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Restoration in the Old Testament

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Because Adam and Eve fell, the Principle of Creation was left unfulfilled.

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Ever since the Fall, God has been working to restore man and woman to their true state.

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This is called the dispensation of restoration. In this chapter, we will examine God's foundational work in the history of restoration.

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Since God began His work through the chosen people of Israel, the history of the Old Testament forms the record of the dispensation of restoration from Adam to Jesus.

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God's original plan for Adam and Eve involved their successfully establishing two foundations:

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The Foundation of Faith and the Foundation of Substance as qualifications for God to bless them in marriage:

• By faithfully obeying God's commandment not to eat of the fruit" for a certain period during their growing period, Adam and Eve would have established an unshakable Foundation of Faith.

• By uniting their hearts and bodies with God's heart and word, Adam and Eve would have reached the Perfection Stage and substantiated themselves as mature children of God, thus qualifying themselves for His marriage blessing.

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We call this process of incarnating God's heart and word the Foundation of Substance. The archangel would have willingly submitted to them as the embodiment of divine love and channel of God's favor.

• Then Adam and Eve would have qualified themselves to receive God's blessing in marriage. Because of the Fall, the Foundation of Faith and the Foundation of Substance were both lost. The restoration process involves paying restitution to reestablish these foundations.

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• Adam and Eve lost faith in God's word and fell to a position lower than that of creation. (Jer. 17:9) To establish the Foundation of Faith, people representing Adam needed to make offerings and to keep faith in God's word for a certain period.

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• Adam was unable to become an embodiment of divine love, and the archangel was unable to submit to him as the channel of God's favor. The archangel's motivation for the Fall is passed on to all people as fallen nature.

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To establish a Foundation of Substance, the person in Adam's position must win the heart of the person in the archangel's position, and that person must make a condition to overcome fallen nature and receive God's favor through the person in Adam's position.

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• Adam and Eve did not receive God's blessing in marriage. The establishment of the Foundation of Faith and Substance together constitutes the Foundation for the Messiah.

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Once this was established by the Israelites, Jesus could come as the new Adam and open the way for God to bless people in marriage.

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Understanding this process provides a key to unravel the mysterious way in which God has worked with mankind in the Bible and throughout history.

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It also gives us a guideline that each of us can use in our own personal restoration process. Each one of us, in our way, is destined to walk the path of restoration.

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    Members Who Will Live in God's FamilySermon · 27 Sep 1959 · ¶ 48…chose many prophets and spoke through them. God has been connecting with human beings this way until now. In the Old Testament, God worked through angels. In the New Testament, God worked through His Son.
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    Let Us Love Heaven and Become PatriotsSermon · 1 Mar 1959 · ¶ 101Even when we look at the 4,000 years of Old Testament history, and the 2,000 years of Christian history since Jesus, we find that numerous people have followed…
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    Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World ChristianitySermon · 22 May 1963 · ¶ 33The period through Jacob's family established the moral responsibility of a servant. Then, the Old Testament period built the foundation for the adopted-son position. Jesus came as the Messiah, the Son who can receive…
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    Restoration And BlessingSermon · 2 Feb 1969 · ¶ 73…represent the three archangels in the spirit world, and Cain in the three major providential periods is, in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Completed Testament periods, Cain in Adam's family, Cain at Jesus' time, and Cain at the…
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    Man, The Starting Point Of Hope - The Path For Our FamilySermon · 28 Aug 1971 · ¶ 86…we must do the opposite. It means we must come upside-down, trying to find something. For that reason, the Old Testament era was the era of offerings. This is the age where you sacrifice all things.
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    Creation And Building Of The Kingdom Of HeavenSermon · 1 Jan 1986 · ¶ 92The reason the things of creation were sacrificed in the Old Testament was to find God's sons and daughters. In the Nev. Testament sons and daughters were sacrificed for the…
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    Unification of the World and Responsibility of HumanityOther · ¶ 35In the record of the Old Testament, history was a course of indemnification of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life.…
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    God's Day 1991 - MidnightSermon · 1 Jan 1991 · ¶ 7…nation, must accomplish unification. This is our imminent goal. The creation was the central aspect of the Old Testament Era, the children in the New Testament Era, and the Parents in the Completed Testament Era. Until now, God owned…
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    Founder, Interreligious and International Federation for World PeaceSermon · 27 May 2001 · ¶ 80…after Jesus. It is the time of fulfillment for the Completed Testament Age, in which the promises of the Old and New Testaments are fulfilled and the Kingdom of Heaven is brought into reality on Earth and in Heaven by…
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    True God's Day Midnight Prayer and SpeechSermon · 1 Jan 2001 · ¶ 18…to the year 3000, we greet the liberated world of the new millennium, having liberated the sorrows of the Old Testament, New Testament, and Completed Testament ages. No one knew how sorrowful God had been until we announced the…
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    Understanding The 120 City World Tour And BlessingBook chapter · ¶ 13The Lord of the Second Advent comes and first has to deny all things of the world and then restore all the Old Testament and New Testament ages. All the people of the spirit world were wondering how to fulfill God's will. Through…
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    Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Release from Prison in North Korea and the Ceremony for the Liberation of the Spirit WorldSermon · 14 Oct 2000 · ¶ 68…to find a nation, but had to wait until the time of the Second Coming. To indemnify all the failures of the Old Testament, New Testament, and Completed Testament ages, your families must stand on the front line to find a nation…
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    Declaration of the Era of Family KingshipSermon · 27 Oct 2000 · ¶ 70It is the age of the settlement of the family. The Old Testament hoped to attend to God as the Parent and as the King, as the King of the cosmos. However, the chosen people…
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    Who Was I?Sermon · 13 Feb 1994 · ¶ 208No dictionary has those words, only Reverend Moon's dictionary. They only have some understanding of the Old and New Testaments, but the Father is proclaiming the Completed Testament Age, which nobody knows anything…
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    True Parents And The Creation Of The Ideal FamilySermon · 15 Feb 1994 · ¶ 90The Old Testament became a necessary process of healing because of the Fall of Man. When Jesus Christ came proclaiming a new…
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    The Parents of Heaven and Earth and the Unified WorldSermon · 27 Nov 1994 · ¶ 32…of the Second Advent coming on the clouds in the form of Jesus himself, not as a physical being. Since in the Old Testamentreceived time they failed to believe in Jesus' advent, to re-indemnify this failure, the Christians must…
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    Total Calculation Or Accounting Of God's Historical ProvidenceSermon · 25 Dec 1994 · ¶ 207Now Father is drawing the size of the Old Testament age [Father draws on the board]. At the end of the Old Testament era, Jesus Christ appeared and was supposed…
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    Perfection Of The True Self And Safe Settlement Of The FamilySermon · 5 Mar 1995 · ¶ 195…this unification themselves. God and True Parents can and will do it. This will bring the contents of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Completed Testament onto a linear, horizontal grounding.
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    The Age Of Great Victory In The History Of God's ProvidenceSermon · 23 Apr 1995 · ¶ 39When we talk about the history of God's providence, we are talking about the entire history from the Old Testament to the New Testament and even the Completed Testament.
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    The True Foundation Day For The Nation Of The Unified WorldSermon · 3 Oct 1995 · ¶ 246The Old Testament, New Testament, and Completed Testament must unite. That is God's secret and Satan's secret. That is how to…
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    We Have To Restore The Original SeedSermon · 10 Dec 1995 · ¶ 268…Jesus, standing on that national base, saved that country, creating an absolute nation. Therefore, all those Old Testament believers should have followed him. Judaism equaled plus, while the nation of Israel equaled minus.
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    Personal Salvation and Collective SalvationSermon · 1 May 1997 · ¶ 36I set the indemnity condition and restored 4000 years of human history in 40 years. The Old Testament era, which was the first Israel and the first Messiah era, and the New Testament era, which is the second…
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    On The Occasion Of Arriving From Korea After 70 Days Away From AmericaSermon · 4 Apr 1998 · ¶ 7We talk about the Old Testament, New Testament, and Completed Testament.
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    The Fruit of the BlessingsSermon · 12 Apr 1998 · ¶ 7The Old Testament was the Dark Ages repenting after the Fall. Then the New Testament age came, but it failed to bring the…
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    God is the Owner of All Beings and Historical EventsSermon · 26 May 1998 · ¶ 105…and Completed Testament are attached behind me. We as human beings do it. I am the one to complete the Old Testament, New Testament, and Completed Testament and heaven and earth.
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    Original Adam's HomeSermon · 14 Jun 1998 · ¶ 34On the Old Testament level, God did not make blessed couples. The engagement (matching) time is the New Testament level. Jesus…
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    Can I Take Responsibility?Sermon · 14 Nov 1999 · ¶ 151…But because of the fall, we first have to offer all things, then the children, and then the parents, as Old Testament, New Testament, and Completed Testament offerings. After the blessing, the couple is in the Completed…
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    America and God’s WillBook chapter · ¶ 37…religions must unite in America and reach out to unite the religions of the world. Judaism, centered on the Old Testament, was the first work of God and is the eldest brother.
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    The Status of Korea, Japan, and the United States from the Providential ViewpointBook chapter · ¶ 33The Old Testament prepared the people to receive a human Messiah. Those who sent Jesus to the cross and those who later denied…
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    The Indemnity Condition For Receiving The BlessingOther · ¶ 139It is correlative to the Old Testament period's providence. By entering here, one goes to welcomes the New Testament period's Messiah. 7-day training correlated to the…
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    Restoration Of The Family Through Three Spiritual ChildrenOther · ¶ 23And if I do not save the worldwide Cain. I cannot enter heaven. To connect Cain of three ages, that is, the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament ages, it is absolutely necessary. In the representative positions,…
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    The Emergence Of CommunismOther · ¶ 1There is a story in the Old Testament history about Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Judah. What kind of woman was Tamar?
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    Spiritual Battle to Prepare the Way for True ParentsBook chapter · ¶ 160And the Old Testament Age spiritual group,p, bent on the restoration of Eden, should have followed the New Testament Age group that…
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    Biblical Clues to The History Of RestorationOther · ¶ 59This means that the general pattern of restoration in the Old Testament Age will be repeated to a marked degree in the New Testament Age inaugurated by the advent of Jesus Christ.
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    Heavenly TraditionSermon · 20 Jan 1973 · ¶ 101In the Old Testament, we read that the personage of historical importance would transfer his blessing to the next personage.…
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    Christmas In HeartSermon · 25 Dec 1973 · ¶ 28Today, we must know clearly. The people couldn't accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah because of the Old Testament. It is ironic, but the word of God, recorded in the Old Testament, was the primary obstacle in the ministry…
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    Let Us Turn This Historical Moment Into a Great VictorySermon · 8 Sep 1974 · ¶ 4However, all these segments are joined into one. Therefore, we have the Old Testament era, and that was succeeded by the New Testament era. Now we are living in a new era, the Completed Testament.…
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    Sun Myung Moon's words on The World Rally for Korean Freedom (Yeouido)Address · 7 Jun 1975 · ¶ 36In the Old Testament, the nine-foot Goliath stood stately with a spear in his hand. Before him was the boy David with a stone in…
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    The Turning Point of HistorySermon · 1 Dec 1975 · ¶ 10…historical turning point, heaven has always fought centering upon three stages or generations, representing the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Completed Testament, or the formation, growth, and perfection stages. Abraham,…
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    The Responsibility of Cain and AbelSermon · 1 Nov 1976 · ¶ 94…His secrets in the latter days. Everyone who came to foretell the future lived an abnormal life; people in the Old Testament hardly ever believed the prophets God sent and persecuted them without exception.

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Kim, Y. O. (n.d.). Restoration in the Old Testament [Book chapter]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/restoration-in-the-old-testament

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Kim, Young Oon. “Restoration in the Old Testament.” True Parents Legacy Archive, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/restoration-in-the-old-testament.

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Kim, Young Oon. “Restoration in the Old Testament.” Book chapter, n.d. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/restoration-in-the-old-testament.

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  author = {Young Oon Kim},
  title = {Restoration in the Old Testament},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
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Text byYoung Oon Kim, Professor of religion at Ewha University in Seoul, South Korea. Theologian of the Unification Church. Professor of Systematic Theology a…
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