The Results of the Fall

1. As a result of the Fall, we human beings fell into the realm of death. God said to Adam and Eve that they would surely die if they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but the fact is that all of humanity fell into the realm of death.

What happened as a result of the Fall? Satan, the devil, became the father of humankind, as Jesus pointed out in John 8:44. Adam and Eve should have attended God as their father, but after the Fall they came to attend Satan, the devil. This is the shameful reality that resulted from the Fall. (74-140, 1974.11.28)

Human beings inherited Satan's lineage

2. The Fall changed our lineage. It destroyed the family and the nation that God had envisioned.

Therefore, our lineage must be changed back. However, when you are in a given situation, if you do not understand the motivation for the actions that led up to it and their result, you cannot make straight your motivation, actions, and results.

Likewise, unless you know Satan's secrets, it will be difficult for you to set straight what went wrong. The most crucial fact is that human beings fell. Satan's lineage came into us, and his blood began circulating through our bodies from the heart through the arteries and veins to the cells, contaminating them. Our lineage became a total mess, and as a result, we became miserable.

Humankind descended into ignorance, of history and the substantial world. Eve saw everything centered on herself. She took that viewpoint and acted upon it while she was still in the realm of imperfection. Hence, she ended up turning heaven and earth upside down.

It is for this reason that you must change your self-centered consciousness and become new people. That is, you should have the mindset, “I resolve to revive this fallen world with my hands. I will bring it under my authority on behalf of God. If God does not believe it, then I will make Him believe it.”
(439-083, 2004.02.19)

3. The Fall means that our bloodline changed, so the problem is with our bloodline. God cannot do anything about our changed bloodline. We human beings should have become children who directly received the bloodline from our original Parents; we were to become God's substantial embodiments. But we lost everything God had planned for us when the enemy changed our bloodline.

With that, he stole everything. Our parents were to have been the pillars of love, the center of the kingdom of heaven in heaven and the kingdom of heaven on earth, but those pillars completely crumbled. (467-138, 2004.09.02)

4. In terms of lineage, God can be considered the first generation and Adam the second generation, but the third generation was not connected to this lineage.

These three generations should have been connected. Yet, Adam and Eve failed to connect to the absolute life and absolute lineage centered on God's love. We must return to that point.

God was able to embrace His son and daughter, but since the Fall severed the lineage, He was unable to embrace His grandsons and granddaughters. His lineage was severed; no one can refute this logic.

God was never able to embrace His grandsons and granddaughters, who were to have been the fruit of His love, the fruit of His life, and the fruit of His lineage.

Therefore, the whole human race, which descended from them, ended up having nothing to do with God's love. (437-290, 2004.02.13)

5. Because of the Fall, the lineage of Adam and Eve changed. Because they joined in love with Satan, the enemy of God, the adulterer, they came to embody Satan's life.

Their lives as man and woman intermingled with and became one with Satan's love. Hence, the fruits they bore, their sons and daughters, inherited Satan's love, Satan's life, and Satan's lineage. (227-047, 1992.02.10)

6. Up to the present, religions have encouraged asceticism, such as fasting. Why do they encourage us to strike our bodies? It is because we inherited Satan's blood, the blood of God's enemy. God's enemy is the adulterer. He is the enemy of God's love.

We inherited the blood of the adulterer. Eve should have inherited the royal authority of the heavenly kingdom and become its queen, but instead, ad she became the wife of the devil, the mate of the servant.

This has been a secret of heaven and earth, but now that the time has come, I am exposing it publicly for the first time. Therefore, henceforth Satan's world must retreat. (172-279, 1988.01.24)

7. When Adam and Eve engaged in false love, they came to manifest false life. Satan's lineage became intertwined with their love and life. This has not been known, yet it is an indisputable truth. After Adam and Eve fell, they were expelled from God's presence. At that time, they had no sons or daughters.

The fact that they bore sons and daughters after they were expelled means that their sons and daughters were connected to Satan's lineage. This is so logical that no one can deny it.

Only after they fell did Adam and Eve understand that they were supposed to perfect themselves through their relationship with God and with each other. The problem was how to return to God and reconnect to His love, life, and lineage since the Fall severed them from that lineage and joined them to Satan's love, life, and lineage.

When we say that the human ancestors fell, we mean that Adam and Eve joined with the false parent, Satan, inherited his lineage, and bore his fruit. The question now is how to turn this around and change our false lineage back to God's lineage.

To achieve this we must change totally, 180 degrees. (502-227, 2005.07.29)

The fallen world and the phenomena in the Last Days

8. The tragic history of deceiving one another began when Satan tempted Eve, and again when Eve tempted Adam. They came to possess a sinful, evil nature through their bond with Satan, the devil, and as a sinful couple, they bore sinful sons and daughters.

The tradition of sin began in the parents and was passed down to their sinful children. As a result, sinful siblings, tribes, peoples, nations, and a sinful world came about, and Satan, the devil, ruled all. In essence, this world, in both name and reality, cannot be apart from hell on earth.

Satan made people into enemies and inserted enmity within the family. He incited divisions among tribes, peoples, and nations everywhere throughout the world so that no one could return to Heaven's side. Satan effectively chased everyone out of God's world. (73-203, 1974.09.18)

9. Genesis 6:6 states that after Adam and Eve fell, God regretted having created them. We can clearly conclude from this simple phrase that what transpired after the Fall was not God's original intention. Furthermore, the Bible states that after they fell, Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden.

This means that they were unable to maintain their relationship with God; instead, that relationship fell apart. From this, we can see that this fallen world is not the world that God willed; instead, it became the world that Satan, the devil, desired. (73-202, 1974.09.18)

10. What became of Satan, the devil, after he brought the Fall upon our first ancestors?

In John 12:31 it says that the devil is "the ruler of this world."

God is the one who created this world; how could Satan cast aside the Lord of the world and become ruler in His place? How was he able to seize dominion over humankind and take sovereignty over the world?

This world is not under the sovereignty of goodness, presided over by the good God. Rather, it is under an evil sovereignty, ruled over by the evil Satan.

People are under the power and dominion of Satan, under his evil sovereignty. This is the first problem.

The next problem is that we carry original sin. The Bible says that the progenitors of humanity ate the fruit of good and evil, but how could eating fruit be such a vile sin that people have unwittingly passed on that sin for thousands of years?

This original sin has not been uprooted to this day. Since the root of original sin still exists, Satan can still be the ruler of this world. (53-195, 1972.02.21)

11. The Fall destroyed the central point, which was to have been the standard of the great heavenly law and heavenly way, and the original axis of love. The self-centered relationship between the woman and the archangel shattered the very fundamentals of the universe and opened up an abyss of anguish.

The servant trampled on the one who was to have become the queen, and in so doing, destroyed the original standard that was to be the fundamental principle of the universe.

Ultimately, who is this devil? He is the chief culprit in the fundamental destruction of the palace of love in the heavenly kingdom. (171-114, 1987.12.13)

12. Human beings are like orphans who lost their parents. How happy would they be if they knew that God was their real Parent? The devotion we feel toward God, our Parent, should far surpass the bitter sorrow we experience when we are treated with contempt as orphans.

That is the difference between all of you and me. Since I know who God is, I honor Him. I honor Him wherever I go, wherever I walk. No one can compete with me in this. (362-113, 2001.12.08)

13. Once we have a certain concept in our minds, it is difficult to remove it. Religion helps us in this regard. This is why religion is necessary; a place without religion will perish.

For instance, Christianity teaches that the absolute God is our Father and that we should attend Him as His sons and daughters.

Satan is the adulterer who trampled God's love. Our real Father is God, but Satan has taken the position of our Father.

That is why Jesus reproached the people in John 8:44, "You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's desires."

Now that you know the appalling fact that you inherited Satan's blood, you should be full of righteous indignation. You should feel like ridding yourself of that contaminated, false blood. (011-243, 1961.10.29)

14. With the Fall of the human ancestors, God lost the partners with whom He was to have formed His family. God was the first generation and Adam was the second, but their relationship could not continue.

Had Adam and Eve received the Blessing, their relationship with God would have blossomed in love. But because that did not happen, and their relationship with God was completely severed, God was left all alone. Adam and Eve had no way to connect to God's lineage.

Hence, they were all separated. If you look at what transpired from God's standpoint, He no longer had anyone to address as “my child” or “my dear,” and call a member of His family. Gone were the people who could relate to Him as a partner.

Consequently, ever since the Fall, God has been alone. His situation became more miserable than it had been before the creation. God created all things, and they too were waiting for God to relate to them as His partners.

However, since human beings were to have been their center, all things were lost through the Fall. Everything was lost. God completely lost the realm of His counterparts. This was the awful consequence of the Fall. (442-189, 2004.03.11)

15. Adam and Eve fell through sexual misconduct, and that is what will happen in the Last Days. That is, young people will fall into promiscuity. That was the seed that the first human ancestors sowed, so at harvest time the same corruption of youth will spread throughout the world and bring it to ruin.

That is what is happening today; it is undeniable. Who started free sex? Adam and Eve did. As the ones who fell, they are the ancestors of free sex.
(257-061, 1994.03.13)

16. True love is so precious, and violating it is a universal crime. Sexual immorality, promiscuity among young people, family breakdown, incest, homosexuality, unspeakable sex crimes, and the like, which are today's reality, make God grieve.

The ideal of creation lies in the fulfillment of the family ideal, which is based on sublime and eternal love. How did this miserable result come about? We stand witness to the decadence of this age because now in these Last Days, humankind is bearing the fruit of what was sown by our ancestors in the Fall.
(135-012, 1985.08.20)

17. Can the United States government solve the problem of promiscuity among young people in America today? That cannot be done through military power, economic power, science, or technology.

All sorts of wicked things are taking place these days in the name of sexual liberation, but is that love? Love should be true love, which leads to eternal life, but instead, it has been corrupted. What hope is there in such love? There is only despair.

There is conflict among men; parents clash with their children and children fight with their parents. All this leads only to despair. Wherever you go, whomever you meet, there is no hope. (183-338, 1988.11.09)

18. Today, many people prefer living a single life. Furthermore, issues such as homosexuality have arisen. We may ask why things turned out this way. A key cause is incestuous relationships. A grandfather violates his granddaughter. A father violates his daughter.

Such incestuous relationships have become more common since the arrival of the era of sexual liberation, the era of free sex. People engage in all kinds of sexual relationships as they please; these take place not only with strangers from distant towns but even with their closest relatives. (261-045, 1994.05.22)

19. The most serious social problems are youth problems and family breakdown. They are rampant today because God has had to allow Satan to take full authority and power.

Satan said to God, “I am the one who loved and embraced Adam and Eve just as I wished, so you have to allow me to do the same throughout the human world in the Last Days. I am the one who planted that seed of capricious love, so you have to allow me full authority to break everything apart through that love.

I will stop accusing You only after I have done all that I want to do; only then will I have no more demands of You. Isn't that so?”

God responded, “Yes,” allowing Satan an era of his full authority. Within God's love, there is no free sex or homosexuality. (307-176, 1998.11.08)

20. What weapons is Satan using? He has an airborne weapon: smoking. He has a liquid weapon: Alcohol; he also has a solid weapon: drugs. With these weapons, he rots human beings in every way possible, even their spirits. He rots their bodies, their minds, and their spirits.

He rots their lungs with drugs that are inhaled through the nostrils. This is why we must not take drugs, drink liquor,r or smoke cigarettes. These are the weapons Satan uses to destroy human beings.

These three things prevent the human spirit from communicating with God and are the enemy's most effective weapons. Satan's next weapon is related to love – free sex. Free sex destroys the order of love. I must personally put all these things in good order. (126-071, 1983.04.10)

The heart of God as He views fallen human beings

21. When parents trust their beloved children but are betrayed by them, the shock, distress, and misery they feel are beyond description. The more they loved and trusted their children, the greater the shock and pain.

It is unspeakable misery when we are betrayed, rejected, and mistrusted by those to whom we have devoted our lives. You cannot understand that heartbreaking struggle and suffering unless you have experienced it yourself. It can never be fathomed merely by words.

This is clear in the affairs of the world. How did God end up being so miserable? God is not a conceptual God; He is a real God. God and human beings are supposed to enjoy a supreme relationship.

Once God experienced joy with human beings, He would embark on an endless journey of joy with us, a journey that would last for eternity. However, because of human beings, He could not even begin that journey. (20-206, 1968.06.09)

22. Human beings fell. Not even a thousand years of bitter sorrow can indemnify that. How mortified God must have been, foreseeing that their Fall would become a death trap to myriads of human beings for eons to come.

Human beings left such a hideous scar in God's heart. Considering this, we have no right to utter even one word before God. Suppose an only son, from a family that has had only one son in each of seven generations, died at an early age.

It would leave that family without hope, especially if this son had been born when his parents were advanced in age. If his parents were young, they could have had more children.

If the only son of seven generations of only sons were to die, not only his parents but also all of his ancestors would be anxious about how their lineage could continue beyond the seventh generation.

Ancestors want to receive all manner of worldly blessings through their descendants. So when children die before their parents do, the parents feel like dying themselves.

Adam was God's only-begotten Son for eternity, not merely the only son of seven generations. He was supposed to establish an everlasting family and accomplish God's great work of creation. Can you imagine God's heart at the death of Adam? (20-211, 1968.06.09)

23. According to the Principle of Creation, when you are in the ideal realm of oneness in love, the eternal owner of that realm, who is the subject partner of love, occupies the central position. God should have been that center. But instead, Satan usurped God's place and became the center.

Therefore, heaven and earth became earth and heaven. They were turned upside down. Nothing should have interrupted the oneness between God and human beings that were to be based on God's true love, His ideal.

Further, human beings should have originated from that oneness with God, as children of His direct lineage. Yet, it all went the wrong way, and the opposite situation came to pass. (206-236, 1990.10.14)

24. When Adam and Eve were about to eat the fruit of good and evil, do you think God said, “This is just what I expected, go ahead”? Certainly not! God felt His heart withering, and all His senses were drawn into that one place. Trembling and bleeding, He wanted to cry out, “You must not eat that fruit!”

Caught up in indescribable sorrow and frustration, He was unable to think of anything else. That must have been God's experience. Do you think God simply watched Adam and Eve eat the fruit of good and evil?

If He had had a sword He would have wanted to cut out that part of history, even cut out the whole world, but His position did not allow Him to do that. Even though God was overwhelmed with pain and sorrow, He could not do anything about it. How sad and miserable He must have been!

His sorrow and misery were greater than that of anyone who ever lived in history. Currently, Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, God felt His heart explode. However, God still had to love them. (21-142, 1968.11.17)

25. If Adam and Eve had been able to fathom God's inner heart, they could not possibly have fallen. God loved His children as their parents, but they did not understand the depth of His parental heart.

Of course, Adam and Eve fell while they were still young, but their young age itself was not the cause of the Fall. Rather, they fell because they were lacking in heart. Had Adam and Eve been able to feel, “God is living for me; He is with me; He can never, ever be separated from me; He is involved in everything related to me; in fact, He and I are one,” they would not have committed the Fall.

Ultimately, Adam and Eve fell because they could not achieve unity in heart with God. This dreadful problem occurred because their desire deviated from God's desire, and their thinking was different from God's thinking.

Furthermore, they fell because they did not understand the devastating consequences of their actions. They did not know from the bottom of their hearts that their actions would determine life and death. (65-174, 1972.11.19)

26. We are fallen descendants of the ones who betrayed God's heart. Do you know what it was that our ancestors betrayed? Do you think they simply ate something that God had forbidden them to eat, the fruit of good and evil? No, they betrayed God's heart. They betrayed His heart for the ideal of creation and His hope for the ideal of creation. That is the issue. (9-114, 1960.04.24)

27. Why wouldn't God cut off Satan from us human beings at once? God is omnipotent, so why Did he not cut him off straightaway?

It is because Satan is connected to our lineage. If God tried to remove Satan from our lineage all at once, He would have to exterminate the entire human race. Even Adam and Eve would be destroyed. Humankind would have to be struck and shattered.

Why didn't God just destroy Adam and Eve and create new human ancestors? He could not, because of love. Love is the alpha and the omega. It runs from the beginning to eternity. It is the standard of the ideal. God therefore would not eliminate the human ancestors, who were still the object partners of His love. (188-226, 1989.02.26)

28. No parents in the world want their son or daughter to die, even if he or she were to be hanged for a crime. They would want to save their child if they could. Their hearts would prompt them even a hundred or a thousand times to seek a way.

This is especially true of mothers. If this is the heart of parents even in the fallen world, why on earth would the omniscient and omnipotent God have to bring judgment in the Last Days?

Why would God not forgive humankind? How great is God's love? If Jesus forgives people seventy times seven times, God forgives seventy times seven thousand times. That is God's heart. (48-236, 1971.09.19)

29. God is omnipotent and omniscient; therefore He has the authority to judge the world and even Satan. Yet, He has not exercised His power to judge to this day. On the contrary, He toils all alone, unable to claim the environment that is rightfully His.

He suffers and laments under the accusation of Satan, who stole His entire foundation and robbed Him of His foothold in this world. When we think of this, we are at a loss for words. Have you ever wept sympathizing with God's predicament? It all comes down to this. (51-112, 1971.11.18)

30. How many tears have you wept for God? Have you ever struggled to seek the path on which you could toil and suffer on His behalf, even though your limbs might be torn off? Likely you have not.

You who seek to become God's children should shed tears for a public purpose. When you meet God, you should be able to comfort Him. Endless tears should flow down your face as you say, “Father, how great Your sorrow was when You lost me, and when You lost the first human ancestors!

How many times throughout history have their descendants, including me, caused You to suffer humiliation, pain, and extreme hardship!” (51-111, 1971.11.18)

31. God fell into a state of great anguish and sorrow, far greater than the sorrow experienced by any human being. His ideal of creation was violated, and His beloved son and daughter were violated. He had to surrender to His enemy, Satan, the entire earth, the garden of ideal true love that He had created, and watch as it became Satan's playground.

How angry and painful His heart must have been! How bitter His sorrow! No words can ever describe it. How many of you, having understood something of God's situation, have wept tears to comfort Him?

God had no choice but to give His beloved son and daughter to the enemy, not because He lacked power or ability, but because He could not trample on the way of love that He had established according to heavenly law and principle.

Nonetheless, our beloved Father has been advancing the providence of restoration even as He waits patiently in tears for His lost children to return. For six thousand years, He has been searching for His lost children while having to endure the indignity of denying even Himself.

Even though God is omniscient and omnipotent, He had no choice but to take this difficult course, more hellish than hell, to restore the true blood lineage.
(501-034, 2005.07.14)

32. God is the original True Parent. How much grief did He suffer when He was robbed of that position? How much does His heartache when He looks upon His fallen children, who inherited the lineage of the false parent, the enemy Satan, and are unable to recognize Him as their True Parent? What is the heart of our Parent, who has had to witness the wretched situation of humankind at every moment?

God lost His substantial object partners of true love, whom He would not exchange even for the whole universe. This overwhelmed Him with grief.

His ideal of creation collapsed; it was as if He had lost His entire creation. He became the wronged God, whose cosmic throne was usurped by His enemy.

He became the God of lamentation, who agonized over the result of the Fall-even more so due to having invested true love totally and absolutely according to the principles of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.

Further, even though it was Satan who stole God's ideal, violated His beloved son and daughter, and usurped His kingship over the cosmos, God had to endure while Satan accused Him about it continually. (479-242, 2004.12.13)