Ep 843 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint of The Principle Part 7
The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle - February 15, 2023
Key Points
Among the numerous religious leaders who have been able to communicate with the spiritual world, only Reverend Moon has fully understood and united the spiritual world and received the heavenly seal of recognition from God.
True Father is the person who knows God, Satan, humankind, the spiritual world, the Bible and religious scriptures, human history, and the value of the true family the most.
In order to resemble True Parents and inherit their foundation of victory, we must major in these eight fields.
Fulfilling Heavenly Tribal Messiahship wipes out all sin – original, hereditary, collective and individual sin.
To be registered in the Cheonbowon by completing the mission of the tribal messiah is to acquire the citizenship of heaven and to be incorporated into the realm of the heavenly royal family.
The mission of heavenly tribal messiahship is not something that one can choose to do or not.
This is no longer an age of belief in Jesus or the invisible God, but an age of love in which we show God tangibly in the filial piety, harmony and love in our family between husband and wife, and between parents and children.
Our key responsibilities in the family are to deny ourself, to think of each other first, and to serve and to practice filial piety with and live for each other.
The era of indemnity was the era of paying off debts, not of receiving benefits. But in this era of Cheon Il Guk, the more we practice true love, the more heavenly fortune we will receive.
In the family, the woman is the center of love and harmony and should have a tolerant personality, embracing the faults of her hus band, who is more external and in the position of the archangel.
The husband and wife should attend and respect each other.
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.♦
Did you have a good time with your spouse on Valentine’s Day yesterday?
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.>
Throughout history, there have been numerous religious leaders who could communicate with the spirit world. You ought to know that only one person, Reverend Moon, has fully understood and united the spirit world in order to commence the work of restoration in this world. After uniting the spirit world, he received the heavenly seal of recognition from God. Without that a person cannot accomplish unity on earth. You need to know that God has trained and raised him in the spirit world, and has continued to lead him here on earth. My husband came to the United States more than twenty years ago. Since then, he has received enormous persecution. Yet he has known that God's plan for Christianity has endured through bloodstained sacrifices for 2,000 years, ultimately settling in the United States. Therefore he could not give up on that country. Please consider this: If America had accepted Reverend Moon years ago, how would that country be doing today? The same holds true for Korea.
Then, where does true love begin? This is true love: After you have sacrificed your own life and are resurrected, you invest yourself repeatedly, over and over again. Since we have inherited a fallen lineage, we have to persevere and overcome difficulties even at the cost of our lives. Therefore, the Bible records Jesus as saying, “Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.” (Luke 17:33) Jesus followed this way when he came to this world. He led the world by example through altruism, not by selfish individualism. In the same manner, although my wife and I have created wealth during our lifetime, none of it, not even one penny, is ours. We invested everything for the world, and then forgot what we had done for others. We sacrificed and invested again and again.
Throughout history, there have been numerous religious leaders who could communicate with the spirit world but we must know that only one person, Reverend Moon, has fully understood and united the spirit world in order to commence the work of restoration in this world. After uniting the spirit world, he received the heavenly seal of recognition from God. Without that a person cannot accomplish unity on earth.
True Father said that he had to become the master of 8 realms.
First, True Father had to become the champion that knows God the most. No one knows God's will, desire, and heart more than True Father.
Second, True Father had to become the champion that knows Satan the most. Until now, no one has revealed that Satan's true identity was the archangel Lucifer, and that he became the enemy of God's enemies of love.(?)
Third, True Father had to become the champion that knows humankind the most. True Father knows better than anyone else what human beings looked like before the fall and after the fall, and what their position is between God and Satan.
Fourth, True Father had to become the champion that knows the spirit world the most. With the grace of God, True Father traveled throughout the entire spirit world and studied.
Fifth, True Father had to become the champion that knows Jesus the most. No one wept more than True Father, knowing Jesus' heart, tears, wishes, and han.
Sixth, True Father had to become the champion that knows all of the core contents of the Bible and the religious scriptures the most. After meeting God and Jesus in person, True Father knows the secrets and core of the Bible better than anyone else.
Seventh, True Father had to become the champion that knows the human history the most. Therefore, True Father knows better than anyone else how history began, how history flowed, and where history should flow.
Eighth, True Father must become the champion that knows the value of the true family the most. True Father made it clear that the family is the most fundamental unit of heaven, and that God's ideal is perfected in the family through the four realms of heart and the three great kingships.
In order to resemble True Parents and inherit True Parents' foundation of victory, we must major in these eight fields.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Hereditary Sin
• First is the original sin. This sin originated with the spiritual and physical fall of our first human ancestors. It is ingrained in our lineage and is the root of all sins.
• Second is hereditary sin. This is sin which one inherits from one’s ancestors on account of their connection through lineage.
We are talking about hereditary sin again. Let’s study Father’s word.
Satan’s Blood is Running Through our Veins
<54-138> Since we inherited the blood of Satan, sins last forever by virtue of the law of heredity. That is why you couldn’t pull original sin out. So, if you were born from the womb, you are Satan’s offspring. You become a member of Satan’s family. Because people in this world become Satan’s offspring automatically, Satan can become king of this world without doubt. Thus, the central being of the evil sovereignty is Satan, and we have to know that Satan planted original sin through lineage that cannot be severed. Because Satan’s blood is running through our veins, the Satanic blood has to be drained out.
You have to learn what the original sin is and know how it works. Then, by knowing the hereditary sin related with your tribe, you have to remove it. After you remove the original sin and the hereditary sin, if your life doesn’t conform to the Principle and you cannot follow the direction from True Parents through all your life, you have to indemnify everything in proportion to it.
Although that is how the history is, you have to clear everything away and discard its shell and fly to heaven freely. After you die, you will go back to heaven through the Seunghwa ceremony.
All Sins can be Removed Through Tribal Messiahship
<268-193> We have to remove the original sin and the hereditary sin. In order to remove the original sin, we have to know how Adam, Eve and your ancestors had done. After doing so, then you have to remove the original sin, the hereditary sin, collective sin and the individual sin. If you cannot do it despite your (having) listened what I told you and I gave you directions, how can you remove the wall of all sins, original sin, hereditary sin, which your ancestors committed? By accomplishing the mission of tribal messiahship, True Parents can remove the original sin.
Wow! What incredible words! According to True Father's words, by fulfilling the mission of the tribal messiah, all sins, which are hereditary, collective and individual sin, including the original sin committed by human ancestors, can be wiped out. Isn't that amazing?
Through Tribal Messiahship we can remove any kind of sin. This is an incredible mission.
Therefore, the mission of heavenly tribal messiah is not something that one can choose to do or not. To be registered in the Cheonbowon by completing the mission of the tribal messiah is to acquire the citizenship of heaven and to be incorporated into the realm of the heavenly royal family.
Heavenly Tribal Messiahship is an incredible blessing, through giving the Blessing to 430 couples and through liberating 430 generations of ancestors vertically and horizontally. Father’s emphasized this again and again.
Therefore, no matter what happens, we must complete our mission as a tribal messiah and be registered in the Cheonbowon.
Everybody without exception needs to do it, not just conditionally. We should (invest) our utmost sincerity. Through this process of tribal messiahship we can change our life and become champions of true love.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Age of Showing God Through Your Family
How important it is that we are now living in the era of love!
1. We are now living in the age of love, which is the age of fruition. The age of love is the age of showing lives of living together with God. Now, it is not the age to look up at someone and believe in them. Passing the age of witnessing by telling people to come to your church, it is now the age of showing how much your family realizes peace and harmony and how much your family practices filial piety. With these actual achievements, it is the time when we should advise other families, “become a peaceful family,” “become a harmonious family,” and “become a family that is filial.” Since now is the time when the invisible God lives together with human beings, it is the time when we must show God through our families.
Now is not the time to look for the invisible and intangible God. It is the time to show that the invisible and intangible God enters inside visible human beings and show how He is working. From now on, our families must really escape from conflicts between the husband and wife and show a harmonious family. God is not present where there is conflict. Only Satan is present where there is conflict. When positive charges and negative charges unite, light comes in. That light is like God. When husband and wife unite, light will surely come in. The brightness of that light depends on how much the couple unites.
We are now living in the age of love, which is the age of fruition. The age of love is the age of showing lives of living together with God. Now, it is not the age to look up at someone and believe in them.
The New Testament Age was an age in which people were told to believe in the invisible God and believe in Jesus. However, in the Completed Testament Age, in the era of Cheon Il Guk, True Parents came as the tangible representatives of God and substantially set the example for everything.
Therefore, we must clearly know what time we are living in currently. The world today is not an era in which people follow us if we ask them to believe unconditionally. This is an era in which no one will follow unless we show the results of true love.
Therefore, now is the time of going beyond witnessing and telling people to come to our church; it is now the age of showing how much our family realizes peace and harmony and how much our family practices filial piety.
So, it is the time when we should become people with a track record of true love and advise other families, “become a peaceful family,” “become a harmonious family,” and “become a family that is filial.”
Since now is the time when the invisible God lives together with human beings, it is the time when we must show God through our families.
It is a time to show the secular people what kind of couple has God with them and what kind of parent-child relationship has God is with them. From now on, our families must really escape from conflicts between the husband and wife and show a harmonious family.
God is not present where there is conflict. Conflict belongs to Satan. Only Satan is present where there is conflict. When positive charges and negative charges unite, light comes in. That light is like God.
When a positive charge like man and a negative charge like a woman unite, light comes in. Why is our family dark? It is because there are conflicts between husband and wife, conflicts between parents and children and conflicts among siblings.
The Most Important Portion of Responsibility in the Family
2. If you look at disharmonious families today, they are living without being clearly aware of what their portion of responsibility is. Then what is the most important portion of responsibility in the family? It is to be filial to one another. It is to serve one another. It is to not assert yourself. However, on the contrary, they say, “I only want to assert myself.” “I want to control my husband, I want to control my wife.” “I cannot be filial.” Then, those families will be pushed out from the law of true love and quickly perish. Now is not a merciless age. True love is like a sword. An era is coming that is sharper than any double-edged sword. (Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”) That is why now is a fearful age. What will you do if the era comes when those who are in conflict are penetrated with a single stroke and liquidated even though they know the Principle and God’s Will? This present age when we know the Will and must practice true love is not a comfortable age at all. If our minds are in conflict, it is not comfortable.
What is the most important portion of responsibility in the family? It is to be filial to one another. It is to serve one another. It is to not assert ourself. In order to have peace in the family, we must first thoroughly deny ourself. Children should think of their parents first, parents should think of their children first, husbands should think of their wives, and wives should think of their husbands first and live for the sake of one another.
The destruction of a family begins by asserting ourself first. If we want to promote harmony in the family, we must completely give up our self-assertions and opinions. We just have to think of the other person first. Otherwise, we will be pushed out from the law of true love and quickly perish.
Before True Parents came, God forgave and gave people opportunities even when they made mistakes. True Parents paid all indemnities and set an example, but True Father said that if we fail to act, a merciless era will come.
The Bible also says that true love is like a blade. The era of true love, the era of Cheon Il Guk, is an era that is sharper than any two-edged sword.
That is why now is a fearful age. What will we do if the era comes when those who are in conflict are penetrated with a single stroke and liquidated even though they know the Principle and God’s Will?
Therefore, this present age when we know the Will and must practice true love is not a comfortable age at all. If our minds are in conflict, it is not comfortable.
Why Does the Couple Have Conflicts?
3. On the contrary, as blessed families, if you have a heart with true peace, respect, and attendance, it is an age when you can receive amazing blessings. Now, an era that is definitely changing has arrived. People that have troubles and worries will immediately become pitch-dark. Just as light is not created if negative charges and positive charges are separated, if man and woman do not become one, it immediately becomes pitch-dark. However, if they just become one, there will be light. That light is God.
If you leave troubles and worries at home and eat at church, does that food taste good? It does not taste good. Why does the couple have conflicts? Most couple conflicts arise because the wife hates her husband. Of course, it could be the opposite, too. However, if the wife embraces her husband’s faults and has a tolerant personality, that family will not have conflicts. In such a family, the wife is a being like light. If the woman becomes a mother of love in the family, the atmosphere of the home completely changes. That family will be bright. If the wife attends and respects her husband, can that husband hate his wife? On the other hand, if the husband attends and respects his wife, can that wife have any conflicts with him? There are no wives/husbands that torments the husband/wife who respects them. If the woman in the family does not have any love, the whole family is as cold as ice. And the atmosphere throughout the house is dark.
Now is the era of love, and as blessed families, if we have a heart with true peace, respect, and attendance, it is an age when we can receive amazing blessings. Now the more we practice true love, the more heavenly fortune we will receive.
Since the era of indemnity was the era of paying off debts, it was an era in which people could not receive benefits even if they had made achievements for their will. But now times have changed drastically.
People that have troubles and worries will immediately become pitch-dark. Just as light is not created if negative charges and positive charges are separated, if man and woman do not become one, it immediately becomes pitch-dark. However, if they just become one, there will be light. That light is God.
In the family, the woman is the center of love and harmony. So, a woman, as the mother of the family, is like a light. That is why a wife should have a tolerant personality, embracing the faults of her husband.
If the husband and children sometimes make mistakes, we should not immediately say, “Why did you do the wrong (thing)? Why are you like that?” We should not judge them immediately nor correct them immediately. The wife in the position of love needs to have a tolerant and embracing personality. We should take time to (watch) and embrace our children and husband. Other brothers and sisters can feel that.
But if any woman immediately judges whenever (anyone) makes a mistake, wow! She does not have a tolerant heart and personality; (she is) very hard, and (she is a) very small container. She (responds) immediately, “Why did you do wrong? Why did you make this mistake? Why did you put this thing here or there?” (It is better) not to do (this) immediately, not to judge immediately.
We need to have a really big container; our heart (needs to be) a big container that embraces and waits for a while.
This kind of attitude is important. The woman (needs to) have that kind of love. I’m not just talking about women; men need to be the same. Especially now is the era of the woman, of the mother. The mother is really the center in the family. The mother (should be) more embracing, more tolerant, hugging the children and husband more. Then the family atmosphere (will be) completely different.
If a wife embraces her husband, children, and parents, there will be no conflict in the family.
Man is in the position of the archangel, very external. That is why the woman (needs to) really completely unite with God, have more heart, be more embracing (and) more tolerant.
When the woman becomes a mother of love in the family, the atmosphere of the home completely changes.
If the wife attends and respects her husband, can that husband hate his wife? On the other hand, if the husband attends and respects his wife, can that wife have any conflicts with him?
Now there is no need to believe in the invisible God. This is not longer the era of belief. In the family who is the substantial God? Our husband or wife and children are our substantial God. Where are we looking for God? Where? Now is the era of attendance and love. It is no longer the era of faith. How amazing it is!
Today, I have spoken about "The Age of Showing God Through Your Family."
(Testimony Luke Hi-guchi, New Kodan President, SR2 District 5 Retreat & Farewell Service)♦
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