We’re living in the Last Days right now but don’t appreciate that this has happened twice before already. God requires a proper, or appropriate, response from mankind - as Jesus inferred when he said, “But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions, and saying: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; We mourned to you, and you did not lament.’ (Mt11:16,17) And as God also inferred when He said that, “He was sorry that He made mankind on the earth, and it grieved Him to His heart” (Gen6:6); as mankind had frustrated God’s Will by not obeying the commandment, “Do not eat...for in the day you eat of it, you shall die”. Let’s look at previous Last Days as recorded in the Bible and re-assess how we should respond to God today.

Noah’s Day was the Last Days

God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” (Gen 6:13) This indicates that Noah’s day was the Last Days. God wanted to destroy the corrupt, evil world which had been ruled by Satan since the time of the human Fall. He intended once and for all to purge sinful history, biblically reckoned as 1,600 years, by the Flood. In its aftermath, God intended to raise up Noah’s family, who worshipped Him and no other, and resurrect the world of God’s sovereignty upon the foundation of their faith. This is how the time of Noah can be considered the Last Days. Nonetheless, when Ham, the second son of Noah, committed a sinful act which reaffirmed the Fall, Noah’s family could not fulfill its portion of responsibility on behalf of humankind, and the Will of God was frustrated. (Gen 9:22) 

Jesus' Day was the Last Days

God has foreordained the fulfillment of His Will; hence, the goal of the providence of restoration is unchanging and shall be fulfilled without fail. Therefore, even though the providence of restoration was not accomplished through Noah, God called upon other prophets to prepare anew the basis of faith. Upon this foundation, God sent Jesus to vanquish the satanic sovereignty which has held this world in thrall and to establish the God-centered ideal world. Accordingly, Jesus’ day was also the Last Days. This is why Jesus said that he came to bring judgment, (Jn5:22) and why Malachi prophesied of Jesus’ coming: Behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up . . . so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal 4:1) 

Jesus came to restore the original, ideal world. However, when the people of Israel did not believe in him, the human portion of responsibility was left unaccomplished. This meant that the fulfillment of the Will of God had to be prolonged until Christ’s Second Advent. 

The Day of Christ’s 2nd Advent is the Last Days
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When the disbelief of the chosen people led Jesus to go the way of the cross, he could accomplish only spiritual salvation. It remains for him to return and accomplish the goal of the providence of restoration both spiritually and physically and restore the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Hence, the day of the Christ’s Second Advent is also the Last Days. For this reason Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man” (Luke 17:26) and prophesied that many natural calamities would break out at his return. (Matt. 24:7, 29)

What can be learned from this? Could you have taken seriously someone who built a boat on a mountain? Could you have followed Jesus even though John the Baptist denied he was the Elijah (thus negating Mal 4:5) and who didn’t even follow Jesus?
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And if the 2nd Advent comes in the same way that Jesus did (born on the earth) then it won’t be easy to recognize him, right?

Check out Eschatology (doctrine of the Last Days) in the Exposition of the Divine Principle of Sun Myung Moon. (part 1, Chapter 3)

Andrew Derricutt

Imposing picture, right? Yet many Christians neglect to point out that Judah had a sexual relationship with his daughter-in-law. That is quite a big deal. right? The previous blog talking about the root of sin being the premature and misuse of the sexual organs shows that this story is a crucial part of the restoration providence of God. You can read the story in the book of Genesis, chapter 38.

The Fall of Man, amongst other things, resulted in the elder son, Cain, being taken by Satan, whilst the younger son, Abel, was favored by God. With Tamar the positions were reversed in the womb resulting in the second son being born first. It is interesting that a red cord was tied around the wrist of the first son before he was pulled back in the womb by his sibling and thus the position of Cain and Abel was reversed in the womb. The restoration of the womb is an important preparation for the birth of the Messiah (Jesus).

Tamar had to put her life on the line when she did this. The commandment from God in the garden of Eden warned of death from eating of the 'fruit' of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The restoration providence necessarily means that we have to put our life on the line in order to accomplish the Will of God. When Tamar was going to be punished with death when her pregnancy became apparent she didn't say to Judah, "You did this!" But rather she presented the things that Judah had given as a pledge when he had the sexual relationship, with whom he thought was a prostitute, and said that the person to whom these things belonged was the father of her child. This gave judah the possibility to kill her if he so chose, but he recognized that she was more righteous than him and let her live.

Another story which is hard to explain with present day Christian understanding is the story of David taking the wife of his loyal subject Uriah the Hittite and, when he couldn't get Uriah to sleep with his wife, after he had had sexual relationship with her, had him killed. It seems inexplicable that God would bless the union from this relationship with the 2nd son from Bathsheba becoming the most powerful king of Israel. To this day many have heard of King Solomon as Israel was very wealthy and powerful during his reign but, after his death, the kingdom divided into North (Israel) and South (Judah) with the 10 Northern tribes being totally wiped out after 400 years. After the exile of the Israelite people the nation of Israel no longer had a king and were under the dominon of Rome at the time of Jesus.

​When David is seen as the one in the Adam position, Bathsheba in Eve position, with Uriah the Hittite in the Archangel postion this story makes a whole lot of sense when we realise that the root of sin is the premature and misuse of the sexual organ. Then David (Adam) took Bathsheba (Eve) from Uriah the Hittite (Archangel) thereby reversing what took place at the Fall. 

By the way, I strongly feel that Uriah would have given his wife to David, if David had asked him. It was not good of David to conspire Uriah's death and, thus, take Uriah's wife in a covert way. This was the gripe of the prophet Nathan toward David, who was speaking on behalf of God. 

This same kind of story is repeated with Abraham and Sarah before he carried out the significant sacrifices that God asked him to make. Abraham was the father of the Chosen People which makes him central to God's providence of restoration. This is in Genesis chapters 12 and 20. The first sacrifice was a failure as Abraham neglected to cut the birds into two halves. The 2nd sacrifice was the sacrifice of his only son, the means through which God's blessing to Abraham could be fulfilled. In each of these stories, recorded in the Bible, Abraham and Sarah declared that they were brother and sister and Sarah was taken by the Pharoah in Genesis chapter 12 and by King Abimelech in Genesis chapter 20. In both cases the Archangel role was taken by the Pharoah, and the King, who took Sarah but then had to return her to Abraham as his wife together with wealth. This foretells the restoration of the first ancestors when the archangel will have to finally relinquish his position of ruler and 'god' of this world (Jn12:31; 2Cor4:4) at the EndTime.

Understanding the root of sin as simple disobedience does not explain why these stories appear in the Bible. It also portrays God in a completely different light: if a test is made that could result in death if you fail, then the God we believe in is a scary One indeed. Whereas God's commandment, "Do not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall die" reveals a God who cares about us and the commandment is a means of protecting us from engaging in an activity which would result in our death.  Namely the premature and misuse of the sexual organs.

The reason I'm writing about this is because Rev Moon has been accused of sexual misconduct - so how can he be the Lord of the 2nd Advent? Yet in the Exposition of the Divine Principle these important stories recorded in the Bible, which I've just touched upon here, make a lot of sense. The first son from the union of King David and Bathsheba died which, considering how she was someone else's wife that David had killed. (2Sam11&12) seems right. And yet that the 2nd son from this union became the most powerful and blessed by God - doesn't make sense unless we can understand this from the point of view of God's restoration providence, reversing what took place at the Fall of Man.

​Check this out for yourself and you will see that it makes sense. Even though the Messiah comes to bring the truth we (the people) do need to take ownership of this truth. We are supposed to also become the 'Word made Flesh'  by following the Messiah after all. The Lord of the 2nd Advent spells the end of religion (which is part of the restoration providence of God) and the beginning of the realisation of the original ideal of God which is, in essence, one world family of mankind under God through the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. Had Adam and Eve kept God's commandment then they would have become this position. Then, of course, we wouldn't have needed a Messiah. And, we wouldn't be having this conversation!

As ever, looking forward to hearing your comments, critique etc. It may come as a surprise to find the LSA came like a thief in the night. But, time will tell. Right?

Andrew Derricutt

Just to make this abundantly clear that the first ancestors’ mistake was not that they simply disobeyed God, or actually ate a literal fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If we (the people) are unclear about the root of evil then we won’t be able to effectively deal with it. This is, therefore, a fundamental topic, right?

[. . . the root of sin was not that the first human ancestors ate a fruit, but rather that they had an illicit sexual relationship with an angel (symbolized by a serpent). Consequently, they could not multiply God’s good lineage but instead multiplied Satan’s evil lineage. 

There is ample evidence which helps us recognize that the root of human sin stems from sexual immorality. We know that the original sin has been perpetuated through lineal descent from one generation to the next. This is because the root of sin was solidified by a sexual relationship that binds one in ties of blood. Furthermore, those religions which emphasize the need to purge sin regard fornication as a cardinal sin, and they have taught the virtues of chastity and restraint in order to curb it. This is an indication that the root of sin is found in lustful desires. The Israelites performed the rite of circumcision as a condition for sanctification. They qualified themselves as God’s chosen people by draining blood, because the root of sin lies in having taken in through an unchaste act the evil blood which permeates our being. 

Sexual promiscuity is a principal cause of the downfall of numerous heroes, patriots and nations. Even in the most outstanding people, the root of sin—illicit sexual desire—is constantly active in their souls, sometimes without their conscious awareness. We may be able to eradicate all other evils by establishing moral codes through religion, by thoroughly implementing various educational programs, and by reforming the socio-economic systems that foster crime. But no one can prevent the plague of sexual promiscuity, which has become increasingly prevalent as the progress of civilization makes lifestyles more comfortable and indolent. Therefore, the hope of an ideal world is an empty dream as long as this root of all evils has not been eradicated at its source. Christ at his Second Advent must be able to solve this problem once and for all.] excerpt from Exposition of the Divine Principle Part 1 Chapter 2 Section 1

Reasons why an act of disobedience doesn’t satisfactorily explain the Fall of Man which not only separated the first ancestors from God but all their progeny as well.

1. The belief that God made a test, which if not passed would result in death, is a portrayal of a merciless God. If any parents used this primal example as a valid reason to inculcate obedience in their children then these parents would be deemed unfit to be in charge of minors. If there is a belief in a literal fruit we could similarly ask if God, the loving Parent of humanity, would make a fruit that could cause the Fall to look so attractive; and place it where his children could reach it so easily. (furthermore, Jesus said. “Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” How, then, can a food which one eats cause one to fall?)

2.  If the Fall of Man were caused by disobedience then the Law becomes centrally important. It means that in order to be ‘good’ we need to be sure that we are being obedient (obedient to God’s Law). This makes sense because it is a reversal of the Fall if the Fall of Man was truly simply an act of disobedience.

Satan is called the ‘god of this world . . .’ and ‘the ruler of this world’ (2Cor4:4 and Jn12:31) because this world is where the children of God are multiplied and then are supposed to grow to maturity wholly centered upon God (and no  other). Of course this growing to maturity centered upon God is going to be impossible  in a world ruled by Satan. This is why Jesus’ main task was to give re-birth to all of mankind to separate us from the lineage of the fall and connect us to the lineage of God through engrafting with the lineage of the Messiah who would then become the new and true parent of mankind that was originally supposed to have been accomplished by the first ancestors.

​THE FALL OF THE ANGEL AND THE FALL OF HUMAN BEINGS 

It is clear that the serpent who tempted the human beings to fall was an angel, and that this angel became Satan when he sinned and fell. Let us now investigate what kind of sin the angel and the human beings committed. 

THE CRIME OF THE ANGEL 

And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by Him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day; just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Jude 6-7 

From this passage we can infer that the angel fell as a result of an illicit sexual relationship. 

Fornication is a crime which cannot be committed alone. With whom did the angel commit the illicit sexual act in the Garden of Eden? In order to unveil this mystery, let us examine what kind of sin the human beings committed. 

THE CRIME OF THE HUMAN BEINGS 

We read that before they fell, Adam and Eve were both naked, and were not ashamed. Genesis 2: 25. After the Fall, however, they felt ashamed of their nakedness and sewed fig leaves together into aprons to cover their lower parts. Genesis 3: 7. If they had committed a crime by eating some actual fruit from a tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then they certainly would have covered their hands or mouths instead. It is human nature to conceal one’s faults. 

Thus, the act of covering their lower parts shows that these parts, and not their mouths, were the source of their shame. In Job 31:33 it is written, “If I have concealed my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom." Adam concealed his lower parts after the Fall; this indicates that his blemish was in his lower parts. Adam and Eve’s sexual parts were the source of their shame because they were the instruments of their sinful deed. 

In the world before the human Fall, what act would one be willing to carry out even at the clear risk of one’s life? It could be nothing else but the act of love. God’s purpose of creation, described in the blessings “be fruitful and multiply,”(Genesis 1: 28) can be achieved only through love. Accordingly, from the viewpoint of God’s purpose of creation, love should be the most precious and sacred act. But because the sexual act was the very cause of the Fall, people often regard it with shame and even contempt. In conclusion, human beings fell through an act of illicit sexual intercourse. 

THE ILLICIT SEXUAL ACT BETWEEN THE ANGEL AND THE HUMAN BEINGS 

Thus far, we have explained that an angel seduced human beings to fall, and that both the angel and the human beings fell due to illicit sexual love. Human beings and angels are the only spiritual beings in the universe who are capable of having love relationships. We can deduce that the illicit sexual relationship must have involved the angel and human beings. 

Jesus said, “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires.” John 8: 44. Since the Devil is identified as Satan, Revelation 12: 9, we can assert that human beings are descendants of Satan, the “ancient serpent” who tempted human beings. Through what circumstances did humankind become the descendants of the fallen angel, Satan? There was an illicit sexual relationship between the angel and the first ancestors. As the fruit of that relationship, all humanity is of the lineage of Satan. When St. Paul wrote, “we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies,” Romans 8: 23, he was acknowledging that we fallen people stem from the lineage of Satan, not the lineage of God. John the Baptist reproached the people, calling them “a brood of vipers,” Matthew 3:7, that is, children of Satan. Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees, “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?” Matthew 23:33. These verses affirm that we are the offspring of an illicit sexual relationship involving the angel and our first ancestors. This, in fact, lies at the heart of the human Fall.

This explanation reveals a very different God from the one who punishes mankind with death for disobedience. The commandment (do not eat) was to protect mankind from venturing to engage with an act that would cause their death.

Critique and comments welcome

Andrew Derricutt

This appears prominently on every letter sent, the first two being requests to answer the questions online and the third one containing the printed questionaire with the opening statement proclaiming that I have "two ways to respond". This whole thing seems so unAmerican - not something of which the Founding Fathers of America would approve of I'm sure - and yet so in keeping with the new normal that has been thrust on the American people since the stolen election of 2020. (There is strong concrete evidence for this - Dinesh de Souza's documentary "2000 Mules" amongst others)

There are a lot of intrusive questions and I don't feel that I should be mandated to answer them. Since my response is 'requested by law', I wrote 'them' a letter.

Here is my response (required by law) to the American Community Survey that you sent to me.
At first I wasn't even sure that it was legitimate asd it doesn't seem to sit well with the Constitution from the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
I don't think that the intrusive questions that you are asking are relevant, or justified, in light of the open Southern Border of the USA which came into effect since the first day of the current (and very probably illegitimate) current adminstartion (2021 Jan 20th). There have been large numbers coming illegally into America every day since then - and having detailed knowledge about me when nothing is known about the background of these illegals makes no sense at all. You probably know that as a result of this open border policy that the drug 'fentanyl' smuggled across the border has become the number one killer of Americans.
Even Fox News reported that 'Arrest Warrants' are being used by these illegals as identity papers so that they can be ferried all over America. And yet Fox News is silent about Dinesh de Souza's documentary "2000 Mules" that has shown tangible evidence of massive voter fraud in the 2020 USA elections.

It is interesting that your census is called "The American Community Survey" when the open border policy is actually negating the identity of "American Community" and making it instead into an amorphous collection of people who are living, at a fundamental level, outside of the law.As you probably know last year approximately 2 million illegals have come across the border - this is the population of our neighboring state Nebraska!
I am also wondering how many illegals you have given your survey to and what kind of response you have received from them.
For these fundamental reasons I am not going to answer these survey questions and hope that you will understand.
Yours Sincerely: Andrew Derricutt

Maybe it was a mistake to write my name . . .

I'll see how they respond. I was going to send my response by their return envelope but thought better of it as there was a warning -  OFFICIAL BUSINESS Penalty for Private Use $300. 

If you have some good advice of how to deal with this kind of mail I'd appreciate it in the comments.

Hope that your stocking up on items to deal with the coming food shoratages and finding good ways to protect yourselves for the possible dollar crash. Among my current sources of trustworthy news are The Epoch Times and their sister company NTD TV news; Man in America (Seth Holehouse) who posts on YouTube but is on Rise.tv and JRNyquist.blog which has some evidence that "Red Dawn" (movie 2012) is not N Korea but definitely China; who are not making things for Walmart anymore but have changed to a war economy. Check out 'Man in America' (Seth Holehouse's) interview with Jeff Nyquist in "The Final War" - first shown on May 26th.

We bought some chickens March 25th and built a chicken coop from reclaimed wood. Right after that we brought up to date our bathroom which had been neglected for almost 4 years since we moved into our house.

Chickens are such fun to keep - and it's so nice to grow things in our back yard that we can eat. Hope that things are well with you; there is still a bumpy ride ahead. Stay safe and trust in God.

Andrew & Marie Derricutt

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 Adam & Eve 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