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Family is the culmination of love. A home is a place where a couple who have been married through love, give birth to children, and raise them with love. Love between family members—marital love, paternal love, maternal love, brotherly love, and filial love—is the main virtue of a happy life.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/this-harvard-study-reveals-how-you-can-be-happier-and-more-successful.html#:~:text=The%20ongoing%20Harvard%20study%20is,said%20in%20the%20TED%20Talk. |title=Harvard’s longest study of adult life reveals how you can be happier and more successful |publisher=CNBC  |date=October 31, 2017 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> Parents’ love for their children is unconditional, and it is common for animals as well. Spiny fish and emperor penguins have strong paternal love. A father spiny fish supplies fresh oxygen to his eggs, and fights with invaders, without eating anything for fifteen days. When the eggs hatch, he runs out of energy and dies. The dead father becomes food for the hatched young.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/animal/stickleback |title=Stickleback |publisher=Britannica  |date=  |author= |page= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.penguinsinternational.org/2019/08/14/penguin-parenting-super-parents/ |title=Penguins and Their Chicks: Super-Parents |publisher=Penguins International |date=August 14, 2019  |author= |page= |quote= }}</ref> A father emperor penguin incubates his egg for about two months. He stops eating and protects the egg from the severe cold of -60°C [-76°F] and predators. Maternal love is commonly observed in birds and mammals.

Not only small living creatures, but also human beings, who have intelligence, follow their instincts instead of reasoning when it comes to the danger of their children. There are media reports about parents who gave up their lives to save their children: a mother who died after refusing anticancer therapy for a baby in her womb, a father who held her son in her arms in a crashing cable car, a mother who was sacrificed after pushing her child out in front of an oncoming truck, and so on.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/nation-world/2011/10/16/oklahoma-cancer-patient-trades-her-life-so-her-baby-could-survive/61126593007/ |title=Oklahoma cancer patient trades her life so her baby could survive |website= |publisher=THE OKLAHOMAN |date=October 16, 2011 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/eitan-biran-the-cable-car-crash-survivor-at-centre-of-custody-battle |title=Eitan Biran: the cable car crash survivor at centre of custody battle |website= |publisher=Support the Guardian |date=September 17, 2021 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.busan.com/view/busan/view.php?code=20130508000181 |title=

A Heart Aching Maternal Love Story in 2013, Mother Dies by a Truck Saving Her Daughter with Intellectual Disability |website= |publisher=Busan Ilbo |date=May 8, 2013 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> Regardless of the age or region, the family is the nest of life, based on love.{{quote |There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened, and maintained.

We can understand who are the members of the heavenly family, through the earthly family, which is its shadow. A family generally consists of a father, a mother, and children.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/2022/03/24/623c378c22601dbe458b4633.html |title=Nuclear Family Meaning: What is it and why is it called Nuclear Family?|website= |publisher=Marca |date=March 24, 2022 |author= |series= |quote=}}</ref> It is the same with the heavenly family, which is the reality of the earthly family.  

God’s heirs reign forever and ever in heaven.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Revelation+22%3A5&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Revelation 22:5 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> The kingdom of heaven God has prepared for His children is described as follows: No eye has seen it, no ear has heard it, and no mind has conceived it.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=1+Corinthians+2%3A9&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=1 Corinthians 2:9 |publisher= |quote=  }}</ref> However, the glory comes after suffering. Like the saying, “The one who wants to wear the crown, bear its weight,”<ref>Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, pg. 60, Henry IV, Part II, William Shakespeare, George Steevens</ref>regardless of age or country, the children of the royal family receive a strict education.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/22599301#home |title=Education of the Heirs of the Joseon Dynasty |website= |publisher=The JoongAng |date= |year=May 6, 2018 |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> Their educational process is somewhat painful, but it is inevitable to become a king with knowledge and virtues. God’s heirs, too, go through hardships on the earth to receive the crown of life.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Revelation+2%3A10&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Revelation 2:10 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> Their suffering is insignificant, compared with the glory that they will enjoy in heaven. God’s children belong to heaven and they have a spiritual body like an [[angel]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=1+Corinthians+15%3A49&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=1 Corinthians 15:49 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> In this world, they become children and parents as well according to the flesh, but when they leave this world and stand before God, they are in the same position as God's children. The heirs of heaven have brotherly love for each other in [[God the Father and God the Mother|Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Matthew+23%3A8-9&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Matthew 23:8–9 |publisher= |quote=}}</ref> and visit every star in the universe.<ref>{{인용 |url=https://ahnsahnghong.com/en/teaching/visitors-from-the-angelic-world/ |title=Chapter 18 The Soul Made of God’s Breath of Life, Chapter 22 What Will Become of Our Body at the Resurrection? |website= |publisher=VISITORS FROM THE ANGELIC WORLD Melchizedek Pub. Co., Ltd |date=January 1, 2011 |year= |author=Ahnsahnghong |page= |series= |quote= }}</ref>