A Brief Evaluation of the Bride of World Mission Society

Church of God in Revelation 22:17

By Jaymark Molo
Have you ever heard the God the mother in the Bible? This is how I
was approached by one of the members of World Mission Society Church of
God (WMSCOG). To my astonishment, numerous texts has been presented
before me to support that God the mother is in the Bible.1 One of those was
Revelation 22:17.
This text has received a considerable attention among God the
Mother advocates. On this text, they would assert that the bride
unquestionably is divine and is no other than God the Mother. But one
might ask, how does the WMSCOG arrive at such a conclusion?
This will be the sole interest of this paper. Let us examine now this
text in the lens of their teachings and in the light of the Scripture.
WMSCOG God the Mother Theology in Revelation 22:17
God the Mother and the Bride. WMSCOG would assert right away
that the Spirit to said text refers to the Holy Spirit. Then after this, they
would point out to that the Holy Spirit is divine because He offers the free
gift of the water of life. Since God alone can make such an offer, the bride
also can be considered divine since she can makes a similar claim. Thus the
argument revolves around the prerogative of the bride to offer eternal life
which God alone can claim.2
Meanwhile, the bride according to them can be identified as God the
Mother fulfilled in the personhood of Zhang Gil-Jah, who became the wife of
Ahn Sahng-hong.
A Brief Reply to the Arguments of WMSCOG in Revelation 22:17
The Bride. The fundamental problem with the interpretation of the
WMSCOG is they go straight claiming that the identity of the bride is Zhang

1
See also, Jaymark Molo, A Brief Evaluation of Gods Two Images of World Mission
Society Church of God in Genesis 1:26, 27, posted on July 25, 2014.
(https://amologetics.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/a-brief-evaluation-of-gods-two-images-of-
world-mission-society-church-of-god-in-genesis-126-27/)
2
http://english.watv.org/truth/truth_life/content_mother.asp. See also,
http://www.truthofgodthemother.com/god-the-mother-in-revelation/
Gil-Jah without giving a single support from the Scriptures why is it so.3 This
is begging the question at its finest.
Secondly, in the bible, the bride is identified with the church, people of
God.4 Ephesians 5:22-24 in particular compares the union of husband and
wife to that of that of Christ and the church. We read, Wives, submit to
your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife
even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior
(NRSV, italics mine). Christ is the husband. The church is the bride. This
chart can further clarify this point.

The husband (a) Christ (a)

as (=)

is head of the wife (b) is the head of the church (b).

This could not get any clearer. Now, since they do not deny that Christ
can be identified with the husband; there is no reason to deny to that the
church can be identified as the bride.5
Come. The argument from Gods prerogative does not hold the water
in several reasons. Firstly, to be able to invite/offer the water of life does not
necessarily make you the source of it. If the bride invite/offers us to drink
the water of life, she does not necessarily become the source of it just as the
water delivery boy does become necessarily the owner of the water station.
Secondly, a closer look on the text will suggest that it is not only the
Spirit and the bride who makes the invitation/offer here but everyone who
hears extended the invitation saying, Come. The identity of everyone is
no other than the readers of this book.6 So following the reasoning of
WMSCOG: If the Spirit and the bride is divine because of the prerogative to
invite belongs only to God. So is everyone of the reader of the book

3
Even citing Galatians 4:24 cannot help their case here for it still begs the question
on how Zhang Gil-Jah became the fulfilment of that verse. Not mentioning that the
WMSOCG completely disregards the immediate and larger context of the text.
4
See, 2 Corinthians 11:2.
5
This implies that the bride does refer to single individual (Zhang Gil-Jah), but to
corporate entity (church).
6
See also, Revelation 1:3.
(and let everyone who hears say, Come. [Rev. 22:17b]). Thus, it would
result to multiplicity of gods which the Scripture is strongly against with. 7
Thirdly, the true of source of water of life8 is revealed in the book
itself. This is attested in Revelation 21:7, Then he said to me, It is done! I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I
will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life (italics mine).
The speaker here is undoubtedly no other than Jesus Christ himself, here is
the true God who just not offers eternal life, but also the source of it.9
Conclusion
When we let the Scripture interprets itself, we will have no room to
accept the teachings of WMSCOG. Jesus Christ is "the way and the truth and
the life (John 14:6ab). We can be saved without going through God the
Mother. No one comes to the Father except through me (14:6c) claims the
second person of the Trinity. The good news is, He bridged the gap between
the Father and Man.

7
See, Deut. 4:35,39; 6:4; 32:39; 2 Sam. 7:22; 1 Kings 8:60; 2 Kings 5:15;19:15;
1 Chro. 17:20; Neh. 9:6; Psa. 18:31; 86:10; Isa. 37:16,20; 43:10,11; 44:6,8; 45:21;
46:9; Hos. 13:4; Joel 2:27; Zech. 14:9; Mark 12:29-34; Jn. 17:3; Rom. 3:30; 1 Cor. 8:4-
6; Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:6; 1 Tim. 1:17; 2:5; James 2:19, etc.
8
See also, John 4:13-14.
9
See, Revelation 22:13, 14.