Commemorative Address by the Chairman

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Commemorative Address by the Chairman

The 6th International Religious Leaders' Conference

Transcript recorded 2023.09.19 — English Translation

Yes, are you all doing well? I am Lee Man-hee of Shincheonji Church of Jesus. Before I deliver my message, I would like to say a few words about who I am.

I lived in a rural farming village and was a farmer myself. But then I served on the front lines as a combat soldier in our nation's tragic civil war [the Korean War]. Having survived that fighting and having been discharged, I was so grateful that every night, in an empty, open field with no one around, I would pray to God in heaven. I had believed, from what I had heard from my grandfather long ago, that God exists in heaven. Then one day — not in a dream, but in actual reality — the great star in the sky that I had always thought of as the star I loved came to me. It was not a dream, and it was not a vision. But when it came to me, it did not look like a star at all; it was an enormous light, and that light was so intense that I could not look directly at it.

In the end, it was because of that light that I came to have faith. That said, I never went to seminary, nor did I learn anything at any church. So what could this person possibly know?

All I have is what I have seen and heard — nothing more. Only what I have seen and heard. Whether spiritual or physical matters, I am a person who has only what I have seen and heard.

But now, speaking truthfully before Heaven and not falsely, if I am to speak about the scripture I possess, about the final history, it comes down to the content of a single book of the New Testament — the Book of Revelation. I came to know everything about that book to the point where the book is me and I am the book. That said, even when I speak about the content of ordinary scripture, people do not believe it; so if I speak about this one book that no one on this earth knows or understands, who would listen carefully, and who would there be to understand it? I thought it would be better to speak simply under the title of peace rather than to convey this message directly. Why did I think that way? Because God, too, desired peace, and within this Christian Bible the word 'peace' appears roughly seventy times.

Jesus, too, went to Jerusalem and said, 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, if only you had known the things that make for peace.' And when He was born, the angel said, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace.' And so I have carried out a movement for peace — peace. Those on this earth who know me will probably know that I have spoken of peace. But who would listen if I spoke of a Bible that people neither know, nor hear, nor understand — they would only curse at me. So I have spoken, throughout the whole world, about the peace that both heaven and earth desire.

But in my heart, I wanted to convey the word of revelation that I know — the Book of Revelation of John. If there is anyone across this globe today who has mastered the word of revelation, please raise your hand. As far as I know, there is not a single person. That is so. Yet God's work of history comes to a close with this one book, the Book of Revelation of John. After that, God and the kingdom of heaven will come.

Moreover, within this Book of Revelation, God establishes one nation and one people. Only that people, that nation, will welcome God, and it tells us that a world will come into being where God comes and dwells together with them.

But it does not simply come to pass on its own. There is war upon war, battle upon battle — people fight, but it must be understood as a war between two gods. That is the war spoken of in Revelation. And so, in the end, through God's victory, when God's kingdom is established on this earth just as it was established in heaven, this is a book containing the promise that the kingdom of heaven and God Himself will come and dwell there together with them. However, it is so difficult that it is hard to convey, and it will be difficult for those who hear it to understand as well.

When I traveled around the world, I met people of various religions. I also looked at their scriptures. And there were some who asked me questions. So I would ask them in return: when I look at this book of yours, I do not see anything about prophecy and its fulfillment — if you have such a thing, please tell me a little about it. They said there was none.

That's right, I said, I looked too and found there was none. Prophecy and fulfillment. When God prophesies, it is not a lie but the truth, so it comes to pass exactly as spoken. And if He said it would be fulfilled, it is fulfilled. But I could not find this elsewhere.

Yet within this Christian Bible, within the Book of Revelation of John, it is recorded. And how does it conclude that record? It is written that if anyone adds to or takes away from this prophecy, they cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and will receive a curse. It is nailed down very strictly.

Furthermore, if you listen to the content of Luke chapter 20, these were the words of Jesus. And another prophet spoke likewise, concerning the Passover. This concerns the Passover that took place in the time of Moses; the food eaten at the Passover was the blood and flesh of the lamb. It was said that it would not be eaten at that time — not eaten until it was fulfilled in the Father's kingdom, which means it would be eaten in the Father's kingdom. Then what happens when one eats the blood and flesh of that lamb? For those who ate the blood and flesh of the physical lamb, that night the angel of heaven came down and struck down every firstborn, whether human or animal. But in the houses marked with that blood — the blood of the lamb — the angel did not enter to kill. And so they were saved.

Using that event as a symbol, He said He would not eat it until it was fulfilled in the Father's kingdom. If you search for the Father's kingdom, it appears from Revelation chapter 7 onward, and it appears in chapter 14 as well. That would make sense once it is fulfilled. Is there anyone here who has mastered this book of God, the Book of Revelation? Please raise your hand if you have mastered it. More than any other prophecy or past history or any such content, the Book of Revelation is an extremely precious book. It is only thirteen chapters long. Yet today, in the entire Christian world or in the entire religious world, there is no one who knows its meaning. If there is, I will ask them a question. That is so.

Let me say something that may sound presumptuous. The one who wrote the letters in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 — that was me. And is the one who wrote those letters not also the one who saw and heard everything through to Revelation chapter 22? Only that person can know the substance of Revelation — the substance of the prophecy. But things such as this salvation do not come about so easily. Within this book of Revelation, everything will indeed come to an end when the time for the end arrives, but there is a people that is created at the time this Revelation is fulfilled. There is a nation and a people. So when it is finally fulfilled, the nation and people promised there will come to be, and Heaven will not recognize anything outside of that. Heaven does not simply come on its own — rather, this tells us that just as it was accomplished in heaven, so it is likewise accomplished on this earth, and there, the God of heaven and the kingdom of heaven come and dwell together. So since there are Christians here, and also those who study the Bible carefully, you will understand when I speak this way.

No matter how much bread you carry around, if you do not eat it, it cannot become blood and flesh for you. You would starve to death. Even if this is spiritual food, simply carrying this Bible around is not enough. You must eat all of it. That is so — you must eat all of it. Jesus Himself said, 'I am the living bread that came down from heaven,' and then said, 'unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no eternal life.' How does one eat that?

Think about it. And as for this claim of being living bread that came down from heaven — when and how did this bread come down from heaven? To that question, Jesus responded with another question: 'What will you do when you see me ascend to where I came from?' And did Jesus not simply ascend into heaven before the eyes of the people watching Him? So He ascended, as He had come, to the very place He had come from — heaven. Scripture must have prophecy and fulfillment; otherwise, what would we look to the scripture for, believe in, and wait for? There would be nothing at all to wait for. There must be prophecy and fulfillment.

So I say this: I tell people of faith to become a walking Bible. A walking Bible. God, too, and Jesus, too, were a walking Bible. Should we not also become that? Only then would everything I do, all my actions, be in accordance with the content of that Bible — whatever path a person takes, whatever they think, whatever they do. In just that way. When this book becomes fully recorded in someone's heart, what is that called?

It's called being sealed. Within the Christian Bible it says that those who are sealed number 144,000. And it also speaks of a great multitude. This was an explanation of an event that takes place when a new age dawns for the world of humankind.

Did the world not see the age of Adam come to an end, and then the age of Noah begin? In the age of Noah, a man named Moses rose up, and in the end there came to be the world of physical Israel — but that world of physical Israel, too, came to an end, cursed on account of Solomon's mistake. That is how it happened. After that, what God prophesied was written down by the prophets of the Old Testament in the Bible. Within that prophecy, was it not recorded that Jesus would come to this earth? And so, exactly as prophesied — exactly as the prophecy said — He was born of a virgin, born in Bethlehem, and rode on a young donkey; Jesus did exactly this. He appeared in exactly this way in order to fulfill what was written, and to prove that it was not a lie.

Now, Jesus also spoke of coming again. So then, when He comes again, in what form, when, and where will He come — is this not something believers ought to know? At His first coming, the Old Testament recorded in what form and by what path Jesus would come, yet the people of that time did not believe. Instead, they only cursed Him. Why was that?

It was probably because their spirit was different — because the spirit was different. In word and in thought they waited; they waited for the promised one to come, but when He actually came, because the spirit was different, they did not receive Him. If that is so, then in what form will Jesus come at His second coming — will He come in the flesh, or will He come as a spiritual being? Should we not also know this?

Simply saying 'Lord, Lord' does not get one into the kingdom of heaven. Nor does performing some miraculous power get one into the kingdom of heaven. Is that not so?

Then, if God, and if Jesus, made a promise in the New Testament, what exactly is that promise? We must know it in order to wait for it or believe it, must we not? Who is foolish? One is foolish oneself. 'O foolish Galatians' — this is something said in the time of Jesus. It is not only about those Galatians; the question is whether we today know all of this. Even today, if Jesus came, people would not recognize Him; if the promised shepherd came, people would not recognize him; and they would only call him a heretic, a heretic, would they not? If anyone outside one's own denomination is unconditionally called a heretic, is this not merely a matter of a human organization, rather than something Heaven has determined? So if this book, the Bible itself, gives me no benefit, then this book is of no use to me.

But we must enter into the Bible, and the Bible must enter into us. Doing so — even the Bible itself, in John chapter 1, says that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. It said there is nothing that was made that was not made by God. And it did not merely say this Word was God, but that it was life, and it was light. A person without this Word was called darkness — darkness, a darkness without light. A person who has this Word was called light.

And so, because Jesus had this Word, He called Himself the light. Thus, as to what is prophesied here about what will become of this world — that is the message of the New Testament. To understand it, once you master this Book of Revelation from beginning to end, one chapter at a time, you will know. And there is no reason not to know. It is written — written in our own national script — so anyone who wants to read it can read it in full. But because it is fulfilled exactly as written, it is said that if you add to or take away from it, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and will receive a curse.

Right now, among all these religious people, truly, not a single one has left this Book of Revelation — a mere thirteen chapters — without adding to it or taking away from it. I say there is not even one person who has not done so. And yet, they do not even try to know it. So then, is the kingdom of heaven free for the taking? By what means will you get to the kingdom of heaven? You must go by this book — you must go by the path this book has set out — that is the only way to enter the kingdom of heaven. Yet, do people not simply refuse to even try to know it? There are now many different religious organizations across this globe. But because each has learned what they learned, because they have studied their own scripture, they believe in only that one scripture.

But on this earth, scripture is not just one — there are many. Far too many. So we must also give some thought to which scripture is truly the one we should learn and the path we should follow. That is so.

So a true believer must enter into the word of God. But across this globe, people say they have learned the word of God, and each has their own recorded scriptures based on what they themselves have seen and heard, and they follow that. But which of these is the scripture we can truly believe? So should not religious people bring the scripture they believe in and gather at the warp Office [World Alliance of Religions' Peace Office] to compare them a little? To see which is right and which is good. If a prophecy is written down, there must be something that shows that prophecy has been fulfilled.

When I traveled around the world, there was a person who brought out the scripture of Islam and spoke with me about it. So I asked him whether there was prophecy and fulfillment in it. He said there was none. I said, I too have a copy of that book you have; I read it, and I found no prophecy and fulfillment in it — if you think I simply did not know and there is such a thing, then show it to me. As for prophecy — the character for prophecy means 'to speak in advance.' What is spoken in advance is prophesied so that, when it comes to pass, people may see it, realize it, and believe. But if there is only prophecy and nothing that has been fulfilled, is there not an absence of substance? An absence of substance. Only when it is fulfilled does the substance of that prophecy exist.

Today, in this Christian Bible, the Book of Revelation of John runs continuously from chapter 1 all the way to chapter 22. Now, up through chapter 17 has been fulfilled. But chapter 18 must be fulfilled before what is in chapter 19 can also be fulfilled. Why do I think this? Because the words in Revelation 19:1 say 'after these things,' and 'these things' refers to the content of chapter 18. In chapter 18 there is the word 'Babylon,' and it concerns the destruction of that Babylon — and God has not yet dealt with that Babylon. Once He deals with it, chapter 19 will come to be. What is written in chapter 19? We are people who possess a physical body.

But the beings in heaven are not physical but spiritual — spiritual beings. That spirit in heaven and our physical body are joined in marriage. This is not a physical marriage of the flesh, but a marriage of spirit and flesh. Through that marriage of spirit and flesh, one becomes a spiritual being.

This process of fulfillment has been laid out very precisely, step by step, in order. Not a single part can be missing, or it will not come to pass. That is why it is written that if you add to or take away from this Revelation, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and will receive a curse.

So the question is whether this book we hold is being fulfilled or not, and if it has been fulfilled, up to what point; and if it has been fulfilled, then it is not merely that a prophecy is recorded in this book, but that the substance of this prophecy exists. There is a substance that has come to be. That is the issue. When a woman conceives a child, does she not give birth to that child?

And once born, the child exists as a substance — in the same way, everything recorded within this scripture is content that is to be fulfilled in substance. Otherwise, why would it have been written down? Of course, past history that has already been fulfilled needs no further fulfillment. What still needs to be fulfilled is the New Testament. And if we speak of the New Testament, it is the prophecy of the four Gospels and the prophecy of Revelation.

So the central point is this: it is emphatically stated that if you add to or subtract from what is recorded in this Revelation, you will receive a curse. It is nailed down absolutely. Since it comes to pass exactly as written, we must believe it exactly as it is and act accordingly. If it was said in that way, then when it is fulfilled exactly as said, must there not be a substance that has been fulfilled?

That substance can serve as evidence. If there are only words, then that is not spiritual food at all — it is nothing. It is only prophecy. So in the world of faith, we can no longer live by the same kind of faith as in the old days. We must also find out whether this word, this prophecy, this word of promise has truly been fulfilled or not. Whether it is a thousand miles away or ten thousand miles away, if it has been fulfilled, we ought to go and check for ourselves.

If it is a way by which one may live, one must seek it out and act accordingly. If I say that all I know from the past is everything there is, then is what I know really everything that is written in this Bible, in this book? If it is not everything, then I cannot be certain based on that alone.

There are two major issues here. One is: what exactly is prophesied within this book of Revelation? What is to be fulfilled is recorded, one thing at a time, all the way to the end. So when it is fulfilled, each and every one of the things prophesied there must appear in substance. So if someone asks, should we not be able to tell them of that substance?

Since the prophecy is already written down, there is no need to even mention that; but since, when a prophecy is fulfilled, its fulfilled substance is bound to appear, we ought to be able to tell of what has been fulfilled. As I said before, this book has thirteen chapters. Up through chapter 17 has been fulfilled, but now chapters 18 and 19 must be fulfilled, and I said that chapter 18 is blocking the way.

Well, when it is fulfilled things will change, but what does the Bible say about this world — it says that this world remains. No matter what tribulation or war occurs, it is said that this world remains as it is. But although heaven and earth will pass away, my words will not pass away, and will be fulfilled just as they are — this statement was meant to give assurance that they will not pass away, and heaven and earth do not, in fact, pass away. If heaven and earth were to pass away, there would be neither heaven nor earth, so where would we go to live? That is not what was meant.

So for religious people, this word promised in the Bible is also our spiritual food. It is also the path we must walk. So it would be good to live according to this word, would it not? That is so.

But as I have lived a life of faith, rather than an ordinary faith, I have come to confirm the substance of this recorded word, and so I hope that even what remains will yet come to pass. Now, as for what conclusion this leads to — there are souls who have already died in faith. Souls. A person has a body. A person has a spirit and a soul. The union of these three is one person. But while this body can die, no person can kill another person's soul. There is no one who can kill the soul except God. That statement is recorded in Matthew chapter 10. In the same way, as to what becomes of a person — this too is related to what Jesus meant when He spoke of being born again.

Born again as what? He did not say that the flesh must be born again. That is why there is also a sense in which the soul must be born again — even before the body. The Bible speaks in this way, and we must take hold of that statement to gain conviction about it. Only once we know it will faith arise, would it not?

So, above all, I believe that every believer, without exception, must fully master this one book of the final history — Revelation. Master it fully. I believe that is how it must be. Because everything is fulfilled and brought to a close there, within it there are those who will be saved, those who commit apostasy, and those who are destroyed. Since this distinction is made, we must know it. So if there is no purpose and no benefit, and one simply keeps holding onto faith with the single phrase 'I will go to heaven someday,' that, I would say, is a somewhat foolish faith. It is not meant to be that way.

Clearly, when it is fulfilled, it is fulfilled exactly according to the prophecy — neither more nor less — and it is precisely because it is fulfilled exactly as promised in the scripture that we hold our faith. To believe that is what having faith means. If it is not fulfilled, yet we simply keep saying it will be fulfilled someday, then this could go on for many generations.

But I believe that faith must be believed with certainty through the appearance of the fulfilled substance of the promise.

Jesus said something like this as well. If you look at John 14:29, it is written: 'I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it does come to pass, you may believe.' That is so. It is because there is something to happen that He said this. So I understand that all religions — Buddhism, Confucianism, and various other religions — arose because their founders received something and felt something from another realm, in their own way. But I believe it would be good for us, as religious people, to each bring the scripture we have learned to the warp Office and carry out a process of comparing and verifying scriptures, so as to choose the one most worthy of belief. We must discard superstitious thinking. This is, after all, a matter of verification. It must be verified. And having done so, it is best to hold faith in the scripture found to be most worthy of belief. If a person is repeatedly dragged along by a single line without question, that is the same as being dragged along a wrong line, so we must not do that — bring it out and check it, and then we will know.

In my own family, too, everyone was originally Buddhist — Buddhism. But even having practiced Buddhism, it was Buddhist in name only; no one truly knew the deep content of Buddhist scripture at all. Just in name. That is why I have come to think that we must now go into the scriptures ourselves and come to know them. Yes, everyone — here, our organization, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (H.W.P.L), is working at a global level, is it not? So, our title is peace — world peace. This is what we are pursuing, and this — peace — is something that must exist for absolutely everyone, without exception.

Peace is the ending of war, not war itself. Restoration of Light. In this way, our intention is to build a new world together. This is content found in every scripture, and how could this world of ours live without this peace?

There would be nothing but suffering for everyone. We must all make the effort to become one so that peace can be achieved, but among us, religious people gathering with their own scriptures, meeting all the time only to curse at one another — this is a foolish thing to do. Rather than that, we should respect one another, and by comparing these scriptures, examine which one is truly worthy of belief and which is genuinely of faith — we must do this at least once. We must do this. It would be good to do this rather than insisting only on one's own.

We must. Looking at the flow that the religious world has walked so far up to now, that is so.

When we go to other countries, we see that the Catholic Church, too, has built its buildings very well. That is so. This is about the time I went to Rome. When I entered St. Peter's Basilica there, a woman guided me. Going inside, there was quite a long way to walk, and there were many things recorded on the walls and many statues and structures erected there. There was a woman guiding us, and I asked her: since when have you served here?

And I asked her to tell me honestly whether all of what was made here felt like it had to do with God, or had a religious character, or not — and she said it did not. That's right, I said — I too came here and found no such feeling at all. It seemed as though everything recorded there was purely social matters, the content of kings from that era, and I asked her if she did not also think so — and she said she felt the same. So, the people who come there come in a religious capacity to visit St. Peter's Basilica, and also to sightsee, but there was nothing of that; only the families of the old kings of their nation and such things had been made there.

And there, the martyrs were not buried in the floor within the sanctuary or set into the walls — it was the royal family instead. So then, what exactly is this place for? I was truly astonished to see this.

So I thought: this is how they built such a huge, magnificent building, spending so much money. Those who truly hold faith are constantly persecuted — where would they have gotten the money to build something this large?

But we do not live by such buildings; rather, we live as a temple of the heart, grounded in the meaning we know. So I believe that true religion is to enshrine God in one's heart and to live in this way. And within the content of the scripture that God has promised and recorded here, there is clearly prophecy, and there is fulfillment, and further still, there is also apostasy. Apostasy, destruction, and salvation — these three have been the reality that has unfolded as one history within the religious world.

But is not this title of salvation truly what is most desired and sought here? Who will grant salvation? Who prophesied this?

Looking at Isaiah chapter 1, what did Isaiah say? He said, I am Isaiah, who lived in the days of such-and-such kings. And did he not also say, our father is so-and-so, a descendant of so-and-so, and what I have seen and wish to speak of is what I saw concerning Jerusalem? What that man said is correct. He introduced himself, stated what era he belonged to, and went so far as to say that what he saw concerned Jerusalem and what happened there. He spoke honestly.

Today as well, we people of faith should not treat something as great simply because it is our own; only speaking everything as it truly is — that is truth. That is what I consider truth to be. So let me now speak about myself. I am, as a Christian, a Christian — and this is because I was chosen and have held faith within Christianity. Now, within Christianity there is a book called the Book of Revelation of John. This book called Revelation, if you count the number of its pages, comes to about thirteen chapters. It is recorded thoroughly, inside and out.

Who wrote it? It is a book written by a man named John, a disciple of Jesus, recording what he himself saw and heard. Within it, there are apostates, and there are those who are destroyed, and there are also those who are saved — all recorded there. It is written in such a way that it clearly records who fights with whom, why they fight, and what the outcome of the fight was.

And within that book, it is fully explained what it means to be saved and to be able to enter the kingdom of heaven having held this faith, as well as what makes one unable to be saved. That is in there. That was the issue.

Furthermore, there are those who held faith before this Revelation was fulfilled, and there are those who held faith at the time Revelation was being fulfilled, and there is also a body — a denomination — that was created at that time of fulfillment. When this book, Revelation, was being fulfilled, there were people of faith at that time and a denomination that came into being at that time. And there were churches that existed before that fulfillment. But in this Revelation, it is regarded that the denomination created at the time Revelation was fulfilled, and those people, are the true beings who can be fully saved.

That is because it is recorded that way. That is so.

It is written that the original heirs of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness, while those who come from east and west will sit here in this kingdom of heaven. Since such words are recorded, similar words are also recorded in Matthew chapter 10, and likewise in Matthew chapter 8. If this is so, then who are these 'original heirs' spoken of here, who are those coming from east and west, and who are the substances by which these words are fulfilled? Since these are people, is it not something we can reason about? But if it has indeed come to pass just as these words say, then can we not know that 'ah, this promise is being fulfilled right now'?

And if it has not yet been fulfilled, we can think of it as a prophecy of what is yet to come. Given this, we must now put an end to foolish faith. We must hold a truly wise faith, a faith without any gaps or weaknesses — not a faith that drifts about aimlessly, clinging first to one thing and then another, a flighty kind of faith; that must not be. What use would God have in calling such a person and putting them to any use? The kingdom of heaven is surely not a kingdom where such fools are placed, is it?

I truly believe that people who are wiser even than angels are qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven. That is how I see it. Considering this point, I hope that we, too, as believers, will hold conviction in matters of faith and act accordingly. There is no need for empty, puffed-up words, going on and on about this and that. What is needed is this Bible and its fulfilled substance.

Among all this, the question is: who am I — who does this Bible say that I am? Who does this Bible say that I am? Have I truly been created according to this Bible? One must examine oneself, must one not? We must not become fools. We must not become fools.

Who am I? Should we not first analyze ourselves before we can know? We must do so.

When Jesus came to this earth and went about together with beggars, what did people say about Him? Did they not treat Him as just another beggar, and treat Him as a sinner, and speak of Him that way? He lived that closely among beggars, to that degree. And in the same way, He answered their accusations by saying, 'I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners' — and He lived accordingly. In just the same way, since this was already written in the prophetic books of the Old Testament, was it not necessary for Him to live that way in order for that prophecy, too, to be fulfilled?

So today, is it not most important for us to ask: who am I according to what this Bible says, and am I a person created just as the Bible describes? That is so. In Revelation there are twelve tribes. When were they formed? They are people created at the time this Revelation is fulfilled. How many people make up the twelve tribes? Twelve thousand from each tribe, totaling 144,000. Beyond that, there are also many who have come in as part of the great multitude in white. These people — the great multitude in white and the 144,000 who are sealed here — are the ones who are saved, meaning that the rest are not the ones who are saved.

So then, when one age passes and a new age comes — long ago, the age of Adam ended and the age of Noah began. That age of Noah, too, eventually came to an end. It all ended. The age of Moses ended as well. After that, the prophets who had prophesied kept prophesying. The substance of the content of that prophecy was Jesus. And so Jesus came and appeared in the New Testament, did what He was to do exactly as the Bible said, bore the cross, and did all of it, did He not?

But the greatest of all is this Book of Revelation of John. What is fulfilled in the time of this Revelation? It is what is recorded in Revelation that is fulfilled — nothing else. In that book, within Revelation, a new nation and a new people come to be. These are people created from the beginning of Revelation until its completion. Not before that.

Even if a person from before is called a person from before, they are not fulfilled through whatever affiliation or content they had before. One must be born again exactly as Revelation states — born again. This is what it is now saying.

And so, even though this one Bible was written, for as long as two thousand years its content was not made known to people. If you read it, anyone — since it is recorded in the national language, in this nation's own script — can read all of it. But they do not understand its meaning.

But only when Heaven permits it and reveals it — 'this is what it means' — do we come to truly know it. This is understood as the work of the promised shepherd, who now carries out the work of that word and that meaning. Since there was talk about religion in this session, I too have spoken a word about religion. And so the reason we have gathered together like this — whether in heaven or on earth, wherever it may be — is so that we may become a family of peace. We are a peace family.

As a peace family, we must all fulfill our mission. Understood? Bearing this in mind, first of all, no matter what anyone says, let us love our neighbor as ourselves. And let us all cooperate so that we may walk the right path together. In doing so, I hope that we may become a light that shines upon the whole world — a truly life-giving light. Understood? Let us all become a family of light. Thank you.

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