CULT AWARENESS
SUN MYUNG MOON
The following article is the special work and effort of Chey Simonton, one of the leading experts on Christian aberrations on the web.
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Following is a very small portion of Sun Myung Moon's teaching about the Jews/Israel. No wonder he works so happily with the Reconstructionists/Dominionists. They both embrace a Replacement Theology. So, they are not such strange bedfellows after all!
Excerpts from THE DIVINE PRINCIPLE, 1973 Published by the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, the teachings of Sun Myung Moon, the Lord of the Second Advent.
On Circumcision (pg 305-306):
When Moses was going before Pharaoh with God's command, Yahweh (the Lord) appeared on the way sought to kill him. At that time, Moses was spared his life through his wife, Zipporah's circumcision of his son (Ex. 4:24-26). by Moses' having overcome the test through the circumcision, his family survived and consequently the Israelites could come out of Egypt. This also foreshadowed that, even when Jesus would come in the future, God's providence of salvation would not be fulfilled unless the Israelites went through the process of circumcision.
Let us then study what the significance of circumcision is. The first human ancestors, due to the blood relationship with Satan, evidenced the blood of death through the foreskin. Therefore, in order for fallen men to be restored as God's children, they began to circumcise themselves as the condition representing the draining of the blood of death by shedding the blood from the foreskin as the condition of indemnity. The fundamental significance of circumcision is, firstly, the sign of shedding the blood of death; secondly, the sign of restoring male dominion; and thirdly, the sign of promise to restore the position of the children of original nature. There are three kinds of circumcision: the circumcision of the mind (Deut. 10:16); the circumcision of the flesh (Gen. 17:10) and the circumcision of all things (Lev. 19:22-23).
On the Meaning of "Israel" (page 517-519)
Why, then, id Jesus say that the Lord was going to come again to the sons of Israel? In order to elucidate ths question, let us first study what the word "Israel" really means.
Israel is a name meaning "he prevailed" which Jacob received from the angel of the Lord after he had prevailed in wrestling with the angel at the ford of Jabbok, which he did in order to establish Abel's position for the substantial offering (Gen 32:28). Jacob, by succeeding in the substantial offering after thus establishing Abel's position, could lay the family-level foundation for the Messiah. Therefore, his offspring who succeeded this will on that foundation are called "Israel". God's elect, "Israel," thus means the people of God who have triumphed in faith, and does not necessarily mean the lineal descendants of Jacob...
...Therefore, it can be said that Jacob's descendants had been the chosen people of Israel at the time of their departure from Egypt, but there were no long "Israel" when they rebelled against God in the wilderness, and led into Canaan only their descendants who followed Moses, as the real Israel. Of the descendants who went into the land of Canaan, those of the Northern Kingdom, which consisted of the ten tribes that rebelled against God, perished because it was no longer the chosen nation of Israel; only the Southern Kingdom of Judah, which consisted of the two tribes which followed God's will, could, as the true chosen people of Israel, receive Jesus. Nevertheless, these Jewish people, too, completely lost their qualification as the chosen people when they crucified Jesus.
Who, then, would be the chosen people of Israel after Jesus' death on the cross? They are the devout Christians who, taking up the faith of Abraham, have succeeded to the mission which his lineal descendants have failed to carry out. Therefore, the Bible clarified that the center of God's providence of restoration has been shifted from the Israelites to the Gentiles (Acts 15:46), by saying, "Through their (the Jews) trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous." (Rom 11:11). Therefore, we may understand that the chosen people of Israel, who are to establish the foundation for the Messiah of the Second Advent, are not the lineal descendants of Abraham, but the devout Christians who have taken the faith of Abraham.
Korea will become the Third Israel (pages 520-521)
...we may know that Christ will be born in a country in the East--that is, from the rising of the sun--and place a seal on the foreheads of the hundred and forty-four thousand, the first chosen among the people of the land, with his named and his Father's name (Rev.14:1) Therefore, we see that the nation which would take over God's heritage and produce the fruits for the second advent of the Lord is in the East. Then, which of the many nations of the East will be the very nation?
THAT NATION OF THE EAST IS KOREA
Now we know, as previously elucidated, that Christ would not come again among the lineal descendants of Abraham, but to the nation that would take their heritage and produce the fruits of it; that the nation which which would produce the fruits should be one of the Eastern nations....
....Therefore, the nation of the East where Christ will come again would be none other than Korea. Now, let us prove, from several viewpoints based on the Principle, that Korea should be the nation that can receive the Lord of the Second Advent. The nation where the Messiah will come must meet the following condition.
In order for Korea to become the nation that can receive the Messiah, she must lay the nationwide 40 day foundation for the separation from Satan for the cosmic restoration of Canaan.
What, then are the grounds for the Korean people to lay this foundation? If the Lord should come again, in Korea, the Korean people will become the "Third Israel, "God's elect. Abraham's lineal descendants, who had been persecuted in Egypt while serving God's will in the Old Testament Age, were the "First Israel", while the Christians, who, branded as heretics by the First Israel, having taken over the the providence of restoration while serving the resurrected Jesus, where the Second Israel. Meanwhile, we have already learned through previous statements that the Lord will be branded as a heretic, even by the Christians, the "Second Israel," just as it is prophesied in Luke 17:25 that the Lord must first suffer many things even at his Second Advent, as in Noah's days. If so, God will have to abandon the Christians when they persecute the Lord of the Second Advent, just as He abandoned the Jewish people who refused Jesus (Matt. 7:23). Then, the Korean people, who are to accomplish the third providence of God by serving the Lord of the Second Advent, will become the Third Israel, the chosen nation.
THE CAUSE OF THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGE AND THE NECESSITY OF UNIFICATION
(final paragraph of the book, page 536)
Nothing could be more miserable than the fact that we, was the same offspring from the same parents, having the common feelings of joy and anger, cannot share them with one another because of the difference in languages which express them. Therefore, in order that the ideal world of one great family, under the Lord of the Second Advent as the True Parent, might be realized, all the languages must necessarily be unified. Since the language was confused due to the tower of Babel exalting the will of Satan, the languages of all nations must now be unified, according to the principle of restoration by indemnity, centering on the Heavenly tower, and exalt the will of God. In this way, the whole of mankind will become one people, speaking one language, thus establishing one world of one culture.