Ep 724 - God, Women and World Peace Part 8
God, Women and World Peace - October 19, 2022
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Key Points
It was God's Will that Eve assist her younger son, Abel, to unite with the Will of God.
Abel should have been meek and humble, not arrogant, when God accepted his offering.
Eve should have helped Abel to embrace Cain, but she was not able to educate Abel properly.
When God accepted Abel’s offering, Abel's love was supposed to bring Cain to recognize him as God's chosen person and unite with him, and Eve was supposed to help them achieve that unity.
Cain always thinks that he is better than others, easily feels a lack of love, becomes jealous and complains.
Both Abel and Cain should have overcome their arrogance and loved each other.
Abel should have taken care of Cain in his anguish.
Cain and Abel had been in conflict long before the time of their offering.
God’s rejection and Abel’s boasting exacerbated Cain’s long-standing hate for his brother to the point of murder.
Actually God’s heart wanted to receive Cain’s offering first, but because of the fall that God needed to restore, he had no other choice but to receive Abel’s offering first.
Intercourse should not simply satisfy physical desire. The man should think he is planting God’s seeds or sperm and the woman, that she is receiving them, especially at the very moment of the climax.
TF: Falling after receiving the Blessing is the same as falling in the realm of perfection. It is violating the substance of God.
During this time of transition True Parents have to set conditions so that they can forgive such a fall.
Such people need to live with the heart of repenting your whole life until death, no, even after going to the spirit world.
You may be able to temporarily avoid the issue of your fall here on earth. But the law is the law; when you go to the spiritual world, you will directly face this problem.
We need to offer much jeongseong to know the best way to talk to our separated second generation and guide them to come back.
All fallen acts come from arrogance and self-centeredness.
If children are not filial to their parents and they do not have a close heartistic relationship, there is always a possibility of their falling.
Adam and Eve’s fall started with the problem of not having a close relationship with God.
If there is a heartistic distance between the couple, there is a high probability that either member of the couple will fall.
What does faith mean? To have a heartistic relationship. That’s it.
Whenever you have a heartistic relationship, you can solve any issue, any problem.
The account of the fall of Adam and Eve is not just a story about a long time ago. It is the current reality that we are facing day by day, moment by moment.
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, Women and World Peace” 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> Ladies and gentlemen, the Bible teaches that Eve was the first to disobey God and enter into a relationship with Satan. Due to the Fall, Eve and Adam and also their sons Cain and Abel inherited Satan's lineage, based upon selfishness and false love. As the descendants of the first couple, which was compromised by Satan, we have all inherited Satan's lineage. For this reason, Jesus said in John 8:44, “You are from your father, the devil...” The Old Testament describes a process of restitution according to the formula “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” (Ex. 21:24) In the Divine Principle we refer to making restitution for a wrong as paying indemnity. To make restitution for her wrong actions, fallen Eve needed to take on the entire responsibility. She needed to have reversed the actions of the Fall and made spiritual and physical restitution for each step of the Fall.
It was God's Will that Eve assist her younger son, Abel, to unite with the Will of God. We know from Genesis that God accepted Abel's offering. However, this was not all that was expected of Abel. Abel's love was supposed to bring Cain to recognize Abel as God's chosen person and unite with him, and Eve was supposed to help them achieve that unity. If Cain and Abel had united, the second problem of the Fall would have been solved. The unity between Cain and Abel, centering on Eve, would have been the foundation to restore the whole of Adam's family. Throughout providential history, we see God calling special women to play this exact role, to help unite the positions of Cain and Abel as restitution for fallen Eve's role.
It was God's Will that Eve assist her younger son, Abel, to unite with the Will of God. We know from Genesis that God accepted Abel's offering. However, this was not all that was expected of Abel.
Abel's love was supposed to bring Cain to recognize Abel as God's chosen person and unite with him, and Eve was supposed to help them achieve that unity. If Cain and Abel had united, the second problem of the Fall would have been solved.
I would like to remind you of Father’s word:
When God Only Accepted Abel’s Offering First, What Was the State of Cain's Heart?
1. Cain thought that his devotion was better than that of Abel
2. He wanted God to accept his offering first.
3. When God took Abel's offering first, Cain's heart was very sad.
Cain's character always thinks that he is better than others. “I am better than you.”
Cain always easily feels a sense of loss in love and becomes jealous. And always complains first. This is Cain’s nature.
When God Took Abel’s Offering Before Cain’s, What Kind of Attitude Should Abel Have Had?
1. Abel had to be meek and humble when God accepted his offering. He should have never been arrogant.
2. Abel should not have boasted to his older brother Cain that he was happy because he had received God’s grace first.
3. When Abel received God’s grace, he should have realized his shortcomings and said, “I'm sorry, brother.”
Abel should have said, “Why did Cain accept my offer first? I am truly sorry, my brother.” He should have consoled Cain.
4. Abel had to think of his brother, who was upset because God only accepted his own offering and did not accept his brother Cain's.
5. If Abel had cried, “Oh Heavenly God, why did you only accept my sacrifice?” and said to God, “I hate God who received only my sacrifice,” God would have had no choice but to love Cain.
If Abel’s attitude was, “Heavenly Father, you only accepted my offering. You did not accept my older brother Cain’s offering. I don’t like you, Heavenly Father. Please accept my older brother, Cain’s, offering.” If he had cried in front of God, then when Cain saw his younger brother with such an attitude, Father said, definitely the offering condition would have been a great success.
Both (brothers) had a problem. Abel was very arrogant: “God accepted my offering. Hey, Cain, older brother, you see, God did not accept your offering.”
Then Cain was so upset according to Father’s explanation. Always the attitude of both Cain and Abel is important. (We should) not only blame Cain. Both of them were a problem.
Father also said Eve needed to have cooperated with Abel, helping him to embrace Cain, but Eve could not educate Abel properly.
Why did Cain Murder Abel?
1. When God accepted Abel's offering, Abel was overjoyed to the point of making Cain envious.
2. Abel was overjoyed and boasted to his brother Cain. In a word, Abel provoked Cain so that Cain had no choice but to be angry.
3. From the time Cain and Abel prepared to make an offering, Cain hated Abel.
4. Cain didn't kill Abel because he momentarily hated Abel when God didn't accept his sacrifice. They had a bad relationship even before making the sacrifice. Cain hated Abel and wanted to kill him from before.
Rather than offering (first), it would have been important for Abel to win Cain's heart before (making the) offering. Unity, harmony is more important than offering. But Abel created conditions in his daily life (so) that Cain had no choice but to hate him.
Before (making an) offering, oneness between Cain and Abel is important. They already had created a bad condition, fighting each other. (So) when God asked them to (make an) offering, they were sure to fail. Before (making an) offering, they had already disunited and failed.
That is why Father said that, rather than offering, it would have been important for Abel to win Cain’s heart before (making the) offering. That is why our life has to be an offering life. (We should) not just make conditions and offerings. Our daily life is important.
We have learned really beautiful things.
Father also said that Eve really failed her mission. She is the one who really had to cooperate with Abel and educate him properly. She should have asked Abel to embrace his older brother, Cain. Then Abel should have become very humble and apologized to Cain, “Heavenly Father only accepted my offering,” shedding tears. When (Cain) would have seen such an attitude (by Abel), he would surely have been moved.
How can we win over Cain? By touching his heart, not by blaming him.
Abel had a problem first. God had no choice because of the condition; he had to accept Abel’s offering first. Actually God’s heart wanted to receive Cain’s offering first, but because of the fall that he needed to restore, he had no other choice. He needed to receive Abel’s offering first. Neither Cain nor Abel were able to understand that point.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Fall - 4. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
• God did not create Adam to be alone; He also created Eve to be Adam's spouse.
• Just as there was a tree in the Garden of Eden which symbolized a perfect man, there should also have been a tree which represented a woman who has fully realized the ideal of creation.
• Standing beside the tree of life, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil mentioned in Gen. 2:9 was this tree.
• The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the ideal woman, perfected Eve.
• The Bible refers to Jesus using the metaphors of a vine (John 15:5) and a branch (Isa. 11:1). Likewise, to give us a hint about the secret of the human Fall, God provided the symbolism of two trees to represent perfected Adam and Eve.
Let’s study Father’s word. These words are very serious and judgmental. Someone may struggle with these words of Father, but Father’s word is the Principle. Based on that, how can we digest and understand how to solve, how to fix the problem?
The Warning From the Garden of Eden Is Still Valid
<258-183> The tree of the knowledge of good and evil symbolizes a woman’s sexual organ. According to the man whom she embraces, it can become good or evil. If she embraces a thief, she is to bear a child of a thief. That’s why it’s called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Bible conveyed the message by using the symbol of a tree as humankind. Is it the tree of life? Do all women have it? You must be careful. There was a warning in the Garden of Eden and it is still valid until now.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil symbolizes a woman’s sexual organ. According to the man whom she embraces, it can become good or evil. If she embraces a thief, she is to bear a child of a thief.
In the couple’s sex life, depending on their mindset, they can either plant God’s seed (sperm) or Satan’s seed (sperm). When having intercourse, when the man reaches climax and releases sperm (the baby seed), he has to think that he is planting God’s seeds, and the woman should think that she is receiving God’s seed, that is, God’s sperm (God’s baby seed). This is how to live a life as a couple.
This is not a simple matter. When as a man you have a relationship with your spouse, when you release your sperm, do you think, “I am planting God’s seed as a representative of heaven”?
Later on I realized this only after starting family, that I need to have this kind of mindset. When the woman as the representative of the earth receives her husband’s seed (the sperm), she needs to think, “I am receiving God’s baby seed, my husband’s sperm.” (Were) you educated like this? True Parents’ guidance is really amazing!
If you just live a life as a couple only centered on physical desires of the body without thinking, you are in a position of planting or receiving Satan’s seed instead of God’s seed. In the couple’s sex life, they should ask, “Am I planting God’s seed? Am I receiving Satan’s seed?”
Our children need to have a different quality. When the man reaches the climax – I’m sorry if someone has not started family yet, but you need to know and understand and study this – and releases his sperm, he should think, “Heavenly God, I am planting your seed in the earth.” And the attitude of the woman, when she reaches a climax, (should be), “I am receiving God’s baby seed.” That is the condition of unity between heaven and earth.
Wow! What couples, even among our blessed families, when they reach the climax, forget what they are doing when the sperm comes out. In such an exciting moment of climax, can you think about God? This is an incredible education.
I have three children. I tried to think this way, but when I reached the climax, I forgot the main point. I was completely subjugated by physical desire. What should I do? I truly confess to you. I am that kind of fallen guy.
The Human Fall Is Violating the Substance of God
<258-183> If it ever happens to the blessed families in the future, they may experience something worse than the Israelites who were killed with stones publicly. If the descendants in their top of the growth stage have to be punished like that…the fall in the realm of perfection is to violate the body of Parents and the substance of God. How would the person be forgiven? That’s why I, myself, am distressed very much with the matter. How can I deal with it? It’s a troublesome issue, such a disorderly time of free sex, but the Principle can not be bent. The rules must be strictly set even though there may be some victims. I assume that there must be a lot of victims in the first place.
True Father said, “If it ever happens to the blessed families in the future, they may experience something worse than the Israelites who were killed with stones publicly.”
A long time ago, anyone who had a Chapter Two issue was killed by stoning. The Israelites, as the chosen people, absolutely followed the law.
Father said that falling after receiving the Blessing is the same as falling at the realm of perfection, so it is as like dirtying True Parents’ body. In other words, it is violating the substance of God. Actually, if we look in a principled way, this is unforgivable. It cannot be forgiven.
Of course, since now is the age of transformation, problems happen even though blessed families receive the Blessing, so True Parents set conditions so that they can forgive (them). But one thing you should know is that if anyone falls, they will surely need to pay indemnity. (There is) no other choice.
Father may forgive you, but in order to forgive, True Parents need to make a lot of conditions: pray and go to the ocean and so on. Even though you are forgiven, your heart has still not been released completely. That is the issue. Therefore, do not fall. If after you receive the blessing, you have a sexual problem, I don’t know what to say.
And then your children’s issues. Everyone has the same kinds of serious issues, right. Father does not give up. He said because this is an age of transformation, he is responsible all the time. He gives them (many) opportunities and asks them to drink the Holy Wine again and again.
Without giving up on your children, you need to really pray and (offer) jeongseong (about) how to embrace them and educate them. Some day they need to come back.
Maybe some of you try to avoid this problem: “I don’t want to deal with that.” But the law is the law. You may be able to avoid it here, but when you go to the spiritual world, you will directly face this problem and issue. I am telling the truth. Do not hate me. Go to spiritual world and you will directly face this problem.
I am the continental director. How can I be responsible for our second generation who have this problem? As a parental figure, their problems are my problems. They are God’s and True Parents’ children, so they are my children as well. As a leader I have to be responsible for the best way to talk to them and guide them to come back. Not just avoid (the issue) and let them pay indemnity. That is irresponsible. No matter what, we have to be responsible. This is why I feel so much pain!
Now we are going to have a big youth service in Sub-Region 1. I will try to approach all the young brothers and sisters and give them an opportunity gradually. We also need to learn how to talk to them and guide them, right?
If you have a problem of falling after receiving the Blessing, you need to live with the heart of repenting your whole life until death, no, even after going to the spirit world. Fallen people really need to repent. They need to repent until God can sympathize with them.
Because the fall misuses God’s heart, violates God’s heart. This is a really sorrowful thing. This thing continuously carries on again and again. This is reality. What shall we do?
And the thing we need to clearly understand is that all fallen acts come from arrogance and self-centeredness. That is why you need to train your children to be filial children. We need to clearly know that if children are not filial to their parents and they do not have a close relationship, there is always a possibility of their falling. They can create a Chapter Two problem. The reason Adam and Eve fell started with the problem of not having a close relationship with God.
So it's always the heartistic distance that matters. If there is a heartistic distance between parent and child, the child is more likely to fall. If there is a heartistic distance between the couple, there is a high probability that either side of the couple will fall.
It is a problem for both (spouses), not just the husband or the wife. The main issue before a fall is heartistic distance. There is no close relationship. Adam and Eve’s main issue before creating a Chapter Two problem was that they did not have a close relationship with God. They were closer to (Lucifer).
That is why if our children have a closer relationship with the secular world, (they) have a great potential to fall.
How can we have a heartistic relationship, heartistic communication between parents and children, between brothers and sisters, between Cain and Abel and between husband and wife? This is the issue.
What does faith mean? To have a heartistic relationship. That’s it. Whenever you have a heartistic relationship, you can solve any issue, any problem. Everything can be settled. The problem is heartistic distance.
(You may say,) “All my relations with my children are good. The only problem is that they are really interested in the outside world.” You cannot say that. If they really have a heartistic relationship as filial sons and daughters, they will absolutely follow parents’ guidance. What are you talking about?
We need to repent as fathers and mothers and as leaders. I am the leader, the continental director, but I could not educate our second generation, third generation and blessed couples properly. This is my problem. That is why I want to deal with God’s word every morning without missing even a single day. Then nobody can accuse me: “I did not receive proper education from the continental director or from my Abel.” I don’t want to hear that. While on the earth or in America, I don’t want to hear that. I need to do my portion of responsibility as an Abel. Then nobody can accuse me. Nobody can run away from this education – not just my own children, my own spouse, my own Cain and Abel, (but) especially our future generations.
Let’s take this very seriously. We are now learning Chapter Two. This is not only a story of Adam and Eve a long time ago. This is the reality that we are facing day by day every moment, every second, right?
There is no time to share Youth Ministry today. Maybe I will share this content tomorrow.
(Testimony Steven and Kum Ae Jares, Las Vegas, Our Journey with True Parents)♦
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