Sunday Sermon 2024 - The Significance and Meaning of Numbers

3 x 4 = 12 21 0 10 400 120 3 6 0 21 1 40 3 4 7 0 66 6 20 0 2

• That numbers have a methaphysical existence is not new and was accepted by the Pythagoreans of anceint Greece, who said that numbers were the first principle of all things.

• In the Bible we see that God is the first principle of all numbers

• The Bible emphacis 40 on many occasions, Jesus fasting in the desert, and 40 Day Resurrection Noah - 40 day flood Moses’ 40-day fast A separation period from satan

• The Future God – by Brother Dagfinn Åslid 70s.

We do not drift through history with our backs to the future and our gaze returning ever and again to the origin, but we stride confidently towards the promised future.

It is not the primeval ancients who are near the truth and dwell nearer the gods, but it is to future generations that the promises are given in order that they may see the fulfilment.

This quote from Moltmann’s Theology of Hope is a good illustration of the Unification attitude towards the future; one might say that the future, rather than being an object of speculation and foretelling, is “that toward which we confidently stride.”

But neither can it be said that the past is totally ignored, for without it we should be unable to act as hosts for the future and such is our eschatological task.

Sun Myung Moon True Father

Sun Myung Moon (from Speech DB)

Divine Principle addresses various spiritual and philosophical elements, seeking to provide a comprehensive understanding of God’s creation and the universe’s workings.

While I have not specifically discussed numerology as a standalone topic, the inclusion of numerical concepts in the Divine Principle serves to illustrate the underlying principles of order and harmony in God’s creation.

In my teachings, I emphasized the importance of spiritual laws and the deeper meanings behind creation. Numbers often represent specific spiritual concepts, indicating relationships, patterns, or divine truths. For example, the number three is associated with completion and perfection in many spiritual contexts.

As I stated in a speech on December 15, 1996, “Understanding the order of creation helps us to grasp how God works within our lives.” The use of numerical symbolism in Divine Principle serves to deepen our comprehension of spiritual reality and our relationship with God.

3 Divine Principle

Originally, God’s purpose for creating Adam and Eve was to form a trinity by raising them to be the True Parents of humankind united in harmonious oneness as husband and wife centered on God in a Four position foundation

Divine Principle

The Three Ordered Stages of the Growing Period

It is like what is needed for something to stand firm: it must be supported by at least three points.

Accordingly, everything reaches perfection by passing through three ordered stages of growth: the formation stage, the growth stage and the completion stage.

/end of quote

• 3 x 7 = 21 • 3 times 7-year courses

• 1960 start of New Mankind • 1960-67, 68-74, 75-82

You must restore the three archangels and the eight family members who stood before Adam.

By establishing three central children, that is, three spiritual children, when they marry this makes a total of eight family members.

You must go before Heaven, bringing these three archangels. That is why I first designated three sons and three daughters, the first three of the 36 Couples, and betrothed them before holding my own Holy Wedding.

This was all done according to the Principle… (126-49, 1983.4.10)

• We have Trinities in UC

• Matthew 18:20 (King James Version) For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

The 3 Great Kingships & the Realm of the Royal Family Fallen Humans – offer all possessions to God – not qualified Return our ownership to God – total living offering

1. The 3 Great Kingships Inclusive 1st heart Children’s Love 1st blessing 2nd heart Brother-Sister ‘s Love Eldersonship

3rd heart Conjugal Love 2ndParentship blessing 4th heart Parental Love 3rd blessing Kingship = dominion

On the foundation of completing the 1 st and 2nd Blessing, we receive the 3rd Blessing = Dominion over All Things God wants to give all He has to such a King and Queen of love TF wants to restore Kingship because God’s Kingship can only be established through Adam’s kingship = The goal of creation

The Four Position Foundation

1 Root of the principle of Origin _ _ _ _ _ God three stages 2 Root of the number twelve

Divi- _ _ Papa 3 Fundamental foundation of sion Mama goodness 4 Fundamental foundation for life Union _ _ _ _ _ Child Eternal purpose of creation

The four position foundation is God’s eternal purpose of creation.

The Four Great Loves 2. Brother’s/Sister’s Love 1. Children’s Love

3. Conjugal Love Settlement point of God the Four Great M F 4. Parent’s Love

Loves God’s Home Father’s Love Mother’s Love

Husband’s Love Wife’s Love

Brother’s Love Sister’s Love Son’s Love M F Daughter’s Love 20

You know, too, that the number four is very significant in the history of restoration because it represents the heavenly four positions, which have been lost and must be restored.

Therefore, throughout history the number four recurs again and again: 40 days of fasting, 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, 4,000 years from Adam to Jesus, and so on.

/SMM 4 Oct 1976

Swedenborg, in Apocalyps Revealed, explains number seven represents completeness an entire cycle from beginning to end.

DO RED DIVINE TI RE ORANGE Divine ANGULAR VIOLET SPIRITUAL

LA MI PURPLE YELLOW INTRA CIRCULAR VORTICAL SO FA BLUE GREEN VORTICAL SPIRAL

Musical Scale Forms

Seed Fruit Root

Flowers Tree Stem

Leaves Branches

The seven-year course that started this very day in 1954 was the age for all the established churches and social organizations, and even the nation, to attack one person: Reverend Moon. Even the babies attacked me!

What kind of period was this seven-year course? I had to devote myself completely to the heavenly will as a very lonely individual.

7 Everybody was trying to capture me and kill me.

Wherever I traveled in the nation, north or south,

I walked this kind of path. When I held the Holy Wedding in 1960, I was being investigated by the court. Just as Jesus’ 12 disciples deserted him, with Judas even betraying him, members leaving the Unification Church conspired with our opponents and appealed to the court to stop our church. I conducted the Blessing during this time of judicial investigation. Nobody knows that fact.

/The Master Speaks On The Blessing And Witnessing

Three Seven-year Courses (1960-81) Overview of the providence of the Lord of the Second Advent

40 years wilderness course

1920 45 52 60 ’67 ’68 ’74 ’75 ’81 ’92 1st 7yrs course Marriage Holy

Blessing Nim’s Ye jin Family Level Victorious 7 yrs course Foundation 2nd 7yrs course National Level Victorious Foundation 3rd 7yrs course Worldwide Victorious Foundation

Lord of Glory to Lord of Suffering Course to indemnify the NTA Course to indemnify the OTA Indemnify – John the Baptist/Judaism Find a Bride (TF) (UC)

’81-88: solve communism ’89 : destroy the Berlin Wall ’83 ’84 ’85 ’89 ’91 : fall of Soviet Empire

Everyone, no matter who, has to go this seven-year course. Proud and distinguished people or ugly and unfortunate people, no matter who they are, have to go this course.

Anyone of fallen descent has to go this course no matter who he or she is, or else they will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is not recorded in history, but even Jesus departed to do his mission during the seven years from when he was 27 to when he was 33.

From then to the time when he turned 40 would have been his second seven-year course, or if Jesus had started from his 20s, that would be his third seven-year course.

By doing this, Jesus was supposed to have prepared a worldwide foundation by the time he reached 40, but he died because the nation did not support him.

Thus, that remains in the Bible as the seven-year great misfortune.

/Cham Bumo Gyeong p. 444

Messianic Time-window: Jesus (Jesus 2nd Advent! 40 yrs -True Parent) Spiritual Progress

7 yrs needed

Jesus 7 yrs 33 yrs Rejection as Messiah!. New Test. 2000 yrs Jesus Indemnity Take your Cross! 27 yrs 7 yrs

Annointed Old Test. by John

Jesus 21 yrs

New Messianic Time-window: 2nd Advent – 1st try! Spiritual Progress

(1952) 7 yrs SMM Rejection 32 yrs as Messiah!. Has to go to North Korea Pyongyang Spiritual Churches SMM 25 yrs 7 yrs

1st try 1945 Korea

New Messianic Time-window: 2nd Advent – 2nd try! Spiritual Progress

(1952) 7 yrs SMM Pyongyang rejection 32 yrs as Messiah! HeungNam Prison! Korean War 1950-53 SMM 27 yrs 7 yrs

2nd try 1947 Pyongyang Korea

New Messianic Time-window: 2nd Advent – 3rd try! Spiritual Progress

Successful! 1960 SMM 7 yrs 40 yrs

HSA-UWC 1954 SMM Established Church 34 yrs 7 yrs

3rd try 1954 Korea

New Messianic Time-window: 2nd Advent – 3rd try - Success! Spiritual Progress

1960 SMM 7 yrs 1960 Korea 40 yrs Church – Level Blessing

SMM 34 yrs 7 yrs

Sun Myung Moon Lord of Second Advent Main Lecturer Pres. Eu

Everyone, no matter who, has to go this seven-year course. Proud and distinguished people or ugly and unfortunate people, no matter who they are, have to go this course.

Anyone of fallen descent has to go this course no matter who he or she is, or else they will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is not recorded in history, but even Jesus departed to do his mission during the seven years from when he was 27 to when he was 33.

From then to the time when he turned 40 would have been his second seven-year course, or if Jesus had started from his 20s, that would be his third seven-year course.

By doing this, Jesus was supposed to have prepared a worldwide foundation by the time he reached 40, but he died because the nation did not support him.

Thus, that remains in the Bible as the seven-year great misfortune.

/Cham Bumo Gyeong

Noahs Ark – All Mankind – as One Family!

“The purpose of the coming Lord is that some day all shall be like him - like Christ.” /SMM 1965 Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father /Jesus

• 40 = multiple of 4, separation from satan • Israelites 400 year in Egypt • Jesus went out in the desert 40 days, praying and fasting

• 40 day summer+winter witnessing • 40 day UC pioneering • 1952 -1992 TP providence • 1993 40 000 Couple Blessing

Do you think that I’m making you suffer for no reason? After you have suffered for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years…

People who have suffered for 40 years can find their place. You have to go beyond the hill of 40. If young people cannot find a place in society by the time they are 40, then they will become wanderers. Jesus could have gone to the position of king during the seven years from when he was 33 to when he would have become 40. The number 40 is important in this way. /SMM 2008

Last Days is the time when we deny the X of the universe.

During that period of40 years, all the sins of human history come to the surface. God, who was at the bottom, has to move to the top, and Satan, who was at the top, has to move to the bottom… When God gets to the top, there are eight stages: the age of the individual, family, the age clan, society, world, cosmos, and the age of God. In this course, an O must be made. /2008

From BBC reporter Cynthia Long 2010

2010 and the rescue “saving” of the 33 chilean miners!

Unfoldment of the new humanity, as we head for 2012 and beyond The 33 Chilean miners trapped under thousands of pounds of rock seem to be very calm and quite organized even though the predicted rescue date for them is Dec 2010, four months from now!

Unfoldment of the new humanity, as we head for 2012 and beyond

It has been stated, roles were handed to these 33 men, which could be a positive aspect, to keep them sane.

A priest, doctor, television presenter, foreman and poet to name a few.

The priest, Mario Gomez, 62, is the eldest of the group.He created a small chapel in a corner of the cave they occupy.

Unfoldment of the new humanity, as we head for 2012 and beyond

The dark cave is very symbolic. (Does this represent humanity– still in the dark?)

33 is a mystical and ancient symbol incorporated by 33 major religions. We will see in the coming months what unfolds with the 33 men, how this experience changed their lives, lives of others and the symbols appearing before them and the world.

In science…A normal human spine has 33 vertebrae when counted individually.

The temperature water boils, is 33F.

I also found it fascinating, the United Nations symbol has 33 segments.

Sermon summary;

Our actions should be based on Numerological numbers = allowing Spiritual Laws to fully work.

End Please join me in Prayer

Remember the beauty in Gods nature is there to inspire the Most Holy inside us! Have a great Blessed week. /Bengt

References: Various sources on Internet, see each slide The Secret World of Numbers 2nd edition by Adri de Groot Main Source: Divine Principle: www.unification.net/dp96 Speeches by Sun Myung Moon: Hoon Dok Hae By the Numbers - link www.tparents.org/Lib-Moon-Talk.htm Tongil Group: www.tongilgroup.org/system_eng/bbs/board.php?bo_table=news&wr_id=115