Why World History Repeats Itself Part II

Moses Disbelief, Israelites Follow Canaan Idols

In the period of slavery in Egypt, the First Israel, the chosen nation, separated itself from Satan, who was able to invade because of Abraham's failure in the offering, through circumcising (Ex. 4:25), offering sacrifices (Ex. 5:3), and keeping the Sabbath (Ex. 16:23).

Why does history repeat itsel?  It is an answer that cannot be answered without viewing God's standpoint.

History repeats itself when God preordains a chosen people and nation, and they do not complete their mission.  God chooses another time, nation and people through which to work his providence.

During the First Israel's slavery in Egypt, the chosen nation was able to indemnify or pay back Abraham's failure when he failed to cut the doves in half when making an offering to God.

Even though his descendants have been cursed for this failure, Abraham indemnified that mistake by having to offer Issac, God could work through Abraham's family, in order to do this, they endured 400 years of slavery.

After the 400 year period of slavery ended, Moses severed his ties to Satan by the powers of the three miracles and ten calamities, and headed for Canaan. Likewise, the period of Christian persecution by the Roman Empire.

This time period had to be indemnifie.  In other words, this time period repeated. Therefore Christians indemnified the past by the offering of saints as living sacrifices, keeping the Sabbath and partaking in Holy Communion and Baptism.

Then after this 400-year persecution period, Jesus in spirit along with his followers, influenced Emperor Constantine and moved him to recognize Christianity publicly in year 313. Then Theodosius I declared Christianity the national religion.

In this way, Christians came to be restored, spiritually, out of the Satanic world.

According to the law, God subjugated Pharaoh by giving Moses external miracles and signs.

After the period of slavery in Egypt had ended, Moses set up the center of the Old Testament by receiving the Ten Commandments and words on Mount Sinai. By receiving the tablets of stone, the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant, the First Israel, the chosen nation, came to set up the will to receive the Messiah.

Likewise, after the period of persecution by the Roman Empire, the Second Israel, the chosen nation, decided on the New Testament by collecting the records of the apostles  to fulfill spiritually the Ten commandments and the ideal of the holy temple of the Old Testament Age.

This laid the groundwork to receive the Lord of the Second Advent, which comes at our time, by establishing churches centering on the words of the New Testament. After the period of Jesus, he and the Holy Spirit have been leading Christians directly. In all periods.

Throughout biblical history, there was always a central figure such as Noah, Abraham and Jacob.  Yet, after Jesus's coming, he did not set up any one person as the central figure of the whole providence. 

We do not read of anyone coming after Jesus bringing a new truth such as Noah, Abraham and Moses. God had labored to bring such a person, but there were many failures of His people to bring about such a person before our time.

In the period of the judges, after the Israelites, led by Joshua and Caleb, entered the blessed land of Canaan, they formed a new nation of God's elect, centering on the judges in the new land given to each tribe. Thus they established the foundation of the Israelite feudal society.

Likewise, in the period of Christian churches under the patriarchal system of Christianity, after its liberation from the Roman Empire, which represented the Satanic world, spread the gospel to the Germanic tribes, who had moved to Western Europe because of the invasion by the Huns in the 4th century.

By setting up the Germanic people as a new people of God's elect in the new land of Western Europe, they established the foundation of the Christian feudal society.


Feudal Society Failed

In Moses's time, the people of Israel set up the foundation of substance through the tabernacle as the symbolic being of the Messiah.

Therefore, after they entered Canaan, the Israelite nation in the period of judges should have exalted the will of the tabernacle of God under the leadership of the Judges.

But, by living among the seven tribes of Canaan, the representative of Satan's society, the tribes did not destory them as ordered by God, and the Israelites came to worship Canaan's idols and their evil customs, thus bringing about great chaos in their faith.

Likewise, in the period of Christian churches under the patriarchal system, the Christians should have exalted the will of the church as the image-entity of the Messiah.

Instead, there came about a great confusion in their faith partially due to the influence of the many miscellaneous religions of the German people.

The Israelites received Jesus only after the 400-year period of Roman persecution.   Therefore, in order to restore this by indemnity, Christians now can receive the Lord of the Second Advent only after the 400-year period of preparation for the Second Coming of the Messiah. This began with the Pope's return to Rome from his life of captivity in Avignon.

Let us observe how the background and environment were formed in each of the two periods which were the preparation periods to receive the Messiah.

At the time of the first coming of the Messiah, God sent the prophet Malachi to His chosen nation 430 years in advance, having him prophesy the coming of the Messiah which would be Jesus. He reformed Judaism, preparing Israel as the chosen nation to receive Jesus.

Meanwhile, among the Gentiles, at about the same time, God had Gautama Buddha of India (565-485 B.C.) pioneer a new base for Buddhism by improving Hinduism. Also, in Greece He had Socrates (470-399 B.C.) pioneer the period of Hellenic culture. In the Orient, He had Confucius (552-479 B.C.) set up human ethics and morality through Confucianism, thus having them establish the culture and religion suitable for the place and people in order that they may make necessary spiritual preparation to receive the coming Messiah.

This explains the mystery to why cultures all over the world had similar customs, religions and beliefs even though they were not in comunications.  Many fables such as the city of Atlantis tries to describe such a phenomenon.  Without knowing God's providence to restore man back to His ideal,possible to know the reason behind the history of events.

God prepared this basis, foundation around the world in order to unify all the regions of various religions and cultures into one sphere of Christian culture.  God planned for the Christian culture to absorb and win over Judaism, Hellenism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and other religions from around the world. This was God's ideal to bring World Peace in this way.


Democratic Sphere Usher in Messiah

The Renaissance period occurred in order to restore history through indemnity. This period served as a background and environment to establish a foundation for the Second Coming of the Messiah. In addition, the rapid progress in politics, economy, culture, science and all other aspects of human endeavor that we enjoy today all began in the Renaissance period.

The political territory in Jesus's day was formed by the rise of the Roman Empire.  Romans had ease of communication in all directions, and the vast cultural territory formed centering on the Hellenic language. This established the foundation to expand the ideas of the Messiah - from Israel to Jesus, to Rome centering on Israel, and then to the world centering on Rome.

Likewise, since we are living in the days of the Lord's return, the democratic sphere, which is based on freedom, is covering almost every corner of the earth. Transportation and communication shortens the extremes between East and West. Also, due to the free exchange of languages and cultures, the true ideology for the Second Advent of the Messiah can freely and swiftly flow into the hearts of all mankind.

It is easy to see this is the best foundation to spread the truth and ideology of the Second Messiah worldwide within the shortest possible time. In other words, the Internet, the ability to go anywhere in the world in under an hour was brought about to prepare a way to spread the Messiah's message to the world's people upon his returns. 

Once the world accepts and follows the returned Messiah, centered on his new truth, the world will head toward God's ideal of peace.

Return for tomorrow's post: Why World History Repeats Part III


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The text above was taken directly from the Korean textbook, "The Divine Principle". This has been rewritten in conversational form without changing the philosophical or spiritual nature of the text. To learn more about the teachings it is based on, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, please visit, www.unificationnews.com.

Can Religion Bring World Peace?

We all have encountered them once in a while - street preachers.  Some of them are just as aggressive as salesmen, while others are as quiet as St. Francis.

Whether they are loud, or if they softly give the teachings of their faith, street preachers have a determination to share the word of God.  They have a dream that the Word will give strength and life to the people they run across in their daily lives.

Why is religion needed anyway?

We as human beings must resolve God's grief that was caused due to the violation of the heavenly law thousands of years ago.  We as humans pass this problem on generation after generation.

But sometimes those sharing the word do not know this fact and just spew out scripture without knowing the ultimate reason behind our ancestor's actions had on humankind.


Christianity Teaches Through Historical Accounts

The bible is not made up of just mere stories, there is a richer meaning, and God's work behind each.  For example the Garden of Eden and the Fall were not just about the first human couple eating of the physical fruit of good and evil.  It has a deeper hidden truth that until it is solved, our world will never see the ideal world of peace that God sought at the time of Creation.

Those who take the bible only literally must pray for 21 days to find out if this fact is false.

Humans, you and I, were not born into a normal lineage - we are said to be born into sin.  This is why religions emphasized a celibate life - as having children was seen to be connected to sin.
 

God abhors lewdness. 

Why? 

Because humans beings engaged in illicit love in the beginning instead of centering on God's love and turned heaven and earth upside down - this is symbol of the fruit - Adam and Eve's love.  And ever since then, generation after generation is born with evil blood.  Therefore, the religious world advocates celibacy.

Whenever a man enters a state of returning toward God, he always encounters the appearance of  the opposite sex which tempts the person away from God.  This inevitably occurs blocking the person's path back to God. 

Why does this happen?

It is because this is human history; our history is based on illicit love.  Our first ancestors were tempted away from God through having love relations outside of God's realm.  Those who interpret the bible only from a literally stance of Adam and Eve eating a literal fruit, they will miss this important fact which has been a hidden fact.  Then they have a possibility of repeating the fall.

Every family should have a True Brother, True Sister, True Husband, True Wife, and True Parents who have relations with one another centered on God, and then mature to become incarnations of God.

In order to be a True Husband and a True Wife, you must first be a True Brother and True Sister, right?  And in order to be True Parents there must first appear a True Husband and True Wife.  After this is acquired, then True Children appear.  True Children become one with their parent's philosophy through true love. 

Only love is the force that can bring harmony into the world.  All elements and species of creatures, all objects wish for love.  Every object is attracted towards cells that are directly connected with God's love which is Human Beings.


Which Religion or Ideology Brings Reconciliation?

This is the universal law: when one invests one's self for another, entities at a lower level wish to invest themselves in service to this higher level.  So Darwin's theory of evolution is not true to this extent. 

The Darwin Theory states that domination or survival of the strongest wins in the end - larger eats and dominates the smaller through strength.  This theory is what Marx basedd his communist ideology upon.  The stronger seeks to get rid of the weaker class or use them for their own power.

When seen from God's point-of-view of love, the smaller animal is absorbed by the larger and in essence becomes greater.  It is not pure domination that rules the land for eternity - it is love.  So, entities of lower levels want to be part of a higher level and do so by allowing the survival of the higher being through consumption of the lower being.  It is necessary in the animal kingdom - this does not perpetuate struggle. 

Through love, a tiny creature serves the higher purpose by being absorbed as an element to sustain the life of an higher order thus increasing the smaller animals value.  If a lion does not eat antelope, the lion will not survive a week in the Sahara. 

Thus this makes the value of the antelope just as great as the lion's value.  When we look at humans, the way of Darwin's Theory or ideology it devalues the 'lower' entity by ignoring the motivation of lower being consumed by the higher.  That motivation is love.

What kind of religion will bring everlasting peace?

It is the religion of the True Parents. A True Parent religion must be declared, a servant-level religion.  It is a religion that serves the purpose of the whole world of people - not an individualistic view of "save only me".

This perfect religion begins with self-denial.  This religion begins with the complete denial of the fallen world.  That is why we deny the world, deny our nation, tribe, family, wife and husband, deny being a man or woman and deny our own mind and body.  Religions have taught us denial in order to be subject over the fallen ideal of these positions and be reborn connecting these relationships to directly back to God. 


Why Religion Was Born

To put it simply, the world has been overtaken by Satan's will and in order to go the opposite way God taught us how to become subject over our bodies in order to go back to his Will.  Religion trains us how to subjugate Satan through the creation of an ideal person - a person who does not  give and take with Satan's ideals.  A world of individuals that subjugate their evil ways will automatically bring World Peace.

Is there any religion now that can teach us fully how to become individuals who can subdue Satan, or teach us how to completely get rid of sin, and stop passing it to our children? 

Humanity has inherited Satan's lineage, Satan's bloodline, his will, his sin etc. This is the main reason that God does not destroy Satan - we are connected through sin and thus humanity would be destroyed as well.  Instead, God tries to restore humanity through religion.

If God tried to remove this evil blood tied to Satan's lineage all at once, He would have to exterminate the entire human race. If the blood we inherited from Satan were to be extracted, human beings would disappear. Even Adam and Eve would disappear. Humankind would have to be totally crushed.

Why didn't God just annihilate Adam and Eve and have more children? 

God gave all of HIS being to create humanity, and this action can not be repeated.  Also, love is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end and therefore cannot God cannot strike human beings as the object partners of that love.  This must be clearly understood.

There is a religion that arises that gives humanity hope to turn around the tragic situation of God.  This religion changes the blood lineage from satan back to God's pure lineage.  There should be a religion that shows the importance of lineage as a tool to purify the satanic lineage that passes sin to each generation. The changing of the blood lineage should be the very core of this religion.

This religion teaches people on earth how to become God's True Sons and True Daughters.  True Children naturally become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and enjoy World Peace the way God had planned from the beginning.


Current Religions Have Not Brought Peace

This is the reason religions have not been able to bring World Peace, because they have not been able to properly teach followers this fact that they as fallen individual must change their lineage. 
All religions teach mainly that we are all brothers and sisters. 

Christianity says that we are God's children, but needs to differentiate between adopted sons and True Sons.  A True Son is born into the direct lineage of the Father and inhabits all of the Father's bloodline and absoluteness. 

Are we humans currently, perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect?

Then that means we are not in the direct lineage of God.  Christianity even says that Jesus was God's True Son.  If Jesus was God's son then who are we? In order to go to God we must engraft onto Jesus's lineage so we are not God's True Sons and Daughters. In a way God adopts us from Satan's lineage, we are adopted sons. 

In other words, being children born into sin we have not been born of God's direct lineage and bloodline, and we need a mediator to connect to God.  Sadly, we are God's adopted sons and daughter.   Just as we connected to the false parent satan's blood, God adopts us through the blood of Jesus.

But God did not intend for us to be adopted sons and daughters forever, He dreams of the day that we can be a True Son and Daughter and become grafted onto His lineage directly without any attachments to Satan's lineage. 

Then we will share in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth as True Sons and daughters living centered completely on God's love.

Since Christianity teaches this principle, it is one religion that can bring us closer to the ideal world -  so why hasn't it done so? 

Yes, free will is another factor, but why hasn't religion been able to eradicate our fallen blood?

During the Old Testament, the Israelites never dreamed that there would be a new truth added to the bible, this is the main reason many people did not believe Jesus was the Messiah to bring the new truth; they thought the Messiah came repeat Moses' Old Testament. 

This new truth is the New Testament.  And just like today, many Christians never dreamed that there would be a new truth outside the New Testament, they think the Messiah returns to repeat the New Testament.  Illogical. 

Christianity must receive the new truth in order to completely accomplish God's will.  This new truth will be the Completed Testament.  These three stages equal God's process of restoration: Old Testament (servant age), New Testament (adopted son age), Completed Testament (True Son Age).

Once a religion can teach absolutely how we can engraft to God's lineage, completely place Satan back into the servant's position, then religion will complete it's purpose: a world of peace full of True Sons and True Daughters.

Return for Tomorrow's post : Importance of Lineage to World Peace

Today's words was taken from the speeches of Reverend Sun Myung Moon who has 8 textbooks based on the bible that teach how we can achieve World Peace.

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