A lot of young people came to our lesson. I myself did not really know the Korean language, and I also taught them. Thus, young people appeared in our church. As for the elderly, in order to attract them to the church, the wife used a medical device operating on a piezoelectric element and treated backache. Many elderly people liked this device because it helped to get rid of backache and other diseases, and they spread a rumor throughout the village that a doctor came from Korea. At first they came from curiosity, and then they became members of our church. The husband of this mistress also suffered from cancer and suffered a lot, and believed in God. Good strategy, isn't it?
A little about the woman that Kim Sang Soo's grandfather spoke about.
One day her daughter called us and told us that her mother had a dream, as if the angels had come to visit her. My wife and I, as usual, rushed to her house in a car. When we arrived at the house, her daughter and she were sitting on a bench. Seeing us, she was delighted and said to me:"Kisu, it seems to me that I will live a long time, and do not worry about me." Her face was shining, it was difficult to determine from her appearance that in three hours she would go to heaven.
We prayed for her and returned home. However, somewhere around 4 pm, her daughter called us again to inform that her mother had died. As soon as we heard that her mother had died, we immediately postponed all our affairs and went to her house. By that time, people gradually began to gather near her house. And as soon as we appeared there, her daughter met us and told an interesting story about her mother, how she painlessly went to the Lord. She was surprised at the news that her mother had gone to heaven so calmly, so unexpectedly.
Before going to heaven, Vera's mother asked her daughter to bring her something tasty to eat and hug her tightly. When her daughter returned with sweets to hug her, she was already cold. She very calmly and painlessly went to heaven. When I was convinced that her mother had left peacefully, I thought that God was taking His children away without any torment, moreover, calmly. After this incident, my faith became even stronger than it was before.
After this woman left, a few months later her husband followed her. His story is also very interesting. More and more I was convinced that God does not take believers without the assurance of salvation, but necessarily gives confidence that He is, and then only takes them. Therefore they so calmly leave for eternity.
And so grandfather opened his eyes and saw that all those gathered were crying like at a funeral. He asked,“Why are you crying? I'm alive!"They tell him in response that they had only recently seen the doctor; he said to prepare for the funeral. Then he says to them: go home.
A few days later he was transferred from Bykovo to Dolinsky hospital. That was in 1993, when I was attending seminary. Before going to seminary to study, I visited him in the hospital. I remember when I entered his room; he met me with tears in his eyes with joy and said: "Soon I will go to heaven." Then he asked to say hello to my wife and apologize to her on his behalf. He continued to say: “Now I understand why your wife bothered me, and what she meant, and she was right! I am saved from eternal destruction! "Hearing these words, I was moved to tears, but I could not imagine that he would leave so early, because he was positively disposed to fight further. But his wife, being next to her husband, saw how he was tormented by the procedures.
As a human being, I can't just imagine how he endured such torment when his stomach was washed with water by a tube. He suffered more not from cancer, but from the washing procedures. Eventually, he went to heaven. However, his death did not become a stumbling block for unbelievers, on the contrary, the daughter-in-law became convinced that he was in heaven, and then she herself believed in God. Looking at everything that happened, my faith grew, and the doubt that people would go to heaven disappeared. Every day I praised the Lord our Savior, falling on my knees, and imagined green meadows and a clear river, which he talked about.
The next day, his body was brought home. On the door, as usual, it was written in hieroglyphics that he had reposed. This was a tradition among the Koreans in Sakhalin. Every day endless streams of people, including Russians, came to say goodbye to him. When they saw that he quietly left, everyone was surprised at! Everyone said he was asleep. As a result of this, his last journey turned not into sadness, but joy, as if not a funeral, but a wedding. His last journey became proof that God lives. My wife was in charge of preparing the body for the funeral. Seeing how she touched him without fear, I stood aside and just marveled at her courage. Where does she get so much courage! I would not dare to do this.
After he was buried, they found a letter under the mattress that he had written at the hospital to his children, whom he writes: "I am going to heaven, if you want to come where I am going, obey Missionary Choi." His funeral turned into a joyous gathering. As a result, many relatives accepted Christ.
And his wife lived in the hope of seeing him in heaven. Ecclesiastes 7: 2. Better to go to a funeral than to a wedding, Solomon suggests that we go to a funeral because there is a message for all of us.
I saw off three or four believers on their last journey, including my stepfather. As for the stepfather, the doctors themselves were surprised at how calmly he went to heaven. I remember they said that my stepfather left so calmly that they didn’t have time to blink an eye when he fell asleep forever.
The fact that my brothers and sisters go into eternity calmly could not but affect me positively. Someday we will all go there too, it's a matter of time. Now I hate the word "death", instead of this word I prefer the word "eternity" or "the end of earthly life." Thanks to miracles, my faith grew by leaps and bounds, like a plant being watered. Although I have another story about a person who experienced a similar situation, I think this is enough to be strong in the Lord, to resist the values of this world.
His youngest son has not yet come to God, for some reason he still avoids me. I recently met a sailor who works with him and knows him very well. They are on the same ship "Aniva".When the sailor came to the seamen’s club again, we got into a conversation, and I learned from his story that he works with the youngest son of grandfather, Kim Sang Soo.
I asked him to send my regards to him. And he did as I asked him. However, being not far from our club, he did not dare to come to visit us.
God revealed Himself through the rainbow. 1995
What does a rainbow mean to you? God showed the first rainbow to Noah and said: this is the covenant made between Noah and all living creatures. And God promises that he will no longer punish the earth with water. This covenant still remains in force, but in addition to this, there is a covenant to be made between the individuals.
One fine day, my wife and I got together to go to the office to be discharged from the housing registration book. When we left the village, on the way a huge beautiful rainbow appeared in front of us, it was so close that we were stunned by the sight of this unusual beauty. We saw for the first time at such close range!. Usually a rainbow appears far, more over after the rain, but that day there was clear weather and it was five steps away from us, because the very reflection of the rainbow on the tree spoke for itself. From feelings of trepidation and joy, I pull over. For a second we froze to admire it, but for me it was a special message that God will always be with us whatever happens! And so it was, as had been expected.
Unlike my wife, as for me, whenever I have a particular phenomenon, I attach some special meaning to it. The rainbow we have seen has a special meaning for us.