Main reference: Mal 2, Jn 10
What are the heart and the hope of a pastor and his congregation members?
There are two types of spirits. There are also two types of pastors because of the two types of spirits. They each have different hearts and hopes. If the pastor is wise, then the congregation members who follow will also be wise; if the pastor is ignorant, then the congregation members who follow will also be ignorant. If the pastor leads them by having the spirit of the devil, then the congregation members who follow will also receive the spirit of the devil and live according to the devil’s will. If the pastor leads them by having the holy Spirit, then the congregation members who follow will also receive the holy Spirit and live according to God’s will. Even if a pastor may have been chosen by God, God will leave him if the pastor becomes corrupt. The devil will enter that pastor and he will become the devil’s pastor. The congregation members who do not realize this will continue to be with their pastor and become the devil’s possession.
A pastor is someone who governs, leads, feeds, and guides his sheep. Therefore, the sheep follows its shepherd. The sheep—that is, the congregation members—must leave the shepherd who leads them away from God’s true will.
(2 Cor 6:14-18)
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” 17“Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing and I will receive you.” 18“I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
In order to obey this word, we must first have the knowledge within us, and then we must discern righteousness from lawlessness and truth from false teaching. A sheep-like believer trusts his shepherd, gives all of his heart, serves wholeheartedly, gives offerings, and remains faithful to the end. He does all of this because he believes in the pastor who has come on behalf of God and the hope this pastor brings. What does this sheep-like believer gain from trusting his pastor? Can he really secure his place in heaven and eternal life by doing so? If a congregation member fully understands the revelation from heaven, the word, he will be able to know whether his pastor is governing correctly—whether he is teaching the truth or lies. He will be able to know whether his pastor is a true pastor or a false pastor.
A true life of faith must be based on the word. Living apart from the word cannot be a true life of faith. One must discern whether the pastor who is leading him is the advocate mentioned in Malachi 2, who walks with God in the word of the covenant. One must also discern if they can find truth from his pastor’s mouth or discern if he is a pastor who is not with God, the truth, and faith but is only consumed by his own thinking. One must discern whether he is God’s pastor who truly works for His sheep or whether he is a false pastor who is like a white-washed tomb. One must discern these things to believe and follow correctly. If he is a false pastor who disregards the sheep and cares more about living his own life of flesh than the sheep’s hope, if he is a false pastor who does not know the words of the promise and their fulfillment, should the sheep still follow him?
The reason for mentioning this is that Matthew 24 says that there are many false pastors in the world, and that there have been countless false pastors within the past six thousand years since the days of Adam. How can someone who does not even know the Bible be considered as God’s pastor?
Where do the congregation members stand? In Matthew 24, it shows that at the time of the end, God’s church and his congregation are destroyed by the destroyer. As a result, the destroyer stands in the holy place. It is just like how the sun, moon, and stars are darkened. They do not shine the light and fall. If the pastor of this church knew of this reality and warned his congregation members beforehand, they would not have faced such calamity. Can this pastor be a true pastor to his congregation members?
After this, Jesus returns with the angels to harvest and gather the saints (wheat-like fruits) from the east, west, north, and south. Will these saints who are harvested be, in any way, same as the believers who were destroyed and fell to the earth (flesh)?
In Revelation 13, the dragon’s pastor, the beast with seven heads and ten horns, invades God’s tabernacle to wage war against God’s people. With the authority from the dragon, the beast overthrows the congregation and marks their right hands and foreheads with the name of the beast. The congregation, in return, worship the beast. If the pastor of this tabernacle told his congregation that the beast with seven heads and ten horns was Satan’s pastor, they would not have followed the beast or receive the mark on their right hands and foreheads and worship the beast. If the pastor of the tabernacle saw the wolf advancing, yet abandoned his congregation members, can they say that the pastor they have been following was a true pastor?
Let us listen to the words of Jesus:
(Lk 13:23-30)
Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?” He said to them, 24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ “But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ 26“Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27“But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28“There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. 29People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. 30Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”
The end for the churches, which also happened at the time of Jesus’ first coming, and Satan’s work of destruction, are recorded in the New Testament (2 Thes 2, Rv 6, Rv 13). If a pastor disregards these facts but only cries out, “We are saved, the spirit of God is upon us, we are blessed, those who are judged are the non-believers,” then is he a true pastor? Is a pastor who demands service and loyalty from his congregation members a true pastor? Or is the pastor who makes known the end of the churches, like how Jesus did, the true pastor? Both Jesus and the Bible say that the churches and congregation members are destroyed (destruction) at the time of the end. The pastors and the congregation members do not take heed of these warnings, so how can they be saved? God left them, the spirit left them, and they do not understand the true meaning of the promise, but they do not care. How can they be called believers?
God dwells with His true pastor (promised pastor) and the devil dwells with false pastors. The heart of a false pastor is like the night. He is blind and deaf and he does not have a single clue about God, the devil, the time of the end, or the harvest. When the prophecy and its fulfillment were testified, no one accepted it. In the end, the false pastor and his congregation members completely became flesh.
They do not know the fact that God’s tabernacle has fallen (Rv 13, Mt 24), that all the nations have fallen, and that they themselves have been banished from God. Indeed, they are like the dead. To make matters worse, when the truth is testified, they call it a cult. This is the reality of the world of believers at the time of the end. How is it any different from the First Coming?
Therefore, after the destruction of the world of the chosen people, God harvests from the four corners of the earth and carries out the work of sealing in order to create God’s new kingdom of priests and a new people, the great multitude dressed in white, just as He promised (Mt 24:29-31, Rv 7). The blood that Jesus shed on Golgotha two thousand years ago has power and takes effect at the time of the end, the time of the fulfillment of Revelation. God, heaven, and Jesus return upon the one who overcomes (Rv 3:12). Then those who want to find God and heaven must find the place he is at. At the First Coming, God and heaven was with Jesus (refer to Mt 3:16-17, 4:17, Jn 1:51, 14:10-11). Likewise, the Bible testifies that God and heaven is with the promised pastor at the Second Coming.
What kind of perspective must we have when we look at the Bible and the promised pastor? Should we look from the perspective of God or from the perspective of the devil? Why would someone trust the words of his pastor more than God’s words? The discernment of good and evil must be based on the words of the Bible. Arbitrary discernment without the words of the Bible is incorrect. How can someone see the hue of a true color if they are looking through colored lenses?
At the time of the fulfillment of Revelation, there is the work of betrayal, destruction, and salvation. Depending on which work the pastor does, we can know if he is the betrayer, the destroyer, or the savior. One can discern this as long as he is not blind or deaf, and if his heart is not like the night.
What is to fulfill in the New Testament is Revelation (Revelation is a comprehensive book of the New Testament). Will there be salvation for those who do not keep this Revelation (Rv 22:18-19)? Can anyone who does not believe in Revelation even after it has fulfilled be saved? The promise of Revelation states that the former world will end and that the promised new nation, new pastor, and new people will be created. In this time, those who belong to the dragon, Satan, will be thrown into hell with him, while those who belong to God will enter heaven and be with God. Amen.
“When light meets light, there is victory.”
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