First Man & Woman Mistake Was Love

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.  Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there He put the man He had formed.  The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.  And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when  you eat from it you will certainly die."  The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a helper suitable for him."

Genesis 2: 4, 7-8, 15

What do you think God's purpose was when He decided to create human beings?  For wealth?  For power to control another under His dominion?

God is the essence and source of true love.  The only way joy is felt in the heart is through the context of a relationship.  This means a being that is alone cannot experience the joy of love.

Noone knows how long God harbored alone before he decide to create the universe.

"Even God could not experience any stimulation as long as He existed all alone. Alone, He could not love. For His love to blossom, God needed objects to love. For this reason, God created human beings to be His children, partners in His true love."

God is the Father of all humankind, and we are God’s sons and daughters. In creating us, God invested everything -- the bone of His bone, the flesh of His flesh, and the marrow of His marrow.

When a couple become parents, they raise their children with the hope to reach the central point, the most exalted place where their loves and ideals unite.  By God being our parent and not our commander in chief or master per se, the omniscient and omnipotent God allowed us to grow into a position on par with Him and equal to Him in rank when we fulfill the purpose of creation.

How do we fulfill the purpose for God's creation?  How is it possible for God to need humans beings as co-creators to complete the ideal world? 

Beyond what God can do, there is the human element that is needed.  God created human beings with the ideal they would unite.  Thus, God does not reach complete perfection until his counterparts, man and woman reach perfection.

With this knowledge now at hand, you can imagine how much God yearned for the first ancestors Adam and Eve to reach maturity and unite as husband and wife completely centered on God.  Then they would become beings that reflected God's perfected image and be beings of infinite value. 

When Adam and Eve chose to follow the archangel's command to "eat" God lost His own true sons and daughters.  When the first ancestors of mankind fell, God could not establish a true family capable of creating deep bonds of true love, propagating a divine lineage centered on Him. 

Instead, Adam and Eve became false parents centered on the false parent, Lucifer.  They bore children and their family became engrafted to Satan's false love, false life, and false lineage bearing children of Satan's bloodline instead of God's holy lineage. 

This is where sin was born.  As a consequence, you and I and all of humanity after the fall of the first ancestors, suffer from a constant struggle between our godly mind and our satanic body or flesh.

"Adam and Eve fought constantly, and so did their children, resulting in murder. They did not become the exalted beings that God could relate to as His eternal son and daughter. God could not glorify them as the true ancestors and true parents of humanity. Yet with their fall, God lost the only son and daughter He had."

What happened between Adam and Eve that caused them to fall? Was it, as the Bible literally says, that they ate the "fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil"? Could merely eating a piece of fruit be the original sin?

Also, read any version of the bible and you will see that it never says, do not eat of the FRUIT tree but some other kind of tree. 

Even still could our ancestors’eating of a physical piece of fruit doom thousands of generations of their descendants to be sinners?

No.

How do certain attributes get passed down from generation to generation?  Could something that is physical be passed on unceasingly from parent to child?  The root of sin continuously follows the laws of inheritance.  Sin was planted into the lineage of the first ancestors.  How does one pass on traits to their children?

The only way is through having sexual relations.  This is the only transgression that can have a lasting impact.  The misuse of love committed between two people of the opposite sex.

Eve committed adultery with the archangel Lucifer, and they became one. When Eve then joined with Adam, she bound him in that same oneness. Through this mistake, Adam and Eve had a conjugal relationship that was not centered on God, meaning their family was tied to Satan, the fallen archangel.  Thus, every human being that descend from the first ancestors inherited this same lineage of Satan nonstop. Thus creating a world of hell on earth.

"According to the Principle of Creation, love determines the right of ownership. In a relationship of love the partners possess a right of ownership with respect to each other. By this principle, Satan used his ties of illicit love to claim ownership over fallen human beings."

Jesus said, "You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire." John 8:44

These are pretty harsh words!  You're like your father and he is Satan himself?  This is because Eve had a sexual spiritual relationship with Satan and passed this sin through the blood relationship of her husband Adam.  Satan became the false father and ruler of humanity.  God is our True Father.

Christians believe God is some almighty king practicing happily on his throne giving out orders to His peasants and that He can do as he pleases and have everything His heart desires.  What God desires is to have his True Children back in His bosom. 

What parent, even an earthly father, would be happy over seeing their daughter raped by the servant, who kill His only son and bear grandchildren that He could never fully enjoy without a mediator?  In reality, God is in tremendous grief and wretchedness!

Looking at God's ideal of Creation for Adam and Eve to be perfected counterparts of His pure, essential love, you can see He experiences infinite sorrow and disappoint after they fell.  God lost everything!  He had to carry His grieving heart and cut a path of blood to pursue the path of restoration throughout history in order to restore His children.

There is nothing vague or ambiguous about God. He possesses a definite character. He desires to form a relationship of the highest true love with human beings. He desires to share with each of us the most exalted love and joy eternally. But God lost the starting point for this, due to the mistake of our first ancestors. The fall of Adam and Eve caused such damage.

God is the original True Parent, yet He was robbed of His rightful parental position. How heartbroken He is over this! God looks upon His fallen children, who inherited the lineage of the enemy Satan-children who refuse to even recognize that He exists. How excruciating must the pain in God’s heart be each and every moment, as He observes humanity’s wretched condition!

Just as any parent who has the infinite ideal of how joyful their children will be in the future, God wanted nothing more precious than to have flesh and blood counterparts to interact with His true love.  God would not have traded His beloved children for the entire universe. His sorrow upon losing them was as equal to what it would have been had He lost the entire creation. He felt that His entire purpose for creating the universe had collapsed.

During the time of creating the universe, God invested His love completely, yet He was robbed of His children and all of creation by His enemy-a thief in the night robbed God of His cosmic throne.  God kept the laws of the principle with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience which makes the result of His creation's disobedience even more devastating.

Even though God is Almighty, we have His characteristics: Emotion, will and intellect.  God has emotions.  What father could continue for thousands of years watching His children be born in a prison occupied by his enemy, watch His children be raped and murdered and detached from His lineage?  This has been God's situation and noone knew except the Messiah who had God's heart. 

Seeing the history of lamentation that befell the world following the Fall, the Book of Genesis says that God grieved in His heart.

The Apostle Paul said, "Creation groans, our ancestors groan, and all humanity groans, waiting in eager anticipation for the appearance of the sons and daughters of God." All creatures desire to escape this realm of lamentation.

God's innermost heart has been tortured and broken as He surveys human beings struggle.  We lead lives of which has little value in comparison to the glorious ideal God had planned for His absolute children and creation. 

God knows the value that was lost after the fall.  He cries out in agony saying, "You were supposed to be My children of my direct lineage possessing My absolute love, My life and My lineage.  You are supposed to be enjoying the fruits of the glory of the Kingdom of the Heaven on Earth.  My heart is in the deepest of pain to see you wearing the mask of the defeated struggling and lamentation until the end of your meaningless lives."

Do you think that God, omniscient and omnipotent, seated on His glorious throne, would say to His children, "Come on up here. I’m not going to leave this seat?" Or is it more likely that He would kick His throne out of the way and come down to where we are? 

Due to our disobedience, we have not only placed God in prison, but we have placed Him in our hell on earth.

People may wonder how is it possible for an almighty God that created the universe and humanity be pained by its very existence.  God has a heart and He cannot get over the shock of losing His beloved sons and daughters.  If God could have clapped His hands and automatically erased the fall and solved all of the world's problems on His own without any human effort, He would not have suffered all of these thousands of years while traveling a lonely path of the providence of restoration.


Photos courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Ideal True Husband and Wife

This post was taken rewritten from the speech: Filial Children Of God Are Patriots Who Strive To Liberate His Heart given by Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the author of the Divine Principle.

What Is Cause of Human Disunity w/God? Part 1

Somewhere in history, man and God separated and man was bequeath and riddled with sin that did not originate from God.  We know this occurred with the fall of the first humans endowed with God's spirit.  But how did this happen?  Can one pinpoint the true reason for this separation other than just saying disobedience and the eating of a fruit?

Human beings were born as children of the heart, but they had to grow up. In order to mature and be able to govern the universe, they had to turn around God. Thus, God has to come down to them, become one with the axis and turn the universe.

According to the Principle, the commandment, "Do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," actually meant, "Wait until you become mature." That is to say, they had to wait until the central point was set, and until they were able to settle in that central point.

What comes first: love or self-awareness?

Love comes first. If that had actually happened, we would have been successful in everything. If that occurred, there would have been no walls or ravines on the path of life. Our life would have meshed with the gears of the heavenly principle and rotated smoothly. The great heavenly principle would have made this possible.

However the woman abandoned this principle and started out from self-awareness. According to the Bible what did she want to eat? When she looked at the fruit it was good for food and it was said to make her eyes open; at that moment Eve realized her ego.

This became the problem. Please understand that once you become aware of your own "self" and begin to assert yourself, you are already in the realm apt to be invaded by the cunning Satan, by your fallen nature! You must understand this clearly. (171-109, 1987.12.13)


Covering Their Sexual Parts Indicates What Kind of Sin

Into what did Satan drive his roots?

Into the body. God created Adam and Eve, but they fell when they were underage. God commanded them not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but it was not a commandment concerning a literal fruit.

If they had plucked the fruit with their hands and eaten it with t heir mouths, then they would have hidden their hands and covered their mouths. So why did they cover their sexual parts?

This is a deadly trap, the cause of the destruction of human culture. The word "love" is the most sacred word, but why have words related to love become obscene in spite of this? Why do we consider them foul words? It is because the misuse of love destroyed the great Principle of heaven and earth.

What was it about the Fall that God could do nothing about it; what was it that made Him so powerless? Why is the Fall so hard to overcome? What is this about a fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? If Adam and Eve ate a fruit, then why did they cover their sexual parts?

They defiled their bloodline.  Just as kings and queen are required to come from the direct blood lineage of 'royal blood', God's children were to inherit His bloodline, His seed.  The fact that they defiled their blood means that they defiled their life.

The fact that they defiled the life means that they defiled love. Human beings, who were supposed to become the nervous system within the great principle of heaven and earth, fell while in their youth.

Who violated the woman?

The archangel, the servant, violated God's daughter, Eve, who in the future was supposed to become God's queen and His external incarnation. The lineage was changed. You may be hearing this for the first time.

What is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Do you know what it is? It refers to the sexual part of the woman. In Korean, don't people say, "I picked and ate that woman" meaning, "I seduced her"?

The Korean language is curious. Men use this word, "I am going to pick and eat that woman." Even men who do not know the Bible say things like that. this tells the truth to a person's heart. Everything should be reported truthfully to our conscience. In the Last Days, people have to tell the truth.

Could the original sin appear through eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Even if a father ate the fruit and thus committed a sin, what kind of fruit was it that made thousands of generations of his descendants into sinners?

It was a relationship that involved lineage. Once planted in the lineage, the root of sin continues eternally by the law of inheritance. This can only be possible through a relationship of love. Improper love is the cause of the Fall.

If human beings fell by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as Christianity teaches, then restoration could be completed in one day. In this case God could just create something tastier and better than this fruit and feed it to human beings and this would become the condition of indemnification, would it not? Theoretically speaking, that would be correct. (38-164, 1971.1.3)

Where were Adam and Even supposed to meet each other?

They were to meet on a vertical line. They were supposed to become one in love. What is love adjusted to? It is adjusted to the center. This center is the sexual organs of a man and a woman. This is where love is adjusted to. The genitals of a man and a woman are so precious. Therefore, men and women must treat them with respect like they do God throughout their lives. This organ is the most holy place.

Why did Adam and Eve cover their sexual parts after the Fall? Christianity does not know. What? Did Adam and Eve eat a fruit? Why would God expel His beloved son and daughter? How serious the problem must have been that God had to expel them! (197-261, 1990.1.19)

Eve became the mother of two worlds. She came to stand in a midway position in between good and evil. Then, who must decide whether to follow the direction of good or evil? A person himself or herself must decide. In order to do so, one must crush evil and Satan and cling to God. One must cling to God with a power several times stronger than the power he or she uses to strike Satan. In order to strike evil you must exert all your strength. At the same time, you must cling to God with even greater force.

What was the Fall? In Christianity they say it was eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Thus, they think that this was a fruit of an actual tree. However, a fruit cannot have the same value as a human being. Among all creatures, plants were originally created to be under human beings command. God did not create plants possessing elements that are able to cause the Fall of beings superior to them.

In established churches, they say that eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the Fall. Such an interpretation is materialistic. If you say that a spiritual entity fell because a person ate something material, then how is it different from communist theory, which claims that spirit arises from matter?

Did the human spirit fall because someone ate something material on earth?

Can a spiritual being fall because a person cats something physical? If you say that the physical was degraded because of the spirit, that is understandable, but saying that a spiritual being fell because of matter does not make sense. It is materialism that states that the spirit is derived from matter.

The bible is full of parables, messages left for those with the ears to hear the spirit of truth.  The tree was a symbol, not a physical tree or fruit.


Symbol For the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the crossroads of life and death
It is written in the Bible that God told Adam and Eve that they could freely eat the fruit of all the trees in the Garden of Eden, but as for fruit of the tree of life and the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that were in the center of the Garden, they were told not to even look at them or touch them. What does that mean?

What do all trees signify? Adam and Eve were brother and sister. so they could hold each other's hands, kiss each other, and do things like that, they could freely eat the fruit of all trees. However God obligated them not to touch the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the fruit of the tree of life, that is, the male and female sexual organs. That is what He warned them about.

Do you know what the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was that caused the Fall of the first human ancestors?

The fruit signifies the sexual organs of the man and the woman. If you use these organs well, your nation will prosper, but if you misuse them, it will perish.

This is what this fruit is. It is true even for a king; if he uses this organ properly his nation will prosper, but if he errs in using it his nation will be destroyed. Because of this, families and societies are breaking down; because of this everything is divided into hell and heaven. The fruit of evil has ripened where the fruit of goodness should have been.

Isn't that the fruit of good and evil? Does everyone have the fruit of good and evil, or not? The sexual organs of a man and a woman are the fruit of good and evil. They are the head and mouth of a viper. Why did Jesus call Satan a viper? Why did he say Satan was a snake? This is the head of a snake. You must understand this. It is the head of a viper! Women and men are all after this, are they not? Is it that not so for both women and men? 

What is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? If you misuse love, you inherit the eternal fruit of evil. If you love righteously, you inherit the eternal fruit of goodness. Is this fruit of good and evil an actual fruit? People who claim that the fruit is an actual fruit are crazy! This fruit refers to the male and female sexual organs.

Since the woman had a greater predisposition to fall than the man, God gave the warning, "Do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil!" If a woman meets a good person, her sexual organs bear a good fruit, but if she meets an evil man, they bear an evil fruit. The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil refers to the female sexual organs. Does such a situation apply to men? No, it does not.

When God gave the warning to Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, who did He actually give it to? He did not give it to Adam. In his adolescence, Adam was busy playing around, he came back home tired and soon went to sleep. The woman however would be sitting down and saying things like, "The sunlight is so warm! Oh, look! The flowers are blooming! The water is so clean and the air is so fresh!" Didn't she also say something like, I want to be as beautiful as a flower?" So in adolescent years women develop faster than men.

The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil refers to the sexual organs.

These organs can bear either good or evil fruit. If a woman mixes with a bad man, she will receive a bad seed from him. But if she gets together with a good man, she will receive a good seed. Isn't that right? So the fruit refers to the female sexual organs. Eve fell and thus received the blood of the devil. The devil is an archangel. This archangel was the representative of the servants.

What would God give a warning about? After God created the ideal Adam and Eve, what conditions could there be that He had to warn them about? What do mothers and fathers warn their young sons and daughters about? What should young people be cautious of when they go out?

God followed the same reasoning. What should God be careful about? God does not need money. He does not need knowledge. He does not need power. He can always possess these things freely. However, even God cannot do as He pleases with love.

It is written the Bible, "When you eat of it (of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil), your eyes will be opened." (Gen. 3:5) What do the words "eyes will be opened" mean?

 For a man it means to know a woman, and for a woman it means to know a man; it means nothing else than the knowledge of the opposite sex. if you are born as a man and do not marry, you are foolish. What is the highest ideal? The summit of the highest ideal a man must reach is a woman. But what kind of woman? It is a woman who is a perfect match for his heart, a match for him when he is young, a match for him when he is old, a woman who matches him forever. Isn't that right?

When God created human beings, which part of them did He make most laboriously? Was it the eyes, the mouth, the nose or the hands? People do not even think about it. It was the stronghold of love. The term "stronghold of love" refers to the sexual parts of man and woman. These parts are the main palace of love. This is where man and woman learn about each other's love, and without this place they will not understand love. The owner of love can not appear.

Where is the royal palace of love, life and lineage? It is that important organ of the man and woman. It was the holy place at the time of God's creation. I am telling you it was the holy place. If it is invaded, everything is destroyed.

Three precious things are connected to this place. Love, life and lineage are connected to this place, are they not? The sexual organs are the origin of these three important elements.

From the viewpoint of God's original ideal of creation, the sexual organs are the most precious and holy place. This is the holy place, the holy of holies! The most holy place is not a place that just anyone can enter. No one except for the high priest, except for the person in charge, can open its door. The words "a fountain sealed" in the Song of Solomon in the Bible refer to this.

Sexual organs are so precious for they are the royal palace of life, love and lineage. But if you treat them like libertines, as if they were bull's balls, how are you going to pay the price of that sin? Isn't this a serious problem? This is a holy place. It is the most holy place, which God created as the most precious organ.

 What happens when it is defiled?

In Moses course, were not those who defiled the Ark of the Covenant killed on the spot? This is the same. Defiling the stronghold of love, which is the same as the most holy place, cannot be forgiven. Man and woman embrace each other. Loving each other is a cosmic act. It is the touchstone for forming the realm of oneness of God and humankind. In this moment man and woman are granted the relationship that connects the finite to the infinite.

When holy men and holy women join at the sexual organs through holy love, holy life and holy lineage and give birth to children, these children will go directly to the heavenly kingdom. They will not need religion or moral training.

When mind and body form a right angle, when love and all other aspects grow without any damage, so that the internal and external aspects of his or her personality are perfected, then the person can understand everything without being taught. I am like that.

What is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Until now it was a secret. No one could talk about it. It was the fault of our ancestors. Since the mistake was committed by our ancestors, this truth could not he made publicly known until the true ancestors came. Neither God nor Satan could reveal it.

 Return for Tomorrow's Post: What Is Cause of Human Disunity w/God Part II

This text is based on the book: Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Eight, Chapter 2.

Why Women Had to Fight Equality Throughout History

Many problems in the world can be traced back to the Garden of Eden.  Even in jest there are thousands of jokes that "the devil made me do it" or "all the problems in the world began with a woman."  Good jokes always have a little truth at its root somewhere hidden in it.

God does not sit idly by on His throne watching His children suffer on earth as He merely rules the earth with all mighty power.  Any ruler such as this that would place His own dominion and position over love would be a false god.

That false god would be the one who has perpetuated this lie in the first place, and has stood in God's place pretending to be Him.  This god would be the one Jesus said was the ruler of this earth and the true father of the people who disobeyed him.

 The fall was initiated by the archangel Lucifer, and followed by Eve, which has pained God's heart.  In order for God to return His children to the state before the Fall, the mistake has to be indemnified and reversed.  To indemnify is to pay back for a wrong done.

God told Adam and Eve if they chose His words, "do not eat" that they would receive the three great blessings, on the other hand, if they followed Lucifer's teachings "do eat for you will not die" they would receive curses. 

Since God's children chose Lucifer's words, they all received curses.  Lucifer was thrown down to earth, Adam would have to work to gather food after the ground was cursed, Eve was to have Adam (men) as her master for all her days, and childbirth was going to be painful. 

Even though it was the archangel who defied God and tricked Eve, who did God give the responsibility to follow the commandment? 

Herein lies where the pain of women began in all facets of life.  Our first ancestors endowed with God's spirit were given the responsibility to choose to follow God's word in order to become mature and share in God's authority over the earth and receive the three great blessings.       

Lucifer was a servant, and was angered that God loved His children more, on the other hand, he was never given the commandment.  Lucifer was only told to return to his position as a servant.  It was up to Adam and Eve to trust God's command, follow and become subject to Lucifer.

Eve instead followed Lucifer, and then tempted Adam to do the same by following her.  Eve chose curses, therefore as Eve's descendants, all women thereafter would inherit her fallen characteristics.

God introduced religion to break us free from these curses, but this was not to last forever, there will be a point in history when all people will no longer need a Messiah to connect directly to Him.  That will be the Last Days.

Does God plan to keep these curses over His children forever?  God never placed these curses on us, we chose them.  Ever since the fall, God has been working hard to bring us back toward blessings and on His path.  If you look throughout history at women's course you see that women have gone from being shunned, having men as their masters, to burning bras and demanding equality and getting it in these Last Days.  This did not happen with human power alone, this is the mighty works that God is behind the scenes to bring all facets of life destroyed in the garden back toward His ideal.

A woman is for sure to live for her husband, but the man is to live for the woman as well.  The man is to be subject over his household, but does not mean master.  A true household is where a husband lives for the wife and wife for the husband. This has to be restored.  Instead, in the Garden of Eden, Eve chose to live for her own desire and she reversed the roles and dominated Adam to follow her fallen ways.  The situation in marriages where women absolutely follow their husbands must change toward this direction of husband and wife living for the other's sake, thus they live for the family.

We can see such types of marriages in the 1800s.  Women's roles were suppressed yes and not ideal to modern women who rather stay single, but this is closer to God's ideal for the family than today's marriages of wife swapping, single motherhood and other alternative lifestyles.  Men only became the master to women after the fall. 

Women are the central point for the love, peace and spirit of service which protects our families. It is the healthy family that must be the starting point in our work to build world peace. The establishment of God-centered family ethics and the education of our children lie at the innermost core of the Divine Principle teachings that is expressed on this blog. The family is the holy sanctuary that must cleanse this defiled world.

We must establish not only a true concept of manhood, but also the true concept of what it means to be a mother, a wife and a daughter, in the context of a new society, nation and world. People must become forerunners in inheriting the tradition of the True Parents and harvesting the victory. Adam and Eve were to follow God's direction and become True Parents. 

Women have the mission to give proper guidance to men who lead lives of moral decadence and disorder so that the tragedy of the destruction of Adam and Eve may be resolved within the context of history.

In the age of women that is now dawning, women must embrace their husbands and properly educate their children so that they may be a model movement for practicing true love throughout the world.  Women must gain the active cooperation of husbands and children.  This women's movement is not for women alone. First, a movement of true love for husbands and children must bear fruit in ideal families.

The ideal families formed in this manner will come together to form ideal nations and an ideal world.  For the sake of world peace, women must take the lead in government, finance, culture and society. The basic values women should uphold in this federation of women are found in Headwing, no longer the left or the right wing, philosophy can bring world peace,  but Godism.

These values are what unite left and right, and overcome atheistic materialism. They are certain to be the guiding ideas of the world of the 21st century. As women, remember our forbearers, Rebecca, Tamar and Mary, who fulfilled major responsibilities in the history of God's salvation process to bring forth the lineage of Jesus. Let us inherit the strength of will by which these historic women overcame life threatening dangers and difficulties to fulfill their missions.

Let us establish our families as homes for true parents, true husbands and wives and true children, so that we may join in the holy cause of changing this world of evil into a heavenly world. Let us march forward toward a world of peace centered on the True Parents, who are the center of true love.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Defense From Satan


Today's topic was derived from the Textbook for World Peace, Chapter 2, "The Way to World Peace" given by the wife of Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.  Father Moon had researched the bible for 9 years intensively before sharing The Divine Principle with the world.

Jesus's Mission Was Incomplete

Jesus Death Brought Only Spiritual Salvation

I say only, not because I don't think it is a big accomplishment, but because it left physical salvation out of the question with Jesus' physical body attacked by Satan. Before Jesus brought spiritual salvation and opened the way to Paradise, spirits were at a lower part of spirit world and after his sacrifice, Jesus opened the way to Paradise.

Paradise is not Heaven. And Heaven in Spirit World is not the same as Heaven on Earth. These two realities have not been fully realized for all humanity yet. This is the mystery behind why the Messiah returns in our age.

Was this God's plan from the beginning? The video above shows a more vivid picture of why sin still is on the earth even though Jesus saved us from it.

Other words, we are spiritually saved from sin, but the fact that Jesus was murdered proves that even Jesus was not saved from Physical attacks whether or not he volunteered to die. What is left is the fact that we still sin on earth despite the fact we are saved from it.

Sounds like something is left from the Bible. It's in there.

Why would God go through the trouble of letting His only son on earth die if He was just going to wait until thousand years later for evil to take more of His children before returning His Son back to earth again?

It may sound blasphemous to ask questions, but every pastor and minister learns how to see all sides of their chosen faith and prepare for questions by exploring these questions themselves. If not, then their congregation will be met with "I used to ask the same kind of question, but now know there are just some things we are not going to know about God."

In the Last Days, Jesus will no longer talk in parables and will tell plainly of our Father. This is through his teachings when he returns.

Utterly, God has sent providential figures throughout the ages from Noah, Abraham to Moses to build a foundation to end evil, and we know all the way up until Jesus' time that these ended in failure only leaving a small foundation for God to continue while leaving sin on earth.

Through Noah, the flood cleansed sinful people from the earth and God could reverse the mistake in the garden of Eden. Yet the mistake of Ham reintroducing the sin caused that foundation to fail.

Then Abraham was given the mission to make a sacrifice to create a base to return humanity to the original ideal, but the failure to completely separate his sacrifice of the two doves from satan symbolized by the bird of prey, caused his descendants to be slaves for 400 years. Moses had many setbacks with the faith of the people even after calamities and miracles to lead them to freedom.

Herein lies the truth when we look at how history repeated itself in Jesus' time and caused Jesus' mission to fail in the fact that there was more Jesus was meant to do. Yet, just like in the time of Moses who led people who fell into faithlessness causing him to never see the land of milk and honey, Jesus had to deal with the same faithlessness in his day, where he could not leave the foundation of Heaven on Earth. This would have completed his mission.

Therefore, the reason why the world still struggles with sin, is because Jesus had to leave the earth only fulfilling spiritual salvation of those who follow God's path. Jesus returns in spirit through a human counterpart to absolve our connection to satan and usher in the new era of Heaven on Earth.


A True Marriage Was First Choice

The fact that the Messiah died had many Israelites disbelieve that Jesus was the one called to bring World Peace. This has a founding truth as Jesus never mentioned that his mission was to die for our sins until he saw that Judas, the disciples, religious leaders and the people were not going to follow him in the end. Anyone who disputes this, please place a definitive quote that says that Jesus spoke of dying before his last year on earth.

How can you lead a nation when people are the nation and they don't follow your ways?

The major fact that Jesus died disrupted God's full plan of ridding his children of sin.

Yes, the fact that Jesus was crucified did save us from sin and lifted us out of hell, yet one has to think, did everything and every plan in the bible go well? We are still riddled with diseases, early death, temptations to the flesh etc. I don't know about you, but I am happy to have the truth that can truly save us from the physical attacks and rid satan's influence.


God's People Made Mistakes

Were God's people faultless and perfect, and did they carry out His Will perfectly?

Good question. Read the bible, it's full of people that He had raised to accomplish His Will to bring His sovereignty to earth. It is chock full of those people who failed and made mistakes.

Hundreds of Kings were given the power to rule over their people so they could bring them to Him betrayed God and used their power for their own purposes. God would swiftly bring that king and nation to rubble and start with a new people new nation. Hate to reveal this, but this includes Israel. After Jesus' death, and failure to complete God's mission, Israel was scattered and left to rubble and God in the Last Days chooses another nation.

So, if the bible is a history of God's work to restore the world to His idea and people mess up those plans there is one question every faithful person must ask.

Why do we believe that all the people surrounding Jesus did what they were supposed to in accordance to God's commands? The answer. Because it's hard to believe that the people made that many mistakes.

Look at the people of Israel. They were lead out of Egypt by Moses and how did they treat him? They bickered tried to take over leadership, wanted to go back to Egypt as slaves, complained and had to spend 40 years in the wilderness. God had to wait for the second generation to raise up and restore their parent's mistakes and follow God's Will in order to go to Canaan. Then again and again the Israelites disobeyed God thwarting his quick plans for World Peace all the way to Jesus's time.

Why would these same people in the history of their people all the sudden be seen as a people who followed God's plan. Once the truth is finally accepted that there is still more work to do in order to complete the failures of the past, and accept those truths, satan will still have a foothold on this earth.

World Peace is possible, but in order to fight evil, we need the tools and the weapons in our defense is God's word.


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Today's post was taken from the teachings of The Divine Principle written through immense research of 9 years of the bible.

Jesus's Murder Prolongs World Peace

This is probably the hardest post I have ever placed out there.  I have been waiting for over a month when this would be appropriate to share with the world. If Jesus being married and 'too holy' for sex is controversial, it is a topic that is handled with God's guidance in my community and other Christian's who have the eyes to see.  Before there are any complaints, or arguments, one should read all accounts.

 

Jesus Death Not First Choice 

First let's get all the points that we know that Jesus had to die to rectify the sin of humanity, but this was not God's first choice. Secondly, if death was not the first reason Jesus planned to bring Peace on earth then what was God's first choice?  Third, if Jesus' crucifixion is a murder don't you think this explains why the Jews losing their land thereafter, and their persecution ever since makes sense to indemnify the mistake of killing God's son instead of following him?  Imagine, this is such a touchy subject that the heat still rises from it 2000 years later!  A lie does not become truth just because it is repeated over time; eventually the truth will come out.  God promised that the Last Days was such a time.

 

The kitchen just became a little too hot for my comfort, but as one of God's messengers, when he tells you to spread His word, you do as He commands, and sometimes it is in your own time.  I have been spreading this word and living by the principles that led to this finding that should not even be controversial at all. 

 

My only understanding is that when people find out the truth of the bible, sort of decode God's point-of-view of the bible, people become awakened from satan's grip.  Therefore, the reason why so much craziness surrounds Jesus supposed marriage and crucifixion is because once the truth is out, followers and non followers will work hard to bring about God's reason for bringing Jesus in the first place - Peace on Earth.

Murdered?  Say What?

Every Christian is taught since birth that Jesus has died for their sins.  Yes, Jesus does deliver us from our sins by taking the hit from Satan and dying for us.  Who can argue the fact that Jesus was able to win the spiritual battle of satan after enduring temptations, but humanity still bore sinful children and are covered in sin - who denies this plot hole in the story of Jesus?

Does this sound like a complete mission? 

We must return to the cross and look at it in another way.  From God's standpoint of restoring His children to His bosom.  Why would Jesus say 'it is finished' when sin is still left on the earth? 

If it was because he planned to come back in our time, it doesn't make sense.  Why wait 2, 000 years for people to become more evil before saving us again?  Because he is waiting for 144,000 people who are righteous enough to go to heaven?  Are you kidding, you don't really believe that Jesus will come back for just a few people after counting the saints who already died.  If that's the type of God we are pushing these days, I understand the rise of atheism.

If this god exist that is okay with just living forever with only 144, 000 and be damned with the trillions of other of HIS children burning in hell, then I don't believe in that god either.  People believe that a fallen human will fight to the death for their children, yet a perfect God is going to let his children die in hell for eternity?  Why have we accepted satan's lie so steadfastly?!!!!

Others may say Jesus said it is finished because of free will.  Okay.  Let's go with this argument?  What if we still have sin on earth because we choose to follow satan's way and refuse the way of the cross? 

Well, in history, God sent saints and prophets and spiritual leaders to lead people back to the path of God, and each had failed their missions of the providence even causing more headache for God and suffering that had to be reversed.  Many religious leaders and kings in the past had the authority of the Messiah over the people to lead them back to God's Will, yet they chose to lead a way of selfishness and of the flesh.  Is this why sin still exist after the salvation of the cross?

Take a closer look at the bible and you will see God has been crying, struggling to bring us back after Jesus' death through leaders, saints who have failed God's will.

Then we have to look at devout Christians, and look at those who are a living sacrifice who turn from the worldly ways, why do they still have to fight sin? 

St. Paul said that he delighted in serving the lord faithfully with his mind, but had the dissatisfaction of following the ways of Satan with his body.  How could this be?  Is there any hope if even those who wish to follow God have to fight a downhill slope toward hell forever?  What was the reason behind the cross if we still live in sin and have to wait to die to find salvation?  Only spiritual salvation?


Jesus's Mission Was Incomplete

Jesus took on the burden of shedding blood to save humankind, we hear this all through our religious life and you be damned for asking how.  Right? 

Of course there are processes of God that man will never know because he is infinitely big as well as well as small, yet humans are the same as a limited container.   We will not be able to understand the totality of God, but He said in the Last Days that everything would be revealed and He would no longer speak to us in symbols.

On the other hand,  knowing the how of Jesus dying on the cross, and why it left his mission incomplete can save millions of people who have accepted that our life of struggling with sin and connecting to God only through a mediator will absolutely without fail continue for eternity.  It will not.  God wants Heaven on Earth and He be damned if He doesn't bring it about.

Then the question comes, why doesn't He just bring Peace now or at the time of the fall.  Here in plays the free will and the 5% responsibility God gives humanity.

Once we understand that the path to salvation was to include physical salvation as well as spiritual, then we can see God's handiwork throughout the ages to save us from any further attachments to satan including having children free from inherited sin.

One blaring evidence that something was left undone at the cross is the fact that sin still exist.  So why are we still born with sin and pass sin on to our children?  Free Will?  So, we believe that a newborn baby chose to be born into sin?


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Today's post was taken from the teachings of The Divine Principle written through immense research of 9 years of the bible.