Sunday Sermon - 2023 In the Year of the Rabbit - Tribal Messiahship

“In Chinese traditional culture, the color of water is actually black. That’s why it’s “Black Rabbit”, but also water means fortune and this year, you’re going to have plenty of fortune,”

Sunday Sermon <month> 2023

In the Year of the Rabbit

Tribal Messiahship

Early Days’ Internal Guidance

Rev. Joong Hyun Pak spoke on August 7, 1989, at Belvedere

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one ever comes to the Father but by me.” (John 14:6)

This morning topic is “Tribal Messiahs in True Parents’ Age.” Father and Mother declared the providence of tribal messiahship early this year. We must think about our position as tribal messiahs and our spiritual attitude for 1989. True Parents gave you and me the crown of tribal messiahship. It is a new challenge that we have to fulfill.

In the right direction

Restoration and recreation are the process of returning to God’s original ideal world. How can we return to the clear way of God? It’s not easy. We need to find the way. In John 14:6, the Messiah’s promise is to give us the path back to God. Of course, True Parents have given the way, then the truth, and then true life.

Confucius said, “If I discovered the right direction for my life early in the morning and then died in the evening, I would be happy.”

So even Confucius struggled to discover the right direction. So for you and I to find the right direction is really not easy. Many people use the words “the way”.

Jesus Christ said, “I am the way”, meaning if you follow his direction, belief, and actions then you’ll go the right way. This was Jesus’ promise and confidence.

The promise of new life

The Bible alone promised the path to God: follow Jesus Christ’s way and believe his truth and new life will come. The Bible has 66 books in the Old and New Testaments. The word “testament” means “promise”. The “Old” Promise and the “New” Promise. The promise is for new life. Where will this new life come from? In Exodus 24:1-8, “Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, ‘Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Jesus, before his crucifixion, gave the Last Supper to his disciples. At the time, he offered them wine telling them it symbolized the blood of the new covenant. In John 6: 53 he said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.”

True Father talked about the meaning of the new blood lineage. The key point of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Completed Testament is rediscovering the blood lineage.

Do you want the next generation to receive love, peace, true life, joy, and happiness eternally? That’s our goal.

Through the Divine Principle’s teaching, we can discover God’s new eternal blood lineage. With this blood lineage, new life will come.

Learning the way of Heaven

After joining the Unification Church, we began the seven-year formula course to completely lose our old lives and re-create ourselves. The purpose of the MFT course is to take all things back from Satan. God used basic elements to create the human body, so we need to restore all these elements. Fundraising brought new soil, new water and new air, or new basic elements.

The witnessing course is required because the archangel destroyed God’s sons and daughters. We are in the position of the archangel’s sons and daughters.

To overcome this situation, we must save people by guiding them to the heavenly way. We should witness to a minimum of 12 people.

After these seven years are finished, Father calls us to receive a new blood lineage by receiving the Holy Wine before the Blessing Ceremony.

For seven years we sacrificed and paid indemnity in the formula course yet we received the Blessing Ceremony of eternal life in a few seconds.

In order to understand tribal messiahship, we need to study the Christian theological concept of the Messiah.

Some people emphasize that the Messiah is the King of Kings who controls the world from his throne. But the most important responsibility of the Messiah is to be the True Parent, bringing the new heavenly blood lineage that gives people rebirth.

The Messiah means first to be the True Parents.

Secondly, he is the central figure and ruler of all families, tribes, nations, the world and cosmos, the King of Kings.

Thirdly, the Messiah is the Savior.

Perfection of family

In light of this, the first key point is individual Adam’s perfection. Who was our ancestor Adam? He was born as the son of God, but by going to Satan’s side, he destroyed himself and denied his own value. Adam is the symbol of a destroyed human personal life. If you are to become a tribal messiah, you must successfully fulfill Adam’s ideal position-individual perfection. That is the tribal messiah.

To receive the tribal messiah’s crown, you have to pass through the individual seven years’ indemnity course of sacrifice and hard work.

You can then receive the Blessing and enter into blessed family life. This is the individual messiah’s course.

Our eternal crown

The second generation is so important because the second generation holds the key to the success of the first generation’s spiritual life. According to the Divine Principle, our way of heavenly tradition must be followed from generation to generation. So our second generation holds the key to the success of our spiritual life. Who will judge us? The second generation. If we are a success, the second generation will be very happy.

This is the Age of True Parents. When all people are centered on True Parents, then unity among the children will come.

Father and Mother have declared tribal messiahship and have prepared an eternal crown for each one of us.

The meaning of “tribal messiahs” is individual Adam’s perfection, family perfection, Jesus’ perfection, and tribal messiah’s perfection connected to True Parents’ cosmic perfection.

Tribal messiahship is our eternal destiny. Your mission is to proudly declare worldwide, “I am True Parents’ assigned historical tribal messiah!”

Interesting parallels with 1954: Lord of the Rings or Lord of the Rings, is a fantasy (Spirit World) novel by J.R.R. Tolkien.

It was published in English for the first time in 1954-1955 divided into three volumes with the titles The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King (= Messiah).

1937 – 1954 - 1960

Tolkien had already 1937 (1935 SMM received his mission from Jesus) in Bilbo, a hobbit adventure, introducing both rule the ring, and several of the main characters in the trilogy. the idea of a ruling ring that can determine the world’s future (= Blessing through the True Parents, Messiah)

also appears in Richard Wagner’s four operas of Der Ring des Nibelungen. Both authors have been inspired by the same old stories, including Völsungasagan and Edda.

In the mid 60’s had short stories have become a cultural phenomenon. (True Parents’ Holy Blessing 1960)

Benny Andersson

• “At a meeting in the eastern United States, a person asked him bluntly:” Are you the Christ?

“In response, he pointed out one by one in the audience while he said,” and so are you, and you and you, too, if you can accept it. “on another occasion he said in Korean,” This is God’s world, and it has no boundaries. Your lives have universal significance and I ask you to share my mission. Were eager to save the world and think feel and live in accordance with the divine will. The purpose of the return of Christ is that all one day become like him – as Christ.”

/Anthony Brooke Towards Human Unity

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References: https://familyfedihq.org/2023/09/tribal-messiahship-in-true-parents-age/ 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.