The Great Hailstorm in the Temple

The Great Hailstorm in the Temple



Main references: Rv 11:19; Is 28:2; Rv 8:7; Rv 16:21; Mt 13:34-35; Jn 16:25

In Rv 11, the temple in heaven is not referring to the same temple of heaven mentioned in Rv 13:6, which was established in the physical world. It is referring to the promised temple upon which the temple of God in the spiritual world descends. The great hailstorm in the temple symbolizes a pastor in whom God’s word of wrath is stored (Is 28:2).

Most of the prophecies in the Old Testament were literal, but the prophecies—the words of mystery—in the New Testament are spiritual. They use people, places, and things from the Old Testament as metaphors (i.e. figurative language) (Hos 12:10; Mt 13:10-13). Thus, the “hail and fire mixed with blood” in the spiritual world is also figurative. If the great hailstorm in Rv 11 were meant to be literally understood, such huge hailstones would kill everyone they hit. If this is the case, why is this hailstorm from God found in God’s temple and not in his armory?

Revelation 16:21 points out that the hailstones weigh about 100 pounds—the weight of a small man. In addition, hail and fire mixed with blood is hurled down upon the earth when the first angel sounds his trumpet in Rv 8:7. The hail and fire consume one third of the earth, trees, and green grass. If this event were meant to be literally understood, one third of this globe should be burned up. Furthermore, in Rv 14, blood flows out of the winepress of God’s wrath and rises as high as a horses’ bridle for a distance of 1,600 stadia. Even if all the grapes on the earth would burst and everyone were killed, it would be impossible for the grape juice and the blood to reach the level of a horses’ bridle and spread over 1,600 stadia.

Hence, it is clear that the language of the New Testament prophecies is figurative, and that it must be hiding a true meaning. It is clear that each and every prophecy must be fulfilled to become a physical reality.

God came at the end of every generation to judge and to choose his promised pastor (Ez 1-3). This pattern repeats itself at the time of Revelation’s fulfillment. Because God’s chosen people (the betrayers) unite with the gentiles, they are forced to suffer under the gentiles (Rv 8; Rv 9) until the sounding of the sixth trumpet is complete. Things change, however, when the seventh trumpet is sounded. At the sound of the seventh trumpet, the gentiles who had invaded the tabernacle of the chosen people are judged (Rv 11:15-19). God fills his pastor, whom he has placed in charge of God’s temple, with his wrath, and God’s pastor pours this wrath out unto the gentiles. Thus, the vengeful words of this pastor (Is 28:2, 17) represent God’s judgment (Jn 12:48-50). Figuratively, this judgment is symbolized by fire (Jer 5:14) and by the hail mixed with blood (Rv 12:11).  

We in Shincheonji have seen the physical fulfillment of Revelation (i.e. its formerly hidden events that have already been revealed). We are testifying about Revelation’s fulfillment just as Jesus testified about the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies at the time of his first coming. Our testimony is true. It is only those who receive the revelation of Jesus (Rv 1:1) that will be able to know the only true God, Jesus, and the one who overcomes. It is only those who receive the revelation that will be able to receive eternal life and heaven (Mt 11:27; Jn 17:3).




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