Ep 909 - God's Model Ideal Family and Nation, and the Peace Kingdom Part 10
God's Model Ideal Family and Nation, and the Peace Kingdom - April 22, 2023
Key Points
Men and women marry in order to become owners of each other’s love organ centered on love for the sake of the other and to fulfill and embody God's love.
When a man and a woman become one, “the light of true love shines forth” which is the substantial God.
Such a couple can create true, model families and expand to the society, nation and world, and transform heaven and earth into the peace kingdom of the model ideal family.
Poorer countries tend to develop spirituality and spiritual culture while wealthier countries focus on material development and mater ial wealth. That is why the major cultures developed in the East.
When people have financial difficulties, they seek the meaning of life.
The only way for Western civilization to “live” is to come into contact with Eastern thought.
To live a life of eternal value, every moment must be connected to eternity and lived for God’s will. A life centered on the Will has eternal value.
We should live centered on spirit rather than on the body and its desires and pleasures.
Because the life of Jesus was eternal in his sacrificial love and loyalty to heaven, we seek eternal value by believing in him and emulating him.
Our spiritual and physical children are the fruit of our eternal love.
We must raise our own children and Cain's children, the spiritual children, at the same time.
The people we have witnessed to were resurrected through us in the name of True Parents.
Witnessing is eternally instilling God's love in others on behalf of True Parents.
Witnessing can be more difficult than raising one's own children.
The spiritual parent will receive great merit from heaven.
True Parents gave us specific instructions about witnessing through Tribal Messiahship.
Tribal Messiahship is not conditional. We really have to love our tribe with all our heart, mind and soul.
Witnessing is training to love people. So, the more we witness, the more our personality changes and the quality of our love is upgraded.
We must leave behind a lot of spiritual lineage of love.
Our physical children and spiritual children have the same value as God’s sons and daughters.
In order to gain the majority, we need to witness.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, p ersonal 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.♦
This is already Saturday.
We are going to have two beautiful events today. We are going to have Jesus’ and True Parents’ 12-disciples appointment ceremony at East Garden. They have already completed the 12-hours EDP content through one-on-one education. This is incredibly meaningful today.
Also, we have a very beautiful youth event at Belvedere as well. I am excited to join them there.
Today I’d like to talk about “God's Model Ideal Family and Nation, and the Peace Kingdom” from True Mother’s Anthology, Volume 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between April 28 and August 19, 2006 during a 180-nation Universal Peace Federation Speaking Tour to Return to the Original Fatherland and Hometown. 89-90>
Ladies and gentlemen! Why should we get married? It is to restore the position of owner. A man or woman alone can only be one half of the whole. That is how God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the owners of the reproductive organs, the love organs. The owner of the wife’s reproductive organ is the husband, and the owner of the husband's is the wife. Only when each is rooted in love for the other can they stand in the position of the owner of their spouse. We marry to secure this position of the owner.
Then what are we trying to achieve by restoring the position of the owner? It is to fulfill and embody God's love from that position. God is the subject of the three great loves. As the Owner of the universe, He is the teacher, owner and parent of true love. This is the three subject partners principle. All such teachings and truths are created based on the life of true, model families, and once they expand, the society, nation, world and even heaven and earth can be transformed into the peace kingdom of the model ideal family. Distinguished leaders, you are now living in the most blessed and exalted time in history.
I now proclaim the launch of an era of a new heaven and earth, the Era After the Coming of Heaven, long-awaited and yearned for by billions of your ancestors in the spirit world who have come and gone in history: this is the era of the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World. Not only the four great religious founders but also billions of good ancestors have come down to earth at this point to guide you on the heavenly path. The age in which the fallen and corrupted world plays havoc on humanity, allowing those who are evil to live better than others, is passing away.
Why should we get married? This is a fundamental question. It is to restore the position of owner. A man or woman alone can only be one half of the whole. That is how God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the owners of the reproductive organs, the love organs.
This is an incredible declaration! No one has spoken about this before.
The owner of the wife's reproductive organ is the husband, and the owner of the husband's reproductive organ is the wife. So, in marriage, since the owner of a man is a woman, he must find a woman. And since the woman is the owner of the man, she must go find the man.
Husband and wife can stand in the position of owners of each other only when they center on love for each other's sake. To secure the position of the owner, humans marry.
Then what are we trying to achieve by restoring the position of the owner? It is to fulfill and embody God's love from that position. However, there is only one channel for men and women to occupy God's love. It is the fact that men must go through women, and women must go through men.
Otherwise they cannot occupy God’s love. This is heavenly law which is universal law.
For example, light is emitted when the positive electricity and the negative electricity become one. When a man and a woman become one, the light of true love shines forth. That light is the substantial God. Can plus electricity make light without negative electricity?
Conversely, can negative electricity make light without positive electricity? Like this, when a man and a woman become one, they become the light of true love and occupy the whole world.
All such teachings and truths are created based on the life of true, model families, and once they expand, the society, nation, world and even heaven and earth can be transformed into the peace kingdom of the model ideal family.
How can we create the Peace kingdom. True Parents show us very clearly. Man is just half; woman is the other half. Who is God? Man and woman come together and create light and true love, that is God. The unity between husband and wife is God. The invisible God wants to become embodied in (the united) husband and wife.
Since we are married, there is no need to find the invisible God any more because we are substantial God. Where there is unity and (a couple) becomes completely one, man and woman as husband and wife, that is God. Where are we looking? Without marriage how can we find God, fell God, and understand him? That is why marriage is incredible!
Who is our owner? Our spouse. Without meeting our spouse, we will never substantially feel who God is. We can only meet God through our spouse. Adam and Eve fell together as a husband and wife. That is why in restoration we can (only) go back to God’s bosom as a couple, not alone.
Original sin was committed by a husband and wife. In order to restore it, we need to be together as a husband and wife. We cannot remove original sin without our spouse.
When I joined the church and listened to the Divine Principle, I thought original sin was only at the individual level. But I came to understand I cannot remove it alone. Who removes our original sin? Our spouse. No saints or sages teach this. This is very clear. How can we deny that Rev. and Mrs. Moon are the messiah and savior?
From today’s content we can settle any problem between husband and wife. If we know that our sexual organ belongs to our spouse, if we know who is the owner of our sexual organ, then we know very clearly who (has) committed sin. This looks like a very simple sentence, but it is eternal truth.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Eschatology 5 - Human History is the History of the Providence of Restoration 1 - The History of the Development of Cultural Spheres
• Human history can be seen as the history of the providence through which God has been trying to save fallen people and work through them to restore the original, good world.
• Let us examine in various ways the idea that human history is the history of the providence of restoration.
• First, let us examine the history of the development of cultural spheres.
• Through religion, fallen people mired in ignorance have sought to meet God by ceaselessly striving toward the good. Even though the individuals, peoples and nations which championed a certain religion may have perished, religion itself has survived.
• Religion has endured through history.
• In its history, China has experienced many cycles of the rise and fall of dynasties and numerous transfers of political power, yet the religions of the far east-Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism-have continued to thrive.
• In India, the religion of Hinduism; in the Middle East, Islam; and in the history of Western Europe, Christianity have continued to flourish.
• Many religions have left their mark on history. Among them, the religions with the greatest influence formed cultural spheres. The major cultural spheres which have existed at various times in world history numbered between twenty-one and twenty-six.
• With the flow of history, lesser cultural spheres were absorbed by, or merged into, the more advanced spheres. Through the evolution of cultural spheres, as they were buffeted by the rise and fall of nations, four great cultural spheres have survived to the present day: the East Asian sphere, the Hindu sphere, the Islamic sphere and the Christian sphere.
• The current trend has these four spheres forming one global cultural sphere based on the Christian ethos.
• This demonstrates that the essence of human history has been the restoration of one united world.
Let’s study Father’s word.
The Eastern Moral Culture is Deeper than the Western Moral Culture
<25-152> Between the East and the West, which one will be able to progress further? It’s the East. Why would it be possible to do that? It’s because the east is poorer than the west. Which created it’s cultural sphere first? The East did first. Then, why is the West more affluent now? Eastern thought embraced the spiritual or mental world, not the physical world. For this reason, they disregarded the material world. Then, who claimed the material? Thieves took everything. Think about what kind of people established a nation like England? England is a nation which was established by pirates. Nevertheless, there was a need to do that from the view point of God’s providence. That’s why He gave them a mission to develop a nation.
So, from now on, where should a material civilization go? Because it started from the west, if it goes back to the west again, the world will be ruined. There is no God anymore in western civilization. Then, where must be the last destination of western civilization? Material must completely surrender to spirit. Body must completely submit to mind. Likewise, in terms of Eastern and Western culture, Western civilization must completely submit to the spiritual cultural sphere of the East.
True Father said that the reason why the East has a deeper spiritual culture than the West is because the East is worse off than the West. He said that if people do not live well, they will pursue the spirit more than the material. So, from a cultural point of view, the creation of culture first began in the East. This is because Eastern thought did not approach the material world, but approached the spiritual and mental worlds first.
In fact, poor countries are closer to Heaven because they pursue spiritual culture. Therefore, instead, economically difficult countries must be established mentally first before the economy develops so that they can become the kingdom of God.
So, when people are having financial difficulties, they seek the meaning of life in the spiritual aspect. If we are materially rich, we do not pursue the inner side, but pursue the pleasures of the physical body. Then, where will Western civilization go? The only way for Western civilization to live is to come into contact with Eastern thought. This is the same reason why the material must completely submit before the spirit.
That is why now in Asia some countries are still poor. If they become economically developed and more stable, I think it will be more difficult to restore them. That is why I feel we need to really focus (on them) before they develop economically. I would like to educate all of them and let them understand the value of the Divine Principle and the Blessing.
(When I was there) I seriously realized this.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A Person Who will Receive a Great Merit Reward From Heaven
A Life Centered on the Will is an Eternal Value
1. When we say 'will', we mean eternal values. Eternal values is where we do not live for what the physical body wants, but when we live for things that can be of eternal merit even after death. Therefore, even after death, we must live a life that can remain forever. No matter what you do, you must live a life that is connected to eternity in your daily life in order to be a resurrected person and a person who leads a spiritual life. Those centered on the physical body cannot live forever. In order to live eternally, we must lead a spiritual life by connecting with our original nature more internally through the physical body.
Although Jesus died on the cross and his body is no longer on this earth, Jesus' love and loyalty to Heaven and love and sacrifice to mankind on earth will live forever. Isn't his love and sacrifice increasing the number of people who presently want to live imitating the life of Jesus? Although Jesus was not married and did not have children, there are many people who went to paradise by imitating the exploits and victorious life he left behind.
What do we mean by eternal values? It refers to values centered on “will.” Eternal values centered on the will mean living for what can be of eternal merit not only on earth but also after death.
Then, what should we do to live a life that can remain forever after we die? No matter what we do, we must live a life in which every moment is connected to eternity.
In other words, it refers to a life centered on the spirit, not a life centered on the physical body. Those who live life centered on the spirit are those who experience the thrill of resurrection. A life centered on the physical body has nothing to do with eternal life.
Even though Jesus died on the cross and his body is not on this earth, why do we live forever if we believe in Jesus? It is because the life of Jesus was eternal in his love and loyalty to heaven and his love and sacrifice (for) human beings, and if we believe in him and follow him, we will inherit it and live forever.
That was Jesus’ value. That is why we need to really learn Jesus’ quality of love. Even though his life was very short, his public life was only three years, even though he had only three years of public life, why did he have such an incredible impact on the entire world, on all of human history for 2,000 years? Because he lived centering on God’s will. Everything in his life was connected to eternal value, his sacrifice, his quality of love, his blood. It is really amazing!
That is why many Christians today want to live by imitating Jesus' life of love and sacrifice. How many people have gone to Paradise by imitating the exploits and victorious life that Jesus left behind?
Jesus’ life should be our model. True Parents’ life should be a model for us. What kind of model do we set up? What kind of vision do we have? If we try to imitate that model, someday our dream and wish will come true.
The Achievements of Love are Not Necessarily Obtained by Raising Children Well
2. Of course, after Jesus was resurrected, there were some who went to paradise by gathering and being educated by him, but there are also many who went to paradise among them who imitated the life of the Lord through Christianity.
It is very important that we give birth to and raise our children well, but the achievements of love are not necessarily obtained only by raising them. The achievements of love are not obtained only through the children born and raised through one's own flesh and blood. If you love and raise your spiritual children more than your own children, they will be just as precious when compared to the children you have given birth to and raised yourself. That is why you are being asked to witness. If you witness, the results of witnessing will remain as the results of your eternal love.
The reason we want to have eternal value through our will-centered lives is for the sake of our spiritual selves by reaping the fruits of love through our lives on earth.
There are two ways for us to reap the fruit of love. The first is by (giving) birth (to) children. However, the results of love are not necessarily obtained only through the children of flesh and blood that one has (given) birth (to) and raised.
The second is to love our spiritual children more than our own children in order to bear fruit. We have to do it both internally and externally. We must raise our own children and Cain's children, the spiritual children, at the same time.
Raising spiritual children is incomparably more precious than raising the children that we have (given) birth (to).
That is why we are being asked to witness. If we witness, the results of witnessing will remain as the results of our eternal love.
A Person Who will Receive a Great Merit Reward From Heaven
3. The people you have witnessed to were not (given) birth (to) and raised by you, but they were resurrected through you in the name of True Parents. Now, when one goes to the spirit world, God will ask them questions. “The world is a world full of tribulation and suffering, so how did you not lose heart and accumulate all of those achievements in love and live a good life?”, "Through whom did you obtain the strength to be so victorious?"
How do you think they will answer God's question? If the answer is, “I was able to best and overcome all hardships thanks to my church leaders and spiritual parents,” then those spiritual parents, leaders, or those who become Abel will receive a great merit award from heaven. Those who are remembered by heaven and have many achievements will stay in a good position like Jesus.
The people we have witnessed to were not (given) birth (to) and raised by us, but they were resurrected through us in the name of True Parents. Now, when one goes to the spirit world, God will ask them questions. Witnessing is to multiply love. Witnessing is the work of eternally instilling God's love in others on behalf of True Parents.
The greatest credit we receive when we go to the spirit world is the record of loving people on behalf of God and True Parents on earth. In some ways, witnessing can be more difficult than raising one's own children.
Some have said, “I am so sorry. I could not raise my children well. No one has received the Blessing. Some have married outside. Some are not connected to the church and do not know True Parents. What shall I do. I am so depressed!”
(Someone else may say,) “Even though our situation may be like that, even though our children may have grown up, even though we could not raise our children properly, with really serious repentance we really need to find somebody, to restore somebody and truly raise them. Even though we could not adequately love our own children, now we want to totally invest our heart to raise our spiritual children.”
Which concept and thinking is better? Just now Father said we cannot just raise our own children. We need to raise our spiritual children. When we raise Cain’s children with our heart, shed tears, invest our jeongseong and our spiritual children become great, then event though we could not raise our own children well, God will really praise us. Now that our children have grown up and we do not have much chance to relate to our own children, why don’t we focus on our spiritual children?
What does witnessing mean? It is great training to know God’s love.
God's greatest concern is to raise the dead. If there is a child who participates in this holy work on behalf of God, God will never forget that person. Witnessing is the work of directly participating with God in His providence of restoration.
God’s greatest concern is to save his children. As a human being, as a Unificationist, as a blessed family those who are really concerned about raising God’s children, God is most happy (with them). Without witnessing we cannot understand God’s heart. Whenever we focus on witnessing – even though it may take a long time, two or three years and still we cannot find a spiritual child – our attitude and mindset “I want to raise even one or two or three” is already so beautiful. Those who love God and True Parents always concentrate on witnessing. Witnessing means we are directly participating in God’s providence.
How much unforgettable emotion and inspiration will we instill in the other person while living on earth? It is said that if even just three people give them an unforgettable impression, Heaven will remember them. It is said that it will be recorded in the life book of that country.
In that case, the spiritual parent, leader or the person who becomes Abel will receive a great merit reward from heaven. In this way, those who are remembered from heaven and have many achievements will stay in a good position like Jesus.
Leave Many Lineages of Spiritual Love
4. Do you know how many people in the world know God's will through Jesus and how many of them are there today? We don't know the exact number. There must be many people in each country who believed in Jesus and went to paradise leaving behind a track record of love. So, if we witness, we can get the same result. It's about how much love one multiplies and leaves while they live on this earth. Therefore, it is important to give birth to children and raise them to be good people, but the achievement of restoring people who are not related to you in lineage and making them into the lineage of heaven is also a great achievement.
In some ways, it may be easier to give birth to and raise children of the physical body than to witness. As long as both men and women are physically fit, anyone can give birth to a baby. If you do not have children of your own lineage, you should have many spiritual children. Even if it is not your physical lineage, you must leave a lot of spiritual lineage of love. That is why you are being asked to witness. It is not necessarily only the children you (give) birth (to). We must gain many families of love through the spiritual children.
How many people truly believed in True Parents and left a record of love through us and went to heaven? True Parents gave us the title of Tribal Messiah and told us to save our tribe.
True Parents did not vaguely ask us to witness. They gave specific instructions on how to carry out the mission of the tribal messiah. We cannot just make the mission of the tribal messiah conditional. We really have to love people with all our heart, all our mind, and all our soul. God looks at the content rather than the condition.
“Oh, I completed (htm and) registered in the Cheon Bo Won.” Of course, we need to do that. But also the content is important. How much do we love them? How many people did we raise?” How many of the 430 couples have a heartistic connection and an inseparable relationship, shedding tears and testifying, “You are my eternal spiritual father and mother. I will never forget you. Thank you so much. You saved my life.”
We need to have that kind of internal content, not just showing the numbers. That is why True Mother said among 430 couples we need to raise 43 couples.
Jesus prayed to forgive and bless the enemy who killed him. That love was truly genuine, true love. Because Jesus' quality of affection was true love, the achievements of true love he left behind as he died completely changed the history of 2,000 years and had a powerful influence on all humankind.
Whenever I talk about Jesus’ quality of love, I am so inspired. Why do I accept Jesus as my lord? Because of his genuine love. When we have(?) genuine love, which is true love, we can influence our family, our children, our congregation, our society and nation. Can you imagine: (Jesus’) public life was only three years; how could he influence all humankind, 2,000 years of Christian history. It is incredible.
Witnessing is to raise our quality of true love.
Witnessing is training to love people. So, the more we witness, the more our personality changes and the quality of our love is upgraded. Therefore, the key is how much love we multiply while living on this earth.
It is important to give birth to children and raise them to be good people, but the achievement of restoring people who are not related to us in lineage and making them into the lineage of heaven is also a great achievement.
In some ways, it may be easier to give birth to and raise children of the physical body than to witness. As long as both men and women are physically fit, anyone can give birth to a baby. If we do not have children of our own lineage, we should have many spiritual children.
Even if it is not our physical lineage, we must leave behind a lot of spiritual lineage of love. That is why we are being asked to witness. It is not necessarily only the children we (give) birth (to). We must gain many families of love through the spiritual children.
It is fundamentally important to raise my own children. How can we give up our own living?
However, at the same time we need to raise our spiritual children very well. Even though we do not have time to have give-and-take with our (own) children because they have already grown up and live in a different place, when we truly love our Cain children until we die, even though our children made a mistake, we love our Cain children, (that is) a condition (for God) to forgive you.
Our (physical) children and spiritual children have the same value as God’s sons and daughters, right?
Today I talked about “A Person Who will Receive a Great Merit Reward From Heaven.”
Today I need to go to East Garden early. Also, I need to prepare something to meet Christian ministers. We have a very important ceremony of Jesus’ and True Parents’ 12 disciples appointment ceremony. So I will leave very soon. I cannot join you from now on.
But I really encourage us to concentrate on witnessing. How do we get the majority? We have God, we have True Parents, we have the Divine Principle, we have the Blessing. We have everything. The only thing we lack is the numbers, the majority. Without the majority we cannot get God’s nation. In order to get the majority, we need to witness.
In order to increase witnessing numbers, one thing is important. It is quality, rather than quantity. If we increase and develop the quality, the quantity will automatically come. If we become like Jesus, if we have Jesus’ quality of love, we don’t need to worry about the quantity, we don’t need to worry about the majority. Am I right?
(Testimony Pastor Tom Corley, Long Island Family Church, The Corley Siblings’ Story)♦
(Response to sharing) We are talking about the 12 disciples inauguration ceremony today. Let them not just do the 43-day condition, but also study the Divine Principle thoroughly and join the Cheon Bo Won. We want to increase their numbers from 12 disciples to 36 and 72. I want to follow True Parents’ pattern.
When we reach 70 or 80, we want to go to Korea and see our True Parents’ Mecca: our Cheonjung Gung and Cheongpyeong. Then another group and another group (will go). I plan to appoint (more) Jesus’ and True Parents’ disciples leadership. I want to educate 3,000 ACLC members who really study the Divine Principle thoroughly and become great candidates to become Cheon Bo Won. That is my plan.♦
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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