Change of Blood Lineage Part 2

I am going to continue my talk on the change of blood lineage. We are all born from a Satanic lineage. Our final problem is how to cleanse our blood. All through history God has been working to purify the blood of the people, stained by Satan, and to restore it to its original state. Due to the human fall, not only mankind but all of creation came to groan in travail. In order to purify the stained blood of mankind, God wanted man to make an offering in order to reach Him.

Offering the Animal

In the Old Testament Age, when an offering was made, they cut the cow, sheep or lamb into two on the altar. Without your knowledge of the fall, you might think God is cruel because He seems to like bloodshed. The significance of making the offering is to cut the parts so that one is under God’s claim and the other under Satan’s claim. Both the offering and the man who offered the sacrifice must become entirely one. The man offering the sacrifice is in the subjective position, while the offering is in the objective position and can represent the person’s flesh body. The animal being offered has to shed blood in place of sinful man.

Originally, the person who is making the offering must feel the pain that the animal goes through when it is killed and separated in two. The person must not kill the animal as an animal, but when cutting it in two he must be aware of cutting out the stained part of that being. The person must feel as though the animal is himself, both externally and internally. He must be able to hate what is evil or Satanic and love God. When he feels sympathetic to the animal being killed, he must also feel the heart of God, who has to have us do that.

The person’s purpose is to be saved by giving the offering, and God’s purpose is to restore man by having him make the offering. Since man is born out of the Satanic blood lineage, in order to be reborn, we must symbolically die to our old selves; only then can we be given rebirth. We read many instances in which people offered lambs which signified purity and sometimes hard labor. The pigeon represents obedience. As an offering we must be pure and in utter obedience to God, and we must labor hard. We want to offer

ourselves unreservedly to God, giving our whole being to Him.

Jesus: the Substantial Offering

All through history those offerings have been seen behind God’s providence. In the New Testament Age, Jesus Christ himself was in the place of the substantial offering, who labored hard in utter obedience to God and sacrificed himself. In that situation all mankind had to be united into one with Jesus. By placing themselves in the position of Jesus, they had to go through the offering.

If in his career in God’s providence, Jesus had succeeded in saving all mankind both spiritually and physically, then we could have been saved on both levels too. But he left salvation on the physical level unaccomplished. Since we are with him, it means we have accomplished salvation only on the spiritual level.

In the Old Testament Age we had the sacrificing of animals; in the New Testament Age, the sacrifice of the man, Jesus. When Jesus sacrificed himself, he did so in the position of the Son of God. In the Completed Testament Age, we have the sacrifice of the True Parents in order to save all mankind.

Sacrifice of the True Parents

In what way is God going to sacrifice the True Parents? Not by killing them, of course, but He is going to sacrifice the relationship between the True Parents and children in the worldly sense. You have to sever the relationship between husband and wife and between parents and children in your homes. By separating, you must use yourself as a sacrifice on the altar. Our True Parent had to go through the same sacrifice in his own family. He had to be able to love you before loving his own.

In your own group, when you cut off your spouse, your children or your parents from yourself; if they are opposed to you, then for a certain time they are separate. But if they want to back you up or cooperate with you, then those two together may be taken by God as the good offering. But that being very difficult, Jesus said that he came to earth not to bring peace but to bring a sword.

God’s intention is to take back from the Satanic world the parents, children and all created things. The order is in the reverse way. He has to take away the creation, the son and the parent. By having people offer sacrifices, God wants to put them in the position in which they symbolically kill their old self, and at the sacrifice of those things, they can be saved. When God wanted man to sacrifice something, He wanted man to sacrifice Satan. Jesus died because of Satan. The reason for our master having gone through difficulties and persecution was also because of Satan. Why?

In the course of the human fall the same thing took place. We are going to restore it by reversing the order. On the vertical line we have three stages: the Old Testament Age, New Testament Age, and Completed Testament Age. On the horizontal line we have formation stage, growth stage, and completion or perfection stage - respectively corresponding to the above. God had to go through those stages in order to restore man. In the Old Testament Age it was in the stage of formation; the New Testament Age was the stage of growth and Completed Testament Age corresponds to the perfection stage.

When God created the universe, He created things first, then man, and then the True Parents in the restoration course — with love at the core of it. He is going the reverse way. At the creation of the universe He created man, and with love at the core of the True Parents, He wanted to save mankind.

If not for the human fall, all those three could have been realized in Adam’s family. With the creation, with Adam and Eve there, and with them playing the role of the True Parents, with love at the core, God could have established a world free of sin.

Original Trinity

God exists with male essentiality and female essentiality inherent in one, and here below are Adam and Eve. With Adam and Eve united into one, they form the perfect objective position for God to operate through on the vertical and horizontal lines, to multiply humankind. If Adam and Eve perform a perfect action of give and take between them, they become united into one and they resemble God. Then each can become one with God in the subjective position.

Separately too, Adam can harmoniously give and take with God, and Eve can do the same. These two put together can be in harmonious union with God. Then, either Adam and Eve together have to go up to God, or they have to bring God down to abide with them. The point of unification of God and man is the point of trinity and harmony. Oneness of the three is trinity. With this done God’s love and human love are both perfected. This is the core of love.

Restoring the Parents

Before God’s creation of man, God was alone, but He had male and female essentialities inherent within Himself.’ That was similar to having Adam and Eve with Him on the spiritual level. With the creation of man, Adam and Eve became the incarnation of His physical body; God’s love was incarnated in the flesh. By becoming one with them, God had oneness both on the physical and spiritual levels.

Therefore, this point is where God abides — both on the spiritual and physical levels, on the perfect point of love. With God operating here between or in the two, the multiplication of God’s creation of man can come about. God’s lineage could flow down through the true beings, with male and female playing the role of the parents in love.

Due to the fall, Adam and Eve in the parent’s position stained the pure blood lineage. That’s why God, without restoring the parents, cannot commence His providence of restoration. When you closely observe that God ordered man to make offerings, first with things, next with man, and finally with love of parents or parents with love in the core, we can well recognize how God has been anxious to have man restored.

Satanic Lineage

How can God’s lineage be started? It can be brought about only from God’s love — nothing else. Since it starts from God’s love, Satan has no claim to it. If children are born out of God’s lineage, Satan has nothing to do with them and no one else can take them away. They abide in God’s love intact from Satanic invasion.

But due to the fall, everyone has Satanic blood running in his veins. It is appalling to think of that. If you find that you were born from the lineage of a murderer, would you be pleased? Satan is more than that — he’s not only the murderer, but also the adulterer, thief and everything evil. He is the king of the murderers and we came from his lineage. He has committed that sin not just once, but he has been continuing all through history. We are his descendants, and we must know that we have all those events and all those things inherent in us.

We are liable to judgment and if we are dragged to the court before God, what kind of judgment are we going to receive? You are the offspring of the Sat, n who took away man of God’s creation. If you were in God’s position, what would you do with Satanic mankind? You could not think of any such thing as forgiveness. But from your part, you cannot pray to God to be merciful, to save you; you are not in the position to ask for that. Are you? Can you ask for forgiveness from God? Are you entitled to it? But when you are in the court, if you find yourself forgiven, then how overjoyed you would feel! Furthermore, when you realize that your ancestors have been murderers, then would you not be willing to give your life to save your past ancestry and your future descendants?

Long History, Small Steps

If you are in the position to follow God and our Master as God’s agent, can you complain on the way? Can you say: “I am exhausted, I cannot go any further.” Never. With all this knowledge, you must be determined to face whatever you will come to! You must know that you have only one life and one chance.

You may question why God, being omnipotent, could not save mankind sometime far back in the Old Testament Age. He couldn’t because man, in the course of re-creation or restoration, did not obey God and would deny God repeatedly; there was no way for God to recreate or save mankind. If He gave out all His orders at one time and was replied to with disobedience, all could have been nullified.

So He wanted to give small orders, within their reach, and for that reason it took Him so many long years. Are you thankful to God that He has prolonged the restoration history for so long a time?

In the Divine Principle movement, too, at times you are impatient to see the realization of our goal and you say, “Why doesn’t God help us make it a reality?” But He is thinking and doing the same with us. Aren’t you grateful for that? He has to wait by, giving us small orders one at a time so that we can carry them out. How many years are you resolved to toil and be faced with difficulties? All through your life!

All Corners of the Earth

Jesus said he would come again at the time when people on every corner of the earth would know the gospel of Christianity. Then what is our goal, and when will it be attained? Unless our message will have been spread to every corner of the world, we cannot attain our goal realistically. We are lucky to live in this age of modern facilities. Once our movement arouses the interest of the people in a nation, through mass media it will spread all throughout the world. So we are going to focus our attention on one nation from which to reach the world. For that purpose I chose the U.S., because from here we can easily reach the whole world.

We Belong to God

God has enemies all around. Satan is in the position of enemy to me, and to God. We have enemies all

around. We are the descendants of Satan, but sometimes we don’t realize that we are also enemies to Satan. We are, in the original sense, because we were princes and princesses of God, the King. Someone in the older days stole us away into his adoption. However, we are not his at all; we belong to God.

This fact puts us in the position of enemy to Satan, even without our being conscious of it. This is why man has a general attitude of complaining and sometimes wants to kill himself, feeling unhappy with everything. We want to escape from present society — the Satanic sovereignty. We want to be better and righteous.

We are born from Satanic lineage, but knowing this fact, we want to escape. Would you want to remain under the Satanic sovereignty — fighting, living and dying for the cause of Satan? Or would you rather live and die for the cause of God’s providence? Even though you may go through untold difficulties, if you live and die for God’s cause, you are honored and your future generations will be honored as well.

Glorious in Spirit World

Those who are near to God’s throne in the spirit world are the martyrs, saints and religious leaders who wanted to and did sacrifice themselves for the great cause of God’s providence to restore man. The more they suffered difficulties and hardships on the earthly plane, the more glorious their position is in spirit world. Jesus, with the truth and knowledge of this, said that those who are ready to lose their lives will gain them and those who want to gain their lives will lose them. Know the truth and the truth will liberate you. We must not just know the truth, but we must carry it out and put it into practice.

So, are you ready to walk this way? Perhaps you want to marry, to have your children and a happy home. Then after enjoying those things, perhaps you will be ready for sacrifice. No, you want to work hard yourselves while you are still in your youth, fighting against Satan in order to restore yourselves and all mankind to the position of Adam and Eve before the fall. That way you will dissolve God’s resentment for having lost His children to the hands of Satan.

Purified Blood Lineage

This is a fallen world with evil forces all around you, opposing you. So what are you going to do? Without the appearance of someone far excelling Adam and Eve, God cannot start the work of restoration. By yourself alone you are not entitled or qualified to receive love from God. When does God’s love start? God’s love operates where there is a purified blood lineage.

However, if your blood lineage is not the original, do you belong to God? No. That’s why He has been anxious to develop His providence of restoration; and through the three stages God wanted man to reach Him through the offering of sacrifice, of man and family through the love of God, and now through the True Parents. Now you are here in the love of True Parents. But up to now there have been many lambs, cows, pigeons, etc., sacrificed to bring us to this position. All this has been done in order to save each one of you. You must think about this fact.

With the sacrifices of those animals and humans we are brought here under Goel, under the True Parents. You must be well aware that you are so valuable that you will not take anything in exchange for yourselves. All of the women here — when you are being tempted, you must tell yourselves with dignity, “God, my Father, has been sacrificing all those animals and human beings, for the sake of my salvation. I am not going to be stained again in dirty blood.”

You men folks too, I warn you, if you are tempted and dragged along by beautiful girls, you are not entitled to be God’s sons. I hate the idea of your being liable to that. You must realize the value of yourselves. If, after knowing all these facts, after studying the Divine Principle, you commit a dirty sin again, you have no way to be forgiven of that sin. Especially the blessed couples. You must keep yourselves pure.

Fight on with me

I don’t want just watchers, those who wait for others to carry out the mission. You must carry out your own mission of restoring yourselves and the world. I am a grave and serious man. I am still at war with Satan, every minute of my life. You must be as brave as I am and fight on with me working with you and through you.

Maybe there is a limited choice here, but we will marry within our members. However ugly your spouse may be by worldly standards, he or she is of higher value than any other beautiful woman or handsome man in the world. We are going to set up a new tradition, a new custom, a new way of life under our Parents.

Establishing God’s Sovereignty

You must study the Divine Principle. Unless we can restore what was lost on the vertical level, unless we restore this on the horizontal level, we cannot expect the Kingdom of God here. Only by doing that can we establish the Kingdom of God.

That is the resurrection, through which we can change the earthly hell to the earthly Kingdom of God. Due to the human fall, God is down under us and Satan is on top, with the whole world under Satanic sovereignty. By going through the course of restoration we can build the Kingdom of God and end earthly hell. Then the positions will be reversed, and the whole world will be under God’s sovereignty. We go up by ministering to the True Parents and by serving them or by living with them.

If not for the fall, mankind could have reached the Kingdom of Heaven with Adam and Eve as the True Parents — without sin. But instead, they reached hell with Satan as their parents. In order to reach the Kingdom of God on earth, we must accompany or follow our True Parents. The fact that we have our True Parents with us is the gospel of gospels.

For Your Sake

After all, you yourselves individually are always the problem. For whom have the True Parents come? For whom has Goel been working all through history? For whom did Jesus die? Until now you may have thought that those things had nothing to do with you, but all those things were done for you and for me.

The whole world is in such chaos and turmoil, with people killing one another. Why and for whom is all this happening? All the good things and evil things are taking place either to corrupt or to save man. The whole world is either for me or against me. All that is taking place is either for me or against me. Reversely speaking, if I do good things, the whole world will become good; or if I do evil things, the whole world will become evil. So you must be determined always to do good things in order to restore the world.