Home Church recalled
- This page is part of an ERW course: Home Church.
- By John Eagles, January 30, 2010.
Home Church is a dispensation in God's Providence of Restoration, historically given to and through Rev. Sun Myung Moon [1] . Home Church is a system to serve people connected to you or in a neighborhood. It goes far beyond the normal concept of what serving means, because by fulfilling the demands of Home Church you are able to restore yourself to a position that you can become a model for others to follow and to find God.
Home Church is a Dispensation given by God
What is the meaning of 'dispensation?' A dispensation is a special gift from God given in the history of God's Providence of Restoration. A dispensation is given on the basis of fulfillment of a course gone by a central figure and other people connected. Through a 'dispensation' God can dispense certain gifts, share specific blessings with people who fulfill the conditions to inherit in the dispensation. For example, starting with Moses as central figure, God once installed a Dispensation to build God's Nation centered on the people of Israel.
Home Church was given by God to Rev. Sun Myung Moon based on the fulfillment of the Washington Monument Rally in 1976. The meaning of this was that Rev. Moon had fulfilled to announce to the world the coming of a new age, the coming of a Savior for the world in this time of the Last Days. By having done that, restoration went back 2,000 years to the time of Jesus who had received the mission of Messiah in his age. Jesus had not been accepted as Messiah by the people of his time and therefore had to fulfill the mission that was actually originally given to John the Baptist, which was to announce the coming of the Messiah and to prepare the people to repent and after their repentance to receive the Messiah.
Connected to the more external accomplishment of the Washington Monument Rally was the spiritual reality that Rev. Moon had rallied behind him the 12 main central figures in spirit world of the major religions of the past. This victory is known as the Victory of Heaven, celebrated on October 10. Based on Rev. Moon's accomplishment in the world, these central religious figures in spirit world such as Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Buddha and eight others had pledged to support Rev. Moon's mission and all those who would take upon them the mission of Home Church.
What must be accomplished to inherit the blessings of the Dispensation of Home Church?
The principles of how to conduct Home Church have been revealed by Rev. Moon. I shall not speak about the details here of how to do Home Church. The fulfillment of Rev. Moon meant that he had successfully gone the course in the position of John the Baptist up until the worldwide level. It also meant that there was opened again the road for the Messiah to come and fulfill his mission. Everyone putting himself in the same position could inherit from this victory and go the course of restoration of Adam, like once Jesus had to go and also, still earlier, Jacob.
It is another matter how much Jacob and Jesus each have accomplished in their courses, but to understand more of the meaning, both Jacob and Jesus had to go a course as Adam and they had to restore the families they were born from and the families that came or would come out from them. The environment for Adam to establish himself as central and First Adam was the world. In Home Church the world is symbolically represented by 360 homes. Furthermore, in restoration, there are two main families that must be restored and these are the ancestral families of Adam and the ancestral families of Eve. For Jacob his own family was that of Abraham and Isaac and the family of his wives Leah and Rachel was that of his father-in-law Laban. The family of Laban stood in Cain's position to Isaac's family which was the Abel family. I am simplifying here because of course Jacob had more wives than only the daughters of Laban.
We can understand why these families are Cain and Abel because Adam, Jacob, had to restore Eve, who historically had fallen under Lucifer. Therefore the family and ancestry of Jacob stood in Abel position and the family and ancestry of of his wives were in Cain's position. Laban was the brother of Rebecca, the mother of Jacob.
In Jesus' life the situation had become much more complex because Jesus did not grow up in his father's house. Originally his father Zacharias' family and ancestry would have taken the Abel position and the family and the ancestors of his wife-to-be the Cain position. In Jesus' life, because Jesus did not grow up in his own father's house, the family of Josef and Mary had to fulfill the Abel position instead of the family of Zacharias and Mary (which never existed as a real family).
When we do Home Church, there always will be two main families. When you are a man and must restore the position of Adam, your own parental family should fulfill as Abel family and the people of your Home Church area should fulfill as Cain family and tribe. Originally you should find and restore your bride in that realm of the Cain family and tribe.
Conclusion
I only outlined a few of the main principles for Home Church. Restoration of each person's individuality, of a person marrying and of the ancestral lines of husband and wife can be much more complex depending on the personal situations and backgrounds. For example, a man may be married or blessed to a woman who in God's eyes is more advanced in restoration. In that case the principles of restoration will not be exactly as described above.
Must we always go out to our Home Church area? In principle, when your own tribe and ancestors fulfill, and this would be the case for both husband and wife, then this would formally not be necessary for your own restoration. But in reality this will not be the case. Also, we must reach out to other people, not only for our own restoration but to advance to larger levels. The 360 homes also stand for the world. They provide the environment in which restoration has to take place. Difficulties must be overcome in relation to 360 homes representing all sorts of problems.
Must Home Church always be done in a formal manner? I don't believe that is always necessary. For example, 360 homes could also mean the environment of a village or a working place. What stays however are the fundamental principles for restoration of Adam and Eve and of their respective families and tribes and ancestor lines. It doesn't matter whether we call it Home Church or forget about that name, but restoration of individuals, families and tribes and ancestors always adheres to the same principles.
