We Imprisoned God's Heart

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.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon

Since humanity caused God such grief, we must liberate God who is confined by love.  It is the same as Him being in prison.

God has to be set free.

God intended for the ideal world to be established based on love, but it was snatched away by Satan.  Thus, God could not be liberated in heart from losing His ideal.  It is the same as a Father who prepares a beautiful nursery and life for his child, only for a the servant to run away with the newborn baby.

God lost His rightful position

How can God''s heart and mind be at rest when His beloved children have died?  With our own efforts, we should liberate God.  He is not free.  He is in confinement after He lost His sons and daughters.

Even if one has ten times the filial piety of the lost filial son, he cannot easily free the original heart of the the parent who lost His sons and daughter.  The situation is worse if he suffered the death of His son of filial piety.

I am going to liberate God.

Why is all-knowing, all powerful God full of grief and distress?

Those who work hard in this world during their youth are assured to enjoy a hopeful future.  God has painstakingly invested all of His efforts since the beginning of history, but when did He ever have hope in the world of peace He envisioned?

When has his dream ever been fulfilled?

How old do you think God is?  God transcends the universe, so He does not have an age.  God is beyond the solar system.  What is there to calculate?

God, who is our Parent, is unable to free Himself from lamentation unless all His children are free from lamentation.  How is it possible for even a human parent to live comfortably while their loving children live in anxiety?

This is why we should liberate God who is stuck in such a situation.

How is it possible to liberate God?

We are responsible to find the realm of liberation where God can freely love all of humankind.  Since humankind was corrupted through the Fall, we must liberate God by becoming children who are victorious over the Fall.

What happened because of the Fall?

After the first parents went against God's ideal, He was shackled and restrained and so were the first ancestors of the human race and the realm of angels.  Countless religious people and saints have struggled against these shackles along with all of humankind.

A child who does not demonstrate filial piety restrict their parents.  How can a parent have absolute freedom with their child who is not a true object partner of love?

The parents can only be liberated when the child displays filial piety that is greater than his impiety.  He also must be officially recognized by the general public.  Only then will he be able to cleanse himself from his past sins.

This is heavenly law.


By the same principle, I do not need people who say, "I will live only for you, Father." The neighbors, this nation, this people -- they are all a pitiable lot.  I am glad they will attend both parents, but why live in a small cottage for tens of thousands of years for parents? They are a pitiable people. 


We must guide those pitiable people who are penniless and poor.  Also those who have failed to obtain God's blessings, where will they go and live without someone to care for their well-being?

God could not function as God

We must persist on this path to restore humanity's pitiful situation to an ideal world until the planet Earth, the spirit world, and ultimately the heart of God is liberated.

We must ultimately liberate humankind, the spirit world and God. 

If loving parents have a rebellious son, their hearts will not be liberated until they see that child rise to a position where he freely fills his parents' expectation of a filial child.

This is probably the first time you are hearing this.  We throughout religious history have sought God to liberate us from our dire situations, but in fact, we have to liberate God.

We should know and understand that God's true heart has been restrained and needs to be freed.

God had created Adam and Eve as His greatest partners of love.  Humanity is God's partners of love.  In the vertical position they have a parent-child relationship with God.  Horizontally they were created to become husband and wife centered on God.

Then God would have been able to practice all the ideals of love in heaven and on earth.  Yet, when Adam and Eve did not center their love on God, He lost everything and ended up in prison.

How is that possible?

God is a being of love, without His object partners to give and take with love, He is kept from truly expressing the desires of His heart.  It is the same as a spouse who has run away from their responsibilities.

If one has not established a base of heaven while on earth, there is no foundation for him to go to heaven in spirit world.  As the Bible says, what is loosed on earth is also loosed in Heaven.  You must experience the four realms of heart while of earth before entering spirit world.

Father Moon speaks of His heartfelt experiences with God while imprisoned in North Korea for teaching Christianity:

"Even when I went to prison and manacles were placed on my wrists, they could not restrain me because I had love. When I was in a cramped position that made it hard to sleep, I woke up at night to find light shining from my hand. Why was there light? It was because God was embracing me. I discovered His love.

That is why light could shine even in that dark room. If I sat quietly and reverently in the corner of a prison cell after hearing someone groaning and crying, the following day people would give me 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.'  Therefore they followed."

Rev. Moon

God is a God of love.

Members, therefore should not be an ungrateful group of people who persecute such a God, during the times of suffering.

God has searched for thousands of years for a people that thirst for faith and hope burning with love that want to unshackle God on the account of humankind.

He looked for people who say, "God was accused by Satan because of me; He was imprisoned because of me; Jesus died on the cross because of me; the Holy Spirit went through a bloody history of struggle on my behalf.

God please give me strength.  I will bring rest and liberation to the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit."

God had no foundation on which to stand because there was not a devoted son through which people could uphold the heavenly kingdom by fulfilling the way of a loyal subject, saint and divine son or daughter.

If God and Satan were fighting, who would stop the fight?  Would the fight just automatically end between the two?

Is it possible that just one day Satan will surrender on his own and the world would automatically enjoy peace?

God has carried the sorrow in His heart from the situation of the heavenly kingdom.  God has been incarcerated and confined from exalting His absolute love and authority upon the earth.

Do you know of any grandfather or grandmother which God has been seeking for thousands of years?  What about a mother or father, a wife or husband who God has searched for?  Have you ever met a true son or a daughter whom God is seeking?

Because of the fall, you have not met such a person.  Who can sever the chains which have bound this heart?  How will we be able to dissolve the bitterness of this quest?

God can do anything at will, but because of the reality of unprincipled love His hands have been tied. 

Who has ever known how much He has suffered under lasting regret and sorrow?  Who understands how unimaginably weary he is?

People in the church pews cry out for the God of glory to give them blessings.  But God is not that kind of God.  On the contrary, God is a miserable God.

God's sorrowful situation can be liberated through the birth of a son.

Hence, you must liberate God.

If you are not able to free God from the pains of humanity's fall, then there is no way to create the heavenly path and make straight a way for the ideal world to be established on earth.  This is the history and the mission of the Unification movement to rectify this fallen history.

These core teachings, sermons and words can liberate God's heart.  God is suffering in grief because of the Fall.

From the outset, the history of such lamentation has been a global one.

Thus, Paul has said that all of the creation, our ancestors and each of us wait in eager longing for the appearance of God's true sons and daughters.

We are living in the age where the truth which the Book of Revelations speaks about is being revealed.  Through the practice of these teachings we will separate ourselves and God from that realm of grieving.




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This Post was rewritten and derived from the book, True God Cheon Seon Gyeong Chapter 4 section 3