[World Mission Society Church of God]What the Heresy is.

The only standard to determine heresy is the Bible.

World Mission Society Church of God is true church which follows teachings of the Bible.

Many people have a misunderstanding of what the heresy is nowadays. Once they find a man practicing doctrines different from their own, they likely think he belongs to a heresy. We are not supposed to judge others by our own thoughts, social standards, or popular opinions. We must understand what heresy is through the Bible.

2Pe. 2:1~3 『But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who brought them-bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.』

The main characteristics of heresy are as follows;

1. It results in destruction.

2. It brings the way of truth into disrepute.

3. It follows man-made teachings, not the teachings of the Bible.

4. It opposes God through the teachings of false prophets.

5. It never leads to salvation.

 

What does the Bible say about heresy? It does not follow teachings of the Bible, but man-made teachings instead.   

1. Heresy does not keep the Sabbath in the Bible.

The Biblical Sabbath is Saturday. Every church must worship God on Saturday, not on Sunday. There are some proofs.

• "… The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday" (The Faith of Our Fathers, pp. 72～73).

• "The first day of the week [Sunday] was proclaimed as a day of rest and of worship … In 321 A.D. Constantine …" (The Story of the Christian Church, pp. 60～61).

Jesus also testifies the Sabbath day is His custom in the Bible. Jesus kept the Sabbath day as an example so that we should do as He did.

Lk. 4:16 『 ... on the Sabbath day he [Jesus] went into the synagogue, as was his custom. ... 』

Jn. 13:15 『I [Jesus] have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.』

2. Heresy does not celebrate the Passover in the Bible.

The Passover is God's truth that gives us the forgiveness of sins and judges all other gods. Those who do not keep it will be cut off from God's people on the last day.

Mt. 26:17~28 『 ... This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.』

Jn. 6:54 『Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.』

Ex. 12:11~13 『 ... it is the LORD’s Passover. “On the same night … I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. ... when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.』

Nu. 9:13 『But if a man fails who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people ... 』

3. Heresy keeps Christmas [Dec. 25th] as Jesus' birthday.

Most contemporary Christians keep Christmas [Dec. 25th] as Jesus' birthday. In fact, Christmas is one of many pagan festivals not in the Bible.

• "The Christian church took over many pagan ideas and images. From sun-worship, for example, came the celebration of Christ's birth on the twenty-fifth of December, the birthday of the Sun” (A LION HANDBOOK / THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY, p. 141).

• "December 25―this was the date of a pagan festival in Rome, chosen in A.D. 274 by the emperor Aurelian as the birthday of the unconquered sun (natalis solis invicti), which at the winter solstice begins again to show an increase of light" (ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, p. 704).

4. Heresy reveres a cross, an idol, from pagan Rome.

Cross is a type of execution tool used for crucifying brutal criminals, and is not the symbol of Jesus Christ.  

The standard of heresy is the Bible only. However most of Christians don't follow it. 2,000 years ago, Jesus and His Church of God were wrongfully accused as a Nazarene sect, one of the heresies (Ac. 24:5). However, most people acknowledge Jesus as their Christ. Likewise, the whole world will acknowledge Christ Ahnsahnghong and the Church of God in the end. Come to the Church of God and receive salvation.

About Heresy

Today many people have a misunderstanding of what heresy is. Once they find a man practicing doctrines different from their own, they likely think he belongs to a heresy. We are not supposed to judge others by our own thoughts, social standards, or popular opinions. We must understand what heresy is through the Bible.
2 Pe 2:1-3 They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them.
The main characteristics of heresy are as follows;
1. It results in destruction.
2. It brings the way of truth into disrepute.
3. It follows man-made teachings, not the teachings of the Bible.
4. It opposes God through the teachings of false prophets.
5. It never leads to salvation.

What does the Bible say about heresy? It does not follow teachings of the Bible, but man-made teachings instead.
1. Heresy does not keep the Sabbath in the Bible.
The Biblical Sabbath is Saturday. Every church must worship God on Saturday, not on Sunday. Let me give you some proof.
• "… The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday" (The Faith of Our Fathers, pp. 72～73).
• "The first day of the week [Sunday] was proclaimed as a day of rest and of worship … In 321 A.D. Constantine …" (The Story of the Christian Church, pp. 60～61).
Jesus also testifies the Sabbath day is His custom in the Bible. Jesus kept the Sabbath day as an example so that we should do as He did.
Lk 4:16 On the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom
Jn 13:15 I [Jesus] have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.
2. Heresy does not celebrate the Passover in the Bible. The Passover is God's truth that gives us the forgiveness of sins and judges all other gods. Those who do not keep it will be cut off from God's people on the last day.
Mt 26:17-28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Jn 6:53 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.
Ex 12:11-12 On the same night … I will bring judgement on all the gods of Egypt.
Nu 9:13 If a man fails who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people.
3. Most contemporary Christians keep Christmas [Dec. 25th] as Jesus' birthday. In fact, Christmas is one of many pagan festivals not in the Bible.
• "The Christian church took over many pagan ideas and images. From sun-worship, for example, came the celebration of Christ's birth on the twenty-fifth of December, the birthday of the Sun” (A LION HANDBOOK / THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY, p. 141).
• "December 25―this was the date of a pagan festival in Rome, chosen in A.D. 274 by the emperor Aurelian as the birthday of the unconquered sun (natalis solis invicti), which at the winter solstice begins again to show an increase of light" (ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, p. 704).
4. Heresy reveres a cross, an idol, from pagan Rome. It is a type of execution tool used for crucifying brutal criminals, and is not the symbol of Jesus Christ.

2,000 years ago, Jesus and His Church of God were wrongfully accused as a Nazarene sect, one of the heresies (Ac 24:5). However, most people acknowledge Jesus as their Christ. Likewise, the whole world will acknowledge Christ Ahnsahnghong and the Church of God in the end. Come to the Church of God and receive salvation. God bless you.

About Food

Some claim that we should abstain from certain foods. Today we will study through the Bible God's correct teaching about food.
Rev 22:18 If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
We must not add anything to the words of the Bible or subtract anything from them. We must follow the Bible's teaching as it says.

Now let's study about the food which God has allowed us to eat in each age. First of all, what did God allow Adam and Eve to eat in the Garden of Eden?
Ge 1:29 I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Let's find out what God told His people to eat in the time of Noah.
Ge 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you.
What did God command His people to eat in the time of Moses?
Lev 11:1 Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat.
How about the time of the Early Church? Let's find out.
Ac 15:28 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.
God allowed specific food for His people to eat in each age. They obeyed God's teaching without adding or taking away from His Word. In the last days, we should also keep God's teaching, not our own ideas or teachings from the churches.
1 Ti 4:1 In later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons … They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods.
The doctrines of some churches keep people from marrying and from eating certain food. The Bible says that they are taught by demons. Their consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. We must follow God's teaching in the Bible.

In these last days, some people have appeared to teach such false doctrines as prophesied in the Bible. Who preaches such deceiving doctrines? It is S.D.A., the Seventh-day Adventists. They insist only vegetarians can be saved. The Roman Catholic Church forbids their clergy to marry. They are all led by demons. They do not follow God's teaching in the Bible.
We must be careful not to follow man's teaching but God's teaching for our salvation. God bless you.

Apart From Me You Can Do Nothing

Today we will share God's grace by studying "Apart from me, you can do nothing". We are most likely to leave God when we don't delight in the life of faith. We can do nothing apart from God just as a fish can not survive once it leaves water.

Let's find out through the Bible what will happen to those leaving God.
Jn 15:5 Apart from me you can do nothing.
2 Pe 2:20-22 A dog returns to its vomit … A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.
Once we believe in God, He washes away our sins. We will defile ourselves with this sinful world when we leave God and go back to where we were. We are nothing apart from God.
Now let's study about what kind of faith we must have in God.
Mt 10:21 But he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Rev 14:12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
Whatever happens and whatever challenges our faith, we must have patient endurance and stand firm to the end for our salvation.
What types of people lost their faith and left God in the time of Early Church?
Mt 13:3 Listen then to what the parable of the sower means.
The first type is like the seed fallen along the path. He hears God's message about the kingdom and does not understand it.
The second one is like the seed fallen on rocky places. He hears the word and at once receives with joy. Since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away from God.
The third one is like the seed fallen among the thorns. He hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. These are the three types that leave God.
Some people left God in the time of Early Church. Why did they leave God and go back to the sinful world? Let's find out.
Gal 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel.
2 Pe 2:1-3 They will secretly introduce destructive heresies … these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up.
2 Ti 4:9 For Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me.
In the time of Early Church, people left God to follow a different gospel, destructive heresies, and their love of this sinful world. We must be careful not to fall into this temptation and stand firm to the end.

We can do nothing when we leave God. We have to remain in God until the last day.
Do you understand how to remain in God always? Through the Passover you can participate in His blood (Jn 6:56) and become one with God. He will be in you and you will be in Him forever. Come to the Church of God and receive God's glory of the Passover. God bless you.

Commands of God and Rules of Men

Today we will share God's grace, studying 'Commands of God and Rules of Men'. God sends the prophets to His people who proclaim to them God's commands. God's people must obey them to be saved.
Jer 7:25 Day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.

At the last day God will punish those who do not keep His law.
Mt 7:21-23 Away from me, you who practice lawlessness (NKJV)
cf.) Lawlessness means 'not to observe God's law.'
What will happen to those who practice lawlessness on the last day? Jesus clearly shows us how their lives will end on the last day.
Mt 13:41 They will throw them into the fiery furnace.
They will be thrown into the fiery furnace. Jesus shows us again through the parable of 'the rich man and Lazarus.'
Lk 16:19-29 They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.
The rich man didn't listen to Moses and the prophets during his lifetime. He didn't obey God's commandments, and he was thrown into the fire of Hell after his death. Lazarus, a beggar, went to heaven by keeping God's commandments.
What does God want us to learn from the prophets then? God wants His people to learn and keep God's commandments for salvation.
Eze 18:21 If a wicked man turns away from all the sins he has committed and keeps all my decrees [commands] … he will surely live.
Eze 20:24 Because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths … I also gave them over to statues that were not good and laws they could not live by.
God gave them over to Sunday worship, a rule of men, because people disobeyed the Sabbath, God's commandment. People were handed over to Christmas because they chose to ignore God's Passover.
People obey the rules of men, leading them only to worship God in vain.
Mt 15:7-8 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.
Isa 29:13 Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.
We must serve God through His commands.
1 Jn 2:3 We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.
We know God when we obey God's commands. People are only liars when they say they know God without keeping His commands.
The people who don't keep God's commands will never escape the disasters from God. Only those who obey God's commandments will be saved on the last day.
Jer 6:19 I am bringing disaster on this people … because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.

The bottom line is that men's rules like Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Harvest Feasts, and Sunday have no root in the words of God. None of them were established by Christ, nor can we find them in the Bible.
If we keep men's rules, we cannot be saved. No matter how faithfully we may serve God by practicing them, we will never be saved. Let's obey God's commands and receive salvation. God bless you.

Moses and Jesus (the Meaning of the Cross)

According to the Bible, Moses is a prophetical figure for Jesus. What happened in the time of Moses is a shadow of things to occur in the time of Jesus and in these last days. Today we will study the meaning of the cross through the work of Moses and that of Jesus.

Dt 18:17-18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers.
God said that He would raise up a prophet like Moses. This prophecy was fulfilled by Jesus Christ.
Ac 3:22-24 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; … all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have foretold these days.
Ex 17:8-11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning.
When Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were delivered by God. Let's find out how this prophecy was accomplished.
Jn 12:32 I, When I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.
When Jesus was lifted up from the earth, people were saved. We can see that Moses represents Jesus.
The idolatry of Israelites in the time of Moses is a copy of idolatry of the spiritual Israelites in the time of Jesus. Just as the natural Israelites worshipped a bronze snake, so the spiritual Israelites worship the cross today.
Nu 21:8 Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.
How were the Israelites saved when they spoke against God and were bitten to death by snakes? Was it because of a bronze snake or God's mighty word? What would have happened to those who looked at the bronze snake with no words from God? Do you think they could have been saved? (No) However, the Israelites, ignorant of God's word, had worshipped the bronze snake from then to king Hezekiah.
2 Ki 18:4-6 He [King Hezekiah] broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it … he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses.
The Israelites had worshipped the bronze snake for about 1,000 years as a holy symbol of God's salvation. Actually what was it before God? (idol)
In the same way many contemporary Christians, ignorant of God's word, worship the cross. It is another kind of idol like the bronze snake.
Jn 3:14-15 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
People could be saved only when they believe firmly in Jesus, not a cross. The Cross is a kind of execution tool used for crucifying Jesus. It is Jesus' precious blood that can save us, not a cross itself. Let's find out.
Jn 19:34 One of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.
1 Pe 1:18-19 You were redeemed … with the precious blood of Christ.

As the Israelites were saved by the almighty word of God, not by the bronze snake, we are redeemed with Jesus' precious blood, not the cross.
The Bible says if a man carves an image and sets it up in secret, he will be cursed. We must not worship the cross, because it's a wooden idol (Jer 10:1-; Dt 27:15). God bless you.

Cross-Reverence Is Idolatry

Today we will study that a cross is a wooden idol. It is nothing but idolatry before God to worship or wear the cross.
Ex 20:4-5 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them.
Today many people think the cross is only a symbol of the Crucifixion, not an idol. However, we have to judge everything by God's words, not our thoughts. God wants His people not to make idols of any kind and not to worship them. Let's find out through the Bible if it's okay before God to believe the cross as a symbol of Jesus' sacrifice.

Lev 26:1 Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it.
God doesn't want us to make any idols to worship. Now let's find out what the cross is in the sight of God.
Jer 10:2-10 Do not learn the ways of the nations … Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; … they are taught by worthless wooden idols.
What can you learn from this verse? The cross is one of the wooden idols from the nations worshipping other gods. It is only a worthless idol. What is going to happen to those who dare to make and bow down to it? Let's find out.
Dt 27:15 Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol―a thing detestable to the LORD.
The cross is a detestable idol before God. Those who make and worship the cross will be cursed.
Jer 2:27 They say to wood, 'You are my father,' and to stone, 'You gave me birth.' They have turned their backs to me and not their faces.
As the Bible goes, some people call their Father before a wooden idol, a cross; others say "You gave me birth" before a stone idol, the Virgin Mary. What's going to happen to these churches that revere the cross? Do you think they can be saved?
In the time of Moses, the Israelites worshipped the bronze snake in the desert. It is a copy and shadow of the things to happen in the time of the New Testament. Just as the Israelites revered the bronze snake, so today people worship the cross as a symbol of Christ Jesus.
Nu 21:4-9 Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.
How were the Israelites saved when they spoke against God and were bitten to death by snakes? Was it because of a bronze snake or God's mighty word? What would have happened to those who looked at the bronze snake with no words from God? Do you think they could have been saved? (No) However, the Israelites, ignorant of God's word, had worshipped the bronze snake from then to King Hezekiah.
2 Ki 18:3-6 He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. … he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses.
The Israelites had worshipped the bronze snake for about 1,000 years as a holy symbol of God's salvation. Actually what was it before God? (idol)
In the same way many contemporary Christians, ignorant of God's word, worship the cross. It is another kind of idol like the bronze snake.
Jn 3:14-15 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
People can be saved only when they have firm belief in Jesus, not a cross. If the Israelites had used a hammer, would you worship or wear a hammer? They used a cross to kill your spiritual Father. How then can you worship it? The cross is a kind of execution tool used for crucifying Jesus. It is a symbol of murder, not love from Jesus. It is nothing but idolatry when someone puts great holy value on it and worships it.

The cross is an idol. Whoever erects or worships it will be cursed. God bless you.