Christians, and Christianity itself, have a final hill to cross.
The Bible prophesize about the end of the world and that we must face judgement of fire on the great and terrible day of the Lord. On this day, we are to see many great phenomena as the end comes near. Jesus promised the people that he was to return at this time.
Since the day Jesus ascended into heaven, Christians have been watching for his return to earth. To this day, Christians are becoming tired of waiting for this extraordinary event to occur. Some have decided that this even will not happen literally as they wait for this event to possibly clear away all the problems in the world automatically. They came to think, "This is just one of God's methods to keep us alert and faithful."
Other religions also have predicted their own version of the end of the world. Yet, no one can clearly define what this end of the world is going to be. Each makes their own determination based on the denomination and religion they practiced. There should be a universal understanding of this time when the Lord will reappear and bring his fire of judgement upon the earth.
God never created this world with the intentions to destroy it for any reason, but intended for the world of goodness to last forever. How can we profess God is an almighty God, but then say this God will bring down a judgement upon his own children and destroy those who do not follow him and the earth He created? He definitely did not create it to be weak enough to be destroyed by an archangel.
What is meant by 'the end of the world' in the bible is the end of the evil, satanic soverenignity which satan began. God intended for a world of goodness to be established and remain forever, not evil. His children became creatures of evil. This is
Beginning of Judgement by Fire
Adam and Eve fell in the garden of Eden. They were not at that time in a position to have a full understanding of the will of God.
In the beginning, God created everything and after creating woman, He said it was good. Sin did not exist at this time.
God had instructed Adam and Eve to not eat of the fruit, which symbolized the sexual organs. The WORD has been referred to many times in the Bible as fire. This is the fire, the word, which Jesus is to bring upon his return in our time. The judgement of fire is God's word. Adam and Eve were confronted with two opposite words.
The first was from God. Obedience to God's word would have brought about a good world based on Adam and Eve's good family connected directly to God's lineage without any trace of sin.The other was from Lucifer who told them to eat so their eyes will be open and they could become their own god which brought about the fallen evil world. When Adam and Eve were confused, they made the wrong choice. God's good world ended at that moment they connected their sexual organs without God's consent.
Our first parents sowed seeds of evil. Adam and Eve were to grow into maturity and then be blessed directly by marriage to God, yet satan stole them before their maturity and made an evil harvest.
We must become very clear about this so we ourselves will not repeat the fall in our own lives and return in the right direction.
The last days, the sheep and the goat will be separated. The difference between these two animals are clear. The sheep recognize they have a master and follow while the goat do not follow the shepherd.
Today the world is divided into two major camps: the democratic world which says, "There is a God' and the communist world which says "God does not exist". In this time there is open immorality where unchaste love runs rampant. Satan uses love as a weapon.
One must be equipped with a greater, more righteous love in order to conquer Satan.
Satan is always trying to trick people with cheap love. But heavenly love is beautiful and constructive in its sacrificial giving. Satan's love is unreliable and will last only a short time, but heavenly love is eternally unchanging.
Father Moon main core teaching is on how the misuse of love brought about this evil world. He speaks deeply about it:
"America is facing the last days right now and we can see two extremes of love in this country: the carnal, dirty love of free sex and the deep rooted, heavenly love now being proclaimed by righteous people. Secular love and heavenly love are confronting each other here in America. As the scope of satanic love becomes greater there will be more destruction. Families will break up; people will become corrupted; life will become
miserable, and more people will commit suicide. But as heavenly love expands, our lives become richer.
There is a line of judgement separating these two worlds of love, and you must stand on either one side or the other. You can not be in both.
The last days is the time for dividing good and evil, which are becoming steadily more confused. Even the most faithful believer in Jesus or the most righteous church on earth cannot proclaim proudly that they are absolutely separated from Satan and sin and that they are following Jesus exactly as he would have them do.
No one can say they are living in perfect love in an ideal world with no suffering and tears. No church and no Christian could say such a thing.
This means that Satan exists within the churches as everywhere else; also, there is sin there as in the rest of the world. If this is true and if what church people love and hate is no different from what the rest of the world loves and hates, then there is very little difference between the world and the church. Which would Satan find more pleasure in the church or the world?
Satan likes the sins of the church more, because based upon them he can protest to God, "Look at those people in the church -- they don't love others; they even hate others! They are not faithful, either. This must be my church."
If the churches remain this way, they will decline into nothing at the time of the last days, along with the evil, secular world. This is the way of God; He will judge such churches before the judgement of the rest of society.
What really surprised me when I first came to America was the way Americans used the names of Jesus Christ and God as an exclamation -- not to praise them, but to put them in the worst position. I wondered what people meant when they said, "Jesus Christ!" and I realized that they were describing something bad.
What led to this kind of custom? What do the best words imaginable have to do with the worst things that can happen to people?
Have you sometimes observed that certain Christians may be worse than people of the secular world? Those who claim they believe in God may actually be worse than those who don't -- they are more egotistical, less loving and giving, etc.
The American nation is founded upon Judeo-Christian principles, yet Americans have become very individualistic. Was Jesus an individualistic person?
How did Americans come to be so egotistical and individualistic when Jesus had nothing of a self-centered nature? We can come to the simple conclusion that if people really believed in Jesus they would not have become like that.
Instead of believing in Jesus for Jesus' sake and for God's sake, some people believe in him for their own benefit. In other words, they use Jesus and God for their own sake. What do you think about this?"
Then, what does the end of the world mean?
What will Jesus do when he comes? Will he come to wipe out the world?
The word "judgement" is frequently misunderstood to mean that God will wipe out everything in anger. Wrong. That is not the purpose of the Messiah's coming. The whole purpose is to fulfill the ideal that was left undone in the garden of Eden, to work for individual, family, social, national and world perfection. Judgement is the constructive work of God to see the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God here on earth.
In the garden of Eden Adam and Eve fell into evil instead of developing their goodness. They was subjugated by Satan and became the children of sin.
Therefore the Bible says, "You are of your father the devil". John 8:44
If the fall had not occurred, then the true ruler would be God. But He is not today the King of this universe, because Satan is sitting upon God's throne. God has to remove all results of the human fall before He can truly reign over the world.
Now, the end of the world is the moment in history when God ends this history of evil and begins His new age. It is the crossroads of the old history of evil and the new history of good."SMM
Three Stages of Judgement
In the Principle, there are three stages of judgment: judgment of the truth, judgment of character, and judgment of heart, because the fall violated these three things.
To teach this way of restoring the world back to its original position we must first teach ourselves. The parents should first practice and then teach first. We should be teachers of the Principle and not be caught BY the Principle. We must become the embodiment of the Principle teaching.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your own pleasures.
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God?
Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?
But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?
But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”
but shows favor to the humble.”
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,and he will flee from you.Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
James 4:3-10
In order to go through the restoration process of going fully back to God, we each must have a face-to-face battle with satan. If we do not make a condition of indemnity to pay back the wrongs of the past, the satan will pull and say, "it is mine". We must establish a foundation of faith and put His words into action in order to go back to God.
Because we were born with Satan's blood, we must take out our blood and throw it away.
Religion teaches us to fast, to hit the body, do whatever it takes to bring the body into submission. and conquer it. Satan uses the body to do his evil while God dwells in our mind. Jesus' body was hit for our in. Yet, he has returned to bring the word to bring humanity to complete salvation of the body, not just the spirit.
Then what did Jesus leave for us? He gave us his blood and flesh. You must become the person who represents Jesus.
In the past, when the followers of Jesus were praying to meet Jesus, they had to make effort for at least seven years, day and night.
Without doing that, they couldn't meet Jesus. However, in these days if you make effort for seven days, you can meet the Teacher. No matter what the problem may be, if you make effort for seven days with fasting,
The road that we walk based on the teachings of the Completed Testament, we must understand how har of a road, how much blood was shed to bring this truth to the earth. Jesus had the knowledge o f the Completed Testament, but because his disciples could not understand the time of their visitation and could not understand the teachings of Jesus, he had to return to give it to the people of our time.
We must ultimately follow God through this course of indemnity, but not centered on ourselves. We should raise our standard by doing fasting, prayer and conditions to separate us from the temptations of satan.
Among you, those who have finished 7-day fast, raise your hands. To those who did not experience one week fasting, you do not know the feeling on the seventh day, thirty minutes before midnight.
By experiencing a fasting condition, one can become connected closer to God and experience part of his suffering on the road to bring restoration to the world. If we truly want to believe in the cross, we must substantially walk the road of the cross and turn God's will and words into their daily actions.
Those who do not know the heart of God must stand as the incarnation of God.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Age of Godism
This post was rewritten and derived from the Judgement by Words and also from the Textbook Blessing and Ideal Family section "The Indemnity Condition for Receiving the Blessing"
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