the Devil’s Pastor, and the Betrayers
Main references: Rv 13, Rv 12 (Mt 24)
How are God’s pastor, the devil’s pastor and the betrayers different from one another? How can they be distinguished between each other?
God is self-existent (Ex 3:13-15). He is the creator of all things in heaven and on earth. Nothing was made that has been made without God’s work of creation, just as it says in John 1. The devil, on the other hand, is one of the wild animals and a created being. He is that dragon, Satan and the ancient serpent (Gn 3; Rv 12:7-9; Rv 20:2).
God’s pastors can be categorized into 3 types. One is the Pastor of Prophecy, the second is the General Pastor and the third is the Promised Pastor. The Pastors of Prophecy are the prophets and apostles who recorded the Old Testament (prophecies) and the New Testament (prophecies). General Pastors are those who have preached the fulfillment of the prophecies until today. The Promised Pastor is the savior and he is the pastor prophesied (promised) in advance.
How can these pastors be distinguished from one another? God selected the prophets so people would know about this. God recorded His word, in particular the prophecies, through these prophets. The books within the Bible are the recordings of God’s word. It is this Bible (the promise), which God asks us to believe. There are four categories of biblical content within the Bible: History, Instructions, Prophecy and Fulfillment. God’s prophecies in the last 6,000 years of the Bible history have always been fulfilled accordingly. Since God surely fulfills every promise He makes, the saints of God also believe He will certainly fulfill all remaining prophecy. God’s last prophecy is the Book of Revelation in the New Testament.
Roughly 2,000 years ago, God and Jesus came to the world. They used parables to speak about the book of Revelation. The reason why they spoke in parables (Mt 13:34-35) was to fulfill the prophecy, which says, "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old" (Ps 78:2). Another reason for speaking in parables was to hide the secrets of the kingdom of heaven from Satan's pastors (Mt 13:10-15).
The Book of Revelation is sealed in parables so it may be seen but not perceived nor understood. Opening of the seals from the sealed book indicates the fulfillment of Revelation and the appearance of the physical realities of the prophecy. As it is written in John 16:25, it is the physical realities, not the figurative language, which will be shown and made known plainly. The promised pastor, after seeing and hearing them, proclaims these realities.
The saints of God today, before the prophecies are fulfilled, have the faith, which must be revealed. However, at the time of the prophecies' fulfillment, one will be able to see and believe in the revealed physical fulfillment (this is the faith that has been revealed). This is in fact, the complete faith. At the time of the First Coming, the law served as an elementary teacher, which led people to Christ (Gal 3). The Revelation that fulfilled the Old Testament plays the role of an elementary teacher as it guides people to the Revelation of the New Testament that is to be fulfilled. Furthermore, the Revelation that fulfilled the New Testament also acts as a teacher that guides people to the true God, Jesus and the Promised Pastor.
At the time of Jesus’ First Coming, the disciples asked, "Will there be many or only a few people going to be saved?" Jesus' answer implied only a few people, in fact would be saved (Lk 13:23-24).
At the end of the age at the time of the fulfillment of the New Testament, one must have five qualifications fulfilled within them in order to receive salvation and enter into the kingdom of heaven. The five qualifications are as follows: One must be harvested, one must be sealed, one must belong to the twelve tribes, one must not add to or subtract from the book of Revelation and one must have their name written in the book of life. From among the seven billion of the world’s population, it is only the people of Shincheonji who have these five qualifications fulfilled within themselves.
Among the betrayers, destroyers and the savior, it is the savior who helps the saints of God to attain these five qualifications. This is how he is able to save people. It is also these five qualifications that the pastor promised by God must testify. The destroyers are the devil and his pastors. Their work is to deceive and destroy the chosen people, just as portrayed in Revelation 2 and Matthew 24. According to Revelation 13, the destroyers made the people of God, the chosen people, become their possession and destroyed them. He wanted to rule over all which belongs to God by being like God. This devil was the ancient serpent in Genesis 3, who enticed Adam and Eve, and who made the entire creation of God, his possession. At the time of Jesus’ First Coming, he was the pastor of the Pharisees, the snakes, who expelled John the Baptist from the Jerusalem temple--John was the messenger who prepared the way of God's temple, Jerusalem, at Jesus' First Coming--and gained control over this temple (Mt 23:2, 33). These entities are the destroyers and this is the work, which the destroyers carry out.
The betrayers are the pastors and the congregation members, who were once likened unto the sun, moon and stars, and who once used to be a part of God. Having forsaken the commands of God and his word of promise, they instead believe and follow the devil, his pastors and their doctrines. This is the act of betrayal. The betrayers’ actions resemble those of Adam and Eve (Gn 3), Solomon (1Kgs 11), the Physical Israelites in Jerusalem, as well as Cain and Balaam and the fallen angels in the book of Jude. In addition to these entities, the betrayers are also symbolized in 2Peter 2, as a dog who returns to its vomit and a sow that is washed but goes back to wallowing in the mud. Also the betrayers of today are like the congregation members of the tabernacle of heaven, which we find in Revelation 13. Despite the betrayal of the chosen people, their descendants may not realize it and may go on thinking of themselves as the chosen people. Also there were times when the events of betrayal and destruction took place within the same generation. The Physical Israelites committed betrayal during the time of Solomon. At the time of Jesus' First Coming, the chosen people of Jerusalem where John the Baptist conducted his ministry also betrayed God by appointing the snake-like pastors (the Pharisees) and worshiped them. Likewise, today, just as in the time of the First Coming, the congregation members of the tabernacle of heaven worshiped gentile pastors in Revelation 13, and in doing so, betrayed God.
In the Bible, the pastor of God and the pastor of the devil can be recognized by their deeds. The prophecies of Revelation in the New Testament record the actions of the betrayers, the destroyers and of the savior. Just as it says a tree is recognized by its fruit (Mt 12:33; Lk 6:43-44), one's actions serve as the evidence that testifies to what kind of entity they belong.
The promised pastor sent by God testifies about the work of the betrayers, the work of the destroyers, and the work of the savior. This testimony is based on the fulfillment of the recorded prophecies that have appeared and the deeds conducted in accordance to those recorded prophecies. The saints are able to have faith in the fulfilled physical realities and understand them, through the word of prophecy recorded in the Bible. The savior is the one who is able to testify about the betrayers and destroyers. He testifies about the actual realities, which he has seen and heard.
Once again, out of the seven billion people of the world’s population, only the people in whom the aforementioned five qualifications have been fulfilled are those who will attain salvation.
Amen!
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