastor promised in the New Testament. This is because the promised pastor, the one who overcomes, is the only one who receives and understands the revealed scroll (i.e. the book of Revelation), which was once sealed. In the end times, no one can know God or receives heaven and salvation (Mt 11:27; Jn 17:3) without receiving the revelation from the one who overcomes.

I am not just saying all of this on my own. I am testifying according to the words of prophecy. Lately more and more pastors are proclaiming in Christian newspapers that all believers should understand the book of Revelation. No matter what they say, however, no one really understands Revelation’s true meaning. The only one who can really testify about the physical fulfillment of Revelation is the one who overcomes; the one who leads Shincheonji Church of Jesus. I testify this with absolute certainty! I earnestly pray that everyone in the world will believe in this word of testimony and attain salvation.



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