Elijah 1

Good morning. Yesterday when I woke up early in the morning, there are many people who woke up even before the bell rang who were talking and it was quite noisy. When it’s hot, it’s hard to sleep early and you tend to wake up earlier in the morning as well. But as for us, as we have been holding hundred seminars, it never matter to us whether it was hot or whether it was monsoon season, or whether the snow is supposed to fall because our Real Daddy always took control the weather and He will make the nights cool for us. Please do not sleep late. And there are so many people outside talking, even past 10 at night. But the specialty of the people who are to live in heaven, in the eternal land, is that they have very good manners and they are never rude. So for others, please….even if you wake up a little early, if you have something to say to your family or to others, whisper into one another’s ear and be careful as you open and close the doors so it won’t cause too much noise.

And there are some people who go up to the mountains and they pray all night long, especially those who come from Protestant Churches. But we should never bother other people for what we want to do. And if you cause other people to not be able to sleep at night, so they will fall asleep during the day, then God will never praise us for what we have done. So please be careful and if you have something to say, whisper into each other’s ear, be careful as you open and close the doors, so it stays quiet, so that people will not lost sleep.

Please read Malachi chapter 4 verse 5 & 6, [“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD, and he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."] Do you believe that the God of Elijah will bring up Elijah again, before the last days? Then why does God fulfill this Malachi chapter 4 verse 5 & 6? Why does He fulfills this work of Elijah again? Why does He send  Elijah again? First, He sends Elijah in order to give us the latter rain of the Holy Spirit.

Let’s look at 1 King chapter 17 verse 1, [And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew, nor rain these years, except at my word."] Many thousand of years ago, when this whole world was in control by the organization of religion, Ahab who was the head politician and the religious head of the country, one day Elijah went to this leader, the head of the country and said, “In the name of the God whom I serve there shall be no rain, no dew in the future for many years, except at my word. And without any rain your country, the church will all fall into ruins.” Is King Ahab atheist?. No. He knew God. He was the religious leader at that time. And he was controlling all the people with his power. But a certain man who is not even a pastor, or an elder, or a deacon, he goes out in front of the King and says, “In the name of God whom I serve if you will not listen to me and repent, no matter how many years passed, there will not only be rain, but there will be no dew, and the church will fall to ruins.” So Since the God whom I serve is the true God listen to me and repent. And if you don’t, then you will fall to ruins.”

Can you believe a man who is not even a deacon who came from the country side, and goes to the religious leader of the country and says those kinds of words. What if someone comes to you and says, “There’s no salvation except at my words.” How upset you will become? Yet, this Elijah went to that man who is the religious leader of the country and said, “Your God is a false God. The God whom I serve is the true God. So you must listen to the words of my God and repent, because if you don’t, then the country, your religion will fall to ruins.” Would you believe that this truly happened? In these last days God will fulfill this work again.

Ahab was shock. “Who are you? Where did you come? He wanted to ask him, but Elijah just said what he wanted to say and disappeared. This was the first time the King heard such harsh words from anyone. This is the first time he received this kind of shame and disgrace. So the King called his guard. You could imagine as the king of the country, how many security guards must he passed. So he called his guards and said, “Did you see just a while ago a certain man came to me and said such words? Who sent that man in?” “We have never seen anyone like that, not even a dog went by. And all the guards said that and they were not asleep. They were all awake. And of course, it was not even night time. “Then, did you see him leave?” “No. No one ever left.” Jesus said, “Those who are from God, it says the wind blows where it wishes and you heard the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes and where it goes, and so is everyone who is born of the spirit. We cannot see the wind, but as we see the trees fall over, houses fall over, we see that there is wind. But we do not know where the wind comes, and where it’s going. In the same way, those who are of God are the same.

In every time and age of earth’s history, no one ever knew where this man of God came from and where he went. But this King Ahab, he was so filled with fear. Though he thought that his religion was the true religion, and there were many leaders under him, a certain man all of a sudden came up to him and said that your God is the false God, and you must return to the true God, my God, or else you will be destroyed. And this is the first time that he had ever heard anything like that and he was filled with fear. So he called altogether all those other religious leaders under him, who is considered very spiritual and he brought them all together, and he told them what Elijah said. “You know, this man Elijah said these words to me. What do you think? I don’t know who he is.” And so these religious leaders said, “Oh, King, don’t worry. He’s a heretic. He’s a fanatic. He’s out of his mind. Don’t worry, if we pray God will bring down rain. So don’t worry.” And yet for some reason, King Ahab could not trust those words. And only the words of that man from the country side, who the man he did not even know, his words kept on ringing in his heart, and it was as if he could still hear those words fresh. But just as he was someone who disappeared like the wind, he did not know where he went. So he just comforted himself with the words of those religious leaders he had called, and he said, “Then, okay, pray that it will rain.” And he sent them all home. But strange thing happened, though that strange man had come and said that there will be no rain, from that night forth; those words were fulfilled to the latter. In other days, there was dew in the morning, and you can see it. And the flowers and the plants would live off from that dew, but from that night on, there was no dew. There was only dry wind blowing, and the rivers, the creeks and streams began to dry. Spring passed, summer passed, yet there was not even one drop of rain, and there was no dew, and all the fields became dry. They could not even sow seeds and even trees with deep roots, they dried up, and his nation became ruined. Again the next year, and then the next year, for three and half years. King Ahab brought altogether, all those so called man of God, servants of God, and requested them to pray. He had them even pray all night, and fast. And he had them do everything. But God could not answer their prayers and instead only the word of that man whom the rest of the world considered a heretic and a fanatic. Only those words were being fulfilled.

So these religious leaders who always deceived the people, do you know what they said next? “King, our God is very upset and angry. That’s why He is not giving us rain. If we just kill that Elijah, God will give us rain.” And this foolish Ahab who is always deceived believed those words. “Okay. Then let’s kill Elijah.” And so he sent his soldiers out to all the mountains and to the cities to look for Elijah, but they could not find him. How can people find the man which God has hidden? So according to the words of that heretic and fanatic, the nation fell to ruins. And all of a sudden because the nation was in ruins, there were no more tithes for the people to pay. And so, even those religious leaders had run out of money. And all the animals began to die due to the lack of water. And even the king’s animals were dying because of thirst. But there’s no water. And afterwards, this man, this heretic, this fanatic appeared to King Ahab again. He did not repent to the end and instead try to kill the messenger of God.

So, finally it was decided. Okay’ let’s have a confrontation and see who the true God is. And so they gathered on Mt. Carmel. They put up, made an altar, and put sticks and they put a lamb. “The God who brings down fire and takes the sacrifice, burns the sacrifice is the true God.” And so they agreed, and everyone gathered on Mt. Carmel. This was a real battle now. Elijah said, “All of you pray first.” Now all those religious leaders who laid hands on people and healed people, and had those who cannot walk, paralyzed, they had them walked. So Elijah said, “You are much larger in number and you show great miracles, so you go first. I will do afterwards.” And the people, they all gathered there, and they’re watching to see. Of course the mountain was bare, nothing was alive out of the lack of rain for the past three and half- years, and everyone gathered there and everyone can see.

So these religious leaders all converged on that the mountain. And they started to go around in circles and pray, “Oh, God bring down the fire.” If you look in the Bible it says, that they called out to Baal. But that’s only for us to understand. They actually did not pray “Baal, Baal” they prayed in the name of God. If those prophets were praying in the name of Baal, do you think the people of God will be deceived? No. It’s the same with Jesus 2,000 years ago, when there were so many people gathered in Jerusalem, do you think they did not prayed in the name of God? They also prayed in the name of God. And what about in the world these days, do all the churches did not call in the name of God? Yes, they both all call in the name of God. But here, there is the difference between the real and the fake, the true and the false. So beginning from Adam to the last days of this earth, there will always be two Gods, a false god and the true God.

So they started going around and circles around the altar, shaking their bodies, saying, “God bring down the fire.” But there was no fire. Up until lunch time, they scream and shouted until their voices went hoarse, yet nothing happen. The sun is shining so brightly, but their prayers will not end. The people were so tired of watching and nothing was happening and they were sick and tired of waiting. But what did Elijah said? Elijah said, “Maybe your god is sleeping. Maybe he went somewhere, he’s on a trip. You should pray louder, he can’t hear you.” Right now their voices were hoarse from screaming and Elijah instead was telling them, “Pray louder.” They had been screaming all morning long. You can imagine how loud it was with 850 priests screaming. Yet, he was saying, “Oh, you must cry out louder. He’s probably sleeping, or he’s on a trip, he can’t hear you.” They want to kill him but everyone is watching. So they can’t kill him. Later, these religions leaders took out a knife and they started stabbing themselves and shedding blood. And yet, their god did not answer them. It became evening. All day long they prayed. Now they don’t even have the strength to pray out loud any longer. And their body was covered in blood.

Among the 850 prophets of Baal, among them, someone tried to light a match to make a fire. “What are you doing? How dare you put that fire? They try to make a deceit again. In the end, the people were so sick and tired of listening to those prayers. And every time of age, all throughout history, the prayers of the false gods were the same, loud and boisterous. Did Jesus ever jumped up and down and scream and yell? But look at the church in the world, do they not scream, and jumped up and down and yell? All those who worship the demon, always prayed and worshipped in the same way. And whether Elijah or Jesus or the last Elijah, their worship is all the same. It is quiet and solemn. Here, we can already see the difference between the true God and the false god.

The sun went down and still they wouldn’t give up their place. And after the sun went down, they gave up. It showed now their true state and colors. Though they had laid their hands on people, and supposedly made blind people see, and the paralyzed walk. On this day, in fighting with Elijah, everything that they had done up to now was shown to be a lie. Before they had appeared Elijah, all the people thought that those religious leaders were true. But in front of Elijah, their falseness was revealed. God completely shown those blind people the falseness of the religious leaders.

And now, Elijah took his place, he walked out. And he was very well-known to be very evil, heretic. Through all their organizations and powers they told everyone that Elijah was very evil. He was wicked, he stole, and said so many bad things. And they said that it’s because of that evil Elijah that our country had become like this. Every week they spoke about Elijah. That’s why even the people, whenever they just hear the name Elijah, they are filled with anger and they are upset.

Now finally, Elijah was showing himself. Everybody wondered what an evil man he was. But as they saw him, they realized how simple he looked and how kind he looked. You know, when our pastor talked about Elijah, he seemed to be such a wicked looking man, but instead, he looks so kind. He has no sword, he has no friend, he stands there alone. Such a kind looking man, how could he stand, how could he walked on this path alone? There was no one else with him. And they wondered, “O let’s see how he screams and jumps.” Instead, he just kneels and prays, [“Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that you are the true God in Israel, and I am your servant, that I’m the true servant. Hear me O, Lord, hear me and answer.” It’s a very simple prayer. And right after he finished that prayer, without a delay of a second the fire came down from heaven. Do you believe that this is not just a story but that something that really happened? This really happened. And at that time the sun had already gone down. So not only Mt. Carmel but the whole area could see the fire falling. Even people who did not go up to Mt. Carmel could see right away that the fire was falling from heaven. And so the altar and the offering burnt. But not only the calf was burned but the rocks and everything, the whole altar was burnt and consumed and disappeared. Did God not give a sure answer?

At that time, even when all the false religious leaders had spread false rumors, with that one answer all the people’s eyes were opened and they were able to see who the God of Elijah was. And they realized that the God of Elijah was the true God, and that Elijah was the true son of God. And they all went to Elijah and they hit the ground, and said, “Yes, He is our Lord, He is the true God. God, up to now, we fought against you. We were deceived by those false religious leaders. All we did was want to kill your servants. Please forgive us.” And they all repented and they all returned to the God of Elijah. You know, the false religions in the world, you can’t tell it’s false unless you come to the God of Elijah. But once you return to the God of Elijah, once they return they were able to see the difference between the true and the false, the real and the fake.

So three years ago, he said, “Unless you forsake your false God and returned to me, return and repent. If you repent you will be given all the blessings and eternal life.” And so since they return, the rain started to fall because of that one prayer of a righteous. If it was not for that one man, even Israel today would not have been able to remain up to this day. You must remember that the prayer of one righteous man can save a nation.

And when the Son of Man comes again in these last days, he said that it will be like in the days of Noah. And when Jesus said those words, He meant that this whole world will be possessed by false religions. And this was not spoken by Peter, but by Jesus Himself. Then, how can one receive the latter rain of the Holy Spirit? Just as I said and told you yesterday, everything that God will fulfill is already prophesied in the Bible. Right now, the whole world does everything to receive the Holy Spirit, to see the second movement, the Pentecostal movement. But the Holy Spirit does not come to those who jump-up-and-down and scream and yell. It’s written in the Bible that the Holy Spirit… where and when and by how. It’s already promised how we can receive the Holy Spirit. The Bible is very précised.

Let’s read Malachi chapter 3 verse 1, [“Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming," Says the LORD of hosts.] Whenever God has something important to proclaim, He put His name in their. He’s saying this will happen for sure. [Behold, I will send My messenger], which God is saying this? Do you believe that it is the God Elijah? Do you believe that this is the true God? [Behold, I send My messenger.] Who is the messenger? Elijah. Behold I send Elijah. And he will prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek.]

So before Jesus comes, He will send Elijah and those who listen to Elijah and rejects the false spirits, and return to Elijah, [and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple.] Which of the Lord have you sought up to now? Jesus said, “I am the Helper, but the Father will sent you another Helper. Wait for Him.” Then that Lord, that third God when will He appear? [Behold, I will send My messenger.] When Elijah comes, those who listen to the words of Elijah will return and repent, in that very plaza? That very temple, He will suddenly come to His temple. How exact this is. The time and the place, is it not written here?

No matter how many times people gather in Youido plaza, there’s no Holy Spirit there. It says that [the Holy Spirit will suddenly come to His temple. Even the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight.] Just as the second God promised, the third God, the Holy Spirit comes down to those who listen to the voice of Elijah and return. And just as the former rain of the Holy Spirit came down in the time of the Pentecost in the attic room, the latter rain of the Holy Spirit will also fall to His temple. There’s no need for us to wander with the Bible here. Everything is so precise, even the fact that Jesus garments will be torn and they will gamble for it. And even none of His bones will be broken. All of that is so precise written in the Bible. So, will you believe then what happen in the time of Elijah, will also happen in these last days? It’s the same thing that will happen. Only those who hear the Words, the voice of the one whom God has sent, those who listen to those words will receive the Holy Spirit.

Even though Jesus did not graduate from even the elementary school, those who listened to Jesus and returned to Him, and He gathered in the attic room, received the Holy Spirit. It’s very easy. It’s written that history repeats itself. It’s also written somewhere, people say that, “Those who cannot understand the past are those who are like animals wearing clothes.” In other words, those who cannot understand the past, cannot understand the present and the future. So, because history repeats itself, if you want to know what the present is like, you must study the past and learn from it.

So why did God send Elijah? Not only just to scold and to rebuke, but in order for the people to receive the Holy Spirit, so that they can be prepared and ascend to heaven. Secondly, why does God send Elijah? To prepare the way of the King. Malachi chapter 3 verse 1. ["Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me.] The God of Elijah says, [Behold, I send My messenger to all of you. And He will prepare what? He will prepare the way before me. What way? The way for the second advent of Jesus.

When I was living in Cheonla Province, I was setting up a new church, pioneering a new church. I was very, very busy farming. But one time, out of the speakers, the PS system, they told everyone to bring shovels and come out to the road, and so, we all gathered. The reason why they gathered us was to fix up the road, because the governor of the province is going by. If President Park Jong Hee, who was the president at that time, if he had gone by then, they probably would have made an asphalt road. Even when a president or king goes by, we have people who prepare the way, we had police and security who go first, isn’t that so?

Even America like the President, supposedly he has a thousand security and police. And of course, there’re many more than that. But those are his personal body guards and security. So even if a president or king of this country on this earth goes by, there’s police, security. Then, if the God of heaven comes down to this earth, should there not be any one who prepare the way for Him? Of course, there should be. And so Jesus when He came down to this earth 2,000 years ago, even when He first came, there was someone who prepare the way for Him. And who was that? That was John the Baptist. He was the second Elijah.

But even at that time, religion which had controlled of the whole world, when John the Baptist came, did they acknowledge him? Instead they killed him. But it’s written that history will repeat itself. And in these last days, a certain man will come out, someone who did not receive the education of this world, He did not learn from the theological school of this world, God of Elijah will use Him to be a messenger. At that time, the rest of the religions of this world will arise to get rid of Him.

So when the God of heaven came down 2,000 years ago, there was a second Elijah. And do you believe that Jesus will come again? Yes. Then, there will also be another messenger who will prepare His way. Who is that? [Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.] Now, do you know who it is? Before Jesus comes, Elijah will appear again and prepare the way for Jesus’ second coming. I hope that you will become the Elijahs for your church. Unless these precise events happen, Jesus can not come. That’s why those who say that Jesus will come on October, they are truly crazy. They are truly crazy, they are fanatics. After Elijah prepares the way then Jesus will come. They called John the Baptist a fanatic and they killed him. but six months later they disappeared. Then where will he prepare the way? Let’s look at Isaiah 40:3-5[] where did Elijah prepare the way? Will he prepare in America or in Korea? Let’s read here Isaiah 40:3-5 [the voice of the one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, makes straight the way of the desert ] so where will he prepare the way? In the wilderness and in the desert Elijah will prepare the way. Then did God send Elijah and go to Elijah and say, “Go to that wilderness where no one lives and prepare the way. And go to that desert, that *** desert and call a construction company to pave the road and Jesus will come down on helicopter.” Do you think He will command like that? A certain theological seminary professor said, “Ah, this wilderness and desert means that we will go to the countryside and preach there.” But that’s not so at all. This wilderness and desert spoken of here is not speaking of some visible wilderness or desert but the wilderness and desert of our hearts. Receiving the former rain of the Holy Spirit or the latter rain of the Holy Spirit means we must to first receive the voice of the One He has sent. You know our hearts are like trees. Jesus said, “I am the vine and you are the branches.” Our hearts is like a tree and only when we receive the rain of the Holy Spirit in our hearts cannot water, nourish the tree of our hearts. There will be leaves of regeneration and flowers of sanctification and fruits of sanctification. But if you are dragged around by the false spirits and because the whole world is deceived they cannot receive the true Holy Spirit and instead they are like Mt. Carmel without any rain. No trees, everything that is living is dead. It’s like a desert. The hearts are empty and thirsty, were you not like that before? Yes, that was all of your hearts. But through Elijah and we received the raining and falling of the rain of the latter rain of the holy spirit then all of our hearts by the water of the Holy Spirit all of a sudden the leaves and the flowers of regeneration and the fruit of sanctification comes out. And this is the very path, and this is the very way, and this is the very place which Elijah prepares. Our hearts which are all burnt and desolate by receiving the latter rain of the Holy Spirit the leaves of regeneration and the flowers of sanctification are the fruits of the Holy Spirit. This is the very way in which Elijah sent to prepare. Every valley shall be exalted and mountain and hill brought low. What is this speaking of? When we are speaking of valley, the valley is speaking of ignorance. It is written in the Bible that, ‘my people are dying because of ignorance. Though there are so many people talking about God, there’s no true knowledge. So through Elijah though it was like a valley the truth will completely *** up that valley though which was lacking the truth. Then every mountain and hill, all that pride, all that false education and all those false knowledge of God will all be taken away. Every one will become degenerated and sanctified and bear fruits and that time all will see the glory of the Lord. And this will be fulfilled before the second coming of Jesus. No matter who it is, no matter how intelligent, no matter what kind of education you may receive and no matter how ignorant and uneducated they maybe they will receive the Holy Spirit and all receive the same knowledge and then they will see the glory of God. And then Jesus will come again. Until this will not be fulfilled Jesus will not come. So you must understand that this must be fulfilled or else it is not the truth. I guess you will have to wait and see until what I say is true or not. So secondly, Elijah was the man who prepares the way of Jesus to make His second advent. And third, Elijah is sent so that all the prodigals’ sons may return to the Father’s arms. All the children who did not want to lose the heavenly Father and went on their own way, they will all return to the heavenly Father’s arms. Just as in the story that Jesus told us, they will all be embraced by the Father. And they return back home. Elijah was sent on this earth to fulfill that. It’s written in John says, Jesus says in John, “I will not forsake you. You will not be like orphans and I will not forsake you.” If Jesus says, He will do it, then, He will do it. He will do it through? Mal. 4:5,6 [he will turn all the hearts of the children to their Father, and the heart of the Father to the children and they will bring together the Father and all the children] this is the true mission of Elijah. As I told you last night, there are many churches and religions in this world who’s trying to return the people to Jesus. Are there religions and denominations that joined the people to the heavenly Father? No. this is the only work which Elijah can fulfill. That’s why do not call anyone in the earth your father for there is only one Father who can embrace you and take you home. All of you must be embraced by the heavenly Father so that you may ascend to heaven.

So during in these ten days, I hope that you will throw away all your pride and if you do, all of you will be embraced by the heavenly Father. It’s written that, “God’s words will be fulfilled at that moment.’ Even if you have many doctorate degrees in theology, if you just humble yourself, He will get rid of all the false education, all the false that you learned and He will instead fill you with the truth.

Fourth, why does God send Elijah? In order to generate and sanctify us. If you look at the religions of the world, is there anyone who speaks about regeneration or sanctification? They do not even know the first thing about regeneration. All of the leaders are busy healing people and making money. They don’t even know what it means to be regenerated instead Buddhist speaks about regeneration. The Christian should be speaking of regeneration but instead now the Buddhist has taken away the word regeneration. But to those who do not know what is regeneration, Elijah is sent in order to regenerate and sanctify the people. Luke 1:17 [] it said, ‘you will also be reformed in the spirit and power of Elijah.’ In the last days He will also go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah. You know Elijah was different in face and in name and even where he appeared. But they always said the same spirit and power. All throughout history, why? because they are sent by the same God. If we look at Elijah of the past then we can know Elijah who will appear. Because they have the same heart, spirit and power. He will also go before him the spirit and power of Elijah to make radiant people prepare the way of the Lord; To turn the heart of the Father to the children. Even though the children rebelled and went the wrong way they all returned back to the Father. And to make the radiant people prepare the way of the Lord. All those religious leaders and followers they will say, “Oh, you mountains, oh! you hills fall upon me because I cannot bear to see the Lord.” Those are the very people who use the name of Jesus to perform miracles and to make money. But when Jesus really appears they will say, ‘Oh, I cannot barely see the face of Jesus. Oh! you mountains and hills cover me up.” And they will run away. But there are people who are ready. ‘Oh! Lord Jesus, we have waited for You!” who are they? They are the ones who have become regenerated and sanctified. Those who have the image and the face of Jesus are the ones who can welcome Him. so in order to fulfill this, God sends Elijah. And it’s also prophesied in Luke 1:76-79 [] what is the prophet of the highest? It’s not a prophet of this earth but a prophet of heaven. To the people in time of Israel called John the Baptist the prophet? No. But who called John the Baptist the prophet? Jesus said He is a Prophet borne of woman. I hope that you will not try to accept acknowledgment from the people of this world. But I hope that you will be acknowledged by the Prophet by the God of Heaven. And each child will be called by the Prophet of the Highest for you will go before the face of the Lord, you will go before Jesus comes to prepare His ways. To give knowledge or salvation to His people by the remission of their sins. So through Elijah, all of your sins will be taken away. So you will just wait and see if this will be fulfilled or not. Everything in the Bible must be fulfilled to the very letter and to the very dot. There is not one thing in the Bible that is not fulfilled. Everything must but fulfilled. The reason why He sends Elijah, He sends to the tender mercy of our God. It is our God’s last show of love to His children, with which the day spring from One high has visited us to give light to those who seated on the darkness and the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace. So the God of Elijah, the Son, the day of spring shines in our hearts that’s why we are able to see what is real, what is false, what is true, what is heresy, what is error. And by that light through Elijah we can see everything clearly and do everything clearly. It’s written here, this day spring from high, this day spring is the sun, what the sun is speaking of? That sun is the one that is spoken of Isaiah 60:19 [] so we want to see where the road is, we want to see where the truth is, we want to see where the way of light is, in order to be lifted up, the true God, the glory of the true God will be in our hearts. Your sun shall no longer go down nor shall your moon withdraw itself for the Lord will be your everlasting light and the days of your morning shall be ended. Because we have these two Gods in our hearts never again will our face be filled with sadness or mourning but instead our face will show the heavenly peace, joy and happiness. And this is the face of those regenerated and sanctified. Because our face and our heart is the same. Now a days even people see people who do not even believe in Jesus they say, ‘You go to Elijah Missionary Institute? Do you know me? Ah! I see your face I know.’ People who go to Elijah Missionary Institute their faces are always so bright. So last time our Bible reader here she went down to the town and they said, ‘Oh! You live in Shinsundong, don’t you? Oh! How do you know? Ah! I could see it in your face.’ Even all our brethren in all neighborhood, wherever they go their faces are filled with peace and joy. This is the very day spring, the glory of the Two Gods shining in our hearts. Also a certain doctor of theological technology came and said to me, “Teacher, how come only such beautiful are here.” Though they don’t have any make-up they are beautiful. If you go to other meetings, everyone has all their make-ups all over their face but still they don’t look pretty. But here, there’re people who don’t even use make-up but they are so beautiful. They are actually very beautiful at all but it is the light of glory of heaven which shines. That’s why Jesus said, ‘I am the light and you are the sons of the light.’ We are the children of the heavenly Father who is the Light. That’s why even though we don’t put anything in our faces any make-up or anything there’s light shining in our face. Soon you will know that the God of Elijah is truly guiding us.

Finally, why does God send Elijah? For us to able to accept, for us to receive the King of Glory Jesus and not run away. Be able to accept Him in joy and not run away in shame. If you look at in Malachi 4, it says that, ‘If it does not turn the children to the Father and the Father to the children and to those who do not return Jesus said to them, ‘Strike the earth with the curse.’ So everything in the bible ends with Elijah. After that Jesus will come, He will destroy the world and take all of His followers. You must know that this is the greatest event in these last days. I hope that you will open your eyes wide and see where this work of Elijah is being fulfilled. And I hope that you’ll find there. If you go to Christian bookstores you can see all kinds of books concerning Daniel and Revelation but there’s no need to read any of those books. Because they are all lies. There’s so many gods in this world. This person, that person they all interpreted God in all different ways. Why? Why is God like that? But it’s not like that at all. You cannot understand Revelation through research and study. If you just have the key of Elijah and Malachi 4:5,6 then all the secrets of Daniel and Revelation will be all opened up to you. have all these revelations have become opened to you? they have been opened up to you long time ago. So that’s why all those who come here will not be deceived by those who say that Jesus will come on October. The rest of the world may shiver in fear. Even all people they gave up their jobs and they gave up their families. You will know that those who followed the light are following the sure path and they are so happy. [Let’s come and strike the earth with the curse and to those who return it says that, *******behold! This is our God. We have waited for Him and He will save us.’] He will also go before him in the spirit of Elijah. He will turn the hearts of the Father’s children and the disobedient, *** and to make them a just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. They are the ones who will say, ‘Behold! This is our God. We have waited for Him and He will save us!’ Who will prepare the people? Elijah. The God of Elijah sends His messenger, His son to prepare the people. Then who will be prepared? Mal. 3:3 [He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver, He will purify the sons of Levi and prepare them as gold and silver so that they may offer to the Lord in offering in righteousness] So this Elijah will sit as refiner and a purifier of silver, he will purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver. He takes the sons of Levi and cleanses them that they may be able to accept Jesus and be taken to heaven. Who? The sons of Levi, and who should he be? Out of the twelve tribes of Israel we must be the sons of Levi. Then how? How can we become the sons of Levi? Who are the sons of Levi? All throughout history God asked His people for their chastity. No matter how beautiful a woman is if she has no chastity then she is not a woman. No matter how good looking a man is if he does not know how to be faithful then he is no good. That’s why there is loyalty for a man and faithfulness and for a woman it’s chastity. When God made a covenant with us, it was like a wedding covenant. God will ask His people on Mt. Sinai in the time of Moses, ‘Will you keep your chastity to Me?” and they said, “Yes! We will keep to our God. Through all the descendants and we will never give up our chastity.’ “Then I’ll give to you My love. Tell Moses to come up.’ So after gathering and received the promised for the people He gave them the Law. At the end of this law, and at the end of this Ark they can go to anywhere and they will be able to defeat any enemy, at any time and they will always be victorious. That’s what with the law was. It was the guarantee of their safety and victory. A day, three days, five days, seven days past and yet Moses does not come down. After a month Moses still not coming down. So after waiting, ‘Oh, let’s make a god for ourselves. Ah! Maybe God killed Moses. Let’s make other God.’ They convinced Aaron and they made a golden calf. They began worshipping this calf. Nowadays, there are lots of churches who worship at dawn but is there any Holy Spirit? Just attending dawn worship does not mean you receive the Holy Spirit. Going any prayer place and jumping up and down and screaming does not mean you receive the Holy Spirit. Only those who hear the voice of the God of Elijah and repent they will receive the Holy Spirit. So Moses was waiting and God said that, “You better go down. You should go down for the people are dying.” ‘What? They said that they’ll keep their chastity for eternal ages.’ “No! Go down.’ And Moses came down with the tablets in his arms and when he came down he saw one month ago the people was saying that, “We will keep our chastity to our God for eternity.’ But instead they were kissing and bowing down and worshipping. They were jumping up and down and screaming. Moses became so upset. They said that they would keep their chastity for generations but they can’t bear to wait even more than a month and they were bowing down and kissing the golden calf. So Moses became so upset and there he broke the two tablets. And it shattered into pieces. It was not Moses but it was God who broke it. It was the breaking of the covenant. No matter how beautiful a woman is if she has no chastity then that’s the end. So the covenant was broken. It was shattered and God forsook them. Moses fasted for forty days and repented to God and all the people repented. And Moses said, ‘Those who do not bow down to the calf please move out from this side and though all the other tribes of Israel bowed down only the tribe of Levi kept their chastity to God. They did not bow down or kiss the golden calf. So the eleven other tribes of Israel stood on the side of the calf and only one tribe was chased. God was so happy with them. “I will love you and you will be My friend for eternity. I will always walk with you.’ and that’s why the sons of Levi were especially chosen to move the tabernacle of God. In these last days when He says that HE will only purify the sons of Levi when the rest of the world is following all those demons and all the false gods in the world jumping up and down, screaming, falling. When the rest of the world is following the world dancing and kissing all the false gods in the world, only those like the sons of Levi who keep their chastity to the true God will He purify and take them to heaven. I hope all of you will become like the sons of Levi. I will end with this.

So let’s repeat what we have learned. He said that before the great and dreadful coming of the day of the Lord. He will send Elijah. And now do you believe that He will send Elijah in these last before Jesus will come again? Then who is Elijah? If you look in the Bible here it’s the voice of one crying in the wilderness. We have here a voice and we have one crying in the wilderness. There is a voice and the one crying. So what is Elijah? What’s the first mission of Elijah? To join the heavenly Father with all the prodigal sons to this earth and He is the intercessor. Joining them together it’s like a match maker between a young man and a young woman so that they can get married. Then can the pope or cardinals or pastors joined the heavenly Father to the children of this earth? How can sinners join God and the people? Only Jesus can do that. So Jesus is also an Elijah. So before Jesus comes there’s Elijah who join the heavenly Father and children. So Jesus is a true Elijah. Did He not come down to this earth and join the heavenly Father with the children on this earth? Jesus said, “I am the way, no one can go to the Father except through Me.” So you must listen to me and you must be embraced by the Father. He is your Real Father. He is the true Elijah who joined the heavenly Father and the children. Then who else? The Holy Spirit, the Third God. The latter rain of the Holy Spirit is also an Elijah. Because the Holy Spirit can only join the heavenly Father and the children on this earth. Also the Word of God, the almighty Word of God which created the heavens and the earth. The Word of God can join the heavenly Father and the children on this earth. This Three is Elijah. Then who are we? We are a speaker. We are the voice of the One who cries in the wilderness. That’s why do not be deceived by those who say, ‘I am Elijah.’ They are all the same deceivers, they are all fake.

I hope that you will listen to the voice of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Do not ever look at that human channel; do not look at the Jesus who does not even come out of elementary school. If they had just look at Jesus they would have been saved but instead they picked up what is the educational background was like, where he was born, his job. We should never be like that. People, humans are nothing. They are ones who return to the dust.

So why does He send Elijah? First, for the Holy Spirit. All the people of this world waited for the latter rain in order to give the latter rain He sends Elijah. Is God not love? Yes.

Secondly, we know that Jesus the King of the universe who will appear again. But Elijah will be the one who will prepare His way.

Third, just as Jesus prophesied two thousand years ago. The prodigal who wandered in the world returns into the Father’s arms. All the religions in this world, Christians and others will all become one. Because there’s only one truth in this universe.

Fourth, to regenerate and sanctify. No matter how much we cut our hair and try to become a monk and fast or pray all night. When we meet Elijah we will become regenerated and sanctified. Fourth, in order to accept the King Jesus on His second advent. Then we can be the ones who will accept ‘Oh, Jesus we have waited for You.’ and then Jesus takes them on the clouds to heaven.

So Elijah is the greatest gift of God. I hope that you will accept this gift and receive all the blessings and all go to heaven.