God's Ideal True Family

The past few posts spoke about the ideal spouse, love and family.  A family centered on God and living for the sake of others is a family that the universe will want to possess.  We see that marriage has been viewed in the wrong light in these last days, but God intended to build a world of heart by uniting with husband and wife and their children multiplying throughout t he universe.

The father represents heaven and the wife represents earth.  The children represent all of humankind.  

The family represents the sovereign of the nation with the father like the present of the family;that means he must take responsibility for upholding all of the laws and orderliness of the family.  In this respect, he is in the position of the judge that distinguishes what is right or wrong in the family.  The mother is the lawyer and the law itself is the prosecutor.

Law was created because of selfishness and is important to uphold the country.  After the fall, if humanity unceasingly was disobedient without those who upheld God's law like Moses who obtained the 10 commandments, society would cease to exist.  Likewise, within each family, there should be certain standard and laws which are upheld and enforced by the father.  That is one of the father's responsibilities.

"There is a great distance today between this original standard and the reality of today's families. Young people in many families deny that they need the guidance of their parents. What those children are actually saying is, "I don't care about the past or the future; I only care about now." That is animalistic."

Grandparents represent the past, the parents represent the present and children represent the future.  Therefore these three time periods must unite into one for the betterment of all of mankind.

Throughout the ages, there have been revolutions in areas of economics and politics, but there can never be a revolution of heart within the heart of a family.  Love is eternal and unchanging and thus is beyond revolution.  Children grow up in love of their parents, but leave the home for the sake of a higher love or ideal.  When parents love their children, the children must eventually return to their parents.

Before you stand as a completed individual of ideal love, you must experience three generations of love: grandparents, parents and the love of brothers and sisters.  These are the three purposes of love.

To qualify as an ideal family, the husband and wife should live for the sake of the past, and future.  If they live just for the present they only have a horizontal connection and no vertical connection.  Here is a simple question, do you need your mother and father-in-law no matter how old and crippled they become/.  Do your children respect and love their grandparents who represent the past?

The most important human connection is the vertical rather than the horizontal because it is the basis of the universe.  Love comes to mankind from the vertical, position, from above.  Thus the first direction of love is vertical and then the horizontal direction comes into existence. 

This explains why we value our grandparents.  Everyone has heard tales of their grandparents certain experience or two and learned from the elderly about lives that the grandchildren would not know about without their grandparents.

Whom should a person love first-his spouse or his grandparents? He should love those in the vertical direction. Two people love each other horizontally, but they must always reconnect to that vertical relationship. Thus their love can flow downward to their children and create one complete cycle. The husband and wife should love each other with all their heart; then together they love their parents and their children.

We see couples divorcing more and more each day and children divorcing their parents, but who has heard of parents divorcing their children? 

Why is that? 

The love of parent and child is more fundamental than the love of a spouse.  The love between parent and child is along the vertical line which connects each person to God.  The first question that arises when a couple thinks about divorce is who will have custody of the children.

Western civilization must take heed of this truth that the ideal couple loves each other and their children, but they must also have love for their very own parents as much no matter how old they become. 

This fulfills the original ideal God planned for creation. The nation is basically a collection of families in which all the generations are included. Each extended family symbolizes one small country.   

Unless a nation establishes their families with the proper center, that civilization will perish.  Look at the Roman empire and many nations, they all began to crumble with the breakdown of the family unit.  Wars did not destroy that civilization, immoral acts and self-centeredness instead of God-centered did. Because the law of the universe will not allow an unlawful citizen without subject to change to exist for very long.

This is why we say the family is the textbook of love.  It is how a peoples learn about the ideal family and ideal nation.  Once this is accomplished in one country, that country becomes the textbook for the ideal world.  Then the ideal world becomes the textbook for the ideal universe, thus we have four textbooks with the family as the basic one.  In order to have a world of peace, each family member should love one another and completely devote themselves for the sake of their children and their own parents.

 You must make your family one which is loved and approved by all those around you-your parents must approve and your children must appreciate it. That is when the man actually becomes the "president" of his family, which is a micro-country. 

How can a president run a country full of lawbreakers?  God meant for the world to be governed not by direct civil laws, but by love.  One philosopher said that one who enforces strict laws on their people when they are about to do something evil, otherwise, love is enough.

"Thus the directions of up and down, left and right and front and rear must remain connected harmoniously to the couple."

You should love your parents as much or more than you love your spouse.

Then as much as you appreciate your own family, you should respect other families, so in this way, the nation of families interconnect to create one peaceful nation. 

How can a peaceful nation begin?

To begin to love your nation and world, you must first love the people in your immediate surroundings, love your distant relatives, and then branch out your heart of love further and further until you can love each person within the nation.

To beginning this task, you must focus on learning to love all of your relatives.  Once you master loving all the different personalities of you relatives, you can then travel to any nation, any part of the world and love anyone there. 

This is the basic qualification of any president of any nation.  It is said that a woman who has 12 children learning to love the 12 different personalities that represent all of humankind, she can become perfect.

This principle will stretch to govern the whole world and a king that rules over the world can be possible if he has such a level of love.  Then this standard will spread throughout spirit world and all of the cosmos.

This standard sounds simple, but how can you find hope in a world of peace that connects to thousands of generations from thousands years ago if we can not find the unity with our own parents or grandparents. 

This path is very difficult on just the individual level within the family.  Then we have to expand to the level of the world and be able to love nations and races of people.  After this, we must accomplish on the level of the universe, love beyond time-past, present and future within your realm. 

This principle will apply in the future.

All of these levels begin with one individual who obtains this knowledge by observing the love within their family, how their parents, siblings and grandparents interact.  Is this possible to have a world of peace beginning with one individual in a family?  The ideal was to have Adam and Eve populate the entire universe centered in oneness with God. 

Then through the passage of time, they would populate the earth through their good descendants and eventually all of spirit world would fill up with their ancestors.  Adam's and Eve's family and country would be God's direct family and country sharing in complete oneness of blood lineage without a trace of sin.   

Earth was supposed to be the place where Adam's descendants would have ruled according to Adam's tradition. Such a world would have been Heaven on Earth. Do you understand the reality of Heaven on Earth now?

Every human has an innumerable amount of ancestors and when we pass to spirit world, we are bound to rest where our ancestors are.  When they enter the spirit world, their ancestors will judge them using their own standard.  How does one surpass the level of judgement from their own ancestors? 

That qualification comes through the standard from within your own family.  The Messiah returns in the last days to bring about the standard of a true family, society, nation and world and guides us toward Heaven on Earth.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Qualification For Marriage

This text was rewritten and taken from the Speech: Ideal Family and Ideal World.