Pastor Hyung Jin Moon explains about the real story of Thanksgiving and about the blessing of freedom and responsibility: https://vimeo.com/193273182
Leviticus 25
But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.
Richard: This is very intersting. A Jewish Rabbi predicted in 1217 that the Messianic Kingdom would come by 2017: http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/12th-century-rabbi-predicted-israels-future/
Also recall that Rev. Moon used the term “Jubilee Year” to refer to 2007. Perhaps there has been a delay and this will occur in 2017. Rev. Moon also said that there should be a celebration of family on the 17th of each month, so we see the number 17 coming into play in several ways.
Also It is important to take a Sabbath day and spend time with Father.
Proverbs 26
1Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,
honor is not fitting for a fool.
LET US BE STRONG AND BOLD
AND RESTORE THE LOST LAND
REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
June 23, 1957
Then what should we do? We should understand that the Lord who comes in the last days is coming to eliminate the conditions that caused God lamentation for 6,000 years and to fulfill the purpose of the faith of the many saints.
If the Israelites who departed with Moses at first understood that they had to abandon all their possessions, if they had only followed Moses, abandoning everything they had in the wilderness as well, they would not have been separated from him. We should know this.
Today, what are the first things that we should do while we are being prepared to receive the day of the second advent, longing for the ideal garden? It is to deeply understand that the Lord of the Second Coming is the fruit of the 6,000 years of hard work of God and our ancestors.
If he comes to the earth, what are we supposed to do? We should gladly offer everything in the world and be ready to serve him as the representative of human history, the being who can end the sinful history of humankind. He alone is the representative of God and all of humankind.
Unless Christians in the world have such a heart, they will face the same consequence of lamentations caused by the failure of Moses in the wilderness. Therefore we must become those who know how to toil for the sake of the Lord who is coming again.
Each of us in that position today should remember that, after the death of Moses, whose goal was to arrive at the land of Canaan, Joshua and Caleb became the successors of Moses’ mission. We are the ones who are to inherit the historical mission of Joshua and Caleb. That is, we should become like Joshua, who made a condition of offering through which God’s grief and lamentations of several thousand years could be liberated by leading a multitude of 1,600 people into the land of Canaan.
Unless we are determined to be like Joshua and Caleb today, uniting our people wandering in the wilderness, we cannot enter the blessed land of Canaan, nor can we complete the ideal temple. Since you have understood God’s love and grief, you should have a different purpose in praying. Also, we should become the kind of person who can understand the heart of God, who left Moses and the faithless 600,000 Israelites in the wilderness and who through Joshua and Caleb, led the second generation into the land of Canaan.
What is the position that you have reached? You are in the position where you should lift the flag of judgment high, based upon the footsteps of 6,000 years during which our ancestors have been walking in hardships. You should take over the mission of Joshua and Caleb, who roared at the Israelites to cross the Jordan River.