ADVANCED DP WEBINAR
SESSION THIRTEEN
TRUE PARENTS
A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Presented by Rev. Dr. Michael Hendrich,
Sr.
Transcribed by Airenae Culvy
JUST WHO ARE REV. AND MRS. MOON?
We're going to look at Their Lives from two very different perspectives
...
We're going to pick up from where we left off; and we're going to
talk about True Parents.
FRUITS OF TRUE LOVE
We're going to take a brief survey just to highlight Their Life;
and after that we're going to do something different. So hold on ... It's not the same-old-same-old.
But the reason I want to survey
Their Life just a little (I mean, you could spend days and some people do) is
that I realized that when somebody comes to the United States for the first
time, maybe from Africa or whatever, and they go to Manhattan and they walk
around Manhattan. And they're amazed at all the
buildings and all the sights and they go back home. And
they announce to everybody how they saw America. Well, I came from the midwest; and, they didn't see
America. They saw Manhattan.
I don't
even like Manhattan. I wouldn't want to live there. I
mean, if you want to see America, you've got to see the Grand Canyon and the
desert and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean and the Niagra Falls and , you know,
Manhattan is not America. And in the same kind of
sense I feel really badly for our young people because they only knew Father
when He was really old, an old man. And you know, a lot of us knew Father when
He was in His fifties.. And
He was roaring like a lion in the jungle. He was tearing up. He was
unstoppable. He was the hulk. But they didn't know Him
then.
So, I think it's good to go through this survey; but when
we're done with it and I go on to the second part of this presentation I want
to share that there's some limitations on it too.
1920 - 2012
This amazing young man , Sun Myung Moon. Born right
on time in 1920 in the most obscure place, a dirt poor in what is now North
Korea. Who would know? Jesus was unknown too pretty much. I mean who knew him
in the world during his lifetime? not
too many people.
Anyway, this young man was very
special. A lot of condition was made for him, a lot of
blood was shed so that he could be born. Even Jesus shed his own blood so that
he (Sun Myung Moon) could be born victorious on a
better foundation (than what Jesus had).
And when he (Sun Myung Moon) grew up
he was very special too in how he was asking questions that most people never
ask in their life ... how to help mankind. What's
wrong with humanity? What can I do? Who is like that when they are 16?
And he (Sun Myung Moon) was praying
on a hillside on an Easter Sunday; and Jesus came to him and said, 'You need to
finish my mission.' And the young boy said, 'No. I
can't do that.' And Jesus came back again and told him again, You need to finish my mission, please.' And
he (Sun Myung Moon) said, 'No. I can't do that.' (I
mean, I'm not putting the passion into it , you know ?
(as it was spoken). Then Jesus came back a third time
and the young boy said, 'Yes. I'll do that.'
And the reason he (Sun Myung Moon) said 'no' twice is because he knew ... He knew
he would never have a life of his own if he said 'yes,' not even for a minute.
And he also knew that there was no turning back if he
said 'yes' to that, if he said 'yes' to Jesus. He also knew that failure was
not an option, not an option. So it was the most
serious decision, far more than about a lifetime, not even a lifetime. But he made it (He made that decision); and for nine years
he went wandering in the darkness searching for answers. He needed answers! He
was full of questions.
He searched through humanity,
society, people's hearts, nature. He went into the
spirit world countless times, searching the spirit world to find the answers
that he needed. He needed to know why the world's
messed up. What happened to humanity? What happened to people? What happened to
God? What happened to everything? so he could fix it. It's no game.
And the dark side was there just like with Jesus, fighting him
every inch of the way. We heard how he was ... sometimes he was lifted up off
the ground and thrown down by the spirit world; sometimes he couldn't breath because the whole evil spirit world was focused on
one vortex, one point. When you spread this out among many people then its not the same; but when one
person is the target, we can't even imagine.
After his searching, he started
going on an incredible course of restoring the past. That's
what every (providential) central figure has to do). He ended up going to
prison six time for nothing (nothing bad that he did). He never committed a
crime. He went to death camps. He spent the same amount of time that Jesus did
in his ministry in a death camp, where Satan tried to kill him, working him to
death.
Most prisoners died; but he was a
model prisoner, doing the work for the ones who were sick. Doing more than his
share, sharing his food that they gave him with other people for a while, the
little that they gave him, hardly enough to live on..
They had to dig up this fertilizer,
caustic stuff, acidic. It burned through the skin killing the men. Most of them
died; but not him. He went to other prisons, was strung up with his hands
behind his back from beams on the ceiling and hit with wooden timbers until he
was so bloody that they thought he was dead. He was thrown out in the snow
bank, then discovered ...found, revived and restored
by a disciple. It's a miracle story.
One time Father saw the movie Papillon. He cried through the whole thing and said, 'This
is the closest thing to my life.' (It's an old movie.
You should watch it. It's a long movie.) He was
suffering for us, not for himself.
(captioned)
The oil lamp used by Rev. Moon in writing the original Divine Principle (1951-2)
When all that was over and World War
II was over, he fled to the end of South Korea, built a little shed out of
cardboard boxes and started writing a manuscript of God's Truth that he
discovered, called the 'Wolli Wonbon,' two
manuscripts of it. And his disciple, Won Pil Kim, wrote two other manuscripts by his own hand, with
this lamp right here. And here's a picture of one of the manuscripts..
We didn't
even have one page of manuscript from Jesus, none of his own hand-written
discoveries. We don't even know if Jesus knew how to
write.
Here's some of his early followers. Here's
Won Pil Kim right there on the bottom in the middle.
He wrote those other two manuscripts. Here's that cardboard shack, made out of
ration boxes from the army, built next to a sematary,
with a little spring shooting water under the plastic sheet on the floor,
making it all humid and musty inside. Father Moon said he couldn't
even stretch from one corner to the other; and he's not a very tall man. That's where he wrote the Wolli Wonbon.
And who's that American guy standing
there" I've always wondered about that looking at
this picture. Who's that American guy? Well, they
found him. They found him. His name is Clayton Walker. They showed him this
picture and said, 'Do you remember this?' And he said,
'No. I don't remember that.' But he probably just came
by to get that little hand-painted portrait that Won Pil
Kim was making. He was making hand-painted portraits of soldiers so that he
could make just a little bit of money to live on. He (the American) probably
just came by to get his picture.
Father went through excruciating
times of difficulty in prayer, insurmountable. His course was like climbing
that cliff you see behind him, almost impossible at times, can't
even imagine. We can't even imagine.
This is the Rock of Tears. Many
ministers have had visions there of Jesus and Father, all kinds of very special
place. And this is the first church they built after
that cardboard shack, just a simple wooden house. And
this lady here, Mrs. Cam, she's a cute little lady, four feet something. I met
her in Cheong Pyeong. She went to the church most
Sundays in Surrock, a little town outside of Cheong Pyeong. She was there when I was there, sweetest thing, big
smile just like you see in this picture, happy to
shake your hand.
She ( Mrs.
Cam) heard about this crazy man in this cardboard shack up on the hill. She was
a fervent Christian. She climbed that hill just after He finished His
manuscript. She went up to witness to Him and bring Him to Jesus. Well, Father
told her all about Jesus and converted her to be His disciple.
And here's Father and Mother Moon, Hak
Ja Han. He married Her in 1960. (Wedding Photo of Rev.
& Mrs. Moon, March 13, 196) She was also born specially, prepared to be Eve
(even like John the Baptist's sister (at the time the Bridegroom Jesus came).
And you might wonder why this picture can be so bright and
clear and beautiful. Well, They didn't have that kind
of photography in those days, not where They were, no; but we have those gowns,
those same exact gowns They wore in the glass cases in the museum. So, the photoshop people could make everything just right;. Amazing what we can do.
Mother grew up. She was young
(caption: with classmates from art class in Soojeong
Girls' Junior High School) , much younger than Father.
She went to a Catholic girls' school, nursing school. Here's
Her Mother, Dae Mo Nim,
right there in the top middle between Father and Mother. She (Hak Ja Han) was a smart girl, very
quiet, humble. And the one line that always stuck out
to me when I read Father's Autobiography many times was when Father met Mother
and He said of Her, 'She never seeks to draw attention to Herself.'
I can never forget that sentence, 'She
never seeks to draw attention to Herself.' I felt that
Father was talking about the original nature, I mean
the original nature of woman, so different than many women you see, right. I
can never forget that sentence. And here is Father and
Mother with Ye Jin Nim,
Their first baby, one of fourteen children, twelve who survived.
And Father realized Jesus' dream. Jesus wanted to go all over
the place and give big speeches to thousands of people. He wanted to go to the
Roman Collosseum and talk to thousands. That's what it was made for, the Roman Collosseum.
It was made for Jesus to go speak. And here's Father
speaking at Madison Square Garden, thousands of people, standing room only,
people lined up outside. You can see the bullet-proof
glass screen standing up behind the podium there; because they filled it to
capacity and so there are all these people sitting behind Him (Father). It's not a safe situation. And He
belted out the Word of God and really stirred the country up.
He (Father Moon) spoke in Korea to a
million people. Can you imagine a million people; because North Korea was
threatening South Korea. And
He went there to this big airport to rally the people of Korea. In the Name of
God, we've got to stop these North Koreans from
invading our country.
(caption:
Holding the 'World Rally for Korean Freedom' - June 7, 1975. At Yoido in Seoul: 1,000 members from 60 countries and 1.2
million people from Korea participated.) Jesus wanted to do things like that.
And I was here, Washington Monument, 1976 (caption: 350,000
(Source: NY Times) attended the largest religious event in America's history.)
The largest religious event in
America's history at that time. I don't know how many
people were there 350, 000 or whatever; but there were a lot of people as far
as you could see. And the buses were as far as you
could see, even if you drove ten or fifteen minutes if you could drive, there
were still buses as far as you could see. They came from all over the East
coast.
But that wasn't the amazing thing, the amazing thing was, you
know, when you've got a crowd of people that big, it's usually never quiet. It's usually bustling and people talking to each other and
making a fuss and hard to even hear the speaker on the stage, right? I mean that's the way it usually is; but no, when Rev. Moon went to
the microphone you could hear a pin drop. I couldn't
believe it. Nobody was talking to each other. They were fixated. They were focused on hearing that speech. They couldn't
even understand the Korean. They had to hear the translation. Everybody was
listening. It was weird. It was unbelievable. It was unusual. It was not even
normal.
And after that event; because of
that victory, because of that event, He said, 'What used to be a 40-day fast,
now you could have the same (indemnity) condition by fasting 7 days, and many
other things..'
And the Blessing of 1982, 6,000
people, couples (caption: 10/14/82, 6000 Couples Wedding) This was the kind of
thing Jesus wanted to do with his bride, bring the Arabs and the Jews together,
melt the cultures, heal the people, make one world under God. Father Moon and
Mother Moon are doing it right here.
DANBURY, 1984
Father went to prison in Danbury,
Connecticut. He didn't do anything wrong, but was
totally railroaded by the government. It was really a political sham; but He
never complained, never complained any time He was in prison. And He never called out to God to help Him. He said,
"God, don't worry about Me,' even when He was almost dead. 'I can't die. I'm
not going to die. Don't worry about Me.' He was a model prisoner. Mr. Kamiyama was protecting Him until He was released earlier
than Father. And then one of
the prisoners, one of the other prisoners who was His biggest critic in the
beginning became His protector the rest of the time He was there.
He (Father) did all the dirtiest
jobs He could find in that little prison. That's just
the way He is. He never complained, never!
"...his name will be called
'Wonderful Counselor, Mighty Everlasting Father, Prince
of Peace.' Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no
end" Isaiah
And he was the prince of peace. Everything he did was about
peace. Here's the man from the dirt-poor village in
North Korea. Now he's meeting with world leaders,
President Ford, a Prime Minister, other people ... How can it be? Not only that 'how can it be' but he climbed up this ladder
fighting tooth and nail every inch of the way. Satan didn't
give him an inch.
He (Sun Myung
Moon) was proclaimed the No. 1 enemy in the world of
communism. And after the Washington Monument Rally, He
said, 'I'm going to go to Moscow and meet with Gorbachev; but, there He is,
Mother and Father sitting right there and Gorbachev sitting right there,
embracing Cain and Abel. And here it is happening
again, Mother by His side. Gorbachev lives in Seattle now, I think.
And then He goes on to meet with His even bigger Cain, His bigger Esaw, Kim Il Sung. Kim Il Sung had
sent out hit squads to kill Father. The FBI founder with maps and guns ; and here He is embracing His brother like a long-lost
friend or something. What kind of person is this.
Mother and Father embracing Their son, who tried to
kill Them.
(caption:
30,000 Couples at the Seoul Olympic Stadium, August 1992)
Another Blessing in 1992 of 30,000
couples... Jesus wanted to do that in the coliseum in Rome. He (Sun Myung Moon) has been teaching the Divine Principle, even in
Communist China. (caption: Seminars for Youth (IEF) in
China 1994-2000 and a map showing all the teaching events strewn across the
map.)
(caption:
1000 Middle School Children in Shanghai Make the 'Pure Love Pledge' )
Here in Shanghai, we've got a thousand middle school
children pledging to keep their purity before marriage, because of our
teaching. We need that here (in the U.S.) now.
(caption: International
Education Foundation in Moscow)
And in Russia, some of us went
to the Ukraine. And we had workshops there, taught
some of those beautiful Russian students, or Ukranians,
beautiful hearts, going right into enemy territory and loving them.
(caption:
Schools using 'My World and I' Textbooks in 12 CIS Republics)
(caption:
True Father at the blackboard lecturing about the Providential times 1995 )
Blessing ministers, 144,000 clergy
... Most of them I recognize. They're still on board. They
know who True Parents are. Do we?
(caption:
Interreligious and International Clergy, 144,000 Couples)
Another Blessing at Yankee Stadium.
I was there. I was spaced out up in the stands; and I heard some ooohs and aaahs. And I thought, 'What's going on?' You see, it was really cloudy and kind of misty that day. Where was the sun?
You couldn't see the sun. And
when Father and Mother walked out on the platform to give the Blessing, this
ray of sunbeam came out and followed Them out onto the stage. Heh, heh,
everybody was like, 'Whooh!'
(caption:
World Peace - Blessing at the United Nations, January 27, 2000 )
Blessing at the United Nations ...
Well, they weren't too happy about that. You're not supposed to have that kind of thing there, but He
had to do it. That's His job.
Pure Love Alliance in 2000 - This is
where my son cut his teeth on the providence, going to different campuses and
in marches in the streets, telling young people, 'You don't have to follow this
lousy free sex culture. Stick up for yourself. Live a pure life. Save yourself
for your spouse.' I wish somebody was on the campus saying that when I went to
school. Nobody was saying it.
And I'm so angry today because I hear people saying, 'Well,
that was for the first generation to do.' No. I think young people ... We ought
to be out there today, young people, our kids and grandkids ought to be out
there on the campuses and on the streets. Why not? Their original mind is
aching for somebody to be telling them that.
(caption:
Pure Love Alliance, Camaroon)
Even in Camaroon,
it went all over the world with their message. It was so awesome, brought me to
tears.
(caption:
ACLC American Clergy League Conferences - "We Will Stand" Resolution
(50-state tour)
Trying to rally all Christians to
become one family.
(caption:
IRFF - International Relief Friendship Foundation)
Relief. Helping the poor people with
medicine counsel, supplies, food, whatever they need, schools, clinics.
(caption:
WFWP Women's Federation for World Peace - Volunteers build housing in Paraguay.
Free Medical Clinic in Kenya. Sisters in Ethiopia. - World relief projects for
peace in 185 nations - helping the people of families to help them help
themselves.)
Kenya, Ethiopia ... The Women's
Federation for World Peace, doing all kinds of things, building little
factories with old sewing machines, teaching widows from the war how to sew
clothes so they could make a living and survive. Doing great things.
(caption:
Women's Federation for World Peace International - "The Sun of Mozambique
Secondary School" - Jr. High 420 students, High School 180, total 600 -
Guinea-Bissau: "School of Hope" - 40 Women Students
Uganda : "Katwe Parents Kindergarten &
Primary School" - 204 Students
Rwanda - "New Hope Technical Institute" - 139 Students
Kenya "Handow Secondary School, Marakusi" - 204 Students
Equatorial Guinea: "Notoko School" &
"Motoko Shiroma Kindergarten" - 200 Pupils
Mongolia : Yargui Mothers and Children Education - 51
Students
Uganda : "Kinzinda Parents' Vocational School -
480 Students
(caption:
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon visiting the WFWP School in
Mozambique)
Here's Mother on site.
(caption:
Women of Peace - Jerusalem 2004 - ...Building Peace through Hearing and
Reconciliation and Doing Service ...
Bridge of Peace, bringing people from
enemy cultures together, making lifelong friends out of them. How beautiful.
Brought people to tears. We need more of that. Who's
doing all this stuff/ The boy from Korea, called by Jesus.
(caption:
Interfaith Activity - Assembly of the World's Religions - August 24 -31, 1992 -
Seoul, Korea - "Religion and the Creation of World Peace" - IRFWP )
Assembling of the leaders of the
world's religions. Look at this. Jesus wanted to do this kind of thing. Look at
that. All the religions represented there, talking about God
and how to bring peace. That should be their job; but who's
bringing them together? Father and Mother.
(caption:
(caption: Banner - Peace Under One
God - Jerusalem Peace Walk - 22nd September 2003 - ACLC - World CARP - USP -
IEA - Peace Academy - PPI - ... and many other organizations of Father and
Mother's founding inspiration... )
And this lady
in the middle here in this white gown. She was on every pilgrimage we had here
in the Middle East. We went there dozens of times, walking through the streets,
meeting with the Palestinians, meeting with the Jews. She had her own Christian
following, Christian ? Let's
say Spiritual following. She does. Her name's Betty. And she has an internet talk show about every Wednesday, I
think it is, to her people.
I don't
know how many people she has. They have this little talk show and she wanted to
devote a talk show a while back to Nelsen Mandela. He had just died; and they
did not even have his funeral yet. And she wanted to
devote her show to Nelsen Mandela.
But as she started her show, she started to relate with the
spiritual person who gets revelations and messages from the spirit world,
communicated immediately with Nelson Mandela and Nelson Mandela said, 'Better,
I don't need your help. When I got here to the spirit world, the first person I
met was Rev. Moon And the whole half-hour show she devoted to Father, what He's
doing in the spirit world, running around and gathering all these leaders. She
named them. The whole show was about Father (although she's
not a Moonie.)
(caption:
True World Fish Processing Plant in Kodiak, Alaska)
Fish companies, learning how to make
dried powdered fish that we can keep for years to help nourish starving people.
(caption:
2003 Peace Cup Korea INFC)
(caption: Asian
Cup Winners the Il Wha Soccer Team 'Chonna' )
How can we make peace with sports,
sweat together, play together, laugh together, fight together, learn to be
brothers.
(caption:
INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY PROJECT)
It's not a new idea from Father but His idea of how to do it was
new. Some day it will happen. The more I thought
about it over the years, I realized that it has nothing to do with the highway.
The highway is just an excuse. Nobody's going to drive
from New York to London. gonna
wear a whole set of tires out and how much gas? How long is that going to take?
The point is that on each side of
this highway system that goes all over the world, there's
four to five miles of politically neutral zone. That's
the novelness of it. That's
the novelty of it. On either side of the highway is this politically neutral
zone. You don't need a passport. You don't need a visa. And it's a
conduit. It's a bloodstream. It's
an artery so that people of the whole world can mix together; and it can
eventually create a situation where the whole world becomes one culture, one
family of man under God. Brilliant! Some day it will
happen.
Some rich business
man in Russia said he's going to build the Bering Strait bridge or
tunnel. Well, we'll see.
(caption:
Julia (Hoon Sook) Moon is the General Directer of the Universal Ballet.
The Kingdom of Heaven (on earth) through performing arts, all kinds of
performing arts.
(caption: The New York Symphony Orchestra)
You know, a lot of these kinds of projects don't exist anymore. We have the reason that we don't have the money, we don't have the budget. Well, I'm telling you, I want all these young people to look at these things, projects. We have books full of these projects. Father started them all. They need to be going on. If you're inspired by one of these projects, if it really grabs you, then make a goal for your life, 'I want to grow up, I want to master, I want to be a leader in that area and I'm going to start that project up and and carry it on after the work of our Father.
(caption: The Korean Folk Ballet)
(caption: The Little Angels of Korea)
The Little Angels, world famous. Takes your breath away, especially in person, just takes your breath away.
(caption: Ishin Hospital, Tokyo)
Hospitals,
(caption Unification Theological Seminary - Barrytown, New York)
Schools, UTS in Barrytown.
(caption: Bridgeport University, Connecticut)
Bridgeport University, just got a new president yesterday. It is highly acclaimed as being one of the broadest kind of diverse colleges around. Well, it's going to go a long way, we hope, in the future.
(caption: Sun Moon University, Asan City)
Sun Moon University...I taught a couple couple of workshops there, magnificent campus.
(caption: The Hyo Jeong Palace Museum at Cheong Pyeong)
And The Palace. He went from a cardboard shack next to a cemetery to this. Who is this man? He's not normal. Mother is not normal either... kind of figure that out... The King of Kings (and Queen of Queens), representatives of all the world coming to pay their tribute (caption: of robes representatives bearing gifts) and opening this Palace, a Palace for God ... and His Family.
Now, you might say, 'Well, this family is full of trouble.'
Yeah, well, guess what ... Satan is ripping and tearing, determined, desperate,
at the price of his life to stop this family; because he knows that when this
family figures it out and gets their act together,
he's done.
There's no stopping them (true family). The world will definitely be transformed by this family, by the descendants of this family. There is no question about it. They just need to figure out who they are and where they're going and what they're doing and where they came from. They will. It would have been the same story if Jesus had had a family like this. Same story, because Satan is Satan and that's his job.
So, this family is incredibly special, no matter what confusion they have, no matter what mistakes they've made.
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