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He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?”
So he answered and said, said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul with all your strength, and with all your mind,” and “your neighbor as yourself.”
And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.”
Luke 10: 25-28
What kind of place is heaven?
Heaven is a place where we take pride in the life of attendance that we prepared during our life on earth.
Q: What kind of people will occupy heaven?
Would heaven be for people who only just believed in the Lord's words and expect to receive blessings? No.
Heaven is a place where people are preparing their hearts in order to attend God. They also do so to leave behind a life of attendance and joyfully move on, even if they were to die while preparing such a tradition. In this, there is resurrection.
We should reflect upon how we should live our lives from now on in this life of attendance to the Father.
Heaven is a place we cannot enter without a connection of heart.
Heaven is the original nation, the nation of the original Godly nature, which can govern everything.
What is the Fall? It is when God lost sons and daughters and not finding anyone who can share the standard and sorrow of His heart. It brought about God not able to discuss with anyone His circumstances. No one understood how much suffering God has endured and carries a broken heart because of the Fall. God has worked throughout history to find such people who can share His heart. The one sent to find such people is the Savior.
Before desiring heaven, we must desire to know God's heart.
Before we desire to know the heart of God, we must think about how we should live our lives according to His standards.
First have a heart of attendance, to attend God.
Our Godly original nature reveres and yearns for that which is sublime and precious.
It is amazing that even after the Fall, our original hearts still wants to attend the sublime and precious heart of God.
Therefore, those who have never been able to have a heart-centered life of attending God while on earth have nothing to do with heaven.
No matter how evil one is, they have a desire to attend God.
But to live a life of attendance, we need preparation. After we pass this process of preparation, we then practice the life of attendance. We are all destined to prepare and practice the life of attending God.
After we go this path of attendance with our hearts, our destination is heaven.
Heaven is a place where we can be proud of our life of attendance. It is where we can actually demonstrate accomplishments. We are all destined to follow this course that advances us toward the world of heavenly purpose.
Every individual is born in the satanic, fallen lineage until the present day. Throughout history, there has never been a time where all of humankind attended God with their full hearts.
It is a fact that before the Fall, Adam and Eve grew according to the good ideal of creation. But, they did not attend God based on a relationship of their heart.
If they were able to attend Him with their hearts, then they would have never fallen because they knew it would hurt God's heat.
What is God's regret?
That He created us with a heart that would grow in maturity to unite and attend Him with our hearts, but we in a different direction where we could not connect to His heart.
God who deserved this heart-centered attendance was left unattended.
God was anguished because there was nobody born of His direct lineage who believed in or knew fully of heaven or knew Him.
It was heaven's grief that there was nobody who could relate to God in heart.
Many believers are under the delusion that heaven will only be established through their own religion and through their founder's teachings.
If we were just to consider Christianity, we see that it has been divide into scores of denominations.
One denomination will look at another denomination's teachings as heretical or satanic. If denominations are created from a position authorized by God then there is no problem. However, if they do this just to establish their own denomination just for the sake of satisfying their own desire to perpetuate it, then this is a impure motivation.
Accordingly, all denominations will perish. If the Unification Church was like this, then it would perish first.
In this regard, religion should not first consider the realization of God's Kingdom because this is not the primary purpose religion came forth.
Before we can think about the Kingdom of Heaven, first a special nation that can inherit the Kingdom's traditions, lifestyle and so forth is needs to be built as a strong foundation. This was what the purpose of God preparing Israel for thousands of years to receive the Messiah. Yet, when we look at this nation today, can we say it is stable enough to bring forth the Kingdom of heaven? Can the messiah return to such an unstable foundation?
When we look through history, the notion of a chosen nation, it proves that God intended for a good group was meant to be left behind in this evil world has always been in the background of history.
A chosen nation needs a chosen people. When such people emerge from the evil world, then a heavenly nation begins to be established.
For such a nation's citizens to come about in an evil world, then the children should first emerge. For this to happen, the emergence of the family that can establish the heavenly nation precedes this. For the family to emerge, the man and woman whom God can guarantee must emerge.
When such a man and woman emerge who can have such heavenly children, is everything complete? No. Godly sons and daughters should emerge from them. Through this, the family forms through the eternal sons and daughters that God can guarantee a heavenly nation must emerge from this foundation.
It is extremely obvious that without such a heavenly family a heavenly race cannot be realized. Without such a race, the nation and world cannot be realized. A foundation must be established in order to build a strong house.
The stronghold that God seeks is the individual.
Therefore, God erects a protective fence around the individual.
The purpose of religion so far has been for just individual salvation, but this is not what God is seeking. This will has not brought about world peace. God seeks the family. As such, if the foundation for the heavenly family has not been established, then the tribe, people, nation, world and the Kingdom on earth cannot exist.
The line where heaven and hell meet is not determined by knowing or preaching the words of the Bible but from actual results and heart of His Words. Jesus was the embodiment of the Word itself.
The boundary between heaven and hell is the boundary of heart, the boundary of acutal results.
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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Five, Chapter Four, Section 1.
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