Is Your Flesh, Blood and Bone Related to God, or Not?

Happy True Parents Day! (Established 1960)

Today we present a special reading for the Holy Day.

True Parents Day From The Historical Point Of View

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
April 18, 1977
Manhattan Center, NYC, NY

I have fully expounded the external meaning of Parents Day in its historical context, but I have not yet spoken of its internal aspect. Would you like to hear it? Only a few people are saying yes; perhaps most would like to wait until next Parents Day! I see a lot of mouths still closed, and my voice is getting hoarse now. Shall we go on or not? Could someone come forward to speak so I can sit down? No, only I can speak this morning.

Is your flesh, blood and bone related to God or not? No matter how much you may say yes, even if your ‘yes’ brings the roof down, at best we could say that they are conditionally related to God; in actuality there is no relation. Now you call me your True Parent, but do you truly have any connection with me? Does my flesh have something to do with your flesh? Does my bone have something to do with your bone? Does my blood have a relation to your blood? Restoration itself is only conditional. You will never be able to pay your whole debt, but by the conditions of restoration you can accomplish what would otherwise take a million years. That is a beautiful secret.

Only a trade of love makes restoration possible

What condition will make this possible? Money? Power? Knowledge? Faith? Even faith can change from morning to evening. What is the unchanging condition by which you can relate with God and the True Parents? You are correct; true love alone will make the connection. When Jesus Christ came to this world as the Messiah, he had an external and internal mission. His external mission was to rule the world as the Messiah, the king of kings, establishing God’s sovereignty. His internal mission was very tender, for he came as the parent of mankind.

How could Jesus internally elevate himself? He could not elevate himself to the position of True Parent by power or kingship. Those would have been to no avail. It was only by a love that was higher, deeper and wider than all the love the satanic world could offer that Jesus could fulfill his mission. As the Messiah, Jesus could declare that whoever would follow him must love him more than anyone or anything else, more than their country, parents, spouse, or children. Jesus could not qualify as the Messiah unless he were capable of declaring such a thing. From his desire to declare to the world the supreme love of God, Jesus said, “He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” He was indeed the Messiah, and he knew that he was capable of giving that supreme love to anyone who could love him above all else.

By giving their greatest love to Jesus, Christians are entitled to inherit God’s kingdom and the True Parents love. Jesus actually came to make a trade of love. He brings heavenly love, and we bring worldly love. God’s love is so superior that His love will not come to you unless you can offer Him the best love you can give. In this trade of love you can restore your eternal kingship; you will inherit the visible kingdom that God possesses externally, but more importantly, in loving Jesus the most, you can even possess him and you can actually possess God. When you approach Jesus in that love he will respond, and even God will have no choice but to respond to you. This is a beautiful exchange, isn’t it?

Jesus declared to his disciples and to the world that unless they could love him more than anyone else they were not worthy of him. That is a most extraordinary statement! There was no way that he could avoid being accused of blaspheming. “We stone you for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Finally he was crucified. In a way Jesus actually stimulated his own crucifixion by making statements that angered people enough that they wanted to kill him. His statements were certainly ambitious and bold; how could people accept such statements in those days? Imagine a husband and wife with a very deep relationship listening to one of Jesus’ sermons while he was saying that unless they loved him more than their own spouse they were not worthy of him. Do you think that husband would turn to his wife and say, “Yes, go love him more than me”‘? Any husband would say, “Forget it! You love me most; you are my wife.”

The Messiah’s course is truly a stony path. Over and over God asks him to do impossible things. Raise your hand if you want to volunteer to become the Messiah. Anybody who would volunteer must have something wrong with his head. The Messiah must be able to eat his own stool and say, “This is as sweet as honey.” God is continually asking the Messiah to do absolutely insane things. Does this discourage you?

God’s efforts to restore true love

Why can love set such a significant condition? It is only with the condition of love that you can leap the many millenniums to restoration. God made love so supreme that with true love there is nothing that cannot be surmounted. Love alone transcends time,

and does not know history. Among the congregation I see some elderly women. Think about that time years ago when you first fell in love; even though you are now 60 and 70 years old; it is as vivid as yesterday, isn’t it? The love that they tasted many decades ago is still fresh and sweet, and they want to dwell there even now.

Love knows no distance. If your beloved is trembling on a chunk of ice at the North Pole, do you think that your love will be frozen and weak? Distance makes no difference. Love can never be confined by time and space. Even God cannot revolutionize true love. From the beginning to the end, from alpha to omega, love remains the same, forever unchanging. If this little handkerchief were love, it would have greater value to lovers than the entire continent of the United States. Isn’t that right? Only that timeless, spaceless, eternal love can set the condition for you to be restored into heaven in no time.

How has God been working to restore this true love? Not just mankind and the angels but the entire creation was affected by the fall of man. Even the dignity of God was lost. The work of restoration means bringing everything that became fallen back into unity with God. God divided the restoration period into different segments. In the Old Testament era all the things of creation became the mediator between man and God. Why? Everything became upside down because of the fall of man. Originally man was supposed to be closest to God, but after the fall the things of creation were purer than man, and thus closer to God. For this reason man could only reach God by symbolically sacrificing himself through the things of creation. In addition, God created all things in the world before he created man. For these reasons the Old Testament era was the time in which God was restoring all things. God restored all things first, even before man could be re-created, and then turned to restore His children.

Israel was the nation in the position of servant; through Judaism men were lifted from the state of fallen sinner up to the position of servant. Then in the New Testament era Jesus Christ came as the son of God to bring an era of great transformation. During Jesus’ lifetime men were to be lifted from the position of servant to the position of sons of God. As God’s servant, the nation of Israel was to support Jesus as the son of God, elevating him to the position of sovereign and then to the position of True Parent. The Bible referred to Jesus as a great teacher, but did not reveal the mission of Jesus as the parent. While Jesus was on earth the entire dispensation of restoration could have been shortened; the son of God came to restore true sonship, and to elevate himself into parenthood, raising the chosen people into direct sons and daughters, the true heirs of God. Then the entire nation could have been elevated to parenthood. That was God’s scheduled program.

Because of the faithlessness of the people, however, Israel could not advance that far, and instead of becoming a living sacrifice, Jesus was killed as a sacrifice on the altar of God. Thus Jesus actually died to lay the foundation for the future Messiah. By his own death he paid the indemnity and paved the way for the second coming of the Messiah; thus began the Christian era of the New Testament.

When the new Messiah comes, he will bring those in the adopted son’s position into the position of direct sons and daughters of God, and then elevate mankind into true parenthood under God. The second coming of the Messiah will be highlighted by the work of the True Parents. It will be the most brilliant new age, the final consummation of the work of God. The True Parents will be the mediators between God and man and all men shall be saved, becoming the direct children of God and true parents of mankind.

We must build our own foundation

Judaism was the national, external foundation for Jesus, but Christianity bears that responsibility for the second coming of the Messiah. Furthermore, the Messiah is coming on the worldwide level; therefore, the free world is in the position of the nation of Israel. When this situation is ripe, you will know that the day of the Lord is near. When the messianic work is fulfilled by the free world then God will take direct responsibility for the communist world. The restoration process can never be completed without this worldwide unity between Cain and Abel.

Presently a Cain-Abel struggle is taking place between the Unification Church and other Christian churches, and between the Unification Church and America. World restoration can be speeded up after the Unification Church, Christianity, and America find the way to unify. However, because the free world opposes us we ourselves must rebuild and stand upon our own foundation for the Old Testament and New Testament eras, and the era of this new age. History records the vertical process of restoration: the Old Testament era was for the restoration of all things; the New Testament era was for the restoration of the children, and the Completed Testament era will see the restoration of the parents.

Here in the Unification Church we are horizontally restoring the 6,000 Biblical years of God’s work in our lifetime. Within our own movement these three ages are unfolding horizontally. We are establishing an economic sphere: in addition we have children, and in the center we have the True Parents. We are restoring all of these things ourselves, and together we are bringing all of them to God as an offering. This work does not yet represent the Kingdom, however, only when God returns our offering to us as a blessing will the Kingdom begin. I am unfolding this dispensation in my own lifetime. After offering to God the spheres of economy, children and parents, the next phase to unfold will be that of the tribe and then nation, world and universe. I came to America in 1972, and my 3 1/2 year campaign here was my offering to God of all the necessary conditions on the worldwide scale. My offering on the worldwide scale was completed by 1976.

New York is the symbolic heart of the world, and in this city we are working to firmly establish our economic strength. All the buildings we own in New York are part of this economic dispensation: Belvedere, Headquarters Building, East Sun, the World Mission Center, Tiffany Building, and the Manhattan Center, as well as all the land we own in Tarrytown. Compared to the wealth of the world all this is still small, but we must offer it all to God as our worldwide offering. Our effort is a worldwide effort and the energy of the world must be mobilized, for this reason every bit of money used to make this possible came from the blood and sweat of all our members around the world.

On September 18, I fulfilled my covenant with God

The final climax of this offering was the Washington Monument Rally. That was the altar upon which we offered to God everything that we had received. I want you to know that September 18, 1976, was the day of offering for the sake of the world; centering on the worldwide dispensation for America, that offering was made in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital. The five races of the world gathered together there, symbolically proclaiming, “God, we have made this altar of ourselves; please accept all of us.” That day of offering was the most serious, most divine and sacred day of the history of the world. Because a pure offering was made that day, the salvation of the world is destined to be consummated. On that day the entire spirit world declared victory. All the men of God united to declare Victory.

America should have declared victory together with us, but America failed to do that. Many well meaning people even advised me that for the sake of the Church we should be a little more quiet, “Why do you want to make all the commotion of a Washington rally?” Even some of our leaders came to me saying, “Father, this will be a blunder. We just did Yankee Stadium and we need more money, more men; it is really impossible to do it this year.” But I remained determined. “This is the showdown of my lifetime. I will give my sweat, my heart and life to do it.” I decided to give everything-myself, my family, our members, whatever economic strength our movement could mobilize-everything that I could possibly give to successfully make that offering to God in Washington.

This was not actually my showdown; it was God’s showdown. I knew that God could not afford to fail in Washington, and I knew that God was the most nervous. Therefore, I was confident that God would come to our aid and I had only one conviction, “We shall succeed. We shall win.”

I want you to know that September 18, 1976, was like my day of execution. I deeply felt like a criminal who had been sentenced to death and was going out to be executed. That is how serious I felt that day, utterly, dead serious. Until September 18, 1 completely lost track of time. I mistook my breakfast for dinner and my dinner for breakfast. Time swam in my mind. Even on my way to the bathroom I would suddenly find myself in a completely strange area because my mind had gone blank. You cannot imagine how serious I was during that campaign; only God knows.

How can I express to you the seriousness of September 18? The showdown of God was at hand. The showdown of the entire struggle of good and evil was at hand. The entire destiny of the Unification Church was before me that day. Unless all the conditions could be established for God’s power and the entire spirit world to be connected to the earth on that day I knew that I would not succeed. I was utterly serious, and I did it.

The victory of that day was a miracle. It was the work of God, not of Reverend Moon or the Unification Church, that we succeeded in Washington. Extraordinary numbers of people came. The whole event was totally beautiful! Without rain or accident, all was beautiful from beginning to end. Do you think that could be the work of men? No, it was God’s work. That victory established a new tradition. No matter what may happen to America in the future, nobody can remove the footprint which I so strongly imprinted in Washington on September 18, 1976.

One child got lost that day, and announcements were made all over Washington. There was deep suspense as people wondered what happened to the child who had come to Reverend Moon’s rally. But he was found within three days, happy and well. I felt that he symbolized the lost, wandering world which shall be restored. It was a beautiful symbol of resurrection.

When I came to America I was a lonely man. As I crossed the Pacific Ocean I prayed to God, pledging that the mission would be fulfilled. Three and a half years later, through the victory at Washington Monument, my prayer was answered; I was able to fulfill my pledge and covenant with God. Thereafter I could declare liberation. On October 4, 1976, 1 declared the Day of the Victory of Heaven as one step of liberation. On the True Parents’ birthday, February 23, 1977, 1 declared that all heaven and earth, spirit world and physical world together, shall be forgiven. Forgiveness and liberation have now been declared. The New Age has dawned; the new calendar has started. The Year One has been pronounced.

This particular 18th Parents Day is a very meaningful and extraordinary day for these reasons. Now centering upon my mission you can begin to see how the Unification Church has evolved, what mission we are pursuing, and where we are going. You know now why we need funds. Economy represents all the things of creation that have been groaning in the satanic realm. By winning the economy to the heavenly side by our own hands and our own sweat, we are establishing the condition to restore all the things of creation.

Your love alone can bring all things to the altar of God

I am laboring harder than any company president in the world. I will strive harder and be more dramatically victorious than anyone in history. It is the love of God and love of mankind that makes this possible. In the name of God I want to break every record ever set. That is the way I seek revenge.

Even more than I love my own children I love every one of you as direct sons and daughters. I watch you more closely than you realize and seek to nurture you so that you can grow into giants in the sight of God. Why do I care about you so deeply? I know so well that not only Christianity but the entire religious world is crumbling. You are the people who will replace them, inheriting their foundation and their mission. You are very precious in the sight of God and I want to pour out my heart to you. I am from a poor country, but even when I came to work in America, the richest nation in the world, I did not spend American money to advance this movement to its present level. Instead, people poorer than Americans gave the money with which I have been raising up the American people and establishing the American church.

Because America is vitally important to God, I determined to love America more than my own children, more than my own country, more than my own Asia. God deeply loves this nation and has done more and sacrificed more for this country than for any other country of the world. What is America’s role? I will never say, “You must pay me back.” Instead America must go out to the world, the six continents and five races of the earth, and give of itself and its wealth. Four billion people are waiting for the touch of America’s hand. You must go out and serve them.

If America succeeds in this mission then the glory of this nation shall be astonishing and have no end. America will then remain the most prosperous country on earth. Love is the key. It is love alone that will connect all things together and bring them to the altar of God. When that happens God will turn around and give the whole thing back to you as His blessing. That will mark the beginning of the Kingdom of God on earth.

That is the purpose for which I came. No matter what the people outside of our church may have said, no matter what persecution or hardship the world may have given to me, I have never minded; instead I have been too busy giving everything to construct this mission. While Americans enjoy bread and meat, many of our members do not even enjoy a glass of milk, but only water. While American young people are idle and pursuing pleasures and relaxation, you and I have been giving totally of ourselves.

The great leaders of America have been applauded, respected and given glory, but instead of receiving glory and respect I have received persecution, misunderstanding and ridicule. Even under those circumstances I have survived. I came to America for the liberation of this nation and I was ready to go to jail if necessary; I am ready and willing to give my life for the sake of this nation.

Presently I am a miserable man in the eyes of the people. I walk the humble way, but I do it solely for the sake of God. Do you think God will always remain silent while Amen* ca ridicules and persecutes His prophet? No, God will seek revenge for him. However, I pray to God, “Do not unloose Your revenge. Here are the Unification Church members. Look at these beautiful shining faces. They are the hope of America, they are the true America. Because of them won’t You forgive this nation?” That has been my prayer. America has become indebted to God, indebted to me, and indebted to you, the Unification Church. Some day America must pay everything back.

I want you to understand what I am asking of you

Please understand me. I love you, but I cannot be soft with you. Under the circumstances that would not be the expression of love. I have become a cruel person in a way, chasing you out to the battlefield. I want you to understand what I am doing and why, and I want you to support me.

If America had supported me with its mammoth wealth, even to the slightest degree, you would not have to go out and fundraise with such struggle. If America had supported me by freely giving of its young people, in such a way that negativity was not nurtured and spread, good people would have joined us freely and you would not have to go out to witness with such effort. However, America failed to respond in both ways.

I cried out in prayer to God, pledging and swearing that every dollar our members made represented every penny of America’s great wealth, and that every member that our Unification Church members brought represented the entire population of this nation. “God, honor their effort, honor their success, honor their sacrifice. God, each one of our members is taking up America’s role.” Each dollar you earn must be glistening with your tears; such money is more precious than any amount of money earned in business. Each member you bring must be the fruit of your sweat and blood and hard work.

Do not worry, the American government will not have to chase me out; the time will come when I will go, voluntarily. We will voluntarily send home our foreign members; the Immigration Department does not have to be concerned. But the time is not now. If I were to leave I know that every one of you would feel no more attraction to America, but would want to follow me. How could I leave this country at this moment? If right now I removed all of the Japanese and European members it is clear that this nation would decline, like a ship without a captain. Do you want to watch this nation die or not? Do you clearly understand why we have walked this path, the purpose for which we are here, and the meaning of the work we have accomplished thus far?

As soon as you were born you came under satanic lineage. Had there been no fall all of you would have been born of God; whether first, second, or third-born, you would each be the child of God. Instead, you are all destined to be born again. By the love of God you shall be re-born into the level of servant, adopted child, true child, and finally born again as God-centered, sinless parents. Then you will inherit all things.

We must give rebirth to all things, to the angelic world, to children of God, and to God-centered parents. From there we must expand our territory to the worldwide level, going beyond the satanic realm on the worldwide level and giving rebirth to all things on the universal scale.

For the Messiah to come, Cain and Abel must unite

Since the fall of man everything has been upside down, but we are reversing this process to make everything straight. God and Satan are intently fighting a tug of-war over the children of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were directly claimed by Satan, and long ago God put aside His hope for them. The angel was supposed to come under the dominion of Adam, but this became reversed through the fall, and Satan, the servant, controlled Adam instead. Cain as the elder brother was born in the position of Satan, while Abel was born in Adam’s position, representing the side of God. The original channel of command can only be restored by a reversal of dominion in which the younger brother takes the position of elder brother, thus putting the archangel position back on the servant level.

The children of God will then be born within that lineage. After the restoration through Cain and Abel is done, the fallen, stained parents will be restored through the restored Abel. Upon that foundation the unstained, perfected Adam will come as the Messiah In the garden of Eden there was only Adam’s family; therefore, when the family is restored all things are done. That family will come to restore the nation and world, and all things God intended to complete this providence within three generations and then send the Messiah. At that time he would have established the True Parents and the rest of the family members would have been grafted into his lineage, restoring the entire family at one time. This was the dispensation of Adam’s family. However, Cain slew Abel, creating a repetition of the fallen act in which the archangel killed Adam instead of obeying him. Cain’s act multiplied the consequences of the fall.

The division and struggle between the Cain side and Abel side has been perpetuated from family level to the tribal level, national level and worldwide level, and man’s history has been the history of struggle. Man’s struggle has only brought greater division, and because Satan’s dominion expanded to cover the entire world, restoration had to encompass the far ends of the earth.

The tug of war that started with Cain and Abel has today expanded to the worldwide level. God is pulling His world and Satan is pulling his world; God is pulling Abel and Satan is pulling Cain. However, if Abel’s will to pull becomes strong enough, God can pull Cain all the way to His side, leaving nothing more to be restored. The dispensation of Cain and Abel is for the younger to achieve the position of the elder, and the elder to take the position of the younger. This process of restoring the birthright must be fulfilled up to the worldwide scale. God has been winning through heavenly struggle, slowly fitting things back into their original order. Through the process of reversal God started His work at the far end, bringing everything back to its consummation at the center.

The religious world of today is in the position of Abel, the younger brother, while the non-religious world is in Cain’s position. Cain will always seek to persecute Abel, and throughout history the religious world has always been persecuted. Cain always claims that Abel must submit to him, but the religious world responds, “No, we represent Adam and you represent the angel. You must obey us.” Always the satanic world takes the initiative to suppress the religious world, and always there is struggle.

If the conditions had been fulfilled in Adam’s family through the unity of Cain and Abel, all would have been completely fulfilled horizontally in one family. But that failed and the entire restoration became vertical, descending through history and expanding onto ever broader levels as the family expanded into a tribe, the tribe into a nation, and the nation into the world.

Cain and Abel must become one. In the sight of God there was no difference between Cain and Abel when they were born, but because of the fallen act there was a vast difference in the meaning of their positions as elder son and younger son. The ultimate dominion in the world should begin with the positions of Cain and Abel united into oneness. You know from Old Testament history that the Cain and Abel providence which failed in Adam’s family continued through Esau and Jacob, and also through Tamar’s children, Perez and Zerah. The continuing providence for the younger brother to win the birthright of his elder brother was consummated on all levels, even in the mother’s womb. From this lineage Jesus was born.

Jacob and Rebecca

Cain and Abel were born separately, while Esau and Jacob were twins. As twins they were much closer in their relationship than Cain and Abel. Why was Jacob blessed? According to the Bible’s description he was a cunning man who lied to his elder brother and father, conniving with his mother to get Esau’s birthright. Why could God continually bless him in that case? Rebecca, his mother, also deceived her husband and son. In the garden of Eden Eve deceived both her husband and God, and this double deception brought the fall. Eve did not listen to God but listened to Satan, and lied to her own husband; she lied to two generations, father and son.

In the restoration Rebecca took the position of Eve, doing so by lying to her husband and her son for the heavenly purpose of assisting Jacob to restore the birthright. Through her fervent desire to fulfill the work of God, Rebecca was able to restore herself to the position of heavenly mother, and help restore Jacob as a heavenly son. Step by step, Rebecca cooperated with her heavenly son to restore everything. Biblical scholars are confronted with an unsolvable question of morality in Jacob’s course; he was a cunning man and a swindler, yet the Bible indicates that God continuously blessed him. Why? Without knowing the deep significance of God’s dispensation, there is no way to understand.

When Isaac was close to death, he blessed Jacob, believing that Jacob was actually Esau. When Esau later went to receive his father’s blessing he discovered Jacob’s deception, and he demanded, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” But Isaac insisted, “Behold, I have made him your lord. What then can I do for you, my son? ” Jacob was a man of wisdom, and in order to avoid the accusation of his elder brother, he had already conditionally traded his elder brother’s birthright for a bowl of lentils. Strictly speaking, Esau had no right to be angry, for he himself had already sold his birthright. Even so, Esau was consumed with anger and determined to kill Jacob, just as Cain had killed Abel. However, Rebecca again assisted Jacob and he fled from danger.

If Isaac had actually given Esau the blessing he gave Jacob then God would not have had a condition to side with Jacob, and a confusion would have emerged in the dispensation. However, God was always with Jacob, and through him God’s dispensation was successfully fulfilled for the first time. All the conditions of physical restoration were met and fulfilled.

After a 21-year sojourn in a foreign land, Jacob returned to Canaan. On his way Jacob was confronted at the ford of Jabbok by the angel, who represented Satan. The fall of man came when an angel subjugated a man; therefore, in restoration man must subjugate the angel. For this reason God sent the angel to confront Jacob, wanting Jacob to win not only physically over Esau, but also spiritually over the angel. By doing so Jacob could restore man to his proper position and bring the angel down to his proper position as servant.

When Jacob confronted the angel at the ford of Jabbok, he had to give his entire heart and soul, even more than he had during his 21 years’ of servitude in Haran. Indeed, Jacob was determined even to die, and though his thigh was knocked out of joint he did not hesitate, but continued in his struggle. The angel finally acknowledged that he could not prevail against Jacob and blessed him, saying, “Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” What was Jacob’s victory? Jacob won a spiritual victory over all the angelic world. From that time on Jacob was assisted not only by God but by the angelic world in whatever he chose to do. Spiritually Satan could not assist Esau when he confronted Jacob after 21 years of separation, and Esau had to embrace his brother.

You recall that Esau received a great many gifts when Jacob freely gave of his earnings of 21 years. What is the significance of this act? In doing so, Jacob set the condition by which we also can purchase our birthright through giving out our fortune. Thereafter all religious people have given up their material wealth to the satanic world, and in doing so could not only win the satanic world but win their birthright. Jesus also gave up everything, possessing nothing throughout his entire mission. Once you know the Divine Principle the Bible suddenly becomes very logical.

The restoration of Cain and Abel was completed for the first time through the lives of Jacob and Esau. God won His first victory on earth at the moment the two brothers became one and Esau embraced Jacob. Through his unity with Jacob, Esau and his descendants also received the blessing of God. Esau was born into Satan’s position, but during the process of restoration Esau cooperated with Jacob, however unwillingly, and when Esau welcomed Jacob, the two positions were restored, and God could extend an equal blessing to Esau.

Further preparation of Jesus’ lineage

Jacob and Esau were about the age of forty when they finally fulfilled the will of God; however, their success could only affect those people of that age or older. No one below the age of forty could benefit by this progress in the restoration. God prepared another step in His dispensation that would protect His children from the period of their life in their mother’s womb until the age of forty. This providence had to be sealed within the next three generations of Jacob’s descendants.

Judah was the fourth son of Jacob, and Judah’s son married a woman whose name was Tamar. According to Jewish tradition, if a son died without leaving sons, his brother must act as a husband to the dead brother’s wife so that the dead brother’s lineage would be continued. Tamar did not have children when her husband died, and when the next brother refused to fulfill his responsibility, he died. However, the third brother was not given to Tamar when he became old enough, and Tamar saw that she had no hope to bear children.

She knew that her mission was to continue the family of her husband and Judah, his father, and she finally decided to sacrifice even her honor and prestige in order to fulfill. Disguising herself as a prostitute, Tamar enticed her father-in-law to have a relationship with her. Without knowing she was his daughter-in-law Judah consented. At that time adultery was punished by death. In order to save her life for the sake of her child, Tamar asked Judah for his signet and staff as a pledge for payment, and then confiscated them.

Three months later when it became obvious that the widow Tamar was pregnant, she was brought before Judah to be judged. You can imagine Judah’s horror, “Bring her out, and let her be burned! ” But she answered, “By the man to whom these belong, I am with child,” and she brought out the things that Judah had given her in his pledge.

Man fell through fornication, and Tamar was one example of how God frequently used women of most unusual character in restoration. Why would God use adulterous women in the dispensation? They are in a satanic position, but if they completely deny their satanic nature when summoned by God, then they can be restored from one extreme to the opposite extreme.

God selected His champions from the most miserable situations. Tamar was a righteous woman, and though she was originally in a sinful position, she completely dedicated herself to God’s mission, risking her life, honor, and prestige. Paralleling the way Eve lied to God and her husband to brine, the fall, Tamar deceived her father-in-law and her husband-to-be, the third brother of her original husband. She was in a position to reverse the Position of Eve by reversing Eve’s actions, but the significant thing is that she risked her life to do God’s will.

Tamar had conceived twins and in this case, the struggle of Cain and Abel began within her very womb. The Bible records how Rebecca’s twins also struggled within their mother’s womb. She had prayed to God to understand what was happening, and God answered her, saying, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born to you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.” Ultimately Jacob did gain the birthright from his elder brother, Esau.

When the time came for Tamar’s children to be delivered, the struggle ensued directly within her womb. The first child started to come out and the midwife tied a red thread around his wrist. That sign foreshadowed the emergence of communism in the Last Days. However, before the first child could be born there was a struggle, and the younger brother pulled the other back inside and was himself born first. That son was named Perez, and the other named Zerah. The result of this struggle is that for the first time the restoration of Cain and Abel took place inside the mother’s womb, the younger brother having subjugated his elder brother even prior to birth. Tamar’s extraordinary action cleansed Judah’s lineage and rendered it intact from satanic invasion from the time of conception.

Mary

Through this victory at the time of Tamar and also Jacob’s earlier victory, God could claim a foundation that spanned man’s entire life. Jesus was born in the lineage of Judah and Satan had no way to invade his life because the cleansing process was already completed. Jesus came years after the dispensation of Jacob and Tamar because God had to wait for the national foundation to be established. Conditions were all fulfilled on the family level at the time of Jacob, Tamar and Judah, but God needed to create a foundation to receive the Messiah within a nation, that he might gain victory among the satanic nations.

Finally after 2,000 years, God chose one more woman whose name was Mary. Mary was a revolutionary woman in faith who could follow God’s revolutionary tactics. Because the fall of man came through the archangel, an angel was needed to assist Mary by bringing her God’s revelation. Mary completely believed what the angel told her of her mission; the angel told her that she would conceive, and the child would be great and holy, and that his name should be called Jesus.

Mary’s situation paralleled Eve’s in the garden of Eden before her blessing. Mary and Joseph were engaged but not yet married; Adam and Eve were also in an engagement period as they were growing up. An angel brought Eve to the fallen act, but an angel brought Mary to the fulfillment of the heavenly dispensation. Mary was also in a position to deceive her husband and her father. Do you think Mary could discuss with her father or Joseph about how she had conceived her baby? She was risking her life because in those times an adulterous woman was to be stoned to death.

Mary was the third woman to be picked by God. Through the previous victories of Rebecca and Tamar all satanic conditions had been cleared from Jesus’ lineage, and even though Mary conceived Jesus outside of marriage, Satan could not accuse her. Even inside his mother’s womb Jesus was already the only begotten son of God, and after his birth everything he did was with the authority of the son of God.

The events recorded in the Bible have always puzzled the world. For instance, in the genealogy of Jesus the names of four adulterous women are recorded: Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. Another puzzling question was why the elder son was often in the position to be cursed by God. Without understanding the depths of the Principle there are no logical explanations for these things.

Jesus was in the position of Adam without sin in the garden of Eden. Did God intend for Adam to live his entire life alone in the garden of Eden? No, and in the same way Jesus was destined to create his own family through restoring his bride. Jesus’ family was to become the cornerstone of the Kingdom of God by creating the new lineage of heaven and earth as the center of the universe.

The son of God came alone, but in restoring his bride and his children from Israel, and establishing Israel as his own nation, Jesus could have restored the world. But Jesus was crucified, and could not leave the foundation of the Father and Mother of mankind established here on earth. With no True Parents here on earth, how could anyone be re-born here on earth? Without parents how can you be born in the first place?How can mankind receive physical salvation?

Forty days after Jesus’ resurrection the Holy Spirit descended from heaven. What is the Holy Spirit? After Adam and Eve failed their mission as the True Parents of mankind, God’s concept of the True Parents was confined to the spiritual realm. Jesus came as the manifestation of God’s concept of true Adam, but no one was raised up to manifest God’s concept of Eve. For this reason the Holy Spirit comes in the role of spiritual Mother. The Bible describes the Holy Spirit as being like fire or water or like a dove, because it was without form, but the role of the Holy Spirit is that of mother spirit.

The Holy Spirit has served as the womb of a spiritual mother, completely embracing and covering Christians and internally giving spiritual rebirth. Jesus’ spirit as the Father, together with the Holy Spirit, can bring the power of rebirth to Christians. No spiritual resurrection can come about until one truly receives both Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

God never intended that physical birth and spiritual birth come separately, but Jesus could not establish full salvation 2,000 years ago, and left only the power of spiritual salvation here on earth. He must come again to the earth to complete the portion of his mission left undone at that time .

An unusual phenomenon is taking place within the Unification Church; you are seeking to be recognized and loved by the True Parents. In your deepest heart you want to become one with them; without doing this you cannot be given complete restoration or rebirth. Physically it is impossible to become a part of the True Parents, but through your love, your total unity with them will be acknowledged by Heaven. Did you ever dream of such a Principle?

I want you to deeply realize that the emergence of the True Parents did not happen all of a sudden by decree one morning. Thousands and thousands of years passed in which God shed sweat and blood and tears to lay the necessary foundation in accordance with His principle and schedule, yet this work was continually being hampered by man’s failures. I unlocked the deep secrets of heaven and earth and determined to pioneer the path beyond the level on which all the dispensational figures previously suffered or accomplished, figures like Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and Jesus. I learned precisely what they accomplished and what they left undone.

I knew from the very beginning that unless I set my standard higher than all of those dispensational figures I could not fulfill the role of the True Parents in heart and love. I have now succeeded beyond the level they established in terms of heart and love. From the beginning I knew what to look for, what to ask for, and what to strive for.

All the confusion and chaos of history had to be resolved. I came like a doctor to operate, to straighten out the problems of mankind within the shortest possible time of 30 years, and to complete the foundation upon which God’s history could begin and all mankind could be brought to life. It is a miracle of miracles. What would you have done if I had not come?

Right now I look miserable in the eyes of the world. I have unlocked the most important secrets of life and have freely given them as a gift to the world, yet instead of being grateful the world has come back to ridicule me. You are God’s only hope; you are my only hope. However, since your previous life was so sinful you can never deserve the blessing of God in the Unification Church without totally changing from your previous philosophy and way of life.

Who will inherit my mission?

Your lives must be. different from yesterday; each day you need to be re-created. Will you change yourselves today? On this Parents Day, let’s forget what you have done in the past because what counts is today and tomorrow. Boldly take the responsibility that God has bestowed upon you; courageously undertake what God has bestowed upon you and fulfill this mission. I want you to know that through you God will change the history of mankind.

I am not delivering this message today solely for your benefit. My audience is the world, history, and the spirit world. I am speaking to the world and every person here on earth shall listen to this word in due course. The entire spirit world is listening right now. The entire world will be without the excuse that they did not hear me.

Did my explanation of the Bible sound like a lie, or is it clear and effective truth? If the 240 million people of America and if Christians the world over could really humble themselves to listen to the truth, there is no way that they could say, “Reverend Moon, you are seeking to deceive and I do not trust you.” The power of the truth will unite men.

I am very anxious at this time. God wanted me to have fulfilled this level of accomplishment by the age of 40, yet now I am almost 60. 1 am anxious to recover those 20 years of time by declaring God’s truth to the world so that the world which has been destined to death shall see some sign of hope for restoration

It is not yet too late, but America and the world must repent. God still wants to bless America. No one ever even imagined that the emergence of the True Parents could be this difficult and precarious. To come this far I had to persevere through and overcome impossible opposition and headwinds; I want you to inherit these experiences from me. Unless you inherit this heart of mine, you will have nothing to do with the place where I dwell and where God dwells.

When I die, I shall ask God, “Is there anyone who loved You more? Is there anyone who loved the world more? Is there anyone who really gave himself more totally for the sake of the world? Heavenly Father, can You name one’-“‘ There is no other such person. Therefore, I want to live longer because no one has yet come who can succeed me in my mission. I pray that among you someone can come forward to say, “Father, I can inherit your mission. I feel precisely as you do; I am another Reverend Moon. Leave it to me. My prayer is to see even one person like that come from among you. The greatest blessing that God could give me would be to see such a man. That person will say, “Father, I shall not only equal your own record, I shall exceed your record so there can be glory and Sabbath for you and for God.” If many of you feel like that, then this is truly the glory and victory of Parents Day.

Can you pledge in this sacred, holy room, “God, I give You my covenant, my pledge, that I will never let You down, that I shall persevere even more than Father himself persevered, and with my hands Your mission shall be done. This world shall see

resurrection and health because of me.” If that is the pledge you can give, then this is the place where God will look down and take great joy. Those who can solemnly pledge this severe and most difficult yet down-to-earth commitment, raise your hands. Thank you.

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