The providence for salvation is the providence for restoration, and the providence for restoration is the providence for re-creation. Accordingly, in the course of restoration in the Old Testament Age the things of the creation became sacrificial offering objects. To find a way for children to be saved, the creation was sacrificed. People in this world do not know this, do they? To save people, the creation had to be sacrificed. Why? When humans were created, their creation was done through the sacrificial investment of all things. Therefore, at the time of re-creation they should again be sacrificed for humans.

For this reason, the things that were used as offering objects were those considered to be precious to humans, such as cows, sheep, doves, and precious stones. Plants also were sacrificed to open the way for human salvation.

Therefore, centering on the offering objects, what happened? The body was given to Satan, and the mind was taken by God. Since things were sacrificed on behalf of humans in order for humans to be emancipated, we should keep a grateful heart to the things of creation, and with a heart that loves God more than the love existing in Satan's world we should relate to them.

Animal offerings should be pure: one with a mating experience cannot be used as an offering object. Why? Since prior to the Fall Adam and Eve were still virgin, any offering objects must be also pure. Further, they should be the best among their species.

For this reason, humans should invest all of their hearts and minds for the offering objects, not only as an individual but also as a family and clan. For a family to be blessed, the entire family, including even babies, must establish a special condition of love for the offering objects.

The offering objects are for the conditional to determine ownership. The Principle of the Unification Church is indeed great. No one knew that both God and Satan relate to all things with love. Therefore, we must develop the way of love, pioneer the way of love, look for people of love, and set a higher standard of love before God than that of Satan's love; otherwise, things in Satan's world cannot be restored to God. Unless they are restored to a position of unity through love, God, along with humans, cannot own things. That is why things were offered to God claimed His ownership of the offerer. (166-69)