Abraham's failure to cut his offering in two
Father came to this Earth, found the Principle, and the Principle lectures began. Now, the Principle lectures are being given all around the world.
Whenever their names are called out during these lectures, Adam, Eve, Noah, and Abraham become apprehensive. When he listens to the portion of the Principle lecture that deals with Abraham’s family, Abraham laments, saying “Oh, I see now. It was such a great sin to not have divided the doves into two.”
The central figures in the history of providence realize what their mistakes were
after listening to the Principle. They beat their chests, saying “I know now.” Then they lament, “How great it could have been if I did not make that mistake?” Just as when we speak of the devil, Abraham comes and listens when someone talks about him.
When we were serving Father in Cheongpa Dong, there were little reports of witnessing results. It was a time when we were unable to get any results due to so much persecution. For example, when a member reports to Father “I was beaten by my husband at home. I was persecuted at school.” Father would sympathize with that person and cheer them up. Then people became competitive and everyone reported about how they were persecuted.
Father told us one day, “In the future, those who were never persecuted will envy their elder members who were persecuted so much.”
Moreover, there was much news from the spirit world in the early days. One day, Grandmother Jeong Seog On (The daughter of Grandmother Kim Seong Do, the head of Holy Wine church. She used to have a very bright spiritual sense with the help of her mother, Kim Seong Do.) hastily came to Father, bowed, and said, “Abraham says there is one thing he truly wishes to tell you, Father.”
Knowing everything about it already, Father said in a big voice, “I would rather not hear! I don’t have time to hear the words of those who have already gone to the spirit world. If I come to know about their situations, I have to start giving them attention and take care of them.” He refused to hear Abraham’s words.
The grandmother, Jeong Seog On, however, did not back down and kept begging Father for ten minutes, saying “I can’t pray about anything else because Abraham bothers me so much. Please, Father! Please listen to his plea just once.”
Father then said, “What is it?” Then she told Father “Abraham says he did not know it was such a great sin to not cut the small dove in half. He only realized that it was after listening to a Principle lecture. Furthermore, Abraham says he went through much hardship to make the offering. However, he says it wasn’t he who did not cut the dove but was his servant. Abraham wanted me to tell you this.”
After listening to this, Father laughed and said “O, Abraham! You are making excuses in advance fearing getting scolded by me once I go to the spirit world.” Father told us that servants do not have any power over the making of offerings. Abraham did not tell the servant to divide the dove into half. Father clearly explained that therefore the one who must take the responsibility for the uncut dove lies not the servant but the master, Abraham.
There is no mention of the servant in the Bible. Father asked us if Abraham had gone to the offering site alone. He brought many friends and servants. Father then said it is fun to look at Abraham making excuses like this. I still remember Father saying this.
Obedience of Isaac, perseverance and wisdom of Jacob
Father said one day “I envy Abraham. I envy that Abraham had an obedient son like Isaac.” Isaac did not retaliate at all when Abraham took him up to the mountain to burn him as an offering. Isaac could not have become the sacrifice if he refused to become one and retaliated against his father.
Father said that sheep, goats, or cows cannot serve as offerings if they ever had diarrhea or had any flaws. The object of offering therefore must be very pure, clean, and obedient. It cannot become an offering otherwise.
Isaac grew up watching his father Abraham making offerings a lot. Therefore, Isaac knew that he was to become an offering when his father tied him up. However, Isaac did not retaliate even when he knew what was going on. Father told us that this was the reason that Isaac led a pretty comfortable life as a central figure in the providence.
We can find Father’s explanations about the offering of Isaac on page 292 of the 14th volume of <Father’s Speech>.
“The blessing God promised to give to Abraham was a blessing on the world level.
It was a blessing given to Abraham as an individual, but since Abraham received the blessing as a representative of the world, it was the blessing upon which God’s unchanging and eternal Will could pervade throughout the world.
Therefore, within that blessing, the family, clan, race, nation, and the entire world, everything was included. Abraham did not know the meaning of the blessing when he received it. God then later told him to take his only son, Isaac, up to Mount Moriah and sacrifice him. We should think about this from a practical standpoint.
When we do, we would probably think that God is out of His holy mind. However, the reason God commanded Abraham to do such a thing was to judge the history and judge the age. God could not help but bestow such a command upon Abraham so that Abraham’s descendants could create one standard upon the life and the actions of Abraham even though the rest of history would fail.
If God rules out human beings from his great Will because they are fallen beings, Satan will use that as a condition to attack human beings. Therefore, to bring Satan into complete subjugation and prevent Satan from attacking human beings, God had to make such a command.
“The representative figures who were chosen for God’s Will as such had on their shoulders the burden of not only taking the responsibility of the age in which they lived but also the responsibility of creating a historical standard. We must understand that therefore they were always faced with corresponding hardships and persecutions.”
Next is regarding Jacob
Jacob was born as the younger brother of two twin boys. His mother Rebekah cooperated with him because she received a revelation. (Gen. 25:21~25, and the elder shall serve the younger.) Rebekah wanted her younger son Jacob to be in the position of the elder son.
Jacob tricked Esau twice to take Esau’s eldership. Jacob tricked his brother once with lentil stew and tricked him again when receiving Isaac’s blessing.
However, that wasn’t the correct way according to the Principle. Had Jacob wanted to inherit the rights of the elder son, he should have served and behaved well to his older brother. Then, the elder son’s heart would have been moved, and he would have said “Yes, you are not only smarter than me but better in every aspect. So you should be my older brother.” If Jacob had brought his older brother into natural subjugation like this, so much could have been saved in the course of indemnity.
Father knew that this was precisely what Jacob was supposed to do, so Father served grandmother Park Eul Ryong and Mr. Kim Baek Moon, who were both in the elder son’s position. Father once said, “I even washed her [Park Eul Ryong’s] underwear for her.”
If their hearts remained unmoved, then the spirit world would not testify to them about Father, and they would receive no revelation. The reason Father served them so tenderly is that he should not walk the same failed course of the central figures in the providence of restoration. In other words, he had to avoid being accused by Satan.
Jacob then fought an angel and won. Father said that this had great providential importance.
After a 21-year arduous course in Haran, Jacob sent a reconnaissance to his homeland before returning. He found out that his older brother was waiting for him with 400 servants. Jacob must have feared this. 400 is not a small number.
Jacob must have felt that his older brother still wanted to kill him. Thinking that his entire, arduous course of work would turn to nothing, he sincerely prayed to God, ‘ Please protect me from my older brother who wants to kill me.’ God listened to his prayer and sent an angel to protect Jacob.
Jacob wrestled with the angel sent by God all night long. When the angel was about to leave as the sun was rising, Jacob, however, held on to the angel by his ankle and refused to let him go unless the angel would give him his blessing. The angel broke Jacob’s thigh-bone and gave him the blessing.
The angel needed to give him the blessing to restore through indemnity the condition with which Satan could accuse Jacob because Jacob tricked his older brother Esau twice. It was also to relieve the angry heart of Esau who wanted to kill Jacob.
That is why we hit each other’s butt when we receive the blessing. It has the meaning of separating Satan from us because Adam and Eve fell by using their thigh-bones in the wrong fashion.
Then the angel told Jacob, “Your name will be ‘Israel’ from now on.”
The angel gave him the blessing as such and left.
Then who was the angel? The angel was identical to Esau’s spiritual body. In other words, Esau was the substantial body of the angel; the fact that Jacob won the fight against the angel made a condition that he could win against the angel’s substantial body, Esau as well. As Jacob won against the angel, the spirit world would prevent Esau from killing his brother even if he had come out to do so. Esau therefore could not hold his enmity and his intention to kill Jacob for long even if he had such intentions. As Jacob made the victorious spiritual condition, Esau could not help but embrace Jacob.
So Jacob went to see his older brother Esau, limping. Jacob then wisely said one thing that melted his brother’s heart. Esau and Jacob were twins, so they look very much alike. Jacob was scared that his brother might kill him, but as soon as he saw Esau, he bowed down low and said, “seeing your face is like seeing the face of God.”
I believe Esau’s cold heart was completely melted with that one sentence. Esau did not forget for one moment what had happened with Jacob in the past. If Jacob, who’d who any taken stolen God’s blessing, had reappeared in front of him with a smug attitude, how angry would Esau have become? However, Jacob came, bowed to him seven times, and said these words. Esau must have been speechless. How wise was Jacob?
Father said that his providence is also like that of Jacob.
We must be thankful for Jacob’s effort to gain victory. One thing that we must understand from this is that we must obey Father. Father said, “As Jacob brought Esau into subjugation after first achieving the spiritual victory, if you do exactly as I tell you to do, and follow me with Absolute Faith, Absolute Love, and Absolute Obedience, you will be able to achieve anything.”
Father has already achieved complete victory against Satan so that we may bring great results in whatever we do. Therefore, instead of doubting our ability, we must push forward. If we become one in heart with the Father and move, Satan cannot interfere with us ad we will accomplish whatever we set out to do.
Father said often, “Even if the things I tell you to do are not achieved right away, it will certainly happen if you hold on to your faith tightly and keep trying.”
When we look at it this way, Korean people are much more spiritual than foreigners. It is because Korean people from the ancient time have worshiped not only Jesus but also Buddha and mountain gods. Korea could not have endured so much suffering in the past if the people did not pray to the spirit world. The Korean people’s long history of praying to heaven or mountain gods helped to develop their spiritual senses.
When Father tells us to do something, we do things like all-night vigilant prayers or 7-day fasting to create good conditions. It is the same as how Jacob spiritually fought the angel and made the condition for his older brother Esau to come to Jacob and bring himself into subjugation.
I’' m always reminded of a fun story when I think of Sun Moon University in Cheon An in Chung Nam province.
When we first tried to buy land so that we could build the university, the landowners would not sell their land to us. It was a good piece of land so Ehwa university tried to purchase it, but they were unsuccessful. However, we convinced over 300 landowners and succeeded in buying the land.
The Christians among the owners especially were the most adamant in their refusal to sell their land to us. Many of them made an excuse by asking where they would relocate their ancestral graveyards. Mr. Park Jung Hyeon. He now lives in America and was the one who spearheaded this purchase at the time. When he was working to convince the landowners, he tried to persuade them by arguing that it would be much better for their descendants and this town if a school was built, rather than other things such as factories.
After much persuasion, the town’s people were all in favor of building a university on their land, but they still wanted help in relocating their ancestral graveyards. There were 300 owners in total but the graves they were responsible for numbered in the thousands. Furthermore, a big problem was that these grave sites were passed down from their ancestors. This posed a great difficulty. We just understand that Sun Moon University was not built easily.
The Foundation of our church invited these 300 landowners along with their wives (600 people in total) to the Little Angel's Art Hall. They were fed good food, and they enjoyed the performances of Little Angels. Then the people from the Foundation persuaded them, “Ladies and gentlemen! Rev. Moon built such a beautiful middle school and high school. How even more beautiful it would be if he built a university?” The landowners, however, were still unconvinced because of the unresolved problem of relocating their ancestral graveyards.
Since they were using their graveyards, they had an excuse not to sell the land. The members around Ohn Yang, Cheon An, and Asan did a relay 40-day vigilant prayer condition three times in a row. Father went there also twice and I followed him.
Father climbed Mount Sambong and offered a serious prayer, and he also gave Words to the members who were offering the prayer condition.
Then as the third and last 40-day prayer’s end came near, one of the members had a very interesting dream.
In his dream, each grave had a hole in it and the spirits within came out of their graves waist-high. Then a spirit who served as the captain among them said “We have to vacate this place and go to a new place. Where should we go?” The rest of the spirits followed his lead and sang in unison, ‘ Where shall we go?’ The behavior of the spirits in the dream looked like the behavior of a pack of birds, their heads all pointing to one place while they moved.
The looks on their faces as they were singing ‘ Where shall we go?’ did not look as if they were angry. Rather, they looked happy and looked as if they felt they wanted to move. However, they still thought ‘ We are in complete agreement with building a university here where we rest so that the generations to come can be educated, but the problem remains as to where we shall go.’ This particular member, who had the dream, saw that the ancestors awarded to cooperate as such. Father was delighted when he heard this report.
This is what I felt when I heard this report. Father sometimes mobilizes the wives of blessed families to go out and witness on short notice. When the Father gives such a command, the wives become busy and start worrying about who will take care of their husbands and children. I felt that what the ancestors were doing was very similar to what the wives do when they have to prepare for a mobilization.
As we become busy and start running around here and there once Father gives his command, the ancestors were busy trying to figure out a way to come up with a solution to their problem.
It was still difficult, however. It is said that spirits are very reluctant to yield their places. For example, if there is a highway construction that has to go through a mountain, some people die in the process of creating a tunnel. When a spiritually bright
person looked at such a construction site, he could see that the ancestors in the spirit world were holding their arms wide, trying to prevent the construction because they did not want their houses to be dug up. Whenever he sees such ancestors, people die in an accident. This is how spirits try to protect their graves.
The person who had the dream was sure that the landowners would sell their land since their ancestors agreed to relocate. Truly, all the landowners agreed,
‘ Let’s sell!’ and they sold their land to us for a very cheap price soon after the last 40-day prayer 4and 0-day finished.
The landowners today regret very much about selling. They think “Were we possessed at the time? Why did we sell so cheaply? We could have made much more money if we held on to the land.” Our church has plenty of similar stories.
If you run into a brick wall or a very difficult problem in your ministerial work, you must offer much jeongseong to create a condition for victory just as Jacob put his life on the line and won the fight against the angel. Abraham’s family teaches us that we can reap victory over all problems with similar methods.
Lessons from Joseph’s course
Let us now talk about Joseph’s course.
Father said that he often thought about Joseph when he received persecution from Christian churches in the early days. Joseph was Jacob’s eleventh son and he was intelligent. Jacob loved Joseph and Benjamin more than his other sons. His other sons naturally became jealous of them.
Moreover, the ten brothers’ mother was different from Joseph’s. So these ten brothers tried to kill Joseph but ended up selling him to an Arabian merchant, who then took Joseph to Egypt where Joseph spent some hard times. Joseph, however, was able to become the acting Prime Minister of the nation in a heartbeat because he was able to decipher the Pharaoh’s dream with the help of heaven.
Egypt and its neighboring nations were suffering from a great famine at the time, and this was God’s work of bringing Jacob and his sons into Egypt. Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt with empty rice bags to beg for some rice. Joseph recognized his brothers instantly. The brother couldn’t even imagine that Joseph would be alive.
Joseph recognized them, however, sat, them down in order, and gave them food. The brothers thought something was strange. The brothers asked Joseph how he was able to know exactly the order of the brothers. Instead of answering their question, Joseph came back to his room and started crying out loud. Only after many tears, did he come out, and wipe his face so his brothers wouldn’t notice them “Is the youngest one still alive? Is your Father still alive?”
Father explained about the heart of Joseph at the time. Father told us Joseph was, of course, mad at his brothers who sold him to the merchant. Joseph could have felt that now his brothers were in his mercy, he could have made up his mind to kill him, but he didn't’ t.
Then why did Joseph treat his brothers so well instead of taking revenge? It was because Joseph thought that even though they came from a different mother, they were the ones who took care of his father when he was alone in a foreign nation.
Joseph then brought his father and his brothers to Egypt. It is recorded in the Bible that the Pharaoh gave the grace of giving his chariots to Joseph’s family to bring them to Egypt when he heard that the acting Prime Minister Joseph had reunited with his brothers. Joseph was then able to bring his father Jacob and his brothers and their families to Egypt.
However, Father said that when Joseph invited his father’s family, he had to bring not only Joseph’s family members but Esau’s as well. Father said that then the current struggle in the Middle East could have been prevented and that this is an imperfection in Joseph’s course.
The American House of Representatives invited Father soon after he went to America. They wanted to see how this man from Asia brainwashed their white children. With that kind of intention, they invited Father to give a lecture in the House of Representatives.
The lecture Father gave at the time included that ‘ the Jewish people who were to receive and serve Jesus rather killed him from disbelief. This is a grave historical mistake.’
It is difficult to live in America once you incur the wrath of Jewish people. It is because Jewish people control the polity, economy, academy, and the banking industry. Many important positions in America are filled by Jews.
When Israel comes into conflict with neighboring nations, doesn’t America doesn't help Israel?
America’s middle and upper classes are mainly composed of Jews. If you get on their bad side in America, it becomes very difficult to live there.
There is another story that explains this point well. There is a place called Mount Kisco on the outskirts of New York. It has beautiful sceneries. We scenery a building twenty years ago that was used as a story for Catholic nuns. Many Jewish people were living were upper-class folks such as doctors, lawyers, and professors.
These people collected signatures and filed petitions to prevent moonies (the members of Unification Church ch who follow Rev. Moon) from living there. It is such a good building, but it has been left vacant for over 20 years.
The reason Father is so hated by Jewish people is because of the lecture he gave at the House of Representatives. People who were close to Father at the time urged to Father to take that line because it would be impossible to settle in America if we got on the bad got of Jewish people. Father, however, ignored everyone and said “I put my life on the line already when I came to America. Whether I go to prison, when I get shot, such things are not relevant. I cannot hide the truth and I cannot bend according to other’s will.” Father picked the moment and proclaimed his Words in the House.
Jewish people began their work of killing Father once Father made such a proclamation in the House. Jewish people received much persecution throughout history, so they do not take their revenge on the superficial level. Instead of charging from the front, they persecute their enemy from behind in the shadow.
Father told the Jewish people, who firmly believe that nobody can be the messiah because Elijah did not come to Earth riding on clouds, that the Jews murdered Jesus. He furthermore said that the Nazis killed six million Jews as a payment of indemnity for the Jews. There was no way Jews could be favorable towards Father. Jews defined Jesus as an antichrist and therefore proceeded to kill him. Their pride was scarred when this Rev. Moon fellow talked about how their ancestors had sinned.
Christians believe that they were saved through the crucifixion of Jesus. They naturally become angry and consider Father to be their enemy since Father says that the crucifixion of Jesus meant that Jesus was unable to fulfill his mission while on Earth.
Communists also hate Fathers because they are atheists.
Father says that there are three great archangels in this world. One is America, the other is The Soviet Union, and the last is China. These three nations have one thing in abundance that other nations lack. America is an archangel nation because it has plenty of Christians, the Soviet Union is an archangel nation because it is most abundant in the land, and China is also an archangel nation because it has a large population.
Father said that these things originally belong to God, and they are only entrusted with management. The archangel’s role is not to own but to manage.
Father isn't concerned about the opinions of Jews of Christians, but he still admits to their good works. Then he tells us to look at Joseph.
Father says that Jewish people worked so hard throughout history for00 years to protect monotheism, their God Jehovah. In the past, everyone believed in poly believes However, Jews were the only people who believed in monotheism at that time.
Jews believed and held on to their one and only God for 4,000 years without changing. Therefore, just as Joseph gave credit to his brothers for taking care of his father Joseph when he was away in a foreign nation, Father gave credit to the Jewish people for serving God in the position of the eldest son before Father was born. Father said that Judaism is the eldest son, Christianity is the second son, and The Unification Church is the third son. Father says no one can match the great works of Judaism, who endured 4,000 years of suffering to serve God. We must understand that and give them their due credit.
Then Christianity held on to Jesus in heaven and served God on this Earth for 2,000 years while going through the same kind of difficult course as that of the Jewish people. Christians shed much blood and many died in martyrdom. Father says that when he thinks of such pain that had to be endured by Christians, he can’t help but forgive them.
Father sometimes throws curse words at Christians, but he says he thinks of Joseph when he becomes furious. Just as Joseph forgave his brothers instead of taking revenge and fed them and embraced them, Father says he is also determined to be God’s third son. We should understand Father’s tearful heart.
My eyes fill with tears whenever I think about Joseph embracing his brothers in reconciliation. I gave many lectures in America with this story.
So what kind of person is Father? We can summarize that Father is like Joseph, who does not take revenge, who does not repay his enemy with enmity, who rather sacrifices himself for his enemies, and who brings his enemies into natural subjugation by moving their hearts.
The anger of Moses
Moses was truly a brave leader filled with a sense of justice. However, his anger was his weakness.
Moses’s mother became his nanny and educated him to have a great sense of patriotism about the nation of Israel by telling him “You are an Egyptian outside but a Jew inside.”
Moses grew to be a healthy man. One day, he was passing by a labor camp and saw an Egyptian soldier beating on his fellow Israelites. Moses looked around and saw that there was no one else. So Moses killed the Egyptians. However, the word got out and the Pharaoh tried to kill Moses. Moses fled to the wilderness.
He remained 40 years in the wilderness before he led the Israelites out. It was recorded that the number was ‘ 600,000 men strong.’ ‘ 600,000 men strong’ means that there were multiples when we include the women included children.
However, so many millions of Israelites suffered due to their lack of faith and fell in the wilderness.
When he saw the Egyptian beating down his fellow Israelite, Moses had to hold back his anger and wait for the right time for revenge to come.
Moses was in a very difficult circumstance when God protected him. All newborn sons were put to death around the time Moses was born. However, with the help of his mother and his older sister, Moses was adopted by the Pharaoh’s daughter. That particular princess did not have a son. That is why when she saw the baby Moses floating down the Nile river in a papyrus basket, she thought “Oh, this is a Jewish child. He looks so pretty. I will adopt him and raise him as my own.” This, however, was not her thought. God planted this thought in her.
The Pharaoh did not have any other sons so Moses was next in line to become Pharaoh. Moses could have helped his people once he became Pharaoh. If he told the Egyptians, ‘ You have put my people under great suffering and labor. However, we will become royalty now your Egyptians will become our slaves.’ he could have turned everything upside down instantly. However, such things could not happen because of his anger. This is something Father feels sorrowful about.
While talking about Moses’ fits of anger, Father said “I am a human being just like you, but I have two differences. The first is that I have overcome the self-centered greed, and the other is that I have overcome the self-centered fits of anger. We can accomplish anything if we overcome these two things completely.
It is bad to have self-centered thoughts and self-centered greed. However, Father said that self-centered anger is even worse than that. We can learn this from Moses. If Moses could hold back his anger, not only would he not have had such miserable fate, but his people also would not have died in such miserable ways. A group with a leader who can’ t control his anger is bound to decline.
Father received a lot of training to walk the course of the Messiah. Father said “I wasn't’ t a good person from the beginning. I was impatient, I had a strong desire for revenge, and I didn't’ t like losing. However, I bit my tongue and trained myself to be able to walk the Messianic course.”
Father said that anyone who can dominate his self-centered greed and fits of anger can accomplish anything. It is because that person’s conscience respects him.
We may be able to deceive everyone around us, but we cannot deceive our conscience. How could we deceive our conscience when it is rooted in God? Our conscience accuses us, “Hey, you. You did such and such wrong things, didn't’ t you? Why did you!”? When our conscience accuses us like that, we lose strength in our body, and we fall flat on the ground.
However, when our conscience respects us, we can have competence in whatever we do and can achieve victory in anything.
God’s sorrowful heart was embedded in the stone tablets
Another important thing in the course of Moses is the stone tablets.
There are ten commandments engraved on the stone tablets. You will know this too when you have a chance to visit Israel. I could see when I sent to Israel that the people there copy their law, called ‘ Torah,’ onto a thin sheet of paper, roll it up, and stick it in the doorjamb. They then make a small hole in the door frame, put the torah in it, and touch and kiss whenever come in and out of the house. They touch and kiss it so much that they become sparkling.
That’s how much importance they bestow upon their law. However, the course that led up to God’s giving of these commandments was also of great sadness.
Father, until that time, could not speak directly to the sages. In the case of Noah, God only appeared in his dreams and said, “Noah, build an ark in such and such manner.” God was unable to speak to Noah directly. It was because they were still in the position of the servant of servants.
God then found Moses and called him his representative. God was able to talk to Moses directly because the foundation was prepared then for God to be able to talk to Moses directly.
Moses, however, told God “I am slow of speech and tongue.” Then God told Moses, “I know that your brother Aaron can speak clearly. You will speak unto him, and he will move the people for you.”
However, Aaron later led all the people to the path of unbelievers when he allowed them to create a golden statue of a goat and dance around it. Satan accuses God when Israel's people Israel'to disbelief. Then the Israelites cannot go to God directly and God’s Will cannot be accomplished. Even though they cannot go directly to God, however, they could still go indirectly by upholding the ten commandments (the law) strictly.
Moses’ ten commandments (the stone tablets) became a stone wall that divided God and the Jewish people who did not believe in God. Father said what is sorrowful here is that God wanted to speak to the Israelites directly but he couldn't’ t because of their disbelief.
We must know that there is a sad story behind Moses’ ten commandments (the stone tablets) which, in the end, worked to divide God and human beings.
A story about Moses’ 40-day fast
I want to tell you here a sad story about Moses’ 40-day fast.
This happened when we were still in the Old Headquarters church in Cheongpa-dong Yongsan-gu, Seoul. There was a woman who joined our church with the guidance of Moses. She used to be Catholic, was very energetic, and prayed very well too. I thought she would be a great addition to our church activities. Then she attended the church regularly for a while. One day, she came to the church with a big bag and gave a full bow to Father.
Father asked her where she was going, and she answered, “I am following Moses’ direction and going to go to Mount Samgak to do 40-day fasting twice.” Father became angry and said, “You are going, to do what?”
The woman started to explain: “Moses told me that when people lecture the Principle, they only talk about how Moses did 40-day fasting twice, received the tablets twice, and went through so much suffering for leading a gigantic group of people. He told me that people do not focus on the good things he did. He then begged me to understand and know his heart. He said if I could do a 40-day fast twice, he would give me the miracle that God gave him.” In other words, it seemed Moses in the spirit world had seduced her.
After listening to her answer, Father began to talk to her, this time in a gentle voice as if trying to persuade a child: “Moses is lying. Even the things that the spirits of highest status they say are true only 80 percent of the time.
The spirit world is the archangel realm and the Physical World is the Abel realm since I am still alive. You should not believe the things the spirit world says but instead, believe me. Even the spirits with high status sometimes try to satisfy their greed by using the people in the Physical World with lies.
Moses was able to do a 40-day fast twice not because of his own power but ts to the power of God. He was barely able to finish the two 40-day fasts because God fed him spiritually. You will starve to death if you fast for 40 days twice. Furthermore, even the powers of Moses were given to him by God. Moses did not do it own his own. Moses can never give such powers to you. Therefore, if you are willing to fast 40 days twice, you should redirect that energy and go pioneer new churches twice.”
She became saddened and silently went out the door later. She never returned.
There was also another woman who was the mother of a male 777-couple member.
She was the kind of person who offered a lot of jeongseongs to heaven. She started a 40-day fasting and then kept insisting on continuing her fasting even when the 40-day was over. She went beyond 60 days and then, as if a candle would quietly burn out, went to the spirit world quietly.
Father said that it is impossible for a human being to fast 80 days with his for power alone. We must understand that it may be possible with the spiritual hero God but our physical bodies have a limit that makes certain things completely impossible.
Father says that Moses is always saddened when he hears people giving a lecture about his course. It is because people normally focus on his mistake of striking the rock twice and do not talk as much about all the suffering he had to endure after leaving Egypt. This is very uncomfortable for Moses to take.
