Ep 659 - The Mission Of Eve Part 1
The Mission of Eve - August 15, 2022
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Key Points
Japan as the Eve nation is to fulfill the missions of a daughter, the bride, the wife, and the mother.
True Parents brought Japan up from the Eve nation to the mother nation and directly guided the providence of Japan.
True Father is very strict when he gives out a command to the Japanese leaders. However, when he comes back to his room and prays, he weeps as he thinks about the difficult situation of the Japanese members and calls out the leaders’ names one by one.
The Unification Church today would not exist if Japan had not devoted itself to the world as a mother country.
the Unification Church today would not exist if Japan had not devoted itself to the world as a mother country.
Until now, all religions have focused on personal salvation. Christians say if you believe in Jesus, you will be saved, no matter what happens to your family.
The family is the smallest unit of salvation because heaven is the world where the family is expanded.
If you focus on personal salvation, this leads to selfishness.
The door to heaven will be opened only when a religious ideology appears that can help families be saved at once.
Not only family salvation is important, but also tribal, national, human salvation, and God's liberation.
God’s concept of salvation is total salvation because the heart of a parent wants to embrace -- and thus save -- everybody without exception.
The purpose of God's providence of restoration is to resurrect our hearts by changing from an external environment to an internal environment and from an internal environment to a more internal environment.
True Father discovered that Jesus’ disciples could not have a life-changing experience through Jesus’ word. They only followed him externally and not at the risk of their lives.
If we realized that our parents truly value us and love us more than themselves, we would feel a sense of Hyojeong and become a filial son or daughter.
If you know how much God, True Parents and your parents value you, you will be prepared to die for them as their child and make sacrifices for them. You will realize that you are the one who must return joy and Hyojeong to them.
Your daily life should be enthusiastic and bear the fruits of love.
We must always cherish the motives associated with Heaven and return to them the fruit of joy. We must not miss the time that is approaching us, and we must grow and bear fruit according to that time.
If you know your own value and how much God loves you, you can have an incredible life-changing experience.
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.♦
I truly miss all of you.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Mission of Eve” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at rallies held in Japan between September 18 and 24, 1991>Beloved Japanese members! May God and True Parents' blessings be with your families. As a mother, when I was observing from the sidelines, I thought about many things as I watched True Father meet with the leaders of the Japanese movement. Every time True Father emphasized the mission of Eve to the Japanese members, I felt very close to the Japanese members. This is because I am also an Eve. If the Lord of the Second Coming is the Groom then Eve is the Bride. And Christianity, as the original bride, should have taken responsibility for Eve's mission. However, Christianity opposed Father. Therefore, the bride betrayed the groom. That is why True Father is sorrowful. Without any foundation, he had to go through the 40 year worldwide wilderness course all alone. True Father had to search for a Bride again. That is how he came to establish the Worldwide Unification Church in place of worldwide Christianity. And furthermore, Japan was chosen as the Eve nation. Even the fact that there are more Japanese blessed families than Korean blessed families is because True Father chose Japan to be the Eve nation and blessed her as the nation of the bride.
This is why Korea, which is the providential Adam nation, and Japan are in a relationship bound by destiny and must unite. I am sure you are very well aware that the providence of the international marriage Blessing between Koreans and Japanese is the providential bridge that will connect these two nations. Also please remember that the Koreans living in Japan have an important role to play in the restoration of the Adam nation and the reunification of North and South Korea. Eve is in the position of the bride as well as those of the daughter and mother. Therefore, Eve has the mission of the bride, daughter and mother. That is why Father has called on you to dedicate yourselves and be responsible for the economic aspect of world restoration. You have been called to a position of sacrifice before God and True Parents, to attend them wholeheartedly and offer up everything you have.
True Father has continuously emphasized economic restoration and fundraising to the Japanese members, asking them to take on a lot of responsibility. True Father is very strict when he gives out a command to the Japanese leaders. He does not budge or give in. However, when he comes back to his room and prays, he weeps as he thinks about the difficult situation of the Japanese members. One by one, he calls out the names of the leaders who are responsible for Japan's providence of restoration and prays for them in tears. He offers unending devotions in support of the Japanese members. To her parents, a daughter will always be a source of joy and comfort. Even when the parents are tired and worn out, the daughter's bright and cheerful demeanor melt away the parents' fatigue. In the same way, Japanese members are the representatives that can stand in the position to return joy and comfort to God and True Parents. Please don't forget this. A mother will endure any sacrifice if it is for the sake of her child. Those of you who have given birth may know this, but who else other than the mother will be willing to bear the pain of childbirth? This demonstrates the sacrificial nature of a mother's love.
True Parents appointed the nation of Japan as Eve’s nation and emphasized Eve's mission a lot. They said that Eve's mission is to fulfill the mission of a daughter, the mission of the bride, the mission of a wife, and the mission of a mother. They brought Japan up from the Eve nation to the mother nation and directly guided the providence of Japan.
True Mother said, “True Father has continuously emphasized economic restoration and fundraising to the Japanese members, asking them to take on a lot of responsibility. True Father is very strict when he gives out a command to the Japanese leaders. He does not budge or give in. However, when he comes back to his room and prays, he weeps as he thinks about the difficult situation of the Japanese members. One by one, he calls out the names of the leaders who are responsible for Japan's providence of restoration and prays for them in tears. He offers unending devotions in support of the Japanese members.”
Our True Father is such a heartistic person. Even though externally he would order Japanese members to fulfill their portion of responsibility, when he came back to his room and prayed, he wept a lot. That was Father’s heart.
In the meantime, Japan worked hard and made great sacrifices for the world providence. It is no exaggeration to say that the Unification Church today would not exist if Japan had not devoted itself to the world as a mother country.
However, as you are well aware, the Japanese Unification Church is experiencing indescribable persecution and difficulties due to the assassination of Shinzo Abe. Just as persecution is proportional to blessing, I hope that the Japanese church will soon overcome these difficulties and become a more developed church.
Beloved members, I ask that you give a lot of prayers and devotion to the Japanese members and for Japan’s providence.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 63 - Heaven and Hell (2)
• It is not God who decides whether a person's spirit enters heaven or hell upon his death; it is decided by the spirit himself.
• Humans are created so that once they reach perfection they will fully breathe the love of God. Those who committed sinful deeds while on earth become crippled spirits who are incapable of fully breathing in the love of God. They find it agonizing to stand before God, the center of true love, and choose to dwell in hell of their own will.
• Since the human spirit can grow only in the soil of the physical self, the multiplication of human spirits takes place at the same time that the multiplication of physical selves occurs: during earthly life.
Father’s word:
The Final Religion That Mankind Longs for
<41-341> Today’s Christians are saying that you can be saved and go to Heaven as long as you believe in Jesus. They all say that they will go to Heaven alone, don’t they? There are not many people that say that they will bring their parents with them to Heaven. From now on, religion cannot focus on the salvation of the individual. The true religion established by God would have to be one that is universal and can prosper until the very end. For a religion to become the ultimate religion that humankind longs for, it cannot stand for only the individual to go to Heaven alone. The individual must not present himself alone. He must present himself together with his mother and father. Only if the entire family, including the tribe, all present and submit themselves, are they able to enter Heaven all together
A Religion That Saves the Family Must Come Forth
<41-341> They say that if you believe in Jesus, you can go to Heaven; but who are they saying goes to Heaven? The individual goes, correct? Until today, there has been no religion that says that you can bring your parents and your family with you to Heaven. Until now, religion has mainly been focused on the individual. But now, a religion needs to come forth that states that you need to enter Heaven together with your family. Only when a religious ideology can save the whole family together can the doors to Heaven be opened. Until now, religion has depended on the individual, on personal salvation likable to becoming the President, which only one person can do. That is why the religious world has always emphasized the single life. They say that having a family is the enemy. Jesus also said that the family is the enemy, right?
Until now, all religions have focused on personal salvation. For example, from the Christian view of salvation, even if you are a member of a family, if you believe in Jesus, you will go to heaven and if you do not believe, you will go to hell. All other religions focus on personal salvation.
However, the view of salvation that the Principle is teaching humankind today is that the family is the smallest unit of salvation. This is because heaven is the world where the family is expanded. In a family, there is parental love, conjugal love, sibling’s love, and children's love. And in order to experience these four types of love, three generations must live together. Otherwise, we cannot know the world of God's love and heart. Heaven is a world where only those who have fully experienced God's love can enter.
You can never reproduce alone. In order to live on earth and multiply heaven, a married couple must become one and establish a family. Therefore, personal salvation cannot multiply the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, if you focus on personal salvation, you focus on your own salvation first, so it is easy to lead to selfishness.
Then, if there is a final religion that God desires, what kind of religion should it be? We must come forth advocating family salvation. We must assert the heaven where families go together. The door to heaven will be opened only when a religious ideology appears that can help families be saved at once.
The reason why celibacy has been emphasized in the Old Testament and New Testament ages is that True Parents who can show the model of the ideal family did not exist. But now is the era of the fruit of love. Love is not possible when you’re alone. It is only possible as a couple.
No religion or saints have ever cried out for or insisted on family salvation. The Unification Church speaks not only of family salvation, but also tribal salvation, national salvation, human salvation, and God's liberation.
That is why Unification Church salvation is what? Total salvation. No one left over. How beautiful it is. How can we understand that God’s concept of salvation is total salvation? Very simple. If we really believe that God is our parent and we are children of God, then what is the heart of the parent? He wants to embrace everybody. He wants to save everybody without exception. That is why Father speaks about “total salvation.” The concept of salvation only comes from centering on the parents’ heart. If we only believe that God is almighty, omniscient, all powerful, we do not connect to God heartistically, to his relationship (with us) of parent to child, then maybe we only believe in individual or personal salvation. “God is almighty. He can do whatever he wants. He can do anything.”
Actually it is not like that. It is incredible that God is the parent of humankind. We are children of God. God has heart, and the children have heart. No matter what, we want to serve our parent, and our parent, no matter what, wants to save each human being. Do you understand?
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A Person who Knows Their own Worth Right Away Is a Person who Grows
The Reason We Study the Word
1. The reason Jesus died on the cross is because even though he tried to make his disciples people of the Word by putting the seed of the Word that can overcome death into their hearts, that didn't happen. Jesus would not have gone to the cross if his disciples had first believed in their hearts that they were God’s sons and were able to go forward with the Lord at the risk of life and death under any circumstances. The reason we study the Word is that we can find our original self through the Word. We can resurrect ourselves by finding our original self through the Word. Possessing the Word in this way will activate the ability to grow yourself.
The purpose of God's providence of restoration is to resurrect our hearts by changing from an external environment to an internal environment and from an internal environment to a more internal environment.
However, the many miracles and wonders of Jesus should have created a more internal transformation for his disciples and people who followed him, so they would realize who Jesus was, and what kind of heart, will, and desires he had. But they did not realize that, and they all stopped at the external level.
The reason Jesus died on the cross is because even though he tried to make his disciples people of the Word by (planting in them) the seed of the Word that can overcome death, that didn't happen.
When the Word enters into us and becomes life, it reveals the power of resurrection that makes us grow. This is the power of the Word.
The power of the word is so strong, so stimulating. You can overcome anything. This is the power of the word.
If the disciples of Jesus fully realized his value through his words, they would have made the determination to go forward with the Lord at the risk of life and death under any circumstances, and in the end Jesus would not have gone to the cross.
The reason we study the Word is that we can find our original self and resurrect our hearts through the Word.
That’s why the word is very important.
When Father met Jesus, he found out that the main problem of Jesus’ disciples was that they could not have a life changing experience through Jesus’ word. They only followed Jesus externally. They saw Jesus’ miracles and wonders. But originally God’s providence was (that they pass) from an external environment to an internal environment and from an internal environment to a more internal environment. Then finally they needed to change their heart.
But they stopped centering on an external level. They did not come an internal and more internal heart. That was the problem.
We need to know why we need to study God’s word. We need to resurrect and cultivate our heart and find our original selves and resurrect our heart through the word and realize that “God is our parent and I am a child of God” and have a beautiful heartistic relationship (with God). If we really (discover) the value(?) between God and human beings, we can overcome any problems and issues.
Parents Value Their Children More Than Themselves
2. We were born through True Parents. Parents value their children more than themselves. In that sense, even if we are fallen descendants, as long as we are born through True Parents, we are all precious beings. Looking from the parent-child relationship, True Parents value us more than themselves. The same is true for a family. A child born into any family is more valuable than their parents. Of course, you may not know this. But parents know that their children are more important than themselves. Therefore, what we need to realize in our life of faith is how much our parents value us. So, if you focus on your parents’ wishes, you will come to realize that you are the one who must repay them.
Very special content actually. One of the great attributes of true love is that you want your partner to be better than you. God created human beings and values them more than Himself.
What would happen if we realized that our parents value their children more than themselves? Everyone would feel Hyojeong to repay their parents for their kindness and love. If you truly, deeply realize how much your parents love you, you will find the Hyojeong, that you can't help but become a filial son or daughter.
Therefore, if we can truly experience how much God loves us in our faith course, we cannot help but love Him. If Adam and Eve had known how much God loved them, they would never have fallen and would not have had give and take with Satan.
So we have something to think about often. What am I really thankful to God for? I really need to think about what I am thankful for from True Parents. Just by thinking about what we should be thankful for to God and True Parents, we can see how much they love us.
This is important.
We do not realize how much God loves us, how much our physical father and mother love us, so we cannot be God’s and our parents’ filial sons and daughters.
What is the most important (thing to) realize? How much God and my parents love me. God’s wish is that I be better than he. True Parents and Jesus ask me to be better than they are. Is this really true? Is this really the Principle? If you know parents’ wishes, you can have life-changing experiences.
How to Live an Ambitious Life
3. If you know how much your parents value you, you will know that you must return joy and Hyojeong to your parents who value you. And you realize that you must return joy to your parents by enthusiastically doing the work assigned to you. When the desire of Hyojeong comes out to return joy and longing for Heavenly Parent, who is the cause, you will be motivated. A person who centers on the wishes of their parents and are motivated to be filial to them will be able to do everything with enthusiasm. Therefore, we should become people who know what is important to us and know our worth right away. Then that person grows.
If you know how much your parents value you, you will be prepared to die as a child for your parents who value you and make sacrifices for them. You will realize that you are the one who must return joy and Hyojeong to them.
If it is true that God loves me more than His life, more than the moon, the sun, the sea, countless stars, and the universe, what would you do?
If you really realize and experience that God really loves me more than himself, more than anything else, if you really realize that and experience that, then what would you do?
If such a love of God is not an idea but a fact, what kind of heart would you have toward God?
When we realize that God loves us so much, we realize that every human being must do the work given to them and return joy to Heavenly Parent, True Parents, and their parents.
When the desire of Hyojeong comes out to return joy and longing for Heavenly Parent, who is the cause, you will be motivated. A person who centers on the wishes of their parents and is motivated to be filial to them will be able to do everything with enthusiasm. Therefore, we must become people who grow well by realizing how much God loves us and treats us as precious.
This content is so important! If I really realize this is really reality: God really loves me more than himself, if I really realize that, then I can die for him at the risk of my life. If True Parents truly love me in such a way, more than themselves in this way, I can give my life for True Parents. If my father and mother treat me as more precious than themselves, I can offer my life, I can die any time for my father and mother.
If this is really true, if this is really reality, then what would you do? This is a very important understanding and realization.
That is why when you wake up every morning and think about God, “how much he loves me,” if you realize this, then what should you return to God? So far what kinds of things have True Parents provided for me and invested for me? When you realize this, then “(I must offer) my entire life at the risk of my life. I can do anything for True Parents. True Parents, you are the ones who taught me that God is alive, God is our parent, I am his child. You are the one who gave me an eternal blessing, eternal salvation. You gave me 3 children and a beautiful spouse. Heavenly Father, that is already enough.”
All that remains is my portion of responsibility. What is that? How can I return my joy and hyojeong to God and True Parents?
This is an important realization: How much God and True Parents love me!
Cherish the Motives Associated With Heaven
4. God is unmistakably an absolute being, a righteous being, and love. Then, with the conviction that we too are undoubtedly children of God, we must always be just in our lives and become the substance of love. If God and True Parents have a desire for their children, then we the children must also bear fruit in time. Therefore, we must always cherish the motives associated with Heaven and return to them the fruit of joy. For that reason, I am not the one who should be affected by certain results or circumstances, but rather gain strength and triumph because of causes related to God. So, as we face the moment that comes every day, we must not miss each moment and become fruitful.
God is unmistakably an absolute being, a righteous being, and love. Then, we must have the conviction that we, too, are undoubtedly children of God. In any situation, you must have the heart to live for the sake of God and die for the sake of God.
Therefore, we must always cherish the motives associated with Heaven and return to them the fruit of joy. For that reason, I am not the one who should be affected by certain results or circumstances, but rather gain strength and triumph because of causes related to God.
So, your daily life should be enthusiastic and bear the fruits of love. We must not miss the time that is approaching us, and we must grow and bear fruit according to that time.
Therefore a person who knows their own worth right away is a person who grows
Wow! When I prepared this content, I cried. When I know how much God loves me, how can I complain to God? How can I betray True Parents? I can’t do that.
When I see my own physical father and mother – of course they have many lacks and weak points – when I know how much they love me and that their desire is that I be better than themselves, when I realize that, I am extremely grateful to my own physical father and mother, no matter what. Because of them I met God and True Parents, and I came to the United States to serve America... and the world. I am so grateful.
You need to know your own value and how much God loves you. If you realize that, you can have an incredible life-changing experience.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Denthew Learey, Blessed Culture and Sports Festival - BCSF)♦
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