Be Like God and His Heart

We are modeled after God’s heart and heavenly character

Even the healthiest and richest person has to one day discard their physical body and move on to the spirit world.

Therefore, since death is inevitable, we must all prepare and be ready for it.  We should endure the hardships on earth in order to form a good character that will live in the eternal world.

While in the womb, we need good prenatal care in order to be born healthy.  In the same way, our life on earth is like the womb.

As we grow, we risk our lives to overcome obstacles that hinder us from becoming like God’s form, heart and character.

Do not sin

An electrical pole stands upright just as the mind is straight.  This is why people walk upright - to make your mind completely vertical.

The body forms a horizontal line. The perpendicular force and the force of rotation must be balanced. Accordingly, you must find yourself.

When you say that you are yourself, God should agree with you.  Then your relatives, your clan, and the nation must also agree that what you say is right.

The one who is accused by them is the problem.

In the future, continents will not be as segregated by borders as it is now, but divided between frigid zones and temperate zones.

The time will come when Heaven on Earth will become a reality. Those who want to continue to sin will be sent to the North Pole just like patients with contagious diseases are quarantined.


Live and die for the world

“I did not work hard for the sake of the Asian situation or the Korean people. Think about how to fulfill your responsibilities in the global field and be willing to die for this cause.”

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

We must live and die for the sake of the world and go beyond the individual and family level and stand on the global level.

What position should we leave the earth?  We should die while embracing our loving spouse, family, tribe and nation.

How will the founder of the Unification Church die?

“I will die for the sake of the world, while embracing its people and the Republic of Korea also. If the Korean people unite and die for the sake of the world, there will be a path for them to be able to live with the world. That is why I go forward seeking that path.”

Work hard

“If you need money, make it. If you need people, work hard without eating and sleeping to raise them on this path.

“Never ask anyone for help. Do not rely on the church headquarters for help; you should help them instead. Work more than three times harder than ordinary people.

“That is why, if I were to live for 70 years, my life content would actually be equivalent to 210 years. Likewise, don't think of living for I00 years; instead, think of working three times harder than others.

“If you were to live that way for 70 years, it would be worth 210 years. Think this way: if you worked ten times harder, you would live 700 years; if you worked twenty times harder, you would live 1400 years.

“You should work twenty-four hours a day throughout your entire life. Only when you live that way can you bear fruit and increase your ownership of love in the spirit world.

“Your fortune of love will grow. Your ownership will grow and your sphere of activities will expand.”
Work for the public good

All the laws of heaven promote public righteousness.

Private matters belong to Satan, and public matters belong to God. 

Go the way of public righteousness.
If everyone opposes you while you stand this course and you are not disturbed by the opposition and go the way of hardship with vitality, you will become a person whom heaven will welcome.
You can observe this principle yourself.  If you see a shopkeeper who is greedy, you will notice that the customers will not buy things from him.


No one likes a greedy person.


Everyone naturally knows how to manage one’s life when it comes to public and private matters.

If you do not make it to heaven, you cannot make the excuse that you did not know how to properly manage your life.

Why?

We already know the distinction between matter that are public and private without being taught.

Let’s say you had a delicious snack that was equally split between you and your sister.  You already ate your share, but your sister keeps her share.

You wake up late at night hungry and you secretly eat your sister’s cake which she had her heart set on to eat maybe with breakfast.

Just before you eat it, or while you are thinking about eating it, your own conscience will cry out, “You devil!”

You should be able to feel your conscience protest before you do an evil act.

Why? Because your conscience pursues public matters. If you follow private desires you will perish.

A mind that follows the laws of heaven is a mind that defends and protects a person from falling into destruction.

God originally had such a mind, human beings came to have the same mind from the start.

This law is not made by man.

Can you reason with your mind that you want to do an unlawful deed because that is the way you think or the way you are?  Would the mind surrender and follow your way?

We may not know directly where the conscience receives its instructions from, but we know it is not from us.

Our mind chooses public over private matters.

When people struggle at they come to the crossroads between good and evil, and public and private matters, they finally fall into a self-centered private life.

Those who fall into a selfish lifestyle will eventually perish no matter how successful they become.

Therefore, they should repent for their past, private lives and push themselves back into a public way of life.

People waver between going the way of a private life to a more other-centered lifestyle.

But after the Fall, people are more inclined to live a private life where they only concern with themselves and distance themselves from the public good.

This is how you have lived your life of faith until today, so therefore, you should repent for living a private life-style.

We all want good fortune and to live forever.

But in order to do so you must become public people.

Become people who don’t just love your children only as your own, but become people who love their children as an offering for the sake of the people in the world who are suffering.




When holding your babies to your breasts and nursing them, think of yourselves and your babies as representatives of the entire human race on earth.




Nurse your babies with such a heart.

Instead of just caring for your own children’s wellbeing, cherish other people’s children as if they were your children with a loving heart.

Babies who are raised by such mothers will certainly become great people.

Such a result may not come to the surface right away, but after the first and second generation of
descendants, great figures who can rule the world will be born in that family.

This is the formula.

Which lifestyle do you prefer to  live to indemnify the past: private or public?

Both have a purpose.

But those who stand up at the risk of their lives to devote themselves for the public good will become great people.

A new history will be created by a group of people like this.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheong Seong Gyeong written by Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Jesus Forgave Without Shedding His Blood

We hear often about the blood Christ without truly understanding the significance.  On day of Communion, many people of faith take in the drink of wine and bread as Jesus did with his disciples at the final supper to indicate the drinking of his blood and bread.  How much of a controversy this would have caused to many believers then.

What is the importance of Jesus' blood and why is it so misunderstood by many?

Many Christians place salvation exclusively from the blood of Jesus. This is a mistake in the sight of God.

Even before Jesus shed his blood, he already forgave others for their sins and transgressions.

Therefore, it was not necessary for Jesus to die shedding his blood to bring about salvation - it was an alternative route from God's original plan.

The Bible records the account of the prostitute who was about to be stoned.  Jesus told anyone who felt they were without sin to throw the stone at her.  In everyone's hearts, they knew they could not condemn her and they drifted away in shame.  Then Jesus spoke to the woman who was accused and told her that no one condemned her and he would not condemn her either and not to sin no more.

What does this mean scripture truly mean? By his own words Jesus offered forgiveness.

Therefore, to bring about salvation to the earth, it was not necessary for Jesus to die before completing his mission.  Jesus didn't give anyone a raincheck to come back for his forgiveness after his death.

 

 

Jesus could open the way to salvation to everyone by the Word of God.

 

God's plan of salvation does not require bloodshed by necessity.

Q. What does salvation mean?

Salvation means that living men, women and families on earth will enjoy the garden of Eden as God had intended from the beginning.

We need to realize the love that Jesus brought to this earth - not the alienation, bloodshed and his death.  His love and forgiveness should be told more often than his end.

Death came when human beings departed from God when they misused the love of God.

After the first parents fell away from God, human physical bodies remained alive.  Resurrection means to accept the word of God and to become the possessor of God's love.

What if Jesus was to appear on earth for the first time right now or on television?

Would you like to have spiritual salvation only through him being murdered and shedding his blood or would you want to have Jesus bringing about salvation with his should and body raising an exemplary Godly family to which to follow?

 

You have to reach the point where you are one with Jesus in flesh and blood.

That's why he set up the condition of the sacrament: Christians must feel they are actually eating Jesus' flesh and blood.

They should actually feel Jesus' life and love more than just eating a piece of bread.  Then they should also feel they are drinking his blood.

Salvation will not come about until that moment. 

This was Jesus' method to bring humankind out of Satan's world into God's uniting the believer through this real sense experience.

This means that Satan is cut off and humanity is engrafted to Jesus and we can feel this oneness.

There is a further vision for Christianity: people go through total salvation on the spiritual AND physical level.  What does this mean?  Jesus' body was attacked and lost by Satan, but he must return again to bring about salvation of our physical body leaving it un-attacked by Satan.  In other words, Satan attacks our body through diseases, mental illnesses and accidents. 

This is the prophecy which will be fulfilled at the time of the Lord of the Second Advent.

If this is hard to grasp, please ask seriously in your prayers guidance on these matters. Ask either Jesus Christ or God himself.

If Jesus had lived and fulfilled his primary mission of bringing the Kingdom of God on earth, Christianity would never have been what it is today.

The purpose of Jesus' coming was for the salvation of the world. The chosen people were to be God's instruments. However, salvation was not intended only for God's chosen people.

For every soul upon the face of the earth, Jesus is the savior.

He is the savior of all humankind.

Should the Messiah come to the Christian world alone, or to the whole world? What God, together with the Christians, must do is cover the whole world both on the spiritual and physical levels.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the text, Jesus and the Second Coming God's Warning to the World -message from prison

Truly Help Our "Lost" Brothers and Sisters

If you are a person that walks the way of faith of any religion, you see that the current world we live in does not literally follow God's Kingdom.  We learn through looking at the Bible from the Principle point of view, we learn that human history started on the wrong foot which is the evil side.

This is why the Bible states that the god of this earthly world is Satan.

Due to the human fall, Satan abides in each us, through the sin circulating through our blood with every heartbeat.

In other words, we as humans are the incarnation of Satan.  Biding Satan's will and giving Satan's love. 

We are born in the lineage of Satan - not God's no matter how religious we are. 

This is against God's law of creation.

This is why He created the religious world where there were many martyrs that had to lay a foundation to bring His dream of World Peace closer to fruition.

The first religions, which were primitive, people of faith were sometimes killed as offerings or sacrifices.

This represented in a devilish way the impulse to shed the satanic blood.

From God's point of view, with this flow of stained blood in our veins, we are not human beings or part of His pure creation.  We are seen as just satanic beings in the position of His enemies of love. 

We became Satan's children through following his low standard of 'love' and will and God's enemy.

Yet, God has worked thousands of years to help to change this tragic position of humanity.

This world of hell came about not as part of God's world, but from human's not following God's plan of flourishing blessings.

This is why Jesus cursed the people and said, "You are of your father, the Devil" John 8:44.

Our first ancestors went against God's desire and entered into an unchaste, sexual relationship before God's love was able to grow and mature within them.

True Parents are needed in order for us to have perfect restoration.  We must be able to change this stained blood lineage through the process of true rebirth.


In the Bible we read that when Nicodemus visited Jesus and heard him talk about rebirth, he asked, "How can we go back into our mother's womb?" Jesus reportedly said to him, "You are a leader of Israel and still you don't know what rebirth means?" In conclusion, he said, "If you are not born again, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God."


To be 'born again' means to become part of God's pure lineage such as Jesus was, because we are men and women of the satanic lineage, this is our destination.

To change our satanic lineage into God's, we must live a true ascetic life such as we observe those in the convents.  Such a life of faith presents difficulties and hardships in a world of such free sex and loose morals, but to begin the process of a pure lineage, we must follow God's true laws in order to restore our sinful blood.

What does changing our sinful blood have to do with World Peace?

Wouldn't a world of people who are not born into sin less likely to cause war and harm to others, yet live for others?

Imagine a world full of Jesus'.  Wouldn't such a world be more at peace than this world full of Judases and Cains.



Q. How did sin come into the world if God didn't create it as part of humanity?

God gave the warning of do not delve in the fruit of love before the right time and Satan gave his word of it is okay to eat.  Adam and Eve both believed Satan's world more than God just as children do with their earthly parents.

God said do as I say and there will be blessings, but if you go against my laws expect curses.

How can we in this day and age still believe that God created hell when He is our Father and He wanted to give us a world of blessings. HUMANITY chose curses over a world of God's love and laws.

This was the first stage of the fall.  During the course of restorations, we must have the conviction to believe in God's words strongly and absolutely.  The result of our not having faith in God's words and carrying them out was the satanic lineage through believing in Satan's words.

Jesus shed his blood in order to connect our satanic, sinful blood to his pure unstained lineage.

The wine during the Holy Communion symbolizes the shedding and sharing of Jesus' pure blood that is connected to God's.  All of humanity was meant to be born as Jesus was without sin.

The wine thus symbolizes godly lineage.

When we partake in the bread and wine, it signifies the blood of God's lineage and we are removed in that manner from the satanic lineage to divine lineage.

We can look at the tragedy of the sin becoming part of God's children tainting His pure bloodline as a burden to humanity who owes a debt of blood, sweat and tears in order to clean this stain.

God's only story is experiences since the fall filled with nothing but tears, sweat and blood.

This is His only history.  When we see the true history of God's painful, torn heart due to His children's disobedience, we see that people of faith and Christians truly don't know what God is all about.

They sing about Him sitting on this glorious throne enjoying life and His rule over His Kingdom.

Through the Divine Principle, we see that this is not true at all.



"Someone has to liberate God and He cannot do it Himself The agony of parents, or of husband and wife, cannot be solved by themselves alone.

The agony of parents can only be solved by children; the agony of a husband can only be solved by his wife, and the agony of a wife by her husband. The only way to liberate God from His sorrow is by becoming a son or daughter of filial piety to take over His agony.

God wanted to forgive Adam and Eve, but He was not in the position to forgive them, because they were in no state to be forgiven.

We must imagine this: suppose there was another person who did not fall-a brother of Adam, who, standing intact from the fall, would go to the Father and beg Him to forgive his brother and sister; what would have happened?

If that man, without having fallen, would go to God and ask Him to forgive his brother for the fall, and if he would tell the Father that he would help by taking on any responsibility himself-, he would be willing to be beaten or anything else for the sake of the fall of his brother and sister, God could have forgiven them.

This was supposed to be the way of forgiveness, or salvation of the fallen people.

A person who has not fallen can be said to have nothing to do with Satan.

If God has that kind of individual, He can develop His providence of salvation with that one in the center.

This type of person is "Abel," or one who is in the position of Abel in the place of Cain who symbolized the satanic bloodline.

Abel is supposed to be the person who can receive perfect love from God. He or she must be able to be triumphant over Satan. Abel must be able to sacrifice him or herself for humankind. In other words there should be one who is willing to be sacrificed in place of the fallen brother and sister in order to liberate them.

That sacrificial brother will become the Christ. What is the mission of Christ, the Messiah? He is the one who bears your burden and your indemnity.

That is why he is the savior."


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


In today's society, we see many leaders and celebrities who want to be in the position of a god, saint or Messiah.

Once we see the heavy burden of such a title and responsibility, we see that the rightful owner of such a title is the one and only God.

If you take over the burden of someone else's life then you are that person's savior.  Just on your condition of standing in the place of your fallen, sinful brother, they can be liberated.

The tears you shed for them will be the gateway of salvation to open and to relieve God's sorrow and the human sorrow.




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God's Providence in Scriptures - God's Warning to the World message from prison

Attend the Messiah to Liberate Your Sin

Liberation of your forefathers will take place in proportion to your efforts.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

We have entered the era where the unification of North and South Korea is possible.

Everything is possible.

Now, there is a welcoming environment in which heaven's law can work.

You should feel mortally ashamed if you are unable to witness your tribe in such an environment toward the heart of God. 

History is a course seeking the truth. 

The truth should show the true path of the true individual and a true family should live.

How a true society, a true nation and a true world should establish.

Therefore, the perfection of the world, nation, tribe and family and the individual is possible when the focus from the individual  level to the world level is one.

The person who brings these logical key words, the truth, is the True Parent.

The truth is God's true love.
Now, people of the world must listen and pay attention to this truth.

The teachings of Rev. Moon is the truth for the salvation of the world.  They are humanity's words of true love and life which are needed for eternity.

If the Savior comes to save the world, then he should not come to judge humanity with a rod of a real iron in the real sense.

Not even one person would give in by being hit by the messiah to submit to God.

The sacrificial love of a mother, with hands as tough as a toad's back, whose fingers are so bent from working hard for her children they cannot be straightened out, can have the power to make the disobedient child repent and come back to the right path.

Even though God is the mighty king of judgment who leads heaven and earth according to His will, the cosmic unification is impossible without true love.

In other words, we are living in the time where we can bring about humanity to God through love - not through war, fight or force.

Difficulties are not an obstacle in true love. 

While in true love, there is the vigor to go forward at the sacrifice of one's own life.

We fail if the people can say, "In that church, the words are good, but the people are bad."


Did I give you only words? No, I did not just speak. I have done all the things that I am teaching you now. Therefore, there should be no doubt about them. I am teaching by creating a system of thought that is free of inconsistency and contradiction in both its intellectual and the practical aspects. No one can say anything about that. Both Satan and God approve of it.



God is calling us with His words.

Therefore, we must go according to His words.  What is the way that True Parents and true children can meet each other?

It is through true words.  Those words are my words.  You cannot be children without knowing Father's words.

My words are absolute and true. You won't feel tired even if you listen to the same words for a thousand or ten thousand years. You'll never get tired of them. We must search for such words.


Just finding words is not logical enough.  It is a dominant principle that can give life even after one hears them again and again for eternity.

You must seek such words and live such a way.

The words of the True Parents are eternal and transcend time and space.

Therefore, God's words transcend history.

These words transcend time periods, principles, and ideologies.  They are more precious than the words of others.

These words whether you listen to them at night or during the day or read them at night, flow into your heart endlessly.  You must seek these words.

What is my bitter sorrow?


I failed to fulfill my duty as a filial son; I should have cried  and pleaded with my parents to join the Unification Church. I am trying to resolve this through you. I could not even witness to my family. There were eight brothers and sisters, but I could not say one word of the Divine Principle. My older brother obeyed me completely whenever I said something. I have restored Cain completely. If I told him to sell the house, he sold the house, and if I told him to sell the cow, he sold the cow. My mother and father could not be like him. To that older brother, I could not speak about the Divine Principle once.

From now on, don't keep quiet.

When people gather around, try teaching for seven years as I taught you for seven years in the 1950s, without sleeping more than two hours a night. You don't have to do this for seven years. It won't take four years, either. It will all be done within four months. When I return to my homeland, I will unite it in an instant. Therefore, you must teach your parents well.


Also, teach your brothers and sisters the true significance of these words.

Through your own blood sweat and tears, you should teach this yourself without the help of others.

Then you will become the precious uncles, younger siblings, older sisters, and sons and nieces and nephews who follow the model of the sincere attitude you have when you are teaching.

You must confidently proclaim these words from now on.

From this moment, you must proclaim the Principle to your neighborhood for eight hours or however many hours a day, even staying up through the night as I have done for seven years. You must do so. It won't take seven years; it will probably be restored in seven months. When this happens, I may load up a truck and come and see you. I am sure your families will invite and welcome me.



Father made the national leader, Mr. Eu lecture for sixteen hours a day for three and a half years.

When Mr. Eu was tired, Father felt his heartache when he would tell him, "Who are you trying to kill by lying down?  You lay down without even asking me?"

Why did they live in such a way?  They lived that way in order to establish a tradition.

Organize Reading of God's Words/Hoon Dok Hae

Words of the Messiah's speeches, which this blog is based upon, can be considered Hoon dok hae or reading of God's words. Reading The Divine Principle or various books by Reverend Sun Myung Moon has the same spiritual effect.

Why?

Father's words are never spoken directly by him, but they are words spoken by God through him.

Your hearts will be moved no matter where or when you hear these words.  There will be a great revolution within your body, when the heart is inspired.  There is such a power in those words.

Whenever there is a meeting, this is an opportunity for studying.  Whenever you find that you have time, this is a time for studying the word.

You should continue to read material hundreds and thousands of times until it becomes yours and you can embody its substance. 

Our members will become sick if they are inactive.

In order not to become sick, you must read hard, be tested and put forth the effort.

In other words, don't just read the word, but become the embodiment and put them into practice and spread it to others.

True Parents are the ancestor of words, character and heart.

Hoon Dok Hae, the reading of God's word,  is the treasure chest that I stored up under all sorts of hardships and deprivations and that I have opened up to the people. I have told everyone not to translate it; it cannot be translated. You should do Hoon Dok Hae until I say otherwise. You must know that. You should do Hoon Dok Hae whenever time permits. You should always keep a speech book in your pocket and do Hoon Dok Hae even when you are alone, even in the bathroom, and keep a record of the part you have read, even if it was for a couple of hours a day.

You should read the Divine Principle, but you should also read Blessing and Ideal Family and all the other major speeches because they are the records of victory over the satanic world.

We should become one with these speeches which include all past battles of the True Parents up to the present point.

By uniting with and following these contents, you will become one with True Parents.

These speeches and posts should take root in yourself, in you family up to seven generation, and then 160 or 180 families horizontally, all united together.

Between husband and wives in the Blessed Families, Hoon Dok Hae should be done for one hour every morning. If you cannot do it in the morning, then you should do it in the evening before midnight or 1 am.

Father has done Hoon Do Hae every day.

When he had to do a tour in South America, even though he was tired, he still did Hoon Dok Hae, even after midnight.  He did not miss even one day.

Therefore, he instructs us, too, to try to read it every day without fail.  Since he has built the super highway road to restoration to bring a world of peace, we should be able to become cars filled with gas and go at the maximum speed.

Talk about the contents of the Divine Principle until it makes you sick to even think about it.

When you keep going until you get sick of it, you will find that it is very interesting and exciting.

You should clearly know that sermons have the ability to create. 

Because God is with you, then your heart will influence the people directly.

Do you understand?


If you have not read the entire collection of my sermons, you are a dreadful bunch of people.


Father did not even speak the deepest contents in those speeches and he is unable to express them now.

You must understand how precious these words are that are held captive in text with the source of life within them.

This source of life is flowing away.

It is our responsibility to find a way to have this eternal water of life, finding a way to connect the water pipe to this source.

 But what have you done?

Are all of those books something that you can just sell to an antique book shop?

The contents of these words hold a greater value.


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This post was rewritten and derived from Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Thirteen,  Chapter 4, Section 4,5

The Homeland the True God Desires

Have you ever thought that God has a dream just as we have been given one?  If we are made in God's image and likeness, then He should too have dreams for a better future for creation and humanity, correct?

When we look through the events of history from God's point of view, we see God's handiwork through His people to restore the world through their works.

Jesus came to establish God's homeland.

Prophets and patriots of history worked hard as well in order to build this same dream of a Godly homeland.

Each generation tag teams in order to see a better world come.  In order for us to establish heaven on earth, a perfect man like Jesus must appear and complete Jesus' mission of bringing heaven on earth, not just in spirit world.

This man must be recognized by heaven and earth beginning with establishing a heavenly family through having children and establish a tribe, a people and a true nation.

He must reverse the fallen relationship of the brothers Cain and Abel and engraft them to His pure lineage.  Then, build the true homeland where God has dominion in the world and evil must flee.

Prophets, saints and patriots of history all had the same desire to see a world exempt of evil - an Utopian or heaven on earth.

However, they were not able to build this heaven on earth where individuals, families, nations and world could be connected as true brothers and sisters centered on God.

Therefore, we must abandon the path along which humankind is headed in the wrong direction and go in God's direction.


Q. What if Adam and Eve had followed God's direction and did not fall?

Adam would have become the true leader of his tribe.

He would have been the leader of his people.  In addition, he would have been the representative of the nation.

Adam would have become the first true king.

Thus the world would have automatically have been united without a trace of conflict or wars.

They would have operated under one philosophy set by Adam.

Any other trivial and worthless philosophies and doctrines would have been cast aside.

Unfortunately, this did not happen.

We currently live where myriads of doctrines have brought about great confusion to the world.  This problem must be exposed at the root and eliminated.

Humanity's process of thought should have been based on the unfallen, perfect Adam.

Our language would have been Adam's language, our cultural would have been set based on Adam's culture, our tradition should have been Adam's tradition, our lifestyle would have been Adam's way of living and our political systems would have been Adam's systems.

Everything should have come under the system of thought of Adam's nation. 

The philosophy behind a true Adam is called Godism.

Everyone must become one with God, centering on His heart. It was suppose to be the only philosophy humankind would have lived by.

Everyone has a longing to live in the heavenly kingdom in heaven and on earth.

Do you think there are boundaries within heaven with heavy walls and sections?  Do they have many different languages?  No.

What does the heavenly kingdom look like?

Since all people were born in the bosom of God, then God sees us as His sons and daughters, brothers and sisters in the family of God.

From heaven's perspective, we are one people, all citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Our goal is to build a unified world and one nation under God. 

Our goal is to build a nation with one sovereignty, one people, one land, and one culture that is connected to God's lineage through the True Parents who appeared and reversed the first parents' fallen mistake.

In that nation, everyone is determined to inherit God's realm of heart and fulfill the biblical idea of 'love your enemy."

The world God created cannot have national boundaries or problems between races. 

People believe that evil and darkness is eternal and is a necessary part of humanity and the creation.

Even teaching that evil is necessary and was created by our good God to balance out and be the opposite to goodness.

Even though evil was created and is in the world, does not mean it was intended or created at the beginning of creation.

If we followed God's command at the beginning, there would be no need for the struggle between good and evil.

We grew up in a world where borders divide the nation and there are problems between people of different races.

There are even barriers between husband and wife, parents and children and between siblings.

There is a struggle between good people and evil people.

How can we continue to believe that this is part of a creation that God would create for His own children?

What father would create anything bad for their children?  If God is the beginning and end, wouldn't He only create a beautiful environment that would ripen for His own people?

Evil was created when His first children delved into a part of creation before it was ripened. If you have ever tried to eat an unripened fruit such as an apple or banana, you understand how undesirable it is or inedible it is for human consumption.

This is the understanding of the symbolic 'fruit' in the garden of Eden.  We know it to be the sexual organ - the fruit of God's children where the seeds of children are planted.

The returning Lord's task is to transcend racial problems and create one nation without borders, unite the divided families and bring the kingdom of peace to this world where good and evil are fighting.


Q. Where is the original land, original homeland of our unfallen ancestors?

Will it be logical that this homeland will be established based on the standard of one specific nation?

What is the homeland which God and humankind have been searching for, the answer is.... the whole of planet Earth.


Q. How can we create this Godly homeland?

Earth is the homeland which we have longed.  Our ancestors and past generations walked the path of sacrifice, so what was it they desired and begged from Heaven the most to achieve?

This was their cry: "Please quickly bring the era of the Godly Homeland without a trace of evil!"

To establish a nation of God, we establish on earth the peaceful Kingdom of Heaven that places good as the standard above all else.

This eliminates evil and judges its ringleader Satan, who has been the enemy of Heaven.

Please understand that this is has been the desire of our ancestors who have contributed enormously to the course of the providence as well as Jesus and God.

Don't you desire to have a nation where God is ruler, a heaven on earth, or have you settled for this Kingdom of Hell perpetrated from the beginning by Lucifer?

There must be a country that is able to encompass a family a tribe and a people.

Six thousand years of history and God has followed countless nations, longing and seeking this one country where He could establish the heavenly nation on this earth.

He also has been searching for His loyal subjects and virtuous men and women to build such a nation.  We must reorganize families, people, and nations with God as humanity's center.

Our responsibility as people of faith is to bring about this day of liberation, the restoration of our homeland.

The mission of religious people in every religion has been the creation of this homeland.

Yet, ironically, often the selfish desires within people of faith to achieve their own personal salvation has prevented them from uniting on this purpose from across the spectrum of the different religions.

We have set the standard on the individual level, a people and a nation, so now we mobilize and seek the day of freedom, equality and happiness for all God's people.

We seek the day of the restoration of our God-given homeland as well.

Inevitably we must go this way, but, through difficulty.

This is my perspective and the standard that God is seeking. It was this standard that Jesus was trying to establish up until the time of his death.


When we move forward in the process of restoring our homeland, we will suffer and sacrifice in the process.

We will stand on the frontline, the time will come when everyone will say it cannot be done without our working in faith for the goal.

We must work hard for three years to set that standard.  We have to establish this heavenly tradition through shedding blood, sweat, and tears until all people inherit everything from us.

We have to clearly understand that there are still conditions of indemnity to be offered.

God isn't sitting in glory on His throne, He is a miserable God, a lonely God and an unspeakably sad God.  What father could idly watch his children suffer as he ate a king's meal?

God's joy begins when His children become soldiers on the front line, who have the conviction to fight and restore our homeland even if we are bleeding and fall down from the loss of blood.  Even if we have to lose all worldly possessions in the process.

When the ranks of these brave soldiers who fight to restore our homeland and unite the world increase, then God's true joy will begin.

Do you know about God's providence to the present time?

The first goal is to have the foundation on which we can bring about the restoration of God's homeland in heaven's nation and liberate God's Kingdom on earth.

This must be accomplished even if you have to sacrifice your time spent with your family.  Even if you end up as a refugee, a gypsy, this must be done.

We have to set up a country that is under the dominion of God. 

When we look at how communist countries force unity and loyalty to the government - think of this being given freely by the people centered on God?

We are at the time where those of genuine authority and dedication to God work alongside the Messiah and offer their financial foundation necessary for the restoration of our homeland on earth.

This foundation will bring about the nation that will bring world unity.



I should not help you either as a group or as individuals with the money from my own wallet. We have to follow the will of Heaven. Korea must be responsible for Korea; Japan must be responsible for Japan, and America for America. Providentially, these three countries are one. They are the countries of the parents and the eldest son.



We must create an impetus for one unified language.

We Must Find Our Homeland

We long for the nation of God, because it is the place of love.

God's nation is a place where, instead of temporary, corrupted love, we have an eternal love transcendent of time to continually exist.

It is also a place where you can elevate yourself and become 100 percent of your value.

God's nation is where you are eternally happy.

This is why all people are yearning for the heavenly nation.

You should go to the spirit world only after bringing giid results under the realm of God's dominion on earth.

This is the original standard of creation.

Instead, not only do we fear death, but we go after planting many bad seeds and enter into an ungodly realm for eternity.  This is far from God's original plan.  He did not create hell, our ways created it.

If you are unable to restore a heavenly nation on earth during your lifetime, when you go to spirit world, you do not have the value to belong to a heavenly nation in spirit world.

What is bound on earth is bound in heaven.

Our faith's goal is to become citizens of God's country. 

A person without a country, a homeland is always attacked.

Such a person stands in a miserable position.  He may often feel hopeless after suffering an affront.


Q. So, where can we find the country God desires?  

Which nation can become God's foothold?

God's eternal Kingdom on earth will be established based on our bloody sweat we shed for these people and country.

Such a country will create the blessed land that can be praised by our descendants in the thousands of years and generations to come.

God's country is composed of His direct blood descendants who receive Heaven's command and in His place will govern under God's kingship.  This was God's original Homeland before the fall.

There would be neither communism nor democracy in such an ideal country.  Once established, that nation will remain forever.

When we imagine such a nation, we should feel mortified that we are unable to be a citizen of such a heavenly country at the present moment.

We should lament that we have not become such a heavenly person, living in such a nation.

We must grieve over the fact that we do not have such an unchanging sovereignty.

During this process of building sovereignties, nations and territories, the human race has established sovereign nations.  We must remember and honor the fact that during this process millions died, many were sacrificed, many nations fell and sovereignties changed hands.

All these people who sacrificed, died, shed blood, and sad people did so to see a heavenly nation and world on earth.  They want to see such a nation come.

In this era, God sent His beloved true son and true daughter to the earth to establish one, absolute nation.

Until the present time, He could not prepare the foundation after Jesus' death to restore one nation.  This attempt has failed every time.

Thus God has worked throughout history to send His people to earth to manage, advance and accomplish this work.

It is sad to be a citizen of a country with no sovereignty. 

Jesus was concerned about this point.

He told others not to worry about where their food, drink, or clothes would come from.

He said that these small matters are what the ungodly worry about.

"Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things. Instead, above everything else, be concerned with His Kingdom and with what He requires, and He will provide you with all these other things."

Jesus said to save your nation first.

The nation that God is seeking.  Jesus waits in paradise, not heaven.  Paradise is the waiting room to go to heaven. You enter heaven only with your family, not as an individual.

Jesus was unable to stand before God on the basis of establishing a national sovereignty that had the power to communicate directly between heaven and earth.

You cannot go to heaven alone.  Heaven is designed as the place where if Adam and Eve had not fallen, their sons and daughters would have gone to live together eternally as a family in heaven.

Why has it been so difficult until now for religious people to preserve their lives and had to sacrifice?

It was because they did not have a heavenly nation as a protective foundation.  There was no family, society, or nation that would help religious people.

If they had only found a nation with a sovereign, heavenly leader that would stand up and shout "Hey, you good for nothing, this is the right way!" then the people would respond, "Yes sir".

However kings and leaders who were centered completely on the heavenly law did not come forth.

There has been no heavenly leader or nation.

That is why these problems have occurred.

Religious people who hold the standard of the heavenly kingdom could not establish a nation and go beyond their own individual selves and problems.

Without a nation, no matter how good or happy your family is, evil people can destroy it. 

This is why we need to create or find a nation on which to stand.

Religious people have not been able to understand this.

We must find a nation of goodness.  This is the purpose of religion.

If you do not have a country that can uphold the standard of God, then there is no basis upon which to register.

We have to have a new registration after becoming one people centered on God's standard.

We need to establish heaven's nation on earth. 

Then, as victorious sons and daughters who are the citizens of that country, we must live together and care for our families and clans.

We become people who love that country and its people, and who receive the lineage of the Messiah.  This is how we enter heaven in spirit world.

This is the way of the Principle.

We need such a nation in order for the blood, sweat and tears we shed and our tradition to be bequeathed for the first time to our descendants for thousands of generations to come.

Thus, when it is established, a monument that will celebrate Heaven's efforts and glory will be erected on this ground.

If we are unable to establish such a nation, then all our efforts to restore the world will be in vain.

Because this nation has not been fully established, then the Christian world and all civilizations will be sent down the river and burned up.

Aren't you seeing such a trend among the religious foundations that have been established for thousands of years?  How effective have they been toward a world of peace?

This is how they have succumbed to Satan's game.  You must understand that the issue here is to establish a heavenly nation.

We will not find such a homeland in an existing nation which already has established its traditions and cultures centered on the fallen, material ways.

The nation which we seek is fundamentally a different dimension.

In order to qualify to inherit such a nation, we have to embrace an ideology that enables us to take on the subject role.

The underlying thought that will govern such a place has to be perfectly aligned with the absolute thought of the Creator.

God desires a nation whose citizens desire to unite under its sovereignty.  

Each citizen must have these characteristics and embody the form and shape of that nation to be a citizen.

To form a nation, there needs to be a territory, a people and a sovereignty.

Q. What is a sovereignty? 

It is the creation of a relationship with the original God.

The leadership of the nation must connect with God and then conduct the work of governing the nation.

When America could follow God's law it flourished above other countries in its infancy.

The sovereign leader must completely unite with the citizens of the nation.  There is no dictatorship in this nation.

By becoming one with the people, the sovereign leader can no longer think of anything as being for his own sake alone.

He must instead see everything as being for the sake of the nation.

Once this standard of leader is achieved, that nation will prosper and flourish.

To form a heavenly nation, you need a people, a territory: in place of the sovereignty is the parents, in place of the people are the sons and daughter, in place of the territory is the nation.

It is absolute principle that all these elements have to be present.

To establish a nation, there must be a sovereignty.

All people are included in this nation.

Q. Therefore, who will be the owner of heaven and the sovereign ruler when this heavenly nation on earth is established?

Without a doubt, God is the sovereign ruler.

Where will this territory be?  Will it be in heaven?

It will be built on planet earth.

All of your activities should be for the sake of seeking such a nation.

You should focus on being its founding loyal patriots, and restore our homeland.  Your mindset should be to shoulder such a mission.

You should think that you are part of the secret envoys of Heaven who receive such instructions to come to this evil world to fulfill this mission of building a heavenly nation.

If you do not do this, you will not be able to establish your prestige or dignity as a citizen of the nation we have been seeking.

Even though Satan sees that he is losing ground everyday on earth, do you think that he will just give up and turn around and automatically bow his head toward God's people who have passionately fought for God?

He has been playing havoc with God for thousands of years, he is not going to retreat easily.

He will doggedly fight to the end.

This is why we must not be distracted in these last days and stay focused on the central point.


If I, Rev. Moon of the Unification Church, stray from the center, I will be broken. If you do not set the right direction, there can be no development.


We must go out with barefeet if necessary to create the homeland.

Your left over resources are not enough to save this nation.

You do not save this nation by focusing on what food you are going to eat, what clothes to wear and what car to drive.

Therefore, we determine to pioneer with our bare hands and feet.  That is the type of work our church is doing.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook -  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 13, Chapter 1, Section 1, 2

The Way to World Peace

If fallen man understood that humanity went in the wrong direction causing a constant war going on within each of us, the restoration of the world would be faster.  

As a consequence of the Fall of Man, there is a continuous struggle and conflict within ourselvess between mind and the body.  Between the desire for good and the desire for evil.

 

Originally, our mind and body were to be operate as one in unity, not struggle.

 

Our mind represents God's mind.

The human body is a container to accommodate the mind.  Separation came between these two when the fall occurred.

Thus the body dominated the good mind based on Satan or selfishness.  Thus, tragically, the human body has become the servant of Satan.

On the other hand, the human conscience is the agent of God in the individual person.  Our conscience was not created to benefit oneself.

It is planted by God for the sake of righteousness.

Yet the body rebels against this conscience.

The body only seeks after comforts and tends to act selfishly, going after carnal desires.  The conscience in turn is trying to chastise the body and direct it toward the godly mind's desires.

This is why there is always inevitable conflict and struggle within one's self.

This is the reason why the traditional religions of the world all teach the principle of chastising the body through fasting, prayer, and other disciplines.

By doing the opposite of what the body desires to do that is wrong, discipline brings the body to the will of the mind.  For this reason, religion which is the training ground where the desire of the body is suppressed, has been the instrument of God to bring men back to God's original ideal.

In order for us to dominate the body, we must unite with God within Himself.

The only power that enables the mind to dominate the body is the same power which generates unity of the mind's wth God's truth and love.

 Mind is subject and body is object. 

God's love and truth has the power to bring the mind and body into harmonious person.  Religion would define such a person as a man of perfection or a holy man.

Men and women that center their whole life on God are called men and women of goodness.

These good men and women may receive God's blessing of marriage and be united into a couple of husband and wife.

This will be the beginning of one ideal family of men on the face of the earth.

This model family is what God wanted to have as a building block of the good society, nation and world.

The Family is the Foundation of Peace

The Orient has a saying that "Once peace dwells int he family, everything goes right."

A happy and harmonious family is a family of peace and the foundation for the heavenly kingdom on earth.  The dynamic of the family is true love.

You must love God first, then love your husband or wife and your children with pure and sacrificial love.  This is the manifestation of true love.

God created love as the supreme force in the universe.

There is nothing greater in the universe than true love which is supreme.

True love, of course, originates from God.

God invested everything, every ounce of Himself in order to bring about the creation of all things and mankind.

 

Love is the only is the only thing in the world when invested fully, returns fully.  

When you invests true love, it will multiply and prosper.

Investing 100 percent of true love will yield 120 percent.  One might think that those who practice true love would become poor and miserable, yet the end result is to the contrary.

Through practicing true love, you will acquire prosperity and eternal life.

This kind of family of true love becomes the foundation for creating a society, nation and world centered on God's love.

That world would become ideal and peaceful.

There you will find understanding and peace and not misunderstanding and confusion.

You will find unity instead of division.

You would find selflessness instead of selfishness.  It would be the world where sacrifices and good service are a dominant virtue which everyone would strive to achieve.

The realization of God's ideal is the way to bring about true peace in the world.



 

The Ideal of True Parents for True World Peace

The Bible states that God sought to create human beings from "His own image" and character.

This means that the invisible God wanted to manifest Himself substantially into a visible, physical form.

In other words, men and women would become the personification of God through their perfection in pure love.

If the first man and woman had realized the ideal of God, they would have become the first visible form of God and created the first family of man of God-centered children, grandchildren who would expand to form an ideal society, nation and world.

In this case the invisible God would thus become the vertical True Parent of man centering upon true love.  Humankind would have centered upon good Adam and Eve who became True Parents by becoming one family eternally fulfilling a true brotherhood.

The Fall of Adam and Eve brought about the lost of not only God's ideal world, but the True Parents of humanity.

We became like orphans whose true parents abandoned them.

Therefore, brothers and sistersturned into enemies.

As a result, nation became antagonistic relationship rather than friendly ones. Accusations, and distrust abound on every level of society.

In the final fulfillment of human history, therefore, God's work of restoration is the restoration of True Parents first, liberating humanity from its orphan status.

Today this is the central dispensation of God - to bring True Parents to earth to guide mankind and create the true family of man centering on God and true love.

Ladies and gentlemen, today's creation of the Federation for World Peace must be different from that of the League of Nations and the United Nations. Most important is that we must found this organization upon the true ideal and philosophy of lasting peace as well as the ideal of True Parents. In the final analysis, peace in God and with God is the newest level of awakening. 


Once humanity reaches this level, it will be a refreshing new beginning toward attainment of peace.  The exclusion of God from human efforts to bring about peaceful solutions, is the core reason why there is constant failure in these endeavors.

Therefore, we should make God the center of this movement.

Historical Gathering

For men and women who are fervently longing for world peace, today's gathering is an historic gathering. There are many presidents and former presidents here today, as well as prominent religious leaders and leaders from every walk of life. This is truly a rare and extraordinary assembly. Furthermore, there are leaders from the East bloc and the West bloc. Until recently, those leaders were mired in the Cold War and locked in a chilling confrontation. In this auditorium, however, there is no East or West. Everyone is gathered together in one spirit of cooperation and reconciliation.

On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall finally came tumbling down.

Ever since that historical event which was felt around the world, we have been living in a different world.

The world is quickly moving forward to reformation, mutual understanding and friendship.  Everyone today feels that the world is opening up, a new way, to blossoming opportunity of peace.

If you agree that the principles I have expounded are the fundamental criteria for peace, then true peace is reachable and achievable. The industrialized North must reach out to help liberate the South from pervasive impoverishment. The developed nations must reach out with a helping hand toward the developing countries and the new democracies.

During this time of transition and restoration, each nation must change from a selfish one to an unselfish one.

That in itself is a revolution.  Nations can do this when leaders themselves are able to see from the position of parents.

 

The most unselfish and sacrificial love of all is the love of parents. 

 

 

 

From this perspective, we can see that on a worldwide level that all of the nations are brothers and sister nations.  

 

Then a fresh new vision emerges and a new opportunity will open up in front of us to a new dawn.

What should be the priority of those countries that are part of the UN in the days to come?

We have reached the age where colonialism is over.  

 

Where the powerful nations exploited the weakest ones in the past is over.  The law of "survival of the fittest" does not apply in our new world.  

 

The age of the superpower arms race which drove the world and humanity into fear and uncertainty has also passed.  

 

 

 

 

 

Humanity ought to be liberated from the devestating threat of nuclear arms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What time is it on God's timetable of restorating the world?

This is the time that the Holy Scriptures refer to "beating our swords into plowshares."  Do you see it is such a time of human revolution going toward a better world centered on God?

This is the time for developing mutual trust which is based on a high moral standard.

It is a time when all of the members of the United Nations in a relationship of mutual respect and love, should jointly declare one final war against our common enemies.  

 

That would be hunger, ignorance, disease and crime.

This is God's plan.  Even though everyone has a concept of their home country where family lives, in larger sense, the world now becomes "my country" because it is where God, my Father and my brothers and sisters live.  

 

From this point of view, all the advanced nations should seek to share their knowleddge of high technology with developing countries and new democracies.

To do otherwise would be a moral crime.  Things which are good and beneficial must be shared among all nations.  When a new discovery is made, it should benefit all nations.  If something is good for humanity and the world, it should be fulfilled, transcendent of national boundaries.

For a long time, I have been fighting for equal opportunity in the use of high technology by all developing nations.

A Century of Peace

Ladies and gentlemen, your coming to this place is not an accident. Nothing happens by accident. I feel you are ordained to be here. You are chosen by God as champions of peace.  A new era is unfolding. With the cooperation of God and man together the twenty-first century will be a century of peace. 


If we are to see a world of peace happen, we should work tirelesly together for the next nine years.

If we do, we will be able to eliminate all obstacles which might hinder the attainment of peace.

If we are able to push forward, centered on God, we should be able to eliminate all obstacles which would hinder the attainment of peace.

This twenty-first century should be a righteous century full of hope.
Wealth will not be the dominating factor in this era.

Instead, the human spirit and soul will prevail.  The twenty-first centry is the era of unity between God and man.

It should be the era where a new awakening will come to every man.

They will realize that there is more benefit for himself when he serves others and lives for the sake of others.

In this century, selfishness will decline.  Life honor and glory based on unselfishness shall be triumphant.

These are the characteristics of the era for peace is approaching.

Now we have the opportunity for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.  This century shall be hopeful and glorious.

To make this happen, the Federation for World Peace will provide the ideal and philosophy to educate the world's population. The Federation will assist spiritually, mentally and financially in the development of needy nations. The Federation will set a high moral standard and take a dynamic role in building a world of peace.


As you walk this path of restoration, you are the apostles of peace.  The bright new hope as well as a exciting new future awaits you.  We should fervently feel the desire to fulfill this great mission that has been bestowed upon us by God.

In order to achieve this sacred duty and historic responsibility of building everlasting peace on earth, we should dedicate our lives, fortunes and sacred honor with total commitment to this dispensation.

The first item on our agenda is to invite God into our individual hearts and those of our family, society, nation and world.

When God is with us, who shall be against us?

Respected friends, my beloved brothers and sisters, we are called to this sacred mission: to build a world of peace.

Our noble march shall begin today toward that glorious future.  Let us build a true world of peace together with God.

Thank you very much.




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This post was rewritten from the Textbook for World Peace Chapter 2