Reality of Lucifer

The Reality of Fallen Lucifer

First of all, who still believes that Eve fell for a real snake's lies, or an ugly, demonic looking angel?  When has Lucifer ever used something ugly to tempt God's children to follow him?  We need to understand that Lucifer is a very, very beautiful being.  How else could he hide so well in our day and time and continue his misery?

 Just look how he tempts even the most devout.  Scoffers just shove it off when a faithful person falls into illicit sex as that person was never really a faithful person.  How about looking at reality?  Lucifer uses beauty to get even the most devout saints to fall.  Look closer at any television show or watch any movie these days.  We see fallen acts of beautiful people as acceptable even if we wouldn't allow common people to do so.

Fallen Lucifer even makes fallen sex without God look beautiful, and masks it as true love even though God said in the day we eat of it we would die!   Why do today's people follow the false ideals perpetuated on television with fallen sex, ungodly behavior?  We fall for this theory of false love, and our children fall for this no matter how much we know that false love leads to destruction.

Lucifer is beautiful and uses the extremely beautiful creations of God and twists its beauty to tempt us in order to keep his dominion over God's children. 

Yes, false love, is truly love.  But it is not True Love.  Yes, a  beautiful woman can be beautiful inside as well as outside, but if she's trying to get you who is a married man, or your son to do what is outside of his own morals, then the act that follows no matter how beautiful, is not of God.  I'm not going to lie.  Even with all this knowledge, if I am not careful, I fall for "Wow, I want a relationship like theirs, because it is so beautiful". 

How can we tell the difference between Fallen Lucifer's tricks and God's ideal? 

It is a very fine line, because fallen Lucifer knows how to twist the truth.  He even told Eve, "Hey, you won't die".  He said this because he knew that it did not mean physical death.  He was half right, because Eve and Adam did not die after they disobeyed even though perfect God said they would.  Does God ever give false words?

This is how Lucifer destroys the truth - by telling the truth with his own agenda attached.

 

Adam and Eve did die before they left the Garden of Eden.  In Genesis, God asked where Adam was when we all know He could see all - except fallen Adam and Eve who had been corrupted.  Leaving God's dominion is death, it is a spiritual death likened to a person who is addicted to drugs who is still living but we know what type of living this is.  It is spiritual death.  Sadly, good lies have truth laced within them, and are hard to distinguish from godly truth. 

We need to know the identity of fallen Lucifer and, we need to have a deep understanding of God's characteristics, and place this measurement up against every decision we make. 

Also, we can look at the fruit of actions.  This kind of measure is of course after the act.  By using God's point-of-view of a situation, all matters become clearer.  With God, there is no idea of in between.  You either follow His way or not.  We as individuals and Americans have believed for too long that by ignoring God we have freedom to have sex with whomever, be wild, and we are free from living inside a box.  These individuals are not free, they just freely allow Lucifer to do all he desires to their bodies and minds.

God is the parent of vertical true love; Adam and Eve should have been the parents of horizontal true love. We should have been born inheriting the love, the life and the blood lineage of these two types of parental love; then my mind becomes the vertical "me" and my body becomes the horizontal "me."

When my vertical "me" and my horizontal "me" become unified at the point of ninety degrees, then a person can become the companion of true love of the eternal God.  God has true love, true life and true blood lineage. Because we originated from God, we also should have true love, true life and true blood lineage.

Centering on the true love of God, an individual was born to be one body with God. Just as God's mind and body, centering on true love, are naturally united, the mind and body of all humankind also should have been naturally united through true love. However, fallen humankind inherited Lucifer's false love, false life and false blood lineage.

Our body is like a battlefield.  The body is the front line for Satan and the mind is the front line for God; both continually struggle against each other. In other words, our mind and bodies are constantly fighting the battle of good and evil.  The love which an individual has today does not center on an individual's mind, but on his body. Our bodies became Satan's dance hall.  This is why religion concentrates on how to dominate our bodies and strengthen our relationship to God by following His words completely.


How to Conquer Satan With God's Word

The Bible exhorts us to pray ceaselessly. The Devil can attack us and even work through us twenty-four hours a day. Although God is with us, He stays in a vertical relationship with only the mind as His base; how effectively, then, can He work with us? Satan can come at us from any direction, from 360 degrees; hence we are bound to be overwhelmed.

Evil activity in the spirit world had been increasing gradually ever since the Human Fall. But the situation changed drastically in the 1980s, when hosts of evil spirits descended to the earth and greatly increased their activities here. 

Even the bible tells us in the Last Days that there would be an increase in spiritual phenomenon.  Thousands of spiritual movies and television shows declare this outbreak in activity as well.  Writers who write these tales are no doubt experiencing these types of episodes in their own life.

Why did this happen? In former times, when the central figures of the Providence, such as Moses, did not know the identity of Satan, the root of sin, or the nature of the Original Sin, Satan felt at ease and could take his time creating his self-centered world.

However, when the True Parents, the Messiah and his True Wife, came to reverse Adam and Eve, our first parents mistakes, the world the situation began to change. The True Parents revealed the identity of Satan, the root of sin, and that the Original Sin was fornication. They figured out all of Satan’s traits and all his tricks.

Then the Messiah returned in the 20th century and began making conditions so that Satan could no longer stand on the earth. After the 1960s, the Messiah and his True Wife achieved victory after victory in the Providence of Restoration reversing fallen history, Satan was taken aback; then he began to get nervous.

In response, Satan mobilized evil spirits in the spirit world to work with evil spirits in the bodies of people on the earth, by stimulating their resentment and their desire to take revenge on the descendants of the people who had caused them pain. This seems as mere fiction or a graphic novel, but it is the reality in which we live. Why else is it so hard for even the most devout christian to stay the righteous path no matter how ardent his faith?

Even evaluate your own life.  One habit that is hard to overcome and even though it harms us and others, we still delve in it. Such contradiction would be better understood by the fact that spiritual beings that had once walked the earth were hurt by one of our ancestors.  When these people died, they get revenge through inflicting pain through us - the descendants. Why?  Maybe a great,  great, great aunt stole this person's husband and they can get revenge through you by causing you to not have successful marriages.  This is reality even greater than any horror movie ever written.

Why do great men fall?

They didn’t look deeply at themselves to check whether they had anything for which Satan could accuse them. They didn’t reflect on whether they still had any fallen nature. Therefore at least from now on, we must work on ourselves to not have any conditions that let Satan through the door for attack.  We must remember that he is couching at the door waiting for an opportunity for us to invite him into our house - our soul.
 

 Satan Attacks Through Our Body

Our body is the path to which Satan's anchor is attached. The mind is in the position of being a plus representing heaven,which was to be a minus, became another plus and is toying with the mind. It is our duty to rectify this situation within our own lifetime. God knows this and so He made religion as the repair shop. This is why religion teaches us to deny the body through fasting, sacrifice and service.  Religion teaches the mind to overcome the body.

In order for the desires of the body to be weakened so that the body follows the faithful mind, we need to live a life of faith through which the mind conveys good habits to the body for at least three to five years. Religion tells us: do not rest, pray constantly. God stands only in the vertical position, so He can only be active through the mind. Satan is active in all directions. He can be active in each one of the 360 degrees and so fallen humankind is bound to fall prey to Satan's activity.

Because the mind is in the vertical position, it is one.   Because it is easy for the mind to be dragged along by the body, the mind in the vertical position has to lead a life of devotion and prayer, through which it can receive three or four times more strength. Then it can dominate the body freely and lead the body along the right way for three to five years, creating good habits.

There is no method to repair the body other than the union of the vertical and horizontal. Unless humankind goes through the door of a religion that teaches people to lead such a life, humanity cannot go back to its original position. The road of philosophy, knowledge or conscience alone is not enough. The vertical mind and the horizontal body have to become one.

What is the cause of the fall of man, which led to an individual's mind and body not becoming one with God's ideal?

The Bible tells us that it is because man ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, what part of the body did Adam and Eve cover after they had eaten of the fruit? They should have covered their mouths and hands, but they covered their lower parts; after that, did God bless their marriage?  Adam and Eve's marriage was based centered on fallen Lucifer.

This is the origin of how Satan's evil blood lineage multiplied. However, the origin of true love, true life and the true blood lineage for a person are the sexual organs of love. Because of the fall, the organs of love, which should have been the most holy place, became the most abominable place, destroying the way of heaven.

The organs of love became the headquarters of evil. And from here, they sowed the seeds of false love, false life and the false blood lineage. The ancestors of man, Adam and Eve, fell when they were teenagers and still not mature.  This is another reason why in the Last Days the age of teenagers returns to the time of the fall where we must reverse the act of teenagers centered on false love, free sex, to the ideals of God.

Historically, the evil blood lineage of humankind started because Adam and Eve had sown the seeds of evil. So when the time of the Last Days comes, the youth all over the world will destroy the ethics of love as Adam and Eve did, and the tide of corruption will flow throughout the world. When we see these phenomena, we must know that the age of Satan's dominion has arrived.

It is at this very time that the day of judgment, when God rules with His rod of iron, has arrived. History teaches us that any city or country which ignored God and engaged in wantonness was destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone; Rome was destroyed because the people became morally decadent and did not keep their chastity.

Look at America, Europe and Japan, the advanced nations of the world. Who is able to stop free sex, which is rampant everywhere? This world is becoming full of corrupt love and drug abuse. This is the method by which the body is being dragged to its death. It is not the path our mind wants; it is crying out in despair.

All the people who were called to lead humanity back to the embrace of God failed. Somebody must appear who can lead the people of the world out of the fallen environment to the road of truth. We can compare fallen man who came to stand on Satan's side to a wild olive shoot. From among fallen men, God has separated the wild olive shoots.

Those wild olive shoots which are in the sphere of religion belong to God. God can dominate these wild olive shoots freely. He has prepared the Providence so when the Messiah came in our time he would be able to cut down the trees in one stroke and graft them onto him. In this way the wild olive shoots become the true olive, returning back to their original state.

That is why the people who already believe in a religion must find the original true father - Adam and Eve are the false mother and father of this world. This is because they were not born with the original seed of life from the true father - Jesus. They were unable to fulfill God's ideal and connect with God's blood lineage centering on the original true love; therefore, the Messiah had to come again.

Do You Know Who the Messiah Is?

The Messiah is the person who has come with the tremendous responsibility of the True Parent, pulling out and throwing away the roots of all those born from the false parents and restoring them to their original state. He has the responsibility to banish Satan, liberate humanity and build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and thus be welcomed by all.

If you become sons and daughters who can inherit God's love, God's life and God's blood lineage and also inherit True Parents' love, True Parents' life and True Parents' blood lineage, then like God, your mind and body will not fight, and you will become the true unified origin of world peace.

The point where the mind and body become unified will be the starting point for the eternal world of peace.  Let us all fulfill our duty as servants with the heart of parents. Let us shed our sweat for the earth, our tears for humankind, and our blood for heaven.

And let us liberate our Parent, the Lord and Creator of the universe, from His grief -- and in order to build one world of peace, let us march forward along the road of salvation bearing the cross.  Please do not forget that, even though our destination may be in the world, our starting point must begin when our mind and body become one, centering on true love.

Each of us must remember that not until my family becomes the place of eternal happiness and true love will our hope for the ideal country, the ideal world and the ideal Kingdom of Heaven on earth bear fruit. In the not too distant future, we will build a world of true love in which all races will live for each other for eternity. Let us determine to rise up and take the lead to complete this historical mission. I pray that God's blessing may be upon you and your families.


Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Cause of Evil Society

Today's topic was snatched from the Textbook For World Peace Chapter 4 written by the wife of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon who wrote the Divine Principle. To learn more about the organization, please visit www.familyfed.org.

Why Women Had to Fight Equality Throughout History

Many problems in the world can be traced back to the Garden of Eden.  Even in jest there are thousands of jokes that "the devil made me do it" or "all the problems in the world began with a woman."  Good jokes always have a little truth at its root somewhere hidden in it.

God does not sit idly by on His throne watching His children suffer on earth as He merely rules the earth with all mighty power.  Any ruler such as this that would place His own dominion and position over love would be a false god.

That false god would be the one who has perpetuated this lie in the first place, and has stood in God's place pretending to be Him.  This god would be the one Jesus said was the ruler of this earth and the true father of the people who disobeyed him.

 The fall was initiated by the archangel Lucifer, and followed by Eve, which has pained God's heart.  In order for God to return His children to the state before the Fall, the mistake has to be indemnified and reversed.  To indemnify is to pay back for a wrong done.

God told Adam and Eve if they chose His words, "do not eat" that they would receive the three great blessings, on the other hand, if they followed Lucifer's teachings "do eat for you will not die" they would receive curses. 

Since God's children chose Lucifer's words, they all received curses.  Lucifer was thrown down to earth, Adam would have to work to gather food after the ground was cursed, Eve was to have Adam (men) as her master for all her days, and childbirth was going to be painful. 

Even though it was the archangel who defied God and tricked Eve, who did God give the responsibility to follow the commandment? 

Herein lies where the pain of women began in all facets of life.  Our first ancestors endowed with God's spirit were given the responsibility to choose to follow God's word in order to become mature and share in God's authority over the earth and receive the three great blessings.       

Lucifer was a servant, and was angered that God loved His children more, on the other hand, he was never given the commandment.  Lucifer was only told to return to his position as a servant.  It was up to Adam and Eve to trust God's command, follow and become subject to Lucifer.

Eve instead followed Lucifer, and then tempted Adam to do the same by following her.  Eve chose curses, therefore as Eve's descendants, all women thereafter would inherit her fallen characteristics.

God introduced religion to break us free from these curses, but this was not to last forever, there will be a point in history when all people will no longer need a Messiah to connect directly to Him.  That will be the Last Days.

Does God plan to keep these curses over His children forever?  God never placed these curses on us, we chose them.  Ever since the fall, God has been working hard to bring us back toward blessings and on His path.  If you look throughout history at women's course you see that women have gone from being shunned, having men as their masters, to burning bras and demanding equality and getting it in these Last Days.  This did not happen with human power alone, this is the mighty works that God is behind the scenes to bring all facets of life destroyed in the garden back toward His ideal.

A woman is for sure to live for her husband, but the man is to live for the woman as well.  The man is to be subject over his household, but does not mean master.  A true household is where a husband lives for the wife and wife for the husband. This has to be restored.  Instead, in the Garden of Eden, Eve chose to live for her own desire and she reversed the roles and dominated Adam to follow her fallen ways.  The situation in marriages where women absolutely follow their husbands must change toward this direction of husband and wife living for the other's sake, thus they live for the family.

We can see such types of marriages in the 1800s.  Women's roles were suppressed yes and not ideal to modern women who rather stay single, but this is closer to God's ideal for the family than today's marriages of wife swapping, single motherhood and other alternative lifestyles.  Men only became the master to women after the fall. 

Women are the central point for the love, peace and spirit of service which protects our families. It is the healthy family that must be the starting point in our work to build world peace. The establishment of God-centered family ethics and the education of our children lie at the innermost core of the Divine Principle teachings that is expressed on this blog. The family is the holy sanctuary that must cleanse this defiled world.

We must establish not only a true concept of manhood, but also the true concept of what it means to be a mother, a wife and a daughter, in the context of a new society, nation and world. People must become forerunners in inheriting the tradition of the True Parents and harvesting the victory. Adam and Eve were to follow God's direction and become True Parents. 

Women have the mission to give proper guidance to men who lead lives of moral decadence and disorder so that the tragedy of the destruction of Adam and Eve may be resolved within the context of history.

In the age of women that is now dawning, women must embrace their husbands and properly educate their children so that they may be a model movement for practicing true love throughout the world.  Women must gain the active cooperation of husbands and children.  This women's movement is not for women alone. First, a movement of true love for husbands and children must bear fruit in ideal families.

The ideal families formed in this manner will come together to form ideal nations and an ideal world.  For the sake of world peace, women must take the lead in government, finance, culture and society. The basic values women should uphold in this federation of women are found in Headwing, no longer the left or the right wing, philosophy can bring world peace,  but Godism.

These values are what unite left and right, and overcome atheistic materialism. They are certain to be the guiding ideas of the world of the 21st century. As women, remember our forbearers, Rebecca, Tamar and Mary, who fulfilled major responsibilities in the history of God's salvation process to bring forth the lineage of Jesus. Let us inherit the strength of will by which these historic women overcame life threatening dangers and difficulties to fulfill their missions.

Let us establish our families as homes for true parents, true husbands and wives and true children, so that we may join in the holy cause of changing this world of evil into a heavenly world. Let us march forward toward a world of peace centered on the True Parents, who are the center of true love.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Defense From Satan


Today's topic was derived from the Textbook for World Peace, Chapter 2, "The Way to World Peace" given by the wife of Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.  Father Moon had researched the bible for 9 years intensively before sharing The Divine Principle with the world.