The Place I Met God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son - Wolmyeongdong
Wolmyeongdong is a world-class spiritual attraction, and a place to feel close to God. It is a place located in nature, where the Christian Gospel Mission’s churches gather for retreats. This large natural temple can accommodate more than fifty thousand people at one time.
Wolmyeongdong is Pastor Jung Myung Seok’s hometown, and it used to be a remote and untouched land. In 1989, Pastor Jung and thousands of CGM members began to search for a place to freely gather and pray. Therefore God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son revealed to him, “This is a place of the Will,” and told him to developing Wolmyeongdong, where Pastor Jung had undergone spiritual training for the past twenty years.
As a result, Pastor Jung and CGM members devoted themselves to develop Wolmyeongdong for fifteen years. Pastor Jung depended on praying each day to receive God’s vision of the natural temple to direct construction on-site. Day by day and season by season, they endlessly worked, while dripping with sweat.
In the end, the world’s one and only Ambition Masterpiece, the enormous Octagonal Pavilion and Wolmyeong Lake, the international sized sports field, the Natural Temple’s lawn, the miraculous Holy Water, the House of Loving the Holy Son, and numerous other divine masterpieces and landmarks were conceived in this way.
If you would like to see the magnificent rock landscape and Natural Temple’s mystical scenery, or if you want to feel the Holy Trinity, then come to Wolmyeongdong!
Construction After Hearing God's Voice
"Must stack the rocks beautifully, magnificently, and mysteriously"
At the place where the rock landscape is located, Pastor Jung’s original idea was to develop it into cement steps. One day, when he was walking alone in the rear mountain, he felt a sudden headache, which dissipated after he sat down to pray. As he was staring straight ahead and worrying about how to carry on the construction, he suddenly saw a clear illusion of the rock landscape, which is now the Ambitious Rock Landscape.
At that moment, he heard God say, “Just like that, you must stack the rocks beautifully, magnificently, and mysteriously.” Hearing this, Pastor Jung began to draw what he saw, which is the image God had given for the rock landscape.
Pastor Jung recalled the verse from Hebrews 8:5, “They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.”
It is the same with Wolmyeongdong. Pastor Jung followed the image that God had revealed to him to establish this grandeur rock arrangement. After seeing the illusion, Pastor Jung spent over ten years of hard work to finally complete what is today’s magnificent rock landscape.
The rock landscape is around 200 meters wide and 35 meters tall, and it is the world’s largest man-made rock landscape. This rock landscape consists of several hundred genuine rocks, hundreds of pine trees, and beautiful flower bushes. It is truly the description of “majestic, mysterious, and beautiful.”
The Story of the Ambition Masterpiece
"The rocks may fall, but my heart will never fall"
The words “Ambition Masterpiece” is written to the left of the rock landscape; it is the name of the rock landscape, symbolizing “God’s ambition.” The name was received by Pastor Jung from God. The Ambition Masterpiece consists of numerous large rocks, each weighing hundreds of tons, all erected and displayed in harmony. This splendid sight makes whoever sees it feel deeply moved within the heart.
There are many stories of the making of the “Ambition Masterpiece”. At first, to erect numerous rocks that weigh over tens and hundreds of tons on top of the steep slope was not easy, since this scale of rock landscape has never been done before in the world. Therefore, Pastor Jung would have to invent a new construction method. It finally succeeded after continuous trial and error.
The Ambition Masterpiece had crumbled five times before it was completed in its current state. Each time it crumbled, Pastor Jung swallowed back his tears, and continued with the mindset of “never giving up, for the Ambition Masterpiece is a holy place with God’s Will.” The masterpiece was finally completed on the sixth attempt. “Even if the rocks have fallen, my heart and my spirit have not fallen” - this encompassed Pastor Jung’s undefeated mentality.
During the repeated construction and re-construction, crumbling and rebuilding process, Pastor Jung and CGM members accumulated countless tears and sweat, and they prayed abundantly. This is how they completed the beautiful, mysterious and magnificent Ambition Masterpiece.
With God's Design to Construct Wolmyeongdong's Image
Wolmyeongdong is located at an altitude of 400 meters. When looking down from the peak of In-dea Mountain, Wolmyeongdong resembles an image of “the throne.” Pastor Jung realized about this mysterious image on the last two days of his six month fasting prayer condition in 2014.
God said, “Humans cannot create mountains, rocks, and landscape; it is up to Me. It is because of the Will for Wolmyeongdong that I had created it to have the image of the throne.” God continued, “This symbolizes My White Throne in Heaven.” (Revelation 7:11 has written, “And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God.”)
Upon hearing this, Pastor Jung almost fainted due to shock and was in much awe; he trembled as if an electric current were flowing through his whole body. God expanded, "According to the existing throne image of Wolmyeongdong, I also guided you to create the throne-like rock landscape, Ambition Masterpiece, within the Natural Temple.”
At that moment, Pastor Jung finally realized that the Ambition Masterpiece rock landscape’s image was intended to be erected as the image of the throne; it is the throne upon which God sits when announcing the Word! Wolmyeongdong’s landscape and the rock landscape clearly show the image of “the Throne.” When he was creating the Ambition Masterpiece, Pastor Jung never knew that God had this Will in mind. It was not until then that he finally realized that in order to achieve the throne-like Ambition Masterpiece, God had allowed the rocks to topple over five times and they had undergone numerous near-death experiences. Pastor Jung offered a prayer of thanks with hot tears to God, for His great Will and design.
On top of God’s great masterpiece, the rock landscape Ambition Masterpiece, Pastor Jung placed a rock he had carved with the following words, “All this has been designed by God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, protected by the Holy Son, and realized by me and my followers.”