Divine Principle and v 1.9 Korea — de Paulis · Following the Stories of Real People

• Israel the 1st country prepared during 2000 years for the Messiah/Christ = “Jesus”

• Christianity the 2nd spiritual “Israel” prepared during 2000 years for the 2nd Coming, together with the living Spir. Messiah/Christ = “Jesus”

• Korea the 3rd “Israel” have been prepared for the Returning Messiah/Christ, Lord of the Second Advent.

Introduction

Church integrates human character and the Word

The purpose of a church is to find and establish God’s nation; it is not to find and establish a church.

God’s original ideal for creation was to establish one world centered on a nation.

Hence, the destination of the church is to find that nation.

/SMM 1986.11.2

Introduction

In the future, the time of the church will pass. The church is not what humankind desires.

The church is needed during the process of restoration in the realm of the Fall, but once a new era arrives, the era of the church will pass away.

Introduction

For this reason, the Unification Church is not just doing church activities. Under the name of the church, we are adapting to society, reforming society, and initiating a movement to purify society.

The mission of pioneers is to do that which cannot be done by the people who are just living within the boundaries of their own culture, society, and world. /SMM 1970.1.11

2:nd Israel 3:rd Israel Christianity Korea ”Spiritual Land” 1:st Israel

Therefore I - Jesus - tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you (Israel) and given to a people (-Korea-) who will produce its fruit. /Math 21:43

The Archangel Gabriel will blow a sacred trumpet to wake the dead at the Last Judgement

Unified Korea has the shape of an Angel blowing a horn! 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.”

Cosmic level World level 2013 Church level 1960 2003

The shape of Korea: special meaning according to the I Ching. It looks like the archangel blowing a trumpet. Rev 8:6; 1 Thess. 4:16

USA has the role of roman-empire 2000 years ago. DP: The situations unfolding in Christianity today are similar to those which took place in Judaism at Jesus’ time.

The Korean flag is called taegukki. Its appearance symbolizes the principles of yin and yang in Oriental philosophy.

The circle in the center is divided into two equal parts.

The upper red section represents the ”positive” cosmic energy yang. Similarly, the lower blue section symbolizes, the ”negative” cosmic forces yin.

The two forces together embody the concept of perpetual motion and balance and harmony that characterize the eternal realm. (KoH)

The circle is surrounded by four trigram, one in each corner, from the ancient Chinese wisdom book I Ching

Confucius and Lao-tse has commented on this important book of wisdom!

Each trigram symbolizes one of the four universal elements (from top left around clockwise):

Name Property Element Family relationship Ch’ien, the creative - strong - heaven - Father K’an, the precipice - dangerous - water - second Son K’un, the host - sacrificing - earth - Mother Li, connects - is brilliant - fire - second Daughter

Why Korea as the chosen Messianic Country 23 reasons - hints

1. Mathew 21:33-34 shows that it is not Israel. 2. Rev. 7:2, an angel ascend from the east. 3. A country with very strong Christian revival. 4. Confirmed by many: Billy Graham, Stanley Sjöberg (Swe), Yonggi Cho … 5. Land with spiritual traditions. 6. Land that never started wars over 4,300 years.

Why Korea as the chosen Messianic Country 23 reasons - hints

7. Many Messianic prophecies. 8. Nostradamus – Messiah will return in Asia 9. Similar suffering history: Korea-Israel 10. Korea-Israel Independence same year 1948 11. 38th parallel =dividing good-evil 12. The country resembles AN ANGEL BLOWING OUT THE “TRUTH” (A HORN). 13. The language Hangul was received as revelation. 14. Folk costume is completely white clothes = God’s colour

Why Korea as the chosen Messianic Country 23 reasons - hints

15. Korean house has many spiritual symbols. 16. Flag loaded with symbols! - I Ching 17. People with strong character. 18. Country with four distinct seasons. 19. Many traditions have been revealed. 20. 1920 Hitler started his evil revelations on the day Sun Myung Moon was born! 21. 1920 Lenin started communism 3 days prior to Sun Myung Moon’s birth! 22. 1920 the poet Yeats writes “The Second Coming” 23. 1936 Billy Graham’s wife, Ruth, born 1920 is growing up in China and going to school in Korea 1935.

Why Korea as the chosen Messianic Country 23 reasons - hints

Sources: Divine Principle – HSA-UWC

Young Whi Kims Study Guide I & II Speeches by Dr. SM Moon 1920 - The Birth of the Messiah, by Jon Quinn

Why Korea as the chosen Messianic Country

13. The language Hangul was received as revelation.

King Sejong is one of the greatest leaders in all Korean history. He is often referred to as one of the most outstanding exemplars for those in the Korean business world.

I am descended from him on my Korean side with the surname Yi ( 李 ) of Jeonju ( 全州 ).

King Sejong became a recognized figure because his leadership style aligned with universal principles, which also happen to coincide with our beliefs.

I argue that his character and values were also similar to Reverend Moon’s.

King Sejong was born on the tenth day of the fourth month in 1397, by the lunar calendar. He was the grandchild of King Taejo of Joseon who established the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897), which arose after the fall of Goryeo (918–1392). King Sejong ascended the throne at the age of 21 as the fourth king of Joseon (r. 1418–1450) after his father, King Taejong of Joseon. At the time of his ascension, Joseon was still unstable. It was a new dynasty in dire need of a leader with a strong heart and mind in addition to skill.

As history has shown, King Sejong more than lived up to what had been expected of him. He played a major role in stabilizing Joseon and is recognized for his exceptional leadership.

His leadership inspired some of the greatest scientific and cultural advancements of his time, including applying advanced arithmetic to farming and calendar development; producing astronomical charts and 347 books of musical scores; as well as developing the Korean alphabet.

All this was achieved during the 32 years of his reign.

If we parallel parts of King Sejong’s era with ours, we realize that we too are striving to establish a new nation: Cheon Il Guk. That is our ultimate goal.

Thus, if we draw out some common basic principles, we may be able to discover that we can learn something from history.

More, souce https://appliedunificationism.com/2016/05/04/king-sejong-and-unificationism/#more-5099

Korea – Holy Land of the Morning Calm

He is the king who democratized the Korean language; he gave the people the ability to read by creating the alphabet, hangul, moving the language away from just the Chinese characters that only the aristocrats could read, so that the national language could be written and read by everyone.

Based upon which language will all languages be unified? The answer to this question is obvious. Children should learn the language of their parents. If Christ does indeed return to the land of Korea, then he will certainly use the Korean language, which will then become the mother tongue for all humanity.

Eventually, all people should speak the True Parents’ language as their mother tongue. All of humanity will become one people and use one language, thus establishing one global nation under God. /DP 1996

The Prophecies of Nostradamus

Long awaited he will never return in Europe He will appear in Asia=Korea

Comment: 4 major countries in Asia; • India ; Hinduism – difficult for new Truth based on Christianity • China; atheistic Communism • Japan; militaristic occupying Korea 1905-1945 • Korea ; thriving Christianity – Shamanism;spiritual traditions Pyongyang; Jerusalem of the East

3:rd Israel 2:nd Israel Korea Christianity ”Spiritual Land” 1:st Israel

Therefore I - Jesus - tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you (Israel) and given to a people (-Korea-) who will produce its fruit. /Math 21:43

During the early 20th century, Pyongyang came to be known among missionaries as being the “Jerusalem of the East” due to its historical status as a stronghold of Christianity, namely Protestantism. /wikipedia

Spiritual fire

Spiritual fire and internal Christian revival

No matter how cruelly subjugated the Korean people were, some spiritual manifestation of the subjective, Adamic authority had to appear.

What kind of works were to he done?

Spiritual works.

Spiritual fire

Groups emerged in which this spiritual activity could take place. Japan, the Eve-type nation on the satanic side, was oppressing Korea.

Nevertheless, since God had a plan for His future providence, He had to make necessary preparations even while Imperial Japan ruled Korea.

For this reason, Christianity made progress even in those days.

Spiritual fire

First, Western missionaries came in the 1910s and the 1920s, but they were unwelcome. They had to go back.

From 1930 to 1936 was a golden age of Christianity in Korea.

Through Korea’s traditional Christian churches, God has been conducting spiritual manifestations to this day.

During the 1930s and 1940s, He built a foundation even before Korea’s liberation.

Spiritual fire

The Apostles who at first did not follow Jesus because they lacked faith worked very hard to establish the Christian foundation.

On that foundation began the history leading to the Second Advent of the Lord.

Before Korea’s liberation, many people were able to communicate with the spirit world and referred to themselves as biblical figures such as Peter, John, Paul or Abraham.

Spiritual fire

The spirits who represented all those prophets, who had come and gone throughout history manifested themselves on earth all at once through these spiritual groups in Korea.

As a result, many groups formed that were bent on the restoration of Eden.

Spiritual fire

Among the groups focused on restoring Eden, one represented the Old Testament Age, one the New Testament Age and one the Completed Testament Age.

Within that preparation, there was a heavenly program to cleanse sins, so participants overcome tremendous obstacles.

How did Japan dominate Korea for forty years? Even the satanic side knew that in the future Adam on the heavenly side would appear.

Satan already knew of the coming of the true Lord; he knew the coming of the Lord as the culmination of four thousand years of history.

Therefore, Japan occupied Korea in order to destroy that possibility. That is why Japan invaded Asia.

From this point of view, we can understand that Korea is a providential nation centered on God’s will.

We know that it is a principle of development that prior to the appearance of what is true, what is false appears. That is why the devil invaded Asia and ruled it for forty years.

Thus, the satanic forces brought Korean women aged from twelve to forty, those purity was most cherished, into sexual slavery with the intention of staining the national character of the Korean people.

Kim Seong-do 1883-1944

You have all heard of Grandmother Kim Seong-do from Cholsan. She was Chung Seok-on’s mother.

This Grandmother Kim had the mission of the Korean Eve.

She was an exemplary woman who opened the gate to the providence of Korea’s restoration.

Kim Seong-do 1883-1944

She could not have lived an ordinary life, being married and having a family.

She had to go through a unique course… There is division into the heavenly side and the satanic side.

Restoration is impossible except in connection to that lineage.

Kim Seong-do 1883-1944

She received so many teachings from Heaven. She heard the exact date of Korea’s liberation. She also heard that the Lord would come to Korea as a man in the flesh, at his Second Advent.

She thoroughly understood that the coming of the Lord was a great privilege for Korea. She also understood that God would restore the world through Korea.

Kim Seong-do 1883-1944

Heaven had prepared this foundation around Cholsan; through the spirit world, Heaven taught her many things, such as how Eden could be restored and why Eve had fallen.

Mr. Baek Nam-ju from Wonsan had done research on Swedenborg’s spiritual endeavors and translated his books.

He received revelations from God that the Messiah would come to Korea.

Pastor Baek Nam-ju

He decided to prepare for the coming Lord.

In order to pay indemnity for Jesus’ suffering, he walked barefoot to Cholsan to meet Kim Seong-do and apply to register Grandmother Kim’s group under the name Holy Lord Church. He was the first person in Korea to have a John-the-Baptist mission.

Conflict between the groups

In the satanic world, it is not fair that a woman has to fight alone, representing a nation. A woman should fight in concert with men. Men and women should work together and have a unified foundation. Did Mr. Baek Nam-ju work in that way? He did.

They should have been completely united, but they weren’t. Mr. Pack was also aware — through revelations from the spirit world — that Korea would become a nation with a special, God-ordained providential course, but he did not know how it would come about.

Conflict between the groups

They met in Cholsan and held discussions, but they could not agree with each other. They became divided. Then problems started in the first generation of the providence of Korean restoration.

As a result, their mission had to move to the next generation. God’s will was that the foundation for pioneering should be prepared through a representative of women, Grandmother Kim Seong-do, from Cholsan, but the first generation could not fulfill its mission, so the mission passed to the second generation.

The Suffering of Holy Lord Church

The problem women faced in the family expanded to the society through mainline Christian ministers, and later it became a nationwide problem. Chung Su-won’s grandmother, Mrs. Kim Seong-do, was also in that kind of situation.

All the established churches became hostile toward them. This was when the oppression by Japanese was the cruelest. A while later, members of the Holy Lord Church received revelations that the Japanese would be defeated.

Pastor Lee Yong-do (1901-1933)

The movement in the west transferred to Mrs. Heo Ho-bin and the movement in the east came under Mr. Lee Yong-do. Pastor Lee’s church was somewhat different from Mrs. Lee’s. Originally, they were united.

What did Pastor Lee do? He established the Jesus Church. Mrs. Heo Ho-bin was director of the Central Theological Seminary.

In 1930, Pastor Lee Yong-do appeared in Korea with fire like that of Elijah.

Pastor Lee Yong-do (1901-1933)

People who listened to him speak felt overwhelmed by Heaven. God’s grace poured out of him like water.

Christianity had to carry Korea in order to drive away Japan and establish Heaven’s authority. That battle remained.

God bestowed energetic fire on him in order that he might work out a way for all branches of Korean Christianity to become one.

Pastor Lee Yong-do (1901-1933)

If everyone had been completely united and fought against the Japanese, the Japanese would not have been able to carry out armed aggression. Why?

Because those united people would have been in the position to claim Adam‘s authority.

Women who mourned Lee Yong-do Here are some interesting facts. When a spiritual person dies, some people pray for the person. Mr. Lee died alone in Wonsan, but at the very moment of his death, God chose women in faraway places and told them to offer special prayers.

You have to understand that because of God’s hidden will in relation to the providence, He did not want to abandon His nation or His people.

Thanks to those women who prayed with all their heart behind the scenes, God’s providence could continue through successive generations.

The Inside the Belly Church

The meritorious deeds of the Chung Family were so great that God loved them and gave them His grace to the extent that when the children did not accept His will, the mission could be transferred to someone else.

The woman who took over her mission had loved and served Kim Soong-do, Mr. Chung’s grandmother, with all her heart and soul. She was Mrs. Heo Ho-bin.

This did, however, mean that the providence had to decline by one level.

The Inside the Belly Church

Mrs. Heo testified that she was not supposed to be the Lord’s wife; her mission was to give birth to the Lord. In other words, she said that the Lord would be born through her womb.

Hers was the mission of Mary. While Mrs. Kim had Eve’s mission, Mrs. Heo had Mary’s mission.

Revelation from Jesus

Since revelations were received through Mrs. Heo lo-bin’s belly, this group was called the “Inside the Belly” Church.

The group did not name itself that, it just became known by that name.

The group wanted to take over Mrs. Kim’s mission, so they prayed, fervently asking for God’s help. In those days, Jesus appeared to Mrs. Heo. Jesus started expressing his teachings to this couple. Jesus asked them to accept his will and endure all difficulties under any circumstance.

Revelation from Jesus

The Inside the Belly Church had to make thorough preparations to attend the Messiah.

It had to dissolve all the resentment and grudges Jesus accumulated during his lifetime. Next, they had to prepare everything so that the returning Lord could have the best life on earth.

The Messiah has to live a life that no one can help envying, a life better than that of a member of the British royal family. Is it true?

Revelation from Jesus

They were taught in detail how to make the Messiah’s clothes. They were told to make suitable clothes for Jesus to wear from his birth to the age of thirty-three.

They had to make many clothes, enough so that Jesus could change his clothes every three days – Korean traditional clothes at times and Western clothes at other times.

Revelation from Jesus

This providence was related to Eve’s mission. Because Mrs. Heo had inherited Mrs. Kim Seong-do’s mission, Mrs. Heo ‘s daughter was also prepared to meet the lord. There were even twelve disciples. It is very interesting to know that those preparations were being made.

Do you have any idea how often they had to bow? They usually bowed three thousand times a day. They sometimes bowed seven thousand times.

The completion of internal preparations

I had to struggle, unknown to anyone, to prepare for the course of restoration we have learned about in the Divine Principle.

I prepared the Divine Principle that I teach today while I was in my twenties. Look at the situation now! What I spoke about fifty years ago has been fully realized.

This is not something I am saying for the first time. In those days, the nation we now call Korea did not exist. How sad the situation was then!

True Father’s mother and older brother

You don’t know how much my mother loved me! Her mind was occupied by thoughts of me. She knew I was the only member in the Moon Family whom she could believe in.

She may have already known I would become a great man. She used to do whatever I asked her to do.

Therefore, our mother-son cooperation was perfect even though she did not know about restoration through indemnity.

True Father’s mother and older brother

Also, my older brother was absolutely cooperative with me. Thus, the foundation to indemnify Cain’s position was completely established.

There were numerous older and younger brothers throughout history, but my older brother understood that his younger brother was a historic person.

So he absolutely obeyed me in everything.

If I said, “This is right,” he thought so and believed in me 100 percent; he had no doubt at all.

True Father’s mother and older brother

Therefore, what about the restoration of Cain? Was it accomplished or not? It was completely established.

Moreover, was the mother-son cooperation completed or not? This was completed as well.

Source: Sun Myung Moon’s Life In His Own Words Part 8: Korea’s Spiritual War www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/SunMyungMoon-Life/SunMyungMoon-Life-08.htm

What would have happened if Christianity and Korea had welcomed me? (1945) I could have absorbed Protestant America over the course of seven years.

And if I had begun working on the world level after the seven-year course finished in 1952, I would have mobilized all the world’s statesmen by the time I was forty years old, leading them in one direction, toward the goal of making the kingdom of heaven on earth.

That was the original providential plan. Christianity has made a unified, global territory after four thousand years of Judeo-Christian history.

If Christianity had followed me, a unified physical and spiritual world would have come about.

The American military government’s mistake England, America and France had to return to the center of the unified physical and spiritual worlds.

The two son factions and the daughter faction (respectively), which had been fighting among themselves, had to return.

1945-52 From the world’s point of view, the eldest son on God’s side and the eldest son on Satan’s side should have become one and come to the returning lord’s country.

Why should they have come?

They should have come to inherit the seed.

The people who had inherited the false seed of wickedness should have obliterated it and come to the true country in order to inherit the heavenly world’s true life.

1946 Pyongyang 1st attempt

Moon taught that Korea was the second Israel and that the return of Jesus would take place in Korea. But, he said, the return would not happen in either the spiritual or supernatural way that Christians tended to expect. He said that, just as the mission of the Old Testament prophet Elijah passed in the time of Jesus to John the Baptist, so the mission of Jesus would pass to another.

1946 Pyongyang 1st attempt

Pyongyang in 1946 was still a dynamic center for Korean Christianity. Denominations which had been banned by the Japanese had re-established themselves. There were churches everywhere. Christians called the city the Jerusalem of the East. But the writing was on the wall, as the Soviet-backed authorities began breaking up Christian power.l

May 1948- May 1950 “Prison Witnessing”

Hungnam after US bombing raids (Imperial War Museum, London) “Weren’t you hurt?” Pak asked Moon after it was over. Moon had been working in the area where empty sacks were stored when the bombing began.

May 1948- May 1950 “Prison Witnessing”

“God said that no one would be hurt within a twelve-meter radius of me.

While the bombing was going on, I was praying and communicating with the saints in the spiritual world,” Moon replied. Pak, elated that they had both survived, began singing the ‘Garden of Restoration’ song.

May 1948- May 1950 “Prison Witnessing”

After a body count, the guards announced that two hundred and seventy people had been killed during the raid.

/The Early Years, 1920-53 - Michael Breen

Korean War National Sacrifice (God’s and Satan’s Front Line) 1953 Yu-il thought Communism Homocentric 1789 (Esau) Ju-che thought

Satan Cain View of life ⇒ Cain- Atheism Kim Il Sung type democracy Materialism Evolution (False Father)

Panmunjom 12345 Adam 6 7 8 910 True Parents Theism God Abel View of life ⇒Abel-type Unificationism Idealism God-centered democracy Creation Subjectism Democracy (Jacob) Head-Wing

Brotherhood Godism

From ODP Slides 69

1954 2nd attempt

Official founding of HSA-UWC

Pyongyang 1946 earliest roots of UC

• West Coast: Female group - Inside Belly Church “The new Lord is twenty-six and you must serve him well, as you have served me,” Jesus said.”

Pyongyang 1946 earliest roots of UC

• West Coast: Female group - Inside Belly Church “The new Lord is twenty-six and you must serve him well, as you have served me,” Jesus said.”

• East Coast: Male group - One of the messages Jesus gave Mr. Paek’s group was that they should connect with a women’s Christian spiritual group on the west coast.

Clouds forming the face of Jesus over Korea 1950

On a bombing raid to North Korea during the Korean War, one of the American B-29 bomber pilots saw a dazzling white light in the sky.

Even though the pilot could see no details in the brightness, he took a photograph.

Jesus Christ has appeared at significant times throughout the 2000 years of Christianity.

Testimony from Hyun Sil Kang, early disciple from the 50’s

“He (TF) began teaching her about the “Last Days of the World” and the “Second Advent of the Messiah.”

He explained that the Messiah would not come on the clouds as she had been taught; but he would come as a physical man to their own Korea.”

Testimony from Hyun Sil Kang

As he spoke, Mrs. Kang thought to herself, “Well, that would certainly be nice, but the things he says are impossible.”

“He told her that in 1950 Jesus had appeared in the skies of North Korea, and during the Korean War an airline pilot saw Jesus very clearly in the sky. The South Korean newspapers even printed articles about it.”

Pusan 1952 roots of UC

Holy Wedding of Lord of Second Advent and his Bride

The Biblical Marriage of the Lamb

Korean GDP growth 1975-2005

Original UC flag is red and white. • Red color symbolizes power, energy and positivity.

• Also red is a clear symbol fro the blood of martyrs.

• The white background symbolizes purity and holiness.

• The 12 rays representing the 12 human characters. Israel’s 12 tribes, Jesus’ 12 disciples, Jacobs 12 sons

• *12 can be divided by 3. • *As the key word for number 3 is harmony (at least outwardly), this implies that the number 12 will also contain within itself certain harmony. However, because we are dealing with the level 4 of spirit manifestation, this is a different kind of harmony, as it is connected with the cosmos. • *In other words, the number 12 implies some kind of a cosmic harmony.

• *Life is experienced (at least outwardly) as harmonious (12 is divisible by 3) and the individual feels his or her connection with the global plan for humanity and the cosmic karma. • *On a very high level, the person of the number 12 is able to withstand with

easy the intensity of very high vibrations, thus willingly cooperating and collaborating with the spiritual world on variety of earthly problems, which ultimately leads to the minimizing of their negative karma and impact on the people

• *manifestations of the number 12 on the earthly plane are the arts, especially the music, since there are 12 major half-tone

• *Its first manifestation (the music) is filling up the human soul with a harmony of a very high spiritual order and its second one (the astrology) is revealing to humans that their destiny is just a fragment of the cosmic evolution * / Ref: www.usenature.com/article_numerology_12.html (not UC)

• In the future, centering on God’s Kingdom, an era of registration will arrive.

• People will try to be part of the 12 tribes and 144,000 group of people. Do you know what the 144,00 group of people is?

• An era of registration is coming. Centered on the unification of North Korea and South Korea.

/Dr Sang Hun Lee

TF10 children 1972

Everyone of you shall take Jacob’s position. You shall marry and have 12 children of your own, the internal ones twelve sons and daughters and externally you shall have 12 spiritual children. External internal both, 12 spiritual children each. Eventually that will expand into 72 disciples, 12 and 72 makes 84. / Tribal Messiah 1978

Billy Graham

Rainer Vincenz, early European missionary

On the mountain in Korea, Father said, “I want you to lead the Yeouido rally campaign, and I want you to find more than 1 million people to come to this rally, because Billy Graham just came to South Korea and 900,000 people came to his rally. I need to surpass that.”

1.2 million Koreans attend the World Rally for Korean Freedom at Yoido Plaza in Seoul, 1975

기독교 .Yoido “World Rally for Korean Freedom” –Sun Myung Moon. video

Life in UC 70’s Louise Moore-Scheirer: In the old days of First Generation UM, we would call it “Sacrifice yourself for others, come into the Love of God, and Share your Blessings with all.”

An even older version was: Separate yourself from satan, come into the love of God, and sacrifice yourself for others. But those days are gone forever basically. Today there is a new level of Blessing and Good Fortune, and I, as one, could not be happier or more relieved.

1989 TF more then 12 children

If you really understand the depth of the Divine Principle, you know that he (True Father) is going the way of Jacob as the exemplary course, so I’m supposed to give birth to at least 12 children /True Mother 1975

Source: http://www.unificationstudy.com

3.1 Will Christ Return among the Jewish people?

Rev. 7: 4, M att. and M att. 10: 23, 16: 28 Among the Jewish people

A nd I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and f orty- f our thousand sealed, out of every tribe of the sons of I srael, … RSV (Rev. 7:4)

Some Christians expect that Christ will come again among the Jewish people, based on such passages as Rev. 7:4, Matt. 10:23, and Matt. 16:28 (p. 396).

3.1 Will Christ Return among the Jewish people?

Rev. 7: 4, M att. and M att. 10: 23, 16: 28 Among the Jewish people

“. . T ruly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death bef ore they see the S on of man coming in his kingdom. ” RSV (Matt. 16:28)

Some Christians expect that Christ will come again among the Jewish people, based on such passages as Rev. 7:4, Matt. 10:23, and Matt. 16:28 (p. 396).

3.1 Will Christ Return among the Jewish people?

Rev. 7: 4, and M att. 16: 28 M att. 10: 23, Among the Jewish people

M att. 21: 33- 43 Not among the Jewish people

But in Matt. 21:33-43, Jesus clearly conveyed that he would not come again to the people who persecuted him. God will take away the mission previously entrusted to them and give it to another people who can produce its fruits upon Christ’s return (p. 396-7).

3.1 Will Christ Return among the Jewish people?

Rev. 7: 4, M att. and M att. Among 10:the 23, Jewish 16:people 28

M att. 21: 33- 43 Not among the Jewish people Chosen people after crucifixion Christians : Therefore, the chosen people after Jesus’ crucifixion are not the descendants of Abraham, but rather the Christians who have inherited the faith of Abraham (p. 398).

• Capital Seoul – humanitys soul

• Unified korean nation called: Chosŏn ( 조선 ) in North Korea. – A chosen Divine nation

3. 2 Christ W ill Return to a N ation in the East

W here the sun rises Rev. 7: 2- 4

Then I saw another angel ascend f rom the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, . . . . And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and f orty-f our thousand sealed, out of every tribe of the sons of I srael, RSV (Rev. 7:2-4)

Rev. 7:2-4 indicates that the seal of the living God will be placed on the foreheads of the 144,000 in the East, where the sun rises (p. 399).

3. 2 Christ W ill Return to a N ation in the East W here the sun rises Rev. 7: 2- 4

Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and f orty-f our thousand who had his Rev. 14: 1 name and his Father’s name written on their f oreheads. RSV (Rev. 14:1)

Rev. 14:1 says that these chosen ones will accompany the Christ at his return.

3. 2 Christ W ill Return to a N ation in the East

W here the sun rises Rev. 7: 2- 4

S econd A dvent in the East We can thus infer that the nation which will inherit the work of God and bear its fruit for the sake of the Second Advent is in the East.

3. 3 T he N ation in the East is Korea China T hree Eastern Korea nations

Since ancient times, the nations in the East have traditionally been considered to be the three nations of Korea, Japan and China.

3. 3 T he N ation in the East is Korea China T hree Eastern Korea nations

Fascist, persecuted J apan Korean Christianity

Japan entered the period of the Second Advent as a fascist nation and severely persecuted Korean Christianity.

3. 3 T he N ation in the East is Korea Would become China communist

T hree Eastern Korea nations

Fascist, persecuted J apan Korean Christianity

China at this time was a hotbed of communism and would become a communist nation. Thus, both nations belonged to Satan’s side.

3. 3 T he N ation in the East is Korea Would become China communist

T hree Eastern Korea nations

Fascist, persecuted J apan Korean Christianity

Korea, then, is the nation in the East where Christ will return.

3. 3 T he N ation in the East is Korea Would become China communist

T hree Eastern Korea nations

Fascist, persecuted J apan Korean Christianity

As the nation to which the Messiah returns, Korea had to meet the following qualifications:

3.3.1 A National Condition of Indemnity

The First Israel suffered four hundred years in Egypt in order to fulfill a dispensation of forty for the separation of Satan (p. 400).

3.3.1 A National Condition of Indemnity

The Second Israel had to prevail over the four hundred years of persecution in the Roman Empire.

3.3.1 A National Condition of Indemnity

As the Third Israel, the Korean people had also to suffer under a nation on Satan’s side for a period which fulfills the number forty. Thereby they could fulfill a dispensation of forty for the separation of Satan as required to commence the cosmic-level course to restore Canaan.

3.3.1 A National Condition of Indemnity

Korea… forty-year hardship under Japan

This was the forty-year period during which Korea suffered untold hardships as a colony of Japan (1905-1945).

3.3.2 God’s Front Line and Satan’s Front Line

Satan’s side

At the fall of the first human ancestors, God’s side and Satan’s side parted ways from a single point (p. 402).

3.3.2 God’s Front Line and Satan’s Front Line

Satan’s side

These divided realities consolidated separately into the Cain-type and Abel-type worlds, which eventually matured to form the democratic world and the communist world.

3.3.2 God’s Front Line and Satan’s Front Line

God’s side South Korea

Satan’s side North Korea

When these two worlds came into global conflict, it was centered on the Korean peninsula.

3.3.2 God’s Front Line and Satan’s Front Line

God’s side South Korea

Satan’s side North Korea

Religions, ideologies, political forces and economic systems all came into conflict and caused great confusion in Korean society, which then had worldwide impact.

3.3.3 The Object Partner of God’s Heart

1 Path of blood, sweat and tears

1 To become the object partners of God’s Heart, we must first walk a path of blood, sweat and tears.

3.3.3 The Object Partner of God’s Heart

1 Path of blood, sweat and tears

2 People of goodness

2 The nation qualified to stand as the object partner of God’s Heart must be a people of goodness. The homogeneous Korean people rarely invaded other nations (p. 403).

3.3.3 The Object Partner of God’s Heart

1 Path of blood, sweat and tears

2 People of goodness

3 By nature endowed with a religious character loyalty, filial piety and (worship chastity) God;

3 The Korean people are by nature endowed with a religious character. They have evinced a strong desire to worship God, and always revered the virtues of loyalty, filial piety and chastity.

3.3.4 Messianic Prophecies

1 The Korean people have believed in the prophecy that the Righteous King will appear and found a glorious and everlasting kingdom in their land.

3.3.4 Messianic Prophecies

1 Messianic idea among the Korean people (Chonggamnok)

2 Among the faithful of every religion in Korea are those who have received revelations that the founders of their religions will return to Korea.

3.3.4 Messianic Prophecies

1 Messianic idea among the Korean people (Chonggamnok)

Revelation that religious founders 2 will return to Korea

2 Among the faithful of every religion in Korea are those who have received revelations that the founders of their religions will return to Korea.

3.3.4 Messianic Prophecies

1 Messianic idea among the Korean ‘A nd in the last days it shall be, God (Chonggamnok) people declares, that I will pour out my S pirit upon that 2 Revelation all f lesh, and your sons religious and return will your daughters founders to shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, Korea and your old and 3 Revelations men signs shall dream (Actsdreams; RSV (Acts. 2:17) 2:17)

3 Revelations and signs are being given to spiritually attuned Christians testifying to the Second Coming of Christ in Korea; they are sprouting in profusion like mushrooms after a rain (p. 405).

3.3.4 Messianic Prophecies 1 Messianic idea among the Korean people (Chonggamnok)

2 Revelation that religious founders will return to Korea 3 Revelations and signs (Acts 2:17)

Clear revelations that the Lord will come to Korea

Hence, many are receiving clear revelations that the Lord will come to Korea.