Heaven in Spirit World Emerges from Heaven on Earth

Historically, people called by God were over fifty or sixty years old, worn out and one step away from death.

God used such people at that time, but knew He would work with the younger generation in the future.  Therefore, God was concerned about how to develop His providence through the young people.

Buddha was able to proclaim that he was his own lord throughout heaven and earth.  A person who becomes a complete object partner of God after disciplining himself to achieve oneness of mind and body, he can become his own lord.

“Once, I felt that I was grasping the world tightly in my hand, and it seemed to melt. When you reach this level, miracles can happen automatically. The curing of diseases comes as a natural result of religious life.”

Most people today go about their lives just waking up and eating and going about a daily routine and think they are fine in God’s eyes.

However, unless they are acknowledged as a partner to God and become owners of heaven, they are not fine in front of God.

Satan remains in the place where a person has not established an absolute faith.

Many religions say that heaven will be established by the their church and their founder’s teachings.  This is a fantasy.

Christianity is divided into hundreds of different denominations.  They call other churches heretical or satanic, but they do not do so from the authorization of God.

If churches judge other churches for their own benefit, then their motivation is not pure.
If our church does this, it will also decline.

Even the spirit world has been divided by walls. 

Buddhists and Confucians are separated by walls.

The barriers are overcome by a higher standard from God’s heart.  All the walls from the lowest to the higher realms must be broken down in reverse order.

The walls that separate ancestors and people from many thousand of years ago must be broken down.

All the walls on the earth must be eliminated and a true path connected to liberate hell must be paved.  Otherwise, the gates of heaven cannot be opened.

Members must be a better person than Buddha, than Confucius and even better than Jesus.

Before, religion had a purpose to only save the individual. Our purpose is family salvation.  This is the difference between Unificationism and other religions.

For salvation we are saving the family. When we go to heaven we are not going alone. 

No one can enter heaven alone.

Only after the ideal of a true couple is realized can heaven come about.  Therefore, in order to go to heaven, fallen human beings must go through  restoration and resurrection.


To give the Marriage Blessing to you is to open wide the gates of heaven.


“Through the Blessing, I am opening the closed gates of heaven for you.”

Jesus taught that the Kingdom of heaven was in our hearts.  But Jesus was miserable when he could not proclaim that that heaven was in our families.

When you have a family, you can sing with happiness that we can live in this way.

Yet Jesus who was God’s pure Son could not even dream of having a family necessary for heaven.

Jesus trodden a sacrificial path for three years in order to awaken to the fact that heaven within our hearts.  But then he was crucified.  Now, there is no heaven on earth.

The tracks of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and those in the Kingdom of Heaven in the spirit world are the same.

In order for a train to pass the border of one country into the next, the tracks must match so the train continues running.

Likewise, the tracks on earth and in heaven should be connected.

The path of true love connects the rails from earth so the family can be the embodiment of love and go directly to heaven nonstop.

Therefore, the individual path should connect to the family’s path going in the same direction.

We are destined to go to the spirit world whether we like it or not. 

We are each like wanderers that move closer to that destination.

The biggest issue is whether you lived a life for others while on earth for just for yourself.  If you live more for others, you go to heaven, if you lived more for yourself, you go to hell.

This basic formula may be argued given your present situation, but when you die, you will know that this is the truth.

People went to different levels in the spirit world. They went to the position that correlates to the degree they have practiced filial piety according to the way of love.  How much they pledged their loyalty to their nation and fulfilled the way of a saint in the world.

People should take the path of righteousness while on earth. The path for the individual, family, tribe, nation and world or God should be one and the same path.
What is that path?

It is the path of original love.

Which world do you think you will go to in the end?  Are you going to heaven or hell?

On the way there are you the kind of person that says, “Father, please help me!” or a person who says, “Welcome, True Father!”?  That is a matter of life and death.

After marriage, you made a pledge to live happily.

“When I say live you should live well, it means that you should become an unchanging couple. In order to become like that, you should go to the ever-changing world and receive training together.

“You should keep your promises even if you go to a world where people are divided, north and south or in all four directions. You should maintain such a well-trained position.”

Children born of true parents as Adam and Eve should have become by following God’s Word, are true children not false, sinful children.

From such children, a true family, a true tribe, nation and world is created.

People in this world will live a heavenly way of life with God.  This is the only way that this earth becomes the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

You should not think you are entitled to go to heaven. 

You should focus on building heaven on earth as Jesus came to do.

Also, you must become a heavenly person and become united with Heavenly Father to the point that Father’s heart is your heart.

You should be a representative of God’s heart, the Lord’s heart and the heart of your ancestors.  Through this, the historical problems will be solved.

If a person is on their death bed and they tell God, “God, even though I could not live according to Your will until this moment, I tried to go to heaven in my mind.  Please regard me as making the proper indemnity conditions!”

Since God is a fair God, He will reward the person according to his actions, placing him in a position of wanting to go to heaven.  That position can be just below paradise.

Even people in hell are trying to go to heaven.

You  alone are responsible for deciding the actions you commit while you are on earth. And make any recompense for any wrongdoings.

If this door is closed, no one else can open it again for eternity, only you can be responsible for it.
If the door is opened, no one except you can close it again.

If what is bound on earth is bound in heaven, then it should be released while you are on earth. What does this mean?  For instance, if you did a wrongful act and did not compensate or ask for forgiveness for it while on earth, then you will ever be bound to that sin when you go to spirit world.

You will be bound to it.

Therefore, when you go witnessing now, you should witness to your family members and relatives.

If you can claim that you love the billions of people on earth more than your own mother and father who gave birth to you, then you are able to love in an unified position within the realm of God’s love.
Then you will stand in a position not be related to the satanic world.

An original person is someone who is not related to Satan, establishes a family based on the love of the ideal couple and goes directly to heaven after his life on earth.  A world of families such as this would be called the Kingdom of Heaven on earth where people live the ideals of the heavenly kingdom.

Therefore, the fact that Peter was given the keys to the gates of heaven means that heaven is first to be established on earth.  Everyone should know this clearly.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

Second Facet of Marriage Preparation

Character and Enriching Relationships

The skills and knowledge that is needed to prepare one for abstinence and marriage require for one to develop a certain quality of heart and character.

When one knows about mature love and how to have effective communication within a healthy relationship require unselfishness, patience, courage and kindness.

To mold a young person to have do the inner work in order to meet the demands of a lifelong love involves character training which requires developing the heart, conscience and a mature character.

Instructions from faith-based resources stress the difference between right and wrong and focusing on a higher purpose than themselves.

Character development would note how important relationships in the family, friends also teach lessons on the need to love.

Enriching Relationships

1. Parents and other elders

2. Siblings and friends of both sexes

Personal Character

“In the future, would you like to have a wife with a beautiful face or a beautiful mind?” Reverend Moon has asked youth. “You should have a beautiful and giving mind, and live your life centered on the mind and not on your appearance.”

Most people focus on the way a person looks or just the personality of the opposite sex when it comes to dating. Therefore, these are the same quality traits one will focus on in themselves to attract love.

After having many unsuccessful relationships, a single person can see in the end that being caring, generous and kind are the best traits to look for in a potential partner.

Also, young people should know it is unfair to expect their partner to have qualities that they do not have themselves.

A good subject partner attracts a good object partner and vice versa.

It takes a good person to appreciate another good person.

Reverend Moon has said, “No matter how good your partner is, you will not be able to see his or her value without you yourself being the best.”

Therefore, young people should concentrate on perfecting their own character before choosing an ideal partner. To find a good husband or wife is to become one yourself.

Ovid said, “To be loved, be lovable.”

When one invests daily to cultivate their own heart and character in order to be a good mate for someone else, they will attract a good person.

Such an attitude creates the habit of looking at oneself instead of the spouse when conflict arises.

When one has a good character looking for compatibility in a partner, it is wise to look for a mate that also has a quality character.

Sexual attraction and having the same interests will cause an immediate connection, but these can change. On the other hand, sharing values and having mutual respect adds for a more enduring basis for a promising marriage.

For one to maintain their chastity and have a successful marriage, requires moral strengths more than any other fact of life.

The following are key characteristics

Personal Character

1. Self-control
2. Faith in God and sense of higher purpose
3. Sense of personal worth

1. Self-control

Self-control means to delay gratification and discipline any ungodly desires.

This ability forms the basis for the mind and body to unite and to give true love. To keep one's purity, self-control is the central virtue while self-discipline is an underlining virtue to have the capacity to follow through to have a committed marriage.

One must practice obedience to one's parents and be submissive to their demands until one's own conscience's voice becomes strong enough to guide the body this is self-control.

Will power is the engine of self-control, which in turn is powered by motivation, the fruit of understanding and emotion.

To strengthen one's will involves feeding the intellect with knowledge and feed the heart with inspiration.

In order to be successful in life requires ones to focus and have determination for the goal. These two qualities also serves one who is remaining chaste in preparation for marriage.

It takes self-discipline to apply oneself to studying, to learn a new skill, to avoid drugs and alcohol when they are lonely or sad and to make good choices in love.

Now, many teenagers make a purity pledge before God, family and friends and members of their community to bolster self-control. 

Wearing a purity ring serves as a visible reminder of one's promise to not have sex until they are married. 

They can look forward the to the day that this ring is replaced with a wedding ring. It is essential for a single person to can be around others who share their same struggles and celebrate their successes and hold them accountable for all of their decisions. Their support systems can help serve as their external conscience.

“Two of my friends and I, we made a pact,” one college senior confides, “so when I feel my resolve fading, I think about my friends and I can’t let them down. We call each other up a lot and we check on each other.”

The mind is the most neglected area of self-control when it comes to purity.

The mind is the most prominent sexual organ.

Sexual expression is affected by the imagination and through learning. If one wants to remain chaste, they must avoid inflaming his or her sexual desire for anyone outside their present or future spouse.

“Each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire,” the Bible warns. “Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin.” James 1.14-15

There is a reason that Jesus declared, “Anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Matthew 5.28

A Taoist text likewise says, “when you meet a beautiful woman in another man’s home and cannot banish her from your thoughts, you have committed adultery with her in your heart.” Treatise on Response and

Retribution.

A impulsive thought is hard to control, but the following fantasy is under one's control.

Keeping the mind free and pure not only helps the maintenance of purity but it is also promotes the greatest intimacy and sexual joy in marriage.

2. Faith in God and a Sense of Higher Purpose

One who is trying to maintain their purity and prepare oneself to cultivate the spouse's realm of heart is to have faith in God.

Such faith has two dimensions: one is giving Him priority in life; love Him first.

The other dimension is that faith demonstrates love through trust and obedience. Having a relationship as the central part of one's life when the first ancestor's were to have focus on the Heavenly Father to be their primary love.

If Adam and Eve were to obey God's warning even though they couldn't understand their Father's heart, they would have not been affected to the power of selfish and illicit love when they were tempted.

This same trust in God would is needed as an anchor for their marriage and family life.

People can find power through trusting in God's truth and the promises He makes, plus trust their parent's guidance and other figures who represent Him.

Having trust that our Heavenly Parent can sustain a person through the rough times when people at home, work or school does not inspire. When they feel empty inside, God can console the 'restless heart' which Augustine referred to.

Only God fully understands one's pain and struggle.

Youth pastor Rick Stedman was tempted during the years before his marriage at age 30 to have sex.

First, he thanked God for having sexual desire which will be necessary in marriage. Then, he would pray for his friends, family members one by one who gave him love that helped him through his loneliness.

Sexual desire then becomes moments of strengthening the pastor's connection to God and to his loved ones.

Having such a strong faith means one loves God more than one's own partner and all He signifies

“Therefore, after [we] love God, love the world and love the nation,” Reverend Moon teaches, we may invest

our love in our spouse.

Paradoxically, when one places God's love as central, this ensures that one's love is true because true love is unchanging goodness and truth. Seeing through God's eyes ensures that they will have love for their future spouse that is lasting.

Having trust in God and following His ways protects one's future marriage in every way. The strongest unions are God-centered.

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Four Worlds of Heart in Family

All the evidence from the previous posts show that there is something important for human development in the very structure of the family.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon summarizes that roles in the family create a certain 'realm of heart'. This heart fostered between the relationships between mother-father, parents-children, siblings, and God and family becomes a school for love.

People learn about love through being sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers.

“The family teaches by its form,” as educator Gabriel Moran explains it.

Each realm of heart reflects an aspect of God's love.

God is the Parent of all parents. He has the absolute love that surpasses the love of even model parents. With that love He can embrace all the parents of the world. In fact, God created man from His parental love.

Without that love from God, we die.

God is always ready to give the type of love that is best suited for the person who is seeking a relationship with Him.

If we are ready for parental love from God, He is prepared to give it. If we want brotherly love, conjugal love, or the love of a friend from Him, He is ready with these.

It is so amazing and wonderful that God who is a God of love protects us in every possible relationship

When we fulfill each realm of heart (children's realm, siblings realm conjugal realm, and the parent's realm) we grow to resemble God's many-faceted love.

Each type of love that is exhibited in the family forms a world of experiences and responsibilities that becomes a matrix for the growth of heart.

Lessons in Loving Others

The family works to school people to have other-centered love through providing crucial relationships to learn from. Each realm of heart involves relating to significant others or partners in love.

In the child's ream of heart, the parents become their most significant other. The sibling's realms of heart, their brothers/sisters and peers are increasingly significant. Within the spouse's realms of heart, one has a relationship with the opposite sex who are emotionally and physically committed for the rest of one's life.

Children are the significant other in the parent's realm of heart.

True love begins with the infant responding to a parent in the child’s realm of love.

A baby is not alone in the universe. He or she is compelled to bond with others by all the forces within.

Many theorists conclude that a baby's attachment to their parent is a necessary building block of relating to others with empathy for the rest of their life.

The quality of the interactions between a parent and child is an essential love relationship that gives each a lifelong perspective on others.

When brothers and sisters interact with their siblings, this realm of heart offers a new territory where the growing child must accommodate others. He or she now shares the parents' universe with their sibilings.

One learns they must not hurt their sibling but must wait their turn and share.

In turn, the relationship of brother and sister in the family can offer joy of companionship and expand each child's love into new dimensions.

When a child must cooperate with their playmates or children at school, issues of fair play, justice, and honesty come to the foreground as he or she learns that there are yet others who need respect and accommodations.

Through experiencing the sibling's realm of heart, a child begins to relate to the world of their peers. The repertoire they obtain through these relationship expand dramatically, as well as their heart for others in society as they mature.

Maturity brings the world of the opposite sex into sharp focus.

A newlywed couple often feel that they are the only two people in the world.

This is how rich the world or realm they occupy together. It is an exclusive, intensely exciting, deeply affecting circle of relationships in which each will learn to love someone who is truly their 'other'. 

They will experience a different emotion and mental make-up than with others they encounter.

When one becomes a parent, he or she enters a realm of relationship with a child that opens up a whole new world of loving and caring.

The parent's realm of love is perhaps the most transformative relationship that resembles the heart and love of God the most closely.

With their children, parents have a dependent 'other' who needs and demands more than anyone else has demanded in a lifetime. They must be attendant to their growth. As a parent, rewards and blessings are enormous as well as anxieties and emotional taxes.

The heart grows here earnestly through other-centered love.

Grandparent's love is an extension of the parent's realm of heart. This love has its own special gifts to bestow and receive from the grandparents.

When we grow and understand the inner workings of the family through experiencing these four realms of heart, we grow to appreciate the brilliantly designed vehicle of emotional, moral and spiritual growth.

The impact of your family does not stop within its own relationships either. The lessons one learns from their interactions in the family is profound and far-reaching. It extrapolates into a person's orientation toward the rest of the world.

Ethicist James Q. Wilson said, “The family is a continuing locus of reciprocal obligations that constitute an unending school for moral instruction . . . . We learn to cope with the people of this world because we learn to cope with the members of our family.”

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook “Educating for True Love” written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy.

Meet God at Time of Worship

Why do we faithfully follow the Sabbath?

Sabbath is a Saturday to some and Sunday for other people of faith.  But why do we follow the sacred bonds set thousands of years ago?

We observe the Sabbath to bring about salvation to humankind and to find thenation of God's desire.

Christianity observed the Sabbath to elevate itself and focus its efforts on magnifying the goal of salvation.

We observe the Sabbath to promote the path to our salvation.

Furthermore, it is to increase the importance of the goal for the world to be saved.  This is God's desire.


When we worship, this is where we offer God our time.  You should atone for your past before God.  This time is a time without freedom.

 

 

 

 

The time for worship blocks the advancement of all of Satan's authority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is a time where we promis Heavenly Father that we will return the glory of victory to Him.

 

This is a place that is more serious than when we meet our enemy in battle.  When we come early for church service, that value cannot be exchanged or bought with any amount of gold.  Therefore, to come late to service is stealing from God.

 

By being on time for service, you can stand before God with dignity.

 

You come closer to heaven with a heart better than that of yesterday.

 

If you come to church late, even when you pray, you will just sit there wondering what Father will talk about?

 

When you are seeking God, can you attend church without wearing holy robes? I'm not talking about external robes. I'm talking about the holy robes of your heart.

 

If inspiration wells up within your heart during the sermon or hymns, Heaven will work with you. 

 

When Adam and Eve were expelled from Heaven, they shed tears.  Therefore, you should shed tears of joy in such a way that you can meet God with a huge smile.

 

Those who have not shed tears of God's sorrow first cannot shed tears of joy.

 

You should prepare three days before worship service with an eager heart.

 

Enter the gates of the church while passionately praying for the happiness of all the people that will gather there so that they can connect to the authority of resurrection and life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You should attend service with a heart that is full of emotion for God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even if you do this, it will not be enough.

 

Be more brazen than a traveling salesmen. For Sunday service, you should purify yourself by bathing, offering a deep bow before God and visit holy ground to pray.

 

Even if people do not show up to service, you must lay the foundation of heart that enables God to look kindly at your village and work with you.

 

You will never be lonely when you pray alone with tears in front of God; God is with you, therefore, you will never be lonely.

 

If there is no one that is restored to their Godly position from that village after you have totally devoted yourself for more than three years, that place will go to ruin.

 

 You should have invested your invisible heart and devoted for two day before coming to service.  Do not come to service thoughtlessly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The more you offer yor devotion, the more you will shine.

 

For this reason, the greater your heart is, the more Heaven will protect and shield you.

 

If a wife thinks about her husband all day with her invisible mind and smiles with her invisible face, a light of glory will shine through.

 

Such a shining, smiling face will have such a captivative power that will draw her husband near.

 

In the future, messages will be reports instead of sermons.  Families will report about the things that have made them proud.  Then the entire family will offer worship.

 

The less successful families can follow and be guided by these families.

 

In this way, the Family Kingdom of Heaven will be built. This is the way to world peace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If we do not build the Kingdom of Heaven within the family, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth cannot exist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First, be meticulous in your church life.

 

Be a good example by strictly attending service at the official hours for worship - be strict in keeping your promise to God.

 

Is it possible for someone who does not keep their promise to receive grace?  A person who is blessed who did not keep their covenant with God will eventually fall away from their godly path.

 

Set a good example by attending Sunday service and the official church gatherings.

 

Husbands and wives should come together with a loving heart so that their children will follow them because they envy their parents' devotion.

 

Come to church early and prepare for Sunday service.

 

 

 

 

Church service is a time for battling Satan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How can you sleep during such a showdown?

 

If you see such a person, you should shake him awake.

 

It is love to strike him on the side just like Jesus said, "Get behind me, Satan!"

 

 

 

 

"I will not allow anyone to sleep during service.  I should lock the doors after service begins. I do not want to gather and talk to people who come late. I gather people here and talk for two or three hours in order to raise them up to a certain standard. Only then can I maintain the standard of heart that I set while praying with determination before God."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it right for people who offer devotion to be late for service?  Such people should be ashamed so that they cannot show their faces and feel that they are the greatest sinners.

 

Such people should pledge to be on time and offer even greater devotion than others.

 

How can anyone pray, "Oh! Heaven most high!" if they do not even get to church on time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your devotion is not for others to observe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are offering devotion at church, then come to church on foot instead of car.

 

Do not just go to church and pray.  This is how you offer devotion: it is better to pray before coming and then come here to pray even more earnestly.

 

God does not randomly just visit anyone, therefore, you should at least absolutely be on time.

 

Heaven relates to those who earnestly yearn for God.

 

Time is of the utmost importance more than anything else when you come before God.  If you cannot be on time, you will fail.  Then, if you fail to connect at the right time, you will perish.

 

God demands a sanctified environment as well and the utmost pure heart.

 

But if you are not even on time, you will have to sit in the back and sing praises.  God does not want such praise.  You should keep the official time for services; then you will surely propser.

 

 

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Book Seven - Etiquette And Ceremonies
Chapter Three - Worship Service and Etiquette in Church Life
Section 2

Will Jesus Return in the Flesh?

In light of those things, do you think the Messiah should come in the flesh or just in spirit?





In the ideal world we are going to build, we will be liberated from sin both on the physical and spiritual levels, under the actual guidance of God as our parent.



The Lord must come again in the flesh to accomplish his mission of saving the physical world.

The fall began by one physical man and woman on earth and can only be rectified through man on earth.

If he comes on the clouds of Heaven, spiritually, he cannot accomplish his mission of restoring the whole world both on the spiritual and physical levels. The problem is the sin and corruption of this world, and not of heaven.



 Q. How will the Lord come at the Second Advent?

We can see through the parallels of history repeating itself that Christianity is in the same position as the elders, scribes and priests at the time of Jesus.

At that time, the people were waiting for the return of Elijah in the sky.

Why did they hold onto this kind of belief?

They were simply following the Bible prophecy written down in Daniel 7:13:

"I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him."


Because of the great prophet Daniel, the people of Israel had every reason to expect the arrival of the Messiah to return on clouds of heaven. Christians are expecting the arrival of the Lord in the same way today, in a majestic show on the clouds.

Many people were denying Jesus as this Messiah because he was in the flesh - to them an ordinary man.

John condemened these people as the anti-christ in II John 7 "...many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the decevier and the anti-christ."

How, then will Jesus in our day and age if Elijah returned through the works of Jesus?  Still today the Jewish people wait for such an arrival and deem this second coming as the first coming of Elijah.

Unless we know the whole truth, we like the people of Jesus' time may fall victim of the words of the Bible by taking them in the literal sense.

In Jesus' time, the people were waiting for the return of Elijah upon the clouds and could not accept Jesus as the Son of God.  They would say that he had a mother and father, Joseph and Mary, how could he be the Son of God?

The disciples and the faithful of Israel argued this point all of the time.

Those who believed in the letter of the Old Testament and not the spirit would miss the Messiah.


Q: Then how will the Lord appear in the last days?

Believe it or not, we are in the exact same parallel to that of the time of Jesus Christ.  If we become slaves to the letter of the New Testament, we will commit the same crime that the elders, scribes and Pharisees committed 2,000 years ago.

What would you do if the Lord did return in the flesh?  If one told you that the Son of Man already returned with flesh and bones?  You would say I was a heretic.

It does not matter how one looks at the world, a man's views, or what one thinks, what matters is how God looks at the world.

The Bible states two prophecies: arrival of the Lord on the clouds and another that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

What do you do with these two prophecies?


If the Lord comes on the clouds, then he surely can't appear like a thief  unseen in the world.  There would be a lot of attention around his arrival on the clouds and could not be hidden from anyone's eyes.




When you see the signs of the Last Days, the Bible urges you to go into a dark room and pray. Who can tell you the time of the Last Days?

The angels do not know that day. Jesus said not even the Son of man knew when that day would arrive. Only God knows the time of the Last Days.

"That is why we have our answer from God. I am not saying you must believe me. I am just revealing what I know to be the truth, but you must verify this truth with God."

Christians simply believe in the words of the Bible and that Jesus will return on the clouds and only true Christians will be lifted in the air.


That is horrendous, empty, hollow. Religion is not out there, up in the stratosphere.

I am testifying that the Lord cannot appear in that kind of supernatural fashion. Jesus Christ could not return that way because the work of God is to be done here on earth.

The mission of the Messiah is a physical, realistic one. As a man he must come up from the bottom of human misery just as Jesus had done.



He must come to the most miserable nation and lift the human status from the slave position, to the servant position, to the adopted child position and to the direct child position by physically putting together the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. That is the mission of the Messiah.

Do not rely on anyone's answer.

In the Last Days, the Bible says, do not just believe anybody. Do not believe me, and do not believe someone just because of his or her official status in church or society.

Famous leaders will not necessarily give you the guidance God would want for you. Heaven is so near, and you can be lifted up by the spirit so high, that you can speak with God and receive the answer directly from Him if you are earnest enough.

 Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." (Matt. 11:15) And he said to his disciples, "But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear." (Matt. 13:16) He was not referring to physical sense organs.

When you use your spiritual senses and listen for the Word of God, you will find His direction and guidance. But it is not easy to become a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is very difficult for a foreigner to go through the process to become a citizen of the United States.

How much more difficult it is to remove ourselves from our corrupt life and transfer ourselves into the Kingdom of Heaven. But we can achieve this very thing.

We know that even after Adam and Eve fell in the garden of Eden, they still were able to communicate directly with God.
The only way we might miss that day is if we look for the Lord to come from one direction, and he appears from another direction in an entirely unexpected manner, just as Elijah did at the time of Jesus.

This is the reason you may not see the Lord at the time of his second coming.

Another mysterious prediction was given by Jesus Christ himself He declared about the Lord at the second coming: "But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation." (Luke 17:25) If Christ at his Second Coming appears in the glory of the clouds of heaven, who would deny him?

Nobody would cause him suffering and pain. The only way this prophecy can be fulfilled is if people expect his return from the clouds and he suddenly appears as a humble man in the flesh.

Do you think that Christian leaders of today would make the same mistake that the priests and scribes and elders committed at the time of Jesus? Yes! They may very well deny him and reject him, because the manner of his coming would be very difficult for Christian leaders to accept. However, in this way the Bible will be fulfilled. He will first suffer and be rejected by this generation.

Jesus once asked a most important question: "When the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?" (Luke 18:8)

Although we do have faith today, it may be mistaken faith based on a belief which expects the Lord must come on the clouds of heaven.

There are few men or women on earth with the kind of faith ready to accept the Son of Man appearing in the flesh.

If this were not the situation, the Bible prophecy we are discussing here would not be fulfilled. Please note that Jesus did not say there would be no believers, but he said there would be no FAITH.

Jesus also said: "Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them. 'I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.' " (Matt. 7:21-23)
This prophecy cannot be realized if his second coming is on the clouds of heaven.

At the time of the second advent, people again will be crying out, "Lord, Lord." At the same time they may be in the process of trying to crucify the Messiah if he appears in a manner different from their expectations. They will then be the worst evildoers.

This is the Bible. Those who truly have eyes will see Those who truly have ears will hear. Throughout history God has sent His prophets before the time of fulfillment. He warns the people of His plan. No matter how devout Christian faith is today, no matter how many millions of people are in the Christian churches, they and their churches and their world will decline once they fail to accept the Lord, however he may appear.

This was the tragic fate of Israel and the Roman Empire when they denied Jesus Christ, regardless of their righteousness otherwise.

We must therefore also be open to a new message. Jesus Christ did not come to repeat the Mosaic Law.

Just as Jesus revealed himself with the new expression of truth, the Lord at the second advent will reveal himself with God's truth for our time.

That truth will not be simply a repetition of the New Testament.

I hope that you consider these ideas seriously, and pray to God. He will answer you.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the text, Jesus and the Second Coming God's Warning to the World -message from prison

Jesus Forgave Without Shedding His Blood

We hear often about the blood Christ without truly understanding the significance.  On day of Communion, many people of faith take in the drink of wine and bread as Jesus did with his disciples at the final supper to indicate the drinking of his blood and bread.  How much of a controversy this would have caused to many believers then.

What is the importance of Jesus' blood and why is it so misunderstood by many?

Many Christians place salvation exclusively from the blood of Jesus. This is a mistake in the sight of God.

Even before Jesus shed his blood, he already forgave others for their sins and transgressions.

Therefore, it was not necessary for Jesus to die shedding his blood to bring about salvation - it was an alternative route from God's original plan.

The Bible records the account of the prostitute who was about to be stoned.  Jesus told anyone who felt they were without sin to throw the stone at her.  In everyone's hearts, they knew they could not condemn her and they drifted away in shame.  Then Jesus spoke to the woman who was accused and told her that no one condemned her and he would not condemn her either and not to sin no more.

What does this mean scripture truly mean? By his own words Jesus offered forgiveness.

Therefore, to bring about salvation to the earth, it was not necessary for Jesus to die before completing his mission.  Jesus didn't give anyone a raincheck to come back for his forgiveness after his death.

 

 

Jesus could open the way to salvation to everyone by the Word of God.

 

God's plan of salvation does not require bloodshed by necessity.

Q. What does salvation mean?

Salvation means that living men, women and families on earth will enjoy the garden of Eden as God had intended from the beginning.

We need to realize the love that Jesus brought to this earth - not the alienation, bloodshed and his death.  His love and forgiveness should be told more often than his end.

Death came when human beings departed from God when they misused the love of God.

After the first parents fell away from God, human physical bodies remained alive.  Resurrection means to accept the word of God and to become the possessor of God's love.

What if Jesus was to appear on earth for the first time right now or on television?

Would you like to have spiritual salvation only through him being murdered and shedding his blood or would you want to have Jesus bringing about salvation with his should and body raising an exemplary Godly family to which to follow?

 

You have to reach the point where you are one with Jesus in flesh and blood.

That's why he set up the condition of the sacrament: Christians must feel they are actually eating Jesus' flesh and blood.

They should actually feel Jesus' life and love more than just eating a piece of bread.  Then they should also feel they are drinking his blood.

Salvation will not come about until that moment. 

This was Jesus' method to bring humankind out of Satan's world into God's uniting the believer through this real sense experience.

This means that Satan is cut off and humanity is engrafted to Jesus and we can feel this oneness.

There is a further vision for Christianity: people go through total salvation on the spiritual AND physical level.  What does this mean?  Jesus' body was attacked and lost by Satan, but he must return again to bring about salvation of our physical body leaving it un-attacked by Satan.  In other words, Satan attacks our body through diseases, mental illnesses and accidents. 

This is the prophecy which will be fulfilled at the time of the Lord of the Second Advent.

If this is hard to grasp, please ask seriously in your prayers guidance on these matters. Ask either Jesus Christ or God himself.

If Jesus had lived and fulfilled his primary mission of bringing the Kingdom of God on earth, Christianity would never have been what it is today.

The purpose of Jesus' coming was for the salvation of the world. The chosen people were to be God's instruments. However, salvation was not intended only for God's chosen people.

For every soul upon the face of the earth, Jesus is the savior.

He is the savior of all humankind.

Should the Messiah come to the Christian world alone, or to the whole world? What God, together with the Christians, must do is cover the whole world both on the spiritual and physical levels.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the text, Jesus and the Second Coming God's Warning to the World -message from prison

The Character of Human Beings

For the last few posts, we have tackled the question of why an all-powerful God would need to create humanity.

First, it was so He could stand in the position as a true Parent, however God is invisible even in the spirit world.

God must have form to govern the physical world and to be the center.

In order to become the parent, He created humans who have form.

Once they unite, God could govern the world through his unity with God through love.

Secondly, reproduction cannot take place in the spirit world.

The vertical line is only one dimension, but a large area can unfold horizontally based on the vertical axis with a 360-degree perpendicular rotation.

Third, it was to maintain a position for His partner to have an eternal realm of love.

Adam and Eve would not have been God's only partners.

Their children would have stood in the same position of God's partners as their parents did.

Therefore, God produced people in order to preserve His partners in perpetuity.

God's purpose in creating humankind

Since Adam and Eve called their Father, then would their children call Him uncle or grandfather?

They, too would call Him Father.

The word 'partner' implies some kind of quality.  We must multiply God's love on the horizontally plane and perfect the value of perfected love which is one.  That is equality.

First, God needed a form or shape, He chose that of a parent.  He acquired that form in order to manifest Himself as Adam's spiritual father.

Second, God needed a center to build the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.  In that case, husbands and wives are factories.  With this analogy, would a mass production or small-scale production be best?  Mass production is best.

Through these factories of husbands and wives who are able to produce massive products for the Kingdom of Heaven, women were created to bear many children.

Human beings as the interface between spiritual and physical worlds

All of creation began with God at the center.  God made all things including mankind.  Through His creation of humankind, He wanted to be in oneness with them and all of creation in equilibrium.

God was to stand in the middle between humankind and the created world.  Therefore, perfected human beings would interface between the spiritual and physical worlds.

Body and mind, and spirit self

All beings exist according to this principle of objects revolving around the subject which is similar to the give and take action between the mind and body.

We must reset this axis in line when we go the way of restoration.  The cosmos consists of an invisible and visible axis.

What is the center of your body?

Your good mind.

We have both a mind and a body.

The body is supposed to revolve around the mind and it moves according to its commands.  When the mind directs the body to move swiftly, it will do so.

Likewise, it will move in the opposite direction.  The body should not move on its own whim and fancy.

But we see today, that the majority of the population is focused on catering to just the needs of their body's desires. We see how this leads to destruction.

Above our mind is our spirit and above our spirit is God. 

The only way we can perfect ourselves is to be completely one with God's will.

We must heed our mind's direction when they are searching for their destiny.  This is heavenly law.  Even though our bodies are finite, we represent all of history and the destinies of the future.  Therefore we possess cosmic value.

God strikes those who disobey their good mind's dictates.

All throughout history, God has been teaching us to conform to our conscience and not be ensnared by the evils of the materialism.

Does our conscience correspond to heavenly law absolutely 100 percent?  It does not because there are innumerable barriers that block it.

Before we can go through the gateway of heaven is a labyrinth of challenges.  The Chrisitianity terms this as the time of judgment.

We live where the current trend of thought is ushering a time of fear, insecurity and chaos seemingly without any solutions.  We should not allow material things to encumber us.  When God created humanity, He created us with a physical self and a spirit self. The spirit was supposed to be the center.

Complete motion and resonance

When two entities vibrate at the same frequency, this creates resonance.  Our internal self, which lives for eternity, plus our external self which is to live in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, should be able to resonate centered on love.

In resonance, sound waves coincide and become intertwined while circling the center core.  Likewise, when the spirit self and the physical self harmonize with each other centered on God's love, the spiritual cells and physical cells engage in perfect motion together.

Therefore, when this resonance is created, our eyes become operational and can see everything in heaven and on earth.  This is because they are engaged in perfect motion.  A microphone's capacity is good and will resonate a hundred percent.  On the same token, if the physical self and the spirit self become one and attain a volatile state through love, then heaven and earth, God and everything else must resonate.




This mind and body unity applies to both men and women.





Since the mand and woman both have a physical and spirit self, together, they represent four entities.

On the other hand, when man and woman are divided and cannot come into unity, then they become four separate people.  Why would God create four people this way when there is such difficulty in their union?

Because originally, man and woman were to center on God's true love and they would achieve perfect unity.

We all possess a spirit self and a physical self.  The spirit self is invisible to our eyes, but it does exist. Then when do these two selves become one?  This is the problem.

It is the same with the tuning fork.  When you strike one of its prongs, then the other prongs vibrate at the same frequency.  When God's love acts upon our good mind, our body will automatically respond like the tuning fork's prongs. If this is how it is once mind and body unity is achieved, it is not God's wisdom, power, or might that will bring the two in resonance, but only through love.

What benchmark is your physical and spiritual senses longing to reach?

It is definitely not God's might nor His wisdom.  His love is the focus for everything.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter One, section two.