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Magi chasing the stars to find the place where Jesus was born

The Bible prophesies about the place where Jesus comes a second time. It is the east where the sun rises. The Bible foretold the place where Christ came the first time. Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem as the prophet Micah prophesied in the Old Testament. At that time, the magi (presumably Persian priests)[1]came to Jerusalem to seek Christ who was born as King of the Jews, and the chief priests and scribes said that Christ would be born in Bethlehem, knowing the prophecy of Micah.[2][3]
Jesus comes again into the world for the salvation of mankind.[4] The east is the place where Christ appears again and carries out His last work of redemption.

The East Prophesied as the Place of Jesus’ Second Coming

The East and the Seal of God

The Four Angels Holding the Winds by Albrecht Dürer, 1498

God’s Sealing

Apostle John received the revelation that God’s sealing work would take place in the east.


After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Revelation 7:1–3


When the four winds, held by the four angels, let go, there will be disasters that will harm the land and the sea. As the four winds of the earth blow all over the world, from east to west, north to south, the winds represent a great disaster that will harm the land and the sea. Before the disaster comes, God puts His seal on His people to save them. This work begins is in the east, where the sun rises.

God’s sealing work that begins in the east takes place after the special signs written in the book of Revelation 6 appear.


I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

Revelation 6:12–13


Before the sealing work begins, the signs of the sun, the moon, and the stars appear. This is what Jesus mentioned as a sign of His second coming.


“Immediately after the distress of those days” ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory.”

Matthew 24:29–30


Jesus said that when the sun is darkened, the moon does not give its light, and the stars fall from the sky, it is a sign that the Son of Man, that is, Christ will come again. Apostle John saw the vision that God’s sealing work begins in the east after the sun and the moon were darkened and the stars fell from the sky. Comparing the two verses, we can understand that the One who brings the seal of salvation from the east is the Christ who comes a second time.

Passover, the Seal of God

The angel of death passes over the households that have kept the Passover.

The seal of God is the seal approved by God. The seal of God, which Second Coming Christ will bring, is a sign that saves God’s people from disasters. In Revelation 9, it is written that those who do not have the seal of God will be harmed.[5]
The Passover is the truth that contains the promise of salvation from disasters. As the name Passover means, whoever keeps the Passover will escape disasters. The Israelites who kept the Passover at the time of the Exodus, escaped disasters and were delivered from Egypt;[6] and in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, the people of Judah were protected from the Assyrian invasion.[7]
It is Jesus who has the seal of God in the New Testament.[8] Jesus said, “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.” In other words, he becomes one body with Jesus who has the seal of God.


Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. . . . Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.”

John 6:53–56


The Passover is the way to become one body with Jesus and receive the seal of God.


So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover. . . . And while they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”

Matthew 26:19, 26–28


Regardless of the age, those who kept the Passover were saved from disasters. Christ, who appears a second time in the east before the last great disaster comes, is to carry out the redemption work by preaching the Passover, the seal of God.

A Man Who Will Rise From the East

The prophet Isaiah wrote about a man who would fulfill God’s purpose in a far-off land in the east.


“Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service ? . . . Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—with the first of them and with the last—I am he.”

Isaiah 41:2–4

“From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.”

Isaiah 46:11

1st Fulfillment of the Prophecy by Cyrus

The fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great defeating the Chaldean by John Martin, 1831

The prophecy about the man who would rise from a far-off land in the east was firstly fulfilled by Cyrus (Cyrus II) of Persia located to the east of Israel. Cyrus conquered Babylon (Neo-Babylonian Empire) and freed the Israelites from captivity in Babylon and let them return to their own country.[9]
The book of Isaiah was written about 170 years before Cyrus conquered Babylon. Isaiah 44 and 45 prophesied the name Cyrus and his accomplishment of conquering many nations and liberating God’s people, Israel, from Babylon.[10][11] As prophesied in the Bible, Cyrus ordered the Jews not only to return to their home country but also to build the temple in Jerusalem, which was destroyed during the Babylonian invasion.


In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, . . . to make a proclamation throughout his realm and to put it in writing: “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you—may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem.’ ”

Ezra 1:1–3


Final Fulfillment of the Prophecy by Second Coming Christ

According to Isaiah 41, when a man rises from the east, he will turn the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into springs.[12] Prophetically, this can be done only when God comes.[13] When a man appears from the east, idolaters gather together in fear and tremble.[14] However, it did not happen when Cyrus conquered Babylon. It was because Cyrus acknowledged the religions of the conquered people.[15] The prophecy about the man who would rise from a far-off land in the east is finally fulfilled by God.
A bird of prey in Isaiah 46 is also a symbol of God, who is with His people and saves them. God compared the way He liberated the Israelites from Egypt to carrying them on eagles’ wings. [16] The way God protected and led the Israelites in the desert is likened to eagles’ protecting their young.[17] Therefore, the prophecies of Isaiah 41 and 46 refer to God’s coming from the east and saving His people in the last days.
God came in the name of Jesus 2,000 years ago. The birth place of Jesus was not a far-off land in the east, which Isaiah saw through a revelation, but Israel. The prophetic Cyrus who will rise from a far-off land in the east is Second Coming Christ. Just as Cyrus freed the Israelites from captivity in Babylon, Christ who comes again is to be born in a far-off land in the east and deliver God’s people from spiritual Babylon through the truth of the water of life.[18]


“Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!” . . . “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues.”

Revelation 18:1–4


Republic of Korea in the East

Republic of Korea located at the ends of the earth in the east from Patmos Island
Republic of Korea located at the ends of the earth in the east from Patmos Island

The land at the ends of the earth in the east, viewed from Israel where the prophet Isaiah was, and from the island of Patmos where Apostle John received the revelation is the Republic of Korea. The reason the Republic of Korea was prophesied as the place where Jesus would come again among many nations located in the east from Israel, was that the Passover, the seal of God, appeared first in Korea after 1,600 years.
The Passover was abolished at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. However, the Bible prophesied that the time for the Passover to be restored would come.


On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine . . . On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. . . . In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”

Isaiah 25:6–9


The purpose of God preparing a banquet of aged wine is to swallow up death forever, in other words, to give us eternal life. In the Bible, the only wine that gives us eternal life is the Passover wine.[19][20] “Aged wine” means that the Passover has not been celebrated for a long time since it was abolished in AD 325. The One who restores the Passover is God and the Christ who comes a second time. Also, the place where the Passover is restored is the place where Second Coming Christ begins the work of salvation before the last disaster comes.

Zion, the Place Where Second Coming Jesus Teaches the Truth

The prophet Isaiah wrote that the place where the Savior would come is Zion, and Apostle Paul quoted that prophecy in the New Testament.

Zion is the church that God has chosen as the place where He is with His people and the place where the feasts of God are celebrated; it refers to the church that keeps the feasts of the new covenant.[21][22][23] The prophet Micah prophesied that in the last days, God would teach us the way of truth in Zion.


In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Micah 4:1–2


The law going out from Zion in the last days is the new covenant.[24] The core of the new covenant is the Passover, the seal of God.[25] God teaches the truth of salvation in spiritual Zion, the church that keeps the feasts of the new covenant, and gathers His people to be saved. In other words, God gives the water of life to the parched world where the truth of life has disappeared.

It is Christ Ahnsahnghong who brought the New Covenant Passover, the seal of God in this age. Ahnsahnghong, who appeared in the Republic of Korea in the east, is the Christ who came a second time to restore the feasts of the new covenant, to rebuild Zion, and to save mankind from disasters.

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References

  1. ↑ "Magi". Britannica.
  2. ↑ "Micah 5:2".
  3. ↑ "Matthew 2:1-6".
  4. ↑ "Hebrews 9:28".
  5. ↑ "Revelation 9:4".
  6. ↑ "Exodus 12:11–13".
  7. ↑ "2 Kings 19:32–35".
  8. ↑ "John 6:27".
  9. ↑ "Cyrus the Great". Britannica.
  10. ↑ "Isaiah 44:28".
  11. ↑ "Isaiah 45:1–4".
  12. ↑ "Isaiah 41:17–18".
  13. ↑ "Isaiah 35:4–6".
  14. ↑ "Isaiah 41:5–7".
  15. ↑ "Who was Cyrus the Great?". National Geographic.
  16. ↑ "Exodus 19:4".
  17. ↑ "Deuteronomy 32:10–12".
  18. ↑ "Revelation 21:6".
  19. ↑ "John 6:54".
  20. ↑ "Matthew 26:26–28".
  21. ↑ "Psalms 132:13–14".
  22. ↑ "Revelation 14:1".
  23. ↑ "Isaiah 33:20–22".
  24. ↑ "Hebrews 12:22–24".
  25. ↑ "Luke 22:20".
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