Sunday, 14 October 2012

Eden holy church: 2. Intention of God

The 3rd chapter of this book, "Does heaven exist"?, deals with the ultimate intention of God. The backdrop of the God's history from beginning to now and  the ultimate intention of God will be reviewed through this chapter.

What is the intention of God?
The intention of God from the beginning is recovering of human beings which are the creation of God. The beginning of the Bible started with the expulsion of human beings, Adam and Eve the likeness of the God, from the Garden of Eden by losing them to Satan. So the basis of the Bible, also the history of God, is to recover the human beings that God could not help expelling them.

What is the ultimate intention of God?
What would be the purpose of recovering human beings? This book says that God wants to re-build the world that God can rule over as he did last time with Adam and Eve. Then we have a question here. If God has made a plan to reign the world in the future, is God ruling over the world at the moment or God will reign the world in the future? We can see God wants to rule over the world in the future.

Has God achieved his ultimate objects?
If God has accomplished his goal at early times, God did not need any prophets. If God already has done his all objects with prophets before Jesus Christ came the earth, Jesus did not need to be sacrificed. Furthermore if God has achieved his all ultimate objects by sacrificing Jesus Christ, does God need any further works after the death of Jesus Christ or not? God may need any further works, however if God said to Johannine that God will conduct his works with two witnesses as recorded in Revelation 11:3~4, we can see that God still need to conduct some works after the sacrificing of Jesus Christ.

"And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth. They are  the two olive trees and the two lampstands, and they stand before the Lord of the earth.” (Revelation 11:3~4) 

Heaven can be created when completing God's ultimate objects
The heaven is the new world which will be permanently ruled by God. If there is no world reigned by God, there is no heaven. God has mentioned in the bible, revelation 21:1, that he will create the new world, and the bible is the procedure of creating the new world. 

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,and there was no longer any sea."

Eden holy church: http://www.edenholychurch.or.kr/ed/eden/