I woke up at 4 a.m. today and read a passage from 1 Peter 5:7: “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” It was a comforting message. Watching the deaconesses come out for early morning prayer with so many prayer requests, I felt that South Korea has not yet collapsed and continues to maintain its freedom because of these people who pray.

​While listening to the YouTube show “Kim Chae-hwan’s Current Affairs”, I found his explanation—even though he is not a pastor—to be spot-on: that freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of expression all stem from the Christian spirit of reading and writing the Bible and gathering to worship. Furthermore, he addressed the pastors of large churches who remain silent and the fake pacifists who cowardly sidestep the Word with a tone that was polite yet pierced right to the heart of the matter. His warning was: “Is this what those who have received God’s Word should be doing?” and that if the church does not rise up, South Korea will be on a path to communism forever, with no return.

​Fortunately, awakened pastors are beginning to speak out publicly, one by one, primarily on YouTube, and are rousing their congregations from the influence of fake leftist pastors. And the next generation of young people and students are already largely awake, filling the streets. Today, as I write this, I begin my day with vigor, thinking that God is looking down on South Korea and counting the prayers and numbers of the righteous—deciding whether to turn this land into Sodom and Gomorrah or into Nineveh—and striving to awaken even one more person.