The Mission of Moses and Jesus and the Faithlessness of the Israelites (A)

Sun Myung Moon June 23, 1957 Chung Pa Dong Church Let Us Be Strong and Bold and Restore the Lost Land

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Like Moses stood as the leader representing the 600,000 Israelites, I also stand with a mission similar to Moses while representing the Unification Church. You must remind yourself of Moses’ course. (Chapter 30, God’s Will and the World)

You should understand that in order to accomplish the providential will, God worked vigorously for 2,000 years and restored one person, Jacob. After Jacob, through the course of 400 years, God called Moses, a central person on the level of the restoration of a people on the foundation of restoring one generation by Jacob. Moses was found and chosen to be the fruit of God’s entire dispensation, conducted through a long history. Consequently, if Moses had fulfilled his responsibility, the grief embedded not only in the human heart but also in God’s heart would have been dissolved. Under such condition, Moses was chosen to be the representative of the Israel people.

Moses was the fruit of God’s entire dispensation and was irreplaceable for the Israel people. Chosen as such, Moses recognized that he was responsible for indemnifying the historical grudge, and he stood to resolve God’s sorrow and carry the burden of the grievances of the Israelites.

For this reason, during the forty years of life in the palace and the forty years of life in Midian, a total of eighty years, Moses maintained an unchanging fidelity with all his heart without losing his right to the chosen people of Israel, inherited from the ancestors.

Moses maintained the integrity to be related only to God’s will even while he was fighting the Pharaoh. Moses also possessed all the qualifications that were irreplaceable to the Israelites and that could confront and fight against Satan’s side. However, the Israelites did not become the kind of people who could embody and represent Moses.

Then what kind of hearts should the Israelites have had toward Moses? They should have recognized him as the one central person who was found and chosen at the price of God’s 2,000 years of perseverance, and for all the sacrifice and suffering invested through those thousands of years endured by their ancestors. Because the Israelites did not understand that God found Moses at the sacrifice of everything, a crowd of 600,000 people had to die in the wilderness.

If they had known the value of Moses not merely as an individual, but as the one who was chosen as the representative of the nation and all humanity, and if they had united with him, the Israelites would not have fallen down in the wilderness.