The Messiah returns to bring a higher ideology just as was done 2,000 years ago. A higher truth than the 10 Commandments came in the form of the words of "Love they brother and sister as thyself". This was a revelation when it was first heard. To Love. People tried to stone the Messiah where ever he brought the breaking news. Now the Messiah returns to bring breaking news that burns the earth once more with God's Word like fire. Just as the New Testament was a higher ideology than the Old Testament, the Messiah brings the Completed Testament with a higher ideology than the New Testament.
Sounds blasphemous. Hundreds of Israelites thought the Messiah's words and actions were outrageous during his time as well. He spoke about loving him more than mother and father and husband. He said to drink of his blood. He told people about no one could enter heaven without going through him. What took 2,000 years to accept is now common knowledge after millions of Christians sacrificed their life for the truth to spread throughout the world.
It was not God's plan that the Messiah would not accepted in the end. Jesus was to be lifted up to king, and conquer Rome in his time 2,000 years ago. As we peer into history, Rome was conquered by Jesus' followers only after 400 years of persecution.
Why would God send Jesus to his own people to kill him, why not send him to a place full of barbarians who would kill him. Why spend thousands of years to prepare the Israelites to receive Jesus if they were going to reject him and kill him anyway as God's first and only choice?
Individuals and families make up the nation. In order for Jesus to be kings of kings while he was on the earth, he needed people. You can't rule a nation without a people that will follow you. Everywhere Jesus turned, he was met with opposition, even in his own family. Even in the end, his very own disciples scattered instead of uplifting Jesus to the position of King on earth. He was only able to obtain king in the spiritual realm, not on the physical earth.
His own disciples did not fully understand Jesus' mission. This was not completely their fault. Jesus was supposed to be supported by the high religious leadership of his time, people who God prepared to understand Jesus' higher standard of teaching. Unfortunately, during his time, they could only see him as a lowly man and heretic.
The Messiah returns to bring the higher ideology which will completely break the bond of satan. Just as Jesus, the Returned Messiah needs support of God's people. He needs the Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of every faith to support and spread the new truth of God that Jesus could not give to the people because they did not understand his true mission in his time.
The Messiah returns to completely break our physical chains that satan has used to command us. The messiah was able to give spiritual salvation and returns to give physical salvation. The Flesh and blood of the Messiah was attacked by satan in order to bring about salvation spiritually. What does that mean?
You will be able to be saved from physical attacks of satan, diseases, early death, anxiety and numerous ways satan attacks our bodies. Even if this is hard to grasp, no one can deny that the Son of God's own body was lost to through the attacks of satan. Even though Jesus' gave up his body in exchange for God's children, his physical body was still attacked by satan.
As the Messiah returns, he needs those who will be able to follow and carry out his message to the people. Just as Jesus said when asked what should the people do, he told us to pick up our cross and follow him. During his time he had a select few who could follow him.
Ultimately in the end, he lost even his own disciples who could not follow his last command to stay awake while he prayed. This had a significance on how Jesus was not able to completely finish his mission. By his disciples not being able to stay awake and support him while he prayed, from a providential point-of-view, it showed that they were still claimed by satan.
As the Messiah returns,this time, based on Jesus' foundation of victory, the Messiah will finally be able to stand against satan with 144, 000 who march with him in faith. These are the initial clergymen and people of faith which like a cloud, the Messiah will be able to stand upon on his return. He will lead the way for God's children to learn God's words that will separate His children once and for all from Satan's grip on this earth.
This is called Armageddon. Is this going to be physical or spiritual? Just like in Jesus' time, the people chose to abandon the Messiah, and we see that the Israelites were left without a nation for 2,000 years, we today have a choice to follow the Messiah or worse - World War III.
Since God plans to absolutely eradicate satan from earth, if people this time choose to leave the Messiah and continue to follow satan, he will even sacrifice those people to start over. He did this in Noah's time with water, this time with fire. That fire can be either through His perfect living word which is like fire, or through nuclear fire. It is up to you and me to open our eyes widely to the time we are living. We are no longer living in the time of darkness where the truth is hidden, we are living where God does not speak in symbols but plainly. All things are being revealed to us past and future.
It is up to us to believe and practice the new truth that Jesus so desperately wanted to share with his people but they could not understand. Once the truth is accepted just as we accept Jesus' words, then a whole new world where God reigns and Satan no longer has a person on earth with which to work through will be a reality.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: How Was Jesus Physically Born Pure?
Today's post was taken from the Divine Principle written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The original text is in Korean and has been translated in conversational form without changing the meaning or spirit of the words.
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