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

Existing Doctrines of God Contradictory

Throughout the history of religion, there have been many question that have been raised such as does God exists and many questions about the doctrines each religion upholds.

These teachings have brought much division, and wars between the people of faith and sometimes within the same faith separating into several different denominations.  How did we come to such a position?

We commonly say that God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent who possesses the utmost goodness and beauty.

He is said to be a being of love, the Lord of judgment and the Father of humankind.  Yet, how do we make sure that this description is correct.  Why did God create the universe?  God could have lived by Himself for life.

God is absolute goodness, so where did the phenomenon of the law of the jungle appear in this world He created?

We know that the Fall has led to the world of sin, but why did beings created by a perfect God develop so many problems?

God has many problems which humanity has caused since the beginning.  Many ask that if God exists, why did an all-knowing and all-powerful being allow Jesus to be nailed to the cross?

If Jesus did not go to the cross would it have been possible for salvation?

If God is almighty, yet He is still unable to save perfect Jesus from dying on the cross, is such a God a cruel God we should chase away?

How could we believe and trust in such a God who seems to not be able to save humanity, who are also His children, from their misery?

There has been no one before who sought to dig at the root of the cause of God's grief after the Fall.

The relationship between God and human beings has become impotent. Although theologians and spiritual mediums know about Satan's existence, they have not been able to understand why the almighty God could not prevent Satan from opposing Him and stealing His position.  

This same problem is mimicked in the spirit world.  Whenever you try to go to God's side, Satan surely interferes.  Satan opposes us from many directions, not just one.

Why is God unable to intervene and punish the devil who perpetrated cause of sin?

This has been a riddle to humanity until now that it has been revealed.

God has been leading humankind throughout the tens of thousands of years of history toward a better world, but why have we not established a world where goodness is realized?

Instead, humanity has ended up heading toward a world of despair and hopelessness?

This problem has never been truly or satisfactorily been answered. It is the leading reason people conclude that a good God does not exist.

If a God or Creator did not exist, would it be possible for humankind to have the possibility to dream of the ideals we long for which is the peaceful world and Utopia we seek for the future?

In the past, thinking people and philosophers have failed in their pursuit of such a world.  Their answers and efforts have left the world in its present state.

When we look at the history of struggle and wars to bring about a better world, how do we assume that such a world of hope can come about in the future?

Why would the all-knowing God leave Satan alone to do as he pleases humanity?  God could just execute him one night, but He leaves him be.  Why?

This is the most difficult question which religion failed to answer in the past.  Is it a simple matter?

Many people visualize God as a God of glory sitting on His throne everyday.  This concept is why we believe that God does not have anything to do with suffering or sorrow or any kind of emotions.

If Christians were asked what kind of being God was, they would say that He was our Father.  They would further say that those who call Him Father should repent and live a life of faith in this sinful world.

God and man are constantly said to relate as parent and child, yet they are said to be in contradiction of each other.

Christianity pronounces that God is all-knowing, omnipotent, the Judge who sits on His throne as the righteous Lord of judgment who judges all people.

Do any of you like judges?

Judges sometimes pass death sentences, but their verdicts cannot be absolutely right.  There are many different ways and angles to see a situation, yet a judge measures whether someone lives or dies.  

If a judge serves for ten years, he will get sick and die; if he does not die, he will at least become seriously ill. Human judgment of universal law often misses the true mark.  For this reason, a righteous person would get sick after being judge for ten years.

We should ask God about this.

Christians also say that he sends bad people to hell and good people to heaven, but if God were joyful to see this, then He would be a crazy God.

God dwells in the place of absolute goodness, which transcends good and evil. 

Would it be interesting to have such a God that sits on His throne all day like pastors say?

Try sitting for three days straight doing nothing.

So, what is it God could be doing?

According to Christianity, God is sitting on a throne of glory while humanity suffers on earth.  If God is alone, then what kind of glory is that?

Do we truly believe that God sits in one spot for eternity, singing, "Oh, I have so much power, omniscience.  I'm so mysterious and..." Really?  What use is that kind of power?

God, too has always been living centering on love.  This logic is undeniable.

Why is it that God is unable to do as He pleases when He holds such power?  It is because He is constrained by circumstances.  

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, True God Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One Chapter One section 7

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

World Peace: Messiah Needs You

The Messiah returns to bring a higher ideology just as was done 2,000 years ago.  A higher truth than the 10 Commandments came in the form of the words of "Love they brother and sister as thyself".  This was a revelation when it was first heard. 

To Love.  People tried to stone the Messiah where ever he brought the breaking news.  Now the Messiah returns to bring breaking news that burns the earth once more with God's Word like fire.  Just as the New Testament was a higher ideology than the Old Testament, the Messiah brings the Completed Testament with a higher ideology than the New Testament.

Sounds blasphemous.  Hundreds of Israelites thought the Messiah's words and actions were outrageous during his time as well.  He spoke about loving him more than mother and father and husband.  He said to drink of his blood.  He told people about no one could enter heaven without going through him.  What took 2,000 years to accept is now common knowledge after millions of Christians sacrificed their life for the truth to spread throughout the world.

It was not God's plan that the Messiah would not accepted in the end.  Jesus was to be lifted up to king, and conquer Rome in his time 2,000 years ago.  As we peer into history, Rome was conquered by Jesus' followers only after 400 years of persecution.

 Why would God send Jesus to his own people to kill him, why not send him to a place full of barbarians who would kill him.  Why spend thousands of years to prepare the Israelites to receive Jesus if they were going to reject him and kill him anyway as God's first and only choice?

Individuals and families make up the nation.  In order for Jesus to be kings of kings while he was on the earth, he needed people.  You can't rule a nation without a people that will follow you.  Everywhere Jesus turned, he was met with opposition, even in his own family.  Even in the end, his very own disciples scattered instead of uplifting Jesus to the position of King on earth.  He was only able to obtain king in the spiritual realm, not on the physical earth.

His own disciples did not fully understand Jesus' mission.  This was not completely their fault.  Jesus was supposed to be supported by the high religious leadership of his time, people who God prepared to understand Jesus' higher standard of teaching.  Unfortunately, during his time, they could only see him as a lowly man and heretic.

The Messiah returns to bring the higher ideology which will completely break the bond of satan.  Just as Jesus, the Returned Messiah needs support of God's people.  He needs the Christians, Jews, Muslims and people of every faith to support and spread the new truth of God that Jesus could not give to the people because they did not understand his true mission in his time.

The Messiah returns to completely break our physical chains that satan has used to command us.  The messiah was able to give spiritual salvation and returns to give physical salvation.  The Flesh and blood of the Messiah was attacked by satan in order to bring about salvation spiritually.  What does that mean?

You will be able to be saved from physical attacks of satan, diseases, early death, anxiety and numerous ways satan attacks our bodies.  Even if this is hard to grasp, no one can deny that the Son of God's own body was lost to through the attacks of satan.  Even though Jesus' gave up his body in exchange for God's children, his physical body was still attacked by satan.

God Needs His Soldiers

As the Messiah returns, he needs those who will be able to follow and carry out his message to the people.  Just as Jesus said when asked what should the people do, he told us to pick up our cross and follow him.  During his time he had a select few who could follow him. 

Ultimately in the end, he lost even his own disciples who could not follow his last command to stay awake while he prayed.  This had a significance on how Jesus was not able to completely finish his mission.  By his disciples not being able to stay awake and support him while he prayed, from a providential point-of-view, it showed that they were still claimed by satan.

As the Messiah returns,this time, based on Jesus' foundation of victory, the Messiah will finally be able to stand against satan with 144, 000 who march with him in faith.  These are the initial clergymen and people of faith which like a cloud, the Messiah will be able to stand upon on his return.  He will lead the way for God's children to learn God's words that will separate His children once and for all from Satan's grip on this earth. 

This is called Armageddon.  Is this going to be physical or spiritual?  Just like in Jesus' time, the people chose to abandon the Messiah, and we see that the Israelites were left without a nation for 2,000 years, we today have a choice to follow the Messiah or worse - World War III.  

Since God plans to absolutely eradicate satan from earth, if people this time choose to leave the Messiah and continue to follow satan, he will even sacrifice those people to start over.  He did this in Noah's time with water, this time with fire.  That fire can be either through His perfect living word which is like fire, or through nuclear fire.  It is up to you and me to open our eyes widely to the time we are living.  We are no longer living in the time of darkness where the truth is hidden, we are living where God does not speak in symbols but plainly.  All things are being revealed to us past and future.

It is up to us to believe and practice the new truth that Jesus so desperately wanted to share with his people but they could not understand.  Once the truth is accepted just as we accept Jesus' words, then a whole new world where God reigns and Satan no longer has a person on earth with which to work through will be a reality.


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Today's post was taken from the Divine Principle written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.  The original text is in Korean and has been translated in conversational form without changing the meaning or spirit of the words.