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Salvation of Jews and Gentiles

 

The people of Israel, who started as one man, Abraham, went down to Egypt to escape the famine when a famine broke out in their land, and then lived there for 430 years. After 430 years of their numbers multiply like grains of sand, God lets Moses out of Egypt. The Israelites who escaped from Egypt did not receive the Law through Moses until they crossed the Red Sea, passed through the Wilderness of Paran, and reached Mount Sinai. When the Israelites who escaped from Egypt (Satan) received the law from God, it means that they began to live as God's people. Moses is a type of Jesus Christ who is to come.

 

After that, the Israelites left Moses behind and followed Joshua across the Jordan River, passing through Jericho and entering the land of Canaan and settled there. The fact that God left Moses behind and followed Joshua foreshadowed the coming of Jesus to save the Israelites from their sins. God commands the Israelites who arrived in Canaan to build a temple. Each of the twelve tribes of Israel set up their own land and began to live. The Jews born after that did not need to evangelize separately because they were born as God's people.

 

However, just because you become God's people does not mean you can enter the kingdom of heaven right away. The people are obliged to keep the law. At this time, if we as God's people do not keep the laws that we must keep, we will get sick due to God's curse. The reason why there were so many sick people among the Israelites was because they disobeyed the law. And even if the body did not become ill, humans could not fully keep the law. This is because the law is a hundred times good, and even one mistake is to break all the laws.

 

In general, God's will and man's thoughts go in opposite directions. If Jesus, who came to the land of Israel, had not died on the cross and came down alive, more people would have believed in Jesus. However, since the Son of God did not rise from the cross but died, the Jews at that time could not believe in Jesus as the Son of God even more.

 

At that time, the punishment for punishing the most heinous people was to hang them on a wooden cross to death. But the reason Jesus blasphemed God was that He suffered such a punishment. Even if Jesus was framed and died on the cross, if he was the innocent Son of God, from the point of view of the Jews, he had to come down alive. It is only then that we can be recognized as the true Messiah. But, let alone living and dying, he died on the cross, so from the point of view of the Jews at that time, would they not have believed that it was because of the curse of God?

 

Of course, Jesus was resurrected three days after being buried in a tomb, but it was difficult for Jews at the time to accept that fact. In their opinion, how can those who have not risen from the cross be raised to life again? If that was the case, I wonder if he should have come down alive when he was hanging on the cross earlier. From a Jewish point of view, this is understandable enough. Perhaps because of that thought, the Jews did not believe in Jesus even more.

 

However, rumors of the resurrection of Jesus spread through the mouths of people in an instant. Those who killed Jesus vehemently denied that fact, but those who had been healed by Jesus or believed in Jesus as the true Messiah accepted Jesus' resurrection as a fact. Paul wanted to convey this fact. To believe in the dead on the cross may seem foolishness to fools, but to us who believe, it is salvation.

 

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18).  

 

However, the Jews at that time did not know at all that Jesus had to die so that we could live again. This is the limit of humans living in darkness. No matter how wise and knowledgeable a human being, he cannot understand God's providence right away. In order to know God's will, the Son of God must come and enlighten people. Otherwise, no one can know the very will of God.

 

The same is true of Christians today who live under the law of the Holy Spirit. Today's Christians may think that they know a lot because they read the Old and New Testaments, but Christians also have no one who truly knows about God's will and providence. The reason is that the spiritual Son sent by God has not yet come before Christians.

 

From the point of view of people living in the New Testament (Jesus) age, the contents of the Old Testament are all serving as a schoolteacher to guide them to Christ. Then, when the time came, Jesus came to the people of Israel as a new temple. However, if the Jews do not believe in the new temple (Jesus) and keep trying to stay in the old building (temple), this is really foolish. Of course, until the arrival of the new temple, hand-built buildings played a really important role. But it should not stay there any longer, as it was built for a temporary period until the coming of the new temple.

 

Likewise, from the point of view of today's spiritual people, everything written in the New Testament is a foreshadowing of Christ who will come spiritually before the Gentiles. But now the time has come, and God has sent His spiritual Son even before the Gentiles. However, Christians, like Jews, do not want to believe in the spiritual son that God has sent, but rather like to gather in buildings (chapels) built with human hands to worship. This is really stupid. Until now, the chapel has played a very important role for Christians, but now that the new owner of the temple has arrived, we must stop visiting the chapel and worship and receive Christ, the new owner, into our hearts. This is the heaven of the kingdom of God that will be realized in our hearts.

 

Judging from this, we can see that Jews are given laws and gospels that are appropriate for Jews, and Christians have laws and gospels that are appropriate for Christians. Therefore, it is necessary to explain the 'spiritual law' and the 'spiritual gospel' that apply to spiritual people. But Christians are getting tired of talking about the people of Israel all the time. Christians, tired of the same words, wander from church to church in search of newer words, but no matter which church they go to, they all say the same word, so they cannot satisfy their soul's hunger. So, while looking around for newer words, they are ruining their lives by being deceived by a fake Christ (heretic).

 

If Christians want to know God's will, they can truly understand God's will and providence only when they believe in the spiritual Son of God who will be sent to the Gentiles in the future and are born again into Christ. The reason is that there is a wall of sin between God and man, and no one can go directly to God without breaking that wall. It is the Son of God who can break down this wall of sin. Jews who lived under the law must believe in the Son who came in the flesh to safely approach God, and Christians living under the law of the Holy Spirit today must believe in the Son who comes spiritually to fully approach God.

 

Paul goes on to point out the folly of man living in darkness. “Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness” (1 Corinthians 1:22-24). If we apply Paul's words to Christians today as well, Christians, like Jews, continue to seek God's signs. The reason believers continue to seek God's signs is because they do not believe in God in their hearts, so they try to believe in God even when they see visible signs.

 

The Greeks at that time corresponded to the unbelievers today. Unbelievers naturally seek wisdom and knowledge in the world because they do not know God. When Paul preached the crucified Christ to Jews and unbelievers, Jews became a stumbling block because they preached the dead under the curse of God, and Gentiles thought it foolishly because they preached a meaningless wooden cross.

 

Likewise, applying Paul's words to today's Christians and unbelievers alike, we found that Christians also preferred only famous pastors along with large churches, but people didn't even care about the Son sent by God because he looked so insignificant. And even if the unbeliever is a famous pastor in a large church, it seems very foolish to believe and follow someone who is a small church and a pastor who is not at all worthwhile as the Son of God.

 

This is the hidden secret of God. In our opinion, the Son of God will come to a very large and splendid place, but we must know that this is not the case at all. Jesus, who has already come to the land of Israel, demonstrates this well. According to the prophecy of Isaiah, he is without good form, without good appearance, and in our eyes he is not worthy of adoration at all (Isaiah 53:2). Also, he was born in a stable and has no place to lay his head in this world (Luke 2:7, Matthew 8:20). Just by looking at this, we can see that the Son of God is coming to a very humble place.

 

But, contrary to God's will, humans like large and flashy churches. Also, a pastor who preaches the word must be a person who combines knowledge with many studies, and must have a good personality and all virtues, and then must be kind, and a person who preaches the word in a kind manner can be respected by people. They believe that such a person is a son sent by God. However, on the contrary, God chooses and sends a son who is completely ignorant and ignorant. So who can easily believe such a person as the Son of God? The reason God does this is as follows.

 

“God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong; God chose the lowly and despised things in the world, things that are not, and things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are. so that even the flesh might not boast before God” (1 Corinthians 1:27-29).

 

Among today's Christians, those who want to be born again as sons of God in the future will be born again as Christ only when they give up everything and believe in the spiritual son that God sends. Otherwise, no one can see God and enter the kingdom of heaven. The reason is that, as I said before, because Christians themselves rebelled against the Holy Spirit and lived their lives according to their will, the sin of sin is a barrier between God and humans.

 

Only a spiritual son sent by God can break down the wall of sin that Christians have committed against the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Christians who have disobeyed the Holy Spirit must believe in the spiritual Son that God sends to break down the wall of sin that blocked God and follow the Son to see God the Father. Otherwise, because of the sin of disobeying the Holy Spirit, all Christians must stand before God's judgment seat on the last day.

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