1. Knowing Is Blessing
2. God and the Holy Spirit Bless by Enabling You to Know
Main Scriptures :
<John 14:26> “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”
<Hosea 4:6> “my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. ‘Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.”
<Proverbs 1:7> “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Hallelujah!
Today, I will deliver the Word under the themes: “First, knowing is blessing. Second, God and the Holy Spirit bless you by enabling you to know.“
◎ If you look at how God has carried out history in each time period through the Bible, [you see that] He has allowed [humans] to grow according to the times. In every era, God let [people] know more and do more, and He blessed them more.
◯ In the New Testament era, God enabled people to know more than in the Old Testament era by sending Jesus, and while blessing them more, God had them fulfill His will.
In the era of the Complete Testament, God allows people to know more than in the New Testament era through the one sent in this age and tells them to fulfill God’s higher will of the new history. The more you know and act, the more He lets you fulfill His will, and He bestows upon you the blessings pertaining to the new era.
◯ Knowing is blessing. Those who know are those who have received blessings. With all [things of] the world, those who know take action and gain. Therefore, it is said that knowing is blessing.
◯ You come to know certain things by learning and taking action. There are things you come to know on your own, too. However, with the things of God’s history, you can never know them unless the Man of Mission teaches you.
Therefore, God has always permitted people to know through the one He sent, and through him, God lets people receive blessings by taking action. However, blind people do not know the value even if they are informed to resolve their problems and receive blessings.
If you know, you will go to Heaven; if you do not know, you will go to Hell. Even when situated in a place of certain death, if you know, you can live, but if you do not know, you will die. If you know, you can resolve problems; if you do not know, you will suffer because of the problems.
◎ People’s perception and views become bound precisely to a certain domain according to what they know and think.
Some [Korean] people see rocks according to their own subjective views and say, “Rocks from overseas are not that good.” It all depends on which kind it is.
◯ Among ornamental rocks, those from Korea’s Namhan River are universally recognized as rocks of the highest hardness in the world. Garden rocks are the same. However, because their hardness is high, it is truly rare to see shapes of peculiar beauty among them.
◯ Foreign ornamental rocks and garden rocks are lower in hardness, but for that reason, many of them are wondrously carved in the regions where a river has massive and strong currents. As a result, even among those from foreign countries, there are many artwork rocks with [more] outstanding and mysterious forms and shapes than domestic ones. Thus, some of them are more popular than those from Korea. Even if they are from overseas, good and unusual ornamental rocks or garden rocks are so expensive that you cannot afford them. Some people in Korea who opened their artistic eyes to ornamental rocks and garden rocks have been buying up good rocks from abroad, starting as early as 40 or 50 years ago.
◯ As for Providence, we opened our eyes to appreciate [rocks] through building God’s palace by setting rocks. If we had not opened our eyes back then, it would have been impossible to build it, because [such] rocks are not available now.
◯ With the new era, too, a person must open their eyes to it. Only then will they seek it, delighting in it. I, Seonsang, opened my eyes to the new times 60 years ago. Even when the new era has arrived, if a person’s eyes are not open, they are blind.
◯ Although there is a difference in hardness, regardless of which country or region a rock is from, it is worn out by river water alike. Even though they are all rocks, however, their hardnesses are all different. Also, how precious they are depends on how beautiful and peculiar their image and likeness have become.
◯ Additionally, because God created each region differently during the creation of the Earth, each region and each country produce rocks of different qualities. There are certain rocks with particular qualities that are produced only in one country. There are numerous rocks from foreign countries that are better [than the rocks from Korea]. It is the same with various gemstones including sapphires, emeralds, and rubies.
There are also trees that grow only in cold regions like the North Pole. Red pine thrives mainly in cold regions. Some of them are stronger than the pine trees native to Korea. Because they are as hard as iron, you can never drive a nail into them.
Just as there are places where wild ginseng grows, there are places where marvelous rocks are produced. Each and every country has different characteristics. Therefore, you cannot say that only Korean rocks are good.
◯ God said, “I made rocks evenly across the earthly world. Each country has a location that I made outstanding. With human beings, too, I made it so that central figures, like the Messiah, would be born surely where they are meant to be born.”
◯ When a person has the wrong view, they only like things from their own country. You must have a broad perspective in order to gain great things. You must not search only in your own village, but search in your nation. Instead of searching only in your nation, you should search around the world. Only then will you find something better. This is true regarding the savior, too.
◯ Each country produces a precious thing particularly more [than other countries] in the world. Quartz from Mexico is famous. As for diamonds, South Africa is famous. Certain things are produced only in specific countries, respectively.
This is because when God created the earthly world, He created each region differently. You can see certain things only by going to the places [of their origins].
◯ People are the same. There are different regions where people of different races—Black, White, Asians, and people of other regions—mainly live. Also, treasure-like individuals are in each ethnicity and each nation of the world.
When looking at all the people of Providence around the world, each has their own characteristics. They are all remarkable according to their unique attributes. Many living abroad are outstanding; they are the faithful whom God uses, whose faith is like bedrock.
A certain valuable rock is found only in a particular country according to the uniqueness of that country. Similarly, among many people or treasures, [just] one is strikingly exceptional in the world.
◯ God had the Messiah Jesus be born in Bethlehem in Israel 4,000 years, ever since the beginning of the history of religion with Adam and Eve. God sends [the Messiah] according to the times; He does not send [him] just at any time. By sending Jesus, the Savior, after the 4,000 years of the Old Testament ended, God had one who is beautiful, marvelous, and wondrous—the Wonderful Counselor, the man of wisdom, the man of knowledge, one who is divine—be born. And through Jesus, God carried out the history of salvation for the 2,000 years of the New Testament.
◯ When the 2,000-year history of the New Testament ends, He sends the Man of Mission of that era once again to carry out the history of salvation for 1,000 years. Right now is the time when God is carrying out the new history. Therefore, the person whom God is using to do His work right now must appear. Then, people will see him, listen to the Word of the new era, and follow rejoicing. When they do, their bodies will prosper, and their spirits also will receive salvation and live forever.
◯ The history of salvation is more important* than anything else. This is because it allows both the body and the spirit to live without perishing. [Saving them] is doing the greatest possible thing for people.
{Translation note: Literally, “the greatest”}
◯ You should show people the most wondrous, greatest artwork rock. Then, they will be pleased, talk about it, and tell others that the rock is great. This is why God gives a variety of most precious things—whether the Word or rocks—in the new era, the new history.
God gives precious things to precious people. He especially gives precious things to the Man of Mission of the new era and lets him use them while spreading the new history.
◯ Look at Wolmyeongdong. At first, no one understood it, so [some] said, “Isn’t he making rock graves?” Wolmyeongdong is God’s strong palace [that will last] for a thousand years. Rocks are gems. Just as diamonds, sapphires, and emeralds are gems as stones, various large garden rocks—black crow rocks, (green) wormwood rocks, tiger-skin rocks, granite, beautiful rocks, and blue rocks*—are all gems as natural rocks. It means that we have built God’s palace with gemstones.
{Translation note: Most of them are laymen’s terms based on the looks; black crow rocks (as black as a crow), wormwood rocks (green as wormwood), tiger-skin rocks(striped like tiger skin), granite, beautiful rocks(considered beautiful), and blue rocks(blue).}
◯ In Korea, Namhan River’s dotted rocks are praised as the hardest among rocks. But tiger-skin rock is hard, and black crow rock is hard as well. In Wolmyeongdong, a crow rock artwork stands erected. It is <the Resurrection Rock>. Wormwood rock is also very hard. Among granite rocks, as natural rocks, the ones in golden color are great because they symbolize gold. Wolmyeongdong has been built exclusively with these strong rocks. We set white rocks that symbolize white people, set rocks that symbolize Asians or the like, and set rocks that symbolize black people as well.
◯ You see that the Bible likens God to a large, solid rock and likens Jesus to a stone or bedrock to enlighten us.
(Deuteronomy 32:4) “He is the Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.”
(Psalm 18:2) “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
(Matthew 21:42) “Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’”
(1 Corinthians 10:4) “…and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.”
Even if you live in the same house [with the Messiah], if you do not know, you do not know—just like Jesus’ family and the people of Jesus’ village. History recurs.
You must know how precious rocks are. Only then will you marvel, boast, and testify when you come to Wolmyeongdong and see them. Likewise, only precious people, who can recognize someone precious, will follow and delight in him.
◯ Just as you will become the owner of a rock and live in joy and gladness only if you know how precious the rock is, you must treat and think of people as precious in order for them to follow [you]. This is because [you] recognize and know each other.
People are unique beings like various gems. Just as you are precious, others, too, are precious people like gems.
◯ I am addressing all the things that God has done. Only when you view things from God’s standpoint can you [truly] see rocks, trees, mountain ranges, various gemstones and others.
◯ For rocks, only the hard parts remain in rivers while the weak parts disappear worn out by the water. For people, too, their weak hearts and thoughts disappear, while only what they thought strongly with hope remains. Since weak hearts and deeds are not practiced in the course of people’s lives, they all vanish.
◯ In Providence, too, only the strong have remained. Only those who have been strong in loving God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord, who have been strong in faith, the Word, and action have remained. Those who left were weak, so they lagged behind, and their faith was ruined. As their love grew cold and frigid, they even disbelieved God’s Word. In the end, they fell away. Even though history is absolute and the time and the hours are absolute, they denied it, saying, “That clock is wrong,” and left. Providence history is the history carried out by God Himself, a history where God’s Word that does not change even if heaven and earth change is delivered. There is no error.
◯ I, Seonsang, am this era’s philosopher of existential faith. The philosophers of the old times are thinkers who are of the past. With their theories, the spirit cannot be saved; therefore, it cannot help people gain eternal life. Only the one who shares the theories that are the same as God’s Word is really the true philosopher of the era.
How can one become a teacher without even knowing the Almighty God who created the heavens and the earth? Such a person cannot properly discuss what God created. All of them have [merely] played the role of a tutor. Once you know God, you have mastered philosophy.
◯ What could humans really know on their own? Any human must know both the body and the spirit, and must properly know God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus.
The owners of conglomerates, people in power, and honored and famous people of the world are all human beings. Even if they claim they know things as humans, when the time comes, those things are all consumed and vanish. None of them remain forever. Their spirits become ghosts and evil spirits; they are high-flyers in the eternal Death of Hell. When my spirit saw them, they were truly pitiful. They will carry the sense of bleakness and desolation with them for all eternity. Although they go on for eternity, there will be no savior for them. So I, Seonsang, realized: Meeting the one who saves you while in the world is the greatest thing.”⛤
◯ In the course of a life of faith, too, only your strong thoughts about God and what you did together with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord remain. With faith and love as well, only strong things remain, while weak things fizzle away.
◯ Regarding the interpreted Word of the Bible also, as the new era began, only what actually comes true remains, while the illusory interpretations* of the former faith have all vanished. Only the reality of the parables is fulfilled, and so we continue to carry out history in Providence. The believers of the former faith who lived while believing according to the letters and parables [literally] have ended in emptiness because things did not come true like that. In the former faith, ignorant people cannot interpret parables, and therefore wait only for the parables of the Bible to take place literally.
{Translation note: Literally, “things”}
◯ “Parables” are metaphors made to hide secrets, so that no one would understand them; they are God’s “seals.”
When the disciples asked Jesus, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” he replied, ” I speak to them in parables because it is not allowed for them to know. As for you, since you know [me] and follow, it is allowed. So I tell you plainly. To them, I speak in parables so that they will not understand.”
Although they were sealed with parables, the Lord spoke the original things plainly, without parables, to those who knew him.
(Matthew 13:10-11) “The disciples came to him and asked, ‘Why do you speak to the people in parables?’ He replied, ‘Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.’”
(Mark 4:34) “He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.”
◯ If parables are not interpreted, it is so off-putting that you cannot [continue to] read the Bible. Physical people who cannot interpret parables only look for signs of the stars, the sun, and the moon, or look at the foxes, rocks, trees, or rotten water that are used as parables. These are ignorant thoughts.
The one who realizes and breaks the seals of parables of the New Testament will carry out the history of the new era.
(John 16:25) “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.”
◯ Reality and actions are strong. As for ideas, they only made the heart joyful and then all disappeared. Only what is strong remains.
A philosophy of idealistic faith is a philosophy of dead faith. Only a strong mentality, strong theory, strong truth, strong faith, strong love, and strong action remain. Only the strong things remain in a wondrous, marvelous, and beautiful way to fulfill God’s will.
◯ Only the truth is strong. Your heart is strong only if you are united with God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, the Lord, and the Man of Mission of salvation.
◯ Hope makes the heart strong. Taking action is being strong. Being diligent is being strong. Ornamental rocks, too, must diligently tumble in the river to be evenly worn out by water. People must also be carved evenly.
God said, “Look at the marvelous rocks that I, God, purchased and placed in Wolmyeongdong. Look at the rocks that are carved in various ways, which make their interiors also peculiar and marvelous. Make yourselves like them with the strong current of the Word.”
You will be made awesomely only if you accept this Word.
◎ You must find marvelous and wondrous things in creation and people created by God. Those who find them come to know and delight in them, and so ultimately obtain them.
◯ Take a walk around Wolmyeongdong and look for unique forms in the various great masterpiece rocks, rocks in specific shapes, symbolic rocks, and garden rocks.
The Camel Rock in Wolmyeongdong is a great masterpiece that completely possesses the shape of a camel. Some rocks have 7 good points, and some possess 12 or 20 good points each. Try finding them. They are all treasures.
Precious people are the same. You must find the good points [in them]. Then contradictions will disappear. People are the same.
◯ The more various images and likenesses an ornamental rock or a boulder has, the more you will marvel at it. It is much more so with a person.
◯ So far, I have found 21 good images and forms in the geographical features of Wolmyeongdong. Try finding them yourselves. If you do not find them and see them for yourselves, you will not know them for the rest of your lives. Even though you have seen [Wolmyeongdong] for such a long time, since you see it without knowing its various shapes, you use God’s palace without knowing how marvelous it is, and you still do not understand it even though you were told it is like your own body.
◯ If you look for the good things about Wolmyeongdong in terms of spirit and faith, you will find hundreds of things.
– One of them is that it is great for praying.
– Also, it is good because your faith becomes solid by seeing what God has surely completed.
– It is good because when you come here, the Holy Spirit works powerfully and enables each person to realize.
– If you come here when you are losing strength and facing temptations, God sends someone to give you the Word of truth and inspire you, so it is good.
– Also, when you evangelize someone and bring them, it is very good for helping them recognize the new history.
– If you show your parents and siblings around, God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus inspire them, so their wrong perceptions are resolved, so it is good.
– It is good because this is the pride of Providence.
Besides these, there are hundreds of more good things. Today, I will tell you core things once again, so you must listen, come to know, and realize.
◯ The greatest thing about Wolmyeongdong is that God made a decision with a will and made Wolmyeongdong by creating it to fit [that] will. The greatest story is that the location is set in a place that bears God’s will. In other words, the best thing about Wolmyeongdong is the story of God’s will and the story of the land. Please listen to that story.
◯ God made my ancestors move to this place and had me be born here. It is a small village, but because God’s will of the new time period is carried out [here], it is not small. It has become a village that is not small in the nation either.
In the old days, not a single outsider passed through the village even for a whole day. Because I felt so lonely and desolate, I would watch to see if anyone was coming to our village. I watched while preparing firewood in the area of the current Ambition Masterpiece, and I even went out to the path in front of the village to check, but not a single person would pass by. It was truly a lonely and silent mountain valley.
In contrast, now, as many as a million people come [to this valley] each year. They have come to see me, Seonsang, to fulfill God’s will, and to see what God and I have made. It has become a village that is not small in Korea.
God made Jesus be born in a meaningful place as well.
(Micah 5:2) “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
Also, God had Abraham move to a place where God would carry out His will. That was the blessed land of Canaan.
(Genesis 12:1) “The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.’”
◯ Wolmyeongdong is located 400 meters above sea level. God does not place His holy mountain in a low place. Therefore, He placed God’s holy mountain, Wolmyeongdong, in a high place. And God made me, Seonsang, be born here.
<I will continue to tell you the good things about Wolmyeongdong.>
◯ Centered on the Prayer Hill, which is in the middle, Wolmyeongdong is surrounded largely by three layers of mountain ranges to the left and to the right. The final, third layer of the mountain range surrounds [Wolmyeongdong] while extending all the way to the legendary Indae Mountain. Furthermore, in the northwest, it connects to the Noryeong and Charyeong mountain ranges. The Noryeong mountain range connects to Mount Daedun, stretching powerfully to Mount Gamram to form Wolmyeongdong. The Noryeong and Charyeong mountain ranges branch out from the Taebaek mountain range in Korea. The Taebaek mountain range runs down from Mount Geumgang, connecting with Mount Baekdu upwards.
Whether viewed from the perspective of geomancy or God’s law of creation, Wolmyeongdong is situated as a propitious site at the end of a large, descending mountain range, thus forming the shape of an auspicious place, out of two kinds of lands—auspicious and inauspicious. It is the alpha and the omega. If you see the way the mountain ranges extend down, their geographical forms and shapes are great. It is great if the lines are connected to you—connections with people, mountain ranges, and literary context.
◯ History is another thing in which you find what you have wanted only when you reach the end. At the end of the old history, the Man of Mission of salvation for the new era appears. After Adam started the Old Testament history, Jesus, the latter Adam, came at the end of it. Likewise, at the end of the New Testament history, the Man of Mission, who is in the position of the third Adam, appears simultaneously with Jesus’ return in spirit and carries out the thousand-year history. Only the sent person himself knows God’s work and goes forward.
<I will also explain the good geographical images and forms of Wolmyeongdong.>
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◯ Among the various images and forms of Wolmyeongdong, a truly great one is the crater shape. It is shaped like Heaven Lake of Mount Baektu. Through volcanic activity during the creation of the heaven and the earth, it was formed like this at a high place.
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◯ Wolmyeongdong is shaped like Heaven Lake of Mount Baekdu, but it is ten thousand times better and more beautiful than Heaven Lake. That is why it is used even ten thousand times more preciously. Those who follow God’s time live carrying out history within it. Heaven Lake of Mount Baekdu is too deep for people to enter. [However,] Wolmyeongdong that is surrounded by pine trees, is used in various ways—tens of thousands of people gather in it at a time to hold events or do other activities. Through this, our spirits and bodies help fulfill God’s ideals even more. In this place, you can hear the voice of God and the voice of the Holy Spirit; you become healthy, and you feel joyful as God works upon [you].
There is no place made like this in Korea, nor in the world. Even if there were, other places do not have the owner of the thousand-year history, nor do they have people who carry out the will of God’s thousand-year history. Wolmyeongdong is the sole holy land of this era. On this land, the core thousand-year history is fulfilled.
◯ God showed me how He was creating Wolmyeongdong in the beginning, so I saw it through the spiritual realms. As I watched it in the spiritual world, there was not a single blade of grass due to a volcanic eruption. Only intense heat soared with smoke. It was scorching. My spirit was walking around, searching, “Is there anything precious?” while observing the creation process of Wolmyeongdong. I saw God shaping it like this in the beginning. He made Wolmyeongdong purposefully by causing a volcano to erupt.
◯ God said, “When I was making the Earth, I created this place as a good site from the very beginning. I made the man of the time period be born in a very good place, and I use this place as My, God’s, precious holy mountain. I do not dwell in houses or buildings you* make.”
{Translation note: Plural}
God uses His holy mountain as a holy land, and He lets those who love and believe in God develop it as a second creation according to His design. God uses it while carrying out the thousand-year history together with those people.
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◯ Also, Wolmyeongdong is shaped just like a World Cup stadium. It has an oval in the golden ratio. From the end of the Lawn Plaza in the west to the ridge of Mount Josan in the east, where the sun rises, the straight-line length is about 500 meters. From the peak of the Front Hill to Star Peak Gazebo, the width is about 300 meters. One lap around the sports field is about 400 meters. If you walk around it, including the lake, the Holy Spirit Waterfall, and the Banquet Hall, it is 600 meters.
◯ Six mountains surround Wolmyeongdong. It consists of six mountains. Six is the number of completion, an awesome number. It is the number that condenses the six days of Creation.
▶ Reference Scripture: Exodus 20:11
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◯ Wolmyeongdong is the Garden of Eden of this era.
– The Garden of Eden of the Old Testament was the present-day Mesopotamia region. Adam and Eve were born there.
– The Garden of Eden of the New Testament was Bethlehem, where Jesus was born.
– The Garden of Eden of the Complete Testament is Wolmyeongdong.
◯ When the Gentiles and people from Christianity come to Wolmyeongdong and see it for the first time, they all say it feels like the Garden of Eden.
God said, “You will confess with your tongues what I have done. If you are blind and unable to speak, thus failing to live as owners, I will bring the Gentiles to say it, and have you, who are blind, live while hearing it through them instead. Therefore, open your eyes, know, and believe when I speak.” This is the Word that will never change, even if heaven and earth change.
▶ Reference Scripture: Acts 13:46-48, Romans 10:19-20
◯ God drove out all those who complained, “Wolmyeongdong is not that good. Why does [he] pay attention only to this place?” and He made them live in the desert.
When God gave [it], they should have rejoiced, realized His will, and used it. On the contrary, they spoke ill of it, far from good remarks, when we were developing and making Wolmyeongdong. They questioned, “Why does [he] set rocks and make it like this in a mountain valley?” In short, they were ignorant people. They were following while perceiving me, Seonsang, merely as a pastor or a pioneer who established a church or only as someone sent by God to evangelize a lot of people.
◯ The Samaritan woman realized [who] Jesus [was] when he resolved all her problems and answered what she had wondered about in the Bible, and she followed him for the rest of her life.
▶ Reference Scripture: John 4:7-42
Even though I, Seonsang, interpreted the Bible for them, resolved their lives for them, and resolved all the mysterious events that were impossible for this age to resolve,* the ignorant people failed to properly realize and viewed it only from their own ignorant level. Such people are used only according to their own vessels and end there.
{Translation note: The meaning of the phrase, “시대 해결 불가의,” is not absolutely clear to the translator without 조사 that determines which parts of the speech the first two nouns are.}
◯ As I was writing the message like this, God and the Holy Spirit told me, “Teach them My Word. Let’s help them open their eyes to the knowledge and spirituality regarding Wolmyeongdong. Since I teach My history through this, convey it properly. Convey in detail to everyone the things that I, God, have done.” That is why I am recording it in detail. I will teach you more according to God and the Holy Spirit’s instruction.
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◯ The Prayer Hill extends down from the Observatory, which is like the nose of a human face. At the foot of that hill was the birth house where I was born. This kind of place is called a “propitious site.”
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◯ My mother said she named me “Myeongseok” to mean that I had a long lifespan since I died just two to three months after birth but then came back to life. The Holy Spirit inspired her to name me in that way.
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◯ The house where I was born and grew up in was bought by my grandfather, my ancestor. Before that, he had lived in Gongju, but my grandfather, who served Daewongun, fled to the countryside after the assassination of Empress Myeongseong. He then came to Wolmyeongdong and bought the house when my father was in his teens, I heard.
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◯ Currently, a new building has been constructed on that site to last a thousand years and is used as a memorial hall. The second floor is used as the living room of God and the Holy Spirit, while the first floor is used as the birth-house site memorial hall.
The Prayer Hill, the hill behind the birth house, is used even now as a place of prayer. It will be used for a thousand years. There is a stairway path that God walks on.
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◯ Wolmyeongdong’s geographical forms are more clearly seen from the sky than from the ground.
– There are five major valleys. Look at the aerial photographs; the star shape is clearly noticeable. The valley of the Lawn Plaza, the valley next to the Front Hill’s small waterfall, Nongol valley where <God’s Palace> is, the valley toward Jinsan, and the valley that leads down to Seongmak-ri. There are five valleys total.
– The ridge of the Star Peak Gazebo, the vista point at the summit of the Star Peak, above the Holy Spirit Waterfall is also star shaped.
– Five mountain ridges spread down from the Observatory peak beyond the Prayer Hill, where Mount Daedun is visible. So the Observatory peak also forms a star shape. One ridge extends to the Holy Spirit Path, one extends to the Round Hill up from the Lawn Plaza, one extends toward my birth house at the Prayer Hill, one extends to the bird park, and one extends straight along the northern ridge behind <God’s Palace>. Therefore, this is also a star-peak observatory.
In this way, there are two star-shaped peaks in Wolmyeongdong. On a broad scale, there are three of them in total including Wolmyeongdong’s overall shape. When viewed from the sports field, you can see the five valleys, with which the ground is shaped like a star.
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◯ In Europe, it is said that the Messiah, Jesus, was born at a star site, so they regard star sites as precious. There is also a legend that when a star appears, the Messiah comes. The morning star symbolizes the Messiah. Therefore, a star site symbolizes the Messiah, who is the morning star.
(Revelation 22:16) “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony about the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
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◯ If you look at the shape of the core area of Wolmyeongdong and zoom out to see its entire geographical shape from the sky, it also looks like a large eagle. The heart of Wolmyeongdong’s premise is the eagle’s head. You can view Ganeongol’s Tiger Ridge as its beak, and the blue-tiled God’s Palace as its eye.
The eagle’s one wing extends to the last peak of Mount Gamram, and the other wing extends to the south. The tail in the back is seen as stretching from Geokgi Peak to the left and right; from Ilyang-gol to the foot of the 630m peak, across the water in the valley that leads to Mount Daedun. The eagle’s legs are considered to be the Jindeungnal ridge. Its claw is holding the Volcano Rock in its clasp. You should be able to view it on a grand scale like this. A great person can see things broadly as well.
◯ [Wolmyeongdong] looks like the shape of a dragon, too. The mountain range that descends powerfully from Mount Daedun to Mount Gamran in a large S-shape looks like the body of a dragon. You need to have a broad view to see something big. You can see it when you look from a higher place. Mount Daedun is the dragon’s tail. All tail areas are tourist destinations. Isn’t it the same in this case, too? People go sightseeing as if wagging tails and playing. The head is Wolmyeongdong. The head shakes the time period while carrying out Providence history of Heaven.
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◯ The eagle symbolizes God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord. The dragon symbolizes the Man of Mission on earth, Seonsang. The dream for my birth was a dragon. For Heaven above, it symbolizes God who is the head.
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◯ In Wolmyeongdong, the hills have round peaks like flower buds. So it is easy to climb them. Also, the geographical form of Wolmyeongdong looks like a large flower. The mountain ranges surrounding its left and right are like flower petals. It resembles a peony, the queen of flowers.
◯ Also, the shape of Wolmyeongdong looks like the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. This is clearly visible when viewed from the Wolmyeongdong sports field or the rooftop of the 3/16 Hall. In aerial photos taken by a drone, it looks as if sculpted. Look at the Prayer Hill as well as the six hills on the left and right.
Doctors who studied the human body and know the anatomy may see the shape clearly. This is the way to see it: the descent of the Prayer Hill is the core, the birth house memorial hall is the opening of the core, and the outer opening is the Threshold Rock area located up on the hill from Seongmak-ri. You must learn to know how amazing God’s creation is.
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◯ While outsiders, non-members, notice and marvel at it, people of Providence use it without knowing it. So God said, “Teach them. Furthermore, tell newcomers and testify that this is what I, God, created.”
◯ Before the development of Wolmyeongdong, God said, “There is one last additional thing. Try to realize it on your own.” I did not know [what it was] even after living [here] for decades. I sensed it little by little during the development, and then finally came to know it after the decades-long development was completed and it became reality.
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◯ The final, best shape is clearly visible from Mount Indae. Wolmyeongdong appears as God’s throne. When I told God this, He replied, “That is right. I built My palace, the palace of God, where it has the form of a chair.”
Look to the left and right of the throne. The sports field is the seat, the stretch of the Front Hill is the right armrest, and the left armrest is the northern hill of the Holy Spirit Waterfall. God’s dwelling place and the memorial hall of my birth house are built and used there. The Prayer Hill is the backrest. The rear legs of the throne are Hongdukaenal toward the Holy Spirit Path, Mountain-bird Park. The front legs are the extended hills on the left and right that you can see while walking up to Wolmyeongdong.
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◯ God said in the Bible, “My holy mountain is set in a high place,” and He indeed placed His throne in a high place. There is clearly the shape of a throne.
(Ezekiel 20:40) “For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will bring your offerings and your choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.”
◎ Until now, I have told you about the core and the treasures of the core among the 21 shapes of Wolmyeongdong that God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus helped me realize. Look [at them] closely while thinking about what I told you. You must look broadly to notice them.
<I will continue to tell you the good things about Wolmyeongdong. Wolmyeongdong is where many people can gather. Let’s see them through a video.>
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◯ Inside the 400-meter [high] crater of Wolmyeongdong, there is a place where more than 50,000 people can gather. It is equipped in a truly wondrous way. The hills are neatly kept, even under the pine trees, so that people can sit everywhere. If the areas close to the pine forest are included, even 100,000 people can gather. God formed the pine forests for the future.
[Wolmyeongdong] is equipped with a soccer field, a tennis court, volleyball courts, and basketball courts. As for seating areas including the Lawn Plaza, a total of 40,000 people are accommodated.
◯ The swimming pools are used by more than a thousand people at the same time. Wolmyeong Lake serves as a swimming pool, too. There is small Fairy Bath swimming pool as well as the amazing swimming pool below the Holy Spirit Waterfall that has the top-tier environment.
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◯ Additionally, there are cool places and medicinal springs of miracles and signs. There is also a cozy place inside the Holy Spirit Waterfall. It is like a womb. According to God’s design, it is used for warmth when it is cold, and for coolness when it is hot.
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◯ There are trails as well. The Holy Spirit Path and the ridge of Apsokgol, which is the Tiger Trail, are trails for walking. If you walk around Wolmyeongdong by following the trails, one round trip is over 4 km.
Through the rock landscaping, you can find paths with cliffs and rock-climbing areas, too. You must climb them carefully and slowly. These are indeed the design of God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus. I, Seonsang, discussed with the Holy Spirit for three days, while walking each and every path myself. That is how I found the rock-climbing paths and created the course.
This course takes [about] 150 minutes—2 hours and 30 minutes. Along the way, there are seven spots where you can stop and hear the stories for 10 minutes each time, while standing. So it takes a total of 150 minutes. The trailhead is at the northern rock garden next to the Lawn. Since it is a rocky scenic climbing course, climbing is prohibited on rainy days. You should climb it slowly during the daytime on clear days.
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◯ There are also hiking trails with stories. On a large scale, a hiking route is prepared where you can walk for a full day from east to west. On a smaller scale, you can hike a 10-km route, which includes the course around the premise of Wolmyeongdong, a round trip to the last peak of Mount Gamram, and the peak next to the 630m Geokgi Peak. If you hike all these trails back and forth around Wolmyeongdong, it will be more than 10 km. If you want to hike from Wolmyeongdong to Mount Indae, to Geokgi Peak, and all the way to Mount Daedun, you will have to walk all day.
◯ Besides these, there are dozens more good things [about Wolmyeongdong]. It is great for praying. It has good air, a good climate, good water, and no exhaust fumes. The location is convenient with 5 to 6 freeway interchanges centering around Wolmyeongdong. Since God made it, how many great things it must have! You must find them to know and to be deeply moved.
◯ Wolmyeongdong is God’s sacred and holy land. Therefore, human clouds of the earth gather here. In a dream last night, too, I saw white clouds spreading toward Wolmyeongdong along the road. This means that the people following the era of the thousand-year history will follow this path.
◎ Even for the ornamental rocks whose images, shapes, and stories are beautiful and wondrous, unless you find out what is beautiful and wondrous about them, you will merely look at their outer appearance meaninglessly. God had us buy <Wolmyeong Rock>, a garden rock with a similar shape to Wolmyeongdong, so that we would learn its image, shape, and meaning on a condensed scale. With that, He taught us that Wolmyeongdong, the enlarged version, also has various images, shapes, and meanings in the same way. God, with the Holy Spirit, taught us in such great detail.
◯ Knowing this, we must use it while giving glory to God who granted it [to us]. If you do not know, you are blind and ignorant. Even though you are called brides, if you do not understand it despite seeing or hearing about what the bridegroom gave you, you are blind, deaf, and dull-hearted. Who would talk and live with such a person as their bridegroom?
Those who do not understand even after seeing [them] for a long time ultimately leave far away. They live, viewing the world as well as all kinds of things—which belong to God—in that manner. You must truly realize and see. If you do not know, you are a blind, dull, and mentally ill person.
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◯ <Life Rock> is a garden rock, and this too has 21 images. It was bought as a symbol of me, Seonsang.
<Wolmyeong Rock> that was brought from abroad has various images and forms as well, which is truly marvelous and peculiar. Because the geographical features of Wolmyeongdong are so big that people do not know them even after looking at its images and forms and using them. Therefore, God and the Holy Spirit had us buy these wondrous and marvelous garden rocks as miniature versions. Showing them to me, They had me, Seonsang, first learn more deeply and afterward, teach you by saying, “Wolmyeongdong is also like this. Make yourselves, too, like this.” Amen.
◯ By looking at the ornamental rocks that are miniature versions, you should realize the value of Wolmyeongdong and know God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord, who are the origin, as well. Only then will your bodies receive grace and take action more; therefore, your spirits will also be transformed. Just as the ornamental rocks and Wolmyeongdong are good, your spirits will take on even better images. This is why you must realize. If your spirits are transformed at a higher level as you realize through the ornamental rocks and take action, it will benefit you for eternity.
◯ We can obtain precious, rare-kind, and world-class artworks only if God gives them to us. Otherwise, we cannot even have a chance to glance at them. [Some] individuals, who had opened their eyes [to them] 40 or 50 years ago, acquired them, and kept them without letting anyone view them. We received them because [I, Seonsang,] set conditions and prayed to God. I had prayed to God for a long time, saying, “If You give them to us, we will testify about You, God, and the Holy Spirit. We will use them to show to people and evangelize lives.” So God gave them [to us], and we obtained them. We are using them exactly as I prayed [we would]. Amen.
◯ God spoke in various parables in the Bible as well, and made people understand. Now is the time of reality, so God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord speak in parables while showing the reality. Every time you teach about this time period, too, you should speak while showing [the subjects]. Then, how realistic it will be!
◯ Things used in parables are hypothetical, so they lack realism. When people see the reality of a parable, they are truly astonished.
For example, the Bible likened Eve to fruit. If a person sees a fruit after [hearing that], they will think, “Fruit? Not that special,” and their heart will feel [its significance] only slightly, just enough for the hairs on their body to stand on end. However, if they see an actual woman, who is [an] Eve, they will be shocked because it is [completely] different from the fruit. Their heart will be so excited, the hair on their head, not on their body, will shoot straight up to the sky.
◯ Similarly, as the era of the Complete Testament has come, parables have been unraveled as their actual reality, and all mysteries have been solved. Therefore, a history takes place where everyone hears it, is moved, and becomes excited. This means that the parables must be well interpreted as actual reality.
The Man of Mission of the time period explains, having prepared hundreds of various real things related to the parables. The former faith explains the parables of the Bible only literally, so there is neither fulfillment nor movement in the heart.
◯ It is to learn and explain. Those who have not learned will talk nonsense, so they should not teach at all. For the Word of the time period, too, those who learned in the old ways should not lecture, but they should first learn in the current way and then lecture. A lecture must be given in the current way. Only then will it be realistic, and the Holy Spirit will work fierily and wondrously as well. If you lecture in the wrong way, people will be unable to learn properly; consequently, their spirits cannot acquire a proper form.
Even worldly studies must be learned properly [for the learners] to know them perfectly. So then, would it be so easy to learn the knowledge about God? You must learn it in detail and professionally.
◯ Some lecturers lecture in the way they themselves realized and learned. When the owner finds out, he drives them out since such individuals try to act as the owner themselves. He also drives out any bride who acts as the bridegroom. As for me, Seonsang, I always testify that God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus taught me. The ranking of brides or disciples is determined by how properly they have testified.
◯ Lecturers must teach while informing [the learners] of who started [this] history and whose teaching it is. [But some of you] teach as if you yourselves realized it by reading the Bible. If you say you realized and came to know the Bible yourselves, the learners will end up being connected with you instead. The Holy Spirit told me to let everyone know, so I am telling you [this]. When [a life] learns that way, they will not be connected with me, Seonsang, but only with you. Anyone who does this will be cast out, too. They will not be given a mission. You must properly learn and testify.
The lead pastor of each church must examine all lecturers to see how they are lecturing. Those who lecture in the wrong way are Cains and people with wrong mentalities. Even though I, Seonsang, have taught [all the Word] 100%, if anyone delivers it according to their physical nature and ignorance, it is deemed as being deliberate and planned.
◯ In Catholicism, only the priests preach while permitting others only to read the Scriptures aloud. By not permitting people to deliver messages as they pleased, Catholicism kept [believers] from scattering. By doing so, it [has remained] a single entity although it lacks diverse methods.
As for Christianity,* since teachings were given in [the leaders’] own [various] ways, it has scattered and split into dozens of denominations over 400 years.
{Translation note: Protestantism}
<I will bring the message to the conclusion.>
◎ The Almighty God rules over all things and all people since everyone and everything belong to Him. He grants the best things to the one who pleases Him and places [the gifts] in His palace.
◯ Even though people may seem to possess treasures, God is the fundamental owner; therefore, He governs everything. What people [actually] do is like merely using a house or building while on lease for a certain period by paying for it. Therefore, when the time comes, God gives it to the next appropriate person to use.
◯ Even when we buy garden rocks, we bring them as God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus work on them, and the Man of Mission takes suitable action. There is a story behind how each of them was brought in.
God always makes moves at the core. The things God gave [so far] are the rewards for the conditions “the core” has set. [The Man of Mission] prayed, so things were obtained when it was not even expected.
◯ For Wolmyeongdong, too, even before we developed it in earnest, God had [me] set conditions. God had created it exactly in accordance with His will from the time of creating heaven and earth, and He already had my ancestors move their dwelling to this place in their time to live in this prepared place. God had prepared it in advance as Jehovah-jireh.
When the time came, God made me seek and search a place since there was no place we could gather in Seoul. And He had [us] pray and set conditions; afterward, God had us work on Wolmyeongdong in earnest. We adorned Wolmyeongdong, which used to look like a long-haired ghost wearing beggar’s rags. When we did that, the world-class holy mountain of God was revealed.
◯ With ornamental rocks also, even before we sought them, God had carved them in rivers for an [immeasurably] long time. When the time came, He had appropriate people pull them out and sell them. Then God had certain people, whose eyes were opened to the value of the rocks, purchase them overseas, bring them, and keep them. Next, when their period of ownership ended, God allowed us to buy them in accordance with His timing. Amen.
◎ Today, God said, “Even in the garden rocks given by Me, God, you must find wondrous and marvelous images and shapes [in them]. Since Seonsang finds and explains them to you, listen and know their value. In the same way, let’s share with everyone about the images and shapes found in Wolmyeongdong on a magnified scale, so that they may know and regard them as precious.”
◯ Only if we do, will [they] know the value, meaning, and stories of the things that God gave. They will give glory to God and use them while talking with one another about the grace they received. I hope that you will first understand the various meanings and stories of the ornamental rocks and garden rocks, and then explain them to the visitors of Wolmyeongdong, and likewise, explain the numerous images and shapes of Wolmyeongdong along with their deep stories.
◯ There are three representative things as of now.
– <Life Rock> has 21 images and forms, all of which symbolize me, Seonsang. It is a garden rock that contains a will that says, “It is just like this.” So I hope you will know this and explain it to them.
– <Wolmyeong Rock> is similar to the geographical features of Wolmyeongdong. It is a symbolic miniature of Wolmyeongdong. Its images and forms are wondrous and peculiar. You need to tell people that Wolmyeongdong is like this, and help them realize about God who created it.
– <God’s Palace> in Wolmyeongdong is a symbol of God and a symbolic building of those who follow, the brides. In the Bible, it says that the temple is like an adorned bride.
(Rev 21:2) “I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.”
Therefore, Wolmyeongdong must be adorned, and the brides of the time period must always adorn themselves as well.
◯ Since abundant blessing of knowing has been poured unto you today, I pray that you will make this blessing your own.
I bid you the peace of the Holy Spirit’s love.