Introduction

Trinity

The Messiah cont...

The Messiah

The world is and always has been an absolute shambles. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, it's a cliché but it is a true cliché. The poor, unfortunately, can't do anything to improve their situation and the rich, mainly for fear of jeopardizing their own position, won't do anything.

If Jesus were here with his party tricks, no doubt he could sort out the mess; but he isn't and despite all the protestations by the religious establishment to the contrary, he will not be coming and I, if asked to do so, can prove it. So what are we going to do?

There's a very old man, born and raised in Korea, now resident in the United States of America, who claims to be the Messiah. Not Jesus reincarnated, but the one who--when he was a 16 year old boy--'met Jesus at the foot of a mountain' and was given the mantle of Messiah. It's one of those 'pull the other one' stories but you would be amazed at how many people believe him.

According to this man (Sun Myung Moon) he is the Second Messiah entrusted with the job of establishing the Kingdom of heaven on Earth (Paradise Earth) that Jesus, due to the misgivings of his supporters--notably John the Baptist--had failed to do.(Incidentally the story being told by Moon's supporters in 1984 when I had dealings with the Church was that this Kingdom would be established by the year 2004.)

Some years ago in Africa, where I lived for 30 years, I was drawn spiritually (take that with a pinch of salt) to their local branch. I knew that the Messiah was on earth, at least I knew that if he wasn't the world was in serious trouble and I also knew that if there is a God whom I have experienced personally (another pinch) he had to be. So when I learned that the Unification Church was promoting the idea of a Messiah amongst the current generation I was of course drawn toward them.

Way back in 1984 at the tender age of 37 it was beyond my powers of comprehension to believe that someone would claim to be the Messiah and actually be lying. I shall later relate significant areas of my life which will help you understand how a grown man could be so gullible, but for now and to cut a long story short I joined the 'Moonies' as they were and still are popularly known, where I was dispatched to Zimbabwe for a 40 day induction seminar from which I learned everything worth knowing about Reverend Moon, his Church, his history and his theology.

Notwithstanding the fact that I soon discovered Moon and his Church are the product of a rather fertile and dishonest mind which I can discredit with one page of prose, I met in his church a man, named Phillip Schanker--now a member of his inner circle--who became, until I rejected all the nonsense, a dear friend. Phillip was sent from the States to conduct the 40-day seminar at which, during one of his lectures, he told us that Jesus was not born on the 25th of December, as everyone seems to believe, but on the 3rd of January. How did he know? 'Father' (Reverend Moon, the Messiah) told him. Of course he could have chosen any day from the other 364 and who could argue but without any apparent reason and nothing to gain by saying it--other than for people to believe he had access to information not available to any one else--he chose 3rd of January. Schanker also told us that Reverend Moon can work miracles but chooses not to work them as it would take away people's need for faith which is of paramount importance to any religion. I thought at the time that the claim was a corker, taking the credit for being able to work miracles without having to work any.

Anyway, on the day Schanker told us that Jesus was born on the 3rd of January, he also introduced us to Divine numbers (don't ask) the most important of which are 1, 3, 4, 7 one represents God the Creator, three the Trinity, four the Four Position Foundation, which is the heart and lungs of Moon's theology and seven which combines the Trinity and the Four Position Foundation the significance of which I have fortunately forgotten.

With those four numbers, in order 1, 3, 4, 7, and Jesus' birthday written on the board , I asked on what date Reverend Moon was born to which the answer was 6th January 1920.
'Six,' I said, 'is the devils number'
'Coincidence,' Schanker retorted. 'It has no significance.'

When writing the date in numbers, Americans put the month before the day, that's why they always refer to the attack on the Twin Towers as 9 - 11 which to the British is the ninth of November. Schanker is an American.

'Don't you think it would help Reverend Moon's cause if he too was born on the 3rd of January and better still on the 3RD of January 1947 to coincide the Birthday of the first Messiah with the four most important divine numbers? I asked.

'Sure it would,' replied Schanker. 'but since it didn't happen that way the question is irrelevant.'
I said nothing and the full significance didn't dawn on me until some years later, but I did wonder ... because I was born on the 3rd of January 1947.

Rhetorical nonsense? It's not, but for the time being I'm prepared to let you think it is. By all means be skeptical, doubt everything and ask questions but be fair, when you are looking the ultimate truth in the face be prepared to accept it, don't reject it because it shakes the very foundations of your Ivory Tower.

By the way:

On the same 40-day training seminar was a young (early 20s) African man named Mhlanga*, who convinced the Zimbabwean Church leader, a Japanese man named Naramata*, and some of the 'Blessed' (full and sworn up) members that he was in communion with Jesus. So in my usual not-so-diplomatic manner I told them that he was lying, which turned out to be a bit of not-very-welcome advice that went down like a lead balloon, causing offence that resulted in one of the young female members ceasing to speak to me.

(* not their real names)

Soon after the Seminar, I, not surprisingly, left the Church, but Mhlanga went on to convince Reverend Moon--having been introduced by the smitten Naramata--that the spirit of his dead son (Moon's that is, who died in a car crash in America at around the time the seminar was taking place) was possessing him. Though Mhlanga--now Hun Ji Nim--didn't speak a word of Korean which he spoke fluently in his former earthly life, he had Moon fooled and taken in hook, line and sinker to the extent that Moon put all of the Zimbabwe Church property in Mhlanga's name.

Shortly after this unexpected windfall, Mhlanga began fornicating and making babies with Naramata's wife (The Fall of Man, according to Moon is illicit fornication; Moon only does it with his second, very beautiful and much-younger wife after having ditched his first wife--great excuse though--who needs a full page?). Then Mhlanga cut Moon's Church adrift, formed his own and declared himself the Messiah. You couldn't make it up … but the story was later told in Newsweek magazine ... or was it Time magazine?

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