The World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) with Anthony Forte: A decade inside the Korean doomsday cult WMSCOG, an arranged marriage, and the exit that followed

Absolutely.

So the World Mission Society Church of God is a group that originated in South Korea.

Although if you kinda look into the history of where it came from, there was this movement in the US called the Millerite Movement, where they had this prophecy of the end of the world.

And when that didn't come true, out of that particular group came the Seventh-day Adventists, and they kinda spread internationally.

And that's where this man named Ahn Sahng-hong was baptized.

He came into the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and then after some time of being there, he was, uh, kicked out and then created his own church, uh, the Church of God Jesus Witnesses.

From that group, uh, he started to teach some things a little bit different, talking a lot about, um, Sabbath day, uh, talking about the different feasts of God, and created his own church where it was expanding, but not too much.

One day, he had, uh, passed away, and from, I guess, the, uh, the time that he passed away, three different churches uprose.

Mm-hmm.

So there was a different, like, set of factions.

One of them was the World Mission Society Church of God, formerly known as the World ... uh, the Church of God Ahn Sahng-hong Witnesses.

They began to teach that Ahn Sahng-hong wasn't just this, uh, church leader or prophet, but actually was a second coming of Christ, and that one of the members of his old church, uh, a lady named Zhang Bilja, they started to teach that she was actually his spiritual wife-

Hmm

...

God the Mother.

So just like, you know, Jesus, they teach that he was God in the flesh who came down to, to Earth, uh, they teach that there is a second god this whole time that nobody knew about, his wife, and she has also taken on the flesh, and she's suffering on this Earth and, um, basically trying to lead, uh, us, who are fallen angels on this Earth, back to the kingdom of heaven, and we have to do that by believing in him and her and doing basically every single thing that they command, uh, including keep the Passover, tithe, offer, uh, time, dedication, bringing people into the church.

If you don't bring people into the church and expand it, then you can't go to the kingdom of heaven.

And it's, uh, spread from South Korea, and now it is global, and it's growing, and it's, uh, it-- The way that they teach the people, um, and the things that they teach is really it takes over your life little by little.

Um, it's surprising because when I first joined, it just seemed like a nice group.

Uh, it just seemed like these people know the Bible.

They're so friendly to me.

You know, they keep in touch.

And then little by little, the, the weirder things were introduced, but it didn't start off that way.

Absolutely.

So the World Mission Society Church of God is a group that originated in South Korea.

Although if you kinda look into the history of where it came from, there was this movement in the US called the Millerite Movement, where they had this prophecy of the end of the world.

And when that didn't come true, out of that particular group came the Seventh-day Adventists, and they kinda spread internationally.

And that's where this man named Ahn Sahng-hong was baptized.

He came into the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and then after some time of being there, he was, uh, kicked out and then created his own church, uh, the Church of God Jesus Witnesses.

From that group, uh, he started to teach some things a little bit different, talking a lot about, um, Sabbath day, uh, talking about the different feasts of God, and created his own church where it was expanding, but not too much.

One day, he had, uh, passed away, and from, I guess, the, uh, the time that he passed away, three different churches uprose.

Mm-hmm.

So there was a different, like, set of factions.

One of them was the World Mission Society Church of God, formerly known as the World ... uh, the Church of God Ahn Sahng-hong Witnesses.

They began to teach that Ahn Sahng-hong wasn't just this, uh, church leader or prophet, but actually was a second coming of Christ, and that one of the members of his old church, uh, a lady named Zhang Bilja, they started to teach that she was actually his spiritual wife-

Hmm

...

God the Mother.

So just like, you know, Jesus, they teach that he was God in the flesh who came down to, to Earth, uh, they teach that there is a second god this whole time that nobody knew about, his wife, and she has also taken on the flesh, and she's suffering on this Earth and, um, basically trying to lead, uh, us, who are fallen angels on this Earth, back to the kingdom of heaven, and we have to do that by believing in him and her and doing basically every single thing that they command, uh, including keep the Passover, tithe, offer, uh, time, dedication, bringing people into the church.

If you don't bring people into the church and expand it, then you can't go to the kingdom of heaven.

And it's, uh, spread from South Korea, and now it is global, and it's growing, and it's, uh, it-- The way that they teach the people, um, and the things that they teach is really it takes over your life little by little.

Um, it's surprising because when I first joined, it just seemed like a nice group.

Uh, it just seemed like these people know the Bible.

They're so friendly to me.

You know, they keep in touch.

And then little by little, the, the weirder things were introduced, but it didn't start off that way.