Ep 774 - The Role of Women Has Become More Important Part 5
Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents - December 8, 2022
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Key Points
Through the Korean people, Heaven has established the traditions of loyalty, filial piety and virtue, and ushered in the providential age of the Messiah.
Korea’s unprecedented providential ordeal has made it the nexus point of east and west, north and south, spirit and material and the forces of history.
Its current challenges can only be resolved in relation to the world and in line with God's will and providence by following and becoming one with the messiah.
If Korea serves the world on the foundation of True Parents' world-wide victory, God will bestow blessings on Korea that will exceed those of the United States and it will become a center of truth, love and peace in the world.
Japan and the United States, as the Abel side, need to take care of South Korea and protect it from the Cain-side of North Korea, China and Russia.
There is no difference between sensations experienced among human beings and those experienced between spiritual beings and human beings. Thus, a sexual relationship between an angel and a human being can actually happen.
Rev. Chi Sang Lee tells of people who led married lives with spirit people and had sexual relations with them. In the Bible angels ate food with Lot and Abraham and an angel dislocated Jacob’s hip.
The spiritual fall, such as masturbating, watching pornographic videos and entertaining impure thoughts, causes the fall of one’s heart which leads to the physical fall. The Bible says that even having impure thoughts is the same as the fall (Matt. 5:28).
Because Satan brainwashes our young people 24/7 in the secular world, we need to protect them from the spiritual and consequent physical fall through continual hoondokhae and Morning Devotion.
In the era of Cheon Il Guk we should honor our conscience as God and always listen to the voice of our original mind as our eternal teacher, parent and God.
When our spouse and we both attend True Parents, we should attend our spouse as God and serve him or her unconditionally. This only works if both spouses attend God and True Parents.
There is a lesson that God wants to give us in every incident. We should humbly pray to understand it.
Trials may indemnify personal or ancestral mistakes, a mission change or promotion, or a providential event.
We should accept and be grateful for persecution as indemnity for our growth and edification and not avoid it nor think of the persecutor as our enemy. Rather we should be proactive and voluntarily deal with it.
Trials and difficulties are God's training and love that clear up our fallen nature and help us grow into a true person. They are also paid on the behalf of the whole and of our ancestors. We should find their cause through sincere prayer and devotion.
If we want to pay indemnity willingly, happily, joyfully and with appreciation, then our spiritual level (attains) a different dimension.
The main purpose of trials, persecution and pain is for us to grow up to become a true person.
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.♦
Yesterday, we had a Christmas Party for headquarters staff and volunteers at 43rd Street in New York.
Some people shared their appreciation and resolutions for New Year.
We also had very nice and delicious food and President Naokimi gave greeting remarks.
I shared about the mindset of working at headquarters and a vision to welcome the new year.
We had fun games and Heavenly USA sang beautiful Christmas songs. It was really beautiful.
We took a group photo.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Role of Women has Become More Important” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the World Women's Peace Network General Assembly held on March 25, 2012 at the Beache Palace Resort Hotel in Muchangpo, Korea> Because the Korean people have attended God as their original ancestor, the spirit of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values are alive in their spirit and tradition, and have been continued to this day. In the course of over 5,000 years of history, not once have they invaded or plundered another nation or people, because the spirit of benefitting all humankind flows in the veins of the Korean people. Furthermore, the spirit of filial piety, fidelity and loyalty, which are the fundamental virtues of human life, are still alive and breathing in Korean history. God prepared the Korean people and laid down the foundation for the providence to receive the Messiah based on these noble Korean values and traditions. Thus, through the spirit of the Korean peninsula, the True Parents of humankind and the king of kings could finally be manifested on earth after receiving the seal of Heaven.
Beloved WFWP members and leaders! The path that humanity should take is now clear to us. The Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk, which Heaven has revealed and declared through True Parents, is only a year away. Heaven's blessings will be with you on your ambitious and busy course. If you view the flow of history from the viewpoint of providential history, you can see that the changes of the times can be broadly classified into three stages. The first is the era of worldly matters, that is, a time when materialism took precedence. The second is the era of human affairs, a humanistic era when peoples’ knowledge and Heaven's impartial emotions took precedence in dominating the world. However, these eras were transitional.
Through the Korean people, Heaven has established the tradition of loyalty, filial piety and virtue, and has carried out the providential age of the foundation to establish the Messiah.
Next, we will have time to figure out what kind of people were the Korean people through True Father’s Words in the early days.
Korea is the Nation Chosen by God
and the Central Nation of the Providence
<135-238> Distinguished guests! Centering on God's Will, the Korean people are God's chosen people, and Korea is the central nation of the providence that should set a model of the life of living for the sake of other as God desires. Korea, tangled with its many twists and stories in history, has a providential mission to sort out and settle the spiritual conditions and the successes and failures of histories gathered here. It should be understood in this regard that a nation with excellent genius and culture has walked on an unprecedented path of hardship in the world.
Korean People's Trials and Tribulations
<135-238> The trials of this nation are not unique to these people, but providential, and God has been eagerly waiting for them to overcome it. The whirlwind on the Korean Peninsula is like the struggle of a mother conceiving a new era, as it can be called the combined heritage of the world; combining of the East and West, the South and the North, the spirit and materials, and the chaos and confusion of spirituality and legacy.
The ethnic and national difficulties of the Korean people cannot be solved without God’s will and providence, but in relation to the world and not Korea alone. The Korean people should now realize the will of heaven and follow the person whom God sent for the purpose of guiding the world’s spiritual world and overcome hardships.
The Path of Korea to become the Center of Truth, Love and Peace
<235-238> The foundation of oneself and the Unification Church is the foundation that has been thoroughly established to follow the will of heaven. It is the foundation of victory over the persecution of Judaism and Christianity and overcoming the ignorance of the East and the West.
If the Korean people and nation live for the world on the basis of their global victory, it is believed that God will bless Korea more than the historical blessings He gave to America. (Applause) If this happens, Korea will not only overcome hardships but also become the center of truth, love and peace before the world. God's love for Korea is not just for Korea. When the Korean people serve the world, God's blessings on Korea will come to fruition.
Father spoke about many things. Let’s summarize what he is talking about.
The Path of Korea to become the Center of Truth, Love and Peace
1. The Korean people's ordeal, unprecedented in the world, was providential.
2. Korea is a place where the collective heritage of world history, the encounter between east and west, south and north, spirit and material, and the confrontation and chaos between spirituality and legacy, is concentrated.
3. The ethnic and national difficulties cannot be resolved apart from God's will and providence.
4. All of Korea's trials and difficulties can only be resolved in relation to the world, not Korea alone.
5. The Korean people must realize the will of Heaven.
6. Korea must follow the Messiah sent by God and overcome all of the hardships by becoming one with him.
7. The foundation of True Parents and the Unification Church is the foundation of victory over the persecution of Judaism, Christianity and the ignorance of the East and West.
8. Korea must live for the sake of the world on the foundation of True Parents' world-wide victory.
9. If Korea unites with True Parents, God will bestow blessings on Korea that exceed those of the historical blessings bestowed upon the United States.
10. In the future, Korea will not only overcome hardships, but will also become a center of truth, love and peace in front of the world.
11. Heavenly Parent does not love Korea just for Korea.
12. When the Korean people serve the world, God's blessings on Korea will come to fruition.
Korea is the chosen nation. God loves Korea not just for Korea. Because he chose Korea as a chosen nation, our America, as the elder son nation, needs to connect to Korea all the time. Centering on Korea, Japan and America as the mother and son nation really need to protect the nation of Korea.
The Cain side (including the Adam nation of) North Korea, the Eve nation of China and the archangel nation of Russia, are united centering on Cain’s realm.
Abel’s side needs to really work hard to protect Korea. As the elder son nation how can we protect and take care of Korea? Everything in the American nation needs to relate to the Korean peninsula providence.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 11 - The Spiritual Fall 1
• God created human beings with two components: the spirit self and the physical self. The human Fall likewise took place in two dimensions: the spiritual and the physical.
• The fall which took place through the sexual relationship between the angel and Eve was the spiritual fall, while the fall which occurred through the sexual relationship between Eve and Adam was the physical fall.
• How can an act of passionate love be consummated between an angel and a human being?
• All the emotions and sensations felt between a person and a spirit are exactly the same as those felt during contact between two earthly people.
• Undoubtedly, a sexual union between an angel and a person is possible.
• We can understand this more clearly from the fact that there are reported cases of earthly people leading a married life with spirits.
Is it Possible for Angels and Human Beings to Have a Sexual Relationship?
Many second generation ask about this. Let me explain about this.
1. There is no difference between sensations experienced among human beings and sensations experienced between spiritual beings and human beings. Thus we can find many spiritual mediums suffering from evil spiritual experiences more strongly than from physical experiences. Thus, we can understand that a sexual relationship between an angel and a human being can actually happen.
2. Rev. Chi Sang Lee’s testimony : There is much historical evidence of earthly people leading married lives with spirit persons. I once talked with a woman on the phone and she told me that when she was about to fall sleep (in the state between being awake and asleep) a spirit man came to her and had a sexual relationship. She wanted to find a solution for that. It was indeed a serious matter for this woman.
This is really real. I also hear from our members that even though the husband has passed away, he has come down to the earth and had a sexual relationship with his wife. I hear so many testimonies about these kinds of things. It is really sure that angels and human beings can have relationships, especially sexual relationships.
3. In the Bible, there are some examples that illustrate the deep relationship between angels and humankind; the socket of Jacob's hip joint was wrenched as he wrestled with the angel (Gen32:25). Also, an angel came to Abraham’s house and ate a meat. (Gen. 18:7).
4. Two angels who visited Lot’s house ate some unleavened bread, and then people in the village called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them." (Gen. 19:5)
The Spiritual Fall and the Physical Fall
1. Clear directions about the Spiritual Fall and our daily lives must be given:
> (Specifically directions) about masturbating, watching pornographic videos and entertaining impure thoughts, etc., ...
(which) are all related with the spirits (of) dead evil ancestors.
2. The reason why the Spiritual Fall is dreadful:
> Once you are dominated by the spiritual fall, it automatically connects to the physical fall. Therefore, the sources of the Spiritual Fall must be eradicated.
> The fall in one’s thoughts causes the fall of one’s heart and the fall of one’s heart causes the Physical Fall.
3. The Bible says that even having impure thoughts is the same as the fall.
> Jesus said in Matt. 5:28 “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
The spiritual fall always happens before the physical fall. That is why if we often watch pornography and masturbate, we are a dangerous guy! We can fall physically any time. If we do not protect ourself from the spiritual fall, we need to understand that the spiritual fall relates to the physical fall at any time. The only “problem” is that (such a person) does not have an opportunity to fall. Those who have the habit of masturbating, watching pornography on the Internet and (indulging in) a lot of Chapter Two thinking, have a dangerous mentality. They can commit physical sin any time.
How can we prevent the spiritual fall? This is really a spiritual battle. We need to check whether our thinking is spiritual or physical.
One can see that our second generation and third generation, our young people, everybody is possessed by the spirit of masturbating, watching pornography and videos, everything related to Chapter Two thinking. This is the reality.
Without doing hoondokhae or Morning Devotion, (they) go to school, relate to their friends, (look at) the Internet, and (are influenced by) secular teaching. There is no way to protect (them). Satan brainwashes (them) 24 hours (a day). If we don’t “brainwash” them in a good way with God’s word and the Divine Principle, how can we protect them? Satan brainwashes them by his word: “Have sex!” “Have sex!” That is why we need to teach them, “Do not eat!” “Do not eat!” Dos and don’t dos. We need to teach them very clearly ... for 30 or 40 minutes or one hour per day. Without proper guidance through hoondokhae or God’s word, how will we protect our children? Satan brainwashes them 24 hours (a day). Thirty or 40 minutes a day is not enough. Just letting them play by themselves is really terrible. We need to educate our children from a young age continuously.
If I had not done that, my three children would never have received the Blessing. I know what kind of education (there is) in school, in college, in the university. It is terrible! Everywhere there is a Chapter Two environment. How do you want to protect them without God’s word, without prayer? It is impossible. They need to have education. Because parents do not show the good habit of hoondokhae, how will you protect them? Even Adam and Eve before the fall were living in such a good environment.
We are living in a fallen environment; how do you want to protect them? I am telling you, God’s word is the key. We need to stimulate them through God’s word all the time. Then we will have more power to win over Satan. My goodness!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Attitude of the Heart of a Person Walking the Path of Faith
Live with My Conscience Like Heavenly Parent
1. Our life of faith must be discussed with our own conscience. In the era of Cheon Il Guk, rather than praying, you should have a closer relationship with your conscience. We must always think centering on our conscience and listen to its voice and therefore, living a life based on it. And we must know that our conscience is our subject partner and that our conscience is Heavenly Parent, and we must have a mindset to live with it well.
Next, you have to think about how to handle all the events that happen around you. When there are difficulties in our family, or when an incident occurs due to some mistake, or when there is a sudden concern about finances, or when it becomes increasingly difficult, we have to think about how to handle it. There is a lesson that Heavenly Parent must be giving us through these incidents.
Our life of faith must always be discussed with our own conscience. The era of Cheon Il Guk is an era in which you honor your conscience as God. So, you must always listen to the voice of your original mind because the conscience is your eternal teacher, parent and God.
In this way, in my personal life, I must serve my conscience as God, and in my married life, I must attend my partner as God. You must think of your partner as your Abel-figure and serve him or her unconditionally.
However, since there can be many situations in a marital relationship, you must apply it well. Even if you are told to attend your partner like God, it does not apply to all situations.
In some cases, if your partner does not attend the church and leaves, you cannot serve your partner as God. In such a case, you must pray for your partner in tears until he or she comes back.
Here, the reason to attend one's partner as God is when both spouses have the same center to attend Heavenly Parent and True Parents. Even though they have the same center and attend True Parents together, they (may) have conflict on different issues and fight each other. Then we need to attend our spouse as God. As long as he or she has the same center and attends Heavenly Parent and True Parents, this works. But if they have left the church and go a completely different way, this will not work.
Next, you have to think about how to handle all the events that happen around you. You shouldn’t think that they have nothing to do with you.
You must know well that there is a lesson that God wants to give you in every incident that occurs in your relationships or family. Therefore, we must humbly ask God: “Why did this event come to my family and to me?”
The Mental Attitude of a Person on the Path of Indemnity
2. Every incident, trial, and difficulty has a meaning. Therefore, we must find the meaning. If you don't try to find such a cause and worry about solving it only with the results that appear, you will be confused because you don't know what to do. We must think that each incident, trial and difficulty were sent by Heaven and realize the meaning through prayer and sincere devotion. This is the attitude of a person who walks on the path of indemnity and the path of the Will.
If someone persecutes me, there must be a reason and cause for me to be persecuted. You must not think of the reason and cause of persecution, and you must not unconditionally think unfairly and try to avoid it or think of the other person as your enemy. Therefore, don't think badly of those who persecute you. We must find the root cause, and deal with it. The people or group do not persecute me because they want to, it is clear that there is a meaning behind it.
This is very important guidance.
Every incident, trial, and difficulty must have a cause, a clear reason. Therefore the cause must be found. You must think that the one who gave the cause is God.
However, if you worry about trying to solve it only with the results that appear, your heart will become harder and harder and no countermeasure will come out, building stress and sickness in your body.
I must think that this incident, trial and difficulty have a clear will given to me by Heaven, and I must find and realize that reason through prayer and sincere devotion. This is the attitude of a person who walks the path of indemnity and the path of the will.
If someone persecutes us, there must be a reason and cause for us to be persecuted. We must not avoid thinking about the reason, cover it up, think of it as unjust, try to avoid it, or think of the person as our enemy.
In my own (situation) in which there were trials and difficulties and problems and incidents, I came to understand when I think back (on it that) there was some clear reason (for them). I thought about why this incident and difficulty and trial came to me, for what reason. When we find the right reason, we need to repent and to understand what it means: “Oh, God is asking me to challenge and overcome and grow up to another level.” When I understood that, then I no longer struggled about that. God gave me these trials and difficulties and incidents and asked me to grow up. If I committed some problem, then God was asking me to repent.
Therefore, we need to know why this kind of incident came to us or why this happened to our child. There is a clear reason.
Or in order to do some higher mission, we (may) need to pay some kind of indemnity. For example – even though time is passing, this is very important – whenever True Parents changed my mission from tribal messiah to national leader to missionary to national messiah to continental director, oh my goodness, always I paid indemnity! Then I knew that each level of position is different. When True Father assigned me to be the Oceania Continental Director from the Korean national messiah mission, I did not know the difference in spiritual level. Before I received that direction, I had a very serious car accident. To attend Morning Devotion, I had to drive more than 1½ hours from my house to church. One day it was snowing a lot; it was cold and windy, and there was a lot of ice on the road. I drove carefully and turned on Holy Songs. Somehow because of icy roads, I had an accident and almost died. A few days later I received a new assignment. Many times (I experienced) this kind of case. Wow!
Also sometimes I made some personal problem; then immediately trials came to me. (Then there) was a very clear reason and cause.
We need to find out why. Then we need to repent or to appreciate another level to overcome. There are many reasons (for trials).
Mindset in the Age of Restoration through Indemnity
3. When we are persecuted, it is not the other person that is the problem, but because there is a reason behind the persecution, we should feel grateful and think that Heavenly Parent has us pay indemnity through that person. The persecutor is actually innocent.
If you only think about visible results or think you are being treated unjustly, you will get very confused and never produce a solution. It is the mindset of restoration through indemnity to think that behind any event, persecution, hardship or trial, there must be a cause which is to clear up the indemnity and the fallen nature to grow oneself.
To have this mindset, we must always not self-assert ourselves and practice self-denial. We must think that everything is happening because of our sins. Or we should think of this as training from Heavenly Parent to make us a true person. And through this, we must think that Heavenly Parent is trying to clear away our fallen nature.
You must keep in mind that behind any incident, persecution, difficulty or trial, there must be a reason. Anyone who fails to find this in principle and in faith, will become humanistic and faith can no longer grow.
Most of the trials, persecutions and difficulties exist because there is indemnity to pay for ourself or behalf of our ancestors.
Therefore, we must think that Heaven is trying to clear up our fallen nature and help us grow. This is the mindset of restoration through indemnity.
Of course, there are difficulties and indemnities paid for the whole or on the behalf of our ancestors . However, I should take responsibility for them and think of it as restoring by expanding the realm of goodness.
There is absolutely no growth in faith without trials and difficulties. In that sense, trials and difficulties are God's love that help me grow.
To have this mindset, you must always not self-assert yourself. You have to think that everything is happening because of your sins. Or, you should think of this as training for God to make you a true person.
Things to be Cautious of in the Course of Faith
4. The trials, persecution, pain and difficulties that come to us are not something we can avoid just because we hate them. Therefore, I cannot arbitrarily judge "good or bad" or horizontally deal with everything that comes to me.
In our course of faith, we need shimjeong, we need comfort, we need recognition and praise, but we must not stay there. As we go through life, many unexpected events happen. Therefore, do not be satisfied that something good happened today, and do not feel bad because something bad happened. In any situation, you must do everything according to Heavenly Parent's will and think about what lessons Heavenly Parent gives you through this incident. You must not make judgements or assert yourself based on your own feelings and emotions. You must always be careful.
The trials, persecution, pain, and difficulties that come to us are not something we can avoid just because we hate them. It's an ordeal we have to go through no matter what, and if it's indemnity, we have to be proactive and voluntarily deal with it.
“OK. This situation came to me. Any persecution, trials and pain are my destiny to overcome.” That is why we have to be positive, proactive, voluntary, willingly take responsibility.
If we try to avoid (trials), escape (them), hate (them), dislike (them), this does not work. If trials and persecution, pain and difficulty come to us, we (should) willingly accept them. If we want to pay indemnity willingly, happily, joyfully and with appreciation, then our spiritual level (attains) a different dimension, I am telling you.
That is Father’s attitude. He could have complained when he entered Heungnam Prison. He could have complained when he entered Danbury Prison. What was his attitude? “This is my will! This is God’s will! I can bring more blessing.” Wow! Father’s attitude was so positive. (He had a) volunteer heart. We need to learn from True Father.
Therefore, we cannot arbitrarily judge "good or bad" or deal horizontally with everything that comes our way, centering on our own feelings.
In our course of faith, we need shimjeong, we need comfort, we need recognition and praise, but we must not stay there.
As we go through life, many unexpected incidents and events happen. Therefore, in any circumstance, I must do everything according to God's will and think about what lessons God is giving me through these incidents.
We must keep in mind that greater indemnity and trials will come if we judge the events that come to us according to our feelings and emotions, or assert ourself.
The final conclusion is that when we overcome that kind of situation, we can really develop and reach a different standard. That is why we need to appreciate any trial and persecution and pain. What is (its) main purpose? For us to grow up to become a true man or a true woman.
Today I talked about “The Attitude of the Heart of a Person Walking the Path of Faith.”
(Testimony Rev. Zagary Oliver, Witnessing, Vice President, UPF USA)♦
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