01The era of the fourth Adam is that of natural restoration
The significance of the era of the fourth Adam is that we are entering the age of natural restoration. (304-160, 10/10/1999)
The era of restoration through indemnity has been concluded. Therefore, in the new era of the fourth Adam, through your effort, the sphere of freedom and liberation will expand. This sphere will be victorious over the sphere of Adam on the individual level, and transcend the sphere of Adam on the level of the family, tribe and world. (298-224, 01/08/1999)
Now the time has come for your families to become ideal families who serve the True Parents and God directly, and represent the True Parents. You need to become messiahs who have risen above the Old and New Testament Ages and consequently ascended into the Completed Testament Age. You need to form families in the place of the first, second and third Adams, and serve God. This is how everyone will be able to enter heaven directly. Once this happens, we will pass into the era of the Blessing through the liberation of the sphere of the fourth Adam. In that new era, once it arrives, the second generation will be blessed by their parents. (298-224, 01/08/1999)
You cannot fathom how much the universe is rejoicing to see the era of liberation arrive in this physical world. You have no idea how much I am celebrating this day. Every day from the beginning of this year has been filled with festivity. From this day onwards, everything we do will be followed and assisted by heavenly fortune.
Heretofore, human beings have endeavored to follow heavenly fortune, but now, in contrast, we will be followed and helped by such fortune. We have arrived at a point where God and the spirit world can mobilize innumerable ancestors and good spirits to help this world. We are living in an era when we can achieve the realm of liberation and be completely transformed. (298-226, 01/08/1999)
The holy wine must be sprinkled over all nations. Isn’t it true that one is revitalized when given the holy wine? The liberation of the fallen realm will be expedited.
Even all creation needs to receive the holy wine. Then everything would return to the side of God. Therefore, the holy wine should be sprayed across the whole world from an airplane flying overhead, and if not the whole world then at least the major cities, accompanied with prayers. You need to understand how powerful the prayers of the True Parents can be. If they were to ask for a certain nation to be destroyed, it would perish. (298-232, 01/08/1999)
You must become true families, true parents, true spouses and true children. There will be no place in this world where the princes and princesses who have inherited the original lineage and have kept purity can be opposed by Satan. (298-242, 01/08/1999)
God is the First Creator, Adam is the second, and Adam’s children are the third.
After passing through the three stages of formation, growth and completion, we would enter the stage of settlement. When the fourth Adam is established, everyone would inherit the position of Adam’s children and expand their families.
This is all about true love and marching forward, serving God, together with the True Parents. Such is the original principle of creation. The True Parents constitute the central root, stem and bud, and as the branches, you absolutely need them. If you are not connected in this way, you cannot receive sustenance from the roots and you cannot grow. Without nutrients flowing up through the trunk, the tree could not spread out wide. Without the buds, it would be impossible for flowers to bloom. They must absolutely achieve oneness.
God is the First Creator, and Adam is the second. Even Adam and Eve need the third creators, as it is through them that the festival of God’s kingdom can be celebrated in this world. Therefore, the fact that we have entered and settled in the realm of the fourth Adam has great significance for the Unification Church. The world of transition is before us, in which thousands of generations of our descendants to come, born out of the original Blessing, can respect the traditions of their parents, become one, and thereby enter heaven.
On the foundation of absolute faith, love and obedience, you need to become families that are absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging in attending God. Such families will be in the eternal tribe, people, nation, and world, establish God’s kingdom on earth, and create a tradition that would connect them directly to His kingdom in heaven.
Like Adam in the Garden of Eden, everyone on earth would serve God and speak with Him as their Father. It would be the same for fathers, sons, and grandsons. Henceforth, you will all become ancestors. (295-255, 09/08/1998)
02The era of praying in one’s own name
After the proclamation of Gu Gu Jeol (9.9. Day) on September 9, 1999, as of September 14 at quarter past seven in the morning, we have entered the era in which we will pray in our own names instead of in the name of True Parents as we have been doing until now. In this era of cosmic unity and liberation, we are entering the era of freedom and autonomy in the domain of the fourth Adam. (304-154, 10/10/1999)
03The era of creating oneself in the status of the second creator
By inheriting the tradition through becoming one with True Parents, your family becomes the foundation that can govern all nations with the subject tradition and acquires the attributes of a subject partner. As such, your family will enter the realm of the royal family in God’s Kingdom. This pattern forms the basis upon which all nations can be governed with the tradition of the subject partner. The place you would thus enter is heaven, a place not just anyone can enter. Three generations must make the resolution to walk that path. Including grandparents, parents, husband and wife, and children, the number of stages would be four. Seen vertically, there would be three generations. (137-266, 01/03/1986)
What would you need to do to achieve individual perfection?
You can claim the status of the second creator when you perfect your creativity. You would not be able to stand before God, the eternal Subject, as His eternal object partner if you were just standing alone as one of His individual creations. Do you understand? Hence, this is absolutely indispensable if you want to assume the role of a creator. Without fulfilling this condition, people cannot fulfill God’s desire for them to grow to equal status with the Absolute Being, God. For this reason, God had no alternative but to create such a principle. (303-260, 09/09/1999)
Since God’s love is absolute, and also unique, unchanging, and eternal, it is possible to live together forever with Him, participating in and inheriting His absolute love. Thus, we create our characters to resemble Him. As we are His objects of love, if His absolute love were ours, naturally, we would be His absolute object partners. In order to expand this internal standard in the world created to have God’s characteristics, we too must be creators. (221-25, 10/20/1991)
We need to create our environment. With leadership, we need to recreate our object partners. In creating His partner of love, God gives of Himself completely, over and over again; therefore, in the act of re-creation, we should also be willing to give everything, even at the risk of our lives. Once we are ready to do so, object partners will automatically come into being. Isn’t there a principle that the perfect plus automatically engenders the perfect minus? When a perfect plus is formed in nature, the minus naturally comes into existence. (303-260, 09/09/1999)
If you unite with the righteousness of the original love, you can then embody God’s original characteristics, be His representative, and God’s full object partner. When God created His object partners with His original nature, He also endowed them with creativity – that is, absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal creativity. He placed in that partner an absolute creativity based on love. In order to create, one needs the attributes of a subject partner. God thus intends His object partner to resemble Him.
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