Ancestral Spirits Live When a Single Descendent Lives

Ancestral Spirits Live When a Single Descendent Lives

 

Myriad generations of human beings have lived over thousands of years. Our forebears from fifty, one hundred, or more generations ago have lived and died. But why is the current time so important? And why is the saving of people now called the harvest of heaven and earth? Listen closely.

 

Our ancestors have descended, let us say, over one or two hundred generations, and at least one descendent must live for the ancestral spirits to survive. Imagine a thousand-year-old tree. As this ancient tree ages, it rots, except for a couple of buds poking out of its trunk. If these buds are torn out, they cannot germinate, and the tree will grow old and rot away. But the thousand-year-old tree lives on if but a single bud survives and takes root. In this same way, when a single human descendent survives, his forebears also live on in the spirit realm.

 

If a bloodline began a thousand years ago, would it not contain millions of descendents? Out of these millions, the ancestral spirits must save at least one descendent in order to continue existing. This is why our ancestors are laboring frantically in the spirit realm. Remember, Sangjenim said, “Ancestral spirits devote more than sixty years to begetting a single worthy descendent, and there are many spirits who are unable to produce any” (Dojeon 2:101:2).

 

Then how can people survive? All will be saved at the time of gaebyeok if they enter into Sangjenim’s truth and practice His teachings.