4.2 What are children?

Who are your children? They are the ones who teach you how much God loves mankind and let you have that experience. Through them, you come to feel God's tremendous joy when Adam and Eve were born in the garden of Eden.
Loving them is experiencing the immense joy of God when He created our human ancestors. As you have to love your children in the same position as God, you have to give birth to your own sons and daughters.
The first person in history to teach about that so that humankind can go the proper way is none other than Rev. Moon himself. You cannot receive God's love by or for yourself. A man and woman have to be completely one with a love that is of greater value than their own lives. Love precedes life. God's love will descend to the place where they can unite with a love that is greater than their lives. (142-119, 03/06/1986)

You have to treat your children like princes and princesses, and your parents like the king and queen. This is the family law of heaven. Can there be fighting in the family?... The underlying philosophy of the family is to exist for the sake of others. If not, peace will not come about. (369-178, 02/14/2002)

All nations have to follow my teachings as the eternal truth. You have been living and doing things for your own selves. I can completely reverse this situation with education from the fundamentals, the root. (218-263, 08/19/1991)

The future kingship will be handed over to your descendants. You must have the heart of bringing up your grandson to be the king of a big nation before your future tribes. Do you want to give birth to, educate and raise your children to be successful in the world? Isn't the desire of all parents and nations to have their children be in the position of true parents, true teachers and true owners the moment they come to the world? Your children are future emperors and empresses. (221-25, 10/20/1991)

Adam and Eve were originally a prince and princess. God's bitterness is that He was unable to teach them how to live as a prince and princess. This has to be resolved.
As God's children, they did not receive such education directly from God Himself. They had also not been taught to live as brother and sister. If they had, the whole world would have been unified, based on the brotherhood and sisterhood of all nations.... Based on the eldest grandson with the elder son's right, brothers spread horizontally when they form tribes and nations and expand to the world. Similarly, original mankind, who has experienced the heart of the royal family and lived in the heavenly palace, is destined to enter the heavenly kingdom. Not everybody can go to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Why could Jesus Christ not make it to Heaven, remaining instead in Paradise? Jesus, who was in the position to represent perfected Adam, could not establish the proper relationships between brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, parents and children on this earth with the education of prince and princess. Since he had breathed his last on the cross before he could indemnify all these things, the heavenly gate cannot open if he does not reappear.
This task has been prolonged to the age of the Second Coming. In Jesus' stead, Rev. Moon establishes and teaches the duty of a prince and princess. Do you now know what you have to do? As God's children, you have to experience the heart of princes and princesses. (226-130, 02/02/1992)

Your grandfather is your first God; your parent is your second God; and your sons and daughters are your third God. That is why I ask you to love your children as you do God.
There was no way to teach this in the garden of Eden. You, however, can get hold of the original textbook that guides you about this. Anyone who reads this book with half an eye open can understand it as clear as day.
Without becoming the royal tribe of heaven, you can never make it to the original heavenly kingdom. The platform for the living environment that can teach this like the original textbook is your family. (236-150, 11/04/1992)

The family is the root. The nation is not the root. The worldwide issue today is the family. The problem of the nation overlaps with the problem of the family. If the family problem is settled, the national problem can then be cleared up.
The family refers to the grandparents, parents, husband and wife, and children. As the pattern for the nation, the family can be called the base of hope that has to be acknowledged by the world. Why is the family a base? That is where love settles. (240-281, 12/13/1992)