Who is the Returned Messiah? Part II

Warning!  Those who absolutely think it is blasphemy to say the Messiah has returned and refuses to change their mind this may not be for you.

  If you have searched and prayed and wondered why the world is the way it is, I wrote the following based on these textbooks, "The Divine Principle" and the deeper content version, "The Original Substance of the Divine Principle" which are solely based on 9-year research of the bible. 

 

These writings continues part I that speak about the Messiah returning in yours and my time as a man and that this man has returned.  If you read part I and don't agree, maybe this is not for you.

 

Be forewarned, this is not to be a debate, this is for those truly searching God's call.  Please have respect for the views of others.  I find it unfair that atheists and certain religious sects as well as others have the right to subject their views onto society unabated.  It's about time other viewpoints get a chance to do so in a peaceful way.  This is for educational purposes not a podium for debate.

 

In real life have you ever seen those messengers on the streets who hold signs warning us about the future? "The world is coming to an end!".  Remember last year when the world was supposed to end?  That preacher spent his life savings to post signs everywhere.

 

If you were directly told, "This man right here is the Messiah and his name is -" you would no doubt be unable to accept it.  That's how the Israelites acted when Jesus boldly proclaimed he was the Messiah.  The same in our time. 

When has there been a time when a man proclaimed boldly to the world - not just his followers proclaiming after his death - while he was alive that he was the fulfillment of God's words besides Jesus?  No one until recently.  There have been many false prophets, but they all are either still in jail or met a fatal end taking their followers with them and the fruit of their foundation ended within .

Yet there is one that is alive in your time who has boldly proclaimed he is the one we awaited.  He was imprisoned six times, tortured, near death for the sake of peace.  He works to bring about an end to Satan's reign on the earth. 

It is up to every person to find out who he is for themselves.  How can a repeat of what happened in Jesus' time be avoided?  This being Jesus not being fully accepted as the Messiah.

 

 

The Messiah Rescues God's Ideal

 

The entire history of restoration is a history of God seeking to restore the order of love.

 

Have you ever realized how love doesn't seem to last?  Many people wonder why God would create such a situation for his children.  It is so agonizing once love ends.

 

This is because our love is not centered on God's love, it is more of a self-centered love.  The world of free sex, sex outside of marriage is rampant in American youth.  He abhors Satan's love. Satan's illicit love is a one-way street to the bottom of hell; the world is running down that street 

 

Love outside of God, false love originated from fallen Lucifer.  His love destroys people's lives.  When God's enemy destroyed true love, he also destroyed morality.  False love was able to destroy God's children all throughout history.  Laws one at a time are being changed in order for people to be free to behave like animals.  Does this originate from God?

 

Why does false love feel so real; because it is still love at a lower level and it is very temporary. 

 

God's love is eternal and progressive which lives for the sake of the other.  Satan knows God's supreme ideal for His World and wanted to destroy God's ideal.  Satan stole the pure love of God  and used it as his own weapon.

 

Before we can recognize the Messiah, we have to recognize what he comes to specifically restore.  The one God ordains to restore what was lost is the Messiah.  So, lets first look at what was lost that Satan specifically took.

 

Love a weapon?

 

 

 

This video uses the "Divine Principle" textbook to explain how love, which God created, can derail humans from God's path. 

We must return to the Garden of Eden to see the origin of our internal and external conflicts that plagues the world today.  We must know that what happened in the Garden of Eden is repeated daily and hourly because the truth of what God commanded was taken literally. 

The commandant not to eat a fruit was not speaking of an actual fruit.  In order to begin to understand how to end the world and individual conflict we need to see that we still listen to fallen Lucifer as did Adam and Eve and we still "eat of this fruit".  At a much later date, we can delve into the Fall.

 

 

Who is the Messiah?

 

Where in the world will the Messiah return?  Will he return in Africa where Adam and Eve originated?  Israel, the Middle East?  You have to look how God prepared for Jesus to come.  Two thousand years of preparation of a people and one thing was for sure, God did not place Jesus in a war torn atmosphere or a place of extreme political unrest.  Are these two areas of the world a place for God's son to peacefully settle?

 

How about Europe and America?  Is the Messiah an old white man like John Wayne?  Will he return on the foundation of South America?  Will he be born in the family of the Royal Family? 

 

How about Asia?  Will he stand on the footstool of Communist China?  How about Japan?  North Korea?  Which place has a history of not starting wars, and domination of other countries? Which of these countries found a people of culture with a beautiful language which embodies hope?  North and South America? Asia? Africa? Middle East? South Korea?

 

If you have one child after 2000 years of waiting for his birth, and there was no more children to come for you, which country has such a glorious history and culture that you would send your only son to bear your fruit?

God prepared Israel for 2000 years for Jesus and they failed to accept him as Messiah and completely follow him in faith and works until his death.

 

The Israelites thought that every proclamation that Jesus made was blasphemous.  They were stuck to the Old Testament of the Ten Commandants and here was Jesus trying to bring them to the New Testament Age.  "Love your brother and sister as thyself" seems second nature teaching to us, but remember it was new to his people.  Now the Messiah comes to bring the Completed Testament.  They do not hear him.  Is Jesus going to find faith on earth when he returns?

 

 

Maybe not.

 

He didn't ask were there going to be many followers, believers on the earth; he asked if there was going to be anyone with "faith" on the earth. To see someones faith you have to look into their hearts, do you know any one's true heart?

 

God knew that as before, there might be a possibility where many people will not be able to accept this new truth of the Completed Testament that the Messiah proclaims in this new millennium.

 

As the New Testament was a revelation for the Israelites, in our time when the hero gives us God's words they will be a revelation and we may deny it.   This Completed Testament can conquer Satan within our own lives, and we no longer pass it on to our children eventually saving the world.

 

It will seem blasphemous, but to those with the eyes to see will see, those with the ears to hear will hear and will be able to unite with the Messiah when he returns.

 

So, we look continuously in the sky for our true hero to return, to save us from the dire situation of the world. We will forever look because that is not where he returned two thousand years ago.  He had feet planted firmly on this earth and he walked this land, this ground as we do - as a human.

 

So, what should a superhero require to have in order to save the earth?  How will you know who he is? The Israelites thought the Messiah of their time would come from the sky as Elijah had left in the sky upon his chariot. They missed Jesus as the First Coming.

 

The Messiah came in the flesh and was born of woman and we think that he will just return from the sky the second time.

 

Well, Jesus already did that. He returned to his living disciples after the crucifixion.  Jesus already had his second coming and gathered them together in order that his teachings would spread everywhere.

 

How can we say we wait two thousand years for Jesus to return in the spirit when he is already here in the spirit and already came in the spirit.

 

Millions of Christians will miss the Second Coming because they are looking in the wrong direction the same as the Israelites. The Second Coming will be no different from the first. He will be born of a woman and be born of the flesh.

 

It is up to every Christian and people of faith to see the Messiah as he returns to earth in the way he had left. How else could God save the earth?

Man of the flesh had made the mistake and made this hell on earth.  Our beginning to turn away from God did not start in the spirit - flesh made the mistake. So he becomes flesh in order to restore the flesh and he does not return alone.

 

This solves the mystery of why God would "wait" 2000 years.  He always prepares a people, a country and a religion to accept his prophets and Messiahs. 

The people He prepared are none other than Christians.  Yet they are not fulfilling God's providence.  This is why the Messiah returns with the Completed Testament.  His people are all people of faith and those who chose to believe the Completed Testament and follow the Messiah.  In addition, the country is not going to be Israel.

 

This is the problem that has been passed through the history of Christianity. And the main reason why many will miss the superhero they are looking for to bring the tools for World Peace; they will be looking in the wrong direction.

Please pray for understanding and for God to lead you the way that can open your spiritual eyes and ears to the words that will help you not miss this once in all of human history.

 

 

Note:  There is no shortcut way to understand the history of God's work to bring the First and Second Coming. One must first understand God's process of restoration to understand major key points of the bible that have confused people of faith for centuries. 

These points take you from the Garden of Eden all the way to the Second Coming, how can two articles summarize this?  





This video breaks down "The Divine Principle" teaching that is summarized in both of these articles.  Take a look if you want to know more through these beautiful videos.  I did not create this series or do not know the owner, but I surely will let them know I link in the future.

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Today's words come from "The Divine Principle" book based on the teachings of Reverend Sun Myung Moon who spent nine straight years studying ever part of the bible.  To understand more about this community that teaches this principle visit www.familyfed.org. 

 

Who is the Returned Messiah? Part I

If you were directly told that a person was the Messiah today on the news, how would you react?

"In world news, Oprah Winfrey has declared she has found the living Messiah.  She plans to conduct a life class workshop on his teaching this Friday."

Would you think she was mistaken or would you research the person's teachings and ask God in prayer?

What if he came back as an ordinary man just the way Jesus did?

 We can easily research the past.  How did the Israelites react when Jesus said he was the one they have long awaited; he said he was the fulfillment of God's word?  How does one react whenever God commanded a figure to fulfill his Will?  It is always met with opposition. 

This is described very well in the movie "Evan Almighty" the second installment of Jim Carrey's hilarious film.  In it, Evan becomes a senator and moves his family only to have his life derailed when God tells him to build an ark.  Everyone, except his kids, thinks that he has lost his mind.  This accurately describes how lonely a position one takes when they fulfill God's Will.  God's plans are mysterious to the outside world.


Moses Mission Prolonged Due to Faithlessness

Moses was a messiah for the Israelites.  He directly freed them from slavery and led them out of Egypt.  Was Moses praised for this?  Were the people excited even after he led them safely away from the soldiers, did they completely follow God's commands through Moses words? 

We know how they had reacted.  Over and over they complained to Moses.  They even dreamed about returning to Egypt as slaves!  The first generation's disobedience led them to die in the wilderness. This prolonged God's plan to send them directly from Egypt, and in a matter of a time period centered on 40 days, they would enter Canaan.  They had the responsibility to follow Moses, instead they fell into faithlessness.

They lost the blessing and had to regain it through the indemnity of 40 years in the wilderness.  God raised the second generation who would have faith and led them into Canaan.

In Moses's time and also in Jesus's time they were met with opposition that prolonged God's plan to bring his people to the promised land or Heaven on Earth.  So, as the Messiah returns in our time he will be seen as a blasphemer because people are looking for another.   Even John the Baptist after proclaiming Jesus had doubts, "Are you the one to come or shall we look for another?" 

Was Jesus happy with this response, was this part of the providence of Jesus?  Jesus answered the messenger to tell John
Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offense at me. , Matt. 11:4-6
Yes, God ordained John the Baptist to be a precursor to testify to the people that Jesus was the one to follow.  Yes, God does not practice His absolute authority to make a person fulfill the prophecy.  Everyone has their portion of responsibility to fulfill God's Will. 

So when a person God has ordained to do His works fails to complete His Will, He works through another.  It was up to John the Baptist to follow Jesus and testify to the people about him his whole life.  Yet, John left Jesus's side and even had doubts that Jesus was the Messiah in the end.


John the Baptist's Failure Prolongs God's Will

Just as God's saints have a role to complete the process of restoring man, so do each of us.  We pray to seek God's answer to find out who the Messiah is that has returned now.  John the Baptist had been chosen while still inside the womb for the mission of attending Jesus. He led an arduous, ascetic life in the wilderness, building his ministry in order to prepare the way for the coming Messiah.

When Jesus began his public ministry, God revealed the identity of Jesus to John before anyone else and inspired John to bear witness to him as the Son of God. Yet John did not properly receive the grace that Heaven had bestowed on him. Therefore, when confronted with John's doubting question, Jesus did not answer explicitly that he was the Messiah; he instead answered in a round about way.

No doubt, John the Baptist must have known about Jesus' miracles and signs. Despite this, Jesus gave a veiled answer, reminding John of the works that he was doing, with the hope of awakening him to his true identity.

We should understand that when Jesus said, "the poor have good news preached to them," he was expressing his deep sorrow over the disbelief of John the Baptist and the Jewish leadership. The prepared Jews, and John the Baptist in particular, were the rich people who had been blessed with an abundant wealth of God's love.

Yet because they all rejected Jesus, he had to roam the seacoast of Galilee and the region of Samaria to search among the "poor" for those who would listen to the Gospel. These poor ones were uneducated fishermen, tax collectors and prostitutes.

The disciples whom Jesus would have preferred to find were not the disciples who followed him. Since Jesus came to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, he was more in need of one leader who could guide a thousand, than a thousand who would follow a leader.

Did he not first preach the Gospel to the priests and scribes in the Temple? He went there in search of prepared and capable people.

Nonetheless, as Jesus indicated in a parable, because the guests who were invited to the banquet did not come, he had to roam the streets and byways to gather the poor and maimed, the blind and lame

Instead of having John the Baptist, who everyone revered as a prophet himself, testify unto death that Jesus was the one, Jesus was rejected.  This means, God's complete will for Jesus was also rejected and then the dispensation has to wait for another prepared nation, central figure, and people to accept the coming of the Second Advent.  This is not God's will.  He wants to restore the world as soon as possible, not make His children wait in suffering for 2, 0000 years.


Revelations Prophesy Of Christians Missing Second Coming

There are words that tell us who the returned Messiah is in each the Old and New Testament.  Each time the Messiah came, people "did not know their time of visitation or they would not have crucified the man of glory."

Do you think you will see him or are you still looking up in the sky waiting?  The bible prophesied that many stars would fall from the sky when the coming man. 

If we take this passage literally then Jesus comes to bring literal fire to the earth and only take his followers.  Or we take it as symbol and it is the stars/follower and many will fall/miss him because the fire/word of judgement is the truth he brings. 

How many have already missed the beginning of the Restoration Process? 

It says that "If they knew the time of their visitation, they would not have crucified the son of God."  Many Israelites missed the First Coming just as millions of Christians are missing the Second Coming.

Many religions profess that Jesus was a prophet, yet stop there.  Even his own people, Jews, do not believe he was the Messiah and are still looking for the first Messiah to come.

If you were told directly who the Messiah is, you would no doubt deny it. 

Millions of followers believe that Jesus's people, disciples and religious leaders of his time were absolutely following the law of God's preordained mission.  There were so many mistakes by people God had prepared for Jesus, it is amazing their mistakes are still seen as part of God's ideal plan for the Messiah.   

First followers believe that the people did not deny Jesus as the Messiah and that he was supposed to suffer from birth to death.  But when we truly read Jesus's words, we can see his agonizing heart always trying to show the people of Israel that he was God's son.

For example, when the people asked him what should they do to perform the works of God, Jesus replied:
This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent. , John 6:29
One day, when he was agonizing over the Pharisees' disbelief and having no one with whom to share his heart.  Jesus looked down worked hard through Moses to prepare His people for the coming of the Lord.

 On another occasion, Jesus lamented the stubbornness and disbelief of the people of Jerusalem, saying:
You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. , John 5:39-40
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me . . . if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. , John 5:43-46Yes, Jesus spent his 3 years of ministry trying to prove that he was doing the work of God and that he was the fulfillment of the scriptures.  Does this show that everyone was following God's plan to the letter?

Then we say that Jesus was accepted.  The people treated him as the Son of God that is what Palm Sunday is about.

Yes, people were starting to believe.  But it takes more than just belief when God's son calls you to pick up your cross and follow him.  It requires action!  Faith without work is dead, this refers to stop just believing in Jesus and do his works.

Just as in Jesus's time, the Messiah has returned and spent the beginning of his life in extreme opposition.  It is up to everyone to pray and find in their hearts first, research and find if this is not true.

Many people did not even see Jesus as the Messiah when he was physically on earth.  Even after he was healing the sick and walking on water, people judge him with unfaithful eyes and said that he was using satan's powers. 

Who is the returned Messiah?  If the people had asked God when Jesus had proclaimed he was the one that Moses, our world's history would have substantially changed.  We have been told all of our lives that Jesus was supposed to be rejected and persecuted - that is absolutely correct, but for a certain time period not unto death. 


Jesus's Crucifixion is God's Last Choice, Not First

Yes, persecution is the very means that an individual attains perfection.  Jesus obtained perfection, yet, he was even abandoned at the end by his own disciples. People say, no, they stood with him till the end. 

Three times Jesus told them that his heart was heavy and he needed their support by praying.  Three times they fell asleep instead of supporting him - he told them to wake up twice.  This means that Jesus did not have his own follower's devotion at the end.

So, God had no choice but to use the last resort which was the cross.  God's first choice was that Jesus be accepted and glorified as the Son of God with Israel as his followers and together they could conquer Rome.

Will we know Jesus when he returns?  One thing we know for sure, God is mysterious in his way toward Restoration. 

Israelites were led out of Egypt by Moses who murdered a man, Jesus came from a lineage of women who seemingly betrayed their family and Jesus the Son of God came from the Middle East, was poor,  and nailed before his people.  These all have significance when you know God's process to bring about a pure lineage.

So, when the Messiah returns, thousands of people and Christians are going to miss him.  It is up to each individual to ask God to make sure they know that he has returned.  They will be looking up to the sky when Jesus will return the way he left, through a physical body.

To know what a Messiah is and why he is different from prophets of other religions, this information can save many people and will be able to recognize him in our time.


What Is A Messiah, What Does He Do?

In the beginning, God did not create the world in which He has to go through a mediator in order to share love with His children.  We currently seek salvation through a mediator.  Does a God of love wish for this eternally? 

Would a God of love give up, return to relinquish fire on the earth and say "You won Satan, I'll just take these few of my children, you can have the rest?" Isn't that what we have been believing all our life?

His Will was that His Children would choose to wait for the blessing.  Because they did not heed his warning of "do not eat" He took several pains throughout history in order to bring them back to His original ideal plan for humankind. This dream was to realize Heaven on Earth.

Within the religious realm, there is the belief in the Second Coming of the Messiah. Then, who is the Messiah?

The Messiah is the one whom God loves most.

What kind position is most loved by God? God loves the messiah, whom He sent, but in what type of position is He to be able to express His love to him. There are many people who are standing in front of God as representatives, for example, of the nation, the society, or some other organization.


What kind of a person is the Messiah?

The Messiah is the first person who has the same mind of love and the same direction of love as God. The Messiah is the first born son of God. Jesus was God's only son, His only child. To be an only child means to receive the parent's total love, from the beginning to the end. God is the absolute subject and the Messiah stands in God's sphere.

Their relationship is the relationship of parent and child. He is the one who is born as God's first son and receives the fullness of God's love given to the individual, family, clan, society, nation, and the world. He is qualified to receive the love transcending all these spheres. This is the Messiah. He is God's beloved child.

Since man has been lost as a result of the fall on the earth, he must be recreated on the earth. People desire the Messiah, who knows heaven. This human world deeply desires its proper subject of love and this yearning is the Messianic Expectation.

The Messiah must be welcomed on the world level, beyond the individual, clan and even national levels. The entire world will be able unite with a man of God's love, as the absolute subject.

Self-centeredness cannot exist anymore. To create the environment so that one exists only for the sake of the Lord was the mission of the Old Testament age and of the New Testament age. The mission of both of these ages was also to create an Eve, a spouse, for the Messiah.  This is what was left unfinished at the crucifixion.


Messiah Returns But Not Alone

It makes absolute sense that if God has a True Son who has restored fallen Adam; He also wants a True Daughter who restores fallen Eve.  When in history has this been fulfilled?

Once restored Eve absolutely follows the Messiah, this expands to the world through their family. Opposition to the Messiah will diminish. In this environment, the entire world will be automatically connected to the subject of love at one point.

To create such an environment on the world level was the mission of the Old Testament age and of the New Testament age. Accordingly, present day Christianity and Judaism must completely follow the Returned Messiah.

Christians and believers of Judaism who have been keeping their faith are supposed to offer everything when the Messiah comes. Their faith teaches perfect obedience to the Messiah. Yet what is the reality of today's Christians? What about Judaism today?

 If a religion desires only its own success on the earth, and disregards the returning Messiah and blocks the victorious completion of God's dispensation, it will be a total failure.

Don't you see the decline in Christianity and Catholicism?

Many say, "But our pews are filled, the churches are growing." Is this what impresses God?  Do numbers impress God?  Decline means that the power that religion had to change people's hearts toward God has declined because they are disregarding the returning of the Messiah.  Atheism is on the rise and God has been taken out of our schools.

Who can deny the thousands of pastors and religious leaders who have degraded the name of the church for their own pleasures and world renown?  How about the scandals coming out of the Catholic priest?  Is this due to the church obeying God's order in the Last Day?

No, it is directly linked to millions of people of faith missing the Messiah who has returned.

Any religion with this kind of attitude will be completely broken in the Last Days, as if hit by God's heavenly hammer.

In this period of the Last Days, Christians in the world are looking for the Second Coming, but if we analyze the motivation of their desire, it is usually, "I want to be saved:" There is no concern for God's victory on the world level. They may say, "I want to go to the Heavenly Kingdom, and I want my family and my country to be saved."

The furthest limit is usually, "I want the Messiah to return to save my country."  But people of faith must go beyond the country to the end of the world; they must enlarge their concern to the spiritual world. Yet most cannot go beyond their own self, and this spells success for Satan. As long as this standard remains, God's world cannot be reborn.

Are there going to be millions of Christians that will fulfill the prophesy in Revelations: Stars will fall from the sky?  Stars meaning followers led by Jesus.  Will millions miss him because they are looking in the sky instead of looking for him on the earth?


Return tomorrow for the topic: Who is the Returned Messiah Part II



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Note:

Today's words were taken heavily from The Divine Principle which is based on the bible and teachings of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.  For more information on the Unification Movement, the fastest growing worldwide community, please take a look at www.familyfed.org.