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1. How do we characterize the times we are living in? When we look around the world, we find many people suffering from mental illness. This is because the spirit world and the physical world are intersecting.
When the two worlds intersect, it is not the good people who are aware of this first. Who knows this news the fastest? It is not the good people who learn of it first; rather, it is the enemies who oppose them.
This is because the enemies always immediately strive to intercept the news meant for the good side. In the same way, when the spirit world comes down to the earth, it is not the good spirits who come first but the evil spirits. (75-251, 1975.01.05)
Phenomena of the Last Days
2. As a result of the Fall in the Garden of Eden, Eve became an enemy because of the archangel, and Adam became an enemy because of Eve. They became enemies to each other. Now everyone is an enemy.
Therefore, even your children are your enemies. You cannot trust them. When the Last Days come, even your mother and father will be your enemies. Your siblings will be your enemies.
A time will come when nations become such enemies that their relations are rent all to pieces. When such a time comes, where will we find ethics and morality?
When the time comes in which global trends are tossed about as if in a raging storm, and we can neither discern our direction nor distinguish between what is good and what is false, we should know it is the Last Days. Now is that very time. (50-213, 1971.11.07)
3. What characterizes the era of the Last Days of the World? When all people of the world place absolute importance on individualistic love, the Last Days have come. This statement derives from our understanding of fallen love.
The global era that exalts individualistic love is the era of the Last Days. It is an era in which people go their way, pursuing love fixed solely on themselves while denying love for their nation, love for their people, and love for their family.
They stand not on the side of human ethics or morality but rather follow the desires of the flesh. (130-171, 1984.01.15)
4. Your body and mind are in conflict, husband, and wife are in conflict and parents and children are in conflict. Everything plunges into chaos in the Last Days. In the face of my teachings, people in the spirit world are falling into utter confusion as they try to cling to the religious views they have held until now.
To be able to return to earth, spirits need to have actual accomplishments they can show to the Unification Church members and their descendants. They cannot return to earth without actual accomplishments.
I have walked the entire course of indemnity that makes returning to earth possible. I am the king of Abel son on behalf of God. In the original family of Adam, Cain killed Abel, and this act has been repeated throughout the ages of history until today. In this world of Satan's bloodline, God cannot intervene.
Why suddenly, in the Last Days, are the saints and the elders in the spirit world completely reversing their positions? It is inevitable; the spirit world has to be shaken up all at once. (556-160, 2007.02.18)
5. This time, today, is when the Will of God manifests upon the earth. On the earth today, both Cain and Abel exist. As is written in Chapter 13 of the Gospel of Matthew, on this earth there are both wheats and chaff.
And as the Gospel of John states in Chapter 10, there is the good shepherd who enters by the gate, and at the same time, there is the false shepherd who does not go through the gate, but climbs in by another way. We need to face the fact that if we do wrong, these very phenomena can occur in our church. (3-207, 1957.11.01)
6. The Bible teaches that the Messiah will come in the Last Days. The term “Messiah” refers to a person who has to restore three things: eternal truth, eternal character, and the true love that true parents give to their children.
This is why Jesus said he was the bridegroom who came to find his bride. In the Last Days, the Lord of the Second Advent must walk a course opposite to that of the Fall. (52-092, 1971.12.14)
7. The Lord is the subject being. Therefore, when he comes to the fallen world, he has to speak the truth. When people hear that truth, both their body and mind will be bound to him.
When human beings fell, they wept; they shed tears of grief as they were dragged away by Satan. But to return to God, they must be drawn to the Lord with gladness. Such a movement of reversal must happen in the Last Days.
Since human beings went over to the other side after being led by the words of Satan, all people in the fallen world can be brought back to this side led by the words, the message, of the Lord of the Second Coming.
That is why his words have to surpass those of the archangel, and he has to stand in a position where God acknowledges him. On that foundation, he can lead all humankind with authority. (52-092, 1971.12.14)
8. We have been told that in the Last Days, we should anoint our heads with oil, go into a closed room, and pray. It is a time when we should not listen to what others say. It is a time when we should listen only to the words of the bridegroom. Not even my pastor or my companion in faith can support me when I reach the final summit.
If I am bound for heaven, and he is bound for hell, he will cling to me and pull me back. It is the same as if my beloved friend is drowning and when I go in to save him, that friend clings to me and pulls me down. At such a time, I cannot feel pity for No leader can save my life.
Such a time is coming. In the districts, nations, religious organizations, and societies that experience such a time before others, chaos will ensue. People will be unable to trust each other. A pastor will not be able to trust an elder, nor the elder the pastor. A lay believer will not trust the church council; sects will not trust one another and associations and political parties will not trust each other.
The citizens will not trust the president; the president will not trust the citizens; the people will not trust their country, and they will overturn it. Everything will be engulfed in a melee of mistrust. In a world where we cannot trust anyone, chaos will reign in all directions. In such a place, all we can do is trust ourselves and seek the position of faith that Heaven can acknowledge. (10-203, 1960.10.02)
9. Now chaos from the spirit world will unfold on the earth. The chaotic spirit world will attack the earth. This is why nowadays many people are suffering from mental illness and have become half-crazed.
The number of people who mutter to themselves, for example, will increase gradually. From the spirit world, billions of spirits will invade the earth. Why do they do so? It is because religion has been unable to fulfill its proper role. Religion failed to stand up as God wanted it to.
It was supposed to stand vertically, its eyes on Heaven, about the people on the horizontal plane, but it has collapsed completely. This is why the spirit world is invading the earth. Don't we view an insane person as possessed by a ghost? Why do spirits enter people? It is to use them.
Conscientious people, especially those who are literary or who are engaged in disciplines related to art, are more sensitive than ordinary people. They have taller antennae. Such people are affected by such influences first, and mental illness is a global phenomenon of the Last Days. (155-190, 1965.10.27)
10. At this time, billions of spirits are attacking the earth to occupy it. The phenomenon of mental illness is one aspect of this. Around the year 2000, you all may be able to communicate spiritually, be it with evil spirits or good spirits.
Against the counsel not to engage in war, we may have no choice but to fight. Such a time may come. The mission of the Unification Principle is to defend us against this eventuality.
From a high radio antenna comes a ringing sound. This is like the phenomenon of mental illness. The most fearful thing is if only evil spirits are mobilized and invade the earth. In that situation, the question is how things will turn out.
No matter how many people there are on Earth, they will be attacked by evil spirits. This is why God has been preparing for this. Centered on the good spirits, He is expanding His foundation in the spirit world continuously.
(55-030, 1972.04.23)
The returning resurrection of spirits
11. If you fail to equip yourself fully during your time on earth, and you end up going to the spirit world with Satan claiming dominion over your mind, how will you be able to manifest the works of God? It will be extremely difficult.
If you fail to fulfill your responsibility on earth, you will have to set up your descendants in your place. You will have to set them up in a position like that of a messiah who can save you. You will have to help them and cooperate with them, considering their circumstances.
Furthermore, you will have no choice but to cooperate with them, so that through them, you can fulfill the responsibility you failed to carry out while you were alive. This is the phenomenon of returning resurrection. (30-176, 1970.03.22)
12. Originally human beings should not have been under Satan's rule. They should have lived in the realm of God's direct dominion. As a result of the Fall, however, they came to live in the fallen realm. To escape from that realm, they have to pay indemnity as individuals and as families.
Without indemnity, they cannot escape. Therefore, spirits unfailingly come forth through the phenomenon of returning to earth in every historical age. Some people interpret this as transmigration or reincarnation. This spiritual phenomenon applies to you as well.
If you practiced your faith on the individual level only and died because you never had a family, you would have to go through the level of the family and eventually the levels of the tribe, people, nation, and world. You have no idea how many billions of years that would take. The time needed would be nothing short of infinite. (54-279, 1972.03.26)
13. We know very well that through his death Jesus substantially testified about his entire hope to all the heaven and earth.
On the way to the cross, he prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what You want." (Matt. 26:39)
As he prayed he surely realized, with intensity unrivaled by anyone, that the more the fear of death washed over his heart the closer the day of hope drew near. In other words, he felt that after going beyond the death of his physical body, a new world of hope would unfold before him, and he yearned for that world.
Because he hoped for resurrection in an eternally liberated body after his physical death, and he yearned for it, after he died he was able to resurrect in glory.
(6-047, 1959.03.22)
14. The central root, central turn,k, and central bud are connected to me. As the mainstream, the central root, central trunk, central branch, and central bud are connected in a consistent flow to the individual level and the family level. In short, they are alive.
They have gone through the returning resurrection. All those who connect as branches to the Lord of the Second Coming can live. By doing this, everyone from Adam's family to the world level can stand in the position to be resurrected simultaneously.
It is a work of engrafting and perfecting in only a few years what has multiplied for tens of thousands of years, so the kingdom of heaven of individuals and the kingdom of heaven of families on earth, and even the kingdom of heaven in heaven, can be completed at the same time. (243-217, 1993.01.10)
15. I could not do two things at once, so I had to carry them out separately. For that reason, centering on the spiritual standard, I established Heung Jin as commander-in-chief of the spirit world.
The Lord of the Second Advent came to earth, centered on God, and in the opposite direction, and I sent Heung Jin from earth, centered on me, in the position of the Lord of the Second Advent of the heavenly kingdom.
I have united the divided spiritual and physical worlds. I had my son carry out the work of the realm of resurrection in the spirit world in place of his living father, with the authority of the Blessing because the spirit world did not have a connection to the love of True Parents.
Since the ceremony of rebirth, the ceremony of resurrection, and the ceremony of eternal life can now be performed, and based on this supreme foundation having been laid on earth centered on the First Israel, the Second Israel, which is the United States, and the Third Israel, which is Korea, the boundary line dividing the spiritual and physical worlds has been abolished. (441-244, 2004.03.05)
16. Now there is nothing to worry about. We can just let things take their course. What will happen is that spirits from the spirit world will return to Earth. The failure to fulfill God's providential Will to save the spirit world through three ages – the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age Earth – will be completely reversed and thus will be realized automatically.
Through the completion of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Completed Testament Ages, providence automatically sets its direction and moves forward.
The spirit world will set its direction centered on God and centered on the earth; the earth will not move ahead of it. The right of the eldest son will be restored based on the original standard, and God, our cosmic Parent, and the Lord of the Second Advent on earth, that is, the Parents of Heaven and Earth will establish their lineage through a new ideology based on the Blessing, and they will move forward horizontally.
Thus, the gates to the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven will open automatically. There everything will be overturned, and the entire spirit world will come down. (402-289, 2003.01.17)
17. We should wait eagerly for the day of resurrection. Heaven has to be resurrected through the earth. We think the base of resurrection is in heaven, but it is not. It is on Earth. This earth is the center. The base of resurrection and the place of resolution are on this earth.
If resurrection does not take place on this earth, the resurrection of heaven, the resurrection of humankind, the resurrection of all things, and the resurrection of people in hell will remain mere words. Therefore, a resurrected person must appear on earth first. In the spirit world, there is hell, the middle spirit world, paradise, and heaven.
To this day, people who have shown loyalty to Heaven have gone to paradise. Even Jesus is in paradise. In achieving the purpose of resurrection, the indirect destination is the spirit world and the direct destination is the earth.
The spirit world is the place that must be resurrected, but the earth is where resurrection must happen first. Therefore, only when we first can declare on earth, “I have been resurrected; I have concluded the purpose of resurrection,” can we go to the kingdom of heaven in heaven? (9-085, 1960.04.17)
18. What is the meaning of the phrase “opening of heaven and earth”? What people would be eligible to participate in the first resurrection? It is those who have passed through the gates of the Blessing. That is why even the elderly in their eighties need to become young again.
That may sound strange, but even grandmothers and grandfathers need to marry their spouses again. This is because, to establish the nation of the Third Israel and become its citizens, we have to pass through the gates of the Blessing.
(19-105, 1967.12.31)
Sun Myung Moon