“Remember Lot’s Wife”: The Lord Solemnly Warns, Through a Historical Event, of the Danger of “Spiritual Double-Mindedness” (Lingering Attachment to the World) into Which Believers Living in the Last Days Can Easily Fall “On that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will keep it alive. I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding together; one will be taken and the other left. And they answered and said to Him, ‘Lord, where?’ And He said to them, ‘Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered.’” (Luke 17:31–37) (1) After reading today’s passage, Luke 17:31–37, first in the Korean Bible and then in th...
The living should take this to heart [Ecclesiastes 7:1-4] On Thursday, April 20, 2008, there was interesting news in South Korea YTN 11 o'clock night news. The news was about some people taking pictures for their funerals, writing their last will letters, reading that letters in a mortuary room. I saw most of them crying when they were reading down their letters. Not only did they read down their letters, but they actually went into their coffins in the mortuary room. Then the other person slowly poured the soil over the coffin with a shovel. When I was watching that moment I thought if a person who was inside the coffin heard that sound of the soil, he would probably felt real about his death. The response of those who experienced their dying process was "I wanted to live more." And they said that they remembered their family members the most when they were going through that dying process. I heard the person who is the director of the death experienc...