[Shincheonji Bible Story] Classification of the Biblical Era - Abraham

Creation of Abraham's Generation

When the sin of Noah's offsprings, the Canaanites reached its full measure, God chose Abraham to fulfill His desire. With him, God made covenants.(Ps89:3)

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>> God's Covenants wih Abraham
(1) The LORD  would give Abraham the land where the Canaanites were residing.
(Ref. Ge12:7)
(2) Abraham's offspring will be countless like stars in the heavens.
(Ref. Ge13:16, Ge15:5, Ge17:4~7)
(3) Abraham's descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and come back in the fourth generation with great possessions.
(Ref. Ge15:13~16)
(4) Through Isaac, Abraham's offspring, all nations on earth will be blessed.
(Ref. Ge21:12, Ge22:17~18)

Specifically through the covenant No.(1), we can perceive that God neither ignored nor endured the sin of the Canaanites and determined to punish them through Abraham's descendants.
The Canaanites were the descendants of Ham and Abraham was the descendant of Shem.

Abraham gave birth to two sons, who were Ishmael and Isaac. In accordance with God's will, Isaac continued bloodlineage as the child of promise of God.

As one of the two sons of Isaac, Jacob established the 12-tribes physical Israelites with his twelve sons.

In God's providence 70 members of Jacob's family went to Egypt. During 400 years in Egypt, they increased in number amounting to six hundred thousand of men on foot, besides women and children.(Ex12:37~42)

Four hundreds' length of time  was a preliminary for God to prepare Abraham's offsprings to conquer the Canaanites. With God's promise reaching its term, it came to be fulfilled by Moses, who was born of Jacob's ancestry.

Through God's untiring efforts to fulfill his will, we should think about ourselves how much we are earnest in understanding and living by God's true will. Without it, we will end up being the entity judged against God's words.

Through next posting, let us find out how all the covenants to Abraham were fulfilled by Moses and his generation.

[Shincheonji Bible Story] Classification of the Biblical Era - Noah 2

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1. God's covenant with the newly chosen people

By receiving God's warnings as the guidance of his life of faith, Noah and his family came to open up the new era. And  God made a covenant with them.(Ps89:3)

The contents are as below.

(1) Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.(Ge9:1)

(2) You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(Ge9:4)

(3) Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.(Ge9:11)

2. Committing Sins of Noah's Generation
As the recipient of promise, Noah's generation sinned before God just as Adam's generation did.

Ge9:21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

To reveal the disgrace of the father, it was the sin before God. Noah cursed Ham and Canaan against it.(Ge9:25)

Afterwards, they moved eastward and settled in a plain in Shinar. They started build the tower that could reach the heavens.
God came down to see them building the tower and confused the language so they will not understand each other, since it was not desirable in God's eyes to do so.

3. The Fall of Noah's generation
Seeing their wickedness, God formed a scheme to condemn the corrupted generation of Canaan through the Shem's descendant, which was Abraham's children. And it was fulfilled by Joshua when conquering the land of Canaan.

From Adam's story on, we can perceive that God cannot bear his chosen people behaving against  God's will, and is sure to condemn those who do that.

As God's children ourselves, how about viewing ourselves in the mirror of the bible whether we are in or out of his will?

Next time, let us examine Abraham and his generation.

[Shincheonji Quotes] Time to realize God's true will in Shincheonji

God created the worlds of Adam and Noah, and yet they were deceived by the devil and betrayed God just like the devil (refer to Gn 3:1-11; Gn 9:20-27). The world of Moses, the Israelites who received the Law betrayed God as well (Hos 6:7). Due to such betrayal, God appointed the Old Testament prophets in order to make known the true God (Hos 6:6) and also to proclaim future events. God came to Jesus and made himself known to people by fulfilling the Old Testament. The Israelites, however, adhered only to the Law of Moses, and they did not receive God. God, therefore, established a new covenant, which is the New Testament, through Jesus (Mt 26:26-29; Lk 22:14-20; Heb 8:10). The book of Revelation, which is yet to be fulfilled at the second coming, summarizes the New Testament very well. There has never been a time when God did not fulfill his promises accordingly (Is 14:24; Hab 2:3). In the same manner, God has also fulfilled the book of Revelation and the New Testament.

Source: Healing all nations

This is the round-up of the biblical history in the context of COVENANT.  God said he would keep his covenant to those who love him and keep his commands.(Dt7:9)

Carrying out the life of faith, what are we heading for in our spirit? And all through the biblical history what is God accomplishing with his zeal ?

Due to Adam's betrayal, God had to map out for recovering his lost paradise. Not to be betrayed again, God chose the people and had to test and train them to see whether they would keep the promise or not..(refer to Ps89:3, Dt8:2)

Throughout the ages of Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God chose the physical Israelites as his chosen people and commanded them to keep his promise and obey his words.(Ex19:5~6) It was to make them his kingdom of priests and holy nations. Tempted by Satan ever since the original sin, however, the people chosen by God turned their backs on God's promise. That has always been and even now is the case.

After the first covenant broken, Jesus made the second promise and he has left it to us 2000 years before.  The gospel has been preached in the whole world as a testimony.(Mt24:14)  That means we have no excuse for God's words.(refer to Jn15:22)

Now is the time when the signs of the second coming of Jesus have already been fulfilled and we should prepare the lamp and oil to meet the bridegroom.

In Shincheonji, we are testifying about the fulfillment of the New Testament. Come and see!