Ep 824 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint Of The Principle Part 11
The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle - January 26, 2023
Key Points
While the hand of Tamar’s son Zerah emerged from her womb first, making him the elder son, her son Perez “fought” with him and was born first.
The restoration of the external lineage was accomplished centering on Esau and Jacob, but the restoration of the lineage was needed on a more internal level.
God's method of restoration is always from the external to the internal, and from the internal to the more internal.
Perez and Zerah accomplished the more internal restoration of the lineage through their “fight” in Tamar’s womb.
Because Satan could not invade this condition, it became the foundation for Jesus’ birth.
In order not to commit sin, we should avoid creating a common base with Satan by continually monitoring our thoughts and environment, attending Abel, living with God’s word, praying, experiencing God’s heart and acknowledging that we belong to God.
While the Blessing and Three-Day Ceremony are external conditions to remove our original sin and change our lineage, because the original sin was committed by husband and wife, the husband and wife must take responsibility for each other's fallen nature and clear up the original sin.
The Messiah's absolute and exclusive authority lies in the forgiveness of all current and historical sins on earth and in the spirit world.
Hypocrisy is the difference between the outside and the inside.
Abel has a filial heart and attends his parents, his Abel or his central figure as “absolute.” Cain lacks these qualities and is prone to hypocrisy.
In the Age of Faith believers like young children, clung to God pleading for help and blessings, while in the Age of Attendance as mature filial sons and daughters we comfort God’s sorrow, seek to liberate him and take responsibility for his dreams and wishes.
In the Age of Attendance we bear not only our own cross but that of the nation, humankind, True Parents, and God.
In order to bear the cross of the han of God and True Parents, we blessed couples need to become one and treat each other as God.
We should repent that we have not fulfilled this yet.
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.♦
Everyone, did you enjoy watching the True Parents' birth celebration yesterday evening? I was really happy to see True Mother in good health. Her speech was very short but very meaningful. Maybe someday I would like to share Mother’s word. Once again, we all sincerely congratulate our True Father on his 103rd birthday and True Mother on her 80th birthday.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between July 20 and October 29 on a speaking tour for Koreans residing in the United States.> In Adam's family, Cain and Abel fought, and their struggle resulted in the death of Abel, the second son. Then came Jacob. On the merits of many godly people who paid indemnity and sacrificed after the time of Abel, Jacob at last reached the level at which Satan first dominated humankind. Jacob had to deal with his twin brother, Esau. At the ford of Jabbok, Jacob set up the condition of spiritual victory over the angel, and through winning over Esau, who was in the position of the archangel, Jacob consequently was blessed as the first victor in history, and was given the name Israel. (Gen. 32:28) By then, however, Jacob was forty years old. Satan had sown the seed of false love within the womb of Eve, which gave birth to evil life. Therefore, God needed to purify a mother's womb from which the heavenly son could be born. That purification period of separation from Satan had to begin at the time of conception and continue to the age of forty. Even though Jacob was victorious, he made only one step toward meeting that criterion. The great mother who assumed the responsibility to meet this condition was Tamar.
Tamar had married Er, the eldest son of Judah, but Er displeased God and he died. According to the custom of that time, Judah gave Tamar to his second son, Onan, that they might bear a child for Er. Onan, knowing that Tamar's child would not be his own, spilled his semen on the ground. This was a sin in the eyes of God, for which Onan died. Then Tamar wanted Shelah, the third son of Judah, for a husband, but Judah did not give him to her. Judah thought that his two sons had died because of Tamar, so he was afraid that Shelah would die and end the family lineage. Tamar had the conviction that she was meant to carry on the lineage of the chosen people. In order to do that, she disguised herself as a prostitute and slept with her father-in-law, Judah, and became pregnant with twins. At the time of birth, one of the twin sons, Zerah, stretched out his hand from the womb to be born first. When he was pulled back into the womb, the second son, Perez, was born first, taking the position of the elder brother.
Today, we will study True Father's words about the restoration of the lineage of the womb centering on Tamar's sons, Perez and Zerah.
<36-251> The restoration of the womb was accomplished centering on Tamar's sons Perez and Zerah. Zerah is the older brother and Perez is the younger brother. The older brother's hand came out of the womb first, but the younger brother pushed the older brother (aside) and came out. So, the word Perez means 'pushed out'. And when the older brother Zerah's hand came out first, wearing a red silk string on that hand showed that the communist party, the Reds, would come out in the future. (Laughter)
The younger brother pushed the older brother who came out first, and the brothers fought in the womb to come out first. So God said to Rebekah, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided.” (Genesis 25:23). It is divided into two countries. One kingdom is the kingdom of heaven, and the other is the kingdom of Satan. To restore the lineage by fighting from the womb, three generations were needed.
Thus, you have to fight in the womb, reverse it, and establish the standard of inheriting the lineage from the womb. Although Jacob was victorious externally after three generations, the foundation of internal victory was made by Perez, who was born in the womb of Tamar. This is the principle of restoration. After establishing this principle, the one who should be sought first is the son. Because they had to find the son who should be loved first, the game of searching from the inside of the womb took place. This is the duty of the heavenly way. Perez and Zerah are a historical record of these victories. And the lineage was restored through the victory of the younger brother in the womb. However, before the victory in this battle, one has no choice but to become the lineage of Satan. right? However, there is no condition for Satan to accuse a baby who is born with the standard of victory from the womb, that is, the tradition that prepared the foundation for receiving God's love. Do you understand? Jesus is the one who stood in this position.
The fall of the first human ancestors was, in the end, a change in lineage. Adam and Eve, who were supposed to be of the royal lineage, inherited Satan's false lineage because of their adulterous relationship (with) the archangel.
The restoration of the external lineage was accomplished centering on Esau and Jacob, but the restoration of the lineage was needed on a more internal level. God's method of restoration is always from the external to the internal, and from the internal to the more internal. This is why we must first restore the environment.
Finally, centering on Tamar's sons Perez and Zerah, restoration of the womb was accomplished. Zerah is the older brother and Perez is the younger brother. The older brother's hand came out of the womb first, but the younger brother pushed the older brother back in and came out.
The two brothers fought each other in the womb to come out first. The fight between the two brothers in the womb symbolizes the fight between the two peoples and the fight between the two countries. To restore the lineage by fighting from here, three generations were needed.
In this way, Jesus was born with the standard of victory after fighting in the womb, in other words, the tradition of preparing the foundation for receiving God's love.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 20: Sin
• Sin is a violation of heavenly law which is committed when a person forms a common base with Satan, thus setting a condition for give and take action with him.
In Order to Avoid Committing a Sin…
1. Do not form a common base with Satan.
> Do not engage in give and take action with Satan.
Do not deal with Satan and evil people at all. Never enter an evil environment. It is almost impossible to escape from evil conditions such as drugs, alcohol, tobacco, sex and games. Therefore, environmental separation is very important. We need to educate our children well and protect our younger generation very well.
2. Always distinguish your thought and environ ment.
Satan’s invasion always starts with thought, right? Are we thinking of the spirit or the flesh? Are we having good or evil thoughts? We should separate from our (evil) thoughts. If the environment is evil, they immediately jump out.
3. Attend and serve your Abel.
Living with our Abel all the time teaches us how to distinguish between good and evil. Those who live a life of service can always be protected from evil.
4. Live with God’s words and prayer.
God’s word gives us tremendous spiritual strength. It always stimulates our heart and mind. So, we must always study God’s word. How often do we read the Divine Principle? How much are we reading Father’s eight textbooks? And live with jeongseong and utmost sincerity to gain the strength from the spirit world. I am telling you, in order to separate (from) evil and avoid committing a sin, jeongseong and God’s word and our Abel are very important. Without God’s word, there is no way to run away from sin. Without Abel we do not know how to train ourself in self-denial. And through jeongseong we can gain spiritual power from the spiritual world. Without jeongseong, God’s word and Abel’s support, it is impossible.
5. Experience God’s heart.
A person who has experienced the heart of God can never live an evil life. Therefore, faith is an experience of feeling and learning with the body.
That was Father’s life since he met Heavenly God. How sorrowful God was! Incredible han and sorrow! Since he met Him and experienced his heart, he has never gone back. Wow! If we truly experience God’s han, his heart and his sorrow, we will never go to Satan’s side. That is why experiencing God’s heart is very important.
6. Think that you belong to Father. Do not think of yourself as your own.
Faith is to treat oneself as God’s belonging. “I belong to God.” That is faith. Fallen men do not believe in God and that he is our father and we are his children. We need to start with faith. Faith means to treat ourself as God’s belonging. If we do this, we can have incredible power. We will be angry with evil. “Because I belong to God, why did this evil thinking, sexual thinking come to me?” That is why faith means to treat ourself as God’s belonging.
What is Sin?
<23-188> Sin is to establish a condition through witch Satan can accuse you. The reason why Satan can accuse a human is because he/she has the relationship of lineage with Satan. That is why the providence of restoration is to change the relationship of lineage by goodness or evil.
Satan can accuse human beings because human beings have a relationship of lineage with Satan.
Therefore, in the providence of restoration, if we do not change the lineage of good and evil, Satan will continue to accuse us as long as we are alive.
The continuous influx of obscene thoughts into human beings proves that our blood has a relationship with Satan.
How can we know that we are a descendant of Satan, of evil? (Because) evil thinking, Chapter Two thinking always comes out. This confirms that we are a descendant of evil and Satan. Originally human beings were not like that. Then Satan always tries to get confirmation through our blood lineage. He always (tries to) confirm, “You belong to me. You belong to me.” What is the identity of Satan? He is an adulterous being. He always provides these kinds of things. Always asking about sex, giving temptations because our ancestors, Adam and Eve, feel through immorality.
To do this (change the lineage?), externally we must drink Holy Wine through the blessing and pass through the conditions of 40-day separation period and complete the 3-day ceremony. Internally, the couple's lineage is cleansed only when they receive the Blessing and clear up their fallen nature.
The Blessing and Three-Day ceremony are external are external ceremonies of rebirth. After we start (married life) with our spouse... then we need to really remove our original sin.
Since original sin was committed by husband and wife, the husband and wife must take responsibility for each other's fallen nature and clear up the original sin. The cleansing of original sin can never be done alone. That is impossible because it was committed by husband and wife. That’s why we need to remove it together as husband and wife. Christians and (members of other) religions (have) never known this. Original sin was committed by a husband and wife, by a couple. Do you think you can drink holy wine alone to remove original sin? It is impossible. It has to be removed as a couple!
Therefore, the spouse's sins must be paid for by the partner. However, if they hate each other and blame each other for mistakes, there will be no way for the couple to end the satanic lineage forever.
After receiving the Blessing how can we remove original sin? Without serving our spouse, if we dislike her, if we hate each other’s fallen nature, if we have conflict and fight (with each other) and dislike each other, then how can we pay the indemnity and remove original sin. original sin can only be removed by the couple. That is why Father said, “The husband has to be responsible for his wife’s fallen nature; The wife needs to be responsible of her husband’s fallen nature. Otherwise we cannot change our blood lineage. This is incredible. I want to create a thesis(?) based on this content.
This is very powerful what True Father discovered. We cannot remove any kind of sin alone. Everything relates to our spouse, to our ancestors, to our father and mother and to our children. That is why the family is the place to remove all kinds of sin.
What powerful guidance by our True Father!
Sin is an Action that Contradicts our Original Nature
<1-250> Sin is evil and bad. When you act contrary to your mind connected with the original nature, it is considered sin. Jesus took charge of sin to remove it. Moreover, He took charge of the sin of the spirits in individuals, families, societies, nations, world, humankind and heaven. Jesus took charge of the sin of numerous spirits in the history of 4000 years since the Genesis. You have to know it. More than that, He had to take charge of the sin of the spirits in hell. The reason for this is that He stood in the position of perfected Adam. Because of the Fall of Adam, the resentment swept away even heaven. So, Jesus had to take everything that happened through the Fall away and bury it.
The Messiah's Absolute Authority Lies in the Forgiveness of all Sins
Only the messiah has the authority to forgive sin. Nobody else! That is why the messiah’s authority is so powerful. Only God allows this. No other saints and sages and holy men or other religious founders (can forgive sin.) We need to know this. Even Satan cannot accuse him. In order to send the messiah there were all kins of processes of external and internal restoration. We just now learned about the restoration of the blood lineage. Once the messiah was born, Satan cannot challenge the messiah’s absolute authority itself. He needs to allow it. The messiah can negotiate(?) with God and Satan.
The Bible talks about this.
1. Matthew 9:2 “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven”
2. 1 John 2:12 “I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.”
3. 1 John 4:10 “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
4. Revelation 1:5 To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,”
5. 1John 1:7 “...and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.”
This is very clear. That is why Jesus and True Parents are so powerful: because they have the power to forgive sins.
6. The Messiah took responsibility for the sins of individuals, families, societies, nations, the world, mankind, and spirits in heaven.
7. The Messiah even took on the sins of countless spirits in the 6,000-year history since the creation of the world.
8. The Messiah even took on the sins of the spirits in hell.
9. Furthermore, the Messiah has the responsibility to release God's han and sorrow.
That is why we need to meet the messiah. How fortunate we are! We have met the messiah! We received the Blessing!
After we (have) received the Blessing, what is our mission? Convey the heavenly Blessing to our neighbors, our tribe and our nation. The Blessing is changing the blood lineage, the forgiveness of all types of sin. They become zero. It is a new beginning. Wow! So powerful!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Definition of the Age of Attendance
Cain-type View of Life and Abel-type View of Life
1. Everyone must be sincere and truthful to develop. Words that are not even in the heart are like lies. People of the world often say things and do things that are not even in their hearts. Outside the home, when they meet superiors, they greet them with a deep bow, saying “hello,” yet at home, the couple fights and they treat their children carelessly. This is how appearance and reality are different. Seeing this, people are very aggravated. Is this form of us false or real? The world we live in today is full of falseness. Even as we call our parents “father” and “mother,” we hate listening to our parents. We call those who live like this people who have a Cain-type view of life.
2. You know about Cain very well, right? On the outside, Cain says they attend their parents, but in the end, they do as they please. Cain does not have a view of life centered on the parents. Cain does not have a view of life of being filial to parents and living for their parents’ wishes. Then what kind of person is Abel? People with an Abel-type view of life have a completely filial heart for their parents. Children who live without even 1% of a concept called “me” towards their parents are children with an Abel-type of life. We always say, “Let’s have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience,” but this means being absolute centered on whom? It means to be absolute centering on the one I attend.
Everyone must be sincere and truthful to develop. Words that are not even in the heart are like lies. A hypocrite is someone who acts like an honest person while saying and doing things that are not in his heart. Hypocrisy is the difference between the outside and the inside.
If our life is so different from what it looks like on the outside, it's not real, it's false. We humans are a matter of degree, but everyone is filled with this falseness.
Even as we call our parents “father” and “mother,” we hate listening to our parents. We call those who live like this people who have a Cain-type view of life.
People who have a Cain-like view of life are people who say they attend their parents on the outside, but in the end they do what they want. People who have a Cain-like view of life do not have the center of attendance. They do not have the view or wish of filial piety towards their parents, and they are always self-centered.
Then what kind of person is Abel? People with an Abel-type view of life have a completely filial heart for their parents. Children who live without even 1% of a concept called “me” towards their parents are children with an Abel-type of life.
We always say, “Let’s have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience,” but these are not words centered on just the invisible God and True Parents. Who are we to focus on and regard as absolute? It is the person whom we will attend as absolute and center upon. This means to regard our parents, spouses, siblings, and Abel-figure as absolutes.
(Should) we only have this kind of absolute faith, love and obedience toward God and True Parents? It is not like that. We really need to practice in our family. We are an absolute being in front of God. The husband is an absolute being in front of his wife. (The wife is an absolute being in front of her husband.) The children are absolute beings in front of their parents.
That is why we cannot only have absolute faith towards God and True Parents, but we need to treat our spouse as an absolute being and practice absolute obedience, love and faith (towards our spouse). This is required in this era of the Family Pledge.
The Definition of the Age of Attendance
3. What kind of age is the age of attendance? In contrast to the age which we lived relying on God and being indebted to Him, it is the age when we make God be indebted to us. Why did sadness arise in God? It arose because of Adam’s family. What is the responsibility of Adam’s family? It is to take responsibility over God’s wishes. When children grow and mature, don’t they have to become people who live better and are more respected than their parents? But what if children become older and reach an age when they are sufficiently financially independent, yet they always reach out to their parents and become indebted? If you say, “The house rent went up, please help me a little” or “Buy me rice,” the parents would be in an embarrassing position. If they cling to their parents irresponsibly, then they are still immature and heartistically immature children. Likewise, God’s position is the same. Today, all religious people cling to God. “God, please help my family,” “God, we are facing this difficulty today. Please help us.” Everyone asks for blessings and relies on God. No one tries to take care of God’s burdens. So, when God sees this, how dumbfounded He must be! Are you people who make God be indebted to you? Are you people who are indebted to God? Those who make God indebted to them are people who genuinely attend God.
Now we are talking about the definition of the Age of Attendance, right?
The age centered on faith until now was the age when we depended on God only in the name of faith. This was an era in which children kept clinging to their parents asking for help.
However, in the age of attendance, we become the owner of ourselves, becomes filial children, and go beyond the age when we depend on and live in debt to God.
Originally, Adam's family had the responsibility for God's dreams and wishes. When children grow and mature, don’t they have to become people who live better and are more respected than their parents?
Now is the time when we go beyond bearing our own cross and take up the cross of the nation, humankind, True Parents, and God, taking responsibility for the sorrow of God and True Parents, and completely liberating them.
If we cling to our parents and God irresponsibly, then we are still immature and heartistically immature children. Today, all religious people cling to God without knowing God's wish, dream or cross.
Everyone asks for blessings and relies on God. No one tries to take care of God’s burdens.
Who understands God’s sorrow? His tears? His han?
So in God's eyes we are all childish and immature people. Are we people who make God be indebted to us? Are we people who are indebted to God?
Those who make God indebted to them are people who genuinely attend God.
God is One with Bitter Sorrow Because of Us
4. God is One with han (bitter sorrow) because of us. True Parents taught, raised, and even gave the Blessing to blessed families, but how many blessed couples live together as one? “My wife is the substantial being of God’s feminine nature“ “My husband is the substantial being of God’s masculine nature.” Have we become couples that serve each other like God in this way? Since there have not been any true couples and families that can show this, who will be held accountable for those mistaken responsibilities in the end? If this happens, the person who gave the blessing will rather be treated with contempt. The blessings bestowed by God and True Parents should be returned as even greater blessings, but instead, it results in them being treated with contempt because of that blessing. Since you gave your son-in-law your daughter, if that son-in-law mistreats your daughter, who does that disdain in the end? That is disdaining the parents and wife’s parents. Do you think that your wife is your own wife? Before she is your wife, she is the daughter of your parents-in-law.
5. If your parents-in-law shed blood, sweat, and tears while cherishing and raising their daughter and marrying her off, if you treat her carelessly, curse at her, and mistreat her, how would your parents-in-law, who see that, feel? On the contrary, if the son-in-law loves their daughter more than his parents-in-law, the wife’s parents would be liberated. Mistreating the daughter who was sent off to marry is the same as mistreating your parents-in-law. If you look at these things from God's point of view, how would God's position be different? How painful must God’s heart be to see us not uniting but fighting after He blessed us? That is why God and True Parents are pitiable. So, we need to repent about these truths and repent to God with tears.
Are we blessed families the ones to make God and True Parents worry? Or, on the contrary, are we the ones obliged to bear the cross in their stead?
God is One with han (bitter sorrow) because of us. True Parents too have a lot of han because of us. True Parents taught, raised, and even gave the Blessing to blessed families.
But how many blessed couples live together as one? How many of these blessed couples become ones that serve each other like God? Since there have not been any true couples and families that can show this, who will be held accountable for those mistaken responsibilities in the end? If this happens, the person who gave the blessing will rather be treated with contempt.
How painful must God’s heart be to see us not uniting but fighting after He blessed us? That is why God and True Parents are pitiable. So, we need to repent about these truths and repent to God with tears.
Today we spoke about the importance of the Blessing and the real meaning of attendance. This is very precious guidance.
Today I talked about the definition of the Age of Attendance.
(Testimony Kimie Stana, Campus Witnessing, SR4 Kodan Leader)♦
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