On January 18, when it was announced that the President’s arrest warrant would be reviewed by Judge Cha Eun-jung at the Western District Court, many citizens were protesting. I watched the live streams of YouTubers on the scene until dawn, excited and worried about the growing size of the crowd and whether their protest would be heard. However, as I watched them try to arrest the president by force from the beginning, and illegally forge an official document to issue an arrest warrant from a public prosecutor’s office that has no authority to investigate insurrection, I felt that they would eventually carry out their evil plan. And while I was listening to first-hand voices from the scene through social media, I had an ominous premonition that the major media would distort the truth with their biased reporting. In the end, after the warrant was reviewed by the Western District Court, the citizens were outraged and started protesting at the Western District Court, but Judge Cha Eun-kyung had already left after issuing a 15-letter show-cause warrant, and when the shutter doors of the building’s entrance were opened by some fake citizens and suspicious police officers inciting riots, people started smashing the building’s facilities and going on a rampage. It was similar to the situation in the past when Trump supporters vandalized the US Capitol, claiming election fraud by Democrats.

Unfortunately, there was an incident where some youths were swept up in the process and were detained by the police for breaking into buildings and vandalizing facilities. It was reported that there were about 90 2030 youths, and we saw a biased media that labeled them as a far-right mob without explaining why they were angry and acted in such a radical way. However, I think it was a good thing that former Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-han and some lawyers offered to defend the youths for free. Meanwhile, after one of the young men was released, his “I’m not a patriot” memoir written while incarcerated was made public and became a hot topic, and as I read his criticisms, frustrations, and reasons for feeling bad about the current politics in South Korea, I found myself ashamed of myself as a Christian. While his crossing of the fence was clearly wrong, I wanted to applaud the young man for his patriotic efforts to be there in the early morning hours to defend the president.

And it was rather strange to me that even Reverend Kim Jin-hong, a leading Christian minister, and Mr. Jeon Han-gil, a popular history lecturer for the civil service exam, called for a fair investigation into the Election Commission, which had raised suspicions of fraud, but those who overlooked the Election Commission’s ridiculous stance of using shape memory paper as ballots or claimed that there were no fraudulent elections based on past court rulings were either complicit or blinded by their hatred and antipathy for President Yoon, who, in the face of so much evidence, turned suspicion of fraud into a conspiracy theory. As I watched the president defend himself in the Constitutional Court, saying that the reason he declared martial law was to appeal to the people, who are sovereign, I was convinced that it is they who will be executed on Haman’s pole (Ezra 9:25) when the sun of truth soon rises and exposes the dark places that have been hidden. And to the point where I was confused as to who was judging whom, the president was confidently telling the people the whole truth one by one in the Constitutional Court.

Already, the number of citizens at the rallies against impeachment outnumbered those in favor of impeachment by dozens of times, and the president’s approval rating was above the majority, but it seemed that darkness was about to break out before the dawn. And I meditated that the reason why God is hardening the hearts of the opposition leader and his followers is to show them the words of those who oppose God to the end, like the Egyptian Pharaoh and his army who chased the Israelites and disappeared in the Red Sea in one fell swoop. It also seemed that God is smashing the leftist ideology that has permeated not only Korean politics, but also academia, culture, and even the church, so that Korean Christian conservatives and the 2030 generation are now all in.

Those who say we shouldn’t talk about politics in church or that there is no Communist Party in Korea might think that Christians and patriotic citizens who gather in the plaza every weekend to chant anti-impeachment prayers are the far right who don’t know the grace of God. And I, too, used to wonder if a single bill would bring down my family and couldn’t understand why the president kept vetoing bills proposed by the opposition. But as I watched the Trump and Harris campaigns in the U.S., I began to understand that this is a clash of values and, ultimately, a spiritual war.

Eventually, when I saw Trump win against the predictions of the mainstream media in South Korea, I realized that the media was biased, and I got into the habit of seeking information, thinking for myself, and discerning. I also realized that even in South Korea, leftist politicians who oppose humanism and Christianity against God are proposing anti-discrimination laws that would tear down families and the Yanggok law that would hand over land to Korean immigrants. So I decided to be a voice in the wilderness, and I started my day with a vengeance, waking up at 5 a.m. to write blogs and interact with comments on various social media.