- 1 Kings 5:18 The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram and workers from Byblos cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple.
People live seeing and feeling only things at their levels. Therefore, they live not knowing the things of the next level up. People who don’t believe in God live seeing and feeling only ‘the things of the world.’ They live not knowing and not believing ‘spiritual things.’ It is the people who believe in God who see and feel ‘spiritual things.’ However, they must not end with simply believing. They must believe after learning correctly and knowing correctly. Only then will they live seeing, hearing, feeling, and enjoying ‘the things of God’s level.’
That is why you must raise your level. In order to do that, you must get out of ‘your level, your grade,’ and learn ‘the Word of God’ correctly, hear it, and know it. If you stay only at your own level, you will be only in that level, see only that level things, receive only that level answers, and are unable to get out of that level or enjoy things beyond that level. That is why people have to learn. They must receive education. About God, about the Messiah, about salvation and the rapture, about Heaven, about the spirit – people must receive education about all of them.
Then what is ‘a level?’ I will give you the Word about that. A level is like a ‘rank in the military.’ It is like a ‘grade for public servants.’ And it is ‘like a position rank in a company.’ Your level is determined by your skills. However, not only in this world, but in the spiritual world too, there are also ‘levels,’ that is, ‘ranks.’ Even if it is the spiritual world, it would be disorderly if there are no ‘ranks.’ The spirit gets its rank according to ‘the merits the body has achieved in the world.’ Since the body has accumulated merits by taking action according to God’s Will, the spirit should naturally receive the rank, shouldn’t it? That is why ‘the spirit’s rank’ is just.
Angels also have ‘their own ranks.’ Why? It is because each of them must do their missions. Angels do their missions with ‘ranks that are appropriate for them.’ The same is true for people. People receive spiritual missions and ranks. They are given according to ‘their actions’ and they are given ‘what fits them’ so that they will take action in their individual ways. A person’s spiritual mission and rank is determined according to the results of what each person has done such as their love, faith, deeds, goodness, saving lives, and others. In the physical world people use their ‘ranks’ to control, command, and reign. In the spiritual world rather than using their ‘ranks’ to control and command, people take action on their own according to their ranks.
How can you discern your rank in the spiritual world? You have to see your spirit. Then you can know. Why? It is because your rank in the spiritual world is carried around by ‘your spiritual entity.’ Spirits move around wearing [their ranks] as clothes, wrapped in the light, or possess them as beauty and move around giving off its beauty. In the spiritual world, if you look at how beautiful a spirit is, how radiant a spirit is, and what kinds of clothes a spirit wears, you can immediately tell what level that spirit is. Things of this world have ‘grades.’ And in the spiritual world there are also ‘grades.’
Even though you may not have seized ‘power and authority’ in this world, I hope that you will gain ‘authority’ in the eternal world by working diligently and running hard.
Both life and spirits have ‘levels and grades.’ In order to do that, you must raise ‘the level of your body’s thoughts and actions.’ If you raise the level of your body’s thoughts and actions, you will raise your spirit’s level. In the military, a platoon leader manages and controls 30 people. A company commander manages and controls 100 people. A battalion commander manages and controls 450~600 people. In this way, ‘one level’ makes a huge difference. The same is true in the world of faith. Even if you are just one level higher, it makes a tremendous difference. One level can be raised if you do ‘just a little more.’
Only someone who has raised his level by setting conditions will gain and enjoy. Consider this world’s buildings or electronic goods. Because people raise their levels so much, develop them, and improve them, they made ideal worlds in various areas and are living their lives comfortably enjoying their lives. Someone who has raised his level knows very well what the lower level is like because he has already lived ‘in the lower level.’ Therefore, no matter how much people at the lower level speak boisterously and boast about the things they have, [the person at the higher level] would think that it was nothing special and would refuse even if they were offered for free.
If you don’t know, you cannot raise your level. Therefore, you have to learn. And you have to teach and help. If you don’t raise your level, then in that world, ‘there is nothing more ideal.’ However, there are times and opportunities for raising your level. When raising trees too, there is ‘a time to raise the level.’ You have to give fertilizer at the peak of their growth. Then the tree will grow one level higher. Once that time passes, even if you give fertilizer, it will be only about 20% as effective. You have to do it at the right time. The same is true with lives. There is ‘a time to raise their level.’ People have to raise their levels while they are growing at their peak.
Once they get older, they cannot raise their levels because it is hard. They have to raise their levels before it is too late. If they do it late, even if they have raised the levels, they don’t have time to use it that much and enjoy it that much. It is to do it fast. It is to raise the level quickly. Only then will you have lots of ‘time to use and enjoy.’ If you do it like you are hurrying and running while being pressed for time, in that time you will capably do even impossible things. When you are faced with limitations, when you are unable to solve impossible problems, you must raise your level. If you raise your level, you will get out of your limitations and you will solve impossible problems. Since certain things were impossible to do by walking, people raised the level and made bicycles, made cars, made airplanes, and by doing that, they solved ‘impossible problems.’ It is [to progress from] bicycles – cars – airplanes. Even though the level rose to just ‘one higher level,’ there is a tremendous difference. Therefore, you must hurry up and climb up. You must raise your level.
How will you raise the level? It is to raise it while taking action. Even when you try to increase the speed of your car also, you cannot do that just with the heart. You must actually step on the accelerator and speed up. It is the same with faith. You must take action. It is to raise your level while taking action. At the Olympics too, you are awarded ‘gold, silver, and bronze medals’ in each category according to what you competed in and how you did. You receive medals according to the level at which you took action.
When raising your level, you must raise your level while taking action one by one and equipping yourself. If you don’t equip yourself, you cannot handle it even if the level’ is raised. That is why you raise your level while taking action on things one by one and equipping yourself. Is buying a big car all you need to do? You have to have ‘the ability to operate it.’ If you only buy a big car but cannot operate it, you will ultimately be unable to ride it because you are unable to put in gas or pay taxes. Therefore, if you are going to buy a car, you have to equip yourself with ‘the power to operate the car.’ Everything you do in life is like that. In today’s main scriptures too, it said that they were equipped with ‘stones and wood’ in order to build the temple. The same is true with the world of faith. You raise your ‘level’ while equipping yourself with each item one by one.