Restoration of the Right of the Eldest Son, the Right of the Parents, and the Right of the King

1. A son is the fruit of love. God is a being of the Principle, and according to the Principle, the firstborn son should be God's son and the second-born son should also be God's son.

However, after the Fall, the firstborn son came to be on Satan's side and the second-born son on God's side. These unprincipled positions emerged. To be by the Principle, the firstborn son, and the second-born son should both be on Heaven's side. Hence, the first son to be born should be on God's side.

For the firstborn son to be on Satan's side goes against the Principle. Therefore, for the God of the Principle to save fallen people, He must first love the son who was born first, but he is on Satan's side. So that he can be a son whom God can love, he must be brought to the position of the firstborn son on God's side.
(58-045, 1972.06.06)

2. Adams's sons Cain and Abel were the fruits of love from the Fall, so they were in a position where both God and Satan could have dominion. Therefore, Cain and Abel were divided into Satan's side and God's side, respectively.

The first son Cain represented the first love relationship, which was between the archangel and Eve. Thus, he stood on Satan's side. The second love relationship was between Eve and Adam, so the second son Abel stood on God's side as a representative of that love.

Originally, Adam was supposed to stand on God's side and govern the archangel with the right of dominion over him based on God's love. This would have secured the principled order by natural law. From the perspective of the Principle of Creation, God was in the position to claim Adam.

However, because Adam fell, Satan was able to claim Adam based on his love. What did God have to do to recover Adam to Heaven's side? The archangel, who should have been under Adam's dominion, governed Adam instead; therefore, to restore the original positions, the archangel had to be governed by Adam.

This meant that Cain, who stood on Satan's side, had to submit to Abel, reversing the dominion. Without submitting, Cain could not be restored.
(22-247, 1969.05.04)

3. To be fundamentally restored from the fallen state, you must be born again. To be born again, you must start from the body of the Father before he married, the Father who has nothing to do with the Fall.

God's work has been to restore, first, the right of the eldest son, second, the right of parents, third, the right of the king, and finally, the right of the royal family. To this end, the lineage must be changed.

That is why Rebekah's sons fought over the birthright, and why the sons of Tamar switched positions inside her womb. It is from this lineage that the chosen people, the Israelites, arose. God continued working in this way to separate the pure lineage until Jesus came through Mary to establish these rights on the national level. Then God continued this effort up to the present, the age of the Lord's return.

God has been working to purify the lineage. To raise that process to the national level and to enable Jesus to stand as the Son under God's dominion, Jesus was conceived and born through Mary's womb. That is why it is said that he is God's only-begotten Son. (235-234, 1992.09.20)

Restoring the right of the eldest son

4. When was the lineage leading up to Jesus changed? This is the question. When we look at his lineage from the perspective of the Cain-Abel relationship, what happened? The change of lineage had to take place in the womb of a mother. The fact that the son on Satan's side was born first violated Heaven's law this had to be changed in the mother's womb.

Therefore, God's work through Cain and Abel was to have the younger brother restore the rights of the eldest son. How was it done? It was by reversing their positions after birth.

Hence, even for all humankind, after their birth their positions have to be reversed; with their levels gradually narrowing down from the world, nation, people, and so on, until the positions were reversed on the closest level instance the twins, Esau and Jacob. It was easier to reverse the positions through twins. (139-300, 1986.01.31)

5. We have to establish the rights of both the elder and younger sons on God's side and go beyond the realm of the Fall; only then can we stand for the first time in the original world that has nothing to do with the Fall.

This is the original ideal of creation. As God is absolute, His ideal also remains absolute. To achieve the original ideal, at some point in history, we must go through a course of restoration through indemnity. (134-306, 1985.08.16)

6. How difficult it is to restore the rights of the eldest son! Countless religious people were sacrificed for this purpose. Christianity underwent dreadful persecution under the Roman Empire for four hundred years, and much blood was shed to subjugate the domain of Satan's world.

In Rome, the early Christians built deep and extensive caves called the Catacombs. There they buried the corpses of their ancestors underneath their altars and lived inhaling those odors day and night. They lived under such conditions because they believed it was for God's will.

Otherwise, who could do such a thing? Under normal standards, no one could. Imagine how much God has suffered. You have no idea how much effort He has made throughout history. (140-205, 1986.02.09)

7. Each of you has been called to establish a clan in which you can claim the right of the eldest son.

For your clan to receive blessings, they must first support your right as the eldest son； then they can receive the blessings that you would like to bestow upon them. The right of the eldest son is not for you.

You must connect it to the vertical heavenly world centered on the coming Lord. You cannot do this through only the horizontal, physical world. Since I came to know this path, it was inevitable that I would set up the logic of living for the sake of others. We were born for the sake of others.

The man was born for the sake of a woman, and vice versa. You must not have the concept of “myself.” (136-131, 1985.12.22)

8. To reach God, we need to pass through seven levels, from the individual to the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmos. When we have fulfilled restoration through each of these seven levels, we can reach the position of the original eldest son who has nothing to do with the Fall. Adam and Eve were the first son and first daughter.

The first son and daughter were to go through the realm of indirect dominion and connect to the realm of direct dominion while receiving the love God has for His elder child, rather than the love He has for His younger children.

Therefore, the position and rights of the elder child must be restored at each level as we go up. This is the battle I have been fighting. (138-135, 1986.01.19)

9. Because Adam and Eve fell and lost their relationship with God, there was no way for Cain or Abel unites vertically with God either. Since fallen Adam and Eve had no standard by which to make a vertical relationship with God, their failure had to be restored through Cain and Abel.

Adam and Eve having lost this vertical standard, for us to recover the right of God's legitimate children, what we require is True Parents, who establish the vertical relationship, and their children who will become totally one with these Parents. These are the two conditions that are needed.

We cannot ascend to this level in the position of adopted children. Unless we stand in the position of their legitimate children who have nothing to do with the Fall, we cannot become one with God and rise to the standard of perfection.

Therefore, we must pass through that stage. Even if we say we are God's children, or that Cain and Abel have become one, until the foundation of the True Parents who are untouched by the Fall is achieved, there is no way for us to rise vertically. That is why God had to set up the standard of True Parents. (55-137, 1972.05.07)

10. As in the time of Cain and Abel, the brothers Esau and Jacob fought – but in the womb. At that time, Rebekah wondered why her two children were fighting in her womb, and she prayed to God about this.

God told her, "Two nations are in your womb... and the elder shall serve the younger." (Gen. 25:23)

They had to go through such a fight so that the position of the elder son could be restored by the younger son. (139-303, 1986.01.31)

11. Esau and Jacob, the older and younger brothers, were born as twins so they could thoroughly understand each other's hearts. In the case of twins, when the younger brother is sad, the older brother is also sad.

That is how they connect Through these twins, who were so close to each other, God carried out the providence of restoration. The person who had to accomplish this restoration was the mother.

After the Fall, Eve as a mother gave birth to Cain, so this time a mother had to carry out the process of restoration through mother-son cooperation. Here the mother worked with Jacob to take the birthright, the right of the eldest son from Esau by deceiving Isaac. (139-301, 1986.01.31)

12. The right of the eldest son is recovered through mother-son cooperation. When the older brother Esau returned from hunting, he sold his right as the firstborn son to Jacob for bread and lentil stew.

This set the condition for Jacob to restore the right to be the eldest son. Because Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, Esau had to surrender to him in reality. If he had not sold his birthright, Jacob and Rebekah would not have been entitled to take it by deceit. It could not have happened without such a condition.

This is how Jacob could have the opportunity to be given the name “Israel.” In other words, for the first time, the right of the eldest son was restored, and this marked the emergence of the realm of Israel.

The right of the eldest son was changed through twin brothers, but it had not yet been changed within the womb. Then what happened? The fourth son of Jacob was Judah. Judah had three sons, and his first daughter-in-law was a woman named Tamar.

Tamar knew the value of the lineage blessed by God. Therefore, she was willing to do whatever was necessary to inherit that lineage. (139-301, 1986.01.31)

13. Tamar conceived two children, and they struggled in her womb. When she prayed to God, God answered Tamar as He had answered Rebekah the mother of Esau and Jacob, which was by saying: “Two nations are in your womb… and the elder shall serve the younger (Gen. 25:23)

In the same way, Perez and Zerah were born to set the condition of two clans struggling in the womb with the purpose that the older would serve the younger.

During their birth, the older brother Zerah's hand came out first. The midwife tied a red string to it. His was a symbol representing future generations and was a forewarning that communism would appear among his descendants.

However, Perez recovered the right of the elder by pushing his older brother aside to be born first. This was the first time the second son restored the first son's position in the womb. He was given the name Perez, meaning “he who made a breech at birth” while pushing his brother out of the way. In this way, God worked with Rebekah and Tamar through a course of struggle to change the lineage. Finally, within the womb, the first son was made the second son and the second son was made the first son.

The right of the eldest son began from that point in the history of the Israelites. From then on, God could help them at any time. Whenever anyone attempted to destroy them, Heaven struck back.

The history of Israel records that God mercilessly struck any Gentile nation that tried to destroy the Israelites. (139-303, 1986.01.31)

Restoring the right of the eldest son

14. To be victorious, you must go out and restore the rights of the eldest son. The firstborn son must ultimately attend the second son, the younger brother, as though he were his older brother; he must come to the point where he can say, “I will receive all blessings through you.”

In this way, the first son willingly comes down to the position of the second son, and the second son, with the firstborn's blessing, ascends to take the position of the eldest son.

Only when the firstborn son says, “You go up instead of me” and supports the second son, is it possible to move from the tribal-level right of the eldest son to the people-level right of the eldest son.

This is how you can ascend step by step. Only when the first son supports you can you go up. You cannot go up by yourself. Because of this principle, you must fulfill the standard of restoring the rights of the eldest son. Otherwise, God's dispensation cannot succeed.

This is the secret of religious history. That is why to go the way of a true religion, you must leave your home. This is the origin of the words, “You must leave your country and your home, renounce the world, and become an ascetic.”
(138-204, 1986.01.21)

15. Cain represents Satan's side, the position of the older brother. Abel represents God's side, the position of the younger brother. There is a battle between the two of them. God should love the firstborn son first and the younger son next. But the firstborn son Cain stands on Satan's side.

He belongs to Satan's side. To save him, God appointed Abel to restore the rights of the eldest son. This he cannot achieve by force; it requires him to move people with love. Restoration is achieved by melting people's hearts with love.

If you cannot be someone who loves others, if you cannot win their hearts and turn them around, you will not be in a position to truly love your sons and daughters.

Since God is the absolute God, from the viewpoint of His ideal of creation it is the firstborn son who should be loved first, not the second child.
(140-038, 1986.02.01)

16. The question is whether I have loved Satan's world even more than I love my wife and children. I must not love my wife and children and neglect Satan's world. God has to love Cain first before loving the Abel realm, and He should not love Abel more than Cain.

He has to love the firstborn son more. The problem is that the firstborn son went over to Satan's side. That is why the history of salvation has been so prolonged. Satan's lineage has been continually passed down through the bloodline from generation to generation.

Because of this, we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven unless we love the firstborn son and give him rebirth, and unless all people on God's side stand in that position of loving him. This is why the providence of salvation has been prolonged until now. (140-039, 1986.02.01)

17. In the history of restoration through indemnity, what is the secret to restoring the right of the eldest son? Satan claims: “God, You are the perfect God. Therefore, the Adam and Eve You are seeking are also perfect.

If they had not fallen, then according to the standard of the Principle, Adam and Eve would have loved me as the original archangel. I fell and now stand for evil; nevertheless, if You and they truly represent goodness and righteousness, then You, and they, have to demonstrate that You love me regardless.

Without making this condition, You cannot be God to me in the real sense.” This is the issue at hand. (131-183, 1984.05.01)

18. Once the restoration of the eldest son is achieved on the individual level, we have to go on to achieve it on the family level. To do so, we must go to the frontline where Satan has his people persecute us and even try to kill us. We must win them over with love, and then teach them everything we know.

When they realize that our tradition is good, and they are moved by us in heart, they should be able to repent with tears, willingly, and pledge to give their lives as an offering for humankind's sake. There is no other way to obtain the right of blessing from the Cain world. (131-184, 1984.05.01)

19. Without love, you cannot win over Satan. Even God has to stand in a position where He can rightly say that He loves the fallen archangel. You are God's sons and daughters. Therefore, for your family to enter the kingdom of heaven, you also have to stand on the condition that you have loved Satan.

That is, you need to set the condition that you go out to struggle with Satan's world and win over it with love. You must be able to claim, “I did not crush my enemies; instead, I brought them to surrender with love. In this way, I restored the right of the eldest son.” (141-202, 1986.02.22)

20. Instead of beating His enemy to death, God makes the condition of loving him. Accordingly, He has to make the condition of loving His enemy Satan more than the one who stands in the position of Adam.

If you overcome even while being persecuted again and again, persevering with tears, blood, and sweat until your enemy naturally surrenders to you, and you bring him back to God's love, then you can be blessed. It is only then that Satan will let you go.

You need to receive official approval： “You have now become a child qualified to go to the kingdom of heaven.” Who must sign your certificate? Satan must sign it After Satan signs it, you will sign it, and then True Parents need to sign it. You can go to God only after getting True Parents, signatures. That is the kingdom of heaven. (141-202, 1986.02.22)

21. Once I set the condition of having loved Satan on the world level, he cannot take away those who follow me. Then Cain and Abel will switch positions. Up to the present, the Abel realm has been pushed to the corner.

However, from now on, Satan's kingdom in heaven and on earth will collapse in my presence. In the presence of the man who centers on love and who has gained the right of the eldest son of the heavenly kingdom, Satan has no choice but to retreat. He can do nothing to defend himself.

If he fights back, he will be shattered in defeat. This is the view of the Principle. (139-278, 1986.01.31)

Restoration of the rights of parents

22. To this day, it has been hard for me to recover the family and difficult to recover the church. It has been difficult to set the direction for Christianity and difficult to bring the free world and the communist world back from their paths of ruin.

Yet, I restored the right of the eldest son. Had Adam not fallen at the outset, he would have had the right of the eldest son. Furthermore, Adam would have become the True Parent, and he would have become the King of Kings. (211-343, 1991.01.01)

23. The first human beings lost the rights of the eldest son and daughter due to the Fall. They lost the elder children's right to inherit the great foundational work of heaven and earth. They lost it all because of the devil.

Moreover, they were to have attended the Heavenly Parent, the Creator of heaven and earth, as His eternal blood kin imbued with His love, life, and lineage. But Adam lost the authority to become the True Parent.

If the Fall had not occurred, there would have been one culture, Adam's culture. There would have been one clan the Adams clan. They would have established one kingship. (211-343, 1991.01.01)

24. To restore the rights of the eldest son, I had to conduct the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages. After that came the era of Heavenly Parentism, which is the era to restore the rights of the parents. Now we have entered the time of the True Parents.

Since Cain and Abel became one on the world level, the True Parents could emerge on the world stage. What is the right of the parents? Neither Adam nor Jesus could attain that right.

Yet now, in my time, the parents' right to Adam, the parents' right to Jesus, and the parents' right to the Lord of the Second Advent – the rights of these three generations of parents – have all been fulfilled. I am saying that in my time, the parents' right was established for Adam, Jesus, and the Lord of the Second Advent. (199-096, 1990.02.15)

25. Why do you need things such as indemnity? Why is restoration of the right of the parents necessary, along with the right of the eldest son and the right of the king? It is because humankind is connected to Satan's love, life, and lineage.

This is the key problem. What originally should have begun from God began from the devil. The devil used something as amazing as love to begin his work.

Love is the reason the universe was created. Love is the basis for the creation and the source of all created beings. Satan took over this fundamental root, however. This fundamental root that Satan turned upside-down needs to be restored to its proper position. (206-237, 1990.10.14)

26. God's ideal of creation is to build His kingdom on earth and in heaven in the name of the True Parents. Without their name, the kingdom of heaven cannot come, either on earth or in heaven.

We might ask why, since Jesus is God's beloved eldest Son, he would say he would be in paradise rather than in the kingdom of heaven. People don't know the answer.

The kingdom of heaven, both on earth and in heaven, can be built only based on True Parents being established and on the foundation of their love. Even after they go to the spirit world, the True Parents, not anyone else, are the central people for bringing unity to the kingdom. Jesus could not become the True Parent; that is why he is in paradise. (131-184, 1984.05.01)

27. Because restoration is such a grueling task, God has been suffering throughout history, facing countless prolongations of His work until now. If it were not so difficult, why would Almighty God have to toil like that?

If He could teach human beings everything they needed to do, He would have already done so long ago. However, Adam in his day did not know the answer; therefore Adam today has to take responsibility and discover the answer. I had to go through heaven and earth and discover everything.

To find those answers, how many tears did I have to shed? Adam was expelled from the garden in tears; so how many tears do I, as today's Adam, have to shed in the course of restoration? In that sense, I can be called the king of tears. You should know that, representing history, I sought the way of truth and for that, I shed many tears.

I survived tremendous ordeals, having my flesh torn and shedding my blood. You must realize you are attending me, the representative of all humankind, a wonderful True Parent. We are now facing the final summit we have to climb.

Along with the standard of restoring the rights of the parents, I should establish the rights of the younger son.

Having restored the rights of the eldest son and the rights of the parents, I have to restore that. Then I have to restore one more thing – the right of kingship and bring oneness around that kingship.

It will be done once True Mother and one of my younger sons build the foundation of mother-child cooperation. That will be the last phase of my work. (222-242, 1991.11.03)

Restoration of the right of the king

28. Originally, the perfection of Adam meant the perfection of the Father of the kingdom, and the perfection of Eve meant the perfection of the Mother of the kingdom.

Once they had become the heads of their family, the right of the King of the kingdom would have emerged, beginning from the family level.

Then, Adam and Eve would have become the King and the Queen on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world. The time has come when we can transcend the national level; we can now stamp out the sovereignty of Satan's world and establish the sovereignty of Heaven's world. That day was March 27, 1990, the thirty-first Parents, Day. (201-132, 1990.03.27)

29. I endured a seven-year course to overcome worldwide persecution for the sake of the family. I went the way of the cross to liberate the family. I endured and overcame because I must become the king of the families. From the viewpoint of the ideal of creation, in his family, Adam was to have become the king of the first sons, the king of all parents, and the king of all families.

Providentially, this was the responsibility entrusted to Adam. Within his one family, God tried to set up an ideal standard for the entire kingdom of heaven and engrave it as the template for families in the kingdom of heaven. However, because this family failed, all was lost.

This means that everything – from Adam, the first generation, to today, thousands of generations later – has all turned into nothing. The True Parents came as the Lords representing God to re-establish everything that the false parents had reduced to nothing.

Therefore, after establishing the True Parents, I had to set up the foundation for the Blessing, which would connect humankind to true life centered on God's true love, change the lineage of humankind, and make the perfect model of Adams the family that has no relationship with Satan. (304-062, 1999.09.10)

30. What does Heavenly Parentism mean? First, it means the restoration of the rights of the two brothers – the elder and the younger; second, it means the restoration of the rights of the parents; and third, it means the restoration of the right of the king. In the democratic world, there is no concept of a king.

The democratic world is based on the concept of brotherhood. Everyone is considered brothers and sisters on an equal level. The problem with brotherhood is that people in the democratic world fight with each other, ever struggling, “This is mine and that is yours.” Democracy includes the notion of conflict.

The ruling and opposition parties fight. Each is struggling to gain the rights of the king. Isn't the presidency just another form of kingship? Presidents are replaced after serving their term in office; however, they often misuse their power and things do not go well. However, if a king emerged who was centered on God, things would be different. A world of absolute peace would then come.
(205-174, 1990.09.01)

31. The democratic political system is a system in which siblings struggle. To stop their fighting, we need to rise to the position where we can represent the True Parents to them. Siblings can all unite around their True Parents.

The world of peace starts from such unity. There is no other way. People need to find their True Parents, and then everything else follows – true children, the true nation, and true peace. There is no other way. (205-189, 1990.09.01)

32. We need to unite based on Heavenly Parentism, the basis of which is Godism. Ultimately, True Parents are the king and queen of the family. A family comes together with other families and naturally forms a tribe.

A king of the tribe will then emerge. Next the tribe comes together with other tribes to form a people, and then a king of that people emerges. The same will happen on the levels of the nation, world, and cosmos.

All these kings, being centered on True Parents, are connected to God. So God becomes the King of kings. (205-189, 1990.09.01)