Author: Richard Urban

Adam and Eve Could Not Fathom God’s Inner Heart

If Adam and Eve had been able to fathom God’s inner heart, they could not have possibly fallen.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1128

    Jacob knew that when the angel came he came as a messenger from God. Thus, he asked, “Did you come with the mission to destroy me? Or did you come to give me a blessing?” The angel replied, “I came to bless you.” So Jacob asked, “If you came to bless me, why are you with- holding it from me?” The reply came, “I cannot just give it to you because your portion of responsibility remains.” In other words, Jacob had to wrestle with him and win in order to receive the blessing. That is to say, the blessing could not be granted unless he fought with his life. When challenged by the angel, Jacob determined to be victorious and rose up saying, “I see. All right, even if I lose my fingers or even my arms, I will not lose.” He then wrestled with the mind that he would not let go, even if he were struck by a sword, or had his head cut off. How long did they struggle? They struggled all through the night. He fought with the determination that he would not let go until he died. (20-228, 1968.6.9)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1577

    Furthermore, no words can express our gratitude to You for allowing us to establish and proclaim upon this foundation the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth centered on the True Parents.
    Heavenly Father, please take pleasure in welcoming this era in which You can be liberated from imprisonment, and in this state of liberation embrace Your loving cosmos, through the establishment of the Sabbath foundation of the eras of the right of kingship in the family, nation, world and cosmos, which has been Your long-cherished desire. We are aware of how much You grieved over not being able to help this son of Yours in his work, since all that You could do was shed tears and watch over his path. We beseech You with all of our hearts to bestow on us Your blessings, that You may achieve total, overriding, supreme and full authority as You have desired, and with the whole world under Your dominion we may march forward into Your liberated kingdom

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 2

The Internal Meaning of Sin and the Fall

Section 5. Grief Caused Over the Fall and God’s Heart in the Process of Restoration

5.2. Conditions for Satan’s accusations

Summary:
The Fall occurred because Adam and Eve lacked a deep, heartfelt connection with God 💔, causing them to betray His loving intentions and inherit a corrupt spiritual lineage from Satan. Because all human beings were born into this fallen bloodline, God cannot simply destroy Satan or humanity without destroying the entire human race 🩸. Furthermore, Satan continues to accuse God by demanding the complete, ideal love He was originally promised as an archangel ⚖️. Consequently, God has endured deep sorrow and confinement throughout history, waiting for humanity to understand His heart and help fulfill the original ideal of true love 🕊️.
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God Cannot Forgive Satan

Forgiving the adulterer would go against the heavenly principle

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1896

    Most people think that anyone can catch a fish just by throwing a fish hook into the water. However, that is not the truth! Different fish are active in different water temperatures. The water temperature differs between the bigger and smaller fish. In summertime, the water temperature is higher close to the surface. That is why the smaller fish live near the water’s surface. The fish move naturally, according to the temperature of the sea water. The fish dislike moving in all directions. They always try to move sideways. You must know such facts in order to fish. You must have knowledge of such things as where the fish gather and where to go fishing for salmon. You must become professionals. Therefore, studying is necessary. You cannot fish unless you become a professional in fishing.
    When I fish, I know exactly the right temperature. I already know what kinds of fish are found in certain temperatures. When you drop the fishing line a couple of times, the fish already touch the bait. So if I reel up the fish hook fast, the fish come up, and when the fish hook is reeled up slowly, it tends to sink down. While slowly reeling up the fish hook, you should know how fast the water is flowing on the surface. By the water temperature that we have today, I know what level the king salmon will come to. Usually, the salmon remain on the ocean floor. Why? They can find lots of food there. Crabs and small sea creatures live on the sea bottom, so the salmon like to gather there.
    No matter how many times you have caught fish in Alaska, you must learn again whenever you go fishing at a new place. You do not know how interesting this can be. Also, when people come and go, they can share their knowledge about fishing. The New Zealanders must learn when they come to Kodiak. Although they may be excellent fishermen in New Zealand, it does not work the same way in Kodiak. Because they must learn again when they come to Kodiak, they can mingle and create harmony. There are various ways of fishing, different ethnic groups, and different environments. Everywhere you go to fish, you will find many different environments. (252-206, 1993.12.30)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 245

    What should our lives be focused on? God’s love, God’s life and God’s lineage – these three roots are the standard. So, what should you be grateful for? Do not offer thanks for living a comfort- able life. You must feel grateful for bearing a cross. If the remains of a defeat- ed army are bleeding and rotting with a bad smell, who will make the funeral arrangements? Who will train them and turn them into a regular army? Also, if there is nothing to eat, what should be done? Should they just be killed off? No. You thought that by winning every- thing would become nice and smooth, but actually you will have to bear a bigger cross. Your time will come after you have resolved all that, after you have rebuilt it. You can live happily only after you have established a new family, a new nation and a new world.

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 2

The Internal Meaning of Sin and the Fall

Section 5. Grief Caused Over the Fall and God’s Heart in the Process of Restoration

5.2. Conditions for Satan’s accusations

Summary:
Satan is an “adulterer” who violated Eve, causing God profound grief and anguish during the Fall 💔. While God can forgive human beings trapped under Satan’s influence, He cannot forgive Satan himself—meaning the final judgment is directed at Satan rather than humanity ⚖️. Overcoming this history requires believers to develop a standard of love so deep that they can bless even their ultimate enemy 🕊️, mirroring the immense sorrow and endurance God has maintained throughout history.
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We Have to Settle the Score with the Adulterer

However we cannot do it with guns and swords.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1796

    God cannot intervene in the affairs of fallen humanity. His beloved was snatched away and bore children. Could He visit such a place and love them next to that devil? These are not empty words. Thus, Rome was destroyed through immorality, and America will now also perish through immorality. If you go to Pompeii, there are still traces of such immorality, traces of incestuous relationships over three generations. In America, twenty percent are that way. This is meant to be destroyed. (197-265, 1990.1.19)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1046

    We call our Unification Church members “family members.” Members should have the connections of brothers and sisters and be born under the same parents’ heart. Only then can we become a member. We should have the relationship of brothers under the same parents. We should directly inherit the way of life, habits, and traditions of the parents. Then, we should create a family that God can be pleased with. Only then can we become members. (155-211, 1965.10.30)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 2

The Internal Meaning of Sin and the Fall

Section 5. Grief Caused Over the Fall and God’s Heart in the Process of Restoration

5.2. Conditions for Satan’s accusations

Summary:
Satan acts as an “adulterer of love” who holds humanity captive and uses God’s unchanging Principle of Creation to demand love, claiming that neither God nor human beings can enter heaven without loving him first ⚖️. Because Satan relies on this original standard to make accusations, God is placed in a difficult position where He cannot use force, but must instead endure suffering and use a higher standard of love to reclaim humanity 🕊️. Ultimately, believers must recognize God’s silent struggle and overcome Satan by fulfilling this principle of loving their enemy to achieve spiritual unity and liberation 🌿.
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God Has to Love the Children of His Enemy

God has to set up the standard by loving them with the same heart He would have loved His original sinless sons and daughters.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 611

    Is religion necessary in the spirit world? It is not. In the spirit world, Presbyterianism and Roman Catholicism are unnecessary. You go into the realm of living with God, so religion is unnecessary.
    Then, what is necessary? Something precious is needed but what is it? The most precious thing is to be able to receive God’s love.
    Today, we talk about the realm of heart in the Unification Church. Where is the base of the realm of heart? The world of heart is where true parental love, true conjugal love and true fraternal love centered on God’s love can be universally expanded.
    Husband and wife living for the sake of one another is not primary in the original world. It is the conjugal love centered on heaven and earth and the cosmos that is primary. Therefore, we value the cosmos more. You may carry on conjugal love, but you must practice conjugal love centered on the world.
    Therefore, the most important question relates to where we build and find the foundation of love that meets the standard in that world. For that reason, the Unification Church is working to build that foundation in this world.
    Different from numerous religions and numerous things that are said to be precious in this world, the Unification Church is the only place which has started to build this foundation. What do we teach? We teach people how to become successful candidates in the world of heart. When you go to the other world, you will meet many people there who loved their race, many couples, patriots, loyal subjects, virtuous women and saints. But there is no one there who lived centered on the tradition of God’s original realm of heart. (126-139, 1983.4.12)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1194

    What is the ideology centered upon the Heavenly Parent? Firstly, centered on God, it is the restoration of the right of brotherhood. Secondly, it is the restoration of the right of the parent. Thirdly, it is the restoration of the right of king- ship. In the democratic world, there is no real concept of king, is there? The democratic world is based on the concept of brotherhood. Everyone is seen from the horizontal viewpoint. That is the doctrine of brotherhood, but people in the world ruled by this doctrine fight with each other. They compete with each other, saying, this is mine and that is yours. Doesn’t democracy seem to be a concept of struggle? The ruling and opposing parties compete with each other. What is the purpose of this? They are each trying to gain the right of king- ship. What is the position of a president? Isn’t it the right of kingship? Presidents come and go so they just exploit their position, so things don’t go well. If an absolute king emerged, there would be no problem. A world of absolute peace would then come. (205-172, 1990.9.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 2

The Internal Meaning of Sin and the Fall

Section 5. Grief Caused Over the Fall and God’s Heart in the Process of Restoration

5.1. The enemy of love; the bitter pain caused by the Fall

Summary:
God is compared to a husband who must lovingly accept back his wife (Eve) after she entered into an adulterous relationship with his worst enemy (Satan) 💔. Because God’s principles require an unchanging standard of eternal love, He cannot treat humanity—who are the descendants of this fallen relationship—with hatred; instead, He must love them even more deeply than before to restore them back to His ideal 🕊️.  True divine love and true religion require the capacity to love one’s ultimate enemy, a painful standard that God and the Messiah must set to heal the deep heartbreak caused by the Fall and bring about Satan’s voluntary surrender 👑.
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Satan Is the Adulterer Who Seduced Eve

Therefore, he is the enemy of God’s love.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1314

    During the three years from 1970, we even mobilized the 777 Couples, didn’t we? Didn’t you do the same? This was worldwide. We mobilized them in order to undergo hardships for the sake of the nation during the three years. What this means is that there is no family on earth, representing the nation or the world, who can be a match for the families of the Unification Church. Every family must become like the families in the Unification Church. How we were criticized during those three years! Since their mothers and fathers opposed them, the couples wrapped their babies in blankets and left them on the doorsteps of their parents’ houses at night, before setting out. Why did they have to do that? It was because they had to set the condition that they loved their nation more than their own sons and daughters.
    In order to do so, some of them even left their children in orphanages. Some husbands split up with their wives. After blessing them, instead of letting them live happily ever after, I made them throw away what little they had in their households, even pots and pans, and turned them out of their own homes. I did all this, so that the Blessed Families of the Unification Church from various tribes could go out to the nation as representatives of their tribes and restore them through indemnity.
    At first, we were opposed nationwide, but in the end, the circumstances were such that the same people were heard to say, “If we want to defend ourselves against Kim Il-sung and save our nation, we must become like the members of the Unification Church.” We set an example for others, teaching them that if you want to save your nation, you must do what we did, and serve the nation by sacrificing your wives and children. At the end of the three years, the people who at first had opposed us welcomed us. The fact that they did this signified the restoration of the Cain and Abel relationship. (198-328, 1990.2.11) 

Cheon Seong Gyeong 533

Love cannot undergo evolution or any type of revolution. The original form of love itself is perfect, unchangeable, eternal and absolute. (Blessed Family – 351)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 2

The Internal Meaning of Sin and the Fall

Section 5. Grief Caused Over the Fall and God’s Heart in the Process of Restoration

5.1. The enemy of love; the bitter pain caused by the Fall

    The reality of the Fall is that it is connected to the expulsion of the eldest son and daughter. The first son was the only son. The first daughter was the only daughter. Adam and Eve were born as the only son and the only daughter of billions of generations. Think about it, the only son and daughter of billions of generations were expelled when they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
    If you have only one son or one daughter and this only son dies, how great will your pain as a parent be? There is a saying that if the only son of an only son for seven generations dies, the entire neighborhood and surrounding villages will mourn for him. It is impossible to fathom the sorrow of parents who have lost a seventh generation only child, therefore all the families in the area, all parents, children, brothers and sisters will sympathize with them. When we consider this, we should reflect on the fact that Adam and Eve were the only son and daughter for how many generations? For billions of generations!
    Thus, the relationship of the Parent and child were not consummated. God lost the only son for billions of generations, so the only way to find that son again is to overcome the pain lasting for billions of generations. We have not known that we have such a Heavenly Parent. (301-100, 1999.4.20)

    Who is Satan? He is an adulterer of God’s love…. God had to let the enemy Satan embrace Eve. He had to listen to Satan’s accusations ten thousand times and yet He had to love him. That has been God’s position. You have no idea how difficult God’s situation is, have you? You should know that God’s position is even more difficult than the position of a man who had to let his beloved wife be embraced by his enemy and yet had to pray for that enemy’s happiness. Would you all be able to do that? (182174, 1988.10.16)

    Satan is the adulterer who seduced Eve. Therefore, he is the enemy of God’s love. Even though that enemy of love has been coming to God and making accusations for thousands of years, until today God has been fulfilling His role as the true Master without a single sign of displeasure on His face.
    Therefore, until God sets up one central base on the earth, no matter who comes to Him with complaints He cannot oppose that person. The reason for this is the existence of the archangel. (182-246, 1988.10.23)

    Satan is an adulterer of God’s love. It is Rev. Moon who announced this to the world for the first time. But who on earth is the devil? He is a servant who violated the woman who was supposed to become God’s wife. Who are Adam and Eve? They are God’s body. It is written in the Bible, in I Corinthians, “Do you not know that you are God’s temple…?” (1 Cor. 3:16) We are God’s house. The Bible says that whatever Adam called each living creature that was its name. What does that mean? It means that God entered his soul and dwelt there. (209-40, 1990.11.25)

    From God’s point of view Satan is the adulterer. Eve is an adulteress and Satan is an adulterer. God has to consider such a wife, such a daughter, a pure woman, a pure daughter. Otherwise, He cannot restore her to her original state. That is the realm of heart God is in, but no one knows His miserable state of mind; no one except me. (227-47, 1992.2.10)
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