The Messiah Returns to Save Earth Not End It

Have you ever seen a superhero rescue a person that was living in peace?

So what exactly will our hero do when he returns?  Is God going to go through the thousands of years of restoring His children through religion just so he can take a few children and destroy the earth and leave the rest to be damned eternally?  What parent gives up on their children?

If imperfect parents will go through the fire to save their child, how much more heart does God have for His lost ones?

Jesus came the first time to bring Heaven.  What happened to the rest...On Earth? 

Simply the Messiah returns as he did before: to bring Heaven On Earth.  He said it many times, Heaven is at hand.  It is in the midst of us.  No one in his time could understand him fully.

Why does God wait for centuries to pass while His children suffer, are murdered, tortured before rescuing us?  Why wait for the world to get worse before sending his hero?  Why didn't Jesus fully burn up sin from the earth when he first came?

Why didn't he bring Heaven on Earth at Jesus's time to save His people from Roman persecution?  Because something went terribly wrong in his time, and God was unable to fully fulfill the providential will of heaven. 


God's Process of Restoring Us

God never decided that when humans fell far from His Will in the Garden of Eden that he would wait thousands or scientifically millions of years later to save His children. I do not believe in a Father such as that.

After the Fall, God started within Adam and Eve's family to restore humanity. He was logical. His plan was to immediately restore just one family and not wait millions of years to teach 7 billion people to change their hearts toward Him through religion.

He wanted to work through Cain and Abel. Abel (God's side) and Cain (enemy side).  Abel was meant to win over his brother's heart through love. Then Cain was supposed to submit to his younger brother, and then they both obtain the blessing.  Then humanity would have returned to God's original ideal through Cain and Abel and the Messiah would have returned within that time. 

Evil would disappear in Adam and Eve's family.

Can you imagine that if Cain had not murdered Abel, our history would be one of victory instead of sin and sorrow?  No one teaches of this fact.

But Cain killed Abel, then God had to work again and again through a figure representing Abel and another figure representing Cain.  This process went on century after century until He finally had victory with Jacob and Esau who were twins. But something was left unfinished.   Humans are still born into sin. Our blood still needs to be saved, this is not God's original idea.

This is why Jesus returns to give us the new truth that he couldn't tell his disciples who deserted him. Jesus agonized that his disciples were not able to fully comprehend his higher teachings.  Jesus told his followers how could they understand the things of heaven if they could not even believe in the earthly things he proclaimed. We don't truly grasp it today and neither did the Israelites.

If we were living in Jesus's time would we fully understand his teachings or stick ardently to the Old Testament teachings of Moses law like the Israelites did?

So what is this truth he couldn't tell his disciples? 

This truth is revealed in our time, and thus will unify the world while he is on earth.  The Messiah does not come to give up on earth and take a precious select few to heaven, but to save all of humanity and usher them toward a world of peace. 


How All God's Children Will Win

When humanity accepts the Messiah's ideology, we will be able to finish the process of restoration that God was trying to accomplish through Cain and Abel and in other time periods. God's side will be victorious and make the enemy in every form voluntarily submit.

World Peace is achieved when fallen people restore their hearts toward God.

This is why, behind history spanning  several thousand years, God has been carrying out the work of searching for this one person in order to reorganize the history of humankind filled with evil.

Before the ideal world can be realized, there must appear a nation, but a tribe must appear before a nation comes, a clan before a tribe, a family before a clan, and one person before a family.

Then, who should that person be?

Should it be a woman, or should it be a man?

Have you ever noticed that throughout history that every major religion was created by one sex - all were created by man.  Is this chauvinistic?

The Messiah should be a man, because when God created humans, he created Adam first.  Because He created Adam first, we must go through Adam for restoration.  Eve was created from Adam's rib with Adam as the origin and Eve has to work through a man for restoration.

All of human history has been in search of a perfected man.  At the time of creation, woman was created after man; therefore, it is an unchangeable fact that history is in search of a man.


Who is the Messiah?

What kind of man can be called the Messiah in front of God's standard?  The Messiah is the eldest son, the first born son of God.  The Messiah is the starting point, and first person to receive God's direct love.

This is why Jesus, referring to himself, said he was the "only son" of God. Being the only son means to receive all the love.

The Messiah is the person who is qualified to convey God's entire love to the individual, family, clan and the World.

　
When the bible asked when Jesus returns will he find faith on earth, it did not pertain to the amount of followers he had. It was asking if there would be those that would pick up their cross and follow his return unto death. Will he find that when it came time to fight the enemy with the fire of the Word, or would his followers scatter once more?

Why would anyone ask if Jesus is going to find faith on earth when he is returning to end all the conflict?

Because, just like before, Jesus needed his followers to finish the process of completely restoring the world - he needed followers.  Jesus could not restore Israel all by himself, he needed his disciples to follow until the end.  Instead, at the end when Jesus was being sent to prison, all of his disciples ran away.

There is a conventional belief that humanity will be restored with just the mere appearance of the Messiah returning.  Poof!  The world is perfected.  Poof!  The people are cleansed completely.  Even superheroes need people to cooperate to save the world.

Believers should understand that each human is given a percentage of responsibility with the providence of restoration. 

If all creation could be automatically restored with the appearance of the Messiah, why did it not happen the first time, and why wait 2000 years?

This belief causes many people to disbelieve in such a god who does not care about the suffering of his children who cry out endlessly to him.  We should know that God's heart was to restore Adam and Eve quickly and within their immediate family.

When Cain killed Abel, God had to go through countless saints until he found Jesus.  And again humanity failed in their responsibility to unite with the Messiah.

No matter how much God and the Messiah prepare the world to completely return to God's ideal, complete restoration will not happen without humanity following using their 5 % responsibility.

Every human was given 5% responsibility in every part of creation; this is called free will.

This is important in order to understand that Armageddon is a choice we make on a global level. Are we truly following God in these Last Days standing with the Messiah against the enemy as it attacks our mind and body?

It is up to us to choose God absolutely in every part of our lives and not to give up our power to the enemy.

Many believe that The Messiah returns to blast the world away and take followers to live in the sky during the resurrection, and the eternal world that God created is left empty of His children.

The mistake that caused hell on earth did not happen in the sky - it happened on earth.  The fall began from a couple on earth and human beings on earth and must be reversed through a couple on earth.


We Need God's Love

Humankind lost true love through the fall and broke God's heart at the sight of losing his children. In other words, the Messiah is the one who comes to restore the lost true love.  In doing so, he not only heals humanity through reconnecting us to God's love, but he also heals God's heart as well.

When an unmarried man and woman love each other, they will defy even death in order to fulfill their love, just as Eve and Adam had done in the Garden.

When we become one with God's love, we will be able to practice God's love.

This will be realized when the Messiah comes and links God's love to us. The Messiah is the person with a unified mind and body, and has God's true love dwelling in him. The Messiah is the person who brings God's love, which can unify the world, unify the nation, unify family and the individual.

God's will is to send the Messiah who can become the subject of love and build the world of love. God is trying to realize World Peace through religion; therefore, religion is a necessary footstool for the Messiah to proclaim God's message of unity.

Return for Tomorrow's post:  Messiah Superhero Returns to Save the Earth


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This teaching is derived from Reverend Sun Myung Moon's speeches and words taken from the bible.  For those wanting to know more about the Unification Movement, please visit: www.familyfed.org.

You Can Save the World

If saving the world was as easy as all the superheroes make it - a woman screams for help and the hero swoops down for the rescue, World Peace would have happened by now.

There is another factor keeping us from obtaining peace on all levels of society that superheroes can only dream of solving.

 

Heroes use their flight and power to save a young woman falling from a building, take out the bad guys or stop a train from hitting a little boy.  Then, the hero goes home, or goes to work and tries to blend into the rest of society merely by wearing a pair of glasses. 

One might wonder, why do we need a SUPERhero for those kinds of situations?  I mean we have the military, we have EMTs, firemen and the police?  Do these professionals do a great job of protecting the city like Spiderman and Superman everyday?

If you had a Will Smith superhero character with all of the power his character enjoyed in Hancock, I wouldn't waste it on such superfluous goals such as to find a mate for just one night or stop cocaine runners.  We already have heroes in society to saves us from those realities.  Humanity wants a TRUEhero, one who can rescue us beyond our own human powers. 

Maybe it is too high of an expectation.  I mean these characters originated from comic books meant for just pasttime, for our enjoyment.  Plus these macho rich, characters live in a fictional world where the only problems people encounter are external ones - robots taking over, insane people holding people hostage, terrorist blowing up a building - heroes serve their purpose in their own small world.  In our world, we have more conflicts, more problems, and in order to bring us into a World of Peace, it will take an even greater hero. 


The World in Search of a Savior

One that can save us beyond the physical salvation of a burning building.  The world needs a hero that saves us from the spiritual pain we inherited at birth.  A hero that can save us from the suffering inflicted within every human being. 

For the religious this may be Jesus, Buddha, Confucius and Muhammad.  They brought truth to the suffering of people of their time. These four teachers of the four main religions were able to teach their followers how to take control over their bodies. 

Yet, there is still a self-contradiction within even the most faithful.  Even though Jesus died for our sins, while on earth, our bodies are still afflicted with the results of sin.  Poverty, Sadness, depression, anxiety, disease, etc.  Many people believe this is part of the creation and that sin will forever remain with humanity on the earth. 


But the Messiah came to completely remove sin.  Then you say he did. 

That is correct, the Savior has taken our sin and gave us spiritual salvation where we can live eternally with God after death.  On the other hand, can we deny that sin is even in the most devout Christian who follows Jesus's teaching and pass it on to their children?

If you look at Jesus's life, he opened a way for us to reach Paradise, but even he himself his own body was tortured, his flesh was torn from the body and he lost his life. 

Yes, the crucifixion was necessary as God's second choice to save us from our sin through sacrifice at the demand of His enemy, but one must think about it - human sin destroyed even Jesus's body.  Who denies that because of sin, Jesus's own flesh had to leave this earth?This is why even though through his flesh we have been forgiven of sin, Satan can still attack us, our flesh, our bodies physically.  Jesus asked, how can one person surpass his own teacher?

This is why the faithful still have disease, cancer, untimely deaths and the such.  You can see it everyday with our bodies open to diseases, horrible pain and physical attacks. 

Yes, the devout are protected by the Holy Spirit and God from tragedies, but sin was not completely removed from the earth even after Jesus's accomplishment.  Is it because God made evil part of creation and it will be a constant struggle in our lives for ever?

Any god that creates a world where his children must fight sin for eternity - that type of god is not the Creator that Jesus followed, but another god that has taken God's position and masked his identity for thousands of years. 

The fact that God gave us Jesus is a Testament that God wants sin eradicated.  The Messiah came by God's mandate to bring an end to sin - One Man came - an individual to bring World Peace.

So, why does sin still exist?

 

Sin is Not Part of God's Plan


The world needs a superhero to return and save us from the results that sin bears on our physical bodies once and for all. 

Which equals to no more disease, no more hurt, sadness suffering etc. on earth as well as heaven.  This would be a World of Peace or the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

Superhero movies, no matter how bad the script is,  continue to break box office records.  If humans wish for a hero and love superheroes so much, from whom or what do we humans want to be saved?  Why do we Americans wish to be rescued?  We are not starving, we have all that we need, therefore, why do we need someone to rescue us?  Rescue America from what?


If we are born into sin, which bores action that takes us away from God, that means we are continuously born in a way that needs to be corrected.  How can we eliminate this?  Do we continue to believe that the all mighty God cannot save His pitiful children except halfway through the death of His only son? 

How can we eliminate the dirty lineage we are born into? 

Should we stubbornly stick to the ideal that we are completely free from sin when we still give birth to children who have to be saved from sin?  From the beginning when man chose to eat and disobey the commandment, that impurity connected us to a dirty lineage.

To think that we are in God's direct lineage is not right, for a god to bear children of sin is not God the Creator but another god - the lowly god Satan. 

In other words, when our ancestors chose to believe Satan's words we chose Satan's word, do eat for it will open your eyes and you will become great, we chose Satan's lineage, Satan's will for the world and that is why we live in a world of hell right at this moment.  You are currently living in a world chosen by the little god Satan - his ideal world is the opposite of God's world to keep us from God - to destroy yours and my life.  Why do we deny this when we look around at the world situation today?  Does this world perpetuate a world of God's ideal or Satan's ideal? 

God absolutely intends that one day His children will be born within His realm of protection, and without the need for religion.

Heroes Sacrifice For World Peace

So you and I want to be heroes or at least see a superhero movie at the local theater.  Do Superheroes have a easy life? If you rewatch any hero series or read their comics, you will see that at one point they always suffer some great lose due to having such a public mission.  They lose loves, their family is affected and it is a very lonely position.

If we truly understood what it takes to be a hero we wouldn't volunteer for the position even though great power comes attached as part of the package.  It entails a life of sacrifice. It will not be an easy life to save the world. 

We all want to live in an Utopian world, a World of Peace.  Where do we have to go to achieve this?  We have to go through the realm of an original family of love.  World Peace starts from a True Family. 

How will this happen? 

That's where the Truehero comes in.  He must connect us back to God's direct lineage.  Then we say we are in God's lineage, God is within us, we are crafted from His image.

Then we must ask, if God made Jesus His Son, then what are we?  Jesus is God's True Son and through Jesus we are adopted sons and daughter, not True.

This hero will do this no matter what the circumstances.  If a vast ocean stands before him, he must swim across it.  If a high mountain blocks his path, he has to climb the Himalayas with his bare feet.  Who is willing to give up their luxurious life to follow this path through tons of people spitting at their feet like Martin Luther King, Jr.? 

A Truehero will have to go where the lowest, saddest and most stricken person in hell exist, and win victory over the strongest satans that oppose him.  In this way, the Truehero cuts a path of suffering that allows even the lowest person to follow toward a life of God.  This describes thousands of saints and religious leaders who seemingly were defeated in the end.  They are our heroes who laid a foundation for us to follow and bring humanity back to God.

In other words, in order to get rid of Satan's lineage - you have to go where Satan refuses to follow you.  Could Satan follow Jesus and tempt him away from God? 

No. 

Jesus and hundreds of other saints had cut a clear path of suffering for the purpose of separating themselves from Satan. 

Jesus suffered so much that he endured pain more than any person in history up until that time period, then he won victory over all of his enemies.  This way opens the path for you and me and every human to follow toward spiritual liberation from sin. 

In order for us to save the world from sin completely and dominate Satan back to his original position of servant, when this Truehero returns, we will have to follow the path that satan cannot follow, then satan leaves him.  Then this Great Teacher will give us the tools to follow this path and we will be able to completely eradicate Satan individually, and for the first time on earth we will have the power to eradicate sin from our earthly lives and bore children without the accusation of the original sin by following God's true path.

We have to go where satan refuses to follow us and torture us, we must shed blood, sweat and tears based on a heart of true love.  Evil can not love, evil can not be humble or love its enemy, therefore, when you practice this way evil will leave you  - this is an ironclad prinicple.  The reason why evil dominates us in this world is because we follow it, we give and take with evil ways.

When we conquer evil within ourselves using the tools of the Returned Messiah, then we become heroes when we spread this into our families which spreads to the nation and whole world.


Qualification of a Hero

Every faith can attest that Jesus was a hero and a savoir of the people.  The reason why he was only able to give spiritual salvatio and not physical, which a world without sin - heaven on earth, was because the people could not follow Jesus.

His disciples scattered and so did his teachings and that is why he Returns as a Messiah in our time to complete his teachings.  The people of his day did not have all of the scientific knowledge, the foundation of religions of suffering to stand on.  We can now receive in totally The Second Coming teachings that will bring us to a world, on earth, without suffering and sin. 

Is this going to happen automatically - poof, heaven on earth?

How can we rid ourselves of sin if we do it in a comfortable position, without being higher than those who are connected to satan?

You must be willing to love even your worst enemy more than you love your own children and save him.  Do we bless our enemies or curse them?  This standard of heart is what it will take to save the world.  

You must not live just for yourself, or your family, you must live every action for your nation and the world.  Then you must pick up your cross and follow the returned hero - the returned Messiah. 

In the physical reality everything is owned by satan. 

In Satan's world, you are forced to pay a tax on money you earn then on everything you buy, then your house, car etc are taxed again, annually for as long as you "own" it.  You do not truly own anything it is an illusion.  Who pays for something they own? 

In God's world, taxes will be voluntary and paid freely and used for the purpose of the whole and does not cause us to lose our freedoms.

Since human beings brought Satan to earth, it has been turned into hell. We must bring God here. We must do this through True Love.

This sad reality is because humans brought Satan to earth by choosing to follow him.  We must bring God to be leader over this earth.  We can only do that through the high standard of loving the enemy more than our loved ones, our own spouse and friends.

This is how you save your family, your children, the world - by releasing satan from you on an individual level, then your family level all the way to the nation.  Only then will you be connected to the coming World of Peace.

Return for tomorrow's post: The United Nations and World Peace

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Note:

The text today was taken from one of 8 textbooks taught in the Unification Theological Seminary attended by high scholars, missionaries and ministers of all faiths.  The teachings follows The Principle of Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon. 

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