Title: People Who Awaken the Dawn
Contents
Salvation is God's eternal love and blessing through Christ Jesus, who moves from condemnation to atonement and again from a physical body to a spiritual body.
Therefore, regarding salvation, the Bible divides it into salvation obtained and salvation achieved. But these two salvations are two and one. It is as if the seed and the fruit are two and yet one. It is the immortal seed and the fruit of holiness. This is the same as it is written in the Bible, “By faith through faith” as if there were two faiths, but “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5).
Salvation, which is common to all, is the salvation of this world when we did not know God, when we were sinners, and when we were enemies with God, that He sent His Son into the world in the flesh to take away all the sins of the world. It is the love of God that overlooked all sins and it is the righteousness of God.
That is why the Bible says, “In the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, from faith to faith, as it is written, The righteous will live by faith” (Romans 1:17), and again, “God gave this Jesus through his blood. He instituted it as a propitiation through faith, so that in the forbearance of God, God might show his righteousness by forgiving the sins he had committed before, so that he might show his righteousness at this time, that he might be righteous and also those who believe in Jesus. to do this” (Romans 3:25-26).
If salvation is completed only by the righteousness of God, then all people in the world should be saved. Atonement from sin is God's grace that everyone under the heavens has received. This grace does not discriminate. This is because God so loved the world that Jesus, who sent him into the world, took away all the sins of the world.
It is written, “And through your offspring all the peoples of the world will be blessed, because you have obeyed my word” (Genesis 22:18). and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45).
Therefore, salvation is not solved only by sin, but by solving the body of sin. This is because sin has no body if there is no body. For this reason, the Bible divides the law of God into the law of sin and death. As it is written, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2).
Sin and the body are two yet one. This is as if night and dawn are two and one. If a thousand years were one day, there would be five hundred nights and five hundred days. That is why the Bible says, “Beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day” (2 Peter 3:8).
Therefore, according to the Bible, for the night to pass and the morning star to rise in our hearts, five hundred years will come to an end. After these five hundred years, that is, four hundred and thirty years of forgiveness of sins, and seventy years of redemption of the body, Christ, the morning star, will come to mind.
Regarding this, the Bible testifies, “We have a more certain prophecy, like a lamp shining in a dark place, and it is necessary that you pay attention to this until the dawn of the day and the morning star rises in your hearts” (2 Peter 1:19).
Thus salvation is one, but it is divided into salvation from sin and salvation from the body. Judging from this, salvation from sin is the death of Jesus alone, that is, the deep night of four hundred and thirty years has passed. For salvation from the body of death, our body was also crucified with Jesus, so that the body of sin was destroyed and the dawn of seventy years passed. After all five hundred years of nights are over, Zerubbabel's temple will eventually be built, and rivers of living water will flow from the body, which is the temple where God will dwell.
For this reason, it is prophesied in the Bible, “Awake, harp, harp, harp, my glory, for I will wake up the dawn” (Psalm 57:8), and also, “Wake up, O Zion, and put on your strength, Jerusalem, holy city. Put on your beautiful garments, for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will never come to you again” (Isaiah 52:1).
Therefore, it is written, “You were built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone” (Ephesians 2:20). Therefore, the apostles are the morning stars that shine in the morning, and the prophets are the lamps that shine at night. As it is written, “In those days the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (Job 38:7), and also “John is a lamp that shines and shines; may you rejoice in its light for a moment. did it” (John 5:35).
Therefore, it is written about this age when there is greater blessing, saying, “He said, ‘I heard you in your time of mercy, and I helped you in the day of salvation.’ Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2). Again, He said, “The night is deep and the day is near; therefore, let us put off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:12). Amen, thank you Lord.
Last but not least, Kim Yoon-goo