[Shinchonji (SCJ) Open Bible] This Present Life and the Afterlife

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[Shinchonji (SCJ) Open Bible]
This Present Life and the Afterlife

Our present life is the physical life we are living here on Earth,
and the afterlife refers to people’s spiritual lives in the spiritual world
after they die.
At the time of Revelation’s fulfillment, however,
the spiritual world descends upon and unites with the physical world (Rev 21).
When people die they go to the spiritual world.
The spiritual world, however, is divided into two parts: heaven and hell.
Heaven is the world of God, the source of all creation (Ez 1, 10; Rev 4).
Hell is the world of the spirits who sinned against God
(Isa 14:12-15; Ez 28; 2Pt 2:4).
 

 

Although the spirits of people who have died leave their physical bodies,
these spirits are not immediately judged and forced to enter
either heaven or hell.
The spirits of people who have died simply await their final judgment
in a place that is neither heaven nor hell;
they wait in spiritual prison—the place mentioned in 1Pt 3:19-20.
Those who are physically alive, on the other hand, are judged
when their generation comes to an end.
This judgment is handed down by the true pastor of the new generation
because he has united with the spirit of God (Jn 5:22-30; Rev 2:26-27).
Those who have physically died are finally judged
when the period of the millennium is completed (Rev 20).
Every living person (i.e. flesh) has his or her own spirit (i.e. the spirits on earth).
Also, there are spirits in heaven.
In the time of the end, the spirits of people who died and went to heaven
will choose and unite with the spirits of people living on Earth;
heaven (spirits) unites with the earth (flesh).
This is a spiritual marriage (1Th 4:13-17; 1Co 15:35-54; Rev 20:4-6).
In a spiritual marriage, evil spirits choose evil people
and holy spirits choose holy people.
Each flesh becomes a permanent home for a spirit (1Co 3:9; Rev 18 & 19).

After dying, physically dead people do not realize or feel that they are dead.
People who are physically dead cannot communicate with people
who are still physically alive, nor can dead people sense anything.
When a spirit emerges from a physically dead body,
it has the same appearance as the body from which it came.
The world even looks the same to the eyes of the dead person’s spirit.
The spirit is able to feel and think the way he or she used to feel
while physically alive.
This is similar to the way people feel when they are dreaming.
Sometimes people see themselves walking or flying around in their dreams.
Even if people die in their dreams, they can still see things
that are alive moving about in their dreams.
This is what the spirit of a dead body is like.
Most people who are still physically alive have not experienced death,
and so they do not know much about the appearance of their own spirits.
Intriguingly, however, if a spirit that leaves its living body returns to the body
before the body dies, the spirit can still live within that body.
Thus, anyone who has one of these out-of-body experiences
knows the appearance of his or her own spirit.

Without regard to their former positions or authority,
the spirits of people who have lost their physical bodies
will be judged by the holy spirit before the throne of God
when the period of the millennium is completed (Rev 20:12).
The spirits will be judged according to what they had done while they were alive,
just as recorded in the Bible.
Those with righteous acts will be guided to the paradise of heaven.
Those with sin will be thrown into the fiery lake of burning sulfur
where they will suffer eternal punishment (Rev 20:4-6,10; Rev 22:1-5).

Because sins committed mindlessly can usher in eternal suffering,
we must live our lives of faith with careful consideration.
If we are to enter into the presence of the holy God and live with him in heaven,
we must have good and noble hearts filled with the kind of faith
that leads to acts of righteousness.
Only in doing so, we can attain salvation on that day.

Those who curse SCJ (Shinchonji) and our revealed word of truth
by calling us heretics are themselves sinners who spread heretical lies.
SCJ is God’s kingdom, and the congregation members of SCJ are
God’s priests and the people of heaven (Rev 7; Rev 14).
Those who listen to our testimony
understand and believe in the promises of the New Testament.
Without receiving the revelation of Jesus Christ (Rev 1:1-3),
it is impossible to know God, Jesus, the Counselor,
heaven, God’s kingdom, and God’s priests.

    Source : The correcting understanding of the Bible and of Shinchonji
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