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Job 16 Necessary suffering

March 1st, 2025

His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My enemy glares at me.
They have gaped at me with their mouths,
They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt;
They have massed themselves against me.
God hands me over to criminals,
And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by my neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target. (vv. 9-12)

Many years ago, I met this person, and we became friends. She was a Christian, and we often talked about God whenever we met. To my surprise, she shared that she had never complained to God and had loved Him since her youth. She expressed that her love for God had never wavered. When I heard this, I felt a sense of guilt because I had often complained to God, asking why He had allowed me to suffer. There were many things in my life that I simply couldn’t comprehend. As I observed her life, I noticed that she came from a wealthy and healthy family. She had a respected career and was praised by her church friends. She was always kind, helpful, and had a contagious smile. It was always a pleasure to be around her. She married a man who respected and loved her deeply, and they now have a child who brings them immense joy. In my opinion, she is an ideal person. We lost contact as we were busy with our lives. One of the reasons was because I became unwell with cancer. Interestingly, people around me stopped contacting me when they heard I was sick. I became socially secluded. I could have contacted her for a chat. But I did not want to. I did not think she could understand what I was going through. I believe my cancer is God’s message to churches who forsook the cross of Christ. She is a Roman Catholic and had a firm belief in the church when I saw her last time. She was happy with her life. If God wills it, I may get a chance to talk to her about the truth. Until then, I won’t contact her because I know that my words will only offend her. Why would anyone listen to someone under the curse of God?
Similarly, why would anyone listen to Christ who received curse from God and died? He must have sinned against God to deserve such horrific punishment. This is what His enemies said.

At that time two rebels were being crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left. And those passing by were speaking abusively to Him, shaking their heads, and saying, “You who are going todestroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Himand saying, “He saved others; He cannot save Himself! He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him. He has trusted in God; let God rescue Him now, if He takes pleasure in Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” And the rebels who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him in the same way. (Matthew 27:38-44)

He was despised and abandoned by men, A man of great pain and familiar with sickness; And like one from whom people hide their faces, He was despised, and we had no regard for Him. (Isaiah 53:3)

Some believe that we can know God without going through much suffering. But I believe we hate ourselves only through suffering. We love ourselves more than others. Suffering makes us humble and seek Jesus Christ. Unbelievers seek after wealth and health. Some of them choose to believe in God on the condition that He would give them wealth and health. Let’s remember that the church means called out ones. We are called out to wilderness to listen to God’s words. Anyone who is happy with their lives would not go to the wilderness.

So then, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. (Hebrews 13:13)
Predestination and Grace

January 31st, 2024

I have been writing blog posts for more than a year. I tried to point out the significant flaws in the Reformed theology concerning the covenants. I believe that God is displeased with the Covenant Theology and the Active Obedience of Christ. That does not mean that God approves Dispensationalism. All of them are bad theories. At present, there is no theology that accurately explains the covenants. Understanding the covenants is important because they explain God’s will in creation, which is the kingdom of God.

When I started this blog, I believed that God would bring people to my blog. I did not seek money or fame. I did not use social media to promote my blog. My job was to tell people that the third reformation has started. The church era is ending because churches have been treacherous and rebellious. Theologians and ministers take people back to slavery. And I found the cause in the Covenant Theology and the Active Obedience of Christ. With my limited English, I tried to explain why they were wrong and what went wrong after the Reformation.

God gives wisdom to His people. Regardless of our backgrounds, we understand God as the God of the Bible. The Bible explains who God is. But those who do not know God understand Him as an idol. They use the Bible to explain their gods. But their gods are no better than the golden calf that the Israelites made in the wilderness. They think that they must do something to receive blessings. They invent ways to please their gods. They convince others that they must do something to receive God’s grace. They put much emphasis on the law but they do not keep the law. They do not understand the law as self-sacrificing love. Almost all theologians and ministers preach that the law as the written code gives eternal life. They say that Christ had to keep the law perfectly to earn eternal life. With their theories, the saints are tied to the written code. They are wrong. On the outside, they appear to preach TULIP. But their wrong understanding of the covenants and Adam lead people back to slavery. Eventually, they deny predestination. Predestination is directly linked to God’s total grace. It is not strange that most Protestant churches hate predestination at present.

Predestination does not make God cruel. Without predestination, we must work to receive God’s grace. Many Christians think that they can earn grace. They do not know God. They have not received the Holy Spirit.

Predestination explains that God has chosen some to be saved and others to be eternally punished before they were born. God can do anything He pleases. We must not judge God by our understanding of righteousness or the law. But rebellious people do. Only God is righteous. Being God is righteousness. Everything He does is righteous. Only those who have His Spirit understand Him. He wants to train His people through suffering and make them into His kingdom. Who can say to Him that He is wrong? We are nothing but dust. The world we live in is only a prelude to the real world that is coming. The world is not about me or you but about God. God does not exist for your or my salvation.

Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them—the one who also had leaned back on His chest at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who is betraying You?” So Peter, upon seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?”Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!” (John 21:20-22)
John 21 (3) How we recognize Jesus

January 20th, 2024

But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. (v. 4)

But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him. (Luke 24:16)

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Thinking that He was the gardener, she said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you put Him, and I will take Him away.” (John 20:15)

After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep. (1 Corinthians 15:6)

To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of things regarding the kingdom of God. (Acts 1:3)

We know that Jesus Christ truly resurrected because the disciples and the women could not find his dead body. And they saw Him alive. But we need to understand that the disciples did not recognize Jesus Christ because of his physical body but of His words and power. And they recognized Him only when God made them recognize Him.

I also was with you in weakness and fear, and in great trembling, and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of mankind, but on the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2:3-5)

As I grew up in the Roman Catholic church, I became familiar to the face of Jesus that the church had made – a handsome white man with big brown eyes and light brown hair. The appearance of Jesus in Revelation 1:12-16 is not that of Jesus made by the church.

People judge everything by what they see, hear, touch, and taste. Those who are spiritually blind judge everything by what their blind eyes see. For them, big church buildings and a large crowd are important. They want handsome-looking Jesus. False ministers and theologians seek approval from many people. They want fancy clothes and good seats. But true Christians meditate on the words of God day and night.

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life— and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was revealed to us— (1 John 1:1-2)

Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. (John 6:68)

God dwells in each saint. And when we speak the truth of God, we are like Jesus Christ, who did not take the authority of God by His will and might. With this in mind, we understand the work of the Holy Spirit.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross. For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11)

Obedience was not the condition for Christ’s successful mission. The power came from the Father’s love. We also do not need to meet a condition to become God’s children. Those who receive God’s love obey Him naturally. Yet, God rewards us for our faithfulness when we do not deserve any rewards.

… the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and they will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” (Revelation 4:10-11)
John 21 (1) A hundred and fifty-three

January 13th, 2024

So Simon Peter went up and hauled the net to land, full of large fish, 153; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. (v.11)

The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days. (Genesis 7:24)

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” (John 2:19)

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which He also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison, who once were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him. (1 Peter 3:18-22)

When we read John 21:1-11, we often focus on the fact that the disciples caught so many fish that they were not able to haul the net. Many fish may indicate that the disciple would save many people and fulfill God’s command/prophesy.

And Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will have you become fishers of people.” (Mark 1:17)

John wanted to draw our attention to the number of the fish God made them catch. The end of the world will be like the day when the great flood came in Noah’s time. The world’s end is symbolized by the number 150. But the children of God are given the number 153. We all know where the number 3 came from. Christ’s death and resurrection save us. The church died and was resurrected with Christ. When Peter talked about baptism in 1 Peter 3:18-22, he did not refer to the ceremonial baptism. Peter knew it very well that the ceremonial baptism was only a shadow. It was one of the ordinances given to visible churches by God for the church era. Ceremonial baptism is only a shadow of the real baptism just as the visible church is a shadow of the invisible true church. Peter warned others of false teachers within churches. These false teachers received ceremonial baptism but did evil and enticed others.

It is by faith in God we are justified. But faith is not a condition. It is a feature of the children of God who are anointed with the Holy Spirit. Paul knew this very well. The kingdom’s foundation is love which God has given us through Jesus Christ. That is why Paul wrote 1 John 13.

If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:2)

Peter, John, Paul and other disciples focus on agape. It appears that many Christians think faith is the new condition for salvation. They think that the law was the condition in the OT and the faith is the new condition in the NT era. Unless we are born again in the Holy Spirit, we cannot be the children of God. Without the Spirit, God’s love is not applied to us and we cannot love Him back.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us. (1 John 4:18-19)

Those who think they know the Reformed theology rarely talk about love, the kingdom of God, or the Holy Spirit. I know that many heretics have been misusing these words. Some people try to avoid using the words because heretics often use them. Still, it is strange that these words are rarely talked about in the Reformed denominations. The Reformed theologians and ministers focus on the law and punishment instead. This tells us that their theology is strange. And I find the issue in their understanding of the covenants and Adam. The nature of the kingdom is not forensic. The saints keep the true law of God, which is the law of liberty that came from God’s love shown on the cross of Christ.

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He would depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. (John 13:1)
John 20 The meaning of the Tabernacle

January 10th, 2024

You shall make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atoning cover. Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the atoning cover at its two ends. And the cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the atoning cover with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the atoning cover. Then you shall put the atoning cover on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you. There I will meet with you; and from above the atoning cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about every commandment that I will give you for the sons of Israel. (Exodus 25:18-22)

But Mary was standing outside the tomb, weeping; so as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying. (vv. 11-12)

And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us (and we ourselves beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten with the Father), full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

We often think that the Book of Exodus is about the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and the Ten Commandments. The most of the Book is about the law and the Tabernacle. The laws to govern the Israelites may have some similarities to the laws of other nations. If we focus on the law, Christianity is not different from other religions or nations. The Israel nation in the OT was a visible church where their king was God. The nation’s failure as we read the latter part of the OT tells us that the kingdom of God is not on earth. And this truth was made clear when Jesus Christ came. However, many Christians do not understand the difference between the OT and the NT and still seek a ruler who can make God’s kingdom on the earth. Their kingdom’s end is total destruction.

God gave the Israelites the law so that they would eagerly wait for the Son of God to free them from the conditional covenant. Slavery to sin is the curse of the conditional covenant. The Son replaced the old covenant with the new. Christ is the new Tabernacle. This was what Stephen preached before his death as we read Acts 7. The new covenant is not the extension of the old covenant. Rather, the old covenant was a shadow of the new. Therefore, we reject Dispensationalism and the Covenant Theology. Only through the Son, God dwells with His people. We will see Him face to face.

Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? (John 14:8-9)

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. (1 John 3:2)
John 19 Christ died as the head of the church

January 6th, 2024

Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over Me at all, if it had not been given to you from above; for this reason the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.” (v. 11)

Many theologians and ministers explain that Jesus died as a man but did not die as God. But I am not sure if this is the right explanation.

Christ is from heaven while we are from the earth. Yet, Christ is the head of the church. Christ has clothed with humanity and became God-man. The invisible church is clothed with Christ and became man-God. The church has become like Jesus Christ although her beginning is a sinful human.

and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. (Romans 8:17)

Christians around the world focus on Christ’s humanity because they want a god who is a human. This idea can be found in many fictional stories and movies. People want a human savior. People reject Christ because he is not entirely like them.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things just as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15)

Some people ask: Can a man who does not sin represent mankind? The Bible tells us that Christ did not even think of sinning because sinning from the heart is also sin. Adam had the intention of sinning before he ate the fruit. This means that Christ is not like Adam before the fall. I do not think Paul was preaching that Christ died for all people as everyone fell because of Adam. Many people misinterpret Romans 5.

I think that Christ came to the earth as the church completed and perfected when He became a man. Therefore, the church died when Christ died. This event is linked to the Lord’s Supper before His death.

I do not completely disagree with the idea that Christ died as a man, not as God. But I’d like to warn people when understanding this. Significant errors and confusion came when people separated Christ’s two natures.

It is more accurate to say that Christ died as the head of the church and His death and resurrection apply only to those who are chosen in Him before the foundation of the world. The Israel nation in the OT was a shadow of the church but many Israelites rejected Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

He came to His own, and His own people did not accept Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God. (John 1:11-13)

Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.” (John 18:37)

Christ did not die and resurrect for all mankind but only for the invisible church. As the head of the church, Christ could not share His suffering with other people. No one could die for Christ.

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times. (John 13:38)
John 17 (2) Sanctification within

December 23rd, 2023

Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, so that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. (vv. 17-19)

Justification and sanctification can be distinguished but cannot be separated. For the elect, they are not difficult to understand. However, the description of justification and sanctification is too wordy and philosophical because theologians have been trying to convince the unbelievers with their words. The mystery of God is hidden until God opens the eyes of His elect children. This is not revealed to the reprobate no matter how much they try to understand.

Turning to the disciples, He said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see; for I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things that you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things that you hear, and did not hear them. (Luke 10:23-24)

Many theologians and ministers have been using the words of philosophers to know and explain God and His will. But their efforts are useless because their heart is not in God but in people. This error of using the words of unbelieving philosophers is quite common. I think that Augustine, Luther, and even Calvin were not free from this error.

Justification and sanctification are closely related to righteousness. In earlier posts, I mentioned that only God is righteous. And those who are united with God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are righteous. The narrow meaning of righteousness is being morally good. But it is more like uprightness which Job had (Job 1:1). The righteousness that is imputed to the saints is bigger than that. And it has to be bigger than that.

Our Lord, Jesus Christ, was accused of breaking the law and morally wrong by the scribes and the Pharisees while He was on the earth.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a heavy drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ And yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds. (Matthew 11:19)

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. (John 5:18)

In many ways, the Pharisees were more righteous than any other Jews. However, our righteousness must exceed their righteousness. This righteousness is not from works but from being one with God. It is not from works of the law or obedience. It is directly from God. We receive it by becoming His children. This righteousness comes through faith in God.

For I say to you that unless your righteousness far surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:20)

It appears that the Jews at the time of Jesus believed that the rich were more likely to enter the kingdom of God because they could do good works using their money such as helping the poor. It could be that richness was interpreted as a blessing or reward from God. The Pharisees loved money and had money. Churches around the world also love money. But Jesus spoke what was contrary to their belief.

And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. (Matthew 19:24)

When explaining justification and sanctification, theologians use words like imputation, infusion, extra nos, intra nos, etc. John 17 explains them more simply and more accurately. Jesus Christ justified and sanctified His people by being salt and light inside the leavened dough. I mentioned that salt and light kill bacteria (leaven). In the same way, Jesus Christ has sanctified His church by becoming a human just like her. And the church stays sanctified because Christ is one with her. God is always with us (Immanuel). Christ entered the corrupt world as salt and light to remove leaven. Anyone who is outside this (sanctified) dough does not belong to Him. Again, the mystery lies in the person of Jesus Christ. Although His works represent Who He is, the mystery is found in the person of Christ with two inseparable natures.

… but if I do them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father. (John 10:38)
John 17 (1) The whole Bible is summed up in this chapter

December 18th, 2023

I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and You loved them, just as You loved Me. (v.23)

The Gospel of John has been loved by many Christians. But not many know that this book explains all the core Christian doctrines. In this book, the doctrine of the Trinity, TULIP, Christ’s two inseparable natures, God’s absolute grace, the meaning of the law, the covenants, the last judgement, etc. Without this book, Christians may struggle to fight against God’s enemies. By describing what Christ did and said, this book defines what Christianity is about.

The Gospel of John was my grandmother’s favorite. And it is also my mother’s. I tried to understand this Book for a long time. But only in 2017, I started to understand it. There are many Christian books to aid people’s understanding of the Bible. For example, the Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan and the Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis are loved by many Christians. But I do not praise them. In fact, those books have great potential to misguide people. You cannot understand Christ by reading Christian books. You cannot make someone a Christian by telling them a man-made fable. Similarly, you cannot understand Christ by studying the words of Plato or Aristotle. Therefore, it is abominable to mention their names when we talk about God. We must not become a disciple or follower of a person.

When the NT was written, I believe the Books were translated into Greek, which was a common language in the Eastern Mediterranean then. Jesus and His disciples spoke in Aramaic. Similarly, my first language is not English and yet, I write in English. Some people may say something very different from what I intended from what I wrote. We must remember that the one who interprets the texts determines the readers’ understanding. The only legitimate interpreter is the Holy Spirit, God Himself. The Bible texts did not remain unscathed. The Bible scholars studied different sources of the texts for us to have the Bible. That does not mean that the Bible is unreliable. Even if some evil people deliberately change a text or two, the truth is found in the Bible. It is God who interprets the Bible. The reason why I am saying this is that we do not use human philosophy or logic to interpret the Bible. We do not interpret each text literally. Our interpretation starts from the knowledge of God, which is given to each elect through the Holy Spirit. I do not doubt that evil people will misuse what I write and say that I support people to interpret the Bible as they like. I do not support people to make their own interpretations.

But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture becomes a matter of someone’s own interpretation (2 Peter 1:20)

I wrote a few times that the Trinity doctrine is the foundation of Christianity. The Three Ecumenical Creeds help us to understand the doctrine. So do the Three Forms in Unity. Upon this core doctrine, we understand why God has made the world and will destroy it in the end. We must understand the differences between Adam and Christ and between Adam and the saints. This is where the reformers in the 16th and 17th century have failed. And it was God’s will because the knowledge of God and His will was gradually revealed over a long time. Therefore, I do not doubt that the last generation will have the most knowledge of God.

One of the errors of the reformers lies in their understanding of obedience. God could have forgiven Adam in the Garden of Eden. But He did not. The reason was not because justice and righteousness were His unchangeable attributes. Adam’s fall was necessary in God’s plan. The first human was a mere servant who could not share the inheritance with the only begotten Son of God. Adam and Eve rebelled because they wanted to become like God by their own will and effort. Their action was rebellion. They did not know God.

No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. (John 15:15)

Our first humans were not great as many theologians and ministers want to believe. They did not have the freedom that we have in Christ because they simply could not understand God as we do now in the Holy Spirit. Theologians and ministers insist that Adam and Eve were holy and righteous and had the Holy Spirit. But even children know that they speak lies. How can one without sin and with the Holy Spirit rebel against God? Does God oppose Himself? One must interpret Romans 5 with this in mind. Mere external obedience to God’s commands can never satisfy Him but only the begotten Son of God who is one with the Father. Adam and Christ were not given the same condition to fulfill as theologians and ministers insist. Adam’s fall was for us to know ourselves. For the same reason, the law was given to the Israelites.

However, the reformers chose external obedience over the truth. Churches are full of hypocrites who praise Adam (people) just as the Greek philosophers. Democracy works only in this world. God’s kingdom is a monarchy. Churches praise people who are loved by the world and earn much money. Theologians and ministers love Aquinas and Anselm who loved human philosophies and denied absolute grace. I once warned the minister of the reformed church I went. He said that I would find that what Aquinas had written was mostly true. I saw in my dream that this minister did not have legs and was on a wheelchair. He could move only when the elders wheeled him. I saw this even before I met any of them. I do hope that he receives legs from God.

Evil theologians are the most cunning. False theologians mix 90% of truth with 10% of lies. They all get a warning from God in their lifetime as we find in the Bible. But they do not repent. They will not have any excuse at the end. No one can escape God’s judgement. We also sometimes speak what we do not know. And all of the elect can be judged by what we said and wrote. But we believe in the mercy of God. By that faith, we are saved because we completely rely on God’s absolute grace. Salvation requires our adoption as the children of God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Our adoption is not from our works. If so, no one can be saved. Adam and Eve could not earn adoption by their works because God had planned to give the church to His Son as His bride before the foundation of the world. Obedience does not change our status. Only through the Son, we are made the children of God.

How blessed is he whose wrongdoing is forgiven, whose sin is covered! How blessed is a person whose guilt the LORD does not take into account, And in whose spirit there is no deceit! (Psalm 32:1-2)

Jesus’ high priestly prayer shows us that His death led to our salvation/adoption and eternal life. No where in this prayer we find that Jesus kept the law perfectly to earn our eternal life. Being one with the Son and having the knowledge of God is our eternal life. Only through the Son’s death and resurrection, we stand before God. And we will see Him face to face.

… they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. (Revelation 22:4)

And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. (John 17:3)