5. Law of Completion through Three Stages
According to the Principle of Creation, the growth or development of all things is attained through a process of three stages: formation, growth, and completion. For example, plants mature and perfect themselves through the three stages of germinating, growing stems and putting forth green leaves, and producing flowers and bearing fruit. This law applies to history as well; often the providence of re-creation has been carried out through a process of three stages. For example, it is a law that, if a certain providential event ends in failure, that providence can be prolonged up to a third time (or a third stage), but will necessarily be accomplished at the third stage. For example, the providence to lay the foundation for the providence of restoration was not fulfilled in Adam’s family due to the failure of Cain and Abel in the substantial offering, and it was accomplished for the first time in Abraham’s family only after an unsuccessful attempt in Noah’s family. Even so, the providence to lay the foundation for restoration which was to be fulfilled during Abraham’s generation was not accomplished at first due to Abraham’s failure in his offering. It was finally fulfilled for the first time at the time of Jacob, who was Abraham’s third generation. The same thing can be said about the coming of the Messiah, the second Adam. Since God could not fulfill the purpose of creation due to the fall of Adam, He sent Jesus as the second Adam. But since Jesus was crucified and could not fulfill the purpose of creation completely, God sends Christ at the Second Advent as the third Adam to fulfill the purpose of creation. In the modern era, which is the period of preparation to receive Christ at the Second Advent, movements for the revival of Hellenism and Hebraism arose, each developing through a process of three stages. The movement for the revival of Hellenism refers to a humanistic movement. Following the Renaissance, the first humanistic movement, there arose the Enlightenment, the second humanistic movement. The Enlightenment bore fruit in the form of the Communist ideological movement, the third humanistic movement. The movement for the revival of Hebraism refers to a God-centered movement, or a religious reformation. Following the first religious reformation, centered on Martin Luther and John Calvin, there arose the second religious reformation, centered on John Wesley, George Fox, and others; and today, the third religious reformation movement, centering on the Unification movement, is taking place. The revival of Hebraism (the God-centered movement) was a movement on God’s side, while the revival of Hellenism was a humanistic movement, a movement on Satan’s side, which tended to gradually separate human beings from God. It is for that reason that this movement finally became atheistic Communism. If the God-centered movement becomes successful through the three stages, the humanistic movement, which is based on Satanic ideology, will inevitably come to decline and come under the God-centered movement. Accordingly, the law of completion through three stages for God’s side becomes the law of inevitable fall through three stages for Satan’s side. Thus, the success of the Unification movement, which is the third God-centered movement, and the collapse of Communism, which is the third humanistic movement, are both inevitable.