“I Have Already Come!”

Starting from the beginning of the new year after the 94th anniversary of the birth of Christ Ahnsahnghong, the shouting of the people of Zion proclaiming the voice of Christ—“I have already come!”—is being heard all over the world. As the good news of Christ’s coming has been reported through mass media such as newspapers, many people are showing much interest, wondering who on earth has come and where He has come from.

We have to tell people that God, whom the world is waiting for, has already come. As those who have received God earlier, it is our duty to let them know when God came, where He came from, and why He came, so that they can receive God.

Let us shine the light of the knowledge of God’s glory on the whole world by shouting even louder the voice of God saying, “I have already come!” When we arise and shine the light of God, the power of darkness will recede and God’s children will come to the light, so the gospel work of God will be accomplished amazingly enough to astonish the world (Isa 60:1-22).

God who has come in the flesh

Today, Christians make up a large percentage of the world’s population. So many Christians are now just looking up at the sky, waiting for the second coming of Jesus. It is because they hope to receive Jesus who is prophesied to come on the clouds.

However, no matter how eagerly they look up at the sky, God has already come to this earth. God has already come and says, “I have already come!” but the world does not recognize Him.

The same thing also happened 2,000 years ago. In those days, the Jews knew through the prophecies of many prophets that the Messiah [Christ] would come to this earth. They believed that the Messiah would come to free them from the oppression of Rome and to save them, and they were eagerly waiting for the prophesied Messiah. However, when Jesus came to this earth, they did not receive Jesus who was the Messiah.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.Jn 1:1

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.Jn 1:10-14

The Bible says that the Word [God] became flesh and made His dwelling among us. In other words, it means that God came to this earth as a man.

Nevertheless, the world did not recognize Him. Even though God already came and was doing a lot of things, the religious leaders in those days who claimed to believe in God did not receive the Christ who came in the flesh, and they only looked up at the sky.

“Elijah has already come”

They knew through the prophecies of the Bible that Elijah would come first before the coming of the Messiah and prepare the way for Him (Mal 3:1; 4:5-6). However, since Elijah went up to heaven in a chariot of fire and horses of fire (2 Ki 2:11), they thought that the Elijah who was to come would surely come in a chariot of fire just the same way he was taken up into heaven and then the Messiah would come on the clouds of heaven with great glory.

However, Elijah came and the Messiah also came while they were unaware of it. When they were just looking up at the sky, Elijah and the Messiah had already been born as babies; Elijah was shouting at the Jordan River, and the Messiah was preaching the Word in the temple.

And they asked him, “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?” Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected? But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him.”Mk 9:11-13

Elijah mentioned by Jesus in the above verses refers to John the Baptist (Mt 11:10-14). Elijah, who was to come, already came, but people did not accept him and treated him as they pleased. It was because John the Baptist did not come from heaven in a chariot of fire but was born from the womb of his mother Elizabeth. As they were waiting for the Elijah confined in their fixed idea, they could not acknowledge John the Baptist as Elijah, and since they did not recognize him, they naturally thought that the Messiah had not come, either. As a result, they failed to receive Elijah and the Messiah who had already come.

Those who did not receive God who came to give them life

Contrary to their expectation, God came as a man in the flesh. God, who is holy and great enough to rule over the whole universe, came to this small and tiny earth without even being welcomed by His own people. It was because He had a single-minded desire to save human beings.

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”Jn 10:10

The coming of Christ was the greatest event in human history. By His coming, the way for mankind to receive the forgiveness of sins and salvation was opened, so they could have eternal life.

God Himself cried out, “I have already come!” “I have come to give you life!” but many people did not recognize Him. The reason why they did not receive God who came to give them life was because they were not God’s people but those who belonged to the world. It was also because God hid His heavenly glory and appeared to them in human form.

God carries out the gospel work according to all His plans. Everything Jesus did was actually the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. When He came to this earth, He was born in Bethlehem through the body of a virgin just as the prophets had prophesied about Him a long time before (Isa 7:14; Mic 5:2). Even the moment of Jesus’ death on the cross had already been prophesied in the Bible. About 700 years before Jesus died on the cross, the prophet Isaiah predicted that the Messiah would die with the wicked and be buried with the rich (Isa 53:9). According to this prophecy, when Jesus was crucified on the cross, He died with two robbers—one on His right and the other on His left, and after His death He was buried in the tomb of a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph (Lk 23:32-33; Mt 27:57-60).

However, people did not pay attention to the prophecies. When Jesus was baptized at the age of 30 and began His gospel ministry, and when He declared the new covenant while celebrating the Passover with bread and wine in Mark’s upper room, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood” (Lk 22:20), people just regarded it as something that took place by chance; there was no one who realized that it was a great event which occurred as a result of the prophecies of the Bible. Jesus fulfilled the prophecy exactly as written, “The time is coming when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah” (Jer 31:31), but the people in the world did not realize it.

“How can God become a man?” This is the common view of God held by the people who reject God today as well as those who did 2,000 years ago (Jn 10:30-33). God came to this earth with the great mission to save mankind, but people treated Him as a mere man just like one of them. So regrettably, they failed to receive God just as the Bible says, “He [God] came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.”

The voice of God—“I have already come!”—is now being heard again

Since there is no limit to time and space in the spiritual world, Satan hinders the glory of Christ today the same way he did 2,000 years ago. The situation of Jesus’ second coming in this age is exactly the same as that of His first coming.

In these last days, too, many people are eagerly waiting for Jesus to come again. However, while they are just looking up at the sky, God has come once again in human form.

Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.Heb 9:27-28

Christ walked the path of prophecy while being treated in an arbitrary way by people when He came to this earth the first time, and by dying on the cross according to the prophecies He completely broke the chains of sin which had bound human beings. And when He went back to heaven, He promised to come to this earth again. It was because the law of the new covenant, which He had established through His precious blood 2,000 years ago, disappeared during the Dark Ages, so no one would be able to receive eternal life and go to heaven without the second coming of Christ.

Everything about Jesus who is to come a second time is prophesied in the Bible, just like at His first coming. The Bible has already prophesied that God will come to this earth again in this age—He will come to the country at the ends of the earth in the east at His second coming, and that He will restore the truth of life—the New Covenant Passover—and will even teach His children about the Heavenly Mother who is the reality of the tree of life.

The Bible also records that God will leave the earth first, saying, “Why do you [children of Zion] now cry aloud—have you no king? Has your counselor perished, that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?” (Mic 4:1-9). In order to fulfill the prophecy of David’s throne, our Father was baptized at the age of 30 in 1948 when Israel, represented by the fig tree, gained its independence, and walked the path of the gospel for 37 years, and He went back to heaven in 1985 when He finished His 37 year ministry (2 Sa 5:4; Lk 3:23; Lk 1:32; Mt 24:32-33).

All the people in the world think that the fulfillment of every prophecy in the Bible is just a coincidence, but it is an inevitable consequence accomplished by God. The Spirit and the Bride have come from Zion and have restored the truth of the new covenant which was broken and destroyed, and in Zion which is prophesied to be rebuilt by God Himself we now keep the seven feasts in three times including the Passover as well as the Sabbath. All this amazing work is being fulfilled according to the prophecies of the Bible. However, the world does not know it and treats it as nothing more than a coincidence or something ordinary. Every prophecy is being fulfilled in its proper time without exception, but the world does not pay attention to it.

Although Christ has already come to this earth again, people are still just looking up at the sky. Since He is prophesied to come in the clouds, they are all just looking up at the sky. However, He has clearly said, “I have already come! I am in Zion. So, come to Zion and meet Me!”

Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken. There the LORD will be our Mighty One… . For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.Isa 33:20-22

This is the prophetic way which the Bible leads us to follow so that we can meet Christ who has come a second time in this age. God has already come to save us and dwells in Zion. Even though the people of the world do not recognize Him and treat Him as they please, God has come to this earth and is carrying out the work of salvation.

“I, too, have already come!”

The Bible has prophesied that when God comes to this earth a second time to save mankind, He will not come alone, but that God the Father and God the Mother will come together.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.Rev 22:17

We can see the scene where the Spirit and the Bride, not the Holy Spirit our Father alone, come to this earth together to save human beings and cry out to them, “Come and receive the water of life!”

In this age, our Father Ahnsahnghong has already come to this earth according to the prophecies of the Bible. At His second coming, God our Father taught us the truth about Mother, which all human beings must know for their salvation, and went back to heaven. Not only our Father but also our Mother have come according to the prophecies. “I have already come!” “I, too, have already come!” The Spirit and the Bride have already come and tell people to come and receive the water of life.

God the Holy Spirit has already come, but the world does not know the fact. And the Bride has also already come to this earth, but the world does not know it. Like that, the prophecies of the Bible are now almost fulfilled and are coming to an end, but those who claim to believe in God do not know God.

God has walked the prearranged path of the gospel as recorded in the Bible at His second coming to this earth, just as He did at His first coming. Everything God has done is not just a coincidence; God is working step by step to fulfill the prophecies even at this moment.

Our Heavenly Father and Mother have already come. They have come to give us life. By believing in Their names, we have been given the right to become Their children. So, we should give thanks to our Heavenly Father and Mother for having come to this earth to save us, and we have to quickly preach Elohim God, who has already come, to the whole world.

This year, let us put forth more strength to find all of our lost brothers and sisters, who are represented by materials for the Heavenly Jerusalem Temple. I earnestly ask you all to devote your whole heart and mind to the work of leading many souls, who are groaning because of disasters and sins, to repentance and to the eternal kingdom of heaven by proclaiming the anxious and earnest voice of Father and Mother crying out, “I have already come!” even more powerfully to the ends of the earth.