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.

Why Children Rebel

Why do we worry about our kids, and can not stop the train wreck that many of them are headed?  What follows is from a speech made November 1971. 


Who would have believed the prediction  of kids killing their parents in the future and children kidnappings.  Amazing.  As you know this speech was given by Dr. Sun Myung Moon using the his intensive 9-year study of the bible:


Rebellion of Teenaged Adam and Eve

"Adam and Eve distrusted God and betrayed Him; this sowed the seeds of grief throughout the cosmos.

"Therefore in the Last Days, parents and the children will be in conflict. Just as the first human ancestors betrayed and distrusted God their Father, their descendants in the Last Days will likewise

experience children rebelling against their parents…

"That is why in today’s society there is a pervasive tone of distrust, between parents and children,

between husbands and wives, and between relatives. People no longer have confidence about their

purpose for living, so much have those who deny its basis obfuscated the matter. As you see this

happening, you should know that the Last Days are here.

"Today we face a serious youth problem. In the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve fell, they were teenagers. They planted the seed of free sex when they fell by engaging in an illicit sexual relationship in the shade. That is why now, during the harvest time of the Last Days, it was inevitable that free sex would become rampant throughout the world.

"Satan knows that God is trying to bring all human beings to Heaven by promoting the standard

of true love—absolute love without any trace of the Fall. Because Satan knows that the returning

Messiah will carry out this plan, his strategy is to utterly dismantle this standard. Therefore, as

there is no longer any basis for love, people today engage in all sorts of behavior, including free sex,

homosexuality and lesbianism. Homosexuals and lesbians are seeds of the archangel; therefore, like

angels they have no object partner of love

"These are the Last Days, when everywhere people are stripping off their clothes and perishing.  It is the end of Satan’s dominion. Now the earth has become hell, where life is in step with Satan’s world of hell. Therefore, if you seek and follow a way 180 degrees opposite the prevailing lifestyle, it will be a path connected to Heaven.
 

"At the Fall, the archangel Lucifer acted to make Eve his enemy and Eve acted to make Adam her

enemy. As a result, Adam, Eve and the archangel became enemies to one another. Therefore, in

the Last Days everyone will become enemies to one another. Your children will become your enemies; mothers and fathers become enemies; brothers and sisters will become enemies. Nations will become enemies. All relationships will be torn apart, and you will not be able to trust anyone.

"What will become of ethics and morality? Such a hurricane of chaos will sweep the world that people will lose any sense of direction.

People will not be able to tell right from wrong and good from evil. When that time comes, it is the Last Days. The Last Days are here right now! You will see incidents where children kill their parents and parents kill their children. You will see ministers killing members of their congregation, and acrimonious battles between church members and their ministers. Everyone will be divided. Why is that? The seed of enmity sown by Adam, Eve and the archangel has resulted in the world becoming a battlefield." 1971

 
Why America Losing Christian Values

All religions have lost their footing. Because Christianity did not completely fulfill God’s will,

Buddhism, Confucianism and Islam are also going through a tough course. As a result, families,

societies, nations and the world have become like hell.

God’s ideal realm of love is nowhere to be found on earth. Even in a vast country like America, God cannot find a True Son or True Daughter whose mind and body are truly united. God cannot find a husband and wife who are united according to the original standard that God has desired since before the Fall. In every family, parents and children are fighting. The decline of religion has led to a world of selfish individualism in which everyone is divided.
 

Without a clear vertical standard, the concepts of male and female are hazy. That is why, along with

free sex, we see so much sexual confusion in the Last Days.
 

In the free world today, many people are unwilling to marry. They live together without a legal marriage, jumping from one relationship to another… It seems like everyone is perishing, but through it God has a strategy to save them all.

This trend somehow makes sense if you look at it from God’s perspective. In God’s view, our spirit and body is supposed to become one centered on true love, not on false love. 

Therefore, as people live together who have not found the origin of true love they will continue to be restless, with spirit and body divided. Once they pass through that stage, after awhile they will yearn for the marriage Blessing, the Blessing that only Heaven can give.  Why Doesn't God End Evil?

God cannot strike human beings even when they take Satan’s side. God has to use the strategy

of being struck first and then taking the victory. Satan always strikes first, but loses in the end. Throughout history Satan takes the side of self-centered people and incites them to hatred and conflict to try to destroy Heaven’s side. Heaven, on the contrary, aims for the good of all, working to recreate the world with love and peace.

In the Last Days, when Satan is about to lose his dominion to Heaven’s side, he will suggest atheism to the world, advocating that there is no God. This will result in movements to establish humanism, materialism and communism. All over the world, these ideologies of the left are in battle

with Heaven’s side on the right.

Ultimately, however, history will enter an era of a Great Revolution when Heaven’s side will win

and peace will prevail throughout the world. This could have occurred already, with the victory of

Christian culture at the end of the Second World War, but Christianity failed its mission to follow the returned Messiah.  So Christianity had to indemnify this, you see during the 60s the breakdown of the morals in youth, divorces on the rise and the sex and drug revolution thereafter.

How Can This Be Indemnified?

After World War II, humankind was struggling to overcome the pain of war and find the way for

all nations to live in peace. At that time, God commanded the Messiah of the Second Coming to start a world-level movement to establish God’s Kingdom on the foundation of two thousand years of Christianity. The main point God revealed to the Messiah was the formula course to establish the True Parents and unite humankind as one true family.

However, to God’s great disappointment, the Korean Christian leaders did not accept this truth.

As a result, the Messiah had no choice but to walk the path of hardship. Although he had committed no crime, he was persecuted, opposed and imprisoned. This mistake of Christianity became the condition and spiritual foundation for evil to gain power in Korea. Herein lay the internal and providential reason for the Korean War and the division of Korea that has persisted for over half a century.

We also should recognize the existence of evil spirits as another avenue for our children to be led astray.

This is the biblical account of the onslaught of demons and spirits in Revelations:

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit; he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth; they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those of mankind who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads; they

were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man. And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.


The increase in depression, suicidal thoughts, diseases, autism etc. are all due to spiritual problems, but as the bible says, only those without the seal of God.  Others are protected.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if God had created the teenaged Adam and Eve complete and perfect?  To be robots that follow the universal law like nature.  Sounds good in theory, but who wants to be a robot without choice?   But that is not how the universe works. All things begin from the bottom-most stage and grow to reach their proper level. Thus, Adam and Eve should begin their lives as babies and grow up. They are not meant to have a complete relationship with the universe in an instant.

When a young man reaches the age of fifteen, sixteen and seventeen, he comes to enjoy the world of male-female relationships. He feels romantic, poetic yearnings. Don’t teenagers feel that way? They would like to leave home, travel all over the world and find adventure on land and sea.

That is when their eyes are wide open to find a partner for love.

Adolescence is the time to give off fragrance. It spreads far and wide, attracting the bees and butterflies. That is why young men and women want to become the top champion, the top student, the

top everything

Today’s teenagers are wild; they hook up with anyone willy-nilly. By doing so, they bring about their

own ruin and society’s ruin. Yet, because adolescence is a time of change, teens cannot settle with

one partner; they go from one relationship to another.

Therefore, teenagers need to follow a definite discipline and be aware of the dangerous circumstances in which they live. You [parents] need to straighten them out. You need to clear up the complications in their lives and teach them the positives of following God's path instead of stating just the dangers and heartaches going down the wrong path.

Just as Adam and Eve were warned with death and still chose death, it is a slippery slope to give children our heartfelt warnings without them wanting to follow the dangerous and "exciting" path we try our hardest to prevent.  Isn't this every parent's worry?

In Revelations it said that God would be sorry for those who bare children, now I fully understand, because God knew in the last day that the evil and good would battle on every level of individual, family and society.  He foresaw the chaos and gave his sympathies.  There is a victory up ahead if all of those in faith keep their feet planted steadfast to God during these Last Days.  Hold on, victory of God and a peaceful world is ahead, we just have to choose it.

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Today's post was taken from World Scripture II: Eschatology and Messianic Hope.

 

 

 

 

The Messiah Returns to Save Earth Not End It

Have you ever seen a superhero rescue a person that was living in peace?

So what exactly will our hero do when he returns?  Is God going to go through the thousands of years of restoring His children through religion just so he can take a few children and destroy the earth and leave the rest to be damned eternally?  What parent gives up on their children?

If imperfect parents will go through the fire to save their child, how much more heart does God have for His lost ones?

Jesus came the first time to bring Heaven.  What happened to the rest...On Earth? 

Simply the Messiah returns as he did before: to bring Heaven On Earth.  He said it many times, Heaven is at hand.  It is in the midst of us.  No one in his time could understand him fully.

Why does God wait for centuries to pass while His children suffer, are murdered, tortured before rescuing us?  Why wait for the world to get worse before sending his hero?  Why didn't Jesus fully burn up sin from the earth when he first came?

Why didn't he bring Heaven on Earth at Jesus's time to save His people from Roman persecution?  Because something went terribly wrong in his time, and God was unable to fully fulfill the providential will of heaven. 


God's Process of Restoring Us

God never decided that when humans fell far from His Will in the Garden of Eden that he would wait thousands or scientifically millions of years later to save His children. I do not believe in a Father such as that.

After the Fall, God started within Adam and Eve's family to restore humanity. He was logical. His plan was to immediately restore just one family and not wait millions of years to teach 7 billion people to change their hearts toward Him through religion.

He wanted to work through Cain and Abel. Abel (God's side) and Cain (enemy side).  Abel was meant to win over his brother's heart through love. Then Cain was supposed to submit to his younger brother, and then they both obtain the blessing.  Then humanity would have returned to God's original ideal through Cain and Abel and the Messiah would have returned within that time. 

Evil would disappear in Adam and Eve's family.

Can you imagine that if Cain had not murdered Abel, our history would be one of victory instead of sin and sorrow?  No one teaches of this fact.

But Cain killed Abel, then God had to work again and again through a figure representing Abel and another figure representing Cain.  This process went on century after century until He finally had victory with Jacob and Esau who were twins. But something was left unfinished.   Humans are still born into sin. Our blood still needs to be saved, this is not God's original idea.

This is why Jesus returns to give us the new truth that he couldn't tell his disciples who deserted him. Jesus agonized that his disciples were not able to fully comprehend his higher teachings.  Jesus told his followers how could they understand the things of heaven if they could not even believe in the earthly things he proclaimed. We don't truly grasp it today and neither did the Israelites.

If we were living in Jesus's time would we fully understand his teachings or stick ardently to the Old Testament teachings of Moses law like the Israelites did?

So what is this truth he couldn't tell his disciples? 

This truth is revealed in our time, and thus will unify the world while he is on earth.  The Messiah does not come to give up on earth and take a precious select few to heaven, but to save all of humanity and usher them toward a world of peace. 


How All God's Children Will Win

When humanity accepts the Messiah's ideology, we will be able to finish the process of restoration that God was trying to accomplish through Cain and Abel and in other time periods. God's side will be victorious and make the enemy in every form voluntarily submit.

World Peace is achieved when fallen people restore their hearts toward God.

This is why, behind history spanning  several thousand years, God has been carrying out the work of searching for this one person in order to reorganize the history of humankind filled with evil.

Before the ideal world can be realized, there must appear a nation, but a tribe must appear before a nation comes, a clan before a tribe, a family before a clan, and one person before a family.

Then, who should that person be?

Should it be a woman, or should it be a man?

Have you ever noticed that throughout history that every major religion was created by one sex - all were created by man.  Is this chauvinistic?

The Messiah should be a man, because when God created humans, he created Adam first.  Because He created Adam first, we must go through Adam for restoration.  Eve was created from Adam's rib with Adam as the origin and Eve has to work through a man for restoration.

All of human history has been in search of a perfected man.  At the time of creation, woman was created after man; therefore, it is an unchangeable fact that history is in search of a man.


Who is the Messiah?

What kind of man can be called the Messiah in front of God's standard?  The Messiah is the eldest son, the first born son of God.  The Messiah is the starting point, and first person to receive God's direct love.

This is why Jesus, referring to himself, said he was the "only son" of God. Being the only son means to receive all the love.

The Messiah is the person who is qualified to convey God's entire love to the individual, family, clan and the World.

　
When the bible asked when Jesus returns will he find faith on earth, it did not pertain to the amount of followers he had. It was asking if there would be those that would pick up their cross and follow his return unto death. Will he find that when it came time to fight the enemy with the fire of the Word, or would his followers scatter once more?

Why would anyone ask if Jesus is going to find faith on earth when he is returning to end all the conflict?

Because, just like before, Jesus needed his followers to finish the process of completely restoring the world - he needed followers.  Jesus could not restore Israel all by himself, he needed his disciples to follow until the end.  Instead, at the end when Jesus was being sent to prison, all of his disciples ran away.

There is a conventional belief that humanity will be restored with just the mere appearance of the Messiah returning.  Poof!  The world is perfected.  Poof!  The people are cleansed completely.  Even superheroes need people to cooperate to save the world.

Believers should understand that each human is given a percentage of responsibility with the providence of restoration. 

If all creation could be automatically restored with the appearance of the Messiah, why did it not happen the first time, and why wait 2000 years?

This belief causes many people to disbelieve in such a god who does not care about the suffering of his children who cry out endlessly to him.  We should know that God's heart was to restore Adam and Eve quickly and within their immediate family.

When Cain killed Abel, God had to go through countless saints until he found Jesus.  And again humanity failed in their responsibility to unite with the Messiah.

No matter how much God and the Messiah prepare the world to completely return to God's ideal, complete restoration will not happen without humanity following using their 5 % responsibility.

Every human was given 5% responsibility in every part of creation; this is called free will.

This is important in order to understand that Armageddon is a choice we make on a global level. Are we truly following God in these Last Days standing with the Messiah against the enemy as it attacks our mind and body?

It is up to us to choose God absolutely in every part of our lives and not to give up our power to the enemy.

Many believe that The Messiah returns to blast the world away and take followers to live in the sky during the resurrection, and the eternal world that God created is left empty of His children.

The mistake that caused hell on earth did not happen in the sky - it happened on earth.  The fall began from a couple on earth and human beings on earth and must be reversed through a couple on earth.


We Need God's Love

Humankind lost true love through the fall and broke God's heart at the sight of losing his children. In other words, the Messiah is the one who comes to restore the lost true love.  In doing so, he not only heals humanity through reconnecting us to God's love, but he also heals God's heart as well.

When an unmarried man and woman love each other, they will defy even death in order to fulfill their love, just as Eve and Adam had done in the Garden.

When we become one with God's love, we will be able to practice God's love.

This will be realized when the Messiah comes and links God's love to us. The Messiah is the person with a unified mind and body, and has God's true love dwelling in him. The Messiah is the person who brings God's love, which can unify the world, unify the nation, unify family and the individual.

God's will is to send the Messiah who can become the subject of love and build the world of love. God is trying to realize World Peace through religion; therefore, religion is a necessary footstool for the Messiah to proclaim God's message of unity.

Return for Tomorrow's post:  Messiah Superhero Returns to Save the Earth


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This teaching is derived from Reverend Sun Myung Moon's speeches and words taken from the bible.  For those wanting to know more about the Unification Movement, please visit: www.familyfed.org.