ORDER NUMBER
94-04-24-18
REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON
TRUE FATHER'S FORTY
YEARS OF LIFE ALONE
April 24, 1994
Belvedere, International Training Center
Translator - Sang Kil Han
The topic of Father's sermon this morning is: Cham Ah-Bo-Nim
Saengae Holo Sashimnyon Saengae -- True Father's Forty Years of Life
Alone. Do you understand? Today is the last Sunday of April; next
Sunday will be May 1, which happens to be the fortieth anniversary of
the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity.
We are preparing to have a grand celebration on this fortieth
anniversary. We will have worldwide activities including the
Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace; those who attended the
Summit Council for World Peace will come and celebrate with us. We are
reminded at this time, that from Jacob to the end of World War II, this
foundation was prepared for the coming of True Father. However, this
foundation was lost and, in order to establish the unified world,
Father had to establish HSA and re-indemnify these lost 4000 years of
foundation.
The 4000 years which culminated at the end of World War II were the
foundation for the unification of the world. However, God's hope and
plan for England, France and America to unify with Father and his
foundation did not take place. If this unification had taken place then
the unification of the world would have taken place within seven
years. However, as this did not occur Father had to walk a lonely
course for forty years in order to indemnify this failure. If Father
did not do this and re-indemnify within this forty-year period, then a
great calamity in God's dispensation would have taken place. Many
things happened during these forty years. Even though forty years is a
relatively short time, what occurred within this time period as a
result of the failure of God's dispensational will was numerous.
Everything that happened within the past 4000 years we have seen
repeated during this time period of forty years.
Now people realize that the world must come into unification and it
is about to unite. How this will take place is something which eludes
people. What we do see clearly at this time is that human history is
not made and lived by humankind at all. It is not only man who leads
and lives human history, but there is also Satan and God. Satan is
always treading in front and God and humankind following. Just as Cain
and Abel began history so mankind are perpetually following their
pattern. The religious and non-religious realms always seem to
alternate within history. The religious world represents Abel's domain
and the non-religious world represents Cain's domain. Each country and
religion had a relatively clear purpose when they began and
flourished. But at this time in history the nations of the world do
not know where to turn. Neither do religions realize what is the goal
of their particular religion.
The reason the world is ignorant of its fate is because they do not
know the origin of human beings and human history. The non-religious
world does not know where it is headed because it does not know where
it began. Even the religious world is ignorant as to the origin of
life and religion. This is where the confusion stems from. Adam and
Eve fell without anyone realizing. Abel did not know what had happened
and what his life represented, neither did Cain. On the other hand God
knew this sad reality but there was no way for God to tell man the
truth. Why cannot He tell? We know the answer through Divine
Principle. If He can tell now he could have told us when the fall was
taking place. It took a long history, whereas theoretically it could
have happened within a relatively short time, but due to the
responsibility of individuals not being fulfilled it has been prolonged
and prolonged.
Without telling mankind directly, Heavenly Father raised Adam and
sent him to the fallen mankind and let him tell and teach mankind the
truth. In the sight of God this has been the purpose of all religion,
including Christianity. This happening then is the coming of the
Messiah. The concept of the Second Advent not only exists within
Christianity but also within Buddhism. All Buddhists believe that in
the Last Days the advent of the Buddha is imminent. Confucianism and
all other major religions believe in the concept of the Second Advent,
the advent of the Messiah. We could give many definitions of the
Messiah, but definitely one is that the Messiah comes with the
explanation, or the teaching, of the purpose of human history. He
tells us clearly who Adam was and what happened to Adam, who Cain and
Abel were and where mankind is headed. He leads humankind into the
ultimate direction ordained by God for us.
On God's side there is only one person. The role of history has been
that they evolved from a servant of servants' religion, then elevated
to servants position, then step-son, adopted son and sons' religions
and parents' religion. Religion is not all the same. There are
different types of religion connected to each of these stages of
progress. Then there is the Eve religion which leads people at that
stage. Has it been men or women who have played the crucial role within
religion? Women have been predominately central in religious
activities. The population of the fallen world is divided between men
and women. However, within the sphere of religion more than seventy
percent of that sphere is women and only thirty percent are men. We
see that women have been central in religion. Why is this so? The Lord
who is to come has to work through the world of women in order to reach
the successful culmination of religion. Women are representatives of
Eve whereas men are representatives of the archangel. God and True Adam
remain in the same position.
God lost both women and children as a result of the fall. Since the
fall took place God has no women on His side whom He can call His own
nor does He have children. There are women and children but they do not
belong to God. In the Last Days all women within the religious realm
must join together. There are two categories of women, one side being
Cain and one side being Abel. First, we should bring the women on the
Abel side and have them embrace the women on the Cain side. In order to
bring them together, we must first bring together the children of Cain
and Abel, just as the fall took place within the family, causing Adam
and Eve and Cain and Abel to separate. Adam and Eve being in the
parents' position and Cain and Abel in the children's position. This
division took place at the family level. Since restoration goes in
reverse, now the same family must be brought together at the world
level. This is what the left and right wing represent. The left
representing communism and the right, the free world.
At this time in history we see the left and right wing, but this all
began thousands of years ago at the time of the fall within Adam's own
family. Cain was on the left wing side and Abel was on the right wing
side. At Jesus' time this was to be indemnified at the national
level. Israelites were on the Cain side and Judaism was on the Abel
side. Cain and Abel have to come together before it can be elevated up
to the parents' position. At that national level 2000 years ago there
was both the religious world and the non-religious world, each
representing Abel and Cain at that time. When these two realms come
together it means that this Cain and Abel have come together at the
children's level. Cain and Abel united with the parents automatically
bring about unification at this level. The father comes from heaven
whereas mother and children are restored on the earth. In the Last Days
when the Lord comes again the left wing and right wing will come
together and unite once and for all. Centering upon the culmination of
Mother's role, Father ascends and they join together. Mother's role is
none other than Christianity, and Christianity is the bride religion.
Do you follow? The Christian cultural world is representative of the
bride. Everyone is awaiting the coming of the bridegroom, which is the
Second Advent. Father is in this position.
America embraces the rest of the world like Abel embraces Cain then
becomes one with Mother. After this the Second Advent will appear. This
is the same formula that we see being re-indemnified on a world level.
After World War II the world was united because the realm of
Abel-America, France and England-joined together, and Japan, Germany
and Italy on the Cain side were also united. The conclusion of World
War II, the victory of the Abel world over the Cain world, achieved
that unity. The Cain and Abel side, united together with the mother,
were now in a perfect position to meet Father who is about to descend
from heaven. That pattern after World War II is so clear. Do you
follow? (Yes)
In the Last Days, women and children together will be visited by
God. Just as the fall occurred within the family and the mother and
children were lost, so in the Last Days at the world level, the same
pattern will be followed. All children, Cain and Abel, must unite with
Mother and be restored to this lost foundation. Christians as a bride
religion is to wait for the bridegroom to come. If Christians had
accepted the bridegroom then restoration would have happened, and this
world would belong to God for the first time, not to Satan. They fell
in Adam's family and God tried to restore it at that time, but it
failed. God had to wait for thousands of years, until the time of
Jesus, when it was no longer family level but national level. At the
national level Jesus was to unite the religious and non-religious
realms, Cain and Abel, but he failed to do this and had to be
crucified. In the Last Days the right and left wings become very
apparent. The Lord of the Second Advent faces the same problems as
Jesus, and he has to bring the left and right wings together. Mother's
role, which is Christianity, was supposed to do that but since they
failed, Father has to re-indemnify this. It is the same way this time
as it was in Jesus' time.
Since the unification of the world or the unification of Cain and
Abel did not happen at the world level, it became symbolized by North
and South Korea: North Korea representing the entire Cain world, and
South Korea representing the entire Abel world. Kim Il Sung appears as
the second advent on Satan's side; everybody calls him father in North
Korea. South Korea, in the Abel position, has True Father, Sun Myung
Moon. If unification had taken place here [Father indicates on the
blackboard], then Korea would not have been divided. We see clearly the
dispensation moving this way. If America loses hold of Korea it will
be catastrophic. It is unthinkable. This is what Kim Il Sung is doing,
he is playing tug-of-war with America. The archangel must become one
with Adam but since it is not taking place then Satan shakes him, going
lower and lower, causing lots of problems and confusion. This is why
during his forty-year lifetime, Father had to, with his own hands,
bring communism into the Abel world. Father stands in the position to
protect the free world and destroy the left wing world. That is
exactly what Father has done. He has achieved this through right
teaching, and teaching the Christian religion again through the theory
which is now Divine Principle.
We must have a clear idea of history, because we learned so much in
the past. The world does not know God led history and mankind followed
this history. We need to know this clearly. This is the precise time
where everything that was lost here [Father indicates on the board] has
been found again; this has to be brought back to Korea. It seems like
yesterday, but already two years ago the role of Mother was to bring
the world and the United Nations-like the assembly of the world. Since
the bride religion failed to play this role, True Mother has
successfully fulfilled this role. She then brings this victory to
Korea to be joined with Father. In the reverse way, it goes to Japan
which is in the mother position and then to Korea which is in the
father position. Mother returns to Korea and restores the children. The
children are none other than the college students. When the second
generation of North and South Korea become one it would be the same as
these two countries being brought together. These two countries will
eventually come together just by working with the second generation.
True Mother worked through forty universities for this purpose. This
will be a perfect indemnity condition; when Mother does this it will be
an exact replay of the world situation after World War II. Cain and
Abel will be embraced by True Parents. When this happens then what form
the country exists in won't matter anymore. The condition will have
been set.
The world outside does not know these details clearly. However, they
do know that no human being can bring about the unification of North
and South Korea. They realize no politician, no man of power or
qualification can do this except Rev. Moon. This is a commonly accepted
idea. Not only do South Korean people have this understanding but Kim
Il Sung himself also knows this. Without the help of Father,
unification can never be achieved. Therefore, his mind moves towards
that direction. This is why Father proclaimed True Parents and the
Completed Testament era; now God must live with these restored people.
By going to these forty nations True Mother is engrafting into them the
foundation of victory. This is the complete and exact
re-indemnification of bringing the world together with Mother; just as
after World War II Christianity, which is the mother religion, should
have achieved this victory on the world level. The free world
representing Cain's position and America representing Abel's position
as children united with the mother and connecting with the True
Father. Through this, God's ideal could have begun right there. Do you
understand Father?
Through forty years alone Father took on the task of
re-indemnification of this failure, because no one else understood what
Father was thinking and doing. The Second Advent must be fulfilled,
through understanding and making this work because God cannot tell
mankind directly, only through Adam. Many things are not told to Adam
but Adam has to find out by himself, make sure it is correct, and then
with God's approval descend upon the world in order to save the people
completely. Do you have a clear and concise idea of human history now?
(Yes) This is the history which no scholar taught or even dreamed of,
but this is the unmistakable reality. This is the record and
accomplishment of Father's entire lifetime work. This is not only one
generation's work but this is 6000 years of work indemnified in one
generation.
The world we are about to create is one harmonious, heavenly world.
Today the world religions are confronting tremendous confusion. They do
not know where to turn. However, it is not complicated at all. At the
fall man's mind and body became separated. This mind represents the
religious world while the body represents the non-religious world. No
wonder these two are continuing to fight each other, the same way that
man's mind and body still continue to struggle. This all came about
because of the fall. The solution is to return to the place prior to
the fall. Once you know this you can begin to do it, but until now no
human being knew this. How can it be so clearly and cleanly solved?
Because of the appearance of the True Father who will then teach these
things that were never taught before. Because this is now occurring
this clarity and brevity can take place.
Now is the time of the perfection of Adam and, together with the
world, he comes into the direct dominion realm. All throughout history
God was only able to view mankind from a distance but now is the time
when God can dwell again with man based upon True Father's center. God
can truly dwell in the midst of ourselves at this time. Do you
understand? In order to bring us to this point you can begin to imagine
what True Father's forty-year course has been like. Incredible
suffering has to be endured in order to re-indemnify 6000 years of
human history.
As Father has already explained, all that had to happen was for
America, together with France and England, at the end of World War to
support Rev. Moon. Had that happened then in a mere seven years world
peace, world unification and the purpose of religions would have been
accomplished. That was what God intended to happen. Satan did a good
job destroying everything in America, the United Kingdom and France.
Satan has made a tremendous mess so that when True Father now comes and
tries to teach them it takes a lot of work to repair this. Satan made
the countries so miserable by extending hell so successfully here in
America.
Adam fell when he was a teenager and in today's world we see all
manner of fallen behavior taking place amongst teenagers. Free sex and
homosexuality have no place in God's world. However, we see these
things rampant here in this society. Satan is making claim before God
that because Adam and Eve fell then in this harvest time what was
originally sown has to be harvested. There is no word that God can say
to successfully ward of this attack by Satan. Rather, Heavenly Father
has to remain silent and look on in misery. This is today's teenagers'
problem all over the world. Heavenly Father's desire is to save them,
yet there is nothing that He can do. The problem we face today in
America, as the center of the free world, no religion, no politician,
no scholar, no great man can ever begin to repair and solve. Only
Rev. Moon stands qualified to accomplish this work. Do you believe
that or do you know that? (We know it.) What does that mean? It means
that you have to become a doctor. There is no other doctor except you.
Father cannot go everywhere and repair the situation. We have to become
doctors and go out and heal this world. This is exactly our role at
this time in history. We have the mission of Jesus of teaching them and
saving them. All women for the sake of the 3300 college campuses must
do just as Mother did, becoming one with Mother in that way. You must
all become a mother and play the role of mother at the family, tribal
and national levels.
All families have to be restored because that is the place where the
fall originated. In the family we must set things straight. Now it is
upside down but we have to bring it right side up. The nation cannot do
this, America cannot do this. Only the individual families can do
this. This is exactly the task that we have been instructed to engage
in: the restoration of families. Father has appointed each of us as
tribal messiahs, we have been given this blessing. Are things clear for
you now? (Yes.) This was exactly what was to have taken place after
World War II. Father was going to establish the tribal messiahs at that
time. Had everything been victorious at that time seven years tribal
messiah work would have been very easily completed at that time, not
the confusion that we now have after forty years. Satan destroyed the
whole foundation. After World War II Christian spirit was at its
highest. Imagine so many thousands of Christians at that time working
in a victorious way, how easy it would have been. Not like it is
today. We would have enacted a constitutional law of tribal messiah in
order to save people, which could have facilitated the work even more.
After forty long years of history going around once more to another
identical time period, now Father is doing exactly that which he should
have done forty years ago. The year that the Second World War ended was
1945; it was a great victory in the sight of God. [Father is writing on
the blackboard.] Seven years following 1945 would have arrived at the
year 1952. By 1952 the whole task would have been completed, but forty
years of re-indemnity time had to occur which brought us to 1992. Then
another extended seven years after 1992, beginning 1993 to the year
2000. That is the year of Father's eightieth birthday. The unification
of the world will have been completed by that time. This is Father's
plan. This is not Father's individual planning of things, but history
works towards that goal. Therefore, Father has to meet the right
timing.
Christians are still struggling because their theology is
incorrect. They believe that Christ will come from the clouds. In
Jesus' time also, the Jewish people were awaiting the coming of Elijah
in a chariot of fire from the clouds before the coming of the Messiah.
However, such phenomena did not take place but Jesus still came.
Likewise, at the end of the New Testament era it is exactly the same.
What failed in the Old Testament Age must be re-indemnified in the New
Testament Age. When this does not happen then it gets extended to the
Completed Testament era. Now we must do it. [Father is writing on the
blackboard] The blockage to the Old Testament Age accepting the Messiah
was based upon the expectation of Elijah appearing in a chariot from
the clouds. At the end of the New Testament era, they are also waiting
for Jesus to come literally on the clouds. This is absurd, but this is
what is causing them to falter. What failed in past ages must be
restored in the present age. This is the meaning of indemnity.
At the end of the Old Testament Age Elijah did come. Who was
Elijah? John the Baptist. How can John the Baptist be Elijah? Because
he came in the role of Elijah. The people were unable to distinguish
that fact. At this time also Jesus is to come again and, indeed, he
does. However, not Jesus in person but the Lord of the Second Advent
will come. Sun Myung Moon comes with the same mission as Jesus in the
same way that John the Baptist came with the same mission as Elijah.
There is no way around it we have to repeat and win over that condition
before we can be successful. The people of Jesus' time ended up
killing him. By the same token when Jesus comes again, in the form of
Sun Myung Moon, they will try to kill him too. Indeed they did try.
Ironically the ones who opposed Father the most were the Christians.
Just as the early Christians met with the most opposition from the
chosen people themselves, so in this time the Christians have tried to
eliminate Father for various reasons.
The very people who are supposed to benefit from him try to oppose
him and to kill him, but he desperately tries to save them. Do you
follow? During this forty years Father had to take many complicated
steps. He needed a scholarly perfection of the theology in order to
teach top people in society. Only a fraction of the people are able to
understand that. But that fraction did understand and formed many
different international organizations to bring about unification.
Incredible work has to be done during this forty years before any
foundation is built. Father formed the Inter-Religious Federation for
World Peace, the Federation for World Peace, the Women's Federation for
World Peace and the Youth Federation for World Peace. These are the
organizations formed by Father to accomplish the work.
[Father is drawing on the board] Under True Mother is the Women's
Federation for World Peace. The mind is represented by the
Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace and the body is represented
by the Federation for World Peace. One representing the religious world
and one the political world. Mother and children, women and youth all
must become one. The key to world peace is to bring mind and body into
unity and also man and woman into unity, which is another form of mind
and body. The core of the American problem lies in the family and the
center of the family is mother. If the mother plays her role correctly
then that is the way to restore the family. For the sake of world
peace, individual mind and body must come into unity; then within the
family, husband and wife come into unity; then parents and children
come into unity. These three elements must be unified. This represents
Adam's extended family [indicating to the blackboard]. After the fall
mind and body, men and women, and parents and children all separated.
World peace comes only through this formula. This is the crux of the
formula. Centering upon these concepts we can come up with a Religious
United Nations and a Political United Nations and a Women's United
Nations. All three elements must become one. Women's Federation is in
Mother's position, Political Federation is in Cain position, and
Religious Federation is in Abel's position. That is exactly what
Father is doing now. The Lord of the Second Advent, True Father,
becoming one with this unity [indicating on the blackboard]; then that
is the complete restoration.
All that God lost in Adam's family is now being restored at the
world level because history has progressed. This is what Father
announced and proclaimed at the Summit Council for World Peace in Korea
recently. He proclaimed these three types of United Nations. We already
have a United Nations but it is very clear to everybody, that these 182
countries all assert their own position and protect their own
interests. They are not working for the interest of the world.
Everybody is aware that world peace cannot be accomplished this way.
Seventy-five per- cent of today's world are in the religious realm and
half the world population is made up of women. Women have lots of money
too. (Laughter.) This is no accident, this is the way it is supposed to
be. Now is the time of restoration, so all the money is in women's'
pockets, because they must use that for the sake of restoring and
saving the world. Eve fell and inherited Satan's ideas but in this time
women must reverse that process. Even this is an over-simplified
explanation, but you should now have a clear idea what the world has
become.
America must listen to Rev. Moon otherwise it will not have a
correct direction to go in. That can only mean that it will decline and
the world will decline with it. The world does not know where to go; if
it continues to go this way and that, it too will perish. It has to go
in the right direction. The True Parents are eternally one. There
cannot be two sets of Parents. There is only one set of True Parents.
That entity, that name True Parents, all individuals, all families, all
nations, religion and the world need them in order to be saved. There
is no one who can do without True Parents. Because of the fall God
cannot teach us directly. Therefore, we need someone who we can go
through, and that someone is True Parents. True Parents have to teach
us everything in a comprehensible way so that we are able to follow.
This is exactly what is happening. The individuals, families, clans,
nations and world who follow True Parents are destined straight to
Heaven; security, peace and happiness all will be theirs. All need to
follow True Parents in order to find eternal peace, happiness and
heaven.
Until now the typical religious thinking was at the individual level
at best. It is not the individual who is so important but rather the
nation and world. Always the larger aspect is the point of God's
concern. If the nation listens and goes to Heaven then the individual
will automatically go to Heaven. Is that not so? (Yes!) If the
president of the nation has the wisdom to understand this and enacts a
law to follow this path, then in no time at all the country would be
saved. Do you follow? It is going to happen quickly. Now is the time of
light, not dark. We begin to see so clearly what has been happening in
human history then it is easier to follow. This will happen very
quickly. The purpose of religion was to save the family and the nation,
not so much the individual. Tribal messiah mission is to save the
families. Families need True Parents. Do you understand? (Yes!) The
family is the starting point, not the nation and world. From here
[Father indicates on the board] the true world emerges. The starting
point is the family. Therefore, Father sent you out as tribal messiahs
to save the family base. After the family base is secured then to save
the nation and world will be no problem. Do you understand?
This tribal messiah is the formula that really works. This is really
a great advancement in our method of working. What the tribe consists
of is a relatively small number of individual families. When
restoration takes place within these families; individual mind and body
becoming one, the family becoming one and uniting with True Parents,
then that is exactly where world peace begins. Otherwise it is all too
conceptual. But tribal messiah work you can do. All we need to do is to
expand the successful pattern of tribal messiah work. This is where
Heaven on earth literally begins, not conceptually but literally. Do
you understand? It is the building block for the Kingdom of Heaven.
That is where the palace of life, love and lineage begins. What does
Heaven on earth mean? Peace, happiness, unification, and the ideal
world: all these things begin from the family, not from the nation and
world. The seed of happiness, peace and unification is within the
family. There our mind and body, man and woman, and Cain and Abel
children must all become one. Just as division occurred as the result
of Adam and Eve's fall, now it is being restored.
It is much easier to accomplish something when we understand it
clearly. The unification of mind and body, husband and wife and
children makes an ideal model of an ideal family. [Father indicates to
a diagram on the board.] Father's role is to make Heaven on earth at
the world level, whereas our task is to build Heaven on earth at the
family level. How this is accomplished is, as Father has already
explained, unification between mind and body, unity between husband and
wife, and unity amongst the children. Do you follow? That is the
starting point. Everything that humankind desires, peace, happiness and
all goodness begins from the accomplishment of this. Do you think
there is even one family amongst our families here in America that can
satisfy this criteria? If you say no, then it means that no one belongs
to Heaven. Where do they belong? Hell. It doesn't matter what position
you may hold or how much money you may have, all that matters is that
you become one with Parents and God. This is what is all important.
Once we achieve this we become an individual family who represents the
cosmos. Last Sunday Father made such a strong impact, didn't he? He
told us that we must become a representative of our family, our nation
and God. We are the central person. Likewise, this model would become
the central family [indicating to the board diagram].
When Adam was born he was already king of the future nation. Adam
and Eve were in the position of family king, tribal king, national
king, world king and heavenly king also. If Father is in the position
of True Parents, then what are we? We are also true parents. The whole
world is one big tree. Who is that big tree? All of us. It isn't just
Father and we are nothing. Father is a big tree, but he is the trunk
and root and we are all branches. Today we have a clone which means
from this one perfect cell you can make hundreds and millions of
perfect cells. That is called cloning. By the same token, once we are
perfected, this will spread around the world as a good seed. That is
what is to happen. No matter how small your seed may be it is always
the same as the parents' seed.
In the Last Days we see confusion everywhere. There is confusion in
the spiritual world also. When Father had to swim out of this confusion
Satan always tried to block Father's way, making it nigh impossible.
God does not stop it but He cannot help either. God can only watch and
wait. In order to make order out of the world, one must first make
order in the spiritual world. Father proclaimed this truth on the earth
but he is actually directing it to the spiritual world. The spiritual
world will oppose him because at first they don't understand and,
second, they are not good yet. Therefore they oppose him and even God
opposes him. Why does God oppose him? Man betrayed God, did he not?
Therefore God has to betray man one time before He can accept him. The
same confusion reigns in the spiritual world as on earth. Confucius and
others all came out and called Rev. Moon heretical. Every religious
leader called him a heretic. Then there was a great debate with God
presiding and each presents pros and cons as to why his theology is
correct and why it is not. For forty days you must go through that. We
can only imagine. But God knows that without having a clear blueprint
nothing can be achieved.
Confucius would argue what are the proper aspects of character.
Confucius had some idea of God, but he never knew that God was like an
individual with personality and character. Confucius taught people
about heaven so when Father challenged him, with just a few words he
was knocked down. Father challenged Jesus by asking, "Why did you
not tell that the Second Advent would come as a different person rather
than yourself?" He could not answer. Why did he leave it in such a
vague way that he would come from the clouds? It is making the Last
Days very difficult. Once he went to the spiritual world he realized
what mistakes he had made on the earth. There is a great debate going
on, like a democracy. Here is God. They debate each other and they
denounce Father; but Father challenged them to answer certain things.
They could not answer. Even God said, "Rev. Moon is right."
(Applause.) You need God's recognition, God's seal of approval, before
you can introduce order here on earth first you must introduce order to
the spiritual world.
Actually, within the Unification Church there are a lot of odds and
ends. We are not regular ones. (Laughter.) Spirits have criticized
Father saying, "You are in the John the Baptist position and I am
the real Messiah." You cannot become the Messiah just because you
want to. It is because that "Messiah" has placed order
within the spiritual world and on earth that he is recognized as the
Messiah, not because he claims to be. The confused spiritual world and
the confused world now comes back into order as a result of Father's
work. [Father is drawing on the board.] Look at the spiritual world and
the religious world, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, even Confucianism,
you name it, have all built a great wall. They protect themselves by
their walls, but they don't care about the others. This is the reality
of today's religious world and it is the reality in the spiritual
world. Just as Jesus kicked all the earthenware, Father breaks all the
religious barriers and brings them into unity, into one direction. Not
two directions, only one. On the earth today, strictly speaking, we
have as many directions as we have population, but we must bring them
all into one direction.
People have opposed and persecuted Father, but in spite of
themselves they find they are moving in the same direction as Rev.
Moon. Everybody has come to the realization that the word
"peace" is a very hollow word. Peace remains further away
than ever. Now people are beginning to realize that Father is the one
who is closest to peace, that he is peace. Even non-religious people
pay a lot of attention to Father now. Father is not a religious leader
in a narrow sense, he has to make an impact on morality, politics and
industry, before he can be a true religious leader. Every aspect of
life needs the Messiah. Now this being the way that it should be, what
is your concept towards Father? Do we understand Father is such an
important person in this wide scope or do you not understand Father at
all? Do we really understand Father? (Yes. We need you.) If you know,
but you do not do as he teaches then what is that? If you obtained a
doctorate degree from Harvard and then just stayed home, it would be
better if you had not obtained the degree in the first place. If you
have a doctorate and do nothing, it is worse than if you did not have
one and did nothing.
Communists were revolutionary, they wanted to make a better world
even though they were in the wrong direction. Now they try all over
again but in the right direction under Father's guidance. Whereas the
free world knew God and had everything but did nothing, so now the
communist world is taking their fruit. First Father must put the
spiritual world in order before he can do the same on the earth. Father
meets with all the top leaders in the various fields and they see a lot
of hope in Father. They challenge their own way to Father and they are
always mesmerized and bow down to Father's higher level of
understanding. They wonder how he learned so much. This is why Father
must make his appearance and help the people understand, so that they
come to respect him. Mikhail Gorbachev was invited to the recent Summit
Council for World Peace and he had a lot of good ideas; everybody
respected him because of that. However, Father challenged him and said
to him, "Mr. Gorbachev, you must do this." He could not say a
word because it was correct. He just listened and nodded. Should Father
follow Gorbachev or should Gorbachev follow Father? (Gorbachev should
follow Father.) Naturally. Rev. Moon's name is becoming resurrected to
a higher level. Some people still regard Father as some kind of
fanatic. But we can see that after we have put order in the spiritual
world we are now bringing order here on earth. Is it visible to you
also? (Yes!) A few more steps and you will be there.
You are all intelligent and smart people otherwise you wouldn't be
here. (Laughter.) I don't think you are dumb. That is for sure!
(Laughter. Father laughs.) You all see the blueprint for world peace.
The world is in your hands. Don't you feel that? You feel it and are
confident in that too, are you not? (Yes!) No one can be better than
you. Doesn't it also mean that even if Father didn't help and work in
your place you can still do it? You feel confident that you are able to
do it. It is that kind of a time, not only for us but for most average
people out in the world. Unless they are completely dumb, there is no
one who is going to oppose Rev. Moon anymore. They opposed him when
they did not know. Therefore, if we are smart enough to know how about
Father, Father can feel a million more times confident than we about
the world? (True.) This is where the True Parents and the Completed
Testament era has been announced. Eternally there is only one set of
True Parents. All the spiritual world and all mankind should follow
True Parents. That is the way to the Kingdom of Heaven.
What does the Completed Testament Age mean? The Completed Testament
Age is the perfection of the ideal of creation. This should have a
tremendous impact upon you-the perfection of the ideal creation of
God. That means the world will become perfected. Until now, during
this forty-year course, no one truly sympathized with Father and went
along with him no matter what. Very few people did that. Until now
everybody has opposed him, but once the right time comes and Father has
established all of these conditions and stands above them, then they
all will have to follow Father. This is exactly what happened in
Korea. Every former head of state stood up and applauded to Father and
Mother when this was proclaimed. Father's true mission is to bring
everybody into unity and make the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, but more
importantly Father must establish a perfect family. Restore the mother
and children and have the mother and children become completely one
with Father. The completion of this one original family is Father's
main task. This has been the culmination of Father's forty years of
tremendously hard work. Father's goal and God's goal is the same. He
established this family by going through all manner of persecution and
difficulties, but by winning over every step of the way he has brought
his family into perfection. This simply means to restore one woman and
the lost children. Even though she is one woman, she is a woman who
represents all women both here on earth and in the spiritual world
too.
[Father is drawing on the board.] Individual level, family, clan
levels and so forth. Likewise children are not simply children, but
they are children who represent the whole world. They come here
[indicating to the diagram] and become one among them. Even though the
size of the family is small it truly represents the entire cosmos. At
the end of World War II had Mother been found everything would have
been easy. Within seven years all would have been accomplished. Now
Father has deployed this foundation on the worldwide level,
horizontally not vertically, then brings it up again to find Mother.
The world of women is not steadfast, they are swaying to and fro.
Before the fall this happened and it is the repeated now. One time
standing closer to God's side, then coming back to Satan's side and
then back to God's side, like this. We must help them to stand on the
central point and become steadfast and constant.
Ultimately there is nothing that this one woman, who is truly
qualified to represent the whole world, did not go through. She has
been through the most difficult horizontal experiences and won
victoriously. The world does not know this clearly because they are
still in the dark. This is because the perfected Adam did not reign
yet. Even though they are still in darkness, they have the instinct to
understand. The woman Father was looking for was the one who claimed to
be the spouse of God. Father had to find such a woman. She stood on the
top of the cosmos right next to God, but even in that position she
still swayed. Do you understand what that means? One time God teaches
her but then Satan has his chance to try and teach her. It is up to her
to decide which to follow. Father is able to help her and teach her
what is taking place around her. When Father teaches her in the right
way, she asks God. But then even God has to oppose her one time. If she
asks Heavenly Father, "Is this man a heretic?" God will
respond, "As much as he is a heretic on earth, he is a heretic in
the spirit world." At other times God will say, "He is
absolute. He is representing me." God responds in two different
ways. Just as John the Baptist criticized and opposed Jesus, but at the
same time he testified that Jesus was the one to come. In the same way
Father needs somebody to testify to him in two contradictory ways.
Father needs one woman who does that. Various endorsements and
testimonies as to who Father is went through many different steps. That
is something Father had to go through in order to come to where he now
is.
During Father's forty-year course there was a time when Father
served a woman as if she were God Himself. You may not know the
details, but Father started from the servant of servants' position and
continued serving until he came next to God Himself. Because the woman
is being served she elevates, then at a certain point she recognizes
and testifies as to who Father is. At that time Father must reverse
the role, and come right side up. From that point on Father has
dominion over her. Only through winning over that period could Father
be in a position ready to select Mother based upon that foundation.
While Father is doing this, inevitably there were many women who were
very closely communicating with the spiritual world. Their ages ranged
from teenagers to eighty years old. Many high level spiritual women
came and challenged Father in many different ways. Everyone of them
claimed that Father was her bridegroom. Father had to be very wise
while helping them understand what was happening.
Father could then expand this victorious foundation in a horizontal
way and restore everybody to their rightful position. Until that time
Satan was above God, all mankind and Father too, but through going
through the different levels of servant and winning over Satan could
Father go the right side up. During this time Father had to make
horizontal restoration for equality, then Father gained dominion over
the position of fallen women. Women, represent the satanic world until
that time, had dominion. But then this changed and Father claimed
dominion. Through the woman who claimed to be God's own wife, Father
had to reverse the position or role. A great tragedy occurred. Because
she was so intense in following God's way and believing in Father she
could automatically be protected by Heaven. But once she had a doubt in
Father she could no longer handle it and became overwhelmed and went
down to hell. She went insane. It is that kind of intense world-no
hesitation-it has to be the correct answer right away.
The meaning of all this is that God already gave the blessing and
after World War II, mankind centered upon Christianity had a mission to
fulfill. But since they failed the mission and God had already given
them the blessing, now through Father God has to collect all the
blessing back to Him so that it can be given to the right person this
time. This is what Father had to do. Father began with elderly women,
serving them unconditionally; they finally testified that Father was
the Messiah. Father had to harvest all that blessing back so that he
could be ready to give it to the horizontal world. Father had the right
at that time to select a bride and give the qualification to whoever he
wanted. He had the right at that time. After regaining the blessing
back, not only vertically but also horizontally, Father gave this
blessing back to Mother.
In 1960, Father chose the bride and the Marriage of the Lamb took
place. Father then elevated to the national level and his work was
done at that level. The human ancestors fell in this stage [indicating
on the board], not in this stage. This stage is equal to the time of
1960, another seven years to reach the perfection stage. Since this is
included within the satanic domain all kinds of opposition have to be
met. Father and Mother met actual opposition, but from God's standpoint
True Children should no longer have had any more suffering from this
point on. Since Christianity did not fulfill its mission and lost their
foundation, Father had to re-indemnify this. During this course even
Father's children must go through incredible suffering which we are
unable to observe from the outside. Nevertheless they had to go through
much suffering in order to reach this perfecting point. 1992 was the
culmination of Mother's work. This is why the liberation of women has
been proclaimed for the first time in history. This liberation should
have come about automatically after 1945, because God and humankind won
the victory and women were to be liberated at that time. It did not
occur because Father was not accepted. Father had to begin all over
again in order to create the same foundation and, for the first time in
history, he proclaimed the liberation of women in 1992.
The liberation of women means that now is the time for women to
become united. Prior to this they could not, even if they wanted to,
because they had no foundation. What should have been realized in 1945
and the seven years following did not happen. Through Father's work of
re-indemnification, the successful pattern has been established and
this is now the women's era. 1992 was the beginning of the women's
time, prior to this history was dominated by men. After Mother has been
established, now Father moves to bring back the second generation. The
children are the second generation. Father has termed the children as
the second generation because at the time of Moses the first generation
was lost in the wilderness. It was the second generation who entered
into Canaan and now we are in a similar time. Without them knowing it,
mankind has been going through the wilderness course in this past forty
years. Now the ones who will enter into Canaan are the second
generation because the first generation all fell down.
"Second generation" has two meanings, first as Blessed
couples you give birth to children who are in the second generation
position. Those born after 1945 are also considered the second
generation. Now they are about fifty years of age. That is about
President Clinton's age; he was born at the end of that time, but he
still is part of the second generation. Father views everyone born
after 1945 in the realm of the second generation. Blessed couples are
naturally considered second generation in an Abel position, whereas the
second generation of the world are in Cain's position. Even Father's
children are now actively working on college campuses to restore the
second generation. We also, centering upon women and the Blessed
couples' children, must go forth to play the motherly role now. The
college campuses must be the center where we reclaim the second
generation back to God's bosom. Mother and Abel must come together in
order to save Cain. This is the meaning of the college campus speaking
tour, to enlighten them and bring them towards God.
The Israelites entered Canaan and were supposed to exert influence
over them, instead they became influenced by the existing people.
Instead of firmly establishing God's tradition among the people of
Canaan, they became absorbed by them. It was the role of the mothers to
teach their children the right tradition and together to establish that
tradition in Canaan. However, they failed to do this. We have to make
sure that we do not repeat their mistake. We have to exert complete
influence over them and not become influenced by them no matter how
brilliant they may appear to be. Mother and children must represent God
and establish our kingdom which is the opposite way of the way of this
society and world. Don't ever take a neutral position in regard to
homosexuality and such behavior. Such behavior is completely against
God. It is completely wrong. Mother is Father's responsibility and the
children are Mother's responsibility. We must become a part of Mother
and completely play Mother's role. Mother completed 266 rallies around
the world, including college campuses, and we must do the same here.
You have to do even more because we are more in number. This is not a
concept, but a reality.
Father fought this forty years realistically, here on earth in real
life. In the same way we have to live a real life following the same
pattern as Father. Do you follow? (Yes!) We must restore God's world.
Father handed the baton to Mother and Mother is doing exactly what
Father has been doing in the past. We don't need to be bothered if the
established religions come against us. We simply need to concentrate on
the second generation, who are as important as all the established
religions. Who has the specific mission to save the second generation?
It is none other than Mother. Mother is responsible for bringing in the
second generation. Those who were born after 1945, around the age of
50 and less, occupy about two-thirds of the world population. They are
in the majority. Half of them are women, and women must play this role
of reclaiming the children. Centering upon your sons and daughters,
unifying them between Cain and Abel, you united together with them
bring the second generation of the world back to God. Then the Kingdom
of Heaven will come about. If you embrace the age span that Father
includes within the second generation; that is the world. It means the
world will have come into your domain and influence, which is God's
domain. Our Blessed women have to save those in the Cain position born
after World War II, centering upon their children in the Abel position
and unify them. On that foundation you will stand in Mother's position
and enter into Heaven. This is the formula. Do you understand clearly?
(Yes!) No matter what difficulty you face, you have to overcome it.
This is your mission. Do you clearly understand? (Yes!) Without
creating this foundation you cannot get into Heaven, you cannot follow
Father. Is this clear? (Yes, Father!)
Father's ultimate goal was to find Mother. But now what we need to
do is to restore the situation after World War II, in 1945. Restore the
second generation and together with our family become united into one.
Once we accomplish this we don't need to do this [indicating to the
board diagram]. This is a far more difficult work to do. Relatively
speaking, this is far easier and Father already made a foundation for
you. The older people who married each other: their husbands are not in
the position of husband at all, they are in the position of the
archangel. You observe carefully, that is an archangel relationship.
You must work closely with them and bring the wives and children back
to God by having them become one with you, then Father will give them
blessing. Then that man will be able to stand in the position of
husband for the first time in a legitimate way with God's blessing.
All women in the world must align themselves with True Father
because they represent a part of Mother. Father is the general of the
women. (Laughter.) We are familiar with the term "heavenly
soldier" aren't we? (Yes!) In a period of war the military is the
most efficient way. It takes a general to bring victory, not just a
civil leader. An army must obey the command of the general. In the
military if you don't obey you receive severe punishment. We must
establish discipline and order. Do you women understand? (Yes!) You
American women especially, can you welcome me? (Yes, Father.) How do
you express your welcome towards Father? If you listen to Father well,
then you are welcoming him. If you welcome Father as a general, then
you are welcoming him. Once the general gives an order, everyone has to
obey absolutely. Is that right? (Yes!) You have to know the answer to
this better than me, otherwise you will fall away again. Father doesn't
want that. Nobody wants that. Women answered affirmatively to Father,
but does that include American women? (YES!) (Father laughs.) American
women or not, we have to do this.
Father has taught us this morning how to successfully work to
restore men, children and the entire family. Father's work was far more
difficult, but now Father is giving us the blessing and we can now do
this. Father never taught this content so clearly before. Why? The time
has to be right. Until this time even Father's children did not
understand clearly what they were going through. They would ask me,
"Father, are you my father or are you the father of the
Unification Church members?" True Children had that kind of
struggle when they were small. True Children see the horizontal
phenomena, but do not necessarily understand the deep-rooted agony of
God and Father's forty-year course. They do not understand the
dispensation as clearly as we who are already taught. Do you
understand? Can you safely say that Father worked for the sake of us
and not for the sake of his children?
There are twenty million people dying from hunger. Because of the
loss of understanding of the originality of mankind we do not feel
pain, as though they are my own brother or sister. Only Father has the
heart to address their problem. On June 13, 1990, Father began the
dispensation of the ocean. Therefore, June 13 must be celebrated by
Ocean Church. During this time, Father has studied how fish products
can be caught, manufactured, sold and distributed. Man can live when he
has earth and water. That is his minimum. The European colonists in
Africa never taught the native people how to become self-sufficient
through agriculture. They have a rich and fertile soil, but nobody
knows how to cultivate even simple plants. This is why Father has the
farm in Texas, which represents the center of the entire farming area
of the world. Where there is soil you can grow food, and where there is
water you can stock the fish and farm them. We are surrounded by ocean
and water; if it is managed correctly the food problem for the future
generations will be guaranteed. Women can learn how to fish, raise
cattle and farm as well. We don't have to sit and watch our brothers
and sisters dying of hunger. Whose burden is this? The burden falls
upon those who realize earlier than others. Do you agree? If you know,
then it is your burden, especially American women. You are in the
central position of the free world. Father told American women long ago
that they must buy boats and gain experience in fishing.
Through the mass media the people of the world can be taught what we
are teaching individually now. You have to teach fishing, hunting and
farming, then the media will teach them the Divine Principle. Buddhism
strictly forbids killing and Father agrees that human beings were not
supposed to kill living things. Love them, but not kill them. However,
the situation is now different. Today man is dying, God's children are
dying; so it is not a problem for a fish to give its life for the sake
of God's children. Do you agree with that rationale? We see many
children dying of starvation and malnutrition; how painful it must be
for the mothers of those dying children. Therefore, we must save them.
If you develop a transportation system, the food can be transported
from one place to another. This is a practical solution to preventing
starvation. We can build lots of boats in Korea and distribute them as
they are needed. We have to build the highways so that food can be
transported to remote areas. If we do this correctly Father feels very
confident that in a short period of time billions of people will feel
supportive of the Unification Church. They don't have to understand the
deeper truth as we do. Do you want to do that? (Yes!) Father encourages
and commands you to familiarize yourselves with the boating life and go
to fish as fishermen do, hunting also. If one woman begins that way of
working, the women surrounding her will follow her actions. This is
the women's mission, mothers mission. This is why Father established
the women's organization all over the world. We can connect with
everywhere.
Father organized Ocean Church years ago but everybody has deserted
it. Only Father remains in Ocean Church. However, Father began it so,
therefore, it is going to flourish. As soon as Father returned from
Texas he hit the water, so to speak. He went straight to the Hudson
River and began striped bass fishing. Father went and caught his
quota. Father catches fish for this reason, so he cannot really enjoy
eating food. Father may eat fish that somebody else caught on another
occasion, but not the ones Father caught. He just cannot eat them.
Father's goal is very clear: striped bass will become the sacrifice to
save many millions of God's children. On June 13, the fourth
anniversary of Father's fishing dispensation you should celebrate.
Father will transfer it to us and then begin a new hunting program. Do
you think that we should do this in the vast land of Africa or not?
(Yes!) Father has been criticized all the time for hunting and fishing
as a religious leader. However, now that we understand clearly should
Father have listened to them and stopped hunting and fishing or was he
right to continue? (Right.) Father is the king of fishermen.
Father now successfully ended forty years of his life and looking
back Father feels he gave everything he could. Father could feel
content and happy. However, Father feels that probably the rest of his
life will be somehow an extension of that forty-year course. Even
though Father has completed this forty years and tells us to do it,
still he never stops. Instead until eighty years of age, Father will
continue on without thinking about how much he has already done.
Father's goal will be that he will never be outdone by young people.
What an irony that Father, at the age of eighty, works like a young man
while a younger man lives like an old man. If they don't change
quickly, they deserve to perish. We deserve to perish and no mistake.
Father wants to make the point that even though he didn't always see
the results of the forty years' work that he has done, in looking back
today all the results of that work is appearing abundantly. This is a
testimony to us to follow Father's example. You only have one life to
live and it passes very quickly. Father wishes to bequeath his way of
life completely to us. This is the time when working hard on earth will
create what you have in the spiritual world. Only in this world, in
your lifetime by living this lifestyle will you be able to create that
foundation. Do you understand? (Yes!) One person on earth can be so
important. Father works so hard because he knows this reality. This
foundation is Father's property which will connect to him in the
spiritual world. Do you understand? (Yes!)
We have to reflect at this time and place on how many public tears
did we shed for the sake of Parents and the world. We may have had a
hard time during our lives, but at best it was a private suffering.
This is not what Father means. How much public agony have we felt, how
deeply have we felt that the world might perish if I did not accomplish
my part? This is what we need to reflect upon and compare it with True
Parents' life, Father's life. Then we will determine to change our life
exactly into Father's pattern. Whatever we make here will be waiting
for us as our property in the eternal world to come. Forty years ago
Father set a goal and plan as to what those forty years of Father's
life was to be. Without that plan and goal Father could not have lived
his life, likewise we have to do the same. All the satanic world came
against him and never left him in peace. That means we too have to have
an individual plan in our lives: when I am seventy, I'll accomplish
this; when I'm eighty, I'll accomplish this, etc. We must make a clear
plan and adhere to it.
When you enter college you know the curriculum you will be working
by and at the end of four years that you will graduate; then you want
to do something. Therefore, you have a plan. No matter what you do or
how hard you work, unless you follow your destined way you will meet
opposition. Your meeting with opposition is not necessarily a bad
thing at all, rather it stimulates you. It makes you check that you are
going in the right way. Looking back Father is amazed, because each
time Father reached a most difficult point that stimulated him to think
more seriously than before and it was always a turning point for good.
Father always thought of the dispensation first. If we really determine
a goal for ourselves, work in that area of responsibility, pray and
work like crazy, without your knowing God always helps. You have to be
so serious as to think that until you achieve your goal you will not
sleep or eat, then you will surely succeed. Do you think that Father's
forty-year course has been a straight line or up and down? (Straight.)
Life consists of highs and lows, but the direction is always the same.
We must strive to always do better and better. Looking back it seems
like a dream because Father was so focused to accomplish, and only on
looking back it is apparent what staggering things have been
accomplished. The proclamation of the True Parents and the Completed
Testament era and the establishment and settlement of True Parents and
their family, these are tremendous accomplishments. Looking back Father
cannot really remember when he did all that. Without tears Father knows
that he could never have done that. Only God knows what a painfully
miserable, pitiful life Father went through, both physically and
spiritually. Only God knows. Father knows that God also shed a lot of
tears for the sake of Father. Looking at Father suffer, God also
suffered. Father knows that. It is like a dream and if someone hears
this for the first time they may wonder what it is he is talking about,
but we do understand.
Father's children, namely us, must resemble Father. Why should we do
that? In order to be able to go to the same place where our Parents
go. How regrettable it would be if Father taught us so clearly and we
don't carry it out so faithfully. We will be to blame. Father does not
want that. If we didn't know we might have an excuse; but once we know
and do not do it, it will serve as suffering to us. Father knows that
our life is lonesome and difficult, yet Father knows this is the best
way of life here on earth. Therefore, Father has no regret in
encouraging all of us to go the original way. Father wishes this to be
a turning point for us all to determine more strongly than ever to
follow Father's way of life and succeed like him, that we may rejoice
together eternally in spiritual world. Those who determine this raise
your hands. Father is planning to leave on the 27th of this month,
there are 160 Japanese women who are to be trained and 500,000 Japanese
men are on Father's agenda. Like Father, we too shall work hard and
take responsibility for America. Always think that you are younger than
Father. Remember that whenever you get tired. God bless you.
(Applause.)