1) The Realization of God's Ideal through the Feast of the Lamb

As you know, God planned to realize His kingdom on earth from the beginning. In other words, God tried to fulfill His will through Adam and Eve. If Adam and Eve faithfully had obeyed God, they would have become perfect, and God would have had them marry, forming the first family on earth. This family would have been the cornerstone of the Heavenly Kingdom on earth. Adam and Eve were to become the True Father and True Mother of all humanity. The Garden of Eden symbolizes heaven on earth. The world then would have become a world returning joy to God.

However, Adam and Eve failed, leaving the ideal of God unfulfilled. God had planned to realize the original heaven and tried to complete a world of joy. Therefore, 4,000 years later, God tried to restore a nation on earth through another, perfected Adam. Jesus Christ was this perfected Adam.

In 1 Corinthians 15 there is a verse which mentions Jesus as the later Adam or the second Adam. Jesus came two thousand years ago as the perfected Adam to fulfill the mission of the first Adam, who failed.

The restoration of Adam alone does not bring about the Kingdom of Heaven. A bride-in other words, a woman-is necessary. Therefore, another Eve was selected. God sent Jesus Christ, who came as the perfected Adam to restore his own bride as the perfected Eve. Their family would have restored the family of the first Adam, forfeited in the Garden of Eden.

Because of rejection by the chosen people, the perfection of the second Adam and Eve was not realized. However, since the Will of God does not change, God promised the second coming of Christ.

Since the death of Jesus Christ, approximately 2,000 years have passed. Already, God is preparing to send His son as the third Adam.

In the course of history, God fulfilled His goals by guiding humankind through three stages. Three is the number of completion. Finally this time, God will hold the marriage of the lamb in order to Bless the perfected Adam and Eve. Then God will form the foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, fulfilling the goal which He kept over the long historical period.

The Book of Revelation prophesies this culmination point. This is the "Marriage Feast of the Lamb." The Lord at the Second Advent is indeed the Lamb and the perfected Adam. The Lord will come as the perfected Adam and will restore the perfected Eve. Then Adam and Eve will become the first parents of humankind and God's joy will be completely fulfilled.

"The Feast of the Lamb" means that God Blesses one person who is perfected as the subject of love, life and ideal and in the position of the original ancestor created 6,000 years ago. He will inaugurate parenthood. This is to place that person in the position of the ancestor of goodness before all humankind.

When the invisible God, who is the Parent of humankind, and the incarnate God are united for the bearing of sons and daughters, a substantial human being with eternal spirit is born. When spirit and substance unite into one to bear sons and daughters, they are born with a spirit that has eternal life.

They are sons and daughters who can call "Father" both spiritually and substantially. In the Last Days, we must unify, horizontally and vertically, centering on the eternal life, love and ideal, that which God, Adam and Eve could not. When the incorporeal God and the substantial true parents become one where the spirit and body of the individual and the harmony of the universe are established, they can restore the name of children. Through that we can have the position of sons and daughters receiving God's love.

Jesus wanted to unify this world as sinless sons and daughters, sinless clans, sinless tribes and a sinless world coming from sinless parents. However, because Jesus died on the cross due to his rejection in Israel, the Lord has to come on earth. Then when this world perfects God's love, God's life and God's ideal on the individual, family, clan, tribal and world levels, this world will become the heavenly Kingdom of God.

God's greatest hope for humankind was that we in the object position and God in the subject position completely unite with the Will of God in the relationship of father and children and, together with the holy true parent, become true children, a true clan, and a true tribe and finally realize the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Therefore, men and women were to realize a Heavenly Kingdom on earth in which God's eternal love, life and ideal could be connected in every direction.

What is the "Feast of the Lamb" mentioned in Christianity? It is to substantiate, in the Last Days, the true parents whom God was to form 6,000 years ago and to substantiate the position of brother and sister and the position of children. This was the hope of Jesus in whom we believe, and it was the hope of God who has been suffering throughout the 6,000-year history to guide us.

You must clearly understand that the "Feast of the Lamb" refers to a dispensation for salvation which has its hope fixed upon the original world in which Adam, Eve and God can rejoice after this history of suffering.

Where is the son and daughter who can call God "My Father" longing for Him in the midst of their desperate search? The day God can find such sons and daughters is the day of His hope and the day of His liberation from resentment. In religious terms, this day is called the "Marriage Feast of the Lamb."

In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve could not unite with God and instead betrayed Him; therefore, they became servants. However, if they can unite with Him now, restoration can begin. This, in other words, is the Feast of the Lamb. The Bible mentions the day of the Feast of the Lamb. This could be called a day when two are united into one. All humankind has been waiting for this day, for this day is a day to be celebrated eternally. Therefore, the goal of the providence, the ideal of human history, and the purpose of religion come to a harmonized conclusion at this point.

Unification is possible only when a true man and true woman can stand in a position to be publicly recognized by God. This truly is the "Feast of the Lamb."