Farming the Ocean For Peace

We discussed in the previous post how we can find the solution to the world-hunger problem through finding food resources in the ocean.

The problem is, not many people keep this dream alive by sacrificing their lives to learn the difficult trials to become a fisherman like in the olden days.

 Everyday, the life on the ocean becomes a smaller community as this generation does not choose to have careers as fishermen. 

Those who can conquer the ocean will be the leader in the world.  Those who take advantage of the opportunities to learn about the ocean's resource and incorporate it into their livelihood and business will be the leader in the coming age.

Our Future Is In the Ocean

Americans consume meat every day, some eat meat at every meal.  Yet owning and raising cows and pigs is expensive compared to the price of catching one large tuna which can yield more than $4, 000.  Fishing this way is a more lucrative business than raising cattle.  Another problem other than Americans are less interested in becoming fisherman is that we do not eat a lot of fish as a whole. 

The Japanese, however, are extremely fond of tuna. Back in the 1990s the author of "As a Peace Loving Global Citizen" began to look at options to introduce American's appetite to a more Eastern cuisine and raise money and teach about the hidden treasure of the ocean which can solve many of the world's suffering.

Here is an excerpt from his book that explains how his company brought raw fish to America.

"There were many Japanese living in the United States then, and expensive restaurants operated by Japanese sold raw tuna at a high price. Also, some Americans who were learning to enjoy raw fish enjoyed eating tuna."

The business grew and continues to grow as restaurants high-quality fish and his company is at the top of the suppliers list.
 

"The earth where we live is covered by more ocean than land.  All we needed was one boat, and we could go as far as necessary in order to catch fish. The ocean is filled with things to eat. Also, on the ocean surface, there is an active shipping industry. Ships carry things made in countries all over the world to be sold elsewhere.   When we can love and inherit the oceans, we inherit the future.
 

"We purchased several boats in the United States. These were not he large ships that might be seen in a brochure but boats about thirty-four feet to thirty-eight feet in length. They could pursue tuna with their engines turned off. They were fishing boats about the size of a yacht that would not have major accidents.

"These boats were placed in Washington, San Francisco, Tampa, and Alaska. We also purchased a ship repair facility. We did a lot of our own research. We placed one boat in each region and measured the water temperature. We checked to see how many tuna were caught each day, and placed the data on a chart.

"We didn’t just take data that experts had created previously; our members went into the water themselves to gather the information. The results of studies done by university-based researchers in the area were used as reference."


True World Foods, Good Example
 

While his business continued to grow, he made his company an example of how large industries should work with the environment instead of depleting it.  It is crucial for large companies to soon play a major role in protecting the environment which yields the very product that they sell.
This is another wide-spread issue that has also increased the world's suffering, and not preparing the earth for tomorrow. Here the author explains how his company worked using ethics while serving the purpose of the whole.

"We also developed new fishing grounds. If too many fish are caught in one area, it depletes the fish population. It is important to go to new areas. Within a short time, we had made a major impact on the U.S. fishing industry. We entered the business of catching fish on the open sea.

"Our idea was that one ship would go out to sea and catch fish for at least six months without returning to port. When the ship had all the fish it could carry, a transport ship went out to it, took its fish, and resupplied it with food and fuel. The ship had refrigeration facilities where it could store fish for a long time.

"The name of our ship was New Hope, and it was well known for being able to catch many fish. I took that boat out myself and caught tuna. People were often afraid of getting on boats. When I suggested to young people that they get on a boat, their first reaction was often one of fear. “I get seasick,” I often heard them say. “All I have to do is get on a boat, and I start getting woozy and feel like I’m going to die.

The author continues to tell how he is able to influence others to learn more about fishing and how it is ultimately important for the world's economy and future.

"So I got on the boat myself first. From that day, I went out on the boat almost every day for seven years. Even now, when I am ninety years old, I like to go out on the ocean whenever I have the time. Now, there are more and more young people who say they want to go out on the boats. More women say they want to do this. With any task, if the leader does it first, the people follow. As a result, I have become well known as a tuna fisherman.
 

"It would have been of little use, however, if we had only caught the tuna. We also needed to be able to sell it at the right price. We created a tuna-processing facility, and I even sold the tuna myself. We put the tuna in refrigerated trucks and went out and sold them.

"If selling was difficult, we started our own seafood restaurants and sold the tuna directly to consumers. Once we had our own restaurants, people could not ignore us. The United States has three of the world’s four largest fishing grounds.
"The longer a person spends on the ocean, the greater the spiritual aspect of his life will become.  The ocean, can be calm and serene one minute and the next moment change its face and send strong waves."
 
The reality is, the fishing industry is an extremely dangerous occupation.  Deep sea fisherman such as Rev. Moon have been featured on many reality shows and documentaries about the dangers and the excitement enticed through fishing in the depths of the oceans.

Here is one last excerpt to how Rev. Moon overcame this fear and how others can overcome their fear of the ocean and bring about a new age centered on the ocean's resources.


"Waves several times the height of a person will rise up above the boat, as if to devour it. A strong wind will tear at the sail and make a fearful sound. Think of this, though. Even when the waves have risen and a fearful wind is blowing, the fish in the water have no trouble sleeping. They give themselves over to the waves and don’t resist them.

"This is what I learned from the fish. I decided not to be afraid, no matter how strong the waves were. I let the waves carry me. I made myself one with the boat, and we rose with the waves.

"Once I started doing that, my heart was never shaken, no matter what kind of waves I came up against. The ocean has been such a wonderful teacher for me in my life that I created the Ocean Challenge program to give young people the leadership training the ocean provides.training the ocean provides."

Not only does the ocean solve the world food crisis, it can also solve the world's rising economic problem that makes people dependant on the government for their livelihood. 

To learn further about the Ocean Challenge program and how it  teaches leadership abilities by introducing all facets and challenges of the ocean.  This program is just the beginning of preparing the next generation for the new era about to take place centered on ocean activities, and take advantage of the exciting age we are now entering.

To learn more about the Ocean Challenge Program you can visit here and view the introductory video:  Ocean Challenge.


Return for tomorrow's post:  Can't Conquer Space Until Conquer Ocean


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Note:

Today's text came from the textbook As a Peace Loving Global Citizen,     Chapter  "Our Future Lies With the Ocean" which is based on Dr. Rev.  Sun Myung Moon.

Solution To End Hunger Brings Peace

This picture makes you want to tell the woman to just pick up the food, just reach out and gobble it up.  What if food was out of reach?  Have you ever visited a restaurant and found out you left your wallet before you ordered?  Or have you went to get money out of the ATM and it was a negative balance.  Panic sets in of how in the world are you going to feed yourself and your family this week?

If we find ourselves in this situation, we will immediately ignore all other transactions in order to feed our family.  Food supplies is that important.  How about the ones who can't find relieve, the ones who can never find a way to feed themselves on their own without the aid of their friends and their loved ones?

 

Many affluent people wonder, "Why don't they just get a job?", "Save your money", "Budget, Budget."  I used to be that person.  But now I understand fully how it feels to not be able to do for yourself.  Even with all of the talent in the world, and religion and faith one person has, sometimes God just places people in a circumstance for a certain period of time in order to reach a higher purpose.

What if America was to go through that situation once more?  After the Great Depression, America was very, very affluent in all aspects of society and we were very giving to the rest of the world. 

Are we like this today?  Truthfully, are we like that as a country, ready to sacrifice for the greater good?

At the turn of the 20th century, after the two world wars, America's heart and sacrifice of its men for other countries made it rise to the number one spot in the world.  However, this position is not eternal or stable, it was based on a Godly foundation of thousands of American's sacrifice planting seeds of revival and a higher belief in God than any other country.  They served God in school, in the courthouse, and on their money.

Is America the same as it was in the 1950s?  Are we raised with traditions to care for the world's situation now?  Many liberation movements and struggles and diseases were fought and won by the 1960s and America was living up to the founding father's beliefs. 

Today, can God look at America's situation, the lifestyle and its homes with happiness? Are we fulfilling our mission as a country that the forefather's planted hundred years ago?


Planting Seeds

To solve the problem of hunger we must have a heart that is willing to plant seeds. Seeds are planted and wait unseen under the soil until they are able to germinate and break through their outer cover.

Similarly, it is better to teach a person how to plant and harvest wheat and then turn it into bread, than it is to give a piece of bread to a person who is about to die.

The former may be more difficult and not result in as much public recognition, but it is the only way to arrive at a fundamental and sustainable solution to the world's hunger situation. We need to begin now to study the climate, the soil, and the character of the people in areas that suffer from hunger.

In Africa, there is a species of tree called manchuka. The people in Congo feed the leaves of this tree, which are high in nutrition, to their cattle to fatten them up before taking them to market. They also pound the leaves of this tree on a stone mill, add some oil, and fry them in batter.

If a society was to plant many manchuka trees and make powder out of the entire tree after throwing out the poisonous root, that powder can be turned into bread!

Also, Jerusalem artichokes, which resemble sweet potatoes, grow very quickly once they are planted

in the soil. The amount that can be harvested is three times greater than that of other famine relief crops.

Planting a lot of Jerusalem artichokes is another way to contribute to resolving the hunger problem. In Jardim, a large earthworm is used in farming, and this makes the soil quite fertile. This earthworm's natural habitat is Campana, but perhaps we can study its ecology and use it to help agriculture in other areas.

Koreans are working in the Mato Grosso region to study silkworms.  If the cultivation of silkworms is successful there, it will be possible to make silk cheaply and sell it to buy food. There is no quick fix to the problem of world hunger.

People in each country have different tastes for food and different customs, and the plants and animals are different.
It is as important to teach the skills needed to become self-sufficient in producing food as it is to distribute food directly to those in need.

To teach such skills, we need to build schools in remote areas to combat illiteracy.

Technical schools will need to be established in order to give people the ability to support themselves. The Westerners who conquered Africa and South America did not provide technology to the people who were already there. They only used the people as laborers as they needed to dig up and take away the resources that were buried in the ground. They did not teach the people how to farm or how to operate a factory to provide their own resources.

This was not right.


Providing More Than Just Supplies

Another problem faced by people suffering from hunger is that they cannot afford proper medical treatment when they become ill. On the other side of the world, developed countries are seeing an overuse of drugs, but people who are hungry often die because they cannot afford simple medicine for diarrhea or a cold.

Therefore, as we work to eradicate hunger we must also provide medical support. We must establish clinics and care for those who suffer from chronic illness.

The solution is to "teach a man to fish".  New Hope Farms was created in Brazil’s Jardim region as a model to show how humanity can live together in peace.

It tilled a wide expanse of land to make farmland, and there is a cattle ranch in the higher elevations. New Hope Farms is in Brazil, but it does not belong only to the people of Brazil. Anyone who is hungry can go to New Hope Farms, work, and be fed.  Some two thousand people from all races and from all over the world can always eat and sleep there.

Schools will be established there from elementary school to university. People will be taught how to farm and how to raise cattle. We will also teach how to plant and raise trees and how to catch, process, and sell fish. We do not have only a farm. We use the numerous lakes in the vicinity of the river to create fish farms and fishing grounds.

Here is an excerpt from Korean World Peace Leader Reverend Moon's autobiography explaining more:

"Paraguay’s Chaco region occupies 60 percent of that country’s territory, but it has been a neglected land. The Chaco region was formed when the sea rose to cover the land, and even now you get salty water gushing up when you dig into the ground. I was in my seventies when I first went to Paraguay.


"The lives of the people living in this long-neglected land were impoverished beyond words. It caused me great pain in my heart to see them. I sincerely wanted to help them, but they were not prepared to accept me, a person of a different skin color who spoke a different language. I did not give up, however. 

"I traveled the Paraguay River for three months, eating and sleeping with people from the area. At more than seventy years of age, I was taking on a task that people said was impossible. I taught the people I met what I know about fishing, and they taught me their language. We were on the boat like this together for three months and became friends. 

"Once they began to open their hearts, I talked to them again and again about why the world must become one. At first their reaction was indifferent. Year by year, though, the people of Chaco began to change. After ten years, they changed so much that they held a global peace festival with great enthusiasm.

"Resolving the food situation does not mean that peace will follow immediately. After the hunger issue has been resolved, it is important to carry out educational programs on peace and love. I have built many schools in places such as Jardim and Chaco.

"At first people didn’t send their children to school but instead had them help raise their cattle. We worked hard to convince them that the children and young people needed an education. As a result, we now have many students.

"We built a light industrial factory where they could produce items using simple technologies, and the students became more interested in attending school so they could work in the factory. We are all responsible for the people around the world who die of hunger.

"We need to take action to help them. We need to feel a clear sense of responsibility and find a way that they can be fed and saved. People who live well should come down to a slightly lower position and raise up those who live poorly, to bring about a world where all people live well."


End Hunger Through The Ocean

The author of the "As a Peace Loving Global Citizen" believes that the way to end hunger is through catching and teaching how to fish.  He has one large fishing company and he is the reason why Americans were introduced to the term "sushi" in the first place with his True World Foods fishing company.

He is an advent fisherman who learned the trade in order to bring about world peace through it.

Here is what he has to say:







 

"It was clear that catching tuna would be a much better business endeavor than raising cattle. One problem was that Americans did not eat much fish.  The Japanese, however, were extremely fond of tuna.

 

"There were many Japanese living in the United States then, and expensive restaurants operated by Japanese sold raw tuna at a high price. Also, some Americans who were learning to enjoy raw fish enjoyed eating tuna."

Furthermore when we take a look at any map, we can see that the United States has two oceans which yields plenty of fish to eat.  Also, outside the boundaries of two-hundred miles from land, no country can claim the ocean.  Anyone can go out and fish.  In order to raise cattle, first must buy land, but the ocean is free for anyone to farm fish with just one boat.

 

It is clear to see that the ocean is a treasure trove that guarantees humankind a bright future.  If we look at God's ideal at the point of creation, it is only reasonable that he created the ocean as another source for food.  The author continues:

 

"That is why I teach that those who are concerned with the future of humans must be concerned with the oceans. When we can love and inherit the oceans, we inherit the future. We purchased several boats in the United States."

 

On Rev. Moon's boat the New Hope, he and crew members conducted a large amount of research on how to care for fish and many other elements.  They gathered the information and instead of keeping it to themselves they shared it with local fisherman and the fishing industry making a huge impact.

Another point that may be difficult for Americans to choose the fishing industry as a career chose is a simple matter of seasickness.  Also, fisherman traditionally do not see land for six months at a time as replenishing ships continue to supply the crew with their necessities.

Three-quarters of the world’s fish population live in waters near the United States. Yet, the United States has relatively few people to catch fish, and its fishing industry is extremely underdeveloped. The government has taken many measures designed to support the fishing industry, but they have not had a major impact.

The government offered to sell boats at a big discount on the condition that buyers use them for two and a half years, but few people took advantage of the opportunity.  Reverend Moon tells how this reality frustrates efforts of relieving hunger through the fishing industry.

"When we started to put money into the fishing industry," he continued, "it caused a stir in each port where we went. This was not surprising, since communities prospered wherever we invested. Our work, ultimately, was to pioneer new worlds.

"We were not simply catching fish. We were taking paths not taken by others. How exciting it is to pioneer new paths!  The ocean changes constantly. They say people’s minds change morning and night, but the ocean changes moment to moment. That is why the ocean is both mysterious and beautiful.

"The ocean embraces everything in heaven and earth. It can come together at a particular spot and form clouds or become rain and fall back down. I am very fond of nature, because it never deceives. If it is high, it becomes lower; if it is low, it becomes higher. In every instance, it adjusts its height to become flat."

It may be an extreme ideal that many people would flock to the fishing docks demanding to learn how to be fisherman, but if this industry would increase instead of decrease, then distribute more of the food that is in the ocean, this would be the beginning of solving the world's food problem.

Realistically, I don't want to go out for months at a time to live on a boat, but it may be necessary with the current economy.  This could boost and open up a whole new job market for people out there.  Unfortunately, it does not look like Americans are jumping on this opportunity bandwagon of farming the ocean.  Time will only tell.

 

Return for tomorrow's post: Farming the Ocean For Peace

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Note:

Today's message was taken from "A peace loving Global Citizen" Chapter  7  "More Than Giving Bread, Teaching How to Make Bread".  To learn more about Reverend Moon's community, please visit www.familyfed.org.

World Peace Waits As Long As Hunger Exist

We have all have been bombarded with several images of starving children and homelessness in our own communities and through media. 

We as a people feel helpless to put an end to the problem. Even when we contribute just a little from our pockets, we yearn to be able to end that person's suffering from hunger forever. 

 

Humanity has long believed that the suffering that we encounter in the world today is eternally going to plague the earth for a thousand years more.  Even Jesus had said this when others complained that the expensive oil the woman used for his feet should had been sold to give money to the poor.  

 

 

Jesus Said There Would Always Be the Hungry

 

Jesus reminded the people that they would always have the poor and hungry but people were blessed with him for just a short time.

 

He didn't mean forever and  that this was earth's destination.  He was only speaking within the context of his disciple's generation.  There is going to be an end to suffering, God unequivocally created us to live in the ideal of heaven.  He plans to bring that to fruition while planting the seeds of victory on this earth as well. 

 

We discussed why history repeats itself because God blesses a chosen nation, a chosen people based on a central figure in order to bring about his ideal.  When those foundations failed to fulfill the providence to restore man through many kings and saints, God had to find a new nation, people and central person through which to work. 

 

Therefore, the only reason that history has repeated itself is for God to complete the mission of restoring you and me back to our original positions before Adam and Eve had fallen away from God's dominion.

 

This means, God wants to bring us to an ideal world of peace.

 

As long as our brothers and sisters struggle with the shortage of food, the world will not see peace.


If You Are Never Hungry, You Cannot Know God

The important point is that we should have concern for our neighbors. Every time we fill our own stomachs during a meal, we should develop a heart that we think of others who are going hungry and consider how we will help them.

True peace will not come as long as humanity does not solve the problem of hunger. If the person next to me is about to die of hunger, peace is a mere luxury.

If God is working desperately behind the scenes to bring about His original ideal of peace through thousands and the scientific millions of years of history, one should suppose that He is in dire pain from watching His children suffer.

If a human man suffers at the sight of his child's pain, shouldn't we think the ultimate God would feel even greater pain when He watches you and I suffer?

The times when you are hungry are opportunities to be nearest to God. When we are hungry and are able to look humbly at each approaching person as if he or she were our close family member and want to help him or her, then we are more likely to be fed.

 

In these situations, it is important to maintain a sympathetic heart of goodness.  Hunger is not an issue relegated to less-developed areas of the world.  No one is meant to be raised in poverty.  Even in the United States, which enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world, has people who are undernourished and hungry.

The situation in impoverished countries is unspeakably worse.  We can see that securing sufficient food supplies is the most pressing problem. Solving the food crisis cannot be put off for even a moment.

Even now, some twenty thousand people around the world die of hunger-related causes every day. We cannot afford to ignore their situation just because we and our immediate families are not facing hunger.

Simply distributing food supplies by itself will never resolve hunger. A more fundamental approach to the problem is needed. The author of these textbooks on this blog, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, said he was a peace-loving global citizen and considers two fundamental and concrete methods to solve world hunger.

The first is to provide ample supplies of food at low cost, and the second is to share technology that poorer soieties can use to overcome hunger on their own.  The issue of food will present humankind with a very serious crisis in the future. We cannot build a world of peace without first resolving the food crisis.  However much food is neeeded, there is only so much sufficient land for farming.  This cannot immediately be enough to supply food for the current world's population indefintely.


How Do We Solve Problem of Hunger?


The world's oceans hold the key to solving the food crisis of the future.  This makes sense because when we look at the world, there is more ocean than there will ever be land to process food.  All of ancient civilizations prospered from living near the ocean.

In Alaska, pollack smaller than fifteen inches long are used for fertilizer.  They would make wonderful food, but people don’t know how to prepare them so they use them just for fertilizer.

As recently as twenty or thirty years ago, Westerners would give the tail of an ox and let Asians have it for free. Koreans are very fond of food prepared with the bones, or the intestines of cows, but some Westerners, especially Americans, do not know that these are edible.

When I lived In Los Angeles and recently went back last year, I went to a Korean restaurant where the customer cooks from plates stacked full of meat. 

This is delicious and the highest quality meat I have ever tasted.  Then afterward, to  hear what part of the animal from which it came, such as the cow's intestines, I did not care because it tasted very delicious.  My own family cooks pig's intestine and I would never go near it, it is all in the quality and preparation.  They use every bit of the animal in Eastern civilizations.  Every bit!

The same is true with fish. About 20 percent of the world’s fish catch is thrown out. Whenever we see this, we should think of the people who are dying of hunger, and feel pain. Fish is a much more reliable source of protein than beef.

I know many Americans who cannot even stand to go into the fish markets, it is a horrible smell, let alone eat raw fish.  I am a southerner, we eat fish of all kinds.  We have ponds and lakes everywhere and we fish for dinner all of the time for recreation. 

If starving countries can incorporate fish cakes or fish sausage and give it to the impoverished people this would be wonderful.  Here is a direct excerpt from the autobiography:
 

"Once this thought came to me," stated Rev. Moon in his book, "I started projects to process and store large volumes of fish. It does not do any good to catch large amounts of fish if you cannot handle them properly after the catch.

"Even the best fish cannot be kept well for more than eight months. Even if they are frozen, and placed in refrigeration, air gets in through cracks in the ice, and water escapes. You could pour water on the fish and freeze them again, but by then the best flavor is already gone and the fish might as well be thrown out.

"We gathered fish that were being thrown out and researched how to turn it into fish powder. We sought to do something that even advanced countries like France and Germany have not done. Fish turned into powder could be transported and stored easily, even in hot and humid climates.

"Fish powder is 98-percent protein, among the very highest protein content of all food products. For this reason it can be used to save people from dying of hunger. Fish powder could also be used to

make bread. We are still searching for ways to make it available to impoverished countries around the world."

The ocean is the solution to the world's food "shortage" problem. 

One problem facing this solution is that the days of the fisherman going out to sea for six months at a time leaving behind their life and fighting the strong currents is decreasing in the Western civilization as youngsters choose a different career path on land.

The oceans contain limitless food supplies, but the best method for saving humanity's crisis is through fish farming.  Reverend Moon excerpt from his autobiography envisions how a world of peace will be once we tap more into the ocean's resources:

"I foresee that there will be buildings, similar to the skyscrapers we see in our cities today, devoted to fish farming. By using water pipe systems, we can farm fish in tall buildings or even on the tops of mountains.

"With fish farming we can produce more than enough food to feed all the world’s people.  The ocean is a blessing bequeathed to us by God. When I go out on the ocean, I am completely absorbed in fishing.

"I have caught all kinds of fish in different countries. One reason I fish is so I can teach people who don’t know how to fish. In South America I spent several months showing local people my fishing methods.

"I took in tangled fishnets myself and spent three or four hours showing them how to untangle them. To secure adequate supplies of food at a low cost, humankind will need to develop the ocean. This and the great grasslands that are still in their prehistoric state are our final storehouses of wealth."

This is definitely a tough task as more of the younger generation lose the tradition and interest of preserving the environment and catching food on their own.  It requires mounds of work and selflessness by going to places that are extremely hot and humid while keeping up the strong dedication to bring food resources to an area.

Developing the grasslands in tropical regions cannot be done without a love for humankind.

Jardim, in Brazil, is just such a place and is part of the the "Seven Epic Snorkeling Spots Around the World".  Tourist snorkeling in Jardim waters gives the feeling of flying.

On the other hand, it is quite a difficult place to live. The weather is hot, and bugs that have not even been named yet are continuously biting.   Reverend Moon explains more in his book how his visit went, and describes Jardim's people in detail:


"I lived in that place and made friends with all its various creatures. I walked around barefooted, feeling the red soil of Jardim beneath my feet, looking just like a peasant farmer. When I was at the river catching fish, I looked like the local fishermen.

"It is only when the local people look at you and say, “You really are a farmer,” or “You really are a fisherman,” that you are qualified to receive their knowledge and share your own knowledge with them. It is not something that can be done by someone who needs to sleep eight hours a night in a clean and comfortable bed, eat three square meals a day, and take naps under a shady tree.

"When we were developing a project in Paraguay, a group of our members and I were living in a small hut in Olimpo. There was only one toilet, and each morning we had to take turns using it. I would get up each morning at three o’clock, do some exercises, and then go fishing.

"Because of this, the members who were with me went through some very difficult times. It was usual for them to be cutting bait early in the morning before they were completely awake. When we took the boat out, we had to cross through a number of other properties in order to reach the mooring site.

"Unlocking the gates to these properties in pitch darkness was difficult. One morning when the members were fumbling with a lock, unable to open it, I yelled at them, “What are you doing?!” I shouted so loudly and fiercely that I surprised even myself, so I am sure it must have been difficult for them. 

"But I feel that I cannot afford to waste so much as a single second. I don’t have any time to be idly standing around. I can clearly see a list of all the things I must accomplish before there can be a world of peace, so my heart is always in a hurry.

"When I fished there on the river before dawn, the mosquitoes would swarm like a dark cloud. Their stingers were so sharp they would pierce right through a pair of jeans. In the predawn darkness we could not see the floats on our fishing lines, so we had to attach white plastic bags to them.

"I could not wait for the sun to come up. I was in too much of a hurry. I still miss Jardim. I miss everything about it. When I close my eyes, I can still feel the heat of the Jardim air pressing against my face. The minor inconveniences to my body were nothing. Bodily suffering passes quickly. What is important is that this place can one day play a significant role in serving the world. Being in Jardim brought great  happiness to my heart."

It takes a lot of sacrifice for each of us if we want to help our global brothers and sisters.  Let's be honest, this is work that we don't have time, patience or ethic to even achieve.  But, it will be done in our generation.

Our selfishness in America to obtain the cheapest products, and abusing resources of underdeveloped nations for our own interest is not going to last forever and is crushing the world and it will soon crush our own.  Soon, it will also be in America's interest to be a team player in the global situation, because we ourselves will need rescuing as well. 

Hopefully, we will continue to support other countries instead of the latest trends to leave countries when they need us most. 

Will World history repeats itself?  It happened before in every developed society that lived for itself.  Why should America be any different? 

Hopefully, we will begin to work again what founded this country and that is to truly live with God as the center and help our brother and sister nations, and truly live God's dream and bring about His ideal world of creation He had a billion years ago. 

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Return tomorrow for: Solution To End Hunger Brings Peace

Note:  The text today came from "A Peace Loving Global Citizen" Chapter 7 "The Solution to Poverty and Hunger" which was taken from the author of the 8 great seminary textbooks Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon.  To learn more about his Unification Movement, please visit www.familyfed.org.

Messiah Returns to be Our Parent

 Get ready for another superhero analogy and more to come throughout the article.  What a great way to end the last week of the month by talking about the Messiah who has already returned to the earth.

The reason why the Messiah's coming is not glorified, is one, it is hard to accept, two, we were all looking up in the sky, three, the Messiah requires for us to make a 180 degree turn from the direction we are headed including absolute sex (sex only in marriage, only with spouse), completely subdue our body, and follow God.

The most important reason why many people do not care about the Messiah's return, is they don't understand the importance to their own situation.

Every person walking the earth is affected by the mistakes our Adam and Eve's, our forefathers, nations, and ancestors made in the past. 

We wonder why some families prosper and other families spend their time in jail.  The Messiah brings God's truth in order for us to conquer this lineage we inherited full of sin and completely become owners of True Love.  If everyone was able to follow their good mind absolutely, and center their life on God, Heaven on Earth and World Peace happens automatically.

Many may wonder what does a Messiah have to do with bringing World Peace to the earth?  Without looking into specifics of his mission, it is hard to understand. 

When we look at Superman, Batman, and the updated Ironman of Stark's industries we see that these men claim to save the earth. In the second installation of Ironman, Stark claimed to have solved the earth's problems through his Ironman suit being able to end conflict.

The reason why these action figures a half century later still blow up our movie theaters with their charisma is because it taps into the reality of earth's situation - yours and my situation. 

Our original mind that is connected to God feels uplifted and reawakened when we see these characters because we ourselves seek salvation from earth's painful experiences and conflicts. 

Why? 

Because our original nature endowed to you and me at the time of creation knows this current world is not God's original ideal.  Superheroes are just an icon that demonstrates our hope that one man can return our world to the original ideal which is World Peace.


One Person Can Bring World Peace

Tony Stark in Ironman part 2 claimed to "Privatized World Peace" through rescuing people with his powerful suit, and by intervening in world conflicts and stopping wars.  The UN and all is at rest.  Even though it is impossible to end wars without first conquering the main cause of war.

War is not the cause of human conflict, but is a symptom.  Wars begin within each person who has the conflict of their original, good mind and their evil mind fighting to be our center.

This battle is within each of us, even the most devote Christian, Muslim, and it was in every saint and prophet of God except for Jesus and the returned Messiah.

This is the reason Tony Stark can realistically not end conflicts, because he himself had internal conflicts a battle to be good himself.  Reverend Sun Myung Moon's famous quote is, "Before you can begin to conquer the world and it's problem, you must first conquer the division within yourself."

Therefore, this is the reason why Jesus could bring World Peace, because he had found peace and was connected directly to God, His lineage and His ideal without a middle man.  We are not directly linked to God, we need a savior to link to God, so does Tony Stark, this is the difference.

Jesus Returns Spiritually to Restore Through A Living Messiah

Jesus as perfected man, as a man who restored Adam's mistake in the Garden of Eden, was able to bring the ideal of heaven.  But He was not able to finish his mission, because of the failure of the people to believe in their time and follow Jesus as the true Messiah.  God then had to bring only spiritual salvation.

What about physical salvation, meaning save us from physical pains?  The bible says that the end will be no more tears and pain, this is because the Messiah bring physical salvation this second time, not just spiritual.  How are we going to bring Heaven on Earth?  That was Jesus's mission from the beginning and this is the only reason why he returns.  Not to destroy the earth, but to bring the ideal of Heaven on Earth.  This means World Peace, an Utopia of eternal peace while we walk the earth.

What was incomplete at Jesus's crucifixion?

We know we were not able to obtain Heaven on Earth, so he returns for this, but there was another mission Jesus left unfinished.  Jesus was meant to be married to a woman who had become a True Woman before God, and they would be the first True Couple on earth married in a Blessing Ceremony approved by God. 

Yes, we all perform marriage before God, but this is only a conditional signature, it is not officially approved by God and connected to God's lineage. Otherwise, we would bore children without sin if we are parents blessed truly before God.  How can we as people born in sin be officially blessed and approved by a perfect God?  Our first ancestors were kicked out of God's realm before they were blessed in marriage.  Does it not make sense then, that their children were born outside of God's realm leading to you and me?

So, Jesus in spirit aids the living Messiah who God officiated to bring about the completed restoration of the failures of the past.  The living Messiah has taken a bride and together they are called True Parents.

Today, the returning Lord, the True Parent, suffers here to bring God as ruler to this earth. Since human beings brought Satan to earth by believing in his words "to eat" and disobeyed God's words "not to eat", it has been made into hell. We must bring God back. 

We should bring God back into the center of our homes, our schools and neighborhoods.  America is following the wrong path of selfishness and serving only the nation's own interest when before it used to fight for world causes.  America can only be saved with a God revolution.

If you want to find a Utopian world, where do you have to go?


How We Find Peace on Earth

We spoke how Jesus was supposed to take on a bride who herself had become a True Woman and they were to marry.  If Jesus was God's true son, wouldn't God need a true daughter as well, to reverse Eve's mistake in the garden?

This marriage engrafts them to God's true lineage and we were to link to that lineage.  Now the Messiah has returned and has completed that mission and through giving the Holy Blessing to us in marriage we engraft to God's lineage through having children.

Without going through the realm of original family love, you have no place else to go. I connected the realm of indirect dominion and the realm of direct dominion by means of God's and True Parents' love.

Accordingly, the way opened to go back and forth between the spiritual and physical worlds is over a
bridge of love. As the textbook the Divine Principle explains, the realms of direct dominion and indirect dominion are distinct realms, as God originally created them.  They were meant to freely interact, yet right now, the spiritual world uses people on earth for their own evil purposes.

Then how can we make the physical and spiritual realms one centered on God?

This is possible only through true love. The only time they become one is when human beings, Adam and Eve -- reach maturity. At that time, true horizontal love automatically appears. When they embrace each other at that point, saying, "Oh, you are my partner," true love appears at the center of that couple.

When positively(subject) charged love appears in perfection, negatively(object) charged, like a positive magnet and negative charged magnet love is bound to appear immediately. When positively charged love comes down to negatively charged love and they engage, they determine the standard of true love. Then it is complete.

When true love appears, everything follows automatically. Only true love works for everything. This way, the world is converted into a Utopian sphere.


We Can Embody Absolute True Love

Where does true love start and begin?

Through Parents.

In the original idea of creation God planned for humans to learn and practice love by relating and interacting with the family.  By relating in true love with brothers and sisters, they would know how to treat their brothers and sisters of the earth the same way. 

Also, through the love of their parents they would learn the true parent-child love.  As we were to become perfected individuals, we would fully mature in God's love and then He would bless our marriage where we would no longer bore children of sin and have children of God's goodness.  Then we would learn God's position through our parent-child relation to our children.

A true husband and wife should interact with true love and not provide a basis for Satan's accusation. The children in a true family cannot be the sons and daughters of a true family if they leave behind some condition to be accused by the satanic world.

This is the problem. For countless generations, instead of receiving God's lineage, humankind received Satan's lineage. So how can we eliminate this satanic lineage?  I am asking you how can we eliminate the dirty lineage Adam and Eve inherited from the Fall?

True Parents are the ones who have come with the true love, true life and true lineage of God in order to eliminate satan's dominion over you and me and God's creation. The True Parents have been restoring lives using Satan's lineage as fertilizer.

When we see God's position, we can understand why we have so much chaos in the world, and how far we are disconnected from the ideal.  It is possible for us to go this way, as it is God's plan that he will realize even if it takes thousands years more.

It is truly amazing. Even Jesus did not know it; or even if he did know it, he could not say what was in his heart because the people of his time could not understand his teachings about earthly matters. Also, no religious leaders have been aware of this hidden secret of the universe.

The Messiah has come in front of the world to reveal the secrets of the universe for the first time in history. From now on, we should turn our direction from the individual foundation to the national foundation. If the leader of a nation repents of his past and turns around, God forgives him. This is part of God's new tradition and signals a new lineage. Otherwise, we cannot separate from Satan.

Are you ready to leave behind satan's ideal of the world and usher in the long awaited World of Peace?


Beginning Point of History

What should be our focus?  God's love, God's life and God's lineage -- these three roots are the standard.

In this world of peace, Utopia or Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, we will value the creation and each person as a true brother and true sister even if we never met before.  This means strangers at the grocery store and on the sidewalks will welcome your embrace and the comfort of sitting together for lunch as brothers and sisters of humanity.

We will be able to relate to strangers as long lost brothers we have found.  We will have true relations as true husband and true wives working hard to establish a strong family centered on God's ideals.

You are living in the age of restoration of humanity where the body grows based on God's love, life, and lineage and uses true love as fertilizer. One side disappears and the other prospers. From that point, God is present with you and Satan is separated away forever.

Jesus came to bring salvation to separate and protect those who believe.  He returns as the Messiah to the Complete Testament age, after the New Testament age, to finish his mission to completely eradicate satan from the earth and from dominating my body and yours.

No one knows the pain that is in God's heart. We know this only because God appeared in history to save us through religion, and through the Messiah who has already returned as the True Parent of humankind. He reveals this profound mission, and like Revelation prophesied, he unlocks the secrets that Jesus could not reveal and gives us these words in the Completed Testament age.

Return for tomorrow's post: World Peace Waits as Long as Hunger Exists

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Today's words have been taken from a compilation of speeches and textbooks based on Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon's teachings.  To learn about the community that studies this teaching please visit: www.familyfed.org

Why Communism Can't Bring World Peace

If you watch "Superman" you will see that even Lex Luther, his nemesis, had a grandeur desire to free the world through technology.  How about agents in the Matrix trilogy? The machine's goal in the beginning was a peaceful world created through the Matrix as well. 

Actually, all nemesis have their ideal of how to make the world better.  They don't set out to destroy the world, they just centered the ideal world on themselves which is imperfect and not centered on God.  So, enemies try to get rid of the heroes that are trying to stop their "ideal", which is self-centered and evil, from taking root.

These are superhero movies, but it is also reality.  If you watch any gangster movie you see how they kill the bad guys, correct? 

Then the tough guys go home and you see how they treat their family, their blood with such affections.  They feel they are doing the streets justice.  They are getting rid of the scum and taking the streets back for their people and their family. 

They feel they are justified in their killing of evil.  But, we in our sane thinking see them as the bad guy, as the very evil in which they try to rid.  Why is this?  Why is it bad to kill evil?

Because in essence, how do you judge evil, and from which standpoint?  From our point-of-view, drug dealers and criminals are evil because they break the rules.  This is a worldy standard.  Let's look at a higher standard of the world.  From God's standard, you and I are evil as no one on earth ever fully follows God's law.

Gangsters and criminals don't see themselves as evil, you and I don't either.  No one who does wrong does.  In order to judge a person and sentence them to death, would take such a standard bearer who could judge people's hearts and minds.  Who has that absolute lifestyle to judge another human to death.  So, gangsters no matter how noble their intentions, in fact, become the very people they judge.

Let's look more on a global scale.


Hitler and Stalin Anti-Christ

Do you think that Hitler, Stalin or any other dictator believed they were evil? 

Of course not.  They believed they were getting rid of evil Jews and the Slavic people who were oppressing the world from having global peace. That blond hair, blue eyes symbolized purity, and all others were impure.

Here is an excerpt from Hitler's Mein Kampf.  This was an account after he gave a speech before a group of over two-thousand people:

"...I had before me a hall full of people, united in a new conviction, a new faith, a new will. A fire had been kindled from the glow of which the sword was to emerge destined to restore freedom to the Germanic Siegfried and life to the German nation."

Hitler used the words "faith", "will", "freedom" the way God's saints and people taught.  The difference is saints centered on God's will, faith in God, and giving freedom through God's words.  Dictators do the same, yet all centered on themselves, not God.

There are still communist today who believe that if Hitler didn't go so far as to exterminate a population, that his prophecy would have been fulfilled, and he would have been able to unify the earth.

In a page of commentary written in the American version of Mein Kampf it said

"Hitler is the Messiah, whose faith is that which alone can save the world, in so far as the German people are concerned. Wilhelm Kube and Robert Ley, both prominent officials, have likened him to Christ."

Hitler wrote that God had given him the commission to eradicate the Jews, and raise up a new race of men, "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator by defending against the Jew; I am fighting for the Lord."

He was correct.  He was listening to a lord, the false lord who had destroyed God's idea, stole His children, and took God's position acting as God. Of course, the lord Hitler was speaking of is Satan who rules and stolen this earth.

Since Hitler had total confidence in himself and centered on Satan, then this makes him the satanic christ.

Hitler promised that once evil people were taken out of society leaving good people on earth, then the whole world would be free. 

But based on whom?  How did Hitler judge who was evil? 

How could he look into people's heart to judge how one person was more evil than the other?  We are all born into sin.  Did he consult the Creator who is the measuring point of good?

No, Hitler judged from his own point of view.

You might be surprised when you study the communist theology of Mein Kampf or Communist Party theology.  It is very smart or else how could it still enrapture people to still fight for it to this day?  It tries to bring about global peace just like people of faith, but this ideology failed in certain points.

The reason Communism is still being accepted by its citizens is number one it's forced, and number two because it dreams to have a society that also has the idea that it would free its citizens and unite the world.

But why didn't it work?  Why can't communism spread and conquer the whole earth and bring about unity?

Because this ideology is always centered on man, and leaves God completely out of the equation.  Therefore, communism will never be able to bring absolute unity without fundamentally having God as every man's center of life.


Why Communism Fails its Citizens

When Communism is introduced into a struggling society, it promises to free the people from their enslaved circumstances and lift them up to a higher position in the world.  Although, to accomplish this, the people give up several of their God-given freedoms. 

Looking on the outside, there is order. People relinquish all of their possessions and individual desires and serve the government.  They give up their life for the benefit of the government.  To this day, those who follow the communist viewpoint hold tenaciously to it ideology because of the belief that it brings unity among its people.  Communism does bring unity to the people, through force.  On the other hand, through this, it takes away the human freedoms that God endowed and gave to every man upon creation.

Why does Communism profess the World Peace, ideal of unity and a better society when it takes away that very freedom to achieve it?

Lucifer surely knew from the beginning when he tempted humanity away from God, that God's ideal was World Peace from the beginning of creation.

Because Lucifer knew God's will he always tries to copy God's Will yet centers it on himself.  God's love, life and lineage fell to Lucifer who began the false lineage of false love, false life that has infested the earth. 

This is the reason Heaven on earth has been transformed into hell.  Our world is far from God's presence.  Many people have this truth hidden from them.  They believe that Lucifer's world and lineage is the lifeline of survival.  The hidden truth about how Lucifer stole God's ideal, His children and turned the world into a hell on earth is being revealed in the Last Days.

Does this situation make God sit up on His throne peacefully, or have a heart full of pain as would any human parent?

Lucifer, a being God created for the purpose of love, became Satan, the enemy of love.  Satan became the owner of the human lineage and God is like a father who worked all His life to create assets for His children only to have it all stolen by a thief in the middle of the night and take His children from their warm beds as well.  God lost His lineage, lost His children, and was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to Satan.

The same has happened to the Messiah who has returned in our lifetime.  He has suffered inexpressible persecution and multiple imprisonment.  The Messiah's mission is to reverse all the failures of the First Adam, Jesus's incomplete mission of bringing salvation to our bodies not just our spirit, and bring our world back to God's original ideal - a peaceful World of Peace.

There is only one way to recover the realm of lineage, the right of the elder son and the right of ownership. This is the path to win the natural subjugation of Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. What is the secret to accomplish this? It is only by the power of true love, when we love our enemies more than we love our own children.

What is True Love?

Then what is true love?

Its essence is to give, to live for the sake of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully.

We find it in the joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True love is sacrificial love, such as that of a devoted son who finds his greatest satisfaction in dedicating himself with all of his body and mind to helping his parents.

When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually rejoicing in each other’s company.

The power of attraction of true love brings all things in the universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us.

Nothing can compare to the value of true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen people have created, including national boundaries and the barriers of race and even religion.

The main attributes of God’s true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal. Whoever practices true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love, is the absolute precondition for entering the kingdom of heaven and Heaven on Earth. 

Even if Heaven on Earth appeared, if humans do not have the qualities of God, and do not live for the sake of others, they will not be able to enjoy the fruits of the history of restoration.

In other words, this world of hell will soon be transitioned from the New Testament to the Completed Testament age into a World of Peace.

 

Return for tomorrow's post: The Messiah Returns to be Our Parent

 

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Today's message was taken from Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Peace Message 3, "God's ideal family and the Kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world." to learn more about the Unification Movement, please visit, www.unificationnews.org.

Why Hell on Earth, Not Peace on Earth

 

God Also Wants Peace on EarthWhat do you think is God's ultimate purpose for creating human beings? Believe it or not, I have heard many a people who do not believe in God because fundamentalist have made them believe that God is a dictator, making humans His slaves and forcing pain and suffering unless they follow His ways. 

 

This is incorrect. 

 

God equals love, His energy is purely true love there is not one ounce of the opposite in Him.  When we look into history when people say God demanded death and wars and such, this is not true.  He works through struggles of men in order for each person to be separated from satan and sin.  He does not create wars, He uses them to bring our world closer to His original ideal which is Heaven on Earth.

 

God created humanity for one reason:

 

Simply put, it is to experience joy, through relating with ideal families that are filled with true love. What does an ideal family look like?

 

First, each person in the family is an owner of true love. When God first created human beings, He made Adam representing all men, and Eve representing all women, with the intention that they become owners of true love. The quickest way for them to cultivate a character of true love was to secure a parent-child relationship with God. Through this relationship, they could live attending God as their Father. They were to have followed the path of living as one family with God.

I invite you to enter into a transcendent state and prayerfully ask God, "What is the center of the universe?".

The answer you hear will undoubtedly be, "the parent–child relationship". Nothing is more important or more precious than the relationship between parent and child. This is because it defines the basic relationship between the Creator God and us as human beings.

Then, what defines the parent-child relationship? -- Three things: love, life, and lineage.


God is Our Original True Parent

The first is love. We can love with true love because God, our True Parent, first loved us with true love. God created human beings out of His absolute love, to be His partners in love. This relationship forms an axis of love, linking God the Father with human beings, as His sons and daughters.

Could there be anything higher or more precious than to be a son or daughter of God?

If anything were higher, then surely human beings would aspire to attain it. But there is nothing higher. Do you think that when the omniscient, omnipotent God created Adam and Eve, He secretly reserved the highest position for Himself, and made Adam and Eve to be only second best? We cannot imagine that God would do that to His children, to His partners who share absolute love with Him.

As our eternal True Parent, God invested Himself 100-percent in the creation of human beings.  He endowed us with the right to equal status with Him, to participate in His work as equals.  Also, to live with Him, and to inherit from Him. God bestowed upon human beings all of His attributes.

Though God is the absolute being, He cannot be happy alone. Adjectives such as "good" and "happy" cannot apply to any being that lives in isolation. They apply only where there is a dynamic, mutual relationship.

Imagine a professional singer stranded on an island. She may sing at the top of her lungs, but with no one to listen, will it bring her happiness? In the same way, even the self-existent God absolutely needs a partner with whom to share love, in order to experience joy and be happy.

Next is life. How shall we live, to become God's partner and return joy to Him? In other words, how shall we live, to become children of God, people whom God delights to call "My son", or "My daughter", because He sees in us a divinity equal to His own?

How can we become God's partners in completing the work of Creation.  How do we become partners who will inherit the entire creation?

This is Reverend Sun Myung Moon's  answer: We should emulate the ideal that God set up at the beginning of His creative acts. At the beginning of the Creation, God acted upon the principle of living for the sake of others. In other words, everything that He did was for the sake of His creations, whom He hoped would develop into His partners of true love. The practice of true love is the nucleus, the center of God's creative activity.

Children Resemble Their Parents

Therefore, to become God's children, our first responsibility is to resemble Him. We need to embody true love. The way to embody true love begins with living as a devoted child, then a patriot, a saint, and finally a divine son or daughter of God. At that stage we can experience the innermost emotions of God's heart, and resolve the grief that He has experienced for tens-of-thousands of years, since the Fall of Adam and Eve.

God is almighty, yet He is imprisoned in great pain and has endured immense suffering behind the scenes of human history.  This is not due to any shortcoming or lack of ability on God's part.

Rather, there are provisions in the Principle-of-Restoration, which He has not been free to disclose, that called Him to wait with forbearance until Adam and Eve's positions, lost at the human Fall, were recovered through the appearance of the perfected "Second Adam". Although God is all-powerful, He will not set aside the eternal laws and principles that He Himself established.

God intended for the seeds He planted in the springtime of the Garden of Eden, to grow into a bountiful crop that He could harvest in the autumn. The ideal of God's creation was to raise Adam and Eve, His son and daughter, to the point where they would blossom in true love, flourish with true life, and bear fruit in a true lineage. God desired to gather up owners, and families of eternal life, eternal love, and eternal lineage, and to bring about His kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world as their homeland.

The Importance of Lineage

Do you know what has pained God's heart the most, and what causing Him the greatest grief over the long history since the Fall of Adam and Eve?

Lineage.

When God lost His children Adam and Eve, God lost His lineage. And with the loss of His lineage, He lost His right of ownership.

Let's talk about lineage for a moment. Lineage is more important than life, and more important than love. When life and love come together, this creates lineage. Lineage cannot be established if either life or love is missing. Therefore, among the three qualities that define the parent-child relationship -- love, life, and lineage -- lineage is the fruit.

God's lineage contains the seed of true love. God's lineage provides the context and environment for a true life. Hence, for us to become the ideal people envisioned by God, that is, people of ideal character, and to create ideal families, we first need to be linked to His lineage.

To take it one step further, only when we are linked to God's lineage is it possible to create God's homeland, the ideal nation, the ideal World of Peace. Only when we are linked to God's lineage is it possible to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. It is important that all people know the importance on lineage and carry it in their hearts.

Without lineage, neither life nor love can endure. You strive to set a good tradition, but it will endure only through your lineage. Lineage is the bridge allowing the parents' spirit to carry on, through generation after generation. In other words, lineage is the first and final condition necessary, for parents to harvest the fruits of their love, the fruits of their life and the fruits of their joy. We need to know this with certainty.

Yet, when Adam and Eve fell, this lineage, more precious than life, was lost. The fruits of true life and true love never matured. They became the fruits of Satan, lacking any relationship with Heaven.Then their descendants multiplied to six-billion people that now inhabit the earth.

God's Suffering in Search of the True Parents

False love, false life, and false lineage infested the earth. God's love, God's life, and God's lineage fell into the hands of the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love. Heaven and earth were suffocated and transformed into hell. The world became a wretched place, far from God's presence. Yet, humanity to this day lives in ignorance of this.

People are deluded into believing that the lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the world depends. They faithfully believe that this world is the world that God created and wished for His children from the beginning.  This is the wretched truth about humanity which descended from the Fall. That is why we refer to this world as "hell on earth". God views humanity's tragic situation with a heart that aches as any parent for their lost children.

After creating Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, God intended to marry them with His Holy (Marriage) Blessing, and bequeath to them Heaven's right of ownership. God wanted Adam and Eve to inherit from Him the ownership of the entire universe.

However, all of this came under Satan's control because of the Fall. God is like a father who labored and sweat, his entire life, to accumulate assets for his children, only to have a thief steal everything overnight.

Who can comprehend the sorrowful, painful heart of God?

God lost His lineage, lost His children, and was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to Satan. This is the origin of hell on earth.  There was only one way to recover this lineage and ownership.

This was the path to win the natural subjugation, winning over Satan.  In other words, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. What is the secret to accomplish this? How does one win over the enemy?

It can only be accomplished by the power of true love. When we love our enemies more than we love our own children we exalt true love.

Has there ever been a time when God could rejoice with human beings, as their True Father and True Mother, enjoying the natural bonds of parent and child? Has God enjoyed even a year of comfort with His children, knowing that what He created developed exactly as planned and is perfected?

The answer is no; God has not experienced such joy for even one hour. And has anyone been able to comfort God in this pain?

No, because no one has known the reason for the unbridgeable gap that has separated God from humankind for tens-of-thousands of years. No one has known why God and humanity are in such a tragic situation.


Cain and Abel, Brothers Began First Human Conflict

The biblical account of Cain and Abel reveals the beginnings of human conflict, even within Adam's family. It reveals the archetype for humankind's unending history of struggle, war, and conflict. We are in conflict on many levels.  Man's struggle begins with the war between mind and body within each individual, and extends to wars between nations, and even to the global conflict between materialism and theism.

Extreme, selfish individualism threatens our prosperity even today in developed countries. We deem young people to be the hope of humanity holding the promise for the future, but drugs and free sex enslave them. Advanced countries seem to believe that material goods are all that matter. They recognize only their own interests, while ignoring the misery of tens-of-thousands who die of starvation every day.

Who can untie this ancient knot of Cain and Abel, brother fighting brother? It has been tightened for thousands of years and grows ever more entangled.

God longed with all His heart that someone would appear and resolve these tragedies, but no such person appeared on earth. God waited and waited, looking for anyone who would take on the role of the physical True Parent of humanity. If someone had come forward, I am certain that God would have appeared in his dreams, carried the sun and moon to him, and showered him with lightning of joy and thunder of ecstasy from the heavens.

In this sense, it is a miracle of miracles, that for the first time in history, a man has indeed succeeded in attaining the position of restored Adam.  He has secured the status of the owner of true love, and received God's anointing as the True Parent of humanity. It is an amazing fact, that his lifetime coincides with yours, and that you and he breathe the same air.

He is the horizontal True Parent, who comes to rescue fallen humanity. Reverend Moon gained the victory in that position fulfilling the role of completing Jesus's mission which was to become a true man and then to take on a true wife.  In all of history we heard of man being restored reversing Adam's mistake.  Yet, we never dreamed of a true woman who would reverse the mistake Eve had made by following and believing in Satan's words 'to eat' instead of God's until our time.

The Messiah has returned and not alone.  He as True Father has been blessed in God's Holy Marriage blessing to a True Mother.  Now God has been liberated from his prison which Satan kept him when he stole God's ownership and his children.

In all of history, this was the highest and greatest blessing humanity has ever received. This victory was absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal. Through this absolute, providential victory, God's body and mind are completely liberated!

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Today's message was taken from Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Peace Message #2 named "God's Ideal family and the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.  To learn about the Unification Church, please visit:  www.unificationnews.org.