Book Review: As A Peace Loving Global Citizen
By Rev. Sun Myung Moon
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Mark 12
24 Jesus answered:
You are completely wrong! You don’t know what the Scriptures teach. And you don’t know anything about the power of God. 25 When God raises people to life, they won’t marry. They will be like the angels in heaven. 26 You surely know about people being raised to life. You know that in the story about Moses and the burning bush, God said, “I am the God worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”[b] 27 He isn’t the God of the dead, but of the living. You Sadducees are all wrong.
Richard: This passage explains, apparently, that there is no marriage in heaven, per Jesus’ teaching. True Father, Rev. Moon explains that when you have a Blessed family with the children united with the parents through three generations, you can enter heaven with you family.
” Second, Heaven has permitted the grace of the authority of Sunghwa for rebirth and resurrection to be bestowed on the family unit. Here, a requisite condition is the complete unity between parents and children. In other words, you must establish the standard for absolute parents and absolute children, and establish an absolute family in the normal course of events. “
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Proverbs 30
5 Everything God says is true—
and it’s a shield for all
who come to him for safety.
6 Don’t change what God has said!
He will correct you and show
that you are a liar.
Exposition of the Divine Principle
3 Color Edition-The Red part
2.2.3 THE THIRD NATIONAL COURSE TO RESTORE CANAAN
2.2.3.1 THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH
Because the Israelites turned
faint-hearted upon hearing the report of the faithless spies, the second
national course to restore Canaan ended in failure. The forty years Moses had
spent in the wilderness of Midian to restore the foundation of faith were
invaded by Satan. As a result of the failure of the mission to spy out the
land, the people had to wander in the wilderness for forty years, one year for
each day of the forty-day spy mission, until they returned to Kadesh-barnea.
For Moses, this forty-year period was to separate Satan, who had invaded the
previous foundation of faith, and to restore through indemnity the foundation
of faith for the third course. Moses honored the Tabernacle with faith and
loyalty throughout the entire forty years of wandering in the wilderness. By
the time he returned to Kadesh-barnea, he had completed the foundation of faith
for the third national course to restore Canaan. Accordingly, he also secured
the position of Abel for the foundation of substance.
2.2.3.2 THE FOUNDATION OF SUBSTANCE
For Moses, the forty years of wandering in the wilderness was the period
required to establish the foundation of faith for the third national course.
For the Israelites, the goal for this period was to accomplish the dispensation
to start the third course. They were to do this by establishing the foundation
for the Tabernacle, thereby returning to the state of grace which they had
enjoyed in the second course when they first constructed the Tabernacle under
Moses’ direction.
2.2.3.2.1 THE FOUNDATION OF SUBSTANCE CENTERED ON MOSES
The third national course to restore Canaan was to begin at
Kadesh-barnea upon completing a dispensation to start based on the rock.
Henceforth, had the Israelites honored the Tabernacle with faith and devotion
and followed Moses into Canaan, they would have fulfilled the indemnity
condition to remove the fallen nature required for the foundation of substance
in the third national course. How did God intend to conduct the dispensation to
start based on the rock? During the forty years of wandering in the wilderness,
the Israelites again fell into complaint and faithlessness. To save them, God instructed
Moses to strike the rock with his staff that it might yield water and give
drink to the people.
However, when Moses heard the people murmuring against him and
complaining that they had no water to drink, he raged in uncontrolled anger and
struck the rock twice. By striking the rock twice when he should have struck it
only once, Moses undermined the dispensation to start based on the rock. As a consequence,
he was not permitted to enter the promised land. He could only gaze upon it
from a distance at the end of his life.
The rock not only symbolized
Christ; as the root of the tablets of stone, it also symbolized God, the origin
of Christ.
2.2.3.2.2 THE FOUNDATION OF SUBSTANCE CENTERED ON JOSHUA
Therefore, God worked the
dispensation to start the course anew, this time based on the water from the
rock, by elevating Joshua to Moses’ place and having the internal Israelites
obey him and stand with him upon the foundation for the Tabernacle. On this
basis, they were to enter the land of Canaan, where they were to fulfill the
national indemnity condition to remove the fallen nature. In this way, God
intended to establish the foundation of substance centered on Joshua in the
third national course.
In the second national course,
Moses sent twelve spies to Canaan.142 Upon the foundation of heart laid by the
two spies who had faithfully completed their mission, Joshua sent two men to
spy out the fortified city of Jericho.143 When they returned from Jericho, the
two spies made a faithful report: “Truly the Lord has given all the land into
our hands; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted
because of us.”144 The younger generation of Israelites raised in the
wilderness all believed the spies’ words, and this faith indemnified the sins
of their parents, who had not properly completed the previous forty-day mission
to spy out the land.
By restoring the dispensation to start based on the water from the rock,
they assumed the same position as their parents had when, under Moses’
leadership, they had participated in the dispensation to start at the Exodus
from Egypt when God provided the three signs and ten plagues. The Israelites
under Joshua’s leadership passed through a three-day course before they crossed
the Jordan River. After the Israelites under Joshua’s leadership completed the
three-day course, the Ark of the Covenant led them to the Jordan River. The
tablets lying at the center of the Ark, and the pillars of cloud and fire both
symbolized Jesus and his would-be Bride. Joshua placed the Ark of the Covenant
in front of the troops to guide their way. When the priests bearing the Ark of
the Covenant entered the Jordan River, its waters parted, opening the way for
the people following the Ark to walk on the riverbed.
Joshua placed the Ark of the Covenant in front of the troops to guide
their way. When the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant entered the Jordan
River, its waters parted, opening the way for the people following the Ark to
walk on the riverbed.
Upon reaching the Jordan River, God commanded Joshua, saying:
Take twelve men from the
people, from each tribe a man, and command them, “Take twelve stones from here
out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet
stood, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you
lodge tonight.” —Josh. 4:2-3
And thus the people did:
The people came up out of
the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal, on
the east border of Jericho. And those twelve stones, which they took out of the
Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. —Josh. 4:19-20
The Israelites under Joshua’s leadership, who encamped at Gilgal,
observed the feast of Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month of that
year. Afterward, they set out for the city of Jericho.
As they approached Jericho, in
accordance with God’s command, the Israelites put forty thousand soldiers at
the forefront while seven priests blew seven trumpets as they marched behind
the soldiers. Following behind them was the Ark of the Covenant carried by the
Levitical priests, and the rest of the Israelite army marched at the rear. The
Israelites marched around the fortified city in this formation once a day for
six days, but this caused no change in the city. With patience and obedience,
the people were restoring through indemnity the sixday period of creation which
had been invaded by Satan. After they faithfully endured through six days, on
the seventh day the seven priests circled the city walls seven times, blowing
the seven trumpets, and Joshua said to the people: “Shout; for the Lord has
given you the city.” The people raised a great shout and the city walls tumbled
down.
Joshua then launched attacks on the enemy with insurmountable force. He
defeated thirty-one kings altogether.
2.2.3.3 THE FOUNDATION FOR THE MESSIAH
Based on this victory, they laid
the foundation of substance in the third national course and established the
foundation for the Messiah for this course—albeit as a people without
sovereignty. The family foundation for the Messiah had been fulfilled in the
days of Abraham. His descendants passed through a four-hundred-year course of
indemnity as slaves in Egypt before they could enter Canaan and there complete
the national foundation for the Messiah. This required more than merely
entering and conquering Canaan. As was discussed earlier in detail, fallen
people had already founded powerful nations such as Egypt, led by satanic
rulers who opposed God’s providence of restoration. Therefore, even though the
national foundation for the Messiah was established under Joshua’s leadership,
it would be necessary to build a sovereign kingdom from which the Messiah could
confront the satanic nations of the world. However, once the younger generation
of Israelites entered Canaan, they also became faithless. Hence, God’s
providence was prolonged again, and would suffer repeated setbacks until the
time of Jesus.
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