Blessed Families and Eternal Life

1. Blessed marriage and eternal life begin from True Parents. They cannot exist without True Parents.

True Parents need to resolve these astonishing matters and bring about the unification of the spirit world and the physical world, as well as unity within the earthly world.

The world is bound to first oppose me and then follow me. Without going before God and receiving the royal seal, the unity of the spirit world and the unity of the physical world cannot be achieved. No matter how much the earth opposes me, it cannot block the way I am meant to go.

The time will come when the angelic world and the spirit world will be mobilized. Ancestors will be mobilized to bring paralyzing nightmares and to grasp the necks of those who do not follow me, similar to what Satan has been doing. (467-121, 2004.09.03)

Blessed families are the key to the gates of the kingdom of heaven

2. After marrying, the moment when a couple of first experiences conjugal love is the moment of their perfection as a man and a woman. They reign supreme. The man is the antenna that represents God's entire plus world, all male characteristics and right-sided things.

The woman is the antenna that represents God's entire minus world, all female characteristics, and left-sided things. Their union is like the point at which a negative charge and a positive charge meet, at the top of the antenna. The place where a man and a woman make love is where they achieve perfection as a man and as a woman.

The royal palace of love that can settle on earth as the center of heaven and earth begins from that point. Then the origin of love can finally emerge and connect to our life. Our lineage is connected to that place.

At the same time, a nation comes forth from that place. The kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven begins from the place where the gates of the first love are opened. (261-017, 1994.05.15)

3. The Blessing given in the Unification Church opens the path that fallen human beings must follow at all costs. No matter how much people oppose it, the Blessing is of great importance because it allows us to connect the spirit world with the physical world.

Today, most people of faith think that salvation means individual salvation. They believe that if they practice their faith well, they will go to the kingdom of heaven.

However, based on God's original ideal, people are not meant to go to the kingdom of heaven alone. Rather, they are meant to go together with their beloved spouse and their beloved family. (143-235, 1986.03.19)

4. Who has the key to the gates of the kingdom of heaven? Adam and Eve should have had the key to heaven, and they should have opened the gates on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, and nation.

Now that blessed families have been organized, they should be brought together so that the gates to the kingdom of heaven can be opened with the key. This can take place on the foundation of the joint Blessing of the spirit world and the physical world in complete unity and oneness, which has been established on the worldwide level.

Thus, the kingdom of heaven, which has remained vacant for millions of years since the time of Adam and Eve, can be filled all at once. (316-213, 2000.02.12)

5. You cannot go to the kingdom of heaven alone. You can enter the gates of heaven only after you have your ideal object partner. For fallen human beings to enter, they must go through the history of restoration, the history of resurrection, and the history of re-creation.

I am giving you the Blessing to open the gates of heaven. By establishing the Blessing, I have opened wide the gates of heaven, which were closed to you.

Though the gates are open, you cannot enter by yourself. Only families can enter. In other words, you need to have sons and daughters and enter the kingdom with them.

Yours is a historical family with historical fruits and accomplishments. Since God's six-thousand-year history of restoration went through the eras of the first Adam, the second Adam, and the third Adam, you need to go through three sons, and those three sons need to have their object partners. Then you can enter the gates of heaven as a family. (152-240, 1963.05.25)

6. Heaven is a place where people from both the spirit world and the physical world can enter through the gates of True Parents' love. If Adam and Eve had not fallen and had entered heaven as loving true parents, their family would have become the model for all families.

Thus, God's original model family would have entered heaven. In this case, all families that were connected to the love of the realm of the royal family, inheriting this tradition through history, would be like branches sprouting north, south, east, and west from the one central trunk.

That is why they all would have entered heaven according to the law of integration. Only in this way can a unified world come about. (231-077, 1992.05.31)

7. According to the principle of the universe, the three stages of parents, couples, and children are supposed to unite and form a four-position foundation. Those who fail to reach this standard are expelled from the realm of those who pass, and so they feel anguish.

Based on these three stages, and centered on God and Adam and Eve, the vertical world and the horizontal world can unfold. This reflects the Principle. That is why the horizontal world can unfold only when Adam and Eve have sons and daughters.

When the horizontal world grows, the vertical world is formed naturally. The horizontal foundation of the body is the sons and daughters and the horizontal foundation of the mind is the spirit world.

From there, God can finally go to both the spirit world and the physical world for the first time and thus the kingdom of heaven can be realized on earth.
(96-030, 1978.01.01)

8. What is the Completed Testament Age? It is the age of the settlement of the family and extends to the settlement of the tribe, people, and nation. That is why I have declared the complete settlement of Cheon II Guk.

Everything is done now. The spirit world and the physical world will become one. In the spirit world, the paths from hell to paradise and the kingdom of heaven have all been opened as well.

However, the decisive reorganization of those places can only be carried out on earth; it cannot be done in the spirit world. Is there such a term as the establishment of kingship in the Bible? Can you find the word homeland there? The Bible does mention the realm of chosen people.

Everyone must go through the gates of the Blessing; not even the chosen people can go to the kingdom of heaven without receiving the Blessing. The path of faith should be completely focused on receiving the Blessing. (367-237, 2002.01.22)

Blessed families and the spirit world

9. When you receive the Blessing, the way to the kingdom of heaven opens up before you. But even among blessed families, some people have carried out fallen acts, so in paradise, he'll arise in the blessed family spirit world. These realms are within the realm of God's dominion.

Just as good angels helped God in His work since the entire spirit world is supposed to receive the Blessing, these blessed spirits, in the position of ancestors, assist those on earth.

Henceforth, when the descendants of such ancestors are born on the earth, the ancestors are supposed to guide them to receive the Blessing and protect their children of direct lineage. By doing this, along with their descendants, they can cross over to a new world that has nothing to do with Satan. (342-011, 2001.01.09)

10. Couples who were blessed on earth will be together even when they go to the spirit world, which is an eternal world. No matter how many couples and children there are in this fallen world, they are scattered and separated in the spirit world. They are separated, and they do not know where the others have gone.

Without a reciprocal connection, they cannot even meet one another. They are all separated in the spirit world according to the state of their spirituality. But as I have told you, if they are united with love at the center through the Blessing, the whole family will dwell together in the spirit world. (250-335, 1993.10.15)

11. When you go to the spirit world, no one tells you to go to hell. You go there on your own. You go to the place that matches your level. Even in the case of Unification Church members, though the goal is to go to the same realm, where you come to dwell will depend on your spiritual state.

Then in what ways are blessed families different? The members of a blessed family cannot be separated from each other, no matter how hard they try. When you pass to the spirit world, if the wife fails to fulfill her responsibility, the husband must take joint responsibility and resolve this.

Whether the wife has done wrong or the husband has done wrong, or whether it is the sons and daughters who have done wrong, they are all involved. Since the kingdom of heaven is a place where the family must enter together, the family must be united.

If a member of that family has done wrong, the whole family must wait until the wrongdoing of that family member can be resolved and atoned for. That is why, one way or another, each family member needs to reach perfection on this earth before passing into the spirit world. (242-110, 1993.01.01)

12. When you go to the spirit world, you have to live in protective confinement. You have to wait for thousands of years. Even in the case of those who are blessed, do you think your sons and daughters will not ask, “Mom, why did you make me this way? Why did you drag me here?” Do you think your sons and daughters will just stay quiet?

Your families are at different levels. So you will go to the place that is appropriate to your level and stay there for a long time. Then your ancestors and your sons and daughters will accuse you, saying, “Look at the problems you've caused. Why couldn't you do better?”

You will have to stay there for as long as those accusations last. This is not easy. So you should do well while on earth. You should do all that I ask of you.
(207-099, 1990.11.01)

13. Unless you advance step by step along the path I have taken to the realm that is liberated and free, and report on my behalf, you will be caught. Otherwise, you will not be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Groups of Cain-type and Abel-type people who fight at the gates cannot enter the good spirit world. Heaven will restrict them. That is why, even if members of the Unification Church have received the Blessing if they fail to enter the gates of the kingdom of heaven because of their wrongdoing, a paradise, and even hell for blessed families will be created in the spirit world. (469-307, 2004.09.22)

14. If you go to the spirit world after ten years or a hundred years, and you say, “Heavenly Father! I have come here. Since I know True Parents, I will go to where they are,” do you think you can go there?

If you are not connected to the missions of the tribal messiah, the national messiah, the global, and the cosmic messiah, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and live freely. What a fearful and serious position this is! When you think about the present situation, how could you possibly deny and ignore that?
(491-323, 2005.03.27)

15. If you live as you please after receiving the Blessing, you are out. You only have a document; you do not have the substance. The kingdom of heaven is the substantial world, so when you enter the spirit world it will not be enough if you only have a certificate without the substance.

The same is true for me. Even if I am the Lord of the Second Advent, without the substantial realm of the spirit world, I cannot assert the substantial realm on earth. That is why the spirit world needs to be liberated. (362-038, 2001.12.04)

16. Every day you must know the reality of the spirit world, which is the subject world. In our daily lives, while we are eating or teaching our children, it is regretful that we do not know the reality of the spirit world.

This is more important than the record of the lives of our ancestors or the traditions of our nation. We live together with True Parents, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, knowing their actual circumstances. We know the heavenly world and the earthly world.

It is the responsibility of each of our families to eliminate everything that blocks us from attaining the ideal standard, regardless of what sacrifices we have to make. You have not yet become liberated central families.

You are in a position where you need to go beyond your nation and your world. If you fail to do so, you will have to stay at your current level in the spirit world. (382-141, 2002.06.21)

17. The paradise and hell that came about because of Satan's lineage will be wiped out all at once. Then based on the best, ideal blessed families who are closest to God, the kingdom of heaven of the highest class will be formed. Underneath that, a paradise for blessed families will form.

Furthermore, just as there is the middle spirit world for Buddhism or Confucianism, a middle spirit world for blessed families will be created. Many classes will be created. Next, there will be a prison for blessed families. But this prison will not be a prison of hell within Satan's realm.

Until now, things have happened in such a way that descendants saved their ancestors. Now that the principled first son's position has been established and there is no indemnity to be paid, the elder brothers or parents who have sons and daughters or relatives in hell, anyone they know in the lower places, can go and help them whenever they wish to. They can lay down a bridge. Thus, such people can be restored quickly. (329-256, 2000.08.10)

18. The kingdom of heaven was originally a place for families to enter. Have blessed families reached the highest position in the spirit world? Even in the case of blessed families, if they cannot surmount the realm of the eight stages within the fallen realm, they have to stay where they are.

This is why, even though all blessed families have been liberated, the kingdom of heaven for families, paradise for families, middle spirit world for families, and hell for families have all come about.

However, though this earth is under Satan's dominion, it is not eternal, and your ancestors who have gone before you are tugging on your legs to drag you forward. They are pulling you up. That is why restoration can be much quicker. At present, we are teaching people to once again live the religious way of life.
(326-307, 2000.07.16)

The best gift to take to the spirit world

19. What gift can you offer when you stand before God in the spirit world? It is neither money nor the prestige of an academic title. Neither is it the affection you have for your loving spouse, nor a well-lived life nor any other such thing. Such things cannot be gifts.

You should take your love for God and your love for the world to that place. That is what remains. In John 3:16 it is written that God so loved the world, testifying to His love. That is why He sent His only-begotten son. His only-begotten son is the person who came to love the world.

For this reason, if your faith is based on love, you will not perish. You will be saved. Since the Lord loves the world, you should love the world together with Him.
(98-330, 1978.08.13)

20. Do you have a special gift you can take to the kingdom of heaven? When you go to the spirit world, you will see the martyred, loyal servants of God lined up before you. In front of them, do you think you will be able to open up the bundle you have brought?

What kind of suffering has the Unification Church gone through and what kind of hardships have you gone through?

Without going through whatever small hardships you have had, how could you say that you have lived for the sake of the nation and the world? It should be only natural for you to say, “Though I have suffered, I do not think of it as suffering.” But you still have some way to go. You should be able to go to the spirit world, open up your bundle, and say, “These are the gifts I have prepared for my whole life, so please accept them!”

Because when women marry they take large bundles of things with them to their new home, should you go empty-handed with only your spirit self when you go to the kingdom of heaven? (32-071, 1970.06.21)

21. This earth is the endless producer of the citizens of heaven. No one has realized this. The life course of the original couple living on this earth should have been one in which they gave birth to sons and daughters as the citizens of the kingdom of heaven and raised them to become perfected people.

Therefore, when a baby was born, that baby would have become a gift they could take along when the time came to go before God. Without such gifts, you cannot hold your head up proudly. When you return to your hometown, what can you boast of before your parents?

Just as you would boast of how well you have raised your sons and daughters, the same would hold when you go to the spirit world. When you go before God, there is no better gift than bringing God's children, the citizens of heaven, whom you have raised on this earth. Things like money, power, and knowledge are not necessary. (229-015, 1992.04.09)

22. Parents with many sons and daughters have many object partners of love, so when they go to the spirit world they can freely meet anyone in all directions. There are no evil women among those who have given birth to many children.

Why is this so? It is because they have the mind of a mother who wants to raise her children. When they go to a village, they compare other children with their sons and daughters. If they are not as good as their children, they think, “I wish I could help them.”

Mothers naturally ascend to a higher state of love in the realm of daily life. Those who have raised many children are thus in the highest place in the spirit world. (239-156, 1992.11.24)

23. What kind of place is the earth? It is a factory to produce the citizens of the heavenly kingdom. Heaven is vast and unchanging. It is infinite. So even if each person gives birth to a hundred children, there is no overpopulation because heaven is so spacious. It is a world that can accommodate any number of people.

Therefore, you should not practice birth control. When you go to the next world, what matters will be how many citizens of the heavenly kingdom you have made and brought with you.

You should know that when you bring many true sons and daughters of the heavenly kingdom, they are to your advantage, for they will serve as data in determining your rank in the heavenly world, as the basis on which you can win commendation. (202-040, 1990.05.01)

24. When you go to the spirit world in the future, what should you take with you? You do not go there with money. You do not go there in the name of the Unification Church either.

Therefore, what you should do from now on is to see how many sons and daughters you can create for God to love before you go there. Everyone can do this. When people give birth to babies, they can have only a limited number of children.

What do you have to go through in the process of restoration?

When you create many spiritual sons and daughters from among those in Satan's world for God to love, this accomplishment connects with your ancestors and opens the way to liberate them. This is the greatest gift you can give in the course of restoration. (230-025, 1992.04.15)

25. When you go to the spirit world, you do not take money with you. Each person needs to restore more than 120 people. The citizens of the kingdom of heaven were all lost. By engraving them, we bring them back to their proper place.

For you to go through the twelve pearly gates in the spirit world, what matters is how many citizens of the kingdom of heaven you have recovered from Satan and restored while you were still on earth.

To do so, you must shed tears, sweat, and blood. With the heart of re-creation, you should invest your heart more than the fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, and sons and daughters in Satan's world, investing your heart and shedding tears, sweat, and blood.

Otherwise,e you cannot claim any citizens of the heavenly kingdom as your own. Your position of glory and your proximity to God in the next world will be determined according to this number. (211-352, 1991.01.01)

26. What can you boast of when you go to the spirit world? You can boast of the number of lives you have saved. The first person you saved, the second person, how many beyond your tribe, how many people from how many nations you have connected to new life; this is your wealth.

This, and only this, is your wealth. You will miss nothing in the spirit world because it lacks nothing, but if you did miss something, it would be true people. Thus, those devoted subjects who labored diligently to raise true people will naturally become glorious sons and daughters in the heavenly world.
(30-148, 1970.03.21)

27. It is more important to harvest citizens for God's kingdom than to eat. However, people are not clear about this. This should be their principal occupation. It is the main occupation of people who live on this earth. Among the things you should do in your lifetime, there is nothing more important than this.

In this world, having a job and a successful career and saving money all slip away. No matter how much money you amass, it will be of no use in the other world. Material things are not necessary in the next world.

There is no need for knowledge. Even if there is something you have never learned, your mind will already know it. You will come to know everything within a week. (230-030, 1992.04.15)

28. In going to the spirit world, the kingdom of heaven, what you need are spiritual sons and daughters. You need spiritual children.

By witnessing you can resurrect spirits. Therefore, the work you carry out on Earth does not affect only the Earth. You are carrying out that work to bring an end to all that was defiled through the Fall. (362-303, 2001.12.13)

29. Heaven is an infinite world where everything is connected by bridges of love. If the people you have witnessed are spread across the world, through them paths will be formed over which you can travel to and fro, covering a much wider area when you go to the spirit world.

Everyone will want to connect and relate with you. Just as on earth, you connect to others through ideology, a similar structure will be organized around you in heaven. It is like having many students you have educated.

When you pass on to the next world after resolving everything on earth, you will be able to resolve things in the spirit world through your relationships in a much wider realm of activity. (230-026, 1992.04.15)

30. You should not let time fly by aimlessly. Only when you have given birth to and raised sons and daughters during your younger years can you leave behind a foundation that you can be proud of before your descendants. Only when those children become great people can you be proud of history?

If you do not have historical accomplishments that you can be proud of, you may be able to join the ranks of your family and your town, but you will not be able to join the ranks of your nation. To reach the national level, you need accomplishments that can remain in the historical tradition.

Everyone desires to leave behind something for the nation, for the world, and for heaven and earth. Therefore, you need to know clearly that your life purpose is to establish your realm of ownership. When you follow God's Will, like it or not, you can never consider giving up. (230-027, 1992.04.15)