Cheong Seong Gyeong 1990
To achieve His will, God does not
choose and use something twice. If
America were removed, however, the
cultural spheres of the Unification
Church and Christianity, and the Uni-
fication Church and Judaism would
be separated. That is why I reluctant-
ly chose America. The reason I have
to go and fight in America is because I
chose America, and in order to make
up for America’s failure, I brought along
Japan, the Eve nation. Adam’s sin that
was sown bore fruit in the world. This
must all be ruthlessly cast away. Origi-
nally there was God, Adam and Eve, and
the three archangels. Considering this,
Korea is the Adam nation, and Japan the
Eve nation. That is why we have cross-
cultural “exchange” marriages. Adam
and Eve married on their own. As a con-
sequence, the world of death was creat-
ed. However, the second generation of
the Korean people and Japanese people
must come into a cross-cultural mar-
riage. Let the government oppose us if it
wishes. (197-269, 1990.1.19)
Richard: Thank you Rev. Moon for choosing America again, and for your victorious work for the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth.
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As God carried out the dispensa-
tion for restoration, His grief lay in the
fact that the firstborn son was on Satan’s
side. That is why human history is dis-
eased. What kind of disease does it suf-
fer from? It has a love related disease. The
first son was born after humankind went
astray due to the disease of love. If we are
not aware of this fact, we won’t reach the
time when we are able to ascend to the
individual position where we can again
achieve harmony, even if we spend bil-
lions of years in search of the principled
standard. (136-126, 1985.12.22)
Richard: Right now, most everyone is concerned about the Covid-19 virus. Yet, all humankind has a much more fundamental disease. The first human ancestors, Adam and Eve fell, introducing this disease and passing it on from generation to generation. Yet, most are not even aware of this mortifying situation. See here: https://inspiration.visionroot.org/2020/01/31/no-one-has-known-the-root-of-sin/
and here: https://inspiration.visionroot.org/2020/02/01/there-is-no-freedom-without-responsibility/
for the Divine Principle study on the Fall of Man.
Exposition of the Divine Principle
3 Color Edition-The Red part
THE PROVIDENCE OF RESTORATION AND THE PROGRESS OF HISTORY
The Kingdom of Heaven on
earth is a society whose structure is formed in the image of a perfect person.
Likewise, fallen society may be regarded as formed in the likeness of a fallen
person. We can better understand the history of societies built by sinful
humanity by examining the inner life of a fallen person. Since human society is
composed of individuals who are constantly at war within themselves,
interactions among them cannot help but be full of discord and conflict. Human
history has consisted of people’s conflict-ridden social relationships
constantly changing with the course of time. Hence, it has necessarily unfolded
in strife and warfare.
Progress in history originates with individuals who, even amidst
the vortex of good and evil, make determined efforts to reject evil and promote
goodness. Therefore, the world toward which history is progressing is the
Kingdom of Heaven, where the goal of goodness will be realized.
Meanwhile, on the basis of his relationship of blood ties with the
first human beings, Satan has worked through fallen people to realize, in
advance of God, a perverted form of the ideal society which God intends to
realize. As a result, in human history we witness the rise of unprincipled
societies which are built upon twisted versions of the Principle. At the end of
human history, before God can restore the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, Satan
will have built an unprincipled world in a distorted image of the Kingdom: this
is none other than the communist world.
7.1 THE PROGRESS OF HISTORY IN THE AGE OF THE PROVIDENCE OF
RESTORATION
Some historians have held
that the first society built by fallen people was a primitive collective
society. Due to the activity of the original mind calling people to respond to
God’s providence of restoration, divisions between relative good and evil
surely arose in primitive societies under satanic sovereignty.
God called Abraham out of the sinful world to be the
standard-bearer of goodness and blessed him with descendants who would uphold
the Will of God. God raised up Abraham’s descendants into the first Israelite
clan society. They entered Egypt as a clan society, but by the time they left
Egypt for Canaan, they had grown into a tribal society. Israelite society in
the period of the judges was a feudalistic society.
The providential purpose of the feudalistic society of early
Israel was to lay a foundation for the establishment of a monarchic society
with greater territory and more powerful sovereignty. The monarchic society
amalgamated the smaller units of political and economic sovereignty secured by
the earlier feudalistic society into a single territory with a large population,
a strong economy and a well-defended sovereignty. This was done with the
establishment of the united kingdom of Israel founded by King Saul. Jesus was
to come as the King of Kings. God built the monarchic society in Israel to
prepare a strong enough foundation for him to come as the Messiah and rule as
King of Kings.
After the fall of Judah, God kept the throne of Israel vacant and
put the Jewish people under the control of successive gentile empires for most
of the period leading up to the coming of the Messiah. Most notably, God placed
them in the Hellenistic cultural sphere, which laid the ideological framework
for democracy. God fashioned Israel’s society in the form of democracy in order
that when the Messiah came, he could be hailed as their king by the will of the
people, who should have welcomed him wholeheartedly. However, the Jewish public
did not so elevate Jesus. Without public support, he was crucified.
Consequently, at the consummation of the providence which had begun two thousand
years earlier with the calling of Abraham and his descendants out of the sinful
world, its purpose was attained only spiritually.
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