Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian and Islamic belief regarding the future (or past) return of Jesus Christ after his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago. The idea is based on messianic prophecies and is part of most Christian eschatologies.
Ahn Sahng-hong
Ahn, who like most Christians believed in the Second Coming of Jesus, had predicted a Second Coming "within 10 years" in 1956. In the tradition of Seventh-day Adventist eschatology, which had been suppressed by Kuniaki Koiso during his wartime rule of Korea, Ahn further believed to be living in the end time and that the Second Coming was imminent. As Korean Protestants earlier in the 20th century had perceived Japanese occupation by identifying symbolically with the history of Israel, Ahn through biblical exegesis in his book "The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life" (1980) interprets the Gospel of Matthew to suggest that the world could come to an end in 1988, 40 years after the independence of the modern state of Israel. Ahn's original "The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life" is made available online; World Mission Society Church of God in their later editions of the book have deleted information pertaining to the failed prediction. Ahn in his book "The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep" (1980) in a discussion about the last day of rebuilding the temple scriptural typology
By 1978 a group of people centered around a female member, one Um Sooin (born 1941), within the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God, claimed through a chain of scriptural eisegesis that they published in writing, that Um variously was "the only bride", "the Heavenly Jerusalem", "the New Jerusalem" on earth, "the comforter sent by God", and they asserted that she was "our mother who has come down from Heaven", and that Ahn was Christ. Um and the group around her claiming she was the spiritual mother were expelled from the church, and Ahn dedicated a book entitled "Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils" (1980, reprinted 1983) to the controversy, in which he writes: