The Old City of Jerusalem is divided into four quarters, Christian, Armenian, Jewish, and Muslim, each claiming the holy sites of their religion, and the bells of the cathedrals ringing on one side and the Muslim call to prayer on the other. In the midst of this religious conflict and chaos, I once worshipped in a church where fewer than a dozen Palestinian-Israeli Christians worshipped. The sermon was preached in English by a Korean missionary and translated into Arabic by a Palestinian pastor. These people were descendants of ancestors who had lived in the area since Jesus was alive, and they were the original Christians. What I realized then was that Christians are a very small minority and that God is protecting them to the end. I also think it is amazing that the Jews have kept the word of God even though they have lost their country and been persecuted throughout history, and conversely, I think it is a miracle that any people who have kept the word of God have not disappeared and have remained in human history.

That gospel spread from the Middle East to Europe through the Apostle Paul, and then to America through the Puritans. America was founded on Christian values, and through the sacrifices of missionaries, the only Christian nation in Asia, the Republic of Korea, was established by a president named Syngman Rhee. This was an astonishing chapter in Christian history. And I learned from the movie “The Birth of Korea” that those who have a leftist view of history, who do not consider August 15, 1948 as the founding date, but rather April 11, 1919, as the date of the establishment of the Provisional Government of Shanghai, are trying to erase that identity of a Christian country. They were distorting history by using pro-Japanese frames and ethnicity to portray Kim Gu, a self-proclaimed terrorist, as a leader who led the independence movement for independence and reunification, and emphasizing the elderly Syngman Rhee rather than the younger Syngman Rhee, who was responsible for the fraudulent election. This can be seen as a confrontation between Christian values and anti-Christian humanistic values, liberal democratic ideas and communist ideas.

In this history of confrontation, the economic policies of President Park Chung-hee and his successors, Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, saw a period of economic growth during which the churches exploded. However, the failed globalization of President Kim Young-sam led to an IMF crisis, followed by the beginning of South Korea’s leftward shift under Presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, and humanitarian aid to North Korea. The right-wing came to power under Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, but the left-wing’s incitement of mad cow disease in US beef and the Choi Soon-sil scandal eventually led to the impeachment of the presidents and the rise of President Moon Jae-in, who has been radically anti-American and pro-Chinese, even shutting down Christian churches during the coronavirus.

The good news is that Christians who opposed the anti-discrimination law gathered about 2 million people, including 1 million at Gwanghwamun and 1 million online, for the October 27 Unity Service, which is a small number compared to the total population of 51 million, but when I learned that the concentration of salt that makes sea water salty is 3.5%, I realized how important the role of Christians is to keep this society from rotting. Meanwhile, the news that the Democratic Party, which sued and accused the president of rebellion after the December 3 emergency martial law last year, sneakily dropped rebellion from the impeachment indictment, led to a laughable joke that it was like a husband asking a court to quickly rule on a divorce without mentioning that his wife had cheated on him, and that it was the rebels who were responsible for impeaching the heads of state institutions and turning the country into a virtual anarchy before the emergency martial law in the first place. But I still feel sad when I see the lies of politicians, the false testimonies of left-leaning people hiding in state institutions, the media repeating rumors from some journalists who cannot identify their sources, and the citizens who are incited by such news.

However, the twist is that reports have emerged that during the state of emergency, there was a commotion in the National Assembly, and the Election Commission office and training center were raided. Additionally, the slogan “STOP THE STEAL,” which Trump had used after his 2020 re-election defeat while alleging election fraud, has reportedly appeared in Hannam-dong. These developments have been reported by foreign media outlets such as Fox, CNN, and the Washington Post. I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that Elon Musk, who has 200 million followers worldwide, suddenly started tweeting about the situation in South Korea, and that he recently started following President Yoon Seok-yul. Then, one by one, citizens started to wake up to the issue of fraudulent elections, which was known as a conspiracy theory by some far-right YouTubers, and gradually, evidence of the great evil that was enveloping South Korea started to appear. And through this martial law, awakened Christians have learned that this great evil has been growing in influence over the past few decades in South Korea by co-opting many politicians, both conservative and liberal, by electing them as fake parliamentarians, and by sponsoring academia, culture, and the media.

Understanding President Trump requires looking not at his words but at his deals, as I learned from his autobiography The Art of the Deal. Similarly, the puzzle pieces fell into place when I realized that President Yoon Suk-yeol, a former special prosecutor, was demoted after investigating the incident where former NIS Director Won Sei-hoon operated a comment army to manipulate public opinion, and that he is the nation’s foremost expert who has long investigated electoral fraud. Observing the Chinese Communist Party’s election interference in multiple countries, I realized that Unrestricted Warfare is being waged not only against the United States but also against South Korea in the form of proxy wars. Looking at politicians, regardless of party affiliation, the vast entity of evil began to reveal itself. Then it seemed clear why some politicians stubbornly insist that martial law is the resurrection of dictatorship and push for impeachment, and why others, while claiming to be the president’s loyal defenders, argue that the imperial presidency must be abolished and the constitution amended to a cabinet system.

I also learned that while the mainstream media showed a video that the number of people in favor of impeaching the president was similar to the number of people against impeaching the president, there were actually many more patriotic citizens who were against impeaching the president. I even saw a reporter from a major news outlet being accused by citizens for falsely reporting that he was in favor of impeachment in front of anti-impeachment protesters, which showed how left-leaning the media in South Korea is. We also saw how religious vested interests are capitalizing on the chaos, whether it’s the religious establishment playing the most political game by pretending to be on the side of the underdog in the name of social justice, or cultists using their members to form political parties and get into the National Assembly.

However, unlike the organized labor unions and unidentified interest groups in favor of impeachment, and unlike feminists and LGBT people, the few Christians who opposed impeachment were voluntarily participating in rallies to defend the president. And as I watched the 2030s join the rallies and even fly in from the United States to defend the president, it occurred to me that they might be the first generation to enter a spiritual Canaan. As I meditated on Hannah’s prayer (1 Sam. 10:1) in my sermon for this week’s special dawn prayer period, seeing how an ordinary woman’s vowed prayer before the Lord can become a prayer that accomplishes God’s work, I was struck by the image of the lawyers protesting the illegal arrest of President Yoon Seok-yeol, sitting on the sidewalk in the Namdong district of Seoul in minus 10 degrees Celsius, mourning and praying. I wondered how to strike back against the massive evil that has been systematically covered up for decades and has been meddling in elections around the world since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, so I got up at dawn today to join in the historic Christian prayer that God’s justice would soon be done in South Korea.