Jesus said these words, and that's why I put the color of the text in red. It is also interesting to hear the retort of those who heard Jesus' words, "We are the offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, "You will become free?" Bearing in mind that Israel was, at that time, until the dominion of Rome!

My point in writing this is that we need the truth to set us free. The one who said these words, Jesus, is an 'individual truth body in image' of God. Jesus did exhort people to 'believe in him' (Jn6:29; 12:44 etc) but, since they didn't, Jesus had to explain things figuratively using parables.

The 2nd Advent currently carries with it the expectation that we will be suddenly (in the twinkling of an eye) saved from Satan and all the detritus resulting from the Fall. Also there are many who think that we will be taken into the sky to meet with the Lord; thus leaving this earth behind.

However, the most important thing that the 2nd Advent of Christ will bring is re-birth such that 'we the people' are completely separated from the lineage of the Fall - and connected with the lineage of God through the True Parents (which A & E should have become if they had taken God's commandment, not to eat the fruit, seriously); and the 'new truth' - speaking plainly of the Father (God), as Jesus promised in Jn16:25.

Because Jesus comes again to give re-birth, that is both physical as well as spiritual, it should become obvious that the Christ has to come again (as Jesus did) by being born on the earth. Jesus in giving the keys of heaven to Peter did say that what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and what is loosed on earth will be loosed in heaven. This implies that we will have to build heaven ourselves with alignment to the truth that is brought by the Christ. It does say directly, in the Bible, that Christ will come with a new name, does it not?

It should be evident that we have spiritual re-birth only, from Jesus and the Holy Spirit, as Christian parents still (to this day) give birth to children who need to be 'saved'. Incontrovertible evidence that restoration from the Fall has not been completed. A & E were, after all, born sinless, right? If they had kept God's word, thus not falling, they would have become true parents instead of the false parents of the Fall that they actually became. They introduced sin into this world and gave 'bad blood' to all humankind. Thus 'we the people' became children of the devil, separated from God, giving rise to a dysfunction world characterized by poverty, hunger, disease, conflict, war and loss of freedom.

My purpose in writing this is to engender a new expectation of the 2nd Advent. Christians today seem to believe in magic which they call miracles such as meeting the Lord in the air and in thinking that everything can suddenly be made good 'in the twinkling of an eye'. This is in spite of the fact that the 2nd coming of Elijah, according to Jesus no less, actually took place with a different person, with a different name. JtB clouded the issue further by denying that he was the Elijah, in contradiction to Jesus, thus implying that Jesus was an imposter. If there was no Elijah (Mal4:5) then Jesus could not possibly be the Messiah. Incontrovertible logic. 

Since the 2nd Advent will necessarily have to be born on the earth then he will have a hard time being accepted (exactly as Jesus experienced) by the Christians who are playing the role of the 2nd 'chosen people'. Then all the warnings that Jesus gave to the Christians of the Last Days start to make sense - Lk17:25; 18:8; Mt7:21-23. And, in addition, since satan is the ruler of this world, and god of this world, (Jn12:31; 2Cor4:4) the 2nd Advent, born on this earth will have a very 'bad press'. Anyone listening to, and absorbing, this 'news' will have a very hard time to accept the real Messiah.
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We, for sure, need the new truth that has been brought by the 2nd Advent. There is hard evidence that the 2nd Advent must've occurred already between 1917 and 1930. Why not check it out and draw up your own shortlist of those who could've possibly been the personage of the 2nd Advent. The 'new truth' will enable the belief system of present day Christianity to be raised up to become that of a God-centered World View, or Ideology, that can stand on an equal footing with the godless ideology of communism, or the new world order.

Here is another point to consider: since it was mankind (1st human ancestors - A & E) who invited satan in; it is 'we the people' - who're descendants of those 1st human ancestors (not God) who must invite satan out again. Again in line with, 'what you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; what you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven’.

Since the 1st 'chosen people' still don't get that Jesus is the real Messiah, I strongly suspect that Church Christians (with their hierarchical structures) will be among the very last to connect with the 2nd Advent. Hope not, But, Hey!

If Christianity (even though the church Christians don't make it straightaway) can connect with the 'new truth' then Communism, aka New World Order, will be overcome through an ideological war. After all, the NWO is using 'silent weapons for a quiet war'. right now. 'We the People' need to be equipped with God's word (silent weapon - 'Rod of Iron') for our time, to win this final war. 

Jesus said, "believe in me" since he is the substantial image of God. We too need to become 'word made flesh' by following Christ - and, especially, Christ at his 2nd advent. In this way - the truth will set you free! Praise God ! ! !

Andrew & Marie Derricutt

Bullet Point 7 (of 12): God will save us from Satan – misses the mark. Since we, mankind, (first human ancestors) invited Satan in, it is ‘we the people’, not God, who will need to invite Satan out. This is a fundamental understanding that we need to fully engage with; and take charge of, and completely fulfill, our (human) portion of responsibility in complete alignment with God.

The Principles of Restoration - exacting, and thorough - have been used by God consistently, as recorded in the Bible, since the terrible event of the Fall of Man until the 2nd Advent of Christ. Without understanding this we’re going to miss the mark ourselves and not understand the purpose and value of our second stage of life right now. (Exposition of the Divine Principle (EotDP) part 2 ‘Introduction to Restoration’)
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The providence of restoration refers to God’s work to restore human beings to our original, unfallen state so that we may fulfill the purpose of creation. Human beings fell from the top of the growth stage and have been held under Satan’s dominion ever since. To restore human beings, God works to cut off Satan’s influence. We must have the original sin removed before we can sever Satan’s bonds and be restored to the state before the Fall. This is possible only when we are born anew through the Messiah, the True Parent. To explain further: we first need to go through a course to separate Satan from ourselves. We do this in order to restore ourselves in form to the spiritual level which Adam and Eve had reached before the Fall — the top of the growth stage. On this foundation, we are to receive the Messiah and be reborn, and thereby be fully restored to the original state of human beings before the Fall. Finally, by following the Messiah, we should continue our growth to maturity where we can fulfill the purpose of creation. 

Since the providence of restoration is God’s work of re-creation, which has as its goal the fulfillment of the purpose of creation, God works this providence in accordance with His Principle. In the course of the providence of restoration, this principle is called the Principle of Restoration. 

The record of how this providence of restoration has been accomplished is recorded in the Bible and can be verified by looking at EotDP part 2, chapter 1, which elucidates this. This will open a new aspect of your Bible which you may have missed before in the stories surrounding Adam’s, Noah’s and Abraham’s families. We do need to understand the Heart of God when He worked with past prophets and saints, the original purpose for which God called them, and the details of the providential missions with which He entrusted them.

Yet there is no one among fallen humanity who can become such an historical victor by his efforts alone. For this reason, we must understand all these things through Christ at the Second Advent, who comes to fulfill the providence of restoration. Moreover, when we believe in him, become one with him, and attend him in his work, we can stand in the position of having fulfilled horizontally with him the vertical indemnity conditions in the history of the providence of restoration.

The path which all past saints walked as they strove to fulfill God’s providential Will is the very path we must walk again today. Beyond that, we must continue on to the end of the path, even walking trails they left untrodden. Therefore, fallen people can never find the path that leads to life without understanding the particulars of the providence of restoration. Herein lies the reason why we must study the Principle of Restoration (EotDP part 2) in detail.

With that in mind, here’s an invitation to a Spring Seminar, March 18-20, at the beautiful Mountain Retreat in W. Virginia, USA. “Mission of the Messiah” and “True Parents in the Completed Testament Age” among the topics. Attend in person, or on-line. Looking forward to seeing you there. Let’s get real about God!

Andrew & Marie Derricutt

​Bullet Point 2 (of 12): Jesus came to die - completely misses the mark. The following is from “The New Future of Christianity” a public speech (to 25,000) by Rev. Sun Myung Moon 1974 September 18th in Madison Square Garden, New York, USA. It is logical, and references the same Bible that present day Christians use, but reveals a wholly different picture. Jesus came for nothing less than establishing the kingdom of heaven on earth but was, sadly, rejected by the then chosen people. 

Just like the fake election in the USA of 2020, things will never get better unless this wrong is put right. The terrible mistake has to be acknowledged first of all, together with a vow to never make this level of mistake ever again. ‘We the people’ need to rehabilitate our relationship with God and invite Him back to the very center of who we are as a people, by becoming as Jesus advised in Matt.5:48.

There is one historical puzzle that has not been solved. 

For 4,000 years before the coming of Jesus Christ, God had prepared the people for the Messiah. Through His prophets, God had forewarned the people to be ready for the Messiah. God was working to build up expectation, and there was indeed great messianic fervor in Israel. And at the appointed hour, God fulfilled His promise. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, came to his own people on time. 

Then what happened? History is the witness. We did not know him. We rejected him, rebelled against him and finally crucified him on the cross. Why? 

The Christian churches say, "Well, the answer to that question is, simply, God sent Jesus Christ to die on the cross. The crucifixion was the predestined will of God from the beginning." 

​Then let me ask those Christians, "What will you do when Jesus Christ returns to you today?" All Christians undoubtedly will answer, "We will receive him! Welcome him! Unite with him! Follow him!" Let me further ask, "Will you crucify Christ when he appears?" Your answer must be, "No!" 

If that is so, then what about the people of 2,000 years ago? If they had accepted Jesus - as you would today - would they still have had to crucify him? No! It was a mistake! It was in ignorance that we crucified Jesus Christ. 

It was God's will that His people accept the Messiah. But we crucified him instead. And then Christians "passed the buck" by saying that was the will of God. Ridiculous! This is not acceptable to our logic. Something must have gone terribly wrong. What was it? 

The people did not know who Jesus of Nazareth was. They did not know him as the Son of God. If they had clearly known Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God, they would not have crucified him. 

He came to his own home, and his own people received him not. (John 1:11) None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. (1 Cor. 2:8) 

If they had only known who he was, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. It was a mistake. It was ignorance and blindness that killed Jesus Christ!  

Invitation to a Worldview Spring-cleaning seminar March 18th - 20th at the beautiful Mountain Retreat in W. Virginia, USA. “Mission of the Messiah” and “True Parents in the Completed Testament Age” among the topics. Attend in person, or on-line. Looking forward to seeing you there. Let’s get real about God!

Andrew & Marie Derricutt​

Bullet Point 6 (of 12) God can do anything He likes misses the mark, as it doesn't make sense of why God did not intervene in the Fall of Man. Or why this dysfunctional world characterized by conflict, poverty, ignorance, war and disease has endured so long and has come to be accepted as ‘normal’.

The failure to understand the fundamental purpose behind the Creation and the relationship that mankind was originally supposed to enjoy with God has led to this inadequate assertion by present day Christianity. This series of 12 bullet points is evidence that Christianity is in urgent need of an overhaul so that it can become vibrant and relevant in these Last Days..

Here are some insights (CSG pp315,316) about True Love from Rev. Moon:

Love is something that even God cannot fulfill alone. Love can only be attained on the basis of a relationship with another. Where does love begin? It does not begin from oneself; it grows and develops through having a partner. 

Where is the root of true love kept? Even though God is all-knowing and all-powerful, the root of love is not kept within Him. Although the omniscient and omnipotent God is the central figure of true love, He does not want to keep the root of love within Himself. God wants love to take root in the person who is to be the object of love.
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Love is something you cannot fulfill if you are centered on yourself. Love does not begin from oneself; it begins and is later fulfilled through one’s partner in love. Therefore love cannot be fulfilled without a counterpart.

The core of the universe is human beings, and the core of human beings is life. The root of life is love, and the root of love is God, but this love cannot be realized by someone all alone. You need a relationship with a partner to realize love. As God is the origin of love, the only beings qualified to be partners in that love are human beings. 

What kind of beings did God create us to be? We were created to be the object partners of God’s love, to have His absolute and unique value. He created man and woman to enter with Him into a partnership of love, thereby endowing them with greater value than that of even the whole universe. Human beings are born from love and raised with love, and they live in love until they die in love. But it is not as if they just disappear. Since the subject of love, God, is eternal, unchanging and unique, when we stand in front of such a God, as the object partner of His love, we have eternal life. 

Understanding these fundamental things leads us to understand that the family (centered upon God) is the smallest unit of the kingdom of heaven and, furthermore, is the ‘school of love’. These qualities are expressed in the Peace Messages that were given by Rev. Moon and his family from the 1990s and the first decade of the new millennium. Without this understanding we will undoubtedly have a skewed picture of God, our Heavenly Father. I hope you can see how Christianity needs to be raised up to a new level of a God Centered Ideology rather than that of a vague belief. The 2nd Advent spells the end of religion after all.

With this in mind I would like to invite you to a 3 day seminar at a mountain retreat, from March 18th - 20th, in W Virginia, USA, or attend on-line. “Mission of the Messiah” and “True Parents in the Completed Testament Age” are among the topics. Looking forward to seeing you there. Let’s spring-clean our worldview and get real about God!

Andrew and Marie Derricutt

Bullet Point 9 (of 12): God is on His throne of glory misses the mark when God is actually a God of sorrow and bitter grief.

Satan became the father of the first ancestors of fallen humankind. They received Satan’s love and life, and thus the history of their restoration has been so difficult. Why did God, whom Christians have always understood to be almighty and all-knowing, not intervene in the Fall, rather than just standing powerless? It appeared as though He had died. God cannot liberate human beings until they themselves establish the conditions for their liberation, because it was they who committed sin. If God had been able to liberate Adam and Eve at the outset, He would not have driven them out from the Garden of Eden. If He could have done as He pleased, He would not have expelled them. But He had no recourse but to send them away. (CSG p135)

In the Bible the grief of God is inferred, the only real reference to it being the terse statement in Gen.6:6 that - And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. (NKJV)
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If God truly is a God of grief and yet we believe Him to be aloof on His throne of glory then we are really missing something important. If God is truly our Heavenly Father then we should share His pain and sorrow and use this to spur us on to rid this world of the false god, and false ruler. (Jn.12:31; 2Cor.4:4)

Rev. Moon has revealed this situation of God that we have been ignorant of: You should know how miserable and bitterly painful God’s situation is. God can say, “If I had not made humanity, they would not have become the way they are. How could this happen when I was searching for love and longing for the glorious Kingdom of Heaven!” How could this happen? 

It was because they inherited the devil’s flesh and blood. The devil’s love was implanted, along with the roots of his life and lineage. God could not possess humanity without removing these things, but if He did remove them they would die. Therefore, God had to set up a substitute as a second creation or medium of salvation through an infusion of new blood, life, and love. God should love the enemy. He has to be patient with and love His enemy. (CSG p137)

When parents believe in their beloved children but are betrayed by them, there is no describing the shock, distress, and misery those parents experience based on that trust. When people betray, reject and mistrust those who have loved them with their lives, it causes unspeakable misery. You cannot understand unless you experience that struggle and suffering yourself. It cannot be understood merely by words. This is evident in the affairs of the world. Then how did God become as miserable as He is? God is not a nebulous God but a tangible God. Human beings should enjoy the highest relationship with God. God’s joy was to begin by finding a starting point from which He could begin a journey in happiness with human beings, heading toward infinity and eternity. But God lost the basis upon which to begin, due to the Fall. (CSG p138)

If God were sitting on a glorious throne as the all-knowing and almighty God, as traditional Christianity believes today, and if He were to see His children dying, would He remain there and say, “Come up here, for I cannot leave my seat”? Or, would He rather abandon His throne and come down? What do you think? Will He just stay there or will He come down? Is He going to cast away His crown and jump down from His throne? Think about it. (CSG pp139,140)

​This is an aspect of God that is not engaged with by present day Christianity. Evidence that a major overhaul is in order. With that in mind, an invitation to a seminar March 18-20 in West Virginia, USA, or attend on-line. Let’s do some spring cleaning on our current worldview! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Let us reason together.
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Andrew & Marie Derricutt

Bullet Point 10 (of 12): ‘Mankind has freewill’ misses the mark because it doesn’t go far enough. As everyone knows, freewill is necessary for love to exist at all. But, because of the very purpose of the creation of mankind by God, in His image, mankind has a portion of responsibility that even God cannot interfere with, or intervene in. 

This is connected to the fundamental reason why God did not intervene in the Fall of Man (EotDP P1 C2 S6) even though He knew that it was taking place. This quality that belongs to mankind alone out of all of the creation also makes it clear why the restoration from the terrible event of the Fall of Man has taken such an enormous length of time and, moreover, had to be carried out in an exacting way according to principles every bit as absolute as the Principles of Creation.
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What is the meaning of true freedom? In light of the Principle, three characteristics of freedom stand out. First, there is no freedom outside the Principle. Freedom requires both free will and the free actions pursuant to that will. The former and the latter have the relationship of internal nature and external form, and perfect freedom is achieved when they are in harmony. Therefore, there cannot be any free action without free will, nor can free will be complete without free actions to accompany it. Free actions are generated by free will, and free will is an expression of the mind. Since the mind of an original, sinless person cannot operate outside of God’s Word, that is, the Principle, it will never express free will or generate free action apart from the Principle. Undoubtedly, the freedom of a true person never deviates from the Principle. 

Second, there is no freedom without responsibility. Human beings, created according to the Principle, can reach perfection only by fulfilling their responsibility based on their free will. Accordingly, a person pursuing the purpose of creation as prompted by his free will ceaselessly strives to carry out his portion of responsibility.
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Third, there is no freedom without accomplishment. When human beings exercise freedom and carry out their responsibility, they strive to accomplish results which complete the purpose of creation and bring joy to God. Free will ceaselessly pursues concrete results through free actions.

To summarize, freedom cannot exist outside the Principle. Freedom is accompanied by the responsibility laid out in the Principle, and freedom pursues accomplishments that bring joy to God. Free actions generated by free will bring about only good results. Therefore, it cannot be that freedom caused the human Fall. Rather, the human Fall was caused by the stronger power of unprincipled love, which overwhelmed the freedom of the original mind. In truth, human beings lost their freedom as a result of the Fall.

Since Eve’s heart and intellect were still immature when she was tempted by the angel, she became confused emotionally and intellectually. Although the freedom of her original mind induced in her a sense of foreboding, because the power of the love between her and the angel was stronger, she crossed the boundary and fell.

Conversely, since fallen people can also relate with God in freedom, if they follow the words of truth, form a common base and engage in give and take with Him, then the power of principled love can revive their original nature.

Here is an invitation to a seminar from March 18th - 20th. You can attend in person at a mountain top in West Virginia, or on-line. I look forward to seeing you there. Let's get real about our Awesome God! Let's engage with the God Centered Ideology (not a vague belief) that we need, to identify, and chase out, Satan. Praise God ! ! !

Andrew & Marie Derricutt

Bullet Point 5 (of 12) - God will destroy Satan (misses the mark)

When I first heard the overview of the Exposition of the Divine Principle over a 2 day workshop the thing that most impressed me was that Satan was to be restored back to the original position, rather than destined to be destroyed. This is, of course, a huge difference to the usual understanding that Satan will be destroyed in the Last Days. This gave me a deeper appreciation of God who truly is Absolute and does not need to destroy the things that He made because there was nothing wrong with them. but that 'they' made a wrong choice that was only possible because of the very nature of the purpose for why they were made. Love requires freewill, and there is no way around that.

For something to be 'destroyed' can also mean that the person who made the lifestyle that is against the very core of the creation vows, at a fundamental level, to never even think in a dream of ever doing that again. This kind of 'destruction' I can identify with this and it sits well with an Absolute God who is unequivocally good, all the time.

Since it was Rev. Sun Myung Moon who has revealed this aspect of total restoration to the one of returning mankind to the state before the Fall, I can appreciate him as the one who has revealed a fundamental aspect of truth (aka realty) that was previously misunderstood, ie.: to expect God to destroy Satan. Praise God ! ! !

This new understanding removes the cognitive dissonance that would be caused by believing in an absolute good and powerful God (Who is the origin of the entire Universe, after all; and moreover together with the spiritual counterpart of that called the 'Cosmos') being inactive in removing Satan, and, inactive to the point of many doubting the existence of God at all!

To put it in a nutshell the existence of Satan and this dysfunctional world characterized by poverty, disease, theft, ignorance, strife, tears and bloodshed is because 'we the people' invited Satan in; and it is mankind (not God) who has to invite Satan out again. 

This is why the belief of Christians in the 'rapture' where the 'good' ones will be taken out of this world misses the mark, and has given rise to an otherworldly Christianity that is detached from the world we're actually living in. This is why Christianity is perceived by many, as being weak and irrelevant.

The purpose of these bullet points showing how Christianity is missing the mark is to encourage people of conscience, as well as deep thinking Christians, to realize that a fundamental spring cleaning is in order. If there is just one objection to the present day weak, ineffective and irrelevant Christianity it can be easily brushed off. But here are 12 points with concrete and tangible reasoning revealed by Rev. Moon.

There is evidence too that the 2nd advent already came between (or around) 1917 - 1930. Although people have dismissed this, no one has been able to say exactly why this evidence is faulty. Hmm.

To help with the spring cleaning of 'your' worldview here is an invitation to a seminar from March 18th - 20th. You can attend in person at a mountain top in West Virginia, or on-line. I look forward to seeing you there. Let's get real about our Awesome God! Let's engage with the God Centered Ideology (not a vague belief) that we need to identify and chase out Satan. Praise God ! ! !
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 Andrew and Marie Derricutt