As I listened to a sermon by a senior pastor at Lifespring Church on the topic of Almighty God, I reflected on Ezekiel 37, where God brings dry bones to life and raises up a great army. God takes Ezekiel to a valley full of bones and asks him if he thinks they can live, and Ezekiel replies, “Only you know, Lord God,” and then Ezekiel speaks the words the Lord commanded. Ezekiel speaks the word as the LORD commands, and the dry bones in the valley become sinewy, fleshy, and covered with skin. And the animation is so specific that it could have happened in real life. The elder pastor explained to me that the prophet Ezekiel’s phrase “God knows” means that I cannot do it, but God is able because He is omnipotent. So I imagined the bones becoming sinewy, flesh rising, and skins covering them, and I pictured God’s life being breathed into the soulless people. Then I realized that the dry bones in the valley represented the people of Southern Judah who were taken captive to Babylon, and the image of the bones coming back to life seemed to apply to Korea in 2025.

After President Yun’s declaration of martial law last year, many citizens took to the streets to oppose the second impeachment of a president in history, but judges from the Woori Law Society in the business division and the Constitutional Court illegally impeached the president. The Democratic Party, which is running a legislative dictatorship despite the fact that there is no civil war, was inciting the public to the end by calling the already impeached president a “rebel” in North Korea’s language. In the meantime, some awakened politicians and pastors were risking their political and religious lives by holding rallies and alleging fraudulent elections. In particular, Hwang Kyo-ahn, who is not paid attention to by the media, was fighting against the fraudulent election forces even by defecting from the party he was representing, and publicizing the fraudulent election by appearing as a presidential candidate. Awakened university students and citizens, centered on Free University and Bubangdae, were fighting together, and I also received Bubangdae training and started activities online and offline.

But the anti-state forces have not only seized control of the judiciary and legislature, they have virtually paralyzed the executive branch, and with a leftist government soon to come to power, everything will be handed over to one side, even the military and foreign affairs. Anti-discrimination laws will be passed over the objections of the majority of Christians, the pandemic will return once again and vaccinations will be semi-forced, big media will be silenced or independent media will be controlled, the education of the next generation will be further downgraded, the health of the people will deteriorate, government spending will increase even more than it did during the pandemic, real estate prices will skyrocket, and the middle class will suffer even more, all while the state will continue to make bad laws while claiming to solve these problems. In fact, this is how a lot of things fell apart during the last regime, but people just don’t realize it or don’t feel it because it’s a slow process. It was like living like the dry bones in the valley, struggling to get by day to day, hoping for a government handout that would eventually come back in debt, or thinking about making some lucky speculation.

On my way to the dawn prayer meeting, I was startled to see a cigarette pack lying in the underground parking lot of my apartment building. Because it was Chinese cigarettes. Seeing the presence of communist forces encroaching even on my neighbors made me feel a sudden chill, and I truly realized that South Korea has already undergone significant communist transformation. For example, China’s Tencent owns 100% of Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends (LOL), a game Korean kids are hooked on. And the third-largest shareholder of Kakao, which operates KakaoTalk used by the entire nation, is also a Tencent subsidiary. Moreover, the CCP was exploiting the voting rights for local government heads granted to foreign permanent residents who have lived in Korea for over three years, as well as the Grain Act that the Democratic Party sought to amend, to effectively allow Chinese farmers to take control of that land. It was also recently revealed that the Chinese government’s purchase of land in Yongsan and the installation of military structures in the West Sea were both quietly pushed forward during the previous administration. Moreover, after the Democratic Party-affiliated National Assembly Speaker met with Chinese President, the visa-free policy for Chinese tourists suddenly passed starting this April. Seeing citizens unperturbed even as SK Telecom’s personal information of 20 million people was stolen by foreign hackers ahead of the presidential election, it brought to mind the image of dry bones.

But as I read Ezekiel’s words, my question, “Can these bones really come back to life?” became an expectation rather than a doubt, because in the United States, Trump has blacklisted Tencent as a Chinese military aid company, the son of a former MBC president and the presidential press secretary of President Moon Jae-in’s government has joined Free University and started chanting Yoon Again, and a Christian entrepreneur has publicly exposed the harmful effects of the revised Grain Act. And when a right-wing party’s presidential candidate was confirmed as the party’s presidential nominee within a day, despite sabotage from a pro-China cabinet faction within the party, polls recently began to show that he had outpaced the opposition candidate. Recently, I attended an all-volunteer gathering in the Incheon area of Bubangdae, and unlike in the past, I began to see hope as I saw young parents bringing their children with them. With the arrival of election observers from the U.S., coinciding with the nationwide release of PD Lee Young-don’s film “Is the Fraudulent Election the Work of God,” it was as if D-Day had begun. Believing that God would breathe life into my dry bones, I woke up early today to come to church and attend dawn prayer, praying that God would wake up at least one more brother or sister in faith to join the army.