Have you ever thought that God has a dream just as we have been given one? If we are made in God's image and likeness, then He should too have dreams for a better future for creation and humanity, correct?
When we look through the events of history from God's point of view, we see God's handiwork through His people to restore the world through their works.
Jesus came to establish God's homeland.
Prophets and patriots of history worked hard as well in order to build this same dream of a Godly homeland.
Each generation tag teams in order to see a better world come. In order for us to establish heaven on earth, a perfect man like Jesus must appear and complete Jesus' mission of bringing heaven on earth, not just in spirit world.
This man must be recognized by heaven and earth beginning with establishing a heavenly family through having children and establish a tribe, a people and a true nation.
He must reverse the fallen relationship of the brothers Cain and Abel and engraft them to His pure lineage. Then, build the true homeland where God has dominion in the world and evil must flee.
Prophets, saints and patriots of history all had the same desire to see a world exempt of evil - an Utopian or heaven on earth.
However, they were not able to build this heaven on earth where individuals, families, nations and world could be connected as true brothers and sisters centered on God.
Therefore, we must abandon the path along which humankind is headed in the wrong direction and go in God's direction.
Q. What if Adam and Eve had followed God's direction and did not fall?
Adam would have become the true leader of his tribe.
He would have been the leader of his people. In addition, he would have been the representative of the nation.
Adam would have become the first true king.
Thus the world would have automatically have been united without a trace of conflict or wars.
They would have operated under one philosophy set by Adam.
Any other trivial and worthless philosophies and doctrines would have been cast aside.
Unfortunately, this did not happen.
We currently live where myriads of doctrines have brought about great confusion to the world. This problem must be exposed at the root and eliminated.
Humanity's process of thought should have been based on the unfallen, perfect Adam.
Our language would have been Adam's language, our cultural would have been set based on Adam's culture, our tradition should have been Adam's tradition, our lifestyle would have been Adam's way of living and our political systems would have been Adam's systems.
Everything should have come under the system of thought of Adam's nation.
The philosophy behind a true Adam is called Godism.
Everyone must become one with God, centering on His heart. It was suppose to be the only philosophy humankind would have lived by.
Everyone has a longing to live in the heavenly kingdom in heaven and on earth.
Do you think there are boundaries within heaven with heavy walls and sections? Do they have many different languages? No.
What does the heavenly kingdom look like?
Since all people were born in the bosom of God, then God sees us as His sons and daughters, brothers and sisters in the family of God.
From heaven's perspective, we are one people, all citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Our goal is to build a unified world and one nation under God.
Our goal is to build a nation with one sovereignty, one people, one land, and one culture that is connected to God's lineage through the True Parents who appeared and reversed the first parents' fallen mistake.
In that nation, everyone is determined to inherit God's realm of heart and fulfill the biblical idea of 'love your enemy."
The world God created cannot have national boundaries or problems between races.
People believe that evil and darkness is eternal and is a necessary part of humanity and the creation.
Even teaching that evil is necessary and was created by our good God to balance out and be the opposite to goodness.
Even though evil was created and is in the world, does not mean it was intended or created at the beginning of creation.
If we followed God's command at the beginning, there would be no need for the struggle between good and evil.
We grew up in a world where borders divide the nation and there are problems between people of different races.
There are even barriers between husband and wife, parents and children and between siblings.
There is a struggle between good people and evil people.
How can we continue to believe that this is part of a creation that God would create for His own children?
What father would create anything bad for their children? If God is the beginning and end, wouldn't He only create a beautiful environment that would ripen for His own people?
Evil was created when His first children delved into a part of creation before it was ripened. If you have ever tried to eat an unripened fruit such as an apple or banana, you understand how undesirable it is or inedible it is for human consumption.
This is the understanding of the symbolic 'fruit' in the garden of Eden. We know it to be the sexual organ - the fruit of God's children where the seeds of children are planted.
The returning Lord's task is to transcend racial problems and create one nation without borders, unite the divided families and bring the kingdom of peace to this world where good and evil are fighting.
Q. Where is the original land, original homeland of our unfallen ancestors?
Will it be logical that this homeland will be established based on the standard of one specific nation?
What is the homeland which God and humankind have been searching for, the answer is.... the whole of planet Earth.
Q. How can we create this Godly homeland?
Earth is the homeland which we have longed. Our ancestors and past generations walked the path of sacrifice, so what was it they desired and begged from Heaven the most to achieve?
This was their cry: "Please quickly bring the era of the Godly Homeland without a trace of evil!"
To establish a nation of God, we establish on earth the peaceful Kingdom of Heaven that places good as the standard above all else.
This eliminates evil and judges its ringleader Satan, who has been the enemy of Heaven.
Please understand that this is has been the desire of our ancestors who have contributed enormously to the course of the providence as well as Jesus and God.
Don't you desire to have a nation where God is ruler, a heaven on earth, or have you settled for this Kingdom of Hell perpetrated from the beginning by Lucifer?
There must be a country that is able to encompass a family a tribe and a people.
Six thousand years of history and God has followed countless nations, longing and seeking this one country where He could establish the heavenly nation on this earth.
He also has been searching for His loyal subjects and virtuous men and women to build such a nation. We must reorganize families, people, and nations with God as humanity's center.
Our responsibility as people of faith is to bring about this day of liberation, the restoration of our homeland.
The mission of religious people in every religion has been the creation of this homeland.
Yet, ironically, often the selfish desires within people of faith to achieve their own personal salvation has prevented them from uniting on this purpose from across the spectrum of the different religions.
We have set the standard on the individual level, a people and a nation, so now we mobilize and seek the day of freedom, equality and happiness for all God's people.
We seek the day of the restoration of our God-given homeland as well.
Inevitably we must go this way, but, through difficulty.
This is my perspective and the standard that God is seeking. It was this standard that Jesus was trying to establish up until the time of his death.
When we move forward in the process of restoring our homeland, we will suffer and sacrifice in the process.
We will stand on the frontline, the time will come when everyone will say it cannot be done without our working in faith for the goal.
We must work hard for three years to set that standard. We have to establish this heavenly tradition through shedding blood, sweat, and tears until all people inherit everything from us.
We have to clearly understand that there are still conditions of indemnity to be offered.
God isn't sitting in glory on His throne, He is a miserable God, a lonely God and an unspeakably sad God. What father could idly watch his children suffer as he ate a king's meal?
God's joy begins when His children become soldiers on the front line, who have the conviction to fight and restore our homeland even if we are bleeding and fall down from the loss of blood. Even if we have to lose all worldly possessions in the process.
When the ranks of these brave soldiers who fight to restore our homeland and unite the world increase, then God's true joy will begin.
Do you know about God's providence to the present time?
The first goal is to have the foundation on which we can bring about the restoration of God's homeland in heaven's nation and liberate God's Kingdom on earth.
This must be accomplished even if you have to sacrifice your time spent with your family. Even if you end up as a refugee, a gypsy, this must be done.
We have to set up a country that is under the dominion of God.
When we look at how communist countries force unity and loyalty to the government - think of this being given freely by the people centered on God?
We are at the time where those of genuine authority and dedication to God work alongside the Messiah and offer their financial foundation necessary for the restoration of our homeland on earth.
This foundation will bring about the nation that will bring world unity.
I should not help you either as a group or as individuals with the money from my own wallet. We have to follow the will of Heaven. Korea must be responsible for Korea; Japan must be responsible for Japan, and America for America. Providentially, these three countries are one. They are the countries of the parents and the eldest son.
We must create an impetus for one unified language.
We Must Find Our Homeland
We long for the nation of God, because it is the place of love.
God's nation is a place where, instead of temporary, corrupted love, we have an eternal love transcendent of time to continually exist.
It is also a place where you can elevate yourself and become 100 percent of your value.
God's nation is where you are eternally happy.
This is why all people are yearning for the heavenly nation.
You should go to the spirit world only after bringing giid results under the realm of God's dominion on earth.
This is the original standard of creation.
Instead, not only do we fear death, but we go after planting many bad seeds and enter into an ungodly realm for eternity. This is far from God's original plan. He did not create hell, our ways created it.
If you are unable to restore a heavenly nation on earth during your lifetime, when you go to spirit world, you do not have the value to belong to a heavenly nation in spirit world.
What is bound on earth is bound in heaven.
Our faith's goal is to become citizens of God's country.
A person without a country, a homeland is always attacked.
Such a person stands in a miserable position. He may often feel hopeless after suffering an affront.
Q. So, where can we find the country God desires?
Which nation can become God's foothold?
God's eternal Kingdom on earth will be established based on our bloody sweat we shed for these people and country.
Such a country will create the blessed land that can be praised by our descendants in the thousands of years and generations to come.
God's country is composed of His direct blood descendants who receive Heaven's command and in His place will govern under God's kingship. This was God's original Homeland before the fall.
There would be neither communism nor democracy in such an ideal country. Once established, that nation will remain forever.
When we imagine such a nation, we should feel mortified that we are unable to be a citizen of such a heavenly country at the present moment.
We should lament that we have not become such a heavenly person, living in such a nation.
We must grieve over the fact that we do not have such an unchanging sovereignty.
During this process of building sovereignties, nations and territories, the human race has established sovereign nations. We must remember and honor the fact that during this process millions died, many were sacrificed, many nations fell and sovereignties changed hands.
All these people who sacrificed, died, shed blood, and sad people did so to see a heavenly nation and world on earth. They want to see such a nation come.
In this era, God sent His beloved true son and true daughter to the earth to establish one, absolute nation.
Until the present time, He could not prepare the foundation after Jesus' death to restore one nation. This attempt has failed every time.
Thus God has worked throughout history to send His people to earth to manage, advance and accomplish this work.
It is sad to be a citizen of a country with no sovereignty.
Jesus was concerned about this point.
He told others not to worry about where their food, drink, or clothes would come from.
He said that these small matters are what the ungodly worry about.
"Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things. Instead, above everything else, be concerned with His Kingdom and with what He requires, and He will provide you with all these other things."
Jesus said to save your nation first.
The nation that God is seeking. Jesus waits in paradise, not heaven. Paradise is the waiting room to go to heaven. You enter heaven only with your family, not as an individual.
Jesus was unable to stand before God on the basis of establishing a national sovereignty that had the power to communicate directly between heaven and earth.
You cannot go to heaven alone. Heaven is designed as the place where if Adam and Eve had not fallen, their sons and daughters would have gone to live together eternally as a family in heaven.
Why has it been so difficult until now for religious people to preserve their lives and had to sacrifice?
It was because they did not have a heavenly nation as a protective foundation. There was no family, society, or nation that would help religious people.
If they had only found a nation with a sovereign, heavenly leader that would stand up and shout "Hey, you good for nothing, this is the right way!" then the people would respond, "Yes sir".
However kings and leaders who were centered completely on the heavenly law did not come forth.
There has been no heavenly leader or nation.
That is why these problems have occurred.
Religious people who hold the standard of the heavenly kingdom could not establish a nation and go beyond their own individual selves and problems.
Without a nation, no matter how good or happy your family is, evil people can destroy it.
This is why we need to create or find a nation on which to stand.
Religious people have not been able to understand this.
We must find a nation of goodness. This is the purpose of religion.
If you do not have a country that can uphold the standard of God, then there is no basis upon which to register.
We have to have a new registration after becoming one people centered on God's standard.
We need to establish heaven's nation on earth.
Then, as victorious sons and daughters who are the citizens of that country, we must live together and care for our families and clans.
We become people who love that country and its people, and who receive the lineage of the Messiah. This is how we enter heaven in spirit world.
This is the way of the Principle.
We need such a nation in order for the blood, sweat and tears we shed and our tradition to be bequeathed for the first time to our descendants for thousands of generations to come.
Thus, when it is established, a monument that will celebrate Heaven's efforts and glory will be erected on this ground.
If we are unable to establish such a nation, then all our efforts to restore the world will be in vain.
Because this nation has not been fully established, then the Christian world and all civilizations will be sent down the river and burned up.
Aren't you seeing such a trend among the religious foundations that have been established for thousands of years? How effective have they been toward a world of peace?
This is how they have succumbed to Satan's game. You must understand that the issue here is to establish a heavenly nation.
We will not find such a homeland in an existing nation which already has established its traditions and cultures centered on the fallen, material ways.
The nation which we seek is fundamentally a different dimension.
In order to qualify to inherit such a nation, we have to embrace an ideology that enables us to take on the subject role.
The underlying thought that will govern such a place has to be perfectly aligned with the absolute thought of the Creator.
God desires a nation whose citizens desire to unite under its sovereignty.
Each citizen must have these characteristics and embody the form and shape of that nation to be a citizen.
To form a nation, there needs to be a territory, a people and a sovereignty.
Q. What is a sovereignty?
It is the creation of a relationship with the original God.
The leadership of the nation must connect with God and then conduct the work of governing the nation.
When America could follow God's law it flourished above other countries in its infancy.
The sovereign leader must completely unite with the citizens of the nation. There is no dictatorship in this nation.
By becoming one with the people, the sovereign leader can no longer think of anything as being for his own sake alone.
He must instead see everything as being for the sake of the nation.
Once this standard of leader is achieved, that nation will prosper and flourish.
To form a heavenly nation, you need a people, a territory: in place of the sovereignty is the parents, in place of the people are the sons and daughter, in place of the territory is the nation.
It is absolute principle that all these elements have to be present.
To establish a nation, there must be a sovereignty.
All people are included in this nation.
Q. Therefore, who will be the owner of heaven and the sovereign ruler when this heavenly nation on earth is established?
Without a doubt, God is the sovereign ruler.
Where will this territory be? Will it be in heaven?
It will be built on planet earth.
All of your activities should be for the sake of seeking such a nation.
You should focus on being its founding loyal patriots, and restore our homeland. Your mindset should be to shoulder such a mission.
You should think that you are part of the secret envoys of Heaven who receive such instructions to come to this evil world to fulfill this mission of building a heavenly nation.
If you do not do this, you will not be able to establish your prestige or dignity as a citizen of the nation we have been seeking.
Even though Satan sees that he is losing ground everyday on earth, do you think that he will just give up and turn around and automatically bow his head toward God's people who have passionately fought for God?
He has been playing havoc with God for thousands of years, he is not going to retreat easily.
He will doggedly fight to the end.
This is why we must not be distracted in these last days and stay focused on the central point.
If I, Rev. Moon of the Unification Church, stray from the center, I will be broken. If you do not set the right direction, there can be no development.
We must go out with barefeet if necessary to create the homeland.
Your left over resources are not enough to save this nation.
You do not save this nation by focusing on what food you are going to eat, what clothes to wear and what car to drive.
Therefore, we determine to pioneer with our bare hands and feet. That is the type of work our church is doing.
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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook - Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 13, Chapter 1, Section 1, 2
