Kidnapped for Christmas: A Deprogramming Testimony

In December of 1975, my parents had called me asking me to come to visit them and I thought it would be nice to spend Christmas with them. I was working at East Garden and was given permission to go home and visit my family. What I hadn’t realized was that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they were living, was a hotbed of anti-cult and deprogramming activity.

Kidnapped for Christmas: A Deprogramming Testimony

| DECEMBER 22 2011

The following is a testimony by Louise Schmidt Perlowitz, a Pennysylvania resident who joined the Unification Church in 1971 and who was kidnapped for deprogramming during the holiday season of 1975. She was Blessed in marriage to Jeff Perlowitz in 1982 and has two children, Lana, 23, and Randall, 19. Louise works in the legal department at HSA-UWC (Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity) USA Headquarters and is looking to celebrating this year's Christmas with her husband and children.

In December of 1975, my parents had called me asking me to come to visit them and I thought it would be nice to spend Christmas with them. I was working at East Garden and was given permission to go home and visit my family. What I hadn’t realized was that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they were living, was a hotbed of anti-cult and deprogramming activity.

My mother picked me up at the airport and drove me to my parents’ home. She told me we were going in the front door, which I thought was strange, since we always used the back door. When we entered the living room there were four strange people sitting in the living room with my dad. This was really weird, since this was my first day home, and my parents would not usually have invited people over to visit right away.

Two or three of the male visitors were large and intimidating. One of the men said in an ominous voice, “Do you know why we are here?” Then I realized who they were. My immediate reaction was mentally to withdraw from what was going on and to try to figure out what to do. Since I was not a great speaker or a theologian, I did not think I could talk my way out of the situation. My decision was to see what they said, play along a little bit, and try to escape when the opportunity came. Also, I did not have a lot of time to waste, since I really wanted to be back in the Unification Church environment by God’s Day, January 1st, and start the new year in God’s camp.

The visitors presented their arguments, and I responded as well as I could, stating my views, but they were very persistent. I gradually stopped arguing and started smiling. It was getting along toward dinnertime, and my mother had prepared both a large ham and a turkey for dinner. I thought the stress must be getting to my mother, because she would never have made such a huge, expensive dinner under normal circumstances. I thought I should get out of this deprogramming situation quickly for her sake as well.

After dinner the deprogramming continued. When it came time to break for the night, the deprogrammers camped out in the house, and I spent the night in a bedroom with my mother.

The next morning, since I had pretty much stopped arguing and just smiled, they thought I was deprogrammed. It was decided that I would be taken to a halfway house in Ohio. A deprogrammer drove me to the home of a family who would look after me as I transitioned back into “society.” This was Christmas Eve. The family treated me well, and even found a Christmas gift to give me on Christmas Day. However, I felt that I faced a very bleak existence unless I could get back to the church.

The day after Christmas, the family decided that I needed a chance to go shopping, since I was coming out of what they thought was a very restricted environment of the church. The whole family, the father, mother, and teenage son and daughter, drove me to the airport where I cashed in my return airline ticket. They allowed me to keep the money. They then drove me to a mall where we would go shopping.

It seems that everyone had to use the restroom, so we went first to the passageway where the restrooms were located. I came out of the restroom first and no one from that family was there standing guard, so I looked for an escape route. There was a mall exit down the passageway, so I raced out the exit and looked to see where I could hide. There was a movie theater across a four-lane highway, so I quickly but carefully crossed the highway, went into the movie theater, bought a ticket (I had money from my airline ticket) and went into the auditorium to hide. The movie hadn’t started yet, so I went down to the front row of seats, near an exit door, and crouched down to hide in case someone came in the movie theater looking for me.

The movie started, but after about a half hour, I got restless and went to a pay phone to call Belvedere to see if someone could rescue me. An Ohio Church brother called me and suggested that I take a taxi and rent a motel room, then call him to give him the address of the motel. I did that and then called him. I asked how I would recognize that he was a church member, and he said he would whistle “The Lord into His Garden Comes.”

The church brother rescued me, and I was able to take a bus back to East Garden. I made it back before God’s Day, which was a real blessing. I felt I had been out in the cold and darkness and very much alone. Now I was back in the light and warmth.

I was welcomed back at East Garden by the True Children and the staff.

My parents came to visit me a couple of years later and then came to New York City when I was blessed in 1982 to my husband, Jeff Perlowitz. I did not feel free to visit them until years later when my mother became ill.

Joseph Kinney in 1975

Louise’s Welcome Back Party

Welcome-back party for Louise Schmidt (far left), Joy Schmidt Pople, and Ye Jin Moon at East Garden.

Louise Schmidt cuts a cake at a party at East Garden around the year 1975. That year there were kidnappings every week.

The following is an account of Louise’s welcome back party in 1975 by Joseph Kinney, who today is the senior project engineer at the New Yorker Hotel, and who witnessed her return to East Garden after her kidnapping.

In 1975, Louise Schmidt, one of the American sisters on the East Garden Staff, received a call that her father was gravely ill. True Parents said she could go tend to her family. At the time, Ted Patrick and others were kidnapping and attempting to deprogram about one member per day, which amounted to 700 members in two years.

The True Children were very concerned about the hundreds of stories about members being kidnapped, so they wanted to celebrate Louise’s return. The three oldest girls, Ye Jin Nim, In Jin NIm and Un Jin Nim, used their own money and bought cake mix and ice cream. I watched as these young girls baked their first cake in the East Garden kitchen. It was as funny as watching any little girls try to bake a cake, but their mood was so serious and sincere. With a little help from the staff sisters, the cake turned out OK.

When the welcome-back party was held, and Louise was seated at the table with the True Children, I believe Louise began to cry first, but very soon all of us -- True Children and staff -- were sobbing. I think the True Children appreciate members’ efforts more than we realize.

Contributed by Louise Schmidt Perlowitz and Joseph Kinney.

Ichiko's radio show--First Interview with John Seijin the Freedom Rider

First Interview with John Seijin the Freedom Rider

Posted on December 15, 2011

John Seijin 12-14-2011 © Ichiko Sudo, 2011

Beginning tomorrow, John Seijin Tranburg, 22, will traverse the United States on bike in the wintertime to promote human rights around the world and especially in Japan.

What will John Seijin, student body president of Georgia Gwinnett College (GCC) in Lawrenceville Georgia, do when he gets cross country from Georgia to California?
“I just want to ride my bike into the ocean, [and] fall into it. ”
“I’m advocating freedom, faith and family… for all people all across the world… In Japan especially… in the last 20, 30 years, you have about 4000 plus people who’ve been kidnapped and forced out of their belief in their religion… it infringes on their expression of religious heritage,” says John Seijin.

Check him out by clicking on the link above.

<from  Ichiko Sudo radio show >

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Oh! Santa, please give her the special gift.

Unificationist to Deprogrammers: All I Want for Christmas Is My Spouse Back!

| DECEMBER 12 2011

The following testimony is from Agnes Jambor, a 31-year-old first-generation Unificationist in Hungary. She was blessed in marriage to Japan-resident Keiichi (last name withheld at request of Japanese Unification Church) in 2005 and has been maintaining long-distance communication with him since their Blessing. Keiichi was kidnapped by faith-breakers, so-called deprogrammers, in Japan more than four months ago and the search for him continues.

Agnes Jambor: "All I want is to see [Keiichi] free, to embrace him again, to be together and build up our own safe home. It would be my biggest present for this Christmas!"

I come from a small city called Sarkad, from a poor family. I have one older brother who is 19 years my senior from a different mother and one older sister who is 14 years my senior with a different father. As you can see, my family is quite mixed. Both of my parents had a previous marriage before they married each other.

My parents were not religious, partly because until 1990, Hungary was under communism. My grandmother on my mother’s side and her family were strong Calvinists. When I was a child, I went to church with my grandmother many times because she took care of me when my parents were working. I didn’t understand much from the services. I could only see that there were many old people sitting there, and I did not like them. I also felt that they didn’t understand what they were talking about. They spoke about love, but outside of church they behaved another way. When my mother lost her job and started drinking, our so-called religious relatives did not help us and just said bad things about us. As a child, I felt that wasn’t right. They spoke about love but did not love. I sensed that something was missing from the holy texts they read at church and how they explained these texts.

My mother would say, “God is inside of us.” She was disappointed in the church, but I think not in God. She raised me up to keep a good standard – to keep my purity, to respect others, etc. I know nothing about the religious background of my father.

Why I Joined the Unification Church

My father passed away in 1991 and my mother in 1997. After their passing, I moved to live with my older brother’s family. While I was in high school, I lived in a dormitory and only went home on the weekends. My relationship with my brother and his wife was very bad, so instead of spending a national holiday with them, I accepted an invitation from a friend to visit the Unification Church center in Békéscsaba, the city in which I was going to school. That friend was working as a CARP member in Békéscsaba and through her, I was able to listen to the Divine Principle. When I heard about the human Fall, I strongly felt that this is what was missing from the Bible and other explanations. I was very sure that this was the truth I had to follow. After I finished high school, I moved to the center to live there. The church community in Békéscsaba was good and the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon resonated with my way of thinking about love and peace. I joined the church that year and became a full-time CARP member.

In 2001, I moved to Szeged, which is where I now live. I was a full-time member until 2007, mostly fundraising and participating in workshops as staff.

My first Marriage Blessing was in 2000, but after five years, my Blessing broke. It was difficult to reapply for the Blessing, but I was matched again to my current fiancé, Keiichi, on December 29, 2005, in Cheong Pyeong, South Korea. At that time, True Father was asking everyone who had applied to the matching to go to Korea so that he could personally match them. It was such a special experience for me. I remember thinking the night before the matching that I did not want a Japanese spouse because communication would be difficult. My first spouse had been from Europe, and even then we had struggled to communicate. But I prayed and trusted myself to God.

Then, True Father Blessed me to a Japanese brother. I was initially afraid, but after Keiichi held my hand, as True Father instructed us to do, I felt so much peace. From that time, Keiichi always held my hand, and wherever we went, he took care of me. He also took care of one of my friends, who had trouble seeing. This considerate manner of Keiichi touched me so much. When we said goodbye after the Blessing, both of us were almost crying. After this first meeting we met again two years later. He was a full-time member in Nagoya, and I was fundraising in another country.

Every week I called him and spoke for at least one hour. We mostly talked about fundraising activities, but many times he gave me the strength to fundraise. I did everything to share my experiences with him. I sent him letters and gifts. When he came to visit me in 2008, we planned out our future. We planned that we would spend a maximum of two more years separately and use the time to build a good spiritual and financial foundation. We talked about living in Korea. We planned to prepare our legal marriage papers. However, when Keiichi went back to Japan, we both lost our jobs and struggled financially. I did not have money to call him. He did not have Internet access and was not good at writing letters. It was almost impossible to communicate. I was only able to reach him through my Japanese friends.

My Husband’s Mother Was Deprogrammed

Keiichi is 32 years old and has two younger brothers. His mother became a member of the Unification Church when Keiichi was a teenager, but she later was kidnapped and suffered at the hands of deprogrammers herself and left the church. Keiichi used to live near Tokyo, where his family still resides, but he left because he suspected that they would kidnap him for deprogramming. Until 2008, he did not have much of a relationship with his family. I think he suspected that he was in danger of being kidnapped.

I love Keiichi, my husband, very much. Although we are not legally married, in my heart and in the eyes of God he has been my husband since 2005. I have been missing the chance to talk to him now for more than four months. Before he was abducted, we made great plans for a happy family. We prepared ourselves for marriage. Now religious bigots in Japan are trying to keep us away from each other. Every day I pray that his kidnappers will release him as soon as possible. It causes me so much pain to know he is suffering under this pressure without meaning. I pray every day that this day would be the last one he spends in this way. All I want is to see him free, to embrace him again, to be together and build up our own safe home. It would be my biggest present for this Christmas to see him free again!

Contributed by Agnes Jambor.

Cyclist To Pedal Across America To Raise Awareness of Japan’s Deprogramming Scandal

| NOVEMBER 30 2011

Atlanta resident Seijin Tranberg: "dream big."

Seijin Tranberg, a second-generation Unificationist, will pedal for social justice this winter in what he calls a “Tour De Cause” bicycle challenge aimed at bringing attention to the issue of faith-breaking in Japan. The tour will begin from his hometown in Atlanta, Georgia on December 15, 2011 and will end in Los Angeles in January, 2012.

A 22-year-old college junior in political science and international relations, Tranberg is the student body president at Georgia Gwinnett College. “The student body is about 8,000 students, and I help out with funding for all the student organizations on campus,” he said. “I like to consistently challenge myself to become a better person as a way to inspire others to do the same. I love dreaming big, and doing everything in my power to make them a reality. When I grow up, I'd like to think that I'm going to help save the world.”

Tranberg also keeps in touch with representatives of CARP (the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles) around the United States. “Georgia Gwinnett doesn’t have a CARP chapter on campus, but I try to live up to CARP’s ideals. My sister and I are the only Unificationists on campus, so we’re the only ones aware of the mission and vision of what CARP is. But we advocate for CARP’s ideals of internal and external excellence, creating a generation of peace, and using yourself and your time in college for the greater good. I feel that my bike trip is something that exemplifies the CARP vision.”

Tranberg shows off the bike and riding equipment that he will use for his cross-country "Tour De Cause."

Tranberg (right) was elected student body president at Georgia Gwinnett College in April, 2011.

The cycling trip totals to approximately 2,351 miles, and Tranberg says that he hopes to maintain an average of 60 miles a day. “I suspect that there will be some days when I’ll be pushed back, or I’ll get ahead, so I’ve given myself 45-50 days to do the actual trip,” he said. “I have to be in Los Angeles by January 31, 2012, because I’ll be departing for China the next day, where I’ll be studying abroad at the Beijing Language and Culture University. There I will study Chinese language and culture, but I’m also going to be taking a class in Chinese foreign policy.”

Tranberg is the second out of the six children of Mr. David and Mrs. Sumiko Tranberg, from the United States and Japan, respectively. “My parents were initially concerned about me when they heard that I was going to bike across the country, but when I told them that I was doing this to raise awareness on the faith-breaking issue taking place in Japan, they were very grateful,” said Tranberg. “My mother especially thanked me and has been very supportive. She’s never personally encountered deprogrammers, but as a native of Japan, she knows people who have been affected. I think the issue of faith-breaking is a very difficult one for any Japanese member. It’s their families, their brothers and sisters we’re talking about, people with a common heritage who are getting kidnapped and deprogrammed. We need to stop deprogramming from happening to not just Unificationists like me, but also to anyone who chooses to pursue a life of faith.”

As for the future, Tranberg is already well-aware of his career choice. “I definitely want to go to a top-tier graduate school. I want to get a doctorate and a Masters in public policy. Foreign policy is an area I’m particularly interested in, specifically U.S. foreign policy to East Asia.”

Follow Tranberg’s blog at http://tourdecause.blogspot.com

Contributed by Ariana Moon

Genesis 14 Abram Rescues Lot

Genesis 14

Abram Rescues Lot

 ¹ At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar,^[a] Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim, ² these kings went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). ³ All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea Valley). ⁴ For twelve years they had been subject to Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.  ⁵ In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim ⁶ and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert. ⁷ Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazezon Tamar.
 ⁸ Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim ⁹ against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five. ¹⁰ Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills. ¹¹ The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away. ¹² They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.



Kedorlamer and the kings won the war against the king of Sodom, and Gomorrah and other kings. and they captures Lot who is Abram's nephew.

The bibical archealogist Al bright said it was happened at about BC 1625.



 ¹³ A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother^[b] of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram. ¹⁴ When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. ¹⁵ During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. ¹⁶ He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

Abram brought back his relative Lot and his possessions.

 ¹⁷ After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
 ¹⁸ Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, ¹⁹ and he blessed Abram, saying,
   “Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
   Creator of heaven and earth.
²⁰ And praise be to God Most High,
   who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
   Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

It is a custom to offer a tenth of everything.  Because Abram gave 10% after the blessing from king of Salem.
  

 ²¹ The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
 ²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, ²³ that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’ ²⁴ I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”

The king of Sodom said "keep the goods for yourself ".      Abram said "I will accept nothing".   Abraham is not greedy at all. He has such a wonderful deep heart.
Who is Melchizedek?
When Abraham born, Shem was 390, Shem died 600. He lived for 210 after Abraham was born. Abraham died 175. It means Shen lived 35 years after Abraham died.
We can guess that Abraham offered 10% to Melchizedek who is Shem(first son of Noah)

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Abram and Lot Separate

Genesis 13

Abram and Lot Separate

 ¹ So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. ² Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.  ³ From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier ⁴ and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Abraham won for king Pharaoh means that Abraham symbolically restored the first Blessing.
And Abraham got back Sara means that he symbolically restored the second blessing.
Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. that means Abraham symbolically restored third Blessing.
He made an altar and pray for new start.
 ⁵ Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶ But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. ⁷ And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
 ⁸ So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. ⁹ Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
 ¹⁰ Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: ¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. ¹³ Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Abraham and Lot separate.  If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.  Abraham loves Lot a lot, so he said Lot to decide.Lot chose Sodom where was sin city. - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." - Jude 6-7, KJV

 ¹⁴ The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. ¹⁵ All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring^[a] forever. ¹⁶ I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. ¹⁷ Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
 ¹⁸ So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.
God encouraged Abraham. He built an altar to the Lord Hebron.
Later he bought a cemetery in Hebron for Sarah,  then later Abraham , Issac, Rebecca, Jacob, Leah got in to the cemetery.

Abraham depress since he separated with Lot. But He believed that God would change his difficulty to hope and joy.

Genesis 12 The Call of Abram

Genesis 12

The Call of Abram

 ¹ The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.  ² “I will make you into a great nation,
   and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
   and you will be a blessing.^[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
   and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
   will be blessed through you.”^[b]
 4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. ⁵ He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.~genesis 11/32
Terah is father of Abraham, and died in Harran.

 ⁶ Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. ⁷ The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring^[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
 ⁸ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
 ⁹ Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

He built an alter to the Lord means the Abraham proclaim this is God's land.

Abram in Egypt

 ¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. ¹¹ As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. ¹² When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. ¹³ Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”  ¹⁴ When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. ¹⁵ And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. ¹⁶ He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

Genesis 11 is the restoration for Noah's family, and the genesis 12 is restoration Adam's family.
Abraham and Sarah said they are brother and sister, just like Adam and Eve were brother and sister. Pharaoh was in the archangel position.
Pharaoh took Sarah into his palace.

 ¹⁷And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
 ¹⁸And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
 ¹⁹Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
 ²⁰And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Pharaoh took Sarah from Abraham, and Abraham got back Sarah.  Arkangel took Eve, Adam could not bring back,he failed.
Abraham and Sarah prayed so hard, so God plagued Pharaoh and his house, not for others.
Abraham restored Sarah and all things.

Genesis 11 Abraham leaves to Cannan

Genesis 11

 ¹And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Children use their parent's language. And the it should be one language.



 ²And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
 ³And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
 ⁴And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
 ⁵And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
 ⁶And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
 ⁷Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
 ⁸So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
 ⁹Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Babel means confusion in Hebrews words.  And the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.~<Genesis 10 10>
God wanted unity center on God. But people started to unity center on themselves.
So God made confusion of their language.




 ¹⁰These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
 ¹¹And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
 ¹²And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
 ¹³And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
 ¹⁴And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
 ¹⁵And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
 ¹⁶And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
 ¹⁷And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
 ¹⁸And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
 ¹⁹And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
 ²⁰And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
 ²¹And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
 ²²And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
 ²³And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
 ²⁴And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
 ²⁵And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
 ²⁶And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

10 generation after from Adam is Noah, and 10 generation after from Noah is Terah.
Terah had 3 children as same as Noah.
The second son Ham failed in the Noah family,　and Satan kept their lineage. And then God chose the first son, it is Shem's linage,
10 generation after from Shem　was Abraham.
Abraham was responsible for the failing of Noah 's family and Adam's family.
Ham couldn't unite with his father Noah whom God love so much. Abraham should restore this failing.Abraham should love his Father Terah whom Satan loves so much, who was not faithful at all.


 ²⁷Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
 ²⁸And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
 ²⁹And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
 ³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
 ³¹And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
 ³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

 ² And he said, “Hear me, brethren and fathers! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in ^[a]Haran, ³ and said to him, ‘LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR RELATIVES, AND COME INTO THE LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.’ ⁴ Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in ^[b]Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living ~act 7/2

Abraham was born when Noah was 892 years old, Shem was 392 years old. Noah lived with Abraham for 58 years, and Shem lived with him for 208 years.
We can guess that Noah  and Shem  gave the testimony to the descendants every year Febrary 27, which is when Noah's family came out from the ark after the flood.

We can understand that Abraham educated from Noah and Shem. That is God's love which He had a plan to save people through Abraham.

Genesis 10 Table of Nations

Genesis 10 Table of Nations

Noah's descendants


¹ This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.   

The Japhethites
 ² The sons^[a] of Japheth:
   Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.
 ³ The sons of Gomer:
   Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
 ⁴ The sons of Javan:
   Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.^{[b] 5} (From these the maritime peoples(the ocean people) spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

The descendants of Japheth moved from   Mt. Ararat to south of Black sea to Greek, Italy, Spain, and French.
 
 The Hamites
 ⁶ The sons of Ham:
   Cush, Miz'ra-im(Egypt), Put and Canaan.
 ⁷ The sons of Cush:
   Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.
   The sons of Raamah:
   Sheba and Dedan.
 ⁸ Cush was the father^[c] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” ¹⁰ The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in^[d] Shinar.^{[e] 11} From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,^[f] Calah ¹² and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.

 ¹³Miz'ra-im(Egypt) was the father of
   the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, ¹⁴ Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.

They went Egypt and Africa.

 ¹⁵ Canaan was the father of
   Sidon his firstborn,^[g] and of the Hittites, ¹⁶ Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, ¹⁷ Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, ¹⁸ Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.
   Later the Canaanite clans scattered ¹⁹ and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.

God said to Abraham " God will give the land of Sidon Gerar Gazar."
Mose, Joshua and Caleb fought the people there. They kicked out the Canaanite clans.
Therefore the desendants of Ham was bigger Egypt and Africa.

 ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.


   The Semites
 ²¹ Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was^[h] Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.
 ²² The sons of Shem:
   Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
 ²³ The sons of Aram:
   Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.^[i]
 24 Arphaxad was the father of^[j] Shelah,
   and Shelah the father of Eber.
 ²⁵ Two sons were born to Eber:
   One was named Peleg,^[k] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
 ²⁶ Joktan was the father of
   Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
 ³⁰ The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

The descendants of shem went to the eastern country.

  “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem!
   May Canaan be the slave of Shem."~Genesis9/26
Christianity , Judaism , Islam and Buddhism were started from Asia.


 May God extend Japheth’s^[a] territory;
   "may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
   and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”~Genesis9/27

African people became slave for the white people.
 ³¹ These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
 ³² These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

Genesis 9 God’s Covenant With Noah

Genesis 9

God’s Covenant With Noah

 ¹ Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. ² The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. ³ Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

God gave Blessing to Noah same as He gave to Adam.
God tried to save  Adam's family by choosing Cain and Abel. But Cain killed Abel.
Therefor God chose Seth. Then Noah was stood Adam's position after 10 generation from Seth.


⁴ “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. ⁵ And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
⁶ “Whoever sheds human blood,
   by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
   has God made mankind.
Cain killed Abel. God really concerned that never would be  happend again. God loved His children as their parent.

 ⁷ As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”
 ⁸ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: ⁹ “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you ¹⁰ and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. ¹¹ I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
 ¹² And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: ¹³ I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵ I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. ¹⁶ Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
 ¹⁷ So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

The Sons of Noah

 ¹⁸ The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹⁹ These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.

Adam had 3 sons named Cain, Abel and Seth. Noah had 3 sons same as Adam did. their name are Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ~Genesis1/29
God gave to Adam plant, fruit to eat.
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.~Gen9/3
God gave to Noah animals and plant to eat. We can guess that God concerned there are not so much plant after the flood.

 ²⁰ Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded^[a] to plant a vineyard. ²¹ When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. ²² Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. ²³ But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
 ²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵ he said,
   “Cursed be Canaan!
   The lowest of slaves
   will he be to his brothers.”
 ²⁶ He also said,
   “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem!
   May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
²⁷ May God extend Japheth’s^[b] territory;
   may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
   and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
 ²⁸ After the flood Noah lived 350 years. ²⁹ Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

Archangel should follow Adam, but instead he controlled Adam.
God chose Cain and Abel to restore Adam's mistake.
Since Adam failed, he had two master, God and Satan.
God made a plan to divide  Adam with Cain and Able.
Able is God position, and Cain is Satan's position.
If Cain asked Able how to do the offering, and they did the offering together, God could send Jesus to Adam's family.
And Jesus saved all of Adam's family.
But Cain killed Able,  then God chose Noah 1600years later , 10 generations after Seth.

In the Adam's family, parent and son made a mistake.
In the Noah's family, parent and son should restore the mistake.
Adam and Eve were not ashamed to be naked before he fall.
To restore Adam's position for Noah, Ham should not be ashamed to be naked. He should totally trust his father.
But he said to everyone and they were ashamed and covered Noah.

Noah's family restoration was failed.

Missing Japanese Man Suspected Victim of Kidnapping and Faith-Breaking

Religious-freedom activists have expressed concern about a new case of a suspected kidnapping and secret confinement of a Unification Church member in Japan. The International Coalition for Religious Freedom (ICRF) announced the disappearance of the 32-year-old man from the city of Nagoya in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture. Mr. “K.M.” has not been seen by fellow church members since 

September 5, 2011.

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Missing Japanese Man Suspected Victim of Kidnapping and Faith-Breaking

| OCTOBER 04 2011

The Martyrs of Nagasaki depicts the 26 converts and missionaries of Christianity who were crucified on February 5, 1597.

A Monument in Kyushu, Japan, dedicated to the 26 Christian Martyrs.

Religious-freedom activists have expressed concern about a new case of a suspected kidnapping and secret confinement of a Unification Church member in Japan. The International Coalition for Religious Freedom (ICRF) announced the disappearance of the 32-year-old man from the city of Nagoya in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture. Mr. “K.M.” has not been seen by fellow church members since September 5, 2011.

Local church leaders have reported Mr. “K.M.” as a missing person to the police. His place of work also reported him absent, and colleagues from the local Okazaki Unification Church, with which he is affiliated, found his residence empty. However, Japanese police routinely reject such reports on the grounds that a church pastor is not a relative. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that in hundreds of such cases, it is the victim’s relatives who kidnap and confine him, with the intent to force him or her out of the church.

The practice of kidnapping religious believers for “deprogramming” was widespread in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s but came to an end after courts made it clear that such actions were illegal, even when committed by family members. Scientologists, Krishna devotees, Pentecostal Christians and Unificationists were among the victims. Today, the Unification Church remains highly controversial in Japan, and the nation’s traditional values hold that “family matters” — such as spousal abuse, rape, incest and forcing an adult relative to renounce his religion — should be kept private.

The issue of religious kidnapping in Japan recently has gained international attention as the result of the case of Mr. Toru Goto, who was held against his will in a secret location in Tokyo and another city for 12 years because he refused to renounce his Unificationist faith. He sued the alleged perpetrators, who include relatives and a Christian minister, and the case is currently being tried in a Japanese civil court.

Out of respect for his privacy, the church is not releasing the current victim’s full name, but accredited researchers may learn additional details by contacting ICRF.

Scholars of Japanese history note that forced conversion has a long history peculiar to Japan. In February, 1597, 26 saints were martyred in Nagasaki. That marked the beginning of the era of persecution in Japan. Mr. Yakichi Kataoka, a Christian history scholar, states the following: "Three hundred years of Christian persecution under the Roman Empire is well known in world history. But even that was not as severe as Christian persecution under the Tokugawa regime. In the case of the Roman Empire, some emperors were generous and there were periods of time when persecution was discontinued. There were Popes and priests who survived and performed rituals. But the Tokugawa family never stopped persecuting during their 250-year reign, continued to search from corner to corner and made sure they got rid of all of them until there was not a single living priest for seven long generations." [Investigating Japan in the Age of Geographical Discovery---Tragedy of Christians, Shogakukan P.36]

Mr. Kataoka continues: “The reason why Christian persecution in Japan was incomparable to others was that persecutors didn't allow believers to become martyrs, but chose to keep torturing them until they abandoned their faith. Orfanel, a missionary who came to Japan in 1607, reported after witnessing the persecution at the time: ‘It was not so difficult to just kill all the Christians but the persecutors decided to force them to give up their faith. Just killing them would mean they could not control the Christians and would result in humiliation and defeat on their part. The persecutors only wanted Christians to obey their orders.’" [op. cit P.40]

From a press release of the International Coalition for Religious Freedom and the Japanese Unificationist website: http://kidnapping.jp/index-e.html