Why Children Rebel

Why do we worry about our kids, and can not stop the train wreck that many of them are headed?  What follows is from a speech made November 1971. 


Who would have believed the prediction  of kids killing their parents in the future and children kidnappings.  Amazing.  As you know this speech was given by Dr. Sun Myung Moon using the his intensive 9-year study of the bible:


Rebellion of Teenaged Adam and Eve

"Adam and Eve distrusted God and betrayed Him; this sowed the seeds of grief throughout the cosmos.

"Therefore in the Last Days, parents and the children will be in conflict. Just as the first human ancestors betrayed and distrusted God their Father, their descendants in the Last Days will likewise

experience children rebelling against their parents…

"That is why in today’s society there is a pervasive tone of distrust, between parents and children,

between husbands and wives, and between relatives. People no longer have confidence about their

purpose for living, so much have those who deny its basis obfuscated the matter. As you see this

happening, you should know that the Last Days are here.

"Today we face a serious youth problem. In the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve fell, they were teenagers. They planted the seed of free sex when they fell by engaging in an illicit sexual relationship in the shade. That is why now, during the harvest time of the Last Days, it was inevitable that free sex would become rampant throughout the world.

"Satan knows that God is trying to bring all human beings to Heaven by promoting the standard

of true love—absolute love without any trace of the Fall. Because Satan knows that the returning

Messiah will carry out this plan, his strategy is to utterly dismantle this standard. Therefore, as

there is no longer any basis for love, people today engage in all sorts of behavior, including free sex,

homosexuality and lesbianism. Homosexuals and lesbians are seeds of the archangel; therefore, like

angels they have no object partner of love

"These are the Last Days, when everywhere people are stripping off their clothes and perishing.  It is the end of Satan’s dominion. Now the earth has become hell, where life is in step with Satan’s world of hell. Therefore, if you seek and follow a way 180 degrees opposite the prevailing lifestyle, it will be a path connected to Heaven.
 

"At the Fall, the archangel Lucifer acted to make Eve his enemy and Eve acted to make Adam her

enemy. As a result, Adam, Eve and the archangel became enemies to one another. Therefore, in

the Last Days everyone will become enemies to one another. Your children will become your enemies; mothers and fathers become enemies; brothers and sisters will become enemies. Nations will become enemies. All relationships will be torn apart, and you will not be able to trust anyone.

"What will become of ethics and morality? Such a hurricane of chaos will sweep the world that people will lose any sense of direction.

People will not be able to tell right from wrong and good from evil. When that time comes, it is the Last Days. The Last Days are here right now! You will see incidents where children kill their parents and parents kill their children. You will see ministers killing members of their congregation, and acrimonious battles between church members and their ministers. Everyone will be divided. Why is that? The seed of enmity sown by Adam, Eve and the archangel has resulted in the world becoming a battlefield." 1971

 
Why America Losing Christian Values

All religions have lost their footing. Because Christianity did not completely fulfill God’s will,

Buddhism, Confucianism and Islam are also going through a tough course. As a result, families,

societies, nations and the world have become like hell.

God’s ideal realm of love is nowhere to be found on earth. Even in a vast country like America, God cannot find a True Son or True Daughter whose mind and body are truly united. God cannot find a husband and wife who are united according to the original standard that God has desired since before the Fall. In every family, parents and children are fighting. The decline of religion has led to a world of selfish individualism in which everyone is divided.
 

Without a clear vertical standard, the concepts of male and female are hazy. That is why, along with

free sex, we see so much sexual confusion in the Last Days.
 

In the free world today, many people are unwilling to marry. They live together without a legal marriage, jumping from one relationship to another… It seems like everyone is perishing, but through it God has a strategy to save them all.

This trend somehow makes sense if you look at it from God’s perspective. In God’s view, our spirit and body is supposed to become one centered on true love, not on false love. 

Therefore, as people live together who have not found the origin of true love they will continue to be restless, with spirit and body divided. Once they pass through that stage, after awhile they will yearn for the marriage Blessing, the Blessing that only Heaven can give.  Why Doesn't God End Evil?

God cannot strike human beings even when they take Satan’s side. God has to use the strategy

of being struck first and then taking the victory. Satan always strikes first, but loses in the end. Throughout history Satan takes the side of self-centered people and incites them to hatred and conflict to try to destroy Heaven’s side. Heaven, on the contrary, aims for the good of all, working to recreate the world with love and peace.

In the Last Days, when Satan is about to lose his dominion to Heaven’s side, he will suggest atheism to the world, advocating that there is no God. This will result in movements to establish humanism, materialism and communism. All over the world, these ideologies of the left are in battle

with Heaven’s side on the right.

Ultimately, however, history will enter an era of a Great Revolution when Heaven’s side will win

and peace will prevail throughout the world. This could have occurred already, with the victory of

Christian culture at the end of the Second World War, but Christianity failed its mission to follow the returned Messiah.  So Christianity had to indemnify this, you see during the 60s the breakdown of the morals in youth, divorces on the rise and the sex and drug revolution thereafter.

How Can This Be Indemnified?

After World War II, humankind was struggling to overcome the pain of war and find the way for

all nations to live in peace. At that time, God commanded the Messiah of the Second Coming to start a world-level movement to establish God’s Kingdom on the foundation of two thousand years of Christianity. The main point God revealed to the Messiah was the formula course to establish the True Parents and unite humankind as one true family.

However, to God’s great disappointment, the Korean Christian leaders did not accept this truth.

As a result, the Messiah had no choice but to walk the path of hardship. Although he had committed no crime, he was persecuted, opposed and imprisoned. This mistake of Christianity became the condition and spiritual foundation for evil to gain power in Korea. Herein lay the internal and providential reason for the Korean War and the division of Korea that has persisted for over half a century.

We also should recognize the existence of evil spirits as another avenue for our children to be led astray.

This is the biblical account of the onslaught of demons and spirits in Revelations:

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit; he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth; they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those of mankind who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads; they

were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man. And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.


The increase in depression, suicidal thoughts, diseases, autism etc. are all due to spiritual problems, but as the bible says, only those without the seal of God.  Others are protected.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if God had created the teenaged Adam and Eve complete and perfect?  To be robots that follow the universal law like nature.  Sounds good in theory, but who wants to be a robot without choice?   But that is not how the universe works. All things begin from the bottom-most stage and grow to reach their proper level. Thus, Adam and Eve should begin their lives as babies and grow up. They are not meant to have a complete relationship with the universe in an instant.

When a young man reaches the age of fifteen, sixteen and seventeen, he comes to enjoy the world of male-female relationships. He feels romantic, poetic yearnings. Don’t teenagers feel that way? They would like to leave home, travel all over the world and find adventure on land and sea.

That is when their eyes are wide open to find a partner for love.

Adolescence is the time to give off fragrance. It spreads far and wide, attracting the bees and butterflies. That is why young men and women want to become the top champion, the top student, the

top everything

Today’s teenagers are wild; they hook up with anyone willy-nilly. By doing so, they bring about their

own ruin and society’s ruin. Yet, because adolescence is a time of change, teens cannot settle with

one partner; they go from one relationship to another.

Therefore, teenagers need to follow a definite discipline and be aware of the dangerous circumstances in which they live. You [parents] need to straighten them out. You need to clear up the complications in their lives and teach them the positives of following God's path instead of stating just the dangers and heartaches going down the wrong path.

Just as Adam and Eve were warned with death and still chose death, it is a slippery slope to give children our heartfelt warnings without them wanting to follow the dangerous and "exciting" path we try our hardest to prevent.  Isn't this every parent's worry?

In Revelations it said that God would be sorry for those who bare children, now I fully understand, because God knew in the last day that the evil and good would battle on every level of individual, family and society.  He foresaw the chaos and gave his sympathies.  There is a victory up ahead if all of those in faith keep their feet planted steadfast to God during these Last Days.  Hold on, victory of God and a peaceful world is ahead, we just have to choose it.

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Today's post was taken from World Scripture II: Eschatology and Messianic Hope.

 

 

 

 

World Peace Through Family

Scan any television station and you are sure to run into a reality show giving us a fly-on-the-wall view of a celebrity or non-celebrity's everyday interactions. 

The fad is so great that we can't stop watching non-celebrities with their multiple children and such.  If we completely followed how these families lived, would it bring a world of peace? 

Unfortunately, not to judge, but many of the lives we follow, real or fictional on television, are not the best example to realize a world of peace.  Our family example as well.  Teen mothers, angry housewives, bored celebrity kids may be cool to emanate, but the results they yield their followers is a life different than the ideal life God had imagined during creation. 

I don't know many children who wish they live without their parents, or any wife that wishes she could lose her husband to another woman.  I also don't know of any family that wishes for problems arising every time they communicate.  It is not in our nature.  Humans were created for one purpose - true love.  If we don't experience this with everyone in our lives - TRUE love - then how can we hope to see it on a global scale?


God's Only Institution


God created one institution as a way humans can learn to love, and learn how to relate to others based on this love - The Family.  The family is supposed to be the school of love.

Religion as its basis is God's primary means of education by which to instruct and love humankind.  We were supposed to be mature and raised up in God's true love and become parents that teach children what the world and God likes.

The family is the workshop based upon which one meets the qualifications to graduate from primary and secondary school, on to university -- even to earn a doctorate. Furthermore, the family expands into the world.

When the world was in the planning stage God had planned for the world to be a kingdom of love.  This is His will.  The family was set up as an instituion of this love on different levels equivalent to primary school on to the university and obtaining a doctorate.  Then this family that has graduated into a higher love interacting through four positions: Sibiling to Sibling, Parent to Child, Parent to God, Child to God.

This family then would expand from clan to nation to a worldwide family.

 If there was a family that was absolute or true it would be a place where the husband loves and serves his wife as he would his own mother and sister and his wife serves and loves the husbad as she would her father and brother.  They would love and respect one another as they would respect God Himself.

If we have a true family such as this all over he earth then World Peace happens automatically.  This type of world would be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

In this this type of family we can find happiness not depression.  However happiness will not arise in an family with many emotional difficulties or in a family that does not have love. 


Where does misfortune come about in a family?

It begins when love disappears. Parents serve as a protective fence around the house as they attend God obeying heavenly laws as husband and wife and pass this on through their children.


A family such as this, a true family does not just sprout from anywhere.  A family starts with a couple, and a couple begin with two separate individuals each working to perfect their character. 

Majority of us stop growing our spiritual self along the way onto a path toward God and start a family before we are mature.  Then our children inherit the parent's immature spirit, mess and all.

What is this path that God leads us?  The path is the standard of absolute sexual purity. 

The first stage is to maintain absolute sexual purity before getting married.  We grow through different stages of our lives from childhood to adolescence.  Adolescence signals a start of a new dynamic life on a new level relating to others around us and things of creation.

Adolescence is the time where we begin to travel the path to becoming an absolute human being -internally.  In our time and all through history no one or any law has required us to become our absolute true self, but it is absolutely a requirement that every human should fulfill no matter what position - how high or low a level they live in society, we should fulfill this standard. 

We see in our current situations of family how living away from the standard of God has led to a society of broken families.

God gave to us a responsibility of maintaining purity in order to fulfill His ideal of creation.  This is the model of absolute sexual morality for us as humans.   This path leads us toward perfecting the model of absoluteness in conjugal love - love between husband and wife. 

Remember the warning God gave the first ancestors from which we were born?  He said, do not eat for in the day you eat, you will die.  He gave them the responsibility to maintain absolute sexual purity until God's approval of marriage. 

Our first family on earth failed in so many ways because it started otuside of God's realm.  It was intended to be a marriage approved by God, instead started outside of God's realm.  The first family on earth - the model we followed - was a family begun outside of God's ideal and multiplied now millions of families later.  This is why today we experience families that are far from the true ideal family.

What would have happened if Adam and Eve followed God's direction?  What if they chose to follow the commandment instead of being tempted away by satan?

They would have perfected their character and stood together with God as His equal, then their marriage would have been blessed by God.  Then they would bore True Children and this is a True Family. 

Secondly, we would see how can we preserve our purity before marriage and keep from following the wrong path.

Right now our American lives are leading a life toward self-destruction because we are children of the first family that follows the path outside of God.  Purity is the greatest blessing of Heaven given to humanity and without maintaining purity, our path toward a perfected individual or spiritual maturity is closed.  So, when Adam and Eve had eaten it was pertaining to wait to have sexual relations once they had matured in God's love.  Instead, our historical parents had lost their purity and left direct relationship with God.

This truth in God's commandment for Adam and Eve has lain hidden throughout human history, but this is what God truly told Adam and Eve - to keep their purity.  If they had obtained purity and conjugal relations they would have attained complete oneness with Him and then had children of goodness.

Can we say that we follow the path of God so completely and have children of goodness?  All of the world's problems stems from the hidden fact in history.  Humanity started from a family outside of God's protective realm.

One Global Family of Peace

Here is a word we probably never seen - True Families, True Children.

We think it is not possible with the climate of marriage these days.  No matter how far humanity strays from the ideal it is still God's mandate to experience a True Family.

Family members means there must be a family.  Then if there is a family then there are brothers and sisters and siblings means there are parents.
In religion, we call others "members" or "believers".  But when have religious members called each other on the global level "family member"? 

When we talk about world peace we also may say Global Family.  A great family will require parents - a father and mother for this great family.  This parent is none other than the one to come who opens the gateway to World Peace - the returned Messiah.  Even though there will be many brothers and sisters there will be only one set of parents or one head of the family.

How will one who is a "family member" in this heavenly family look?


This is the question.  

These True Parents will not be self-centered or have anything to do with evil.  They will be the center of this family and these parents will have God as their center.

So, a true family will be realized only when the Savior, Messiah becomes one with God as our parent on earth.  Then those who join with the Returned Messiah they will become true Children and true brothers and sisters.

You will become brothers and sisters to those you are not related and follow parents who are not your physical parents.  A world of peace will be able to go past the emotions and affections of the flesh and blood, transcend race, and nation creating a new culture based on heart.

How will this come about?  How will it be possible for unrelated people to love one another as their own flesh and blood?  By force?  Through law?  It is only possible through God's love.

Return for tomorrow's post: You Can Save the World

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Note:

These words are taken from a combination of 8 textbooks and speeches taught by Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon and rewritten in a conversational tone. 

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