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By David Stewart, UTS 85
Demian Dunkley, in his recent lecture series, repeats multiple times Mother’s words about ‘one button off’, as in, “the Unification movement has been one button off from the very beginning and that Mother is trying to liberate all of us from this misunderstanding, and also liberate Father who is in the spirit world”.I, like many, I would think, though aware that True Father may have been repentant for many things that happened during his life, did not know he needed liberation, after over 12 years in the spirit world.
ABSENCE OF PROPHECY. (the big missing button)
“Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets”says Amos 3:7, often quoted in Divine Principle (DP) lectures and in the book itself in the first paragraph of the last chapter. We all know the history of dual prophecy before Jesus was born. Then it is “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my father on his throne” (Rev.3:21-22),not “her”!
Great importance is given to the spiritual preparation in Korea for the coming of True Father when discussing his life. Early members were often convinced that True Father was the Messiah through their profound spiritual experiences, and this has continued until this day. Read the testimonies of In-Ju Kim, who when praying saw Jesus’ face become True Father’s, or Mother Ok whom God told that, "He (the Messiah) is in Pyongyang now. He is hiding in a room in Gyeongchang-ri", or Seung-do Ji “God told me I would find the Messiah in five years if I prayed. Now God has led me here.”
We all know the dreams of fellow prisoners Kim Won-Dok and Park Chung-hwa guiding them to follow Father. The latter was told, "That young man is the one you have been looking for since your childhood. He is the Messiah. That man is the one.” As Elder Young Hwi Kim wrote, “almost all of our family members who joined in the early days… received evidence from the spirit world that Father is the Messiah”. (Truth of God’s Providence, p.284)
However, apparently Amos 3:7 is not true in relation to Mother’s claims about her birth and life as the First Coming, free of original sin, the Only Begotten Daughter, as the “central pillar of the providence.” It would seem nobody on earth or the spirit world understood this, that it was totally unrevealed by God.
I know of no prophecies of the coming of the Only Begotten Daughter, the kingdom creator, in Christian history, no revelations that the key to salvation and freeing mankind from sin, would come through a woman. Even Mother’s own mother did not receive this understanding at any point while alive.
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