Cain- and Abel families in restoration

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In the process of restoration the names of many families appear. We know about restoration in Adam’s family, Noah’s family, Abraham’s family, Isaac’s family, Laban’s family, Jacob’s family, Zachariah’s family, Josef’s family, Peter’ family.

In the ideal, there is God’s family, True Adam’s family, original Adam’s family.

Often it is very complicated to have the right understanding about the position of families in relation to each other and in relation to the central figure.

When we look at one family, any of the families just mentioned is first of all and always Adam’s family. Adam’s family can be fallen Adam’s family, or it can be True Adam’s family. Fallen Adam’s family can be evil Adam’s family or more-or-less-restored Adam’s family.

What is the meaning of Cain- and Abel families?

To understand it right: Cain - and Abel families are also each first of all Adam’s family. Cain family is a fallen-Adam family, but Cain to another family, Abel family, which also is a fallen-Adam family, or a restored-Adam family, or True-Adam family.

Cain and Abel, when applied as in relation to a family means the same as when applied to individuals. When there is a Cain family and an Abel family, it means that God has a claim to work with the Abel family, temporarily or for longer, and Satan has a claim to come to the Cain family, temporarily or longer.

These positions of Cain and Abel sometimes suddenly switch, when for example the Abel family makes a mistake and the Cain family does restore something. From God’s viewpoint, however, one family is always in general more Abel than another family, because of God’s work in the ancestry of the Abel family and less of God’s work in the Cain family. That means: one family has always the mission to be Abel, in God’s eyes, and another family the mission to be Cain. The Abel family must fulfill as Abel because God gave so many blessings to that family, usually because of ancestral merit.

In society we can sometimes not speak so clearly of Cain- and Abel families, because in most families little restoration takes place. That means, these families are just fallen families in which God cannot do much to help them to be restored.

When God works through a central figure, there also is the possibility for restoration of the families in which God’s central figure resides. If the first chosen family doesn’t fulfill, then there comes a Cain-Abel situation.

In Jacob’s course, the family of Isaac should have fulfilled to become restored-Adam family. But Abel, Jacob, was not protected. Then Jacob, God’s central figure had to pay more indemnity in a family that from God’s view was Cain to Isaac’s family, that was Laban’s family. Laban’s family had to fulfill what Isaac’s family failed to do. Although Laban’s family was Cain from the viewpoint of original mission and ancestry, but in Jacob’s mission that family became temporarily Abel to Isaac’s family.

In Jesus’ life, Zachariah’s family should have fulfilled as restored-Adam family, but this family failed. Jesus came to live in Josef’s family, which was actually a Cain-family in relation to Zachariah’s family, but because Josef’s family accepted Jesus, they came to stand as an Abel family. Yet, when they later did not receive Jesus in the right way, there came the need for yet another family to fulfill to become restored-Adam family. That family was Peter's family. Peter's family had to restore what had gone wrong in Zachariah's family. Peter’ family also had to restore what Josef’s family did not restore, that is the mission of Zachariah’s family.

In your own course of restoration, you must recognize the patterns of how these families appear in your own life. There always are at least two families and sometimes a third family can appear.

March 15, 1991

A child was born to bring rebirth to the cosmos

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More than 2,000 years ago a child was born. The child was born under good stars and all cosmic beings knew the importance of that child. That child was born to change the world. While all those desiring for goodness and love and peace were hopeful, all those who desired to build a world for themselves were also prepared but their desire was to stop the child.

The birth of the child was not just the birth of one child. The birth of that child was supposed to be the birth of a new world, the rebirth of all people and all beings in the universe. The birth of that child was supposed to be the birth of a new universe. No miracle that angels sang and all good spirits rejoiced over that day.

Where good forces work or intend to work, there evil forces always try to stop them. Situations had become troubled before the birth of the child and when the day was there, nothing or almost nothing was prepared. The child was born like animals were born, in a stable, in the cold, deserted by almost all but some angels in spirit world and a very few wise and innocent ones in the physical world. The evil forces had prepared to kill the child so the caretakers of the child had to flee, to protect the child against premature death.

Where God had planned a new birth for the cosmos, there all those who had taken the cosmos out from God's loving hands had prepared to keep the universe as it always had been, filled with war, disease, hatred and despair. Many had been prepared to receive the child, to help the child to bring change to the world. But those who had been prepared thought of their own dreams and not of the desires of God. Simpler people, people who still perceived the world from their hearts could recognize God's work, but those simple people were hardly equipped to change society.

Eventually the forces of opposition joined and nailed God's hope on a cross of destruction. Because the spirit is stronger than the flesh and love makes victory over hatred, the cross was not the end. The cross was the beginning of a new birth, a new birth into the spiritual this time, but not anymore a new birth of the physical. Who was shedding tears over that event? Who was shedding tears when Adam fell out from Eden's Garden? Who shed tears when chosen prophets were rejected and sacred kings were seduced? It always was the Creator of love and hope and the Giver of life whose tears filled the cosmos for those who want to sense. Many tears were shed over the cross, but life goes on and hope remains for a new cosmic birth.

Why are we waiting still? Why is the world still full of pain and disease and hatred and despair? What can we do on that day of hope, that day of new birth of the cosmos? What hope can we bring to the world so we can stop flowing the tears of the Creator?

Where does rebirth of the cosmos begin else than in the heart of you and me? My birth into a new life, your birth into a new life, that is what will change the cosmos and will bring hope in despair, joy in tragedy, peace in war, repair in destruction, new life in a world of death.

Oh my dear Father (inspired by Jesus)

Oh, my dear Father, how Your heart is wounded,
Wounded because of the suffering of Your son,
Father, i didn't want to hurt you,
Father, i only wanted to serve You.
 
Oh, my dear Father, how Your eyes are troubled,
seeing the situations surrounding Your son,
Father, i only wanted to love You,
never i wanted to hurt You.
 
Oh, my dear Father, how Your feet are tired,
seeing the long, long path Your Son is walking,
Father, i only wanted to take the short road,
never i wanted to let You wait that long.
 
Now, my dear Father, i cannot help but crying,
the tears that are flowing from Your eyes,
my dear Father, i just cannot stop,
the rivers of pain and sadness through my eyes.
 
Oh, my dear Father, my poem is so simple,
the words i use are nothing special,
this is how You created me, pure and simple,
and the people did not receive me.
 
Oh, my dear Father, i am Your proud son,
going a course of thousands of years,
with just one desire, just one desire,
that is to let You stop crying.
 
 
Oh, my Father, cry no more,
Oh, my Father, suffer no more,
Oh, my Father, share with me the love
that, oh my Father, now blossoms in me,
like a sunflower, gold and round,
its eyes pointing to the sun,
so is my love,
so is my heart,
looking at You, my Father,
and never, never, never,
can i go without You, my dear,
my dear, my dear Father.


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