World Peace is Our Responsibility

Are you still waiting for the rapture and for Jesus to return?

Christianity teaches that God's son, Jesus will return in the Last Days for the purpose of restoring the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth as God initially intended.

Through the Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, we learn that the Lord of the Second Advent will spiritually pioneer the way of the cross and will be victorious where Jesus left off.

This is the difficult part of restoring the world and God's people back to their original positions before the Fall.

Since, the Fall began with the first parents, then True Parents must reverse the mistakes of the Fall.

In all of history, when we look at earth, humankind and heaven, has there been anyone who was able to attend these victorious True Parents(Messiah)?

Heaven, earth and humankind have not been prepared to attend such True Parents who do not carry the trace of the Fall within them.  

Now that we are living in the Completed Testament Age, the position of True Parents have been restored and humanity is being prepared to follow to attend them and God.

Is it just enough to attend the Messiah when he returns?

After attending the parents and reaching perfection, you need to restore your own family, tribe, nation and world. God prepared the people of Israel for the birth of the Messiah as well.

To stand before True Parents as true children, you must accomplish the course of the individual level, family level, tribe, and national-level restoration.

After completing the parents' course of restoration on each level, then the standard of parents and children having become one and victorious is thus established and Satan must leave.

Only after this is accomplished can we conclude the restoration of the national and the global level.

Then, what is the mission of the Unification Church and in what kind of position are you who have joined the church? You have been called into the Unification Church, of which I am the central figure. 

As you walk this path or restoration, you have to develop spiritually and physically what has been a sorrowful six thousand years of vertical history.

Then what is our goal?

We must establish a nation of people who are restored to the True Parents position on a worldwide foundation.  In other words, we must establish the world-level nation of True Parents instead of fallen, satanic parents.  This would be a world of peace.

We must eliminate the remaining sorrow, pain and tears of the world as soon as possible. 

As long as brothers and sisters suffer hunger, pain and suffering, a world of peace will never be found.

This is our responsibility and mission.

This is the path you were meant to follow.  You should not turn and look back either with your heart or with your body as the Israelites did.

This kept them from from following Moses and further delaying God's victory to 40 years with the first generation dying in the wilderness on the way to Cannan.

The Israelites suffered greatly in the desert that they even envied their past life as slaves instead of having faith and believing they could conquer the more established Canaanites.

Therefore, we should have the sincere hope to be able to fully attend the True Parents on the behalf of God.

In attending them, we should not attend them after the conditions and difficult path has been laid and everyone admires and respects them.

Rather, we should desire to attend the True Parents of all history as they pass through this sorrowful course.

When you look at the saints and good people throughout history, they have prayed for the day that the Messiah would return and liquidate the fallen lineage and return humanity back to God's lineage.

In their time, even after arduous pray, they could only momentarily keep Satan's attacks at bay.

Our own ancestors deeply are pained that they could not attend the True Parents while they were on earth.  All humankind deep in their hearts have such hopes to attend True Parents.

Therefore, you should become true sons and true daughters of filial piety who are able to attend them from a miserable situation rather than trying to attend them from a glorious position.

Such sons and daughters will cry out that the True Parents are walking the suffering path of the cross that is more severe than that of Jesus, even though the sons and daughters are experiencing difficulty, despair and misery themselves.

As filial sons and daughters they will exclaim, "As someone who attends True Parents, I therefore accept any kind of heavy cross as a matter of course. I praise that, so please, God, do not worry on account of me."

How can we engraft, on the individual level, to the parents' individual victory of restoring the sinful blood to God's pure blood lineage?

Only after we indemnify, restore the worries, pains and sorrow that come to us, instead of giving them to God to bear.

Why have I spread the Blessed Families(families married by the Messiah and rid of sinful blood) out everywhere in Korea? God works with the thirty million people of the Korean people and the entire Korean peninsula, and True Parents are coming to the thirty million Korean people and the Korean peninsula.  Every village, valley, mountain and field -- desires to attend the coming True Parents. 

Serving True Parents is the desire of all people in history. 

You should set an individual standard of indemnity and then become the substantial representatives of True Parents.

You should become the type of people whose whole village will want to serve you without regret.  Of course, True Parents are always in the center making a spiritual relationship with everyone.

There is only one set of True Parents.  However, with limitations of a physical body, they are unable to relate with everyone personally.

This is why True Parents have blessed families so they can stand in the position as their representatives. Therefore, they stand in the position to relate with all people.

True Parents' responsibility is to bear the cross and pass the national level where Jesus had laid the path on to the worldwide level.

Therefore, the cross of the people should be carried by the Blessed Families who live as true children of True Parents.

After the Fall, we fell below the position of God's true sons and daughters.  Through Jesus' difficult path, we were able to become God's adopted sons and daughters.

Now that we live in the Completed Testament Age, we can become true sons and daughters just as Jesus was.

All families that receive the Marriage Blessing which reverses the fallen blood lineage and connects your family to God's direct lineage, must serve as the foundation for the people in order for Heaven to gain victory.

We must love True Parents and separate from Satan based on the standard of original love. We must fulfill our responsibility to go beyond the standard of perfection on the world level.  This is how world peace will come about.

Our mission

We are preparing a foundation so we can directly attend True Parents and assemble other brothers and sisters of the world before them.

We are the ancestors who have this responsibility.  Therefore, we have to remove the path of the cross and persecution so our descendants do not have to bear it.

Currently, the sad situation of humanity is that we pass on the blood of the fallen blood lineage to our children who have to also bear the cross to liquidate their sins.  This is our original mission, not our descendants.

When can God finally appear as the master and Parent of all creation and reclaim His position which was stolen from Satan?

Once the human world unifies and the Abel and Cain world become one.

We can think that all the people living on the earth today, are like children living without their parents.

They fight among themselves.  Therefore, God has to appear as the Parent and teach them that those who are fighting are only fighting their elder brothers and their younger brothers.

Nobody knew this but God. 

The concept of true, ideal parents departed once false parents were established.  Also, because true parents' position was lost, there was no foundation for the ideal children to come.  These positions were sacrificed to Satan.

Therefore, the ideal parents must now appear replacing the false parents linked the blood lineage of Satan.

The time has finally come, awaited through all of history, for God to educate ideal children.  A religion, a movement has taken over this mission.

This is the Unification Church.

We should be proud of the True Parents' achievements.

Next, true children must come together.  They should not just love their family clan, but they should love on the global and universal level.

True children should not say that they only know the American people.  They should transcend any ethnic feelings.

In whose name did the Fall occur?

In Satan's name.

Therefore, in these Last Days, we should jump over the line of the Fall in God's name.

So, God should be above our head and command us directly, just as God was above Adam.

True Parents have no connection to the Fall. 

Our path is to make this new world by gathering people with the true lineage from around the world, who are connected to True Parents and God.

Thus a true family will become a tribe, a tribe will become society and a people will establish a  nation that takes dominion over the world.

Throughout history, the fallen world has been sinking.  Now, we must make a new start and go up.

We are at the time in history where the fallen world and the new world centered on God will meet.  Everything will now reverse.

Then, when will we connect to that central line?

The True Parents had to reach the worldwide level to finally be victorious over Satan who is firing his weapons.

This is why we are experiencing a heavy battle, so we can expand from the nation to the spirit world capacity of True Parents.  

We are approaching the time where the True Parents will be welcomed as national parents.


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This Post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook,  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Two, True Parents and Us Chapter 6

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

Now All Sin Can Leave the Earth

We are living in the age where all of fallen history is being indemnified.  This means that all of the wrongs of the past are being completely turned around.

Jesus laid a foundation for our sins to be forgiven, but we still carry the seed of sin on the earth.  Now is the time for full resurrection and eradicate sin completely from our lineage and from the earth.

In the Completed Testament Age, the world of peace that has been hoped for by millions of saints, peoples and those of faith will finally unite God and humanity together.

This can only happen because the True Parents, who have restored the fallen first parents of humankind, have arrived.

Jesus was to be the first true parent of humanity.  Since he perfected himself and became God's True Son carrying God's true blood lineage, he would have been able to connect his True Family to this lineage.  Thus, his followers would have engrafted to his family clearing away their path of sin and this would then rise to the national level.

Unfortunately, Jesus was unable to complete his mission due to the faithlessness of his disciples who ultimately abandoned him in the end.

So, we should know the value of how precious this time that we are living in to live in the same time as the True Parents and finally liquidate the sins throughout history.

So, how much love do we receive of the True Parents?

Today, many groups, atheists and communists are screaming out that God is dead or there is no God.  If there is someone who condemns this declaration, then he would love True Parents more than God does.

If you pray that you will be able to witness to such a person and bring them to meet the True Parents, then you will meet such a person and God will be joyful.

If you agree that this person is the smartest person, then absolutely you cannot be defeated by the spirits in the spirit world.

If you love True Parents and practice their teachings, then you absolutely cannot be defeated.

Satan accuses God's people endlessly.

But you can accuse the spirits that you have loved True Parents this much, but what have they done for God's dispensation or ever done for God?  Then you become the people living in the greatest abundance.

If family members were to fight over who loves the True Parents more, would God be saddened upon witnessing this?

God would call them both and establish them as a model of loving True Parents.  Then tell other people to love True Parents as these two have loved them.  This is the standard.

We should love True Parents

How far away do you think you are from this standard?

Those without tears cannot follow True Parents.

God, spirits, and all people need to pay close attention to True Parents.

We should think about this in our daily lives.  Without following True Parents' difficult path with tears, your face cannot be brightened.

You should live for the sake of others.  Even though you may try to do your best, you should always have an apologetic heart towards heaven.

We must attend True Parents

If you went through the wilderness course and crossed the Jordan River, and then fought the seven tribes of Canaan, this still would not be a victorious death.

You become an original person that is worthy of a heavenly appointment from God, only after you conquered the seven tribes and then established a new nation centered on God.

The True Parents are the ancestors of humankind.  You should therefore attend them as your own parents.

When you follow and serve them for three years or more, then the nation should serve them and the world should serve them.

This is the only way we will build a world of peace.

Since True Parents have conquered the root of sin that has caused so much suffering in human history, following their path will lead this world finally out of darkness.  This is how it should be.

This is the way to advance to global restoration.

The principle is that you serve for three years eat, and live with parents and discuss with them.  This is how the household should be.

As a family living with the parents, you should have a three-year period where you live in peace and happiness, use only good words, and share joy with one another.  This is the path each individual should take.

We should be obedient

The children should show absolute obedience to the Parents who have come in the original name of God without any trace of the fallen blood lineage.

There is no objection to that.  This is not done by force.

We are creating an environment where humanity can serve the True Parents centering on love.

The wife loves her husband and the husband loves his wife.  You become parents centered on love and create an environment where your beloved children can naturally submit to you.

Only through this natural submission without force, such as communism and false parents practice, can the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth be realized and not destroyed.

We must inherit the tradition

Upon the arrival of True Parents who brought the truth of the age through their Divine Principle teachings, the Completed Testament, we did not know what was to become of humankind.

We did not know what was to truly become of ourselves.

People have never understood history and where we were headed.

They did not know humanity's purpose and what was to happen in the future.  This is because we did not have the true parents and ancestors to reveal the truth of all of history and the coming world of peace.

Because of the True Parents, we know true history, the circumstances between God and us and we have come to know the present and future.

We can know such a tradition and inherit it.

We can win over the fallen history and the future with this tradition.

Why and from whom?

It is because you have met True Parents.  You follow what True Parents teach, and what they do.  They have cut a clear path which to follow continuing the mission left incomplete through Jesus' death.You desire what True Parents desire and inherit from them.

You inherit these things from them.

We realize that until now there have been no parents in this universe.  Those who gave birth to children before this time acted on behalf of fallen parents.  They were evil parents, using and ruining their children.

What got broken through this? 

Through the first parents of humankind falling, we lost true brothers, and sisters, brides and bridegrooms, fathers and mothers, who are meant to become perfect, have split apart.

Parents throughout history had not been able to have children of goodness, meaning they ultimately lost the family.  

The family is a representative of universal history.

Imagine a world where every family was centered upon God's ideal.

All of humanity's current problems would be immediately eradicated.  Why?  Because the Fall began through the family based on the false love of a man and a woman.

Family represents the world, the heavenly kingdom, the nation and all families.

God is trying to find its center.  People living today should be connected to this center.  In other words, the common purpose pursued by God and human beings is to be connected to the center.  There is nowhere else that the past, present and future can be bound together.

True Parents have accomplished the tasks that Adam and Eve were meant to do from the beginning, building a tradition for all of humanity to follow toward a world of heaven on earth.

Through restoring family, you have now something Satan is unable to own.

You are separating from Satan through the base of your family connected directly to God through the unfallen lineage of the Messiah.  You should have the best brothers and sisters; you should have original siblings that are not found in the evil world.

You must have brothers and sisters that are not from the satanic world.

You should establish such a tradition.  This is how it should be for you before you marry.

Two people who perfect themselves, cleansing the mistakes of the past and being reborn, you will leave a tradition to your sons and daughters that teaches them how to live.

You fight such a hard battle in the countries so you can leave behind a tradition for your descendants after you have gone.

This is a great opportunity that comes only once.  An opportunity to educate your children saying, We worked amidst this kind of hardship.

The tradition you leave behind will be your testament.

This cannot be changed. It is an eternal tradition.

Since we have been able to transcend the world, blacks, yellows and whites can be brothers and sisters.  This is in order to realize the brotherhood realm of humankind.

This is the true realm of Adam and Eve, which has no connection with the Fall.  Once humanity goes in the opposite direction of the Fall, then we will see an Utopian world come.

What philosophy can establish such a tradition to lead us to that better world?

Everything will work this way if we live for the sake of others.  

Sons and daughters who grow up in that kind of environment do not have to suffer such as their parents who walked a path of faith to leave such a tradition.

They will become descendants who will be able to automatically go straight to the heavenly nation with actual accomplishments that surpass the satanic worlds greatest feat, because they are directly connected with heaven.

The next step is for such people who live such sacrificial lives to marry one another.

Our marriages transcends the satanic boundaries.  We have the mindset that we can marry an African if told to do so, marry a white if recommended to do so and marry a yellow person if recommended to do so.

Such a tradition should be established from now on.  We should create oneness from now on.

Then you should guide your descendants and the world to live in this way from now on.  The two must become one.

When you become one with your spouse, you should not bear evil children.

To bear children of goodness, the husband and wife should be completely one.  Without becoming one, children of goodness cannot come about.  Thus you should become completely one centering on God's will.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Book, Chapter 6 True Parents and Us from Cheon Seong Gyeong Book two

Reversing the Fall

The will of God is to consummate the purpose of creation.

Where is the will of God going to finally take place and who will be the one to achieve that goal?  Will God Himself do it?

If it was fully God's responsibility to return the world back to its original position to obtain His will after the fall of Adam and Eve, then He would have immediately reversed the fall at that moment when it occurred.  In order to consummate the will, an object is required.

God's will cannot be consummated within Himself without having relation to another.  Who would play the major role as God's object to bring about His will?

It was Adam and Eve's responsibility to be in the object position to God as subject to consummate the purpose of creation.  How would they have completed this task?  If Adam and Eve had become perfect individually and united with God, the purpose of creation would be established based on their family of goodness as a True Family of God.  Instead, they fell while still not united with God.

Therefore the will of God requires not just God Himself, but more particularly requires man for its consummation. 

What is left in our time to bring about God's purpose for creating man?

Man must become perfected.  That might be a far-fetched ideal that sinful, fallen man can become perfect, but the will of God and individual perfection are one and the same and cannot be separated.

Have you ever thought how far you are from perfection?

The center of the circle is the same distance from the edge in every direction and this represents the perfected position.  If you were to think of yourself inside this circle where would you be in relation to the ideal central position?

How about humanity?  How far has man fallen from that central point after the fall?  There have been billions of people born after the fall.  This caused humanity to develop away from the central point in a circular pattern.

The history of humanity tragically has been filled with men wandering through life trying to come back to the center from every direction.  Every person has their idea of where the point of destination should be.  They do not know where the true central point is to lead us back to the purpose of creation.

If we were to look at our family tree, we would see a family line full of different characteristics.  One branch of our family may have developed in one direction and another may have gone in the opposite direction.  Either way, we are still the fruit of that entire ancestry.

If each family has a different ancestral origin, the position of their fruit cannot be identical.  We have different individual characteristics and varied spiritual heritages.

God is a God of justice, equality and fairness.

If each individual comes from different ancestry can God say that everyone in His sight is absolutely equal?  Is this a correct concept?  If Adam and Eve had followed God's word instead of following Satan's word, every person would have been born equal.

Because of the fall, man's value had changed from one person to another and has entirely different course in his life of wandering.   Because of this varied course of behavior, two different consequences came into being: one is heaven and the other is hell.

God did not create hell.  This is a misleading belief of many people of faith.  Man created hell by not choosing God.  There are different accomplishments like different ranks between heaven and hell.

There are as many levels or different ranks existing in spirit world as there are here on earth.

If a person comes from a particular ancestral line that accumulated goodness, the person on earth is somewhere between heaven and hell.  We each accumulate good or evil through the choices we make in our own lives.  The several different levels of accomplishments here on earth will be reflected or paralleled in the spirit world.

You do not know much about spirit world now, but when you understand its makeup you will recognize the thousands of different levels of accomplishment, from the worst kind of evil existence to the highest, most divine existence of spiritual perfection.

Spiritual growth can only happen while you are here on earth.  

Thus, the Bible states that what is loosed on earth will be loosed in heaven.  You enter the spirit world the way you leave earth.  Thus, many scary movies portraying spirit men as they were the moment of death has some truth to it.

If a person finds himself at the bottom of hell and knows that he has a millennium of effort just to reach to a mediocre level, would he strive hard toward the goal to reach that level?  No, human desire is sparked on when a person can see his own position and the glorious goal clearly.  Then the person would strive toward the goal.

When a person can clearly see where he wants to end up, he must first realize why he has not reached his goal and is 'stuck' at his present point.  A person who has fallen far from God's ideal central point, where would the solution begin?

Would he find the solution at the present position or from God's central point?

This state of being far from God came as a result of man's behavior during his physical life and reflects what his character was on earth. 

This means that the solution begins with men here on earth.  The fundamental problem of spirit men in hell is it is too late once you enter the spirit world.  Once you enter the spirit world for eternity, you can no longer work freely on earth to make any spiritual progress without working through this earthly world.

In order for a spirit to make progress, the entire spirit world must make union with the physical world.  As we have found in history, it is not easy for these two worlds to intermingle or for spirits to freely come down until the Messiah returns to release them on earth.

There are thousands of different levels in spirit world which came about due to Adam and Eve laying the foundation of disobedience.

So, who is then responsible for the tragic situation in spirit world and humanity?

Suffering in the world began with the first parent Adam's misbehavior.  One man began the tradition of suffering to mankind both on earth and in spirit world.  Then who would be the next person responsible for the situation. There is no question that it would be Satan.    

Parents are responsible for the behavior of their children.

Since God is the father of humankind, as the creator of Adam, He also took responsibility for Adam's actions.  Fallen Adam does not have the ability to bring himself to perfection without God's power.  God leads the way and guides Adam back to perfection.  God takes the responsibility, but Adam has 5% responsibility to carry out the goal.

God's throne is in the highest possible heaven. However, God gave up His throne and came all the way down to the bottom of hell to be with His children.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Will of God and Individual Perfection

Sex Education Focus on Purity

When you are nearing twenty, where do you take your clean and unstained pure love, carefully wrapped? To the altar of God, the place where Heaven will be most happy to receive it. Then you join with a man of pure love or a woman with pure love to become a holy husband and wife together.

—Sun Myung Moon



Those who have kept up with the post or are familiar with Unification Thought and the teachings of the Divine Principle, you will recognize a common underlining theme in each one.

Reverend Dr. Sun Myung Moon made it his life mission to speak about reversing the fallen history and what he had learned in his 90 years in search of the ultimate way to completely be rid of humanity's sinful fallen lineage.

In short, humanity's wrong turn began with the wrong use of love through the sexual organs and in his quest he found that to reverse this is through connecting our love to God and our sexual organs only between husband and wife.

For the next week, we will focus on this part of the teaching.

Many think that a pastor should not bring up the topic of sex, but God created sex to be abundant and enjoyed between a husband and wife.  Because sex education is not being taught in the home or in the church's, Satan has been teaching his ungodly way of sex.  It is time to reclaim this holy part of the body and return it to God.

Here Father Moon gives a speech on the topic:


"When children are young, the joy of their lives is in seeing their parents’ faces. Next comes the deep attachment they develop with their siblings and friends.

But as they begin to turn into young men and women, they become intensely fascinated with the other sex, and the longing for conjugal love rises in their hearts. This is the “urge to merge” with a mate and become more complete, the longing for oneness in heart and body with their life companion, to team up with a partner to impact the world in a greater way.

These developments are a direct call of the four realms of heart and are necessary to a life fulfilled in true love. Traditionally, parents and indeed their whole society guided young people along a clearly defined path to meet a mate and come into marriage.

Centuries ago in the West and presently in parts of the East, elders arranged marriages while youth were yet teenagers. In the modernized world not long ago, individuals dated to select their own mate for marriage. In either case, sexual love was expected to be reserved for marriage.  Presently, however, these ways have become all but lost.

Dating is no longer with the intent to marry, but simply to have fun and companionship.

In fact, there are few clear rules or guidelines to help steer couples to the altar. Sex has become an expression of casual interest with little connection to marriage.

It is indulged in at earlier and earlier ages; 16 is a common age to lose virginity in most Western countries. Parenthood is no longer related to marriage and the widespread use of contraceptives and abortion intends to sever sex from parenthood as well.

A “divorce culture” in which a high percentage of first marriages fail has broken young people’s confidence to marry and adult confidence to advocate it. This plus the lack of stigma attached to sex outside of marriage has led to the widespread practice of couples living together before or in place of marrying.

Perhaps to an unprecedented degree, a multitude of powerful forces conspire against young people keeping the tradition of giving their bodies and souls to one person for life. Yet this remains the standard imprinted in the heart and conscience by the Creator.

For what reason do we marry? It is in order to realize the purpose of [human] creation.”

Nothing else can satisfy individuals’ yearning to live a life of honor and significance, to be loved unconditionally and to give their children the security of their parents’ enduring unity.


Desirable and Attainable?

To conform to this norm requires youth and single people to believe in the value and viability of both purity and marriage. Just as importantly, they need to believe in their own capability to be successful in each enterprise.

On one hand, they need to be sold on the beauty of reserving sex for marriage. One young woman sums up her sense of this when she writes, “It is sexuality dedicated to hope, to the future, to marital love, to children, and to God.”

At the same time, confidence that they personally can practice it is essential. This is not easy in many societies given the dearth of role models to look up to.

On the other hand, the idea of saving sex for marriage only has meaning if they view matrimony as desirable. More pointedly, they must see it as an attainable goal for themselves. When so many in society model marital failure, it is common to find individuals who doubt they can succeed in marriage:

“I want to be married, but most people I know have divorced or given up on it. I don’t know how I could do better.” In such cases, they may well decide to give up their chastity and dreams of marriage for a live-in lover, the closest thing to marital  commitment they believe they can achieve.

For these reasons, helping young and single people to be responsible regarding their sexual desires and to achieve the life purpose of marriage requires support for both goals. This support may encompass many facets—from basic relationship insights and skills to inner qualities and the lessons gleaned from family relationships to considering practical issues of when and how to meet a potential mate.


Education for Character, Abstinence and Marriage Preparation 

Guiding young people into matrimony and safeguarding their chastity is a multi-faceted endeavor involving many overt and subtle contributions from the family and community.

The disruption of traditional culture in the developed countries has left in many cases a profound vacuum that leaves adolescents and young adults with an unprecedented lack of assistance in this critical task. Families and societies have adapted in some measure to meet the need.

The most noticeable developments have been the rise of education for character, sexual abstinence and more recently, the emergence of marriage and relationship education.

Character education has been a rising trend in many societies.  Whether in elementary school or at the university, whether in a secular or parochial setting, intentional character education aims to bolster the moral development of students and foster emotional and social learning.

Methods include bringing out the ethical dimensions of classroom instruction, creating a more caring school community, conducting service learning projects and utilizing cooperative learning techniques.

Many view character education as a socializing influence that promotes better interpersonal relationships, including those between the sexes.

Formal education about sexuality has been a growing trend worldwide, especially with the proliferation of sexually transmitted infections. 

Much of this, however, is focused on control of the physical consequences of sexual relations, not primarily the support of purity. In response, what is called abstinence education has emerged.

Whether offered in a secular or faith-based setting, this is formal, research-based instruction characterized by an emphasis on reserving physical intimacy for marriage. Nations as diverse as the United States, Uganda and India have supported this effort with government funding.

The last thirty years has witnessed an explosion of scientific understanding about what makes marriages succeed and fail. This has been translated into programs imparting certain knowledge and skills that are supplementing the traditional premarital guidance offered in faith and family settings to great effect.

For instance, in cities where judges and clergy agree to conduct marriages only for couples who have received premarital education and counseling, divorce rates have dropped dramatically.

They are also increasingly being offered in schools and other contexts. In the United States, several states and cities have mandated marriage education for all high school students, and such courses for personal enrichment are increasingly common on college campuses. The hallmark of such programs is training in better communication skills and greater facility in dealing with conflict



Complementary Education

The three kinds of education are naturally complementary and interdependent. The most effective abstinence programs incorporate marriage and relationship education, just as the most comprehensive relationship education cautions against physical intimacy outside of the context of commitment. This burgeoning formal instruction in the understanding and skills needed for sexual abstinence and marriage preparation is of great value.




Three Facets of Marriage Preparation

Yet for Reverend Moon, there are other components of chastity and marriage support that are equally if not more important. We may consider the great religious traditions and their appeal to and cultivation of personal character. There are also the lessons gained and the wholesome influence of personal relationships with elders, youngers and peers. This is where character education has an important role to play.

Finally there is the question of the age of entering into marriage and parentally involved mate selection; these represent yet another facet of depth and power. If these various facets can be likened to

Parental Involvement in Mate Selection
Right Age of Marriage
Relational
Knowledge
Skills
Character
Enriching
Relationships

Olympic medals, knowledge and techniques alone represent the bronze medal level. This combined with character and family relationships compares to the silver medal status. If parentally involved mate selection and right marital timing are added, this represents the highest, gold medal level



Return for Tomorrow's Post: 7 Days of Holy Sex Day 1: Significance of Sex

This text was rewritten and derived from the Textbook: True Love, Chapter "Purity and Preparation for Marriage"

Make New Relationship With God

The Bible states that we can see God's characteristics, emotions, will and intellect evidence when we observe the creation.  God didn't haphazardly create the universe, but like an artist plans their masterpiece before painting, God did the same.

When God made a plan to create the world, He first began from the model of a man and a woman.  Evolution believes that humanity happened from chance of the smallest of cells without realizing that there was a First Cause - God.

This God has an intellect, emotion and will.  Would this loving God want a world full of misbehaving entities or one that centered on His own love and characteristics?

We understand that somewhere in history, the line of love between God's direct blood lineage has been severed.  In order to return to God, we must deny our fallen birth and blood lineage and make a new relationship with God.

We cannot return this world into a peaceful one without going back to the origin.  In other words, in order to be reborn from this fallen dead world, we have to return our life and center it on God and become resurrected.  Being reborn is not the conclusion where many religions may stop.

We then must go through a growth period to reach the perfection level where God resides.

During this growth period, it is a time where we restore what has been lost through indemnity conditions or what we call redemption.  It is the individual's responsibility to make an indemnity condition to return what is rightfully God's back to its original position.  This is not just on the individudal level, but is the national mission and world mission together at the same time.

As one comes closer to the truth of God's will more and more, one is awakened to how our bodies have become dirty through Satan.  We feel like burning off any part of our fallen body and cut off the filthy blood of Satan that flows through our body that causes us to do what we wish not to do.

When we realize our body is filled with sin and is our enemy, we feel like throwing away our hands, feet and even our whole body which is used by Satan.

Those who wish to believe that they are great and perfect and want to preserve their sinful, fallen selves through the ego are not very smart.

Since humans cannot remain dead in this state, we need to set up conditions which God can grab onto to eliminate our past relating with Satan.

This is different from the theory that, just by believing in God and the Messiah that all our sins fall away, yet we still bore children of sin.  Once we recognize there is a method to make the indemnity condition and it is not just by faith but through putting faith into action will we become perfected and closer to God.

There is no business in the world as great as that. In the Bible it says, "What good is it if you gain the whole world and lose your life?" Life is that precious. We must know the correct method for the indemnity condition, which results in your own precious life.

The way to restore oneself is to pay indemnity by going the opposite way of what occurred at the Fall. Also, by going where Satan and evil cannot follow.  Evil cannot be humble, follow their conscience or sacrifice for love.  This is why saints and religious founders in the past recognized the importance of practicing this method of faith daily in order to have a clear mind and become closer in oneness to God.

Teacher established all the historical indemnity conditions, then he won victory. It should not be a problem even if Satan attacks with all of his methods and ways, as Satan has done to goodness until now.

When it gets tough, we can imagine using the same method that Stalin used to liquidate all religious people and use it against Satan when we carry out maneuvers. Teacher even has that side.

Perfection does not happen automatically but is established through indemnity. 

What does it mean to be perfected?  We falsely have grown to believe that it means a person who doesn't make mistakes and obtains knowledge without learning it first.  This is superficial definition.  We obtain perfection when we unite our conscience which is close to God and subdue our body. This brings us a clear path to lead a life centered on God without falling prey to Satan's traps and temptations.  This being is said to have restored themselves and are perfected.

No matter how great a person is in the fallen world, they absolutely are  unable to perfect themselves without going over the hills of indemnity condition.  Self-perfection is accomplished through the perfection of indemnity.

God thinks of this perfection of the individual self as restoration of the self.   Perfection of indemnity could be called the perfection of restoration. That is why it is restoration through indemnity. Therefore, we can never separate these two words: indemnity and restoration.

When we say "perfection through indemnity," it means "indemnity for restoration."

Centering on perfection, reach perfection through the course of restoration through indemnity. After indemnity, then restoration. After being restored, then go the way of perfection. Therefore, you can think of indemnity and restoration as one.



The Indemnity Condition Has To Be Established By Myself


What was lost due to the fall?

First when Adam and Eve made love before the time of maturity, the angelic world and God were chased out of the human world and then we lost the world of all things in creation.  Next, the indiviidual, family, clan, nation and world foundational base were lost through Adam and Eve choosing Satan's words over God's.

Who has the responsibility for that?

The responsibility to reverse this mistake does not belong to God, the angelic world or creation.  It is human responsibility.    We must take responsibility for this tragedy and go the course of reversing this mistake.

Humanity will not be able to go this path alone, but with the help of the spirit world.  God created the angelic world before He created human beings.  The angels helped God create all things and through all things as material.

Because human beings caused the disruption and broke away from God's way, man must restore through indemnity or pay back condition.  Since the first parents became fallen parents, we must establish a True Parent to indemnify the past or else, we have no hope of returning our lineage back to God.  Thus, the one who can resolve the mistake in the Garden of Eden is the True Parent centered on God holding God's blood lineage.

The Principle is that the one who committed the sin should indemnify it.

Indemnity conditions must be established by your own self. Another person cannot substitute for you. The fall means the loss of the authority of subjectivity. In restoration, no matter who interferes, you must be confident of yourself and go with the clear subjectivity.

When we find the True Parent, we will not be able to compare their value to ten million dollars or even billions of lives.

When we find the True Parents in the Last Days, we should want to follow with our own life the traditions they set to reverse the Fall.

Jesus said, "Those who want to live will die and those who want to die will live," because that describes the way, the beginning point of restoration through indemnity.

No matter where others are going, I must be busy going my way. At night, there is no time to sleep, there is no time to find a place to sit comfortably and eat a meal. Without having a heart this serious, you cannot go the way of restoration.


In Order To Eliminate The Satanic Sovereignty

Jesus came to be a True Parent, but his mission was cut short by the disbelief of the people and could only leave a tradition of spiritual salvation.  In order to have complete salvation of the physical and spiritual bodies we must liquidate our own sin and past.  We must clean up any sin we committed by not doing things that are against Principle.

When we allow something we do to lay a condition for Satan to invade our lives, it is evil.

What is sin?

Whatever you do, say or any content you have that allows Satan to attack is sin.

Therefore, Christians more than anyone must clearly know the root of sin. Evil is Satan himself, needless to say, and in Eve evil starts with, "Let me be the subject, let me be the center." God's original principle of creation is, "Live for the other (spouse)," while "Live for myself" is the satanic fallen nature.

What is the origin of good and evil?

Many people wrongly theorize that evil always existed and is part of creation.  This is not true.  Humanity left its position due to the Fall.  In order to fix this broken past, we must return to the path of the Principle that existed before we broke down.  Then we must go through the course of recreation in order to become one with the principle of creation.

Evil people say that we should live for myself; God and Jesus want to break down this evil tradition.  This is why Jesus taught us to fight our arrogance and live for and serve others.  By going the opposite way of evil, we are doing the work of restoration.

Eve was motivated that someone else exist to invest in her, not that she exist to invest in others.  If she thought about Adam, she would have not tempted him.  This is why religions teach to sacrifice the self for others.  We must do the opposite from the world and invest in others.

After the fall of Adam and Eve, what kind of illness did the human race contract?

You have heard of lovesickness?  Through the sickness of love, we could not connect to God's true blood lineage and the blood lineage of Satan has multiplied.  This illness was infused from Satan's blood and bore satanic children through his blood lineage.  Where did this sickness directly begin?

It first began with the thinking of one self and centering on oneself and leaving God out.  By denying God's words and order and centering on oneself, the sickness of the fall was born and has continued throughout history centering on selfishness.

In order to heal and reverse this matter, we must deny ourselves and live absolutely centering on God leaving our own thinking out.

If the archangel, Adam and Eve, were hoping centering on God, they would not have fallen but would have established the ideal world.

Heaven is where we live a life attending God absolutely and make the relation of love through Him.  God has been leading this providence of restoring the past and straightening out this origin.  When you are too proud of your fallen self, this cannot happen.  You will not be able to separate from what holds you back from returning fully back to God.

We must have a God-centered living if we want to begin to come out of the self-centered, fallen sovereignty we currently witness in the world.  There is no other way to separated from this self-centered, satanic world. We all must take this way inevitably.

While you are doing witnessing or business activities, do you ever happen to say, "It is too hard and I can not do this"? That cannot be God-centered but is centered on your own self.

In light of this principle, if you complain while you are doing mission work, and deny the work, you must know clearly that your work is unqualified. He who works the Godly missions centering upon himself will complain within a short time when hardship comes. He will claim that all the work he has done in the church is his own.

The way I must go might be difficult, but I must think: God is going in front of me, my friends are beside me, and our brothers and sisters are there. Also, we must think that the fate of all humankind's future remains in front of us. I must think that I will go until I give my life. By having this thinking, you can overcome the self-centered fallen standard.

Not me centered; by thinking centered on God, you can overcome the fallen sovereignty. During our most difficult times mean we are kicking out the most difficult fallen sovereignty and getting closer to the day of liberation.

The Fall brought us into a horrific place of death and sadness.  In order to return to God, we must run into this place of death with a joyful heart as a real man and woman.  Every human must go through this fate no matter what.
As more people do the will of God, the world will go in a new direction.

 In your heart, do you have the faith to go beyond the limit of life and death?

The author of the Divine Principle speaks on this point:

"Teacher has been watching many dozens, many hundreds, many thousands, many tens of thousands of life and death situations, and has fought with Satan. Although the countless situations of difficulties come like waves, the goal that Teacher made has not changed.

Even if my legs are broken or my eyes are popped out or my neck is being cut, I do not change from the beginning point of determination. Therefore, I'm victorious as long as I'm alive.

How could we get out of the love of the fallen sovereignty and the blood lineage of the satanic sovereignty? Whenever you think about only yourself and loving yourself. Satan can take you away.

If I do the opposite, denying myself and thinking centered on God, and live this way, Satan cannot manage me and God abides in and manages me. By doing this, you can be liberated from the archangel in the satanic world. From the position of fallen archangel you can climb to the unfallen archangel's position." SMM

Adam fell away from God on the individual level because he was the center of the whole and he must restore the world and turn them to the right direction.  This restoration process does not all at once, but stage by stage.  First the position of individual, the family environment, clan, nation and world then the cosmic environments must be restored.

All together there are eight stages or levels which we must pass through.  When we solve these problems, human beings who are looking for the ideal world will be able to freely meet with God who is the subject of love.

While doing that, if some level is blocked, one may pass the lower levels but one cannot pass the level above. That means that one cannot continue on the way to be one with God.

If you are only able to reach a certain level of restoration and your path is blocked, you will be able to go freely to the lower levels you have conquered, but you will not be allowed to pass the levels above.  This means that you cannot continue the path to connect directly to God.

You will get help from spirit people on that level, but you will not be able to communicate with God.  God worries about fallen men and women and how we can expand the environment from the individual level to Him that allows us to directly communicate with Him.  God did not have these worries before the Fall and Adam and Eve were talking directly with Him.

Absolute denial must be established in the beginning on the individual, then to the family, clan, society, nation world, cosmos and ultimately to God.  This is how the world of peace will come about.  Are we as a society exhibiting a life of denial and living for others?  How about the individual or family. Without the sacrifice of one own's thinking, a world of peace will never come about.\

Then the eight levels are completed and connected to the ideal direction. Level by level, unless we pass through the course of denial, we cannot be connected to God.

One who desires the absolutely unique subject must fulfill the condition by denying reality.

Men and women fell through taking the orders of the archangel.  In order to reverse this past we must deny ourselves first.  When we pursue the absolute subject, God, we must do so through the position of absolute denial.  This is what every major religion teaches.

God appears in front of an unfallen Adam and Eve.  This is where we find God.  Each of us must return to the position of sinless Adam and Eve before the fall.  This tradition begins with unfall True Parents where we can make a true individual, true family, clan, nation and true world.

World peace begins with the unfallen Adam and Eve who become True Parents.

The Divine Principle is the only thought that makes this claim.  To reach this level of perfection, we must go through the opposite side from the fall. Our indemnity course naturally appears for us fallen people and we must each overcome this fallen past.  Without overcoming our ancestor's past, we cannot go back to the origin of a sinless Adam and Eve.  How can we restore the eight stages?  We begin with a clear ideology that gives us God's direction.


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This Post was rewritten based on a speech and teachings of the Divine Principle taught by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.