Pyeong Hwa Gyeong (144) Book 8. The Reunification of Korea and World Peace CHAPTER 13. World Unity and the Reunification of South and North Korea Will Be Accomplished by True Love
1. Human history is the history of the providence of restoration
The reunification of our country involves more than the mere unification of a territory. It begins with the unity of the human mind and body that were divided against one another as a result of the Fall. Thus the unity of mind and body is the model for the unity of the world that has been divided in two. Furthermore, we need to understand this issue from the perspective of God’s salvation providence. It must be resolved on a providential level.
Human history is the history of the providence of restoration through indemnity, which is purposed to restore the original world that was lost due to the Fall of the first ancestors. Therefore, it is a history of the struggle between good and evil taking place between Satan’s side and God’s side. The goal of God’s side is to realize God’s ideal of creation.
In the background of history, good spirits have always supported the good side, and evil spirits have incited the evil side. The history of division that began through the human Fall has expanded in scope to the levels of family, tribe, people, nation and world. Now it is being manifested as the fight between materialism and theism.
If two thousand years ago the people had accepted Jesus, he would have brought together Judaism and the people of that tradition, and then worked with them to unite the parts of the Levant inhabited by the descendants of Jacob’s twelve tribes.
They would have then propagated Jesus’ teachings throughout the Middle East region and to the Indian sub-continent all the way to the Far East. At the same time, Jesus’ teachings would have won the heart of the Roman Empire and Europe. In this way, Jesus would have realized one united world during his lifetime.
As the center of this new religious and cultural realm, Jesus would have become the King of kings. Tragically, he died on the cross. Rome had already developed its central culture based on Hellenism, an externally oriented humanistic culture centered on the physical body. Christianity, in contrast, was a theistic culture grounded in Hebraism, an internally oriented culture that centered on the mind. It suffered persecution from Rome and its Hellenistic culture for four hundred years.
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