Sometimes I ask God: why did you allow me to study and speak English, for what purpose? There must be a special purpose, to use me as a living witness among English speaking community. Now I can surely say that death is no longer an object of fear for someone, but for someone it is an unresolved issue. No one living on earth can escape this inevitable fate.
This is the secret of our life.
Bible quote God gave me after this experience.
Job 33rd chapter Bible:
Why should you compete with him? He does not give an account of any of his works.
14 God speaks once, and if he is not noticed, another time:
15 in a dream, in a night vision, when sleep finds people, while dozing on a bed.
16 Then he opens a man's ear and seals his instruction,
17 to take a man away from any undertaking and to remove pride from him,
18 to divert his soul from the abyss and his life from being struck by the sword.
19 Or he is admonished by sickness on his bed, and by severe pain in all his bones,
20 and his life turns away from bread and his soul from favorite food.
21 The flesh on him disappears, so that it is not visible, and his bones are shown, which were not visible.
22 And his soul draws near to the grave and his life to death.
23 If he has a mentor angel, one of a thousand, to show a man his straight path,
24 God will have mercy on him and say: “Deliver him from the grave; I have found propitiation. "
25 Then his body will be fresher than in youth; he will return to the days of his youth.
26 He will pray to God, and he is merciful to him; with joy he beholds his face and returns to the man his righteousness.
27 He will look at people and say: “I have sinned and transformed the truth, and it was not repaid to me;
28 He freed my soul from the grave, and my life sees the light. "
An elderly man who was afraid of death was a blessing to his relatives 1993
Now I will talk about a man who has worked all his life at the mine in Bykovo. In fact, there was no such person in the village who did not know uncle Kim Sang Soo. He was a highly respected person, literate and kind by nature.
He was greatly praised for his dedication to work and was well received at the mine! Even the chairman of the village council was familiar and maintained good relationship with him. In addition, among the Korean communities of Bykov, he was recognized as a decent, always giving a good example in all respects. When the vote for the candidacy of the chairman of the Korean diaspora took place, the entire community voted for him. As a result, he was appointed to be chairman of the Korean community. He was always ahead of other people when it comes to a big event.
I remember when we didn’t have a place for worship service; he helped us to get it through the village council. At that time we did not have our own place, so we had to rent temporary premises. As soon as he found out that we were renting it, he introduced us to the chairman of the village council, with whose help we got our own premises. And he himself occasionally, once or twice a month, dropped in on us during the service, but he did not have faith as such. Moreover, he did not believe in the existence of heaven and hell. Now many people go to church, but in their hearts they do not attach special importance to this.
My wife, as a missionary, was responsible for the church in the village of Bykovo. Accordingly, she was very strict and principled when it comes to the holiness of the church. If believers behaved in an inappropriate way, for example, there was a scandal between believers, they walked sulky, we had to visit them in order to reconcile. Although my wife was younger than them, she could make a harsh reprimand to them. Thus, she tried to keep the church clean and holy.
This man never smoked or drank strong beverages in our presence. He did it all in secret. We would often go to visit their house; he treated us generously and wholeheartedly. His wife was a member of our church. Once we met by chance near his house, he was standing and smoking. Then my wife jokingly tells him: "Grandpa, if you smoke, you will not go to heaven." In response to this, he aggressively attacked her and said: "Show me a person who has ever been to paradise!" To which she replied: "We go to heaven by faith." Then he added: "What difference does it make to you if I smoke or drink." She said: "Grandpa, don't be offended by me, I'm just worried about your health." He took the joke seriously. And then we went our own way. After that we did not go to visit them, and he avoided meeting us.
It has been several weeks since we last met with him. However, a rumor reached us through someone that he was in the hospital and was seriously ill. We were just about to visit him when his wife called us. Since she was a friend of my mother, she called me Kisu. The day she called me and repeated my Korean name, it meant that we were not strangers, but familiar. She asked to come to the hospital as soon as possible. She also said that doctors had diagnosed her husband with cancer and that her husband had recently been to heaven. At first I took it as a joke and did not believe it. Despite this, we put everything aside and drove to the hospital in a car.
By the time we arrived at the hospital, in the room in which he was, there was no one around except him and his wife. As soon as they saw us, they joyfully received me and my wife. His face shone and it is clear that he was filled with joy. Immediately on the face it is noticeable that he experienced something unusual.
In general, he is a little dark by nature, and maybe because he smoked a lot, but that day his face shone brightly. Before Christ, I knew him very well, because this family is my friend's relatives. When I was a godless, his son and I often played cards at weddings or funerals.
According to his wife, all the relatives went home before our arrival. Just recently, before we arrived at the hospital, the assembled relatives, sitting next to him, mourned that he had died. As soon as we crossed the threshold of his room, his wife was glad to see us, but a little saddened by the news that her husband has cancer. However, the most surprising thing was that he behaved calmly, and his wife asked us to listen to him. He was sitting on the bed, staring at me, and so confidently said:"Kisu, I will probably live another twenty years." Where did he get such confidence and what is the basis for the statement of the fact that he will live another twenty years?
Then he began to talk about his experience of being in paradise. For the first time in my life, I heard from a person about paradise, from the person who said: show me the one who was in paradise. According to him, he suddenly found himself at the foot of paradise; the gates of it could be seen from afar. He saw, as in reality, green meadows, and there was a clear river nearby. On the other side of that river, one believer stood, who had gone ahead of him. She waved her hand and said, Uncle Kim Sang Soo, why did you come here so early? It's not time yet, go back. He felt so good that he did not want to go back. This woman was Vera's mother, where we started the church, because she went to heaven unexpectedly. She will also be discussed in the next story. Her husband experienced a miracle and, filled with joy, went to heaven.
When my wife and I started a church in the village of Bykovo, it was opened so that we could get together and share the word of God. She always looked forward to us, preparing dinner. We had to travel from one church to another by bus. We didn't have a car then. You have no idea how inconvenient it was to travel from one service to another. We went there by bus, and returned home late, and besides, by two types of transport. Thank God, and then the Lord gave us a car, seeing how it was inconvenient for us running back and forth. We worked actively, and therefore God gave us a car.
We went there twice a week to attract many young people to Christ. In the village, we constantly stayed with this woman, who was waving her hand on the other side of the river. Her house was the first to receive us. The house became the foundation of our church. In the beginning, there were only old and elderly people in the church, and we had to attract the youth by studying the Korean language. They were interested in this language.