On October 29, 2023, 200 Church of God members united from across LA, Ventura, and Santa Barbara County in California to participate in the 7,522nd Worldwide Cleanup Campaign. Their destination was Torrance Park, where they showcased the incredible impact of teamwork and collaboration. Joining forces with them were Torrance Mayor George Chen, Torrance City Council Members Asam Sheikh and Sharon Kalani, alongside representatives from the offices of California Legislative Assembly member Mike Gipson and California State Senator Ben Allen. Volunteers enthusiastically gathered nearly 25,000 gallons of trash, picked up litter, removed weeds and collected foliage.

Like Jesus, we took off our angelic garments and put on flesh through women, when we came to this sinful world because of our sin committed in heaven. However, if we are saved from this sinful world by the grace of Christ, even though our body dies, our spirit will take off our robe of flesh and wear the robe of Christ and rest in the heavenly paradise temporarily. And when Jesus comes, we will also participate in the resurrection of the body. Just as God appeared to Abraham in flesh, we will be able to put on flesh or take it off. It is true that there will be the resurrection of our body. Our flesh and blood will be transformed into a perfect body—which is the angelic robe (1 Co 15:50–54).

What Do the Early Church and the Church of God Have in Common in Terms of Faith? Just as the saints of the early Church held the hope of resurrection through the resurrection of Jesus Christ and did not fear hardships, persecutions, or the adverse conditions of this world, so do the saints of the Church of God. They do not live for what is visible to the eyes or for fleeting moments, but rather, they live with the hope of resurrection that they will live in spiritual bodies in the spiritual world. After the Resurrection, Jesus Transcended Time and Space in the Third and Fifth Dimensions After Jesus was resurrected, He suddenly vanished while conversing with His disciples, unexpectedly appeared in a locked room, and demonstrated His ascension in front of them. This signifies that we, too, shall be like Jesus in the morning of the resurrection. There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. . . . If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:40–44

On Which Feast Did God Break the Power of Death and Confirm the Existence of the Kingdom of Eternal Life? Just as God submerged the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, He destroyed the power of sin and granted mankind the hope of resurrection on the Resurrection Day. It is the day when Jesus Himself demonstrated that we will be transformed from a physical body into a spiritual body. Why Do the Day of Firstfruits in the Old Testament and the Day When Jesus Was Resurrected Fall on Sunday? The day when the Egyptian army was buried in the Red Sea and the Israelites landed from the Red Sea was a Sunday. Therefore, to commemorate this day, the Day of Firstfruits in the Old Testament was established and it was always observed on a Sunday. According to the prophecy, Jesus Christ became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep and was resurrected from the dead on a Sunday. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Philippians 3:20–21

The Importance of Zion Established by the Spiritual David— the First Coming Jesus and the Second Coming Christ Ahnsahnghong Just as God provided the ark as a refuge in the time of Noah before destroying the world with water, God, who has come as the spiritual David, established the spiritual Zion where God’s feasts are observed and instructed mankind to flee to Zion before He judges the world with fire on the last day. Where Is Zion, Filled With the Sounds of Joy and Gladness With the Hope for Heaven? After Jesus’ ascension, the devil tried to devastate Zion by abolishing God’s feasts, but as prophesied, Christ Ahnsahnghong restored the seven feasts in three times and the Sabbath day. Therefore, the Church of God is always filled with the sounds of joy and gladness with the hope of salvation. “The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.” Isaiah 51:3

It is written: “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison . . .” (1 Pe 3:18–21).

In the Bible, death does not mean the extinction of the body and the spirit, but the separation of the spirit from the body. As it is written: 『. . . and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.』Ecc 12:7 『“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.”』Mt 10:28