Youth Sacrifice for World Peace

Throughout the history of the universe, humanity has had a strong desire for the ideal true love.  This has been the motivating factor for humanity's need for change, for a better world.

The principal participators and initiators of historical change in this time are the young people.  Young people still have the hope for the ideal of a true family and they possess a greater capability to realize this ideal than anyone else.  The young people still have hope for a brighter future for humanity and an ideal of a better world.

Young people are the symbols of hope for a humanity that desires to lead to the new ideal family.

The ideal of family in America has degenerated far from the original ideal of a true family.  Families within used to be the safe haven and hope of the community.  Now mothers and fathers and siblings may be an enemy to one another.

You can examine the history of literary works and recorded accounts that give praise to the roles and the special characteristics young people exhibit.  But there is no more time of critical importance than now that the roles that young people play within the family, nation and world.  Just as the time in history when society had fallen far from the ideal, the family needs a revolution to become ideal families of goodness.

We are living in the critical time in which you live where today's family, nation and world are standing in a place of dilemma?  Have you ever noticed that the more technology and industry advances and youth enjoy major conveniences in their life, we see that the institution of family and individual lives seem to erode.

The divorce rates have risen in America over the last decades.  Also, there is a rise in the same sex-marriage.  The phenomenon of teen pregnancy and and suicide had increased in the last 30 years at the same time of the breakdown of the family.  This is not a coincidence.  This is the most critical issue facing modern society.

When we look at the national level, these issues including sexual diseases, economic imbalance and other social problems, political powers are very limited in the face of these problems.

These problems did not just arise in America alone, but all over the world, countries continue to agonize over how to solve the problems affecting humanity.  Problems such as the threat of war, problems between the races, separation between religious groups and the destruction of the environment.

This reality that many regions of the world experience the miseries of hunger and disease, especially those who practice any faith.

If we were to give a grade regarding the outcome of how humanity's ideas and activities in the last 20 centuries, humankind would receive a failing grade.  All families, nations and the entire world are urgently seeking change for the future.

Throughout history, there was not a clear road for humanity to follow the true path.  This is the reason God brought Jesus and his return to the earth to gather humanity and place them on the path back into God's arms.  It is now imperative that priority is given to develop awareness to the responsibility each of us has to bring about a revolution of change to the family, nation and world.

Our task is to establish for youth a new status as initiators of change and to open a new age for true families, true nations and a true world.

If you plant a seed and it does not sprout at the right time, it just rots away.  On the same token, we are living in the time where everything must be renewed.  Those who find that they do no make themselves new based on God's standard will decline and eventually perish.

The Bible speaks on this when it speaks about placing new wine in old wineskins cause it to burst and become useless.  We are in the era of where we should make ourselves new wineskins to prepare for the new wine never before seen in history.

When the new morning comes, we must put on a new set of clothes; when the new season arrives, we must arrange a new living environment for ourselves.  We must be first renewed as true families and a true nation before we can think about bringing about the re-creation of a true world.  What is the one means by which we can renew each individual, our families, nation, world and change the flow in which history is headed.

The Messiah teaches the philosophy of the ideology of a true family, true nation and true world.  This philosophy opens up a historical horizon for world peace.

God's original ideal of creation was the idea of sacrificial true love capable of giving, then forgetting and turn around to give and forget over and over.  When we see this ideal of creation and the current state of the family, nation and world, we see how far from the idea humanity has fallen.

God's own creative effort involves the sacrificial effort of Himself, His own power.  Yet, because this effort stems from true love, it is returned to God in the form of joy that is tens of thousands of times greater.

In the family, if the parents are motivated by this kind of true love and then invest in and sacrifice themselves infinitely for their children, then, their children will feel infinite gratitude for having to receive this true love.  Then, the parents will experience great joy in place of their sacrifice.

This process of give and take action initiated by sacrificial true love establishes an eternal relationship of joy and peace in the true family, true nation and true world.  This was God's original ideal of creation that we have the hope to restore.  It is in this place that the ideal world of eternal life is manifested.



The true family is the initial stage on which the different types of love, between true parents, true husbands and wives, true children and true brothers and sisters are put into practice and jointly grow to fruition.



On the other hand as we experience in our time, when a family nation or world does not exhibit such true love, it becomes an empty shell.  The lack of true love degenerates into a breeding place for all types of distrust, resentment and immorality.

The family is supposed to be a safe haven where our pure love is nurtured, grows and is perfected as a true family.

The true family is the fundamental nucleus of a peaceful world.

The family is where we learn about God's true love through the love of true parents.  We are also trained by the means of true love of true brothers and sisters which is necessary to acquire a universal love for a true nation and the true world and all of humanity.

True family is also linked to history.  True love is handed down from the parent to child in each generation of the past, present and future linking them together in a consistent value system.  Thus, a family that is destroyed where true love is not flowing, the individuals will not learn how to function appropriately in society and the world.

Therefore, the young people in this age must first become the embodiment of true love becoming the principal actors to build a foundation for a true family culture and true family tradition.   Beyond the true family, it is in the context of the nation that young people are able to put their ideals and energies into practice.

For this reason, we should not base the strength of nation on its political, economic or military might, or its cultural influence but should be measured by the temperament of that country's young people and their sense of patriotic loyalty to the nation.

The young people are the sprout.

Like a sprout, if the young people in a nation wilt, then the tree has no future.  When you observe young people, what is their reality in the world today?  The major problem  each country in the world experience today is the same concerns for the young people.


Political, economic, social and environmental issues can be addressed through such means as institutional improvements and government funding. Laws, military power and economic strength, however, cannot solve the problems of youth.

When dealing with the social problems of the youth, it can never be solved through force or coercion.  The only way for the young people to take responsibility for their wrong actions, young people must lead sacrificial lives and become manifestations of true love, thus establishing their positions as masters of true love.  Do we see this in our youth of America today?

The main force that has the power to initiate young people to bear their responsibilities is true love.  True love is the initiator of all ideals and whose action will continue throughout eternity into the future. True love has the more power than life itself.

If all the youth of the country were to center a new outlook for their country on true love, that that country will discover new possibilities for advancement.  When we look just the history of America just a little over a hundred years ago, we see that the youth had more of a patriotic spirit willing to live and die for their country without want for anything in return.  This tradition is what made America such a great nation in less than a history of 200 years.

When groups that are diverse in the nation transform to an attitude based on true love, they will rise from the limits of their conflicting interests and thus bring about a society of cooperation, harmony and progress.

The primary force that moves a country forward arises from true love in the form of sacrificial and patriotic loyalty. When we look at national heroes whom we respect today, each one of them exemplified a life of patriotic sacrifice rooted in true love, not selfishness.

There are many challenges that keep the world from peace and unity: differences in region,race, religion, culture, custom, language and citizenship.  These differences mus be overcome in order to bring about our desired world of peace.

If we look at all things in the universe from God's eyes of true love, then we would see that the world is one despite all of the above differences.  God does not see national borders, race or anything created to keep humanity from uniting.

When the young people are able to dedicate their lives to sacrifice and service centering on God's true love, then they can start to solve world poverty and hunger.  They will begin to heal the wounds that were caused by humanity's differences in economic standards.  Also, their dedication will erase the feelings of animosity and hatred arising from having different historical differences.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: How to Become a Central Figure


This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Youth for the True Family.

What Is Cause of Human Disunity w/God Part III

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.  The man said, "This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman' for she was taken out of man." 

 

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become one flesh.  Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.  Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the other animals which the Lord God made.  He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?" 

 

The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God said, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die."
 

Welcome to the weekend everyone, this Sunday will be a day off for Achieve World Peace blog I will return Monday with the post God is in prison.  Two points here, What was the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil?  And why after Eve believed the snake and saw that the tree was "good for eating and pleasing to the eye" and ate, she and Adam were then ashamed of their nakedness and cover themselves.

One hint to what the fruit and tree symbolized is the fact that Adam and Eve were naked all of this time and were never naked, but after they shared the fruit God asked why do they hide and cover themselves and who had told them they were naked. Every painting of Adam and Eve shows after they were ashamed they are covering their sexual parts yet are naked and not covering their parts before or while they ate the fruit.

If you have not read the previous parts another large hint is that the tree symbolizes the body of Eve.  What is in the middle of the tree or body that you think God holds as off limits until maturity?

Conditions For Satan's Accusations

To God, Satan the devil who once held God's rules above all else, became the adulterer of love by stealing God's love and using it selfishly to obtain Eve who was to be Adam's wife.

So far, God has been dealing with all the accusations the devil has been making. God had to persevere in His heart until today in order to redeem the condition that would enable Him to say in front of all humankind that He loved the devil.

Why is that so?

Had the archangel not fallen, he would have remained an archangel, but could not have entered heaven without being loved by God. God and His sons and daughters enter heaven only after they are able to love the archangel no matter what indecencies and acts he commits.

That is why Satan accuses them, and you and me in front of God. He says, "I did become the devil, but Your principle of creation, the original principled standard remains intact. So isn't it the rule that You and Your children cannot go to heaven unless you and they love me?" When Satan says this, God has to say "yes." Until now, Satan has been grasping God by His neck and accusing Him as well.

Who is Satan?

He is the adulterer of God's love. This evil son of the unholy and all names that come to mind for a wicked beast destroyed the moral principles of heaven and still he is shamelessly holding onto humanity living on the earth, he is gnawing at people, stripping everything from them and abusing them through the use of their bodies to continue his evil deeds.

If humanity was aware that their evil ways were not their 'free acts' as they think, but millions of devils and evil spirits using their body to keep them away from the light of God, they would turn away.


How Humanity Can Return to God

Satan knows that if he does not lie that his way of infidelity, fallen sex, evil words and such is more fun and better than God's pure way or if he leaves humanity alone, they will quickly return to God in an instant because they have an original mind that leads them back to Him.

During the winter, tree branches and buds seem to wither and die, but once the spring time comes, these tree branches start budding in the morning spring sunlight.  In the same way, if you only give freedom and love to a person's heart, his original mind will naturally return toward God. 

This is why Satan tries with his utmost power to do the opposite in order to occupy hell.  Yet, humanity is blind to the fact of this daily spiritual war between God and Satan.  God depends and relies on His soldiers of faith to liberate and unify humanity which is unaware of their destiny and path back to the restoration of God. 

This includes you who has the awareness to read such deep content.  God wishes that people of faith will practice loving their enemy and pray unceasingly to unite with God's will to bring lost brothers and sisters back to the heavenly path.  Instead many of us have separated in our different religions and judge those people in need instead of bringing them to the gates of God.

So, how do we fight this tragic war of God and Satan, Good against evil with evil becoming stronger  throughout the millennium?

At any cost and through any sacrifice we have to settle the score with the adulterer who offended our Father. However we cannot do it with guns and swords. Unless we have a greater love, there is no way to exact repayment from him; that is how I see it. Therefore God can take the position according to the original principle of creation only after He is able to love His enemy.

Why? It is because originally, at the time of creation, the devil, Satan, who is the archangel, was supposed to be loved by God. Since he was meant to receive love eternally, he still has a firm grip on God, and says. "If You want to be God, You must establish the principle that would provide for You to love me, even though I have fallen; otherwise You cannot stand in the position of the Ruler of this universe!" This is where the problem lies. This is truly a stunning truth.

Satan reversed the original Principle of Creation which was God's ideal of a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth with God completely united with His sons and daughters.  Satan knew this plan of God and reversed dominion by taking over God's children becoming the ruler and father of this hellish earth.  God has been fighting this Satan face to face and plans to restore the world back to the original idea.

Until now God has been employing a strategy to prevent the rise of the conditions that lead to Satan's accusation and to take humanity back from him. Christians have had no idea about God's dreadful situation. They think only of the glorious God, saying, "Oh, great God dwelling in the glory of heaven and earth!"

Who is Satan? To God he is the adulterer. Forgiving the adulterer would go against the heavenly principle, so God cannot forgive him. Therefore, even though God can forgive the people of the satanic world a hundred or a thousand times, He absolutely cannot forgive Satan. That is why the great judgment will come.

Who will be judged in the great judgment?

It is wrong to believe that God judges people in the Last Days and sends them to hell or heaven.  It is not human beings, but Satan, who dwells like a master in their souls, who will be judged.

Satan is the enemy who violated love. He is a wretched thief who entered the house while the parents were asleep, murdered the father and raped the mother.

Who is Satan? He is the enemy of love who raped God's beloved Eve, God's partner in substantial form.

Just by forgiving the enemy who has done you wrong this is not love alone.  We must have such a heart for the adulterer that has stolen your wife that you can still love and bless that person without cursing them.  This is the final obstacle to reach heaven, a kind of test of heart.  Yet, people say that the only way to heaven is just believe that Jesus is the Messiah and you will go to heaven.

Christians believe that Adam and Eve fell by eating the fruit, after the serpent incited them with whispered words. They have no idea of the workings of these fundamental principles. You cannot imagine how sad, miserable and frustrated God is because of this misguided reasoning of the account of Adam and Eve's fall.

He is sadder, more frustrated and more miserable than anyone in history. The moment Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil God's heart nearly burst with distress. And yet, God could not help loving them. You must understand this.

Many think that since God did not stop Adam and Eve from disobeying Him that God was ready and forthright to punish them right after or that God knew it was going to happen. When Adam and Eve were about to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, do you think God said, "It is just what I expected. Go ahead!"? Certainly not! His heart withered and all senses focused on that place. God was trembling and bleeding. He felt like crying out "You must not eat the fruit!"

Because of such indescribable sorrow and frustration He was unable to think of anything else.  Do you think God simply watched Adam and Eve eat the fruit of good and evil? If He had a sword, He would have wanted to cut out that history, cut out the whole world, but His position did not allow Him to do that. Even though God created the Principle and laws of the Universe, in order to be an absolute God, He must practice within His own laws.  God cannot have anything to do with evil and He will close his eyes, ears and mouth to these acts.  All He could do was be overwhelmed with grief.

Once humanity realizes how detrimental the fall was, which is a man and woman who are not blessed in marriage by God giving into satanic love relations, they would do all within their power to turn away from temptations.

If Adam and Eve had been able to fathom God's inner heart, they could not have possibly fallen. God loved His children as a Parent, but they did not understand the depth of His parental heart. Of course Adam and Eve fell while they were still young, but their young age itself was not the cause of the Fall. Rather, they fell because they were lacking in heart and were selfish to their own needs forgetting God all together in their union.

If Adam and Eve had truly felt God within their hearts and related to Him and followed Him, knowing He lived for them never being separated, they would never have committed the Fall.

Ultimately Adam and Eve fell because they could not reach unity in heart with God. This dreadful problem occurred because their desires deviated from God's desires and the direction of their thinking was different from the direction of God's thinking.

A robber killed the original father and raped the mother. Fallen human beings today are in the position of children who were born from that relationship.

Who is Satan?

He is the enemy of God's love. Satan is the adulterer who violated the children of God, so even the God of love cannot forgive him. There is no way to forgive the adulterer of love. Others can be forgiven, but Satan cannot. If he is forgiven, the heavenly law will break down.

We are fallen descendants who betrayed God's heart. Do you know what it was that our ancestors betrayed? Do you think that they just ate the fruit of good and evil that God had forbidden them to eat?

No. They betrayed God's heart. That is the problem. What kind of heart did they betray? It was the heart of the ideal of creation, the heart filled with hope.

Some may wonder why can't God just put Satan away once and for all.  If you read the previous posts, you will see how when Eve had a sexual relationship with Lucifer, he passed his insecurities and fallen nature to her which she passed to her husband Adam.  When they had children this entered the bloodline. 

If God tries to remove the lineage all at once, He would end up destroying the whole human race which has the dirty bloodline inherited from Satan.  If God extracted the blood in order to save us from sin at once, human beings would disappear we as fallen human beings each have the fallen blood keeping us alive even in our sinful fallen state.

Love is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. This became the ideal standard. God therefore cannot strike human beings as the object partners of that love. You must understand this.

God had to go through saints, sages and Jesus in order to slowly restore His children back to the original ideal of creation.  Even then, God had to completely depend on the outcome of His chosen ones and work through their countless failures throughout the ages. 

Because man fell, man is the one who must take the responsibility to follow God back to the original position.  We must know that if God could have just magically snapped His fingers, restoration would have happened during the time period that Adam and Eve were on the earth.

How did Satan manage to oppose God for six thousand years? Until now Satan has been holding the Principle in front of God. Satan says. "God, can You punish me? If You want to punish me You must destroy heaven and earth first.  When You created me, didn't You intend to love me with the love belonging to the completion level, even though it would be only a love meant for an archangel?" 

Satan knows that God will not destroy Him and that God must love Satan no matter what even if He cannot forgive him for killing endless numbers of His children.  Satan continuously throughout history would accuse God's children of the sinless acts that they would commit in order to do as he pleases knowing that God is bound by His own law.  That is until the Messiah returned with the words that you have read for the past three days revealing the crime of the archangel.

I know that these last three posts have reached the right people because the two weeks before posting this I had a strong battle with evil physical and spiritual trying to keep me from posting to any of my pages or blogs, an extreme battle against heaviness and extreme hate came toward me to get these posts written.  I had forgotten that this information, the crime of Satan being revealed to hundreds of people about how He had sexual relations with Eve and not just tempted her with a fruit has always been hidden by Satan at all costs. 

Once people understand the magnitude of the fall and that humanity still falls into the hands of Satan's temptation of making fallen sex outside of God's realm look enticing and go they decide to go the opposite way toward purity and saving the key to their sexual organs for their spouse, then slowly Satan loses power.

Jesus taught us the standard of how to be a filial son and brother, but he was not able to show us the proper way to be a husband and father because he never had children.  That is why he said he would return through another in the Last Days to complete his mission, but his disciples and even people of faith to this day could not understand this.

Before the Second Coming, there has been no place for God to stand because He did not have a filial son or a system of love that could uphold the standard of the heavenly kingdom by having people fulfill the way of a patriot, saint and divine son or daughter. Until now, God has been incarcerated and in confinement. The heavenly kingdom became an empty ruin. God has carried this sorrow in His heart until the truth has been revealed and God can finally take back dominion over the earth.


Return for Monday's Post: God Has Been in Prison

This text was derived and written from the book: Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 8, chapter 2, sec. 5.

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.

 

 

 

 

Why Celebrities Lives Turn For Worst?

We see it everyday in the newspaper.  The latest celebrity overdoses, divorces, sweet actress does nude scene, cheating incident - you name it.

From the sweet Twilight star's cheating scandal, and going nude, to the poppy Miley Cyrus slithering around like the new 80s Madonna.  Parents must wonder what in the world is going on with the stars. Britney Spears going from sugar to spice by borrowing the boyfriend of a pregnant Moesha star to tearing up property and shaving her head. How can they let their children watch these stars and emulate their every behavior? 

Why do beautiful sweet entertainer's lives eventually go downhill?

Well, one argument says that it only seems this way because they are int he public eye, and if everyone was in the public, our lives would play out the same way in the media.  True to a certain extent.

Celebrities are humans and are no different from others. Why do we place them on such a high pedestal?

 Humans always want an example to follow.  Celebrities are seemingly beautiful people who cracked the code to success, and people want to know how to be successful and follow the lifestyles sometimes. Whether it is through religion or through other means, we all want to be greater in some way and need to see our goal before we can follow it. 

Movie stars, musicians and sports players have been placed in front of our eyes everyday through the media.  They seem to have the answer since they have the money, clothes, confidence, and we give them the glory.  Yet, everday we see through their drug overdoses, bankruptcy, and immoral activities, they are just like us, trying to make it through this crazy world. 


Some people sourly say that celebrities were always the way we see them end up, and the truth is coming out.  Others say that it is only because they are in the public eye that it seems they do many bad things when it isn't that bad as what other people do in private.  All true, but why is it in the entertainment business the majority of the people do not end up with happy lives?  Why do we as a society continue to place regular people on a  pedestal and try to follow their destructive ways which they glorify in their music and movie roles?

It is good to see celebrities lives being exposed more because it demonstrates to children that if they follow the immoral acts of celebrities, no matter who you are, you will lead a life that ends in destruction. 

Remember the account that God told Adam and Eve to obey His commandments in the beginning.  He told them advice that is so profound that it could save the dying lost even in this day and age.

Forget the debate about the fruit in the garden was not literal and symbolizes love, and that they weren't supposed to experience physical love until God blessed them in marriage. 

Let's keep it simple.  God gave them a commandment to wait upon His time when they could 'eat of the fruit'. 

He gave Adam and Eve a choice in that commandment.  If you follow my words, you unlock blessings of the earth, if you do not choose my way you receive curses.  We obviously understand which path our first ancestors endowed with God's spirit chose.  By choosing Satan's word to indulge in love before their time, humanity fell outside of God's realm under Satan's dominion.  All from a certain ACTion of teenagers, the world has been a perpetual hell every since.

One person said the problems of the world can't be that simply answered.  But it can.  All problems can stem from the misuse of love.  Even anger stems from someone inappropriately abusing love by not loving properly in someway.

Love has the power to bring blessing through its connection to God, or curses through its misuse.

We chose curses and we still choose to be cursed or blessed with every moment we make a decision.

Celebrities misfortunes demonstrate what happens when we make a chose without God as our center.  When we choose to be with a person outside of marriage, steal husbands, sleep with many people, choose drugs as our enlightenment only, choose material and wealth to make us happy, we are harming not only other people, but God's heart.  God abhors sin and he told us in the beginning it leads to destruction.

Why are these things bad?  Isn't physical love part of the creation, aren't we as God's children suppose to enjoy the fruits of God's creation?  Yes, but these objects have become our only way to happiness forfeiting God completely as a source of our love.  And love without God as the center is still love, but it is false. 

How is being with a person who is promised to another (God sees single people as people waiting to mature for their intended spouse - which is one person), even if they are not married, a part of God's True Love? 

Why do we follow in the footsteps of people who endure endless heartache over and over as the pass from one relationship and marriage to the other and believe this is the way we should live our lives to find true happiness?  We should clearly see that beauty, money and love alone is not the only way to live.  Celebrities too are looking for True Love as well.

Why would God make Adam and Eve wait to indulge in the pleasures that they were going to have anyway?

It is like giving a gun or a diamond to a three-year old.  You just don't do it.  They don't understand the value or the destruction that can come by possessing these objects too soon. 

In essence, God was telling Adam and Eve to wait until they were mature before He could bless them to enjoy the fruits of love. 

So, as adults, it may be too late, but we finally realize substantially and heartistically what parents meant when they told us we were not mature enough to handle sex and must wait for marriage, and drugs are harmful.

The parents who are enforcing the rules of saving yourself for one person and during marriage sometimes themselves have a history of not waiting for marriage, cheating and drug abuse, and children follow the example of their parents. How can we enforce this to the next generation if we ourselves have trouble living by God's word?

This is hard because of hormones and our feelings of lust and love for the opposite sex is greater than any consequences or warnings and the heartache that sprout from our misdeeds.

This was the problem with Adam and Eve, our first parents, who were just teenagers.  No matter that God had warned them, they had indulged in premarital sex without God's blessing and we have perpetuated this generation after generation.

The sad part is that God's word judges even our thoughts because even though they are not actions, thoughts plant seeds that eventually become real in some way if not counterbalanced.  If we perform in our mind sexual acts with our best friend's husband, the bible says then we have committed adultery even if we are not married ourselves.

No one is beyond this temptation.  Me, you, your children, even the most faithful and devout have this the responsibility to subjugate the desires of our bodies and fight it everyday.

                                                                                                                              "Anarchy" actor
Of course we should pray for our brothers and sisters in our communities and celebrities who can not overcome their struggles instead of just talking about their issues.  If we don't talk about them and ignore them, as we see evident, it spreads wider until it is seen in our own homes. 

Our children are watching these stars in a different light.  Many see these acts as okay as stars seemingly don't pay for for doing wrong - there are no consequences in young people's eyes, and are jaded by their beauty and  money.  It is important as parents we show that the path away from God no matter how it appears always ends in destruction.

Children must understand that God intended for us to live a life of peace and love and what seems commonplace and as an exciting life of the stars is far from peaceful.  They must see that going to rehab, excessive behavior, multiple relationships, divorce etc. may seem fun, but it hurts God's heart.

Fortunately, God is behind the scenes working to help us clear up this mistake.  No one is beyond the love of God.  No one can go too far in the other direction that they can not return down the same path and start anew.

The first step is to educate about the reasons why we fight our evil mind and carnal desires.  This battle of mind and body will end as we conquer everyday to strengthen our good God-given mind everyday.  Just like us, our spiritual body and mind must eat. 

In the environment of today's society, we feed our evil mind and body more than our good mind, making our evil body stronger.  Our ungodly mind becomes subject over the good activities we want to do.

Reading God's words of all religions, praying, acting in faith, and putting God's word and placing it into action daily is a way to strengthen our good mind and lead us back to God.

If the latest trend of celebrities going toward Eastern religions is truly part of their soul, we may see a new celebrity crop up in Hollywood.  Unfortunately, it just seems to be a ploy for some, but hopefully, one day, a revolution of celebrities that live a life led by God in Hollywood will take over.

Why worry about people we do not know?  Because whether we like it or not, our children and society's next generation of leaders follow the lifestyles of celebrity materialism without thinking about it and it is undeniably not the only cause but is definitely a part of the slow degeneration of America's values.

Simply turning off the television does not work as it has become part of our culture, our lives are inundated with the culture of media no matter how religious we are.  There needs to be a revolution of True Love in the industry or the current trend we will continue.  The trend of other countries despising America's trashy ways will increase.  Can we blame them?

One day absolutely, God's way will be more popular than the materialistic satanic way of life - hopefully in our lifetime.  God deserves to be an idol, don't you think?


Photos courtesy of MSN entertainment news.

This message is based on the Divine Principle which uses the study of the bible as its basis.