parallels of history | Daily Inspiration

What Would You Do with a Diamond Mine?

Cheon Seong Gyeong 995

Let us say that there was a diamond mine. What would you do if there were such a place that only you knew of? You might have to even sacrifice being with your family in order to acquire such a place. It would not be a sin to sacrifice being with your wife in order to save many families. It is also not a sin to sacrifice being with your children in order to save numerous children in the nation. However, you should not sacrifice them to satisfy your own self-interest. The path for saving the nation and a people is that diamond mine; it is the path of life for the people throughout the entire world. In that case, history would not view this as a sin – the sacrifice of your wife and child. It may seem wrong to sacrifice your wife and child to save the nation and world; however, on the contrary, it is there that you will find a wealth of treasure which the whole world can praise. (21-314, 1968.12.8)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1471

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)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Period of Preparation for the Second Coming of Christ

The second sub-period of the period of preparation for the second coming of Christ is the period of religious and ideological conflict, from 1648 and ending with the French Revolution in 1789.
God unfolded his providence of restoration through a history of dividing Abel-type and Cain-type groups and peoples  In the Last Days of human history, the world itself will be divided into an Abel-type world and a Cain-type world.
The Cain-type view of life is humanism. Marx and Engels were two of the Cain-type figures of humanism. These views of life fused together atheism and materialism.
The Abel-type view of life is God-centered and culminated in the Protestant Reformation during this period.
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Three Popes Reigned Simultaneously During the Period of Papal Captivity and Return

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1490

Anything that engages in action for its own sake brings about evil. Anything that acts for the greater good brings about development. You should bear this in mind. When you live for the greater good, all doors will open before you. The individual, family, tribe, race, world and heaven, in fact, the path of love and all other paths in the world will open their doors wide before you and welcome you. So what would be this path? We need to consider this. Thus, the Unification Church teaches that to live for the sake of others is a principle of heavenly law. (133-16, 1984.7.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 671

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. Jesus’ attitude brought him to a closer position to God because it enabled him to go deeper. In front of such a person, God is melted. Whoever would strike such a person would be instantly destroyed. God would personally punish that person. Hence it is said, “Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Eras in Providential History and the Formation of Their Lengths

Continuing with the parallel periods of history, next is the Period of Israel’s Captivity and Return and the Period of Papal Captivity and Return. Next is the Period of the Preparation for the Coming of the Messiah and the Period of the Preparation for the Second Coming of the Messiah.
When we look at the course of history, we can see that God’s sovereignty and Satan’s sovereignty have crossed over three times since the time of Jesus. Now is the time of God’s sovereignty and the time of the Second Coming of Christ.
See slides 14 to 17 below.

The Israelites Failed to Exalt God’s Will for the Tabernacle

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1058

Blessed families should teach their children how to offer the Sabbath day to God by showing them an exemplary life of offering devotion from the break of day in order to prepare for the service. But in reality they do whatever they want to do. They do not pray, offer devotions, study the Principle, or witness in the name of a life of living faith. If the Sunday Service starts at 10:30, they should leave for church at 9:30 or 10:00. Instead of doing this, they leave home late and rush into their seats in the middle of the service. Such a family will be accused. As parents, no matter how much they educate their children, it will not influence them at all. (31-269, 1970.6.4)

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)

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Eras in Providential History and the Formation of Their Lengths

The next parallel periods are the Period of the Judges of 400 years and the Period of the patriarchal system of 400 years.
Then, the Period of the Unified Kingdom of 120 years and the Period of the Christian Empire of 120 years.
Next, the Era of the Divided Kingdom of North and South of 400 years and the Period of the Divided Kingdom of East and West of 400 years.
See slides 10 to 13 below.

Early Christians Suffered Just as Abrahams Family Suffered Slavery in Egypt

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1380

The topic of our conversation moved on to the wedding of the 30,000 Couples and I asked, “Elder Brother Il-sung, would you be willing to open the thirty-eighth parallel if I were to bring the 30,000 Couples to North Korea?” He answered, “Of course, of course! Wow, that is splendid!” He actually invited me to bring the 30,000 Couples to North Korea. So I replied, “But there aren’t any hotels here.” He then told me, “The Songdo Beach Resort is very famous worldwide and hundreds of thousands of people can be accommodated in the pine fields there. So if you brought one tent for every ten people, you wouldn’t have any problem.” What he said was true. He said we should bring our own food as well and that he would open the port of Wonsan for us, so that we could bring all we needed by boat. (239-42, 1992.11.23)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 726

Starting from the idea that religious and world unity must come from myself, the question of what the Unification Church is trying to do today comes to the forefront. It is not a religion just for the sake of religion. It should achieve solidarity with the world, finding ways that religious activity can be accompanied by social activity; it should find ways the world is seeking the religious path and bring the two into oneness. A big wall lies across here blocking religion and society from becoming one – for individuals, families, peoples, nations, the world, and even the cosmos.
Where do we start from to demolish this wall? Where did the trouble start? Not from the end of the world, but from the individual. Because individuals got out of order, mind and body came apart and pursued their own separate purposes in different directions. What is the issue here? It is how to merge, weave, combine, and melt different purposes into one, and then how to reintegrate mind and body.

Original Substance of the Divine Principle

The Principle of Restoration

The Eras in Providential History and the Formation of Their Lengths

    Central figures who are responsible to restore the Foudation of Faith must pass through numerical indemnity perioids. Numbers, including 3, 4, and 12 were to be fulfilled as Adam and Eve passed through their growing period. These same numbers must be restored by subsequent providential figures, such as Noah’s 120 years building the ark. Numerical periods of time must also be fulfilled before God calls specific central figures, such as Noah, Abraham and those central figures following.
    As mentioned in yesterday’s study, we see parallel periods of time playing out in subsequent generations due to the necessity of these providential time periods being restored through the responsible actions of the central figures.
   Therefore, we see a remarkable parallel between the time periods from Abraham to Jesus and from Jesus to today, the time of the Second Coming of Christ. These time periods are also parallel in symbolic form to the time periods from Adam to the time Jacob met Joseph in Egypt.
    The first parallel periods are the Period of Slaver in Egypt of 400 years and the Period of persecution under Rome of 400 years.
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