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1. Today fallen people are wandering about, searching for a philosophy of hope and for the one point through which they can return to God. Their ultimate purpose is to find the one person who can rejoice, communicate, and harmonize with heaven and earth and manifest the glory of Heaven.
This one person is the one who will substantiate the purpose of our faith, hope, and love. I believe that you have already learned through the Principle of Restoration that everything – including the indemnity conditions needed to build the foundation of faith and to rid oneself of fallen nature – is based on faith.
To rid us of our fallen nature, however, we need the Messiah, who is the substantiation of hope. The time of hope we have been waiting for is when the Messiah comes. The Messiah is the very being for whom our faith and our hope are purposed.
When this purpose is realized through the Messiah, what is the only thing that will remain to be fulfilled? Love. Ibis love comes through becoming perfect embodiments of faith and hope. The Messiah is the one who comes as the representative of that love. (13-141, 1964.01.01)
The Messiah comes as the fruit of faith, hope, and love
2. People are yearning for a time when the impossible can become possible. Facing the impossible in their lives, fallen people wander searching for the right person – the person who can realize the purpose of their faith, hope, Parents, and love.
Therefore, to proclaim our faith, we require a person who is the substantiation of faith. To proclaim our hope, we need a person who is the substantiation of hope.
To proclaim our love, we require a person who is the substantiation of love. The one who is the substantiation of faith, hope, and love is a true person who was born without any ties to the Fall, the one who has no relationship to the world of the Fall.
It is through him that heaven and earth will be set straight, through him that Heaven's glory will begin for the first time, and through him that the love between the Father and His son will truly commence.
Furthermore, through him, based on substantiating the father-son relationship, there will come a husband-wife relationship, and from that husband and wife, a family will emerge. In this way, a new heaven and earth will begin. (13-141, 1964.01.01)
3. The coming Messiah is the substantiation of faith, hope, who can, and love. To qualify as the substantiation of faith, he must achieve victory in a global-level struggle based on faith.
The title of Messiah cannot be attained without that result. To become the substantiation of hope, he must achieve victory in a global struggle based on hope. The same sort of victory is needed to become the substantiation of love.
What is the purpose of seeking to fulfill faith, hope, and love in our lives of faith? Some might have faith to save themselves as individuals. Others might have faith to save their families.
Going one step further, some might seek to be the substantiation of faith for the sake of their tribe, nation, the world, or heaven and earth. It is harder to save a family than an individual, harder to save a tribe than a family, and harder to save a people than a tribe. The larger the level, the more difficult salvation becomes.
(13-142, 1964.01.01)
4. What kind of person is the coming Messiah? He stands as the substantiation of faith, hope, and love for the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmos. Only when he stands in this position can the unfulfilled faith, hope, and love in human history finally bear fruit.
Otherwise,e neither faith nor hope nor love can bear fruit. His words are not just those of one individual. It is the same for you too when you speak with conviction： your words will influence world history. (13-143, 1964.01.01)
Understanding the Messiah and the process of engrafting
5. God established religion to save the fallen world. The world had become Satan's territory. The Bible refers to wild olive trees, which are the olive trees under Satan's husbandry.
Religions try to cultivate olive orchards that God can manage as He likes. Wild olive orchards are cultivated by Satan according to his desire, so God has no control over them. Through religion, however, God tries to bring Satan's orchards under His management.
God expands the orchards under His control until He has a foundation that surpasses the global realm of Satan, the realm of evil olive trees. To achieve this, God created various cultural spheres based on religion. (134-010, 1985.01.01)
6. Satan's realm already exists in the form of nations; hence, God needs a nation that He can lead for His providence. He also requires a man to come in the position of the Parent of this nation.
This was the vision in Jesus' mind when he came as the Messiah to the people of Israel. If the first human beings had not fallen but become True Parents, then centered on them all humankind would have simply entered the kingdom of heaven.
All people would have gone straight to heaven and become citizens of the kingdom, living in the heavenly palace. However, because of the Fall, all this was lost, and instead humanity was plunged into hell. To correct this, God will send the true olive tree to the orchard of wild olive trees.
But first, as the Owner preparing for the time when the True Parents will come, He established the realm of religion. This realm of religion is not yet composed of true olive trees.
Still, among the orchards of wild olive trees on this planet Earth, there is a realm of wild olive trees that is, at least, within God's jurisdiction. Hence, when the true olive tree appears, it can be cut and the work of engrafting can begin.
(227-074, 1992.02.10)
7. God created the world, but Satan stole it from him; that has been God's situation to this day.
However, God ultimately cannot lose; thus he plans to send one true olive tree to the earth to serve as a model. However, the true olive tree, the Messiah, should not come alone.
Because Satan's world formed societies and nations centering on couples, the Messiah cannot bear fruit as the true olive tree if he comes alone. The Messiah needs his bride, and they must become one; then he can bear fruit as the true olive tree.
To fulfill this, Jesus came to the earth as the bridegroom to find his bride and then cultivate an orchard of true olive trees. He was supposed to lead the movement to cut all the wild olive trees of Satan's world and engraft them.
God created the environment for this engrafting to be done all at once through Judaism, the chosen people of Israel; they were the sphere of tribes under His management. (134-011, 1985.01.01)
8. Six thousand years ago, centered on the vertical and horizontal love of both sets of parents – God, the vertical Parent, and the first human beings, the horizontal parents – humankind was supposed to make a joyful beginning. But Satan invaded that original starting point.
What was lost then should now be taken back; hence, you must become the sons and daughters of True Parents. Since you are a wild olive tree, you need to receive a branch of the true olive tree and receive the engrafting.
God intends that religions do the work of engrafting. That is why engrafting is a teaching of Christianity. The marriage feast of the bride and bridegroom must occur on earth. (58-219, 1972.06.11)
9. Satan tries to drag all human beings off to hell. But from among them, God separates people one by one. These people were all wild olive trees in Satan's world, but God cultivated some to become wild olive trees on Heaven's side.
God made them olive trees on His side and raised them to lead the world. This is the democratic world, which is based on Christianity.
When the world on Satan's side weakens and the Christian cultural sphere is well established, the Lord will return, cut the wild olive trees all at once, engraft to them completely, make them one, and turn them around. (201-129, 1990.03.27)
10. The True Parents are the Lords who correct the lineage. They know the secret of how to do that.
When the first parents fell they became the false parents, but the True Parents know how to deal with this problem and revive them by giving them an injection of life – that is, by establishing the standard of true love, true life, and true lineage, and then connecting that standard to them, replacing the false love, life, and lineage.
Thus, they turn from false back into true. In reversing the situation, however, True Parents cannot give rebirth to all families at once. They will engraft themselves to those families branch by branch. To engraft a wild olive tree family, there needs to be a model true olive tree family.
When a shoot from the model olive tree family is engrafted and three years have passed, each wild olive tree family can bear the fruits of a true family.
I am saying that I will engraft a shoot of the True Parents to the mothers and fathers from false, wild olive tree families and transform them into families of True Parents' sons and daughters. (317-203, 2000.02.26)
The foundation to receive the Messiah
11. As a result of the Fall, this world became Satan's. Hence, in this world, there are any number of individuals, families, tribes, and nations on Satan's side. But that is not so for Heaven's side.
There are individuals on Heaven's side, but no families, tribes, people,les, or nations that have reached Heaven's standards. Hence, the Messiah as an individual must have a foundation upon which to win over families, tribes, and nations.
Without it, there will be no way for ordinary people to rise to that standard.
God prepared a realm within which individuals and families could rise together with the Messiah when he came to the earth. The people of Israel constituted that realm. They believed they were the chosen people.
But the nation of Israel did not rise to that standard. It could not achieve that level. It is as if the chosen people are straddling the line, yet they hope to cross that line. If they do not, it is a serious problem.
And yet, no matter how they try, they cannot succeed in it by themselves.
(54-186, 1972.03.24)
12. When the Messiah comes to the people of Israel, if they unite with him with the determination to die for him and together with him, then Satan cannot pull them away, no matter how hard he may try.
Then individuals, families, tribes, peoples, and nations will engraft and will be raised at the same time.
So there must be the principle of a chosen people in this world. Based on this person whom God chooses, He needs to form a nation.
The existence of the term “chosen people” is itself evidence of God's existence. From the perspective of this principle, a prophecy that the Messiah will be sent is evidence of God's existence. (54-187, 1972.03.24)
13. Why do we need the Messiah? First, because of the Fall, we have false parents. Our first parents, who were supposed to unite with God, were lost. The Messiah is the one who brings the position of Parents and can become one with God to us.
Second, we require the Messiah to give us a second birth. We have Satan's blood in our veins, so the Messiah must extract that blood from us, removing us from the position of Satan's sons and daughters.
He gives us this second birth by engraving it to us. Third, the Messiah makes Satan surrender, using us. In other words, the Messiah comes to qualify us to judge him and return him to the position of servant. (54-187, 1972.03.24)
14. What will happen in the Last Days? The cosmos-centered way of thinking will appear. It teaches us how to relate to God. People are ignorant of God and His existence, and hence they do not know how to deal with their situation in the Last Days.
Furthermore, they do not know what will happen at that time. The person Heaven sends to deal with this when the time comes and the environment is prepared, is the Messiah, the Savior. The Savior is not just a historical, global, great teacher. Most of all, he is our Father.
God is our internal Father and the coming Savior is our external Father.
(153-024, 1963.10.18)
Sun Myung Moon