24. Listen to the Voice of God from the Lips of Infants and Children. (I)

Listen to the Voice of God from the Lips of Infants and Children (I) (O Lord! I look at the fulfillment of prophecies with fear)

At present, teenagers are crying out for environments and freedom everywhere in the world. In addition, not long ago in the U.S., a teenage black boy forgave the criminal who killed his brother in court. God is preaching mankind the teaching of love through the boy. Like this, as teenagers are active and raising their voice in various fields is to fulfill the word of God, God warns about the light of love which is the duty of the churches and seriousness of environments through the lips of children instead of insensitive adults (Pr 8:2).

Environmental disaster is to manifest the day of God’s wrath. As God allows all things that He created to clearly see and understand the will of God through nature, He does not allow anyone to make excuses in the time of judgment (Ro 1:20). However, as human beings scientifically identify causes and consequences, they overlook that natural disasters are just natural phenomena. Like today, the reason why human beings are facing disasters is that wickedness is abundant away from God like the time of Noah (Ge 6:5).

Adversity pursues wickedness (Pr 13:21). Like a lightning rod attracts lightning, human sins and evils always invite curses and disasters (Job 22:10). The disaster that occurs to mankind consists of five stages and God punishes seven times more at each stage for sins as cumulative punishment (Lev 26:14-33). When people do not listen to the word of God any more, the punishment is to go to ruins and desolation that nobody can live. This is the incident that occurs at the fifth stage which is the last punishment stage. Why is it the last stage of punishment? It is because environmental disaster is a shortcut to desolation.

I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and

I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offering.

I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.

I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and purse you.

Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins (Lev 26:31-33).

Mankind must look at the present situation and see what it means with fear. All disasters including environmental disasters cannot be prevented by human wisdom and power including science; but they stop when human beings discard evil and return to God. Like this, God shows people to know the meaning through nature at every stage. Christianity should always be on alert so that it should present the will of God to the world whenever necessary. By doing so, it should be responsible for preventing tribulations and disasters of mankind; but it could not play the role.

It is called blindness not to see while seeing and not to hear while hearing about the will of God (Jn 9:39). As Christians became blind without discerning the age, which means they have already been judged (Jn 9:39), most of causes are due to idolatry which serves their own greed (Col 3:5). To worship certain forms like Baal is called idolatry In the Old Testament era, but to discard love which is the commandment of Lord; and order to achieve their own greed is called idolatry in the New Testament era. Such idolatry brings about the wrath of God and follows by punishment according to nature of the sin. In the meantime, Christianity has been only focused on salvation in grace but overlooked God’s punishment; thus we are facing the age of disaster due to indulgence and corruption like today.

1. How is idolatry of the Old Testament realized in modern times?

If Christians serve the Lord fully and carry out the mission completely as a church, they should be cautious about the lessons of the Bible such as the Nicolaitans, Balaam, Korah, Jezebel, Edom, etc.

As ‘Nicolai’ means ‘persons who overcame the people’, it is characterized by beautiful theory and logic of philosophy, scientific basis and brilliant persuasive power, thus everyone recognizes that it is right in common sense. Like this, to overcome the people is Nicolaitans. On the other hand, ‘the good’ which is the word of God requires and commands preposterous things that cannot be understood by human wisdom and knowledge. For example, like telling the Virgin Mary the news of conception of Jesus Christ (Lk 1:30-31) and asking commander Naaman who was in leprosy to wash in Jordan seven times to restore his flesh (2Ki 5:10), one must believe preposterousness that no one can believe. In this way, God regards the faith to believe the foolishness of the message preached as ‘righteousness’; thus God gives salvation to those who believe (1Co 1:21). Namely, like the faith of the centurion, God gives salvation on the faith to believe unconditionally as God’s power, work, and accomplishment.

Although the Nicolaitans is beautiful and splendid in shape, God is excluded so that there are no God’s power, work, and achievement; and it bears no fruit but has only full of leaves; thus we know that it is fake. Therefore, God said, “They worship me in vain; their teaching are but rules taught by men” (Mt 15:8, 9). It is Balaam who encourages the Nocolaitans. Therefore, the Nicolaitans and Balaam are used as synonym (Rev 2:14-15). As Balaam is synonym of a false prophet, it is a warning for the attitude of Lord’s servants who alter the word of God without delivering it as it is by subtracting or adding according to their own interests and intentions for their purpose.

The reason why Balaam became the synonym of a false prophet is that he was double-minded.

Namely, he had one mind to believe in God and another mind to pursue his greed for his benefit at the same time. Because he did not love God with all his heart, with all his mind, with all his strength, with all his soul as a prophet, he loved his pay more (2pe 2:14-16, Rev 2:14, Jude 1:11). Balaam justified his own greed by logic and persuasion of the Nicolaitans and set up his conscience. By doing so, he did not follow the truth. It is a lesson about faith which is heading toward wrong way to fulfill his purpose by twisting and transforming the word of God through adding or subtracting.

Although Balaam could work through a donkey due to God’s work with the power of authority (Nu 22:25-33), he was killed with kings by Moses (the Law) in the end on the charge of adultery between the sons of Israel and the women of Midian because of greed for the wages he had in his mind (Nu 31:8). This is a lesson that if anyone has greed, he will end up with futile faith, which means that he is to be used as unrighteous servant and abandoned because he cannot serve two masters in the end even if he is used by God through the work of the Holy Spirit with the power of authority.

God commanded only Moses as the leader of Israelites. Due to the unilateral action of Moses, the descendants of Korah and the crowds stood against Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?” (Nu 16:3). The challenge to Moses was the challenge to the authority of God. In addition, it only intensified disorder and confusion. As God destroyed all those who joined by fire and earthquake, God corrected order; thus God made people fear (Nu 16). In order to find out why God was angry with the actions of the descendants of Korah, who opposed to Moses and said, “Are you the only prophet?”, you can first learn from the incident where Moses took a Cushite woman. As the incident that Moses took a Cushite woman was a criminal act which clearly violated the Law, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses (Nu 12:1). At that time, God came down in front of three of them and directly defended Moses. God rebuked Miriam and Aaron and said, “If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD, shall make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak with him in a dream. Not so, with My servant Moses. With him I speak mouth to mouth, even openly, not in dark sayings, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?” (Nu 12:5-8). The descendants of Korah were prophets as the tribe of Levi (Nu 16:1).

The confrontation of Moses who was anointed as the leader of Israelites face-to-face with God in the position of the prophet was a challenge to God’s authority and destruction of the order; thus God corrected the order of people by destroying the descendants of Korah and the participants. As also in this age, not only the order in the church but also humanly to judge and condemn ‘the good’, which is the spiritual will of God, i.e., the lesson or the word guided by the Holy Spirit are regarded as committing sins through disobedience, violation and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit; the descendants of Korah who opposed to Moses as well as all of those who joined together were destroyed by earthquake. Like this, the lesson of the descendants of Korah teaches us that there is no forgiveness for disobedience, violation and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (Mt 12:32).

<Edom, the descendants of Esau, symbolizes those who sold the commandments of the Lord easily without keeping them to fulfill their desires; and their life is a fearful lesson to be exactly fulfilled in accordance with Isaac’s prophecy. It is a vigilant lesson for our Christians to keep in mind that the right conduct of the saints, that is, those who do not dress in fine linen are cast out.>

As Esau is the ancestor of Edom, the symbol of Edom is a lesson that alarms those who have faith in Esau, who have neglected the inheritance and sold their birthright in a bowl of lentil stew (Ge 25:31-34). This is an alarm for those who seek faith for blessing that only easily think and sell the mission of stewardship which is God’s inheritance; and desire their own complacency and blessings. Esau with his birthright was a successor who directly inherited inheritance of Abraham, following his father Isaac. He was the person to inherit all blessings and rights of Abraham directly given by God.

The reason why God chose Abraham to give all the blessings is to carry out righteous and good things and to live a life of reverence. Through this example, God established Abraham to be a blessing for those who live like Abraham to give blessings (Ge 18:19). Accordingly, selling the inheritance is to abandon it without keeping the righteous and good work, which is its purpose. Namely, not to keep love and order, which are the commandments of God, is to sell the inheritance and to sell the birthright. Like Esau sold his birthright to Jacob because he was hungry, not to keep love which is the commandment of the Lord as Christians in order to achieve their purpose is an act of selling their birthrights. In regard to Esau deprived of his birthright, his father Isaac said about what kind of life Esau would live in the future and prophesied, “Away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling, and away from the dew of heaven from above,” and “By your sword you shall live” (Ge 27: 39-40). Like the prophecy, Edomites, the descendants of Esau did not settle down in faith; and they were away from faith. Although they were Christians, they walked by worldly faith not like Christians. As faith unrelated to God’s blessing, it was degenerated into the faith of believing in power that prioritizes worldly blessing and sword of money, rather than believing in God. Namely, it means a faith that values man’s commandments more than God’s commandments.

Like this, Christianity has produced the Nicolaitans with human wisdom and knowledge without knowing ‘the good’ of God. In spite of being Christians, they have two faces; thus they have gone to the way of Balaam. In addition, they sold the mission of stewardship given by God for a bowl of lentil stew; threw easily the commandments of the Lord for their purpose; and followed the world. Like the descendants of Korah opposed to Moses, they destroyed the order of the church due to arrogance; and caused destruction and divisions by rejecting the works of the Holy Spirit; and produced Christianity like today; and the damages wholly added not light but only more darkness to the world as tribulations called disasters. Therefore, it is recorded in the book of Jude, “Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah” (Jude 1:11). Like this, idolatry that worships human greed away from God brings God’s wrath and is followed by punishment according to the degree of wickedness.

2. Idolatry is followed by punishment without fail.

It is recorded in the Bible, “If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you” (Jos 24:20). God is a consuming fire (Dt 4:24). Just like removing cancer completely to save a cancer patient, the sin and evil must be removed to save human beings who are made in the image of God. This is why God must punish and destroy sins and evils. As it is the law to erase blood only by the blood, God takes full responsibility for His creation that He made. Therefore, in regard to the sin of shedding blood, God makes the sinner shed the blood to preserve the image of God by burning the sin and evil.

Why shouldn’t blood be shed? The reason for being cursed by the shedding of other person’s blood (life) is that the curse of complaint, resentment, hatred, etc., is poured out automatically from the spirit due to pain as if the victim was groaning and screaming when his body was injured. This curse is poured out to the head of the person who shed the blood, and will be fulfilled at magnification of 2 times, 4 times, 7 times or 77 times as punishment until 3 days, 40 days, 40 years or 50 years of jubilee according to the nature of sins.

● What is the magnification of punishment such as 2 times, 4 times, 7 times or 77 times?

<Two times: The reality of today is what you did to others return to you, so you should never blame others.>

Two times (double) punishment is a punishment which is applied to all human beings. Like sandglass, the sins that people carried out exactly returned to them, thus it is punishment received by changing their position. Therefore, it is recorded in the Bible, “Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds.” (Rev 18:6), “Do not judge so that you will not be judged” (Mt 7:1), “By your standard of measure, it will be measured to you” (Mt 7:2), and “Repay every man according to his deeds” (Mt 16:27, Rev 2:23, Ro 2:6, Jer 32:19, job 34:11). In all these words, God said 2 times (double) punishments.

As all lives that occur now are the lives reflected in the mirror which is reflected what we did in the past, it is the grace that God has made us repent through them. Like this, 2 times punishment shows that every action and every careless word of us in living will return to us as it is like a mirror. Therefore, disadvantage, grudge, deep resentment, deprivation, inequality, etc. which are occurring in my living are all because I gave disadvantage to others, I took something from others, I discriminated others unequally, etc.; thus I am exactly subjected to the same things. In this way, to make living by changing our position is God’s teaching and love to make us realize the error of our ways by any means and return to God.

<Four times: The process of making pure gold by extracting sin and evil from the source >

Four Times punishment is not the concept of 4 times punishment for the sin, but it means to destroy and burn out evil mind and evil deeds that were intentionally planned from the root of the spirit for one’s own purpose. It is King David who received the punishment of retribution by a magnification of 4 times in the Bible. After David committed adultery with Bathsheba, he made her husband, Uriah, be killed in the battle on purpose; thus he committed another crime. In regard to this, the prophet Nathan advised King David about his wrong doing in a parable of one ewe lamb. Namely, to prepare for a traveler who had come to him, the rich man was unwilling to take from his own flock; but he took the poor man’s only one ewe lamb and prepared it for the guest. When Nathan said the sin of David as this parable to him, he said by the order of king, “Surely the man who has done this deserves to die. He must make restitution for the lamb fourfold.”

When Nathan said to David that he was the man, David repented for his sins, and the sins about Uriah and Bathsheba were forgiven by God. However, as receiving three kinds of punishment according to the consequent retribution, God gave the punishment of retribution fourfold. Three kinds of punishment by God are as follows: (1) “The sword shall never depart from your house.” (2) “I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.” (3) “The child also that is born to you shall surely die” (2Sa 12:10-14).

As a result, the retribution of David was exactly fulfilled, starting with death of the child born of Bathsheba, and the subsequent results of the retribution are as follows: (1) the incident that Amnon violated his sister Tamar (2) the incident that Absalom killed Amnon (3) the incident that Absalom slept with his father’s concubines in broad daylight (4) the incident that Absalom was killed due to revolting his father David (5) the incident that Solomon killed elder son Adonijah who loved Abishag, who served King David (2Sa 13:14, 2Sa 16:22, 1Ki 2:25). Like this, as a result of killing Uriah, four sons of David were killed by the sword. By doing so, God destroyed, burnt and cleanly blotted out the seed of the lust of the flesh in King David from the root. How King David repented is well documented in the book of Psalm 51, and it gives an example of repentance.

<Seven times: God makes people turn around somehow by increasing punishment until realizing sin and evil, thus everybody’s life is to turn round and round to discern sin and evil.>

In the book of Genesis, it is recorded, “If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold” (Ge 4:24). ‘7’ refers to true God’s wisdom (Pr 9:1). ‘7 times’ means a life to receive punishment continuously until wisdom comes, which thoroughly realizes wrongdoing. In regard to this, five stages of punishment are recorded in the book of Leviticus 26. The punishment is continually multiplied by seven times, step by step, until you realize your sin. Therefore, to recognize the sin quickly and repent is the key for 7 times punishment.

Christian repentance from the heart is to be forgiven. At the moment when Christians received the Lord, they said “Oh! I have lived in sins,” realizing their sins, and they confessed with contrite spirit by crying; At this moment, past sins were already forgiven. They realized their sins in their heart and carved out cancerous mass of death. However, if it is not the repentance from the heart, the cancerous mass remains just as it was. Like this, if they realize their sins and repent, they are forgiven; but if they do not realize their sins, they receive punishment for a long time until they realize them. As if it takes a long time for the paint to be erased once painted, it needs to pay for the sins seven times during the time of extinction of the sins. Until then, they live a life destined to be in pain of severance, tribulation, and curse of disaster, which are melted in their living.

<Seventy seven times: Christian forgiveness and tolerance; a life to forgive seventy times seven>

Lamech means ‘the thing that has ability.’ ‘Lamech is avenged seventy sevenfold’ refers to the punishment about Christians who disobey, violate, and blaspheme against the Holy Spirit as ‘the thing that has ability’ is the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ directly declared that anyone who disobeyed and blasphemed against the Holy Spirit would not be forgiven (Mt 12:31, Lk 12:10). The reason is that disobedience and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit are the second fall since the fall of Adam in regard to ‘the good’ of God; and it is the act of denial of Jesus Christ by breaking the cross of Jesus Christ. Therefore, one cannot be forgiven with any repentance, and he is subjected to punishment seventy-seven times. Therefore, it is recorded in the book of Hebrew as follows:

Those who have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

And then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance,

Since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame (Heb 6:5-6).

If we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth,

There no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and

THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES (Heb 10:26-27).

Most magnification of punishment seven times is applied until the people of world realize the sins, but seventy seven times is the magnification of relationship between Christian and Christian. The reason is that we do not know that the work of the Holy Spirit is carried out through anyone; thus the iniquity such as judgment, condemnation, etc. besides forgiveness and compassion between Christian and Christian is considered as taboo in order not to be caught in disobedience, violation, and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Jesus Christ ordered Christians to forgive brothers (Col 3:13, Mt 5:23, Mk 11:25). In addition, Jesus Christ said that if your hand or your foot caused you to stumble, cut if off; and if your eye caused you to stumble, pluck it out because it would be better for you to enter life crippled, lame, or with one eye than to have two hands, two feet, or two eyes be cast in to fiery hell (Mt 18:8-9, Lk 9:43-47).

Furthermore, He said that if whoever caused one of little ones who believed in Him to stumble, it would have been better for him to have had a millstone hung around his neck, and to have been drowned into the sea (Lk 17:2, Mt 18:6, Mk 9:42). Therefore, this sin must be unconditionally erased by the blood as forgiveness and mercy with a life of forgiveness up to seventy seven times (Mt 18:22). In a parable of heaven, as the one who received forgiveness of ten thousand talents did not forgive the other one who owed him one hundred denarii, the cancellation was nullified; and this teaches us that Christians must live with unconditional forgiveness and mercy in the love which is the Lord’s commandments (Mt 18:23-35). Like this, God’s law clearly records punishments and magnifications about idolatry due to sin and evil, and it is executed as it is without any error.

3. Result of Idolatry

The result that mankind worshiped idols of faith such as the Nicolaitans, Balaam, Edom, Korah historically brought miserable results. As a result of Solomon’s idolatry in his later years, the nation was divided into Judah and Israel after his death (1Ki 11, 13, 12:20). Likewise, Catholicism was divided into Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism from east to west (in 1054). And about 500 years later, Protestantism was once again separated. Through this, Christianity is constantly marked by separation in a series of pains such as rampancy of numerous cults, the discovery of New World and the subsequent tragedy of colonies, and witch hunting. Although witch hunting is a problem of spiritual discernment that could be solved only if one knows only ‘the good’ by being spiritually on the alert, it is a problem occurred in the process of discerning in a humane way due to spiritual ignorance; thus it is disgrace of Christianity.

In addition, as a result of ignoring and rejecting the guidance of the Holy Spirit as preposterousness and following the common sense of human wisdom and knowledge, religiously, it produced evangelism through rejection of other religions, elitism, heretical theory, eschatology, material blessing, etc.; spiritually, it produced snob, self-righteousness, exclusivism, supremacy; socially, it produced collusion with politics, philosophy and times, collusion with communism, extermination of other ethnic groups and lust for conquest; thus it sinned against heaven by competing directly with God’s word. In regard to this situation, God gets more and more enraged with evangelicals who experience and know the Holy Spirit. Now, there should be thorough repentance in Christianity.

4. Christian repentance from the heart is the one and only way to receive compassion, mercy, forgiveness and grace from the Lord.

As repentance is to personally erase the past wrong things, repentance consists of repentance of lips and true repentance, which is fulfilled with forgiveness and mercy when the same real situation that you did wrong happens in the reality of life. The world is all under the rule of the Law, but Christians are in grace. The Law does not change like the painted paint remains until fading away, but Christians under the law of grace can repaint on the already painted one. Like this, Christian repentance from the heart erases past sins and brings new salvation. As the Law is law of justice, the committed sin is relentlessly punished according to justice just as recorded in the Law.

Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stoke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished (Mt 5:18, Lk 6:17). On the other hand, all Christians fulfill salvation by mercy and forgiveness of sins according to the law of grace. In order to benefit from the law of grace, one must abide in grace. Namely, one must keep love, the Lord’s commandments; and repentance and forgiveness must be preceded first of all in order to fulfill the Lord’s commandments. Therefore, we must forgive to be forgiven.

As seen in the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors’ (Mt 6:12), Christians should know that if they do not forgive anything, they will never be forgiven. Therefore, the Bible says, “If you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions” (Mt 6: 14-15).

Like this, Christians receive the grace of forgiveness of sins through repentance from the heart with forgiveness and compassion. Otherwise, they will fall into the bottom of the Law and be justly judged by it as the people of the world. Namely, punishment is executed as it is by the magnification of 2 times, 4 times, 7 times or 77 times according to nature of sin. Regardless of nation, race, sex and religion, it is the direct law of life and death, blessings and curse that applied to all human beings; and God allows us to know through this law that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

O Lord! The world is suffering from all kinds of disasters. At this point, let us not be a steward to throw everything to live alone. Like the Lord, let us, the stewards, be the sacrifices of peace offering for peace to the world, and let the church go back to the original position and become stewards loyal to the little things. O Lord! The acts of Christians today are acts of denying the Lord. As You said to Peter, “Before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny me three times,” a rooster crows loudly like this but they do not wake up. Please, do not let them deny any more from now on. Let the churches wake up and rise, please. As a watchman wants for the morning, the world is earnestly and sincerely longing for very early morning.

Desolation is the last penal place where human beings can no longer go. Human beings who cannot discern left and right are speeding toward here. In such tribulation, I look at the Lord’s hand and I only hope mercy of the Lord’s grace in the midst of pain. Please let Christians understand even the Lord’s Prayer and give the grace of forgiveness in every heart so that everybody can receive Your holy grace in the state of grace and blessing. Please, do not abandon us. The church cannot see the depth of Satan and human beings of today are infants who cannot discern left and right. Please, save human beings.

Here, I would like to deliver the everlasting gospel, “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever,” and “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” I would like to give my thanks for allowing me to deliver this word in the midst of wrath. Thank you forever for giving the salvation of the way to live by delivering this word of God to all human beings and Christians living on this earth. I pray sincerely in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. To God alone be the glory forever and ever.

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