March Forth, Heavenly Soldiers!!

The Bible warns to be careful in every moment because the devil is couching at the door waiting for you to make a misstep and let him in to destroy your life.

Where is the boundary of Satan?  We must be able to reanimate the people of this nation.  In this way, we please God who is longing for his children who are lost.  Our point of victory must be there.

This is similar to a rope in tug-a-war with you pulling the rope on this end and whoever is on the other side will be dragged toward the winning side.  On one end, there are the presidents of major companies and famous political figures and behind them are thousands of people connected to them. You can wind the winch and those on the other side will be pulled toward you.

If you can win and pull a college dean or university president to your side, behind them will be even more top-level people pulled along.  You must think as the Bible states that you are fisher of men that have cast anchors and hooks to grab hold of men and pull them toward heaven.

The most important thing in this struggle is to stay strong and never waver. This is where the boundary point of victory lies.  It is right here in front of us.  There are many who are so weak that they can be easily persuaded and compromise their value by the opposition.

When you are active, you seem to be strong, but at times you are defeated. 

We all have hooks that the opposition knows about and pulls them in order to pull you in the wrong direction.  Our innermost self compares our situation to those of our friends.  If we are running forward on a mission and see one of our old friends and see that they are dressed nicely and have great success in a worldly way, we will in that moment lose courage to go forward as we look at our humble dress and lifestyle.

When you work hard at your mission witnessing in the streets or fundraising and doing many activities many people will say that it is no different from being a beggar.  But Heaven knows.  Before this work, you didn't dream about doing such things.

Wait until ten years later, and we will be far excelling those people. If we endure for ten more years, we will soar up and be conspicuous in the human scene, while other people will decline and be corrupted.

The fruit of the labor will be evident in the future.

In other words, even though it looks like working hard for God's providence may seem like you are defeated, but you will win the game.  Along the way you may be screamed at, called many vile names and even be spit in the face, but you must endure. You must have the resolve in those moments that you will have success in 10 years and if not 10 years you will see success in 20 years. You can scream this out in your mind when you face such difficulty.

"I took every rebuff as a challenge and because of the opposition coming from those people I had more courage to fight against them and win over them. I would sometimes feel like retreating, but because of the enemy, because of the opposition, I could never retire. More than anything else, the vow I took before God is always with me. When I took my oath before God, He was confident I could do the job. I took the vow when I was at the zenith of my zeal and enthusiasm."

Reverend Sun Myung Moon


Even though you know that God is there helping you out, you must be confident to think that without God's help you are going to carry out the mission.  When you encounter hunger, think of a situation where you could be more hungry and then you can endure the hunger and continue on the path.  When faced with these situations, you can look at those who are in a more poor condition than your own.

In face of any difficulties, you must be able to say, "Come what may, I can have my courage doubled and tripled in face of more difficulties. "

When your dignity is offended you must imagine a time when you were more offended and degraded.  If you can realize a purpose in five years time where it took others 10 years, then you are determined to endure the double efforts.  If you want to shorten the time period first imagined, then you must triple, and quadruple the effort to compensate for that time.  You should be ready to do twice as many obstacles and encounter twice as tough situations if you are going to shorten the time.

Youth is a dynamic power. 

If your friends, relatives, neighbors, and nation oppose you and are against you, you can cut them all off and do the divine job and fight.

Set the goal that you can be triumphant to the point where God cannot not follow the difficult path.  At every moment of our lives, the question where do you put that goal?

For instance, if you have to do your work at a certain time, but you determined to get up two hours early and you arrive an hour early, some would feel that while waiting they will doze off. If those people are situated where they have to fight through a fierce battle without sleep, it would mean defeat for them. This is the point that will determine your success or failure.

Victory means that you have more power over other people.

Every moment of our lives, where there's any event, you will determine for yourself whether you are going to be victorious or defeated.

Whenever there's a new event in your nation, you must be resolved to participate in it and win over other people, to be patient, and to be confident. You must throw away the old way of thinking: "Well, God is there, and if I pray hard, He will help me. "

God does not work in this way and it will not happen.  You must make the effort to do your utmost best.  When you work hard toward the goal, for the part that you cannot carry out, you can pray before God and then He will help you.

This is the way to pray before God when there is a difficult task.  Resolve to accomplish the goal even if you might not be able to get adequate sleep.  If you were to start getting sick, you can say that this was happening because you wished it, then the disease would be fearful of such a person and back away.

When  you endure many sleepless nights, your brain may become brighter and brighter.  Have the insight to pierce through the future and determine with your utmost as this is what most people do not do.

From this viewpoint, can you really be resolved to take responsibility for this nation? You must beat against the nation, until the nation resounds and echoes to the call. Stir up the nation so that you rouse the Christians. We are not talking about shooting your enemies with pistols.

Shoot the hearts of the people with love.

The question is, where is the boundary point of our victory?

If you are as confident as that, and if a man of that confidence and a woman of that confidence were to be marry, they would find perfect balance in their marriage.   When you are blessed in holy matrimony you shouldn't think that your happiness as a family will be everything.

It is the woman's way of life to feel happy deep in her heart after actually making her husband happy first.

Your job is to make your spouse happier than you, without his or her being conscious of it.
 

After thinking of the husband's happiness first, then the wife can express her happiness.  There was a married couple where the woman expressed her happiness everywhere and would even scream she was so happy.  After awhile the husband grew to dislike her.

It is natural for a married woman to want to be well dressed and have the best jewelry because she is married, but before doing that, you should want your spouse to glitter and shine.  This is the way a couple helps one another in a partnership.

Divine Principle ideology profess that when you are made a couple, you are one, and with the magnetic power of love created between the two, they can attract other families and end their disunity.  This is the way to win more and more families to God's side.

The ideal couple will have such influence more not when they are living the luxurious life, wearing glittery clothing, eating the best foods or driving the best cars.  The ideal couple that lives in poor conditions that experiences misery and many difficulties yet they still shine, other families will know that you have an ideal family life.

Your exemplary family should be like a lighthouse for those in the corrupted world where families are disunited.  Your family must become the norm for corrupted families. Your family should become the norm for the secular family.

You must never complain about your spouse, saying, "Oh, she's an Oriental girl, she's shorter, she's not beautiful, she's not smart," because God chose her. However ugly he or she may be, whatever defects he or she may have, in God's eyes he or she has a certain place.

When one lives this type of life working hard for the mission moving from place to place, they will see that there are not too many places that are tidy and clean.  By living in such ugly and dirty places, it is to one's advantage and practical  to have an ugly spouse rather than a glamorous, tidy girl who might not like the place.

If there is disunity in the family, everything will be shattered into pieces and there is no way to influence other people.  There is a saying "How can one rule the nation if they cannot keep their own household in order?".

Next comes the church as a whole. The Unification Church is a unified family with couples of various types and nationalities.  If one thinks that it is easy to unite all the various couples, they are deceiving themselves.

You deal with different faces and different backgrounds.  There is Oriental, Occidental, black, white and yellow where there are vast differences not only in culture but ideals.  So, what is the secret to handle this group?  Money, power?  Is this an everlasting way to unity?  Then what?

It is the power of True Love.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Victory for True Love

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Boundary Point of Victory

Cause of Evil Society

If someone asked you whether our world today is good or evil, what would you answer? Without a doubt, you would answer that it is evil. But it is not just the world of this age that is evil; we cannot help but say that all the ages of the past and all the nations and the world were evil.

Therefore, our world has been one in which sin continues to grow more than good deeds, war more than peace, immorality more than righteousness, hatred more than love, and division and discord more than unification and harmony.

No one wants this kind of evil world. Therefore, we cannot help but investigate how we can establish an ideal world of true love overflowing with peace, freedom and happiness and clear up this world of evil. What all individuals and leaders of the family, tribe, race, nation and world desire as well must be the establishment of a world overflowing with freedom and happiness. Since the beginning of human history, for thousands of years, humanity has been struggling toward this kind of ideal and dream, but we have not yet established the ideal world we desire.

Today, I would like to reveal to you the fundamental cause of these problems. In addition, I intend to present the solution which will make it possible to realize the ideal world which people have desired so much. This is not content which comes from human speculation or wisdom. As you already know, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, whose teachings are the basis for this blog, has devoted his entire life to solving these problems. Thousands have been moved and inspired beyond words by his teachings and by his life of love for God and humanity.

Be Fruitful, Multiply and Fill the Earth

If a wife, as she lives supporting her husband, gains deep insights into the truth and is continuously moved and inspired by his life and character, this is an occurrence which should be revealed to the world.

Why? Because the fundamental reason for this world becoming an evil world where sexual license, criminal activity, conflicts and corruption are rampant is the breakdown and disharmony in the basic relationship between husband, wife and children.

At present, over seven billion people are living on the earth, but if we look at it in another way, only two people are living here. We could say that a man and a woman, a husband and a wife, only two people, are living here.

Countless numbers of people are living together and there are all kinds of relationships and problems, but at the core of all of those problems are the problems and relationships between two people, a man and a woman. When we look at things in this light, it becomes important for us to investigate the way of heaven that man and woman were to go when God created the first ancestors.

In Genesis, it is recorded that after God had created the heavens and the earth, He created the ancestors of humankind: a man, Adam, and a woman, Eve. At the same time that He spoke about the three great blessings, He gave them a portion of responsibility.

The three great blessings were: "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing...." But to the man and woman He also gave the responsibility: ". . . but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. . ."

This teaches us the purpose for which God created the universe and humanity, and also shows us the basis for life. The blessing to be fruitful means that all people born on the earth must grow to be people of perfected character.

The second blessing of life, to multiply, means that, as a man and a woman with a perfected character, they must establish the bond of husband and wife, give birth to children, and raise them. God's purpose of creation is, as a husband and wife fulfilling their duty as father and mother leading a family, they should construct a far more comfortable, prosperous world and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

This purpose of creation was to be realized if the first ancestors had obeyed God's commandment, ". . . but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat...." But before the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, were perfect, while they were still immature, they did not keep God's commandment; because of Lucifer, they fell, and all humanity became the recipients of an evil blood lineage.

Due to the Immoral Fall of the Original Human Ancestors, Humankind Has Lost the Purpose of Creation

Ladies! What is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that God told the original ancestors, Adam and Eve, not to eat? It is not the real fruit of a tree. It is a way of expressing the husband and wife love relationship that the first ancestors were to have in the future.

Due to the temptation of a third being, while still in an imperfect state, the first man and woman entered into an immoral sexual relationship. Actually, in the Garden of Eden, the third party besides Adam and Eve was the archangel. In the Bible. it is revealed that Lucifer was the archangel who tempted Eve and committed an immoral sexual sin. This was the fall of man, the original sin which planted the root of sin in the world.

Man committed the sexual sin before his Father God, the Lord and Master of heaven and earth, and the first ancestors had children out of this immoral love; and the world of evil was realized. In other words, they married centered on Satan and by planting false love, false life and a false lineage they became ancestors of evil.

As human society expanded from the individual, family, tribe, race, and nation to the world level, due to this immoral relationship between man and woman, the root of the evil blood lineage was established everywhere, and this world became hell on earth: it became a false world filled with sin, war and fear. The fallen ancestors, Adam and Eve, should have established the position of True Parents as the eternal good ancestors of humanity, but they fell to become false parents leaving a blood lineage of evil.

This is the first cause of all the tragedy and misery of humankind. What could be more tragic or cause greater indignation than becoming the descendants of false parents and all humankind losing their True Parents?

And how great must be the suffering and sorrow of God, the Father of humanity, whose purpose of creation, to establish the true ancestors of humankind and to multiply people of goodness, was stolen by the blood lineage of sin through the immoral fall of the first human ancestors. Just as the cause of a disease must be discovered and treated in order to save a person suffering from it, in order to liberate human society from the suffering of such sin and misery, the fundamental cause of this sin and misery must be revealed and corrected.

The fundamental cause is the fall of the human ancestors, the original sin.  Accordingly, unless the cause of the disease called original sin is eliminated, we cannot pull up the root of misery and sin from the world. No matter how many great men, heroes, scholars, politicians or philosophers appear and try to straighten out the world through the reform of the laws and systems or through the education of moral principles, unless the original sin and the content of the fall is clarified, it will be impossible. All remedies will prove useless. That is because the original root of sin and misery is still alive, and it will continue to sprout buds.

The Role of Religion: 

The Salvation of Humankind from Evil

Religion teaches the fact that man fell, it reveals the contents of the fall, and directly and indirectly shows God's providence through which He seeks to save man completely from sin. Therefore all religions are the most active prescriptions for saving the sinful world.

Religion is the foundation of all education or teachings. The teachings of the four great saints Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad and the teachings of the founders of other religions transcended their ages and locations and have preserved the conscience and morals of humanity, and have been the generative powers of cultural development. Accordingly, all religions seeking to liquidate the world of evil and to establish the ideal world which God and people desire are co-workers and collaborators.

Among them, the scriptures through which God most directly revealed His providence of salvation is the Bible. Through the Bible we can know that the ancestors of humanity, Adam and Eve, committed the original sin and became false parents, and that God's work in the providence of salvation is to restore the lost purpose of creation.

The main point of the message of the Bible is that in order to give rebirth to all, the Messiah or the True Parents must come in place of Adam and Eve who became false parents.

Adam should have become the true father, and Eve should have become the true mother; that was the purpose of the original creation. In order to restore the purpose of creation back to its original state, God cannot help but carry out the providence for the recreation of Adam.

That is the main point of the providence of preparing the chosen nation of Israel and having Jesus born there. From the time Adam and Eve fell and humanity multiplied with its blood lineage centered on Satan, God immediately began working to separate the blood lineages of goodness and evil.

From Adam's family, God separated the second son, Abel, who was in a position to relate to God, and the first son, Cain, was in a position to relate to Satan. He sought to restore the order of the creation to its original state by having Cain yield to Abel of his own accord. Through Cain's murder of Abel, the history of struggle to separate good and evil was extended for a long time.

When we look at the bible in this context, from God's viewpoint of history, we see that His process of restoration had many setbacks that lead us to the Last Days where the Messiah has become the true father and reverses the mistake of the false father, Adam.

In these Last Days, evil society will thus separate from the dominion of Satan as it follows God's commandments leaving no base for evil to have a partner in which to work through. This will be the beginning of a new era of hope where all humanity will begin to flow and follow God as the true ruler of this world.


Return to continue this post tomorrow: Jesus' True Mission

Textbook For World Peace, Chapter 5 "The Central Role of Women in the Ideal World" was taken from the wife of Dr. Moon, Hak Ja Han Moon who gave this speech in July 1992 to the Women's Federation for World Peace Rally in Seoul, Korea.

Reality of Lucifer

The Reality of Fallen Lucifer

First of all, who still believes that Eve fell for a real snake's lies, or an ugly, demonic looking angel?  When has Lucifer ever used something ugly to tempt God's children to follow him?  We need to understand that Lucifer is a very, very beautiful being.  How else could he hide so well in our day and time and continue his misery?

 Just look how he tempts even the most devout.  Scoffers just shove it off when a faithful person falls into illicit sex as that person was never really a faithful person.  How about looking at reality?  Lucifer uses beauty to get even the most devout saints to fall.  Look closer at any television show or watch any movie these days.  We see fallen acts of beautiful people as acceptable even if we wouldn't allow common people to do so.

Fallen Lucifer even makes fallen sex without God look beautiful, and masks it as true love even though God said in the day we eat of it we would die!   Why do today's people follow the false ideals perpetuated on television with fallen sex, ungodly behavior?  We fall for this theory of false love, and our children fall for this no matter how much we know that false love leads to destruction.

Lucifer is beautiful and uses the extremely beautiful creations of God and twists its beauty to tempt us in order to keep his dominion over God's children. 

Yes, false love, is truly love.  But it is not True Love.  Yes, a  beautiful woman can be beautiful inside as well as outside, but if she's trying to get you who is a married man, or your son to do what is outside of his own morals, then the act that follows no matter how beautiful, is not of God.  I'm not going to lie.  Even with all this knowledge, if I am not careful, I fall for "Wow, I want a relationship like theirs, because it is so beautiful". 

How can we tell the difference between Fallen Lucifer's tricks and God's ideal? 

It is a very fine line, because fallen Lucifer knows how to twist the truth.  He even told Eve, "Hey, you won't die".  He said this because he knew that it did not mean physical death.  He was half right, because Eve and Adam did not die after they disobeyed even though perfect God said they would.  Does God ever give false words?

This is how Lucifer destroys the truth - by telling the truth with his own agenda attached.

 

Adam and Eve did die before they left the Garden of Eden.  In Genesis, God asked where Adam was when we all know He could see all - except fallen Adam and Eve who had been corrupted.  Leaving God's dominion is death, it is a spiritual death likened to a person who is addicted to drugs who is still living but we know what type of living this is.  It is spiritual death.  Sadly, good lies have truth laced within them, and are hard to distinguish from godly truth. 

We need to know the identity of fallen Lucifer and, we need to have a deep understanding of God's characteristics, and place this measurement up against every decision we make. 

Also, we can look at the fruit of actions.  This kind of measure is of course after the act.  By using God's point-of-view of a situation, all matters become clearer.  With God, there is no idea of in between.  You either follow His way or not.  We as individuals and Americans have believed for too long that by ignoring God we have freedom to have sex with whomever, be wild, and we are free from living inside a box.  These individuals are not free, they just freely allow Lucifer to do all he desires to their bodies and minds.

God is the parent of vertical true love; Adam and Eve should have been the parents of horizontal true love. We should have been born inheriting the love, the life and the blood lineage of these two types of parental love; then my mind becomes the vertical "me" and my body becomes the horizontal "me."

When my vertical "me" and my horizontal "me" become unified at the point of ninety degrees, then a person can become the companion of true love of the eternal God.  God has true love, true life and true blood lineage. Because we originated from God, we also should have true love, true life and true blood lineage.

Centering on the true love of God, an individual was born to be one body with God. Just as God's mind and body, centering on true love, are naturally united, the mind and body of all humankind also should have been naturally united through true love. However, fallen humankind inherited Lucifer's false love, false life and false blood lineage.

Our body is like a battlefield.  The body is the front line for Satan and the mind is the front line for God; both continually struggle against each other. In other words, our mind and bodies are constantly fighting the battle of good and evil.  The love which an individual has today does not center on an individual's mind, but on his body. Our bodies became Satan's dance hall.  This is why religion concentrates on how to dominate our bodies and strengthen our relationship to God by following His words completely.


How to Conquer Satan With God's Word

The Bible exhorts us to pray ceaselessly. The Devil can attack us and even work through us twenty-four hours a day. Although God is with us, He stays in a vertical relationship with only the mind as His base; how effectively, then, can He work with us? Satan can come at us from any direction, from 360 degrees; hence we are bound to be overwhelmed.

Evil activity in the spirit world had been increasing gradually ever since the Human Fall. But the situation changed drastically in the 1980s, when hosts of evil spirits descended to the earth and greatly increased their activities here. 

Even the bible tells us in the Last Days that there would be an increase in spiritual phenomenon.  Thousands of spiritual movies and television shows declare this outbreak in activity as well.  Writers who write these tales are no doubt experiencing these types of episodes in their own life.

Why did this happen? In former times, when the central figures of the Providence, such as Moses, did not know the identity of Satan, the root of sin, or the nature of the Original Sin, Satan felt at ease and could take his time creating his self-centered world.

However, when the True Parents, the Messiah and his True Wife, came to reverse Adam and Eve, our first parents mistakes, the world the situation began to change. The True Parents revealed the identity of Satan, the root of sin, and that the Original Sin was fornication. They figured out all of Satan’s traits and all his tricks.

Then the Messiah returned in the 20th century and began making conditions so that Satan could no longer stand on the earth. After the 1960s, the Messiah and his True Wife achieved victory after victory in the Providence of Restoration reversing fallen history, Satan was taken aback; then he began to get nervous.

In response, Satan mobilized evil spirits in the spirit world to work with evil spirits in the bodies of people on the earth, by stimulating their resentment and their desire to take revenge on the descendants of the people who had caused them pain. This seems as mere fiction or a graphic novel, but it is the reality in which we live. Why else is it so hard for even the most devout christian to stay the righteous path no matter how ardent his faith?

Even evaluate your own life.  One habit that is hard to overcome and even though it harms us and others, we still delve in it. Such contradiction would be better understood by the fact that spiritual beings that had once walked the earth were hurt by one of our ancestors.  When these people died, they get revenge through inflicting pain through us - the descendants. Why?  Maybe a great,  great, great aunt stole this person's husband and they can get revenge through you by causing you to not have successful marriages.  This is reality even greater than any horror movie ever written.

Why do great men fall?

They didn’t look deeply at themselves to check whether they had anything for which Satan could accuse them. They didn’t reflect on whether they still had any fallen nature. Therefore at least from now on, we must work on ourselves to not have any conditions that let Satan through the door for attack.  We must remember that he is couching at the door waiting for an opportunity for us to invite him into our house - our soul.
 

 Satan Attacks Through Our Body

Our body is the path to which Satan's anchor is attached. The mind is in the position of being a plus representing heaven,which was to be a minus, became another plus and is toying with the mind. It is our duty to rectify this situation within our own lifetime. God knows this and so He made religion as the repair shop. This is why religion teaches us to deny the body through fasting, sacrifice and service.  Religion teaches the mind to overcome the body.

In order for the desires of the body to be weakened so that the body follows the faithful mind, we need to live a life of faith through which the mind conveys good habits to the body for at least three to five years. Religion tells us: do not rest, pray constantly. God stands only in the vertical position, so He can only be active through the mind. Satan is active in all directions. He can be active in each one of the 360 degrees and so fallen humankind is bound to fall prey to Satan's activity.

Because the mind is in the vertical position, it is one.   Because it is easy for the mind to be dragged along by the body, the mind in the vertical position has to lead a life of devotion and prayer, through which it can receive three or four times more strength. Then it can dominate the body freely and lead the body along the right way for three to five years, creating good habits.

There is no method to repair the body other than the union of the vertical and horizontal. Unless humankind goes through the door of a religion that teaches people to lead such a life, humanity cannot go back to its original position. The road of philosophy, knowledge or conscience alone is not enough. The vertical mind and the horizontal body have to become one.

What is the cause of the fall of man, which led to an individual's mind and body not becoming one with God's ideal?

The Bible tells us that it is because man ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, what part of the body did Adam and Eve cover after they had eaten of the fruit? They should have covered their mouths and hands, but they covered their lower parts; after that, did God bless their marriage?  Adam and Eve's marriage was based centered on fallen Lucifer.

This is the origin of how Satan's evil blood lineage multiplied. However, the origin of true love, true life and the true blood lineage for a person are the sexual organs of love. Because of the fall, the organs of love, which should have been the most holy place, became the most abominable place, destroying the way of heaven.

The organs of love became the headquarters of evil. And from here, they sowed the seeds of false love, false life and the false blood lineage. The ancestors of man, Adam and Eve, fell when they were teenagers and still not mature.  This is another reason why in the Last Days the age of teenagers returns to the time of the fall where we must reverse the act of teenagers centered on false love, free sex, to the ideals of God.

Historically, the evil blood lineage of humankind started because Adam and Eve had sown the seeds of evil. So when the time of the Last Days comes, the youth all over the world will destroy the ethics of love as Adam and Eve did, and the tide of corruption will flow throughout the world. When we see these phenomena, we must know that the age of Satan's dominion has arrived.

It is at this very time that the day of judgment, when God rules with His rod of iron, has arrived. History teaches us that any city or country which ignored God and engaged in wantonness was destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone; Rome was destroyed because the people became morally decadent and did not keep their chastity.

Look at America, Europe and Japan, the advanced nations of the world. Who is able to stop free sex, which is rampant everywhere? This world is becoming full of corrupt love and drug abuse. This is the method by which the body is being dragged to its death. It is not the path our mind wants; it is crying out in despair.

All the people who were called to lead humanity back to the embrace of God failed. Somebody must appear who can lead the people of the world out of the fallen environment to the road of truth. We can compare fallen man who came to stand on Satan's side to a wild olive shoot. From among fallen men, God has separated the wild olive shoots.

Those wild olive shoots which are in the sphere of religion belong to God. God can dominate these wild olive shoots freely. He has prepared the Providence so when the Messiah came in our time he would be able to cut down the trees in one stroke and graft them onto him. In this way the wild olive shoots become the true olive, returning back to their original state.

That is why the people who already believe in a religion must find the original true father - Adam and Eve are the false mother and father of this world. This is because they were not born with the original seed of life from the true father - Jesus. They were unable to fulfill God's ideal and connect with God's blood lineage centering on the original true love; therefore, the Messiah had to come again.

Do You Know Who the Messiah Is?

The Messiah is the person who has come with the tremendous responsibility of the True Parent, pulling out and throwing away the roots of all those born from the false parents and restoring them to their original state. He has the responsibility to banish Satan, liberate humanity and build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and thus be welcomed by all.

If you become sons and daughters who can inherit God's love, God's life and God's blood lineage and also inherit True Parents' love, True Parents' life and True Parents' blood lineage, then like God, your mind and body will not fight, and you will become the true unified origin of world peace.

The point where the mind and body become unified will be the starting point for the eternal world of peace.  Let us all fulfill our duty as servants with the heart of parents. Let us shed our sweat for the earth, our tears for humankind, and our blood for heaven.

And let us liberate our Parent, the Lord and Creator of the universe, from His grief -- and in order to build one world of peace, let us march forward along the road of salvation bearing the cross.  Please do not forget that, even though our destination may be in the world, our starting point must begin when our mind and body become one, centering on true love.

Each of us must remember that not until my family becomes the place of eternal happiness and true love will our hope for the ideal country, the ideal world and the ideal Kingdom of Heaven on earth bear fruit. In the not too distant future, we will build a world of true love in which all races will live for each other for eternity. Let us determine to rise up and take the lead to complete this historical mission. I pray that God's blessing may be upon you and your families.


Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Cause of Evil Society

Today's topic was snatched from the Textbook For World Peace Chapter 4 written by the wife of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon who wrote the Divine Principle. To learn more about the organization, please visit www.familyfed.org.

The Fall of Humans Isn't a Literal Fruit

Here are three clues to what God was telling Adam and Eve to not partake in or else they would die. 

1. Adam and Eve were naked and unafraid to be naked until they 'ate of the fruit'.   I thought you cover your transgressions, why cover your private parts for the first time after eating fruit?  2. God told Adam and Eve that they would die.  Is God a liar?  God does not lie, Adam and Eve did die ... spiritual death happens when we are separated from God.  Let the dead bury the dead.  This is just the start to let us stop telling satan's lie about the fruit being just an edible fruit.

 

The third one, satan throws right in front of our faces everyday because he is so confident that you and I are so blind to the truth.  Just look up Adam and Eve on the Internet and you will be inundated with so much adult material and even adult stores named after the pair.  Right in our face, Satan not only uses our bodies as his playground but flat out dances in front of our faces how he was able to do it.

How many argue that the reason why all of humanity fell below the level of humans and angels was all because of a simple fruit?  Mostly all.  How many are willing to accept that the fruit was not literal and it stands for something else and this something else is being perpetuated in our society keeping us under the dominion of Satan.  Only a few.

Is free sex in America and throughout the world the expression of God’s philosophy of the Kingdom or the devil’s philosophy of hell? It is the philosophy of hell run rampant, creating hell both on earth and in heaven. Everyone who follows this trend is doomed

Why do we stick tenaciously to false facts when we see that our religious practices is no closer to saving our lost brothers and sisters?  We have to dig deeper.  Christianity is one religion that has changed since its founding.  The New Testament did not exist during the Old Testament just as the Completed Testament in our time was unheard of during Jesus' time.  Unfortunately, this is slightly true.  Jesus knew more, wanted to share more but the people of his time were unwilling to change and he was limited to the New Testament.  This is why he comes again in our time to deliver the break news.  Do we hear him?

World Peace: Solve Problem in Garden of Eden First

In order to begin the mission of bringing world peace, we first must tackle where humanity all went wrong.  It is a secret that has been hidden and even if anyone fell upon it, would not even begin to know how to uncover a way to restore humanity.  Jesus knew. 

But he was met with so much opposition that people didn't even let him begin "how can I tell you about things of heaven if you don't accept the earthly things." Jesus had so much in his heart that he knew and wanted to teach humanity, but the people of his time could not understand or would not listen.  These secrets never left the earth. 

As Revelations tells, these secrets would be uncovered in the Last Days and God's people would be told plainly of the Father.  That is today.  Still, people refuse to listen and accept the truth.  It is a hard truth and reality. 

To accept, would mean we as humans would have to deny the way we have been taught all our lives and would have to reject our very environment because it is against Godly mandate. 

This is also the situation of the Israelites when Jesus told them to pick up their cross and follow them and to love him more than their own father and mother.  That never went away.  In order to even begin to talk about world peace, the leaders of that foundation, have to have this small requirement as that base.

Another reason we haven't seen peace through religion, because what is required of one individual would be the same as cutting off the very life in which we breathe.  The requirements to follow God go beyond any religion that is set forth on earth at this moment. 

To follow the standard that God needs to go back to His original plan of creation would mean one would have to surpass the standard of the sages and saints and religious leaders who have passed before.  It would take sacrifice and the heart to live for others.  It would take a 180 degree turn from the direction we are headed.  Satan has hidden the truth of the fall so we as humans could continue making this mistake and we can stay connected to him through our mistakes.  Without knowing the facts of the Fall, you and I and our children are doomed to repeat these mistakes that take us further away from God when we are tempted by them.


Hidden Truth Revealed

What is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that God told the original ancestors, Adam and Eve, not to eat? It is not the real fruit of a tree. It is a way of expressing the husband and wife love relationship that the first ancestors were to have in the future. Due to the temptation of a third being, while still in an imperfect state, the first man and woman entered into an immoral sexual relationship. Actually, in the Garden of Eden, the third party besides Adam and Eve was the archangel. In the Bible it is revealed that Lucifer was the archangel who tempted Eve and committed an immoral sexual sin. This was the fall of man, the original sin which planted the root of sin in the world.
 Man committed the sexual sin before his Father God, the Lord and Master of heaven and earth, and the first ancestors had children out of this immoral love; and the world of evil was realized. In other words, they married centered on Satan and by planting false love, false life and a false lineage they became ancestors of evil. As human society expanded from the individual, family, tribe, race, and nation to the world level, due to this immoral relationship between man and woman, the root of the evil blood lineage was established everywhere, at all times, and this world became hell on earth: it became a false world filled with sin, war and fear. The fallen ancestors, Adam and Eve, should have established the position of True Parents as the eternal good ancestors of humanity, but they fell to become false parents leaving a blood lineage of evil. This is the first cause of all the tragedy and misery of humankind. What could be more tragic or cause greater indignation than becoming the descendants of false parents and all humankind losing their True Parents? And how great must be the suffering and sorrow of God, the Father of humanity, whose purpose of creation, to establish the true ancestors of humankind and to multiply people of goodness, was stolen by the blood lineage of sin through the immoral fall of the first human ancestors.

The requirement is controversial, if not impossible by today's standard.  It requires Absolute Sex.  A standard of no sex before marriage and only with ones spouse within the marriage.

How is it that impure ungodly sex brought down a civilization?  Easy to see when you look on the individual level.  How many religious men and politicians have lost everything when they have an affair or have sex with prostitutes? Multiply this by family and nation and world and it is just a simple glimpse of how illicit sex outside of God's dominon has corrupted the earth.


What Did the Fruit Symbolize?

Satan skates all over our society by keeping this hidden.  Even Christians who know that we should abstain from explicit relationships, we can fall for the same thing Adam and Eve fell for.

You and I at one time have fallen for the tricks of Satan.  Those who say they do not sin are said in the bible to be liars.  I am a sinner.  I have fallen for the traps that satan has laid out for each and every person living on this earth.  Now teens are inundated with images that free sex is fine, experimentation is celebrated and chastity is scorned. 

First Eve fell for this trap, then Adam, and then their descendants thereafter which leads to you, me and our children.  How tragic a situation.

So, what is the fruit?

I used to believe that the fruit was such a delicious fruit found nowhere else.  But we know that God wouldn't plant something that could cause his children death and test them by telling them to stay away from it.  Same for Adam and Eve. I know this now as I have matured.  Why create a fruit that His children could never delight - ever?  God created this "fruit" for His children to enjoy once they were mature.  That makes more sense than a god who testing His children for their loyalty to Him. 

Our first ancestors were teenagers.  God gave them a commandment.  They were naked and unashamed before the fall, and the first thing they covered after the fall was their body parts.  Children caught in a cookie jar cover their mouths, not their lower parts.  Why have we ardently stuck to hiding this truth allowing Satan to cover up what he perpetuated in the Garden? 

Simple.  This is the easiest way to keep us from God is to keep the deeper truth hidden.  To keep the faithful feeling everything is okay if they just read the bible and save a few homeless people and keep their faith.

There is a way to restore the world.  Arm ourselves with the truth the Second Coming has armed us with and spread the truth, as the disciples did after Jesus' death.

What was the forbidden fruit? What sort of fruit could cause countless generations of humanity to groan in misery? Why would God create a fruit that could cause misery, destruction and war? The Divine Principle's Teaching teaching is logical: the fruit is a symbol for love. So many evils spring from love. From love can spring either good or evil fruit, therefore it is called “the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.

B,ut we started from a family where love never matured and we had fallen immoral relations outside of God's ideal marriage and have perpetuated this since the beginning of the first family.

Adam and Eve had been living in joy in the Garden of Eden and conversing with God. The only possible sin that they would be tempted to commit at the risk of their lives was a sin involving

love which is more powerful than any law.

The consummation of human ancestors’ first love was also to be God’s own completion.

Therefore, it naturally should have been the moment of joy and jubilation for God, Adam and Eve, and all creation. They were to have rejoiced together in continuous festivities of love and blessing.  On that joyous occasion, God’s love, life and lineage was to be firmly settled in the first human ancestors.

Accordingly, from the viewpoint of God’s purpose of creation, love should be the most precious and sacred act. But because the sexual act was the very cause of the Fall, people often regard it with shame and even contempt. In conclusion, human beings fell through an act of illicit sexual intercourse.

 

The more one receives love, the more beautiful one appears to others. When the angel, created as God’s servant, beheld Eve, the daughter of God, it was only natural that she looked beautiful in his eyes. Moreover, when Lucifer saw that Eve was responding to his temptation, the angel felt the stimulation of her love to be deliciously enticing. At this point, Lucifer was seducing Eve with the mind to have her, regardless of the consequences.

Lucifer, who left his proper position due to his excessive desire, and Eve, who wanted to open her eyes and become like God before the time was ripe, formed a common base and began give and take action. The power of the unprincipled love generated by their give and take led them to consummate an illicit sexual relationship on the spiritual plane.

All beings are created based on the principle that when they become one in love, they exchange elements with each other. Accordingly, when Eve became one with Lucifer through love, she received certain elements from him. First, she received feelings of dread arising from the pangs of  guilty conscience, stemming from her violation of the purpose of creation. Second, she received from Lucifer the wisdom which enabled her to discern that her originally intended spouse was to be Adam, not the angel.

 

The power of the unprincipled love generated in their relationship induced Adam to abandon his original position and brought them together in an illicit physical relationship of sexual love.
 

Once Eve had united with the Archangel through their illicit sexual relationship, she stood in the position of the Archangel with respect to Adam. Thus, Adam, who was still receiving God’s love, appeared very attractive to her. Seeing Adam as her only hope of returning to God, Eve turned to Adam and tempted him, playing the same role as the Archangel had played when he had tempted her. Adam responded and formed a common base with Eve, and they began give and take action.

When Adam united in oneness with Eve, he inherited all the elements Eve had received from the Archangel. These elements in turn have been passed down to all subsequent generations without interruption… and humanity has multiplied in sin to the present day, perpetuating the lineage of Satan.

Love is supposed to bring human beings to perfection. However, when something goes wrong with love, even God steps back. Then it becomes a serious problem. In this respect, we discover that something went wrong with love. Nothing else could become such a serious problem for God, for humankind and for history. The failure of love was the greatest catastrophe in the whole universe.

How do we turn this sad history around?


The Fall Caused Chaos to This Day

Up to the moment when God joined Adam and Eve, they were not prepared to experience the electricity of love. They would have felt clumsy around each other; their physical touch would have come as a shock. But once their minds and bodies would be totally united in God’s love, once the three—God, Adam and Eve—would be united as one, they would have experienced love like a flash of lightning. At that moment, they would have become the nucleus of the universe. They would have orbited about each other in love, formin the nucleus for governing all things by love.

Had Adam and Eve become the nucleus, God would have nestled them in His bosom. He would have been with them always. Even if His body tried to leave, His feet would have stayed with them.

The couple would have been inseparable, ever embracing each other. Their sons and daughters would have been connected to them by cords of love, and wherever they went they would come together to be established from that nucleus.

As descendants of a man and woman in complete oneness, they too would have embraced one another in true love as they built their own families, tribes, peoples, nations and world. What wonderful world it would be! Everything would be marvelous. It would be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Don’t you think so?
 

Am I a dreamer, or do I speak truth? My elucidation of the Human Fall as the reason for the corruption of love is logical and correct, based upon a proper assessment of history. Knowing it, we can resolve all human problems. Even so, it is not an easy task.
Because the nucleus of love was not established, and instead the Fall occurred, the whole world became contrary to God’s ideal, its unity shattered into pieces. Stemming from that initial disorder, all human beings became separated from one another. We cannot deny that the world today is beset by divisions. That is to say, we are all fallen. It is only appropriate to conclude that we are living in the world that resulted from the Fall.

Restoring Fallen Men

Religion holds adultery to be the cardinal sin. Is free sex in America and throughout the world the expression of God’s philosophy of the Kingdom or the devil’s philosophy of hell? It is the philosophy of hell run rampant, creating hell both on earth and in heaven. Everyone who follows this trend is doomed.

How can God’s love be linked to this world? True love coming down from above brings unity by the most direct and shortest path, making a 90-degree angle. Once that direct connection is made with the vertical God, the love of human beings can correspond to it—true love traveling by the most direct and shortest path. Induced by that vertical love, a man and a woman move on the horizontal plane toward the vertical line, creating a right angle: this is love’s final destination. What was the Human Fall? It bent this right angle.
 

Sexual promiscuity is a principal cause of the downfall of numerous heroes, patriots and nations.

ven in the most outstanding people, the root of sin—illicit sexual desire—is constantly active within their souls, sometimes without their conscious awareness.

We  may be able to eradicate all other evils by establishing moral codes through religion, by thoroughly implementing various educational programs, and by reforming the socio-economic systems that foster crime. But no one can prevent the plague of sexual promiscuity, which has become increasingly prevalent as the progress of civilization makes lifestyles more comfortable and indolent.

Therefore, the hope of an ideal world is an empty dream as long as this root of all evils has not been eradicated at its source. Christ at his Second Advent must be able to solve this problem once and for all.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Why Woman Had to Fight Equality Throughout History


Today's text was taken from World Scripture Volume II, "Evil, Sin and the Human Fall"

Why Celebrities Lives Turn For Worst?

We see it everyday in the newspaper.  The latest celebrity overdoses, divorces, sweet actress does nude scene, cheating incident - you name it.

From the sweet Twilight star's cheating scandal, and going nude, to the poppy Miley Cyrus slithering around like the new 80s Madonna.  Parents must wonder what in the world is going on with the stars. Britney Spears going from sugar to spice by borrowing the boyfriend of a pregnant Moesha star to tearing up property and shaving her head. How can they let their children watch these stars and emulate their every behavior? 

Why do beautiful sweet entertainer's lives eventually go downhill?

Well, one argument says that it only seems this way because they are int he public eye, and if everyone was in the public, our lives would play out the same way in the media.  True to a certain extent.

Celebrities are humans and are no different from others. Why do we place them on such a high pedestal?

 Humans always want an example to follow.  Celebrities are seemingly beautiful people who cracked the code to success, and people want to know how to be successful and follow the lifestyles sometimes. Whether it is through religion or through other means, we all want to be greater in some way and need to see our goal before we can follow it. 

Movie stars, musicians and sports players have been placed in front of our eyes everyday through the media.  They seem to have the answer since they have the money, clothes, confidence, and we give them the glory.  Yet, everday we see through their drug overdoses, bankruptcy, and immoral activities, they are just like us, trying to make it through this crazy world. 


Some people sourly say that celebrities were always the way we see them end up, and the truth is coming out.  Others say that it is only because they are in the public eye that it seems they do many bad things when it isn't that bad as what other people do in private.  All true, but why is it in the entertainment business the majority of the people do not end up with happy lives?  Why do we as a society continue to place regular people on a  pedestal and try to follow their destructive ways which they glorify in their music and movie roles?

It is good to see celebrities lives being exposed more because it demonstrates to children that if they follow the immoral acts of celebrities, no matter who you are, you will lead a life that ends in destruction. 

Remember the account that God told Adam and Eve to obey His commandments in the beginning.  He told them advice that is so profound that it could save the dying lost even in this day and age.

Forget the debate about the fruit in the garden was not literal and symbolizes love, and that they weren't supposed to experience physical love until God blessed them in marriage. 

Let's keep it simple.  God gave them a commandment to wait upon His time when they could 'eat of the fruit'. 

He gave Adam and Eve a choice in that commandment.  If you follow my words, you unlock blessings of the earth, if you do not choose my way you receive curses.  We obviously understand which path our first ancestors endowed with God's spirit chose.  By choosing Satan's word to indulge in love before their time, humanity fell outside of God's realm under Satan's dominion.  All from a certain ACTion of teenagers, the world has been a perpetual hell every since.

One person said the problems of the world can't be that simply answered.  But it can.  All problems can stem from the misuse of love.  Even anger stems from someone inappropriately abusing love by not loving properly in someway.

Love has the power to bring blessing through its connection to God, or curses through its misuse.

We chose curses and we still choose to be cursed or blessed with every moment we make a decision.

Celebrities misfortunes demonstrate what happens when we make a chose without God as our center.  When we choose to be with a person outside of marriage, steal husbands, sleep with many people, choose drugs as our enlightenment only, choose material and wealth to make us happy, we are harming not only other people, but God's heart.  God abhors sin and he told us in the beginning it leads to destruction.

Why are these things bad?  Isn't physical love part of the creation, aren't we as God's children suppose to enjoy the fruits of God's creation?  Yes, but these objects have become our only way to happiness forfeiting God completely as a source of our love.  And love without God as the center is still love, but it is false. 

How is being with a person who is promised to another (God sees single people as people waiting to mature for their intended spouse - which is one person), even if they are not married, a part of God's True Love? 

Why do we follow in the footsteps of people who endure endless heartache over and over as the pass from one relationship and marriage to the other and believe this is the way we should live our lives to find true happiness?  We should clearly see that beauty, money and love alone is not the only way to live.  Celebrities too are looking for True Love as well.

Why would God make Adam and Eve wait to indulge in the pleasures that they were going to have anyway?

It is like giving a gun or a diamond to a three-year old.  You just don't do it.  They don't understand the value or the destruction that can come by possessing these objects too soon. 

In essence, God was telling Adam and Eve to wait until they were mature before He could bless them to enjoy the fruits of love. 

So, as adults, it may be too late, but we finally realize substantially and heartistically what parents meant when they told us we were not mature enough to handle sex and must wait for marriage, and drugs are harmful.

The parents who are enforcing the rules of saving yourself for one person and during marriage sometimes themselves have a history of not waiting for marriage, cheating and drug abuse, and children follow the example of their parents. How can we enforce this to the next generation if we ourselves have trouble living by God's word?

This is hard because of hormones and our feelings of lust and love for the opposite sex is greater than any consequences or warnings and the heartache that sprout from our misdeeds.

This was the problem with Adam and Eve, our first parents, who were just teenagers.  No matter that God had warned them, they had indulged in premarital sex without God's blessing and we have perpetuated this generation after generation.

The sad part is that God's word judges even our thoughts because even though they are not actions, thoughts plant seeds that eventually become real in some way if not counterbalanced.  If we perform in our mind sexual acts with our best friend's husband, the bible says then we have committed adultery even if we are not married ourselves.

No one is beyond this temptation.  Me, you, your children, even the most faithful and devout have this the responsibility to subjugate the desires of our bodies and fight it everyday.

                                                                                                                              "Anarchy" actor
Of course we should pray for our brothers and sisters in our communities and celebrities who can not overcome their struggles instead of just talking about their issues.  If we don't talk about them and ignore them, as we see evident, it spreads wider until it is seen in our own homes. 

Our children are watching these stars in a different light.  Many see these acts as okay as stars seemingly don't pay for for doing wrong - there are no consequences in young people's eyes, and are jaded by their beauty and  money.  It is important as parents we show that the path away from God no matter how it appears always ends in destruction.

Children must understand that God intended for us to live a life of peace and love and what seems commonplace and as an exciting life of the stars is far from peaceful.  They must see that going to rehab, excessive behavior, multiple relationships, divorce etc. may seem fun, but it hurts God's heart.

Fortunately, God is behind the scenes working to help us clear up this mistake.  No one is beyond the love of God.  No one can go too far in the other direction that they can not return down the same path and start anew.

The first step is to educate about the reasons why we fight our evil mind and carnal desires.  This battle of mind and body will end as we conquer everyday to strengthen our good God-given mind everyday.  Just like us, our spiritual body and mind must eat. 

In the environment of today's society, we feed our evil mind and body more than our good mind, making our evil body stronger.  Our ungodly mind becomes subject over the good activities we want to do.

Reading God's words of all religions, praying, acting in faith, and putting God's word and placing it into action daily is a way to strengthen our good mind and lead us back to God.

If the latest trend of celebrities going toward Eastern religions is truly part of their soul, we may see a new celebrity crop up in Hollywood.  Unfortunately, it just seems to be a ploy for some, but hopefully, one day, a revolution of celebrities that live a life led by God in Hollywood will take over.

Why worry about people we do not know?  Because whether we like it or not, our children and society's next generation of leaders follow the lifestyles of celebrity materialism without thinking about it and it is undeniably not the only cause but is definitely a part of the slow degeneration of America's values.

Simply turning off the television does not work as it has become part of our culture, our lives are inundated with the culture of media no matter how religious we are.  There needs to be a revolution of True Love in the industry or the current trend we will continue.  The trend of other countries despising America's trashy ways will increase.  Can we blame them?

One day absolutely, God's way will be more popular than the materialistic satanic way of life - hopefully in our lifetime.  God deserves to be an idol, don't you think?


Photos courtesy of MSN entertainment news.

This message is based on the Divine Principle which uses the study of the bible as its basis.