Review
We are living in the _______.
Hint: Part 1 Ch. 3
Last Days
What are the two characteristics of parallel providential periods?
Generations or years and providential facts
Which nation was centrally responsible for God’s providence in the Age of the Providence of Restoration?
Israel
What did Cain-type democracy and Abel-type democracy become?
Communist World and Democratic World
What do we call the time of Christ's Second Advent?
The Last Days
How long did it take for Noah to build the ark?
120 years
The conditions which accumulate in the course of providential history are called ______________.
The task of the central figure to fulfill all these conditions in a short time is called _____________.
1. vertical indemnity conditions
2. horizontal restoration through indemnity
In the four hundred years after the Israelites entered Canaan, how many judges governed the Israelite tribes?
15
In the Second World War, which countries were in the position of Adam, Eve, and the Archangel on God's side?
United States, Britain, and France
Who are the chosen people after Jesus's crucifixion?
Christians who inherited the faith of Abraham (not the descendants of Abraham)
What does the relationship between God and a perfected human being resemble?
They resemble the relationship between the dual characteristics (internal nature/mind and external form/body)
How many years and generations passed between Adam's and Noah's families?
How many between Noah's and Abraham's families?
1. 1600 years and 10 generations
2. 400 years and 10 generations
In the period of the divided kingdoms of north and south, what did God do when the Israelites strayed from the ideal of the Temple?
What did God do when they did not repent?
1. God sent many prophets to move them to internal reform
2. God chastised them externally by sending gentile nations such as Babylon to attack them
DAILY DOUBLE
What three periods were the period of preparation for the Second Advent divided into?
1. the period of the Reformation
2. the period of religious and ideological conflicts
3. the period of the maturation of politics, economy and ideology
What was the national indemnity condition that Korea had to fulfill as third Israel?
Forty-years of hardship under Japan
Recite the very first sentence in the Introduction, word for word.
"Every human being is struggling to attain life-long happiness and overcome misfortune." or "Everyone is struggling to attain happiness and avoid misfortune."
What did the 210-year period of Israel’s exile and return consist of?
The time when the Jewish people were taken as captives in Babylon for 70 years and then gradually returned to their homeland for 140 years
In the United Kingdom, what were the missions of the prophets, priests, and the king?
The prophets received instructions directly from God, the priests kept charge over the Tabernacle and later the Temple, and the king governed the nation
What were the providential causes behind the first world war?
1. indemnity condition to restore God’s three great blessings at the formation stage
2. have people on God’s side collectively overcome Jesus’ first temptation
3. lay the formation-stage foundation for the restoration of God’s sovereignty.
DAILY DOUBLE
What must the nation do to become one with God's Heart?
1) Walk the path of blood, sweat, and tears
2) The nation must be a people of goodness
3) By nature endowed with a religious character
What did the tablets of stone, the Tabernacle, and the Ark of the Covenant signify?
The tablets of stone signified restored Adam and Eve, and also Jesus and his would-be Bride
The Tabernacle was a representation of Jesus in symbol
The Ark represented the cosmos and, at the same time, was a smaller representation of the Tabernacle
DAILY DOUBLE
Who and what did the 400-year period of preparation for the second advent of the Messiah begin with?
And what was this time period's purpose?
1. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
2. To restore the 400-year period of preparation for the advent of the Messiah through parallel indemnity conditions
What three principles will the messianic kingdom be built on?
According to the new expression of truth, what do religion, economy, and politics need to do?
Interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values
The religion founded upon this truth will lead all of humanity to become one with God in heart. The economy will become in accordance with the divine ideal. The political order will realize the ideal of creation.
What are the internal causes of the world wars?
1. Satan’s last desperate struggle to preserve his sovereignty
2. to fulfill the worldwide indemnity conditions to restore the three great blessings.
3. all humanity may overcome on the world level the three temptations by which Satan tempted Jesus
4. to fulfill the worldwide indemnity condition to restore God’s sovereignty
Why does the Christ at his Second Coming have to be born on Earth?
What is Christ responsible for?
God created both the incorporeal and corporeal world and also created human being with a body and spirit so that the humans can rule both the worlds. Christ would grow and perfect their spirit and body and by guiding humanity to perfect their spirit and body, they too can be the lords of the world. Christ is also responsible for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.