If a non-believer was to ask you this question, would you be able to answer it clear enough without a lot of relgious jargon? How about giving a satisfactory answer to why humanity needs a Messiah from your heart? How do you answer such a question?
What is a Messiah's purpose?
There are several Messiahs by definition for each religious sect. A person who comes to save for that specific realm of belief, correct?
Why do we need a Messiah? To bring us bakc to the point connecting to God's love.
In short, a Messiah is connected to God at a higher level and connects us directly to God's love.
Humanity who has inherited satanic blood needs to go back to that point.
The blood lineage of fallen people is disconnected from God's love.
We must indemnify this fallen blood and return to God's pure blood such as Jesus.
The original sin of lust or love outside of God must be removed from humanity completely. But how do we go through the process of removing the fallen blood?
We cannot do it on our own. Even though we try to bring peace to the earth, we need a Messiah to connect us to God in order to begin that process.
The Messiah makes conditions where humanity can go back to God.
Therefore, since this has been God's strategy throughout the ages, He set up champions from the eivl world.
To understand God's process of bringing the world back to its original position, we must look in history from God's point of view.
Let's start with the first family that God created.
This family consisted of a man Abel, who served God as His first champion after the first parents fell away from God.
Abel was the first man to give up his life for God's purpose. He had to reject and separate himself from Satan in order to go back to the bosom God by fighting and defeating Satan.
He had to be different from his fallen brother as the first position to receive God's love.
There are three stages are the important formula: the one who is willing to save the world must fight against Satan and win the victory over him; then he or she must come into the love of God; and then, feeling the heart of God and fallen people, he or she must be willing to sacrifice him or herself in place of the fallen people. Only on that condition can the fallen people be taken back.
When Cain's offering was denied by God, Abel should have come into the love of God and through feeling and experiencing God's grief and his brother's grief he should have sacrificed himself in Cain's place.
This sacrifice was not supposed to happen through the shedding of his blood through death, but as a living sacrifice so that God could work through him.
Instead, Abel was arrogant and not compassionate toward Cain who represented the fallen, satanic blood lineage and was thus killed by his brother.
God then worked through His champion Noah who accomplished a very unusual mission.
God directed Noah to go to the top of a mountain and build a boat. This is awkward even in our day. Common sense would say to build a ship near the water in a shipyard. Who could in our day and age accept this mission or obey such a command without having any doubt?
Even in Noah's time no one could believe that this kind of command came from God.
Still, Noah went up and down that mountain working on his boat.
To think of it more on a human terms, Noah's wife must have packed his lunch everyday and struggled with how she and her family appeared to everyone.
But God works in such 'odd' ways for a reason --- because of evil.
God cannot dwell together with evil.
The direction of God is 180 degrees contrary to the direction of evil.
God abhors evil!
He does not accept the things that the evil world accepts and does not want to have anything to do with the evil world or anything that is tainted by evil.
Even we do not even want to look at our enemy; God also does not want to have nothing to do with the evil, satanic world. Therefore, when he gives commands to his champion, He chooses ways that seem incomprehensible to humans.
God test our faith and cannot do so by doing so in a comfortable way to His people. Therefore, it is important that we are willing to comply with God's extraordinary instructions when He asks.f
This is an easy task.
People of faith see Noah's actions as glorious, but in his time, they thought he was a crazy man for building an ark away from water. Nobody could see that he was the central position in God's providence - a messiah of his time.
Let's take a moment with Abraham.
He did not come from a religious house, but from one who made idols for a living. He had to separate himself from his evil surrounding and leave his homeland in order to be God's champion. That was God's command.
If Abraham discussed his descion to follow God's direction, as an idolmaker, he would have thought his son was crazy.
God instructed him to journey away from his homeland. This was a lonely journey. He had to wander like a gypsy and give up everything.
The champions of God have one characteristic in common: They begin their missions by denial of themselves and their surroundings.
Always we find that their life in this world was lonely because they suffered many, many things and. were persecuted by this world. When they had nobody to convey their thoughts and feelings to, they could go only to God and talk to Him.
Also, when we look at their lives in the world, their material lives-they were so narrowed down, received so few material things; naturally, they turned their hearts and lives toward God. When we think of how they were living in this world, their scope of consciousness was so narrowed down that they had to cognize everything centered on God. That was their life.
They naturally had the task to live centered on the oneness of God in every area - recreation with other, knowledge and cognition. They plunged deeply in their relationship with God and relied purely on Him.
They did not have anyone on earth to rely on. The reality of this fallen world was seen as narrow to them where they needed to build an opening for God by relying on heaven.
Even if a narrow detour must be taken to God we as God's champion, are not supposed to be depressed.
There is a way out.
We should not be discontented. All things were created for the purpose of happiness and satisfaction and contentment.
From this narrow point where the evil world and God meet is the new relationship between God and ourselves begin to open.
For example, St. Francis emphasized pure poverty, a nothingness in which he could find happiness, appreciation, contentment, and satisfaction. From that point on, God could move and let him feel happiness and joy.
True oneness with God was created from that point. We have to realize that we are fallen people with the blood of satan pumping through us. We stand on the center of two lines between the evil world and God's side.
We have to know when to narrow down, so we will know when the new era of happiness and joy will begin.
Let's examine this line throught the life of Jesus Christ himself.
The Bible has scanty details of his life. It doesn't even say he went to elementary school. He was a laborer, an assistant carpenter.
Reverend Sun Myung Moon speaks on this fact:
"There is so much to know, so many hidden truths within the Bible which are not written explicitly. If I revealed some of those secrets I am sure you would be amazed. Even though I know these things, I could not tell you those stories lightly.
For you then would ask, "How do you know such things?"
I learned them from Jesus. Yes, and I learned from God. Remember, at the time of Noah nobody could believe Noah. At the time of Abraham, nobody could believe Abraham. By the same token, even though I will honestly tell you what actually happened at the time of Jesus, no one will easily believe me.
Who is the Messiah?
The Messiah is completely united with the heart of God, like a direct import to earth from heaven. When God sent Jesus to be the Messiah, did He just take him as a baby and place Him on earth, or did He at least have to utilize the body of a woman for him to be born?
We must think on a human point of reality when we look at Jesus. He was born of Mary. Since she was a human, she was born of parents.
She must have been a descendant of the fallen lineage so how could she have a child with the blood of God pumping through him?
Q. How do we know Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God?
When we look in other religions and do a comparison, we see that Mohammed, Confucius and Buddha had many more followers than Jesus did in his time. So what makes Jesus so special?
Jesus is the Son of God because he came from the heavenly lineage whereas the above founders did not.
Based on the foundation of Jacob and Esau successfully fulfilling the indemnity condition of Cain and Abel's mistake God prepared another step to be able to bring about a Godly lineage to protect His childre from the womb.
This providence was sealed within the next three generations of Jacob's descendants. It is recorded in Genesis chapter 38.
Adam and Eve fell through fornication, and Tamar was one example of how God frequently used women of most unusual character in restoration.
Judah was the fourth son of Jacob, and Judah's first son married a woman whose name was Tamar. According to the Law, if a son died without leaving sons, his brother must act as a husband to the dead brother's wife so that the dead brother's lineage would be continued. Tamar did not have children when her husband died, and when the next brother refused to fulfill his responsibility, he also died.
Tamar saw that through the third brother as well, she had no hope to bear children.
She knew that her mission was to continue the family of her husband and Judah, his father, and she finally decided to sacrifice even her honor in order to fulfill. Disguising herself as a prostitute, Tamar enticed her father-in-law to have a relationship with her. Without knowing she was his daughter-in-law Judah consented. At that time adultery was punished by death. In order to save her life for the sake of her child, Tamar asked Judah for his signet and staff as a pledge for payment, and then confiscated them.
Three months later when it became obvious that the widow Tamar was pregnant, she was brought before Judah to be judged. You can imagine Judah's horror, "Bring her out, and let her be burned!" But she answered, "By the man to who these belong, I am with child," and she brought out the things that Judah had given her in his pledge.
Why would God use adulterous women in the dispensation?
God selected His champions from the most miserable situations. Tamar was a righteous woman, and though she was placed in a sinful position, she completely dedicated herself to God's mission, risking her life, honor, and prestige. Paralleling the way Eve lied to God and her husband-to-be in the process of the fall, Tamar deceived her father-in-law and her husband-to-be, Judah's third son.
She reversed the position of Eve by reversing Eve's actions, and the significant thing is that she risked her life in doing it, just as Eve did in falling at the cost of her life. Thus, God could have a claim on Tamar's womb-on the very life emerging in that womb.
Tamar conceived twins, and the struggle of Cain and Abel began within her very womb.
The Bible records how Rebecca's twins also struggled within their mother's womb. Rebecca prayed to God to understand what was happening, and the Lord answered her, saying, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born to you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger." Ultimately Jacob did gain the birthright from his elder brother, Esau.
When the time came for Tamar's children to be delivered, the struggle ensued directly within her womb. The first child started to come out and the midwife tied a red thread around his wrist. That sign foreshadowed the emergence of communism in the last days.
Esau was also named "Edom," which means "red." (Gen. 25:30) However, before the first child could be born there was a struggle, and the younger brother pulled the other back inside the womb and was himself born first. That son was named Perez, and the other named Zerah.
The result of this struggle is that for the first time the restoration of Cain and Abel took place inside the mother's womb, the younger brother having subjugated his elder brother even prior to birth. Tamar's extraordinary action cleansed Judah's lineage and rendered it intact from satanic invasion from the time of conception.
Through this victory at the time of Tamar and also Jacob's earlier victory, God could claim a foundation that spanned the entire human life-span. Jesus was born in the lineage of Judah, and Satan had no way to invade his life in the womb because the cleansing process was already completed.
Jesus came years after the dispensation of Jacob and Tamar because God had to wait for Israel's national foundation to be established. The conditions were fulfilled on the family level at the time of Jacob, Tamar and Judah, but God needed to create a foundation to receive the Messiah within a nation, that he might be received on the national and international levels as easily as possible.
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