A New Content, from 1957 May 26th!

Now that this website has been upgraded there is no upload limit. Having finished putting up the Exposition of the Divine Principle (327 pages) the basic teaching from Rev. Moon which brings out an astonishing, consistent, view of the Bible, as the record of a restoration history that came about due to the Fall of Man. I could resume to put up the early sermons from the 1950s.

The title of the one that I was formatting recently, and creating text to voice for was, "Why Does the Lord Have to Come Back? (15th sermon of Vol. 2) These sermons are speaking exclusively about Jesus. But it is not the Jesus of the 'cross'. It is the Jesus who was striving to bring to realization the Kingdom of Heaven; at the beginning of the Gospels this was Jesus' primary message after all. A lot of people are aware of the fact that Jesus is to come again, because he made it plain that he would. But, not many people would be clear on why, precisely, Jesus has to return - and, why it has taken so long. "I am coming soon", in measured time is around 2,000 years, right?

This sermon, first given more than 60 years ago explains from a practical, realistic viewpoint why the Christ has to come again. Reading this will give a surprising insight into reasons that you may not have considered before. This is why I entitled this blog "A new Content . . .".

​One of my near neighbors, a Christian professor, wrote a Kindle book (around $10) about the huge difference in quality between the Old Testament Age, and the New Testament Age that was opened by Jesus. I was inspired by this and bought the book because the massive change that he's writing about, between the OTA and the NTA, is equally as large between the NTA and the new era initiated by the Second Advent of Christ. I must confess to not having yet finished this book yet but have, at least, made a significant start on it.

Jesus did say that he would no longer speak figuratively, but would speak plainly of the Father (our Heavenly Father, God). Mostly though this is not the focus of Christians' expectations but, instead, the rapture and the new heaven and new earth most certainly is.

Another speech that I uploaded today is also speaking about this topic. It was recommended to me by someone that I'd shared a link to my blog with. This is from the God's Day midnight speech from the last day of 1990, "Unification of My Country". It is similar in content to the public speech, "The New Future of Christianity" but this one is speaking to those who had made a commitment to connect with and follow these controversial teachings. In other words, to the members.

Just to remind you - that Jesus' teaching is no longer considered controversial - but it most surely was 2,000 years ago. My point is, that when Jesus said, in John 16:25, that he would no longer speak in figurative language but plainly when he returns is that it will, for sure, be just as controversial to us as Jesus' message was to the first chosen people of 2,000 years ago. Which is why I was inspired by the idea contained in my near neighbor's book.

In this speech Rev. Moon is saying that two new nations were formed in 1948 and neither by their own power, but were assisted by America which is the nation of the 2nd Israel. These nations were, of course, Israel and Korea (the latter became divided at the 38th parallel). He also explained about the need for a third Israel.

Jesus did warn that it wouldn't be so easy to recognize the Lord of the Second Advent. He was giving this warning to Christians of the Last Days to help prime them to not repeat the mistake of the first chosen people who, "did not know the time of their visitation, . . . who became betrayers and murderers, as Stephen the Martyr described them, in Acts 7.

So, why should it be such a surprise to learn that Christianity failed to recognize the Lord of the Second Coming? Isn't the time that we're living through now a cause for concern, and a prompting to re-evaluate?

This is the purpose of this web-site: to put up content that may appear controversial but which is referenced in the Bible and seems reasonable to our own common sense. St Paul gave good advice when he said, "test all things, and hold fast to what is good. We do have the means to evaluate since we all have a conscience. And, originally, we are made in the image of God.

Please have a look at these two speeches - they can both be read for you, by the way. I'd like to know what you think of them.

Looking forward to hearing from You.

Andrew Derricutt

​Oh! 2 blogs for the price of one: Check out Richard Urban's blog - about Covid . . .