Year 2018 was a preparatory year for me. I quit my job in a big city and moved to a much smaller city. Despite sending job applications to different places, only one accepted mine. And at the job interview, the manager said she already decided to hire me. So I moved to the city in June. What I did not know then was the Lord already decided on the task I needed to do there. On the day I left my old place, I saw in a dream a beautiful young woman in a yellow dress walking to me smiling. She looked very happy to see me. I thought that was a bit odd but did not think it was anything special.

After arriving at the city, I chose not to find a church in a hurry. In fact, I thought I was done with a church life. I was quite proud that I had enough knowledge. I continue to read the Bible and gained knowledge on theology online. Near the end of 2018, I came across a forum/blog/newspaper on theology and then I learned about the Covenant theology. Precisely speaking, it was the Active Obedience of Christ (AOC) that drew my attention. The issue started when someone wrote Christ had to keep the Law perfectly to be saved by God because He was a man. I thought, “Ha! Who would believe this?” Then I came to know it was tied to the theory called the Covenant theology. Then I looked deeply into its history. I was shocked. The original theory of the AOC was believed to have been written by Anselm of Canterbury. Some say it was from Aquinas. What the Reformed has taken is not the original. But it still has the original element in it.

I was angry and sad. How can theologians see Christ as a mere man? I learned more about the Covenant theology and the two natures of Christ. The merciful Lord led me to helpful resources that helped me understand the background of the theory. Soon the issue became an obsession. Then I understood why God was not pleased with the Protestant. They do not have leaders who can direct God’s people to the right direction.

Around that time, I understood Ephesians chapter 1. On the day that I understood the chapter, I was overjoyed. My heart was singing. But I was very sad that almost everyone hold the AOC. One night I was feeling very overwhelmed by the sadness and cried. God’s people are not fed. The food is rotten. I said, “Lord, I cannot do this. The root of the Covenant theology is too deep. It is too deep to be pulled out.” That night, I saw a beautiful plant (it looked like a kind of Hosta) beside a vine. I pulled it and saw that it had no root!

The Lord showed me that the Protestant is no better than the Roman Catholic through this theology. He answered my question that I asked in 2017. All the seminaries and theologians failed. They are unable to teach people about God because they made their own god.

Year 2018 was also a preparatory year for me because God made me join a Reformed church in 2019.

In 2018, I had a dream concerning two men. In the dream, I saw myself on an island. I felt like I was in a tropical/mediterranean island. But the island was very strange because it did not have a single plant/grass/tree. And it was so small that I could see the whole coast line from one spot. (A year later, I found the very island which is located in Dubai and it is called ‘the world’). The sun was beating on my skin so I knew I was on the earth. It was very sunny day and some people were enjoying the sand and the waves. In a distance, I saw a huge white cruise ship. And I admired the scene because I always wanted to have a cruise trip. Then a voice told me “They are going to Egypt, the land of the dead.” I was shocked. Egypt? Why not Babylon? The voice then said, “A storm is coming.” Then suddenly the sun disappeared and the sky got darkened. I jumped into the sea so that I could swim to a land. If I stayed on the island, I was sure I would be swept away. I can’t actually swim but in the dream I swam very well. I also saw two men swimming to the land, going the same direction as me. One on my left and the other on my right. The one on the right could swim and was strong. The one on the left was not so. He struggled and asked for help. I indicated the one on the right to help him. But without help the one on the left reached to the land. All he had to do was moving just one step forward to get out of the sea. But he still wanted help. I was afraid that he might pull me back to the sea so I refused. The stronger one helped him out.

Egypt is the OT symbolizes slavery. All men are slave to sin and are under the power of the devil because he accuses people day and night (Zech 3:1-10; Rev 12:10). Exodus symbolizes that God saved and saves His people from the death of sin. The Roman Catholic church at the time of the Reformation was pressing people hard with their traditions and rules. They also scared people of eternal hell and demanded their obedience to their church for salvation. The Reformed church got separated from the Catholic church crying out Sola Gratia. But the Lord is concerned that the Reformed churches now reject this. Therefore, many are willfully going back Egypt with pomp and pride.

Concerning these two men, I had other dreams. Then I knew they were about a new church (or a new system).