1. Origin of Israel's Birthright

When Jesus as the Messiah came centering upon love, did his blood lineage come from Satan or God? In order for Jesus to be the Messiah, he must have been born with the birthright from God in the womb. \You must know that the eldersonship was restored right after the blood lineage was changed. The Old Testament Age was the Age to prepare that foundation. The Israelites, who knew the Messiah was coming and prepared the foundation for him, organized Judaism and tried to match it with the time of the Advent. Since the Messiah comes centering upon a national-level religion, the Israel nation and Judaism in unity together were supposed to meet the Messiah. The religion of Judaism alone was not supposed to meet him. Judaism was in the position of Abel and Israel was in the position of Cain. Without restoring the birthright, the providence cannot proceed. If Israel and Judaism had been united, the standard of Cain-and-Abel restoration would have been established.

The first son and the second son were to be reversed, so that the birthright would be automatically bequeathed from parents on God's side. In other words, if Adam had not fallen, both his first son and second son would have been on God's side. If Israel in Cain's position was completely united with Judaism in Abel's position, on that foundation for restoring the birthright Jesus in the parent's position could have engrafted the nation into God's lineage. Everything would then have been completed.

Who was the representative of Abel at that time? It was John the Baptist. There was no law of baptism in the Old Testament Age, but John the Baptist executed this new law of baptism. Everybody was receiving baptism from John. It takes only four hours to go around the nation of Israel. It is such a small nation that if you shout from one edge, the sound seems to be heard on the other edge. Rumors can be spread everywhere in a day or so. It would be easy to restore such a small nation. God is a very wise being. How difficult would it be to restore a big nation like China? God laid a foundation of Cain and Abel centering upon the tiny area of Israel, and expected the Cain and the Abel positions to be united centering upon Jesus.

One needs to get married in order to become a parent. Jesus was to be Abel before marriage. Who was Cain? [John the Baptist.] If Jesus and John the Baptist united, Judaism would stand in a position to be automatically connected to them. If John the Baptist had listened to Jesus, Abel and Cain would have automatically become one. It could have been so easy to unite the nation of Israel with Jesus, John the Baptist and Judaism. If that had happened, there would have been no need for hurrying. Unfortunately those on the Cain side did not unite with Jesus.

The Messiah must come centering upon a nation. Why? The satanic world is composed of many nations. Do you understand? Therefore, the Abel nation should make the Cain nations surrender. This is similar to Joseph's course in Jacob's family. His older brothers wanted to kill Joseph, didn't they? They sold Joseph to Egypt. But when Joseph became the prime minister of Egypt and saved the lives of his parents and all members of their tribe who were about to perish, they surrendered to Joseph. The family foundation of Israel was then restored. Through whom? [Joseph.] 600,000 soldiers of Israel started out from Egypt. Later on, they entered the time of a huge national migration in order to restore Canaan. They organized the new heaven and earth.

When did Jesus' blood lineage change? It had to happen in a mother's womb. The satanic Cain was born first and stole the heavenly principle, so the lineage has to be crossed and restored in a mother's womb.

What is the history of Cain and Abel? It is the history of a younger son turning his older brother's birthright inside out. It was reversed after birth. The birthright of brothers was to be reversed after birth and then, finally, it was to be reversed in the womb. The first was the dispensation for Esau and Jacob. Isn't it easier to reverse the birthright of twins in the womb? [Yes.] When Cain's birthright was given to Abel after birth, the older brother killed his younger brother. The hearts of twins are easily connected. When the younger brother of twins is sad, the older brother becomes sad, too. Restoration has to happen in the much more intimately connected position in the womb from which the twins are born.

Because the mother bore Cain after the Fall, the mother must be the center of restoration. Restoration must take place centering upon the cooperation of mother and son. Rebekah deceived Esau centering upon Jacob. How could God take such a capricious woman? Eve deceived her father God and her husband, and she also deceived her older brother. Likewise, Rebekah deceived Isaac, who stood in the place of God, and her first son, who stood in the place of her husband. Eve deceived God and Adam, who was her husband and older brother as well. The older brother is in the first son's position.

Eve deceived two men centering upon Satan, so in order to reverse this and follow the Principle of Restoration through Indemnity, a mother must deceive two men centering upon her second son and God's Will. Eve deceived God and her husband, so Jacob united with his mother to accomplish God's will and restore this by deceiving his father and his brother.

What does God want to do with the cooperation of mother and son? He wants to restore the birthright. After coming back from hunting, Esau, the older brother, sold his birthright to Jacob for bread and lentils, so he was caught by this condition for restoration. He had to surrender to Jacob in actuality because he substantially sold the birthright. If Esau had not sold the birthright to Jacob, Jacob could not have deceived Esau. Without a condition, deceiving is impossible. Right here, Jacob could have the name of Israel. For the first time in human history, the birthright was restored.

But the exchange of the birthright had not happened inside a mother's womb yet. What happened inside the womb later on? Judah was Jacob's fourth son and he had three sons. His first daughter-in-law was Tamar. Tamar knew the precious value of the tribe who had received God's blessing, so she wanted to do whatever it took to inherit and pass on the blood lineage of the blessed tribe.

One of the interesting stories in the Bible is about the fighting of the twin brothers, Esau and Jacob, inside their mother's womb. When Rebekah asked God why the two babies were fighting inside the womb, God answered, "There are two nations inside your womb and the older will serve the younger." Since we know clearly the principle that the second son should restore the birthright by winning a battle against the first son, we can understand God's answer.

Tamar had the same experience of two babies fighting inside her womb, and she prayed to God with the same question as Rebekah. God gave exactly the same answer as He gave Rebekah: "Two nations are inside your womb and the older will serve the younger."

Perez and Zerah were born with such a background. The older brother Zerah put out his hand first, and a midwife tied Zerah's wrist with a scarlet thread. This gave an advance notice that Communism could appear in later history. Perez, who was to restore the older son's authority, drew Zerah back into the womb and he came out first. Here, finally, the restoration of the birthright took place in the mother's womb. Since he "broke out," he was given the name of Perez.

In the histories of Rebekah and Tamar, we see how the first and second sons fought with each other in order to accomplish the change of blood lineage. When in Tamar's womb the first son became the second and the second became the first, then the birthright was fully restored for the first time in history. (1986.1.31. Han-nam Dong House)