Our ultimate goal is the erection of the Kingdom of God right here on earth: the family of God. Each person is like a brick needed to create the foundation of the family.
Each member should dedicate their all to be part of the foundation of that family. Together, we must all be able to create one family on earth, which is under complete dominion of God.
Our homework as all women representing the Eve position and all men the Adam position, to unite under the grace, protection and love of the Messiah who is in the father role. You should feel to the bone that you belong to the family of God and live together with the true family of God at the Second Coming.
The true family cannot be created unless God intervenes and becomes the center. This we should feel to our core.
God is the binding force of my own family.
So, too, God must become the binding force of the heavenly family made up of the True Parents and you.
You must become true sons and daughters belonging to the True Parents. We should not come and dwell in your hearts as a concept, but as a natural part of your life. You don't have to explain spring, do you?
You know when spring is here; you feel it. In the same way, down in your flesh and bones, you must feel united with the True Parents as one family.
Then God becomes the binding force that brings together the heavenly family which is made up of True Parents and you. True Parents come in the Last Days to restore the ideal of creation which was lost due to the first parents Adam and Eve.
The True Parents should dwell in your hearts and become part of your life. The most important factor to become a member of this heavenly family is to fully realize that you are the son an daughters of God.
In other words, you should be able to say, "I am completely separated from the satanic world and perfected in the sight of God. I stand in your sight, Heavenly Father, as your son or daughter without shame, with pride.".
We talk about the fall of man often, but what is the fall and what are fallen children?
Fallen children do not feel in reality that they are God's children and He is their father. They do not have the concept of God.
You must have the following realization and awakening: "I have been born again. I have a new life. I belong to True Parents. Through the power of the True Parents, I am now engaging in a new life. I am God's son; I am God's daughter.".
You must feel that realization down to the bone.
The second realization you must feel that you are a qualified citizen of the Kingdom of God.
Third, when you see the nation, and the world, you must feel the grace of God and think, "God has given this world to me as His inheritance. I am entitled to claim this world as the son or daughter of God.".
It is an important task for members to know these realizations and awakenings: first recognize you are the son and daughters of God; second, realize you are the citizen of the Kingdom of God; and third, the world of creation is an inheritance from God. God has given all these things as blessings to the children of God.
The individual with these realizations is headed for perfection.
The person who knows this becomes entitled and qualified as a member or the center of the heavenly family. There are two distinct worlds in our way of life that exists.
The other world is full of people that are suffering and it is crumbling. As citizens of the Kingdom of God, you must be in the position to influence the other world and not fall victim of the fallen world.
Our mission is to bring those in the other world back to God so we can expand God's territory.
You may have noticed that what seems to look good on the outside in the fallen world or right crumble, decay and decline.
There is no comparison between the good that is in the satanic world and the poor condition inside the world of goodness. Even though in the heavenly family things and situations may look poor and meager, later, that family will be blessed, will flourish and prosper. Instead of being dominated by the satanic world, we should be in the position to influence it.
What is the secret to restoring and influencing the heavy secular world?
The way people live in the satanic world is completely opposite of the way people of faith live since we are moving toward reorganization of the true family on the world level.
It is obvious that those in the satanic world live a life that is destined to destroy the true family structure. In any family, the parents and children are divided. The parents say to the children when they reach a certain age to go out on their own and be independent. In that world, the parents are for themselves; the children are for themselves; and the grandchildren are for themselves.
The members of the family are completely divided.
On the contrary, those in the heavenly world set a tradition to see that all members of the family come together. The grandfather and grandmother give their children their tradition and way of life as an inheritance. The father and mother, in turn, hand down the tradition they received to their children who are the grandchildren of the grandparents.
Let's look at Adam's family. God is in the grandparent's position to Adam's family, Adam and Eve are the parents, and the children of Adam and Eve are in the children's position. We are born as children. We grow into adulthood, and then we give birth to children. Later we become older and become grandparents. That's the way we become perfect or complete.
When every family of grandparents, parents and children come together and live this heavenly tradition through the three stages of formation, growth, and perfection/completion, they will truly represent those families.
The true way for Adam and Eve's family was to be organized in three vertical levels with God as the grandfather. Then all the human race would be organized in a similar pattern on the horizontal level if Adam and Even had not fallen and became perfect after maturity.
Then their true family would be the center of the entire heavenly family and heavenly universe.
Externally, Adam and Eve were to be the physical parents to their children.
God is invisible in spirit.
God's ideal of creation was for God to become a visible being through Adam and Eve. They were to be the visible form of God's image. The walking God, the tangible God would be the dwelling place of God. Their mind or spirit would be the inner temple. With God dwelling in them spiritually, they were to be in God's position in front of their children as True Parents.
In order for this to be achieved, Adam was to be perfected as an individual once he matured and united together with God as one. Also, Eve was to receive God and be united into oneness with Him. When these two perfected individual unite together with the power of love as the binding force, there is a mutual unity between the external and the internal.
Why did God create the universe and create man?
In this creation, God wanted to be in a position to exercise His own love through an object to which He could give His love. If this becomes the case, then perfected Adam's family and all of mankind would not have fallen and brought sin in the world through uniting with the archangel.
We would have inherited the direct sinless lineage of God as our substantial father.
While we are on earth, we represent Adam and Eve. When they are perfected here on earth, then automatically the Kingdom of God in heaven will be elevated to perfection living like God for eternity.
The Kingdom of God on earth is where qualified, perfected Adam-type parents are produced.
After their perfection here on earth, they automatically enter into the Kingdom of God in heaven and be elevated in perfection there.
Who wants to dwell in the Kingdom of God on earth and the Kingdom of God in heaven. It is human destiny and desire to create the perfect Kingdom of God here on earth. We all wish for a day where we can live in a world of peace.
The order of business to acquire heaven on earth is to build the first family of perfection through the Messiah's Second Coming. These Adam-type parents of perfection would be known as the True Parents. You must know how precious and valuable it is to be able to receive the True Parents in our time.
It was not God's desire to wait thousands of years for the coming of the True Parents.
In order to create the Kingdom of God here on earth, we need True Parents in the center as Adam and Eve who were supposed to be the True Parents of mankind.
Because the first parents failed to fulfill God's purpose of creation, humanity was never able to see True Parents. Only the Messiah knows how to erect the Kingdom of God on earth.
Jesus was to build the Kingdom of God on earth through his own family, but had to go through the second route of death at the cross because no one believed in him in his time.
What is the clear definition of "Kingdom of God here on earth"? It is the place where everyone live with the True parents' family and become True Parents' children. The Kingdom of God in heaven is the place where you live in eternity with Heavenly Father and the eternal parents.
If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would naturally would have terminated their life here on earth before their own children. Instead, their son was murdered. When Adam and Eve died, did they go to Heaven? The Garden of Eden portrayed in the Bible was symbolic of Heaven on Earth. After they fell, God kicked them out to live in the fallen realm they had created along with the archangel.
Adam and Eve were to become the first two people to be elevated to the Kingdom of God in heaven.
They would become True Parents, naturally. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have become the first two persons elevated to the Kingdom of God in heaven. There they would have occupied the throne of God, since even in the spirit world God is invisible.
In spirit world, you do not only have the heavenly father you also have the heavenly father after the Messiah has restored the mistake of fallen Adam and Eve through his own family.
We do not have regeneration or multiplication if we do not have both father and mother.
If we are the image of God, then as men and women they both are the outer form of the dual characteristics that are within God. Jesus came and was the first man to restore the position of True Adam on earth. If the people of Israel had fulfilled their position and believed and accepted Jesus, he would have a bride that would have fulfilled the position of True Eve. She would be the first True Daughter of God.
The father and mother become one and together represent the full image of God. Actually, the father and mother who are elevated into the Kingdom of God in heaven first would become the king and queen of the world.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Humanity's First Parent
This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Kingdom of God on Earth and the ideal Family.
No comments:
Post a Comment