Ep 929 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II Part 19
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II - May 12 2023
Key Points
· Rev 21:6 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
· The beginning and the end of any truth must be the same. God is the same at the beginning, and the end.
· Those who resemble God's attributes are always unchanging.
· The Book of Genesis in the Bible talks about the hope of building the tree of life, and the last book of Revelation in the Bible says that we must bear and eat the fruit of the tree of life.
· Thus, the bible teaches, first and last, that the goal of history is the restoration of the Garden of Eden with Christ, who is to come as the tree of life, as its center.
· Then, what does it mean to bear fruit from the tree of life and eat from it? It means to receive the blessing and becoming a part of God's direct lineage.
· ‘If We Eat from the Fruit of the Tree of Life We Can Live Eternally’.
· And we can help God’s providential history progress.
· When True Father met God, he personally experienced His han, sorrow, and pain.
· That is why he lived with such a desperate mindset, survived the Heungnam prison, and overcame and triumphed over all manner of difficulties.
· In any environment of death, True Father did not die and survived like a phoenix, and lived with the desire to liberate God throughout his life.
· We humans live in an environment of hell ruled by Satan. The environment we are in is mostly prison-like, with no bars or high walls.
· No matter how challenging the course we face, there is nothing we cannot overcome if we think of True Father's course in Heungnam Prison, which was the most arduous.
· Even the Blessing can at times feel like a sentence behind bars.
· Wives who have received the blessing and entered their husbands' families must completely cross over the horizontal environment of their in-laws with the realm of the heavenly environment in mind.
· Start living a vertical life. Think of it like being sent as emissaries of True Father.
· Think of being married as a Heungnam Prison course and overcome it.
· Show an exemplary filial piety in the family, your mind will become clear and you will be able to see through everything.
· This is because a person with filial piety has a bright heart and can feel heavenly fortune.
· Any kind of filial piety, without exception, can connect to God directly.
· Therefore, as long as we have a heart of filial piety towards Heaven as True Parents' emissaries, Heaven will teach and guide us through our dreams.
· Know that your own personal journey in Heungnam prison is rather an opportunity for a bond of heart to get closest to God.
· Keep the end in sight.
· You are Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the End.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files. ♦
Today I’d like to talk about “God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II, from True Mother’s Anthology 2”.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between September 1 and October 14 during a 40-nation Victory and Complete Freedom Rally to Bring Universal Peace to the Fatherland and Hometown speaking tour.>157, 158
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II
Ladies and gentlemen, I have said that in the Age After the Coming of Heaven we must recover the true lineage that was lost when Adam fell, by receiving the marriage Blessing through the True Parents. The providence of the marriage Blessing should be perfected through five stages: the individual, the family, the tribe, the race and the nation. In this way, let us fulfill our divine mission as blessed families in the Age After the Coming of Heaven by restoring and establishing the ideal three-generation family on the world level.
This is the same purpose for which Jesus came to the earth, which he sought to accomplish before passing from this world. Therefore, the True Parents are now leading all tribal and national messiahs to unite and bring to a final end the improper relationship between the political sphere, representing the Cain realm, and the religious sphere, representing the Abel realm. With this providential Will in mind, my husband and I have declared that a second Cheon Jeong Gung Peace Palace, for the religious sphere, will be established in Geneva, Switzerland, a city with a significant history regarding the relationship between the religious and political spheres.
We are now living in the era of Cheon Il Guk after passing through the Age before the Coming of Heaven, when all indemnity has ended. In this age of Cheon Il Guk, we must recover the true lineage that was lost when Adam fell, by receiving the marriage Blessing through the True Parents.
The providence of the marriage Blessing should be perfected through five stages: the individual, the family, the tribe, the race and the nation. In this process, each blessed family's mission of the tribal messiah is the most important portion of responsibility.
Until now, we have held the Blessing Ceremony up to the tribe level, but there has been no record of a nation being restored through the Blessing at the national level. From now on, in order to bless on a national level, we have to activate the blessing more through Heavenly Tribal Messiahship. This is very important. Without fulfilling Heavenly Tribal Messiahship, we cannot have the national level Blessing. That’s why I think the main purpose of the HTM is to restore one Nation, one Sovereignty, one people through HTM Blessing.
On a worldwide level, each blessed family must restore and establish an ideal family in the realm of the three generations, and externally, they must fulfill the mission of the tribal messiah. When all blessed families complete this mission of the tribal messiah, all historical bloody struggles can be finished.
That’s why our final mission as a Blessed Family is the tribal Messiah mission. Not just only giving holy wine on the street. We really need to follow up thoroughly, and let them really become core members. Let them become a Heavenly Tribal Messiah, and multiply continuously. Through this kind of level of the Blessing, we can finally reach the national level Blessing.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Eschatology 7 Human History is the History of the Providence of Restoration 4 – The Words of the Bible
· Fourth, let us investigate this issue from the words of the Bible.
· The purpose of human history lies in the restoration of the Garden of Eden with the tree of life (Gen. 2:9) standing at its center.
· Because the first human ancestors fell, the Garden of Eden was claimed by Satan, and the way to the tree of life was blocked (Gen. 3:24).
· Human history began with Alpha and will end with Omega. At the end of history, the hope of fallen people will be to enter the restored Garden of Eden and approach the long-lost tree of life (Rev. 22:13).
· Thus, the bible teaches that the goal of history is the restoration of the Garden of Eden with Christ, who is to come as the tree of life, as its center.
If We Eat from the Fruit of the Tree of Life We Can Live Eternally
<128-304> The book of Revelation states that people will eat the fruits of the Tree of Life and live forever. Even God as well as Adam and Eve have been longing for that world. So if you hope and yearn for that world, you can enter the eternal world, the world of love. Do you understand? Do you want love without ups and downs, or love with ups and downs? Love with ups and downs. Therefore, it’s only natural that if there is a woman who loves God and her son more than her husband, she will receive love from her husband eternally. Even though she loves God and her son more than her husband, if her husband could say ‘thank you,’ Heaven will be with her. What is true love? True love is to love my husband, my wife, and my descendants with heaven and earth. The Unification Church calls this the ‘four position foundation’. Do you understand?
The book of Revelation states that people will eat the fruits of the Tree of Life and live forever. Even God as well as Adam and Eve have been longing for that world.
Then, what does it mean to bear fruit from the tree of life and eat from it? It means to receive the blessing and becoming a part of God's direct lineage, giving and receiving with true love, and living forever. In other words, receiving the Blessing, becoming a direct descendant of God, and fulfilling the four position foundation in the family. Our Divine Principle very clearly explains this.
A family with the four position foundation is to love your sons and daughters more than yourselves and love Heaven more than your husband or wife. What is True love? True love is to love one's descendants and one's husband and wife as the heavens and the earth.
The Secret to Search for a Principle
<150-56> When you search for a principle, the secret to find it is to see if the beginning and the ending are the same. If it is good, the beginning and the ending would be exactly the same. But when an invisible plus power is added to the good, it makes God’s history progress. Therefore, a person who tends to change is an evil person. That person is bound to be an offering to evil. That is an ironclad rule. Even though he had been a good person, if he kept on changing his good attitude, eventually he becomes an offering to evil. Satan works with such a strategy. Thus, if the Bible is truly the Word of God, the beginning and the ending must be the same. Fortunately, the Bible states that ‘I am Alpha and Omega.’ Those are very wonderful words. These are exactly the words that we have been waiting for.
Do you know what the secret is when you seek the Principle from True Father? It is that the beginning and the end of any truth must be the same. God is the same at the beginning and the end.
The beginning and the ending would be exactly the same. But when an invisible plus power is added to the good, it makes God’s history progress. That is why, a person who tends to change is an evil person.
Any person who keeps on changing their good attitude eventually becomes an offering to evil. No matter how good the person was at first, when that good attitude changes, that person will eventually become a victim of evil. Are you always the same person? Are you a person who is always a fickle? Are you the kind of person who decides on something and puts it into practice to the end? You need to think about it, are you changing or not? If you are changeable, at any time you can become a victim of evil, or become an offering to evil.
That’s why Satan is always changeable. Cannot keep first motivation. It is easy to change your heart and mind. Are you really doing 1 hour EDP, 3 hour EDP, whatever you determined to do, are you carrying on your reading condition? How many of you are really keeping our continental condition? Attending Morning Devotion, no matter what. We need to keep our first motivation no matter what.
If the Bible is the word of God, the beginning and the end must be exactly the same. The truth of the Bible is that it says 'I am the Alpha and Omega'. I want to have that kind of faith. I want to have Alpha and Omega faith. Alpha and Omega faith means that the beginning and the end must be the same. Even 10 years before, 10 years later. You are always a loving person, always a giving person, always embracing someone. Your attitude never changes. How can we have that kind of faith of Alpha and Omega? What is the attribute of God’s nature? Absolutely unchanging., absolutely eternal. God’s character is the character of the Alpha and Omega.
The Book of Genesis in the Bible talks about the hope of building the tree of life, and the last book of Revelation in the Bible says that we must bear and eat the fruit of the tree of life. Looking at this shows that the providence centered on the Bible is the providence led by God himself. That is why the Bible is really amazing, really God’s truth. The books of Genesis and Revelation talk about the Tree of Life. Once you make up your mind to serve God, serve True Parents and accept the Divine Principle as the eternal truth, your faith should be Alpha and Omega. Never ever betray God. Never ever betray True Parents. We cannot deny the relationship between Father and Mother no matter what. We need to attend and serve them as our eternal true parents. We need to have that kind of mindset. If we change, we easily become an offering to evil and Satan.
Revelation
• Rev 21:6 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
• Rev 22: 13 “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
I am. Not only God, not only Jesus, not only True Parents. How beautiful it is, keeping our first motivation and our loyalty until the end, never changing.
When we see the Ocean, the surface of the ocean is always changing. But when we go deeper, under the sea, it is so calm. Even though our external environment is always changing, has so many difficulties, if in our heart, we calm down, are unchanging, we can continue to the end. I really love these words: I am Alpha and Omega. Dr. Yong is Alpha and Omega. You are Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
God's attributes are not capricious. It's always the same. Therefore, those who resemble God's attributes are always unchanging. People who change eventually become sacrifices to Satan. So, you must go to the end without betraying God and True Parents until the moment you die.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY:
If You Set the Standard of Filial Piety, Heaven will Guide You in Everything
How Did True Father Live the Life of a Phoenix?
1. How did True Father live the life of a phoenix? It is because True Father, more than anyone, felt and knew God's han, sorrow, and pain. He said that the reason why True Father's life course had to be serious at any moment was because he lived with God's sorrow and han. As such, True Father could not rest even for a moment and went on the pioneering path at the forefront. True Father is a lump of han that embraces God's han, and is the manifestation of God's wish.
That is why, in any environment of death, True Father did not die and survived like a phoenix. (Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong, pp. 29, 64, 147, 175, 219) Since True Father knew God's sorrow, in all things, True Father led a life-and-death life, risk-taking. He thought that even the smallest thing was a confrontation with Satan and fought hard. Because he lived with such a desperate mindset, he survived the Heungnam prison, overcame and triumphed over all of the difficulties.
How did True Father live the life of a phoenix? What is the secret that allowed True Father to survive in the environment of so much suffering, persecution, and death?
· It is because when True Father met God, he personally experienced His han, sorrow, and pain.
· True Father knew the circumstances and han of the forlorn God and lived with the desire to liberate such a God throughout his life.
· Because True Father knew the plight of God better than anyone else, he could not rest for even a moment and walked the pioneering path at the forefront.
True Father is a lump of han that embraces God's han, and is the manifestation of God's wish. That is why, in any environment of death, True Father did not die and survived like a phoenix.
And why did True Father have such a risk-taking attitude even for the smallest things? It is because True Father treats even the smallest thing as a confrontation with Satan.
Because he lived with such a desperate mindset, he survived six prison sentences, including Heungnam Prison, overcame and triumphed over all of the difficulties.
Think of Being Married Off as a Heungnam Prison Course and Overcome It
2. When you receive the blessing and get married, there are many difficulties lurking there. Therefore, you who have received the blessed should think of being married off as the course of the Heungnam prison and overcome everything while thinking of True Father. When you receive the Blessing and go to your in-laws' house, every situation will be surrounded by horizontal environments. No one welcomes you. The in-laws are just a prison without bars and high walls. Even if your in-laws do not have prison-like bars and high walls, you are married in a horizontal environment and among people, so it is still like going to a prison without bars.
Blessed families also face many difficulties and challenges while walking the path of the will. So how can they overcome this? Some people receive blessings and get married, facing many difficulties, while others go through unbearable trials while pioneering the path of their will.
However, True Father showed us a model to overcome all those sufferings, persecutions, and difficulties before us. Therefore, no matter how challenging the course we face, there is nothing we cannot overcome if we think of True Father's course in Heungnam Prison, which was the most arduous.
When have you gone through a course of Heungnam Prison in your lifetime? Know that your journey in Heungnam prison is rather an opportunity for a bond of heart to get closest to God.
When you receive the Blessing and go to your in-laws' house or to the pioneering environment, there will be many circumstances where no one will welcome you, because every situation is surrounded by horizontal environments.
We humans live in an environment of hell ruled by Satan. The environment we are in is mostly prison-like, with no bars or high walls.
Therefore, even if we face difficulties and hardships, and sometimes are even faced with a limiting situation, when we think of True Father's journey in Heungnam prison, all of it rather becomes God's grace and becomes something for which we can thank God.
That’s why whenever we face our own Heungnam prison course, we can see an opportunity to have a heartistic relationship with God. We need to thank God, and appreciate God for giving us the opportunity to experience like True Father and we can have a closer relationship with God.
Blessed Wives Who Have to Overcome the
Prison-Like Environment
3. When a woman receives the Blessing and marry into their husband's family, all of them are treated horizontally. “You are the daughter-in-law of this family” and “You are my wife.” In a way, the wives of blessed families may feel like they are in an environment where they were kidnapped into a horizontal view of life. In Japan, our blessed families were abducted by Christian pastors, but most of our blessed wives who married in Korea, Japan, the United States, or other countries were not welcomed, so it must have been a prison-like environment.
You Have Been Sent as Emissaries of True Father
3. In such an environment, you must be grafted into the heart of God like True Father. The horizontal environment of your in-laws and your horizontal lifestyle must be completely crossed over. So, you must start living a vertical life. Think of it like being sent as emissaries of True Father. True Parents' wish for you is to go into your in-laws' house and create a vertical family centered on heaven. True Parents are the ones who wish to establish parents-in-law as vertical parents-in-law, husbands as vertical husbands, and children as vertical children.
What does it mean to set a vertical standard? The vertical standard refers to the standard for establishing filial piety. The In-laws may not know God at first. Even if you don't necessarily say the word God, if you establish this vertical standard of filial piety, they will eventually come to know God. It is God's wish that the married off daughter-in-law be filial to her parents-in-law, and the husband and wife should be filial to each other with a heart of filial piety to the parents-in-law, and to be filial to their children. (Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong. 47, 68)
Even though the environment we are in is like a prison, we should rather be grafted into the heart of God like True Father in such a place. Wives who have received the blessing and entered their husbands' families must completely cross over the horizontal environment of their in-laws with the realm of the heavenly environment.
Think of it like being sent as emissaries of True Father. True Parents' wish for us is to go into our in-laws' house and create a vertical family centered on heaven.
It is True Parents' wish for us to go into our in-laws' house and create a vertical family centered on heaven. True Parents are the ones who wish to establish parents-in-law as vertical parents-in-law, husbands as vertical husbands, and children as vertical children. What does it mean to set a vertical standard? The vertical standard refers to the standard for establishing filial piety.
The In-laws may not know God at first. Even if we don't necessarily say the word God, if we establish this vertical standard of filial piety, they will eventually come to know God. It is God's wish that the married off daughter-in-law be filial to her parents-in-law, and the husband and wife should be filial to each other with a heart of filial piety to the parents-in-law, and to be filial to their children.
So when we conquer our parents-in-law and our own parents with filial piety, even if we do not say the word God, as long as we have that kind of beautiful vertical concept centered on a filial heart, everybody at the end can know who God is. Because this comes from the original standard. That’s why any kind of filial piety, without exception, can connect to God directly. What is the Fall? Fall means becoming horizontal, humanistic, not vertical connection to God. That’s why through filial piety, we can set the standard to stand out as filial sons and daughters. To make a vertical standard we need to understand the real meaning of the heart of filial piety.
If You Set the Standard of Filial Piety, Heaven Will Guide You in Everything
4. Even if we call God our Father, we cannot all say that we are God's children. If you think of the other person as heavenly and show filial piety in an exemplary way, you are a true person. A person with filial piety has a bright heart and knows heavenly fortune. If you set the standard of filial piety, because you know you went as the emissaries of True Parents, Heaven will teach and guide you through your dreams. If you show filial piety to your parents with a heart of filial piety to Heaven, the spirit world will surely guide you and you will immediately know that the spirit world protects you.
If you think you are going to be in a dangerous environment, they will tell you in advance. And it shows both good things to come and bad things to come. Since heavenly fortune comes to those who are filial, the spirit world informs and guides them about their future. A family living vertically cannot be unaware of the future. Sometimes a magpie comes in advance and announces the coming of a guest or news.
Children who are filial to their parents are very sensitive to their parents' every move, so they know their parents' circumstances and feelings better than anyone else.
Therefore, if we show an exemplary filial piety in the family, our minds will become clear and we will be able to see through everything. This is because a person with filial piety has a bright heart and can feel heavenly fortune.
Therefore, as long as we have hearts of filial piety towards Heaven as True Parents' emissary, Heaven will teach and guide us through our dreams. If we show filial piety to our parents with a heart of filial piety to Heaven, the spirit world will surely guide us through dreams. As long as we have that kind of mindset, are very clear, and really want to love God, want to serve our parents. As long as we have that kind of right attitude and mindset, God will do everything, because our attitude is the right attitude, the right principle.
The way to be protected and be loved by Heaven is to be filial to God. If the spirit world knows that we are filial in front of Heaven, it will let us know in advance if we are about to find our self in a dangerous environment. And it shows both good and bad things to come.
Since heavenly fortune comes to those who are filial, the spirit world informs and guides them about their future. Families living vertically cannot be ignorant of the future because God teaches them. Why don’t we receive inspiration from God? Because we don’t have the mindset of filial piety, the right attitude of a filial heart. That’s why Spirit world cannot intervene, cannot guide us properly.
Today I talked about “If You Set the Standard of Filial Piety, Heaven Will Guide You in Everything”.
Thank you very much.
(Living Testimony, Mark Hernandez, ACLC & YCLC, Pilgrimage in Korea , May 2-7 2023)¨
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