Our Rebirth and Change of Lineage

1. In Adams's family, there were brothers, Cain and Abel. Cain was the first son. Love has one principle, not two. Are there two principles of love? In the Divine Principle, we talk about unprincipled love.

The Fall means that Adam and Eve engaged in unprincipled love. Based on love, people should unite as one, not divide as two. Suppose someone has one hundred sons; all those sons should form one brotherhood, not two.

However, if some of them practice unprincipled love, then to whom do those brothers belong? They belong to Satan. That is how it is. (36-248, 1970.12.06)

The change of lineage through Cain and Abel

2. In Adam's family, Cain represented Satan's side and Abel God's side. Adam should have been in God's position, but was he? He was not. The order of love was reversed.

Originally, God should have been the one to possess the fruits of love, but the archangel snatched them away: Therefore, a course was required to restore someone to the position to receive God's love, and it was Abel who was placed in that position.

In the course of the history of restoration, those whom God called and loved were not first sons but second sons. Thus, we read in the Bible that at the time of the Exodus, even in Egypt the firstborn sons were killed. In other words, the second son is providentially on Heaven's side while the first son is on Satan's side.

We have to get rid of the blood of Satan, meaning we need to cut off from the bloodline of Satan. However, should God just kill Cain? He should not. Therefore, He pursues the work of engrafting.

That is so that all people might come to have God's viewpoint and practice His philosophy of life, God sends one person with that philosophy, who provides engraving. This is the concept of the Messiah. (36-248, 1970.12.06)

3. The history of the providence of restoration is that of bringing the first son to surrender to the second son. This was the goal in the instances of Cain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Perez and Zerah, and Joseph and his eleven brothers.

It was also the case for the Israelites about the nations of the world and for Jesus the Son of God about the people of the world. God does not want to destroy the first son by striking him. He wants to make him surrender, by judging the first son after he has first struck the second son.

The original, heavenly way was turned upside down, and it needs to be set aright. Hence, even though the older brother should have been born first, God worked in such a way that the younger brother was born first, supplanting his older brother.

This is also why when Jacob blessed Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manasseh, he crossed his arms and placed his left hand on the older son's head and his right hand on the young person. No one in heaven and earth has known why Jacob did this, until now. (017-180, 1966.12.18)

4. “For what purpose do we need the Messiah? It is for salvation. Salvation begins at the point where we come in contact with God's love. Yet even though we need to return there, we keep on propagating the lineage of Satan.

The whole of humanity is disconnected from God's lineage. “This is the opposite of God's love. This position must be restored through indemnity. To make this indemnity requires the removal of the original sin, but removing the original sin involves the fundamental issue of lineage.

This is something fallen human beings can never resolve on their own. That is why we need the Messiah. (035-159, 1970.10.13)”

5. Why is Jesus the Messiah? It is because he was born as the historic first fruit of the change of lineage, as was never before seen in history. He is the Son who inherited God's life and lineage, based on His love. He represents the new seed of life. That is who Jesus is.

That is why we call him God's only-begotten Son. He was the begotten Son because he was born as the representative son who inherited God's love and life, from a lineage that had been purified throughout human history. This makes Jesus different from all the other religious founders in the course of history.

Jesus was born as the fruit of the course of changing the lineage, the first person to be born completely centered on the living God. That is why he is the Messiah. He was born in that position; that makes him the representative of the changed lineage.

That is why the Messiah is the central person for giving new life to humankind. It took a period of four thousand years according to biblical reckoning, from the time of the Fall until the appearance of Jesus two thousand years ago, to make it possible for a representative of the changed lineage to come for the first time. This was the Messiah. (224-276, 1991.12.15)

6. Who is the coming Messiah? Since fallen parents appeared, there must arise parents who have nothing to do with the Fall. To become such parents, they must set the condition of loving even the devil.

Satan is from the same position as God. Otherwise, there is no way to enter the kingdom of heaven. This has been a secret of the spirit world to this day, and a trap of sorrow placed between the human world and the heavenly world. No one has understood this. But now that I have revealed this, Satan's world will face its time of great misfortune. (136-167, 1985.12.22)

7. Jesus came as the Messiah in the position of a parent, but first he had to fight with the archangel.

He fought, saying, “I am the one and only Son of God.” The only Son of God means that he was the first man to receive God's love as a son. As God's one and only Son, he was to find God's one and only Daughter, and together they were to attain the perfection that the first Adam and Eve should have attained had there been no Fall. Jesus was the only Son of God. He came as the Messiah.

The Messiah is the one who recovers the lost parents by attaining the qualification of True Parents, and who revives people by engraving the lineage of the Parents. This is why Christians say that no one can go to the kingdom of heaven without being born again. (136-168, 1985.12.22)

8. What kind of person was Jesus? God created heaven and earth over six days. In five days He created all things, and on the sixth day, He created Adam. Jesus is like Adam. He is the second Adam, the Adam who came subsequently.

This means that he is the original Adam who had nothing to do with the Fall. In the beginning,g God first created Adam, and then, centered on Adam, He created Eve.

Therefore, the second Adam was to establish the next Eve. But he could not do so. Again, who was responsible for finding and raising the original Eve? It was the first Adam.

However, because Adam could not fulfill this responsibility when Eve fell, the second Adam had to find and establish such an Eve whom the first Adam had lost. There is no exception to the principle of indemnity. (017-190, 1966.12.18)

God's work of rebirth through Jesus and the Holy Spirit

9. Originally, the Earth should have treated heaven as her husband, and heaven should have treated the earth as his wife. And this couple should have communed face to face on an equal level. Yet, due to the Fall, heaven and earth were split apart. Both came under Satan's dominion.

To this day, God has been leading Christianity toward tearing down the barrier between heaven and earth. Christianity teaches that you cannot be saved unless you receive the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit refers to the Mother Spirit. a woman first committed the Fall. As sin was initiated by someone who was to become a mother, someone in the position of a mother must correct this. That is why the spiritual Mother, the Holy Spirit, must come to earth and go through the labor of childbirth.

False children were born on this earth due to the fall of the first ancestors. Hence, the spiritual True Father and spiritual True Mother must come together with a heart of love for each other, push their way through the enemy's barriers, strip Satan of his authority, and enter the state in which they can receive the essence of love.

Only then can all people be spiritually reborn. There is no way for us to be born into a new life without the love between the spiritual Mother and spiritual Father. Resurrection and rebirth in Christianity refer to being born again through these spiritual parents. (023-042, 1969.05.11)

10. Who was Jesus, and why did he come? He came with the mission to become the True Parent of humankind, the True Father. Had Adam not fallen, he would have received God's Blessing and become the True Father of humankind, and Eve would have become the True Mother.

However, due to the Fall, Adam lost the Blessing. To restore it, God prepared through a long history of four thousand years and then sent Jesus. He sent Jesus with the mission to become the True Father.

To restore God's Blessing, Jesus had to inherit the fruit of this providential history and stand in Adams's position; he had to win a woman standing in the position of Eve who had been the object of Satan's accusations, and he had to subjugate all the satanic forces that were blocking this Eve.

He had to do this in addition to taking all aspects of society back from Satan. This is why Jesus indicated that he was the bridegroom. Jesus was striving to find Eve on earth. (017-190, 1966.12.18)

11. Human beings are born from a mother's womb as descendants of the Fall. Hence, to enter into a new life, they need to be embraced by the mother's love. This is the love of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the Mother Spirit. With love, this Mother spirit uplifts and embraces Jesus, who is the spiritual Father. The Holy Spirit yearns for Jesus, and the energy that flows from the power of her love for him is something you can experience.

When you receive the Holy Spirit, it comes to you as a fire. With such an experience, new life can arise within you. It means that you have experienced the feelings of love between the father and the mother in the mother's womb. Unless you feel this sensation of love, you cannot be born into a new life.

I am saying that there can be no birth of new life without love. This is what is called rebirth in Christianity. (035-225, 1970.10.19)

12. The coming Lord is the True Father, so you must enter the loins of the True Father. Fallen people cannot be born again unless they set the condition of entering the True Father. That is why fallen people have sought to enter the loins of Jesus, who is a man.

They do this because they have received the grace of the Mother Spirit who attends Jesus as her bridegroom. However, people cannot enter Jesus' loins. Instead, they must be one with him through their heart of love. With the heart of love, it is possible to get there. Christians who believe in Jesus can enter his body with the help of the Holy Spirit, the Mother Spirit.

Because Jesus did not marry, his spirit is like that of a bachelor. Christians who believe in Jesus want to find a way to enter the returning Lord in the position of baby seeds within the returning Jesus. Then, once they enter his loins, they must be born again through the restored new Mother. This is the way; they can be reborn substantially. (035-226, 1970.10.19)

13. According to the original standard, Christians need to take the position of the sons and daughters of Jesus, born from his flesh and blood. This means that they should enter a position like that of the seeds of sons and daughters that Adam had within him before he fell.

Therefore, Christians must take the position of sons and daughters born from the father's flesh and blood – Jesus' flesh and blood. To do so, based on the condition of unity of love with Jesus, they must be born through the Mother, the Holy Spirit. I am saying they must be born again.

Can there be rebirth only through the Father? Can there be rebirth only through the Mother? Because no man and woman have been able to become the substantial True Mother and True Father, no one could establish the ideal family of love, which is the Will and God's ideal of creation.

For this purpose, to be achieved, Adam has to come again in the position of the bridegroom, receive his bride, and attain oneness with God's love. If a man in the position of Adam who has never fallen in the Garden of Eden attains perfection and becomes one with Eve through love, nothing can make that person fall. People have been longing for that day. (114-028, 1981.05.14)

14. What does it mean to say that we believe in Jesus? Jesus, as a man, is the original Adam untouched by the Fall. In the end, he is to be the Father, both physically and spiritually. Unless we become one with this Father, we have no way to be born again.

Christianity is the religion that teaches people to yearn for Jesus and to love in a way that is deeply in touch with his love. It teaches us to long for Jesus and welcome him as the bridegroom.

The teaching that we are to welcome Jesus as our bridegroom has two purposes: one is that we can become like baby seeds that enter his bone and flesh; the other is that we can conditionally pass through the womb of the Mother, who is in the bride's position. (035-164, 1970.10.13)

15. According to the original ideal, people should not be born with their spirit self separated from their physical self. Owing to Jesus' death on the cross, believers can attain rebirth spiritually, though not physically. Therefore, Jesus must surely come again.

Jesus went to the spirit world and when he comes back when the True Parents come – those who believe in Jesus need to reject this world. They need to set the condition of rebirth through the True Parents – through the womb of True Mother from the loins of True Father.

If they do not, they will have no way to gain eternal life. In other words, before you receive the Mother you must enter the body of the unfallen True Father as the seeds of his baby sons and daughters, and stay there until you are born through the Mother. That is why people cry, “Lord! Lord!”

And try to enter the Lord's body. Jesus has been doing this work in spirit. Hence, when Jesus comes again, those who enter him spiritually as baby seeds and who have become one with Jesus' flesh can then be born through the True Mother.

This is the way to complete restoration. This is how people can remove Satan's blood completely and stand in the restored position for the first time.
(092-291, 1977.04.18)

16. Christianity is a religion that has been looking toward the spirit world, a spiritual kingdom of heaven with Jesus and the Holy Spirit as the spiritual Parents at its center.

However, to build the original kingdom of heaven, Adam and Eve had to turn around everything that was lost on earth and attain a standard of spiritual victory not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal plane.

Unless we realize on earth a world in which True Mother and True Father can give and receive love on the corporeal plane, we cannot fundamentally rectify what went wrong. That is why I say that the Lord who comes again must come to the earth in the flesh. (023-043, 1969.05.11)

True Parents and the path of rebirth

17. God created human beings because of love. He should have been the Owner of Adam and Eve's love, the Owner of their life, and the Owner of their lineage. Yet, the love, life, and lineage that should have belonged to God all were snatched away.

Salvation means restoring a sick person to the state he was in before he took ill. The work of the Lord at his Second Advent is to change the lineage of humankind.

This can be done when God, Adam, and Eve become one body. Had the vertical relationship between the vertical God and the first human beings been established, the horizontal relationship between East and West – between Adam and Eve who have nothing to do with the Fall – would have been formed at the shortest distance by the original principle of true love.

Vertical and horizontal lines that meet at a ninety-degree angle make for the shortest distance. Our first ancestors in their horizontal relationship were supposed to unite at a ninety-degree angle to the vertical God, and then they were supposed to form a sphere of ideal love centering on relationships of front and rear. Their failure to do this was the Fall. (198-119, 1990.01.25)

18. God cannot change human beings' lineage one can do it apart from the True Parents. God cannot be a friend to the false parents. He is a vertical Parent, so He cannot stand in a horizontal, physical position.

Before He can do that, whatever mistakes that were made on the horizontal plane must be restored on the horizontal plane. To make an analogy, if there is a hole in something made of leather, then leather must be used to mend it; you cannot mend the hole with some other kind of material.

It was the false parents who made the hole, so it must be filled by True Parents. Unless the True Parents go through a course of suffering, the hole will not be filled. God by Himself cannot just do it. If He could, He would have done it long ago. (337-272, 2000.10.27)

19. We need True Parents to dismantle the foundation of Satan's love, life, and lineage. How did man and woman fall into such a position? They fell by their reproductive organs. In the original sense, the reproductive organs are the palaces of love. But what happened to that palace of love?

The human reproductive organ is such a precious thing – the palace of love, life, and lineage – but due to the Fall, it became full of filth. From God's original viewpoint, it should not be something filthy, but something sacred. It is the most precious thing.

Life, love, and lineage are connected there. This is the holiness that Satan defiled. (218-178, 1991.07.28)

20. The True Parents are what we truly need. What started from the false parents must be restarted by the True Parents. The false parents received false life and false lineage through false love.

This must be reversed. We need to inherit true life and true lineage with the love of the True Parents as the center. In the past, we inherited the wrong seed of life, and now we need to inherit the original seed. We cannot inherit this without the True Parents.

Therefore, the Messiah must come again upon the earth and implant his seeds – the True Parent's seeds of new life – and engraft them to us so we can return to the original position as true olive trees. God is our Parent.

Can you imagine how close He is to us? Our vertical Parent, God, fulfills ideal love through the horizontal parents, True Parents. (218-224, 1991.07.29)

21. True Parents are Adam and Eve who did not fall. God is the first generation, True Parents are the second generation, and blessed families are engrafted into the realm of the third generation.

Now that your wild olive trees have received a graft from the true olive tree, you need to make much effort to become true olive trees. Your most urgent priority and responsibility is to purify yourselves internally and externally to cultivate true love, true life, and true lineage.

You must feel that the True Parents are your parents and that you are their direct lineage. By fulfilling your duties, you must become completely one with True Parents, attending to them as their filial sons and daughters. Then you must serve the nation, and also heaven and earth, as patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters. (361-259, 2001.11.26)

22. You must enter a relationship of love with Adam and Eve centering on their first love for each other. Only then can you be born again, from the loins of True Father and the womb of True Mother, and form a bond of eternal life with them.

You cannot pay the full indemnity for this without going through the Principle of Restoration. Whether you realize it or not, that is why you have been loving me centered on the Will, and why your hearts seek to move in the same direction I move, in concert with my feelings.

You are setting the condition to be engrafted with the True Parents, from their bone marrow to your heart, so that you can be born again from the ones in the position of the original Adam and Eve, through the womb of True Mother.

Without doing so, you cannot be restored. You have to be restored through True Mother. And by connecting with my sons and daughters from the time when they were babies in True Mother's actual womb, you are restoring the Cain-Abel relationship. (026-311, 1969.11.10)

23. You who were born again as children through the True Mother's womb are in the position of Cain; hence you have to love not only the True Mother but also the babies born from her actual womb. By uniting with them, you have to make the condition of heart that you have participated at the same rank as their twin siblings.

Then you should take the position to serve and attend them. That is the only way you can prevent conflict between the two seeds in her womb. To prevent repeating the Fall based on such conflict, you must work the opposite way; this is how you can be restored. God has been conducting this work without you being aware of it. (035-228, 1970.10.19)

24. You were able to enter the loins of the True Father because you have been one in heart with him. But you were not just to remain as a baby seed within True Father； you also had to be born again through True Mother's womb.

For this purpose, I established True Mother through the Holy Wedding I conducted in 1960. Based on this, you had to feel from True Mother the grace and love that you had felt when you were within the body of True Father, and out of that love, you loved and attended her.

As much as you loved me, it was through that emotional connection to True Mother and your bond of love with her that your rebirth was finally made possible. (035-227, 1970.10.19)

25. Why do Unification Church members want to follow me around all the time, day, and night? Why are they so much in love with me that they create a commotion?

Why do they abandon even their mothers, fathers, and spouses? They do it because they have no way to be born again unless they connect to me with the heart of sons and daughters who were born through my body.

Likewise, they must set the condition of having loved a True Mother even before their birth. Have you ever thought of this, even in your dreams?

When I came to understand this truth, I carved it deep in my heart, even as I devoted my entire life to the fulfillment of the Will. (092-292, 1977.04.18)