Ep 719 - God, Women and World Peace Part 3
God, Women and World Peace - October 14, 2022
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Key Points
Because each of us is the 4th Adam, we must inherit the victorious authority of True Parents and become owners of the era of Cheon Il Guk, dependent on no one.
The Unification Church will never perish because the Four Position Foundation is already settled and the era of the fourth Adam has already begun.
God can acknowledge human beings as His children only when we have the same lineage as he does by cutting off Satan's lineage through the Blessing and inheriting God's lineage.
Restoration through indemnity is the training to cut off Satan's lineage, and it is the way to lay the foundation to meet True Parents.
All the saints in the fallen world were born with the lineage of the fallen world, but the Messiah came with God's lineage as his direct descendant. That is why Jesus said that no one can enter the kingdom of heaven except through him.
After the first-generation blessing, the woman, in the role of the messiah’s bride must lift her husband, as the archangel, up heartistically, not just conditionally, through the three-day ceremony from the level of servant to that of adopted son, stepson, son, husband and father.
As the object partner of the substance of love, the woman has to play the key role of giving birth to everything. She has to take responsibility for everything and pay indemnity from behind for the sake of restoration.
In today’s male-centered archangelic culture, the world is increasingly retreating when it comes to family values and ethics.
Now, in the age of love, it is time for women to change the world from the position of the substance of original love.
A woman in the position of the substance of love must embrace everything with true love and provide a fertile field for the man’s seed.
A man's level of love can rise depending on how much love he has received from his mother and how much his wife respects him.
If a woman keeps her center despite a bad environment, her marriage and family will thrive.
In the era of Cheon Il Guk, women must lead the way for the nation and the world to live.
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 “World Peace and the Role of Women 3” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This was an invitational address delivered on September 7, 1993 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York> Because of the Fall of our first ancestors, God's work of salvation had to begin. Salvation history had to be extended repeatedly through the complicated and suffering courses of the Old and New Testament Ages, culminating in today’s Completed Testament Age. God's ideal of the true family and the heavenly kingdom, which He wanted to realize through Adam's family, was destroyed because Adam and Eve fell away from God. Due to the Fall, this present world is far from the good world of God’s ideal. In fact, today's world is a false world, in that it is flooded with self-centered love.
This came about because Adam and Eve became false parents based on the false and self-centered love of Satan. They multiplied evil rather than goodness, creating a false family and passing on false life and a false lineage to their descendants. Thus, false clans, false nations and a false world came into being. Therefore, the goal in God's dispensation of salvation is for a man and a woman, representing Adam and Eve, to be restored as True Parents centered on God’s true love, so that they can form a true family. From them eventually would flow the true clan, the true nation and the true world that God originally planned. In other words, the seed from which God's true love, true life and true lineage can grow has to be created.
Ultimately, the goal in God's dispensation of salvation is for a man and a woman, representing Adam and Eve, to be restored as True Parents centered on God’s true love, so that they can form a true family. In that sense, the final conclusion of God's 6,000-year providence of restoration is to send True Parents.
If we only find the True Parents, it will be the beginning and the conclusion of the resolution of all problems. The Messiah will never come again. Now, as we enter the era of the 4th Adam, each Blessed Family must represent True Parents as owners of the Era of Cheon Il Guk.
You are the 4th Adam. True Father clearly stated that the role of the 4th Adam is not given to just one person. This is because now is the era in which everyone must resemble True Parents and become the owners of Cheon Il Guk.
The first Adam and the second Adam did not fully fulfill the Will. However, True Parents, who came as the third Adam, accomplished everything. Gone are the days when we depend on anyone.
Because each of us is the 4th Adam, we must inherit the victorious authority of True Parents and become owners of the era of Cheon Il Guk. The era of the 5th Adam and the era of the 6th Adam, tenth and hundredth Adam will never come.
We are all children of God and True Parents. When anyone is blessed, it means that they have already inherited true life, true love, and true lineage from True Parents.
True Father said that no matter how many hard, difficult, and extreme trials the Unification Church may undergo in the future, if there is even a single family blessed by True Parents who keep True Parents’ tradition and have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, the Unification Church will never perish.
Why did Jesus have to come again? No multiplication. No wife. No children. How could he have multiplied God’s Kingdom of Heaven? That’s why he had no choice but to come back. But True Parents have already established a Four Position Foundation and have already declared, not the first Adam, not the second Adam, not the third Adam, but now is the era of the fourth Adam. Everybody becomes the fourth Adam; everybody takes ownership of Cheon Il Guk. Father said the Unification Church will never perish. “I have already produced so many blessed children, including my own children.” Why would the messiah or True Parents or the savior need to come again?
That is why we need to settle down centering on the fourth Adam. We are the fourth Adam, the owner of Cheon Il Guk. We need to know this clearly. Anyone who receives the Blessing become God’s sons and daughters. There is no distinguishing (discrimination?). Everybody is the same; (they have the) same blood lineage of God. This point is very important.
Do you think True Parents need to come again? That would mean that True Parents did not fulfill their job. They already have the Four Position Foundation and have produced so many blessed children. Say all true children fail, you fail, I fail, but at least some blessed couples keep absolute faith, love and obedience and keep True Parents’ tradition. Then, Father said, the Unification Church will never perish because the Four Position Foundation is already settled and the era of the fourth Adam has already begun. It is very clear.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Fall - 2. The Tree of Life (1)
• According to the Bible, the hope of fallen people is to attain the tree of life. In Prov. 13:12, the Israelites of the Old Testament Age looked to the tree of life as their hope. Likewise, in Rev. 22:14, the hope of all Christians has been to approach and partake of the tree of life.
• However, in Gen. 3:24, it is written that when Adam fell, God blocked his path to the tree of life by stationing the cherubim with a flaming sword to guard it. From this, we can also deduce that the hope of Adam before the fall was the tree of life.
• Adam was cast out of the Garden of Eden without having attained his hope, the tree of life. For fallen people ever since, the tree of life has remained a hope unfulfilled.
Let’s study Father’s word.
The Way to Be Engrafted to the Tree of Life
<169-35> Once you’ve joined our movement, you all learn about “indemnity.” We can not simply run away from here because there is all about it from individual, family, tribe, nation, world to universe. But you can make a group who are able to escape from here and be cut, then engrafted to the tree of life at once when the Lord comes. Otherwise there is no way for you to go back to the root of God. Those who are qualified to enter the kingdom of heaven are to be connected with blood relationship and love of God. Then those people are born, grow, live in the root and finally produce fruits of the root. When you horizontally expand and produce fruits, then follow the love strings of God, you are to reach the kingdom of heaven. You must clearly understand.
True Father said that those who can enter the kingdom of heaven must be grafted to the Lord who comes as the tree of life. The engrafting is the Blessing, and it is to inherit God's true life, true love, and true lineage.
In other words, we need to know that God can acknowledge human beings as His children only when we have the same lineage as Him through cutting off Satan's lineage through the Blessing and inheriting God's lineage.
That’s why without receiving the Blessing, we cannot have the same lineage as God. We cannot build the parent-child relationship (with God) because (our) blood lineage is different (from God’s). (If we) have the same blood lineage – God’s lineage becomes mine, and my lineage becomes his – then we can build the father-child relationship eternally. That is the Blessing; that is engrafting.
Ultimately, restoration through indemnity is the training to cut off Satan's lineage, and it is the way to lay the foundation to meet True Parents.
The Messiah has a Different Blood Lineage
<191-59> What is the Messiah? The blood lineage is different. The blood lineage is different in conclusion. All the saints from the satanic world were holding the blood lineage of the satanic world and trying to seek for an anointed vertical standard while the Messiah was born in the lineage of God. So the fundamental origin of life is always God, as the Messiah brought the life of God’s side he was called a “true olive tree” and a “tree of life.” That true olive tree comes to this world to do the engraftment centering on blood relatives who are united with it. When engrafting, the 6000-year-old trees are to be cut and do the engraftment on the tree of life. Just a single bud must be exchanged. That’s why people who do not know the value of the fruit are almost dying. There is a tremendous opposition. They’re clamorous that it may ruin the families and country.
We need to know what the difference is between the existing four great saints and the Messiah. In conclusion, the blood lineage is different. All the saints in the fallen world were born with the lineage of the fallen world, but the Messiah came with God's lineage. In other words, the Messiah is a direct descendant of God's lineage.
That is why Jesus said that no one can enter the kingdom of heaven except through him because only he has the lineage of God. That is why Jesus suffered a lot of persecution, and True Parents also suffered unimaginable persecution and misunderstanding.
It does not matter whether you are a saint or a great person or a patriot, without receiving the Blessing you cannot become God’s sons and daughters, God’s blood lineage.
The Messiah is the true tree of life, the true olive tree, and the tree of God's lineage. However, fallen humans have the lineage of wild olive trees that inherited the lineage of Satan.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Women Must Play the Role of the Substance of Love
The Wife’s Role After Receiving the Blessing
1. After receiving the Blessing, all our first-generation blessed families go through a three-day ceremony to start the family. Everyone, do you remember doing the three-day ceremony? During the three-day ceremony, didn’t the woman receive a full bow from her archangelic husband, in the position of a daughter and mother restored as a bride? The bride must raise her husband in the position of a son, and act as a mother who her husband can bow to in the position of a mother. A person who becomes a husband must go through the position of a son who has been restored through his wife in the position of a mother, and progress to the position of a father. Therefore, the husband must progress from the position of the archangel to the position of a son, to the position of a husband and to the position of a father. That is why women have to play the role of giving birth to men. Specifically, a woman must raise a man from the position of the archangel to the position of adopted son, from the position of adopted son to the position of stepson, from the position of stepson to the position of son, and from the position of son to the position of bridegroom.
When our first generations receive the blessing, the man is in the archangel’s position, and the woman is in the position of the Messiah's bride. Therefore, the bride must lift her husband up heartistically, not just conditionally, through the three-day ceremony.
A woman must raise a man from the position of the servant to the position of adopted son, from the position of adopted son to the position of stepson, from the position of stepson to the position of son, from the position of son to the position of husband, and from the position of husband to the position of father. That is why women have to play the role of giving birth to men.
Women Must Play the Role of the Substance of Love
2. Therefore, we do not know how important a woman's role is for a husband to rise from the position of a son to the position of a father. It can be seen that a woman's role is more important than a man's on the path of restoration. That is why there is a Korean proverb that says that a woman’s actions determines her family's fortune. The world rises and falls depending on the role of women. But that doesn't mean we ignore the role of men. This is because from the perspective of true love, a woman must play the role of the substance of love as a wife and mother. The origin of the fall of the first human ancestors began with Eve. If Eve had kept a center, the whole world would have been different. Because the fall began with Eve, women took responsibility for everything and paid indemnity from behind.
It can be seen that a woman's role is more important than a man's on the path of restoration. Things rise and fall depending on the role of women. Because the woman is in the position of the object partner of the substance of love, she has to play the role of birthing everything.
The origin of the fall of the first human ancestors began with Eve. If Eve had kept a center, the whole world would have been different. Because the fall began with Eve, women had to take responsibility for everything and paid indemnity from behind for the sake of restoration.
The Seed of Love Changes Because of Women
3. What would have happened if women had not been the center of restoration through indemnity centered on lineage before Jesus came to this world? Until the birth of an innocent lineage like Jesus’, women had to pay unimaginable indemnity in an unseen place. Didn’t a sinless person like Jesus appear because women were the center and cleansed the fallen lineage that descended from our ancestors? So far, nothing has changed in the archangelic culture, which has been male-centered. Rather, the world is retreating when it comes to family values and ethics. Now, in the age of love, it is time for women to change the world from the position of the substance of original love. True Father said that the seed changes because of women.
Until the birth of an innocent lineage like (that of) Jesus’, women had to pay unimaginable indemnity in an unseen place.
So far, nothing has changed in the archangelic culture, which has been male-centered. Rather, the world is increasingly retreating when it comes to family values and ethics.
Now, in the age of love, it is time for women to change the world from the position of the substance of original love. True Father said that the seed changes because of women.
The Role of Women in the Family
4. A woman's role is the deciding point in whether the family prospers or not. Of course, from a woman's point of view, it can be thought that everything depends on the man. Of course, men cannot have no responsibility. A man has the seed of life, but what kind of seed it becomes depends on the quality of the field it is planted in rather than the seed itself. No matter how good the seed is, the result depends on the soil on which they fall. A man's level of love can rise depending on how much love he received from his mother and how much his wife respects him. It was Sarah’s excellent character that gave birth to a wonderful son like Isaac. Sarah not only raised her husband's love, but also raised her child as a filial son. True Father said that if the woman is pessimistic and resentful when the man behaves in a lowly manner, the quality of the baby that comes out of the womb is lowered. When a woman is dominated by her environment, her filial piety towards her parents breaks down. However, if a woman keeps her center despite the bad environment, her marriage will change and her entire family will change.
A woman's role is the deciding point in whether the family prospers or not. This is because a woman is in the position of the substance of love, which must embrace everything with true love, just as a mother chicken embraces all its young chicks.
A man has the seed of life, but what kind of seed it becomes depends on the quality of the field it is planted in, rather than (on) the seed itself.
No matter how good the seed is, the result depends on the soil on which it falls.
A man's level of love can rise depending on how much love he received from his mother and how much his wife respects him.
When a woman is dominated by her environment, her filial piety towards her parents breaks down. However, if a woman keeps her center despite the bad environment, her marriage will change and her entire family will change.
The bottom line in a family is that if the woman lives, the family lives. Now, in the era of Cheon Il Guk, wo men must lead the way for the nation and world to live.
(To repeat:) when a woman is dominated by her environment, her filial piety towards her parents breaks down. However, if a woman keeps her center despite the bad environment, her marriage will change and her entire family will change.
Now is the era of the woman centering on the era of love. I think if women’s situation settles down, the entire family situation can be settled, right?
Today I talked about “Women Must Play the Role of the Substance of Love.”
(Testimony Miri Scherbl, Arkansas, International Day of Peace)♦
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