Millennial Age and New Jerusalem

In this powerful and prophetic message, we journey through Scripture to examine the culmination of God's redemptive plan—the end of the age, the events surrounding the Great Tribulation, and the glorious promise of the New Jerusalem. While much attention is often focused on the darkness and challenges prophesied to come upon the earth, the Bible ultimately points believers toward a message of hope, victory, and the eternal reign of Jesus Christ.

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Speaking about ages and dispensations. Ages and dispensations. So we will continue on that since I've not had a chance to go over all of them. But we said that a dispensation is the Greek means household management arrangement. It's household management arrangement. So it's not about salvation changing, but how God governs different seasons. And we see that there are several parts to a dispensation. There is a steward, there is a revelation, there is a test, there is a failure, a judgment, and then a transition. And we see this going, this process going through every dispensation. So we talked about uh the different dispensations, and we left off last week with the end of the ages. And we didn't talk too much about that because the weeks previous to that we did preach about the tribulation, the seven-year period. That that time period, that seven-year time period is a dispensation, and during that time period, we see the fulfillment of the last seven years, the 70th week of Daniel, which we're talking about several weeks back. We talked about there being a false peace for three and a half years. During that time, the Antichrist rises. Well, it is June 14th. Our president Donald Trump's birthday, and my friend Wasim Nazami's birthday today, too. Amen. But also today they're supposed to sign the peace agreement with Iran. So my wife said, let's see if they say it's seven years. Then we know we're we're in for it, right? So we'll find out. Amen. Amen. But that's supposed to be announced today, supposed to happen today. We'll see. Because he did say it like 50 times that we're gonna have peace, you know. So we'll see. But at the three and a half years of that final peace covenant, it'll be broken and we'll go into the great tribulation. Matthew says, nothing like it ever before or after. It'll be the worst time on planet earth, disease, uh, starvation, millions of people will die of starvation. The Bible talks about Revelation. This percentage of the population will die of disease, this percent of the population will die of starvation, this percent of the population will die of global war. So it is the worst time in human history, and the Bible says uh, you know, talks a lot about that. Amen. And then we see the Antichrist comes in. He walks into the temple and proclaims he is God. The whole world at that time will be ordered to take this mark of the beast. 666 is the mystery of that mark, and there's a lot of speculation of what that can be. And then after that, we have Armageddon that culminates at that seven years, and that is the next dispensation. But the other dispensation that takes place after that, because it's not the end of the world, it's the end of the age. The world will continue on, and we will be in what is the age, the millennial age. Can you say millennial age? Millennial age, and let's take a look at that in Revelation chapter 20, verse 1 through 7. Revelation chapter 20, verse 1 through 7. And soon we're gonna drop back to verse chapter 19, and we'll look at that in a little bit. But right now, let's look at 20, 1 through 7. When you get there, say amen. Here is a thousand literal years, okay? Say a thousand. So we are coming on the end of the 6,000th year from Adam. We're about to be any day now on the 6,000th year from Adam. Now, we don't know if it's today, last week, or next month, or five years, 20 years, 30 years, because there is in the historical calculations, there's a gap of about 30 years missing. 30, 40 years missing. So if you count back from today, back to Adam, all the math people and all the historians say there's missing 40, 30, 40, 50 years lost in between there. So we're not sure. It could have been 98, it could be 2040, it could be 2030. There's some years, you know, that are kind of lost, so it's hard to pinpoint the exact year that will be the 6,000th year from Adam, but we're right there. It's in our lifetime, we will hit the 6,000th year from Adam. What's that mean? God gave man a lease. If you recall in Genesis, he created man and gave man dominion over all of the affairs of earth. That dominion was given for a six thousand-year lease. So at the end of that six thousand years, that's the end of the age of mankind's dominion over the earth. Then we come into Revelation 20, into the beginning of the next thousand-year age. So the next thousand-year age, when that's completed, that'll be seven thousand years. If you recall, the scripture says that that a day is to the Lord a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day to God. Okay, so that means there will be a total of seven days of God's dealing with life in earth as we know it. A total of seven days, which is a picture of the seven days of creation. And day one, God created this, day two, he created that, day three, he created this, day four, he created that, day five, he created this, day six, he created that. And then on the seventh day, what did God do? He rested on the seventh day. That is a picture that that was the Sabbath day, right? Say Sabbath. Sabbath is the rest. That was the day that God rested. That is a picture, that was a prophetic picture of the millennial reign. On the seventh day of God, it will be a day of rest. And a day is what? A thousand years. So this millennial reign will be a thousand years. It'll be the seventh day of God's creation on the earth, and it will be the reign of Christ, and there will be peace and restoration and healing on earth. That's what we're about to come into after the worst time of disaster, destruction, death, disease, murder, just just you know, horrendous culmination, horrendous. And we are getting there right now with the gene editing, the disease editing, the AI, the now the the disclosure of the aliens, uh, and and and nuclear warfare. We are culminating to the worst. This is all going to culminate into disaster, complete global disaster. But after that, it'll be a thousand years of healing and restoration, and those who are saved will be preserved from a lot of what's going to happen, and we will enjoy the millennium with Christ here on earth. So keep your house, don't sell your house because you might still be living in it during the next thousand years. Amen. But let's look at what Revelation says. It says, And I saw an angel come down from heaven. This is after all the destruction, having the key to the bottomless pit, and having a great chain in his hand, and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and he bound them a thousand years. That's the seventh day. Amen. And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up. Amen. Finally, once and for all, the devil has to shut up. Hallelujah. And set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years shall be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for their witness of Jesus and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, nor his image, neither did they receive the mark in their foreheads or in their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Okay? So the rest of the dead lived not again until the first thousand years. This is the resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that has part of the first resurrection. On such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Amen. So the seventh day we will reign with Christ on earth. The devil will be shut up, no longer enabled to deceive the nations, and God's people will rule this earth. Amen. Now I can imagine though, you know, there'll still be ethnicities. Well, I mean, there's just gonna be a this earth will be here, our borders will still be here, our races, our languages, our foods, our cuisines. So we're gonna enter into a time like now, but without the devil operating on the earth. Okay? And we're gonna reign with Christ on this earth for a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired, in verse 7, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and he will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea, and they shall go up, and the Lord says that they shall be destroyed with the angels, uh, they shall be destroyed by the saints, and the angels of God shall have warfare with them and shall destroy them. And then in verse 10, it says, At that point the devil will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and they shall be tormented day and night forever. Okay, this is the millennial reign. Christ reigning from Jerusalem on the literal Davidic throne. Christ will reign from Jerusalem, so Jerusalem shall not be destroyed. Amen. Jerusalem and Israel is existence not only in this moment, but as we enter into the next seven years, ten years, twelve years before the Antichrist comes to power and all these things culminate. Israel will be a nation, they will not be destroyed. Jerusalem will be a city, it will not be destroyed, and Christ will come and set up his kingdom from Jerusalem. Let's look at a verse here in Luke 1, 32 and 33. Luke 1, 32 and 33 says, Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, the angel says to Mary, and bring forth a son, and he shall be called the name Jesus. And he shall be great, and he shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of his father David. Okay, so Christ did not get the throne of his father David when he was on earth. He was killed because he had to die for the sins and then give a season. He gave two thousand years for the Gentiles to hear the gospel and be saved. But coming very soon, in the next decade or two or three, he will take his throne, the throne of David from Jerusalem, and he will reign during this thousand years and us with him. Amen. Satan is bound, amen. And we enter into this time of peace. Let's look at this time of peace in Isaiah 11. Turn your Bibles to Isaiah. It's a big book, so it should be easy to find. Amen. Or into your app. Isaiah 11, and we'll read 6 through 9. Isaiah 11, 6 through 9. And it's important that you grasp these things, that you understand them, and that you can recall them, because in this last day there are many false teachings, false doctrines, false religions. And if you don't understand some of these basic principles, some of the basic furniture in in the Bible, you can be deceived, right? It says here in Isaiah 11, 6, the wolf also will dwell with the lamb. This is in this is in the thousand-year reign. This is in the time of peace when Christ reigns on earth and us with him. The wolf shall lay and dwell with the lamb. The leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall feed their young ones and shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. Isn't that interesting? A time of no more murder, no more fighting and destruction and blood. Amen. A time of peace on earth, even the animal kingdom. I like what Pastor Winston said. He said, When Adam sinned, he got everyone mad at him. That's what he said. He said, When Adam sinned, he got everyone mad at him. The earth, the grass, the dirt, the sea, the animal kingdom. The Bible says that all of creation is groaning and travailing for this thousand-year time of restoration from Christ. The whole world has been at odds fighting against one another, killing one another, fighting up the food chain since Adam and Eve took their 6,000-year lease to rule the earth, and they gave that lease to Satan. And this is why most of the world that is familiar with Christianity, and they they say, why does God allow murder? Why does God allow rape? Why does God allow the pedophile? That this 6,000 years from Adam until Christ's millennial reign, this earth's affairs are determined by us, not by God. Matter of fact, the Bible says that God does nothing in the earth without first doing it through his prophets. In other words, his prophets have to feed the poor, his prophets have to help the homeless, his prophets have to uh, you know, change policies, uh, intervene, raise up hospitals, you know, so forth. The people who are called by God to execute God's will, if they don't do it, it won't be done. Jesus reiterated this in the Gospels where he said, what you bind on earth is bound in heaven, what you loose on earth is loose in heaven. In other words, how the affairs of earth go are based upon what man will do, because they have the lease. Amen. And you know what? God's a better landlord than Airbnb. Because if you're leasing an apartment, they say, well, you can't sublease it, and you can't do this, and you can't, you can't have a pet, you can't, da da. And you know, there's all these rules, right? When you're when you're leasing a place, you just can't, you know, just do whatever you want because it's a lease. But God's lease, he said, This is your planet, you have dominion over everything, he says, over the fish, over the fowl, over the seas, over the land. Have complete dominion over the earth. God's lease on this earth was much more generous, amen, than the lease that we give people. Amen. Amen. And this is why we say, if there's an all-loving God, how come he don't stop the starving? All-loving God commanded the church to stop the starving, but he can't do it unless first his prophets go and they stop the starving. That's why the scripture charges us. He says, How long will you accept the peoples of the wicked? How long will you judge unjustly? How long will you not defend the defenseless? And and and how long he puts the responsibility back on us because it was given to us in Genesis chapter 1, verse 26. God leased over the land. Amen. People don't understand this, they don't understand. We are in the age of man's rule and leadership on the earth. What goes good and what goes bad, neither can be blamed on God. But it is on us. We said that there's different types of power that we have as human beings. We have God's power, the devil's power, and neutral power. I don't know if you remember me teaching on this. But whoever we yield ourselves to, that will be done on the earth. If we wield ourselves to Satan, Satan's will will be done on earth. Every time a pedophile abuses a child, a rapist rapes a woman, he's yielding his neutral power, his will, to Satan. Time you lie, cheat, steal, fight, unless it's self-defense. You might be yielding yourself to the devil's will. Amen. And when you choose right, you're sticking your pulling yourself out of what the devil wants you to do, and you're yielding yourself to God's will. Amen. So the Bible says we are instruments. And it says, yield your instruments to be members of righteousness. Every time we sin, we yield our members to be instruments of evil. Amen. God help us all. That's why we have communion. We could come and get forgiven. Amen. For every time we yield our members to instruments of unrighteousness, amen. We could come back and start afresh. Hallelujah. Amen. This is not a metaphor. This is the literal kingdom of God coming to earth. I know that the church for you know many, many years has had this concept that we're all gonna go to heaven. But the Bible doesn't teach that. It says that we will be here on the earth. Amen. With Christ ruling in Jerusalem in David's throne. Amen. The Bible says that in that time all the nations will come up to Israel and worship together. Come to Jerusalem and worship together. Amen. And this age, earth, Romans 8.22. Take a look at it. Romans 8.22. This has been one of my favorite verses to preach for a long time. I'd always preached on Romans 8. Romans 8.22. I just quoted it, but I want you to see it. Well, let's start. Let's let's look let's start up in verse 19. 8.19. For the earnest expectation or the great expectation of creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Why? Because God can't do nothing on the earth unless you do it. Amen. Now poor God, He's stuck with us. Hallelujah. He's stuck with my obedience. Amen. Most of the time I'm just trying to pay the light bill. Hallelujah. And God is saying, go and bring healing to the nations, amen. To our city. Amen. The whole creation is waiting for the manifestation of God's children to come and redeem, to come and restore, to bring healing. Why? Because creation was made subject to vanity, emptiness, nothingness, destruction. Not willingly, it wasn't of its own will or accord, but by reason of Adam, him who subjected the same in hope. He took his authority and subjected it to Satan's rulership. Because the creature or the creation, creature, creation itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. And this is the beginning of the millennial age, when even the lion and the lamb will have been delivered from the corruption of vanity, and they'll lie together in peace. The violent animals that are carnivores will eat wheat like the ox. Amen. And there will be peace on earth for a thousand years. Now we get into a lot of questions. What happens after that thousand years? Because it looks like a hot mess after a thousand years. Gog and Magog and war and the Satan's released again. I don't have a lot of commentary on that. I don't have a lot of thoughts on that. But we do see that Satan will be released one last time after we all know who God is, after we've seen him clearly, after all of the earth believes it is following him. And we will have one more chance to be on the devil's side if we want to be. It's very interesting. It poses some theological questions, right? Who would want to serve the devil? Who would want to be on the devil's side after totally knowing God? Amen. Very interesting. But there are people that do. Right? So the devil has his people. Now what's interesting, if we go back to Revelation 19, let's look at Revelation 19. One chapter before the millennial reign, the age of the millennial reign of Christ. And we're gonna just take a look at a few verses before chapter 20. We're gonna we're gonna look here. Let's take a look at verse 11. Verse 11. And if we could put the other slide up, because I want to add something into this message today. I put another slide up. I said to Christina. Yeah, amen. Let's read verse 11. It says, and I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat upon was called faithful and true, and in his righteousness he does judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew but who? He himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, and with it he shall smite the nations, and he shall rule them with the rod of iron. And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God, and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Now this week I was went to a lunch with a wonderful lady and uh another wonderful lady, and as we were talking, it came up that the the the lady we're having lunch with, American lady, was the member of a Korean cult. This Korean cult here is uh called the WMSCO G, which stands for give it give the Koreans, give it up to the Koreans to give you a long name, right? The World Mission Society Church of God. So they're called the World Mission Society Church of God. Really sounds like a beautiful Christian church. The Church of God and the World Mission Society sounds very, you know, Protestant, evangelical, right? This particular religious cult is all over campuses in America. They focus on students, so they go to the colleges, they go to the campuses across America and Europe and in South Korea, and they recruit and they teach people their doctrine. And their doctrine is that this name written that we saw, it says there's a name written on Christ, whose nobody knew the name but him. They say, Well, that name is An Sung Hung. That was the name that nobody knows in Revelation chapter 19, verse 11, 12, and 13. That name is An Sung Hong, and it's not revealed until 1918 when he was born, is a Korean man. So this Korean man is the return of Christ. Well, you know, Jesus said, I'm coming back, right? So he came back in 1918, and the name that nobody knew that was written on him was An Song Hung. Okay, he said that he was the return of Christ, but unfortunately, he died in 1985. So Christ died again. This time was from cancer. I don't know if it was cancer or diabetes, or I don't know how it died. The Messiah died of a brain tumor. What? You know, you know, but as much as ridiculous as it sounds to us, there are millions of people in this cult. Millions of smart, educated people, people of influence and money that believe this. Okay? Why do they believe it? Because, first of all, just like with any cult, you ever go to a Mormon church and meet Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses, they are dressed so nice, their makeup is perfect, their nails are done, their hair is perfect. I don't know how they do it. They really look great. And they're all fit, there's none fat, you know. They're all fit and good looking, and they dress so beautiful and they look so nice, and that's that's how they attract people, though. So they have the heavy emphasis on diet and grooming and and and looks and how you dress, you know, because that's how they attract people. So they attract you with their wholesome lookingness, and they're so kind. We were they're religious people, so they really fear God, and they're religious, so they're very kind and they're very nice, and they're very they're because they're they're they have to recruit, cults have to recruit, they're taught they have to recruit in order to be saved, right? So they because there's a heavy emphasis on recruiting, they are all seemingly outgoing. Now they might not be by nature, but they they get out of their nature because they have to they have to save people, right? They do better than Christians do, you know. We're we're very selfish, you know. But so unfortunately, Jesus came again. This time, his name was the unknown name in Revelation chapter 19, on Song Hong, and he died. He claimed to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. So I'm not sure if they believe there's a third coming on the way or not. I I don't think they believe that. So after his death, they elevated his wife, just like Erica Kirk. So after he died, they elevated his wife, Zhang Jil Ja, as God the mother. And they said, Well, okay, we have to find a verse for this, because we found a verse for to say that Jesus' hidden name that he prophesied about was on Song Hong. So we need to find a verse for the mother. So they said, Oh, you see in Revelation how it says the new Jerusalem will come down. It's in the book of Revelation, the very last chapter of Revelation. We see the new Jerusalem come down. Amen. We could take a look at that, and I I know it sounds completely ridiculous to you guys because you know some of the Bible, but this they believe this. Common sense, nice, kind, good people, most of them university graduates, believe this. Revelation 21 and 2. 21 and 2. When you get there, say amen. Revelations 21 and 2. And it's good for you to see the verse. So when you encounter these cults, or you meet somebody or becomes friends with somebody or a loved one is encountered by this cult, you you you are you kind of you're familiar with these things now, right? And I'm and I'm I'm preaching and touching on this so you can help people. I wanted to teach and preach on it a year ago, because a year ago I uh was with my wife and kids. We went to the museum in Houston. What was the history museum? But the King Tut exhibit, I think was at the History Museum. Yes, it's the it's in the museum district. I think it's called History Museum. So King Tut had an exhibit in the Houston district and the history museum. So he went there to see the exhibit of Egypt to King Tut and all the all the Egyptian kings and the mummies and all that stuff. And when we came out, there's a park across the street from the museum, and there were these two uh beautifully girl, beautiful girls dressed really nice. One was Korean, one was American. And they were like, Sir, do you believe in, you know, do you believe in uh in the celebrating the feasts? You know, do you do you know about the how important God says the feasts are? And I'm like, and I looked at them and I knew they were a cult because they're two by two and they're dressed really nice. You know that they're born-again Christians if they're like just a little sloppy and under some jeans and some gym shoes, you're like, Oh, these are the Christians, right? You know, but when they're dressed really nice and they're wearing high heels on 110 degree on a Saturday in the park, you know, you you know they're a cult, right? Christians that we're matching team shirts and just like you know, we're not it's because cults, cults, the way cults operate is they cookie cut, they create formulas, they create speeches, answers, they train you on what to say with this and what to say with that, and show them this verse, show them that verse. They're so well trained that everything about them is cookie cut, their hairstyles, their the way they talk, the way they just they they're all very similar because they just cookie cut everything. So I knew they were a cult. I thought they were Jehovah's Witnesses, but uh they were like, oh no, we're not Jehovah's Witnesses, whatever. And so I start talking to them, and and they're like, I said, No, I know I'm a pastor, I know the Bible. But do you know about you know about the mother of God? And I'm like, Mary? They're like, no, no, the mother of God, you know, Zhang Jil Gha from Korea, and I was and now they're walking, we were all walking to the car, but now I have to stop. I'm like, oh my god, I gotta help these girls, you know. So they kept walking to the car and they left me. And I'm just there because and it was hot outside, so they're just like, we're getting in the AC, you know. So I'm out there debating them and I'm debating them, and I'm and they're going over scriptures, so then they bring the leader. No, these were not Koreans, they were like black and a white one or something, or Mexican and a white, black. So then they're like, Oh, hold on, hold on. This guy, he's advanced. So they find the Koreans from Korea, and they like they went to the car and they got the Korean people to come out, and the Korean people came out and trying to trying to preach to me. And so I went at it a little bit, and they were like a block, two blocks away, getting in the car, and I said, you know what, I gotta go, you know. So I just left. But then the next day or two, I saw Pastor Marlon Reed. He was posting things about this uh this famous cult that's getting very popular that people are joining called the World Mission Society Church of God, and how they're converting a lot of young people on the campuses. And I said, Oh wow, I just bumped into them. So I wanted to really kind of you know address it publicly on a YouTube video or something, but unfortunately, I just we kind of forgot about it. But now, since it got brought up, I thought, let's let me kind of reveal it to you guys so you can be prepared to help others, and that others watching or listening can also have some some grounding because how can you believe this Korean guy is Jesus and his wife is the new Jerusalem? It's crazy, but they people are falling into this cult. So here it says in Revelation 21 and verse 2 I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband. So they're saying the husband is Jesus, who was his wife. See, she is in the Bible because An Sung Hong is Jesus, his bride that came down from heaven, must be Zhangil Ja, the new Jerusalem mother. So this is this is where they get it out of. They take a verse and they pull this out of it. Now, obviously, if 99% of the people hear this, they're gonna just think these people are nuts. This is a cult. But this particular cult uses a process a lot of cults use that's called slow revelation or progressive revelation. They don't teach you this the first day you meet them. I just the I believe it's the anointing on me that forced them to say it. Because when you have the anointing on you, it'll force people to tell you the truth. Okay, so I'm having lunch now with this dear sister in the cult. And she's like, Oh, yes, I'm a Christian too, and I'm reading the Bible, and I'm teaching this girl the Bible too, and I'm oh, that's wonderful, it's great. I said, you know, what's the name of the church? She's like the World Mission Society Church of God, and I'm like, Church of God, World Missions. I said, Oh, praise God, that sounds really great. I said, Oh, that's amazing. I didn't it wasn't clicking, but I was thinking in the back of my mind, is this is this, and it's just started kind of reminding me, remembering the woman God, the woman bride of Christ, Koreas, and I'm kind of thinking, is this possibly connecting? So I said, Oh, that's great to hear. And I said, you know, I just started talking, I didn't know what I was really saying, but the Holy Spirit was leading me, obviously. And I said, Okay, that's great. Yeah, you got to be careful because there's so many cults out there. I said, There's a big cult in China called the Eastern Lightning, and they're so bad they had to change their name to the Church of Almighty God because they're so bad. And they they they believe these idiots. Where do you get this? These dummies believe this Chinese girl is is Jesus from Hunan province, so they're worshiping this Chinese lady from Hunan province. Could you believe it? And I said, and they're they're converting entire churches, entire churches are converting to their religion. I said, could you believe that how stupid that is? And she was like, Oh, yeah, yeah, because her cult believes their Korean lady is God, so there's there was such a similarity, and she was had to agree with me that's stupid, a woman from Hunan, but yours is a woman from Korea, right? So it kind of it really did something to her, you know. And and then she was like, Well, uh, you know, well, then what's your belief about who the new Jerusalem is? The bride, the new Jerusalem. It says he's the new Jerusalem is the bride of Christ. So who do you think she is? And I was like, Well, the church, you know, we we are the the church is the bride of Christ, you know. And she's like, Oh, but what's the name? You know the name that Jesus has that nobody knows? Do you know what that name is? And I said, uh, well, no, I don't know, but the Bible even says that we all have a name written in his hand. And nobody knows our name. And she's like, Oh, I don't, I don't know that verse. She's like, Well, you know, that name is An Sung Hong. That's that's Jesus Christ's. He came back in 1819. And I was like, Oh, okay. And then I'm looking at her and I'm thinking, she looks very reasonable, and she's really nice, and she's dressed so nice, and her makeup is perfect. And just like wow, you really believe this guy who's dead was the second return of Christ? I I was shocked, but then I realized this is the same cult. So I just didn't want to offend her because I'm trying to get business from her. I'm trying, she's a realtor, I'm trying to do business with her. So I was like, hey, listen, you know, like I said, look, yeah, I'm not, you know, I'm not gonna argue with you about religion, whatever. You know, I said, you know, I said, I even have Muslim friends and they they they worship a different god, but they're sincere in their belief and they're kind and they really want to do right. And I said, and I love that about them. And I consider them that we're both people of faith versus atheist people that have no moral, no ethic. We're both people of faith. And I said, so I appreciate that, you know. I just kind of stayed right there, you know. But as soon as I got out, I'm texting their friend, like, this is a cult, they worship a woman. And well, she didn't know that because they don't tell you that, they do progressive revelation. They they they they teach you for six months on this and five months on that, and they teach the more the parables of the sower and mark, and they teach you about you know about the feast and the sabbath, and they emphasize the Sabbath. So they have service on Saturday, right? But I was telling her, like, Sabbath is actually Friday night to Saturday. I said, so you should be having a service on Friday night, and she's like, No, no, no, it's Saturday, and I said, No, it's sundown Friday night for thousands of years, you know, in the Bible, and it comes from Genesis when it says was the evening and the morning that was the first day. And she was like, Oh, well, okay, well, you know, she's like, she was that there were several things that I was just saying that was going totally against her religion, but it's common sense, it was very biblical, right? So I I think God was doing the work, but how to address a cult member is very difficult because the what the first thing that happens is called cognitive dissidence, where the whole world and reality gets challenged, and instead of instead of instead of accepting that challenge and investigating, what they what the the the thing the brain wants to do is just go back into the the comfort of ignorance. You know, they say the ignorance is bliss, so people would rather stay in the bliss of ignorance than sometimes have to wrestle with the the uncomfortable truth, right? So claim that An Sung Hong is the second coming of Christ from Revelation 19:12 that he had a name that no man knew. Well, see, first of all, this verse is about the uncomprehensible divine nature of Christ, it's not a secret name that you know. Number two, Jesus said, When you hear somebody saying, Come and see the Christ is over here, or come and see the Christ is over there, come and see the Christ, he's out in the desert, come and see the Christ, he's in the valley. Jesus said, Don't go with them. The whole world will see it. He's not gonna come secretly into a village in Hunan or Korea, the whole world will see it. Bible says the whole world will see every knee will bow, every tongue will confess. When Christ returns, there will be no mission for the next 500 years to retell everyone again that he came again. It will be a global event. Amen. Amen. So then the very next verse says in verse 13, this name is the word of God. That this name is the word of God. Jesus returns on a white horse with the armies of heaven in glory. He's not born in South Korea. Okay, it's very clearly in the Bible how he comes back. Okay, An Song Hong made many false prophecies. He predicted there will be uh uh uh end time event of of the return of Christ in 1967, then again in 1988, both wrong, and he died in 85. So the Bible says that Jesus rose to indestructible life, and he can never die again. It says in Revelation Hebrews, excuse me, Hebrews 7, that says he died once and for all for all time, and he will not die again. An Sung Hong never himself claimed to be Jesus, from what I understand. In his own tombstone, it calls him the prophet Elijah. So if you go to his tombstone, it says the prophet Elijah, An Sung, An Hong Song, An Song Hong. So who made him the second return of Christ? Maybe his wife did after after he died, but either way, the his his wife is the is the president of the religion now. So she, you know, before AI, she could come up with a video saying, I appoint as my wife to be the head of this religion. So his wife, obviously involved with the board, deified him to be the return of Christ, but he said he was the prophet Elijah that must come before the return of Christ. That's why he prophesied Christ would return in 67. Then it didn't happen in 67, so he said it'll happen again in 88, but he died in 85, and obviously in 1988, Christ did not return again. Then they said, No, he was the Christ, and I'm the bride of Christ. This lady saying, I'm the bride of Christ. It was his followers that invented this after his death. So now Jang Gilja, his wife, claims to be the God the mother. So that's what they told me in the park. Well, do you know about God the mother? And I was like, I didn't want to say no, like, oh no, I don't know. Please enlighten me. I wanted to say no as in like there's no such thing. You know what I mean? Um I'm like, no, because there's no such thing as God the Mother. Okay. But they use Revelation 21 and 2, and they they they take Galatians 4 26 and they take Revelation 22, 17. All right. So let's take a look at these verses that they use to claim she's God the Mother. Because it's not just good enough to say that is completely ridiculous. Because people are sucked into this cult, they're brainwashed by them. So you have to give them the word, and the word will help them. Just like I would grow up a Jehovah's Witness, I had to see in the scripture where Jesus said, I am the Alpha and the Omega. That is what delivered me from the false doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses that said that he was just a He was just uh like Michael the archangel. I had to find out that he was God. I had to see in the scripture that God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, preached unto the Gentiles, and received up into glory. I had to see that in the Bible to deliver me from the deception. Amen. That's what the Bible says that it's a living sword that could divide asunder, soul and spirit, bone and marrow. You have to know the word of God to bring deliverance to people from this and be able to share it with them. Amen. So let's look at Revelation 21, too. Revelation 21, 2. I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of where? Heaven, not soul, not pusan, out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 21, 9 and 10. And there came unto me one of the seven angels, which had seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great high mountain. And what did he show him? A Korean lady. No, he showed him a great city, holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven. It's very clear here. This the new Jerusalem is a city. Amen. A heavenly city. Now, if you remember, I taught on this a little bit. Heaven is not another planet in outer space. Heaven is another dimension. And it's so interesting with all the UFO disclosures coming out. They're coming to this conclusion now. We're talking about the CIA, the FBI, and the physicist. They're coming to this conclusion that there's other dimensions because all the CIA documents that have come out with what these aliens are, they are all saying, well, they're saying there's four types of bodies, there's four types of beings. And they're saying some of them, if not all, but some of them are clearly, and we're talking about congressmen, senators, they're all over CNN, ABC, MSNBC talking about this, that they're clearly from another dimension because they come into our reality, then they move out of our reality. The flying objects come into sight on camera, and then they just vanish in a second. So they said clearly these objects are another dimension. Well, I'm glad they are catching up with me because I've been saying this for a long time. That heaven is another dimension, the spirit world is another dimension. And so what happened when Adam and Eve sinned, God split the dimension that we are living in, and he divided it from earth to that to that third or that fourth dimension. He split the dimensions. Then he put an angel at the gate of that dimension so that they can never enter back into that dimension. And to this day, the angels are guarding that dimension, and you can only enter that dimension through God's invitation, through the blood of Jesus, through God granting access to that dimension. Okay. When you die, the angels will come and take you to that dimension, or the demons will come and take you to their dimension. Amen. Amen. So there are four rivers in Genesis, but when God when they sinned and God split the dimensions to put an angel to guard them from entering that dimension, we see that fourth river in heaven. The Bible calls it the river of life. And we see this river of life going into the up to the throne. And you see that there's all these trees of life, all these truths, trees with fruits in the Bible that are bearing fruit 24 hours a day. That dimension is an exact replica of Earth. It looks like Earth, it's just like Earth, but it's another dimension. Physicists in the last, you know, I don't know, 15 years have realized that we live in parallel dimensions. They discover that atoms and that atoms that exist here have a, they call it a quantum entanglement. That even though it's right here in front of us, they're watching it on cameras, there's a twin of that element somewhere else in the universe, they say. And whatever happens to this is instantly happening to that over here. The Bible talked about this thousands of years ago. Jesus said, You are seated with me in heavenly places. Jesus talked about by location 2,000 years ago. He said, Your body is here on the earth, but your spirit is that looks just like you is presently sitting with me next to the Father. So just as you are here on the earth, you have another you that is a hundred percent you that you're that you're quantumly entangled with, the seated with Christ in heavenly places. That's why you could pray here, and the prayer goes instantly to Christ and to the Father because it's the same person. What's happening to you was happening there. Jesus taught this 2,000 years ago. Science has discovered it the last 10, 15, 20 years. Amen. So this Jerusalem that's in the heavenly dimension, the dimensions will converge in the millennial reign of Christ. And this is what we're seeing here in Revelation. Amen. So verse 9 and 10 says that the wife of the Lamb is the new Jerusalem. It's the is the convergence of the previously separated reality that we once this earth was once one with. Amen. It's a city, not a person, and it represents the redeemed of the Lord, our home, our home that we're longing for. Amen. You cannot take this metaphor of a city and convert it to a living Korean woman. Amen. Amen. I'm gonna talk a little bit more about a couple more of their scriptures, and we're gonna look at those scriptures that they use and we'll we'll show exactly how their own scriptures disprove what they're teaching, amen. But we're gonna have to do that next week, hallelujah. Because it's 12 o'clock, and I have pasta cooking because it's Ethan's birthday, amen. So I gotta make sure I feed him for his birthday, hallelujah, amen. So I'm gonna go through a few more of their doctrines next week, and then I'm going to uh finish off the last couple ages, which is eternity, and then I'm gonna speak about Israel's role in eternity. Okay, so that'll be all next week, and for the sake of a video, what I want to do is take this last half and edit that with the next half from next week and make one full video on the World Mission Society of the Church of God. So this way there could be one video that people that are encountering this cult every day in Houston and Atlanta and in Miami that they're out there preaching to them, that somebody could actually learn what the Bible really says, and don't be deceived about mother God, amen. Because all throughout scripture, God has been revealed as nothing but father, there's no mother God, amen. He's nothing but father God, hallelujah, amen. That's why sometimes we don't even want to say to Mary, the mother of God, right? Because that would put her over God in some way. Technically, she was the mother of God, the physical mother of God's earthly body, yes, but she's not the mother of God, the God body, amen. Amen. Let's pray, Father. We thank you for asking, we ask you to take this teaching and message to help us be prepared, to help us be mature, to help us be scriptural, to help us be vigilant, because the adversary, the devil, is going all throughout our communities to deceive people, to brainwash people, to bring people into cults. And we ask you, God, to take this teaching and this message and get it out into the into this space where people can be saved and delivered and rescued from this cult, come out of this cult and be delivered in Jesus' name. We ask you, Father God, to help us to be sharp in the word. As we as Christians and serving God and come into this church, help us, Father God, be students of the Bible, readers of the Bible, because in the Bible, God, before the foundations of the earth, he put the antidote and the refute for every single cult that would ever be in existence. Somehow, by your divine power, every single answer to refute, every single cult was pre-programmed in the Bible before the cult leaders even drafted their doctrines. So as we're sharpen the word, we'll be able to help people that we meet and encounter, Father God, and we ask that you continue to bring them to us, bring them across our path, God, so we could help them, save them, deliver them, set their doctrine right, Father God, and get them into a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, Father God. Anoint this message, bless it, let it be uh sent out, Father God, for others, and let it create a greater hunger in us to study the word, what to know what the Bible says, because it's not good enough for us just to be saved and I love God, but we have to know what the Bible says. What does the Bible teach? These things should not be mysteries, they were written for us, so they wouldn't be mysteries, so we would be the one with the answers, and make us, Father God, have a hunger to really know what the Bible says. This group says that, this cult says that, this preacher says that, this denomination says that. But what does the Bible say? Let us, Father God, be good students and give us recall and give us memory to remember the verses and the chapters as we read and study the word of God in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Give God a hand clap for all your hard work and