“Reprinted by permission. “(Nelson’s Illustrated Guide to Religions), James A. Beverley, 2009,Thomas Nelson Inc. Nashville, Tennessee. All rights reserved.”
Reverend Sun Myung Moon is the founder of the Unification Church and whose followers are often refereed to as “Moonies”. Mr. Moon is a controversial character who is far removed from his Presbyterian roots having been uprooted and transplanted as a wild thorn bush of blasphemous heresy with its perversion of Christian themes and overtones which has choked out and strangled historic biblical interpretation. Moreover Moon plagiarizes and counterfeits biblical teaching even calling his sect a church which is a word that has historically been used to refer to a Christian assembly in which his organization is unlike anything that would be definably Christian in nature except from his misguided use of borrowing Christian terminology and symbolism.
Anyway the following post is a compilation of confirming evidences which will become inescapable to the discerning ear of most listeners as it screams out its apparent warning and hopefully if you are involved with this movement I would encourage you to seriously reconsider these outstanding or outlandish claims.
To begin with one of the fiends of Mr. Moon is his channeling medium and mentor Arthur Ford. This influence will define much of Mr. Moon’s ministry as revolving around the mysterious and mystical teachings that proceed from his enlisted Mediums as conveying messages from the spirit realm or world. Amazingly other mediums would establish Moon’s exclusivity yet Ford’s contact known as Fletcher never recognized Moon’s supreme authority or significance.
Anyway this spiritist practice is of course highly subjective and conveniently metaphysically impossible to confirm and thus it often leads to mythical and fantastical stories of wild plots as resembling folklore. This occultic practice of using Mediums alone should be enough of a warning sign to avoid or vacate this cult as it joins hands with the Devil in practicing this forbidden rite in rebellion against the Almighty.
Leviticus 19:31
31 “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 18:9-12
9 “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer 11 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord.
Also much of this ministry revolves around “replacement theology” as removing and dethroning Jesus by which Moon claims to excel to a more prominent position of glory and honor.
Romans 10:6
6 But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down)
Essentially Mr. Moon portrays himself as being superior to Jesus as announcing himself to be the king of all humanity and who fulfills such significant events as the Marriage Supper of the Lamb by taking vows with his second wife Hak Ja Han. However it would be scandalous to think that John a disciple of Jesus would have referred in his vision to a Korean Messiah apart from Jesus as his Lord and Savior.
Furthermore Jesus death on the cross is portrayed as a sign of weakness and defeat as a default or an after thought yet scripturally it fits within the biblical design and pattern on the grounds of a substitutionary atonement which corresponds to Christ priestly role and ministry as laying down his life on behalf of mankind. My question is would you be willing to trust someone who died on your behalf or someone who wants the title and the glory without paying with the full cost of his life?
Moon also goes as far to say that Jesus was selfish unlike himself and yet Jesus came not to be served but to serve and give His life as a ransom.
Jesus exclaimed with his last breath that His work of redemption for mankind was finished in respect to his temporal or bodily ministry yet according to Moon, Jesus asked him to fulfill His mission because He had failed to complete His work and thus Jesus earthily life and ministry was somehow insufficiently lacking .
Some claims to revelation as coming from Moon’s second son Heung Jin is said to have involved such individuals as Jesus ,the Apostle Paul, Saint Francis and Kierkegaard. The nature of these progressive revelations supposedly resulted in him gaining his identification as Lord Sun Myung Moon as being honored as the king of kings and lord or lords. Thus Moon was coronated as the king of glory along with Hak Ja Han with whom they rule and reign as king and queen of the universe. In this respect Jesus is depicted as humbling himself as submissively ceding before the True Parents.
Other allegations made by Moon goes on to promote his universal or global influence with such unfounded claims as being responsible for the fulfillment of certain world events as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the victory of the Persian Gulf War.
Finally Moon brags about his grasp of literature and his head size stating that if he really wanted to that he could have obtained dozens of doctorates in different fields. He goes on to spout that if he didn’t exist it would be as if all the world were here but nonetheless empty. He makes such claims that Satan is busy trying to keep track of him. He even remarks that the omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent God questions him as where he is going next.
Thou he makes such great boasts and extraordinary claims there is also the reality of his fragility which may be more of an accurate depiction of his true character with such matters as his imprisonment due to unlawful tax evasion or perhaps the allegations of Moon’s former daughter in law Nansook Hong who wrote a stirring memoir entitled “in the Shadow of the Moons” in which she claims that Moon supposedly had an illegitimate child. In addition to all this he seems to deny the significance of personal tragedy which may have been seen as a weakness or negative outcome/impact to his glorious persona. This is demonstrated as he took the opportunity to capitalize on the suicidal death of his first son Young Jin as positively interpreting this as being a sacrificial event on behalf of the True Parents to protect them from Satan. Ironically enough Jesus death was seen as an accident or mishap yet Moon doesn’t see the demise of his son as a failure but rather interprets it as a successful course of events which lead to protect his ministry. His other son Heung Jin died from a severe injury that was sustained in a car crash which again was seen as a providential act to protect Moon’s calling or perhaps even keep him from a possible assassination. He goes on to say that this whole situation may have averted South Korea from an invasion from the North. Heung Jin’s death and postmortem appearances was seen as being analogous with Calvary and a second easter. Furthermore one week after his death he states that his son is now the leader of Jesus in the spiritual realm. And if that is not bizarre enough his deceased son is posthumously married to Hoon Sook Pak the daughter of one of Moon’s top aides.
As I have previously mentioned, Moon’s ministry comes through the endorsement of Mediums such as a Zimbabwe member Cleopus Kundiona who became the embodiment of Heung Jin. Yet this decision to allow him to practice this charade was disastrous as He administered physical discipline so cruelly that he detained Unification members against their will and even had some of their bones broken. Furthermore he had Bo Hi Pak beaten so badly that he was unrecognizable requiring surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Nonetheless Moon allowed him to carry on his ministry for a year and eventually the Black Heung Jin distanced himself from the movement and was reported to of impregnated another mans wife and went as far to say that he was the lord of the second advent and that the Reverend Moon was just a precursor to his ministry somewhat like how Moon asserted that Jesus was a forerunner of his calling. Anyway it seems like the proverbial apple didn’t fall too far from the tree as partaking of Moons forbidden fruit.
Anyway latter Moon took on another medium who had contact with Heung Jin and Moons deceased mother in law Soon-Ae Hong of whom he gave the honorific title of Dae Mo Nim who alongside of Heung Jin was to liberate the ancestral realm and subjugate Lucifer to God’s plan.
Unlike the scandalous outrage of the African Heung Jin this new medium, Mrs. Hyo Nam Kim, performed such feats of complexity as proving herself worthy of establishing her credibility such as finding certain sacred landmarks known to Mr. Moon and who also displayed such rigorous devotion and sincerity as to undergo forty days of prayer without sleep similarly mimicking Jesus 40 days in the wilderness. Another performances is that she also jumps into icy water to resist Satan and to add to her fabled character is the story that the angels miraculously changed the color of her eyes to match that of Dae Mo Nim.
Other damaging proof to her personage is her participation in a money making scheme in which in one report Mrs. Kim charges 1400 dollars for conducting workshops to liberate the first generation of ancestors. Makes we wonder how much it would cost to redeem the souls of the whole family line.
Mrs. Kim also held a mass Unification Blessing at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. and supposedly through this event there were other attendees involving the founders of the great religions such as Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad and Confucius.
She is also known to have commissioned other formerly deceased individuals including Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Saint Matthew and even the Apostle Thomas to be missionaries in America and had the authority to dispatch angels to leading hospitals in the world to do research that can be used as the retreat center. Anyway other controversial matters revolve around her remarks that she made in 1997 as stating that a person must present themselves as neat and clean in reference to their dress and hairstyle so that God can love them.
If that is not enough to make you seriously skeptical then there is the medium Young
Soon Kim who is communicating with the deceased Dr. Sang Hun Lee and Heung Jin from the spirit world and Dr. Lee says that cars in heaven are very fast. He further states that Jesus is lonely and is stuck in some kind of limbo existence as not advancing into heaven until the True Parents arrive there. Other radical claims to the afterlife is that Mary and Joseph are strangers to one another and that Buddha regrets that he didn’t know about God while Confucius spends a lot of time meditating in the snow. Muhammad was said to be difficult to visit and that Socrates was egotistical and argumentative. While Judas was resistant to talking. In regards to the story of Eve she supposedly found Satan so irresistibly attractive that this confirmed the idea that she had sex with him.
Other ridiculous claims is that Karl Marx was shouting communist slogans and Lenin was plotting another revolution while Hitler was hanging on a tree in being attacked by angry mobs of former victims. Furthermore former North Korean ruler Kim 11 Sung had told him that if his son would not subjugate himself to Mr. Moon that North Korea would perish. Also among these revelations is a letter from Jesus that states that He is not worthy of the love of Moon.
Young goes on to say that the fathers of the worlds great religion have aligned themselves with the True Parents and further adds the allegiance of 36 deceased presidents and 120 former communist leaders as coinciding with a theme as declaring him as the true Messiah and the eternal answer to all of life’s problems.
Other matters is his knowledge of the supposed confession and repentance of Satan to God and yet their are no signs that satanic and demonic powers are diminishing or weakening their impact and influence on world society today as evidenced by his grip over the precious souls of this group along with many others who are classified as shinshukyo in coming under his deception of false religion in defiance against God to gain glory for Himself.
Lastly Moon states that his plan is simple and clear as moving himself as being the absolute center of the universe. Moreover Moon commands humility in his disciples even though he does not display this attribute himself with a “do as I say not as I do” mentality. Nevertheless it has been readily demonstrated though the actions of Jesus who never asked his disciples to do anything in which he was unwilling or unable to do Himself. This is supremely exampled as He is the very essence as God yet took on the lowliness of flesh and blood have suffered the same sort of temptations as a man even forsaking His heavenly glory to the point of suffering the rejection of mankind the likes of whom He created and would even redeem through their murderous hands. Nevertheless Moon who is a mere man exalts himself to obtaining glory and power as a demigod substituting and exchanging the limitations of his human personage to intercept the creator God from his rightful claim to sole honor much like how Satan did against the Almighty.
Isaiah 14:12-14
12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.
In conclusion some of these extravagant conjectures may be possible if he really was who he said he was but by weighing the evidence of these propositions and those who support his work and ministry I believe the it is beyond just being questionable and controversial to being outright fraudulent as being a classic example of extreme narcissistic behavior as being built around his grandiose figure and that of his immediate family in claiming greatness which surpasses all the spiritual leaders of all time and with a inclusive desire to absorb all religious affiliations and associations under the banner of a unified church and the divine principle in coming under the authority and submission to the True Parents.
This desperation to believe upon Moon may have been attractive especially as people experience crisis and I believe there are perhaps many determinative things which people sought in Mr. Moon with his superstar status as a heroic charismatic leader and visionary which some had thought he was the fulfillment of an expectant contemporary Korean messianic figure who was touchable and seemed to have the answer for a global message of hope as solving the problems of humanity. However his influence along with the efforts of this fringe group in my opinion have failed to fulfill and live up to the overrated expectations and potential regarding his personage and mission which may prove in time to only be a faint remembrance of how he deceived so many. Nonetheless it is Jesus not Moon that has restored humanity and will fully consummate his reforming work with His glorious appearance and return as putting every enemy under His feet as firmly establishing His kingdom on earth as bringing about a ultimate or absolute sense of peace. Finally it is movements like these which are deceptively characteristic of the end times when the Antichrist will play a counterfeit role as falsely representing an angel of light offsetting the genuine work and ministry of Christ which is what Mr. Moon has done with his claim to fame.
Mt 24:11
11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
23-24
23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Galatians 1:6-9
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
“Reprinted by permission. “(Nelson’s Illustrated Guide to Religions), James A. Beverley, 2009,Thomas Nelson Inc. Nashville, Tennessee. All rights reserved.”
