The First Love Triangle Was Between...

The original love triangle was between Adam, Eve and the tempter Lucifer.


The corruption which took place in the first family, set the dynamics that wreak havoc in male and female relations to this day.

One of the most agonizing symptoms of the first love triangle is for one’s partner to be attracted to someone else and succumb to infidelity.

The premise of one being torn between two lovers fills many classic literature and films worldwide.

The story of the duchess Anna Karenina all the way to the film “Casablanca” as well as soap operas and many blues and love songs mimic the realities of being betrayed by a lover.

The original Godly family was destroyed by the first illicit sexual encounter.

In this relationship, you can see various attributes of abuse and betrayals.

Since Lucifer was very wise about God’s plan and was thousands if not millions of years older, this was the first sexual abuse by a trusted elder.

Since Adam and Eve were God’s children, they betrayed the parent’s trust and commandment.  Lucifer was a servant to King and rebelled against Him by seducing and taking away the King’s children.

Adam and Eve were the first dysfunctional family.

We may believe that dysfunction we see in today's society was brought into the family by the ‘free love’ movement of the 1960s, but humanity began in this unfortunate way.

Even though the Bible uses metaphors and hidden messages to convey the Fall of humanity, many great cultural narratives, suggest that more than just an illicit sexual relation happened between the first human couple.

Genesis shows that the woman fell under the sway of the Tempter.  She yields to his seduction and then she instigates this betrayal to her betrothed.

This pattern and other deceptive games that may occur in relationships was established from the beginning of humanity.

Christianity also alludes to a double treachery.  Not only do Adam and Eve betray each other, but they betray the Creator.

By disregarding God’s warning and concern, Adam and Eve, and Lucifer initiate sex and parenthood outside of God’s blessing and participation.

This is a heartbreaking scenario which still plays out in many families ever since.

In some depictions of the Fall, the Tempter is depicted as a servant and friend to God.

He has been trusted, but he refuses to respect his Lord’s children because he was jealous of God’s love for them.

He sought revenge by getting God’s children to follow him instead of God through tricking the children into a premature and illicit affair.

Thus, the first children were seduced by their elder and their Parent’s friend.

This is the origin of the tragedy of sexual abuse of children by their caregivers, relatives and even clergymen.

This is also the foundation for those who use sex as a weapon and a way to gain illicit power.


Another Kind of Adultery

If we take the story of our first ancestors tragedy, we can see the basis of many legendary tales.

We can compare God to a King and the woman as His bride or Queen.  Therefore, God was to be her central focus of love and loyalty.

 Thus, when the servant seduces the queen this becomes an adulterous act that betrays the King.

The European story Tristan and Isolde, the heroic Tristan, the beloved of the king, arrives to take Princess Isolde as his wife.

However, the young man and maiden take a love potion and cannot resist their passion for each other. Unfortunately, Tristan and Isolde run off together in betrayal of the king.

Similarly, the British legend of King Arthur revolved around the theme adultery between the King’s first knight, Lancelot, and his Queen.

This one act of treachery brings down the Utopian Camelot.

Folk religions around the world tell of a parallel conflict triad.

Greek myths are full of infidelities.

Oedipus Rex involves not only mortals, but a foretold incident of incest: the son kills his father to win the love of his mother.  Reverend Moon has suggested just this kind of dynamic behind the fatal dysfunction of the first family.

Adam, Eve, and Lucifer all chose to evade the moral challenge before them and misused love.

As the elder Lucifer was to attend to the immature children of God.

His position called to have unconditional love and obedience.  He knew that as Adam and Eve grew that they were destined to receive a special divine love and have authority beyond what he as a servant could ever possess.

He had the moral challenge to be content with his role.

Lucifer could look to have eternal praise and gratitude from his beloved King after he was a good caregiver to the prince and princess and they matured to assume their rightful position as God‘s heirs and Lucifer’s masters.

This duty asked for him to be humble to those who were presumably younger and less experienced than himself.

Also, the royal offspring themselves would have paid him unending respect and admiration as well as their countless descendants.

Instead, Lucifer was not able to trust and remain faithful to his lord or His children.

As he could only focus on his own situation and not see Adam and Eve from God’s point of view, it looked unfair in his eyes.  Therefore, he decided to turn away from God’s guidance and steal the affection of the young girl in order to soothe his own hurt feelings and feeling alone.

Eve, who was lonely as Adam learned about the creation, she was very flattered to have his attention and over time, lost interest in her fiance in favor of the elder more fascinating mentor.

Once Eve replaced Lucifer as her god, he believed that if he could seduce the girl he could possess all her love and beauty for himself.

At the same time he could act out revenge to his ‘unjust’ Creator by stealing the Heavenly Father’s most precious treasure, thus destroying His whole purpose for creating the universe.

As a final nail in the coffin he placed God in a deep grave and he humiliated his would-be master by degrading him through the Fall and become his rival.

Eve gave too much of her heart to the charming elder.

Once Eve succumb to his seduction, she was ridden with extreme guilt and realized that the act was wrong and that her lover had taken advantage of her.

To add to her painful feelings, she had deeply betrayed her loving Father and her mate and violated her own purpose.

Out of desperation and to ease her guilt and fear, she went to Adam for comfort, therefore re-enacting the same selfish act of seduction which Lucifer used to trap and destroy Eve.  Adam also abandoned His Father’s will for the allure of his fiancee’s premature love.


Disastrous Template

These corrupted relationships that happened at the beginning of humanity, explains why infidelity and promiscuous sex has such a hold to enslave humanity to this moment.

Because humanity inherited this fallen history, a relational template so deeply embedded
within the human psyche and soul, people are inclined towards it as second nature.

Reverend Moon teaches that this adulterous relationship in the beginnings of human ancestral family life has set a pattern for the profound and pervasive disorder of love that we have witnessed ever since.

Freud had a sense of this when he proposed that the family tensions which arise from the ‘Oedipus complex’ were based on some primordial event that caused the disorder of  family love.

Research shows that infidelity is indeed passed on from generation to generation: One study found that eight out of ten cheating spouses also had a parent that did the same.

The study may find more such cases because the parent may have kept their indiscretion secret.

Adam and Eve’s mistake implied more than just an act of infidelity.

This act was the remote source of all the destructive patterns of interactions between males and females which plague our society today.

For example, Lucifer and Eve both refused to use their resources of unselfish love and remain faithful to whom they were responsible and entertained their infatuations instead.

Instead, they sought to please their immediate gratification and comforting embrace of the opposite sex.

This plays out in sexual involvements in contemporary society today.

 

Males act like Peter Pan and flee responsibilities in favor of maternal acceptance from girlfriends and gain reassurance through sexual conquests, thus escaping paternal rules and requirements.

Women and girls do the same when they overly indulge in the intoxicant of sex and promise and romance and use the closest male audience.

They do this at the cost of fully maturing into daughters of God.

Because the first couple introduced the disorder of love, this led to another phenomenon - the allure of ‘forbidden love’.

There is an insidious attraction to people who are off-limits or out of reach: another woman’s husband, the sister’s boyfriend, the blossoming daughter, celibate priest, ‘bad boy’, the same-sex friend.

A syndrome that has men honoring the purity of a woman, but at the same time pursue the fallen, loose woman at the bar or have a provocative mistress on the side.


Distorted Gender Relations

Psychologist David Kasbow also sees as Reverend Moon has the negative male-female ‘war of the sexes’ played out in the Genesis story.

He describes the three characters, Lucifer, Adam and Eve, involved are the archetypes of masculine and feminine forms of irresponsibility, exploitative on one hand and the foolishly naive and yielding on the other hand.


Predatory type

Lucifer plays the Don Juan, Playboy role surrounded by the compliant Playboy Bunnies.  He is the immature man who uses and discards the opposite sex in order to prove his worth.

Another dynamic is the man who dominates other men through conquering and winning their women.

This is almost like a parasite, a rapist and the vampire who feeds off of what other people possess.  The Eveic figure is the seductress who uses her sex to dominate men for money, security.  She may be thought of as a man-eater.

Lilith is another myth, the first wife of Adam is portrayed as a demonic feminine.

He is under the influence of the foxy counterpart of the male ‘wolf’, the Siren, Samson’s Delilah.

She is the woman who keeps a list of boy toys for her amusement and delight to show off her power by stealing men from other women.  The incestuous father, the pedophile and the aging man who takes on a younger trophy wife.

Lucifer was the trusted teacher and parental figure who preys on the fresh, virginal individual of the opposite sex in order to compensate for his own failures, frustrations and inner deadness.

Christian writer Sarah Hinckley says the virgin is so attractive to the worldly one because of the “lightness of heart that is the companion of sexual innocence”.


Return for Tomorrow’s Post: The Impact of Sex Without Commitment 


This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook “Educating for True Love” written by a team of writers to explain the philosophy of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

The Homeland the True God Desires

Have you ever thought that God has a dream just as we have been given one?  If we are made in God's image and likeness, then He should too have dreams for a better future for creation and humanity, correct?

When we look through the events of history from God's point of view, we see God's handiwork through His people to restore the world through their works.

Jesus came to establish God's homeland.

Prophets and patriots of history worked hard as well in order to build this same dream of a Godly homeland.

Each generation tag teams in order to see a better world come.  In order for us to establish heaven on earth, a perfect man like Jesus must appear and complete Jesus' mission of bringing heaven on earth, not just in spirit world.

This man must be recognized by heaven and earth beginning with establishing a heavenly family through having children and establish a tribe, a people and a true nation.

He must reverse the fallen relationship of the brothers Cain and Abel and engraft them to His pure lineage.  Then, build the true homeland where God has dominion in the world and evil must flee.

Prophets, saints and patriots of history all had the same desire to see a world exempt of evil - an Utopian or heaven on earth.

However, they were not able to build this heaven on earth where individuals, families, nations and world could be connected as true brothers and sisters centered on God.

Therefore, we must abandon the path along which humankind is headed in the wrong direction and go in God's direction.


Q. What if Adam and Eve had followed God's direction and did not fall?

Adam would have become the true leader of his tribe.

He would have been the leader of his people.  In addition, he would have been the representative of the nation.

Adam would have become the first true king.

Thus the world would have automatically have been united without a trace of conflict or wars.

They would have operated under one philosophy set by Adam.

Any other trivial and worthless philosophies and doctrines would have been cast aside.

Unfortunately, this did not happen.

We currently live where myriads of doctrines have brought about great confusion to the world.  This problem must be exposed at the root and eliminated.

Humanity's process of thought should have been based on the unfallen, perfect Adam.

Our language would have been Adam's language, our cultural would have been set based on Adam's culture, our tradition should have been Adam's tradition, our lifestyle would have been Adam's way of living and our political systems would have been Adam's systems.

Everything should have come under the system of thought of Adam's nation. 

The philosophy behind a true Adam is called Godism.

Everyone must become one with God, centering on His heart. It was suppose to be the only philosophy humankind would have lived by.

Everyone has a longing to live in the heavenly kingdom in heaven and on earth.

Do you think there are boundaries within heaven with heavy walls and sections?  Do they have many different languages?  No.

What does the heavenly kingdom look like?

Since all people were born in the bosom of God, then God sees us as His sons and daughters, brothers and sisters in the family of God.

From heaven's perspective, we are one people, all citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Our goal is to build a unified world and one nation under God. 

Our goal is to build a nation with one sovereignty, one people, one land, and one culture that is connected to God's lineage through the True Parents who appeared and reversed the first parents' fallen mistake.

In that nation, everyone is determined to inherit God's realm of heart and fulfill the biblical idea of 'love your enemy."

The world God created cannot have national boundaries or problems between races. 

People believe that evil and darkness is eternal and is a necessary part of humanity and the creation.

Even teaching that evil is necessary and was created by our good God to balance out and be the opposite to goodness.

Even though evil was created and is in the world, does not mean it was intended or created at the beginning of creation.

If we followed God's command at the beginning, there would be no need for the struggle between good and evil.

We grew up in a world where borders divide the nation and there are problems between people of different races.

There are even barriers between husband and wife, parents and children and between siblings.

There is a struggle between good people and evil people.

How can we continue to believe that this is part of a creation that God would create for His own children?

What father would create anything bad for their children?  If God is the beginning and end, wouldn't He only create a beautiful environment that would ripen for His own people?

Evil was created when His first children delved into a part of creation before it was ripened. If you have ever tried to eat an unripened fruit such as an apple or banana, you understand how undesirable it is or inedible it is for human consumption.

This is the understanding of the symbolic 'fruit' in the garden of Eden.  We know it to be the sexual organ - the fruit of God's children where the seeds of children are planted.

The returning Lord's task is to transcend racial problems and create one nation without borders, unite the divided families and bring the kingdom of peace to this world where good and evil are fighting.


Q. Where is the original land, original homeland of our unfallen ancestors?

Will it be logical that this homeland will be established based on the standard of one specific nation?

What is the homeland which God and humankind have been searching for, the answer is.... the whole of planet Earth.


Q. How can we create this Godly homeland?

Earth is the homeland which we have longed.  Our ancestors and past generations walked the path of sacrifice, so what was it they desired and begged from Heaven the most to achieve?

This was their cry: "Please quickly bring the era of the Godly Homeland without a trace of evil!"

To establish a nation of God, we establish on earth the peaceful Kingdom of Heaven that places good as the standard above all else.

This eliminates evil and judges its ringleader Satan, who has been the enemy of Heaven.

Please understand that this is has been the desire of our ancestors who have contributed enormously to the course of the providence as well as Jesus and God.

Don't you desire to have a nation where God is ruler, a heaven on earth, or have you settled for this Kingdom of Hell perpetrated from the beginning by Lucifer?

There must be a country that is able to encompass a family a tribe and a people.

Six thousand years of history and God has followed countless nations, longing and seeking this one country where He could establish the heavenly nation on this earth.

He also has been searching for His loyal subjects and virtuous men and women to build such a nation.  We must reorganize families, people, and nations with God as humanity's center.

Our responsibility as people of faith is to bring about this day of liberation, the restoration of our homeland.

The mission of religious people in every religion has been the creation of this homeland.

Yet, ironically, often the selfish desires within people of faith to achieve their own personal salvation has prevented them from uniting on this purpose from across the spectrum of the different religions.

We have set the standard on the individual level, a people and a nation, so now we mobilize and seek the day of freedom, equality and happiness for all God's people.

We seek the day of the restoration of our God-given homeland as well.

Inevitably we must go this way, but, through difficulty.

This is my perspective and the standard that God is seeking. It was this standard that Jesus was trying to establish up until the time of his death.


When we move forward in the process of restoring our homeland, we will suffer and sacrifice in the process.

We will stand on the frontline, the time will come when everyone will say it cannot be done without our working in faith for the goal.

We must work hard for three years to set that standard.  We have to establish this heavenly tradition through shedding blood, sweat, and tears until all people inherit everything from us.

We have to clearly understand that there are still conditions of indemnity to be offered.

God isn't sitting in glory on His throne, He is a miserable God, a lonely God and an unspeakably sad God.  What father could idly watch his children suffer as he ate a king's meal?

God's joy begins when His children become soldiers on the front line, who have the conviction to fight and restore our homeland even if we are bleeding and fall down from the loss of blood.  Even if we have to lose all worldly possessions in the process.

When the ranks of these brave soldiers who fight to restore our homeland and unite the world increase, then God's true joy will begin.

Do you know about God's providence to the present time?

The first goal is to have the foundation on which we can bring about the restoration of God's homeland in heaven's nation and liberate God's Kingdom on earth.

This must be accomplished even if you have to sacrifice your time spent with your family.  Even if you end up as a refugee, a gypsy, this must be done.

We have to set up a country that is under the dominion of God. 

When we look at how communist countries force unity and loyalty to the government - think of this being given freely by the people centered on God?

We are at the time where those of genuine authority and dedication to God work alongside the Messiah and offer their financial foundation necessary for the restoration of our homeland on earth.

This foundation will bring about the nation that will bring world unity.



I should not help you either as a group or as individuals with the money from my own wallet. We have to follow the will of Heaven. Korea must be responsible for Korea; Japan must be responsible for Japan, and America for America. Providentially, these three countries are one. They are the countries of the parents and the eldest son.



We must create an impetus for one unified language.

We Must Find Our Homeland

We long for the nation of God, because it is the place of love.

God's nation is a place where, instead of temporary, corrupted love, we have an eternal love transcendent of time to continually exist.

It is also a place where you can elevate yourself and become 100 percent of your value.

God's nation is where you are eternally happy.

This is why all people are yearning for the heavenly nation.

You should go to the spirit world only after bringing giid results under the realm of God's dominion on earth.

This is the original standard of creation.

Instead, not only do we fear death, but we go after planting many bad seeds and enter into an ungodly realm for eternity.  This is far from God's original plan.  He did not create hell, our ways created it.

If you are unable to restore a heavenly nation on earth during your lifetime, when you go to spirit world, you do not have the value to belong to a heavenly nation in spirit world.

What is bound on earth is bound in heaven.

Our faith's goal is to become citizens of God's country. 

A person without a country, a homeland is always attacked.

Such a person stands in a miserable position.  He may often feel hopeless after suffering an affront.


Q. So, where can we find the country God desires?  

Which nation can become God's foothold?

God's eternal Kingdom on earth will be established based on our bloody sweat we shed for these people and country.

Such a country will create the blessed land that can be praised by our descendants in the thousands of years and generations to come.

God's country is composed of His direct blood descendants who receive Heaven's command and in His place will govern under God's kingship.  This was God's original Homeland before the fall.

There would be neither communism nor democracy in such an ideal country.  Once established, that nation will remain forever.

When we imagine such a nation, we should feel mortified that we are unable to be a citizen of such a heavenly country at the present moment.

We should lament that we have not become such a heavenly person, living in such a nation.

We must grieve over the fact that we do not have such an unchanging sovereignty.

During this process of building sovereignties, nations and territories, the human race has established sovereign nations.  We must remember and honor the fact that during this process millions died, many were sacrificed, many nations fell and sovereignties changed hands.

All these people who sacrificed, died, shed blood, and sad people did so to see a heavenly nation and world on earth.  They want to see such a nation come.

In this era, God sent His beloved true son and true daughter to the earth to establish one, absolute nation.

Until the present time, He could not prepare the foundation after Jesus' death to restore one nation.  This attempt has failed every time.

Thus God has worked throughout history to send His people to earth to manage, advance and accomplish this work.

It is sad to be a citizen of a country with no sovereignty. 

Jesus was concerned about this point.

He told others not to worry about where their food, drink, or clothes would come from.

He said that these small matters are what the ungodly worry about.

"Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things. Instead, above everything else, be concerned with His Kingdom and with what He requires, and He will provide you with all these other things."

Jesus said to save your nation first.

The nation that God is seeking.  Jesus waits in paradise, not heaven.  Paradise is the waiting room to go to heaven. You enter heaven only with your family, not as an individual.

Jesus was unable to stand before God on the basis of establishing a national sovereignty that had the power to communicate directly between heaven and earth.

You cannot go to heaven alone.  Heaven is designed as the place where if Adam and Eve had not fallen, their sons and daughters would have gone to live together eternally as a family in heaven.

Why has it been so difficult until now for religious people to preserve their lives and had to sacrifice?

It was because they did not have a heavenly nation as a protective foundation.  There was no family, society, or nation that would help religious people.

If they had only found a nation with a sovereign, heavenly leader that would stand up and shout "Hey, you good for nothing, this is the right way!" then the people would respond, "Yes sir".

However kings and leaders who were centered completely on the heavenly law did not come forth.

There has been no heavenly leader or nation.

That is why these problems have occurred.

Religious people who hold the standard of the heavenly kingdom could not establish a nation and go beyond their own individual selves and problems.

Without a nation, no matter how good or happy your family is, evil people can destroy it. 

This is why we need to create or find a nation on which to stand.

Religious people have not been able to understand this.

We must find a nation of goodness.  This is the purpose of religion.

If you do not have a country that can uphold the standard of God, then there is no basis upon which to register.

We have to have a new registration after becoming one people centered on God's standard.

We need to establish heaven's nation on earth. 

Then, as victorious sons and daughters who are the citizens of that country, we must live together and care for our families and clans.

We become people who love that country and its people, and who receive the lineage of the Messiah.  This is how we enter heaven in spirit world.

This is the way of the Principle.

We need such a nation in order for the blood, sweat and tears we shed and our tradition to be bequeathed for the first time to our descendants for thousands of generations to come.

Thus, when it is established, a monument that will celebrate Heaven's efforts and glory will be erected on this ground.

If we are unable to establish such a nation, then all our efforts to restore the world will be in vain.

Because this nation has not been fully established, then the Christian world and all civilizations will be sent down the river and burned up.

Aren't you seeing such a trend among the religious foundations that have been established for thousands of years?  How effective have they been toward a world of peace?

This is how they have succumbed to Satan's game.  You must understand that the issue here is to establish a heavenly nation.

We will not find such a homeland in an existing nation which already has established its traditions and cultures centered on the fallen, material ways.

The nation which we seek is fundamentally a different dimension.

In order to qualify to inherit such a nation, we have to embrace an ideology that enables us to take on the subject role.

The underlying thought that will govern such a place has to be perfectly aligned with the absolute thought of the Creator.

God desires a nation whose citizens desire to unite under its sovereignty.  

Each citizen must have these characteristics and embody the form and shape of that nation to be a citizen.

To form a nation, there needs to be a territory, a people and a sovereignty.

Q. What is a sovereignty? 

It is the creation of a relationship with the original God.

The leadership of the nation must connect with God and then conduct the work of governing the nation.

When America could follow God's law it flourished above other countries in its infancy.

The sovereign leader must completely unite with the citizens of the nation.  There is no dictatorship in this nation.

By becoming one with the people, the sovereign leader can no longer think of anything as being for his own sake alone.

He must instead see everything as being for the sake of the nation.

Once this standard of leader is achieved, that nation will prosper and flourish.

To form a heavenly nation, you need a people, a territory: in place of the sovereignty is the parents, in place of the people are the sons and daughter, in place of the territory is the nation.

It is absolute principle that all these elements have to be present.

To establish a nation, there must be a sovereignty.

All people are included in this nation.

Q. Therefore, who will be the owner of heaven and the sovereign ruler when this heavenly nation on earth is established?

Without a doubt, God is the sovereign ruler.

Where will this territory be?  Will it be in heaven?

It will be built on planet earth.

All of your activities should be for the sake of seeking such a nation.

You should focus on being its founding loyal patriots, and restore our homeland.  Your mindset should be to shoulder such a mission.

You should think that you are part of the secret envoys of Heaven who receive such instructions to come to this evil world to fulfill this mission of building a heavenly nation.

If you do not do this, you will not be able to establish your prestige or dignity as a citizen of the nation we have been seeking.

Even though Satan sees that he is losing ground everyday on earth, do you think that he will just give up and turn around and automatically bow his head toward God's people who have passionately fought for God?

He has been playing havoc with God for thousands of years, he is not going to retreat easily.

He will doggedly fight to the end.

This is why we must not be distracted in these last days and stay focused on the central point.


If I, Rev. Moon of the Unification Church, stray from the center, I will be broken. If you do not set the right direction, there can be no development.


We must go out with barefeet if necessary to create the homeland.

Your left over resources are not enough to save this nation.

You do not save this nation by focusing on what food you are going to eat, what clothes to wear and what car to drive.

Therefore, we determine to pioneer with our bare hands and feet.  That is the type of work our church is doing.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook -  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 13, Chapter 1, Section 1, 2

Mankind's Godly Responsibility

This speech was given in 1992 in Seoul, Korea by Reverend Sun Myung Moon's wife:

Distinguished guests, representatives of the Women's Federation for World Peace from seventy countries, women leaders and members of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia:

By your presence, you bring many blessings to our Federation's future, and inspire us to multiply our determination to achieve world peace.  

This may be the first time that women have taken the initiative by bringing so many women together in one place.

I am certain that from this day forward, women around the world will come to understand their noble role which has been ordained by God, and that a road will be opened for us to build an ideal world filled with peace, happiness and freedom.

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon

The following declaration is based upon the heart of God that transcends the past, present and future.

These words are a declaration before heaven and earth, with history as a witness.  The following words may seem unfamiliar to some, but they deal with the secrets of heaven that all women today need to understand in order to usher in the new era of peace, not only for their own family, but for the world.

History Began in a Diseased State


We have come to live in a diseased world whose destruction of its evil is inevitable.

This is the true meaning of 'The Last Days'.

Every day we hear the ugly sounds of its final death rattle.

We can trace the origin of this disease to the original ancestors who had the responsibility to lay a tradition in paradise that would lead the rest of their descendants directly to Heaven on earth.

Instead of following God's Words, they followed another.

Our original ancestors thus contracted a serious disease.  In religious terms, this even is referred to as the human fall.

This disease caused by Satan, who told our ancestors to follow his word instead of God's, has been the focus of human history in restoring the world back to its original position of heaven on earth.

The tragedy of human history was that it originated with Satan's will.

The lord of evil stole the central position to God's ideal of creation.

Adam and Eve's union resulted in children of evil, instead of children of goodness bearing God's original pure blood lineage.

We inherited Satan's love, Satan's life and Satan's lineage.  Our reproductive organs were intended to join together in virtue, to be the temples of true love, true life and true lineage.

Love was supposed to be experienced betwen a husband and wife in a virtuous union to procreate children who carry on the pure lineage.   The center of life is love.  The human lineage is transmitted by means of the love and life of a husband and wife.

The connecting line of love, life and blood lineage is what continues throughout history.  We have been held as prisoners by satanic love, satanic life and satanic lineage bearing any link to God's pure love, life and lineage.  Adam and Eve were in their youth when they sowed the seeds of this false love, false life and false lineage.  

Therefore, in these Last Days, we see a decline in morality among the young people around the globe.  

Satan uses his fallen love as a way to create a den of sin where a blow struck against God's ideal of true love.    

Standards were relaxed concerning sexual behavior, the plague of drug addiction and the decline of the family structure and traditional values have turned this world into an earthly hell.

It is impossible to find a true man, true woman, true brothers and sister, true husband and wife or true parents anywhere.

Before this age, there was no hope of creating a true society, true nation or a true world.

Mankind Must Engraft Onto God and True Parents

Adam and Eve formed a trinity of evil.

It is up to us to restore Adam and Eve that is in accordance with the ideal of creation.

In order to resolve this historical disease, someone has to testify to the fact that Satan committed sin and be able to explain the fundamental truths concerning the sin which our original human ancestors committed.

Satan and God have known the details of the fall which has been hidden from humanity and repeated to this day.

Adam was still young and did not understand many things about his environment.

In the Last Days, when Adam and Eve will finally reach perfection and discover this information and share it with the world is the biblical account of Revelations to how God will surely reveal all secrets in the Last Days.

Thus the exact crime which Satan created throughout history will be revealed.

Then it will be possible to expel Satan from the world.

For the first time, humanity will be able to make a fundamental change in direction toward hope, peace, happiness and freedom.

For us to be able to break free form false love, false life and false lineage we inherited from Satan, it is necessary that we leave behind our wild olive roots and engraft onto the true olive tree of the Messiah.

This will make it possible for our blood lineage to return to God's unstained, pure blood lineage and rebuild a heaven on earth and in spiritual world.

This is God's final purpose of God's providence of salvation, restoration and recreation.  Therefore, this is the era where the True Parents come to earth to reverse the mistake of the first parents.  

This is of the greatest historical importance.  The True Parents, who reverse the fall of our first parents, represent the final fruit of human history.

True Parents embody the completed form of human cultural history.

They signify the victory of religious efforts and philosophy within history.  Before True Parents could come, there was a period of indemnity and restoration through sacrifice, suffering and blood.

God's Providential History of Restoration

I would like to speak for a while about this historical period, based on the biblical record, to illustrate the difficulties. By understanding this, we can understand how important it is that we fulfill our responsibility today.

In the Old Testament, history worked through indemnity such as an eye for eye, tooth for tooth and life for life.  This responsibility of the fall passed from Eve to Adam.

Satan was at the center of that union.  From Eve's standpoint, after she had received the seed of false life and love from Satan, the fall occurred where Satan took over God's position.

Satan became Eve's father.  Eve placed the archangel in the position of father and Adam in the position of her son.  

Women who stand in the position of Eve in the course of restoring the world through indemnity, they have had to risk their lives in order to assure God's will would pass to the next generation.

When we look at the historical record in the Bible, we see a number of events that seem to defy explanation.

God's original intention in His creation was that Eve would become one with God.

Because Eve followed Satan's command, she became one with him.

Immediately after the Fall, God began the work through the family of Adam in order to undo the wrong course of history by going through the reverse course.

God worked through Adam's family because by them not linking to God, the fall deprived members of this family of eternity which they were given this privilege at their creation.

This is the process God used to bring about restoration of the first parents:

Cain was the very first fruit of love linked to Satan who took Eve which was on the side of evil.  Abel who was the second fruit of love, was placed to resemble the side of heaven.

This was the beginning of the history of struggle between good and evil which was aimed at the fundamental restoration through indemnity.

Cain and Abel made offerings to God at the same time, but God received only the offering from Abel, the second son, who represented God's side.

Cain represented Satan's side and God refused his offering.

The reason for this was that the second son should restore the birthright of the first son who represented Satan who was the first 'son' in relation to Adam.

Cain was to make his offering through Abel.  This is the orderly path of restoring the mistake of their parents.  This would have restored their mistake.

But because Cain could not humble to Abel and killed his brother, heaven thus worked through Seth who worked on behalf of Abel.  This providence was extended to his descendants.

Because of their failure to restore the Fall, while outside of their mother's womb, God had to accomplish His dispensation beginning within the womb.

Once we know this simple fact, we understand when Rebecca asked God why Esau and Jacob fought within her womb, God said, "Two nations are in your womb..the elder shall serve the younger." Genesis 25:23

After she understood the providence of God's will to return the mistake of Cain and Abel, she came to take greater care of the second son, Jacob.

Jacob had the responsibility to restore through indemnity the birthright of his brother Esau, emulating Adam and Abel to take back the birthright of God from Satan and Cain and bringing it back to the correct position.

That leaves one position left for this to be successful.  Rebecca needed to fulfill her responsibility in the position of Eve.

Now, we can understand the biblical account of why the firstborn was struck in Egypt during the course of Israelites' exodus and Jacob's switching of his hands over Manasseh and Ephraim at the time of their blessing.

These all contained the hidden will of heaven in order to bring about the reversal of the mistake of the first and second sons.

God's Providence to Send the Messiah


Eve deceived, God, her Father and Adam, in her fall.  To restore this, Rebecca stood on heaven's side and deceived the father Isaac and her son Esau so that Jacob could receive the blessing.

Jacob bought the birthright of the first born and initiated the lineage of Israelites on this victory which was won with the cooperation of a mother and her son.

However, when Jacob was successful in fulfilling God's will of taking full control of the birthright of the firstborn, he was already forty years old.

Therefore those who were forty and older were in the realm of victory over Satan.

But those under forty did not have a condition that gave them victory over the control of Satan on that level.

Therefore, a new dispensation was carried out for the purpose of gaining victory within the womb.  Tarmar and her twins Zerah and Perez.  Perez was the younger brother, but he pushed Zerah aside in order to become be the first born.  In fact, the word "Perez" is derived from this event.

At the beginning of history, Satan's lineage was planted within the mother's womb.

How was this possible when humanity was created by God?

We saw in the previous post that the misuse of the sexual organs was the actual cause of the Fall.

The archangel had tempted Eve with fallen love that was outside of God's dominion.  Through a sexual relationship passed on this sin to Adam, thus bearing children that were connected to Satan's blood.

The only way that the blood lineage passes from one to the other is through the action of a sexual encounter.

This mother's womb was restored to the side of God through Tamar following the will of God. Therefore, heaven took control over the first-son realm and the second son realm to God's original lineage which had caused the fall.

This was the way that the tribe of Judah formed a pure foundation where the Messiah could be born through that lineage.

This was not a simple reversal.

Tamar, as a woman fulfilling Eve's mistake, had to place herself in the position of deceiving her father and son.   She had to deny her father-in-law and his sons, whom she eventually would marry, in order to separate the position of Eve from Satan.

After this was accomplished, a basic tradition was established where God's children could be conceived without the original sin. The womb was purified from Satan's invasion.

Then it was up to the Israelites and Judaism to carry on this standard of victory in the womb until the time of the Messiah could be sent.

But by then , Satan had already had an established nation in the world.  Therefore, to send the Messiah at that time, there was not a safe national foundation for him to stand where the dispensation for restoring the world.

God had to wait 2,000 years until there was enough of this national foundation, where a woman could stand in the position of Eve, for Him to carry out His providence.

This finally took place through Mary who was Jesus' mother.

When Adam and Eve created the fall, they were engaged at that time, but they were not married by God yet.

In the same way, Mary and Joseph were betrothed to each other centered on God.  Just as Rebecca and Tamar, Mary was a revolutionary woman.  She was called by God to take part in the process of recreating Adam.

Since, Eve had deceived God and Adam, Mary had to place herself in a position to reverse Eve's mistake by deceiving her father and son.

This is the process where Jesus was conceived.  Therefore, Satan could not invade Mary's womb during the time of Jesus.

Jesus was born of a womb that belonged to a victorious woman who reveresed the reverse is the first fruit of the first love.

This was the first time in history that the bond to love Satan's children was established.

During the time that Jesus was in Mary's womb, Satan could make no invasion through lineage.  Even though saints dedicated their lives as individuals.

This is true today.  There, the Christian point of view was able to be used and was able to spread.

Finally, God has worked to use the victory in the Second War and the Christian cultural sphere to be able to accomplish unification of the world.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook for World Peace, Chapter 3

Sexual Organs the Most Holy Place

Throughout religious history, practically every part of human life has been discussed in the pulpit except one grey area: the sexual organs.

While preacher's may speak about the current world situations, disasters, economy, political views, dispute other faiths and philosophies, still they leave the most important element out of their speeches.

Sex in and of itself is not dirty, but humanity has become ashamed because we have left our position and ate of the fruit without God's permission.

In these Last Days, we have reached a position through the return of the Messiah to reverse this mistake of the Fall and return to our original position before the Fall.

Through the teachings of the Divine Principle, we learn that the world turned into chaos because of Eve and the archangel giving into the fruit which were known to be the sexual organs.  She passed this indiscretion on to Adam and from then on to their descendants up to the present times.

Now, is not the time to hide this information, but to teach about it and speak about it in order for this mistake to no longer be passed down.

If parents or preachers do not teach their children at a younger age, then Satan surely will teach them for us the inappropriate ways of using their sexual organs and without any time period or waiting for just one partner.

Why do we stubbornly hold onto the tradition that speaking about sex in the context of God is a no no when God created absolute, pure sex in the first place?

Where do you think God's most holy place is?  It is the sexual organs of men and women where love dwells.  This is heaven's most holy place.

What is the symbol of the love between a man and woman?  Where is the final destination of love?

The place where man and woman want their love to end up is the sexual organs which make a man and a woman one.  The sexual organs become a channel that can bring their mind and body into complete oneness of love.

Sex is the original palace of love, the most holy place of heaven

What is the difference between men and women?

First, the obvious difference is their external bodies including the sexual organs are different.

For whom is the male sexual organ absolutely necessary?

The male sexual organ exists for a woman.  One sexual organ is concave and the other is convex.  Why are they made like that?

Both of them could point out or be made flat, but why do they look different?  It is all for the sake of the other.  The man's organ is absolutely wanted by the woman's organ, and the woman's organ is wanted by the man.

We have not known that the woman's organ absolutely belongs to the man and the man's organ absolutely belongs to the woman.  Would they belong to several different men or women?  Is God like this?

By the two owning each other's sexual organs, man and woman can come to know true love.

The sexual organs of men and women are the treasure store of the royal palace.

The man and woman's sexual organs are the treasure store of the royal palace of the heavenly nation.

Even God cannot do whatever He wants with her sexual organ.  Only her husband can open the lock to it.

A woman should not get undressed before two men.  She is only allowed to undress herself before her master.  Anyone else is a devil.

The sexual organ is the royal palace of love.

The sexual organ is the royal palace where one receives the blood ties and lineage.  It is where one will inherit heaven. This will never, ever change.

It is a royal palace of true life, a royal palace where true love is found and true lineage.

It is the most precious place.

Therefore, since this is the most holiest of places, then it is also the most fearsome if one lets just anyone open up the key to this place.

As Adam and Eve had done, they destroyed the royal palace of love, life and lineage and invited in the false love, life and lineage inherited from Satan.

You cannot do whatever you want with it.  The sexual organ cannot be open without God's official approval.

No one can even touch this royal palace without your husband or wife who has received approval from God and the universe.

Why did God create the sexual organs?  It is because of love.

The sexual organs come into being in order to find love. What is the sexual organ?

It is the royal palace that is centered on a true lineage where God's direct blood lineage can be born from there.

Then it is the most precious thing in creation. Without it, God's ideal world, God's family and God's will cannot be realized.  The sexual organ is the starting point for the achievement of the perfection of all of these.

If a world existed that absolutely valued the sexual organ, do you think that this would be a good world or a bad world?

Would a world that preserved the sexual organ be a world of prosperity or a world of ruin?

When God created human beings, what part do you think God made with the greatest of concerns? Would it be the eyes?

What about the nose?  The heart or the brain?  These things will disappear when you die, do they not?

The sexual organ is the royal palace of love. 

What has happened to that royal palace of love now?

It is such a precious thing, a holy thing to be cherished.  But the Fall has turned it dirty.

From God's viewpoint it is not something to be viewed as dirty, but something holy.

From there, true life, true love and true lineage are connected to it.  Satan defiled such a holy thing.

Our sexual organ is the original palace of love. Only if love, life and lineage is accomplished can your sexual organ be the royal palace in which God can dwell.  Since God is King of all kings, and the one who is to go to the original palace and reside there, if you attend God you must attain the original palace of love, life and lineage, and the original palace of conscience. Amen!

The sexual organ is the point where two people in love become one as a unified body of life with love at the center.  It is the place where the blood of a man and the blood of a woman blend into one in one melting pot.

You should know that this place is more precious than your own sons and daughters.  More precious than your husband and even more precious than God.

They will say you are a heretic for saying this, but through the sexual organs that remain pure and are approved by God, can create children that are born of God's direct blood lineage - true children.

Without it, your parents would have no value, your couple would have no value.  Your sons and daughters would have no value.

Once humanity lost the royal palace, children thereafter were connected to Satan carrying his dirty blood lineage. This is the point where the view of something of such value as the sexual organ received such a negative connotation.

If we do not inherit the royal palace, there is no value to you as a couple.

Since this place is so precious, it is kept under lock and key as the most precious treasure of your whole life.  In order to keep it from being seen by anyone in the world.

The key to the man's organ is held by the wife and the key to the woman's organ is the husband.  There is only one key for each.

Would you like for your husband to have ten or twenty keys just like those who indulge in free sex?  Do you want it to be like a ruined house without an owner, where the door is open to any passerbyer?

The sexual organ is the original palace with which a man and a woman make love.

Your grandparents and parents have lived revering this place.

You as a couple revere this place, and your sons and daughters to come in the future will also live revering it.  Is this not so?  Is there a woman or a man who has lived truly regarding and safeguarding their royal palace?

If so, then why has it turned into something bad?

The sexual organ is seen as a vulgar word.  Why when it is such a holy place?

It is because of this that eternal love is connected and from this that eternal life and lineage appear.

A man and woman who are able to protect and keep their purity are likewise protected by the universe.  This is because by keeping the order of love between men and women is the fundamental root of the universe.

Why were men and women born on the earth?

They were born in order to love one another.

Since God is a great king of wisdom, He allowed for the exchange of the love organs between men and women.

Despite what people have come to believe, the man's sexual organ does not belong to him and neither does the woman's sexual organ belong to herself.

Behaving according to popular culture, or to your own desire while ignoring the owner will cause you to receive judgement for violating love.

God is a fair being.

Hence, since it is not right for people to fight over who owns what, God designed for the planting of the man's possession within the woman and the woman's possession within the man.  Love may seem wicked, but in reality it is something breathtaking.

Love must create harmony.  There is nothing dirty in love.

Although the sexual organ is the most precious thing, it is also close to the dirtiest area of the human body. Why is this the case?

Since harmony is a principle in the creation of heaven and earth, the male and female sexual organs are the most precious things.  God thus installed them properly in the center of the body.

It is the safest zone, and at the same time it is next to he dirties place. This shows us that God is truly the king of wisdom.

He teaches the human world that love can even rule over something dirty.  

The pathway of urine is also nearby.

Which would you rather cut off: your fingers or your sexual organ?

There should be a vertical standard for the use of the sexual organs. 

All the four limbs are horizontal. This is why the vertical sexual organ is right in the middle.  Isn't this part of a trinity?  It represents God.

Among all of the possession that a man has, two parts of the sexual organ represent the dual characteristics of Adam and Eve.  The one that stands stiff represents God.

You get married in order to be able to meet God.  God does not exist separately from this.

When you enter that place, God is living there.  The sexual organ is more important than your own head?  There is not true love, life or lineage in your head.

Where is the origin?

The sexual organ is the most important than your head.

The root of life also lies here.  It is the same with lineage.  This is the most precious place. Not only in reference to the human body, but also in the world and throughout human history.

Without the sexual organ, the multiplication of humankind would be impossible.

For human beings, the antenna of love is their sexual organ. 

The man is convex and the woman is concave. When the two join together, they become round and disappear.

It is like a negative electrical charge and a positive electrical charge which meet creating a thunder clap, then returning to zero.

If the man had his own sexual organ he would not want to give it away and the woman would not want to give hers away either.

Then the man and woman would stand confronting each other in this way for a thousand or ten thousands years.  However, since they have made this exchange with each other centered on love, they share their sexual organs out of mutual need and give and receive creating a circular motion.

Value occurs only through this exchange.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeon Book Three, True Lov Chapter 2, Section 5

Adam & Eve Followed Satan's Will

Any person of faith has been taught that the world in which we live is not the original creation God had planned for His children.  If this is the case, then there has been some cause that has turned the creation away from God's original plan.

Many religions have their own version of this cause.

The Divine Principle teaches that evil came about because God's servant Lucifer went against Him creating Satan.

Satan was not the creation of God.  Evil came about because of Satan's will which is the opposite of God's will.

Thus, sin came about when man acted in accordance with Satan's will instead, which is totally against God's Will.

The Source of Evil is Satan.

Satan came into being when the archangel rebelled against God.

God created the archangel as a servant who was originally in a position of obedience to God.  This position was not eternal, but temporary once he aided in the perfection of God's children, Lucifer would have been able to choose the best mate among Adam and Eve's offspring.  Instead, Lucifer abandoned God and stole Eve for himself.

We must understand how adamant an enemy Satan is and how easy it is in our daily lives to side and sympathize with Satan, thus following his ways.

We currently live in a satanic culture where Satan's will is glorified and made to look beautiful, such as promiscuous sex, lustfulness and bad behavior.

Satan is the one who stopped God from carrying out His will. 

Adam and Eve, the first parents of creation carrying God's spirit, are incarnations of God's ideal.

They were originally created as temples of God in whom God would abide forever.  Through fulfilling God's will of unity with Him, they could have become the true ancestors to later generations passing on the true tradition of God's sinless lineage.

Instead, Adam and Eve followed the tongue of Satan and fell far below God's will and united with Satan instead.

In the position as God's children, they could have realized God's ideal in the position of God's children.  Through them, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth would have been established in their lifetime.  Instead, the first children of God were kicked out of heaven creating an alternative hell on earth led by Satan.

Originally, Adam and Eve were to not eat of the fruits (sexual organs) and God would have been our source through Adam and Eve passing down this true tradition of following God's Word from the beginning.

Thus, religion would not be necessary if the first True Parents of history followed God's will connecting humanity to God for eternity uninterrupted.

God was to be the source of human goodness from the beginning.  Then you and I would have been born directly into God's lineage free from sin and free from Satanic attack.  This would have automatically been Heaven on Earth.

Just imagine how free the world would have been if Cain and Abel were true brother having True Children and passing this godly lineage on to your family.  Abel would have been a humble servant of God allowing Cain to easily follow his brother instead of becoming the first murderer of history.

We would live in a world without division and where everyone was seen as brothers and sisters in one family under the true God.

When we see the world God originally planned, we see how far away from the idea we have fallen.

Then all mankind would have known of God's existence never doubting that God existed.

Atheism, corruption and Communism would not have risen in society to try to destroy God. God's arduous work through religion to teach His children about Him would not be necessary.  We would not have to just 'believe' in God, but we would live with Him.

As father and son, we would have a relationship of true give and take never questioning God's existence and His presence within us.  In this kind of life, we would rejoice forever in dancing and singing and in everything joyful.

If your mind is not happy, your body cannot respond to it. 

On the other hand, if your physical body is not happy, your mind cannot respond to it.

What if Adam and Eve actually followed God's word and waited until marriage to partake in the fruit of each other?

Then God would have been the source of everything good, virtuous, joyful and happy.  There would not be any confusion of what is wrong or right.  As God's object, you could directly respond to Him causing your joy to be great and varied.

It would not be necessary to be taught how to live righteously, how to act or think in the proper manner that does not separate you from God.  Most importantly of all, you would be well aware of the existence of the spiritual world.

But because we fell away from God, the door is closed to the spirit world.  We have ignorance to the world of spirit.

Any individual does not just exist as an individual but he exists in the position of an object to the whole universe. 

Adam was just one man, but had the responsibility to represent all male beings.

Eve played the role as the representative of all female beings.  They laid the tradition for the world to follow whether it was good or for bad.

Adam was able to have the sight to feel what would become of later generations.  He should have known that he was supposed to be the object of God.

If Adam was in the position of object to a God that is omnipresent, omniscient, transcendent of time and space, then he was in the position of representing the spirit of God in the external.  He would thus feel the same as God.  Wasn't this true for Jesus?

Since Adam and Eve were intended to be the external God and He lived directly in them, He thus would not be ever separated from them.

We as religious people, always say that we are God's children and God lives within us and He is always there.  But this is only a conditional behavior.  Being that God is a good, perfect God, He could not truly dwell where sin is exhibited.

Because God created Adam and Eve as the external God and intended to live in them, He could never have been separated from them. The result should be an ideal kingdom of heaven on earth.

Fulfillment of this ideal was barred by Satan.

Because God is considered the generating station, we must connect to God in order to act right.

Anything that uses electricity to work, must be connected to an electric source if it is to fulfill its purpose.

Without electricity, electric mechanisms would never work.

Because Satan disrupted this connection between humans and God, we cannot work properly either.  Because of this fact, we should see how fierce an enemy Satan is to us.

Satan has deprived you and me of experiencing God's true love.

He is the enemy who has cut off God's love from us.

A being like Satan to those outside any faith sounds like fiction, but he works through even the people close to you.  Your own mother can work on the behalf of Satan in your life.  This is why Jesus set the standard that one should love him more than his own family to be considered worthy of him.

Satan destroyed God' ideal of creation and is still active today in each of our lives.

The core teaching of Christian ideology is forgiveness.  We are taught to forgive other's sins seventy times seventy times.  Then why does God not forgive Satan for all of his misdeeds done to society?

Man struggles daily to separate themselves from the grasp of Satan.  Because of this, God feels pity for His children and feels inclined to forgive man seventy times seventy times.

But God cannot forgive Satan Himself.  This is because he is the enemy of God's love.

Satan deprived God's family of divine, true love, so God cannot forgive him now.  Once all men are restored and man wants to forgive Satan, then God might in the future have to forgive Satan for turning the ideal upside down.

Satan came into being through Adam giving him power by believing in his unholy words.  Thus, it is only through Adam or man that God can separate Satan from him, deny him, and at last forgive him.

Due to the human fall, Satan is abiding in us, in place of God. 

Therefore, we are the incarnation of Satan.

Why do we stubbornly stand by the idea that we are born of God's lineage when God is perfect, yet we carry sin within our own blood and carry about ungodly acts with ease?

If God created us in His image, this means He created us to reach perfection, not fall from His standard.

We are in the lineage of Satan, instead of God.  Wouldn't this go against God's law of creation?

When we look at religious history of martyrs, even in primitive religions, men were sacrificed or killed before God.

This was the symbol of shedding the satanic blood that flows within man.  The age of animal sacrifice had the same meaning. Nature is closer to the ideal because they follow the laws of God.  Bird do not discriminate against other birds who come from a different territory.

Since we live far from the ideal, there is a way to return to God's lineage.

We must live an ascetic life which presents difficulties and hardships if we want to change our satanic lineage.  This is the course each of us has to take in order to be restored to God's standard.

This is how God restores us to the perfected beings He envisioned in the beginning.

When we look through God's eyes, He doesn't see us as men of His creation.  We do not even look like original human beings.  We are satanic beings that stand in the position of His enemies.

Isn't this true when you look at the world's situation and in the history of mankind?  Is it a glorious history, or one full of pain, violence and heartache.

This is because we are truly the children of Satan who we followed and caused the fall.  We are God's enemy.

God has worked throughout history to reverse this problem and restore us to our original state which He created.  Every moment that we breathe, it is a constant fight against the satanic power which is established on this earth.

Can you imagine the difficult job of restoring us to the position before the fall to nurture us to grow into mature beings without any trace of the satanic blood lineage?

We think we are truly God's children even though we are imperfect, but it is likened to if you adopt a child from a friend.  No matter how much affection and love you give, you still cannot love him as your own children who are of your own blood, flesh and carry your spirit and character.

This is the situation God is in.  We are more like adopted sons and daughter of God since we do not carry His true, sinless blood lineage.

How is it possible for God to love us as His own children the same way He loved Adam and Eve before the fall?

God tries hard during this course of restoration to love you and I born into sin by imagining that we are immaculate beings and has the potential to return to our position before the fall.

Since we are the children of Satan, who is God's enemy, God naturally feels a sense of resentment towards us at first.

It would be likened to a father whose wife had a child her first child with his brother, yet has to care for and raise the baby as if he was his own.

Likewise, Satan stole the true father position from God.

We are able to ease this painful heart of God by receiving hardship and difficulties coming from Him.  Once you are able to become completely obedient to God's will, He will feel like forgiving you.  Thus, we must determine to win the sympathy of God by going through difficulty as though it was natural.

When we are able to bear this, compassion for our position will swell up in God's heart for you.

God places us as the offering and checks to see if we are able to obey Him in that difficult position.  No matter how difficult or hard the situations you have to endure, you must go through them with a grateful heart.

The only way to win God's heart is to go through difficulty and get over them alone.

So, in the Bible we read that those who persevere to the last will win the love of God.

Human history has been one of restoration.  There has been many rises and falls of nations and people with good and evil woven throughout.  Through this process, our sins have been indemnified or cleared away.

However strong the faith that you have, it does not matter if you fail to believe in God at the end you
are destined to go to hell.

Since your blood is stained with Satan's blood lineage, you cannot restore yourself to the true position all by yourself.  To be saved and restored, you must be placed in a position of a living sacrifice on the altar of God.

Yes, Jesus died for our sins, but we are still born into a sinful lineage.

However hard you may struggle to restore yourself, you cannot do it all by yourself, because your blood is stained by satanic lineage. Only by putting yourself in the position of a sacrifice, a living sacrifice, on the altar of God, can you be saved and restored.

It is hard for a non believer to understand the concept of sin when our external body does not show signs of sin.  Jesus was sinless, but it was hard for people to believe because he looked like any other person.

Since God is a good God and we were made in His image, then there is a way for us to return to our original position before the fall.

But, even if we cannot see it, satanic blood that we inherited runs through every part of our body including our limbs.

Our eyes have been accustomed to seeing evil things.  How do we go about restoring our eyes to recognize virtuous and good sights?

What do we have to do to restore our five senses to recognize the good in our environment?

Also, how are we going to restore our limbs and every part of our body for the purpose of goodness?  We must first deny ourselves and love God more than we do anybody else.

Just as Jesus said, you must deny your family and your sinful way of life before God can have His object as pure as before the fall.  When you have a traditional marriage that is still tied to the fallen lineage with your own children, then your fallen family and surroundings are all elements that make God grieve.

From God's viewpoint, this multiplication of the fallen lineage is not acceptable and is against God's will.

The Bible stated that in the Last Days that it would be burdensome for those with children and family for this reason.  Satan would have even more hooks to work through the fallen family and make it harder to restore each individual.

The Messiah comes to reverse the fall and to give his faithful followers into marriage that erases the fallen blood lineage and connects us to God's direct blood lineage.  This was Jesus' desire.  This makes more sense why Jesus was grieved and not happy at fulfilling the way of the cross.

Jesus carried God's true blood lineage, which he would have been able to pass this lineage on through the a True Marriage and leaving True Children on earth carrying God's blood.

Thus, humanity connecting to this true lineage through following his path and what the Bible calls the Marriage of the Lamb.  This is the Marriage blessing which the Messiah gives to his followers that is given directly by God.

A true religion must teach you to deny yourself and to sacrifice yourself, to drain the satanic blood out of you. 

Once you completely yield yourself in total obedience to the altar of God, you utterly deny yourself and are re-created by God's hands.

Once you deny yourself, you will finally feel that you have cut the satanic chains and separated yourself from Satan's grasp and return to God.

But as fallen people, we turn around and deny God and rebel against Him through our actions.  Then God has no choice but to place you back into the satanic world and test you many times.

Before each of us can be fully restored and recognized by God, we must get rid of any signs of betrayal of the fall.

Even though we are chased away for our disobedience, we must return to God with tears in repentance for our sins.

He may get rid of His resentment of being treated poorly even though He only gives us love through putting you through hardships.  You must endure these times and cling to God without leaving Him.

We must be like Jesus who is always symbolized as a lamb because he represented the whole of mankind.  The lamb is a creature that is obedient to his master's call and will obey him even at the moment of death.  We are each symbolized by a lamb as followers and we should be obedient to God.

Through Jesus going to the cross, God was teaching mankind how to be obedient to Him even at the moment of death.  Jesus went tearfully the way of sacrifice, because he knew that it was not God's original plan.

Only through the Jewish people not believing Jesus was God's son and not following him to the end did he have to go to the cross.  Even though he knew it would prolong God's will of heaven on earth, Jesus obeyed God all the way to his last breath.

What is more virtuous than faith and actions?

Your heart toward God, the pure love of God is more valued.

You then must first understand God's heart and how much He has suffered in the work of restoring the world of peace He originally planned.

Are you in a position where you can receive the love of God?  Can He can rely on you?

Is God happy with your actions in your life?  Are you where He can really love you?  Since we know that we are not of God's blood lineage, then we should understand that it is difficult for God to love us naturally.

If God is going to love us at all, He has to go through difficulty.

We are the sons and daughters of God's enemy.

Thus, we should try hard to win His heart and turn it towards us.  We must clearly understand what has caused God grief throughout history and we must reverse what we have done in the past including our ancestor's tradition of sin and restore the original state within ourselves.

Through this course of restoration, we should bring ourselves into a position that is better than Adam and Eve before the fall.  Thus, we would be obedient to God not repeating the fall through our selfish desires.  This is our ultimate goal.

The Fall, caused God so much grief.  God has been imprisoned not able to work freely without a direct connection to His children who were stolen.  We are in the position to help liberate His heart.

Even God's own happiness has been wrapped in bondage.

What Father could be happy seeing His children stolen and destroyed?

As His adopted children, we also should not sit by and watch Him suffer because of our disobedience.  Therefore, we should liberate Him and relieve Him from this grief.

Because we have not known this, throughout history, people of religion have been asking God to help liberate them.  They pray for God to do this and that for them without having the notion of our responsibility to liberate God instead.

The Unification Church was created on this earth with that mission, to liberate God's broken heart.

We teach the grief of God and whose people feel such grief, and then teach others how to liberate God's heart.

The most important question or problem is how to relieve His heart by restoring ourselves on the individual level, family level, nationwide level, and worldwide level.

We should know that this world is not the world God wanted, and He does not want it to stay the way that it is.  He does not want Christianity to stay as it is either.  God wants the world of Christianity to relieve Him from His sorrow.

How many Christians have thought of this?

Who has thought of comforting God in all of the betrayals and heartache He has suffered throughout the work of restoring the world?

Has there been a nation that has thought of liberating God's heart from sorrow?

This must be taught through religion.

In order to this, one man must be restored to the position of Adam before the fall, who is not born into sin.  He will work through his family without the fall up to the level of the whole world.  This is what God wants.

This man will set the tradition completing the teachings of Jesus to lead people through the restoration course.

A rebellious son may run away and return with billions to his father.  But for this father to be consoled, he would have to see that his son has more piety and obedience.  Without this attitude, the father's resentment toward his betrayal will not be cleared away.

This is the same for a wife whose husband has stopped loving her.

Even though she might have a huge diamond ring and lots of money, nothing can restore the love she has lost.  What is more important than that diamond is love.

Jesus had the mission to restore God's love through his family.

Thus, the Lord of the Second Advent returns to carry out this same mission.  Jesus left us an example how to be a true son and brother.  The Messiah returns to give the example how to be a True Parent and True Husband through his sinless family on earth.

The mission of the Unification Church is to restore our love towards God, then restore God's love for us. 

We advocate liberating God's heart first and winning His love before liberating ourselves.

Many may not accept this notion, but what religion has truly been able to reverse the acts of the fall and bring about a sinless society?

When you first come to God, He would view you the same way He views Satan at the beginning.  He would want to see the love you have for Him is more than your love for anyone else.  This is the only way to clear away His resentment.

The Messiah, who is not born perfect, also has to grow to maturity in spirit.

Even the Messiah has been rejected by God to restore the fact that we have rejected God many times.
Even though he was put in an even more difficult position, he would go back to God's bosom and cling to Him in prayer and love, then God would accept Him.

But after awhile, God would send him back into satanic hands to go through even more tribulations and hardships.  After conquering these things, he would go back to God. And so many times he has had such things happen to him




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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Day of Resolution of Victory.