Subject: The Central Point of History.

In answer to the question: "Why did God spend ten 
million years on opossums?"

     If you look at the universal historical timeline, you 
clearly see that at 90 million years ago, something 
happened with dinosaurs, and 70 million years ago 
there is something about parrots. I didn't pay much 
attention to that hiatus. There are a lot of gaps like 
that. I don't know any more than the average amateur 
armchair scientist, but I have made effort to fill in the 
important events wherever possible, wherever it is 
known.
     Now, on a day like today, an important event 
happened, which I enter. Also, yesterday an important 
event of worldwide significance happened. Just about 
every day is like that these days... sometimes two or 
three, or even more. When I say "worldwide significance" 
or "historical significance", I mean it. I mean it has 
significant and important connections to the past, to 
the future, to all humanity, and presumably to God.
     So, just today, I entered an event "80 million years 
ago". What was it? Opossum-like marsupials appeared 
in Mongolia. Nothing else for ten million years before 
that, and nothing else for ten million years after that. 
Of course, dinosaurs were fighting and evolving, and 
soon (15 million years later) to all of a sudden disappear, 
but I find no meaning or importance in listing the 
development of all the various species which are known, 
and their (approximate) dates. Forget it. Of course, 
don't get me wrong: kids love dinosaurs, and I suppose 
that's one reason God made them.
     On that subject, another reason dinosaurs appeared 
is that in every age there must be a "subject" or center 
of the historical epoch. From about 160 million years 
ago until 65 million years ago, that was dinosaurs, 
absolutely. What if there were no dinosaurs? Then 
depressing sunrises and sunsets would continue for 
those 95 million years, with Earth as one seething, 
tiresome place, and only the humming of big and small 
insects. Until something else interesting came along.
     Another reason God created dinosaurs is because, 
at that stage of His maturity (or immaturity, as you 
like) in heartistic growth, He could express and relish 
the grandeur and triumph of T. rex et al. It is great! "It 
is good" as He is known to have exclaimed. Don't 
doubt it. But eventually one day He grew tired of that, 
and He had an eventuality prepared for that day, on 
(let's say) March 14th, 65,089,228 B.C. at 8:10 a.m. 
Central Standard Time when a great flash stabbed the 
morning sky like a blazing spear and then with a 
rising white wall rapidly approaching, all was 
pandemonium.
     All that just for the sake of the opossums. Not 
really, but basically. Because the appearance of the 
furry warm scuttly critters was much more interesting 
and dear to Him (and to us) than the mighty tyrants.
     Now, from our viewpoint, on December 7, 1998, 
just one year shy of The Millennium, that "80 million 
years" punctuating "90" and "70 million years" marks 
off an interval which is one-eighth of the known past 
at that distance. Not much is really known, and, 
furthermore, not much is really important. We might 
say, the birth of Frederick II about 1205 has as much 
influence on our lives as the appearance of opposums 
for the first time. Seriously speaking, these levels of 
historical importance, relative to their time, from the 
viewpoint of the present, can be fairly balanced.
     Why is it so? That I will answer now.
     The answer came to me a little bit ago as I was 
praying, "Why did You spend ten million years on 
opossums?" And the answer was, "This [present time] 
is the central point of history." What does that mean?
     As soon as I got the answer, I was excited, still 
thinking of warm furry creatures, and ran back to my 
computer, turned it on, and now I am writing to you 
first of all.
     What I am saying, is that: "Around this time, from 
1997 until 2000, is the absolutely most central time 
of all history, from the Big Bang until the universal 
cosmic civilization. From the standpoint of this 
central time, the perspective of the significance of 
all events can be accurately assessed, because we 
stand exactly at the focal point."
     Why is that?
     Well, let's say, suppose the Big Bang were the 
central point. However, at that time, all things were 
not yet realized or fulfilled, but only a distant, future 
dream. It couldn't be.
     Let's say, 564 million years ago, at the Invertebrate 
Explosion. Then all kinds of snails and clams and 
seaweeds were flourishing, and I'm talking about 
flourishing! but you would have no one to talk to.
     Let's say, Adam and Eve are the beginning and 
center of human history. But, after them were desolate 
tens of thousands of generations of brutes, people 
worse to talk to than the streets of New York. You 
would shake your hands in the air, "Come on, dudes!"
     Actually, we measure time from Jesus Christ's 
birth. So that must be the center of history. You can 
clearly see Jesus Christ in your mind's eye. He's 
always living and moving and speaking in all of our 
mind's eyes. Sometimes walking among the crowds, 
sometimes on the water, sometimes we see Him on 
the cross with an agonized grimace. Is that time the 
center? Maybe. Didn't you always, as a good 
Catholic, think: "I wish I were at the time of Christ. 
That was the time. Then I would put down everything 
and follow Him." (sigh) "Oh, that was the time of 
times. And now here we are, two thousand years 
later. Oh, well..." Hey, brother! Hey sister! What are 
you talking about?! I was also thinking that way! I 
said, "I wouldn't have crucified him. I would stick up 
for him to the death!" Hey, dudes! You got your chance! 
It is now! Okay. We blew it, two thousand years ago. 
What happened really shouldn't have happened. It was 
really, really wrong. Don't tell me otherwise. I always 
knew he was never supposed to have died like that. 
So what should have happened?
     Did you ever hear of the "Marriage of the Lamb"? 
The "Wedding Banquet"? What did Jesus say to his 
mother Mary at the marriage at Cana? He said, 
"Woman! What have you to do with me?" but he 
went on ahead as she requested and made the 
water into wine. For Jesus, it was stupid and 
irrelevant. Those people knew NOTHING about what 
Jesus was here for. But he had to satisfy them. So 
he did miracles so they would believe him instead. 
Don't you see? That time was deferred until....
     NOW! Fundamentally, the period of the Second 
Advent is from 1945 until 2000. We all live in that 
time. Then 1945 must be the time! The Big One, right? 
Wrong, guys. We blew it again. We missed out. That's 
right. That's why all the older folk, the veterans, are so 
peeved. Don't you know? But nobody knows why. 
     Okay, so when did the chance come around again? 
See, get the picture: since he's here, and is not going 
to live forever, honestly, he's got to make a go of it a 
second time, and even a third time.
     The world entered the Cold War period from 1946 
to 1990. Check your books if you don't believe me. 
We're talking about facts. Then what happened? At 
the beginning of 1991, the Persian Gulf War took 
place. What meaning does that have? Well, it had 
the effect of restoring the prestige and position of 
America to the same status she enjoyed right at the 
end of the Second World War. Total, unchallenged. 
For a brief period, we were in that limelight again. So 
how did we blow it again?
     Briefly speaking, a "window of opportunity" lasts 
three years. You have three years to get your act 
together and do the right thing. If you don't succeed, 
then the opportunity fades and things block the way. 
The window of opportunity for America was right 
around 1992. How did we fail? First of all, at the 
moment when Gorbachev opened to the West, we 
became upset about Lithuania, and failed to provide 
the critical support at that time, so that Gorbachev 
and the reformers lost their credibility. Gorbachev 
was booed down on economic grounds primarily. 
Secondly, President Bush went to the East Asia 
trip, to do what? To sell autos! Is Bush a car 
salesman? No! Instead, what should he have been 
busy about? At that time, Kim Il Sung had opened 
up and invited Bush to come and host a reunification 
conference with the South, and he was ready to 
listen. But Bush did something different. And how 
did it end up? He got sick at the dinner table in 
front of all the Japanese dignitaries. Did you ever 
see someone's popularity drop so fast? Now, you 
never knew the background of that, did you? There 
are other things too. One key failure was the fault of 
our own Unification Church members. Basically, we 
were given the mission to return to our hometowns. 
Did you see me? So you know I failed too. I'm sorry.
     Now, I want to tell you about the THIRD window 
of opportunity. You cannot start a new providence 
on the same foundation. You have to start anew. So 
the Unification Church was dissolved (it was!), and 
we became like new people. We didn't even mention 
"God" when we taught people. Have you ever seen 
religious people make such an about face? Never! 
I left the USA and went to Russia, with nothing but 
a bag of clothes and one book. Where is Rev. Moon? 
He's in the jungle in South America, starting anew. 
We are forging a new nation in the jungle along the 
Paraguay River. We have several hundred square 
kilometers of land, and we are really making a new 
nation in the virgin forest, with the permission of the 
governments of Paraguay and Brazil. Did you know 
that? And all the famed businesses of Rev. Moon, 
what happened to them? He gave them up, almost 
all of them, and you can see in the newspapers 
what is happening to them, haven't you.
     So, here we are. Because of Adam and Eve's 
failure, and Israel's failure, and Christianity's failure, 
here we are -- it has come back to little old you and 
me, the small guys, the last in line. Hey, here's your 
chance! The disciples were tax-collectors and 
fisherman. Now is the chance for a Mafia boss to 
become a chief disciple of Christ. Now a Moslem is 
on an equal footing with a Christian or a Hindu or an 
atheist. We are all back to the same starting line, 
no matter what you were.
     Don't get me wrong -- there is repenting to do. 
Don't think you can bring all that baggage and junk 
into God's Kingdom! No way! You come in empty-
handed and naked. "All you need is love."
     So, technically, the exact center of history and 
time and space-time (in the sense refered to in the 
theory of relativity) is August 9, 1997 at 7:07:07 at 
Seoul, Korea. In the future, when we draw our 
surveyor's lines from galaxy to galaxy, you'll see 
then why I say that.
     Einstein said that space and time are relative. 
Okay. Each point behaves as if it were the center 
of the cosmos. Just like each person behaves as if 
he or she were the center of the cosmos. Okay. But, 
people have parents, and humanity has a king and 
queen, and, as you know, there is a Mecca in 
Saudi Arabia to which all Moslems orient themselves. 
     What did you say, "Humanity has a king and a 
queen"? Yes, that's what I said. So all people can 
orient themselves to them. We are all brothers and 
sisters and fellow subjects. "And he shall turn the 
hearts of the parents to the children, and the hearts 
of the children to their parents, lest I come and 
smite the earth with a curse." (see Malachi, last verse) 
So the old traditional orders of things will be restored. 
Like what? Like: parents will chiefly decide the 
wedding matches of their children. For example. Who 
said the Moonies are breaking up families? Wait and 
see, whether we are breaking up or making up 
families.
     Oh, yes. I owe you something, don't I? What do 
I owe you all? Myself. I've really got to come back to 
you, with Fujiko and our little cutie, at your service, 
and make up for lost time. We'll be all ears.

     WSS

P.S. -- We have a fuzzy little rabbit too, if you like 
furry warm little mammals for company.




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