We Enter Heaven as a Family Unit

Have you ever been able to describe what heaven may look like?  What about heaven on earth?  What kind of world would that be?

Many people of faith speak about heaven and paradise, but they should know that it is not a place which we enter alone.

Heaven is a place that we enter with our parents and siblings.

What is the secret to entering heaven and going beyond paradise?

We should know that heaven is not a place that is filled with individuals, but rather it is meant for family units.  Not only that, but your tribe must be there with you.

You are blessed if you have a big tribe for God on earth.

If we see that a family has many sons and daughters and they have great wealth, don't we consider them blessed?

If you also want to be blessed and enter heaven, you do not do it alone, but as a family.

No one can enter heaven individually.

As I found out, heaven is not such a chimerical place as believed by Christians. Originally, heaven is a place you are supposed to enter as a family unit. Families are meant to go there.  The place parents and children enter and live together with God as the center is the ideal world. 


It is hard for conventional faiths to understand this.

Think about this, would you be happy in heaven if you were together with your mother and younger sister, while you see your father and elder sister go to hell?

Just as in the movie, What Dreams May Come, the whole family went to heaven, but the mother went to hell because of her sadness of her children and husband dying.

Her husband rejected heaven and searched for her to help her come out of her sadness like he did when she tried to commit suicide on earth.

Other than the reincarnation and the family members living separately in heaven, this was a pretty accurate movie from what many spiritualists who have peered into the spirit world realm have relayed.

Therefore, only families go to heaven.

This family will have had a holy wedding on earth wrapped in God's bosom of love where people have not fallen or have reversed the sinful past.

A family of children which God can rejoice with as His grandchildren and received His love enter together.

Would it be heaven if you entered heaven while your child failed to get there?  Who could enjoy heaven without their loves?

That place is Paradise where parents, spouse and children enter separately, no matter how close and affectionate they might have been while on earth.

Paradise is for the individual, it has nothing to do with the family.  Could Paradise be Heaven?

Jesus spoke at the cross to the thief, that he would enjoy paradise with him, not heaven.

Why do we not make this distinction clear?

Heaven is a world where the entire family follows their parents to interact with God as the center.

Would it be good if the parents are living happily in heaven while the son is screaming out desperately in agony while in hell?  Could that place be heaven?

From God's point of view of the ideal He had for creation, could such a place where everyone entered separately be heaven?  Would this be the highest realm to achieve?

No.  Heaven is such a place that where if the father enters it, so will the mother and if the parents enter it, so will the children.  Therefore they stay there together as mom and dads.

Originally, heaven, in accordance with the principles of creation, is a place entered by families. 

You would only be happy to go to such a place if you entire clan entered it.

If parents went to hell while the children went to heaven, what kind of heaven would that be?

Therefore, as we pave the way for going to heaven in the future, we must attain the family level of restoration.

Otherwise, we will not be able to go to heaven, but to Paradise.

Through the family, we must be able to escape any accusations which Satan can accuse us.  We must escape from the historical level of accusation of sins and the contemporary level of accusation.

God did not have plans for the husbands to go to heaven while the wives went to hell.

At the time of creation, God intended that the heroes who obtain the ideal, namely the fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, would form a tribe, people and nation  Shouldn't it be this way?

Yet because of the Fall, humanity created a hell corresponding to the wicked way they lived on earth. God did not create hell, our sins did.

The Heavenly Way People Should Go In The Family

Of course we know that we should love our neighbors' parents, grandparents and children just as they have loved their own children.

Only through these kinds of relationships of above and below, left and right, and front and back can they fully arise creating a balance.  Only then will the standard of heart be established and the heavenly way emerge.

Hence, they should practice the correct standard of relating to one another while they are on earth.  Therefore, they will build ideal families.  We are crossing from the family level over into the tribal realm, and from there into the national realm.

Thus, as you are able to build a heavenly foundation through witnessing, more and more people through you and the standard of value of character advance toward God.

So, what must we do with this heavenly, vertical standard?



I am saying that we should manifest it horizontally.


The family progresses on the day the mother and father unite.

The day the children and parents unite, the family progresses to a higher dimension.  Then what will happen on the day when the family and the tribe unite?

Then a new spirit for the race will emerge.

When we are prompted to reach to a higher level as a family, then everything is integrated at the national level.  We will then be able to live as the kindred of loyal subjects.

Now, even I will become a grandfather before long. This is the same for you, when you get old you will become grandfathers and grandmothers. We are born as a son or daughter, get married to become a father or mother, and then become a grandfather or grandmother; that is the course of our life. 


Since the formula course of life is grandparents, parents, spouses and children, failure to love them runs opposite to the heavenly way.  If the three generations are not able to bond together, then there will be no way to bring the world into order.

In comparison to Eastern culture of respect, grandmothers and grandfathers of the West are pitiful.  They long for the Oriental customs.  They are saying, "Oh, the Oriental thought reveres grandparents like God!  Sons over there consult their aged parents even if they are in their 70s and eighties.  How wonderful it must be!"

Therefore, those who do not know how to show love to their grandparents cannot love God.

Who do you think the oldest grandfather is?

He is God.

God is older than all of the grandfathers and younger than all babies.  If you are unable to love people as a whole, you cannot love Him.

If you say that God is old and He is the oldest person, and you say that God is the young of the future, he is a youth more than anyone else.

We want to love God, thus, we have to love people in between.

Since people of the past in the spirit world always have hope and live within that realm, we must love them as well.

It is logical that after this we will then be able to go the way of truly following and loving God.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: How to Prepare to Go to Heaven


This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seon Gyeon Book Four, Chapter Eleven, Section 5 and 7

Clean Up on Aisle "End of the Evil World"

Tomorrow is Achieve World Peace's day off but will return for Sunday's Post: Chasity With the Intent to Marry.

Every person of faith probably at one time wondered how their belief could help save others and the world.  Wasn't that what the original purpose of religion was?  To save humanity?  How are we to go about saving the world and end evil?

Some will say that is God's job.  If that responsibility was only left up to God, wouldn't he had done that back in the Garden of Eden when evil originated?  Why wait millions of scientific years to save His children? 

God has been working behind the scenes for all of this time, but He has left humanity 5% responsibility for their part in restoration.   Some call this portion, free will. We have the ability to do for God or completely ignore our responsibility.

The only way to enter Heaven is to go through Hell, and come out the other side. The world to which we presently belong is the world of Hell. The only ladder that will connect us to Heaven is the other side of Hell. We pass through the tunnel of this Hell and reach to the ladder on the other side and climb up toward Heaven. This side represents the world of evil, and the world of goodness is represented here.

Therefore, the Messiah teaches us to live a life of service for others, sacrifice and fast. It is exactly opposite to what our bodies desire. Does America belong to Heaven or Hell at this point?  It belongs to hell.  If the President hears this, he would be offended by these comments.

How about your attitude? Our conscience knows clearly where we stand when it comes to our dedication and commitment to our faith. Once we join the spiritual world, there is no more deception and all atrocities hidden on earth cannot be hidden and are revealed. Whichever level each of you has attained spiritually on this earth is where you will dwell absolutely in the spiritual realm.  


The Messiah is the True Example

Do you think that the Messiah would be seduced by beautiful Hollywood people or would he kick them away? Definitely, he would kick them away.  What about all of us? Satan may utilize various tactics in order to seduce us. By observing the Messiah's life we can know that he is one hundred percent at one with his teachings. The Messiah never falls into the satanic traps of this world, no matter what.

Do Americans, in general, fully understand parental love? Then how can they be referred to as people? Even animals demonstrate parental love in their lives. The birds and animals often sacrifice themselves in order to protect the life of their young from attack.

Individuals who cannot attain the same level as animals can hardly be referred to as human beings. No matter how proud they may be of themselves, they will fall below the animals. That is Hell. Why do you suppose that the author of the Diving Principle which this blog is based upon  makes such a strong statement against American people rather than giving comforting words? Because it is the Messiah's responsibility to use even his force to push God's people to follow in the right direction.

A surgeon will cut open an infectious wound in order to heal the patient, even if it might be painful.

Therefore, the Messiah will not tell people of faith to take care only of themselves and their families. Rather he will push them to take the more difficult path for the sake of others. When we see the nation of America and the entire world decaying, we cannot live for our family's happiness alone. The Divine Principle, which is based on the bible as the Completed Testament, is crystal clear.

Individuals should sacrifice for the sake of the family, the family should sacrifice for the nation, and the nation for the sake of the entire world. That is how we will be able to liberate God, and build the Kingdom of God on the Earth.

Restoration of World Requires Sacrifice

If the entire population of America begins to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the entire world, then America will only prosper. It will stand forever as the central nation. The Messiah knows that he has to sacrifice his own life for the sake of the entire world. Also, true family have been sacrificed in many ways.

If your mission becomes a little more difficult than those of others and you begin to compare yourself with others instead of marching ahead, your offering becomes stained. Do you want to belong to a group of people who are constantly comparing their situation with other people, or just marching forward, looking straight ahead?

What if God commands for all people of faith to pack and leave for Africa. Will each of you reading here do so immediately? We always procrastinate in the face of Heaven's direction to us. If this is our thinking then we are no different than the disciples who sold Jesus. 

What is the meaning of money? If you continue to follow money you will lose your lives. We don't need knowledge, fame or power.

The Messiah's life has been opposing and denying all of these external things.


The Grand Clean Up

In order to accomplish this grand clean up of the history of the world, we have to be determined to go all the way to the end of the world in order to pay indemnity. Without doing so we will not be able to achieve this goal. This is the position in which we are now standing.

There is up and down, front and rear, and right and left. Where is the good side?  Good is up, down is evil, right is good, left is evil, front represents good and rear represents evil. It is always relative.

Those self-centered individuals who feel proud of themselves are not good people. We have to realize that those who hold high positions of power may not be qualified to hold such positions. Those leaders may disappear in the future and others, more qualified will replace them.

If the American people were living their lives for the sake of God and, at the same time a foreigner is doing their absolute best to lead their life for the sake of God, and if the degree of devotion and sacrifice they offer is greater than the American people's offering, then they will go beyond America.

If your position is down and there are leaders who are proud of themselves at that position, it means that you are down in the area of evil, paying indemnity; but if your devotion and sacrifice is greater than those evil leaders, you will automatically exceed them.

Love America More Than Evil Leaders

At the present time, many Native Americans are living on welfare from the government. Some people accuse the government of providing money and liquor to Native American Indians, encouraging them to drink and become hopeless.

On the other hand, if Native American Indians truly understood the purpose of their lives, and were able to devote themselves for the sake of America more than white Americans are doing, they could immediately jump above white Americans.

However, they don't understand this principle. It would mean that even if America were to perish someday, the Native American Indians would be preserved. Black Americans and Native American Indians claim that white Americans are doing only evil and should be banished. But instead of criticizing, they should simply devote themselves more for the sake of America, and then they would naturally prevail.

Reverend Moon, the author of the Divine Principle, brought members to America from the former enemy nations of America and had them serve this country. They have endured persecution for the sake of the salvation of America. Because they followed Reverend Moon and came to America and devoted themselves for the sake of this nation, in the future they will be the ones to inherit the tradition and sovereignty of America.

Since coming to America, Reverend Moon has been the leading force to unite all the various ideologies, in particular, the various denominations of Christianity. Reverend Moon created The Washington Times, Unification Theological Seminary, and the University of Bridgeport in order to lead the media and academic fields.

By doing so, Reverend Moon has truly devoted so much for the sake of saving America. Now all intelligent Americans and leader have naturally followed and respect him. Eventually, the entire nation will be turned around through this. 


New Heavenly Family Tradition

We must understand that those who shed their tears and blood for the sake of the public purpose will become the mainstream of human history. They will become the central people and central nation. This is the path of truth. The reason why Reverend Moon could prevail in spite of six different imprisonments in his life, is because he has strictly followed the path of the true providence.

He doesn't concern himself with whatever persecution comes because he has been busy with the providence. The solving of the problems of unification of North and South America, how to bring about equalization among all of the nations in terms of technology and wealth--all of these concerns have been carried by Reverend Moon throughout his life. Therefore he is always in haste along this path of providential truth.

Only based upon the foundation of those couples and families who are able to devote themselves for the sake of God following the teaching of Reverend Moon, and becoming model couples who inherit heavenly tradition, can we expect the birth of a new heavenly art and literature.

As the children of such couples are born, generation after generation, the new heavenly world will emerge. The American husbands who go to Africa may encounter millions of different kinds of husbands there. However, they should be able to create and demonstrate what the standard of the new American husband should be.

If such American husbands demonstrate their devotion and true love to their African wives, they will become the king of all other husbands. Once Americans establish such a foundation, America will never perish.

If you shed more tears and sweat for the sake of America, then your tradition, your tears, will set the standard to lead and cover the entire world in the future. We have to draw a formula from this topic. Those people who live for the sake of themselves will become more evil. Those people who live for the sake of others will become even more good.

If America tries to become the most powerful nation for its own sake, it will decline into an evil country. Whereas, if America is willing to sacrifice and devote herself for the entire world, even to the lowest level, then America will become the central nation of the world.


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This post was from the speech titled The Grand Clean Up Period in History of Good and Evil 1996 by Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon in Belvedere - Divine Principle Training Center