Ahn Sahng-hong
Portrait of Ahn Sahng-hong
Born
Ahn Sahng-hong

(1918-01-13)13 January 1918
Myeongdeok-ri (명덕리), Gyenam-myeon, Jangsu County, North Jeolla Province, Japanese Korea
Died25 February 1985(1985-02-25) (aged 67)
Maryknoll Hospital, Busan, South Korea
Resting placeSeokgye Cemetery, Oeseok-ri (신전리), Sangbuk-myeon, Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
35°27′26″N 129°2′55″E / 35.45722°N 129.04861°E / 35.45722; 129.04861
Occupation(s)Religious leader, author
Years active1948 – 1985
Known forWorld Mission Society Church of God
Notable workThe Mystery of God and The Spring of The Water of Life
Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils
SpouseHwang Won-sun (1923–2008) (married 1958–1985, his death)
ChildrenAhn Kwang-sup (b. 1954)
Ahn Myeong-seon (b. 1957)
Ahn Chang-jun (b. 1959)
Parent(s)Ahn Gyujung and Lee Weoljeon
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationAn Sanghong
McCune–ReischauerAn Sangong[1]

Ahn Sahng-hong[lower-alpha 1] (Korean: 안상홍; Hanja: 安商洪; RR: An Sanghong ; 13 January 1918 – 25 February 1985) was a South Korean Christian minister and founder of the Church of God Jesus Witnesses. In 1948, after receiving the baptism of the Seventh-day Adventist minister, he began to call for the restoration of the truth of the New Testament and the last religious reformation. In 1964, he officially established the Church of God Jesus Witnesses in Busan. Ahn Sahng-hong believed that Catholic and Protestant Sundays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and wearing the cross should not be observed because they are not biblical doctrines, and he advocated the observance of Sabbath and the seven festivals including Passover, Pentecost and Sukkot.[lower-alpha 2][2]: 7–8 [3]

On 15 April 1984, the last Passover Assembly was held in Gangdong District, Seoul; on 10 January 1985, the Provisional General Assembly was established in Seoul and a special conference was held.[4] Shortly after his death in 1985, a schism took place, dividing the Church of God Jesus Witnesses into two sects, the New Covenant Passover Church of God,[lower-alpha 3] The other faction is the "Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God" established by Zahng Gil-jah, and what is today known as the World Mission Society Church of God.[lower-alpha 4][3] Both organizations claim him as their founder: the New Covenant Passover Church of God sees Ahn as a teacher;[8] the World Mission Society Church of God sees Ahn as God.[9]

Early life

Ahn was born to non-christian parents[lower-alpha 5] on 13 January 1918 in the small, rural village of Myeongdeok-ri in the North Jeolla Province at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule. From 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, Ahn and his mother lived in Japan over a nine-year period. He returned to Korea in 1946. The family migrated to Busan, where Ahn grew up in the Haeundae District, the city in which he would later found his church.[11]: 127 [12]: 339 [13]: 65 [14]: 489 [15]

Own church

Ahn began attending the local congregation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1947 and received the baptism in 1948.[16][11][12][13][14][15] He reported getting revelations in 1953.[17] Ahn grew critical to teachings in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the church disfellowshipped him in March 1962 over disputes about the cross as a religious symbol.[3][11]: 128 [13]: 65 [14]: 490 [15][18][19]: 30 Twenty-three people followed Ahn and left the church, and two years later on 28 April 1964, Ahn established his church Church of God Jesus Witnesses.[lower-alpha 6][3][7][13][15][23] Church of God Jesus Witnesses expanded to 13 congregations in South Korea before Ahn's death in 1985.[24][25][26]

Beliefs

Major dogmata are outlined in Doctrine Manual of the Church of God Jesus Witnesses (1972),[2] and detailed in the more than two dozen books Ahn wrote. His original publications as well as scans of his notes and extant sermons have been made available online.[27] Ahn argued that the practice of the apostolic early church had been distorted and his restorational doctrines and practices included:[3]

  1. Women should wear headcovering while praying.
  2. Baptism is the first step towards salvation.
  3. The Sabbath should be kept on Saturdays, not Sundays.
  4. Christmas should not be celebrated as Jesus' birthday because it is the anniversary of the sun god.
  5. The cross is considered a form of idolatry.
  6. The Passover and Festival of Unleavened Bread should be kept.
  7. Keeping the feasts in Leviticus 23: First Fruits, Festival of Weeks, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement; and Feast of Tabernacles.

The Second Coming of Christ and Elijah's Mission

Ahn, who like most Christians[28] believed in the Second Coming of Jesus,[29] had predicted a Second Coming "within 10 years" in 1956.[11]: 127 [12]: 339 [14]: 489 [30]: 90 [31] Ahn Sahng-hong mentioned in "The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life" that therefore by studying the work of Moses, we can clearly find out the true situation about the relationship between Jesus and us, all the work that Christ will do in the future, and even about the appointed date of Jesus' second coming.[32][33] Ahn Sahng-hong also said that many false Christ would say "I am the Christ" now, just as Jesus predicted that false Christs would appear in the last day, however, salvation is found in no other name than Jesus, not only at His first coming but even in the last days.[34][35]

Chapter 36 "Elijah will be sent" is one of the chapters deleted by the WMSCOG, which mainly describes Elijah's mission.[36][37] The main point is that the last prophet Elijah was the one to convey the last truth of preparing the way for the Second Coming of Jesus and transform and ascend along with the live 144,000 saints.[35]

Eschatology

In the tradition of Seventh-day Adventist eschatology, which had been suppressed by Kuniaki Koiso during his wartime rule of Korea,[38] Ahn further believed that he was living in the end times and that the Second Coming was imminent. As Korean Protestants earlier in the 20th century had perceived Japanese occupation by identifying symbolically with the history of Israel,[39] Ahn, through biblical exegesis in his book The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life (1980) Chapter 1: Restoration of Jerusalem and the Prophecy of 40 Years,[35] interprets the Matthew 24:32–34 and write:

However, this nation came to independence in 1948 and the branches have become tenderand the leaves lush. As He said “...you know that it is near, right at the door"., it is about time that we learnabout something with more certainty. As per the research above, the Israeli nation went through major changes on a number of occasions in 40 years, so it can be ascertained that the above history accurately shows what to expect at the end. Since the Israeli nation came to independence in 1948, it makes it 1988 40 years after. Will the world really come to an end at that time? Or will there only be a minor change in the Israeli nation like what happened in the past? As Jesus said "As soon as its twigs gettender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see allthese things, you know that it is near, right at the door"., it will surely come to an end at that time.[lower-alpha 7]

Ahn Sahng-hong, The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life, 1980[35]

It was suggest that the world could come to an end in 1988, 40 years after the independence of the modern state of Israel. Ahn's original The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life is made available online; World Mission Society Church of God in their later editions of the book have deleted information pertaining to the failed prediction.[36][31][40][41] Not only that, but The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep, which further explained that 1988 was the end of the world:

I am not the only one who predicted the year 1988. The biggest author of prophecy on the earth, haringer, also said on page 191 of the world government and 666 that the year 1988 was the end of the world and would end around 1988. In addition to this book, once again the author colindige believes that Christ will come in 1988, and the Jewish glass gra also announces in a weekly trend that 1988 is seen as a turning point in global human history. In addition, there are dozens of prophets in 1988. Someone asked, "will 1988 be the end of the world? "I answered," the prophecy of the Bible cannot be destroyed. If the Bible records 1988 as the end of the world, it's over. If the Bible says it will come slowly from the date of record, you can believe it will come slowly. "[lower-alpha 8]

Ahn Sahng-hong, The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep, 1980 & 1985[42]

This means that Ahn Sahng-hong in his book "The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep"[42] said that 1988 was correct, but it may be very slow. In addition, in a discussion based on scriptural typology, presented his conclusion that the world would come to an end in 2012:

Since the day that the Ten Commandments was received, it took 168 days to build the tabernacle and to hold the ceremony, and as the fulfillment of this prophecy, Jesus also went into the heavenly Most Holy on the tenth day of the seventh month in 1844 which is the Day of Atonement, and since then began to build the heavenly temple for 168 days namely 168 days until the ceremony. The prophecy is to be interpreted as 1 day to 1 year (Ezekiel 4:6; Numbers 14:34. Therefore, adding 168 years to 1844 when Jesus entered the heavenly Most Holy, 2012 becomes the last day.

Ahn Sahng-hong, The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep, 1980 & 1985[42]

Mother

Although Ahn Sahng-hong's "The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life" mentioned, in the last days, the entities of Adam and Eve, namely the Holy Spirit and the bride, appeared to lead all the animals. The Holy Spirit and the bride are interpreted as the second coming Christ and the mother God.[43][44] But Ahn Sahng-hong explained in "Guests Who came From the World of Angels" that Adam represents Jesus who was in the world of angels before the creation, and Eve represents the angels whom Jesus loved. Ahn Sahng-hong came to the conclusion, Jesus is the last Adam, and the saints who are redeemed can be called the last Eve.[45][46][47][48]

Ahn Sahng-hong's "Walk with God" sermon notes have the following content: "Jesus keeps the Sabbath, so I keep the Sabbath; Jesus keeps the Passover, so I also keep the Passover; Jesus keeps the Feast of Tabernacles, so I also keep the shed Festival; Jesus was baptized, so I followed him to be baptized. Elisha followed Elijah; Joshua followed Moses; Peter followed Jesus; I followed mother". This is the WMSCOG believes that Ahn Sahng-hong taught Evidence of Mother God.[43] The NCPCOG said that mother means Sarah, which represents the New Testament.[48][49][50][51][52]

Um Sooin

By 1978 a group of people centered around a female member, one Um Sooin[lower-alpha 9] (born 1941), within the Church of God Jesus Witnesses, claimed through a chain of scriptural eisegesis that they published in writing, that Um variously was "the only bride", "the Heavenly Jerusalem", "the New Jerusalem" on earth, "the comforter sent by God", and they asserted that she was "our mother who has come down from Heaven", and that Ahn was Christ.[54][55][56] Um and the group around her claiming she was the spiritual mother were expelled from the church,[7][55][56] and Ahn dedicated a book entitled Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils (1980, reprinted 1983) to the controversy, in which he writes:[57]

This booklet was published to prevent troublemakers who misinterpret and behave fanatically, [and] explain the errors in the books that Um Sooin published ... women like Um Sooin have caused a great problem to arise with her corrupt ideas ... The Jerusalem in Heaven is Our Mother ... Um Sooin speaks as if she is out of her mind when she claims that the New Jerusalem is herself ... they assert that Um Sooin is our mother who has come down from Heaven. ... How extremely scandalous is this? With this type of misguided delusion, she has become a false prophet and has attempted to gain power. ... The New Jerusalem which is written of in Revelation 21:1–4 ... is a spiritual building not a person. .... Nobody except someone who is not in their right state of mind can believe and follow after this. ... Because the interpretation of Um Sooin was made to match their claims, they have made these ridiculous interpretations. ...

Ahn Sahng-hong, Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils, 1980 & 1983[55][56]

Ahn concludes his rebuking of Um Sooin:

There is never a time when the activity of Satan is cut off in the true Church. The Apostle Paul has written as follows that the Devil will utilize women to cause confusion inside the Church: "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner."[58] In other words, whenever a woman makes assertions in the Church, the Church will fall under the deception of the Devil.

Ahn Sahng-hong, Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils, 1980 & 1983[55][56]

Zahng Gil-jah

Ahn Sahng-hong's book "uncover seven thunder" published in 1955 describes: "this discourse is not my private speech, nor is it learned from anyone. But when our Lord Jesus Christ shone on me and gave me this light, the whole world looked like a dark night. When he shines his light on all sides of the earth, no one can receive it. Finally, it struck me and another person, who was still a child. This man is the one I will come to in the future. When the time comes, he will appear." According to the WMSCOG, in 1955, because Zahng Gil-jah was only 12 years old, she was described as a child and would appear after Ahn Sahng-hong.[43] However, Ahn Sahng-hong wrote in a notebook: "the beautiful deer fell to the ground. A man in white accepted the deer and gave it to me, and it became a child. The child came to me and left. I followed the child in the clouds of heaven. When a son of man gave out a light to illuminate the earth, the light was shining in all directions. But darkness is still everywhere, and no one can reflect that light. At last the light turned to where I was, illuminating the child and me." The NCPCOG explained that the beautiful deer represents a true Church of God. Like a child, it has accepted the truth of the seven thunder. It is a clean beast in the Bible, not Zahng Gil-jah.[48][59][60][61][62][63] Because Zahng Gil-jah was baptized in 1969 as a Church of God Jesus Witnesses, it can even be said that Ahn Sahng-hong did not know Zahng Gil-jah at that time.[64]

The WMSCOG said that during the last Passover Assembly on 15 April 1984, Ahn Sahng-hong witnessed God the Mother at the wedding hall and asked Zahng Gil-jah to pray at the pulpit.[43] The NCOCOG believes that this is because the church in Seoul is growing fast and the church gathers 300 people, so Ahn Sahng-hong celebrates the Passover in the wedding hall. Previously, in the late 1970s, many people also celebrated Passover at the Busan Sea Hotel, so it was normal to celebrate Passover outside the church.[65] The NCOCOG also said that although women were forbidden to preach at that time, anyone could pray for their brothers and sisters, so this was not evidence of mother.[50] It is said that the WMSCOG helped Ahn Sahng-hong and Zahng Gil-jah take a wedding photo at the Jiangdong Wedding Hall on 18 May 1984, but there were no guests or witnesses at the wedding scene, so the photo has been controversial.[65] Minutes provided by New Covenant Passover Church of God for the 10 January 1985 meeting state that Zahng Gil-jah was appointed as the director of social dedication and Kim Joo-cheol was the director of mission.[66][67][68][4] On 19 April 1985, Kim Joo-cheol wrote to the Busan General Assembly that the missionary Zahng Gil-jah herself was not willing to idolize herself, so we cannot idolize her.[69]

Death

Following a heart attack during lunch on 24 February 1985, Ahn had a stroke en route to hospital, and died the next day, 25 February 1985 in the Catholic Maryknoll Hospital[lower-alpha 10][71] in Jung District, Busan.[72] Ahn Sahng-hong was 67 years old. He was survived by his wife and three children.[3][12]: 337 [13]: 65 [14]: 494 [15]

Ahn was buried in a public grave located in Seokgye Cemetery[lower-alpha 11][74] 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Busan. From the time of his burial in 1985, a single tombstone stood beside the grave, the epitaph reading: "The grave of the prophet Elijah Ahn Sahng-hong."[lower-alpha 12][75][76] After the death of his wife Hwang Won-sun 23 years later on 4 September 2008, she was buried in the plot beside Ahn, and a new tombstone carrying both their names (as well as their children's on the back) replaced the 1985 stone, repeating the epitaph.[77][78]

Legacy

The unexpected death of Ahn gave rise to a power struggle within Church of God Jesus Witnesses:[7][79] some people in the church wanted to continue along the lines laid out by Ahn, others wanted to re-introduce the concept of a "spiritual mother" embodied in the then 41-year-old woman named Zahng Gil-jah[lower-alpha 13] (born 1943).[7][15][81][78] After an extraordinary general meeting in Church of God Jesus Witnesses on 4 March 1985 failed to reconcile the opposing factions, a schism divided the church into two sects[82][83][84][7][3][15]

New Covenant Passover Church of God

One group of people in Church of God Jesus Witnesses stayed on the premises in Busan. Among them were Ahn's wife and their three children. According to the minutes they provided on 10 January 1985, the church was renamed as New Covenant Passover Church of God.[4] Ahn's son Ahn Kwang-sup[lower-alpha 16] (born 1954) is an elder in the church and continues to expound on his father's work.[88] They opposed the doctrine of God the mother of the "Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God". They claimed that they had 25 truth books published by Ahn Sahng-hong, 37 books about his growth and 10 handwritten notes. At present, there are seven churches in total, including Songpa Church in Seoul. The church observes the Sabbath and seven feasts, including Passover.[89] Due to the calculation of feasts, Church of God Jesus Witnesses in Gwangan-ri, Busan was to be independent from the New Covenant Passover Church of God in 2016 and also oppose God the mother doctrine.[90][91][92]

An outside observer visited the church and had this comment:

The service performed at the New Covenant Church is not much different from that of the mainstream churches. The parishioners pray in the name of 'Jesus Christ' and recite the Lord's Prayer. They sing unmodified mainstream hymns. Like the Seventh-day Adventists, they observe Saturday as the Sabbath day.

Lee Seung-yeon, in Modern Religion, February 2012[81]

Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God

Another group of people in Church of God Jesus Witnesses including the man Kim Joo-cheol[lower-alpha 17] and the woman Zahng Gil-jah wanted to re-introduce the concept of a "spiritual mother", and on 22 March 1985 moved from Busan to Seoul.[7][3][13][15] On a meeting in Seoul on 2 June 1985, they discussed how to call Zahng Gil-jah, and established a church called Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God.[69][94] Two major new doctrines were codified[31][95]

  • Ahn Sahng-hong should be regarded as Jesus Christ who had already come, should be titled Christ Ahn Sahng-hong, and pursuant to a traditional trinitarian view of Christian hypostasis Ahn was consequently also The Holy Spirit, God the Father, and thus God.[96]
  • Zahng Gil-jah should be regarded as God the Mother, a female image of God, be titled Heavenly Mother, or simply Mother, and together with Ahn Sahng-hong be regarded as God.[97]

A change in religious practice, as reflected in the change of name from "Jesus Witnesses" to "Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong", was, that prayers were no longer conducted in the name of Jesus Christ but in the name of Christ Ahn Sahng-hong.[3]

The deification of Ahn Sahng-hong and Zahng Gil-jah has been "harshly criticized,"[7] and has led to the church being officially condemned by The National Council of Churches in Korea as an interdenominationally combatted, blasphemous, heretical cult.[98][99]

Around 1997, Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God had established a non-profit organization titled the World Mission Society Church of God for the purpose of registering and managing the organization's assets.[7][100]

Evaluation

Fulfilment of prophecy

The NCPCOG said that Ahn Sahng-hong has fulfilled the mission of stamping angels and the prophecy of the eagle of the East, questions about Elijah's mission, the news of the third angel, the prophecy of an angel with great authority, about the descendants of women, the prophecy of King David, and the reasons for the coming of Jesus Christ.[69]

The WMSCOG and the NCPCOG was agreed that Ahn Sahng-hong was God.[101][102]

1988 failed doomsday prophecy

Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God announced that "1988 is the end of the world" citing Matthew 24:32–34 as Ahn had done in his 1980 book The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life.[7][35][103][104][105] A few thousand members of Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God gathered on a mountain in Sojeong-myeon, Yeongi County, South Chungcheong Province awaiting the coming of Christ Ahn Sahng-hong, preparing for the rapture and the salvation of 144,000 souls. When Ahn failed to appear and nothing happened the church updated their apocalyptic forecast and scheduled it to the opening of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul later that year where the members gathered and preached the end of the world would come by the end of 1988 and that Ahn Sahng Hong would come again. WMSCOG later claimed it was a fulfillment of the preaching of Jonah.[3][7][12]: 342 [13]: 77 [14]: 494 [15][106]

Controversy over the date of baptism

As a central argument to the claim that Ahn Sahng-hong should be the Second Coming of Jesus, and in turn an argument for his suggested promotion of Zahng Gil-jah to the Bride of the Lamb, is the proposition that he fulfilled a Davidic prophecy by preaching 37 years from his baptism 16 December 1948 to his death on 25 February 1985,[107][108] a period which in reality was only 36 years, 2 months, and 9 days.[109] It is said that Ahn Sahng-hong once wrote that he was baptized in 1948,[110][59] however, the source for the baptismal date of 16 December 1948 performed by a Pastor Lee Myeong-deok in Incheon is however obscure, and no written record exists.[11]: 125 [12]: 338 [13][14]: 494 [24] In 2011 a protocol from the Seventh-day Adventist Church was discovered, stating Ahn was baptised when he was 36 years old on 9 October 1954 by a Pastor Gim Seo-gyeong.[111] The investigation by International Korean Christian Coalition Against Heresy[lower-alpha 18] showed, that while Pastor Gim could be confirmed, no Pastor Lee Myeong-deok was with the church in 1948, reducing the length of the ministry of Ahn from 36 years to 30 years and 4 months.[112][18][lower-alpha 19][18][81][77][111]

See also

Footnotes

Notes

  1. ↑ Korean: 안상홍 can variously be seen represented in Latin letters as Ahn Sahng Hong, Ahn Sahng-hong, Ahn Sahnghong, Ahnsahnghong, Ahn Sang Hong, Ahn Sang-hong, Ahn Sanghong, Ahn Sahng-hong, An Sahng Hong, An Sahng-hong, An Sahnghong, Ansahnghong, An Sang Hong, An Sang-hong, An Sanghong, and Ansanghong. Korean names follow the <family name> <given name> pattern, but his name is sometimes romanizised using the Western pattern <given name> <family name>, consequently e.g. Sang Hong Ahn, Sang Hong An etc. can also occur.
  2. ↑ Korean: 하나님의교회 예수증인회. Translation in a more direct word order would be "Church of God Jesus Witnesses".
  3. ↑ Korean: 새언약유월절 하나님의교회
  4. ↑ Korean: 하나님의교회 세계복음선교협회。Translation in a more direct word order would be "Church of God World Mission Society". This word order has previously been used by the organization.[5] 복음 can also translate to "gospel",[6] and the full name can e.g. be seen translated to "Church of God World Gospel Association."[7]
  5. ↑ In the book, The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life, which He wrote, in the chapter, The Order of Melchizedek, He wrote that the Second Coming Christ must be born in a family that does not believe in God.[10]
  6. ↑ Korean: 하나님의교회 예수증인회。 The name "Church of God", mentioned several times in e.g. Paul the Apostle's First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians, and in his Epistle to the Galatians,[20] is a name used by numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominational bodies.[21] Ahn in Doctrine Manual of the Church of God Jesus Witnesses (1972) cites First Epistle to the Corinthians and First Epistle to Timothy[22] as the source for "Church of God", and several verses in Acts of the Apostles as the source for "Jesus Witnesses".[2]: 7–8 
  7. ↑ Korean: 그런데 이 나라는 1948년에 독립하여 지금 가지가 연하여지고 잎이 무성한 시기에 놓여있다. 그러면 인자가 가까이 곧 문 앞에 이른 줄 알라 하셨으니 우리는 여기서 좀더 확실한 것을 알아야 할 것이다. 이스라엘 나라는 위에서 언급한 바와 같이 40년 만에 큰 변화가 수차에 걸쳐 생기곤 하였으니, 위의 역사는 종말에 나타날 것을 정확하게 보여주는 것이라고 확신하겠다. 그렇다면 1948년에 이스라엘 나라가 독립하였으니 40년이 지나면 1988년이 된다. 그 때에 과연 지구의 종말이 올 것인가? 아니면 옛날의 역사와 같이 이스라엘 나라가 약간의 변동만 있고 말 것인가? 예수께서 말씀하시기를 그 가지가 연하여지고 잎사귀를 내면 여름이 가까운 줄 아나니 이와 같이 너희도 이 모든 일을 보거든 인자가 가까이 곧 문 앞에 이른 줄 알라 하셨으니 분명코 그 때가 끝 날이 될 것이다.
  8. ↑ Korean: 서기 1988년에 대한 예언자는 나뿐 아니라 지상최대의 대 예언의 저자 할린제이씨도 서기 1988년이 세상 끝이라고 하였고, 세계정부와 666 책 191페이지에도 1988년경에 끝나리라 하였고, 그 책 후면에도 그리스도는 1988년 쯤 다시 오신다의 저자 콜린디일이라고 하였고, 유대인 유리겔라씨도 1988년을 지구 인류역사의 대전환기의 시점으로 본다고 주장했다고 주간경향에 발표하였습니다. 그 외에도 서기 1988년에 대한 예언자가 수십명에 달하고 있습니다. 어떤 사람이 질문하기를 1988년에 틀림없이 세상 끝이 되는 것입니까? 하고 묻는 사람들이 있었습니다. 나는 대답하기를 성경의 예언은 폐하지 못합니다. 성경에 1988년이 세상 끝이라고 기록했으면 그 때 끝이 될 것이고 성경이 기록한 날짜에서 더디 오시리라고 하셨으면 더디 오실 것을 믿으면 됩니다.
  9. ↑ Korean: 엄수인; eom-su-in[53]
  10. ↑ Korean: 메리놀병원。Also romanizised Merinol Hospital after its pronunciation,[70]
  11. ↑ Korean: 석계공원묘지; seok-kkye-gong-won-myo-ji[73]
  12. ↑ Korean: 선지 엘리야 안상홍 지 묘
  13. ↑ Korean: 장길자; jang-gil-ja[80]
  14. ↑ Korean: 새언약 유월절 하나님의교회
  15. ↑ Korean: 하나님의교회 안상홍 증인회。 The name is reflected in the domain name WATV.ORG registered in February 2000[85] the acronym standing for Witnesses of Ahnsahnghong Television.[86]Korean: 하나님의교회 안상홍 증인회 can be seen in other translations, e.g. a more direct word order "Church of God, Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong", or "Church of God, Association of Ahnsahnghong's Witnesses".
  16. ↑ Korean: 안광섭; an-gwang-seop[87]
  17. ↑ Korean: 김주철; gim-ju-cheol[93]
  18. ↑ Korean: 세계한인기독교이단대책연합회; International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy
  19. ↑ Previously a baptismal date of 16 December 1948 performed by a Pastor Lee Myeong-deok in Incheon has been reported, but the source for this date and name is obscure, and no written record exists.[11]: 125 [12]: 338 [13][14]: 494 [24] The published references writes that with a 1948 baptism the ministry of Ahn was c. 37 years (1948–1985),[11][12][13]: 75 [14][113] which has been used in argument for him fulfilling a Davidic prophecy being the Second Coming of Jesus, the use of the honorific Christ Ansanghong, and the assertion by the World Mission Society Church of God that he ascended to Heaven rather than died.[107] The investigation by The International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy of the protocol from the Seventh-day Adventist Church stating Ahn was baptised on 9 October 1954 by a Pastor Gim Seo-gyeong showed, that while Pastor Gim could be confirmed, no Pastor Lee Myeong-deok was with the church in 1948.[18]

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