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Jesus Should Have Been Accepted, not Crucified

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In the eyes of the wife, her husband has to look the best and be number one. Also, in the eyes of the husband, his wife has to look this way as well. The best relationship is the one that is formed during first love. It is the best, no matter what others say. This cannot be bought at any price. If you can have such a world for eternity, how splendid this is! Everyone should at least reach that level. The wife should follow and serve her husband well. Such things should not appear just in literature or just as a movie scene. Rather, you should live like that throughout your whole life. Since the best history and best culture had been turned upside down, I have been creating a new history in order to establish such a world and to live in such a way. (23-56, 1969.5.11)

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When everyone is mobilized in the spirit world, many good things will happen on earth. There will be many occasions to embrace one another. There will be people rejoicing, and those who had run away cursing the Unification Church will strike the earth in regret saying, “How can this be possible.” (302-71, 1999.5.18)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Worldwide Course for the Restoration of Canaan Centering on Jesus

Jesus came as the substantial, actual tabernacle and temple. When the Jewish people rejected him, and then even his disciples fell into unbelief, Jesus had no choice but submit his body to crucifixion. As a consequence of this, the Jewish people lost their object of faith, both spiritually and physically, and the third world-level course for the
restoration of Canaan could not begin as a substantial course. As the second Israel, Christian believers re-established the resurrected Jesus as their object of faith, and thus came to begin the third world-level course as a spiritual course.
The providence for the restoration of Canaan was accomplished, but only spiritually.
See slides 10 to 13 below:

Jesus Rebuked Satan in the Wilderness

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    In the position of sons and daughters that attained oneness in the bosom of the Cosmic Parent and the Parents of heaven and earth, those in the spirit world, beginning from the liberated hell and paradise and from all directions, are able to go directly to Your throne. I am very grateful for Your allowing me to hold the Coronation of the King of the Blessed Families of the Peace and Unity of the Cosmic True Parent and the True Parents of Heaven and Earth that will enable You and the True Parents to attain oneness of mind and body in the position of the original substantial form, and cross over the line to start for the ideal heavenly world of the family, so that they can exist in the position of all-transcendence, all-immanence, supreme authority and omnipotence.
    I pray that from today the powers of evil will retreat and the powers of goodness will advance and, by assuming overall command and leadership, strive to establish the new heavenly civilization, so that the glory and grace of heaven will fill the entire cosmos and all Blessed Families worldwide will inherit the sovereignty of the love and liberation of the physical and spirit worlds, and thereby become worthy to be the registered Blessed Families of the Nation of Cosmic Peace and Unity.
    On this day and in this place where the Cosmic Parent and the Parents of Heaven and Earth have attained oneness of mind and body, I declare and direct that everyone will strive to achieve the age of sovereignty of the one ideal, of the unified world of Cheon Il Guk based on the liberation of heaven. I pray that You will let us achieve everything in accordance with our desires. I report this in the name of the True Parents. Amen! Amen! Amen! (404-288, 2003.2.6)

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How difficult this it is to restore the rights of the firstborn son! Because of this, everybody suffered incredible hardships. Countless religious people were sacrificed, Christianity underwent dreadful persecution under the Roman Empire for four hundred years, and much blood was shed in order to get out of the domain of the satanic world. Have you ever been to Rome and been inside the catacombs? The early Christians created altars, buried the bodies of their ancestors under the altars, and continued to live there, inhaling those odors. They did so because God had told them to do so, otherwise who would have done such a thing? By normal standards, this would not be done by human beings. Imagine how much God suffered! You have no idea of the efforts that have been made in history. You need to be aware of these things. (140-203, 1986.2.9)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Worldwide Course for the Restoration of Canaan Centering on Jesus

In the second world-level course for the restoration of Canaan, the central figure for the foundation of faith was Jesus himself, in the place of John the Baptist, who had failed his mission. Jesus fasted for 40 days and had to overcome the three temptations. By overcoming the three temptations, Jesus restored all the conditions that had been set in any providential course for establishing the foundation of faith, as well as establishing a condition that would allow him to fulfill the three blessings.
The Jewish leadership was to unite with Jesus, and they did not. Furthermore, even one of his own disciples, Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus. Therefore, the second world-level course to restore Canaan ended in failure.
See slides 6 to 9 below:

John the Baptist Failed His Mission

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What is it that the True Parents are supposed to do? They have to completely open up the blocked way between the spirit world and physical world and lay a highway, a highway from hell, from Danbury, from the hell of the spirit world to heaven! (134-127, 1985.2.25)

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Try conveying the Word till after midnight and until you hear the crow of the first rooster. How mysterious it is! Try conveying the Word as you listen to the barking of dogs in the neighborhood in the quiet, tranquil night. You will feel as if you have broken through on a new path of life in search of the bright sunlight; you will feel like the captain of a ship who determines anew to find the lighthouse. You will experience a sense of valor, pride, and majesty as if you were alone in this world filled entirely with mysteries of all kinds.
In order to have that bond of heart, you should give guidance during the nighttime. It is necessary to conduct such activities during the night or at dawn. (29-196, 1970.2.28)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Worldwide Course for the Restoration of Canaan Centering on Jesus

Jesus was the second Adam and had to walk the course to bring Satan to submission, following the course set out by Jacob and Moses.
To establish a relationship with the Messiah, human beings must first establish the
Foundation for the Messiah. If there is no Foundation for the Messiah, fallen people will kill the Messiah when he comes.
The Jewish people believed in John the Baptist, who was in the position of Elijah. But John had doubts about Jesus (Mt. 11:3). Therefore the first world-level course for the restoration of Canaan failed.
See slides 1 to 5 below:

Joshua Faithfully Conquered Jericho

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When balancing the ledger of a store, you have to calculate revenue and expenditure accurately. In balancing the accounts of a mere store, you have to exercise care. However, do you pay as much attention when you balance the accounts of your life? Have you ever even tried to balance the accounts of your life? Have you gone into the red, or are you in the black? If you see red ink, you should lament most grievously. People should be able to sing for joy on their deathbed. If you find yourself struggling to accept the reality of death when face it, that struggle only goes to show that you have lived a life in the red. We should lead our lives in the black in the realm of heart, based on the absolute standard. (19-289, 1968.3.10)

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Christian churches today say that God passes judgment and does other things. Yet, if God were free to do as He wants, there would be no need to withhold judgment in this way until now. He would have executed judgment immediately after the Fall. There is no principle that allows God to establish His ideal of love on the foundation of victory gained through rendering judgment. (210-61, 1990.12.1)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Providence of Restoration Centered on Moses

Joshua and the younger Israelites successfully completed 40 years of wandering in the wilderness due to the failure of the first spying mission and the faithlessness of the Israelite people.
He sent two spies into Jericho, who were hidden by the prostitute Rehab. They successfully completed their mission and gave a faithful report.
Joshua, in a similar course to Moses, crossed the Jordan river and set up stones as an altar. These stones represented the twelve tribes and the eventual building of the temple. The Israelites marched in obedience to God’s command, and on the seventh day the shouted and the wall collapsed and they took the city. This foreshadowed that Jesus would come in the future and, with his authority and the work of the saints, would destroy the barrier between heaven and earth that Satan had constructed. Joshua defeated 31 Kings.
We learn from Moses’ course that God revealed and foreshadowed the course that Jesus would walk. We also learn that although God’s will is predestined, its accomplishment is decided the the fulfillment of the human portion of responsibility. Everything is decided in an instant and the sum of instances makes up our entire life. God puts his providential figures through tests either before or after He grants them His Grace.
See slides 22 to 26 below:

The Rock was a Symbol for Jesus

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If our ancestors had not fallen, we would have lived our lives serving God. You must serve God with your heart, and in the course of your daily life. (150-213, 1961.4.15)

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Although there are many religious paths today, the one religion that can penetrate the heart has not appeared during the course of history. Because God exists, however, such a religion must inevitably appear. Some religions instruct in social ethics and morality and others teach about the infinite spirit world. However, there must be a religion that combines teachings on ethics and morality with those that describe the incorporeal world, uniting them upon the essential core of one heart. I have searched for such a religion and it is Christianity. Christianity is a religion of heart. Through the Fall, human beings lost God and forgot that God is our Father. We lost the substantial True Parents and Christianity is the religion that can reintroduce them. (9-140, 1960.5.1)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Providence of Restoration Centered on Moses

The Israelites had to wander in the wilderness, one year for each day of the 40 day spying mission, due to their faithlessness.
They should have united with Moses and entered Canaan together with him. Rather, they complained and fell into faithlessness again. Moses was to restore this by striking the rock at Kadesh-barnea, thus bringing forth water to save the Israelites. However, when Moses raged in uncontrolled anger at the murmuring of the Israelite people against him, he struck the rock twice, which was a sin.
The rock represented Jesus, the restored Adam, the root of the tablets of stone. The rock was also a symbol of God,
Striking the rock twice symbolized striking down the restored Adam, meaning Jesus. This was a remote reason Jesus would be crucified as a result of the faithlessness of the Jewish people.
Because of Moses striking the rock twice, only the younger generation of Israelites entered Canaan. the older generation died in the wilderness. Also, Jesus had to suffer the three temptations of Satan (Matt 4:1-11).
Soon after the rock was struck twice, the Israelites again disbelieved, and God sent fiery serpents to kill them. Those who looked upon a raised bronze serpent were saved. This symbolized that if the Israelites did not believe in Jesus, he would be crucified and those who repented after Jesus was raised on the Cross would be saved.
Joshua was the one who inherited Moses’ mission.
See slides 18 to 21 below:
Note that today we have a modern-day Ark. It is called the Cheon Bok Ark, and consists of the eight holy scriptures designated by Rev. Sun Myung Moon.