Proclamation of the Messiah
by Reverend Sun Myung Moon

 

Part I:

At the Crossroads of Good and Evil

July 16, 1972
Chong-ro, Seoul, Korea

The church to which you belong is the Chong-ro Church. When you say, Chong-ro, what does it bring to mind? It is the street (in Korean, ro) where there is a bell (in Korean, chong). There is a big bell in front of Hwa Shin Department Store. It is not the Emille Bell; what bell is it? Anyway, there is a big belfry and we remember this belfry.

Bells are rung to transmit good news or special news to all the people, near and far. When a bell rings we immediately think that something special has happened or will happen in the country.

From this perspective, we Chong-ro Church members are reminded that we are given a special mission to carry out, consisting of presenting a special event to the world. The newly assigned church leader, Mr. Chung Goo Park, is a man full of pioneering spirit. He would rather pioneer and lead his own way than just follow someone, and you have con e to know this through the last few months. As you already know, when he was in Choong ju he created the Sung Hwa School and exerted a lot of influence on many of the townspeople. So the fact that you have come to meet this kind of leader in Chong-ro Church has a special meaning, as you can readily imagine. So we expect that the Chong-ro Church will play a crucial role in bringing out a new event within the Unification Church, suggesting that there will be a good new challenge for the entire city of Seoul.

In sounding a new bell, what defines a good sound? We want to become a bell that spreads good news to the country, rather than sad news. There should be two kinds of sounds, according to the events occurring in a country: one signifies the occurrence of good and the other signifies the occurrence of evil.

I had planned to visit the entire country and then quickly come to Seoul, but it took longer to reach Seoul than expected, and I am sorry for that. Then a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Park came to me and said, "You must come to Chong-ro Church on the 16th without fail." So I am here today. This morning I spoke, and there are 141 Japanese members waiting in Soo Taek Ri. So, what I am going to say to you Chong-ro Church members is that you are to bring forth events. What events? Good events. The topic about which I am going to speak to you is, "At the Crossroads of Good and Evil," or "At the Crossing Point of Good and Evil."

When you come to think of it, there are no people in the world who do not think that their country is good. This is true of the people of any country, of all countries. By the same token, no one thinks that their family is not good. What about an individual? When it comes to the individual, it is the same. On the individual level, there is no individual who does not think he or she is good. Thus, everyone likes to think of himself as good, of his or her family as good, and of his or her country as good, and likes to be proud of himself. So, they all like himself, but what about the world ? We find that not many people like the world beyond their own countries. This is the difference. Man likes to better himself, to see his own family become better and to see his country bettering itself. Humankind has striven this way throughout history.

A citizen of Korea immediately becomes aware of himself as Korean when he steps abroad. He becomes very happy when he meets fellow Koreans in a foreign country. If his countryman is mistreated in another country, even though he is a perfect stranger he feels anger on that person's behalf. He would rather meet the sorrow himself, and does not tolerate his fellow countrymen becoming saddened. This is true for all countries without exception. People of all nations, regardless of race or color, have desire on this level, but you must be aware that there are not many people who want to see the world become better.

In relation to something bad happening, such as a disaster, a person automatically wishes that bad thing not befall me, and that the disaster should bypass me even though it may fall upon some one else. Further, bad things can happen outside my family but nothing bad should happen to my family, and also bad things can happen in other countries, but not in my own country. This way of thinking becomes a desire of people with respect to their own country on earth, their own family on earth and even themselves, for each regards himself as most important. We find that when it comes to a good thing, a man wants it to happen centering on himself, and when it comes to a bad thing, he wants it to happen centering on someone other than himself, his group or his country. This is unmistakably so. Do you not agree? You, too, are no exception.

Despite this reality, it is questionable whether or not things do really happen the way everyone wants. We know all too well that I do not get the best things all the time, nor am I in the best place all the time. One may do his best to get ahead in the world and succeed in the world, but he is not the only one trying to do that. Everyone else is doing the same. Thus everyone wants to become better, but does the result obey their wish? The answer is no. Though everyone hopes for good results, many accept that what comes is not so good, and often the results are rather more bad than good. If there were more good than bad things in human life, such common phrases as "bitter sea" or "tragic fate" would not be uttered to describe life. Even though we wish for good things, we become connected with bad results far more than with good ones. "Life is sad, and is like a bitter sea." Despite the fact that we all hope for good things, it is never easy to obtain good things.

From this point of view, we need a standard by which we can say what is good (or bad), on the level of an individual as well as a country.

When the standard of goodness on the national level differs from person to person, the very desire for good for the nation is ridicu- lous. Furthermore, even if everyone in a country agrees on something as being good, unless they can describe clearly why it is good, their desire for goodness is ridiculous. We conclude that when we say good, we should be able to say what is good for an individual, for a family, and for a nation, based on a clear model formula or objective. Without that, it will not do. That model is the Divine Principle.

History does not develop centering on evil; when evil prospers, history recedes. Only when going over evil does goodness prosper and that segment of history, or historical circumstance, develops, be it for an individual, family or nation. That is the principle. Then what is the standard which can define good and evil in an individual? This is extremely important. Those individuals who do not know God's existence live, saying, " I only need to live conscientiously. If I live conscientiously, I am not bothered by my conscience, (or," if my conscience is not being bothered, then I do not need to worry".)

But do all people's consciences agree? We have to say no. Just as much as all faces differ, so are the consciences of all individuals placed differently. One person's conscience may be positioned on the upper side, or the lower side. If we draw a vertical line, centering on this vertical line one person's conscience may run 90 , 10 , 20 , 30 , and so on. The angles and positions in which their conscience are situated are all different. So, even the conscience is not at all dependable but is questionable. Thus, although everyone wants to become good, not everyone knows what it is to be good, or why we want to be good, or how we should conduct ourselves in order to become good.

Mathematics is always constant: one plus one equals two, then add three and we get five. This formula always works, even beyond the limitations of time or history. Then, when you say, "He is con- scientious," relative to what position is he conscientious? That is the question. Does his conscience work according to the upper position or lower position? Is it in a position beyond the line of limitation? Or is it inside the limitation line?

You are now all listening to me speaking to you. This is no accidental happening; our meeting came through a predestined cause and effect. There are girls, boys, students, and there is Mr. Jung Kyung Ro. When I call Jung Kyung Ro, he replies, "Yes, sir." When you ask him, "What did you do today?" he will answer, "I have done such and such today." This incident is a single event. If carrying a bucket of water is what he did today, that is a simple act. But there is an enormous his- torical background for that bucket of water to be placed right here by Mr. Jung Kyung Ro, a background which extends millions years into the past. The hand which carried the water was the hand of Jung Kyung Ro. Who do his hands resemble? His hands take after his father and mother, but that is not all, they also take after his grandfather's hands and his great-grandfather's hands. They are the hands that have inherited thousands of generations. Looking at him centering on his hands, his hands could be the president of a hands corporation.

Look at his eyes. His eyes are blinking, and they look like his eyes, but they are not his alone. They are the fruit of many cause and effect relationships. Then take a closer look at different parts of the eyes. The part which resembles his good ancestors will look good and other parts that inherited from his bad ancestors will look bad. The eyes which resemble good ancestors will see good things more than bad things. Now there has developed a technique to analyze an indi- vidual's hair, and by analyzing it you can tell the person's personality and even profession, as well as background and present circumstances. As science reveals more and more these days, we can easily understand that no part of oneself belongs to the person alone. Everything is interconnected, all the way through.

The Borderline of Good and Evil

From this perspective, if he is in a position to exclaim, "Oh, good," is that a position in which goodness belongs only to himself? That position is an apex position representing history. This is why we measure in relationship to history. We should balance perfectly hor- izontally, but when we tip to one side it shows a certain phenomenon, and tipping to the other side shows a certain other phenomenon. This borderline is hardly recognizable, but makes a world of difference. This is such an important matter: a slight move will tip it to goodness and a slight deviation will tip it to evil.

Therefore there must be a correct way. There must be an absolute standard with which no one can interfere, to which not the slightest amount can be added or diminished. In other words, there must be a correct way by which the individual, family, nation and world must advance. Do you not think so?

When the formula by which the individual should live is presented, and the question of who complies to this standard is asked, who can say, " I do?" Have you ever thought, "Even though I am a girl of slight build, I am the one who is standing right in the middle of the correct way for all the women of the world?" If good and evil are confronting each other, there must be a border between them. Would that not be so? Take the 38th parallel, for example. The 38th parallel is the line of demarcation drawn to indicate the demilitarized zone. It is a thick line, but whether or not that line exists is questionable. When you are asked whether the 38th parallel exists or not, you say, "Yes, yes, there is such a line." If the question is pursued, "Do you really know that it exists?" then you are not so sure where that line runs. That line runs where the borderline should be and at the same time runs where it is not a borderline. That line is where it is this side as well as that side, but it is neither this side nor that side. A borderline is that kind of position.

When the morning passes into the afternoon and a clock strikes noon, can you say it is exactly noon? Is it noon because a clock is striking? There is only one noon in the world, is it not so? You say you do not know exactly whether it is noon or not; it is that difficult a question. When spring changes into summer, can anyone say he knows exactly where the borderline between spring and summer is? You would rather admit that spring left without your knowing and summer also came without your really knowing. Do you think you can meet someone who knows summer is coming? It is difficult to meet a person who really knows when summer comes. Is there anyone who can pinpoint when summer is coming and greet summer at that instant ? Have you met such person? No, we have not.

Thinking in this fashion, do good and evil really exist? If they do, then what is good and what is evil? There must be borderline between good and evil -- that line which both good and evil form. When good and evil cross, there must be a crossing point. There must be a crossing point, and where is it? This is the question. Do you understand?

Today we say, "The Unification Church," but when we question from where unification should start, you would answer that unification should start right at the origin. Being asked where that origin is, you would answer, "Right from my family." But that is wrong. Before your family entered into the picture, your father and mother came, and before your father and mother come into picture, a man and a woman must have been there. Therefore, unification must start between a man and woman. Then, are man and woman all it takes for unification? Through a man whose mind and body are united, and through a woman whose mind and body are united, a unified family comes into being. This is the way it is, do you understand?

If a mind and body face completely opposing directions, and the body insists on a direction different from where the mind wants to go, can unification be possible? Do your mind and body fight each other everyday, or do they get along well? (Fight.) Then which side are you on? You are on both sides. There are two parties in yourself: one party supports your mind and the other your body. Then where is "my" position, from which I can say, "I can't live without you, and you can't live without me, can you ? So let us unite in such and such a way." Have you or have you not looked into that? There must be a crossing point between good and evil in an individual. Therefore, we must take apart and analyze ourselves so that we can say exactly what is wrong.

When a person becomes sick, we must trace the root of that illness. This is the reason we have to treat the conscience more deeply, as we dig down to the root of the problems. To do this, we must have a certain model available and determine a standard. Thus, without establishing a standard (or model) at some single point in history for what a truly conscientious person is, what a unified person is, what a good person is, we cannot pursue seriously the world where the heavenly way and human way, heavenly ethics and human ethics and heavenly heart and human heart all harmonize. Trying to do so without first determining the true model will be ridiculous. Do you not agree?

When you go to France, in the Louvre there hangs the Mona Lisa. There are crowds of people in that room, so one person places a high chair and he climbs on it, viewing the painting from above as he draws his picture. In copying the picture, suppose an artist used a brand new canvas, new paint and newly developed techniques, and created a painting nearly as good as the original, so that amateurs could not clearly tell the difference. That actually happens.

There still is such a thing as an original measure, and there is only one authentic measure in the whole world. Therefore, if something goes wrong with it, we are in trouble. It is unchangeable; no matter how the climate might differ throughout the world, it will not be affected by those changes.

Saints Are God's Servants

Likewise, where is the beginning point of the person of goodness, a truly good person? If you do not know that, in other words, if you do not know the standard by which a truly good person is measured, then what happens? Then you will never know that something which is opposite to goodness, i.e., what it is to become evil. Is this not so? Thus you first must define goodness clearly before you can disclose evil.

There are many famous people in the world, and people insist that great persons be famous. Any nation can have great people. In Korea, Admiral Soon Shin Lee is regarded as a great man, and deservedly so. But there are not that many saints. Isn't it so? When we think of saints, we refer to four great saints, only four. Why are these four people saints? If you look into it, you will see that they were odd people. Today, in the development of human history, if we were to set up a direction for human ethics and morality, it would not be done by people gathering together and working according to a constitution. That is for sure. Since every nation tries to improve, they use the noble thoughts of good people in national history as the base for their structure. There is no way to deny this.

But if you pay close attention to those who are called saints, you see that they were odd people. Why do you say that? Those who are called saints were people who did not have their own assertions. Do you say you do not understand? Saints are men who do not insist on their own view. None died insisting upon his own view. Instead they worked to run errands, and died. What kind of errands? God's errands, errands for that One who is called the absolute being. Jesus, likewise, when praying said, "Father, do not do as I will, but . . ." But what? What did he say? "Do as You will." Is this a person of independent char- acter? Of an active or passive character? (Active.) No, it was a pas- sive one, but how could a passive man become a saint? That is odd. Today we do not want to lose anything of ours, and do not want to be invaded by others. Listen to what Jesus said: "If someone wants you to go half a mile, you should go a mile for him; and if someone wants you to give your coat, you should give him your clothes as well."

Jesus seems not in the category of human being. He was a different kind of man from what we see today. It might not be right to use such an expression, but I am trying to clarify a point to you. You like material more than a man; this is odd. Consider: for those who drove nails into his hands and feet, his very enemies upon whom he should wreak revenge at the cost of his life, for such an enemy (humankind), Jesus prayed, "My Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing." What strange behavior! Observing closely, we see that what these saints have in common is that none of them insisted on themselves, but they were running an errand for someone else. Thus, what kind of people are saints? They are a group of people who center on God and obey Him. They obey God no matter what God commands them, once, hundreds of times, thousands of times, even unto death.

Who became saints? Religious leaders became saints. Isn't it strange that Jesus is the leader of Christianity, Buddha is the leader of Buddhism, Confucius is the leader of Confucianism and Muhammad is the leader of Islam? What about Socrates then? He did not become a saint. He is a mere philosopher. He could be a philosopher but not a saint. Why? He may have been a king of knowledge but he could not become a king of life. What did religious leaders do? They were able to move lives. Therefore, leaders of the religions could bear the banner of revolution in the development of history. Philosophers may have borne a banner of knowledge, but they failed to start a revolution of life and provide the impetus for the development of the history of life. This is why philosophers do not attain the rank of saint.

In the worldwide perspective, what is the leading characteristic of those who believe in religion? They have a thought of their own, as an odd group of people. All of you believe in the Unification Church, don't you? Perhaps some of you came to see what Reverend Moon is like. Such people are not Unification Church members. Then what is Reverend Moon of the Unification Church? He is the leader of the Unification Church, is he not? Jesus is the leader of the Christian churches, Buddha is the leader of Buddhism, Confucius is the leader of Confucianism, and Mohammed is the leader of Islam. They all are leaders of religions, but with different contents.

Then all leaders of religions, excluding Reverend Moon, have moved into the rank of saints, but among them who is the center? (Jesus.) Those who believe in Christianity will say that, but Buddhists will say that Buddha is the center. (Laughter.) But if you give the reason why one is the center of them all, it is reasonable to choose the one who has the most and best content of all. In assessing the most and the best content, let us ask the question, "How big is a man's desire?"

How big is your desire? Is it bigger than the school bag you carry, or smaller? It is bigger, isn't it? (Yes.) Is it bigger than your three story building? (Bigger.) Even after putting into the bag all of Korea, it still has room to spare. Is it or isn't it so? No one will be satisfied and say now it is enough. Only after putting several, no, more than a hundred worlds into it, leaving nothing more to be put into it, one will now say it is enough. A human being has that extent of desire. It's a pretty big bag of desire, isn't it? (Laughter.) Even after you put the whole world into your bag of desire and do whatever you want to do with it, if you find there is God, who created the world and is even a bigger person, would you or wouldn't you like to put Him into that bag of yours? (We would like to.) It is the same for both man and woman, whether old or young.

Then, among heaven and earth, which is first, heaven or earth? Is it heaven and earth, or earth and heaven? Is it father and mother, or mother and father? Is it husband and wife, or wife and husband? No one wants earth and heaven, everyone wants heaven and earth. Therefore which should come first? It is heaven which should be first. Then after that, what must come next? Earth. We have parents. Why shouldn't mother come first? I am not ignoring woman -- you continue to listen, I will attend to woman, too. Between parents, father must come first.

If you watch the letter for mother carefully, its very interesting (writing on the black board). The letter for mother is two of the letters for woman. That is the letter for mother. The letter for mother is made up of two letters for woman, connecting and inverted. Two woman put together comprise a mother. Since this is the letter for mother, a mother must have the mind of heaven and the mind of the earth. In other words, a mother must become a woman with the mind of heaven and must become a woman with the mind of earth, representing the woman of the earth. A mother must contain these two minds. Isn't it interesting?

As for father, the letter for father is two of the letters for man. It is two men instead of one. It means that a man of heaven and man of earth together can become a father. Isn't it interesting? Then the letter of heaven is two men. Therefore two men should come together to comprise heaven. It's very interesting. It symbolizes that if two men cooperate with each other, it will penetrate the ceiling and soar up high. That is what a husband is.

Can you say, "I am very handsome and so great that I do not need a father or mother? Since I am a man, I do not need a father,who is a man. When my father dies, I will take his place as father myself, so father can die, but I want mother to live." Can there be such a man? (No.) Then who do we need? Both father and mother. Is a daughter all we need? No, we need both a son and daughter. No one will bless someone just to have sons, or just to have daughters. That means you don't want to be alone. You may be a student, but if you are alone, you are lonely in the morning, you are lonely in the afternoon, you are lonely when you enter the school building, you are lonely when you come home from school. Even if you become an A student, is it any good? It is when everyone welcomes you, misses you and wants to follow you . . . you would like to be that way, rather than lonely, wouldn't you?

What is the teaching of the leaders of religion, who are saints? The content of their teaching is that one should follow heaven and earth according to the basic principle. In other words, "Let us know heaven and earth." In human beings there are not only human ethics but also heavenly ethics. There is not only the human heart but also the heavenly heart. Human ethics do not start from human beings, but rather perfects itself by following and copying heavenly ethics. It takes "above" and "below" to determine the horizon for everything. Therefore, after determining vertical relations, cross it at 90 and the horizontal can be determined. Then after measuring the distance you will know if it is a perfect circle or sphere, and locate your position.

Thus, what is the "way" which leaders of religion taught? They do not teach the human way alone. They teach the direction for which all humankind has searched throughout history; they teach ultimate teachings. However, if human ethics had its origin in lamentation, at the end of human ethics, the result of lamentation will have been developed, and if the beginning was an imperfect one, the end too will be imperfect. Happiness cannot be won through human ethics alone. Heavenly ethics must accompany it before happiness can be attained. Heavenly ethics, human ethics, heavenly heart, human heart, they are all here and where will they meet? What is the crossing point? Where is the dividing point? These are the questions.

But then again, the heavenly heart and human heart are going in opposite directions. Human beings want to go in one direction, and heaven wants to go in the other. The body wants to go to one direction and the mind would like to go in the other. The result of this is the communist and democratic worlds. What did Jesus want to do? To support the human heart as well as respecting human ethics cannot be accomplished based upon the human element alone. We must base these on heavenly ethics and heavenly heart, and establish the subject and object relationship. After connecting these, he hoped to decide their direction either as an object or subject. Thus, saints are the ones who came to teach the direction to the higher level world.

When we look at the individual in this perspective, the best direction for an individual is not toward the happiness of that individual alone nor toward that individual's ideal world alone. To pursue individual happiness is to introduce and connect to the prototype of happiness for the whole world. The family they want, namely man and woman meeting together, is not the simple meeting of man and woman with the human ethical perspective alone. It is the family in which heavenly ethics and heavenly heart can harmonize, too; the family which heaven and earth can guarantee. Heaven and earth can follow such a family and rejoice. There has been that higher standard. Then, what was the ideal family which saints pursued, as well as the ideal nation and the ideal world? It was not the family, nation or world which was of concern only to human beings. It was a world different from what we see today. Today young people and intelligent people in general scorn at "religion" and ridicule religious people. But this is because they have wrong ideas. We must understand that from the outset, religions are pursuing the ideal world of tomorrow; it is ridiculous that humankind complains about religion in the process.

Then what is goodness after all? What is evil? Why do saints remain as an object of respect to so many people, and why, even though history undergoes major changes and revolutions take place, is there no revolution possible in the teachings of saints? This is an important fact. The reason is that what saints teach is not affected by human ethics alone. What begins from human ethics can be determined and changed by elements of human ethics, and what begins from the human heart can be changed by a stronger human heart, but what begins with human heart and heavenly heart together cannot be changed without both human heart and heavenly heart together setting a higher standard, one which is stronger than either separately. This is why historical cultural realms are formed centering on religious thought. This is an inevitable conclusion, because there exists heaven and also earth.

Those Who Do Not Think of Themselves

That's how different religious leaders are. Stepping over human ethics and pursuing an elevated world, they have elevated values, elevated human ethics and elevated human heart, i.e. they have pursued heavenly ethics and heavenly heart. They worked very hard to digest heavenly ethics and heavenly heart, trying to return and reconnect to human ethics, often losing their life in the effort to make it happen, but preferring to continue rather than avoid death. Would not such a man become a great saint? You must understand this. Then what can you call such a man: a good man or a bad man?

If there were an absolute God, and if it were decided that we all die for Him, for example, how would we die? Dying all together, by exploding; how about that? There are many, many different ways of dying. Let's consider patriots as an example. If there were ten patri- ots, one patriot may have led a normal life and died a natural death, while another may have fought a furious fight against thousands of enemies, carrying the fate of his nation. Which is the patriot of greater significance? There is no question, there is no comparison. Isn't that so? And, in being hit by a bullet and dying, there will be those who die during the first attack, and there will be others with many, many wounds. Although they both died, the more miserable the way one died, the more people will respect one as a patriot. This is true isn't it? (No, it is not true.) Are you saying, then, that the more miserable the process of dying the more valuable? (Yes!) There is no mistake about this.

Then among numerous sons of filial piety who live for the sake of God, there must be a top son of filial piety. It is not such a nice way of referring to such a person, but young people like the colloquial.

Obviously some sons of filial piety will be better than others. There will be some who, when hungry, will eat a meal and bring the remaining food to their parents, saying, "You must be hungry, mother and father. Please eat." They too are sons of filial piety, because some will not even do that. (Laughter.)

If you explore into the history of filial piety to find the greatest son of filial piety, who would be the one? The one who would serve his parents with blood and sweat, and who, as if that were not enough, would sell his own blood to support his parents. To bring what he can is a son of filial piety, too, but if the other appears, who supports his parents by selling his own blood, who is the greater son of filial piety?

Would any parents teach their children saying, "You must forsake your life to become sons of filial piety?" ( No.) "This is the way true sons of filial piety are made. All parents covet true sons of filial piety. Therefore you must lose your life to serve me." Are there any parents who would teach their son in this way? (No.) Then what? Are parents not educating their sons to become sons of filial piety? We will come to this later.

If there are two types of sons of filial piety, one will die for the sake of his parents without regard for his own recognition or the potential value of his existence, and the other one will serve and die for his parents thinking that he could have been such and such a man and should have become such and such a son, but that he is dying instead. Which son would have the greater filial piety? (The one who does not even think of himself.) You know that.

What is the saint of all saints like? This is an important question. Is he like the son of the most filial piety? We all have pledged that we will become sons of filial piety. But it is not easy. The loyal subject (loyalist) becomes one only after death, though we can be candidates. (Laughter.) Historic patriots all became such at the risk of their lives. Thus to compete and become such you must go through much harder times before you become a champion. Are you all going to be sons of filial piety? (We will. ) Do you want to become loyal sub- jects? (Yes.) Really? Good. Then do you want to be saints? (Yes.) Those who dedicate their lives for the sake of kings we call patriots; those who dedicate their lives for their parents are called sons of filial piety; and those who dedicate their lives for heaven are called saints. We must know what saints are like. What are saints like? We must know this. We must dedicate all we have. "My ears exist for him, my eyes, my limbs and whole body." Then you are in the rank of saints.

You do not just dedicate your life for God, but you do that with the motivation of leaving the holy tradition which will be kept throughout human history. Many give their lives for their beloved ones so that the loved ones can remain within the teachings of saints, too. In other words they are willing to die with the mind of love for the country and the world and to leave such tradition behind.

Within this context, Jesus prayed in Gethsemane, "Father, if you can, let this cup pass from me, but do not do as I will, but as You will." "Do not do as I will, but as you will" means that there is a cor- respondence of two wills. He did not simply say,"Father, do as You will." The Father's will and Jesus' will are in correspondence, aren't they? (Yes.) But many people say that Jesus' will is the same thing as God's will. But my will and the will of God are different. Isn't it so? I do not equal God's will.

Then what is will? It was to indicate the purpose which Jesus was going to achieve, and not Jesus himself. Isn't it so? (Yes.) The future of the world was at stake in the will, and the world progresses in the course of that will. In this process of history, races are formed, and nations and the world are formed.

Through this discipline one comes to respect the will of the Father, overcomes his own personal interests, comes to give up all trivial matters, pushes himself onto higher level and enters the domain of sainthood. If we reach this level, is it bad or good ? Answer me, is it good or bad ? (Good. ) It is good, but it has differing contents. It is bad for me but it is good for God. Is it good to die? (Yes.) What are you talking about? (Laughter.) It is not good to die for myself, but for God, it is good.

Value Cannot Be Made Centering on Oneself

Then what is God like? He is in the subject position to me. The object exists for the sake of the subject. We must come to this awareness, but we are not yet in that position. For whom does the subject exist? The subject does not exist for the subject's sake (for himself); he exists for the sake of the object. Therefore, it is good for the sub- ject to sacrifice for the sake of the object and for the object to sacrifice for the sake of the subject.

We call it good for parents to sacrifice for the sake of the children, and we call him a son of filial piety when he becomes loyal and sacrifices for the sake of his parents. What does it mean? It means that it is not bad but good for a subject to sacrifice himself for the sake of his object. It is good both for the subject and object to sacrifice for the sake of the other. (Yes.) To die is bad. Is sacrificing good or bad? (It is good.) Then you should not eat, nor breathe. Is it good? Close your nostrils and leave just a very small hole and try to breathe; how difficult it is. (He shows by holding his nose with his fingers. Laughter.) It is bad for me, but it is good for him who is in the position of subject to me.

When we compare what a subject likes and what an object likes in the value perspective, if it is what both subject and object can like, it will last, but if it is a thing which only one of them likes, then it is easy to break. From this perspective, let us trace back to the origin of good and evil. Man is created and born for the sake of woman, and woman is born for man. The reason woman is born pretty is for herself. Is this so, or not? (No! ) Then for whom is a woman born? It is for a man, because he likes a woman to be pretty.

Likewise why is man, in relation to woman, born with such a big mass, having a rough face, big and ugly, even? It is because woman likes it that way. (Laughter.) Thus, when you trace the origin, there is no man who is born for himself. You bad man, bad man. (Laughter. ) I am calling you names, but why do you laugh? Women, too. (Laughter.) Originally when you were born, you were not born for yourselves; everyone is born for the sake of others. Man is born for the sake of woman, and woman, for man. Is it or isn't it so? (Yes, it is so.) That is the way it is originally. Therefore, the original value of being born can never be realized by living for the sake of oneself; this is a fair conclusion.

Thus, the original purpose of birth is to pursue value through out life by living for the sake of man or woman, but some insist that they were born for themselves. Such a person is a straggler in life. He is a failure. Even though he might be a man with a Ph.D., he is a failure and an unhappy man. Among such, even those who try to refuse to be unhappy are still unhappy, certainly. Look at a president of a nation from this perspective. As a president, he is a big man; he may be sturdy and handsome, too. He has lots of power to move the world, but let us say he does not have a wife, son or daughter. Is he happy because of that? (No.) Is he happy at all? (No.) Why not? He has wealth and power and he can do whatever he wants to do, yet he is not happy, because he does not fit into the principle formula. It is sim- ply because he was born for the sake of woman, but he does not have a woman. Isn't it true? When you think in this manner, Jesus lived alone and died. Is it good or bad? (Bad) How can you say that? Is Jesus a man or of neutral gender? (A man.) The reason is the same. If Jesus was a man, he certainly would have wanted marriage to a wonderful woman.

I have officiated marriage for many of you, in the mass wedding, I mean. Though a certain man only graduated from elementary school, he asked to be married to a college graduate, so that they would be balanced as a couple. I asked him, "Can you handle the situation?" He answered, "Yes, well, woman is made to follow man, and they do." Is the reason that a man wants to marry an inferior woman is that such a woman can follow him easily? Thus he knew he had an excessive desire, but still he wanted his spouse to be better than himself, didn't he? Whether his wish will come true is another matter, but it is natural to wish for one's spouse to be better than oneself. So when each meets an excellent person, both will become happy. Isn't it so?

If I speak at this pace . . . why would I come to Chong-ro Church in this hot weather and sweat? Why couldn't I just talk a short time? (Laughter.) I can't take five minutes break for a shower and then continue. (Laughter.)

The History of Goodness Begins With Sacrifice

Where does goodness appear? Let us look into the origin of good and evil. If we can trace back the wish to be good, where did it begin? And if there was a wish to not become bad, why was it so? Since we have no clear idea and understanding, we have problems when we try to correct our path. Then where did goodness begin, and what is the history of goodness? Did it begin from human beings? No. Does it begin from man and woman? Of course from man and woman, but human beings are given birth. When we look at men, they are resultant beings, not causal ones.

Where did goodness begin? Where is the starting point? Did it start from the living room where father and mother are? (No.) From the pockets of father and mother? (No.) Then, where is the starting point of goodness, the source? If God exists, it must have started from God, who is the center of the higher level. Beyond human workings there are heavenly workings, and beyond human heart there is heavenly heart. Therefore the start must be from heavenly workings and heavenly heart. That was the cause (motivation), and human beings are the resultant creation. Therefore, it began when heaven intervened. Then how can God become or be considered a good God? The question is, what position should God's position be? For six days, God created all things including men, and said, "It is good." He did not say, "It is good," when He was alone! All creation harmonizes with Him, and everything keeps pace with God Himself, so He said, "It is good." That it is good means it is beautiful, too.

In this perspective, to become an object of this goodness, to become good, one always has to pay a price of sacrifice. We come to the conclusion that without standing in the position of having paid the price, the objective position cannot be formed. In other words, God alone cannot form it. For God to see the result of goodness, He can do so only by using His creative force, i.e. energy, and create the result by doing so, but this is prior to actual goodness coming into being. Do you understand?

The base of goodness is God, but how can God Himself become good, or become the subject of good? He can do so because He stands in the position of expending His force (energy) for the sake of the object. That is how He can be good. In other words, He now stands as the subject who has sacrificed. This is how He can become the subject of goodness. Do you understand? (Yes.) Therefore, before goodness can be formed, first someone has to give, to sacrifice. In giving, you have to give totally. By this starting (like an engine starting) and result coming about, goodness comes to appear. This is why God, who is the subject, cannot help but be forced to sacrifice. This is why the conclusion that the history of goodness begins from sacrificing is inevitable. Do you understand? From the very point of sacrificing Himself, a world, an object world which received the creative energy, i.e. a world of creation, came to be formed.

Today Christians believe in God as being omnipotent. Does that mean that God can just give a command and a Baek Tu Mountain appear out of thin air? In order for this result to come about, there must be the necessary ingredients and action to create a mountain.

What characterizes the way to promote goodness? it is not a way in which the result of your investing is smaller than your input. When you invest something not for yourself but for the sake of someone else, fruit will be borne without fail. You like your brother or sister who resembles you, don't you? Even among brothers, they love the one whom they resemble most. They spend time together, isn't that right, just because they resemble each other. I look at him in the night, he resembles me, in the day time, he looks like me, too, the way he walks. Even in speaking, when one says "Mommy" the other is trying to say "Mommy" too.

Suppose certain parents have a handsome son, and someone comments, "Oh, he has his father's looks and his mother's intelligence." Then the two will start fighting. (Laughter. ) To like the person or thing one resembles is natural. Likewise, when God invests and creates His object, He does not make someone who does not resemble Him. Let's assume that in creating a work of art it took one twenty years. When the outcome is good, the artist will exclaim, "Good," even though twenty precious years were spent. It is so; it is not untrue. Where did the history of goodness start? It started when one could invest endlessly in his object from the position of subject. Pursuing self- denying value, he invests for the sake of the value of his object, investing endlessly. Here the unending ideal world develops. It may be a bit difficult to understand for the high school students here, but what I say is true.

Thus one can exclaim, "Those who are searching and treading the way of goodness! Now you are experiencing and seeing what God's situation is like!" God is the subject of goodness, so He multiplies goodness. Like God, you too will inherit the same tradition and apply that to today's real world. You are certainly sons and daughters of God. When you say he is a good person, there is always a history of sacrifice which has accompanied him. Do you understand? (Yes) Only by sacrificing himself does value appear. If you totally sacrifice one, a crowd of millions can inherit the value of the price of complete sacrifice for that one. Isn't that so? (Yes.) Thus, goodness must always pay the price of sacrifice. Then the price you pay does not disappear, but reappears in some other place. What happens after reappearing? It always returns to you. Then your vertical self and horizontal self will have been formed. Then heaven and earth come to join. Subject and object come to settle down as intended.

The life history of the saints is determined by how much they sacrificed themselves for the sake of history and all humankind. When a saint sacrificed himself one hundred percent for the sake of all humankind, and not only in the context of humankind but centering on the wish of God, he stood at the top of the ranks of sainthood. We must understand this, now. To go the way of goodness, we must pay the price of sacrifice. Where he claims himself, failure will result. If God lived only claiming Himself, would the objective, created world have come into being? (No.) God will be in isolation. If one continually has a mind demanding that others serve him, that one will continually spend himself out to the point where he finally comes to deny his own self. Do you understand?

Thus if you serve others you will develop, and if you serve yourself you will perish. In other words, if you serve others you will find yourself in the center position. However, if you act and live for the sake of yourself, you will have destroyed everything, and you yourself, in the vertical position, must also falter, perishing. Thus, those who demand that others serve them; since they lose the object world, will they have fewer and fewer friends, or more and more friends? (Fewer) For those who live for the sake of others, will there be more and more, or fewer or fewer friends? ( More.) His friends will fear lest they should be disowned, and his friends too will never leave him, and they will come to like him more and more, so in the end one of them will desire to give his sister to marry him. Their parents will try hard to marry their daughters to him. This is how a normal man's heart works. Isn't it so? So the more time passes, the more he will develop. On the contrary, if he claims himself, he is reduced as time passes. Do you understand?

What is evil? It is what is antagonistic to goodness. Thus when goodness prospers, evil perishes. To warn against following the road to evil is goodness, and to prevent one from going the way of evil is goodness, so in order to stay on the way of goodness, we must protect ourselves from going the way of destruction.

What is the way to perish? It is the way of pulling people to your side for your own sake. So we must destroy this way. If you live centering on yourself, you will have to retreat. If you live centering on your family and try to bring other families under your subjugation, your family will become a dictator family and in the end will be expelled by other families. Centering on a nation, this is the fate of dictators. Take Hitler for example. He claimed, "All European nations should exist for Germany, centering on the German race." If, on the contrary, Hitler had sacrificially invested all of that power and money into other countries in Europe, Germany would have conquered Europe without even fighting. By the same token, if today America confronts other nations asking them to serve America, America will face difficulties.

Communist countries, too, although they are pursuing a high ideal of one world, if they do not overcome their nationalistic racial idea, and stop asking other countries to sacrifice for the sake of the Slavs centering on Russia, they too will perish. It will certainly come to pass. Do you understand? If Russia, with the communist ideal, pro- claimed that Russia exists for the sake of world, and sacrificed itself and delegated liberty and authority to all countries, and regarded such action as happiness and hope, today's communism would not have divided into communist China and Russia. How could they divide?

Today, America faces a challenge. If America forgets the right of many nations to become liberated, and instead protects only its own interests, America surely will decline. But although the country of America may perish, if America maintains the ideal of serving other countries, even as a country without sovereignty, America will survive beyond the 20th century and through the 30th century, becoming a nation that can influence the whole world. This is the absolute way of goodness which the heavenly way teaches, you must understand. (Yes.)

I exist for the sake of my subject (or object); I do not exist for myself, but for the objective world. Men are not born for the sake of men, but for the sake of women. Women are not born for the sake of woman, but for the sake of men. From there, the ideal family will emerge. One prototype man showing the eternal example of living with one woman, centering on eternal goodness, will emerge. Here we can find the standard. We cannot find a standard when one is covetous, centering on himself. If a husband says to his wife, "Since you are my wife, do as I say," no matter how good a wife she might be, they cannot last more than three years. (Laughter.)

Then what is the fall? It began when the archangel became aware of himself and stressed his self-establishment. The archangel came to think about connecting God's love only to himself. Eve, too, thought, "I will do that," at a premature time. They both thought of themselves more than of God and more than for the whole. Therefore, to look at woman is strange. But woman has another side through becoming a hopeful mother, so she can have hope.

In this perspective, what becomes of a person who lives for the sake of others? That person will not perish. If he or she lives for the sake of others, he or she will become the center person. Even with in a family, if a person serves the parents well and sacrifices him or herself for the sake of his brother and sister, as time goes by, he will certainly become the center of that family. Isn't that so? Then father and mother both will bring their problems to him, and the brothers and sisters will, too.

The Base for Peace

There will come a base for peace established upon this foundation of thought. Jesus taught this; God, too, took this as the originating point of victory, and as the point deciding victory or failure. Those who tread the way of selfishness will perish. Do you understand? (Yes.) Those who tread in search of a bigger cause are going the way to prosperity. So an individual must sacrifice for the sake of the family. You to must tread the typical way of goodness. A family must sacrifice for the sake of the clan, all the clan of Kim should sac- rifice for the sake of the nation. Now the Han race of Korea is divid- ed into two, and both must become able to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the unified nation and sovereignty.

Today, Kim Il Sung and the Park regime in the July 4th Communique sought for a plan of unification, but each should not insist upon his own view. Both will lose. In this situation, how can you find the means to bring about the attitude of "I exist for you and you for me"? If this principle hits the mark, unification will be accomplished in Korea without fighting.

Instead of pursuing his own value for himself, he seeks rather to find his value through his object (or subject). Such a person is not an unhappy person. At any time and any place, his foundation of heart has a reciprocal relationship, so he is never lonely, but happy. You must understand that. Among you students, you should think about it. The degree to which a person thinks about his own interest, he is that much inclined to evil, and the degree to which he thinks about someone else, he is that much a better person. Even by the secular standard, parents encourage children to become good persons. Parents never teach their children to just do whatever they want to do.

Thus the way of religion teaches sacrifice. The realm of natural liberation now becomes possible. To fight and subjugate others centering on oneself and thus to broaden one's territory, and to repeat this, will eventually lead to death. Therefore the era of such a history should come to an end. If God exists, the end of the days is inevitable. Then what kind of people can inherit history and begin anew bearing the banner of the new age ? It is those who take sacrificing for the sake of others as an iron-clad rule. There should be a religion which practices self-sacrifice for the nation as such a rule. In this way, the Unification Church is to follow that thought. Do you understand? We are here to love the nation, even though Unification Church members may suffer. Even though the Unification Church may perish, this country must be saved. Unification Church members may go hungry, but the people of this nation must prosper. When people come to understand that righteous ideal, they will cry hundreds of times for every ten times we cried. If I was in the servant position ten times, hundreds of times they will come and ask us to lead them. This is the way it is.

What Jesus has shown us is not to strike and plunder but rather to be struck first and then to inherit. This rule was first practiced in Christianity, and continued throughout its history. Thus the more blood Christianity shed, the more it developed. As persecution increases, it will bring more development for those who are persecuted. Therefore we must desire that persecution toward the Unification Church should never cease. Those religions which evade persecution will deteriorate. Heaven comes to work instead with a religion digesting all persecution and continuing with the goal of the highest ideal, which the nation and world covet. This is why the Unification Church received persecution but never perished.

The strategy of goodness is different from the strategy of evil. Evil strikes and plunders; goodness loses first and recovers. When goodness recovers, it claims an added penalty from evil's side. This is the strategy which goodness employs. Thus if we are to build a world of peace, instead of holding continually to the habitual thinking that first an individual must become well off, and then his family and then his nation and finally the world, we must have a new set of values, based upon which we can sacrifice the individual, his family, even his nation, in order to strive for the prosperity of the world. It should not come to pass that this world perishes because it is a world of sin and crime, but rather, there should be a means to bring this world out of that wrongfulness and despair and into the victorious heaven.

In this perspective, there is a way for us to tread. There is a way for us to tread as individuals, as families, as a nation and as a world. No matter how successful one might have become in terms of his individual perfection, unless he finds a way for his family to tread, the perfection of the individual cannot be connected to the perfection of the family. Likewise, no matter how successfully the perfection of a family might be achieved, that family cannot automatically partake in the perfection of the clan. Such a clan cannot participate in the rank of perfection for a nation, nor can a perfect nation automatically connect to the perfection of the world.

On the other hand, there is the way of sacrificing an individual, and even ignoring the perfection of an individual in order to accomplish the perfection of the family. In this case, even without preparing beforehand the perfection of the individual, you will have achieved both the perfection of the family and the perfection of the individual. Do you understand? Even if you have not accomplished perfection of the family, if you and your wife toil and sacrifice yourselves to accomplish the perfection of the clan, your family can inherit the foundation of the perfection of the clan. Likewise, even though you couldn't win the victory over your clan, if you stand in the position of sacrificing yourselves for the perfection of a nation, you can inherit the foundation of the perfection of the nation and world.

In this perspective, what is the nature of the wise person? The wise one is he or she who reaches out one level higher. So, it is good to jump. It is the wisest person who aims at the highest goal, whereby he can achieve everything. All at once, thus, religion is a movement in which we keep on investing for one opportune moment. While others build up from the individual, family, clan, and so on, you are to reach to the goal directly. How can you do that? All we have to do is hang on to God. After completing the restoration of the individual, the restoration of the family, the restoration of the clan, the restoration of the race, the restoration of the nation, the restoration of the world, and the restoration of the universe, then we restore the love of God. Thus we need to be connected to God.

This is why Christianity inculcates a high ambition. A man of religion usually has something unique in his mind. You feel good, don't you? This is why the Bible teaches, "Don't follow me with your wife or children or family or nation. They get in my way." If you bring them with you when you try to follow God, you will only have more unresolved questions. Therefore God does not like you to do that. God does like to spare love, sympathy, human concern, compassion and so forth, even a bit.

God Who is the Absolute Subject of Love

For unwed, virgin men, do you feel good if you meet a virgin girl who has gone out on the street and been proposed to by men many times? (No. ) No young men like such a girl. Therefore, even if the girl is a Seoul University graduate, you will have second thoughts, because it is a co-ed university. To find a real virgin, it is better to look in an all women's university, like Ehwa University, where you an find girls who never even dream of studying side-by-side with boys. (Laughter.)

Well, let's change the subject. Let's say that there is a husband and wife who have been married for thirty happy years. They both loved each other, and the husband thought there could be no other woman like his wife, and the wife thought the same about her husband. Then someone said to her, "When you were meeting your husband the first time, he had another woman who was very, very close to him." Then what would she do? Thirty years is a long time to live together, and they surely know each other very well, and experienced everything together, but still she will become very upset. The more she thinks about it, the more angry she will become.

In this perspective, God is the same as man. He is the one and only God of the entire universe, who desires to be the King of love. Then the object of love to God is unfaithful, and then repents and comes back to God. Would God feel good or bad? (Bad.) If bad, how bad? It is hard to forgive.

Since God is like that, He is very jealous, too. Is jealousy bad? If one is predestined only to love God and no one else, such jealousy is good. To demand much, so that he or she is called to love God with all his might is good, isn't it? (Yes.) First it may sound bad, but one can be bound in a good way.

God gets angry too. When such a God sees a man loving a woman and their children, and just enjoying everything, and then becoming ragged, and saying, "I love God after all; you must become my husband, you must become my father," would He feel good? (Bad. ) When God sees the situation of men for several thousands of years, the longer that period of unrequited love is, and the longer the period during which He had to hide His feelings, the more angry and betrayed He feels.

Therefore, in the Bible it was written that we must love God, "With all our mind, will, and character, love the Lord thy God." It teaches one should not divert ones attention away from God even a bit. The Bible teaches, "Love with everything you have." This is the first commandment. This is the reason a man or woman of religion is encouraged to live a celibate life. Are you going to live in celibacy? (No.) Why not? (Laughter.)

Those who get a grade of A differ in rank from those who receive an F. If you can get an A, you can do whatever you want to do, but until you get the A you have to study very, very hard. You cannot play at all. Have you made your foundation yet? If not, you should live alone. Thus, the very reason that religion encourages celibacy is because of the existence of God. To see that serves as a proof that God exists.

If a king were compiling a list of historic patriots, and he considered a possible number one patriot, but in the process he found out that this person loved his son more than he loved the king, the king would mind. In the event that he loved his wife more than the king, he would fail to be considered a patriot. If he betrayed the king for his own wishes, he would be a traitor. However, if he sacrificed everything, his wife, children and even his life, and loved and served the king, he would become a loyal subject who would long be worshiped in the history of patriots. This is the principle.

We should serve God as our parents, as our King and as the teacher of saints, thinking we will establish an historical tradition, certain that we should become more than mere sons of filial piety, and more than saints. We cannot be below that level if we are to serve God. This is why it is my wish that I raise up members of the Unification Church to be persons better than the saints. In former times, those great persons such as Confucius, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed could not love the world. Some could not love even their own nation completely before they died. Thus, if we, under God's will, can stand in the position to love the nation and love the world, we can open a gateway to the ideal world which even Jesus could not accomplish. We can be in a position better than Jesus in this respect. As I pointed out earlier, even if I cannot perfect myself as an individual, if I love God representing the whole, and if I myself become one whom God can present to the whole world and be proud of without shame, then I would become a person who is better than Jesus himself.

Thus, God is an ambitious God. In loving your wife, is being ambitious bad ? (Good. ) You, Um Duk Moon, is it bad to say to your wife, "Love only me. I too will love only you," being ambitious that way? (Good.) The problem is that you cannot become such a husband. The problem is that you can never become such a perfect wife, but if you could become such you would own all of love. This God is ambitious; is it good or bad? If you are full of such ambition and pour out love like milk and honey, how happy would your spouse be to drink that? They would laugh thousands of years even if they could not breathe. So being greedy like that is not bad. You must have that kind of greed. If that greed takes the right position, where you can pour out everything that you can, it may be able to melt the whole world. It will be holy. Do you understand?

Thus, in order to pave the road of greed well, Reverend Moon is greedy, too. Look at Reverend Moon's eyes. He does not listen to others easily. No matter how sweetly others talk, he does not listen easily. When it does not stand to reason, he does not listen. When I have a conviction, I will never concede, even if hundreds of nations such as Korea come into confrontation with me. So if you engraft yourself into that greed, you will have a lot to work with. Is it because you love Reverend Moon so much that you believe in the Unification Church? You believe in the Unification Church because if you follow this way, you will never perish.

But the way of the Unification Church is difficult. We do not witness for the sake of the Unification Church. We have a different perspective. We transcend denomination. We are forming a new racial foundation to establish an international ideal based on interracial thought. This is why when told, Japanese say yes, and Americans answer yes, too. Some say that Korea has many chaste persons, but no one can do what Reverend Moon does. Even if this position were given to someone else, he would not be able to carry on. They cannot last three days. If someone else comes and says, "I come to take his place," will you follow him? (No.)

Now we must come to the conclusion. The topic of today's speech is "At the Crossroads of Good and Evil." In answer to the question of where you are standing, this is the very point at which you are standing. One right move and you are on the side of goodness, and with one wrong step you are on the side of evil. One right step and there will be a way open which will welcome me and be full of hope. One wrong move there will open a door to the darkness of hell, and a trap to usher me in.

So my eye stands on the crossing point of good and evil and one glance that I cast, or one motion of my hand, has enough weight to tip the fine scale of good and evil, depending upon for whom I am motivated. If I see and speak based on greed, and use you for my purpose, I am a charlatan, but if I see and speak with all my might, with sweat and blood for the sake of you and for the sake of others, I am not a charlatan. Do you understand? This applies every time. On that crossing point it is decided whether that act is going to be good or evil. It's a fearful thing. That which I see one time will decide something good or evil. The things I say, feel or do when I meet someone, even why I eat or lie down, -- every action will lead either to an act of goodness or an act of evil. We must be aware that we always stand at the crossroads of good and evil.

In the case of a businessman, whether he speaks to deceive others or to promote mutual interest with good heart, comes to make a difference. If it is truly for mutual benefit, the other person may come to think of you more highly than your own friend as a result of this connection, and he will become a better, cherished friend of yours. Thus, when you earned money, Reverend Moon never "set it aside to send his children to school." He has never done that. Wealthy peo- ple, billionaires, and self-made people, try to safeguard their wealth at the cost of their lives, but I do not know where my bank book is, even though I am in the position to sign checks of millions of dollars. If someone can use money for purposes more worthy than mine, I will let him use it. But it had better be consistent with the Principle. If someone departs from the direction we have been going and leaves me, it is next to impossible to mend that relationship.

To be able to do this, I have trekked up and down the pinnacles of the world, avoided precipices, not falling down, and not become a straggler, until I have reached the position at which I now stand. You must understand this. I am very agreeable on the matter of rules and principle. If someone brings me great advice, I will throw in my hat as a teacher and learn from him or her. But when it is against the Principle, no matter how powerful the man trying to move me, it is not going to be easy. I am the one who is ready to fight to distinguish good from evil.

Let us become the Unification Church which gives to others. Thus when we move a step forward, we must always take a moment to judge if it is evil or good. You must know this. When a woman goes shopping in the market, it is an act of choosing good from evil. Every act is like that. When we are about to take a journey, we should pray, "Heavenly Father, as I am about to leave home, when I come back allow me to return not having incurred a loss for heaven." It is a serious matter. The crossing point of goodness and evil, what is the way to avoid that? If you center things on yourself, you will perish, but if you are able to dispose of things for the benefit of the whole, it will benefit both you and the whole. You must understand.

The Unification Church does not fight for the sake of the Unification Church. We are waging a Victory over Communism movement, but it is not fought for Korea alone. In fact, its purpose is to defend the whole world against communism. A huge sum of money is being spent for that purpose. If we diverted that money, we could build excellent local church buildings throughout Korea. When I pass the humble doors of local churches, I take pride in that and think, "Today this misery appears as common misery, but in the future this humiliation and misery will be the historical source of pride to all nations around the world, and will serve as a staff of judgment upon the corrupt men of all religions who helped to bring down the dignity and prosperity of heaven."

To be indebted, yet sleeping soundly, one should never forget that the sword point of the enemy (evil) is awaiting when one wakes up. For those who serve and support others, peace and liberation will be waiting after their sleep. Even the worldly saying is that those who are beaten can sleep with limbs curled up, but those who have beaten can sleep with limbs stretched. Is that so? (No.) It is he who is beaten who sleeps with limbs stretched (in peace), or he who has beaten? (They can only sleep with their limbs curled up (in discomfort)). The Unification Church that is beaten up can sleep with limbs stretched without fear, but existing churches that beat up the Unification Church can only sleep with their limbs curling up and in fear. Thus existing churches are gradually perishing, and the Unification Church is gradually expanding. This is a natural process. I have no shame anywhere 1 go. No matter where I go and whom I meet in any existing church, I have nothing that pulls me back.

I have said this before, but what is the tradition of the Unification Church? It is to become a Unification Church that gives to other people. We are here to help. You know the history of Joseph. If there are ministers or elders of existing churches present here, listen well. This Reverend Moon here is not to be branded a heretic by such people. Listen. If we are loving sons of God, the Bible says, "Whosoever does not love me more than anyone else, he is not worthy of me. Those who love mother or sons and daughters or wife more than me, is not worthy of me. He who wants to follow me must bear his own cross and follow, are not worthy of me." The Unification Church is living that exactly. So it is common to give up one's wife and follow the will of God, and even if they must give up their children, they will follow the will of God. Although today, Christians are not able to do that, Reverend Moon himself has done it. He left his parents and his wife, and followed the will of God. Is such a person a heretic, while those who could not live in that manner authentic? There is no such heavenly principle.

Unification Church members! If Reverend Moon issues a command, will you follow it? (Yes.) If a person leaves everything, stands in the front line for the day of the unification of the fatherland, and works for twenty years receiving severe persecution and preparing altars for his offering, do you think anybody can celebrate the great occasion without these contributing members? Why is it that patriot Kim Ku and the late President Rhee are praised by the entire nation? They too could have loved their children and their wives.They knew they should serve their parents and they had hearts to do so, but they overcame that and followed heavenly heart to pursue the way by which everyone in the nation could receive happiness. As a result of that, they remain as objects of tribute. Isn't it so? (Yes.)

We young people! Since we all are standing on this crossroad, one step has the crucial meaning. One wrong step and we could tumble down the cliff. Although it may be difficult to tread the right way, with each step that we climb up we are a step closer to the summit of the hope of tomorrow. We look forward to the day when we will be able to look down upon a vast field of hope below and eventually become the princes and princesses of victory. We should not go astray. If you are studying, you should study with an attitude that one page of a book you come to understand, and one vocabulary word you remember, will eventually help you prevent the nation from going in the wrong direction. You must study in such a manner. Then your studying is for the nation. If you read a page of a book confident that one page can lead to the success of the accomplishment of God's will, you will study in such seriousness. Then you are a person who is preparing what God may need in the future. God will select such a person to do His will. If you study with no serious goal, as the wind blows, like a person who dances to the beat of anyone's drum, without any discipline, will never become a center of this nation; you're going in the wrong direction. You must know that the Unification Church has a unique direction.

Since we must tread on the way of goodness, we must realize and be aware of the crossroads of life and death, good and evil. The road which rises and the road which falls separate right in front of you and you must find the rising path and place an anchor to that road. Then we will pull that rope of ascension, passing the individual, family, race and national levels toward the top of heaven. This is our way of life.

Thus, until now, the dispensation of God has been to climb backwards, vertically, until God finds a nation. Until now, we have not been able to reach the horizon, so we had to go up backwards. Christians and all men of religion have been choked by the evil powers that control the nation. Since we are facing that miserable, historical fate within the realm of the fall, we should work toward winning the day of liberation, the day of recovery. Thus we must win the day as an individual, as a family and as a nation and world; the day of liberation where God can rejoice together with us. Then and only then will we have achieved the original objective of the mission which we were born to do. This starts from this very crossroads.

Then where is the unification of the world achieved? It starts from myself. Therefore, those who do not have the standard of a unified mind and body, no matter how big and high their aspiration might be, cannot connect to the work of the unification of the world. Now those of you who stand on the crossroad must use discretion to find the way. If you want to wear clothes, you must earn them. Anyone who goes for a handout will perish.

The Unification Church should give to others and live for the sake of others. Those with this principle will gradually find themselves as the center of the nation. You do not have to try hard to rise in position, for you will be raised up automatically. In this perspective, especially young members must be clearly aware where the standard of good and evil lies. You must become the victor of tomorrow, going over the recovery of the nation to meet the day of happiness when the doors open to the world of heaven. As princes and princesses of victory, do not desire only to receive the love of God but also to win the praise of the world which says, "Follow him!" God bless you.

Father Prays:

Father of love. Please remember these young members who are present here. We gathered here today not because of our will. We are all brought here as the result of a cause which we do not know fully, thus let us remember that we stand in the position of object in front of our subject.

I must understand that I exist for my subject. As I pursue my value, it is his perfection which brings my perfection. When this is realized, we understand that we gain two when we lose one. Thus more value is added, which is the proof of goodness. The resulting happiness becomes the center of Your optimistic beginning of yet higher work. We pray that each and every one of these young members will make a new determination from the depth of their hearts. We are not fighting for the sake of Chong-ro Church, but we are fighting for the sake of Seoul and Korea. Please allow us to stay abreast of all humankind and never be outdone in doing goodness.

We thank You for allowing us to meet here today. Please let all the words spoken become blood and flesh to all the members present. Praying that we become a positive, active group that covets the embrace of Your bosom, worthy of drawing closer to You, I pray in the name of True Parents. Amen.

 

Part II:

The Reappearance of the Second Coming and the Completed Testament Era

January 10, 1993
Belvedere International Training Center

Interpreter Col. Sang Kil Han

 

Reappearance refers to the fact that 2,000 years ago the Messiah came. The 2,000 year history since then was a re-indemnification. The second advent of the Messiah took place at the end of World War II. However, he had to re-indemnify Christian history during the last 40 years, and at last the proclamation of the coming of the Messiah now has taken place.

We all know that if the will of God had been done at the time of creation, there would have been no need for a second coming, because salvation would not have been necessary. The purpose of creation would have been achieved at that time. Heaven on earth and in heaven would have come into existence naturally, and the history of restoration would not have had to come about. That Kingdom of Heaven would have started as a family unit and extended into the clan, the society, the nation, the world and the spirit world. Adam's family would have formed the world at that time. This family would have been the center of the clan, society and world.

If Adam's family had become perfect, the perfect clan, society, nation and world would have come to exist naturally, without even trying. So the perfection of Adam's family was the prototype for all perfected beings. Then who is Adam and who is Eve? Adam and Eve are the king and queen who represent heaven and earth. We can see that all men and women desire to become kings and queens themselves. This is because that is the way they were created. That kingship, starting from the family king, would lead to the king of the clan,nation, world and spirit world. Who would inherit the position of king? The elder son. So the family is the unit, and as the number of families increases, so does the Kingdom. The family is the building block of the Kingdom.

The Results of the Fall of Man

Thus, with God's purpose in mind, we can look at the transition from the Old Testament era to the New Testament era, and the transition today to the Completed Testament era. All of these things took place as a result of the fall. This is a rather complicated process of salvation, which would not have been necessary if Adam's family had not fallen.

What became of the family because of the fall? Both man and woman left God and went to Satan. The ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven vanished To be saved means to correct their blood lineage. Without correcting the lineage, God can take no part in His creation, especially in fallen human life. Today we lament over all the evil we see. Why did the perfect God let this happen? It was because of the fall. So the satanic world expanded from its satanic origin. The purpose of salvation is to do anything and everything necessary to restore the results of the fall at every level.

Because man and woman did not start in God's lineage, they have no foundation to connect to God. Centering on Satan, Adam followed Satan, Eve followed Adam, Cain followed Eve and Abel followed Cain. But what we see today in True Parents is Adam following God, Eve following Adam, Cain following Eve and Abel following Cain. These two patterns are completely opposite, 180 degrees different. One is hell, the other, heaven.

When we look at the world today, what do we see? Hell. Is that God's world or Satan's world? Satan's. What about the great nation of America? It is in Satan's world. False love, not true love, reigns. Where is true love and a true lineage? We cannot find it anywhere. Lineage comes from the love between husband and wife. So the purpose of salvation is to put Adam and Eve into their true position. In order to cure a disease, you have to operate on the sick person. For God, this operation is nothing other than the method of straightening out the lineage, changing the lineage and putting true love into it.

Through the Bible we see God and Adam, father and son.Satan took Eve from God and then took Adam from God, and then he took the children. We have to restore this by paying the price. Satan took Eve, and then through the children went deeper into the abyss. Restoration had to start from Abel, the last in line. God took hold of Abel and worked His restoration strategy. What is this strategy? It is to reach Cain by working directly through Abel. After the fall, the brothers became enemies. So as a result of the fall, the members of what should have been a united family all became enemies of each other.

Satan's objective is to separate and keep divided, so he can exercise his dominion. God's purpose is to make one -- one world composed of united families. God's world would look like one huge individual man. Satan deforms that and divides it as much as possible. By doing so, he stops God and perpetuates his own evil reign. In history, what God is trying to do and what Satan is trying to do are completely opposite. Satan encourages separation and fighting. God tries to have people sacrificially love and unite. These are completely opposite. In the Last Days, what do we see? Satan's world will become very apparent in human life from the family to the clan, nation, world and spirit world. It is completely ungodly; it is something which God hates.

On the worldwide level, through the first, second and third world wars, God has been separating what is His side from what is Satan's side. By doing so, God has expanded His domain. Looking at history, we clearly can see that Satan strikes first. But then God, who is beaten first, eventually is the victor It is Satan's pattern to strike first and God's pattern to be struck, then win. We can see this in everyday life as well. If an elder brother or sister strikes any of their brothers or sisters first, everyone, including the parents, takes the side of the one who is struck. God is always on the side of the one who is struck. In the three world wars, the ones who struck first, lost.

We must understand that Christianity played an important role here. In both the First and Second World Wars, England and America were struck first. In all three wars the aggressors looked as if they would win, but then they eventually lost, because God was not with them. We can see so clearly that God is struck first and then gains it back. In school we may see a person who, although he is not doing anything wrong, is persecuted and suffers. But at the end, good always wins. We can draw another logical conclusion: the better religions are persecuted more, because Satan does not want them to continue. But God, through these important religions, tries to do away with Satan. Satan also knows that through these religions restoration is continuing, so he tries to stop them.

Where does this pattern of fighting and struggle originate? It originates in the individual's mind and body. The mind is on God's side and the body is on Satan's side. The struggle expands from the individual to the family, clan, nation and world, and the world will divide into religious and non-religious spheres. This is symbolized by the two thieves at Jesus's crucifixion. They represent the left and right wings, which fight against each other. Also, Barabbas, who escaped crucifixion, represents Islam, which fights against Christianity. Christianity lined up with the right wing and Islam lined up with the left wing; So this great separation takes place in the Last Days. We see the division of left and right wings in Korea and the division between religions in the Middle East. The world-level task is how to solve these divisions and unite the two sides. The satanic world must come to an end. When the satanic world comes to an end, God's world must begin, which means that God has to take over and rearrange the world.

The base of Satan's world is satanic families and nations. Take America, for example. The typical family will have three generations - - grandfather, father and son. But we see that these three generations are fighting among each other. The family is almost annihilated. The country itself is more divided than united. It is being reduced to total individualism. Individualism is based on the one who doesn't care for the nation, tribe or family. He eventually comes to deny even his own purpose. This is what we see, to our dismay, in America. To hippies there is no world and no family, and this eventually leads to suicide. Free sex is commonplace. This is what God hates most. He created man and woman to follow strict discipline about this. We can explain this as being 180 degrees different from what God meant to have happen. The position of owner and servant is reversed. The servant has become the king and the king has become the servant. This is what happened in communism. They call someone a bad name -- bourgeoisie -- and then just try to destroy them.

The essence of God is love. Love's central point is emotion and deep feeling. Free sex denies this; they participate in a physical, mechanical love devoid of emotion. In the extreme there is incest, a behavior which in God's ideal is worse than that of animals. The grandfather lives with his own daughter in-law. God cannot imagine this; it is 180 degrees apart from God's direction. What God promotes, Satan destroys. Homosexuality, alcohol and drugs degrade love; they have no place in God's Kingdom. This world is clearly hell. If you have no idea of heaven, imagine the complete opposite of this world, which is hell. Snake like dancing is a tool of Satan to achieve his goal. This is true; it is not a laughing matter. It makes people behave in crazy ways. Satan is boasting of what he has achieved and is laughing at God, saying, "How can you make Your Kingdom out of this?"

We now know which way God is going; it is 180 degrees different from where Satan is now. Satan's voice is encouraging people to drink more, smoke cigarettes, take drugs and indulge in free sex, to "enjoy life." Do Unification Church members practice free sex? (No.) What percentage "no?" (One hundred percent no!) We know that is a very strong position. How about homosexuality? (No! ) What stance does America's new president take on homosexuality? (Supports.) Ignorance; without his intending, he is agreeing with Satan. The way for America's survival and prosperity in the future is to go against the way it is walking now. To go the opposite way is God's direction.

Everyone in America is enjoying his life without hardship or suffering, but here in the Unification Church members are working hard, suffering and wanting to pay more indemnity. Is that good or not? (Good.) But you cannot enjoy Christmas and celebrate happy New Year in the conventional way. You don't like what Satan's world does. You seem very foolish, but are you wise to be so or not? (Wise.) The world turns against us and says, "Moonie, Moonie!" But if you stop to think about it, what has Reverend Moon done in America that is so bad? People first think he must have done something wrong, but actually he hasn't done anything wrong. We can rightfully conclude that those who go against the satanic world are the ones going God's way. God is in that desperate situation, with Satan and the whole world opposing Him. Because all satans say, "Reverend Moon is a bad person," we can deduce that Reverend Moon is the person God loves the most. That is the way history looks at it.

How God Restores

There was a time when it was very difficult to distinguish between God and Satan, but today it is very easy to discern God and Satan. They work 180 degrees differently. So the Unification Church is very much the center of God's dispensation. If we were truly bad, we would diminish, but actually we are growing and growing. With whose help? (God's help. ) When we go as a blessed family to our hometown, our direction is very straight. We do not drink, smoke or practice free sex, but rather we try to bring the people into God's direction. This is new to them, but somehow they come to like it.

Satan's world has no hope, and the people of the world are completely disoriented, not knowing east from west. There is more and more corruption, in many different forms. Sometimes they see a Unificationist family and their eyes pop open. They are amazed. They say, "Don't follow the Moonies," but we Unificationists are the only ones going to heaven. All of Satan's side is going in the other direc- tion, to hell. The Unification Church is going up steadily to heaven. The world is going towards hell. There is the formidable disease of AIDS. Are human beings susceptible to AIDS? (Yes.) Do Unification Church members ever contract AIDS? (No.)

Satan strikes, but God mends and repairs. And the Unification Church works to repair what the satanic world has broken. It is so simple; in one hour the essence of satanic history has been explained. But if you lack this knowledge, you could not solve this problem in one million years. It is very sad. There was one poll concerning sexual experi- ences in one school. Only one young man had not had sex, and it turned out he was a blessed child. He explained his position and won the respect of a majority of his class. It's sad, but that situation exists today.

What is the Unification Church going to do? It is going to unify the left and the right and the Christian world and Islamic world. No one other than Reverend Moon and the Unificationists can go between two people and reconcile them. America, representing the right wing, struck Reverend Moon. The left wing, as well as Christianity and Islam also struck Reverend Moon. The fact that they struck Reverend Moon, without any clear reason, puts them on Satan's side. Ironically, this Christian nation struck Reverend Moon and is now on Satan's side. This fact has never occurred to them. It means they are striking God.

Who hated Reverend Moon more, Christians or Jews? There is no doubt that the communists are on Satan's side, but even the religious people are now on Satan's side. The Jews and the Christians came against me and God. Clearly, the 2,000 years of suffering which Christians went through took them to a high and powerful position. But why, in a mere 40 years, have they plummeted down and been reduced to complete powerlessness? It is because they came against Reverend Moon. We look at gorgeous churches and synagogues, but now they are only 10% to 15% filled. Those who are there are old; pretty soon they will go to the grave. Then there will be no one. This is true for all religions.

So what are the Unificationists doing? We are going to restore the family and nation. If we restore the family and the clan, then the country will be restored. This is where to make an impact. When the family and clan are restored, the country will be restored automati- cally. There are many countries with populations of less than 10 mil- lion. When we come to have a prototype country that is under God's domain, will all the other 160 countries follow? (Yes.)

How could America, which God fostered, and which was so righteous, decline in a mere 40 years? It is because they opposed Reverend Moon and God. Reverend Moon has established the historical record for bearing suffering and persecution. So what is Reverend Moon thinking and saying? Is he praying to God, "Please stop this persecution"? No. Rev Moon knew, as he continually said every Sunday, "The world will decline and perish, but Reverend Moon and the Unification Church will not. We will stay and prosper by doing God's will."

So Father has been thinking and preparing to receive the broken world and restore it. The individual, family, clan, tribe, nation and world have come and hit me. These are the phenomena of persecution. Be hit first and then inherit. Whenever we go, to New York or Washington, we can see clearly that the society is closer to Satan. Unification Church members do not wear makeup, but they shine with beauty. You don't have to anguish over deciding whom to marry. So the more we are present, the more Satan shakes, but God's hope becomes bigger. As Satan disappears from this world, God's comfort is restored. Amen.

All of this is the result of Reverend Moon being struck and persecuted so much, so Father doesn't mind being struck. (Thank you, Father.) Until now, humankind was in the dark; they were ignorant of their own fall. Consider communism; it was ruthless and formidable, reaching to the top of the world. The small Reverend Moon said to them, "You will be phased out and cease to exist." And it came to pass, didn't it? Now Father is proclaiming to the entire satanic world, "You will cease to exist." This is Father's proclamation today.

There is no way for us to deny the existence of Satan. We know that he exists and walks about the earth. We also know that God is moving behind Satan, trying to repair the situation and make a better world. There is not a single person, family, tribe or country that did not come against Father. Everyone went against Reverend Moon. As a result, God will now inherit all that foundation, bring it into His domain and make it righteous. Since Father cannot let the world perish, saying he has nothing to do with it, Father worked to make connections with everything. He made all the conditions to prevent the people from perishing. Father makes all sorts of world-level arrangements to reconnect everyone and everything back to God, at his own expense. Father has a relationship to every Unification Church member, so even if they die or are washed out into the satanic world, Father later can pull them back to God. You have good security.

Actually, have you ever stopped to wonder if there is anything that Father doesn't do? There's no such thing; he does everything. Now we know these are phenomena of the Last Days. So what is the conclusion? Pay no attention to anything else; just hold on to Reverend Moon. Thus, when Father gives a direction, we can reply confidently, "Yes." We don't discuss it; we just go ahead, because we know that we are better off that way. There are a lot of Japanese members who are accustomed to following old Japanese leaders, but now Father appoints one Korean leader and directs that everyone follow him. The American members want Father to choose a different leader. Fathers choice is very colorful -- but the color doesn't matter.

Restoration of the Lineage of God

Now we know the basics of history and the basics of God's work, which is the restoration and salvation history. Therefore, let us now discuss the main theme, the reappearance of the Messiah. God's situation has been that He has not a single women or child whom He can claim as being on His side. God centers on Eve, Cain and Abel, that means the mother and children, whereas Satan has Adam. (At this point Father is explaining while drawing diagrams.)

Satan worked upon Eve, and the fall took place. We have to reverse the fall; we have to go the opposite way. False lineage and false love came to exist. We have to create true love and a true lineage. In the Old Testament era, indemnity was paid with an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. It was one-for-one indemnity, simple reverse indemnity. Where does this indemnity take place in the Old Testament? With Jacob and Esau, and their mother, Rebekah. This indemnified the fall. Just as in the fall, when God the Father was deceived, in this family the father, Isaac, was deceived. So Rebekah deceived for a good purpose and restored the fall. Jacob then did the work of a true Abel and subjugated Cain. From that point, the true restoration course started.

However, Esau and Jacob were grown men; the restoration they accomplished did not take place in the womb, at the root. Therefore a subsequent stage, one of restoration in the womb, took place with Tamar, Perez and Zerah. Tamar deceived her father-in-law, Judah, and his son, her husband, and then gave birth to the twins, Perez and Zerah. Thus within the womb, restoration took place. He who was to be the elder son became the younger son, and he who was to be the younger son became the elder son, perfectly restoring the elder sonship in God's eyes. We see restoration by indemnity took place.

Tracing it back to the womb, the elder sonship was restored. From this point Israel, the victor, comes. Even today these puzzles have not been solved. Many scholars today say they were just immoral. But from there, from Judah, Jesus' lineage came. No one knew God's plan, but now we can see it so clearly. That was a restored lineage, God's lineage. From there began the real history of the Israelites. They grew into a large nation. How did Israel become a victor? By clearing his lineage; his blood was purified. Israel means victor.

For 2,000 years, history flowed. In order to end evil and restore goodness, you need clean blood, God's blood. Two thousand years later, Mary conceived and gave birth to Jesus. Mary was in Eve's position, Rebekah's position and Tamar's position. But she was on a national level, instead of a family or tribal level. Mary, in the same way, deceived her father-in-law and her husband. For Mary, it was hard to understand why she had to deceive her husband and father-in-law and conceive a baby. But she gave birth to Jesus. That was not a simple thing. At that time what she did called for death by stoning. Joseph was righteous enough to protect her. That means that Adam protected her. So when Jesus was born, Satan had no claim on him, because of his lineage and these conditions of indemnity. So we know what Jesus is called as a result of this: the first begotten son. He is the first begotten son, because through him, for the first time in history, all blood can be cleansed and all people can be reconnected to God. It took 4,000 years for God to do that, in ways so mysterious to us.

At that point, Mary was supposed to bring Jesus and John the Baptist into unity, which would signify Cain and Abel becoming one. That was Mary's mission. John was in the Cain position and Jesus was in the position of God's son. But we know what has actually happened. Did they unite into one? No, they failed to do that. If Mary had achieved that, certainly Jesus would not have had to die. He would have gone on victoriously to complete his mission. But he did not. Instead he was crucified and there came into being the division of the world into left and right. That means throughout the world, Cain and Abel continued to be separated. Cain's religion, Islam, and the Abel religion, Christianity, have fought many times. Leah and Rachel should have become one, and Mary was supposed to do the same. But Leah and Rachel did not unite, and that was the origin of the division of Israel into ten tribes and two tribes, and this also was the very origin of Islam.

So Mary in a most concrete way should have arranged Jesus' marriage quickly. Who was to be Jesus' bride? It was to have been the sister of John the Baptist. Mary had to get the woman from the Cain side and bring her to Jesus. There was no woman available on the Abel side, so she had to get the woman from Cain's side. If Mary had worked with all her might to accomplish this, she would have been successful. Then purified blood and a new lineage could have come into existence. Restoration would have been very quick.

By doing that, the mother and son would have come into unity and restored Eve's failure. If Abel had united with Cain, then the mother would have been restored to the original position. That is the tragedy of the Israelite history. There were two options; one was the mother uniting Cain and Abel, and the other was Cain and Abel uniting and restoring their mother. They could have done it either way. The Jewish religion was in Abel's position, the nation of Israel was in Cain's position on a national level; these two should have united. Then Cain and Abel on a national level would have restored a national level mother. The mission of Israel was to bring Cain and Abel into unity, to restore the mother's position. Restoration must reverse the fall.

The chosen people must prepare for the coming Lord. God created all things and then created Adam. With the model of Adam, He created Eve. Once Cain and Abel have united and have restored the mother, Eve, Adam's perfection can come about. Adam cannot be restored until this is complete. This is the way they failed in Adam's family, so they lost the kingship on the family level. This now needs to be restored on a national level, however, with countries in these positions. This is what the Old Testament is all about; this is Israel's mission, the national level. Then when the Messiah came, that was the end of the Old Testament and the conclusion of the national level. The New Testament era, which Jesus did not complete, is the world level era.

If the Old Testament had come to a successful conclusion, Jesus could have restored the nation and world within 40 years. However, because of Jesus' crucifixion, it took 2,000 years for the world to be restored spiritually. Through Jesus' crucifixion, the divisions of left wing and right wing, and Islam and Christianity, came into being, and they fought each other. When Jesus died, this division came about, and it must be restored before he comes again. This is exactly what Father is working on. The Interreligious Federation for World Peace and the Federation for World Peace are meant to bring together left and right, and Christianity and Islam, and to make them become harmonious.

Thus we can understand the providential significance of World War II. Under God, there were Cain and Abel within the Allied forces, and under Satan there were Cain and Abel within the Axis forces. We all know who they were. The significance of World War II was that it resulted in all sides coming into unity. Cain and Abel united on the world level. The unity of spiritual and physical and mind and body came about. World War II accomplished this unity. This was the fruit of God's work. For the first time in history, centering on Christianity, the fallen side was defeated and God's side was victorious.

There was the repetition of positions: England as mother, America as Abel and France as Cain. Just as with Rebekah and Jacob, England and America should have become one. England gave birth to America. England is an island and America is a continent. The mother, England, would come under the dominion of her own son and receive influence from him, in order for the Lord to come. America was in Abel's position, and France was in Cain's position, similar to John the Baptist. By winning World War II, the unity of the whole was established, although, looking back, it was only for a short time. Even though the fall took place on a family level, it now must be restored on a world level. The mother and her two sons, Cain and Abel, must now look for Adam, her husband. Adam is the Lord of the Second Advent.

Looking back at Jesus' time, Jesus was the Messiah. The country of Israel, as Gain, and Judaism, as Abel, had to come into unity with their mother. Together they had to look for Jesus. Let's look back and examine if they did that. What if Jesus had been born not as a carpenter, but as a royal prince? What if Jesus had come as the son in a rabbi's family? If he had, he would have been connected to Satan's lineage. Jesus' family tree was simple; he did not have too many relatives. Jesus was a stepson, not a legitimate first son. Mary should not have lived with Joseph. We know so little about that, but look back 2,000 years and imagine. They should have kept this as a closely guarded secret amongst themselves. But someone knew, and talked. "Oh, you are keeping your wife, who gave birth to an illegit- imate child." Do you think this didn't spread all around their family and clan? Yes; they could not erase that information. No matter what Jesus said or claimed to be, they all knew that he was an illegitimate child. How could God make an illegitimate child the Messiah?

John's disciples asked Jesus, "If you are the Messiah, where is Elijah?" Elijah was supposed to come first. Their presupposition was that the Messiah was to come on the clouds. They were waiting for someone to come from the sky. So even though God sent Jesus as King of Kings, because Elijah hadn't come and because Jesus was illegitimate, do you think it was easy for people to follow him? No. Look at how history goes; you be the judge. Even today, the Jewish people don't recognize what happened. Only 8% or 10% of the Jewish people became Christian. Jesus was a perfect heretic to them, and remains so even to this day. If 2,000 years after he came they cannot believe in Jesus, how could they have believed at that time? If Jesus had been accepted when he came, restoration would have taken a mere 40 years. History would have been very different. But he died, and he has to come again.

History at the End of World War II

So, at the end of World War II the world was unified under England, America and France. At that time, Reverend Moon came. Was it easy for them to know that and believe him? Based upon what we saw at Jesus' time, could these great nations have followed him? Cain and Abel and Eve's purpose is to find the Lord. But he doesn't come from the sky; he comes as a human being. Just as at Jesus' time, they had a difficult time believing. Wise man in these nations should have gone to Rev. Moon and offered to follow and serve him. But this idea never occurred to them; they had no idea that God expected this of them. It was exactly the same situation as at Jesus' time. People were looking at the sky. With that knowledge, we understand why they oppose Father. So even though Rev. Moon was not crucified physically, it amounted to the same thing, because everyone denied him.

These nations should have become one with Father. If they had, heaven on earth would have been achieved almost instantaneously. It would have taken only seven years to restore the world to the ideal, period. But the failure of 2,000 years ago was repeated. Just as Jesus was denied, Reverend Moon was denied. So what was waiting for Rev. Moon? God and Reverend Moon were chased out into the wilderness. God worked so hard for 6,000 years to establish a victory. That victory was lost overnight. Everything was claimed by Satan, and Reverend Moon was chased out into the wilderness. Nobody other than Father knew this. The whole of humankind was within arm's reach, ready to be saved, but no one came. Overnight, the whole foundation which God prepared was dumped into Satan's camp, and now this one single person, Reverend Moon, together with God, had to figure out some plan to re-indemnify the whole foundation.

When Reverend Moon was opposed, on whose side was God? Reverend Moon's. Imagine the whole foundation of 6,000 years, gone in an instant. Reverend Moon was the only one left with the knowledge of what he was supposed to do and what the world needed. God came to Reverend Moon -- there were just these two miserable persons in the entire world. Everything else was given back to Satan. Satan was rampant, he did anything he wanted, and God was completely defenseless. Just as Jesus had the right and left side thieves, Reverend Moon too had to work something out. So Father took the Unification Church and put Christianity behind him, and he worked to re-indemnify the entire foundation. This meant that he had to re-indemnify the Old and New Testament eras.

Father had no foundation he could inherit. He had to restore the Old Testament era. After completing this, Father's Blessing, the Marriage of the Lamb, took place in 1960, exactly 14 years after the liberation of Korea at the end of World War II. Since humankind fell in the perfection level of the growth stage, in the fourteenth year the marriage took place. Then Father embarked on the three 7-year courses. These took place, and, centering on America, they were completed in 1981. This was the completion of the New Testament era.

The countries which God selected, England, America and France, failed at the end of World War II. Father had to re-indemnify this, selecting Japan, America and Germany. Germany and Japan were devastated, and thus were in the same situation as Reverend Moon. God could not choose America again, but Father could and did. God is in the first generation position, and Father is in the second generation position. Father could legitimately take America again even though it previously had failed. Why is America necessary? There is no other country like America. America is unique, in that the Old Testament and New Testament are here. So Father leniently, though decisively, took America in. If Father had not done this, America would have gone down terribly. America is now holding onto the thread of hope because of the Unification Church members. Look at Korea and Japan, two enemy countries, along with America-Japan and America-Germany. They all are enemy countries. All these countries had failed God. But Reverend Moon took these enemies and worked the restoration. How difficult and impossible this was. God and Father had to work to their utmost capacity to bring it about.

Father sent missionaries out to the world from Japan, America and Germany. Father told the missionaries to unite, no matter what. If they had done so, each country would have been restored much faster. You know what happened to these missionaries. The Japanese said, "I have been in the church the longest, so you must follow me." The Americans said, "No, be realistic. America is the center now." Look at Germany, they would never let themselves be outdone. "Even though we are the third, look at our technology, we are a nation of excellence." There was incredible fighting; they made as much noise as the satanic world, not any different. Father understood well; he got the remnants, so that's what results. Satan took the best.

Americans said, "Why do we need the Koreans and the Japanese? Why is America the archangel nation?" This is not just Father's interpretation; America speaks for itself. Free sex and homosexuality are not the traits of Adam and Eve, but of the archangel. Angels are not allowed to have a spouse. Since they are not allowed a woman, they take men, in great numbers. Also, individual ownership is highly questionable in God's eyes. America's wealth is for the world. If Americans try to keep it for themselves, they will decline.

It is very simple, and not only for America. Look at the Roman Empire. The Israelites considered themselves to be the chosen nation, and thought that when God brings victory all the world would come under them and worship them. It never occurred to them that God would sacrifice them to restore the whole world. Look at the British Empire; there was a time when the sun never set on England's territories. They thought that they should be worshiped and respected by the whole world. It didn't happen that way. America is the same. Americans don't think that America is for the world.

America is the only Abel country. The Catholic countries are in Cain's position. America is the only independent Protestant country. If Americans think that the world is for them, then America will suffer. Look at ourselves. If, as Father goes higher and higher, we think everyone should come and worship us, then the Unification Church will suffer the same fate. Do not think, "Oh, I'm an early blessed couple and everyone should take care of me." Do not think that now that you are blessed, God is going to live with you. No; you are blessed for a reason. It is so that God can accomplish restoration through you. We must attend God, not settle down and think, "I am the center of the universe." That is not God's heart. God's heart is that if He muse, He will sacrifice us to restore the entire world. When Father sent us to be Tribal Messiahs, his idea was not that we stay in a high place and be respected and supported. Father's idea is for us to become a servant and go and save the world. The Tribal Messiah's position is the same as Jesus' position. If we become more and more comfortable, we will decline.

The Way of the Messiah

In "The Reappearance of the Second Coming," what does reappearance mean? The Lord of the Second Advent was to appear in 1945, but since that foundation was lost, he must reappear now. From 1945 to 1952 was seven years, and from 1952 to 1992 was forty years, during which time Father re-indemnified everything. Why 40 years? Father has to restore the 4,000 years of Israelite and Christian history. But Father cannot live 4,000 years or even 400 years, so his only option was to do it in 40 years. Within this mere 40 years, Father re-indemnified the entire 4,000 years of the Old and New Testament eras. All realms of individuals, families, tribes and nations and the whole world itself opposed Father. God and Father were chased out into the wilderness, and they now have climbed up each wall inch by inch and have pulled down each wall of the eight stages, from the individual wall to cosmic wall.

Reverend Moon went straight, taking no detours. Until now, all American members did not want to put the Unification Church out front. But that is not what God wants. When we fight, we must proclaim. The Unification Church developed because we did not hide our name. How can God help us if we hide our name? We should be the same as David proclaiming his name before Goliath. When Father went to prison he said, "I am the head of the Unification Church." Until now all the Unification Church leaders did not disclose that they are Unification Church members. The way we conducted ourselves was as losers. Father did all the fighting, and without Father's effort we would not be here. We have to repent deeply at this time for what we owe to Father.

Father proclaimed the messiahship, not to ignorant people, but to people of the top status in the world. We must now teach simply: the Messiah is here; we must follow him to prosper We see that this morning's teaching cannot be rivaled by even 100 scholars. So we can only imagine the painful, miserable experiences Father had in his career. Although we can only imagine, we should imagine it. We are going against Father if we do not proclaim our identity. Consider all the indemnity that was paid throughout history, and compare that to Father's 40 years of suffering and intense pain.

How much easier is it to go the way of God after learning and knowing everything there is to know through Father? We don't have to zig-zag; we don't have to fumble or struggle; all we have to do is, with this clear knowledge, follow the way of righteousness, which is God's way. Imagine the past, when God tried to do something centering on some person, and that person didn't know, and God was not allowed to teach him. It was very difficult for God to work through him, and so he failed, and God had to pick up another one, and another one. Look at Father. Father figured out all these things by himself, so he made it extremely easy for God to work.

In the ordinary tempo of God's providence, to go over this stage as Father has would have taken hundreds of years, but look at what Father did. Within 40 years he has done it all, and it was never easy. There were hundreds of times more Cains than appeared in prior history, and Father had to go through it all, because Father knew the Principle. We all know the Divine Principle, thanks to Father; we didn't pay the price but we were given it. Therefore we can pass over what would otherwise take us 10,000 without any problem, in the spirit world. With what we know, we can pass over thousands of years of time in the spirit world with one jump.

To some of us, this still may sound conceptual. If it does, you have to repent, because, conceptual as it may seem, Father lives based upon Divine Principle, betting his life with such pain, and moves on to actually accomplish in deed. It is as if we were in Africa, surrounded by countless raw diamonds, everywhere so common and easy to pick up that we see no value in them. Father, however, has an educated mind, and he sees what is a diamond, and he knows what is only glass. That is the analogy; that is the difference between Father and us. Divine Principle: we must begin to know how important it is. Father knows, because he worked for it. We must feel a strong impact this morning concerning the necessity that we understand Divine Principle and how it came to be.

There were eight stages, and Father won the victory on each of them. Twenty one years of Father's 40 years of indemnity took place here in America. He brought enemies of America to America -- Japanese and Germans -- and made them all contribute to America. He did this even though America was not deserving in God's eyes. America failed God so miserably, so God did not even want to look at America again. America was in that situation. Especially this is true of the Christian churches of America. Father took responsibility for them again. Knowing how miserable they are, still Father steadfastly put everything he had into them for 20 years.

Even though Father did that, American Christian leaders and Christian leaders all over the world say they cannot see how the world can keep going in the future. They have no hope, no perspective. This is America's situation, completely confused. From now on, how can America lead the world? America doesn't have the vision. Who has it? Reverend Moon. Therefore, the way for the Christian churches in America to survive from now is to follow the Unification Church. The Unification Church explains the meaning of the entire Bible, solving its problems and explaining it completely and clearly. Many American Christian people will turn completely around and begin moving in a new direction just by hearing the Divine Principle one time. We have that strong power in the Divine Principle. Do you understand? (Yes, yes!) Powerful, powerful.

People of any intelligence will turn around completely by connecting with Divine Principle and Reverend Moon's thought one time. Look at the communist world leaders; through a 4 or 5 day training course they completely turn to God's side. It's no problem. Now look at the youth of the former Soviet world. They have completely come to Reverend Moon's side. Until now, American young people have been against me, saying, "How about that Reverend Moon; he is a heretic, we don't like what he is doing." It is so miserable that the younger generation has been going that way. But there is hope, l believe. We have brought students, even from famous universities, to Moscow, where they could study Divine Principle for two weeks with Soviet students teaching these Ivy League students. Do you understand? How shameful the American situation is! You should continue to develop that strategy now.

So Father has fought against the evils of America and won, and fought against communism and won; he fought against Kim Il Sung and won. He won all the victories, and the necessary foundation is coming back to his own family. You must know that from this point on, for a long time, wherever we go, there is no one who has any legitimate basis to come against Reverend Moon or us. No one can intelligently deny this; neither the scholarly world nor the economic world, nor the political world. They have no vision. Reverend Moon is the only one who can provide vision to the political world, without which the political world cannot continue meaningfully. The same is true for the religious world; there is no world which can survive without Reverend Moon's teaching.

In the beginning, many years ago, Father went down to Washington. At that time, they did not believe in Father, because they did not understand what Father was teaching, and they still thought they were higher beings than Father. But today, it's completely different. When Father goes to Washington, they meet Father in a different way. They talk about Reverend Moon being there; the word gets around very quickly. If Reverend Moon is not that important, why do they bother to talk about him like that? Japan, Russia, anywhere Reverend Moon goes, people's eyes open up and they become very attentive. It is the same in China and also North Korea -- Mother eventually will go to North Korea and deliver a speech. (Applause.)

The mass wedding of 30,000 couples has made a great impact in many different areas, because all parents, no matter which country or cultural background, know that children are very difficult to influence and control, that they will never listen to parents. But here, Reverend Moon gives the blessing to 30,000 couples at one time, accomplishing it all within a few days. That speaks millions of words to them; they realize, "Oh, so that's the power of Reverend Moon." No religious leader nor the president of any nation can accomplish such a feat; it's unheard of. Not even Kim Il Sung, who is the greatest and most efficient dictator, can make anyone listen to him like that. And Father is no dictator the 30,000 couples came to Korea and went through marriage enthusiastically and joyfully, of their own will. (Applause.) In the next three years we will reach Father's goal of 360,000 couples. Then we perhaps don't need to do so much; the world will pretty much take care of itself.

On another track, each country has its own national religion. Some South American countries are Catholic; everyone follows their national religion. If Unificationism is adopted as a national religion and Russia is one country seriously contemplating this -- that's all; it is finished. It could be more like 3,600,000 couples, all at one time. Where can the young people who are searching for meaning and truth go, except to the Unification Church? Everyone should at least poke their head into the Unification Church and see what we are doing. And those who are serious about marriage must peek into the Unification Church at some time or other. Once they do, they find the place of eternal value, in marriage as well as in all other aspects of life. (Applause.)

We are on the way to the unified world. We tend to think that we must keep working like this for another hundred years. No, the unified world is quite within our vision now; it is very near, much nearer than we think. And Father created this under such opposition, but today there is not so much opposition. l blessed many couples, thousands of couples from all over the world, creating the world foun- dation. Father is only a man with one family, and he made this foun- dation over the span of 40 years. How long did it take Father to make this foundation all over the world? Not so long. Do you understand? It has not been so long! I am welcomed everywhere now.

This is not a concept; it is reality. The historical age which Father envisioned as a concept is now reality. Now, look everywhere; it is reality. Father is talking about something not so far away; it is close, next door. That concept is actualized as concrete activity tak- ing place in reality. How far away is the unified world? Not so far. Look everywhere. Satan's world is falling down; it has completely no hope, it is falling, falling, becoming old, everywhere. Satan's world is completely ending on the earth; God's world is the destination and final hope. Do you follow me? (Yes!)

So, after crossing victoriously over the pinnacle of the world, the country and the clan, now Father comes back to the family. Where is the ultimate solution of this entangled, complicated, fallen history? It is not in the country; it comes down to the individual's mind and body, to the individual and the family. This is the key position to solve, because Adam fell within the family. So now. as Father has said over and over, the time of witnessing only to individuals is obsolete; we must witness on the family level, to entire families. Until now, throughout history, it was very difficult to move from the family to the clan, and from the clan to the nation, and so forth. But now all the walls have come down; Father brought them down. So, God can travel without restriction with Father and with his family. We are going back to the family, and restoring families, not individuals. Therefore we go home for tribal messiahship.

Compare this with Jesus 2,000 years ago ascending to heaven. Now, 2,000 years later, at the second advent, the Lord of the Second Advent as the True Parents will bring in and restore hundreds of thousands and even millions of families on the horizontal level. Of course, we have been proceeding in such a way that our goal is the restoration of the world, but you don't have to tackle the world problems, those are far too big. All you have to do is pay attention to your own clan. Then you will inherit the right of influence based upon Father's victory over the nation and world. The key to the victory is with Father. So Father is the victor on all levels: the Adam kingdom, family kingdom, national kingdom and world kingdom. All we need to do is mind our own clan and bring our own clan, then the restoration of the world will be accomplished.

Here is the analogy: Father not only restored the historical failures of humanity, but made the complete foundation intact. It is a good tree, with perfected roots, but the tree has no branches or twigs. The center root, center trunk and center bud all are connected to Father, so all we need to do is create lots of branches and twigs. These form the complete mainstream -- the center root, trunk, branch and center bud. By this analogy, all we need to do is add the branches. This is a perfect tree. Do you follow? Once we connect, then everybody will res- urrect. All which was created for tens of thousands of years around the world will in a short time resurrect and be living again.

Our Mission Is To Proclaim the Messiah

So after he reappears, the Lord of the Second Advent will find again Eve's nation, Cain's nation and Abel's nation. England, France and Italy are enemies to each other; Father will restore this. For the first time in history, these enemy nations will come to America, help America and make America more united. Such a thing has never been witnessed before in history. Never before have we seen countries saving an enemy country, as these countries have come to save America.

Therefore, America now stands with the precious chance to restore everything which they were to have done, but failed in the past, not only once but twice. Now America can be restored and continue to prosper. We know the USA movement, United to Serve America, and the Women's Federation for World Peace. America is the representative of the Christian civilization realm; it is the bride's country and bride's religion. We have all often heard that Christianity is the religion in the position of the bride who is to meet the bridegroom. That bridegroom is the Lord of the Second Advent who is to come. They had one chance to meet the groom, but they failed. But now the time has come around and they are in the position to meet him again, and they had better succeed this time.

By Americans doing that, they restore the mission which they failed, to serve for the sake of the whole world. By successfully completing their mission now, and by continuing to work for the sake of the world, they are made alive again. Now is their second chance. So America had better realize the real meaning and value of the Unification Church, and they will, too, centering on True Mother. She recreates or reestablishes the foundation which God realized in 1945 at the victorious end of World War II, centering on America. It failed, but now it is arranged again. The whole world now is in position to get in touch directly with Reverend Moon. Until now, Mother has been following Father like a shadow. Now, the whole world is in the perfect place and time to meet the groom; all brides are about to meet the groom. We are in that time identity. Now Mother is in the position to stand with Father, not following, not just tagging along, but with an equal foundation. Therefore, Father established the Women's Federation for World Peace and proclaimed the equality of women and the liberation of women. During this time, from 1952 for forty years until 1992, Mother has made the entire unified foundation to reach out to the whole world, like Father.

It seems like a casual thing, as if Father could say at any time, "Liberation of women." But the proclamation of the liberation of is the same foundation the Christians lost 40 years ago, and only after restoring that can women successfully meet the bridegroom. Meeting the bridegroom successfully qualifies women to be liberated. That's the position which Father is mentioning as having been established.

Father prayed for the seven main nations in God's providence, Korea, Japan, America, Germany, Italy, England and France, continuously for 40 years. This phase of the dispensation is what Mother undertook, giving speeches in the seven nations, and doing restoration work centering on the seven nations. The religion of the bride failed at the task of engrafting, but now Mother is restoring this failure. She has visited the seven nations, and now she engrafts again and makes the complete foundation which the successful bride's religion should have accomplished. Only after Mother accomplished that could the liberation of women take place. (Applause.)

After World War II, all the brides were ready to meet the groom. Now we are back in that position. They are approaching the groom. Wherever Mother went, she was welcomed. The women of each country knew the position they are in. This includes the communist countries of Russia, China and, by March, North Korea. Mother will be going there and delivering the speech about God. The founding rally was April 10, 1992, and within one year's time, by the end of March, 1993, Mother will accomplish the historically successful completion of this mission. She will re-graft that for which humanity lost the chance in 1945.

Now we can go back and proclaim the Messiahship in our own tribe and in our own home. We shout it out and speak it more frequently than we have eaten in our past lifetime. More than we moved our mouths to chew food, we should speak the proclamation this time. Father wants us to move our mouths. It is not your own life about which Father is concerned, but the hundreds of thousands of lives which must be saved through you. Of course, by doing that, we will live, too.

Talk and talk, even in your sleep, talk about the Messiah and the proclamation of True Parents. We will record on tape that we must believe in the Messiah and meet the Messiah before we can live again; otherwise we will perish. We pray that over and over again, continuously throughout all 24 hours. "They say there is a new Messiah coming: find out about it!" It is the True Parents. "TP," and the True Nation, "TN." To understand the possibility of saving the nation, we must understand about our parents. This is synonymous: the reappearance of the Lord of the Second Advent means that now he has completed the perfection of his family. The new era follows automatically.

The new family, actually, the family of Adam in the Garden of Eden, would have begun and continued directly into Heaven, but that did not happen. Now the new family appears, the original, completed, perfected family appears, and now begins the new era. We can call this the Completed Testament Age on the world level. Do you follow? (Yes.) As we can well imagine, Satan is getting more and more numb. He is witnessing the beginning of mass numbers of blessed families. We can have 36 million, even 360 million; Father does not mind. The fallen world is now erased, the restored world is now complete; this means there is 180 degrees difference now from the past, and wherever we go there is heaven. First, we have to quickly transfer lineage, transfer ownership and transfer the realm of heart from that of Satan into that of God.

True love is the key foundation. Through true love we live for the sake of others rather than for the sake of self. In the satanic world, everyone lives for the sake of "me." Is that 180 degrees the same or different from us? (Different.) We live for the sake of whom? (Others.) Living for the sake of others means that the family lives for the clan, and for the race, which has hundreds of thousands of families in it, and for the nation, which has a lot of races in it, and for the world, which has a lot of nations in it, and therefore millions and millions of families in it. So families sacrifice for the sake of the clan; the clan sacrifices for the sake of the race and country, and the race and country sacrifice for the sake of the world. In that way, the smaller one will sacrifice for the larger objective in God.

All the spirit world will practice this, without exception; since we practice it here, they naturally practice it there. Thus, everywhere we go it is our domain, because it is God's domain. Would you American blessed couples like Father to visit your blessed home? (Yes.) To visit or to stay? (Stay.) Why? (Because we love you.) Yes, because you love Father, but how did you come to love him? You're that good. It is because Father loved you so much. With or without us knowing, Father opened up our way, not only the individual way, but the family way, and even the clan's way and nation's way. God loved the world, and so He gave the Messiah. The Messiah is necessary for me, and for us, on earth and in the spirit world. So we are all going in one direction.

We passed beyond the New Testament, because the wall of Tribal Messiahship has been surmounted, and now is the time that we can reach out. The era of the Completed Testament means that without further indemnity of any kind, Father can send out the Tribal Messiahs. Then every person and family can return to God, return to the Kingdom of Heaven, and partake in the kingship of the Kingdom of God, by becoming one with a Tribal Messiah. It's a wondrous thing which is happening. Everyone in our home can be restored and connected to the Kingdom of Heaven; even our physical parents, who gave birth to us physically but still remain in the fallen world, can be connected to God Himself instantaneously. Everywhere we go we can make this happen, without indemnity.

Now, God no longer is restricted in His freedom to appear; God can go anywhere, following Tribal Messiahs. God can go and God can come; this never happened before in history. For the first time since God created Adam's family, God can live in there, He can stay there if He wishes; He can go somewhere else if He wants to; He can travel as much as He will, to any country. With all the different Tribal Messiahs, He can do the same. That means He can go everywhere, in and out, as He pleases; He can dominate with absolute love and put everything under His dominion.

God is everywhere now, so everywhere cannot help but become the Kingdom of Heaven. The unified world, centering on God, can connect on every level: the unified family level, unified nation, unified world and unified cosmos level. Do you understand? God can go back freely through that point of connection. Until now, Satan made many walls, protecting his own world. Now we can tear the walls down, all over the world, tear them down and be completely free. Centering on the Tribal Messiahs connecting to their tribes, all families will connect after God goes everywhere. Every family and every individual will connect, everywhere. That is the original ideal of God on the earth. Now He is forming the body of a complete nation. How wonderful an age we are living in now! Amen! (Amen! Applause.)

The main thing is that we now can live with God, freely. There are four realms of heart and three kingships. How can we create the family? This is the blessed couples' family mission. This is the last terminal, our destination. So it is clear. This can connect with God everywhere, from the individual foundation, to the family and all over the world, in heaven, too. This is the completion of liberation.

Those who can create the brilliant blessed families in the new age of the Completed Testament, raise your hands. It is no problem, and you understand clearly now. (Yes.) Once you understand, making it happen is no problem. That is your mission; not Father's mission. (Yes! ) Until now, God was helping you and Father was helping you. Now you understand, and so you can do it, no problem. You don't need God, you don't need. . . (Laughter.) It's true! Liberate God and True Parents. Do you understand? (Yes!) Clear, clear.

Col. Han prays:

The Women's Federation rallies are completed in all the states, are they not? (Yes. ) Mrs. Spurgin, we must begin from the state level. After we do the states, we come down lower and lower, to the county level and to the actual physical family level. In the family there are the father and children. Man is in the archangel's position, and so Father and the children should become one. We have our True Mother, and the children, Cain and Abel, return to the mother's womb and then eventually become one with Father. With this condition, then, Father has new, original sons and daughters, namely us. Finally, we must come back to where we are. We must first become one with the True Mother, then we come to Father, and then we return to where we are.

We must return to the position where we are reborn in the position correlative to Father's own physical children. Obviously it is not possible physically, but conditionally it is possible, and God will accept the condition, based upon true love. It is just like we are returning into Father's body before being conceived as a fetus. Do you understand? We've got to travel back and return. Then we will have connected with true love. It is like electricity from a generator, traveling around a circuit, going back and completing the cycle. One time we have to do that. That is the true meaning of "to be born again" in true love and True Father.

Later on the wife and children will come to obey the husband. This must happen before we really can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So, this will be the predominant pattern in the Unification Church in the future: centering on the mother, the children will become one and eventually come to the father and return. So the family is the unit, not the individual. Be blessed, then go into Tribal Messiahship, connect them back to the mother as children, and return to the father. So, True Mother is the real entity of the Holy Spirit, but she is not a spirit, she is a physical mother.

It is the time for all of us to be able to live on the face of the earth. As Father has said repeatedly, it is not strange, yet wondrous, that even Premier and Mrs. Deng's son, and the second generation in China, all like Father. No one taught them; no one told them to do that. And Kim Il Sung's son is no exception. It is all due to the Principle. Women should not rest, even though you worked hard until now. Until now, the man played the key role in the dispensational recovery, but now is the time of the woman's role, which is much more important. The men took the rule of the world, and always they messed things up. Now it is up to the women, by Principle, to really start working and make it a successful world. Once we become one with Father, we can do it; the women will become successful. This is the real solution to the world's problems. Divine Principle points in one direction; everything is consistent.

Unification begins within each one of us, in the mind and body relationship. Upon Unification faith can come peace, happiness and freedom. American Unificationists should know that. Freedom with mind and body -- with what kind of freedom can we make the foundation of freedom? The mind and body have to unite. The problem is "me." The ideal world is the unification world. You will get freedom and peace in the ideal world. The Unification Church should be teaching that to all people.