Family Protected Through Loving Children

A family where loving parents embrace their children and share in joy will not be able to be attacked by anything in the universe. Rather, your family will have natural protection.  People have not known this fundamental principle. If a child is born crippled or has a terminal illness, it is natural for the deep heart of the parent to flow to the crippled child.  Is that wrong? The heart of such a handicapped person is like a valley, and the heart of the parents like a big area on the hilltop. The heart of such parents flows from the top to that deep valley. There is nothing bad in the heart of parents who live for the sake of their children.  The more miserable their situation and worn out their clothes are, then the further they dig into the deep valley of tears. What would happen if a baby was ashamed of taking a poop?  A baby isn't ashamed if they pee or poop accidentally on their parents. Rather he smiles openly in front of their parents as they watch them clean up after him. This is only possible with love.  In love, there is no such thing as dirty things. Love can overcome everything. A mother who breastfeeds her baby at her bosom has an earnest heart. The parents' heart is such that even when their baby's poop and pee smells, they are able to forget this and overlook instances like this because of their love. If fallen parents have such a heart toward their children, how much more heart does God have as the subject partner of love? God wanted to love Adam and Eve through His original heart.  We should think about this deeply. The parents heart always feels lacking and they feel they can always give something more. They want to love more, wondering if they have loved enough even after giving love and they feel regretful and sorry even after giving. Because of this, their heart can be part of the essential core of eternal love. This is the same heart that was the original motivation at the very beginning of love. When parents divorce, it is the same as cutting their children in half with a knife.  The public law of the universe does not allow this. Parents who violate this will receive punishment and be followed by misfortune wherever they go. They will be unable to find true happiness. When the baby becomes hungry, the mother's breasts becomes swollen with milk.  When the milk swells them up and her breast become sore, there is an abundant pressure. The heart of the mother who embraces her baby and gives him milk is hard to express in words. When her swollen breasts go down, then the mother feels relieved and happy. No one can understand this feeling unless she is a mother herself.  Moreover, as the mother bonds and watches her baby suck her breasts while touching it, love springs up abundantly in her heart. If you were to ask a mother if she would rather lose her husband or her child, if she really loves her child, she will say that should would never give up her child.  She would rather give up her husband if she had to choose. Husbands may be hurt to hear this. These days, some people would say that if a child dies they can just have another one. This is the last option.  In the principle of matters of order, we see that the husband and wife are horizontal and come last.  The history of love is like this. What on earth is the original love? It is the kind of love where a parent would give their life for their child. Their love goes beyond their own life.  Why must this be so?  Originally, the universe was not created for the sake of life, because it was created for the sake of love.  Love came first. Since this is the case, then life goes along with love, and not that love goes along with life. Genuine love sacrifices life and goes beyond life.  This is because this love of Heaven is a love that can connect with the universe. The salmon's life is a great example. The salmon dies after laying its eggs. nevertheless the male and female first become one to lay their eggs. This means that salmon couples are deeply in love.  It is as if they have been sentenced to die. The male makes a hole in the ground once the female lays her eggs and protects them.  This is truly an ideal couple. The body of the mother becomes food for her young. Why would the Creator think to create salmon in such a way?  Seeing this, we see how important our young are.  God created the salmon as a model to show that love, and our young are the most precious things. The life of the salmon is truly a great textbook for humankind. Parents' love is complete even after being shared over and over again Why is it we cannot help loving our children? Because when we love our children, it is like inheriting God's great work of creation the horizontal (earth) and substantial level. Through loving our children, we feel the joy God felt after creating Adam and Eve. We inherit God's love and God's authority to create.   Parents who have raised many children see that their heart of love is wide, large and deep. They can feel on their own that they cannot fight even their wicked enemies.  They stand on that foundation and live according to that broad of a law. When a baby is born, he follows the electric current of love and automatically seeks out his mother's nipple. He does not care how ugly or beautiful his mother is.  To witness such a sight of unmatched harmony and holiness. Each of us are the fruit of our parents' love for one another.  We are born in love, and grow up while receiving love. You are the visible, real fruit of what your mother and father's love is like.  Therefore, it is natural that the parents have to love the person who is the fruit of their love. Through this fruit, the infinite love bears fruit yet again. This is the path where we can be connected to individual love, family love, tribal love, universal love and even the fundamental love of God. You are a unique participant and companion in love in front of your parents. This love makes you equal to your mother and father and you can rise to an equal position. This is the privilege of love. Parents want to bequeath everything they own to their sons and daughters, whom they truly love. You can jump in and inherit a hundred percent of the universe when you have found an equal position of value of love in the tradition of love. This is why all parents want a child of filial piety. Children of filial piety pass on the inheritance of love as participants in the eternal love of their parents. A baby who is born through love can do whatever he wants and you will not dislike him one bit. Rather, no matter what, you will love your baby because he is made from your flesh and blood and is a second you, created through love. Even when he defecates or urinates, has a runny nose, he is still cute and adorable in your eyes. This is because these things are soaked in love. The love between the parents and children comes from the parents.  We receive our parents' love from the moment of our birth. After we receive the parents' love and grow up, then we receive the horizontal love between husband and wife. In order for the love of the husband and wife to continue, they must have children and love them. Parents can feel genuine love only when they have children. Through only the love of brothers and sisters, we cannot learn about parents' love. In other words, we come to know parental love when we ourselves experience the circular course through becoming parents and complete the circle. The love string of our parents and the string of our ideals are connected to each of us.  This cannot be cut off by anyone.  All of the power of the universe protects such a union. Thus, wherever I go, my parents will follow me. My parents always want to be with me, even in the spirit world. Thus, it is a sin to dislike your parents accompanying you. The highest value for human beings is to think of and love our parents like they are our own body and practice filial piety. We are born from our parents' love and are engrafted to their love. Before the connection of life and lineage are made through love, the connections are in place. Why are each of us so precious?  Not because we have life, but because we participated together in our parents' love. Parents have loved, but the individual is the fruit of that love. Each of us are precious because we are born with the beginning point and the fruit.  True parents strive to continue this tradition of love. This is the same for those in the East and the West.  All parents want to have an universal tradition of love by transcending our own tribe. All people want and strive to bring their family into completeness and harmony so they can live a happy and peaceful life. In this case tradition is the essence. Only tradition can connect with the future. Which is greater: conjugal love of husband and wife or the love between parents and child? Westerners value the conjugal love of husband and wife as greater, but this is not so. Love for a child is greater than the love of the spouse. In conjugal love, the husband and wife fight because they think the other does not love them. But parents and children fight thinking that they must love the other more, this is the original heart. The parent and child relationship is such a way because the love of parents and child is the center and vertical.  It follows the road that is close to the heavenly law.  Thus, we find that the love that serves others is closer to the genuine love. However strong a man is, or however tough a woman may be, they will bow down to that love. The reason parents are precious is because they give and sacrifice for the sake of their children.  So things come to be the other way around. When parents get old, they become children. Long before, the parents were their children's first teacher, but they become seventy and eighty years old they become like children again. At the same time, the child takes the place of the father or mother.  The child should love his parents just as the parents have loved them when they raised them.  This is the principle of heaven and earth. Return for Tomorrow's Post: This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Gyeon Book Three, "True Love' Chapter 2, Section 3

Leave No Condition for Satan to Attack

How will it be possible for you experience the heart of the Messiah and God's love and heart?

The question is how to enter into that state.  To do this, you must return to the position of Adam and Eve who have not fallen, and are free from Satan's accusation.

How is it possible for you to be liberated from the satanic world and blood lineage of sin?

You have to win the battle with Satan.

In order to accomplish this, how hard do you think you will have to work?

In addition, how much suffering will you have to go through to achieve this standard?  Only the Messiah was able to do this.

Bequeathing of heart

Many saints in history were deceived: Jacob and Moses were deceived ten times and Jesus was also deceived in the same manner.  We must overcome this.

Through overcoming deception with a grateful heart, we come to understand God's heart.  We come to know the heart of the Parent.  Without overcoming this, we will never have a chance to experience such a heart.

As long as you do not have this experience, Satan will never leave you.

As long as you do not overcome Satan's taunts and triumph over him, you will never know the Parents' heart or God's heart who have gone through this suffering course.

Thus, everyone of faith must conquer Satan on the frontline.

If instead we just live a comfortable life of leisure, we will not be able to find God's love, the Parents' love, the True Parents' realm of heart, or find God's realm of heart.

I must send everyone to the frontline. 

You need to go out and be persecuted, despised and beaten.

You can receive all sorts of harsh treatments.  Through this experience, there can be an inheritance of heart.  A ceremony of inheritance will take place there.

Therefore you should always stand at the forefront and march forward like the Messiah.

The frontline is harsh persecution, but this is natural.  When you witness or fundraise and receive such treatment, God will protect you.  You will be able to experience the same heart as God as you stand in the same place.

How do you experience this Parental heart deeply? How do you come to know the real True Parents who reverse the Fall, and know that God is your Father down to your flesh and bone?

The question is how will you know down to the cells of your body that God is your Father even without thinking about it?

You must overcome the situation of being exposed to Satan's accusation. 

How do we not leave any satanic condition through our actions and thoughts is the biggest problem.

It is simple how to experience True Parents' love deeply: you must stand in the position of unfallen Adam and Eve who have conquered Satan on the global stage.

In order to completely separate from Satan, how much blood and sweat will you have to shed?  How much of Satan's accusations will you have to bear?

How tremendous the battle, because it will only happen after you have victory over the course of indemnity, paying back for sins.

When you are faced with such difficulties, if you do not appreciate facing these challenges, then no matter how much you pray or what you do, you will not be able to go beyond it.

We should be grateful for the persecution as we paved the way to get rid of our fallen lineage, overcome Satan and return back to God.

You have to have this experience deeply yourself.  You will receive direct guidance.

During your experience, the problem is how to feel oneness. It will not come until you are able to defeat Satan completely, make him retreat in every facet of your life.

Power transmission towers have been established.

Power stations have been built in individuals, families, nations, the world and even in God.  Now the power lines of heart must be hung there.  Who will hang those lines?  God is not the one to do it.  You must do it.

Sons and daughters inherit from their parents

If God was to give a gift to humankind, what would it be?

That you would become the ancestors of humankind and become true mothers and fathers. There is nothing higher than the true parents position- not even being the president can match it.

There is no greater gift God can give us.

To be able to be pure sons and daughters that reverse the sinful blood lineage into God's pure blood lineage and become True Parents, then there will automatically be true children, tribe, nation and world thereafter.

The most important title in all of creation is to be a True Parent.

What is the nature of the Fall?

It is people doing and living as they pleased.

We must reverse any situation that is not centering on God and True Parents who have come to reverse the sins of the first human parents.

All men should become incarnations of True Father and all women should become representatives of True Mother.  When God enters you through your eyes or anywhere else, you should welcome Him.  Do not reject Him.

Do your walls remain in place even though you walk this path of faith?

God's love comes through you. 

You must not be negligent; you need to study this phenomenon.

Once you inherit this tradition, True Parents will come to you as God's messenger and give you the inheritance.  Since humanity has not had True Parents, therefore, true children had never appeared before.

The Unification Movement says, "Acknowledge True Parents, discover and serve them.  We say we should become true sons and daughters of True Parents."

After we become true sons and daughters, what happens?

We inherit all that they have which include: heaven and earth, and even God.  Yes, we should even inherit God.

If no one owned heaven and earth, then it would not have any value.  We should fully acknowledge the value of heaven and earth, and claim their value for eternity.  We also need to meet the one who can officially recognize that.  God is the one to do this.

You will continue to walk this path and then receive the Marriage Blessing based on the gratitude you show before Heaven.

You should be always individually grateful and never forget the value of receiving the Blessing from the True Parents in order to change your sinful blood lineage to the pure lineage of God.

Blessed families inherit the responsibilities True Parents carry out for the restoration of the world.  Blessed Families walk the course of restoring people through witnessing and suffering.

True Parents have walked the course to restore the world to peace after setting the standard of restoring people.  Then they go one step ahead.

You must shoulder the responsibility to restore a people, until your death or until the sorrow of the people is removed completely.

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True Parents Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Two Chapter 7, section 8

Why God Can't Punish Satan

There is a theological debate whether Satan existed from the very outset.  This has caused a big problem.

If Satan had always existed and was part of God's plan for creation, his existence defies and hinders God's providence of restoring the world of peace for thousands of years.

Who is the one to subjugate and eliminate him?

This is the true issue.  Christianity upholds that Jesus liquidates all the sins of the past and the future that was to come, but even Jesus lost his physical body to Satan even though he was able to resurrect and bring a foundation for spiritual salvation.

Yet, every human being since has still been born with the original sin in his blood lineage.  Who will be able to finally accuse the one who brought sin to earth?

If Satan was not part of the creation of a perfect being, then where did he come from?

Satan caused our original ancestors to fall away from the true purpose of God which was to develop heaven on earth from the outset.

If Satan was part of the creation, then there is no way to get rid of him and have complete salvation.  This would create dualism forever.  People thus conclude that a world with two opposing purposes would continue forever.  Fortunately, this is not the case.

The reasons for Satan's accusations

The original will for the ideal world of creation was never fulfilled due to the Fall. However, since God has absolute authority, even though the whole world might change, He can never change.

Even though the devil took Adam, Eve and all creation away from God, the Absolute Being must subjugate Satan, who was originally an archangel, naturally rather than by force. 

Although God exists, it is as if He does not when we witness the chaos in the world. He has to re-establish His absolute authority. God cannot strike first. The good God cannot strike the evil Satan. 

Why is it God is tied from taking out Satan in one stroke?

Because if He was to do so, that act would end up also extinguishing Adam, Eve and the creation who are linked to him.  Through Adam and Eve obeying Satan's will instead of God's, they became connected to Satan in blood ties.

Thus, destroying Satan also destroys the ideal sphere of love.  That would be against God's own principle.

This is why God is prevented from doing so.

As absolute Lord, He must absolutely fulfill His will and do as He says would do.  Despite Satan's arrogance, attacks and tenacious persecution, still the Lord endured throughout history in order to recover His established principles.

Nobody has known of this almighty God.

If God cannot destroy Satan, why did He allow Satan to infringe upon human beings?  Why did He let His children be sacrificed and crushed under Satan's foot?

Why doesn't He stop the suffering Satan causes humanity?

Why was God unable to exalt His full power to such an extent that humanity does not recognize His existence?

This is a serious question.  The truth is, because humanity did not follow Him, He had no people, no nation, no world which to govern freely.

Therefore, no one has qualified to officially be recognized by Him as a true individual, family nation or world.

If such an individual, family nation or world was established, then God would be able to directly strike the evil people, nations and world.

Before this time, because humanity suffered through following Satan's will, to work with humanity, He had to face Satan's accusations of His children and work indirectly through angels and central figures.

Only this way will lead to goodness, and only then will God have His authority.

Will you completely conquer Satan in your life?

Wasn't event he almighty King of Wisdom immobilized by Satan's accusations?

It is the same situation with the President.  If his citizens decided to march and demonstrate against his laws, can he just cut off their heads for their behavior?

Even the almighty God is unable to make this move.  Any government official found to be at fault, they would be fired in an instant.

This is why your actions should not leave any condition for Satan's accusation.
This is a matter of life and death.

How you develop that protection is extremely challenging problem in your life of faith.

Since the human race are connected to Satan's, lineage, false love and will, God cannot not be present during those circumstances.  This is the problem.

What did Satan take away from God in the beginning of human history?

Satan trampled on God's pure love and crushed God's true life, love and lineage.  We should always be aware of these facts and protect ourselves.

Satan was created originally as an archangel without any trace of the fall.

Satan goes to God and accuses Him, "You are the almighty, omnipotent, all-powerful God, even you have to solve all the problems according to the principles you set up even though I became evil.   Even though I became Satan and brought about the Fall, You must abide by the rules and principles which You set up.  Isn't this true?'

I am going to explain why we cannot proceed on our way without loving our enemy. 

It is very important for you to know this truth,

Although the archangel fell and accuses God, God must still observe the principles He has established because He is the absolute God.

No matter how the archangel behaves, God is compelled to rule over His creation according to His rules and principles He laid down.

Therefore, God is obliged to act in the same manner to the archangel before and after the Fall.  This is why Satan taunts God and tells Him, "You are supposed to love me until I'm perfected and beyond."

Adam was supposed to originally, command three archangels.  In turn, they were to obey and love him absolutely.

As long as the heavenly law demands absolute obedience and submission, Satan is not able to do as he pleases with the laws and principles.

Even though he does not absolutely obey and submit to God, he knows that eventually he has to follow the same principle

If Satan violates the principle and God's law, then He can remove him.

It would be the same as the president exercising his authority through the constitutional law.  If it is not in the constitution, the president is not able to act as he wishes.

The author of the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament, dealt with such serious issues such as the existence of God and why He did not eliminate Satan as soon as he fell.

In the book of Job, you may ask why God was so powerless.

I had to understand all this. How serious I was to do so! I have placed myself on the gallows and struggled for these truths at the risk of my life. We have to retrieve our original life. 

If you are not familiar with the Book of Job, Satan accused God that Job was a faithful servant because He gave him everything.

Satan challenged God that if He took everything away from Job and made him suffer that he would curse God in return.

God gave Satan everything he asked for and told him he could take Job's life.  Why would the almighty God respond to Satan?

God cannot respond with the same behavior as Satan because God is the essence of love for others.

God is the essence of truth. 

God does not try to subjugate Satan with His mysterious, creative power.  God makes Satan yield voluntarily to His will.

Satan has used promiscuous sex, selfishness and so on and brought ruin in the world in order to prevent the world from returning to God.

How many people indulge in incest in America?

A father left alone with his daughters will molest and sleep with his daughters.  Because of the degradation of morals, the father's brother sleeps with the mother or a son sleeps with his mother.

American's lifestyle is closer to that of the animals.  Therefore, Satan laughs at God and says, "How do you even think about having an ideal world or world of love under these circumstances?"

God abides by the law

What kind of being can you say God is?

God is like the mind of the universe; the universe is like His body. 

However, the devil has plagued this body.

Satan has stolen the powers of the heavens and thus also controls the universe.  What does God need to do in order to digest this problem?  God is unable to strike Satan with force.

The essential quality in the process of creating the universe was love.  Thus, God maintains that principle, even if there are those that violate it.

Therefore, God unceasingly maintains His original standard He set up for creating, for the sake of restoring the fallen universe back to its original purpose of love.

Thus, fulfilling the ideal of true love.  If He is unable to accomplish this, then He cannot regain His authority as the Absolute Being.

This point has been so frustrating for God.

The Fall established a wrongful bond of love centered on Satan who took the position of parents.  Much interpretations have been said about the fruit of good and evil.

The descendants of Adam and Eve have carried on Satan's love through blood ties.  Satan's life, false love and blood lineage has passed on through our ancestors unceasingly.  The only relationship of love that can pass sin through the blood line is a sexual relationship.

Thus, as long as the root of the fall, false love, is not rooted out, it remains.  

Satan is the enemy of love. 

Satan fractured God's dream for an ideal world of love.

The servant forcibly took away the King's daughter and violated her.  Thus, she lost her position as the Lord's daughter.

Thus she had to be driven out of the King's establishment.  This wrongful act was an derailment from the original track of the great principle of heaven and earth.  This fact cannot be denied.

God cannot achieve the original ideal of an ideal world, unless He is able to love the children of evil just as much or even more than His own children.

Satan asserts, "I have fallen and become who I am.  My lineage even revolts against you,. Yet, don't You God have to uphold the way of the heavenly law?"  This is where God is caught.

Satan accuses God further saying, Since You are the substance of truth, love and principles, You cannot change for any reason, although I am fallen, don't you have to practice Your own principles which You established?

"Therefore, as a Being of principle, You cannot bring your children to the original world without loving the fallen angel.  The plans you placed for the archangels before the Fall do not allow Your children to enter the heavenly kingdom unless they and You Yourself love me. Although I fell and caused many calamities, You should love me or else You cannot be the true God and Your son and daughter cannot be true children without loving me."

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This post was rewritten and taken from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One True God, chapter 4 section 4

Reality of Lucifer

The Reality of Fallen Lucifer

First of all, who still believes that Eve fell for a real snake's lies, or an ugly, demonic looking angel?  When has Lucifer ever used something ugly to tempt God's children to follow him?  We need to understand that Lucifer is a very, very beautiful being.  How else could he hide so well in our day and time and continue his misery?

 Just look how he tempts even the most devout.  Scoffers just shove it off when a faithful person falls into illicit sex as that person was never really a faithful person.  How about looking at reality?  Lucifer uses beauty to get even the most devout saints to fall.  Look closer at any television show or watch any movie these days.  We see fallen acts of beautiful people as acceptable even if we wouldn't allow common people to do so.

Fallen Lucifer even makes fallen sex without God look beautiful, and masks it as true love even though God said in the day we eat of it we would die!   Why do today's people follow the false ideals perpetuated on television with fallen sex, ungodly behavior?  We fall for this theory of false love, and our children fall for this no matter how much we know that false love leads to destruction.

Lucifer is beautiful and uses the extremely beautiful creations of God and twists its beauty to tempt us in order to keep his dominion over God's children. 

Yes, false love, is truly love.  But it is not True Love.  Yes, a  beautiful woman can be beautiful inside as well as outside, but if she's trying to get you who is a married man, or your son to do what is outside of his own morals, then the act that follows no matter how beautiful, is not of God.  I'm not going to lie.  Even with all this knowledge, if I am not careful, I fall for "Wow, I want a relationship like theirs, because it is so beautiful". 

How can we tell the difference between Fallen Lucifer's tricks and God's ideal? 

It is a very fine line, because fallen Lucifer knows how to twist the truth.  He even told Eve, "Hey, you won't die".  He said this because he knew that it did not mean physical death.  He was half right, because Eve and Adam did not die after they disobeyed even though perfect God said they would.  Does God ever give false words?

This is how Lucifer destroys the truth - by telling the truth with his own agenda attached.

 

Adam and Eve did die before they left the Garden of Eden.  In Genesis, God asked where Adam was when we all know He could see all - except fallen Adam and Eve who had been corrupted.  Leaving God's dominion is death, it is a spiritual death likened to a person who is addicted to drugs who is still living but we know what type of living this is.  It is spiritual death.  Sadly, good lies have truth laced within them, and are hard to distinguish from godly truth. 

We need to know the identity of fallen Lucifer and, we need to have a deep understanding of God's characteristics, and place this measurement up against every decision we make. 

Also, we can look at the fruit of actions.  This kind of measure is of course after the act.  By using God's point-of-view of a situation, all matters become clearer.  With God, there is no idea of in between.  You either follow His way or not.  We as individuals and Americans have believed for too long that by ignoring God we have freedom to have sex with whomever, be wild, and we are free from living inside a box.  These individuals are not free, they just freely allow Lucifer to do all he desires to their bodies and minds.

God is the parent of vertical true love; Adam and Eve should have been the parents of horizontal true love. We should have been born inheriting the love, the life and the blood lineage of these two types of parental love; then my mind becomes the vertical "me" and my body becomes the horizontal "me."

When my vertical "me" and my horizontal "me" become unified at the point of ninety degrees, then a person can become the companion of true love of the eternal God.  God has true love, true life and true blood lineage. Because we originated from God, we also should have true love, true life and true blood lineage.

Centering on the true love of God, an individual was born to be one body with God. Just as God's mind and body, centering on true love, are naturally united, the mind and body of all humankind also should have been naturally united through true love. However, fallen humankind inherited Lucifer's false love, false life and false blood lineage.

Our body is like a battlefield.  The body is the front line for Satan and the mind is the front line for God; both continually struggle against each other. In other words, our mind and bodies are constantly fighting the battle of good and evil.  The love which an individual has today does not center on an individual's mind, but on his body. Our bodies became Satan's dance hall.  This is why religion concentrates on how to dominate our bodies and strengthen our relationship to God by following His words completely.


How to Conquer Satan With God's Word

The Bible exhorts us to pray ceaselessly. The Devil can attack us and even work through us twenty-four hours a day. Although God is with us, He stays in a vertical relationship with only the mind as His base; how effectively, then, can He work with us? Satan can come at us from any direction, from 360 degrees; hence we are bound to be overwhelmed.

Evil activity in the spirit world had been increasing gradually ever since the Human Fall. But the situation changed drastically in the 1980s, when hosts of evil spirits descended to the earth and greatly increased their activities here. 

Even the bible tells us in the Last Days that there would be an increase in spiritual phenomenon.  Thousands of spiritual movies and television shows declare this outbreak in activity as well.  Writers who write these tales are no doubt experiencing these types of episodes in their own life.

Why did this happen? In former times, when the central figures of the Providence, such as Moses, did not know the identity of Satan, the root of sin, or the nature of the Original Sin, Satan felt at ease and could take his time creating his self-centered world.

However, when the True Parents, the Messiah and his True Wife, came to reverse Adam and Eve, our first parents mistakes, the world the situation began to change. The True Parents revealed the identity of Satan, the root of sin, and that the Original Sin was fornication. They figured out all of Satan’s traits and all his tricks.

Then the Messiah returned in the 20th century and began making conditions so that Satan could no longer stand on the earth. After the 1960s, the Messiah and his True Wife achieved victory after victory in the Providence of Restoration reversing fallen history, Satan was taken aback; then he began to get nervous.

In response, Satan mobilized evil spirits in the spirit world to work with evil spirits in the bodies of people on the earth, by stimulating their resentment and their desire to take revenge on the descendants of the people who had caused them pain. This seems as mere fiction or a graphic novel, but it is the reality in which we live. Why else is it so hard for even the most devout christian to stay the righteous path no matter how ardent his faith?

Even evaluate your own life.  One habit that is hard to overcome and even though it harms us and others, we still delve in it. Such contradiction would be better understood by the fact that spiritual beings that had once walked the earth were hurt by one of our ancestors.  When these people died, they get revenge through inflicting pain through us - the descendants. Why?  Maybe a great,  great, great aunt stole this person's husband and they can get revenge through you by causing you to not have successful marriages.  This is reality even greater than any horror movie ever written.

Why do great men fall?

They didn’t look deeply at themselves to check whether they had anything for which Satan could accuse them. They didn’t reflect on whether they still had any fallen nature. Therefore at least from now on, we must work on ourselves to not have any conditions that let Satan through the door for attack.  We must remember that he is couching at the door waiting for an opportunity for us to invite him into our house - our soul.
 

 Satan Attacks Through Our Body

Our body is the path to which Satan's anchor is attached. The mind is in the position of being a plus representing heaven,which was to be a minus, became another plus and is toying with the mind. It is our duty to rectify this situation within our own lifetime. God knows this and so He made religion as the repair shop. This is why religion teaches us to deny the body through fasting, sacrifice and service.  Religion teaches the mind to overcome the body.

In order for the desires of the body to be weakened so that the body follows the faithful mind, we need to live a life of faith through which the mind conveys good habits to the body for at least three to five years. Religion tells us: do not rest, pray constantly. God stands only in the vertical position, so He can only be active through the mind. Satan is active in all directions. He can be active in each one of the 360 degrees and so fallen humankind is bound to fall prey to Satan's activity.

Because the mind is in the vertical position, it is one.   Because it is easy for the mind to be dragged along by the body, the mind in the vertical position has to lead a life of devotion and prayer, through which it can receive three or four times more strength. Then it can dominate the body freely and lead the body along the right way for three to five years, creating good habits.

There is no method to repair the body other than the union of the vertical and horizontal. Unless humankind goes through the door of a religion that teaches people to lead such a life, humanity cannot go back to its original position. The road of philosophy, knowledge or conscience alone is not enough. The vertical mind and the horizontal body have to become one.

What is the cause of the fall of man, which led to an individual's mind and body not becoming one with God's ideal?

The Bible tells us that it is because man ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, what part of the body did Adam and Eve cover after they had eaten of the fruit? They should have covered their mouths and hands, but they covered their lower parts; after that, did God bless their marriage?  Adam and Eve's marriage was based centered on fallen Lucifer.

This is the origin of how Satan's evil blood lineage multiplied. However, the origin of true love, true life and the true blood lineage for a person are the sexual organs of love. Because of the fall, the organs of love, which should have been the most holy place, became the most abominable place, destroying the way of heaven.

The organs of love became the headquarters of evil. And from here, they sowed the seeds of false love, false life and the false blood lineage. The ancestors of man, Adam and Eve, fell when they were teenagers and still not mature.  This is another reason why in the Last Days the age of teenagers returns to the time of the fall where we must reverse the act of teenagers centered on false love, free sex, to the ideals of God.

Historically, the evil blood lineage of humankind started because Adam and Eve had sown the seeds of evil. So when the time of the Last Days comes, the youth all over the world will destroy the ethics of love as Adam and Eve did, and the tide of corruption will flow throughout the world. When we see these phenomena, we must know that the age of Satan's dominion has arrived.

It is at this very time that the day of judgment, when God rules with His rod of iron, has arrived. History teaches us that any city or country which ignored God and engaged in wantonness was destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone; Rome was destroyed because the people became morally decadent and did not keep their chastity.

Look at America, Europe and Japan, the advanced nations of the world. Who is able to stop free sex, which is rampant everywhere? This world is becoming full of corrupt love and drug abuse. This is the method by which the body is being dragged to its death. It is not the path our mind wants; it is crying out in despair.

All the people who were called to lead humanity back to the embrace of God failed. Somebody must appear who can lead the people of the world out of the fallen environment to the road of truth. We can compare fallen man who came to stand on Satan's side to a wild olive shoot. From among fallen men, God has separated the wild olive shoots.

Those wild olive shoots which are in the sphere of religion belong to God. God can dominate these wild olive shoots freely. He has prepared the Providence so when the Messiah came in our time he would be able to cut down the trees in one stroke and graft them onto him. In this way the wild olive shoots become the true olive, returning back to their original state.

That is why the people who already believe in a religion must find the original true father - Adam and Eve are the false mother and father of this world. This is because they were not born with the original seed of life from the true father - Jesus. They were unable to fulfill God's ideal and connect with God's blood lineage centering on the original true love; therefore, the Messiah had to come again.

Do You Know Who the Messiah Is?

The Messiah is the person who has come with the tremendous responsibility of the True Parent, pulling out and throwing away the roots of all those born from the false parents and restoring them to their original state. He has the responsibility to banish Satan, liberate humanity and build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and thus be welcomed by all.

If you become sons and daughters who can inherit God's love, God's life and God's blood lineage and also inherit True Parents' love, True Parents' life and True Parents' blood lineage, then like God, your mind and body will not fight, and you will become the true unified origin of world peace.

The point where the mind and body become unified will be the starting point for the eternal world of peace.  Let us all fulfill our duty as servants with the heart of parents. Let us shed our sweat for the earth, our tears for humankind, and our blood for heaven.

And let us liberate our Parent, the Lord and Creator of the universe, from His grief -- and in order to build one world of peace, let us march forward along the road of salvation bearing the cross.  Please do not forget that, even though our destination may be in the world, our starting point must begin when our mind and body become one, centering on true love.

Each of us must remember that not until my family becomes the place of eternal happiness and true love will our hope for the ideal country, the ideal world and the ideal Kingdom of Heaven on earth bear fruit. In the not too distant future, we will build a world of true love in which all races will live for each other for eternity. Let us determine to rise up and take the lead to complete this historical mission. I pray that God's blessing may be upon you and your families.


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Today's topic was snatched from the Textbook For World Peace Chapter 4 written by the wife of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon who wrote the Divine Principle. To learn more about the organization, please visit www.familyfed.org.

World Peace: Messiah Needs You

The Messiah returns to bring a higher ideology just as was done 2,000 years ago.  A higher truth than the 10 Commandments came in the form of the words of "Love they brother and sister as thyself".  This was a revelation when it was first heard. 

To Love.  People tried to stone the Messiah where ever he brought the breaking news.  Now the Messiah returns to bring breaking news that burns the earth once more with God's Word like fire.  Just as the New Testament was a higher ideology than the Old Testament, the Messiah brings the Completed Testament with a higher ideology than the New Testament.

Sounds blasphemous.  Hundreds of Israelites thought the Messiah's words and actions were outrageous during his time as well.  He spoke about loving him more than mother and father and husband.  He said to drink of his blood.  He told people about no one could enter heaven without going through him.  What took 2,000 years to accept is now common knowledge after millions of Christians sacrificed their life for the truth to spread throughout the world.

It was not God's plan that the Messiah would not accepted in the end.  Jesus was to be lifted up to king, and conquer Rome in his time 2,000 years ago.  As we peer into history, Rome was conquered by Jesus' followers only after 400 years of persecution.

 Why would God send Jesus to his own people to kill him, why not send him to a place full of barbarians who would kill him.  Why spend thousands of years to prepare the Israelites to receive Jesus if they were going to reject him and kill him anyway as God's first and only choice?

Individuals and families make up the nation.  In order for Jesus to be kings of kings while he was on the earth, he needed people.  You can't rule a nation without a people that will follow you.  Everywhere Jesus turned, he was met with opposition, even in his own family.  Even in the end, his very own disciples scattered instead of uplifting Jesus to the position of King on earth.  He was only able to obtain king in the spiritual realm, not on the physical earth.

His own disciples did not fully understand Jesus' mission.  This was not completely their fault.  Jesus was supposed to be supported by the high religious leadership of his time, people who God prepared to understand Jesus' higher standard of teaching.  Unfortunately, during his time, they could only see him as a lowly man and heretic.

The Messiah returns to bring the higher ideology which will completely break the bond of satan.  Just as Jesus, the Returned Messiah needs support of God's people.  He needs the Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of every faith to support and spread the new truth of God that Jesus could not give to the people because they did not understand his true mission in his time.

The Messiah returns to completely break our physical chains that satan has used to command us.  The messiah was able to give spiritual salvation and returns to give physical salvation.  The Flesh and blood of the Messiah was attacked by satan in order to bring about salvation spiritually.  What does that mean?

You will be able to be saved from physical attacks of satan, diseases, early death, anxiety and numerous ways satan attacks our bodies.  Even if this is hard to grasp, no one can deny that the Son of God's own body was lost to through the attacks of satan.  Even though Jesus' gave up his body in exchange for God's children, his physical body was still attacked by satan.

God Needs His Soldiers

As the Messiah returns, he needs those who will be able to follow and carry out his message to the people.  Just as Jesus said when asked what should the people do, he told us to pick up our cross and follow him.  During his time he had a select few who could follow him. 

Ultimately in the end, he lost even his own disciples who could not follow his last command to stay awake while he prayed.  This had a significance on how Jesus was not able to completely finish his mission.  By his disciples not being able to stay awake and support him while he prayed, from a providential point-of-view, it showed that they were still claimed by satan.

As the Messiah returns,this time, based on Jesus' foundation of victory, the Messiah will finally be able to stand against satan with 144, 000 who march with him in faith.  These are the initial clergymen and people of faith which like a cloud, the Messiah will be able to stand upon on his return.  He will lead the way for God's children to learn God's words that will separate His children once and for all from Satan's grip on this earth. 

This is called Armageddon.  Is this going to be physical or spiritual?  Just like in Jesus' time, the people chose to abandon the Messiah, and we see that the Israelites were left without a nation for 2,000 years, we today have a choice to follow the Messiah or worse - World War III.  

Since God plans to absolutely eradicate satan from earth, if people this time choose to leave the Messiah and continue to follow satan, he will even sacrifice those people to start over.  He did this in Noah's time with water, this time with fire.  That fire can be either through His perfect living word which is like fire, or through nuclear fire.  It is up to you and me to open our eyes widely to the time we are living.  We are no longer living in the time of darkness where the truth is hidden, we are living where God does not speak in symbols but plainly.  All things are being revealed to us past and future.

It is up to us to believe and practice the new truth that Jesus so desperately wanted to share with his people but they could not understand.  Once the truth is accepted just as we accept Jesus' words, then a whole new world where God reigns and Satan no longer has a person on earth with which to work through will be a reality.


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Today's post was taken from the Divine Principle written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.  The original text is in Korean and has been translated in conversational form without changing the meaning or spirit of the words.