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God needs love, man needs love,\n and the angelic world also needs love. If the world had been centered\n upon God's love from the beginning, it would have been not only an\n ideal beginning, but the direction and the final results would have also\n been ideal. God, man and the angelic world would have formed one\n perfect world, freely communicating with each other centering upon\n God's love .. ..\n -Sun Myung Moon"},{"id":"p-1-16","text":"O\n ne initial challenge in teaching the Principle of Creation to\n Christians is the tendency for Christians to incorrectly con-\n clude that we are relying on an empirical process of natu-\nral observations rather than strict biblical declaration. We extrap-\nolate from the machinations of the natural world conclusions about\nthe nature of God and his will. Of course, Romans 1:20 gives us a\nmodicum oflicense to do so, but more careful explanation is needed.\nChristian students will, naturally, be put off by what they will per-\nceive to be a flawed approach toward ascertaining the nature of\nGod. In their view, it can appear that we are seeking the nature of\nGod through the lesser tools of natural observation while overlook-\ning the higher and more accurate tools of Christ and Scripture. It\ngenerates questions such as this:"},{"id":"p-1-17","text":"Is itpossi~le to draw a pict'ureof GOd by lOokingdt HiS'damaged\n Creation? Rev~ KM., A.ME>J ~ ..~ . .', ',' ,,\". \"\n Before one wades into explanations about ODU action, Univer-\nsal Prime Energy and four position foundations with Christians, it\nis extremely important to express our awareness and affirmation of,\nfor example, Hebrews 1:1-3:"},{"id":"p-1-18","text":"In the past, God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many\n times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by\n his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he"},{"id":"p-1-19","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 7\n\f made the universe. The Son is the radiance ofGod's glory and the exact\n representation ofhis being, sustaining all things by his powerful word."},{"id":"p-1-20","text":"$1b"},{"id":"p-1-21","text":"8 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fassert what we want to convey. Whenever possible, let the Bible\nassert the fundamental truths while we draw the necessary prin-\ncipled conclusions and implications. Obviously, we don't need to con-\nvince Christians that God exists."},{"id":"p-1-22","text":"THE INIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD AND THE CRUTm IRVDlSE"},{"id":"p-1-23","text":"This is probably the most \"scientific\" sounding material in the\nDivine Principle. Here's where Romans 1:20 gives us limited license\nto observe and extrapolate truths about God from the creation."},{"id":"p-1-24","text":"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal\n power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from\n what has been made, so that men are without excuse."},{"id":"p-1-25","text":"To what, exactly, is Paul referring? At this point in his ministry\nhe is reaching out to the Gentiles of the Mediterranean region. Greek\nand Roman thought heavily influences them. They, generally, are\nhaving difficulty with the idea of an \"invisible\" God. They preferred\ntheir gods to be graven images that were tangible and real. In\nRomans 1:20, Paul is offering a rebuttal to their reasoning, their\n\"excuse,\" for rejecting his \"invisible\" God. He is debunking their\nassertion that equates invisibility exclusively with non-existence.\n Another good verse to include is Psalms 19:1-2"},{"id":"p-1-26","text":"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work ofhis\n hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they dis-\n play knowledge."},{"id":"p-1-27","text":"This is a good time to pause and make helpful comments about\nthe Son and Scripture as the higher tools or expressions of God. I\nhave even occasionally indicated that our methodology to explore the\ncreation as the visible expression of God is geared for those who\nhave not yet accepted the authority of Christ and his Word. It is an\napproach for those that need more concrete, visible examples, a\nteaching method for the \"unsaved,\" as it were. Many ministers are\nalways looking for good teaching methods that they can adapt to\ntheir particular doctrines. It helps to keep them open and involved\nin the presentation while hearing new ideas.\n In teaching God's dual characteristics properly, we, of course,\nare teaching about two types of dual characteristics. This can very"},{"id":"p-1-28","text":"$1c"},{"id":"p-1-29","text":"~;~~~~~¢~~~C~~~r,\n I would emphasize Bible verses such as I John 4:16-17, \"God\n is love\" as affirmation of the existence of God's internal nature. For\n God's external nature a reference to John 4:24, \"God is spirit\" is\n very reassuring. Be mindful not to assert that the creation is \"like\n the body of God.\" Ministers will easily assume you are claiming that\n the creation is, in fact, the actual corporal body of God. This idea is\n referred to as \"pantheism\" and violates most Christian's core belief\n of God as a spiritual being.\n More important is for Christians to understand that God is\n employing the \"pair system\" and that all things are created in pairs.\n We want to explore the reasons he has done so. To do this we begin\n with a biblical observation provided by Genesis 1:27,"},{"id":"p-1-30","text":"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created\n him, male and female he created them."},{"id":"p-1-31","text":"Here's a sample of how Father explains dual characteristics:"},{"id":"p-1-32","text":"When we observe our universe, we recognize that every being exists\n through the union ofpaired elements. This is, true on all levels, begin-_\n ning even with the mineral realm. Molecules are made from the union\n ofa positive ion and a negative ion. On the level ofplants, existence and"},{"id":"p-1-33","text":"10 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f reproduction requires the union of stamen and pistil, representing the\n male and female aspects.\n The pair system is even more obvious on the level of animals. Fish,\n birds, mammals and all animals exist as male and female. Finally, the\n supreme creations ofGod, human beings, are either men or women. The\n first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve, were the original ancestors\n of mankind. What is the purpose of the pair system? Why did God cre-\n ate in this way?\n The Creator divided all things in male and female so that they might\n unite through their give and take of love. Through the action of love,\n each species multiplies and extends its lineage.\n The 11th World Media Conference, April 10, 1990"},{"id":"p-1-34","text":"All our observations in the natural world that affirm this (cation-\nanion, stamin-pistil, etc) are a reflection ofthis biblical declaration\n(not the other way around). In other words, put the horse in front\nof the cart."},{"id":"p-1-35","text":"UMVERSAl PRIME ENERGY, GIVE _lIKE ACTION AND\n111( F_·POSIllOI F_DA11ON."},{"id":"p-1-36","text":"$1d"},{"id":"p-1-37","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 11\n\f 1~~~~• •=.'~~,;;1\n Actually, it sort oflooks like a Pepsi logo, doesn't it? Do you get\n the feeling he's getting awfully nervous about \"Ym and Yang?\" It is\n a typical reaction.\n Let's see if we can explain the same thing with biblical affir-\n mations. In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus says,"},{"id":"p-1-38","text":"Haven't you read, he replied, that at the beginning the Creator 'made\n them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his\n father and mother and be united to his wife, and tM two will become\n one /lesko' So they are no longer two, but one."},{"id":"p-1-39","text":"$1e"},{"id":"p-1-40","text":"$1f"},{"id":"p-1-41","text":"Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And\n why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring."},{"id":"p-1-42","text":"\"Seeking godly offspring.\" After all, He is a Father. The key idea\nis that God, having the loving nature of a parent, is seeking His\nchildren in order to consummate His nature through the experi-\nence of that love.\n Here's a sample of Father's explanation:"},{"id":"p-1-43","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 13\n\f Another way of interpreting this formula oforigin, division and union,\n is the Origin which is God's position and can be interpreted as plus. The\n union can be interpreted as man's position which is minus. Once this\n union takes place, bringing absolute unity between husband and wife,\n do you think that God is pulling this union toward Himself, or is this\n union pulling God toward them, or they are repelling one another? Which\n one? Does no one have the answer? When God sees this perfect union\n taking place, don't you think that He would want to draw that toward\n Himself? Don't you think the couple would also want to pull God down\n toward them? It functions in such a way that God will pull this united\n couple up as strongly as He can and the couple will pull God down as\n strongly as they can. Therefore this circular motion takes place. True\n God's Day, January 1996"},{"id":"p-1-44","text":"We must help Christians to understand that a God having such\n \"needs\" is no less a perfect and complete God. In fact, the Principle\n shows that the truest nature of a perfect being is its motive to\n become a part of something greater than itself. This is the objective\n of four-position foundation dynamics. God seeking to become a part\n of something greater than Him, is a direct attribute of His godly\n perfection and completeness.\n In other words, He is seeking the ideal of \"magenta,\" too. God\n has found a purpose for which He can sacrifice himself. It is the\n ideal of love. God is perfect \"red,\" true mankind is perfect \"blue,\"\n the Kingdom is \"magenta.\""},{"id":"p-1-45","text":"THE PURPOSE Of CREATIOII"},{"id":"p-1-46","text":"$20"},{"id":"p-1-47","text":"Christians will be very uncomfortable_with\n <::annot. A better idea would be to make su ' '\n God is able to do anything He\"\n propose that there are some thingsthat \" 'AJ,'\"\"m\n '\"\n \" J for example, \"God cannot ac(:on~p~lsl't,\n \"Instead, say, \"God will not\n man.\" A slight change of semantics will\n difference in the world."},{"id":"p-1-49","text":"Love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your\n mind."},{"id":"p-1-50","text":"$21"},{"id":"p-1-51","text":"God blessed them and said to them, \"Be fruitful and multiply, fill the\n earth and have dominion over it.\""},{"id":"p-1-52","text":"In the next section we describe the nature of that fulfillment. We\ndefine the ''Three Blessings\" and indicate this is the fulfillment of\nGod's essential Will via the system of pairs. [Later we will explain\nmore thoroughly the dynamics of that process in the accomplish-\nment of His Will, i.e., \"The Growing Period for the Creation.\"]"},{"id":"p-1-53","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 15\n\f THE THREE BlESSIIGS\n The first thing we can observe in the order of the three blessings\n is the implication of a premarital state and objective. First, be fruit-\n ful, then multiply. This indicates a very important idea. Even in the\n Garden of Eden, God established a prerequisite for the sexual t.mion\n of Adam and Eve. They must accomplish being \"fruitful\" before they\n are permitted to \"multiply.\""},{"id":"p-1-54","text":"Be FruiUuI\n As individuals, Adam and Eve must achieve \"oneness\" with the\n Lord. At this point, we must explain the structure and function of\n an individual based upon the principle of \"the pair system.\" The\n term, \"mind,\" as in \"mind and body\" relationship, can be a chal-\n lenge for Christians to understand. A good alternative is to rely on\n I Corinthians 15:42-44:"},{"id":"p-1-55","text":"So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is\n perishable, it is raised imperishable; It is sown in dishonor, it is raised\n in glory; It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; It is sown a nat-\n ural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there\n is also a spiritual body."},{"id":"p-1-56","text":"Also, Ecclesiastes 12:7\n And the dust returns to the ground it came from and the spirit returns\n to God who gave it."},{"id":"p-1-57","text":"Therefore, the principle of pairs is the standard around which\n the human is designed. As it is for all pairs, the objective is for two\n to become one. Thus, the course to unite one's mind and body is car-\n ried out through the implementation of the virtue that brings two\n into one. That is the virtue of sacrificial love and living for the sake\n of others.\n Note a typical question:"},{"id":"p-1-58","text":"WhYSl)(3l~lSO~htiTlJlroTt~ribingtMwaYthi,,?slw11lclhape~; ':\n w~nwe azl~now tlmi nmn/ellintosin? WhygobacktqtM~:,tniryJ:'\n a,nd\" ~!'YqverS:pill~.tlmilk? C{J,nweh,u~ryup ~n4get, t()th~p,laif ~of:;;\n ,s(l[~t~nr;J1e~~~.D~~Q~PtiSt ' '. ' \" .'~ \" . \" :'''.~. '.' i\n .' •.... ,;<"},{"id":"p-1-59","text":"Hold your horses, Reverend; I'm going as fast as I can!"},{"id":"p-1-60","text":"16 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-61","text":"otlelllive for the sake of others\"? For\n ..\"ri,....'>.,t here that we make a distinction between\n _ len state and his post-sin state. Sinful mani _\n \"live in love\" because his heart is hardened a~ a -\n state.(see Ephesians 4:18). Man needs a new heart\n ., .. y by the original standard. Believe\n lnl'nI'>Jm- Elnough that we recognize that the\n tbe world has disordered the balance., -"},{"id":"p-1-62","text":"Mind and body must become \"one\" just as man and woman are\nto become one. In this way we can accomplish the \"image of God\" on\na personal level. The turning motion of mind and body forms the ver-\ntical axis of the \"gyroscope.\" Thus, we fulfill the ideal of perfection.\nWe become \"one\" with the spirit of the Lord (I Corinthians 6:17).\nWe then become a \"temple\" of the Lord. (I Corinthians 3:16) As\ntemples, we achieve perfection. In perfection, we realize a new value\n(remember 1+1=3). We become \"sacred.\" (I Corinthians 3:17) In\nPrinciple terms we achieve \"Divine Value, Unique Value and Cos-\nmic Value. This is what Jesus meant when he said, you must be\nperfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:48)\n This status of being is the original prerequisite for marriage\nand was to be achieved by Adam and Eve. On this foundation they\nwould gain God's permission for marriage."},{"id":"p-1-63","text":"Multiply\n Principle explains that the subject/object relationship involves\nthe reciprocal relation \"within and between.\" That is, a perfect Indi-\nvidual Truth Body composed of harmonized subject and object\n(within) seeks naturally a new object in which to perform give and\ntake (between), forming a union of higher order.\n Believe it or not, this scientific sounding theory explains, as\nFather has pointed out, why I want to hold my wife's hand, kiss her\ncheek and experience the life of love with her. A perfect being of\noneness naturally wants to become a part of something greater than\nself. This explains the Will of the Universe.\n Therefore, if the unity of a mind and body achieves a sacred sta-"},{"id":"p-1-64","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 17\n\f tus for the individual, an even higher state is achieved when such\n a man and woman become one. Where this \"image\" is achieved we\n see the emergence of God's nature upon that base. That nature is\n the nature of a loving parent. God's own nature as a parent is ful-\n filled in substance in the appearance of His own offspring. (Malachi\n 2:15)\n God incarnates in these original parents (True Parents). Hence-\n forth, all God's descendants will expand from that base. When Jesus\n said, \"as you see me you see the Father,\" it was the first step in the\n hope of seeing the family and seeing God, seeing the tribe and see-\n ing God, seeing the nation and seeing God, finally, seeing the world\n and seeing the visible manifestation of God in culture. This is the\n Kingdom of Heaven.\n Adam and Eve were to form the base for this heavenly culture\n centered upon God."},{"id":"p-1-65","text":"HaveDaainion"},{"id":"p-1-66","text":"Without a doubt, when we talk. about \"dominion\" we must be\n very careful to be aware of the prevalent belief among Christians\n that Jesus pre-exists Adam. Sometimes, as we describe the princi-\n ple view of Adam's destined position \"to have dominion,\" Christians\n will naturally conclude that we are denying the pre-existence of\n Jesus, and thus, the fundamental nature of the Trinity. Issues of\n Christology will always be a sticky wicket.\n A typical question:"},{"id":"p-1-67","text":".IfAg,g,rn (L1J4Eve wef(!tp l¥fvedpmi~i,g~ as you desfrjbe,w~,.\"is \"~$,us\" \" .,\""},{"id":"p-1-68","text":"'~i~!~~~~~i:P:t::3~:\n our next lecturer. Well, that's all the time we have for questions. See\n you at the coffee urn!\n My policy is to try to avoid unproductive controversy, especially\n when it involves issues that weren't essential to the topic at hand.\n In other words, stay on the main river and avoid getting bogged\n down in the tributaries. In this case, I can live with ministers not\n understanding the full implications of\"to have dominion.\" After all,\n the full implication of what we are explaining is that there never\n would have been a Jesus of Nazareth had Adam fulfilled his role, a"},{"id":"p-1-69","text":"18 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:\n '\":.':'''\n psalms 8:4-6 is a good verse because of its use of the term\n Also, Psalms is an Old Testament book with chapter 8\n ferririg,t o the generic \"man.\" Be prepared that many\n jto,thatPsalms 8 is likewise speaking about Jesus; as is \",thlrrn.corf\n , brews l:6-8. 'Hebrews 2:6-8 recites Psalms 8:4-6 in i1o\"rrrI\"U,.\n Jesus' position and authority."},{"id":"p-1-70","text":",. p<:>nse is that the position and ideal of True Son\n oo.That ideal, or \"Logos,\" is the meaning of\n ~Mchapter of John's Gospel that states, \"The\n asJ:;odand was made flesh.\" We agree with\n s,itio~ef True Son pre-exists Adam; however,it\n inedwho would fulfill that position. Thus, ,\n essitates the emergence of a second Adam/i.e\n Jesus of Nazareth."},{"id":"p-1-71","text":"little tough to swallow at this early juncture. The most essential\nblessing for them to understand is, of course, the second blessing.\n That being said, however, doesn't mean we can't provide a very\nclear and biblically based explanation of the third blessing. Let's\nconsider the words of Paul in Romans 8:18-21."},{"id":"p-1-72","text":"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the\n glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expec-\n tation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was sub-\n jected to frustration not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who\n subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its\n bondage to decay and be brought into the glorious freedom of the chil-\n drenofGod."},{"id":"p-1-73","text":"The \"children of God,\" Adam and Eve, were to inherit the author-\nity of God. Thus, God would receive joy and stimulation from the cre-\nation through His children. God would have direct dominion over\ncreation through Adam and Eve. Consider I Corinthians 15:27-28:"},{"id":"p-1-74","text":"For he \"has put everything under his feet.\" Now when it says that \"every-\n thing\" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God\n himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then\n the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under"},{"id":"p-1-75","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 19\n\f him, so that God may be all in all."},{"id":"p-1-76","text":"Also, Psalms 8:4-6:"},{"id":"p-1-77","text":"What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care\n for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and\n crowned him with glory and honor. When you made him ruler over the\n works ofyour hands; you put everything under his feet."},{"id":"p-1-78","text":"Usually the first presentation would close with the explanation\n of the Three Blessings. It is a natural breaking point when you need\n to break the lecture into two parts. After a time to allow for minis-\n ters to digest some of the new ideas, we would continue with Prin-\n ciple of Creation II. Hopefully, they would now have a basis to under-\n stand that the actual world is far different from the one God\n intended.\n In \"Principle of Creation, Part II\", we take up the task of explain-\n ing man's responsibility and the dynamics of growth. We start by\n explaining the structure and function of a human being."},{"id":"p-1-79","text":"THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION Of AHUMAN BBNG"},{"id":"p-1-80","text":"$22"},{"id":"p-1-81","text":"20 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f e- \"c - · -~"},{"id":"p-1-82","text":"$23"},{"id":"p-1-83","text":"$24"},{"id":"p-1-84","text":"22 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-85","text":"tion and supportive scripture I would use for Christians:"},{"id":"p-1-86","text":"1. Spirit Self-Physical Self\n I Corinthians 15:42-44\n It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a nat-\n ural body, there is also a spiritual body."},{"id":"p-1-87","text":"Paul explains clearly the pair structure of spirit and body."},{"id":"p-1-88","text":"2. Spirit Self Needs Life Elements: God's Love and Truth\n After we establish the structure of a human we then go first to\nthe spirit self and the essential need for \"God's love and truth.\""},{"id":"p-1-89","text":"Matthew 4:4\n Jesus answered, \"It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on\n every word that comes from the mouth of God.\""},{"id":"p-1-90","text":"1 Peter 2:2\n Like neWborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may\n grow up in your salvation,"},{"id":"p-1-91","text":"3. Life Elements Must Manifest as Action"},{"id":"p-1-92","text":"James 2:17\n Faith without action is dead."},{"id":"p-1-93","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 23\n\f We need actions oflove and truth."},{"id":"p-1-94","text":"4. Must \"Love\" our Body"},{"id":"p-1-95","text":"Ephesians 5:29\n After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it,\n just as Christ does the church. . ."},{"id":"p-1-96","text":"This is where we explain the need for positive and negative\n nutriments."},{"id":"p-1-97","text":"5. Vitality ae.nts (Grace fren \"Doing\")\n Romans 6:13\n The body is an instrument of righteousness."},{"id":"p-1-98","text":"Proverbs 11:25\n A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himselfbe\n refreshed."},{"id":"p-1-99","text":"2 Corinthians 9:7~\n Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluc-\n tantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is\n able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times,\n having all that you need, you will abound in every good work."},{"id":"p-1-100","text":"These scriptures help to support the idea of a vitality element\n imputed to the spirit as a result of good deeds."},{"id":"p-1-101","text":"6. Spirit Dements Returned to Body\n Psalms 92:12-14\n The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar\n of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the\n courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will\n stay fresh and green."},{"id":"p-1-102","text":"This links righteousness with physical well-being.\n Following this order helps to make it more understandable and\n acceptable. In fact, I've had numerous ministers ask me for copies\n of this presentation because they wanted to adapt it for their own\n24 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-103","text":"for,Christians is that they begin to\n has a God-centered essential mi\n spirit to grow.\" Many Christians ttlA' ·th<>\n \"sin.\" Some even feel that n\"\"clr\",\n s,n. Many believe that God rr<>,.t.orf\n a punishment for sin. They point to. Uo;,\"o;;;o'' ''\n that \"God made garments of .\n and Eve after they fell."},{"id":"p-1-104","text":"sermon on spiritual growth. If we are willing to ground things more\nin scripture, Christians will be more confident to consider the full\nextent of our beliefs."},{"id":"p-1-105","text":"THE POSITION OF MAN IN THE UNIVERSE"},{"id":"p-1-106","text":"$25"},{"id":"p-1-107","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 25\n\f the physical body toward its original purpose. What is the only\n common base that exists between the desire of the spirit and the\n desire of the body? It is the highest purposeofthe physical body: to\n multiply the lineage of God.\n We are teaching Christians to open to the idea that the body\n has a God-friendly original role. We start with generic claims such\n as, \"the body is the soil for the spirit to grow.\" We conclude with the\n body being one essential requirement in order to fulfill God's very\n purpose of creation. This assertion becomes a main pillar, later,\n when we declare that Christ will return upon the earth."},{"id":"p-1-108","text":"THE TWO WORLDS CEITERING 01 MAlI\n As mentioned earlier, delving into the·nature of the spiritual\n world presents many potential pitfalls. Jesus' parable about the\n rich man and Lazarus is a very amazing and often overlooked aspect\n of Jesus' teaching about the reality of afterlife. See Luke 16:19-31:"},{"id":"p-1-109","text":"$26"},{"id":"p-1-110","text":"26 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they\n will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"},{"id":"p-1-111","text":"$27"},{"id":"p-1-112","text":"THE PROCESS OF THE CREATlOM OF THE WlVERSE AND ITS GIO. . PERIOD"},{"id":"p-1-113","text":"$28"},{"id":"p-1-114","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 27\n\f God: the act of tearful comforting and consoling and the life of seek-\n ing His liberation from His sorrow. Consider Father's prayer in\n Hungnam:"},{"id":"p-1-115","text":"I never prayed from weakness. I never complained. I was never angry at\n my situation. I never even asked His Mlp, but was always busy com-\n forting Him and telling Him not to worry about me. TM FatMr knows\n me so well. He already knew my suffering. How could I tell Him about\n my suffering and cause His Mart to grieve still more? I could only tell\n Him that I would never be defeated by my suffering."},{"id":"p-1-116","text":"$29"},{"id":"p-1-117","text":"~~~~~_ll~~~~r~~\n28 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-1-118","text":"biblical grounds for the idea\n more of a challenge. The Pri\n •. the.Book of Genesis ."},{"id":"p-1-119","text":"The essential question and apparent dilemma is how can a\nsovereign God have circumstances take place outside His ability to\ncontrol them? However, if God, in fact, does directly control all cir-\ncumstances, how does He avoid becoming the author of sin?\n Christians answer by affirming the idea of \"the permissive will\"\nof God, that is, God didn't will for evil, He permitted evil."},{"id":"p-1-120","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 29\n\f Right, He permitted evil. However, if we fall prey to such ideas,\n even the best theological gymnastics cannot adequately address the\n true meaning of Genesis 6:6:"},{"id":"p-1-121","text":"The Lord was grieved tliat he had made man on earth and his heart\n was filled with pain."},{"id":"p-1-122","text":"It reveals a God who was shocked and deeply hurt by the results\n of the fall. It is a God that is hard to fathom by most of the world's\n theologies."},{"id":"p-1-123","text":"THE GROWING PfRIOO"},{"id":"p-1-124","text":"$2a"},{"id":"p-1-125","text":"During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and peti-"},{"id":"p-1-126","text":"30 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-1-127","text":":'t'ernust be very careful how we use the terms \"nartcrt'inn,!';.\n counterpart \"imperfection.\" Naturally, when Ch ':>U~~,ofAut ,\n Divine~ciple\" \" \". . . ' '.. ' d• • , . , ' , • ' : , , ' , \" \" : :,'~,\n ,.: He,Was intrigued by mu~ of it, .but the·part.of Rev..¥ooas'}::Q,~sage :'\n \"thatmystifiedhlmthemostwas theteachiilgconCernIDgGOd'sh~ ~d'~ , .\n ' stiffering; Hf,ljust coul\n say,to:me, ~ometimeseven laugb.in~. 1(evin,.GOd,doesn'~~Uffe~., . ;': i~l '"},{"id":"p-1-171","text":"~~£~:l:1:.fJt~~~~&. ·\n sio~:ForD1bst:ChriStlanS, ,"},{"id":"p-1-174","text":"42 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Looking like the most lost man in the world, my friend wandered out\noftheJCU and into the waiting room. I went up to him and we embraced.\nIn ~ hands, the plastic bag stuffed with her hair. The bag was spotted with\nhis tears. This '\\Vas all that.was.1~ft him. He collapsed in my arms and set\nfree a cry from the bottom of his sOul. After several minutes, he gradually\nlifted his head and began looking.up toward the sky far, far away as if in\na dream or in remembering.It was thEm that he said the most amazing\nthing; something I will never forget:\n \"Kevin,\" he said, \"I never understood what Rev. Moon meant when he\nsaid that God suffered... but no\",. . . t know, . . . nQW I kriow.\" And with\nthat, he slowly dropped his head andjust continued to softly\"cry, lost in his\npersonal sorrows.\n I know, somewhere, he wee~ every day still."},{"id":"p-1-175","text":"$34"},{"id":"p-1-176","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 43\n\f understand the conditions and values that were lost in the collapse\n of God's purpose. Through understanding the Principle on this issue\n they will find a God of new attributes: a God of deepest suffering,\n yet a God of intact sovereignty, a God Almighty and all knowing, yet\n a God who shares power and the authority of self-rule with human-\n ity. He is a heroic God, a mighty fortress, yet a vulnerable God long-\n ing for the love of our whole heart, mind and strength."},{"id":"p-1-177","text":"When will we see the alleviation of the sorrowful feelings planted deep\n inside the heart ofGod since the fall, after the creation ofthe world? This\n remains as the fateful task that all humanity, the cosmos or the heavenly\n principles must resolve. Accordingly, before we can eradicate the root of\n this grief deep inside God, there is no way to come up with the solution\n for the fundamental grief of human beings.\n Although God has created all things and has beengoveming the 6,000-\n year providential history until now, He has not been able to possess the\n one day ofjoy when He can remove all sorrows and appear as the Being\n ofglory before the world ofcreation. Thu have to feel that there is this kind\n of sorrowful situation in Heaven.Sun Myung Moon, Let Us Experi-\n ence the Sorrow of God, March 2, 1958"},{"id":"p-1-178","text":"In our next chapter on The FaIl of Man, we will focus on the\n most needed areas for Christians to understand the nature of the\n fall. Christians know that there is a Satan. However, Divine Prin-\n ciple reveals not only that there is a Satan but also, how such an\n entity gained the position of \"god and ruler\" over fallen man. The\n shocking discovery will be that Satan could not exert such author-\n ity nor gain such a position without the voluntary cooperation of\n man! Who created Satan? Who holds the key in the final subjuga-\n tion of Satan? Coming next!"},{"id":"p-1-179","text":"44 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Chapter Two"},{"id":"p-1-180","text":"THE FALL OF MAN\n or Christians, the fall of man is a simple declaration that man"},{"id":"p-1-181","text":"$35"},{"id":"p-1-182","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 45\n\f the affirmation that God's Word has the answers for our life. They\n have been barraged by an increasing number of adherents that see\n Bible solutions as ineffective and shallow, i.e., \"just have faith and\n pray and God will heal your family, etc.»\n The fall of man lecture is an affirmation that God has an answer.\n For this reason, we revisit His word in search of a deeper under-\n standing of the root of family breakdown. This is a justification for\n them to begin to engage the material. However, once Christians\n engage the material, the full providential implications become\n increasingly clear."},{"id":"p-1-183","text":"TIlE ROOT OF SIt\n When you enter into the Garden of Eden make sure you bring\n your minesweeper. The place is loaded with land mines. One false\n step and you can lose your foot. It is important to assess what con-\n tent is essential, what can be streamlined and what can be reserved\n for later before we embark on our journey through the symbols of\n the Garden of Eden."},{"id":"p-1-184","text":"The foil is SJIIIboIic\n Our assertion about the fruit is based on three points:\n • God is a God oflove\n • They desired the fruit more than life itself\n • Jesus words in Matthew 15:11\n Guess which point will have the most impact. Let's review each\n one."},{"id":"p-1-185","text":"Point one: God is a God of love"},{"id":"p-1-186","text":"Here Principle stresses that the idea of God testing Adam and\n Eve is inconsistent with the nature of His love relationship with\n them. Ministers will beg to differ:"},{"id":"p-1-187","text":"46 THE BLOOD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-188","text":"Answer:\n There is a very significant difference between Adam, before the\nfall, and Job. Adam, before the fall, is in the state of sinlessness and\nis within the parameters ofGod's love. Job is born with the sin nature\nand in need of salvation. God needs to test sinners. Adam was not\nyet a sinner, he was a pure child of God. God giving the command-\nment, therefore, was not a test, but a responsibility to join with God\nin His own government and discipline. Fulfilling this role would\ngive Adam the moral base for his freedom and thus his potential to\nbe a being of love."},{"id":"p-1-189","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 47\n\f The key is in understanding the difference between a \"test\" and\n a \"responsibility.\" You test someone to evaluate whether they can\n assume a responsibility. God was not testing Adam; he was fully\n entrusting him with a portion of responsibility: to assume the role\n of \"co-creator.\""},{"id":"p-1-190","text":"Point Two: They desired the fruit more than life itself"},{"id":"p-1-191","text":"Some ministers will rightly point out that: \"the wages of sin are\n death.\" They will claim that any sin results in \"death.\" I remind\n ministers that Adam and Eve did not have the nature of sin at this\n point in the story, as fallen man does. Also, our position is that the\n fruit is not a literal fruit. They are not being tempted by a desire to\n eat a literal food. It is important to note that when God gave the com-\n mandment in Genesis 2:17, He prefaces His commandment with\n the assurance that man could eat of \"any other tree in the Gar-\n den:\" So the sanction against the fruit was an exclusive sanction to\n the particular fruit. It makes physical hunger an unlikely motive for\n man's desire for the fruit. The point is that the fruit must represent\n something of tremendous desirability."},{"id":"p-1-192","text":";~'fitl~~~;~~~.·~~1.r•\n '.;,;, -,\n '.,!U.·~:.i,1~,!.1i~r.t~\n .. . -. , - ~ ..'.,..;- .\"\n ..:. .'n.; ...\n . .... . ·;·::rt:;',"},{"id":"p-1-193","text":"Answer:\n No, because disobedience entails an act. Also there are many lev-\n els and qualities ofdisobedience. Someone can commit murder while\n someone else doesn't take out the garbage as told; both are not equally\n guilty, though both are in the state of disobedience. The fall was not\n just an ambiguous disobedience. It was a heinous act, so powerful as\n to change the very nature of an angelic being and the children of\n God, as well as the ensuing lineage of those first human ancestors.\n Certainly, Saint Paul, makes a very firm case for the idea of\n degrees in the quality of sins, for example sins committed \"outside\n the body\" compared with sins \"against the body.\""},{"id":"p-1-194","text":"I Corinthians 6:16, 18\n Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with\n her in body? For it is written 'the two will become one flesh.'. . . Flee from\n sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body,\n but he who sins sexually sins against his own body."},{"id":"p-1-195","text":"48 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-196","text":"rl~Ji6blem is that the Tre~ of Knowledge only appea;s • . •\n \"' books of the Bible and, therefore, any effort to\n r\\o\",n.rllJ will seem subjective and arbitrary, or worse, that on sources other than the Bible. Of course,\n the fact that we are bringing a new truth; nmrvev'er\n ,. ..that/as strategy, it is best to withhold imposing ---.J--...\n based on outside the Bible parameters until we\n a more solid foundation with the Principle. It is\n in the lecture process at this juncture."},{"id":"p-1-198","text":"fact, ()n the first go-around with the Principle, I fi\n analionofthe two trees to be not essential to the\n ~; lectLJre.We don't need the trees to establish a link oelweel\n f~rit~nd Eve because, clearly, the serpent tempts\n ! . Genesis 3:1 . We don't need the trees to establ\"\n ~\\-\\fe;'e imperfect and had to grow to perfection bec:aus;e\n v~.done thatthroughout the first presentation. We\n stoe~plain the meaning of the fruit because there \".a,;,;tll-oo.\n ~rs~s(which we will share later) that we can use that \".\n 'aningof the fruit unequivocally clear. On the IIUcIL\".eal!er tel1tial problems outweigh the potential benefits of\n '.,i:this topic. I say, take it up in the seven-day U[f\"lrv<:!r\\f\"ln"},{"id":"p-1-200","text":"Point Three: The words of Jesus"},{"id":"p-1-201","text":"If you guessed point three would be the most influential, you've\nwon a prize!\n Matthew 15:11-19"},{"id":"p-1-202","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 49\n\f \"What goes into a man's mouth does not make him unclean, but\n what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean.\n ... \" Peter said, \"Explain the parable to us.\"\"Are you still so dull?\" Jesus\n asked them. \"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the\n stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the\n mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean. For out of\n the heart come evil thoughts, murder, aduUery, sexual immoral-\n ity, theft, false testimony, slarukr. These are things that make a man\n unclean.\""},{"id":"p-1-203","text":"The Divine Principle book cites the 11th verse only; however\n verses 12-19 are very helpful. Notice that Jesus also pinpoints\n \"the heart\" as the origin of sinful desires and thoughts. This allows\n us to point toward the direction of the corruption of the heart as\n being closely linked to the root of sin."},{"id":"p-1-204","text":"$36"},{"id":"p-1-205","text":"'TrF\n , ; '~~\"!~:,·.~::,·r,~,:~\n ,.; , ~~ ;,:,\\~.\" '. \" , '.\": :0. -, ,- : . - ; - - ' ,' \", ~)).,::£."},{"id":"p-1-206","text":"50 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-207","text":"tra(lltIIn •\n .' \"bombs away,\" however make sure .\n laser guidance systems are turned on •\n . as opposed to strapping a bomb around"},{"id":"p-1-215","text":"$37"},{"id":"p-1-216","text":"Answer:\n Negativity is not evil. Negativity is a complement to positivity.\n Positivity and negativity harmonize centering on a higher common\n purpose. Good and evil do not harmonize, have no common higher\n purpose centering on which they can unite. For this reason good and\n evil contradict each other. God is a God ofgoodness.\n God's plan is for goodness. Anything that falls outside the sphere\n of relationship with God is evil. In order for a being to maintain its\n relationship with God, it must follow the principle of harmonized\n relationship between subject and object. Any being that stands in\n defiance of this principle falls out of relationship with God. Value is\n achieved when subject and object, centering on a higher common\n purpose, achieve harmony."},{"id":"p-1-217","text":"\";~~~~~\"~~~~~~~tI~i~'\n Answer:\n Not evil, as in sin or moral evil or the existence of Satan. Evil as\n in disaster or calamity. See Jonah 3:10, where God repents of the\n evil that He said He was going to do to Nineveh. God did not mean\n that He had planned to sin against Nineveh. The evil was in fact\n the destruction that God had promised ifNineveh did not repent.\n We close the deal on this issue with the affirmation of Genesis\n 1:31:"},{"id":"p-1-218","text":"God saw everything that he had rrwde, and it was very good,"},{"id":"p-1-219","text":"God saw everything and it was very good. No exceptions,\n unequivocal. It didn't say God saw almost all things and said it was\n good, except for this little devil over here. Everything was good!\n Case closed!\n On this foundation, we can move forward to unravel the iden-\n tity of the serpent. Based on the above conclusions, we can direct our\n search toward a being, created by God for good, that corrupted his\n role and purpose toward his own self-interests."},{"id":"p-1-220","text":"52 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-221","text":"THE ORIGIN OF SAN"},{"id":"p-1-222","text":"Now we've got the ball in our court. The overwhelming biblical\nevidence is that evil came about from the corruption of good. Let's\nexamine some important verses:"},{"id":"p-1-223","text":"Revelation 12:9\n The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil,\n or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth,\n and his angels with him."},{"id":"p-1-224","text":"2 Peter 2:4\n For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,\n putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment."},{"id":"p-1-225","text":"Jude 1:6\n And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but aban-\n doned their own home; these he has kept in darkness, bound with ever-\n lasting chains for judgment on the great Day."},{"id":"p-1-226","text":"Job 1:6\n One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and\n Satan also came with them."},{"id":"p-1-227","text":"What are we able to observe in each of these Bible verses related\nto our topic? Read them carefully. It is this: Good beings, originally\ndwelling in heaven with God, are found to be lacking as a result of\nsome sort of sinful action."},{"id":"p-1-228","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 53\n\f God casts them out of heaven and into \"gloomy dungeons\" where\n they are being held for judgment. Also, we see that \"the ancient ser-\n pent called Satan\" seems to have a type of authority or position over\n this particular group of angels (\"his angels\"). Thus the casting out\n of Satan is of note because he is a figure of higher esteem and posi-\n tion in heaven."},{"id":"p-1-229","text":"THE IDTITY Of THE ARCIWJGEI."},{"id":"p-1-230","text":"Be prepared to explain why we believe that the serpent, Satan,\n was an archangeL You will not find a Bible verse that describes\n Lucifer with the term \"archangeL\" Be mindful that the idea that\n there were three archangels in heaven is also not clearly affirmed\n in scripture. Only Michael in Jude 1:8-10 is described as an\n \"archangel. \""},{"id":"p-1-231","text":"~~~~~~~t\"f~~,1:l\n Answer:\n Ha rna da. . . ha ma da . . ha rna da\n As you can see, I found out a lot of these things the hard way:\n standing in front of 300 clergy and letting them have at me! It is cor-\n rect that there is no scripture that describes Lucifer as an\n \"archangeL\" However, the Bible does clearly testify that the entity\n cast out of heaven has a position over a portion of angels. Revela-\n tion 12:7-9 also makes a direct comparison of \"Michael and his\n angels\" with \"Satan and his angels.\" It would tend to follow, if Michael\n is an archangel, that the being called Satan likewise was an\n archangeL\n At this point we are ready to examine Isaiah 14:12. Isaiah intro-\n duces us to \"Lucifer.\""},{"id":"p-1-232","text":"Isaiah 14:12\n How art tlwu fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning! How\n art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"},{"id":"p-1-233","text":"Isaiah 14:13-15\n }Qu have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the\n nations! }Qu said in your heart, '1 will ascend to heaven; 1 will raise my\n throne above the stars of God; 1 will sit enthroned on the mount ofassem-\n bly, on the utmost heights ofthe sacred mountain. 1 will ascend above the\n54 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-234","text":"$38"},{"id":"p-1-236","text":"\"\" Oracles also demonstrate this twofold relevancy but in a sligntly, ',~,\n different manner. Whereas in their immediate context~hey ~rve ~ 4 an indictment of a certain contemporary figure, their S€CPl1d .,;.\n ~ relevancy .pertains, not to the future, but to the past. Inotherwo.~d,.\n . .~re prophecy can give us insight into the distantfuture,'ora '..\n an give us insight into the distant past. In view of this;'1~;~\n ~1 2-,1 S can be viewed as an oracle having drawn its, imig~\n from the past events of the fall. \""},{"id":"p-1-238","text":"REVEALING GOO'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 55\n\f tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.' But you are\n brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit."},{"id":"p-1-239","text":"Here, Isaiah reveals that Lucifer is struggling with his pride. He\n seems to be dissatisfied with his station in life. When we consider\n the consistent use of the image \"star\" to refer to God's children (Rev-\n elation 22:15-17, \"star\" = Jesus), Lucifer seeking to raise his\n throne above the \"stars\" of God indicates jealousy toward Adam\n and Eve.\n Another oracle is even more explicit in describing aspects of the\n fall in Eden. Ezekiel 28:12-19:"},{"id":"p-1-240","text":"$39"},{"id":"p-1-241","text":"In reading this, did you take note of the \"twofold relevancy?\"\n God tells Ezekiel, \"take up this lament to the king of'JYre.\" Ezekiel\n refers to the king as \"guardian cherub,\" tells him he \"was in Eden\n the garden of God.\" The king ofTyre was probably thinking, \"hey I'm\n not that old, what's this guy talking about?\"\n He's talking about quite a lot! One of the most important addi-\n tional benefits of this scripture is that it helps to support the Prin-\n ciple view of the timing of the fall. In other words, the Principle"},{"id":"p-1-242","text":"$3a"},{"id":"p-1-243","text":"Was Satan cast down to the Earth before man was created? Rev.R.B.~\n Pentecostal"},{"id":"p-1-244","text":"$3b"},{"id":"p-1-245","text":"$3c"},{"id":"p-1-246","text":"TIl COIItSE AND MOlIVE OF TIl FAU\n In order to adequately explain the course and motive of the fall,\n we must clearly explain the intended nature of the relationship of\n Adam, Eve and the archangel. One element of challenge in clearly\n describing their relationship is that the point in time where we\n enter the Garden of Eden is a moment when the relationship of\n man and the angels is undergoing a fundamental scheduled tran-\n sition.\n Lucifer, the covering cherub, was finishing up his duties as pro-\n tector and guide. Now Adam was emerging toward lordship, co-cre-\n atorsbip and the vision of Psalms 8:4-6:"},{"id":"p-1-247","text":"What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care\n for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and\n crowned him with glory and honor. When you made him ruler over the\n works ofyour hands; you put everything under his feet."},{"id":"p-1-248","text":"Up until this moment of transition, Lucifer could relate directly\n to God conditionally with regard to his position as \"guardian"},{"id":"p-1-249","text":"$3d"},{"id":"p-1-250","text":"~n'tf~?l~ §:~ ~c'f!1V! t¥!rn:tP'..~'!!:2r!-~/A}1\"c;Jittlei'f:,u:er:,tm:1Jthe\n arwels?,Hqwca,nyolfsay tliat11)a.n wastolULve oominipn ove,. thefLngels? ,.\n ' Rev~,A.d:,\" cbUrchofC~.·: ·':,'i • . ..·'·· , ' ..... ~.L 0\"/., i s ' .' ..;\n ,~\" \",' v,"},{"id":"p-1-251","text":"Answer:\n If we were to take the 8th Psalm as meaning that man is lower\nin quality and position than the angels, then we must conclude that\nJesus is likewise lower in quality and status than the angels because\nthe writer of Hebrews uses the same Psalm 8 to describe Jesus (see\nHebrews 2:6-9). If that was our conclusion, of course, we would be\nin error. A more proper exegesis of Psalms 8 and Hebrews 2:6-9\nwould be. . . He was created for a little while lower than the angels.\n This indicates that while Adam was still growing, he was under\nthe protection and care of the guardian cherub, but once Adam had\nperfected himself, he would then exert the full dominion of the Son\nof God over all things including the angels. That's why, though\nHebrews 2:6-9 repeats the 8th Psalm, the 1st and 2nd chapters of\nHebrews are an unabashed declaration of the superiority of the Son\nand the children of God (over the angels)."},{"id":"p-1-252","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 59\n\f Answer:\n Hebrews 1:14 declares angels are ministering spirits sent to\n serve the heirs ofsalvation. This shows that the authority of the Son\n is bequeathed to us and as a result we stand, likewise, as God's chil-\n dren. As such, we also gain the right to judge the angels (see\n 1Corinthians 6:3). Jesus was crowned with glory (Hebrews 2:7)\n and everything was put under Him.\n Hebrews 2:10 says that Jesus, in dying, brought us to glory.\n Hebrews 2:11 states that both the one who makes men holy and\n those who are made holy are of the same family, so Jesus is not\n ashamed to call them (believers, not angels) brothers. Hebrews 1:5\n states, to which of the angels did God ever say, 'You are my Son;\n today I become your Father.' This inheritance is shared with believ-\n ers, not with angels. Romans 8:17."},{"id":"p-1-253","text":"THE INSTRUMENT OF ADAM'S DOMIIOII: 111 COMMANDMENT\n The Principle declares the order by which the commandment is\n passed. God gives the commandment to Adam, Adam gives the com-\n mandment to Eve and Eve (Genesis 3:1) is to give the command-\n ment to the archangel. Scripture supports this view. God gives Adam\n the commandment prior to the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:17.\n Eve is clearly explaining the meaning of the commandment to\n Lucifer that, of course, he contests in Genesis 3:1.\n The role to have faith in the commandment is the central respon-\n sibility in order for Adam to achieve dominion; to become co-cre-\n ator, as we previously studied. Therefore, giving the commandment\n to Eve who is to give the commandment to the archangel is the core\n manifestation of Adam's authority for dominion."},{"id":"p-1-254","text":"THE PROCESS Of THE FAlL"},{"id":"p-1-255","text":"Failure to See AdMt fr. God's VieWJlOint\n The first step of the fall is Lucifer's rejection of Adam's author-\n ity. This was a challenge for Lucifer. He was an angel, an archangel."},{"id":"p-1-256","text":"$3e"},{"id":"p-1-257","text":"Lucifer Leaves His PrQlt'r Position"},{"id":"p-1-258","text":"Lucifer's position is to receive God's love through the channel of\nperfected Adam. However, because he cannot connect to God's inter-\nest for Adam, Lucifer feels no motive to harmonize with the position\nof Adam. Lucifer be~omes distant from Adam. By becoming distant\nfrom Adam, he becomes distant from God. The sensation of love\nand validation seeps away."},{"id":"p-1-259","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WOf'lLD 61\n\f Lucifer must now make an e~aI11\">4ion. Is this feeling of alien-\n ation from God a result of something he has done to God or is it a\n result of something God has done to him? He must choose between\n two opposite views of God:"},{"id":"p-1-260","text":"1. God loves me absolutely; it is I who has shut him out, and it\n is I who must accept the channel through which love will reach me.\n God will never change His love for anyone. He is absolute.\n Or,\n 2. God changed His heart toward me because circumstances\n didn't favor him continuing to love me. God doesn't need me because\n He has Adam and Eve. God acts based on His own interest at my\n expense and the expense of others.\n Lucifer chooses No.2. Now our angel is growing in his potential\n for disaster. He is cut off from the channel of God's love, he is feel-\n ing a growing feeling oflack oflove and now, he is building a rela-\n tivist mind-set that will permit him to do whatever he must do to\n fill this growing void in his soul. In his view, God betrayed him;\n thus, he feels the license to strike back. Like a ticking time bomb,\n he moves to the next phase of the process of the fall."},{"id":"p-1-261","text":"Reversal of DoIinion\n In Lucifer's mind, God changing his commitment toward him to\n pursue his own benefit pretty much excused Lucifer from feeling\n committed to any moral truth from this God. With such a convo-\n luted mind, he ponders Eve. She is beautiful and stimulating, even\n though, he knows, she is not meant for him. He cannot stop drink-\n ing her beauty, he feels a stirring in his soul, he waits for her, he\n reaches out to her and so on and so on.\n Let's bring back the fruit that we earlier had pushed to the side.\n Now we're ready to talk fruit!\n Genesis 3:1"},{"id":"p-1-262","text":"Now the serpent was more crafty than any ofthe wild animals the LORD\n God had made. He said to the woman, \"did God really say, 'You must\n not eat from any tree in the garden'? The woman said to the serpent, \"We\n may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'Thu must\n not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you\n must not touch it, or you will die.' \"lOu will not surely die, \" the serpent"},{"id":"p-1-263","text":"62 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f said to the woman. \"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes\n will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.\""},{"id":"p-1-264","text":"Me_ of the Fruit"},{"id":"p-1-265","text":"The fruit is a symbol oflove."},{"id":"p-1-266","text":"Proverbs 30:20\n This is the way ofan adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says,\n 'rve done nothing wrong.'"},{"id":"p-1-267","text":"Song of Solomon 4:12-16\n (Solomon to his bride): (%u are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride;\n you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain. Thur plants are an orchard\n ofpomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, nard and saf\n {ron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh\n and aloes and all the finest spices. Thu are a garden fountain, a well of\n flowing water streaming down {rom Lebanon. Awake, north wind, and\n come, south wind! Blow on my garden that its fragrance may spread\n abroad.\"\n (The bride's response): \"Let my lover come into his garden and taste\n its choice fruits.\""},{"id":"p-1-268","text":"Therefore, Lucifer tempting Eve to \"eat the fruit\" means that\nLucifer was seeking to consummate a love relationship with her on\nthe sexual level.\n At this point we would usually give the ministers a few min-\nutes to get up off the floor.\n Let's hear from my friend, Reverend Sir, one more time,"},{"id":"p-1-269","text":"Could you please explain, Sir, how you .have given to. Satan a humap,\n nature wherein he desires or lusts after Eve? How do spirits have inter-\n course with flesh? Rev. C.K..,Lutheran"},{"id":"p-1-270","text":"Answer:\n From a theological standpoint, the theory of angelic fornication\nwith women on earth was not a new idea. It finds a long tradition\nin Hebrew mythology and certainly was readily acceptable by the\nearly Church Fathers of Christian history. The view has fallen in\nand out of vogue several times since. Its acceptance as a credible view\nis based on the overwhelming use of the Hebrew \"bene Elohim\" (sons\nof God) for angels. This is supported by New Testament Greek in"},{"id":"p-1-271","text":"$3f"},{"id":"p-1-272","text":"Do you rwt krww that he wlw unites himselfwith a prostitute is one with\n her in body? For it is written (the two will become one flesh.'. . . Flee from\n sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body,\n but he who sins sexually sins against his own body."},{"id":"p-1-273","text":"It is also helpful to show scripture that give other, equally hard\n to understand, testimony to the on earth interaction of humans with\n spiritual beings:\n Genesis 32:22-32 Jacob wrestles an angel (confirmed by\n Hosea 12:4)\n Genesis 19:3 Lot prepares a meal for angels and they eat!\n Hebrews 13:1 \"Keep on loving each other as brothers. Do not for-\n get to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have enter-\n tained angels without knowing it. \" (This means angels can be in\n our midst and we would not necessarily notice. This indicates angels"},{"id":"p-1-274","text":"64 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:\n ·1~;,:J'~,j -\n · The term il sons of God\" (\"bene Elohim\" in Hebrew) appears many\n times in scripture and is commonly used as a term for IIqngels il\n _4J~< ,'k; ;~ ' ~ i;' ability to interact in time and space and maintain a low-profile,\nnon-distinct manner.)"},{"id":"p-1-276","text":"The sin of the angels is likewise the sin of fornication:"},{"id":"p-1-277","text":"Jude 1:6-8\n And the angels wlw did rwt keep their positions of autlwrity but aban-\n doned their own home - these he has kept in darkness, bound with ever-\n lasting chains for judgment on the great Day. In a similar way, Sodom\n and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual\n immorality and perversion. They serve as an example oftlwse who suf-\n fer the punishment of eternal fire. In the very same way, these dreamers\n pollute their own bodies, reject autlwrity and slander celestial beings."},{"id":"p-1-278","text":"Be sure to include the 8th verse ofthe first chapter of Jude (the\nPrinciple book doesn't include it): \"In the very same way, these dream-\ners pollute their own bodies. Not only does the verse indicate that the\nangels and citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah share the same sin, it\ndescribes it explicitly with the phase \"pollute their own bodies.\"\nRemember Paul's words indicating sexual sin as the only type of\nsin that was a sin against our own body.\n Make sure you establish the scriptural link between these for-\nnicating angels and the angels that fell with Lucifer, \"his angels.\"\nThey are one and the same."},{"id":"p-1-279","text":"2 Peter 2:4\n For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to\n hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment."},{"id":"p-1-280","text":"Revelation 12:9\n The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil,\n or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth,\n and his angels with him."},{"id":"p-1-281","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 65\n\f Genesis 6:2\n The sons of God (the angels) saw that the daughters of men were beau-\n tiful, and they married any of them they cMse."},{"id":"p-1-282","text":"This establishes that the sin of Lucifer's angels is the same sin\n as Lucifer. Lucifer engaged in the sin of fornication with Eve and his\n angels followed suit."},{"id":"p-1-283","text":"$40"},{"id":"p-1-284","text":"Rather than walking the path of responsibility by confessing\n her wrong to Adam and throwing herself before the mercy of the\n court, she seeks to include Adam in her iniquity. Because of the\n destruction of her self-esteem through sin, Eve seeks comfort and\n acceptance. She follows the path of her god who imposed his will\n upon her through trickery and deceit. Adam eats the fruit offered\n him by Eve.\n Genesis 2:25 Before the fall, Adam and Eve were naked and\n unashamed"},{"id":"p-1-285","text":"66 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-1-286","text":"misunderstand this point. Ch I~Udll' I~. '\n e(]~eeD~Se,l£e(] pessimistic feelings about\n Many will think that we are\n sexuality itself. Of course, in'\n also declaring the true liberation Of\n . through \"absolute sex.\" ,."},{"id":"p-1-287","text":"Genesis 3:7 After the fall, \"their eyes were opened\" to their\nnakedness.\n Job 31:33 \"If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding\nmine iniquity in my bosom:\""},{"id":"p-1-288","text":"$41"},{"id":"p-1-289","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 67\n\f < •"},{"id":"p-1-290","text":", ,\n .;'"},{"id":"p-1-291","text":",:) ;\"\"\n :\"~~n',;' artiele f~~tta'\n .;;'\" .\n :1894:'~\"':»~:\" :'~ , ... ..~"},{"id":"p-1-292","text":"',\".:::: ,.:',,-:::,,;,!', ';;:.11 'ii>f~<, ... ::.; ~'-<',~: \"\" ;,:,,,.::.,1: , ,:.' ~'.;\" . .:,:-::'~.,:' : -:~··C·.-:,<);~~;~·,,>'.-::~_',_,.:.,;'!.:·<:'f, ;.~\\.~ <':'\n ...; ln$tn.ctiQO~JQrt~¢:;\n .'.- '.\":;' '-' ' ''~':;';~\n -c' ,_,'_J.:\";\n yo.un · ·.' 8ri~, 9n th~, Co6diJd: ~ .Pro~ur~:of~ltier\"'~.~:\n ,r, . \\.~ ~i ;. g,, \"- .':':' .:.' .;.~.; ;. . . ,.:. ,,.\"fT\" .'- \",.,.,- ,,- '.,. ';:~ ,_ :'0.\n .N' • \",\", : \"\\ \"\" ;• . ':'\" .. I;>~i '~' ·'O:l'·;.\" (l~:' \" ~;'\"\n !\" -, .. t\" '. '-':· ... h\"n_•.:,,:_ .•. •.. , \"1' i;l ,\"\"::':',"},{"id":"p-1-293","text":"\"\", 'l~at~:~,fuf\"PerSom' RelatiOOsh~'p.i~~r;i~~~!it'~ci .' . ~(';~~':~\":\""},{"id":"p-1-294","text":"':);ji;!~~5~ ~~{~~~~~~';C-i\"~.'i"},{"id":"p-1-295","text":";:, ,'; ,',:.. , -,::, ... '.\","},{"id":"p-1-296","text":"\" , ' ,' '.1\":\""},{"id":"p-1-297","text":"$42"},{"id":"p-1-298","text":"68 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f duJ.-ing ~he first months ofmarnage: Astimeg6es bishe shot:tl' .-: > -~ .~. ~\" '\" :. -\", .:: ,,<::·,;;:\":~:····::~':}'/~;,~.vi/~~:~:;\\/: : \" \""},{"id":"p-1-345","text":"· ~.1~iil~~llc~\n loy~s 'hUn; dee,ply re~pect.s 'l1ftn and ~o!ears ~\" He S()ftly~~','Qn~:s \",'\""},{"id":"p-1-346","text":"$50"},{"id":"p-1-347","text":";:i~~~~~::=~~\n , ., ,/ lIe's ~toJ)19W' YOU off, COj;~~lf~: ~flMat~.~ ·.~·dBY~~~.~,\n ~iU Or+;IWfillll\n > '·'r ., oi (iiSufM\n .,..'-. _ 0'\" ' ,.\" \"\n ' . . . ,\"\n (iiS'Ukeeiits\n 1\"\"\"\n sO easy for yoit'\n .\" \" ' _ \" ' - ' . '.\n t{jJlii);(1$.Ftni(\n '\" .:. , .\n '· \"\"',,;1.,,:"},{"id":"p-1-456","text":"aot,ewa$'az$Q iaSt\"otit?Bev. R:C U.P.C. ' ~ \"' \"~\" ~'::' :':~[«;'\n _:.:~:_-;~,;:.~~::~:.:::'~:,t~~/l :,:~\":\" .\\ /.'\\~: .:.~\", ., ~ . ~_ ., ;:;;1:~~'>: ~~·: './·:· .-:~d~;·II\\';~';\n \"Sent forth\" will do just fine. Now back to the point; the raven is\n a symbol of Satan. Genesis 8:7 indicates that the flood judgment\n established a sanctification for Noah's family. The raven sent forth\n from the ark indicates that Satan had been separated from them."},{"id":"p-1-457","text":"~~• •i~~~.~'.\n The Hebrews are the descendants of Shem, the Semitic people.\n The Divine Principle makes no comment on the origin of the races.\n Our hope is for the establishment of the Love Race, in which there is\n neither Jew nor Gentile, black, white or yellow in the sight ofGod and\n man."},{"id":"p-1-458","text":"~~-4~~~t;'~~~~~~\n Casting the raven from the ark is symbolic of the separation of\n Satan from the world at that time. Satan is a spirit and needs a con-\n dition to claim man. Satan gained that condition through Ham's\n failure and lack offaith in Noah ."},{"id":"p-1-459","text":".,&if;.i;~='\n Ham, Shem and Japheth were the sons of Noah. The Divine\n Principle does not comment on the origin of the races. In my pre-\n sentation I was reporting on a popular theory regarding the origin\n of the races. My purpose was not to represent this as our view but to\n comment on the misuse of this theory with regard to the curse of\n Ham. Some white Christians have used this misappropriated theory\n to justify the enslavement ofAfrican people."},{"id":"p-1-460","text":"114 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-1-461","text":"How can you say thatBhem was in the Cain position to Ham when he\n never derrioTiStrated the characteristics 'of Cain? Rev. P.J. Southern\n Bap~"},{"id":"p-1-462","text":"Shem would not assume the position of Cain until Ham estab-\nlished his position of Abel. We see later that Esau never feels mur-\nderous toward Jacob until Jacob assumes the position ofAbel. What\nsignifies the accomplishment of Abel's position is the event of verti-\ncal favor. For Abel it was the acceptance of his offering over Cain's,\nfor Jacob it was receiving the blessing of Isaac over Esau.\n Shem never came to the Cain position substantially owing to\nHam's failure to successfully accomplish the position ofAbel. (Gen-\nesis 9:22-26.) Actually, the result of Ham's failure is that the Abel\nposition shifts to Shem, and thus the central people of God descend\nfrom the line of Shem, the Semitic line."},{"id":"p-1-463","text":"What was the.violation Hammade against his father? Elder.L.F., Lat-\n ~rDay~ts"},{"id":"p-1-464","text":"Ham reported his father's nakedness to his brothers in such a\nway as to cause them to have shame for their father Noah. Ham\nshould have protected his father's dignity and honor. Ham's failure\nindicates his lack of faith in his father Noah, and it is for this rea-\nson that Ham's son, Canaan, receives a curse (see Genesis 9:22-26)."},{"id":"p-1-465","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 115\n\f Genesis 6:3, indicates that the mortal men had 120 years before\n the flood would come. Also Usshur's chronology indicates a 120-year\n period from the call of Noah to the flood by citing Genesis. 6:3."},{"id":"p-1-466","text":"The dispensation to establish the foundation of substance in\n Noah's family was to take place between Ham and Shem, not\n Japheth. Ham was the younger brother in the Abel position, and\n Shem was the older brother in the Cain position."},{"id":"p-1-467","text":"God had Noah preach for 120 years to elicit the repentance of\n the people, that is,judgment by the word. Jesus says the word will\n be our judge on the final day. The word isn't punishment; it defines\n who will be blessed and who will be punished. The flood was to sanc-\n tify, God wanted thepeople to be on the side of Noah when thejudg-\n ment came, but sadly, they were not and it is why God promised\n Noah never to bring a flood to the world as an instrument ofjudg-\n ment."},{"id":"p-1-468","text":"~~.t:,~,,~~.~{~lli1~;;;'f'\"\n There would be two reasons, one practical and the other more\n providential. God had Noah preach for 120 years before the flood\n judgment was to come (2 Peter 2:5). In preaching righteousness,\n God's hope was that the wicked people would repent and come into\n the ark. If we take the case ofNineveh as an example, we could even\n say had such repentance come, it's possible that the flood would have\n been unnecessary. God waS grieved that no one repented and so many\n died in the flood.\n The second reason is that the ultimate instrument ofjudgment\n that God wants to use is His word. God was longing to move man"},{"id":"p-1-469","text":"116 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\falong quickly, to elevate man spiritually so that man could reach a\nstate where he would be able to hear, understand and obey the spo-\nken and written word of God."},{"id":"p-1-470","text":"ABRAHAM'S FAMILY"},{"id":"p-1-471","text":"One important bit of advice when teaching ministers about the\nthree providential families is to make sure that you have read over\nthe entire story in the Bible. Sometimes lecturers will inadvertently\nmake claims that are not actually supported by the Bible story. How\ndo I know, you ask? Well, let me just say that I've learned through\nexperience. Here is a good example of what I mean:"},{"id":"p-1-472","text":". Wherll;{ii the:-Sibie'do :yott'ftrid:God:telltng Abraham t~. le(tv.e ~, the\n?Switff!lfJi:Jfj;ft~¥iijpyftljf!t4;=~\n -: ._i·'tc"},{"id":"p-1-473","text":"$6a"},{"id":"p-1-474","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 117\n\f He did not resist, he trusted his father to the very end even to the\n point of death. Hebrews 11:19 likens it to a figurative resurrection.\n I'm sure, when Isaac saw the knife waving over his head, he sensed\n something was about to happen to his mortal life."},{"id":"p-1-475","text":"$6b"},{"id":"p-1-476","text":"That this event happens three times, twice with Abraham and\n once with Isaac, could hardly be considered a coincidence of no spir-\n itual significance. lOu are correct when you say that there is no scrip-\n ture which states that it was God who called Abraham to go to Abim-\n elech, but indeed that call is recorded in the third attempt with Isaac.\n God used the device of famine to get Isaac to Gerar and told him to\n remain there. God also used the same device with Abraham in the\n first attempt with the pharaoh. In every case the Lord is highly"},{"id":"p-1-477","text":"118 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\finvolved in setting up the conditions that would serve as the sancti-\nfication for Abraham and then Isaac's family."},{"id":"p-1-478","text":"}lQu\"~ayGocl, ' U!oTZ'tinterfere, q;ith pU!\" m~'ofman.' 1Jutwhp?ave· King\n,::.'..Abimel~ch. the.d,n:am'that·.•te.vea.~(t'.r. ,o..'h'im thatSarg,h'.waii n,dtAbf.a::\"\"\n hcim,)s~iSter/l>utwife?~B.lL, ;HolinessX:' , '.W • .~',~ ,>.,\n .•"},{"id":"p-1-479","text":";;,,,' , . , h"},{"id":"p-1-480","text":"I never said that God does not intervene in anything that man\ndoes. I said that God does not intervene in man's responsibility. God\nrevealed to Abimelech that Sarah was the wife of Abraham, but it\nwas Abimelech's responsibility to choose what to do about that. He\ncould have ignored God's word, as did Lucifer, or he could do what\nwas the right thing to so.\n (See following question. Here's another example of my imprecise\nlanguage causing a problem for this minister.)"},{"id":"p-1-481","text":"~here . is 7U)merltio1iin'Scriptu~thcit ;'AbHhamfaiJ.e4 intHew.ct'Y . , ~'..\n 'offered tlu} doue and pige()n;-~nesis15:9saysth% ()od (l8J/ed/that offer~;.\n ingani~beQrought6ef()~ Himj:_Udfe!{not~ayth%God(l8kedthat,'\n Abraham cut them in iuilf The tenthverse orily mentions that he did not'\n. cut the birds in haltlt does not say that thiswtts a. inistltke,inanyway.\n Comment? Rev.'T.B.,Pentecostal \" '.'"},{"id":"p-1-482","text":"$6c"},{"id":"p-1-483","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 119\n\f course for Abraham's descendants unless there had been a condition\n of disobedience on their part, see Deuteronomy 28."},{"id":"p-1-484","text":"Adam and Eve were still in the providential position as brother\n and sister, and could only become God-centered husband and wife\n when they fulfilled the prerequisite to their multiplication, that is, to\n be fruitful. Because Adam and Eve fell from the providential posi-\n tion of brother and sister, Abram and Sarai had to start from that\n same position. (The terms husband and wife in Genesis are also used\n to refer to an engaged man and woman.)"},{"id":"p-1-485","text":"God revealed it each time in a different way. With the pharaoh\n a sudden outbreak ofdisease riddled the kingdom and through that\n the pharaoh realized the marital status of Sarah. The second time,\n Abimelech had received a dream, and the third time, Abimelech saw\n Isaac embracing Rebekah and realized that Rebekah was the wife\n and not the sister of, in this case, Isaac.\n God does not intervene in man's responsibility. God imparting\n His word to the pharaoh and the king is not an intervention into\n their area ofresponsibility. It is up to them to do what is right. Lucifer\n also knew that Eve was not supposed to be tempted by him but he\n went ahead and violated the commandment of God anyway. The\n response of the pharaoh and Abimelech represents a reversal (and\n therefore, an indemnification) of the course the angel Lucifer took."},{"id":"p-1-486","text":"$6d"},{"id":"p-1-487","text":"Accusation 1: Jacob Stole His Brother's Birthright."},{"id":"p-1-488","text":"Wrong! Jacob did not \"steal\" his brother's birthright; he pur-\nchased it for the price oflentil stew. Such a deal!"},{"id":"p-1-489","text":"'Look, I am about to die,' Esau said. 'What good is the birthright to me?'\n But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' So he swore an oath to him, selling\n his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some\n lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau\n despised his birthright. Genesis 25:32-34"},{"id":"p-1-490","text":"Accusation 2: Jacob Deceived His Father Isaac"},{"id":"p-1-491","text":"Wrong again! It was not Jacob's idea to replace Esau and,\nthrough surreptitious means, usurp his brother's blessing. It was\nMOM'S IDEA. Rebecca orders Jacob to get the blessing. Jacob even\nprotests!\n Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau.\nWhen Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,\nRebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father say\nto your brother Esau, 'Bring me some game and prepare me some\ntasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence\nof the LORD before I die."},{"id":"p-1-492","text":"REVEALING GOO'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 121\n\f Now, my son, listen carefuUy and do what 1 teU you: Go out to the flock\n and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food\n for your father, just the way he likes it. Then take it to your father to eat,\n so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.'\n Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, \"But my brother:. Esau is a hairy\n man, and Fm a man with smooth skin. What if my father touches me?\n I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on\n myself rather than a blessing.\" His mother said to him, \"My son, let the\n curse faU on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.\" Gen-\n esis 27:5-13"},{"id":"p-1-493","text":"\"Let the curse fall on me!?\" Mom is mighty confident isn't she?\n By the way, anybody hear about any curse falling upon Rebecca?\n No? Anybody wonder why? Well, let's just say she had a good rea-\n son to make sure the younger son received the blessing:"},{"id":"p-1-494","text":"The babiesjostled each other within her, and she said, \"Why is this hap-\n pening to me?\" So she went to inquire of the LORD. The LORD said to\n her, \"'ZWo nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you\n will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the\n older will serve the younger.\" Genesis 25:22-23"},{"id":"p-1-495","text":"$6e"},{"id":"p-1-496","text":"122 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fJACOB'S VICTORY"},{"id":"p-1-497","text":"It is also very essential to understand the basis of Jacob's victory.\nJacob has accomplished some very important aspects in his mis-\nsion."},{"id":"p-1-498","text":"1. Restores Elder Son's Birthr9lt"},{"id":"p-1-499","text":"He has restored the elder son's birthright back to God's side.\nNotice the circumstance ofEsau's hunger is the basis ofthe process\nby which Jacob procures the birthright. Later, at the time of Jesus,\nSatan attempts to reclaim the birthright by the exact same cir-\ncumstances. Jesus is fasting, is hungry and Satan tempts Jesus\nwith bread. However, unlike Esau, Jesus values the birthright as the\nfirst Son of God."},{"id":"p-1-500","text":"2. Receives the BlessilS fr.. Isaac."},{"id":"p-1-501","text":"This is similar to the same moment that God received Abel's\noffering and rejected Cain's. This demonstration of vertical favor is\nwhat establishes the position of Abel and Cain. As soon as Jacob is\nestablished in the position of Abel, Esau finds himself in the posi-\ntion of Cain. Thus, all the circumstances of Cain and Abel have been\nre-created. This re-creation of circumstance is so that the new cen-\ntral figures can reverse through indemnity the failures of the past.\nThis phenomenon is referred to in Principle as \"Dispensational\nTime-Identity.\" In this way, Esau becomes the \"second coming\" of\nCain and is immediately filled with Cain's emotions. Esau attempts\nto murder Jacob."},{"id":"p-1-502","text":"3. Mother-Son Co-Qperation"},{"id":"p-1-503","text":"Because of mother-son co-operation, Esau cannot kill Jacob.\nInstead, Jacob flees to Haran for his 21-year course. (However, in\nGenesis 31:38, Jacob says to Laban, \"I have been with you for\ntwenty years now.\" This is as he is leaving Haran, so you may want\nto say 20 years of exile and return in the 21st year."},{"id":"p-1-504","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 123\n\f 4. Wins the BIessiIg of the AnJeI.\n Of all the events of Jacob's course, this is the most important.\n Wmning the blessing of the angel represents the restoration of man's\n dominion over the angel. Lost dominion to the angels is, of course,\n the core of the fall. The way in which I was able to come to this\n understanding is, well, very unique."},{"id":"p-1-505","text":"I\n I\n i"},{"id":"p-1-506","text":"I\n I\n I\n I ,.·.· ·"},{"id":"p-1-507","text":"$6f"},{"id":"p-1-508","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 125\n\f With:j~~b,Godc()lildhaye taisedupan()tbe~' Esau.tiJji-nite'vYifh: ···'\n Ja~l>. . . .., ,> '•. , :.::,0\",,' . '. \", ...,. . . •,,: '. .•. . . \", .' ,,' . \"\",,';;',.,~,~'::.,:l:~' .' .\n \". It,w~,an unfQrge~ble ,nigbt. No.tonlydid'webav:eth~tri-®fu·,.'\n table~e~~PfgiyingsucJ1joyfuthe ~p~nts,~t~'~\\I\"C"},{"id":"p-1-509","text":"126 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fISRAEL"},{"id":"p-1-510","text":"Jacob becomes \"Israel\" and we see, in essence, the birth of the\n\"chosen people\" and nation. Sometimes, even Christians have had\na vague notion of the \"chosen nation.\" It was almost as if God had\nsome sort oflottery and just reached in the bin of nations and, some-\nhow, for undetermined reasons, just \"picked\" Israel.\n No one, not even the chosen people themselves, has ever given\nsuch a deep and clear explanation of the basis of Israel's status as\nthe \"chosen.\" Through reversing the conditions of the fall, Jacob\nestablished a family and tribal base that was separated from Satan.\nUpon that base, God could \"intervene\" and begin the effort to expand\nthat foundation.\n Jacob, re-named Israel, had 12 sons. The tribe ofIsrael became\n12 tribes of Israel. The twelve tribes become the foundation of the\nnation ofIsrael. From Israel through the line of Judah, 40 genera-\ntion later, was born the new living Adam.\n The significance of this foundation is clearly expressed in the\nwords of Jesus:"},{"id":"p-1-511","text":"These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: 'Do not go\n among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go\n rather to the lost sheep ofIsrael. As you go, preach this message: The\n kingdom of heaven is near.' Matthew 10:5-7\n He answered, 'I was sent only for the lost sheep of the House of\n Israel.' Matthew 15:24"},{"id":"p-1-512","text":"We will close this chapter with some of the better questions\nasked by clergy:"},{"id":"p-1-513","text":"Was the angel that Jacob wrestled Satan? If so, why was Jacob blessed\n by Satan? Rev. E.S., Baptist"},{"id":"p-1-514","text":"No, the angel was sent by God as a representative of the angel\nLucifer. We can see in the name the angel gave him (which means he\nwho struggles with God and men and overcomes) that the angel was\nsent by God. This is similar to the event of John the Baptist's bap-\ntism of Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-515","text":"Why did it take 1,500 years following Jacob-Esau for Christ to come?\n Rev. B.C., Lutheran"},{"id":"p-1-516","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 127\n\f As I explained in my presentation, after Jacob's victory, the fam-\n ily of Israel had to fulfill the condition of indemnity required as a\n result ofAbraham's failure (400 years of exile). From this point the\n tribe of Israel enters Egypt to begin this period. After 400 years, the\n world had advanced from the tribal level to the national level. Thus,\n Moses was sent to accomplish this task. Because of repeated failure\n the time was prolonged.\n There was apostasy in the period of Judges, at the time of\n Solomon, after that Baal worship, the exile and renewal. Finally,\n centering on the work of Ezra and Nehemiah, Zerubbabel and\n Joshua the high priest, the temple was rebuilt, repentance was\n exacted and this began the 400 year period ofpreparation for Christ's\n coming. Thus, the final prophet is Malachi, and the Old Thstament\n closes."},{"id":"p-1-517","text":";1._iR~'t!\n See Hosea 12:2-4. The Hebrew term for angel is bene Elohim\n which literally means sons of God. The term is used, however, most\n commonly to mean angels. Sometimes (in English translation) \"man\"\n is rendered for angel. The three \"men\" who appear to Abraham (Gen-\n esis 18) are the same \"men\" who appear in Lot's family in Genesis 19,\n except in Genesis 19 the men are represented as angels. So this is an\n English translation problem ."},{"id":"p-1-518","text":"• ~.:.~~~III~\n There is no scriptural evidence ofa curse on Rebekah, nor is there\n any scripture which pinpoints the time ofRebekah's death. In push-\n ing Jacob to gain Isaac's blessing, Rebekah was faithfully fulfilling\n what God declared years before when He told her \"the elder must\n serve the younger.\" (Genesis 25:23)"},{"id":"p-1-519","text":"128\n ~.e.~\"r::~\n THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f God was rwt unfair to Esau. Like Cain, Esau had to fulfill a very\nimportant role as representative of the archangel. His descendant\nbecame the king ofIsrael at the time ofJesus (Herod), and had John\nfulfilled his role, Herod could have led the entire secular side ofIsrael\nto Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-520","text":"Jacob wrestling the angel represents the regaining of dominion\nof man over the angel and thus the restoration of the position of the\nfirst son, which had been claimed by the fallen angel Lucifer. This\nwas accomplished by Jacob receiving the angel's blessing.\n Jacob wrestling the angel and his ensuing dislocated hip indi-\ncates that spiritual beings can and do manifest in our human world\nin a very experiential way. It serves to remind us that Eve's rela-\ntionship with Lucifer, though spiritual, was profound and real."},{"id":"p-1-521","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 129\n\f Chapter Five"},{"id":"p-1-522","text":"THE HISTORY LEADING TO JESUS\n The Law and All of the Prophets e have now reached a significant milestone in the lecture"},{"id":"p-1-524","text":"$70"},{"id":"p-1-525","text":"$71"},{"id":"p-1-526","text":"From that time he began to explain to his disciples that he must go to\n Jerusalem and suffer many things."},{"id":"p-1-527","text":"$72"},{"id":"p-1-528","text":"$73"},{"id":"p-1-529","text":"Rev. McCarthy, I attend a weekly Bible study at a church near my home.\n The minister has attended some ofow activities (he attended a one day\n workshop). At a recent Bible study, he focused on a Bible verse from Luke\n 24:21>-27. In that verse, Jesus says that his mission was to suffer in order\n U! fulfill what the prophets saW;Later he asked me what !-thoUght about\n thatand I didn't know what tf> say. llow would you answe,: tfwi question?\n .\" __w · ~"},{"id":"p-1-530","text":"Answer:\n See answer to previous question.\n Just joking ... we can deal with this. Let's get all the objections\nout on the table. Ministers have objections! Believe me!\n Luke 24:2~26"},{"id":"p-1-531","text":"He (Jesus) said to them, 'How foolish you are and how slow ofheart you\n are to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not Christ have to\n suffer these things and then enter into his glory?' And beginning with\n Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all\n the scripture concerning himself"},{"id":"p-1-532","text":"\"Aw, moonie, moonie ....\"\n It is important to recognize the valid basis for Christian belief.\nIt's not just because of Isaiah 53 or Paul's teaching or the Book of\nHebrews assertion that \"without the shedding of blood, there is no\nremission of sin.\" Also, let's not overlook what is probably the most\nimportant affirmation of all: changed lives!\n As I said, we are not an army of conquest, but rather an army of\nliberation. We have not come to retool the root of Christian faith, but\nrather to point toward the fruit or fulfillment of Christian faith. In\nbringing \"new wine\" we don't pour the old onto the ground. In fact,\nwe affirm and magnify the time-honored truths of Christian faith. We\nare not bringing \"all new things,\" we are making \"all things new!\""},{"id":"p-1-533","text":"MAKE TlME fOR MOSES"},{"id":"p-1-534","text":"In my experience lecturing ministers, usually we were very hard\npressed for time. We would have to decide what were the most essen-\n REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 133\n\f tial points of the Principle in order for ministers to have a chance\n to understand the nature of Father's mission. Because of that, usu-\n ally we did not spend enough time teaching Moses three courses.\n However, Moses' course is very significant for Christians. It is\n the basis for Jesus' 3 providential courses. Basically it can be taught\n as rendered in the Divine Principle book without any special prepa-\n ration for Christians.\n Here is a common question that was asked by many ministers:"},{"id":"p-1-535","text":"$74"},{"id":"p-1-536","text":"HpJ/ can youjustifynUi~Y o/you!, histprreal,AAres. Seveiato0th4sei14~s\n in't~Olcl .Tes~~t~implYdo. nptcomspoiul tOt~tki,ii-m1 'the A:lJ>\n ,dai!!8 are p()th arbitrary and forcetJ,;'Please 'ex'pldinafuldeten(J 't'!ii!se \"\n .'l:!4~s. -'. ~y.:' s~_, '. ~~~ · ,.,' .;.\",...\" \" \" i:\""},{"id":"p-1-537","text":"Answer:\n The presentation should not be misconstrued to be an exhaus-\n tive study of the theory of history. It is merely, at this level, indicat-\n ing that there is a law, pattern and goal ofhistory that finds its ulti-"},{"id":"p-1-538","text":"134 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-539","text":";~t,anelsand reoccurring events in history are\" .\n te~i()us. As you may know, there are many learned h .'\n !!eiveJistory moving in patterns and cycles. There\n theories that attempt to interpret patterns of h\n remember that whatever time frame you suggest' .\n ovidEmtial history, there are numerous theories that\n 'ridas'areof different lengths. Historians devote their .\n uing'events and dates; and formulating new theories\n . Qr.:example, many historians believe the time oer'IOdIOE!tWeen\n Joseph and the Exodus is not 430 years (as the Principle\n ioleQ affjrm) but closer to 200 years. Primarily, from Adam\n ur Divine Principle follows the Biblical record with\n duration of periods and circumstances."},{"id":"p-1-540","text":"$75"},{"id":"p-1-541","text":"$76"},{"id":"p-1-542","text":"Jesus gave them this answer: \"I tell you the truth, the Son can do noth-\n ing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because\n whatever the Father does the Son also does. John 5:19"},{"id":"p-1-543","text":"He also indicated that Moses was establishing a faith relation-\n ship with Israel that should have been the model for Israel's rela-\n tionship with Jesus:"},{"id":"p-1-544","text":"If you had believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me.\n John 5:45"},{"id":"p-1-545","text":"When Jesus said, \"for he wrote of me.\" He was referring to\n Deuteronomy 18:15 in which Moses said, «The Lord your God will\n raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers.\n You must listen to him.\"\n With Moses' Course God is restoring \"The Word.» For the first\n time since the Fall, God is giving his direct word to man. In the"},{"id":"p-1-546","text":"136 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments: Some Important Symbols"},{"id":"p-1-547","text":"The Two Tablets of Stone\n are divided into two. The\n relationships while the second 5 ~\n horizontal relationships:\n ido riot have false gods before me\n idols and worship them\n the name of the Lord in vain\n Sabbath\n Father and Mother\n not murder\n Irlotcommit adultery\n not steal\n Inot give false testimony\n s~all pot covet your neighbor's wife and goods"},{"id":"p-1-548","text":"\"pre-Old Testament era, the word was replaced by a \"conditional\nobject of faith.\" The configuration of the 10 commandments into two\nsections, one vertical, the other horizontal seems to reflect the need\nfor a personal Foundation of Faith and Substance in order for the\nindividual Israelite to \"receive the Messiah.\" It is just another exam-\nple of God's will to prepare the Chosen People to receive the Mes-\nsiah when he comes.\n Again, as you go through the Old Testament history, you want\nto begin to build momentum for \"The Mission of Jesus.\" You want\nto find any and every example, symbol, or historical event that helps\nto affirm the meaning of the words, \"What must we be doing to do\nthe will of God?\" Jesus answered, ''This is the will of God, that you\nbelieve in him who he has sent.\" When we begin to explain the his-\ntory leading up to Jesus, we want to show Christians, unequivo-\ncally, that the primary goal and fulfillment of that history would\ntake place by Israel's faith in Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-549","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 137\n\f Chapter Six"},{"id":"p-1-550","text":"THE LAW COVENANT\n The Hi~tory of Israel\n from Judges to Jesus\n hat is meant by the words \"The Old Testament?\" It has"},{"id":"p-1-551","text":"W come to mean all the books of the Bible before the book\n of Matthew. But its essential meaning is much more spe-\n cific. \"The Old Testament\" refers to a contract, or covenant, made\n between God and his people, the Israelites, centering on Moses and\n later reaffirmed with Joshua. It is stated in Deuteronomy\n 26:16-19"},{"id":"p-1-552","text":"The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these decrees arul\n laws; carefully observe them with all your heart arul with all your soul.\n You have declared this day that the LORD is your God arul that you will\n walk in his ways, that you will keep his decrees, commands arullaws,\n arul that you will obey him.\n And the LORD has declared this day that you are his people, his\n treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his\n commands. He has declared that he will set you in praise, fame arul\n honor high above all the nations he has made arul that you will be a\n people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."},{"id":"p-1-553","text":"The agreement between God and Israel requires something on\n the part of each party. The Israelites must maintain faith in the\n \"Laws, decrees and Commandments\" of God. If so done, God will\n make sure that Israel realizes a blessed destiny as the central nation\n of the world. Deuteronomy 28:1-7"},{"id":"p-1-554","text":"If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his com-\n mands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all\n the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and\n accompany you ifyou obey the LORD your God:\n You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit"},{"id":"p-1-555","text":"138 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f ofyour womb will be blessed, and the crops ofyour land and the young\n ofyour livestock - the calves ofyour herds and the lambs ofyour flocks.\n Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be\n blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. The LORD will\n grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before\n you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven."},{"id":"p-1-556","text":"The status of this agreement is the core determinate in the\ncourse of the unfolding of events in Israel leading up the coming of\nChrist. Read the entire 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. In it God out-\nlines all the \"Blessings\" iflsrael maintains faith. However, God also\noutlines all the curses \"if' they break with faith in the Laws, decrees\nand Commandments of God."},{"id":"p-1-557","text":"\"IF\""},{"id":"p-1-558","text":"$77"},{"id":"p-1-559","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 139\n\f This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set\n before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that\n you and your children may live."},{"id":"p-1-560","text":"$78"},{"id":"p-1-561","text":"Say to them, \"As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no\n pleasure in the death ofthe wicked, but rather that they turn from their\n ways and live. Thrn! Thrn from your evil ways! Why will you die, 0\n house of Israel?'"},{"id":"p-1-562","text":"140 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f This shows that when Israel turned from their Primary destiny,\nGod would intervene through a prophet's voice to encourage repen-\ntance and return. God \"takes no pleasure\" in having to invoke the\ntragic course of the secondary path of indemnity.\n God also indicates that if ever the curse is invoked upon Israel,\nit will not be because of his 'Will\" but rather as a result oflsrael fail-\ning in her role of responsibility. See Deuteronomy 29:24-25"},{"id":"p-1-563","text":"All the nations will ask: \"Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why\n this fierce, burning anger?\" And the answer will be: \"It is because this pe0-\n ple abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, the\n covenant he made with them when he brought them out ofEgypt."},{"id":"p-1-564","text":"In Isaiah 5:1-4, we can see this self-imposed line that God will\nnot cross with regard to man's portion of responsibility:"},{"id":"p-1-565","text":"I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had\n a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it ofstones and\n planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out\n a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it\n yielded only bad fruit.\n \"Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between\n me and my vineyard. What more could have been done for my vine-\n yard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why\n did it yield only bad?"},{"id":"p-1-566","text":"God did all that he could do and yet he did not get the result of\nhis desire and Will. How could that be? Is God weak? Not at all.\n Now you can understand why it is so vital to explain the Prin-\nciple with regard to how God fulfills his Will and why God is so care-\nful not to intervene in man's area of responsibility. Without it, they\nwill have no way to understand history and no way to understand\nJesus'mission.\n How else can we assert that the \"Secondary Course\" is less pre-\nferred? Probably the most important reason is that the ultimate\nobjective of the secondary course is merely to return to the original\nstarting point. The conclusion of the secondary course is the recre-\nation ofthe former circumstances faced by the predecessor. It is the\npath of Dispensational Time-Identity. It is characterized by delays\nand prolongation of the fulfillment of God's Will.\n Let's exam the time of Jeremiah and the beginning ofthe Baby-\nlonian Captivity as an example of this phenomenon."},{"id":"p-1-567","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 141\n\f Jeremiah 25:4-7\n And though the LORD has sent all his servants the prophets to you\n again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention. They\n said, \"Turn now, each ofyou, from your evil ways and your evil practices,\n and you can stay in the Umd the WRD gave to you and your fathers\n for ever and ever. Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them;\n do not provoke me to anger with what your hands have rnmie. Then I will\n not harm you.\"\n \"But you did not listen to me,\" declares the LORD, \"and you have pro-\n voked me with what your hands have rnmie, and you have brought\n harm to yourselves.\""},{"id":"p-1-568","text":"$79"},{"id":"p-1-569","text":"THE lAW COVENANT IS THE \"OS\" OF THE IISTORY LEADING TO JESUS"},{"id":"p-1-570","text":"As we enter the period of Judges, we can see the direct evidence\n of this \"operating system\" between God and His people. God would\n lead them to their Blessed destiny as long as they kept faith in the\n Laws, Decrees and Commandments. They could defeat any army,\n rout any tribe and move steadfastly toward securing the land. When,\n on the other hand, they stood in violation of their creeds, they were\n hopeless and ineffective. Their hard drives crashed big time. They\n couldn't even boot up as a people. In fact, at one point, they began\n to fight among themselves, almost wiping out the entire Tribe of\n Benjamin. Over the course ofthe next 400 years, we see this vacil-"},{"id":"p-1-571","text":"142 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-1-572","text":"lation from faith to faithlessness. Each time we can see the outcome\nas prescribed by the Covenant.\n The Philistine army was the most renowned nemesis of the\nIsraelites during this period. In fact, it was the emerging threat of\nthe Philistines that moved the Israelites to repentance centering\non the Prophet Samuel. The Providence shifted from a tribal setting\nto the establishment of the Monarchy of Saul, David and Solomon.\n With the establishment of the position of King, the status of the\nKing's faith in the Laws, Decrees and Commandments of God will\nbe the new determinate. In this requirement, we see that Saul is\ndeemed unworthy in 1 Samuel 13:13:"},{"id":"p-1-573","text":"\"You acted foolishly,\" Samuel said. ''You have not kept the command the\n LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your\n kingdom over Israel for all time."},{"id":"p-1-574","text":"There's that confounded word \"if' again. Samuel tells Saul that\nhad he kept faith, God would have established a kingdom over Israel\n\"for all time.\" The implications are very great. It is a clear, emphatic\nstatement that God wants to establish a strong central nation as the\nfoundation for Christ. Again that is the primary objective \"if' Israel\n(and now the King) maintains the condition of faith in the Laws,\nDecrees and Commandments of God.\n Saul becomes unacceptable to God. Saul's Kingship is passed\non the David. In 2 Samuel 7:12-16, God makes a promise (or\ncovenant) with King David:"},{"id":"p-1-575","text":"When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up\n your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body,\n and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house"},{"id":"p-1-576","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 143\n\f for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for-\n ever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong,\n I will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men.\n But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from\n Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom\n will endure forever before me; your throne wiu be established forever."},{"id":"p-1-577","text":"This promise, or covenant, is considered to be very significant.\n The \"Davidic Covenant\" is thought to be pertaining to the coming\n work of Jesus. Indeed, Jesus is the fulfillment of that vision. How-\n ever, this covenant has an immediate relevance and potential ful-\n fillment.\n Consider what God says to David's son Solomon in 1 Kings\n 9:4-9 ."},{"id":"p-1-578","text":"As for you, IF you walk before me in integrity of heart and uprightness,\n as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees\n arid laws, I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever,\n as I promised David your father when I said, \"You shaH never fail\n to have a man on the throne ofIsrael. \""},{"id":"p-1-579","text":"$7a"},{"id":"p-1-580","text":"$7b"},{"id":"p-1-581","text":"\"But IF you or your sons turn away from me and do not observe the com-\n mands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and\n worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them\n and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.\n Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all\n peoples. And though this temple is now imposing, all who pass by will\n be appalled and will scoff and say, Why has the LORD done such a\n thing to this land and to this temple?' People will answer,\n 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God, who brought\n their fathers out ofEgypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and\n serving them - that is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.'\n « lKings 9:6-9"},{"id":"p-1-582","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 145\n\f Did you notice that God repeats the wording of Deuteronomy\n 29:24? If Israel is destroyed, it will not be God's doing but rather, will\n be the result of the people (and now the King) forsaking God.\n How does Solomon stack up? Not so good. Although, initially,\n he was doing very well, he certainly began to run afoul of some of\n the more important Laws, Decrees and Commandments. See\n Deuteronomy 17:17:\n The King must not take many wives or his heart will be led astray."},{"id":"p-1-583","text":"Well, I guess if you're going to break the commandment, why\n stop at one or two?"},{"id":"p-1-584","text":"1 Kings 11:1-4, 10\n King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's\n daughter-Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.\n They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites,\n \"You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely tum your\n hearts after their gods.\" Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.\n He had SEVEN HUNDRED WIVES ofTYY.Yal birth and TImEE HUNDRED\n CONCUBINES, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his\n wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully\n devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart ofDavid his father had been."},{"id":"p-1-585","text":"$7c"},{"id":"p-1-586","text":"146 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\ffails to repent. An unrepentant Israel is doomed to be the \"tail\" not\nthe head and is scattered to the four corners of the earth.\n Inherent in their two-fold message is the image of a new com-\ning King whose own destiny will be determined by the nation's\nchoice. On the one hand a faithful Israel will welcome a new\nSolomon-like figure, the \"Messiah\" who will \"restore the Kingdom\nto Israel.\" On the other, a faithless Israel rejects her King who suf-\nfers and dies, bringing on the dark days of utter destruction. Which\ndestiny will be realized? It is Israel's choice.\n Know this with absolute assurance. It is only the Divine Prin-\nciple that conveys the enormity, the weighty implications inherent\nwithin the single word, \"if.\""},{"id":"p-1-587","text":"GLORY AND SUFFERING: DUAL PROPHECY"},{"id":"p-1-588","text":"$7d"},{"id":"p-1-589","text":"$7e"},{"id":"p-1-590","text":"COMPARING PROPHECY"},{"id":"p-1-591","text":"The 4 major and 12 minor prophetic books are grouped together\n in the Old Testament. They are the last 16 books of the Old Testa-\n ment beginning with Isaiah and ending with Malachi. This 600-\n year time period of the Major and Minor Prophets begins with the\n fall of Solomon's kingdom; concludes with Malachi and the beginning\n of the 400-year inter-testament period. It is highly recommended\n that you read each book and see if you can see the dual nature of\n each prophet's voice.\n With a partial sample, let's compare prophecy of glory with\n prophecy of suffering:\n • Glory: Isaiah 2:4-11, Zechariah 8:1-23, Ezekiel 37:15-28,\n Jeremiah 31:31, Isaiah 60&61; Ezekiel 34.\n • Suffering: Isaiah 53; Psalms 22 &118:22; Zechariah 13:7;\n 11:7-14; Jeremiah 32:6-9"},{"id":"p-1-592","text":"148 THE BLOO[)'STAINED VOICE\n\f Out of this sample, let's select a specific example from Ezekiel\nand Zechariah.\n Ezekiel 37:15-28\n Chosen People receive King\n JudahlIsrael united\n No exile ever again\n Covenant established\n Zechariah 11:7-14\n Chosen People will reject their King\n JudahlIsrael divided\n Exiled again (Zechariah 13:7)\n Covenant broken"},{"id":"p-1-593","text":"$7f"},{"id":"p-1-594","text":"Ifat any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, tom\n down and destroyed, and IF that nation I warned repents of its evil, then\n I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.\n And ifat another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be"},{"id":"p-1-595","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 149\n\f built up and planted, and IF it does evil in my sight and does not obey\n me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it."},{"id":"p-1-596","text":"This is the definitive word on prophecy, folks! And guess what?\n God agrees with the Divine Principle view! Amazing!\n Prophecy doesn't negate human responsibility. Let's cite some\n examples in Biblical history:\n • 2 Kings 20:1-6. God instructs Isaiah to tell Hezekiah he will\n not recover from his sickness and will die. Hezekiah prays with\n tears, God relents and adds 15 years to his life.\n • Jonah. God tells Jonah to tell the people of Nineveh that\n they will be destroyed in 40 days. The people repent and God does\n not destroy Nineveh. (Jonah gets miffed at God!)\n • Matthew 11:23. Jesus affirms that Sodom would not have\n been destroyed \"if' they had repented.\n These three examples pertain to the first part of Jeremiah\n 18:7-10:"},{"id":"p-1-597","text":"If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, tom\n down and destroyed, and IF that nation I warned repents ofits evil, then\n I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster 1 had planned."},{"id":"p-1-598","text":"That is, God relents in the secondary course because of repen-\n tance. How about an example in history of God relenting in his pri-\n mary will, as per:"},{"id":"p-1-599","text":"And ifat another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built\n up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me,\n then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it."},{"id":"p-1-600","text":"Consider this important example with regard to Israel's primary\n destiny."},{"id":"p-1-601","text":"Isaiah 65:17-19\n Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things\n will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and\n rejoice forev.er in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a\n delight and its people ajoy. I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight\n in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no\n more."},{"id":"p-1-602","text":"This vision for Israel did not come true, not because of God's\n predetermination but rather because ofIsrael's lack of faith in Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-603","text":"150 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Matt 21:43\n Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from\n you and given to a people who will produce its fruit."},{"id":"p-1-604","text":"Thus we see Revelation 21:1-2\n Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and\n the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw\n the Holy City, the NEW JERUSALEM, coming dowTl; out of heaven from\n God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband."},{"id":"p-1-605","text":"Because Israel failed to recognize her King, they lost their mis-\nsion. However, because God's primary Will was to bring \"the New\nHeaven and New Earth,\" God will recreate a \"New Jerusalem\" to\nfulfill this absolute prophecy. A New Jerusalem returns to do the\nmission of the first Jerusalem. Likewise, a new Adam comes to do\nthe primary mission ofthe second Adam.\n Thus Jesus had a primary mission that pertained to the King-\ndom of God and finding faith in Israel. Jesus' first two years of his\nministry focused on the Kingdom and the hope for faith in Israel,\nbecause, that mission was uiableat that time.\n Christians believe that by the time Malachi, the final prophet,\narrives, it is already determined that Christ will be rejected and\ncrucified. A second coming is already in the works. Notice how the\nfinal words of Malachi so differ from that assertion:"},{"id":"p-1-606","text":"Remember the law of my seroant Moses, the decrees and laws I\n gave him at Horeb for all Israel. See, I will send you the prophet Eli-\n jah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. He will turn\n the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children\n to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."},{"id":"p-1-607","text":"The contingency of \"if' is still in effect. Israel will decide which\ndestiny, blessing or curse, will be invoke based upon the success or\nfailure of the coming Elijah.\n When Jesus begins his public ministry with the words, \"Repent,\nnow is the time for the Kingdom is at hand,\" he was indicating a con-\ntemporary objective. It was his primary destiny. With this under-\nstanding, we will open the door, for the first time, and enter in to the\ninner sanctum of Christ's deepest sorrows. When Jesus prays, sor-\nrowing unto death \"let this cup pass from me,\" only those enlight-\nened with the truth of Principle will understand the substance of\nthat pray and the pathway to liberate him from his sorrows."},{"id":"p-1-608","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 151\n\f Chapter Seven"},{"id":"p-1-609","text":"THE CHANGE OF BLOOD LINEAGE\n The Lineage of Jesus he lecture series has brought us to the providence centering"},{"id":"p-1-611","text":"$80"},{"id":"p-1-612","text":"$81"},{"id":"p-1-613","text":"$82"},{"id":"p-1-614","text":"CHRISTIANITY AND SEX"},{"id":"p-1-615","text":"In a previous chapter we were given the opportunity to hear\n from Mrs. Ruth Smythers. She was the wife of a Methodist pastor\n at the turn of the 20th century. In her advice to newly wedded wives\n she displays the fruit of nearly 2000 years of Christian thought on\n human sexuality."},{"id":"p-1-616","text":"154 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f One cardinal rule of marriage slwuld never be forgotten: GNE UTTLE,\n GNE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GNE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise\n what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual\n lust.\n On the other hand, the bride's terror need not be extreme. While sex\n at best is revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured,\n and has been by women since the beginning of time."},{"id":"p-1-617","text":"$83"},{"id":"p-1-618","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 155\n\f vehicle of an earthly Father, Jesus' birth would have still been with-\n out sin.\n The expectation that the Messiah would be born of a virgin was\n set up by Isaiah 7:14:"},{"id":"p-1-619","text":"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with\n child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel."},{"id":"p-1-620","text":"$84"},{"id":"p-1-621","text":"156 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Sexless conception is a sign that Jesus is the Messiah. The con-\nditions set up affecting his sinless birth, however, must be conditions.\nof indemnity that will reverse the conditions by which Satan has\nextended his claim over the lineage of Adam. That is, conditions\nthat address the reason man lost God's authorization for sexual life.\n Our objective is not to impose the idea of a paternal function in\nthe conception of Jesus. It is, rather, to begin the process to sever the\nties, implied or actual, between sex and sin."},{"id":"p-1-622","text":"THE UREAGE OF JESUS"},{"id":"p-1-623","text":"Jesus lineage is revealed in two of the Gospels: Matthew and\nLuke. There are two very distinct differences in both lineages. You\nwill notice that Matthew's portrayal goes through David's son\nSolomon, while Luke's goes through David's son Nathan. Another\nnotable difference is whereas both end in Joseph, the supposed\nfather of Jesus, Matthew identifies Joseph's, father as \"Jacob\" while\nLuke refers to Joseph's father as \"Heli.\"\n One theory to explain the difference is that Matthew's depiction\nis of the lineage of Mary while Luke's is that of Joseph. It was the\ncustom to list the wife's lineage culminating in her husband's name.\nAn interesting theory.\n Most significant in Matthew's representation is the mention of\nfive notable women in Jesus' lineage."},{"id":"p-1-624","text":"Matthew 1:1-17\n 1 A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of\n Abraham:\n 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the\n father of Judah and his brothers,\n 3 Judah the father ofPerez and Zerah, whose mother was, (1.) TAMAR,\n Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,\n 4 Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon,\n Nahshon the father of Salmon,\n 5 Salmon the father of Boaz, wlwse mother was, (2.) RAHAB, Boaz\n the father of Obed, wlwse mother was, (3.) RUTH, Obed the father of\n Jesse,\n 6 and Jesse the father ofKing David. David was the father of Solomon,\n wlwse mother had been, (4.) URIAH'S WIFE, (BA1HSHEBA)\n 7 Solomon the father ofRehoboam, Rehoboam the father ofAbijah, Abi-"},{"id":"p-1-625","text":"$85"},{"id":"p-1-626","text":"Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary; can you find any\n shared occurrence with all of these woman ofthe Old and New Tes-\n tament eras?\n Tamar: Had an incestuous relationship with her father-in-law\n while engaged to another.\n Rahab: A prostitute in Jericho\n Ruth: Tempted Boaz on the threshing room floor while engaged\n to another.\n Bathsheba: Engaged in an adulterous relationship with David\n while married to Uriah. (gave birth to Solomon . . . hello.)\n Mary: Became pregnant out of wedlock while engaged to\n another . . . (hello again.)\n Why would scripture only preserve the names of the women in\n Jesus' lineage involved in what appears to be decadent activity?\n Why would an entire chapter of Genesis be devoted to the story of\n a woman deceiving her father-in-law into having sex?\n Christians have swept these questions deep beneath the carpet"},{"id":"p-1-627","text":"$86"},{"id":"p-1-628","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 159\n\f from this perspective opens our eyes to a new level of meaning\n within the events documented in the lineage of Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-629","text":"$87"},{"id":"p-1-630","text":"$88"},{"id":"p-1-631","text":"160 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and\n everything he had."},{"id":"p-1-632","text":"Abram instructs Sarai (before their name-change to Abraham\nand Sarah) to say that she is his sister. By doing so, Abram and\nSarai take the position of Adam and Eve. The pharaoh is, obviously,\nin the position of the archangel. Sarai is taken into his palace with\nthe intent that she will become the pharaoh's wife. The Lord informs\nthe pharaoh (through serious diseases) that Sarai is the wife and not\nthe sister of Abram. Pharaoh could have ignored these warnings,\nhave Abram killed and taken Sarai anyway. That would have been\nthe pattern that would follow the fallen norm. Instead, Pharaoh the\nsovereign ruler, releases Sarai, does not kill her husband and allows\nthem to return to Canaan unscathed. This is a very significant rever-\nsal of the norm.\n The second instance, also involving Abraham and Sarah, is\nrecorded in Genesis 20:1-17:"},{"id":"p-1-633","text":"$89"},{"id":"p-1-634","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 161\n\f The pattern carried out in Egypt with Pharaoh is repeated in\n Gerer with King Abimelech. This time, God gives Abimelech a\n dream in which the marital status of Sarah is revealed.\n The pattern continues, this time with Abraham's son Isaac and\n Isaac's wife, Rebecca. This is recorded in Genesis 26:1-16:"},{"id":"p-1-635","text":"$8a"},{"id":"p-1-636","text":"Again, the pattern of the fall is reversed. Abimelech doesn't take\n Rebecca and allows her and her husband to continue their life as\n husband and wife.\n These three instances in Abraham's family set the scene for us\n to understand the significance of the 38th chapter of the Book of\n Genesis: the story of Tamar."},{"id":"p-1-637","text":"The story of Tamar stands out as one of the most unusual chap-\n ters in the Bible. Certainly, it is the most misunderstood chapter. It"},{"id":"p-1-638","text":"162 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fis often interesting to examine various Bible commentaries as they\nattempt to make sense of the story and devise theories as to why\nsuch a story would even appear. Consider this typical evaluation\ngiven by The Interpreter's Bible:"},{"id":"p-1-639","text":"10 many readers of the Bible, it must seem strange that this story is\n inserted in the midst ofthe narrative ofJoseph. It is like an alien element,\n suddenly and arbitrarily thrust into a record that it serves only to dis-\n turb. Certainly few people would choose this chapter as a basis for teach-\n ing or preaching. Then why is this dark old tale preserved?\n \". . . Even so, in the unlovely narrative there are at least some ele-\n ments of right purpose emerging like flowers from rank ground.\n One can see here - twisted though its manifestation may be - the powerful\n and generally wholesome instinct of the Jewish people that family her-\n itage must be continued. One may see also in Tamar the wistful and\n pathetic yearning of the woman for motherhood.\""},{"id":"p-1-640","text":"\"Twisted though its manifestation may be??\" Not as twisted as\nmost efforts to explain away the meaning of this story and how it\ncould be that the lineage of Christ was produced from such \"rank\nground.\"\n As the 38th chapter opens we see Tamar married to Judah's\neldest son named Er. However, Er \"was wicked in the Lord's sight\"\nso God puts Er to death. As Forest Gump would say, \"that's all I'm\ngoing to say about that.\" And that's all we hear about Er. In response\nto this death, Judah gives Tamar to her deceased husband's closest\nrelative. This was in keeping with the Levirate code of that time\nwhich provided that the closest relative of the deceased would take\nthe widow as his spouse. Er's closest kin was his next oldest brother\nwhose name was Onan.\n Onan received Tamar as his wife, however, it seems that Onan\nwas rather reluctant to consummate this new relationship. In Gen-\nesis 38:9,"},{"id":"p-1-641","text":"But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay\n with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from\n producing offspring for his brother."},{"id":"p-1-642","text":"God is not happy with Onan's behavior. In the 10th verse:"},{"id":"p-1-643","text":"What he did was wicked in the Lord's sight, so he put him to death, also."},{"id":"p-1-644","text":"$8b"},{"id":"p-1-645","text":"$8c"},{"id":"p-1-646","text":"$8d"},{"id":"p-1-647","text":"166 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f The truth of the Divine Principle, riot only exonerates Tamar, it\nexalts her to the highest of status. Could there be any greater exam-\nple that demonstrates the limits of the Judeo-Christian view on sex-\nuality and the need for a deeper, fuller measure?\n Know for sure, that many tumultuous encounters remain as we\nshift from that criterion to that of the Completed Testament Age."},{"id":"p-1-648","text":"Zerah and Perez"},{"id":"p-1-649","text":"$8e"},{"id":"p-1-650","text":"From Tamar to Mary we see the story of Rahab in the Book of\nJoshua. Rahab is a prostitute in Jericho. The King of Jericho\ninstructs Rahab to keep on the look out for any Hebrew spies lurk-\ning about. Instead Rahab hides the spies from the Kings soldiers.\nLater when Jericho is destroyed, it is only Rahab and her family\nwhose lives are spared. She eventually becomes the wife of Salmon\nin the tribe of Judah."},{"id":"p-1-651","text":"$8f"},{"id":"p-1-652","text":"Bathsheba"},{"id":"p-1-653","text":"Bathsheba was Uriah's wife. Uriah was one of David's gener-\n als. One day David is on a rooftop and he spots Bathsheba in her\n house taking a bath. He takes great interest in Bathsheba at that\n moment (its in the Bible, folks)."},{"id":"p-1-654","text":"168 THE BLOOD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Father explains in The Change of Blood Lineage,"},{"id":"p-1-655","text":"Actually, the mother of King Solomon was Bathsheba, originally the\n wife of Uriah before King David stole her. Then how could the child\n from that union become King Solomon? Bathsheba was in the prov-\n idential position of Eve in the Garden of Eden, before the fall. David\n was in the position of Adam, and Uriah was in the position of the\n archangel. The archangel distracted the spouse of Adam with love\n and stole her away, making her fall. A reversal course is needed in\n order to indemnify that; therefore a person in the position of the\n archangel's wife had to be restored to the position of Eve. Therefore,\n the child who was born on the foundation of that reversal could be\n born as a child of heavenly love, a child of glory. Solomon was such\n a child of glory."},{"id":"p-1-656","text":"Hello! Child of glory?"},{"id":"p-1-657","text":"$90"},{"id":"p-1-658","text":"$91"},{"id":"p-1-659","text":"170 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fJesus came as the second True Parents of humankind. The original\nfirst parents were Adam and Eve. If Jesus had not been killed, the\nunification between Judaism and Israel would have come about cen-\ntering upon Eve, the mother position. The Messiah comes in the posi-\ntion ofparent and king. The king needs his queen. Jesus stood in the\nposition of the bridegroom, and his 12 disciples, 72 apostles and 120\nelders were all in the position of the bride. Once the bride and bride-\ngroom positions united, then it was possible to return to the original\nTrue Lineage. Israel doesn't realize this. The Christian world doesn't\nrealize this. Sun Myung Moon, \"True Parents' Day is My True\nSon's Day,\" April 18, 1996"},{"id":"p-1-660","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 171\n\f Chapter Eight"},{"id":"p-1-661","text":"MISSION OF JESUS"},{"id":"p-1-662","text":"$92"},{"id":"p-1-663","text":"JESUS CALLS FOR FAITH AND THE mGDOM"},{"id":"p-1-664","text":"Mark 1:15\n \"The time has come,\" he said. \"The kingdom of God is near. Repent and\n believe the good news!\""},{"id":"p-1-665","text":"Matthew 4:17\n From that time on Jesus began to preach, \"Repent, for the kingdom of\n heaven is near.\""},{"id":"p-1-666","text":"172 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f John 6:28-29\n Then they asked him, \"What must we do to do the works God requires?\"\n Jesus answered, \"The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has\n sent.\""},{"id":"p-1-667","text":"Clearly the Kingdom was an immediate objective in Jesus' view.\nHe said the \"time has come, the Kingdom is near.\" He is asking\nthem, at that moment, to repent. If they do, the unfolding of the\nKingdom will be the consequence of that repentance. How more\nexplicit can it be than the clear answer of John 6:28-29? It is to\nbelieve in him, whom God has sent."},{"id":"p-1-668","text":"Matthew 23:37\n \"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent\n to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a\n hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing."},{"id":"p-1-669","text":"$93"},{"id":"p-1-670","text":"John 8:37-42\n I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill\n me, because you have no room for my word. I am telling you what I have"},{"id":"p-1-671","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 173\n\f seen in the Father's presence, and you do wluzt you have heard from your\n father. \"\n \"Abraham is our father,\" they answered. \"I(you were Abraham's\n children,\" said Jesus, \"then you would do the things Abraham did.\n As it is, you are determined to kiU me, a man who has told you the\n truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.\n You are doing the things your own father does.\" \"We are not illegiti-\n mate children, \" they protested. \"The only Father we have is God him-\n self\" Jesus said to them, \"I(God, were your Father, you would love\n me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own;\n but he sent me.\""},{"id":"p-1-672","text":"Jesus establishes that the people are the descendants of Abra-\n ham, \"yet you are ready to kill me.\" Jesus is affirming that killing\n the messiah is inconsistent with the purpose for Abraham's descen-\n dants. Jesus goes on to explain even more emphatically, \"If you were\n Abraham's children, you would do the things Abraham did; as it is,\n you are determined to kill me. . AbraOOm did rwt do such things.\""},{"id":"p-1-673","text":"Matthew 21:3~7\n \"The tenants seized his seroants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned\n a third.\n Then he sent other seroants to them, more than the first time, and\n the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to\n them. 'They will respect my son,' he said.\""},{"id":"p-1-674","text":"Here Jesus reveals the motive of God in sending the son, \"They\n will respect my son.\" In fact, this parable (Matthew 21:35-43)\n \"samples\" from Isaiah chapter 5 \"Song of the Vmeyard\" in which\n God laments \"wOOt more could I have done for my vineyard toot I\n did rwt already do? And yet, when I looked for good fruit, why did I\n find only bad?\" Jesus indicates that the bad tradition oflsrael reject-\n ing their prophets is one that God seeks to reverse in sending His\n son, \"surely they will respect my son.\""},{"id":"p-1-675","text":"THE KINGDOM VAS MEANT TO _OlD _ISRAEL"},{"id":"p-1-676","text":"Here are some Bible verses that indicate that the Kingdom was\n meant to unfold at that time:"},{"id":"p-1-677","text":"174 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-1-678","text":"$94"},{"id":"p-1-682","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 175\n\f c.,r;rf.I\" J~i~.J~ltt\\:: ·\n .. <\" ,. . ,-. . ~;;~.';::!:.: . .'\n .."},{"id":"p-1-683","text":"~, :';'< the sales p~~(iss, is ~~ l~se!! . .' . ' .. ::,c\",:\"., ',:,'.<\n ,~:\"\n ,,' . Mrs. Jones: ~en, rm going to need some time to 1iiliik.;it ~:ver. '.' - ,"},{"id":"p-1-685","text":"$95"},{"id":"p-1-686","text":"~y~~~~~~!tfi~i~f~~~,· ,~'., .. \""},{"id":"p-1-687","text":"$96"},{"id":"p-1-688","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 1n\n\f Matthew 21:43\n \"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from\n you and given to a people who will produce its fruit."},{"id":"p-1-689","text":"Notice that Jesus says, \"the Kingdom of God will be taken away\n from you.\" This indicates that the Kingdom was theirs, was to be set\n up at that time and, therefore, all prophecy of \"glory\" was relevant\n for that time. However, some mitigating circumstance has inter-\n vened and altered that destiny. What could it possibly be? Perhaps\n God's warning through Jeremiah is the answer:"},{"id":"p-1-690","text":"And ifat another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built\n up and planted, and IF it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then\n I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it. Jeremiah 18:9-10"},{"id":"p-1-691","text":"The contemporary relevance of the Kingdom is also expressed\n in:\n Matthew 23:13\n \"Woe to you, teachers ofthe law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut\n the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter,\n nor will you let those enter who are trying to."},{"id":"p-1-692","text":"$97"},{"id":"p-1-693","text":"Luke 19:41-44\n As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and\n said, \"Ifyou, even you, had only known on this day what would bring"},{"id":"p-1-694","text":"178 THE BLOOO-8TAINEO VOICE\n\f you peace but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon\n YOlt when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encir-\n cle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground,\n you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on\n another: because you did not recognize the time of God's coming\n to you.\""},{"id":"p-1-695","text":"Here again, we see Jesus' sorrow and frustration. Notice that he\nagain pinpoints \"on this day\" the potential of his contemporary age\nto ''bring you peace.\" Later, we will examine what Jesus means by\n\"peace.\" Also noteworthy is that Jesus pins a bleak future upon\nIsrael as a result oftheir failure to recognize \"God's coming to you.\""},{"id":"p-1-696","text":"THE DISPENSATION TURNS FROM 'PRIMARY' TO 'SECONDARY'"},{"id":"p-1-697","text":"Consistent with the covenant-centered flow of history, the prov-\nidence shifts from primary to secondary whenever Israel fails to\nrespond in timely fashion. Typically, the people are unable to under-\nstand and they react defensively to the change of focus from ''bless-\ning\" to \"curse.\" We see an example of this in the book of Jeremiah.\nAfter Jeremiah announces the 70 years of exile, he is considered to\nbe a traitor. They do not understand what he is talking about in\nJeremiah 26:~:"},{"id":"p-1-698","text":"But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the\n LORD had commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the\n people seized him and said, ''Thu must die! Why do you prophesy in the\n Lord's name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be des-\n olate and deserted?\""},{"id":"p-1-699","text":"We see the same phenomenon in the mission of Jesus. After\nroughly two years of calling for faith and repentance, Israel is unre-\npentant and unresponsive. As a result of this faithless stance, Jesus\nannounces the dispensational shift from primary to secondary in\nMatthew 16:21: From that time on Jesus began to explain to his dis-\nciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things.\n From that time Jesus began. This is the shift from the Kingdom\nto the Cross, from primary to secondary, from blessing to curse,\nfrom glorious destiny for Israel to bleak destiny for Israel, from\nLord of Glory to Lord of Suffering. This is 6 days before the Mount"},{"id":"p-1-700","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 179\n\f of Transfiguration and roughly the beginning of the last year of\n Jesus' ministry.\n We can also examine the disciples' confusion at this sudden shift\n of focus."},{"id":"p-1-701","text":"Luke 18:34\n \"The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden\n from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.\""},{"id":"p-1-702","text":"$98"},{"id":"p-1-703","text":"And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go\n speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will\n go also.\n Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the\n LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.\n Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass,\n that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even\n shall take hold ofthe skirt ofhim that is a Jew, saying, We will go\n with you: for we have heard that God is with you."},{"id":"p-1-704","text":"This vision is what the apostles \"had hoped\" for. Notice that\n they describe their hope in past tense. Clearly, Jesus death closed\n the door on an expectation laid down in scripture and reaffirmed by\n Jesus in the first two years of his ministry. Thus, they were sad-\n dened and disheartened by Jesus' crucifixion."},{"id":"p-1-705","text":"180 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Even in their last meeting with Jesus before his ascension into\nheaven, they ask: \"So when they met together, they asked him, 'Lord,\nare you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?'\"\nActs 1:6\n They just can't fully accept that the providence had shifted. This\nis probably one reason Jesus said, \"I'm coming soon.\" If they knew\nthat they were beginning a 2,000-year prolongation, they would\nreally have been disheartened."},{"id":"p-1-706","text":"FROM 'BLESSING' TO 'CURSE'\n With the shift from primary to secondary, we also see a change\nin the description oflsrael's destiny from ''blessing'' to \"curse.\""},{"id":"p-1-707","text":"Luke 23:2g.....a1\n Jesus turned and said to them, \"Daughters ofJerusalem, do not weep for\n me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come\n when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never\n bore and the breasts that never nursed!' Then they will say to the moun-\n tains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!' \""},{"id":"p-1-708","text":"Jesus recites Hosea 10:8: \"they will say to the mountains, \"Fall\non us!\" and to the hills, Cover us!\" These were the words of sinful\nIsrael carried away by the Assyrians. Jesus is indicating that his\nrejection and crucifixion represents the same turning point in the\ndestiny for Israel of that period. He is predicting hard times ahead\nfor Israel. This is very significant in relation to God's promise in\nDeuteronomy 29:24; Israel will only be destroyed if it violates the\nlaws, decrees and commandments of God.\n In the 34th verse ofthe same 23rd chapter of Luke, Jesus says,\n\"Father forgive them they know not what they do.\"\n Of course, the implication is that had they known what they\nwere doing, they would not proceed to do it, i.e., crucify Jesus.\n We also see a gloomy description of Israel's future in Luke\n19:41-44 .,"},{"id":"p-1-709","text":"Luke 19:41-44\n As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and\n said, \"Ifyou, even you, had only known on this day what would bring\n you peace - but now it is hidden from your eyes. THE DAYS WILL COME\n UPON YOU WHEN YOUR ENEMIES WILL BUILD AN EMBANKMENT AGAINST"},{"id":"p-1-710","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 181\n\f YOU AND ENCIRCLE YOU AND HEM YOU IN ON EVERY SIDE. THEY WILL\n DASH YOU TO THE GROUND, YOU AND THE CHILDREN WITHIN YOUR\n WALLS. THEY WILL NOT LEAVE ONE STONE ON ANOTHER, because you\n did rwt recognize the time ofGod's coming to you.\""},{"id":"p-1-711","text":"In fact, in 70 A.D., Rome destroyed Israel as a nation and the\n Jews were scattered until 1948."},{"id":"p-1-712","text":"$99"},{"id":"p-1-713","text":"182 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-1-714","text":", \" a dramatic example of God seeking jn'!'t on/on'\n moment. We see the amazing story\n Matthew 27:19:"},{"id":"p-1-715","text":"On the other hand, faced with the reality of no faith in Israel,\nhe had to also address the providential meaning of his impending\ndeath. Most important, the apostles would need to understand the\nsignificance of his death were it to come. That understanding, as\nwell as the understanding of the coming Kingdom, was implicit\nwithin the voice ofthe Old Testament.\n We can see that after his crucifixion, the followers of Jesus were\ndepressed and disheartened. Jesus had to convince them that what\ntook place was not just a failure or defeat. He had to show them\nthat, though less preferred, the prolongation of the way of indem-\nnity is also a course that culminates in great hope. And thus, ''begin-\nning with Moses and all of the prophets, he explained to them what\nhad been said in all the scriptures concerning himself.\"\n In the first two years of his ministry, however, Jesus' view of the\nmeaning of the Old Testament is quite different."},{"id":"p-1-716","text":"John 5:39-40\n You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you\n possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet\n you refuse to come to me to have life."},{"id":"p-1-717","text":"Here Jesus affirms that the intent of the scripture is to convince\nthe chosen people that they should come to Jesus. He goes on to\nexpress even more emphatically:"},{"id":"p-1-718","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 183\n\f John 5:45-47\n \"But do rwt think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is\n Moses, on whom your hopes are set. Ifyou belwved Moses, you would\n believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do rwt believe what\n he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?\""},{"id":"p-1-719","text":"When did Moses write of Jesus? It is Deuteronomy 18:15: \"The\n Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among\n your own brothers. You must listen to him.\"\n How can it be unequivocally asserted that Moses is referring to\n Jesus? See Acts 3:21-22:"},{"id":"p-1-720","text":"\"He (Jesus) must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore\n everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. For\n Moses said, 'THE LoRD YOUR GoD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET\n LIKE ME FROM AMONG YOUR OWN PEOPLE; YOU MUST USTENTO EVERY-\n THING HE TELLS YOU.'\" (Acts 3:21-22 recites Moses words from\n Deuteronomy 18:15)"},{"id":"p-1-721","text":"From this viewpoint, the Old Testament is testifying that Israel\n should receive its King."},{"id":"p-1-722","text":"Jesus and Prophecy of Glory"},{"id":"p-1-723","text":"According to the idea that all prophecy of glory is referring to the\n Second Coming of Christ, we should not see any evidence of Jesus\n in Israel linking those scriptures with his contemporary role. After\n all, he is only there to fulfill the prophecy of suffering, right? Well,\n in fact, Jesus makes several references to prophecy of glory and\n indicates that indeed they do pertain to his work in Israel. Let's\n first examine Luke 4:1~21:"},{"id":"p-1-724","text":"He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath\n day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to\n read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it,\n he found the place where it is written: \"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,\n because he has arwinted me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent\n me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the\n blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.\"\n Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat\n down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and"},{"id":"p-1-725","text":"184 THE BLOOO-8TAINEO VOICE\n\f he began by saying to them, \"7bday this scripture is fulfilled in your\n hearing.\""},{"id":"p-1-726","text":"Jesus himself chooses to recite Isaiah chapter 61. \"The scroll of\nthe prophet Isaiah was handed him. Unrolling it, he found the place\nwhere it is written:\" What a perfect time to recite Isaiah 53, \"by his\nstripes we are healed.\" Yet Jesus bypasses Isaiah 53 (a prophecy of\nsuffering) and goes straight to Isaiah 61 (a prophecy of glory).\n Here is a sampling of the \"blessing\" tone of the chapter."},{"id":"p-1-727","text":"Isaiah 61:4-6,9\n They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated;\n they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for genera-\n tions. Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your\n fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests ofthe LORD,\n you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the\n wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.\n Their descendants will be known among the nations and their\noffspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that\nthey are a people the LORD has blessed."},{"id":"p-1-728","text":"Jesus recites the opening verses ofthe 61 chapter and concludes,\n\"1bday this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.\"\n \"Today\" is fulfilled. Also significant is the 8th verse mention of\nthe establishment of a new, everlasting covenant. We see mention\nof a \"new covenant\" in other scripture:"},{"id":"p-1-729","text":"Jeremiah 31:31-84\n \"The time is coming,\" declares the LORD, \"when I will make a new\n covenant with the house ofIsrael and with the house ofJudah. It will not\n be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by\n the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant,\n though I was a husband to them, \" declares the LORD.\n \"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that\n time,\" declares the LORD. \"I will put my law in their minds and write\n it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No\n longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know\n the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the\n greatest,\" declares the LORD. \"For I will forgive their wickedness and will\n remember their sins no more.\""},{"id":"p-1-730","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 185\n\f Jeremiah is describing the unfolding of the Kingdom in Israel\n \"if' Israel receives the messiah when he comes. Because this did\n not happen, Christians assume this is referring to the Second Com-\n ing and the eventual salvation of the Jews with no relevance to\n Jesus in his first coming.\n What it actually reveals is that a \"new covenant\" was to be set\n up if Israel accepted Christ when he came. It provided for forgive-\n ness of sins without having to require his path to the cross. Remem-\n ber, his suffering would only be required \"if' no faith was found in\n Israel.\n We see another example in Ezekiel 37:24-27:"},{"id":"p-1-731","text":"« 'My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.\n They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where\n your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children\n will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.\n 1 wiU make a covenant ofpeace with them; it will be an ever-\n lasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and\n I will put my sanctuary among them forever. My dwelling place will be\n with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people."},{"id":"p-1-733","text":"$9a"},{"id":"p-1-734","text":"186 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f But the most amazing and explicit of all is Jesus' words in\nMatthew 10:5 and Matthew 15:24."},{"id":"p-1-735","text":"Matthew 10:5-6\n These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: \"Do not go\n among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to\n the lost sheep ofIsrael. As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom\n of heaven is near.' \""},{"id":"p-1-736","text":"Matthew 15:24\n He answered, \"/ was sent only to the lost sheep ofIsrael.\""},{"id":"p-1-737","text":"Why did Jesus show such a startling preference toward the blood\ndescendants of the house ofIsrael? Was it because he only cared for\nhis fellow Jews? Of course not! The reason is simple. It was only\nthe blood descendants of the house of Israel who were given the\nresponsibility in the covenant. In other words, it was only the Jews\nwhose faith in Christ or lack thereof would determine the outcome\nof the Kingdom or the cross. It was their faith or lack thereof that\nwould swing the providence toward primary or secondary.\n When Jesus uses the term \"lost sheep of the house ofIsrael,\" he\nis alluding to another prophecy of glory in Ezekiel: 34:2~29"},{"id":"p-1-738","text":"$9b"},{"id":"p-1-739","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 187\n\f Again, this new covenant, if received in faith by Israel would\n transform the world. All prophecy of glory would be fulfilled at that\n time. Jesus would not have had to go the way of the cross and there\n would be no need for the return of Christ 2,000 years later. We would\n all be speaking Aramaic today. The nations would have \"beaten\n their swords into plowshares\" many years ago. The \"Kingdom\"\n would have been established and the vision of Zechariah 8:21-23\n would have been realized:"},{"id":"p-1-740","text":"Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD\n of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.\n Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass,\n that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even\n shall take hold ofthe skirt ofhim that is a Jew, saying, We will go\n with you: for we have heard that God is with you."},{"id":"p-1-741","text":"And Isaiah 65:17:\n Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The fonner things\n will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and\n rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a\n delight and its people ajoy."},{"id":"p-1-742","text":"This Kingdom would have an earthly manifestation. It would not\n just be an earthly Kingdom but would follow the parameters of\n \"what is sown on earth is reaped in heaven.\"\n This, then, forms the basis to understand the role and method\n of the Second Coming of Christ. We see this reflected in Hebrew\n 9:28:"},{"id":"p-1-743","text":"Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he\n will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those\n who are waiting for him."},{"id":"p-1-744","text":"Christ returns to the moment, position and function that Jesus\n leaves behind when he turns from this primary objective to the sec-\n ondary course of blood atonement.\n Christ returns to accomplish Jesus' primary miSSion, that is,\n the bringing of a salvation that will manifest visibly in the world and\n will not require his shedding of blood. What could that mission\n entail?"},{"id":"p-1-745","text":"$9c"},{"id":"p-1-746","text":"Answer:\n You are overlooking a very important part of Hebrews 9:22 that\nstates \". . . and almost all things are purged by blood; and without\nthe shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.\" What all of\nHebrews 9:22 is saying is that there is not remission, except by blood,\nfor those things required under law to be cleansed by blood.\n The word \"almost\" doesn't mean something cannot be cleansed\nby blood, but rather, that the law requirement for blood atonement\nis not absolute in all cases. Thus, we see scripture such as Hosea 6:6,\n1 Samuel 15:22, Micah 6:7-8 which stress the superior quality of\nbelief in Jesus, and therefore, would have superseded the law require-\nment of blood. Because the condition of belief was not found, Jesus,"},{"id":"p-1-747","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 189\n\f in order to satisfy the requirements, had to shed his blood. Hebrews\n 9:22 would not contradict this view."},{"id":"p-1-748","text":"AiUt~$iii1ledinlMp#; J,?tJe¢ll$·rkcei~(/;...T@s'crorifW~lSyk~in;~mhn-.·· .\n ..strdting. \"1l)lPtMpn1b~~ofsinWouki. lie$OlVm,;~as. esiabl~~oqt$i4£ ! ."},{"id":"p-1-749","text":";.I.~~'I.t\n .a7J,dJ~iJe 'ctrU1 tli6se4Jl¢~ntones W.eregjr>en aninwt:rect§yl'TJ,lfijl,by(;o(l,: ,.•\n . '. .••. \". .. ,'. \", .. ..\n ·~.v~.s7 ~¥~ntist·i~:l,.\"'\\~,. ;.· \"i\"\"\":~;;:\"~. >\""},{"id":"p-1-750","text":"$9d"},{"id":"p-1-751","text":"190 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f All of this being said, once Israel's lack of faith in Jesus was\nestablished, beginning in the last year of his ministry, the precious\nblood of Christ became the only means of atonement for man. How\nmuch more deep should our repentance be in the knowledge that had\nwe only done our part, our beloved Lord would not have had to go\nthe way of humiliation on Calvary."},{"id":"p-1-752","text":"$9e"},{"id":"p-1-753","text":"$9f"},{"id":"p-1-754","text":"THE amu 0I1r0lDHlT"},{"id":"p-1-755","text":"There are many biblical examples of other methods of atone-\n ment for sin:"},{"id":"p-1-756","text":"Hosea 6:6:\n For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God\n RATHER than burnt offerings."},{"id":"p-1-757","text":"In other words, faith trumps blood atonement"},{"id":"p-1-758","text":"Proverbs 16:6:\n Through love and faithfulness, sin is atoned."},{"id":"p-1-759","text":"Faith accomplishes atonement.\n In the Old Testament, another method of atonement that did\n not involve bloodshed was the tradition of the \"scapegoat,\" in Leviti-\n cus 16:10:"},{"id":"p-1-760","text":"192 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before\n the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert\n as a scapegoat."},{"id":"p-1-761","text":"Compare this to what Jesus was trying to accomplish in the\nearly part of his ministry:"},{"id":"p-1-762","text":"Matthew 4:1-11\n Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the\n devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The\n tempter came to him and said, \"Ifyou are the Son ofGod, tell these stones\n to become bread.\""},{"id":"p-1-763","text":"The heart of Christian faith is the \"substitutionary atonement\"\nof Christ's death. However, Jesus also established in the wilderness\na \"substitutionary atonement\" through being \"tempted in every way\njust as we are,\" yet without sinning (Hebrews 4:15). In being\ntempted and not sinning, Jesus atoned for sin, in our stead, by his\nlove and faithfulness in front of God. Thus Luke 5:24:"},{"id":"p-1-764","text":"\"But that you may know that the Son ofMan has autlwrity on earth\n to forgive sins.\""},{"id":"p-1-765","text":"Jesus declares that he has the authority to forgive sins ON\nEARTH! In fact, when anyone linked to Jesus in love and faith,\nJesus would apply that authority to forgive them of their sins."},{"id":"p-1-766","text":"Luke 5:20:\n When Jesus saw their faith he said, \"your sins are forgiven.\""},{"id":"p-1-767","text":"Luke 7:47:\n Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven-for she\n loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.\" Then Jesus\n said to her, ''¥£>ur sins are forgiven.\" The other guests began to say among\n themselves, \"Who is this who even forgives sins?\" Jesus said to the\n woman, \"Your faith has saved you; go in peace.\""},{"id":"p-1-768","text":"He didn't say, ''Your sins will be forgiven after I die.\" He didn't\nhave to make any sort of blood offering on the spot. He already had\nthe authority via his wilderness course.\n Thus, if the whole nation had \"done the work of God to believe"},{"id":"p-1-769","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 193\n\f in him who He has sent,\" would not Jesus be able to apply the for-\n giveness of sin to the nation and world at that time? Would not\n being prevented from doing that because of Israel's faithlessness\n cause him an immeasurable \"sorrow unto death\"?"},{"id":"p-1-770","text":"FAITH IS PRIIIARY WIllE 81._ AT_Ell IS SEcorIWlY"},{"id":"p-1-771","text":"We are going to see a consistent placement of the tradition of\n blood atonement in a secondary, less preferred context. God's pri-\n mary requirement is for the condition offaith. Where that condition\n of faith is established, the need for blood atonement is waived."},{"id":"p-1-772","text":"Hosea 6:6:\n For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God\n RATHER than burnt offerings."},{"id":"p-1-773","text":"1 Samuel 15:21-22\n The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was\n devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gil-\n gal.\"\n But Samuel replied: \"Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings\n and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? 1b\n obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of\n rams."},{"id":"p-1-774","text":"Micah 6:6-8:\n With what shall I come before the WRD and bow down before the exalted\n God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year\n old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten\n thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgres-\n sion, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has showed you,\n o man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? TO\n ACT JUSTLY AND TO LOVE MERCY AND TO WALK HUMBLY WITH YOUR\n GoD."},{"id":"p-1-775","text":"The MoIIII of lies. . and tile . . of CUrses"},{"id":"p-1-776","text":"When the Children of Israel were given the law covenant, God\n asked them (Deuteronomy 27) to "},{"id":"p-1-894","text":"Answer:\n Acts 13:25 is not a statement of quality, but rather of duration.\n\"As John was fulfilling his mission\" means that his mission was\ndrawing to a close time-wise. His mission would be ((accomplished\"\nby testifying to Jesus, following Him, and leading his enorriwus foun-\ndation of disciples to likewise follow Jesus (as dictated by Luke 1:17).\nIf John had ((fulfilled\" his mission in purpose, we would have never\nseen John's disciples comparing the standard of Je~us' disciples,\nnegatively, with their own (Matthew 9:14) which took place after\nJohn's initial statement offaith in Jesus. We would have never seen\nJesus' urgent prayer of Matthew. 9:37, calling out for laborers. We\nwould have never seen such a statement by John as in Matthew 11:3\n((. . . are you the one who was to come or shall we look for another\"?"},{"id":"p-1-895","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 221\n\f ,r:,c,lntE\n . ,\n , :a.,':;,!'• • •' ~.; . , \";"},{"id":"p-1-896","text":"Answer:\n John's mission is clearly stated in Luke 1:17\". . . to make ready\n a people prepared for the Lord.\" He did not accomplish that mission\n and so Jesus had to gather His own disciples, saying (t•the har-\n •• vest is great but the laborers are few.\" Matthew 9:37-38. It is not I\n who judges John, it is Jesus when he says John is the least in the\n Kingdom ofHeaven (Matthew 11:11). For the meaning of\"least in the\n Kingdom of Heaven\" see Matthew 5:19. As far as your contention\n that dying before the day ofPentecost cost John a higher position in\n heaven than least, I could not agree. Notice that the benefits of sal-\n vation can be imputed retroactively (Hebrews 11). Notice also that\n John's name is conspicuously missing from this list of righteous\n saints who preceded Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-898","text":"JESUS COITaIS lIS . . ."},{"id":"p-1-899","text":"Why did so many think that Jesus was «John the Baptist raised\n from the dead',? It has a lot to do with the fact that Jesus was work-\n ing in a similar way as John. He was baptizing disciples. He was in\n the wilderness and fasted for 40 days. He was proclaiming the com-\n ing Kingdom. He was casting out demons and healing the sick. He\n was generating a lot of excitement and renown. It was as if Jesus\n had taken his cue from John.\n In a real sense, because John fell short in his mission objective\n \"to make a people prepared for the Lord,\" Jesus had to step into\n John's role and seek to make his own foundation. Matthew 4:12-17:"},{"id":"p-1-900","text":"When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he returned\n to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which\n was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali, From that time\n on Jesus began to preach, \"Repent, for the kingdom ofheaven is near.\""},{"id":"p-1-901","text":"Most of the Gospel documents Jesus attempting to make a foun-\n dation for the messiah to be proclaimed. Until a certain foundation\n of believers was accomplished, Jesus would not reveal his true mis-"},{"id":"p-1-902","text":"222 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fsion. This is why we see, in Matthew 16:20, \"Then he warned his\ndisciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.\"\n In gathering followers, Jesus was trying to complete the mis-\nsion of John so that he could then accomplish the mission of the\nmessiah. His own mission was to establish the Kingdom of Heaven\non earth and in spirit.\n Jesus begins to gather his own apostles and disciples. We see\nJesus' motivation for his mission:"},{"id":"p-1-903","text":"When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were\n harassed and helpless, like sheep witlwut a shepherd. Then he said\n to his disciples, ((The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.\n Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his\n harvest field.\" Matthew 9:36-38"},{"id":"p-1-904","text":"The \"harvest\" was great because \"now was the time.\" However,\nJesus was left without laborers for the harvest. Where were those\nlaborers? Why would Jesus be in need oflaborers if John had been\ndoing his mission?\n In trying to accomplish the mission to make a foundation for\nthe messiah, Jesus employed a very practical methodology."},{"id":"p-1-905","text":"Calling the '!Welve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them\n authority over evil spirits. Mark 6:7"},{"id":"p-1-906","text":"Before he sent them out, he gave them a through training ses-\nsion. After that training, he assigned them to various towns and\nvillages, after which:"},{"id":"p-1-907","text":"Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their syna-\n gogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every dis-\n ease and sickness. Matthew 9:35"},{"id":"p-1-908","text":"Mter this initial campaign, Jesus expanded the training to\ninclude the next tier of the 72 disciples:"},{"id":"p-1-909","text":"After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by\n two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He\n told them, ((The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the\n Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.\n Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.\" Luke 10:1~"},{"id":"p-1-910","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 223\n\f We can see that sometimes not everything went smoothly with\n the campaign:"},{"id":"p-1-911","text":"\"This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate\n manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.\" He said\n this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. On hearing it, many\n ofhis disciples said, \"This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?\" Aware\n that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, \"Does\n this offend you? John 6:58-61"},{"id":"p-1-912","text":"Finally, after two years of public ministry, Jesus disciples could\n not be successful enough to stem the tide that was building against\n Jesus:"},{"id":"p-1-913","text":"After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from\n Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. John 7:1"},{"id":"p-1-914","text":"There was no faith in Israel."},{"id":"p-1-915","text":"Matthew 8:10\n Thrily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel."},{"id":"p-1-916","text":"Because there was no faith in Israel, the providence, as in the\n time of Jeremiah, turns toward the secondary path of the cross:"},{"id":"p-1-917","text":"Matthew 16:21:\n From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must\n go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief\n priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the\n third day be raised to life."},{"id":"p-1-918","text":"As we explained in the previous chapter, Jesus is faced with the\n most painful dilemma. On the one hand, because of the faithless\n nation, he must prepare his disciples and the coming generations\n until the Second Coming to be able to understand the nature of this\n prolongation course. His disciples, as we have seen, so enamored\n with the hope of the immediate establishment of the Kingdom,\n would tend to turn morose and pessimistic with the prospect of a\n 2000 year delay. Jesus must try with all his heart to convince them\n of this \"happy\" outcome, when in reality, in all of his heart; he too\n wanted to realize the Kingdom that was \"at hand.»\n In the last year we see the collapse of his ministry. With each"},{"id":"p-1-919","text":"224 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fpassing day, the cross looms larger on the horizon.\n From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer\nfollowed him. ''You do not want to leave too, do you?\" Jesus asked\nthe Twelve. John 6:6~7\n But even the faith of the 12 begins to crack. We see evidence of\nthe condition of their faith at the Last Supper. When Jesus mentions\nthat, \"one of you here will betray me\" each one of the twelve responds\ntepidly:"},{"id":"p-1-920","text":"And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say\n unto him, Lord, is it I? Matthew 26:22"},{"id":"p-1-921","text":"That each one has to ask \"Lord is it I,\" indicates that every one\nof them had been contemplating betrayal, not just Judas."},{"id":"p-1-922","text":"GETHSEMANE"},{"id":"p-1-923","text":"Jesus takes his followers and retires to the Garden of Gethse-\nmane. It is here that Jesus shares his soul's true feelings about the\nimpending offering of his life."},{"id":"p-1-924","text":"And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to\n be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceed-\n ing sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And\n he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, 0 my\n Father, ifit be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as\n I will, but as thou wilt.\n And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith\n unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray,\n that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the\n flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying,\n o my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it,\n thy will be done."},{"id":"p-1-925","text":"If, indeed, Jesus' sole destiny was to die on the cross, how could\nhe face this moment so reluctantly? Jesus attempted to convey to\nPeter, James and John the content of his sorrow. He explained that\nhis soul was \"exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death.\"\n It is so tragic that not one ofthem could have consoled Jesus in\nthat moment and, perhaps, be able to provide us with a clearer\ninsight into the nature of his overwhelming grief."},{"id":"p-1-926","text":"$b2"},{"id":"p-1-927","text":"$b3"},{"id":"p-1-928","text":"$b4"},{"id":"p-1-929","text":"Jesus gave his up his family so that we could have a family. In\n view of this, Can we, then, simply throw it away?"},{"id":"p-1-930","text":"228 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Chapter Ten"},{"id":"p-1-931","text":"RESURRECTION\n he Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the citadel of Christian"},{"id":"p-1-932","text":"$b5"},{"id":"p-1-933","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 229\n\f cussions with Christians, they claim Jesus' resurrection was\n clearly not spiritual but physical."},{"id":"p-1-934","text":"Luke 9:60\n Jesus said to him, \"Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and\n proclaim the kingdom of God.\""},{"id":"p-1-935","text":"$b6"},{"id":"p-1-936","text":"Revelation 3:1\n / know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are\n thad."},{"id":"p-1-937","text":"John 11:25-26\n Jesus said to her, \"/ am the resurrection and the life. He wlw believes in\n me will live, even though he dies; and wlwever lives and believes in me\n will never die. Do you believe this?\""},{"id":"p-1-938","text":"230 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fTHE DEATH CAUSED BY THE FALL"},{"id":"p-1-939","text":"In order to know which death is subject to the resurrection, we\nneed to know which death is caused by the fall of man.\n In the Principle of Creation, we see the original structure and\nfunction of a human entails both a spiritual self and physical self.\nIn order for Christians to understand this we can point to the fol-\nlowing scripture:"},{"id":"p-1-940","text":"Ecclesiastes 12:7\n And the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit\n returns to God who gave it."},{"id":"p-1-941","text":"Genesis 2:22-24\n Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the\n man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, \"This is now bone\n ormy bones and flesh ormy flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she\n was taken out of man.» For this reason a man will leave his father and\n mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."},{"id":"p-1-942","text":"Some Christians even believe that the physical body was created\nas a result of the fall. They point to Genesis 3:21: The LORD God\nmade garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.\nMany maintain a vague notion that the temporal nature of the phys-\nical body is attributable to sin.\n However, Genesis 2:22-24 clearly indicates that God created\nflesh bodies for Adam and Eve prior to the event of sin. This would\ntend to support the idea that the flesh body, too, had an original\ngodly purpose and function prior to man sinning.\n In Genesis 2:17, we see that if Adam and Eve eat the fruit,\nthey will die on the very day they eat it."},{"id":"p-1-943","text":". . for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."},{"id":"p-1-944","text":"In relation to the temporal nature of the physical body, Adam\nand Eve ate the fruit and they did die on that very same day. How-\never, this death that they experienced was not a physical death. It\nwas a \"death\" that reflected the initial category of \"death\" men-\ntioned by Jesus in Luke 9:60. That is, spiritual death. There is no\nscripture that links the event of physical death as a consequence of\nsin."},{"id":"p-1-945","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 231\n\f WHAT IS SPIRITUAL DEATH?"},{"id":"p-1-946","text":"1 John 3:14\n We know that we have passed from tkath to life, because we love our\n brothers. Anyone who does 1Wt love remains in death."},{"id":"p-1-947","text":"Romans 6:23\n For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ\n Jesus our Lord."},{"id":"p-1-948","text":"Romans 8:6\n The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the\n Spirit is life and peace;"},{"id":"p-1-949","text":"Ephesians 4:18\n They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the\n life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the ha~\n ening of their hearts."},{"id":"p-1-950","text":"Spiritual death is the state resulting from sin. It is the state of\n being separated from God's love. It is where \"our hearts are hard-\n ened,\" and thus, we can no longer \"love our brothers.\" Paul says\n anyone who \"does not love, remains in death.\""},{"id":"p-1-951","text":"THE MWING OF RESURRECTION\n Ifphysical death is not the \"death\" caused by the fall, then \"pass-\n ing from death into life\" (resurrection) does not involve the revival\n of the decomposed physical body. (Eccl. 12:7)\n Therefore, resurrection is the process of man being restored from\n Satan's dominion back to God's dominion through the dispensation\n for restoration."},{"id":"p-1-952","text":"John 5:24\n \"[ tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent\n me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over\n from tkath to life."},{"id":"p-1-953","text":"1 Corinthians 15:21-22\n For since death came through a man, the resurrection ofthe dead comes\n also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made\n alive."},{"id":"p-1-954","text":"232 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Christ is the central figure for the dispensation of resurrection.\n At this point, we would normally proceed into the next section\nthat describes the four principles of resurrection. However, minis-\nters, at this point, are still reeling about the above definition of res-\nurrection. They generally need more to hang their hat on if they\nare going to consider altering their view of resurrection.\n The main stumbling block is the biblical description of Jesus'\nown \"resurrection.\" The tomb was empty and then, soon after, the\ndisciples were meeting Jesus face to face. Jesus said, \"'lbuch my\nhands and feet, a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that\nI have.\" Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, etc. They will have\nmany objections to our description of resurrection up to this point.\nWe must recognize and deal with these major objections before we\nproceed to the next section; otherwise, they will not hear a thing\nyou say."},{"id":"p-1-955","text":"BIBLE VERSES THAT APPW TO SUPPORT RES~CTION OF\nTHE CORPORAL BODY"},{"id":"p-1-956","text":"Matthew 27:52-03\n The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died\n were raised to life. They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resur-\n rection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people."},{"id":"p-1-957","text":"John 11:40-44\n Then Jesus said, \"Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see\n the glory of God?\" So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up\n and said, \"Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I know that you\n always hear me,but I said this for the benefit of the people standing\n here, that they may believe that you sent me.\" When he had said this,\n Jesus called in a loud voice, \"Lazarus, come out!\" The dead man came\n out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around\n his face."},{"id":"p-1-958","text":"Luke 24:36-39\n While they were still talking about this, Jesus himselfstood among them\n and said to them, \"Peace be with you.\" They were startled and fright-\n ened, thinking they saw a GHOST. He said to them, \"Why are you trou-\n bled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and\n my feet. It is I myself! Thuch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh\n and bones, as you see I have.\""},{"id":"p-1-959","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 233\n\f Jesus said that a ghost does not have flesh and bone, as you see\n that I have!\n Lets examine these important Bible verses more closely:"},{"id":"p-1-960","text":"Matthew 27:52\n The many bodies ofthe saints who had fallen asleep were raised from the\n dead. They went into the holy city (Jerusalem) and APPEARED TO MANY."},{"id":"p-1-961","text":"$b7"},{"id":"p-1-962","text":"\"Even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you\n may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the\n Father.\""},{"id":"p-1-963","text":"When Jesus raises Lazarus, he explains that the reason he is\n doing this is \"for the benefit of the people standing here, that they\n may believe that you sent me.\"\n Even as a miracle, though quite impressive indeed, the ability\n to corporally resurrect someone is not, necessarily, exclusive to the\n messiah. See 1 Kings 17:21-22"},{"id":"p-1-964","text":"Then Elijah stretched himselfout on the boy three times and cried to the\n LORD, \"0 LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!\" The LORD\n heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived."},{"id":"p-1-965","text":"234 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Jesus was performing miracles in order to help direct the peo-\nple toward the actual exclusive provision of Christ: eternal life. This\nis something that Elijah could never have provided. Christ, alone,\nis the providential agent of resurrection.\n The conclusion, then, is, yes, corporal resurrection is a reality as\na miracle, but it only provided for an extension of Lazarus' physi-\ncal life. After all, didn't Lazarus later \"die\" again? Therefore, corporal\nresurrection is not the manifestation of resurrection to eternal life."},{"id":"p-1-966","text":"Luke24:3~9\n While they were still talking about this, Jesus himselfstood arrwng them\n and said to them, \"Peace be with you.\" They were startled and fright-\n ened, thinking they saw a GHOST. He said to them, 'Why are you trou-\n bled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and\n my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does TWt have flesh\n and bones, as you Bee I have.\""},{"id":"p-1-967","text":"$b8"},{"id":"p-1-968","text":"$b9"},{"id":"p-1-969","text":"How Does Jesus 'AJlJear'?"},{"id":"p-1-970","text":"In the following scripture, Saint Paul documents the series of\n appearances of Jesus after his resurrection. He concludes the\n sequence with the \"appearance\" of Jesus to him (on the road to Dam-\n ascus)."},{"id":"p-1-971","text":"1 Corinthians 15:4-8\n \"That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to\n the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.\n After that, he appeared to more than five hundred ofthe brothers\n at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have\n fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostres,\n and LAST OF ALL HE APPEARED TO ME ALSO. \""},{"id":"p-1-972","text":"The manner in which Jesus appeared to Paul is explained in\n Acts9~7:"},{"id":"p-1-973","text":"As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven\n flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him,"},{"id":"p-1-974","text":"236 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f \"Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?\" \"Who are you, Lord?\" Saul asked.\n \"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,\" he replied. \"Now get up and go\n into the city, and you will be told what you must do.\" The men traveling\n with Saul stood there speechless; THEY HEARD THE SOUND Bur DID NOT\n SEE ANYONE."},{"id":"p-1-975","text":"\"They heard the sound, but they did not see anyone.\" This is\nhow Jesus \"appeared\" to Paul. Paul could see, but others could not.\nLikewise, when the many bodies of the saints \"appeared.\" They\nappeared to some but not all. This was the spiritualized form.\n Paul teaches clearly in 1 Corinthians 15:35-52:"},{"id":"p-1-976","text":"$ba"},{"id":"p-1-977","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 237\n\f Mark 16:12 testifies that Jesus \"appeared in a different form\"\n aJl;er he was raised from the dead. This is because, as Paul affirms,\n \"the dead will be raised imperishable, and will be changed.\""},{"id":"p-1-978","text":"Jesus Gazes into the Spirit World"},{"id":"p-1-979","text":"This is one of the most interesting parables that Jesus ever gave.\n It provides keen insight into some of the realities of the spiritual\n world. Most important, Jesus provides a clear definition of \"raising\n from the dead.\" It involves two men who die. One is a rich man, the\n other a beggar. The beggar goes to heaven to be with Abraham. The\n rich man goes to hell. (The beggar's name is Lazarus and is not to\n be confused with the Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead.)"},{"id":"p-1-980","text":"Luke 16:19-31"},{"id":"p-1-981","text":"$bb"},{"id":"p-1-982","text":"238 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f What is Jesus' definition of \"raising from the dead\" in this para-\nble?\" It is the phenomenon of a spirit in the spirit world \"appearing\"\non the earth plane to perform a providential task centering on peo-\nple on earth. The rich man wanted Lazarus to \"raise from the dead\"\nto warn his brothers to repent so that they would avoid coming to\nhell.\n On this foundation, ministers would be much more open to pro-\nceed with the study of resurrection from the Divine Principle per-\nspective. They would, of course, still feel resistant, but they could see\nthat a wide range of scripture was supporting our view.\n Basically from this point on, I would follow the standard resur-\nrection lecture content. For brevity's sake, I'll just highlight some of\nthe remaining areas of the rest of the resurrection lecture where\npotential problems may occur."},{"id":"p-1-983","text":"THEPRO~DENCEOFRfSWUlCnoN"},{"id":"p-1-984","text":"As mentioned in an earlier chapter, there is one Principle and\nmany applications. The \"Principles of Resurrection\" are the Princi-\nple of Creation applied to the historical journey from death to life.\nIt is the journey of \"re-creation.\"\n In Exposition of The Divine Principle chapter on the resurrec-\ntion, this section starts off with \"Merit of the Age.\" For Christians\nthis point is a little obscure. I would begin with the bedrock of \"the\nword.\" Resurrection takes place on the foundation of the Word of\nGod. This is strong common ground with their beliefs and sensibil-\nities.\n Instead of this lineup: This order is better:\n 1. Merit of the Age 1. The word\n 2. The word 2. Physical body\n 3. Physical body 3. Merit of the age\n 4.3 Orderly stages 4.3 Orderly stages"},{"id":"p-1-985","text":"THE PROVIDENCE OF RfS.aECTION FOR PEOPlE ON EARTH"},{"id":"p-1-986","text":"This is the content that explains the three stages in the dis-\npensation for resurrection. I had no major problems in this area of\nthe presentation. It was generally well received. Whenever I teach\nthis part of the Principle I am always reminded of one experience I\nhad: (See testimony on pages 240-243)"},{"id":"p-1-987","text":"$bc"},{"id":"p-1-988","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 241\n\f \" ... \";~~~~~r,~·tlr.;j,\n . . 'JJibl~$·o~gan ·. pages,flipping.aitd·thenonebyone.e.acl1mell!lber:qf .....\n r' tn~~1:1lt~ , . \". ~Yier,sean(l. ~g' ~eir:atWnt1?Ii :to·theiJ3i~l~ .•. .\n ~f~ij;Y;J~a~l'.c,. . . ~~cept. foroneal'~, (jfthe$tlidy circletl:~9~~::;' giapter1'itl:th~pa~ / ItJsOneof:eaU1sJ~tters\\ .' ..''. '. .•. . • ,. . . ;) '.•. 'i,l i:; '\n ,,' .· Th~~IIie~~rs ~ftheBiblesttIdy,wotid~w~~tthe;b~ld- ·\n ~~.~~~~:~u:~~g;;;\n .' . . . . . rP~~iblel~a~:tmQHychhn~lll) 'P91A#Yh,~lp· . '~'G9dless, 'baal-:worshipp.i;ng, ctiIt nreIJl~ fifid \","},{"id":"p-1-990","text":"S0~~?~0upmT¥EriliA\"\"\" .••'• • '~ • '\" .\" . ."},{"id":"p-1-991","text":"~. ':: /~ ' <::\".;':-:;;J~;;: ;:~.'::;; ::».;.\" \"\n . . . • r-,X TJh'hWi;,\\\"*t~~ (~yeballs ,v.r;ereg~nl1g.~ ,pm:wht*ilS, ,2Wtillr; '1Im~ •.·'"},{"id":"p-1-992","text":".~fflli~tI:\n ..• \";,., ~S~$,~~~~.,, ...<., . , ', . ..•.r:4$s \" p~pet,., BED'Y\" .. Jja~... . . .\n ,·.·,:;?\\~. ~~~rSS~$~§S$~SS&Hfas:s·:pr()p~t ;l>edy'#P .&,E~ww:uDl~; SIi~f:\n . ',>'.\n <. y\n '\\···'\"'.l:,~--::·' \"... '\n ,'.\":' -',\n <--;- ,. ':;:<~~-\n .\"\" ;:>-,:,,: ~~,--~:<,~. , ,.~< ..' ;\",.~: ' ,\n '\n ., \". -\";.-,;\",,,;,:<\",,; ,>.,:-;;',~:,,'\n . , ;',1. '. \" ;-.;,', : : \"\"\",\""},{"id":"p-1-993","text":"242 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f,;;"},{"id":"p-1-994","text":"$bd"},{"id":"p-1-995","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 243\n\f PARADISE AND HEAVEN"},{"id":"p-1-996","text":"$be"},{"id":"p-1-997","text":"Hebrews 9:28\n So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and\n he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to\n those who are waiting for him."},{"id":"p-1-998","text":"What salvation could that be?"},{"id":"p-1-999","text":"1 Peter 1:5\n . . Who, through faith, are shielded by God's power until the coming\n of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time."},{"id":"p-1-1000","text":"That \"salvation\" won't be revealed until \"the Last Days.\" The\n clear implication is that even the bible as we know it has not artic-\n ulated the nature of that salvation. The Bible reveals that it has\n not been revealed."},{"id":"p-1-1001","text":"244 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Acts 3:21\n He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore every-\n thing, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets."},{"id":"p-1-1002","text":"\"Restore everything as he promised long ago through his holy\nprophets.\" This means the Kingdom and all prophecy of glory such\nas Isaiah 65:17. Do you remember the disciples question to the res-\nurrected Jesus in Acts 1:6? So when they met together, they asked\nhim, \"Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to\nIsrael?\" This is the meaning of \"to restore everything\" in Acts 3:21.\n Paul certainly seems to be expecting more in the following scrip-\nture."},{"id":"p-1-1003","text":"1 Corinthians 13:9-12\n For we krww in part and we prophesy in part, but WHEN perfection\n comes, the imperfect disappears . When I was a child, I talked like a\n child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a\n man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as\n in a mirror; then We shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then\n I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."},{"id":"p-1-1004","text":"Hebrews 9:39-40 indicates that the saints in heaven are\nstill waiting for ''what was promised.\""},{"id":"p-1-1005","text":"These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received\n what had been promised. God had planned something better for us\n so that only together with us would they be made perfect."},{"id":"p-1-1006","text":"Those saints in paradise will be made perfect with us. \"Us\" refers\nto the people on earth at the time of Christ's return to \"complete\nsalvation.\" To \"eat from the Tree of Life.\" signifies the opening of\nthe way to perfection."},{"id":"p-1-1007","text":"The Tree of Life"},{"id":"p-1-1008","text":"The Tree of Life is the symbol of perfect Adam. God told Adam\nand Eve that they must first be \"fruitful.\" This was the prerequisite\nfor their marriage. On that foundation they could receive God's per-\nmission to multiply. Man fell and God blocked the way to the Tree\nof Life (Genesis 3:24) Thus man \"died,\" was cut off from the life of\nGod and needed to be resurrected to life."},{"id":"p-1-1009","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 245\n\f \"'Ib eat from the Tree of Life\" is the key to opening the King-\n dom. Without perfection we cannot fulfill the second blessing. Thus,\n we see in the Old Testament that the hope has been to achieve the\n Tree of Life."},{"id":"p-1-1010","text":"Proverbs 11:30\n The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life·"},{"id":"p-1-1011","text":"Proverbs 13:12\n Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of\n life."},{"id":"p-1-1012","text":"$bf"},{"id":"p-1-1013","text":"However, he said \"my Kingdom is not of this world. The gates\n were shut because there was \"no faith, no, not in Israel.\"\n Jesus comes again to open the gates and open the way to the\n Tree of Life."},{"id":"p-1-1014","text":"Revelation 2:7\n 1b him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life,\n which is in the paradise of God."},{"id":"p-1-1015","text":"Revelation 22:14\n Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to\n the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city."},{"id":"p-1-1016","text":"246 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Until we regain the right to eat from the tree oflife, we cannot\n\"enter the gate\" into the city. The Holy City is the Kingdom of\nHeaven, i.e. \"the new Jerusalem.\"\n Thus, until that time, we are in paradise and must \"resurrect\"\nto the level of the Kingdom of Heaven. This is how we can explain\nparadise and heaven in a more biblically grounded manner."},{"id":"p-1-1017","text":"NO MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN"},{"id":"p-1-1018","text":"$c0"},{"id":"p-1-1019","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 247\n\f my wife and they drag us away to separate vans. They open the\n door and throw me in the back with several other Moonies. The big\n fat angel stands there puffing on his cigar, shaking his head and\n says, \"Look at yez, when are you people gonna get with the pro-\n gram?\" He slams the rear door. I can hear him talking to some other\n angel outside.\n \"How many is that today?\"\n \"About 17 . . . all of 'em Westerners.\"\n \"Why am I not surprised?\" said the fat angel. You could hear\n them both laughing."},{"id":"p-1-1020","text":"Matthew 22:23-32\n At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;\n they will be like the angels in heaven."},{"id":"p-1-1021","text":"$c1"},{"id":"p-1-1022","text":"248 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Likewise, in the course of resurrection, there is no marriage\nuntil the conclusion ofthe process of resurrection: restoration to eat\nfrom the Tree of Life.\n Since God ''blocked the way to the Tree of Life,\" (Genesis 3:24)\nthere has been \"no marriage.\" This is why no child could be born\nwithout the stain of sin. \"All born of Adam\" were without life.\n Thus there will be no marriage until mankind can resurrect and\nreclaim the right to eat from the Tree of Life. It is a permission issue\nas stated in the chapter on \"The Change of Blood Lineage.\" This is\nthe hope of the Second Coming as we have seen in Revelation 2:7\nand 22:14."},{"id":"p-1-1023","text":"FINAL NOTES: ON THE UNIRCAnON OF REUGIONS"},{"id":"p-1-1024","text":"$c2"},{"id":"p-1-1025","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 249\n\f Answer:\n All concepts of universal salvation have thus far been inadequate\n and in error. However, we do see that God is not willing that anyone\n should perish, but that all should come to everlasting life (2 Peter 3:9).\n If God is not willing for anyone to perish and God's will is absolute,\n then there would be scriptural grounds for the concept of an ulti-\n mate restoration of \"all things.\"\n The notion is also given support in the fact that biblical Greek for\n \"eternal, eternity\" could also be rendered \"for a long time\" as opposed\n to \"neverending.\" The problem with universal salvation theories is\n that it invites a complacent attitude with regard to our personal\n responsibility to salvation, an \"enjoy now, pay later\" mentality. On\n the other hand, neither is the fear ofhell and damnation the ultimate\n motivation to live a Christ-centered life."},{"id":"p-1-1026","text":"$c3"},{"id":"p-1-1027","text":"~r~~!; -.:,,'., .: \" ,"},{"id":"p-1-1028","text":"250 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f The purpose of religion is that all should come to Christ. God\nhad worked in many religions to make the ground rrwre fertile for the\nsaving message of Christ's love. Not every tradition that calls itself\nreligion can be an object to God's purpose.\n Remember, God was able to lead such non-Christian rrwvements\nas Judaism and lead non-Christian wise men to the baby Jesus. The\nGod I read about so loved the world that He gave His only begotten\nSon.\n v ~~i 'F~\"\"'\" +r ?y :~;: ,;, Y::;:T;f\" \" ' /'%~:;i:~,;; :*:;;;{~~'-,>{::~;;rr;i/;'\";:~\n Jstli!!re~~f'aJ~tifUiJ!k$~l). \":.' : ' ..\n ~~~.c~\" 'c."},{"id":"p-1-1029","text":"Answer:\n Jesus' judgment ofJudaism was not meant to be an affront to the\ntradition of Judaism. We see that Jesus deeply respected the Jewish\ntradition and followed many Jewish customs. Jesusjudged the Jews\nwith regard to the fulfillment or failure of their contemporary respon-\nsibility to obey and receive the Son ofMan. It was in that acceptance\nthat their tradition would be fulfilled. Also, Jesus never judged any-\none for which he was not also willing to go to the cross. Our failure\nis that we many times engage (alrrwst with glee) in the judgment of\nother religions (or even the completely non-religious) without having\ndemonstrated the willingness to go to the cross."},{"id":"p-1-1030","text":"lOu saujudiliyour own wordstliq,t weshou14 put the worosofthe Bible\n intoPTYJC~. Whydo$O .rna/ty$O c01le~Christi9-ns' and you .teach that\n wesIWuldembTYJCe the~ all,tai7k Jesiiswith themto the bars andcklnce\n /loot'fl,to drinkan4p.artywith'harlo~,who..rc;;,u\" is the value of True Man (not fallen)."},{"id":"p-1-1043","text":"Christ, we must understand the principle relationship between\nmind and body.\n This is what the Divine Principle lecture on \"Christology\"\nattempts to do. This is the \"why\" of teaching this lecture."},{"id":"p-1-1044","text":"JESUS IS THE FIlST PERSON WHO FULFILLS THE PURPOSE OF CREATION"},{"id":"p-1-1045","text":"We learn by comparison. Confusion about Christ is furthered\nas a result of having no point of reference. Christians view Jesus as\na \"one time only\" creation. Although we are instructed to become\n\"Christ-like,\" the meaning ofthat imperative is rather obscure.\n The Divine Principle Christology lecture seeks to first establish\nan acceptable point of reference for understanding Jesus. That point\nof reference is \"the person who fulfills the purpose of creation,\" that\nis, the idea of Adam had he not fallen and, instead, achieved per-,\nfection.\n Principle defines the value and nature of perfect Adam (divine,\nunique and cosmic value, etc). Next, that standard is compared with\nJesus. In this comparison, we discover that they are mirrored reflec-\ntions of each another. We have a DNA match!"},{"id":"p-1-1046","text":"JESUS: GOD OR MAN?"},{"id":"p-1-1047","text":"The comparison of Jesus with Perfected Adam will bring us to\nthe issue of Jesus' divinity as God and man. Some Christians believe\nthat Jesus is the creator himself. Others believe Jesus is both God\nand man.\n Principle gives the following scripture to indicate that Jesus is"},{"id":"p-1-1048","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 255\n\f man (a perfect man). This will not be enough to close the deal, how-\n ever. We need to understand the full range of biblical references\n that form the basis for the Christian affinnation that Jesus is God\n and/or not just a man."},{"id":"p-1-1049","text":"1 Timothy 2:5\n For there is one God and one ~diator between God and men, THE\n MAN Christ Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-1050","text":"Romans 5:19\n For just as through the disobedience of the ONE MAN the many were\n made sinners, so also through the obedience of the ONE MAN the many\n will be made righteous."},{"id":"p-1-1051","text":"1 Corinthians 15:21\n For since death came through A MAN, the resurrection ofthe dead comes\n also through A MAN."},{"id":"p-1-1052","text":"Acts 17:31\n For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by THE\n MAN he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising\n him from the dead. \""},{"id":"p-1-1053","text":"These four verses listed in the Exposition of the Divine Princi-\n ple indicate that Jesus was, indeed, a man. However, we still need\n additional work. Without delving into the additional verses that\n seem to indicate very strongly that Jesus is God, we will not quell\n the \"internal rebuttal.\" Many Christians believe that Jesus is God,\n because of scriptural declarations. We must deal with the objections\n to the idea that Jesus was a man."},{"id":"p-1-1054","text":"BB.E VERSES THAT SEEM TO IIDICATE JESUS IS GOD"},{"id":"p-1-1055","text":"These are the verses that spring to ministers' minds after we\n assert Jesus' humanity."},{"id":"p-1-1056","text":"1. John 1:2-3\n He was with God in the beginning and through him all things were\n made."},{"id":"p-1-1057","text":"Jesus was with God in the beginning and all things were made\n through Jesus!"},{"id":"p-1-1058","text":"256 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f 2. 1 Corinthians 8:6\n Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from wlwm all things came\n and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through\n whom all things came and through wlwm we live."},{"id":"p-1-1059","text":"Again, all things were made through Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-1060","text":"3. Colossians 1:15-19\n He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For\n by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth,\n visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or\n authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is\n before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is\n the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn\n from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.\n For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,"},{"id":"p-1-1061","text":"Here Jesus is described as the creator. \"For by him all things\nwere created by him and for him!\""},{"id":"p-1-1062","text":"4. Hebrews 1:2\n In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many\n times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by\n his Son, wlwm he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he\n made the universe."},{"id":"p-1-1063","text":"5. Hebrews 1:8\n But about the Son he says, \"Your throne, 0 Goo, will last for ever\n and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter ofyour kingdom."},{"id":"p-1-1064","text":"About the Son he says: Your throne, 0 GOD!"},{"id":"p-1-1065","text":"6. John 20:28\n And Thomas said (to Jesus) \"My Lord and MY GoD.\""},{"id":"p-1-1066","text":"7. 1 John 5:20\n \".. . and we are in him who is true-even in his son Jesus Christ. lIE\n IS TRUE Goo and eternal life. \""},{"id":"p-1-1067","text":"8. Romans 9:5\n \"Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry\n of Christ, WHO IS Goo OVER ALL, forever praised!\""},{"id":"p-1-1068","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 257\n\f 9. 2 Peter 1:1\n \". . . to tlwse wlw through the righteousness of OUR GoD and Savior,\n Jesus Christ.\""},{"id":"p-1-1069","text":"10. Titus 2:13\n \". . . the glorious appearing of our GREAT GoD and Savior, Jesus\n Christ.\""},{"id":"p-1-1070","text":"11. Philippians 2:5-6\n \"Thur attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being IN\n VERY NATURE, GoD. • .\""},{"id":"p-1-1071","text":"12. John. 8:58\n \"Before Abraham was, I am.\""},{"id":"p-1-1072","text":"Jesus proclaims that he existed before Abraham."},{"id":"p-1-1073","text":"$c6"},{"id":"p-1-1074","text":"BB.E VERSES THAT IIJICATE JESUS IS NOT GOD 111 CRUl'OR\n 1. Matthew 24:36\n No one knows about that day or hour, not even the Son, but the\n258 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Father only."},{"id":"p-1-1075","text":"Here Jesus makes a distinction between what he knows and\nwhat the Father knows."},{"id":"p-1-1076","text":"2. Matthew 26:3\n My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me, yet not as I\n will, but as Thou will."},{"id":"p-1-1077","text":"Jesus' will is likewise autonomous from God's Will. Jesus is seek-\ning acquiescence to God's will."},{"id":"p-1-1078","text":"3. John 5:26\n For as the Father has life in Himself, so he has granted the Son to\n have life in himself"},{"id":"p-1-1079","text":"Jesus received his life from God. God received his life from no\none. He is eternally self-existent."},{"id":"p-1-1080","text":"4. John 5:30\n By myself, I can do nothing: I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is\n just, for I seek not to please myself but him who has sent me."},{"id":"p-1-1081","text":"Jesus says, \"by myself, I can do nothing.\" This indicates that\nJesus is relying upon his own relationship with God. He is not try-\ning to \"please myself' but rather is seeking to \"please the one who\nsent me.\""},{"id":"p-1-1082","text":"5. John 5:19\n The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees the\n Father doing, because whatever the Father does, the Son does also."},{"id":"p-1-1083","text":"Jesus declares that he is following a pattern laid down by God.\nHe is expressing obedience to God."},{"id":"p-1-1084","text":"6. Mark 10:18\n Why do you call me good? No one is good, except God alone."},{"id":"p-1-1085","text":"Here Jesus emphatically makes a distinction between himself\nand God."},{"id":"p-1-1086","text":"7. John 14:28\n The Father is greater than 1."},{"id":"p-1-1087","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 259\n\f This is another strong statement that makes a distinction\n between Jesus and God."},{"id":"p-1-1088","text":"8. Matthew 6:9\n Our Father, which art in Heaven."},{"id":"p-1-1089","text":"He didn't pray, Our Father, which art standing right here!\""},{"id":"p-1-1090","text":"9. Matthew 27:46\n My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"},{"id":"p-1-1091","text":"Inconceivable if he is God the Creator."},{"id":"p-1-1092","text":"10. John 17:21-23\n . . that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I\n am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you\n have sent me. . . that they may be one as we are one: I in them and\n you in me."},{"id":"p-1-1093","text":"In this prayer Jesus defines the term \"to be one.\" It is clearly\n accomplished through the relationship of two autonomous beings.\n Christian believers are to model their relationship (to become one)\n after the relationship of God and Christ (as God and Christ are one).\n Notice that \"to be one\" does not mean to be \"one and the same.\""},{"id":"p-1-1094","text":"11. 1 Corinthians 15:27-28\n For he \"has put everything under his feet.\" Now when it says that \"every-\n thing\" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include\n God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this,\n then the Son himself will be 11UUle subject to him woo put every-\n thing under him, so that God may be all in all."},{"id":"p-1-1095","text":"Paul declares that God put everything under Christ, except God\n himself. Instead God rules all things through Christ. (remember:\n \"through him all things were made.\")"},{"id":"p-1-1096","text":"12. Hebrews 1:3\n The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation\n of his being."},{"id":"p-1-1097","text":"Jesus is the exact representation of his being. I send my rep-\n resentative to Congress. He is not me, myself. He is my represen-\n tative."},{"id":"p-1-1098","text":"260 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f 13. Hebrews 4:15 (compared with James 1:13)\n For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our\n weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way,just\n as we are-yet without sin."},{"id":"p-1-1099","text":"Jesus has been tempted in every way, just as we are, yet he\nnever sinned. See James 1:13: When tempted, no one should say,\nGod is tempting me. For GoD CANNOT BE TEMPTED by evil, nor does\nhe tempt.\n Jesus was tempted in every way, but God cannot be tempted.\nThis is why Jesus said, \"don't call me good, none are good, only God.\""},{"id":"p-1-1100","text":"14. Hebrews 5:7-9\n During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and peti-\n tions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from\n death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although\n he was a son, he learned obedknce from what he suffered and, once\n made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all\n who obey him I bf\n Jesus had to walk a course faith and obedience in order to\nachieve perfection. By achievin!r perfection, Jesus \"became\" the\nsource of eternal salvation. l_\n In the Gospels, Jesus used th~ term \"Son of Man 102 times. The\nterm \"Son of God\" was used 76 times (65 times by Jesus). Jesus pro-\nclaimed that God was his father 54 times. There are 17 recorded\ninstances of Jesus praying to God.\n These verses are even more persuasive toward our view of the\npersonage of Christ. However, we must reconcile these scripture\nwith those verses that seem to proclaim Christ as God the Creator."},{"id":"p-1-1102","text":"EXPlANATlON OF VERSES THAT SEEM TO INDICATE JESUS IS GOD"},{"id":"p-1-1103","text":"1. John 1:2-3\n He was with God in the beginning and through him all things were\n made."},{"id":"p-1-1104","text":"We have no problem with this from the standpoint of Jesus as\nmicrocosm. The universe is patterned after the form of man's spirit\nand body. This is so that man can exert dominion over all things. The\ndescription rendered in 1 Corinthians 15:27-28 is in harmony with\nthe view of the Principle.\n REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 261\n\f 2. 1 Corinthians 8:6\n ~t for us there is but one God, the Father, from wJwm all things came\n and for wJwm we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through\n whom all things came and through wJwm we live."},{"id":"p-1-1105","text":"Again, this view is not inherently contrary to the view of the\n Principle"},{"id":"p-1-1106","text":"3. Colossians 1:1~19\n He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For\n by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earlh,\n visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or\n authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is\n before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is\n the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn\n from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.\n For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him."},{"id":"p-1-1107","text":"There is dispute with regard to who the word \"him\" refers. Does\n it refer to \"the invisible God\" or does it refer to \"Jesus.\" This one is\n the most problematic. However, be aware that this is disputed in\n many Christian circles."},{"id":"p-1-1108","text":"4. Hebrews 1:2\n In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many\n times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by\n his Son, wJwm he appointed heir ofall things, and through whom he\n 11I.aIU! the universe."},{"id":"p-1-1109","text":"Again, no problem in explaining the idea that God created the\n universe \"through\" the pattern of perfected Adam, or Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-1110","text":"5. Hebrews 1:8\n But about tlu! Son he says, 'Your throne, 0 GoD, will last for ever\n and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter ofyour kingdom.'"},{"id":"p-1-1111","text":"The writer of Hebrews is reciting Psalms 45:6,7: ''Your throne,\n o God,\" This was a common salutation of respect ofl'eredto a per-\n son of high regard. See also the next verse:"},{"id":"p-1-1112","text":"6. John 20:28\n And Thomas said (to Jesus) 'My Lord and MY GoD.'"},{"id":"p-1-1113","text":"262 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f This is a common fonn of greeting a person of respect. It is not\na statement on the divinity of Christ by Thomas."},{"id":"p-1-1114","text":"7.1 John 5:20\n And we are in him who is true, even in his son Jesus Christ. lIE IS TRUE\n GoD and eternal life."},{"id":"p-1-1115","text":"This is another disputed scripture. The dispute is over whom\nthe tenn ''he is true God\" is referring. The proper reading would be\nin this way: \"we are in God (\"him\" is God) who is true-even in his\n(God's) son Jesus Christ. He (God) is true God and eternal life.\""},{"id":"p-1-1116","text":"8. Romans 9:5\n Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry\n of Christ, WHO IS GoD OVER ALL, forever praised!"},{"id":"p-1-1117","text":"Jesus is \"God over all\" in the sense that God has put everything\nunder his feet as per 1 Corinthians 15:27-28."},{"id":"p-1-1118","text":"9. 2 Peter 1:1\n 1b those who through the righteousness of OUR GoD and Savior, Jesus\n Christ."},{"id":"p-1-1119","text":"Meaning \"Our God (in heaven) and our Savior, Jesus Christ.\" It\nwould be the same, say, after a workshop and we ask for testimonies\nfrom the guests about their experience. One guest says, \"I'd like to\nthank our Heavenly Father and lecturer John Doe.\" He is not pro-\nclaiming John Doe to be Heavenly Father. In the same way 2 Peter\n1:1 is referring to two: our God, and our savior, Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-1120","text":"10. Titus 2:13\n . . the glorious appearing ofour GREAT GoD and Savior, Jesus Christ."},{"id":"p-1-1121","text":"Same thing here."},{"id":"p-1-1122","text":"11. Philippians 2:5-6\n Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being IN\n VERY NATURE, GoD."},{"id":"p-1-1123","text":"We agree that Jesus, in nature, is like God. As in \"exact repre-\nsentation\" or \"in his image."},{"id":"p-1-1124","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 263\n\f 12. John 8:58\n Before Abraham was, I am."},{"id":"p-1-1125","text":"This is saying, \"before Abraham achieved perfection, I achieved\n it.» Because Jesus was the first perfected man, he assumed the posi-\n tion of \"first ancestor,\" that is, Adam's position. See Hebrews 5:7-9,\n \"once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation.\" John\n 8:58 is a statement indicating quality and position, not chronology."},{"id":"p-1-1126","text":"$c7"},{"id":"p-1-1127","text":"John 15:1-5\n I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every\n branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit\n he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. YOu are already clean\n because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will\n remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the"},{"id":"p-1-1128","text":"264 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-1-1129","text":"Completed TestamentAge\n . is different than that of the\n grafted into the bel i'\",\"\", .. thl'ini\".n,n\"\n See Father's words:"},{"id":"p-1-1130","text":"probably not necessary, at this\n difference.\n _ninrt~nt new concept for ministers at'\n get comfortable with the idea\n is the process of the \"change of\n rather the differences in the\n understanding of the grafting vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.\n I am tlu! vine; you are tlu! branclu!s. Ifa man remains in me and\nI in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing"},{"id":"p-1-1132","text":"Romans 11:17-18"},{"id":"p-1-1133","text":"If some of the branches have been broken of{, and you, though a wild\nolive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the\nnourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If\nyou do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports\nyou."},{"id":"p-1-1134","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 265\n\f Jobn3:3-6\n In reply Jesus declared, \"[ tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom\n of God unless he is born again.» \"How can a man be born when he is\n old?\" Nicodemus asked. \"Surely he cannot enter a second time into his\n mother's womb to be born!\" Jesus answered, \"[ tell you the truth, no one\n can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the\n Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to\n spirit."},{"id":"p-1-1135","text":"$c8"},{"id":"p-1-1136","text":"Rebirth requires the position of God, father and mother. This\n will set the stage for understanding the meaning of the Trinity.\n Jesus is referred to as \"everlasting Father\" in Isaiah 9:66"},{"id":"p-1-1137","text":"For to us a child is born, to us a ~on is given, and the government will\n be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty\n God, EVERLASTING FATHER, Prince ofPeace."},{"id":"p-1-1138","text":"266 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Establishing Jesus in the position of Son and Father in the work\nof regeneration is acceptable to ministers. To establish the Holy\nSpirit in the role of \"mother\" requires much more cautious assertion."},{"id":"p-1-1139","text":"John 14:16\n And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another COMFORTER,\n that he may abide with you forever;"},{"id":"p-1-1140","text":"John 14:16 describes the Holy Spirit as a Comforter or Coun-\nselor. Certainly, it is a bit of a stretch to assert motherhood or that\nthe Holy Spirit is the \"feminine spirit of God.\""},{"id":"p-1-1141","text":"John 3:6\n Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit."},{"id":"p-1-1142","text":"$c9"},{"id":"p-1-1143","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 267\n\f AB far as the cross is concerned, we need to magnify the aton-\n ing work of Christ at Calvary, not qualify it as less effective then first\n thought. The Divine Principle elevates the meaning of Christ's shed\n blood. The Principle reveals that Jesus sacrificed much more than\n had been previously understood. Jesus not only gave his blood, he\n gave his family and lineage, as well."},{"id":"p-1-1144","text":"Triity and the bteat of Salvatioa"},{"id":"p-1-1145","text":"$ca"},{"id":"p-1-1146","text":"268 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Afuture Hope"},{"id":"p-1-1147","text":"Paul states in Romans 8:23\n Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits ofthe Spirit, groan\n inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, THE REDEMPTION\n OF OUR BODIES."},{"id":"p-1-1148","text":"Our present salvation through Jesus and Holy Spirit comes with\na hope of a future \"redemption of our bodies.\" This is the physical\nside of rebirth (or regeneration). Although we are fully saved in\nChrist as an individual, we know that our salvation does not extend\nto our next\" generation. For that to take place requires the hoped\nfor \"redemption of our bodies.\"\n Until Christ comes again, the gates to the kingdom are open\nspiritually through Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We receive the gift of\neternal life through that gate. However, if my spouse and I are born\nagain and we conceive a child, that child is still a descendant of the\n\"dead Adam.\" Sadly, that child must be ''born again.\" This indicates\nthat sin still reigns through our flesh.\n Christ will come again to establish the spiritual and physical\ntrinity foundation. He will set up the conditions to \"redeem our\nphysical bodies\" so that sin no longer passes through the blood lin-\neage from parents to children."},{"id":"p-1-1149","text":"I don't get it? Why is \"physical salvation\" so important? Isn't the spirit\n the part that matters most? After all, the spirit is eternal and this old body\n is just going to tum to dust anyway. Rev. B.N., A.M.E."},{"id":"p-1-1150","text":"Answer:\n Certainly the spirit is eternal and the physical body turns to dust.\nHowever, the physical body does display a type of \"eternity.\" In this\nsense, Adam's corporal body is still with us, that is, in relation to\nthe body's ability to multiply. In other words, before Adam's body\nreturned to the dust, it multiplied. This body continued to multiply\nand eventually you and I were born as the extension ofAdam's body.\nBecause of that connection, we were \"born in sin.\"\n To \"redeem our bodies\" means that Christ comes to \"complete\nsalvation\" by breaking this physical link to the dead Adam. Ulti-\nmately it means that Christ must establish a process of \"on earth\"\nmultiplication thai can incorporate all believers in the same manner\nthis multiplication had extended, until now, the domain of sin."},{"id":"p-1-1151","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 269\n\f Remember, Jesus was on earth proclaiming that the Kingdom\n was at hand. He had the authority to forgive sin on earth. Christ\n returns to this recreated opportunity on earth."},{"id":"p-1-1152","text":"Answer:\n The basis of rebirth is spiritual. However, the ideal of rebirth is\n that spiritual rebirth is then manifested through the lineage so that\n children born of flesh do not inherit the nature and spirit ofsin from\n the dead Adam. This is the reason Christ comes again to the earth.\n He comes to complete salvation (Hebrews 9:28, 1 Peterl:5) and to\n redeem our bodies (Romans 8:2~24). Paul calls this the \"hope\" ofsal-\n vation, that is, our future glory. Therefore, the full context of becom-\n ing \"Christ-like\" is when children can usher forth from the womb, as\n Christ did, without sin.\n In our final chapter we will cover the Second Coming of Christ\n and the extension of salvation from the individual to the family."},{"id":"p-1-1153","text":"What is the nature ofthe Messiah fallen man needs? Fallen people do not\n need a Messiah in the fallen parents' position. The Messiah sMuld be as\n unfallen Adam and Eve, one with God's will, receiving God's love and\n God's blessing in the position of True Parents, and able to give rebirth to\n all people. Otherwise, men and women cannot move to a position which\n has nothing to do with sin. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 'The Blessing\n and Ideal Family\""},{"id":"p-1-1154","text":"270 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Chapter 12"},{"id":"p-1-1155","text":"THE SECOND COMING\n The Extension of Salvation from the\n Individual to the Family"},{"id":"p-1-1156","text":"$cb"},{"id":"p-1-1157","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 271\n\f However, when teaching ministers and Christians, keep in mind\n that virtually every generation of Christians has felt that its time\n was \"the time.\" It is not a hard product to sell. This is the effect of\n Matthew 24. This is especially true as we hover around the year\n 2000. Certainly today, more than any other time, Christians are in\n the \"end time\" mind-set."},{"id":"p-1-1158","text":"$cc"},{"id":"p-1-1159","text":"272 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f one end of the heavens to the other.\n Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get ten-\n der and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so,\n when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.\n I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until\n all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but\n my words will never pass away.\n No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in\n heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of\n Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."},{"id":"p-1-1160","text":"$cd"},{"id":"p-1-1161","text":"$ce"},{"id":"p-1-1162","text":"WIll WILL CllUST COME AGAIf?"},{"id":"p-1-1163","text":"$cf"},{"id":"p-1-1164","text":"$d0"},{"id":"p-1-1165","text":"Simon Peter answered, \"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\"\n Jesus replied, \"Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was rwt\n revealed to you by man, but by my FATllER IN HEAVEN."},{"id":"p-1-1166","text":"$d1"},{"id":"p-1-1167","text":"276 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f In other words, Christians must do what Israel was unable to\ndo when faced with having to transfer their center of faith from the\nlaw to Jesus. They must transform their faith of expectation of\nChrist's coming into one of recognition of Christ's coming.\n Christians must also be on guard against following the same\nfailed path as the chosen people did 2,000 years ago. The same cir-\ncumstances and the same reasons to do so will be as readily avail-\nable.\n We conclude that our generation is that generation that has\nbeen given the responsibility to unbind the chosen people's failure\nof 2,000 years ago. Thus, Christ will come in our time."},{"id":"p-1-1168","text":"HOW WILL CHRIST COME?"},{"id":"p-1-1169","text":"Based on what we have already explained, could Christ come\nany other way except born on earth? Adam was born on earth to\naccomplish his mission. Jesus was born on earth to accomplish his\nmission. Jesus was on earth poised at the gate of his primary mis-\nsion. That gate was closed. When Christ comes, he must come to\nthe earth to open that gate.\n That's the short version. Let's delve into the long version."},{"id":"p-1-1170","text":"Matthew 24:30\n \"They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of Heaven with\n power and great glory.\""},{"id":"p-1-1171","text":"When teaching ministers the Divine Principle this would always\nbe a crucial point in the lecture series. Of course, we, at this point,\nhad journeyed quite a distance. We had come through the jungles\nofthe Garden of Eden, overcoming dangerous serpents, poisonous\nfruits and other unwieldy symbols. We carefully and respectfully\nintroduced many new and, certainly for them, radical ideas along\nour journey through God's providence.\n We have traveled quite a distance aboard our train and although\nwe sustained a bit of damage here and there, all in all, the train\nwas moving forward and no one had jumped off. However, just ahead\nwas an issue that would probably present the biggest challenge of\nthem all: the clouds.\n The idea that Jesus is coming in the clouds is probably the most\ncherished and comforting belief in Christ faith. It is a major article\noffaith. Over the many years of Christian history, literally millions"},{"id":"p-1-1172","text":"$d2"},{"id":"p-1-1173","text":"WILL CHRIST COME ON 111 UTERAI. CL.s?"},{"id":"p-1-1174","text":"$d3"},{"id":"p-1-1175","text":"$d4"},{"id":"p-1-1176","text":"The Clouds"},{"id":"p-1-1177","text":"Will Christ come on literal clouds? Well, no he won't, not the\n fluffy ones. Before we explain the meaning of clouds, let's first estab-\n lish that it was predicted that Christ would come in the \"clouds\" at"},{"id":"p-1-1178","text":"280 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\fhis first advent also. Of course, we know that Jesus was born on\nthe earth and did not float down out of the sky."},{"id":"p-1-1179","text":"Daniel 7:13-14\n \"In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son\n of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the\n Ancient ofDays and was led into his presence. He was given authority,\n glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every lan-\n guage worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that\n will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed."},{"id":"p-1-1180","text":"$d5"},{"id":"p-1-1181","text":"$d6"},{"id":"p-1-1182","text":"282 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f This phenomenon, like at the first coming, will not be perceived\nwith the physical eye:\n Luke 17:20, \"The kingdom of God cometh not with observation.\"\n Jesus scolds the Pharisees for seeking after a sign:"},{"id":"p-1-1183","text":"Matthew 12:38-39\n Then some of the Pharisees and teachers ofthe law said to him, \"Teacher,\n we want to see a miraculous sign from you.\" He answered, '~ wicked\n and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign!\""},{"id":"p-1-1184","text":"The reason people get so enamored with an obvious cataclysmic\narrival of Christ is that it takes it out of the realm of the responsi-\nbility to recognize Christ. We like the external, obvious validation\nrather than having to rely on the internal tools of faith such as were\nmanifested by Anna, Simeon and Peter."},{"id":"p-1-1185","text":"What about Acts 1:11?\n Which also said, Th men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?\n this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come\n in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."},{"id":"p-1-1186","text":"On the surface, it seems to be an unequivocal declaration of a\ncelestial return of Christ. Upon closer inspection, however, we find\nother meaning than what is generally assumed.\n The first curiosity is that the angel confronts the men of Galilee\nwho were looking into the sky. He asks, ''Why do you stand there\nlooking in the sky?\" This seems to indicate that he is being critical\nof their efforts. His next statement seems to be a correction, as if to\nsay, \"if you really want to see Jesus come again, you had better be\nlooking in some area other than the sky.\" He tells them, \"This same\nJesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like\nmanner as ye have seen him go into heaven.\"\n Well? Elevator goes up-elevator comes down, right? No. He will\ncome in the same way you have seen him go. How did Jesus go into\nheaven? See John 3:13"},{"id":"p-1-1187","text":"\"No one has gone into heaven, except the one who came down from\n heaven, the Son of Man which is in Heaven.\""},{"id":"p-1-1188","text":"Jesus wasn't floating in the sky when he said this. He said he\n\"came down from heaven.\" Coming down from heaven doesn't mean\nsky. The \"Son of Man which is in Heaven\" doesn't mean \"sky.\""},{"id":"p-1-1189","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 283\n\f Why do you stand there looking into the sky? Jesus is not com-\n ing from the sky. He will come down from heaven in the same way\n as he did before. You will not see it with your physical eyes.\n In fact, the New International Version makes a distinction in\n its rendering of Acts 1:11:"},{"id":"p-1-1190","text":"\"Men of Galilee, \"they said, \"why do you stand here looking into the SKY?\n This same JesUs, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come\n back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.»"},{"id":"p-1-1191","text":"The first \"heaven\" has been interpreted to be \"sky.\" This is\n because the angel's point, again, is that Jesus is not coming down\n from the sky, but rather, is coming down from \"heaven\" as per John\n 3:13."},{"id":"p-1-1192","text":"$d7"},{"id":"p-1-1193","text":"284 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f The challenge for Christians is to do what the chosen people\ncould not do: translate their faith of expectation of Christ into a\nfaith of recognition of Christ."},{"id":"p-1-1194","text":"Christ Wil Be Born on Earth\n Revelation 12:5\n She gave birth to a son, a mak child, who will rule all the nations with\n an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne."},{"id":"p-1-1195","text":"Why must Christ be born on the earth? First, the short answer:"},{"id":"p-1-1196","text":"• The first Adam was born on earth to establish the Kingdom\n • Jesus, the second Adam, was born on earth to establish the\n Kingdom\n • What is sown on earth is reaped in Heaven\n • The third Adam will be born on the earth to establish the\n Kingdom."},{"id":"p-1-1197","text":"If we reflect on the meaning of historical parallels, in order for\n\"the New Jerusalem\" to indemnify the failure of Jerusalem, the peo-\nple of the New Jerusalem must walk the same course as the people\nof the former Jerusalem. In the re-creation of the events, figures\nan circumstances of 2,000 years ago, the key re-creation will be\nth appearance of a Christ who comes in an unanticipated way. This\nwi I require the New Jerusalem to recognize him in the same man-\nne as Peter, Simeon and Anna. This requires an on-earth presence\nof he returned Lord.\n Of that future appearance, Jesus said in Matthew 17:24-25"},{"id":"p-1-1198","text":"For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes\n and lights up the sky from one end to the other. But first he must suf-\n fer many things and be rejected by this generation."},{"id":"p-1-1199","text":"But first he must suffer? Who will make him suffer? If Jesus\ncomes out of the sky and every eye shall see him, who in their right\nmind would not only reject him but cause him to suffer?\n Many ministers will try to say that when Jesus says (in the 25th\nverse) that first he must suffer and be rejected by this generation,\nhe was predicting his own impending suffering and death. This is\nincorrect. In fact, most credible Bible scholarship records three"},{"id":"p-1-1200","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 285\n\f occurrences of Jesus predicting his suffering to come. This is not\n considered one of those three. The reason is because he is clearly\n speaking within the context of the future, second coming of Christ.\n Read from the 20th verse and you will see.\n Again, Jesus stressed that his coming would not be accompanied\n with \"signs to be observed.\" In fact, it is \"an adulterous and wicked\n generation that seeks after a sign.\" Instead, Jesus asks the more per-\n tinent question in Luke 18:8."},{"id":"p-1-1201","text":"\"When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?\""},{"id":"p-1-1202","text":"He doesn't mean the faith of expectation. There is plenty of that.\n He is referring to the faith of recognition.\n The prospects for a returning Christ to experience suffering as\n Jesus did are set up by the same conditions faced by Jesus in his first\n coming. That is, people today, as then, are looking for a Christ to\n come in a way that will validate their doctrinal expectation. As we\n have already seen, because of the wide diversity of doctrines on this\n issue, no matter in what way Christ actually comes, the majority of\n Christians will ignore him or stand against him.\n Thus Jesus warns, in Matthew 7:21-23:"},{"id":"p-1-1203","text":"\"Not everyone woo says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' wiU enter the kingdom\n of heaven, but only he who does the wiU of my Father woo is in\n heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not PROPH-\n ESY in your name, and in your name DRIVE OUT DEMONS and perform\n MANY MIRACLES?' Then f will tell them plainly, 'f never knew you. Away\n from me, you evildoers!'"},{"id":"p-1-1204","text":"To whom is Jesus referring? Some ministers will try to tell you\n that Jesus is explaining that you can't be a CINO (Christian In\n Name Only) and enter into Heaven. But notice that Jesus is describ-\n ing a believer of a very active faith. You certainly cannot be a CINO\n and drive out demons! You can't be a CINO and prophesy and per-\n form many miracles!\n Jesus is warning Christians in that age, the faith of expecta-\n tion shaped by doctrinal assertions will not, in of itself, transform\n into a faith of recognition of Christ. Christians who are driving out\n demons, .prophesying and doing many miracles are doing so cen-\n tered on their faith in the Gospel of Christ.\n However, that \"shield of faith\" is \"until\" the coming of the sal-\n vation that is to be revealed at the time it is to be granted. Will"},{"id":"p-1-1205","text":"286 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fChristians be able to put aside, \"the glass, darkly,\" in order to take\nup the clear?\n Or will they succumb to the historical tendency ofthe past, reject\nthat completion of salvation and misidentify God's new word as\nnothing more than \"another Gospel''? See for yourself:"},{"id":"p-1-1206","text":"You speak withaforked tongue! Why? How do you explain GalcLtian,s\n 1:6.9; which says \".. .Buteven ifwe'oran a1]gel {rQm'Heaven slwuld\n preaeh 'a. gospel other than the .one we preaeheato y.ou, let him be eter-\n nally condemned!\" Rev. B.D., Pentecostal ' , >"},{"id":"p-1-1207","text":"Answer:\n What does Paul mean by \"Gospel\"? He daes not mean your par-\nticular dactrine .ofthe Bible. There was nat even a cananized versian\nat that time. Paul had nat even written all his letters, nor had there\nbeen the revelatian ta Jahn. The \"Gospel\" refers ta the fundamental\nkerigmatic message:\n Christ was born sinless, conceived by the warks .ofthe Haly Ghast,\nwas the fulfillment .of the Davidic Cavenant and prophecy, His death\nat Calvary ataned far sin, His resurrectian conquered death, and he\nwill return at the end .of the age ta bring judgment and the King-\ndam.\n The Divine Principle fully affirms the Gospel, but nat every jat\nand tittle .ofeveryane's doctrine which in innumerable ways disagree.\nThe problem is that many Christians take Galatians 1:6-9 as a per-\nsanal sanctian fram Paul for their particular denominatian's doc-\ntrinal perspective."},{"id":"p-1-1208","text":"Revelation 22:1~19 warns usthat we slwuld not add or takeaway any·>\n thing {rQm the book of God's word. Doesn't the DivinePriru:iple.Revela·\n tion in fact, add to the word of God in violation .of God's warning?\n Rev. G.C.,AME"},{"id":"p-1-1209","text":"Answer:\n The Bible is not \"a baok\"; it is many baaks, 66 baaks. The warn- .\ning .of Revelatian 22:18-19 is referring ta \"the boak\" .of Revelatian.\nThis warning was given, .of caurse, befare any .of the 66 baaks were\ncananized. Ifwe are ta extend the warning .of Revelation 22:18-19\nbeyond the boak .of Revelatian, then we had better stop reading the\nother 65 baoks. Of course, we shauld nat cansider that even far a\nsecand.\n It is interesting that the Pharisees accused Jesus .of being in via-"},{"id":"p-1-1210","text":"$d8"},{"id":"p-1-1211","text":"WhJ Does Christ Colle To TIle Eartll Apia?\n The short answer is this is where Adam's undone responsibility\n resides. Adam came to the earth, the second Adam came to the earth\n and the third Adam comes to the earth.\n What was Jesus' primary mission? How would he have set up\n the Kingdom? Jesus would have fulfilled the purpose of creation,\n the three blessings! Consider Father's words:"},{"id":"p-1-1212","text":"$d9"},{"id":"p-1-1213","text":"By establishing the spiritual and physical True Family Ideal,\nJesus and his Bride would become the True Parents of all mankind.\nAs, Jesus mentioned he had the authority to forgive sin on earth.\nCentering on True Parents, Jesus and his bride would ''bless\" mar-\nriage and eliminate the consequences of the Original Sin.\n Because this could not be done, Christ returns to complete sal-\nvation:"},{"id":"p-1-1214","text":"Romans 8:23\n \"Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit,\n groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemp-\n tion ofour bodies.\""},{"id":"p-1-1215","text":"Act 3:21\n He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore every-\n thing, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets."},{"id":"p-1-1216","text":"Hebrews 9:28\n So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and\n he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation\n to those who are waiting for him."},{"id":"p-1-1217","text":"1 Peter 1:5\n \"Who through faith are shielded with God's power until the coming ofthe\n salvation that is to be revealed in the Last Days.\""},{"id":"p-1-1218","text":"As we learned in Christology, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit,\nwe are completely saved to eternal life. Salvation for the individual\nis complete~ However, when a saved husband and a saved wife join\ntogether and conceive a child, that child is born as a descendant of\nthe dead Adam and must be ''born again.\"\n The union between husband and wife has rwt been reconciled to\nGod because Jesus had to go the way of the cross. Thus Christ must"},{"id":"p-1-1219","text":"$da"},{"id":"p-1-1220","text":"$db"},{"id":"p-1-1221","text":"290 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fsentative on earth. That representative on earth will carry out Jesus'\nprimary mission that was laid down in Gethsemane in sorrow and\ntears. He who takes up that mission, of course, must be able to com-\nmune with Christ in \"the sorrow unto death.\"\n Jesus explains this in his own words. In the Book of Revelation,\nchapters 2 and 3, the spirit of Jesus speaks to John the revelator."},{"id":"p-1-1222","text":"1. Revelation 2:7 (Jesus)\n \"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\n To him who overcomes, 1 will give the right to eat from the tree of\n life, which is in the paradise of God.\""},{"id":"p-1-1223","text":"Jesus explains to \"him who overcomes\" I will give him the right\nto eat from the tree oflife. This means that Jesus will give a par-\nticular person the right to achieve perfection. This also means grant-\ning \"permission\" for sexual relations. Some might say, at this point,\nthat \"to him who overcomes\" could mean \"whosoever overcomes\"\nand not a specific person chosen. We will see, however, that the ''him\nwho overcomes,\" is, in fact, a specific chosen person of Jesus."},{"id":"p-1-1224","text":"2. Revelation 2:17 (Jesus)\n \"I will also give him a white stone with a new name known only to him\n who receives it.\""},{"id":"p-1-1225","text":"''White stone\" is a symbol of Christ. 1 Peter 2:4, Jesus is the\n\"Living Stone.\" In 1 Corinthians 10:4 \"and that rock was Christ.\"\nThus Jesus is declaring that he will give \"Christ\" with a \"new name.\"\nJust as Elijah had \"a new name\" Christ in his second coming, will\nhave a new name. This means that Jesus is anointing and sending\nhis chosen person, \"him, who overcomes.\""},{"id":"p-1-1226","text":"3. Revelation 2:26-28 (Jesus)\n To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, 1 will give author-\n ity over the nations, 'He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will\n dash them to pieces like potter' -just as 1 have received authority from\n my Father. 1 will also give him the morning star."},{"id":"p-1-1227","text":"Here Jesus proclaims that he will give this chosen person his\nauthority. What kind of authority is made clear by the statement:\n\"He will rule them with an iron scepter.\" Iron scepter is from Psalms\n2:9. It is a symbol of Christ's authority. Jesus also affirms that he,\nJesus, would be with \"him.\" \"I will also give him the morning star.\""},{"id":"p-1-1228","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 291\n\f The \"morning star\" is Jesus (Revelation 22:16)."},{"id":"p-1-1229","text":"4. Revelation 12:5\n \"She brought forth a male child one who is to rule all nations with a rod\n of iron. \""},{"id":"p-1-1230","text":"A male child born on earth with an \"iron scepter.\" Where did\n this child get this iron scepter? See Revelation 2:26-28 above. The\n male child born on earth was given the iron scepter from Jesus.\n That means this male child on earth with the authority of Christ is\n not Jesus himself, but is, rather, a person called by Jesus. He has\n been given Jesus' role and authority."},{"id":"p-1-1231","text":"5. Revelation 3:12 (Jesus)\n Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never\n again will he leave it. I WILL WRITE ON HIM the name ofmy God and the\n name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down\n out of heaven from my God; and I WILL ALSO WRITE ON HIM MY NEW\n NAME."},{"id":"p-1-1232","text":"This is a most amazing scripture. Jesus states that he will write\n on \"him\" my own new name. As we look at Revelation 19:11-16,\n keep in mind that Jesus \"will write\" and this unknown \"him\" will\n be written upon:"},{"id":"p-1-1233","text":"I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse,\n whose rider is called Faithful and '1Jue. Wuhjustice hejudges and makes\n war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. HE\n HAS A NAME WRI'ITEN ON HIM THAT NO ONE KNOWS BUT HE HIMSELF.\n He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of\n God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses\n and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a\n sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. \"HE WILL RULE\n THEM WITH AN IRON SCEPI'ER.\" He treads the winepress of the fury of\n the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this\n name written: KING OF KINGS AND WRD OF WRDS."},{"id":"p-1-1234","text":"This scripture is thought to be describing the return of Jesus at\n his second coming. Indeed it is, except for one important difference.\n The figure that comes, \"whose eyes are like blazing fire and on his\n head are many crowns,\" has \"a name written on him that no\n one knows but he himself.\" What did Jesus say in Revelation"},{"id":"p-1-1235","text":"$dc"},{"id":"p-1-1236","text":"Rev.'1:7says that all eyes s7w1l see:Uesus come;'as He apPea/;s'i~pU! sky\n (cloUds) at His Second Coming. Comment? Rev. K.F., Lutheran ,"},{"id":"p-1-1237","text":"Answer:\n But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this gen-\neration. (Luke 17:25) If Christ comes in such an obvious way, who\nwould make Him suffer?\n If Christ comes in a way that does agree with every jot and tittle\nof every doctrinal agenda, it is very clear who would make Him sur\nfer. . . the same who caused His suffering 2,000 years ago. . . the\nvery sheep for whom He comes! \"Every eye will see Him,\" is not declar-"},{"id":"p-1-1238","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 293\n\f ing His rrwde of entering the world, it is declaring the ultimate vic-\n tory and acceptance He will achieve."},{"id":"p-1-1239","text":"$dd"},{"id":"p-1-1240","text":"~ilE~R~~_~\n Answer:\n Ephesians 2:2 refers to Satan as the ruler of the Kingdom of the\n air. Is Satan in the air? If so, we'd better take the train home. Pray\n about the meaning of \"meeting the Lord in the air.\" Remember also\n what side the literalists fell on at the time of Jesus. . . those who\n were expecting the literal return ofElijah are still waiting for him to\n this day. Let US pray with the seriousness ofAnna the prophetess."},{"id":"p-1-1241","text":"294 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fWHERE WILL CHRIST COME?\n For Christians explaining Korea as the \"chosen nation\" is a\ndaunting task. Before we start to explain the reasons why Korea is\nthe chosen nation, it is very important to explain to Christians the\nreasons Christ is not coming back to Israel. For many Christians,\nChrist must come back to Israel in order to fulfill all prophecy of\n\"glory.\"\n Reviewing Jeremiah 18:7-10 is very important here. God tells\nJeremiah \"and if at another time I announce that a nation or king-\ndom is to be built up and planted and if it does evil in my sight and\ndoes not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to\ndo for it.\"\n This statement releases God from an absolute commitment to\nIsrael as the eternal chosen nation. Israel's role is conditional based\nupon the fulfillment of their responsibility. God also says in"},{"id":"p-1-1242","text":"Jeremiah 33:20-21\n \"This is what the LORD says: 'Ifyou can break my covenant with the day\n and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer\n come at their appointed time, then my covenant with David my ser-\n vant-and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering\n before me - can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant\n to reign on his throne.'\""},{"id":"p-1-1243","text":"Therefore, based on this statement, the sign that God's covenant\nis broken with Israel is if day and night do not come at their\nappointed hour. Now then, see Luke 23:44,"},{"id":"p-1-1244","text":"Luke 23:44-45\n It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land\n until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the\n temple was torn in two."},{"id":"p-1-1245","text":"This happened as Jesus died on the cross. The day and night did\nnot come at their appointed time. God's covenant with Israel was\nbroken. The \"curse in the law\" was invoked because of their dis-\nobedience (Galatians 3:13). Israel was no longer the \"Chosen nation.\"\nThis is why Jesus declares in Matthew 21:43, ''Therefore, I tell\nyou, the Kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to\nanother nation that can produce the fruit thereof.\" After this,\nin 70 A.D., Israel is destroyed. Remember what God said in"},{"id":"p-1-1246","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 295\n\f Deuteronomy 29:24? Israel will be destroyed only if it breaks faith\n with God.\n Jesus also reminds his people that God has the ability to raise\n up a new \"chosen.\""},{"id":"p-1-1247","text":"Matthew 3:9\n And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our\n father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for\n Abraham."},{"id":"p-1-1248","text":"Thus we see the promise that \"a new heaven and a new earth\"\n would come to Jerusalem is extended to a \"New Jerusalem\" in Rev\n 21:1.\n That \"New Jerusalem\" is Christianity and therefore, the first\n qualification for the new chosen nation is that it must be a Chris-\n tian nation.\n Here is a common question related to this issue:"},{"id":"p-1-1249","text":"$de"},{"id":"p-1-1250","text":"296 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fThey failed in that role, and though, Israel will play an important\npart in God's providence and will all be saved, she will not serve\nagain in the role of the central nation. This is similar to the pass-\ning of Elijah's role to John the Baptist. The role of Israel is passed\nto another nation."},{"id":"p-1-1251","text":"$df"},{"id":"p-1-1252","text":"$e0"},{"id":"p-1-1253","text":"$e1"},{"id":"p-1-1254","text":"$e2"},{"id":"p-1-1255","text":"$e3"},{"id":"p-1-1256","text":"$e4"},{"id":"p-1-1257","text":"302 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fHow could this be Moon?\n He shook my hand and introduced himself. He asked, \"Tell me,\nKevin, which church are you a member of?\n I smile and say, \"Reverend, I'm a member of the Unification\nChurch.\"\n He gave me that glazed look, \"Uh, well,. . . is this. . . is this\n . Moon's teaching?\"\n \"Yes sir, it surely is.\"\n Now, in the 21st century, it is time for the whole world to know."},{"id":"p-1-1258","text":"To save the world, the best way is to unite the American clergy and\n denominations and seminaries. On that foundation, we can save the\n world. That is my vision. Reverend Sun Myung Moon"},{"id":"p-1-1259","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 303"}]},{"page":2,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-2-1","text":"CHURCH GROWTH SERIES 2"},{"id":"p-2-2","text":"The\nBlood-Stained\n Voice\n Sharing God's Heart\n in a Christian World"},{"id":"p-2-3","text":"Includes:\n • Explanation of the Principle, Tailored To Christians\n • More Bible Verses Supporting Principle\n • Minister's Actual Questions about Divine Principle\n • Advice and Commentary for Teaching Christians\n • Testimonies, Stories and Anecdotes\n • Father's Words"},{"id":"p-2-4","text":"Rev. Kevin McCarthy"},{"id":"p-2-5","text":"WASHINGTON FAMILY CHURCH\n FFWPU\n\f DEDICATION"},{"id":"p-2-6","text":"To Our True Parents\nI only repeat imperfectly the truths they have lived and taught."},{"id":"p-2-7","text":"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS"},{"id":"p-2-8","text":"$e5"},{"id":"p-2-9","text":"Introduction 2\nChapter 1-The Principle of Creation 7\nChapter 2-The Fall of Man 45\nChapter 3-The Principle of Restoration 75\n Through Indemnity-Introduction\nChapter 4-The Principle of Restoration 89\n Through Indemnity-Adam to Jacob\nChapter 5-The History leading to Jesus 130\nChapter 6-The law Covenant 138\nChapter 7-The Change of Blood Lineage 152\nChapter 8-Mission of Jesus 172\nChapter 9-Preparation in Jesus' Family 198\nChapter 10-Resurrection 229\nChapter 11-Christology 253\nChapter 12-The Second Coming 271\n\fTUCIING THE DIVINE PRIICIPlE TO CllUSTlAIS"},{"id":"p-2-10","text":"$e6"},{"id":"p-2-12","text":"May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you\n sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.\n -John 17:23"},{"id":"p-2-13","text":"$e7"}]},{"page":3,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-3-1","text":"Chapter One"},{"id":"p-3-2","text":"THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATION"},{"id":"p-3-3","text":"At the center ofeverything is God's love. God needs love, man needs love,\n and the angelic world also needs love. If the world had been centered\n upon God's love from the beginning, it would have been not only an\n ideal beginning, but the direction and the final results would have also\n been ideal. God, man and the angelic world would have formed one\n perfect world, freely communicating with each other centering upon\n God's love .. ..\n -Sun Myung Moon"},{"id":"p-3-4","text":"O\n ne initial challenge in teaching the Principle of Creation to\n Christians is the tendency for Christians to incorrectly con-\n clude that we are relying on an empirical process of natu-\nral observations rather than strict biblical declaration. We extrap-\nolate from the machinations of the natural world conclusions about\nthe nature of God and his will. Of course, Romans 1:20 gives us a\nmodicum oflicense to do so, but more careful explanation is needed.\nChristian students will, naturally, be put off by what they will per-\nceive to be a flawed approach toward ascertaining the nature of\nGod. In their view, it can appear that we are seeking the nature of\nGod through the lesser tools of natural observation while overlook-\ning the higher and more accurate tools of Christ and Scripture. It\ngenerates questions such as this:"},{"id":"p-3-5","text":"Is itpossi~le to draw a pict'ureof GOd by lOokingdt HiS'damaged\n Creation? Rev~ KM., A.ME>J ~ ..~ . .', ',' ,,\". \"\n Before one wades into explanations about ODU action, Univer-\nsal Prime Energy and four position foundations with Christians, it\nis extremely important to express our awareness and affirmation of,\nfor example, Hebrews 1:1-3:"},{"id":"p-3-6","text":"In the past, God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many\n times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by\n his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he"},{"id":"p-3-7","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 7\n\f made the universe. The Son is the radiance ofGod's glory and the exact\n representation ofhis being, sustaining all things by his powerful word."},{"id":"p-3-8","text":"$e8"},{"id":"p-3-9","text":"8 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fassert what we want to convey. Whenever possible, let the Bible\nassert the fundamental truths while we draw the necessary prin-\ncipled conclusions and implications. Obviously, we don't need to con-\nvince Christians that God exists."},{"id":"p-3-10","text":"THE INIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD AND THE CRUTm IRVDlSE"},{"id":"p-3-11","text":"This is probably the most \"scientific\" sounding material in the\nDivine Principle. Here's where Romans 1:20 gives us limited license\nto observe and extrapolate truths about God from the creation."},{"id":"p-3-12","text":"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal\n power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from\n what has been made, so that men are without excuse."},{"id":"p-3-13","text":"To what, exactly, is Paul referring? At this point in his ministry\nhe is reaching out to the Gentiles of the Mediterranean region. Greek\nand Roman thought heavily influences them. They, generally, are\nhaving difficulty with the idea of an \"invisible\" God. They preferred\ntheir gods to be graven images that were tangible and real. In\nRomans 1:20, Paul is offering a rebuttal to their reasoning, their\n\"excuse,\" for rejecting his \"invisible\" God. He is debunking their\nassertion that equates invisibility exclusively with non-existence.\n Another good verse to include is Psalms 19:1-2"},{"id":"p-3-14","text":"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work ofhis\n hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they dis-\n play knowledge."},{"id":"p-3-15","text":"This is a good time to pause and make helpful comments about\nthe Son and Scripture as the higher tools or expressions of God. I\nhave even occasionally indicated that our methodology to explore the\ncreation as the visible expression of God is geared for those who\nhave not yet accepted the authority of Christ and his Word. It is an\napproach for those that need more concrete, visible examples, a\nteaching method for the \"unsaved,\" as it were. Many ministers are\nalways looking for good teaching methods that they can adapt to\ntheir particular doctrines. It helps to keep them open and involved\nin the presentation while hearing new ideas.\n In teaching God's dual characteristics properly, we, of course,\nare teaching about two types of dual characteristics. This can very"},{"id":"p-3-16","text":"$e9"},{"id":"p-3-17","text":"~;~~~~~¢~~~C~~~r,\n I would emphasize Bible verses such as I John 4:16-17, \"God\n is love\" as affirmation of the existence of God's internal nature. For\n God's external nature a reference to John 4:24, \"God is spirit\" is\n very reassuring. Be mindful not to assert that the creation is \"like\n the body of God.\" Ministers will easily assume you are claiming that\n the creation is, in fact, the actual corporal body of God. This idea is\n referred to as \"pantheism\" and violates most Christian's core belief\n of God as a spiritual being.\n More important is for Christians to understand that God is\n employing the \"pair system\" and that all things are created in pairs.\n We want to explore the reasons he has done so. To do this we begin\n with a biblical observation provided by Genesis 1:27,"},{"id":"p-3-18","text":"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created\n him, male and female he created them."},{"id":"p-3-19","text":"Here's a sample of how Father explains dual characteristics:"},{"id":"p-3-20","text":"When we observe our universe, we recognize that every being exists\n through the union ofpaired elements. This is, true on all levels, begin-_\n ning even with the mineral realm. Molecules are made from the union\n ofa positive ion and a negative ion. On the level ofplants, existence and"},{"id":"p-3-21","text":"10 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f reproduction requires the union of stamen and pistil, representing the\n male and female aspects.\n The pair system is even more obvious on the level of animals. Fish,\n birds, mammals and all animals exist as male and female. Finally, the\n supreme creations ofGod, human beings, are either men or women. The\n first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve, were the original ancestors\n of mankind. What is the purpose of the pair system? Why did God cre-\n ate in this way?\n The Creator divided all things in male and female so that they might\n unite through their give and take of love. Through the action of love,\n each species multiplies and extends its lineage.\n The 11th World Media Conference, April 10, 1990"},{"id":"p-3-22","text":"All our observations in the natural world that affirm this (cation-\nanion, stamin-pistil, etc) are a reflection ofthis biblical declaration\n(not the other way around). In other words, put the horse in front\nof the cart."},{"id":"p-3-23","text":"UMVERSAl PRIME ENERGY, GIVE _lIKE ACTION AND\n111( F_·POSIllOI F_DA11ON."},{"id":"p-3-24","text":"$ea"},{"id":"p-3-25","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 11\n\f 1~~~~• •=.'~~,;;1\n Actually, it sort oflooks like a Pepsi logo, doesn't it? Do you get\n the feeling he's getting awfully nervous about \"Ym and Yang?\" It is\n a typical reaction.\n Let's see if we can explain the same thing with biblical affir-\n mations. In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus says,"},{"id":"p-3-26","text":"Haven't you read, he replied, that at the beginning the Creator 'made\n them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his\n father and mother and be united to his wife, and tM two will become\n one /lesko' So they are no longer two, but one."},{"id":"p-3-27","text":"$eb"},{"id":"p-3-28","text":"$ec"},{"id":"p-3-29","text":"Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And\n why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring."},{"id":"p-3-30","text":"\"Seeking godly offspring.\" After all, He is a Father. The key idea\nis that God, having the loving nature of a parent, is seeking His\nchildren in order to consummate His nature through the experi-\nence of that love.\n Here's a sample of Father's explanation:"},{"id":"p-3-31","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 13\n\f Another way of interpreting this formula oforigin, division and union,\n is the Origin which is God's position and can be interpreted as plus. The\n union can be interpreted as man's position which is minus. Once this\n union takes place, bringing absolute unity between husband and wife,\n do you think that God is pulling this union toward Himself, or is this\n union pulling God toward them, or they are repelling one another? Which\n one? Does no one have the answer? When God sees this perfect union\n taking place, don't you think that He would want to draw that toward\n Himself? Don't you think the couple would also want to pull God down\n toward them? It functions in such a way that God will pull this united\n couple up as strongly as He can and the couple will pull God down as\n strongly as they can. Therefore this circular motion takes place. True\n God's Day, January 1996"},{"id":"p-3-32","text":"We must help Christians to understand that a God having such\n \"needs\" is no less a perfect and complete God. In fact, the Principle\n shows that the truest nature of a perfect being is its motive to\n become a part of something greater than itself. This is the objective\n of four-position foundation dynamics. God seeking to become a part\n of something greater than Him, is a direct attribute of His godly\n perfection and completeness.\n In other words, He is seeking the ideal of \"magenta,\" too. God\n has found a purpose for which He can sacrifice himself. It is the\n ideal of love. God is perfect \"red,\" true mankind is perfect \"blue,\"\n the Kingdom is \"magenta.\""},{"id":"p-3-33","text":"THE PURPOSE Of CREATIOII"},{"id":"p-3-34","text":"$ed"},{"id":"p-3-35","text":"Christians will be very uncomfortable_with\n <::annot. A better idea would be to make su ' '\n God is able to do anything He\"\n propose that there are some thingsthat \" 'AJ,'\"\"m\n '\"\n \" J for example, \"God cannot ac(:on~p~lsl't,\n \"Instead, say, \"God will not\n man.\" A slight change of semantics will\n difference in the world."},{"id":"p-3-37","text":"Love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your\n mind."},{"id":"p-3-38","text":"$ee"},{"id":"p-3-39","text":"God blessed them and said to them, \"Be fruitful and multiply, fill the\n earth and have dominion over it.\""},{"id":"p-3-40","text":"In the next section we describe the nature of that fulfillment. We\ndefine the ''Three Blessings\" and indicate this is the fulfillment of\nGod's essential Will via the system of pairs. [Later we will explain\nmore thoroughly the dynamics of that process in the accomplish-\nment of His Will, i.e., \"The Growing Period for the Creation.\"]"},{"id":"p-3-41","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 15\n\f THE THREE BlESSIIGS\n The first thing we can observe in the order of the three blessings\n is the implication of a premarital state and objective. First, be fruit-\n ful, then multiply. This indicates a very important idea. Even in the\n Garden of Eden, God established a prerequisite for the sexual t.mion\n of Adam and Eve. They must accomplish being \"fruitful\" before they\n are permitted to \"multiply.\""},{"id":"p-3-42","text":"Be FruiUuI\n As individuals, Adam and Eve must achieve \"oneness\" with the\n Lord. At this point, we must explain the structure and function of\n an individual based upon the principle of \"the pair system.\" The\n term, \"mind,\" as in \"mind and body\" relationship, can be a chal-\n lenge for Christians to understand. A good alternative is to rely on\n I Corinthians 15:42-44:"},{"id":"p-3-43","text":"So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is\n perishable, it is raised imperishable; It is sown in dishonor, it is raised\n in glory; It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; It is sown a nat-\n ural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there\n is also a spiritual body."},{"id":"p-3-44","text":"Also, Ecclesiastes 12:7\n And the dust returns to the ground it came from and the spirit returns\n to God who gave it."},{"id":"p-3-45","text":"Therefore, the principle of pairs is the standard around which\n the human is designed. As it is for all pairs, the objective is for two\n to become one. Thus, the course to unite one's mind and body is car-\n ried out through the implementation of the virtue that brings two\n into one. That is the virtue of sacrificial love and living for the sake\n of others.\n Note a typical question:"},{"id":"p-3-46","text":"WhYSl)(3l~lSO~htiTlJlroTt~ribingtMwaYthi,,?slw11lclhape~; ':\n w~nwe azl~now tlmi nmn/ellintosin? WhygobacktqtM~:,tniryJ:'\n a,nd\" ~!'YqverS:pill~.tlmilk? C{J,nweh,u~ryup ~n4get, t()th~p,laif ~of:;;\n ,s(l[~t~nr;J1e~~~.D~~Q~PtiSt ' '. ' \" .'~ \" . \" :'''.~. '.' i\n .' •.... ,;<"},{"id":"p-3-47","text":"Hold your horses, Reverend; I'm going as fast as I can!"},{"id":"p-3-48","text":"16 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-3-49","text":"otlelllive for the sake of others\"? For\n ..\"ri,....'>.,t here that we make a distinction between\n _ len state and his post-sin state. Sinful mani _\n \"live in love\" because his heart is hardened a~ a -\n state.(see Ephesians 4:18). Man needs a new heart\n ., .. y by the original standard. Believe\n lnl'nI'>Jm- Elnough that we recognize that the\n tbe world has disordered the balance., -"},{"id":"p-3-50","text":"Mind and body must become \"one\" just as man and woman are\nto become one. In this way we can accomplish the \"image of God\" on\na personal level. The turning motion of mind and body forms the ver-\ntical axis of the \"gyroscope.\" Thus, we fulfill the ideal of perfection.\nWe become \"one\" with the spirit of the Lord (I Corinthians 6:17).\nWe then become a \"temple\" of the Lord. (I Corinthians 3:16) As\ntemples, we achieve perfection. In perfection, we realize a new value\n(remember 1+1=3). We become \"sacred.\" (I Corinthians 3:17) In\nPrinciple terms we achieve \"Divine Value, Unique Value and Cos-\nmic Value. This is what Jesus meant when he said, you must be\nperfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:48)\n This status of being is the original prerequisite for marriage\nand was to be achieved by Adam and Eve. On this foundation they\nwould gain God's permission for marriage."},{"id":"p-3-51","text":"Multiply\n Principle explains that the subject/object relationship involves\nthe reciprocal relation \"within and between.\" That is, a perfect Indi-\nvidual Truth Body composed of harmonized subject and object\n(within) seeks naturally a new object in which to perform give and\ntake (between), forming a union of higher order.\n Believe it or not, this scientific sounding theory explains, as\nFather has pointed out, why I want to hold my wife's hand, kiss her\ncheek and experience the life of love with her. A perfect being of\noneness naturally wants to become a part of something greater than\nself. This explains the Will of the Universe.\n Therefore, if the unity of a mind and body achieves a sacred sta-"},{"id":"p-3-52","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 17\n\f tus for the individual, an even higher state is achieved when such\n a man and woman become one. Where this \"image\" is achieved we\n see the emergence of God's nature upon that base. That nature is\n the nature of a loving parent. God's own nature as a parent is ful-\n filled in substance in the appearance of His own offspring. (Malachi\n 2:15)\n God incarnates in these original parents (True Parents). Hence-\n forth, all God's descendants will expand from that base. When Jesus\n said, \"as you see me you see the Father,\" it was the first step in the\n hope of seeing the family and seeing God, seeing the tribe and see-\n ing God, seeing the nation and seeing God, finally, seeing the world\n and seeing the visible manifestation of God in culture. This is the\n Kingdom of Heaven.\n Adam and Eve were to form the base for this heavenly culture\n centered upon God."},{"id":"p-3-53","text":"HaveDaainion"},{"id":"p-3-54","text":"Without a doubt, when we talk. about \"dominion\" we must be\n very careful to be aware of the prevalent belief among Christians\n that Jesus pre-exists Adam. Sometimes, as we describe the princi-\n ple view of Adam's destined position \"to have dominion,\" Christians\n will naturally conclude that we are denying the pre-existence of\n Jesus, and thus, the fundamental nature of the Trinity. Issues of\n Christology will always be a sticky wicket.\n A typical question:"},{"id":"p-3-55","text":".IfAg,g,rn (L1J4Eve wef(!tp l¥fvedpmi~i,g~ as you desfrjbe,w~,.\"is \"~$,us\" \" .,\""},{"id":"p-3-56","text":"'~i~!~~~~~i:P:t::3~:\n our next lecturer. Well, that's all the time we have for questions. See\n you at the coffee urn!\n My policy is to try to avoid unproductive controversy, especially\n when it involves issues that weren't essential to the topic at hand.\n In other words, stay on the main river and avoid getting bogged\n down in the tributaries. In this case, I can live with ministers not\n understanding the full implications of\"to have dominion.\" After all,\n the full implication of what we are explaining is that there never\n would have been a Jesus of Nazareth had Adam fulfilled his role, a"},{"id":"p-3-57","text":"18 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:\n '\":.':'''\n psalms 8:4-6 is a good verse because of its use of the term\n Also, Psalms is an Old Testament book with chapter 8\n ferririg,t o the generic \"man.\" Be prepared that many\n jto,thatPsalms 8 is likewise speaking about Jesus; as is \",thlrrn.corf\n , brews l:6-8. 'Hebrews 2:6-8 recites Psalms 8:4-6 in i1o\"rrrI\"U,.\n Jesus' position and authority."},{"id":"p-3-58","text":",. p<:>nse is that the position and ideal of True Son\n oo.That ideal, or \"Logos,\" is the meaning of\n ~Mchapter of John's Gospel that states, \"The\n asJ:;odand was made flesh.\" We agree with\n s,itio~ef True Son pre-exists Adam; however,it\n inedwho would fulfill that position. Thus, ,\n essitates the emergence of a second Adam/i.e\n Jesus of Nazareth."},{"id":"p-3-59","text":"little tough to swallow at this early juncture. The most essential\nblessing for them to understand is, of course, the second blessing.\n That being said, however, doesn't mean we can't provide a very\nclear and biblically based explanation of the third blessing. Let's\nconsider the words of Paul in Romans 8:18-21."},{"id":"p-3-60","text":"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the\n glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expec-\n tation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was sub-\n jected to frustration not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who\n subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its\n bondage to decay and be brought into the glorious freedom of the chil-\n drenofGod."},{"id":"p-3-61","text":"The \"children of God,\" Adam and Eve, were to inherit the author-\nity of God. Thus, God would receive joy and stimulation from the cre-\nation through His children. God would have direct dominion over\ncreation through Adam and Eve. Consider I Corinthians 15:27-28:"},{"id":"p-3-62","text":"For he \"has put everything under his feet.\" Now when it says that \"every-\n thing\" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God\n himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then\n the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under"},{"id":"p-3-63","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 19\n\f him, so that God may be all in all."},{"id":"p-3-64","text":"Also, Psalms 8:4-6:"},{"id":"p-3-65","text":"What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care\n for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and\n crowned him with glory and honor. When you made him ruler over the\n works ofyour hands; you put everything under his feet."},{"id":"p-3-66","text":"Usually the first presentation would close with the explanation\n of the Three Blessings. It is a natural breaking point when you need\n to break the lecture into two parts. After a time to allow for minis-\n ters to digest some of the new ideas, we would continue with Prin-\n ciple of Creation II. Hopefully, they would now have a basis to under-\n stand that the actual world is far different from the one God\n intended.\n In \"Principle of Creation, Part II\", we take up the task of explain-\n ing man's responsibility and the dynamics of growth. We start by\n explaining the structure and function of a human being."},{"id":"p-3-67","text":"THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION Of AHUMAN BBNG"},{"id":"p-3-68","text":"$ef"},{"id":"p-3-69","text":"20 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f e- \"c - · -~"},{"id":"p-3-70","text":"$f0"},{"id":"p-3-71","text":"$f1"},{"id":"p-3-72","text":"22 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-3-73","text":"tion and supportive scripture I would use for Christians:"},{"id":"p-3-74","text":"1. Spirit Self-Physical Self\n I Corinthians 15:42-44\n It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a nat-\n ural body, there is also a spiritual body."},{"id":"p-3-75","text":"Paul explains clearly the pair structure of spirit and body."},{"id":"p-3-76","text":"2. Spirit Self Needs Life Elements: God's Love and Truth\n After we establish the structure of a human we then go first to\nthe spirit self and the essential need for \"God's love and truth.\""},{"id":"p-3-77","text":"Matthew 4:4\n Jesus answered, \"It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on\n every word that comes from the mouth of God.\""},{"id":"p-3-78","text":"1 Peter 2:2\n Like neWborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may\n grow up in your salvation,"},{"id":"p-3-79","text":"3. Life Elements Must Manifest as Action"},{"id":"p-3-80","text":"James 2:17\n Faith without action is dead."},{"id":"p-3-81","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 23\n\f We need actions oflove and truth."},{"id":"p-3-82","text":"4. Must \"Love\" our Body"},{"id":"p-3-83","text":"Ephesians 5:29\n After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it,\n just as Christ does the church. . ."},{"id":"p-3-84","text":"This is where we explain the need for positive and negative\n nutriments."},{"id":"p-3-85","text":"5. Vitality ae.nts (Grace fren \"Doing\")\n Romans 6:13\n The body is an instrument of righteousness."},{"id":"p-3-86","text":"Proverbs 11:25\n A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himselfbe\n refreshed."},{"id":"p-3-87","text":"2 Corinthians 9:7~\n Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluc-\n tantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is\n able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times,\n having all that you need, you will abound in every good work."},{"id":"p-3-88","text":"These scriptures help to support the idea of a vitality element\n imputed to the spirit as a result of good deeds."},{"id":"p-3-89","text":"6. Spirit Dements Returned to Body\n Psalms 92:12-14\n The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar\n of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the\n courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will\n stay fresh and green."},{"id":"p-3-90","text":"This links righteousness with physical well-being.\n Following this order helps to make it more understandable and\n acceptable. In fact, I've had numerous ministers ask me for copies\n of this presentation because they wanted to adapt it for their own\n24 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-3-91","text":"for,Christians is that they begin to\n has a God-centered essential mi\n spirit to grow.\" Many Christians ttlA' ·th<>\n \"sin.\" Some even feel that n\"\"clr\",\n s,n. Many believe that God rr<>,.t.orf\n a punishment for sin. They point to. Uo;,\"o;;;o'' ''\n that \"God made garments of .\n and Eve after they fell."},{"id":"p-3-92","text":"sermon on spiritual growth. If we are willing to ground things more\nin scripture, Christians will be more confident to consider the full\nextent of our beliefs."},{"id":"p-3-93","text":"THE POSITION OF MAN IN THE UNIVERSE"},{"id":"p-3-94","text":"$f2"},{"id":"p-3-95","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 25\n\f the physical body toward its original purpose. What is the only\n common base that exists between the desire of the spirit and the\n desire of the body? It is the highest purposeofthe physical body: to\n multiply the lineage of God.\n We are teaching Christians to open to the idea that the body\n has a God-friendly original role. We start with generic claims such\n as, \"the body is the soil for the spirit to grow.\" We conclude with the\n body being one essential requirement in order to fulfill God's very\n purpose of creation. This assertion becomes a main pillar, later,\n when we declare that Christ will return upon the earth."},{"id":"p-3-96","text":"THE TWO WORLDS CEITERING 01 MAlI\n As mentioned earlier, delving into the·nature of the spiritual\n world presents many potential pitfalls. Jesus' parable about the\n rich man and Lazarus is a very amazing and often overlooked aspect\n of Jesus' teaching about the reality of afterlife. See Luke 16:19-31:"},{"id":"p-3-97","text":"$f3"},{"id":"p-3-98","text":"26 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they\n will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"},{"id":"p-3-99","text":"$f4"},{"id":"p-3-100","text":"THE PROCESS OF THE CREATlOM OF THE WlVERSE AND ITS GIO. . PERIOD"},{"id":"p-3-101","text":"$f5"},{"id":"p-3-102","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 27\n\f God: the act of tearful comforting and consoling and the life of seek-\n ing His liberation from His sorrow. Consider Father's prayer in\n Hungnam:"},{"id":"p-3-103","text":"I never prayed from weakness. I never complained. I was never angry at\n my situation. I never even asked His Mlp, but was always busy com-\n forting Him and telling Him not to worry about me. TM FatMr knows\n me so well. He already knew my suffering. How could I tell Him about\n my suffering and cause His Mart to grieve still more? I could only tell\n Him that I would never be defeated by my suffering."},{"id":"p-3-104","text":"$f6"},{"id":"p-3-105","text":"~~~~~_ll~~~~r~~\n28 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-3-106","text":"biblical grounds for the idea\n more of a challenge. The Pri\n •. the.Book of Genesis ."},{"id":"p-3-107","text":"The essential question and apparent dilemma is how can a\nsovereign God have circumstances take place outside His ability to\ncontrol them? However, if God, in fact, does directly control all cir-\ncumstances, how does He avoid becoming the author of sin?\n Christians answer by affirming the idea of \"the permissive will\"\nof God, that is, God didn't will for evil, He permitted evil."},{"id":"p-3-108","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 29\n\f Right, He permitted evil. However, if we fall prey to such ideas,\n even the best theological gymnastics cannot adequately address the\n true meaning of Genesis 6:6:"},{"id":"p-3-109","text":"The Lord was grieved tliat he had made man on earth and his heart\n was filled with pain."},{"id":"p-3-110","text":"It reveals a God who was shocked and deeply hurt by the results\n of the fall. It is a God that is hard to fathom by most of the world's\n theologies."},{"id":"p-3-111","text":"THE GROWING PfRIOO"},{"id":"p-3-112","text":"$f7"},{"id":"p-3-113","text":"During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and peti-"},{"id":"p-3-114","text":"30 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-3-115","text":":'t'ernust be very careful how we use the terms \"nartcrt'inn,!';.\n counterpart \"imperfection.\" Naturally, when Ch ':>U~~,ofAut ,\n Divine~ciple\" \" \". . . ' '.. ' d• • , . , ' , • ' : , , ' , \" \" : :,'~,\n ,.: He,Was intrigued by mu~ of it, .but the·part.of Rev..¥ooas'}::Q,~sage :'\n \"thatmystifiedhlmthemostwas theteachiilgconCernIDgGOd'sh~ ~d'~ , .\n ' stiffering; Hf,ljust coul\n say,to:me, ~ometimeseven laugb.in~. 1(evin,.GOd,doesn'~~Uffe~., . ;': i~l '"},{"id":"p-3-159","text":"~~£~:l:1:.fJt~~~~&. ·\n sio~:ForD1bst:ChriStlanS, ,"},{"id":"p-3-162","text":"42 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Looking like the most lost man in the world, my friend wandered out\noftheJCU and into the waiting room. I went up to him and we embraced.\nIn ~ hands, the plastic bag stuffed with her hair. The bag was spotted with\nhis tears. This '\\Vas all that.was.1~ft him. He collapsed in my arms and set\nfree a cry from the bottom of his sOul. After several minutes, he gradually\nlifted his head and began looking.up toward the sky far, far away as if in\na dream or in remembering.It was thEm that he said the most amazing\nthing; something I will never forget:\n \"Kevin,\" he said, \"I never understood what Rev. Moon meant when he\nsaid that God suffered... but no\",. . . t know, . . . nQW I kriow.\" And with\nthat, he slowly dropped his head andjust continued to softly\"cry, lost in his\npersonal sorrows.\n I know, somewhere, he wee~ every day still."},{"id":"p-3-163","text":"$101"},{"id":"p-3-164","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 43\n\f understand the conditions and values that were lost in the collapse\n of God's purpose. Through understanding the Principle on this issue\n they will find a God of new attributes: a God of deepest suffering,\n yet a God of intact sovereignty, a God Almighty and all knowing, yet\n a God who shares power and the authority of self-rule with human-\n ity. He is a heroic God, a mighty fortress, yet a vulnerable God long-\n ing for the love of our whole heart, mind and strength."},{"id":"p-3-165","text":"When will we see the alleviation of the sorrowful feelings planted deep\n inside the heart ofGod since the fall, after the creation ofthe world? This\n remains as the fateful task that all humanity, the cosmos or the heavenly\n principles must resolve. Accordingly, before we can eradicate the root of\n this grief deep inside God, there is no way to come up with the solution\n for the fundamental grief of human beings.\n Although God has created all things and has beengoveming the 6,000-\n year providential history until now, He has not been able to possess the\n one day ofjoy when He can remove all sorrows and appear as the Being\n ofglory before the world ofcreation. Thu have to feel that there is this kind\n of sorrowful situation in Heaven.Sun Myung Moon, Let Us Experi-\n ence the Sorrow of God, March 2, 1958"},{"id":"p-3-166","text":"In our next chapter on The FaIl of Man, we will focus on the\n most needed areas for Christians to understand the nature of the\n fall. Christians know that there is a Satan. However, Divine Prin-\n ciple reveals not only that there is a Satan but also, how such an\n entity gained the position of \"god and ruler\" over fallen man. The\n shocking discovery will be that Satan could not exert such author-\n ity nor gain such a position without the voluntary cooperation of\n man! Who created Satan? Who holds the key in the final subjuga-\n tion of Satan? Coming next!"},{"id":"p-3-167","text":"44 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE"}]},{"page":4,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-4-1","text":"Chapter Two"},{"id":"p-4-2","text":"THE FALL OF MAN\n or Christians, the fall of man is a simple declaration that man"},{"id":"p-4-3","text":"$102"},{"id":"p-4-4","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 45\n\f the affirmation that God's Word has the answers for our life. They\n have been barraged by an increasing number of adherents that see\n Bible solutions as ineffective and shallow, i.e., \"just have faith and\n pray and God will heal your family, etc.»\n The fall of man lecture is an affirmation that God has an answer.\n For this reason, we revisit His word in search of a deeper under-\n standing of the root of family breakdown. This is a justification for\n them to begin to engage the material. However, once Christians\n engage the material, the full providential implications become\n increasingly clear."},{"id":"p-4-5","text":"TIlE ROOT OF SIt\n When you enter into the Garden of Eden make sure you bring\n your minesweeper. The place is loaded with land mines. One false\n step and you can lose your foot. It is important to assess what con-\n tent is essential, what can be streamlined and what can be reserved\n for later before we embark on our journey through the symbols of\n the Garden of Eden."},{"id":"p-4-6","text":"The foil is SJIIIboIic\n Our assertion about the fruit is based on three points:\n • God is a God oflove\n • They desired the fruit more than life itself\n • Jesus words in Matthew 15:11\n Guess which point will have the most impact. Let's review each\n one."},{"id":"p-4-7","text":"Point one: God is a God of love"},{"id":"p-4-8","text":"Here Principle stresses that the idea of God testing Adam and\n Eve is inconsistent with the nature of His love relationship with\n them. Ministers will beg to differ:"},{"id":"p-4-9","text":"46 THE BLOOD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-4-10","text":"Answer:\n There is a very significant difference between Adam, before the\nfall, and Job. Adam, before the fall, is in the state of sinlessness and\nis within the parameters ofGod's love. Job is born with the sin nature\nand in need of salvation. God needs to test sinners. Adam was not\nyet a sinner, he was a pure child of God. God giving the command-\nment, therefore, was not a test, but a responsibility to join with God\nin His own government and discipline. Fulfilling this role would\ngive Adam the moral base for his freedom and thus his potential to\nbe a being of love."},{"id":"p-4-11","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 47\n\f The key is in understanding the difference between a \"test\" and\n a \"responsibility.\" You test someone to evaluate whether they can\n assume a responsibility. God was not testing Adam; he was fully\n entrusting him with a portion of responsibility: to assume the role\n of \"co-creator.\""},{"id":"p-4-12","text":"Point Two: They desired the fruit more than life itself"},{"id":"p-4-13","text":"Some ministers will rightly point out that: \"the wages of sin are\n death.\" They will claim that any sin results in \"death.\" I remind\n ministers that Adam and Eve did not have the nature of sin at this\n point in the story, as fallen man does. Also, our position is that the\n fruit is not a literal fruit. They are not being tempted by a desire to\n eat a literal food. It is important to note that when God gave the com-\n mandment in Genesis 2:17, He prefaces His commandment with\n the assurance that man could eat of \"any other tree in the Gar-\n den:\" So the sanction against the fruit was an exclusive sanction to\n the particular fruit. It makes physical hunger an unlikely motive for\n man's desire for the fruit. The point is that the fruit must represent\n something of tremendous desirability."},{"id":"p-4-14","text":";~'fitl~~~;~~~.·~~1.r•\n '.;,;, -,\n '.,!U.·~:.i,1~,!.1i~r.t~\n .. . -. , - ~ ..'.,..;- .\"\n ..:. .'n.; ...\n . .... . ·;·::rt:;',"},{"id":"p-4-15","text":"Answer:\n No, because disobedience entails an act. Also there are many lev-\n els and qualities ofdisobedience. Someone can commit murder while\n someone else doesn't take out the garbage as told; both are not equally\n guilty, though both are in the state of disobedience. The fall was not\n just an ambiguous disobedience. It was a heinous act, so powerful as\n to change the very nature of an angelic being and the children of\n God, as well as the ensuing lineage of those first human ancestors.\n Certainly, Saint Paul, makes a very firm case for the idea of\n degrees in the quality of sins, for example sins committed \"outside\n the body\" compared with sins \"against the body.\""},{"id":"p-4-16","text":"I Corinthians 6:16, 18\n Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with\n her in body? For it is written 'the two will become one flesh.'. . . Flee from\n sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body,\n but he who sins sexually sins against his own body."},{"id":"p-4-17","text":"48 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-4-18","text":"rl~Ji6blem is that the Tre~ of Knowledge only appea;s • . •\n \"' books of the Bible and, therefore, any effort to\n r\\o\",n.rllJ will seem subjective and arbitrary, or worse, that on sources other than the Bible. Of course,\n the fact that we are bringing a new truth; nmrvev'er\n ,. ..that/as strategy, it is best to withhold imposing ---.J--...\n based on outside the Bible parameters until we\n a more solid foundation with the Principle. It is\n in the lecture process at this juncture."},{"id":"p-4-20","text":"fact, ()n the first go-around with the Principle, I fi\n analionofthe two trees to be not essential to the\n ~; lectLJre.We don't need the trees to establish a link oelweel\n f~rit~nd Eve because, clearly, the serpent tempts\n ! . Genesis 3:1 . We don't need the trees to establ\"\n ~\\-\\fe;'e imperfect and had to grow to perfection bec:aus;e\n v~.done thatthroughout the first presentation. We\n stoe~plain the meaning of the fruit because there \".a,;,;tll-oo.\n ~rs~s(which we will share later) that we can use that \".\n 'aningof the fruit unequivocally clear. On the IIUcIL\".eal!er tel1tial problems outweigh the potential benefits of\n '.,i:this topic. I say, take it up in the seven-day U[f\"lrv<:!r\\f\"ln"},{"id":"p-4-22","text":"Point Three: The words of Jesus"},{"id":"p-4-23","text":"If you guessed point three would be the most influential, you've\nwon a prize!\n Matthew 15:11-19"},{"id":"p-4-24","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 49\n\f \"What goes into a man's mouth does not make him unclean, but\n what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean.\n ... \" Peter said, \"Explain the parable to us.\"\"Are you still so dull?\" Jesus\n asked them. \"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the\n stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the\n mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean. For out of\n the heart come evil thoughts, murder, aduUery, sexual immoral-\n ity, theft, false testimony, slarukr. These are things that make a man\n unclean.\""},{"id":"p-4-25","text":"The Divine Principle book cites the 11th verse only; however\n verses 12-19 are very helpful. Notice that Jesus also pinpoints\n \"the heart\" as the origin of sinful desires and thoughts. This allows\n us to point toward the direction of the corruption of the heart as\n being closely linked to the root of sin."},{"id":"p-4-26","text":"$103"},{"id":"p-4-27","text":"'TrF\n , ; '~~\"!~:,·.~::,·r,~,:~\n ,.; , ~~ ;,:,\\~.\" '. \" , '.\": :0. -, ,- : . - ; - - ' ,' \", ~)).,::£."},{"id":"p-4-28","text":"50 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-4-29","text":"tra(lltIIn •\n .' \"bombs away,\" however make sure .\n laser guidance systems are turned on •\n . as opposed to strapping a bomb around"},{"id":"p-4-37","text":"$104"},{"id":"p-4-38","text":"Answer:\n Negativity is not evil. Negativity is a complement to positivity.\n Positivity and negativity harmonize centering on a higher common\n purpose. Good and evil do not harmonize, have no common higher\n purpose centering on which they can unite. For this reason good and\n evil contradict each other. God is a God ofgoodness.\n God's plan is for goodness. Anything that falls outside the sphere\n of relationship with God is evil. In order for a being to maintain its\n relationship with God, it must follow the principle of harmonized\n relationship between subject and object. Any being that stands in\n defiance of this principle falls out of relationship with God. Value is\n achieved when subject and object, centering on a higher common\n purpose, achieve harmony."},{"id":"p-4-39","text":"\";~~~~~\"~~~~~~~tI~i~'\n Answer:\n Not evil, as in sin or moral evil or the existence of Satan. Evil as\n in disaster or calamity. See Jonah 3:10, where God repents of the\n evil that He said He was going to do to Nineveh. God did not mean\n that He had planned to sin against Nineveh. The evil was in fact\n the destruction that God had promised ifNineveh did not repent.\n We close the deal on this issue with the affirmation of Genesis\n 1:31:"},{"id":"p-4-40","text":"God saw everything that he had rrwde, and it was very good,"},{"id":"p-4-41","text":"God saw everything and it was very good. No exceptions,\n unequivocal. It didn't say God saw almost all things and said it was\n good, except for this little devil over here. Everything was good!\n Case closed!\n On this foundation, we can move forward to unravel the iden-\n tity of the serpent. Based on the above conclusions, we can direct our\n search toward a being, created by God for good, that corrupted his\n role and purpose toward his own self-interests."},{"id":"p-4-42","text":"52 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-4-43","text":"THE ORIGIN OF SAN"},{"id":"p-4-44","text":"Now we've got the ball in our court. The overwhelming biblical\nevidence is that evil came about from the corruption of good. Let's\nexamine some important verses:"},{"id":"p-4-45","text":"Revelation 12:9\n The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil,\n or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth,\n and his angels with him."},{"id":"p-4-46","text":"2 Peter 2:4\n For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,\n putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment."},{"id":"p-4-47","text":"Jude 1:6\n And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but aban-\n doned their own home; these he has kept in darkness, bound with ever-\n lasting chains for judgment on the great Day."},{"id":"p-4-48","text":"Job 1:6\n One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and\n Satan also came with them."},{"id":"p-4-49","text":"What are we able to observe in each of these Bible verses related\nto our topic? Read them carefully. It is this: Good beings, originally\ndwelling in heaven with God, are found to be lacking as a result of\nsome sort of sinful action."},{"id":"p-4-50","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 53\n\f God casts them out of heaven and into \"gloomy dungeons\" where\n they are being held for judgment. Also, we see that \"the ancient ser-\n pent called Satan\" seems to have a type of authority or position over\n this particular group of angels (\"his angels\"). Thus the casting out\n of Satan is of note because he is a figure of higher esteem and posi-\n tion in heaven."},{"id":"p-4-51","text":"THE IDTITY Of THE ARCIWJGEI."},{"id":"p-4-52","text":"Be prepared to explain why we believe that the serpent, Satan,\n was an archangeL You will not find a Bible verse that describes\n Lucifer with the term \"archangeL\" Be mindful that the idea that\n there were three archangels in heaven is also not clearly affirmed\n in scripture. Only Michael in Jude 1:8-10 is described as an\n \"archangel. \""},{"id":"p-4-53","text":"~~~~~~~t\"f~~,1:l\n Answer:\n Ha rna da. . . ha ma da . . ha rna da\n As you can see, I found out a lot of these things the hard way:\n standing in front of 300 clergy and letting them have at me! It is cor-\n rect that there is no scripture that describes Lucifer as an\n \"archangeL\" However, the Bible does clearly testify that the entity\n cast out of heaven has a position over a portion of angels. Revela-\n tion 12:7-9 also makes a direct comparison of \"Michael and his\n angels\" with \"Satan and his angels.\" It would tend to follow, if Michael\n is an archangel, that the being called Satan likewise was an\n archangeL\n At this point we are ready to examine Isaiah 14:12. Isaiah intro-\n duces us to \"Lucifer.\""},{"id":"p-4-54","text":"Isaiah 14:12\n How art tlwu fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning! How\n art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"},{"id":"p-4-55","text":"Isaiah 14:13-15\n }Qu have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the\n nations! }Qu said in your heart, '1 will ascend to heaven; 1 will raise my\n throne above the stars of God; 1 will sit enthroned on the mount ofassem-\n bly, on the utmost heights ofthe sacred mountain. 1 will ascend above the\n54 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-4-56","text":"$105"},{"id":"p-4-58","text":"\"\" Oracles also demonstrate this twofold relevancy but in a sligntly, ',~,\n different manner. Whereas in their immediate context~hey ~rve ~ 4 an indictment of a certain contemporary figure, their S€CPl1d .,;.\n ~ relevancy .pertains, not to the future, but to the past. Inotherwo.~d,.\n . .~re prophecy can give us insight into the distantfuture,'ora '..\n an give us insight into the distant past. In view of this;'1~;~\n ~1 2-,1 S can be viewed as an oracle having drawn its, imig~\n from the past events of the fall. \""},{"id":"p-4-60","text":"REVEALING GOO'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 55\n\f tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.' But you are\n brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit."},{"id":"p-4-61","text":"Here, Isaiah reveals that Lucifer is struggling with his pride. He\n seems to be dissatisfied with his station in life. When we consider\n the consistent use of the image \"star\" to refer to God's children (Rev-\n elation 22:15-17, \"star\" = Jesus), Lucifer seeking to raise his\n throne above the \"stars\" of God indicates jealousy toward Adam\n and Eve.\n Another oracle is even more explicit in describing aspects of the\n fall in Eden. Ezekiel 28:12-19:"},{"id":"p-4-62","text":"$106"},{"id":"p-4-63","text":"In reading this, did you take note of the \"twofold relevancy?\"\n God tells Ezekiel, \"take up this lament to the king of'JYre.\" Ezekiel\n refers to the king as \"guardian cherub,\" tells him he \"was in Eden\n the garden of God.\" The king ofTyre was probably thinking, \"hey I'm\n not that old, what's this guy talking about?\"\n He's talking about quite a lot! One of the most important addi-\n tional benefits of this scripture is that it helps to support the Prin-\n ciple view of the timing of the fall. In other words, the Principle"},{"id":"p-4-64","text":"$107"},{"id":"p-4-65","text":"Was Satan cast down to the Earth before man was created? Rev.R.B.~\n Pentecostal"},{"id":"p-4-66","text":"$108"},{"id":"p-4-67","text":"$109"},{"id":"p-4-68","text":"TIl COIItSE AND MOlIVE OF TIl FAU\n In order to adequately explain the course and motive of the fall,\n we must clearly explain the intended nature of the relationship of\n Adam, Eve and the archangel. One element of challenge in clearly\n describing their relationship is that the point in time where we\n enter the Garden of Eden is a moment when the relationship of\n man and the angels is undergoing a fundamental scheduled tran-\n sition.\n Lucifer, the covering cherub, was finishing up his duties as pro-\n tector and guide. Now Adam was emerging toward lordship, co-cre-\n atorsbip and the vision of Psalms 8:4-6:"},{"id":"p-4-69","text":"What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care\n for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and\n crowned him with glory and honor. When you made him ruler over the\n works ofyour hands; you put everything under his feet."},{"id":"p-4-70","text":"Up until this moment of transition, Lucifer could relate directly\n to God conditionally with regard to his position as \"guardian"},{"id":"p-4-71","text":"$10a"},{"id":"p-4-72","text":"~n'tf~?l~ §:~ ~c'f!1V! t¥!rn:tP'..~'!!:2r!-~/A}1\"c;Jittlei'f:,u:er:,tm:1Jthe\n arwels?,Hqwca,nyolfsay tliat11)a.n wastolULve oominipn ove,. thefLngels? ,.\n ' Rev~,A.d:,\" cbUrchofC~.·: ·':,'i • . ..·'·· , ' ..... ~.L 0\"/., i s ' .' ..;\n ,~\" \",' v,"},{"id":"p-4-73","text":"Answer:\n If we were to take the 8th Psalm as meaning that man is lower\nin quality and position than the angels, then we must conclude that\nJesus is likewise lower in quality and status than the angels because\nthe writer of Hebrews uses the same Psalm 8 to describe Jesus (see\nHebrews 2:6-9). If that was our conclusion, of course, we would be\nin error. A more proper exegesis of Psalms 8 and Hebrews 2:6-9\nwould be. . . He was created for a little while lower than the angels.\n This indicates that while Adam was still growing, he was under\nthe protection and care of the guardian cherub, but once Adam had\nperfected himself, he would then exert the full dominion of the Son\nof God over all things including the angels. That's why, though\nHebrews 2:6-9 repeats the 8th Psalm, the 1st and 2nd chapters of\nHebrews are an unabashed declaration of the superiority of the Son\nand the children of God (over the angels)."},{"id":"p-4-74","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 59\n\f Answer:\n Hebrews 1:14 declares angels are ministering spirits sent to\n serve the heirs ofsalvation. This shows that the authority of the Son\n is bequeathed to us and as a result we stand, likewise, as God's chil-\n dren. As such, we also gain the right to judge the angels (see\n 1Corinthians 6:3). Jesus was crowned with glory (Hebrews 2:7)\n and everything was put under Him.\n Hebrews 2:10 says that Jesus, in dying, brought us to glory.\n Hebrews 2:11 states that both the one who makes men holy and\n those who are made holy are of the same family, so Jesus is not\n ashamed to call them (believers, not angels) brothers. Hebrews 1:5\n states, to which of the angels did God ever say, 'You are my Son;\n today I become your Father.' This inheritance is shared with believ-\n ers, not with angels. Romans 8:17."},{"id":"p-4-75","text":"THE INSTRUMENT OF ADAM'S DOMIIOII: 111 COMMANDMENT\n The Principle declares the order by which the commandment is\n passed. God gives the commandment to Adam, Adam gives the com-\n mandment to Eve and Eve (Genesis 3:1) is to give the command-\n ment to the archangel. Scripture supports this view. God gives Adam\n the commandment prior to the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:17.\n Eve is clearly explaining the meaning of the commandment to\n Lucifer that, of course, he contests in Genesis 3:1.\n The role to have faith in the commandment is the central respon-\n sibility in order for Adam to achieve dominion; to become co-cre-\n ator, as we previously studied. Therefore, giving the commandment\n to Eve who is to give the commandment to the archangel is the core\n manifestation of Adam's authority for dominion."},{"id":"p-4-76","text":"THE PROCESS Of THE FAlL"},{"id":"p-4-77","text":"Failure to See AdMt fr. God's VieWJlOint\n The first step of the fall is Lucifer's rejection of Adam's author-\n ity. This was a challenge for Lucifer. He was an angel, an archangel."},{"id":"p-4-78","text":"$10b"},{"id":"p-4-79","text":"Lucifer Leaves His PrQlt'r Position"},{"id":"p-4-80","text":"Lucifer's position is to receive God's love through the channel of\nperfected Adam. However, because he cannot connect to God's inter-\nest for Adam, Lucifer feels no motive to harmonize with the position\nof Adam. Lucifer be~omes distant from Adam. By becoming distant\nfrom Adam, he becomes distant from God. The sensation of love\nand validation seeps away."},{"id":"p-4-81","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WOf'lLD 61\n\f Lucifer must now make an e~aI11\">4ion. Is this feeling of alien-\n ation from God a result of something he has done to God or is it a\n result of something God has done to him? He must choose between\n two opposite views of God:"},{"id":"p-4-82","text":"1. God loves me absolutely; it is I who has shut him out, and it\n is I who must accept the channel through which love will reach me.\n God will never change His love for anyone. He is absolute.\n Or,\n 2. God changed His heart toward me because circumstances\n didn't favor him continuing to love me. God doesn't need me because\n He has Adam and Eve. God acts based on His own interest at my\n expense and the expense of others.\n Lucifer chooses No.2. Now our angel is growing in his potential\n for disaster. He is cut off from the channel of God's love, he is feel-\n ing a growing feeling oflack oflove and now, he is building a rela-\n tivist mind-set that will permit him to do whatever he must do to\n fill this growing void in his soul. In his view, God betrayed him;\n thus, he feels the license to strike back. Like a ticking time bomb,\n he moves to the next phase of the process of the fall."},{"id":"p-4-83","text":"Reversal of DoIinion\n In Lucifer's mind, God changing his commitment toward him to\n pursue his own benefit pretty much excused Lucifer from feeling\n committed to any moral truth from this God. With such a convo-\n luted mind, he ponders Eve. She is beautiful and stimulating, even\n though, he knows, she is not meant for him. He cannot stop drink-\n ing her beauty, he feels a stirring in his soul, he waits for her, he\n reaches out to her and so on and so on.\n Let's bring back the fruit that we earlier had pushed to the side.\n Now we're ready to talk fruit!\n Genesis 3:1"},{"id":"p-4-84","text":"Now the serpent was more crafty than any ofthe wild animals the LORD\n God had made. He said to the woman, \"did God really say, 'You must\n not eat from any tree in the garden'? The woman said to the serpent, \"We\n may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'Thu must\n not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you\n must not touch it, or you will die.' \"lOu will not surely die, \" the serpent"},{"id":"p-4-85","text":"62 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f said to the woman. \"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes\n will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.\""},{"id":"p-4-86","text":"Me_ of the Fruit"},{"id":"p-4-87","text":"The fruit is a symbol oflove."},{"id":"p-4-88","text":"Proverbs 30:20\n This is the way ofan adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says,\n 'rve done nothing wrong.'"},{"id":"p-4-89","text":"Song of Solomon 4:12-16\n (Solomon to his bride): (%u are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride;\n you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain. Thur plants are an orchard\n ofpomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, nard and saf\n {ron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh\n and aloes and all the finest spices. Thu are a garden fountain, a well of\n flowing water streaming down {rom Lebanon. Awake, north wind, and\n come, south wind! Blow on my garden that its fragrance may spread\n abroad.\"\n (The bride's response): \"Let my lover come into his garden and taste\n its choice fruits.\""},{"id":"p-4-90","text":"Therefore, Lucifer tempting Eve to \"eat the fruit\" means that\nLucifer was seeking to consummate a love relationship with her on\nthe sexual level.\n At this point we would usually give the ministers a few min-\nutes to get up off the floor.\n Let's hear from my friend, Reverend Sir, one more time,"},{"id":"p-4-91","text":"Could you please explain, Sir, how you .have given to. Satan a humap,\n nature wherein he desires or lusts after Eve? How do spirits have inter-\n course with flesh? Rev. C.K..,Lutheran"},{"id":"p-4-92","text":"Answer:\n From a theological standpoint, the theory of angelic fornication\nwith women on earth was not a new idea. It finds a long tradition\nin Hebrew mythology and certainly was readily acceptable by the\nearly Church Fathers of Christian history. The view has fallen in\nand out of vogue several times since. Its acceptance as a credible view\nis based on the overwhelming use of the Hebrew \"bene Elohim\" (sons\nof God) for angels. This is supported by New Testament Greek in"},{"id":"p-4-93","text":"$10c"},{"id":"p-4-94","text":"Do you rwt krww that he wlw unites himselfwith a prostitute is one with\n her in body? For it is written (the two will become one flesh.'. . . Flee from\n sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body,\n but he who sins sexually sins against his own body."},{"id":"p-4-95","text":"It is also helpful to show scripture that give other, equally hard\n to understand, testimony to the on earth interaction of humans with\n spiritual beings:\n Genesis 32:22-32 Jacob wrestles an angel (confirmed by\n Hosea 12:4)\n Genesis 19:3 Lot prepares a meal for angels and they eat!\n Hebrews 13:1 \"Keep on loving each other as brothers. Do not for-\n get to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have enter-\n tained angels without knowing it. \" (This means angels can be in\n our midst and we would not necessarily notice. This indicates angels"},{"id":"p-4-96","text":"64 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:\n ·1~;,:J'~,j -\n · The term il sons of God\" (\"bene Elohim\" in Hebrew) appears many\n times in scripture and is commonly used as a term for IIqngels il\n _4J~< ,'k; ;~ ' ~ i;' ability to interact in time and space and maintain a low-profile,\nnon-distinct manner.)"},{"id":"p-4-98","text":"The sin of the angels is likewise the sin of fornication:"},{"id":"p-4-99","text":"Jude 1:6-8\n And the angels wlw did rwt keep their positions of autlwrity but aban-\n doned their own home - these he has kept in darkness, bound with ever-\n lasting chains for judgment on the great Day. In a similar way, Sodom\n and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual\n immorality and perversion. They serve as an example oftlwse who suf-\n fer the punishment of eternal fire. In the very same way, these dreamers\n pollute their own bodies, reject autlwrity and slander celestial beings."},{"id":"p-4-100","text":"Be sure to include the 8th verse ofthe first chapter of Jude (the\nPrinciple book doesn't include it): \"In the very same way, these dream-\ners pollute their own bodies. Not only does the verse indicate that the\nangels and citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah share the same sin, it\ndescribes it explicitly with the phase \"pollute their own bodies.\"\nRemember Paul's words indicating sexual sin as the only type of\nsin that was a sin against our own body.\n Make sure you establish the scriptural link between these for-\nnicating angels and the angels that fell with Lucifer, \"his angels.\"\nThey are one and the same."},{"id":"p-4-101","text":"2 Peter 2:4\n For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to\n hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment."},{"id":"p-4-102","text":"Revelation 12:9\n The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil,\n or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth,\n and his angels with him."},{"id":"p-4-103","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 65\n\f Genesis 6:2\n The sons of God (the angels) saw that the daughters of men were beau-\n tiful, and they married any of them they cMse."},{"id":"p-4-104","text":"This establishes that the sin of Lucifer's angels is the same sin\n as Lucifer. Lucifer engaged in the sin of fornication with Eve and his\n angels followed suit."},{"id":"p-4-105","text":"$10d"},{"id":"p-4-106","text":"Rather than walking the path of responsibility by confessing\n her wrong to Adam and throwing herself before the mercy of the\n court, she seeks to include Adam in her iniquity. Because of the\n destruction of her self-esteem through sin, Eve seeks comfort and\n acceptance. She follows the path of her god who imposed his will\n upon her through trickery and deceit. Adam eats the fruit offered\n him by Eve.\n Genesis 2:25 Before the fall, Adam and Eve were naked and\n unashamed"},{"id":"p-4-107","text":"66 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-4-108","text":"misunderstand this point. Ch I~Udll' I~. '\n e(]~eeD~Se,l£e(] pessimistic feelings about\n Many will think that we are\n sexuality itself. Of course, in'\n also declaring the true liberation Of\n . through \"absolute sex.\" ,."},{"id":"p-4-109","text":"Genesis 3:7 After the fall, \"their eyes were opened\" to their\nnakedness.\n Job 31:33 \"If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding\nmine iniquity in my bosom:\""},{"id":"p-4-110","text":"$10e"},{"id":"p-4-111","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 67\n\f < •"},{"id":"p-4-112","text":", ,\n .;'"},{"id":"p-4-113","text":",:) ;\"\"\n :\"~~n',;' artiele f~~tta'\n .;;'\" .\n :1894:'~\"':»~:\" :'~ , ... ..~"},{"id":"p-4-114","text":"',\".:::: ,.:',,-:::,,;,!', ';;:.11 'ii>f~<, ... ::.; ~'-<',~: \"\" ;,:,,,.::.,1: , ,:.' ~'.;\" . .:,:-::'~.,:' : -:~··C·.-:,<);~~;~·,,>'.-::~_',_,.:.,;'!.:·<:'f, ;.~\\.~ <':'\n ...; ln$tn.ctiQO~JQrt~¢:;\n .'.- '.\":;' '-' ' ''~':;';~\n -c' ,_,'_J.:\";\n yo.un · ·.' 8ri~, 9n th~, Co6diJd: ~ .Pro~ur~:of~ltier\"'~.~:\n ,r, . \\.~ ~i ;. g,, \"- .':':' .:.' .;.~.; ;. . . ,.:. ,,.\"fT\" .'- \",.,.,- ,,- '.,. ';:~ ,_ :'0.\n .N' • \",\", : \"\\ \"\" ;• . ':'\" .. I;>~i '~' ·'O:l'·;.\" (l~:' \" ~;'\"\n !\" -, .. t\" '. '-':· ... h\"n_•.:,,:_ .•. •.. , \"1' i;l ,\"\"::':',"},{"id":"p-4-115","text":"\"\", 'l~at~:~,fuf\"PerSom' RelatiOOsh~'p.i~~r;i~~~!it'~ci .' . ~(';~~':~\":\""},{"id":"p-4-116","text":"':);ji;!~~5~ ~~{~~~~~~';C-i\"~.'i"},{"id":"p-4-117","text":";:, ,'; ,',:.. , -,::, ... '.\","},{"id":"p-4-118","text":"\" , ' ,' '.1\":\""},{"id":"p-4-119","text":"$10f"},{"id":"p-4-120","text":"68 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f duJ.-ing ~he first months ofmarnage: Astimeg6es bishe shot:tl' .-: > -~ .~. ~\" '\" :. -\", .:: ,,<::·,;;:\":~:····::~':}'/~;,~.vi/~~:~:;\\/: : \" \""},{"id":"p-5-23","text":"· ~.1~iil~~llc~\n loy~s 'hUn; dee,ply re~pect.s 'l1ftn and ~o!ears ~\" He S()ftly~~','Qn~:s \",'\""},{"id":"p-5-24","text":"$11d"},{"id":"p-5-25","text":";:i~~~~~::=~~\n , ., ,/ lIe's ~toJ)19W' YOU off, COj;~~lf~: ~flMat~.~ ·.~·dBY~~~.~,\n ~iU Or+;IWfillll\n > '·'r ., oi (iiSufM\n .,..'-. _ 0'\" ' ,.\" \"\n ' . . . ,\"\n (iiS'Ukeeiits\n 1\"\"\"\n sO easy for yoit'\n .\" \" ' _ \" ' - ' . '.\n t{jJlii);(1$.Ftni(\n '\" .:. , .\n '· \"\"',,;1.,,:"},{"id":"p-6-101","text":"aot,ewa$'az$Q iaSt\"otit?Bev. R:C U.P.C. ' ~ \"' \"~\" ~'::' :':~[«;'\n _:.:~:_-;~,;:.~~::~:.:::'~:,t~~/l :,:~\":\" .\\ /.'\\~: .:.~\", ., ~ . ~_ ., ;:;;1:~~'>: ~~·: './·:· .-:~d~;·II\\';~';\n \"Sent forth\" will do just fine. Now back to the point; the raven is\n a symbol of Satan. Genesis 8:7 indicates that the flood judgment\n established a sanctification for Noah's family. The raven sent forth\n from the ark indicates that Satan had been separated from them."},{"id":"p-6-102","text":"~~• •i~~~.~'.\n The Hebrews are the descendants of Shem, the Semitic people.\n The Divine Principle makes no comment on the origin of the races.\n Our hope is for the establishment of the Love Race, in which there is\n neither Jew nor Gentile, black, white or yellow in the sight ofGod and\n man."},{"id":"p-6-103","text":"~~-4~~~t;'~~~~~~\n Casting the raven from the ark is symbolic of the separation of\n Satan from the world at that time. Satan is a spirit and needs a con-\n dition to claim man. Satan gained that condition through Ham's\n failure and lack offaith in Noah ."},{"id":"p-6-104","text":".,&if;.i;~='\n Ham, Shem and Japheth were the sons of Noah. The Divine\n Principle does not comment on the origin of the races. In my pre-\n sentation I was reporting on a popular theory regarding the origin\n of the races. My purpose was not to represent this as our view but to\n comment on the misuse of this theory with regard to the curse of\n Ham. Some white Christians have used this misappropriated theory\n to justify the enslavement ofAfrican people."},{"id":"p-6-105","text":"114 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-6-106","text":"How can you say thatBhem was in the Cain position to Ham when he\n never derrioTiStrated the characteristics 'of Cain? Rev. P.J. Southern\n Bap~"},{"id":"p-6-107","text":"Shem would not assume the position of Cain until Ham estab-\nlished his position of Abel. We see later that Esau never feels mur-\nderous toward Jacob until Jacob assumes the position ofAbel. What\nsignifies the accomplishment of Abel's position is the event of verti-\ncal favor. For Abel it was the acceptance of his offering over Cain's,\nfor Jacob it was receiving the blessing of Isaac over Esau.\n Shem never came to the Cain position substantially owing to\nHam's failure to successfully accomplish the position ofAbel. (Gen-\nesis 9:22-26.) Actually, the result of Ham's failure is that the Abel\nposition shifts to Shem, and thus the central people of God descend\nfrom the line of Shem, the Semitic line."},{"id":"p-6-108","text":"What was the.violation Hammade against his father? Elder.L.F., Lat-\n ~rDay~ts"},{"id":"p-6-109","text":"Ham reported his father's nakedness to his brothers in such a\nway as to cause them to have shame for their father Noah. Ham\nshould have protected his father's dignity and honor. Ham's failure\nindicates his lack of faith in his father Noah, and it is for this rea-\nson that Ham's son, Canaan, receives a curse (see Genesis 9:22-26)."},{"id":"p-6-110","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 115\n\f Genesis 6:3, indicates that the mortal men had 120 years before\n the flood would come. Also Usshur's chronology indicates a 120-year\n period from the call of Noah to the flood by citing Genesis. 6:3."},{"id":"p-6-111","text":"The dispensation to establish the foundation of substance in\n Noah's family was to take place between Ham and Shem, not\n Japheth. Ham was the younger brother in the Abel position, and\n Shem was the older brother in the Cain position."},{"id":"p-6-112","text":"God had Noah preach for 120 years to elicit the repentance of\n the people, that is,judgment by the word. Jesus says the word will\n be our judge on the final day. The word isn't punishment; it defines\n who will be blessed and who will be punished. The flood was to sanc-\n tify, God wanted thepeople to be on the side of Noah when thejudg-\n ment came, but sadly, they were not and it is why God promised\n Noah never to bring a flood to the world as an instrument ofjudg-\n ment."},{"id":"p-6-113","text":"~~.t:,~,,~~.~{~lli1~;;;'f'\"\n There would be two reasons, one practical and the other more\n providential. God had Noah preach for 120 years before the flood\n judgment was to come (2 Peter 2:5). In preaching righteousness,\n God's hope was that the wicked people would repent and come into\n the ark. If we take the case ofNineveh as an example, we could even\n say had such repentance come, it's possible that the flood would have\n been unnecessary. God waS grieved that no one repented and so many\n died in the flood.\n The second reason is that the ultimate instrument ofjudgment\n that God wants to use is His word. God was longing to move man"},{"id":"p-6-114","text":"116 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\falong quickly, to elevate man spiritually so that man could reach a\nstate where he would be able to hear, understand and obey the spo-\nken and written word of God."},{"id":"p-6-115","text":"ABRAHAM'S FAMILY"},{"id":"p-6-116","text":"One important bit of advice when teaching ministers about the\nthree providential families is to make sure that you have read over\nthe entire story in the Bible. Sometimes lecturers will inadvertently\nmake claims that are not actually supported by the Bible story. How\ndo I know, you ask? Well, let me just say that I've learned through\nexperience. Here is a good example of what I mean:"},{"id":"p-6-117","text":". Wherll;{ii the:-Sibie'do :yott'ftrid:God:telltng Abraham t~. le(tv.e ~, the\n?Switff!lfJi:Jfj;ft~¥iijpyftljf!t4;=~\n -: ._i·'tc"},{"id":"p-6-118","text":"$137"},{"id":"p-6-119","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 117\n\f He did not resist, he trusted his father to the very end even to the\n point of death. Hebrews 11:19 likens it to a figurative resurrection.\n I'm sure, when Isaac saw the knife waving over his head, he sensed\n something was about to happen to his mortal life."},{"id":"p-6-120","text":"$138"},{"id":"p-6-121","text":"That this event happens three times, twice with Abraham and\n once with Isaac, could hardly be considered a coincidence of no spir-\n itual significance. lOu are correct when you say that there is no scrip-\n ture which states that it was God who called Abraham to go to Abim-\n elech, but indeed that call is recorded in the third attempt with Isaac.\n God used the device of famine to get Isaac to Gerar and told him to\n remain there. God also used the same device with Abraham in the\n first attempt with the pharaoh. In every case the Lord is highly"},{"id":"p-6-122","text":"118 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\finvolved in setting up the conditions that would serve as the sancti-\nfication for Abraham and then Isaac's family."},{"id":"p-6-123","text":"}lQu\"~ayGocl, ' U!oTZ'tinterfere, q;ith pU!\" m~'ofman.' 1Jutwhp?ave· King\n,::.'..Abimel~ch. the.d,n:am'that·.•te.vea.~(t'.r. ,o..'h'im thatSarg,h'.waii n,dtAbf.a::\"\"\n hcim,)s~iSter/l>utwife?~B.lL, ;HolinessX:' , '.W • .~',~ ,>.,\n .•"},{"id":"p-6-124","text":";;,,,' , . , h"},{"id":"p-6-125","text":"I never said that God does not intervene in anything that man\ndoes. I said that God does not intervene in man's responsibility. God\nrevealed to Abimelech that Sarah was the wife of Abraham, but it\nwas Abimelech's responsibility to choose what to do about that. He\ncould have ignored God's word, as did Lucifer, or he could do what\nwas the right thing to so.\n (See following question. Here's another example of my imprecise\nlanguage causing a problem for this minister.)"},{"id":"p-6-126","text":"~here . is 7U)merltio1iin'Scriptu~thcit ;'AbHhamfaiJ.e4 intHew.ct'Y . , ~'..\n 'offered tlu} doue and pige()n;-~nesis15:9saysth% ()od (l8J/ed/that offer~;.\n ingani~beQrought6ef()~ Himj:_Udfe!{not~ayth%God(l8kedthat,'\n Abraham cut them in iuilf The tenthverse orily mentions that he did not'\n. cut the birds in haltlt does not say that thiswtts a. inistltke,inanyway.\n Comment? Rev.'T.B.,Pentecostal \" '.'"},{"id":"p-6-127","text":"$139"},{"id":"p-6-128","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 119\n\f course for Abraham's descendants unless there had been a condition\n of disobedience on their part, see Deuteronomy 28."},{"id":"p-6-129","text":"Adam and Eve were still in the providential position as brother\n and sister, and could only become God-centered husband and wife\n when they fulfilled the prerequisite to their multiplication, that is, to\n be fruitful. Because Adam and Eve fell from the providential posi-\n tion of brother and sister, Abram and Sarai had to start from that\n same position. (The terms husband and wife in Genesis are also used\n to refer to an engaged man and woman.)"},{"id":"p-6-130","text":"God revealed it each time in a different way. With the pharaoh\n a sudden outbreak ofdisease riddled the kingdom and through that\n the pharaoh realized the marital status of Sarah. The second time,\n Abimelech had received a dream, and the third time, Abimelech saw\n Isaac embracing Rebekah and realized that Rebekah was the wife\n and not the sister of, in this case, Isaac.\n God does not intervene in man's responsibility. God imparting\n His word to the pharaoh and the king is not an intervention into\n their area ofresponsibility. It is up to them to do what is right. Lucifer\n also knew that Eve was not supposed to be tempted by him but he\n went ahead and violated the commandment of God anyway. The\n response of the pharaoh and Abimelech represents a reversal (and\n therefore, an indemnification) of the course the angel Lucifer took."},{"id":"p-6-131","text":"$13a"},{"id":"p-6-132","text":"Accusation 1: Jacob Stole His Brother's Birthright."},{"id":"p-6-133","text":"Wrong! Jacob did not \"steal\" his brother's birthright; he pur-\nchased it for the price oflentil stew. Such a deal!"},{"id":"p-6-134","text":"'Look, I am about to die,' Esau said. 'What good is the birthright to me?'\n But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' So he swore an oath to him, selling\n his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some\n lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau\n despised his birthright. Genesis 25:32-34"},{"id":"p-6-135","text":"Accusation 2: Jacob Deceived His Father Isaac"},{"id":"p-6-136","text":"Wrong again! It was not Jacob's idea to replace Esau and,\nthrough surreptitious means, usurp his brother's blessing. It was\nMOM'S IDEA. Rebecca orders Jacob to get the blessing. Jacob even\nprotests!\n Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau.\nWhen Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,\nRebekah said to her son Jacob, 'Look, I overheard your father say\nto your brother Esau, 'Bring me some game and prepare me some\ntasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence\nof the LORD before I die."},{"id":"p-6-137","text":"REVEALING GOO'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 121\n\f Now, my son, listen carefuUy and do what 1 teU you: Go out to the flock\n and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food\n for your father, just the way he likes it. Then take it to your father to eat,\n so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.'\n Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, \"But my brother:. Esau is a hairy\n man, and Fm a man with smooth skin. What if my father touches me?\n I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on\n myself rather than a blessing.\" His mother said to him, \"My son, let the\n curse faU on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.\" Gen-\n esis 27:5-13"},{"id":"p-6-138","text":"\"Let the curse fall on me!?\" Mom is mighty confident isn't she?\n By the way, anybody hear about any curse falling upon Rebecca?\n No? Anybody wonder why? Well, let's just say she had a good rea-\n son to make sure the younger son received the blessing:"},{"id":"p-6-139","text":"The babiesjostled each other within her, and she said, \"Why is this hap-\n pening to me?\" So she went to inquire of the LORD. The LORD said to\n her, \"'ZWo nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you\n will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the\n older will serve the younger.\" Genesis 25:22-23"},{"id":"p-6-140","text":"$13b"},{"id":"p-6-141","text":"122 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fJACOB'S VICTORY"},{"id":"p-6-142","text":"It is also very essential to understand the basis of Jacob's victory.\nJacob has accomplished some very important aspects in his mis-\nsion."},{"id":"p-6-143","text":"1. Restores Elder Son's Birthr9lt"},{"id":"p-6-144","text":"He has restored the elder son's birthright back to God's side.\nNotice the circumstance ofEsau's hunger is the basis ofthe process\nby which Jacob procures the birthright. Later, at the time of Jesus,\nSatan attempts to reclaim the birthright by the exact same cir-\ncumstances. Jesus is fasting, is hungry and Satan tempts Jesus\nwith bread. However, unlike Esau, Jesus values the birthright as the\nfirst Son of God."},{"id":"p-6-145","text":"2. Receives the BlessilS fr.. Isaac."},{"id":"p-6-146","text":"This is similar to the same moment that God received Abel's\noffering and rejected Cain's. This demonstration of vertical favor is\nwhat establishes the position of Abel and Cain. As soon as Jacob is\nestablished in the position of Abel, Esau finds himself in the posi-\ntion of Cain. Thus, all the circumstances of Cain and Abel have been\nre-created. This re-creation of circumstance is so that the new cen-\ntral figures can reverse through indemnity the failures of the past.\nThis phenomenon is referred to in Principle as \"Dispensational\nTime-Identity.\" In this way, Esau becomes the \"second coming\" of\nCain and is immediately filled with Cain's emotions. Esau attempts\nto murder Jacob."},{"id":"p-6-147","text":"3. Mother-Son Co-Qperation"},{"id":"p-6-148","text":"Because of mother-son co-operation, Esau cannot kill Jacob.\nInstead, Jacob flees to Haran for his 21-year course. (However, in\nGenesis 31:38, Jacob says to Laban, \"I have been with you for\ntwenty years now.\" This is as he is leaving Haran, so you may want\nto say 20 years of exile and return in the 21st year."},{"id":"p-6-149","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 123\n\f 4. Wins the BIessiIg of the AnJeI.\n Of all the events of Jacob's course, this is the most important.\n Wmning the blessing of the angel represents the restoration of man's\n dominion over the angel. Lost dominion to the angels is, of course,\n the core of the fall. The way in which I was able to come to this\n understanding is, well, very unique."},{"id":"p-6-150","text":"I\n I\n i"},{"id":"p-6-151","text":"I\n I\n I\n I ,.·.· ·"},{"id":"p-6-152","text":"$13c"},{"id":"p-6-153","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 125\n\f With:j~~b,Godc()lildhaye taisedupan()tbe~' Esau.tiJji-nite'vYifh: ···'\n Ja~l>. . . .., ,> '•. , :.::,0\",,' . '. \", ...,. . . •,,: '. .•. . . \", .' ,,' . \"\",,';;',.,~,~'::.,:l:~' .' .\n \". It,w~,an unfQrge~ble ,nigbt. No.tonlydid'webav:eth~tri-®fu·,.'\n table~e~~PfgiyingsucJ1joyfuthe ~p~nts,~t~'~\\I\"C"},{"id":"p-6-154","text":"126 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fISRAEL"},{"id":"p-6-155","text":"Jacob becomes \"Israel\" and we see, in essence, the birth of the\n\"chosen people\" and nation. Sometimes, even Christians have had\na vague notion of the \"chosen nation.\" It was almost as if God had\nsome sort oflottery and just reached in the bin of nations and, some-\nhow, for undetermined reasons, just \"picked\" Israel.\n No one, not even the chosen people themselves, has ever given\nsuch a deep and clear explanation of the basis of Israel's status as\nthe \"chosen.\" Through reversing the conditions of the fall, Jacob\nestablished a family and tribal base that was separated from Satan.\nUpon that base, God could \"intervene\" and begin the effort to expand\nthat foundation.\n Jacob, re-named Israel, had 12 sons. The tribe ofIsrael became\n12 tribes of Israel. The twelve tribes become the foundation of the\nnation ofIsrael. From Israel through the line of Judah, 40 genera-\ntion later, was born the new living Adam.\n The significance of this foundation is clearly expressed in the\nwords of Jesus:"},{"id":"p-6-156","text":"These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: 'Do not go\n among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go\n rather to the lost sheep ofIsrael. As you go, preach this message: The\n kingdom of heaven is near.' Matthew 10:5-7\n He answered, 'I was sent only for the lost sheep of the House of\n Israel.' Matthew 15:24"},{"id":"p-6-157","text":"We will close this chapter with some of the better questions\nasked by clergy:"},{"id":"p-6-158","text":"Was the angel that Jacob wrestled Satan? If so, why was Jacob blessed\n by Satan? Rev. E.S., Baptist"},{"id":"p-6-159","text":"No, the angel was sent by God as a representative of the angel\nLucifer. We can see in the name the angel gave him (which means he\nwho struggles with God and men and overcomes) that the angel was\nsent by God. This is similar to the event of John the Baptist's bap-\ntism of Jesus."},{"id":"p-6-160","text":"Why did it take 1,500 years following Jacob-Esau for Christ to come?\n Rev. B.C., Lutheran"},{"id":"p-6-161","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 127\n\f As I explained in my presentation, after Jacob's victory, the fam-\n ily of Israel had to fulfill the condition of indemnity required as a\n result ofAbraham's failure (400 years of exile). From this point the\n tribe of Israel enters Egypt to begin this period. After 400 years, the\n world had advanced from the tribal level to the national level. Thus,\n Moses was sent to accomplish this task. Because of repeated failure\n the time was prolonged.\n There was apostasy in the period of Judges, at the time of\n Solomon, after that Baal worship, the exile and renewal. Finally,\n centering on the work of Ezra and Nehemiah, Zerubbabel and\n Joshua the high priest, the temple was rebuilt, repentance was\n exacted and this began the 400 year period ofpreparation for Christ's\n coming. Thus, the final prophet is Malachi, and the Old Thstament\n closes."},{"id":"p-6-162","text":";1._iR~'t!\n See Hosea 12:2-4. The Hebrew term for angel is bene Elohim\n which literally means sons of God. The term is used, however, most\n commonly to mean angels. Sometimes (in English translation) \"man\"\n is rendered for angel. The three \"men\" who appear to Abraham (Gen-\n esis 18) are the same \"men\" who appear in Lot's family in Genesis 19,\n except in Genesis 19 the men are represented as angels. So this is an\n English translation problem ."},{"id":"p-6-163","text":"• ~.:.~~~III~\n There is no scriptural evidence ofa curse on Rebekah, nor is there\n any scripture which pinpoints the time ofRebekah's death. In push-\n ing Jacob to gain Isaac's blessing, Rebekah was faithfully fulfilling\n what God declared years before when He told her \"the elder must\n serve the younger.\" (Genesis 25:23)"},{"id":"p-6-164","text":"128\n ~.e.~\"r::~\n THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f God was rwt unfair to Esau. Like Cain, Esau had to fulfill a very\nimportant role as representative of the archangel. His descendant\nbecame the king ofIsrael at the time ofJesus (Herod), and had John\nfulfilled his role, Herod could have led the entire secular side ofIsrael\nto Jesus."},{"id":"p-6-165","text":"Jacob wrestling the angel represents the regaining of dominion\nof man over the angel and thus the restoration of the position of the\nfirst son, which had been claimed by the fallen angel Lucifer. This\nwas accomplished by Jacob receiving the angel's blessing.\n Jacob wrestling the angel and his ensuing dislocated hip indi-\ncates that spiritual beings can and do manifest in our human world\nin a very experiential way. It serves to remind us that Eve's rela-\ntionship with Lucifer, though spiritual, was profound and real."},{"id":"p-6-166","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 129"}]},{"page":7,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-7-1","text":"Chapter Five"},{"id":"p-7-2","text":"THE HISTORY LEADING TO JESUS\n The Law and All of the Prophets e have now reached a significant milestone in the lecture"},{"id":"p-7-4","text":"$13d"},{"id":"p-7-5","text":"$13e"},{"id":"p-7-6","text":"From that time he began to explain to his disciples that he must go to\n Jerusalem and suffer many things."},{"id":"p-7-7","text":"$13f"},{"id":"p-7-8","text":"$140"},{"id":"p-7-9","text":"Rev. McCarthy, I attend a weekly Bible study at a church near my home.\n The minister has attended some ofow activities (he attended a one day\n workshop). At a recent Bible study, he focused on a Bible verse from Luke\n 24:21>-27. In that verse, Jesus says that his mission was to suffer in order\n U! fulfill what the prophets saW;Later he asked me what !-thoUght about\n thatand I didn't know what tf> say. llow would you answe,: tfwi question?\n .\" __w · ~"},{"id":"p-7-10","text":"Answer:\n See answer to previous question.\n Just joking ... we can deal with this. Let's get all the objections\nout on the table. Ministers have objections! Believe me!\n Luke 24:2~26"},{"id":"p-7-11","text":"He (Jesus) said to them, 'How foolish you are and how slow ofheart you\n are to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not Christ have to\n suffer these things and then enter into his glory?' And beginning with\n Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all\n the scripture concerning himself"},{"id":"p-7-12","text":"\"Aw, moonie, moonie ....\"\n It is important to recognize the valid basis for Christian belief.\nIt's not just because of Isaiah 53 or Paul's teaching or the Book of\nHebrews assertion that \"without the shedding of blood, there is no\nremission of sin.\" Also, let's not overlook what is probably the most\nimportant affirmation of all: changed lives!\n As I said, we are not an army of conquest, but rather an army of\nliberation. We have not come to retool the root of Christian faith, but\nrather to point toward the fruit or fulfillment of Christian faith. In\nbringing \"new wine\" we don't pour the old onto the ground. In fact,\nwe affirm and magnify the time-honored truths of Christian faith. We\nare not bringing \"all new things,\" we are making \"all things new!\""},{"id":"p-7-13","text":"MAKE TlME fOR MOSES"},{"id":"p-7-14","text":"In my experience lecturing ministers, usually we were very hard\npressed for time. We would have to decide what were the most essen-\n REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 133\n\f tial points of the Principle in order for ministers to have a chance\n to understand the nature of Father's mission. Because of that, usu-\n ally we did not spend enough time teaching Moses three courses.\n However, Moses' course is very significant for Christians. It is\n the basis for Jesus' 3 providential courses. Basically it can be taught\n as rendered in the Divine Principle book without any special prepa-\n ration for Christians.\n Here is a common question that was asked by many ministers:"},{"id":"p-7-15","text":"$141"},{"id":"p-7-16","text":"HpJ/ can youjustifynUi~Y o/you!, histprreal,AAres. Seveiato0th4sei14~s\n in't~Olcl .Tes~~t~implYdo. nptcomspoiul tOt~tki,ii-m1 'the A:lJ>\n ,dai!!8 are p()th arbitrary and forcetJ,;'Please 'ex'pldinafuldeten(J 't'!ii!se \"\n .'l:!4~s. -'. ~y.:' s~_, '. ~~~ · ,.,' .;.\",...\" \" \" i:\""},{"id":"p-7-17","text":"Answer:\n The presentation should not be misconstrued to be an exhaus-\n tive study of the theory of history. It is merely, at this level, indicat-\n ing that there is a law, pattern and goal ofhistory that finds its ulti-"},{"id":"p-7-18","text":"134 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-7-19","text":";~t,anelsand reoccurring events in history are\" .\n te~i()us. As you may know, there are many learned h .'\n !!eiveJistory moving in patterns and cycles. There\n theories that attempt to interpret patterns of h\n remember that whatever time frame you suggest' .\n ovidEmtial history, there are numerous theories that\n 'ridas'areof different lengths. Historians devote their .\n uing'events and dates; and formulating new theories\n . Qr.:example, many historians believe the time oer'IOdIOE!tWeen\n Joseph and the Exodus is not 430 years (as the Principle\n ioleQ affjrm) but closer to 200 years. Primarily, from Adam\n ur Divine Principle follows the Biblical record with\n duration of periods and circumstances."},{"id":"p-7-20","text":"$142"},{"id":"p-7-21","text":"$143"},{"id":"p-7-22","text":"Jesus gave them this answer: \"I tell you the truth, the Son can do noth-\n ing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because\n whatever the Father does the Son also does. John 5:19"},{"id":"p-7-23","text":"He also indicated that Moses was establishing a faith relation-\n ship with Israel that should have been the model for Israel's rela-\n tionship with Jesus:"},{"id":"p-7-24","text":"If you had believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me.\n John 5:45"},{"id":"p-7-25","text":"When Jesus said, \"for he wrote of me.\" He was referring to\n Deuteronomy 18:15 in which Moses said, «The Lord your God will\n raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers.\n You must listen to him.\"\n With Moses' Course God is restoring \"The Word.» For the first\n time since the Fall, God is giving his direct word to man. In the"},{"id":"p-7-26","text":"136 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments: Some Important Symbols"},{"id":"p-7-27","text":"The Two Tablets of Stone\n are divided into two. The\n relationships while the second 5 ~\n horizontal relationships:\n ido riot have false gods before me\n idols and worship them\n the name of the Lord in vain\n Sabbath\n Father and Mother\n not murder\n Irlotcommit adultery\n not steal\n Inot give false testimony\n s~all pot covet your neighbor's wife and goods"},{"id":"p-7-28","text":"\"pre-Old Testament era, the word was replaced by a \"conditional\nobject of faith.\" The configuration of the 10 commandments into two\nsections, one vertical, the other horizontal seems to reflect the need\nfor a personal Foundation of Faith and Substance in order for the\nindividual Israelite to \"receive the Messiah.\" It is just another exam-\nple of God's will to prepare the Chosen People to receive the Mes-\nsiah when he comes.\n Again, as you go through the Old Testament history, you want\nto begin to build momentum for \"The Mission of Jesus.\" You want\nto find any and every example, symbol, or historical event that helps\nto affirm the meaning of the words, \"What must we be doing to do\nthe will of God?\" Jesus answered, ''This is the will of God, that you\nbelieve in him who he has sent.\" When we begin to explain the his-\ntory leading up to Jesus, we want to show Christians, unequivo-\ncally, that the primary goal and fulfillment of that history would\ntake place by Israel's faith in Jesus."},{"id":"p-7-29","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 137"}]},{"page":8,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-8-1","text":"Chapter Six"},{"id":"p-8-2","text":"THE LAW COVENANT\n The Hi~tory of Israel\n from Judges to Jesus\n hat is meant by the words \"The Old Testament?\" It has"},{"id":"p-8-3","text":"W come to mean all the books of the Bible before the book\n of Matthew. But its essential meaning is much more spe-\n cific. \"The Old Testament\" refers to a contract, or covenant, made\n between God and his people, the Israelites, centering on Moses and\n later reaffirmed with Joshua. It is stated in Deuteronomy\n 26:16-19"},{"id":"p-8-4","text":"The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these decrees arul\n laws; carefully observe them with all your heart arul with all your soul.\n You have declared this day that the LORD is your God arul that you will\n walk in his ways, that you will keep his decrees, commands arullaws,\n arul that you will obey him.\n And the LORD has declared this day that you are his people, his\n treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his\n commands. He has declared that he will set you in praise, fame arul\n honor high above all the nations he has made arul that you will be a\n people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."},{"id":"p-8-5","text":"The agreement between God and Israel requires something on\n the part of each party. The Israelites must maintain faith in the\n \"Laws, decrees and Commandments\" of God. If so done, God will\n make sure that Israel realizes a blessed destiny as the central nation\n of the world. Deuteronomy 28:1-7"},{"id":"p-8-6","text":"If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his com-\n mands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all\n the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and\n accompany you ifyou obey the LORD your God:\n You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit"},{"id":"p-8-7","text":"138 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f ofyour womb will be blessed, and the crops ofyour land and the young\n ofyour livestock - the calves ofyour herds and the lambs ofyour flocks.\n Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be\n blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. The LORD will\n grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before\n you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven."},{"id":"p-8-8","text":"The status of this agreement is the core determinate in the\ncourse of the unfolding of events in Israel leading up the coming of\nChrist. Read the entire 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. In it God out-\nlines all the \"Blessings\" iflsrael maintains faith. However, God also\noutlines all the curses \"if' they break with faith in the Laws, decrees\nand Commandments of God."},{"id":"p-8-9","text":"\"IF\""},{"id":"p-8-10","text":"$144"},{"id":"p-8-11","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 139\n\f This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set\n before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that\n you and your children may live."},{"id":"p-8-12","text":"$145"},{"id":"p-8-13","text":"Say to them, \"As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no\n pleasure in the death ofthe wicked, but rather that they turn from their\n ways and live. Thrn! Thrn from your evil ways! Why will you die, 0\n house of Israel?'"},{"id":"p-8-14","text":"140 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f This shows that when Israel turned from their Primary destiny,\nGod would intervene through a prophet's voice to encourage repen-\ntance and return. God \"takes no pleasure\" in having to invoke the\ntragic course of the secondary path of indemnity.\n God also indicates that if ever the curse is invoked upon Israel,\nit will not be because of his 'Will\" but rather as a result oflsrael fail-\ning in her role of responsibility. See Deuteronomy 29:24-25"},{"id":"p-8-15","text":"All the nations will ask: \"Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why\n this fierce, burning anger?\" And the answer will be: \"It is because this pe0-\n ple abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, the\n covenant he made with them when he brought them out ofEgypt."},{"id":"p-8-16","text":"In Isaiah 5:1-4, we can see this self-imposed line that God will\nnot cross with regard to man's portion of responsibility:"},{"id":"p-8-17","text":"I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had\n a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it ofstones and\n planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out\n a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it\n yielded only bad fruit.\n \"Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between\n me and my vineyard. What more could have been done for my vine-\n yard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why\n did it yield only bad?"},{"id":"p-8-18","text":"God did all that he could do and yet he did not get the result of\nhis desire and Will. How could that be? Is God weak? Not at all.\n Now you can understand why it is so vital to explain the Prin-\nciple with regard to how God fulfills his Will and why God is so care-\nful not to intervene in man's area of responsibility. Without it, they\nwill have no way to understand history and no way to understand\nJesus'mission.\n How else can we assert that the \"Secondary Course\" is less pre-\nferred? Probably the most important reason is that the ultimate\nobjective of the secondary course is merely to return to the original\nstarting point. The conclusion of the secondary course is the recre-\nation ofthe former circumstances faced by the predecessor. It is the\npath of Dispensational Time-Identity. It is characterized by delays\nand prolongation of the fulfillment of God's Will.\n Let's exam the time of Jeremiah and the beginning ofthe Baby-\nlonian Captivity as an example of this phenomenon."},{"id":"p-8-19","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 141\n\f Jeremiah 25:4-7\n And though the LORD has sent all his servants the prophets to you\n again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention. They\n said, \"Turn now, each ofyou, from your evil ways and your evil practices,\n and you can stay in the Umd the WRD gave to you and your fathers\n for ever and ever. Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them;\n do not provoke me to anger with what your hands have rnmie. Then I will\n not harm you.\"\n \"But you did not listen to me,\" declares the LORD, \"and you have pro-\n voked me with what your hands have rnmie, and you have brought\n harm to yourselves.\""},{"id":"p-8-20","text":"$146"},{"id":"p-8-21","text":"THE lAW COVENANT IS THE \"OS\" OF THE IISTORY LEADING TO JESUS"},{"id":"p-8-22","text":"As we enter the period of Judges, we can see the direct evidence\n of this \"operating system\" between God and His people. God would\n lead them to their Blessed destiny as long as they kept faith in the\n Laws, Decrees and Commandments. They could defeat any army,\n rout any tribe and move steadfastly toward securing the land. When,\n on the other hand, they stood in violation of their creeds, they were\n hopeless and ineffective. Their hard drives crashed big time. They\n couldn't even boot up as a people. In fact, at one point, they began\n to fight among themselves, almost wiping out the entire Tribe of\n Benjamin. Over the course ofthe next 400 years, we see this vacil-"},{"id":"p-8-23","text":"142 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comments:"},{"id":"p-8-24","text":"lation from faith to faithlessness. Each time we can see the outcome\nas prescribed by the Covenant.\n The Philistine army was the most renowned nemesis of the\nIsraelites during this period. In fact, it was the emerging threat of\nthe Philistines that moved the Israelites to repentance centering\non the Prophet Samuel. The Providence shifted from a tribal setting\nto the establishment of the Monarchy of Saul, David and Solomon.\n With the establishment of the position of King, the status of the\nKing's faith in the Laws, Decrees and Commandments of God will\nbe the new determinate. In this requirement, we see that Saul is\ndeemed unworthy in 1 Samuel 13:13:"},{"id":"p-8-25","text":"\"You acted foolishly,\" Samuel said. ''You have not kept the command the\n LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your\n kingdom over Israel for all time."},{"id":"p-8-26","text":"There's that confounded word \"if' again. Samuel tells Saul that\nhad he kept faith, God would have established a kingdom over Israel\n\"for all time.\" The implications are very great. It is a clear, emphatic\nstatement that God wants to establish a strong central nation as the\nfoundation for Christ. Again that is the primary objective \"if' Israel\n(and now the King) maintains the condition of faith in the Laws,\nDecrees and Commandments of God.\n Saul becomes unacceptable to God. Saul's Kingship is passed\non the David. In 2 Samuel 7:12-16, God makes a promise (or\ncovenant) with King David:"},{"id":"p-8-27","text":"When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up\n your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body,\n and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house"},{"id":"p-8-28","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 143\n\f for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for-\n ever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong,\n I will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men.\n But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from\n Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom\n will endure forever before me; your throne wiu be established forever."},{"id":"p-8-29","text":"This promise, or covenant, is considered to be very significant.\n The \"Davidic Covenant\" is thought to be pertaining to the coming\n work of Jesus. Indeed, Jesus is the fulfillment of that vision. How-\n ever, this covenant has an immediate relevance and potential ful-\n fillment.\n Consider what God says to David's son Solomon in 1 Kings\n 9:4-9 ."},{"id":"p-8-30","text":"As for you, IF you walk before me in integrity of heart and uprightness,\n as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees\n arid laws, I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever,\n as I promised David your father when I said, \"You shaH never fail\n to have a man on the throne ofIsrael. \""},{"id":"p-8-31","text":"$147"},{"id":"p-8-32","text":"$148"},{"id":"p-8-33","text":"\"But IF you or your sons turn away from me and do not observe the com-\n mands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and\n worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them\n and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.\n Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all\n peoples. And though this temple is now imposing, all who pass by will\n be appalled and will scoff and say, Why has the LORD done such a\n thing to this land and to this temple?' People will answer,\n 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God, who brought\n their fathers out ofEgypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and\n serving them - that is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.'\n « lKings 9:6-9"},{"id":"p-8-34","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 145\n\f Did you notice that God repeats the wording of Deuteronomy\n 29:24? If Israel is destroyed, it will not be God's doing but rather, will\n be the result of the people (and now the King) forsaking God.\n How does Solomon stack up? Not so good. Although, initially,\n he was doing very well, he certainly began to run afoul of some of\n the more important Laws, Decrees and Commandments. See\n Deuteronomy 17:17:\n The King must not take many wives or his heart will be led astray."},{"id":"p-8-35","text":"Well, I guess if you're going to break the commandment, why\n stop at one or two?"},{"id":"p-8-36","text":"1 Kings 11:1-4, 10\n King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's\n daughter-Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.\n They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites,\n \"You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely tum your\n hearts after their gods.\" Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.\n He had SEVEN HUNDRED WIVES ofTYY.Yal birth and TImEE HUNDRED\n CONCUBINES, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his\n wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully\n devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart ofDavid his father had been."},{"id":"p-8-37","text":"$149"},{"id":"p-8-38","text":"146 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\ffails to repent. An unrepentant Israel is doomed to be the \"tail\" not\nthe head and is scattered to the four corners of the earth.\n Inherent in their two-fold message is the image of a new com-\ning King whose own destiny will be determined by the nation's\nchoice. On the one hand a faithful Israel will welcome a new\nSolomon-like figure, the \"Messiah\" who will \"restore the Kingdom\nto Israel.\" On the other, a faithless Israel rejects her King who suf-\nfers and dies, bringing on the dark days of utter destruction. Which\ndestiny will be realized? It is Israel's choice.\n Know this with absolute assurance. It is only the Divine Prin-\nciple that conveys the enormity, the weighty implications inherent\nwithin the single word, \"if.\""},{"id":"p-8-39","text":"GLORY AND SUFFERING: DUAL PROPHECY"},{"id":"p-8-40","text":"$14a"},{"id":"p-8-41","text":"$14b"},{"id":"p-8-42","text":"COMPARING PROPHECY"},{"id":"p-8-43","text":"The 4 major and 12 minor prophetic books are grouped together\n in the Old Testament. They are the last 16 books of the Old Testa-\n ment beginning with Isaiah and ending with Malachi. This 600-\n year time period of the Major and Minor Prophets begins with the\n fall of Solomon's kingdom; concludes with Malachi and the beginning\n of the 400-year inter-testament period. It is highly recommended\n that you read each book and see if you can see the dual nature of\n each prophet's voice.\n With a partial sample, let's compare prophecy of glory with\n prophecy of suffering:\n • Glory: Isaiah 2:4-11, Zechariah 8:1-23, Ezekiel 37:15-28,\n Jeremiah 31:31, Isaiah 60&61; Ezekiel 34.\n • Suffering: Isaiah 53; Psalms 22 &118:22; Zechariah 13:7;\n 11:7-14; Jeremiah 32:6-9"},{"id":"p-8-44","text":"148 THE BLOO[)'STAINED VOICE\n\f Out of this sample, let's select a specific example from Ezekiel\nand Zechariah.\n Ezekiel 37:15-28\n Chosen People receive King\n JudahlIsrael united\n No exile ever again\n Covenant established\n Zechariah 11:7-14\n Chosen People will reject their King\n JudahlIsrael divided\n Exiled again (Zechariah 13:7)\n Covenant broken"},{"id":"p-8-45","text":"$14c"},{"id":"p-8-46","text":"Ifat any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, tom\n down and destroyed, and IF that nation I warned repents of its evil, then\n I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.\n And ifat another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be"},{"id":"p-8-47","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 149\n\f built up and planted, and IF it does evil in my sight and does not obey\n me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it."},{"id":"p-8-48","text":"This is the definitive word on prophecy, folks! And guess what?\n God agrees with the Divine Principle view! Amazing!\n Prophecy doesn't negate human responsibility. Let's cite some\n examples in Biblical history:\n • 2 Kings 20:1-6. God instructs Isaiah to tell Hezekiah he will\n not recover from his sickness and will die. Hezekiah prays with\n tears, God relents and adds 15 years to his life.\n • Jonah. God tells Jonah to tell the people of Nineveh that\n they will be destroyed in 40 days. The people repent and God does\n not destroy Nineveh. (Jonah gets miffed at God!)\n • Matthew 11:23. Jesus affirms that Sodom would not have\n been destroyed \"if' they had repented.\n These three examples pertain to the first part of Jeremiah\n 18:7-10:"},{"id":"p-8-49","text":"If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, tom\n down and destroyed, and IF that nation I warned repents ofits evil, then\n I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster 1 had planned."},{"id":"p-8-50","text":"That is, God relents in the secondary course because of repen-\n tance. How about an example in history of God relenting in his pri-\n mary will, as per:"},{"id":"p-8-51","text":"And ifat another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built\n up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me,\n then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it."},{"id":"p-8-52","text":"Consider this important example with regard to Israel's primary\n destiny."},{"id":"p-8-53","text":"Isaiah 65:17-19\n Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things\n will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and\n rejoice forev.er in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a\n delight and its people ajoy. I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight\n in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no\n more."},{"id":"p-8-54","text":"This vision for Israel did not come true, not because of God's\n predetermination but rather because ofIsrael's lack of faith in Jesus."},{"id":"p-8-55","text":"150 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Matt 21:43\n Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from\n you and given to a people who will produce its fruit."},{"id":"p-8-56","text":"Thus we see Revelation 21:1-2\n Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and\n the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw\n the Holy City, the NEW JERUSALEM, coming dowTl; out of heaven from\n God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband."},{"id":"p-8-57","text":"Because Israel failed to recognize her King, they lost their mis-\nsion. However, because God's primary Will was to bring \"the New\nHeaven and New Earth,\" God will recreate a \"New Jerusalem\" to\nfulfill this absolute prophecy. A New Jerusalem returns to do the\nmission of the first Jerusalem. Likewise, a new Adam comes to do\nthe primary mission ofthe second Adam.\n Thus Jesus had a primary mission that pertained to the King-\ndom of God and finding faith in Israel. Jesus' first two years of his\nministry focused on the Kingdom and the hope for faith in Israel,\nbecause, that mission was uiableat that time.\n Christians believe that by the time Malachi, the final prophet,\narrives, it is already determined that Christ will be rejected and\ncrucified. A second coming is already in the works. Notice how the\nfinal words of Malachi so differ from that assertion:"},{"id":"p-8-58","text":"Remember the law of my seroant Moses, the decrees and laws I\n gave him at Horeb for all Israel. See, I will send you the prophet Eli-\n jah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. He will turn\n the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children\n to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."},{"id":"p-8-59","text":"The contingency of \"if' is still in effect. Israel will decide which\ndestiny, blessing or curse, will be invoke based upon the success or\nfailure of the coming Elijah.\n When Jesus begins his public ministry with the words, \"Repent,\nnow is the time for the Kingdom is at hand,\" he was indicating a con-\ntemporary objective. It was his primary destiny. With this under-\nstanding, we will open the door, for the first time, and enter in to the\ninner sanctum of Christ's deepest sorrows. When Jesus prays, sor-\nrowing unto death \"let this cup pass from me,\" only those enlight-\nened with the truth of Principle will understand the substance of\nthat pray and the pathway to liberate him from his sorrows."},{"id":"p-8-60","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 151"}]},{"page":9,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-9-1","text":"Chapter Seven"},{"id":"p-9-2","text":"THE CHANGE OF BLOOD LINEAGE\n The Lineage of Jesus he lecture series has brought us to the providence centering"},{"id":"p-9-4","text":"$14d"},{"id":"p-9-5","text":"$14e"},{"id":"p-9-6","text":"$14f"},{"id":"p-9-7","text":"CHRISTIANITY AND SEX"},{"id":"p-9-8","text":"In a previous chapter we were given the opportunity to hear\n from Mrs. Ruth Smythers. She was the wife of a Methodist pastor\n at the turn of the 20th century. In her advice to newly wedded wives\n she displays the fruit of nearly 2000 years of Christian thought on\n human sexuality."},{"id":"p-9-9","text":"154 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f One cardinal rule of marriage slwuld never be forgotten: GNE UTTLE,\n GNE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GNE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise\n what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual\n lust.\n On the other hand, the bride's terror need not be extreme. While sex\n at best is revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured,\n and has been by women since the beginning of time."},{"id":"p-9-10","text":"$150"},{"id":"p-9-11","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 155\n\f vehicle of an earthly Father, Jesus' birth would have still been with-\n out sin.\n The expectation that the Messiah would be born of a virgin was\n set up by Isaiah 7:14:"},{"id":"p-9-12","text":"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with\n child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel."},{"id":"p-9-13","text":"$151"},{"id":"p-9-14","text":"156 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Sexless conception is a sign that Jesus is the Messiah. The con-\nditions set up affecting his sinless birth, however, must be conditions.\nof indemnity that will reverse the conditions by which Satan has\nextended his claim over the lineage of Adam. That is, conditions\nthat address the reason man lost God's authorization for sexual life.\n Our objective is not to impose the idea of a paternal function in\nthe conception of Jesus. It is, rather, to begin the process to sever the\nties, implied or actual, between sex and sin."},{"id":"p-9-15","text":"THE UREAGE OF JESUS"},{"id":"p-9-16","text":"Jesus lineage is revealed in two of the Gospels: Matthew and\nLuke. There are two very distinct differences in both lineages. You\nwill notice that Matthew's portrayal goes through David's son\nSolomon, while Luke's goes through David's son Nathan. Another\nnotable difference is whereas both end in Joseph, the supposed\nfather of Jesus, Matthew identifies Joseph's, father as \"Jacob\" while\nLuke refers to Joseph's father as \"Heli.\"\n One theory to explain the difference is that Matthew's depiction\nis of the lineage of Mary while Luke's is that of Joseph. It was the\ncustom to list the wife's lineage culminating in her husband's name.\nAn interesting theory.\n Most significant in Matthew's representation is the mention of\nfive notable women in Jesus' lineage."},{"id":"p-9-17","text":"Matthew 1:1-17\n 1 A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of\n Abraham:\n 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the\n father of Judah and his brothers,\n 3 Judah the father ofPerez and Zerah, whose mother was, (1.) TAMAR,\n Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,\n 4 Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon,\n Nahshon the father of Salmon,\n 5 Salmon the father of Boaz, wlwse mother was, (2.) RAHAB, Boaz\n the father of Obed, wlwse mother was, (3.) RUTH, Obed the father of\n Jesse,\n 6 and Jesse the father ofKing David. David was the father of Solomon,\n wlwse mother had been, (4.) URIAH'S WIFE, (BA1HSHEBA)\n 7 Solomon the father ofRehoboam, Rehoboam the father ofAbijah, Abi-"},{"id":"p-9-18","text":"$152"},{"id":"p-9-19","text":"Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary; can you find any\n shared occurrence with all of these woman ofthe Old and New Tes-\n tament eras?\n Tamar: Had an incestuous relationship with her father-in-law\n while engaged to another.\n Rahab: A prostitute in Jericho\n Ruth: Tempted Boaz on the threshing room floor while engaged\n to another.\n Bathsheba: Engaged in an adulterous relationship with David\n while married to Uriah. (gave birth to Solomon . . . hello.)\n Mary: Became pregnant out of wedlock while engaged to\n another . . . (hello again.)\n Why would scripture only preserve the names of the women in\n Jesus' lineage involved in what appears to be decadent activity?\n Why would an entire chapter of Genesis be devoted to the story of\n a woman deceiving her father-in-law into having sex?\n Christians have swept these questions deep beneath the carpet"},{"id":"p-9-20","text":"$153"},{"id":"p-9-21","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 159\n\f from this perspective opens our eyes to a new level of meaning\n within the events documented in the lineage of Jesus."},{"id":"p-9-22","text":"$154"},{"id":"p-9-23","text":"$155"},{"id":"p-9-24","text":"160 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and\n everything he had."},{"id":"p-9-25","text":"Abram instructs Sarai (before their name-change to Abraham\nand Sarah) to say that she is his sister. By doing so, Abram and\nSarai take the position of Adam and Eve. The pharaoh is, obviously,\nin the position of the archangel. Sarai is taken into his palace with\nthe intent that she will become the pharaoh's wife. The Lord informs\nthe pharaoh (through serious diseases) that Sarai is the wife and not\nthe sister of Abram. Pharaoh could have ignored these warnings,\nhave Abram killed and taken Sarai anyway. That would have been\nthe pattern that would follow the fallen norm. Instead, Pharaoh the\nsovereign ruler, releases Sarai, does not kill her husband and allows\nthem to return to Canaan unscathed. This is a very significant rever-\nsal of the norm.\n The second instance, also involving Abraham and Sarah, is\nrecorded in Genesis 20:1-17:"},{"id":"p-9-26","text":"$156"},{"id":"p-9-27","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 161\n\f The pattern carried out in Egypt with Pharaoh is repeated in\n Gerer with King Abimelech. This time, God gives Abimelech a\n dream in which the marital status of Sarah is revealed.\n The pattern continues, this time with Abraham's son Isaac and\n Isaac's wife, Rebecca. This is recorded in Genesis 26:1-16:"},{"id":"p-9-28","text":"$157"},{"id":"p-9-29","text":"Again, the pattern of the fall is reversed. Abimelech doesn't take\n Rebecca and allows her and her husband to continue their life as\n husband and wife.\n These three instances in Abraham's family set the scene for us\n to understand the significance of the 38th chapter of the Book of\n Genesis: the story of Tamar."},{"id":"p-9-30","text":"The story of Tamar stands out as one of the most unusual chap-\n ters in the Bible. Certainly, it is the most misunderstood chapter. It"},{"id":"p-9-31","text":"162 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fis often interesting to examine various Bible commentaries as they\nattempt to make sense of the story and devise theories as to why\nsuch a story would even appear. Consider this typical evaluation\ngiven by The Interpreter's Bible:"},{"id":"p-9-32","text":"10 many readers of the Bible, it must seem strange that this story is\n inserted in the midst ofthe narrative ofJoseph. It is like an alien element,\n suddenly and arbitrarily thrust into a record that it serves only to dis-\n turb. Certainly few people would choose this chapter as a basis for teach-\n ing or preaching. Then why is this dark old tale preserved?\n \". . . Even so, in the unlovely narrative there are at least some ele-\n ments of right purpose emerging like flowers from rank ground.\n One can see here - twisted though its manifestation may be - the powerful\n and generally wholesome instinct of the Jewish people that family her-\n itage must be continued. One may see also in Tamar the wistful and\n pathetic yearning of the woman for motherhood.\""},{"id":"p-9-33","text":"\"Twisted though its manifestation may be??\" Not as twisted as\nmost efforts to explain away the meaning of this story and how it\ncould be that the lineage of Christ was produced from such \"rank\nground.\"\n As the 38th chapter opens we see Tamar married to Judah's\neldest son named Er. However, Er \"was wicked in the Lord's sight\"\nso God puts Er to death. As Forest Gump would say, \"that's all I'm\ngoing to say about that.\" And that's all we hear about Er. In response\nto this death, Judah gives Tamar to her deceased husband's closest\nrelative. This was in keeping with the Levirate code of that time\nwhich provided that the closest relative of the deceased would take\nthe widow as his spouse. Er's closest kin was his next oldest brother\nwhose name was Onan.\n Onan received Tamar as his wife, however, it seems that Onan\nwas rather reluctant to consummate this new relationship. In Gen-\nesis 38:9,"},{"id":"p-9-34","text":"But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay\n with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from\n producing offspring for his brother."},{"id":"p-9-35","text":"God is not happy with Onan's behavior. In the 10th verse:"},{"id":"p-9-36","text":"What he did was wicked in the Lord's sight, so he put him to death, also."},{"id":"p-9-37","text":"$158"},{"id":"p-9-38","text":"$159"},{"id":"p-9-39","text":"$15a"},{"id":"p-9-40","text":"166 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f The truth of the Divine Principle, riot only exonerates Tamar, it\nexalts her to the highest of status. Could there be any greater exam-\nple that demonstrates the limits of the Judeo-Christian view on sex-\nuality and the need for a deeper, fuller measure?\n Know for sure, that many tumultuous encounters remain as we\nshift from that criterion to that of the Completed Testament Age."},{"id":"p-9-41","text":"Zerah and Perez"},{"id":"p-9-42","text":"$15b"},{"id":"p-9-43","text":"From Tamar to Mary we see the story of Rahab in the Book of\nJoshua. Rahab is a prostitute in Jericho. The King of Jericho\ninstructs Rahab to keep on the look out for any Hebrew spies lurk-\ning about. Instead Rahab hides the spies from the Kings soldiers.\nLater when Jericho is destroyed, it is only Rahab and her family\nwhose lives are spared. She eventually becomes the wife of Salmon\nin the tribe of Judah."},{"id":"p-9-44","text":"$15c"},{"id":"p-9-45","text":"Bathsheba"},{"id":"p-9-46","text":"Bathsheba was Uriah's wife. Uriah was one of David's gener-\n als. One day David is on a rooftop and he spots Bathsheba in her\n house taking a bath. He takes great interest in Bathsheba at that\n moment (its in the Bible, folks)."},{"id":"p-9-47","text":"168 THE BLOOD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Father explains in The Change of Blood Lineage,"},{"id":"p-9-48","text":"Actually, the mother of King Solomon was Bathsheba, originally the\n wife of Uriah before King David stole her. Then how could the child\n from that union become King Solomon? Bathsheba was in the prov-\n idential position of Eve in the Garden of Eden, before the fall. David\n was in the position of Adam, and Uriah was in the position of the\n archangel. The archangel distracted the spouse of Adam with love\n and stole her away, making her fall. A reversal course is needed in\n order to indemnify that; therefore a person in the position of the\n archangel's wife had to be restored to the position of Eve. Therefore,\n the child who was born on the foundation of that reversal could be\n born as a child of heavenly love, a child of glory. Solomon was such\n a child of glory."},{"id":"p-9-49","text":"Hello! Child of glory?"},{"id":"p-9-50","text":"$15d"},{"id":"p-9-51","text":"$15e"},{"id":"p-9-52","text":"170 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fJesus came as the second True Parents of humankind. The original\nfirst parents were Adam and Eve. If Jesus had not been killed, the\nunification between Judaism and Israel would have come about cen-\ntering upon Eve, the mother position. The Messiah comes in the posi-\ntion ofparent and king. The king needs his queen. Jesus stood in the\nposition of the bridegroom, and his 12 disciples, 72 apostles and 120\nelders were all in the position of the bride. Once the bride and bride-\ngroom positions united, then it was possible to return to the original\nTrue Lineage. Israel doesn't realize this. The Christian world doesn't\nrealize this. Sun Myung Moon, \"True Parents' Day is My True\nSon's Day,\" April 18, 1996"},{"id":"p-9-53","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 171"}]},{"page":10,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-10-1","text":"Chapter Eight"},{"id":"p-10-2","text":"MISSION OF JESUS"},{"id":"p-10-3","text":"$15f"},{"id":"p-10-4","text":"JESUS CALLS FOR FAITH AND THE mGDOM"},{"id":"p-10-5","text":"Mark 1:15\n \"The time has come,\" he said. \"The kingdom of God is near. Repent and\n believe the good news!\""},{"id":"p-10-6","text":"Matthew 4:17\n From that time on Jesus began to preach, \"Repent, for the kingdom of\n heaven is near.\""},{"id":"p-10-7","text":"172 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f John 6:28-29\n Then they asked him, \"What must we do to do the works God requires?\"\n Jesus answered, \"The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has\n sent.\""},{"id":"p-10-8","text":"Clearly the Kingdom was an immediate objective in Jesus' view.\nHe said the \"time has come, the Kingdom is near.\" He is asking\nthem, at that moment, to repent. If they do, the unfolding of the\nKingdom will be the consequence of that repentance. How more\nexplicit can it be than the clear answer of John 6:28-29? It is to\nbelieve in him, whom God has sent."},{"id":"p-10-9","text":"Matthew 23:37\n \"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent\n to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a\n hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing."},{"id":"p-10-10","text":"$160"},{"id":"p-10-11","text":"John 8:37-42\n I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill\n me, because you have no room for my word. I am telling you what I have"},{"id":"p-10-12","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 173\n\f seen in the Father's presence, and you do wluzt you have heard from your\n father. \"\n \"Abraham is our father,\" they answered. \"I(you were Abraham's\n children,\" said Jesus, \"then you would do the things Abraham did.\n As it is, you are determined to kiU me, a man who has told you the\n truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.\n You are doing the things your own father does.\" \"We are not illegiti-\n mate children, \" they protested. \"The only Father we have is God him-\n self\" Jesus said to them, \"I(God, were your Father, you would love\n me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own;\n but he sent me.\""},{"id":"p-10-13","text":"Jesus establishes that the people are the descendants of Abra-\n ham, \"yet you are ready to kill me.\" Jesus is affirming that killing\n the messiah is inconsistent with the purpose for Abraham's descen-\n dants. Jesus goes on to explain even more emphatically, \"If you were\n Abraham's children, you would do the things Abraham did; as it is,\n you are determined to kill me. . AbraOOm did rwt do such things.\""},{"id":"p-10-14","text":"Matthew 21:3~7\n \"The tenants seized his seroants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned\n a third.\n Then he sent other seroants to them, more than the first time, and\n the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to\n them. 'They will respect my son,' he said.\""},{"id":"p-10-15","text":"Here Jesus reveals the motive of God in sending the son, \"They\n will respect my son.\" In fact, this parable (Matthew 21:35-43)\n \"samples\" from Isaiah chapter 5 \"Song of the Vmeyard\" in which\n God laments \"wOOt more could I have done for my vineyard toot I\n did rwt already do? And yet, when I looked for good fruit, why did I\n find only bad?\" Jesus indicates that the bad tradition oflsrael reject-\n ing their prophets is one that God seeks to reverse in sending His\n son, \"surely they will respect my son.\""},{"id":"p-10-16","text":"THE KINGDOM VAS MEANT TO _OlD _ISRAEL"},{"id":"p-10-17","text":"Here are some Bible verses that indicate that the Kingdom was\n meant to unfold at that time:"},{"id":"p-10-18","text":"174 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-10-19","text":"$161"},{"id":"p-10-23","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 175\n\f c.,r;rf.I\" J~i~.J~ltt\\:: ·\n .. <\" ,. . ,-. . ~;;~.';::!:.: . .'\n .."},{"id":"p-10-24","text":"~, :';'< the sales p~~(iss, is ~~ l~se!! . .' . ' .. ::,c\",:\"., ',:,'.<\n ,~:\"\n ,,' . Mrs. Jones: ~en, rm going to need some time to 1iiliik.;it ~:ver. '.' - ,"},{"id":"p-10-26","text":"$162"},{"id":"p-10-27","text":"~y~~~~~~!tfi~i~f~~~,· ,~'., .. \""},{"id":"p-10-28","text":"$163"},{"id":"p-10-29","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 1n\n\f Matthew 21:43\n \"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from\n you and given to a people who will produce its fruit."},{"id":"p-10-30","text":"Notice that Jesus says, \"the Kingdom of God will be taken away\n from you.\" This indicates that the Kingdom was theirs, was to be set\n up at that time and, therefore, all prophecy of \"glory\" was relevant\n for that time. However, some mitigating circumstance has inter-\n vened and altered that destiny. What could it possibly be? Perhaps\n God's warning through Jeremiah is the answer:"},{"id":"p-10-31","text":"And ifat another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built\n up and planted, and IF it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then\n I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it. Jeremiah 18:9-10"},{"id":"p-10-32","text":"The contemporary relevance of the Kingdom is also expressed\n in:\n Matthew 23:13\n \"Woe to you, teachers ofthe law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut\n the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter,\n nor will you let those enter who are trying to."},{"id":"p-10-33","text":"$164"},{"id":"p-10-34","text":"Luke 19:41-44\n As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and\n said, \"Ifyou, even you, had only known on this day what would bring"},{"id":"p-10-35","text":"178 THE BLOOO-8TAINEO VOICE\n\f you peace but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon\n YOlt when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encir-\n cle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground,\n you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on\n another: because you did not recognize the time of God's coming\n to you.\""},{"id":"p-10-36","text":"Here again, we see Jesus' sorrow and frustration. Notice that he\nagain pinpoints \"on this day\" the potential of his contemporary age\nto ''bring you peace.\" Later, we will examine what Jesus means by\n\"peace.\" Also noteworthy is that Jesus pins a bleak future upon\nIsrael as a result oftheir failure to recognize \"God's coming to you.\""},{"id":"p-10-37","text":"THE DISPENSATION TURNS FROM 'PRIMARY' TO 'SECONDARY'"},{"id":"p-10-38","text":"Consistent with the covenant-centered flow of history, the prov-\nidence shifts from primary to secondary whenever Israel fails to\nrespond in timely fashion. Typically, the people are unable to under-\nstand and they react defensively to the change of focus from ''bless-\ning\" to \"curse.\" We see an example of this in the book of Jeremiah.\nAfter Jeremiah announces the 70 years of exile, he is considered to\nbe a traitor. They do not understand what he is talking about in\nJeremiah 26:~:"},{"id":"p-10-39","text":"But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the\n LORD had commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the\n people seized him and said, ''Thu must die! Why do you prophesy in the\n Lord's name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be des-\n olate and deserted?\""},{"id":"p-10-40","text":"We see the same phenomenon in the mission of Jesus. After\nroughly two years of calling for faith and repentance, Israel is unre-\npentant and unresponsive. As a result of this faithless stance, Jesus\nannounces the dispensational shift from primary to secondary in\nMatthew 16:21: From that time on Jesus began to explain to his dis-\nciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things.\n From that time Jesus began. This is the shift from the Kingdom\nto the Cross, from primary to secondary, from blessing to curse,\nfrom glorious destiny for Israel to bleak destiny for Israel, from\nLord of Glory to Lord of Suffering. This is 6 days before the Mount"},{"id":"p-10-41","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 179\n\f of Transfiguration and roughly the beginning of the last year of\n Jesus' ministry.\n We can also examine the disciples' confusion at this sudden shift\n of focus."},{"id":"p-10-42","text":"Luke 18:34\n \"The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden\n from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.\""},{"id":"p-10-43","text":"$165"},{"id":"p-10-44","text":"And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go\n speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will\n go also.\n Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the\n LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.\n Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass,\n that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even\n shall take hold ofthe skirt ofhim that is a Jew, saying, We will go\n with you: for we have heard that God is with you."},{"id":"p-10-45","text":"This vision is what the apostles \"had hoped\" for. Notice that\n they describe their hope in past tense. Clearly, Jesus death closed\n the door on an expectation laid down in scripture and reaffirmed by\n Jesus in the first two years of his ministry. Thus, they were sad-\n dened and disheartened by Jesus' crucifixion."},{"id":"p-10-46","text":"180 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Even in their last meeting with Jesus before his ascension into\nheaven, they ask: \"So when they met together, they asked him, 'Lord,\nare you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?'\"\nActs 1:6\n They just can't fully accept that the providence had shifted. This\nis probably one reason Jesus said, \"I'm coming soon.\" If they knew\nthat they were beginning a 2,000-year prolongation, they would\nreally have been disheartened."},{"id":"p-10-47","text":"FROM 'BLESSING' TO 'CURSE'\n With the shift from primary to secondary, we also see a change\nin the description oflsrael's destiny from ''blessing'' to \"curse.\""},{"id":"p-10-48","text":"Luke 23:2g.....a1\n Jesus turned and said to them, \"Daughters ofJerusalem, do not weep for\n me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come\n when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never\n bore and the breasts that never nursed!' Then they will say to the moun-\n tains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!' \""},{"id":"p-10-49","text":"Jesus recites Hosea 10:8: \"they will say to the mountains, \"Fall\non us!\" and to the hills, Cover us!\" These were the words of sinful\nIsrael carried away by the Assyrians. Jesus is indicating that his\nrejection and crucifixion represents the same turning point in the\ndestiny for Israel of that period. He is predicting hard times ahead\nfor Israel. This is very significant in relation to God's promise in\nDeuteronomy 29:24; Israel will only be destroyed if it violates the\nlaws, decrees and commandments of God.\n In the 34th verse ofthe same 23rd chapter of Luke, Jesus says,\n\"Father forgive them they know not what they do.\"\n Of course, the implication is that had they known what they\nwere doing, they would not proceed to do it, i.e., crucify Jesus.\n We also see a gloomy description of Israel's future in Luke\n19:41-44 .,"},{"id":"p-10-50","text":"Luke 19:41-44\n As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and\n said, \"Ifyou, even you, had only known on this day what would bring\n you peace - but now it is hidden from your eyes. THE DAYS WILL COME\n UPON YOU WHEN YOUR ENEMIES WILL BUILD AN EMBANKMENT AGAINST"},{"id":"p-10-51","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 181\n\f YOU AND ENCIRCLE YOU AND HEM YOU IN ON EVERY SIDE. THEY WILL\n DASH YOU TO THE GROUND, YOU AND THE CHILDREN WITHIN YOUR\n WALLS. THEY WILL NOT LEAVE ONE STONE ON ANOTHER, because you\n did rwt recognize the time ofGod's coming to you.\""},{"id":"p-10-52","text":"In fact, in 70 A.D., Rome destroyed Israel as a nation and the\n Jews were scattered until 1948."},{"id":"p-10-53","text":"$166"},{"id":"p-10-54","text":"182 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-10-55","text":", \" a dramatic example of God seeking jn'!'t on/on'\n moment. We see the amazing story\n Matthew 27:19:"},{"id":"p-10-56","text":"On the other hand, faced with the reality of no faith in Israel,\nhe had to also address the providential meaning of his impending\ndeath. Most important, the apostles would need to understand the\nsignificance of his death were it to come. That understanding, as\nwell as the understanding of the coming Kingdom, was implicit\nwithin the voice ofthe Old Testament.\n We can see that after his crucifixion, the followers of Jesus were\ndepressed and disheartened. Jesus had to convince them that what\ntook place was not just a failure or defeat. He had to show them\nthat, though less preferred, the prolongation of the way of indem-\nnity is also a course that culminates in great hope. And thus, ''begin-\nning with Moses and all of the prophets, he explained to them what\nhad been said in all the scriptures concerning himself.\"\n In the first two years of his ministry, however, Jesus' view of the\nmeaning of the Old Testament is quite different."},{"id":"p-10-57","text":"John 5:39-40\n You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you\n possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet\n you refuse to come to me to have life."},{"id":"p-10-58","text":"Here Jesus affirms that the intent of the scripture is to convince\nthe chosen people that they should come to Jesus. He goes on to\nexpress even more emphatically:"},{"id":"p-10-59","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 183\n\f John 5:45-47\n \"But do rwt think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is\n Moses, on whom your hopes are set. Ifyou belwved Moses, you would\n believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do rwt believe what\n he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?\""},{"id":"p-10-60","text":"When did Moses write of Jesus? It is Deuteronomy 18:15: \"The\n Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among\n your own brothers. You must listen to him.\"\n How can it be unequivocally asserted that Moses is referring to\n Jesus? See Acts 3:21-22:"},{"id":"p-10-61","text":"\"He (Jesus) must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore\n everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. For\n Moses said, 'THE LoRD YOUR GoD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET\n LIKE ME FROM AMONG YOUR OWN PEOPLE; YOU MUST USTENTO EVERY-\n THING HE TELLS YOU.'\" (Acts 3:21-22 recites Moses words from\n Deuteronomy 18:15)"},{"id":"p-10-62","text":"From this viewpoint, the Old Testament is testifying that Israel\n should receive its King."},{"id":"p-10-63","text":"Jesus and Prophecy of Glory"},{"id":"p-10-64","text":"According to the idea that all prophecy of glory is referring to the\n Second Coming of Christ, we should not see any evidence of Jesus\n in Israel linking those scriptures with his contemporary role. After\n all, he is only there to fulfill the prophecy of suffering, right? Well,\n in fact, Jesus makes several references to prophecy of glory and\n indicates that indeed they do pertain to his work in Israel. Let's\n first examine Luke 4:1~21:"},{"id":"p-10-65","text":"He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath\n day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to\n read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it,\n he found the place where it is written: \"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,\n because he has arwinted me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent\n me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the\n blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.\"\n Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat\n down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and"},{"id":"p-10-66","text":"184 THE BLOOO-8TAINEO VOICE\n\f he began by saying to them, \"7bday this scripture is fulfilled in your\n hearing.\""},{"id":"p-10-67","text":"Jesus himself chooses to recite Isaiah chapter 61. \"The scroll of\nthe prophet Isaiah was handed him. Unrolling it, he found the place\nwhere it is written:\" What a perfect time to recite Isaiah 53, \"by his\nstripes we are healed.\" Yet Jesus bypasses Isaiah 53 (a prophecy of\nsuffering) and goes straight to Isaiah 61 (a prophecy of glory).\n Here is a sampling of the \"blessing\" tone of the chapter."},{"id":"p-10-68","text":"Isaiah 61:4-6,9\n They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated;\n they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for genera-\n tions. Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your\n fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests ofthe LORD,\n you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the\n wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.\n Their descendants will be known among the nations and their\noffspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that\nthey are a people the LORD has blessed."},{"id":"p-10-69","text":"Jesus recites the opening verses ofthe 61 chapter and concludes,\n\"1bday this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.\"\n \"Today\" is fulfilled. Also significant is the 8th verse mention of\nthe establishment of a new, everlasting covenant. We see mention\nof a \"new covenant\" in other scripture:"},{"id":"p-10-70","text":"Jeremiah 31:31-84\n \"The time is coming,\" declares the LORD, \"when I will make a new\n covenant with the house ofIsrael and with the house ofJudah. It will not\n be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by\n the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant,\n though I was a husband to them, \" declares the LORD.\n \"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that\n time,\" declares the LORD. \"I will put my law in their minds and write\n it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No\n longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know\n the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the\n greatest,\" declares the LORD. \"For I will forgive their wickedness and will\n remember their sins no more.\""},{"id":"p-10-71","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 185\n\f Jeremiah is describing the unfolding of the Kingdom in Israel\n \"if' Israel receives the messiah when he comes. Because this did\n not happen, Christians assume this is referring to the Second Com-\n ing and the eventual salvation of the Jews with no relevance to\n Jesus in his first coming.\n What it actually reveals is that a \"new covenant\" was to be set\n up if Israel accepted Christ when he came. It provided for forgive-\n ness of sins without having to require his path to the cross. Remem-\n ber, his suffering would only be required \"if' no faith was found in\n Israel.\n We see another example in Ezekiel 37:24-27:"},{"id":"p-10-72","text":"« 'My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.\n They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where\n your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children\n will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.\n 1 wiU make a covenant ofpeace with them; it will be an ever-\n lasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and\n I will put my sanctuary among them forever. My dwelling place will be\n with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people."},{"id":"p-10-74","text":"$167"},{"id":"p-10-75","text":"186 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f But the most amazing and explicit of all is Jesus' words in\nMatthew 10:5 and Matthew 15:24."},{"id":"p-10-76","text":"Matthew 10:5-6\n These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: \"Do not go\n among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to\n the lost sheep ofIsrael. As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom\n of heaven is near.' \""},{"id":"p-10-77","text":"Matthew 15:24\n He answered, \"/ was sent only to the lost sheep ofIsrael.\""},{"id":"p-10-78","text":"Why did Jesus show such a startling preference toward the blood\ndescendants of the house ofIsrael? Was it because he only cared for\nhis fellow Jews? Of course not! The reason is simple. It was only\nthe blood descendants of the house of Israel who were given the\nresponsibility in the covenant. In other words, it was only the Jews\nwhose faith in Christ or lack thereof would determine the outcome\nof the Kingdom or the cross. It was their faith or lack thereof that\nwould swing the providence toward primary or secondary.\n When Jesus uses the term \"lost sheep of the house ofIsrael,\" he\nis alluding to another prophecy of glory in Ezekiel: 34:2~29"},{"id":"p-10-79","text":"$168"},{"id":"p-10-80","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 187\n\f Again, this new covenant, if received in faith by Israel would\n transform the world. All prophecy of glory would be fulfilled at that\n time. Jesus would not have had to go the way of the cross and there\n would be no need for the return of Christ 2,000 years later. We would\n all be speaking Aramaic today. The nations would have \"beaten\n their swords into plowshares\" many years ago. The \"Kingdom\"\n would have been established and the vision of Zechariah 8:21-23\n would have been realized:"},{"id":"p-10-81","text":"Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD\n of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.\n Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass,\n that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even\n shall take hold ofthe skirt ofhim that is a Jew, saying, We will go\n with you: for we have heard that God is with you."},{"id":"p-10-82","text":"And Isaiah 65:17:\n Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The fonner things\n will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and\n rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a\n delight and its people ajoy."},{"id":"p-10-83","text":"This Kingdom would have an earthly manifestation. It would not\n just be an earthly Kingdom but would follow the parameters of\n \"what is sown on earth is reaped in heaven.\"\n This, then, forms the basis to understand the role and method\n of the Second Coming of Christ. We see this reflected in Hebrew\n 9:28:"},{"id":"p-10-84","text":"Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he\n will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those\n who are waiting for him."},{"id":"p-10-85","text":"Christ returns to the moment, position and function that Jesus\n leaves behind when he turns from this primary objective to the sec-\n ondary course of blood atonement.\n Christ returns to accomplish Jesus' primary miSSion, that is,\n the bringing of a salvation that will manifest visibly in the world and\n will not require his shedding of blood. What could that mission\n entail?"},{"id":"p-10-86","text":"$169"},{"id":"p-10-87","text":"Answer:\n You are overlooking a very important part of Hebrews 9:22 that\nstates \". . . and almost all things are purged by blood; and without\nthe shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.\" What all of\nHebrews 9:22 is saying is that there is not remission, except by blood,\nfor those things required under law to be cleansed by blood.\n The word \"almost\" doesn't mean something cannot be cleansed\nby blood, but rather, that the law requirement for blood atonement\nis not absolute in all cases. Thus, we see scripture such as Hosea 6:6,\n1 Samuel 15:22, Micah 6:7-8 which stress the superior quality of\nbelief in Jesus, and therefore, would have superseded the law require-\nment of blood. Because the condition of belief was not found, Jesus,"},{"id":"p-10-88","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 189\n\f in order to satisfy the requirements, had to shed his blood. Hebrews\n 9:22 would not contradict this view."},{"id":"p-10-89","text":"AiUt~$iii1ledinlMp#; J,?tJe¢ll$·rkcei~(/;...T@s'crorifW~lSyk~in;~mhn-.·· .\n ..strdting. \"1l)lPtMpn1b~~ofsinWouki. lie$OlVm,;~as. esiabl~~oqt$i4£ ! ."},{"id":"p-10-90","text":";.I.~~'I.t\n .a7J,dJ~iJe 'ctrU1 tli6se4Jl¢~ntones W.eregjr>en aninwt:rect§yl'TJ,lfijl,by(;o(l,: ,.•\n . '. .••. \". .. ,'. \", .. ..\n ·~.v~.s7 ~¥~ntist·i~:l,.\"'\\~,. ;.· \"i\"\"\":~;;:\"~. >\""},{"id":"p-10-91","text":"$16a"},{"id":"p-10-92","text":"190 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f All of this being said, once Israel's lack of faith in Jesus was\nestablished, beginning in the last year of his ministry, the precious\nblood of Christ became the only means of atonement for man. How\nmuch more deep should our repentance be in the knowledge that had\nwe only done our part, our beloved Lord would not have had to go\nthe way of humiliation on Calvary."},{"id":"p-10-93","text":"$16b"},{"id":"p-10-94","text":"$16c"},{"id":"p-10-95","text":"THE amu 0I1r0lDHlT"},{"id":"p-10-96","text":"There are many biblical examples of other methods of atone-\n ment for sin:"},{"id":"p-10-97","text":"Hosea 6:6:\n For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God\n RATHER than burnt offerings."},{"id":"p-10-98","text":"In other words, faith trumps blood atonement"},{"id":"p-10-99","text":"Proverbs 16:6:\n Through love and faithfulness, sin is atoned."},{"id":"p-10-100","text":"Faith accomplishes atonement.\n In the Old Testament, another method of atonement that did\n not involve bloodshed was the tradition of the \"scapegoat,\" in Leviti-\n cus 16:10:"},{"id":"p-10-101","text":"192 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before\n the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert\n as a scapegoat."},{"id":"p-10-102","text":"Compare this to what Jesus was trying to accomplish in the\nearly part of his ministry:"},{"id":"p-10-103","text":"Matthew 4:1-11\n Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the\n devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The\n tempter came to him and said, \"Ifyou are the Son ofGod, tell these stones\n to become bread.\""},{"id":"p-10-104","text":"The heart of Christian faith is the \"substitutionary atonement\"\nof Christ's death. However, Jesus also established in the wilderness\na \"substitutionary atonement\" through being \"tempted in every way\njust as we are,\" yet without sinning (Hebrews 4:15). In being\ntempted and not sinning, Jesus atoned for sin, in our stead, by his\nlove and faithfulness in front of God. Thus Luke 5:24:"},{"id":"p-10-105","text":"\"But that you may know that the Son ofMan has autlwrity on earth\n to forgive sins.\""},{"id":"p-10-106","text":"Jesus declares that he has the authority to forgive sins ON\nEARTH! In fact, when anyone linked to Jesus in love and faith,\nJesus would apply that authority to forgive them of their sins."},{"id":"p-10-107","text":"Luke 5:20:\n When Jesus saw their faith he said, \"your sins are forgiven.\""},{"id":"p-10-108","text":"Luke 7:47:\n Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven-for she\n loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.\" Then Jesus\n said to her, ''¥£>ur sins are forgiven.\" The other guests began to say among\n themselves, \"Who is this who even forgives sins?\" Jesus said to the\n woman, \"Your faith has saved you; go in peace.\""},{"id":"p-10-109","text":"He didn't say, ''Your sins will be forgiven after I die.\" He didn't\nhave to make any sort of blood offering on the spot. He already had\nthe authority via his wilderness course.\n Thus, if the whole nation had \"done the work of God to believe"},{"id":"p-10-110","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 193\n\f in him who He has sent,\" would not Jesus be able to apply the for-\n giveness of sin to the nation and world at that time? Would not\n being prevented from doing that because of Israel's faithlessness\n cause him an immeasurable \"sorrow unto death\"?"},{"id":"p-10-111","text":"FAITH IS PRIIIARY WIllE 81._ AT_Ell IS SEcorIWlY"},{"id":"p-10-112","text":"We are going to see a consistent placement of the tradition of\n blood atonement in a secondary, less preferred context. God's pri-\n mary requirement is for the condition offaith. Where that condition\n of faith is established, the need for blood atonement is waived."},{"id":"p-10-113","text":"Hosea 6:6:\n For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God\n RATHER than burnt offerings."},{"id":"p-10-114","text":"1 Samuel 15:21-22\n The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was\n devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gil-\n gal.\"\n But Samuel replied: \"Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings\n and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? 1b\n obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of\n rams."},{"id":"p-10-115","text":"Micah 6:6-8:\n With what shall I come before the WRD and bow down before the exalted\n God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year\n old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten\n thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgres-\n sion, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has showed you,\n o man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? TO\n ACT JUSTLY AND TO LOVE MERCY AND TO WALK HUMBLY WITH YOUR\n GoD."},{"id":"p-10-116","text":"The MoIIII of lies. . and tile . . of CUrses"},{"id":"p-10-117","text":"When the Children of Israel were given the law covenant, God\n asked them (Deuteronomy 27) to "},{"id":"p-11-113","text":"Answer:\n Acts 13:25 is not a statement of quality, but rather of duration.\n\"As John was fulfilling his mission\" means that his mission was\ndrawing to a close time-wise. His mission would be ((accomplished\"\nby testifying to Jesus, following Him, and leading his enorriwus foun-\ndation of disciples to likewise follow Jesus (as dictated by Luke 1:17).\nIf John had ((fulfilled\" his mission in purpose, we would have never\nseen John's disciples comparing the standard of Je~us' disciples,\nnegatively, with their own (Matthew 9:14) which took place after\nJohn's initial statement offaith in Jesus. We would have never seen\nJesus' urgent prayer of Matthew. 9:37, calling out for laborers. We\nwould have never seen such a statement by John as in Matthew 11:3\n((. . . are you the one who was to come or shall we look for another\"?"},{"id":"p-11-114","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 221\n\f ,r:,c,lntE\n . ,\n , :a.,':;,!'• • •' ~.; . , \";"},{"id":"p-11-115","text":"Answer:\n John's mission is clearly stated in Luke 1:17\". . . to make ready\n a people prepared for the Lord.\" He did not accomplish that mission\n and so Jesus had to gather His own disciples, saying (t•the har-\n •• vest is great but the laborers are few.\" Matthew 9:37-38. It is not I\n who judges John, it is Jesus when he says John is the least in the\n Kingdom ofHeaven (Matthew 11:11). For the meaning of\"least in the\n Kingdom of Heaven\" see Matthew 5:19. As far as your contention\n that dying before the day ofPentecost cost John a higher position in\n heaven than least, I could not agree. Notice that the benefits of sal-\n vation can be imputed retroactively (Hebrews 11). Notice also that\n John's name is conspicuously missing from this list of righteous\n saints who preceded Jesus."},{"id":"p-11-117","text":"JESUS COITaIS lIS . . ."},{"id":"p-11-118","text":"Why did so many think that Jesus was «John the Baptist raised\n from the dead',? It has a lot to do with the fact that Jesus was work-\n ing in a similar way as John. He was baptizing disciples. He was in\n the wilderness and fasted for 40 days. He was proclaiming the com-\n ing Kingdom. He was casting out demons and healing the sick. He\n was generating a lot of excitement and renown. It was as if Jesus\n had taken his cue from John.\n In a real sense, because John fell short in his mission objective\n \"to make a people prepared for the Lord,\" Jesus had to step into\n John's role and seek to make his own foundation. Matthew 4:12-17:"},{"id":"p-11-119","text":"When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he returned\n to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which\n was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali, From that time\n on Jesus began to preach, \"Repent, for the kingdom ofheaven is near.\""},{"id":"p-11-120","text":"Most of the Gospel documents Jesus attempting to make a foun-\n dation for the messiah to be proclaimed. Until a certain foundation\n of believers was accomplished, Jesus would not reveal his true mis-"},{"id":"p-11-121","text":"222 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fsion. This is why we see, in Matthew 16:20, \"Then he warned his\ndisciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.\"\n In gathering followers, Jesus was trying to complete the mis-\nsion of John so that he could then accomplish the mission of the\nmessiah. His own mission was to establish the Kingdom of Heaven\non earth and in spirit.\n Jesus begins to gather his own apostles and disciples. We see\nJesus' motivation for his mission:"},{"id":"p-11-122","text":"When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were\n harassed and helpless, like sheep witlwut a shepherd. Then he said\n to his disciples, ((The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.\n Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his\n harvest field.\" Matthew 9:36-38"},{"id":"p-11-123","text":"The \"harvest\" was great because \"now was the time.\" However,\nJesus was left without laborers for the harvest. Where were those\nlaborers? Why would Jesus be in need oflaborers if John had been\ndoing his mission?\n In trying to accomplish the mission to make a foundation for\nthe messiah, Jesus employed a very practical methodology."},{"id":"p-11-124","text":"Calling the '!Welve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them\n authority over evil spirits. Mark 6:7"},{"id":"p-11-125","text":"Before he sent them out, he gave them a through training ses-\nsion. After that training, he assigned them to various towns and\nvillages, after which:"},{"id":"p-11-126","text":"Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their syna-\n gogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every dis-\n ease and sickness. Matthew 9:35"},{"id":"p-11-127","text":"Mter this initial campaign, Jesus expanded the training to\ninclude the next tier of the 72 disciples:"},{"id":"p-11-128","text":"After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by\n two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He\n told them, ((The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the\n Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.\n Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.\" Luke 10:1~"},{"id":"p-11-129","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 223\n\f We can see that sometimes not everything went smoothly with\n the campaign:"},{"id":"p-11-130","text":"\"This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate\n manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.\" He said\n this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. On hearing it, many\n ofhis disciples said, \"This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?\" Aware\n that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, \"Does\n this offend you? John 6:58-61"},{"id":"p-11-131","text":"Finally, after two years of public ministry, Jesus disciples could\n not be successful enough to stem the tide that was building against\n Jesus:"},{"id":"p-11-132","text":"After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from\n Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. John 7:1"},{"id":"p-11-133","text":"There was no faith in Israel."},{"id":"p-11-134","text":"Matthew 8:10\n Thrily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel."},{"id":"p-11-135","text":"Because there was no faith in Israel, the providence, as in the\n time of Jeremiah, turns toward the secondary path of the cross:"},{"id":"p-11-136","text":"Matthew 16:21:\n From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must\n go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief\n priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the\n third day be raised to life."},{"id":"p-11-137","text":"As we explained in the previous chapter, Jesus is faced with the\n most painful dilemma. On the one hand, because of the faithless\n nation, he must prepare his disciples and the coming generations\n until the Second Coming to be able to understand the nature of this\n prolongation course. His disciples, as we have seen, so enamored\n with the hope of the immediate establishment of the Kingdom,\n would tend to turn morose and pessimistic with the prospect of a\n 2000 year delay. Jesus must try with all his heart to convince them\n of this \"happy\" outcome, when in reality, in all of his heart; he too\n wanted to realize the Kingdom that was \"at hand.»\n In the last year we see the collapse of his ministry. With each"},{"id":"p-11-138","text":"224 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fpassing day, the cross looms larger on the horizon.\n From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer\nfollowed him. ''You do not want to leave too, do you?\" Jesus asked\nthe Twelve. John 6:6~7\n But even the faith of the 12 begins to crack. We see evidence of\nthe condition of their faith at the Last Supper. When Jesus mentions\nthat, \"one of you here will betray me\" each one of the twelve responds\ntepidly:"},{"id":"p-11-139","text":"And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say\n unto him, Lord, is it I? Matthew 26:22"},{"id":"p-11-140","text":"That each one has to ask \"Lord is it I,\" indicates that every one\nof them had been contemplating betrayal, not just Judas."},{"id":"p-11-141","text":"GETHSEMANE"},{"id":"p-11-142","text":"Jesus takes his followers and retires to the Garden of Gethse-\nmane. It is here that Jesus shares his soul's true feelings about the\nimpending offering of his life."},{"id":"p-11-143","text":"And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to\n be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceed-\n ing sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And\n he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, 0 my\n Father, ifit be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as\n I will, but as thou wilt.\n And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith\n unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray,\n that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the\n flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying,\n o my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it,\n thy will be done."},{"id":"p-11-144","text":"If, indeed, Jesus' sole destiny was to die on the cross, how could\nhe face this moment so reluctantly? Jesus attempted to convey to\nPeter, James and John the content of his sorrow. He explained that\nhis soul was \"exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death.\"\n It is so tragic that not one ofthem could have consoled Jesus in\nthat moment and, perhaps, be able to provide us with a clearer\ninsight into the nature of his overwhelming grief."},{"id":"p-11-145","text":"$17f"},{"id":"p-11-146","text":"$180"},{"id":"p-11-147","text":"$181"},{"id":"p-11-148","text":"Jesus gave his up his family so that we could have a family. In\n view of this, Can we, then, simply throw it away?"},{"id":"p-11-149","text":"228 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE"}]},{"page":12,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-12-1","text":"Chapter Ten"},{"id":"p-12-2","text":"RESURRECTION\n he Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the citadel of Christian"},{"id":"p-12-3","text":"$182"},{"id":"p-12-4","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 229\n\f cussions with Christians, they claim Jesus' resurrection was\n clearly not spiritual but physical."},{"id":"p-12-5","text":"Luke 9:60\n Jesus said to him, \"Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and\n proclaim the kingdom of God.\""},{"id":"p-12-6","text":"$183"},{"id":"p-12-7","text":"Revelation 3:1\n / know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are\n thad."},{"id":"p-12-8","text":"John 11:25-26\n Jesus said to her, \"/ am the resurrection and the life. He wlw believes in\n me will live, even though he dies; and wlwever lives and believes in me\n will never die. Do you believe this?\""},{"id":"p-12-9","text":"230 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fTHE DEATH CAUSED BY THE FALL"},{"id":"p-12-10","text":"In order to know which death is subject to the resurrection, we\nneed to know which death is caused by the fall of man.\n In the Principle of Creation, we see the original structure and\nfunction of a human entails both a spiritual self and physical self.\nIn order for Christians to understand this we can point to the fol-\nlowing scripture:"},{"id":"p-12-11","text":"Ecclesiastes 12:7\n And the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit\n returns to God who gave it."},{"id":"p-12-12","text":"Genesis 2:22-24\n Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the\n man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, \"This is now bone\n ormy bones and flesh ormy flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she\n was taken out of man.» For this reason a man will leave his father and\n mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."},{"id":"p-12-13","text":"Some Christians even believe that the physical body was created\nas a result of the fall. They point to Genesis 3:21: The LORD God\nmade garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.\nMany maintain a vague notion that the temporal nature of the phys-\nical body is attributable to sin.\n However, Genesis 2:22-24 clearly indicates that God created\nflesh bodies for Adam and Eve prior to the event of sin. This would\ntend to support the idea that the flesh body, too, had an original\ngodly purpose and function prior to man sinning.\n In Genesis 2:17, we see that if Adam and Eve eat the fruit,\nthey will die on the very day they eat it."},{"id":"p-12-14","text":". . for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."},{"id":"p-12-15","text":"In relation to the temporal nature of the physical body, Adam\nand Eve ate the fruit and they did die on that very same day. How-\never, this death that they experienced was not a physical death. It\nwas a \"death\" that reflected the initial category of \"death\" men-\ntioned by Jesus in Luke 9:60. That is, spiritual death. There is no\nscripture that links the event of physical death as a consequence of\nsin."},{"id":"p-12-16","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 231\n\f WHAT IS SPIRITUAL DEATH?"},{"id":"p-12-17","text":"1 John 3:14\n We know that we have passed from tkath to life, because we love our\n brothers. Anyone who does 1Wt love remains in death."},{"id":"p-12-18","text":"Romans 6:23\n For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ\n Jesus our Lord."},{"id":"p-12-19","text":"Romans 8:6\n The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the\n Spirit is life and peace;"},{"id":"p-12-20","text":"Ephesians 4:18\n They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the\n life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the ha~\n ening of their hearts."},{"id":"p-12-21","text":"Spiritual death is the state resulting from sin. It is the state of\n being separated from God's love. It is where \"our hearts are hard-\n ened,\" and thus, we can no longer \"love our brothers.\" Paul says\n anyone who \"does not love, remains in death.\""},{"id":"p-12-22","text":"THE MWING OF RESURRECTION\n Ifphysical death is not the \"death\" caused by the fall, then \"pass-\n ing from death into life\" (resurrection) does not involve the revival\n of the decomposed physical body. (Eccl. 12:7)\n Therefore, resurrection is the process of man being restored from\n Satan's dominion back to God's dominion through the dispensation\n for restoration."},{"id":"p-12-23","text":"John 5:24\n \"[ tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent\n me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over\n from tkath to life."},{"id":"p-12-24","text":"1 Corinthians 15:21-22\n For since death came through a man, the resurrection ofthe dead comes\n also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made\n alive."},{"id":"p-12-25","text":"232 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Christ is the central figure for the dispensation of resurrection.\n At this point, we would normally proceed into the next section\nthat describes the four principles of resurrection. However, minis-\nters, at this point, are still reeling about the above definition of res-\nurrection. They generally need more to hang their hat on if they\nare going to consider altering their view of resurrection.\n The main stumbling block is the biblical description of Jesus'\nown \"resurrection.\" The tomb was empty and then, soon after, the\ndisciples were meeting Jesus face to face. Jesus said, \"'lbuch my\nhands and feet, a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that\nI have.\" Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, etc. They will have\nmany objections to our description of resurrection up to this point.\nWe must recognize and deal with these major objections before we\nproceed to the next section; otherwise, they will not hear a thing\nyou say."},{"id":"p-12-26","text":"BIBLE VERSES THAT APPW TO SUPPORT RES~CTION OF\nTHE CORPORAL BODY"},{"id":"p-12-27","text":"Matthew 27:52-03\n The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died\n were raised to life. They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resur-\n rection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people."},{"id":"p-12-28","text":"John 11:40-44\n Then Jesus said, \"Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see\n the glory of God?\" So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up\n and said, \"Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I know that you\n always hear me,but I said this for the benefit of the people standing\n here, that they may believe that you sent me.\" When he had said this,\n Jesus called in a loud voice, \"Lazarus, come out!\" The dead man came\n out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around\n his face."},{"id":"p-12-29","text":"Luke 24:36-39\n While they were still talking about this, Jesus himselfstood among them\n and said to them, \"Peace be with you.\" They were startled and fright-\n ened, thinking they saw a GHOST. He said to them, \"Why are you trou-\n bled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and\n my feet. It is I myself! Thuch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh\n and bones, as you see I have.\""},{"id":"p-12-30","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 233\n\f Jesus said that a ghost does not have flesh and bone, as you see\n that I have!\n Lets examine these important Bible verses more closely:"},{"id":"p-12-31","text":"Matthew 27:52\n The many bodies ofthe saints who had fallen asleep were raised from the\n dead. They went into the holy city (Jerusalem) and APPEARED TO MANY."},{"id":"p-12-32","text":"$184"},{"id":"p-12-33","text":"\"Even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you\n may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the\n Father.\""},{"id":"p-12-34","text":"When Jesus raises Lazarus, he explains that the reason he is\n doing this is \"for the benefit of the people standing here, that they\n may believe that you sent me.\"\n Even as a miracle, though quite impressive indeed, the ability\n to corporally resurrect someone is not, necessarily, exclusive to the\n messiah. See 1 Kings 17:21-22"},{"id":"p-12-35","text":"Then Elijah stretched himselfout on the boy three times and cried to the\n LORD, \"0 LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!\" The LORD\n heard Elijah's cry, and the boy's life returned to him, and he lived."},{"id":"p-12-36","text":"234 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Jesus was performing miracles in order to help direct the peo-\nple toward the actual exclusive provision of Christ: eternal life. This\nis something that Elijah could never have provided. Christ, alone,\nis the providential agent of resurrection.\n The conclusion, then, is, yes, corporal resurrection is a reality as\na miracle, but it only provided for an extension of Lazarus' physi-\ncal life. After all, didn't Lazarus later \"die\" again? Therefore, corporal\nresurrection is not the manifestation of resurrection to eternal life."},{"id":"p-12-37","text":"Luke24:3~9\n While they were still talking about this, Jesus himselfstood arrwng them\n and said to them, \"Peace be with you.\" They were startled and fright-\n ened, thinking they saw a GHOST. He said to them, 'Why are you trou-\n bled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and\n my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does TWt have flesh\n and bones, as you Bee I have.\""},{"id":"p-12-38","text":"$185"},{"id":"p-12-39","text":"$186"},{"id":"p-12-40","text":"How Does Jesus 'AJlJear'?"},{"id":"p-12-41","text":"In the following scripture, Saint Paul documents the series of\n appearances of Jesus after his resurrection. He concludes the\n sequence with the \"appearance\" of Jesus to him (on the road to Dam-\n ascus)."},{"id":"p-12-42","text":"1 Corinthians 15:4-8\n \"That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to\n the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.\n After that, he appeared to more than five hundred ofthe brothers\n at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have\n fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostres,\n and LAST OF ALL HE APPEARED TO ME ALSO. \""},{"id":"p-12-43","text":"The manner in which Jesus appeared to Paul is explained in\n Acts9~7:"},{"id":"p-12-44","text":"As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven\n flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him,"},{"id":"p-12-45","text":"236 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f \"Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?\" \"Who are you, Lord?\" Saul asked.\n \"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,\" he replied. \"Now get up and go\n into the city, and you will be told what you must do.\" The men traveling\n with Saul stood there speechless; THEY HEARD THE SOUND Bur DID NOT\n SEE ANYONE."},{"id":"p-12-46","text":"\"They heard the sound, but they did not see anyone.\" This is\nhow Jesus \"appeared\" to Paul. Paul could see, but others could not.\nLikewise, when the many bodies of the saints \"appeared.\" They\nappeared to some but not all. This was the spiritualized form.\n Paul teaches clearly in 1 Corinthians 15:35-52:"},{"id":"p-12-47","text":"$187"},{"id":"p-12-48","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 237\n\f Mark 16:12 testifies that Jesus \"appeared in a different form\"\n aJl;er he was raised from the dead. This is because, as Paul affirms,\n \"the dead will be raised imperishable, and will be changed.\""},{"id":"p-12-49","text":"Jesus Gazes into the Spirit World"},{"id":"p-12-50","text":"This is one of the most interesting parables that Jesus ever gave.\n It provides keen insight into some of the realities of the spiritual\n world. Most important, Jesus provides a clear definition of \"raising\n from the dead.\" It involves two men who die. One is a rich man, the\n other a beggar. The beggar goes to heaven to be with Abraham. The\n rich man goes to hell. (The beggar's name is Lazarus and is not to\n be confused with the Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead.)"},{"id":"p-12-51","text":"Luke 16:19-31"},{"id":"p-12-52","text":"$188"},{"id":"p-12-53","text":"238 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f What is Jesus' definition of \"raising from the dead\" in this para-\nble?\" It is the phenomenon of a spirit in the spirit world \"appearing\"\non the earth plane to perform a providential task centering on peo-\nple on earth. The rich man wanted Lazarus to \"raise from the dead\"\nto warn his brothers to repent so that they would avoid coming to\nhell.\n On this foundation, ministers would be much more open to pro-\nceed with the study of resurrection from the Divine Principle per-\nspective. They would, of course, still feel resistant, but they could see\nthat a wide range of scripture was supporting our view.\n Basically from this point on, I would follow the standard resur-\nrection lecture content. For brevity's sake, I'll just highlight some of\nthe remaining areas of the rest of the resurrection lecture where\npotential problems may occur."},{"id":"p-12-54","text":"THEPRO~DENCEOFRfSWUlCnoN"},{"id":"p-12-55","text":"As mentioned in an earlier chapter, there is one Principle and\nmany applications. The \"Principles of Resurrection\" are the Princi-\nple of Creation applied to the historical journey from death to life.\nIt is the journey of \"re-creation.\"\n In Exposition of The Divine Principle chapter on the resurrec-\ntion, this section starts off with \"Merit of the Age.\" For Christians\nthis point is a little obscure. I would begin with the bedrock of \"the\nword.\" Resurrection takes place on the foundation of the Word of\nGod. This is strong common ground with their beliefs and sensibil-\nities.\n Instead of this lineup: This order is better:\n 1. Merit of the Age 1. The word\n 2. The word 2. Physical body\n 3. Physical body 3. Merit of the age\n 4.3 Orderly stages 4.3 Orderly stages"},{"id":"p-12-56","text":"THE PROVIDENCE OF RfS.aECTION FOR PEOPlE ON EARTH"},{"id":"p-12-57","text":"This is the content that explains the three stages in the dis-\npensation for resurrection. I had no major problems in this area of\nthe presentation. It was generally well received. Whenever I teach\nthis part of the Principle I am always reminded of one experience I\nhad: (See testimony on pages 240-243)"},{"id":"p-12-58","text":"$189"},{"id":"p-12-59","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 241\n\f \" ... \";~~~~~r,~·tlr.;j,\n . . 'JJibl~$·o~gan ·. pages,flipping.aitd·thenonebyone.e.acl1mell!lber:qf .....\n r' tn~~1:1lt~ , . \". ~Yier,sean(l. ~g' ~eir:atWnt1?Ii :to·theiJ3i~l~ .•. .\n ~f~ij;Y;J~a~l'.c,. . . ~~cept. foroneal'~, (jfthe$tlidy circletl:~9~~::;' giapter1'itl:th~pa~ / ItJsOneof:eaU1sJ~tters\\ .' ..''. '. .•. . • ,. . . ;) '.•. 'i,l i:; '\n ,,' .· Th~~IIie~~rs ~ftheBiblesttIdy,wotid~w~~tthe;b~ld- ·\n ~~.~~~~:~u:~~g;;;\n .' . . . . . rP~~iblel~a~:tmQHychhn~lll) 'P91A#Yh,~lp· . '~'G9dless, 'baal-:worshipp.i;ng, ctiIt nreIJl~ fifid \","},{"id":"p-12-61","text":"S0~~?~0upmT¥EriliA\"\"\" .••'• • '~ • '\" .\" . ."},{"id":"p-12-62","text":"~. ':: /~ ' <::\".;':-:;;J~;;: ;:~.'::;; ::».;.\" \"\n . . . • r-,X TJh'hWi;,\\\"*t~~ (~yeballs ,v.r;ereg~nl1g.~ ,pm:wht*ilS, ,2Wtillr; '1Im~ •.·'"},{"id":"p-12-63","text":".~fflli~tI:\n ..• \";,., ~S~$,~~~~.,, ...<., . , ', . ..•.r:4$s \" p~pet,., BED'Y\" .. Jja~... . . .\n ,·.·,:;?\\~. ~~~rSS~$~§S$~SS&Hfas:s·:pr()p~t ;l>edy'#P .&,E~ww:uDl~; SIi~f:\n . ',>'.\n <. y\n '\\···'\"'.l:,~--::·' \"... '\n ,'.\":' -',\n <--;- ,. ':;:<~~-\n .\"\" ;:>-,:,,: ~~,--~:<,~. , ,.~< ..' ;\",.~: ' ,\n '\n ., \". -\";.-,;\",,,;,:<\",,; ,>.,:-;;',~:,,'\n . , ;',1. '. \" ;-.;,', : : \"\"\",\""},{"id":"p-12-64","text":"242 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f,;;"},{"id":"p-12-65","text":"$18a"},{"id":"p-12-66","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 243\n\f PARADISE AND HEAVEN"},{"id":"p-12-67","text":"$18b"},{"id":"p-12-68","text":"Hebrews 9:28\n So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and\n he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to\n those who are waiting for him."},{"id":"p-12-69","text":"What salvation could that be?"},{"id":"p-12-70","text":"1 Peter 1:5\n . . Who, through faith, are shielded by God's power until the coming\n of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time."},{"id":"p-12-71","text":"That \"salvation\" won't be revealed until \"the Last Days.\" The\n clear implication is that even the bible as we know it has not artic-\n ulated the nature of that salvation. The Bible reveals that it has\n not been revealed."},{"id":"p-12-72","text":"244 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Acts 3:21\n He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore every-\n thing, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets."},{"id":"p-12-73","text":"\"Restore everything as he promised long ago through his holy\nprophets.\" This means the Kingdom and all prophecy of glory such\nas Isaiah 65:17. Do you remember the disciples question to the res-\nurrected Jesus in Acts 1:6? So when they met together, they asked\nhim, \"Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to\nIsrael?\" This is the meaning of \"to restore everything\" in Acts 3:21.\n Paul certainly seems to be expecting more in the following scrip-\nture."},{"id":"p-12-74","text":"1 Corinthians 13:9-12\n For we krww in part and we prophesy in part, but WHEN perfection\n comes, the imperfect disappears . When I was a child, I talked like a\n child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a\n man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as\n in a mirror; then We shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then\n I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."},{"id":"p-12-75","text":"Hebrews 9:39-40 indicates that the saints in heaven are\nstill waiting for ''what was promised.\""},{"id":"p-12-76","text":"These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received\n what had been promised. God had planned something better for us\n so that only together with us would they be made perfect."},{"id":"p-12-77","text":"Those saints in paradise will be made perfect with us. \"Us\" refers\nto the people on earth at the time of Christ's return to \"complete\nsalvation.\" To \"eat from the Tree of Life.\" signifies the opening of\nthe way to perfection."},{"id":"p-12-78","text":"The Tree of Life"},{"id":"p-12-79","text":"The Tree of Life is the symbol of perfect Adam. God told Adam\nand Eve that they must first be \"fruitful.\" This was the prerequisite\nfor their marriage. On that foundation they could receive God's per-\nmission to multiply. Man fell and God blocked the way to the Tree\nof Life (Genesis 3:24) Thus man \"died,\" was cut off from the life of\nGod and needed to be resurrected to life."},{"id":"p-12-80","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 245\n\f \"'Ib eat from the Tree of Life\" is the key to opening the King-\n dom. Without perfection we cannot fulfill the second blessing. Thus,\n we see in the Old Testament that the hope has been to achieve the\n Tree of Life."},{"id":"p-12-81","text":"Proverbs 11:30\n The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life·"},{"id":"p-12-82","text":"Proverbs 13:12\n Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of\n life."},{"id":"p-12-83","text":"$18c"},{"id":"p-12-84","text":"However, he said \"my Kingdom is not of this world. The gates\n were shut because there was \"no faith, no, not in Israel.\"\n Jesus comes again to open the gates and open the way to the\n Tree of Life."},{"id":"p-12-85","text":"Revelation 2:7\n 1b him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life,\n which is in the paradise of God."},{"id":"p-12-86","text":"Revelation 22:14\n Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to\n the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city."},{"id":"p-12-87","text":"246 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Until we regain the right to eat from the tree oflife, we cannot\n\"enter the gate\" into the city. The Holy City is the Kingdom of\nHeaven, i.e. \"the new Jerusalem.\"\n Thus, until that time, we are in paradise and must \"resurrect\"\nto the level of the Kingdom of Heaven. This is how we can explain\nparadise and heaven in a more biblically grounded manner."},{"id":"p-12-88","text":"NO MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN"},{"id":"p-12-89","text":"$18d"},{"id":"p-12-90","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 247\n\f my wife and they drag us away to separate vans. They open the\n door and throw me in the back with several other Moonies. The big\n fat angel stands there puffing on his cigar, shaking his head and\n says, \"Look at yez, when are you people gonna get with the pro-\n gram?\" He slams the rear door. I can hear him talking to some other\n angel outside.\n \"How many is that today?\"\n \"About 17 . . . all of 'em Westerners.\"\n \"Why am I not surprised?\" said the fat angel. You could hear\n them both laughing."},{"id":"p-12-91","text":"Matthew 22:23-32\n At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;\n they will be like the angels in heaven."},{"id":"p-12-92","text":"$18e"},{"id":"p-12-93","text":"248 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Likewise, in the course of resurrection, there is no marriage\nuntil the conclusion ofthe process of resurrection: restoration to eat\nfrom the Tree of Life.\n Since God ''blocked the way to the Tree of Life,\" (Genesis 3:24)\nthere has been \"no marriage.\" This is why no child could be born\nwithout the stain of sin. \"All born of Adam\" were without life.\n Thus there will be no marriage until mankind can resurrect and\nreclaim the right to eat from the Tree of Life. It is a permission issue\nas stated in the chapter on \"The Change of Blood Lineage.\" This is\nthe hope of the Second Coming as we have seen in Revelation 2:7\nand 22:14."},{"id":"p-12-94","text":"FINAL NOTES: ON THE UNIRCAnON OF REUGIONS"},{"id":"p-12-95","text":"$18f"},{"id":"p-12-96","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 249\n\f Answer:\n All concepts of universal salvation have thus far been inadequate\n and in error. However, we do see that God is not willing that anyone\n should perish, but that all should come to everlasting life (2 Peter 3:9).\n If God is not willing for anyone to perish and God's will is absolute,\n then there would be scriptural grounds for the concept of an ulti-\n mate restoration of \"all things.\"\n The notion is also given support in the fact that biblical Greek for\n \"eternal, eternity\" could also be rendered \"for a long time\" as opposed\n to \"neverending.\" The problem with universal salvation theories is\n that it invites a complacent attitude with regard to our personal\n responsibility to salvation, an \"enjoy now, pay later\" mentality. On\n the other hand, neither is the fear ofhell and damnation the ultimate\n motivation to live a Christ-centered life."},{"id":"p-12-97","text":"$190"},{"id":"p-12-98","text":"~r~~!; -.:,,'., .: \" ,"},{"id":"p-12-99","text":"250 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f The purpose of religion is that all should come to Christ. God\nhad worked in many religions to make the ground rrwre fertile for the\nsaving message of Christ's love. Not every tradition that calls itself\nreligion can be an object to God's purpose.\n Remember, God was able to lead such non-Christian rrwvements\nas Judaism and lead non-Christian wise men to the baby Jesus. The\nGod I read about so loved the world that He gave His only begotten\nSon.\n v ~~i 'F~\"\"'\" +r ?y :~;: ,;, Y::;:T;f\" \" ' /'%~:;i:~,;; :*:;;;{~~'-,>{::~;;rr;i/;'\";:~\n Jstli!!re~~f'aJ~tifUiJ!k$~l). \":.' : ' ..\n ~~~.c~\" 'c."},{"id":"p-12-100","text":"Answer:\n Jesus' judgment ofJudaism was not meant to be an affront to the\ntradition of Judaism. We see that Jesus deeply respected the Jewish\ntradition and followed many Jewish customs. Jesusjudged the Jews\nwith regard to the fulfillment or failure of their contemporary respon-\nsibility to obey and receive the Son ofMan. It was in that acceptance\nthat their tradition would be fulfilled. Also, Jesus never judged any-\none for which he was not also willing to go to the cross. Our failure\nis that we many times engage (alrrwst with glee) in the judgment of\nother religions (or even the completely non-religious) without having\ndemonstrated the willingness to go to the cross."},{"id":"p-12-101","text":"lOu saujudiliyour own wordstliq,t weshou14 put the worosofthe Bible\n intoPTYJC~. Whydo$O .rna/ty$O c01le~Christi9-ns' and you .teach that\n wesIWuldembTYJCe the~ all,tai7k Jesiiswith themto the bars andcklnce\n /loot'fl,to drinkan4p.artywith'harlo~,who..rc;;,u\" is the value of True Man (not fallen)."},{"id":"p-13-10","text":"Christ, we must understand the principle relationship between\nmind and body.\n This is what the Divine Principle lecture on \"Christology\"\nattempts to do. This is the \"why\" of teaching this lecture."},{"id":"p-13-11","text":"JESUS IS THE FIlST PERSON WHO FULFILLS THE PURPOSE OF CREATION"},{"id":"p-13-12","text":"We learn by comparison. Confusion about Christ is furthered\nas a result of having no point of reference. Christians view Jesus as\na \"one time only\" creation. Although we are instructed to become\n\"Christ-like,\" the meaning ofthat imperative is rather obscure.\n The Divine Principle Christology lecture seeks to first establish\nan acceptable point of reference for understanding Jesus. That point\nof reference is \"the person who fulfills the purpose of creation,\" that\nis, the idea of Adam had he not fallen and, instead, achieved per-,\nfection.\n Principle defines the value and nature of perfect Adam (divine,\nunique and cosmic value, etc). Next, that standard is compared with\nJesus. In this comparison, we discover that they are mirrored reflec-\ntions of each another. We have a DNA match!"},{"id":"p-13-13","text":"JESUS: GOD OR MAN?"},{"id":"p-13-14","text":"The comparison of Jesus with Perfected Adam will bring us to\nthe issue of Jesus' divinity as God and man. Some Christians believe\nthat Jesus is the creator himself. Others believe Jesus is both God\nand man.\n Principle gives the following scripture to indicate that Jesus is"},{"id":"p-13-15","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 255\n\f man (a perfect man). This will not be enough to close the deal, how-\n ever. We need to understand the full range of biblical references\n that form the basis for the Christian affinnation that Jesus is God\n and/or not just a man."},{"id":"p-13-16","text":"1 Timothy 2:5\n For there is one God and one ~diator between God and men, THE\n MAN Christ Jesus."},{"id":"p-13-17","text":"Romans 5:19\n For just as through the disobedience of the ONE MAN the many were\n made sinners, so also through the obedience of the ONE MAN the many\n will be made righteous."},{"id":"p-13-18","text":"1 Corinthians 15:21\n For since death came through A MAN, the resurrection ofthe dead comes\n also through A MAN."},{"id":"p-13-19","text":"Acts 17:31\n For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by THE\n MAN he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising\n him from the dead. \""},{"id":"p-13-20","text":"These four verses listed in the Exposition of the Divine Princi-\n ple indicate that Jesus was, indeed, a man. However, we still need\n additional work. Without delving into the additional verses that\n seem to indicate very strongly that Jesus is God, we will not quell\n the \"internal rebuttal.\" Many Christians believe that Jesus is God,\n because of scriptural declarations. We must deal with the objections\n to the idea that Jesus was a man."},{"id":"p-13-21","text":"BB.E VERSES THAT SEEM TO IIDICATE JESUS IS GOD"},{"id":"p-13-22","text":"These are the verses that spring to ministers' minds after we\n assert Jesus' humanity."},{"id":"p-13-23","text":"1. John 1:2-3\n He was with God in the beginning and through him all things were\n made."},{"id":"p-13-24","text":"Jesus was with God in the beginning and all things were made\n through Jesus!"},{"id":"p-13-25","text":"256 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f 2. 1 Corinthians 8:6\n Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from wlwm all things came\n and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through\n whom all things came and through wlwm we live."},{"id":"p-13-26","text":"Again, all things were made through Jesus."},{"id":"p-13-27","text":"3. Colossians 1:15-19\n He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For\n by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth,\n visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or\n authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is\n before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is\n the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn\n from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.\n For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,"},{"id":"p-13-28","text":"Here Jesus is described as the creator. \"For by him all things\nwere created by him and for him!\""},{"id":"p-13-29","text":"4. Hebrews 1:2\n In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many\n times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by\n his Son, wlwm he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he\n made the universe."},{"id":"p-13-30","text":"5. Hebrews 1:8\n But about the Son he says, \"Your throne, 0 Goo, will last for ever\n and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter ofyour kingdom."},{"id":"p-13-31","text":"About the Son he says: Your throne, 0 GOD!"},{"id":"p-13-32","text":"6. John 20:28\n And Thomas said (to Jesus) \"My Lord and MY GoD.\""},{"id":"p-13-33","text":"7. 1 John 5:20\n \".. . and we are in him who is true-even in his son Jesus Christ. lIE\n IS TRUE Goo and eternal life. \""},{"id":"p-13-34","text":"8. Romans 9:5\n \"Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry\n of Christ, WHO IS Goo OVER ALL, forever praised!\""},{"id":"p-13-35","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 257\n\f 9. 2 Peter 1:1\n \". . . to tlwse wlw through the righteousness of OUR GoD and Savior,\n Jesus Christ.\""},{"id":"p-13-36","text":"10. Titus 2:13\n \". . . the glorious appearing of our GREAT GoD and Savior, Jesus\n Christ.\""},{"id":"p-13-37","text":"11. Philippians 2:5-6\n \"Thur attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being IN\n VERY NATURE, GoD. • .\""},{"id":"p-13-38","text":"12. John. 8:58\n \"Before Abraham was, I am.\""},{"id":"p-13-39","text":"Jesus proclaims that he existed before Abraham."},{"id":"p-13-40","text":"$193"},{"id":"p-13-41","text":"BB.E VERSES THAT IIJICATE JESUS IS NOT GOD 111 CRUl'OR\n 1. Matthew 24:36\n No one knows about that day or hour, not even the Son, but the\n258 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Father only."},{"id":"p-13-42","text":"Here Jesus makes a distinction between what he knows and\nwhat the Father knows."},{"id":"p-13-43","text":"2. Matthew 26:3\n My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me, yet not as I\n will, but as Thou will."},{"id":"p-13-44","text":"Jesus' will is likewise autonomous from God's Will. Jesus is seek-\ning acquiescence to God's will."},{"id":"p-13-45","text":"3. John 5:26\n For as the Father has life in Himself, so he has granted the Son to\n have life in himself"},{"id":"p-13-46","text":"Jesus received his life from God. God received his life from no\none. He is eternally self-existent."},{"id":"p-13-47","text":"4. John 5:30\n By myself, I can do nothing: I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is\n just, for I seek not to please myself but him who has sent me."},{"id":"p-13-48","text":"Jesus says, \"by myself, I can do nothing.\" This indicates that\nJesus is relying upon his own relationship with God. He is not try-\ning to \"please myself' but rather is seeking to \"please the one who\nsent me.\""},{"id":"p-13-49","text":"5. John 5:19\n The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees the\n Father doing, because whatever the Father does, the Son does also."},{"id":"p-13-50","text":"Jesus declares that he is following a pattern laid down by God.\nHe is expressing obedience to God."},{"id":"p-13-51","text":"6. Mark 10:18\n Why do you call me good? No one is good, except God alone."},{"id":"p-13-52","text":"Here Jesus emphatically makes a distinction between himself\nand God."},{"id":"p-13-53","text":"7. John 14:28\n The Father is greater than 1."},{"id":"p-13-54","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 259\n\f This is another strong statement that makes a distinction\n between Jesus and God."},{"id":"p-13-55","text":"8. Matthew 6:9\n Our Father, which art in Heaven."},{"id":"p-13-56","text":"He didn't pray, Our Father, which art standing right here!\""},{"id":"p-13-57","text":"9. Matthew 27:46\n My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"},{"id":"p-13-58","text":"Inconceivable if he is God the Creator."},{"id":"p-13-59","text":"10. John 17:21-23\n . . that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I\n am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you\n have sent me. . . that they may be one as we are one: I in them and\n you in me."},{"id":"p-13-60","text":"In this prayer Jesus defines the term \"to be one.\" It is clearly\n accomplished through the relationship of two autonomous beings.\n Christian believers are to model their relationship (to become one)\n after the relationship of God and Christ (as God and Christ are one).\n Notice that \"to be one\" does not mean to be \"one and the same.\""},{"id":"p-13-61","text":"11. 1 Corinthians 15:27-28\n For he \"has put everything under his feet.\" Now when it says that \"every-\n thing\" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include\n God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this,\n then the Son himself will be 11UUle subject to him woo put every-\n thing under him, so that God may be all in all."},{"id":"p-13-62","text":"Paul declares that God put everything under Christ, except God\n himself. Instead God rules all things through Christ. (remember:\n \"through him all things were made.\")"},{"id":"p-13-63","text":"12. Hebrews 1:3\n The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation\n of his being."},{"id":"p-13-64","text":"Jesus is the exact representation of his being. I send my rep-\n resentative to Congress. He is not me, myself. He is my represen-\n tative."},{"id":"p-13-65","text":"260 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f 13. Hebrews 4:15 (compared with James 1:13)\n For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our\n weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way,just\n as we are-yet without sin."},{"id":"p-13-66","text":"Jesus has been tempted in every way, just as we are, yet he\nnever sinned. See James 1:13: When tempted, no one should say,\nGod is tempting me. For GoD CANNOT BE TEMPTED by evil, nor does\nhe tempt.\n Jesus was tempted in every way, but God cannot be tempted.\nThis is why Jesus said, \"don't call me good, none are good, only God.\""},{"id":"p-13-67","text":"14. Hebrews 5:7-9\n During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and peti-\n tions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from\n death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although\n he was a son, he learned obedknce from what he suffered and, once\n made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all\n who obey him I bf\n Jesus had to walk a course faith and obedience in order to\nachieve perfection. By achievin!r perfection, Jesus \"became\" the\nsource of eternal salvation. l_\n In the Gospels, Jesus used th~ term \"Son of Man 102 times. The\nterm \"Son of God\" was used 76 times (65 times by Jesus). Jesus pro-\nclaimed that God was his father 54 times. There are 17 recorded\ninstances of Jesus praying to God.\n These verses are even more persuasive toward our view of the\npersonage of Christ. However, we must reconcile these scripture\nwith those verses that seem to proclaim Christ as God the Creator."},{"id":"p-13-69","text":"EXPlANATlON OF VERSES THAT SEEM TO INDICATE JESUS IS GOD"},{"id":"p-13-70","text":"1. John 1:2-3\n He was with God in the beginning and through him all things were\n made."},{"id":"p-13-71","text":"We have no problem with this from the standpoint of Jesus as\nmicrocosm. The universe is patterned after the form of man's spirit\nand body. This is so that man can exert dominion over all things. The\ndescription rendered in 1 Corinthians 15:27-28 is in harmony with\nthe view of the Principle.\n REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 261\n\f 2. 1 Corinthians 8:6\n ~t for us there is but one God, the Father, from wJwm all things came\n and for wJwm we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through\n whom all things came and through wJwm we live."},{"id":"p-13-72","text":"Again, this view is not inherently contrary to the view of the\n Principle"},{"id":"p-13-73","text":"3. Colossians 1:1~19\n He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For\n by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earlh,\n visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or\n authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is\n before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is\n the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn\n from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.\n For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him."},{"id":"p-13-74","text":"There is dispute with regard to who the word \"him\" refers. Does\n it refer to \"the invisible God\" or does it refer to \"Jesus.\" This one is\n the most problematic. However, be aware that this is disputed in\n many Christian circles."},{"id":"p-13-75","text":"4. Hebrews 1:2\n In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many\n times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by\n his Son, wJwm he appointed heir ofall things, and through whom he\n 11I.aIU! the universe."},{"id":"p-13-76","text":"Again, no problem in explaining the idea that God created the\n universe \"through\" the pattern of perfected Adam, or Jesus."},{"id":"p-13-77","text":"5. Hebrews 1:8\n But about tlu! Son he says, 'Your throne, 0 GoD, will last for ever\n and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter ofyour kingdom.'"},{"id":"p-13-78","text":"The writer of Hebrews is reciting Psalms 45:6,7: ''Your throne,\n o God,\" This was a common salutation of respect ofl'eredto a per-\n son of high regard. See also the next verse:"},{"id":"p-13-79","text":"6. John 20:28\n And Thomas said (to Jesus) 'My Lord and MY GoD.'"},{"id":"p-13-80","text":"262 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f This is a common fonn of greeting a person of respect. It is not\na statement on the divinity of Christ by Thomas."},{"id":"p-13-81","text":"7.1 John 5:20\n And we are in him who is true, even in his son Jesus Christ. lIE IS TRUE\n GoD and eternal life."},{"id":"p-13-82","text":"This is another disputed scripture. The dispute is over whom\nthe tenn ''he is true God\" is referring. The proper reading would be\nin this way: \"we are in God (\"him\" is God) who is true-even in his\n(God's) son Jesus Christ. He (God) is true God and eternal life.\""},{"id":"p-13-83","text":"8. Romans 9:5\n Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry\n of Christ, WHO IS GoD OVER ALL, forever praised!"},{"id":"p-13-84","text":"Jesus is \"God over all\" in the sense that God has put everything\nunder his feet as per 1 Corinthians 15:27-28."},{"id":"p-13-85","text":"9. 2 Peter 1:1\n 1b those who through the righteousness of OUR GoD and Savior, Jesus\n Christ."},{"id":"p-13-86","text":"Meaning \"Our God (in heaven) and our Savior, Jesus Christ.\" It\nwould be the same, say, after a workshop and we ask for testimonies\nfrom the guests about their experience. One guest says, \"I'd like to\nthank our Heavenly Father and lecturer John Doe.\" He is not pro-\nclaiming John Doe to be Heavenly Father. In the same way 2 Peter\n1:1 is referring to two: our God, and our savior, Jesus."},{"id":"p-13-87","text":"10. Titus 2:13\n . . the glorious appearing ofour GREAT GoD and Savior, Jesus Christ."},{"id":"p-13-88","text":"Same thing here."},{"id":"p-13-89","text":"11. Philippians 2:5-6\n Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being IN\n VERY NATURE, GoD."},{"id":"p-13-90","text":"We agree that Jesus, in nature, is like God. As in \"exact repre-\nsentation\" or \"in his image."},{"id":"p-13-91","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 263\n\f 12. John 8:58\n Before Abraham was, I am."},{"id":"p-13-92","text":"This is saying, \"before Abraham achieved perfection, I achieved\n it.» Because Jesus was the first perfected man, he assumed the posi-\n tion of \"first ancestor,\" that is, Adam's position. See Hebrews 5:7-9,\n \"once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation.\" John\n 8:58 is a statement indicating quality and position, not chronology."},{"id":"p-13-93","text":"$194"},{"id":"p-13-94","text":"John 15:1-5\n I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every\n branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit\n he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. YOu are already clean\n because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will\n remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the"},{"id":"p-13-95","text":"264 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Comment:"},{"id":"p-13-96","text":"Completed TestamentAge\n . is different than that of the\n grafted into the bel i'\",\"\", .. thl'ini\".n,n\"\n See Father's words:"},{"id":"p-13-97","text":"probably not necessary, at this\n difference.\n _ninrt~nt new concept for ministers at'\n get comfortable with the idea\n is the process of the \"change of\n rather the differences in the\n understanding of the grafting vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.\n I am tlu! vine; you are tlu! branclu!s. Ifa man remains in me and\nI in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing"},{"id":"p-13-99","text":"Romans 11:17-18"},{"id":"p-13-100","text":"If some of the branches have been broken of{, and you, though a wild\nolive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the\nnourishing sap from the olive root, do not boast over those branches. If\nyou do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports\nyou."},{"id":"p-13-101","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 265\n\f Jobn3:3-6\n In reply Jesus declared, \"[ tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom\n of God unless he is born again.» \"How can a man be born when he is\n old?\" Nicodemus asked. \"Surely he cannot enter a second time into his\n mother's womb to be born!\" Jesus answered, \"[ tell you the truth, no one\n can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the\n Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to\n spirit."},{"id":"p-13-102","text":"$195"},{"id":"p-13-103","text":"Rebirth requires the position of God, father and mother. This\n will set the stage for understanding the meaning of the Trinity.\n Jesus is referred to as \"everlasting Father\" in Isaiah 9:66"},{"id":"p-13-104","text":"For to us a child is born, to us a ~on is given, and the government will\n be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty\n God, EVERLASTING FATHER, Prince ofPeace."},{"id":"p-13-105","text":"266 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f Establishing Jesus in the position of Son and Father in the work\nof regeneration is acceptable to ministers. To establish the Holy\nSpirit in the role of \"mother\" requires much more cautious assertion."},{"id":"p-13-106","text":"John 14:16\n And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another COMFORTER,\n that he may abide with you forever;"},{"id":"p-13-107","text":"John 14:16 describes the Holy Spirit as a Comforter or Coun-\nselor. Certainly, it is a bit of a stretch to assert motherhood or that\nthe Holy Spirit is the \"feminine spirit of God.\""},{"id":"p-13-108","text":"John 3:6\n Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit."},{"id":"p-13-109","text":"$196"},{"id":"p-13-110","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 267\n\f AB far as the cross is concerned, we need to magnify the aton-\n ing work of Christ at Calvary, not qualify it as less effective then first\n thought. The Divine Principle elevates the meaning of Christ's shed\n blood. The Principle reveals that Jesus sacrificed much more than\n had been previously understood. Jesus not only gave his blood, he\n gave his family and lineage, as well."},{"id":"p-13-111","text":"Triity and the bteat of Salvatioa"},{"id":"p-13-112","text":"$197"},{"id":"p-13-113","text":"268 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\f Afuture Hope"},{"id":"p-13-114","text":"Paul states in Romans 8:23\n Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits ofthe Spirit, groan\n inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, THE REDEMPTION\n OF OUR BODIES."},{"id":"p-13-115","text":"Our present salvation through Jesus and Holy Spirit comes with\na hope of a future \"redemption of our bodies.\" This is the physical\nside of rebirth (or regeneration). Although we are fully saved in\nChrist as an individual, we know that our salvation does not extend\nto our next\" generation. For that to take place requires the hoped\nfor \"redemption of our bodies.\"\n Until Christ comes again, the gates to the kingdom are open\nspiritually through Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We receive the gift of\neternal life through that gate. However, if my spouse and I are born\nagain and we conceive a child, that child is still a descendant of the\n\"dead Adam.\" Sadly, that child must be ''born again.\" This indicates\nthat sin still reigns through our flesh.\n Christ will come again to establish the spiritual and physical\ntrinity foundation. He will set up the conditions to \"redeem our\nphysical bodies\" so that sin no longer passes through the blood lin-\neage from parents to children."},{"id":"p-13-116","text":"I don't get it? Why is \"physical salvation\" so important? Isn't the spirit\n the part that matters most? After all, the spirit is eternal and this old body\n is just going to tum to dust anyway. Rev. B.N., A.M.E."},{"id":"p-13-117","text":"Answer:\n Certainly the spirit is eternal and the physical body turns to dust.\nHowever, the physical body does display a type of \"eternity.\" In this\nsense, Adam's corporal body is still with us, that is, in relation to\nthe body's ability to multiply. In other words, before Adam's body\nreturned to the dust, it multiplied. This body continued to multiply\nand eventually you and I were born as the extension ofAdam's body.\nBecause of that connection, we were \"born in sin.\"\n To \"redeem our bodies\" means that Christ comes to \"complete\nsalvation\" by breaking this physical link to the dead Adam. Ulti-\nmately it means that Christ must establish a process of \"on earth\"\nmultiplication thai can incorporate all believers in the same manner\nthis multiplication had extended, until now, the domain of sin."},{"id":"p-13-118","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 269\n\f Remember, Jesus was on earth proclaiming that the Kingdom\n was at hand. He had the authority to forgive sin on earth. Christ\n returns to this recreated opportunity on earth."},{"id":"p-13-119","text":"Answer:\n The basis of rebirth is spiritual. However, the ideal of rebirth is\n that spiritual rebirth is then manifested through the lineage so that\n children born of flesh do not inherit the nature and spirit ofsin from\n the dead Adam. This is the reason Christ comes again to the earth.\n He comes to complete salvation (Hebrews 9:28, 1 Peterl:5) and to\n redeem our bodies (Romans 8:2~24). Paul calls this the \"hope\" ofsal-\n vation, that is, our future glory. Therefore, the full context of becom-\n ing \"Christ-like\" is when children can usher forth from the womb, as\n Christ did, without sin.\n In our final chapter we will cover the Second Coming of Christ\n and the extension of salvation from the individual to the family."},{"id":"p-13-120","text":"What is the nature ofthe Messiah fallen man needs? Fallen people do not\n need a Messiah in the fallen parents' position. The Messiah sMuld be as\n unfallen Adam and Eve, one with God's will, receiving God's love and\n God's blessing in the position of True Parents, and able to give rebirth to\n all people. Otherwise, men and women cannot move to a position which\n has nothing to do with sin. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 'The Blessing\n and Ideal Family\""},{"id":"p-13-121","text":"270 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE"}]},{"page":14,"paragraphs":[{"id":"p-14-1","text":"Chapter 12"},{"id":"p-14-2","text":"THE SECOND COMING\n The Extension of Salvation from the\n Individual to the Family"},{"id":"p-14-3","text":"$198"},{"id":"p-14-4","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 271\n\f However, when teaching ministers and Christians, keep in mind\n that virtually every generation of Christians has felt that its time\n was \"the time.\" It is not a hard product to sell. This is the effect of\n Matthew 24. This is especially true as we hover around the year\n 2000. Certainly today, more than any other time, Christians are in\n the \"end time\" mind-set."},{"id":"p-14-5","text":"$199"},{"id":"p-14-6","text":"272 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f one end of the heavens to the other.\n Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get ten-\n der and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so,\n when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.\n I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until\n all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but\n my words will never pass away.\n No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in\n heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of\n Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."},{"id":"p-14-7","text":"$19a"},{"id":"p-14-8","text":"$19b"},{"id":"p-14-9","text":"WIll WILL CllUST COME AGAIf?"},{"id":"p-14-10","text":"$19c"},{"id":"p-14-11","text":"$19d"},{"id":"p-14-12","text":"Simon Peter answered, \"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\"\n Jesus replied, \"Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was rwt\n revealed to you by man, but by my FATllER IN HEAVEN."},{"id":"p-14-13","text":"$19e"},{"id":"p-14-14","text":"276 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f In other words, Christians must do what Israel was unable to\ndo when faced with having to transfer their center of faith from the\nlaw to Jesus. They must transform their faith of expectation of\nChrist's coming into one of recognition of Christ's coming.\n Christians must also be on guard against following the same\nfailed path as the chosen people did 2,000 years ago. The same cir-\ncumstances and the same reasons to do so will be as readily avail-\nable.\n We conclude that our generation is that generation that has\nbeen given the responsibility to unbind the chosen people's failure\nof 2,000 years ago. Thus, Christ will come in our time."},{"id":"p-14-15","text":"HOW WILL CHRIST COME?"},{"id":"p-14-16","text":"Based on what we have already explained, could Christ come\nany other way except born on earth? Adam was born on earth to\naccomplish his mission. Jesus was born on earth to accomplish his\nmission. Jesus was on earth poised at the gate of his primary mis-\nsion. That gate was closed. When Christ comes, he must come to\nthe earth to open that gate.\n That's the short version. Let's delve into the long version."},{"id":"p-14-17","text":"Matthew 24:30\n \"They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of Heaven with\n power and great glory.\""},{"id":"p-14-18","text":"When teaching ministers the Divine Principle this would always\nbe a crucial point in the lecture series. Of course, we, at this point,\nhad journeyed quite a distance. We had come through the jungles\nofthe Garden of Eden, overcoming dangerous serpents, poisonous\nfruits and other unwieldy symbols. We carefully and respectfully\nintroduced many new and, certainly for them, radical ideas along\nour journey through God's providence.\n We have traveled quite a distance aboard our train and although\nwe sustained a bit of damage here and there, all in all, the train\nwas moving forward and no one had jumped off. However, just ahead\nwas an issue that would probably present the biggest challenge of\nthem all: the clouds.\n The idea that Jesus is coming in the clouds is probably the most\ncherished and comforting belief in Christ faith. It is a major article\noffaith. Over the many years of Christian history, literally millions"},{"id":"p-14-19","text":"$19f"},{"id":"p-14-20","text":"WILL CHRIST COME ON 111 UTERAI. CL.s?"},{"id":"p-14-21","text":"$1a0"},{"id":"p-14-22","text":"$1a1"},{"id":"p-14-23","text":"The Clouds"},{"id":"p-14-24","text":"Will Christ come on literal clouds? Well, no he won't, not the\n fluffy ones. Before we explain the meaning of clouds, let's first estab-\n lish that it was predicted that Christ would come in the \"clouds\" at"},{"id":"p-14-25","text":"280 THE BLooD·STAINED VOICE\n\fhis first advent also. Of course, we know that Jesus was born on\nthe earth and did not float down out of the sky."},{"id":"p-14-26","text":"Daniel 7:13-14\n \"In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son\n of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the\n Ancient ofDays and was led into his presence. He was given authority,\n glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every lan-\n guage worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that\n will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed."},{"id":"p-14-27","text":"$1a2"},{"id":"p-14-28","text":"$1a3"},{"id":"p-14-29","text":"282 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f This phenomenon, like at the first coming, will not be perceived\nwith the physical eye:\n Luke 17:20, \"The kingdom of God cometh not with observation.\"\n Jesus scolds the Pharisees for seeking after a sign:"},{"id":"p-14-30","text":"Matthew 12:38-39\n Then some of the Pharisees and teachers ofthe law said to him, \"Teacher,\n we want to see a miraculous sign from you.\" He answered, '~ wicked\n and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign!\""},{"id":"p-14-31","text":"The reason people get so enamored with an obvious cataclysmic\narrival of Christ is that it takes it out of the realm of the responsi-\nbility to recognize Christ. We like the external, obvious validation\nrather than having to rely on the internal tools of faith such as were\nmanifested by Anna, Simeon and Peter."},{"id":"p-14-32","text":"What about Acts 1:11?\n Which also said, Th men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?\n this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come\n in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."},{"id":"p-14-33","text":"On the surface, it seems to be an unequivocal declaration of a\ncelestial return of Christ. Upon closer inspection, however, we find\nother meaning than what is generally assumed.\n The first curiosity is that the angel confronts the men of Galilee\nwho were looking into the sky. He asks, ''Why do you stand there\nlooking in the sky?\" This seems to indicate that he is being critical\nof their efforts. His next statement seems to be a correction, as if to\nsay, \"if you really want to see Jesus come again, you had better be\nlooking in some area other than the sky.\" He tells them, \"This same\nJesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like\nmanner as ye have seen him go into heaven.\"\n Well? Elevator goes up-elevator comes down, right? No. He will\ncome in the same way you have seen him go. How did Jesus go into\nheaven? See John 3:13"},{"id":"p-14-34","text":"\"No one has gone into heaven, except the one who came down from\n heaven, the Son of Man which is in Heaven.\""},{"id":"p-14-35","text":"Jesus wasn't floating in the sky when he said this. He said he\n\"came down from heaven.\" Coming down from heaven doesn't mean\nsky. The \"Son of Man which is in Heaven\" doesn't mean \"sky.\""},{"id":"p-14-36","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 283\n\f Why do you stand there looking into the sky? Jesus is not com-\n ing from the sky. He will come down from heaven in the same way\n as he did before. You will not see it with your physical eyes.\n In fact, the New International Version makes a distinction in\n its rendering of Acts 1:11:"},{"id":"p-14-37","text":"\"Men of Galilee, \"they said, \"why do you stand here looking into the SKY?\n This same JesUs, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come\n back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.»"},{"id":"p-14-38","text":"The first \"heaven\" has been interpreted to be \"sky.\" This is\n because the angel's point, again, is that Jesus is not coming down\n from the sky, but rather, is coming down from \"heaven\" as per John\n 3:13."},{"id":"p-14-39","text":"$1a4"},{"id":"p-14-40","text":"284 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\f The challenge for Christians is to do what the chosen people\ncould not do: translate their faith of expectation of Christ into a\nfaith of recognition of Christ."},{"id":"p-14-41","text":"Christ Wil Be Born on Earth\n Revelation 12:5\n She gave birth to a son, a mak child, who will rule all the nations with\n an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne."},{"id":"p-14-42","text":"Why must Christ be born on the earth? First, the short answer:"},{"id":"p-14-43","text":"• The first Adam was born on earth to establish the Kingdom\n • Jesus, the second Adam, was born on earth to establish the\n Kingdom\n • What is sown on earth is reaped in Heaven\n • The third Adam will be born on the earth to establish the\n Kingdom."},{"id":"p-14-44","text":"If we reflect on the meaning of historical parallels, in order for\n\"the New Jerusalem\" to indemnify the failure of Jerusalem, the peo-\nple of the New Jerusalem must walk the same course as the people\nof the former Jerusalem. In the re-creation of the events, figures\nan circumstances of 2,000 years ago, the key re-creation will be\nth appearance of a Christ who comes in an unanticipated way. This\nwi I require the New Jerusalem to recognize him in the same man-\nne as Peter, Simeon and Anna. This requires an on-earth presence\nof he returned Lord.\n Of that future appearance, Jesus said in Matthew 17:24-25"},{"id":"p-14-45","text":"For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes\n and lights up the sky from one end to the other. But first he must suf-\n fer many things and be rejected by this generation."},{"id":"p-14-46","text":"But first he must suffer? Who will make him suffer? If Jesus\ncomes out of the sky and every eye shall see him, who in their right\nmind would not only reject him but cause him to suffer?\n Many ministers will try to say that when Jesus says (in the 25th\nverse) that first he must suffer and be rejected by this generation,\nhe was predicting his own impending suffering and death. This is\nincorrect. In fact, most credible Bible scholarship records three"},{"id":"p-14-47","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 285\n\f occurrences of Jesus predicting his suffering to come. This is not\n considered one of those three. The reason is because he is clearly\n speaking within the context of the future, second coming of Christ.\n Read from the 20th verse and you will see.\n Again, Jesus stressed that his coming would not be accompanied\n with \"signs to be observed.\" In fact, it is \"an adulterous and wicked\n generation that seeks after a sign.\" Instead, Jesus asks the more per-\n tinent question in Luke 18:8."},{"id":"p-14-48","text":"\"When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?\""},{"id":"p-14-49","text":"He doesn't mean the faith of expectation. There is plenty of that.\n He is referring to the faith of recognition.\n The prospects for a returning Christ to experience suffering as\n Jesus did are set up by the same conditions faced by Jesus in his first\n coming. That is, people today, as then, are looking for a Christ to\n come in a way that will validate their doctrinal expectation. As we\n have already seen, because of the wide diversity of doctrines on this\n issue, no matter in what way Christ actually comes, the majority of\n Christians will ignore him or stand against him.\n Thus Jesus warns, in Matthew 7:21-23:"},{"id":"p-14-50","text":"\"Not everyone woo says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' wiU enter the kingdom\n of heaven, but only he who does the wiU of my Father woo is in\n heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not PROPH-\n ESY in your name, and in your name DRIVE OUT DEMONS and perform\n MANY MIRACLES?' Then f will tell them plainly, 'f never knew you. Away\n from me, you evildoers!'"},{"id":"p-14-51","text":"To whom is Jesus referring? Some ministers will try to tell you\n that Jesus is explaining that you can't be a CINO (Christian In\n Name Only) and enter into Heaven. But notice that Jesus is describ-\n ing a believer of a very active faith. You certainly cannot be a CINO\n and drive out demons! You can't be a CINO and prophesy and per-\n form many miracles!\n Jesus is warning Christians in that age, the faith of expecta-\n tion shaped by doctrinal assertions will not, in of itself, transform\n into a faith of recognition of Christ. Christians who are driving out\n demons, .prophesying and doing many miracles are doing so cen-\n tered on their faith in the Gospel of Christ.\n However, that \"shield of faith\" is \"until\" the coming of the sal-\n vation that is to be revealed at the time it is to be granted. Will"},{"id":"p-14-52","text":"286 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fChristians be able to put aside, \"the glass, darkly,\" in order to take\nup the clear?\n Or will they succumb to the historical tendency ofthe past, reject\nthat completion of salvation and misidentify God's new word as\nnothing more than \"another Gospel''? See for yourself:"},{"id":"p-14-53","text":"You speak withaforked tongue! Why? How do you explain GalcLtian,s\n 1:6.9; which says \".. .Buteven ifwe'oran a1]gel {rQm'Heaven slwuld\n preaeh 'a. gospel other than the .one we preaeheato y.ou, let him be eter-\n nally condemned!\" Rev. B.D., Pentecostal ' , >"},{"id":"p-14-54","text":"Answer:\n What does Paul mean by \"Gospel\"? He daes not mean your par-\nticular dactrine .ofthe Bible. There was nat even a cananized versian\nat that time. Paul had nat even written all his letters, nor had there\nbeen the revelatian ta Jahn. The \"Gospel\" refers ta the fundamental\nkerigmatic message:\n Christ was born sinless, conceived by the warks .ofthe Haly Ghast,\nwas the fulfillment .of the Davidic Cavenant and prophecy, His death\nat Calvary ataned far sin, His resurrectian conquered death, and he\nwill return at the end .of the age ta bring judgment and the King-\ndam.\n The Divine Principle fully affirms the Gospel, but nat every jat\nand tittle .ofeveryane's doctrine which in innumerable ways disagree.\nThe problem is that many Christians take Galatians 1:6-9 as a per-\nsanal sanctian fram Paul for their particular denominatian's doc-\ntrinal perspective."},{"id":"p-14-55","text":"Revelation 22:1~19 warns usthat we slwuld not add or takeaway any·>\n thing {rQm the book of God's word. Doesn't the DivinePriru:iple.Revela·\n tion in fact, add to the word of God in violation .of God's warning?\n Rev. G.C.,AME"},{"id":"p-14-56","text":"Answer:\n The Bible is not \"a baok\"; it is many baaks, 66 baaks. The warn- .\ning .of Revelatian 22:18-19 is referring ta \"the boak\" .of Revelatian.\nThis warning was given, .of caurse, befare any .of the 66 baaks were\ncananized. Ifwe are ta extend the warning .of Revelation 22:18-19\nbeyond the boak .of Revelatian, then we had better stop reading the\nother 65 baoks. Of course, we shauld nat cansider that even far a\nsecand.\n It is interesting that the Pharisees accused Jesus .of being in via-"},{"id":"p-14-57","text":"$1a5"},{"id":"p-14-58","text":"WhJ Does Christ Colle To TIle Eartll Apia?\n The short answer is this is where Adam's undone responsibility\n resides. Adam came to the earth, the second Adam came to the earth\n and the third Adam comes to the earth.\n What was Jesus' primary mission? How would he have set up\n the Kingdom? Jesus would have fulfilled the purpose of creation,\n the three blessings! Consider Father's words:"},{"id":"p-14-59","text":"$1a6"},{"id":"p-14-60","text":"By establishing the spiritual and physical True Family Ideal,\nJesus and his Bride would become the True Parents of all mankind.\nAs, Jesus mentioned he had the authority to forgive sin on earth.\nCentering on True Parents, Jesus and his bride would ''bless\" mar-\nriage and eliminate the consequences of the Original Sin.\n Because this could not be done, Christ returns to complete sal-\nvation:"},{"id":"p-14-61","text":"Romans 8:23\n \"Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit,\n groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemp-\n tion ofour bodies.\""},{"id":"p-14-62","text":"Act 3:21\n He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore every-\n thing, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets."},{"id":"p-14-63","text":"Hebrews 9:28\n So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and\n he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation\n to those who are waiting for him."},{"id":"p-14-64","text":"1 Peter 1:5\n \"Who through faith are shielded with God's power until the coming ofthe\n salvation that is to be revealed in the Last Days.\""},{"id":"p-14-65","text":"As we learned in Christology, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit,\nwe are completely saved to eternal life. Salvation for the individual\nis complete~ However, when a saved husband and a saved wife join\ntogether and conceive a child, that child is born as a descendant of\nthe dead Adam and must be ''born again.\"\n The union between husband and wife has rwt been reconciled to\nGod because Jesus had to go the way of the cross. Thus Christ must"},{"id":"p-14-66","text":"$1a7"},{"id":"p-14-67","text":"$1a8"},{"id":"p-14-68","text":"290 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fsentative on earth. That representative on earth will carry out Jesus'\nprimary mission that was laid down in Gethsemane in sorrow and\ntears. He who takes up that mission, of course, must be able to com-\nmune with Christ in \"the sorrow unto death.\"\n Jesus explains this in his own words. In the Book of Revelation,\nchapters 2 and 3, the spirit of Jesus speaks to John the revelator."},{"id":"p-14-69","text":"1. Revelation 2:7 (Jesus)\n \"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\n To him who overcomes, 1 will give the right to eat from the tree of\n life, which is in the paradise of God.\""},{"id":"p-14-70","text":"Jesus explains to \"him who overcomes\" I will give him the right\nto eat from the tree oflife. This means that Jesus will give a par-\nticular person the right to achieve perfection. This also means grant-\ning \"permission\" for sexual relations. Some might say, at this point,\nthat \"to him who overcomes\" could mean \"whosoever overcomes\"\nand not a specific person chosen. We will see, however, that the ''him\nwho overcomes,\" is, in fact, a specific chosen person of Jesus."},{"id":"p-14-71","text":"2. Revelation 2:17 (Jesus)\n \"I will also give him a white stone with a new name known only to him\n who receives it.\""},{"id":"p-14-72","text":"''White stone\" is a symbol of Christ. 1 Peter 2:4, Jesus is the\n\"Living Stone.\" In 1 Corinthians 10:4 \"and that rock was Christ.\"\nThus Jesus is declaring that he will give \"Christ\" with a \"new name.\"\nJust as Elijah had \"a new name\" Christ in his second coming, will\nhave a new name. This means that Jesus is anointing and sending\nhis chosen person, \"him, who overcomes.\""},{"id":"p-14-73","text":"3. Revelation 2:26-28 (Jesus)\n To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, 1 will give author-\n ity over the nations, 'He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will\n dash them to pieces like potter' -just as 1 have received authority from\n my Father. 1 will also give him the morning star."},{"id":"p-14-74","text":"Here Jesus proclaims that he will give this chosen person his\nauthority. What kind of authority is made clear by the statement:\n\"He will rule them with an iron scepter.\" Iron scepter is from Psalms\n2:9. It is a symbol of Christ's authority. Jesus also affirms that he,\nJesus, would be with \"him.\" \"I will also give him the morning star.\""},{"id":"p-14-75","text":"REVEALING GO~'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 291\n\f The \"morning star\" is Jesus (Revelation 22:16)."},{"id":"p-14-76","text":"4. Revelation 12:5\n \"She brought forth a male child one who is to rule all nations with a rod\n of iron. \""},{"id":"p-14-77","text":"A male child born on earth with an \"iron scepter.\" Where did\n this child get this iron scepter? See Revelation 2:26-28 above. The\n male child born on earth was given the iron scepter from Jesus.\n That means this male child on earth with the authority of Christ is\n not Jesus himself, but is, rather, a person called by Jesus. He has\n been given Jesus' role and authority."},{"id":"p-14-78","text":"5. Revelation 3:12 (Jesus)\n Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never\n again will he leave it. I WILL WRITE ON HIM the name ofmy God and the\n name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down\n out of heaven from my God; and I WILL ALSO WRITE ON HIM MY NEW\n NAME."},{"id":"p-14-79","text":"This is a most amazing scripture. Jesus states that he will write\n on \"him\" my own new name. As we look at Revelation 19:11-16,\n keep in mind that Jesus \"will write\" and this unknown \"him\" will\n be written upon:"},{"id":"p-14-80","text":"I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse,\n whose rider is called Faithful and '1Jue. Wuhjustice hejudges and makes\n war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. HE\n HAS A NAME WRI'ITEN ON HIM THAT NO ONE KNOWS BUT HE HIMSELF.\n He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of\n God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses\n and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a\n sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. \"HE WILL RULE\n THEM WITH AN IRON SCEPI'ER.\" He treads the winepress of the fury of\n the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this\n name written: KING OF KINGS AND WRD OF WRDS."},{"id":"p-14-81","text":"This scripture is thought to be describing the return of Jesus at\n his second coming. Indeed it is, except for one important difference.\n The figure that comes, \"whose eyes are like blazing fire and on his\n head are many crowns,\" has \"a name written on him that no\n one knows but he himself.\" What did Jesus say in Revelation"},{"id":"p-14-82","text":"$1a9"},{"id":"p-14-83","text":"Rev.'1:7says that all eyes s7w1l see:Uesus come;'as He apPea/;s'i~pU! sky\n (cloUds) at His Second Coming. Comment? Rev. K.F., Lutheran ,"},{"id":"p-14-84","text":"Answer:\n But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this gen-\neration. (Luke 17:25) If Christ comes in such an obvious way, who\nwould make Him suffer?\n If Christ comes in a way that does agree with every jot and tittle\nof every doctrinal agenda, it is very clear who would make Him sur\nfer. . . the same who caused His suffering 2,000 years ago. . . the\nvery sheep for whom He comes! \"Every eye will see Him,\" is not declar-"},{"id":"p-14-85","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 293\n\f ing His rrwde of entering the world, it is declaring the ultimate vic-\n tory and acceptance He will achieve."},{"id":"p-14-86","text":"$1aa"},{"id":"p-14-87","text":"~ilE~R~~_~\n Answer:\n Ephesians 2:2 refers to Satan as the ruler of the Kingdom of the\n air. Is Satan in the air? If so, we'd better take the train home. Pray\n about the meaning of \"meeting the Lord in the air.\" Remember also\n what side the literalists fell on at the time of Jesus. . . those who\n were expecting the literal return ofElijah are still waiting for him to\n this day. Let US pray with the seriousness ofAnna the prophetess."},{"id":"p-14-88","text":"294 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fWHERE WILL CHRIST COME?\n For Christians explaining Korea as the \"chosen nation\" is a\ndaunting task. Before we start to explain the reasons why Korea is\nthe chosen nation, it is very important to explain to Christians the\nreasons Christ is not coming back to Israel. For many Christians,\nChrist must come back to Israel in order to fulfill all prophecy of\n\"glory.\"\n Reviewing Jeremiah 18:7-10 is very important here. God tells\nJeremiah \"and if at another time I announce that a nation or king-\ndom is to be built up and planted and if it does evil in my sight and\ndoes not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to\ndo for it.\"\n This statement releases God from an absolute commitment to\nIsrael as the eternal chosen nation. Israel's role is conditional based\nupon the fulfillment of their responsibility. God also says in"},{"id":"p-14-89","text":"Jeremiah 33:20-21\n \"This is what the LORD says: 'Ifyou can break my covenant with the day\n and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer\n come at their appointed time, then my covenant with David my ser-\n vant-and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering\n before me - can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant\n to reign on his throne.'\""},{"id":"p-14-90","text":"Therefore, based on this statement, the sign that God's covenant\nis broken with Israel is if day and night do not come at their\nappointed hour. Now then, see Luke 23:44,"},{"id":"p-14-91","text":"Luke 23:44-45\n It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land\n until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the\n temple was torn in two."},{"id":"p-14-92","text":"This happened as Jesus died on the cross. The day and night did\nnot come at their appointed time. God's covenant with Israel was\nbroken. The \"curse in the law\" was invoked because of their dis-\nobedience (Galatians 3:13). Israel was no longer the \"Chosen nation.\"\nThis is why Jesus declares in Matthew 21:43, ''Therefore, I tell\nyou, the Kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to\nanother nation that can produce the fruit thereof.\" After this,\nin 70 A.D., Israel is destroyed. Remember what God said in"},{"id":"p-14-93","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 295\n\f Deuteronomy 29:24? Israel will be destroyed only if it breaks faith\n with God.\n Jesus also reminds his people that God has the ability to raise\n up a new \"chosen.\""},{"id":"p-14-94","text":"Matthew 3:9\n And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our\n father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for\n Abraham."},{"id":"p-14-95","text":"Thus we see the promise that \"a new heaven and a new earth\"\n would come to Jerusalem is extended to a \"New Jerusalem\" in Rev\n 21:1.\n That \"New Jerusalem\" is Christianity and therefore, the first\n qualification for the new chosen nation is that it must be a Chris-\n tian nation.\n Here is a common question related to this issue:"},{"id":"p-14-96","text":"$1ab"},{"id":"p-14-97","text":"296 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fThey failed in that role, and though, Israel will play an important\npart in God's providence and will all be saved, she will not serve\nagain in the role of the central nation. This is similar to the pass-\ning of Elijah's role to John the Baptist. The role of Israel is passed\nto another nation."},{"id":"p-14-98","text":"$1ac"},{"id":"p-14-99","text":"$1ad"},{"id":"p-14-100","text":"$1ae"},{"id":"p-14-101","text":"$1af"},{"id":"p-14-102","text":"$1b0"},{"id":"p-14-103","text":"$1b1"},{"id":"p-14-104","text":"302 THE BLOOD-STAINED VOICE\n\fHow could this be Moon?\n He shook my hand and introduced himself. He asked, \"Tell me,\nKevin, which church are you a member of?\n I smile and say, \"Reverend, I'm a member of the Unification\nChurch.\"\n He gave me that glazed look, \"Uh, well,. . . is this. . . is this\n . Moon's teaching?\"\n \"Yes sir, it surely is.\"\n Now, in the 21st century, it is time for the whole world to know."},{"id":"p-14-105","text":"To save the world, the best way is to unite the American clergy and\n denominations and seminaries. On that foundation, we can save the\n world. That is my vision. Reverend Sun Myung Moon"},{"id":"p-14-106","text":"REVEALING GOD'S HEART IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD 303"}]}],"cover":null},"kidsByChapter":{},"related":[{"slug":"100-sermons-outlines-jim-stephens","title":"100 Sermons Outlines - Jim Stephens","author":"Rev. Sun Myung Moon (or see source)","source":"Stephens-100","cover":null,"pageCount":99,"score":13,"why":["by Rev. Sun Myung Moon","sermons"]},{"slug":"430tm","title":"430 Tribal Messiahship National Leadership Conference Slides Presentations - Michael Balcomb - April 12-15, 2016 - Las Vegas, NV USA","author":"Rev. Sun Myung Moon (or see source)","source":"430TM","cover":null,"pageCount":12,"score":13,"why":["by Rev. Sun Myung Moon","sermons"]},{"slug":"lds-dp","title":"A New Revelation for Mormons at Christ's Second Advent: Divine Principle, True Parents & the Completed Testament Age - Bret Aaron Moss","author":"Rev. Sun Myung Moon (or see source)","source":"Lds-DP","cover":null,"pageCount":12,"score":13,"why":["by Rev. 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