China - 4 Years in Shincheonji in China, but I escaped.
This is my personal experience, I hope it can give brothers and sisters in Christ as a warning. Don't mistakenly enter the heresy and cult! Because as for me, the harm it caused was cruel and irreversible!
I am a child from a rural family. My parents had a bad relationship and they often quarrelled and fought with each other. Because I wanted to improve their relationship, I accepted the Lord Jesus in my junior high school, and I was lucky to become a Christian at a very young age!
However, everything had changed after I encountered SCJ...After graduating from college, I came out to work in the city.
One day when I went to work, I met a very kind lady (I called her Aunt). Through her warm introduction, I found that she was also a Christian (But actually from SCJ, I added her on my WeChat.
-Discover the "treasure"
After that, the aunt often asked me to go to her house for dinner, bible study, and youth activities...Although I refused many times, she was still enthusiastic about me. She talked a lot about my family, including my emotional issues.
At that time, I had a boyfriend. We had been together for more than 3 years. Although he was not a Christian, we were together to get married. After getting married, I was taken into SCJ by this aunt and started the learning process of SCJ.
The SCJ education process was the same like everyone else: plowing the field, gospel room (BB class), elementary, intermediate, advanced class, new family education and become a church member.
"Plowing the field" is a process to know about you, during which one-on-one teachers will find out about your details, that is, whether you are suitable to enter the centre class (there were 11 criteria they used) and later the SCJ church.
Then it is the Gospel Room (BB class). It is incredibly new and magical for people like me, who had little knowledge about the bible. it made me excited as if finding the key on the treasure map!
I made up my mind, at that time, that I must study hard.After I completed the course, I would also like to tell my brothers and sisters in my hometown so that they can also get the blessings from this open word!
With excitement, I passed the centre interview and successfully entered the elementary class. The elementary class mainly talked about metaphors. All the metaphors that I didn't understand before were revealed by the instructor!
-The second coming of Jesus
During this period, I didn't even had a trace of suspicion that they didn't check the bible context, because I just wanted to learn the whole bible quickly! In this way, I passed the elementary exam with a perfect score and entered the intermediate class. After entering the intermediate class , I learned one thing : offering!
As a christian, I know that there is tithe, but i didn't expect to give Lord's day offering, gratitude offering, construction offering, special dedication offering, and even offering to the missionaries (instructors) during New Year Festival.
Wow! I was little shocked! I didn't have much money because I was student and only worked part-time, and I couldn't ask my husband to help because he was still a non-believer.I didn't understand why do they have to collect money every week!
After having the doubt, I approached the instructor and he explained to me by picking a bible verse without proper context. However, somehow i believed him.
Sigh...Later I moved to advanced class. IN the advanced class, they revealed the so-called "Jesus" hidden in the bible, namely the famous promised pastor: LMH.
-Crazy "Evangelism"
Dear brothers and sisters! You may question whether I was stupid, and why I didn't recognise this heresy?
But I tell you, by the time I graduated from the advanced class, I had already received a year of brainwashing in SCJ, and I didn't doubt anything they say!This is why many SCJ people will refute all kinds of evidence that expose the true nature of SCJ. Even showing them with the correct Christian doctrines from the bible, they would still refuse and disapprove.
They brainwash you for more than 2 hours each day, step by step, makes people to have no room for their own thinking. Surrounded by SCJ believers also give people a feeling that if you don't work hard, the door of heaven will close in front of you. This kind of feeling will push you to study hard and bear fruits!
However even I didn't get a fruit in the advanced class, they still allowed me to enter the church. Because of that I once tried to crazily evangelise my husband. My husband was particularly disgusted, because I was even busier after entering the church!
Because I got married, I was assigned to the Women's group, and I went to the church every day before the dawn. After all kinds of education and various gatherings, it was already noon. Then I quickly rushed to work and after my work, it's already after 11 o'clock.
Day after day, my husband couldn't take it anymore, because we were newly married, we didn't have time to take our wedding photos, we didn't have time to hold our wedding, we didn't have time for honeymoon, we didn't even have time to watch movies and have meals together...
-Divorce for SCJ
Everyday I was busy like a gyro, thinking wholeheartedly that I will become one of the 144000 and enter the kingdom of heaven. Now thinking about it, I am really sorry for my husband, no, it's my ex-husband!
Yes, in less than 3 years, my husband offered me to leave SCJ and to live a normal life, to buy a house and to have children!Such a reasonable request! Brothers and sisters!
But I, trapped in SCJ, thought it was just a joke!Heaven is about to be accomplished! If I became the kingdom of the priest and "in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bring your children from afar, with their silver and gold (Isa60:9)"
"So why do I buy a house?" I asked myself.And the SCJ instructors said the kingdom of heaven are about to be accomplished. Everyone is charging to enter. "Are you going to have a baby and changing his diaper at home? It's ashamed to think about it! So ashamed! absolutely impossible!"I rejected my husband!
And I thought to myself: If you dare to stop me from taking the path of heaven, I will divorce you!
Because SCJ instructor said "If a gentile spouse hinders the development of heavenly kingdom and prevents you to go to the church, you can divorce that person!"
Things as I thought, my husband couldn't stand my indifference to the family and I couldn't stand the "hinderance" from my husband, so we divorced....
A good man, a good husband who had loved me for years and tolerated me for years had just left, all because of my "great love" for the early completion of the heavenly kingdom of SCJ"
-Emptiness after divorce
Sisters of SCJ said that I was doing the right thing! they said to me:" there will be a bigger "blessing" waiting for me!"
But after coming back home, facing the empty room, I cried...God! You help me!At that time, I couldn't figure it out, but I also told myself that it should be right, because many people in SCJ were also divorced!
There were many SCJ instructors who were also divorced, all for the work of God and to work more wholeheartedly without hindrance!
So I wiped away my tears and told myself to work hard to enter the heaven!
In the days to come, I worked even harder until I became a small missionary, and it was this small position that caused a lot of doubts in my mind and began to re-exam SCJ!
-"Heaven! Heaven?"
At the SCJ missionary gathering, the instructors talk about various methods to harvest fruits...I found that the previous aunt didn't really care about me, but only applied these methods to me, and since then I was taught, she never "Care" for me anymore!
I began to have low mood, until later I saw a few missionaries fought against each other, simply because they wanted to have the same fruit....
Instructors also had various conflicts and disagreements. The missionaries paid respect to those who had fruits, but show indifference to those who had no fruits...I bean to suspect: Is this really the heaven I have looking for? Didn't you say that the 12 tribes are the heaven?
Later, after the removal of KNH who was the 2nd in command in SCJ, KNH revealed various problems of LMN, and she personally admitted that she bought the position with money, as well as revealing that no one knows where the money went etc. My faith broke!
I cried many times in the night and prayed for answers...
-Buy "Eternal Life" for 7200 yuan!
Soon after the year end settlement, the South Korean headquarters ordered believers who didn't have fruits to pay evangelism fee of 1.1 million won (about 7,200 yuan)!
"Wow, This ...Do I need to pay so much money because I didn't bear a fruit?" "Why? Is it written in the bible? Should I pay for being bad at evangelism?"
Watching the chairman, on the stage, shouted and said"pay money to buy "life" ! Is money more important or you "life" is more important?"
"WHAT? I pay money to buy "life"? his word completely broke my faith and value!When I was puzzled, the most amazing thing was that the people around me didn't feel that there was any problems with the so-called pay money to buy "life"... instead, they knelt down, one after another, thanked the "God" of SCJ for giving them an opportunity to "live"!
-Escape from SCJ
In the following days, I began to plan my "escape" from SCJ.Because people who have been in SCJ for a long time are particularly difficult to come out, many people will find you and have a serious conversation with you, time after time... or even block you in front of your house door! Anyway I won't go into much details.
In short, although I have not completely walked out from the mixed teachings and the harm of family life that SCJ had caused, I sincerely hope that brothers and sisters who have read my story will be particularly alert! Be sure to have eyes to discern the spirits, and don't get into a heretic cult!Love you husband, wife, daughter and parents, never divorce easily!
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