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11/19/2021

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Last week I could finish our 720 houses Home Church area and concluded it with delivering a printout of the previous blog to all those who gave me their name. This had a better chart than the blog, with that which appears in the actual book Exposition of the Divine Principle showing the Parallels of History. Almost 80 people had given me their names.

I was surprised by how few people actually engaged with the evidence that I've been presenting since April when I started. I can recognize that it's not easy to look at things from a totally fresh viewpoint. I think that I was able to as I had rejected the accepted truth more than 40 years ago and was actively looking for something that made sense. So, I guess that the people that I'm trying to engage with, in the area where we're living, also need to feel, at a fundamental level, that the currently accepted truth really doesn't work.

It is tempting to take things literally that are described in the Bible but then they don't always make logical sense. For example, Adam and Eve hid themselves when they heard God's footsteps in the garden in the cool of the day right after the Fall of Man. There is a line in Psalms where it talks of the hills dancing with joy. Jesus came to cast fire on the earth and wished that it was already kindled. As you know, in the book of Malachi, it states that Elijah will come before the great and terrible day of the Lord and yet Jesus (no less) stated - if you can accept it - that John the Baptist was the Elijah. This means that the 2nd coming of Elijah occurred through a different person, with a different name. And, in addition, John the Baptist himself negated this claim and never actually followed Jesus.

So the assertion that I'm making - that the Messiah came already, born on the earth (in 1920), means that all ideas about the 2nd coming of Christ would need to be revised. Also our understanding about God would need to be totally revised too. Yet, it's true to say, if you accept Jesus as Messiah/ Christ that is, that the first chosen people made a terrible mistake (and still refuse to accept that); so why couldn't the 2nd chosen people (Christianity) make a similar terrible mistake? 

If things go wrong in our lives then we are more likely to look more closely at what we're doing and are more open to making changes. The present view of many Christians that the rapture will take place is similar to the mindset of a poor person who does the lottery. In the twinkling of an eye everything can be changed. This is why evidence that the Messiah came already more that 100 years ago doesn't sit well with accepted wisdom. The rapture didn't take place in 1920 for one, and the world is still dysfunctional and full of conflict for another.

But those who actually win the lottery usually end up more broke than before they won because they have no preparation in their mind to deal with the seemingly unlimited wealth. In the same way, we need to first rehabilitate our lost relationship with God to make the foundation for true wealth that will never go away.

How many Christians think that God was truly sorrowful at the Fall of Man and has been living in sorrow ever since? How many Christians realize, or think about, how shameful the birth of Jesus was since he was born in a stable? Someone amongst the chosen people should have prepared for the Messiah's coming but yet foreigners did that - the three 'kings' - who travelled a long way and brought gifts. Neither did the chosen people, or Jesus' disciples, carry Jesus' cross, that was done by a foreigner too - Simon of Cyrene.
The rapture and associated way of thinking puts mankind in the ballpark of pets of God. We look after our pets and receive love from them for doing that, but it's a different quality of love than that we can receive from fellow humans. We clean out their living environment from time to time and change the water for our fishes, or replace and renew the place where they do their poop. Is this how we think God regards us? God, after all, is considered to be all-powerful, all-knowing, eternal and absolute.

If we're made in the image of God who is a creator then we must also have the qualities of a creator. This, in fact, sets us apart from the rest of creation. Even the most intelligent animals don't adorn themselves with clothes and jewelry. Jesus being the actual embodiment of truth tried to get the people to believe in him but, since they didn't, he had to couch the truth in figurative language. This has given rise to many church denominations. Also the re-birth that Jesus and the Holy Spirit give cannot be passed on to the children of re-born parents. This should give a clue as to the main purpose of the Messiah's coming. To embody (own) the truth and to give full re-birth.

The 'Fall of Man' story in the Bible shows that the mistake of mankind enabled satan to become the false god, false ruler, of this world. Therefore it makes sense that God cannot drive out satan for us; for to do so would devalue our original position in front of God.. To put it another way, since we (mankind) invited satan in, we (mankind) must drive satan out. We can do this by uniting with and emulating the Messiah who, essentially, is the True Adam. To establish the Messiah (true Adam) is God's responsibility, but to believe in, and connect with, the Messiah is mankind's responsibility.

This may seem to be a novel interpretation and seems to fly in the face of an all powerful God and yet there are clues in the Bible that God cannot force compliance from Mankind. For example God spoke with Cain shortly after the first sacrifices when Abel's was accepted but Cain's was rejected:  Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” (Gen. 4:6,7 NIV) This speaks of taking personal responsibility, right?

The human portion of responsibility is not given much room in usual Christian thought. But, consider this, if Love is the main purpose of creation and freedom is required in order for Love to exist, then the responsibility that is generated from the choices that are made are a by-product inescapable from that. The quality of Love for both God and mankind must then be necessarily the same for the creation of mankind to have real meaning for God. Otherwise we are God's pets, rather than God's children.

What is taking place throughout the world right now and, especially, in the USA is like a wake up call for us to start to think for ourselves. I am very grateful to hear the Trial for the right to self defence (trial of Kyle Rittenhaus) has resulted in the verdict of 'not guilty' on all counts. This is a sign that 'we the people' are waking up. Satan is being exposed and the apparatus for control and forced compliance is being dismantled. These are clear signs of mankind entering a new era. The era opened by the LSA (Lord of 2nd Advent) is as different from the preceding era as the New Testament era was from the Old Testament era which preceded that. Understanding this new era, formally called 'Era of 4th Adam' by the 2nd advent is in line with the personal taking of responsibility by people on the side of God everywhere. This is why Jesus taught the seeming paradox of those who want to keep their life will lose it, but those who are willing to lose their life will keep it.

Where to look, for the evidence that the 2nd Advent occurred already, is in the previous blog.

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To close: here is an invitation to a workshop next weekend from Richard and Stacey Urban.

Thanking You &, as ever, looking forward to hearing from You!       Andrew & Marie Derricutt

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Andrew Derricutt link
11/21/2021 10:47:38

To take the Bible literally seems to be a safe bet as you're not putting any spin on it at all. That's what I meant by saying that it's tempting to read the Bible that way. That said I believe the Bible has only one fundamental interpretation and we do need to connect with God in order to really understand that.

I think it will also be clear which understanding is right once it is found as then seemingly contradictory passages in the Bible will be seen to be fundamentally the same thing but looked at from different angles.

This is why I like the explanation given in the Exposition of the Divine Principle because it not only unlocks hidden aspects that are already there but it presents a clear understanding of the purpose of God's Creation and re-creation, and our part in that. The Bible then becomes a much more interesting and meaningful book (books) once we can understand it in that way.

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Robert Herring
11/21/2021 16:15:14

Thanks for this letter, Andrew. My response will be short simply because I'm tired and I have to get up early. Where I live there's a church I often visit and I have a pretty good relationship with the pastor and his wife. I cannot say I've been successful witnessing to Christians. But what I do is meet the pastor after the service and try to spoon feed him small bites of Divine Principle. When you mentioned Elijah it reminded me of this. So, I gave him the example of Elijah and John the Baptist. And I pointed to one of the verses where Jesus said he will return with a new name. The pastor admitted that's food for thought. I didn't press him any further except to say that the Second Coming will take place in the same manner as the First Coming.
Gotta go now. This is a good post from you. I will read it again.

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    I came to Christ through the Lord at His Second Coming. I have been connected with what some would regard as a ‘New Age cult’ for more than 40 years. I want, through this website, to share what I’ve come to understand, and show that it stands up to scrutiny, and criticism.

    Until quite recently I had regarded Christians as the enemy of the Lord of the Second Advent! But then, through Rev. Moon’s successor, Hyung Jin Moon, after his ‘Breaking the Silence’ (2015 January) where he emphasized the Bible (KJV) and spoke almost exclusively of Jesus, grace and faith I decided to connect with a Christian church (Belmont Church in Harrow, London, UK) to find out about these aspects of faith and grace which I had no idea about.

    My strength was the words of truth, as I saw it, that were contained in the ‘Exposition of the Divine Principle’. This is the basic teaching of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon that, for me, made sense of the Bible.

    That Hyung Jin Moon (aka Sean Moon) has since become irrelevant is regrettable but should not become a stumbling block. The 8 Great Sacred Texts (available on the Resources page) constitute the New Age Truth that we need to connect with (from the Lord of the Second Coming) and, I believe, these are absolute.

    So began a journey that opened up the teaching of Rev Moon to an understanding where I came to realize that I am a Christian, Jesus IS the Messiah (as opposed to was the Messiah) and a complete reappraisal of this teaching which is what I want to share through this means.

    OK; there are abridged explanations and sudden conclusions already but I will deal with those if you write to me; let us reason together - and test all things and hold fast to what is good! Also a lot of these can be overcome by reading, "The Exposition of the Divine Principle".

    Thanks for engaging with this and I hope to hear from you so that we can share together as brothers and sisters in Christ and arrive at an understanding of the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven that is more to do with 1 Corinthians 3:16 than John 3:16 Thank You for visiting this website.

    Let us reason together . . .

    Andrew Derricutt

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