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14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.

He took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him,

Do not doubt but believe

Proclamation of Double -Ten Day (Ssang-ship Jeol)

Sun Myung Moon 10 October 1999

1 Corinthians 12 For the body is not one member, but many.

Ephesians 4 For the body is not one member, but many.

Tears On Dry Soil, A Fountain in the Garden

DISCIPLES DESPAIRING JESUS LEAVING

Jesus said: “Do not let your hearts be troubled.

I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And you know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life.

8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?

Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?

ROAD TO EMAUS

14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;

16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther.

29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the

Scriptures to us?”

12 RECORDED INSTANCES OF THE RISENT JESUS

11 in the first 40 days

The other apostles found communities throughout the

Mediterranean as far as spain and India

The final appearance

26 A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said,

“Peace be with you.” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.”

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28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” 29

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”

PAUL’S CONVERSION

The 12 appearance was to Paul - calls himself

“abnormally born”

Paul met the risen Christ, and went on from being a murderer of Christians to founding 14 Churches some argue as many as 20

Paul’s an important character: out of the 27 books in the New Testament, Paul wrote 13.

TRUE FATHER’S DEATH RESURRECTION AND SEARCH

FOR DISCIPLES AFTER THE RESURRECTION

From Death to Life, the risen Lord

True Father’s “Resurrection from Heung Nam”

DISCIPLES CAN FORGIVE

21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23

If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

Christ passes on his own unique Divine power to his

The one thing Jesus could do, unique to his Divinity was to forgive sins

MOONIES CAN BLESS

The one thing True Father could do unique to his

Divinity was to Bless,

Sun Myung Moon - October 10, 2023

Today is Ssang-ship Jeol. It means the unification of heaven’s number 10 and earth’s number 10. Thus, we pray in our own name, right? You pray in your own name, right? I told you about that on September 14,

This means that we emerged from the realm of the fall.

So, you must give the blessing to your own children. …

All blessed families are able to pray in their own names so they must give the blessing to their own children.

Today is Ssang-ship Jeol, which indicates the complete unification of heaven and earth. With absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, we must resolve what God used to hate the utmost. What do we have to do after resolving it? … In order to reach to the realm of the fourth Adam, we must indemnify all the sins independently, and then we must be able to report to

God frequently. Such an era has come.

Therefore, we should pray in our own names from now on. Couples who pray in their own names must give the blessing to their own children. We must be able to bring all three generations together like grandfathers, fathers and elder brothers. If you have your own children, you must give the blessing to your own children first.

If your elder brother has children, you must give the blessing to them, and then give the blessing to your aunts’ children. The giving of the blessing should be done completely and involve all three generations.

When your clan is blessed in that way, it becomes the family of the realm of the fourth Adam and is then able to register to the Kingdom of Heaven.

WHAT CAN KEEP THE FAMILY TOGETHER

1 Corinthians 12

14 For the body is not one member, but many.

15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the

18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

19 And if they were all one member, where were the

20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.

21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for

26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

JESUS THE POWER TO FORGIVE

UNIFICATION THE POWER TO BLESS

The disciples had the responsibility to perfect themselves as disciples, become one with the Father through Christ, and were granted by the power of the holy spirit the ability to do Christlike things. It is an individual matter. Christianity is a religion of God’s wonder in the lives of individuals

Unification Disciples similarly are given the Christlike power to Bless, to bestow onto procreation the birth of

God’s lineage. And so the power to Bless comes from making my own family (not my own self) a

Representative of Christ’s mission.

This is the mission of Tribal Messiahs. Individuals do not become Tribal Messiahs. Couples become Tribal

This is common sense

People will never be moved by someone telling them how great somebody else is. The thing that will make people seek to know True Parents, will be the insatiable determination to find out, how did you become like this. Where did you learn to do what you just did to me.

The Garden of God’s children await Blessing from the fountain of life. You are that.

The tears you shed on your own road to Emaus will erupt into the water of blessing