Pastor Kim Yong Doo - dream about last days

***Could this be the prelude of the end?***

Matthew 24:42, 44 “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. / Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Ah! Last day, Again??

This last week and two days ago, I delivered the message about our position and indication regarding our faith. The content or body of the message was the same as usual but this time, I preached and approached in a different spiritual angle of view and feeling.

In the Bible, the book of Acts chapter ten, Peter visited the household of Cornelius. The main content of the story is that when Peter delivered the message, the Holy Spirit poured down upon them. When I preached this part of the story, I had preached the message in a state of joy as I was deeply soaked in a overflow of anointing.

I began cleaning up the areas of my house that were left undone for awhile. My wife, Deaconess Eun, and Youth Pastor Lim were babysitting my grandchildren as they took turn. I left them behind and went to church. After the service, when I had come back home, they had all left to the spa salon to use the dry sauna to recover from their fatigue.

In these days, the most popular topic among the Korean people is with the president of Korea on her particular problem. It has been broadcasting daily, and therefore I turned on the TV and began watching the news. But as soon as began watching, within an instant, I became very tired and sleepy. Oh, what? I got so sleepy that it felt like as though I had taken a sleeping pill. I softly closed my eyes and feel into a deep sleep. I believe it was about 4:00 a.m in the morning.

It has been a while since I had received a dream about the last days. Through the spiritual dream, the sign of the last days, disasters that are coming for the last days within the earth, and the mark of the beast 666 which is the representation of the Anti-Christ were shown to me in the panoramic view. Everyone is curious about mark of the beast, 666. I believe I woke up about three or four times. But each time when I went back to sleep, the last days dream continued with a new scene. My wife had come home around 7:30. The panoramic dreams continued right up until my wife came home. I was trembled by the fear of the last days dreams. Therefore, I prayed to the Lord facing down on my bed. My heartbeat was not calming down so easily.

Four phenomenons of last day

First Dream,

The highest and tallest building on the earth is a skyscraper in UAE Dubai. The building is 3280 ft. The countries are frantic about building higher skyscraper. The Lord gave me a dream regarding one of the signs of the last day. A tidal wave that appeared higher than a thousand ft, unmeasurable, and unimaginably high overwhelmingly approached toward me. Even more scarier was that the tidal wave sounded like some kind of eerie monster wailing. The wailing was tearing up the sky and the sound gradually came toward me. The sound of the hurricane was like the sound of an evil spirit… Ah! There is no way I was able to avoid such an extraordinary tidal wave and the wave that was taller than the tallest mountain.

I thought, “My life will end today!” As soon as I thought about about my life ending, the wave fell upon me. The moment when I thought I was dead, I realized that I was still alive. My whole family and the church members were all still alive and i was amazed. In the midst of tribulation, we were all protected. This applies to the other holy fire church members. I inhaled and exhaled. Then I woke up from my dream.

Second Dream

As soon as I woke up from the first dream, I fell straight back into the second dream. This time, I heard even a greater thundering like sound. This was the earth’s crustal moments. The ground overlapped and collided. The sound of the ground colliding began resounding all over the world. The earth opened up and it was happening all over the regions. The fire gushed out from the inside of the opened earth. All the buildings were crumbling down. Countless number of people fell and disappeared into the earth as they screamed. Ah! How can I ever explain such a cursed and tragic scene? Where I had stood was not affected. Not one stone was left on top of another but all were demolished. But our holy fire team members lasted to the end. We were all alive.

Third Dream

The last day dream continued as I repeatedly slept and woke up. When I woke up between the continuous dreams, I took a breath for a moment and went back to sleep. First, second, and third dreams continued. In my third dream, our holy fire team members were moving toward a special place. I felt like the holy fire ministry team members were the only survivors on the earth. Then the scene instantly changed.

All ages and countries had been frightened by the mark of the beast 666. Many had been expecting, speculating, and frightened by the mark of the beast 666. In this scene, the mark of the beast 666 suddenly appeared on the stage. One thing that caught my attention was that anyone who had received the mark of the beast 666 untied themselves as one. It did not matter if they were from any country, nation or race. It transcended pass borders and cultures to all. They began searching for the people who had not received the mark of the beast 666 and they somehow knew how to find them. The method of finding and capturing the people who had not received the mark was very unique. One of the methods was to dispatch little children and let them roam around. When the people who had not received the mark of the beast 666 felt sorry for the little children and tried to help the children by approaching them, the soldiers who have received the mark of the beast 666 suddenly appeared. The soldiers dragged the christians who had not received the mark. People who were close to us, people who we had known for a while, our unbeliever family members, and all other people came against the christians and us. My family members, church members, and I were exposed at a certain location.

The little children that were dispatched from the Anti Christ forces shouted as they looked upon us, “Here! Another people who does not have the mark of the beast 666 are hiding here!”

Therefore, we fled and moved to another place. In the process of moving, and in the process of the people with the mark endlessly chasing us, I had beaten up and chased away few of their subordinates.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, “Do not confront them with your physical strength but you must confront them with the holy fire!”

Therefore, I shouted, “Holy fire!” The Holy Fire came out of my mouth and the Anti Christ forces were burned. The things that are only possible for us to discern with spiritual eyes are already approaching very closely. At first, the mark of the beast 666 wasn’t forced into people. It even looked very democratic. It looked like everyone had freedom to choose. But as time passed and as time went toward, in the latter part, the mark was forced upon people with threat. The mark of the beast was approached to the people as a tattooing design method. This process was very quick, easy, and convenient. But unlike a physical tattoo, there was no trace of receiving it on the skin.

In the midst of all that were happening, the scene changed and we entered into the days of calamity. The seven bowl judgements and the seven trumpet judgments had begun which are written in the book of Revelation. Pastors and commentaries may have different opinions but the one truth is that calamity will occur and this will be a historic truth. The important question is whether this will all happen within our generation or not? With the mark of the beast 666, various judgement and calamity will begin as the sky and the earth are cursed.

The fourth dream

Once again, I woke up from the dream. I sat down to calm my heart. I then fell into a deep sleep again. It has been a while since I have fallen into the deeper realm of dreaming to receive a revelation.  

In the midst of my dream, I began to hear the voice of the Lord. “In the future, there will be a test to reveal whose confession of faith are genuine or false. For those who are alive, they will encounter the era that will be very difficult to endure!”

After I had heard the statement of the Lord, all members of the holy fire ministry teams, including pastors and their congregation members were seized by the people who had received the mark of the beast 666. Currently, in our comfortable situations with a lot of freedom, we easily confess that we love the Lord at anytime and anywhere as we desire. In the future, we will have to give up our lives in order to prove our faith. In the dream and in the scene, the day of the two witnesses had come. The day that was written in the book of Revelation. The people with the supernatural power had appeared. This era was the era that the servants of fire will manifest the fire of God such as prophet Elijah and John the baptist. These fire servants will manifest God’s fire from the heaven and the earth. But at the same time, Satan and his forces will draw fire like us, but their fire will be counterfeit. It is like the battle between Moses and Pharaoh with Jennes and Jambres who were magicians. All the holy fire ministry team members were captured. My church members, family members, all the holy fire members as I were seized and dragged to a wide opened field. At this place, I saw who were already being martyred by the beheading. Their heads were every where. The place was packed with all of people and they were waiting to die. At this place, I saw some of my family members, some of my church members, people who had condemned and critiqued me as a cult, people who had harassed me, and countless number of other servants of God. Satan’s subordinates had their deadly sharp blades in their hands. They mocked and cursed at me.

“Hey Pastor Kim, Yong Doo! You bastard! You have escaped and avoided our schemes so very well! Hahaha, but you have now been caught! You were caught by our network! You bastard! If you deny Jesus and follow us, we will spare your family, church members and so on! It will be fine, you guys will not need to receive the mark of the beast 666. We will still let you guys live without it. Therefore, deny Jesus! Now!”

In my dream, I became a little more confident. I did not say a word. The atmosphere became very quiet but things were happening very fast. Then one of the subordinates of the devil took off all my clothes and I was naked. I was exposed and humiliated. The subordinates began yelling at me. Depending on how I would answer, everyone who were standing and watching around me would live or die.

I began sing, “Amazing Grace” with tears. “Amazing grace how sweet the sound, it saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now I’m found once blind but now I see…” I gave my song to the Lord. I sang all five paragraph of song. As I was singing, I had to face and endure all kinds of shameful treatment by the forces of the devil. But I am amazed by the confidence that were created inside of me. Such a grace granted by the Lord. At the end, they could not wait any longer, therefore, they kneeled me down and aimed one of their blade toward my neck. In that moment, they were about to behead me and suddenly the gate of heaven opened as it made a thunderous sound. God’s glory had appeared. Jesus appeared at the very scene where we were. All of the people who were in the scene were on their stomachs and still. As still as a dead body. The Lord protected my family members, church members, and all the holy fire ministry members. Not one of their hairs were touched. The suffocating and straining scene of this continuous panoramic vivid dream had overwhelmed my whole body. The dream started at 4:00 a.m until 7:30 p.m in the morning. When my wife and daughter had come back home from the spa salon, my dream ended.

As they heard my testimony of the dream, we all promised the Lord that we will be loyal and faithful to the Lord to the very end. We are preparing and planning the next year revival meetings during these days. But Satan visits my home and continuously attacks my body like a tidal wave. Satan tormented my body and gave me a hard time to the end. Everything is done by the grace of the Lord. I will endure to the end with the grace of the Lord. Hallelujah!

Pastor Kim Yong Doo

The prolonged war of faith by Pastor Kim Yong Doo Numbers 26:1-7

When you are admitted to college, you will have to choose a curriculum. There will be major courses for you to choose regarding your major and related classes to your future career. There will be general education classes and classes of major.

If you are a college student, you may have a concern, such as, “What major will benefit me for the future? What major must I choose to help my life?”

There will be courses you may choose from and there will be courses in which you must take in order to graduate. The courses are divided by general education classes and major courses. Depending on what kind of major you choose, you may obtain a career and some kind of professional knowledge accordingly. Through completing the required courses, you will obtain college credits and be able to graduate. This is also how our faith life is like. You must remember that suffering, tests, and trials are required courses for christians to complete.

When we carry out our faith lives, we encounter hardships. When we encounter such situations, God will express to us that he loves us very much. As we go through hardships, we will realize that we will go through certain courses in our lives.

We may have thought, ‘Why am I going through this difficulty? Why is such a test upon me?’

When unexpected events occur, why does it occur? Sometimes, when we encounter certain tests or events, we will not be able to understand the reason but we know that God loves us very much. When we try to transform and struggle against sin to fix ourselves, Satan will not let you easily change.

Satan will say, “Hey! Just live passively!’

We must completely be alert! When your children disobey and give you heartache, you must intensively pray in the Spirit so that your children can live spiritually. If you are children whose parents do not possess a proper relationship with God, you must lead the situation with prayer and faith so that your parents will transform and live a life of faith. When we become more alert and awakened to live lives of faith, something happens.

Let us repeat together, “When we try to live spiritually, we will begin to be disciplined.” Hallelujah! Let me express this differently. We will be in the boot camp training.

You will fervently be trained for period while you are at boot camp, You will be trained in all areas. You will be trained on how to stand in a straight line. How to march forward and backwards? How to salute, and much more. You will be trained one by one. Before you are admitted to the army, you will have lived your life as you had desired. But once you are admitted to the army, control and regulation will begin. The first thing the army will do to you is to shave your hair very short. You will only be allowed to wear a military uniform. You operate in close-order drills. You will be trained in respect to your superior officers and brotherly love for your colleague. When you are more disciplined and placed in proper order, little more advanced training will begin. You will be trained on how to shoot a gun. The army will not train you on how to shoot a gun when you first come arrive. Utilizing a gun is considered extremely dangerous. If you are not properly trained first, you will possibly wound others. When you have mastered on using a gun, the training to kill will begin. In case you run out of bullets, you will be trained in hand to hand combat. You will be trained to obey in all areas. The soldier's life and death depends on their mental strength as well. Therefore, they will be trained to strength their mentality. All the soldiers will have to sleep at the same time, wake up at a same time, eat at a same time, and you will not even be able to go to the bathroom whenever you like. You will be trained to become sharp and carry out things with simplicity and clarity

The Israelis had become degraded slaves of Egypt. Now, the Israelis are about to enter the land of Canaan and to conquer it. But, they have not been properly trained. They have their own imagination and delusion of what could be awaiting for them. With this kind of attitude and thinking, they had come out of Egypt. Of course, the Israelis had came out as they witnessed God’s miracle and power. But their personality, character, and the things in their hearts were not filtered. Therefore, they were not prepared.

Once God gives you some type of His power, you must follow without any condition. Through the discipline of the wilderness, the Israelites were made into God’s army. This process was shown through the particular tribes of Israel. With what type of method do you pass and overcome suffering and hardship? No one voluntarily desires suffering and hardship. We are God’s precious children. You will not fully understand how much our God loves us and how He values us. Even though we are God’s precious and valuable children, if God does not discipline and train us, we will be useless. We must be disciplined and trained. If we are not disciplined and trained, we will become rubble. Like a troublemaker, you will wander around. If your body is excessively entrenched with bad habits, it will be difficult for you to become a proper soldier in any christian group. You have seen some of the people like this. People like this may come to a church but never really become one with the church. This type of people will not be properly restored or healed. These type of people continuously talk about their own idea, thinking, and so on. The church is like an army or a ship. In order for a ship or an army to function properly, it has to become one as it move forward. If you are a person with your own ideas, thinking, and opinion, God will discipline you. You must put all your own things down.

When it comes to doing God’s work, you will need wisdom. When you are disciplined, you must first think, ‘Why am I being disciplined?” You may have realized, “Oh, I still have unfixed personality and my own ideas and thoughts.

You may be the person who always collide with other people. The reason why you are colliding with others is because your own ideas and thoughts are too distinctive. If you do not change your own ways, you will be considered nothing but rubble. A robble is  useless stones. You must be trained to become a soldier who is one with an army. Now, closely look at the Israelis, they would not become one. They continuously lived as rubble. After you are completely trained from boot camp training and after they have passed the whole training process, they will be placed in certain branches of the army. The trained soldiers will be asked if they have any skills or expertise. What they are good at? Do they have any kind of special license? Do they have a driver’s license? What kind of religion are they? Depending on all these conditions, you will be placed in certain positions as well. If a person is healthy, tall, smart, and properly well trained in guerrilla training, such a person has possibility of being scouted.

In the last days, God had sent us to this earth. There are types of people in which God will powerfully utilize in the spiritual area. These types of people are always optimistic, alway have faith, always positive, comforts people who are anxious, always ready to help others, approaches people with an open heart, and a people whose faith is alive. These types of people are precisely picked by God to be utilized. At the same time, there are people who always resents, complains, grumbles and are irritated. God will not pay attention to these types of people. These types of people will live and finish their lives like rubble. Therefore, we must pray that we do not become like rubble. There are many rubbles that are on the ground and the streets. There are so many people in the world who live their lives as they desire. They live their lives as they please. But we are a people who believe in Jesus. For us, suffering is not an option but it is essential.

In today’s chapter, you will see God telling Moses to count the people. The first census took place in chapter one before they had entered the wilderness. Before the wilderness, the training had began. After the Israelis had passed the wilderness and finished the wilderness training, the second census took place in chapter twenty six. In today’s scripture, after completing the training in the wilderness, between the two census, the Israelis had received extreme difficult training, suffering, hardship, discipline and judgment. So many events had happened. When the Israelis committed adultery, 23,000 were killed by God. The people had died when the Israelis came against Moses. The Israelis were killed for worshiping idols.

Whenever we witness someone else’s judgment or discipline, we should be strongly touched and think in such a way, ‘Why did that person died?’

We will want to know the reason. “Oh! That person was prideful and did certain things!” Nadab and Abihu offered the wrong kind of fire and were killed by God. When the Issachar tribe committed adultery with the Moabite women, most of them were killed by God. This tribe was strong like a wild donkey and they were good at fighting. They could not severe their lustfulness. When we try to completely transform, and right before some kind of change is about to occur, a great test will come to you. When we are newly determined and attempt to do something good, Satan will attack us.

When the wilderness was almost finished, as discipline and training were almost completed, the Israelis became better in spirit, mental, and physical. Now at this level, they knew better on why the other Israelis were judged and killed by poisonous snakes and why many of the other tribes, brothers, and parents were judged and killed. They had witnessed all these events. As they had witnessed and experienced, they were spiritually trained, mentally strengthened, and physically strengthened. They had become an army. They were at the edge of training in the wilderness. After we are properly disciplined and trained, we will become a complete different people. We will become an army of God. When we finally becoming an army of God, even if God sends us to the land of Canaan, we will enter the land and demolish the enemy to conquer the land.

Before the Israelis had entered Canaan, they had sent the twelve spies. These spies were the leaders of their own tribes. They were suppose to have distinctive faith. They were experts in fighting. They were like the special forces. When they had entered the land to spy, it was not as they had imagined. They wanted to just enter the land without paying any price. The land was flowing with plentiful of good things. But the reality was not what they had expected. After forty days, they had come back from spying out the land. They even brought back some fruit. But their report was not a joke. Even though the land was flowing with honey and milk, the land was also fully occupied by the other great and powerful seven tribes.

The leaders of Israel's tribes reported, “They will devour us! The people there are powerful!”

The ten tribal leaders who had spied out the land had anxious minds and were weak spirituality. They had continuously reported a hard reality adding/mixing their own weakness. There were only two other people reporting in the power of God. God’s power was with these two other leaders.

When the Israelis heard about the bad report, they might have said, “How have we, as God’s people, become like this in this situation? We were severely disciplined and had come this far! But why is this happening? We are the people of God. How are we placed in such a tragic situation!”

The most important thing is that even if we encounter some kind of hard incomprehensive situation, you must remember that there is a huge difference between God’s people and and His thought.

There are things that are in God’s mind and there are things in our minds. The things in our minds are the things of the flesh and the hard reality of our lives. What does God thinks as the most important thing? God does not want us to sin. We must gradually sin less and eventually sin no more. It is not important to God for us to become famous and honored by the world but God desires us to become a holy people on this earth. God desires us to live spiritually. God is with us and we must declare this within our daily lives that God is with us. If God is with us, we will be able to handle all things in all situations. It must not matter even if we are greatly embarrassed before the eyes of our brothers, sisters, parents, neighbors and the people around us. If God is truly with us, He will restore and recover you later on. But the problem is that many people have a hard time enduring as they wait for the time of restoration and blessing. They do not want and they do not expect to have a prolonged time in training.

Please do not go on the internet without caution. Even if someone said that they have received messages, prophetic messages, or revelation about last days, please do not be deceived by their messages. God’s Word is more important than the internet. Please get out of the ambience of rapture and the fear of the last days. Enter deeper into the Word of God and grab unto the Word of God. No matter who has received a revelation of God for the last days, you must think to go long term. Please do not be deceived by the last days messages out there. What God desires from us is to gradually sin less and at last sin no more. The people of the world love to become well known but God desires us to become a holy people. When it comes to church life, if you are a person who has a loud voice, you are probably a person with pride. If you utilize your strength, temper, and loud voice, your many weaknesses will be exposed. Within the church, when we discuss about the will of God, we must associate it with voluntarily serving, thinking about others as better than ourselves, and obeying the word of God, these actions will establish the Will of God. The smallest areas for the will of God will begin to be fulfilled.  

When you speak, there will be people who will open their hearts and there will be people who will not open their hearts. When it comes to faith, you can not prove your faith all alone and by keeping it all by yourself. You must learn to mingle with the other people as you may have to experience some type of disagreement, argument, and discord. You will encounter people in which you will have hard time establishing a good relationship. Sometimes, these conditions will come to us as a great test. Even if you encounter such conditions and events, if you are a person who is surrendered to God soaked in His grace, you will learn to obey through the suffering and difficulties. Please live optimistically even if you are encountering difficult situations. Please arm yourselves with the overflowing grace of God.

God had severely disciplined and trained the people of God through the wilderness. I think if we are placed in their wilderness training, we could have had a much more hard time. If you look at us, even when the tap water stops, we become very frustrated and fuss about it. The Israelis had to enter the land of Canaan and completely cast out the seven tribes who were already there. The Israelis had to establish a new country. But in order to carry all this out, they had to possess a deeper understanding. When we look at certain events, we need to possess some kind of perspective. You must posses the perspective of faith. Even if you may have to go through a difficult situation, you must posses the perspective of faith. Christians feel like they continuously fail, no victory and feel like they are withering away.

“Why must I continuously live such a way?”

Still, probably you are in the training process concerning God’s will. Abraham’s faith was very distinctive and he was a man of great wealth but still, God had a continuous plan for him.

One of the event that had occurred in the wilderness was the challenge from the big sister and brother of Moses. What were their reasons? Miriam continuously received the revelation word of God. She was also considered a prophet or a woman prophet. Aaron continuously received the word of God. Moses continuously received the word of God. One day, Moses married an Ethiopian woman. Miriam and Aaron defied Moses as they spoke about this matter. What was the main purpose? They were accusing Moses for committing adultery with the woman of Ethiopia. But this was only the reason from the surface.

In reality, they were speaking to him, “Does God only talk to you? God also talks to us! God talks to brother Aaron as well. Why would you not discuss this matter with us beforehand? Why would you carry out this matter all by yourself and how could you inform us afterwards?”

At the end, God’s wrath came upon Miriam. We may all receive revelation, messages and the word of God. As we observe this story of God’s wrath and summarize it, we come to realize that there is an order even when it comes to personal revelation and the word of God. Even if we all have received same kind of message, there is an order of priority. The prophetic message which Moses received comes first in order. Next in Aaron’s message and then in Miriam’s message. We come to realize there is order even when it comes to His prophetic messages. There is a process. Where does God put more weight? This is a very important matter.

No one can guarantee what will happen to us in the future. We do not know what events we will encounter. When it comes to prophetic messages and revelation, God will place the order of priority. When prophet Jeremiah delivered the message of God, God intensively acknowledged and proved his message. In the days of the prophet Jeremiah, there were many prophets. Those prophets ridiculed the word that was delivered through prophet Jeremiah.

They were like, “You think God only talks to you?! God also talks to us!”

They all said God talks to them. But to whom did God intensively grant His prophetic word too? We must critically think about this. Every word, prophet Jeremiah, said was right. In the book of Jeremiah, chapter twenty nine, prophet Hananiah was cursed and died. Prophet Hananiah also said that God spoke to him. In the book of Jeremiah chapter twenty six, there was an event of a king and the prophets committing adultery with the neighboring women. These people all proclaimed that God spoke to them but yet, in reality they all habitually committed adultery behind the scenes. Those were God’s servants. If you observe all around us, you will witness many pastors and leaders committing such sins. I tell you the truth, many people who receive revelation from God, people who receive prophetic messages from God habitually commit such sin. These types of people usually think about how to use the church members. These people are already corrupted but in spite of this reality, there are many cases God’s prophetic messages continuously come upon them. How could we view this?

Miriam and Aaron challenged Moses and we know that there is the order of priority. As a result, God judged Miriam by striking her with leprosy. When you receive the word of God, and when you look at the people who God really works through, you must learn to discern.

There was a incident with Balaam. Balaam was a gentile prophet and the Moabite king hired Balaam with money to curse Israel. But when the power of God came upon the  prophet Balaam, he blessed Israel instead. Balaam struck his donkey but the donkey was looking at the Angel of God. The donkey tried to avoid the Angel of God but prophet Balaam could not see the angel. Later on, God opened the spiritual eyes of prophet Balaam. Even though Balak and Balaam tried to curse the chosen people of God, God turned it into a blessing. We have the power of variable. We can change things. If you only live your lives with proper faith, even if curses come your way, the curses can turn into a blessing. There were incidents of poisonous snakes, plagues, and being prideful. As the people of God go through such incidents, many people will be sorted out and the proper people of God will be trained. These trained people of God becomes the army of God who will be sent to fight. What is the important element here? You must possess purity. How do you keep yourselves from being polluted and to stay pure? Do not lie and do not corrupt yourselves with money and material things.  

You must believe what is correct and proper. Are you confident about your faith? Can you say that you have had proper faith up until now? You must possess confident faith. You must believe that God loves you very much. No matter how much (spiritual) Moabite women comes to temp us, lie, delude and give us false love, we must overcome it. At the end, 601,730 entered into the land of Canaan and carried out war to conquer the land. When it comes to our faith lives, we must alway prepare for a prolonged period. We will have to endure and be patience for a long period of time. At the same time, there are choices you must make as soon as possible. There are things that you must be patient for a long period of time as you patiently wait. You must be well balanced as you are determined to make choices for important situations.You have to make things right as soon as possible and also, you must prepare to go long for a long period of time. God will not see how smart you are but God will see your faithful attitude and obedience towards His instructions according to His word and His lead.

Pastor Kim Yong Doo

The Blessing of being Broken by Pastor Kim Yong Doo Job 23:8-17

It seems like God handles some people delicately but it also seems like God handles other people harshly. When God views the souls, He considers the souls very precious. Because souls are very precious to Him, God desires to train the souls handling them in a certain way. What is the ultimate conclusion? God leads us in such a way as He handles us in a certain way so that our souls will be saved.

Repeat after me, “My soul is very precious.”

When some kind of discipline, pain, and suffering are created, we may feel suffocated because a lot of the times, we do not understand the cause and reason. But there will be a time when God will reveal the cause and reason giving us the revelation and understanding. When we are finally matured spiritually, we will understand the depth of all our ordeal. The chosen people of God will especially go through many testing and suffering. The will of God within our ordeal is to become broken. God will allow hardship because it is necessary for us to become broken and completely shattered.

If your whole family needs to be broken, God will begin to handle your whole family in a certain way. When you become very prideful and stubborn, God will also handle you in a certain way to break you.

There is another case in which God handles certain people . The other case is that God desires to show an example in faith and how blessings come.

God may say, “I will make you into a good example for others regarding faith and blessing.”

Then, God will place the burning passion within that person as He handles the person. Such person may say, “Oh, I’ve got a burning will and faith within me! I’ve never had this before!” This faith granted by God is firm.

There are people who may appear obedient. But unexpectedly, they may disobey at a critical moment. There are people who may have been disobeying in some small or big matters. But unexpectedly, they may properly choose and obey at that critical moment. When people properly choose and obey at that critical moment, they will receive blessings.

There are people who may have been obeying but at a critical moment, they may disobey. As a result, such people will fall at the end. No one knows how a person will turn out at the end. It is best for us to always be obedient. If you obey especially at that critical moment, it will be more great. As you live your lives, many big and small events will occur. Are you inheriting positiveness to the people around you and your children? Or are you inheriting negativeness? This all depends to our attitude.

My father was very much a negative person. Despite of this fact, I had always tried to see the positive characteristics and side of my father ever since my early childhood. As I grew up, I have possessed faith at an early age. I had never been to any churches. I met God in my critical moment. I encountered God with a positive mind. I having endured through much suffering and disciplining. But whenever I encountered hardship, I went through it optimistically with a positive mind and faith. When I had lived my life with such an attitude, God began to work in my life. Did your parents abandoned you? Did your father or mother not raise you with love? It all doesn't  matter. God desires for you to be broken. When He desires for you to become broken, you must allow yourselves to be broken. God takes health, wealth, and many other conditions to break people. But if you resist clinging onto and trying to maintain the things that God wants to take away from you, you will be broken even further. When you are in the situation of breaking, you must be determined to be properly broken. When you are properly broken, such a brokenness will be utilized as an ingredient for blessings. It is very important for us to realize this fact.

Satan came before the Throne of God. God had stealthily offered something to Satan. God knows the characteristic, nature, attribute and the style of Satan. When Satan sees some beautiful thing or work created by God, he wants to mess it up, tackle it, burn it and destroy it. Satan, with his own self will had become prideful and corrupted. Satan wants to be glorified when he witnesses all the workmanship, authority, and power of God. When Satan sees the chosen people of God, the christians, he wants to fiercely devour them. Especially, when some christians prays fervently, he will try to destroy them. If we do not become spiritually strong and powerful, we will never be able to defeat Satan because he is a spiritual being. This is why when God comes to break you, you must firmly be determined to become broken. This way, God will make you into a vessel which God desires. You must become ashes.

Job always had a title and it was the righteous man. The people around him had honored him. “Job believed in God very well.” His righteousness was reported to God. Job was a perfect man in his era. We may all believe in God, but we all have different and unique blessing, calling, and mission. Through Job we know that every decision is made by God in the spiritual realm.

Theologically, we express God’s will as “God’s determination.” This means, God has thought of something, placed it in His mind, and determined to carry it out.

We can also say, “God has decided.” God alone decides and carries it out regardless of families, people, churches, nations and countries. There are gifts that are granted by God. There is the gift of joy but at the same time, there is the gift of suffering. When God grants you the gift of suffering, you must properly become broken. There are variables. In the end, the suffering is the opportunity to receive blessings. Suffering must not become your problem. When some kind of suffering begins, when God allows some kind of suffering, you need to change the way of your thinking.

We need to possess another perspective. The perspective that goes beyond the common people’s perspective. You need to possess spiritual perspective of faith. All people possess common perspective. They see, listen, think, make some kind of decision, speak and carry out in action. But there is a perspective of faith. The people of God must possess a perspective with spiritual ideas.

“What does God want from me?”

When some kind of event happens, you must discern whether you must handle it with common perspective or spiritual perspective. God may grant you some kind of sign or warning. When this happens, you must fervently repent and pray.

“God, why did it happened? Have you decided to prove and test me? Why so many events are occurring? God, I am still thankful. Lord, thank you so much! I am very grateful!”

Satan will reply this way, “What! Complain! Many others have complained and left God! Why are you being thankful?!”

We must possess spiritual perspective and not just common perspective.

“Why has God allowed such an event? This seem like the work of Satan, but why was it allowed onto me? I know, within such a situation, God has a plan and providence. Hallelujah!”

God proves and tests us so that we can become someone whom God has called us to be. In the end, when we are proved, God will utilize us to help many people, give proper counseling, comfort others, and train or disciple them so those people can be powerfully utilized by God. When we have such an attitude and mind, God will lead us to His will. When we are cornered, we will begin to possess a spiritual mind. When storms come and shake the tree, that tree will create texture or a pattern inside. So when you cut this kind of tree, you will see in the cut surface of various kind of texture or pattern. This kind of tree is valued more than the common trees.

Job 23:8-9 (AMP) “Behold, I go forward (to the east), but He is not there; I go backward (to the west), but I cannot perceive Him; 9 To the left (north) He turns, but I cannot behold Him; He turns to the right hand (south), but I cannot see Him.”

This statement shows us Job’s agony. When some kind of event occurs, you must put down all your excuses, defense, and blaming others. Put it all down. When we are falsely accused or wronged, we usually want to go to someone and vent it out and be comforted. When God brings us down from good circumstances to a difficult situation, because we are so used to giving excuses, we will blame others and give many reasons/excuses. We must put them all down.

Repeat after me, “Let us put them all down; excuses, reasons, and blaming.”

Get rid of such statement as, “It was because of (someone)!”

When I had visited hell, a common characteristic of those in hell was that they were blaming and holding grudges toward somebody.

“It was because of (someone)!! I am here in hell!!”

They do not think about their own sin but continue to blame others.

“Because of pastor! Because of those people in my church! Because of my parent! Because of my husband!Because of my wife!”

People who are matured desire more of the grace of God. In order to receive more grace they would put more  efforts.

People in hell gnash their teeth and state, “It is all because of (person)!”

In our daily lives, many of us are doing this. If you want to go to heaven, you must not do this any longer.

Let us repeat. “We must possess the power to digest any word or action”

If you want to go to heaven, you must possess the power to digest anything in all situations. If you do not want to go to heaven, go ahead and live as you make enemies, argue, fight and cut off people so you do not see them any longer. But we all want to go to heaven, so what should we do? We must possess the power to digest. Even if you are wronged and did not do anything wrong, just apology for the sake of the other person and make peace.

“I am sorry, forgive me.”

When couples fight, wives and husbands usually demand, “You are wrong! Say that you are wrong! You apology to me! Tell me that you have done wrong!”

They want to make the other person surrender and desire to hear what they want. But, when did the Lord say we can do that?

Job could have blamed and given many excuses. But Job had kept the way of the Lord. He did not lean toward the left nor right. He did not sway when his wife spoke negatively. Some people sway when their spouses or parents say some statement. No matter who says what, you must keep your faith with a genuine heart. You do not keep your genuine faith with your own stubbornness.

Within each step, each word, each thought, and action, You must put in all your efforts not to sin. Do it as though life or death is depending on it. Every moment of your lives, when you capture an opportunity granted to you, do not ever miss it.

From the outside, a person may appear to speak always simply and easily without any complication, another person may appear to be always joking and playing around and another person may always appear to be carefree, such christians are actually always in a spiritual cautious state. Their outer appearance may even look easy from other people’s eyes and these kind of christians may appear not so serious but in reality, they are continuously strengthened inside

As I carry out the spiritual ministry, the most difficult thing i encounter every time when I overcome and gain victory with prayer are the stronger evil spirits that are sent to me and begins working. If it was not for the Lord, there is no way I could have won the battles with these powerful evil spirits. The Lord continuously leads me to obtain victory. There were time when I could not get through with my faith, will, thought and mind. I had asked help from my young children.

“Joseph and Ju Eun, please pray for me. The devil is attacking me now. I am in great distress and excruciating pain.”

In that moment of time, whenever I had visited hell and come back, I would be bedridden for a week. Even though my outer appearance looked fine, the pain in my spirit was excruciating. Physically, my teeth had gotten loosed. When I finally got well and tried to eat, I could not open my mouth. So when I had a hard time eating, my wife would help me feeding me soup. I literally became like a patient. I was not even able to go to bathroom. Worst of all, my wife and children dragged me to the bathroom and pulled my pants down. This happened almost every day. When Satan comes to devour, he will devour insanely. In the end, through this difficult process, God has raised me to cast fire all over the world. We pray and desire to receive the power and do the work of God. God will put you to the bottom and will teach you one step at a time. There is process before receiving salvation. Regardless of teachings of theology, Jesus teaches us the process of obtaining salvation with some kind of structure and sign.

Satan comes to devour us. We will have to pay the price.

Repeat after me, “We must pay the price!”

The Lord said, “The people who comes to the Lord’s church will not pay the same price that you have paid.”

Whenever the Lord appeared before me with such a statement, the Lord never had appeared to me in a powerful appearance. Jesus had appeared to me with the appearance of suffering. His whole face and body were torn with many cuts. His flesh was all shredded.

With such an appearance, Jesus said, “I died in such a way. I have suffered and sacrificed for you. I desire your determination and devotion. As you are reminded of my suffering appearance, I desire that you will endure well.”

I began crying with tears and snot all over my face. In that moment of time, I could not say a word. I just asked the Lord to kill me. As we live each week, we must become more broken and squashed. In order for a potato to be used in various ways, it has to be mashed. If a potato refuses to be mashed, it’s usage will be limited. It must be smashed good. When it is made into flour, it has to be finely filtered. Then, this potato flour will be used in various way. God is smashing and filtering us so that we can become good ingredients. When we are properly finely filtered and smashed, we will be ready to be utilized precisely, greatly, preciously, and in various different ways.

God desires more when it comes to our relationship with God. He does not desire a common church. God does not want a common ministry, common saints or common understanding. God does not desire us to just simply come attend church on Sundays, give tithe, be thankful and go home. God desires for us to have deeper understanding. Deeper understanding will not come through the simple bible study but from your spiritual battles within your daily lives when you personally fight against the evil forces. If we do not live our lives in such a way, there will be no opportunity for us to be broken. At first, Job did not have enough understanding ability for God to speak to him. Therefore, more time was required for him. He had an event that was coming which was to experience the death of his children, losing all his wealth, obtain sickness, harassment of his friends, and his wife leaving him. God observed Job’s faith. God was very interested in Job’s faith. How he spoke in all the tragic events, his reaction, and everything that he did.

Everything we do is God’s concern but at the same time, Satan is also interested. So what should we do? We must demolish whatever that interests Satan and we must impress God. We must fiercely think, fiercely battle and as we carry our faith lives in such a way, we must mature.

We do not just simply obtain understanding and realization. Job had great wealth but God desired him to obtain spiritual understanding regarding his wealth. Job had ten children and he wanted to raise them well. But he had to obtain spiritual understanding regarding his children. God desired Job to obtain spiritual understanding regarding his wife. God desired a deeper understanding. On top of that, he needed to obtain spiritual understanding regarding his friends. His friends came to Job when he was at the lowest point of his life. They first came to console him when Job was covered with painful boils. But they did not console him but instead, what they did was tease him.

They were scornful and sneering.

They may have looked like they spoke about faith but within the back of their minds were filled with other things.

“How have you became like that? Why has God has placed you in such a situation? I cannot understand.”

Their way of talking made Job to go to God. Job reevaluated and rethought about his friends.

“My friends, please let me be and go. If you have finished what you wanted to say, please leave me. There is no way you can console me.

“But he knows the way that I take [and He pays attention to it]. When He has tried me, I will come forth as [refined] gold [pure and luminous]. You have no understanding on this. Your circumstances and my circumstance is different and incomparable. Now, God is avoiding me, He is hiding from me.”

God was giving him new a understanding in all areas of his life. Some people are good at only one thing and God may utilize such people with the one thing they are good at. But for Job, God had handled him in all areas, such as his family, members in his household, his wealth and with his health destroyed. Then God watched him whether or not he would make a right choice. Do we not have to act like Job if we really want to receive God’s blessing? In this coming week, with the grace of the Lord, I hope all of us spend this week with the Lord. Amen.

Pastor Kim Yong Doo

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Luke 16:13-15 No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” 14 The Pharisees, who dearly loved their money, heard all this and scoffed at him. 15 Then he said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God.”

The Bible says the Pharisees were lovers of money. How do we know we can be lovers of money? How can we know if we may have a Pharisee spirit judging the work of the Lord? 

Jesus was speaking about money as HE gave the parable in Luke 16 about the shrewd manager who had squandered his master's money. When the Lord was teaching this parable, the Pharisees scoffed at Him. They scoffed at Him because they were lovers of money. In other translations, it states the Pharisees were ridiculing and sneering at His teaching. 

In the church, when pastors preach about money in regards to the kingdom of God, there are many Christians who will scoff, judge, or ridicule authority for preaching about money. They will start to scoff and sneer saying that the pastors or preacher wants their money. They will judge the pastors on why they are preaching about money. They will judge on how they think the pastors are spending "their" money. All tithes belong to God. It was never "their" money.

A prideful spirit that loves money will sneer and judge. A humble spirit is always willing to learn and leave the judgment to God knowing that is His business. A prideful spirit will assume the authority of God to place judgment and ridicule. A prideful spirit that loves money will become offended. A humble spirit will listen to the core message rather than trying to discern the motive of the preacher for giving the message. 

Pastor Steve

Can a woman teach?

1 Tim 2:11-15 "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety."

What does the "woman" in the bible represent? The woman can represent the church. The Bible references the "woman" as the church. The church consisting of lay believers, lamb (baby Christians), and those who do not yet have spiritual authority. They are considered the "woman" in these verses. Baby Christians and those who have no authority are to learn in quietness and in full submission and they are not allowed to teach or assume authority over a man. 

What does the "man" represent? The "man" represent higher authority. The man or husband is our Lord Jesus who is the higher authority. We are to be led by the Holy Spirit under the authority of Jesus Christ. Those who are appointed to lead God's people are His delegated authority and represent the proxy "man or husband." We are to be in full submission to HIM. In many cases, the baby Christians who can be represented as lay believers or general church members attempt to assume a role of authority and attempt to correct, teach, and even rebuke higher authority. 

Adam being formed first means he has the authority over Eve. The woman was deceived first. Why was the woman deceived? Even today, much of the church is deceived? Why? Because the church or representing lay believers, lambs, and/or baby Christians are assuming a role of authority when they should be first be learning in quietness and submission. The woman needs to be broken first before given authority. Eve should have stayed quiet when a higher authority, Adam, was next to her. Eve should have allowed Adam to speak on her behalf but she replied to the serpent when she should have remained quiet. There is a lesson here for the church in general. 

Much of the church is making the same mistake as Eve. The church filled with lay believers in which most have not even read the whole bible, who are not consistently praying, who are still very carnal minded, are not fully committed to God, and for many who are still living a life of SIN are attempting to assume authority as Eve when they should first learn quietly and learn to submit to authority. 

"But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety."

The woman or church must endure suffering as she goes through trails, tests, and tribulation continuing in faith, love, and hope. 

“Establishing and strengthening the souls and the hearts of the disciples, urging and warning and encouraging them to stand firm in the faith, and [telling them] that it is through many hardships and tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.”

Acts 14:22 AMPC

Pastor Steve