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.


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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.

The Fall of Humans Isn't a Literal Fruit

Here are three clues to what God was telling Adam and Eve to not partake in or else they would die. 

1. Adam and Eve were naked and unafraid to be naked until they 'ate of the fruit'.   I thought you cover your transgressions, why cover your private parts for the first time after eating fruit?  2. God told Adam and Eve that they would die.  Is God a liar?  God does not lie, Adam and Eve did die ... spiritual death happens when we are separated from God.  Let the dead bury the dead.  This is just the start to let us stop telling satan's lie about the fruit being just an edible fruit.

 

The third one, satan throws right in front of our faces everyday because he is so confident that you and I are so blind to the truth.  Just look up Adam and Eve on the Internet and you will be inundated with so much adult material and even adult stores named after the pair.  Right in our face, Satan not only uses our bodies as his playground but flat out dances in front of our faces how he was able to do it.

How many argue that the reason why all of humanity fell below the level of humans and angels was all because of a simple fruit?  Mostly all.  How many are willing to accept that the fruit was not literal and it stands for something else and this something else is being perpetuated in our society keeping us under the dominion of Satan.  Only a few.

Is free sex in America and throughout the world the expression of God’s philosophy of the Kingdom or the devil’s philosophy of hell? It is the philosophy of hell run rampant, creating hell both on earth and in heaven. Everyone who follows this trend is doomed

Why do we stick tenaciously to false facts when we see that our religious practices is no closer to saving our lost brothers and sisters?  We have to dig deeper.  Christianity is one religion that has changed since its founding.  The New Testament did not exist during the Old Testament just as the Completed Testament in our time was unheard of during Jesus' time.  Unfortunately, this is slightly true.  Jesus knew more, wanted to share more but the people of his time were unwilling to change and he was limited to the New Testament.  This is why he comes again in our time to deliver the break news.  Do we hear him?

World Peace: Solve Problem in Garden of Eden First

In order to begin the mission of bringing world peace, we first must tackle where humanity all went wrong.  It is a secret that has been hidden and even if anyone fell upon it, would not even begin to know how to uncover a way to restore humanity.  Jesus knew. 

But he was met with so much opposition that people didn't even let him begin "how can I tell you about things of heaven if you don't accept the earthly things." Jesus had so much in his heart that he knew and wanted to teach humanity, but the people of his time could not understand or would not listen.  These secrets never left the earth. 

As Revelations tells, these secrets would be uncovered in the Last Days and God's people would be told plainly of the Father.  That is today.  Still, people refuse to listen and accept the truth.  It is a hard truth and reality. 

To accept, would mean we as humans would have to deny the way we have been taught all our lives and would have to reject our very environment because it is against Godly mandate. 

This is also the situation of the Israelites when Jesus told them to pick up their cross and follow them and to love him more than their own father and mother.  That never went away.  In order to even begin to talk about world peace, the leaders of that foundation, have to have this small requirement as that base.

Another reason we haven't seen peace through religion, because what is required of one individual would be the same as cutting off the very life in which we breathe.  The requirements to follow God go beyond any religion that is set forth on earth at this moment. 

To follow the standard that God needs to go back to His original plan of creation would mean one would have to surpass the standard of the sages and saints and religious leaders who have passed before.  It would take sacrifice and the heart to live for others.  It would take a 180 degree turn from the direction we are headed.  Satan has hidden the truth of the fall so we as humans could continue making this mistake and we can stay connected to him through our mistakes.  Without knowing the facts of the Fall, you and I and our children are doomed to repeat these mistakes that take us further away from God when we are tempted by them.


Hidden Truth Revealed

What is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that God told the original ancestors, Adam and Eve, not to eat? It is not the real fruit of a tree. It is a way of expressing the husband and wife love relationship that the first ancestors were to have in the future. Due to the temptation of a third being, while still in an imperfect state, the first man and woman entered into an immoral sexual relationship. Actually, in the Garden of Eden, the third party besides Adam and Eve was the archangel. In the Bible it is revealed that Lucifer was the archangel who tempted Eve and committed an immoral sexual sin. This was the fall of man, the original sin which planted the root of sin in the world.
 Man committed the sexual sin before his Father God, the Lord and Master of heaven and earth, and the first ancestors had children out of this immoral love; and the world of evil was realized. In other words, they married centered on Satan and by planting false love, false life and a false lineage they became ancestors of evil. As human society expanded from the individual, family, tribe, race, and nation to the world level, due to this immoral relationship between man and woman, the root of the evil blood lineage was established everywhere, at all times, and this world became hell on earth: it became a false world filled with sin, war and fear. The fallen ancestors, Adam and Eve, should have established the position of True Parents as the eternal good ancestors of humanity, but they fell to become false parents leaving a blood lineage of evil. This is the first cause of all the tragedy and misery of humankind. What could be more tragic or cause greater indignation than becoming the descendants of false parents and all humankind losing their True Parents? And how great must be the suffering and sorrow of God, the Father of humanity, whose purpose of creation, to establish the true ancestors of humankind and to multiply people of goodness, was stolen by the blood lineage of sin through the immoral fall of the first human ancestors.

The requirement is controversial, if not impossible by today's standard.  It requires Absolute Sex.  A standard of no sex before marriage and only with ones spouse within the marriage.

How is it that impure ungodly sex brought down a civilization?  Easy to see when you look on the individual level.  How many religious men and politicians have lost everything when they have an affair or have sex with prostitutes? Multiply this by family and nation and world and it is just a simple glimpse of how illicit sex outside of God's dominon has corrupted the earth.


What Did the Fruit Symbolize?

Satan skates all over our society by keeping this hidden.  Even Christians who know that we should abstain from explicit relationships, we can fall for the same thing Adam and Eve fell for.

You and I at one time have fallen for the tricks of Satan.  Those who say they do not sin are said in the bible to be liars.  I am a sinner.  I have fallen for the traps that satan has laid out for each and every person living on this earth.  Now teens are inundated with images that free sex is fine, experimentation is celebrated and chastity is scorned. 

First Eve fell for this trap, then Adam, and then their descendants thereafter which leads to you, me and our children.  How tragic a situation.

So, what is the fruit?

I used to believe that the fruit was such a delicious fruit found nowhere else.  But we know that God wouldn't plant something that could cause his children death and test them by telling them to stay away from it.  Same for Adam and Eve. I know this now as I have matured.  Why create a fruit that His children could never delight - ever?  God created this "fruit" for His children to enjoy once they were mature.  That makes more sense than a god who testing His children for their loyalty to Him. 

Our first ancestors were teenagers.  God gave them a commandment.  They were naked and unashamed before the fall, and the first thing they covered after the fall was their body parts.  Children caught in a cookie jar cover their mouths, not their lower parts.  Why have we ardently stuck to hiding this truth allowing Satan to cover up what he perpetuated in the Garden? 

Simple.  This is the easiest way to keep us from God is to keep the deeper truth hidden.  To keep the faithful feeling everything is okay if they just read the bible and save a few homeless people and keep their faith.

There is a way to restore the world.  Arm ourselves with the truth the Second Coming has armed us with and spread the truth, as the disciples did after Jesus' death.

What was the forbidden fruit? What sort of fruit could cause countless generations of humanity to groan in misery? Why would God create a fruit that could cause misery, destruction and war? The Divine Principle's Teaching teaching is logical: the fruit is a symbol for love. So many evils spring from love. From love can spring either good or evil fruit, therefore it is called “the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.

B,ut we started from a family where love never matured and we had fallen immoral relations outside of God's ideal marriage and have perpetuated this since the beginning of the first family.

Adam and Eve had been living in joy in the Garden of Eden and conversing with God. The only possible sin that they would be tempted to commit at the risk of their lives was a sin involving

love which is more powerful than any law.

The consummation of human ancestors’ first love was also to be God’s own completion.

Therefore, it naturally should have been the moment of joy and jubilation for God, Adam and Eve, and all creation. They were to have rejoiced together in continuous festivities of love and blessing.  On that joyous occasion, God’s love, life and lineage was to be firmly settled in the first human ancestors.

Accordingly, from the viewpoint of God’s purpose of creation, love should be the most precious and sacred act. But because the sexual act was the very cause of the Fall, people often regard it with shame and even contempt. In conclusion, human beings fell through an act of illicit sexual intercourse.

 

The more one receives love, the more beautiful one appears to others. When the angel, created as God’s servant, beheld Eve, the daughter of God, it was only natural that she looked beautiful in his eyes. Moreover, when Lucifer saw that Eve was responding to his temptation, the angel felt the stimulation of her love to be deliciously enticing. At this point, Lucifer was seducing Eve with the mind to have her, regardless of the consequences.

Lucifer, who left his proper position due to his excessive desire, and Eve, who wanted to open her eyes and become like God before the time was ripe, formed a common base and began give and take action. The power of the unprincipled love generated by their give and take led them to consummate an illicit sexual relationship on the spiritual plane.

All beings are created based on the principle that when they become one in love, they exchange elements with each other. Accordingly, when Eve became one with Lucifer through love, she received certain elements from him. First, she received feelings of dread arising from the pangs of  guilty conscience, stemming from her violation of the purpose of creation. Second, she received from Lucifer the wisdom which enabled her to discern that her originally intended spouse was to be Adam, not the angel.

 

The power of the unprincipled love generated in their relationship induced Adam to abandon his original position and brought them together in an illicit physical relationship of sexual love.
 

Once Eve had united with the Archangel through their illicit sexual relationship, she stood in the position of the Archangel with respect to Adam. Thus, Adam, who was still receiving God’s love, appeared very attractive to her. Seeing Adam as her only hope of returning to God, Eve turned to Adam and tempted him, playing the same role as the Archangel had played when he had tempted her. Adam responded and formed a common base with Eve, and they began give and take action.

When Adam united in oneness with Eve, he inherited all the elements Eve had received from the Archangel. These elements in turn have been passed down to all subsequent generations without interruption… and humanity has multiplied in sin to the present day, perpetuating the lineage of Satan.

Love is supposed to bring human beings to perfection. However, when something goes wrong with love, even God steps back. Then it becomes a serious problem. In this respect, we discover that something went wrong with love. Nothing else could become such a serious problem for God, for humankind and for history. The failure of love was the greatest catastrophe in the whole universe.

How do we turn this sad history around?


The Fall Caused Chaos to This Day

Up to the moment when God joined Adam and Eve, they were not prepared to experience the electricity of love. They would have felt clumsy around each other; their physical touch would have come as a shock. But once their minds and bodies would be totally united in God’s love, once the three—God, Adam and Eve—would be united as one, they would have experienced love like a flash of lightning. At that moment, they would have become the nucleus of the universe. They would have orbited about each other in love, formin the nucleus for governing all things by love.

Had Adam and Eve become the nucleus, God would have nestled them in His bosom. He would have been with them always. Even if His body tried to leave, His feet would have stayed with them.

The couple would have been inseparable, ever embracing each other. Their sons and daughters would have been connected to them by cords of love, and wherever they went they would come together to be established from that nucleus.

As descendants of a man and woman in complete oneness, they too would have embraced one another in true love as they built their own families, tribes, peoples, nations and world. What wonderful world it would be! Everything would be marvelous. It would be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Don’t you think so?
 

Am I a dreamer, or do I speak truth? My elucidation of the Human Fall as the reason for the corruption of love is logical and correct, based upon a proper assessment of history. Knowing it, we can resolve all human problems. Even so, it is not an easy task.
Because the nucleus of love was not established, and instead the Fall occurred, the whole world became contrary to God’s ideal, its unity shattered into pieces. Stemming from that initial disorder, all human beings became separated from one another. We cannot deny that the world today is beset by divisions. That is to say, we are all fallen. It is only appropriate to conclude that we are living in the world that resulted from the Fall.

Restoring Fallen Men

Religion holds adultery to be the cardinal sin. Is free sex in America and throughout the world the expression of God’s philosophy of the Kingdom or the devil’s philosophy of hell? It is the philosophy of hell run rampant, creating hell both on earth and in heaven. Everyone who follows this trend is doomed.

How can God’s love be linked to this world? True love coming down from above brings unity by the most direct and shortest path, making a 90-degree angle. Once that direct connection is made with the vertical God, the love of human beings can correspond to it—true love traveling by the most direct and shortest path. Induced by that vertical love, a man and a woman move on the horizontal plane toward the vertical line, creating a right angle: this is love’s final destination. What was the Human Fall? It bent this right angle.
 

Sexual promiscuity is a principal cause of the downfall of numerous heroes, patriots and nations.

ven in the most outstanding people, the root of sin—illicit sexual desire—is constantly active within their souls, sometimes without their conscious awareness.

We  may be able to eradicate all other evils by establishing moral codes through religion, by thoroughly implementing various educational programs, and by reforming the socio-economic systems that foster crime. But no one can prevent the plague of sexual promiscuity, which has become increasingly prevalent as the progress of civilization makes lifestyles more comfortable and indolent.

Therefore, the hope of an ideal world is an empty dream as long as this root of all evils has not been eradicated at its source. Christ at his Second Advent must be able to solve this problem once and for all.


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Today's text was taken from World Scripture Volume II, "Evil, Sin and the Human Fall"

How Was Jesus Physically Born Pure?

We live in a diseased world whose destruction is inevitable. Every day we hear the ugly sounds of its final death rattle.

We can trace the origin of this disease to the original human ancestors, who lost their position in paradise. Our original ancestors contracted a serious disease. In religious terms, this event is referred to as the human fall. Thus history began in a diseased state.

This disease and Satan have been the focus of human history. The tragedy of human history was that it originated with Satan, the lord of evil, who stood in the central position to God's ideal of creation. The marriage of Adam and Eve, resulted in the children of evil. Inevitably, humankind inherited Satan's love, Satan's life and Satan's lineage.

The human reproductive organs, by which husband and wife are intended to join together in virtue, were originally intended to be temples of true love, true life and the true lineage. Love should be an experience in which a husband and wife join in a virtuous union to procreate children who will carry on the lineage. The center of life is love, and the human lineage is transmitted by means of the love and life of a husband and wife.

The linkage of love, life and lineage is what gives history its continuity. After the fall, the human race has been held captive by satanic love, satanic life and a satanic lineage. Adam and Eve were in their youth when they sowed the seeds of false love, false life and the false lineage.

Thus, when the Last Days come, we can expect the increase of moral decadence among young people to arise as a global phenomenon. In fact, we live in such a time now. Satan used fallen love as a condition to create a den of sin in which an eternal blow could be struck against God's ideal of true love.

The relaxation of standards concerning sexual behavior, the increasing moral decadence of young people, the plague of drug addiction, and the decline of family structure and traditional values has turned this world into an earthly hell.

Thus, it has become impossible to find a true man, true woman, true brothers and sisters, a true husband and wife or true parents anywhere. Until now, there could be no hope of creating a true society, true nation or true world.

God's Providential History of Restoration

To understand the history of Jesus's birth, we must first discuss the reason why Jesus came as the Messiah.  He came to reverse the mistake of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

In the record of the Old Testament, history was a course of indemnification, eye for eye, tooth for tooth and life for life. The responsibility of the fall passed from Eve to Adam, with Satan at the center. As seen from the standpoint of Eve after she had received the seed of false life, the fall occurred when Satan took over God's position.

In the course of the fall, Eve placed the archangel in the position of her father and god and Adam in the position of her son. Consequently, women, who in the course of the history of restoration through indemnity have come to stand in the position of Eve, have had to risk their lives, if necessary, in order to assure that God's will is passed on to the next generation.

When we study the historical record in the Bible, we come across a number of events that seem to defy explanation. God's original intention in His creation was that Eve would become one with God, her Father, and with God's son, Adam.

As a result of the fall, however, she became one with Satan and Adam, the false son when he fell away from God's word. Immediately after the fall, God began working through the family of Adam in order to undo what had been done, that is, to accomplish restoration through indemnity by the reverse course.

He worked with Adam's family, because even the fall had not deprived the members of this family of the element of eternity with which they had been endowed at their creation. Cain, the first fruit of the love by which Satan took Eve, was conceded to the side of Satan, and Abel, who was born as the second fruit of the love with her husband Adam, was placed on the side of heaven.

This was the beginning of the history of the struggle between good and evil aimed at fundamental restoration through indemnity. It was necessary in history that the second son be blessed so that the second son realm of heaven could restore and claim the birthright of the first son held by Satan.

 For example, Cain and Abel made offerings to God simultaneously, but God received only the offering of Abel, the second son, while refusing the offering of Cain. The reason for this was that the second son on heaven's side should restore the birthright from the first son. Had Cain made his offering through Abel, an orderly path could have been established from God to Adam and to the archangel, and restoration could have been accomplished.

Because Cain killed Abel, however, heaven established Seth and extended the providence to his descendants. Cain and Abel were brothers who had been born into this world. Because of their failure to accomplish God's will in their position outside their mother's womb, God's next dispensation had to be carried out within the maternal womb.

Thus, when Rebecca asked God why it was that Esau and Jacob fought within her womb, God said to her: "Two nations are in your womb, . . . the older shall serve the younger." (Genesis 25:23) From that time, Rebecca came to take greater care of the second son, Jacob. Jacob, as the second son, had to restore through indemnity the birthright of his brother Esau. For this to be successful, Rebecca needed to fulfill her responsibility in the position of Eve.

The blow struck at the firstborn of Egypt during the course of the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt and Jacob's switching of his hands over Joseph's sons Manasseh and Ephraim at the time of their blessing (Genesis 48) all contained the hidden will of heaven to bring about a reversal of the realms of first and second born which Cain failed to fulfill.

God's Providence to Send the Messiah

Throughout the bible, women are hardly mentioned, except on the accounts of several women in Jesus's direct lineage who did seemingly unexplainable missions.  Even through they were on God's side, time after time they had decieved both husbands and sons in their acts.

Just as with Noah, when God gives a command to his faithful, he does it opposite of the way of the world.  His missions may seem odd and different to those who don't see it from God's point of view.

In her fall, Eve deceived God, her Father, and Adam, who was in the position of her son. To restore this, Rebecca stood on the side of heaven and deceived the father Isaac and her son Esau so that Jacob could receive Isaac's blessing.

Jacob purchased the birthright of the firstborn, and initiated the lineage of the Israelites on the foundation of a victory won through the cooperation of a mother and her son. He conditionally claimed the first-son realm and the second- son realm for the side of heaven, and established the foundation of victory for the Israelite nation that was to descend from him.

Jacob, however, was more than forty years old at the time when he took full control over the birthright of the firstborn. Thus, the realm of the human age prior to forty was still left without the condition of having won victory over Satan.

Once again, therefore, a dispensation was carried out for the purpose of gaining victory in the womb. Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Judah, had in her womb the twin sons Zerah and Perez. Although Perez was the younger, he pushed his brother Zerah aside in order to be born first. In fact, the name "Perez" is derived from this event. (Genesis 38) At the beginning of history, the lineage of Satan was planted in the maternal womb. With Tamar, the womb was restored to the side of God. 

This is how Jesus was born pure beginning with this purification in the his lineage starting in the womb.

The side of heaven took control over the first-son realm and the second-son realm so that God's original lineage could be established. It was in this way that the tribe of Judah came to form the foundation on which the Messiah would later be born.  As a woman, Tamar placed herself in the position of having deceived father and son; she denied her father-in-law and his sons, in order to separate the position of Eve from Satan.

As a result of Tamar's separation of the womb from Satan, a basic tradition was established whereby God's children could be conceived and given birth without Satan's invasion.  It was then up to the Israelites and Judaism to carry on this standard of victory in the womb until such time that the Messiah could be sent as the True Adam.  Adam was to take Eve as his true wife and they were to become True Parents to humankind.  The Messiah was to restore this in his time True Parent.

Because Satan had already been able to establish his nations in the world, the sending of the Messiah had to wait until such time that the Israelites could establish a national base sufficient for indemnifying the other nations of the world. God waited nearly 2, 000 years until there was a sufficient national foundation, and a woman who could stand in the position of Eve, for Him to carry out His providence. This finally took place through Mary, the mother of Jesus.

When Adam and Eve committed the fall, they were already engaged to be married at a later date. In the same way, Mary and Joseph were betrothed to each other centered on God. As with Rebecca and Tamar, Mary was a revolutionary woman called by God to take part in the process of recreating Adam. Mary risked her life to form an absolute unity with God, and placed herself in the position of having deceived father and son in order to accomplish the history of restoration through indemnity.

It was in this manner that Jesus was conceived. During the time that Jesus was in Mary's womb, Satan could make no invasion in terms of his lineage. Jesus was born of the womb of a victorious woman as the first fruit of the first love who could be claimed only by God. It was the first time in history that a child was born as God's only begotten son. Even among the saints, there exists no one else whose birth followed such a process for making a separation from the satanic lineage.

Thus, we refer to Jesus as a saint among saints. This was the reason that the Christian cultural sphere was able to spread throughout the world. Finally, in our century, God has worked to use the victory of the Second World War and the Christian cultural sphere to accomplish the unification of the world.

Mankind Must Engraft Onto God and True Parents

In order for God's mission to succeed in returning the world to His side, we  must understand that Satan exists and that he has brought about this horrible reality we face today.

With this knowledge, we can find the cause of the disease and uncover the origin of the human fall. We must reveal to the world that Satan, Adam and Eve formed a trinity of evil, and that it is up to us to restore the trinity of God, Adam and Eve that is in accordance with the ideal of creation.

For this issue to be resolved, someone must testify to the fact that Satan committed sin, and clearly explain the fundamental truths concerning the sin committed by the original human ancestors. God and Satan have always known the details about the fall.

There were many things that Adam did not understand, however, because he was still young at the time. In the Last Days, the restored and completed Adam will come and make all this information known. He will reveal the sins committed by Satan throughout the course of history.

As the Messiah returns in our time, it is possible to expel Satan from this world. For the first time, humankind will be able to make a fundamental change in direction toward a world of hope, peace, happiness and freedom. In order for humankind to make a total break from the false love, false life and false lineage that derive from Satan as their parent, it is necessary that we be grafted onto the true olive tree.

That is, all people need to be grafted onto God and True Parents (The Messiah as True Man and his True Wife become restored Adam and Eve) in order to recover true love, true life and the true lineage. This will make it possible for us to build heaven on earth as well as in the spiritual world. This, in fact, is the final purpose of God's providence of salvation, restoration and recreation. Thus, the reappearance of the True Parents is an event of the greatest historic importance.

The True Parents represent the conclusion and final fruit of human history. The True Parents embody the completed form of human cultural history. They signify the victory of religion and philosophy within history. Prior to the emergence of True Parents, however, there must be a period of restoration through indemnity, that is, a period of recreation.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Fall of Humans Isn't a Literal Fruit

Textbook for World Peace, Chapter 2,  "The Way to World Peace

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.

 

 

 

 

Importance of Lineage to World Peace

Jesus's Lineage

Many people do not consider how Jesus, who was born of a woman like you and me, became a True Son of God.  The shortcut answer is through lineage.  Through a family who made sacrifices and conditions for God to bring His first son.

Remember those 1800's movies that had aristocrats proclaiming that they were the heir to this empire, they were this person's son, or born of this or that family name and they made it such a big deal? 

Lineage was very important to our ancestors.  The bloodline also was important toward ones station in society which was almost ironclad. Those born to a wealthy lineage all enjoyed its luxuries, and those that were born to the lower class stayed there indefinitely. 

The same goes for the biblical history.  It was very important where one originated.  You were almost nothing separated from your family or name.  It mattered more who your family's history and position was.

Jesus was no different.  Throughout history, God meticulously had certain women throughout Jesus's lineage who follow His orders to restore what had happened through the fall.  In the Garden of Eden, a woman went against God's commandment then tricked her husband into doing the same.  And throughout Jesus's lineage you can see the same instances.  But God was reversing the history of the fall leading to purifying the bloodline of Jesus.

Women did seemingly odd things in the bible in order to reverse Eve's mistake. This explains the story of Judah and Tamar.  The story of a woman who pretended to be a prostitute in order to have a son from his lineage. 

She had alreamarried two of his sons that had died before she could bare their children.  Judah was the last hope for her to bare children from his lineage, yet he refused to marry her or let her marry his last living son for fear he would die like his other two sons who were with her.

This is the reason she disguised herself as a prostitute to be with him and asked for his staff for payment.  When the village people wanted to stone her for being pregnant without a husband, she showed them Judah's staff.  People wonder how this was a positive, and how such a woman was important to Jesus's lineage. 

Through a woman deceiving her husband upons Satan's lie, all of man has been born into sin.  Through God's providence, Tamar was one process of reversing the bloodline of Jesus, and thus purifying it.

This is one story of how Jesus was able to be born without the original sin.

If Jesus's lineage was cleansed through woman on earth, don't you think that God has that same dream and responsibility for you and me, or are we forever doomed to be born into sin?

We already know if there were a world full of Jesus's, families of love, societies and nations that had Jesus as a President, World Peace would be established. Thus, the cleansing of your lineage and mine will lead to World Peace.

So we learn that Jesus did this by dying on the cross so we can inherit his blood.  So why are we still born into sin if Jesus died for our sin?  No one could completely answer this except with a lukewarm answer that when the faithful die, God takes away the sin and they go to heaven.  This is unsatisfactory as it still does not explain why humans still have sin while walking the earth and bore children of sin.

We still suffer from sin even though we are devout followers of religion, even if you beat yourself to keep from doing awful things, you still are inflicted with desires you don't want.  Hasn't anyone wondered why this is so?

This is why the Messiah returns.  He will separate us once and for all from sin and Satan.  He will return to graft us into his unfallen lineage and connect us to God's lineage - period.  We will finally be able to cleanse our blood lineage while on earth just as Jesus had done.

Importance of Family Lineage

Lineage is more important than life, and is eternal; life is less than 100 years.  Lineage is not established as long as there is no life and no love.  So, among the three, which is more important - love, life or lineage? 

Lineage is the fruit of the ancestor's life and actions.  God's own lineage contains the seeds of true love.  God's lineage embodies the environment that leads to a true life.

Hence, for us to become the ideal people envisioned by God, that is, people of ideal character, and to create ideal families, we first need to be linked to His lineage.

To take it a step further, only when we are linked to God's lineage is it possible to create God's homeland, the ideal nation. Only when we are linked to God's lineage is it possible to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.

The importance of lineage should be inscribed in every human's heart, but somewhere along the way, family name and importance of bloodline fell away.  The relationship between parent and child is the only way to obtain God's lineage.  This is because the parent-child relationship is the highest and the most important of all relationships.

Instead, we inherited false love, false life, false lineage which has infested the whole world.  Heaven and earth were choked and transformed into hell on earth.  Our world is far from God's presence and is a wretched place.  Yet many people either deny this or are not aware of this.

We believe that we need this false lineage of the enemy and hold tenaciously to its way.  The horrible truth about each of us is that we descended from "The Fall".  God looks at humanity like any parent would - with a heart full of pain.

God is like a father that sweat all of this life to gather assets for his children to live comfortably with for generations and eternity.  Then a thief came and stole the land, his children all in one night.  Who has ever consoled God's sorrowful heart or felt pain for God's situation? 

Satan stole God's lineage, God's children. God was sadly forced to hand over the ownership and his dream of World Peace to Satan. There is only way to save the lineage of God.  It is through the right of ownership.  It is the path of Satan voluntarily surrendering his domination and giving it back to God.  

What is the secret to accomplishing this?

It is only possible through the power of (God-centered) true love.  A power so strong that only comes about when we love our enemies more than we love our own children.

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Note:

Today's text was taken from one of 8 textbooks based on the teaching and speeches of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.  Rewritten in conversation form learn the philosophy of Unification Thought. 

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