The Second Coming of Jesus and the True Parents

1. Your ancestors were born of false parents, but they can find salvation by helping their descendants in this age when the perfected True Parents are on the earth.

You must resemble the True Parents.

The position of your ancestors in the spirit world changes as you live for the sake of others and dedicate your lives to the True Parents. The Messiah comes in the Last Days and educates the entire fallen generation of his time. The perfected True Parents come to rebuild all that was built before on this earth and in the spirit world by descendants of the false parents.

They can rebuild it when you unite with them by God's original idea. To achieve this, Cain must follow Abel, the second son. The spirit world, in the position of the first son, must follow the earthly world – the next generation in the position of the second son. Thus, Christianity came forth from Jesus, the second Son.
(293-210, 1998.05.26)

2. The Bible says, MI am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end:（Rev. 22:13) It means that due to the Fall, God was unable to fulfill His purpose as expressed in the Book of Genesis, but He will complete His purpose, as is written in the Book of Revelation.

Jesus came to earth as what kind of person? Because Adam fell, Jesus had to come as the perfected Adam, one with God's love and untouched by the Fall. That is why 1 Corinthians 15:45 teaches, “The first man, Adam, became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.” The Bible indicates Jesus is a second Adam.

The family as planned by God cannot come about without the positions of the true son and daughter, true husband and wife, and true parents. Therefore, this family must appear on Earth. (54-108, 1972.03.20)

3. Where can fallen people seek the basis of original true love? It begins with the True God and the True Parents. From there, people will create harmony with one another, with the True God as their center. What does the Bible teach? The essence of what is needed to fulfill God's Will is taught in the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments.

The core of God's hope and humankind's hope is the ideal world of love, the kingdom of heaven. The Bible teaches the direct path to the kingdom of heaven. The key point is that although God already existed, there were no True Parents. So the True Parents had to be recovered. The decisive providential fact is that Jesus came as the bridegroom to find his bride.

They are what all the world's religions have been seeking. The conclusion of the Bible is the bridegroom and the bride. Once they are restored, they will recover the original garden of love. (134-173, 1985.04.07)

4. In Genesis, it is written that there were two trees in the Garden of Eden; one was the tree of life, and the other was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What do those trees symbolize?

They symbolize the true man and the true woman whom God must recover. Because those who were to become the True Father and the True Mother were lost, they came to be symbolized by those trees. The Bible teaches many things in such a symbolic way.

When God led the Israelites out of Egypt, a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud appeared before them, with the pillar of cloud leading them by day and the pillar of fire by night.

What did those pillars symbolize? They symbolized a man and a woman, symbolically showing that in the Last Days, the True Parents would come and that the people of Israel would follow them faithfully.

Those who did not follow the pillar of fire and the pillar of cloud perished. (134-173, 1985.04.07)

5. When the Israelites returned to Canaan after forty years, it was ordered to attend the Messiah. Their course returning to Canaan was to guide them in serving the Messiah, who would come as the True Parents to realize the kingdom of heaven on earth and the world of God's ideal.

However, since God foresaw that the Israelites might all fall away in the wilderness, He gave them the two tablets of stone, which symbolically represented the Messiah. They were placed in the Ark of the Covenant.

If the Israelites could uphold the tablets with absolute faith, this would be a condition for them to serve the Messiah absolutely when he came. In this way, God showed them that they could begin the founding of the kingdom of heaven. Thus, God set up a symbolic messiah for their training. This was the idea behind the Tabernacle. It was symbolic preparation for the coming of the Messiah.
(134-174, 1985.04.07)

6. What happens in the Last Days? Heaven and Earth are turned upside down. This means that the natural order is changed. To say that the natural order is changed does not mean that the sky is split in two or that the round Earth is made flat.

It means that the person arriving later becomes the ancestor and the person arriving first becomes the descendant from the standpoint of God's Will. In the Last Days, the true ancestors of humankind emerge for the first time in six thousand years. All people must receive the flesh and blood of the True Parents for the proper relationships to be established.

That is why Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I am!" John 8:58).

What did Jesus mean when he said he existed before Abraham? Jesus was supposed to establish the True Parents, and there cannot be more than one set.

True Parents. There cannot be more than one original ancestor of humankind. Since Jesus came as the original ancestor to inaugurate the True Parents of humankind, from the viewpoint of God's Will he was “before Abraham.”
(156-231, 1966.05.25)

The Second Coming and the True Parents

7. God's purpose in creating human beings was not to fulfill some fanciful idea of a spiritual nation.

It was so that during their lives on earth, people would shed their sweat working on the land, form families and tribes, and then a people and a nation. That nation would have been the kingdom of heaven that God hoped to see and that could receive God's love.

The original purpose of creation was for people to set up this kind of nation and receive God's love. It was not God's wish to have a spiritual nation without any foundation on earth. Nor was it God's intention that the Lord who returns should descend to the earth on a cloud and build a fantasy nation.

The purpose of the Lord's coming is to use the earth as his foothold. He will find his bride who can fully receive God's love, and carry out the work of recovering all that was lost six thousand years ago through the Fall – through which our first forbears were unable to become the true ancestors and instead became false ones. (22-083, 1969.01.26)

8. God sent Jesus as the True Father of humankind He was a true man, and the fruit of four thousand years of His effort to establish relationships of love. If one true woman had emerged among the people of Israel, and had she loved Jesus, the True Father, from the position of the True Mother, the people of Israel would not have remained a pitiable people; they would not have become like orphans.

Having begun as a people, from then on, they would have risen to the world level. Instead, they expelled Jesus, and thus they lost the one man who had come as the Son of God, who embodied God's love and whose purpose was to bond all people to God in love.

Because this one man departed this earth without completing his purpose, he must return to complete it. (22-085, 1969.01.26)

9. There is one issue remaining that we must surely resolve. What is this one issue? It is God's love.

His love does not come from the false parents but manifests on earth through the True Parents. For there to be True Parents, first there must be a True Father.

The person who comes to the earth with the character of that father, representing God's love, is the central person in whom religious people today place their faith. That is, he is the Lord of the Second Advent. (22-086, 1969.01.26)

10. What is the concept of the Second Coming? It refers to the concept that the Messiah is the True Father through whom everyone must inherit a new lineage. To create a new lineage, the Messiah must come as the True Father and win over Satan's world.

Then, together with Eve, the True Mother, the Messiah must establish a worldwide foundation that Satan cannot invade. Further, he and the True Mother must engraft sons and daughters horizontally to the True Parents by uniting them as husbands and wives to make families.

This is the meaning of the marriage Blessing given in the Unification Church. The lineage of Unification Church members originates from God. That is why if Satan's world opposes us, it will have to pay reparations for the damage they cause.
(169-038, 1987.10.04)

11. The idea of the Second Coming is the idea of True Parents. It refers to our bond with the True Parents and the change of our lineage through the True Parents. However, one man or woman alone cannot accomplish this change of lineage.

Not only must we make a vertical relationship with them, but we also must replace our existing horizontal bonds. This means things must be turned upside down. This is because we must make connections based on the True Parents' heart. (172-056, 1988.01.07)

12. Unification Church members may think they have no relationship with Christianity, but that is wrong. The Old Testament Age was supposed to be the time for the restoration of Adam and Eve as the True Parents.

The New Testament Age was also a time for the restoration of the True Parents, as is the Completed Testament Age. God's purpose to restore the True Parent has always been the same.

The Messiah is the True Parents. Therefore, the essence or purpose of Christianity, Judaism, and the Unification Church is the same. Then what is different? Judaism was to receive the Messiah, the True Parents, on the national level, and then expand to the world. What about Christianity?

Christianity was to receive the Messiah, the True Parents, on a global foundation after Jesus departed this world. What is the Completed Testament Age? It is on the cosmic level. Its goal is to have even the spirit world receive the True Parents. It is on a different dimension. We have to make this distinction clear. (131-131, 1984.04.29)

13. Before the heavenly kingdom emerges, a heavenly people must come forth. What must be done for this heavenly people to arise? A people does not come into being all of a sudden. A special clan must first emerge, and this clan must arouse its people.

This clan must arise from an extended family of close relatives. For these close relatives to come forth, one family must emerge as their center. For this family to appear there must be children, and for children to appear there must be parents. For the parents to appear there must be one man who can represent everything in heaven. He is the Messiah.

If he is to become a parent, he must find a partner and unite with her. This is the teaching of Christianity about what will happen in the Last Days. Centered on Jesus, over the past two thousand years what had been turned upside-down has been spiritually restored on the global foundation of Christianity.

This is spiritual Christianity. Now at this time, when Christianity receives the Messiah, its mission will be fulfilled. (66-277, 1973.05.16)

The Mission, of the Messiah

14. The greatest of all religions will be the one that establishes the logic of love and insists on the complete rejection of the fallen world. That accomplished, this religion must infuse its churches with positive love to bring about a greater world. An ideal world can then emerge.

What kind of church is the Unification Church? It is the church where God can taste a love He never experienced before with human beings. It is the church with the mission to implant the root of God's love in people and our world, something that has never been accomplished before. (140-028, 1986.02.01)

15. The lord of goodness and the lord of evil are fighting each other. They are waging a battle of good and evil over human beings. Who will end this battle? Neither God nor Satan can end it. Who can bring to an end the fight between the evil god and the good God? Neither God nor Satan can.

Only a true person can end the battle. That person must be the lord of love – the one who begins from true love, possesses true love, and can be followed by all people. Otherwise, he would not be a true person, nor could he end the fight between God and Satan.

Then who can resolve this fight? For this task, God has sent a representative entrusted with His mainstream teaching. This is the Messiah's teaching.
(136-220, 1985.12.29)

16. What will the Messiah do when he comes? In all history, God never had a nation. The Messiah comes as the commander-in-chief in the fight to restore one nation to God, a nation with sovereignty, territory, and people.

Then, on that foundation, the Messiah will fight to restore the entire world – all the realms that expanded horizontally from the fallen ancestors – to God. This is the mission of the Messiah.

To subjugate Satan, it is not enough just to recover one nation. Since Satan has global sovereignty, he must be stripped of his sovereignty throughout the world. Only then will the realm of liberation unfold on the earth.

God created the Garden of Eden as a garden of freedom and peace. If any shadow of Satan's opposition remains anywhere on earth, the ideal of that garden will not be realized. The kingdom of heaven on earth will be completed only when every shadow of Satan's antagonism has disappeared from the earth.
(57-130, 1972.05.29)

17. The task of the Messiah on the individual level is to subjugate Satan and eradicate his lineage, thereby paving the way to individual victory. He then must pave the way to victory for the family, nation, and the world.

This is the path the Messiah must walk. First, he must pave the way for individuals; second, for families; third, for nations; and fourth, for the world. After the Messiah wins the individual victory, even if Satan mobilizes the entire world – even if the nations of the democratic world join in Satan's attack on the Messiah – he must fight against them all and win.

He must win on the family level and then on the worldwide level. In other words, he must gain victory in a one-on-one fight, just as Jacob did when he prevailed over the angel.

Then he leads an all-out attack against Satan's world. Now the time has come for this. To accomplish it, a representative nation is needed at the forefront. That nation is Korea. (54-198, 1972.03.24)

18. What kind of person is the coming Lord? He is a man who must bring Satan to surrender, and then win over myriads of spiritual beings, the numerous spiritual leaders of the different religions, and the leaders of every walk of life who abide in the realms of the spirit world.

One by one he must win them over. As he guides them with his godly character and true love, they will come to understand the true reality of religion and the universe, and they will surrender.

This will happen because all beings in this universe desire to be absorbed into the realm of the Lord of love on earth, who is higher than they are.

Once he wins them over through true love, he should inherit all their authority. He should receive the inheritance of a unifying authority. This is the responsibility the Messiah must fulfill on earth-(100-019, 1978.10.04)

19. There are spiritually oriented people today who brag as if they are something special in this world. However, they do not understand how to resolve the fundamental problems in the fallen realm.

They are just offering devotions and biding their time. That is not enough. Victory must be gained first over Satan's realm, then over all the realms of the spirit world. That is not a visible world; it is invisible.

Without fighting and defeating Satan in the invisible world, there is no way for us to go forward in the spirit world. We would not even be able to properly enter the spirit world, due to his incessant interruptions; and even if we could, we would not be able to win the battle. So we need to gain victory over Satan's realm.

Then in the spirit world, we need to win over all faiths, from the least up to the highest of the mainstream religions, including Christianity.

This means we must inherit everything from these religions. When we have fought all these battles at every level, we will receive God's official recognition of our victory in heaven and on earth.

He will say to us, “You are the victors over Satan and the evil spirit world.” Then, with His words written on our banner, we can begin to take action here on earth. That work remains to be done. (100-019, 1978.10.04)