[368] The Completed Testament Age Is the Age of the Oneness of God and Humankind

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Section 4. The Completed Testament Age Is the Age of the Oneness of God and Humankind

4.1. True children should go through the change of lineage and rebirth

On the path of restoration, we should go up from the age of the servant of ser­vants, through the age of the servant, through the age of the adopted child, to the age of the direct lineage. However, can we complete the course from the age of the servant of servants, through the age of the servant, and the age of the adopted child, and be connected to the age of direct lineage? Connecting to the age of direct lineage cannot be done just like that.

According to the Principle, we are required to go through the foundation of faith and foundation of substance in order to welcome the Messiah. The Mes­siah is the true son of God. The lineage of an adopted son and that of a true son are different. This is why we need a change of lineage. (55-192, 1972.5.9)

Since the Fall was an improper mar­riage in the Garden of Eden, this is now being rectified as the True Parents cre­ate proper marriages. True Parents are clearing away the evil deeds of the false parents, thereby abolishing hell, and giving the Blessing even to hundreds of billions of ancestors in the spirit world. Through the foundation of their descendants’ families on earth, centered on true love, the ancestors in the spirit world and their descendants on earth unite vertically. Furthermore, based on the foundation of such families, the East and the West become connected to each other.

Since humankind has received satan­ic blood, people cannot return to God on their own. So the Messiah must accom­plish absolute restoration of the lineage, renewing the blood line that was defiled by Satan. This transition must be made. This is why the Messiah must surely come. Without his coming, there will be no restoration of lineage. We must restore lineage. (172-53, 1988.1.7)

What do True Parents have to do? They must rectify the wrong lineage that forms the root of the satanic world, turn around the deviated life, and cor­rect the misdirected course of love. The Bible says that those who seek to die will live, and those who seek to live will die. Why is this paradox necessary? It is because the satanic world must die. (169-37, 1987.10.4)

The ideal of loving oneness between God and humankind is their unity in a loving relationship based on the true and great love that God desired as His ideal at the time of creation. If God had fulfilled that ideal, today we would all enter the Kingdom of Heaven just as we are, without having to worry about heaven or hell. (275-54, 1995.10.31)

There were three ages in history: the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age. Among these, what kind of an age was the Old Testament Age? It was the age of redemption of children through sac­rificial offerings. It was a time of prepa­ration for the coming of God’s son. In the New Testament Age, Jesus became the offering for us to receive the par­ents. This is why, in the age of the Sec­ond Coming, we have been preparing to receive the parents by establishing the bride and bridegroom. The reason that I, having the name of the True Parent, have been suffering for forty years as the center of the Completed Testament Age, is to receive God on earth. This will lead to the oneness of God and humankind in love. (227-94, 1992.2.10)

The original relationship between God and humankind is one of parent and child. In the New Testament Age, human beings were God’s adopted chil­dren. But now, since we are in a parent-child relationship, what the son does is what the Father does, and what the Father does is what the son does. They are act­ing together. What belongs to the Father belongs to the son, and what belongs to the son belongs to the Father. The rea­son the Unification Church is fearsome is because it teaches this destined par­ent-child relationship. (31-324, 1970.6.7)

In the Old Testament Age, they sac­rificed material things to pave the way for the coming of the true son. Jesus came as the son and sacrificed himself to pave the way for the coming of the parents. The True Parents come on this level plane, and walk a suffering path in order to invite God in. To what position do they come? To the original, vertical place. Since the original, great principle of heaven and earth was cut off from that point, peace cannot begin as long as that fundamental root is not rectified. This is absolute. (200-55, 1990.2.23)

You should not think of Rev. Moon as being the same as you. What is Rev. Moon’s mission? The Old Testament Age was the age when the things of cre­ation were sacrificed to find the sons and daughters. In the New Testament Age, the sons and daughters were sac­rificed to pave the way for the coming of the parents. What are the parents to do on this earth after they come? They are to pave the way for God to come. The mission of the True Parents is to build a horizontal base, encompassing all the people of the world, for the ver­tical Father. As the horizontal father’s realm of heart unfolds, the vertical Father’s realm of heart will naturally emerge and settle here.

When God reaches the point where He can embrace both vertical and hor­izontal love, He will finally make the transition to the age when He can go beyond the world into the central posi­tion and reorganize the original, ideal authority. Then He will say, “Every­thing is done.” (177-345, 1988.5.22)

The methods for fallen people to go back to God have differed according to the age. In the Old Testament Age, peo­ple could go to God by offering sacrific­es; in the New Testament Age, it was by believing in Jesus, the son of God; and in the Completed Testament Age, people can go to God by attending the True Par­ents. (20-340, 1968.7.20)

In the future, you will not be able to marry your sons and daughters with people of the same nationality. God is looking at three generations. Now, you are as you are, but God wants to bring you into unity after three generations. One of these represents the Old Testa­ment Age. So your marriage represents the Old Testament Age. The New Testa­ment Age and the Completed Testament Age come next.

The tradition will be established by the third generation, who will be born through the marriages of the second generation – your sons and daughters. (146-275, 1986.7.20)

In the Completed Testament Age, True Parents sacrifice in order to bring the vertical God to earth. This is the final task. In relation to human­kind, God is the vertical Father who is centered on true love. True Par­ents are the horizontal parents who are horizontally aligned at a ninety degree angle with the vertical Father, based on true love. Therefore, on the basis of this vertical and horizontal love, God’s love and life finally burst forth. With the blossoming harmony of God and humankind, new blood ties will expand based on the love of True Parents. In this way, the seed of life that began in God’s love and based on the original Principle standard will appear on earth. This is unprecedent­ed in human history. (208-339, 1990.11.21)

Now, we must restore the rights of ownership. Since, in the course of attend­ing God, the things of creation were sac­rificed in the Old Testament Age, the son was sacrificed in the New Testament Age, and the parents were sacrificed in the Completed Testament Age, what has to be done now? You should stand in the position representing the mother and father. The sons and daughters are the New Testament Age, and all things of creation are the Old Testament Age.

Because the Old Testament, New Testament, and Completed Testament ages have all deviated from God’s true love, Satan has become the owner. Now, however, we must indemnify all this and bring everything to the original owner. (208-345, 1990.11.21)

The Completed Testament Age is the age of accomplishment. We will accom­plish as individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, and on the worldwide level. These are linked through God’s love, God’s life, and God’s lineage. This is the tradition of one lineage, one love, and one life.

When this happens, Satan will have to leave. The work of engrafting will remove the connection with the satanic lineage. (226-275, 1992.2.9)

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