Ep 930 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II Part 20
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II - May 13 2023
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Key Points
· The Tree of Life that was lost in Genesis is said to return as the Tree of Life in the Last Days.
· So if the Tree of Life was lost, it must be restored.
· Something that came from a seed must inevitably return to the seed.
· A sprout sprung from a seed must always grow upwards, not downwards.
· Evil seems to begin large, but it gradually becomes smaller. But good seems to begin small at first, yet it grows larger as it goes on.
· The reason the doors to our hearts have not been opened so far is because our lives so far have not been sincere but false, and we have lived centered on ourselves.
· If our hearts are sincere, the doors to our hearts will surely open.
· So, always live while focusing on where your heart is heading.
· While practicing a life of faith, those who have a strong concept of “me,” and who are bound by habits, form, and existing traditions, are not even aware when God comes to them.
· We need to get rid of preconceived notions.
· When Rev. Lee was an evangelist in the Presbyterian Church, he received a revelation that the Lord would come to Pyongyang, North Korea.
· After joining the church and meeting and following Father, He gradually began to know about God’s Will, circumstances, heart, and Jesus’ circumstances.
· He realized that no one could reveal such teachings unless they are the Second Coming. So, in the end, he knew that Father came as the Third Adam.
· And he realized that the spirit world will teach everything to anyone if the doors to their hearts are opened.
· If the doors to our hearts are opened, Heaven will let us know what our mission and responsibility is.
· We need to bring our bodies to submission through jeongseong. If we are unable to dominate our bodies, it becomes a tool to Satan and the doors to our heart will never be opened.
· If you live thinking of the heart as the subject partner, you are bound to have a heartistic exchange with God.
· This is because the heart belongs to God.
· Dr. Yong’s hope is that America, as the elder son nation, can bring one nation to be God’s Cheon Il Guk, and help to bring True Mother’s wish of a unified Korea come true.
· That is why he has been focusing on the Dominican Republic. It has the potential to create a beautiful environment and stimulate the Korean peninsula to restore North Korea and South Korea to become one nation.
· How happy that would make True Mother.
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.>159, 160
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II
The Mongolian Peoples' Federation, representing 74 percent of the world’s population, should bear in mind that the providential age is now upon us in which the federation should fulfill its duties by restoring the world through the marriage Blessing on the world level. This will bring to a close the conflict between Cain and Abel, which had its beginning within humanity's first family. Ladies and gentlemen, the providential time has now come when we have the mission to unite the two sons, Cain and Abel.
It is by their mother's love that they can become one. Then, having recovered their original positions, they should dedicate the restored, original, ideal family before the True Parents, the King and Queen of Cosmic Peace. Please take to heart and engrave this in your mind: You are living at a time when God gives you the mission—through restoring the true, ideal family—to offer before Heaven the realm of the sibling love and the right of ownership that were given over to Satan through the Fall of our human ancestors.
Please become true princes and princesses who live in attendance to God as your True Parent, for He is the Peace King of the multitudes. Let us build the everlasting peace kingdom by attending the True Parents, who have become the King and Queen of Cosmic Peace. Let us build the world of eternal liberation and freedom, where there is no need for a Savior, Messiah or Second Advent of the Lord, and fulfill the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters of God.
In so doing, let us inherit True Parents' victory, their completion of the restoration through indemnity of the realm of three generations, that we may perfect the original world that existed before the Fall! Let us establish model ideal families to bring the complete settlement of the cosmic ideal realm of liberation and complete freedom. This will be the kingdom of goodness in which we can enjoy absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal peace and prosperity. It will become the homeland of cosmic peace, exalted in praise for all eternity! May God's blessings be upon your family, your nation and the world for all eternity! Thank you.
Among some of the important points that True Parents spoke about, they told us to bear in mind that present age is the age to restore the world through the marriage Blessing on the national level.
When I was the continental director of Asia Pacific, through HTM activities in Cambodia, Nepal, the Philippines, and Thailand, I realized that the age to give the Blessing on the national level had arrived. At that time, thanks to the winds of HTM Blessings, we were able to hold Blessing ceremonies in each nation with the support of the government. It was a really incredible time.
Now is the time to unfold the providence from top to bottom, knowing that we have ushered in a time when we can truly give the Blessing on the national level on top of the indemnity that True Parents paid on the cosmic level and their victorious foundation if we find and restore the John the Baptist prepared by Heaven.
Therefore, the time has come for Heaven to work in amazing ways if America also goes out with the vision of national restoration by meeting the John the Baptist figures of different denominations and major private organizations prepared by Heaven in each region.
As you know, recently I went to the Dominican Republic. There are many reasons why I needed to go to the Dominican Republic. As an elder son nation, in order to restore the nation of Korea, creating unity between North and South Korea, we need to know how to help it take place.
Whenever I think of True Mother’s heart and Mother’s wish, I really want to offer one nation, with the cooperation of American brothers and sisters as the elder son nation., to become God’s Cheon Il Guk. How happy that would make True Mother. And it could stimulate the Korean peninsula and create a beautiful environment to restore North Korea and South Korea to become one nation. That’s why I center on the Dominican Republic to be a potential nation to become Cheon Il Guk.
Before restoring North Korea and South Korea, America can show one model as a Cheon Il Guk. Many American brothers and sisters can go to the Dominican Republic and then we can fulfill the Tribal Messiah Mission as well. And it is also a good place to raise our second generation. So I really think and pray about that. How, as an elder son nation, we can substantially help our True Mother’s providence.
True Mother’s wish is to offer one nation as God’s nation. That is why I went to the Dominican Republic.
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.
Alpha and Omega Centered on the Tree of Life
<195-140> Since the beginning and the ending of the Bible are the same, God’s ideology must be the same from the beginning to the end as well. You will realize it if you read Genesis and Revelation in the Bible: the beginning and the ending. Any scriptures in the world must be the same in the beginning and the ending. Otherwise, it is not truth. The same is true of our Principle. No matter how nice the Principle is, unless it is in accord with Reverend Moon, it is false. Therefore, that is the secret. What is the reference point of good and evil? It is if the beginning and the ending are the same or not. It is clear that Genesis and Revelation are exactly the same. Therefore, it is true. There is no need to even read it all. Thus, since these kinds of contents were entangled with complicated circumstances, the providence of salvation must progress through the course of restoration.
How the Principle Emerged
<195-140> Reverend Moon didn’t find out the Principle only with the Bible. If Genesis corresponds to the chapter about the Fall, Revelations corresponds to the chapter about the Principle of Restoration. So if the Tree of Life was lost, it must be restored. Otherwise, the Bible is false. Why? Something that came from a seed must inevitably return to the seed. That is according to the laws of nature. A sprout sprung from a seed must always grow upwards, not downwards. It must always be so. In this regard, the teaching of the Principle, based on the deductive method, corresponds with the providential perspective. As long as God is alive and unfolds the Will of providence centered on love, the world must inevitably enter a unification era based on the sphere of culture.
The real truth must be like Alpha and Omega. If you look at Genesis and Revelations in the Bible, the Bible begins with the Tree of Life and ends with the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life that was lost in Genesis is said to return as the Tree of Life in the Last Days. The beginning and end of the Bible are exactly the same. From that perspective, we cannot deny that the Bible is the truth.
In this regard, the teaching of the Principle corresponds with the providential perspective. Therefore, in conclusion, as long as God is alive, we must inevitably enter a unification era based on God’s Will and according to the providential perspective.
Any scriptures in the world must be the same in the beginning and the ending. Evil seems to begin large, but it gradually becomes smaller. But good seems to begin small at first, yet it grows larger as it goes on. Then what is the reference point of good and evil? The beginning and end must be the same, and the end must become a plus to the beginning.
Seeing that the contents of the Bible are the same in the beginning and the end, this is undoubtedly God’s principle and truth. Otherwise, you can know that it can never be the truth of the world.
Until now, the world’s concept of good and evil has changed according to situation, politics, and rulers. This is not eternal truth. Since God is eternal, unchanging, and absolute, His Truth must also be eternal, unchanging, and absolute.
Even people dislike those who change all the time. A person’s determination they made at the beginning must be unchanging from beginning to end. No matter what they do, they must do so without becoming fickle. In that sense, don’t you think that God is with us in doing our Morning Devotion?
What do you think? We need to always be the same, and not just that, you need to add more, more plus, plus, plus, and grow
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY:
Open the Doors to Your Heart
1. We have entered the way of the Will and have been walking on the indemnity course until now. And we have heard numerous Words. But then why haven’t the doors to our hearts opened? I believe that is not that the doors to our hearts don’t open but that we haven’t known how to open the doors to our hearts. Since we have attended church habitually and perfunctorily, the doors to our hearts do not open.
Why did you all join the Unification Church? You joined without even realizing it yourselves, right? You all joined by the benefits of heavenly fortune. When you joined the Unification Church, did you accurately know something about the Unification Church? Before joining the church, did you know what kind of person True Father was? Most people had no clue at all. Since we didn’t know the spiritual world, there would be no way we would know about True Father.
Even while going on the way of God’s will for a long time, why haven’t the doors to our heart opened so far? What is the problem with the doors to our heart not opening and what is the secret to opening the doors to our heart?
The first reason the doors to our heart haven’t opened is because our lives so far have not been sincere but false. The doors to our hearts will open if our hearts are sincere. Secondly, while practicing a life of faith, we are always bound by habits, form, and existing traditions.
Thirdly, it is because our spirit is unable to dominate our body and becomes a tool to Satan. Thus, if we cannot dominate our body, the doors to our heart will never be opened.
Therefore, we must always live our life of faith centering on the mind. In other words, we need to live putting our heart at the center. If you live, thinking of the heart as the subject partner, you are bound to have a heartistic exchange with God. This is because the heart belongs to God.
In the 1940s and 1950s in Korea, people who were prepared by Heaven received revelations that the Lord will come to Korea. People who received such revelations from God were those whose doors to their hearts were open and always offered prayers and sincere devotion.
At this time, through Rev. Yo Han Lee’s testimony, let’s find out how God works in people whose heart’s doors are opened.
Receiving the Revelation that the Second Coming Came to Korea (Rev. Yo Han Lee’s testimony)
2. “I learned about True Father through the Bible. If there was another reason, it was because the spirit world taught me. I didn’t really know what kind of person Father was, but when I was an evangelist in the Presbyterian Church, I received a revelation that the Lord would come to Korea. The spirit world told me that God had sent the prepared Lord to Pyongyang, North Korea. Although I received this revelation, I did not know who he was in detail. I had no idea what mission he came to Korea with.
After joining the church and meeting and following Father, I gradually began to know about God’s Will, circumstances, heart, and Jesus’ circumstances. And I learned about God’s Words that were not in the Bible. In Christianity, all words that are not in the Bible are considered words of heresy. However, Father revealed and proclaimed everything that was not previously said in the Bible. As I heard the Principle, I questioned who in the world True Father was to know all these things. I came to a realization that no one could reveal such teachings unless they are the Second Coming. So, in the end, I knew that Father came as the Third Adam.”
“It’s not that I understood the Principle by directly receiving a revelation from God. As I heard the Principle, I gradually came to understand Biblically and providentially. Is there anyone among you who found out what kind of people True Parents are because your spiritual eyes were opened? How many people came to our church after spiritually receiving a revelation beforehand that the Second Coming would come to Korea? Before hearing the Principle, you didn’t know why the Lord came to Korea, did you?
At that time, some Christians received revelations and knew about where the Lord would (come). How did they know? Since they were people whose doors of their hearts were opened, they knew that the Lord would come. Through surrounding people who said that the Lord came to Korea and were preparing for him and through my own experiences, I knew that the spirit world will teach everything to anyone if the doors to their hearts are opened.”
What is the secret to Rev. Yo-han Lee receiving a revelation from God and having been able to meet True Father? At that time, some Christians received revelations and knew about where the Lord would. Then how did they know? Since they were people whose doors of their hearts were opened, they knew that the Lord would come.
Is there anyone among you who found out what kind of people True Parents are because your spiritual eyes were opened? How many people came to our church after spiritually receiving a revelation beforehand that the Second Coming would come to Korea? Before hearing the Principle, you didn’t know why the Lord came to Korea, did you? According to Rev. Yo Han Lee’s experience, he said that he realized that the spirit world will teach everything to anyone if the doors to their hearts are opened. However, those who have a strong concept of “me,” have preconceived notions, are bound by existing doctrines and traditions, and live habitual lives are ostracized without even knowing that God comes to them.
Then how did you all join the Unification Church? You joined without even realizing it yourselves. You all joined by the benefits of heavenly fortune. Because of good ancestors, we became chosen to connect to the Unification Church and get to know True Parents.
When you joined the Unification Church, did you accurately know something about the Unification Church? Before joining the church, did you know what kind of person True Father was? Most people had no clue at all. Since we didn’t know the spiritual world, there would be no way we would know about True Father.
If the Doors to Your Heart Are Opened, Heaven Will Let You Know Your Mission
3. Since you have not experienced the doors to your heart being opened, after receiving the Blessing, you do not know why you came to America, Japan, Korea, or some other country you don’t know well. If the doors to your heart are not opened, you do not understand the precious value of your partner. Because of that, don’t you ignore and fight between husband and wife?
If the doors to your heart are opened and your spiritual eyes are opened, you will know the precious value of your spouse, and even if you try to fight, you will not be able to. Why did you come to your husband’s home? If the doors to your heart are opened, Heaven will let you know what your mission and responsibility is right away. And Heaven will tell you what you came to do in your husband’s country. You will realize that you came to your husband’ family and country with God and True Parents’ wishes.
Why do you have conflicts while living a life of faith? Why do you fight between husband and wife and brothers and sisters, and why do conflicts arise between Cain and Abel? If the doors to my heart are opened, I would know God, the spirit world, and the value of my spouse and me, so there can be no fights.
Since you have not experienced the doors to your heart being opened, after receiving the Blessing, you do not know why you came to America, Japan, Korea, or some other country you don’t know well.
If the doors to your heart are not opened, you do not understand the precious value of your partner. Because of that, don’t you ignore and fight between husband and wife? If the doors to your heart are opened and your spiritual eyes are opened, you will know the precious value of your spouse, and even if you try to fight, you will not be able to.
If the doors to our hearts are opened, Heaven will let us know what our mission and responsibility is right away. There would be no need to worry about the path that lies ahead of us. Since God will guide us in detail, we will be amazed by God’s guidance and works and just have a heart of gratitude.
The reason the doors to our hearts have not been opened so far is because our lives so far have not been sincere but false, and we have lived centered on ourselves. If our hearts are sincere, the doors to our hearts will surely open.
Next, do not let our lives be bound by existing formality, conventionality, habits, and traditions. Because the Jewish people were bound by the laws of the Old Testament, they could not recognize Jesus and nailed him to the cross. So, we should always live while focusing on where our hearts are heading towards.
Next, we must always overcome our physical body through prayer and jeongseong. If the mind and body are in conflict, God can never come to us. The people who received revelations that the Lord had come to Korea were people who offered sincere devotion while offering more than three thousand bows a day.
We need to bring our bodies to submission through jeongseong. Therefore, if we are unable to dominate our bodies, it becomes a tool to Satan and the doors to our heart will never be opened.
Therefore, we must always live our life of faith centering on the mind. In other words, we need to live, putting our heart at the center. If we live thinking of the heart as the subject partner, we are bound to have a heartistic exchange with God. This is because the heart belongs to God.
Today we learned How to Open Our Heart.
Thank you very much.
(Living Testimony, Buddy Rigsbee & Kohwa Shirotori, Korea Blessing 2023)¨
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. 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. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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