My
fellow co-workers and women members! I am very happy and
honored to stand before you as President of the Women's
Federation for World Peace today.
Let me
express my deep appreciation to all of you members and
supporters who prepared this rally today.
Today,
I would like to speak to you on the subject of "The
Central Role of Women in the Ideal World."
If
someone asked you whether our world today is good or
evil, what would you answer? Without a doubt, you would
answer that it is evil. But it is not just the world of
this age that is evil; we cannot help but say that all
the ages of the past and all the nations and the world
were evil. Therefore, our world has been one in which
sin continues to grow more than good deeds, war more
than peace, immorality more than righteousness, hatred
more than love, and division and discord more than
unification and harmony.
No one
wants this kind of evil world. Therefore, we cannot help
but investigate how we can establish an ideal world of
true love overflowing with peace, freedom and happiness
and clear up this world of evil. What all individuals
and leaders of the family, tribe, race, nation and world
desire as well must be the establishment of a world
overflowing with freedom and happiness. Since the
beginning of human history, for thousands of years,
humanity has been struggling toward this kind of ideal
and dream, but we have not yet established the ideal
world we desire.
Today,
I would like to reveal to you the fundamental cause of
these problems. In addition, I intend to present the
solution which will make it possible to realize the
ideal world which people have desired so much. This is
not content which comes from human speculation or
wisdom. As you already know, my husband, the Reverend
Sun Myung Moon, has devoted his entire life to solving
these problems. During the time I have lived supporting
my husband, I have been moved and inspired beyond words
by his teachings and by his life of love for God and
humanity.
Be
Fruitful, Multiply and Fill the Earth
If a
wife, as she lives supporting her husband, gains deep
insights into the truth and is continuously moved and
inspired by his life and character, this is an
occurrence which should be revealed to the world. Why?
Because the fundamental reason for this world becoming
an evil world where sexual license, criminal activity,
conflicts and corruption are rampant is the breakdown
and disharmony in the basic relationship between
husband, wife and children.
At
present, over five billion people are living on the
earth, but if we look at it in another way, only two
people are living here. We could say that a man and a
woman, a husband and a wife, only two people, are living
here. Countless numbers of people are living together
and there are all kinds of relationships and problems,
but at the core of all of those problems are the
problems and relationships between two people, a man and
a woman. When we look at things in this light, it
becomes important for us to investigate the way of
heaven that man and woman were to go when God created
the first ancestors.
In
Genesis it is recorded that after God had created the
heavens and the earth, He created the ancestors of
humankind: a man, Adam, and a woman, Eve. At the same
time that He gave them the three great blessings, and He
gave them a portion of responsibility. The three great
blessings were: "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the
earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every
living thing...." But to the man and woman He also gave
the responsibility: ". . . but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. . ."
This
teaches us the purpose for which God created the
universe and humanity, and also shows us the basis for
life. The blessing to be fruitful means that all people
born on the earth must grow to be people of perfected
character. The second blessing of life, to multiply,
means that, as a man and a woman with a perfected
character, they must establish the bond of husband and
wife, give birth to children, and raise them. God's
purpose of creation is, as a husband and wife fulfilling
their duty as father and mother leading a family, they
should construct a far more comfortable, prosperous
world and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
This
purpose of creation was to be realized if the first
ancestors had obeyed God's commandment, ". . . but of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not
eat...." But before the first ancestors, Adam and Eve,
were perfect, while they were still immature, they did
not keep God's commandment; because of Satan, they fell,
and all humanity became the recipients of an evil blood
lineage.
Due to
the Immoral Fall of the Original Human Ancestors,
Humankind Has Lost the Purpose of Creation
Ladies!
What is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil that God told the original ancestors, Adam and Eve,
not to eat? It is not the real fruit of a tree. It is a
way of expressing the husband and wife love relationship
that the first ancestors were to have in the future. Due
to the temptation of a third being, while still in an
imperfect state, the first man and woman entered into an
immoral sexual relationship. Actually, in the Garden of
Eden, the third party besides Adam and Eve was the
archangel. In the Bible it is revealed that Lucifer was
the archangel who tempted Eve and committed an immoral
sexual sin. This was the fall of man, the original sin
which planted the root of sin in the world.
Man
committed the sexual sin before his Father God, the Lord
and Master of heaven and earth, and the first ancestors
had children out of this immoral love; and the world of
evil was realized. In other words, they married centered
on Satan and by planting false love, false life and a
false lineage they became ancestors of evil.
As
human society expanded from the individual, family,
tribe, race, and nation to the world level, due to this
immoral relationship between man and woman, the root of
the evil blood lineage was established everywhere, at
all times, and this world became hell on earth: it
became a false world filled with sin, war and fear. The
fallen ancestors, Adam and Eve, should have established
the position of True Parents as the eternal good
ancestors of humanity, but they fell to become false
parents leaving a blood lineage of evil.
This is
the first cause of all the tragedy and misery of
humankind. What could be more tragic or cause greater
indignation than becoming the descendants of false
parents and all humankind losing their True Parents? And
how great must be the suffering and sorrow of God, the
Father of humanity, whose purpose of creation, to
establish the true ancestors of humankind and to
multiply people of goodness, was stolen by the blood
lineage of sin through the immoral fall of the first
human ancestors.
Just as
the cause of a disease must be discovered and treated in
order to save a person suffering from it, in order to
liberate human society from the suffering of such sin
and misery, the fundamental cause of this sin and misery
must be revealed and corrected. The fundamental cause is
the fall of the human ancestors, the original sin.
Accordingly, unless the cause of the disease called
original sin is eliminated, we cannot pull up the root
of misery and sin from the world. No matter how many
great men, heroes, scholars, politicians or philosophers
appear and try to straighten out the world through the
reform of the laws and systems or through the education
of moral principles, unless the original sin and the
content of the fall is clarified, it will be impossible.
All remedies will prove useless. That is because the
original root of sin and misery is still alive, and it
will continue to sprout buds.
The
Role of Religion:
The Salvation of Humankind from Evil
Religion teaches the fact that man fell, it reveals the
contents of the fall, and directly and indirectly shows
God's providence through which He seeks to save man
completely from sin. Therefore all religions are the
most active prescriptions for saving the sinful world.
Religion is the fount of all education or teachings. The
teachings of the four great saints Confucius, Buddha,
Jesus and Mohammed and the teachings of the founders of
other religions transcended their ages and locations and
have preserved the conscience and morals of humanity,
and have been the generative powers of cultural
development. Accordingly, all religions seeking to
liquidate the world of evil and to establish the ideal
world which God and people desire are co-workers and
collaborators.
Among
them, the scriptures through which God most directly
revealed His providence of salvation is the Bible.
Through the Bible we can know that the ancestors of
humanity, Adam and Eve, committed the original sin and
became false parents, and that God's work in the
providence of salvation is to restore the lost purpose
of creation. The main point of the message of the Bible
is that in order to give rebirth to all, the Messiah or
the True Parents must come in place of Adam and Eve who
became false parents. Adam should have become the true
father, and Eve should have become the true mother; that
was the purpose of the original creation. In order to
restore the purpose of creation back to its original
state, God cannot help but carry out the providence for
the recreation of Adam.
That is
the main point of the providence of preparing the chosen
nation of Israel and having Jesus born there. From the
time Adam and Eve fell and humanity multiplied with its
blood lineage centered on Satan, God immediately began
working to separate the blood lineages of goodness and
evil. From Adam's family, God separated the second son,
Abel, who was in a position to relate to God, and the
first son, Cain, was in a position to relate to Satan.
He sought to restore the order of the creation to its
original state by having Cain yield to Abel of his own
accord. Through Cain's murder of Abel, the history of
struggle to separate good and evil was extended for a
long time.
The
Mission of Jesus who Came as the True Father
After
Noah, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob through the help of his
mother, was able to make his elder twin, Esau, yield of
his own accord. Jacob took a decisive role in the
establishment of the chosen people of Israel. Jacob's
son, Judah, had twins Perez and Zerah through his
daughter-in-law, Tamar. Perez struggled with Zerah
inside Tamar's womb and, pushed Zerah aside, who was
supposed to be born first. Instead Perez was born first
as the elder brother. The battle of the first and second
born is the battle of good and evil. Thus, when the
younger brother won over the elder brother while still
in the womb and was born as the first son, this achieved
restoration within the womb.
Jesus
Christ, who came as the Messiah forty generations later,
was born from the lineage of Perez, because of this
restoration within the womb. Conceiving and giving birth
to Jesus was an act of extraordinary devotion and risk
in which Jesus' mother, Mary, put her life on the line.
Because God's providence of salvation is the providence
of restoration, God had to carry out a providence to cut
the blood lineage of sin. This sin has been transmitted
from generation to generation because the ancestors,
Adam and Eve, had an immoral sexual relationship due to
the temptation of Lucifer, the archangel, who became
Satan.
This
course from Cain and Abel until Jesus was born is the
history of the chosen nation of Israel. Due to the fall,
Adam fell to the position of a false father.
Accordingly, following the course of restoration of the
struggle to separate good and evil, Jesus came as the
true father of humanity, that is, as the good second
ancestor of humankind. Because of that, Jesus had to
restore as his complement a woman in the position of
Eve, and they had to become a couple, have children and
take dominion over creation. This was the purpose for
which Jesus came as the Messiah.
Thus
Jesus came as the Messiah to restore the three great
blessings which God gave to Adam and Eve: be fruitful,
multiply and have dominion over all the creation.
However, Jesus, who came as their father and Messiah,
was crucified by mankind. What an incredibly unfilial
act! What a horrendous sin! Jesus who died on the cross
promised that he would come again to the earth, that he
would come as a bridegroom, and that all people on the
earth should prepare themselves as brides and be ready.
In Revelation. Chapter 19, it is recorded that Jesus
returns to the earth and holds the Marriage of the Lamb.
This refers to the restoration of the position of the
true couple and the True
The
Messiah Reveals the Path of the
True Parents, the True Couple and True Children
Members
and women co-workers! How can we straighten out this
society in which all kinds of sexual sin, immorality and
corruption are destroying our families? It will bring a
destruction like Sodom and Gomorrah's upon itself. The
fire of judgment has already begun to fall. The
frightening disease, AIDS, is a warning from heaven
against the chaos of sexual immorality.
Jesus
said he would come again in the Last Days of this evil
world. The returning Jesus will come as True Father of
humankind. He will show the way of the True Children,
the True Couple, and the way of the True Parents which
all men and women must go. Only in this way can the
problem of sexual corruption, the original sin, be
fundamentally solved. This will be the true gospel which
will save humankind from the world of sin.
The
mission of the Messiah, the Savior, is to teach the way
to end the tangled history of sin created when humanity
lost the way of the True Parents, the True Couple and
the True Children.
Today,
in this place, I proclaim to the whole world that my
husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, has devoted his
entire life to pioneering this path of the Messiah, the
True Parents. As you well know, my husband Reverend Moon
has revealed the purpose of the creation of God, and
through examining the original sin committed by the
first ancestors he has pioneered the future of humanity
despite the brutal opposition and persecution of this
evil world.
According to the Divine Principle, the teaching of my
husband, each major religion is awaiting the return of
its founder in some form: the Maitreya, the True Man,
the new Confucius and the return of Jesus will be
fulfilled by the return of one Messiah, the return of
the True Parent of humankind. All religions will be
united into one. That Messiah, the True Parent who
comes, will not be the same Jesus who died 2000 years
ago, as some Christians believe, nor will he come on the
clouds in the air; rather, a new person who has
inherited the mission of Jesus is to be born on the
earth. The country in which that person is born is the
nation of Korea; however surprising it may be, the fact
is that the Messiah, who is the True Parent of
humankind, comes as a Korean.
Unification is the Key to World Peace
When
will the Messiah who is coming in this way appear?
According to the Divine Principle, the Last Days are the
time when this evil world comes to an end, and the
Messiah is to return. Briefly, the Last Days are from
the end of the first World War to the year 2000 -- a
period of about eighty years. During this period the
Lord of the Second Advent, who is the True Parent of
humankind, is to be born in our land of Korea. This is
the worldwide historical age of transition when the Lord
of the Second Advent is building the ideal out of the
world filled with sin, war and struggle.
Therefore, this era is an age of great chaos with the
confrontation and struggle between goodness and evil
occurring in the mutual relationships of all parts of
the world: the individual, family, tribe, race, nation
and the world.
The
Realization of World Peace Through the Power of Women
Women
leaders! What I am telling you today is not only for the
Unification Church members who are following my husband.
Now leaders from every level of society, in more than
160 nations, and many thousands of young people, are
following this teaching and shedding sweat to build a
new unified world overflowing with freedom and peace.
Already Korea is being looked to by many people from all
over the world as the country to which the True Parents
of humankind have come, and the number of foreigners who
are visiting Korea to learn the Korean language, culture
and manners is rapidly increasing.
Our
Women's Federation for World Peace has the fundamental
remedy to save our families which are threatened by the
present day reality of the degeneration of sexual
morality, the proliferation of drugs and all sorts of
wantonness and sexual corruption. This is a worldwide
women's organization which was founded last April 10, in
Seoul Olympic Stadium with 150,000 Korean women,
including representatives from 72 countries. We cannot
wait any longer to save the society of tomorrow, which
is rotting with all kinds of immorality and corruption,
and the fallen social climate where men have oppressed
women.
Finally
we must endeavor to learn and practice the duty of the
True Parents, the true spouse and the true child.
Through the organization of the Family Federation for
World Peace, we must make sure that immorality and
corruption will not be able to set foot anywhere in this
world. In this way, humankind must cleanse the evil
blood lineage and suffering which was caused by the
original sin of fornication committed in the Garden of
Eden, which has lasted until today, and quickly prepare
to meet the new world.
Until
now everyone has been helpless to stop the wantonness
and immorality which has been destroying humankind. But
now a new truth which can completely solve these
problems has appeared in Korea in the very age in which
we are living. The truth which was revealed by the True
Parents will be the light which will bring about the
unification of North and South Korea and build a world
of peace and happiness. Let us learn this new truth and
rise up and become women soldiers who will end this
world of sin, which has caused us to suffer since the
beginning of history. Let us build a unified world
overflowing with freedom, peace and happiness.
Let us
go the way of the True Mother. Let us go the way of the
true wife. Let us go the way of the true daughter. Thank
you very much.
