New Hidden Truth in the Last Days

Every man has an original mind that relates to God, but after Adam and Eve's mistake we have also a war-like fallen mind.

The original mind is not to blame for man's desire to go toward the wrong direction.  When this ungodly desired is finally fulfill, we naturally will feel pangs of agony to our conscience.  This is due to the fallen mind and body in constant conflict with our original godly mind.

Even bad parents and teachers wish for their children to grow up well and stray away from evil.  This is because no matter how evil one becomes, we all can relate to our original mind which is connected and governed by our internal God we know as the conscience.  The more one does evil, the conscience can become more blurred and on the other hand, the more we stimulate the original mind we strengthen it and are led toward good.

Because our original mind relates to God, it naturally abhors evil and strives for us to do good.  We have a war going between our good and evil minds.  One wants to do good and the other is driven to do evil - this is the contradictory nature of man.  This causes you and me to enter a state of destruction which we call the Fall of Man. 

God created religion in order to stimulate our original mind and steer us back toward goodness.

What is the purpose of a cup?  Its sole purpose is to hold liquids.  If the cup has a hole in the side or at the bottom it becomes useless not able to fulfill its purpose and instead has two contradictory purposes.

We can compare man to this type of cup.  When man comes to have two purposes that opposes one another, one to do good and the other evil, man becomes conflicted and has no value.  Because of this fact, the world's history is full of misery following the war path of struggle between good and evil.

God created man with value greater than the creation.  He created man with the purpose of solely to doing good.

Man is created to have a purpose of the right direction. He could not have been created with two opposing purposes. When he has two opposing purposes, he ends up not fulfilling either of them. He then he becomes a man of failure, and lives in tragedy. God would have never created humans with this self contradiction.  The evidence is in God Himself who is of one mind, how could He create such an existence for man?

Through the fall, man fell into a state of contradiction and ignorance not knowing from where the source of this contradiction and just believe that it was part of God's creation!   We are ignorant of this basic fundamental internal knowledge and external knowledge of mind and body.

God developed religion for man to understand the internal truth, and He developed science to explore the external truth.  People have come to believe that religion and science have two separate agendas, this is far from truth.

"When religion and science are united like the mind and body of one man, then true happiness for all mankind can come about."

Fallen man has tried to solve his problem fundamentally in two ways: by religion and by science

Man is arduously seeking and studying the world of effect and phenomena in order to solve all of life's problems.  Science taken a position in some people's life as the almighty god through their concern for the things of material. 

But people find that material alone does not complete one's life.  People who are in pursuit only of the material world find they are neglecting their spiritual desires, leaving their souls hungry.  Therefore, science should unite with religion in order to learn about the nature of man and the world of cause and the many causes of phenomena in nature can be answered.

Throughout history, man has tried to solve the world's problem by studying nature and its causes.  Throughout the ages, many different philosophies, ideologies and religions evolved, yet, no one has been given the true view of life and the universe.  Therefore, these various religions and philosophies only increased the confusion, rather than being the solution to man's questions, and became a burden to man.

When one does not know their reason for  existence, they do not know where to go or the true way of how to live.

So, religion must give the true view of life, the true view of God which can be accepted by all men from all over the world.

Also, it must relate God and man closely, and must show the true value of life which will lead man to come to religion and to God. Thus, the teachings must be related to man's daily life in the 21st century and the betterment of human society, and bring man to fulfill God's three great blessings.


Human History

Human history has been a history of reversing all of the wrongs in the past and a quest man's return to God's bosom.  Just take a look at literature and entertainment and the content concerns man's yearning to better through following the good way.

When will man be restored to perfection within the direct love of God without the need of a mediator or religion to do so?  When man becomes perfect centering their life on God's love, then the ideal world of creation will be restored. 

When man fell and acquired a fallen humanistic nature, his pure character became low and degraded. We witness this in our own lives when a person withdraws from society and becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol and their character becomes a lower quality than before.  When man lost their quality in front of God, they went the opposite way going forward toward the satanic way, creating a world of evil.

God did not create this satanic world, you and I did.  The evil world has been able to multiply and increase to infect the whole world.

"By the providence of salvation, man comes from a state of selfishness into a state of desiring to serve and love others, and from a state of ignorance into a state of knowledge. With the improvement in his nature and this knowledge, he will cut off his evil mind, thus freeing himself to follow his original mind. Then, by uniting the world of essence and the world of phenomena, the ideal world of God's purpose of creation will be established."

From the above we can see that all of human's tragic history has been God's tragic story of restoration of His ideal to bring you and I back to His bosom completely without the war of two minds.

Necessity for a New Expression of Truth

Religion exists so man can overcome his internal ignorance, and science exists so man can overcome his external ignorance. In order to achieve the purpose of goodness,we need a truth which can unite religion and science in a harmonious relationship.

Truth is unique, eternal, unchanging and absolute. The Bible is a guidebook to the truth or knowledge of God. Man's spirit and intellect develop as time passes; therefore,the guidebook to truth must also develop in its expression and teaching methods.

Old Testament New Testament ---.>-New Revelations

The purpose of religion is to lead man to follow his original mind, which is seeking God, and thus to attain the purpose of goodness.

All highly advanced religions have this goal of goodness.

Because of differences in the missions of each religions, the time of their development, and the different backgrounds of the people, many diverse religions have evolved.

Yet, conventional religions have almost lost their ability to guide man on how to live a religious life in this wild secular world and teach the goodness of God.Therefore, if God does exist, He must give a new expression of truth to make these religions fulfill their original intention in this new era of completion of the restoration period.


Biblical Foundation

John 16:25 "I have said to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father. "


John 16:12 "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them  now. When the spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. "

The mission of this new truth is:

1. To unite internal truth, which is the goal of religion, with external truth, which is the goal of science. When this is accomplished, we can resolve the contradictory nature that arose within man.

2. To let man know the existence of God, and let man feel God's heart.  Conventional religion teaches about God as an absolute bring and at best a father, but they do not teach about God's heart.  Or teach about God's heart of suffering for His children for whom He as a Parent has longed for thousands of years.

3. To elevate internal truth to a higher dimension, so that it can absorb the atheistic ideologies.  It will be able to unite all the major religious beliefs, by providing a common base and relationship to God.

4. To ultimately unite all mankind as brothers and sisters, centering on God, and to establish a one world family.

5. To fully explain all of the fundamental questions of the Bible that religion has not been able to understand completely without the advent of the Second Coming.


This new truth will explain the hidden origin of the fall of man written in the bible, the goal of the providence of salvation,  the true meaning of the Last Days and of the resurrection, and why the restoration of man is taking so long.


The first few Chapters and introduction of the Divine Principle are here.


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This text was rerewritten from the teachings of the Divine Principle Study Guide based on the teachings of Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon. 

Ideal True Husband and Wife

"Why did God make it that man needs woman and woman needs man? It is because God did not want to let one person live independently, but desired that two people live together for the sake of the future world, centering upon God's desire and love."

Youngsters today would be shocked to visit the past where marriages were more stable and even through the arguments and pain, couples vowed to stick it out until death.  If society returns to the time where God was served at the center of the family, many current trends and problems would be erased quickly within a generation.

An ideal couple that is united living hand in hand, dreaming optimistically about the future while denying the fallen world will be able to pass over any difficult environment or reality.  This husband and wife will not be destroyed or restrained by the evil environment, but it stimulate in them a new vision for the future.

When a man and a woman stand in the position to respect each other, fully aware of and accompanied by the value of the future, the site of happiness will be established right there.

God established Adam and Eve as each other's ideal spouse because they are absolutely needed for each other. Unless the subject and the object make a bond of affinity in the present reality they cannot relate to the future. God established Jesus and the Holy Spirit as subject and object in order to manifest this cosmic content. Nobody can deny this.

Based on a unity between subject and object, they get married to extend the dominion.

A couple's affection generated from one another is extended to establish a family matching God's purpose.  If a couple is not able to do so, they cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven where God dwells in eternity.  This is the conclusion and God's purpose of creation.

God and human beings are composed of dual characteristics.  God is in the vertical position and man is in the horizontal.  God's ideal of husband and wife is to create a perfect sphere of give and take of unity of the vertical God and the horizontal human beings.

"Husband and wife should love each other as God's representatives. If you love from a humanistic point of view, you will eventually get divorced after discovering each other's shortcomings."

When a man and woman divorce because one of them make a mistake, the whole family system is destroyed which spreads upward affecting the order of society being thrown into confusion.

How can a family affect the whole?  A nation is made of people.  All people learn to love within the context of a family unit.  The direction the American family is headed can be turn around.  When a spouse makes a mistake, according to the degree of the indiscretion, they should be given a time period of indemnity or retribution to pay back through repentance.  This way, they can continue to run as a harmonious family unit.

Who are the true husband and true wife?  Hollywood stars?  Kings and Queens of foreign places?

When people become mature, they learn to form a family.  The Reverend Sun Myung Moon who was married 50 years to his wife Rev. Hak Ja Han Moon continues this speech to his congregation:

"Each spouse should consider the other as the eternal object of love.  When this is observed, their love should grow, day by day adding more love to the first love.  When a husband and wife extend this eternal love to the family-level love, then to the tribe, they can be considered a true husband and true wife.  Then they qualify to participate in God's high level of pure love.

The true husband thinks that he was born, lives, and will die for the sake of his spouse. The same is true for the true wife. The husband and wife of an ideal, happy and peaceful family carry the principle to live for the sake of their spouse.

All of you are men of influence and fame in your society. You may think that your success is achieved by your own talent and effort, but you have to know that your very being was caused by a woman, not by yourself.

Without a woman, can a man be born? What about a woman? Was she born for the sake of herself?

It is vanity to be proud of being a famous feminine movie star in colorful make-up without a man. A man's shoulders are wide and a woman's hips are big so that they can be matched well.

Therefore, an ideal couple comes into being when they are of one mind to live for the sake of the other. From this point of view, ideal, happy and good people are those who live for the sake of others. This is the very principle of creation, of which humankind is still ignorant.

The husband should be able to sacrifice his life for the sake of his wife and the wife should be able to sacrifice her life for the sake of her husband. Such a couple is related to and protected by God's direct dominion of love, so it is impossible for them to fall.

True parents live and die for the sake of their children because love is established between them. Likewise, a husband and wife of true love and of true happiness are one in love, and they each live for the sake of the other.

This is an ideal couple.

In the secular family, when a husband earns money, power is produced. The money earned by the husband is the source to energize the wife and the husband gets energy by looking at his energized wife. That's why they are anxious and their relationship is apt to be broken when the husband doesn't earn money.

The true husband and wife should center upon God's love.

The bride and bridegroom should center upon the original love of God, not upon money, authority or fame.

You are to develop yourself gradually, centering upon love. While the husband loves the wife and the wife lives for the sake of the husband, they are to establish a family that loves God.

In the secular family, when a husband earns money, power is produced. The money earned by the husband is the source to energize the wife and the husband gets energy by looking at his energized wife. That's why they are anxious and their relationship is apt to be broken when the husband doesn't earn money.

The true husband and wife should center upon God's love. The bride and bridegroom should center upon the original love of God, not upon money, authority or fame.

You are to develop yourself gradually, centering upon love. While the husband loves the wife and the wife lives for the sake of the husband, they are to establish a family that loves God.

What is the ideal couple of which the Unification Church talks? They are the couple which can substantiate the utmost art. The love of a husband and wife is the masterpiece of all art works. It is the best literature and it should be the substance of literature.

The husband should look the best in the wife's eyes and the wife should look the best in the husband's eyes. The bond of first love is the best bond. It doesn't matter what others say. It is impossible to buy it with billions of dollars. How beautiful it is to possess such a world of love eternally!

The wife should follow and serve her husband well. This is not supposed to appear just in literature or movies. You should live it in reality. The ideal of history and the ideal of culture have been wrecked, so Father has been creating a new history in order to create the ideal culture.


Love Husband and Wife Eternally

Until when do you want to love your spouse? How would you feel if the answer came, "Until our youth is over" ?

We want our spouse to love us until death and even eternally. Eternity represents the whole centering upon the future. To love until death is to love sacrificing everything. "Eternally" means "completely," and "until death" means "giving everything."

After marriage, sisters will ask their husbands if they like them and how much they like them. They want to hear their husbands say that they love them giving everything, wholeheartedly. The same is true for men. It is inevitable. It is the way of God's harmony.

A man should die if he cannot control a woman, but it doesn't mean that man is to neglect woman. It doesn't work to claim and to present your one-sided way of love. Man and woman should examine each other forever. If your life is not sanctified and your family is not restored, God cannot claim your couple as His.

The dutiful son's mind is unchanging and it goes straight to his parents; and the loyal subject's mind goes straight to his king. Likewise, the saint is the one whose mind is unchanging and goes straight to God. If your mind is unchanging even at the moment of death, you are a dutiful son, a loyal subject and a saint.

In this view, if a couple wants to be a true husband and wife, the wife's mind should be able to go straight to the husband and the husband's mind should be able to go straight to the wife. That's why the Unification Church disciplines the mind to go straight to God regardless of whether one is Occidental or Oriental. Therefore, the mind of western members and of eastern members in the Unification Church is exactly the same toward Father.

The husband is precious to his wife and the wife is precious to her husband. They meet in the presence of the heavenly law; their meeting is not caused by themselves. If we keep our integrity in relation to God, we can break through and advance upon our way."


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Textbook: Blessing and Ideal Family, The True Husband and Wife and The Ideal Family

How to Gain Spiritual Help

"What attitude do we need to nurture in order to move the spirit world? We need to change our concepts. Our attitude is an environment that must be prepared in order to receive spiritual help. We must use Father's words and make ourselves channels to receive spiritual power."

Is it possible that we can dominate the spirit world and what does that actually mean?  After Adam and Eve chose to ignore the commandment of God and chose the words of the spirit Lucifer to eat and have their eyes opened, humanity has been led by evil spirit world ever since.  Through religion and the work of saints and people of conscious, good spirit world has been able to work throgh people of goodness as well.  Reverend Sun Myung Moon speaks further about this situation: 

"Actually, the spirit world wants to be part of everything we have and do. They want to be involved to such a great extent. So whatever we may look at, we must search for the nobility in it, and treat it as if it were owned directly by True Parents. Then everything becomes like an expensive antique, a God-given treasure. Each object is waiting for your touch, hoping to feel the vibration of God through you.

Consider all things holy. Why does a handkerchief owned by a holy man become so valuable? Because of the vibration of the holy man. So you, too, should give all things a holy value. When you touch something, feel that you are giving it glory.

The same holds true for the people we meet and live with. When you see another person, how much do you care for him or her? How do you feel towards that person? You must really love the people you meet, because they are the temples of God. When you touch another person, feel that through your touch, both of you will be blessed.

Each of us has two aspects, mind and body. Our true mind wants to touch our body with heart and give love to it. We should think of our mind as God's mind, because God loves it and that is where He dwells. Look at each man or woman as a holy person. Regard each person's body as sacred and their mind as hallowed.

If you live like this, soon you will hear inside of yourself a small voice, the sound of your mind. Wherever you walk, no evil or darkness can remain. Only good spirits can touch you if you create such an atmosphere. If you place yourself in such a position, then spirit world will pour down upon you its abundant blessing and power.

You must attract this power from the spirit world and then weld yourself to it. Make it one with your body, so that even your arms and legs feel special. When you are in bed, even if it is a sleeping bag, your surroundings will become like a king's palace; your body will be resting in a king's bed.

You must name yourself as the dwelling place of God. Then all good spirits will touch you. When you go to bed, lie down with a beautiful mind. Remove all ugliness from it. In the morning when you wake, come before the deep bosom of God, and then, when you go out to your mission, you will embark from the throne of God.

The spirit world is always around you, listening and attentive. Always be aware that it is within your reach. If you keep thinking this way, then you will be able to control your circumstances. Make yourself a tuning fork, resonating with and vibrating along God's frequency. Resonate with God's unselfishness.

If you partake of this resonance with God, then when you see someone, you will automatically be able to sense what type of person he is. Sometimes you will be able to see your own spirit man with your own eyes. Train yourself and discipline yourself to develop this capacity. If you live this way, you will be always able to act in the right way when an emergency arises."

Daily, you compete with the spirit world, so we must learn how to conquer and surpass it.  As God's children, he created us to subjugate the spirit world, but in our circumstances spirit world dominates the creative world. With deep prayer, within our mind, we can become a magnet, a mover of people's spirits.  We must become a spiritual magnet, drawing people with love.  If we retain this high standard of condition, our prayer will become reality.

"Pray with all your heart, focusing your mind and soul on the object of your prayer, otherwise your mind will become restless and hasty. In the life of prayer, you must make the time to pray. Sit down even if it takes eight hours and pray; this time will never be wasted. Then you can go out and work eight hours for God.

Therefore, be prayerful now and then go out, you and God together. If you have to write a sermon, for instance, the spirit world will help you prepare it. If you go out, the spirit world will lead you. You will discover the feeling of breaking through; you will become selfless, feeling the power of your mind and body pulling together in harmony. So the key word for this kind of life is respect.

Respect all things as holy things.

Respect all men as holy men.

Respect yourself as a holy person.

Respect your mind as holy.

Respect your body as holy.

Pay deep respect to all people, no matter what kind of person they may be. As a child, be respectful towards an elderly man.

Think over your words three times before uttering them and always have a humble attitude.

Always share with others the best thing you have. Empty your pocketbook to give; then you will deserve the best result.

If you do not do good for your fellowman, you will have no sleep; if you have done good, then your mind will rest in peace.

Unpack the dirty elements inside yourself and cleanse them. Open up the baggage of your mind and look what you find there. Don't harbor selfish feelings. Repent publicly for any selfish feelings you may have entertained. Practice the virtue of meekness.

If you push yourself to develop these attitudes, then the spirit world must descend to assist you. The spirit world is using so many channels by which to come down and participate in God's providence; they will choose the best one to use first.

In the Unification Church a true leader must be able to mobilize the spirit world. When you touch it, all kinds of phenomena start to occur some very strange, some very wonderful. Don't be manipulated by them. You be the subject. Don't let yourself be driven by strange phenomena; before this, you may have had to face these challenges all alone, but now you have a clearer understanding.

You already know the secret of tapping power from the spirit world; witness to others, pouring out all your heart, soul and mind for them. When I was in prison camp, I would pray, and prisoners would just come to me and stand there. When they were introduced to me through the guidance of spirit world they would cling to me.

You, too, can be like me. The problem is that you are often too distant from thinking about the spiritual dimension: holy things, holy mankind, holy temple, holy mind. When I was in the worst of situations, lonely and hungry, a revelation would come or an important guest would appear before me. When I needed money, the spirit world would guide someone to me. Spirit world is never far away; they can cooperate with us. We should always feel that we are not doing quite enough, and that we always have to try harder.

Act with the support of the spirit world. If they are behind you, you will never be lonely; you will always have energy and power. Even though you may be penniless, still have no fear. You can be adventurous and bold. On the road of success, the more you walk, the further you yearn to go.

Who knows how long he or she will live? Maybe tomorrow you will die, at a mere 25 or 30 years of age. Do you have some guarantee from God how long you will live? No one has such a guarantee.

A wise person thinks like this: "I have only a short time to live. Within this time I must prepare myself for eternity. The way I live in the next two years will be the model for my eternal life." Then explode your sense of love. Love God, and love another person as God. For an entire day, 24 hours pour out your entire energy for someone.

 If you love a person like this, even though you may die early, you will have made the highest accomplishment in all eternity. Then when God gives you more time to live, your response will be immense gratitude. Push yourself to live more fully. The person who expects death and then is given life dwells in the fullest gratitude.

Leave behind something that God can praise. Each moment is so precious there is no time for worry or frustration. The person who recognizes that earthly life is short compared to eternity and, therefore, condenses his accomplishments is a wise man indeed. Think about what "label" you wear spiritually on your forehead. Ask yourself how many people, how many clans, how many tribes, how many nations you have loved.

Seek to become that master of love. Program your life like that, and you will never be a loser. Plan as if you only had two years to live, and then by the third year, when you are still alive, think of the joy of living! This is "resurrected" living. I still have so much to do: love my wife, love my children, love all mankind. I have to love the Unification Church; I must pay indemnity for all mankind; I need to liberate man from sin. I am determined to leave behind tremendous assets."

We must change our mindset to do everything for the purpose of love. So, even when you work, you must love that business, love the products you work with, and, of course, love the people. Always give honor to other people.

Even though God created us, he gave us the ability to reshape and restore ourselves into the original image. 

We tithe to church a portion of what we earn back into God's providence.  This is a way to separate the money we earn from the satanic world by offering part of it back to God to claim it ass a sacred offering.  Three-tenths is the best standard. Give one tenth to the local church, one tenth to the national level work and one tenth for the worldwide level.

We should thimk that each time we give, we are giving a heavenly treasure, not just money frm our own pocket. Then the person who is receiving through you is actually receiving from God. The spirit world can then help you, and God will remember everything and return it to you ten times over.

Going to work can become tiresome day in and day out, but we must not feel like a worker or supervisor.   Make your company a dwelling of God. Invest your heart in your work. Determine to make it a business that will serve all people. Then wherever your business goes, it becomes God's "love extension." Whatever you are responsible for, give it your heart and soul on a 24-hour basis; feel like you are the parent and it is your baby.

Whatever you do, think that you are carrying it out in partnership with God. Feel that you are the second owner and pour all your love into it. The one who loves something the most is the ultimate owner. When you give love, you will attain infinite value.

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This text was taken from How to Gain Spiritual Help given by Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Every Human Born Into Satan's Lineage

We already know this statement to be true, even if in theory.  We know every human is born with sin, has elements of the fall and have to be linked to a Messiah to be saved.  With elements of sin, we are not born into God's pure lineage.  Whose lineage are we born into?  Mary's?

As human beings, you and I were endowed to have dominion even over the angels. That blessing that God had given us has always been our possession.  Satan has tried for millions of years to hide the secrets to open this truth - but with the Messiah's victory, we can begin the process of restoring humanity back to the position before the occurence of the fall.

I suppose this is why we love movies such as this that show the power of man so often that is hidden through super hero movie and countless fantasies.

With the tools of religion and the truth of the Returned Messiah, we can faithfully march forward to rid ourselves of Satan's influence individually and on a family level.

Is this going to be an easy task? Satan has been trying to cover up his true crime since the Garden of Eden. If what happened in the Garden was a literal fruit, then it would be impossible for God to reverse a sin that we as human would inherit for eternity.

The fruit was not literal and we have been attached to Satan's fallen lineage through the blood line. How do you attach through the blood line?

If this already seems heretical, then maybe it is too much for now. I have been studying these 1,000 volume text daily and faithfully for over 7 years because I want to get rid of satan substantially not just conditionally. As a faithful christian, I found just praying and keeping myself sexually pure wasn't enough against the forces of darkness in which you, I and the world are attacked.

Do you think if I only mildly had the truth I would proclaim such a large message about Satan? Everyday, God reveals more truth about the world we live in and I'm coming to see that we barely have been taught less than one percent of the truth.

It would be impossible for anyone to live in this current world completely attached to God's word for they would never be able to see people, watch television, or look at another human. Simple habits we encounter daily  keep us attached to Satan's dominion over us without us even knowing it.

We are fortunate to live in the Last Days where the war between God and Satan will ultimately be won by God through the blood, sweat and tears of his faithful soldiers - you and me.

Responsibility comes with this knowledge and I have witnessed the Divine Principle to my family, friends and everyone I come in contact with and now I am passing this to you my brother and sister.

We must first begin with God's ideal. The current world that we live is not God's ideal of creation, but if we look at God's point-of-view of history, we can see His mighty works to restore humanity back to its original position.


God's Original Plan

The Kingdom of Heaven on earth is a restored world in which Satan can no longer instigate any activity. To realize this world, it is necessary for all humanity to eliminate their common base with Satan and not engage in give and take action with him. This pertains to the prophecy that in the Last Days God will confine Satan in a bottomless pit signifies that Satan will be utterly incapable of any activity, since there will no longer be any counterparts with whom Satan can relate.

That means that you and I have completely eradicated our ties to Satan and humanity no longer is influenced by his works.   

We as a religious community must be honest to the fact that even if we follow God's laws, have daily devotions, are saved, and devout to God's word, you are still surrounded daily by Satan's dominion and influences throughout your walk of life. There will be a day where we will battle with Satan as a united front on God's side and these influences will no longer be our burden.

What a great day this will be for God and humanity!

God is the owner, and we human beings are His sons and daughters. Angels, on the other hand, were created as God’s servants; hence they are also the servants of His children. This was not indefinite. There was a growing period for angels as well as humans. They were to grow to a higher level as they taught humans about the creation. Then they would receive God's love through perfected humans.  Instead we know the outcome. Among all the angels, the archangel Lucifer was the closest to God as well as to Adam and Eve.

Satan knew all the stories behind the scenes. During the process of creating the universe, prior to the creation of Adam and Eve, God would discuss things with the archangel and send him to do his errands. In other words, the archangel was like a servant of a wealthy lord. He was also in the position of a servant to his master’s children, no matter how young or immature they were.

God created the angelic world and assigned Lucifer (Isa. 14.12) to the position of archangel. Lucifer was the channel of God’s love to the angelic world, just as Abraham was the channel of God’s blessing to the Israelites. In this position, he virtually monopolized the love of God.

However, after God created human beings as His children, He loved them many times more than He had ever loved Lucifer, whom He had created as His servant. In truth, God’s love toward Lucifer did not change; it was the same before and after the creation of human beings. Yet when Lucifer saw that God loved His children more than he, Lucifer felt as if there had been a decrease in the love he received from God. This situation is similar to that in the biblical parable of the laborers in the vineyard.

(Matt. 20.1-15) Although the laborers who had worked since morning received a fair wage, when they saw that those who came later and worked less received just as much, they felt underpaid. Lucifer, feeling as though he were receiving less love than he deserved, wanted to grasp the same central position in human society as he enjoyed in the angelic world, as the channel of God’s love.

This was why he seduced Eve, and this was the motivation of the spiritual fall.

Satan's Curse

God cursed the fallen angel, saying, “Upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.” (Gen. 3.14) “Upon your belly you shall go” means that the angel would become a miserable being, unable to function properly or to perform its original service. To “eat dust” means that ever since the angel was thrown down from heaven (Isa. 14.12, Rev. 12.9), he has been deprived of life elements from God.

Instead, he has had to subsist on evil elements gleaned from the sinful world.
 

Evil started from Satan, who infused into Eve the attitude, “I am the subject; I am the center.” It started with the mentality to boast of oneself, which is evil. God’s original Principle of Creation is, “Live for the sake of others.”

Satanic fallen human nature is, “Live for myself.” You must know the origin of good and evil clearly. Evil people expect others to live for them; God wants to tear down this nature. Jesus also wants to tear it down; that is why he taught: Do not be arrogant, live for others and serve others.

The Fall means that human beings fail to connect with God’s vertical true love and cannot fulfill horizontal true love in their relationships with others. This is because the archangel Lucifer invaded human horizontal love.
 

As the result of the Fall, God lost His children, and we were born into a dysfunctional life, suffering from conflict between mind and body. On this condition, the Devil can inappropriately subjugate human beings as our false father.

Due to the Fall, human beings could not become temples of God; instead, they united with Satan and became his dwelling places to use as he pleased. By being united with Satan, they failed to cultivate the divine nature; instead, they acquired an evil nature. People with evil nature have propagated evil through their children, constituting evil families, evil societies and an evil world.

This is the hell on earth in which we have been living. In this hell, we cannot properly form cooperative horizontal relationships with one another because our vertical relationships with God have been severed. We perform deeds harmful to others because we cannot feel the pain and suffering of our neighbors as our own.

Since humans are living in hell on earth, after shedding their physical body, they naturally enter hell in the spirit world. We have not built the Kingdom of God, but instead established the sovereignty of Satan. For this reason, Satan is called the “ruler of this world” (John 12.31) and the "god of this world" 2 Cor. 4.4

That is why God had sent hundreds of saints and prophets in a desperate effort to give His children weapons against Satan through His word.  That is why He has brought the Messiah to our time so we may unite with him and completely eradicate and sever all ties to Satan and finally fulfill the promise of the three great blessings and bring this world of peace into reality.    This is God's one dream.

 

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This text comes from World Scripture II, the section is called "Evil Sin and the Human Fall". This book took 30 years of research to write. It coordinates verses and sayings of philosophers, religious text to show how they all have the same purpose - to bring the higher truth of God for His children to practice to align themselves with Him and be released from Satan.