Rev. Sun Myung Moon
This is the time for liberation. When we enter a room, we shouldn't wear hats or hoods on our heads. Catholics and other religions cover their heads in church, but this is the time we uncover.
When Adam and Eve fell, do you think after God kicked them out of the kingdom that he blessed them in a Holy Marriage?
Some people even believe the first parents of humankind were already married when they fell, but they were engaged. Adam and Eve begin their married life on their own. If their life was not centered on God, than who did they follow and center their life upon?
If Adam and Eve, the first parents of humanity, began their love and family without God then they centered their life and belief in Satan. The word "do not eat" was given to them by God, when they chose to believe in Satan's word "Do eat, it will open your eyes and you will become like God" and thus followed Satan. They centered their life on Satan's life, Satan's false love, and Satan's lineage.
This is how humankind's lineage began, and how every person has been born with Satan's blood which is stained with sin. Because of this fact, the history of restoration has taken a very long time. If God had the responsibility to solve this on His own, He would have immediately restored Adam and Eve after the Fall or created a new humanity and started over again.
Since it is the responsibility of the parents to solve humanity's problem, history has awaited for the arrival of the True Parents who travel in the opposite direction from the Fall. The parents have to first have an understanding of the problem and discover the prescription for correcting it.
Adam and Eve were to be the first parents and become perfected before marriage, but they became incomplete parents. We are living in the era where Adam and Eve can become complete.
True Parents provide the formula for the ideal home.
If we view the word parents" as the ones who help to restore humanity, then the word 'parent' takes on the meaning of Messiah as the Second Coming or savior. The Messiah comes to restore what is broken. In these Last Days, we see that families and countries are broken up. In order to repair broken families, we need True Parents.
Society has tried all organizations and laws to bring society back into order, but have failed. The messiah will not only bring God's word to help mend broken families, but also nations. True Parents, the messiah, acquires the formula for the ideal nation.
We must know that whatever God wants to uphold, Satan wants to destroy.
This is what the Fall was composed of. The Fall destroyed the most precious thing of value to God. Satan began his destruction of God's domain with the family extending to the country and then to the cosmos.
When man comes to the end of times for evil, man will have the potential to come back to God. At this time the worst things appear and go against what God desires. These bad things that have appeared in history including Communism will not last forever and ever.
We have hope for humanity to go back toward God's will no matter how much Satan has tried to destroy God's will. Actually, these things are near destruction and will be finally completely destroyed.
In Noah's time, the flood judgment came. As the time got near, the judgment took place. We saw similar events throughout history.
Let's examine the time of Jesus. God had raised the Jewish religion and nation for 2000 years to prepare for the messiah. Even though there was this much preparation, both were almost destroyed and there has been so much bloodshed after Jesus came.
Because of Jesus' death before he could complete God's will of bringing peace on earth, there was an enormous amount of indemnity to pay. This time was not redeemed until after the last World War where a staggering number of people over six million had to suffer for God's dispensation.
At this time of the Second Coming, we see this phenomenon happening again, this is the time where children who go against the returned messiah will not be tolerated. Heaven and earth will not tolerate such people.
Since we are living in the end times we see that everything evil is close to destruction, the evil world which Satan built his will upon, turning God's children away from God's desires.
In the end times, Satan wants the most precious things to be destroyed. Since America has been the leading nation of the world centered upon the Christian philosophy, Satan set his sights there.
Why are the church's memberships declining especially among the youth and have become bingo houses and resemble old folk's homes? Do Christians truly follow God and do they have anything which God needs? God does have a need and he should be able to find it in the church among those who follow His direction.
God raised up Christianity so it would accomplish Jesus's mission of a pure environment to create the true individual, family, nation and to eventually liberate God from the turmoil humanity's fall created.
Within churches, do we see any true families?
What about true clans? Are there true people? We cannot find these things which God needs in any of the Christian churches. Therefore, whatever we see in the churches is not of use to God. God cannot truly find anything useful for His purpose in the Christian churches today. On the other hand, the things which Satan needs and enjoys are in abundance.
We can look at how America had acquired the appetite for individualism which is rampant everywhere. This is happening even within the churches.
Is there true unity between churches and the members?
There are even hundreds of different denominations within the Christian world. Is this God's will - would He want to see such things as His children being separated. Satan does not want to see people come into unity. Churches are supposed to be bringing unity and spreading True Love, not worrying about evangelizing for profit.
Since this is the case, we can clearly see that what God needs in order to restore the world is not found within the walls of the Christian church.
Where, Then, is God?
God should be at the place where the ideal of creation is fulfilled. Is this a physical place? This is a place where a man and a woman who reflect God's nature come together and form a God-like family. If we have not become exactly like God in the perfection stage, we can at least become people that God will want to follow and live with. Have we met such people like this in the world?
When looking at the family, would you want your children to love you and have affection for you or do you want them to oppose you and treat you badly like we see in modern television and movies? Of course, everyone wants their children to love them and behave.
By the same token, you feel like being close to your own physical parents and enjoying a good relationship with them, don't you? Parents also want to be able to lean on and depend upon their own children. So we must create the environment within our family that allows the parents to freely lean on the children whenever they want to. The children should never rebuff them.
We all want to have a close relationship with our parents and our parents want to be able to lean and depend upon their own children.
On this same note, when it comes to the church, wouldn't you think that God would want to lean on His own people which He has raised throughout the ages? But most people in the church would only allow God to lean on them if they were not to receive some blessing. This comes from selfish thinking and not out of love for God.
We can see the standard of the churches. Does someone who spends only a few hours in the pews be truly prepared for God to lean on Him just by listening to a brief sermon once a week?
Catholics, Protestants and so forth are proud, but God is even rejected in the true sense by Christians! So, how can God visit these churches when the minister is just reading the bible and not truly understanding the depths from God's standpoint?
Jesus worked hard and built a foundation for Christianity, but was God's will truly fulfilled and completed in the Christian churches till today? Young people are pushed by God to leave the churches that are not worthy of Him and they join the secular world. These young people find worse situations than when they were in the churches.
The churches are the main supplier of God ad to bring a solution to the problem of evil in the world. Churches are meant to put a stop to the downhill slide of Satan's society he built. Have the churches been able to do that? Actually, the 'modern' church is being dragged and pulled to follow the ways of society instead of being an influence to society.
So God had to send the Lord of the Second Advent to save the evil world.
God will talk to Satan and say, "You have done everything you wanted to do. You have tried everything you wanted to try, correct?"
Satan will have to answer "yes". Satan completed his job of destroying the individual, family and world and all the valuable things God spent billions of years to create. Those Americans who have such a high ideal about being great, is there a person that God can be truly proud. Can such a person be found in America whom God can lean on?
The clear answer is no.
There are plenty of students in the Ivy League schools about whom others say, "He is a real genius," but such a person is living almost like a dog, a bad dog at that. The moral integrity of this once great nation had degenerated within a few generations.
This should really make you angry to hear, but instead you laugh. Is that because you realize how true it is?
Can God be proud of the American government? The administration is all dog-like. Where can God truly dwell and be at peace in this country of America? Would God be drawn to and follow the president just because He sees hope that He can bring change to this nation and world? God would say to the President and his family that He would not follow them in the way they are now even though they hold a great position in society.
Do you think God will be attracted to, and follow the president because God can see hope in him? Will God want to follow Barbara Bush or any of their children just because of their position in this country?
Even if they expressed a desire to get closer to God, God would say, "Not the way you are now," and He would just chase them out.
If God cannot follow the President of a country it should never be respected and such a country will be destroyed.
America had been protected from many external wars and grew into great wealth in the shortest time of any country because God had laid His blessing on its founding. He had great hopes that the people of the nation would honor His standard and carry this throughout the world.
When Reverend Moon says such things about a patriot's nation they should not be angry, but should accept the truth even though it does not make them happy. Speaking such truths is why Reverend moon has been opposed so much in the country.
"I have been speaking the truth about this country and many people came against me, to the point of even putting me in prison. Should I have said to myself, "I guess I had better stop doing this because the people don't like it"? Why not? I cannot stop speaking the truth because there are people who will hear me and change, along with those who oppose me and who refuse to accept the truth."
Return for Tomorrow's Post: World Peace Through Religious Unity
This post was rewritten based on a speech given by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon who bases his teaching on the Divine Principle centered on the New and Old Testament of the Bible
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