A tragic history unfolded because John the Baptist failed to serve Jesus and become one with him.
Quotes about providence of restoration
From the speeches of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han
Do you know that Saul was punished because, after winning the war, he went against God’s instruction to kill all the men? Why do you think He did that?
Moses introduced the God of authority, God of ability, and God of judgment.
Because the archangel’s fall led to Adam and Eve bringing the human world to such ruin, the angelic world is working on God’s behalf to fight against Satan.
The ancestors of faith are thus the ones God sent to reproduce His work on His behalf in a way appropriate for the age and to help the people forge a connection with Him.
When Jacob was pleading with God by the Ford of Jabbok all night with an anxious heart, why did God deal with him so heartlessly by sending an angel to strike him, instead of giving him encouragement and advice?
If Jacob had lost to the angel, the hardships of his past twentyone years would have been in vain. So, Jacob tenaciously held on to the angel.
You could stay up all night with one beloved person.
From the heavenly viewpoint, the Old Testament Age was the age to regain the people, and the New Testament Age was the age to regain the children.
God want ed to take pride in His sons and daugh ters and present and dedicate them to the natural world and even to the world of angels.
Satan treats human beings as ene mies.
God tried to bring people who were not even good enough to become servants in the satanic world and made them ser vants of servants in God’s world. This is Old Testament history.
God has endured greater hardships than this, so how could I not endure this much?
God uses people who have the background and environment to be effective, the ability to adapt, and the strong standards needed to be the center.
You must realize that those who look back and lament even though they still have their own path to walk have already lost everything and are now hoping for unfounded conditions.
You must possess the quality of heart to comfort a sorrowful God and to experience together with Him His painful circumstances in having devoted Himself.
Then, if God wants to save the world, what must God do? He must put sincere devotion into it.
The people of the satanic world have all become Satan’s sons and daughters. God cannot take them away. Hence, God has been gathering those who have lost hope in the satanic world.
God has been moving His providence forward by bringing all humankind together throughout history to take possession of the worldwide stage of evil and bring it to God’s side.
It is because people failed in their responsibilities that they came to receive Satan’s blood.
Those predecessors are needed who, for the sake of followers, can say to God, "Please wait.“
God can give a rope to a fallen man, but He cannot come down to man's fallen state to lift him up directly. Man has to hold on to the rope of religion that God has given him, and he has to do it by exerting himself. That is the heart. How careful that heart is will shorten your distance to God.
Without setting a standard for external values, even God cannot establish an absolute standard of morality. To establish this standard, He appointed prophets and martyrs.
On earth, an absolute standard of morality has not been yet established. Even Jesus could not establish this standard.