Author: Richard Urban

Satan’s Love, Life and Lineage Are the Key Problems

What originally should have started from God has actually begun from the devil.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1405

We have walked the path of persecution in the process of our work until now, but through carrying out these things under Your guidance and protection, we have been able to overcome all the situations and people who have opposed us – from individuals to families, tribes, people, nations, the world, and cosmos, even up to the realm of Satan and hell. As we have inherited Your lineage through Your true love, You protected us just as parents protect their children so that the Unification Church was able to overcome during its difficult course all the hardships and persecution coming from the fallen world and was able to surmount individual, family tribal, racial, national, global, and cosmic peaks. Now we are able to hold, in the name of the True Parents, the Blessing Ceremony of 360 million Couples representing all humankind, and are graced to celebrate with heaven and earth the liberation that transcends religion, race, culture, and nationality. For this great occasion of the Blessing, we are truly, truly, truly grateful.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 670

If two-thirds of your life of seventy or eighty years were sorrowful, how would you handle that period? You should make it a joyful life centering on God. You should make it the Kingdom of Heaven where one gives and gives again. God also has to give. Parents must give to their children. Wanting to give and give again when you have something better to give is the heart of a parent. (34141, 1970.8.30)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 4. Restoration of Right of the Eldest Son, Right of the Parent and Right of Kingship

4.2. Restoration of the right of the parent

Summary:
Indemnity and the restoration of parental, eldest son, and kingly rights are necessary because Satan perverted the original source of life and love that began with God 💔. To fix this twisted origin, True Parents must build God’s Kingdom through immense suffering and personal sacrifice, ultimately uniting humanity under God’s love ✨. Continue reading “Satan’s Love, Life and Lineage Are the Key Problems”

God Does Not Beat His Enemy to Death

God must set the condition of having loved him. In the same way the person standing in the position of Adam has to set up a condition.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1891

When a large fish gets caught, you can feel its vibration reverberating deep under the sea. People on the boat bang the boat, making the sound, “boomboom-boom-boom”, which is similar to hitting your head with a hammer. How many raging waves have fish endured, having gone through all sorts of hardships for several decades in the sea? We can easily imagine what they have gone through, since they have managed to survive in those harsh circumstances. You should never make a loud banging noise from above the water, because the fish already know, due to the vibrations, how many meters away the people are. (221-84, 1991.10.23)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 935

The spirit world must be brought together. A person who cannot bring order to the spirit world cannot unify this world. The spirit world is the root of heavenly fortune. How can a person who is unable to bring order to the spirit world, incorporate those results on earth and unify this world? For this reason, the spirit world must be unified before unifying the physical world. (191-204, 1989.6.24

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 4. Restoration of Right of the Eldest Son, Right of the Parent and Right of Kingship

4.1. Restoration of the right of the eldest son

Summary:
To restore the right of the eldest son and enter the heavenly kingdom, believers must go out into the world and conquer Satan not through violence, but by winning people over with selfless love 💖. The passage explains that, just as God and Adam must set the condition of having loved their enemy, individuals must endure persecution and patiently win over their opponents until Satan willingly surrenders and signs off on their spiritual qualification ✨. Ultimately, fulfilling this worldwide standard of love allows Cain and Abel to switch positions, completely collapsing Satan’s opposition and establishing God’s direct dominion under the True Parents 🌍.

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Why Is the History of Religion One of Tribulation?

In all of history, only Rev. Moon has been able to clearly expose the secrets entangled in the spirit world, the religious and mystical worlds that only Satan and God knew about.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 575

    Christianity teaches people to love God, but this is a very vague concept. In the Bible Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. All you need are these two commandments. Before you love God you have to love the food you eat, love all things of creation, and love your body.
    Your first parents are the parents who gave birth to you. Your second parent is planet earth, this earth. The earth supplies you with all the essential elements for your physical growth. The earth is the second parent of your physical body. Through the second parent, you return to your third parent which means our physical death. However, you cannot go to the third parent as you are. In order to return to the third parent you have to resemble God, who is the original parent.
    Then, why do we marry? It is so that we resemble God. God is the uniformly combined being of dual characteristics. Since man and woman are the divided expression of God’s dual characteristics, they have to unite as one body, become like seeds and return to God’s position of original character. However, because we must go the way of love in order to be linked to that seed, we must be born in love, set love as our goal while growing, live centering on love, and walk this path in order to return to love. You will go off in the wrong direction unless you follow the path centering on the goal of living for the sake of others. (138-97, 1986.1.19)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1542

    The place we wish to inhabit is heaven. Would there be borders in it? Of course not. Would there be more than one language in it? Surely not. Would there be racial discrimination? Not in the least. Then, what would heaven be like? Since all human beings were originally born from God’s bosom, they are all brothers and sisters. From God’s viewpoint, since all of us are His children, it naturally follows that we are all siblings; from the viewpoint of His kingdom on earth, we are all citizens of the same kingdom. Every one of us is a citizen, a subject of this kingdom. (66-281, 1973.5.16)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 4. Restoration of Right of the Eldest Son, Right of the Parent and Right of Kingship

4.1. Restoration of the right of the eldest son

Summary:
Religious history is marked by tribulation because believers must overcome Satan’s foundational claim: that any true representative of God must prove their righteousness by actively loving the archangel who fell 🕊️. The passage explains that this requires an arduous, stage-by-stage ascent through the seven horizontal levels (from individual up to heaven and earth) and eight vertical levels (starting from the servant of servants) to fully restore the right of the unfallen firstborn son 👑. Ultimately, it emphasizes that loving one’s enemies is not just an individual command, but a historical and cosmic necessity—requiring believers to love enemy families, tribes, and nations—to strip Satan of his claims and reclaim the lost birthright ✨.
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Share the Blessings, then You Can Receive Some

The right of the firstborn son is not for you. Focused on the Lord who is to come, you must develop a connection with the vertical heavenly world.

Happy 44th Anniversary to the 6000 couples Blessed by Rev. and Mrs. Moon on October 14th, 1982!  

This Blessing is part of the 8000 Couples Blessing, which also includes the 2075 couples Blessed at Madison Square Garden on July 1, 1982.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2136

    Thus, it would be a mistake for anyone to think that white, black, or yellow people are the owners of America. God is the owner of America. This is also true for Korea. Differences in skin color are nothing more than the result of having to adapt to different climates and environments in different parts of the globe. In areas with large amounts of snowfall, we find mainly white people. Conversely, in places such as Africa where the rays of the sun are particularly bright, we find mainly black people. Fundamentally, though, people are the same.
    For example, the color of our blood is the same, and our flesh and bones have the same structure. We all love each other in the same way. Thus, there should be no racial discrimination. This is why the Unification Church has been working through large international weddings to create racial equality. In deference to the laws and principles of nature, we have inter-married all five colors of skin. When a black person and a white person marry, it is like the North Pole and the South Pole coming together in unity. When a yellow person and a black person marry and have children, both parents contribute their good attributes, and their offspring are better as a result. Where there is love, there can be no strife. Each of us comes from a different hometown and homeland, but we can all agree that the homeland and hometown of true love is the hometown of faith, peace, and unity.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 441

    What is the universe? Everything in the created world is designed as a sort of training aid to help God’s beloved sons and daughters find the ideal of love. This is why everything exists in reciprocal relationships. Minerals are based on the reciprocal relationship of subject and object partners and so are atoms. Protons and electrons also exist based on the reciprocal relationship of subject and object partners. Without reciprocation they cannot continue to exist. Without give and take action they cannot exist eternally. Therefore, the universe is a world created in such a way that its center can only be reached through human beings. (137-59, 1985.12.18)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 4. Restoration of Right of the Eldest Son, Right of the Parent and Right of Kingship

4.1. Restoration of the right of the eldest son

Summary:
God’s historical grief stems from the firstborn son falling to Satan’s side, which infected humanity with a “love-related disease” 💔. The passage explains that God designates Abel to establish the rights of the firstborn son and restore family tradition through love, requiring believers to leave their homes, adopt the mindset of living for others, and win over the “Cain” position through selfless sacrifice ✨. Ultimately, it emphasizes that to achieve spiritual victory and restore God’s order, individuals must help the firstborn son push the second son forward, enabling humanity to ascend stage by stage toward the original creation ideal 🌍.
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The Right of the First Born Son Must Be Restored

The position of the firstborn son is more precious than that of the second son, Abel.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 994

I’m not saying that you should force yourself to lay down your life if you do not want to. I’m saying that you should joyfully be willing to do that. Would God want you to lay down your life if you are totally miserable doing so, or would He prefer it if, intoxicated with love and not knowing whether you would live or die, you danced with joy while laying down your life? Which would He prefer? (48-114, 1971.9.5

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1062

    Why do you have to fulfill the responsibility of tribal messiah? The first reason is that you must save your parents. Your parents are in the position of the first Adam, and you are in the position of the second Adam. You must complete the mission of Adam by restoring and re-creating your parents. The second reason is that you need a hometown. By completing the responsibility of tribal messiah, you will be able to have your own hometown.
    Ultimately, the reason for fulfilling your portion of responsibility as a tribal messiah is the perfection of Adam’s family. In real terms, you have to educate your tribe. (244-211, 1993.2.7)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 4. Restoration of Right of the Eldest Son, Right of the Parent and Right of Kingship

4.1. Restoration of the right of the eldest son

Summary:
The Unification Church clarifies biblical history by explaining that humanity must restore the lost rights of both the firstborn (Cain) and secondborn (Abel) sons to God’s side to return to His original ideal 📖. The passage details that this required immense historical suffering and sacrifice—such as early Christians enduring centuries of Roman persecution in the catacombs—because the firstborn position carries unique precedence 👑. Ultimately, the text highlights that recovering this original order is exceptionally difficult, yet necessary to transcend the fallen realm and reclaim God’s absolute creation ideal .
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