[Shincheonji], The War in Revelation of Kingdom Against Kingdom and Nation

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The War in Revelation of Kingdom Against Kingdom

and Nation Against Nation

The war in Mt 24, Rv 13, and Rv 12 is a war between God’s church and the devil’s church. It is the bell sound and the trumpet sound that makes known the end of the world (age).

The war in the four gospels (the parts regarding prophecies) and Revelation is a war between spirit and spirit, a war between God’s kingdom and the dragon’s (devil’s) kingdom, and it is the last war between God’s people (nation) and the dragon’s people (nation). In Mt 24 and Rv 13, the chosen people were destroyed by the destroyers, the dragon’s group. The destroyers took away God’s kingdom and people (nation) and were victorious. The dragon’s soldiers at this time were the spirits and the churches of the world that belonged to [Satan’s] group, and God’s soldiers were those that belong to [God’s] group, the spirits and the church of the seven messengers of Rv 2-3 established by Jesus. It is at this war that the destroyers destroyed God’s church (Ref. Rv 13, Mt 24).

This church of God‘s chosen people received the mark from the heads of the dragon—the beast with seven heads and ten horns—and worshiped them, and thus, they betrayed God, and they were captured by the dragon and became one with it. At this time, a child born from the woman clothed with the sun, moon, and stars in Rv 12 and his brothers became one with God’s spirits and fought and overcame the dragon’s group—the beast with seven heads and ten horns. The weapon they used to fight was Jesus’ blood and the words of testimony. This child and his brothers did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. This is true faith and fidelity.

Those who overcame in Rv 12 gathered at the temple in Rv 15, and they were filled with God‘s wrath. [They] poured out [God’s wrath] onto the betrayers and the destroyers—the beast with seven heads and ten horns—and judged them in Rv 16. If one cherishes (loves) his life during war, he will lose. That is why one must fight by putting his life on the line. When our country was swallowed up (colonized) by Japan, there were independence fighters who got up and put their lives on the line to fight and take back [our] country. [In the] spiritual kingdom as well, when God’s tabernacle in Rv 13 was swallowed up, the child born from the woman clothed with the sun and a few of his brothers fought with their lives on the line and overcame the devil. However, during the Japanese occupation, most of the Christian pastors of our country bowed down to and praised Japanese gods. They even supported [Japan] with munitions and war supplies. Whether spiritually or physically, would these people be the orthodox church? Speak!

It is not through those who worshiped the beast and received its mark, but through those who fought with their lives on the line and overcame the beast that God’s kingdom, power, and salvation came to exist (Rv 12:7-11). Who will receive salvation at the time of God‘s judgment? If one is truly a true believer, then one must know who the betrayers are, who the destroyers are, and who the savior is in 2Thes 2. At the least, these are things that must be known. And one must know who the denomination in Mt 24 and Rv 13 is. Do you know?

Moreover, one must know who the subjects of the kingdom are and who those that come from the east and west are in Mt 8:11-12, and one also needs to know the actual entities of Mt 13:24-30 and verses 38-39 to be considered a true believer. Using the Bible, one must check and see whether he is born of God‘s seed or the devil’s seed. One must also check and see whether he is the one who persecuted or the one who received persecution.

Kingdom fights against kingdom and nation fights against nation because their ideologies (thoughts) are different from each other. The war spoken of in the prophecy of the Bible is a spiritual war. The aforementioned war of Mt 24 and Revelation is the war that takes place at the second coming of the Lord. At this time, [the one who] has knowledge regarding the two kingdoms and the two nations (peoples) that fight against each other is a true believer. God has been at war with the devil for a period of 6,000 years, and also in Revelation, there are two to three wars, as well as two to three times of judgment.

Before God reigns over this world, the devil has been controlling it. That is why it is difficult to enter the kingdom of heaven even when putting one’s life on the line. The pathway from death to life is not an easy [road to follow]. We must all live our lives of faith by putting our lives on the line in the same way as Rv 12. In this way, the work that must be done by believers is to carry out the tasks recorded in the Bible (tasks that pertain to each believer).

Let me ask myself. I received a great task that is spoken of in the Bible. I [who received this great task] then participated in the work of harvesting and sealing in Rv 14 and 7. If so, did I do as it says in Rv 12, 15, and 16, or did I not? And did I put my life on the line and fight in the events from Rv 1 up to 22? Did I do my very best to fulfill my appointed task and fight and overcome without sparing my life to the point of death like in Rv 12?

Those who are fighting in the trial against the enemy are those who, together with the Lord, fight with their lives on the line just as it [was written] in Mt 10:16-42 and Jn 16:1-4. Those who supported this war are also the ones who fought together in the war. What confirm‎s this truth is Mt 25. When you are asked according to what is written in Mt 25, would you be able to answer?

The two kingdoms and two nations (people) mentioned above are not referring to each country and each people of the world. Even if it refers to one kingdom (country), it is referring to God’s kingdom and nation (people), who belong to God, and the devil’s kingdom and people, who belong to the devil. Therefore, the war also refers to the war between those who belong to God and those who belong to the devil. If one does not know this fact, he will misunderstand. In other words, the war at the time of the fulfillment of Revelation (which is the time of the Lord’s second coming), is the war between the church of God’s kingdom and the church of the devil’s kingdom, that is, the church of Babylon. The side who wins this war takes possession of the earth. Did [you] fight and win, or lose?

As seen in the war between those who belong to God and those who belong to the devil in Rv 12, it is said that the child and his brothers won the fight against the dragon’s group—the beast with seven heads and ten horns—with the blood of Jesus and the word of testimony.

Likewise, the war prophesied in the Bible is a spiritual war of words between kingdom (nation/people) against kingdom (nation/people), and it is a war between the words of testimonies.

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