Showing posts with label God the Mother. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God the Mother. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
But the greatest of these is love
For Christians, the ultimate goal of faith is salvation. To achieve this goal, the hope of the kingdom of heaven and faith based on such hope are needed. In addition, the practice of faith is the love toward God and neighbors. Therefore, love is possible only when there are the hope of the kingdom of heaven and faith behind it. God considered love as the greatest virtue of believers.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
(1 Corinthians 13:13)
Then, can those who have love only achieve the goal of salvation? The answer is ‘No.’ The Apostle John emphasized faith as of the most importance to get salvation.
… that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. (John 3:15)
However, it’s hard to reach salvation with faith alone. Today’s Christians fall in this error. An expression of faith requires the hope of the kingdom of heaven.
so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:7)
That is, we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven without having the hope of eternal life. ‘The greatest of these are love,’ ‘whoever believes in him may have eternal life,’ ‘we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life’: Among these words, what should we follow to get salvation? Since the greatest is love, is it enough to have love alone? Or, is it okay to have only faith since it’s written, ‘whoever believes in him may have eternal life’?
We must think about organic combination among faith, hope and love. If faith and hope are missing from love, it’s not different from the one who eats sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl) after separating salt (NaCl) into each element (Na and Cl.) When edible salt is divided into sodium and chlorine, they become harmful materials. Therefore, we can achieve the goal of salvation by practicing love based on faith and hope.
In addition, there is one thing we should remember: Love toward God must be go first with regard to the practice of love. Loving neighbors based on such love is the whole duty of Christians.
Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40)
Are there any Christians who do not love God? However, love with lips only is not love which loves God.
If you love me, you will obey what I command. (John 14:15)
Salvation begins with obeying God’s commandments. Obeying what God commanded enables us to love Him and is the top priority of believers who wish to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The Source of the Water of Life, God the Mother
In the Bible, the water of life refers to the truth of life through which we can have eternal life (Amos 8:11.) Only God has authority to give us the water of life. It was Jehovah who was the spring of living water in the age of the Father.
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water. (Jeremiah 17:13)
However, Jesus was the source of the water of life in the age of the Son.
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” (John 4:10)
Then, who is the spring of the living water in this last age of the Holy Spirit?
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. (Revelation 22:17)
In the age of the Father and in the age of the Son, there was only one God who was the source of the water of life respectively. But in the age of the Holy Spirit, two Gods -- the Spirit and the bride -- give us the water of life. The Holy Father, the Holy Son and the Holy Spirit are God in the Trinity. Who is the bride? Some claim that the bride is ‘the saints.’ But only God can give us the water of life.
He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. (Revelation 21:6-7)
It is our God who gives to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. Therefore, it’s a false claim that the bride is the saints. Then, who is the bride who gives us the water of life in the last days.
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. (Revelation 21:9-10)
It’s written that the bride or the wife of the Lamb, who gives us the water of life, was Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven. Heavenly Mother has not appeared out of the blue, suddenly, all at once. The Bible testifies to God the Father and God the Mother from the first Chapter.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)
Male and female were created in the image of God, which proves that God the Father and God the Mother exist in God’s image. And in the last page of the Bible, it’s prophesied that the Spirit and the bride will give us the water of life. Obviously, the water of life cannot be found in the churches that do not know the Spirit and the bride in this age when the Spirit and the bride give us the water of life. The World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) believes in God the Father and God the Mother who have come as the Spirit and the bride according to the prophecies of the Bible, and preaches the truth of eternal life or the water of life.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Do we have to worship a wall of a city?
…and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. (Isaiah 62:7)
At a glance, some might think the above verse is about a prophecy that God will build the city of Jerusalem. But it’s just a fragmented understanding. If we look at the mate of this verse in the Scriptures, we can understand the meaning behind it.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. (Galatians 4:26)
A long ago time, the prophet Isaiah prophesied that God would establish Heavenly Mother just as Adam had named his wife ‘Eve’:
Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. (Genesis 3:20)
We need to know that Jerusalem recorded in the book of Isaiah does not merely refer to a city located in Palestine near the Mediterranean, but also contains a prophecy about Heavenly Mother. Those who consider Jerusalem as a mere building are to fall into a big error.
Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that men may bring you the wealth of the nations? their kings led in triumphal procession. For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined. (Isaiah 60:11-12)
Isaiah 60 is about the future glory of Jerusalem. The word “you” above refers to the city of Jerusalem. If you think Jerusalem is just a wall of a city, which exists in Israel, it’s concluded that you should worship a building to get salvation because it’s written, “For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish.”
Isn’t it strange? How can God, who forbade idolatry (Exodus 20:4), command us to worship a wall of a city? Such an error occurs because people consider Jerusalem as a mere city. They will result in destruction according to the warning of God regarding those who distort the Bible to their own destruction (2 Peter 3:16.)
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. (Revelation 21:9-10)
Jerusalem in the Bible stands for Heavenly Mother, who gives us the water of life in this age as the wife of the Lamb.
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. (Revelation 22:17)
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Solely for Her Children
In my childhood, I surely was a troublemaker who was considered as ten naughty children.
Every day I tripped, fell, and broke things around me that I shouldn't have.
I was full of curiosity and couldn't just stand without knowing the things that really wanted to know.
My mom always worried that I might hurt myself badly.
She even worried that I might become crooked, so she really took good care of me.
Growing up well under the shade of my “mom,” I was badly caught in the net of “puberty.”
I heard puberty doesn't last longer than one or two years, but didn't know why mine lasted for four years.
My mom tried to persuade me and did her very best.
The more that she tried to take care of me, the more that I tried to be crooked.
But my long roaming years eventually ended by my mom’s love.
After many years had passed by I asked her,
“Mom, how did you feel when I was roaming and wanted to be crooked?”
“It was my first time I wanted to die!”
I was really surprised.
A strong mom like her wanted to die because of her child?
I somewhat felt what parents’ love towards their children was like.
Mom still worries that I might be crooked again.
If I committed the same mistake and gave her a hard time, I surely would be a bad daughter.
I would never want to do anything that would give my mom a hard time.
Still now, Heavenly Mother is hurt by her thousands and more than ten thousands of children every day.
Despite of all that, She never hates us and prays for us worrying that we might be caught by Satan’s evil schemes.
Heavenly Mother truly solely lives for children.
I would never forget Heavenly Mother’s love and proclaim that love to the whole world.
I truly want to solely live for our Heavenly Mother.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Thank You - God the Mother
Thank You - God the Mother
I felt all the more keenly that there are so many things to thank for in life. One day, hearing my mom who has been suffering from a chronic disease fell with a thud, I hurried off to the hospital. Bleeding heavily with the rupture of a blood vessel, she was helplessly lying on the bed in the emergency room.
All the way to the hospital, I didn’t know what to do at all but when I saw mom getting the IV injection, I could feel a little relieved. My sister who first found mom falling in the living room in the early morning rushed to the hospital seemed so haggard. I asked her to bring some toiletries and clothes from home and then I sat next to my mom. Looking at her sleeping face as white as a sheet, I couldn’t stop shedding tears in vain. Since her heavy bleeding, she continued to receive transfusion while she was in hospital. Without blood for transfusions, she would have come across something wrong.
At that moment, some news contents I watched the other day suddenly occurred to me. The news was that in spite of falling blood supplies with the decreasing number of blood donors in this hot summertime, they thank The International We Love You Foundation for its hundreds of members took the head in the blood donation movement.
I truly give thanks to God for allowing me to realize the true love of Heavenly Mother and to have an opportunity to practice the love for others.
I felt all the more keenly that there are so many things to thank for in life. One day, hearing my mom who has been suffering from a chronic disease fell with a thud, I hurried off to the hospital. Bleeding heavily with the rupture of a blood vessel, she was helplessly lying on the bed in the emergency room.
All the way to the hospital, I didn’t know what to do at all but when I saw mom getting the IV injection, I could feel a little relieved. My sister who first found mom falling in the living room in the early morning rushed to the hospital seemed so haggard. I asked her to bring some toiletries and clothes from home and then I sat next to my mom. Looking at her sleeping face as white as a sheet, I couldn’t stop shedding tears in vain. Since her heavy bleeding, she continued to receive transfusion while she was in hospital. Without blood for transfusions, she would have come across something wrong.
At that moment, some news contents I watched the other day suddenly occurred to me. The news was that in spite of falling blood supplies with the decreasing number of blood donors in this hot summertime, they thank The International We Love You Foundation for its hundreds of members took the head in the blood donation movement.
I truly give thanks to God for allowing me to realize the true love of Heavenly Mother and to have an opportunity to practice the love for others.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Mom’s message
“Why isn't she coming home yet? It’s so late!”
Repeating her words,she was in a dither.
It was all because of my younger sister who still hasn't come home in this late night.
She waits for her call and after a while, she finally grabs her cellphone.
My mom didn't really call her children unless it was something special.
But it was an exception for me and my sister.
It was even more of an exception, when I used to live apart from my family.
I received mom’s text messages every single day.
Though I had my cellphone like my alter ego, I couldn't really reply her messages all the time.
I just felt bad so I couldn't possibly delete her messages, so they just piled up.
Her messages were short and concise, and didn't contain any fancy modifiers or emoticons.However, out of others, they were the friendliest messages, and messages that I could really feel the warmth.
‘I love you darling.’
‘Cheer up pumpkin.’
‘Don’t hang around late at night and go home early.’
‘Are you eating well enough?’
Though I scrolled down and down the messages that I have received, the only difference was the date and time. They were nothing special, but just messages worrying about me.
It could be consider as ‘no big deal, they are just messages,’ but sending those messages, she would have been all anxious, pressing the buttons one by one, trying to send her true heart.
Like the palm of my hand, I can visualize about her thinking about her child all day long, and finally grabbing her cellphone since she couldn't possibly stand still.
In contrary, I am just busy thinking about myself.
However, in a mother’s mind, there is nothing about herself, but full of thoughts for her children.
What’s the use of me talking about Heavenly Mother’s love who gave up Herself for me, the one who was blinded by greed and arrogance?
I cannot repay even with my whole life, or even mimic Heavenly Mother’s love and concern. Receiving Her love and concern, I am the most happiest person in this world.
The Courage to Face the Truth
Why do they deny and reject God the Mother whom the Bible teaches? Some would not acknowledge the truth even though the existence of God the Mother is proven from the Bible. Also, there are people who say that they just do not want to talk anymore because they have never heard such teachings while attending the church for several decades. The truth of God the Mother might sound very strange. So they sometimes say, “It’s a new view” or “it’s a new theory” since it’s very different from what they have known so far.
However, nobody boasts of ignorance. We need to listen to the words of the Bible with a humble mind if we have never been taught, don’t we? The truth of the Scriptures about God the Mother is “not” new. It’s recorded in the book of Genesis and also appears in the New Testament. It’s a precious truth which has been shared in the history of the Bible.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness… So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)
But the Jerusalem that is above [the heavenly Jerusalem: GNT] is free, and she is our mother. (Galatians 4:26)
God the Mother, witnessed in the Bible, was the truth that was also present in the time of the Early Church. But the church became secularized in around the 4th century when it was united with the political power of the Roman Empire. During secularization, the church accepted pagan rituals and ideas which were rampant throughout the Empire. Non-biblical doctrines appeared and, weirdly enough, Mary, who was just the physical mother of Jesus, took the place of God the Mother. Of course, the doctrine of virgin Mary was affected by pagan religion called the worship of “mother and son.”
God the Mother whom the Bible testifies about is the Savior and the Creator, while Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a mere creature like us. Jesus also warned us not to regard His physical family members as someone godlike:
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you [Jesus] birth and nursed you.” He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” (Luke 11:27-28)
The Roman Catholic Church distorted the truth of God the Mother and instead put up a false doctrine to believe in the false mother by calling a mere woman Mary “the Holy Mother.” Since then, the Catholic Church had exercised absolute power for more than one thousand years and no one had argued about its doctrines. But the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church reached its height during the late Middle Ages and at last its secular power collapsed when the Reformers appeared to obtain religious freedom and to restore the truth which had disappeared. They were the founders of Protestantism.
The Protestant churches declared that they were different from the Catholic Church. But their doctrines such as the Apostles’ Creed, Sunday service and Christmas were directly adopted from the non-biblical doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. In other words, their Reformation was incomplete because their restoration was imperfect and only partial amendments were made. Obviously, it it not biblical to “divinize” and rely on Mary for salvation. However, we should not only deny and reject it, but also restore the true truth of God the Mother. The Protestant churches denied the truth of God the Mother itself.
The Scriptures clearly testify about God the Mother and it is written in Galatians 4:26. However, both Protestant and Catholic churches deny the truth about God the Mother. The former is the one that changed the truth, and the latter that seemingly understands the falsehood of Mary but insists that there is no God the Mother. When we face the truth, we need the courage to make a decision.
For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ (Matthew 13:15)
When the Jews faced the truth that Jesus was the Savior and God, they became so stubborn and insisted that it’s not true. Pilate, who was a judge, feared the Jews rather than the truth and played a role in Jesus’ death by turning Him over to be executed. Now, how would both the Jews and Pilate regret their choice?
You are facing the truth. Today, Christians turn their faces away from the truth of the Bible and act as if they were the Jews of 2000 years ago with a fixed idea that there is only one God — God the Father. And some are hesitating to accept the truth although they see it. How about you? Will you persist that what you know is absolutely correct? Or, will you ignore the truth as if you did not know it? Or, will you be reluctant to make a decision because you think it’s difficult to suddenly change your belief?
There is God the Mother. We should receive God the Mother to get salvation. God still gives you an opportunity to become one of the prophets who can join and proclaim this truth. Don’t be stubborn and don’t be reluctant. The blessings and the privileges to face the truth are given to those who make a brave decision.
Monday, March 10, 2014
About the verse “If anyone tells you, ‘There he is’ or ‘Here he is’”, do not believe it”
Jesus warned that false Christs and false prophets would appear and mislead many people:
At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect--if that were possible. 25 See, I have told you ahead of time. 26 "So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. (Matthew 24:23-26)
However, some unfairly use this verse to oppose the Second Coming Christ. If, we literally must not believe it when we are told “Here is the Christ”, where do we have to go? Do we need to go to the place where it says “Here isn’t the Christ and there he isn’t”? Are there any churches which do not say “Here is the Christ”?
Therefore, Jesus did not give us this word with the intent that we must deny Christ when He comes in any cases. As written, it’s clearly about warning people of false Christs.
Then, where can we find the true Christ and not false Christs?
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer [Savior: GNT] will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. (Romans 11:26)
It’s prophesied that the Savior would come from Zion. Where is Zion in which the Savior dwells?
Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals … There the LORD will be our Mighty One… For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us. (Isaiah 33:20-22)
Zion where the Savior dwells is the place where we celebrate the feasts of God. God’s feasts include a weekly feast of the Sabbath and seven annual feasts of the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Day of Firstfruits, the Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. The place where people celebrate such feasts as written in the Bible is “Zion.”
However, the place where people do not observe the feasts of God while saying “Here is the Christ” is the one where they believe in ‘false Christs’ or ‘another Jesus (2 Corinthians 11:4).’ The Bible prophesies as follows about the appearance of Christ who gives us the water of life:
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. (Revelation 22:17)
You can meet the Sprit and the bride who give us the water life only in Zion.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Maternal Love in the Snowstorm-Heavenly Mother,God the Mother
Maternal Love in the Snowstorm
One man was traveling on a horse.
It was an awfully cold weather in the snowstorm.
It didn’t even take a while until he met a woman finding her way to her husband; carrying her child on her back.
Pitying them, the man got them on the horse.
Despite of herself being cold, the woman covered her child with her outer garment.
Though the child was sleeping cozily in its mother’s arms, the mother was about to freeze to death.
Her body started becoming stiff and was nearly falling asleep.
The mother surely was about to die…
Noticing this, the man suddenly got her off the horse and took her child and went off.
The mother couldn’t stop but ran after the man screaming, to give her child back.
The man wouldn’t listen and just kept on going.
At a certain point, the man stopped the horse.
When the mother was catching her breath, the man asked, “You’re not cold anymore, are you?”
Then the man took them on the horse and they safely arrived to the place where they were heading to.
Mother wants to give out everything
"Mommy?"
A child called her mother.
“Yeah, you need something?”
It doesn’t take even a second for her to answer her child.
Suddenly I thought...
How much would have she wanted to give away everything what her daughter wished or desired?
On the other hand, I felt so sorry for Heavenly Mother.
Though Heavenly Mother waits for us to call Her, since She knew well what we wished or needed, I didn’t.
Long time ago, I heard there was an aged mother who washed the feet of her grown-up son.
The son was well-known as a filial son.
You might consider the son to be unkind for making his aged mother to wash his feet, but he let her, because that was the most pleasurable joy for his mother.
Listening to all of Her children’s prayers, and most carefully taking care of Her children, without considering Her safety, Heavenly Mother always comes for Her children who calls Her.
Heavenly Mother calls that, “Her joy,” and just waits to give out thousands of blessings that She prepared for Her children.
This child, calls You, Mother.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Letter from my two girls
Letter from my two girls
I have two daughters who are the apples of my eye.
When my eldest daughter asks,
“Mom, who is prettier? Me or Jenny?”, then my answer is always the same.
“Both of you are equally pretty.”
This is true. As they grow up, the number of times they fight increased.
Since preaching a homily only brings gin, I asked them to write down briefly about what happened throughout the day and their emotions about each other in the conversation notebook.
I didn't care what the contents are in the notebook. It is just happiness itself for me since it was no better than a letter from my loving daughters.
My heart vibrates with joy from the very moment I pick up the conversation notebook, wondering how my eldest one’s day today and what the second one would think of. One day, there was recorded as follows in the notebook of my eldest daughter.
「Mom, I hate Jenny. She tore off the dress you bought. You know how much I love it! Mom, I wish her father than here.」
Even though a little girl said this, my heart ached by the words she wish no sister.
When one of both two gets sick, I feel worse. Like this, their fighting must be a fatal pain for parents. Now, I opened the note of the second daughter.
Mom, I ‘m so sorry. I tore off sister’s clothes. Sorry I wasn't right. I won’t do that again, I will make money and definitely pay back.」
I got the giggles and felt better. When I opened the door of eldest one, she was still fuming, looking at the torn clothes.
“Laura, you are upset, aren't you?”
“I am.”
As soon as falling into my arms, she cried quite a while and said everything happened in the day very in detail. I guess she must have been so sad. Actually I already knew everything through Jessica living next door.
“Laura, look at mommy’s hands. How many ring fingers are there?”
“Two.”
“You know why it’s two?”
“I don’t.”
“One is Laura, and another is Jenny. By the way, like you said, if one is cut off, then what is going to happen to mom?
“It would bleed and hut so much.”
Holding my hands, a girl was about to cry.
“Right. Your wish not to have Jenny is something like this. Are you going to say that again?”
“No, Mom, I won’t do that again. I wasn't right.”
“Right, you are my girl and her sister. Then, can we go see Jenny now? She might be snotty now, examining herself. Jenny said she is going to make money and buy you a dress definitely.”
Just as was expected, the younger one was snuffling.
Some letters unfinished with wobbly writings were everywhere and some coins came out from a piggy bank with its nose cut off.
Last summer, a nose of a piggy bank was cut off too. I will not forget the time when they got a chocolate pie with the coins they collected for my birthday.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
God the Mother anxiously watches Her Children
Behind the Children
When I was young, there was a time when I went downtown with my mother.
My heart was really aflutter right before we went downtown.
But I was continuously sulky after we got there.
Going from store to store, mom wanted to buy me some clothes and shoes that I liked.
However, answering half-heartedly to what she asked, I walked away from mom.
“Why, nothing suits you?”
I couldn't possibly answer that question and was continuously fretful.
We eventually went home earlier than we have planned.
On the way home, in the bus, I sat away from mom and even when we got off the bus, I
quickly walked keeping a distance from her.
I was petulant because of her shabby and unattractive appearance, and I was so
embarrassed that I wished she wasn’t my mom.
Thinking of what had happened that time, my heart breaks and wells up my eyes.
Wearing out her welcome, my mom worked hard as a cleaning woman. Thinking of her
daughter, who might be discouraged by others, she wanted to buy me a pretty dress and
shoes with her hard-earned money.
I was so sorry being embarrassed and ignoring her as an immature child.
My heart aches at the thought that she would have been behind me, watching me quickly
walking alone ahead of her, without knowing why I was sulky.
When I look at my mom, she recalls of Heavenly Mother.
Even at this moment She wishes Her children who can’t realize, to turn their backs to Her, to come into Her arms.
Mother, for 6000 years, anxiously watches Her children who are not returning.
I am so sorry to Heavenly Mother.
Now, looking at Her, I want to run in Her arms.
I thank Mother for Her deep and great love towards Her children.
When I was young, there was a time when I went downtown with my mother.
My heart was really aflutter right before we went downtown.
But I was continuously sulky after we got there.
Going from store to store, mom wanted to buy me some clothes and shoes that I liked.
However, answering half-heartedly to what she asked, I walked away from mom.
“Why, nothing suits you?”
I couldn't possibly answer that question and was continuously fretful.
We eventually went home earlier than we have planned.
On the way home, in the bus, I sat away from mom and even when we got off the bus, I
quickly walked keeping a distance from her.
I was petulant because of her shabby and unattractive appearance, and I was so
embarrassed that I wished she wasn’t my mom.
Thinking of what had happened that time, my heart breaks and wells up my eyes.
Wearing out her welcome, my mom worked hard as a cleaning woman. Thinking of her
daughter, who might be discouraged by others, she wanted to buy me a pretty dress and
shoes with her hard-earned money.
I was so sorry being embarrassed and ignoring her as an immature child.
My heart aches at the thought that she would have been behind me, watching me quickly
walking alone ahead of her, without knowing why I was sulky.
When I look at my mom, she recalls of Heavenly Mother.
Even at this moment She wishes Her children who can’t realize, to turn their backs to Her, to come into Her arms.
Mother, for 6000 years, anxiously watches Her children who are not returning.
I am so sorry to Heavenly Mother.
Now, looking at Her, I want to run in Her arms.
I thank Mother for Her deep and great love towards Her children.
Parents of our bodies and Parents of our souls
A man does not consist of body only. Humans are a combination of body and soul.
... the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground [body] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [soul], and the man became a living being (Genesis 2:7)
Therefore, if a man dies, the body and soul are separated and the soul returns to its former place.
... and the dust [body] returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit [soul] returns to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
While the body which came from the ground returns to it, the soul which came from God returns to Him. Like this, body and soul are different and distinct in essence. So, the Bible says that our physical father and our Spiritual Father are not same:
Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! (Hebrews 12:9)
If our physical father and our Spiritual Father were identical, our physical father becomes our Spiritual Father. Or, if a man were made of body only and had no soul, there would be only our physical father and there cannot be our Spiritual Father. However, the fact that there are our physical father and our Spiritual Father respectively proves that there exist body and soul individually. Then, who is the Father of our souls?
"This, then, is how you should pray: " 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name... (Matthew 6:9)
The Father of all souls is God in heaven. But we have not only our physical father but also physical mother. Then, does there exist the Mother of our souls as well? Or, is there only Father? The answer can be found in the Bible.
But the Jerusalem that is above [the heavenly Jerusalem: GNT] is free, and she is our mother. (Galatians 4:26)
The Bible teaches us that there is our Mother as well as our Father in heaven. It's very strange. Why do we have to have our Father and Mother in heaven just as we have our father and mother on the earth? What's the reason?
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1:18-20)
All visible things were created by God to reflect God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature. Body and soul are clearly distinct elements. Our body cannot exist without our physical father and mother, which shows the principle that our soul also cannot exist without our Spiritual Father and Mother. The existence of our body causes us not to deny the existence of father and mother who gave it to us. Therefore, the existence of our soul proves the existence of Father and Mother who gave it to us.
The Bible is really the amazing Words of God which make us realize spiritual principles and God's divine nature through this world we are living in. We should know and believe in God the Father and God the Mother testified by the Bible and all things in this world.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
My Mirror, God the Mother
My Mirror
When I eat lunch with my daughter in Zion, I get really nervous.
Seeing Nelly dropping food while she eats or hearing her romping around, I give her that frowning face.
But that was just for that moment.
Eventually she would just be romping around noisily.
Though I talked to her to behave nicely and to be quiet while she eats, she just forgets all of it at an instant, which upsets me.
Whenever that happened, I felt like my image was damaged and I was afraid that I would have the stigma of a mother who can’t educate her daughter. So when I clench my teeth and say “I’ll see you at home,” at last, Nelly gets quiet.
It reminds me of my mom’s moan that “Your child is the enemy.”
Nelly was always my concern. I worried that she might make mistakes, behave rudely and be blamed, as she would always be restless and forget about things.
Being upset, I told my husband sulkily.
“Look at her, all restless and distracted. She looks just like you...”
Whenever I saw Nelly being naughty, It old him that Nelly looked like him. My husband would usually let my joke passed by, but today my husband looked at me as if he really had something to say to me.
“Darling, did you know that Nelly was praying to be like her mom before going to bed? Don’t you think Nelly resembles you?”
I thought I received a severe blow on my head.
Myself... Myself?
How about myself? What kind of daughter am I to Heavenly Mother?
Do I resemble Mother?
Even today, wouldn't She be upset seeing my insufficient self?
According to my sinful deeds, even now, wouldn't she be ashamed of me?
Why am I so foolish? Why couldn't I see myself?
I felt so sorry to Nelly that she was praying to God with her two small hands together so that she could resemble me.Most of all, I felt so sorry to Heavenly Mother.
A child’s faults are mom’s portion. She was my mirror...
You can just tell without being told who the parents were or the children.
The children just resemble the parents.
Appearances,personalities, the way they walk, appetites, likes, and even dislikes...
How much do I resemble Heavenly Mother?
Even though Her children acts in an opposing way, She wouldn't rebuke and prays for Her children. Though She is mocked and ridiculed by their faults, She would feel sorry for Her children’s weakness and would smile. My Mother of Love...
How much do I resemble Mother?
I didn't realize that my daughter’s faults were my faults, and that she was I, myself.
I hated so much that my image was tarnished because of my daughter, and that I had to be embarrassed.
If someone praised my daughter, I just wanted her to be praised, thinking that the praise she has received was for me and I just wanted to be honored. I am so embarrassed today seeing my foolish self.
I will first resemble Heavenly Mother.
Mother’s smile, Mother’s way of speaking, Mother’s love and sacrifice for Her children...
I will become a mom who looks just like Heavenly Mother, so that I wouldn't be a disgrace for my daughter.
For Mother, I will become only joy for Her, and cooling water on a hot summer day.
When I eat lunch with my daughter in Zion, I get really nervous.
Seeing Nelly dropping food while she eats or hearing her romping around, I give her that frowning face.
But that was just for that moment.
Eventually she would just be romping around noisily.
Though I talked to her to behave nicely and to be quiet while she eats, she just forgets all of it at an instant, which upsets me.
Whenever that happened, I felt like my image was damaged and I was afraid that I would have the stigma of a mother who can’t educate her daughter. So when I clench my teeth and say “I’ll see you at home,” at last, Nelly gets quiet.
It reminds me of my mom’s moan that “Your child is the enemy.”
Nelly was always my concern. I worried that she might make mistakes, behave rudely and be blamed, as she would always be restless and forget about things.
Being upset, I told my husband sulkily.
“Look at her, all restless and distracted. She looks just like you...”
Whenever I saw Nelly being naughty, It old him that Nelly looked like him. My husband would usually let my joke passed by, but today my husband looked at me as if he really had something to say to me.
“Darling, did you know that Nelly was praying to be like her mom before going to bed? Don’t you think Nelly resembles you?”
I thought I received a severe blow on my head.
Myself... Myself?
How about myself? What kind of daughter am I to Heavenly Mother?
Do I resemble Mother?
Even today, wouldn't She be upset seeing my insufficient self?
According to my sinful deeds, even now, wouldn't she be ashamed of me?
Why am I so foolish? Why couldn't I see myself?
I felt so sorry to Nelly that she was praying to God with her two small hands together so that she could resemble me.Most of all, I felt so sorry to Heavenly Mother.
A child’s faults are mom’s portion. She was my mirror...
You can just tell without being told who the parents were or the children.
The children just resemble the parents.
Appearances,personalities, the way they walk, appetites, likes, and even dislikes...
How much do I resemble Heavenly Mother?
Even though Her children acts in an opposing way, She wouldn't rebuke and prays for Her children. Though She is mocked and ridiculed by their faults, She would feel sorry for Her children’s weakness and would smile. My Mother of Love...
How much do I resemble Mother?
I didn't realize that my daughter’s faults were my faults, and that she was I, myself.
I hated so much that my image was tarnished because of my daughter, and that I had to be embarrassed.
If someone praised my daughter, I just wanted her to be praised, thinking that the praise she has received was for me and I just wanted to be honored. I am so embarrassed today seeing my foolish self.
I will first resemble Heavenly Mother.
Mother’s smile, Mother’s way of speaking, Mother’s love and sacrifice for Her children...
I will become a mom who looks just like Heavenly Mother, so that I wouldn't be a disgrace for my daughter.
For Mother, I will become only joy for Her, and cooling water on a hot summer day.
Even giving a share of God the Mother's liver
Even giving a share of her liver
Trying to see the weather forecast, I turned on the TV.
Changing channels, I stopped; something caught my eyes.
The child seemed to be like a two year old and looked very sick.
The child was suffering genetic metabolic disorder.
As a result, the child had developmental disorder, since the he couldn't digest specific nutrients, and couldn't walk but crawl.
The child had to receive a liver transplant to be cured.
Holding her child, the mother just shed endless tears.
The mother decided to give her liver to her child.
The mother and the child were hospitalized together.
The child cried because of pain and fear.
Though the mother had to go through many examinations, she cried feeling sorry for her child instead of her pain.
The mother gave her child one third of her liver.
Right after the child woke up from anesthetic, he was looking for his mother.
Mother is a person that can only be described with limited words, that is, ‘love.’ She really has something that is so great.
It reminded me about Heavenly Mother who is always sorry thinking that is insufficient, even though She gives out all of Her flesh and blood.
My God the Mother, who is still praying for me...
I give thanks again and again...
Monday, February 17, 2014
The will of God or the command of an emperor?
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 7:21)
Even new Christians commonly know the Ten Commandments. The fourth commandment of the Ten is “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” However today, nearly all churches keep Sunday, the first day of the week, as the Lord’s Day instead of Saturday, the seventh day. Some even make illogical claims and absurd arguments such as “every day is the Sabbath day” or “Sunday is the seventh day.”
2,000 years ago, not only Jesus and his disciples but also the apostles and saints of the Early Church did not submit to Sunday Legislation enacted by a Roman Emperor and kept the Sabbath day to the end even though they were persecuted and martyred. They stuck to their noble faith while fleeing into the desert and mountains lest their religious purity should be trampled. But many people followed the Sunday Law of the Emperor. They threw away the Sabbath day of Jesus like an old shoe and kept the Sunday service. In return, they were given considerable power from the Roman Emperor.
Whose command should we follow? Will you obey the will of God whatever people say while expecting the kingdom of heaven? Or, will you submit to the command of the Emperor and continue to make vain efforts by keeping the Sunday service?
Are you still walking the opposite way to the will of God in accordance with the command of the specter of a Ruler who cried out for Sunday? Or, are you living a faith life in a vegetative state due to the influence of large churches and spineless denominations which have continuously repeated the division and unification according to the interests of people. If you are living a life of such lukewarm faith, how about leaving the contaminated church in search of the truth?
You will have to think a lot which faith will be considered to be obedient to the will of God, and reflect on the goal of your faith. Then, you will be able to realize the fact that the Sabbath day and the Passover should be kept according to the will of God.
The World Mission Society Church of God believes in God the Father and God the Mother according to the Bible
The World Mission Society Church of God believes in God the Father and God the Mother according to the Bible
One of things that many people misunderstand about the Bible is that there is only God the Father. However, the Bible clearly reveals that there exists God the Mother as well God the Father from the first page of the Bible.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea...." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)
If there is only one God, God the Father, it should read ‘my image’ not ‘our image.’ In addition, only ‘male’ should have been created in the image of God the Father. But, is there only male created in the image of God? Isn’t there also ‘female’? The fact that male and female were created in the image of God is the evidence that God’s image includes God the Father and God the Mother. It’s very important to know the existence of God the Father and God the Mother because it’s prophesied that God the Father and God the Mother are to appear to give us the water of life in the last days.
The Spirit [God the Father] and the bride [God the Mother] say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life. (Revelation 22:17)
Those who have met God the Father and God the Mother can receive the water of life. People who only know God the Father do not know God whom we must press on to know. The World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) receives the water of life from the Spirit and the bride according to the words of the Bible.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Endless Love of Elohim God for the Sinner
A Half of a Fingernail
Being clumsy with the kitchen knife, I had a day when I almost cut half of my finger nail preparing a meal.
My finger wouldn’t stop bleeding, so I quickly put gauze over it and tied it up with some rubber band. By the time I almost finished preparing the meal, my hand was burning and sore.
As my tears that I held back dropped down my eyes, someone flitted through my mind.
The One who saved me with His precious blood…
“My Father.”
With that thought, I engraved God’s unfathomable love in my heart.
Even cutting almost a half of my fingernail approaches me as a fear of pain.
Having His whole body full of blood, how much pain would He had felt?
The pain that I had removing the gauze that wouldn’t just come off easily that clung on the skin, cannot be compared to Father’s pain; taking off the robe forcefully that clung on His body all covered with blood.
The reason why He did not open His mouth when He was oppressed and afflicted,
The reason why He did not open His mouth like a lamb to the slaughter,
It is for my transgressions, my iniquities, and to bring me peace.
After I, myself have experienced and felt the pain, my heart burned realizing God’s love towards me.
The One who loved me until His whole body was all sore,
The One who loved me even enduring the mockery of His creation,
With what kind of word from this world can we describe Father’s greatness?
Not even once, but He had endured twice, of the stinging pain of His whole body.
How can we dare know the end of God’s love for the sinner?
For God’s love, that nothing can exceed, I give all thanks with my whole heart.
How God the Mother considers me
Eat well and be healthy
“Caitlyn, eat your breakfast!”
Without considering my urgent voice, there she goes again dawdling...
“If you don’t hustle, you wouldn’t make to school!”
Another usual talk that goes every morning to my seven-year-old daughter, wasting her time; not wanting to eat her breakfast.
As they always say, “breakfast is the most essential meal of the day,” my child would grow well when she had hardy breakfast, but when she didn’t, she would get sick quite often and wouldn’t grow.
I try my best for her to eat breakfast, but it doesn’t seem to work out easily.
One day, I happened to notice myself putting pressure on her to eat up her breakfast.
Though Heavenly Mother gave me spiritual food every day, I noticed that I was stubbornly dawdling like my daughter.
In the meantime, though I was preaching the words of life to others, I wasn’t quite full with the Holy Spirit, but lacking 2%. It was all because I haven’t taken my spiritual food regularly.
We need to eat three meals a day regularly for us to maintain a healthy body.
Likewise, I realized that we consistently needed to eat spiritual food with thanks, elaborately prepared by our Heavenly Mother for our souls to grow strongly.
Despite of all this, it was a common thing for me delaying; becoming all lazy and saying to myself, “I’m too busy today,” or “I have lots of things to do, I’ll do this tomorrow.”
Now I began to realize that I shouldn’t delay no more.
For me to realize, Mother showed myself through my daughter.
Through her, Mother makes me feel how Mother considers me and hastens me every morning for me to eat up my spiritual food.
For breakfast, I would have strengthening food called fragrance of Zion, for lunch, I would be ruminating with Father’s hidden manna - the truth of green feed, and for supper, I would be drinking Mother’s water of life that she pours down on us at all seasons of the year.
Through this, I would like to become a mature child who gives a smile on Mother’s face.
Not leaving this foolish, dying child all alone, reviving me with spiritual food, and leading me to the eternal kingdom of heaven; I give eternal thanks for Her great love and grace.
“Caitlyn, eat your breakfast!”
Without considering my urgent voice, there she goes again dawdling...
“If you don’t hustle, you wouldn’t make to school!”
Another usual talk that goes every morning to my seven-year-old daughter, wasting her time; not wanting to eat her breakfast.
As they always say, “breakfast is the most essential meal of the day,” my child would grow well when she had hardy breakfast, but when she didn’t, she would get sick quite often and wouldn’t grow.
I try my best for her to eat breakfast, but it doesn’t seem to work out easily.
One day, I happened to notice myself putting pressure on her to eat up her breakfast.
Though Heavenly Mother gave me spiritual food every day, I noticed that I was stubbornly dawdling like my daughter.
In the meantime, though I was preaching the words of life to others, I wasn’t quite full with the Holy Spirit, but lacking 2%. It was all because I haven’t taken my spiritual food regularly.
We need to eat three meals a day regularly for us to maintain a healthy body.
Likewise, I realized that we consistently needed to eat spiritual food with thanks, elaborately prepared by our Heavenly Mother for our souls to grow strongly.
Despite of all this, it was a common thing for me delaying; becoming all lazy and saying to myself, “I’m too busy today,” or “I have lots of things to do, I’ll do this tomorrow.”
Now I began to realize that I shouldn’t delay no more.
For me to realize, Mother showed myself through my daughter.
Through her, Mother makes me feel how Mother considers me and hastens me every morning for me to eat up my spiritual food.
For breakfast, I would have strengthening food called fragrance of Zion, for lunch, I would be ruminating with Father’s hidden manna - the truth of green feed, and for supper, I would be drinking Mother’s water of life that she pours down on us at all seasons of the year.
Through this, I would like to become a mature child who gives a smile on Mother’s face.
Not leaving this foolish, dying child all alone, reviving me with spiritual food, and leading me to the eternal kingdom of heaven; I give eternal thanks for Her great love and grace.
Friday, February 7, 2014
The reason it’s written that God ‘alone’ created the heavens and the earth while two God did
The Bible says that God the Father and God the Mother created the heavens and the earth.Then God [Elohim] said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)In Genesis Chapter 1 which described the process of the Creation, God is referred to as ‘Elohim,’ the plural form. In addition, the plural pronoun ‘Us’ was used. If there were only one God, God should been referred to as the singular noun ‘El’ or ‘Eloah,’ and the singular pronoun ‘Me’ should been used. God the Creator is not only one. From the passage “Male and female were created in the image of God,” we can understand that there are two Gods: God the Father and God the Mother.However, in other verse, it’s written that God ‘alone’ created the heavens and the earth.I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself (Isaiah 44:24)Why is it written that God ‘alone’ created the heavens and the earth in the book of Isaiah while it’s written that two Gods did in the book of Genesis? Is one of the two verses wrong? Or, is the Bible contradictory? No. God let us know the reason through Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, who were created in the image of God.For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24)It’s obvious that Adam and Eve are two individuals, who existed as a man and a woman respectively. However, it’s written that Adam and Eve will be united and become one flesh. Therefore, in the Bible, it’s referred to as one man or Adam as the representative when mentioning Adam and Eve together.Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man [Adam]… (Romans 5:14-15)It was not just Adam alone who committed the sin of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Both Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge; moreover Eve did first. However, the Bible wrote the sin of the tree of the knowledge as that of one man. It’s because Adam and Eve are considered one, being united, and Adam is referred to as the representative. This shows the reason it’s written that God ‘alone’ created the heavens and the earth, by uniting God the Father and God the Mother.Adam and Eve are the first man and woman, who were created in the image of God the Father and God the Mother. God expressed the sin of Adam and Eve as that of ‘one man’ and referred to Adam as the representative of the two. In the same way, while God the Father and God the Mother performed the Creation together, it’s expressed that God ‘alone’ did and God the Father is presented as the representative of the Creation Work.Some people deny the holy divine nature of two Gods seen through what has been made, without knowing the profound meaning of the Bible. However, the Bible clearly testifies to God the Father and God the Mother from the first Chapter of Genesis to the last Chapter of Revelation.
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