Still, many people are receiving revelations and dreams, and they are cooperating with our missionaries.
They are hardworking black brothers and sisters. Over there in Africa if one black sister or one black brother comes, our missionaries treat them as God would.
It is God who is embracing them and bringing them in, teaching them and feeding them the word of God.
Then in America how can we say, "I don't care about black people"? People who would say that are really traitors in the sight of God.
How can we bring about the universal, cosmic warmth of love that transcends national and racial barriers? How can we make this truth universally known? How can we expand it to the world-wide level? This is our task.
The answer is simple:
God is our Parent, both Father and Mother, and embracing them together God loves all races.
"How could I take a position opposite to that of my own parents? Impossible. Our key to unlock the Kingdom of God here on earth is this: you must make a relationship with me, feel a closeness and warmth of love for the True Parents and expand it to every corner of the earth. If you are able to do that, we will have the Kingdom of God quickly. If you can go to other continents like Africa and Asia with parental love and embrace those people, then you are a universal person. Your character is a cosmic character."
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
What is the definition of the ideal family?
The ideal family possesses the eternal love of God; the ideal family possesses the everlasting love of husband and wife, and the ideal family will have love between parents and children.
These three eternal and lasting loves combined together will make an eternal family.
Married people, if you love your own wife, if you love your own husband, then when you look at other men or women, you will respect and admire them just as you do your own family members.
For men, the female world is an extension of the world of your wife.
One woman was selected out of all the billions of women as a representative woman.
A woman must think of her husband as the representative of the entire male race, the symbol or center of the male race.
When you go to the spirit world, that world works like this: the person who has lots of love toward his own parents, toward his own brothers and sisters, husband or wife, and children, that is, the person who experiences a deep sense of love in family life will have much, much freedom to maneuver anywhere in the world. This kind of person will have no barriers or obstacles.
He can go horizontally in all directions, everywhere without any limitation.
In contrast, a person who has no experience of love is narrow-minded. He isolates himself in spirit world and has no freedom at all.
The love between parents and children is a vertical relationship; the love between a husband and wife is a horizontal relationship, and the love between brothers and sisters is a circling, surrounding relationship.
These three relationships are different.
If you experience here on earth a deep sense of love in these three different ways, then you will be able to maneuver vertically without limitation, horizontally without limitation, and circle around without limitation.
Those who did not taste parental love because of the early death of a parent, for example, are tragic people in a way, because they lack that very important aspect of experience in which to grow the heart.
Likewise, those people who never experienced family life, the husband and wife relationship, are also in a way very poor in spirit world because they lack one important aspect of life.
Also, those without brothers and sisters are in a poor position because they can not live a full life in spirit world with one whole area of experience lacking.
A wholesome family life, therefore, has grandparents, parents and children.
If one generation is lacking, the family somehow feels crippled. The ideal family alone can serve as the building block of the Kingdom of God on earth.
We have the mission to create the ideal family here on earth.
When those children who enjoy a deep warmth of love with their grandmother and grandfather, they go out into society, into the New York streets, for example, they will feel very close to the senior citizens.
They will be able to look at the senior citizens as their own grandmother and grandfather.
Somehow, they will want to talk to them; they will feel close to them.
When a young person who is used to helping his grandparent at home sees a senior citizen needing assistance, that young person will dash to him and help.
If sons and daughters enjoy their father and mother's love, when they go out and see someone like Daddy, someone like Mommy, they will feel very close to them. They will want to talk to them and help them.
That close feeling will manifest itself automatically. Also, when those who have a beautiful tie between brothers and sisters go out into society, they will have more intimate relationships with their surrounding neighbors and will get along well.
When a sister and brother, who have a deep relationship, go out and deal with the opposite sex, they are very natural.
They don't feel any carnal or unhealthy feeling, but experience a brother-sister feeling.
The Kingdom of God here on earth is the family that can truly experience such loving relationships with God at the center.
"This year, I declared as the motto of the year 1977: The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family. Now we have come to the era when we can physically construct the Kingdom of God here on earth by creating the family.
You individually must become members of a heavenly family on the horizontal level. We must experience this love in our society and our world. For you, Heavenly Father, God, is in the grandparent position."
The True Parents are in your parent's position, and you are in the true son's and daughter's position. Even though there are many billions of people in this world, you are just like Adam and Eve who were born in the Kingdom of God, in the Garden of Eden.
By setting this condition, you can experience your own Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, and you can qualify for the eternal Kingdom of God in Heaven.
We are bringing back the Garden of Eden.
We are bringing the entire world population into the Adam-type family. That's what your job is going to be.
All men of the world are brothers.
Once you live in the full realization of that, no matter how much Satan may try, he will have no condition to accuse you.
If you recognize Heavenly Father, belong completely to True Parents, and completely make yourself the direct heir of the True Restored Adam, how could Satan have any power to accuse?
If we had the ability to telecast the entire heavenly new truth through the networks by satellite for seven years, within that time we could really turn this world upside down into the new heavenly family.
The important thing is we won't have to ask the people to come and join. Not at all. All we will have to do is let them know the truth, let them know its value.
Once they recognize the value of God's word that can restore His people, we won't have to ask them to come or to do anything, they will gladly volunteer for the cause.
For their own sake, for their own good, they will just fight to come in. They will be able to see clearly that their eternal life depends upon it.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: The True Value of Love
This post was rewritten and derived from the The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family
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