This is Completed Testament Age

If you have noticed, the Bible references to the number three as stages of completion.  The Principle states these stages as the formation stage, growth, stage, and the completion stage.

Therefore, the Old Testament age refers to the formation stage.  God used this time period in history for the preparation of the Coming of heaven on earth.  The New Testament Age is the growth stage of history.

And we finally come to the Completed Testament where all of history comes to fruition with the return of the Messiah to the earth.  This is the age where all that God had hoped for at the beginning of creation will finally be fulfilled.

In other words, all the wrongs of history will finally be reversed and humanity can return to their rightful positions as true sons and daughters of God.

On the path of restoring the world to heaven on earth, we should go from the age of servant of servant, the age of servant, the age of adopted child, to the age of the direct lineage or true sons and daughters.

We have come to say that we are God's sons and daughters, but in actually, at best we are His adopted children because we do not carry God's true blood lineage.

If we carried the blood lineage of God, there would be no such thing as sin running through our veins.  Jesus' sacrificed his life to link humanity to God as sons and daughters.  In the Completed Testament Age, he returns to raise humanity to the True Son and True Daughter position.

Jesus came to restore the blood lineage and liquidate sin from the earth by his followers linking to his true family.

Since no one in Jesus' time practiced absolute faith that he was God's son, Jesus was only able to give us spiritual salvation through his death, but left complete physical salvation unfinished through sacrificing his own body.

How are we able to go from the adopted child's position and connect directly to God's lineage?

However, can we complete the course from the age of the servant of servants, through the age of the servant, and the age of the adopted child, and be connected to the age of direct lineage? Connecting to the age of direct lineage cannot be done just like that.

True children should go through the change of lineage and rebirth

The lineage of the true son and that of the adopted son are different.  This is why we need a change of lineage from our sinful one.

The Messiah is the true son of God.

The Fall was the first parents basing their love relationship on Lucifer's will.

This mistaken has been rectified through True Parents who create proper marriages through which the change of blood lineage is possible through linking to their lineage of God.

True Parents clear away evil deeds of false parents, thereby abolishing hell on earth, and giving marriage blessings to hundreds of billions of ancestors in the spirit world.

Since humankind obtained satanic blood, people are unable to return to God on their own without a mediator who carries God's pure bloodline.

This transition of our blood defiled by Satan must transition.  This is why the Messiah must come again to establish a family carrying his blood lineage.  

If he does not return to the earth, there is no way to restore the blood lineage.

True Parents must rectify the wrong lineage that forms the root of the satanic world.  The Messiah does not return to destroy the earth, but to turn the sinful lifestyle and correct the misdirected course of love.

Why did Jesus mention the paradox, "Those who seek to live will die, and those who seek to die will live."?

It is because the sinful world must die.  The tradition of the sinful individual must die.

The loving relationship between God and humankind is based on the true love which God desired as His ideal at the time of creation.  Humanity was to enjoy loving oneness in unity with God.

If the first parents had followed God and united with His word, then we would have never been banished from Heaven and we would enter the Kingdom of Heaven without ever worrying about hell coming into existence.

There were three stages in history: The Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age.

The Old Testament Age was the time for the redemption of children through the offering of sacrifices.  They sacrificed material things to prepare for the coming of God's True Son.

In the New Testament Age, Jesus was the offering for us to receive spiritual salvation and ultimately physical salvation through the reversal of false parents to true parents.

This age of the Second coming prepares for the parents as the bride and bridegroom.

The reason that I, having the name of the True Parent, have been suffering for forty years as the center of the Completed Testament Age, is to receive God on earth. This will lead to the oneness of God and humankind in love.

The original relationship between God and humankind is one of parent and child. 

In the New Testament Age, human beings were God's adopted children.

Now in the Completed Testament Age, we are in a parent-child relationship.  Now, what the son does is what the Father does and what the Father does is what the son does.  They act together.

What belongs to the Father belongs to the son, and what belongs to the son belongs to the Father.  The reason the movement which teaches this fact is feared is because it teaches this destined parent-child relationship.

The True Parents, that restored the fallen position of the first parents, come on this level plane and walk a suffering path in order to invite God in.

What position do they arrive?

To the original, vertical plane.

Since humanity was cut off from the original principle of heaven and earth, peace did not begin as long as that root is not restored.  This is absolute.

This is why human effort alone in human history was never able to bring about world peace without redeeming the root cause of humanity's problems.

You should think of the Messiah as being the same as you.  What is his mission?

The Old Testament age was the sacrifice of creation to find true sons and daughters. In the New Testament Age, the true son were sacrificed for the coming True Parents.

The Completed Testament Age is the True Parents paving the way for God to come.

The True Parents are to build a base, encompassing all the people of the world for the Father.  As the Father's heart unfolds, then the Father's realm of heart will naturally emerge and settle here.

God will be able to say that, "Everything is finished," when He is in the central position of love and reorganizes the original, ideal authority.  The first parents obeyed Lucifer's word, restoration of humanity following God's word is the time we are living today.

The method has been different for each age for people to return to God according to the level of intelligence during that time period.

In the Old Testament Age, people connected to God through sacrifices; in the New Testament Age, it was through believing and following Jesus; the Completed Testament Age, is people can go to God by attending the True Parents.

God looks at three generations of a family.

God wants to bring you into unity after three generations.  Your marriage represents the Old Testament Age, the New Testament and Completed Testament Age is next. The tradition will be established by the third generation, who is born through the second generation of your sons and daughters.

True Parents sacrificed in order to bring the vertical God to earth and have dominion, in the Completed Testament Age.  

Through the unity of the horizontal and vertical love, God's love and life finally burst forth.

The seed of life that began in God's love and based on the original Principle standard will appear on earth.  Based on the love of True Parents, new blood ties expand with the harmony of God and humankind for the first time in human history.

Now, we must restore the rights of ownership. 

Now in the Completed Testament Age, you must stand in the position representing the mother and father.  

Satan became owner of creation who stole God's true position because everything deviated from God's true love.

However, we must indemnify all this and bring everything to the original owner. 

The Completed Testament Age is the time of accomplishment, in other words harvest.

Everything God strives for throughout history will finally be accomplished as individuals all the way to the worldwide level.

These levels are linked through God's love, God's life and God's true lineage.  This is the tradition of one lineage, one love and one life.

When everything in creation is connected back to God, then Satan will have to leave.  The work of engrafting to God's true blood lineage through the True Parents, will remove the connection we have with the satanic lineage.

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This post was rewritten from the Book,  Cheon Seon Gyeong Book "True God"  One chapter 3, section 4

Tradition of Love

Which tradition of value do you think will last for eternity?  That tradition would need to be based on love.  Do you think God needs law?

The primary purpose of law is to protect humanity.

Would the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth require the citizens to abide by a Constitution?  It will be based on the life power of love.

The most fundamental center of value is the power of love.  So, all heavenly law is designed to protect that tradition forever.  This fundamental unchanging characteristic comes from God.  He values the life power of love.

This is the foundation of the creation.  The whole universe is designed to promote these qualities.

Love is never self-centered. but is always for others.

In a sense, the purpose behind creation can be deemed as selfish because God was seeking joy through an object partner.

But essentially God's sweat and labor went into making His object perfect and comfortable within the creation.

The law says that love is for others, therefore God needed an object.  God needed an 'other' which He could exercise the power of His love.

God needs an object to fulfill His love, and man was created in that position.

He did not create man to obey God's every order, on the contrary, God created man to mature into perfection and become co-creators to the object, creation.

The whole universe was built to give joy to man. 

Have you ever felt deeply that God created the whole universe as a gift for you?

He created it for you because He wants you to be a subject of love, with the creation as your object.

Suppose you created something that you enjoy, but someone else is intrigued by what you have made and wants it?

When you see how someone feels about something you made, you have the impulse to give it to him so that he can keep loving it.

If someone loves your creation more than you do, you want to give it to him.  This means God takes after you!

This analogy of an object of love applies perfectly to this universe.  If you see a cute white mouse God created, or a furry kitten, God would tell you to take it home and enjoy it.

All creation exists to give you stimulation of love as your object.  

Everything is a masterpiece of God's.

When He sees that you love what He made more than He loves it, He will love you for that as well.  God can't help, but love you in that case.

When you love the things God custom made, He will be following behind you.  Wouldn't He want to hug you then?

You will feel a presence behind you and when you turn around, God is there to embrace you tighter and tighter.

Once He squeezes you where you plunge into His heart of love, you will feel deeper and deeper joy.

If you were to get a heavy shot of God's love, you will be completely intoxicated.  God would also be intoxicated and feel perfectly satisfied to see His child enjoying His love.

The more there is intoxication in the love of God, the more perfection will increase.

This universe should be the world of people drunk in God's love. 

This is the ultimate state where God, man and all things of creation have been looking forward to.

Now we are getting down to the very origin of good and evil.  The definition of Satan is ANY power or person which destroys the life power of love.

The line between good and evil have been blurred by today's 'do as thy will' world.

People generally know that the family and nation are good.  This is because that is the stage where love can blossom.

The virtue in the family is filial piety.  In the nation, the virtue is patriotism.  On the world level, the life of a holy man, saint is a good thing to achieve.

Even though people these days do not specifically know what is good or bad, they still have a general idea.

You came into existence through your parents' love, but your life does know on its own whether it has love.

So while you grow, you must listen to your parents with filial piety.  It is through them that you will learn what love is.

When you love your father and mother, ultimately, your love goes up higher and higher, returning to God, the origin.

The question of which came first the chicken or the egg can be answered that they are the same thing.
For everything returns.

The seed goes back to the fruit, which goes back to flowers and ultimately returns to the origin.

Why should we love our parents?

Because they are a rung on your ladder leading to God.

You are the center of the circle of love which begins with God and continues through your parents.

You can think that together you are a team.  As the center, you will learn the pattern of love through the family.  Then you create your own circle by finding your mate and having children of your own.

Love brings unity. 

Why do you love your siblings?

Through loving them, you are bringing God into your circle.

Through your experience in your family, perfect love, the family unit is your workshop of love.  Once you combine your family unite with others, you create a society, which is an even greater workshop of love.

This same principle works in the nation.  Thus, love in the family expands eventually becoming love in a nation, world, cosmos, and finally becoming one with God.

On the individual level, a heavenly man lives this virtue of the life power of love leading from the family to the world.

There will be no boundaries or resistance to hinder on who is running this way to the love of God.

Once you acquire this heavenly quality within you, you are able to make yourself at home wherever you go on earth for your God is the God of every nation.

The very life power of love will thrust you all the way to the top.

You already have life power within you, but love must strike a spark within you to spur you on further.

Love power is like the electricity which turns the motor.  

When it starts to turn in the power of love, all kinds of love and beauty are created in our universe through the harmony of many things turning in many directions.

You have not seen this hypothesis in action, but hearing it makes you feel good, doesn't it?  You will still try it because you have never heard anything better than this.

If you knew it was a proven truth, would you bet your life on it?

Many national church leaders attended this speech.  They would naturally tell members that everything should be done through the national leader, but the real question is, are those leaders becoming powerful in love?

If you are powerful without love, you are only a tyrant. 

But if a person of love is on top, he can dig all the way down to the bottom.

That person has total freedom.  Nothing will stop him.  So, he can go all the way up and down with absolute liberty.

Even if he goes all the way to the bottom of hell, everyone there will love him.

He will be able to get out of hell and go all the way up to the throne of God.  He will be perfectly acceptable there.

Maybe a leader thinks that he can do whatever he wants and believes the members should obey him.

Energy and power are fine, but if they are exercised without love, you create nothing but hell. 

Maybe those national leaders believe that they are infallible and their power is sacred.  But this is not good behavior.

They should be totally obedient to higher authority.  Only then do they have the authority to guide their members.


The Divine Principle and God are trying to lead the Unification Church to a certain goal, but even within the Church there are influences trying to lead people in the other direction. A national leader should be like a sacrificial parent who works harder and suffers more than the children.


When you become the personification of the love of God, then even though you go down, people will lift you up high and the universe will also lift you up.

Always shed tears of love. 

There are two kinds of tears: tears of sadness shed in tragedy, and tears of love and joy.

If you are really crying out in the joy of love, so loud that you wake up the world, then this is good tears.

If you are centered on love, then even if you hit or bite a person this is love.  You become controversial, it will be a dramatic heroic thing, not an evil thing.

We have been talking about tradition.  In many ways, people today follow only external traditions that have lost their internal meanings and have been almost forgotten.  Young people aren't very attracted to them.

If young people heard about tradition of love and conscience this morning, however, they would want to follow it.

In religious history, there has been emphasis on service and sacrifice.  These are the methods of living a tradition of love.

The church also has additional external traditions, such as fundraising and witnessing.

Do you like the internal traditions, but not the external ones?

How do you show that you have the internal tradition if you do not have a diploma to prove it?  To get a doctorate, you have to begin from elementary school level and get good grades all along the way.

Would anyone need to see your elementary school certificate once you get your Ph.D?

In the same way, you must be certified.  You need a fundraising certificate which testifies that you have loved all things of creation.

Your witnessing certificate will testify that you have loved people.  You should become a Ph.D in loving men and all things of creation.

With such a certificate, you are eligible to have your mate.  No one would want to marry you until then!

Would there be any woman who would want to marry a man without any qualifications?

In your own home is where you actually practice love of all things and of people.  If you don't already have experience in that area, then you will not know how to build a real family.

When you fund raise, you work with unselfish dedication for others.

While you fundraise, you will have many experiences with people, and receive persecution from some while you also learn how to love all types of people.

When it is your turn to create your family, you will do things for the family, clan and nation.  Fundraising is basic training for this kind of foundation.  For that same spirit is extended in loving your society, nation and world.  Then this tradition will be built in society.

Fundraising teams are the best place to practice this, so all members must go fundraising.

You do not love things for your own sake, but for others.

This is the beautiful tradition you must learn.

Fundraising has this deeper context than just collecting money. You bring money from the secular world and offer it to God.

Then that money is spent to save people in the fallen, sinful world, thus that money is actually going back to those who gave it creating a circle that will get bigger and bigger.

The money you earn during fundraising will return to the nation, the world and God.  Each time, the material will serve a greater purpose.  In witnessing, you are loving people instead of material.

Many of you will fear being persecuted or rejected when you fundraise, but the countryman who opposes you is still better for you than the foreigner who welcomes you.

Even if your own people were to oppose you, at least here you have complete freedom where other countries have many obstacles.

You are able to speak and talk to them in the same language.

You have the same customs and background, so you can be grateful to be working with your own countrymen.

In the witnessing process, you are becoming a seasoned expert in love difficulties.

Then, when you become a family man, you automatically know how to overcome family difficulties and you won't give up.

Compared to what you experienced, your family will look like heaven!


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Two Worlds of Good and Evil

Are You Moving Forward or Backwards?

All things of creation are preparing to burst forth in springtime. March is the revival month.  This is the season to grow by leaps and bounds; we need to make an extraordinary jump.

Picture an open book on the blackboard.

Do you want to turn over the page?  Once you turn the page, then  you cover the previous one.  If you want to go in the opposite direction, you must turn 180 degrees.


Therefore, to find a new course, you have to turn about-face.

Each of you is in this book.

We each want to get rid of the bad things of the past and become new people.  Now we are turning over a new leaf and beginning a new life.

We use key terms that the rest of the world has not established yet: True Parents and True Children and True Nation and so forth.

We are becoming new people, new family members, new men and women. 

By going this pathway, we have completely turned around toward the greatest ideal.  There have never before been people who have worked for such a grand goal of world salvation.  Most can never dream of where to begin.

We are not just thinking about it, but we have turned around and reach out for it.  When it is Christmas, everyone wants to go to their hometown and visit their family and old friends.  Wouldn't you?


The only reason I don't do it is that it would hold me back instead of helping me advance. I cannot allow myself to retreat; my thinking does not permit it. New horizons and new goals are there waiting. I want to work to fulfill them every moment of the day. Every moment is so precious.


What about you?  Are you able to envision new days ahead?  Do you forsee a new life?

When you go out on your missions, do you go and say, "What is the next goal?  I want to accomplish it."

Or before you go, you go expecting just another tough day?

Sometimes you hate witnessing or fundraising.  Sometimes you feel passive about doing it.  But once you go to a country such as Africa, Asia or Latin America, you will really appreciate such training.

The Messiah's goal is to eliminate immorality in America.

Likewise, he has a desire to also save the Mafia, drug addicts and prostitutes.  Was that not the same level of work Jesus did in his time?

Are you able to do the same work?  Are you determined to accomplish this with your own hands?

Maybe you think that there are millions of Americans who aren't doing much so, you don't see any reason to try.  Maybe you just want to live a comfortable life like everyone else.

By coming to understand Father you have learned about the true value of existence, the meaning of creation, God's will, the true way of life and true love.  But in your heart, how often have you been scorned for doing such work of restoration for the world?

Practically everyone wishes that the church didn't have such fundraising and witnessing activities.

This world is decaying.  Our mission is to go out and save it.

Our responsibility is to apply the brakes and stop the world's decline.

Is what we are doing an easy task?  Of course we know the answer is no.

In the near future, the whole world will know and recognize our good deeds.  Then this is truly a precious way of life.


I heard that the 120-day workshop included some periods of 24-hour lecturing or fundraising. You may protest that it is too much. You all have your opinions about this and that, don't you? You may be right. The United States may not need it, but we have to turn the page.


Do you want to live this way of life or not?

This world is not the limit,  We will be able to go to another world eventually after world peace has been established.  If I was a good, concerned God, I would not want my children spreading their filthy ways to the other parts of the universe.  Once we have world peace, then the universe is the limit.

Once you have reached the spiritual world, your every deed will be judged.  The spirit world is the real, eternal world.

When you get there, will you say, "Man!  I didn't know the truth." But God would reply, "What are you talking about?  Reverend Moon gave my message to the earth.  Through him I told you truth clearly through his sermons."

Then, you would not be able to offer any excuse.

Even though the messages in these posts seem bitter, this kind of instruction is necessary in order to go in the right kind of direction.

We need to make a leap.

Now, we know that unless something drastic happens, this world will crumble under the God-denying communist world.

Once you join the church, did you continue your secular ways making a little change, or did you make a drastic change in your way of life?

After living this way, it is virtually impossible for you to return to your original, selfish way of life.  If you were able to return, you could not live there for even one day.

Then, you would turn around and come back even though it would be difficult at first.

You are a new kind of citizen, not ordinary Americans at all.

Father has dealt with tens of thousands of members.  Many have betrayed him and left.  He would not say a word once they left, but he knew they would eventually return.

When one is doing Gods work, they can face him.  But someone who became a weak solider and turns away cannot face Father and rushes away when they come face-to-face again.

There are many cases where people returned with a bowed head and said, "Father, can you forgive me?  I was weak and was not thinking deeply.  But once I went back to the world, I understood the true value of what you were teaching."

Once you hear the new truth based on the Bible, you came to know God.

You know you have come into contact with a true religion.

Whether you fulfill this mission or not is up to you. Many have failed, but many have succeeded.

You have to take a giant step if you want to be successful.

Those who follow this way of life are transformed people, who are no longer their old selves.

After you learn the Divine Principle, can anybody erase it from your brain?

Even if you went away from this teaching and you won a million dollars living a lavish lifestyle, no one would be able to eradicate this Principle from your mind.

Would becoming a millionaire satisfy you if you know you were not following God's will?  No one can be happy until he lives up to the requirements of the Principle way of life.

Doesn't the truth ring clear in your heart?  It may be raining or murky day where you are, but now you think it is a sun shiny day, correct?


When I came to America  in 1973, I foretold this nation's decline. I declared that the United States must turn around and make a change, but nobody took me seriously. People laughed at me then, but now many of those who mocked me have come to the realization that I was correct. The problems haven't ended-ten years from now you will see people weeping as they realize how right I was.

I have done my duty in the sight of God. 

Father received the mandate from God and has done his best to fulfill that requirement.  He has dealt with the highest possible authorities in this nation, and carried out his mission for the sake of America.

People in the nation have not treated him with courtesy, and have done a lot of wrong to him.  He was able to transcend his personal feelings by acting for the sake of he nation and the world.

Who would be more correct.  The one living in this way for God or the government administration?

History will be the best judge.  There will be a time when people will understand this content and flock to Father's tomb to pay their respects for the great works he has done for this nation.  His tomb will receive homage more than any President that held office.

There is hope for America.

There will be a new generation of people that will crop up and understand the true value of this movement and push forward to bring Heaven on Earth.   People may not be able to understand this today, but in the future, they shall know this content and want to take action.

Wouldn't this be so?

You know this is true in your heart.

The world is moving toward a God-centered culture step-by-step.  You will see that this is true.


I know this like I know the sunlight. I see this truth so clearly. Once we turn America around, the whole world will turn around. Think about it. The United States is a gigantic country, so it's not going to be easy to turn it around. I knew this from the outset.


Where are you?  Are you moving forward or standing still?

Many people think they are moving forward based on certain goals.

There are three people among you: One is indeed moving forward, another is standing still and another is retreating.

Which group do you belong?

You are only fooling yourself if you say you don't know your status.  You do know where you are precisely.

Which person would get the approval rating of 100 percent: the one who just sits around and relaxes, going slowly everyday or the one moving forward constantly without stopping?

Of course, it is the one who is moving and pushing forward beyond any obstacles.  Why don't you give yourself a grade?  Are you 100, 50, 30 or minus 30 percent?  Is anyone below minus 100 percent?

There should be someone who is spying on us from the communist camp to the speech because they believe that this information is very vital.  Maybe the CIA. The communist that participates listening to this speech is really at 100 percent.

To do this work, you have to be at least above the 50 percent mark.  Those of you who think you are above that standard might wonder why you should even march forward since no one else went ahead of you and no one is behind you.

You might think that you should turn around and join everybody else even if they are going in the wrong direction.

Those of you who are above 50 percent are you going forward? Are you 50 and going up or 50 and going down?

After you hear or read these speeches that last for an hour and a half, you are a new person afterward.  You think that you have changed much.  You then feel a great power surging through you that makes you want to shout in agreement.

But when it comes time to do the mission a couple of hours later, you will discover that you have a mountain of work waiting on you.  You will wonder where all your energy went.

Living this way of life living to witness to others the truth of the age, you will find the same old peanut butter and bread when you go in the kitchen.  Once you see that Sunday is not a holiday for you and you do not have time to watch television, you wonder why you are doing this kind of work.

Well, there's one simple solution: quit.

Even the Messiah has the option to quit, as well.  Would anybody volunteer to take his job?  He is confronted with terrible news and difficult situations being told of accidents and problems all of the time.  Then there are campaigns, fundraisers, new developments and problems that need to be solved in every country.

As this movement spreads around the world and members become part of all kinds of intense activities, we suffer casualties the same as people dying in the front line during war time.

Once you are able to face one problem, you wonder how you will handle another.

Father listens so much discouraging, shocking and agonizing things that happen day after day.

Conscientious people, especially young people who are on the side of God, can you say that you are indecisive, mediocre or half-hearted?

If you are at the 50% point, you are 150 points away from the minus 100% point. If 100% on the plus side is the destination, you have only 50 more points to go.

Which direction would you choose if you are wise?  Should you choose the plus or minus?

The most important thing is do not stand still.

You must be constantly moving forward the same as running water.

This world is stagnant corrupt and rotten.  The world's water is too impure for drinking.  But, if you are able to become running water, everybody will come to drink and be nourished.

So, where are you now: standing still or moving forward?  Moving forward or moving backwards?




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This post was rewritten from the speech Everybody is Headed Somewhere