Claim. The unfinished portion of the messianic mission — the work Reverend Moon is called to complete — is the salvation of marriage and family life, because Jesus never married or had a family. Without this, God cannot exercise dominion over physical birth.
Elaboration. Hendricks argues that if more remains beyond the cross, and if the work must occur on earth by a physical man (per the personal call from Jesus — see moons-authority-from-personal-call-by-jesus), then the unfinished content is concrete: marriage and lineage.
The exegetical case (reverend-moons-personal-calling):
- John 8:44 (humans have the devil as their father) “looms larger” once one accepts that the messianic return is for physical birth, not only spiritual.
- John 1:12 (Jesus gave believers the right to become children of God) is constrained by John 3:5–8 (spiritual birth, not physical) — Jesus himself drew the line.
- The physical return must be for God’s dominion over physical birth.
- Sub-claim: Whether the messianic agent is “born sinless or perfected by his suffering” (Heb. 5:7–9) is left open, but he is “someone called and led by Jesus.”
This claim is distinctive to UC theology and is the load-bearing innovation that distinguishes it from classical Christian eschatology. Critics (evangelical, ex-member) typically engage on the exegetical merits and the lineage-via-Blessing mechanism. Worth a future thread.
See also. blessing, true-parents, moons-authority-from-personal-call-by-jesus