VISITORS FROM THE ANGELIC WORLD
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About the Book
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| Author | Ahnsahnghong |
| First Edition Issuance Date | August 1967 |
| Classification | Religion |
| Book Information | National Bibliography Search |
| Publisher | Melchizedek Publishing Co., LTD |
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Books Written by Christ Ahnsahnghong
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Visitors From the Angelic World is a book written by Ahnsahnghong in 1967. Questions about the human soul and the spiritual world have long been subjects of theological inquiry across cultures and throughout history. Drawing on biblical evidence, the book explains in detail the origin of the soul and the afterlife, giving readers spiritual hope.
Overview
The work addresses fundamental questions such as: Where did I come from? Why am I living in this world? Where do I go after death? VISITORS FROM THE ANGELIC WORLD provides biblical answers to these questions. It explains that human beings, who now live finite lives on this earth, were originally angels who lived in glory in heaven but sinned and were cast down to the earth. It further teaches that the soul continues to exist after physical death and that believers will ultimately receive the resurrection of life and the glory of the kingdom of heaven.
Author’s Preface
This book is about the good news that numerous angels, who sinned in the angelic world of heaven and were born as humans into this sinful world, will escape the punishment of their sins and return to the angelic world.
All people born into this world are visitors from the angelic world. The human soul is a theological topic of discussion throughout the world. Many religionists, including Christians, study the subject of the soul. However, they do not reach a unified opinion, but only discuss or teach it in their own ways. Wherever you go, you cannot hear any thesis or sermon which is definite, convincing and consistent. It is because the Biblicists today do not realize the fundamental principle of the soul.
If you realize completely how all the heavenly hosts and angels, the sons of God and the souls of people were created by God, then you will fully understand the soul—its past, present and future.
This book will give you understanding of how the human soul and angels were created and insight into the angelic world, this human world and the next world. It will clearly show you where the human soul came from and where it will return to.
If anyone preaches without knowing where the human soul comes from and where it returns to, he has no confidence in his sermon. Without knowing where you are from, how can you say that you know where you will return to? However, if you study this book, you will realize that you were close friends with the sons of God and the angels of heaven before you came into this world; and you will believe that the angels and the sons of God, who have not sinned, are waiting for you to repent of your sins and return to heaven.
Now, you can neither see nor understand all these things clearly, because you have put on a veil of sin. But if you gain thorough knowledge of the soul, you will look forward to meeting them all again with joy and hope. This book reveals undeniable truths about the soul based on the Bible. Please study this book seriously.
Contents
- Chapter 1 The Way of Eternal Life for Mortal Men
- Chapter 2 Chosen in Christ Before the Creation of the World
- Chapter 3 Life and Activities in the Angelic World
- Chapter 4 About Angels
- Chapter 5 To Seek and to Save What Was Lost
- Chapter 6 The Law Was Established So That the Trespass Might Increase
- Chapter 7 In Studying the Soul
- Chapter 8 Those Who Insist That There Is No Soul
- Chapter 9 The Soul Who Sins Will Die
- Chapter 10 Where Does the Human Soul Come From?
- Chapter 11 Jesus’ Soul and Our Soul
- Chapter 12 The Corrupt Sons of God and the City of Refuge
- Chapter 13 The First Adam and the Last Adam
- Chapter 14 Why Does Man Die?
- Chapter 15 Our Country We Will Return to
- Chapter 16 Our Home Is the Angelic World
- Chapter 17 Why Does Man Not Remember His Previous Life?
- Chapter 18 The Soul Made by God’s Breath of Life
- Chapter 19 Our Body Is the Prison of Our Soul
- Chapter 20 The Human Soul Continues to Exist Even After Death
- Chapter 21 Preaching Even to the Dead
- Chapter 22 What Will Become of Our Body at the Resurrection?
Chapter 1 The Way of Eternal Life for Mortal Men
Man is born, but he cannot escape death. A man is born and dies, another is born and then dies . . . How many people have been given birth and have died up until now? Though it is said that man is the lord of all creation, he is merely a slave to death. Why has the lord of all creation become a slave to death?
Whether a man lives for ten years or a hundred years, he is destined to die. Human life is utterly meaningless. This world is merely a short journey; no one lives forever. Every human being is a slave to Satan; he is held in slavery by his fear of death until it comes upon him. Nobody can escape death. How miserable the human life is!
The writer of Psalms described the vanity of life as follows:
Ps 90:9–10『All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. The length of our days is seventy years―or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.』
Although the length of our days is seventy or eighty years, it is like a dream overnight and like the grass which sprouts in the morning. Therefore, we can conclude that life is but an empty dream. The prophet Isaiah wrote:
Isa 40:6–7『All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass.』
Then, why were we born into this troublesome and vain world? Who made this vain and empty world? The Apostle Paul wrote:
Ro 5:12『Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned . . .』
If we consider the above words, it is a very serious matter that tens of billions of people must die because of one man, Adam. Why did the omniscient and omnipotent God allow Adam and Eve to commit sin? To this question, some give an answer as follows: “God could have kept Adam and Eve from sinning, but if He had done that, they could not have had absolute freedom. So God gave them the freedom of choice, and they chose to sin.” Do you think their answer is correct? If it were correct, how would they answer the next question? As it is written:
Rev 21:4『He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death . . .』
Here, why does God not give absolute freedom of choice, but get rid of death? If we are given absolute freedom in heaven, shouldn’t there also be the freedom to choose death or eternal life? How would they answer this question?
When we study these matters carefully, we come to know that eternal life was not guaranteed to Adam and Eve. God only said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number” (Ge 1:27–28). Eternal life was given under a certain condition. As it is written:
Ge 2:16–17『And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”』
The condition was this: “If you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will die; and if you do not eat of it, you will live.” To those who are redeemed by Jesus, however, eternal life is guaranteed. As it is written:
Rev 21:4『He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.』
See also
- Soul
- Angel
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Resurrection
- Heavenly Family
- Last Judgment
- The Spiritual Home and Heavenly Mother