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New Truth In The Last Days - True Parents Organization

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Jesus Christ: Crucifixion or<br />

Execution?<br />

It was not God’s divine and preordained will that Jesus Christ<br />

die on the cross. <strong>The</strong> crucifixion of the Messiah was an act of<br />

murder, an execution that was done by the will of others.<br />

God’s will was for Jesus to marry and have a family, thereby<br />

restoring God’s pure lineage that was lost at the Fall.<br />

It took God four thousand years to set the stage to bring to earth the first perfect<br />

man and Son of God, Jesus Christ. That preparation involved not only<br />

the purification of the Messiah’s blood lineage but also the raising up of a chosen<br />

people who would receive the Messiah when he came. Yet the Bible says<br />

that when Jesus started preaching to his own people, they did not know him.<br />

It says in John 1:11 in the <strong>New</strong> Testament, “He [Jesus] came to his own<br />

home, and his own people received him not.” Much of Jesus’ life before he was<br />

thirty years of age remains a mystery. <strong>The</strong> Bible provides scarcely any record of<br />

the life of Jesus prior to his public ministry, except for the story of his birth<br />

and a few accounts of his childhood. <strong>The</strong> revelation of Rev. Sun Myung<br />

Moon uncovers these mysteries.<br />

Rev. Moon asks the following rhetorical and controversial questions: Was<br />

the crucifixion of Jesus Christ the will of God? Was the early death of Jesus<br />

what God wanted, or was there more to be done? Could it be that God never<br />

had a predestined plan that Jesus go to the cross? <strong>In</strong>credible as it may seem to some<br />

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