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God Works to Fulfill the Promised Creation of a New Thing
(Jer 31) and the Devil Does the Work of Obstruction to Prevent the Creation of a New Thing
What is the creation of a new thing talking about? It is saying that [God] will end the approximately 6,000 year-long creation that began in Gn 1 and create it into a new thing (new kingdom).
- “How?”
- “According to the promise.”
- “What promise?”
- “You don’t know the New Testament, the new covenant? I’m talking about how Jesus brings the first heaven and first earth to an end and re-creates a new heaven and new earth, that is, the new kingdom and new people of a new era, and thus fulfills what was promised in the New Testament. You didn’t know? You didn’t hear? It is just as the saying (words) goes, ‘Whether father or child, baby or mother, they’re the same!’ (Ref. Jn 8:44).”
- “Don’t you go to church?”
- “I attend no problem.”
- “Why do you go? You went to listen to the words of the pastor and to believe in the pastor, right?”
- “That’s right.”
- “Was it fun? Whether child or father, they’re the same. You should be locked up inside an animal cage at the grand park (zoo).”
- “Even though you can enter the kingdom of heaven, if you act according to the will of God’s word, the Bible, you will probably need to take many Bible exams. But do you think you could pass [them]?”
- “What kind of test is it?”
- “You need to lay down your life. Can you do it? If you die, there is no heaven or hell. That is why the kingdom of heaven where one doesn’t die is made, and the people who [help] make it [with me] will live there forever. That is the kind of kingdom of heaven I’m talking about.”
- “How do you make it?”
- “It’s easy. But having made it doesn’t mean everything is done.”
- “It was said, ‘You have hoarded wealth in the last days,’ ‘the end of the age is the time of the harvest,’ and that time is ‘the same in the days of Noah and the days of Lot.’ The time of Noah is the time destruction came by flood, and the time of Lot is the time destruction came by fire. Also, although a time of war is recorded, this war is not a physical war but a spiritual war. That is, spirits fight against spirits, and the people who belong to each of those spirits fight against each other. It is a war of ecclesiastical authority and a war of religion. Externally, it appears to be a war between people, but internally, it is a war between spirits.”
“God must be victorious in this war. Then the dragon can be captured and locked away, and [this world] becomes the world where God reigns. At this time and place, we must also be on God’s side and fight against the enemy and win, then we can enter the kingdom of God. This is my point (what I’m saying).”
- “How can I know if I’m on God’s side? (How can one know who is on God’s side?)”
- “You fool, stop sleeping, and try carefully reading the Bible’s word of promise. Okay?”
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