We can see many things in the parables which are told in the bible when we look at them as more than just a story on the surface and more than just a lesson for those of that modern time. When we see the messages and representation of each parable, a whole world of mystery is unlocked when it comes to the Bible.
There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. “Which of the two did what his father wanted?”“The first,” they answered.
Matthew 21:28-31
Jesus said to them:
“Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him."
Even though Jesus said this to his own people over two thousand years ago, it may apply to the religious and people of faith to this day. When we look at the surrounding synagogues and religious leaders and we see who actually followed Jesus to a certain point in his life, which was more likely the ones prepared to follow the Messiah in his time?
As Jesus told those who thought they held a high position in front of others to God, the believers were the very people he said were not qualified to enter heaven. Even people told Jesus that he was a blasphemer for not washing his hands, not observing the Sabbath and living and working among the uncleaned. In their eyes, they were the judge, ruler and all over who was to enter the kingdom of heaven.
This parable warns us not to be judges of other's heart.
Heaven on Earth in 7 Years
God had prepared for the Second Coming to bear fruit through the Second World War. He had intended that Christianity as the bride culture to be the center of His will to totally unite the Allied countries of America, England and France. This unity would have brought the Kingdom of God on earth through this victory and God's Kingdom would spread all over the world.
The Divine Principle teaches that these allied countries were equivalent to the God-like mind or an Abel and the enemy countries of Japan, Germany and Italy were like the fallen, sinful body or a Cain (who murdered his God-like brother). Within seven years from 1945, if the world had united after World War II the Kingdom of God would have been established.
This is what is forseen in Revelations of the marriage Supper of the Lamb. The messiah would come to bring God's original blessing of marriage which removes the fallen, sinful blood lineage which we currently inherit from our fallen parents and pass on generation to generation.
Based on such families where sin is eradicated through the blessing marriage of the Messiah, would be sent out all over the world to build the Kingdom of God on earth and it would have been a piece of cake.
Therefore, centering on this Christian culture, absorbing and digesting the satanic, secular culture would have been easy. Instead, we chose the opposite way, the satanic way and communism was thus born.
But, because of the failure of Christianity right after World War II, democratic countries such as America have been used as a kind of base for communist propaganda and all kinds of secular crimes, such as sexual, drug and juvenile problems. All kinds of social problems are rampant all over the world that wasn't on the societal level until after World War II because of the failure at that time for the nations to unite.
God had blessed America as the central country as the tool to build the Kingdom of God on earth, but as we observe in our society today, it is the total opposite of God's will. Now, America has become the source of all kinds of evils and social evils all over the world.
Therefore Reverend Moon from the beginning, right after World War II, has been standing alone to fight against this evil force from the individual level, family level, and worldwide level.
All kinds of opposition and persecution have been there; however, Father overcame all those stages of opposition and persecution and right now the time has come that the world is welcoming Reverend Moon with both arms.
The Beginning of Hell
Of course it was a human tragedy that Adam and Eve fell away from God. Then at the time of Jesus Christ, who came as the messiah, mankind betrayed him and lost him; that was another tragedy.
God faced the tragedy of Adam and Even and walking from His true direction. Another tragedy was when mankind betrayed Jesus Christ by not following his path. The worst tragedy God suffered was to watch the second messiah reject the True Parents who reversed Adam and Eve's mistake. Humanity rejected, persecuted him. America, Korea, Japan played a role in opposing and persecuting Father of the Second Coming.
Right after World War II, upon the foundation of the unification of world Christianity, they could have received Father as the king upon their foundation of unity; then from that point on, the whole world could have been unified. However, because of the failure, Father walked his own course from the individual level to the worldwide level, all the way for forty years until now.
One thing Father wants you to remember is since May 1 of this year, which was the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Unification Church, in seventy days Kim Il Sung passed away.
God had tried to restore Adam and Eve's mistake through their children Cain and Abel. There were to become filial sons and daughters who followed the true path of God and love their parents in the position of kings and queens naturally. Instead, we know that Cain could not follow his filial brother Cain disrupting God's way to restore the world through them...He had to wait until a filial son such as Noah was born.
One thing we have to understand, as Father said, right after World War II, centering on Christianity, if the entire world had accepted and welcomed Father as the messiah, Kim Il Sung wouldn't have appeared in the history of mankind, Communism would never have existed if the world naturally through the Christian faith followed.
Kim Il Sung and his son, the Soviet Union and communism is falling at the knees spreading their God-denying beliefs around the world. Now an opportunity to bring God's kingdom to earth has been established.
Father predicted even earlier that no matter how hard communism may try, before the eighth leader communism would fall. So Gorbachev was the eighth head of state of the former Soviet Union. If you read Father's speech book some time ago Father predicted that.
"It's not a coincidence. Think about it; communism fell within these eight different heads of state and also Kim Il Sung passed away seventy days after May 1 of this year, exactly seventy days. That's the way, when it comes to the history of mankind and history of any providential countries, it doesn't go by random happening; it goes by the formula of history.
If the world had accepted Father as the messiah, savior, right after World War II, a large scale of movement of God-centered families would have taken place across the world. For example, because Father would have blessed in God's direct holy marriage and millions and millions of couples interracially, internationally, and intercontinentally who would follow their spouses and families from one continent to another continent, one nation to another nation, this kind of movement would have taken place all over the world right after the world.
So that way by doing so a new political system and national system would have taken place. In other words, centering on Blessed couples, Blessed families, a new culture and new civilization would have been formed. That was God's plan. But because of the failure right after the world war it didn't take place and it took forty years for Father until today.
Now since communism has declined, Christianity must be united; it doesn't matter, Catholicism or Protestantism, they should be united to chase away all these social evils and crimes.
That's our responsibility.
In other words, the direction of all the minds of the people in the world is now clear towards God, so opposition, opposing power is getting weakened and almost disappearing in the world.
All the horizontal brothers and sisters in the world and all the parents of the world must be united together and start building the Kingdom of God on earth as well as in heaven.
This is the significance of the motto centering on True Parents. Centering on the True Parents, all the Blessed couples will be in the position of object and their children will follow as well. In other words, the time has come that all the people in the world without any exceptions, must receive the marriage Blessing from True Parents.
So what's the meaning of the Completed Testament Age?
This is the time that God's ideal of love is to be accomplished and perfected by fulfilling our five percent of responsibility on earth. It's like Adam and Eve without falling, in other words doing their five percent of responsibility to perfect themselves and build the perfect family.
When it comes to the Fall of man, we're talking about the fall of the original Adam's family. When you look at the families here, the world here, on the right-hand side heavenly families standing; on the left-hand side satanic families standing, horizontally they are on the same level.
So, in the course of restoration the positions will be changed, like from left to right and from right to left. The elder brother goes in the position of younger brother and the younger brother, as elder brother. This is the time.
Of course there are many super nations, big countries and small countries all over the world, but as long as our fatherland Korea, south and north, is divided into Cain and Abel, the world, all the countries, will be divided into Cain nations and Abel nations. We have been working with North Korea in many different ways, in many different areas since Father's visit there.
Providentially speaking, now the time has come that North Korea must listen to Father, Reverend Moon. That's why Father's birthplace, Jung Ju, will be decorated and developed under the banner of Jung Ju Peace Park. The North Korean government will build a peace park in Father's birthplace.
So therefore, if mankind finds the place where they can build real peace on earth, then the entire world will pay attention to that.
The time has come. Also, the time has come that the intellectuals and scholars, the educated people come to understand that this is the time that beyond cultural, racial, and national barriers, beyond even your traditions and customs and habits centering on Christianity, mankind can find hope to build peace on earth."
Also, as you know Father established his foundation, built his career in helping those starving people, like twenty million people dying of starvation every year. So, Father has been working to save those people for the last twenty years. That has been recorded as his career.
Reverend Moon has focused on the oceanic enterprise preparing for the oceanic era. He knows the resources in the ocean is just limitless with the abundance of fish laying millions and millions of eggs which we can hatch.
Because of Father's love and effort in these oceanic enterprises to save the people dying in hunger, now even in this country, people who know about the oceanic business have come to trust Father's ability.
So, how can we save those people who are dying of starvation, worldwide, because people are still dying.
When we look at a flourishing country in America where food is wasted and people are dieting to lose weight possibly due to overeating while in other place people are dying every moment. If God was watching above us would He be happy to witness this event in the world?
Also, have you thought of any country, particularly rich countries like America and other developed countries, do you think they are really coming forward to be responsible to save all those poor countries who are losing thousands and thousands of lives every day because of hunger? They don't even dream.
When we look at the world in a broader sense, do rich countries like America truly try to take responsibility for this unfair distribution of resources and save the poorer countries who lose thousands of brothers/sister and mothers and fathers daily? They don't even think about it. Therefore, the term "True Parents" must be a formidable word to the billions and billions of parents who abandon their children who are dying by the millions.
Would a True Parent allow such abuse and neglect? The parents don't let their children die, they don't know how to save them. From a True Parent's perspective, one cannot understand why the children cannot be saved when there is plenty of land for animals and ocean where they can produce some type of food resources to save the children.
Surely, if people can live in those regions, then fish and animals can survive there as well as a resource. Man was meant to be the superior being of creation, so why can't the starving nation find a way to bring fish and animals live abundantly as food supply? Because they have not been taught the proper way to farm, raise animals, catch fish, hunt or build fish farms. IT is a simple thought. If one knows how to do these things such as catch fish and raise animals, would there be a reason to die from hunger?
Last time when Father Moon visited Brazil, he was told that there is one particular swamp area along the borderline between Paraguay and Brazil which is twice as big as the land of Japan. In that particular swamp area there are over 3,600 different species of fish. In that swamp alone, 3,600!
So, think about it, if we can utilize these different species of fish to do fish farming all over the world, where the lakes and rivers are abundant, we can feed the entire humanity. So Father's question is, since we know that we are losing over twenty million innocent lives every year because of starvation, what position should we take?
Should we just watch them die away every day, like forty thousand to sixty thousand people? Even if we starve, we skip our meals, we should do our absolute best to save their lives.
If, as the ratio goes, 200 people as a unit save one person's life every year, the entire five billion people can live together without losing lives because of starvation. Is that an impossible task for mankind? Even though Father's movement has been pouring money into this oceanic enterprise for the last twenty years, it has been losing money.
When organizations invest into such project there has been no profit but constant investing. This is the same way God has been investing into mankind. But we have learned through the Divine Principle that God continues to give and give because He does not remember what He has invested for the sake of mankind.
The True Parents as the messiah have silently invested every ounce of energy, material and spiritual power the same way in humanity even though they have denied their existence. Because of this foundation and tradition, people are starting to bow their heads.
Those who have received the Blessing are to care for the entire mankind before their own family, this is the true way, the godly way. Instead, the messiah is spearheading the dispensation while the families find that they cannot fully follow his direction without the wife and the children grabbing and holding them back.
What about Father's situation? Look at Father's own situation. While Father is leading, spearheading this entire worldwide movement such as, for example, the American headquarters, they are opening their hands for help from Father.
"Comparing to our own situations, whatever mission we may have, whatever businesses we are in charge of, the burden on Father's shoulders is maybe thousands of times heavier than ours. But, when we are in a difficult situation, instead of trying to help Father, lighten Father's burden, we come forward and ask for help from Father.
That has been our attitude. If that kind of family is in front of you, do you think that family has a future?
Father was told that last year and this year were the most difficult years in Japan. So, they almost lost hope and there was no light whatsoever. Have you really been worried about this kind of miserable situation, just like your own family situation? Have you? Has the entire movement? We must pay attention to that.
Last time when Father was in South America, Father was in a way shocked by imagining that if as much money as has been invested in America, was spent for the sake of South America, what kind of situation could we face today?
There's no racial discrimination. They are not arrogant people. When they see new immigrants coming from foreign countries, instead of discriminating against them, they help them and support them without any racial discrimination.
What about America? American people are so proud as the number one country in the world this is the way that America has been greeting the entire world instead of helping.
Even so, the reason Father has put effort and money into this country, billions and billions of dollars, is because Father knows that the center of Christianity is here in this country, America. That's why Father helped Christianity to be revived and to be restored to change the position from second son(Abel) to elder son(Cain).
The politicians, the media organizations, and scholars from universities all over the world: these are the three major powers which will move the world from now on. Along with these three major powers of the world, if we can inspire high school students and college students, the entire world will start to change. Do you follow?
In other words, once we revive high school kids and college students, this youth problem can be solved. How about now?
Satan has occupied all the youth all over the world, but we have to restore them back.
It doesn't matter what religion you may have been following, whether it's Christianity or Buddhism or whatever, the time for the first generation is gone; the time for the second generation is dawning. When we say second generation we are talking about high school kids and college kids.
That's why before Father left for Korea last time, Father asked you to focus on witnessing to the second generation people, high school students and college students. Don't worry about adults, so called adult people, because tribal messiahs are supposed to witness to them.
If we stick with witnessing to the first generation people all the time, then we will automatically lose second generation people. In other words, we will lose both. But if we stick with witnessing to the second generation people, we will save both first and second.
Do you follow?
When it comes to the course of restoration there is always Cain and Abel relationship; that's the formula. This is the formula for the restoration. Cain and Abel, Mother: this is individual, family, all the way to the eighth level, heaven and earth.
At the time of the Fall of man, centering on Satan and Adam, this mother's position was lost. Therefore, mankind was directed to hell. It's a formula just like in ourselves, where there is a Cain/Abel relationship between mind and body.
In other words, our body which is Cain has been controlling and subjugating our mind who is Abel. But actually it should be the other way around. Expansion of these individual Cain and Abel relationships within ourselves, mind and body, is the world Cain and Abel.
So, the Holy Spirit is in the position of mother. By doing so, the Holy Spirit in the mother's position will restore this Cain and Abel relationship.
The extension of these relationships appeared in World War II between Great Britain, America and France, with France in the position of Cain, America in the position of Abel and Great Britain in the position of mother, or the Holy Spirit.
But this time, instead of making a relationship with Satan and fallen Adam, the mother will unite with God and restored Adam, and naturally mankind will head for the Kingdom of God in heaven. This is on the worldwide scale.
This time the mother figure, the Holy Spirit position, will have to be united, her bridegroom who comes as the messiah naturally will become one with God. In other words, there is no way for anybody to be restored, to be saved again, unless they are born through the Holy Spirit, mother's spirit, again. Fallen humankind is standing in the Abel position.
From there you have to separate into half, and take the mind position. Cain and Abel divide and grow up. Abel grows up more. After that, the position of the elder and younger is exchanged. The authority changes. From there, we can go back to the original position-God's place. This is the formula.
So, that's why, when we look at the world, even in America, the husbands are in the position of archangel, and wives are in the position of mother, Eve's position. In other words, mothers must embrace all the children and restore them through her and eventually restore the husband, who is in the position of archangel to her.
Mostly, because of the wives, in other words, mothers' failure in this country, divorce takes place, because mothers couldn't really offer their love to embrace their children and build a solid family. In other words, the failure of America and free world is mostly because of women, wives.
Many wives and mothers are constantly bugging their husbands; instead of just blindly following True Parents and doing the missionary work or the spiritual work, they say: "Why don't you go to college and graduate school and learn skills so that you can make money?" And they are doing the same thing to their children.
When it comes to following the course of God's dispensation, is there anybody else who is more blindly following God's will than Father himself? (No.) That means that you may think that you have been just following God's will blindly all these years, but when you watch Father, Father is even a million times more blindly following God's will.
Do you think so? Then, after he has done that, did Father fail? (No.) Father has been supporting God's will all these years blindly without any reservation. We have all kinds of excuses.
Even after the Fall of man, Adam added many different excuses: "Oh God, I fell because of Eve." Eve's excuse was:
'God, Adam whom you created, didn't do his responsibility so we failed'. So they didn't admit their own mistake; nobody did. Usually we have a tendency to think: 'Oh well, I did what I could and I was right, but because of somebody else or because of some circumstances, the mistake took place'.
And former enemy countries like Japan, Germany, and Italy initiated World War II; they should become one now and belong to the messiah.
And if those six countries totally become one with the messiah, Rev. Moon, the world can be restored. Suppose you were born fifty years ago, and Rev. Moon came saying "I am the messiah"-would you believe in him as the messiah, 50 years ago?
But now you do not have any choice but believing in Father. Since Father declared Safe Settlement of True Parents and Completed Testament Age, all kinds of significant ceremonies have occurred. No matter what Father may say you understand the wisdom of receiving from Father, so keep your heart open to receive.
But because of the failure of these six countries receiving and welcoming Father as the messiah right after World War II, Father had to stand alone all those years, for forty years. During those forty years, Father had to overcome all the different levels of difficulties and persecutions.
He overcame all the hurdles, and from prison level, one after another, one by one, he was restoring and he came to this level today. Imagine how sad God and True Parents were when they knew that the entire world centering on Christianity should have accepted Father as the messiah of mankind, yet they failed right after World War II.
How sad they were. Can you imagine that? God was alone, think of that. If Father, Rev. Moon, had given up right after World War II, when the opposition took place and the entire world failed in welcoming Father, then God might have abandoned this entire world and started creating a new world and new mankind.
But Father said to God: 'God, please don't worry about it; I will take full responsibility and I will start from scratch again, alone'.
That's why, even if Father was in prison, Father never prayed to God to help him, he never shed tears because of pain. He always told God, 'Father, I am still alive. I will make it all the way through'. That has been Father's promise to God.
Each time Father was in prison he jumped one level and he went up another level. It was zigzag, but he was constantly progressing.
He never doubted. There was no room whatsoever to give any complaints centered on himself. Father was more than confident that he had to take this responsibility to restore back the entire mankind because of the fall of Adam and Eve.
Father prayed that "Of course the entire world is opposing me because of Satan, but even if God opposes me, I will go" because Father knew the course of indemnity. Think about it: Father had to indemnify the 4000 years of history in 40 years.
How difficult it was! These 40 years' course of indemnification ended this year, May 1, that's why Father came up with Safe Settlement of True Parents and Completed Testament Age; it is a great motto.
Perfection must take place on earth, completion, unity between mind and body must take place on earth, here. Of course, there have been millions and millions of different conflicts and battles and wars throughout history, but the final war among mankind is the battle between mind and body.
So, man and woman must be responsible; but we are in a much better situation, because we are taught by True Parents how to fight this war. When it comes to Father's level, Father had to deal with the entire world, all the different religions and nations and people to come up to this point.
But our responsibility is restoring ourselves, I mean, winning the battle between mind and body and establishing our family centered on True Love, and doing tribal messiahship up to 160 families. We can't trust secular people out there, we have to know that. If you give your total trust, you will always be hurt, you'll lose something.
Therefore, we Blessed couples must be united and give total trust to one another. Therefore, our course is clear: we must go through the completion as an individual, family, tribe and nation; we have to go that far-no exception."SMM
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Restoring Fallen History
The previous post was rewritten and derived from the Words of Rev. Sun Myung Moon Leader's Meeting 1994
