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The kingdom of heaven is at hand.   In Matthew 3:2,  “ And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ”  A distinction must be made between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. The Hebrew word " ἡ   βασιλε ί α  τ ῶ ν   ο ὐ ραν ῶ ν " is translated as the kingdom of heaven, which is the kingdom of God in the heart. Jesus tells the people to turn to God as God draws near into their hearts. The kingdom of heaven is Jesus Christ. For those who repent, Jesus Christ enters their hearts.   Angels who sinned in the kingdom of God took off their clothes and their spirits were imprisoned in a pot and became humans. Humans are beings trapped in the world. So humans die twice.   In Genesis 2:17,  “ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. ”  The Hebrew Bible says,  “ die and die. ”  there is. And in John 3:3,  “ Jes...

  5. Noah's Ark   Genesis 6:14 『 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 』 The flood symbolizes God's judgment. It symbolizes death for sin. In 1 Peter 3:21, “ The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: ” Baptism means dying on the cross with Jesus. In Romans 6:3, “ Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? ” It means that all the people in the world are those who drowned. God told Noah to build an ark out of gopher wood. Therefore, the Hebrew word gopher ( גֹ֔פֶר ) becomes ark. 『 rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 』 The pitch is made by mixing bitumen from the gopher tree. 『 The pitch of the gopher tree 』 symbolizes the blood of Jesus Chri...

 4. Water baptism (death) and Holy Spirit baptism (resurrection) Death comes twice. The first is water baptism, and the second death is fire baptism. The first death, water baptism, means dying to sin. Sin (old man) has been resolved. The second death is baptism of fire. Therefore, saints are also people whose souls that emerged from the body were burned to death. So, through the power of the Holy Spirit, one becomes born from heaven. This is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Water baptism is a ritual that expresses death to sin. Many people misunderstand water baptism. They think that water baptism washes away sins, but it is not a washing away of sins, but death to sins. In 1 Peter 3:21, “The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 』Water is the promise (sign) that the old man dies to sin and is resurrected as a new man. Sin has bee...

  3. I am sending down bread from heaven for you (Two fish and five barley loaves)   Exodus 16:4-5 “ Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk. ” in my law, or no. And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. ” 『 I will rain bread from heaven for you 』 The Hebrew Bible says ( מכרם לכחחם מ Դ ן Ծ הששרם מלים )   Matir Rachem Lehem ( מ Է מט Դ ԥ יר ל۸כ Զ ԛ ם ל۶ۖח۶ם ) translated, 『 I will make it rain ( מט֥יר ), bread ( מ۷מ۰ט۴ۥי ) for you ( ל۸כ۶ۛם ). ר ) 』 Rain and giving bread should not be combined, but rain and bread should be separated. The meaning becomes clear. So, it is a symbolic image of rain and rice cake falling at the same time. Rain means water and fish in the miracle of the five loaves and two fish, and...

  2.  Old man, new man In Romans 6:4-6, “ Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ” For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 』 The old man here refers to the first man, Adam. Christ was born into this world to give us a body of sin that must die. So, when Jesus, the last man, Adam, died on the cross, the promise to the first man was fulfilled. In Ephesians 4:22-24, “ That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, after which God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 』 A...

 Examples of the Cross and Resurrection in the Bible 1. The fiery serpent and the bronze serpent When the Israelites complained to God that they were having a hard time in the wilderness, God sent fiery serpents (judgment of fire), and many of them were bitten and died. So Moses prayed to God, and God sent the bronze serpent (resurrection). Numbers 21:8-9『And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a field: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. . And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a field, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.』 In the end, the Bible says that everyone in the world must die from being bitten by a fiery snake. However, the bronze snake becomes a saving grace for those who are bitten by a fiery snake. Moses makes a bronze serpent out of a fiery serpent. The fiery serpent becomes a bronze serpent. The ...