- Isaiah 45:11-12 âThis is what the LORD says — the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.
My predawn prayer time is 1 a.m. The Holy Spirit always comes and wakes me up. On the day I was writing this message, I woke up early before the Holy Spirit woke me up, got ready, and prayed.
And I asked the Holy Spirit, âHow far have you come? Are you close?â The Holy Spiritâs answer was as follows: âThoughts are the distance.â I thought about it: âThoughts are the distance? What does this mean?â Then I was inspired and realized [its meaning]. Upon realizing its meaning, I knew that âthe distanceâ in the sentence was referring to the distance between people and God-the Holy Spirit-the Holy Son.
People calculate distance by 50m, 100m, 200m, and 500m, right? People use those units to calculate how close or how far something is. On the other hand, God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son do not calculate âdistanceâ in that way. They measure the distance of how close or how far [someone] is by what/how [that person] thinks. It is âa world where the thoughts are actualized.â If your thoughts and heart communicate well with God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son and your thoughts and heart are united with Them, then you are in a state where you are not far from the Trinity. On the other hand, if your thoughts and heart donât communicate well with [the Trinity] and are not united with Them, then you are in a state of being far from Them which is 100 ree (25 miles), 1000 ree (250 miles) or 100 million ree (25 million miles) away.
If you want to be in sync with and be united with God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son in your thoughts and heart, you must live your life everyday not forgetting the Trinity, loving Them, thinking of Them, and always communicating with Them. And with sins you committed-whether they are big or small, you have to make yourself clean by repenting [for your sins] every day. Just as you make your body clean by washing it every day, each of you has to live without forgetting to ârepentâ every day. A person who does not repent is like a person who lives eating and wearing clothes while in a state of being unwashed, drenched in sweat, and covered with dirt. Then you are at a great disadvantage for fighting against Satan and winning. Satan has no power in the presence of âsomething that is clean.â Therefore, you must pray every day for your own sins, other peopleâs sins, the nationâs sins, and the worldâs sins. If you want to get rid of sin, it is âonly repentance.â
God set the laws. He gave human beings âfreewillâ and let them live freely. However, He set the law of each person being repaid according to their deeds. So if they do good, He repays them with âgoodnessâ but if they commit sins, He makes them pay âthe price for their sins.â
However, if they repent, He lets them go through the appropriate penance and let it end there. Why does [God] let people go through âpenanceâ when they repent? That period of time is like âa treatment period.â If you get injured in an accident, you cannot live a normal daily life right away, right? You have to go through a treatment period. In this way, if you repent after sinning, [God] lets you go through âa period of penanceâ for a certain period of time, and then lets you come back to the original state afterwards. Just as you wash your body even if no one tells you to, just as you throw away trash even if no one tells you to, just as you wash your dishes after eating even if no one tells you to, even if no one talks to you about your âsin,â you have to make sure to ârepentâ every day.
*I will continue on to the next message. There are things you can never do with your power alone and there are certain things that cannot be done with money even if you have ten billion or a hundred billion won (a billion or ten billion USD). If someone did that for you, then you should thank them for your entire lifetime, shouldnât you? Would it be right for you to not be thankful? If something you could never do in your lifetime with your strength alone was done for you and something you could never do even if you had ten billion won (ten million USD) was done for you, should you end after just giving lip service, which is worth less than a million won (1000 USD) in terms of money? Some people donât even âsay thank you.â I was thinking about these things and confessed [to God] saying, âUntil I die I will not forget âthe things God gave [us],â I will give thanks, make them my joy, and live talking about them.â And I conversed with God about the things God gave [us].
At that moment God said: âBoth the Creator and you give them things. But they fail to enjoy them even after receiving them. That is why there is no joy in their heart and no love that results from that. This happens because their thoughts are small and low level. When they grow and mature, some of them will realize about the things they received, enjoy them, rejoice, and will love Me, Jehovah. Therefore, teach them. Their thoughts and intelligence have to grow spiritually.
It would be different if even just their bodies and their spiritsâ thoughts become united. However, because they live on the side of the body, they donât know, are not thankful, donât rejoice, are unable to enjoy it and are unable to love Me.â
At that moment I felt a desire to converse with God all day long. However, since God has to go meet other people on the earth I [told Him] that I was conscious about that. God takes care of all the 7.3 billion people in the world on the earth. So if He gave just one minute to each person, when it is calculated in terms of the worldâs time, that will be about 13,888 years. I told [Him] that I feel conscious about meeting with God for a long time by myself all day long for that reason. At that moment God made âthe image of the earthâ come to mind and said the following: âThe rivers of each nation flow toward the sea. Yet, even if the rivers of neighboring nations flow into their ocean, it does not affect them at all, right? So it doesnât matter even if it is all day long or even for an entire lifetime. In this way, it does not matter at all even if you alone converse with me all day long or even converse with Me for your entire lifetime. There is only one sun. But even if 7.3 billion people in the world on earth use it all day long, it has no adverse effect on the sun whatsoever. I, Jehovah, am like âthe sunâ and therefore, even if each person takes me as their bridegroom and lives conversing with Me one-on-one all day long, it has no adverse effect at all.â
Lastly, I will briefly share with you the things I asked God about and the answers I received from God during my conversations with Him that day, and then finish the message.
I said, âAs people live their lives, there are times when their hearts feel empty and meaningless, and live having lost the taste for life. Of course the answer is different for each person. However, what is the fundamental reason people are like that?â I asked. God gave a one-statement answer regarding all the various problems. âThey are like that because they live with thoughts and bodies being separated. If only the body takes action, it will feel empty even if you take action. It is like this â when a married couple is living together and the woman takes action by herself,
it is miserable and feels empty for both the woman and the man. On a larger scale, âthe spiritâ is Heaven which is, the Trinity, in other words, I, Jehovah, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son; âthe bodyâ is the earth, in other words you, the lives. You have to take action being united. Then there is no sense of emptiness, meaninglessness, or feeling disheartened.â
*If people hear the Word only one time, end there, and forget it all, there are no blessings that come to such people and they will not know it even if blessings come. You have to value the Word as if it is God, and take action on it. Since God has spoken, God will watch to see who is going to value the Word and take action on it. And [He] will be with âthose who take actionâ and lead the time period while making miraculous signs with them. I bid you the Lordâs peace.