[Shincheonji Doctrine] What is four living creatures around the throne?

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What is four living creatures around the throne?

= Shincheonji church =

• Four living creatures, four archangel commanding angels  
• Mission characteristics, a metaphor for human, ox, lion, and eagle

In the Word of Revelation, it is recorded that there are four living creatures in and around God's throne.

Theologians of existing denominations  interpret these four creatures as the Four Gospels recorded in the New Testament. Is this a biblical interpretation?

The four gospels are the four gospels recorded about 2,000 years ago: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Four creatures and the Four Gospels are similar in number at first glance.

Existing denomination churches interprets the four living creatures in chapter4 as symbolizing the four gospels. But living things are objects with life and the Gospel is literally a book. How can a book move alive? These four creatures are also written in Chapter 1 of Ezekiel. Looking at time, Ezekielser was written about 600 years before the Four Gospels were written. How can four living creature be Four Gospels when four Gospels didn't even exist at that time?

Also, if four living creature is the Four Gospels, there are scenes in which four living creature saying "amen" to praise, Does books do amen?

And does it mean that the book has six wings of four living creatures? So, you can see you can't match only numbers. It can be a true teaching when testifying the truth in accordance with 5w1h with the reality of the Bible. 

The first thing to know is that Revelation Chapter 4 says what is seen and heard in the world of the heavenly spirit. John the Apostle went up to the Spirit of heaven and saw the twenty four other thrones, seven spirits, four living creatures, and many eyes around the throne of God. Eyes around four living creatures means thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand angels (Rev.5:11).

Just as the head judges and commands a great deal of information that we received through the eyes, the reality of four living creatures surrounded by numerous angels, eyes refers to four archangels directing angels. Four archangels commands many angels into four groups. When angels are soldiers in heaven, four archangels are army commanders who give orders to angels.

Four living creatures have four faces each like lions, ox, humans, and eagles. Let's take a look at the meaning of four faces. The lion, the king of the jungle, means judging a man who is like a beast because they do not realize the word of God. A ox, lowing the weeds means plowing the field and pulling the weeds. A man, the lord of (the) creation, means judging truth and false using perception. The eagle, king of birds, means judging evil spirits. So, archangels are not a lion, a ox, a man or an eagle. Therefore, Jesus said the characteristics of four living creatures in comparison to physical creatures to explain the authority to judge. This is a teaching based on the bible.

The doctrine of Shincheonji is different from other churches. Why is that? Only the witness who saw and heard at the scene of fulfillment can testify the events of the Book of Revelation. About the image of heaven in Rev. chapter 4, the one who saw the image of the throne in heaven can testify.

= Presbyterian Church Pastor A =

• Four living creatures is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
• Having eyes keep open for 24 hours

It says four living creatures have eyes front and back. And these eyes don't sleep. Eyes remain open for 24 hours. When looking at the image, the first creature is like a lion, the second is like a ox, the third is like a human, and the fourth is like an eagle. This means the Fourth Gospel. It is a eagle gospel, a ox gospel, a human gospel and a lion gospel. When studying Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, it is all connected. The surroundings of Jesus appears through four living creatures. 

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