Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon
Honored
Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I want
to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for coming here
today. I am truly moved to see so many of you committed
to building a peaceful world.
As we
all know, our world today is not a world of peace and
happiness but a world filled with conflict and despair.
We are confronted with the breakdown of our families and
the moral decline of our society.
We have
become a nation of talk shows. We debate the issues over
and over again and yet find no solutions. Why is this?
This is because a true solution must include God and
deal with the root of the problem and not just the
symptoms. To find this root, we must first understand
God's purpose of creation and realize that we, today,
face the most important turning point in the history of
God's providence.
At this
crucial time, God asked my husband, the Reverend Sun
Myung Moon, to bring a new revelation to the American
people. My husband, accordingly, just delivered this new
message of hope in 12 major cities across America. Now,
I would like to give you this same message, entitled
"True Parents and the Completed Testament Age."
God's
Original Ideal
God's
ideal in creating the first human ancestors, Adam and
Eve, was that they perfect themselves through true love
so that they could then create a good family of true
love, true life, and true lineage. Such a good family
would have been formed on the basis of unified heart and
mind among family members in front of God.
When
God created Adam and Eve, His first son and daughter,
God wanted them to be better than Himself. Traditional
thinking would say that this is absurd. But please take
a moment to think about this. When we as parents look
into the faces of our children, we wish upon them an
infinite amount of love and hope. We want them to grow
and achieve things we ourselves only dreamed of.
Similarly, God wants to give limitlessly to His
children. God is not content in giving just 100 percent.
God's desire is to give a thousand times more than what
He has. The nature of God's Love is to give completely
and then forget what He has given. Unlike some who
calculate how much they have given and decide that it is
enough, for God enough is never enough.
Moreover, God's purpose in creating the world was to
have an object of love. His purpose in creating parents
and children, husbands and wives, and all things in this
world in complementary pairs was to substantiate true
love throughout His creation. Likewise, parents are to
live for their children, and children for their parents.
Husbands are to live for their wives, and wives for
their husbands. All beings in creation are to live for
and give to others.
If
God's ideal of true love had been realized through
Adam's family, that family would have become the
beginning of the heavenly kingdom. It would have
expanded throughout all of history to the clan, to the
nation, and to the world. This would have been the world
of true love~the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
Furthermore, there would have been a parallel expansion
of the heavenly kingdom in the spiritual world.
Human
History's False Start
If
God's original ideal had been realized, then there would
have been no need of a Messiah or of God's providence to
save humanity. Adam's family, though it was merely a
single family, would have been the center of the clan,
of the nation, and of the world. It would have been the
blueprint for all families in the future. It would have
been the model for the realization of God's ideal world.
Because
of the fall of the original human ancestors, God's work
of salvation had to begin. Salvation history had to be
repeatedly extended through the complicated and
suffering courses of the Old Testament Age and the New
Testament Age, culminating in today's Completed
Testament Age. God's ideal of the true family and the
heavenly kingdom, which He wanted to realize through
Adam's family, was destroyed because Adam and Eve fell
away from God.
Due to
the Fall, this present world is far from the good world
of God's ideal. Today's world is, in fact, a "false"
world, in that it is flooded with self-centered love.
This came about because Adam and Eve became false
parents based on false and self-centered love with
Satan. They multiplied evil rather than goodness,
creating a false family and passing on false life and a
false lineage to their descendants. Thus, false clans,
false nations, and a false world came into being.
Formula
for Reconciliation
Therefore, the goal in God's dispensation of salvation
is for a man and a woman, representing Adam and Eve, to
be restored as True Parents centered on God's true love,
so that the true family can be formed. From them would
eventually flow the true clan, the true nation, and the
true world. In other words, the seed from which God's
true love, true life, and true lineage can grow must be
created.
My dear
friends, have you ever wondered how a world filled with
such evil and corruption could come from a God of love
and goodness?
If you
read the Bible carefully, you will see that the fall of
man involves the loss of Adam's entire family. First,
the position of parents was lost through the fall of
Adam and Eve. Second, the position of children was lost
as Cain murdered Abel. God's "blueprint" for an ideal
family and world perfection was lost. Therefore, to
restore the original family, God works in reverse to
reclaim the positions of Cain and Abel, and then the
positions of True Mother and True Father. This pattern
of reconciliation of Cain and Abel as the foundation for
restoring the True Parents has been God's consistent
formula throughout the history of restoration.
The
separation of fallen mankind into a Cain-Abel division
occurs over and over again in Judeo-Christian history.
God first of all separated fallen mankind into two
"brotherly" sides of Cain, symbolizing Satan, and Abel,
symbolizing God, to work out the hatreds resulting from
the Fall. God used the method of having Abel be hit
first and sacrificed. As a result, Abel could stand on
that very foundation to embrace Cain and recover the
blessing given to the elder son. For example, the
religion that most advances the purpose of salvation
always receives Satan's most severe persecution. It
walks the path of constant opposition yet continues its
sacrificial effort to save the sinful world. Likewise,
good people always stand in the position of being struck
first and sacrificed.
Looking
almost anywhere in our fallen world, it is easy to
notice struggles between good and evil, similar to the
struggle between Cain and Abel. These struggles start in
the conflict between each individual's mind and body.
The mind, which represents the Abel side, struggles to
overcome the body, which represents the Cain side. The
struggle within individuals has expanded to the family,
nation, and world. As a result, humankind has always
been divided into two opposing camps, one good, or
Abel-like, and the other evil, or Cain-like, locked in
struggle at every level. It has always been God's
intention, however, that both sides be restored, not
that one triumph over and destroy the other.
Some
examples of this division are: the thief on the right
side of Jesus' cross, representing Abel, and the thief
on the left, representing Cain, and South Korea versus
North Korea, which represents the last conflict between
right wing and left wing on the world level. Moreover,
there is the Christian-Muslim conflict in the Middle
East. So the key to God's work of salvation has always
been to unify such divided sides, based on His ideal, in
order to build a foundation on which to reclaim the True
Mother and True Father.
Ladies
and gentlemen, if a family is not centered on God's
ideal of love, there will be conflict among the members
of that family. Without God's love as an absolute
center, such a family will ultimately break down.
Moreover, a nation of such families will also decline.
Because illicit, self-centered love invaded the first
family, selfishness and greed have continued to dominate
human history from the individual to the family,
society, nation, and world. For this reason, God's work
of restoration begins at the individual level. Since
Satan knows this, he focuses his efforts also on the
individual level.
It is
not by chance that self-centered individualism has
become the dominant way of life in these last days.
People feel increasingly alienated from those around
them, and bear little sense of responsibility for the
well-being of their country, society, or even their own
families. Rising divorce statistics indicate that
husbands and wives feel little responsibility toward
their marriages; parents do not take responsibility for
their children; individuals, devoid of any sense of
human dignity, fail even to take responsibility for
themselves.
America
has seen such phenomena at work beginning with the youth
movement of the sixties. Idealistic youth rejected the
materialism around them in order to seek love and peace,
but in the process, they also abandoned morality and
responsibility. Unable to attain the true love they
sought, many disillusioned young people resorted to
suicide, drug abuse, and free sex.
True
Love vs. Free Sex
Of all
these, what pains God most is free sex. A world of free
sex is absolutely contrary to the Will of God. Love
comes from stimulation of unblemished emotion, but free
sex is totally devoid of purity or true emotion. How
many of us have been touched by the cruelty of
infidelity and divorce? Where is God in all the
one-night stands? What about the nightmares of the
children who are sexually abused by a parent? Is free
sex worth the price of a broken child?
Equally
alarming is the policy of giving school children
condoms, teaching the illusion of safe sex, and
surrendering to the assumption that premarital sex is
inevitable. Indeed, where there is homosexuality, free
sex, drugs, and alcoholism, the world of true love is
far away.
In this
world, Satan openly tells people, "Drink! Smoke! Take
drugs! Have sex!" Those who do God's Will, on the other
hand, live a lifestyle that is 180 degrees different
from this. Throughout history, those who chose to walk a
spiritual path of self-sacrifice have been bitterly
opposed and persecuted by the rest of the world. It is
only God's love and blessing which have allowed the
Unification Church, despite worldwide opposition, to
prosper. The fact that our church has risen from
obscurity in war-torn Korea, to become a world-level
religious movement in only 38 years, testifies to God's
continued guidance and support.
There
are those who continue to oppose the Unification Church,
spreading wild rumors or trying to prevent our teachings
from being heard. Again, Satan's way is always to attack
that which is most precious to God. Yet those who go
against the Will of God can never prosper. The principle
holds true that those on God's side, who can endure
unjust persecution, will win the right to take back the
blessing. God's strategy is always to be hit first, and
then take back what is rightfully His.
Restoring True Love
Ladies
and gentlemen, the Bible teaches that Eve first
disobeyed God and entered into a relationship with
Satan. Due to the Fall, not only Eve, but also Adam and
their sons Cain and Abel, inherited Satan's lineage,
based upon selfishness and false love. As the
descendants of the original couple which was compromised
by Satan, we have all inherited a satanic lineage. This
is why Jesus said in John 8:44, "You are of your father,
the devil."
The Old
Testament described a process of restitution according
to the formula "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth." In the Divine Principle, we refer to making
restitution for a wrong as "paying indemnity." To make
restitution for her wrong actions, fallen Eve needed to
take the entire responsibility upon herself. She should
have reversed the actions of the Fall and made spiritual
and physical restitution for each step of the Fall.
It was
God's Will that Eve assist her younger son, Abel, to
unite with the Will of God. We know from Genesis that
Abel had his offering accepted by God. However, this was
not all that was expected of Abel. Through Abel's love,
Cain was supposed to recognize Abel as God's chosen
person and unite with him.
If Cain
and Abel had united, the second of the two problems of
the Fall would have been solved. God would then have
addressed the problem of Adam and Eve. Eve was meant to
stand as the first mother of humanity. She should have
united Cain and Abel and worked to establish a
foundation for True Parents. Eve, however, did not
fulfill this mission in her lifetime, and history had to
wait for another woman who would pay fallen Eve's
restitution.
Rebekah:
A Model Case
In the
Bible, one of God's great heroines is Rebekah, the
spouse of Isaac. As the mother of Jacob and Esau,
Rebekah held the same position in Isaac's family that
Eve held in Adam's family. Unlike Eve, however, Rebekah
understood God's providence and helped her second son,
Jacob, representing Abel's position, to gain the
blessing destined for the first son, Esau.
Just as
Cain killed Abel, Esau wanted to kill Jacob when the
blessing went to his younger brother. But with Rebekah's
help, these brothers eventually reconciled in a warm
embrace, rather than resorting to violence.
This
reconciliation was a major victory for God. This
victory, nevertheless, was not complete, since the
reconciliation represented only a symbolic purification
of blood lineage. The substantial purification of blood
lineage had to be accomplished in the womb. This is the
reason for the paradoxical story of Tamar.
By
understanding that Tamar, like Rebekah, was in the
position of fallen Eve, it becomes possible to
understand why Jesus was born of her lineage, the tribe
of Judah.
I am
sure that many of you have read the story about the
birth of her twins. She conceived with Judah, her
father-in-law, the twins Perez and Zerah. The Bible
tells us that the two sons struggled even in the womb
for the position of first-born. During Tamar's labor,
Zerah's hand emerged and the midwife tied a red string
around his wrist. Then, Zerah's hand disappeared back
into the womb and Perez, the younger, was born as the
elder! Thus, the positions of Cain and Abel were
restored even before birth took place. It was from this
point that the Israelite people became the nation chosen
to receive the Messiah.
In
terms of conventional morality, the stories of Rebekah
and Tamar would be questionable at best. Why God blessed
them was a theological mystery until today. As we now
see, God needed to reclaim His lineage from Satan so
that Jesus could be born. Purified, true-love blood
lineage was the point from which the Israelite nation
started expanding. The word Israel means victory. Their
victory was the purification of blood lineage.
Mary's
Life-Risking Course
The
lineage of Judah developed for generations, expanding to
the levels of tribe, society, and nation. From this same
lineage, Mary was born in Israel 2,000 years later.
Mary
had the responsibility to unite Cain and Abel figures on
the family, clan, and national levels through paying
appropriate indemnity and restoring elder sonship. Mary
responded to God's call and conceived Jesus even though,
in the eyes of others, she had betrayed her parents and
Joseph, to whom she was engaged. At that time, it was
customary to stone to death any woman who became
pregnant out of wedlock. However, Joseph, standing in
the position of Adam, courageously protected his fiancee
and resisted abandoning her.
Because
of Mary's faith, and the work of Rebekah and Tamar,
Satan could not claim sovereignty over Jesus in Mary's
womb. Jesus was born in the position of a true son under
God's complete, direct lineage. He is the first true son
of God after the purification of the fallen blood
lineage. That is why Jesus, the first-begotten son of
God, is the saint of all saints and the ancestor of
God's true blood lineage. His birth represented the
conclusion of the Old Testament Age at the national
level and the dawn of the New Testament Age at the
worldwide level.
Mary,
in the position to restore fallen Eve, had to build a
unity between Jesus, who was in the position of Abel,
and his elder cousin, John the Baptist, who was in the
position of Cain. This unity was essential for the
people of Israel to identify Jesus as the Messiah.
John
was the elder. He had a great following and was widely
respected. As Jesus explained to his disciples, the
ministry of John was the fulfillment of the Old
Testament prophecy that Elijah the prophet would return
to "make straight the way of the Lord."
But did
John fulfill his role in God's providence? The Gospel of
Luke tells us that John came "in the spirit and power of
Elijah." John, however, denied that he was Elijah, and
doubted the Messiahship of Jesus even after he had
received a clear revelation at the Jordan River at the
time of Jesus' baptism. John was a well-respected
religious figure, while Jesus was seen as only the
illegitimate son of a poor carpenter. Without the
support of John, it was impossible for the Jewish people
to believe in and follow Jesus. Alone, Jesus undertook
the difficult path of proclaiming himself.
John
the Baptist should have helped Jesus reach the religious
leadership of Israel. If John had fulfilled his role,
then Judaism, in the position of Abel, and the nation of
Israel, in the position of Cain, could have united
centered on Jesus.
This
would have laid the foundation for the Marriage of the
Lamb. Jesus would have stood as the True Father of
humanity, and his bride would have stood as the True
Mother of humanity.
In less
than seven years, his teaching would have expanded
rapidly to the worldwide level, winning Asia and Rome to
his side before he was 40. Eventually, Jesus and his
bride would have achieved the individual heavenly
kingdom, family heavenly kingdom, clan heavenly kingdom,
and national heavenly kingdom.
A Dream
Unfulfilled
However, this glorious destiny could not be realized. It
was the religious people themselves who rejected Jesus'
words and called for His crucifixion.
Confronted by the faithlessness in Israel, Jesus
determined to give his life to achieve spiritual
salvation for humankind. However, he would have to come
again in order to bring physical or earthly salvation in
addition to spiritual salvation.
This is
why the mind can draw close to God through Jesus, but
the body continues to be tempted by evil. Even Saint
Paul anguished over the contradiction of the desires of
the flesh and the desires of the spirit. Many great
Christian evangelists have also suffered because of this
contradiction. At the dawn of the Completed Testament
Age, the crucial challenge is to accomplish both
physical salvation and spiritual salvation.
Because
of Jesus' death on the cross, the conflict between left
wing and right wing appeared. This is like the
separation into Cain and Abel necessitated by Adam's
fall. Likewise, Islam and Christianity appeared and
began struggling. Because such separation was caused by
the crucifixion of Jesus, Christ will work for unity at
the time of the Second Coming.
The
Unity Imperative
God's
preparation for the Second Advent required a world-
level foundation of successful Cain-Abel reconciliation.
This dispensation was carried out through the events
surrounding World War II. The Allied countries of
Britain, America, and France represented Christianity
and were in the position of Abel. The Axis countries of
Germany, Japan, and Italy were under the influence of
nationalistic militarism and stood in the position of
Cain. This war represented the expansion of the conflict
between Cain and Abel to the world level.
Immediately after the Allied victory, great strides were
made toward creating a world of peace centered upon
Christianity. With Britain in the world-level position
of Eve, and America and France representing Abel and
Cain respectively, these Allied nations stood in the
position ready to receive the Lord of the Second Advent.
Despite
all of this preparation, God's dispensation was not
fulfilled at that time. God's representative came to
bring His word and was met with tremendous persecution
and almost universal misunderstanding. This paralleled
Jesus' situation 2,000 years ago. Just as the Israelites
of Jesus' time awaited the Second Coming of Elijah on a
chariot descending from heaven, Christians awaited the
Second Coming by expecting Jesus himself to descend on a
cloud from the sky.
In
Revelation, Jesus reveals to the Apostle John that he
will come with a new name. This foreshadowed that Jesus
would come again through another man, just as Elijah had
done.
At this
crucial time after World War II, then, God instructed my
husband to bring a new message of truth to Christians in
Korea. Korean Christian leaders, however, rejected the
possibility that he, a humble young man, had been chosen
to bring this new message. Because the New Testament Age
is an extension of the Old Testament Age, they could not
believe that the Second Coming would be born as a man on
earth any more than the Jewish people could believe it
at the time of Jesus.
If the
Christian churches had become one with my husband, the
heavenly kingdom would already have been established on
earth as well as in heaven. During the seven-year period
from 1945 to 1952, when the New Testament Age ended, the
entire world could have united in accordance with the
providence of God.
A
Thorny Path
Instead
of uniting with him, however, these religious leaders
became jealous of the growing number of his followers.
They blindly opposed my husband without hearing him out.
They even spread lies about him. Rumors of sexual
misconduct and greed, the very antithesis of his
teachings, were used to assassinate his character.
God had
expanded Christianity and had raised up a mighty
Christian nation like America for the purpose of
preparing the way for the Second Coming. Whether they
realized it or not, those ministers in Korea represented
all of Christianity. Because America and worldwide
Christianity failed to unite with my husband after World
War II, they began to decline in their power and moral
authority.
After
World War II, the United States and Christianity stood
on a victorious foundation of Cain-Abel unity. The time
was ripe to receive the Second Coming. However, this
opportunity failed to materialize and the whole world
opposed my husband's work. He was expelled into the
wilderness. He was forced to the bottom and has been
climbing back up ever since.
Thus,
the Cold War began. The world separated again into two
worldwide spheres of Cain and Abel, just as it had
during World War II. Denying God, just as the thief on
the left denied Jesus, communism represented the
Cain-type world. Christian democracies, which affirmed
the existence of God, represented the thief on the
right, and the Abel-type world.
It was
God's Will that the Messiah of the Second Coming should
unite the two hostile blocs. That is why we mobilized
our church to help settle conflicts between the right
wing, represented by the free world, and the left wing,
represented by communism. We have also worked on behalf
of Christianity and Judaism as a peacemaker with our
Islamic brothers and sisters.
During
the Cold War period, my husband fought to break down
barriers on the individual, family, clan, national,
worldwide, and cosmic levels in order to rebuild the
lost foundation to receive the Messiah. Since my husband
cannot live for 4,000 years or for 400 years, he knew
that he would have to indemnify all of history in just
40 years. During this period of four decades, he
restored the 4,000-year history before Jesus, and the
6,000-year biblical history since the Creation. After
this indemnity was paid, the Cold War ended through the
unity of Cain and Abel countries. This was consummated
by the Unification Church at the 1988 Seoul Olympics,
where 160 nations of the world came to Korea.
For
decades, my husband has been completely misunderstood.
For three years, he was imprisoned in a North Korean
communist concentration camp. Altogether, he has been
wrongly imprisoned six times for doing God's work.
Moreover, the media have mocked him as a monster who
brainwashes the young for self-benefit. Can anyone
disagree when I say that Reverend Moon is the most
persecuted religious leader in the world? My heart is
broken when I think of how my husband has suffered. But
he always comforts me reassuring me that God has deep
compassion for those persecuted for doing His work.
My
husband and I have walked a path of indemnity, or
restitution, in order to restore the failures of the
past, including those of the Old and New Testament eras.
Korea can be compared to the Old Testament Age, while
America, a mostly Christian civilization, can be
compared to the New Testament Age. For the first 20
years, my husband walked the road of indemnity of the
Old Testament Age, centering on the Korean nation and
the Unification Church, representing the positions of
the Israelite nation and Judaism, respectively. On the
foundation of this work, we established in 1960 the Holy
Wedding of True Parents on the national level. Then, in
1971, my husband and I came to America. Over the next 20
years in the U.S., we walked the path of indemnity to
fulfill the New Testament Age and to begin the Completed
Testament Age. Thus, we established the True Parents'
family, the origin of true love, true life, and true
blood lineage, based on God.
The
reason why America is essential in the providential
dispensation is because of her close ties with the
Christian churches, Judaism, and Israel.
Even
though America has dismissed and opposed my husband's
work, we continue to pray for America to realize her
providential responsibility. It is our sincere desire
that America avoids repeating her failure. A failure to
unite with God's Will would create the need for further
indemnity and would deprive America of the blessing that
God wishes to bestow upon this great nation. Indeed,
without the help of our Unification movement, America
would have waned long ago.
Rome
thought that the world existed only for the sake of
Rome. She did not realize that God had raised her up for
the purpose of uniting with the Messiah and serving the
world.
America
faces a similar situation today. People must realize
that God blessed America not for herself but for the
sake of the world. America's Pilgrim Fathers did not
come here for wealth. They came here to attend God. If
America fails to remember the purpose for which she is
blessed, then her blessing will cease and she will
perish. My husband and I desperately want to prevent
this. We must save America.
For 20
years, we have struggled in this country, trying to
bring God's message to the American people. American
leaders, prominent Christians and other leading figures
of the world have only a faint idea of the forces that
shape the future. They can offer little insight, hope,
or guidance to their people. In these chaotic times,
humankind is longing for a true direction and purpose,
yet America and Christianity have no confident answer.
God, however, has granted my husband and me an
understanding of the forces involved in His providential
history. We know the direction that humankind must go,
and with the help of God, we will lead the world there.
What
the Unification Church Offers
The
truth which God revealed to my husband is contained in
the Divine Principle. Looking at the history of
humankind and the stories of the Bible from the
providential viewpoint, the Divine Principle unlocks the
answers to questions unsolved for thousands of years.
Those who have sincerely studied its contents have found
it to be a true gift from God, providing the only
solutions to the problems facing our society today. Even
in the formerly communist C.I.S., government leaders and
thousands of young people have found their lives renewed
through their studies of our teachings. Finally free
from the oppression of communist ideology, they are
hungry for the spiritual truth to guide their nations.
Russian classrooms where our members are teaching "Godism,"
or "Head-wing Ideology," are overflowing.
There
are countless other testimonies to the power of the
Divine Principle to give hope and new life to young
people. Last year, in Korea, we held a wedding
celebration for 30,000 couples, all dedicating their
lives to one another, to God, and to the world. In most
families today, parents cannot effectively guide their
children, especially on such intimate matters as love
and marriage. Yet, my husband and I brought together
young people from 131 different nations and realized
their most cherished dreams of love in a historic way.
This was indeed a great miracle of the modern world. In
the future, as people come to understand the value and
quality of these precious families, millions will seek
such marriages. Through them, God can restore the family
that Satan has destroyed. Such restored, God-centered
families are the very building blocks of an ideal nation
and world.
My dear
friends, when Jesus taught about the coming of the
Messiah, he told the parable of the virgins who were
awaiting the arrival of the bridegroom. According to the
book of Revelation, Christianity is portrayed as a
bride. America, representing Christianity, can also be
seen as a bride nation.
Women's
Crucial Role
Therefore, America must take the responsibility of
creating a foundation for worldwide unity upon which the
bridegroom can finally be received. This signifies the
restoration of the original positions of man and woman,
restored Adam and Eve, to the realm of true equality. At
this turning point in the history of restoration, a
woman in the position of True Mother must prepare the
world to receive the True Father.
When
Christianity failed to meet her bridegroom the first
time, God's dispensation had to be delayed 40 years
until 1992. During this time, my husband and I have
worked and prayed to bring about the unity of Korea,
Britain, America, France, Japan, Germany, and Italy.
That is
why, in April 1992, my husband and I founded the Women's
Federation for World Peace. Last year, I, with the heart
of a True Mother, visited these seven countries, as well
as Russia and Oceania. I gathered together the women of
these countries to form chapters of the Women's
Federation for World Peace. With these events, the
nations that had been the worldwide Cain and Abel
countries since World War II united together to receive
the True Mother and prepare again the foundation to meet
the True Father.
Based
upon this foundation, my husband and I can now stand on
a worldwide level as the first True Parents. As True
Parents, we are ushering in the Completed Testament Age.
At this
historical turning point, we have to practice on the
worldwide level the principle that an individual's mind
and body must be united centered on God. To facilitate
this, we have founded two organizations working for
world peace. The Inter- Religious Federation for World
Peace represents the world mind, and carries out the
internal mission of uniting all the world's religions on
the basis of God's love. The Federation for World Peace,
on the other hand, represents the world body, and
pursues the external mission of building up ideal
societies with leaders in the fields of politics,
economics, media, academia, and science.
Completing the Family Foundation
Looking
at the vertical perspective of love, Adam and Eve should
have related directly with God by developing in
themselves the four types of love: children's love,
brother-sister love, conjugal love, and parental love.
Therefore, Adam and Eve should have originally gone
through the four spheres of the heart, centering on
God's true love, as completed children, completed
brother and sister, loving couple, and perfected
parents. They would have, thus, achieved the completed
family.
Adam
and Eve should have become the role models for all in
their family. Their children would have looked to their
parents as ideal role models. They would have become
brothers and sisters who loved each other as their
parents loved them. They would have become married
couples resembling the husband-wife relationship of
their parents. Finally, with the birth of children, they
would have established their own completed families,
identical to that of their parents.
By
setting up ideal, unbreakable families that fulfill the
vertical and horizontal unity between parents and
children, brothers and sisters, and husband and wife, we
can finally build the eternal basis for God's kingdom on
earth as well as in heaven. Thus, all the families in
the world originating from the same God-centered
ancestors, Adam and Eve, would have equal, divine value.
Extension of the Messianic Ideal
Ladies
and gentlemen, at the dawn of the Completed Testament
Age, the time has come for each family to take up the
messianic mission of completing the work of salvation
all over the world. After restoring your family, the
next step is to restore your community, tribe, and
nation. We call this process "tribal messiahship." In
the Completed Testament Age, the mother's role will be
crucial. She must unite her children and her husband,
and link her family with the True Parents. Already, we
have sent thousands of Tribal Messiah missionaries
around the world. Soon, the original ideal of the family
will be achieved worldwide.
In
every completed family, grandparents will be in the
position of kings and queens representing God and good
ancestors. Parents will be in the position of kings and
queens representing present humanity, and children will
be in the position of princes and princesses
representing all future descendants. When all three
generations are united, past, present, and future will
live together in harmony.
Ladies
and gentlemen, it is my great privilege to announce to
you the establishment of the first True Family. My
husband and I, together with our 13 children and 20
grandchildren are absolutely dedicated to serving God
and humanity. With three generations in one family, we
have achieved, on the family level, the central root,
the central trunk, and the central bud of the "Tree of
Life" mentioned in the Bible. It is our sincere hope
that you will symbolically graft into this lineage by
joining us in our efforts to create an ideal nation and
world. This marks the beginning of the Completed
Testament Age.
As the
world enters the Completed Testament era, we will live
with God again. Realizing this, we must accomplish the
unity of our mind and body, parents and children, and
husband and wife. Then we can establish ideal families
centered upon God's love.
With
such families, the symptoms of our decaying society will
vanish. As confident children of God, we will no longer
be enslaved by the temptations of alcohol and drug
abuse. Moreover, by understanding the holiness of love
between a husband and a wife, we will possess the moral
strength to stand strong against infidelity and
promiscuity. Finally, we will work as a whole to
eliminate war, racial prejudices, and world hunger.
Based
upon this foundation, we can realize a world of true
happiness, freedom, and peace. God is very much alive,
and His original ideal for humankind is unchanging and
absolute. It is our destiny to fulfill this ideal and
liberate God's heart.
My dear
friends, the Women's Federation for World Peace is
called to this task. Let us work together to bring about
its successful completion.
It is
my hope that all Christians, and people of all faiths,
will understand this message with a deep heart and an
open mind. I sincerely pray that, by upholding the Will
of God, we can all reach the place of God's blessing.
May God
bless you and your families.
Thank
you very much.
