Become Part of God's Direct Lineage

We have spoken in many posts about how Adam and Eve were suppose to become true parents. They were to attain true oneness centered on God and pass their pure blood lineage on generation after generation.

These true sons and true daughters who are born into God's direct blood lineage would fulfill God's ideal world full of peace.

As we know from the biblical account, the first ancestors formed a bond with Satan and thus became the satanic ringleaders giving birth to children of death born into sin.

Therefore, you and I are fallen ancestors.


If we are not true parents, this means we are false parents still passing on the lineage of the fall nonstop.

We are in the point of history where humankind must deny this false lineage of false parents and find the true parents who do not have any trace of the fall.

They carry God's direct lineage.  This has been God's Providence of Restoration, restoring the fallen world, since the moment of the Fall.

The Hope of Fallen People

Even if they are not aware of it, all fallen people have a deep desire to meet God's true son.

Even the communist nation had the notion of a world of peace; we all have a deep desire for peace.

They lament that they were born as Cain's children through a fallen blood ties with Satan.  We each can feel the internal conflict between our separated minds and bodies.

Imagine if Abel and Cain had united in their offering and Abel or even Jesus was to have children.

They would have been born on God's side.  Yet, mankind has suffered greatly while seeking God's true son at the individual level and family level.

God sent the Messiah; if people had received the Messiah they could have found God's son.  The time of the Messiah was to convey the joyful news that humankind could finally meet God's son up to the national level.

You and I were born with sinful, fallen blood inherited from Satan.  We have to meet God's son who can transcend all of the accusations of Satan which holds each of us down.

Then we would meet him as our parent after he fulfilled Messiahship on the individual level.  We have been raised by fallen, sinful parents, not true parents no matter how well they are, they carry the fallen bloodline of Satan.

Therefore, we seek true parents whom God directly loves and is connected in lineage.

Next, we must seek the family that those parents create.

After that, we must seek God's love upon finding it, we can meet God.  So, when the Messiah returns, he will perfect himself on the individual level, find a true bride, create a true family of true children that carry the direct lineage of God without any trace of the fall.

We should be aware that this is the pathway of humankind.  If parents and children who live a life worthy of God's love form families, they automatically prosper.

They will sing songs of love in a setting that can bring success to everything through harmonized families.  When this happens, a race centering on God's love will automatically be formed.

Is this a dream or is this where humankind is headed?  Will this standard of world peace be found through political ties, force, war, science or philosophy?

This standard must be found through religion.

If a true family becomes the model for the world to live is not established, then an ideal family, tribe, people nation and world will not be established.

Humanity needs a model of how to live such as shown through religions such as Jesus, Buddah who accomplished much on the individual level.

What is our ideal desire and hope?

This is the conclusion: first, attend God as our Father is our greatest hope; second, we are to become His beloved sons and daughters; and third, we are to inherit everything He owns.

What other human hope is greater than this?

The Goal of Restoration is Adam's Family

Our goal as we walk the path of restoring the world of peace, is to establish Adam's true family.

Immediately after Adam and Eve fell, God launched His providence to restore them through their children Cain and Abel.

That foundation was lost when Cain (representing Satan's side) killed Abel (representing God's side).

Therefore, the providence passed from Adam's family to Noah's family, building a foundation for His providence by annihilating all humankind through the flood judgment establishing a family that transcended above Satan's accusations.

Noah lost that foundation of building the Ark through his sons not completely following him and doubting him and covering his naked body when he was drunk after his successfully accomplished God's will.  

Again, this task was passed on through several saints: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus down to the Second Coming.

Through each age, a condition failed to be completely set in order to eradicate sin from the earth.  This caused each time period to elongate and the conditions were of a greater indemnity each time.

What has God sought until now?  He has been seeking an ideal object partner, not a subject partner.

God has been searching for one who resembles Him and has the same inner and outer qualities of the world He created.

What is the starting point?  The family.

Nothing else can represent the universe better than the family.

Then where will history conclude?

With substantial true children and true parents; it concludes at the level of the family.  This is the basics of the universe.

Without parents, then children cannot be born.  Children should inherit and have dominion over all things centering on the parents.  Adam and Eve were meant to rule over all things.

This principle applies to everything.

Through the six thousand years of God's Providence He has sought to establish a family through which they would be His true object partner.

Family is indispensable in the formation of a nation.

The basis of everything is the family.

Since the first family was destroyed, it is our responsibility to restore it.

Jesus had been born on earth as the unfallen Adam. Therefore , he was the second Adam.  Since Adam, who was the first ancestor of humankind, became a fallen ancestor, God sent Jesus who was the true ancestor to reverse Adam's mistake and start anew.  

We must establish Adam's family centering on such true ancestors. 

The Bible testifies of the Fall of the first human ancestors. 

This occurred between two people, Adam and Eve.

If after Eve and the archangel gave into the fruit of evil, Adam had refused to eat the fruit, then the problem would have been simple to reverse.  In such a case, God as the Creator would have re-created her.

Why did God have to restore the world starting from a family?  Because this is where everything went wrong.  

Evil began in the human world from the first human ancestor's family.

Humanity experienced a loss of God, the expulsion of the angelic world, the loss of the perfect world of creation and the loss of the value and love of humankind.  This all occurred through an unprincipled union of a man and woman in Adam's family.

All religions show a way to individual salvation, especially Christianity, but they do not represent perfection.

This is just a rudimentary form of salvation that is just the beginning, the very first step on the road to complete spiritual and physical salvation.  

The goal of salvation has family salvation as its unit; individual salvation is the beginning.  These families can lead the world and bear responsibility even for world salvation.  

Our life of faith should have the highest ideal of realizing families with such a realm of heart is firmly established.

The Restored Family Was to Be Realized by Jesus

What was Jesus' main purpose for being born?

He came to establish a true family centered on God.

This history of salvation from Cain and Abel to Jesus is the history of restoration.

This is where those who are sick need to be healed.  Jesus came in order to save fallen people and open  a pathway directly to heaven.  

What is salvation?  Since the family was destroyed, it must be restored.

How do we restore the fallen family?  We must return to the original position that was lost because the original family was destroyed.  

Humankind is sick and needs healing.

God absolutely conducts Himself according to principles and laws.

Since Adam was lost, he must be recovered from the satanic world.  Adam had the responsibility to dominate and possess Eve, but he failed his role as a husband and she was taken by Satan.

Thus, she must be recovered from the satanic world.

Will this be done easily without a struggle?

God worked throughout the ages to lay family, religious and national foundations to restore Adam and Eve.

He established Joseph's and Zechariah's families.  

Then if Jesus, who was from Joseph's family and John the Baptist from Zechariah's family had united, God's will would have been fulfilled in a short time.

What if John the Baptist would not have questioned later on that Jesus was the one they were looking for and followed him?

Also, what if Jesus was to receive Zachariah's daughter as a bride and they start a true family with God's direct blood lineage reversing the sinful blood lineage on earth?  Jesus would have become True Father bearing True Children of God's blood lineage.

Then the will of God would have been fulfilled.

Such fundamental facts such as these are immediately opposed by Christians.  They cry and argue over it.  But it will be to no avail.

Those who oppose these facts will realize that this is the truth when they pass on to the spirit world.

God planned for Adam and Eve to achieve unity as substantial father and mother and complete the perfection of a family of love, which is God's ideal of creation.

God did not create this world to be full of evil, struggle and broken families.  To conceive of such an ideal for a perfect God is hurtful to the work of restoring the world.

Yet, since this was not accomplished, Jesus had to come in order to complete it.

Jesus came as the bridegroom to receive his bride.  Then, if the Israelites  had united with God and restored the position of the perfected Adam in the Garden of Eden and bonded in that love, then nobody could have made them repeat the Fall.

What was God's will?

It was for Adam and Eve to establish the standard of perfection of man and woman and establish God's family based on love.  Was this accomplished in Adam and Jesus' time?

God's family was not established.

Jesus understood and believed in this aspect of God's will.  But because the Jewish people could not follow and believe that Jesus was the son of God, Israel's four-thousand year foundation for Jesus collapsed.

Therefore, Jesus died a miserably death on the cross as God's second path toward only half salvation - spiritual not physical.  Even Jesus lost his physical body to Satan, but brought spiritual salvation to earth.

If death was God's first and only choice, Jesus would have gladly went the way of the cross, instead he asked God if it was His will to let this cup pass and he lamented to forgive them for they know not what they do.

If the Jewish people accepted Jesus and God's will, he would have lived to start a family and pass on God's true blood lineage through true children.  Followers would have been able to engraft to Jesus' true blood lineage and start true families.  Heaven on Earth would follow thereafter.

Through the cross, Jesus lost his physical body to Satan, but was able to bring spiritual salvation to mankind.  This was not God's original intention for bringing Jesus to that time.

Until now, who has been able to truly understand this heart-wrenching situation?

No one!

Since this is the case, how glad Jesus must be to witness this being taught for the first time.

Without Jesus' family being established, the will of God remained unfulfilled.

Without a God-centered family carrying God's pure blood lineage, neither the nation nor the world could be restored.

As a bridegroom, Jesus must find his bride.

This is the reason Jesus' mission must be returned to this earth to center the providence on one man that true parents, true couples and true siblings can emerge.

This will be decisively fulfilled through the prophesied Marriage of the Supper of the lamb in the Last Days.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Love of a True Parent

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seon Gyeong Book Four, "True Family", Chapter 10, Section 3-5

God is God for a Reason

Once you possess the true love of God, you will be the focus of the world wherever you go. I am intently pushing you out so that you can quickly become the focus of the world.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Through this work of restoring the world back to God's original ideal of heaven on earth, you will come to experience how much God has suffered in restoring mankind.

We must understand how much more difficulty God has experienced on this path than any man in history.

If it was up to you and you had the power of the Almighty God, you would have used your power to crush this evil world a long time ago.

We know we should be patient, no matter how long restoration takes.

Our weapon and tool is education.  So, instead of destroying people, we will raise them up through teaching them God's divine plan in the Principle.


God saw and heard much wickedness over these thousands of years, yet He has been patient. By the same token, you have to be able to endure the criticism of the world. We must win the love of God; only that one thing matters.

God has been the king of patience in history and so we must be princes and princesses of endurance. 

You must have infinite patience and endurance if you want to gain true love.

Just looking in history, we can feel the pain of God as He worked to bring humanity back from their fallen position.  God gave His only son who carried His blood lineage and yet the world killed him.

Still, God was patient in that time.

Father has received overwhelming criticism as he brought the truth of the Completed Testament, but he does not want to remember any of it.  Within thirty minutes, he wants to forget any accusation that comes to him.

God has endured even more heartbreaking situations and disappointments over the thousands of years of human history, but he has forgotten the evil things and remembers the good news only.

Even though walking this path of restoration is treacherous, we should always be thankful to God for the opportunity to participate in His hardship.  We get to learn His endurance He had watching humanity after the fall with hope of recovering His children back.

Just with His power alone, we can understand God and be like Him.

How much has God trusted people?

Throughout the biblical times, God placed His trust in men to fulfill their missions.  Even though many saints have failed God and were untrustworthy, God still trusted.

Without trust, there is no way God could continue the work of restoration.

How could man continue to try if God did not trust him?

Then we should learn from God this attribute.  We must learn how to trust other people even though they may fail us a thousand times.

Hasn't God done the same for you and me who are just as unreliable?  Even though they may still lie to you, trust them, even though they may cause you pain, still trust them.

We should thank God that we can participate in this dispensation with Him in trusting us unconditionally, even though we have been untrustworthy.  When we come across a difficult person, we should be thankful for the opportunity to practice His trust.

God wants so much to love man that He gives everything unconditionally.

When God sees a person who practices this way of life of trusting while living in hard circumstances, He would want to give that person mercy.  Then, you win God's heart and He will shower His mercy and grace onto you.

When you witness to your area, you will be persecuted many times.  There will be a record of your persecutions you faced, but God will comfort you and be right there with you.

Persecution is a necessary ingredient.

After you receive a lot of persecution, you may return to the church center feeling down and depressed.  Instead, you should feel jubilant and honored for what the people have given you in that day.

While you endure hostility, you are becoming a universal person.  You will be able to go to any hot, cold, high and low places and be welcomed there.  In this way you become a central point.

In home church you are persecuted many times.

Your roster will be your record of persecution, but God will comfort you and be right there with you. Persecution is a necessary ingredient. In many cases when your people are rude and curse you, you come back to the center feeling depressed. But instead you should be jubilant over what they have given you that day.


When I leave New York to go abroad, you feel America is empty because the focus of love is temporarily away. I am always trying to be the focus of your love and I always focus my love upon you. This is why I am generous with you and forgive you all the time, giving you another chance and trusting you.



The twelve months comprises of one circle of seasons.

There is always balance there, with six months up and six months down, six months left and six months right. One spot is hot and the other is cold.  Each season reaches a peak before it changes.  You shouldn't desire only spring, or only hot weather.

Of course, most people do not like winter, but you still have to live through that season whether you dislike it.

Judas Iscariot and at least three disciples helped him to betray Jesus; this betrayal is the equivalent to the three months of winter.  In order to welcome spring,  you must pass through winter.  Winter is an essential time because nothing can be prepared fir the spring without it.

When water freezes it expands and through that process the hard shell of a seed bursts and is ready for spring.

God is truly a great scientist. 

When you see isolated pictures of the creation, you don't understand the greatness of the whole picture.  But by seeing the whole picture, you see the wisdom and necessity of a season like winter.

The church is completing its winter and is welcoming spring.

Then, we will bring in the blossoms in the summer and bring the harvest in autumn.  When these seeds are harvested, we enter winter again and get ready to be tested as the cold will beat fiercely on us again.  But the life in the seed will remain intact, waiting for the spring and summer to come along.

This is how new life will come.

You are persecuted and ill-treated but the life within you has been activated, hasn't it?

After a long winter, aren't you ready to come out in spring?  Americans think that their nation will always prosper, but this is not so.  We are building up the power to survive winter as the others enjoy spring, summer and autumn.

The Unification Church is full of hope for world peace.

We must be hardened and tested in order to become a great movement.

This way, we will be strong and able to prosper anywhere in the world.  In order to stay healthy, you must be able to live in and enjoy all of the seasons.

You should also be able to serve all four different categories of people:  spring, summer autumn and winter.

You need all four kinds of people, just as you need all four seasons.

This is why Jesus selected twelve disciples which were all very different.  Jesus was able to focus his love among each person and they were able to become one united group.  You as well should be able to focus on and serve 12 different people in harmony.

In one day, we can experience four seasons: morning is like spring, daytime is like summer, evening is like autumn and night time is like winter.  In order to make a full circle, you should move both up and down.

You cannot just go one way.

We should have the ability to know both up and down position.  God does both.  Satan only knows how to go up, but he ultimately falls all the way down.

When you go through suffering, do not think that this is the end or that you will be destroyed.  As much have you have fallen down, you can come up again that much higher.  This is the method God teaches us.

Working together with those in spirit world, we will focus on the eternal love of God.  In this movement, we possess the true love of God, therefore, we have a tremendous capacity.  We are able to focus ourselves no matter where we are because of this love.

Those who see us in this movement as doing wrong will change their focus when they see we are headed in the right direction.

If you totally serve and sacrifice for others, you will become a central figure wherever you go. 

By living this way, when you reach the spirit world, you will be elevated as the central figure in heaven.  Your eyes should search for the place where people are in misery.

Your thinking should point toward a way to liberate people out of hell. Your ears should change the sad sounds of hell into good.  Then your mouth should speak only glad words of salvation.

Look at everything in the world through God's parental eyes.  If you are able to do that, you will become a victorious person who is approved by as God's true son or daughter.

This task is more urgent than anything else.  You should get to the point that while doing this work, that you forget about time, the calendar or whether it is night or day.

Therefore, be proud of being persecuted.

When you have to do this work through a harsh wind and cold, wet rain, be proud of it.  When you have to do it with your shoes broken, be proud of it.  When you meet someone along the way who curses you, be proud of it.

Since you are like God and like Father, your worst worry is that people will ignore you.

If you can say that you will go this hard way without fail, pledge by raising your hands, please.  Thank you, and God bless you.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: Does God Need True Love?

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Heaven and Us.

History Going Toward Good

The history of humanity has been filled with chaos and upheaval.  The world was filled with the most violence since World War I.

Many think that these occurrences in history are random happenings, but through the Divine Principle we understand God's careful planning during His providence.  This is based on the period of indemnity.

We are now in a point of drastic history where it is changing.  Where is history headed from here?

Christianity has been built in Western civilization, but as we know that has been crumbling.  By looking at the way the world is, people think that this chaos will only get worse and deteriorate further.  This decline in the Western civilization has become very obvious.

The result of this is that the strong structure of Western families and nations have also been crumbling.  In this environment, it is easy to be pessimistic about the future, but we must remember that God is almighty and He surely has a plan for turning this drastic decline around.

There are two paths which people are going: one path leads toward destruction; the second path, which is of God, is headed toward reconstruction and hope.

God has been working hard for thousands of years with people, so He must be making a great effort to bring each of us to His side.

The world is full of chaos, but when we look back in history, we see that we are moving toward a more heavenly way on earth.

There are two points of view opposing each other in the world - one "atheistic" or man­-centered, and the other "theistic" or God-­centered.

In the past, people thought that science could provide all the answers for the world, but that hope is diminishing today.

Thinking people are realizing that a solution can only come through religion, or a God­-centered ideology.

Those who have centered solutions to problems based on man's theory are now losing hope.  The alternative is to place God on top; above everything.

God has used religion as a tool to reveal His will to man.  Then science was born to be in the position to serve God's purpose.  Instead of following God's purpose of unity, religion and science have been like oil and water.

Throughout history, it has not been easy for man and God to meet in harmony.  There was not a medium in order for this to take place.

Ultimately, there will be one kind of civilization that will dominate: Will it be man-centered or God-centered?

If God does exist, then the future of civilization is headed toward the God-centered culture and it must prevail.

If the primary goal is for the world to head toward world peace, then we know that God has been working hard in the background to bring a solution to man's problems today.

After World War I, two opposing ideologies existed in the world.  People can not avoid making a choice which camp they should follow.  As the Western civilization crumbles, God prepares the solution to this problem in the Eastern world.

Just like our planet turns, so history is turning.

Western civilization has passed through its golden age and now dusk and sundown are coming. Logically, then, the other side of the planet must be receiving sunshine now.

You can see that this is the fact in the latest trend of many Westerners searching the East for answers to their spiritual questions.  America has attracted the best, the essence of the whole Western civilization.  Within its short two hundred years, America has experienced a golden age and become a superpower in such a short time span.

Even with its great history of triumph, are there many Americans that truly honor their heritage or care about their families?

Instead, many are abandoning their families and trying to separate from this country.

Young people are trapped.  They have lost their world, nation, society and even their families which used to be a safe haven.

The youth in America are like a great fish that are caught in a net that holds them fast.  They are lonely, suffer depression and confusion because their nation and family do not have the answers to rescue them from their sadness.

You probably have noticed that many wish to go to the West Coast, which is the closest to the East. God knew such a trend would begin here in America, so He prepared some solution to come from the East.

God is helping people to cut the net that traps them and find new power.

God also teaches them that the reason why they were caught was because they were trying to find a selfish solution to their problems and escape being linked to anyone else.  Instead, one must link to the world, nation and home with parents and become firmly anchored in those systems.

This is the new concept of family, nation and world which God is teaching them.

God has been planning the re­-education of America and its young people but the teacher must come from elsewhere.

God has been planning this re-education of America, but the teacher must not come from within the walls of this nation.

American education is not fit to answer the world's problems.  In order to revolutionize life in this nation, there needs to be a champion for God.  America is not qualified to provide this kind of person or saint.

Therefore, God will look for a person that comes from the Eastern culture which is linked to America and send a teacher from there.


What Eastern nation has unbreakable ties to America?

Korea does.

You must know that the relationship between America and Korea did not come by accident, but is a providential relationship.  If there is a policymaker that tries to break this historical bond between America and Korea, he will not succeed.  Those who have tried to victimize Korea have been destroyed.


The people who plotted to destroy Korea and the Unification Church were themselves destroyed, while our movement is still spreading around the world. We fought a battle in the House of Representatives, and now in the last several days we have fought a battle in the Senate as well, meeting every senator.


In any situation, there is the Cain side representing Satan and the Abel side which is closer to God that blocks the path for the heavenly cause.  This includes the religious world.

Satan waged a war against the Unification Church, with the Completed Testament that reveals Satan's secrets, and tried to persecute it as a cult.  Fortunately, God also used this cause to uplift the church as a major religion and separate it from the category of a cult.

Before Christianity was an established religion, as Jesus was walking the path of persecution, his movement was also seen as a cult with a truth that was not widely accepted in its time.

Now, other religions see the value of the teachings and how the messages come directly from God to lead the world toward peace and don't want to see the church be destroyed.

Now we see it happening in the unity of the major religions around the Unification Church.

Great events on earth always precede great events in God's dispensation.

Three years after World War I, an important heavenly birth took place. Now you accept this explanation, but in those days, no one even thought about interpreting history in that way. At that time, Korea was occupied by Japan and in 1919 they stood up to declare independence.

They failed and thousands of Koreans were killed in the uprisings. It was as though Korea was trying to turn itself around before the great event of 1920. The greatest sacrifice was made by Korean Christians, many of whom were martyred.

Then in 1920, Rev. Sun Myung Moon who wrote the contents of the Completed Testament, was born.

The reverend speaks about his upbringing:

"My home town was Chungju, in what is now North Korea; it was a very Christian town. As a result of the uprisings, the Japanese allowed the Christians to gather to worship in the largest church and then they set it on fire, trapping everyone inside and killing them.

I was born one year after the independence uprising. Chungju was the town where the most Christians were martyred.

The Second World War erupted as I reached 16 years of age, beginning with the war between Japan and China. In 1945, when I was 25, the war ended.

When I was 30, the Korean War broke out, lasting three years. That was a worldwide event with 16 nations sending troops to fight in Korea and combat communism. There is no parallel to this in all of history.

That was one event which all the free world could rally around in the fight against the God-denying ideology of communism.

This was one truly, "holy war" because God mobilized all colors of skin to die side by side.

This was a greater event than even the martyrdom of first century Christians, because America, in the position of the Roman Empire, took the initiative to invite all free people to participate in the defense of Korea. It was as though the Roman Empire had invited 16 nations to come defend Israel 2,000 years ago.

Colonialism before World War I was a struggle for land.  After World War I, the nationalistic movements fought a war focused on human beings. For instance, the Germans and Japanese declared they were superior races.

One war remains and that is the war for God-to decide who will possess Him."

To win this war for God, you must be super-denominational, transcending national barriers and race. In this respect, the Unification Church has great dimension; we think of all races as one family, all nations as one nation of God and all religions as one under God.

The one to win this war for God will have to transcend national barriers, denominations, and race.  The church has great dimension embracing all races and nations as one family.  The Unification Church performs international and inter-racial marriages centered on the ideology of everyone is part of the human family.

All nations, races and religion are one under God.

On the other hand, you witness many battles between other religions that say that God is only with them and all others will perish.  This is the ultimate war where the Unification Church is on one side and all other religions are on another side.


Our battle in America is a religious one because all other religions have joined to try to discredit us in the past. But our goal is to awaken the conscience and righteousness of the people.



This is like a guerrilla warfare, where our brains and hard work are the weapons to convey the truth to the entire world.

God sent Jesus in order to save the world, but the people of his time had limited thinking.  They believed the Messiah came to just save them and their country from the tyranny of the Roman Empire.


We represent the absolute goodness of heaven and we have been oppressed by evil, but the heavenly power will keep pounding and turn evil around. 


We are at the turning point in history.  Just as God chose Christianity as the forefront of his spiritual war, he uses the Unification Church to turn evil toward goodness.  To reach this level, the Messiah had to go through to the bottom of human misery of the world and work from there.

God will not let history be controlled solely by people.  North Korea thought in the past that it could conquer South Korea easily, but it could not.  Communism, also tried to make America turn Korea into another Vietnam, but thankfully another greater power prevented this tragedy.

Now, we see a tug-o-war between those on the communist side and America, Korea, and Japan puling on the other side.  There needs to be a stronger champion that is pulling on the side of righteousness.

Communism has always had the goal of their godless ideology to dominate the whole world.  All of the communist nations are united on this one purpose.  On the other hand, all of the nation's on God's side are divided and are not certain which way to go.

God would not allow this situation to continue, so He has raised up a force in the free world that wins over communism.  When we take a look, it seems that the communist side is winning people and land everyday, but we are winning more on the spiritual side.

We are not alone, the entire spirit world is working and fighting on our side alongside with us.

Which has more, those in the spiritual world who have lived on earth and passed away or the people who reside on earth right now?

God watches this tug-o-war and will determine who is the winner.  Aren't you glad that we are on good speaking terms with the judge?  In order to win, God wants us to prove that we love mankind and show Him that this love is greater than that of the communists.

God gives us the mission to go to the very family units of the communists who are trying to destroy us and witness them to the truth.  Through this, we are making the home the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Therefore, the communists know that their best targets: the church and the family order.  Through destroying these two foundations, they can conquer all of society and dominate it centered on Satan.

But God's side is the champion for both home and church in our witnessing structure.

Home church is your launching pad. If you are a powerful rocket, but you have a weak launching pad, you cannot take off. 

You should be grateful to receive persecution because it strengthens your foundation to launch millions of pounds.

Our world needs to quickly turn around 30 degrees, but what will be the axis?  Witnessing in the home church area.

God has the greatest sense of humor.  He uses the most persecuted to relay His timely message of salvation.  However, good news always begins within the boundaries of the enemy territory.  That is when World War II ended, when good news came from the enemy territory and Japan surrendered.

Once the critics from the government, media, and the established Christian churches say that they surrender that is when our territory can be guaranteed.


We have seen how important the external world is. In my entire life there has not been one truly good day when there was no torture, no plot or conspiracy against me, but I have overcome all the typhoons in my life and now the entire world has to recognize me as a giant spiritual power. 

I know you would agree that I could not do this all alone; was God or Satan assisting me? I fulfilled God's internal dispensation all by myself and the corresponding external dispensation has proceeded up through this recent battle with Congress. This is the time in which the internal and external victories must be united.


The church is like a multi-layered eruption.  Starting at the individual at the center, then the family, society, nation and so forth.  The inner two layers must unite in order for the next layer to erupt.  God's love is the igniting power.

When each layer is ignited by true love, it then ignites the next layer.

When the individual and family are united and ignited by love, they burst through the entire society. When the family and society are united and ignited in love, the entire nation can be ignited and reborn. Finally, the unity in love of all those levels, of all races and nations, can bring rebirth to the entire world.


I came to America because it is like a museum of the world, containing all races and all kinds of people. If it could be ignited by the love of God, then the impact would certainly reach throughout the world. Such a change of this world would be enough to change the entire spirit world.


When one moves closer to the central point, eventually they reach to the core.  God works through individuals who are absolutely united with Him.  These individuals suffer more and do more because they have to fulfill the highest possible position.

If the earth's axis moves, then the entire world will move. Real energy must be added there to make that happen.

Those who are summoned by God to work for His dispensation are asked to do more and show the greatest devotion.  This has always been true throughout history.  God's people have suffered the greatest sacrifices in history.

At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus had a showdown with Satan during his forty day fast in the wilderness.  Of course, Jesus was victorious over the three temptations, but this was just temporarily.  Original, the Jesus was intended to find a bride and start a family.

It would be there that Satan would plan to attack Jesus on the family level on the way to the tribal level.  Finally, Satan won on the national-level through the crucifixion which was not God's original plan.  Many Christians do not understand that Jesus' death was secondary.

Jesus was the only one who carried God's sinless seed, through holy marriage he would have sinless children.  Only when his people denied him as leader and God's son, and did not follow him did he have no other way to save us but through his shedding his pure blood.

Satan was able to destroy Jesus' body, but God was able to resurrect him spiritually.  This is how God works.

As a person of faith, are you taught to just enjoy life and have only the best of everything, or do you the hardest most difficult work?

The satanic side also has the goal of mobilizing and uniting people, but they do it at gunpoint.   They force people to sacrifice themselves and their families for their own selfish cause.  God on the other hand, wants His people to work voluntarily, by taking up the cup of sacrifice on their own.

Does someone have to force you to do your church work or mission?  Satan always tries to encourage us to run away, but if someone was to steal you away, you would just run back to this way of life?

Satan offers people of faith all sorts of bait to entice you through the love of your parents, your friends, children and loves.  We face this sort of temptation everyday.  This is why the Bible warns us that those who have the burden of families will suffer more in the Last Days.  This is because through the multiplication of family, Satan has more bait to offer to tempt them away from doing God's work.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The First Day and Our Lifetime

True Love Most Valuable to God

Why is it that everyone has a yearning to return to their birthplace?  Everyone has a desire to restore their memory of the place they first received love from the family when they were young.

Hometown is a synonym for Love-town. 

When your parents grow old and die, you will visit their grave site even if you feel sad and lonely.  You will feel nostalgia and will return again and again.  It is the memory of love that pulls you back to that place.

Why did God give us five senses?

Through each of our senses, we can feel true love.  Our eyes wish to shed tears at seeing true love.  When there is true love, there is no boredom to be found.  You always want to see and hear more and more true love.

When you are surrounded by true love, all of your senses are filled with joy.  Your whole body is a chunk of true love.  If you burst into pieces after you roll down the Himalayas, you do not burst as an individual, but it is the center of true love that is bursting.

God is almighty so that He can protect true love and keep it intact. 

No one can accuse God of ever misusing His power, because He only uses it for the purpose of true love.  When you represent the center of true love, the entire universe will come to protect you because you are the most precious entity in the cosmos.

Nothing is more precious to Him than that.

If there was a chance that true love was shattered into pieces, God would reassemble it into something better.  He would probably hold tight onto it because there is nothing more precious to Him than true love.

The only reason for the existence of the universe is the central theme of true love.

A lot of women look in the mirror every morning, wash their face and wear something nice that will make them even more beautiful.  They do this because it is their inherent nature to want to be presented as beautiful and liked by others.  So, they present themselves in the best way to embrace other people.

What is the power or energy that inspires us to look our best?  I think it is the drive of central true love.

Most people today just exist from day to day like vegetables without thinking of central true love.  This is the most tragic kind of life.  How can one interact and live without love?

Our God-given original nature is always trying to move toward the center of true love, but wickedness in the world tries everything in its limited power to block us from receiving it.

Every human has a conflict between their good nature and their satanic power.  Everyone tries desperately to be happy in their own environment, but they just can't maintain true happiness.  Therefore, people just go about their day just existing and become vegetables.

These people can be likened to thousands of fish caught in a series of nets in the ocean.  They see the net in front of them and think if they can waddle their way out of it they can be happy.  Yet, they do not see the series of nets laid out before them.

It is heartwrenching to watch the struggle of that first net.  But if they can make a titanic leap across all of these nets, then there is hope for him.

Therefore, the only way to happiness is to jump over all that is blocking the path to true love.  If a fish wants to be free from the obstacles, he must think about jumping up toward God's direction instead of trying to break through each net one by one.

He may think that such a leap is impossible, but then he notices a line that is thrown in every once in a while.  All the others may be nonchalant about seeing this line, but other awakened fish get excited and grab the line as it passes overhead.

What if this line passes over just once in a century, or once in a millennium?  Then, if you miss the opportunity, you would have to wait one hundred or thousands more years.

The Messiah is this hope - that rope.

What kind of rope can liberate you totally from the satanic world?

The messianic rope alone can bring you out in one stroke. A minister offers a rope which presents some hope, with the power to bring you across one fence, but still you will not make it all the way. You need an extraordinary jump which will carry you all the way outside the nets. Is it selfish to think in these terms?

The Jews waited thousands of years for that lifeline.

Christians have waited 2, 000 years for it.  Unfortunately, that line has come, but we are all chained by the world that holds us down.  We can see it or reach it.  So, even if we were to grab that rope, there is a heavy chain linked to the sinful world that prevents us from lifting off.  This is the spiritual victory we must win.

It is impossible to break through all of those nets alone.   What if you did not jump high enough to catch the rope? You would have to wait another millennium until that lifeline passed again.

Therefore, we must liquidate the chains that holds us to the past, and old habits so we can catch this rope and lift our  ancestral line with us.  How do we catch this ride in order to restore our fallen lineage?

First, you must cleanse yourself ideologically.

How purified is your thinking?

Have you ever quieted your mind so you can see the kinds of thoughts that dwell there?

Is it central true love or is it mixed with impure thoughts?

There are many -isms in the world today, just like a department store full of things to buy.  The only person who can monitor your brain is you, so, check what kind of -ism lives there.

Only you truly knows how true or false you are.  You know who you are and what are the habits and -isms you have.  Everyone knows what goes through their brain.

Since you know where you are, when you go to spirit world you have no excuse for not working for true love. 

Medical science can record your heartbeat and the electrical functioning of your brain. In the same way, you cannot hide from spirit world because they know exactly what you are. What's in your mind.  Everything is in the open in spirit world.  Nothing is hidden.

When you see this kind of standard of central true love and you compare it to your reality there is no reason that we should loftily think that we have earned our place in heaven.

Do you really think you have earned heaven?

Our goal in life is to find the center of true love.  Can you do this quietly or will you want to advertise it and let the whole world be shakened by this truth?  Of course, you would be controversial and let the universe know.

The greatest of all searches in history is the search for true love, in all corners of the earth. 

You must let the universe know, only then will you have a hope of finding it.  This is the quickest way to true love.  

Reverend Sun Myung Moon who gives these speeches explains this further:

When I made a stir in Korea, the whole nation was shaken, and now all Asia is shaking. People called me names and made incredible accusations, and in the midst of that I could hardly believe that people were still following me.

But the greater the suffering I went through, the greater my following! Even when people tell you not to become a Moonie, you still come.

People even came to see me in prison. The longest line of visitors in history was the group which waited to see me pass down the prison hall. They even stood for 24 hours. I did not speak kindly to those visitors: I demanded to know why they were there instead of out witnessing. 

They replied that they missed me and had no power until they saw me. Tears ran down their faces as we spoke, and the prison officials couldn't understand what was happening. I was not handsome or important-looking, but not only young people but even grandparents and children came to line up and see me.

When you own the center of true love, that is what happens. What is the most colorful street in New York? Have you gone to Times Square to shout out, "I am here to find the center of true love"? You probably think people will look at you strangely. 

If you are embarrassed and concerned about all the old things but insist that you want the center of true love, will you find it? Why can't we just live quietly and behave like normal people and still have the center of true love?"



The person who sees many wicked things and hears wicked sounds, who has many things to say but is patient and waits, and who has the experience of suffering and persevering through incredible circumstances, that person deserves true love.

Do you look for love in a peculiar area or in an ordinary area?  You should know that true love is not easy to come by.

Who, then is the center of love?

God has witnessed many atrocities by humanity here on earth, but still He has hope that His dream ideal world can be built.  He has never lost that infinite hope for our future.  Has anyone else carry such conviction for thousands of years?

This is how we realize He is the center of true love.

Even though God is the subject and center of love, there are many layers of fences surrounding it.  God has become a prisoner through the barriers humanity has created.

Still, through all of this time, He has been patient and withstood His lonely and painful circumstances.  

If you want to reach God, you have to run a sort of obstacle course around all of those fences.

It is not easy.  You may feel overwhelmed by peoples' negativity.  But in that moment you can immediately think of God's situation.  Think of all of the people who have cursed God.  Did He get mad or kill them?

God was patient in the most heartbreaking moments of human history.  So, you should be stronger than God in receiving their hostility.  When you talk about tears and your trials, do not forget how patient God has been and how He has suffered.

How would you talk about just your own position in the work of restoration without thinking of His?  When you think of God in the process of restoring humanity, you will see that He is always ahead of you.

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This post was derived and rewritten from the speech Liquidation and Blessing

How to Become the Central Figure

The person who sacrifices the most becomes the central figure.

Today's young people do not understand or realize this simple truth.  The one who sacrifices the most in the family becomes the filial son.

A patriot will become the central figure to the nation because he sacrifices more.  A sage that sacrifices more than the others will become the central figure of the sages.

This is the heavenly law.  Youth who can harmonize with heaven, humankind, and all things, new sprouts of hope will appear wherever this kind of youth goes.

Youth is the place where God's hope builds a nest.  

These youth is the place where God's power of love increases.  We must know this amazing fact.

Young people are the persons in the subject position that can carry out the reformation for God. University students who are to do the work of restoring universities cannot be blessed in the fallen state that they are currently living.

The wife will compete with the husband after he says just one word.  She will say that she can do everything just as well as men.  This is not good.  This behavior in the marriage only hurts you.

We study God's word to become better people in order to meet a true man and to become a true wife and mother.  To become a true mother, you should study for the sake of the nation.  You must serve your husband as a true husband and you must become a true wife who serves a true husband.

Do we see these kind of marriages these days or do we see the wife and husband constantly in competition for who should be served?

A woman who cannot serve a true husband centered on God, you will not bare a true son.  

Women should become true wives.  As a housewife of a family, you must live together with your husband till old age.  If you are studying how to be a true wife, when you graduate, you could stay with your husband until your old age.

Do many people in America live until they are elderly as husband and wives or do they divorce?  Without doing any research, we can clearly see that those that don't have degrees or are illiterate seem to live together with their spouses longer.


The Standard Sung Hwa Students Must Maintain

The reason why university campuses are falling into immorality like Adam and Eve fell when they were teenagers is we are living in the time of harvest.  Humanity is reaping the fruits of fallen history and not a true history which God intended.  This is why you are witnessing the destruction of adolescence.

The Messiah returns in these days to restore the fall according to heavenly law.

Once students go away to university, there are many temptations.  It is easy for them to be pushed around in different directions. This is why young men should not readily hold hands with young women.

Even by just sitting still, you must become a group that cannot be ignored by the environment.

There once was a time when it was announced on the radio that young people had to go home before 10 o'clock, right?

If you are a university student, you must be the central person who will take responsibility in the future and lead the nation.

In order to lead toward a world of goodness, there must be a standard to follow.  By centering yourself on the Principle, universal law,  you can move freely backwards and forward.

Which side do you think you are on?  The good side or the evil side?

When you look at the word 'satan' in Korean, sa means 'to buy' and tan means 'to ride'.  Who buys?  You are the people who are going to be bought.  If you are stolen by Satan, how can you raise your head to a high position and stand tall?

Sung Hwa students already know their destination has been set after graduation.  It is best to not think of other things.  You should not use your hands, eyes, nose, body and mind recklessly.  You will stand in the vanguard holding a beacon for the salvation of the nation. From there, a new history begins.


Restoration of the Nation

How can the morality of this nation be restored instantly?

The male and female university students must become one and stand at the forefront of the nation.  When you view the principle, you know which direction you should go.  You should go in the place of your elder and younger brother from a long time ago.

Jesus came to bring not just Heaven in Heaven, but to bring Heaven on Earth.  This means salvation not just only in spirit, but also the flesh will be liberated which carries the blood lineage of sin.  This was Jesus' hope. But instead, he lost his physical body and could not bring salvation except in spirit only.

This explains why Jesus asked God at first to let the cup of death pass him, because he was very aware of how Israel and people of faith would be persecuted and walk a bloody path until his return in our time.

We must dissolve Jesus' sorrowful resentment deep in his heart which he experienced during his adolescence due to the faithlessness of the prepared  people of Israel.

As you walk the path which the Messiah laid, you must overcome Jesus' lonely and miserable situation when he was persecuted and kicked out alone.

When you are able to do this, it will be like you are triumphant in the boxing ring going against Satan.

This is Heaven's law to accomplish indemnity and resolve the historical resentment.Those who oppose going this way will perish;those of you who are receiving that opposition will not perish. If you just believe and go forward, you will never be forced out. Just overcome for three years treading forward.


After Graduation, the Way of the Will Is More Important than Finding a Job


Let us sit and think for a moment about the existence of 'I'.  Let us think about ourselves for awhile.  Where did this existence of 'I' come from?  How have I lived from the past until now?

You attended kindergarten, primary school, junior high, high school and university, but where are you headed?  From this point, there is a course which tells from where and to where we are to go.  This course we must go by any means.

The general goal of university graduates its to get a great position in a company or a bank and make a pretty good salary.  This is their final goal.   Once that foundation is solid, the next step is they think they want to meet a beautiful partner and have children.

In this process, there are no concerns for humankind or for anything higher.  What would you become if you live like this?

Thoughts about salary and receiving so much money is actually trivial things that doesn't amount to blowing your nose.  Do you want to become a slave of money after graduation:?

If you don't want to be a man chasing after a salary or a slave of money, what are you going to do?  Wouldn't you become a boss?

You cannot be included in the group of humanity if you say you cannot go the Way of the Will because of a job opportunity.

The youth of today are very concerned about money, making this much dollars, jobs this, jobs that.  To them, getting and having a job is more important than anything else.  Can you relate to this mentality?

Young people, especially those who attend university think only centering upon their own ideas of how to succeed in their own country and how to realize a happy life.

Those who follow God's will must not be like that.

You must think for the sake of the people and the world based on the moral ethic of a higher dimension more than your own happiness.  From the Principle viewpoint, you must have the consciousness to carry out a central mission.

You must broaden your view of happiness beyond obtaining material and view it from that higher dimension and practice it.  This follows the principle of living for the sake of others.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook World Scripture.

Hope of the Young

Have you ever asked a young person what they want to be when they grow up?  They have many dreams of greatness and happiness in the hopes for their future.

There is no youth that does not have hope. 

Mostly, when you ask what people hope for the future, they will have the ambition to succeed in the subject to which they attend college.  Then someone may challenge and ask, "Is that your real objective in life?"

In search of an answer, not many people are confident in their dreams.

When one is able to achieve their ambitions, then they must start over after realizing that this is not his true ambition.  Yet, not many people in life can feel that they have achieved their dreams and are truly happy and content.

Those who are able to achieve in a certain area, they will then see they want to go beyond that goal.  It is natural that we do not want to end in the reality we live, but we constantly want to go beyond that reality no matter how much we achieve.


Then what really is youth's hope or ambition?

It is a fact that no matter how hard we try, at least in the past, we have never been able to say, or heard anybody say, after reaching the goal of his own ambition, "I am happy, for I have accomplished it". No matter how big a person becomes in the world, he still has to achieve something more, look for something farther.  Always striving to be bigger.

The true ambition of every young person is to achieve his personal dreams.  No matter how accomplished one becomes, if it does not touch them in a soulful way, he will be unhappy. The gravest goal that we must consider is how do we maintain our own sense of happiness once we have established our goal.

Any youth you speak to still has the ambition to go beyond his own national boundary. 

Even though this young person is on this level of understanding, there is no true ideal.  The ideal begins from a certain central point within ourselves.  There, the basic hope and ambition of the youth then can go toward the world.  When we meet opposition, we become indignant toward others in an effort to protect ourselves and this ambition.

In other words, man is unconsciously working on the basis of perfecting himself. When someone attacks him, he will defend himself. Each person will suddenly realize he would like to be perfect.

A woman's sense of accomplishments centered on herself will be different from a man's sense of accomplishments.  Also, from the viewpoint of different countries, there are different ideas and attitudes.


What is true perfection, and what is the center of our hope?

If a person found his center well established, then he would be absolutely happy in the past, present and the future.  Such a person would be accepted consistently throughout history.  Everyone would want to devote himself to this person.

They would think they were the most dependable and beautiful person in the world.

How does one become such a person?  When we think of the ideal youth, it would be the same to us and everybody and consistent with this person.

The ideal youth represents the world, including every country, and the one who can represent the past, present, and future.

If such a youth exists on the earth, he would be considered a treasure of the world.  Treasure is regarded to have an eternal quality.  He would reflect the total.  All youth should want to have such an image; there should not be many exceptions.

When we think of the ideal youth, we must think about man that is both external and internal.  We also see the man striving to do the ideal, and the man as a physical being.

Then what is the ideal?

The ideal subject represent everybody; it excludes nobody; it represents every individual past, present and future.  The ideal person will deploy himself toward the world eternally, not momentarily.


The "Ideal," in Chinese characters, is comprised of a left side ("king") and a right side ("village"); in other words, king's village. -- One side symbolizes the whole, and the other side represents the center. When the whole focuses on one center, then that is ideal. A single man will never achieve that; only with the entirety surrounding the original center will the ideal exist.

It may be hard for Westerners to understand the significance of these characters, but each has a deeper meaning and represents one thought.  When people first started using these characters, they unknowingly included the concept of happiness and the ideal.

And on this basis alone, on this combination of outer environment and developing our own environment for this one purpose, the ideal can come to exist.

Thus, the ideal is not achieved by one person.  There needs to be a perfect object from which the subject has give and take with, then, the ideal exists.  The ideal does not come about from one man, but through a reciprocal relationship.  Just the same, the ideal youth can never be ideal in himself.  He will have the knowledge from both sides so he can represent everything.


Every individual is different from another. Some people have special points in outer things, and some in inner things. Some people are very weak, and some are very strong. Some people are noble, and some are lowly. The ideal person will be someone who can embrace both ends and stand at the center.


The ideal youth will encompass everything and stand strong in the center.  He will not only be concerned with his own life, but he will be concerned for his own village, family or country.  Also, he will not only live for the present reality, but be interested in the past, future and the world.

When a person tries to maintain a relationship with God, then he will become the ideal youth.  We may envision that God is a being that is the center of the whole.  Then this means that God represents the past, present and future.

From the four directions, we have to center on God.  Thus, God is the center of the whole universe.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Hope of the Youth.