Jesus Forgave Without Shedding His Blood

We hear often about the blood Christ without truly understanding the significance.  On day of Communion, many people of faith take in the drink of wine and bread as Jesus did with his disciples at the final supper to indicate the drinking of his blood and bread.  How much of a controversy this would have caused to many believers then.

What is the importance of Jesus' blood and why is it so misunderstood by many?

Many Christians place salvation exclusively from the blood of Jesus. This is a mistake in the sight of God.

Even before Jesus shed his blood, he already forgave others for their sins and transgressions.

Therefore, it was not necessary for Jesus to die shedding his blood to bring about salvation - it was an alternative route from God's original plan.

The Bible records the account of the prostitute who was about to be stoned.  Jesus told anyone who felt they were without sin to throw the stone at her.  In everyone's hearts, they knew they could not condemn her and they drifted away in shame.  Then Jesus spoke to the woman who was accused and told her that no one condemned her and he would not condemn her either and not to sin no more.

What does this mean scripture truly mean? By his own words Jesus offered forgiveness.

Therefore, to bring about salvation to the earth, it was not necessary for Jesus to die before completing his mission.  Jesus didn't give anyone a raincheck to come back for his forgiveness after his death.

 

 

Jesus could open the way to salvation to everyone by the Word of God.

 

God's plan of salvation does not require bloodshed by necessity.

Q. What does salvation mean?

Salvation means that living men, women and families on earth will enjoy the garden of Eden as God had intended from the beginning.

We need to realize the love that Jesus brought to this earth - not the alienation, bloodshed and his death.  His love and forgiveness should be told more often than his end.

Death came when human beings departed from God when they misused the love of God.

After the first parents fell away from God, human physical bodies remained alive.  Resurrection means to accept the word of God and to become the possessor of God's love.

What if Jesus was to appear on earth for the first time right now or on television?

Would you like to have spiritual salvation only through him being murdered and shedding his blood or would you want to have Jesus bringing about salvation with his should and body raising an exemplary Godly family to which to follow?

 

You have to reach the point where you are one with Jesus in flesh and blood.

That's why he set up the condition of the sacrament: Christians must feel they are actually eating Jesus' flesh and blood.

They should actually feel Jesus' life and love more than just eating a piece of bread.  Then they should also feel they are drinking his blood.

Salvation will not come about until that moment. 

This was Jesus' method to bring humankind out of Satan's world into God's uniting the believer through this real sense experience.

This means that Satan is cut off and humanity is engrafted to Jesus and we can feel this oneness.

There is a further vision for Christianity: people go through total salvation on the spiritual AND physical level.  What does this mean?  Jesus' body was attacked and lost by Satan, but he must return again to bring about salvation of our physical body leaving it un-attacked by Satan.  In other words, Satan attacks our body through diseases, mental illnesses and accidents. 

This is the prophecy which will be fulfilled at the time of the Lord of the Second Advent.

If this is hard to grasp, please ask seriously in your prayers guidance on these matters. Ask either Jesus Christ or God himself.

If Jesus had lived and fulfilled his primary mission of bringing the Kingdom of God on earth, Christianity would never have been what it is today.

The purpose of Jesus' coming was for the salvation of the world. The chosen people were to be God's instruments. However, salvation was not intended only for God's chosen people.

For every soul upon the face of the earth, Jesus is the savior.

He is the savior of all humankind.

Should the Messiah come to the Christian world alone, or to the whole world? What God, together with the Christians, must do is cover the whole world both on the spiritual and physical levels.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the text, Jesus and the Second Coming God's Warning to the World -message from prison

Become Part of God's Direct Lineage

We have spoken in many posts about how Adam and Eve were suppose to become true parents. They were to attain true oneness centered on God and pass their pure blood lineage on generation after generation.

These true sons and true daughters who are born into God's direct blood lineage would fulfill God's ideal world full of peace.

As we know from the biblical account, the first ancestors formed a bond with Satan and thus became the satanic ringleaders giving birth to children of death born into sin.

Therefore, you and I are fallen ancestors.


If we are not true parents, this means we are false parents still passing on the lineage of the fall nonstop.

We are in the point of history where humankind must deny this false lineage of false parents and find the true parents who do not have any trace of the fall.

They carry God's direct lineage.  This has been God's Providence of Restoration, restoring the fallen world, since the moment of the Fall.

The Hope of Fallen People

Even if they are not aware of it, all fallen people have a deep desire to meet God's true son.

Even the communist nation had the notion of a world of peace; we all have a deep desire for peace.

They lament that they were born as Cain's children through a fallen blood ties with Satan.  We each can feel the internal conflict between our separated minds and bodies.

Imagine if Abel and Cain had united in their offering and Abel or even Jesus was to have children.

They would have been born on God's side.  Yet, mankind has suffered greatly while seeking God's true son at the individual level and family level.

God sent the Messiah; if people had received the Messiah they could have found God's son.  The time of the Messiah was to convey the joyful news that humankind could finally meet God's son up to the national level.

You and I were born with sinful, fallen blood inherited from Satan.  We have to meet God's son who can transcend all of the accusations of Satan which holds each of us down.

Then we would meet him as our parent after he fulfilled Messiahship on the individual level.  We have been raised by fallen, sinful parents, not true parents no matter how well they are, they carry the fallen bloodline of Satan.

Therefore, we seek true parents whom God directly loves and is connected in lineage.

Next, we must seek the family that those parents create.

After that, we must seek God's love upon finding it, we can meet God.  So, when the Messiah returns, he will perfect himself on the individual level, find a true bride, create a true family of true children that carry the direct lineage of God without any trace of the fall.

We should be aware that this is the pathway of humankind.  If parents and children who live a life worthy of God's love form families, they automatically prosper.

They will sing songs of love in a setting that can bring success to everything through harmonized families.  When this happens, a race centering on God's love will automatically be formed.

Is this a dream or is this where humankind is headed?  Will this standard of world peace be found through political ties, force, war, science or philosophy?

This standard must be found through religion.

If a true family becomes the model for the world to live is not established, then an ideal family, tribe, people nation and world will not be established.

Humanity needs a model of how to live such as shown through religions such as Jesus, Buddah who accomplished much on the individual level.

What is our ideal desire and hope?

This is the conclusion: first, attend God as our Father is our greatest hope; second, we are to become His beloved sons and daughters; and third, we are to inherit everything He owns.

What other human hope is greater than this?

The Goal of Restoration is Adam's Family

Our goal as we walk the path of restoring the world of peace, is to establish Adam's true family.

Immediately after Adam and Eve fell, God launched His providence to restore them through their children Cain and Abel.

That foundation was lost when Cain (representing Satan's side) killed Abel (representing God's side).

Therefore, the providence passed from Adam's family to Noah's family, building a foundation for His providence by annihilating all humankind through the flood judgment establishing a family that transcended above Satan's accusations.

Noah lost that foundation of building the Ark through his sons not completely following him and doubting him and covering his naked body when he was drunk after his successfully accomplished God's will.  

Again, this task was passed on through several saints: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus down to the Second Coming.

Through each age, a condition failed to be completely set in order to eradicate sin from the earth.  This caused each time period to elongate and the conditions were of a greater indemnity each time.

What has God sought until now?  He has been seeking an ideal object partner, not a subject partner.

God has been searching for one who resembles Him and has the same inner and outer qualities of the world He created.

What is the starting point?  The family.

Nothing else can represent the universe better than the family.

Then where will history conclude?

With substantial true children and true parents; it concludes at the level of the family.  This is the basics of the universe.

Without parents, then children cannot be born.  Children should inherit and have dominion over all things centering on the parents.  Adam and Eve were meant to rule over all things.

This principle applies to everything.

Through the six thousand years of God's Providence He has sought to establish a family through which they would be His true object partner.

Family is indispensable in the formation of a nation.

The basis of everything is the family.

Since the first family was destroyed, it is our responsibility to restore it.

Jesus had been born on earth as the unfallen Adam. Therefore , he was the second Adam.  Since Adam, who was the first ancestor of humankind, became a fallen ancestor, God sent Jesus who was the true ancestor to reverse Adam's mistake and start anew.  

We must establish Adam's family centering on such true ancestors. 

The Bible testifies of the Fall of the first human ancestors. 

This occurred between two people, Adam and Eve.

If after Eve and the archangel gave into the fruit of evil, Adam had refused to eat the fruit, then the problem would have been simple to reverse.  In such a case, God as the Creator would have re-created her.

Why did God have to restore the world starting from a family?  Because this is where everything went wrong.  

Evil began in the human world from the first human ancestor's family.

Humanity experienced a loss of God, the expulsion of the angelic world, the loss of the perfect world of creation and the loss of the value and love of humankind.  This all occurred through an unprincipled union of a man and woman in Adam's family.

All religions show a way to individual salvation, especially Christianity, but they do not represent perfection.

This is just a rudimentary form of salvation that is just the beginning, the very first step on the road to complete spiritual and physical salvation.  

The goal of salvation has family salvation as its unit; individual salvation is the beginning.  These families can lead the world and bear responsibility even for world salvation.  

Our life of faith should have the highest ideal of realizing families with such a realm of heart is firmly established.

The Restored Family Was to Be Realized by Jesus

What was Jesus' main purpose for being born?

He came to establish a true family centered on God.

This history of salvation from Cain and Abel to Jesus is the history of restoration.

This is where those who are sick need to be healed.  Jesus came in order to save fallen people and open  a pathway directly to heaven.  

What is salvation?  Since the family was destroyed, it must be restored.

How do we restore the fallen family?  We must return to the original position that was lost because the original family was destroyed.  

Humankind is sick and needs healing.

God absolutely conducts Himself according to principles and laws.

Since Adam was lost, he must be recovered from the satanic world.  Adam had the responsibility to dominate and possess Eve, but he failed his role as a husband and she was taken by Satan.

Thus, she must be recovered from the satanic world.

Will this be done easily without a struggle?

God worked throughout the ages to lay family, religious and national foundations to restore Adam and Eve.

He established Joseph's and Zechariah's families.  

Then if Jesus, who was from Joseph's family and John the Baptist from Zechariah's family had united, God's will would have been fulfilled in a short time.

What if John the Baptist would not have questioned later on that Jesus was the one they were looking for and followed him?

Also, what if Jesus was to receive Zachariah's daughter as a bride and they start a true family with God's direct blood lineage reversing the sinful blood lineage on earth?  Jesus would have become True Father bearing True Children of God's blood lineage.

Then the will of God would have been fulfilled.

Such fundamental facts such as these are immediately opposed by Christians.  They cry and argue over it.  But it will be to no avail.

Those who oppose these facts will realize that this is the truth when they pass on to the spirit world.

God planned for Adam and Eve to achieve unity as substantial father and mother and complete the perfection of a family of love, which is God's ideal of creation.

God did not create this world to be full of evil, struggle and broken families.  To conceive of such an ideal for a perfect God is hurtful to the work of restoring the world.

Yet, since this was not accomplished, Jesus had to come in order to complete it.

Jesus came as the bridegroom to receive his bride.  Then, if the Israelites  had united with God and restored the position of the perfected Adam in the Garden of Eden and bonded in that love, then nobody could have made them repeat the Fall.

What was God's will?

It was for Adam and Eve to establish the standard of perfection of man and woman and establish God's family based on love.  Was this accomplished in Adam and Jesus' time?

God's family was not established.

Jesus understood and believed in this aspect of God's will.  But because the Jewish people could not follow and believe that Jesus was the son of God, Israel's four-thousand year foundation for Jesus collapsed.

Therefore, Jesus died a miserably death on the cross as God's second path toward only half salvation - spiritual not physical.  Even Jesus lost his physical body to Satan, but brought spiritual salvation to earth.

If death was God's first and only choice, Jesus would have gladly went the way of the cross, instead he asked God if it was His will to let this cup pass and he lamented to forgive them for they know not what they do.

If the Jewish people accepted Jesus and God's will, he would have lived to start a family and pass on God's true blood lineage through true children.  Followers would have been able to engraft to Jesus' true blood lineage and start true families.  Heaven on Earth would follow thereafter.

Through the cross, Jesus lost his physical body to Satan, but was able to bring spiritual salvation to mankind.  This was not God's original intention for bringing Jesus to that time.

Until now, who has been able to truly understand this heart-wrenching situation?

No one!

Since this is the case, how glad Jesus must be to witness this being taught for the first time.

Without Jesus' family being established, the will of God remained unfulfilled.

Without a God-centered family carrying God's pure blood lineage, neither the nation nor the world could be restored.

As a bridegroom, Jesus must find his bride.

This is the reason Jesus' mission must be returned to this earth to center the providence on one man that true parents, true couples and true siblings can emerge.

This will be decisively fulfilled through the prophesied Marriage of the Supper of the lamb in the Last Days.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seon Gyeong Book Four, "True Family", Chapter 10, Section 3-5

Only One Path to Heaven on Earth

As people of faith what should we focus our lives upon?

God's love, God's life and God's lineage.  These three roots are the standard we should live by.

What should we be grateful for?

You must be grateful for bearing the cross.

You thought that winning would become smooth and nice, only to find you have to bear a bigger cross.

Who will make the funeral arrangements of a defeated army?  Who will train them and turn them into a regular army?

Also, if there is nothing to eat, what should be done?  Should they just be killed off or placed in prison?

Your time will come only after you have resolved this conflict and have rebuilt it.

You can live happily only after you have established a new family that is centered on God.  A new nation and a new world of peace.

How is there any true settlement in a world of chaos?

If there is a way to the eternal world, which is the original good hometown, it may be difficult but this same gauge must be the way of your life on earth.  It must be the same as the way going to the spirit world.

If you examine your lifestyle, do you think that your current life is the same as the railway in the spirit world?  Can you run straight to God's heart just as you are in your fallen state?

True Parents(the Messiah and Pure Wife) who reverse the fallen lineage of the first fallen parents who disobeyed God are needed in order to make the railway the same.

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Our connection with True Parents is destiny

Human beings are one hundred percent foolish, except God.

God is more than one hundred percent wise.  He is our friend, our ancestors in the infinite spirit world our companions and supporting army.


I am grateful to think about this.  I know very well the feeling of taking risks on the frontline, like the time David stood in front of Goliath. It is the feeling of courage and confidence. If I fight a hundred wars, I can win a hundred wars because God is protecting me.  I have actually become this kind of person because I thought all along, "If you hit me, it is you rather than I who will be shattered." Just as God raised me like this, I have the responsibility to raise you this way.



This is why you must inherit the destiny to become a wise person through the teachings of God's word.

This is not a task which you acquired, but it is your destiny.  Our destiny is to be perfected and engraft to the bloodline of the True Parent.  This fact does not change for eternity.  No one, not even the President or richest man in the world can separate from this destiny.

We must go this path for a thousand years.  Even ten thousand years.

There are not two ways toward the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, a world of peace: only one way.  There is no other method or some secret way.  We all must walk this path.

We must carry out our responsibilities

What must we do to enter the 12 pearly gates of the spirit world?

The main question is how many people can we rescue from Satan's grip on earth and help become heavenly citizens before we enter the spirit world.

 We must shed blood, sweat and tears based on the heart of true love for the sake of recreation.  In order to bring  your own people to the heavenly kingdom, you must invest a higher heart than that of satanic parents, husband, wife and children while walking the course of shedding blood, sweat and tears.

You lay conditions that will enable you to come close to God and to rise to a position of glory in the spirit world based on the number of people you have rescued from Satan and return to God.

Father Moon speaks about his own bloody path toward laying a foundation for world restoration:

"Throughout my life, I have lived not only for the nation but also for the world. Why? Even those who are in the spirit world should receive benefits from True Parents.  On the first of February, while I was in Danbury prison, I conducted a ceremony to open the gates of hell and heaven. I had to prepare everything for opening those gates.

This is why I also had to go to prison(equivalent to Jesus going to prison). In this way, I have to go through great suffering and pain and climb over the hill of bitter sorrow.  No matter how vast the ocean, I must swim across it.

No matter how high the mountains, I have to cross over them, even if they are the snow-covered Himalayas and I have to walk with bare feet. In the same way, I established all the foundations for victory by reaching beyond the misery of history itself.

I went through a path of suffering so great that the devil himself could not follow me, and so he had to fall away."


Reverend Sun Myung Moon

In your own homes, your own sons and daughters hold a solemn position as a second God.

The grandfather and grandmother represent the past on behalf of God.  The mother and father represent the present age, and the sons and daughters represent the future.

We should serve these representatives of the three ages as past, present and future manifestations of God.  Those who deceive their children, their wives, their husbands and deceive their parents will go to hell.

The family, nation, and heaven and earth are supposed to be linked through the core of love that lives for the sake of others.

This is the kind of love which one invests even his life and forgets about it by living for others.

There is no other way.  To see a heavenly world of peace, we must restore many people that have a high standard of heart that is connected with such a core of love.

This is the secret to accomplishing the unification of the country of North and South Korea, which is the last puzzle piece to world restoration.

When you go to another nation, you must devote all of your efforts for that nation, as if you were unifying your own country, so it does not fall behind other nations.

You should offer that nation first to heaven.

The Old Testament Age, all possessions and things were offered; the New Testament Age, sons and daughters were offered through sacrifice.

Now, we are in the Completed Testament Age, restored couples are sacrificed.

The Fall severed our direct connection to God's sinless blood lineage.  We served Satan and separated from God.  We should now bring God and connect everything back together.  Your possessions are not your own.

Possessions correspond to the Old Testament Age, and sons and daughters correspond to the New Testament Age.

Things were sacrificed in the Old Testament Age to pave the road for the sons and daughters.  Today, the returning Lord, or True Parents, has suffered in order to bring God to this earth.

Since humanity served and brought Satan to earth, we ourselves must bring God back to earth and serve him.  We should link to God through true love and be acknowledged as possessions of God.

When these are connected to true love, you will then be connected to the age of children's possessions again.  Then these will be distributed for ownership to mother, father and children.

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This post was rewritten and derived from, True Parents and Us from Cheon Seong Gyeong 

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

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.

Obey Your Mind

Those who follow the words of the Divine Principle written by the Messiah, already have a deep understanding of the importance of mind and body unity.

If one was to only follow the laws that the fleshly body dictates, they would not be able to find a way to Heaven.

God's chosen champions in these Last Days are God's Air Force, Gods Navy, His infantry.  In this way, we can even go into the houses of prostitution and all the satanic covered areas showing that the good conscience must come alive.

We will defeat Satan, but like those who go to war, we must be prepared.  You must become an absolute plus on God's side no matter what.  You will either crash into the evil plus that stole the subject position or your will be able to convert them into a mins.

This is how Satan is defeated and the Messiah's strategies.  God blessed America in its infancy not for itself, but to save the world.  

He brought the Messiah to this country to show America's wrongdoings.  America must return back to God or it will perish soon.  

"The majority of the white people in this country do not want to be told to change and be involved in making heaven on earth. "We are happy already," they say and they all take a leader's position. Great country people feel, "Hey, what are you saying about me? My feeling is not so good; we're going to kick you out.".

They create an atmosphere of persecution from all four directions against the Messiah. Only one Reverend Moon is standing up; young people shoot arrows, bullets, machine guns, shooting me. But they cannot destroy me. Why? Because I take the absolute plus position; that is my continuous way. Minus automatically follows, becoming God!"

Rev. Sun Myung Moon


Satan uses his strategy as well to keep Gods children from uniting with His ideal and Will.

Satan's aim: "How can I control the mind?  With what?"  With the body.

Satan uses the human body which is attached to him through his fallen blood lineage of sin.  He'll whisper to you that the work of God is just too much.  Why don't you just take a rest?  The sky is clear, it is springtime.  Why do you work in such a poorly, dark place when everyone else is enjoying the sun and enjoying partying at night? God makes you work too hard and this course is difficult.  You aren't strong enough to stand before this kind of situation."

This is the kind of discouragement that is given to those who faithfully walk toward the path of God's will.

This is the habit of your body:  the body likes good food, good clothes and a good place to live.  It likes to sleep as much as possible.  These habits sounds and taste good and seems natural, but stands as a roadblock to do God's will.

Satan uses the material world of stimulating things to keep us from uniting with God: drugs, alcohol, beautiful women/handsome men.  When we follow the temptation of a beautiful man or woman, we will fall down into hell.  Because of Gods providence to restore man back to the original ideal, this ownership can be restored.

This is the Messiah's mission at his return: to restore the true mind owner, true love,and the true kingship.  We have been born into this world and accept at some point this is the way, but we have never experienced any of these elements in the true sense and they all have fallen from God's true ideal.

The world of conscience has been a victim throughout history not a victor.

Satan attacks the human mind to take control of God's children and pull them toward hell.

Originally, God had never made the word "victim", only victorious words. Because of the other side, we lost this most precious situation. How are we going to save this situation of humanity?  The number one point is the kingship of the mind.

Then kingship of what?  True Love.

These two things will have a relationship that is 180 degrees opposite of how the satanic world operates.

The satanic world will follow this true way of life once it is established.  Then the bar will be raised and then the it will be lowered down into Hell's waterways and barriers clearing Hell and lifting it up toward Heaven.

Forever the heart connects with God's purpose; the eternal direction is God's direction.  

We will return this fallen world which Satan uses for his purpose to destroy, to its original position and turn it back to God.  God is the subject and humanity is in the object position centering on connecting on true love forever.

We will return the world in which Satan turned all of creation toward his fallen purpose to its original position and back to God.

Once True Parents, True Love, True Life, True Lineage is established, even if Satan uses his strongest power, it will not continue there.  This is the original way of the original heart's purpose.  Your heart was not meant for Satan's will.

This it the viewpoint of the Principle:  humankind can live forever centering on true love;the ideal of God's creation.  True Parents who return the position of the first fallen parents back toward's God is absolutely needed.  The fallen blood lineage will return to God's ideal free of Satan's sinful blood lineage.

When we walk this path no matter the difficulty, we can restore absolute ownership no matter how far we have walked away from God's path.

We have to take absolute true love kingship.

What was the original position where God's love and human love was to unite?

This is through the sexual love organs.  Our sexual organs are the original palace of love and is the most valuable place.  Man and woman were to connect here centered absolutely on Gods love.  Then from there, connect children and life to God.
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The sexual  organ is the king's life palace when we see it from the original purpose of God.  Now that we know this, we see why Satan has placed emphasis on misusing the sexual organs as he knew this was God's ideal to unite with humanity.

Through the pure sexual organs we connect the kingship true blood lineage of God.  These three foundations connect at that one point: Children, life and lineage.

Of all humankind, in all the created world, this is life's most valuable thing. 

The sexual organs is the most high-level, valuable place.  It automatically connects to the creation of the absolute ideal God had at the beginning of creation.  Not just anyone has the permission to open that place.  Only the absolute owner, the one absolute subject has the key to this palace.

From this point, absolute love appears.

Through the connection of the two love organs, absolute soul-baring is revealed. Just having this connection is not the way of salvation or restoration back toward God.

We need the Messiah in order to have the full restoration of the body.  Jesus was the first son of God to bring us toward spiritual salvation and returned to bring us salvation on the earthly plane to open the way for Heaven on Earth.

In the beginning, this pure connection centered on God would have created a true love, true children and true lineage.  Why can we not as humans create these three foundations?

Because of the fall. If the first parents obeyed God to wait until maturity to open their "fruits of love", there would be no need for a savior.  Adam an d Eve would have become the True Parents passing on Gods pure sinless lineage.

Originally, we had everything: God's ideal mind, God's body, God's love. This true love and value was stolen by Satan's mind, body and love.  We are living in a time when Satan's ideals run rampant. We live with two minds at war: our original God-given mind and our evil, fallen mind.  Our original mind understands the value of God's true love.  

Your original mind understood that true love and value. So once you can take back the original human dignity of personality, Satan will be blocked.

If you were to evaluate it, what is the deepest most important point:  This would be the mind.  Then the second point would be love.

When we know the true value, we see that there is no harmony in mind and love all around the world.

The Messiah comes to reclaim the individual foundation lost to Satan and the family foundation through the holy marriage blessing.  Then this foundation expands through restoring the representatives of Satan's family.

The Messiah will push his followers to become independent from the fallen world's way and follow him even though they had once belonged to Satan's side.  Yet many will push the Messiah away because they are satisfied with living the comfortable lifestyle they have acquired.

"Father took the consequences every time centering on God's law of conscience.

"I opened doors and left them open behind me. The route you have to follow is my way-the way I took has become the universal textbook. If you can understand the contents of this textbook, you will be grateful forever."

The Messiah is the most precious thing: touching him we connect to true love, true life and true lineage.  Without the Messiah blazing a trail of restoration through suffering, there is no way for humanity to obtain the knowledge to bring about the true blood lineage on earth which God desires.

We must connect to the words of the Messiah through his teachings of the Divine Principle which this blog is based upon and live it substantially.  We must get those three valuable things and take them back to our brothers and sisters of humanity.

True love forever. In there we will take that happiness; in there hope, in there peace, in there freedom.

If we do not restore the true love place, where is the freedom in that?  When we center on love, we have freedom.  Therefore, the American concept of freedom as 'do whatever you want' is wrong.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Let Us Inherit Victory.