A Whole New Level

The 2nd Advent will bring a whole new level of awareness regarding our relationship with God, our Heavenly Father. The new age that will be ushered in by the 2nd Advent will be as different and revolutionary with respect to the New Testament Age as the New Testament Age was shocking and revolutionary to the adherents of the Old Testament Age. 

I was writing about 7 bullet points where I feel that Christianity has seriously missed the point and intended to write about each one. But then I realized that present day Christianity has no clue or concept of the God of grief that resulted from the Fall; thinking that God is aloof from all the craziness of this fallen world while He sits on a throne of glory. If we are created by God, 'Just because He could', as asserted by the James River Church here is Springfield then that would probably be so. I think that this view is not exclusive to this church.

Present day Christians are of the opinion that Jesus came to die for our sins. He was the perfect sacrifice to end all the sacrifices of the Old Testament Age. But, in order for Jesus to be executed, the then chosen people had to disbelieve in Jesus as the Messiah. This is a 'cognitive dissonance' that lies at the heart of present day Christianity. Jesus prayer (The Lord's Prayer) doesn't talk about this. It says, "Our Father, who is in Heaven, Your Name is exalted! Your KIngdom come! Your Will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. . ." So, was it really God's Will that Jesus be disbelieved so that he could be executed and become the perfect sacrifice?

Just as Christians can't seem to relate with the God of grief, revealed by Rev. Moon, so also they don't relate with the idea that human beings must necessarily have a portion of responsibility with which even God cannot interfere with or intervene in. Why is this? Because we are made in the image of God. If God were to interfere with the fulfillment of mankind's portion of responsibility it would mean that we would never be able to fulfill the original purpose of Creation - but would be forever crippled, and, furthermore, because God intervened in something that was initiated by Satan, would mean that Satan would be a co-creator of some new principle that could then never be undone.

This is a significant difference to the concept of freewill. People generally seem to grasp that humanity must have that. It is implied in the Bible after all. But that God cannot interfere with, or intervene in, humankind’s portion of responsibility takes this to another level. This explains why God could not intervene in the Fall of Man even though He knew that it was taking place. The ‘commandment’ that God gave was  more than enough to negate (diffuse) the temptation from Satan had the first human ancestors taken it seriously. The give and take relationship would have been easily broken by holding on to that commandment (Gen2:17) and satan’s sales talk would have been easily stopped by reminding satan of God’s word. For example, Jesus didn’t reason with Satan when he was tempted in the wilderness, but used God’s Words as recorded in the Book of Deuteronomy to counter each one.

So, what is the original relationship that mankind was supposed to have with God. The commonly held view that Jesus is God contains a clue toward understanding that. Love is the greatest thing out of all that could be named. It is of greater value than life. St. Paul writing of Love in his first letter to the people of Corinth stated that love was of more value than faith or hope. You could suppose that God could manufacture or produce love all by Himself but it is not so. Love requires a reciprocal partner, at least 'one other'. Rev. Moon revealed that God creating mankind, in His image, was in order to create this 'one other'. Mankind with the myriad of unique characters in the image of God was to be this 'one other' as an object partner in Love for God. This is why the purpose of Creation is best summed up by 1 Corinthians 3:16 which says, "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you?" Jesus was, simply, the first person to actually accomplish this - therefore he could say, "If you've seen me you have seen God. Jesus was the substantial manifestation of God and the relationship that God had with Jesus was similar to that between mind and body.

This is why Jesus advised us to, "Become perfect as Heavenly Father is perfect." (Matt5:48) And why he also, seemingly perplexingly stated, that we would do better things than he had done. (John 14:12)

So, these two things are new. That God is a God of sorrow and grief because of the Fall of Man. And that humankind has a portion of responsibility with which even God cannot interfere with, or intervene in. This makes sense of why God seems to not exist - because He does not interfere in our portion of responsibility and the history of restoration has been very long indeed because of this. 

The time is counted in generations from Adam to Noah and it seems that only ten of those generations (which were meaningful) were recorded. There is no record, for example, of Adam interacting with others in those 10 generations, even though Adam lived to 930 years. Similarly from Noah to Abraham, where a generation lasted only 40 years (not 160 as before the flood) the 10 generations are counted as 400 years. So, even though the time from Adam to Abraham was 2,000 Biblical years, in actual measured time this was probably 100s of thousands of years, or more.

Resurrection means the process through which a fallen person is restored to the original state as intended by God. The providence of resurrection thus means the providence of restoration. Since the providence of restoration is God’s work of re-creation, resurrection is a work of re-creation. Thus, the providence of resurrection is carried out in accordance with the Principle of Creation, in the following manner.

First, in the history of the providence of resurrection, many of those who were entrusted with a mission exerted themselves with utmost sincerity and faith to realize the Will of Heaven. Even though they may not have fully carried out their responsibilities, based on their devotion, they broadened the foundation upon which subsequent generations can form a relationship of heart with God. We call this foundation the merit of the age in the providence of restoration. The merit of the age has increased in proportion to the foundation of heart laid by the prophets, sages and righteous people who came before us. Therefore, resurrection is carried out based on the merit of the age.

Second, according to the Principle of Creation, it was God’s responsibility to create human beings and give them His Word, while it was the human portion of responsibility to reach perfection by believing in and living according to it. Similarly, in conducting the providence of resurrection, God’s responsibility is to give us His Word and guidance, and our responsibility is to believe and practice it in order to fulfill the providence.

Third, according to the Principle of Creation, a person’s spirit can grow to perfection only through the physical self. Likewise, in the providence of resurrection, the resurrection of a spirit can be achieved only through earthly life.

Fourth, according to the Principle of Creation, a person is meant to reach perfection through the three ordered stages of the growing period. Therefore, the providence of resurrection for fallen people is also to be completed through three ordered stages, manifested as three ages in the providence of restoration.

​Understanding about the human portion of responsibility will make it plain why Jesus needed a response from the people. But there was no one who truly believed in Jesus while he was alive on the earth. It was only after Jesus' death and resurrection when the gift of the Holy Spirit came that the followers of Jesus started to realize who he truly was.

​Jesus compared the people of his time to those in the market place who didn't dance when a tune was played, and didn't weep when a dirge was played. He also stated that the Chosen People did not know the time of their visitation. When asked by two disciples what they should be doing to do the will of God. Jesus replied that they should believe in him whom He had sent. It was clear that the then Chosen people were supposed to believe in, and follow, Jesus as the long awaited Messiah. The fact that their history since Jesus' death on the cross has been miserable, to say the least, does seem to indicate that they (the then Chosen People) did not accomplish God's Will.

We're in the time of the 2nd Advent and there are indications that it is likely the 2nd Advent will occur in the same way as Jesus did - born on the Earth. (new name . . .) That would give rise to the 2nd Advent being likely to first suffer and be rejected as Jesus indicted in Luke 17:25. And for the more scary warning in Matt, 7:21-23, right?

Hoping that Christianity can be raised up to a new level where they will be equipped with the God centered ideology that can more than match the godless ideology of communism. Christianity was astonishingly easily brushed aside during the plandemic.

​Let me know what you think using the 'Contact me' facility. We should be able to reason together. 

​Andrew and Marie Derricutt