[Shincheonji Zion Mission Center] The Food at Proper Time

 [Shincheonji Zion Mission Center] The Food at Proper Time

Main Reference: Mt 24:45-47

Mt 24:3, 7 Signs of the end of the age → wars, famines, earthquakes

Q) What is the true meaning of the figurative food at the proper time?

A) Revealed Word

[1] Figurative Food

▸ Physical characteristics: nourishes one’s body, sustains life

■ Physical food - edible
- not edible

■ Spiritual food - God’s food
- Satan’s food

1) God’s food: word of truth

Is 55:1-3 Eat water, wine, milk → ear: soul may live

Jn 1:1-4 life is in the word

∴ Spiritual food from God = God’s word that gives life (for the spirit).

Jn 6:27 Do not work for food that spoils: work for food that endures to eternal life

Jn 6:48-54 Jesus: living bread that came down from heaven = Jesus’ flesh and blood

Jn 6:63 Jesus’ word = spirit, life

Jn 6:68 Jesus’ word = word of eternal life (food of eternal life)

∴ One can eat God’s food through a person whom God has sent. The true meaning of the food is God’s word of truth that can save people’s spirit.

2) Satan’s food: word of lies (commentaries)

Gn 2:17 Eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil → (spirit) dies

Rv 18:2-3 Babylon: all nations fell from the wine of adulteries

[2] How to Distinguish Food

Job 34:3-4 Physical food: tested by the tongue

Spiritual food: tested by the ear

[3] What is Famine?

Am 8:11 Famine of hearing the words of God (spiritual famine)

▸ Reason why God gave (spiritual) famine to the believers at the end of the age: so that they will eagerly ask, seek, and knock for God’s food (Mt 7:7-8)

[4] Food that Saints Should Seek at the End of the Age

Mt 24:45 Food at the proper time = revealed Word

▸ Word that has an appointed time (time of fulfillment) ⇒ Not history, not teaching, but prophecy

▮ What is food at the proper time? The revealed word that testifies to both the prophecy and its fulfillment when a prophecy that has been sealed until the appointed time is fulfilled.  e.g. food at the proper time in Mt 24: the word that testifies to both the prophecy in Mt 24 and its fulfillment. food at the proper time in Revelation: the word that testifies to both the prophecy in Revelation and its fulfillment.

Mt 6:11 Daily bread

◾ Not physical food, but spiritual food

◾ food at the proper time that has to be eaten when a prophecy is fulfilled ⇒ daily bread that has to be eaten everyday

∴ revealed Word (prophecy and the word that testifies to its fulfillment) = food at the proper time = daily bread.

[5] Who is the Faithful and Wise Servant?

Rv 2:17

▸ What is hidden manna?

Revealed Word that testifies to the fulfillment of prophecy that has been hidden (sealed) until the appointed time

Rv 10:8-11 Pastor in the position of Apostle John who received and ate the opened scroll

Rv 22:16

▮ Promise and process through which the one who overcomes receives the hidden manna

▸ Faithful and wise servant that one must find in the last days 

= promised pastor who testifies the revealed Word

= Messenger of Jesus

= One who overcomes

= pastor in the position of Apostle John

▣ Summary of Key Points

◾ God’s food: word of truth

◾ Satan’s food: word of lies (commentaries)

◾ food at the proper time: revealed Word

◾ Faithful and wise servant: promised pastor who testifies the revealed Word.

verse	one to give food	God’s food (truth)	deliver	Christians
Mt 24:45	Faithful and wise servant	food at the proper time	give	servants in his household
Mt 6		daily bread
Rv 2:17	one who overcomes	hidden manna
Rv 10	pastor in the position of Apostle John	opened scroll (revealed Word)	prophesy again	peoples, nations, languages kings
Rv 22:16	messenger of Jesus	these things (fulfillment of Revelation)	testify	churches

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