The Covenant of the Blessing

The Covenant of the Blessing (1)

3-Day Ceremony, Love and Respect

April 21,2015

Alright, guys! I want you to relax! Don't worry about it! Yes, it's a Blessing of marriage, but you know the Blessing of marriage is supposed to be full of joy unspeakable, okay? So everybody just relax! It's a beautiful day; all right, take a deep breath. You are all doing well; you look beautiful! All right, but we're going to talk about the Covenant of the Blessing today!

Let's look at this: we're going to talk about things in this preparation for the Blessing- the Blessing will commence at 11:00 or around that time, okay - but we're going to do something that absolutely has not been done, which is, we're going to talk about the inner workings of marriage absolutely clearly today. We're going to talk about the 3-Day Ceremony publicly today

This is a ceremony that many, even blessed children, have never heard of. Many of us who have grown up in the Church have not heard what the 3-Day Ceremony comprises of; and a lot of people in the church who have undergone the 3-Day Ceremony have almost become shy of it. Amen, right?

And this is what is so important in this hour; as Father has now ascended, and the Holy Spirit is dwelling with us, we must not be like the children of Noah, who when they saw their father’s nakedness were ashamed, amen, and tried to cover him. So, as the hierarchical Church, that is following a false covenant, is ashamed of Father, ashamed of the different ceremonies that we have had, it is so important that the children of God be not ashamed of their Father. Amen!

It is so important! That is the right heartistic posture that we must have before God, and this is what's so important. That's why we need to today, clearly talk, about things such as the 3-Day Ceremony. We're going to actually go through the 3-Day Ceremony, each one of the steps of the 3-Day Ceremony, the significance of the 3-Day Ceremony. We're also going to talk about food today; how many know that in marriage food is a very important thing? Food is a very important thing.

And then we're also going to talk about what? Sex! We're going to talk about sex, because in the Church, the body of Christ does not talk about the holiness of sexuality. It does not! It has become shamed by the fallen culture, and that is why our fallen culture is educating our children on sex, where it should be the parents in a godly home, and it should be the pulpit, where we also can teach about the sanctity of marriage and the sanctity of intimacy in marriage. Amen!

This is something of course, which is core to the Principle, and it is core to Father’s teaching. How many know that when you were in the presence of Father, he would talk so openly about intimacy in marriage? Even if there were grandchildren around, he had no shame, because God prepared the Covenant of marriage; that's where the grandchildren came from. How many know that's where the grand- children came from? Right! But we have become ashamed because we have become dominated by the satanic culture and fallen culture around us, and thus we cannot talk in the Churches about the sanctity of sexuality in the Covenant of marriage. Amen! So, we're going to get into that today, okay? So, we're going to talk about those things.

Summary

• Lineage and Spiritual Positions
• Day Ceremony!
• Food (Barbecues, and Recipes)
• Sex!

We're going to talk about the lineage and spiritual positions, the 3-Day Ceremony for the first time in public. What a glorious day! The archangels cannot try to hide this anymore! See, as blessed children we didn't have to go through it, but when I was studying it to teach it, it was so powerful; it was so beautiful to see this! I mean even just to understand this as a blessed child! We, as blessed children, we don't have to participate in it, but to understand it; the incredible ceremony that the 3-Day Ceremony is! I was so moved looking and studying through this ceremony.

We're also going to cover barbecue and recipes today; but it's not what you think, it's not what you think. And we're going to talk about the importance of sexuality in marriage. How critical that is to your Blessing! Amen!

All right, let's look at the 3-Day Ceremony! Let’s read this together!

3- Day Ceremony

• Due to the Fall, God's blood lineage was lost to the dominion of Satan. Mankind must be restored unto God the Father and Christ, the Son of God. The Messiah is the Bridegroom, and must meet his Bride. A Blessed Couple is in the position of a bride who has been wed to Christ. Specifically, the wife stands in the position of Fallen woman or Eve, and the husband stands in the position of Fallen Archangel. Christ stands in the position of the Perfect Man and Perfect Adam.
• Through the 3-Day Ceremony, the wife is reborn in Christ, as the restored Bride of Christ, and is bestowed to the husband as a princess in the Kingdom of God. The husband is reborn in Christ, as a Son of God, a prince of the Kingdom of God. After the completion of these holy consecrations, the husband and wife will stand as a prince and princess of God's Kingdom, to glorify and honor Him forever. Amen!

Let's give God some praise for that! This is the engrafting into the royalty, the royalty of God. Amen! The royal family! Those who are first getting blessed and are going to do the 3-Day Ceremony, if you are what we call first generation, if you're receiving the Blessing for the first time, we're encouraging you to do a 40-day celibacy separation period. 40 days! You have to hold, have dominion over the 3 flesh for 40 days. This is a symbolic offering; it's like a fast, right. This does not purify us, but it gets us out of the way, so God can prepare us. Amen!

40- Day Victory over Satan

• 40 days of celibacy after Blessing
• Receiving prayer from Pastor after 40 days celibacy.

• In the Old Testament, when God destroyed the earth with water, He caused it to rain 40 days and 40 nights (Genesis 7:12). ü
• After Moses killed the Egyptian, he fled to Median, where he spent 40 years in the desert tending flocks (Acts 7:30) ü
• Moses was on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights (Exodus 24:18) ü
• Moses interceded on Israel’s behalf for 40 days and 40 nights (Deuteronomy 9:18,25) ü
• The Law specified a maximum number of lashes a man could receive for a crime, setting the limit at 40 (Deuteronomy 25:3) ü
• The Israelite spies took 40 days to spy out Canaan (Numbers 13:25) ü
• The Israelites wondered for 40 years (Deuteronomy 8:2-5) ü
• Before Samson’s deliverance, Israel served the Philistines for 40 years (Judge 13:1) ü
• Goliath taunted Saul’s army for 40 days before David arrived to slay him (1 Samuel 17:16) ü
• When Elijah fled from Jezebel, he travelled 40 days and 40 nights to Mt. Horeb (1.King 19:8) The number 40 also appears in the prophecies of Ezekiel (4: 6, 29:11-13) and Jonah (3:4)
• In the New Testament, Jesus was tempted for 40 days and 40 nights (Matthew 4:2). There were 40 days between Jesus’ resurrection and ascension (Acts 1:3)

The 40- day period is a separation from Satan period; it's like a time of spiritual fasting, where we are internally separating from Satan's covenant. The 3-Day Ceremony will then commence after the 40 - day period; so after the 40-day period of purity, the 3-Day Ceremony will commence after receiving a prayer for the 40- days victory of separation over Satan, and then you will enter into the 3-Day Ceremony.

And I want to go through this in great details with you, because those who have done the ceremony, you will remember it, but those who have never heard of this, like blessed children, it's so powerful to understand what type of Covenant we exist under.

Umma, if I can ask you to come!

1 st Day

3-Day Ceremony

1st Day

• Holy salt bedroom
• Place True Parents’ picture in an appropriate location in bedroom
• Light holy candle
• Holy Washing Ceremony
• Husband and wife take bath
• Wet a clean towel (designated as Holy Towel) and symbolically clean body –
• Dry body with dry towel
• Wear clean clothes and bow to True Parents
• Recite Family Pledge
• Husband bows to wife three times symbolizing Fallen Archangel
• Wife, in position of Fallen Eve, prays for husband to be reborn as a son of God
• Husband and wife have sexual intercourse with wife in top position
• After, put on clothes and husband bows to wife once
• Wife reports to God and prays of success of 1st Day Restoration of Old Testament

So, this is the 3-Day Ceremony. The three days symbolize the Old, the New, and Completed Testaments. The three days also symbolize formation, growth and perfection, the stage of growth at which Adam and Eve had fallen, and lost perfection, lost God's ideal in the kingdom.

So, on the first day there is preparation before the actual ceremony commences, and that would be holy salting the bedroom, purifying it with prayer, also with a holy song; we’ll place True Parents’ picture in appropriate location in the bedroom, and we will light the holy candle before that. Then there will be a holy washing ceremony where the couple, husband and wife will bathe, clean their bodies, and then they will use a clean towel or their holy kerchief; you will use that to symbolically wipe your body -something like this (showing it) - and then you'll symbolically wash your body. There will be a separate towel, and then you will dry your body with a regular towel; but that holy kerchief will remain for the three days. After that point of washing we will put on our clothes and formal clothes, we will bow to True Parents and we will recite the Family Pledge. So you can then recite the Family Pledge which is pledging our families to the building of the Kingdom.

Now here is where powerful things happen! On the first day, look at this, the first day the husband will do three full bows to his wife. How many knew that? How many are hearing this for the first time? Okay! On the first day the husband will do three full bows. What is a full bow? A full bow is about like this on the knees (demonstrating) and to the ground; that's a full bow. Three full bows symbolizing the different levels of growth within formation stage; in the formation stage, there is formation, growth and perfection stages within that one stage.

So, on the first day the husband will bow three times to his wife. In this posture the husband will realize that he represents the fallen archangel. He is the fallen archangel and he has to humble himself to Eve, because in the Garden he seduced Eve and fully beguiled her, and brought her and Adam under his yoke of slavery. This is the path of breaking that bond with Satan, not only with spiritual salvation but, as Paul prophesied, that when the Lord returns- we are waiting for the adoption of the body- that God must also claim the physical body or the resurrected body, and that must be totally pure and separated from Satan.

So, the husband will bow to the wife three times, full bows symbolizing the fallen archangel, and the wife in the position of fallen Eve prays for the husband to be reborn. She has to pray in the position of fallen Eve to ask God that her husband would be reborn, that the archangelic dominion would leave him, and that he would be reborn as a son of God. So, we'll pray together like that (demonstrating): right hand over the left, and my wife's right hand over my left.

On that first day, the wife will pray, after she has received the three bows from her husband. And then the husband and wife will have sexual intercourse with the wife in the top position. How many heard this for the first time? In the top position, because what happened? In the fall Eve came under the dominion of Satan and she became his object or she became his slave; she came under him. So, in the restoration of the formation stage and the Old Covenant, Eve must stand as the victor, so she must stand in a position above the archangel. And that's, why in that first night of intimacy, the wife will be on the top position, symbolizing the restoration of that fallen process.

After that is completed the husband and wife will put on their clothes and bow; the husband then again bows to the wife. You see? On the first day as the archangel, he has to show subjugation to the child of God. And people thought Father was a chauvinist! What fools! How many times you’ve got to bow to your wife? Right! And then the husband will bow to the wife again, and then the wife will report to God and will pray, thanking Him for the success of the first- day restoration, symbolically of the formation stage or the Old Testament Age era.

So, all of Providence, all of the 6,000 years of biblical history, are coming to culmination in your Blessing, in your marriage! It's not just: ‘boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy likes girl, and they live happily ever after and fight every day.’ That's not what it's about! All of Providence is condensed into this initial stage.

2 nd, 3rd Day

2nd Day

• Repeat 1st Day (but this time symbolizing the indemnity of Jesus not obtaining his bride)

3rd Day (Symbolizing full and completed restoration of Man and Woman)

• On this day, the husband symbolically walks the path of True Father restoring the dominion of fallen man
• Holy Washing Ceremony

1. Husband and wife take bath
2. Wet the Holy Towel and symbolically clean body
3. Dry body with dry towel
4. Wear clean clothes and bow to True Parents
5. Recite Family Pledge
6. Husband and wife face each other and offer 3 bows
7. Husband prays thanking God for restoration of manhood
8. Wife prays thanking God for restoration of man
9. Husband and wife have sexual intercourse with man in top position
10. After, clean body with holy towel and preserve as your family treasure
11. Put on clean clothes and wife bows to husband
12. Husband prays to God, thanking for completing 3-Day Ceremony, and vowing absolute fidelity to God, wife and family.

The second day is a repeating of the first day, but this time it is symbolizing the indemnity of Jesus not obtaining his bride because of the faithlessness of the people; they murdered him. The second day will be a repeat of the first day, but now in a different position, symbolizing that indemnity that must be paid of the archangelic peoples who killed Jesus; so this will symbolize the New Testament age.

The third day will be symbolizing the full and completed restoration of what man and woman were supposed to be; the full restoration of man and woman. Now on the third day, the husband will symbolically walk the path of True Father, restoring the dominion of fallen man. Now, husbands on the third day you are walking in the symbolic footsteps of True Father, restoring fallen man. You see? You will do the holy washing ceremony, as done on the second and first day. You'll again repeat: wear clean clothes and bow to True Parents, recite Family Pledge.

On the third day, the husband and wife will face each other; on the previous two days the husband is bowing to the wife, right? On the third day manhood, true manhood, the subject position, is being restored. So they will bow to each other on the third day, facing each other, three bows to each other. And then on the third day the husband will pray; the husband will pray thanking God for restoration of manhood, true manhood, a manhood that has accepted the responsibility and has repented for the sin. Amen! The wife prays after him thanking God for the restoration of man; in this position the wife is also praying in repentance of her sin, and at the same time thanking God for restoring her husband.

After that, husband and wife will have sexual intimacy again, but on the third day the man will be in the top position, symbolizing the restoration of man, and the restoration of the subject position. After this, the body will be cleaned with the same holy towel that you have been using throughout the three days, and this will be preserved as family treasure. This will be preserved because this signifies the new ancestry. We may think family treasures are this or that, but this - your original ancestors and what they passed down, how they now birthed you, and upon what Covenant you are birthed- is the treasure. Amen!

So, we cannot just look at it from a ‘boy meets girl’ perspective. We got to look deep into the historical context, how the descendants will be impacted by the Covenant, by the Blessing, by the removal of Satan and the total dominion of God, being wed to Christ as a bride.

The husband and wife will put on clean clothes, and on the third day the wife will bow to the husband; the wife will do a full bow to the husband, and then the husband will pray to God thanking God for completing the 3 -Day Ceremony, and both of them vowing absolute fidelity, loyalty and faith. Amen!

Now, even though you're second generation, and you don't have to do this, do you see how deep this is? Do you see how much you can learn from the posture? There's so much depth in our Blessing! So that's the first stage; that's the first 3-Day Ceremony. We will have that up for you on the website and different social media, so you can download that and have those things, so that when you actually do the 3-Day Ceremony after the 40- day separation period you will be victorious in the ceremony.

Note

If for any physical reason the couple is NOT able to accomplish this 3- Day Ceremony within three consecutive days, they may try again as they are physically capable. Couples should NOT try to complete this ceremony in less than three consecutive days.

We get that question all the time. Father said we must do it on three different days, so don't try to just rush it. If you are healthy, you can try to get it done in one day; but don't try that, okay! Three consecutive days representing the three stages, formation, growth and perfection!

Love & Respect:

Now we're going to go also to the Scripture, and this scripture makes people mad but we got to deal with it because it's the Word of God. Amen! We can't just ignore it. So I'm going to read this whole scripture; we're going to read from 21 and we're going to go to 33, but let's read together:

Ephesians 5:21-27

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant Church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. Amen!

Now, before all the men start celebrating and say, “Woo-hoo! Submit!” No! Before you start doing that, look at what the Scripture says, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. “That's the key! We submit to one another out of reverence for Christ; what you do not want in your Blessing, in your marriage, is a power struggle. Amen! A power struggle will destroy your marriage, because the devil will get in it and tear you apart. That's why God sets up the structure and that's why God already gives us the model for what He intends.

Wives, we're supposed to submit to our husbands as we do to Christ, how the Church submits to Christ, and at the same time husbands, we are to love our wives just as Christ loved the Church. Well, how much did he love the Church? So much that he died! You're talking about absolute sacrifice, going to the death. That is what we're called to do as husbands, real men and husbands.

Now look at this verse 24; this is very important. Many husbands like the Scripture, “As the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything” Yeah! Bring out the football” and whatever! No! Look what the Scripture says, men? How are you to be real men? “You are to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with the water, but through the Word” How many of you men are studying the Scripture daily? How many? Real men have to be studying the Scripture; you are called to be the priest of your household. If you are not studying the Scripture you're not a real man; you have to study the Scripture, you have to be the priest of the house.

Look at what it says; you have to “wash her through the Word.” We're supposed to wash our spouse in the Word; this is not a message of condemnation. Amen! Right! You guys see it “in the Word”. You're supposed to be the priest. So, men, this is our calling; we have to be the priest of the household. We have to walk with her, deal with her, with the Word; not just our opinions or our feelings, but we have to deal with our wife with the Scripture; we have to lead the household. Amen!

So, this is an important part of manhood restored in the Blessing and in marriage. Husbands are called to be the priest; you're called to study and to wash your spouse in the Word. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't it beautiful? That's what we're called to do; we're called to love her by the Word of God. Okay? So, we have to study our Bibles; we have to study the Principle, the Cheon Seong Gyeong. We have to study the Scripture, and we have to encourage especially our wife with the Word of God. It's not only about beautiful, romantic words that we say to her. Our marriage is not only ‘a boy and a girl love each other.’ That's not what marriage is about, folks! Right! It's not about you, right; it's not about you!

Your marriage is about God! But how many of us want to get married for us, and you won't have a lot of preachers tell you that it's not about you. Marriage is not about you. It is about the everlasting Covenant with God! That's what it's about! So I want to challenge you to get this on the inside of you, because if this challenges you, that's good, because that's the Holy Spirit convicting you, in a good way; this is a good thing.

So, we want to wash her, we want to be the priests of the house; we have to wash her with water, encourage her through the Word, strengthen her with the Word. Just as we would strengthen our congregation with the Word, we also have to strengthen, encourage, enable, increase, empower, our wife with the Word of God. Okay? That is so important!

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