Cheon Seong Gyeong 579
Walking the streets of Myungdong
in Seoul, one sees young couples being
affectionate. For whom are they doing
that? They say they do that to enjoy their
youth, which they have but once. That’s
fine, but who is the owner of enjoyment?
This is a serious question. How long
can you enjoy life? You do so from your
twenties, but it will not last after you pass
your sixties, seventies, and eighties.
Yet the way of the Unification Church
is different. For what purpose do we eat?
For the sake of the world and to abolish
this evil world. We see in order to clean
up this evil world – not to become a part
of the evil side but to defeat it. How we
hear, think, walk and act is different
from the secular world. (36-71, 1970.11.15)
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1410
Of the 36 Couples, the Adam couples
were already married couples, the Noah
couples were engaged but not married,
and the Jacob couples were virgin men
and women. Noah’s family did not fulfill
the Will. When you look at the people
in the world today you see that there are
already married couples, those who are
in informal relationships or are engaged,
and the completely pure single men and
women. From this time on, the foremost
kind of people that True Parents should
be seeking for are not the Adam couples
but the true sons and daughters, in oth-
er words, pure single men and women.
(242-104, 1993.1.1
Richard: Keeping sexual purity before marriage is a crucial part of spiritual development and receiving Christ. In fact, you cannot properly receive Christ if you have not kept your sexual purity.
True Parents Day 1966 excerpts
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
As everyone knows, today is Parents Day. Centering on March 1960, we established a new day that did not exist in history, and this is none other than Parents Day. This day should be greeted with rejoicing in the heavens and the earth.
Had our ancestors Adam and Eve not fallen, we would have been celebrating Parents Day already. Because Adam and Eve fell, it was necessary that True Parents come to the earth before we could celebrate Parents Day. Their coming was essential for us to begin celebrating Parents Day, and it was on the standard of this day, and only after true children appeared through the True Parents, that we could begin celebrating Children’s Day. After this, it also became possible to start celebrating a day where we could exercise dominion over all things.
God promised these days to the human ancestors when they had not fallen. Because of the fall, however, we could not receive the days that were the ideal of God’s creation, that is, Parents Day, Children’s Day and Day of All Things. God, too, could not receive the days when He could be joyous and proud as a God who had completed His purpose of creation.
Of course, the fall was when Adam and Eve fell into a situation where they had lost God, but God also lost Parents Day, Children’s Day and Day of All Things. All the celebration days God had hoped to see were taken from Him.
Among the days that God hoped for, there was the day there would be parents, the day there would be a family centering on those parents, the day when centering on this family, there would be one tribe, one people, one nation and one world. Human history, though, never received these glorious days. Instead, it has woven its fallen history until this day and produced an evil world, evil nations, evil tribes, evil families and evil individuals. These were not the purpose of creation that God originally desired, so God will not allow them to continue.
So, who created such evil things? It was Satan. That is why we must reestablish this satanic world on the side of God. We must establish the world of God’s ideal. To do that, we must fight to pull the satanic world upwards. We must establish a world of goodness and go upwards by working in the opposite direction that Satan has taken to establish the world of evil.
For this reason, God has worked through three stages in history to carry out His Providence of Salvation. That is how we have come through the Old Testament Age, the servant era, and the New Testament Age, the adopted son era, to reach the Completed Testament Age. In the Completed Testament Age, sons and daughters must appear who will prepare a place for parents and will attend those parents. This is the history of restoration that God has carried out until now.
Jesus who came two thousand years ago did not come with the ultimate purpose to save servants. Nor did he come to save adopted sons. What, then, was Jesus purpose in coming? He came with the ultimate purpose to save all of creation; he came with the shimjung of a parent.
If a person you truly love is drowning, you will want to be the first to go save that person.
What parent, seeing the son they love is drowning, would tell a servant to go help the son? If such a parent exists, that would not be a parent that truly loves their son. Likewise, what parent, seeing that their youngest son is drowning, would tell one of their older sons to go save the younger brother? If such a parent exists, this parent, too, would not be a parent that truly loves their son. Such parents cannot possibly exist.
From a perspective centered on God’s shimjung, what kind of savior is needed for this world that is in a situation like a drowning person? It needs a savior who comes as a parent. If God truly loves fallen humanity, from what position does he want to save them? God wants to save humanity from His position as a parent. This is also the reason God establishes a Messiah on the earth to conduct His salvation providence.
What was it that Jesus needed to prepare in Nazareth prior to beginning his public course? It was the position of parent. It was to become Jesus, the Messiah. Jesus was not a substitute for the Messiah. So, he first needed to establish himself in the position of a parent. He needed to become humanity’s true original ancestor and True Parent. It is because he could not become the True Parent that, to this day, people are born into the false lineage and are unable to form a relationship with the True Parent or experience the True Parent’s love.
People who are of another flesh and blood, that is, people who did not come through the flesh and blood of the True Parent cannot be established by God as children in His direct lineage. The lineage that was to relate with God formed a relationship with a lineage that He did not desire. As a result, it did not matter how much people might try or how many conditions they might offer. When they received salvation and went into the presence of God, they would find that they were adopted children, not true sons and daughters.
So, as recorded in Romans, we could only call out to God as “Abba, Father” in the spirit of adoption. It was only because of Jesus that we could at least call to Him in this way. Jesus already came to the earth and left, but when myriads of people receive salvation today, the highest level possible is only that of adopted children.
What is an adopted child? An adopted child has a different lineage. Humanity lost True Parents and formed a relationship with false parents, so the root must be cut off for people to become true sons. That is the reason that Jesus came after four thousand years of history following the fall. To be reborn, we must have parents. Only when there are parents can a child be born. That is why God sent Jesus to the earth as the Messiah.
So, what did Jesus need to do when he came? What did he need to do to save the numerous people living on the earth? He needed to become the True Parent. To do that, he needed to establish a bride. Twelve disciples were not the issue. First, he needed to establish a bride.
Jesus went through the first, second, and third course, but he was unable to establish a bride. He was forced, then, to establish the twelve disciples in the position of his children. This content is not in the Bible.
To save humanity, to give rebirth to humanity, Jesus absolutely needed to establish a bride. So, he needed the Holy Spirit. That is why Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Nicodemus said, “How can a man be born when he is old?” (John 3:4). Jesus replied with lamentation, saying, “Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?” (John 3:10)
Humanity must be reborn through Jesus and the Holy Spirit. All humanity was taken by Satan, so they must be reborn centering on God. No one can stand in the presence of heavenly ethics without first having laid a foundation of shimjung through the blood lineage of the True Parent. This is the reason that Jesus needed to create a principle foundation, that is the parental foundation. To become a parent, he needed more than anything to establish a bride. His purpose was not to establish twelve disciples. But this order was turned around. That is why it has taken many hundreds of times more effort.