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This booklet is currently being distributed across the world in 10 different languages, including English, Japanese, Chinese and Russian.

 

While this booklet is stirring a new controversy and criticism, it is also praised for offering a new perspective of Christianity.

 

Reverend Lee, the author of the booklet, claims in this book that he has been directly communicating with Jehovah and has been hearing His words. He also claims that he learned, through visions since he was young, the meanings of Jehovah, Satan, the Garden of Eden, the Mark of Cain, Jesus, Heaven and Hell, the Judgement, and the Olive Tree. The word 'vision’ as part of the booklet’s title comes from the Bible meaning 'Revelations From God’.

 

These revelations, the spiritual experiences of the church leader and the visions that were revealed to him by God, are controversial in the sense that they broaden the horizon of religious imagination and suggest that there might be a whole new different world of faith. To this extent, putting aside one’s faith, his revelations and spiritual experiences can be another religious asset. Some may find this booklet hard to sympathize with and difficult to understand, yet it may be meaningful to capture his personal experiences in a written record because these events took place in a religious world and transcend the reality.

 

He said, "I heard God's voice say that nobody would believe the scenes and words in the booklet but that many people would believe these when the time comes," and added that, “Since Algoksungjeon has begun to take shape, I decided that now is the time to reveal God’s providence to the world and published this booklet to share the spiritual scenes to the world."

 

This booklet features some things that are elusive to ordinary people and believers, such as the face of Jesus, the image of Satan, and pictures of Heaven and Hell. Reverend Lee notes that he has showed to the world the images of the visions related to Jehovah’s world, Satan’s world, the Bible and the Olive Tree, for the first time in human history. Each piece of art has the date when it was revealed to him.

 

The 86-page booklet contains 32 pieces of visions, including 6 pieces about Jehovah’s world, 8 pieces about Satan’s world, 9 pieces about the Bible, and another 9 pieces about the Olive Tree. Holy Eden Church will continue to publish many other visions Reverend Lee received.

 

Reverend Lee claimed, “I have personally seen, heard and experienced the images of Jehovah, Satan, the Garden of Eden, Mark of Cain, Jesus, Heaven and Hell, and the Final Judgment and made them public to the world in an art form.”

 

He also announced in his booklet, "I was given the mission by Jehovah as the Second Olive Tree to attest as a prophet in the last days."

 

Reverend Lee, who says he met Jesus for the first time back in April, 1970 when he was running the business of Samil Industry in Seokgwan-dong, Seoul, depicts Jesus as "having a round face and round eyes of a mixture of black and blue, a total departure from what he had been imagining from various pictures of Jesus."

 

As to his vision of Satan, he said, "I first encountered with Satan in 1971. He had two five-centimeter long horns and slanted eyes, which caused a sense of fear", and went on to recollect, "With quite a sturdy and naked upper body with three fingers and about a 60-centimeter long tail, he waddled when he walked and his husky voice made me feel like I was speaking to a human."

 

 

 

Reverend Lee added, "What struck me as strange was the existence of a blue sky even though it was a spiritual world and Heaven and Hell existing in the same place.“ This vision is also in his booklet.

 

 

'Visions from God' is on the site below.

http://www.holyedenchurch.or.kr/