In the face of death, Jesus cried out, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1782
The Fall changed Adam and Eve’s lineage. Whose love changed it? They became the embodiments of Satan through his love as God’s adulterous enemy. The living body of the man, and the living body of the woman entered the realm of Satan’s love and united based on that; and the fruit of this was their children who thereby inherited Satan’s love, life and lineage. (227-47, 1992.2.10)
If Christians and other people walking the path of faith are to resolve the bitterness caused by our ancestors having fallen prey to Satan’s accusations, having been trampled upon and victimized in massacres, they must clarify the identity of Satan and understand the heart of God in history, in the present age and His concerns about the future. This world will start turning only when God in tears is able to call people, “Oh, my sons, my daughters!” (8-130, 1959.11.29)
If Christians and other people walking the path of faith are to resolve the bitterness caused by our ancestors having fallen prey to Satan’s accusations, having been trampled upon and victimized in massacres, they must clarify the identity of Satan and understand the heart of God in history, in the present age and His concerns about the future. This world will start turning only when God in tears is able to call people, “Oh, my sons, my daughters!” (8-130, 1959.11.29)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 5 Earthly Life and the Spirit World Chapter 4
The Kingdom of Heaven
Section 3. The Prerequisites and Conditions for Going to Heaven
3.2. The lifestyle that enables us to go to heaven
3.2.4. The Kingdom of Heaven and us
In the face of death, Jesus cried out, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.” Even as he died, he did not protest to God, but was ready to offer a greater sacrifice without question because his will was great for the sake of God’s will. Continue reading “Our Strength Based on Altruistic Love Will be Enough to Save the World”
Even though people may not want to go to the spirit world, they all have to go nonetheless. All of you here, please raise your hand if you think you will never die. Even though you stick a knife in the table and pledge otherwise, death is inevitable. Where do you go after death? You pass on to the spirit world. Life on earth is like a large river; but no matter how large the river, it all flows towards the sea. Those who say, “I can’t go to the sea; I don’t want to go to the sea,” may be alive but are as good as dead. It is the same as not realizing the value of their existence. (229-88, 1992.4.11)
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1773
When God invested and invested, centered on love, His love enveloped the entire universe and there was still more left over. Centered on God who is the motive of love, centered on this core, all corners of this existing world in the universe were enveloped in the atmosphere of love. Thus, there is the atmosphere of love even if you go to the spirit world. On earth, we should have led our lives singing of love centered on the pair system; but due to the Fall, this miserable state came about. We must understand this fact and know about the Fall. (209- 222, 1990.11.29)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 5 Earthly Life and the Spirit World Chapter 4
The Kingdom of Heaven
Section 3. The Prerequisites and Conditions for Going to Heaven
3.2. The lifestyle that enables us to go to heaven
3.2.3. Our life for the sake of Kingdom of Heaven
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. (34- 141, 1970.8.30) Continue reading “The World Gets Occupied Either by Good or by Evil”
There are currently 3,600 species of fish in the Pantanal. In Korea are there even 36 kinds of fish? Korea is no match for the Pantanal. In the future, a fish farm taller than a city building must be created to raise these 3,600 kinds of fish. Imagine controlling the temperature for each type of fish with a computer – those from the sea, those living in fresh water, those living in the arctic regions, and those living in tropical areas. We could raise 3,600 species of fish from the entire world in one building and using buildings in cities would not be a problem. (296-188, 1998.11.9)
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The holy wine contains elements representing all creation, which cannot be accused by Satan. After drinking the holy wine, and becoming one with True Parents, if you commit any acts that defile your body, you will be worse off than Satan himself. Satan defiled and violated the perfection level of the growth stage. But if someone receives the Blessing and then commits a sin, he defiles the substantial body of God in the perfection level of the completion stage and cannot ever be forgiven. This is a truly terrifying thought. (Blessed Family – 596)
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 5 Earthly Life and the Spirit World Chapter 4
The Kingdom of Heaven
Section 3. The Prerequisites and Conditions for Going to Heaven
3.2. The lifestyle that enables us to go to heaven
3.2.1. Our position
God created people to participate in His love. Their path of life was to start in God’s love, grow and mature in His love, form families and become perfected bodies of love. They would connect with the love of the world and in this way return to God’s bosom of love.
We were born for the sake of love. Love! Do you understand? This is the origin of the universe. Love, true love! That holds true for everyone, for men and for women. (198-122, 1990.1.25)
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I view the 30,000 and 360,000 Couples Blessings as uphill tasks. The Blessing of 3.6 Million Couples is the watershed. From now on, our path is an easy one downhill. In descending, we can accelerate and gain momentum down on the opposite slope. The 36 million Couple Blessing can be said to be the counterpart of the 360,000 Couples Blessing, and then after we complete the 360 million Couple Blessing, the mountains that are the families of the satanic world will collapse completely. With the collapse of these families, the world will become a flatland. As these mountains of fallen families remained standing until now, God has been unable to travel freely between heaven and earth.
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 5 Earthly Life and the Spirit World Chapter 4
The Kingdom of Heaven
Section 3. The Prerequisites and Conditions for Going to Heaven
3.1. The prerequisites for going to heaven
3.1.4. Altruism is needed
If you are fifty and have lived for the universe in accordance with heavenly ethics for over 25 years, you can go to heaven. In going to the next world, you can stay in the good spirit world. However, those who lived putting themselves first more often than not, you will be sad to hear, will go not to the original homeland of goodness, but rather to the land of evil and the world of egoism. Such a place is hell. Continue reading “Those Who Live for Others Will Go to Heaven”
Ancient civilizations arose on continents. Human civilization, which came forth from the riverbed of the Nile in Egypt, shifted to peninsulas and established a Mediterranean civilization sphere, in Greece and on the Italian peninsula. Civilization was transferred from the peninsula to an island, thus creating an Atlantic civilization sphere, centering on Britain, an island nation. Next, the island civilization, in Britain, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and established a miracle of modern civilization on the American continent, thus creating the sphere of the Pacific civilization. The flow of history has not stopped there. I am fully aware of God’s will to have this civilization cross the Pacific Ocean, blossom as a new island civilization in Japan, an island nation comparable to Britain, and then to establish here on the Korean peninsula, which corresponds to the Italian peninsula, an integrated human civilization, comparable to that of ancient Rome. This will become a new unified civilization sphere, adjacent to the Asian continent, which will lead to one world of harmony. (78-254, 1975.6.7)
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We do not know whether Eve picked and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or whether she ate an apple. In order to do so, she would have had to first see it with her eyes, then move her hands to pick it, and finally eat it with her mouth. In order to have taken and eaten, the eyes, hands and mouth must all have been involved. If the act of eating started with these three organs, if these organs actually performed this action, then after eating the fruit, Adam and Eve ought to have covered their eyes, hid their hands and covered their mouths; yet they actually covered their sexual parts. That is the problem. (54-62, 1972.3.11)
We should do Tong-ban breakthrough activities, do you understand? In your village, if you think about the people according to each clan, and you have one hundred homes, how many ban (home neighborhoods) does that make? Only by going down to the ban will you move a Mr. Lee of the Lee clan, or a Mr. Pak of the Pak clan. In this way you can move everyone in the area. Since it was in the family that the seeds were sown incorrectly which led to its ruin, it is in the family that you must harvest the results and make a heavenly family that can prosper. Your destiny rests in fulfilling this. Let’s bring this matter to a closing point. (210-291, 1990.12.25)
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 5 Earthly Life and the Spirit World Chapter 4
The Kingdom of Heaven
Section 3. The Prerequisites and Conditions for Going to Heaven
3.1. The prerequisites for going to heaven
3.1.3. Actual results are needed
In the past, by praying and devoting themselves, people could meet the founder of a religion for that moment only, but then they had to separate because the founder had to ascend to the spirit world. Yet now the time has come when all spirit people can return to earth, centering on the realm of religion. With the advent of such an era, you cannot go to heaven without obtaining the actual results that will enable you to move the past, present and future. The past was the era of angels and good spirits. The present is the era of the parents. The future is God’s era. In conclusion, those who lack the actual result for mobilizing the spirit world, one’s own parents as well as God, cannot enter heaven. This is the same way that the angels and God moved to help Adam and Eve. After that, Adam and Eve had to move the universe themselves. Thus, only those who control the three worlds of past, present and future, centering on God, can enter heaven. Only then can they go to the original world, the Kingdom of Heaven. (161-199, 1987.2.3)
The condition enabling you to go to heaven is to love God more than your own children. You must love the Lord more than your own spouse. You must love the Holy Spirit more than yourself. That’s the oneness of the Trinity. (10-99, 1960.7.17)
Then, who can enter and live in the heavenly nation? Sons and daughters who have brought joy to God can enter and live there. After that which we term the Fall took place, humanity has increased and multiplied through the millennia of history. From the midst of this humanity thus multiplied, none were born on earth who brought joy to God. (143-23, 1986.3.15)
You might hope to go to heaven by believing in the Unification Church. However, if you did not bring actual results on earth and you were allowed into heaven, you would feel ashamed. We are not the group that seeks to go to heaven through a conceptual life of faith. We are the group that seeks to build the Kingdom of Heaven with all our heart and efforts. Those who seek to oppose and prevent that cannot be forgiven. In order to build the Kingdom, we must invest our entire mind and body as well as all our belongings and even our surroundings. We must take responsibility for the destiny not only of the nation, but also of even Asia. (22-226, 1969.5.2) pgs. 666-667