Ep 913 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II Part 3
God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II - April 26, 2023
Key Points
On their world tours True Parents have carried the “seal” of heaven and sought to deliver to all humankind the heavenly secret that is like a final testament to humankind.
These precious words and will we must “keep in mind” and practice.
In 1985 True Father declared that communism would perish because it had persecuted religion. Several years afterwards it did fall (Soviet communism in 1991).
Historically, any individual, nation, doctrine, or ideology that persecuted the religion established on behalf of God, perished.
To inherit heavenly fortune we must protect religion and love God more than anyone else.
Because after the blessing the woman is in the position of the Lord's bride and mother and the husband represents the fallen archangel, her mission is to pass on the heart of True Parents to her husband, to connect him to “the tears, sorrows, and wishes of God and True Parents.”
To do this, she must first show more filial piety to her in-laws than to her own parents whom she loved.
The woman must serve and attend the archangel's parents-in-law well and bring them to surrender naturally with love.
Then her quality of love will increase, her lineage will change to a heaven ly lineage, and she will give birth to children of heavenly lineage.
Husbands are bound to “absolutely surrender” to the filial piety that their wives give to their parents-in-law.
The daughter-in-law must dissolve everything “with the salt of her love,” no matter how difficult her parents-in-law or husband are.
Blessed couples are salt (true love) that must dissolve in the secular world to prevent decay and corruption. This means self-denial and service to others with true love
Blessed couples are also “light” bringing the truth.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II” from True Mother’s Anthology, Volume 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between September 1 and October 14 during a 40-nation Victory and Complete Freedom Rally to Bring Universal Peace to the Fatherland and Hometown speaking tour. 115,116>
Distinguished leaders, can you sense the intense heart with which we are taking up this world tour? As my husband approaches 88 years of age, we do not
know when or where he might collapse along the way. He has already put his life on the line to embark on this world tour, and it is possible that it will be his last. He is revealing the secrets of Heaven. These might be the last precious words that the True Parent, who appeared with Heaven's seal, leaves for humanity. I sincerely ask that you open your hearts and engrave these words of Heaven upon them.
May you have the wisdom to uphold these words as the standard of your life and pass them on to your family and clan, your descendants and the people in your community. Ladies and gentlemen, my speech for today again has the title God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World, as it is a summary of the divine teachings that my husband and I have conveyed to the 6.5 billion people of the world during the past year. It is to remind you once again of your role and mission as seen from the viewpoint of God's providence, and of the importance of the age in which you are living.
True Father, at the age of 88, went on a world tour with a more serious heart than ever before. True Father risked his life to embark on this path.
At that time, True Mother said about True Father's tour that it might be the last world tour for True Father, but it really happened. True Parents who have carried the seal by Heaven and have manifested themselves, have struggled to deliver to all humankind the heavenly secret that is like a final testament to humankind.
Therefore, we must keep in mind and put into practice the words of True Parents and the will that they delivered when they toured the world.
True Parents proclaimed that this may be his last world tour. That was what happened.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Eschatology 5 - Human History is the History of the Providence of Restoration1 - 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 has 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 Declaration of the End of Communism by Rev. Moon was a Declaration of Absolute Faith in the Providence of Restoration
When Communism was expanding its influence internationally based on atheistic dialectical materialism, Rev. Moon declared the end of Communism in Geneva, Switzerland on Aug. 18, 1985. He said that Communism would perish because it has persecuted religion. Several years after that, the declaration became a reality. The reason why Rev. Moon declared the end of Communism was because of his absolute faith in God’s providence of restoration. If we want to thrive we must protect and nourish the religion which emerged through God’s providence of restoration. Even though someone has great power and authority, if he takes the lead in persecuting the central religion which is established by God’s providence of restoration, he will inevitably be ruined.
In addition, if God’s providence of restoration is leading us to discover the internal truth which liberates us from internal ignorance, it is inevitable that a religion which has the new truth would emerge. Therefore, people must not judge it as heresy because that will be a sin that goes against the providence of Heaven.
Rev. Moon declared the end of Communism in Geneva, Switzerland on Aug. 18, 1985. He said that Communism would perish because it has persecuted religion. Several years after that, the declaration became a reality.
Historically, any individual, nation, doctrine, or ideology that persecuted the religion established on behalf of God must be destroyed. Therefore, if we want to become people who prosper individually, we must be people who protect and nurture the religion that was created by God's providence of restoration.
If a leader takes the lead in persecuting the central religion which is established by God’s providence of restoration, he will inevitably be ruined.
Conversely, what is the best way to receive the most blessing and inherit heavenly fortune from God? Of course, religion must be protected and nurtured, but we must love God more than anyone else.
Even in the Bible, the greatest commandment is to show filial piety to God just as you loved the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul. That is the way to inherit heavenly fortune and receive blessings.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Woman Who Must Fulfill the Mission of Salt and Light
The Reason Why Blessed Wives Marry into their Husbands' Homes
1.Many female church members from Korea, Japan, and other countries received international blessings and married into their husbands' countries. There is one thing that many women who have received international blessings should be aware of. When they go to the kingdom of the groom, they must clearly understand that God's wish and mission are there. They must not forget that they went there to pass on the heart of True Parents to their husband, who is in the position of the archangel. That's why women marry their husbands.
We must not forget that we went there to connect the tears, sorrows, and wishes of God and True Parents to the husband in the position of the archangel. The wife is the mediator of love. She is the mediator who conveys the love and heart of God and True Parents to the husband who is in the position of the archangel. Therefore, when a woman marries her husband, she must first show more filial piety to her in-laws than to her own parents whom she loved. Then the daughter-in-law will surely win.
When we receive the Blessing, the positions of men and women are different. The man represents the fallen archangel, and the woman is in the position of the Lord's bride and mother. So, in a blessed couple, the woman stands closer to heaven than the man.
When we hold the 3-day ceremony, the woman, as a mother, plays the role of liberating the man who is in the position of the archangel. In this position, women, in the position of the Messiah's bride, must replace True Mother and liberate the man, who is in the position of the archangel, with true love. And we must apply this principle in our lives as we receive the blessing and leave our homes.
Many female church members from Korea, Japan, and other countries received international blessings and married into their husbands' countries. However, there is one thing that many women who have received international blessings should be aware of.
When they go to the kingdom of the groom, they must clearly understand that God's wish and mission are there. They must not forget that they went there to pass on the heart of True Parents to their husband, who is in the position of the archangel.
However, there are many women do not know this principle and are led by their husbands or simply live horizontally as a married couple, which brings many problems. As a blessed wife, if we do not know our own mission and position, God cannot work with us in our life.
Wives must immediately know why they married their husbands. We must not forget that we went there to connect the tears, sorrows, and wishes of God and True Parents to the husband in the position of the archangel.
The wife is the mediator of love. She is the mediator who conveys the love and heart of God and True Parents to the husband who is in the position of the archangel.
Therefore, when a woman marries her husband, she must first show more filial piety to her in-laws than to her own parents whom she loved. Then the daughter-in-law will surely win.
As a daughter-in-law if we win our mother-in-law’s heart, then we win everything. But normally the daughter-in-law does not like to serve her mother in law. That is the issue.
The Woman Who Must Fulfill the Mission of Salt and Light
2. A woman should serve her parents-in-law well, attend them, and make them naturally surrender to her. What will happen if she does that? The lineage of the daughter who naturally subdued her parents-in-law is completely changed. Then, what are the results if the daughter-in-law's lineage changes? A child of an excellent heavenly lineage will appear and the husband automatically surrenders naturally. This is an unmistakable story. Husbands are bound to absolutely surrender to the filial piety that their wives give to their parents-in-law. It is the same reason that radish pickled in salt becomes pickled radish. There is no one who does not become pickled in front of love. The power of love has absolute authority and creative power. Salt has amazing and absolute power. When touched with salt, the cells of all plants and animals are pickled. That's why the Bible said, 'Be ye salt'. Therefore, the international blessing is that the wives of the family and the women who received the blessing and married into the husband's house should become salt and light.
There is an order to make the husband, who is in the position of the archangel, naturally surrender. First, the woman must serve and attend the archangel's parents-in-law well and make them surrender naturally with love. When that happens, the lineage of the married daughter-in-law will be completely changed.
When we subdue our enemies naturally, the quality of our love increases. And the quality of lineage changes to the lineage of heaven. Therefore, from the lineage of the daughter-in-law who naturally subjugated her parents-in-law, children of the excellent lineage of heaven appear. Then it is nothing to subdue the husband. This is an unmistakable story.
This is a true story. Look at the Old Testament. In or der to bring God’s blood lineage in Jesus time, how im por tant the woman’s position was in changing the blood lineage!
Husbands are bound to absolutely surrender to the filial piety that their wives give to their parents-in-law. So, the married daughter-in-law must play the role of salt. It is the same reason that radishes become pickled radish when they are pickled in salt. There is no one who is not pickled in front of love.
The power of love has absolute authority and creative power. Salt has amazing and absolute power. When touched with salt, the cells of all plants and animals are pickled. Salt means true love. The daughter-in-law must melt everything with the salt of her love, no matter how difficult her parents-in-law or husband are.
That's why the Bible said, “Be ye salt.” Therefore, the international blessing is that the wives of the family and the women who received the blessing and married into the husband's house should become salt and light.
Mission of the Chosen Christian
3. What does the secular world mean? It refers to the world of people who live centered on themselves. Additionally, didn't Jesus choose Christianity and asked them not to resemble secular people, but to pickle the world with the role of light and salt, and to save it with light? What should the chosen Christians do to keep the world from rotting and darkening like salt? Where should they start? The Bible says, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." This means to be filial to God and to one's parents. And the next step is to “Consummate your marriage,” but there is no such words in the Bible. There is only one word: “Love your parents.”
How would we change a corrupt secular world? It requires us to dissolve (in) it like salt and prevent decay. If salt remains as salt grains even after entering water and does not dissolve, it will not taste salty.
If the salt gets into the water, it should dissolve. That's how it (comes to) taste salty. That means denying ourself and serving others. People who live centered on themselves do not melt and always make noise and discord because each person assert themselves.
That is why Jesus chose Christianity and asked them to pickle the world with the role of light and salt and save it with light, not to resemble secular people. However, all religions today cannot prevent the corruption of the world. Religion is not doing the role of salt properly.
Salt doesn't taste like salt if we leave it alone. Salt tastes salty when it goes into the water. Likewise, those who have true love must enter the secular world to taste the true saltiness and reveal their true value.
We blessed families are gathered together, we are like salt. The salt must go into the water. Therefore, we blessed families must enter the world. That's why we have to prevent corruption in the world and make it salty.
That is why Jesus talked about salt and light. This is an incredible kind of example, right?
Today I talked about “The Woman Who Must Fulfill the Mission of Salt and Light.”
(Testimony Bishop Charles & Pastor Marion Dudley, ACLC Testimony, New Beginnings)♦
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