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Preface

Lee Youngsoo, the Overcomer (Rev. 2:7 etc.), never prepares his sermons. Priests in other churches may wonder how he can preach his sermons without preparation. But it is true. Since he began to deliver God’s message from 1973, he has been directly delivering the words of God and Jesus Christ without his sermon preparation, because he was directly taught by God and Jesus Christ

After he was taken to heaven by Jesus Christ and saw God for the first time in 1970, God showed him his will and how to accomplish it nearly every three days from 1970 to 1973. In his vision, God showed him a Bible, and ordered him to open it, then he saw some texts were missing. He realized that it was no accident – they were being censored

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by God. When he looked into them, these blank boxes turned into animated scenes, like movies. In these scenes, the servants of God from different historical periods appeared and explained the hidden contents of the Bible to him.

These visions allowed him to gain a profound understanding of God’s will despite not having learned the Bible from others and to accurately preach the words of truth. With those words, sixteen sermon books have been published since 1974.

The Bible is a very secretive and cryptic book. Why did not God clearly reveal all its contents, but instead veil some parts with metaphors? It’s because of his enemy, Satan. His ultimate goal is to make his enemy a footstool for his feet. The Bible explains the procedure of how God will achieve his goal. If he revealed all his strategies in the Bible, Satan would be able to thwart his plan to win so that God could not perform the war. But if he did not reveal anything at all, it’s impossible for people to distinguish the work of God from that of Satan. Therefore, God had to prophesy a small part of his plan, in order for people to accept the

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