The Restoration of Adam's Family

God’s aim was to restore Adam’s family, but Cain’s and Abel’s failure shifted the dispensation to Noah’s family. Through Noah’s family, all human beings in the world were judged by the flood, in order to eradicate Satan’s invasion at the fall. This was God’s providence for salvation on this earth. Later, responsibility was shifted to the family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and still later to Moses and then Jesus. So we can see that God’s providence for salvation has been prolonged several times. Therefore, we must indemnify that path. In order to indemnify the standard of Adam’s family and establish the True Parents, we must first restore Adam’s three children. (22-190)

True Family And World Peace June 11, 1998 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

The purpose of restoration which returns to the original state is to complete the restoration of Adam’s family; for the Fall took place in that family. God seeks His partner and one central family before seeking to restore a church, a people, a nation, and the world. Throughout history, God sought a true family which could be His ideal object-partner. Such a true family is fundamentally different in its essence from the families we have typically come to know. God cannot establish an ideal nation and world unless He first finds an ideal true family united with God. There lies the principle that an original true family must first be established. The individual is not the purpose of salvation, but rather true families are the basic unit of salvation. (294-67)