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“Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.” Psalm 2:8
We have to put our life totally into what we are doing. This is what God has done for us. If we do that all things will want to belong to us. In order to own everything with love, give. Give all you have. This is our credo.
SMM, The Will and I, April 1, 1988
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Hello Richard,
Be sure to watch videos of Saturday's Rod of Iron Freedom Festival in Morristown, TN. And be sure to read Hyung Jin Nim's visionary keynote speech. Here are his opening remarks.
Good morning patriots and Freedom loving people made in the image of God!!! We are honored and pleased to have you at the beautiful Kahr arms property celebrating America, the 2nd Amendment and the culture of armed responsible citizenry. I also want to acknowledge the planning committee and all our friends, families and supporters who made this event possible. Every year we are joined with other freedom fighters from around the world who are fighting in their respective countries for a Second Amendment that we enjoy and often take for granted here in the US. If the right to keep and bear arms is a natural right, like our framers stated, then it is a human right and all human beings should have that right of self-defense against tyranny. Representatives from our church communities in Korea, Japan and around the world are here with us today, and tens of thousands of our people around the world are praying for America at this very hour joining us in our live broadcast.
The Rod of Iron Freedom Festival began six years ago in Pennsylvania honoring the day in 1950 that my Father The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who our tradition honors as the returning Jesus, was freed from a North Korean Communist death camp, by US armed forces, where he was imprisoned and scheduled for execution for preaching the Gospel. God sent good men with guns that stopped bad men with guns that led to my father’s freedom which without, myself, my brother or our worldwide church community would not be here today.
(read rest of Pastor Hyung Jin Sean Moon's speech)
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Hyung Jin Nim started his sermon by critiquing the Pre-Tribulation doctrine, which was popularized in the Scofield bible commentary, published in 1909. Seminaries across the United States received funding along with donated Scofield bibles. The doctrine interpreted New Testament scriptures to mean that Christians will be “raptured” away from the earth before the tribulation and return of Christ.
But if you read Matthew 24:37-49 it says that the time of Christ’s return will be like the time of Noah when evil people were swept away as in the flood judgment. Those who remained were Noah and his family who had been judged to be righteous. From this we can learn that the righteous ones who love Christ will remain on earth to work with the returning Lord and the wicked ones will be “swept away.” The PreTribulation teaching makes Christians weak, thinking they have no responsibility during these tumultuous times.
The Roman Empire feared Christians because their courageous faith in Jesus made them hard to control. The first weapon mentioned in the Bible, described in Gen 3:24, as a “flaming sword which turned every way,” was created by God. Satan would prefer that the cherubim would be disarmed, and the garden converted into a “weapon-free zone.”
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The Nashville transgender school shooter wrote about killing white Christians. This male-identifying woman chose to attack at a school which had a gun-free policy. The highest gun crime rates are in cities where there strong gun control laws. Homicides are lowest in the countryside where gun ownership is common. Politicians who demand more gun control should apply the gun-free standard to their own bodyguards. They seem to value protecting the powerful and the high status more than protecting children in America’s schools. The U.S. has more combat veterans than any other nation. They could be hired to protect our children in schools throughout the nation.
John 2:15 describes how Jesus made an assault weapon, a scourge he used to drive the money changers out of the temple. Matthew 26:52 states that those who live by the sword, will die by the sword. That was true about the Roman soldiers and it is true of governments that rule with force. In Luke 22:36 Jesus told his disciples to buy swords, which was against Roman law.
The Covid “plandemic” was organized several years in advance. Governments around the world imposed lockdowns, masking, “vaccine” mandates and censorship of dissident voices who questioned “the science.” One of the inventors of mRNA technology, Dr. Robert Malone, was strongly opposed to imposing an untested mRNA gene therapy on a population that had little risk of death except for the elderly and those with serious health conditions.. Harsh tactics were employed in the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand against unarmed citizens, even for sharing “unapproved opinions” on social media.
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The Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong spoke about the importance of centralizing the ownership of guns. He even gave law enforcement powers to the Red Guard brigades which were composed of teenage gangs who blindly enforced his pronouncements. In Hitler’s Germany the Brown Shirts played a similar role.
Communist/fascist revolutions always end in mass murder. Hitler had Jews killed and stole their assets. Such totalitarian systems, in which the property rights of average citizens are not protected, create the most economic stratification between the ruling class and the “equal,” but subservient citizens. That is why the elites don’t want us to believe that we are kings and priests and why the Cheon Il Guk (Heavenly Nation) constitution bans centralized federal law enforcement.
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Jesus spoke about sacrificial love. The “Jesus Get Us” Superbowl ad implied that God accepts everything about us, ignoring the fact that is it BECAUSE God loves us that He wants us to repent and conform ourselves to Him. Jesus did not go around washing everyone’s feet. He washed the feet of disciples who had repented, whom he knew would undergo the same course of suffering that he would soon undergo on the cross.
In the Kingdom of God, government licensing is not allowed. Such licensing is designed to control different professions and a key reason why the vast majority of medical practitioners complied with irrational orders from government.
Christ’s Kingship line did not come from killing competitors. It was based on Christ going the way of the cross. Psalm 2:8 declares “Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.” Many Christians who think it will be a theocratic dictatorship and welfare state. No, each will have responsibility to defend and protect the ideals of the Kingdom.
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The label, “Right,” refers to those who support small, limited government. Hitler was a socialist who brought absolute, centralized power, centered on the Germanic nation and Aryan race. He was a Leftist, not part of “the Right,” which is a Leftist smear meant to distract people from this fact. The founders of America, who believed in strong limits on government, were on “the Right.”
Totalitarians don’t like comedians who make fun of the elite and the powerful. Government control of acceptable language leads to thought control. In the Kingdom of God, free speech and freedom of religion are God-given rights. We are called to be co-heirs with Christ, ie kings (1 Thessalonian 4:15-17). Every citizen is invited to be part of the Peace Militia, where they can be trained to be effective protectors of their community. Rev 2:26 27 states that “he that overcomes and keeps my works to the end, I will give power over the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron.” The shepherd carries a rod and staff which can be used as weapons to keep away the wolves.
Government welfare encourages unmarried births and fatherless families. Private welfare was able to set standards for recipients, such as cutting off the abuse of alcohol or illegal drugs. There were 10,000 private welfare organizations in New York City in the 19th century. Great Society programs initiated by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the 1960s decimated black families in the decades that followed.
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Gun control laws were intended to prevent minorities from having guns, but now we see a rise of gun ownership among black men and women. We are like the Shaolin monks of Christianity who learned martial arts and trained to control their sexual desire. True Father revealed that the root of sin is the misuse of love. You can see why government Intelligence run sex rings so they can record reputation-destroying videos in order to blackmail leaders into doing their will.
The center of God is real love, not what the popular culture calls “love,” which is often short-term. God cares about what will benefit us in eternity. If you love your wife, you must hate adultery even if you are tempted by other partners. In order to come into His light, each of us should repent.
A world without God has nothing to fight for. Leftists want to keep women unmarried so they will be dependent on government and vote for the leftist Democrat party. Married women vote more like their husbands, and for the values that benefit and respect their families. You can only take your relationships to heaven. Invest in your marriage and in your family. God commands women to respect their husbands and men to love their wives. We train in order to build the Kingdom Culture.
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Highlights of a presentation given by guest speaker Alan Saunders at the Triangle Family Church in Durham, NC on March 3, 2024:
“I have been to 3 (FFWPU) retreats, most recently in Puerto Rico…We are in the age of female leadership. We are going beyond Caucasian males…”
“One leader gave a Sunday Service and spoke about the Exposition of the Divine Principle and gave out DP books. What do you think was Mother’s reaction to that? Do you think she was happy?... She was SO UPSET! She brought all the leaders to Cheongpyeong for a 21 day workshop. The Divine Principle as we know it is not what she wants us to teach right now… What does she want us to teach? (answer from a sister: “The Only Begotten Daughter is one essential message.”) She wants us to focus on the Principle of Creation. She doesn’t want us to go into historical figures... Initially she doesn’t want us to focus on the Fall… Understanding Mother’s life and coming closer to her… There’s a whole paradigm shift going on. She’s changing up everything. Some members and some leaders are accepting this and some are really not.
Drawn from Triangle Family Church sermon on 3.3.24 in Durham, NC.
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