Daily Inspiration

Strengthening Families and Communities Forum–
#137-Creating an Abstinence-Centered Education Revolution
Richard Urban

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2364

    Why do we need the Lord at his Second Advent and the True Parents? All the families in history that progressed from individuals, to families, to tribes, to peoples, to nations, and to the world, have never been able to live together with True Parents. Even if England, America, and France had united at the time of the Second Advent right after World War II, humanity would have had to begin from the position of the family led by the True Parents. Families must unite around True Parents’ leadership.
    Once families are united, we will not need to be concerned about tribes, peoples and nations. Why is it so? True Parents come on the worldwide foundation. They are the parents coming on the victorious foundation of worldwide dominion. Why do they come? They come as the True Parents representing the age of the families. They have to connect to the past as the tribal level True Parents, race-level True Parents, and national level True Parents. (263-203, 1994.10.4)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 617

    Then, what will happen next? As God exists, where will He appear? God will appear not in the air but through your mind. Why have not you been able to experience that? Because your mind is not yet firmly established in its own existence and because you have become people who are being dragged around by your body. Once your mind is firmly established within its existence and forms a higher dimension of character whereby you can declare it to be another subject entity, the situation will surely be different.
    When you reach a higher level through prayer, you will start talking with your mind. A state of resonance will occur. It will be on a higher level, and you will physically hear what you are saying in your mind. You will advance to that kind of state. During the first stage a hint or suggestion in your daily life will be given. Therefore, believers must collect the vast amount of such facts.

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Second Advent

Continuing the analysis of the Korean nation as a moral nation, the religions of Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Unificationism have all borne fruit on the Korean peninsula.
The Korean ‘Chong ham nok’ and other prophecies have predicted the coming of a sage and the realization of happy families around the year 2000.
Just as wise men testified to Jesus, notable scholars and spiritualists, such as Arthur Ford and Jeane Dixon have testified to the role of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
See slides 22 to 25 below:

 

Strengthening Families and Communities Forum–
#137-Creating an Abstinence-Centered Education Revolution
Richard Urban

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1073

What will you teach your children? In order for your children to inherit the tradition, you must educate them and lead an exemplary public life. People were originally made to be educated by their parents; they are not to receive education just from school. Especially, education in order to inherit the tradition cannot be taught in school. (111-256, 1981.2.22)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1406

I stand before them on this occasion which You have long desired, and bless them to become Your children who from this moment can inherit Your will to build Your kingdom on earth and in heaven as true individuals by uniting mind and body, husband and wife, parents and children, and with their siblings in the blessed world. Please be with them and bless them as they march forward to the place of victory and glory. I pronounce my benediction upon the 360 million Couples in the name of the True Parents! Amen! Amen! Amen! (299-109, 1999.2.7)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Second Advent

The Korean nation is a moral nation. Concepts such as the importance of lineage and the birthright of the eldest son are ingrained in national culture.
History began on the continent, moved to the peninsular culture of the Roman Empire, then the island of England. Then it migrated back to a continent, the United States.
Finally, the island culture of Japan has swept the world in many ways.
Ultimately, culture and Providence is culminating now in the Pacific Rim Era, centering in Korea and other Pacific Rim Nations.
See slides 18 to 21 below:

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1619

    Didn’t hell come into existence after the Fall? In contrast, heaven is the world of love which everyone in both the spiritual and physical worlds can enter after passing through the True Parents’ gates of love. Had Adam and Eve not fallen, but instead entered heaven through establishing true parental love, they would have become the model for all subsequent families in the world. Heaven will be opened when the first exemplary family can enter.
    All the families that have linked themselves to the love of this royal family of heaven and inheriting their tradition will be like branches pointing north, south, east and west as they grow from that central trunk. Thus, they can enter heaven by the same principle that is the basis of a unified world. You need to understand this clearly. (231-76, 1992.5.31)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1977

You should all love Korea. God’s purpose in raising Korea should be fulfilled and Korea should become our homeland. In the future, the entire Korean peninsula should become a holy ground.  Shouldn’t we recover the Liaotung peninsula in Manchuria that used to be Korean territory? The people of Israel sold Jesus and then recovered their nation. Then do you believe that I, who live with the title of returning Lord, would not be able to recover our native land? Even if the Soviet Union were to obstruct my way, I would push right through it. I think we should enter negotiations to recover parts of our native land which belonged to us during the former Sung dynasty and which was taken away by the Soviet Union. (168-49, 1987.8.30)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Second Advent

The nation where Christ returns must fulfill a 40-based condition of indemnity as a nation.  It also must be a nation that is an object of God’s heart.
Korea fulfilled this condition through the 40 years of persecution during the Imperial Japanese occupation from 1905 to 1945.
Korea is also the front line between God and Satan, being divided at the 38th parallel.
Korea is a nation that has been, in many ways, the object of God’s heart in its heartistic culture and language.
See slides 14 to 17 below:

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1521

Considering that it is God’s desire for you to become exemplary families in this world of the enemy in accordance with His will, you should realize that you can only enter heaven as a family. (29-9, 1970.2.15)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 610

    Why must you have sons and daughters? There surely has to be love. God has to exist, man and woman have to exist, and husband and wife have to exist. Next, the blood has to be mixed. The descendants are born with God’s blood and love blood, vertical blood and horizontal blood, mixed together. Therefore, unless you have descendants, you cannot have a place to play and rest in the other world.
    If husband and wife – just the two of them – live face to face till they turn eighty or ninety, will they be happy? They cannot live an interesting life. There has to be a daughter-in-law and grandchildren. For grandfathers and grandmothers, there is no greater happiness than holding their grandchildren.
    Those who could not have grandchildren cannot achieve harmony with heaven and earth and keep in step with north, south, east and west in the spirit world. (197-32, 1990.1.7)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Second Advent

    History has repeated itself through parallel historic periods, as we studied previously.  From the time of Abraham to Jesus was 1930 years, plus the 30 years until Jesus started his public ministry.   From the time of Jesus until the preparation time for the second advent is 1930 years, plus 30 years until the Holy Marriage Blessing of True Parents in 1960.  See slide 10 below.
    In these last days, the three great blessings have been restored on the world level.  In other words, we can see that this is the time when Christ returns on this earth.  In fact, that has already occurred.
    In the parable of the vineyard, Matt. 21:33-43, Jesus indicates that Christ will not return to the nation of Israel, as that blessing will be given to another nation.  Rev. 7:2 indicates that Christ will return in the East.  The only godly nation in the east, among Korea, China and Japan, is Korea.
   See slides 10 to 13 below.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2398

You all have a hometown, don’t you? However, where could God’s original homeland be? If God had his original homeland, the clans of that original homeland would form there, and from the clans would come peoples, and from these peoples there would emerge nations and a world. Through this process, the heavenly kingdom on earth would be established. If God had a homeland on earth, would we want to go there or not? We would. People even want to go to their own hometowns where their humble parents and siblings are living. Then, wouldn’t you want to go to God’s original homeland? God’s original homeland is everyone’s homeland. Therefore, someone who says he does not want to go is not being truthful. (23-152, 1969.5.18)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 445

    The family encompasses history, the present and the future. So what is the ultimate point that God has sought for six thousand years? It is the family – the family where love is interconnected and where all are united in love. Everything that exists comes under its dominion.
    We cannot cut our relationship with this absolute source of love. The establishment of such a family was the original mission that God gave Adam and Eve at the time of creation. God did not want them to merely end up as a man, Adam, and a woman, Eve, but instead dreamed of a new family where they would be united. This is the first starting point towards establishing men and women. Thus to be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven safely, you have to find a family and within the realm of that family in this world, enter and live in a place where you can feel satisfied in God’s love. Only then can you go beyond this world as well. (30-85, 1970.3.17)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Second Advent

From the viewpoint of the Principle, Adam and Eve were created with both a physical and spiritual body, but they fell without realizing God’s ideal of creation.  Jesus came to restore fallen human beings, but his body was taken by Satan, while his spirit was resurrected.  Thus, at the Second Advent, Christ must come in the flesh to restore both body and spirit.  See slide 6 below.
    Rev. 1:7 talks about coming “with” the clouds.  Clouds here refers to the ‘cloud of witnesses’, or devout Christians whose hearts dwell in heaven
    Acts 1:11 states that Jesus “will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven”.  In other words, he will come in the flesh, just as Jesus did.
    Some Bible versus say that we cannot know the time when Jesus will return.  Yet, other versus indicate that we can know, if we are awake and wise.
    See slides 6 to 9 below: