I was speaking to a woman on the train recently. She told me that although she was raised Catholic, she considers herself now more spiritual because she knows there’s something out there but she doesn’t believe the church. Actually, this is the case of many people today. We’re not stupid. You don’t have to be religious to see that the churches that claim to follow God are not truly doing so. If we are Christian, following Christ, we should become more Godly and correct. However, although we went to church growing up at some point, we often noticed that people who never went to church and the people who attend regularly were really not that different. If God is truly in a particular church, its members must be different than the world. However, were we really that different?
That’s why many people turn away from churches and sometimes even God. Certain churches teach, by their action, that a person can do whatever they want during the week as long as they showed up on Sunday, confess to a man what they did, and repeat a few “prayers”, and they would be forgiven. Most churches teach that all we have to do to be saved is believe in Jesus Christ and we can be saved – that’s it. As if God had no plan of salvation in the Bible. However, God knew everything that has been happening – how the pastors have become preachers for their own gain and how corrupt the church “leaders” have become. Even people going as far as never coming to God, but establishing “their own relationship with God”, thus claiming by their action that they can save themselves. In fact, God already prophesied this current situation.
Isa. 56:11 They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough.
They are shepherds who lack understanding;
they all turn to their own way,
they seek their own gain.
Isa. 65:2 All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations— 3 a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;
Jer. 5:30 “A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: 1 The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
Now everyone has turned to their own way, following God the way they want. If these people mentioned in the above verses referred to other religions, why would God be offended by it? It is because these verses are referring to people who claim to follow the God of the Bible. Under this circumstance, how can God bring judgement? That’s why God must come first to bring salvation, the one way He established it. ((Ro. 6:23, John 6:53-54, Matt. 26:17-28) Today’s Christians’ favorite thing to say is, “I don’t need to listen to you, I have a personal relationship with Christ. I’ve accepted Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.” I used to be such a person, but the dangerous thing about that is in 2 Cor. 11:4.
Isa. 29:13 The Lord says:
“These people come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me
is based on merely human rules they have been taught.
Due to people following tradition (Sunday worship, X-mas, Communion, Easter…) and not God’s commandments (Sabbath, Passover, the Feasts of God), God prophesied that He Himself will come again and teach us the truth.
1 In the last days
the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
and peoples will stream to it.
2 Many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion (Isa. 33:20),
the word of the LORD from Jerusalem (Gal. 4:26).
God already said that He will establish a place, called Zion, where God will teach us Himself and we can correctly keep God’s commandments. Bear this in mind, how can God teach us His way? How can we walk in God’s path unless He walks it first? These things cannot happen if God only comes in spirit form or the last judgement. Clearly He must come before the judgement as a man and show us the way to be saved, like He did the 1st time:
Heb. 9:28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Since Christ will “appear”, it implies we must see Him. You can’t see a spirit appear. Also, the verse says He will appear a 2nd time, which means it must be the same condition as the first coming Christ – which was in human form. Yet, when Christ comes a 2nd time in the last days, He already said He will do something to his name…change it:
Rev. 3:11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.
For ALL of these reasons, only the Church of God World Mission Society contains ALL of the truth, following the commands/laws of God keeping faith in Jesus (Jesus in the last days is 2nd Coming Christ). It is because Christ Ahn Sahng Hong established this church as the spiritual Zion that was to come in the last days. Even though He never said, “I am God” or “2nd Coming Christ” He proved by His actions that He is both.
Isn’t it more important the action of the savior than for someone to self-proclaim they are the Christ and not DO anything? That is why the Church of God World Mission Society believes truly in the savior prophesied in the Bible as Christ Ahn Sahng Hong. How much have you who doubt Him studied the Bible prophecies concerning 2nd Coming Christ? And even so, from whom have you learned it? How much can you learn from the one who breaks God’s commandments?
, God must come in the flesh, as a man and teach us. Do you really think God will teach us in spirit form? We must see the path of God to walk in it, yet do you really think He will make the path to the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit form? To fulfill this prophecy, God must fulfill this prophecy:
Heb. 9: