Distinguished
representative leaders of the Ambassadors
for Peace:
You have come to a truly historic gathering.
With the resounding proclamation of the new
millennium still ringing in our ears, we
have passed beyond the second year since the
declaration of the realm of Ssang Hab Shib
Seung marking the revolutionary era after
the coming of heaven. This declaration has
instilled a fresh promise of hope for a new
future in the hearts of the 6.5 billion
people of the world. We are experiencing the
dynamic time of the construction of God’s
kingdom of Cheon Il Guk—when a day feels
like a thousand years and a thousand years
feels like a day.
God is calling upon you, as representative
leaders of the Ambassadors for Peace of this
nation. You are proud descendants of a long
line of Korean people, who were born with
the spirit to promote the welfare of
humankind. In light of this, as we usher in
this precious and significant time in God’s
providence, I would like to take this
opportunity to convey to you a special
message from Heaven regarding the direction
and mission humanity should undertake from
this time forward. The topic of my speech
today is, “The Mission of the Ambassadors
for Peace in the Revolutionary Era after the
Coming of Heaven.”
Ladies and gentlemen, is there a dream
common to all people regardless of gender,
age, time or place? Throughout the ages,
people everywhere have yearned and hoped for
the realization of the ideal of world peace.
However, never in history has the
everlasting peace been achieved that would
bring joy to Heaven. This fact remains the
basis of our historical sorrow and anguish.
What went wrong? What brought humankind to
descend into ignorance of the ideal that God
cherishes for His creation? Perfection
cannot be found in ignorance, even if one
waits for ten thousand years.
The Miracle of God’s Creation
Ladies and gentlemen, God’s creation is
indeed profound. Everything He created was
to prepare an environment for the perfection
and happiness of human beings, whom He
created as His children and partners in
love.
Consider a flower; it is one of the
masterpieces of God’s creation. Hidden
within a flower—even in a nameless
wildflower blooming in a field—we can easily
discover the Creator’s will and purpose. To
see a flower alive and growing to perfection
is truly to witness a miracle. Flowers
display beautiful colors and the harmony of
yin and yang. Even human beings, the lords
of creation, cannot fully replicate their
beauty. Flowers continuously give off
fragrances that captivate the hearts of the
bees and butterflies attracted to their
dazzling colors. Flowers can absorb the
powerful, brilliant rays of the sun that
humans cannot bear to look at. They diffuse
their light into natural rays of harmony and
peace and utilize them to create and
preserve life.
Flowers also do not neglect their duty to
provide honey nectar to the bees and
butterflies that busily fly to and fro
helping them reproduce.
Ladies and gentlemen, the miracle of God’s
creation is infinite, transcending and
defying any human description. Even a
picture drawn by the greatest artist in the
world cannot compare to a cluster of living
wildflowers. Even in creating a single
insignificant flower, God the Creator opens
the way for it to realize harmony in itself
and contribute to the interdependence and
mutual prosperity of the whole of creation.
Given that this is so, how much greater is
the stature of human beings, whom God
created as His children, His eternal
partners of love, and His heirs?
The Value of Human Beings as
Individual Embodiments of Truth
Each and every one of the millions of
different kinds of flowers in full bloom
maintains its dignity as an individual
embodiment of truth under the majestic
Principle of Creation. They create harmony
in Mother Nature and abide by the laws of
interdependence and mutual prosperity.
Likewise, each and every human being has
Heaven’s blessing and grace to seek harmony,
peace, freedom and happiness, and to find
eternal life. Heaven has bestowed on each
person the life and characteristics of an
individual being. That is to say, every
human being is born with the rights and
privileges of an individual embodiment of
truth. This means that every person,
regardless of age, sex, rank or status, is
destined is to follow a course of life that
is uniquely his or her own and that reflects
his or her individual nature.
Ladies and gentlemen, can you find another
person who resembles you one hundred
percent? Think about it. Is there anyone
else that has the same individual qualities
you have? Would the lives of identical twins
who were born on the same day and time and
who die at the same time, even, be the same?
No man can take another person’s
individuality, even if he is the handsomest
man in the world and the other person is the
world’s ugliest man, because that ugly man
is a unique embodiment of truth.
God, the king of wisdom, continually creates
eternal, individual embodiments of truth
through the process of origin-division-union
action, in accordance with God’s Principle
of Creation. In this we can discover the
standard of absolute value that makes a
human being human. As with the
interdependent and harmonious relationship
between flowers and butterflies, human
beings were created to live for one another
and share true love. This means that the
human standard of absolute value is
established only within a life of true love,
when the relationship between subject and
object partners blooms in harmony.
Ladies and gentlemen, flowers and
butterflies form relationships as subject
and object partners. They depend on one
another and prosper through their
give-and-take action. In the same way, the
Principle of Creation defines and predicts
the course of relationships between
humankind and nature, between people, and
between God and human beings.
Thus, Mother Nature is the combined body of
all the individual embodiments of truth in
creation, harmoniously bound together.
Mother Nature stands as an absolute object
partner before human beings, her subject
partners. Her ordained role is to enable
human beings to realize their absolute
value.
In the same way, people establish families
of three generations and live within that
basic framework. There they learn and
familiarize themselves with the vertical and
horizontal relationships of above and below,
left and right, and front and back. This
means that each individual seeks a life of
harmony and love through give-and-take
action within the relationships of subject
and object partners. These relationships
enable each family member to attain his or
her absolute value as an individual
embodiment of truth.
What about the relationship between God and
human beings? As the Creator, God’s nature
is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal.
On a closer look, however, and we find that
God stands in the subject position as He
engages in reciprocating relationships with
His creation within the sphere of the
Principle of Creation that He established.
That is because, although we think of God as
the absolute being, He cannot feel joy
outside of the give-and-take relationships
with His object partners.
Had Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors,
not fallen but instead perfected themselves
according to the Principle of Creation as
individual embodiments of truth, people
today would be manifesting our absolute
value. We would serve God above as our Lord
with absolute obedience, and we would relate
with the creation, the natural world, as our
object partners, rejoicing in God’s eternal
kingdom of peace. We would live as the
citizens of the eternal kingdom of Heaven,
not only on earth but also in the spirit
world.
Then how did human beings, created as the
children of the all-knowing and almighty
God, come to fall into such a state of
ignorance? The first ancestors, Adam and
Eve, followed the false parent, Satan, along
the path of the Fall. Indeed, this is the
first tragedy and the most dreadful and
sorrowful shame in human history.
God cannot forsake humankind. Within His
grand ideal of creation human beings were
created to be His children and absolute
counterparts in true love. Therefore, God
has endured the long years of history with a
heart full of bitter pain, grief and
anguish. God is the eternal True Parent of
humanity, yet He has had to persevere
through virtual imprisonment in the shadows
of history. No one has known this reality.
The Limitations of the Pursuit of
Peace Based on Human Effort Alone
Still, throughout history, people have
applied their paltry human efforts in
pursuit of peace. Consider the confrontation
between democracy and communism. Each side
strove to achieve peace on its terms, but
they were unable to resolve the core
differences between them over questions of
human rights, freedom and equality. Yet from
the viewpoint of God’s providence, communism
and democracy are like children who lost
their parents. The two divided into the
positions of Cain and Abel respectively and
became entrapped in the chains of fraternal
conflict.
Human beings without exception are the
children of Satan. Every person is born
inheriting Satan’s lineage. Please reflect
on your own experience for a moment. In
every moment and every aspect of your daily
life, are not good and evil at war within
you, each trying to gain the upper hand?
Since we are imperfect human beings, the
peace movements we have carried out
throughout history have always encountered
limitations and met with failure. This is
the why the United Nations, launched with
the splendid dream of realizing world peace,
today has to confront its inherent
limitations and confess that it can no
longer give hope to humanity. Simply put,
the UN was launched during the era prior to
the time in which Heaven could be directly
involved with the unfolding of God’s
providence in history.
Ladies and gentlemen, by virtue of Reverend
Moon’s devotion to the path of Heaven
throughout the more than eighty years of his
life, a new world is emerging. On this
victorious foundation, the revolutionary era
after the coming of heaven has been
proclaimed. We are now living in the age of
heavenly fortune, an age in which all people
can be liberated and delivered from the
quagmire of sin. It is the era in which the
world of freedom and happiness, the ideal
world as originally envisioned at the time
of the Creation, can be established.
There are several clear reasons why Heaven
designated the person standing before you,
Reverend Moon, as the True Parent of
humankind, and thereby opened up a new era.
First, I have succeeded in practicing the
way of living for the sake of others. That
is, throughout my life I have practiced the
values of true love, emerged triumphant, and
offered that triumph to humanity. All people
are born to live for the sake of others.
However, because of ignorance resulting from
the Fall, people practice the complete
opposite, selfish individualism. I revealed
this secret of Heaven and this knowledge has
been imparted to humankind for the first
time in history. God is fully aware of the
path my life has taken through thick and
thin.
Second, I have dedicated my life to
overcoming all obstacles and laying a
victorious foundation. Through the education
provided by the actual practice of true
love, I have fulfilled all the necessary
conditions for recovering and establishing
the parent–child relationship between God
and humankind. I have opened the way for
human beings, who had become the children of
the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love, and
who have lived as slaves to false love,
false life and false lineage, to be reborn
and resurrected into the true lineage of
God, the source of true love. In other
words, I have opened wide the path for
people to reach full spiritual maturity as
individuals and to establish true families,
true clans, true peoples, true nations, and
a true world, through their leading lives of
true love.
The Mission of the Ambassadors for
Peace
Ladies and gentlemen, as we make our way in
the world, we find that, inevitably, many
connections and relationships influence our
lives. Most of these connections come about
as a result of the choices we make and the
circumstances in which we find ourselves. We
make relationships that can be changed or
erased through our own effort whenever we
like.
On the other hand, heavenly relationships,
which God bequeaths to us from the moment of
our birth, lie outside the realm of choice.
These fundamental and inescapable
relationships are based on connections of
blood. Even though you may dislike your
parents or siblings, for example, you cannot
change them by choice or vote them out of
office. This is because they are connected
to you through ties of blood. Once you are
born into the family with the surname Kim,
you have to live forever as part of the
lineage of the Kim family.
What is the reason humankind has yet to
escape from the snare of sin? It is because
people are born with the false lineage of
Satan. Yet that inheritance is not an innate
blood connection that Heaven bestows in
accordance with the providential will and
purpose. It is not based upon the Principle.
Rather, it is a connection that came about
in violation of the Principle. It was
brought about by human error.
Although human beings have been reduced to
the position of orphans who have lost their
parents through the Fall, the fundamental
relationship endowed by Heaven remains
intact: God is our Parent and we are His
children. As a result of the Fall, human
beings became ignorant beings, as if living
in a vegetative state, unable to recognize
their own Parent even though He is right
there within them and beside them.
Therefore, all people, regardless of who
they may be, belong to the fallen lineage.
All people without exception must be born
again through changing their lineage. This
is the only way we can be restored into the
originally intended blood relationship that
God has bequeathed to us.
The Value of the Intercultural
Marriage Blessing
Furthermore, the best way to restore people
to the position of children of God through
changing their lineage is through the
cross-cultural Marriage Blessing. This is a
revolutionary happening, creating the
heavenly lineage on a whole new level,
transcending the walls of race, culture,
nationality and religion. It is an act that
severs all links of enmity. It is the sacred
rite of the change of lineage through which
all can be re-created through the True
Parents. They are the King and Queen of
Peace, the manifestations of God in
substance, who enable Him to exercise His
providence in the present world.
Beloved Ambassadors for Peace, place your
hand to your chest and ponder this question
quietly in your heart: Is there any other
way to deliver this world from the wars and
antagonism we see around us? Is there a way
more certain to create one global family,
where there is no hatred between family
members, than through cross-cultural
marriages between enemy clans or, going one
step further, between enemy nations?
Ladies and gentlemen, you each stand in the
position of leaders representing the 1.2
million Ambassadors for Peace around the
world who are spearheading the revolutionary
era after the coming of heaven. You are
Heaven’s emissaries who must fulfill the
dual missions of the “peace kingdom police
force” and “peace kingdom corps,” which are
responsible for ensuring the peace and
happiness of humankind in the future.
Therefore, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus and
Muhammad, as well as hundreds of generations
of your ancestors, have mobilized to watch
your every move.
Your mission is now as plain as can be.
First and foremost, you should declare to
every member of your clan and to all your
acquaintances that the world has now entered
the revolutionary era after the coming of
heaven, the era for the establishment of
God’s kingdom, which I call Cheon Il Guk.
You are responsible to educate them about
the providence God is carrying out on the
global level in this era, centering on the
True Parents.
Furthermore, you should teach them without
fail that the cross-cultural Marriage
Blessing is the ultimate means to establish
the peaceful, ideal world here on earth, and
guide the people of your families and clans,
and the Korean people, to join the holy
ranks of those who receive the
cross-cultural Marriage Blessing.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is truly
regrettable that you cannot sense with your
own eyes this precious revolutionary era
after the coming of heaven. It has never
been seen before and will never again be
repeated. The reason for this is that you
are relying only on your five physical
senses. I hope that you will open your five
spiritual senses as quickly as possible so
that you may clearly perceive how the
providence of Heaven is unfolding in this
era. You live in the era of heavenly
fortune, which you have received without
giving anything on your part. Yet please
bear in mind that the providential
timetable, which proceeds according to an
absolute standard, will not wait for you
indefinitely.
Now the time has come for you to unite into
one as the representatives of the
Ambassadors for Peace who have preserved the
spirit of the Korean people and the pride of
the “white-clad race.” There is no time to
waste. What does it matter whether your name
is Kim or Pak? Is there any reason for
Gyeongsang Province and Jeolla Province not
to harmoniously unite? The pro-Seoul Korean
Residents’ Union in Japan (Mindan) and the
pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean
Residents in Japan (Chochongryon) each have
their roots in the same Korean Peninsula.
What of South and North Korea? Aren’t we all
brothers and sisters, sharing a common
lineage? At this time, we should bear in
mind that we are the descendants of the
“white-clad race,” and of Heaven. We have
been raised to establish the lofty ideal of
advancing the welfare of humankind, and we
are the kinsfolk of a people called,
selected and anointed by God to stand at the
forefront of building the peace kingdom in
this, the revolutionary era after the coming
of heaven.
We should seek out and establish “God’s
kingdom and His righteousness”; for it is
everyone’s ultimate destination to live in a
nation that serves and attends God as its
center. What is meant by “God’s kingdom”? It
signifies the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world. It is a nation that resembles the
form of a model true family with three
generations living together in harmony,
trusting, respecting and supporting one
another and becoming one in love. In short,
it is the nation that humanity has longed
for throughout the ages, the utopia where
God is sovereign. Then what is meant by “His
righteousness”? It signifies the heavenly
way and heavenly rule.
Each of us on earth has been commanded to
pass judgment, with the heavenly authority
of true love, upon this evil world that
suffers under scheming, treacherous regimes.
It is our duty to establish the ideal,
peaceful world of true love, a liberated,
free world based on justice and truth. After
all, humanity is meant to become one family.
The remarkable advances of modern science
are contributing greatly to making this
world one global village. The time has come
to establish the beautiful kingdom of the
peaceful, ideal world, where Whites and
Blacks, and Orientals and Westerners, live
together in harmony as one great family.
The Emergence of the Universal Peace
Federation
During this time of transition, the
Universal Peace Federation and the Mongolian
Peoples’ Federation that I have founded will
play important roles. The Universal Peace
Federation (UPF) will now stand in the Abel
position to the existing United Nations. It
will not be an arena of competition such as
that which exists between the member nations
and departments of the UN. Instead, it will
carry out a historic revolution for the
peace and welfare of humanity on a
pan-global and universal level. Unlike the
UN, which focuses on slogans, outward
appearances, UPF will work on a more
fundamental and substantial level to fulfill
a messianic mission that is genuinely
beneficial to humankind.
Peace-loving Ambassadors for Peace! The
Mongolian race, making up 74 percent of the
world’s population, is the largest racial
group in the world. We should inspire all
five billion of them and generate a climate
of true love on this planet.
You and I were born on the Korean Peninsula;
we share the same cultural background. You
are the peace ambassadors and special envoys
of Heaven who are conveying my teachings and
educating others to establish exemplary
families through true love, true life and
true lineage. You who have become
Ambassadors for Peace must now go forward
with the conviction and dignity of a prophet
that comes with Heaven’s truth, having no
fear of the path of death. Go out as
Heaven’s special envoys, and God will
certainly grant you eternal life.
The Mongolian birthmark, which we all have
in common, is not merely a physical mark of
the Mongolian race. It is the mark given by
Heaven to the Tong-yi tribes# long ago to
function as the sign by which the True
Parents would inspire and unite all humanity
with the arrival of the revolutionary era
after the coming of heaven. Furthermore, the
Korean race, standing at the center of the
Mongolian peoples, are the chosen people
that should stand in the forefront of the
6.5 billion people of the world and fulfill
its mission to pass on True Parents’
tradition on their behalf.
Please do not forget that the peaceful,
ideal world, which God envisioned at the
time of creation, and which He desired when
He created humankind, is now being built
right before your eyes. If this is not a
miracle, then what is? All over the world,
the couples who were joined in
cross-cultural Marriage Blessings are
putting down the roots of God’s true love.
The new heavenly lineage is bearing fruit.
The day draws near when this beautiful earth
will become the original Garden of Eden,
where we will enjoy everlasting peace and
happiness. Surely our descendants will, for
innumerable generations, shout “Hallelujah
for God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk!”
May the great blessings and the grace of God
be with you, your families, and the Korean
people.
Thank you.
