Category: True Parents’ Day

The Marriage Feast of the Lamb has Occurred

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1794

According to the US Statistics
Bureau, the soaring divorce rate showed
a threefold rise between 1970 and 1990,
with the conclusion that one family out
of six has a divorce, and the reality is
that nationwide, thirty percent of chil-
dren are being raised by single parents.
Furthermore, the strange, decadent
phenomenon of gay married couples is
spreading. (288-197, 1997.11.28)

Richard:  Family breakdown and “bad sex” (sex outside of marriage, including homosexual sex) is the core reason that our society is disintegrating.  Emergency treatment is needed right away.  One way you can help and have access to materials teaching about the benefits of “good sex” is to subscribe tot he Urban Life Training Teacher Web Portal:  https://www.urbanlifetraining.org/index.php/donate

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1368

Thus, I have blessed the 6000 Couples
on the foundation of the 1800 Couples.
What that represents is the complete
restoration of number six from Satan’s
dominion. The number 6,000 signifies
that Blessed Families have no connec-
tion whatsoever with Satan. Through the
6000 Couples, surmounting the number
of the satanic world, we can advance into
the realm of liberation. (260-150, 1994.5.2)

Richard:  Stacey and I are prat of the “6000 couples Blessing”  This is also known as the “8000 couples Blessing”, including the 2075 couples Blessed in marriage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 1, 1982.  Later, on October 14, 1982, 6000 couples were Blessed in Korea.

True Parents Day 1966 excerpts
Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Women must solve problems that men cannot solve. No matter how many people may be alive on the earth, they are all born as the descendants of the fallen lineage, so one true woman must appear who can give motherly love.

Today’s women are being liberated so they can stand in this position, so now is the time when a true mother must appear. We need to be able to attend this mother here on earth. Isn’t that right? Humanity has come to where it is today and is searching for God, so a bride must be established here on the earth. Without parents, there can be no children; without children, there cannot be a family; without a family, there cannot be a tribe; without a tribe, there cannot be a people; without a people, there cannot be a nation; and without a nation, there cannot be a world.

It is only when Adam and Eve attend God with God’s love, or parental love, that we can have the humanity and world that God created. This mission could not be accomplished in the family of Adam or the family of Joseph. So this needs to be corrected. A new world needs to be built through God’s overall will.

But not everyone can be this bride. Not everyone who enters a marathon can finish first. Everyone who runs has the right to finish first, but only person first to cross the finish line can be the ultimate victor. In the same way, everyone has God’s permission to become the bride, but no one can be the bride without being chosen by God. Only the person chosen by God
can be the bride.

What does God look for in the many bride candidates? He looks for a person who will attend the coming Lord. Continue reading “The Marriage Feast of the Lamb has Occurred”

Jesus Needed to Establish a Bride

Exodus 1

20-21 God was good to the two women because they truly respected him, and he blessed them with children of their own.

The Hebrews kept increasing 22 until finally, the king gave a command to everyone in the nation, “As soon as a Hebrew boy is born, throw him into the Nile River! But you can let the girls live.”

Eccliastes 8

6 Life is hard, but there is a time and a place for everything, 7 though no one can tell the future. 8 We cannot control the wind[a] or determine the day of our death. There is no escape in time of war, and no one can hide behind evil. 9 I noticed all this and thought seriously about what goes on in the world. Why does one person have the power to hurt another?

Richard:  We should not take ourselves too serously.  Life should be balanced.

True Parents Day 1966 excerpts
Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Who is Jesus? He is the second Adam who came in place of Adam. So, he needed to establish a bride who would be the second Eve. Wasn’t that necessary for him to reestablish the position of parents? He needed to reestablish that which was lost, so he needed to establish an object partner who would work with him for the sake of God.

A man represents heaven, and a woman represents earth. Jesus came as a groom representing all men, so he needed to establish a bride. The people of Israel at Jesus’ time, however, did not understand Jesus will. The disciples, too, did not understand his will, so they could not help him.

This was supposed to have been accomplished in Joseph’s family. When this was not done, Jesus could not become the True Parent. Joseph’s family needed to understand that God had blessed their family at the climax of His four-thousand-year providence. They needed to bear total responsibility for their era and fulfill their responsibility. Also, it was Jesus’ mission to accomplish God’s will through the family of Joseph. For this reason, Jesus assailed his parents on three occasions. The parents did not know God’s will, however, and finally could not understand Jesus’ will. Continue reading “Jesus Needed to Establish a Bride”

True Parents Set the Standard

Cheon Seong Gyeong 579

Walking the streets of Myungdong
in Seoul, one sees young couples being
affectionate. For whom are they doing
that? They say they do that to enjoy their
youth, which they have but once. That’s
fine, but who is the owner of enjoyment?
This is a serious question. How long
can you enjoy life? You do so from your
twenties, but it will not last after you pass
your sixties, seventies, and eighties.
Yet the way of the Unification Church
is different. For what purpose do we eat?
For the sake of the world and to abolish
this evil world. We see in order to clean
up this evil world – not to become a part
of the evil side but to defeat it. How we
hear, think, walk and act is different
from the secular world. (36-71, 1970.11.15)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1410

Of the 36 Couples, the Adam couples
were already married couples, the Noah
couples were engaged but not married,
and the Jacob couples were virgin men
and women. Noah’s family did not fulfill
the Will. When you look at the people
in the world today you see that there are
already married couples, those who are
in informal relationships or are engaged,
and the completely pure single men and
women. From this time on, the foremost
kind of people that True Parents should
be seeking for are not the Adam couples
but the true sons and daughters, in oth-
er words, pure single men and women.
(242-104, 1993.1.1

Richard:  Keeping sexual purity before marriage is a crucial part of spiritual development and receiving Christ.  In fact, you cannot properly receive Christ if you have not kept your sexual purity.

True Parents Day 1966 excerpts
Rev. Sun Myung Moon

As everyone knows, today is Parents Day. Centering on March 1960, we established a new day that did not exist in history, and this is none other than Parents Day. This day should be greeted with rejoicing in the heavens and the earth.

Had our ancestors Adam and Eve not fallen, we would have been celebrating Parents Day already. Because Adam and Eve fell, it was necessary that True Parents come to the earth before we could celebrate Parents Day. Their coming was essential for us to begin celebrating Parents Day, and it was on the standard of this day, and only after true children appeared through the True Parents, that we could begin celebrating Children’s Day. After this, it also became possible to start celebrating a day where we could exercise dominion over all things.

God promised these days to the human ancestors when they had not fallen. Because of the fall, however, we could not receive the days that were the ideal of God’s creation, that is, Parents Day, Children’s Day and Day of All Things. God, too, could not receive the days when He could be joyous and proud as a God who had completed His purpose of creation.

Of course, the fall was when Adam and Eve fell into a situation where they had lost God, but God also lost Parents Day, Children’s Day and Day of All Things. All the celebration days God had hoped to see were taken from Him. Continue reading “True Parents Set the Standard”

True Parents’ Day Was the Central Idea in God’s Concept of the Creation

Happy 58th True Parents’ Day!

Genesis 47

27Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.

Isaiah 40

23He brings princes to naught

and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

24No sooner are they planted,

no sooner are they sown,

no sooner do they take root in the ground,

than he blows on them and they wither,

and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

25“To whom will you compare me?

Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

26Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:

Who created all these?

He who brings out the starry host one by one

and calls forth each of them by name.

Because of his great power and mighty strength,

not one of them is missing.

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Rev. Sun Myung Moon

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A Life with True Parents
Section 1. True Parents’ Day and True Parents

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