Elementary Teachings
and Maturity
Main references: Heb 6 and 1 Cor
13
What (where) are the elementary teachings? What (where) is
maturity?
Teachings refer to God’s word. The elementary teachings refer to
the Mosaic Law, the fulfillment of the Old Testament during Jesus’ first coming,
and the figurative prophecies.
The scripture records, “Let us leave the elementary teachings
about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of
repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about
baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal
judgment” (Heb 6:1-2). The scripture also says, “For we know in part and we
prophecy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I
was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a
child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor
reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known” (1 Cor 13:9-12).
Our hope as believers is to go to heaven and God. The only path to
go to heaven and God is to go through Jesus, who is way, truth, and life (Jn
14:6). Hosea records that God desires acknowledgment of God rather than
sacrifice or burnt offerings (Hos 6:6). Jesus also said, no one knows the father
except those who receive the revelation (Mt 11:27). Furthermore, God spoke about
how His people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge (Hos 4:6).
What we must believe in is the New Testament, more than the Old
Testament. The Old Testament already passed away, but the New Testament is
coming, and as a matter of fact, it is being fulfilled today. One of the reasons
why the Physical Israelites did not believe, even though the Old Testament was
fulfilled, was because they only knew and kept the Mosaic Law. They believed the
law but they rejected the faith that should be revealed. The law, however, was a
tutor which was put in charge to lead saints to Christ.
What we must believe is the prophecy and its fulfillment at the
time of the fulfillment. Even if someone believes in the New Testament prophecy
without believing in its fulfillment, their faith is futile. At the first
coming, Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament (Jn 19:30), but the Physical
Israelites did not believe. The Israelites believed in and put the words of
their own pastors above the promises of God. How can they be acknowledged as
true believers?
We (Christians) all believe in Jesus. The words Jesus spoke are
the promises (new covenant) he asked us to believe. The physical embodiment of
the words of the Old Testament appeared in flesh at the first coming. Likewise,
the physical embodiment of the prophecy in the New Testament will also appear at
the second coming. The betrayers, destroyers, and the savior recorded in the New
Testament will all appear.
When the scripture says we need to leave the elementary teachings
and go on to maturity, “the maturity” refers to the place which has the physical
realities of the fulfillment of the prophecy. Prophecy was given to us so that
when it happens, we will believe (Jn 14:29). When the events take place, their
physical realities appear. If the prophecy is compared to a dream, then its
physical fulfillment is compared to a reality.
One does not attain salvation just by superficially saying, “I
believe.” The one who truly believes is someone who believes in the word which
asks us to flee to the mountains when seeing the destroyer standing in the holy
place, and actually flees according to that very word. Furthermore, a person who
does this is the one who leaves the elementary teachings. As the prophecy is
fulfilled, one can see the betrayers, destroyers, and the savior at the place of
maturity, the location where people can see face to face.
What
Jesus and Apostle Paul talked about in the New Testament is to leave the
elementary teachings. Heaven, the sealed twelve tribes, is found in the place of
maturity. Just as Paul mentioned, current believers in this world are dwelling
in the elementary teachings, and they do not have the faith that should be
revealed (refer
to Rv
5:1-3). There is no one who can attain salvation with their current life of
faith (refer
to Rv
22:18-19).
Among the words Jesus spoke to the crowds, Jesus only explained
the meanings of the parables to those who belonged to God. Jesus, however, only
spoke in parables to outsiders who were not permitted to understand them. Jesus
said, if one does not know the parables, they are an outsider, and they are
unable to receive forgiveness of their sins (Mk 4:10-13).
He also stated that if one adds to and/or subtracts from
Revelation, which is the promise written in parables, they will not attain
salvation (Rv 22:18-19). All the pastors on earth have added to and/or
subtracted from the prophecy. (Ask yourself) In a situation like this, who
really has a right to call someone a heretic?
It is only one person (Jesus) who opens Revelation and fulfills it
(Rv 6). It is also only given to one person (the New John) to testify (Rv 10).
This New John is the promised pastor who has seen the physical fulfillment of
the entire book of Revelation. Arrogant people have received authority and
degrees of doctorates of divinity from men, and they testify about Revelation
according to their own thoughts. They are nothing but the ones who are
conducting lawlessness. They are unable to testify about the physical
fulfillment of Revelation. They are the pastors of the devil who give the false
wine, the wine of adulteries.
All believers must leave the elementary teachings. Without adding
or subtracting from Revelation, everyone must come to the place where it is
being fulfilled. They must see and believe in the maturity, and become the born
again chosen people. Shincheonji’s twelve tribes are God’s promised kingdom. It
is the place where God dwells. It is a place never before created, where one can
find the testimony of the fulfillment of the book of Revelation and receive the
revelation, which is the eternal gospel. It is the promised new heaven and new
earth, Shincheonji. It is also the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony,
the city of the highest truth in the 6,000 years of biblical history of mankind.
Whoever
wishes let them come and drink the water of life, just as it says in Revelation
22:17 and they will attain eternal life.
Amen!
Shincheonji:
Healing
All Nations
http://cafe.daum.net/scjschool/E3qZ/563
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