Divine Principle and Jesus 2 Holy Bodies v1.1

Short Vocabulary: AGS =Absolute Good Spirits CSG = Cheon Seong Gyeong, Holy Textbook CIG = Cheon Il Guk, Two persons become one, KoH CP = Cheong Pyeong, Spir. training ground Korea DP = Divine Principle, v1973 EDP = Divine Principle, v1996 ODP = Original Divine Principle, 2008 KoH = Kingdom of Heaven LSA = Lord of Second Advent OT = Old Testament NT = New Testament CT = Completed Testament TF = True Father, SMM = Sun Myung Moon, SMM TM = True Mother, Hak Ja Han Moon UC = Unification Church See also extended Vocabulary: http://www.slideshare.net/bdp003/vocabulary-uc

The Purpose of Jesus’ Coming as the Messiah

Jesus came as the Messiah for nothing less than the complete salvation of humanity; he was to fulfill the goal of the providence of restoration. Jesus was supposed to establish the Kingdom of Heaven, first on the earth.

We can infer this from Jesus’ own teaching to his disciples, “You, therefore, must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”2(Matt. 5:48)CEV|KJ|NI

According to the Principle of Creation, a person who has realized the purpose of creation does not commit sin, because he is in full harmony with God and possesses a divine nature.

With respect to the purpose of creation, such a person is perfect as Heavenly Father is perfect. Jesus gave this teaching to his disciples with the hope that they could be restored as people who had realized the purpose of creation and become citizens of the Kingdom.

Furthermore, Jesus taught people to pray that God’s Will be done on earth as it is in heaven because he came to renew fallen humanity as citizens of God’s Kingdom and build the Kingdom on earth.

He also urged the people, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”3(Matt. 4:17)CEV|KJ|NI

For the same reason, John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way of the Lord, also announced the imminence of the Kingdom.4(Matt. 3:2)CEV|KJ|NI

Transfiguration by Lodovico Carracci, 1594, depicting Elijah, Jesus, and Moses with the three apostles.

The Jewish people who believed in the prophecies of Scripture fervently hoped for the advent of the Messiah. Yet we should know that they longed just as eagerly for the return of Elijah. This was because God had clearly promised through the prophet Malachi that He would send the prophet Elijah prior to the advent of the Messiah to prepare the way of the Lord. Elijah had ascended to heaven about 850 years before the birth of Jesus; since then he has abided in the spirit world.

We are familiar with the story of the Transfiguration, when Elijah and Moses spiritually appeared before the disciples of Jesus.42(Luke 9:28-36)

Many Jews believed that when Elijah came again he would descend from heaven in the same manner as he had ascended to heaven. Just as there are Christians today who are resolutely looking to the sky with the expectation that Jesus will come in the clouds, Jews of Jesus’ day were looking up at the sky, anxiously awaiting the coming of Elijah.

If God had originally predestined Jesus to die on the cross, Jesus would have expected to go that path as his due course.

Why, then, did he pray three times, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt”?14(Matt. 26:39)CEV|KJ|NI

In truth, Jesus offered those desperate prayers because he knew well that his death would shatter the hope of attaining the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

This would be a tragic disappointment to God, who had worked so laboriously to realize this hope through the long ages since the Fall.

Furthermore, Jesus knew that humanity’s afflictions would continue unrelieved until the time of his Second Coming.

Background: Ken Akehurst was the blind medium who passed to the Higher Life on 28 July 1978. 1981 After passing, His messages from spirit world, transmitted through G.M. Roberts, was published in this book “Everyones Guide to the Hereafter”.

They strongly support Divine Principles Fall of Man and Mission of Jesus.

I have been asked, many times, since I have been over here to tell people, still on the Earth Plane, what I now know about Jesus.

The first and most important thing is to confirm that He is and what He said, during His short time on Earth.

The Son of God, and therefore the Jews made their biggest mistake in having Him put to death.

If he had been allowed to live He would have gone on teaching and in the end, been accepted by all as the Son of God, and the world would have become a better place for it.

But Man has free will and He was put to death and the plans made by God were thwarted.

If will also affirm that Jesus ascended into Sprit World, as recorded in the Bible, and the reason why his body was found to be missing from the tomb, was that it had been dematerialized.

Your scientists are nearing the truth when they make their findings known about the shroud of Turin.

This shroud was indeed the one used when Jesus was taken from the Cross.

Jesus shroud Turin Italy

Artist impresssion of the shroud in Turin Italy

It was the Word of Jesus that convinced 2000 year of Christians

Introduction

Would Salvation have been possible without Jesus death on the Cross!

“…the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” /Mark 2:10 Comment: I emphasize has authority on earth … Since this was long before crucifixion…why did not Jesus say WILL HAVE? (after crucifixion)

When Jesus lost his Divine PHYSICAL body, he also lost the ability to forgive Original Sin = PHYSICAL salvation.

How Jesus could have forgiven the Original Sin have marriage, children, grandchildren…

Not only speculation, but a clear vision for all Christians today about the real Return of Christ!

Engrafting is the Holy Key word!

When you get married you become engrafted; by being engrafted you come to have a different blood lineage.

Your marriage is not just an ordinary marriage of this world. Far from it. It is most precious, centering upon the heart of heaven and earth.

You must perfect your heart within your family, centered upon God’s love, and you must perfect your personality with glory and joy.

Perfected man and perfected woman must unite to fulfill their responsibility and their purpose.

The original world would have been the world of heart and gratitude. If you stand on that foundation, there can be no chance of falling.

Source: Change of Blood Lineage; The Real Experience of Salvation by the Messiah www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/sm-gww/GWW-04.htm

The Miracle of Easter: What Actually Happened? by Dr. Young Oon Kim

Look at Divine Principle’s interpretation of the manner of resurrection. Like most liberal Protestants, Unificationist believe that Jesus’ resurrection was spiritual and not physical.

A resurrection of the flesh contradicts our modern scientific worldview.

Bultmann, among others, would insist that if we are to make Christianity credible, we have to demythologize ancient doctrines like Jesus’ fleshly resurrection and physical ascension to heaven.

Brunner likewise insists upon the resurrection of the body, yes; but resurrection of the flesh, no!

Paul-possibly the only well-educated member of the apostolic community-suggests that one need not believe in Jesus’ corporeal resurrection.

In the early Pauline epistles, the Christian hope is largely interpreted in terms of Jewish apocalypticism, which includes belief in a physical resurrection (1Thess4-5). Later, Paul modified his views: “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor15:50).

Paul’s experience of the risen Christ was an encounter with the glorified Christ, a spiritual reality.

There is also evidence in the Gospels that Jesus’ resurrected body was very different from his earthly one.

When Jesus suddenly appeared to the disciples in their guest chamber, they thought they saw his ghost (Lk 24:37).

Similarly, the disciples who met the risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus did not recognize him until he ate with them, and as soon as their eyes were opened, he immediately vanished (Lk 24:15-31).

These two incidents show that the body of the risen Jesus was quite unlike his earthly one.

First of all, the Gospels present contradictory evidence about the burial of Jesus and the discovery of the open tomb. Matthew, Luke, Acts and John add details to Mark’s original account, but they contradict one another in very important ways.

Four examples should suffice. How many women go to Jesus’ tomb and find it empty? One, according to John 20:1. Two, according to Matthew 28:1. Three, according to Mark 16:1. Three women plus other disciples, according to Luke 24:10.

Who embalmed Jesus’ body?

Joseph and Nicodemus, says the Fourth Gospel (Jn19:38-40). But according to the Synoptic tradition, the women go to the tomb for that purpose (Lk24:1).

Was the tomb guarded? Matthew relates that the chief priests and elders stationed soldiers at the sepulcher. But Mark and Luke lack this important detail. What happened when the women came to the sepulcher? Matthew alone records a great earthquake taking place (Mt28:1-10). If this startling event occurred, why did not the other evangelists note the fact? From these discrepancies, one must conclude that Mark’s original story was greatly embellished by the later evangelists.

Resurrection Appearances

Fortunately, we can find an important tradition about the risen Jesus in Paul’s letters which is twenty years closer to Jesus’ earthly ministry (1 Cor15:3).

Paul relates two very significant facts: a list of resurrection appearances which he claims to have received from the original apostolic community, and a likening of each appearance to his own mystical experience on the Damascus road. That means the first resurrection appearances were of the spiritual Jesus.

More importantly, Paul nowhere refers to the empty tomb.

Doesn’t this suggest that in his time-twenty years before Mark’s Gospel-Christians did not believe that Jesus’ tomb was found empty?

Guignebert and others therefore conclude that the tomb stories were later legends added by Christian apologists in order to demonstrate the reality of Jesus’ resurrection.

Harnack, for example, maintained that the “discovery” of the open tomb complicated and confused the tradition and that Paul knew nothing of the story.

Jesus died on the cross and was buried.

Is that all we can know? Guignebert believes that Jesus’ body was taken from the cross by his executioners and given some sort of burial.

If Jesus’ sepulcher had been known, there would have been regular pilgrimages to the place. But the site of the Holy Sepulcher was not located until Constantine’s time when he made it “available for veneration” in 326 A.D.

In any case, the Easter faith was based on the various appearances of the risen Jesus and not on an empty tomb.

According to Unification theology, the disciples did not see an ordinary ghost. What they experienced was the Messiah who had risen above the shame of a blasphemer’s condemnation and criminal’s death.

Thus Unificationists claim that, because of the resurrection, Jesus’ mission did not end in failure. Certainly, Jesus’ physical body was completely crushed.

But his sense of mission remained unshaken. When he awoke in the spirit world, Jesus’ first concern was to resurrect the faith of his disciples, so he was eager to manifest himself to them in some visible way. This is why Luke wrote that for forty days Jesus remained near his disciples.

Because of Jesus’ unfailing faith and on the basis of his forty-day foundation, God could begin a new dispensation using the disciples as instruments of His will for man’s redemption.

Source: www.tparents.org/library/unification/talks/yokim/EASTER.htm

I am sure that many people who read the Bible must have wondered about John, “If he were such a great man, why did he not become the chief disciple of the Son of God?”

Jesus himself indicated the mission that John the Baptist came to fulfill: “For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John; and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.” (Math. 11:13)

John the Baptist represented the consummation of the Old Testament, the law, and the prophets. He was the prince of the old age.

Jesus Christ came as the prince of the New Age…

Had he been supported by John the Baptist, he could have stood upon the firm foundation of the Old Testament Age.

Then the new age could have blossomed in the fertile soil of the accomplishments of the old age.

The Son of God could have established his glorious kingdom at once. And John the Baptist would have been the cornerstone of that kingdom.

Chapter Seven - The Crucifixion And they crucified him. Mark 15:24

Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.“ Luke 23:39-43

Who received the blessing of Jesus? It was not the twelve disciples who had followed him nor the religious leaders, who had believed in heaven, nor the people of Israel, who had been chosen through blessing. The right-hand thief, who shed blood with Jesus and died on the cross with him, received the historical blessing and went to paradise before the chief disciple. /Who Will Become the Friend of Golgotha? SMM October 19, 1958

The free world has been referred to as right wing, and the communist world has been referred to as left wing. This terminology has its origins in Jesus. At the time of Jesus’ crucifixion, there was one thief on his left and one on his right. The thief on the right represented God’s side and the thief on the left represented Satan. From here the world began to fight. /The View of Cosmic History and I /SMM April 28, 1996

The mind is on God’s side and the body is on Satan’s side. The struggle expands from the individual to the family, clan, nation, and world, and the world will divide into religious and non-religious spheres.

This is symbolized by the two thieves at Jesus’ crucifixion. They represent the left and right wings, which fight against each other.

Also, Barabbas, who escaped crucifixion, represents Islam, which fights against Christianity…

Christianity lined up with the right wing and Islam lined up with the left wing; so this great separation takes place in the Last Days. We see the division of left and right wings in Korea and the division between religions in the Middle East. The world-level task is how to solve these divisions and unite the two sides.

/Reappearance of the Second Coming and the Completed Testament Age SMM January 10, 1993

Think about it: even though Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross 2,000 years ago, his power and influence have spread all over the world. But suppose Jesus had not died.

Suppose he had [found sufficient foundation to] establish his family; and his children had started multiplying from that time.

How long do you think it would have taken to restore the entire world? Not more than 600 years.

My comment: It is crucial for the understanding of the Divine Blessing = Salvation , removal of Original Sin to understand that a New Adam with Sinless PHYSICAL BODY together with Holy Bride Eve, True Parents are needed.

The resurrected and transformed body of Jesus Christ do forgive sins, as 2000 year of Christianity teach but not the Original Sin. (Jesus physical body missing)

A new PHYSICAL CHRIST BODY is needed for that.

Holy True Parents

Why is PHYSICAL body so important.

Because thats where satan has the claim on us: - Fallen Blood Lineage

Jesus said: You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do … You brood (offspring) of vipers (satan), how can you who are evil say anything good?

Mans eternal spirit is more/most important but it grows like a fruit on a tree = the physical body No divine sinlesss physical body = no divine eternal sinless spirit

That´s why Christianity and most religions teach chastity (reversing root to fall of man) - monks/nuns controlling eating through fasting controlling sleeping through no laziness – HARD WORK (M Luther)

With returning Christs Divine PHYSICAL & SPIRITUAL body there is a new path… open door = Blessing to become eternal Divine Spirit.

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References: Main Source: Divine Principle: www.unification.net/dp96 Speeches by Sun Myung Moon: www.tparents.org/Lib-Moon-Talk.htm

Remember the beauty in Gods nature is there to inspire the most Holy original inside us all! Have a great Blessed week. Prepared for 2nd,3rd… Gen inspiration by Bengt de Paulis.