Shincheonji Bible: What is a Promise?

What does a promise mean to you?

When making a promise, do you keep them 100%?

It is very difficult for anyone to make a promise and keep it because we do not see the value. Keeping a promise builds a trust between two parties and it also build faith. When we see an individual keep his promises all the time, that person is seen as reliable, trustworthy, and faithful. This is a person who many people will follow and this is a person many people will want to follow.

Since the first day of God's spiritual and physical creation, God has been keeping His promises with al of His creation, but it is creation that did not keep their promises. Let us look at Adam. Adam was to make sure he doesn't eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and his blessing was that he would be able to rule over all creation. However just as Hosea 6:7 states, Adam broke the covenant and this broke the trust and faith between man and God. Entrusting in the serpent's words, Adam now was bound to sin and sin had entered the world as a result of breaking a simple promise.

Then from this story in the Bible, shouldn't we be ones who make sure we keep every little promise? Shouldn't we keep even the smallest promises with one another and even more so with God?

Let us remember that God wants to be with his people as stated in Revelation 21. Then let us make sure we keep His promises. Then let us first understand His promises and be sure we keep it the way He wants us to keep it.

Shincheonji Bible: Ruth the Faithful

Who is Ruth? 

Ruth was a gentile woman who married an Israelite and lived in the country of Moab. In addition, Ruth was born in Jerusalem as a gentile women. Moab was not a country of God's favor as Jerusalem was the chosen nation that God was at concern. During the famine that occured during the time of Judges, Ruth had been faithful an returned to the country of her birth. Upon her return, there was a harvest in which she met Boaz who was a harvester. Boaz was kind to Ruth because she was obedient to her mother in law Naomi and followed Naomi's God, the God of Israel. Naomi was also a widow due to her husbands death and Boaz took Ruth who was a widow as his husband. Through this lineage, David was able to appear through Obed and through Jesse. In all of the genealogy, Jesus was able to appear and bring salvation to the earth and even return in the time of Revelation.

What can we learn from this story recorded within history? 

We can learn that we must always be ones who return to a land where the harvest is plentiful and where the land and nation God resides. We must follow the laws of God and follow those who have God with them just as Ruth had Naomi. Through this we are able to become spiritually fruitful and multiply to the entire earth creating a world that is filled with the spiritual children of God. We must never forget that God is with us and He will remain with us as long as we stay where He dwells.

Amen!