The Identities of God and the Dragon

                                             

                    The Identities of God and the Dragon

Main references: Rv 20:1-3; Gn 1:1; Ex 3:14

 God is a self-existent Creator who created the heavens, the earth, and all creations (Gn 1:1; Ex 3:14).  Therefore, He is the Father of the heavens, the earth, and all creations.

The dragon is a creation, a spirit that betrayed.  The dragon is the ancient serpent, Satan, and the devil (Rv 12:9, 20:2).  According to Gn 3:1, God called him, “the serpent,” one of the wild beasts He made.  And in Ezekiel 28 (NKJV), he was once the “anointed cherub that covered,” but he became the enemy of God as he betrayed and proclaimed himself to be God.  This cherub was a commanding angel in Eden, who walked in the midst of the fiery stones, adorned with every precious stone, full of wisdom, and was the seal of perfection.  A cherub has many soldiers of heaven under his command and has the authority to mobilize (command) the army of heaven.


The dragon, the serpent, is an entity that deceived Adam and Eve and ruled over God’s world for 6,000 years (Mt 4:8-9; Lk 4:5-6; Eph 2:2).  At the same time, God’s work of restoration to resolve this problem also lasted for 6,000 years.  Now that the dragon is captured and locked away today in the era of Revelation (Rv 20:1-3), the world is finally liberated and becomes God’s world, opening an era where only God reigns.


The dragon that took hold of the authority during Adam’s time hindered God’s work at the time of Adam, Noah, Moses, and the First Coming of Jesus.  He persecuted and condemned, stirred chaos and confusion among the people through deception, and even murdered.


The devil uses lies as his weapon.  He has been continuously lying since the time of Adam and Eve, because he wants to, and has to, become “God.”  He has been stealing and copying what belongs to the true God, mixing it with his own lies, and selling it deceitfully. 


The moments when the devil felt the most anxious and uneasy were the times when the prophets, who had the duty of fulfilling God’s work, appeared in each era to testify.  Why would the devil be afraid of the testimony of the messengers who speak on God’s behalf?  This is because the testimony of the messenger, whom God has sent, is true.  The devil has been testifying lies until today.  Thus, when God’s messenger appears and gives the true testimony, the devil and his pastors will be revealed as liars, and their words as lies.  Because of this, the devil will loathe even more the people God sends and will resolve in his heart to attack them, and even kill them, if possible.  Jesus, his disciples, and the Old Testament prophets, for example, were harmed by the devil, because they spoke true words and gave a true testimony.


As seen in the conversation between Jesus and the Jews in John 8, the Jews and the Pharisees were the people of Israel, but they have become one with the devil.  Unable to discern between the true God and the false god (devil), they received the devil’s spirit and worshiped him, thinking that he was the true God.  Ultimately, the devil became their father and they, his children.


I am a “person of heaven and earth (천지인: Chun-ji-in),” because I was born on earth with the seed of heaven.  Considering how a person is also a figurative heaven and earth, a “person of heaven and earth” is then, a new heaven and a new earth, a new “Chun-ji-in.”  This is the new creation reborn with the seed of heaven.


There is a pastor whom God is with, and there are pastors whom the devil (the dragon) is with.  The pastors who took control over Jerusalem at the First Coming were the pastors of the devil, the Pharisees.  We know, because the Lord called them, “snakes” (Mt 23:33).


Those who persecuted and killed the prophets (or pastors) sent by God in each era, were the pastors of Satan, whom the spirit of Satan entered (like Judas Iscariot).  The Bible proves this.


The people may have thought that the Israelite (Jewish) pastors who killed Jesus were pastors of God.  However, we can now understand that Satan entered the pastors and controlled them.


According to the events of Revelation that took place today, roughly 2,000 years after the First Coming, who are the betrayers, the destroyers, and the savior?  These three entities appear in Revelation.  It is written, however, that no one in heaven or under heaven can know the meaning of Revelation before the seven seals on the sealed scroll are taken off (Rv 5).   Only Jesus opened the seven seals of this scroll, and only one person, the One Who Overcomes who has come in the position of Apostle John (New John), received and ate the open scroll.  Only one person received these words and witnessed what has been fulfilled according to the Word.  And as it is written in Rv 10, only one person, New John, was commanded to testify to what he saw and heard.


At that time, the chosen people (Spiritual Israel) all fell to the earth like the sun, moon, and the stars of the sky, and betrayed as recorded in Rv 13.  The destroyers who destroyed the betrayers were people with ecclesiastical authority, like the Pharisees who controlled Jerusalem.  The beast with seven heads and ten horns who destroyed the chosen people in Rv 13, were the pastors of the dragon.  Like the chief priests at the First Coming, they had much authority.  If one sees this event, yet still does not recognize it, the Bible becomes of no use for him.


At that time, the one who sent letters (to betrayers) urging for repentance (Rv 2, 3) according to the Lord’s command, is the savior who belongs to Jesus.  Like Jesus at the First Coming, he testifies to the words of the revealed scroll and to what he has seen and heard.  Who saves whom?  As described in Rv 17 and 18, the people who have been captured and held as captives by the pastors of the dragon, yet are not aware of it, are those who are liberated.


Why do people not believe in the Bible’s prophecies and in their reality?  They like to receive and drink the wine of adulteries, the venom of serpents, and the deadly poison of cobras from the pastors of Satan (Dt 32:31-33). But why do they reject the hidden manna and the fruit of the tree of life?  Do they not know that all nations have fallen from their wine of adulteries (the fruit of the tree of good and evil)?


Jesus sent his messenger to the churches to make this known (Rv 22:16).  Rejecting the messenger is like rejecting Jesus.  Those who do not accept him will not receive salvation, just like Adam’s families (at the time of Noah and Lot), and like Physical Israel at the First Coming of Jesus.


Come, and let us stand on the Way of righteousness before the messenger who has come with the Bible.  The Bible is the Word that God has given us so that we may be saved.  A person treats the promises in the Bible with contempt and refuses to believe in them, because the evil spirit of betrayals is blocking that person. 


Believing in one’s own pastor and his words, instead of God and His Word, is an incorrect faith (incorrect life of faith).   If one is not born with the promised seed of God, is not harvested, is not sealed, does not belong to the twelve tribes of the promised kingdom, has added to and subtracted from Revelation, and is not recorded in the book of life, where will he go—heaven or hell, death or life?


Despite his ignorance of the Word, the person who continues to treat the Bible with contempt and condemns others—where will he go?  Please think about the First Coming.  I am giving my whole heart and mind in prayer for all.