God Has Been In Prison

"You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman, "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."  When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.  She also gave some to Adam who was with her, and he ate it.  Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked;so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.  Then the man and woman heard the sound of the Lord God as he was was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.  But the Lord God called to the man, "Where are you?" He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked;so I hid."

Two points here that show that after the act of Adam and Eve following the lie of Satan instead of following God's commandment of not eating the fruit which was the symbol of immature sex, indicate that this act brought sorrow to God.

The first is that God can see all of creation, yet for the first time we see the account that God could not find Adam.  This means that when Adam followed God, he had the characteristics of God, but once he followed Satan, the inherited impurity covered Adam where God could no longer see or relate with him as his child any longer.  Then afterward, God cursed Adam and Eve and banished them from the Garden representing Heaven on Earth.

God lost His rightful position

"My own pain and grief are nothing. God has not been able to fulfill His role as God. You must understand that God's bitter tears which melt the marrow of His bones and His bloodstains which spread throughout the course of history are crying out from the ground. I have been doing this work because I know that the mission remains to liberate God from His anguish." Rev. Sun Myung Moon


God must be liberated.  How is it the all knowing and almighty God, the Creator of the universe can be said to be held in bondage when he created the world?  Due to the fall, God and man were separated as Satan claimed dominion over His children.  God is confined by His love for His original children, so in essence, God is in prison. and has not been set free to this day. 

God had intended for the ideal world and universe to be based on love to be formed with Adam and Eve centering their relationship solely on God's dominion leaving Satan out of the equation.  Thus God could not be foundation for liberating God's heart has not emerged leaving God confined without any person as His direct object partner. 

How can God's heart and mind be at ease when His stolen children's original selves have been murdered?  What human father would stand happily by as His children suffered?

The originator of heart would have more suffering when looking at the creation and His lost children than a human father would.

It is possible that we can liberate God with our own effort from His bondage which our original placed Him through their selfish act of the Fall.  Through the Fall, God lost His first sons and daughters. 

It will not be easy to release a parent who has suffered from the tragic death of His son of filial piety.  Even if one of His children had tens times more obedience than the lost filial son, it will not be simple to restore the original heart of the parent that was lost.  Yet, the Messiah at the Second Coming will liberate God from His suffering and restore His dominion.

God has painstakingly invested millions and billions of years of effort to create the world and His children since the beginning.  In respect, those who work from the time of their youth are assured to enjoy the fruits of their labor in their old age.  Yet, God is full of grief and distress when He looks upon His beautiful creation and cannot enjoy even a second of Glory with His children.

Young children may ask if God is young or old, but God does not have an age.  He is transcends beyond the universe and time.  God has suffered beyond billions of years to see His hopes realized and His ideal of creation He had at the beginning.

In order for God to free Himself from lamentation, He must first free His children, you and I, from the bondage of sin and Satan's dominion returning us back to the original position before the fall.  This explains why we should liberate God who is in such a situation.

How will we be able to liberate the Supreme God?  Since we were corrupted beyond having relations with the perfect Being, we must become children who stand against Satan and become victorious over our Fallen state.  God's purpose for creation was to be able to freely love His children and have give and take with them.  We must find a path of liberation for God to be able to freely love His people.

What happened due to the Fall? God was shackled and restrained and so were the first ancestors of the human race and the realm of angels. Countless religious people in history have struggled against these shackles. It is the same for all humankind.

A rebellious child restricts the parents and in order to liberate the parents, the child must go in the opposite direction.  The child must display filial piety greater than his rebellious behavior and be officially recognized by the general public as a child demonstrating loyalty to his parents.  This is absolute heavenly law. 

One should not just live for the parent, alone, for his neighbors, nation and people are all suffering.  Only then can the lost child restore to his original position and cleanse his past sins.

For five thousand years we have sung, "I will build a small cottage and attend both parents for tens of thousands of years." I am glad they will attend both parents, but why live in a small cottage for tens of thousands of years? They are a pitiable people. We must guide them. If these people, who are penniless and poor, also fail to obtain God's blessings, where will they go and live?

God Could Not Function as Supreme God

The church that practices the Complete Testament truth in this age must persist until it liberates our planet Earth, the spirit world, and, ultimately, with a heart of love, God. We must ultimately liberate humankind, the spirit world and God.

I am sure you are hearing this for the first time. So far we have looked to God to liberate us, begging God to save us from our meager situations, but in fact, we have to liberate God. You should know that God's heart has been restrained.

If loving parents have a child who does not show filial piety, their hearts cannot be liberated until they see that child rise to the position where he can freely fulfill the parents' expectation. In the same way, God created Adam and Eve with the high expectations that they would be His greatest partners of love.

There are four realms of heart or love: love of the child, love of siblings, love of parent, love of spouse.  These four realms are learned and practice in relationship of family.

We are God's parner in love.  We relate vertically with God through the parent-child relationship and horizontally through our relationship with our spouse.  All these ideals of love and heart would have been realized and enjoyed by God creating ideal love and heaven on earth.  Only, God lost this ideal through the fall and God was confined from His greatest love.

All Christians speak about going to heaven, but in reality, until one reaches heaven on earth they will not enjoy heaven in the spirit world.  When an innocent person finds himself in prison and in shackles under persecution, they will be free as long as they have love. 

Rev. Moon, author of the Divine Principle found himself imprisoned 6 times, yet when he was in cramped quarters at night and could not sleep he saw light emulating from his hand.  He said that it was God embracing him. That was when he discovered His pure immense love.

He said that the light would shine in the dark and the following day people would give him packets of rice powder. They had heard a distant voice, "If you don't give this food to this particular prisoner, all the prisoners and even your family will be uncomfortable." Our God is a God of love.

God searched endlessly for tens of thousands of years for the people who thirst for faith, hope and a burning desire with love who could say, "Because of humankind, God is in shackles and was accused by satan;Jesus died for me;the Holy Spirit witnessed a bloody history of struggle because of me.  God give me strength for I will liberate You and give you rest.  I will also liberate Jesus and the Holy Spirit."

If God and Satan fight each other, who will stop them from fighting? Would the fight just end? There has been no place for God to stand, because He did not have a devoted son or a system of love through which people could uphold the heavenly kingdom by fulfilling the way of a loyal subject, saint and divine son or daughter. Until now, God has been incarcerated and confined. The heavenly kingdom became an empty ruin. God has carried this sorrow in His heart.

Have you ever met a grandfather or grandmother whom God is seeking? Because of the Fall, you have not. Have you ever met a mother or father whom God is searching for?  Who can sever the chains that bind this heart? Nothing except the love of God. Nothing except God's essential love can do this.

Yes, essentially God has the ability to do as He pleases, but because of unprincipled love His hands are tied.  Throughout history, God has suffered Satan's accusations alone while no one on earth knew of His unimaginable agony of regret and sorrow He experienced.

In the established churches people shout out in excitement and joy, "Oh! Holy, holy God! Oh! God of glory! Give me blessings." But God is not that kind of God sitting high on the throne joyfully ruling over the deserted earth. On the contrary, He is a miserable God, suffering in confinement. He can be liberated from His sorrowful situation only through the birth of a son. Hence, you must liberate God.

Unless you do so, the heavenly path cannot be made straight, and thus the ideal world cannot be established on earth. It has been the history and the mission of the Unification Church founded by the Messiah to rectify this.

What lies within the sermons, core teachings and the words you hear from the Divine Principle? Its teachings can liberate God, whose heart is in confinement. God is lamenting in grief because of the Fall. From the outset, the history of such lamentation has been a global one.

Thus, Paul said that all creation, our ancestors and we ourselves wait with eager longing for the appearance of God's true sons and daughters. It is because they long to free and separate themselves from that realm of grieving.


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This text is rewritten from the original Text book:
Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One - True God
Chapter Four - True Father's Insights on God
Section 3. A God Confined and Incarcerated