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!

Return for tomorrow's post: Why Communism Can't Bring World Peace


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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.