Just as God said, "I am the LORD; in its time I will do this swiftly" (Isa 60:22), He is now accomplishing all the work of salvation very quickly. As we see our brothers and sisters streaming to Zion throughout the world, we should depend on God all the more and give all thanks and glory to God.

When we read the book of Acts, we can see that when Paul preached God''s word by the river, God opened the heart of a woman named Lydia to respond to Paul''s message (Ac 16:13-15). It was not Paul who opened Lydia''s heart. Since God opened her heart at that moment, she was deeply moved and accepted the word of God, and graciously received Paul as a prophet carrying out the errand of conveying God''s message.

It is the same today. No matter who preaches the gospel, it is God who opens the hearts of those who listen and accomplishes the work of the gospel by grace. I hope that you, people of Zion, will first consider what God''s will is for everything and carry it out.

God accomplishes everything

The following is a fable story. There was a rooster in a rich man''s house. One day, the rooster came upon an idea: ‘I woke up the workers early in the morning every day so that my master''s property would flourish, and helped them a lot by heralding each dawn so that they would go out to work at daybreak. Then, why does my master just give me things like wheat bran to eat?''

The next morning, too, the rooster cried cock-a-doodle-doo, and the day broke.
That day, the master wanted to feed the rooster something good, and gave him some delicious beans to eat. However, the rooster got rather angry with his master and said.

"Master, don''t you think you''re being too harsh on me? I''ve done so many things for you. Why don''t you recognize my efforts, and give me only uneatable stuff like this? If I do not crow, who will bring the dawn, and unless the dawn comes, who will wake up to work? It is all because of me that your house has thrived. I would bring the dawn by singing with my beautiful voice every day, and that''s why this family has prospered so much."

The master returned without saying anything. In the middle of the night, when the rooster was sleeping on a pole, the master took a piece of cloth and string and wrapped it tightly around the rooster''s beak. The next morning, the master went to the rooster and said, "It''s so strange. You did not crow today, and how come the day has broken?"

The rooster was under the illusion that his crow brought the dawn every day. Likewise, we may have mistakenly thought that we ourselves have accomplished the gospel work to some degree. Does summer come naturally if people just wear thin clothes?

Not at all. It is God who brings the dawn, and it is also God who has set seasons, days and years and controls them.

Even if a rooster does not crow, the day breaks. The reason Zion has prospered as it is today is not because of our little shouting, but because God has been accomplishing the work of salvation according to His appointed times. As a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, so Mother gathers Her children together. So God''s children, who have heard the news that Jerusalem Mother has come to this earth, are all supposed to gather together under Her wings. In the process, we have been called earlier, and according to the mission of those called earlier, we are now just carrying out the spiritual errand of preaching the gospel.

Humans try to judge things only in the categories they can see and feel, but God fulfills His providence in an invisible way. If we do not realize this fact, we are unable to turn away from a self-centered way of faith, so that we may commit the error of not adjusting to God''s will.

Do not call anything impure that God has made clean

Even Peter, the apostle of all the apostles, sometimes followed his own judgment.
So Jesus, during His stay on this earth and even after His ascension, instructed him to forsake his thoughts and to follow God''s will. One of His teachings was "do not call anything impure that God has made clean."

Ac 10:1-16 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, ". . . Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. . . ." . . . Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa. About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat." "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean." This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.

If we review the dietary regulations of the Old Testament, we can see that the law of Moses allowed only the eating of animals with split hooves that chew their cud, and fish with fins and scales. Animals like oxen or sheep, which have split hooves and chew their cud, were considered to be "clean" eatable food. However, the animals, which do not have cloven hooves or do not chew their cud, were deemed "unclean" and inedible.

Peter had also been keeping the food laws of the Old Testament. So, when God told him to kill and eat all kinds of animals, he said that he had never eaten anything impure or unclean and that he would never eat any unclean animals.

At that moment, God gave him this instruction: "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean." Even though God had made unclean animals clean and told Peter to eat them, he tried to hold on to what he had been observing. Then he was rebuked by God again. "Why do you call anything impure that I have made clean? If My judgment is different from yours, whose judgment do you think you should follow?" God asked him this question repeatedly.

Being very surprised, Peter woke up from his vision. Just then the men sent from Cornelius arrived at his house and told Peter that Cornelius had sent them to ask him to go to see him. Only then did Peter realize the will of God. Until then it was against Jewish law for the Jews to associate with the Gentiles or visit them because they ate unclean food. However, God abolished the barrier between the Jews and the Gentiles, along with the distinction between clean and unclean food, and opened the door to preaching the gospel to the Gentiles. Realizing this fact, Peter willingly received an invitation from Cornelius to visit his home and baptized him and his family after preaching about Jesus Christ to them (Ac 10:17-48).

Salvation depends on God

The gospel work of the early Church was accomplished by God Himself, not by excellent Apostles like Peter or Paul. We should clearly realize whom our salvation depends on and give glory and thanks to Elohim.

Jer 3:21-23 . . . because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God. "Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding." "Yes, we will come to you, for you are the LORD our God. Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel."

It is God who gives us salvation. Salvation lies in God''s hands, and everything that God has established is for our salvation. The reason why God has given us the Bible, God''s word, is also because He wants us to be saved.

2 Pe 1:20-21 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet''s own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

How can a man call anything impure that God has made clean? In the Bible, God teaches that there exists God the Mother for the salvation of God''s children. God has established the new covenant to save His children and told them to keep it.

Without forgetting the grace of God, let us follow the path to heaven always with gratitude in our hearts in accordance with God''s guidance. No matter how hard people try to insist on Sunday observance, we must remember that our salvation depends on God and put God''s word first rather than Peter''s thoughts and a pastor or priest''s thoughts. Since salvation comes from God, we must not forsake God''s word. So, according to God''s teaching, we are keeping God''s commandments and preaching about Jerusalem our Heavenly Mother.

If God calls anything clean, it becomes clean food, and if He declares it unclean, it becomes unclean food. In the same way, if God appoints a day, it becomes an important day for us, and if He treats a day as unimportant, it becomes an unimportant day. Before God said, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy," the seventh-day Sabbath had nothing to do with us. However, since God appointed it as a day of worship, it has become a holy day for God''s people to be saved.

It is the same with the Passover. Since it is the promise of God, it is precious to us.

In the Old Testament times God let His people celebrate the Passover by slaughtering lambs or goats, and in the New Testament times He declared it to be the new covenant and told His people to celebrate it with bread and wine. Nevertheless, if some people say, "Why do you tell us to celebrate the Passover with bread and wine, not with the sacrifice of lambs or goats? We can''t do it," what will God say to them? "Why do you call impure what I have made clean?" Even though they have not done so until now, if Christ said, "I substitute this bread and wine for My flesh and blood. So whoever eats this bread and drinks this wine shall not perish but have eternal life," it has become the message of salvation from the day when He gave that teaching.

The Bible testifies to the existence of God the Mother

Through the Bible, God has repeatedly explained and showed that there exists God the Mother as well as God the Father.

Ge 1:26-27 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

The book of Genesis was written by Moses, but actually he wrote exactly what he received from God, not his own opinions, when he was moved by the Holy Spirit. If we understand this characteristic of the Bible first and then read it, we can see that there must also be God''s will when God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness."

If the Bible says that male and female were created in the image of God, it shows that God, the primary author of the Bible, has made it clear that there exists the female image of God—God the Mother—as well as the male image of God—God the Father.

If people regard what God has said as nothing, will it perish? Never. God has made known to us that there are not only God the Father but also God the Mother. Nevertheless, if people say that God the Mother does not exist, can what they say be true? God says that we should not call anything impure that He has made clean. If God has made something clean, we must acknowledge it as clean and accept it, instead of judging God with our common knowledge. That is the way for us to be saved.

God awakens us to the existence of Jerusalem our Heavenly Mother, but the devil our enemy who slanders the truth is covering the glory of God by telling a lie that God the Mother does not exist.

2 Co 4:2-6 . . . And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. . . . For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

At Jesus'' first coming, there were some people who recognized Jesus, but there were also those who did not recognize the existence of Christ and opposed, persecuted and ridiculed Him. However, the word of God has never been veiled to those who are to be saved. God''s people, who believe that salvation depends on God and acknowledge every word of God, must not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults but only follow the word of God. Since the Bible says, "Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing," let us confidently preach God the Father and God the Mother, who save us, to all nations of the world.

Peter realized something great when God told him, "Why do you call anything impure that I have made clean?" At that moment, he thought, ‘Did I not live a life of faith, confined to my own thoughts? What does God think about that?'' Examining himself again, he repented of his sins. Then he forsook his own thoughts and followed God''s will immediately, and he led Cornelius, a Gentile, and his family to the way of salvation.

We, too, should completely follow what God has taught and instructed us to do, as the children of God, instead of having a faith based on common sense.

Blessed results produced when we deliver the voice of Mother

Since salvation lies in God, when God gave the old covenant law, those who kept it were blessed, and if God has given the new covenant law in Zion, those who walk in it is blessed (Mic 4:1-2). This is an age of prophecy when God the Mother, the reality of the new covenant, is leading Her children to the way of salvation.

Gal 4:26-31 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. . . . Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does the Scripture say? "Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman''s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman''s son." Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

The Bible says that only the children of the free woman can inherit the kingdom of heaven and become God''s children, and that the Jerusalem above is free and She is our Mother and we are children of the free woman—our Mother. All 66 books of the Bible testify about God the Mother.

If we want to bear much fruit, we must keep in step with the prophecies of the Bible. Those who follow the prophecies can achieve good results. Since God is carrying out the work of salvation as prophesied, we should preach Jerusalem our Heavenly Mother, who has come to this earth for our salvation, as much as we can, and we should quickly let people know what Mother''s will and desire is for them.

In this age, Mother is the source of strength and power to gather God''s children together to Zion. Chicks gather together when they hear their mother calling for them.

We are just God''s messengers who convey the voice of God to others. So, we must not think that we have done something by ourselves. When everything prospers, we are apt to take all the credit to ourselves and become arrogant—this is what God worries about the most (Dt 8:10-20). It is because if we arrogantly think, ‘I did it myself,''

we can receive neither blessing nor salvation.

Getting rid of all arrogance from our hearts, let us proceed toward the kingdom of heaven, following God''s will and commands. If God calls something clean, we just need to follow Him, saying, "Amen." Everything God has taught and cknowledged is true. Without forgetting that salvation depends on God, let us follow God wherever He leads us until the end, so that we will all reach the eternal kingdom of heaven.