When I saw the alarming message on my Kakao group chat before I went to sleep that martial law had been announced, I immediately checked the news and saw the determined look on the president’s face and realized that this was a real situation. When I saw that the opposition was trying to impeach the minister of interior, the chairman of the communications committee, the defense minister, and even the auditor general who is investigating corruption in the Moon Jae-in administration, I knew that an impeachment attempt was right around the corner. I checked the Upbit exchange and couldn’t believe my eyes as I saw Bitcoin plummeting by over 30%, and XRP, which recently had a daily trading volume of over 10 trillion, plummeting by 50% in an instant. Soon, both Upbit and Bithumb exchanges were down and inaccessible, and I can only imagine the panic and confusion that speculators with leveraged investments felt during this time. The South Korean economy was also reeling from political risks as the exchange rate broke the 1430 won mark.

Rather than make a political analysis and assessment of the declaration of martial law, as a South Korean citizen who has been living through the five years of President Moon Jae-in after the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye in the past, this is, in a nutshell, Presidential Impeachment Season 2. In the past, the government’s responsibility for the tragic events of the Sewol ferry tragedy and the Choi Soon-sil gate scandal, which was eventually swept under the rug by the Constitutional Court, led the public to believe that they were on the side of justice and had judged an incompetent and corrupt regime. At the time, I was working at the Center for Creative Economy and Innovation, which was a key part of President Park’s agenda, and while I was swept up in the daily news and the rallies at Gwanghwamun every weekend, I think it was fortunate that I didn’t go to any of the rallies.

However, as time went on, I realized that the protest groups organized by the controversial tablet PC, which was first reported by JTBC, organized the candlelight vigil, and the media incited the crowd to successfully impeach the president in an unprecedented manner, and President Moon Jae-in was elected in that atmosphere. The prosecution forensic results of the tablet PC came out, and it was known that the leader of the candlelight vigil was the brother of a Democratic Party lawmaker, but as described in the book Goonhwa-ri, emotions dominated reason, so in a huge lie, they believed themselves to be right, and I was one of them.

Recently, major Korean media outlets have been relaying the content of U.S. left-leaning media outlets verbatim, speculating until the very end that Harris would be elected, and downplaying the Christian coalition worship service that drew over a million people to city hall on October 27 to oppose the Anti-Discrimination Act. This has revealed the shadow of that power. The forces lurking behind the media and politics operate legally within South Korea, making it difficult to prove their existence. However, it is clear that they have been actively working to undermine the free democratic Republic of Korea for a very long time. They hold a historical consciousness that believes the establishment of the South Korean government occurred on April 11, 1919, when the provisional government was established, rather than on August 15, 1948. Furthermore, despite the ideological wars that have persisted since the founding of the Republic of Korea, we have miraculously preserved liberal democracy and achieved economic development. However, instead of recognizing President Syngman Rhee, who laid the foundation and long-term plans for this success, as the nation’s founder, they regard Kim Gu, the chairman of the Shanghai Provisional Government, who referred to himself as a terrorist, as the nation’s founding father.

On December 3, the incumbent president declared martial law to crack down on the anti-national forces in the North, and the opposition declared the president a dictator and accused him of rebellion. I looked at this situation with the heart of a Christian who has lived in Korea since the martyrdom of foreign missionaries in the dark days of the Old Han language, when the majority of Koreans were enslaved and engaged in exotic politics and diplomacy, and who has lived through the dark tunnel of the Japanese occupation and the joy of liberation, and who has lived through the Korean War, when the country was divided and has been in a state of truce ever since. Then it seemed that the core of the sun-god cult in Pyongyang, the Jerusalem of the East, and the followers of its communist ideas in South Korea were doing a political dance and singing songs as if a new world was about to come.

But God’s justice was quietly moving behind the scenes, and the unexpected news that the martial law forces had raided and searched the election commission before the National Assembly brought the the “strategy of luring the enemy to one side and attacking the other side” to mind. Like Elijah, who stood alone against 850 false prophets serving Baal on Mount Carmel and prevailed, I vowed to live with dignity and began my day with early morning prayer.