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: Promise and Faith

The first man, Adam, and Eve returned to dust (Gn 3) and received destruction (Gn 7) because they did not believe in God’s promise (Gn 2:17). Noah’s son, Ham, became cursed (Gn 9:20-27) and was destroyed in Canaan (Jos 9 ~ 10) because he committed the same sin that Adam did (Gn 3:10). The Israelites, the descendants of Abraham who escaped to Canaan from Egypt, were destroyed and went into captivity because they worshipped the Gentile gods again during the days of Solomon (1 Kgs 11).

The Israelites had been keeping the Law, and the first of the Ten Commandments was, “Do not worship any other gods.” God even told the people of Israel, “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful” (Jos 1:8). However, neither Adam nor the Israelites kept the Law and as a result, they all received destruction (Hos 6:7). Then, God promised to create a new thing (Jer 31) which, unlike the Law that was given to Moses, was to plant two kinds of seeds. What God did through Jesus was to sow the seed of the New Testament (Mt 13), and Jesus returns to harvest the fruits of that seed (Rv 14:14-16). Jesus seals them and creates the twelve tribes (Rv 7). They are the firstfruits, the 144,000 in Rv 14.

Today, God has shown the greatest power (the fulfillment of Revelation) within the 6,000 years of history of the Bible. However, are you yet to overcome your flesh and are still so short of faith? Will you face the same end like Adam who once started in spirit but ended in flesh (Gal 3:3, ESV)? Why do you not believe, but instead fall into laziness and disregard the promise? What is it that you want? Is it the bread that merely feeds the flesh? What we believe is the promise, and it was given for us to believe when it is fulfilled (Jn 14:29). The holy spirit will drive out those who do not believe or do not participate in the work of harvest. God has been working for 6,000 years to create the twelve tribes of the New Testament, and only the sealed twelve tribes can enter the kingdom of heaven.

I have taught the promise of the New Testament and its fulfilled physical entities for the people to believe them. Let us not be ungrateful. Eternal life, or eternal punishment, is right before our eyes.