istinguished Guests, Ladies and
Gentlemen:
Today I sincerely thank God that you and I can meet
as we face this era of great historical change. God
is the absolute One, the only, unchanging, and
eternal One. His will is the same. If the human
beings Adam and Eve had become one body under the
love of God, everything would have been complete and
perfect. God's origin, purpose, and process of
creation, as well as cause, effect, and direction,
are all absolute.
The
human ancestors Adam and Eve entered into chaos
after they fell through their ignorance. This
ignorance and chaos expanded from the individual
level to the levels of family, nation, and world. It
has been the task of religion and the Providence of
Salvation to liberate us from this sphere of the
Fall.
In
the Last Days, the Messiah comes and teaches clearly
the absolute, the only, unchanging, and eternal
cause, direction, and effect, from God's viewpoint.
He will cleanse the world of ignorance and chaos and
return it to the original bosom of God. This is the
completion of the will of God.
If
this does not happen, then in the Last Days all
religions, "isms," systems of thought, and nations
will pass away. Now humankind is facing the
Twenty-first Century, entering the new historical
era of the Third Millennium in just a few years. At
this important moment, I would like to deliver this
speech on the "View of the Principle of the
Providential History of Salvation," so that we can
resolve to prepare ourselves for the new era.
To
bring about completion and perfection between God
and humankind, centering on True Love, God required
that man accomplish a condition of responsibility in
order to reach unity with Him. Therefore, God needed
to give the Commandment to the first ancestors. In
other words, God knew that they were in the growth
period, on the way to reaching perfection, so He
established the Commandment as the condition for His
children to inherit the most precious thing, True
Love.
Originally, True Love was to be gained through life
experience and understood through internal
realization. True Love is not something that can be
learned through words, a written text, or schooling.
It is experienced completely only in life. Created
as newborn infants, Adam and Eve were to grow and
perfect themselves gradually through experiences of
the heart of True Children, True Brother and Sister,
True Husband and Wife, and True Parents encompassing
their whole lives. Only after experiencing the True
Love of God in its entirety can one perfect the
Purpose of Creation and become an ideal human being.
Every person desires that his object of love be ten
million times more valuable than himself, or even
infinitely more valuable. In the same way, God
desires that humankind, His object of love, become
infinitely valuable. If a human being perfects
himself, then that person obtains Godlike value by
attaining God's divinity and perfection.
God's Ideal of True Love
od is absolute, but His ideal of True Love cannot be
realized by Himself. That is because love always
requires an object -- a beloved. At this point, we
should understand the relationship between God's
True Love and humankind's True Love, and how they
begin and are perfected. What would have happened if
God had not chosen human beings as His absolute
objects of True Love, and instead had sought to
begin and perfect True Love in some other way? In
that case, God and man would have pursued the ideal
of True Love with different motivations, directions,
and purposes. God would have had to achieve His
ideal of love through an object higher than
humankind; and by the same token, humankind's ideal
of love would have had no direct relationship with
God.
But
God as the subject of True Love did establish
humankind as the object of His True Love.
Accordingly, God can fulfill His ideal of True Love
only through humankind. The fulfillment of God's
Purpose of Creation is the ideal world where God and
mankind are united through absolute love. Human
beings were created as the greatest object of God's
love. They alone in all Creation embody the nature
of God. They are born the visible bodies of the
invisible God. If a person perfects himself, he
becomes the temple of God, a visible, substantial
body in which God can freely and peacefully dwell.
God's overall ideal of absolute True Love is
realized and perfected through humankind in a
vertical parent-child relationship. God created Adam
first. He was to be the son of God and at the same
time the substantial body of God Himself. Later, God
created Eve as the object of Adam so that Adam and
Eve could perfect the ideal of horizontal love,
which is conjugal love. Eve was to be the daughter
of God, and also, as a bride she was to perfect
substantially the ideal of the horizontal love of
God.
The
place in which Adam and Eve are perfected,
consummating their first love by marrying under the
blessing of God, is precisely the place where God
meets His substantial bride. This is because God's
ideal of absolute love descends vertically and joins
where the ideal of conjugal love between Adam and
Eve is realized horizontally. The True Love of God
and the True Love of humankind join and perfect
themselves at the same point, although they came
from different directions, one vertical and the
other horizontal.
Why God Needs Humankind
od's act of creation was inevitable. And we cannot
imagine Creation without a purpose. There was only
one reason God needed the Creation: to realize the
ideal of True Love. God developed life from the
simplest and lowest levels up to the human level in
pairs, subject and object and positive and negative,
to form reciprocal relationships under the ideal of
love. The Creation's ideal of love and God's ideal
of ultimate love are not separate or different. This
Principle of Creation is at work to perfect the
absolute love of God through the perfection of the
love of man and woman in the human world. This is
the reason why in the beginning God created one man
and one woman, Adam and Eve.
God's Purpose of Creation called for Adam and Eve to
obey the Commandment of God, who is the subject of
True Love, and perfect themselves as True Man and
True Woman. Furthermore, they were to become a True
Couple united in the True Love of God. Then, by
having sons and daughters through that True Love,
they would have become True Parents and lived in
happiness. Had Adam and Eve perfected themselves in
True Love, they would have fulfilled God's desire to
wear a substantial body. And when they perfected
themselves as a True Couple, the ideal of God's
absolute love would have been fulfilled.
By
Adam and Eve having children of goodness and
becoming True Parents, God would have established
Himself substantially as the Eternal Parent and
achieved His ideal: Citizenship in the Kingdom of
Heaven would expand infinitely in the afterlife of
the spirit world based on myriad generations of
descendants in the physical world.
But
Adam and Eve, the human ancestors, fell away from
God. When they were expelled from Eden, they had not
yet had children. Having driven them out, God had no
basis to follow behind them to bless their marriage.
The entire human race has thus descended from our
failed ancestors. Humanity has multiplied without
any direct relationship whatsoever to the love of
God.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Could the Fall of Man have
been the result of eating the fruit of a tree? The
fall of Adam and Eve was an immoral sin against the
ideal of the True Love of God. The fact that Adam
and Eve needed to obey the Commandment shows that
they fell in a stage of imperfection, that is to
say, during their period of growth. The Archangel,
who is symbolized by a serpent, tempted Eve to eat
of the fruit of good and evil, and she fell
spiritually. She later tempted Adam (who was also
too immature to eat of the fruit), and they then
fell physically.
Taking Responsibility for Love
he only possible sin that could have been fatal in
the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve were in
communication with God and living in joy, was the
sin of illicit love. The first consummated love of
the human ancestors, because it was supposed to have
been the perfection of the love of God Himself,
should have marked the beginning of a celebration
that would continue throughout history, filled with
the never-ending intoxication of joy and blessing
for God, Adam and Eve, and the universe. It should
have been a joyous occasion in which the love, life,
and lineage of God would have been established
within humankind. To the contrary, however, Adam and
Eve covered their lower parts and hid themselves
among the trees, trembling in fear. By disobeying
heavenly law, they established an immoral
relationship as the basis for false love, false
life, and false lineage. As descendants of Adam and
Eve, all human beings are born with Original Sin.
The Fall gave rise to conflict of mind and body
within every person and caused our societies to be
filled with tainted love, and people do things that
contradict the desire of their original minds.
According to the ideal of love, all love
relationships in the animal and plant kingdoms are
for reproduction only. Human beings are the sole
exception. Humankind enjoys freedom in the conjugal
relationship of love. This is humanity's special
privilege as the lord of all Creation. God gave the
blessing and infinite joy of love to His sons and
daughters. However, the True Freedom that God
allowed requires human responsibility. If an
individual were to insist upon and practice freedom
of love without responsibility, how much confusion
and destruction would take place! Achieving the
highest ideal of human love is possible only when
one takes responsibility for love.
We
can think of this responsibility in three ways. The
first responsibility is for one to become the master
of True Love, truly free and thanking God for the
freedom of love and knowing how to cultivate and
control oneself. This responsibility for a love
relationship should not be taken merely because of
law or social convention. Instead, a person should
establish responsibility through his own
self-control and self-determination within the
life-committing vertical relationship with God.
Second is one's responsibility toward the object of
love. By nature, people do not want their spouse's
love to be shared with others. Horizontal conjugal
love, which differs from the vertical love between
parents and children, loses its potential for
perfection the moment it is divided. This is because
the Principle of Creation requires husband and wife
to become one in absolute love. Each spouse has the
responsibility given by love to live absolutely for
the sake of the other.
The
third responsibility of love is toward children. The
love of parents is the basis for children's pride
and happiness. They would wish to be born through
the total and harmonious unity of their parents in
True Love, and they would wish to be raised in that
kind of love. The most precious responsibility of
parents is not only to rear their children
externally, but also to offer them life elements of
True Love that can perfect their spirituality. This
is why the family is so valuable. The daily
experience of the heart of True Children, True
Brothers and Sisters, True Spouses, and True Parents
cannot be acquired in any place other than the True
Family.
If
Adam and Eve had become a couple of True Love
centered upon God, God could have dwelt in Adam as
His substantial body and thus loved Eve. What is
more, Adam and Eve could have become True Parents
who substantially embodied God, and become the
origin of the love of goodness, a life of goodness,
and a lineage of goodness.
Due
to the Fall, however, Adam and Eve became the
substantial body of Satan and ended up becoming the
original evil couple, evil parents, and evil
ancestors. Their union became the root of evil love,
evil life, and evil blood lineage. Because human
beings originated from this root, they descended
from the adulterous Satan, who is the enemy of God,
and inherited this lineage of evil parents.
Ladies and Gentlemen: How great must have been the
pain of God when, by the Fall, our human ancestors
destroyed His ideal of True Love! Humankind should
have been the sons and daughters of God, but they do
not know God Himself as their Original Parent. Yet
even though His sons and daughters serve Satan, God
has worked for the Providence of Salvation. Because
He is an absolute being, and His ideal of creation
is also absolute, He has carried out the Providence
of Salvation even amid great sadness. God's
Providence of Salvation is the Providence of
Restoration, which means to recover the lost Purpose
of Creation, centered on True Love. The Providence
of Salvation is also the Providence of Re-creation.
The Essence of God's Providence
ased on this point, the root of the Providence of
Salvation is the recreation of the seed of the
original child, the human being who will fulfill the
ideal of creation. That which God abhors -- the life
and blood lineage that began with the false love of
the adulterer Satan -- must be cleansed. The essence
of the Providence is the task of setting up the
birth of the True Parent, the Savior united with the
True Love, Life, and Lineage of God.
Since the ancestors of humankind failed to fulfill
their responsibility, inherited the immoral lineage
of Satan, and came under the dominion of Satan, God
Himself could not directly intervene and return
human beings to their original position.
Furthermore, God can neither unconditionally accept
humankind, who chose to go to the side of the evil
Archangel, nor punish them. So God uses the strategy
of placing a central figure on the side of the good
Archangel; by being struck first, that figure
establishes the indemnity condition to recover what
was lost. Satan strikes first but as a result must
take the losing position. The First, Second, and
Third (Cold War) World Wars are good examples of
this. The side that struck first, lost.
From the overall perspective of the Providence of
Restoration, the foundation of cooperation between
mother and son is very important. This was so at the
time of Jacob, Moses, and Jesus. God was working His
Providence to separate people from satanic life and
lineage by establishing the foundation of
cooperation between a mother -- who had to fulfill
the responsibility of Eve, the originator of the
Fall -- and the second son of the family.
God
cannot directly relate to the first son, because he
is in the position of having a direct blood
relationship with Satan, who through the Fall was
the first to dominate humankind. God has been
restoring the blood lineage of goodness by having
the second son, who represents the side of goodness,
establish a condition. Then God has had the first
son, representing the side of evil, take a position
subordinate to the second son.
In
the family of Adam, God carried out the providence
of establishing the second son, Abel, and having him
subordinate the first son, Cain. Even though Eve had
fallen, as a mother she could have made an effort to
create unity between the two brothers. In the end,
however, Cain murdered Abel, (Genesis 4:8) and the
Providence of Salvation, not being fulfilled, was
prolonged.
There was also a required formula of cooperation
between mother and son at the time of Noah. But that
formula of meaningful cooperation was not realized
until the time of Rebekah and Jacob.
The
human Fall was committed by three beings: Adam, Eve,
and the Archangel. The Archangel seduced Eve,
causing the spiritual fall, and later fallen Eve
seduced Adam, causing the physical fall. As a
result, they turned their backs on God, and the
fallen Archangel became Satan. Since the Providence
of Salvation is the Providence of Restoration, the
Principle of Restoration can be carried out only by
going in a direction 180 degrees opposite of the
Fall.
God
lost Adam, who had the seed of True Love and True
Life. So God had to find a son with the new seed
free from satanic accusation. Just as God created
Adam first at the time of the creation, God must
prepare a son first who has no relationship to the
Fall, according to the Providence of Restoration,
which is the Providence of Recreation. This is the
basis for the idea of the coming of the Messiah. The
Messiah rejects the sinful lives of those with a
fallen lineage under the dominion of Satan. He comes
as a True Person who engrafts fallen humanity into
the seed of new life. The Messiah has his roots in
God, and comes as the Second Adam, who wipes away
all that was committed by the first Adam. This is
the reason God cannot send a superman Messiah who
will work only through miracles.
For
a son to be born on earth with this seed of God's
love and life, there first must exist a mother. And
the mother cannot give birth to this child in a
conventional way. Conception must happen through the
formula of restoration. All the cooperation between
mothers and sons in the Providence of Restoration is
a preparation and a condition for the Son of God to
he born with the seed of new life, free from satanic
accusation. By making conditions to avoid Satan's
attacks, and by subordinating the firstborn son who
represents evil, mother and son restore the love,
life, and lineage that were taken over by Satan.
The Meaning of Jacob's Victory
he Bible, which records the providential work of
God, contains many stories that are difficult to
understand. For example, Rebekah deceived her
husband Isaac and her first son Esau, and helped her
second son Jacob receive the blessing. (Genesis 27)
God took the side of that mother and son, and
although they used methods that at first glance seem
unjust, God still blessed them for their actions.
In
Adam's family, Cain and Abel fought outside the
womb. Their struggle resulted in the death of Abel,
the second son.
Then came Jacob. On the merits of many godly people
who paid indemnity and sacrificed after the time of
Abel, Jacob at last caught up to the level at which
Satan first dominated humankind. Then Jacob dealt
with his twin brother, Esau. At the ford of Jabbok,
Jacob set up the condition of spiritual victory over
the angel. (Genesis 32:28) And through winning over
Esau, (Genesis 33) who was in the position of the
substantial body of the Archangel, Jacob
consequently was blessed as the first victor in
history, and was given the name "Israel." But by
then he was already in his fortieth year.
Satan sowed the seed of false love within the womb
of Eve, which gave birth to evil life. Therefore,
God needed to purify a mother's womb from which the
heavenly Son could be born. That purification period
of separation from Satan had to begin at the time of
conception and continue to age forty, so even though
Jacob was victorious he did not meet that criteria.
The great mother who assumed the responsibility to
meet this condition was Tamar.
Tamar's Providential Role
amar had married Er, the eldest son of Judah.
(Genesis 38) But Er displeased God and he died.
According to the custom of that time, Judah gave
Tamar his second son, Onan, that they might bear a
child for Er. But Onan, knowing that Tamar's child
would not be his own, spilled his semen on the
ground. This was a sin in the eyes of God, for which
Onan died.
Then Tamar wanted Shelah, the third son of Judah,
for a husband, but Judah did not give him to her.
Judah thought that his two sons had died because of
Tamar, so he was afraid that Shelah would die and
end the family lineage.
But
Tamar had the conviction that she was to carry on
the lineage of the chosen people. To do that, she
disguised herself as a prostitute and slept with her
father-in-law, Judah, and became pregnant with
twins. At the time of birth, one of the twin sons,
Zerah, stretched out his hand from the womb to be
born first. But he was pulled back into the womb,
and the second son, Perez, was born first, taking
the position of the elder brother. Thus, within the
womb of Tamar, the first and second sons fought, and
their reversal of position separated them from
Satan. That became the condition for restoration in
the womb. Upon this condition, the Messiah could be
conceived within the blood lineage of the chosen
people, on the base of the nation of Israel that
could stand up to the Roman Empire two thousand
years later. The victorious foundation on the
national level could then be formed in the womb of a
mother free of satanic accusation, prepared for the
seed of the Son of God. On this foundation, the Holy
Mother Mary emerged in the mainstream of God's
Providence.
Mary Receives God's Will
ary, when she was engaged to Joseph, received from
the Archangel Gabriel the surprising message that
the Messiah would be born through her. (Luke 1:31)
In those days, if an unmarried woman became
pregnant, she would be killed. But Mary accepted the
will of God with absolute faith, saying, "Behold, I
am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me
according to your word." (Luke 1:38)
Mary consulted with the priest Zechariah, who was
her relative and was highly respected. Zechariah's
wife Elizabeth, with the help of God, was pregnant
with John the Baptist. She said to Mary, "Blessed
are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your
womb. Why is this granted to me that the mother of
my Lord should come to me?" (Luke 1:4243) With these
words she testified to the coming birth of Jesus.
In
this way, God let Mary, Zechariah, and Elizabeth
know about the birth of the Messiah before anybody
else. All of them had the absolutely crucial mission
of following the will of God and serving Jesus.
Zechariah's family let Mary stay in their house.
Jesus was conceived in the house of Zechariah.
Elizabeth and Mary were cousins on their mothers'
side. But according to God's Providence, they were
considered sisters, with Elizabeth as the elder
(Cain) and Mary as the younger (Abel). Mary received
Elizabeth's help in the presence of Zechariah.
Through this cooperation, Zechariah's family, on the
national level, indemnified the lack of unity
between mother and son with Leah and Rachel in
Jacob's family. (Genesis 29-30) This allowed Jesus
to be conceived. For the first time in history,
there could be born on earth, free of satanic
accusation and through a prepared womb, the seed of
the Son of God -- the seed of the True Father. In
this way, the only begotten Son of God, the owner of
the first love of God, was born for the first time
in history.
Mary had to achieve something that could not be
understood by common sense, nor easily tolerated
under the law of those times. Mary, Elizabeth, and
Zechariah had been spiritually moved. They followed
the revelation that came from God, and
unconditionally believed that it was the will and
desire of God.
Although the Son of God could be born on earth, he
needed a wall of protection to grow up safely in the
satanic world and fulfill the will of God. God had
hoped that these three people in the family of
Zechariah would establish that protective
foundation. There are many points to consider with
regard to how seriously the three had to dedicate
themselves to protecting and serving the Son of God,
and how long they should have been united with each
other.
In
the Bible it is recorded, "And Mary remained with
her [Elizabeth] about three months, and returned to
her home." (Luke 1:56) After that, there is no
biblical record of any further communication between
Mary and Elizabeth and Zechariah. From the time Mary
left Zechariah's house, difficulties began for Mary
and Jesus. The family of Zechariah should have been
the wall of protection for Jesus until the very end.
A
short time later, Joseph discovered that Mary was
pregnant. How great must have been his shock at that
moment! Mary, his beloved fiancée, without having
had any relationship with him, had become pregnant
after a three-month stay in another place. It was
natural for Joseph to question Mary about who the
baby in her womb belonged to. What would have
happened if at that time Mary had explained
everything candidly? If she had exposed everything,
it could have been the end of a clan. So Mary simply
responded that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
Mary's pregnancy began to show, and the people of
the surrounding area became aware of it. What would
have happened if Joseph had declared that he didn't
know anything about it? But Joseph was a righteous
man. He believed in the revelation of God and
defended Mary, saying the pregnancy was his
responsibility. Mary may have been ridiculed for
becoming pregnant during her engagement, but she had
avoided death by stoning.
Joseph, who loved Mary, protected her this way in
the beginning. However, there was a great deal of
anguish deep in his heart. Once Jesus was born,
Joseph's suspicions about the father of Jesus only
increased and his heart ached. As Jesus grew older,
the two became more and more distant in heart. And
because of this, family problems frequently arose.
Jesus was viewed as an illegitimate son, and lacking
the protection of Zechariah's family and the love of
Joseph, he grew up with an indescribable loneliness
in his heart.
No Bride for Jesus
esus was aware of his path as the Messiah, and he
lamented by himself these lonely circumstances and
the serious obstacle they presented to fulfilling
the will of God. The Messiah is the True Parent. And
to fulfill that mission he needed to receive his
substantial bride. Jesus had to reverse, at the very
root, the false love by which the Archangel had
caused the fall of Eve, who was growing up as the
sister of Adam. Consequently, Jesus, in the place of
Adam as the Son of God, should have received as his
bride the younger sister of someone in an
archangelic position. That bride was to have been
none other than Zechariah's daughter, the younger
sister of John the Baptist. To fulfill this in a
world where Satan plays the role of owner and lord,
Jesus needed a foundation of protection formed by
absolute faith. Tragically, the entire foundation
ended up collapsing around him.
This would not have happened if Zechariah and
Elizabeth, who had received the revelation and
spiritual support from God, had maintained absolute
faith. If they had fulfilled their responsibility,
Mary would have been in contact with them
continually, even after her three-month stay at
their house. God chose Zechariah's family as the
foremost representatives of the entire world, so
that even after the birth of Jesus they would
protect, serve, and witness to him as the Messiah.
They not only should have served Jesus as the Son of
God and Messiah with utter devotion, but they should
have learned the will of God through Jesus and
followed him absolutely. Also, John the Baptist was
born to serve Jesus and should have fulfilled his
responsibility to guide everyone he led to
repentance to believe in Jesus and receive
salvation.
But
unfortunately, although Zechariah, Elizabeth, and
John the Baptist testified at first to Jesus as the
Son of God, there is no evidence that they served
him as such. The respected priest Zechariah was
simply a spectator. John the Baptist stood separate
from Jesus. These circumstances blocked the people
from following Jesus and made his path very
difficult. And once this family lost faith in Jesus,
looking at him through human eyes, there was no room
for them to help him receive his bride.
We
should also consider the influence that Joseph and
Mary's relationship had on Jesus. Mary had to
restore the positions of Eve and Tamar through
indemnity, so she should have remained as only the
fiancée of Joseph. Providentially, they could not be
husband and wife. It was God's desire that they not
have sexual relations either before or after Jesus'
birth. Joseph still loved Mary after Jesus was born,
but Mary should have wanted to separate from Joseph
to raise Jesus as the Son of God.
But
the real circumstances did not make this easy to do.
Even though Mary's original mind told her that she
should not do so, she had sexual relations with
Joseph. They had children, which was a repetition of
Eve's mistake. With this condition, Satan invaded
them. With the exception of Jesus, everyone who
should have protected Jesus came under the dominion
of Satan: his father, his mother, his Abel-type
brothers (John the Baptist and his brothers)
and his Cain-type brothers (the children of
Joseph).
Jesus Seen Through Human Eyes
hen someone is invaded by Satan, he loses all
spiritual support and inspiration. Trust in God, as
well as a sense of gratitude to Him, is lost. One
begins to see everything through human eyes. Mary
did not help Jesus with the wedding he desired. She
even opposed it. This was the direct reason that
Jesus could not receive his bride, and could not
become the True Parent; and this forced him to go
the way of the cross.
Jesus' words to Mary during the wedding at Cana, "Oh
woman, what have you to do with me?" (John 2:4),
reveal a reproachful heart to a mother who helped in
the weddings of others but neglected to help Jesus
receive his bride, the most important requirement of
the Providence. With this perspective, now we can
understand why Jesus asked, "Who is my mother, and
who are my brothers?" (Matthew 12:48)
Faced with the opposition of Mary, Zechariah,
Elizabeth, and finally John the Baptist, Jesus gave
up hope for their protection as he sought to fulfill
his mission. Therefore, Jesus left his home in
search of a new spiritual foundation to restart the
Providence of Salvation.
Now
without a family and household, Jesus lamented,
"foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests;
but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."
(Matthew 8:20) With his family-level foundation
lost, Jesus sought to replace it. That was his
three-year course.
In
the end, as people disbelieved and the disciples
lost faith, Jesus took Satan's attack. And as his
foundation crumbled he went the way of the cross.
Originally, Jesus came to the earth as the Messiah
to give blessings to his disciples and all
humankind. He was to build the sinless Kingdom of
Heaven. But because of the lack of faith in him, he
could not receive his bride, he could not become the
True Parent, and he could not accomplish his
mission. This is why he promised to return.
Completing the Ideal of True Parents
he Lord of the Second Advent comes to perfect the
foundation of God's Providence of Restoration left
uncompleted by Jesus. That is to say, he comes as
the seed of the original True Child to complete the
ideal of creation. He comes to complete the ideal of
True Parents, who are the origin of the True Love,
True Life, and the True Lineage of God. He comes on
the victorious foundation of the fundamental
providence of God's side up to the time of Jesus. He
also stands upon the victorious foundation of Jesus'
life and finds the bride that Jesus could not find.
Together they become the True Parents to save all
humankind.
Through the blessing of new marriages that pass on
God's original blood lineage, the True Parents will
be able to give salvation to all humanity. People
will become True Persons engrafting into the True
Love, True Life, and True Lineage of God.
Furthermore, the Messiah will establish a True
Family, creating the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
Thus, it is the International Holy Weddings that
establish this new blood lineage when the Lord of
the Second Advent comes in the flesh.
On
the level of the great worldwide family, the Lord
indemnifies that which was lost in the family of
Adam and restores the True Elder Sonship, True
Parentship, and True Kingship that should have been
perfected in Adam's family. He will transform this
world into the Kingdom of Heaven on earth under the
dominion of God, opening the Kingdom of Heaven in
the spirit world for registration. Humanity will
enter into the era of kingship both spiritually and
physically centered on God; and establish a world of
victory, freedom, happiness, and unity; and create
the Heavenly Kingdom on earth and in the spirit
world, which is God's ideal of creation. This is the
View of the Principle of the Providential History of
Salvation. I hope that in the future all of you can
also receive this joyous new marriage blessing.
Distinguished Leaders and Honored Guests:
I
would like to express again my deepest appreciation
to you for coming here this evening to celebrate the
inauguration of The Washington Times Foundation. In
particular, I sincerely congratulate those who are
being honored as the first recipients of The
Washington Times Foundation National Service Award,
for making a positive contribution to this society.
Thank you very much.
