The Story of Jesus Hardly Told

Jesus' birthday -- Christmas -- meant nothing special in those days. The most precious friend for Jesus would have been the person who came to him, not with many presents or words of congratulations, but rather with a tearful heart to console him in his situation and to discuss with him what he was going to do in the future.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

 

Christians know few details about the birth of Jesus, but do not truly understand how a man could be born sinless.  Let's look at the story of Jesus from the Divine Principle point of view.

God chose a woman named Mary.  In her day, you can say that she was a revolutionary woman of faith who followed God's tactics that go in the opposite direction of Satan.

Because humanity is tied to the fall through the temptation of the archangel, an angel assisted Mary by bringing her God's revelation.

Mary believed what the angel told her about her mission: she would conceive and the child would be great and holy and his name would be Jesus.

When you look at the story from a historical point of view, you can see that it parallels Eve's in the garden of Eden.

Mary and Joseph were engaged but they were not married just as Adam and Eve, thus God gave the warning of do not delve in romantic love before they had matured in HIS love.

An angel provoked Eve to go against God's command, but an angel restored this through bringing Mary to fulfill God's command.

Mary was also in the position to trick her husband as Eve did to Adam with her own temptation.

In Mary's time, for a woman to be engaged and with child was adultery according to the Jewish law that was punishable by death.

Mary was not the first woman to risk her life to follow God's law which would seemingly break the law of her day.

Rebbecca and Tamar also brought victory clearing away all satanic conditions within Jesus's own lineage.

Mary conceived Jesus outside of marriage which is still scandalous in this day and age, yet Satan could not accuse her.

Even inside his mother's womb Jesus was already the only begotten Son of God, and after his birth everything he did was with the authority of the Son of God.

If there was a different beginning and any of these three woman lost Faith, then Jesus could not be the Messiah, the begotten Son of God with a pure lineage.




Q: What makes Jesus any different from any other child born to physical parents?

The difference is the historical time.

On the outside, Jesus' parents and himself look exactly the same, but their backgrounds are entirely different from others.

Mary was a historic figure.

Throughout the thousands of years that God was restoring the sinful world, God knew He had to use a woman's body to have a child born with His pure blood lineage without a trace of sin.

But from the sinful eyes of society, they saw Jesus as a fatherless child, an illegitimate child.

In the sight of God, He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, but there was no way to prove it to the people from where Jesus was born of a pure bloodline.

In God's eyes, Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit, but in people's saw that Mary should be condemned to death by stoning.

Thus, Joseph suffered because of Mary's situation and wanted to end their engagement, but an angel appeared to Joseph and told him to take her as his wife because she was on a special mission of God's.

What if Joseph was not righteous and let a pregnant Mary be stoned to death?

If we were to put ourselves in Joseph's position, we can see the great responsibility he had.

How would Joseph look telling his family that Jesus was not his child, but an angel came to him and told him take her as his wife because it was the will of God?  What would his parents have said?

They would not have believed him.

Therefore, Joseph had to make a lonely decision without discussing it with anyone and taking his fiancee to a secret hiding place.

Think about heading toward Bethlehem with Jesus on the way any day.  They were unable to prepare anything for the child's birth.

He was laid in a manger in a stable such as where the cows lived.

Wouldn't Jesus' grandparents and other family members want to be there for the little one's coming if he had physical relatives.

We view as this time as different, but people lived in the same manner of family as we do now.  The family structure no matter how much Satan has tried to destroy it is the same throughout history.

Therefore, when we view Jesus' birth, we see that it was from a very lonely place.

God sent three wise men and led them to Jesus.  He had planned that they would have ministered to Jesus, raised and protected him until the day of his marriage.

What if they had taken Jesus back to their country where Jesus would have been raised in a more glorious position of protection?

If these three men were from different nationalities it would have been better.  Therefore, if Jesus was persecuted in one place, he could have been moved to the other's country.

Christians believe that persecution was the only way to bring about salvation on the earth because of the prophecy that he would be so, but there are always two prophecies which depend on which way human's choose to go.

The other prophecy was that Jesus was to be King and be glorified and bring salvation through his family.  Yet, because in the end Jesus did not have one person of faith to follow him in his place of the cross, the only way this was fulfilled was through the shedding of his pure blood.

If the wise men had raised Jesus wholesomely and protected him completely from satanic invasion until the time of his marriage then they would have been more qualified as Jesus' disciples.  Since the ones God had prepared did not follow Jesus including John the Baptist, Jesus had to find his own disciples.

Wouldn't Joseph as a man have doubts about Mary who would answer Joseph when he asked her who the real father was?  She would only answer that the baby came from the holy spirit.

Wouldn't any husband want to know the father of a child they did not conceive?

This provoked not only suspicion about Mary, but brought about jealous and hurt feelings in his heart which only grew over time.

He thought that Mary was not being truly honest with him.  These emotions brought about emotinal turmoil and upheavel within Jesus's family after he was born.

Just as in our day and age, this would eventually become more public where others would have the same suspicions.

The Bible records one of these incidents.

When Jesus met his mother at a wedding in Galilee, Mary asked Jesus to make wine for the party because they were running out.  Jesus responded to Mary, "Oh, Woman, what have you to do with me? ..." (John 2:4)

With the understanding from the Principle, we see that Jesus knew that his mother was to find him a suitable wife to marry as anyone his age would anticipate.  She was more worried about another's wedding than her own holy son's marriage.

Another incident was when a disciple told Jesus that his mother wanted to see him and Jesus replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers...Here are my mother and my brothers!  Whoever does the will fo God is my brother, and sister and mother."  (Mark 3:33-35)

We can see through the eyes of Jesus that the members of his own family were not doing the will of God and Jesus was left unprotected by the very people God set to help Jesus set up his foundation.

When we see the story of the Bible through the eyes of God's true plan, we see that Jesus suffered great anguish within his own family.

There are many hidden facts that are not yet revealed and which the people of faith are not have the ears to hear the truth.

The Bible is a scanty record of the thirthy years of Jesus' public ministry.  Wouldn't there be an even more glorious record of such a historic time.  If so, then God and Jesus's disciples would have revealed it.

Instead, Jesus lived in sorrow and grief.  He was seen as an obscure figure for thirty years.

As a child, Jesus definitely knew that he was special. He heard what the common people thought about him but his own self-image was completely different. From the time he was small he could never talk openly in his own way.

The only consolation he could seek was in communication with God, and he spent most of his time praying to God and seeking His guidance.

As a result Jesus became stronger and stronger in this period and circumstances compelled him in only one direction -- toward God and the realization of His ideal.

He knew that humanity's thinking was vastly different from God's and that it had to be corrected; he also knew that society understood nothing about what God wanted and that he himself would have to change it.

Because of his adverse circumstances Jesus had to really pray hard to God, to the point where God could talk to him and teach him what he would need for his future work. As Jesus grew older and knew more and more clearly who God was and what his own mission was supposed to be, his heart became heavier and more agonized and his environment became more difficult to tolerate.

Knowing his hidden suffering, if a disciple, brother or sister could have brought just a small piece of cake wrapped in a handkerchief to give to Jesus on his birthday, saying, "The people don't understand you, but I will try to help you. You must not be disappointed."

Jesus always wished that his own parents, brothers, and relatives could help him in the mission.

Jesus certainly would have welcomed such a person far more than someone who came with a fancy present for him and then went away. If there had been one such brother or sister in Jesus' family then Jesus would have remembered him or her for a long time and would have spoken about it.

If his parents would not help him, then who else would help?

There were people prepared to receive him. In order for him to be able to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, he must have been able to establish the Kingdom right in his own family first. He knew the heavenly law of the divine family, so his own family had to be placed under that law.

According to that divine law, Joseph should have loved and ministered to Jesus, not to speak of his mother Mary. Jesus had to even to educate his own parents and brothers and sisters the heavenly secrets he told his disciples.

They had to love him more than anyone else, ministering to him and helping him in his mission. Jesus was a prince of the Kingdom of Heaven. He was not an ordinary prince of a kingdom on earth. He was the only son of God, and he was sent to do this mission as the single central figure sent by God.

That family had to exemplify and build the tradition by ministering to the child, even though he was their son. In preparing food for him, in preparing clothes for him, in doing anything for him, they were to be very sincere and whole-hearted.

Their other sons and daughters should have helped Jesus carrying out his mission. But the situation was in conflict-it was not like this.

With all of these things happening in his environment, he had to lead an unhappy life preparing for his mission alone until the moment he was thirty years of age.

Jesus knew God's plan for himself, for Israel and for a rest of humankind. God is immaterial, but by working through the pure body, Jesus could experience the existing human condition and he knew that he had to be the central point to bring the world back to God.

Do you think that he wanted very much for someone to show some understanding, or that he wanted to hear even one word of love spoken to him knowing that without him no one had any chance to return to God?

Jesus yearned to hear the high priest say, "We must prepare ourselves to receive you, because you are the only way for us to return to God."  Or did he want to hear these precious words after thousands of years of his followers being sacrificed?

Do we know of anyone who understood and said this?  If so, wouldn't there be such a record?  John the Baptist filled such a mission in the beginning but as people connected him to this 'obscure' figure, John began to doubt and distance himself from Jesus instead of following him.

The leading people not only did not come near him, they even opposed him directly. People were therefore shocked one day when they heard him say, "I am the fulfillment o the Law." and "Moses wrote of me." He proclaimed, "I am the Son of God," and "The Father in heaven has sent me.

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by me." How many of us could have accepted such extraordinary statements if we had lived in those days?

Jesus just bewildered people, he sounded so outrageous. Even John the Baptist had difficulty seeing Jesus as the Son of God, and John was supposed to prepare the people and make straight the way of the Lord."

Reverend Sun Myung Moon




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