Jesus’ two families
Cheon Seong Gyeong

Book 4 Earthly Life and the Spiritual World

Chapter 10 • The True Family of Humankind Must Be Restored • 515

God laid the national, religious, tribal and family foundations. Thus, He established Josephʼs and Zechariahʼs families. Then, if Jesus from Josephʼs family and John the Baptist from Zechariahʼs family had united, Godʼs will would have been fulfilled in a short time. What would have happened had John the Baptist believed in Jesus? Also, what would have happened if Jesus had received John the Baptistʼs younger sister as his bride? The will of God could have been fulfilled. When I say things like this, donʼt Christians immediately oppose me? They make a great hue and cry over it. Yet, however much they oppose me, it will be to no avail. Those opposing me now will realize that Iʼm not lying when they pass on to the spirit world. (Blessed Family - 488) 

Book 6 Our Life and the Spiritual Realm

Chapter 1 • The Path of Life • 791

What will we see in the age of the Last Days? People will have sexual relationships with others of the same family. Incest will be rampant. It will be the same amongst family and relatives. Why will it be like this? Who was Jesusʼ father? It was Zachariah. Christianity speaks of Jesusʼ conception through the Holy Spirit, but that is an incomplete understanding. Do you know what an unfertilized egg is? What is an unfertilized egg? Like a henʼs egg, the seed did not enter that egg. Fallen people today can be likened to unfertilized eggs. They have nothing to do with God. That is why they do not have eternal life. (274-256, 1995.11.3) 

Book 8 • Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity • 1172

Jesus had to stand on the foundation of the unified Cain – Abel relationship between the two families and tribes of Zechariah and Joseph. This was the basis needed for Jesusʼ marriage. However, he died and was unable to accomplish this. The Blessing is to indemnify and restore this. Jesus and Josephʼs family signifies the position of Abel. Zechariahʼs family signifies the position of Cain. (146-342, 1986.8.10) 

The relationship between Jesus and John the Baptist was similar to that between Cain and Abel. Jesus and John the Baptist were brothers. This has not been revealed before, but they were brothers. John the Baptist was born from the first wife, and Jesus was born from the second wife. He could not have been born from the first wife. That is why in the Last Days, sexual immorality has become prevalent. The trend of women selling their bodies is spreading. Women must be liberated. It cannot be done through the first husband. In the Last Days, outstanding people can be born to wanton women, to streetwalkers. Do you understand? In the fallen world, the concubine snatches love. (169-194, 1987.10.31) 

Chapter 2 • True Parents and the History of the Blessing • 1323

After receiving the Blessing, we can have sons and daughters; centering on our families, we can accomplish all that Jesus failed to achieve because of the families of Zechariah and Joseph who did not fulfill their responsibility to unite. That is why our work will be done when the family of the husband and the family of the wife are united into one. They represent Cain and Abel. Doesnʼt the husband come from his clan? Just as the husband has his own clan, the wife has her own clan also. Therefore, the husband would be the son-in-law to the wifeʼs clan, and the wife would be the daughter-in-law of the husbandʼs clan. On the day these two clans are brought together and at least 160 couples from both clans are united, Satan will lose his base of activity within these two clans. (274-169, 1995.10.29) 

Chapter 2 • Home Church as the Internal Foundation of the Providence

To be recognized as a Blessed Family centering on your relatives, you must cross over the level of the Cain and Abel tribes. Jesus could not get Zachariahʼs family and Josephʼs family to become one. This meant that the Jewish people and the Jewish faith could not cross over the national standard of Cain and Abel. Christian history has the destiny to restore this. Your family will be blessed when you stand on the foundation of having restored Cain and Abel. Because this is the standard of the principle, I have asked you to unite these things centering on Home Church. But have you been working diligently for Home Church? (181-279, 1988.10.3) 

What is Home Church? It is the tribe. It is the base for a tribal messiah. What is the base of the tribal messiah? Viewed in relationship to Jesus, the families of Joseph and Zachariah were the bases. The death of Jesus was due to Zachariahʼs family. Jesus could not bring unity based on Josephʼs family. He also could not bring unity based on Zachariahʼs family. You know Zachariahʼs family, right? It was the family of John the Baptist. Who was John the Baptist? He was Jesusʼ brother. They were from different wombs, but they were brothers. (115-82, 1981.11.4) 

Jesus should have embraced Josephʼs family and Zachariahʼs family. In the same way that Jesusʼ death was due to the disunity between these two families, we need Home Church and tribal church today. It is always the same. Jesus was to stand on the unity between Josephʼs family and Zachariahʼs family. 

Book 15 • The Life of an Owner of Cheon Il Guk • 2292

The families of Joseph and Zechariah should have united to lay the foundation for Jesus to stand on as the tribal messiah. If they had done so, the nation was to be restored through indemnity; but this did not happen. The Unification Church is currently laying the people-level foundation to restore the nation. We stand on the basis of having passed through the tribal age. You are serving the True Parents and are called their children. You can now be their children – not their legitimate children (in the traditional and legal sense), but also not adopted children (for adopted children have no blood relationship with the parent). You now stand in the position of the child by a concubine. 

If this position were not established there would be no way for us to save this world. We have crossed over the tribal realm and are heading towards the realm of one people. It was within that realm that you were blessed. (141-209, 1986.2.22)