The Messiah and World Peace

A person that is sick seeks a doctor who can cure their ailments.  For people who are in a burning building they wish to be rescued by firefighters.

So who does the Messiah come to rescue and what does he cure?    

Why was the promise of a Messiah in the Old Testament so important?

Also, why was it such a big deal in Revelations about the Messiah returning?  Humanity seems to survive either without the Returned Messiah, right?

The definition of messiah comes in many forms and to different ages.  To Buddhist, Buddha is a messiah and to Muslims, Muhammad is a messiah who brings the truth.  And to Christians, Jesus is a messiah.  Messiah of what?

Jesus is held in a higher position than any other religion, why is this so?

Out of all the billions of people born on this earth, only one was proclaimed to be the first human born as an actualization of God's love.  The previous post slightly touches on how Jesus carried God's bloodline.

 Jesus comes to restore what Adam had lost in the Garden of Eden.  Jesus did not start from the fallen Adam's position he started from a perfected position.  Fallen Adam does not receive God's direct love.

According to the Principle of Creation, God used Adam as a model in order to create Eve. Therefore, unless there is a true man -- according to the law of recreation -- Eve cannot be recreated.  Jesus was the first True Man on earth and reversed Adam's mistake.  Then how can a True Eve be found? Eve must be recreated through Adam.

Through the Messiah Second Coming, a God-centered movement in search of a True Eve appears for the first time on this earth.


Why Does Humanity Need a Messiah?

Jesus was born as a man in order to indemnify every failure after the fall of Adam. The fall was created by a man, the fall is reversed by a man.  However, Jesus cannot fulfill God's will by himself. Even if Jesus made the Israelites in his time understand all of God's will, he could not rebuild a nation by himself alone.  A nation is made of individuals and families.

Jesus already was a true individual, so in order for Jesus to form a True Nation, he had to first form a True Family.

In order to form a True family, Jesus had to find a True Woman who could represent all women on this earth. In other words, he had to find one woman who could represent all the women on the national, world and cosmic levels.  God's loving son must have a partner with whom he could have give and take. 


Where Would Messiah Meet Partner?

 As the result of the fall, Eve's position as a True Daughter was lost on  the physical earth.  Eve's fall was a spiritual and physical mistake.

True Adam and True Eve together represent the reversal of fallen Adam and Eve's act in the Garden of Eden.  The Messiah returns to restore the fallen relationship that occurred between Adam and Eve.  Adam and Eve were parents, who disrupted God's plan for an ideal world of peace.  This happened when they disobeyed His commandment and instead they followed satan's commandments. 

The Messiah comes again to teach God's word that leads to world peace by restoring humanity's first parents.  All humankind inherited Adam and Eve's sinful, tainted blood and each person should follow the Messiah and his bride in order to link to God's direct lineage.  The Marriage Supper of the Lamb refers to True Parents.  Adam and Eve were false parents.


Messiah Was to Find His Bridegroom

All humans born in the past up until now had one hope.  It was to see True Parents and serve them.  God sweat throughout history to restore Adam and Even's mistake.  He worked through Moses, Israel and Judaism in order to send the Messiah.   

What kind of person is the Messiah? 

He represents restored Adam who obeys God commandment.  When the Messiah returns he restores Eve. The Messiah is the True Parent.  The reason God brought the teachings of Christianity was to send the Messiah.

Jesus was born as a physical man with a spirit.  He was born on the earth because Adam who fell was born on the earth.

The Lord will come as the man of character representing Adam before he fell in the Garden of Eden - in other words, Adam before getting married. In the position of Adam in the Garden of Eden before the fall and marriage, the Lord should get married. Therefore, after coming, what did Jesus have to do?

He had to find a woman, the True Daughter.

The Lord returns representing Adam before the fall.  Adam had a bride after the fall - Eve.  Therefore, after Jesus came how was he supposed to restore Eve's position?

Christianity teaches that Jesus was God's True Son - the first man born without sin.  Yet, in all of Christian history no one taught the words God's "True Daughter".  Instead of becoming connected to God's love, Eve fell into Satan's dominion.  She does not completely restore through a restored Adam.  There should appear a restored Eve.


Era of Completion

Moses represents the Old Testament Age, Jesus represents the New Testament Age.  What does the Messiah when he returns represent?

You are now living in the Completion Age.

In other words, at the time of the Second Coming of the Messiah as a True Parent, all the nations in the world must reconcile their brotherhood.

This is why after the Second World War, the victorious nations freed the countries they defeated instead of dominating them.  All events in history are connected to God preparing humanity for the Second Messiah.

All through history societies, nations and the world have been fighting like brothers and sisters who had lost their parents.  Humanity lost their parents in the Garden of Eden.   The hope of sons and daughters is to unite with the lost parents and once more receive the parent's love.

Now is that time. This is the most glorious time for which the children have hoped.  The Last Days does not bring literal fire to the earth.  Rather it is the time that the True Family of God appears.  It is the time when a True Nation and True World emerges living by the heavenly standard of morality. 

It will be the first time on earth that a family will be able to truly teach and be this model citizen.  Until now, so many religions appeared throughout history, bringing the light of the truth. This was in order to set the foundation to receive the True Parents. The True Parents are the perfected and restored Adam and Eve.

All people throughout history and all of creation yearn for the return of the Messiah.  This return will only happen once. 

Will you miss it?  If you interpret the bible literally you will.

After thousands of your ancestors have invested their life for a better world.  You are like a bud - the seed of your good ancestors. We are all blessed and lucky to be born during this Completed Age and to come to know the teachings of the Unification Church. You should know that many of your ancestors dedicated their sincerity so that you could understand this teaching.  It is up to us to follow the Returned Messiah to prevent repeating the past world events.

The True Family has appeared for the first time in human history based on restored Eve and restored Adam.  This is the time when eternal life begins.  This is the starting position of God's ideal which will absolutely bring a world of peace. 

Return for tomorrow's post: Why Does the Messiah Return?

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Today's words were taken from different speeches based on Reverend Sun Myung Moon's teachings.  The words are rewritten in conversational form without changing the meaning of the words.

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