Shincheonji Members Donate COVID-19 Blood Plasma

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Members of Shincheonji Church

Donate COVID-19 Blood Plasma 



Shincheonji Daegu Church Members Donate
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 I'm really happy to be able to convey Shincheonji love to everyone who suffers from corona in Korea.

 

 

500 Recovered Congregation Members of Shincheonji Church Donate COVID-19 Blood Plasma

Among the members of the Shincheonji Church, 500 people from Shincheonji Church, who have recovered from COVID-19, are donating blood plasma this week.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in cooperation with the Korean Red Cross, set up mobile plasma sites to extract blood plasma from 500 congregation members of Shincheonji who have recovered from COVID-19.

This represents a 200% uptick in plasma donations in South Korea. Before the mass donation, South Korean officials reported that about 170 people's blood plasma were collected nationwide.

In June, 4,000 members of Shincheonji pledged to donate blood plasma. Due to logistical issues, 55 members were able to donate blood plasma before this week.

The 500 members' blood plasma will be procured within the week by using blood donation cars that can extract blood in large quantities. This is thought to be the first round of donations.

Health officials from the Mayo Clinic and U.S. Food and Drug Administration believe that plasma donations may contribute greatly to the treatment of COVID-19 patients as well as contribute to the research and development of novel immunotherapies.

Preliminary results of one trial cited by UpToDate, showed a statistically significant rate of improvement in patients treated with donated plasma compared to those who received standard therapies (91% compared to 68% respectively).

The plasma donated by Shincheonji will be used to make similar treatments after clinical trials.

 

 

 

※ Plasma therapy is a method of extracting plasma from a recovering patient and injecting it into another patient. The recovered patient's plasma contains a large amount of antibodies, which are known to be effective if injected into a critical patient.

The blood treatment is made by enriching and sanctioning small amounts of antibodies and immunoglobulins contained in the blood of a complete healer. This requires a lot of blood. However, it had difficulty developing treatments due to the fact that plasma donors are suitable for blood collection, and the absolute lack of plasma donors.

Meanwhile, 4,000 believers of Shincheonji expressed their intention to donate plasma on the 23rd of last month, raising expectations for the development of the Corona 19 treatment, which is good news for all mankind in the global community suffering from the coronavirus.

I'm proud to be able to deliver this good news about 'Love of Shincheonji' in Korea.

While plasma donation for 500 members of the Sincheonji Daegu Church began on the 13th among the confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Daegu, a medical team is helping plasma donors write consent forms for research subjects.

 

 

Shincheonji Bible: True Love

When you think of love, how do you show love?

There are many people in this world who show love in a variety of ways such as with giving, speaking, and even listening.

However, what is true love in the eyes of God and Jesus? According to John 14:15, Jesus says that if you love him you will obey His commands. Then we have to ask ourselves a question a lot of us do not want to hear. What does it mean to obey His commands? First we must ask ourselves what Jesus' commands were. When we look throughout the entire New Testament, we are able to see a lot of the scriptures written in ways that may be difficult to understand. Why is this?

When we look within scriptures, we are able to see that Jesus spoke in a figurative language according to Psalm 78:2. It was a prophecy in regards to Jesus speaking in parables and uttering things hidden from the past. Then the question we should all have is, "How can we obey something we do not understand?" If you asked yourself that question, your heart is in the right direction. For example, if you saw a stop sign and you did not know how to read English, would you be able to keep the stop sign? No it would be impossible. Then how are we as believers supposed to show our love to Jesus if we cannot understand what he is commanding? This is why we must live a life of faith with a heart of searching the answers that Jesus wants us to thirst for.

When we look at the entire New Testament, there is a book that is written in prophecies such as the book of Revelation. This book in the Bible is show to this Apostle John in a figurative vision in which many of the believers today have such a hard time interpreting. More than trying to understand in our own way, we must look and verify through scriptures what these all mean. If we truly say we love Jesus, then shouldn't we put in effort to search out what Jesus meant in all the New Testament? Without a heart of searching, one will never be able to truly be confident to say they love Jesus the way that Jesus wanted to be loved. When a person you love desires something, you always have to remember that it is not the desire you think unless you know them 100%. If you don't know, simply ask. They may be mad that you didn't know, but it is much better than showing them love in the way they do not want. Jesus wants us to understand His heart more than anything else. By us understanding His heart, we are also able to understand God's. Let us make sure we love God the way He desires! Amen!

Shincheonji Bible: Can You Introduce Who God is?

Do you remember growing up and doing a presentation about someone in school? How about introducing your family or your friends?

Naturally, we can understand that someone who knows about the person who they are introducing is able to introduce them more precisely. Through one's introduction, one should not introduce someone in who they think they are, but who the person says they are.

If you were told to introduce and accurately depict who Bill Gates is, what would you say about them? Most people will say, "He is rich." However, is that who Bill Gates is? It isn't and honestly no one really knows who Bill Gates is as a person.

Now let's take this a step forward...

Can you introduce who God is? Can you accurately depict and explain who God is? Is God to you the God who God says He is? It is only possible for us to know who God is only if He tells us who He is right? Then did God ever whisper or speak to you of who He is? If you did hear Him, then is that what others hear as well?

Therefore we must ask ourselves, how then can we know God so we can actually explain who He is? Out of all the things on earth, God left us one thing that explains who He is. If you are thinking the "Bible" then you are absolutely correct. The Bible is not just a book, but you can see it as the heart of God expressed in words. Just as a person is able to understand another person through their dairy, so are we able to know God through His dairy which is like the Bible.

Therefore, let us really become people who are not strangers to God, but become people who are a part of God's family. Just as one is able to explain who their most loved on is, we should also be able to explain who God if we truly say we love Him.

Shincheonji Bible: The Pain of the Father

Everyday as believers, we go about our lives wondering if God is there seeing everything that goes about on the surface of the earth. We cannot see Him nor can we touch Him, and at times many can wonder if He is there.

Although it may seem as if God does not watch over His creation, God shows in the scripture He does. In Ps 33:14, God from His dwelling place watches all who live on earth. As we now know God does watch over us, how can we see Him?

God is spirit and it is not possible to see Him as in scriptures it also says if we do see Him, we cannot live. Then is there ever a way we can see Him. Yes. In Jn 1:1 it states that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. God is not physically the pages of the Bible, but His heart is contained within the Bible. Therefore, if we read the words of the Bible and we understand, one will see that there is much pain within God's heart.

As a glimpse of what this is like, imagine the closest of people to you whom you trust and love. Now imagine that you have all promised in your heart to never leave one another nor to turn your backs on one another. But, one day they all decided to leave you and follow another person who spread lies about you saying that you are a person who committed wrong deeds. Would you feel betrayed? Of course. Why? This is because if they truly knew you, they would have known who you are and not believe in what the other says about you. 

In the same way, when God gave His scriptures to His people, they were able to know a lot about who God was. However, when God sent His son who spoke about the scriptures and the reality of the the scriptures, the people who claimed they knew God did not believe in the words God gave to His son Jesus. Many people thought killing Jesus was giving glory to God, but little did they know that they were killing the one who had His very words. 

This is the same as if you were to send someone on your behalf with a letter that has the words you speak. One who knows who you are and have read your letters and also understood the meanings behind every word, will recognize your letters immediately. Even if you sent someone on your behalf with your letter, a person will be able to recognize that you sent your messenger simply by the words on the letter you send with him. 

Therefore we have to always ask ourselves. When we read the scriptures, do we understand the word to the point where we are able to know God's heart? If this post was something that was never heard of, we have to ask ourselves if we are able to see the scriptures in a way where God's heart is seen. With much hope, may the world be able to share in the pain of God and have the heart to give God no more pain. However, now we know this can only happen if we are able to understand His word and the meaning of the words He has given us. 

Shincheonji Bible: Do not Worry

Everyday we go about our lives with so many things on our minds. There are so many things for every single individual to worry about. Some worry about their jobs, some worry about their relationships, some even worry if they have faith in God. However, what does the Bible say about worries? Let take a look at Mt 6:25-33.

When looking at My 6:25-33, we are able to see that God does not want any of us to worry about the things of the world. Many people may worry about what they eat and what they will wear. However we have to see in the perspective of God. What does God say? God says that even the birds of the air do not worry about the food they eat because God provides for them. Then even for ourselves, are we not greater than the birds God created?

How about the clothes that we wear? God says we should not worry about what we wear as God clothes the lilies of the field and not even Solomon was dressed like one of them. Are we not greater than the lilies of the field?

Furthermore, God says those who worry about these things are like pagans. However, as people of God who have a greater hope than just about what we eat and drink and wear, have a hope that is greater than the physical things of the world. As believers, we should first seek God's kingdom and righteousness which is the will God desires! Let us truly constantly seek after this kingdom and righteousness more than worrying all day about the things of the world. Let us never forget that God is always there is we constantly seek him. Let us never lose sight of the one who is the origin of our hope!

Shincheonji Bible: Why do we need God?

Many people in the world today ask themselves everyday, "Why do I need God?" 

So why do we need God? Some say we don't need God because they are able to live life comfortably without a problem.

So then why do we need God? The answer is because God is life. 

In the time of Adam and his generation, God once was one with man. God was among His creation and God loved all that He created. When God was with man, man was destined to live eternity with their creator. However, as soon as the covenant between God and man was broken, sin had entered and death came into the world of Adam (Rm 5:12-14, Hos 6:7). Life was detached from man and life now must return.

The opportunity for life to return to the generation of Adam came during the time of Noah. Noah was the one whom God made a covenant with and Noah kept his part by do as God commanded. However, the people did not listen to the words of God through Noah and that is when death was became their destination while the people of Noah entered life.

Then we have to see if this continued all throughout the Bible, and if we do, we will realize it has. So, why do we need God? Because He is life and the way to life. If we look in John 1:1-5 the words God gave to Jesus was the way to life. Life of man has been 70-80 years as written in Psalms. Ever since Gn 6:3, God could not contend with men forever and his days became 120 years and later 70-80 years. Then God's purpose originally was for man to live eternally with God. We must realize that no matter how much we live on earth without problems, there will always be problems and there will also be joys. However, once death comes upon every individual, all those joys are no longer remembered. This is why life is so precious, and because of the existence of life, we are able to have joy. Without the existence of life, there would also be no joy. 

Let us learn more and see how then we can have life deeply!