Peace Starts With Me Today; New York City Mayor de Blasio Slated to Attend; Conference Credits Hak Ja Moon for Korean Unification

Today is the big Unification Church evangelistic rally featuring Christian singers Hezekiah Walker, Yolanda Adams, and Israel Houghton. Bishop Noel Jones is supposed to speak as a warm-up for the Daughter of God herself, Hak Jan Han Moon, True Mother and co-savior of the world.

Also speaking today, according to this press release, is Mayor Bill de Blasio.

You can watch the event here.

I suspect the author of Reckless Love never thought it would be sung at a Unification Church evangelistic service.

Family Federation minister Demian Dunkley said 200 churches and houses of worship are represented at the event which is a big “family reunion.”

Bishop Noel Jones said he has studied the Moons’ teaching and has used them with students in his church. This appears to be a pretty clear admission that he has left orthodoxy. The syncretism is strong in his message.

Moon’s message was as promised. She claimed to be the only begotten daughter of God. Then, after some fractured history, she claimed that True Parents are the new opportunity to be born again and the way to receive the blessing and become the children of God.

 

32 thoughts on “Peace Starts With Me Today; New York City Mayor de Blasio Slated to Attend; Conference Credits Hak Ja Moon for Korean Unification”

  1. Will former President George H.W. Bush Sr. also attend in support? I believe the Unification Church grounded itself in the U.S. back in the 1970s under Nixon, yes?

  2. It appears that the main program starts at 3pm ET and can be viewed live through the link provided in the OP. If I am wrong, please correct me.

  3. Looks like another one with a “Dr.” in front of her name. She “attended an all-girls high school in Korea but did not go on to college”; she has two honorary doctorates.

  4. Wow, pretty crazy. The son of a friend of ours who lives in California got sucked into some South Korea-based cult with a matriarch that purports to be Jesus some way or another. Now he’s turning over all his money and living communally, and telling his family they’re going to hell because they don’t worship this old woman. Lots of crazy out there.

    1. The fear of hell has historically proved to be a great motivator for all sorts. A dispassionate observer might be forgiven for judging them all “crazy.”

      1. No, it’s not the Unification Church. There’s another one, believe it or not. “Church of God World Mission Society”. I had to look it up.

      2. A church friend who lived in South Korea mentioned to me that there are a disturbing number of churches where the pastor claim to be an incarnation of Jesus.

        I know that the Manmin Central Church is another church with this issue, and they run the Christian TV network GCN that has some US representation — including a show on NRB TV for some unholy reason.

  5. I have come to see that there is a Harlot Church just as there was a Harlot Temple back in the day when God first sent prophets to ancient Israel. This false church is very large and Money is one of their chief false gods that they serve. This is not going to end well for those such as these false teachers listed here. We know what God did to the Jews with Assyria and Babylon. God does not change. What is coming is equally terrible, but few believe that because we are self-deluded. I wish more people would get some clue with a completely appropriate fear of God.
    Oh, and I would never say that this God of Love of ours is reckless. The man who wrote that lyric does not appear to me to have an appropriate level of respect either. But real worship is about Spirit and Truth, and not about becoming rich and famous. I think that song was appropriate given this context where some old lady claims to be God. She is totally reckless in every way…

    1. There have always been false teachers and prophets, and always will be; 2 Peter 2:1.
      But that’s one way of distinguishing true believers from false. Christ’s sheep hear His voice (John 10:27).

          1. Lots of crazy stuff that people believe is refute by the Bible if they would actually read it carefully and study it.

          2. Lots of crazy stuff people believe comes from a direct, literal reading of scripture, which is why it must be read through the filter of one’s own humanity and reason.

  6. Noel Jones is Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW) which baptizes in the name of Jesus only so not exactly mainstream Christianity in the first place. BTW the PAW Wikipedia article needs a major rewrite.

    1. I believe the Unification Church is quite good at invitations that aren’t what they seem. He was probably invited to give a short welcome to the city to a large iinterfaith meeting. Note it isn’t his press release.

      1. I believe you’re right. But de Blasio should have had someone look into them before jumping. If he did, there’s no excuse. Those people are nuts.

    2. It does open up the germane question, however, of what should distinguish one belief system from another to a neutral arbiter? This has always been the impetus behind government taking an agnostic stand with respect to religion. I don’t think DeBlasi should speak at this event but then I don’t think the National Prayer Breakfast is a good idea either. Yet we now have a blurring of these lines so much so that the question comes up, why this belief and not that one? It’s no good.

      1. I might agree, but such participation has always been seen as benign. Madison would likely have disapproved, but then, he didn’t win every argument either.

        1. At one point it probably was pretty benign. In God We Trust on currency, for instance, is an example of a meaningless phrase. At the same time, we have allowed our government to become more involved with “faith based” this or that, and in Florida we were practically using church attendance as one criteria for getting one’s voting rights back after serving time. It is important for both sacred and secular that the two are not mixed in our government. I understand your point, but I would rather err on the side of caution.

      2. The word “religion” is a very imperfect container. It’s kind of like “art”. If you say it’s art, it’s art. If you say it’s religion, it’s religion. The Founders seem to have operated under the Western Enlightenment assumption that religion is a sphere and secular government is a sphere. Christianity is diagrammed that way by Jesus and the Apostles. Islam pretty much wrecks that model.

        1. Islam pretty much wrecks that model.

          Jesus definitely represented them as separate, but Islam wasn’t the first to wreck the model. The Church often does not practice what Jesus preached, so to speak. And right now, there is a definite tendency to mix the two again, or to simply lie and say they have always been. My point would be that this is one of those areas where vigilance is especially necessary.

    3. It does open up the germane question, however, of what should distinguish one belief system from another to a neutral arbiter? This has always been the impetus behind government taking an agnostic stand with respect to religion. I don’t think DeBlasi should speak at this event but then I don’t think the National Prayer Breakfast is a good idea either. Yet we now have a blurring of these lines so much so that the question comes up, why this belief and not that one? It’s no good.

    1. They do. It’s why so many “Christians” and assorted politicians (of various flavors) were eager to jump into bed with them, decades ago.

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