ORDER NUMBER:
95-04-23-08
REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON
THE AGE OF GREAT VICTORY IN THE
HISTORY OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE
April 23, 1995
Belvedere -- International Training Center
Translator - Peter Kim
Can one of you interpret this? Repeat after me: Chigeum butauneun supni
sajuck tae seungni shidae. UTS Korean students: chigeum butauneun means
from now on. [It's time for great victory?] Pretty close, yes. Supni sajuck
tae seungni shidae means "The Age of Great Victory in the History
of God's Providence." This is the vertical relationship [pointing
to the blackboard]: from God, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. Over here are Satan,
Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel.
We need the Age of Great Victory in the History of God's Providence
because of the human fall. Now at the end of human history we have to restore
the origin of history. Once we go back to the original point of history,
what do we have? What does the history of God's providence mean? It is
the history of restoration and also the history of indemnity. By paying
indemnity we restore history.
Because we lost everything in Adam's family, we have to restore everything
back from Adam's family. That is the reversal way. Therefore, in the end
God and Adam's family will remain. Of course, this family includes Cain
and Abel. No matter how long the course of human history, since we have
to reverse history in order to restore it, we have no choice but to base
restoration on the family unit. Our focus is not the national level or
worldwide level, but the family. The family has to be restored first.
America is a superpower and is now the leading country of the world;
there are many other powerful countries in the world, but there has been
no God-centered Adam and Eve and no God-centered nation. The true America
and the true religion have not existed. God and Adam's family is the original
starting point. That is the absolute starting point which was lost at the
fall. The reversal course of restoration is based on God's providential
history. From God's point of view, what does it mean to restore human history?
First, it means restoring elder sonship, parenthood, and kingship. Those
three categories must be restored. Throughout restoration history there
have always been obstacles. Those obstacles were these very three categories:
elder sonship, parenthood, and kingship. Therefore, God's history of restoration
has been focusing on getting rid of these obstacles. The course of history
from God's point of view is 180 degrees opposite from Satan's point of
view. We must go all the way down to the zero point in order to restore
everything. Since this entire world has belonged to Satan ever since the
human fall, we cannot make compromises with it if we want to restore this
world. We have to deny it, we have to reject it.
In Buddhism and Christianity, people commonly leave their homes in order
to pursue the religious way of life and achieve their spiritual goals,
because they have to stay away from this evil world. Leaving home means
denying and rejecting your family, your belongings and everything, and
going out to the wilderness to start from scratch, even if it means doing
it as a beggar. That is your life. You have to reject and deny everything
in the satanic world; nothing that belongs to the satanic world should
have anything to do with you. You have to completely cut it off.
If any religion had had such a strict discipline, urging people to cut
off from the satanic world and be alone with God, then human history would
have been different. Human history has declined, along with the Christian
viewpoint and the religious world. There is no hope in those realms. Thus,
religious people leave home in order to achieve their spiritual goals.
A second common religious practice is denying married life. Religious
people have committed themselves to celibacy and staying single. The biggest
headache for God has been the formation of the family in the wrong way,
centered on Satan. Fallen people married wrong, with the wrong motivation
and to the wrong people. These two have been the most difficult headaches
for God. What is the usual beginning point of married life? Usually it
begins from teenage years. In the Bible it says that people will reap what
they sow. Therefore, at the end of the world, at the harvest time, we see
a lot of chaos in marriage and family life, just like at the beginning.
Because of the human fall there has been no family unity; parents divorce
and families break up. Because Satan opposes God's will, he pushes people
in a direction totally opposite from God's original ideal. Therefore, you
will see a lot of destruction of marriages and all kinds of disorders,
including free sex among teenagers, homosexuality, and all kinds of immoral
behavior.
Instead of people keeping celibate and leaving home to pursue religious
goals, all of these things will happen. At the end of the world, if we
could keep all the families intact as heavenly families, we can build the
Kingdom of God. But because of the human fall, we will see otherwise. Family
destruction and chaos will take place. Instead of people staying celibate,
teenagers will become involved in all kinds of problems. Free sex, homosexuality
and all these kinds of problems are signs of the expanding satanic hell
in this world. The modern world is an expansion of Satan's hell.
The third sign of Satan's world is the focus on privacy and individualism.
As a result of the human fall, people are self-centered. The concern for
privacy and extreme individualism in America means that America is still
protecting the fence which Satan put around his realm to protect it. However,
we have to destroy this fence and get out of this hell. Because of the
human fall, we lost everything. From the cosmos to the individual, and
from individual to the cosmos, all levels were lost because of the human
fall. Satan put a fence around you and gave you the term individualism,
confining you within that terminology. If you are focused on individualism,
it means you have lost everything; those who are concerned about privacy
are defending themselves from the surrounding world. They are totally separate
from God's position and are living in a hell on earth, with no center for
their lives. Having no individual center, no family, no nation, no world,
no cosmos and no ideal, people have lost everything.
Certainly now is the time for harvest; thus, as the Bible says, people
will reap what they have sown. We are reaching the end of human history,
so we have to gather in the harvest. If the grapes are not real grapes,
we have to burn them. We are harvesting the separation between Adam's mind
and body, the family which Adam lost, the marriage which Adam and Eve betrayed,
and the brotherhood which Cain and Abel lost. That origin and that seed
has now expanded and multiplied into a worldwide base at the time of harvest.
With no center and no connection with God's ideal, people have lost everything.
This is the time when we have to even deny ourselves. We have to deny
humankind, the human race. Therefore, unless we see a religion that teaches
people to deny themselves and even deny the entire world in order to return
back to God, mankind has no hope for salvation. The responsibility and
mission of religion is to have people totally deny this satanic world and
restore this entire world back to God. That is the mission of religion.
Because of the human fall, mind and body have been separated. Religions
have represented the human mind, and the national sovereignties all over
the world have represented the human body. The body is on Satan's side,
while the mind is on God's side. However, because of the human fall, the
body has had the sovereignty and has dominated the mind throughout history.
That has been the problem. In our lifetime, every flesh body controls the
mind. This is the reality of the modern world. The mind should be at the
head, but instead the body exercises governing authority. The fact that
every government has acted against religion has the same meaning as the
body controlling the mind. Unless we make ultimate unification, we cannot
reach God's side.
We need this understanding as a prerequisite to understanding the history
of restoration. When we talk about the history of God's providence, we
are talking about the entire history from the Old Testament to the New
Testament and even the Completed Testament. Had people remained centered
on God rather than falling, they would have started with absolute faith,
absolute love and absolute obedience. These three criteria would have been
the beginning point of human history, had there been no fall.
However, in the democratic world, people do not use terms such as absolute
faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. They don't use the term absolute
even for their religion. In the democratic world, there are always two
political parties, the ruling party and the opposition party. However,
if human history had begun with this absolute faith, love and obedience,
there would not have been two parties but just one single God-centered
party. Democracy is the ideology of brotherhood. The human mind and body
separated because of the fall, creating two separate parties. That is the
origin of these two parties. Brotherhood is the spirit of democracy. The
brotherhood ideology means the relationship between Cain and Abel, which
on the worldwide level is democracy. Of course, when we look at America
in isolation, we can see a Cain/Abel relationship between the political
parties. In the worldwide situation, there is a Cain/Abel relationship
between the theistic world and atheistic communism; thus the free world
and communism began fighting. Which of the two brothers attacks first?
The elder son attacks first and he represents Cain. Therefore, the elder
son is the problem.
In restoration there is a reversal process. The younger brother restores
the elder sonship, the birthright of the elder brother. That is the meaning
of restoration. It's not an easy task. You have to conquer completely in
order to restore the elder son's birthright. Because Satan divided the
brothers, Cain and Abel, we must restore the birthright of the elder brother
in order to establish the foundation to receive the messiah, the True Parents.
That is the prerequisite. Otherwise we can't even think of receiving the
messiah, who is our Parents.
What does the demise of communism mean? It means the surrender of the
satanic-side elder son to the younger son, the Christian world, which is
in the position of Abel. That is the significance of the demise of communism.
Satan's tactic is always to use force. His side uses weapons and physical
force, whatever it takes to conquer. What about God? By offering love and
care, God always seeks a natural and voluntary surrender. You can see evidence
of this during the world wars, when communism fought against the free world,
and eventually communism surrendered. However, throughout history the satanic
side has always attacked first. They attack first, but eventually they
lose. Therefore, I declare that Satan's tactic is to hit first and then
lose. On the contrary, God's strategy is to be hit first but in the end
win the battle. You must clearly understand God's strategy and Satan's
strategy.
The course of history was hidden for forty years. Of course, God's victory
means victory for the Unification Church. Up to this point, America has
been opposing me crazily. In addition, all the communist countries, beginning
with the former Soviet Union and North Korea, have been opposing and persecuting
me. In the end, who won the battle? [Father!] Just because you are Unificationists,
you say I won. But don't give that answer just because you are Unificationists.
It is also a factual record that historically nobody else could have done
the kind of work I have done to bring about the demise of communism. Moreover,
we are offering the solution to save America, which is perishing day by
day.
We can't deny that the most fearful enemy for the democratic free world
as well as the communist world has been Rev. Moon. I am the most fearful
and hated figure. The free world absolutely hates me. This is not a concept;
this is reality. Faced by that kind of opposition and persecution, how
could I manage to fight against all these evil powers? I did so because
I clearly understood the purpose of the history of God's restoration and
all these explanations I gave you this morning. Without that power, I couldn't
have done it. Is it true? [Yes!] How about you? [Yes.]
Where do the concepts of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience come from? They come from God, because at the time of creation
God gave absolutely of Himself, investing and forgetting, investing and
forgetting. That spirit was there. Also, God had absolute faith in His
creation. Furthermore, He was absolutely one with the creation, which was
His way of showing the standard of absolute love in this created world.
These three concepts-absolute faith, love and obedience-come from God.
These form the complete base for the creation. When you hear me talk about
absolute faith, love and obedience, you understand, "Oh, that was
the Sao Paulo Declaration that Father gave in Brazil."
You have to be absolutely obedient, love True Parents absolutely, and
have absolute faith in True Parents. This actually begins on the individual
level. We have to practice with ourselves first. We have to have absolute
faith in ourselves, absolute love and absolute obedience. This is the formula
course. Because God is like this, we who are the objects of God must follow
in His footsteps.
What is the meaning of the fall? Because of the fall, we lost all these
three qualities. Because we lost these three qualities at the time of the
fall, we lost our pure, divine lineage, we lost our divine possessions,
and we lost the realm of heart, which could have been completed within
seven generations. Thus we lost the fifth stage, sixth stage, and seventh
stage. Before we reached the eighth stage this happened, so we lost all
those numbers. The concept of tribal messiah starts from individual, family
and tribe. Because of the human fall all those were lost in the beginning.
In the satanic world, people cling to their possessions: their assets,
money and wealth. Also, they consider their own satanic lineage to be very
important. Furthermore, they interpret the realm of heart in their own
horizontal way. The satanic world tries not to lose its lineage and its
right of possession. Seeing that God intervenes and tries to convert the
satanic lineage to a different lineage, Satan desperately puts up a strong
opposition. Males in the satanic world have stained the virtue of many
females, playing with love.
Women have made sacrifices as they have sought for a true man, or a
true husband. However, no true man or true husband appeared in human history.
When I say true man I don't mean Truman, the former president of the United
States. I mean the real husband God wishes for. Christianity speaks of
the symbolism of a bride seeking the bridegroom.
Many religions contain the concept of a returning lord. That lord is
the messiah for whom people are waiting. Because of the fall in Adam's
family, Satan took the position of God and took Adam and Eve away from
God. Therefore, God has had no one. God was expelled. God lost even the
throne to Satan and has been confined in His own place. God has lost the
dignity of the creator of all things. The ideal of love has been completely
infringed upon, and the blood lineage has been stained. Therefore, all
that was lost has to be restored.
The American people mainly belong to the Anglo-Saxon race and lineage.
The countries of South America started as Latin countries, with the Catholic
heritage. They are not of the Anglo-Saxon lineage but of Latin lineage.
They have been fighting. Because of the mix-up that took place in the beginning
of history, because of the human fall, there are struggles even between
North America and South America. Therefore, we have to solve the problem
from the root. Because of the human fall, we lost faith, love and obedience
and then lineage, possessions and the true realm of heart. That's why we
must have the messiah.
In a way, America is dominating and subjugating the entire world. Does
America belong to God? [No!] America is not God's property. All nations
do not belong to God. It is the same for every country. Again, because
of the human fall, we lost true lineage, true possessions and the true
realm of heart. Because of that, Satan has been dominating this entire
world.
At one point the communist world even claimed that there is no God;
they said God was dead. Actually, God has been in that kind of position
because He has been unable to do anything. Both the communist world and
the free world are dominated by Satan. This is a hellish world. World-famous
theologians said that God was dead, starting a dead-God theology. The atheistic
world denies that God exists. Of course, the communist countries do not
even believe God exists. However, in this free world, the theologians should
have strong faith in God, but they also denied the existence of God by
saying that God was dead. That means Satan took both sides, the atheistic
side and the free-world side as well. Then how can we liberate God? Is
there no way to liberate God? That is why God sends the messiah.
When you look at a fruit tree, then you will find the answer. When the
autumn season comes, all the leaves fall off, but that doesn't mean that
the entire tree is dead. Furthermore, while the leaves are falling you
will find fruit which contains the seed of that particular tree. The messiah
is like the fruit. The entire tree seems dead; it looks bare and naked,
yet the seed of the tree, the spirit of the tree comes in the form of fruit.
That is the messiah, who comes to save the entire world.
We can interpret the human fall using the analogy of the changing seasons.
Because of the fall, God could not see the springtime, the season when
flowers bloom and all the signs of life come out. Because of the fall God
lost the spring. Furthermore, human civilization started from the tropical
region and progressed to the temperate and eventually the cold, wintry
civilization. Ultimately, of course, it returns to the original point,
which is a tropical civilization where we see all the signs of life. In
other words, God has to restore the spring season in which all life begins
again. This free world and its culture and civilization represents the
temperate climate and the autumn culture or autumn civilization, while
the tropical countries represent the summer civilization. The communist
world represents winter civilization. God never met the true spring season,
when blossoming flowers and their fragrance spread the kind of love which
connects to springtime. God lost that. Now is the time to chase away the
winter civilization and even the summer civilization; we have to restore
the spring civilization.
Korea belongs to this region of temperate civilization, but people from
countries with temperate climates such as Korea, where there are four distinct
seasons, can adjust to any culture or atmosphere, whether it is tropical,
temperate, or even wintry Siberia weather. Wherever they go, they can adjust
and survive. Even though it doesn't show on the surface, the seed should
have the attributes of tropical weather, temperate weather and wintry weather.
Whatever the weather or culture may be, the seed should contain all those
potentials because it is a microcosm of the entire plant; it must contain
every attribute of a particular plant or tree.
Korea may be a small country, but Koreans are not afraid of being on
the borderline with gigantic countries such as China or Russia. They are
not afraid of Japan or America either. No matter what gigantic country
they may face, they don't care. In order to survive, the Koreans cross
the border as freely as they want, searching for food and whatever they
need. They are not afraid or scared.
The modern world considers Korea to be a problematic place. That's true.
You check it out. Korea is a problem for the Soviet Union, China, Japan
and America. Korea is a problem everywhere, even in underdeveloped countries
and in Africa. In other words, Koreans are that versatile. Because of that
quality, Koreans are the only ones who can surpass the Jewish people.
Moreover, Koreans started chewing up even the Mafia. No matter how strong
the Mafia may be in America, they have to protect me. That is God's strategy.
The smartest fellow is God. He uses Satan's world all the time and swallows
it up. I am educating you about Korea this morning.
Another characteristic of Koreans in general is that even if they have
no house to live in or no automobile to drive, when they appear in public
they wear their most expensive suit or whatever expensive thing they have
so that they can appear to be somebody very important. When they go to
a restaurant, they find the most expensive Chinese restaurant. And if they
have a little bit more money, they will buy the most expensive, stylish
car such as a Lincoln Continental or Mercedes Benz. If you follow a Korean
who drives a Mercedes Benz and wears a $1,000 suit to his home, you will
find that he lives in a tent.
From now on, a person's shelter will be a tent, not this kind of solid
house. That will happen more and more. With only a van or mobile home equipped
with all kinds of high-tech things, like TV sets and computers, you can
manage everything. You may wonder how to educate your children if you have
to go around like a gypsy. But that will not be a problem either, because
video tapes will be developed in such a way that children can be educated
through watching all sorts of video tapes. In the future we won't need
schools. People don't want to study. [Amen!] Thus, you will be liberated
from studying.
You may enjoy this kind of talk, yet you have to remember that when
it comes to the history of restoration, we are talking about restoring
the birthright of the elder son, restoring parenthood and restoring kingship.
As I said earlier, although America may be influencing the world in the
strongest way, subjugating the world in many ways, what position does America
have now: that of the elder son or the younger son? [Younger son.] You
have to know your situation clearly. American people have to know clearly
what position they are in. Americans don't like to be the younger brother.
They only like to be elder. It's true. However, God's providential viewpoint
can't permit them to occupy the elder son's position. Okay or not okay?
Okay or nokay? This is a new term: nokay, meaning not okay. If America
held the position of elder son, it would fall into hell unless it could
bring the younger son to the position of the elder son. No one can deny
that. You have to recognize that.
Then what can you do as Americans? You have to give up all of your possessions,
your wealth and your money, and give it to the poor people in Africa so
they can enjoy life. America should treat them like an elder brother and
stand behind them giving them love and support; otherwise, America has
no hope of being saved. America should treat people in those poor countries
like their own elder brothers, their parents and their king. We have to
restore those three stages by showing our love toward the poor countries.
This is the only way we can go to heaven. This is the Principle viewpoint.
No one can deny that.
Which way shall we take: this way or that way? Most Americans like to
go the opposite way, and that is bad. They must change. God wants a new
history. God wants to record that the world has obtained happiness, freedom,
hope, peace and unification. Otherwise there is no way. If we stand there,
Satan's world cannot touch us. We need to start a new page. From whom?
[Father.] The messiah and True Father, the True King. The messiah means
the true elder, true father and true king.
That would have started with the first family in Eden. If Adam and Eve
had achieved completion, they could have taken the position of the elder
son, parents and king. There would have been no opposition, no Satan. Starting
then their authority could have controlled history forever. This is God's
original ideal of creation. This time period is called the age of great
victory in the history of God's providence because this is the time for
restoring everything. Again, if Adam and Eve had practiced absolute faith,
love and obedience in the beginning, they would have become totally one
with God.
God was in the position of subject and Adam was the object. The subject
position always gives and invests for eternity. Giving for eternity means
forming eternal value. If you stop after investing 100, you will harvest
only the value of 100. But if you give eternally and constantly, your value
will be limitless. In Adam's family, Adam was in the position of subject
and Eve was in the position of object. Through give and take they should
have become one. By doing so, God, Adam and Eve would have become one.
In the first family, Eve was in the position of mother, or subject,
and her children, Cain and Abel, were in the position of object. Of course,
Cain and Abel should have become one with their parents first and then
eventually extended their relationship to God and become one with Him.
That is how the scope expands and the range gets bigger. If the original
human family had been formed with this kind of unity and oneness with God,
nobody, not even Satan, could have interfered in their relationship. Even
between Cain and Abel, Cain was originally in the position of plus and
Abel was in the position of minus. They should have become one with their
mother and eventually expanded to their father's realm and ultimately to
God.
From God's point of view, connections take place vertically, with Adam
first, next Eve, and then Cain and Abel all becoming one. If this kind
of relationship had been established in the beginning without the human
fall, Adam's family would have been like a fort which no power could destroy
or intercept. Once Adam becomes totally one with God, Eve becomes totally
one with Adam on that foundation; that means Eve doesn't have to deal with
God directly. As long as she deals with Adam, who is completely one with
God, she doesn't have to go all the way out to reach God and check everything
with God. By the same token, once Eve and Adam and God are completely one,
Cain and Abel don't have to go all the way to Adam and to God, because
as long as they are totally one with Eve they are totally one with God.
They have total freedom in terms of their relationships. We can apply the
same principle to the relationship between Cain and Abel. Once they become
totally one with their mother and among themselves, Abel doesn't have to
go far to reach his mother or father and God. As long as he is totally
one with Cain, he is one with God.
When we have these kinds of relationships, plus and minus, subject and
object, we can enjoy total freedom, absolute freedom. Such freedom doesn't
come by yourself but within the subject/object relationship. Communists
insist that they are the only ones who have freedom. They deny the object.
That's why they disappeared. As long as we have perfect harmony and unity
between plus and minus, subject and object, no matter where you go or what
you do, nobody can interfere with your work or your relationships. Even
God cannot do that.
When we look around us, we see the mineral world, the plant kingdom,
and the animal kingdom. Even in the mineral world, as you know, the plus/minus
relationship exists. There are plus and minus particles, creating a circular
movement. Nobody can destroy that movement or stop it. The particles exist
for eternity in such a relationship. That is called freedom. Happiness,
peace and love result from such circular movement. We can see the same
phenomena in the plant kingdom and animal kingdom: plus and minus, plus
and minus. The same principle applies to human beings. Once you and your
spouse become totally one centered on God, nobody, not even the universe,
can destroy your unity or stop your relationship. Even God cannot interfere.
Can you find any single couple in America who is totally united centered
on God? An ideal couple? [True Parents.]
This is the formula. This formula existed from the beginning of creation.
The same formula applies in the history of restoration. Without completing
this formula, there is no way to complete restoration. That means as long
as we practice absolute faith, love and obedience and as long as there
is absolute unity between subject and object, we are always ready for a
higher level and nobody can interfere with our relationships.
In contrast to the theory of evolution, each species is distinct and
absolute. Nobody can manipulate them. Therefore, the theory of evolution
is not right. There is no time to go into the details. Just remember that
the history of restoration follows the same principle which existed from
the very beginning. Whenever there is unity between subject and object,
that unity will be protected by the cosmos. However, if there is disunity
between subject and object, even the universe will get rid of it.
In reference to absolute subject and absolute object, who or what is
the absolute subject? [God.] God, because God never changes. God exists
for eternity. Precious metals, such as gold or diamonds, are unchanging
for eternity; people treasure gold and diamonds because they are unchanging.
In human terms, those whose faith in God never wavers are the ones who
will be saved, while those who change their minds will head for someplace
else. What about the American people? Do Americans change all the time
or are they steady? [Changing!] American people can be considered the most
easily changeable people, whereas the oriental people are considered to
be the opposite, unchangeable. If you keep changing, like American people,
you will end up on the evil side. You will be taken by Satan. Extreme privacy
and secular individualism are dangerous trends in America. If you keep
pursuing those kinds of goals, then eventually you will lose your life.
You may have to trade your life for something. Heavenly force protects
this original, unchanging formula; however, if we keep changing there is
no way to be protected, and we will be abandoned. Whatever has no partner
will disappear. This is the principle formula.
Do you need your absolute partner? [Yes!] God created women with a concave
form and men with a convex form, so they will fit together to make a perfect
unity. That is how God created man and woman. Once the union is made, it
is unchangeable. That is God's formula. But look at the situation in America,
where marriages are breaking up. American people are heading to the dungeon
of hell. Can you deny that? My teaching is right and should be accepted
by everyone. Despite that, the world has tried every possible way to persecute
me. I have become the most fearful figure in America and in the world.
You Americans, do you have something to be proud of? Americans are on the
brink of falling down to the dungeon of hell. Who can change that? Only
Rev. Moon and the Unification Church. Nobody else can. Who can save the
world and liberate it from free sex, homosexuality, drug abuse, lesbianism
and frenzied dancing? [Father.] Only God. All of these are on the opposite
side of God. Only God can break this pattern and change things. Who can
save the people of the world? Not America. Unification members, representing
the people of the world, can lift up the world.
Centering on the Anglo-Saxon race, Christianity and the American government,
this Protestant-based country will assume the position of Abel and start
working with South America, which is in the position of Cain, centered
on Catholicism. Catholicism is in the position of elder brother, whereas
Protestantism is in the position of younger brother. How can they be unified?
Satan divided these two brothers. Therefore, now we have to bring the unity
between these two. Once this unity between South America and North America,
centered on Protestantism and Catholicism, is realized, they will take
the plus position. Because God is working through these two continents,
the eastern hemisphere will be in the position of minus, or object. God's
providence will continue that way. The minus represents the elder brother's
position, Cain's position. The two positions fight.
We already have a strong enough foundation in the Orient, centered on
Korean Christianity, Japan and China, that those Christian leaders can
say, "Let's liberate Rev. Moon from the persecution in America."
That's the consensus. Since American leaders and the Christian world have
been opposing me, the Asian people will rise up to protect me. One side
opposes the other, but when they unite, God's providence advances. With
the probable exception of the Anglo-Saxon people, the Asians and Hispanics
who are living in America are praying for the success of the Washington
Times. Once anybody understands this formula course, they will have to
admit it. This is the course, the history of restoration progress.
Well, I covered the entire world spectrum, so let's get down to our
individual level. The fundamental question we always ask is whether there
is unity between our mind and body. What do you think? Are your mind and
body separated or unified? Give a clear answer. [Separated.] Completely
separated? If they are separated in a zig-zag manner, does that mean their
destiny is a zig-zag heaven? Heaven cannot be like that. No matter how
beautiful the zig-zag way may be, it belongs to Satan and the kingdom of
hell. It will be torn like trash paper. Because our mind and body are not
totally united, we became a trash can. We don't need that kind of trash
can.
The most fearful problem is the separation of body and mind. World War
I, II and III may be over now, but the battle between our mind and body
is still going on. The most fearful warfare is within ourselves. Throughout
the entire human history, there hasn't been anybody-including Mohammed
or Jesus Christ-who had total unity between mind and body. Only the Lord
of the Second Advent, the True Parent, has total unity between mind and
body.
Because unity was lost through the false parent, only the True Parent
can restore it. We must understand that since we are fallen children, fallen
people belonging to the fallen world, we need True Parents absolutely on
every level, from the individual level to our children, our spouse, our
parents and our tribe. The entire world, including all creation, needs
True Parents; even God needs True Parents, because the ideal of God's creation
culminating in humankind was to create True Parents. True Parents is the
subject of all these different stages.
Every being in existence and every species should be the object of True
Parents. Once you become totally one with anybody through love, you feel
you belong to each other; therefore, if you become totally one with True
Parents through True Love, that means you are engrafted to this lineage
and have the right of possession.
Think about your eyesight. Whom did your eyes see first, True Parents
or fallen parents? [Fallen parents.] What about the other organs? Because
of the fall, did our spiritual and physical organs first enjoy happiness
or sorrow? [Sorrow.] Sorrowful smell, sorrowful hearing, sorrowful taste,
sorrowful speaking, sorrowful feeling-that was the beginning. Your five
senses didn't see anything relating to True Parents. What about your sexual
organ? Did you inherit this from True Parents or fallen parents? [Fallen
parents.] Fallen. Human beings around the world have experienced such an
inheritance and connection with the fallen blood lineage. How can one deny
it? Only True Parents can fix it. Why? True Parents appear only once in
history, to clearly explain its course, direction and result. Only one
time in history will True Parents appear, creating a clear starting point,
establishing a clear direction, and producing clear results.
True Parents understand the significance of individual value, family
value, national value, worldwide value and the value of God's creation.
No matter how weighty the contents may be, True Parents understand everything.
We understand feeling and seeing; we clearly understand the five senses.
Now is the time for a reasonable theory. Fallen concepts can be corrected,
no problem. When I accomplish world unification, false concepts will be
erased.
In Europe, the most troublesome headache is now the problem between
Great Britain and Germany. The division between Catholicism and Protestantism
started in Germany. German unification must be based on the unity between
the cultures of the east and the west as well as the unity between Catholicism
and Protestantism. East and West Germany developed two separate cultures,
which need to come into unity. In a way, East Germany surrendered to West
Germany, which is in the position of the free world. Unification among
the European countries should develop following the same principle that
applies to Germany.
If we achieve unification between North America and South America, we
can apply this principle to the European continent and achieve the unification
of all of Europe. After achieving unity between Protestantism and Catholicism
in the Americas, we have to go to the origin of Christianity, which is
Roman Catholicism. Once we restore that, then world unification will be
achieved.
Digging further down we come to Judaism and even Islam. We have to embrace
them and restore them too. We can go even deeper and restore Jacob's family,
Abraham's family, Noah's family, and eventually Adam's family. Once we
restore the original Cain/Abel relationship, the history of restoration
will be complete.
Therefore, the key is the unification of North America and South America.
This will determine whether we will be successful in bringing unity among
the European countries and with the Vatican. From there, we can go back
the reverse way through human history to the time of Jesus Christ, Moses,
Jacob, Noah and ultimately to Adam's family. In other words, the critical
point is unity between North America and South America. This will be expanded
to the worldwide level, embracing Europe, Judaism, and Adam's family. From
Adam's time, the entire world has been separated into plus and minus across
the entire spectrum, from the individual level to the cosmic level.
Restoration follows the reversal way. The history of restoration takes
place in such a way. Unification will begin from the individual level and
return to it again after achieving all levels of unification up to the
cosmic level. This age of great victory means not just a partial victory
or a temporary unification but one final, grand victory in the history
of God's providence.
Again, once unity between North America and South America is achieved,
the battle between Protestantism and Catholicism in the European continent
will be finished. Because the confrontation between Protestantism and Catholicism
in the European continent was duplicated in Asia as well, the Asian continent
has to be included in this process. That's why I came from Asia. Restoration
goes through the reversal way, from the east to the west.
Once restoration is completed, where do you think I should stand, in
the east or in the west? [In the east. At the center.] Well, strictly speaking,
as a human being, I am Asian, right? Therefore, you can't say I should
stand in the middle. In the original family, do you think Adam and Eve
were westerners or orientals? [Orientals.] Why? If we look at the ratios
between the Asian and white and black races, the Asian race numbers about
3.2 billion people, the white race numbers about 800 million, the black
race numbers about 600 million, and the rest belong to other races. What
does that indicate? The Asians have the biggest slice of the pie. That
means the history of the Asian race is probably the longest, right? The
fewer the members of a race, the shorter their history and the greater
probability that they were chased around.
The ancient civilizations emerged not in the very hot tropical areas
or the cold wintry areas, but in temperate climates, with four distinctive
seasons. Because people didn't like a gypsy type of life, they settled
in warm regions. That was the beginning of civilization, centered of course
on an agricultural and hunting culture. Whereas the Asians settled around
rivers where the soil is fertile and the weather is warm, the white race
initially chased after animals and did a lot of criminal work. When they
were chased out because of their criminal activities, they escaped up north
and stayed in the cold region, becoming white, resembling polar bears.
The black race, on the other hand, went after a lazy and comfortable life
where they could sit in the shade and enjoy the easy life. They settled
in tropical regions because they didn't want to do farming work and cultivation.
Nobody else who studied human history has come up with such an explanation.
Wherever you follow the history of the white race, there is always bloodshed.
Even in Western movies, when a horse is injured they usually shoot the
horse to end its life. The white race is based on a hunting culture. The
sight of blood helps people get rid of stress. They enjoy bloodshed. The
white race must realize that they have caused a lot of bloodshed throughout
history, dragging along Christianity in the process. They are descendants
of pirates. White people are a pirate race. England is the site of pirates.
That is history. Usually hunters of wild game don't stay in one place,
not even their house. They move like gypsies, following animals, and wherever
they go they kill animals. Because of their mobility and their gypsy-like
lifestyle, wherever they go they find a new woman. Also, among those hunters
there is a common practice: a less successful hunter may kill a more successful
hunter, confiscate all his belongings, and claim them as his own. Furthermore,
because of their gypsy-like lifestyle, they find a new woman everywhere
they go, and they do all kinds of crazy things. That's why we see all these
crazy phenomena now at the end of world history.
I came from Asia to clean up this mess and change this gypsy-like hunting
lifestyle. The people of the white race should learn from me about the
true attitude of life which comes from the Orient. Therefore, the entire
world, including America, must follow the footsteps of the oriental countries.
Those black people whose ancestors sought an easy lifestyle must adopt
a new lifestyle, which is hard work. You know Aesop's fable of the ant
and the grasshopper. Easy-going people such as Blacks and Hispanics represent
the grasshopper.
The white race likes to fight. Did the concept of bouts between knights
originate from the Oriental culture, the western culture, or the black
culture? Throughout their history, if two men both loved a particular woman
they would fight and whoever won took the woman. That has happened throughout
the history of the western world. How can you deny that?
In the western culture there is a common understanding that if somebody
conquers you, you have to surrender to him. The loser doesn't have anything
to say. But the white people did not know how to obtain the surrender of
people's minds and spirits. White people did not know about that kind of
spiritual power. Oriental people have that kind of spiritual power. Therefore,
world leaders such as Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus and Rev. Moon have appeared
in the orient. Every one of them came from the East. They were not Westerners.
People in the Western world are followers in the minus position. The
western world completely lost spiritual world power. I come from the opposite
side. What shall you do? Will you deny me or follow me? [Follow!] You have
been denying wrong habits, but how can you erase wrong attitudes? On your
own, you don't have the power to erase all that. You must know your real
situation and you must repent. You have to learn to be humble. Be humble
and vertical! Until now you have only been horizontal. You have never had
the vertical, central axis. Therefore, in America, mind and body, husband
and wife, break apart. That is the historical reality. How can you deny
that? No way. You have to recognize and acknowledge it. That is my teaching.
What does it mean to achieve this kind of absolute unity between God
and Adam, Adam and Eve, and Eve and Cain and Abel? How do we achieve absolute
faith, love and obedience? Because of the human fall we lost all of that;
the human family fell centered on Satan. It was the same Adam, but he was
no longer on God's side. Satan's side formed another family. The fallen
Adam confronted Satan, saying, "You, Satan, if you hadn't caused me
to fall I would have become the prince of the Kingdom of God in heaven.
But because of the fall and because of you, now I became the prince of
hell, the satanic realm." When Adam calls Satan a bad guy, the fight
begins. That's why there is no unity between Satan and Adam. Even though
Adam fell together with Eve, Adam confronts Eve and says, "Eve, you
reversed the work of dominion. We could have achieved the ideal family,
but you caused the fall. Why did you do it?" Adam blames Eve while
Eve blames Adam. Because they are fighting in such a way, there is no unity.
By the same token, Cain complains to his mother, Eve, saying, "If
you hadn't fallen and bequeathed the fallen lineage to me, I would have
become the prince of the heavenly kingdom. But because of your fallen lineage
I belong to the satanic world." Then Eve, the mother, says, "I
didn't ask you to come into this world. You were born." Thus the fighting
goes on. Each one tries to give his burden and responsibility to somebody
else.
People ordinarily tend to blame somebody else for their mistakes. If
there is any way to make excuses, we try to excuse ourselves and put the
blame on somebody else. Isn't it true? That's Satan's way. It's the opposite
way from God's way. All levels of existence were taken from God's side
and transferred to the satanic side. That means that God's original formula
was erased. Thus, now we have to rebuild everything and re-create the God-centered
formula.
Satan loves to occupy the top position. Since Satan still occupies the
head part, God came all the way down to the bottom or tail part and started
there from scratch. God started this history of restoration through Abel,
who is in the lowest position in this state of affairs. Satan has many
nations and tribes and cultures; whatever belongs to this world is Satan's.
In contrast, God doesn't have anything. For several thousands of years
of human history, God has had nothing. Now that I have come to the world
after 6,000 years of human history, Satan's line of history and God's line
of history are crossing and changing positions. How great a time period
we are living in! At the same time, it is also fearful. This is both a
great and fearful time. Unless you make unification between your mind and
body, you cannot go back to the original formula world. This is the Principle
viewpoint.
Your body is the left side while your mind side is the right side. Right
wing and left wing began in Adam's family. Abel represented the right side
while Cain represented the left side. History began from there, and each
went a separate way. Satan achieved the national-level foundation, and
the nation of Israel represented Cain while Judaism represented Abel horizontally.
Without a unified foundation the mother could not appear. The mother means
the bride. The messiah comes as the bridegroom. On such a foundation Mother
could not appear. Preparation should have been made to receive the messiah.
When he comes, preparations must be complete; this required unity between
Cain and Abel, represented by Israel and Judaism. If that unity had occurred
on the national level, it could have withstood the opposition from Rome,
regardless of how great the opposition might have been. On that foundation
a safe settlement would have taken place. Then Jesus would have automatically
become the King of Kings. All the nations of the world could have combined
as one nation under God, forming one world under God. One nation under
God automatically connects to one world under God. That means a unified
and peaceful world centering on Jesus. A Second Advent would not have been
needed.
Since unity did not happen, everything was lost, causing Jesus to die
on the cross. The discord between the two sides was portrayed by the right-hand
thief and the left-hand thief, with Jesus' cross placed between them. This
discord which originated from the family-level rift between Cain and Abel
continued through the time of the First Advent, which took place on the
national level, to the time of the Second Advent, which took place on the
worldwide level.
England is an island and thus is in Eve's position. An island seeks
the mainland, so England practiced piracy throughout the six continents
and five oceans. As a result, it was once said the sun never set on the
British Empire. What made it possible? Eve's power.
Jesus' death on the cross allowed Satan to take the Christian world,
resulting in 400 years of persecution against Christians. On that foundation,
the Christian culture developed and was represented by the Eve country,
England. However, the English people roamed the world and cheated people.
England invaded the oriental world and cheated nations out all kinds of
art pieces. Every museum in London displays the accumulation of stolen
works of art.
England as mother gave birth to America, which is the real son in Abel's
position. Along with France, which is in Cain's position, they formed the
right side of Jesus. That right side fought against the left side of Jesus,
the satanic side, during World War II. The satanic side oppressed Christianity
and had an anti-democratic ideology.
Japan is an island like England, and Japan inherited the Eve culture
from England. Japan occupied Korea and ruled it for forty years. Japan
wielded her power throughout China, Russia and other Asian countries such
as the Philippines. Japan even fought against America and lost.
The victory of the Allied countries who were on God's side during World
War II laid the foundation for the culture of the religious world to expand.
That culture represented the bride culture. Thus the time was right to
welcome the Messiah, the Lord of the Second Advent.
Those three victorious countries did not recognize the Messiah. They
expected the Messiah to come from heaven on the clouds. That kind of expectation
put all humanity on Satan's side. Because those three Allied countries
ignored the Messiah, he didn't have a nation. He had no tribe, nothing.
The Messiah ended up in the lowest position. At that time Korea was not
a fully independent country. It was in a politically unsettled situation,
under the influence of China, Russia, Japan and America.
For forty years after WWII America, representing the archangel position,
helped develop many countries. However, Korea is the only country that
bore fruit successfully. At the time of the Second Advent, America was
in the position of the bride nation. If she had united with the returning
bridegroom, that would have been the starting point for building the Kingdom
of Heaven on earth without difficulty. The heavenly kingdom would have
been built during the following seven years, from 1945 to 1952.
Jesus represented the restoration of Adam's worldwide base. Since that
kind of mission was coming, many people in the position of Elijah or Jesus
came to the archangel countries. That is the meaning behind the false messiahs
and false prophets, such as the leader of the group at Waco. When this
false period passes, the true messiah comes and proclaims himself.
Do you think that the English, Americans and French could have easily
accepted me as the Lord of the Second Advent right after World War II?
Being a refugee from North Korea, I was in a position like a beggar; I
was a young man with no possessions and no home. Christians all over the
world were still waiting for the Lord of the Second Advent to come down
from heaven. In the midst of that came a young man from a concentration
camp in the north and declared to the world that the Lord of the Second
Advent comes as a man in the flesh, not from heaven. He also proclaimed
that the Old Testament and the New Testament would be completed through
him. He announced that all the people in the world needed to be reborn
through him. Do you think the people could easily believe him? [No.]
During the last forty years since the end of World War II, I had to
maintain the position of the absolute God and the absolute parental center
for mankind. I kept that position for all these years. As you know, I emphasized
over and over that if Christianity, centered on America and the other Allied
countries, had united with me as the Lord of the Second Advent right after
World War II, the entire world would have been restored within seven years.
The Kingdom of God on earth would have been built within those seven years.
But because of their failure, I lost everything. I lost the unification
of Korea, and I lost my first wife and family. Having lost everything,
I was chased out into the wilderness and had to climb back up from the
bottom to this stage.
Because of the failure right after World War II, this satanic world
has emerged. An evil emperor ruled for the last forty years in North Korea;
he opposed me and even tried to get rid of the true messiah. However, seventy
days after I declared the ceremony of Pal-chung (eight stages) and Parenthood,
the Berlin Wall collapsed. Seventy days after we celebrated the fortieth
anniversary of the founding of the Unification Church in Korea, Kim Il
Sung passed away. Now that the forty-year hill was crossed, the false parent
had to go. That's why Kim Il Sung disappeared. Also, with the dismantling
of the Berlin Wall, communism symbolically collapsed.
Nobody knows where the world is now headed. Those American leaders who
have been reading the Washington Times editorials have come to the conclusion
that only through reading it can one learn the true direction in which
the world is headed. Now those leaders are turning around and starting
to recognize it and show it respect.
The Washington Times has gained top awards among the newspapers in the
world. More than 40,000 scholars from all over the world subscribe to the
World & I magazine. Furthermore, by utilizing Nostalgia, the cable
TV channel, we are now reaching almost every family in America. Eventually
the network will be expanded to connect all six continents.
The time has changed. We no longer have to go out to the street corner
seeking to win people one by one. No, we can sit in a nice office in front
of a computer and use high technology to educate all 5 billion people at
one time. I have said, "If they give me forty days to educate the
people in the world, I can change the entire world." In Washington,
DC, as well as at the Manhattan Center studio in New York, we have all
the high-tech equipment we need to deal with the entire world. Hollywood
thought they had the most advanced equipment, but now they realize that
the Manhattan Center and other companies connected to our movement have
even better ones. American members built it, didn't you? [Yes.]
Let's face the reality. If I go to Washington, DC, and settle there,
various big shots, prominent former heads-of-state and all kinds of dignitaries
will come to pay me a visit. That kind of foundation has been established,
yet I quietly exited the North American continent and went to less inhabited
parts of South America; it is like the boondocks out there.
Why do I escape to a place which has almost nothing? Because I want
to save Christianity. The American government can't do that. The issue
is the struggle between Protestantism and Catholicism. The government powers
cannot resolve that. I am the only one who can combine these two forces
of Christianity. Do you believe it? The Divine Principle clearly shows
the completion of the Old and New Testaments and points the way to the
Completed Testament.
There is no one in the entire world who is strong enough to oppose the
power of truth. Countries such as America, Germany and Japan are all knocked
out. When you watch the ocean, the tide comes in and the tide goes out.
A new tide is now coming in. The Unification tide is moving in, and the
water level will rise. Satan's love place is close to the completion place,
while God's love is the perfection or completion level. Satan's love base
is a national base, while God's love goes beyond the national base to the
worldwide base. The worldwide base automatically overcomes the national
base, no problem. That means that national bases will ultimately disappear.
We need a country strong enough to do God's mission. We have to build
one country. Do you think we have enough power and knowledge and ability
to build such a country? [YES!] If America and our members are truly united,
we can carry out God's command.
We need a representative of Abel's position in the world. Abel's position
is the son's position, and the son must absolutely follow the parents.
All children should follow the parents' position. America is Cain's position,
but if the American people follow True Parents' direction, they can gain
the position of Abel. Then if I ask the American Protestants, in the position
of Abel, to follow me, sell their houses and lands, and go to South America,
what will you American people do? [Sell out.] If you really mean your yes
answer, then a mass movement will take place. It will be like a hurricane.
This is how we will march to build one world under God. Our goal is no
longer one nation under God. [Yes!] So do you welcome that? [Yes!]
First, you have to sell your own personal property, and then we will
start on the public property. Because the history of restoration is a reversal
course, Cain and Abel have to be united first and resolve everything between
them before reaching the parental level. Thus you have to resolve your
own matters first.
There are many young, enthusiastic brothers and sisters in America,
as well as in the CIS and Russia. Do you think those young Russian members
will be the front runners, or will the American young members hold the
front line? [We will!] But as I see the situation, for every thousand American
youth there are a thousand different directions and ideas. In contrast,
if we have a thousand young Russian members they will follow one direction,
since they have been trained under communism. They have been trained in
the three categories which I taught this morning: absolute faith, absolute
love and absolute obedience, although in a different way, of course. What
about the American youth? American young people are still swimming in the
midst of individualism. All ten fingers and all ten toes act in a different
way. Is it easy or difficult to take a unified direction? [Difficult.]
We must be serious about it.
Even though we stand this way, with this side being the right side and
the other the left side, when I said, "Let's go back to our hometown,"
you turned around 180 degrees; what was the left side became the right
side and what was the right side became the left side. Positions can be
switched. Some of the countries from the former Soviet Union are saying,
"Rev. Moon, if you come to our country, we will mobilize the entire
nation and mobilize 360,000 couples for the upcoming August wedding. Also,
we will adopt Unificationism as our national religion." Why don't
I go there? Because if I go there and abandon this free world, I would
be abandoning the 2,000-year foundation of Christianity. I know how much
God has been suffering and paying indemnity to come to this point, and
I simply cannot abandon that foundation.
Do you live like a grasshopper, just playing and eating and enjoying
your life? [No!] Yes! On the other hand, the Japanese represent ants, who
do not know anything but work. For their morning greeting, they say, "arigato."
That means there are ten ants there. When Japanese people come to New York
City they work until midnight, 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. At 4:00 or 5:00 a.m. they
are already turning on the lights to start working again. The American
people say, "Get out of here. We need more sleep." That's why
I sent a lot of Japanese members all over the world. For example, Japanese
brothers and sisters have been demonstrating a truly exemplary life here
in America, filled with hard work, dedication and obedience. However, some
American members laugh at them and consider them stupid for not knowing
how to enjoy life. What would you do if I say that everybody in the world
should follow the example of the Japanese brothers and sisters who are
working hard and dedicating even their lives to save those people? Anybody
who doesn't want to accept this proposal will be chased out from this globe.
Does that mean that American people will be chased out first? Don't be
too proud of yourselves. If the day passes by, night will come to America.
Look around you. That kind of situation is clear. If it continues, there
is no hope in America. It is not a laughing matter. Be serious. I spent
twenty years of my life, the golden time period, in America. I don't want
it to be wasted; I want to bring the harvest.
In restoration, Abel becomes the elder brother and Cain becomes the
younger brother. In the secular sense, is it possible for the elder brother
to become the younger brother and the younger brother to become the elder
brother? No such model exists. As we learn from the story of Jacob and
Esau, Jacob restored the elder son's birthright. Satan always subjugates
and dominates from the higher level; the bigger plus dominates the smaller
minus. However, in the history of restoration, God created the foundation
from scratch and keeps forming a bigger plus, in order to rise step by
step. As a result of the struggle between Cain and Abel, Abel was murdered
by Cain. Because of that mistake, thousands and thousands of years of human
history have repeated the struggle between Cain and Abel until the point
that communists almost took over the control of the United Nations. Beginning
right after World War II, the seven years from 1945 to 1952 was the period
during which Christians around the world should have worked together and
become united centering on the Lord of the Second Advent in order to build
the Kingdom of God on earth. At the time of Jesus' crucifixion, the right-side
and left-side thieves didn't have parental figures so they were killed,
too. Therefore, now the world needs a parental figure who comes as the
Lord of the Second Advent.
Even after the failure of worldwide Christianity after World War II,
I have been working for the last forty years to set the foundation to save
the world again and embrace the free world and the communist world, as
Cain and Abel, centering on Mother. Counting from 1945 to 1960, fourteen
years passed. Because Israel failed, national-level restoration had to
be achieved centering on Korea. This fourteen-year period represents the
completion of the Old Testament era. The twenty-year period from 1960 to
1980 represents the completion of the New Testament era. During this period
we had to restore at least conditionally the national foundation on the
worldwide level.
Since the declaration of God's Day in 1968 until 1988, the year of the
Seoul Olympics, twenty years passed. If we add seven years, it brings us
to 1995. This very year, 1995, is a critical year in God's dispensation.
During this year we have to bring total unity between mind and body. For
this reason, our body side, the economic side of the Unification Church,
is suffering now.
Also, 1995 is an extension of 1994. Between 1994 and 2000 is an interval
of six or seven years which is the most critical period in human history.
Right after World War II, I needed only seven years to achieve restoration
by 1952. That same time period has returned. Within this seven-year period
until the year 2000, we must establish the Kingdom of God on earth, the
world of peace and freedom and happiness centering on True Parents. That
is our mission.
We must learn a lesson from the history of Israel. Even after they entered
the walled city of Jericho, the people of Israel suffered because they
didn't have a strong ideology or a spiritual foundation strong enough for
building their nation in Jericho. That is why they are still suffering
and going through all kinds of difficulties even today. In light of this,
Unification Church members today must not repeat the same mistake. We should
have a strong enough foundation spiritually as well as physically to build
our nation, centering on True Parents. Just as the first generation of
Israelites died in the wilderness and the second generation was able to
enter the city of Jericho, the first generation of the Unification Church
may suffer in a similar way. Therefore, the critical question is how to
build unity between the first generation and the second generation. We
also have to embrace the people who oppose the Unification Church, because
we have to build the ideal world.
The shortcut to achieving this goal is through the blessing. Therefore,
this year I am going to bless 360,000 couples from all over the world,
even via satellite. Among those couples there will be many already-married
couples and people from many different religions and races, representing
the first generation. On account of their failure they should have been
abandoned in the wilderness and eaten by vultures, but because of True
Love I am giving them a way to be saved through this coming blessing. The
second generation, in the role of Abel, are in the position to save the
first-generation people. Therefore, you parents, as the first generation,
must have absolute faith, love and obedience in regards to your children,
for they are like your central figure.
With my appearance, the birthright of the elder son was restored for
the first time in history. The entire world opposed me, yet I achieved
this. The younger brother became the elder brother, restoring the birthright.
Abel, the younger brother, is taking the original position of the elder
brother and Cain, the elder brother, is taking the original position of
the younger brother. That is how their brotherhood relationship is being
restored. Then the false relationships of Satan's side will be erased.
It's like the top coming down and becoming the bottom and bottom going
up and becoming the top. There should be absolute spiritual unity.
If we apply this to the situation of America, Americans should go to
Africa and serve Africans; then Africa will become America. No matter what
avenue Americans use to keep their prosperity, America is doomed to perish
unless it follows this formula. These are not my words; it is the Principle
viewpoint. Wait and see how history develops. You will be eyewitnesses.
You realize that America is now going down the drain, don't you? By
mobilizing only one-sixth of America's 240 million people, we could save
all the 240 million Catholics in South America. It's not a difficult task.
That is how we can build one world under God. One nation under God has
been an American motto, centered on Christianity. But God wants one world
under God, not just one nation. Then what is my motto: one world under
God or one nation under God? [One world!] Do you welcome that or not? Really?
[Yes!]
Thus we have restored the elder son's birthright. Up until 1992 there
was no existence of Mother in the spiritual sense, because Mother always
had to follow right behind me. Mother was like my shadow for thirty-two
years, since the Holy Wedding in 1960. Just as Jesus Christ could not marry
before his death at the age of thirty-three, Mother had to follow in my
footsteps without making any sound. Therefore, 1992 became like the year
of marriage for Mother, through making a declaration to the world, like
Jesus Christ at the age of thirty-three. That's why since 1992 Mother has
come to the front and made a declaration to the entire world through the
Women's Federation for World Peace. Because she did this, all the 3 billion
women in the world have become one body, united with Mother who is in Eve's
position. All the women in the world are considered to be one single Eve's
body, centered on True Mother. Every woman in the world is like a branch
of True Mother, Eve. In other words, the supreme Eve appeared in the world.
This supreme Eve now belongs not to the satanic side but to the heavenly
side. Now the children of Eve-Cain and Abel-will branch out.
What about men? Men are in the position of archangel. That's why at
the end of the world there will be countless divorce cases. At the time
of the fall, Eve dealt with two male figures, the archangel and Adam. That's
why at the end of the world, many of the same phenomena are taking place
in America. Before being married, people sign a marriage contract. In other
words, they don't take the object position but remain in the archangel
position as a spouse.
Before free sex and similar phenomena took place, you recall the streaking
fad-naked people running around. When they got naked and saw no distinction
between man and woman, they said, "We are all friends." That
developed into the practice of free sex. As friends, there is no distinction
between the different sexes, so they could see no difference between man
and woman, woman and man, woman and woman, or man and man kissing and sleeping
together. "What's so bad about it?" they asked. That's their
attitude. They called themselves friends while sleeping together as man
and woman. Do you call that friendship? Just because they join concave
and convex shapes together, is it a true relationship? That's the way of
Satan, because Satan denies the right of possession.
American women in general became queens of their family. Isn't it true?
You see that every day. When the husband and wife go for a drive, as they
reach their destination the husband immediately jumps out of the car and
opens the door for his wife, even though the husband was driving. He is
acting like a servant. All the men in the world are in the position of
archangel. Originally they were supposed to be in the position of Adam,
but they turned into the archangel. So where is perfected Adam? Not in
this world.
Because they chased the original Adam out, Adam went back to God. At
the end of the world, this perfected Adam must come again. That is the
messiah, according to Jewish and Christian beliefs. However, those who
believe in Judaism and the Old Testament or in Christianity and the New
Testament do not have the slightest idea that the messiah would come as
a perfected Adam. Think about it logically: if we lost Adam we have to
find him. Otherwise, God loses face as the Creator. God cannot just go
ahead and destroy Satan and confiscate his possessions. God has to somehow
apply His strategy so that Satan will naturally and voluntarily surrender
and give everything back to God. That's the way God saves face. If there
is the concept of Adam in God, there would be dual creatorship. We already
admit that there is no concept of enemy. That's why even at the cross,
Jesus Christ prayed to forgive the Roman soldiers. He wanted to completely
empty his heart from any concept of enemy, because he didn't want to see
dualism even after he passed away.
The same principle applies to my life. Think about the relationship
between America and myself. America has been persecuting me, opposing me,
and doing all kinds of tricks; finally it put me in prison. America was
in the position of archangel, yet this archangel position tried to kill
the one who came as the prince of God. Why is America in the position of
archangel? If America, centered on world Christianity, had been totally
united with the Lord of the Second Advent right after World War II and
fulfilled her mission, she would have been in the position of Eve. However,
because of the failure at that time, America fell into the position of
archangel. When America hits me, it means that the archangel is hitting
Adam. America opposed me, so it became the archangel country. The Eve country
is different from the archangel country. America and Japan were enemies
fifty years ago. Japan became the Eve nation. The high-level nation that
Satan had been occupying fell into ashes and ruins after World War II;
it was in a miserable situation. The Lord of the Second Advent was in a
miserable situation. England had been a high-level representative of Eve
on the worldwide level. This time the Eve nation was chosen when it was
at a low level, and during forty years it developed to a high level because
I chose it as an Eve nation.
Japan and Germany and America, those three countries, have financial
power. I chose young people from those three countries to go out to 120
nations as missionaries. At the time I commanded those three people to
make unity, to become one. One representative of Japan, Germany and America
went to each mission country. If those three ambassadors made unity in
their mission country, there was no problem. If those three fought, it
caused a big problem.
Now we have completed the restoration of elder sonship. It wasn't easy,
but we did it. Next people need to find the mother and be united with her.
Once unity between Cain and Abel is achieved, they become a larger-size
minus-an object to the subject, who is Mother. They need to become one
again with the mother. That is how Cain and Abel will be restored, accomplishing
restoration up to the mother's level. After the restoration of elder sonship,
the next level is the restoration of parenthood. Once we achieve this goal,
people can be restored to the mother's level through the unity between
Cain and Abel. Once people are cut off from the satanic side, they can
naturally connect on the level of mother/child unity. They will be connected
to Adam's level and form another level of unity. That is how parenthood
will be restored.
This physical world is a horizontal world, but kingship involves developing
the vertical concept of a God-given king. Finally, we will reach the level
of God, the ultimate stage, and build total, absolute unity with Him. We
are talking about absolute unity, not separation. On this level, there
is unity in the center, from top to bottom, and in all directions. That's
the final stage, the restoration of kingship. The literal translation of
the phrase is: "restoration of the realm of the king's right."
Throughout human history there have been many different religions. Religious
movements have come and gone; some still exist. The purpose of all of these
religions is to restore these relationships and ultimately to secure these
three major rights. In my situation, the entire human race opposed me and
persecuted me. I started as one single person, reaching out to the entire
human race. But now restoration, which is the reversal process, is taking
place.
The elder sonship has been restored on the worldwide level. I am restoring
nations in the positions of the left-side thief and right-side thief at
the time of Jesus Christ's crucifixion. America and the communist world
are like brothers in the process of restoration. In my position, Mother
went out and gave this proclamation to the world through her forty-nation
speaking tour. In the process, Mother embraced the children's position,
Cain and Abel, united with them, and brought them back to the father.
This was and still is the mother's responsibility. America failed to
accept the Lord of the Second Advent right after World War II. Now Mother
had to embrace this country again. She spoke on Capitol Hill, because America
was in the position of bride. America had lost the bride's mission, but
now Mother came as the True Bride and completed this bride's mission. She
spoke in fifty states and was welcomed. She spoke at Capitol Hill, went
to the United Nations, and finally embraced the entire world. America is
in the position of Abel, and the entire free world is in the position of
Cain on God's side. Thus, by giving the declaration at the United Nations,
Mother embraced the entire free world. The bride's mission which had been
lost was restored. Even after Mother accomplished her mission by embracing
America through speaking on Capitol Hill, and by embracing the world through
speaking at the United Nations, she had to move on to the horizontal level,
embracing countries such as Japan and Germany. However, Satan doesn't want
to give up everything at one time. That's why countries such as Germany
and Japan are resisting. That's why there are some difficulties occurring
in Germany and Japan. It is Mother's mission to go back there, embrace
them, and resolve the situation. Once America, the United Nations, and
Japan are united, then Adam's country, Korea, will be turned around, too.
Because of the human fall, we lost everything. I have been restoring
this during the last forty years vertically, and now it is happening horizontally.
America and the free world are uniting with Mother. Now we need a worldwide
base. Mother made the foundation of embracing the children. America and
the free world are influencing Japan. Even in your dreams you could not
have imagined that Mother could address audiences at the U.S. Capitol and
the Japanese Diet. The Diet is in the position of Abel, while the nation
of Japan is in the position of Cain. That's why Mother went there and embraced
both. She did the same in America. Therefore, centering on America, we
can embrace the entire world through the United Nations.
True Mother has now symbolically restored and completed the mission
of the bride right after World War II. The Allied countries of Great Britain,
America and France are now replaced in God's providence by Japan, Germany
and America. Right after World War II, America offered help to rebuild
Japan and Germany; as a result these became the three central nations.
America took the position of the archangel on the side of heaven. America
had to take this role because without America, there is no connection between
Protestantism and Catholicism. In God's dispensation, the formation stage
cannot be directly connected to the completion stage; the growth stage
is necessary. The Old Testament era and the New Testament era represent
the formation stage and the growth stage. The perfection stage can stand
upon the foundation of the formation and growth stages. That's why I had
no choice but to select America.
Once God chooses someone to do a certain mission and they fail, God
can never go back to that person and choose again. However, the son can
choose a person or nation a second time for a mission of restoration. That
is an expression of love. I am in the son's position, and the course of
restoration is headed by the son. Through the son, parents can be restored.
Parents means the original point. In other words, since I chose America
for the providence of restoration, I am responsible to see the result.
That's why even though I had to experience incarceration, my conviction
is that I have to restore this country, even if I lose my life in the process.
I have to see it through to the end.
If you take a close look, religions in America are going down the drain.
They are perishing day by day. In God's providence, Roman Catholicism was
originally supposed to fulfill its mission and restore all humankind back
to God. However, because of the corruption and failure of Catholicism,
Protestantism emerged. Protestantism, centered on America and the western
free world, tried to restore the world, but it failed too. Therefore, my
strategy now is to combine these two forces, Protestantism and Catholicism,
and use them as two united pillars to restore the entire world. This is
the reason for the current project of combining the South and North American
continents to work in South America.
God chose Christianity as the leader of all religions for the sake of
restoring the entire humanity, yet the reality is that Catholicism and
Protestantism are still fighting. How can God rely on these two fighting
forces to achieve the goal? That's why they need me. As it says in John
3:16, God loved the world so much that He sent His begotten son, Jesus
Christ. That means God sent Jesus Christ to save America for the sake of
restoring the entire world. This did not happen because God particularly
loved America; it was not because God wanted to save just this country.
God doesn't have a nation concept; He only has a world concept. Has any
other religion claimed that it will save the entire world? [No!] Does any
other religion have the capability? What about the Unification Church?
[Yes!] The goal sounds so big. Satan's side doesn't like that kind of sound.
They call it a crazy sound.
Now you understand the formula. The history of restoration should begin
from the individual and gradually develop to the tribal level, national
level and worldwide level, but the most important level is now the national
level. That is why God has been preparing the country of Korea for almost
5,000 years.
In the meantime a lot of good traditions and customs have been developed
among the Korean people. For example, according to Korean tradition, whoever
is in the position of elder son is owed respect even by his uncles and
senior relatives, because of the importance of the lineage. Also, according
to Korean tradition, absolute filial piety is considered the best virtue,
followed by absolute fidelity. For hundreds of years such an extreme custom
was practiced that after her husband died, the widow would not eat fine
food or wear fancy clothes for three years; she wore only white rags. Also,
after the father died, the eldest son would not go any place for three
years; he would eat and sleep right in front of his father's tomb and wear
only rags. He went through a three-year condition of prayer and mourning.
That much filial piety was practiced. Another virtue was loyalty to the
nation or patriotism. After a king died, the entire nation went through
a period of extreme mourning.
Now I understand that such traditions have been practiced for thousands
of years, because at the end of the world God wanted to establish the absolute
family unit, the absolute husband/wife relationship, and the absolute elder
sonship, and parenthood, and kingship.
However, American people would not understand that concept, because
you are in the position of archangel. You may go around 360 degrees, but
you don't know where the center is. Do you have anything to be proud of?
Satan's side brings destruction. You take pride in everything connected
to Satan's side. You are proud of your American citizenship, etc. Now America
is completely controlled by Satan's side. Look at the environment. There
is free sex. Does God want that? It is the most hated thing. The homosexual
lifestyle breaks down the ideal pair system. Through the drug culture,
people seek to regain the lost connection with the spiritual world; however,
they can never regain that original connection by drugs. Such fallen systems
are clear evidence of the connection with Satan. The Western world planted
the seeds of evil. For instance, the English people promoted drug use in
China, planting the seeds that resulted in a harvest of drug use by young
people all over the world. There has been a breakdown of authority in America.
That cannot be permitted on God's side. People need to make the deepest
repentance. How can we escape such an atmosphere? God's formula requires
taking the opposite direction. Only through repentance can this historical
sin be erased.
At the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, if there had been ten righteous people,
those cities would have been saved. Because of me, America still has hope.
As my followers, you are that hope. Has anyone else come to America to
point out all its evildoings and even curse it? Do you think I am the smartest
man in the world, or the most foolish one? [Smartest!] The foolish place
is America. Therefore, you must be alert and repent.
Until the Holy Wedding of True Parents in 1960 was the time to indemnify
the Old Testament era, restoring the original Eve back to God's side. Because
Jesus Christ couldn't get married, I had to make restoration through indemnity
in order to receive Mother. The failures of the Israelites of the time
of Jesus and the failures of the Old Testament period were restored by
1960, through having this Holy Wedding of True Parents. After True Parents'
Holy Wedding of 1960, the following seven years were a time of worldwide
persecution. Therefore, Mother and I had to go through a seven-year period
as True Parents. Upon the completion of this seven-year period in 1968
I declared God's Day. During that period, I established Parents' Day, Children's
Day, Day of All Things and, finally, God's Day.
Upon that foundation I could expand to the worldwide level. Therefore,
I started preparing to work on the worldwide level by coming to America.
I couldn't come out of Korea right after the declaration of God's Day because
Korea was in such a difficult situation. Kim Il Sung was waiting for any
opportunity to invade South Korea. Therefore, for three years I had to
set spiritual conditions in order to stop Kim Il Sung from invading South
Korea, through blessing 777 couples, who symbolize the worldwide level,
and doing various things to secure the country of Korea.
Originally, I received an American visa in 1960, but I didn't come.
By then America was in moral decline, so it was not easy. That's why I
set my own condition in Korea.
By 1971, I established an even greater condition than Kim Il Sung in
North Korea by forming our patriotic movement in South Korea through the
nationwide Victory Over Communism campaign. Thus South Korea was secured.
On December 18, 1971, I came to America to launch this worldwide providence.
For twenty years, until the end of 1991, I completed all conditions on
every level. Yet the Unification Church members were not ready to deal
with top national-level leaders. That was the problem. You remember the
campaigns I launched in Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Yankee Stadium,
finally culminating at the Washington Monument Rally. In order to do that,
I sent the One World Crusade to visit all fifty states, sweeping the entire
country spiritually. Spiritually, the entire nation of America actually
welcomed me then.
In 1975, I went back to Korea and held the Yoido Rally. Through that
rally I made a good relationship with South Korea, and together we launched
an attack against the persecution and opposition coming from America and
the rest of the world. This was fourteen years after True Parents' Holy
Wedding, counting from 1960 to the end of 1974. In 1975, I launched an
attack against the opposition. Since this was the top of the growth period,
Mother and I could horizontally launch an attack against the opposition
from the entire world, centering on the national level, because the nation
of Korea assisted and supported me.
The Roman Empire, Judaism and the nation of Israel joined in opposition
to Jesus Christ and finally crucified him. In order to restore that, I
had to somehow gain the support of the government, which was in the position
of the Roman Empire. The Unification Church and the nation of Korea were
in the position of Judaism and the nation of Israel, respectively. America
was in the position of the Roman Empire and started opposing me. Thus the
country of Korea and the Unification Church got together and started challenging
America's opposition, pushing Cain to surrender. Upon that kind of victorious
spiritual foundation I could challenge America, because I needed the worldwide
foundation.
On the worldwide level, American Christianity had to be faced. That's
why I brought the foundation I established in Korea and started challenging
America. That is how I have been working for the last twenty years in this
country, seeking to restore the Cain/Abel relationship in this country
and on the worldwide level.
With the victorious foundation of True Parents, why can't we move the
world now? Because the first generation Blessed couples didn't do their
mission well. My mission as the messiah is to establish Blessed couples
and work through these Blessed couples to restore the entire world. Yet,
the Blessed couples have not been fully ready. If the Blessed couples had
done their mission well, the incarceration in Danbury wouldn't have taken
place. Just as Jesus Christ helped his disciples for forty days after the
resurrection, for forty years after coming out of Danbury prison, I am
going to do my absolute best to help you to restore this world and also
indemnify the forty-year period since World War II.
Based on True Mother's victorious foundation of embracing America and
Japan and the entire world, True Parents will march into Korea to bring
about the reunification of Korea, restoring the fatherland. North Korea
didn't even need Kim Il Sung anymore. That's why Kim Il Sung disappeared.
The dialogue between the South Korean students and the North Korean students
is taking place in order to enhance the reunification between North and
South. Through Mother's forty-campus speaking tour in Korea right after
she returned to Korea, the radical student groups who used to oppose our
CARP activities in Korea have turned around. They had caused CARP to be
chased out of many campuses. During Mother's speaking tour, however, these
radical student groups turned around, started helping the CARP movement,
and have become friendly with CARP. They are working along with CARP now.
Once we accomplish the reunification of North and South Korea, the next
stage is the reunification of the entire world, which is easier because
it is the battle between atheism and theism. Atheism will be eliminated.
The separation between the western culture and the eastern culture will
be neutralized. Based on the different religions, there are many different
cultures all over the world, but gradually these kinds of differences will
be narrowed and unification will take place. That's why I am even right
now working on the reunification of North and South Korea and the reunification
of the countries in the Middle East. Eventually I want to combine all these
different religions. That's why I established the Religious Federation
for World Peace and the Federation for World Peace. These two organizations
represent unifying the mind and body, centering on parents.
Children are born from their parents. When mind and body unite, the
process of restoration is complete. Thus the religious realm and the political
realm worldwide, representing mind and body, will be united through my
efforts. That is the task right now. In the meantime, I have been working
with scholars through the PWPA, with journalists through the World Media
Conference, with former heads of state through the Summit Council, and
with young people through the Youth Federation for World Peace. We had
CARP, but I have now organized World CARP. My goal is to combine all these
different groups. The young people who opposed me on the campuses will
be restored through paying indemnity. That is how God can forgive them;
otherwise, we cannot build the Kingdom of God on earth. The kingdom can
be built only through forgiveness.
Unificationism is the ideology which can save the world. Now, no matter
what ideology you confront or what part of the world you visit, nobody
can come forward to confront us and oppose us. Because we have overcome
all the opposition and persecution up to this point, there is no room left
for people to oppose us any more. From the individual level to the worldwide
level, there will be no more opposition to our actions and movement, because
people have opposed us to the maximum extent. Now they will ask for forgiveness.
I had to go through all kinds of opposition and persecution in order to
establish the Federation for World Peace, the Religious Federation for
World Peace, and World CARP. I have been opposed all these years. Without
exception, all the organizations and institutions I have established have
received opposition. But now they are surrendering out of exhaustion. The
outside people who opposed us are exhausted, but do you think I am exhausted
too? [No!] I am enthusiastic. Anti-exhaustion! Wherever you go, if you
open your arms as far as you can and sweep them around, nobody will stop
you. By any chance, if there is anybody who opposes you, they will be condemned
as a stupid person. If anybody opposes you, you can challenge them by saying,
"Do you have organizations such as the Federation for World Peace,
CARP, Summit Council, all these prominent international organizations dedicated
to saving the world?" Once they realize their value, they will bow
down to you and shrink down.
The title of this morning's sermon is: "The Age of Great Victory
in the History of God's Providence." Now spring has come. Are you
going to take a nap in your room? [No!] The tedious summer is over, the
harvest has been gathered, and winter time has disappeared. Now we welcome
the spring time. The tedious age has passed. Now we can enjoy freedom and
happiness, eternal peace and hope. God will stay with us forever. Centering
on God, we can do anything. We can go any place, any time. You understand
clearly by using your brain; you should have enough knowledge to be able
to grasp everything. I have confidence and guts. How about you? [Yes, Father.]
In front of God, we must demonstrate our absolute faith, absolute love
and absolute obedience. As His son, I am standing upon the foundation with
absolute faith. Religions have used these three concepts to develop separate
spheres, separate cultures and backgrounds, and separate traditions. God
wanted to connect the individual base, family base, national base and worldwide
base with absolute love. Our mission is based on the three concepts of
absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. My whole lifetime,
I have lived by those three concepts.
Everything can be understood based on God's original position. Although
Satan broke down the standard of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience, indemnity has been paid to lay the victorious foundation and
now you can inherit True Parents' realm of victory. The only important
concepts are absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. How
absolute is your faith?
Whenever mind and body are fighting, whenever our standard of love is
different from God's standard, then Satan automatically invades that place.
Unless husband and wife achieve absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience, they cannot connect with God's ideal world. The ideal world
means the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in the spiritual world. Will your
children be able to connect with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience? Unless mind and body are one, unless husband and wife are one,
and unless parents and children are one, Satan can invade. This is the
conclusion of the total viewpoint of the Principle. If you have absolute
faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, you will gain the victory.
The individual viewpoint, the family viewpoint, the national viewpoint,
the worldwide viewpoint, the cosmic viewpoint, and the viewpoint of God's
love are all connected based on these three concepts. The original starting
point of the universe was based on these three concepts. The victorious
foundation depends on the restoration of these three concepts. We must
understand cause and effect; otherwise, we cannot connect to that Kingdom
of Heaven upon the earth and the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven, which is
God's love world. You have to live according to absolute faith, absolute
love and absolute obedience. This is the formula for our life. God's eternal
world starts from here.
This miserable world is like a jail. These three concepts, absolute
faith, love and obedience, are the dividing line between heaven and hell.
If all the American families totally unite with the spirit of these three
criteria, do you think there would be divorce? [No.] Do you think the grandchildren
would try to stay away from their grandparents? [No.] Do you think they
would stay away from their parents? [No.] Do you think there would be a
homosexual lifestyle? [No.] Some brutal mothers have killed their infant
babies; do you think that kind of tragedy would take place? [No.] All immorality
will be cleansed and only the heavenly ideal will prevail.
The time for entering the Completed Testament Age is based on these
three major concepts. Because of the human fall, we lost Adam on the family
level, tribal level, national level, worldwide level and cosmic level.
Therefore, through these three major concepts, we can now restore Adam's
whole family, from the individual to the cosmic levels. The left side of
these three concepts is hell, while the right side is heaven. That means
if we persevere with this spirit, we belong to heaven.
Now do you understand the will of God? [Yes.] What is it? The completion
of the four-position foundation through three generations: the grandparents'
level, the parents' level, and our level. Do you need grandparents in America?
[Yes.] What about Americans in general, do they feel they need grandparents?
[No.] They send them to the senior citizens' home. God stands in the first
generation, Adam in the second generation, and their children in the third
generation. We lost all three generations because of the fall. God longed
to love grandchildren, but He didn't have a chance. Grandchildren should
receive love from both the grandparents and their parents. Adam and Eve
received only the love from God. They should have experienced love through
the vertical parental relationship and the horizontal parental relationship,
but they couldn't do that because of the fall. When the horizontal parents
combine into one and become complete, their unity and love expands to the
horizontal world. This is the formula, the seed. Once this seed is planted,
it can expand to the horizontal world.
American grandparents are sad that they can't love their grandchildren
and receive joy and love from them. We need three generations in order
to accomplish the three levels of love: the parents' level, grandparents'
and children's level. Because this is a circular movement, everyone is
the same distance from the center. Only after grandparents love their grandchildren
can they be equal in terms of the horizontal love relationship. This three-generational
love must be practiced at home. God's love, parental love, and children's
love must be put into practice.
We can call this three kingdoms of love. The grandparents represent
the past, the Kingdom of God in the spirit world. Parents represent the
kingship of this present physical world. Children, who are the grandchildren
of the grandparents, represent the future world. If there are twelve children,
they represent the entire world. God gave birth to only Adam and Eve, but
as God's children Adam and Eve had the privilege of producing twelve or
even twenty children. In that sense they are in an even better situation
than God. So do you think you should have as many children as you can,
or just a small number? [Many!] There are twelve different directions,
and once you have twelve children and succeed in loving each of the twelve,
you have set the condition of mastery over love. If you raise your twelve
children successfully, you will resemble God that much more, because your
mind makes a circular movement through offering your love to your twelve
children. That means you gain all kinds of experiences.
Jesus Christ had twelve disciples. Moses led twelve tribes. In the Unification
Church, the first thirty-six Blessed couples included twelve Adam's-type
couples, twelve Noah's-type couples, and twelve Jacob's-type couples. Once
twelve nations in the world become one, then the entire world will naturally
be united. That's the meaning of the number twelve.
Have you served your grandparents at home? You should consider your
grandparents to be God's emissaries to your family. God sends us ambassadors
of heaven, and they are our grandparents. Beyond even the parental level
is the kingship of the worldwide family. In the Kingdom of Heaven on earth,
each generation will receive more love than the previous one. Each generation
will seek to build on the national base and expand the world of God's dominion.
What are we as husband and wife? We are in the position of king and
queen. You all want to become kings and queens, don't you? [Yes.] King
and queen represent the center. This is only possible in the world of True
Love.
To begin with, I want to create the circumstances that would allow anybody
to travel freely anywhere within North and South America without a visa.
Let's say there are 160 different nations in the world. On the vertical
level, these nations will be restored horizontally through indemnity. When
these 160 nations join together as brothers and sisters centering on parents,
the Kingdom of God will begin, from the individual and family levels all
the way to the worldwide level. The developed countries and the underdeveloped
countries will be on the same line horizontally.
In your family, if one of your brothers is sick or somehow crippled,
you have to pay more attention to him and give him more love, isn't it
true? Mother is going to create such a model here and apply it to all the
different nations. The United Nations was supposed to do this role, but
it failed, so I am going to create a new one.
The entire human history was contaminated because of the false love
from Satan's lineage. Even if the entire Empire State Building were given
to me, as soon as I saw a trace of Satan's false love there, I would spit
at it and not even touch it.
We are making a new start. After the fall, God didn't want to see or
sense any sin. Therefore, the holy son, holy daughter and all the holy
family must make a tent where God can dwell with them. Then brotherly expansion
will be no problem. Once that tent is made, to restore one nation within
seven years will be no problem. This proclamation shows the formula for
all human beings. The prototype has been established, and everyone can
learn it, follow it, and expand upon it. The same system can be constructed
everywhere, and then God will automatically dwell everywhere. That will
be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Think about how precious and how great it is that with these sinful
hands and sinful eyes and sinful body you can start building the holy community,
the holy nation and the holy palace to receive the Lord of the Second Advent
and to have God dwell with you. Don't you think this is the greatest task
we can have? [Yes!] Once we create the ideal community or nation where
God can dwell with us and we can dwell with God, we will become the children
of God. Do you like that idea? [Yes!] In order to do that, we have to restore
our right to the heavenly blood lineage, our right to restore possessions
to God's side, and the realm of heart. Upon that foundation, we will practice
absolute faith, love and obedience. That will be the stage in which we
enter the Kingdom of God.
Don't let people misunderstand me and say that I came to use people
like slaves all over the world. No. Because of these three criteria, I
had to go through all kinds of difficult situations during the past forty
years. Those three concepts belong to the absolute God. When you stand
in that kind of position, you automatically connect to God, the absolute
being. You need to connect to the center, vertically and horizontally.
No matter what force may hit you, God will protect this vertical being.
We must persevere no matter what difficulty or problem may confront us.
This is a one-way route; there is no going back.
With absolute love, absolute faith and absolute obedience, I am able
to go everywhere. Being imprisoned six times was no problem. With these
three concepts, we can tear down Satan's strong places. With these three
concepts, we can connect the religious world to the worldwide foundation.
After World War II people should have welcomed the Second Advent. The
Second Advent is based upon absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience. True Parents come to restore everything in the past. Ultimately,
the world will welcome us and people will be able to experience joy, freedom,
happiness, and the fulfillment of all their dreams. That will be the atmosphere
of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Well, True Parents are leaving America. You are the ones who have to
build the Kingdom of God right here in America. Are you going to do that?
[YES!] You don't need Parents? So you don't need True Parents, you don't
need your own parents, and you don't even need God, because you know everything.
As long as you take my teaching seriously and practice this throughout
your whole life, if it doesn't come true you can accuse me when you join
the spirit world, saying, "Father, you swindler! You cheated us on
earth." I will just laugh at you, because I have absolute confidence
that as long as you practice these three criteria properly, you will end
up in the Kingdom of God in heaven. If you end up some place else and protest
to me, I will immediately know that it happened because you made a mistake
along the way.
This is the final point of my speech this morning: if you ask your hands,
your eyes, your ears, and your most important organ, the sexual organ,
whether you really practice my three major teachings, they will all have
to say in unison: YES. Those who are confident that you can practice this
teaching, raise your hands. That means that there are this many candidates
who can enter the Kingdom of God. Hallelujah! Amen! Hallelujah! Amen! Now,
focus your energy here, because this may be your last chance to see me
in America. Mobilize all your energy now. If you want to see me, come to
South America. God bless you!