Leave No Condition for Satan to Attack

How will it be possible for you experience the heart of the Messiah and God's love and heart?

The question is how to enter into that state.  To do this, you must return to the position of Adam and Eve who have not fallen, and are free from Satan's accusation.

How is it possible for you to be liberated from the satanic world and blood lineage of sin?

You have to win the battle with Satan.

In order to accomplish this, how hard do you think you will have to work?

In addition, how much suffering will you have to go through to achieve this standard?  Only the Messiah was able to do this.

Bequeathing of heart

Many saints in history were deceived: Jacob and Moses were deceived ten times and Jesus was also deceived in the same manner.  We must overcome this.

Through overcoming deception with a grateful heart, we come to understand God's heart.  We come to know the heart of the Parent.  Without overcoming this, we will never have a chance to experience such a heart.

As long as you do not have this experience, Satan will never leave you.

As long as you do not overcome Satan's taunts and triumph over him, you will never know the Parents' heart or God's heart who have gone through this suffering course.

Thus, everyone of faith must conquer Satan on the frontline.

If instead we just live a comfortable life of leisure, we will not be able to find God's love, the Parents' love, the True Parents' realm of heart, or find God's realm of heart.

I must send everyone to the frontline. 

You need to go out and be persecuted, despised and beaten.

You can receive all sorts of harsh treatments.  Through this experience, there can be an inheritance of heart.  A ceremony of inheritance will take place there.

Therefore you should always stand at the forefront and march forward like the Messiah.

The frontline is harsh persecution, but this is natural.  When you witness or fundraise and receive such treatment, God will protect you.  You will be able to experience the same heart as God as you stand in the same place.

How do you experience this Parental heart deeply? How do you come to know the real True Parents who reverse the Fall, and know that God is your Father down to your flesh and bone?

The question is how will you know down to the cells of your body that God is your Father even without thinking about it?

You must overcome the situation of being exposed to Satan's accusation. 

How do we not leave any satanic condition through our actions and thoughts is the biggest problem.

It is simple how to experience True Parents' love deeply: you must stand in the position of unfallen Adam and Eve who have conquered Satan on the global stage.

In order to completely separate from Satan, how much blood and sweat will you have to shed?  How much of Satan's accusations will you have to bear?

How tremendous the battle, because it will only happen after you have victory over the course of indemnity, paying back for sins.

When you are faced with such difficulties, if you do not appreciate facing these challenges, then no matter how much you pray or what you do, you will not be able to go beyond it.

We should be grateful for the persecution as we paved the way to get rid of our fallen lineage, overcome Satan and return back to God.

You have to have this experience deeply yourself.  You will receive direct guidance.

During your experience, the problem is how to feel oneness. It will not come until you are able to defeat Satan completely, make him retreat in every facet of your life.

Power transmission towers have been established.

Power stations have been built in individuals, families, nations, the world and even in God.  Now the power lines of heart must be hung there.  Who will hang those lines?  God is not the one to do it.  You must do it.

Sons and daughters inherit from their parents

If God was to give a gift to humankind, what would it be?

That you would become the ancestors of humankind and become true mothers and fathers. There is nothing higher than the true parents position- not even being the president can match it.

There is no greater gift God can give us.

To be able to be pure sons and daughters that reverse the sinful blood lineage into God's pure blood lineage and become True Parents, then there will automatically be true children, tribe, nation and world thereafter.

The most important title in all of creation is to be a True Parent.

What is the nature of the Fall?

It is people doing and living as they pleased.

We must reverse any situation that is not centering on God and True Parents who have come to reverse the sins of the first human parents.

All men should become incarnations of True Father and all women should become representatives of True Mother.  When God enters you through your eyes or anywhere else, you should welcome Him.  Do not reject Him.

Do your walls remain in place even though you walk this path of faith?

God's love comes through you. 

You must not be negligent; you need to study this phenomenon.

Once you inherit this tradition, True Parents will come to you as God's messenger and give you the inheritance.  Since humanity has not had True Parents, therefore, true children had never appeared before.

The Unification Movement says, "Acknowledge True Parents, discover and serve them.  We say we should become true sons and daughters of True Parents."

After we become true sons and daughters, what happens?

We inherit all that they have which include: heaven and earth, and even God.  Yes, we should even inherit God.

If no one owned heaven and earth, then it would not have any value.  We should fully acknowledge the value of heaven and earth, and claim their value for eternity.  We also need to meet the one who can officially recognize that.  God is the one to do this.

You will continue to walk this path and then receive the Marriage Blessing based on the gratitude you show before Heaven.

You should be always individually grateful and never forget the value of receiving the Blessing from the True Parents in order to change your sinful blood lineage to the pure lineage of God.

Blessed families inherit the responsibilities True Parents carry out for the restoration of the world.  Blessed Families walk the course of restoring people through witnessing and suffering.

True Parents have walked the course to restore the world to peace after setting the standard of restoring people.  Then they go one step ahead.

You must shoulder the responsibility to restore a people, until your death or until the sorrow of the people is removed completely.

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True Parents Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Two Chapter 7, section 8

Persecution of Home church

Home church is witnessing to 360 homes in your area and bringing them to the The Completed Testament and the true way of life. This way their families can join in the dispensation of the new era of Heaven on Earth upon the work of the Messiah of the Second Coming.

Your ultimate destination is God's heart, and home church is your grammar school.  

When you accomplish this, you will have finished grade school level.  Then, when you bring America to the truth, you will have finished high school.

When the communist world tags along, you will have an MA.  When all of spirit world is reorganized, you will have a Ph. D.  After you finish your work in home church, everything that follows after is easy.  It will take just a few hours of work.

First, you must lay the foundation.

Before, we were persecuted in the past when we did this work.  Now, we must work in a wide area and stir up people.  We are sowing seeds in various places.  These seeds will be harvested one day.

This harvest belongs to the world.

You have a definite area in which your seeds will grow and can harvest as your own.  You do home church for yourself, because you need a foundation on which to stand for your family.  Home church does this.

God has been collecting all of the blessings accumulated from the persecution of His faithful children.  So, even though you are persecuted, we are harvesting the seeds we sow now.  This work is worth doing.

Where do you sow your seeds?

You sow seeds everywhere you can.  If you follow the providence of restoration led by the Messiah and like him, then  your home church people will like you and want to go everywhere you go.  You become the ancestor of a new tribe.

We have always been aware that God is a God of love, but now we understand clearly why God allows His people to be persecuted through yesterday's post.

Persecution is not for just your own sake. Now that we understand the standard of liberation through suffering and persecution, we have to run even faster.

We need to educate people what type of world this should be and the kind of work God has been building throughout history.  Now that you have been educated on these principles, you can discern who are the good and bad leaders and educate them with this same content.

You are living in a great time built upon the sacrifices of millions of saints and people of faith.  Even if you were to stumble along the way, when  you look up, you will see that you still have gained fruit from all of your work and effort.

You have to have strong determination.  Wherever you go doing this heavenly work, you will be followed by spirits of the Old Testament.

Without working through you on earth, they are not able to get anywhere.

You are also the resurrection of the New Testament spirits and all of the worthy people in spirit world.  You are the key to their liberation and they must follow you.

God is charmed by you.

No one will be able to bother you wherever you go.

Even if your path were to end in death, or to happiness you will be able to go toward persecution happily because you go voluntarily knowing you are not only liberating fallen history but God's sorrow.

If you go this way, because someone forces you and chases you down, then you will not be a victor.  If all of America was to persecute you because they do not understand, yet you still go this way, then victory is ahead.

Do you feel happy or powerless as you go this true way of life?

You mostly feel powerless.  When you are witnessing and working for the mission, you should not feel like a loser who does this work, but a king.

When I found myself in prison, I felt I was king of all the prisoners and everyone would come under me. Now you have a reason to feel that.  Who would God love, a person like me or like you? Father and son should be the same, not different. 


Now you have knowledge how this dispensation of restoration works, are you really going to go this way now?  Grit your teeth and determine you are going to do this for future generations.


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Persecution Brings Blessing, Endure

If a person is willing to give you everything he owns. then we can say he obeys and follows you. Religion has been teaching people to have this quality: to follow and obey. 

Every major religion had a small beginning, but enlarged to their current large foundation.

God planned to bring the Messiah on the foundation of religion and deal with people on the national level, not on the individual level.

This was the foundation He laid for Jesus in the Old Testament times with people of faith.

If the Jews had united with Jesus, they would have had a foundation strong enough to bring the Roman Empire down during the lifetime of Jesus.  There would have not been a need for 400 years of Christian persecution.

If the Jews were willing to offer themselves as a offering living for Jesus, then it would not have been difficult for the empire to fall through Jesus' strong foundation upon his believers.

Religious leaders must know that they are only managers until the Messiah, the true master comes.

This is where most religious leaders go wrong.  They believe that they are the central figures, the boss.

This is the same pattern that Satan followed in the act of the fall.

Everything in creation belonged to God, but someone else tried to make it his own.  We are enjoying the time in history when everything must return back to God or God's representative.

What happens if a leader says that his group belongs to him ?

No matter who it is, it is repeating the same mistake Satan made when he claimed God's creation as his own in front of Adam and Eve.  He was a servant who was to teach Adam and Eve, but instead he saw that they were going to be the true owners of creation along with God.  Satan desired to remain in the position he had in the angelic world and in front of Adam and Eve as they were maturing.

The true way of the religious way of life of "obey and follow" is difficult.  You may have worked hard all of your life, but if God wants to take it away for the purpose of the world, you have to give it gladly even though it may be hard to do.

Then, when God gives you the blessing, you will give them out again.

When man is obedient and follows, no persecution is necessary. 

But usually, for restoration, God has to let good people be persecuted.  When they overcome, He will be able to share the blessing with them.  This is the less desired way.  God lets Satan strike His side first, then God recovers all the blessings that Satan stole.


If a minister is appointed to a church but he does not do his job, he is fired. The minister's authority comes back to the person who appointed him, who can then give it to someone else. 


If on the other hand, man is obedient, then God will get everything back.  If man is disobedient, then Satan will be allowed to persecute people and then God can bring the blessing back after the person overcomes in victory.  If Christian countries, for instance, had been obedient to God then the ideal solution could have come easily.

But, Christians disobeyed God and fought each other and segregated into different denominations.  God wants those nations to transfer everything they own to the Messiah at his Second Coming.

Even with religious training, it is very difficult for man to be obedient to God's will.  Therefore, it is inevitable that he will be surrounded by struggle and persecution.

Adam, the first parent, was not obedient to God.  The chosen people of Israel did not follow Jesus, so God let them strike Jesus, but then He took back their blessing.  Israel recently received liberation in 1960.  The same will happen at the Second Coming.  This pattern recurs throughout history, from the individual to the world level.

If the one on the world level is not obedient toward God, there is a big struggle on the world level.  This struggle was evident in the 20th century.    On each level from the individual level to the world level, man and all things will form a bridge to the goal.

The world of communism also follow this pattern, but they follow it in the opposite direction.  The communist world claims to work for unification of the world, but they try to do so through gunpoint

The free world liberates man.

Within the free world, Christianity has become confused.  In the free world, contradiction prevails in America.  Korea depends on America to fulfill its mission so that Korea can also do its job.

We have to stop the communist movement, which is bent on destruction of the free world.

If we were to ask who is the leader of all the free world.  No one would be able to give you an answer.  This same question is given by those of the communist world, there is not a central point to unite all of the free world under one.

The movement that sacrifices these levels for ultimately to return the world to God, will become the leader under the banner of the whole world.

A new religion has occurred that has been the underdog, but we must assume our responsibility.

Because the members are persecuted, God has brought all blessings back to His side.  God has a heavy bag of blessings that He is ready to give out.  The movement will set the example and show us the solution.

All of us are a pipeline for God's blessing to flow to the world.

You have a basic understanding of history and mankind.

You have been given a precise explanation of history and where we are at this time. and now you know what you have to do every day. You must realize your position today.

All of us are a pipeline for God's blessing to flow to the world. You couldn't do that ten years ago; only this year could this be said. Is this a fairy tale, or is it logical and precise?

You have to become an atomic bomb of love wherever you go.  

By following this absolute, true way, you will become victors of love.

Satan tries to kill those who work for the dispensation because he knows that his reign will end.    One should feel that they can not stop because they are doing their mission for the world.    Satan will anticipate your next move, just so he can block it.

Today, the major battles are won in the free world.

If every family that practices a certain faith, and carry the tradition, will realize what is the true way of life and they will gradually begin to change.  When the media exposes the deception of communism, all of the other countries, America can be strong, then the communist will inevitably decline from that point on.

Then, the other countries will understand what is the true way of life and they will gradually begin to change.

We are living in a time where artist have a large influence on the world.

It is a good thing that this movement has been persecuted, because it will keep us on the path.  Your desire to witness and save your lost brothers and sisters is stronger than the taunts of your persecutors.

You should determine to work harder than you have been persecuted.  Now, that the foundation has been laid strong opposition is over.  We should basically work hard to love and educate those who persecute us.  Offer everything we have and surpass the standard of the persecution.

We are living at a time of crossroads where we are headed in this heavenly direction.  There should be no more persecution.  It is now like the time after winter passes and the cold still lingers in the air when spring arrives.

When doing your mission, you should determine to work harder than you have been persecuted.  Now that the foundation has been laid.

You may be persecuted initially, but once people see that you have a goal that reaches beyond yourself, they will respond favorably.

We have been persecuted because God wanted to bring all blessings back to His side again.  Now, God is giving the blessing to us on every level.

Fortunately, we are living in the age of information traveling all around the world without delay.  If the information of the Completed Testament could be broadcast internationally, people will be amazed at the knowledge.

Like the Bible states that in the Last Days, God would reveal everything, from now on everything will be clear and visible.

Like the Messiah, you should be like a rock, straight and firm, nothing like a new sapling that sways in the strong winds.  Stand strong.  You should each go out on your mission with a brave heart and with confidence, and know that you do not go it alone.  God will be right behind you.


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Persecution is Necessary

God created man to have true love but man fell; thus, God agonizes that true love has not been achieved. He has been trying to raise man so that they can both have true love. True God can have true love and true man.

Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon

True man can have true God and true universe.   True creation has true man and true God. 

True love is the most important.  Without possessing true love, there is no way for you to become a true, absolute man or possess true things.

Do you want to have true love then?

What if you were to go hungry for a few days, would you want true love more than you want food if you had to choose?

You may have experienced a fasting period so you could focus more on God.  One minute before the fast is to end, do you want true love or good food at that moment?

In just that crucial moment, your thoughts can destroy the whole purpose of your three or seven-day fast.  If in that moment you feel that you could continue to fast even more for true love, then you have served the purpose of the fast.  But, if you were thinking about eating once more and to become full as quickly as possible, then the purpose has been lost.

The providence for God to restore humanity's fallen history is thousands of years.  But, now, we have the tools to cover this same distance toward true love within one generation.

If we really plant our stake in true love then God will be overjoyed.

Once we reached this standard, then human life has reached its goal and mankind can experience joy eternally.  Everyone would then celebrate.  A true man might be the most foolish in the world because he will understand this concept and like persecution.  He understands that true love is man's ultimate goal.

The main problem we encounter during the process of restoration is how do we inherit the correct pattern that will help move history back in the right direction.  The Messiah returns not to take believers immediately away to a paradise, but to lay a foundation and tradition that reverses the fall.

As sinful sons and daughters, we are not really qualified to inherit this tradition.

Then, what is needed to qualify as a true son?  Would a true son leave their parents' house from one argument?  But, we witness this in many families.

It is not easy to be a true son or daughter.

Out of a family, maybe one child would struggle to stay at home during the rough times.  Such a son will say he will leave no matter what actions his parents do.

God is the toughest to the ones He loves the most.

He does not sympathize, or worry if you had eaten or not while you are performing His mission.  He would wonder what time it was and why do you sleep.  With such a standard, He might think His son would leave, but would be surprised to see the true son keep going during the difficult barriers.

Why does God set such a difficult path for His soldiers?

Satan can follow those who are working for God to a certain height, so God would want you to make it over the highest point where Satan can no longer follow you and your progress from there on is not so difficult.

From God's point-of-view, He does not think that Satan is all bad when it comes to your mission.  He thinks that if there was no Satan to push you, that you would not work so hard for God.

In school, no one likes examinations, but teachers know that if they were never to give out tests, that you would never study the material.  With each exam for which you study hard, you gain more knowledge and become more useful.

Persecution is in order for us to get the blessing.  If we get persecution, then we keep going.

An offering must be pure.  The criterion in ancient times was to make a sacrifice of virgin women through offering of the first love.  This was the same with animals.

During the Old Testament times, people of faith would offer things of creation which are closer to God than fallen man.  While in the New Testament, man himself was dedicated as the offering.

Now that we live in the Completed Testament age in the era of the Second Coming, the standard of offering is elevated and we experience sacrifice of the heart.

Therefore, once we dedicate everything for the sake of goodness it is painful to be rejected and misunderstood.  A person that is constantly persecuted can be seen as an offering.  The best material is used as an offering, so a pure wonderful person should be used as an offering.

If you don't proclaim your love for God and receive persecution, can we truly say that we are an offering?

All the fifty states of America belong to the nation, not to one individual.  Likewise, America belongs to the world.  If the Messiah is going to bring the whole world and spirit world into unity, then he belongs to God.

This confirms that the individual comes under the family, the family belongs to the tribe, the tribe to the nation, nation to the world, world to the cosmos, the cosmos to God, and God to absolute love.

By following this reasoning, then we can conclude that we are living for the sake of love.  This should be our concern.  Everything in creation is included in true love.  Even within a couple, if the husband snores, the woman might go into the other room, but a couple of true love, the wife could stay and snore just as loudly, what a sight that would be.

In Korea we say that a man who has already reached his destination is a crazy man. 

This is the kind of craziness that God wants to see.

Without true love, thinking about uniting the races and the world would be just pure fantasy.

To reach this destination, your course will lead you to all things of creation and mankind.  If someone asks you which country you are from, you tell them that you are an American, not the state you are from.

People of faith are fishers of men.

We catch people for true love.  When you are doing mission work, it is to help build the bridge so all those people can cross.

We must contribute not just our material, but also men, and give them with God's heart.  We dedicate our families to that bridge, centering on love.  When we recover the nation, we will offer it, when we recover the world we offer that to God also.  For the sake of true love, we shall recover the universe and dedicate it to God.

We don't offer just a few things, but all things gather for the offering including men and heart.  We dedicate our property, money, bodies and heart to God.  This is the same as offering all material, people and all their heart.

Then whose property does it become?

Then everything is returned and owned by God.  Your ownership is external while God's ownership is internal.  All of this can be indemnified in one individual.


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God's Word is Like Honey

Even though we were born into this world to accept it as is, we feel down deep that this is not the original way God wanted the world to be when He created humanity.

Originally, humanity had everything: God's ideal mind, God's body, God's love.  

Yet, after the fall we lost all of these including the blood lineage of God and inherited the lineage of Satan.  Our original mind understood that true love and value of God.

We have fallen far from the original idea of God's creation.  We are mere projections of the original creation.  When you can take back the original human dignity of personality, then Satan will be blocked.  This is good news.

For humankind what is the most deep, important point?  It is the mind.

The second is love. Looking from that particular viewpoint, all over the world, you cannot find anyone harmonized in mind and love.  We understand that clearly, however, we cannot attain that purpose easily.

Why?

Until the return of the Messiah, we did not understand this point clearly.  Religions have taught about disciplining the mind and love without truly understanding the root.  Satan uses our ignorance to the true original way God intended and presents his fallen, hell as good, exciting and a stimulating atmosphere.

He makes the surface of the ungodly world, Satan's armament which fell down from heaven look colorful and makes it seem as if it is the true way.

When God looks down on such a miserable situation in which His children are in, He waits a tedious amount of time in history when this would occur.  That time is now where Satan's ideals and will are absolutely seen as the truth instead of God's ideal and God's will.

Satan accused: "Why can God keep the beautiful creation foundation? I cannot permit that kind of duality. Wipe it out! If God doesn't take the restoration way, I'll take the creation for myself."

The principled viewpoint is this: no matter how strong is God's power, Satan cannot deny my way-I will proclaim it, I will do it step by step, reclaiming the individual foundation, family foundation, Father's holy blessing after that, and after that the family pulling over the representatives of Satan's family.

You are wrong; you have belonged to Satan's side.

Make yourself independent; after that follow the Messiah. Otherwise you will perish. I make my point clearly; but they ask, "Well, what did you say? We are very happy. Throughout history inherited this way of life, and in the future we will go the same way. What are you talking about, making a more complicated situation? We don't like that! Go behind us!'

Father didn't accept that. Father took the consequences every time centering on God's law of conscience. I opened doors and left them open behind me. The route you have to follow is my way-the way I took has become the universal textbook.

If you can understand the contents of this textbook, you will be grateful forever. You cannot separate from those contents. If you take one taste, it is much too sweet, it's like honey. You cannot turn back."


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


You want more and more; it is that kind of situation.

When you get a taste of this true taste, no matter how your parents, friends, relatives go against you, you will never change your determination to go this way.

The Old Testament and New Testament are the main trunk, right? There are a great number of saints there. When they are coming down to assist Father's ministry, as well as your ministry, by the same token they are affecting their own denomination and horizontally those people come to assist you.

When the saints come down to help you and your community during this time, you will witness many miracles in your lifetime and in your own village, town and community.  Just test this out for yourself; just kick and create a problem.  Initiate something and then you will see the most strange power come to act upon you.

Those who follow the true way have been persecuted and live with the mindset of a persecuted minority.  When you meet someone, your heart will start pounding in anticipation, "What can I do if something happens? What can I do if some satanic action occurs?"

Yet we should not feel this way.

Father taught that the opposite will happen.  You are the tower of strength and the absolute plus.  People will attest upon meeting you that you are a mighty power or what mighty words you speak.

Their heart will pound because we have the most powerful weapon:  Divine Principle, True Love and True Parents! Amen!

The entire world power was up against the Messiah's lonely power.  Only, this lone power is much greater and heavier.  The Messiah is like a 5th degree black belt and the other side is just a beginner's white belt in karate.  The power on the good side is so heavy that it won't just tilt the balance over, but it will also turn it around.

One must trust and believe in the words of the Messiah, not just consider the words.  If you were have a jar full of sweet honey, would you feel good eating it all on your own or would you like to share the same honey with everyone?

God's words are as honey.  The more you share it the more they will want to have more honey.  You would not just give them honey, but you would give them eternal life.

With the word of the Divine Principle, we have a honey factory of truth.  This universal raw material is in abundance with no end.  You can ask for more supply and the Messiah will make jar, after jar after jar.

So the conclusion is this: "Yes, that is the only truth. Father we have no choice except to obey and follow you; we will live and die for you." Those who do, will you raise your hands and pledge? Now shake your hands, like an earthquake. We are uniting the entire world.



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