< A Principle-Based Examination of the Words in Cheon Seong Gyeong regarding Tribal Messiahs >
(Notice: Revised and re-posted with
supplementary testimonies to further reinforce the previous post.)
I. INTRODUCTION: Citations from Cheon Seong Gyeong
Citation A
"What is the work that Tribal Messiahs must accomplish? They must fully restore everything that Adam failed to fulfill. The True Parents came to restore Jesus's failures as well as Adam's failures. Although Adam represents the family-level standard, because he failed to connect the family-level root from Adam and Eve, this must be re-anchored in reverse: a. From the position of a Tribal Messiah, one must restore their own parents and tribe. This connects four generations: grandparents, parents, self, and children. By linking these four generations, b. centered upon one’s own parents, the root that was previously lacking is replaced. A Tribal Messiah c. advances into the position of the parents. It is from this position of parents that one binds together the sons and daughters. This is a destined mission—there is no way to avoid it.
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This is the greatest gift I can offer you, and by having you act on my behalf, I am enabling you to resolve the historical grief that I could not fulfill in front of my own family. Through this, as my own parents are liberated, your parents will receive the corresponding grace as well. Your father and mother will emerge as parents who have not fallen."
— Cheon Seong Gyeong, p. 1385 (Lower Left, Line 15 ~ Upper Right, Line 15)
Citation B
"To restore one's own tribe, one must fulfill the responsibility of a Tribal Messiah. The position of a Tribal Messiah is that of a second True Parent, which is a position superior to that of Jesus.
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All of you gathered here must carry out a mission equivalent to that of a Messiah of your lineage. Representing each tribe in building the Kingdom of Heaven within your family, you must firmly think: 'I am the Messiah!' You must regard yourselves as Saviors—saviors who deliver your own lineage. To do so, you must fulfill a priestly responsibility on behalf of your family. Right now, on behalf of True Parents, every one of you stands in a position empowered to liberate your own parents with the mission of a Tribal Messiah."
— Cheon Seong Gyeong, pp. 1385–1386 (Upper Right, Line 16 ~ Lower Left, Line 10)
II. BODY: Theological and Principle-Based Examination of the Citations
The Christological concept of < Messiah: Savior, Christ > can be elucidated as follows:
Rooted in God's True Love, born of God's True Life, and created in the position of direct, True Children possessing God's True Lineage—such was the family root composed of Adam and Eve in their unfallen, original status of creation.
However, during her adolescence, Eve (the eldest daughter of the royal direct lineage) was seduced by the scheme of the archangel (a servant of her Parent, God). Entangled in an non-principled relationship of love, she conceived non-principled false life through the servant’s non-principled false love, ultimately creating a non-principled false lineage. This resulted in the formation of today's non-principled false families, false tribes, false nations, false world, and false cosmos.
To restore individuals, families, tribes, nations, the world, and the cosmos multiplied from this non-principled false love, God—the Parent of humanity—has led the 7,000-year history of the Providence of Restoration. Through religion, God sent Jesus (the Messiah of the First Coming) and the Lord of the Second Coming (the Messiah of the Second Coming)—who fully restored and perfected God's True Love, True Life, and True Lineage—as the True Tree of Life, True Olive Tree, and True Vine. Standing in the position of Mediators for humanity, they engraft humanity unto themselves to restore humankind back to God's True Love, True Life, and True Lineage.
The < Messiah > is the ultimate fruit of this 7,000-year providential history of restoration and serves as the cosmic True Tree of Life (True Olive Tree, True Vine: True Parents) for all humanity.
The central subject of this text, the < Tribal Messiah >, refers to those restored and perfected individuals who, having completed their personal paths of restored perfection as individual/micro-messiahs, return to their ancestral hometowns. As dispatched Tribal Messiahs—the True Trees of Life for their tribes—they restore the lineage of their tribe to God's True Love, True Life, and True Lineage.
While the Cosmic Messiah who restored humanity to God's True Love, Life, and Lineage becomes the Cosmic True Parent, the Tribal Messiah who restores their tribe to God's True Love, Life, and Lineage stands in the position of < Tribal True Parents >, having restored the value of True Parents at the tribal level. This defines the essential and valuable position of the Tribal Messiah's True Lineage based on the Principle of Restoration and Christology.
Therefore, regarding the phrase in the cited text:
"b. centered upon one's own parents, the root that was previously lacking is replaced."
"The Tribal Messiah c. advances into the position of the parents."
To align with the logical concepts of the Principle of Restoration and Christology:
The center that replaces the tribal root must NOT be (b) one's own parents, but rather the Tribal Messiah. Only when the Tribal Messiah is understood as the central subject replacing the root of the tribe does the explanation become logically coherent and structurally sound.
This establishes a harmonious and logically unified concept that seamlessly connects to the subsequent statement:
< "The Tribal Messiah advances into c. the position of (tribal) parents." >
III. CONCLUSION
The < Tribal Messiahs > are restored and perfected individuals dispatched as the True Trees of Life for their tribes to return to their ancestral hometowns, restoring their tribe's lineage to God's True Love, True Life, and True Lineage after completing their individual paths of restoration.
While the Cosmic Messiah who restored humanity to God's True Love, Life, and Lineage becomes the Cosmic True Parents, the Tribal Messiah who restores the tribe to God's True Love, Life, and Lineage stands in the position of < Tribal True Parents >, having restored the value of True Parents on the tribal level. This constitutes the true value and status of the Tribal Messiah in light of the Principle of Restoration and Christology.
In replacing the root of the tribe, the central anchor is not (b) one's physical parents, but the Tribal Messiah. Recognizing the Tribal Messiah as the true center for replacing the tribal root provides a logically consistent explanation that aligns with Christological and providential principles, establishing a clear conceptual bridge to the statement:
< "The Tribal Messiah advances into c. the position of (tribal) parents." >
