6. Appendix

The Base for the Kingdom of God on Earth and Home Church

How much sacrifice has been paid to reach this point in providential history where we could establish the base of the kingdom of God on earth? There has been tremendous sacrifice. So much blood has been shed. So many nations have been destroyed. They just vanished away What was the original desire of all those who have been sacrificed in history? Their ambition was to come into the possession of all of heaven and earth. But sadly, without fulfilling their dreams, they died as sacrifices to open the way for fallen man to be restored. In order to avenge them, and to clear their minds, we are now doing home church. Home church can bring comfort to them. I am the one liberator who can mend their broken spirits and bring them to fulfillment.

I am sure that history will repeat itself in your 360 home area. Many chaotic things will even happen there. You are going to be a target, and people may even try to kill you. But after you flee from danger, you will come back and fight again. You should think, "In the shortest possible time, I am determined to pay indemnity for 360 homes, no matter what. Even if really awful things happen, that would be the chance to pay the indemnity all at once. I welcome it!" Then Satan will appear from the spiritual world to challenge you. He will say, "What?! You're a champion of God? You're even a liberator? Huh! I've never heard such a ridiculous thing." But you keep working hard, and reply, "Yes. I am a liberator. I am a representative of God. My body is His body. I'm the subject of this area, and I'm responsible for these 360 homes. They are my world; they are a microcosm of the entire world. No matter how hostile it may be in the beginning, I will keep coming back, and eventually I shall be welcomed. In the end, people all throughout my 360 home area will welcome me as their messiah."

Therefore, love everyone. Love even the beggar, and the disabled. It doesn't make any difference. The messiah should love everyone. Even if you just bring some glass into your area and hold it up and say, "This is the messiah," let the people believe it. Let the people believe in you.

You should not want to do home church so that you yourself can be liberated. You should do it because you want to liberate 360 homes. It is your own planet earth, your own small planet. Do your absolute best to bring liberation there, and put yourself last. Your 360 homes should receive all the blessings first, and then you can follow them. Think of yourself as a shepherd. Care for the sheep and send them into their dwelling quarters first. Then you can enter and take rest.

There are three levels of ownership in the world. One is public ownership; second is private ownership; and third is heavenly ownership. We should put all we have, both private and public things, under heavenly ownership. A false sense of possession is the worst enemy of man. When you go by heavenly sense, you provide for needs out of the heavenly fund. Even when you give someone a dollar, don't give out of your own pocketbook, but give out of the heavenly fund. You can give the money for whatever material is needed from the heavenly treasure; so the person who receives it is benefited not by me, but by God. The spiritual world will operate through that kind of relationship. And God will reimburse you ten times over.

In conclusion, we must put everything under heavenly ownership. Wipe away all past concepts. We have to live according to such a new concept.

Instructions to International and United States Leaders
11.26.78, Boston

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Outline of Home Church

We have been developing spiritually according to our concept of heaven on earth. We have had some idea of heaven, and our idea has been growing. But even with the best idea that we have had so far, heaven on earth would never be realized. Home church is the revolutionary idea which has, as its basic principle, the building of the concrete foundation on earth for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Throughout history, the dispensation was limited by the fact that no one, including Father, until very recently, could work on the basis of large groups of people. Salvation could not be brought to masses of people at one time. First, God had to recreate and reestablish Adam, working through the three long eras of dispensational history. Then, centering around Adam as the first perfected individual, God could restore His family, and finally realize the true clan and nation. Until God restored this foundation, the Messiah could not work the full dispensation at the world level. When the Lord comes again, his purpose is to deal with the entire world, but he cannot do that until he satisfies all the conditions necessary to restore God's individual, family, clan and nation. The Messiah himself needs to be perfected, to have a family, to restore his clan and nation before he can work throughout the world; and after that, he can work to restore the spirit world, of course. Only after going beyond all these conditions and thus coming into the realm where there is no more accusation from the satanic world, can he return to his own family, and begin the real building and expansion of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Even after Adam's own perfection, then, he has to have a family, which is the core and the nucleus of God's restored love on earth. Then through that family unit, he must expand his dominion to the clan, the nation, world, and spirit world. Satan knows this and will try to do everything he can to block Adam's advancement; Satan will try to stop the development of this family, clan and nation at crucial points.

We might wonder why the true Adam should be persecuted, even after he perfects himself, and why he doesn't have the full right, as the Son of God, to do whatever he wants to do. It is because the dispensation requires, and cannot be fulfilled without the salvation of the elder brother. Because of the course of the fall, the first son is destined to go to Satan's side. Restoration must be brought about by the second son, who can go to God's side. For the will of God to be fulfilled, the younger brother, Abel, must take responsibility to raise up the elder brother, Cain; and Cain must be educated to be able to fulfill his portion of responsibility. If the fall had not taken place, then the first and second sons would, of course, both have been be on God's side. But this was not possible after the fall. The first son came to be under Satan, and the second son under God. In this situation, then, who is qualified to receive the inheritance from God and God's blessing? Again, if the fall had not taken place, the elder son would have been the one to receive that blessing. That is the Principle. But now the inheritance had to come to the second son, who was put in the position, providentially, to restore the birthright and position of God's true son. According to Principle, the second son can only go to God and receive the blessing through the first son. And if the first son is not willing to give it, then the second son has to somehow "snatch" or come to get the blessing back from the first son.

This process of reversing and restoring the birthright is crucially important. The deepest seeds of the restoration lie here. This is why in the Old Testament we know that the first-born, Perez, and the second-born, Zerah, struggled even from within the womb of their mother, Tamar. We know that prior even to that point in dispensational history, Jacob had to establish some condition through which to take the blessing away from the elder, first-born son, Esau. Jacob could not do this simply, or directly, but had to establish a condition which was legitimate according to the Principle. And he had to do this not only in a symbolic way, but also in a physical, substantial way. He had to labor as a servant for 21 years for his uncle Laban and give Esau all he that he had gained. Then he had to wrestle with the angel at the ford of Jabbok and defeat him in order to restore the right of blessing. By doing that, he established the foundation on which to inherit the blessing on the clan level through the elder or first-born. In the Israelites' history, whenever this dispensation would move one level higher, then struggle was inevitable. When God would attempt to work through any central person to bring about restoration, first on the family, and then on the clan and national levels, turmoil and conflict would arise at each stage because Satan was determined to block God's advancement.

An orderly pattern must be established connecting the individual level to the family level, family to clan level, clan level to national level, and national to world level, all in a straight line. Leaders at every level must be harmonized with each other. Then, when any one of the central persons gets victory over satanic dominion at any level of the providence, then every one connected with him will share that victory. Throughout the Old Testament, each individual bore the responsibility of each dispensation separately. Thus, there were some individual variations used in the methods of fulfilling God's dispensation from one generation to the next, and consistency was lacking. One of the missions of the Lord, the Savior who comes in the Last Days, is to make the path of God's overall providence straight, consistent, and continuous, restoring one generation at a time.

So when Jesus came, at the national level, the nation should have come to center around Jesus and become perfectly united with him. Then all the other levels could have been straightened out and brought into harmony within seven years. This would have been the path of least difficulty and the most ideal way to accomplish the dispensation at that time. After gaining the support of the nation, and thus being empowered to go beyond the national level, Jesus would have been qualified to go forward and restore the world. Unless the people around Jesus came into complete harmony with him on the national level, however, Jesus could not advance the dispensation.

Now God was no longer working through individuals, as He had in the Old Testament, but He was using one man, Jesus, to try to restore the family, clan and nation-all of the levels-at one time. Restoration started from the individual and family levels; now Jesus stood at the central point of the nation, on the threshold of the world level. This was not only the central point of the world, but also of the individual, family, clan and nation; everything revolved around this central axis. Thus, by succeeding on the national level, Jesus would have established the condition to restore the entire fallen world.

What this meant, physically, in the real sense, was that after completing the dispensation successfully in Rome, going through Rome, and returning to his own home among the Israelites where he started, then, centering on Israel, the real, ideal world would have started to be realized. This represents the process of winning over the elder brother, subjugating Cain level by level, and inheriting his right of blessing to God's side. The second son must change positions with the first son, level by level, and return to his original home. Satan will not surrender the blessing and the birthright easily, and the first son will resist the efforts of the second son. Nevertheless, with or without a fight, the second son must win. He comes into the victorious position as far as God is concerned, so he can return to his original home. He is in the first sons position, although he started out as second son. If Jesus had succeeded in his mission, he would have been the first son on the family, clan, and national levels-even unto the world level.

When the Messiah comes again, this still remains to be done. If this basic seven-year course is not successfully completed, it must be repeated. We see that Jesus did not complete it; therefore, the Lord of the Second Advent must restore it. Do you follow? So, centering on Christianity, this seven-year course had to be done all over again, from the individual to the world level. If the Christians had obeyed and supported Father of course, this could easily have been accomplished. However, the Christians opposed Father, and the foundation that was laid could not be used by God. Then Father had to start all over again from the beginning, restoring all the stages of the providence again in his own lifetime.

When Father accomplishes the foundation to become the center of the dispensation at the world level, then everybody will come to learn more and more about him, and what he did for the world and for God. This foundation can be broadened horizontally until even the last remaining men and women on earth hear about him and accept him as the source and center of the new age. Then the restoration that was left undone at the time of Jesus will be accomplished.

Again, if Christianity had supported the will of God, centering around the coming of the Lord of the Second Advent, then this would easily have been done within seven years and the whole world would have come within the range of the embrace of God. But, when, within seven years' time, Christianity did not come to support Father, the dispensation failed and Father found himself utterly alone in this world of death. If only Christianity had listened to him, understood him, followed and obeyed him, then Father could have taken all the different segments of the foundation for the providence which Christianity had laid -- the family foundation, clan foundation, elder's foundation -- and just put them all together. Do you follow? But as it was, Christianity did not accept and follow him, and all of the historical foundation came to nothing; God could not claim it. And, as we know, this dispensation has been extended from Adam's time, through Jesus' time, and finally to the time of the Second Advent. Each time period is represented by seven years; thus three orderly stages of seven -- 21 years -- is allowed for restoration. What was accomplished at Jesus' time was only fragmentary, and that second time period was left dangling. The third time period itself during the course with Christianity brought failures which had to be overcome. From this emerges the need for and the significance of the three seven-year courses, the 21-year course, within the Unification Church.

Father walks this course in a sensitive way, to restore the many segments of the providence, and to make them into a straight, continuous, paved pathway. He has to make the tradition easy to follow so that everyone following him can go through a formula course to reach the same destination he did. So the Messiah, as a perfected individual, must take his family, and advance through the various stages. When the family moves and works together as one unit centering around God and gains victory at the clan level, then they can inherit the blessing on the clan level. When they progress to the national level, the Messiah and his clan can win the fight on the national level. And when the Messiah wins the victory at this level in the nation of America, which is in the place of the Roman empire, and represents the world, then he will have won the elder's blessing on the world level. In this way, starting out as the second son, he must elevate himself to the position of the elder son and claim it for God. This is the mission of the Messiah.

During his course, the Messiah passes through every stage of the dispensation. The Jewish people, representing the Old Testament era, and the Christian people, representing the New Testament era, all opposed Father, however. And even the nation of America, which has realized the symbolic prototype of heaven on earth, also opposed the advancement of his mission. The final confrontation with this opposition and the culmination of this aspect of Father's mission was the Washington Monument rally. Washington Monument represented the peak of opposition. And Father continued even beyond that point to win a symbolic fight against Congress, representing the core of the power of this country. Until September 18, 1976 was a time of spiritual fighting necessary to restore the elder's blessing back to God's side. Father had to become established and recognized by God as the true elder son. After that time, the period of physical fighting began in which we all witnessed legal actions and confrontations of many kinds. The battle must be won on both the spiritual and physical levels.

Father is victorious as the elder son. He started out as the second-born, but now, he can be the victor not only on the national level, but also on the world level. That means he can be the center; he can go anywhere, and still be the elder brother to everyone. This is how Adam was supposed to be: Adam should have been the elder son, not only of his own family, but of his clan, his nation, and his world. He would have been the elder son everywhere he went. Since the restoration of the true elder son's position is completed, then God is ready to give Father, as the original Adam, all the blessings at all the different levels. He can give the blessing at the family level; He can give the blessing at the clan and national levels; even unto the world level, God is now free to give him blessing. That means that Father can lead our Church family through all these levels, and brothers and sisters can fight to achieve blessing and victory themselves at all these levels as well. This spiritual fight culminated in the Washington Monument rally on September 18, 1976.

Until that time, fallen people could do anything they wanted to with this second son. Father could have no authority. The elder son, representing Satan's dominion, had all the authority. The blessings belonged to him and extended throughout the world. Until the true Adam could reverse the situation and restore the blessing back to God's side, people could bother and persecute him so much, and even drag him into hell. However, when Adam gets victory, he can use the same principle as the satanic elder son did, even drag his older brother out of hell, and bring him back to the side of goodness. This is what is supposed to happen. Do you understand?

The fight against Fraser was an example of this. Father's spiritual foundation to restore the elder son's position was already well established, and on this valid and invincible foundation Father could fight confidently; Father knew he could not lose against Fraser. At that point God could recognize that Father had won back the elder son's position and blessing, and Satan could not do anything about it. So Father went ahead and sued Congressman Fraser and sued the New York Times, going against all the powers of injustice. So far Father has been kicked around; but from this time on, it will not be permitted.

Now we can also see some tangible result of these victories. In Korea, many people opposed Father. Everybody knew that the opposition was unwarranted and ridiculous. However, in recent years, those opposing Father all died. They are even dying now, one by one. Ryan, who was next to Fraser in power, also died. In Korea the meaning of what is happening is very obvious. Do you follow this? If this is not true, then nothing is true, and there is no Principle upon which God can operate.

Then Father left America and went to London, staying there exactly six months. Then he went to Korea, and came back. This trip has special significance, because Father was embraced and welcomed in Korea; he received incredible recognition. There was no opposition except from a very few hardcore Christian ministers, and nobody paid any attention to them. So because of this foundation, Father can move from one country to another country without being limited. Satan cannot do anything, because he knows the Principle. Even if he wants to create opposition, he knows now that he cannot fight against Rev. Moon and expect to win. As a result, Father has been preparing many "John the Baptist" nations, not just in America, but in many different parts of the world. We can understand, by reason and by Principle, that this is why, wherever Father goes, he is the legitimate elder son; and as far as God is concerned, there can be no legal or legitimate opposition which is of any consequence.

Then what are Unification Church members? You could say that Unification Church members are the eldest grandchildren of God. We are Father's tribe! And the eldest grandson is entitled to have his own country; he can accomplish at that level, now. Because of the foundation of Father's achievements in the Principle, the only thing the eldest grandson needs to do is to understand and to inherit that foundation. Through Father he can hold his birthright again, and exercise it by restoring his own family, and expanding his territory as a legitimate grandson. In the past, Jesus left only the spiritual victory, and he did not fulfill the physical victory. Then who must actually accomplish that physical victory? Now the task goes to every individual. Every single living individual must come into the realm of true eldest grandson where he is entitled to win back his own blessing and birthright.

Looking back, we can reexamine Jesus' situation. Jesus was not able to become a messiah even to his own clan. He failed to establish his tribal messiahship. Jesus' clan was represented by Joseph's family, in the Abel position, and Zachariah's family, in the Cain position. Beginning in the position of the second-born, Jesus had to restore his position as elder son by uniting with John the Baptist and winning Zachariah's family. Then he could have returned home to Joseph's family on this victorious foundation and inherited the blessing of the elder son's position in his own home. In this way Jesus should have brought Joseph's and Zachariah's families into unity and harmonized them. Then automatically Jesus could have stood as the center and messiah of his own clan, and would have been elevated into the position of true parents of the clan level. He would no longer have needed to witness to anything. The elder's birthright and blessing would then have been restored to God's side, and the will of God would have been completed on the clan level.

As history witnesses, Jesus could not fulfill in this way. He failed to accomplish that part of his mission. Our mission is based on our responsibility to restore Jesus' failure. Father has given members that authority, so our work has this vertical significance. But we are deployed by Father horizontally, and because of Father's foundation, he can deploy us any way he chooses. Father can restore the right to everyone in the Unification Church to become the head of his clan and even establish his own country. He has given us the privilege to become tribal messiahs. We have a much better position than what Jesus himself had, because we have already won the spiritual foundation on which we only need to gather the physical reality. If we have anything less than Jesus' position, we cannot enter heaven. This is why we renounce everything in this world and just connect ourselves to Father's foundation and blessing. Through Father we inherit the position of the victorious Jesus, of Jesus who fulfilled his mission. Then Father can deploy us, with his permission and authority, to restore our own clans, everywhere throughout the world, with no exceptions.

That leaves us a concrete area, with concrete work to do. We are exactly in Jesus' situation; so what should you do? You have to find the home which is equivalent to Zachariah's, and try to restore the elder son's position in relationship to them. Then you have to restore Joseph's family, which is your own physical family, and bring them into harmony with Zachariah's family. In the Principle, in order to restore the clan, you have to win over the Cain family and then win over the Abel family, both, and bring them into unity. Then you can be the center and messiah of your own clan. After you complete that, in fact, you are no longer just a messiah; you are true parents to your clan. Do you follow? And when you actually achieve that, then you will suddenly find yourself thrust into a larger, Abel-type realm, in the national position. At that point, restoring the nation on your own power will become easy. You will want to achieve this because it will be within your power to do it.

What Father is giving you is this very ground: the home church. You must go to the home church, and restore your own Cain and Abel clans, becoming a true master. Father is giving you the permission to do this, so you are going with the authority of God Himself and the authority of the True Parents. And why now, at this time? Because now God and True Parents have established the solid condition on which anybody can do it. Since Father has already won that foundation, he is now saying to you, "Go, and achieve your own clan; become the messiah and true parents to your own clan." This is what Father is assigning you to do in home church.

As a result of these solid achievements, our opponents are losing their ground more and more; they are losing what little ground they have had so far. People cannot continue to oppose you any longer. If you sit tight, like a sitting duck, and you let them oppose you, well, then, they will go on and on opposing you, because they have no reason to stop. But when you go and demand an explanation of why they are bothering you, why they are opposing you, and what is wrong with you that they have to oppose you; when you protest like that, and the people around you judge the situation based on what you have said and done, then they won't be able to oppose you any longer. If you only sit tight, however, they will keep on opposing you. So from now on, keep a modest and humble attitude, but go ahead and protest to them, "Why do you oppose me? What wrong have I done?" Then you will gain your force and ground and you will become stronger.

So far we have had to put up with opposition. But now that Father has established these historical conditions, we don't have to put up with it any longer. This is why Father is now saying, for the first time, not to sit tight any longer, but to confront your opponents. Go to your minister or to the newspaper or to the television station and demand an explanation. Ask why the reports about you and the organization you represent were false and misleading. Demand to know on what grounds they could report such things. Then if you find any real wrongdoing on their part, go ahead and sue them with the help of a good lawyer. Is it true that you are right, and they are wrong? If so, then go ahead.

What will happen as a result? Everyone has taken it for granted that the Unification Church is a target of persecution, so our resistance may create some confusion at first. But soon people will become afraid to bother us, because when they harass us, they will be proven wrong. Everyone, including the judges involved, knows that they are wrong. And we know why. We know clearly that we must become the messiah of our own clan; we must pick up and restore the unaccomplished mission of Jesus. Since the spiritual foundation is accomplished, we only need to apply it to physical restoration. That is the nature and significance of home church.

Father's history involved the restoration of the three different providential ages. In each age, a different type of sacrificial offering, representing the restoration of heaven and earth, was made at the altar of God. The Old Testament age offering was material; the New Testament age, the offering of life; and the Completed Testament age, the offering of love, of the heart. True Parents have accomplished these conditional offerings on every level, from the individual to the world level. Every follower, every grandson, should do the same thing. But that would be impossible, physically, and it doesn't need to be done, because the Parents have taken all the responsibility. As long as the children just follow the pattern, the Parents will regard that as a condition, and God will accept it. It is easier for you, since the Messiah has already paved the way. We only need to follow Father's way in that small area of 360 homes. Home church represents a condensation of his course. Symbolically, the 360 home area has everything in it; not only does it contain the entire earth, but also the element of man. That number 360 symbolizes earth and man. It means not only the 360 degrees of all space, but also the 360 days in the year of the lunar calendar. Thus both time and space are represented in your area by the number 360, representing the entire earth and all mankind.

The number 360 is inclusive of all the significant numbers: one, which is God; and two, three and four -- 72; seven, especially; there's no number which is left out of 360. Up until now, as Father has told you, individual salvation has been the goal. But from now on, God can deal with salvation in mass. Even you are not dealing with just your individual selves any longer; you are dealing with the family unit, and the clan unit that you are restoring in home church. Once this is done, then the entire nation can come into salvation, as well. Jesus failed to secure 12 disciples and 72 elders. If Jesus had had this minimum number of 84 to be his fence, his barrier against satanic invasion, then he would not have had to give up his life. It is your destiny to restore this number in the place of Jesus. Within your seven-year course, you must bring in one person every month. Then you will have your 84. If the Unification Church overall had enough members to cover 84 disciples for every individual member, then you would not even have to do home church. You would already have the necessary foundation to go directly back to your own homes and witness to your relatives.

Once the fall occurred, restoration could not begin in one's own home. Instead, historically, the central person of God's dispensation had to leave his native land and go to restore these numbers. Only then could he come back. Real restoration would begin when he could return home after having inherited the elder son's blessing and birthright back to God's side. Therefore, in all religious endeavor, you have to leave your native place, just as Jesus and Buddha did. The path of religion always leads out and away from your home. This is why.

Let us take Father's own physical family as an example. Father has never given a Divine Principle lecture to his own mother, or brothers and sisters. Father had to leave his home and restore all these providential numbers. Only then could he go back to his native country. Then Father could, for the first time, give Divine Principle lectures and restore his own family and clan. So Father went back and had a glorious homecoming in Korea. And he performed a very important ceremony on November 2, 1978. In that ceremony, Father witnessed to his own clan.

What significance does this have? Let's take a look at the spirit world, the real, substantial spirit world, as it is. The spirit world is divided into many societies, and even nations, greater in number than what we find in our physical world. Each society is isolated from all the others; there are rigid walls between them. You cannot simply go from one neighbor to another, because the people there won't permit each other to come across the boundaries. The spirit world is just like the physical world in this respect. On earth you have to have a passport, and go through very rigid processing for every country you go to. In spirit world, the processing is even more severe.

Divisions exist according to religion, as well. Different religions and their denominations have been separated by walls and isolated from each other. Then, what Father did specifically was to establish the condition to bring these various denominations and religions together. He brought all the many little branches, or tributaries, of religion into conjunction with the mainstream religions, such as Buddhism, Christianity, and so forth. Then he connected these to the central religion, Unification Church. Father has to establish the conditions on earth to liberate the spirit world, and break down the walls which have existed there.

Father also has to liberate the many clans in spirit world by breaking down the barriers between them and bringing them into harmony as well. Then people can travel among all the clans without any passports or processing. Restoration must be done in this order: religions in the spirit world must be brought into unity before clan wars can be successfully done away with. Just as in the case with religion, where the "mainstream" religion, Unification Church and all the other tributary or "side-stream" religions have to come into harmony with each other, Father had to unite his own family, as the "mainstream" clan, with all the tributary or "side-stream" clans and bring them into harmony. When they can all come together without conflict, then all the barriers and fences in spirit world can be done away with. Father establishes this foundation and sets the condition, and when God approves, then it is done.

As a result, all the ancient walls in spirit world that have separated one section from another for thousands of years are finally crumbling. What does that mean to us? Previously, whenever any of our ancestors were supposed to come to the earth plane to help us, they had to go through all sorts of administrative processing and so forth. It would be almost impossible for them to come. However, since barriers in the spirit world have been broken down, people there have come to know what the Unification Church means and what is right and wrong in the true sense; and it is easier for them to descend to help us. From now on, when people on earth continue to oppose us, they will be pressured by good spirits more and more. Soon they will not be able to oppose us very much at all because the spirit world will work against them and interfere with their efforts to disrupt Unification Church activities. The earth is Adam's position; and the spirit world is the archangel's position. The earth itself used to be divided between Adam's and the archangel's dominion, but no longer. Now the entire spirit world has been subjugated by the true Adam, and has succumbed to him. The whole earth has become victorious. Not only can just the good part of spirit world help the earth; now the entire spirit world-anyone, anywhere-can come directly down to earth, especially our ancestors.

Let's take an example. If you have 360 homes in a town in Florida, then all the spirits which once used to live in this Florida town when they were on earth, the spirits of all their relations, as well as the ancestors of people currently residing there, can all come down at the same time to assist you. One day, you won't even have to go back to your own hometown. In one given area, so many spirits will come down to help you that it would be the same as, or just as easy as, going to your own hometown where all of your own ancestors would descend to help. Spirits will be able to descend on the basis of such "land affiliation." What is happening, actually, is that when we work on the clan level in home church, the entire clan of anyone connected to you, or to the past or present residents there, can pour down into the area and give their full support. Based on any connection they can find with you or anyone in the neighborhood, spirits can help. For example, if you are Catholic, then all the Catholic spirits can come down and help. If there is one Buddhist, then all the Buddhist spirits can come down, not only his own ancestors. If a Buddhist temple was in that area, and later it was used as a Christian church, then both Buddhist and Christian spirits can all come, because that's the way they connect. Home church is the altar where we provide the offering. It is the altar where virtually everyone and everything can come and be connected to your offering.

You have inherited the right to do home church. You should not begin with a high posture. You should start out as a servant of servants. You can elevate yourselves to the position of servant when there is someone else to take your place. You can be elevated to the position of adopted son when somebody is willing to take your servant's role, and so forth. As a messiah of that area you are responsible to restore everybody. Therefore you have to start out from the lowest possible place and work yourself up. You do not go as any kind of prince or princess, but rather as a servant of servants.

Jesus was such an obvious example. He washed his disciples' feet, and told everyone following him that they should do the same. Regard yourself as a trashcan, centering on love. Make yourself available as a trashcan so that everybody can dump their garbage into you. You should not refuse that. When you go to someone's home, and the baby wets his diaper, don't shy away because it's smelly. But go there, wash and change the diaper yourself, and although you never had a child of your own, think that this is your own child. When you go to a home that has a dirty area, then go there and clean it, just as if it were your own home. In fact, do an even better job, because you have to make a heaven out of that place also. Eventually, there is bound to be someone who will insist on doing all these things for you. Then you will be elevated one more step. Go to your home church with that heart. Practice and train yourself in this way. Then when you go there, everybody will come and welcome you. They will want to follow you just as you want to follow Father. When Father went to England, all of us wanted to go to England, too, didn't we? And when Father returned to America, then everybody in England missed him. If you have some especially nice food, you might want to give it to Father before eating it yourself. Your followers will feel exactly the same way toward you. There's no part of this that Father hasn't experienced. He knows exactly what way you are going to go.

People in spirit world would like to have a foundation so that they can always come back to earth whenever they wish. This is why the spirit world is so busy. Everyone there is trying to create his own foundation for resurrection. To accomplish this, spirit men have to help you to build your foundation on earth. When you open up the way to victory, spirit men will share that benefit with you. But you have to master them. You need to follow only one principle. You have to feel the need to accomplish God's will more acutely and desperately, and work harder than they ever did. You must never yield your standard. Perhaps one man who once lived in your area was very loyal to Heaven, even more than you. You absolutely cannot allow that to happen. No one should be able to compete with your standard of loyalty to Heaven. That's the iron rule. If you are outdone by any person who is alive or in spirit world, then you have no place to stand. This is why Father determined to do more than any soul, living or dead, for the sake of America. He determined to love America more than anybody, and he did just that. Whenever you hear about somebody who did more to save America or the world than you did, then you simply must catch up to him and then exceed his standard.

If someone from your area who went to spirit world was more loyal to Heaven than you, and you just say that it is all right, then that spirit man won't come down to help you. He has no reason to come down, because he cannot gain any new merit through you. You will not be able to achieve anything at all in your area, that way. Whether you eat or sleep is a secondary matter; you can even forget about it. Your sole concern should be to outdo any patriot or saint, living or in spirit world, among your 360 homes. If you are determined to do that, then Father guarantees you that nobody will starve. When you reach that superior level, then you can command any spirit that is connected with your area. You can summon them and tell them what you are going to do, and ask them to help you do it. On such a foundation, they will help you.

Sooner or later, you will leave this earth, and go to spirit world. Wouldn't you like to be able to come back to earth? Would you want to have to come through someone else? How would you like to come? You would rather have your own home, wouldn't you, instead of borrowing someone else's home. It's just like a bird and its nest: you are the bird, and you are going to build a nest. If you are a big bird and have a big nest, then you can go anywhere in the world and always come back when you want to. You can travel very far distances. However if you are just a small bird and have only a small nest, then you can only fly a few hundred miles away, and then you have to come back. The size of the home, or foundation, you make here on earth will determine the extent of your freedom in the spirit world.

Let's say your home church work is not so effective, so you decide just to go somewhere and get a job. That's fine, but eventually you will have to come back to the home church and start it all over again. In home church your investment will remain, whereas elsewhere, it will all flow away. Home church is like a launching pad at Cape Kennedy. You are going to launch yourselves straight to heaven. When you launch yourselves, will you be victorious and ready for takeoff? Do you have such determination and confidence, or are you wondering how you will accomplish it?

Home church is more precious than your own wife, than your own daughter, than anything. It is most precious. Your wife and your daughter are precious only after home church, in that order. This is the Principle. Is it consistent and reasonable to you? [Yes.] We only need to feel that even such a "fantasy," as some people would call it, overlaps perfectly with reality. How fantastic this is! It is a combination of so many religious ideals. If we fail to do home church, then we will really become miserable people. We will be destined then to have to move from one place to another, going through unnecessary persecution, and we will have to start all over again at another time. So we really must do home church. We have to establish this good ground in home church, rather than any place else, for God and for the future.

After you are successful in home church, you will go back to your own hometown. Automatically your clan will assemble to welcome you. You won't have to witness or do anything then, as you do now, because when you go back, you won't be in the same position as you are now. You will return as the Abel who subjugated Cain through love. Then wherever you go, you will be in the position of restored Abel. Everyone will welcome you; no one will oppose you -- not even Satan. And before you go to spirit world, you have to have a big reunion and feast with your own family and clan. You will rejoice, thanking God for all His blessings. Only after such a celebration has taken place will you really be free to die and go to heaven in the spirit world.

After the third seven-year course Father will go back to Korea and the people there will absolutely receive him with joy. Those who continue to reject him will perish from the force of the dispensation. At that time, nothing more will need to be done. Everything will be finished and Father will still be living. Father will have been living in heaven on earth at the end of the third seven-year course.

Father has set you right at the starting point. But you have an option. You don't have to remain as just the messiah of your clan; you can become the messiah of a nation. The effect of that will be to encourage you to become a messiah of the world. When you become successful in your 360 homes, you can send your people out to the world to set up their own home churches. They will prosper, and breed a third generation. This way, you will become the ancestor of as broad a domain as you please. Soon, when Father has confidence that you are doing well in your home church, he will allow you to counsel and supervise your own members' home church work. How much responsibility would you like to take?

If you can't do it within 3 1/2 years' time, then other people who really want to do home church will just come into your area and start witnessing. You will be deprived of your area and have to go some place else. There is really no way to get around home church.

Just imagine! is this really true? Will we realize heaven on earth, or not? It is even mathematical; you can work it out. If there are two million people, and each person has 360 homes, then that covers the last man on earth. It only takes two million people. Do you think this is difficult. or can this be done?

Yes, all of this is true. Father did it, and Father knows it better than anybody. Father also knows better than you that this is a dream-like thing. But you wait and see: it will come to pass. We had better do it. Now we know what Father is like. He is fearful, in a way. Father could figure this out, accomplish it, explain it to you, and give you proof. When we realize what kind of person Father is, we must receive some awakening power. And you know for sure. So you must understand home church clearly and perform the task.

11.27.78, Boston

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Our Activity From Now On

Home Church System from the Providential Viewpoint

One important concern that we have is how to raise witnessing results. I have emphasized the plan of bringing one person per month into the church, which adds up to 84 people in seven years. Up until now, however, in considering if the leaders and the members are truly united in one heart centering upon this direction, I have to conclude that, in fact, they are not. Therefore, no matter how desperately the spirit world wants to help you, they cannot relate with you. Your relationship with the spirit world is cut off.

Here the matter of home church arises. Home church is just not a method of witnessing, but is formed out of deeper providential reasons. If only the Unification Church can hold home church as its fundamental ideology, educate the members fully to have the conviction to live by it and thereby realize the solution of all matters of eternity through payment of indemnity, then it will not be difficult at all to bring ten people into the church from the 360-home area within one year.

Until now, we witnessed to people on the streets and taught them the Divine Principle. But so many of them left afterwards for somewhere unknown, and we didn't even have enough time, really, to take care of them. Once they left, they had no way to be connected to the Church. Therefore, after working for ten years, the number of people who left is many times greater than the number of people who remain. Such activity is nothing but a sacrifice. If you invest the same amount of time and effort within your 360-home area, you will surely come to be known and respected by everyone there. They will attend to you and treat you as a saint. Then you won' t even need ten years; three years will be enough.

If someone who lives in your area has attended a workshop, you should meet with him every day. Unification Thought is great, and it is important for him to listen to it for intellectual content and stimulation. You should talk about the contents of the Principle which he learned at workshop. It is even just common sense nowadays for people to know about the Unification Church because it is so controversial.

There are many different kinds of people in the 360-home area. There may be famous people, for example, scholars, lawyers, ministers of the cabinet, and so forth. Since the 360 homes cover a large area, you may have contact with a number of famous people. Then you can do so many things! For example, you can hold birthday parties or wedding celebrations; you can organize picnics in the summer. You should plan such activities, and then connect the people with each other and create a heartistic circle in the society. You can even do something like open a public bank account to create scholarships for those who are talented, but poor, in your area. You can do anything!

You don't need to witness directly; you can advance your foundation step by step, centered on such social activities. People will begin to wonder why you are doing such things, and by what power or inspiration you do them. As they think about it, they will begin to compare you with their relatives, their cousins, and even their own children. Even though you may not say anything, they will study you and start to wonder: "He is so wonderful. He is a member of the Unification Church. How do the members of the Unification Church become so wonderful? I can see at a glance that he is quite intelligent and has good critical judgment. But he can also serve others humbly. What is the power behind him which made him become such a great person?"

Based on this kind of record, you can ask people to introduce you to their relatives. Suppose there is one young person in every house; then there should be 360 young people in your area. Think about it. If there is one young person in every three houses, there should be 120. If there is even only one in every six homes, then there are still 60. This is a matter of no small consideration. Your area is like a diamond ore: the more you polish it, the more it will sparkle. The more you cultivate your area, the more fruitful it will become.

Let's Create External Heaven First

What activities should you do in your 360-home area? Simple ones. Meet people every day. For the first six months you don't need to talk about difficult matters nor about Divine Principle. You may just say, "Since society has become so corrupt, our youth organization has started to research various Tokyo communities where we can launch service and assistance projects. We want to help." Say this and practice it. In the beginning, people may look at you with suspicion. Some may even call the police to find out what kind of organization would start such a thing. Anyway, they will find out eventually and naturally that you are a member of the Unification Church.

So, you must do some simple all-out services. Serve all of the people in your area. You should be responsible to create the earthly, or external, heaven in your 360-home area. Before creating the internal heaven centering on people, create the external, environmental heaven. If there is a garden, then sow seeds in the early spring to make it bloom. You can cut hedges and prune trees, mow the grass or pull out weeds. If you find anything which is broken, then repair it, even if takes you three hours to do what a professional could do in a half hour. Suppose even that you see spiders' webs inside a home; you should visit that home once a week on your own to clean it up entirely. Everyone welcomes this kind of service, no matter who does it. Since the environment itself is not ideal, you have to do such social and environmental kinds of services as long as you are there. It doesn't matter if you are skilled or not. You will say, "I just can't stand looking at such a miserable situation, and I can't help but do this. So please, let me serve you." The people will say, "Thank you very much; you may do it."

People will watch you with curious eyes and wonder how long you will continue. But you will serve steadily, first one house, then two houses, then finally all 360 houses. What will happen? Parents will say to their children, "A young man of your age from the Unification Church is serving people very much, and is becoming famous in this community. But how about you? You just drink a lot and get into trouble." They will give advice to their children based on your good example. Some of them will come and secretly ask you, "Please take care of my children, and give them guidance. I tried my best to educate them, but nothing worked. I lost hope. You must understand the situation of young people really well. So please guide them." it is wonderful when the parents ask for your help in such a way.

You can make friends in the community in a short time. You can say, "Let's go. I'll follow you wherever you go. You need a friend!" Then you should make gatherings. It might be nice to take your friends to a park, eat together, play, and talk to them while they are resting in the shade of the trees. You can give a wonderful speech. Nobody will leave, but everybody will listen very carefully, even if you speak for more than an hour. You should talk about the Principle. There are so many topics. You can discuss the way people were defeated by the decline and corruption of society, or judged by God in history. Using these examples, you can go on to discuss how the consequences of unprincipled actions can affect your friends' descendents for eternity, and how terrible the fall of man is. You can even teach the Fall of Man, and explain how human society really should be. Sitting there in the shade of the trees, you can teach the entire Principle, from the Principle of Creation to the Second Coming and World Affairs, and so forth. People will wonder why you are so wonderful, even though originally they thought you were just a sanitation man in the community. If they become interested in you, then they will meet with you often, and you can deepen the relationships.

Suppose that you hold such gatherings every six months: that is twice a year, four times in two years, six times in three years. If you do such mass witnessing, you will be successful. You will never end up with miserable results. Instead, you can surely bring thirty people into the Church in ten years.

Education in the Workshop

Ten years have approximately 3,600 days. If you visit one house every three days, you can visit it as many as a thousand times. Everybody living there will come to be heartistically connected with you. If you ask, "Can you do me a favor?" they will respond, "What can I do for you? How can I help?" Then you can say, "Thank you; I don't need anything for myself, really. But one thing I hope is that you will attend a workshop on Saturday and Sunday." People will surely say, "Yes, I'll attend." Then you can make an annual and a monthly plan for every family member-from grandparents to grandchildren-to attend the workshop.

People may wonder, "What is he so enthusiastic about? What are the contents that he is so eager to have me listen to?" But once they hear the Principle, they will say, "Ah, yes. It's wonderful! " Once people complete the two-day workshop, many of them will understand the Principle. Then you can say, "The seven-day workshop is even more wonderful, introducing deeper contents of the Principle. In the 21-day workshop, you will be taught even more profound contents." And they will be inspired to attend. This is the greatness of the Unification Church.

If someone has completed the forty-day workshop, nothing can stop him from doing God's will, wherever he may go. He will be able to make people understand what he says about the Principle and he will be able to persuade them to attend workshop themselves. So those who completed two-day workshop will automatically be encouraged to attend seven-day workshop. I regret that we have not yet been able to witness in such environments. If someone wants to devote himself fully to the Unification Church, he must complete seventy days' education. That will take two months and ten days. Then he will be an active core member who will be trustworthy. We must educate the membership this way Otherwise, we don't know when a member might just drift away.

When you talk to new members, you should stimulate them by asking, "How many days workshop have you completed?" Someone may reply, for example, "I finished seven-day workshop." Then you should say, "Seven-day workshop is just the beginning. Twenty-one day and forty-day workshops are still ahead of you. Why don't you attend?" Soon he will attend them. We need to create this kind of atmosphere. You and the new members from your area can inspire and push the people who are behind in their study of the Principle, and your witnessing plan can gain momentum. After someone completes forty-day training you can say, "You don't need to come to the Church center. Instead, please start home church centering around your own home. Please work as my representative in your town. You are destined to go this course just like me. I have laid the foundation on the formation stage for you to work among these 360 homes." Then you can move to a neighboring area and expand your territory.

Restoration Through Organizational Activity

Chose 72 from among the 360 homes, and 12 from among the 72. This is the way of the Principle. Jesus lost his clan-level foundation, which is the foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, by having been unable to restore 84 people. You should restore this number of indemnity among these homes. If you visit a home many times, you will find out everything about that home. You will be able to visualize even the cat in that home, not to mention the children.

Choose 12 homes out of 72, three out of 12, and finally one out of the three. You should visit and serve at least three homes every week. Serve the people. Broaden and deepen your relationship with them by visiting 120 homes every week. People will find out that you are from the Unification Church. Some will oppose you and some will welcome you. Classify them into A, B, and C categories, and in time you can change and adjust their grades.

If you organize people well, then you can even have trinities compete with each other in making the area into the heavenly kingdom. You can get projects accomplished even just by giving your people a call. For example, you can ask the trinities to make a flower garden, or do a cleaning campaign throughout the entire community. You can become successful by influencing people in the community as a whole on social and environmental issues. Everybody will agree with you. Then you can get so much done, even just by telephone. You can use existing relationships to build new ones. You can ask friends, relatives, and acquaintances of the people you know, rightfully, and without impoliteness, to assist your projects. In this way, you can create a productive environment.

Work it out. Suppose that you yourself serve your three A-type families. Soon they will become friends with each other. If you can raise one person from among them who has good leadership qualities, and work with him, then those three families will come to support you automatically. You can visit them even at dinner time and eat with them and talk freely. Even if you were to visit them late at night, they would still welcome you, and you could talk to them or listen to them as much as you like. If you can win the support of three homes, it is not so difficult to progress to 12 homes. After winning 12 homes, you can go to 72 homes, and finally 360. Thus you can come to manage all 360 homes in your area.

For witnessing, you have to mobilize people. Hold fellowship meetings where you can influence people both vertically and horizontally. Think of the result you will gain after using this strategy for one year. How tremendous this is!

You should start working this way from now. Even if you don't have much knowledge of the Principle, as long as you work hard and make a foundation, you can gather ten or twenty people, and then invite a center leader or itinerary worker to give lectures. Such an itinerary worker can be very important, and we have to strengthen the IW system. Such IW's should have even six months education. They should organize trinities according to the Principle, directly guide the members, and visit the members' home church families every day. If they supply the members with the needed vitality element, their eyes will become big, and their hands and arms and legs will grow strong. These are physical phenomena, aren't they? By working hard parallel phenomena will occur on the spiritual level. I'm talking realistically. Therefore this home church will surely be successful. We are still in a providential age. Do you understand?

Home Church Activity Is the Best Training Ground

Why did I start this new system? If the Washington Monument rally in 1976 had not been successful, then neither God nor Satan could have recognized home church, even though we might try. Until that time, we had to conduct nationwide activities. So, it would have been inconvenient, actually, if the Unification Church had grown very much. The members had to pay sacrificial indemnity. It caused potentially less damage to have an excellent minority do this. So we had to do nationwide and worldwide activities with a small number of members. But from now, the number of members will increase, for sure. The strategy to increase the membership is to establish home church.

The reason that ministers could not gain members for their churches, although they graduated from theological school, is that they did not know the home church system. But I have discovered it and now you know about it. You must have confidence that you can establish a church attended by more than 300 members after three years. All our seminarians asked me, "Without fail, let us go to London next summer vacation." They mentioned after they had come back to America that they wanted to withdraw from the seminary for a year in order to complete home church. But I told them, "No." The seminarians must study. We have to make consideration in such cases. But the general membership should go abroad and crusade with a mobile team.

In London, Japanese as well as European members have a hard time because they can't speak English well. However, they can still do the same home church activities, because basically what they have to do is to serve people. If they need some help, they should bring their contacts to workshop. They can lift their guests up and educate them step by step through the formula education program. After they complete the forty-day workshop, they will become the living Unification God. They will gain real lecture capability and be able to give seven-day workshop themselves. It is necessary for everybody to have this capability.

You don't need to have a central training center. You can hold workshop in someone's home. If you set up a clear lecture schedule, the neighbors can attend. Everybody can even eat there, and sleep there. What do you need? You don't even need a penny or a car to have this workshop. Please think about it. This is the most effective way to run the practical aspect of your activities. It is not easy to buy a church center, is it? Yet there must be at least several houses which are even bigger than this building in your 360-home area. One of them must have a garage. If the owner parks his car at his neighbor's house, then you can put mats on the floor and turn the garage into a wonderful auditorium. Then all your problems can be solved.

You should use the forty-day videotapes. God has prepared this convenience for you. After holding meetings with the videotapes several times, you will definitely be able to give seven-day workshops yourself. With practice you can increase your lecturing capability up through the 21 and forty-day programs by enriching the lectures you yourself have heard with your own experiences and impressions of the Divine Principle. Then you will become even more capable than the center director or itinerary worker.

From this point of view, this is the best way of leading members and having them get training through their activities.

Completion of the Unified Realm

Therefore, let's do home church, After the forty-day period is over, an eternal pattern of victory will be established. Is it possible? Is this a realistic speech, or just an empty fairy tale? It is not merely "possible"; you can accomplish it absolutely. The probability of "possible" can be half-and-half, or even just one third. But what I have said can be accomplished 100% in reality. Please think like that.

From now on, our movement will grow rapidly. The tradition has already been established and our Church has gained real substance. The number of members will be a serious issue from now on. There is no way other than home church to gain the membership which will secure our movement for eternity. It is the only solution. Even delinquent youth will eventually return to this Divine Principle movement through their friends, whenever they run away.

Because I have to consider such matters, I am working like a young man. Even though I'm an old man physically, I'm fresher than most young people in spirit and am even working harder than they are. I can accomplish things which seem impossible. The 240 leaders here today should attend a six month training session to study the Divine Principle as well as English. Then you should establish the home church system and an itinerant lecture program, and you will be able to bring more people into the church than if you were to witness to people scattered all over the country. I think this is realistic.

What is home church? It is your homeland. Do you understand? Home church is the base of your homeland. What is the will of God? It is the completion of the ideal of creation, which means the completion of the four position foundation. This signifies the completion of the unified realm centering upon the love God. It is the Principle. If you can expand the four position foundation, you can form the clan realm. In turn, you can expand that realm all the way to the world realm and then the cosmic realm, which is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. This is the realm of the dominion of God's love, where you can communicate with God directly. The formula is simple.

Although this is simple, why couldn't we make home church until now? It is because we first had to turn the fallen dominion of Cain upside down, and restore the true dominion of Abel which was overturned by the fall. God has been standing in the position of Abel, which is the original central position. However, God has been unable to take the central role and responsibility. Due to the fall of man, Satan has been taking charge, instead. It was Satan, and not God, who came to have the essential right of dominion. It would not even take God one day to take back by force what fell into the hands of Satan; however, to do that would be against the original nature of God's ideal for the heavenly kingdom.

Love Is the Driving Force of Development

It is the principle of God's love to give out, not just to receive. The direction of the two actions is different. Love flows out from God, not into God. God Himself established this principle. Then what is the origin of love? It is God. Love goes out, and returns with the effect of purifying as it flows. In this circuit, the turning point, or minus point, is Adam and Eve.

As such purifying love circulates, the substantial world is formed. The ideal earth comes into being. Once the unified realm of love is established through the fulfillment of the triple objective purpose in the four position foundation, love returns to God. The love which comes back to God does not diminish. Though the love itself might be slightly less, it returns stimulation to God; and that stimulation presses the "bag of love" in God, which makes more love flow out again! Therefore, love is wonderful. If love is used correctly, it becomes the driving force of development. This is the Principle view. Do you understand?

Even if love is attacked, it multiplies. You can see this in the life of Jesus. Jesus, who had the heart of love, was struck; but he did not perish ultimately. Instead, the more Satan attacked him, the more he prospered. The more people persecute a true religion, the more it will grow. If a religion is centered on the essence of God's love, it can be blessed by God; if a religion reaches the standard, God himself will support it without rest, and its power will be explosive. If you yourself reach this stage, you will become great; you will shoot forward like an arrow. It's wonderful, isn't it?

True love derives from God. Once the love flows out, it purifies. When Adam and Eve reciprocate that love, stimulating each other, the energy of love diminishes a little. However, the stimulation of the purifying action of the love returns to God as a greater energy than the love that originally went out from Him and diminished. Love can circulate in this circuit for eternity. We can witness the same process in physical phenomena. When the energy of output, which will be lessened, is augmented by the energy of stimulation, it will produce a greater effect than the original input of energy could do by itself. This action continues indefinitely. Do you understand what I am talking about? A husband and wife who love each other will become closer and closer, day by day, even while they are merely sleeping. The stimulation begins vertically and becomes three-dimensional. It is mysterious, isn't it?

God is indeed a being of love. The ideal realm of eternity, including the physical level, emerges from the point of the purifying action of love. Therefore, if you live by love, you will never perish. Love rules history. Even if you are alone, if you work within three dimensions, being connected vertically, you can stimulate the whole. A man of goodness is always persecuted by his contemporaries. But even though he becomes a sacrifice, his deeds will stimulate posterity, and his descendants will admire him with greater intensity than that with which he was persecuted. This is historical fact; you cannot dispute or ignore my theory. Love alone is eternal. In love you can always discover something new. The more you love, the more you will receive new stimulation and power to develop.

What does man attach most importance to? For a man, it is his wife. Not a wife who opposes him, but a wife who loves him, and whom he loves. This is because such love has more power to help him overcome all the difficulties and hardships of his life than anything else. Therefore, even though he may fall into the midst of suffering, this relationship will stimulate him and cause great strength to spring forth from him. The action of love has such productive and creative power. Now you understand this practically, don't you?

Restoration by Love

Once again, if we had not succeeded at the Washington Monument rally in 1976, we could not have established home church, no matter how desperately we might have tried. This is because God's original dominion as true subject was lost to Satan through the fall of man. God intended to set the standard of restoration by division and purification through the relation ship of Cain and Abel. According to the Principle, Cain, the eldest and first-born son, should naturally have belonged to God's side. Because of the fall, however, Cain went to Satan' s side and instead, only the second son could come to God. This is the heartbreaking tragedy. It is the pattern of the Principle that the elder son should have dominion over the younger son and supervise him; the father should lead his sons on the horizontal level through the eldest. As result of the fall, however, this can only operate as the external form of the Principle. When the younger son, Abel, attempts to take control, God will not oppose his efforts. Since God is the master of the creation of the universe, He has maintained the subject role internally. Externally, however, all rights have been stolen by Satan. So the effective master is not God, but Satan. If God pulls in one direction, Satan will pull in the other. Abel can only work with the force of the Principle, for Satan has claimed the force of love. Satan took the first move and formed the dominion through his fallen love. That is the problem.

How can God work to restore this? It can only be done by God's own Principle. When you follow through with the spirit of true love all the way, some return is produced. This is restoration. The principle of restoration can only operate centering upon love. To those who are bound to the dominion of Satan by love, we must pour out love which is infinitely greater and more abundant than the love in Satan' s world. There is no other way at all for fallen people to be liberated to come back to God. Is it clear to you?

In order to maintain the symbolic order of love, Abel did not say anything, even when he was killed. Historically, Abel has had to shed blood. Not the blood of resentment, but the blood of love. Without such pure motivation Abel could not cut down the arrows piercing the heart of God. As a result of such sacrifice, carried out in connection with the fulfillment of a Principle number, Abel is empowered to bring something back to God which had been under Satan's dominion. This result of the Principle can stimulate the heart of God, and is the greatest expression of charity and good will. Without love, everything comes to nothing. This is the fundamental teaching of religion, and the fundamental spirit of God's dispensation of restoration. Without love, nothing can be achieved at all. Do you understand?

The History of Cain and Abel

All religious people in history have been struck and have had to shed blood for the sake of love. As a result of this foundation, the histories and the living bodies of the true religions have come to be the object of stimulation for God in this world. Christianity is one such religion. Christianity grew as it shed blood. As it was attacked, it restored the enemy. Judaism was the same. A religion which does not operate according to this formula cannot stand as a true religion. Indeed, the direction of the Unification Church is absolutely consistent with this formula. We are aiming to complete the foundation of substance, and this is what makes the Unification Church great. We can recognize the possibility of God's existence right there.

Abel must pay the price of shedding sufficient blood, sweat and tears to restore Cain. Until Cain can be moved to tears through Abel's sacrifice, the stimulation of true love from Cain will never reach God through Abel. Jesus said, "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." To whom was he speaking? Abel. Abel must repent first. Abel and Cain must pass through the stage of repentance together; without this circuit being set up the stimulation of love cannot return to God and no foundation of development can remain on earth for God to work. Jesus stood as the Abel on the national level in relationship to both Judaism and Christianity. Accordingly, in this spirit, Jesus shed blood even while he prayed. Through the crucifixion Jesus granted all mankind the heart of love which goes even beyond life itself, and through that stimulation, God could expand His power of restoration and resurrect His Son. The same principle can apply everywhere, in everything. The Unification Church is no exception. I have gone through this course myself.

The Meaning of the Offering

Abel is always attacked first, without exception. However, if man, succeeding to Abel's history and foundation, is always killed, this will cause serious problems. Therefore, offerings are sacrificed in place of man himself, as a substitute. The offerings are presented in front of God and Satan, and represent Abel. The substantial world of Satan is Cain, while the offering, the man, and God are in the realm of Abel. A battle will ensue over who owns the offering and who has the right to claim it.

First, you devote the offering to God. Since the offering represents yourself, you have to offer it after you love it as if it were your own body, your own self. This is the Principle, which man did not understand until now. Also, my whole life exists for the sake of restoration. You should think the same way. Even when you eat or sleep, you should do so with the heart of offering. You must take care, and raise and purify your life, your self, as an offering which is worthy and true. You must become a pure man or woman, and reach the standard of Adam and Eve before the fall.

The offering will shed blood in place of you. For what does it die? It dies for the sake of Cain. In order to save Cain, it dies. This is the fundamental history of the providence of sacrificial offering. For Abel to shed blood and die for the sake of Cain is the highest expression of love. Thus the Bible says, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." This means what I have been explaining. There is no other way for man to make a relationship with God except through offering. Victory or defeat, prosperity or decline, is determined by whether or not such a relationship with God has been established. That is simply how it is.

Completion of the Historical Altar

Now, let me talk about the altar.

There are altars at different levels: the individual level, clan level and racial level. What is the altar on the racial level? It is Judaism. When an offering, sanctified and representing the people, was sacrificed, all the people could shed tears and repent from the bottom of their hearts. The people could kill the offering with the heart that they themselves became the sacred sacrifice, and give the offering to God in place of themselves.

Christianity is the altar on the world level. The era of animal sacrifice ended and Jesus himself became the sacrifice, shedding blood and standing up for God. If people hold Jesus, who lived for God, as an offering in the satanic world, Satan must surrender to them. Thus the necessary condition of restoration can be fulfilled. Christianity is the standard for the altar on the world level; therefore there are countless examples of prayer and service in its history.

What about the Completed Testament era? We, too, live on the extended foundation of the world-level altar. Therefore, the Unification Church and every member within the Church must become greater than Jesus. We have to set the standard that we shed blood for the people of more than 12 nations of the world. The 12 disciples represented 12 nations. Jesus had to shed blood to restore these disciples, who ran away and forsook him. His sacrifice opened the way for 72 elders, successors of the mission and ideals of the Israelites, to be saved. Since the Unification Church must restore through indemnity all that Jesus could not accomplish, it must establish an altar in a multinational environment which contains people representing at least 12 nations.

This cannot be accomplished by a specific high priest. The tribe of Levi, the descendants of the second son of Jacob, took the role of high priest. This was necessary during the time of migration when the people had to move in one certain direction. However, once the people settled down, they had to be free to move in all directions. Consequently, unless each person succeeds to the heart and tradition of the Levites, he cannot walk the dispensational course. Without making a substantial offering, Satan will attack from all directions.

Then what is the Unification Church? From the viewpoint of the history of the altar, the mission and destiny of the Unification Church is to complete the historical altar by erecting it on the substantial level. It resembles the Levite tribe in the time of the Exodus when it was responsible to show the way to the homeland. After establishing an altar, the Unification Church has to establish 12 disciples around that altar. It must create a unified sphere in which the representatives of 12 nations can come together and dedicate themselves to God substantially. The master of the offering and the guests of the altar who represent the 12 nations must be united in order for the offering to be accepted by God. Together they must prepare to offer their entire substance on that altar for the purpose of the whole. This conditional offering must, of course, be maintained over a certain time period; otherwise, the realm of victory will not emerge. Only through such a victorious offering can God restore the substantial altar.

What is the foundation for this substantial altar? Home church.

Three Hundred Sixty Is the Microcosm of the World

Why do I use the number 360? Because it stands for history. One year is 360 days in the lunar calendar. A circle is 360 degrees, containing all angles. Everything coincides in the number 360. It expresses the totality of numbers, the whole year, all possible angles and directions, the entire sphere of three dimensions. Do you understand? It can be divided by 12, representing the 12 months; it can also be divided by 72 and 120, and includes these numbers. Therefore it is also a number which can be conveniently reduced or expanded.

There are four directions of east, south, west and north, and there are four seasons within one year. One year consists of 12 months. The three disciples centered around Jesus represent the four directions; also they represent the four position foundation. The 12 disciples represent the 12 months. They also represent three angles centered on each of four seasons, and these 12 angles make 360 degrees.

The number 72 divided by 12 equals six. There were six members under each of the 12 disciples. Thus, 72 is equivalent to the number six, which represents the four position foundation on earth. The number six and the number four have been taken away by Satan. All these numbers are included in the number 360 as well.

Three hundred sixty symbolizes the entire course of history It also symbolizes all the individuals of mankind who are scattered at different degrees over the earth and have different cultures. The substantial reality which can integrate all of these is a living altar, which in itself is a microcosm of the world. Therefore the peoples of 12 nations must live in the 360-home area.

So you cannot do this in Japan or Korea. Only America and Great Britain fulfill these conditions. In America there are even more than 12 races in a 360 -home area; maybe as many as fifty. England is a similar nation. We can accomplish this plan in an area where all races are integrated centered upon Christianity and thus united with God's dispensation. This can develop and grow as the foundation of the final or ultimate integration of mankind.

So I departed for foreign lands, primarily America, and fought my battle, leading a public life. This was the course centering around 1976. America is a microcosm not only of 12 but even of 120 nations; it is the central nation of the world, and symbolizes the world. Since a foundation of victory has been established there, you can work here in Japan upon that foundation. Figuratively speaking, it is the same as a tree: that is, since there are already roots and a trunk, branches can come out. To restore this microcosm of the world I established a realm of victory in America in 1976. This September is the second September since 1976 and we must go over it. It is always the foundation and growth stages which are the historical moments deciding life or death. It is the time when many troubles can arise. Therefore, during this time, it is possible that many problems will come out simultaneously in Japan and Korea. Satan will use villainous tactics in a final effort to destroy the Unification Church completely. We must use these two or three years to establish home church strongly on a full scale.

Now, for the first time, I can go back to my homeland after having completed payment of indemnity on the worldwide level. Up until now, Korea herself has been a battlefield for the struggle of Cain and Abel. Today, however, the foundation of victory for Abel's side has been established. You can go back to your homeland simply by inheriting my foundation of victory; you do not have to pay worldwide indemnity yourselves.

Creation of the Realm of the Abel-Type Archangel

You cannot return to your homeland until you win over your 360-home area, which is your five percent responsibility in Cain's realm. After you win your victory there, people in your homeland will welcome you as the people of Korea welcomed me. Three hundred sixty homes are your five percent responsibility to inherit my worldwide level victory. You must absolutely go through this course. All those who go through the course of restoration must do home church at the price of life. Those who do not do home church have no value, even if they are well educated. You must clearly understand this. The Abel side, centering around myself, subjugated the Cain side on the world level. There is no Satan that can accuse me, no matter where I may go in this entire world. By repeating my victory on a smaller scale you must win the right to go back to your homeland.

Your homeland represents the realm of the original or restored spiritual archangel. However, the realm of Cain is the realm of the fallen archangel. But you must create the realm of archangel which is not fallen. At the time of Adam and Eve, the angelic world seduced Adam. But you must surpass the standard where the angelic world could the cause fall in order to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Thus, the realm of Cain, the realm of spiritual children representing the archangel on the horizontal level, should not harm Adam. On the contrary, they must support Adam. Through winning spiritual children you must make a condition horizontally to restore the support of the angelic world for Adam before the fall. The cultural sphere of Christianity is the Cain world, and you must go into it and reorganize it, forming your own group there. Then you can return to the central mission of forming your own Abel nation. This is difficult to express, but do you understand what I am talking about?

It coincides with the Principle. If Adam and Eve had perfected themselves by going through the formation, growth, and completion stages with the support of the archangels, there would not have been any fall. Adam and Eve would have grown into the direct dominion of God. Because of the fall, however, everyone came under the dominion of Satan, and the realm of Cain has expanded over the world. In the age of the second advent, the world of Abel must accomplish a condition to subjugate the world of Cain on the worldwide level, and open the way for the individual, family, clan, nation and world to return to God and be restored. There is no other way. Without the Abel world subjugating the Cain world, no matter what you may create, it will belong to Satan. No matter how much you may produce in the realm of Cain, it will belong to Cain.

Therefore, a dividing point is necessary. In order to make such a dividing point, the realm of the archangel before the fall must be created on earth somewhere. In the fallen world, Satan, who was an archangel, has dominion over the spiritual and physical substantial worlds. Therefore you must create a substantial foundation that overcomes the dominion of Satan spiritually and physically. Your Cain sphere must support and obey you absolutely as Abel. This is the only way for the realm of Cain, which is the realm of the fallen archangel, to be restored and for true Adam's world to be realized.

Jesus was destined to go this way. Rev. Moon goes this way. True religious people have to forsake the world in order find the way of salvation. Buddha was the same. He left his homeland and his loving parents behind. Jesus also left his homeland. Unless we can victoriously subjugate the sphere of the fallen archangel spiritually and physically on the worldwide level, we cannot return to the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Principle of Saving Cain

It is difficult for all people to go back to God at once. Therefore God lets one person go through all the courses of indemnity from the individual to the world level as a representative of the world, and then grants him the qualification to be a parent to mankind. Then whoever comes to have the relationship of child to that person heartistically can inherit his accomplishment any time -- day or night, spring or summer. After inheriting the victory from the True Parents, he can return to his own parent.

Thus you must restore through indemnity the worldwide victory in your 360-home area as your portion of responsibility. If you can successfully stand in subject position to 360 homes, then they will become one with you. Then you can go back to Eden; you can return to your homeland. And when you return there, the position of the second son becomes the position of the first son; the positions are reversed. Up until this time in providential history, Abel has been sacrificed in order to support and to save Cain. Satan has been attacking, and God's side has been sacrificed. Once we come into the domain of the Principle, however, the archangelic realm must be sacrificed instead of Adam's realm. Originally the angelic realm was created for the sake of Adam. From now on we have to let the sacrificial elements of Cain's world make indemnity conditions instead of Adam's world. Do you understand? It is to save Cain himself that we do this.

There is a principle involved in saving Cain. The purpose of the archangelic world is to support Adam. Because we are now entering into the domain of the Principle, the archangelic realm must serve Adam for the sake of Adam's prosperity even at the price of life. Everything will turn right-side-up from now on: we are at the turning point where the new world begins. Up until now Satan has attacked people and taken them to hell by using the Principle. But now God can use the Principle to bring people into heaven. The foundation of 360 homes representing 12 nations, which you inherited through my victory over 120 nations, is to restore the clan foundation among the 12 tribes which was lost through the crucifixion of Jesus; and it is the living altar for the completion of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

If you make determination and work hard, you have already won the victory spiritually. Since you have achieved the victory spiritually, all of the spirit world will come and support you. All you have to do is substantiate the victory. As long as you shed sweat and continue to witness among the 360 homes, you will never be killed. Christians were accused of conspiring to take over a nation, and were persecuted and martyred. However, no one will concretely persecute those who commit themselves to a 360-home area and invest themselves into it. Even though someone may say, "Go away!" you will not go away. You wont need to wander around and create disturbances. Even when you witness on the street, no one will persecute you. At worst people might say, "Well, at least he's doing something. But I don't know what it's all about."

Making the Foundation of Worldwide Victory for the Restoration

If Jesus could have established a foundation for tribal restoration, he would not have needed to witness or perform miracles. He would only have had to give birth to children, and pray and report to God as he led his life. The Kingdom of Heaven would have begun at that time. The descendants of Jesus' direct lineage would have spread all over the world. Once Jesus were to establish the model system for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, it would have appeared automatically.

By fulfilling in the home church system, you will achieve more than even Jesus could achieve. Your 12 disciples will not be like the disciples who betrayed Jesus. You can restore the 72 elders, also. Then you will have completed the foundation for tribal restoration, and this represents victory on the worldwide level. In other words, if you can accomplish this, then you don't need to go and restore the world. You won't need to go to Africa to establish your own foundation for world restoration.

Even if Korea opposes me I will never perish, because I have already established the worldwide foundation for restoration through the victory at the Washington Monument rally. The 127 nations where we are doing missionary work are in the role of John the Baptist. We have entered a new era in which the sphere of John the Baptist on the national level has spread throughout the world. Therefore you gain the right to claim your home church no matter where in the world you might be, even outside your own country. By winning this living altar, you can restore all the altars that have been lost hundreds and thousands of times in failure. Everything will be over. When you go back to your homeland, you will be able to forget about "restoration through indemnity." You will be able to receive God's blessing, give birth to children, and embrace and love each other. This is the Principle.

Since we are going the course of restoration into Canaan on the worldwide level, we have many burdens to carry. If you have children, it is very difficult to visit even 120 homes, isn't it? It is indeed a burden. Still, you have to do it. There is no exception. The young as well as the old must go this Principle course. When you return to your homeland, your clan foundation will be connected with the world. But unless you follow this Principle course, you will not be able to establish this foundation.

I am also destined to follow this course. Following the Principle, I wed Mother in holy matrimony in 1960. Then Mother had to go her own seven-year course. It is Adam's responsibility to educate and guide Eve. Eve must be recreated by Adam.

Following the Heavenly Law

I have no ambition to become famous in the world. I have offered this kind of thing to Heaven. In my daily life I don't have any such an idea in my mind. Rather, I feel that I am just a worker. I have left it up to God whether or not He blesses Unification Church. It is His business. You have to become a person of such pure heart; you have to be disinterested in this sense. History will not accuse you even if you start your mission in hell. Are you really such kind of people? If I hear members murmuring, "Oh, if I do this, then Father will probably bless me," or, "Why doesn't Father bless me? I have been working for so many years," I will get angry I never said such things myself, and I have not taught you to do that. If I had had this kind of ambition then I would not have endured 33 years of persecution. Do you understand? You look as if you understand, but I don't know if you really do or not. Satan knows the contents of the Principle clearly. Do you think he will withdraw from you easily? I discovered all the secrets by heavenly law, by the Principle, and established proof for my theory to substantiate it. Then Satan could not do anything but had to retreat. This is the formula of restoration.

I have accomplished a great thing in my own life, in my own generation. Think about it. It took millions of years for God to establish the foundation just to send one Adam. By contrast, in my own generation, I completed family and individual restoration, and fought against Satan to fulfill the indemnity conditions for the completion of family, clan, national, and world restoration, up to the restoration of spirit world. It sounds like a lie. But it is not a lie at all. It is fact, indeed.

Still, I do not want to be famous in the world. I have not been proud and I have not complained. Instead I felt that I should do more. So many things have to be done. All my life I have been busy, working hard to establish the worldwide foundation and the tradition. I feel that even if I should die now, there would be no problems in the future.

Do you understand what a wonderful master I am? You might think I am a troublesome person, but I am very influential in the spirit world. I'm sorry to speak to you like this, but it may be true.

The Restoration of Parents

Do you understand that home church is the place of promise? You can trust the home church system. It is the way home. You are not yet true Adam and Eve. You are still children of the archangel, so you are only adopted children. Unless you can subjugate Cain, the archangel, you will not become an adopted child in substance. You must win this victory and then return to the homeland.

The Cain-type home church of 360 homes represents the fallen archangelic world which is to be restored, and the homeland represents the original archangelic world. When the fallen archangels of your Cain-type area achieve unity with the archangels in your homeland and become one with them, then you, as a parent, can be restored. You can bless them on the foundation that they embraced each other as brothers. This is the Principle. A fallen parent must be restored through Abel. If the fallen sphere of archangel, represented by Cain, and the original sphere of archangel, represented by Abel, do not unite, the restoration of parents cannot be realized. For example, God's will could only be fulfilled when Jacob and Esau united with each other. Also, when the democratic world and the communist world are united into one, the Lord of the Second Advent will appear as the parent of the world. We cannot deny history, where everything has happened according to this principle. It is the main principle of the history of restoration.

The restoration of the historical altar enables the original, victorious heaven to be restored to its rightful position. The mission of the unified soldiers is to erect the holy temple of the heavenly kingdom after returning to their homeland. The sacrificial act of shedding blood, sweat, and tears along the way will be admired and praised by the clan, nation, and world.

There are two aspects of man: the body, which represents the external archangel, and the conscience, which represents the internal archangel. When these two become one, original character is restored. When husband and wife become one, a family centered upon God is established. Parents live centered upon their children. The four position foundation operates in such a way. In Oriental tradition, people extend both hands when they greet their elders. This is principled. When you hold out both hands, Cain and Abel are united.

Do you understand? You might not have understood this in the past, but please understand it clearly from now on. It is my purpose in coming to Japan this time to teach this principle so that every member can clearly understand it. This is the first priority. By connecting external tribal restoration to the foundation of the head family in our homeland, you can do what even Jesus could not do. By achieving clan restoration on this level, you can gain the foundation of victory which is connected to the world. That will enable you to jump up to the world of God Himself.

Movement for Settlement

If we can just establish the tradition which is based on this principle, the world will be restored automatically, without any fighting. Therefore, this principle is great. Because God knows the great contents of this principle, He has persevered through the thousands of years of the history of human culture, looking forward to this one day. When we understand this, we have no time to rest. As for me, I have no time even to face my opponents and fight them. There is no time; I am too busy. You should also establish such a tradition.

It is now 1978, and only three years are left in the third seven-year course. It is not yet finished, and the Blessed families have been working very hard. I admit it. But when the course is completed, you can go back to your home church and live there proudly. It is the way that the Blessed families must follow, so you have to invest your whole life into it. Since I have already taught it to you, then I am not responsible for whether you do it or not.

In the future everything will be organized based on home church. We won't need center directors. Everyone, including the national leaders and center directors, will have home churches. Isn't it your ideal to realize the Kingdom of Heaven where Adam can be connected to God directly? We will enter a wonderful era of God's direct dominion on the worldwide scale. Satan will have no place even to step on the earth, and he will lose everything, completely. Don't you think so? There will be no sinners. All the people in the 360-home areas will repent, and a heavenly society will be established. Men, women, young and old will march forward to the goal.

This does not mean, however, that you can relax instead of working hard. . . . Members on the front line should also find their home church in the area where they have been working. Everyone should make a movement for settlement; this is our future. The age of migration will be over. You will be able to go to Africa if you wish, however, because we will have entered the age in which such decisions can be made freely. In the past, national borders stood to accuse you if you tried to cross them. Now, even though you may still have some trouble, it will not be a problem for God or Satan. Those borders will be opened to free travel eventually, anyway.

You must feel that you understand this now more clearly than you see your own face in a mirror. This is more true than eating when you're hungry or sleeping when you're tired. It is more true than loving your wife or children.

Love Your 360 Homes More Than You Love Me

You have to love your 360 homes with your whole heart, and more than you love me. . . . This is the standard. If you do, the same angelic world that supported me in winning worldwide victory will praise you. My teaching is, "Love your 360 homes more than you love me." You don't need to worry about me any more. Say, "Father, you don't need to come here for many years because I found someone whom I love more than you. I don't need you any more." That is fine. I will not complain, even if I am a stepping stone for all mankind. Instead, I will feel more hopeful. This standard will determine whether or not your children are born with heavenly value, and whether or not your descendants can become famous people.

You understand how to do it now, don't you? You must serve and love more than anybody else. Even more than Father, or God. You should serve the old people, imagining that they are your own ancestors from many generations ago who are born on earth again. If you meet someone like your brother, love him as you love your own brother. If you meet someone like your elder sister, love her as you love your elder sister. When you meet a beautiful girl like your younger sister, you must not think, "What a beautiful girl! I would like to marry her." You must not entertain the emotions of a fallen man, or restoration will not take place. You should love her more than your own possessions; and you should love her for God and True Parents, not for yourself. You must have such a heart. Then the environment will certainly come to be attracted to you.

People in the spirit world are competing with each other, centering on the 360-home areas. If you work hard setting the right standard, the movement will immediately expand all over Japan. In order to return to the homeland, you must have the external archangelic realm united with you.

There you will unite with the original archangelic realm. When these two realms become one centering upon you, you can go to the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the Principle, and the truth of history. We absolutely cannot deny it.

I suffered tremendously and worked so hard in order to discover this truth. I feared the day of restoration more than a criminal under death sentence fears the execution day to come. . . . If I were to become a failure at the last moment, it would have brought serious consequences. And if there could have remained a way for God to forgive me then, it would have been the way of eternity, through the condition of death. It wouldn't matter if I were crucified. That was my heart. Can you understand what I am talking about? When I was about to come before the Washington Monument rally, I felt as fearful as if I were going to an execution ground. If I had made even one little mistake, the entire cosmos would have been turned upside-down. My entire life would have been in vain. Since I was in such a perilous situation, God sympathized with me. He mobilized the entire spirit world, and brought success to the rally. I am grateful to God. At the time of the investigation by the Frazer committee, I won the victory by trusting in God. This is the spirit of God.

Victory Through Sacrifice

I pitied the miserable Japanese refugees who came back from Manchuria after being defeated in the Second World War. I guided them and showed them the way to South Korea. If they were hungry, I fed them. In this way, I loved my enemies. I would encourage them, "Have hope. You should return to your homeland, and die there." Through this, although the present generation of Japanese may have nothing to do with me, their sons and daughters will be benefited by me, and thus indebted to me. In the same way, your descendants will certainly join with me.

The phenomenon of cause and effect is fearful. I did so many things for America. But once Americans become indebted to me, they have to redeem their debt, even with interest. The same is true for England.

I have been working thus far, considering all these things. People say that Rev. Moon has become the most unscrupulous and notorious king in the world. But I am not such a person. God Himself will testify, "He is not ill reputed at all, but well reputed." God has been protecting me on earth wherever I might be. When I was hungry, God sent someone to feed me, not once, but many times. I am like a performer in a historical drama. After I die, my life will be documented in movies which will make people cry. You also should think of yourselves as such stars in the play of history. So you must not complain. You are going to make a masterpiece.

There are no words to express adequately how wonderful this philosophy is. You can conclude that if you are attacked, something will be paid back to you together with interest. People will be able to understand this after they become educated. In this moment I feel inexpressibly sad and happy; even if I should die now, I have no regrets. But your mission is still left undone.

Home church is easy; you don't even need three years. If you do it with tears, you can accomplish it in half a year. If I were doing it, it wouldn't even take that long. We are in a wonderful age. The time is coming when the liberation of all mankind will be the absolute reality. Even though one man had to lead such a sacrificial life for so long, a whole new age could be established. The same principle applies to atoms: once one atom explodes, it creates a chain reaction and a much, much greater explosion. With this principle, the universe was formed.

Anybody can do home church. You should love your own children only after reestablishing your original position through home church. Right now you are mobile, moving around. We are still in the period of the forty year journey into Canaan. Within these forty years, everything will be solved completely. We have to solve all problems to realize the unified world.

Returning to Your Homeland

Although our work has been so difficult up until now, it will become much easier from now on if you do home church consistently. Do you think it is possible? You cannot understand this merely through truth; you must unite with me in heart. When you go back to work after this speech, you must do this more energetically than a rocket which has been launched. If you don' t, you will not be a center director any more. You should become an IW and send everyone to their home church areas all throughout Japan. And you should play the role of archangel and protect the members. Just as an archangel should have helped with the perfection of Adam, you Unification Church members who joined earlier should take the position of archangel to younger members and help to recreate them as true Adam and Eve. It will be your achievement to create many clan-level messiahs. Your position as a true subject according to the heavenly standard and hierarchy of heart will be decided by the number of such messiahs you have helped. You cannot complain. God is just and fair and He has been persevering.

Women who have children are very busy, but they still have to go back to their homeland through the way of home church. Up until now, members of the Unification Church raised great disturbances everywhere for the sake of the world, but now that age is over. All you have to do is send a letter, saying, "Father, Mother, I am going back home." A few years later you will pack all your belongings and send another letter, saying, "I have not been able to be dutiful to you. But now I am coining back home, and I will become more dutiful to you than any son or daughter is to their parents in all of Japan. So please wait for me." Previously you left your home and have been persecuted ever since. You have had the experience of praying all through the night in tears. But you will not need even one tenth of such effort to restore your own clan. If you explain the Principle to them, and explain that you have endured persecution in order to have one day in which you could meet them again, they will repent in tears from the bottom of their heart. One day, even one night, is enough. When your relatives shed tears before your tomb, the one who died for the sake of the parents, ancestors of many generations before, who have been in the spirit world, will return to the earth. They will become your descendants. Such a reversal will take place.

The mission to accomplish this on the national level is much greater, so you must work harder. It is my way of life. Do you understand clearly?

The Formula Course the Unification Church Is Destined to Go

You cannot become a clan-level true parent unless you unite the Cain-type and the Abel-type archangelic world together and they both admire you. To become a true parent means to become a messiah; it means to become a king in the name of Christ. For example, when I stand on the world-level dispensation, Mr. Kuboki stands on the national-level dispensation. Similarly, you have responsibility to be masters in your own areas. Anything or anyone that is not connected with the master will eventually perish. It is the prayer and the desire of all who belong to a master to be touched by him. Do you understand?

The Unification Church, as the representative of God, must first make the condition of restoring all things, the entire universe, and next, the condition of restoring fallen Adam, who will be the nucleus of that universe. Therefore, we must witness. By being successful in witnessing, you can gain the power to make the spirit world support you. Thus the position of your heavenly, true "self" can be determined and fixed. Then you can achieve the standard of individual perfection. After that the standard of family perfection will be achieved by gaining the object realm of your clan. You cannot change this principle.

The person who does not have dominion over all things cannot love the will of God, according to the Principle. The one who cannot witness cannot love others. Unless someone is the kind of person who can sacrifice himself voluntarily, he cannot become a central figure in the dispensation of God. The ideology of centralization, of uniting with a central person, is very important; I have led the Japanese movement with this ideology Going beyond the races, wherever I may be, heart is there, and people are restored. Unless you set the heavenly standard of carrying out indemnity on the national and world levels with heart and desperate effort, and establish a foundation that God can recognize, I will accuse. God lost everything through heart in the fall; therefore, everything must be rebound to God through heart. When you restore material as well as true personality and heart, God is happy.

This is the formula course which the Unification Church must follow. Therefore, those who committed themselves to the Church must set up the indemnity condition to restore dominion over all things. They must also go out and witness for three years. After three years, the 12 main disciples of your 360-home area will elect you as Abel on the world level. They represent the foundation for organizing the fundamental family foundation of Adam and Noah, consisting of eight members, which will become the standard in the future.

Jesus had to carry out this dispensation. He worked on it spiritually after his resurrection. But I have done this substantially. I accomplished it at the age of 25.

Looking Forward

When you go back, tell members to move out of the center. You should make them establish a foundation in their 360-home area, and go and meet them there. Guide them when you visit them. This is not just a story. Please do it in Tokyo. Since you, the Blessed families, sacrifice your families and support the members as you visit them in your role of archangel, it is natural to think that they should welcome you in their homes. What belongs to the parent will be given to the children.

Everything belongs to God, not to any person himself. Unless you offer your money to God and then receive it back from God to use it, you cannot have any heartistic relationship with restoration. . . .

Society will be destroyed by the welfare, or social security system, in America and in Europe. I cannot agree with it. New York has deteriorated; thieves are increasing in number day by day: welfare causes the increase of a "ghost" population. Norway is a difficult situation: nobody will work. If someone has a company, he might even close it down because he can get more money through welfare than through his salary Such a trend may even begin in Japan. If a people has surplus money, it is better for them to make plains out of mountains, taking responsibility to work for even the lowest wages, than to be idle; a people which works hard in this way will have a bright future.

If you view society through the Principle, you can clearly see how the world will be from now on. I have been suffering and working hard all my life. There have been so many vexations. Yet, I have to give all my accomplishments to people I don't even know, with no compensation. God does the same: there is no other way. If I were to think of myself, I could not follow this course. But the Principle is different and points to the public way.

In the future, I will visit home churches. Without giving any notice I will visit a world famous home church and stay there for about a month. The people of 360 homes will say to me in tears, "Father, please come and stay with us. Lead us in celebration! We will do anything." The number of people who visit you from different parts of the world will be your source of pride. It is not like that at the moment, however, since it costs so much money to receive a guest. In the future, if you welcome the guests and pay their expenses willingly, no matter how many of them you may have, God will bless you all the more.

So, when you return to work, you must do as I have told you. You are being sent out as my representatives. It is the responsibility of the IW's to accomplish the mission of the archangel, which is to support the creation of many tribal messiahs in each part of Japan. I have done all of these things myself.

Don't neglect old people. Old people are in the position to have the most intimate relationship with God. After all, God is oldest of all, isn't He? Those who love elderly people have an intimate relationship with God. They can relate with the eternal past as well as the eternal future. According to the Principle, those who love old people and children will be welcomed throughout the cosmos wherever they may go. The spirit world will remember best the one who serves the old and helps them to go to a higher spirit world. Such a person will be blessed. Therefore you have to be dutiful to your parents. Be loyal to the future even more than you would be to a king.

You have to serve your children as if they were kings. Such children will never become delinquent. Then, in turn, if a people serve a king as the center of the nation, as if they were serving their own children, that nation will prosper. Confucianism teaches that people should serve a king, but not their children. However, the Unification Church looks at the future.

9.23.78. Tokyo, Japan

5. Anecdotes

Anecdotes

When you go to home church don't try to get into someone's living room right away. Go through the back door and then to the bathroom. Your first thought will be, "How can this be a bathroom in the heavenly kingdom? I cannot afford to leave it this dirty Let me clean it." After the bathroom is clean and fresh you can come out and look at the hallway. You will say, "I cannot afford to welcome Heavenly Father in this dirty hall. Let me clean it up."

The person living there will stride up to you and shout, "What kind of rascal are you? Why do you bother my bathroom?" Then you will shout back, "What kind of rascal are you? This is my home. I'm trying to welcome Heavenly Father in this home and no one will stop me. I'm going to keep cleaning your house."

You can tell them, "Don't you want to celebrate at least one of God's birthdays in your home?" The other person will be totally overcome and say, "Is it true? Can we have God in this house?" You say, "All you have to do is try me out free for one week. Whether God is coming in through the door or not, try me out for one week." This is a very effective way to make a sale in America: offer someone a free trial, and if they don't like what you offer they can return it.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

Your 360 homes are your tribe. If your name happens to be Smith, those 360 homes are the Smith tribe. You can even put a sign up. You can say, "Who built all these homes for them? I came and I am going to build homes for all of my tribe." But then you can think, "I know who built all these homes. God built them for me to give to my tribe and He used Satan as labor. I claim ownership of this place and as the tribal messiah I shall lead my tribe into the Canaan of the modern century."

Home Church is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

After you sisters are blessed and you go to your husband's territory, all you will have to say is, "I am so-and-so's wife." You won't even have to give your name. Will people say, "You're one of those crazy people. Get out of here," or "You are so-and-so's wife! Please come in and make yourself at home. This is your community and your husband is our hero." Would you and your husband feel proud or not? Soon you will have children and when they go to elementary school and meet people in the neighborhood the community will say, "You are their child! Come in. Your father and mother are great people and we love them dearly." Your children will be proud and think, "I thought my mother was rather ugly and I thought my father was a little short, but here they are heroes!"

Host of the Future
10.23.77, Belvedere

At first the home church people will not welcome you but soon they will say that without having you visit them they cannot sleep well. "This Moonie loves me more than God and Jesus love me. He is like my parent. I couldn't have any better parent than him." Later on they will even want you to marry into their family. Each of your 360 homes will want to make you their son-in-law or daughter-in-law. If I were still single would you like to propose to me? This is how your people will feel about you.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

The retired couples in your area, the senior citizens, have nothing to do all day, and you will be their biggest excitement. Even if the grandparents don't live in your area, they will start to visit their children in your 360 homes especially because they know you will be there. As they get to know you they will want to help you.

After you become good friends with them, no one will oppose your coming to help every day. That way the grandparents have an excuse to visit their children or grandchildren every day, even though those relatives might consider them a nuisance otherwise. They will think they are going to their home church, not to their sons house. How nice that will be for grandparents, who otherwise would only wait for the day they would die. Once you have home church established, it is an open invitation for old folks to visit their families' homes every day. Do you know how miserable old people usually are? Think how you will change their lives when you have 360 homes.

Don't go empty-handed to visit your area. Get up early in the morning and raise some money to buy some candy or cookies and give to the small children in your homes. You can win their hearts that way, and then their parents will like you better. When the head of the house welcomes you, the rest of the family will welcome you too, even the animals. Home church is just that -- the church is your home. How many of you really regard your home church as your home? Feeling that closeness is the only way to do home church.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

Your home church people will have their own albums, and since you testify to the True Parents, even though they have never seen Mother and me they will put our picture on the front page, and right next to that they will put your picture. And they will say, "This person is my messiah." if this doesn't happen then our teaching is false. This will happen automatically, not because you tell them to do so but because they desire to do it.

Even if people in your home church area never see me in the future, I won't mind at all if your picture is on the front page of their album as their messiah. Would you ever check to see whether your picture is there? No, because their action would only be done out of the mind of love, not duty. Your picture will symbolize hope and happiness to them.

The Sound of the Bell of the Mind
1.28.79, Belvedere

4. Practical Strategy

Practical Strategy

Would you just tag along with someone else or are you going to try to become the center? Those who now understand and want to act as a leader rather than a follower, raise your hands. I am thinking very seriously that each of you should become the center of your own home church. So far you have worked very hard and found one thing: even when we work hard the fruit of our witnessing is often dispersed and leaves little benefit in the center. We have done all kinds of pioneering work and witnessing on the streets, but somehow the people who come into the Church do not understand clearly and soon leave again. Then we get some more people and then they leave. The results do not remain here for good.

Early last year, you were each given an area of 360 homes. If you really visited your area at least once a day then by this time you should know where everyone in the neighborhood lives and what kind of persons they are. If you go for ten days then all your effort remains there and doesn't go away somewhere else. If you visit there for one hundred days then one hundred days of effort remains there. It does not disappear, like the people you meet street witnessing. . . .

Now that we have been persecuted so much yet continued to work with total dedication, we are finally going to succeed in this country. People are bound to come to the Church, listen and understand the Divine Principle, and become members. You have experienced how every person has ups and downs and how people drift away because they are confused or tired. So far in witnessing you might pour five or six months into one person and then when he leaves he is impossible to find. But when you have a home church you can go to his home and talk with him for a few minutes and he will come back.

Other people may not come to the Church right away, but they will observe your work 365 days a year, even for three years. Then they will be convinced that you are here to stay and that what you do is absolutely right. None of your effort will be wasted. You are guaranteed that everything you invest will bear fruit in your area. Even if it is difficult at first, people will understand later. In the meantime God will reside in each home when you visit.

When you visit your area, the old ladies there will watch you, and when you come back often they will want to know who you are. After many frequent visits they will say, "They are really persistent. They keep coming so regularly. Actually they are more devoted than my own grandchildren." Many older people are now disillusioned and disheartened by their own offspring, but if you keep visiting you will attract their attention and you are certain to leave a lasting impression on them. The young people would say you are better than their own brothers and sisters, and the parents will say you are better than their own children.

As time wears on people are sure to have a deep, positive impression of you. The old folks will talk with each other about you and say, "These Moonies are wonderful people. We want to help them." They are bound to be curious and ask what you are doing this for, and when they know you are a Moonie they will ask you what Reverend Moon is like and what he does. But if you only go once or twice to your areas you won't arouse any interest. . . .

Is it better to establish large indemnity conditions or only little ones? You didn't know about that until this morning, did you? If you are now going to do that as if you were crazy then that's very encouraging and God will be happy. I told you almost a year and a half ago to visit all your homes, and now I am assigning you to establish a church in those homes. You will soon learn exactly how to do it through your own personal experience in establishing a center. You may not know the Divine Principle well enough to lecture to other people so I had a video tape film made of the lectures. All you have to do is push a button and two or three hours of lectures will come through in clear, natural way.

Can you say, "Father, I have no one that I know in my area?" If the average family in your area has three members then there are more than 1,000 people in your area and there is bound to be someone you know who likes what you are doing and who wants to work with you. When you go to your area you can tell the people that there is a movie of 1800 couples getting married in one ceremony and invite them to see it. Maybe the grandparents won't be so interested, but the young people of marrying age would certainly like to see what happens in such a ceremony. Now that you are a Unification Church member yourself you can judge what the people will be interested in seeing. When they like something and are excited, you can tell them that there is an even more interesting movie to see and soon they will come a second time.

The home churches may be small to begin with, but after a while many folks in the area will drop in for a while to visit and see the films. When you know many young people who play instruments they can get together and form a band, and whenever an older member of the family has a birthday they can all have an enjoyable hour entertaining them. Record all the birthday dates in a notebook and on those dates go there to play for them. If you keep track of all the birthdays of the members of the households in your area, you will be going to three birthdays a day!

As you get acquainted with them, they will be fascinated with you as a young person who is completely different from what they usually see. They will invite you to visit often, and even invite you to stay overnight. When they see you often during the year they will invariably know your value too. They heard about Moonies a long time ago, but now that you are visiting them in person all year round they will realize that you are jewels of young people. When you have a place with games like Ping-Pong and a pool table, it will become the club for young people in the neighborhood. If the circumstances are fitting then you can go horseback riding, and when there is a wedding then people can celebrate there in a fantastic way. . .

At a prearranged time everyone can come to listen to the videotape. You can go through the neighborhood ringing a bell or blowing a bugle and the neighborhood will know that you are playing a movie at the center; then they can come and listen. Once we are successful in home churches, papers like the New York Times will have a hard time selling in that area. . . .

Children today are turning against their parents' beliefs, so in each home the children will be interested. Even where some parents may be communist and reject us, every American needs to be enlightened and learn what life is about. They should know why Jesus came and know the purpose of all religion. When they understand the truth then America will begin to live once again. . . .

The Divine Principle videotape is very clear and by listening to it often you will become a great lecturer. Everyone who listens to it is amazed at what they did not know before. There is no question that you can bring a person to lecture everyday. We will start this on June 1. We still have two months to go and during that time please renew your enthusiasm. Go to your area and contact the people and plan where the best place for a home church will be. Once you become successful with one home in your area you can branch out and there can be as many home churches in your area as is practical.

There are 240 million American people who have never seen me and most of them automatically oppose us because of the impact of the media. But many of them will change their minds when they come into contact with regular people like you; after all, they are regular people also, not evil. Then no matter what the New York Times says, those who come into daily contact with you will not believe any evil stories. Once we have an impact on New York, knowledge of us will spread like wildfire around America. This is exactly why I told you that New York is our front line.

Whether you continue is the main thing. If you do then in one city on the first of June we will have 1,000 home churches. We must prepare to begin on June 1, having the vision and the objective in mind.

Where God Resides and His Course
3.19.78, Belvedere

Each person has 360 homes, and even if it is difficult to find people there it is necessary to keep revisiting. Street witnessing has not been effective because it is difficult to find again the people you meet, but the people in your areas all live there and most of them will stay. When you meet good people, ask them if they have a friend who might be interested. It is not easy in the beginning but it gets better once you get started. In the beginning you must spend three to four weeks to find three people.

This is the order in which to work: go visit each of your 360 homes and pick out which ones are positive (A), not so bad (B), and negative (C). Then you will have forty to fifty houses which you can visit every day. Out of those choose 12 and then the three best to concentrate on. Concentrate on one house where you can go and live. This will be your home church. The first three very good homes are difficult to find, but after that reaching out to 12 is easier. If you faithfully do that with lots of prayer and heart, finding three families in forty days is not difficult. Within one week you should be able to find a house in which to live.

When visiting your houses you can offer to help the people with some chore or task. If you meet a policeman in your area, explain to him what you are doing: "I am witnessing to these people for the sake of England and the world." He can help you in some way.

From morning until night each of you must concentrate on witnessing. Think all the time about how to bring three people in forty days. By the time you visit your 360 homes you will know who is a communist, who are the good people and what each family does. By the time you have been in your area for three weeks you will be saying, "Good morning" to nearly everyone. At first they may not understand what our faith is or what we believe in, even after you try to explain, but they will know that you are a Moonie and a good person. Then they will begin to invite their relatives to come to their home to meet you.

People in your area will talk about you to their friends in ten other homes: "We have a very friendly young person visiting our home almost every day. He is a Moonie and very nice." if they all talk to their relatives and neighbors it means that 3600 homes will hear about us and word will really spread. There is a Korean saying, "Words, which do not have feet can travel a thousand miles." Even if people are not deeply religious they will recognize you as a good person and word will spread.

Do not witness so much in the street because you don't know anything about the people you meet. A nice person who says he is interested may actually be a communist. This was our experience in Japan. Members witnessed and worked hard on the street but no one listened. If a person came up who said he wanted to know about the Unification Church, of course they were very glad to bring him to the center. Such a person might stay as a member for some time, getting much information from doing jobs like typing letters and bookkeeping, but then go back to the communists. There have been a number of members like this in Japan who acted very dedicated, but then left.

If you witness to people in their own homes then you can know who they are but on the street you can never tell. If people walk up and say, "I am interested in the Unification Church," they could actually be dangerous. This is why, after long experience, we are going to visit homes. Witnessing in a specific area brings a better result and is better for security.

Those of you who have been members for five years, stand up. How many spiritual children have you brought in that period? imagine how many people you could have restored in those five years if you had visited people in your 360 homes every day. Our goal is to bring one person every month. If you visit 360 homes for five years then chances are that all 360 homes can be restored. How did you work before? You went out on the street but in five years you only brought two people, or ten people at most. This method has not been effective. If you visit your area every day then in one year you can make a relationship with every household. When there is a birthday you will go and celebrate with the family.

You may meet many people in the parks but most of them do not stay and those who do often have many problems. You know that Abel-type people are always busy and don't hang around parks, while those who have nothing to do go to the park all the time. We want to witness to the best people. We don't want 1,000 people who always follow a leader; we want one leader who can lead 1,000 people. Always think that you can find one man in your area who can lead all 360 homes.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

When you meet the children you can ask to meet their parents, and they will tell their parents about the interesting person they met. If the children insist, then the parents will meet you. If you sing well, then you can sing a beautiful song about America, even with tears rolling down your face, and the people will surely come to look. Their hearts will be softened and they will pay attention to you. If there is another garbage strike in New York then you can borrow a car or van and pick up the garbage for your people. If you do it for free you will have no competition. Certainly they will pay attention to you then.

They will invite you out to eat and ask all about you. You can tell them that you have no set place to sleep, that you stay with whoever invites you. Do you think this is impossible? You can do anything. Then you can talk with them, and discuss something you know about, in any area, even poetry and literature. There are unlimited things to do; it is only because you lack desire and will that you have been unsuccessful. There is no one right way, no requirement for preaching like a minister with a Bible in your hand.

When you meet an elderly woman you can tell her you feel as close to her as to your own grandmother. You can tell her that you used to drop in on your grandmother for lunch without notice, and ask the lady for lunch. Tell her it doesn't have to be a nice meal, just crackers or bread, things which anyone has. Take cake or something nice to her next time, telling her you thought about her after she received you so warmly, and you might say, "When I prayed about you I felt you were a good, spiritually enlightened lady, so I wanted to come speak further with you." Then cut the cake up to share with her, and even feed it to her. It is quite acceptable for a grandchild to do that. What kind of scrooge would refuse that kind of gesture? if you find that her kitchen is a little dirty and unorganized, just walk right in and clean it for her. Tell her that you do this all the time.

If you visit certain people who treat you badly and chase you away again and again with a broomstick, people will ask what is the matter. Next time, go early in the morning to the house of an especially nasty man before he gets up. Bang on his door and tell him that you are back again. When he comes to the door to get rid of you, grab him and demand to know why he is an enemy of the Moonies. "What's wrong with them anyway? You only live for yourself and do nothing for the community, but we Moonies are giving everything for the sake of America. If we don't do something soon, America will have even worse problems."

Before you go, plead with God that you need to get even with this person and that he can't push you around in your area. Then God will say, "Go ahead," and when you go He will support you. Don't do this foolishly, but dramatically. Then the neighbors will agree with you and wonder why that person is so antagonistic toward the nice Moonie. At some point he will ask what you are up to anyway, and you can say, "I was hoping you would ask that. Please come with me and listen."

Don't worry about how you are treated. If someone mistreats you seven times then he is probably a person who does the same to his own family. His relatives will say you are courageous to be nice to him, that you are the only one to stand up to him. When you get even with him then everyone else will follow you instead of him. There is no way you can lose.

Plan ahead and practice what you will say when you bang on the door: "What's wrong with what I am doing? It's better than what your son does, who is always getting arrested. I only try to guide him in the right way. What's wrong with that? The Moonies are living for the community and America." You can anticipate what he will say back again and plan how you will reply. When everything follows your scenario then you can have confidence and joy. Then when you dance for joy it will be much more fun than disco dancing.

You can wear a Santa Claus suit to your area and draw a crowd of children and announce what you have brought, and then when your Santa Claus work is done take off your suit and talk to the people. The spiritually guided people will readily recognize who you are and what kind of high spirit world you are linked with. They will be able to judge who is right and who is wrong, who is the prophet and who is the wicked man. There is no limitation on how you can reach the people to save them, so why not use every way to do so? When you can give a speech and refer to the different people in your area, it will leave a deep impression. Certainly they will remember you. If 360 homes have recorded something about you, it will remain as your treasure.

If the parents in one house keep on persecuting you, their sons and daughters will eventually come to your side. You will become close to their sons and daughters and they will invite you to come when they are head of the house.

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere

3. The Public Way

Mobilizing Spirit World

Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads, to execute judgment on all.

Jude 14-15

And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, and it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Acts 2:17,21

Trough the victory in Washington we fulfilled the conditions needed to liberate the sorrow of the entire spirit world and the physical world together. I declare today that the time has come for the total liberation of the spirit world and the forgiveness of past sins.

In the spirit world there are no national boundaries. Korea, Japan and America do not exist in the spirit world; however, there are different realms based on the different religions. Those who believed in Buddha are in Buddha's realm and those who believed in Jesus live in the Christian realm, and so forth. Throughout man's history individuals in spirit world have always lived in distinctly separate realms and have never harmonized. They surrounded themselves with walls, waiting for the day when the new Messiah would come to the earth and declare their liberation. Only then could they break down the walls and finally unite into oneness. They have been waiting throughout history for this day, but it could not be declared until the sorrowing hearts of God, Jesus Christ, and the True Parents were vindicated. There has been no such day in the past. Today, however, through the victory of the Washington Monument Rally, all the past sorrow of God, Jesus, and the True Parents is vindicated, and today I declare the liberation of all the spirit world. Even at this moment the barriers are broken down.

Now spirit world has formed one world of unification; the territories have merged and everyone can communicate freely, traveling back and forth. Since the spirit world is in the subject position, this unity will eventually be reflected here on earth. According to the Principle, if the three levels -- God, Adam and Eve, and the archangel -- had united together there would have been no fall. Now here on earth that unity has been established between God, the True Parents, and the members of the Unification Church, who are in the position of the angelic world as well as of children. This unity was not made on the level of one small nation; we have achieved this unity on a worldwide level. This is most significant.

What is the significance of this unity? Simply this: Satan no longer has the condition to attack Adam or Adam's family. This means that Satan no longer has any power to defeat the Unification Church and the True Parents. Satan may still attack, but now God is in a position to exact a penalty for that, and blessing will be withdrawn from the satanic side accordingly. From this time on our battle is still going to be hectic but the consequences will be very different. We must press forward in battle and work hard, and then we will see the blessing of the other side shifted to ours. God will transfer the blessing from the other camp to ours.

The wind has changed. In the past Satan was constantly attacking and God's people were always on the defensive. But from this time on Satan will be on the defensive and God's side will begin to attack. If Satan's side attacks us it will have to pay a tremendous penalty, and ultimately we will win.

The entire spirit world is now completely united behind us. The consequences are many, and at this juncture of human history we must understand clearly how to conduct ourselves to avoid being hurt by conditions we might make for Satan; from this time on we should not violate any heavenly laws. As we gather fresh determination to win new battles, our standard must always be to go beyond the intensity of our work for Washington Monument. Then we will always be victorious and the heavenly world will always assist us. . . .

Today we are celebrating the Day of the Victory of Heaven. Our pledge should be that we will maintain the standard of effort that was established by the Washington Monument campaign. As long as we do that then God can be with us all the way, and the entire spirit world will come to assist us without reservation. Can you understand this?

Spirit world is now besieging people on earth. To them the world is small, almost like the size of an ice cube. A treasure chest has been opened but most people are unaware that a new treasure has been discovered and a new power has been released. Spirit world has opened up, but nobody realizes what has happened.

Because of the fall of Adam and Eve, the separation between the spirit world and physical world stretched miles wide. Even though the people in spirit world wanted to descend to the earth to intervene in the life of the physical world, they could not do it because between the two worlds lay a chasm which was in the hands of Satan. Adam was supposed to be in the father's role, but because he failed then all his children failed. Spirit world could not freely descend until the mission of the father was consummated here on earth, and he could open a path to the spirit world. This is the rule of heaven.

God's plan was to work on the individual level with Abel, then with Abel's family, tribe, nation, and the Abel side on the worldwide level. No one could bridge this chasm during the 4,000 years before Jesus' coming.

Jesus came in the role of the father of mankind, and in him the spirit of God was manifested through a perfected man for the first time. At that time God wanted to pioneer a breakthrough in history. Because of Jesus' crucifixion, however, this pioneering task was accomplished only spiritually. That is why the Second Advent became absolutely necessary. The position of the True Father must be established in order to pioneer complete salvation from the individual level to the worldwide level, as well as to open the pathway to the spirit world.

All the wrong doings and mistakes of the past, including the mistakes of Judaism and Christianity, must be indemnified. The Unification Church thus has a mending mission. By paying indemnity we are mending the mistakes of history in the shortest possible time. You call me the True Parent. Why? Because for you my role is that of a true parent, true father, or Adam. I must mend all of the past mistakes, and step by step bring about wholesome restoration from the individual level to the worldwide level. This was symbolically consummated at Washington Monument, so that the individual failure, family, tribal, national and worldwide failures were mended. Thus I opened wide the highway between this world and the spirit world, so that anyone can ascend or descend without restriction. . . .

Now your ancestors can come down freely on the highway between the spirit world and the physical world. Our ancestors in the spirit world are our allies and will help us witness to others. They will come down in an unprecedented avalanche, like Niagara Falls. They will pressure their descendants, "You must become a champion. Go out and witness. You must do more." They will not only come down to you, but to their descendants who are not yet members, directing them to go to a workshop, or to meet a person from the Unification Church. This phenomenon will happen increasingly.

In the wake of the victory of Washington Monument a far more jubilant victory celebration is being held in the spirit world because they have now been liberated. Now they can freely come to the earth and work with you, their own descendants. From this time on, when you go out on your mission you will receive all kinds of spiritual experiences -- visions, speaking in tongues and special dreams. No only you but many people outside our church will experience these things.

We must sway three countries to God; once God can influence at least three nations, the whole world will tumble into His arms. Presently in the spirit world there is a great deal of competition. Because good spirits can descend first, the country which has more good ancestors will be benefited first, directly affecting the destiny of that nation. We are not just mobilizing Christian spirits, but even Jesus himself, as well as Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed. Taking a father's role they will come down to their own followers on earth. Not many people understand these things precisely, but I can clearly testify to them because I am the pioneer who opened the pathway. What I have prophesied has been fulfilled.

In your prayer from this time on you can command the spirit world in the name of the True Parents, and in the name of the Day of the Victory of Heaven. You can insist that your ancestors in the spirit world must come down to cooperate with their descendants and bring them into salvation. They are supposed to obey, and if they do not you can warn them that they are in trouble. You can give a command like this because you are the direct heirs of the true Adam. Spirit world, including the angels, is in the servant position; the sons of Adam have the authority to command those in the spirit world and they must obey you. Even though they lived 1,000 years ago and are your elders many times over, those in spirit world will listen to you.

The important thing is this: once you seek out the help of the spirit world you must be responsible for yourself and your ancestors. If you falter and fall away, your ancestors will be trapped. In that case your children will suffer because they will have to indemnify your failure.

You have one simple mandate from God and from the True Parents: to have absolute unswerving faith. Press forward and work more intensely than in the Washington Monument campaign. Then the power of God and the assistance of your ancestors will come with you. Any amount of spiritual assistance you require will be no problem. You will only prosper.

The Day of the Victory of Heaven
10.4.76, Belvedere

. . . The year 1976 was a year of history-making events. Because of the victory I won in 1976 here in America, the entire spirit world has been liberated and united. They are in jubilant celebration. All the barriers and divisions of the different denominations and religions have been broken down. Spirit world is enthusiastic in welcoming my work. This is why I could proclaim the Day of the Victory of Heaven on October 4, 1976.

Because there have been great divisions in spirit world, and because it is the world of cause, my strategy focused on it. In spirit world there are Buddhists, Moslems, Christians, and people of every other religion, all in their own separate communities. Since my victory here on earth all these barriers have been broken down. This is why I can proclaim the victory of heaven. There are no more boundaries in spirit world, the subject world of cause. Therefore, sooner or later that will be reflected in the object world of the flesh. Then national and religious boundaries here on earth will be broken down. A wave of spiritual assault is now crashing onto the physical world. The entire spirit world is descending not only to the free world, but to the communist world as well.

Spirit world is 100% with us. Therefore spirit world cannot leave anyone alone who comes to oppose my cause unrighteously, but will chastise them. You will see. I have a plan and God has a plan to fill the entire environment with spiritual power. Spirits will come in a first wave, second wave, and third wave. I have prepared wave after wave to assault the earth. This means that you are in Adam and Eve's position, with the entire spirit world in the archangelic position. Are you, Adam, and you, Eve, going to fall behind the spirit world? Are you going to be led by the archangel? Are you fallen Adam and fallen Eve? Are you the one who brought sin to the world, binding God and bringing tragedy to the world, or are you the one to restore all things to God, bringing liberation to God and to me? Which one?

Who Am I
1.23.77, Belvedere

The time has come to unite the spirit world and physical world, finally ending their separation. That will not occur in a smooth, peaceful transition, but through earthshaking events. Why should that be necessary? An extraordinary confrontation will take place, with God exerting all His power to accomplish His will and the satanic powers desperately trying to stop Him. One such dramatic battle took place in Washington D.C. on September 18, 1976.

The age is now dawning in which Satan will no longer have the power to accuse man in the sight of God. The spirit world may blame others, but they cannot blame the Unification Church. Furthermore, the time has come when all the spirit world on the side of goodness will come down and assist our crusade. With that assistance our work will be greatly speeded up. The time has come for the great spiritual leaders of the past, such as Buddha, Confucius, Moses, past Christian saints and Mohammed, to appear before their own disciples, telling them that they must receive the benefit of the Unification Church. . . .

Until now all of spirit world has been divided by many barriers, but the victory of the Washington Monument Rally broke through all those barriers and allowed the spirit world to become one unified world. The spirits there communicate with each other and now know who the central figures are and where the central movement is. They are traveling in their respective channels to break down the barriers between people in the physical world and create a similar unity here as well.

So far there has been no fellowship in the spirit world between East and West, but now that barrier has been broken. The power of absolute, heavenly love has united the two with God at the center. on earth, the Unification Church is bringing the two cultures of East and West into one, intermingling them by international marriage and international gatherings of members working together. In our Unification Church there is no boundary between East and West.

We have laid the foundation for unity on the individual level, family level, tribal, national and world levels. Anything we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and anything we loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. In the future we will take more and more initiative in world affairs, and you will witness how even our most violent opponents will fade away.

The Spirit World and the Physical World
2.6.77, Belvedere

. . . If we had not had the Washington Monument Rally then no matter what else we did well, the spiritual barrier would still be unbroken and no one could penetrate it. If it were still there and then I died for some reason, it would have meant that my mission was left undone. Then, just as Christianity endured much martyrdom when Jesus left the earth, the Unification Church would have passed through the same course of suffering. If the Washington Monument Victory had not been won, there would have been no way for the spirit world to come down permanently and help this fallen world; it could have only come down sporadically. But everything was all done and no barriers are left. I fulfilled the mission, period. Therefore, on the True Parents' birthday in 1977 I declared a new calendar and a new history. . .

This highway is laid all the way from heaven to the dungeons of hell and the entire spirit world can come down all the way to the bottom of this world. Those in spirit world have been given total freedom to go anywhere they want in the fallen world. A new maneuver has begun because spiritually Satan has to confront these good spirits on earth. Spirit world has to be cleansed, and in order to do that they have to harvest goodness. The final separation of good and evil has begun, which is why everything here on earth is being polarized. Schisms are automatically seen wherever our movement is active, as Cain and Abel divide in the churches, academic world, everywhere.

When we confronted the satanic power before 1976, the Cain side always prevailed because of overpowering satanic strength, and because of the spiritual barrier there was no way good could prevail. Since the victory of 1976, however, this barrier has been removed and spirit world can freely come down. The good side is inevitably going to win and increase and not take any more beatings. This is why I told you that this is a year to be bold and strong, a year of marching and leaping forward. Don't be a coward.

The Dividing Peak of Restoration
1.15.78, Belvedere

On February 23, 1977 I declared the beginning of the new age. That was the precise time when Abel's indemnity ended and Cain's indemnity began. If our devotion is greater then the communists' then God will fully work with us. . . .

You must realize that indemnity is transferred now, and that this is not just the time of individual restoration but world restoration, all at once. Until now you sacrificed and lost and gained nothing back, but once the foundation is laid you will never lose anything. Now if you fight more you will reap more.

Before now God could not help you freely because by His doing so you could never win your independence, but now that the foundation has been laid by the True Parents God can endlessly support you without your losing anything. This is the reason why if you work hard you can get so much help from spirit world. Many impossible things can happen now. You have to really know that before you can have any power.

The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78, London

This November I completed two very important ceremonies. One was conducted to unite all religions centering upon the central religion, not only here on earth, but most importantly in spirit world. The other ceremony was to unite all races centering upon the central race or representative of God. These two ceremonies were for one purpose -- to create one total unified world in spirit world as well as unity here on earth. The road is open now because the spiritual condition has been set to clear away all racial and religious barriers. When you are flying you can go in any direction, and now in the same way you can go in any direction here on earth and gain the victory. Whether people believe in a certain religion or no religion at all doesn't make any difference now; once they discover the truth they can come directly to the central point because spirit world has already demonstrated that oneness.

The spirit world is subject and whatever happens there will be reflected here as the influence of that realm helps to break up the barriers. When we are elevated to the true sonship of God, the rest of the world will be elevated to the status of adopted sons. Since even adopted sons are obedient to God, this is equivalent to restoring the angelic world. Therefore, descending spiritually from heaven will be much easier and the work on earth of those in spirit world is completely possible. In spirit world national boundaries are not recognized any more, and therefore, it will be the same here on earth. In the Unification Church we no longer recognize national or racial barriers because the world is one nation of God and we act on a worldwide level. Adam had three sons, of whom the white race is represented by the third son, the black race by the second son, and the yellow race by the elder son, but altogether they are one family. . .

The ancestors of all races were united with the central race by the ceremony performed in Korea. There have been many religions on earth, but the conditions have now been made to bring them into unity surrounding this central Unification Church religion. All the races have become one centering on the heavenly tribe. The internal unity of religions and external unity of races together make up one total unity. The key word to remember is that all spiritual barriers have been broken down and everyone will be able to go around the world freely. Now more Asians and Europeans can come to America and Americans can go abroad. A great deal of movement will take place in this unified world.

When you move deeply and strongly America will feel the impact. In home churches God can have direct control and spirit world can pass freely. In the past spirit world could only descend for a time, but now they can stay and work continuously. There are no barriers to the movement of spirit world on earth now and everywhere is our home. The declaration of this new concept of home churches is in itself great proof of the victory of God's dispensation.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

On November 2, 1978 in Korea I held a special ceremony for the events to take place in spirit world and here on earth which completely break down the barriers between religions and between clans and tribes. Since this ceremony, spirit world no longer recognizes the barriers and boundaries between religions and between different surnames like Jones or Smith. Now there is no longer a distinction; it is all one family. These barriers are broken down so that each individual can go freely throughout the entire world without any restrictions. Now it's up to you. You are going to be the one who mobilizes spirit world. You can now command the spirit world to come down here and help the earthly dispensation.

Mainstream of the Dispensation of God
11.19.78, Belvedere

This is the final dispensation here in America and when the pattern of what I have achieved here is expanded it will form the cosmic dispensation. Spiritually speaking, every victory you need has been won. There is no other victory left to obtain; the conquest of spirit world has been accomplished, and now all we have to do is translate the spiritual victory into physical victory. Since this cosmic level of condition has been set, you can go anywhere in the world and there will be no barrier you cannot cross. When we are able to work freely all over the world, the same situation will be seen in the spirit world. Now in the spirit world there is complete freedom of movement through all spheres. The time of disputes between denominations and religions is over.

I want you to become a tribal messiah. Does a heavenly king rule by using his fists and power? A true king rules for eternity by love. Kingdom building has both the spiritual and physical aspect. You doff t have to worry about the spiritual side because I have secured that kingdom. Now I want you to have the opportunity to participate in the physical kingdom building.

Without winning the spiritual victory, no matter how much you do in the physical world Satan will always claim it. But now that I have won the spiritual victory and anchored the foundation, nothing can shake it. In the spiritual kingdom which I have already built no one is idle. All of spirit world is coming down, making a fence to protect us. All the great saints who died many centuries ago and the founders of the great religions are working to shield you and help you win the victory.

Who is on the front line to resist spiritual infiltration? The saints in spirit world are protecting us like the guards who protect a palace, repelling all the spiritual negativity.

The spiritual turning point was marked by the crucial victory in 1976.

Home church can easily be surrounded and protected by the spiritual victory I have won and there is no way it can fail. The spiritual power we can employ for the home church is many thousand times greater than anything the satanic world can mobilize. All you have to do is unite with True Parents' spirit and intent. Make controversy; go ahead and create good trouble. The world is plagued with evil trouble so let us become makers of good trouble.

I came to America to be opposed by the world, and now I want you to go to your home church to be opposed by that mini-world. I have won my home church here in more than 360 homes. Since I came here as sojourner and have finished by home church, I have the right to go back to my hometown. That's why last year I went to Korea and had a special ceremony on November 2 to break down all the remaining barriers in the spirit world, liberating everyone from the barriers of religion and race.

In that ceremony I eliminated the barriers between my tribe and all other tribes of the world. I also broke down the barriers between the Unification Church and all other religions in spirit world. Because of that ceremony the door is wide open, and whether a person believes in some religion or no religion at all doesn't make any difference. There is absolute freedom now and everyone has the opportunity to hit the jackpot. There are no more barriers in spirit world or on earth. That was done by my succeeding in home church. You can declare to the spirit world, "Because our True Parents set the condition there is no longer any barrier between their tribe and our tribe. There is no longer any barrier between the Unification Church and the religions of the world. All good men of conscience in the entire spirit world and here on earth must come forward to participate in the kingdom building. I am here to enlist your support." You can pray that way.

You can also petition God, "You are my Father and I'm your child. I am going out to do home church as a tribal messiah and as your representative. Please send down one regiment of angels to come with me." God will listen to that prayer. The angelic world exists solely to assist the true children of God. So far the angelic world could not come to help very much because you belong to the fallen generation. Now by doing home church you can become the true children of God and before all of heaven and earth you can request the help of legions of angels. In home church we set the condition to liberate the world, the condition that we truly loved mankind. By that condition God will forgive the entire world.

In 1976 we crossed over the final barrier to perfection, leaping into the direct dominion of God.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

On the foundation of all these victories I have explained I could conduct a special ceremony for the liberation of the spirit world. As long as spirit world was not liberated it was divided into compartments with many, many boundaries, but on November 2, 1978 at Chung Pyung Lake I conducted a special ceremony to break down all those barriers.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

1976 saw the culminating victory of heaven and earth and that year Moonies were in the headlines everywhere. I really went on the offensive on April 30, 1973, for 3 1/2 years. On that day America granted me permanent residency here and in the next 3 1/2 years I consummated the worldwide level of restoration. When the battle was won in 1976, it meant that restoration of all past history was consummated. On September 18, 1976, the historical victory was won and then on October 4, I declared the Day of the Victory of Heaven. February 23, 1977 was the declaration of year one of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

The spirit world has been compartmentalized over the ages but the victory of heaven meant that there would be no more barriers. For this purpose I conducted a special ceremony on November 2, 1978 in Korea. After unity was made between Great Britain and America, as subject and object, I entered Korea in 1978, and conducted a special ceremony to demolish all the boundaries in spirit world. Until February 23, 1977, liberation was given only to the religious realms in spirit world. The rest of the spirit world has always been divided up into the many family trees and nationalities. On the foundation of religious unity in spirit world, I could lift all the boundaries between tribes and nations on November 2, 1978. By liberating my tribe and linking the entire world to it, one tribe in heaven was formed.

Now the entire non-religious world can unite, meaning there is no more separation in spirit world. Now the entire spirit world is descending to work on earth as a unified force. By the time the third seven-year course is completed, there shall be no more opposition here on earth.

Once unity was achieved on the spiritual level, the home church dispensation could begin on earth. Since every tribe in spirit world has been liberated, we can now organize the true heavenly tribes. Your home church area is your tribe. Actually we are ahead of schedule; God originally planned that home church would begin in 1981, after the third seven-year course, but because all the debts of the past have been paid, I could advance the time.

What we are talking about is almost like a dream. The home church dispensation does not recognize national boundaries or racial boundaries. You can transform every place you go into a place where the Messiah is no longer needed. Initially you are in the position of messiah, but you can be elevated to the true parents' role. When parents and children are united into one in home church, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth is a reality there.

Territory of Goodness
10.14.79, World Mission Center

True Parents are the foundation of the Unification Church. Our Church family grows as more people come, widening that family domain in spirit world as well. As that passage is increasingly widened, greater numbers of good spirit men can come down to spend time with us. The intense wish of all the billions of spirit men is that the Unification Church can arrive at the culminating point. Suppose Unification Church is accepted on the national level; automatically an equivalent amount of area will be opened up in spirit world. Will opposition increase or decrease at that time?

When the horizontal line is drawn on the world level, the perfect vertical line will come down and all of creation, both spiritual and physical, will be encompassed. . . .

God is comfortably standing on our side. We can project that there is no opposition beyond this horizontal and vertical line on the world level. Our opponents will give up, and automatically we will prosper. Why should this happen? From this point on, the three elements of God, Adam and Eve, and the archangel have a legitimate right to be in the same place. Until this point, these three elements had no guarantee they could stay together; somehow they were separated. According to Divine Principle some vertical relationship is possible, but no horizontal relationship among them was ensured. Once we pass above this horizontal line, however, a new domain of Principle is opened where these three elements can be together, and Satan has no place. He knows this very well.

This sounds easy to explain, but to reach this point took thousands of years of history and all of my life. Now that which has been separated has come back into unity. For the first time we are entering the era of settlement. Until now we have been moving around, but now both the physical and spirit worlds are settling down.

Until now the spirit world could come for periods of time to help, but they could not stay continuously. Since February 22 the spirit world can work continuously with us. Now the vertical line, representing spirit world, and the horizontal line, representing physical world, are united centering on true love and True Parents. We have great hopes for the 34th through the fortieth years, expecting that things will be settled one by one in proper order. The 1990's will be completely different from anything mankind has previously witnessed. At that time, opposing Unification Church will be simply ridiculous.

Declaration of the Ceremony of Unity Between Spirit World and Physical World
3.28.82, Belvedere

The more work we do here in the physical world, the greater will be the spiritual phenomena affecting earth. Spiritual assistance will be equally strong because that realm is like the angelic world, in a position to serve the victorious Adam and Eve. In your home church you will exercise your authority to direct the spirit world to assist you. You are given that authority.

True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center

Amazing things will take place. Your ancestors will come and assist you because they themselves are one with you in your position. Just as Jesus' ancestors worked with him, thousands of yours can work horizontally. Even if they were not very religious, as long as they were good people they can share this privilege. This is because the blessing that has been given to you is extended to the realm all around you, to your ancestral community.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

Your position in the home church is that of Adam; the spirit world is in the position of archangel and they are subordinate to you. Therefore, God and the angelic world must come to help you.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

One thing you should feel from this sermon is that the time of fulfillment of God's dispensation is drawing very near. Now is the time when the founders of the world's major religions, namely Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and Confucius, themselves, can be called to work directly on this earthly plane. The foundation has now been laid for this to happen. What kind of work do you think they will be assisting in? Certainly, just as everyone else both on earth and in spirit world, they are called to do home church work and to receive that heavenly certification.

Your ancestors have direct access to you and your inheritance. Therefore, when they assist you in your work they receive their heavenly certificate along with you.

Until this time, your 360-home area was under the dominion of Satan, the chief criminal of the angelic realm. He was able to divide it up according to his desire, with the help of the Cain-type people there. But you are working with the perfected Adam and you have the assistance of the good angels, as well as God Himself. When you go to your area, those good angels will work with you and chase away the evil angels. That kind of confrontation will literally take place. Until now, Satan had the greater strength and advantage over good people on earth. Even after much prayer, tears and indemnity, good people could make Satan retreat for only a short time and in a small way. Now, however, we have not only achieved equal leverage with Satan's power, we have also achieved a dominance over him. You will see the truth of this.

. . . You must deeply realize the importance of doing home church. When you go out to your area, you can command the spirit world, in the name of God and True Parents, to come and help you; and your command will have effect. More and more spiritual phenomena will be occurring in our favor. Soon you will start to hear the crumbling of the walls of that castle of Jericho.

The best foundation for being able to command the spirit world, including all your ancestors, is to follow the direction and example of the True Parents. By doing the things that the parents do, the children become true children in reality as well as in name. The children incorporate the tradition of their parents and then, pass it on to their own children. You should have absolute confidence to proclaim to anyone, "I am proud to be a Moonie." You should never try to evade the issue; when someone persecutes you, demand of him some reason for his attitude. . . .

At this time, we have a direct connection with the highest realms of spirit world. All the great people there, including the founders of the world's major religions, are ready and eager to help in God's work. The direction of my prayers has changed greatly since last week. From now on, I am directly appealing to those highest spiritual realms and they are coming down to participate directly with us. Accordingly, your prayer should change, too. Your prayer can be strong and short, "Heavenly Father, whatever True Parents are planning, let it be done." And you, too, can directly ask spirit world to come and help you with your mission.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

At this time, the home church area is in the position of Adam and the spirit world is in the position of archangel. You must connect the two and bring unity. The fall occurred because of a conflict between those two positions, but now, we must bring them into harmony for the purpose of restoration. Your home church is directly connected, of course, with the spirit world because of all the ancestors of the people living there. Since the fall, spirit world and physical world have continually been in conflict, but it is our duty to unite them.

Once you make the foundation in your area, you make it easy for the good spirit world to come freely to the earthly realm. Satan has had a claim on your area, but when you enter it spirit world wants very much to make unity with you, their Abel. The people in your areas are under the impression at this time that Moonies are bad; but they will change their attitude toward you totally once they see how good you really are. In turn, those home church people will pass the word to their own relatives.

From the base of home church you can bring down the good spirit world and drive out all the satanic elements. The satanic realms will become liberated and the heavenly realms will grow wider and wider.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

In order to bring down help from spirit world you must do one thing: demonstrate a spirit of service and more loyalty and piety than anyone else in history. Then your ancestors will come down to your home church area and join with the people there, wanting them to bow down to you. That is how these two worlds will be united and how you can set the condition of having subjugated the entire spirit world and physical world. There is no other way you can gain this condition.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

You must experience having such a deep fellowship that you don't want it to end, even when it becomes two or three o'clock in the morning. It should be an experience that people wish could last forever, and if you are truly doing home church out of love then you will surely feel it. When such people come to a family meeting at home church they feel they can breathe, and when they return home they long to be back there again in home church. You are the powerhouse to generate all that.

If you create that kind of atmosphere then certainly God and spirit world will become one with you. When you open your spiritual eyes spirit world will be a living reality to you. If people experience that kind of uplifting love of God in home church then when they go back out on the New York streets they will stare at the familiar sights of cars and buses and feel that a thousand years have passed since they last saw those things. Nothing will look normal.

The Sound of the Bell of the Mind
1.28.79, Belvedere

Your home church members will see visions of me and of you also. When they are open like that then they will live eternally in the same spirit world, and realize they are to live as the same family. Love will open their eyes. You link that to your home church and they will link it to another home church, and yet another, and it will be an unbreakable chain of love which no one, not even God, can cut. This link will be directly sustained by the spirit world.

25th Anniversary of the Unification Church
5.1.79, Belvedere

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Our Standard of Devotion

Rejoice always, pray constantly. . . .

I Thessalonians 5:16-17

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10: 37-39

Even if you lock the door God comes in every night. Having communion and fellowship with the living God every night should be our life and your home church should be like that. Please have faith in it until it can be done.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

When I began my ministry, I needed eight hours of prayer in order to work for eight hours. Otherwise, there was no balance and the work was not produced. The American way of prayer is very easy. You sit comfortably on a chair; but in the Oriental way you are on your knees with your head down for hours and hours. Would you like to pray in this way for eight hours, or invest that time in working for home church? if you took the route of prayer, it would be far more difficult. Prayer is not easy.

Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere

Home church should be the subject of your prayer. Pray with a parental heart for your home church people as your children who. are struggling in hell. Your heart as a parent must be grieved and desiring to save them. If you don't have that feeling then you are in a dire emergency; you must open your heart to parental feeling of love toward your people. If you don't have real love for them then push yourself until you do. No one has to teach a parent to love his children. If you feel like a parent to your home church then your love will be the same and no one will have to teach you.

There is nothing more important for you than this. Test your own power of prayer; take one person and pray for him fervently, constantly, without telling him. Pray tearfully for his well-being and then that person will feel a magnetic attraction to you. He won't know why he feels drawn to you.

If you receive in your prayer that you will meet a person at such and such a time, when you go there then that person will come. If you are dead serious then these things will happen. Hypnosis can transfer a person into another state of consciousness, but how much more can prayer change lives. There is no distance or limit to its influence because the power of thought travels everywhere. You can mobilize the entire spirit world by the power of prayer. You have experienced that I will work through your prayers and tell you certain things. There is no limit to the power of prayer.

The Importance of Prayer
4.15.79, Belvedere

The power of love is like a magnet drawing people to you. When you have that kind of mind and pray to God, you will feel as though some strings attach you to the person you are praying for; you are pulling him and he comes to you in response to your prayer. When you pray about his home over and over again, when you visit there you will feel that the people will never let you go. You will know ahead of time that you will run into this person at a certain place, and sure enough he will be there, even if you are late. I want you to have that kind of experience.

The Burden on Our Shoulders
6.11.78, London

What will Unification Church pray for? We ask God to love our home church area. You pray to God, telling Him what you are going to do in your area, asking for His support, and then that night you report and tell Him what happened.

Prayer
3.29.81, Belvedere

You must really work hard, and then, when you really pray powerfully, miracles can happen in your 360 homes.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

How much you devote yourself to home church shall determine the distance between you and God and the intensity of love God can give to you. Set the condition that you love your home church more than your wife or husband, or children or parents. Jesus said if anyone loved his husband or wife or family more than Jesus, that person was not worthy of him. Today I am saying that if you love your own family more than you love your home church and more than you love God then you are not worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Your home church is one small world representing all mankind and the entire earth; it is a microcosm of the whole earth. Where you live or travel makes no difference; your home church is the place where you will become a child of the messiah and enter the Kingdom. Even if you live in Korea and then come to America you will still have to make a home church. No matter where you may go on earth, you must do the home church mission. Even if you went to spirit world now you have to come down to finish that mission because without going through that gate you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

It may take several years to restore your home church, but if you are as good as I am you could restore 360 homes in one year. If your baby is sick, you would drop everything to go to the hospital and try to heal him. If your husband or wife was sick I know you would immediately take him or her to the hospital. Love your territory more than you would love your ailing husband or wife, and then you can say that you loved your territory with a love superior to all satanic standards. There is no question that if you meet that criterion you shall be the messiah of your territory.

Have you truly loved someone else as you love yourself? Have you loved some stranger more than your own wife, husband, or parents? Jesus set a profound criterion of love by saying that if a person loved his parents, spouse or brothers and sisters more than Jesus, he was not worthy of Jesus.

Only when a person loves him more than anyone else can that person have a new beginning. That was Jesus' criterion and having that kind of love is the only way you can inherit the Kingdom of God.

God set the goal in the Garden of Eden and that ideal still remains. That goal continued through the time of Jesus and comes to us today in terms of home church. Whether I remain here on earth for another ten or hundred years doesn't make any difference. I have fulfilled the ideal already and now it is up to you to fulfill through home church. Now is the time for the sons and daughters to fulfill as the parents have done. The criterion is to love you home church more than you love True Parents; then all kinds of miracles will take place.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

Those of you who have had love before know how powerful the attraction between men and women is, so you should think of home church as your lover and love your people more than you have ever loved anyone in the past. Before loving anyone you have to fulfill the words in the Bible, "Unless you love me more than your wife or husband and children, you are not worthy of me." You have to love God most. At the same time, what you have done for home church is what you have done for God. Now, take action.

Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere

Jesus said that he who would find his life would lose it, but he who would lose his life for Jesus' sake would find it. It sounds contradictory, but that is what home church is all about. Your own family in particular will talk about how you love home church more than your own husband or wife and children, and more than your parents. That's why the Bible said that your own household would be your enemy. That's true. You should not worry about that, however, because when your day of victory comes your own family will repent and ask your forgiveness, wanting to follow you.

If I knock on your door at midnight and demand to know where your husband is, I don't want to hear. "I don't know Father; he isn't here yet." I want to hear, "Father, my husband is at home church." Even if all the people who come to see me at Gloucester come at 5:00 a.m., I am not there. No one can find me at midnight either. I am at sea, my home church, with the tuna tribe. Can you be an exception? At sea I can communicate with God and receive many inspirations, so I don't want to stay anywhere else.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

You would want to go to home church in order to bring liberation. You should become an ancestor, a forefather of mankind and a forefather of the home church. If you make a mistake, there will be tremendous accusation from your own clan and your generation. Do you think that what Father is telling you now your children will automatically be able to understand? Do they understand now? How about in the future? Will they be able to understand then?

Your children will know. They will ask their daddies and mommies why they failed in home church. They will ask where the home church is. "You were there, at the final declaration. You listened to Reverend Moon. Yet still you don't have a home church?"

Suppose the instruction was to shed tears and live a tearful way of life for the restoration of home church, because that is the sheer expression of Father's love. Then your children will ask you how many times you were in tears. Your children will say: "Even if you had to neglect me, even if you didn't feed me, even if you abandoned me, you should have followed God's instruction, God's way of life, and the Father's instructions. Why didn't you?" Your children will accuse you in that way. What will you say? There will be no answer.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

A wife will work harder than her husband and a husband will work harder than his wife, loving home church more than they love each other. More than anything else you love home church and concentrate there to find your own kingdom and heaven. Then you know you are entitled to ultimate heaven. Even if you appear in your home church without clothes, they will still welcome you as their savior. This is the new evangelism where we must succeed.

Reflection Upon Life
6.1.79, Belvedere

Instead of loving just your own family or children, or even doing service to your own country, you will do home church. If a husband spends all his time in home church and he doesn't even come home at the regular time, and his wife begins to say, "My husband is making me wait," she is the worst wife one could ever find.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81. World Mission Center

Are we going to fight this war of love now? You don't have to take my word about this. You have your own faculties for testing whether this is true or not. How do you test it? Go beyond the things and people you were close to; if one of your home church members dies and you feel more sorrow than if your own parent had died, then see whether your people won' t see visions. When you cry daily for their sake, see if they don't respond. You should have such deep feeling for them that you sometimes don't sleep at night for thinking about your home church people. If because you are thinking about them so much you don't even remember how long it was since you last ate, see whether what I have told you is wrong. Any standard less than that is inadequate. Without that kind of heart you can offer them the Divine Principle but they will not listen.

25th Anniversary of the Unification Church
5.1.79, Belvedere

Before we can talk about home church we need to win the individual war. Do you think the person who is defeated in the individual battle will be very successful in the home church? The person who is already defeated as an individual is like a mortally wounded soldier. If he gets up and tries to go to home church, he will only become an obstacle there. In order to go to home church, you need to have won your individual battle, to be strong, healthy, disciplined and absolutely determined. That is the only way you can move on to the home church and bring results.

The person who can say, "I have disciplined myself, Father. I can control hunger and sleep and sexual desire" is ready to march to home church, If not, you cannot win the battle because you don't have a weapon with which to fight.

The 360 homes you are going to visit are full of temptations. You may feel, "They are eating good meals while I am hungry so why should I go to serve them? They are better off than me. Why do I always have to go out so early in the morning and come back so late?" There are all kinds of men and women trying to tempt you. You are out there facing a poisonous atmosphere every day. Why do you go on like that, suppressing your desire? Because you want to win the victory of true love. "I will persevere over hunger and do without sleep because of the victory of true love. I will do away with sexual desires because of the victory of true love."

In the confrontation between good and evil within yourself are you confident to repel Satan? Is it an easy or difficult task? It's almost as difficult as dying. Therefore, unless you really make up your mind to die for victory, you will not win. Unless you commit your life to this struggle, you cannot win. We must win on the first battleground: then we can move onto the second battleground: home church.

We must set the highest example. The battle between the mind and the body is a severe one. If your individual battle within yourself is so difficult, how much more difficult do you think the battle will be within your home church? Don't take it lightly. The road to perfection is very difficult.

You know what kind of criteria you must establish. You must love the home church more than eating or sleeping. You must love your home church more than loving yourself, your parents or husband. With all your heart and soul and mind love your home church.

Love God more than anything else. God is the root and home church is the fruit and harvest of His love. When you come to the throne of God, can you proudly say, "God, I loved my tribe and world representing You, and now I have come back to You"?

Whether or not you can make your heaven depends on this one war. With the five senses of your body you are firing out this love. Will intensity in this battle bring us better results or poorer results? Right now people may not welcome you, thinking, "Oh, that Moonie is always coming, sometimes even twice in the same day." But the time will come when they will say, "Please do more; teach us more; discipline us." 360 home keys will be jingling in your pocket as you walk. The time will come when people will let you come in any time of the day or night. You must win that much of a reputation. If you are trusted to that degree there is automatically hope for building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, for trust is the foundation for building the Kingdom of Heaven.

Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere

God gave us all a mission and duty, and you are given home church work to do. Can you be praised or scolded by the home church dispensation? Would it be expected that your home church is open 24 hours a day to welcome people or do people find the door closed to them when they visit? Does your home church expect you to visit 100 times a day, or only once? Actually they should want you to visit as much as possible, not just once or twice a day. Would the house itself want you to be the most frequent visitor?

Today is such a beautiful day and this is a weekend, so everyone wants to have a picnic, but even your children would say you should go to home church. That is wonderful. When you come home all worn out from working and collapse on your bed, if Dr. Durst comes by late at night to meet you should he say, "Everyone should sleep because we are all tired"? Or should he ask, "What about your home church"? When he is exhausted, even as he is dozing off his last words should be home church, and getting report from you about home church.

Perhaps you run into a friend you haven't seen for a long time and he wants to take you to a Chinese restaurant; but you should think, "What about my home church?" If you are going to home church right after you eat then the food will like you, but if you are going somewhere else then it won't like you.

The toilets in the fancy hotel bathroom will know that you should be using your home church bathroom instead. Even if it is smellier and dirtier than the hotel bathroom, you belong there. If your home church bathroom is far away, then you have to make that excuse to the fancy bathroom, explaining why you need to use it. The smelly home church bathroom knows that more blessing will come to you through it.

A puppy in your home church area will bark at you when you come. Though the dog cannot talk, when you ask why he barks, he would say, "This is my way of welcoming you." If you really have a loving heart, the dog will understand. He will stop barking and start licking you. Once he comes to love you, he will welcome you with a different bark when you come. Even the mice and birds in your area will recognize you when your heart communicates with them.

If you and your fiancée have a long-standing date to visit the Statue of Liberty, and while you are there you buy a can of Coke to share, the Coke will say, "You think you are enjoying this, but it would be better for you to be drinking water in your home church." Wherever you go, things will ask why you came there instead of going to your home church.

The bench in the park will blame you for not being in your home church. If you stop in a restaurant for a quick lunch, the food will really protest that it should not be eaten by you. Even though you eat only leftovers in home church, they will be better for your body. Ask each bench, each bathroom, each drink and meal if they have their mission, and they will say, "Yes, but we have no connection with you." When you go to sleep in your bed, tell it, "I know I should be sleeping in my home church, but please forgive me this one time. When I wake up I will do twice as much tomorrow." Spiritually everything talks.

If you go out to enjoy nature, all the creation there will feel that you are not a good person if you are not in your home church. It is the same as townspeople finding a ten-year-old running around playing when they know he should be in school. In the same way, nature knows spiritually that you should be in home church.

Always before now you felt you could freely drink water or go to the bathroom or drink Coke anywhere, anytime. But after hearing me this morning you will feel the creation protest against you everywhere you go. That is a good thing if it makes you feel more connected to home church and less free than before because everything will remind you of your mission. I have bound you, not just with one rope, but with ropes all around you, attaching you to home church. In a sense you have lost your so-called freedom, but is that good or bad?

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

True love is the target you are shooting at through doing home church. Home church is like the gun and the goal is true love. Have you ever truly thought that the number of times you served people in your home church area was the number of times God visited that area? You must think about how much God is present with you, walking with you. God is not dwelling with you when you are lying comfortably in bed with a full stomach. The time when you are very hungry and fatigued is when God is with you. Sometimes you may be sick to your stomach and you feel you cannot go out. But knowing that your home church members are waiting for you, you don't want to disappoint them and you walk out the door, almost falling down. That is the time when God is with you.

Seeking the True Master
11.29.81, Belvedere

Maybe you think, "Father talks too much about witnessing and 360 homes; I will do it sitting in my living room." There are some things which happen if you set the right condition, and some things you have to do with your hands. How nice it would be if home church would work by setting the condition; for instance, if you could write down names of 360 homes on a big piece of paper and every day make some drawing, and say, "This will serve as condition of having visited my actual home church every day." But it doesn't work that way.

Just as I worked hard, you also have to work hard and do everything as I did. That kind of effort is needed to make home church successful. Heaven on earth is where your ideal and your love dwell. Home church belongs to you, and when you really work at it, all your surroundings -- including your ancestry and your supporting spiritual world -- will come down and help you accomplish it. You will find that the spiritual world actually helps you very much, but you will never know until you really do it.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

Do you like home church? Do you want to do it alone, or together? Can two become great at the same time? There is only one greatest person, not two, so should you go alone or together? You know it is difficult to become the greatest. Is it greater to work for the world, or for the nation? Would you then choose to work in America, or in another country? Would you go to a desert or to the jungle? Would you rather go to the part of Africa where white people are persecuted or where they are welcomed?

How much training do you need here to meet that challenge? You know what I will say to you even before you come; I keep telling you to suffer more and work harder, even if you feel it is impossible. Should you ignore or welcome that kind of teacher, even if it is painful? You feel like you are dying now, don't you?

The Things We Want to Be Proud Of
10.25.81, Belvedere

What kind of a member would you want to be? Certainly you want to go up, not down; but if you are not following my direction, for example in doing home church, are you going up or down? You may be capable of saying "yes" and giving pledges but how much have you actually carried out?

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

For four years, I have been telling you that you must work hard in home church, but how much actual work have you done for the sake of home church? Our whole objective is to invite God to dwell with us. Are you making a base for Him in home church? Within your own minds, how much do you want to go out and do home church? Your words alone do not prove anything. Too often American young people say something but cannot carry it out. How can such a standard be trusted?

We all say we want to be righteous persons, but what is a righteous person? The righteous person is the one who will go against any odds, any difficulties, as long as the right path is clear. For example, Abraham's prayer in the Bible was for God to spare Sodom if there were only ten righteous people in it. God answered that He would. This is the very same position of Moonies today. When you follow my direction and work diligently in your home church area, you will be the righteous persons before God in America. Because you are righteous, some day all your home church members will also be righteous. By observing the way you sweat and shed tears for them, those people will find their hearts reviving; they will eventually have the strength and life to behave as you do.

If you are only focusing on when your wedding will occur, you are certainly not serious enough. America is literally in a last-minute position, so how can you be concentrating on your marriage? The country has to be alive first before your individual and family situation can be secured. How can you think about how you look, whether or not you have nice clothing and makeup and so forth, when the country is in such spiritual danger?

. . . But now we are engaged in a spiritual war, and nothing else is more important than winning that war. Do you understand that?

Some people say, "I need to study more; then maybe I will be able to do home church," but they have not realized the urgency of the situation. Your shoes should wear out from walking in your area. The number of pairs of shoes you wear out will be your pride and your record of accomplishment in the future. Spirit world is always eager to help you, but you must create the conditions that enable them to do so.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

What did Father explain to you before you went out? Three months ago Father showed you exactly how to do home church. He explained precisely the meaning of home church and the reasons why you must do it. You forgot, and you did not do as Father told you. Anyone who memorized what Father told him three months ago and never forgot it and tried to work according to that direction all the time, raise your hand. Who never forgot? Only a few people are confident. Most of you don't raise your hands. You all forgot. Even if you understand completely you may have difficulty; but how can you ever accomplish if you don't even understand?

From now on we must always think, "Home church, home church, home church," like crazy people. "Home church, home church": that is my place, that is my objective. Everything you see and everything you think about should be connected in your mind with home church. If you can't change your thinking, then mankind will continue to live in hell. We must cross over that borderline. This is the 5% responsibility that each Unification Church member must fulfill.

Have no idle time, and no sleeping time. Don't talk here at the center, but go to your own area and talk there. Once you come back in the evening, do not talk, but instead, pray about your area. Don't even chat. Go to your area and talk there. Here, you should pray.

You must really work hard, even with pain. Even if you collapse you must go and still try to accomplish. Maybe it is all right for you, for one individual to perish: later somebody will pick you up. But what about the world? If you don't succeed in your 360 homes, who will be responsible for them?

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

How can you say you are dedicated if you have restored only two people in five years? If you had married five years ago you would probably have at least two children by now. When we are really dedicated we should each be able to bring one person a month and 12 people a year. Even at that rate, in one lifetime of witnessing we could each restore only 600 people. How can we save the world by restoring only 600 people? Even the leaders have only brought a small number of people. If some members bring only two people in five years they may bring only twenty people in a lifetime. How can you expect to go to heaven if you bring only twenty people in your lifetime?

This is a very serious problem. You already know that your result has not been good and this is why I am encouraging the home church concept. Starting tomorrow, concentrate on your area very faithfully. Within seven days you must be able to find one home which welcomes you. You can stay there and then you wont have to come back to the center except on Sundays. Stay in your home church and witness from there.

Everyone of you must do that, but I know that not many people are confident yet. When the seminary students came I chased them out the same day they arrived and told them that if they didn't find a place to stay they should sleep in the park or railway station or go witnessing at night. You must do the same thing and try your best in the next seven days to find a home which can accommodate you.

Because you have had a center to sleep in and meals to eat every day, you came back and said you couldn't find any place for a home church. You could go on like this for weeks and months and nothing would happen! The seminarians have been out already for a week and will continue for several months. Starting tomorrow you must look for a home which welcomes you and witness from there.

You must be careful to follow the pattern faithfully. The leaders are a bridge between you and me, but I will also tell you how to do this mission. Even Mr. Orme must understand and carry it out. We must raise our standard very quickly and understand that this is a heavenly army because in the future we will have to fight communism, the foremost enemy of God in Europe. The Western way of thinking is very weak and the communists will dominate that kind of person because they are much stronger. We must be aware of that and become equally strong. The communists are gaining ground in nearly all countries now. This is a serious, life-and-death matter,

We are in London but we should not have an easy, comfortable life. How can you eat and sleep if you have brought only two people in five years? I do not want to be called Father by such people. How can you say you joined the Unification Church to help do the work? If you really think about God and His will, how can you be so weak? How can you sleep and eat if you cannot witness enough? How can you expect to be blessed? You are not doing it for me or anyone else; you are doing it for your own benefit. Without having many spiritual children you won't go anywhere in spirit world. You must decide that you want to be intensely active. You only have your physical body for a short time.

Do you realize that each person must win at least 84 spiritual children in seven years? It is the fault of the leaders if you did not know this. How can they call themselves leaders if they do not make sure the members are informed? How many of you know that we will be restored only by paying indemnity? If you don't pass your examinations at college after four years then it is easy to fail again and again; if you try your very best the first time but you fail then you are not encouraged to try once more. You may try your best to witness but if you fail then you lose confidence. If you get married and your husband wants to have children but you keep putting it off, what will happen? You only have a certain number of years in which you can give birth to children,

This formula applies to all generations and we are no exception. That's why we have to fulfill the formula of 84 people, and only after that can we sleep properly. If you must rest then only do it at night. How can you go to the movies unless you have finished this? When I go to a movie it is only because I have done my work and then I take a few people with me so that they can have some enjoyment.

If it is very hot you cannot even buy some cold drink. If you are really busy finding your spiritual children then how can you be satisfied with getting a drink? If you are really sensitive and serious about this then you won't even know if your hair needs washing or your clothes need mending.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

I want you to understand that God will never appear halfway through a situation; He will always wait until the end. If He assists you too much in the middle of the mission then you will have to pay too much indemnity, and God doesn't want you to suffer in that way. You can say to God, "You are my spectator, and I will never let you down. Just sit and watch how I am doing."

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

I want you to set a record of wearing out shoes from walking so much. I don't want you to ride too much to your area, but walk and sweat more. When you wear your shoes out, they are your museum pieces. When your clothes are torn and worn out, they belong in your museum. If you are attacked physically and your blood stains your clothes, don't wash it out; that is your museum piece. If you are stabbed, save the bandages. The number of museum pieces you have will determine your place in heaven.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

I want to set the tradition of home church here in America because this is the shortest cut to the world. Would you like that? Then here is straight talk: die for the mission.

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

As Unification Church members we must know clearly that it is our mission to unify; before we can do so we must observe and digest. This is reasonable, like all the laws of creation; it applies on every level of family, society, nation and world. I want you to become like that and be a subject of the whole world, being appreciated by God and respected by all mankind. That is done through home church.

The Way of Prosperity and Defeat
3.1.79, Belvedere

In witnessing you are selling the love of God and Divine Principle. Now put your heart into witnessing and meticulously prepare whatever you need. You must be different from before and your influence will touch the people. Raise your flag and don't hesitate to say you are a Moonie. You have to be exemplary in your neighborhood. In the winter shovel snow and in the summer tend the gardens and streets in the neighborhood. The first house to have the snow shoveled should be the Moonies' house. Then people will come to solicit your services for themselves, and they will need only one third as many people to help them as before. This kind of thing has an impact on people.

Mainstream of the Dispensation of God
11.19.78, Belvedere

If you say that you don't like the public way, then you are retreating to hell. Only if you go the public way are you doing good work and going the way you are supposed to. Have you ever stopped to think that after you have done home church in America you will go to other countries, and even spirit world, and do home church? You can feel that in the future millions of people will act according to your direction.

Are you going to go into the arena of home church now? That's the ring in which you fight the championship bout. You must truly know the public way, for once you turn to the private way you will decline. You always have to check yourself in this matter.

The Public Way and Private Way
1.11.81, Belvedere

Father sees that you have not met a certain standard. You still have not done enough. If you continue at this stage, you will decline. Father is the judge. Whatever Father pronounces will happen. Father has told us that communism will decline. Now we will bear witness to it. If Father says that America will decline and her residents will not continue in their prosperity, then America will decline. This is truly a fearful age. Judgment is now at hand.

The Bible talks about seven years of tribulation. This is it. Father spent 21 years in tribulation. Your condition will be to go through these next seven years of tribulation. The Bible spoke of such tribulation as at the time to meet the Lord. When people meet the Messiah, they are put in an incredible position, to receive incredible persecution.

Yet if you know you are going the right path, even when temptation comes, if you don't change your love or your focus and just hang on to it until the end, then you will surely win. You will see. Perseverance is the quality we need. Then you will come to fulfill the prophecy the Bible speaks of. Then God's Will, will be done. Father's wish will come true and everything will be fulfilled.

What kind of dispensation is home church? It is the conditional seven-year dispensation. Father was supposed to walk seven years of tribulation but it was prolonged to 21 years. During those years, incredible temptation came but Father withstood it all until he finally achieved perfection, and completed everything. He went all the way to the end. And he did it with love. He did it with love. He never lost sight even for a moment. Father was always there with love.

America is enemy territory in a way. She is truly trying to destroy Rev. Moon and has placed herself in the position of his enemy. Yet Father doesn't think in those terms. Father loves America. Jesus prayed on the cross for God to forgive the people because they didn't know what they were doing. He asked for the forgiveness of his own enemies. But we must move on; we must go over the Mount of Calvary without dying, without being killed. We must bear the cross as we live. It is essential that we keep on going.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

Wherever you go you are standing on the Principle. God has given you the stage -- your home church -- where you can practice this. Season your life with life power, love power and ideal power in your home church. To get a degree from home church, you have to work day and night. If you want to become a Ph.D. you have to write a dissertation. Sometimes people devote many years to preparing on Ph.D. dissertation. This cannot be done in your way, but must be done in God's way.

Things That Are Important to You
2.1.81, Belvedere

From here do you want to go to breakfast or to home church? Do you want to rest or go to home church? You might have been sick and tired of hearing about home church every day, but after today's sermon it is a beautiful word, isn't it? Do you really feel that way? Do you love home church more than your watch or dress or yourself?

Spring Season of the Providence
4.1.79, Belvedere

If you can't bear to leave your area and you stay there awake all night then spirit world will visit those 360 homes for you. Spirit world will show each one of them that you are standing in the neighborhood and not going back to your home because you miss them so much. After having this dream or vision, when they open up their door you will be standing there. This can actually happen. Just as spirit world, Adam, Eve, and God must work as one before the Kingdom of Heaven is realized on earth, you also will have to experience this before heaven can be realized in your area.

Everything you do should be centered around you area. If you have to go to the bathroom, go there. When you cry, you must shed the most profound tears in your area. The best things that happen in your life should happen in your area, things that you cannot forget for eternity. When you become old and look back and say those were your happiest days, you will have the foundation for eternal happiness. That is where God's love and ideal will be left. I experienced that while I was in prison, and even now I can feel the same everywhere I go. These things are happening even now, not only at the early times. The standard is the same for you as for me, but it will work only if you are complete in your feeling of love for that area.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

Let those 360 homes be like your own children's homes. Go out there and stay up all night talking and look at the rising morning sun together with them. You must have the conviction in your heart that you are God's representative to them. You needn't think of visiting only during the daytime but also at midnight. If you go out there and wait to meet a certain person, staying up all night and cheerfully praying under those circumstances. then as long as you are there America will never perish.

The Return to Tears
10. 16.77, Belvedere

When you go to your 360 homes, determine which home will stop you. You have to be able to go to all homes freely. Will you welcome me when I come to your home or will you close the door and tell me to go away? Whenever I come to visit you, you feel you want to welcome me, even if I am unannounced.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

If you have been working diligently in home church for the past three years, this is the year that you can finish and graduate. You can joyfully participate in the Blessing and then live in the home church. How many days are you spending in home church? If you are serious about doing home church, should you live in the New Yorker Hotel? You should be living in your home church area. It is very easy to live in the New Yorker, because you can hide behind your door; but home church is not an easy place to live. The New Yorker was purchased for the sake of the world; it is the World Mission Center, not the American Mission Center, or the New York Mission Center. Because you have not yet gone to the worldwide dispensation level, you are not really eligible to live in that house. You must go to the home church and complete the providence there; then you can live at the New Yorker.

From now on, everybody must go to do home church. Those of you who accomplish your work in home church will then be qualified to come and live at the New Yorker. You will be in the position of good children, coming to live in the home of your parents. But trying to stay in the New Yorker without making any serious effort in your home church is not good. The rooms are not there for everybody; you blessed families must move into your home church areas -- including Rev. [Won Pil] Kim and Mr. [Joong Hyun] Pak -- without exception, you must all go out to your home churches. Although some people may think this is unreasonable, you will be infinitely grateful when you see that you are heading for the Kingdom of Heaven. I'm very serious. What I am asking you to do is the bare minimum, compared to the real value of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Everything depends upon how much you serve and set the indemnity conditions. Parallel with those conditions, your blessings will descend upon you. All your ancestors will come down to your home church area, and the ancestors of the people in the neighborhood as well. When your effort exceeds the level of effort made by anyone previously, Satan will pack up and retreat from your area. You will see that those people who were adamantly opposed to you one day will change, like a miracle, the next day. Those who continue to give you a hard time will receive instant judgment from spirit world. You will see this with your own eyes. After their chastisement from spirit world, those persons will change, too. During my lifetime, I have seen many instances of this, too many to describe. The same things will happen to you in your home church area.

Victory of Home Church (Morning Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Do you have your Cain area? Are you Cain or Abel to your home church area? The fact that I have entrusted you with home church means I have approved you as an Abel. It's up to you to work hard and pray. How nice it is when you can consult with one of your people when something needs to be done and see it through to the finish. After one or two years they will understand you much better and try to do this work with you. You never know when the result will come; as long as you work hard now then the result will definitely come. How beautiful it will be when the result comes unexpectedly.

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere

How much have you devoted yourself? One year, two years, ten years, twenty years? By doing so, you attract the attention of God, and He has to look at you and come down to you. True love is the major theme by which you connect one woman, one man, one family, two families, a hundred families, 360 families. When one new person is linked, you rejoice over his birth as the new true child of God. What a joy it is to see the emergence of a new child of God. With this in mind, how can you neglect to go out every day and night? When this movement of love is spreading out to the worldwide level, the Kingdom of God is bound to appear.

Seeking the True Master
11.29.81, Belvedere

Before I undertook any task in this country I met the major leaders here -- such as most of the Senators, including Senator Kennedy, and President Nixon. I met the former president Eisenhower. Go to the famous and well-known people in your area. You should feel that you will contribute more to your area than they do and love it more than anyone. You can say proudly to the parents that you love their children more than they do, and to the children that you love their parent more than they do. You love them more because you love them with the unselfish love of God.

Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

You never know who you will meet when you go witnessing door to door. You might find an important man who later on might save the whole nation. You must be prepared to meet such a person. Even though you are tired you should visit one more home at the end of the day because that may be where you meet the person who could save the nation. You may have visited a hundred homes and not met the man who could save the nation, but he might be in number 101. If you live like that then God will lead you to such a man.

Wherever you go with that heart, spirit world will prepare for you. Always think that you are going to find someone whose heart you can connect with the heart of God. You are reaching out to heaven and that door you knock on is your stepping stone. We are always searching for that special, righteous man, and if you are walking with God's guidance then all of a sudden, without realizing how it happened, you meet someone and you are sure he is that man. You can experience this not only once but several times while you are witnessing. It should even be a common thing for you.

The Burden on Our Shoulders
6.11.78, London

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Motivation

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So, faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

I don't want you to do home church just out of duty but because of an urge that you cannot resist. If your beloved parent or child were in jail, you wouldn't go to see him out of duty. The people in your home church area are like prisoners in jail, and as God's representative you go there with parental heart. You will never lose by doing that but will inherit the love of God. The more you do as a channel of God's love, the more you will inherit.

Will you go to home church out of duty, or with enthusiasm and the love of God? Listen to the bell of love in your own heart. Your mouth won't obey if you want to talk of anything apart from sounding that bell of love; your eyes and ears wont want to have anything to do with it either. If that is the case then you are not far from the ultimate breakthrough to the spirit world and heart of God and you will always be sure of your course and destination. You are carrying the prescription that can solve all the problems and bring comfort and happiness for each of your 360 homes. If you are living in that heart then even if you don't intend to speak your mouth will automatically open and convey that love.

The Sound of the Bell of the Mind
1.28.79, Belvedere

No matter how loudly you shout your slogan, if you do home church out of duty you will never succeed. Only when you do it out of the intoxication of love will you succeed. The home church arena is where you can obtain the kingship of love. Put everything inside home church, and put home church everywhere so that wherever anyone touches you they will feel home church. When every cell shall be part of the kingship of love then there will be no more hills.

Spring Season of the Providence
4.1.79, Belvedere

Your home church will become your source of intoxication. Even though your arms and legs become so sore from your long hours of work, you cannot help but go back again and again. Home church is the source of your joy.

World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center

Would you do it reluctantly, being pushed by me, or are you going to do it willingly? When you become older you long to be married, and in that case would you marry because someone pushed you to do it or because you were longing for it? It's natural to want marriage, isn't it? In the same way, even your physical nature should be longing to become a messiah, longing to reach your destiny.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

Why do I drive you out to home church so much? Is it to develop political power to elect a President? No, and it is surely not for money. It is for love. This is a true teaching, and this is a true movement; this is a true ideal. There is no secondary one, so we can't help but do this.

The World of Good and Evil and My Indemnity
9.28.80, Belvedere

If you do home church only out of duty, however, you will never survive. If you become a person burning with love then people cannot help but welcome you and invite you to stay longer with them. You will become a magnet that pulls the people.

If you are truly intoxicated in the love of God then difficulty and suffering have nothing to do with you because you don't even worry about them. Because of love you want to give your most precious things to your loved ones and you hold nothing back. That's the way God is. When we know this truth there is no room for complaining, or for saying you are overburdened. Nothing can bother you, even the person who tries to hit and curse you. You feel instead that he is complaining because he has not received your love and you can't even get mad at him, much less fight back. You must see his behavior as a sign that he is starving for love. When people in your home church area are hostile you should wish you had been there ten years ago for them to receive the good news you bring so that they would welcome you now.

The Sound of the Bell of the Mind
1.28.79, Belvedere

You will discover that when you are not working for yourself, God will come and do the work for you. The Unification Church has the ideal of making that kind of man and woman out of everyone. Eventually they will become parents of children like this who will be leaders. You have to determine to drop everything else in order to be here and continue on and on until you reach the love of God. We don't care too much whether we prosper or perish; we are heading in one direction and we want to do better day by day. Then we are like the rising sun which can only keep rising. You can be confident that wherever you go the sunshine of God's love will be there.

The reason you go door to door witnessing is to give that light to your families also and this is why you must have a clean, pure mind when you visit the people. When we are not carrying our own burden but are supporting the burden of the world we never tire of it; we are never exhausted because love is never exhausted. How many times did you think, "I wish I had not joined the Unification Church"? Even those people who say no must have thought that at one time or another.

When people open their doors and receive you then the seed of love will grow in that house. Now you know that love is the only thing that makes unity possible.

The Burden on Our Shoulders
6.11.78, Belvedere

You were assigned to 360 homes but do the people like you to knock on their doors? You do it anyway because you are chosen and ordained by God to give out His love. I want you to know that you are all the heirs of God and candidates for sainthood. There are all kinds of people walking on the same street you do, but is there anyone else going down the street in genuine innocence, simply trying to give away the love of God? Early in the morning are you motivated that way. day after day?

The Tradition of the Unification Church
12.11.77, Belvedere

When I ask Unification Church members why you were born, you say you were born for home church. When you leave the building to do home church are you depressed by whether it is raining or snowing, or do you feel very hopeful and loving like the rising sun? I really feel that those members who grumble and drag their feet while walking to their home church area should be persecuted; if they aren't persecuted by the community then something is wrong! If you go out with love then even dogs will wag their tails at you; if dogs are this sensitive then how much more aware will men be to whether you have come to share love or not?

If people are persecuting you when you go out to your area with joy and love then they are violating God's law and Principle, and God will never let it go by. God will do something to them according to the law of love. You can be confident that they should have known this already. New York has been called a jungle, but you can visualize it as a desert to which you are bringing an oasis; you are bringing the water of life to the city where love is totally lacking. Once people understand what you are doing there will be an avalanche of people coming to drink.

Our One Life
3.4.79, Belvedere

When you go door to door, either in home church or on MFT, think of it as visiting one planet. Some planets will give you the cold treatment, and some people will spit at you. When you get very cold treatment, think that this house is a winter-season house. When you receive a hot welcome, think that it is a summertime house. That is the way you can rehearse everything in your life. You should be able to round out your character to love all seasons, all weather and all kinds of atmosphere. That is your goal while you are here on earth. By digesting with love everything happening here on earth, you become successful in your life.

Is it right to refuse to visit a home because you know the people are atheists? You should embrace them and be sacrificial toward them. God always sacrifices Abel for the sake of restoring Cain. For this reason I am pushing you out strongly. You are Abel so you must demonstrate sacrificial love to save the Cain world. The more you practice this greater love, the wider your horizon becomes. I have lived this principle all my life. I always forgave the people who mistreated me, and sacrificially loved them. Eventually they were conquered by love, and my own horizons became wider.

Things That Are important to You
2.1.81, Belvedere

Are you going to be someone who desperately pursues true love? Then where would you find that true love? In home church. Even though people in your home church area may reject you and mistreat you, you have the chance to live a dramatic way of life by continuing to go there with true love. Your home church work will continue until all that negativity turns to positivity.

After about three years of home church work, perhaps no one will come against you. You might begin to think that you have finished your mission, when suddenly another negative person appears. You must begin again with him and overcome all the opposition, even if it takes your entire life.

Victory of Home Church (Morning Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Is the center of true love up in the air? Yesterday Sun Jin drew a pretty picture, and asked me to look at it. The person in the picture was missing one eye, the nose was crooked and the face looked ugly, but as far as she was concerned it was a masterpiece and she was proud. She gave her whole heart in creating it, and she wanted it to be recognized by her Daddy. It was a manifestation of her love. Your home church is like Sun Jin's drawing, with one eye missing and the nose crooked. From God's point of view it is like Sun Jin's drawing, but if you have given your love there and done your best, it is beautiful. You are there to plant the center of true love. When that center is in action, you will be welcome wherever you go. True love will activate the people, from great-grandparents to little children.

Will you be good pioneers going toward the center of true love? Would you like to shout it out to the world? I have passed the baton to you, so grab it and go to home church. That's where you will finish the race. Let us become crazy about home church and the center of true love for the next seven years. When you go to home church initially there will be all kinds of rejection, even from the pets. The dogs will bark and the cats will hiss, but you can promise to bring them true love in seven years and tell them to see what happens. You can have the courage to do it because God has been living that way and I have been living that way. Certainly you can do it for seven years. God is not asking only you to suffer; He Himself has already suffered many more times than that.

Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere

I am pushing you all out so much to home church that no one can stand it and most of you want to give up. But there might happen to be one miserable man or woman who keeps going after home church. That person will become the home church king or queen and all the blessing of the home church will go to that person. There God's history will be written. That chapter will say that on such a year on such a day all the Moonies tried their best but couldn't sustain the pace and gave up. But one cripple remained until the last, determined to die for the sake of home church. God will build His eternal home church upon that faith, just as Jesus built his church on Peter, the rock. The men and women who remain shall be the rock of home church. That's the way the true man and woman are revealed.

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

Until you have finished your home church work, you have no way to complain. You should not get tired. Knowing the Principle, I have no way to get discouraged or to slow down. I continue to march forward; even if I collapsed, I would fall forward, not backwards or to the side. I have always known that I must go over the hill and I cannot stop marching before I go beyond that hill; I cannot afford to die before I get there. Since no one can know when he will die, you must begin now to go beyond the hill. My 21-year course was actually completed in 16 years, five years earlier than scheduled. Why? Because I did not know when I would die.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Home church will only be difficult at the beginning. The first several steps will be difficult but try to cross over the point of persecution by comparing it with my energy at that particular point. When you go just one more step over that point everything will become easy. Can you do it? At the beginning you may wail, "Father, I just can't do it!" But as you continue, slowly everything will become easier. Don't worry about trying to save face. Make a new hole and tighten your belt. Make up your mind, grit your teeth and step forward.

I have been looking forward to home church for at least twenty years. This is my twenty-year dream become reality; even to speak the word home church is a dream become reality for me. I never gave up but hung on and fought it out for twenty years. How long have you been doing home church? Some of you have not even done it for twenty weeks. Are you justified in whining, "Father, I am so tired. My legs are hurting and getting sore"? Do you think home church is incredibly difficult or can it be done?

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

Don't ever think home church is tough. You have to resolve to try it out with confidence, no matter how hard it looks. Find out whether the black or white people are more nasty and then go there. If the people don't pay attention to you, then ring a bell or play a trumpet all around your area so people will come out and take notice. Then the curious people will step forward to talk to you.

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere

You have to keep treading in your home church area, whether the people listen to you or not. The Israelites had to circle the walls of Jericho seven times before they fell down, so you shouldn't stop after seven times, but after 7,000 times. If the people don't listen, then cry as you walk.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

You have a mouth, so when you go to home church you should speak to the people. Command your fist to knock on the door. Persecution may come after the door is opened, but that comes after you knock on the door, so don't worry about knocking. The person just might welcome you, or have a special message from spirit world. If you are really reluctant to knock on the door then do so with your feet. The best people in any area experience all these things too, not just people who are having difficulty.

The Way of Prosperity and Defeat
3.11.79, Belvedere

You never hear me praising or complimenting anyone. I only push them harder. Do you like it? Why? Each time you are pushed by me you are going farther toward the goal, even though it is painful. If I am coming at night or at a difficult hour to see you, you may flee but under any circumstances don't complain. The place to hide is home church.

Record-Setter of History
7.1.79, Belvedere

The best way to think is: "Don't pity me or try to comfort me. Just push me out. I need the kind of leader who will make me a messiah." The person who thinks that way won't have enough room for hanging all his medals in front and will have them hanging behind also. Having your medals on your back is very handy because Satan will see them; he always follows you and seeing your medals will frighten him. Will you say, "Father, leave it to me. You don't have to send Bo Hi Pak to chase after me. I will do it, Father. I shall fulfill your expectation 100%"? Do you need someone to push you out every day or do you want me to leave you alone and let you bring the victory yourself?

Home church is like a launching pad for the heaven-bound missile. A rocket to Mars and a rocket to the stars can both be launched from the same pad because everything starts from one point. The home church mission is the launching pad, but how far you go is up to you. From here you can propel yourself up to the nation, spirit world and everywhere. You are an Apollo 11 with the mission of inheriting true parenthood. You are carrying 360 homes and should serve them as you serve True Parents, taking them with you and arriving in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

From this year on, will you be different? Will you go to home church and serve the people, cleaning their bathrooms and their garages? You may think you are doing a favor for the people in your home church area, but actually they are doing you a favor. It is not they who will be perfected by the work you are doing, but you; and your certificate of qualification in the home church exam must be signed by the people in your area. For whom are you doing home church? You are not doing the home church providence for Rev. Moon or the Unification Church. You are doing it for yourself. When your body tells you, "I don't want to go to home church " you should kick your body. There will be no one to give you a kick except yourself.

Why, then, do you want to go this way? You must achieve the victory of home church. Like marathon runners, you are running, but have you considered how serious this is? Can Satan run to your home church faster than you and sit there, laughing at you when you get there? You must outrun Satan, reaching the area before him, telling him, "Satan, get behind me."

For three years, you have been listening to me expounding on home church. When you go to your area, you must chase out Satan, not by your fist, but by your love and sacrifice. Unless you do home church, you will be like an automobile entering onto the highway of the Kingdom of Heaven with an empty gasoline tank. You cannot go anywhere without gas.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

When Father initiated the year, he gave you a motto and set the instruction. You must write down the instruction and live every word of it. That is the absolute standard. What is the motto for this year? Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. These are not simple, easy words; the words themselves have a tremendous connotation, meaning, capacity, and magnitude. You have to post that motto on the wall, and check yourself every day whether or not you are living up to it.

State Leaders' Conference
3.27.79

Anyone who listens and is totally obedient, without hesitation, shall receive an incredible reward. Those who try to figure out an easier way will be the least in the Kingdom of Heaven, like John the Baptist. Home church has everything, for kings and queens down to the lowliest beggar. For the last three years you have had all kinds of ups and downs, and hard times with your leader, now with Dr. [Mose] Durst and before him with Rev. [Won Pil] Kim, but it all boils down to one conclusion -- you have to do home church.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

I want to teach you all the things you need to know to get to heaven; I don't want you to blame me later. No one can force you to do home church. God would like to take you to heaven regardless of what you do, but Satan will not let you go without some condition. Therefore. let us all go forward together toward the total completion of the ideal.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

I have directed you to do home church, and all of you know why. That is the public way. When things become difficult, you find reasons for not going to your home church. How can you say you are too busy for home church? No matter how difficult it is, you must at least think that what you're eating and drinking is for the sake of home church. You should do home church as much as you eat and drink. You must think that home church is part of yourself and that you cannot cut it off.

Home church people are all imprisoned by a wire fence and they are crying out to you, "Please liberate us, please free us." But you cannot hear their cry and see that they are in prison. At least you have to go there and hear them crying out for you to liberate them. If you cannot do that, you have to pray about that to God and explain the situation to Him. You have time to eat three meals a day, don't you?

Are you paying lots of attention to home church now? Unless you have that confidence, how can you break through even one barrier here? Once you finish home church, you are given credit for doing all the rest. Your arena where you fight the title match against evil is your home church. We have to have a world champion among the Unification Church members. We are competing amongst ourselves. Are you the Church champion at winning, or are you the champion at losing?

The Public Way and Private Way
1.11.81, Belvedere

I have been teaching you all along and pushing you to make your decision, but because I have already given you a Cain area you should get to the point where you are independent. Imagine how much the spirit world will expect of you and support you once you make your decision to go ahead. Imagine how happy and grateful to you Jesus will be to find the real Christianity that he died for 2,000 years ago. The Unification Church will revive the Christian spirit once more and bring hope. It is clear to you now what the Unification Church must do as Abel, and what every Abel must do?

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.77, Belvedere

Let us prepare a package of love and go to meet God. Home church is the launching pad -- a "Love Apollo". You have a big launching pad, and you must create lots of love. You have to create lots of Acts of the Apostles in your home church area, and make lots of journeys of love. Make your life dramatic, ultimately exciting; persecution is not necessarily bad. Those of you who can say, "I want to create a package of love and I want to meet God in the home church area," raise your hands. Amen. God bless you.

God and Us
2.1.82, World Mission Center

The Unification Church is the church of vibration, the vibration of true love. You did not come here for the sole purpose of singing "Happy Birthday" to True Parents. I don't want you to come for that. I want you to become somebody. Become a Moonie of true love vibration. From today, as a birthday gift take back with you the vibration of true love. You are starting to vibrate today for the sake of the world. Those who want to become true vibrations of love, raise your hands. Where will you give your love vibrations? Home church.

The Vibration of True Love
1.30.82, World Mission Center

You must realize how much God is working in your home church. Have you thought about that? Do you have confidence that in your activities True Parents are with you? Do you think, "I'm sure they love me, and God is with me because I am not ashamed of what I am doing. I am proud of it, and God must be proud, too." If you have that confidence, I am sure your home church people will love you without any question. If you do not go there one day, people will ask, "Why didn't our Moonie show up today?" They will ask their neighbors, "Do you know what happened to that Moonie?" They wont want to be separated from you. Without fail, this will happen when you practice this way of life.

Seeking the True Master
11.29.81, Belvedere

You should be such fanatics about doing home church that your 360 homes draw up petitions to the government to hold you back because you are at their doors so much every day.

Return to Hometown
3.18.79, Belvedere

The era of individuals welcoming me is over, and the time has come that nation after nation will welcome me. Presidents of nations will ask me to come to their countries. The United States may not welcome me until very late, but many other nations around the world will say, "Reverend Moon, please come." At that point the American government and people will realize how precious it was to have me in this country. Now the time of preaching to groups of people is over. The time has come for us to preach to the nation. The Yankee Stadium, Washington Monument and Madison Square Garden crusades were all done by our organization, but the time will come in the near future that each government will prepare such a stadium rally. They will prepare a microphone, speakers and singers, and say, "Reverend Moon, can you come and speak to us?" Furthermore, this is the era of satellites, so my talks will be televised to many countries.

Will you go to your home church with that kind of excitement, or would you do it out of duty? Would you like to do your home church work before such national rallies are held, or after? Unless you do it now, other people will come and take over your home church. The president and government officials will want to do home church, and they will kick you out of your area.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

I have started all kinds of social activities, schools and factories, and now I am even making a Hollywood-scale film. If I didn't do these things, people would say that I built heaven on earth only for religious people, not the people in the streets, the shopkeepers or the factory workers. Though we do many secular activities, they have a spiritual content.

Unification Church members go everywhere, not as Americans but as citizens of the heavenly kingdom, to research all that goes on. We will visit every house, not to criticize or look for something bad, but to know every family so we can raise everyone to goodness and clear out undesirable things. It doesn't make any difference if people jeer at us. We will not stop going because of that.

We are not doing this for ourselves but for the sake of the young people, to give them guidance and care. Nothing we do is really just for ourselves. We marry just as other people in the world do, but with different purpose and content. You said you are seeking eternal happiness, but do you have the ability to do it? Before you can make a machine you have to have the necessary skills. Are you skillful enough in doing home church work to save the nation? Is that job easy or difficult? How difficult? Saying that it is very difficult is the same as saying you can't do it. As long as you have the idea that it is very difficult, you will find it difficult to succeed. Though you honestly think it is difficult, if you know you can do it somehow then you have some possibility of success.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

You must do this just as Jesus did his mission. You have to think: "The 360 homes are the essence of my life. If I succeed, I will live; otherwise I will be crucified. If I succeed in 360 homes, my family will have freedom; if I don't, they will have to be scattered. If I am successful in 360 homes, when I go back to my country, I can work to save the country; if I don't succeed, then I cannot do that. My country depends upon my 360 homes." What about spirit world? Your good friends and all of your ancestors in spirit world are waiting. If you do not succeed in 360 homes, those spirit people have no way to come near you or to go to heaven. Have you ever thought that way? What about God? As long as there is one man in hell, God is still held, because that man is His own son.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

We are, therefore, craving to become victors of home church. I want you to know that, unless we conquer the evils of this world, this world will not get better and the Kingdom of Heaven will not come on the earth.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

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Service and Education

It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Matthew 20: 26-28

Some of you may feel that you are Abel, and somebody else is Cain, even in your home church areas. But Abel must always suffer himself. You must serve others. In the Old Testament we see that the people of the Jewish nation, the Abel nation which was chosen, were the servants of servants to God. Father does not like to see anyone, leaders especially, thinking that he is Abel and trying to command other members. Father will never allow that. The typical Abel is Jesus, who lived to serve Cain. Then Cain could come back to Jesus and serve him. Jesus spent his whole life serving, even until his death.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

In your home church put into practice what you have been taught this morning. Don't worry about whether other people love you or not. If no one loves you, don't complain, but realize it is because your own love has not been sufficient. You must love more and give more service. God gave love first, He never asked to be loved first. No, God's way is to love first.

Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere

In order to be victorious in home church, should we then seek out the beautiful places, where everything smells sweet? Should we go to disco dances for our home church work? No, you must go the ugly, smelly places and make them beautiful and sweet-smelling. You must go to the suffering people and make them feel happy -- that is your home church work. If you do this kind of work, then you don't have to make an effort to elevate yourself; the people will try to push you into a beautiful, high place, even though you resist and say you want to stay in the low place.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

When you are in your area trying to perform a service and you drop a dish and break it, the homeowner will not be angry because you are manifesting true love,

Victory of Home Church (Morning Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Serve the 360 homes. Go there every day and serve. Then they will like you. Soon you can say, "The Unification Church has a very good and important message. Your son and daughter can learn so much, to help them to become better people. Would you like to come and listen?" If you have served them and they like you, then they will listen to you. They will come to trust you, and finally they will say: "All right, I will come one weekend and listen." Also, they will ask you, "What can I do in return?" Maybe they are thinking about money, but money is not important, of course, and they know that. So then you can say, "You can really help me by going to listen to a two-day workshop. Come for just one weekend, any weekend."

What is difficult about bringing everyone to two day workshop? The Japanese members don't even have to speak English. Just go there and serve the family for weeks, for days. You don't have to speak one word of Divine Principle. Just work and pray about them. Then they will say "What can I do for you?" At that point they will really want to do something for you. You can say "Please go to workshop, because it is good for you, especially for your children. You must go first to find out if it is good; then you can send your sons and daughters."

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

The home church mission is done by people who take up the position of God as educators of mankind, teaching people how to love God and liberate mankind. If such people become champions of home church, the world shall be restored automatically and the Kingdom of Heaven established. This is the basic spirit and principle of home church. We are going to teach the world these things: one, liberation of God and secondly, love of mankind in the spirit of sacrifice. You must know clearly the logic of the ideology upon which we stand. We will sacrifice ourselves to educate the people and love them. If you do that then without question God will dwell with you and will lead your home church, working day by day with you. You won't be able to part from God for even one moment.

Do you love me? How much? Just as you love me now, when you teach mankind and give them God's love you will be loved by them in return. I want you to know that this has been the hope of God and hope of mankind, and we are here today to really fulfill that desire of theirs. We possess the greatest of all fortunes and the method to fulfill that dream and goal is home church. In doing this mission your Divine Principle book will be used so much that it will be like a rag.

I am telling you to be a teacher and one who loves. Truth and love are two key words. Why do you go to home church? There are two reasons. First you will educate the people, but after education what would you like to gain? The purpose of education is to awaken them and bring them to the heavenly side. Education will give them birth. Once they see the vision they are no longer in darkness.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

What do we do in a home church area? You have to supply your home church with the essential elements for their particular stage of growth, just as though they were in the mother's womb. The person who is already born spiritually has to be given much love. You have to be exemplary in showing this life to those who follow, and have confidence that if they follow you then one day they will go to the bosom of God's love. You have to be confident that you are doing as God does, supplying all the elements they need. I feel exactly the same toward you and your children.

Individual Course of Life
1.20.80, Belvedere

In the home church you will have to teach everything to the people. If someone is opposing the Unification Church, don't go to his house and try to get even. Keep a record of the untruthful things he says about you and teach everything you know, and if after hearing everything you have to teach he is still opposed, then go and fight him. He will be weak internally by that time and only need a little push. But after fighting, you must become friends with him. Otherwise, there is no sense in fighting.

Even though we may need to fight the communists, afterwards we have to tell them why communism is wrong so they can change their minds and have godly thinking. This is why we have Victory Over Communism theory. If Christians are against us, we must show them why they are wrong; this is why we have Divine Principle. We have a complete explanation based on the Bible to show them how they are mistaken. If they repent, it's fine; but if not then we need to make more effort to win them over. God first teaches people and shows them an example, then passes judgment. He always wants to teach still more, but He can't wait eternally if they won' t listen.

We cannot build heaven all by ourselves, but must teach other people so that they will understand and participate. We must do it first, and then with our experience we must teach them well before we can expect them to follow us. You have to be a good teacher and not rush them, or expect them to respond if you are unable to teach them very much. A person must like you first and then he will listen to what you have to say. Then he has to like what you tell him. Teaching people is not just a matter of talking. After they like you personally and like what you say to them, they must like you for your deeds. You have to make them like you in these three ways and then they will copy everything you say and do. That is how the heavenly kingdom will expand. We have to teach them by our personality, word and deed.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

In home church one of your important duties will be to teach Korean, at least a few words,

History of the Providence Through Restoration By Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

This is the only way you can win. This is the formula. No country can succeed apart from this formula. Korea, Japan, America, all need to use the same formula. If you make up your mind that you are going to be America's Mr. Eu and lecture 18 hours a day every day for three years and eight months, and if you fulfill that determination, then the entire spirit world will come down and help you create a spiritual atmosphere. The spirit world had to sympathize with Mr. Eu because he was working so hard. Angels would be sent to push people into coming to hear Mr. Eu, simply because he was working himself to death. Heaven had to sympathize with him. . . .

The first three seven-year courses are over. Now the momentous day has begun; we have started the second three seven-year courses. This is your era, your age. You will be the star. You must begin now. Father has gone through his three seven-year courses. You should feel that you can do a little better than the late President Eu, and that you can go forward further than Father.

Conference
5.19.80, World Mission Center

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Persecution

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matthew 5:10-11

In home church you are persecuted many times. Your home church roster will be your record of persecution but God will comfort you and be right there with you. Persecution is a needed ingredient. In many cases when your people are rude and curse you, you come back to the center feeling depressed. But instead, you should be jubilant over what they have given you that day.

By enduring their hostility you will become a universal man who can go to hot places and cold places, high places and low places and be welcomed there. By doing so you will become a central point.

Look at the world through God's parental eyes and speak words of salvation. If you live, think and act like that, you are a victorious person and you will be approved as God's son or daughter. Do you want to do it or do you just think you should do it? This is a task more urgent that anything else. You should come to the point where you forget the calendar, forget night and day. The place we do this is home church. Be proud of being persecuted. When you are walking on a windy, rainy day, soaking wet, be proud of it. When your shoes are broken and you have to walk barefoot, be proud of it. When someone curses you, be proud of it.

Heaven and Us
3.25.79, Belvedere

It is good that we have been persecuted, for it will keep us on this road. If your desire to do home church is stronger than the antagonism of your persecutors, then you can succeed. You can include every level in your success.

I determined that I must work harder than I have been persecuted. The same is true for you. I will try to give more than I have been persecuted, distributing the blessings that God has reaped. You must see that home church is your training ground. Persecution will decrease markedly from now on. Mainly we must educate people and love them. We must give whatever we have, and surpass the standard of our persecutors.

Now we work in a wide area and stir up the people. We have been persecuted for that, but we are sowing seeds in various places. It will all be harvested one day. I sowed in such a broad way that I will not have a specific harvest to keep; it belongs to the world. But you have a definite area in which to sow, and when it grows you can harvest it as your own. Then for whom do you do home church? For yourselves. You need a foundation for your family, and home church will be that.

So far God collected all blessings as the result of persecution. Even though we are persecuted, we will definitely harvest all the seeds we sow now. No matter how you look at it, this is worth doing. Would you like to do it? Where will you sow your seeds? Go everywhere you can and sow seeds. If you are really like me then automatically your home church people will like you and want to go with you wherever you go. You will be the ancestor of a new tribe.

Persecution and Blessing
5.1.80, Belvedere

Would you go to visit just because your leader pushed you to go, or would you go in excitement that you can be there as the savior of the people? Is it better to think that it is your mission to be persecuted, or to think that perhaps you may get persecuted, or to go to your area with the expectation that you will be welcomed? I am surprised that you doff t know the answer clearly. In which area is there the most value in going every day-where there are ten families that persecute you, or where all 360 homes persecute you? Do you really like that idea of persecution?

Only one prize can be given for doing the best in home church. Would it go to the person who was persecuted at first by all 360 homes, yet became successful, or to the person who had to endure persecution by all 360 homes for one year and yet still became successful? If you said the second person should get the prize, do you have a normal brain? Your parents would say the whole thing is ridiculous. Is that normal advice? God always has a measure to evaluate with; would He say it was normal or abnormal thinking?

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

You will say, "I don't mind going to home church as long as people don't persecute me." But without being persecuted, you are not going to get the blessing. If you are persecuted and are hit, but you receive it with gratitude, the blessing is yours. It will take a while before people realize, "They only smiled when I persecuted them, but now I understand that they have been stealing my blessings!"

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

This is divine and holy work and those who hesitate to act upon it are like deserters. The neighborhood of 360 homes where you have your home will be your community and after you die the people will erect your statue there. My name has been crucified in this city but would your becoming the messiah to your 360 homes help to resurrect my name or would that dirty it even more? Opposition is welcome. It is a great thing after all because it give us a much more dramatic background to work in. Do you feel lucky to work while there is opposition? Soon the opposition will go away and there won't be another chance later on. This is the time for you to get down to work while persecution is still available.

Host of the Future
10.23.77, Belvedere

Is it good for you to go on with this course so that you are challenged to really work hard, or to have no persecution to face and no indemnity to pay? If everything comes automatically then you will not be grateful. Would you prefer a difficult seven-year course or an easier way? All you have to do is quit the Church and go home and come back seven years later. By that time you will have no seven-year course to go through and everything will be easy. But if you know the history of the Unification Church then you will cry, and if you work hard you will have many more reasons to be grateful. As long as you go this seven-year course you are fulfilling your responsibility.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

When you visit black people as you witness to your 360 homes they may well persecute you, not as an individual white person, but in order to offset the historic resentment of blacks who have been persecuted by whites. Your motive is innocent but they will remember the exploitation of the past when white people came all the way to Africa and they will think you come to their homes for the same purpose. Their lips may even tremble in their anger but you must be grateful for that chance for atonement. You can confidently feel that this is proof that you will feel love from these people in the future. They may even want to pick fights with you, but still you can be grateful because that will condense the time of indemnity. Has this happened to you? Without such experiences you cannot win the sympathy of Heaven.

God only made individuals suffer so they will repent. The greater the persecution and suffering, the greater the blessing that will follow. Persecution will make you repent from the very beginning, and your perseverance through that suffering will be a source of reward in heaven. This is why God allows our persecution. By receiving persecution from the established churches and communities, you are buying the right to undertake the cause of the Unification Church yourself. By persecuting us they are selling their right to repent in their place. You have to see this point and be grateful. It means that their right to the blessing is connected to us and whatever they don't take will be given to us.

Is repentance good or bad? Imagine a beautiful girl from a good English family who has never worked hard or had difficulty. She has beauty and wealth but when she comes into the Church she experiences persecution like other brothers and sisters do. White people give her persecution as well as Orientals and black people. She will cry and cry but she can be happy because that gives her an opportunity to repent. If she continues going to every home and repenting with tears, what do you think she will be like in the future? In the future when people can see more clearly, wouldn't the person who persecuted her be ashamed and try 100 times harder to help her than he persecuted her?

Satan will encourage you to fight with the people but God will work differently. Christians often interpret God's point of view wrongly, and in this matter you must know that when you go from house to house it is not just for witnessing but more importantly, for repentance. It is better to painfully visit door to door and repent and then later help the people to repent. Just making them understand the truth actually has little meaning. If you have done enough repenting then they can't persecute you even if you beg them to. Once the people stop persecuting you they will start following right behind; that is actually the way for you to win spiritual children, not just witnessing to people and bringing them right into the Church. It is closer to the Divine Principle for them to oppose you, then repent and follow.

The Age of Repentance
9.1.78, London

Home church is your launching pad. If you are a powerful rocket but you have a weak launching pad, you cannot take off. Receiving persecution will strengthen your foundation enough to withstand the millions of pounds of thrust you need for the launch. This world must quickly turn 360 degrees but what will its axis be? Home church. Only Reverend Moon can make this kind of dramatic statement. Could anyone else give this dispensational message?

God has a great sense of humor. His most important message is revealed through Reverend Moon, who has been accused by society of incredible things. Good news always begins from enemy territory, however. World War II ended when good news came from enemy territory and Japan surrendered. Our good news will come when our critics in the government, the media and the hostile Christian churches say they surrender to us. Then our territory can be guaranteed.

The First Day and Our Lifetime
2.2.79

I received persecution on the national and worldwide levels, but you are receiving persecution in your home church; that represents racial rejection, communist rejection and national rejection all together. Always be grateful for the persecution you receive and take it as added energy to spur yourself on beyond the level of the fall.

True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center

What is the Unification Church's dynamic energy and where do we make it? it is the love we find in home church. When you are pounded on in home church, you are storing that energy.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

When we go door to door and are persecuted, that challenge gives us some standard of love to achieve. We will love the people and never be beaten by their persecution. We will push our level of love higher and higher every day, and even if there is more persecution because of misunderstanding, we can persevere with greater love. If we keep on living this way today, tomorrow and every day, then we will be prepared for the world to come.

For the Future
9.10.78, London

My life was a miserable and tragic life, in a way, but I never lost my dream. The seemingly impossible dream has become a reality, step by step. I used to dream of dancing with people of all five colors of skin, all races of the world. That could happen right here! So dreams can become a reality.

No matter how miserable you look or how tired you feel, you have the hope of home church. It shall become a reality, and it shall be fulfilled. Your dream shall be a reality, just as mine has become a reality.

Be thankful for persecution, for persecution will make you whole. Tears may flow from your eyes, but your mouth will say, "Thank you." Never be discouraged. Move on to home church. We shall win the victory at home church.

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

You cannot win the victory without committing yourself to fighting the battle. You have learned the tactics of victory; just go. The important thing is to go, be beaten, and then win. Satans method is always to attack first and ultimately to lose, while the method of Heaven is to be beaten first, but to obtain the victory in the end.

In your home church area, if you can win the hearts of your five worst adversaries, the rest of the people will be won easily. Those people who welcome you are the extensions of Abel; they are already on your side. You should concentrate your efforts on the Cain-types; they are the extensions of Satan. You complain because you meet opposition in your area, but I tell you that opposition is the reason why you are in home church. If I had been afraid of opposition, I would never have dared to come to the United States. There is no question that if you are afraid of being opposed, you will be destroyed. The wrong attitude is to shy away from the negativity in your home church area.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Now you know the situation and why you have to work hard in home church. Once you have laid the necessary foundation you should confront people and ask what wrong you have done and you can demand to know why they do not respond. Because you can rightfully protest, the power of righteousness will work and they will begin to help you. They will have to wonder about what wrong you have done, and then conclude they must help you. You must have many reasons to protest in case they do not respond, really trying hard by putting in long hours and doing impossible things, and then if they don't listen you can confront them with your record.

25th Anniversary of the Unification Church
5.1.79, Belvedere

People will reject you initially, of course, just like the Messiah was rejected. Would you welcome True Parents if they came to visit your home? Your home church should be the place where you are welcomed as true parents. You can never reach this goal by attacking the people; only by overcoming the persecution and opposition of the people can you do this mission.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

You have been assigned 360 houses for home churches. Why is that? It is the encircling tactic. We are encircling 360 homes by serving them. Some of these people will persecute you, saying, "You Moonies are bad people." Just smile at them and reply, "What can I do for you?" That is God's strategy, the encirclement tactic.

Where Do We Go?
9.17.78, London

. . . You are persecuted now, but in time you will be honored by the world, and nations will invite you to come help them. Will you start working when that time comes or start now?

Today is the day to begin in your home church. Will you be a freight car or a locomotive? A locomotive is smoky, hot and noisy, so if you are a locomotive then everywhere you go there will be noise and smoke and controversy. You have to receive persecution; that is our daily diet. People think you are weird, and they are curious about how you live. That curiosity is a good thing, and through peoples' interest you will become famous. Then you can exercise more heavenly influence.

Our Present Position
10.7.79, Belvedere

We can only overcome community opposition through home church.

Noble Dream
12.1.81, Belvedere

In home church work you go voluntarily to serve the people, but when you arrive and they find out you are a Moonie, they will push you away from their door, and even beat you up. I know this is your story. When you are treated that way, some of the neighbors will support that hostile person because they don't like Moonies either; but then others will be outraged and ask how these people could treat any human being that way.

When you show up again the next day and the hostile people confront you, the other neighbors will come out to defend you. When you keep coming back with a peaceful face, these neighbors will say that you seem even better than Jesus because the Bible records that Jesus got mad on occasion, while you never get angry.

The more dramatic the persecution you receive in your home church area, the better it is. If you are kicked and knocked unconscious, people may think you are dead and the headlines will proclaim that the Moonie was kicked to death. Then when you revive later the headlines will announce that you resurrected! If this happens two or three times then you will easily restore the whole area in the meantime.

Ideal Nation of God
2.21.80, World Mission Center

It is difficult to keep visiting 360 homes every day, but in the meantime keep knocking and being rejected. While you are doing that the dawn is breaking. You are home church messiahs. You are going to be a messiah to 360 homes, but then will be elevated to be tribal messiahs, then national messiahs. That's where you will find the restored family, and finally return to your hometown.

Do you always have to live in the New Yorker? What is the goal? Do you live in home church now? Go to your home church and serve them spiritually and physically and be the contractor for re-creation in every way. How much you sweat and cry for you home church and how much persecution you receive, there is the important thing. If you still come back to serve the people after three angry rejections, the people will say you Moonies are impossible and there is no one else like you anywhere in America.

There is no barrier you cannot break through in order to be a host and hostess in home church. Have the barriers of opposition started to crumble here in America? it is an exciting task, and they will inevitably break down. No matter how gigantic they are, our opponents will crumble eventually, so just go forward fearlessly.

Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere

When you go deeper and deeper into the night you are bound to come upon daytime, and if you go deeper and deeper into daytime then you are bound to come upon night. That's how it is with the universe. We prosper and develop along this cycle. Most people in the United States are opposed to Unification Church, but this is the time when Unification Church will expand and grow. The point where we are persecuted to an impossible degree is the key point where we will rise or fall. If we give up, then everything ends, but if we gain ground inch by inch even under severest persecution, the way up will become easier and easier.

The Way of Prosperity and Defeat
3.11.79, Belvedere

Of course home church is difficult. If you go knock on the door of the most unpleasant person you know he will yell at you. You may not want to see his face but you knock anyway and he yells at you. If you go back three times I can guarantee that his voice will become lower. After four or five times he will want to know why you come and wonder what kind of person you are.

The moment he smiles at you will be the moment the walls crumble and the 12 gates open for you. If you seriously work for that goal then when the 360 homes welcome you your cosmic spring is really at hand. You can know that one day your home church members will be waiting outside for you to ask you for lunch. Some day the worst person will be waiting to ask you for dinner and to sleep in his house. That will surely come to pass.

Myself
1.13.80, Belvedere

If you live in your home church area 24 hours a day, and every moment of the day everybody comes and kicks you, hits you, knocks you down and curses Reverend Moon, and yet you still love them and pray for them, you'll be able to be proud of your record of enduring and overcoming record-breaking persecution. "I endured and I won! That minute, that moment, I want to receive it, I want to do it. I want to go ahead."

Do you understand that? If you are crazy about Abel's mission, and if you are crazy about home church, trying to win Cain, trying to receive persecution every minute of the day, then you just cannot be anything except a true Abel. You have given so much that they are indebted to you. Every single home in your 360 home church area and every single person is indebted to you in one way or another. They want to repay you for the kind of love you bestowed upon them. .. .

World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center

Very definitely people will be moved and inspired by you. In the beginning they will stand firm against you, but know that before too long they will be melted by your love. No other power is greater than your God-centered love. You have a weapon as powerful as an atomic bomb. No other power can compete with the power of love. The best people are either hot or cold. Those who oppose you will be your target because they will be your best members when they are turned around.

Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

It took me sixty years to indemnify all aspects, but you can do it in six years; if you really do well then you can finish in six months. One day the tide of opinion will turn completely and people will know the Unification Church is good. When our Church is welcomed, doing this in six months will be no problem. If you could give forty days training to all your 360 homes, don't you think they will all turn around? Until the present time, opposition toward me has been totally hostile but I accomplished everything regardless. Now, however, people will oppose you much less than they did me. Also, they will not try to kill you as they did me. Clearly, this is an advantageous time.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

New York has become gentler and is not persecuting you too much, so you should go out looking for persecution. You go once, twice, three times to visit your assigned homes, and no matter whether people point their fingers at you each time, their consciences will not allow them to keep it up. The first time you knock on the door they may be almost like lions trying to bite you, and the second time may be almost the same. The third time they will stare at you, but the fourth time they will shake their head, "Boy, I just don't understand these mysterious people. I'm sorry. I didn't treat you right before."

Their apology will be as deep as their wrongdoing and the more they persecute you, the deeper shall become their repentance. This is the strategy of God. Because I know heavenly strategy I never get tired or become hopeless. It is impossible.

Our Newborn Selves
11.1.77, Belvedere

When you go to your home church area and people slam their doors, saying, "You Moonies can get out," you think, "Why did I have to become a Moonie?" The person who says that is not a true Moonie. The true Moonies are the ones who are walking all six continents with dignity no matter what people say. To be a proud Moonie you must know the true definition of a Moonie. He is the one who can go to his parents and proudly say, "Father, Mother, I'm a Moonie. If you love me, you will listen to why I have joined the Unification Church." That person will have the power to inspire his parents to become Moonies also. He is a true Moonie.

Let Us Restore the Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

You will never be alone, even though all of your 360 homes reject you. The electrical pole, the street signs, even the postal box are your friends, and in ten years they will all testify to what you did and how many tears you shed. Nature is like that. When people are your worst enemies then nature is your best friend. Even when you are trembling and shivering, that scene and experience is your friend as long as you are not shivering for yourself. You will never forget that moment. Your worst form of suffering will be a teaching aid for the future, and everything you do will be recorded as the acts of apostles to instruct the people. When people a thousand years from now read of your deeds, they will still shed tears; that is the kind of chapter we want to write.

The Sound of the Bell of the Mind
1.28.79, Belvedere

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Tradition and Tribal Organization

When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, "Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man, and command them, Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests' feet stood, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight."

Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe; and Joshua said to them, "Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, 'What do those stones mean to you?' Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial for ever."

Joshua 4:1-8

God is very scientific. He wants to give you what you want, so He gave you home church, where you can fight the battle and do your mission as a family unit, husband and wife together. Set the example for your children, telling them, "This is the way True Parents fought the battle; and you shall fight the battle in the same way." Your children will ask you why we call Rev. and Mrs. Moon True Parents. You can tell them that they are our True Parents because they established the heavenly tradition and way of life. They lived a sacrificial way of life for the sake of others and the sake of the world. Those who do not live that way of life are not True Parents, just parents. Tell them that race does not matter, that Rev. and Mrs. Moon are exemplary, and you are succeeding in their tradition. "I am doing home church in order to become a true parent," tell your children; "Other parents are not true parents, but your daddy and mommy shall be true parents." A messiah is nothing more than a true parent, the one who fulfills true parenthood.

Blessed Couple
6.20.82, Belvedere

. . . Adam and Eve should have been the first forefathers of mankind, the first true parents, but instead they became sinful, false parents. They did not have a true God-centered tradition of love to give their children. They should have set the tradition of true man and true woman living as brother and sister, then the tradition of true husband and wife, true father and mother, then true grandparents. Has the family existed on earth which fulfilled God's wishes? No.

Unless that tradition is born on earth, there will be no God-centered tribe or nation. Until the man emerges who can set the standard and be a model, the rest of the world cannot be set right. We cannot change falsehood to truth overnight; you have to go to the satanic world and demonstrate true love, and only then come back to the origin. It will be a great good fortune to have the tribe and tradition which is truly centered on God. It has been God's dream all this time to set the tradition of love on earth. To make it come true, He will send the Messiah. . . .

Who is the Messiah? Adam and Eve were supposed to set this tradition of love and true parenthood, but that was not done. It was not done 2,000 years ago either, so at some time the Messiah will come to install true parenthood, including all the traditions of love. The original measure or standard would be the True Parents themselves, and then many copies could be made.

If you want to find out how good you are, all you have to do is compare yourself to the measure. The True Parents' mission in the Unification Church is to establish the God-centered tradition of love here on earth by achieving it and leaving perfection behind. The Unification Church is here to become the training center for that love, and you shall be pioneers of that tradition on earth. . . .

You need to consummate the tradition of love on your level, and that is what home church is all about -- becoming a tribal messiah who lives up to this tradition. You are like the copies of the original measure, going out to make more duplicates in your home church. Home church is the most gratifying thing you could have. Without home church you will feel poor and unfortunate.

Do you need the tradition of love? Do it then. The time has come. If you have become a person who inherited God's tradition of love then you love me, and as much as you love me, you can love home church. Then others will love you as you love me. The True Parents' tradition will be fulfilled through your family, where God can visit and dwell. If you practice this tradition, your family will certainly be a dwelling of God. The name Unification Church will not be needed in the future; it is not needed for the Church itself, but for you and your descendants. Without going this route, no one can enter heaven.

You want to meet the criterion and enter the love museum of heaven, and the testing area is home church. There are all kinds of people in your home church area, so it is a microcosm of the world. You should make every single one of them the children of God, so God can dwell with them and ask their permission to do things. The greater the mission and tribulation, the more you will shine in the heavenly museum for eternity.

True Parents' Mission
4.20.80, Belvedere

The True Parents set the tradition, and now you are to follow and set the same tradition and standard on your own. Then you shall be at the same level as True Parents in God's sight.

Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

. . . The tradition that Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden without the fall would have been the tradition of the entire world because it would have been succeeded to by their children and all their descendants. Adam's tradition was to have been the one God-centered tradition remaining here on earth, the one tradition of home and one tradition of church.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

I will chase you out to the worst kind of suffering. On the other hand, I am prepared to give you the unprecedented love of God. That is the tradition we are going to build and pass on to later generations. I have never complained while building the basis for this tradition and you also must hand it down without complaint. By living this tradition you are building a bridge between yourself, your tribe, nation, world and the Kingdom of Heaven. Not only you but generations to come will walk across that bridge. By succeeding in your home church, you are building a bridge to the world and you are the pillar supporting it. You can reach out to the world and humanity will cross to salvation across the bridge you build.

When you die in your home church, your people will bring your body to your homeland and make a shrine at your tomb. Abraham and Jacob died as sojourners in foreign lands such as Egypt, and many centuries later their descendants dug up their graves and brought them back to their homeland. But that's not good enough. The Egyptians should have done that, making a shrine for Abraham and Jacob in Israel, but they couldn't because there was no home church. You will live and die in your home church. Then your home church members will honor you. They will bury you in your homeland with great honor and pride. 360 homes will mourn your death, following your coffin to the homeland. If you can accomplish that in your home church, you are a hero and a saint.

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Our Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

You have to be able to leave your hard work in home church to your own sons and daughters. If you don't have that, what are you going to show them? . . . Without doing that there will be no happiness for you.

The Dispensation of Restoration and Myself
4.6.80, Belvedere

We can see confrontation and competition in every area of our lives. . . . In every arena of competition there is a law, a kind of covenant which clearly sets forth the goal and is derived from the tradition of the past. This phenomenon is everywhere -- in government, schools, families, every facet of our lives. . . .

Our life is already a competition, so we must learn how best to engage in that art. First, we must acknowledge the past and its tradition. Also, we must recognize the necessity of the present time and recognize a certain vision that can be welcomed by the future. These three conditions must be met. . . .

. . . New champions always emerge to surpass the records of the past, and the same is true in religion. What past saints and prophets have said is not the ultimate statement of faith so we look forward to a new record being set. Therefore, we are inheriting the record and tradition of the past, as well as recognizing the present, and going forward to set the record that will remain in the future. . . .

The Unification Church has definitely inherited the traditions of the past and we have also devised a realistic way of doing things. We are not in the clouds but on solid ground. We also have a realistic future vision of how to bring down the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and we are not just talking about it but living it. What is it? Home church. . . .

The Unification Church is a spiritual athlete in this toughest game. What will the trophy be? The love of God is the ultimate reward. We alone in the Unification Church are talking about the heart of God, the love of God for the world, nation. family and individual. . .

Record-Setter of History
7.1.79, Belvedere

So far it has been my tradition to love the members more than my own children and wife. Some of the 36 couples are sitting here, and if they don't recognize and appreciate my love then they are really traitors. I have loved them more than anyone. I will go home and set the family tradition because this is my remaining responsibility, but you cannot go home until you assume my role on the front line.

I cut all the satanic ties and overcame this world, returning to the beginning point and setting the pattern of the heavenly four position foundation. Now you are taking over and it is your turn to build your own tribe, nation and world. You inherit my tradition now and make it your tradition. Erect your own family, tribe, nation and world tradition. You should be the bulwark in the heavenly fight, the leaders who can say, "Follow me." Will you do that? Do you know this to the bone?

To send a rocket into space you need a launching pad, and your 360 homes will be that launching pad for you. As much as you long for me, let them long for you so much that they cannot live one day without you. Satan fears home church because unconditional love is your weapon and Satan has no defense against that. We should march for that goal, giving true love and true education. These are the two most basic goals. You have to digest this yourself and endure all hardship.

Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

Before you talk about loving your husband or wife you must set the tradition of loving your children, whether spiritual or physical. Why is that? Because of the fall the Cain-type world exists and we must subjugate it with love, bringing it to the true love of the father-son relationship. When you see a husband and wife in your home church area who have a beautiful relationship of love then you can feel that you must love your spiritual children more than they love each other. That's how you must inspire yourself. Your line will get longer and longer when you acquire the true vertical tradition.

What Kind of Thought Do You Have?
6.10.79, Belvedere

After three years you will have your children, first one and then two and more. I do not support birth control, so have as many as you want. Home church grandparents will always be competing to have your children come to their home to be taken care of. Then your baby will have 360 homes right away. Home church people will give true blessing and honor to your children. "We know your father and mother very well and they are true saints. We saw God through your parents." Then your children will be embraced and loved by your people as precious children. Do you feel that way toward my children? Your home church people will pray for blessing towards yours as well. Your children will go to the same school in the morning with the home church children.

Reflection Upon Life
6.1.79, Belvedere

Where would you engaged couples go to have your children? Where would you go to dance on a happy day in the future? Wouldn't you be happier returning to the home of your own parents? If you wear the glasses of Principle then you know you should go to your own home church to celebrate. You cannot be proud of your family all alone, but only in your home church area. After that what would you become in your home church? Not only the true parents of the home church area, but true parents for your own clan.

The Dispensation of Restoration and Myself
4.6.80, Belvedere

We are ultimately going to restore True Parents Day and proclaim it all over the world. You celebrate True Parents Day with True Parents in the center, but in your home church area you shall be in the parents' position and your 360 homes will come celebrate around you. As far as your tribe is concerned, the day you meet your husband or wife will be your tribal parents day. When that day comes your door will be open 24 hours and your home church children will come from every direction to celebrate. You will have lots of food and enjoy the day together.

True Parents Day and Our Family
3.28.79, World Mission Center

I feel that great poetry will come out of your home church activity, as well as great literature and a great history. Writing a diary you may say, "Today I am in no condition to go out. It's raining but I still must go out because this is the call of God. If it weren't for God I wouldn't do it." There is no greater poetry than that simple feeling, no better writing than that. All you have to do is carry this out and record what you felt.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

When you see someone making a mistake you can apply the Divine Principle and learn from it. Then you will find the clear way to win a decisive victory. There will be one chapter of Unification Church history devoted to MFT, with many historical names recorded there. I want to see your names there as people who made history. Home church also needs that kind of men and women. Those testimonies will form an eternal tradition.

To the MFT
1.2.80, World Mission Center

When you have your own clan, what will you teach them? You must have material and tradition to teach them. That is what you will set in your home church. You will make a textbook or manual of love for your clan in home church. Even though you leave this earth for spirit world, you will have written down everything you did.

The Dispensation of Restoration and Myself
4.6.80, Belvedere

Seven years from now all families will be registered. You will then have a nationality. Just as the Father reached perfection, so should the children. In order to enter into heaven, there must first be a united Cain and Abel. The Cain and Abel dispensation must come first.

In the same way, you must first do your Cain-type home church. When you fulfill the Cain-type home church, then the Abel-type home church will come automatically. What is meant by your Abel-type home church is your own relatives, your clan, your cousins and so on. You should organize your rosters and lists for the registration of heaven. In other words, you are given a sort of birth certificate and you are organized into certain tribes. You know that you eternally belong to a certain tribe and you will know to which tribe you belong. Seven years from now everything will be decided by family registration.

There will be a serial number assigned for 12 different tribes, which will be lined up in accordance with whether or not they completed the home church providence. You will discover that the faster you walk, the sooner you reach the goal, the more quickly you can be registered.

These 12 tribes will be linked to the entire world. In other words, the basic tribes of heaven. It is logical. Even from the point of view of the Principle it should be this way. When Father proclaims the perfection and the completion of the mission, it means that Father can be registered as a victorious True Parent. God will put His seal of approval on it. Satan will attend the ceremony and will bear witness. Even he will admit that the True Parents achieved the goal.

Conference
4.16.80. World Mission Center

One of the things I will announce at the leaders conference tomorrow is that each family name will create one circle or tribe, like the 12 Jewish tribes. In the second seven-year course all the people of one tribe will be assigned to a joint home church area which will be the tribal home church. One hundred Smiths will have one hundred home church areas, and they will cooperate as one tribe, going from one place to another, sponsoring events and encouraging people. When the Smith family is united to do this, all the Smiths around the world will be proud and a good competition will be started.

The Jewish home churches will compete, plus the British, the Japanese, and so forth. The time has come when mankind will be organized into tribes. Now it is possible because I have consummated my three seven-year courses. Now it is the children's era, and Abel must truly become the leader in the elder son's position. All of you are given the right to hold the elder brother's position. With that authority you can lead all your younger brothers in the Cain world. Therefore, we will mobilize one tribe and nation. The dispensation is now moving to a higher stage.

The Jews will become three tribes and move Israel. Irish people will form their tribe and move the Irish nation, and so forth. There are many components in America and all of them will be organized in the tribe system, and then move to the national level. The non-Principled people will be in the Cain position, to be led by the Abel world. The world will come to a true understanding of the Unification Church, so how could they continue to reject us at that time? Why are all these things happening at this time? If it is true that God is the center of true love, then inevitably it will happen.

In America we can find all nationalities and races. That is naturally why I came to America. Once the process of organization is done and home church succeeds here in America, particularly when tribal organization is accomplished, there will be a link made to the entire world because America is a microcosm of the universe.

Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere

The unity of mind and body is on the formation level, whereas the family is on the growth level; each one of you is responsible to create at least your own tribe. To enjoy life here on earth you need to establish at least the tribal level.

There are three levels vertically and also three levels horizontally. Vertically speaking you have yourself, your father, grandfather and great-grandfather, or at least four generations. Horizontally, there are brothers, cousins, second cousins and distant cousins. That's the makeup of the tribe.

You must try to restore this system symbolically; that is the ideal of home church. Involving your own great- great-grandfather is not essential, but you can find people in that symbolic position.

Once you have restored this tribe, all human beings can be related, no matter how far back your ancestral tree goes, even up to the hundredth great-grandfather. All of us are virtually distant cousins. As long as you have this base in your tribe, that represents all mankind. From the dispensational point of view there is Adam's age, Jesus' age, and True Parents' age. Home church stems from this concept. When this principle is welcomed by the world then the world and society will start to turn. . . .

Always you go through three stages to reach perfection, and this whole concept is implanted in the home church system. When you consider your family as a foundation, then home church will make a clan; then a tribe will be formed on the foundation of the clan, and then a nation. Then clan is formation, the tribe is growth, and the nation is perfection stage. Home church members have to restore all nations; home church is the device for doing that. In the next phase the nation is on the formation level, next the world on the growth level, and the universe or cosmos, including the spirit world, is on the perfection level. There are always three stages.

The Divine Principle always includes three stages of three stages, which make nine stages, plus one, which is God; and this makes ten, a complete union. Union with God is number ten.

Mainstream of the Dispensation of God
11.19.78, Belvedere

Once one country is restored, the rest of the world can come easily. Centering on that, assignment will be made to 360 homes around the world. When home church is done in a country and it is restored, those who have done home church there will be privileged to become citizens. After that, however, the privilege will be unavailable.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

The greatest weapon we have is the power of love. The entire world will be influenced by it and bow down to you. What is needed are people who will initiate home church, and when that is all done you will register as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. But that registration will be conducted by families, not individuals. This is not my concept, but God's.

Since this is God's original concept. I have no choice except to follow that tradition.

The Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

If you win the older people and the children of your area then everyone will automatically come. When you initiate home church the ratio is one to 360, and when the first person is won it will turn into two to 360, or one to 180. When it increases to three on your side, it will be one to 120. Even though it starts out one to 360, eventually everyone will accept and your whole area will be one family dwelling. As far as you are concerned you will be looking at your whole area as one house.

1981 is the final year of the third seven-year course, and from that year until 2000 the entire world will be organized into home church.

True Couple
5.27.82, World Mission Center

Now I have declared the beginning of the second three seven-year courses, in which the reorganization of mankind will take place in our lifetime.

True Parents' Mission
4.20.80, Belvedere

Three generations will be linked in love -- True Parents, you, and your home church people. When I come to your home church area I want you to say, "It is very good," and hear your people say, "It is very, very good." Then you can say, "Yes, thank you, True Parents and home church. I feel very, very good." Home church will be the base on which a society, nation and Kingdom of Heaven on earth shall be erected.

What was the messianic role? The messiah is perfected Adam, the head of the family and of his own tribe, the father of mankind. At the same time he is the king of all people in parental heart. He is coming with dual purpose-to become the parent of mankind and also the king of all people. You don't use the term king in referring to your own family, but only when you are talking about many other unrelated people. In home church, therefore, you are becoming a parent to your people; since your area represents the world it includes all races and peoples. You will love them as a parent but govern them as a king, teaching them the truth and teaching them the heavenly moral standard.

In the Unification Church we learn how to become a true parent and king of true people. When home church is completed and perfected, no sovereign nationhood will be needed. No matter how people criticize, this will be done because it is God's will. Home church is the altar where you and your family go to pray and present yourself as a living sacrifice; that will be the most beautiful thing to behold in the future. Again, there will be three generations offering that prayer -- God, you, and your children -- united in one prayer. Horizontally, True Parents, you and your children are three generations.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

Now the history of restoration by indemnity is over. The time will even come when your prayer is not necessary. Once the dwelling of God is with men, whom would you pray to? You will just talk to God directly. Once the foundation is established, the pattern of tradition will do all the work -- the tradition of serving parents with filial piety, and obedience to the heavenly government. Citizens would automatically be elevated to the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the dream world, the utopia man has sought for so long. That day is at hand. . . .

Once the home church system is completely established, we really don't need any formal organization. The Divine Principle will be taught in the school system. We wont need church leaders any more. This is not bad news at all. We have a most glorious life, and with this goal we shall march forward until the last day of final victory.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

When the home church system is consummated, no leaders will be necessary in areas, states, and so forth, because each of you will communicate with God directly.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

What is the final stage of restoration? Not the coming of the Messiah, but home church. When you accomplish home church, there will be no need for churches any more, for every home will be a church. Then Dr. Durst's position, and even HSA will no longer be necessary. You won't have to go to church or pray, but only live by the law of the heavenly country; then you will automatically go to heaven. When we finish home church, God will have His own nation, and people there will only have to observe its laws, not go to church. When we love everyone as an extensions of our own families, that in itself will be heaven. If this does not become reality then Divine Principle is just another ideology that doesn't work.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

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Providential Numbers

And in the Spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed, on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. . . . And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.

Revelation 21:10-14,21

Without bringing 12, 72, and finally 84 people, there is no way for you to indemnify Jesus' mission. Those 84 followers would have formed Jesus' clan. If Jesus had had 12 disciples, the 72 elders would have united to support him, surrounding and protecting him, and then he never would have been killed. The only way to indemnify that is through home church. You must have 84 people as your individual foundation. In the family unit, you can do anything through home church. You could even work up as far as the number 120, the number of followers Jesus gathered after his resurrection. This number can represent all the nations, as well as all angles in every direction. Here in the world, all the numbers from one to ten and 12 to 21 are crucial numbers which are all contained in the number 120. So 120 is a must for every person.

When you go to spirit world you should have 24 elders and 72 disciples. Spirit world is organized according to this pattern, with 12 pearl gates, 12 disciples, 72 disciples, and so forth. Now all that was lost in the history of restoration can be found and restored. Especially in America, at least 12 nationalities will be represented in the backgrounds of 360 typical homes, such as French, English, Italian, etc.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

First you restore yourself, then your spouse and then your children. Once Adam and Eve are restored they have to restore their family. The Bible records that Noah faithfully worked hard for 120 years and he saved his family of three sons and three daughters-in-law, numbering eight all together. Those eight were the only ones to be selected when God took them as a seed and destroyed every other person. Yet even after Noah had established the condition to save the entire world, Ham failed and God's dispensation to save the world could not be established because the family failed.

After that Abraham was chosen to take the place of Adam and Noah who failed. Since his was the third family chosen, Abraham had to set the condition to save the world. He journeyed far to prepare and establish certain conditions, but even he failed later when he made his offering. Then Abraham had to stand in the position of Adam, with Isaac in Noah's position and Jacob in Abraham's position.

Jacob led a complicated life in Haran, which represented the satanic world. He worked desperately for 21 years to prepare his foundation, doing something much more difficult than Adam, Noah or Abraham had done. Only after 21 years had he completed the condition to stand in Abraham's position, going through almost impossible difficulties in order to indemnify the failures of Noah and Abraham.

To be specific, he had to restore the ten generations between Adam and Noah, plus the two generations of Abraham and Isaac. He had 12 children to restore the 12 generations and then he had to restore Noah's family of eight by winning over Esau. All this had to be restored in one generation. Before it could be complete he had to subjugate Satan spiritually, fighting the angel at the ford of Jabbok. Only after that could he start horizontal restoration through the 12 tribes. It was the 12 sons and seventy family members that Jacob took to Egypt who formed the foundation for the 12 tribes and 72 elders of Israel.

All those who went to Egypt suffered terrible persecution and many were killed but their race ultimately survived. Moses gathered the 12 tribes and 72 elders and led them out of Egypt, doing on the tribal level what Jacob had to do on the clan or family level. The same principle worked in Jesus' time. He had 12 disciples representing the 12 tribes and 72 apostles representing the 72 elders, and he set the pattern on the national level. Jesus was to gather the Israelites and then go to Rome, where he could have set the foundation to save the whole world.

First Jesus had to gather three disciples, representing Adam's family, Noah's family and Abraham's family. Centered on those three he could gather 12 disciples representing Jacob's 12 sons and also the 12 generations from Noah to Abraham. Without fulfilling those numbers he could not form a foundation to work with the races of the world. After gathering the 72 apostles Jesus had to begin his substantial work just as Jacob needed 72 before he could accomplish his condition. Without that number, Jesus could not have connected the dispensation to the tribal or national level. If the Jews had accepted Jesus then all these things could have been done at once, but instead he was rejected and the foundation was lost. Jesus had to start all over again by witnessing to his own disciples, first bringing three, then 12 and 72. Then he would have connected that foundation to established Judaism, the race, nation and eventually the world. He tried desperately to do this in three years but he could not make his apostles unite in harmony. Instead they deserted him.

Since Jesus' foundation was lost he could not work successfully 2,000 years ago, and without restoring this there is no foundation for him to work upon when he comes again. We are the ones who must restore that foundation which was lost in Jesus' time. This is the origin of the Unification Church's work. Each of you must be aware of why you need to do this. Because Jesus was killed we inherit the responsibility, even though we come from different races. All members of the Unification Church around the world are descendants of the people who killed Jesus and this is why we must assume the responsibility ourselves for having killed him. This is why we must physically restore the foundation which Jesus has already restored spiritually.

We can ask God for the Messiah to be sent after we each make the foundation of 84 spiritual children, the basic foundation on which the Messiah can come physically. Even then we cannot take many years to accomplish it; we must do it within seven years as indemnity for the 7,000 years of history. No matter what happens, we have to accomplish this goal because without this foundation, the bridge between heaven and earth is not properly established and the two cannot be connected. Jesus was very serious in trying to do that, leaving his home just as you are doing now. The people laughed at Jesus and criticized him, just the they criticize you today.

If Christians had understood and accepted this then the Messiah could have come among them after the necessary foundation had been laid. But that has not happened, and instead Christians oppose us. If Christians had already laid the foundation then no one in the world would have to pay indemnity as we are doing now, but since Christianity did not accept the responsibility, we have to restore that foundation individually. We are working very hard to pay that indemnity.

After laying that foundation, communism must be overcome. As soon as the Unification Church members awaken to their responsibility and lay the needed foundation, God will have no more use for Christianity and it and communism will fade away because the foundation of substance will have been laid.

I am responsible for a different level of indemnity condition than you, but each person must lay his own foundation of restoring 84 people. To do that you must be better than Jacob because you will restore them all in one generation instead of three. Then you can be resurrected or revived, just as Jesus was resurrected on his spiritual foundation. This is the real foundation; so in the dispensation each of you must restore 84 people.

After gathering the 84 each person must survive the world's persecution. If you do that then the world foundation can be laid on which the Messiah can come and be connected to all the nations and the world. These 84 people should not be just anyone but people who are strong enough to defend you. When Jesus was persecuted his 84 people were sleeping, but they should have risen up and declared, "You can kill me but you cannot kill my Lord." Our position is like that of a grandfather; when he is threatened his sons and grandsons will make sure he is not killed. Eighty-four couples are necessary to protect the central core.

We begin first with our concepts but we must become increasingly serious, becoming as desperate as though we were dying. Only after we have done that are we literally building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Without doing this we are not qualified to live in the Kingdom on earth, nor can we be accepted in the Kingdom when we go to spirit world.

This also applies to me. Based on the same principle I must have 84 people protecting me. Whereas your situation is relatively simple, I must fulfill a more complex situation on the individual, family, tribal and world levels. This is exactly what I have done. Twelve couples were required representing the formation, growth and perfection stages. Because of the fall of man the number was extended three times so the 36 couples served as the 12 in my case. Next I blessed 72 couples, then 120 and 430 couples, extending onto the world level. To establish the 430 couples was very difficult and I fought with my life under the severest persecution. You must not take the easy way in witnessing either; you must really know the meaning of what you do.

The 120 couples represented all nations, just like the 120 elders who received the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. The 430 couples represented the 430 years of slavery in Egypt before the return to Canaan, as well as Korea's history of 4,300 years on the world level. The number seven, or three plus four, is included in 430, as well as 12, or three times four. Thus 430 includes the numbers three, four, seven and 12. It represents the number that can go anywhere in the world.

Next 777 couples were blessed. The four in the number seven includes everything, like the four seasons and four directions. There are three months in each season, and altogether that gives the number 12. These numbers are all symbolic and they are most important to God because in different combinations they fulfill certain conditions. Once these were put into effect then the heavenly families, centering on Korea, could go to every part of the world to fulfill the dispensation. When that was done, the dispensation on the world level really opened up.

On the foundation of 430 couples I could travel around the world for the first time in 1965 and establish Holy Grounds. Man and all things were lost but they can be restored on the basis of Holy Ground. I set up a total of 120 Holy Grounds in forty countries in 1965, and then I could symbolically restore mankind, represented by 777 couples. Every combination was included in this number -- those who failed, those who fought any nation, people of any color skin and marital status. Because of that the heavenly nation can move from one end of the world to the other. Even though you move together in large numbers, Satan cannot say anything because the condition for you to do that is already established. After the 777 couples were blessed it became possible for members to travel from nation to nation to work and I started moving members to different nations.

If you have a family of your own then you qualify to work on the world scale, and on the foundation of your family and race you can go anywhere in the world to help people. You must understand now the meaning of leaving your home to find 84 people. Once the third-seven year course is over you won't even have to leave your home to find 84 people. You will be able to find them by bringing your own relatives, but until now that was not possible.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

Your 360 homes represent 360 degrees, meaning all four directions: north, east, south and west; a year also has about 360 days. True Parents have accomplished their victory, and by setting this small condition of home church you are entitled to inherit what they have won. Restore three generations: restore Adam's failure plus Jesus' unfulfilled mission, and inherit True Parents' era, paying indemnity for Christian opposition by doing home church. You have that responsibility. My victory was not won for my sake, but for you. Now I am waiting for each of you to fulfill this miniature condition. Then I can gladly give the entire victory to you as your inheritance.

Jesus Christ bore the cross because a certain number was not fulfilled. He needed 12 disciples, then 72 disciples. There were ten generations between Adam and Noah, and in addition Cain and Abel made 12 generations. The ten generations after Noah until Abraham, plus Shem and Ham make 12 generations. At the time of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were two vertical generations. In Jacob's time the number 12 was extended horizontally.

In the Unification Church the indemnification of all these generations is done through the 36 couples. Consummating the vertical history on earth, Jacob defeated the angel, won the heart of his elder brother, and had 12 children. Twelve is a central number because it is a vertical number. In each tribe there are six members, and 12 times six makes 72. The Bible says Jesus had seventy disciples, but to be exact it was 72. Twelve would become the forefather's position. Jesus was crucified because he did not have 72, or 84. If three generations had been set up in Jesus' time -- Jesus, children, and grandchildren -- then Jesus would not have been crucified. Certainly if Judaism had accepted him, Jesus could have had three generations. . .

People in this world can be classified into three categories: first are married couples, representing Adam's family; second are couples who live together without marriage, plus the realm of engagement, representing Jesus' position; the third realm is men and women who are still looking forward to engagement and marriage; this represents the Second Advent. You will find all of these types opposing you in home church. Your job is to make them willing to capitulate; this is not a militant goal, but a heartistic, loving goal. Would you welcome me into your home, to every room in the house? Your goal is to be welcomed as openly as that in your home church area. If you really know the formula, you can bring your people to understand the importance of home church in one week and they will join with you.

Core Love and Indemnity
10.22.81, World Mission Center

As you know, there were ten generations between Adam and Noah, then between Noah and Abraham. The Cain-Abel struggle began between Adam's two sons, and continued between Shem and Ham, Noah's sons. Counting these two brothers, there were 12 generations between Adam and Noah. Isaac and Jacob plus ten generations comprise 12 generations from Noah through Abraham.

Jacob was the first to lay the victorious base, and he had 12 children. Those 12, plus the preceding 24 generations, make 36, a very important number. Before Jacob, restoration was vertical, but from Jacob's time on it became horizontal, with his tribe expanding into a nation. Then the historical role of Judaism was succeeded to by Christianity with Jesus' 12 disciples. In Unification Church the first thing we did was restore tribal history, represented by the 36 blessed couples, or three generations of 12. In no other religion is the family called the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven; the Unification Church alone teaches that. Until now religions have focused on individual restoration, but now through the Blessing men and women can be united in God's sight.

Tribal restoration represents the condition to restore all mankind. Mankind can be divided into three areas -- married couples, engaged couples, and people still waiting for engagement. We have to restore the couples who married without God's approval, so I had to make some provision for them. They are represented by 12 of the 36 couples. Jesus came as a bridegroom but was never able to have his marriage supper, and this is the position of people who are waiting to be married; these people are represented by another 12 couples. The other level is that of virgin boys and girls, who belong to Jacob's generation. . . .

The root of the Unification Church tradition begins in the fundamental concept of God's creation of the Kingdom of Heaven, and that begins from Adam, Noah, Abraham and Jacob. From this analogy you can see that I am in a position truly to initiate the Kingdom of Heaven on earth on the horizontal level. No one in history could proclaim that, but now you know why I can.

The ancestors in history have accumulated a record of failure, but the 36 couples I assembled shall restore those failures and succeed those people as the ancestors of mankind. The number one is represented by 36. Thirty-six husbands plus 36 wives altogether make 72 people in this system. The next blessing was of 72 couples, representing the expansion of the 36 couples. There is always Cain and Abel in restoration, and without unity between them the heavenly dispensation cannot be consummated. In creation one is divided into two, and then the three of them should come into harmony.

Out of 12 there will come 72, another horizontal expansion. Twelve and 72 together make 84, the total unit of the ancestry of mankind. That represents the vertical and horizontal unity of the Cain and Abel families coming together; 84 represents them all. In every dispensation there were Cain and Abel, such as Shem and Ham, Jacob and Esau. The pattern of history is the struggle of Cain and Abel. The number 72 is really the condition for unity of Cain and Abel.

If Jesus had been able to accomplish the perfection of the number 84, he never would have been crucified. This number is the rock, the foundation which cannot be shaken, upon which Jesus could never have been killed. The number 72 is also the manifestation of Jacob's journey to exile in Egypt, leading a tribe of seventy people. Based on this principle, you restore the 7,000-year biblical history of God; that is represented by fulfilling this number 84 in seven years, you are restoring your ancestral tree and also your tribe, both the vertical and horizontal.

If Jesus had fulfilled this and John the Baptist had fulfilled his mission, no one would have had to testify very much about Jesus because that foundation would have had a magnetic pulling power. Jesus needed to establish the tribe first, and then go from there, multiplying through the children. Because that foundation was not laid in Jesus.' time, it had to be laid in this contemporary dispensation. Jesus left on earth the concept of the ideal of the bride and bridegroom, but that has to be fulfilled in the family. So the family is the basis for the modern dispensation.

Do you have your own 12 and 72 disciples, totaling 84? In the realm of the Unification Church do we have it? The number 12 is represented by the 36 blessed couples, and 72 by the 72 blessed couples, so we do have that foundation. Now the Unification Church can grow and expand, children will multiply and the tribe will get bigger.

Twelve represents the family, and 72 represents the tribe. In ancient times there were 12 tribes and 72 elders among the tribes. 72 divided by 12 equals six, or six parts of 12 each. Six plus one makes seven. The Bible mentions that Jesus had seventy apostles, but the true number must be 72. This seven is crucial. When seven families are united into one, every door will open as they move forward in the kingdom. There will be no wall they cannot break through. . . .

Why 360 homes? As husband and wife, you will take care of 720 homes; again, the significant number of 72 is included here. 720 represents the world: 12 represents the family, 72 the tribe; 720 is an expansion of the tribe, so it represents the world. In these 360 or 720 homes, all the dispensational numbers are included. . . .

. . . You have to fulfill your 84 within home church; without that you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus could not open the ultimate heaven because he did not have the foundation of 84 on earth. I came to lay that foundation, and in the same way you must unlock the number 84.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

Three hundred sixty homes came out of 120 times three. After Jesus' crucifixion, 120 of Jesus' disciples gathered together in the upper room of Mark's house. They prayed, and when the Holy Spirit came down a new dispensation began.

Twelve represents the number of the family. Jacob's family had 12 members and 12 children. Seventy-two is the number for the tribe. Twelve plus 72 makes 84. That is the number of the tribe. Seventy-two stands for the number of people in Jacob's family who went into Egypt. They went to Egypt as a tribe. It is a minimum tribe of Israel, represented by 72.

Abel-type people started with 72. That is a tribe. Israel started with 72. One hundred twenty is represented by three times four. The key number is three. Among 12, normally three are excellent; that is the ratio. That is why Jesus had three major disciples, Peter, James, and John. Of those three, Peter was selected as the chief disciple.

In order to come up with an elite of 120, you need 360 to choose from. At the same time, you want to create 120 trinities, and for 120 trinities you need 360. These are all the theoretical reasons why we say Father decided to have 360 homes comprise a home church area.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

What do 360 homes mean? Three hundred sixty has every number in it. It contains three, four, 12, and thirty; every crucial number is there. You have also heard of the 36 couples, the earliest marriage which took place in the Unification church, haven't you? You also know that the one year is composed of 360 days in the lunar calendar; there are 12 months of thirty days. Also we divide the globe into 360 degrees. Finally, there are four seasons of three months each in the year, making up the number 12.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

. . . Three hundred sixty homes represent 360 degrees or all directions. One year of 12 months is a complete cycle of seasons or 360 days according to the lunar calendar. Three hundred sixty contains both numbers 12 and three. The 36 couples represent the entire history of mankind. So everything is included in 360 homes.

Everything begins at zero degrees, and continues around to ninety, 180, 270 and finally 360 degrees, which is the original starting point. Satan is trying to block our way, but we are pushing ahead. At every point people try to discourage you from continuing, but still you will continue around to 360 degrees, accomplishing everything for their sake as well as yours. After you cross the peak, there will be less and less persecution.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

This is why I gave you each 360 homes. Why 360? There are 360 days in one year; that includes 12 months, as well as the numbers three and four. All the heavenly numbers that God uses are there. It also means every single year of history, including all the families and thousands of generations who have lived. That is the same as an extended form of the 36 couples, which represent all human ancestry. Everything is represented in 360.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

The Bible talks about the 144,000 who wear white gowns; if we have 144,000 home churches, we undoubtedly can sway the world. Do you know this is the truth?

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

The Book of Revelation speaks about the 144,000 who will wear white robes. If there were 144,000 truly dedicated people, that would be more than enough to change the entire world. Those people are about to come out of home church. With 144,000 people we could cover twenty cities the size of New York, like Tokyo and London, with 7,000 people in each city. Then those cities could be turned around toward God. Don't you think the entire world could be converted to Divine Principle by that many people?

Our Duty, Our Mission
10. 5.80, Belvedere

The Book of Revelation says that at the end there will be 144,000 people gathered together, and they will be lifted up into the Kingdom of Heaven. But what the revelation is saying is that in the end we need 144,000 home churches around the world, through which we will be lifted into the Kingdom of Heaven.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

God works only through specific numbers. Noah's family had three sons and three daughters-in-law, plus Noah and his wife, making eight people altogether. If you witness to three people and eventually they get blessed then that number is automatically established. Next you will establish the number 12 and after that you can go back to your own homes. Later your work will be connected with the foundation I have laid and you can claim it as your own; then you will always be in the position of parents yourselves.

The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78, London

The year of 1980 has dawned with great hope and glory. In 1980 we can find a very important number, eight. As we learn in the Divine Principle, the number eight denotes a new beginning and new hope. The Unification Church just welcomed the 1980's. Now what is the goal and direction of our movement? This year our job is to undertake substantially the home church providence.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

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God's Timetable

Remember this and consider, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,' calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from afar country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

Isaiah 46:8-11

Whatever you do -- eating, walking down the street, selling papers, witnessing or fund raising -- that is the real battle, the most precious one and the one that will be recognized in history. That's the way your life is today. Yesterday I talked about how establishing home churches will be like bombs exploding throughout New York. Do you have spiritual matches you can light to set the bomb off? Do you know the right time to push the button? If you are sleeping you will miss the time. You cannot do this at just any time. The instructions will come from heaven to push the button, but if you are sleeping then you will not hear them.

You might shrug and say, "Oh well, I can push it next year." The tiny little fingers of women, even if the women are wearing ugly dresses, can do magic if they know the heavenly schedule. The arsenals of the world will have no power if they do not know the heavenly schedule, and all their weaponry will be to no avail. God always keeps time, and if you match His time then there will be a resounding explosion.

Once you know the time and act accordingly, the explosion will disrupt all of New York. Go attend to your task with that kind of realization, wherever you are. On our shoulders we carry the destiny of God. God's rise or fall depends on you. Furthermore, you are the secret emissaries whom God has ordained. Those who want to fulfill the universal revenge against the enemy of love, raise your hands.

God has been waiting for this one moment for 6,000 years. That's the importance of the time we are talking about here. In preparing to have the button pushed at the proper time, many people and nations were sacrificed. All throughout history, during the 4,000 years before Abraham and throughout the history of Judaism and Christianity, God raised up many champions who were supposed to push the button, but no one has done it yet. At this time God is asking you to push this little button. All spirit world is watching, knowing that high noon is at hand and that the showdown is coming.

Time and Our Destined Relationship
4.2.78, World Mission Center

Have you physically visited all 360 of your homes? Everyone should be able to say "yes." When God ordered the Hebrews to leave Egypt by a certain hour one night, messengers were sent to tell all the people. If the messengers missed any home those people would not be able to leave on time, but who would be held responsible? The messenger. Throughout posterity, that messenger who failed to tell a particular person to leave at such a moment would be accountable for his fate.

You are in a New Age Exodus. It is possible for you to bring the people in 360 homes out of suffering but if you fail to tell these people to come out of their yoke of misery and into salvation then you as a messenger are responsible.

The Return to Tears
10.16.77, Belvedere

There is an offensive and a defensive. So far Father has been attacked and we have been defending ourselves. But now the theme has changed. . . . In 1978 Father initiated a gigantic crusade to really turn the defensive battle into an offensive battle. If we had secured the 30,000 members that Father requested we would already have been on the offensive for some time and by now could have influenced the nation.

America is declining. That is apparent. Without a moral change, it will continue to decline. Who has a scheme to save the country? The Administration? Do the politicians have blueprints for turning this nation around? Do the U.S. Armed Forces have the ability? Can the established Christian churches ignite moral revolution?

Everyone is infiltrated by communist elements, even the army and the government. Christian churches are infiltrated so badly that there is an open movement preaching Christianity without God.

We cannot expect a solution from anyone. We can't expect it from the government, or from the churches. Where can we find a solution? The only solution is a spiritual revolution with a new philosophy which can expose the lies of the communist ideology and bring truth, light and hope to mankind. Such a spiritual revolution alone holds hope. Communists talk about utopia, about the ideal world, but their world is violent, a total dictatorship where the ends justify the means. Those are our adversaries: those who believe that the ends justify the means. They can be as deceptive as they want. Yet here stands Sun Myung Moon, the lone champion to halt their advances. Sun Myung Moon is the one who changes their way of thinking, their way of life, their conviction.

The Unification Church is criticized for being strong, regimented and organized, and people say we brainwash. You know that our adversaries are not going to be dealt with easily. If we had our own nation we wouldn't have to fight. However, we have no social foundation, no deep-rooted social organization. That means that we have to begin from scratch, earning the economy, the finances and the organization. It is a life-and-death matter. We start out as a dot, and must build the movement from the very bottom.

Unless we build our own foundation, who will do it? Will the Christian churches help us? Will the universities? Will social organizations? No, they will not. Furthermore, instead of leaving us alone, they oppose us. They allow themselves to become tentacles of communist opposition. They are trying every way they can to halt our advancement. . . .

We must make a breakthrough. We must climb up the top pinnacle and erect our flag there. I want you to understand our initiation in 1980 of the second three seven-year courses. This is the most crucial turning point of history An emergency has now been declared. Don't go after those who welcome you: go our after those who oppose you. Father did not come to America to be welcomed by the American people. He came for the opposing and negative people, in order to convince them. You must do the same. This is a new plateau, a new height, a new standard. A new chapter of history is being unfolded. Doff t look down. Look up, proudly. . .

This is the final showdown. It is time to do it. We are like a fireball or a bullet . . . We just cannot say that we will take a few years to prepare. Not at all. We don't have time. We are already running on our way toward the target, That is the home church system. Home church is truly God's incredible plan and strategy. It will eliminate all room for Satan or communism to take over.

Conference
5.19.80, World Mission Center

Now it's up to you how long you will take to be successful enough to invite me to your area. Don't you want to be successful in this? Then you must have some idea when you can invite me. It won't depend on me but on your progress. Once you make up your mind, you have to promise before God with the seriousness of having a dagger stabbing you in the side, "No matter what happens to me, nothing will stop me. Once I make up my mind I will go straight forward to the goal." If at all possible finish it by June 1981.

I feel that you could do it rather easily within that time. If I had to do it, I could do it much earlier than that.

You have accumulated much failure in the past, so I am thinking that we will indemnify past failure within this year and eliminate that debt. Is that good or bad thinking? So should I just shrug and say that you've done your best, or keep driving you and make you understand why you need to be pushed?

I know you have tried hard and yet you failed, so you have to be driven out much more before we can expect to achieve success this time. Home church came into being only last year, and by being successful there we can indemnify all the past failures I have just pointed out. Everything that you left undone will be offset by home church success. Don't take many months or years, but do it in the shortest period of time. Make a plan and accomplish the goal. If we can set many records within this year then later members will have a much easier time and America will become livable again. America is about to go down the drain but your success can prevent any further deterioration. This is why time is so precious. I am expecting to have many people who will establish records during this one year.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

If there had been 30,000 core members in America by 1978 then even if I were to leave, America would be secure. After being educated for three years those members could be strong enough to take care of America's problems. If they were educated well enough and could witness to ten new members each over the next three years, then those 300,000 people would be enough to do home church throughout the entire United States. This was my original plan. Don't you see that our schedule is very tight? Can you say you have to rest and take care of other things first?

You don't have to wait until 1981 to start, however. If you decide that you are ready now then this is the best time to start. Then you will be ahead of schedule in 1981 and you can be the winner. Even though seven years is allotted you, you don't have to take that long. If Americans work efficiently then three years is enough. If a few people like me got together to do it, I honestly think that three or four months would fulfill the major dispensation.

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere

Next year is two more weeks away; at that time you must really do home church, not just make preparations.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

This year's slogan is: Home Church is My Kingdom of Heaven. You are not doing home church as any favor for me. It is your kingdom of heaven. I don't want it to take you 21 years to finish; everything should be over in the first seven years.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

The time will come when we will only need to do broadcasting on television and radio in order to reach many homes. This will help the home church providence immensely. Three hundred and sixty homes can be connected to a wire which will be hooked up to a certain circuit and you can organize closed circuit television throughout your own houses. You can be your own broadcast company.

You don't even need to take seven years. That is too long a time. You could probably even do it within seven months. If Father had a 360 home area, he would go out to the frontline in order to fulfill his home church dispensation. Father would have done it in far less than seven months.

In the future, 21-day training sessions won't even need to assemble. We can send the contents of 21-day training through television. People can receive the workshop in their own living room. They will also take a test by reading the questions on the television screen. They will then write the answers, mail the test and get back their results in the mail.

In this advanced era, the things that at one time would have taken seven years to do you can do easily. In ancient time, seven years was quite a long time, because these things were not at easy disposal. However, today, it is so easy to do things within even the short span of seven months.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

If you can't finish this in seven years then it might take another seven to finish. Actually, if you don't finish in seven years it will take three times as long, or 21 years. After that you will have no more chances.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

The battle on the frontline is always neck-and-neck. For you to be victorious soldiers of heaven, I have to send you out on the frontline. This is why in 1978, I declared that New York was the frontline and when the victory comes, the frontline soldiers will get the honor. The victory doesn't come in an office or in the headquarters but on the battlefield. Our frontline is home church. In the last 45 years, the entire course of the dispensation has been set, and now I am giving it to you, asking you to finish in seven years.

The First Day and Our Lifetime
2.2.79

1987 is seven years from now, but you don't have to take that long either seven months or even three years is adequate. If you fail to do it in seven years then it will be postponed for 21 years, and you don't want that. If we neglect the time of the dispensation then you will literally shed your blood at the hands of communists. You know it, don't you?

Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere

The next seven years are crucial, so don' t waste them.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

I want you to make your base so you can practice this love, and that territory is home church. It will happen within seven years if you consistently make effort now. Then if I am passing by to another destination some power will pull me to visit you. Life goes by very fast. Already five months have passed in 1979. If you had met one new person each day and really poured out your heart imagine what extraordinary things could have happened. You could have converted 150 people. Start today and renew your energy. That's what Heavenly Father wants, what your wife or husband wants, what your children want and what all of your relatives want.

Time is not merciful enough to slow down for you. You have to keep abreast of time because time will never relax its pace. You can finish school in four years, but with extra effort you can graduate in three or even two years. Our Unification university is the same-it all depends upon your own effort.

Reflection Upon Life
6.1.79, Belvedere

I don't want you to go just two hours to your home church but to pay constant attention to it, going six times a day if necessary. If the men go 12 times, the women will go 14 times. Later you will just stay there, not sleeping, but even just standing there. Neither male nor female will budge for fear of being outdone. You can go on seven-day fasts together. Don't you think the home church people will come to stare and see what is happening? You wont have to visit them because they will visit you first! When they can come to find out what is going on you can give a speech or cry or anything. Are you fully determined to do even that?

25th Anniversary of the Unification Church
5.1.79, Belvedere

. . . To witness to every single American would take 8,000 years at the rate of 100 per day.

So when are we going to do that? We don' t have that much time. New York has 2,620,000 homes, and if each home has five people, that totals 13 million. That means in order to witness to everyone in New York 7,000 Unification Church members would be needed with each one having 360 homes. If all those members work as intensely as I have been tuna fishing all season then all New York will turn around. Then the rest of America, and thus the world, will automatically turn around within ten years.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

You should feel that your life here on earth is endlessly precious. "Why is time running so fast? Slow down. I have more work to do. I must build the kingdom and do more home church." That's the way you must feel in your life.

Let Us Restore the Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

Particularly if you succeed in home church and become a tribal messiah, your name shall be known throughout history. Once the third seven-year course is over and the door of the Kingdom of Heaven is wide open, all future posterity can meet the qualifications easily because of you; they will have you as ancestors. That is the authority God wants to bestow upon you. In three generations of twenty years each the work will be finished, with my generation, your generation, and finally your children's generation.

The greatest virtue my own children can demonstrate is loyalty, absolute love and obedience. In that case, they will go freely with me. But if they don't demonstrate obedience, they will have to go through 21 years themselves, as well as their children. Always three generations are needed for fulfillment. You are joining me in the third seven-year course and if you fulfill in this victory you can indeed become the ancestors of the world race.

The qualification to become ancestors is available only once in history. This is your extraordinary privilege; do not lose it, but seize it and fulfill it, leaving no regret behind. Are you willing to participate in my ultimate victory? I actually started the home church program in 1978 so by June 1981 it will be 3 1/2 years old. When you first heard about it, something didn't click, but every day you are understanding its meaning more deeply.

I was born for this mission and lived it and fulfilled it. In the same way, you are born for home church, for making a victorious path there. Through home church, your victory can be everywhere. It will continue victoriously until all heaven and earth become the Kingdom of Heaven.

The First Day and Our Lifetime
2.2.79

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Home Church and Other, Responsibilities

"But seekfirst his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well."

Matthew 6:33

Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet; and distribution was made to each as any had need.

Acts 4:32-35

Any responsibility you have is secondary; the primary mission is witnessing and home church. You have to spend more time witnessing than in your own work. How can you ever imagine you will save 240 million Americans without doing that much? If there were an easier way to save 240 million people, God would do it because His heart is a heart of love. Do not hesitate to suffer and make yourself a sacrifice. God's one son, Jesus, gave up his life on the cross. I don't ask you to do this for me but for the sake of mankind, for rebuilding the nation and the world. Do you think this is principled? Then we must live the Principle.

The Critical Turning Point of the Dispensation of God
12.31.78, Belvedere

This next seven years is the time for you to demonstrate what you are and what you can do. Home church is the primary dispensation and anything else is secondary. I am declaring to Unification Church members all over the world that this is the Parents' Day which ends the first 21-year course and begins the second 21-year course.

Completion of the Providence and Children's Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

The Church is like an office for the families and the society, but the home church is where the parents and children can live, and where God can dwell.

In 1981 I am hereby giving you home church as your ground. Even the News World staff members should work hard at home church in addition to their newspaper work, and then they can in no way be blamed by Satan. If I call Dr. Durst and he is nowhere to be found because he is in home church, he can be excused. That is our most important priority. If one of the East Garden guards is missing all night, but in the morning he appears and says, "I was at home church," instantly everything will be forgiven.

Nowhere else in all of history was anyone else given this kind of priority and privilege. So as long as you go to home church, all else is secondary.

You want to take care of your family, but if you take care of your home church instead, someone else will help take care of your family. Sometimes I will also help your family. But that does not mean you should think that if you are doing home church work you do not have to do anything to take care of them. If you think like that, it is not right.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

I know that some engaged couples, women especially, are telling their finances that home church is nice, but they should be more concerned about getting a degree soon, so that they can do more in the future. "There is no opportunity for you in home church," they say. Don't you suppose I have thought about that, and God has thought about it as well? What is your mission? If there is a person who has no confidence to do home church now, but wants to be released for ten years to do what he thinks is important, thinking that he will come back and do home church later, then he should step forward and speak up.

Home church is one basic thing you must do as Unification Church members. It is more important than school, than your marriage. Those things can wait, but not home church.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

Perhaps you are an editor on the newspaper and hardly have time to do home church. But you regularly eat and go to the bathroom; are those things any more indispensable than home church? You can always shorten the time of going to the bathroom or eating. Save a few minutes by not chatting with people; all that time added up might save an hour, and then you can go to home church. If you don't go to home church, it means you have not established yourself as a subject of love. Then how can you love your spouse or children? If you reverse the correct sequence, it will never work.

Prayer
|3.29.81, Belvedere

I have done what God has directed me to do in this country. If people do not respond to my direction, I cannot do anything about it. I have taught you deeply, explaining everything to you. Are you actively involved in home church? You say, "I have been too busy to do home church," but you must realize that I am far busier than you and I have been doing what is necessary for God's providence continuously. How can you think you are busier than I?

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

More than anything else, home church is top priority. Push aside everything else to do home church. For whom are you going this way? Not for the sake of the Unification Church and not for the sake of God or True Parents, but for the sake of yourself, your children, and your posterity. For that reason, you must go to home church and be victorious.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Can the News World members think they are unable to do home church? How can they not do so and still fulfill what they have to do? Such people simply have to witness to someone better than they who can take their newspaper position and free them to do home church. There are many, many things I have to take care of, even things that are not really my responsibility, and my schedule is so full that it doesn't include much sleeping time. I have to manage to find time to do everything.

God never scolds a person for doing more than he should. If you cannot go personally to do home church then you can carry on through phoning, and there are other ways besides going personally. If a person has many complex responsibilities, doing many things at once, it is that much more his blessing. I will take notice of such a person and use him more and more.

Unification Church and Heavenly Law
3.1.79, Belvedere

The newspaper has to come out, and if you are literally too busy then you can at least go to your home church area and sleep there. If you cannot do the work, at least you should take a look at the work and say to yourself, "That is what I must do." If you cannot go to your area for one day, you should at least take a look at your home church. Spiritually, there are many people really waiting seriously for you. You don't feel that because of your less intense spiritual sense.

A fighter may be a champion on a local level, but if he loses in the national fight then he's a loser. Someone might say, "I've been in MFT for ten years and I've worked harder than anybody else but I didn't do home church, so you mistreated me." Can you say that? Fundraising was not a waste of time; the person who fundraised in a principled way will have an easier time doing home church. You may think, "I'm not doing home church now because I'm fundraising, but I will do it so well that I could support all my 360 homes." If you fundraise with that attitude then you are connected to your own home church. When the fundraisers start doing home church, they can be successful in a short period of time. I brought you up to the world level and the universal level, the champion position.

The Public Way and Private Way
1.11.81, Belvedere

You are the wings of the Unification Church, the aspect which is responsible for our financial foundation. Since I set up this year's new motto I am sure some of you wonder what you can do about home church, since you can't settle down in one place. The most important thing you should know is why we are doing home church. I told our members to do home church. But MFT activities are also the result of my direct instruction to you. This is your mission for God's dispensation.

There are many other missions in our Church apart from the regular home church dispensation. Many other brothers and sisters are doing special tasks. The important consideration, however, is whether a member receives his instructions wholeheartedly and fulfills them to the utmost.

Home church alone could not fulfill all of God's dispensation; it must be united with all the other components to make up the heavenly victory. Your attitude, or the shape of your mind and heart, is important, and second, how much time you invest in your task. Finally, how much drive you invest to overcome any difficulties is of concern. Ultimately speaking, your commitment, persistence and determination that what you do is vital for the ultimate victory of God is the key point. Each activity is crucial in the direction of God's dispensation, so what is important is how well the different components come together to fulfill one central goal. Because we are focused on that central goal, we need many different departments and elements that will make a wholesome self-sustaining entity which can push toward the goal.

I would like you MFT members to think that you have an important mission to do and that you will do your best. If you are doing home church ten years from now you should feel that you will do it in the shortest possible time based on your hard work on MFT. Here you are reshaping yourself to resemble me, and when your home church opportunity comes later, you will knock it over in no time.

To the MFT
1.2.80, World Mission Center

If someone is in a special staff position which is necessary for the wellbeing of our Church, I will give special consideration and allow him to do home church later, but still he must do it.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

If the home church people have money they won't consider it theirs but think how they can use it for home church work; 360 homes will be one family's work and they will want to spend money for that. In another twenty years you will be approaching your fifties, and by that time you will be assisted by many people. This is really a prime time now.

Reflection Upon Life
6.1.79. Belvedere

We are not only doing spiritual work, we are actually laying the foundation for our grandchildren. Suppose you have a deep relationship with the people who buy the News World from you. If you can explain how good ginseng tea is for good health, they will want to buy some. Once the people trust us they will rely on our services. We can start a mobile department store and a grocery delivery service and supply their daily needs with a loving heart. What we are doing today is laying a many faceted foundation for the future. Your 360 homes will all become like your own home.

There are limitless resources which we can pioneer and the time will come when you can just call people on the phone instead of running around door to door. There will be supporting organizations and people will want to give everything for the sake of New York, not just a weekly tithe. How about you; can you even do the tithing? We will be in a position to really lift up the life of the city and open the door to a much better future.

Host of the Future
10.23.77, Belvedere

There is great room for developing this home church idea. Are you interested? You have heard about indemnity but so far I have paid all the indemnity on your behalf. Why don't you just follow along and live the easy way of life now? Or now that I have paid so much, will you pay enough to lift mine away? Am I going to buy you the equipment for your home church or will you buy it yourselves? Then it will become your property and you can start your own church.

Where God Resides and His Course
3.19. 78, Belvedere

You decide one thing: what level you want and what territory you would like to take. Do you have your home church assignments? Did your leader recommend it or did you decide to do it? Your 360 homes represent the entire world. . . . When you need money, go ahead and make money; when you need people, find people. Don't beg anyone for help or money or support. You should say, "I am the one who will create the money, people and whatever else I need. I will provide them." if you work three times as hard as normal people you will do all these things.

Mainstream of the Dispensation of God
11.19.78, Belvedere

Earn the money you need on your own and lecture to your own people. You don't need anyone else to teach for you if you become a great lecturer on your own.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

You may say, "I will go to home church, Father, but please help me; I have nothing. You must buy me a house, you must buy me an automobile, you must buy me food and clothes. Then I might go." Is that the way a messiah acts? No. We came as True Parents and gave you our sweat and labor, heart and soul, to lay your foundation. And we are inheriting everything to you for free.

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

I am training you to provide not only for your family but also for the 360 families and homes in your area. The only way to do that is to forge ahead without all kinds of indecision and doubt. Once you know you are going in the right direction you don't need to question over and over again what you are doing, you just need to do it.

In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere

2. The Journey To Canaan

Our Destiny

"You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess, and that you may live long in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land which you are entering to take possession of, it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a garden of vegetables; but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, a land which the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year."

Deuteronomy 11:8-12

Do you want to go your own way, or the way God wants you to go? Where will you settle ultimately? I cannot take care of each of you individually, couple by couple, so you have to set your own goal and home church is the way. In home church you can be proud of your husband or your wife. That is your territory and realm.

No man will compare with your husband, and no woman will compare with your wife. Home church is the place for your settlement, so unless you establish the home church foundation you will be kicked out and there is no other world for you to go to. If you fail there then there is no way I can bring you along this path. I instructed you to go and your destination is home church. That is the order coming from the True Parent, teacher, head of state-all in one. When you love your home church you are consummating every order you have received from True Parents, true teacher, true patriot and true saint.

In a few years I would like to have a shrine built to the home church parents, home church messiah, and tribal messiah. You must build your home church in order to be honored by that shrine. Anyone who is successful will have their own shrine in their home church area, and when I am passing by that will be the place I visit and where I rejoice; where it is located won' t make any difference for it is definitely the place I will visit. It will also be the place God wants to visit. The destiny of women is to marry and go where their husbands go. In the same way the Unification Church destiny is to go to home church. This is where you will find your permanent home. It is almost like being given in marriage. Through the home church destiny you will go to heaven, but if you don't then no matter how much you love True Parents you cannot go. If you leave it unfulfilled then that great burden will be left to your own children to complete.

Reflection Upon Life
6.1.79, Belvedere

I am heading toward the heavenly homeland and so are you; we are in a great movement traveling from one continent to another, spreading the message of God and culminating human history. When we go door to door we embrace the people as if they were the world, not just the citizens of their particular country or isolated individuals. A miracle which can change the world is possible in this way of life. Don't you feel we are reaching heaven step by step?

The Age of Repentance
9.1.78, London

After you get married, where will you go? If the husband and wife are alone, they are naked, and Satan can always invade, because there is no fence around them. So what is your destination? Home church. This is the absolute direction and destination. Through home church, we will bring all people and races together into unity.

So after you get married, will you run away on a honeymoon, or will you go to home church?

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

The greatest banquet of celebration will be held in your hometown. Actually, the entire content of fallen history has been man's departure from his true home. All mankind departed from their true home. When we restore everything which is lost, we will go to our hometowns and have the ultimate celebration. When you go back to your hometown you can greet your grandparents. You might have been told they had died, but actually no one has died; when we combine the physical and spirit worlds together, everyone is there. At the festival all ancestors from all our family trees will dance around the banquet table.

Before we have this banquet on a worldwide scale, however, we must have it on the tribal level and that is the home church. You will be a tribal messiah, and you will have that banquet first at your home church with your own tribe. Everyone will go outside to appreciate the light of the moon. When that moonshine is accepted by the people, God's heart will be vindicated. This is why home church is the final destination of the providence of God.

The Critical Turning Point of the Dispensation of God
12.31.78, Belvedere

Through home church you will be united with spirit world and your ancestors will come to assist you. Furthermore, you are becoming one with the physical world because your 360 homes represent the world. You are in the position of completed, perfected Adam and Eve, so where is your garden of Eden? That is your home church. Your area is Cain's territory, spiritually and physically. By creating your own garden of Eden in this home church area you are consummating your internal and external dispensation, spiritual as well as physical.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

Today's topic is the slogan for this year of 1980: Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the destiny where true rest lies, where true happiness and joy lies, and even where true life lies. The person who lives and dies in home church is the person who is truly happy.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

Why do we do home church? By doing it, we can inherit the blessing from God; it is our common destiny. We must achieve the level of messiah on every level all the way up to the cosmic. We must build a bridge from one stage to another. As representatives of the United States. you need the messiah. The whole world needs the messiah.

The Present Situation, Centering upon the Will of God
5.23.82, Belvedere

We know that human history is the chronicle of restoration. What is the ultimate point of restoration? Of course it is home church. As home church becomes successful you will go from level to level, and finally to the world; ultimately you will take off and even gravity won't hold you down. You may not know it yet, but this course is the miracle of miracles. The fact that I could announce the providence of home church within 25 years is a miracle; compare that to the little that Christians have achieved in 2,000 years. God sent Jesus to earth for certain reasons, and ultimately Jesus died for that purpose. All of these events are culminated in home church, the center of the dispensation.

25th Anniversary of the Unification Church
5.1.79, Belvedere

Home church is the great finale of God's providence. I started out in the individual dispensation, then moved to the family, tribe, nation and world, fighting all these years for the global victory. After that I liberated the entire spirit world. Now I want to give all that to you as your inheritance. Home church is the final chapter of the dispensational history of God. The ultimate victory celebration will be held, not at the New Yorker or Manhattan Center, but when you can invite Mother and myself to be with you in your home church.

People so far have not known that the culmination of the dispensation of God is home church; religious leaders and saints never knew the final destination. I searched throughout the spirit world, knocking on every door and found the solution; otherwise, you would never know it. The greatest thing is that I have found the realistic way to find all the ideals described in the Old, New and Completed Testament. . . .

Shall we hasten to fulfill home church? . . . . Will you pledge that you will complete home church successfully? The conclusion is that the goal of God's dispensation shall be fulfilled by completion of home church.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

The Unification Church has had twenty most dramatic and hectic years of history, emerging on the level of worldwide Christianity in that time. We are not worrying about the family, tribe and national levels, but have proclaimed the second three seven-year courses, another 21 years; that will be the era of total consummation. This is a most wonderful proclamation. Within twenty years we are trying to restore all the failures of Judaism after 4,000 years, and of Christianity after 2,000 years. The fact that we proclaim it can be done and that a new era has begun is in itself an extraordinary gospel and blessing for the world.

Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere

Home church is a great accomplishment and the pinnacle of Divine Principle. After all the struggles of the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament, home church is the outcome, the ultimate fruit by which the Kingdom of God is going to be achieved. It is the ultimate fulfillment of love.

Home church is not a witnessing method. No, home church is our destiny, the final terminal and the fulfillment of the dispensation. Fallen man must walk this road; that is his destiny More than a man is destined to marry a woman, fallen man is destined to finish the home church mission either on earth or in spirit world. Can you deny it? How can you erect the Kingdom of Heaven on earth other than by fulfilling the home church mission? This is not a dream or fantasy; this is the real blueprint from God. We have arrived at the final terminal. It is our great fortune to see this home church mission in our lifetime and install the pattern and tradition for history. You repeat the alphabet a thousand times a day in your conversation. In the same way, home church is the alphabet of the Kingdom of Heaven. It should become an intimate part of you. In home church you will find everything. In home church you can find God, Israel, Christianity, anything you want.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

How long are you going to take to do your mission? Are you going to do it as soon as possible, or will you drag it out over a long time? Do you think home church is just another method of doing church work? Or is it the dispensation in witnessing, planned many thousands of years ago? It is your destiny, isn't it? If so, then how long has God waited for home church? Since Jesus came He has been waiting for 2,000 extra years, seeing the sacrifice of many martyrs' lives. People before that have waited for thousands of years for this, and for twenty centuries all Christians have waited impatiently for the Second Coming. The Lord comes for the second time for the very purpose of home church.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

Do you know what home church means? Your ultimate destination is God's heart, and home church is your grammar school. When you finish there, you will have finished grade school. When America comes to the truth, you will have finished high school. When the communist world comes, you will have an MA. When the spirit world is reorganized, you will have a Ph.D. Actually home church is everything, and after that everything else is easy, just a few hours' work.

Persecution and Blessing
5.1.80, Belvedere

God's will shall be physically consummated in this home church system, in which you will find the consummation of all human history, the will of God, and the entire ideal of creation. I am asking you to become a tribal messiah to that home church.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

All men want to have a destiny with God, but I want you to know that God has already set the appointment to meet you in home church. God is waiting for you in your home church area. Jesus is there and so is the Kingdom of Heaven. Everything you have been craving is there. I am out there. Don't come here to meet me, but go to home church.

Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere

Home church is truly our gospel, an amazing blessing from God. Through home church you can find and restore everything-there you meet God, the Messiah, Cain and Abel, and all the historical missions. It is really a wonder world.

True Couple
5.27.79, Belvedere

We have reached the most logical conclusion that we must have a showdown with the world in the next seven years. We are now walking into a most crucial time. I can say that all is done and finished; all the foundations I needed to accomplish have been laid. Even the physical foundation, such as fishing, boat-building, and various industries, has been laid.

I can go anywhere in the world, and even if I died right now I would not be a failure. No one can overshadow my accomplishments; no cloud can hide them, whether I live or die. Now the time has come for the major role to shift from me to you. You are going to build the kingdom. I paid the debts of sin of the past and laid the groundwork. This whole dispensation will now be consummated for you in your home church of 360 degrees. That is your world, the microcosm of the globe.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

If each one of you clearly realized that home church is the destiny of our movement then you would give your life for it, and my presence here in this country would be irrelevant.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

The completion of the home church mission will really be your liberation and you will be free to enjoy your own home, elevated in the heavenly kingdom. Religious people usually talk about individual salvation, but we are talking about salvation for the tribe, nation and world. No one can bypass this. Everyone has to squarely face the mission of home churches.

We know the concept of the Kingdom of God and we have precise instruction about how to achieve that kingdom. It will be done through home churches and this is the completion period of the dispensation.

It is most important that we can talk about the conclusion of God's dispensation. Today, on November 12, 1978, I am commissioning you to be messiahs, to go to your world of home churches and fulfill that mission. Will you do it? Those who will do it, raise your hand. Go out to your home churches and don't return until you finish the mission. Even if you die there you will be victorious. I am going the same way and doing the same mission but on the worldwide and universal levels. You will live, eat and sleep there and have activities there, and when you are victorious there you will return to heaven.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

Those who cannot do home church well cannot become national or world leaders because you will always be faced with Satan's accusation that you are unqualified. No matter how much education you have, until you fulfill this one condition you cannot be accepted anywhere else. Eventually you will do home church because each year it is getting easier as the Unification Church and Reverend Moon are more widely accepted.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

You start out in home church, then tribe church, nation church, and universe church. It's all up to you now. Go ahead. Home church is the beginning. After you do that, you can do as much as you like, but home church is the bare minimum.

Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere

This year's motto is: Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven. As I already said, in the past two years home church was not that very near or personal to you. So far, you may have thought of home church as a kind of witnessing technique, or an innovation of the Unification Church. But it is the heavenly way. Home church is your personal affair; it doesn't belong to anyone else. It is your personal matter on earth and in heaven, not the Unification Church's.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

Home church is our destiny, so pack up to leave the New Yorker. Would you accept my challenge to be victorious champions in home church so we can all rejoice over restored families?

Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere

The Unification Church today is on the road to Canaan on the worldwide level. Twenty years have passed. Normally, there is a forty year period in which to reach a goal. We have got to make it during the next twenty years. During this period, the first generation comes against us, the rebellious generation. God normally must judge them and even offend them. Just as in the case of the Israelites, they cannot be given the right to enter Canaan.

Even though God was very sympathetic to their situation, God had to judge them: the first generation could not enter Canaan, but all died in the wilderness. The second generation, belonging to Moses, could enter Canaan. Yet even Moses, representing the first generation, could not himself enter the land of Canaan. Instead, Joshua and Caleb, the second generation, entered. This is the pattern for the future of the world. Today we are living in the age equivalent to the wilderness period. Just like the Israelites after their Exodus from Egypt, we are wandering in the wilderness.

What do you think would have happened if the Israelites had been welcomed by the Egyptians? In that case, Moses would not have been thrown out, but he would have become a prince and then king of Egypt. The peoples of Israel and Egypt would have intermarried; Egypt's identity would have been lost and everyone would have become Israel. The culture of Israel would have become strong and would have absorbed everything. Even though the population of Egypt would have been larger than the 600,000 Israelites, there still would have been intermarriage to keep the tradition of Israel alive. Moses would then have become king. The culture of Israel certainly would have prevailed.

Today, Rev. Moon is in the position of Moses. If people truly accept Rev. Moon, then there will be no boundary between our movement and the national culture of America. They will, in a sense, "wed" each other in international marriage. Soon Unification culture would absorb them.

Because Father is in Moses' position today, if the first generation comes against Father they will not be given a chance to enter Canaan. They will be destroyed in the wilderness. However, in order to show mercy, to give them a better chance to be saved, Father is dragging everything out.

Yet Satan knows these heavenly tactics. He created the evil ideology of communism, and while we are not doing too much but waiting, communism is encroaching into every facet of the free world. Therefore, before it is too late, there must be an ultimate showdown between the godly forces and the satanic forces. We live in that era today. This is the time. The United States and Soviet Russia, with two conflicting ideologies, are confronting each other on the world level. The Unification Church is in the middle. While we are going through the period of these second three seven-year courses, Satan is frantic and his forces are rampant throughout all societies. They want to make their ultimate assault against the free world. . . .

What is the situation here in America? It is almost like Moses' tribes. Without knowing that Moses had gone up the mountain to receive the inscription of the Ten Commandments, the people became faithless. They made a golden calf and began to worship idols. There are so many idols in our world, so many things are mere carnal desires: drugs, immorality and the like. What sort of idol has America made? The golden calf is only symbolic. We have made a materialistic way of life the thing to strive for. We worship the almighty dollar.

This is the kind of scene in which God cannot do too much to help man. However, what happened at the time of Moses? Moses just became emotional and upset. He worked very hard in order to receive the Ten Commandments, but when he saw what the people were doing he threw down the tablets and they broke into pieces.

Today, Rev. Moon is in the position of Moses. But he is different from Moses, in that he is enduring. He will not do what Moses did in uncontrolled wrath. He is giving the truth, giving the Word. Instead of breaking the Word, he is feeding it to the people. . . .

If the communists resort to violence, Rev. Moon will stay on top. He has the means to stop them, since self-defense can be applied in those situations. Just as God said to Joshua and Caleb shortly before they went into Canaan, Heavenly Father has told Father to be bold and strong. The second generation should be bold and strong. . . . What would you like to become? Should you be like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, or like Joshua and Caleb in the time of Moses?

There will be seven years of great turmoil, which means seven years of communism. This is the final, ultimate war of mankind. It is the war of ideology. After twenty more years, Father will celebrate his eightieth birthday, marking forty years since Father and Mother installed True Parenthood.

Today we live in the wilderness. We have to clear and cleanse ourselves so that we are not accused by Satan. We should not make a blunder so that Satan can pick on us. We should be free, leaving Satan behind as we enter Canaan. That is the next twenty years. Altogether, it will have taken forty years.

Before they left Egypt, the Israelites married, and as married couples they moved into Canaan. It is the same thing in the Unification Church. We have mass, international, interracial marriages which will help us to create strong forces when we engage in the final battle against Satan in order to go to Canaan. . . .

In this 21-year course, the seven-year course we are initiating is just like the Israelite people circling Jericho seven times. For seven years, we will surround the secular society all the time, without food, without rest, just continually running around it. Then America will change. America will turn around. America will repent. In other words, Father is looking at America as a gigantic Jericho. In our home church, we must just keep on.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

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Beyond Calvary

He said to them "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Matthew 16: 15-19

"I have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you."

John 16: 12-14

After Jesus gave the keys to heaven to Peter, did Peter ascend to heaven, or did he go to the cross? What should Peter have done? We know that he should have gone to heaven by opening the door of home church on the dispensational level of that time, which was the tribal level. Then the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven could have been laid. But now we are starting home church on the world level which is much more difficult. Peter would have secured the environment through home church, and thereafter organized 12 tribes. Jesus had indicated that whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven; likewise, unless we realize the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world will not come about either.

Now you have a better idea of what home church is like. Would you like to inherit the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven? Even though Jesus died, he could not receive that. You can now inherit something which Jesus did not enjoy, but what condition have you made to inherit it?

While you are doing home church, you will come to realize that this was precisely the destination of Jesus' work. Why did Jesus work so hard gathering disciples and giving sermons? it was so he could eventually send his disciples to home church. When you do home church successfully, won't the restored tribe and nation come into being automatically? By doing home church, everything will be restored at one time.

Now you know the most valuable thing. Now you know why I was so persecuted and went through such incredible difficulty. This is what I was up to, and this is what Jesus was up to. Now you know home church was the destination. This time is precisely analogous to the time when Jesus appeared to the disciples after the resurrection; now Pentecost is happening all around the world.

Now when someone asks you where heaven is, you will say, "Heaven exists in the environment of home church." Jesus said only that heaven exists in your mind; that is true, but now it exists in the body and in the home church as well.

What comes after that? There will be the national church, and after that the world church, and the cosmic church. Then this will truly be the universal Unification Church. After home church, other things will become more and more easy. You actually don't have to think about other levels, just home church. As the days go by, there will be more and more of this church activity and heaven will be realized in a more complete way.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

Since Jesus was not able to complete the tribal messiah's role physically here on earth, we are now succeeding to that mission. By physically creating our tribal messiahship we can open the door for national and worldwide messiahship.

There are no barriers between you and the home church mission, neither racial, national, spiritual or physical. Jesus gave the key to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, and today I give you the key to home church because that is the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. With one turn that key will open the door to salvation for one tribe.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

If you have 360 homes assigned to you, yet you are not working in them, then people will come to accuse you and ask you to release them. They will tell you that they don' t need your kind of messiahship. They will tell you that they need an active messiah.

That is the key they are talking about to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus gave the key to Peter. Home church is that key. You can use it to open your way to heaven. That is the vindication of Jesus Christ. Before his crucifixion, Jesus Christ gave his key to Peter and told him to open it. Whatever you open here on earth shall be opened in heaven. "Whatever you open here on earth" means home church. Actually, when you do home church you are fulfilling Jesus' wish.

Home church is located on the other side of the crucifixion, on the Mount of Calvary. It is located beyond the hill of the crucifixion. Home church is located beyond the 2,000 years of Christian history. Home church is also beyond Father's suffering life. It is far beyond it.

Even if you could walk the path going through a hundred deaths, you still should be grateful. But Father laid the foundation in such a way as to make your road very flat, so that you can walk it without the crucifixion. How lucky you are! How grateful you should be!

For three years, you should make an incredible effort to be a true Abel. When Jesus was on the cross, his three major disciples fled from him. They were scared and ran away. It was a terrible mistake and they had to pay indemnity for it. . . .

At the family level, at least three persons can be blessed. This is where Jesus could not fulfill. Therefore if we become a tribal messiah we fulfill the mission that was left undone 2,000 years ago by Christ. That. is the precious purification period which all engaged couples are now going through in these three years. It is the Unification Church way of life. In three years' time, you should actually acquire 12 Cains, or 12 disciples. In seven years' time, you should find 84 members. That is the criteria. That is the ultimate goal. You will then organize your own tribe which God will recognize.

It is ideal to increase your membership from 84 to 120 in a three year period. It would be the ultimate conclusion to your purification. if you do this, you will truly be a successful Abel. Then you can undertake your Abel-type restoration. That is the reason that Father came up with the figure of 84 people (12 months for seven years). Anyone successful in fulfilling the motto "one-one-one" will gain 84 spiritual children in seven years.

Jesus was crucified before his major disciples became united. In order to indemnify these failures, we have to go through this sanctification period and reach the goal which Father is setting.

When you find 84 spiritual children, you will truly become a tribal messiah. Then you are in a position to restore Jesus' failure. in other words, because Jesus could not obtain the unity of 12 disciples and then 84, your doing so will have restored it. You don't have to make any other indemnity, because Father covers all the rest. Father has left only one area for you to cover. Father has done everything else.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

When you restore your own tribe and become Abel, then you are pioneering the foundation where Jesus never succeeded.

World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center

The foundation for the restoration of your tribe is home church. If Jesus had accomplished home church on earth and ascended into heaven, then he would not have had to come back. But he could not do that on earth. If you have no foundation on earth, you have to be resurrected and come back here to start over.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

Without doing home church no one can go to heaven. You must understand. Jesus left behind the key to heaven, namely home church. Even Jesus was not successful in home church, so he had no way to work in heaven on earth. That's exactly why Jesus told the weeping women not to cry for him but for the children of Israel. That is also why the Bible does not specify how a person can get to heaven. Don't ever be casual about this and say, "If I do it, that's fine. if not, that's still okay." You must think you must really fulfill. Don't pay so much attention to what your leaders do or don't do to you, but give all your energy to home church.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

You are going to home church as the representative of John the Baptist and in the potential position of Jesus Christ. I am sending you to home church, where you and John the Baptist and Jesus Christ will be welcomed and not rejected. What you accomplish in home church is greater than what Jesus did 2,000 years ago: first, because there were not True Parents in his time and second, because they did not become tribal messiahs. You cannot go to perfection without fulfilling the growth stage, and home church is the absolute requirement.

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

How can you claim the right to the Blessing until you have completed your home church work? Jesus was destined to complete his work on the home church level, and afterwards get the Blessing of marriage, but he did not get that far. in the future, I will judge you according to every principle and word which I have spoken; that will be your judgment. The world will judge you, as well.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Adam and Eve were at the top of the growth stage when they fell to the position of Satan's children. Now you must return to the position of elder child of God. In home church you serve the Cain people as your elder children; then you have your own children. Ultimately you will reverse their positions and your son will become your rightful elder son. in that way you will elevate yourself to the direct dominion of God and you will become true parents.

Can you substitute anything else for home church? No matter how difficult it may be you must go through it. Jesus was able to indemnify the elder son's position on the national level but he was crucified before he could reach the world level. We must go through that stage successfully no matter how difficult it is. Those who want to save their lives will lose them, while those who are willing to die for God will live-that is the Biblical paradox. Likewise when you are willing to die for the sake of home church you will be successful and you will live with God. This is the time of fulfillment of God's goal of restoration; this is the time which all the books of the Bible were pointing to.

In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere

From the beginning, the Unification Church has been widening God's domain, not being distracted by opposition, but trying to serve others, and absorb persecution. You have been following me faithfully during the three seven-year courses, establishing Heavens domain generally in this world. Now you are continuing to work so that the same thing will happen in the spirit world. Exactly what point are we at now? So far history has been primarily indemnity for the errors of the past. We have to finish that history or else we will not be able to begin at the original point.

What was the cause of Adam and Eve's failure in the very beginning? They did not have absolute faith in God, and they did not have ideal love. Jesus was the second to come as the first ancestor of mankind, but his followers did not have absolute faith in him, nor did they have absolute love. The disciples should have wanted to die in Jesus' place, rather than see him killed. Jesus would never have been crucified if they had had that kind of thinking.

February 22, 1948, to February 22, 1982 was a period of complete indemnity for Jesus' life. That is the significance of February 22, 1982.

Because Jesus died at age 33, his 34th year is within the domain of resurrection. We have successfully crossed over the point at which Jesus died, and now are in the realm of new life, or resurrection. Because the spiritual and physical conditions have both been fulfilled, persecution has very much decreased in recent years. Naturally, however, the communists want America and Reverend Moon to be separated. They know that communism will be defeated if America unites with me, so their goal is to prevent that. This is the situation we have been fighting against.

We know that behind us are thousands of generations of history, and ahead of us are endless generations, so this fight is an historical one. Satan has to obey the Principle, too, however, and now that we are entering the realm of the 34th year, Satan has to retreat, having no claims against this new dispensation.

Declaration of the Ceremony of Unity Between Spirit World and Physical World
3.28.82, Belvedere

Where do home church and eternal happiness begin? They begin on the hill of Gethsemane where Jesus prayed. Jesus prayed three times to God. Home church should also start at Golgotha where Jesus bore his cross. When Jesus was at Gethsemane and Golgotha no one was sympathetic or understood him, but now there will be 100 other people watching you who realize how much easier it is than what Jesus had to go through.

Jesus wanted a handful of people who would understand him and say, "Jesus, you stay here and I will do it for you." But he did not have even one. Now, 2,000 years later, we find ourselves free to do anything we want. You can go out in Jesus' position to seek those disciples who will want to bear the cross for you. You are free to meet the people, to train them and serve them. You have to feel how fortunate your situation is compared to the time of Jesus before you can go out to work in the home church realistically.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

Now everything you do is building a lasting accomplishment that will become your tower. The men and women going out into home church will be harvesting and bringing things in. We are moving across the boundary. We no longer belong to the old age or old territory. We are moving into a new territory and a new era. That is why I told you that home church is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven. We can now build the physical kingdom with our own hands. in the past the Unification Church missionaries endured incredible situations. Your elder brothers and sisters were kicked and spat at, and even killed, but that era is now over. You doff t have to face that. When you speak the Divine Principle you will meet people anxiously waiting for the message and you shall be regarded as their savior. The people are waiting for you to come.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

If you go on with your whole heart and soul, it will not take even three years for you to finish because more and more acceptance will be seen in society. Do you know where you are standing in history? The old tide has completely receded, and the new high tide which will carry you to the Kingdom of Heaven is ready to come in now. When the tide first turns the water comes in slowly, but gradually it gathers power and rushes in with power which no one can stop. Even God cannot stop it.

True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center

The level of clan messiah is your starting point. Why is that level of messiah necessary? The clans around Jesus should not have separated from him but should have united with him. They were also supposed to be united with the family that Jesus would have established himself. If John the Baptist had been united with Jesus, that level of clan unity would have been established.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

How can you ever be a messiah yourself? As you know, the best anyone could do so far was to be saved individually, but now we can each become a messiah. There is no higher job than this and thousands and thousands of years can never be sufficient to replace that. Now not only individuals can be saved but we can save the family and nation as well. Do you know what that means? Jesus tried to save the nation of Israel and you can do exactly the same thing yourself. Jesus was to bring together John the Baptist's family and Joseph's family but he couldn't be messiah to his clan. if he had been successful then he would have marched forward to the national level of restoration. By having the same mission you can call Jesus your brother, but if you don't heed that mission then it can be taken away. If one group of people doesn't realize its mission then the mission will be taken by a group that does.

This year's motto is to be brave and courageous and march forward. The formula is to become completely one individually with the True Parents and then bring your Cain and Abel families together under the True Parents' family. The formula includes not only the family but the national level and world level as well. Who will bring two nations together? We must be able to love other races and nations as much as our own before we can ever expect to bring two countries together. Otherwise, no one would listen. What this means is that even if you die now you don't have to die outside your own home, as Jesus did. All the disciples fled in Jesus' time, but if you die it can be in your own home with brothers and sisters and parents to mourn you.

The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78, London

Why do we need home churches? You should start home churches because you need to go out to the secular world to restore Cain. Abel needs to bring Cain to God in order for both to be forgiven and accepted. in that position you are going to restore the mission of Jesus, which he was not given a chance to fulfill. You will bring that mission to perfection, and that is another meaning behind your home church mission.

Our goal is to make the entire planet one home church. Jesus was crucified because two homes failed to unite -- the home of John the Baptist and the home of Jesus. If John's family had welcomed Jesus then the will of history would have been for John the Baptist's sister to become Jesus' bride. Why? Adam has the dual responsibility of restoring both the angelic world and his own bride. The Messiah must come to restore a family of three generations -- grandfather, father and son -- before he can restore the world. John the Baptist was in the position of elder son, or Cain, but he failed to be totally obedient to God's son, who was in the Abel position. John the Baptist, in the archangel position, should have been totally restored to God through obedience to Jesus, but that did not happen. If Jesus had been successful in that dispensation then he would have undertaken to restore his bride. Jesus' bride had to be restored through the archangel's family, which was John the Baptist's home in Jesus' time.

Why do you as Abel have to go out into the satanic world? It is to restore the archangel, and secondly, to restore your Eve, or your mate. You women go out to restore the archangel and then restore Adam. Because the Messiah had not yet come and filled Adam's position and installed the heavenly formula, religions down through history discouraged marriage in favor of celibacy, preparing people to be able to welcome the Messiah wholeheartedly, free of the burden of their sexual desires. Until the Messiah comes no one is really entitled to marriage. Marriage is very important, but even after marrying we are under a certain discipline because we must demonstrate that we can overcome physical desires in order to serve True Parents and the world.

The Messiah first needs tribal restoration. John the Baptist's family was related to Jesus' family, and if true family unity had been made at the time of Jesus then the tribe would have been restored, and afterwards the national and worldwide victory would have been finished. But it was in the family level mission that John the Baptist failed. The two key families involved were the family of John the Baptist, whose father was Zachariah, and the family of Joseph. Joseph's home represented the bridegroom and the adopted son, while Zachariah's home represented the archangel and the bride.

Joseph's family should have been supportive of Zachariah's family and then John the Baptist would have stood in the position of restored archangel and provided Jesus with his bride. The two homes would have been united by the marriage of the Lamb and the installation of true parenthood at the time of Jesus. The Abel and Cain homes united together would have brought forth a new race.

The world today is divided in two parts, with one being subject and the other object, or up and down, heaven and earth. The home of the bridegroom represents the plus world and the bride the minus home. Religion is plus or upper, while race is the corresponding negative, and all of these can be united into one by the central concept of home church. You will extract the best essence of this earth and create home churches, our own pure world. The men restore Eve, the bride, and the women go out to restore Adam. Of course, before we do that we have to restore the archangel world, the external family, and then internally restore Adam and Eve. That is the concept of home church.

This ideal was not fulfilled at the time of Jesus, but now in our time we shall bring the messianic mission into reality through home churches. Home churches are of two types -- Jesus' home and John the Baptist's home. Of the two, Jesus is subject and wherever he moves there should always be obedience. The two kinds of home churches always unite around the concept of the Messiah; upon the foundation of unity you can accept the Messiah and fulfill the ideal of God.

Once again, why should you start home churches? This is the restoration of the position of Jesus, who could not accomplish the ideal of a home in his own lifetime. By going out to restore Jesus' position you are laying the foundation to be blessed and to install parenthood, which is the completion of the ultimate purpose of religion.

Jesus was not able to gather certain things in his lifetime. For example, Jesus did not have three major disciples in his lifetime. Why three? Adam's family had three sons. There were eight members all together -- father, mother, three sons and three daughters-in-law. Since that ideal family has been broken down into pieces in the fallen world we have to gather them together. The three wise men of the East were symbolic of the three disciples and were representative of angels. They bowed down to the holy baby and brought him gifts from far away. Their act symbolized other nations bowing down to Jesus, the son of God. Disciples are spiritual children in your terminology, and they are in the position of adopted sons who would have obeyed Jesus. This formula is never set up arbitrarily; it has spiritual significance which must be fulfilled. The foundation of three should be expanded into 12 disciples, representing the family and tribe. Next it would expand to 72 disciples representing an entire people or nation.

Three is included in the number 12, meaning that the tribe is an expansion of the family. Seventy-two is inclusive of 12 and represents the nation, while 120 represents world restoration. Those were the key numbers Jesus had to obtain. Jesus had gathered 12 apostles and 72 disciples, which together totals 84, but that foundation was not completely established in unity and harmony in Jesus' time. Therefore, 84 is a key number for us and in our lifetimes we must each restore it. Eighty-four includes all the necessary ingredients to build the Kingdom of God on earth. Whoever fulfills the 84 will have done what Jesus could not do. If you restore one spiritual child per month you will fulfill the number 84 in seven years; that's how the standard one-one-one came into being. You have not yet fulfilled that criterion.

Now you know the meaning of home churches, right? The best of the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament eras are all contained in the home church. Unless we are successful in that mission we are destined to repeat the era of Jesus, but after you win a victory in home church work you can restore Jesus' position and ultimately go on to the parent's position.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12 78, Belvedere

This is the 34th year since 1948; and we have six more years to go until 1988. Last Sunday, February 22, 1982, was the anniversary of the date in 1948 when I went to Hungnam prison camp. This means that I am now beginning my 34th year in the indemnification of Jesus' life and ministry. If Jesus had lived seven more years, he would have completed forty years. During the next seven to ten years the responsibility will rest upon the True Parents and their children, the members of the Unification Church, to achieve the fullest dispensation of victory for the salvation of the world.

Things will take place in the Unification Church to re-indemnify all the failures during Jesus' time. We will complete the uncompleted portion of Jesus' ministry during these next seven years. During this time, Jesus himself will appear to many of his most devout followers and lead them into the fullness of the Divine Principle.

By the year 2000, the entire world will know about the Unification Church; soon enough, there will be no more opportunity to do home church. If Jesus could have lived beyond age 33, his next major effort would have been in Rome. My situation here in America has been like facing the modern-day Rome. Within the next seven years, at least, the accomplishments that should have been made by the time of Jesus' 40th year will be achieved. I have spoken out very boldly and strongly here and by doing so, I took many risks for myself and the movement's progress. Why have I done this? In this way, Jesus' inability to go to Rome and fight for God's purposes could be indemnified. These next seven years must be a successful period. Otherwise, communism will totally occupy the world and religion will be wiped out everywhere.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

Why do we need home church? Because fallen parents came into being. In order to restore this position, Jesus came to the earth. He had to go through a certain process; he needed to restore the Abel family of Zachariah and the Cain family of Joseph, uniting them. Because this was left undone, we must go, in our time, to the home church mission and restore those positions. Who crucified Jesus? Fallen men, men of faithlessness. Therefore, until you have paid back that debt, you cannot be restored.

I laid a victorious foundation for your home church by the victorious foundation of a world church. Home church is nothing but a microcosm of the world church. It is a mini-world in which you can inherit my foundation and my victory. By setting a condition on the home church level, you will win the right to do the things which even Jesus could not do 2,000 years ago; you will indemnify his position,

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

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Uniting Cain and Abel

Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they only hated him the more. He said to them, "Hear this dream which I have dreamed: behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright; and behold, your sheaves gathered round it, and bowed down to my sheaf." His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to have dominion over us?" So they hated him yet more for his dreams and for his words. Then he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream; and behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me." But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him' "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?" And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. . . .

Then Joseph could not control, himself before all those who stood by him; and he cried, "Make every one go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph; is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.

So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, I pray you." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to ' preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Make haste and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry; you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have; and there I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come; lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.' And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. You must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Make haste and bring my father down here." Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that his brothers talked with him.

Genesis 37:5-11, 45:1-15

When you are successful in home church and bring your own relatives there for a banquet, what do you think will happen? Their attitude will change immediately. When you and your members bow deeply to them and serve them at the head table, don't you think they will want to do the same thing and bow down? The Bible says many times that your worst enemy is in your family; you don't have to look in the Bible to find that out because you have experienced it! If you succeed in home church then you won' t even have to fight your worst enemy.

If you succeed in bringing all your home church people into oneness, do you think they will agree that everyone should help do home church with your family? You won't have to do anything to witness to your family; if you bring them to your home church then automatically they will become home church members. This would be the normal course in order for the Cain and Abel worlds to live harmoniously. This is what the Principle shows us. If it doesn't work, then there is no point at which we can say Principle works.

By successfully restoring Cain and Abel, you can restore Adam's family. Why do we work so hard as Abel to restore Cain? It's in order that we can restore our parents; before that we cannot bring back our parents. Abel will restore Cain, and then in the elder brother's position he will restore the parents that were lost. The same applies to the clan; the Cain-side clan would have to be restored by Abel before the restoration of the parental clan can happen.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

We are going to the eternal homeland of God and our Parents, but you cannot return there without restoring Cain first, your elder brother. Unless you restore Cain, you have no escort with whom to enter together into the kingdom. Even if you restore your own relatives into the Church, as long as there is an evil Cain world outside, it can always destroy you and pull you back. Therefore, the Cain world must be taken care of first.

You must succeed in the Cain home church; then you can do one more home church in your hometown and bring your own family back to God. Not only your Cain home church but your own parents and brothers and sisters will really bow down to you as they recognize you as a saint.

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, World Mission Center

When you are literally adored by your home church people, will your own parents come and say, "You didn't love me at all. How can you love all these people? You will get nothing out of it"? Or will they say, "My son, you are great. I didn't know you were such a saint!"?

Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere

One very practical reason for doing home church is for the sake of your clan. Once your home church people understand God and God's will, they can welcome and educate your clan; they can be better teachers than you. This will eliminate the division of Cain and Abel within your clan.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

There is one more reason why this is the age of new dispensation. Since I have fully paved the way of indemnity you too can come back again. It means that after you go through indemnity you can go right back to your family and restore them. This is why New York has already started the home church movement. If Cain and Abel come into perfect unity then the parents can be restored. If you bring your Cain-side family into unity with your Abel-side family then you can restore the family as true parents. After becoming children of True Parents and one with your Cain and Abel families you will have actualized the foundation to restore heaven on the family level.

The free world and communist world are divided now. There is division underway in the world but internally Cain and Abel must come into unity. When the Cain and Abel families come into unity it means the True Parents' family can be restored. When these three levels come together in unity -- Adam's family and Cain and Abel's families and the third generation -- that will form the three stages for the perfection of God's dispensation. That's the place where Cain and Abel won't fight anymore. That's the beginning of heaven and of restoration beyond the place where the fall took place. Unity really comes into being here at the third stage.

We are here to witness, which means restoring the Cain family. The restoration of Abel's family will follow after that. Once you do that then you yourself can be true parents to them and the restoration of your own clan can begin. As soon as the New York members finish the necessary work in home churches in New York they will go to their home towns to restore their own families. You are acting as the messiah of your family and clan by bringing them into unity.

The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78. London

The final destination is the restored family, and in order to accomplish it you have to struggle in two worlds and overcome many barriers. The Cain and Abel struggle exists within the free world and within the nation and church, even in the Unification Church. The barriers are always there, even in the Unification Church, and you must overcome them.

Our goal is to do home church -- first Cain home church, then Abel home church. Only then will you enter this restored family.

Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere

After the completion of a home church in the Cain world you can go and build one more home church, your Abel home church. Then you can invite your father and mother and whole family, and together with them you can enter the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God accepts only families, not just individuals. A family is three generations, and that is what you are supposed to enter with.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

I am not the one who should buy myself a home in Korea. The parents' home should be bought by the children, Cain and Abel. God's house, too is bought by the children; home church will become God's dwelling place, God's house.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82. World Mission Center

Father has a different kind of responsibility now. He dedicated all his life to the world, but now he has to work for the sake of his own children. Father never even had so much time to talk to them before. Father also has to act as a husband to his wife, to Mother. He will have to meet his relatives, talk to them, and do something for them. So Father knew that eventually, after you do your public work, he could allow you private time; therefore Father started the home church. Do the public work through them, and later you can have your own private time through them too. Do you understand?

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

Once you have an outer home church in your area, you will also have an inner home church, which is your family. When you go back to your hometown after your home church victory, the people will automatically come and listen to you. When I go back to Korea after being in America, which is my Cain nation, I am received and welcomed by my Abel nation. The Koreans don't have to study Principle to accept me; if I am welcomed by Americans then Koreans will accept me also.

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere

You have heard about home churches, but do you know why we are doing this? In God's dispensational formula Abel must always leave his home in order to save Cain. Unless Abel goes out to restore Cain, his elder brother, he cannot return to his true homeland. In the fallen world Cain is pulling the world, but in restoration the younger brother is pulling the world, becoming the elder brother whom Cain will follow. In the reverse process of restoration God recognizes the younger brother Abel as the true elder brother and he always goes before God together with Cain, saying, "God, this is my brother and I want you to love him." God will accept that proposal.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

There is a very concrete practical reason why we do this. If you are Abel then you need Cain, and only together with Cain can you come to God. You cannot go to God alone, no matter how wonderful you are. Let this be the start of your future for the next 25 years. Think of nothing but home church and then you will accomplish God's dispensation.

25th Anniversary of the Unification Church
5.1.79, Belvedere

Now the time has come when if you work faithfully and very hard then you can restore your own family. If God recognizes your foundation then in a few years no parents will oppose you.

Now be certain that you know that the age of Abel's indemnity has changed to the age of Cain's indemnity. When you go back to your own home you have to love your family and then save them.

The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78, London

In home church you shall be recognized by parents first. So far I have been describing Cain-type home church, but the Abel-type home church of your own relatives must also be developed. There your parents must be the first people to recognize you, before you are recognized by the society.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18. 79, Belvedere

You cannot start with your grandparents but must start with your parents and work backwards. When you can bring members from your own family circle there will be no persecution, but now you are still in the transition time when you have to bring people outside your family to make your foundation. This is why you must start home churches. Once you restore 84 people on Cain's side then you will go back to bring your own family members. In doing this you will be working to lay a foundation just as Jesus did. You will become like a parent to them in the True Parents' position.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

Joseph's family was in the Abel position, while Zachariah's family was in the Cain position. Their unity was an essential key that would have enabled Jesus to be received. One essential point of Principle is that the position of parent can only be secure upon the unity of the children, Cain and Abel. That unity is what allows the restoration of Adam. The messiah's position is that of parent so through home church, unity can be established between Cain and Abel clans.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

The two major families at Jesus' time were Joseph's family and Zachariah's family, which was the Cain family from which John the Baptist came. These two families were meant to work together, but when they failed to unite, they were shattered. Within your home church Joseph and Zachariah's families are expressed as Cain and Abel.

You have two types of home church -- the Cain-type is in your 360 homes, and after that is restored, you will do Abel-type home church in your own family. When both are completed, you are elevated to the parent's position, the Messiah's position, and then you are in heaven. In this miniature dispensation I have made your job practical and easy.

Core Love and Indemnity
10.22.81, World Mission Center

You would like to have your family be God-centered, wouldn't you? Home church is the base for you to practice this particular way of life. Then later you will go back to your relatives and install the ideal in the midst of your physical family. Everyone of you is now going through the tribal level since I have finished the nation and world levels. When you penetrate the tribal level you can go right to your family. This is where Jesus could not fulfill, so this is your starting point. You are going to love this tribe, your home church. You will be persecuted for that and yet you must love them unconditionally. By meeting that criteria you will ultimately love your family more than your tribe. Your tribe must bear witness, and signatures from 360 homes will be given that you are a son of God.

When you have your own family God is going to say that since you loved your home church tribe so much, you should go ahead and love your family more than your tribe. You must love your family more than you love anything else because they represent your tribe, your nation and world. That's the foundation of heaven. Once you reach this family level, there will no longer be any need for you to leave them.

Once your Cain home church is completed there is one more step you will go to your hometown and form your Abel home church centering on your relatives and family. Then you shall be truly elevated as messiah. Once you come to that point you will not have to do the difficult work of MFT [Mobile Fund Raising Team] or witnessing because you will have graduated from all that.

Your children won't have to have MFT training or witness door to door. There will be no more separation between God and men because their sensitivity will automatically lead them home. We will do all the difficult tasks from human history that need to be finished instead of leaving them to our descendants. We will hand down the glory, not the indemnity. It is a great blessing and a victorious declaration that we can do home church so that later on we can return to our hometowns and become tribal messiahs.

Once you walk that path and live it in actuality, there will be no room for Satan ever to come near you with accusation. Unless you fulfill home church yourself, however, your mission will be handed down to your children with even greater suffering. Then there will be two separate worlds, the world of those children who must do home church in place of their parents, and the world where people are rejoicing over the true family and true ideal home. God does not want to see that division happen.

There is no doubt that MFT and home church are tough jobs, but I want to see you welcomed in your hometowns and living in happy families. Do your utmost to bring the completion of that goal.

True Parents Day and Our Family
3.28.79, World Mission Center

Soon you will have your own Abel family with as many children as possible. What about the other families in the society, the Cain families? The American tradition is to say, "We don't want to worry about Cain. Let them worry about themselves," but that is not God's way of restoration. Cain is your elder brother and you cannot ignore him or his family. The country of America itself is in the position of Cain to you and your family. Since you cannot deal with the entire country, you must have a representative area to deal with and this is your home church area. It is Abel's job to create unity with Cain; God cannot just hand you that unity.

Your family as a unit is in a direct lineage from the True Parents and God; the Cain families are in the side-lineage. You and they must be united. We have a primarily spiritual mission but we must work within the physical realm to accomplish our mission. Abel's family must play the leading role in every way, spiritual as well as economic. Without your serving Cain, the restoration will not take place. To the extent that you sacrifice for the world's sake they will want to offer you great rewards. They will offer you material things and they will want you to teach them and their children. In this way you will have restored your parental position toward them. When you have established that, the satanic family will be able to cross over into the heavenly domain and be free of Satan.

Very soon many of you will start having children. Can your attitude toward your baby be, "I will love this child more than anyone else"? You must love Cain first and then Cain will turn around and love and care for your own children in order to pay you back. This is the proper way for your children to be loved. This is my tradition; I always served other families before my own. When Cain is united with you, together you can love your own children.

Why do we live in such a way? We must restore the position of the angels. We must restore the proper order of God first, Adam and Eve second, children third and angels fourth. Because of this we cannot love our own children with all our attention and focus as we are naturally inclined to do. In the original world it was not supposed to be that way, but since we are restoring the fall we must serve other families before our own. Then we can let the other families serve our own children together with us, thus restoring the position of the angels.

In order for you to restore the position of true parent, you must love the elder son, Cain, first. Your own son will be in Abel's position, or the second son. Until you have loved the first son you cannot love the second. Your elder Cain son will be subjugated by heart, not by force. He will rebel against you at first but you must keep trying to serve and subjugate him with your love. One day he will bow down to you from his heart. The Principle teaches that you must not love your Abel son first even though it is painful to do that. Is it clear to you? . . .

You should care for the children of the people in your area and bring them presents. When you care so diligently for other people's children they will want to bring gifts to your children, in turn. That must be the way your children receive gifts.

By loving your home church people you are loving your own children and by that relationship your own children will benefit immensely. When you bring your children up strictly according to the Principle, they will grow up and work for the sake of the country. At that point the Abel children will fulfill the elder son's position. That will be the beginning of the new history. You are laying the foundation now by uniting the Cain and Abel faction. In that way your children will be able to go directly to God without having to make Cain/Abel unity.

Ultimately one country will appear which God can call His own. Once this country appears all the other countries will have to follow. God's order will thus be established.

It is so important what we do now! We are in search of our home but it is not waiting for us somewhere. It must be cultivated and created by us. Before we can do that we must accomplish all these points of understanding. When I started pushing you so strongly for home church, I gave you slogans like: Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven. Home church is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven because it is your base.

The immediate goal of restoration is the restoration of the lost elder son. God has tried again and again to accomplish this and now all the multiple complications of history have to be straightened out. It has come to the culmination point of home church and I am passing on the inheritance of home church to you blessed couples.

Adam came as the eldest son. Jesus was in the position of second son. The third Adam must restore the elder son's position. The whole family of fallen Adam became the satanic elder sons family while True Parents' family is the beginning of the family of God's elder son. This is the time of the historical changeover when two worlds are clearly being distinguished. once we solve the problems of Cain through home church there will be no more Cain/Abel problems for our children in the future. They will be able to go to God directly without needing to make unity with Cain. The home church areas are the last foothold of Satan. By loving and sacrificing yourself for the people in the area Satan will be chased out and will no longer have a foothold on the earth.

The path of restoration has come to the point where you can now claim the legitimate position of elder son of True Parents through home church. This is truly the beginning of the civilization of True Adam and the end of fallen Adam. The new civilization is being passed through the True Parents down to you and your children. Those three generations are the elements of the heavenly foundation. You must follow True Parents' way and your children must follow your way. You cannot escape the Principle but must follow it absolutely.

In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere

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Attending True Children

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree, do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you.

Romans 11:17-18

I have loved the members in the Cain position more than my own children and wife. You must become crazy about Cain, and in the process sacrifice your own family. That is proper. After doing that then you can come back to love your own children and wife. Even now at East Garden it is rare for Mother and me to eat together with all the children because most of the time I am meeting with the Church leaders at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even now I still live that way of life.

As my own children mature and think about my past and my mission, they will truly come to love and understand me. Even after I go to spirit world, the remaining leaders and 36 couples will love them as much as I loved those people, or even more. That is the best inheritance I could leave them. That is how I am opening the door for all mankind and all history to love them.

Children's Day and Tradition
11.20.79, Los Angeles

The true saint is not one who cares only for his family, but who cares first for others before his own family, even those who care the least for him. We can define the good God as the God who sacrifices Himself for the sake of others. I, too, have lived according to this principle. I have sacrificed my immediate family, even Mother, for the sake of the Unification Church. It is very seldom that I eat a meal with my own children; I usually eat with the Church leaders from all over the world. They are the ones who are sitting right next to me and Mother, eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner; our children are not there. Sometimes when I am eating a meal with the children and some of the Church leaders come in, I immediately send the children to the kitchen to finish their meal and give their seats to the Church members. My children, as well, must have Cain to enter the Kingdom of Heaven; they cannot enter without Cain.

For True Father and True Mother, there are two types of children: true Abel-type children and true Cain-type children. The true Abel children must be able to unite with the true Cain children. I have been working for them, in their place, fulfilling their role to bring about this unity; so, for that reason, my true Abel children must be grateful to me. On the other hand, the true Cain children must unite with the true Abel children; without that, there is no place for me to stand. There are two kinds of children for Adam: direct heirs and adopted children. Unless these children are united, the world cannot be restored.

This is the reason why, during 1981, which is the year of the final consummation of my 21-year course, I have been able to give Blessing to the true Abel children. Ye-Jin-Nim was engaged and married; Hyo-Jin-Nim was engaged.

Victor of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

For the first time I can pay some attention to my own children. I never paid attention to them before now. The True Parents' children are the representatives of all mankind, and when they suffer and are unhappy, it means that mankind is unhappy. To preserve their well-being, I had to assist the well-being of mankind. It is your turn to liberate me. Will you give me liberation? So far, when I traveled it was always for the mission, and I would always take leaders around with me, so I neglected my own children. Now I will take my own children and embrace them. When you finish your home church dispensation, you can do the same with your children.

Right now you suffer and you have an abnormal situation. Some blessed couples are sending their children to their parents, or to the nursery, but they will not be shamed. Outside people will accuse you by saying that you don't even take care of your own children. Never mind. The time will come when your home church people will embrace your children and want to take care of them. That is beautiful.

Why have my wife and children come last? We must love the Cain world first. Love your enemy first and then love your own family. By doing so you are completely free from Satan's accusation. Not only can Satan not accuse you any more, but Satan will have to obey you. You can command him, "Satan, you know what I have done. Can you duplicate it?" Satan will have to reply, "No, sit."

Always look at God's own history. God always sacrificed His closest one in order to save the enemy. Jesus Christ was the only begotten Son of God, yet God sacrificed him in order to save God's own enemy. You have your own home church where you will love the people first. Liberate them before you do anything for you own children. When you liberate your home church and then come back to take care of your own children, everyone will embrace you.

Are you ready to liberate me from all my burdens? Instead of liberating me, all the leaders are always bringing me more decisions to make. They still rely on me for more help in finances and inspiration, but that day is over. You should be independent and go ahead like a locomotive. I don't even have one home of my own to dwell in. You may think I have East Garden, but that's the Church's property. Do you want me to have a home of my own? The time has come for me to look after my own children.

Now is the time for you to do home church with all your heart and soul. in the meantime, the true children must have their well-being taken care of for the sake of mankind, for their suffering will reflect the suffering of the nation and the world. When Ye-Jin is over twenty and gets married and has children, if she is still going through suffering then it is not good for the sake of this nation, or you, or the world. This is because your children's path will follow the pattern of the true children's course. We have to completely smooth it out and lay the highway so that they can go forward easily. It is actually for your sake that I am now going home to take care of the true children. That is for the sake of the future. While I am doing that, you become frontline soldiers.

When you do home church in seven years and really give yourself, the time will come that your home church people will say, "You are father and mother to home church. We will liberate you and take up your mission. You don't need to come here because we shall work harder than you do. Don't worry about us." That should happen now here. You should say to me, "Father, don't come. We don't need you. Go to a big resort and stay with your children and have a wonderful, peaceful, glorious time. We shall take over the battle." Would you do that? Then eventually you will be treated just like that by your home church.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

Before your physical child arrives you had better start loving Cain's children so they will love your child. I never paid a lot of attention to my own children; of course I love them but I paid more attention to the 36 couples and gave them precedence. Even now I am not able to pay my full attention to my own children. In other words my own children are being sacrificed for the sake of the world without their even understanding it. That is why members from all over the world want to serve and love my children. It is only natural.

Once you give birth to children you will take the position of true parents. If you love your Cain children first and they make unity with your Abel children, you will successfully fulfill your position of true parents. That is what we are striving for. If you don't want to go this way it means you don't want to be true parents and ultimately you don't really want to get close to God. Only after you have become true parents can you go to Heaven. What else can we do but go this way?

It seems that every other word which comes from some of you is "my" and "mine" -- my fiancée," or "my wife." Have you ever thought about Cain's fiancée, Cain's wife? It is your business to worry about Cain's love and marriage even more than your own.

In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere

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Marriage Blessing

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.

John 3:16

There are a number of blessed couples in New York and their attitude sometimes is not right in the sight of God. They may think that because they have a baby to take care of that others should go out witnessing. That is wrong. The baby would say, "I'm a heavenly child. I don't want a mother like you but a mother who will do home church." Sometimes the baby cries because of that. Having a child is a blessing but it is no excuse not to do home church. I am going to expand the nursery so you can go out and work in home church.

. . . This is not the time to cling to your children because you must set the condition. People in the secular world cannot give up their closest loved ones but you must set a better standard. God gave up His son Jesus, so why can't you give up your child and go out for the salvation of the world? That is God's most logical strategy and that's how I have lived already.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

The years 1970-1972 were years of incredible ordeal for the Korean blessed couples. Leaving all their children behind, the blessed wives went out on pioneering missions throughout the country. They sent their children to orphanages or to live with families who were reluctant to keep them. It was almost like Moses' mother leaving her child in Pharaoh's palace. But Moses did not lose his identity. By the same token, when our blessed children went to other places to live, they did not think that their parents deserted them, but they knew that their parents were righteous enough to put their mission ahead of everything, sacrificing all for the sake of the mission. Adults complained about parents leaving their children behind, but the children received incredible sympathy from their peers. The more the parents rejected the children, the more sympathy they got from the other children. Through these experiences, the barriers that prevented national unity were broken down in some ways. After I and the Unification Church became famous, some of those who cared for the blessed children during those years came back and said, "Do you remember me? When you went out for your three-year mission, I took care of your children; you must pay me some tribute now." They all want to take credit now!

This time, however, you don't have to leave your children behind. You can care for your children, go out and work for home church, come back and be with your children. The next day, you can go out in joy again. The elder Korean members suffered this ordeal for the sake of the world, but all you have to do is home church.

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

All of us must move straightforwardly toward that goal of restoration; it is truly all that matters. Of course, you have to think of your Blessing and tend to your children and families, but which is truly the most significant the home church work or your personal life? Surely home church work is more important than anything else in God's dispensation. If you worked diligently doing home church all your life, but could never receive the Blessing, you would have a wonderful life once you got to spirit world. You could call out to me and I could take you directly to the home of the True Parents and give you your free pass to Heaven. But if you came to spirit world without having done home church work, you would not be able to receive any pass or certification.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2,28.82, Belvedere

No matter how old you are, there is one thing more important than Blessing: home church. What parents do not want their children to get married? That's the whole purpose for which they have been raising their children.

I have been hearing that some of the engaged women are pressuring their fiancées to get more education so they can be leaders, even wanting them to get Ph.D.'s. Is it a wonderful fiancée who thinks that way? No, her fiancée should say, "You Satan. Instead of going to school, I will do something else." Now you agree with this after listening to me because you have a new perspective!

The hard way is to get your Ph.D. and then find out that what I am saying now is true. The way we work is much more worthwhile than getting a degree. Without going this course, no one can get to the heaven that I introduce. Do you need lots of education to register for citizenship there? No, being persecuted the way God and True Parents have been persecuted is the requirement instead. This is why "my indemnity" is part of today's topic. You must know what your indemnity is.

The World of Good and Evil and My Indemnity
9.28.80, Belvedere

When you are truly consumed by this fire of conviction then nothing matters, not even eating or sleeping; you are truly crazy about the mission. Now you have a fiancée, a new loved one, so you can love your people more. That is the standard I am giving you. Do you wish you had more time to spend with your fiancée instead of at home church? Your antenna should be directed to home church. Is it?

True Couple
5.27.79, Belvedere

When you look at your own fiancée you feel uplifting joy. However, that is the time to realize that before you love your home church and fulfill your own mission, you have no right even to love your own fiancée. You will realize that you must earn the right to love your own fiancée.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

Those who were in the matching ceremony, raise your hand. Have you imagined your fiancée in his home church? if your fiancée is in his area, would you go there? Maybe you would start out to go look at your own area, but your body would actually be moving toward his area! Is home church less important than your fiancée? You shouldn't waste time writing letters or holding hands for one year. Don't think about your fiancée so much because Principle says we must love our home church more and then we can love our fiancées later.

The Public and Private Way
1.11.81, Belvedere

Some of you sisters think you are old maids, but that is not actually the real problem. Your problem is home church.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

This is the time you start preparing to be a family; you don't just go into it lightheartedly. According to the experience of other people it is not all easy, and in no time at all you will have children. Have you established the required condition of having 84 spiritual children, as you all should, and are you taking up your family on that foundation? Of course you are not ready in that fullest sense. Because of the circumstances I am giving you permission to live together, even though you are not worthy yet, if you feel that you will try your best.

You are indebted to everyone around you, including your own children, until you fulfill that foundation. You have to clearly understand this. I know what the Principle calls for and I had to fulfill it literally, not symbolically. If my own children ask whether I have really done what I taught the members to do, I am prepared to explain how I indeed have done it. If God asks whether I have lived up to the standard Principle calls for, I am ready to give a straight answer; even if Satan asks, I have a ready explanation.

One day you will also be asked that question, and you should be able to answer as I do. Without doing so, how can you assume the position of true parents? Where will you get material with which to teach your children if you don't? Before I could become a true parent I had to establish all the traditions necessary in the Principle point of view. It is only logical that you, a branch of True Parents, become true parents also; but first you must establish the requirements. Only then can you genuinely educate the generations to come.

Untitled Address to Blessed Couples
2.20.80

I can see that you still haven't come down to earth after your engagement.

You are all wrapped up in getting to know one another and your faces are different. What you should do when you meet your fiancée is to put your heads together and decide that you will each go to win in home church and then come back to ask me to bless you. You need a certain condition to fulfill before Blessing, such as having Cain-type spiritual children and your tribe of 84 people. You have already heard all of these things, so you know why you are going in the capacity of Abel to home church.

True Couple
5.27.79, Belvedere

The actual order of things is that first you do home church and then receive the Blessing. The only reason you can have a blessed family before then is because True Parents and God regard you as a branch of True Parents, who are that trunk and root. When True Parents bear fruit, then you bear fruit because you are a branch. The significance of the fruit you bear is up to you, however. This is where your test is.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79. Belvedere

While this is still unfinished can you think about getting blessed? I could only allow those who already have the Blessing to receive it because they had brought at least three spiritual children. I took that as a condition, on the understanding that after the Blessing they could continue on to bring in 84 people altogether. Those who haven't succeeded after three years of separation should not want to live together. If you want to live together you must work much faster and fulfill this number. You should post these numbers everywhere, even in the bathroom on the sink, to remind you every minute of the day. From now on you will think this way, won't you? You must never forget this, even for one minute.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

There should actually be no Blessing before home church is completed. From this time on, no one is automatically eligible for Blessing simply because they have been members for a certain number of years. Only those persons who succeed in home church and restore spiritual children are qualified for the Blessing. Jesus first restored his three major disciples and then the three became 12. Those 12 plus 72 seventy disciples established the number 84. This is an important number for us and it must be done in seven years' time by bringing one person per month. Jesus would have had the holy wedding after he had 84 people completely united with him. That is the same path I walked.

Where are you actually going to find your mate, your ideal object? in home church. You will be blessed with the person you find. That is the ideal situation. The procedure will be that the entire home church tribe in a general conference will make a recommendation to True Parents saying, "This person and this person are just wonderful and our tribe wants to receive them as true parents. Would you marry them together?" That kind of recommendation will be given as the counsel of the home church. In the days to come there will be no such thing as Blessing without having the home church pro -gram completed. This is not my statement, but a statement of the Principle.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

After the completion of your home church crusade, you have the right to be blessed. Jesus Christ did not have the home church providence, and he could not have a heavenly wedding. Even though you may be blessed now, until you have completed the home church dispensation you cannot really have a home yet.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

The time will come when the 360 homes will volunteer their sons and daughters, competing against each other to have their children accepted first. At the end of the third seven-year course everyone will be blessed. In other words, you will literally find your bride and husband in the home church. Unless you are welcomed in your home church you can have no wedding after the third seven-year course is over.

Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere

Is it better to do this work and build a home church while you are single and then get blessed and start a family, or to start a family now and separate while going to the home church? A baby can be a nuisance because his parents are no longer free. Your most precious time is taken up caring for the baby, and then you would wish you hadn't married before you had completed your home church work.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

Those of you who understand the importance of the home church as your immediate business before your physical children arrive, I praise you and your ability to understand.

In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere

In this area you will create your Cain-type home, and then after that you are entitled to create your Abel-type home. Once you find your Cain tribe you will establish your Abel tribe. Even if your ancestral lineage is inferior to that of people in your home church area, you will still receive greater blessing than anyone in your area because you set the necessary condition there. When the blessing comes to you upon this foundation and you have children, they will receive more abundant blessing than anyone in home church.

The restoration process in the fallen world is one of three major divisions of Cain and Abel, husband and wife, and parents, but now we are bringing these three together for the first time. Home church is the process of uniting the brothers, Cain and Abel. Your home church and your mate's home church will come together eventually, and you will become a couple after receiving accolades from your home church. Upon that foundation you will join as husband and wife. There are universal implications in two home church areas uniting together.

When you are united as husband and wife upon this home church foundation and have children, you move upward to the parent level. Your children will come upon the foundation of the home church success and all your labor there will be reaped by them. In that case you truly have a foundation where you can receive God's blessing abundantly. Because the Cain-Abel separation has already been made in the home church and there is no stain remaining, you can offer your children as a pure offering to God. Then God will gladly embrace you and your children. Unless you stand victorious in home church, however, you will leave that duty and responsibility to your children, who will then have to go through that tribulation themselves.

Only upon the victorious foundation of home church can you as men and women bear sinless children, just as perfected Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden would have born sinless children. No one shall be able to come against that pure child. You must fulfill all these conditions before God's Blessing comes to you to be husband and wife.

We can conclude that the more you are oppressed and persecuted, the happier you will be and the more you will gain. You suffer more because you want to make your Blessing more precious, for it is your added suffering that will make your qualification more precious, and your diamond more polished. All your suffering and tribulation can be vindicated by having your mate; this one Blessing alone can make it all worthwhile. Your husband or wife is far more precious than your home church, and if you can give anything for your home church then how much more could you do for your mate? Since you are already trained by serving your 360 homes, you can be even more serving to your own husband or wife.

In your 360 homes you are withstanding all kinds of persecution, yet even if all your people come against you, you still love them. If later God uses your husband or wife to give you a hard time, what would you do? Would you say you could not stand it and shove him out the door? You are already withstanding so much now that when some hardship appears within your own family it will be nothing in comparison. You are absolutely loyal to each other and you are willing to do whatever your husband or wife wants. . . .

I want you to feel that home church is a training ground for your future married life, and that all the people coming against you are in a position to train you to live with your future spouse and in-laws.

True Couple
5.27.79, Belvedere

After the crucifixion, the Holy Spirit came down and worked together with Jesus, and salvation work began through the Trinity. By the same token, a husband and wife working together are almost like Jesus united with the Holy Spirit, in a physical sense, going to home church to do the work of salvation. You should be able to say to your fiancée or spouse, "I love home church better than I love you." You may not do exactly that, but at least you know it.

In order to make a cold place hot, you have to become like burning charcoal. Would you grumble and fight with your husband or wife and then finally go to home church, or would you unite with each other and then go to home church? Husband and wife should chase each other out to home church. Pray together and go to home church, come back and pray more. Don't pray alone, but with each other. Your wife may say, "I need a little more sleep, you go ahead and pray," but don't give up; wake her up, pat her, shake her -- whatever technique you have -- make her come and pray with you. That is the most important thing: to pray together.

Why should husband and wife act together? Because when home church becomes successful, you should celebrate together, rejoice together. If the husband is celebrating but the wife's conscience hurts, she cannot laugh with him.

So you women like dramatic men, and you men like dramatic women, with lots of talents and many experiences. Thus, if the two of you go together to home church . . . you will attract many people. You will be just like me. I am versatile and multi-talented, so you love me. By the same token, your home church people will adore you, because you are in my position when you go to home church.

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

. . . Furthermore, the path to restore these 360 homes is given to a husband and wife together. This mission is given to each couple.

There are all kinds of couples in the world. Yet each of you with your mate is a representative of all the couples of the entire world. That is the role of the Messiah and the messianic family.

The worst judgment you can receive is that you as a couple, whether engaged or blessed, don't work in your 360 homes.

Father has told you very precisely time and again why you need to work within a 360 home area. If you still don' t understand, then forget it. There is no other way for you. Somebody else should just take away your 360 homes.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

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The Restoration Providence and "I"

And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Hebrews 11:39-41

Home church, where everything shall be solved, is the bridge to unite the physical and spiritual worlds.

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

Jesus' disciples worked for the country and the mission, but they did not have home church, so they could only reach a certain level. However, all your good ancestors over the past 2,000 years can come down and work with you, and through working with you in home church they can have instant credit. This is an incredible privilege. This is the only time the liberation of your ancestors can take place. At the same time, the path of perfection for you own descendants will be laid. Because of this condition; you can go to the real heaven, not just the conceptual heaven. if you do not do home church well, those people will blame you, and your ancestors will blame you for not doing more. They know very well what is important in spirit world. All your family, your clan and your descendants-even your country and the world-will connect to this heaven. Don't you want to have that kind of heaven? Now do you know clearly about home church?

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, Belvedere

When you visit the 360 homes you should have the feeling of visiting your own ancestors and relatives, of going back to your own roots. Those homes in your area represent all your ancestors in spirit world. Among your 360 homes are all the generations of your ancestry; all the different combinations of your blood lineage. London has a unique combination of all races so it is really an ideal spot. This is why I insisted that everyone concentrate here and not scatter all around England. You have many, many relatives all around the world, and even though you don't know what your lineage is I have reached out and brought them into your homes.

Knowing that these 360 homes represent your ancestors and relatives, you have to be determined to hold on to them and restore them all one by one, never letting go. You should have a real fear of failing to do that. If God could do it all by Himself it would be easy but man has to do some of the work, although God pioneers it. God is always following man around, so from the moment you wake up you must be focused on your people. Some people will persecute you and others will welcome you. You should feel grateful to experience God's heart whenever you face opposition and persecution. Even if it is so bad that you cannot do your work you must feel grateful for that. You have the opportunity to experience some of God's pain and by going through it you establish the condition to pay the indemnity of the past.

Be determined to find three families first, then 12, 72 and finally 360. Everything will revolve around that number. The first three will be the most difficult to find but once they come you have a foundation for 12, and then getting 72 will be much easier. Once you meet the requirement of 84 then 360 will quickly come in, all at one time. Do you have time to rest in the park or to go shopping often? Everyone must work with his full heart and dedication. The fact that you are here with me in the right circumstances to do this work is something to wonder at. What you are doing now is not to save other people but so that you can live.

Since I have already told you to work here like this, heaven has already prepared the way for you. You can be very strong with anyone who is opposing you. It is vital that you speak emphatically with such people; you can even be angry with them. This is the perfect time to work hard. If this had happened a year ago you would not have been protected when I came, but now all kinds of controversy is starting. God is handing everything to you at one time.

It says in the Bible that when Mary Magdalene saw Jesus after he had risen from the dead she tried to touch him but Jesus refused her. Jesus had to lay the foundation first of 12, 72 and 84. Only on that basis could he receive his wife. Since he had not done that yet he could not go near even as close a follower as Mary.

You never knew all these details until tonight, but you did know that you were supposed to find one person per month, didn't you? You can even bring 84 people in seven months. it's only a matter of your desire. If you think that seven months is too long then you should be able to accomplish everything in forty days. You know now why you are going to witness to so many people; it is not to make the Unification Church prosperous but for your own individual merit. It is absolutely necessary to understand this. None of the millions of Christians on earth knows this. Do you think God will give them even more blessing then? However humble Unification Church members may be, if they understand all this then God will really treasure them, regardless of how feeble they are.

It is on this foundation that the Second Advent can materialize and on that basis your marriage will become possible. Have you been qualified up to now to be in that situation? Are you going to be qualified? You have the chance to be in that position because God and the True Parents have already done it. When the going becomes difficult do you remember that fact in gratitude or do you complain? . . .

Your real ancestors will live because of this and if you make this foundation your children will prosper, as well as your country. There is only one thing we have to do and as a result everyone will benefit.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

Twenty years are the key. Six thousand years hinge upon twenty years, and 2,000 years of Christian history also hinge upon twenty years. If you look from God's point of view at all the failures of history, you would also feel that He must devise a solution and find a breakthrough. What is that solution? The greatest contribution I have made is giving you this great opportunity to overcome the 6,000 year old obstacles. No one could cross them all in an entire lifetime until I made the superhighway, with a special mode of transportation to cross over the whole thing in twenty years. Without cost I want to give it to you.

It has taken my whole lifetime to devise that highway, but I give it away for free. In doing so I can say that my whole life has been lived for you. If you just take off on your own you will never make it. Because I knew this, I have been leading you to the highway. We have a specific goal of breaking down all the boundaries in 360 homes in seven years. By doing it in home church you are actually doing it for the entire world.

No one has known how to start work of such gigantic scope, but I have made the solution small enough to see and finish in your lifetime. It won't even take your lifetime, but only seven years. Once my reputation has been changed and I am accepted, home church may not even take seven years, but only seven months. If you succeed in your 360 homes, you have the credential to go anywhere in the world, because your home church is the microcosm of the world. If you can make those homes your home, you can make the world your home. They comprise the launching pad for your Apollo 11. The real Apollo 11 landed only on the moon. but your Apollo 11 will land in heaven.

Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere

Are you fearful of this seven-year course? It is almost like an immunization. You must be given the shot. There is no way to by-pass it. Don't try to find a shortcut. Don't be wishy-washy.

All of us are like lepers. There is only one cure. It is perseverance, living through the seven-year course. That alone shall cure you of leprosy. That is the absolute condition. We must learn how realistic this is.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

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Tribal Messiah

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

1 John 3:3

Your first step is to become true children, and then later the True Parents will elevate you into the position of parent. You must set the right condition and prove yourself worthy and qualified to inherit parenthood. Each one of you is a small-scale messiah and you must show to the world that you love God and mankind more than anyone else in history. You must create your own world microcosm because the entire world is too gigantic to deal with. God makes restoration easier by creating a small world of home church in which you will find your true individual, family, tribe, clan and everything. By loving that small world, you can say you have loved the entire world.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

The Messiah pays the debt, so all you have to do is harvest the fruit. Then the title of tribal messiah shall come to you. By using the same formula and tactics you will become a messiah. The only difference between me and you will be that I lived my entire life in a bloody fight, but you will achieve the goal by receiving welcome. Because I paid the price and destroyed the satanic power, you can be welcomed as you become a tribal messiah.

Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere

Your home church area is a little world which represents the entire fallen world and history in miniature form. When you win your battle there, God will consider that you have won the entire battle and inherited my victorious tradition on the universal level. Your goal, then, is to become a tribal messiah to home church. When there are home messiahs, then tribal messiahs under the worldwide Messiah, all shall be accomplished and fulfilled.

The Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

If you work successfully in 360 homes where 12 nationalities are represented it is as if the world would welcome you. When you go back to your own country your people will welcome you. You yourself come in the position of messiah, not of the world, yet, but at clan level, to your own family and your own relatives.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
5.9.78, London

Just finishing elementary school takes six years of daily attendance. Do you think home church is comparable even to elementary school? It is the school for becoming a messiah. Think of how important it is. Even though you might attend it your entire life, you must give your heart and soul because you could not have any better school. Even though you have only 360 homes, God will treat your efforts there as though you had given them for the entire universe.

The Importance of Prayer
4.15.79, Belvedere

Home church is surrounded by a spiritual foundation. The Messiah is the person who brings the spiritual victory and spiritual heaven down to earth to create physical heaven. Since you are a middleman or bridge to transmit the Messiah's work to your home church, you are his ambassador, and therefore, when you fulfill your mission you become messiah to your own tribe.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

On the clan level, when the central family imparts good influence to the others, the clan level of messiah is fulfilled. When there is a central clan which is the subject of goodness within a society or nation, the national level of messiah is fulfilled. The same thing must happen on the level of world and cosmos.

Do we have our own nation within the Unification Church? We have achieved the clan level, but not yet the national level. At this time, we are in the process of elevating our level of messiah to the level of the nation. This is the role of home church. We are making the base of the tribal messiahship within America. All over the nation, there are clusters of tribes fulfilling this role. We are doing this in every nation of the world, so eventually one nation will emerge totally successful in the home church dispensation. At that point, the national level of messiah will be born. By the same manner, we will move on to the worldwide level. We are working on many levels at the same time -- individual, family, tribal -- with the goal of moving up to the national level in one country where the messiah can be accepted.

The Present Situation, Centering Upon the Will of God
5.23.82, Belvedere

By winning victory in the home church mission you are winning the position of parent and messiah, becoming first a tribal messiah, then a national messiah. The Unification Church is spearheading the messianic movement, proclaiming it everywhere in the world. At this time messiahs are going everywhere in the world.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

The Unification Church is bound together by the father-son relationship, but our purpose is not to advance the well-being of the Church. We are here to accomplish something greater for the sake of the world and cosmos. I always teach you to sacrifice yourselves to help the nation and God, never to live for the prosperity of the Unification Church. if we truly practice this ideology then it has to become the central theme of the world. Then we can use the Unification Church as a ladder, going all the way to the top with the same principle. You are working toward being tribal messiahs, then national and world messiahs, all the way to God.

The Importance of Prayer
4.15.79, Belvedere

God wanted to create the Kingdom of Heaven in the garden of Eden by uniting three generations, with God as grandfather, Adam and Eve as father and mother, and their children. In the home church crusade you represent the Messiah, so you represent God. The home church children have their own natural parents, and when they are united with you, it resembles God's original intention for the garden of Eden. This is how we came to have the terminology of becoming a tribal messiah. Then God's dispensation can be consummated. The endless conflict between good and evil will end with this consummation.

Territory of Goodness
10.14.79, World Mission Center

The task before you is to become the tribal messiah. How incredible it is for you to become a messiah, especially on the national and world levels. Our mission is to restore the homeland.

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

How is achievement made in home church? On one side, God is putting all His focus on your home church work and on the other, Satan is trying to thwart you. However, Satan cannot stop you from achieving results. Never before in history has there been the chance for Satan to be completely eradicated from the clan level. Home church is your clan level of messiahship. As the messiah of your area, what is your qualification? Your only qualification is that you represent God's providence and dispensation in history.

In the position of the clan messiah, you stand upon all the indemnity of history and the True Parents. The clan messiah is the branch of the tree, which is the True Parents. As long as you are a part of the True Parents, resembling their nature and living within a give-and-take relationship with them, that small branch will grow.

Within your home church area, your roots will appear. Each house in the 360 homes will be one root. Perhaps the people living in each house of the 360 will try to uproot you from their homes. Even if they all get together and try to remove you, if you do not budge, it will be because you have secured the ground and your roots are firm. Even if the trunk of the tree breaks in half, as long as the roots remain in the ground the tree will stay alive.

Once the True Parents plant something in your area, no power can root it out. No power of Satan can damage that root. Someone can follow you and continue your work if you have to leave. God will automatically protect that root.

Your own roots are your ancestry in spirit world, and even if Satan tries to pull up those roots, he can never do it. Your branch is your physical clan on the earth. The roots of both the physical and spiritual worlds are in home church.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

You might die in the process of shedding tears and sweat, but don't worry; you will not lose, but will be in the highest heaven. In that case you can make you own second coming. Jesus was crucified as a tribal messiah and was not able to complete the entire dispensation, so he came once again. in the same way, if as a tribal messiah you are martyred, your second coming is guaranteed, and on earth the people who inherit your mission will continue home church. There is no way you can lose.

So far I have preached many times about home church, but now it has come to the ultimate level. When you hear this you have to become crazy about home church. Your position is like Jesus', that of a tribal messiah crying out in the wilderness. Just as God prepared John the Baptist to testify to Jesus, God will also send a John the Baptist ahead of you to testify about you. It is hidden now, but in your area there are people prepared, just as God prepared the nation of Israel.

Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere

Until now, God and the Abel world have been on the defensive, and the world of Cain has been on the offensive. However, from this time forward it will be the other way around. For the first time in history on the world level, the Abel groups will become united with the parents' position, that is, True Parents and God.

After the Abel forces and the Parents become one, Cain's world will have no power. Jesus couldn't win the unity of his Cain and Abel tribes. However, you are inheriting the ability to bring Cain and Abel into unity on the tribal level; this is not because of anything you have done, but because of the accomplishments of the True Parents. Nonetheless, it is still legitimately yours.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

I am looking for one person: the champion of home church. Whoever consummates the home church dispensation shall truly be recognized as the tribal messiah and will issue invitations to Mother and me to come to the first completed home church on earth. I am looking forward to that home church and am anxious to see whether it will come in Japan, Korea, or America.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

When you go to your home church and get pushed down and pushed out, without any vacation, would you complain? There you will receive a certificate of tribal messiahship.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

The time will come when there are so many people in the Unification Church that there won't be enough homes for everyone to have 360 homes. Then the extra people will have to go to Africa and find 360 homes there. if you don't do home church well then people won't welcome you in their homes and will look for someone better to be their messiah. They will kick you out and get a messiah who practices what I am teaching.

Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere

Home church will make you a tribal messiah, but are you going out with a messiah's heart? Do you look for someone to help you and give you something, or do you feel that you are the messiah who will bring whatever your 360 homes need? You are going to home church to give, not receive.

The Sound of the Bell of the Mind
1.28.79, Belvedere

You are independent messiahs, and whatever you do is your own responsibility. You are to bring the Kingdom of Heaven in home church.

The Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

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Eternity

Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 18:18

Once you follow the principle of home church and are successful you can leave it behind. Everyone goes to spirit world; when you go there you have to belong somewhere so you need to be able to point out your tribe and family. This is your identity. As it is written, whatever is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven. As the tribes are organized through home churches, the organization of spirit world will truly begin for the first time. This is heavenly law. The responsibility of faithfully observing the law is the responsibility of the citizens and especially the leader of the country.

Unification Church and Heavenly Law
3.1.79, Belvedere

Where is the Kingdom of Heaven? When Jesus was asked that question, he said that the Kingdom is in the midst of you, in your heart. That is why the Kingdom of Heaven is in home church; you must unlock it there. Jesus left the key to the Kingdom to Peter, to unlock the Kingdom on earth. What you leave untied in home church will be left untied in heaven; as many doors as you open in home church will be opened in heaven. What you do in home church will be to your credit in spirit world.

I am not the one who decides whether you go to heaven or hell; you alone decide. I cannot say a word unless you have won on your own merit. I think Bo Hi Pak has an advantage over you; his face is well-known from the battles he has fought with me, so even if he starts home church three years after you, I think he will overtake you.

There are no exceptions; Bo Hi Pak, or not, everyone has to do home church to get into heaven. Even if he goes to the gates of heaven and says he is qualified to enter because he was my interpreter, if he cannot show the key then he cant get in. Even if you have taught workshops, and lectured all over the world, if you don't have the home church key, you won't be accepted.

Even the 36 couples have to have the home church key to enter heaven. This is why I always tell them not to think about settling down, but to be heavenly-gypsies all the time, living out of suitcases. Once you settle down it is hard to get moving again.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

If you do not do well in home church, it will not matter how well you have done in the past, or whatever else you accomplish in the future. Without actually doing home church, there is no way for you to go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Home Church is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

Once you complete home church successfully, God will recognize you as having completed the necessary course of Abel. God wants to give you credit, and once you qualify he can use you anywhere He wants to. You have to win the hearts of 360 people; without going through home church successfully you cannot go to heaven. Belief in the Messiah won't be enough to bring you to heaven. You have to believe and then act before you can be saved.

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere

Home church is the dividing way between heaven and hell. Those who fail and cannot go to heaven will say, "Oh, Father, why did you create home church? If you hadn't created home church I would not have had to go to hell." I will not say anything because members in the spirit world who worked hard in home church will blame them for saying that. They will say, "I am one example. I did just as Father told me to do and became successful, and so I could come to heaven."

The Public Way and Private Way
1.11.81, Belvedere

Temptation is waiting everywhere to block you through your body. I am not just trying to convince you so you'll work harder for me. This is the only viable principle, and it has been upheld by the entire universe and spirit world. Spirit world will be your judge. They know I am qualified, and now they are watching you to see how you are living. The Book of Revelations talks about the 144,000 who will welcome the Lord and be lifted up into heaven. if we have that many home churches here in America then we could almost cover the entire nation.

Home church is the place where you overcome the stony path of death. This is the one subject you must consummate in your lifetime. Without it, there is no room to be accepted in heaven. When you want to visit me or my family in heaven, it will be impossible until you meet the standard of home church. That is your 5% responsibility It doesn't have to take seven years; if you do well it could be done in seven months.

Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere

Home church is upon your shoulders. When would you unload this burden? This burden will never leave your back. Even if you die, this burden will still be with you. What will you do in this case?

When you go to the spiritual world, you will be stuck. Without fulfilling the condition of home church, you will be stuck. That is the Principle. It would not be fair if everyone could just automatically pass into heaven whether or not he did home church.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

If you really love your area, will your people have to untie your connection to them when you go to spirit world? Make sure that they won't complain that you are leaving them before you finished home church and prepared them to do home church also.

When Satan will taunt you, asking why you never carried out what I said, how will you answer? Could I tell Satan he should not bother you because you are a Church member? Or would I have nothing to say, since you did not follow the Principle? Then you will ask me why I didn't press you more often to do home church. Will I agree I should have done more, or will I only leave? I know very well how fearful that situation is, and that's the last thing I want to have happen between you and me. This is why I feel much better when I am driving you out mercilessly. Maybe after 1980 is over I won't say anything more about home church.

If you try very hard then when you die you can carry on in spirit world. But if you don' t try hard here then it will be difficult to continue in spirit world. Home church serves as a condition for you to reach out everywhere, both on earth and in spirit world. Where would you find that condition in spirit world if you haven' t done it on earth? Nowhere.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

Satan can no longer accuse you then, but if you fail that mission then your home church people will be able to accuse you. Why? They will say, "You knew Reverend Moon's ideology and revelation of truth and love. Why didn't you live it? You are responsible for the fact that your 360 homes didn't have the chance to go to heaven!" I have done this work tirelessly for twenty years, and upon that foundation you can do it in seven years, or even seven months. This is why accusation will come if you do not fulfill now. Your home church people will rage at you and you will have no excuse before them. They will be your judge.

One day after we finish our task here on earth we will have a great assembly in spirit world. At that time you will come to me in thanks for sending you out to home church, making it possible for you to go to the highest possible heaven. You will be comforted and there will be a celebration lasting for eternity. You can win assets of eternal value now, but if you come to me saying, "Please have mercy on me. I can't come to your realm because I didn't do the home church mission," I will reply, "I don't know you. Depart from me."

God taught this principle to me and this is why I desperately gave my life hundreds of times over to fulfill the mission. I have clearly taught you this here on earth, and if you don't do it then in spirit world I will say to you, "Depart from me."

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

In our movement, we have not yet gone beyond the four-position foundation on the family level. We have blessed families, but compared with our ultimate goal, this accomplishment is really very small. Unless we accomplish the four-position foundation on all the larger levels of clan, society, nation and world, your level of freedom in spirit world will not be complete. At best, the ideal will dwell on the community level in spirit world. As we expand on the horizontal level, the corresponding areas in the vertical plane also expand. At this time, there are many borders and boundaries between areas in spirit world, much as it is here on the earth. People have been joining the Unification Church on a one-to-one basis, so far; but at this rate, how can we expand to the world level? You must understand that your responsibility is to make the four-position foundation on the family level and then expand it all the way to the highest levels. . . .

As soon as we have expanded home church all over the world, spirit world will automatically achieve the same thing. Your responsibility as Abel is to stand on the center point, guiding others and living the heavenly, vertical standard yourself. When you can do that, you inherit the position of true parent. Standing at that position, you can rest assured that you are receiving God's love, Father's love, Mother's love and the love of brothers and sisters.

Total Completion of the ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

We walk this path for the sake of God and humanity, and for the sake of the past, present and future. Furthermore, we are going to liberate the spirit world and God Himself. Do you think the work is already completed or that this task is easy? Will that world finally come 10,000 years from now or do you want to erect it today with your own blood, sweat and tears? Why should it be now? If we lose one more year, we are actually losing 40 million people because in a year one percent of the world's population of four billion people die. All those people will end up in hell with no chance of salvation if we sit idle.

They will go to spirit world and say, "Why didn't you Moonies wake me and tell me about the Divine Principle? You didn't do your job so you are not a saint. You didn't love the world at all." We must avoid such accusations from spirit world and mankind. Therefore, while we are alive and I am here on earth, we are going to knock on every door in the world and let the news spread so that people can go to spirit world without excuse.

The providence of God has three stages: Old Testament era, New Testament era and Completed Testament era. Even though people oppose you, knock on their doors and make your appeal once for the formation stage, twice for growth and a third time for perfection. If they still reject you after three times, you have fulfilled your responsibility and they can't accuse you. Even if their ancestors are good people, they can't ask why we didn't take care of their grandchildren down here on earth.

Surely we have done a super job and now we are going a step further? Not only is my name known all over the world, now we are knocking on every door. How can people say they didn't know me when I have been sending my own sons and daughters to their doorsteps? Sooner or later these people will end up in spirit world and then they will know the truth because in spirit world they cannot hide from the truth. They will know that this was the only way for ultimate salvation and that, although they had the chance because we knocked on their doors three times, they rejected us. They will grieve, "Even though the humble Moonies came to my door, I didn't know they were the greatest of all saints. I had the chance to associate with them but I was not humble enough."

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

If you really work hard in home church, wherever you go in spirit world you can call out to your home church members and you will never be lonely. in fact, you won't even have to call them; they will already have created a fanfare to welcome you.

Victor of Home Church (Morning Address)
1.1.82. World Mission Center

I would like to keep a record in my own notebook of successful home church #1, #2, #3, and #4. How many numbers would you like to have? You won't see that notebook here on earth, but as soon as you get to the spirit world you will automatically see that notebook.

If you find it and see you are number one then all your American ancestors will be shouting and dancing. God will be awakened and ask, "What are you doing down there?" and you will reply, "Father, come and dance with us. America has the number one home church and did the number one job."

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

I am the judge of this competition and I will go all over the world to find the best one. Will that title of best in home church last through eternity? The entire spirit world will erupt in recognition and there will be a great celebration there, with the ancestors of that person rejoicing and telling everyone their good news. Once you have that title, all your ancestors will claim relationship with you, no matter how distantly related they are, trying to link up with you for some benefit.

What Kind of Thought Do You Have?
6.10.79, Belvedere

When I die do you think my own children would take me to the homeland to be buried, or would people from all over the world participate to glorify my work and bury me? All Unification Church members will mourn me. If you live and die like that then when you are elevated to spirit world you can say you have lived for the world, giving your life for all people. There will be proof to be seen because when you live in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.

When you go to heaven, God will say, "I want to show your record of home church to the people here in heaven." Then He will push a button and your home church movie will be on the screen. There will be no comparison to "Superman." You have been hit, kicked and spit upon, knocked unconscious; you prayed and struggled. The audience in spirit world will cry. Then finally God will begin to cry.

Let us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

Unless you pass the test of deeds, you shall not enter the gate of Heaven. There is no boundary or nationality in spirit world -- no American heaven or Korean heaven. All are mingled as one race, and everyone is measured by the same criterion -- how much you fulfill true love. In your 360 homes you are in the center of God's love, bringing it to them as though you were ringing a bell. Everyone will start to move when that bell of God's love rings. By doing so you are demolishing all the barriers that have surrounded God for thousands of years. That is your true happiness and blessing. You are planting the root in home church, and when you go to spirit world you can deal with 360 peoples and races and denominations. You will be a universal person.

Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere

How do we go to Heaven in spirit world? On the basis of home church. You must leave love behind you so that the home church people will be eager for you to come again. Once you leave the foundation of that love behind you, even though you have gone to spirit world you can come back and start working again in the spiritual way.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

The ultimate goal and the most joyful day that God can remember will be the day when His sons and daughters can be born into total life; this will be God's ultimate fulfillment. Throughout history, God has wanted to tell people this one message: we should have no fear of death, for once we go beyond it, we will receive eternity. The Unification Church was born to consummate this teaching of God and to practice it; the place where we must practice it is home church. Thus, the title of this New Year's message is: Victory of Home Church.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

When you harbor the noble, harmonizing dream of love on this earth, you will be lifted up into limitless freedom in spirit world. What thoughts come first into your mind? When the thoughts of loving others come first, the doors of spirit world open up and you can reach God. You will have the entire spirit world as your domain and you will be totally free in the universe. It won't matter where you go, for doors will automatically be opened everywhere. The more you suffer for other people here on earth, the greater will be your welcome in spirit world. The ancestors of people who benefited from you will give you a ticker-tape parade when you arrive there, and the relatives of those who mistreated you will be apologetic.

The Unification Church is not just an earthly entity, but a universal entity embracing the spirit world and physical world together. Unless we can bring liberation to both of them, unification is not possible. For this goal, we shall lay the necessary foundation in our daily lives. The home church providence operates according to this principle; you give love through sacrificial service, and every door will be opened to you. You are not dealing with simple individuals in your home church area, but with a microcosm of the whole world.

Noble Dream
12.1.81, Belvedere

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Society and World Affairs

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.

Matthew 24: 6-8

The communists are determined to destroy the free world and take over, but we will save the free world and also the communist world. That is our goal. The Unification movement is here for re-creation. The original will of God was corrupted, so we are here to re-create the world. We are that force and movement which will liberate the entire world centered on the true love of God. Our method is home church, through which you can contact everyone.

Today we declare the beginning of the second 21-year course, in which we shall become superior in every way over the evil ideology of communism. Our goal is to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and in order to do that we must liberate mankind from sin. We are committed to rise to the challenge without compromise. If you promise that to me, raise your hand. We'll see you in Moscow.

The Completion of the Providence and Parents' Day
4.15.80, World Mission Center

The communists' goal is always clear -- world domination -- and they are united in that purpose. But the nations on God's side are divided and uncertain. God cannot allow this situation to continue so He raised up Reverend Moon and Unification Church to regroup the forces in the free world and win against communism. The communists seem to be winning, gaining more territory and people every day, but we are winning spiritually. We are not alone, for the entire spirit world is with us. Which population is bigger, spirit world or people living in the world today?

God is watching this tug of war and eventually He will judge who has won. We are on good speaking terms with that judge! God is saying now that He wants us to prove how much we love mankind and show Him that our love is greater than the communists'. Then He can give us the victory.

God is sending us out to home church, to the very family units the communists are trying to destroy. We are making the home the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven. The communists know they must destroy two targets -- the church and the family -- in order to conquer mankind. But God's side is the champion for both home and church in our system of home church. We are now approaching the terminal of God's dispensation.

The First Day and Our Lifetime
2.2.79

You should know that your three seven-year courses start on my victorious foundation on the world level; you are not starting all over again where I did. America knows what I did, so you are working on an elevated level compared to my initial position. From this time on it is definite that communism will decline; when the three key nations of Korea, Japan and America really become one, Russia will quickly decline. This unity will not happen automatically, so who will bring it about? No other Christians have this vision, so the Unification Church must do it. . . .

You should know clearly that the past year marked the end of the period when the Christian nation and world came against us, and now the second three seven-year courses mark the time when nations will unite to fight, and form one free world. Right now only Moonies are willing to fight communism. Even though people don't like us now, because we are effective fighters against communism they will have to come to our side. Fighting against communism will automatically bring the free nations into one.

We are liberating Jesus and liberating God, and liberating the world. Who will lead the world after communism is stopped? The world needs the guiding thought of Unificationism. From 1981 a fierce battle will begin to eliminate the power of communism from the earth. Everything has a time when its fortune is rising or declining. When the fortunes of communism are rising, it is more difficult to suppress, but when its fortunes are declining it will easily tumble down.

Christmas in View of the Will of God
12.25.80, World Mission Center

. . . Korea has a two-fold problem today; one is communism, the other is the United States. Korea is hanging in the balance. The Unification Church has the same two problems, so Korea and Unification Church are really on common ground. The United States is the key to solving these two problems. If Korea and the Unification Church and America can become one, then the entire world can come into oneness. The spiritual, internal conditions are all set, and now the important thing is to translate them into a physical victory. If America can openly welcome me then communism will no longer be a problem.

This is why I came to America to build a base. Even though America has been hostile to me, I have stayed to build that base. President Carter is the 39th president, so the most crucial presidency is coming up. You know the number forty is important; if the next president will truly grab God and stand on His Principle then the world can be changed. If President Carter had done that then the world would not have been overrun by communism as it has. But now President Carter has been beset by so many problems that he hardly has strength to stand. . . .

This is the most crucial and exciting time in America's history, for if you become one with me you can ignite the nation. All you have to do is ignite the spiritual bombs which are ready and you will take off. Our ignition is true sacrifice, and the atomic bomb is home church. All the boundaries you can think of can be eliminated at one stroke. Our Unification Church mission is elimination of all boundaries for the sake of the world. Our job is unification of the world through home church.

Cross over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere

When the time inevitably comes that the American nation will respect and support me, then our target will become international communism. Even now, what looks like opposition from the American government is actually opposition from agents of communist power infiltrated into the departments of government and Congress. They are creating this atmosphere of condemnation of the Unification Church.

Nevertheless, they will not ultimately succeed; America is basically anticommunist because America loves freedom. When Reverend Moon and the Unification Church emerge in the public mind as champions to fight communism, the American public will naturally support us as their champions. I knew from the beginning that this was our destiny, so I initiated the victory over communism movement in Korea and Japan and now here in America, with our final goal as Moscow. Now you know where you are and what you are supposed to do.

We must be superior to any religious organization in America; our CARP movement should be superior to any youth movement here and our home church system stronger than any other Christian movement in the last 2000 years. Communism is the archenemy of democracy and freedom, but mainly the enemy of God. Furthermore, the moral degradation of American youth must be cleansed. That's why I have been educating you through the Divine Principle, so you are strong and capable, and your moral outlook is secure, pure and God-centered. That is our strength.

True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center

Let's say America has seventy million families now. Divided by 360, that's 200,000. If we have 200,000 active members then home church will touch all seventy million American homes and teach them. Then communism can be stopped.

You should know everything about your home area -- who is a good Christian, who has what job, what sympathies people have. Government agencies cannot stop communism. It can be done only through person-to-person contact. This way we can protect American homes from satanic invasion and discourage young people from using drugs and from bad practices of every kind. We can stop the collapse of the Christian spirit. If you are successful in home church and the neighborhood churches are empty because people find nothing there, you can preach in those buildings to a jam-packed congregation.

Our objective is to teach Americans to repent for not understanding Heaven before now. Don't you think that America and the world should do that as well as Unification Church members? We are doing home church to protect what is left of the family. We should not let American families slide further into chaos, but protect them and bring them into harmony to rescue the young people from decadence so that America can survive as a nation. We can expose the communists and their activities and bring community disapproval down on them.

Nothing very complicated need happen. If Christians are willing to realize that their doctrines are incomplete and will simply open their minds to new knowledge then it may only take seven days or even seven hours for them to change. Home church is the line of defense against communism; once we are organized in this way, the communists will find it difficult to move around secretly in America, which they do easily now. Do you think the State or Defense Departments can physically stop communist infiltration? Or could the President revive the sliding Christian spirit? People still listen to evangelists like Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, but every average Unification Church member knows much more than they do. Why then are you silent? Why don't you speak out with what you know? Perhaps it is because you think there is no immediate danger, but if you knew for sure what was happening in America today, you would certainly move faster than you are.

You are in the position of Abel in your home church and your people in the position of Cain, or archangel. They will not want to let you in, but tell them, "No, you need me. I am good." If you win in your area then you are safe and they are safe. But if you lose and are chased away then they will perish as well. Since you are Abel, God is right behind you and the possibility of victory is there for you. If you are educated and really understand what they need to know, then you will win each war you fight and the communists will never be able to affect you; you will be superior in knowledge, spirit, thought and in practical ability.

Your home church people are your Cains and you have to win them. Home church will be like tanks when communism moves against us. The government can't stop communism because no one is dedicated enough. They think they should only sit tight. Do you think the government could win public cooperation and enthusiasm by spending billions of dollars for programs? I have been working on this problem all along, and from any point of view our solution is what America needs. It is likely that the FBI and CIA have sent people to find out what goes on in the Unification Church, but could they find anything bad about what we are doing? We are only trying to protect America; if we don't then the communists will catch this nation. It's as simple as that. Don't you think home church is necessary?

If the Unification Church wins then we will see the remaining barriers begin to fall and the world's people can come much, much closer. This is the last major battle. If Abel wins then the historical war will be finished. In the seven years after 1980 we will launch an all-out war, not just guerrilla fighting. It will be a war of thought, not guns. If we win that war then we can stem the tide of decline and turn America in the right direction, guaranteeing America immense prosperity.

Do you understand now about the position of America? Clearly America is in danger, and do you know what we are going to do about it? The basic element is home church, and when that is done in meaningful numbers then even if the communists sweep this country they can be stopped. If they come before that happens. however, it will be too late.

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere

Home church is being done even in the communist world and nothing can stop it. The communists are trying to tear it apart, but to no avail. Eventually the communists will capitulate voluntarily as they are won over by the spirit of truth and love given by you.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

Military power will never stop the spread of communism; the battle must be won within communities and families. Only through home church can you defeat the influence of communism. If you have a good foundation in your area, you will know immediately if anyone comes into your community trying to preach communism. You will be able to prevent such unwholesome influences from invading your area.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

Satan knows that this is the most critical and final showdown. If the home church crusade is succeeding then there is no more room for Satan. He must, then, become very strong. If we can go anywhere, including the communist world, doing home church, then that will be the concluding chapter. Satan Js fighting desperately to oppose you. He is having to fight very harsh opposition: us. He is putting up the final offensive battle. In the end, the communists will be used by Satan. That's by far the worst Satan to come in front of us.

World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center

Once the home church foundation is established on the clan level, the nation will be automatically protected. How does it work? Satan must go away once Cain humbles himself to Abel; he has no place to dwell when that happens. All over the free world, home church will become successful.

As soon as Abel becomes one with the parents, on the foundation of his unity with Cain, Satan will have to be expelled. Right now, we are in the process of making that Abel-parental unity. This is why we are working so hard to do home church and unite Cain and Abel clans. Once unity is achieved in your home church area, the whole free world will quickly be united with the parents. The free world will be entirely different at that time. Once the home church foundation is successful, the rest of the world will have to follow and success in the communist world will be simple.

As you know, we are dwelling in a new era which was proclaimed on February 22, 1977. Since then the Abel world and the parents have come to the verge of unity; it will happen very soon. Such unity will transcend all national borders. Communism will be throttled with the appearance of home church unity. Communist forces have been unable to expand very much at all since 1977; also, they have been experiencing more and more corruption and breakdown within their societies. On the contrary, we will be experiencing more and more of a revival.

Although the secular free world is also becoming corrupted and is declining at this time, there are some elements within the free world that are reviving and prospering. The element which is reviving is the home church world; it will become more and more prosperous, while every other aspect of the secular world will decline more and more.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

Can anyone remove the chapter of American history that I have written here? Later on in history this teaching will shine even more brilliantly because it is God's Principle, not mine. This is why I am pushing you out to home church, the world where you will become a tribal messiah. The entire universe is ready for restoration but the center is empty. The whole environment is ready for the Kingdom, but the very essence is non-existent.

The relationship of parents and children is confused and the relationship of men and women here in America is void because tremendous chaos and confusion persist. The vertical father-son relationship is not clear and the horizontal man-woman relationships are all confused, so all other relationships are entangled and confused as well. That is the state of this society at this time. We need a policeman to guide all this traffic to the one vertical line where it can all be organized. . . .

Love of God is the key: when you have that you have everything and need nothing else. First there is the vertical relationship of True Parents and true children, and the horizontal relationships you have with each other. We are engaged in many activities and there is nothing we do not do. Many segments are needed to make a complete circle, so we are doing all kinds of things. Because our radius of activity is so wide, some things may appear to be unrelated to the overall goal, but actually it is all part of the same horizontal line of true love.

Home church is our system for filling the void in society. If all of your 360 homes are realigned in this vertical love relationship, would it be a noteworthy happening in America that would draw much attention? It would be like a volcanic explosion, a panacea for society's ills made visible, and in every state people would try to make it work. Many people in history will start out in home church and compete to see who becomes the tribal messiah first. This is the one way we can make unification of the world possible without fighting and killing.

What Kind of Thought Do You Have?
6.10.79, Belvedere

You may feel uneducated and simple, but you can't help but feel very insecure at the course America is taking. There is no intelligent reason to be optimistic. All the newspaper reports are bad. But if this can be stopped quickly and if America can be turned around as a result of what you are doing now, can you refuse to do this? Let's put it another way: sooner or later people will have to recognize that everything is hopeless and no one is doing anything meaningful about this country except the Unification Church. When that happens, you will be the flag bearers and then Americans will ask, "You are the members of the Unification Church. What do you think we should do?" Then you won't have to lecture them but just tell them, "I have been doing the home church, loving the people and teaching them." If you do that, America and the world will come alive once more. Your work won't stop there but will expand and expand to include spirit world.

. . . If everyone does that in America, this country will live. Senators and Congressmen don't have to make long studies about the problem of how to benefit America. They don't have to go to schools and study for years. All they need to do is turn their eyes toward home church and the Unification Church members will show them the way. If they follow that pattern all throughout the United States, this country will live.

. . . You must understand this message and try hard so that when you go to spirit world you will have something to report to Heavenly Father. Without doing that, there is nothing you can say in the spirit world. We have to try and try to set a condition to gain more time for America and let God take care of the result. Keep asking God to postpone the end of America for one year or two years. "During this year I will commit myself totally and get things done in America." We must pray that way to God, asking for an extension.

There is no other way I can explain why we must do home church and what the result will be. Now it is up to you to digest and carry out. Your success will be America's success and God's success. If the Unification Church fails, you can imagine the future of America in a few years. Maybe you can say that America will fade away just as it was suddenly born 200 years ago, but the world will die also if America fails. At least be responsible for the world. Where will God go, where will Christians and religious people go in the face of communism? I have been telling you again and again that this is the most critical year in all of human history. What does it mean? This is a year of indemnity. By doing home church the right way, we will make up for all the failures of the Unification Church.

We often hear about emergencies in the world, but now this country is in such an emergency that martial law should be declared. Will I say it is not necessary to do anything, as though this were peacetime?

I urge you to understand this situation very clearly and to make the foundation for the world's eternal happiness through pioneering home church. Everywhere you go, throw the bomb of love and ignite the people's minds, giving them hope. Show them the way to live.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

When I go into New York City I don't concentrate on the skyscrapers. Instead I notice the dirty, dark alleys; the places where the Mafia and the drug addicts are working; I see where the prostitutes and thieves work. My thinking is, "How can I clean up those things?" Isn't it true that somebody has to clean up those things? Should I just leave them alone, or should I do something about them? That's why you are asked to go and do home church. If there are 1,000 evil-doers in your home church area when you first get here, one year later by your example and service you can reduce that number to 800. The second year you can reduce them to 500; the third year, 200. Finally, by the fifth year, there will be no one in your area who is doing evil. You can serve the elderly people in your area. Do their laundry, cook for them, clean their houses for them. I have done such things myself.

Wanting to Live in the Kingdom of Heaven
12.20.81, Belvedere

If you brought people from the street for ten years, how many would actually remain? You could never be a mayor or Senator on that foundation because people would soon forget you. Direct mail is also an efficient method, but it is too costly. For the time being we don't have the budget, so it has been temporarily discontinued, but we will resume when there is money for it. Once home church is successful, direct mail will be very, very effective. This strategy would work in any city. If the leader in Chicago, for instance, does that, he has a good chance to run for political office.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

America has many strong defense tactics, but there are many things they have no way to control. There are many problems in this country, such as youth alienation, drug abuse, and family breakdown. How can this country possibly solve these fundamental problems without the help and guidance of the Unification Church? Do you really know this reality? You must go beyond just mentally understanding something; you must know and you must act. You must deeply realize the importance of doing home church.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

In the United States, the government is in the Cain position, while Christianity is in the Abel position. Only through the unity of these two positions can this country be acceptable to God. Today, on the contrary, the United States government is dominating Christianity and this is the opposite of what should be happening. The communist world, which denies God, is in the position of the Cain world and the free world is in the position of the Abel world. The Unification Church is in the mother's position, so we are supposed to embrace both sons: the Abel, democratic world and the Cain, communist world. By doing so, the world can accept the Messiah; it can welcome the universal parent.

That has not been done very successfully, so, for that reason, we have to make the foundation from the very bottom. The very bottom is home church, then progressing to tribe church, nation church, and world church. Who has to do this? The Unification Church is committed to doing this, but I have already fulfilled those levels.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

I am sending you out to bear your own fruit in home church. The worst wars in history began with tribal wars; so unless we indemnify tribal war, we cannot indemnify national war. Therefore, you are doing this in home church. By setting up your Cain-type home church and later your Abel-type home church, you can bring them together; then the ideal shall become reality. This applies to black, white and yellow alike. Of Noah's three sons, two could not fulfill the dispensation. Shem represented the yellow race, Ham the black race, and Japheth the occidentals. Shem and Ham could not fulfill their dispensational roles at the time, so Japheth took their place. This was only because of his dispensational position, not because of his individual qualities.

White people should love black people, and both should love yellow people. All races must love each other; otherwise, racial war is inevitable, and white people would suffer the most as a result. I am determined to prevent racial war. Communism is behind the scenes pushing for global racial conflict, but we are trying to unite the races. This is why our work is going strong in South America and Africa. Who will do that unless we do it? Other Christian churches? Other religions? Many churches today are too self-centered to actively promote racial harmony. I have undertaken this most difficult job. When I first came to America, I prophesied what would happen to this nation and all of it has come true.

True Parents' Day
3.25.82, World Mission Center

In giving the love of God you should not get behind anyone. Suffer more and love them more. In that love all kinds of people and all five colors of skin are included. If you are a white brother, would you visit white people first? If you are black, do you visit in the black community? Actually, it should be the opposite. Black people should go to white homes and white people go to black homes. That is the way we can destroy all the barriers of racism.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24. 78, Belvedere

Instead of visiting homes of other white people, whites would rather go to Spanish homes, black homes, oriental homes. That's restoration. How much history has been moving upward!

Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere

We will create the tribe that can mobilize on the spur of the moment. Abraham was mobile, Jacob was mobile, and their families were all mobile. The Israelites in Egypt were mobile. The men of God all took off and the exodus began. In Korea I obeyed the call to go to America, an unknown, hostile land. I did not hesitate. In the same way we are going to create a tribe of people and leaders who will not hesitate to take off, whatever the command.

You are becoming the true parents of your tribes. Your people must grow in the love of God so that they can embrace the rest of the world in love, all five colors of skin. You can become the glue to put all the pieces of the world together. I organized my tribe to include not only Koreans, but everyone. In my tribe there are all the races you can think of -- black, white, yellow, red and brown. You must organize your tribe in the same tradition. When you set the goal and begin marching on, move straight. Don't be distracted by what you see on the left or on the right. If you meet a roadblock and detour around it, what will happen? Your generations will follow that same winding way. What would you do under those circumstances, being aware of the people who follow you? Take the obstacle apart rock by rock and continue forward.

We are not going to fear any obstacle, and therefore, our way of life isn't going to be easy. When God's command comes, whether 1,000 or 2,000 members in New York have to move immediately won't make any difference. We will just pack up and disperse over six continents. Don't ever think that only America is our concern. Those six continents and five oceans are all our territory.

Parents Day
4.8.78, Manhattan Center

Many movements to make external unity are coming into being, like the European Economic Community, and no power trying to block this trend of unity can succeed. America persists in being very nationalistic and the communists are increasingly protectionist, but that is not God's will. I come from Asia, but do I proclaim Asians as a superior race and discourage other races? No, we are color blind and the True Parents are parents of all races in one family. There are no barriers in the Unification Church. No one can halt this because spirit world already has its barriers broken down and the physical world is destined to reflect that.

Which race has more numbers in spirit world? Asians outnumber everyone else. If the present barriers persist then naturally the yellow race would prevail by virtue of numbers, but I don't want that to happen. I would like you to create home churches which are beyond national, racial and economic boundaries. There is one God, one family and one church. If white Americans go to Africa and create home churches then there is no way Africans can oppose that and send them away; if they do then Africa shall decline. The angelic world and Adam's world have become one already and that is the trend of the future. No one can prevail against the trend of the future and even Satan must surrender. You can go out with full conviction and confidence that ultimately you shall prevail. Trust me and you will be victorious.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

Before we can have a family recognized by all, we have to have the foundation of home church. You must really know how important this is. When home church is successful in your area, gradually people will gather together and a nation will be formed, without effort from you. This is possible not only in America, but anywhere in the world. You can go to any country and start this foundation. The home church movement can be worldwide; even moving into communist countries. Externally governments may try to stop home church, but spiritually they can have no accusation.

It is very clear what we have to do now. We will be patriots of home church. Home church is the foundation to go beyond national boundaries. Only after being successful in home church are we worthy of having our rightful position in spirit world. That is the indemnity condition for you to fly up to the world level, beyond Satans accusation. By realizing the incredible significance of this time, the Unification Church members must come into unity and focus on home church as never before.

Declaration of the Ceremony of Unity Between Spirit World and Physical World
3.28.82, Belvedere

For the first time in history people came from what could be called enemy countries to serve one nation. Every country, at one time or another, has been an enemy of England. America fought the War of Independence against the British, Germany was an enemy in the Second World War, as was Japan. Every member who works in this country is from an enemy country. At no time in history has this happened. Can you say that this is a historical thing?

This is not only an event in world history, but it is also very religious. It is dispensational because Jesus taught all Christians: "Love thy enemy." This is the completion of the New Testament. On that foundation we are going to plant God's heart for the first time. Historical enemies will come to help each other. Where, then, is the worst enemy? There is no longer any worst enemy, because the enemy himself has come to work for that very country which used to be its enemy. . .

You must also understand that London fits this dispensation perfectly, because it is a cosmopolitan city. You find every type of person in London, just as in New York. Actually, 12 countries must be represented within the 360 homes to set the condition for these enemy elements to be restored and harmonized. When Father took everything into consideration, London was chosen. London is not just a local city but a city of the world, isn't it?

You came here to England. This is not just one country, really; there are people here from 12 countries, so this is like the whole world. If you win here, you have won the world, not just one country. When you go back to your respective countries, you will stand on the victorious foundation of having won the world. Then you can go and work for your country in an easier way. After you witness successfully to three people you will have established this condition; then you can go back to France or to America and make an Abel-type home church with no opposition.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.82, London

Here we are breaking down all the barriers of race, language and nationality. We can give up all these things because we are bound by stronger bonds and values. When you really know this as you enter your home church, all heaven and earth enter with you. This cause is worth living and dying for, worth investing your youth for. The providence is unfolding at this time in history, and somehow you are one of the first to participate. The weight of history is moving forward with you. As soon as we succeed in that territory of goodness, no more negativity will be generated by the media, by the Christians; even the communists will not affect us.

Territory of Goodness
10.14.79, World Mission Center

Our purpose is to elevate the moral standards of society, revive the churches, and stop communism. All this we accomplish through the work of home church. Then an entirely new world will emerge. There are seventy million homes in America, and divided by 360 that makes 200,000 home church areas. Is it impossible to have that many members covering the whole United States? If you witness to 100 people a day then you will only cover three billion people in 100,000 years and it would still take over 1,000 years to cover all America. But if 200,000 people do home church, all of it could realistically be done in our lifetimes.

Unless you have home church, you have nothing to do with me! It is a bridge between this world and the heavenly world, and there is no way to reach the heavenly world without crossing it. If you choose not to do it then you have to give up the heavenly world.

I expect there will be a great movement of population soon because all the home church areas will be filled and people will have to go to other countries to do this. People will emigrate by thousands to do home church. Unless you do home church well, you will have no container for the blessings God wants to give you. Satan hates home church most.

After home church is completed there will be no national boundaries and then we can live anywhere; we won' t have to stay in any country where we are unwelcome. If your home church is successful, then I wont have to prepare separately for the march on Moscow; home church will open the way for the rally in Moscow.

In spirit world I can go directly to God now. Isn't that what you would like also? I did home church on the world level, meaning that all boundaries and prejudices will disappear. Since the victory in 1976, I have talked about home church and why you must do it. When you clearly understand this, you wont need an Abel figure but can do it on your own. Otherwise, you need someone to help discipline your life. Once you finish home church, you can live anywhere in the world. This is not easy.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

Now you are undertaking tribal and racial organization centering on yourself, and in doing so, finding and restoring the external Cain-type country. Then the counterpart Abel-type country will automatically be restored. If you fulfill in your external home church then the internal home church, namely your physical family, will automatically be restored.

Korea has forty million people. If sixty million home churches are done here, then automatically forty million would be done in Korea without even trying. According to the Principle, if you complete the external then the internal will come automatically. I am applying this principle now.

When the time comes, there will be great movements from one country to another. When we concentrate in one place and secure enough people, that will bring the automatic restoration of the number of people found in Korea. This is the application of that same principle. Until we reach that maximum number, you have the privilege of going into any country. Cain and Abel must become one before the Kingdom of Heaven is realized. No matter how good an Abel you are, no Abel alone can qualify for heaven. The gathering of European members in England for witnessing is kind of preparation for the great movements we will undertake one day. Our members doing home church all over England have no concept of nationality. . .

The people who are deeply engaged in home church can move along with me and continue home church in some other place, but those who did not do home church cannot move on with me. That is the privilege of a selected people. The Third Israelites might be in Korea initially, but those who are privileged to go with the Messiah to another country are those who have successfully done home church. I did not decide that; it is the Principle. . . .

In the Abel position, you are going to home church, which is in the Cain position, and after making oneness with home church you can claim your parents. This is Principle. This situation applies to the whole world. I came here in the father's position, Abel's position, to America, the Cain country, which did everything to oppose me. This Cain represents the people of the whole world. I have loved this country more than the Abel country. After doing that I can go back to my home country and it will automatically unite with me. After that, the parents on the world level can be restored. This is the same principle which works in home church for individuals. Do you understand clearly? . . .

By this same principle all free countries will come into one, and because of that the communist countries will automatically be restored. Beyond that, we will restore hell and then all other parts of spirit world will be restored. Through this principle, spirit world will be liberated. How soon will that liberation take place? Almost at the same time liberation takes place on earth.

When I return to my original country, the people of those countries that cannot go along with me will feel miserable. Before that time you must become qualified and your country must qualify. Now you know much about every aspect of the importance of home church. If I explained this to you only in regard to a very high level, you would think it has nothing to do with your situation. But now you know that you are working on your level with the same principle that applies to this large area. Since the day of migration is not far away, I am telling you these things now.

You can see that America is one big nation, but it is greater than one nation in the sense that it can connect directly to the world. It is possible to say that America equals the free world. If America understands then the communist world will be restored immediately; but if it fails, I will have to fulfill this in a smaller nation. If that happens then America will see the time when it will even be ruled by one of the South American countries. . . .

The closer America becomes to the Unification Church, the greater the deterioration that will take place in the communist world. . . .

I know the deadline America must meet, but I will not say exactly what year it is. If you completely, 100% obey and work with me then during this time you can establish at least a condition on which I can extend the time and remain and give us more opportunity to fulfill sixty million home churches in this country. Can you say that I have not carried out my mission in America? I keep telling you that I have already done my part for you. I taught you everything about that. This is a very serious time. This is not just one country, one household, one clan: this one country is like one world, and the fate of America rests on you.

Even if the Russians do not listen, there is a way to make them listen. But it will be much more difficult to do if we do not succeed here in America. If America does not go along with the dispensational timetable, America's situation will become worse and worse. There is absolutely no room for mistake. This is the Principle and the Providence; this is God's plan. So believe that America will really experience difficulty if you do not meet the deadline. Do you think this is just my talk, or this is the Principle point of view? The deadline will come some time in the next President's term.

The period from Abraham to King David, then to the period of captivity in Babylon, and then to Jesus' time each contain 14 generations. Thus, from Abraham to Jesus' time there are 42 generations; actually we regard them as forty generations because Abraham, Isaac and Jacob count as one generation. This fortieth president comes at a period equal to Jesus' time, when the country will rise or the country will fall. So no matter what situation you find yourself in, be very brave and audacious. Stamp on whatever the circumstances you are in and bravely go in whatever direction God tells you to go, regardless of what people think. Then you will win the victory. Otherwise, you'll be dragged down into defeat.

The disintegration will not take place exactly after forty generations, but perhaps will linger on until the 43rd generation. During that time the country will experience continued decline, until at the end of the 43rd generation the communists can do whatever they want with America. At that point America will find absolutely no hope; the illness will have progressed too far by that time. This is the deciding point. I won't wait any more, but will decide soon whether I must leave this country or not. The other day when I was speaking this way, someone said, "Father, let's not think like that." But whether you think or not, you have to go according to the Principle. If Principle directs you that way then there's no way to escape.

It is possible that at the end of the 43rd presidency I would have to evacuate all Unification Church members from this country. Then America will become like Sodom and Gomorrah. I know that the years of the dispensation of restoration are very exact, and they never compromise or wait. Therefore, I am serious and am telling you now like it is. This is the time where you have to grasp the way you will make this country live. It's a life-or-death question, not just a question of trying the best you can. Either you do it or not do it.

Your life is at stake here if you are to do it. For four years I have been telling you to be serious about America. If you really cry with your home church, then there is the possibility of this crisis being put off for maybe a few more years. During this time we can both work out America's situation. But if you don't cling to it then the time will just pass by and America will have no hope; it will not even get an extension. . . .

If America is going to decline then it is going to decline fast. If you are to make some strategy against an enemy, you have to know his viewpoint. The enemy is just as smart as you. I see that this is the way communism will act. If you can imagine the possibility of these things, then why not the communists? How soon will it happen? This can happen any time. This is why I have placed so much emphasis on CARP activity, and created Ocean Church. If we really make America pay attention to what the home church is doing, they'll realize that this is the way for America to survive. Then in three years all America can make a positive issue of the Unification Church, and then America can live. I see the possibility that America will succeed, not fail. That's why I emphasized CARP, starting last year, and this year am beginning Ocean Church. I have prepared for a long time and now I am telling you to be desperate and do it.

If you have any doubts, the time is not far away when you can see whether I was right or wrong. I am even thinking that if we have many boats then we can transport many of our members to Africa and other countries. But if you leave behind a failure, this country will never be the same. If you have a victory in your country and then you go to Africa, that is very different from going on a foundation of failure. . . .

I am risking a great deal to do this; my own life is at stake. If this does not work, there's nothing God can do about it either. It's up to man's 5% responsibility. If America does not sufficiently change itself, a time will come when God will tell me to leave America. Think about that in the deepest way.

If we don't do this correctly then think about the persecution that will come in the future, for generations. If you don't act in the right way then we'll have one more cross; we'll have to carry this out under the oppression of communism. The second three seven-year courses are not my responsibility, but yours. You will be successful on your own or suffer on your own. Either way. . .

You understand that this is very serious thinking. How we. work in America for the next four years, the duration of the fortieth presidential term, will absolutely determine America's situation. If in the next three or four years Americans move to God's side then America will prosper. . .

Have any of you here ever thought with this seriousness for the future? No one. If you listen to me, don't you feel that what I am saying is very awesome and fearful? I am fearful about it myself. The serious consequences one way or the other are directly tied up with the Moonies. You must conclude whether or not you will do that. Do you understand how serious the situation of home church is now? Without home church becoming successful, there's no way to succeed; through this timetable there is no way for us to get around doing home church.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

Each individual must preserve his central position within the family, society, and so forth. Where is that central position? It is in the home church. By defending the realm of God's freedom within your home church, you are defending all other realms of freedom under Him. Your 360 homes represent the entire world so when your area is living within the Principle, God will have a condition to move into the entire world. You will see sharp changes of direction within this world toward the side of goodness. A very effective time for God's providence will be happening.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

Home church is your base of heaven, where you pour out your sacrifice and where you come for love. When the world atmosphere changes, the two most difficult activities we have -- witnessing and fundraising -- will be sheer pleasure, almost effortless. People will come like Niagara Falls and then the money will pour in. If you truly unite with me then it won't take even twenty years, but only seven years to change the world atmosphere.

Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere

1. The Base Of The Kingdom

The Significance of Home Church

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."

Revelation 21: 1-4

Only by creating the beginning of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth can we go to the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world. God will be able to dwell on the earth when you bring unity in your area between Cain and Abel, between the people and yourself and ultimately the True Parents. That is what we mean when we say, "Home church is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven." The Kingdom of Heaven is waiting to begin in your area. Your base for the Kingdom is your area; likewise the people in spirit world must use home church as their base.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

Home church was supposed to have existed in the garden of Eden, with the home as the place of worshipping God. God should have been the main beam of the home where His children could have lived in His love, The original concept of God's creation began with one man and woman, who were to form one family, and then form one nation and world. Therefore, as their family grew to this higher capacity, home church was to have become national church and then world church. That would have been the ideal.

Having home churches was God's goal in the garden of Eden but it was broken into pieces by Adam and Eve, causing many different obstacles to be set up throughout history. Now I have cleared them all away and we are returning to the original concept. It is your blessing and privilege to participate.

Now you know what home church is. Ever since the fall of man, God, Jesus, and all mankind have been longing to reach the ultimate destination. That is home church. The Unification Church is Cape Kennedy and we are launching home church to the Kingdom of Heaven. Neil Armstrong lifted off from Cape Kennedy and reached the moon. Now we are lifting ourselves off from the Unification Church and our destination is the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a big place, so where would you like to land? Right into the heart of God's love. The heart of God is not good enough; you have to be in the heart of God's love. When you land in the heart of God's love, you will surely give God a shock. At that moment God will really be awakened and He will smile ear to car in explosive joy. Then the dancing will begin. When God begins to dance, the entire cosmos will be ignited in joy. All creation will feel joy with all five senses and everything will be intoxicated in happiness. That dance will be the ultimate grand finale. After that no more work of restoration will remain to be done. God will say that His restoration work is over and His ideal of creation is complete. His broken heart will be completely healed.

Home church was the ideal of God in the garden of Eden but it was broken into pieces after many thousands of years of difficulties and tribulations. Now finally in the 20th century I have opened the doors. All conditions have been fulfilled and the doors of home church are open for all mankind to enter. That is the history we are witnessing today

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

The unity between God, Adam and Eve, and the angelic world would have brought the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, but division came in the form of the fall. Now in restoration, by doing home church, you and God are united, like God and Adam and Eve. You and home church are united, like Adam and Eve and the angel. That restores unity of all three worlds. This is why spiritual help is bound to come when you do home church work.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

The heavenly hierarchy is God first, then Adam and Eve, then the angelic world, then all the things of creation. As a result of the fall, this heavenly order was disrupted. Satan came to exist and man has fallen so low he doesn't even know that the realm of spirit exists. He doesn't know if God exists or what kind of relationship he should have with God. He certainly doesn't know the heart of original Adam, the true parental heart. The only thing mankind can see now is the "I" viewpoint and all the visible things of the created world. Mankind is degraded and lower than the creation; because of this, no one realizes the true value and dignity of human beings. . . .

By witnessing one by one to each other, it would take centuries to liberate the entire world; so if you were in the position of True Parents, wouldn't you want to find a more effective way to bring all mankind back to God? The thinking of God and the True Parents must inevitably be the same. If you asked God where He most wants to dwell, He would answer, "Home church." Within your area, the heavenly hierarchy must be restored. The houses represent all the things of creation; the ancestors of the people there who are already in spirit world represent the archangel position; and the Adam position is filled by the people themselves. Once God is brought into relationship with all these elements, the ideal of creation will be realized. As a result of this, Satan will have to leave your area because he will have no place to call his own. Within the realm of 360 homes, everything is represented -- 360 days of the year, 360 degrees of the circle. Since you are in America, all races of man are contained within your areas.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

At first man lived in God's realm, but after the fall he sank down to the realm God has nothing to do with. There is no direction or ideal in that realm. People today characteristically don't know where they are going or what is about to happen. They are in this godless realm, praying for direction. Now the individual has a small problem, then his family has a larger problem, and all the time the clan and society are groping; when the end of the world comes the whole world is groping, no better off than the individual who is searching. The people of the world have no idea of something new coming, but remain in their limited area.

God works by finding one individual in this realm and leading him to God's side. He does not choose arbitrarily, but takes a few from the world, a few from the nation, a few from society and a few from a certain family, setting up all the stages. Then for the first time in history God will teach them what the world of original creation was about. By learning it clearly they will be able to go to home church and prosper, ultimately going to various parts of existing society which have lost direction. Through these people God wants to show mankind the complete individual, family, and so on. He is looking clearly at the purpose of creation and will always go straight that way. His people will have such deep love as others never thought was possible in ordinary people.

The Way of Prosperity and Defeat
3.11.79, Belvedere

There are examinations to be passed on the family, society, nation and world levels. How many levels have you passed? Unless you pass on each level how can you restore the family? When you restore the family it means you have achieved the original ideal of creation, and if you reach that level then no matter what persecution and opposition come, you will not be affected. Your family should be like Adam's in the garden of Eden. There was no opposition or rejection in Eden because there were no other people, and as long as Adam and Eve obeyed God they could have had the easiest way of fulfilling home church. Today you should fulfill that role of Adam's family. Even though you may falter, you can regain strength because your Father and Mother have done it -- they are strong and have met God's standard and you are their children. You can think that even though you have your weaknesses, you will pick yourself up and go on ultimately to be like the True Parents.

Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere

In the dispensation of salvation God has worked to re-create mankind, and now we are doing the same thing. Where are we going to do it? Home church has a direct connection with the four position foundation. The home is the foundation where the four position foundation is increased. Now the four position foundation is everywhere here on earth, but with Satan at the center. We are going to change it into God's four position foundation.

The Dispensation of Restoration and Myself
4.6.80, Belvedere

The Unification Church home church crusade is truly the blessing. The home church model is already carved out, and all you have to do is to put it together, and then God will give you the full blessing. You can do home church everywhere, including the communist world. Home church is the restoration of heaven, and the launching pad toward heaven. Anything that is launched from the home church pad will be shot right into the kingdom of heaven. Who is going to ride on that rocket? It will be your entire family, your entire tribe, all the people surrounding you.

World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center

So far the entire religious goal has been how "I" as an individual can be saved, but our goal is not individual salvation. We are going to bring the entire tribe into heaven at once. if your 360 homes have faith in you, love you and believe in you, they will be saved. As you are saved, they will be saved. in the history of religion this kind of privilege never existed. Religion has never before included salvation for the whole family, but rather encouraged separation and meditation alone in the mountains.

Now I am proclaiming, "Go love your wife and your husband, love your children and your neighbors and bring them together into the Kingdom of Heaven." Such a privilege never existed until this time in history. An amazing era has arrived. Home church is the privilege God has given to you, saying that if you set the conditions to let the people know the truth and love you, He will save everyone you recommend in your 360 homes.

Actually, in order to come to perfection you have to go through all these paths. In the home church you are creating a miniature world but God will still give you full credit. Jesus gave the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to Simon Peter for individual salvation, but now I am handing out the key that can save the entire tribe as one unit. I am anointing you as messiahs and whomever you bring shall have salvation. What a promise! Those are not empty words but a promise that will be redeemed in the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world.

The Critical Turning Point of the Dispensation of God
12.31.78, Belvedere

Ultimately, restoration is working toward one final conclusion: one common principle of genuine love which shall be the standard of each individual, couple, tribe, nation and world. Today we are talking about returning to hometown; are we returning only as individuals? No. We are not talking about an individual's birthplace, but the home to which all mankind are destined to return. That is the ultimate home and ideal, and everything from the individual to the universe must return there. . . .

There is a great distance to go for fallen people to return back to their original home. One type of couple only wants to be happy by themselves when they return to their original home and doesn't feel concern or obligation to anyone else. Another kind feels they cannot be happy all alone, but wants to go on to higher and higher levels and make others happy by enabling them to return home as well. Which type would be welcomed by the universe? It is not easy to live the second type of life because the farther you go the greater are the difficulties you must overcome. . . .

History has been aiming this way from the beginning. Jesus came to complete the journey, but still it has not been complete. it would have been easy for Jesus to return home alone, but that would not be the ideal. He should bring his family, nation and entire world to that goal. That's what made his path difficult. What is the most important necessity for us to return home? First, a burning desire to love God, a consuming longing to meet Him. Our question is not whether God exists; we know that He exists and He is love, and we want to love that Father. We want to meet God in a heartistic relationship so that nothing can ever separate us. . . .

When we talk about returning home we mean returning to the place where all mankind can find happiness. We need a bridge from the individual level to the cosmos. The bridge is built by the individual's sacrificing himself to go into the center of the greater circle, and then making that greater circle an even greater sphere. Every realm should join with the next higher level and enlarge to form the next realm. Thus, each individual can expand to cover the entire universe. Once the smaller realm is engulfed by the larger one, it is benefited whenever the larger realm is benefited. The greater universe includes all levels of existence, and each level contains the heavenly four position foundation. Jesus came to achieve this ultimate goal, and today the Unification Church mission is to go this road also. . . .

I want you to understand your individual position. You may think that you simply become a Moonie, wait for blessing, have a family and that's it. But that's not the end of it. Next you expand your family onto the worldwide scale and give it for world restoration. After ten years perhaps you have covered only a little bit of territory and think that you will never cover the universe by the time you are old. But you can sympathize with God. It took God 6,000 years to find one true Adam, so how much more difficult would it be to create Adam and Eve's family, society, nation and world? Not everyone can do these extraordinary tasks; though everyone must do it, we know that individual capacity is limited. . . .

We shall be superior to the standard of Adam, who fell. We shall be superior even to Jesus, who was crucified. Jesus proclaimed this revolution, but he became a victim and was murdered. But we will hang tough and survive to declare victory . . .

What weapon do we have? At every level of our existence we crave the true love of God. That love is our weapon. There is no other way we can fight. We give our heart and soul in serving and loving people, shedding tears and sweat for brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents, all the people who are extensions of our own families. Home church is your foundation, and in order to make it firm you have to stamp on that area one time, three times, ten times, a hundred times. You must feel that you are launching a satellite that is flying to the moon and sun, and home church is your launching pad. in order to launch a rocket, you need a strong launching pad which can withstand the fiery heat of take-off.

Home church is your world. Go ahead and duplicate the world of God in this small area. Love them as much as God loves them. When you do this, the 95% God created through me will be given to you for free. To inherit this, you must walk the way of life I have walked, for even a short time. Then you shall truly be lord of all creation and a triumphant person. With that accomplishment you shall return home. . . .

Before you reach your destination you must taste both death and life. Would you mind? Will you cover that distance with enthusiasm and excitement? Who wants to go there? Is home church good or bad? Home church is good! Amen.

Return to Hometown
3.18.79, Belvedere

The new slogan for 1980 is: Home Church is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven.

This slogan shows us that without home church the Kingdom of Heaven cannot become a reality. What kind of Kingdom of Heaven are we talking about? The Kingdom of Heaven is where there is rest and Sabbath, where there is true joy and happiness. When you take that rest do you do it all by yourself? You want to enter the kingdom together with your wife, with your children and parents, with your tribe, your nation and the world.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

If you witness to someone on the street, it has only the significance of that individual. An amazing thing is that, although we are doing the same activity, witnessing, when you do it at the home church level, it has historical and providential significance because it is connected at that point to the historical indemnity course. When you connect with one person in your home church area, that individual is representing his family, clan, nation, world and cosmos. By working with one person in home church, you connect yourself to the entire cosmos; but when you go out into the streets, you are only connecting with one individual. It is a one-to-one relationship that does not go beyond that level.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

A home church represents the whole world in one family. When we talk about one world we are actually referring to the universe and the cosmos, and a home church extracts the very essence of the cosmos into its small world. This is the unified world of physical and spiritual, of the central religions and all other religions, of races and nations. Spiritual and physical unity all come into being in our home churches, representing an extract of the whole, world.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

Furthermore, in your area you have 360 homes to live in. That is your home, clan and tribe. When you move into your home church area, God moves in with you, and Jesus dwells there with you, as well as the spirit world. The 360 homes represent all races, 360 nations, and 360 of your closest ancestors. Thus, you have the entire world and spirit world open to you without any boundaries.

Children's Day and Tradition
11.20.79, Los Angeles, California

The battlefield since that day (Day of the Victory of Heaven) is home church, where we are deeply moving into society. in home church we are winning on the level of family, people, nation and world, and the home church victory represents all victories. Home church is your divine altar to offer yourself as a living sacrifice for God. When you make a righteous offering there you are inheriting all of heaven. Your 360 home area is your world, your place of love, service, worship and prayer. There you care for the people and teach them, awakening them from darkness to light. Ultimately you shall be recognized as their tribal messiah. You shall be a master in three ways: master of love, master of all things, master of people. it all comes together in home church.

Day of the Victory of Heaven
10.4.79, World Mission Center

What would you do without home church? How would you accomplish your task? Without home church, you would have to walk around the entire world like a gypsy; you would have to cover the entire world by yourself Home church, however, is the microcosm of the world; without it you would have to go to the macrocosm, the entire world.

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

Again, you will not go through exactly the same things I did in going from the individual to the family level, and finally to the world level during the past twenty years. That is not feasible for each of you; instead you will set up a 360 home area which encapsulates all the elements found throughout the world. The 360 homes will represent all the different nations and races on this earth. This has been endorsed by both God and Satan.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

You want to cross that bridge to get to the eternal world of God's heart. You have to start by crossing this bridge to reach the side of the heavenly individual, then the family, and so forth. Would you rather cross many bridges, or connect them all and cross over just one bridge? If God's purpose is to bring all mankind into salvation, wouldn't He want to have just one bridge? If you were entrusted with that responsibility, wouldn't you do the same? Home church is that bridge. Crossing the bridge of home church would be regarded as achievement enough for anyone to pass into the heavenly world. Don't you feel like crossing it successfully? . . .

Crossing many bridges would take many years, or even a whole lifetime, but crossing one bridge is much shorter. Unless I can create a shorter bridge which enables people to cross over everything at once, there is no real significance to my being here in this world. Have you cried harder for your home church people than for people you are already connected with? If you cry more for them than for your own family and relatives, then you have crossed the bridge in one step.

Life of Experience in the Realm of Heart
3.15.81, Belvedere

Instead of running many races, you can think about how to be victorious all at once, how to condense everything into one race. You want to participate in that kind of game, don't you? That's why you become a champion for all seasons, in all areas. I have a good brain and I am always thinking about what the one game is in which I can win everything. God wants to see His son win that kind of certificate. That one game where you can win the championship is home church. That is where you can run with your life, love, and ideal. No matter what the people say about you, it doesn't make any difference. Go ahead and run in all directions with this principle.

Things That Are Important To You
2.1.81, Belvedere

The microcosm of restoration can be fulfilled in home church. Home church is your universe, and without fulfilling there you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The job is easy from now on because we don't recognize national boundaries, and wherever we go we do home church. Among home church people there shall be one family, even among people of enemy nations. Later home church champions will be wanted everywhere, and people will even smuggle them into hostile nations, for that is the only way the nations can be saved. That time will come.

Core Love and Indemnity
10.22.81, World Mission Center

Home church is a very precious blessing for you, for through it I am giving you a condition to go beyond the fall of man. You are an invincible force like the tide to cleanse your home church, and you won't be deterred by opposition. Do you know who is going to sign your certificate? Not me, but the hostile people in your home church area should be the ones to uphold you as a man of God. Is home church something to be grateful for, or just a burden? Home church is a short-cut to the Kingdom of Heaven. If you don't worry about anything else but that, you will find the Heavenly Kingdom.

True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center

Home church was announced in America rather than in Korea. How was that possible? In New York and in this country as a whole, you can find different races living in 360 homes. There is no other country like this. If all the 360 homes oppose you, it means that not just an individual or a family, or even a nation is opposing you, but many nations and races. In America, therefore, it is possible to go through the worldwide level of indemnity. After winning in New York, we will concentrate our efforts in Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, etc., and it will become easier and easier. For this reason, we cannot go to heaven without having home church.

Home Church is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

Your country and your spirit world are condensed in your home church. You may think home church is only a witnessing idea, but this is the formula and law, not something that changes. It is more significant and precious in the spirit world than you can imagine. Throughout history there was no such thing as this arrangement of home church. As soon as the foundation is set, like a tree setting down its deep roots, you will see the satanic world crumble.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

I tell you this absolutely clearly: you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven without going through home church. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life, and no one comes to the Father but through me." But I am saying, "I am the way, the truth, the life and love, and no one comes to the Father without coming through home church."

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

You are trying to work out some pragmatic way to get quick results, but since home church comes out of Principle, each person has to walk the Principle way. Without this road can you enter heaven?

Home church is like a launching pad. The fuel of your rocket is true love, and then your rocket can fly. When you reach the moon, God will come down and recharge you with His love. Next you will land at the sun. God knew my mission, and He had a reason to give me my name. Going up is moon-sun, and going down is sun-moon.

You don't like indemnity; I don't like indemnity either, but we cannot bypass indemnity. No matter what leadership position you have in our Church, without going through home church you cannot reach that moon. In Korea I pushed out all the older couples to do home church. Even if they were leaders of businesses, they still had to do home church. Not a single one of them opposed my plan.

As soon as I got to Korea I called all of them together and told them to write their resignations as company presidents, and in one hour I had them all. Then I gave them the home church mission. Does only a backward country like Korea need home church, and not a civilized country like America? If I did that in Korea, do you think I could do it here? If I pushed you like I have the elder members in Korea, it would be a social scandal, wouldn't it? All the newspapers would call me a racist.

Core Love and Indemnity
10.22.81, World Mission Center

By now we know that God exists and we certainly need Him. Once this fundamental awareness is revealed to us all kinds of theories and principles can be derived. The Principle of Creation explains what the world was made to be; the Principle of Restoration explains why the world is the way it is and how God has been working to restore man since the fall. This is the understanding the Unification Church is bringing. The Divine Principle of the Unification Church embraces all the phenomena of the universe and all historical phenomena, to fulfill the ideal of unification through the way of restoration. To make a long story short, Reverend Moon's ultimate method is home church.

Where will we meet God? In the perfection of home church we have the meeting ground for ourselves and God. in order to perfect the universe, we need to create an altar, and home church is that altar. I can guarantee you that when you create this altar of home church, you will meet God there. I assure you of this. Now you know God, you know you need God and you know where to meet Him.

God and Us
2.1.82, World Mission Center

There are only two more weeks left in this year. Starting in 1981 especially, home church is really all your world. Home church is what God's dispensation has been aiming at; it has been the purpose of human history and the goal of religions. You want to live with me in spirit world but you can only qualify through home church. To accomplish home church is to complete all indemnity.

Heaven is the world which requires no indemnity. Who are citizens of the kingdom on earth? They are the ones who have worked constantly for this purpose. Who will build heaven on earth? We will do it. Because it was man and woman who fell, they must get together to build heaven on earth once more. Peter was given the keys to the kingdom by Jesus; those keys meant the keys to home church.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

Then where is that heaven? Heaven is where Satan has no place where he can work. In Jesus' time, even the entire mind was not of God; in the mind there was a boundary where the Kingdom of Heaven met the satanic domain. Now that borderline can be pushed further and further away -- even out of our bodies. Unless we chase Satan not only out of our minds, but further and further out of our bodies as well, we will be unable to enjoy heaven in our surroundings. "Home church" means heaven on earth in our daily surroundings.

Then what is this foundation of heaven on earth? Home church. Now this foundation of home church is given to you as your own Kingdom of Heaven. Through home church you have a direct connection to the nation and to the world. Thus, we can connect the mind kingdom to the body kingdom, to the home church kingdom, to the country kingdom, all the way to the world. Now we can look back clearly and see that Jesus was intended to do exactly that, pushing Satan completely away and making heaven possible in the environment. He wanted to extend the border even beyond that, making the entire country and the world into heaven as well.

There is a mind heaven and there is a physical heaven. Mind heaven is the mind which contains nothing that Satan can accuse. By the same token, in physical heaven Satan cannot claim any part of our bodies. Thus, if we are completely out of Satan's claim, we are in heaven.

Then beyond that, we need the environmental heaven, in which we can step out of our home and walk through a neighborhood which Satan has no claim over. That is what Jesus set out to achieve. . . .

The fall could take place because Adam and Eve did not yet have this environment set up. When this environment is established, then heaven is secured up to the clan level. That is the essence of heaven. Heaven is formed primarily in the family. Doesn't it make sense that you would have almost instant family-level heaven once you secure the environment? That environment has to be created by winning over persecution. Without winning victory in home church, or victory over the environment, you cannot be filial sons and daughters of the True Parents, because you have no base to stand on. The environment gives you that base.

God will recognize home church as the foundation through which you serve as filial children, as patriots and even as saints. God will recognize as a saint the person who accomplishes this. A saint is a person who lives on the world level, but God can recognize you as such on the foundation of home church.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

Our topic today is "in Search of Our Home" and you cannot exclude home church from your home. Your home is within the same fence as your home church area. No one will be able to invade your boundary. The position of "fence" will be fulfilled by the good angels: they exist to protect God's world from Satans invasion. Your home will thus be a safe place within the protective boundary of your home church.

In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere

You can put up a barrier of love which will be greater than that built by unfallen Adam and Eve, and there is no way Satan will be able to overcome that fortress once you do so. in this sense home church is really wall-building for your own protection. I struggled in the satanic world to win this weapon, and now I am passing the secret to you so you can do just the same on a limited scale, which is home church. it is your world, and when you use this method to win there, God will acknowledge that your victory equals that over the whole satanic world.

You might wonder why God can't freely give you His blessing without home church, but without it you have not erected that barrier against Satan. There is no guarantee of eternal stability without it. Home church work is like building your castle which Satan has no power to destroy. The more difficult home church is to create, the greater your wall of love will be. Actually, difficulty is all to your benefit. It is a great revolution that Unification Church can do home church, at the same time transcending national barriers, racial or cultural barriers. We can do home church as one unit on the worldwide scale. You and I pass away from earth, but we will not have to finish the unfinished task later by coming back to earth. Once you finish the task here victoriously, you will go to the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven, where you can enjoy life eternally with God.

Restored Family
1.21.79, Belvedere

Expect some miracle in the home church. When the Christians come to support you, what will the world be like? The world will come to God very quickly. When we are successful, everyone will realize who is on the side of evil and on the side of good. Do you think anyone could remain in the evil area for long after we become successful in home church? That's where the eternal foundation for happiness will remain on earth.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

I gave you each 360 homes in order to distribute God's love to you. As you distribute more love to the people then you in turn will become bigger and bigger. If you do not distribute love to the other people, however, then you will stay as gaunt as you are. if a tree wants to live then it must grow many branches and be healthy. If a tree grows no branches then it will simply wither away and die. I have never met one sensible person who asked me why I assigned him only 360 homes to distribute love to instead of three times as many.

Where God Resides and His Course
3.19. 78, Belvedere

Your 360 homes are your training center to open up your mind and heart of love. Once the love of God is consummated in your heart, you become the subject of your surroundings, no matter where you go.

The Sound of the Bell of the Mind
1.28.79, Belvedere

We are moving every day along this way of true love. Nothing is more precious than this. What is home church all about? It is giving you the method and the territorial boundary within which you can practice the way of true love. Home church is your arena where true love begins. I'm sure many of your parents oppose your membership in the Church, but their ancestors in spirit world are all on your side. Your children, grandchildren, and all your descendants will praise you. You need a base where you can create your own territory -- this is what home church is all about.

Seeking the True Master
11.29.81, Belvedere

The cherubim with their fiery sword represent an impenetrable curtain which no one can pass unless they embody the love of God which can break down that wall. The cosmic spring of the providence of God is here. We shall see the spring of heaven come to this world, and when we penetrate this barrier we will liberate ourselves from the fallen world and enter that realm. You have learned the secret weapon for penetrating that barrier. I came to this world to teach this to whomever is willing to learn.

The test I took and the hill I crossed over was no ordinary hill. It was the most severe kind of test, but by crossing over I laid the highway. Your hill, even though it is of the same kind, is much smaller. . . God's hill was incredibly big. God crossed over the biggest hill to reach out to meet me, and I crossed over my hill to search for you. Your hill is a microcosm.

Eventually, those hills will be flattened and no more will remain to be crossed over. The way to cross over that hill is home church. The springtime of home church shall be the springtime of the cosmic dispensation of God. The time for home church is at hand. The people who are anticipating the spring are like the early birds who know even in the cold weather when spring will come. Those people will respond to home church. There are people who are awakened and they will rejoice together in the song of spring.

Spring Season of the Providence
4.1.79, Belvedere

After hearing about the mission of home church for many years, do you now understand its purpose and mission? That is why you are so precious.

It is not easy to understand home church. Father has suffered so much in order for home church to become a reality. But if you can understand this now, then you are very precious people in the sight of God.

As long as we hang on to home church and keep doing it, there is no doubt that the satanic world will completely crumble. Do you have confidence that by doing it the Kingdom of Heaven on earth will become a reality? We all say "yes" so easily. God says "yes." True Parents say "yes." You should say "yes." You children say "yes." Yes! We can build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Father announced on God's Day this year that the motto for 1980 is: The Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. What is the base? The base means something like Cape Kennedy. The home church, then, is like the launching pad. Father has been aiming at this target for 20 years. Before the twenty-one year course started, Father already aimed at such a target. Father is almost like Apollo, aimed at the sun and the moon. But in less than twenty years, Father got a bull's-eye. He hit the target in the center in the year 1976. He made history in that year.

Father completed this and he reached the target. Now Father is giving you the key. Now it is your turn. You must be the ones to open the door. You go out to your home church area and serve. You really only need to do this in one area. That is the way you fulfill. You must set the condition. In the meantime, Father will go around the entire world.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

As you are aware, we are now in the second of three seven-year courses, which is your time. What does that mean? So far I am transferring it into your hands. This means it is possible for you to do the work successfully without me.

Then on what ground can you do it? Home church. The motto for 1979 introduced home church: Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven; and the motto for the following year was: Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven. Now for the third year in succession the motto is focused on home church: Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven. That "my" is more yours than it is mine. The concept of home church during the past two years was related more to the whole, but this year it is more personal: home church is "my" responsibility, "my" heaven.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

I am very serious inside when I see how you spent the previous forty day condition. How are you going to make it? I was going to pray for you for forty days and see that you got started very well. Then I could leave to visit other countries and go back to Korea eventually, but if you slump down like this how can I be free to go? I must make sure that you understand this properly.

Tomorrow begin everything afresh, not like yesterday or today. Now that you know how important it is you can make a new start tomorrow. I actually blame the leaders because they were responsible for explaining this to you. If a leader didn't understand then he should have asked me once more to explain it to him. Now do you know for sure? If you don't, ask those who do to explain it to you.

When I made plans for home churches I made sure with heaven first that it was the right plan. I got assurance, not just once but many times, and God said to go ahead with it. You must know that I always check things in advance. There may be some disadvantages or shortcomings but they don't matter. We must be united and go ahead full speed. If you aren't serious then it will be impossible for you to follow me in the spirit world. I am going so fast that you will never catch up with me otherwise.

If it were not a difficult task then Jesus would never have died on the cross. There is no excuse or compromise in restoration. God and spirit world have chased me also. God did not prevent me from going to the communist prison camp or stop people from opposing us. God could have prevented those things but He would not. The path of indemnity is utterly serious. Even if you miss some meals or don't get much sleep, you must keep going to your houses and witnessing to the people. . . .

I have explained everything to you in detail, so now if you still don't follow it is no longer my responsibility. What can I do if you refuse to listen? It is only after you do your 5% that you can be connected with me. If I had not done my 5% I would not have any connection with God.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

Do you think Father is doing the home church as a hobby, because he simply likes it? Without doing that dispensation, there is no Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Ten thousand people divided up and really netted out could make all kinds of networks. If we created such a network of home church, working under one command, then we could save New York. . . .

Father has been preaching this since three years ago. How could you know what an incredible age of dispensation this is? Although you don't understand completely, you can demonstrate one great virtue: obedience. The Kingdom of Heaven hinges upon your ability to fulfill home church. Whether or not we can demolish and clean up the satanic world depends on home church. It is the one way we can win.

I know this is the most difficult dispensation we have ever faced. If ever I plant a tree, I'm going to plant a tree that's the most difficult tree there is under the sun. That's going to be our kind of experience.

State Leaders' Conference
3.27.79

Now you know why home church is important to you, to God and all humanity. You know this will be the last war which you or anyone will have to fight. You need to have a renewed outlook and determination in the 1980's. I feel I should establish the standard and tradition in America, and with that prototype the whole world can benefit.

The Abel's Path from the Providential Point of View
12.30.79, Belvedere

Jesus witnessed to twelve disciples; we are following the same pattern with the 360 homes; every element is there. if you win, you win the world. Maybe the relatively new member does not understand that. Some foreign members do not speak so much English so they don't understand really clearly, as a scholar does, but still it is true and it is very important for you. Not for anybody else but for you. You must understand that this is very important.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.82, London

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Historical Perspective

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name inscribed which no one knows, but himself. He is clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, followed him on white horses. From his mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name inscribed, King of kings and Lord of lords.

Revelation 19:11-16

Originally I was supposed to fulfill my mission while in my 30's; however, I had to begin all over again because of the rejection of the Christian churches and another 30 years was needed to pay the necessary indemnity Korea was liberated in 1945, and the period up to 1978, two years from now, will represent 33 years of work. This 33-year period is the time to indemnify and completely re-do his course on earth.

At the age of 30, Jesus initiated his public ministry, which lasted three years. My life in America since 1972 is 31/2 years, paralleling Jesus' public ministry. For 30 years I worked in Korea to pay the indemnity for the failure of the Christian churches. On the foundation of that victory I came to America and stage by stage I have been laying the foundation for the worldwide level of restoration.

My first major victory was at Madison Square Garden, September 18, 1974. That represented spiritual victory. In order to bring that American victory back to Asia, I organized the IOWC and we conducted an unprecedented campaign all over Japan and Korea. After the spiritual victory here in America was linked in a physical way to Japan and Korea, I brought it back to America in order to win physical victory on the worldwide level. in short, the spiritual victory went back to Asia, and returned here as a physical victory. I am sure this is somewhat difficult to follow but this has very deep meaning.

Upon returning to America with a condition for physical victory, I commenced a war. Two thousand years ago Jesus' foundation was lost and he could only work defensively. However, a foundation was now laid which allowed me to take the offensive, starting with Yankee Stadium. The final, most dramatic offensive was Washington Monument.

Our victory represents Jesus' intended course of scaling his victory in Israel by going to Rome to make a proclamation there before the Senate. There were several consequences of our victory. First, Jesus' sorrowful heart was vindicated, and because of that, the grieving heart of God was liberated. There have also been many righteous men and martyrs, men of justice whose hearts have been filled with grief and suffering. These people were lifted up too, vindicated and liberated. Finally, my own ardent struggle of 33 years and my own grief were resolved and liberated at Washington Monument.

The Day of the Victory of Heaven
10.4.76, Belvedere

The 40 days' campaign in Washington was equivalent to Jesus Christ's 40 days of ministry after the resurrection. Only after the victory of those 40 days could Jesus ascend into heaven. In the same way I could consummate my physical mission here on earth through the 40 days campaign in Washington, and through winning the victory at the Washington Monument Rally.

The victory of the Washington Monument Rally was the most significant event in human history and God's history. By that victory, the doors of heaven were open and all the barriers were broken down. An intermingling of the waters of life started between the spirit world and the physical world. All the separate compartments were opened up so that the water is circulating. That was the effect brought about by the Washington Monument victory.

The spirit world was liberated; the barriers were broken and they no longer exist. Spirits can now freely come down to the physical world and participate in our physical crusades here on earth. Even if I pass away, the mission will not stop. My mission is consummated; the divine purpose of God has been fulfilled. With this victory, I declared October 4 as the Day of the Victory of Heaven. This was a very special day. On the Day of the Victory of Heaven God truly won His historical war; this is the joy of the earth. There is no question about it.

I am declaring to you that as of today, all the dispensational history of restoration has ended, has been completed; all the conditions of indemnity for history have been met and paid in full. From this moment on, the more opposition we face, the more victories we will win. We will not be harmed or take a beating. Any persecution, suffering, or pressure that the outside world gives us will be returned to us as an equal amount of blessing. It is not indemnity.

This is the new beginning of the new history of God. Therefore, this is the first year of the Kingdom of God, year one of the Kingdom of God.

Today in the Light of Dispensational History
2.23.77, World Mission Center

The Washington Monument Rally represented the peak of persecution and the peak of success as well. Until that time Satan always demanded indemnity of Abel, but after that time God demanded indemnity of Cain. Cain's nature is to want the other person to pay indemnity, but since Abel has won the victory he can now demand indemnity from the angel.

This is why last year I gave the order to go on the offensive. I had never uttered that in my life but starting in 1976 and 1977 I encouraged our leaders to sue the people who were persecuting us -- the New York Times, the deprogrammers and certain government agencies. During the time I was still paying indemnity I never said a word or tried to strike back when opposition came. I kept trying to love our opponents and never moved to oppose them in turn. During that time Abel was struck and beaten mercilessly but now Cain will have to pay indemnity. I ordered all Abels to move forward and have Cain pay indemnity. Now is the time when all the blessings will start to come to the Unification Church. . . .

This is indeed a new era, the new age of indemnity. The harder you work now, the more the Cain world must pay indemnity. England is in peril and we must do something about it. When you appeal sincerely to the people but they do not listen, it is not you who will be hurt but they who must pay indemnity. You know the story of David and the giant Goliath.

On February 23, 1977 I declared the beginning of the new age. That was the precise time when Abel's indemnity ended and Cains indemnity began. if our devotion is greater than the communists' then God will fully work with us. . . .

There is one more reason why this is the age of new dispensation. Since I have fully paved the way of indemnity you too can come back again. It means that after you go through indemnity you can go right back to your family and restore them. This is why New York has already started the home church movement. If Cain and Abel come into perfect unity then the parents can be restored. if you bring your Cain-side family into unity with your Abel-side family then you can restore the family as true parents. After becoming children of True Parents and one with your Cain and Abel families you will have actualized the foundation to restore heaven on the family level. . . .

Since True Parents have already paved the road you can come all the way out of hell as an individual. You won't remain there but will go right back to where you started from and form a connection to increasingly higher and higher levels and finally to the world level. Outwardly the Unification Church is in the world level dispensation. In England also you need to form the pattern of the twelve tribes; once that is realized it will form the unshakable beginning of heaven. No one will be able to undermine it.

Who will lay that foundation? Whoever makes that unity is the ancestor to the true clan and naturally he will find himself representing the nation. Two countries like that will be the ancestors of the world. if you then go beyond the world level, for the first time you will be able to go to the same heaven as the True Parents.

The twelve pearl gates described in the Bible open in all different directions. Now we are at the stage of competing to see which clan and which country will open this way. It is a competitive age on the worldwide scale. This is why each country is competing to see whose country can be restored first . . . . The nation must understand that what we are doing is for its survival . . . .

In the past the best that mankind could hope for was individual salvation, but now we can save races and nations and the world. This is a new age. Again, once this minimum indemnity is done, the painstaking indemnity necessary on Abel's side is finished and the law of indemnity is transferred to Cain. Before this, even though we had a thousand, we would never expect one hundred added on top of it, but now if we have one thousand we can have ten thousand added to it. With this being clear right in front of your eyes, shouldn't you work yourselves to the bone and accumulate every minute of effort possible?

Home church activity should be carried on here in England, just as in America. You have to make your own church in order to accumulate the necessary foundation. in the past the best you could hope for was to be saved individually. You had to detach yourself from Cain because otherwise you would be engulfed by him. Once you are saved, however, you must go right back. That is a vast advancement in restoration. . . .

After realizing these facts you can work harder than any other religious people on this earth. At best they had only a possibility of individual salvation. Now that universal salvation is here don't you think spirit world would dance in spite of itself? That is exactly what is happening. The law of indemnity and numerical formulas work precisely. Now do you have even a vague idea about the age of new dispensation?

The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78, London

The New Age has dawned. on February 23, 1977 I declared the year one of the Kingdom of God on the foundation of the victory of Washington Monument. Always in history Cain was in the position to attack and Abel received a beating, but from February 23 on, that relationship was turned upside down. After that day I knew victory was ours and I gave the direction to go on the offensive against the Fraser Committee. I never said that we should only defend ourselves, but that we should counterattack. Then Congressman Fraser was on the defensive. He thought he was going to judge us as criminals, but I told our members that we were the judges, not him.

Courtroom trials have always been an arena utilized by Satan, but the time had come for it to be the place where Heaven judged Satan. We took the offensive against the New York Times and Congressman Fraser by suing them and in Japan we sued the major newspaper. In Korea and Britain also we filed suits and each decision so far has been a victory.

The second stage of a providential course is always the most difficult, and in the three years after Washington Monument the second year brought both the full strength of Congressman Fraser's confrontation and his defeat. . . .

The whole world knew about the confrontation between Congressman Fraser and Reverend Moon. The Minneapolis Star tried to help Mr. Fraser's campaign and it ran a four-page article criticizing Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. The Washington papers also supported Mr. Fraser wholeheartedly. Again, everyone felt that Reverend Moon and the Unification Church were finished, that even though we had won the Washington Monument victory we were now defeated. It was a very close race and on election night Mr. Fraser declared his victory. The situation resembled the angel and Jacob wrestling at the ford of Jabbok. it was a tense battle because Jacob was wounded, but still he struggled and in the final moment he defeated the angel. in the final minute Mr. Fraser was defeated. After that victory people became more cautious; after all, Mr. Fraser had brought all kinds of accusations against me, but ultimately he was defeated.

All the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament conditions are fulfilled and now my order is for you to trust me and boldly go out and fight for God and the True Parents. Even when I told Bo Hi Pak to be a David and go fight Goliath, I realized it was not an easy job for that Korean country boy with a flat nose and yellow skin to speak up against the US. Congress. But he obeyed and won and Goliath fell. You are Davids, and no matter how big the Goliath, he will fail if you listen to me.

Congressman Fraser came against us in the name of the U.S. Congress and democracy, but I told Mr. Pak to go out in the name of God. That was David's power as well. When you speak in the name of God the entire universe and spirit world come together with you and you are no longer small. The satanic side has exerted all its pressure against us and hit harder and harder, but now they are surrendering. All these things had their roots in the Washington Monument victory, and without it none of these victories could have been won. . . .

Our weapon against the satanic world is going to be love and the family. The free world has many animal-like families and we have to cleanse their attitude and lift them up. Will they feel animosity when you bring judgment to them? No, because your judgment will be saving them. The time has come for resurrection and home churches are important work. We are going to work in the fundamental unit of the home, bringing the gospel and the cosmic spring there. Now you know that we can bring down the Kingdom of God on earth and it is no longer vague to you. Since we have won spiritually we have declared victory physically and persecution will decrease.

Those who oppose you will pay a great penalty. Do you believe it?

Washington Monument
9.18.78, London

In the sight of God the work of the Fraser committee does not represent one individual alone. It represents the entire secular world, not only the power of the United States but the power of the whole world that opposes God. It is the symbolic enemy of God, a symbolic focal point. In America's history there is no equivalent example of a united government effort to suppress one religious movement. My position is that of one small David going against Goliath on the world level, and by knocking him down in the name of our Heavenly Father his power has been brought down to the ground.

On the foundation of that symbolic victory I am now planting the seeds of home churches wherever I go, in England, Japan, Korea. The root of those home churches is Belvedere. You belong to that root and I would like to connect those home churches of the world to this Belvedere. This is the home church of home churches and you are really in the central current of this age.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

Do you think I could be opposed any more than I was in 1976? The worst has been overcome. No one said I was defeated at Washington Monument; the world was defeated by one single man. But what did I fight with? With the principle of showing the world true love, of overcoming the force that opposes God. Until that time, no matter how much people criticized me unjustly, I did not do anything against them. I tried to return love to them, and I simply persevered.

God wanted me to bring Him into love, not in a plush, comfortable living room but in the abyss of misery, bearing the cross. That is the point at which God wanted me to bring Him to love the world, showing love at the point of greatest pain. With only a handful of supporters on earth and in the worst possible persecution, I showed true love to the world, love that God could recognize. On this foundation the Day of Victory was proclaimed, four years ago today. Furthermore, on February 22 the next year I declared the beginning of a new era, stating that whoever opposed this established foundation would be the one who received suffering. The more people opposed us, the more ground they would lose and the more we would gain.

Until that time there were walls around the individual, family, clan and so forth. But now the walls are broken down and love is free to travel anywhere on earth. Therefore, many international marriages have taken place and will continue to take place.

At the same time, there have come to exist a family, clan, nation and world surrounding Reverend Moon. With what was it organized? With matching and blessing, the organization of heavenly families. After that there is no valid way in God's sight for anyone to stop me. On that day, Satan signed his defeat and acknowledged my victory. I knew that from that day on the communist world must start to decline, that the year 1978 would be the peak year for communists to flourish, and afterward they would slide down. Because that was settled, the second three seven-year courses could be proclaimed. Without that victory, they could not have been started at the right time.

The Day of the Victory of Heaven
10.4.80, Belvedere

I have made a most important declaration: all the historical debts of the past have been paid. Now the time has come when I can focus completely on building. The time has also come that Mother and I can take some rest. At the outset of this talk I said the Kingdom of Heaven is the place of Sabbath and true peace. No satanic power has any right or condition to claim True Parents' family or the Unification Church movement. We are above their accusation.

The final role the American movement will take in addition to what the True Parents and the Korean and Japanese blessed couples have done is a 2 1/2 year condition by the blessed couples. I want America to go ahead on a global scale and show in front of God and Satan the determination of the American blessed wives to go to the CARP movement for 2 1/2 years. it is the final condition the women are going to undertake in America. If this final condition by the American blessed couples is fulfilled then even if you volunteer for such things there wont be any opportunity. This is the final chance. After that the home church crusade will be wide open and home ministry will be our way of life.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

Since Satan strove very hard, God had to say to him, "All right, go ahead. Take over the world." But God knew very clearly that according to Principle satanic dominion could not last beyond one full cycle of sixty years. Satan can have from number three to six, or thirty to sixty years. In other words, one complete cycle in the history of communism is finished, and in the next thirty to sixty years it will go in a different direction, forming a smaller cycle. The communists' power will decline in thirty to sixty years' time, but it would happen in an even shorter time if the free world really united together. . .

When I began my tough march toward the goal, I determined that I would go over the hill of sixty years of age successfully. Why sixty years? Because I already knew God's plan and knew that in Divine Principle Satan's reign could not go beyond sixty years, and that his second cycle would begin his decline. Then at that moment I would climb up for the sake of God and humanity. I knew that the glorious, victorious day was coming, so in order to be ready when that day came I wanted to get all kinds of qualifications ahead of time. . . .

Now the completion of one giant cycle of sixty years has finally come. Now I am beginning a new circle, and that circle has no limitation. I can make it as big a circle as possible. it is going in another direction, but instead of stopping it is going to make many big circles, one after another. . .

You joined with me and we are completing the circle of sixty years together. Where are we going down to? We are going down to home church and there we will find even more thrust and firepower. What you will find is that home church is the base for the Kingdom of Heaven. Home church is like a gasoline tank and you are going down to the home church like a fireball. What do you think will happen? The explosion will lift you all the way up, and give you the speed you need to go all the way to heaven in one stroke.

My very special, secret weapon that Satan couldn't find was home church. I prepared it like a secret bomb and now it is complete. The time has come to ignite it. The time has come for the fireball to land. Then home church will become a launching pad to the Kingdom of Heaven. That is why this year's motto is: Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Grateful God's Day
1.1.80, World Mission Center

Today's subject concerns restoration of the homeland and the fatherland. Do you have a homeland? Where is it? Is your homeland the place to which your father and mother are trying to kidnap you? So far in history true men haven't found a homeland. Then how could they have a fatherland? God told Abraham to leave his native land because it was no longer his homeland. In order to give Jacob the name Israel God chased him out of his homeland so he could overcome the danger of his elder brother's wrath. For nearly 2,000 years the Israelites were wanderers all over the world, chased from their homeland. Christianity was driven out of its homeland and went to Rome, where it suffered. Christianity has been wandering around the world. If Christians had truly found a homeland, would they be persecuted and killed? Even Christianity hasn't found a homeland where it is welcome.

Did Jesus have a homeland? He gave up his homeland. He even said to his own mother, "Woman, what have you to do with me?" There was no relationship between them for he didn't call her "mother" but "woman." Jesus never acknowledged his brothers, but said that those who did the will of God were his brothers and sisters. The place where believers are dwelling is not yet the fatherland. . . .

Where is the destination and ultimate homeland of all men? Where can truth dwell in prosperity and be secure? It is a logical conclusion that the Unification Church today is heading toward establishing the heavenly homeland, the mother and father country of the heavenly people. It is our job to build the homeland. . . .

The true land is not a fantasy of our dreams or in spirit world. The homeland and father country is going to be right here on earth where we are going to build one nation. That fatherland is the one place you can call your homeland. However, so far we cannot claim any nation in the name of God. Does God dwell in Washington or Moscow? Our duty is to build the homeland and father country centered upon God. . . .

Satan created his homeland rather than God, and this has expanded onto the worldwide level. Every saint God sent to bring restoration of the homeland and father country posed a great threat to the satanic world and was killed. Therefore, God's people have historically been wandering, searching for and craving truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Jesus and Christianity have all been wanderers. I also have been a wanderer, with no place to really anchor myself yet. . . .

I want you to understand that the true desire of God is to find the homeland. The true desire of the great saints is also to find the homeland and expand it into the true country of God. That's the hope of mankind and all religious people. . . .

Therefore, I want you to understand that at this very moment of human history the entire attention of God is focused upon you. Jesus, the saints, spirit world, all of history and mankind are watching you and what you do.

So far no one has known how to find the homeland. Do you know? Home church will not just make you a messiah to those people but also true parents to them. That is God's goal. If those home church people are really grateful and willing to sacrifice for kingdom-building, then we can talk about expanding into the father country. You shall be superior to any past saint, servant of God or patriot in history. That will be our tradition. . .

We are jumping from one land to another. First we are entering the homeland and then jumping to home country, to home world and home heaven. How would you create the homeland? Home church is the formula by which we can find homeland, father country, home world and home heaven. When you love your home church more than you love anything else under the sun you can unite the entire world. The only way to unity is through love. In the home church you are like a star shining in the darkness. More stars are visible at night, so when God looks down at the world He will see one, two, ten, one hundred, a million lights and soon their light will melt into sunlight. Then God will come down, saying, "Let's have a tour, Reverend Moon, come beside me. Invite all the people you would like." Then I will invite all the heroes and heroines of home church.

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

We know that Satan is occupying the entire world, that there is no place Satan cannot claim as his. A certain part is God's, but Satan also occupies the individual's body and sometimes even his whole mind, and especially the environment. . . .

Satan is the power or influence which exercises satanic dominion. Someone must appear on earth and dispel that power. Who can drive that power out of the environment? The Messiah is to do it. Jesus was supposed to do it, but he could not. When he comes again, the Messiah is to expel all the satans from this world. When Jesus failed to complete that mission, the foundation was lost from this earth, and became like a drifting cloud which never settled down in any one place. Even though it encompassed the entire world, it was only on a spiritual level; there was no solid foundation on earth.

Because Jesus was crucified and had to give his body to Satan, there was no such thing as a Kingdom of Heaven on earth. This is precisely why he must come back on earth in the flesh, to accomplish what was left undone.

What is the Unification Church supposed to do? It must pass on to the world the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven which Jesus accomplished. In order to do that, someone had to go to the spirit world -- standing in the presence of Jesus, God and Satan -- and win the victory, with Satan recognizing that this person won the inheritance from Jesus himself. For this reason, I went to the spirit world and got the inheritance; it was approved by God and Jesus, and even Satan had to endorse it.

Upon that foundation I had to fulfill the same thing on earth. In order to do that, I had to cut off all the claims Satan has had on the physical body and the earth for the past 6,000 years. Through the Unification Church, I had to disconnect all the ties and claims of Satan on the world over the past 6,000 years.

If traditional Christianity had welcomed me instead of opposing me, its spiritual foundation for the realization of God's ideal could have been used as a starting point and been connected directly to the physical foundation. if Christianity had united with this responsibility of the Unification Church, then 6,000 years of indemnity would have been completed. . . .

But the Christian churches failed to unite with the Unification Church, so it has had to hastily organize and re-indemnify the 2,000-year history of Christianity in a period of twenty years.

The timing was exact; all the highlights of indemnity were fulfilled in this country by 1976, which happened to be the bicentennial year. The major conditions of indemnity were accomplished through the great events including Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument. This stood on the foundation of the 200 years that have passed since America's independence.

There was tremendous persecution and opposition, as every kind of organization opposed us during 1976. Because we were successful although we were opposed, we gained a physical victory which qualified us to represent Christianity and the country itself. That was the foundation of victory which established a condition by which the physical victory could be won; it only became a matter of time after that.

At the same time we inherited the spiritual accomplishments, we could begin the new foundation to establish the physical heaven on earth. In other words, from that time on, Satan no longer had any justification for separating the spiritual entity from the physical entity. That also means not only that the spiritual heaven was accomplished, but also that the inner work could begin on the physical foundation of heaven on earth. Both were secured, internal and external.

After securing the mind and the body, we can go one step further, to the environment in which we live. Once the foundation was formed, spiritually and physically, Satan had no justification for accusing me or dividing the foundation I had laid. The next thing we had to do was to push this foundation further out to include our environment. . . .

When we confront Satan he will oppose everything we do in order to knock out this threat. But when we win over the opposition, Satan has to withdraw. Because of my victory, Satan withdrew and had to acknowledge that I won not only the keys to the spiritual heaven, but to the physical heaven as well. This is the reason I can now say that the Kingdom of Heaven is in both the mind and the body.

Then where is Satan now? He has been pushed out to the country, tribe, clan and family levels -- outside the perimeter of mind and body. Even that opposition is not full-scale; now that Satan has suffered defeat, resistance is sporadic and no longer all-out.

But here we can observe that even while I am being persecuted, our Unification family has spread around the world. Though I was persecuted, I was not wiped out, and in addition my family, the blessed couples, and Unification members around the world are well. . . .

This means that opposition was directed towards me not only on the personal level, but also on the family level, and even all the way up to the world level. When the opposition ended, the result was not only my personal victory, but the victory of those connected to me -- the family, the clan (blessed couples), the nation (the church can be considered as the nation), all the way up to the world level. It was a successful completion of the indemnity condition. Satan attacked on every level, and his retreat automatically means that I have won the victory over the world level. In other words, the condition was prepared upon which the world level-not just the country or clan levels-could be restored. . . .

The Unification Church is linked with me, so since my victory was recognized even by Satan, the Unification Church will no longer receive any persecution on the level of mind and body. Still, when we go out to the environment and home church, then we will in fact meet opposition. Satan's limit is now set. He is allowed to go only to the home church level. On the foundation of home church, I have given this entire inheritance to the members. From this time on you are personally working in the home church area representing me.

Home Church Is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

Home church has become the Unification Church trademark and is a very special word for us. Do you feel in your hearts that home church is a necessity? Many believers and religious people in history have talked vaguely about heaven without truly knowing how it could be developed. Jesus announced that the kingdom was dwelling in the midst of the people, but even he could not say that it was here on earth. I would like you clearly to know that the pronouncement of home church as a means of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth is truly an historic event.

Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere

We won a victory at the Washington Monument, but do not be boastful or vain or arrogant. This is the worst thing you can do. Thus far we have fought together in a collective battle, but from now on each individual will fight his own battle to show how worthy he is, so an even greater battle is ahead for each of you. In the collective public crusade we won a great victory, but unless each of you shows himself individually worthy and deserving of God's blessing, unless each of you is individually victorious, your foundation of our public victory is going to be in vain. The era for the collective unified campaign has passed, and from this time on will be the era of individual achievement, in which you must prove your worth in the sight of God. it doesn't matter what city or state you work in. You must emerge as a champion on the universal level and win in that final battle. The blessings from heaven are all packed up and ready to be shipped; now is the era for distribution. You are the ones who must be worthy to receive the package from heaven to distribute. Those of you who have confidence and can pledge yourselves unquestionably as sons and daughters of God, raise your hands. Look at your hands, and at the same time examine your hearts to see whether or not they show the same thing.

I know the spirit world so well. I know its system and organization inside out. At present that world is invisible to you, but the assault of the spirit world upon the physical world is almost like a hurricane or a typhoon. Soon the new heaven and earth will open up in front of you. I know that timetable so clearly. It is coming, and it will bring a new world and a new way of life. When an extreme high pressure point and an extreme low pressure point confront, the impact is great and the result is new form. We might say that an historical typhoon has come to blow in front of the Unification Church, and the high and low pressures will clash and explode, opening up the way for us. That time is not very far away. The spirit world and the physical world are getting closer and closer, and I must lead you and this movement in the right direction.

. . . Today you must set your respective individual goals and pledge your life to bring victory to Heavenly Father. Today is the day to plan your own campaign, your own Washington Rally. Follow in my footsteps, in the tradition I have set, but resolve to move even faster, to go even farther. That should be your determination. Think ahead to 1980, to the end of the third seven-year course, and what kind of victory you will have won by that year. By then the Unification Church will stand upon an invincible foundation. Visualize that day. From now on you don't have to walk each step but can race forward, progressing by leaps and bounds. That's the way our movement will grow from this time on.

So from today you are the representative of God and the representative of the True Parents. You are another Sun Myung Moon. With that dignity and that confidence and that sense of responsibility you can forge ahead, no matter what the difficulties and hardships, knowing there is nothing you cannot shatter and that you will move on to the final glory, the ultimate victory. In my youth I could not win such a victory, because we had not yet prepared the foundation. I could not rejoice as you can today, because we had not yet prepared the environment for such a victory. But the time is ripe for you to win similar victories, if you harbor that same ambition. That you can escape the suffering I endured at your young age gives so much comfort to your True Father.

We successfully consummated that rally, that proclamation, and now history has moved on to another chapter. So from this time on I want you to know that you are my representatives. Each of you is another Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Go out, win the world. Forge ahead to the ultimate goal, giving your life as your investment.

Untitled Address to Conference of U.S. and International Leaders
9.20.76, Belvedere

Brothers and sisters must truly unite so they can share life together. Today I am declaring a new beginning: the leader-centered movement is over, and the member-centered movement is going to begin. Why should it be like that? If the head of the family thinks only about himself, the family is unhappy. Only if he worries about the whole family can they be successful and happy together.

The Unification Church is one family. I am concerned and worried about each one of you, and you should be concerned with each other as brothers and sisters, and together come to parents. What we need now is an environmental Kingdom of Heaven. if you only move in one direction, that is no good. You must move in 360 degrees, in all directions.

My teaching today is this: as much as you love God and True Parents, you should love the world and unite with it. Don't shy away from adverse conditions, or from smelly or ugly brothers and sisters. They are the ones who need you. Willingly participate in the dirty places and make them fragrant. Don't run away from problems, but face them and conquer them. God feels greater joy when He sees that you love each other more than you love Him. Parents want to see their children loving each other more than they love their parents. The 36 couples are the elders of our Church, and this rule applies to them as well. Unless they love the true children and the members more than their own families, they are the enemies of our movement.

Our ultimate goal is Canaan. While we are marching toward Canaan, our supreme duty is to follow orders, but once we enter Canaan we don't live by commands but by love. This is that time. We are arriving now, and we must live in a God-like way. The second three seven-year courses have been announced. in the first 21 years we marched toward Canaan, and in these 21 years we shall live by love.

I am teaching you that you should love one another as much as you love God and True Parents. Then the dwelling of God is with you, and Mother and I shall be with you. Because this day marks the beginning of that new era, I called this the Historical Children's Day.

Historical Children's Day
10.28.81, World Mission Center

Formula Course

The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking. But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me. And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, "Jacob. Then he said, "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."

Genesis 32: 22-28

You have to make some victorious condition like Jacob did. He wrestled at the ford of Jabbok with an angel, and when he won the angel blessed him by saying that his name was no longer Jacob but Israel. Upon that foundation God could bless Jacob. You must also win a victory by going to home church and securing some condition upon which God can bless the entire world.

Our way of life is like Jacob's way of life. Initially his elder brother Esau wanted to kill him, just as the Christian world tried to kill the Unification Church, but when Jacob finally came back home then Esau's heart was changed and he repented. Jacob loved him and gave him presents and embraced him. The two brothers became one. in the same way the world will finally come to embrace you. That will be realized through home church. My dispensation and victory shall be relived and reenacted so that you can create the same condition. You must repeat my victory. This is the era for the children to repeat the victory of their Parents.

The entire world was my stage. Now I have finished and I am asking you to do the same in your small world of home church. As soon as you unite with this spirit I will be there with you. My victorious pattern and tradition will be your asset. Is there any easier way to go? Unless you build your home church in the world of Cain, you are not qualified to go back to your hometown and restore your own tribe.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

Jacob went to another country to work and he also fought the angel to establish the necessary condition. Thus, when he came back he was victorious and he was welcomed by his relatives. When Esau welcomed Jacob the foundation was completed. By working to find 84 people you are doing what Jacob did in wrestling with the angel. It is very much spiritual work.

Once you have set up the necessary foundation outside your home you will be welcomed automatically by your relatives when you go home. if you bring 84 people in seven years then your relatives will congratulate you on your hard work and they will listen to whatever you say because you will have established the condition of spiritual victory.

Jacob's 21 years in Haran were necessary to gain first his wife and then his children and then all things. Because Jacob was deceived by Laban after the first seven years, he actually worked 14 years for his wife. This is why you have to work hard for seven years. If you bring in 84 people then you will be qualified to have your spouse and children and then you can become perfected. You definitely need your family, don't you? Even that comes to you in three stages. First you gather people from outside your home as the formation stage; gathering your relatives from your own home completes the growth stage and having your own sons and daughters completes the third stage. Then the tribal position will be formed and on that basis you can go anywhere and accomplish anything.

This is restoration by indemnity. God does 95% and you must do 5%. Your 5% responsibility is to restore 84 people. If you cannot do that, it is the same as being in Egypt and unable to come out. The Israelites wanted to leave Egypt but they could not until the proper time. I drive you out because this is so important that not doing it is the same as dying.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

You are going to restore your own tribe, engrafting your own wild olive tree. Before you go, however, you have to complete the journey of Jacob. Before you go home you have to wrestle with the angel and win in the conflict with Esau. Once you overcome all these confrontations you can ultimately meet your own family and restore them.

This home church program is like Jacob's journey of 21 years in Haran. You are going to accumulate your own flock and then fight a battle with an angel, and then go back to meet Esau and your own family. I have gone a great distance to pave the way, crossing the ford of Jabbok on every level -- the individual, family, tribe, nation and world. I paved the way by crossing the ford and wrestling with the angel. You only have to struggle once, however, and restore your own family. When you establish a home church, you are becoming a tribe leader; then I will give a blessing before you go back to your homes. For 21 years Jacob endured all kinds of mistreatment from his uncle Laban. Forming a home church is like this. You are going through the 21 years of Jacob's life course right now. After you are victorious under those circumstances, you will be ready to gather together your family and your things and go back home.

Parents' Day
4.8.78, Manhattan Center

All this inheritance can be completed in seven years -- 3 1/2 years as a single person and 3 1/2 years as a couple. That is your responsibility. When you restore your family, together you shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. You come to me and I chase you out to the world, just as Jacob had to go to Haran. In 21 years, he restored his family and acquired wealth and then returned to Canaan. in the same way, you go to restore Cain-type home church and then Abel-type home church and then return to heaven. That is your destiny.

Jesus' mission was the same. God sent His son to the satanic world to create a Cain-type and Abel-type tribe and enter the kingdom with his family. If Rome had united with Israel at that time, the whole world would have become one. This is why Christianity moved from Israel to Rome, going to Western civilization first, then moving around the world and returning to the Orient where it originated.

The First Day and Our Lifetime
2.2.79

First you do 360 homes here, in another country, establishing the Cain type 360 homes. Then you go back to your country and receive the Abel type 360 homes. That is your inheritance. First you do it here and then you go home and do it again. Actually, when you do it here and then return home, you don't even have to do it over again, really. You work hard here to make the Cain type 360 homes come under you; then automatically you will be welcomed in your own home without doing anything.

You must think about Jacob's fight against the angel, at the ford of Jabbok. The Dover Straits are just like the ford of Jabbok. You must fight against the angel, or anybody who is in the angelic position, the position of Cain. Who is Cain? First Cain opposes Abel, but as Abel proves more and more that he is good, Cain stops fighting and says, "You are not bad; you are good." You have to subjugate Cain, not by using force, but by teaching him.

As soon as you have restored Cain from a murderous Cain to an obedient Cain and become one with him, you are in Adam's position. Then you can go back to your own country and the situation will be good. You can start to work in Abel's position.

This is why we must establish a typical home church here in England. It is like a mathematical formula; it works 100%. We must establish some step-by-step witnessing formula which applies 100% everywhere in the world. Until now you were not eligible to do that, because you did not win over Cain. Now you are working here with 360 homes and when you are really successful at serving them and they accept you, then you can come into Adam's position. Then you can go to your home, and your family will automatically receive you.

When you go to your 360 homes they won't welcome you at first, but you must keep on working and little by little their minds will change. Later they will really be thankful to you. You must accomplish this in three years. No one can go immediately to their home and witness there. it is against the dispensation. Even Father could not do that in the very beginning. Father had to leave everything behind and go to other countries and win over those countries. Then he could go back to his own country and his own country could automatically welcome him. Likewise, you come here to London, do this work and win the heart of the 360 homes, deployed world-wide in London. Then you go back after that and your families will welcome you.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78. London

The indemnity of the archangel is achieved when the good spirit world, at your command, chases out the bad spirit world from your area and enables you to restore God's ideal. In that way you reverse the fall by exercising your proper dominion over the angelic world. Such is the meaning of home church.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

When we see someone in a movie walk into a wilderness, we are attracted because that is exactly how we are about to set out. There are a million people living around us but there is not one whom we can call a true person. It's like being in the wilderness looking for human contact. You can keep a diary of the corrupted person you were teaching and how in time he came to trust you. Maybe you think it will take three years to rehabilitate him, and if you can manage to do that in one year it will be a miracle. Write down your idea about him. Are you keeping a record?

Do you set out for the home church in the morning with a happy mind, or are you almost in tears to have to go out there? The only way you can go out to home church is with great expectation of finding a treasure of a person, to find your lost relatives. Do you think this is only dreaming or make-believe? No, the person who is successful in home church is the one who recovers the lost people, the lost country, the lost spirit world. Everything that was lost will be recovered by the successful home church workers.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

In home church you are trying to restore everything. This means that you will find people there to raise and restore as parents, as husband or wife, as children, and so forth. Because of the fall you lost everything, but in home church you find everything to restore, including your tribe, country, and world. Everything was lost, so if you don't restore it, you have nothing.

Life of Experience in the Realm of Heart
3.15.81, Belvedere

The Old Testament era involves offering material things that can be accepted in the sight of God. The New Testament era means becoming adopted sons. The Completed Testament era means becoming parents and giving birth to the true children of God. I have laid the foundation for the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament eras and installed parenthood and finally completed the foundation for world restoration. Now you are in the position to be welcomed by the world. Your remaining duty is to finish the task by establishing home churches. You are responsible for 360 homes and there you will set the conditions for the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament eras. You will fulfill those ideals in that small world of your own and I want you to be a true messiah to those homes.

How can you become a messiah to those homes? You must be a parent first and then have sons and restore the material world. Because of the fall Adam lost all three elements, but now you are given the opportunity to restore what he lost and offer it to the True Parents, who in turn will offer it to God. When God receives it He will offer it back to the True Parents, who in turn will offer it back to you.

The name of your world is "home church" and it is the altar on which you offer God your three greatest gifts. In ancient times the altar was always covered with blood because the animal sacrifice had to be cut, but now we ourselves are the sacrifice and we have to shed our tears, blood and sweat. When you go to your home church and restore all three of these offerings, you will find a true home when you return from your mission. Once you have that foundation, you are a son of God and the rest of the world is in the position of adopted sons. it will be easy to influence them, therefore, because they will already be in a mood to be obedient. Then there will be no more persecution. You will be free to go back to your hometown to restore your own tribe; your home church will be your Cain tribe and your own physical family will be your Abel tribe, and when you head both of them you will truly be king of that world. Upon that foundation you can restore the position of parents. That is the Principle.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

The Old Testament era was the first stage of the dispensation, and its center was focused on material. The New Testament era is somewhat more advanced, with man at the center of the dispensation. In the Completed Testament era, what would assume the central role? Love of God's heart, or shimjung. Hasn't this been the sequence of God's orderly steps throughout history? We have arrived at a new concept -- no one so far has been seeking or conceived of a heartistic God, but we are even talking about heartistic man and heartistic all things. They are all one in the realm of heart.

We can achieve all that in one generation through our heart, body and all things, corresponding to the three levels of dispensation. If we do it within ourselves, we can erase that problem. What has the Unification Church achieved? We can solve the failures of history within our own lifetime and settle them all. We can achieve what people failed to do in the Old Testament and New Testament eras, and enhance our love so that one day we can become true men. That's what history has mainly been striving for.

Fundraising is a part of restoring material. Then through witnessing we find people. Through home church we find heart. Once we have a clear idea and work at it, this can all be finished in seven years; home church needn't take a whole lifetime. Don't you want to invest a good seven years?. . .

To reach this destination, your course will lead you to all things of creation and to mankind. . . . You are always fund raising to catch people for true love. You are fishing to catch people for love. When you fundraise you give not only your result but also your own money, donating it to help build the bridge so all those people can cross. You must contribute not only material but also men, and give them with God's heart. We dedicate our families to that bridge, centering on love. When we recover our nation we offer it, and when we recover the world we offer that to God also. For the sake of true love we shall recover the universe and dedicate it to God.

Not just one or two things but all things will be gathered for the offering, plus men and heart, our property, our bodies, and our heart. When we dedicate everything we have to God, it is the same as offering all material, all people, and all their heart. Whose property is it then? God's. Something may be yours, but since you dedicate it to God, it becomes His. Your ownership is external, and God's ownership is internal. All of this can be indemnified in one individual.

Home church is very much like a tithe of the world dedicated to God. More practically, we bear all the faults and sins of that area. You must become completely one with home church before you can offer it to God. How can you become one? When you know that, then the whole problem can be solved. Home church now is more like the satanic world, or external world. We have the experience every day that our minds and bodies, or internal and external aspects, always fight. Who is the real master of the world? Even though small in number, those who are in the internal realm are the masters.

One way to become united with others is to obey and follow. If your home church people believed you were a messiah in their area, then instantly you and home church would be in heaven. If a person is willing to give you everything he owns, then we can say he obeys and follows you. Religion has been teaching people to have this quality, to follow and obey. The religious world began in a small area, but throughout history it has been enlarging. . . .

. . . When man is obedient and follows, no persecution is necessary. But usually God has to let good people be persecuted, and when they overcome He will share the blessings with them. But that is less desirable. God lets Satan strike you, and then God recovers all the blessings that Satan stole.

Since it is difficult for fallen man to be obedient, even with religious training, he inevitably is surrounded by struggle and persecution. Adam was not obedient to God; since the chosen people would not unite with Jesus, God let them strike Jesus, but He then took back their blessing. it is the same at the Second Coming.

This pattern recurs throughout history; from the individual to the world level. . . .

On each level man and all things will form a bridge to the goal. . . .

Persecution and Blessing
5.1.80, Belvedere

In the next year, the formal beginning of the next three seven-year courses, responsibility lies with you. For the first three seven-year courses the main responsibility was mine. God's Day will be your God's Day; Parents' Day and so forth will be yours. You must experience fundraising before you can really celebrate Day of All Things, for instance. Without witnessing under difficulty you cannot really experience the meaning of Children's Day. Only after that will God's Day and Parents' Day be yours. Then you can continue as a family. if you have not gone through those things then you cannot truly celebrate each day.

The beginning of the second three seven-year courses is your time. If you really work diligently then you can do in seven years what it took me 21 years to do. That is really shortening the dispensation. In those seven years not only the country can be stabilized and brought substantially close to God, but the foundation for the world dispensation, including the communist countries, must be made as well.

Before you can celebrate Day of All Things, you must restore all things. The money you make as a foundation will be restored for the sake of the world, connecting directly with the world. The money you make fundraising is given to the Church, to be spent around the world for the sake of the world. Then the money you dedicate can be a condition for restoring all things, and you can celebrate Day of All Things.

After you restore all things, you must restore lost sons and daughters; this was the original order of creation, so you must restore them in the same sequence. Three sets of sons and daughters plus Adam and Eve make a family of eight members, as in Noah's family. When you go witnessing for three years you have to restore that minimum number of three men and three women; then together with your wife or husband you will form a family of eight people. Then you can celebrate Children's Day. All your spiritual sons and daughters will work the same way you do, for the sake of the country and the world. When they have become one with you, you will have a spiritual foundation upon which God can bless your family in a physical way. in the same way that you follow me, your love for your spiritual children must be so great that even if you mistreat them they will hang on to you; you should love and educate them to that extent. Only after bringing that number of people and restoring all things are you qualified to celebrate Parents' Day.

On that foundation God can dominate first parents, then children, then all things, and Satan cannot accuse any one of them. Then you can celebrate God's Day. That is the Principle point. it must be clear in your mind. So far you have been doing these things, but without knowing clearly why. Only by following this Principle pattern are you qualified to celebrate the heavenly holidays. Because I have set up these days, everyone can take advantage. In my case it was done in reverse sequence, setting Parents' Day first, then Children's Day, and finally Day of All Things. But you will do this in the original sequence of all things, children, and then parents, and finally God's Day. . .

This means that things will proceed normally in your course, whereas I had to work backward in restoration. If mankind hadn't fallen then a course of working backward in restoration would not have been necessary. What happens is that the backward course meets a strong forward-moving wave as the satanic world pours out persecution during the 21 years. The second three seven-year courses differ from the first because now you are returning to the normal course of development, restoring all things, children, parents and God's position, in that order. This is the inevitable course of all mankind, whether it is difficult or easy.

Christmas in View of the Will of God
12.25.80, World Mission Center

In these homes you are a servant of servants, then adopted son, true son, and parent to your people. That is exactly the path I walked from the very beginning; this is what my life has been all about. Now you are doing what I did, but in microcosm. This is your key to open the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Unless you are victorious in your 5% responsibility, you cannot be united with me. Do you understand?

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

I started talking about home churches last year and now you know according to Principle why I emphasize this concept so much. Do you want to go or do you want to be pushed? Where would you begin? You will start out as a servant, without sleeping or eating, caring for the people. Then the people will love you and spirit world will come down. if you start out as a servant of servants then soon people will want to help and spirit world will participate. Then you will be elevated to the servant position and soon to the adopted son's position. Your people will all want you to come to their home. You would like me to come to your home, wouldn't you? Then why wouldn't the rest of the world want to have you come and stay with them?

This is the way you will truly become sons of God. You will start out as a servant of servants, but spirit world will come together around you and they will never leave you alone down there. You will be elevated stage by stage to receive the Blessing and then become a parent, a tribal messiah, and a national messiah. It may take 3 1/2 years or it may take seven years, and if you cannot do it in seven years it will be expanded to three courses of seven years, but you have to go through it on some level.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78. Belvedere

Who is the Abel figure in this dispensation? You are the Abel figure yourself. And all 360 homes will more or less oppose you because they are in Cain's position. We must go through the Old Testament age. The Old Testament age is a servant's age, even the servant of servants age; and you must work like servants. When you do that and the people recognize you, you will become like an adopted son. Gradually they will understand that you are better than their own son. Then all the families will respect you for what you show them and they will say, "Please lead us. Please be around my home, and lead the whole family." They will beg you never to leave your home, the 360 homes. You won't accomplish this by force, by threat, or anything like that. You will just keep serving, and teaching them the Principle. Then they will listen to you naturally.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

You yourself are superior to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden and all those who follow you will also be superior. That's the ultimate goal. You will come under the direct domain of God and be led by Him. Every day we are moving toward the direct domain of God and bringing our tribe with us. As you know, there are three stages of formation, growth and perfection. The Old Testament was the servant era, the New Testament the adopted son era, and in the Completed Testament era we will become the direct heirs of God. Ultimately you will be elevated to become true parents yourselves, but first you must become a direct son or daughter of God. Unless you pass through that stage, how can you become a true parent?

The Critical Turning Point of the Dispensation of God
12.31.78, Belvedere

In the satanic world you struggle with Cain, the elder brother. On the way in, Cain goes first as the eldest. Next, Satan must willingly surrender to Abel, and then on the way back Abel is in front and Cain behind as younger brother. This sequence must be repeated at each stage, going out to the satanic world and then back again each time. You start out as servant of servants, then servant, then adopted son, stepson, then true son; next you restore Eve, then Adam, and finally you become united with God in the eighth stage. Number eight represents a new beginning.

No religion has known this secret. Most religious people have tried to go directly to the top, for they didn't know they had to encircle the satanic world, pay indemnity, and win the heart of Cain. You have to tread the way of God's tradition, which means going to the satanic battlefield, starting at the bottom as servant of servants. How many stages have you covered? How much have you been following the law of indemnity, and how much do you have left to pay?

It took God thousands of years to cover each step. Where would you go to restore the birthright? To the satanic world. I came to America to win the birthright. Only after restoring it can I move forward another step. I am elder brother to you, right? According to Unification Church tradition, then, when I assign someone to be a leader I am not giving him authority to command, but a commission to go down to the world to show an example of hard work. . . .

Now the second three seven-year courses are beginning, and I must give you clear direction. God has been following this tradition and principle, so I am no exception. For the last 21 years I have done exactly what I am explaining to you today, indemnifying 2,000 years of Christian history. Even though I faced persecution the whole time, I created a ladder through the eight stages to the direct dominion of God's love.

It took me sixty years to create this ladder, covering 6,000 years of history. How long will you take? Your job is easier because the pioneering work has already been done. God wants your share to be done quickly because He is anxious to restore the Kingdom of Heaven. He wants you to get your job done in six years and six months, so I am teaching you exactly how to do that. This mission still has eight distinct stages, so I want to give you the condition of doing the whole course in microcosm. If you really accept and welcome this course, it doesn't have to take even six years, but only six months, because the foundation I have laid is so powerful. In time the whole world will accept me, and then that job won't even take six months.

Now you know the tradition: restoration by indemnity for the sake of restoration of heart. Heartlistic restoration by indemnity is the tradition. The starting point is the servant of servants position, then the position of servant. A servant has a master, and I know you expect the worst master. When you become an adopted son, your adopted parents will be the worst animals to you. Your step-parents will be the worst in the world. When you become a son, your loving parent will train you to be a great man of God by giving you harsh tasks. If you think about yourself and complain all the time, do you think you can win?

When you visit 360 homes, you will be kicked 360 times, but still you must go. You have to shed blood, but even if you die at home church you will still be better off. We can thank God by telling Him that by being a servant of servants we know His heart and the ordeal He has been through. No matter how difficult your life is, don't ask God to comfort you. To be a son of filial piety means to comfort God when you are in the worst position.

When you are suffering, God already knows it. You should rather plunge yourself to the place of death before praying to God to take away your suffering. Even if you die in fulfilling your mission, God will resurrect you.

Core Love and Indemnity
10.22.81, World Mission Center

Please understand you must pass through the rigid judgment of word in reality and personality. Once these two steps are passed then the third, the judgment of heart, will be passed automatically. Why do we have to witness and fundraise under persecution? By going through that troubled situation we learn to love others and our hearts will be formed. . . .

. . . By knowing the word completely, by carrying it out and then recreating heart and love we will become like Jesus, True Parents, and God Himself Now you can understand how strictly this must be observed. . . .

If you decide that you will not attempt to keep the law in every detail but will just love True Parents and God, disregarding home church and so forth, you will not be able to pass the three judgments. You must know all the heavenly laws. Furthermore, you cannot promise to do it and then renege. It is a very deep thing to achieve all this and not at all easy. Since we are heavenly citizens we have to realize this more deeply than any worldly citizen. In doing this you are going step by step to heaven; there is no choice about going an easier way to heaven because this standard way is the easiest.

Unification Church and Heavenly Law
3.1.79, Belvedere

Because of the fall, God lost mankind and all things at one stroke. Restoration of all that will come through one man, at one time. The experience of the realm of heart and love begins with reversing that pattern of worldly love. Loving the Messiah more than anyone else is a painful experience. If you love the central figure of restoration more than anyone you used to love, you will be surprised to find that your love for your other loved ones is even stronger than before. . . .

The pattern in this world of hell on earth may look the same, but it springs from a different lineage. The one element that drastically changes everything is this element of love. Giving up everything to love God does not mean you will not love anything else; only after loving God first can you love others as well. When you work according to Principle in home church, the people there will treat you just like you treat me. if you have loved me very much, your home church members will feel the same toward you.

Restoring that tie of love with your home church people is greater than any other achievement or success in life. This principle you are following here applies also to spirit world, and is the broadest heavenly law. When you tour your home church area, you can think that you are doing the same thing God did when He inspected His creation before Adam and Eve fell. In that realm of love Satan has no place. He simply cannot exist there. Only if you live according to satanic law can Satan be there. Four generations --God, True Parents, you, and your children -- will be connected, four elements in three orderly stages. Home church is absolutely necessary in order for you to be there. Loving your home church area is the beginning experience of the realm of heart for you. Through that you will ultimately be connected to God and the whole universe, and serve as a bridge to the universe.

Life of Experience in the Realm of Heart
3.15.81, Belvedere

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Liberating God

My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me. Hark, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their foreign idols?" "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

Jeremiah 8: 18-21

Your home church is the altar on which you can vindicate the suffering heart of God. God suffered terribly when Adam betrayed Him, and He was in anguish when the Israelites crucified His son Jesus. God suffers when He sees the entire world come against me, but you are going to vindicate all of this at once in the home church mission. God has tasted many failures in history, but by your victory in your home church God will be able to forget them all. You are going to make God glorious and triumphant.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

You should be a small Moon and be loved by everyone in your home church area. Both young and old should be in a position to love you. Once the people love you, you will become a messiah to them and they will follow you to the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. When you are the messiah, those who accept and love you will be accepted by heaven. The home church is the altar upon which to present your offering. The anguished, broken heart of God will be healed when we achieve this goal of home church. When we go over this boundary we can move the rest of the world and become the full moon at that time.

The Critical Turning Point of the Dispensation of God
12.31.78, Belvedere

No one knows the history of restoration better than God because He has worked through every bit of it. The first one to be persecuted and to suffer was God. We want to take after God's heart, but how do we find it? By doing the same things God did in the past. That is how we develop God's heart. Without that heart how could we sit near God in heaven? How could anyone who has not suffered share in the conversation or the life in heaven?

I will gather all the contents of what we have done around the world and we will take off like a missile to the universe. God wants us to escape earth's gravity, and this will happen inevitably through dispensational history. All our work is contributing toward that goal. The altar for that offering is home church. How can the person who never did home church be considered to be a serious student? Home church is the arena in which we will go through all things God has done and said and through which He wants us to inherit His broken heart. In that way you can inherit the true individual, true family, true tribe, true nation, and True Parents. Can you say you don't want to do that?

The Dispensation of Restoration and Myself
4.6.80, Belvedere

Until you overcome Cain the stony path of death remains. You must be a pioneer and shed sweat as a living sacrifice. Until the time that your home church people will shed tears and sweat for you, you must keep going. But when you come that far, then you are liberated, and you can shed tears of hope and happiness. Then God will say, "Amen. You have done it and truly you are my son."

Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere

How many of you are going door to door, shedding tears for your people? Have you ever thought that God cannot come to those doorsteps physically and needs you to represent Him? You must feel that you are knocking on the door as a representative of God, gathering your heart and love and everything together, trying to penetrate that door and win the hearts of the people inside. You can feel that heart of God, who has come to this door after many thousands of years' preparation. God has reached that door through you but only after many thousands of years of ordeal. He didn't just come overnight.

When you open the door and the person looks at you, you may feel tears falling down your face, stopping your words. Have you ever visited your homes with that heart? Many of you may feel that you don't want to do this but you must go with tears, truth and love. You must knock on each door equipped with these three things. No matter how evil the person inside the house may be, Satan cannot claim those tears or your truth or your true heart of love. As long as Satan is incapable of doing that you will be a victor.

The Return to Tears
10.16.77, Belvedere

Sometimes you want to cry because this life is difficult, but you will understand how difficult it must have been for God in the past. Once you meet someone good you must love him as God loves him. When you are together you won't want to part from him and will want to stay as long as possible. When you really feel his preciousness you will pour out all your energy and want to do still more for him. When you meet strangers with this heart they are not strangers but seem more like your brothers and sisters. If someone is poorly dressed you want to buy him some clothes, even though you cannot.

We can meet good people everywhere and widen the spectrum of love everywhere we go. God's love is returned to you in proportion to what you do. Whenever you visit a house, think that this is the house of a precious person whom God loves. Don't treat him in a casual way but show your earnest concern and respect and he will ultimately accept you. Then the people will miss you when you are away and will want you to come often. We are distributing love to them, not trying to take something away. The power of love is like a magnet drawing the people to you. . . .

When you live your life that way year after year, you will automatically experience the love of God, which you never want to replace with anything else. Then you will see visions even with your eyes wide open and you will even see me walking in front of you in a substantial way. If you look at something on the wavelength of love, there is nothing you cant understand.

The Burden on Our Shoulders
6.11.78, London

Our task is to overcome the historical indemnity; it is not because we are so terrible, but because we carry the historical cross. This is where we are going now. Though the champion perseveres, he remembers the persecution he received at each level. Finally, he can fight back at evil when he has endured all that. The champion will strike back at evil with the heart of clearing away God's past regrets about His individual, His family, and nation.

Those in the position of the sons and daughters to the Messiah want to indemnify everything that is left in the secular world. We want to do that at an impossible rate, and this is what home church is all about. We will do it with a passionate heart until there is no more opposition.

When there is no more to do in home church, we will shoot straight up to God's heart like a rocket and explode there. How would God feel? He would say, "I don't care if everything explodes; meeting you is what matters." God has been wanting so badly to find the person He can love, and when He sees the one person who remains and comes to Him, that's all that matters. We want to be in the position of saying, "Everything is finished. Hallelujah. Amen." This is where true peace will begin. Amen.

The World of Good and Evil and My Indemnity
9.28.80, Belvedere

If you went to spirit world right now, you would know that what I am saying is absolutely true. People can serve God in many ways; perhaps a great architect might dedicate a beautiful building to God. But when you dedicate yourself to working in your home church area, that is the offering God is most eager to accept at this time. God's greatest pain was at the moment when He lost Adam and Eve through the fall; therefore, God's greatest joy will come when you offer back to Him your home church. By doing home church you are restoring yourself, or the position of Adam and Eve, the angelic world, and all things; and you are offering them back to God. It may seem like a small thing when you are doing home church, but it has the greatest meaning of all to God.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

Home church seems to be simple and humble, but this is the only for God to live.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

The universe is filled with the electricity of God's love. That circuit is already there, so when you feel that love toward your home church, you are repairing the circuit.

Life of Experience in the Realm of Heart
3.15.81, Belvedere

We are not going to destroy our enemies but will liberate them. We find love by loving them. You will practice this in your home church providence. That is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven. That is where you can learn to bear the burden and taste God's tears and broken heart.

You have your own territory, and as we get bigger we can cover all of New York, then America, the entire world, and the entire spirit world. Finally we will cover God with home church. Home church people will tell God to stay in heaven while they do the work, but He will protest that He wants to be with them. God will shout out, "This is my home. This is my tribe and nation. The fulfillment is complete. Let us dance and sing together."

Ideal Nation of God
2.21.80, World Mission Center

The easiest way to fulfill the home church mission is to go to Africa, to a primitive tribe. It won't take three years; in three or seven months you Will have a beautiful home church. This is why a great movement will begin, from the highest peak to the lowest valley and from the valley to the peak. Establishing a home church would probably be most difficult here in settled, established America. We must begin on this home ground because God needs America, but the era for movement has come and you must be ready for a great migration.

The completion period of the dispensation is at hand. This is my declaration today. This means the beginning of God's liberation, the time when He can say to Satan, "You have been a great opponent of the Kingdom of God, but you will not prevail because my sons and daughters are everywhere. They have been installed as messiahs." When there are millions of messiahs here on earth Satan will not prevail.

I wanted to make this declaration a long time ago, but I could not because the time was not ready. How do you think I feel making this declaration today? The time has come now. I am liberated and I can travel anywhere, enjoying the people and nature in any land. Now I can really appreciate what God has given mankind. You will go to your home church mission because first you must fulfill that mission, but then you will come and join my traveling group. We will have breakfast in New York, lunch in Florida and dinner in Tokyo and our journey will continue until we liberate Moscow.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

Although many countries have tried to stop me and even now the U.S. government is trying me as a criminal, another realm is very happy and excited. All of good spirit world and the realm of God is very eager to assist me because they understand that I am working to establish and maintain God's freedom, the highest level of goodness. If God Himself were here on earth, He certainly would have been arrested, put on trial and jailed; but once He was able to gain freedom, He would be able to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. At that point, God could live happily with His people within a truly happy, free world.

What, then, is the meaning of home church? It is the way to give God an area in which He can dwell according to the way He wishes. it is a place where there is no antagonism against God but everybody wants Him to come and live with them. This was the original plan of God; but because of the fall, all the doors of the world have been closed against Him. Barriers and blockades have been erected.

The original plan was for all people to travel freely within the world and to enjoy total freedom on all levels -- individual, family, etc. Once he left the physical world, each individual was supposed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world. This was the original plan but because of the fall, nothing remained except the individual level of freedom. Ultimately the purpose of home church is to shatter the walls which obstruct all the other levels of freedom.

Each individual, as the center of the universe, occupies the position which can liberate God. You are in the center of your family, your society, your nation, and ultimately the entire universe, and you can create the freedom of all those other levels. How can you do that? By doing home church.

if this is the truth, then Satan is really in trouble; he can no longer dominate any part of this world.

Do you really feel home church is the most important thing in your life? Do you consider how important it is to liberate God through doing home church? For the sake of God, there is nothing we cannot do. We can go into the desert and turn it into a garden; once God is dwelling in that desert, it will literally be a heavenly palace.

Certainly every person here wants to gain the love of God. What should you do then to receive that love? It is very simple -- work for the sake of God's freedom and then He will be able to give all of His love to us. We won't have to ask for His love but it will be given automatically. All problems and barriers will be broken through when God's love can flow freely to this earth.

We must win the freedom of God and we must maintain it. How do we actually penetrate all the barriers and the levels between ourselves and God? Is it really possible? How can you penetrate the barriers in spirit world? By doing home church successfully you can create the condition to achieve the breakthrough on all those levels. Home church is incredibly valuable.

If you accomplish only the level of messiah to your home church clan, you can still go to spirit world with the highest level of accomplishment. You will receive credit for having secured and maintained God's freedom. In other words, you will receive the highest level of credit for a much lower level of accomplishment. This is because once that basic level of God's freedom has been established, Satan will have no right to remain in your area. Who moves into your area when Satan moves out? God.

Be confident that you are indeed the tribal messiah, standing on a great foundation. What is our basic purpose? It is first to gain God's freedom and then to protect it and maintain it. At that point, God's original love will be able to pour out on the horizontal level. God's love has certainly always been here, but the world had no physical connection with it. Home church now can serve as that connection. Very quickly the world will be nourished by that love from God; the mood toward peace will grow and the past days of war will disappear.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

The world is a desert. It is such an incredibly evil world; but you found one man who has the secret capacity for perfection. Furthermore, you inherited his entire treasure. You received it free. Your teacher is appealing for you to listen and to understand and fulfill your part. This ambition of Father's is two-fold: first, that you shall receive extraordinary blessing from God; second, that the world will benefit because of you. That is why Father is giving you such exact instructions. That is why he is pouring out his heart in such an extraordinary way.

If you truly know the heart of God and the heart of Father, and you hear this without being brought to tears, you are like a stone; you are not an emotional person. When you walk to your home church area, tears will fill your eyes and streak down your cheeks because you appreciate the privilege and blessing to be able to do it.

This is our path. It is the homecoming. Father has returned home this way. Each of us must feel that we are now following in his footsteps. Each of us must feel that we are going home. We must feel that in the footprints that we make, God Himself can return. We are creating the path for God to return.

You should return to your original home. You will be joyous, dancing and singing. You will find no limit. Once you fulfill, then for the rest of your life you will have nothing much to do. You will rejoice over it. The rest of your entire life will be a celebration. Every day will be a banquet. You will have achieved so much that nothing will diminish. This is lifetime joy.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

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Father's Way

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you would, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go. (This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him, "Follow me."

John 21: 17-19

The Israelites went the same course as Moses; all Christians had to follow what Jesus did. Likewise, whatever I have gone through must be experienced by Unification Church members. It is your five percent, and connects you to the 95 percent which I did, and which Moses and Jesus each did.

Home Church is My Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.81, World Mission Center

You must expect rejection in your home church area because that formula is unavoidable. Your people will slam the door on you, curse and spit at you. Without experiencing that rejection you cannot feel the heart of God. When you taste rejection, think of God who has been rejected for many thousands of years. Think of Jesus, who was rejected by his own people. Think of me, for I have been rejected my entire life by my own people and the people of the world. You are sharing that suffering heart.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

What kind of life do you lead? Just live as I have. There is no other choice. Since you cannot deal with the whole world as I have, you have been given home church, where you will do as I did. By doing so you will be given the same recognition as if you had saved the whole world. You shed tears for home church, and suffer almost until you die, and be persecuted almost until you die. The Cain-Abel struggle is going on in home church and you might almost be killed, as I was almost killed, but you must overcome and conquer death there.

We must jump over the stony path of death. How do you do it? By shedding more tears for home church than for your parents, your home or yourself. Shed tears, blood and sweat for your home church, period. If there had been no rejection at the time of Moses and Jesus then my path would have been easier, but instead everything was left on my shoulders. By myself I had to overcome it all, step by step, shedding sweat and tears for all of history. I have done it, and now I am asking you to do it on a limited scale, but still you will receive the same recognition I did. isn't that a good deal? That is your destiny.

Someone must liquidate the sorrowful blood, sorrowful sweat, and sorrowful tears of history, and then build a new history of joy in laboring for the kingdom. Because of rejection, tears, sweat and blood were shed at the time of Moses, Jesus and the Lord of the Second Advent. if there had been acceptance, they would have shed only sweat in building the kingdom. At the time of the Lord of the Second Advent restitution must be made totally; therefore, the Lord must be a king of sweat, tears and blood, paying the debt of all history.

All of history's sadness must be liquidated. Therefore, this is the time of harvesting that sweat, blood and tears. The tears of the past were false; there was much blood shed in the past, but it was not the true blood shed unselfishly for God. Without going this path in the righteous way there is no way you can inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Does this just seem to be true, or is it really true?

This is my path, and I have lived it triumphantly. Now it is your turn to do so in the same position, inheriting what I have done. You have shed tears in the past, but when you met me the meaning of those tears was changed into tears of joy and hope. Your tears of despair are now tears of happiness. When home church is consummated and you are really embraced by the people as being God's messenger, then you shall truly have tears of happiness.

Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere

When I set foot in America I felt that I came in order to love this nation more than anyone ever loved it, and that my love for it would be greater than any opposition to me that Satan could stir up. All you need to do is extend that kind of love to your area. Your area is a greenhouse and you are growing everything there first.

Regard yourself as the bridge of God's love to your home church, as the parents to that area, as the brothers and sisters loving that area. Then you are truly experiencing the realm of heart. After you correctly understand the realm of heart, you must broaden and stretch yourself to experience that realm. By loving me, you have already started experiencing the realm of heart; now all you have to do is extend that love to your area and your family. In the beginning you may not know what it will lead to, but as you experience more and more, your heart will be enriched.

In the beginning your home church people won't understand much, but if you continue working with them a bond of deep love will grow. Then if you are away for a while they will welcome your return with tears. Love is what home church is all about. In love you must embrace everything, not just one race, or one family. Without an object you cannot experience love, so you must create your object; that is your home church area.

If I were away for months or years, do you think you would miss me? Do you think I would miss you? I am the same way. As much as you love your home church, my love will be there to that degree, and God will love you that much or more. God can love you more because your object of love will have broadened, and so God's love for you can also broaden. God's love for you can become greater to the extent that your experience of the realm of heart becomes greater.

How do you go about improving your heart? You are widened as you live more and more for the sake of others. Then God can come closer to you. When people cry and are grateful to you, you feel that same gratitude to God and me. The world then comes close to you very quickly. For you, the realm of heart is your home church area. Love is not one-sided; your people must love you and you must love them. Then you will realize my love and God's love.

When I teach you to live and die for the sake of the world, I know that when you do it you will experience God's broader realm of heart; it is a must if you are to be connected to God and His love. Once you do that here, it is yours forever and ever. Home church is the microcosm of God's creation, a small universe. The individual and family are there, and when you rejoice together, the universe and God will take part in your rejoicing. if you are sorrowful, God and the universe will be sorrowful with you.

If people blame you for anything, it will be for coming late to them. Keep this kind of thinking, planning how you can thaw out their frozen minds and make them warm and lively people. How good it is if you do that in the name of love! Though you may not own much, and you are continually persecuted because the people are ignorant, how precious that experience will be. Now you are authorized to do in the name of love what no one ever could do, and by doing so you can deepen your heart. What a worthwhile experience that is! You can be proud of it. That is my source of pride, too.

That is the only foundation I have, in spite of the fact that I am famous. All of that does not outweigh the love which I feel for you and you feel for me. That love alone is here to stay eternally, and is the only thing which matters in spirit world. Home church is a perfect area of training for you to experience this.

Life of Experience in the Realm of Heart
3.15.81, Belvedere

You all want to go to the same place where I go. And all your home church members should look up to you the same way and wish they were going to the same place as you. You have to have them so attached to you that they want to follow you, and in order to do that you have to devote all your heart to them.

If you didn't have to go to home church you would like to work together with me, wouldn't you? Your home church members should feel the same way about you. This can happen because there is an ideal and unchanging love there. That's why you long to be close to me and work directly with me. If you really miss me then I will come to you in person. You will occupy that same position in your home church. and everyone will miss you and want to see you.

In order for them to feel this close, you will have to devote all of yourself to them. Then you will understand me. You will walk and walk, wearing out many pairs of shoes. Every household has a history and aspiration, and everything you invest in them will be inscribed there. Perhaps a certain family opposed you very much but later finally welcomed you. Every scene of those events is a source of pride for what you did. You should make them so anxious to help you that they are eager to do many things for you after you are married. They will feel more happy than at the time of their own marriage and want to do something for you. You must make them feel so deeply about you that they want to carry you on their shoulders like football heroes.

Eternal Happiness
2.25.79, Belvedere

I wish I could say that all Moonies love Reverend Moon. Those who say it is true, raise your hands. Why do you love Reverend Moon? Just to be nice? It is so that you can live again. I have the seal of victory, so all I have to do is stamp your application. With that stamp you have a pass to go to heaven, so if you can get that stamp from me then you love me even more, right? To win this foundation of victory I had to go to strange countries and fight my way inch by inch in places where I was not wanted. I have been working since that day to create a stronger foundation on which you will suffer less, but you have to produce some proof that you have loved me. Where will you find your proof? Home church. With my victory you have a valid passport, and now you need to take off like a rocket, launching to reach God's heart in love.

The Day of the Victory of Heaven
10.4.80, Belvedere

What do you need? Today, start living central true love, working central true love, dying for central true love, and living for eternity with central true love. it has to be with you all the way. I am the craziest for true love, and that is why I have been persecuted and become controversial. While I am receiving persecution I am still crazy about true love, and when I look around I see that all races have begun following me. What is the secret? I have lived this life for the entire world, and now I am giving you a small stage so you can take over as masters of true love.

I set the condition on the world level, and now in your 360 homes you shall receive the same reward and privilege. Are you ready?

Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere

It is best to start with the older persons, the grandparents; then go to the uncles and aunts. The Old Testament era is that of the grandparents, the New Testament era is that of the uncles and aunts, and the Completed Testament era is that of young people. You should start at the beginning, with the Old Testament, then the New Testament, then down to the present. Some people complain that their home church area doesn't have any young people, only old people. You are going through an indemnity course, so the older people serve that purpose better. By loving the grandparents, then uncles and aunts first, you are going exactly the same way that I went. You should love older people more than you love your own age group, more than you love yourself, in that way, you can be victorious.

Victory of Home Church, Midnight Address
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Home church is where we create a base for the love of God. All human beings can come together in this ground. We have talked about the True Parents, their heart, God's heart, and so forth, but you don't really know them until you do home church. An early Korean member came and told me that the Korean members are all dispersed in different regions doing home church. It almost seems as if the church disappeared and became inactive. But that is the wrong concept; unless we have individual perfection in the area of home church, how can we talk about the perfection of the whole? We must start with individual perfection. Without going through the home church providence you cannot link yourself with me. We have been talking today about very deep theological and philosophical ideas, but if you just do home church you will know what I mean.

God and Us
2.1.82, World Mission Center

I went to Korea to restore all tribes, united around the one central tribe. Go to your home church and undertake the role of messiah, restore Cain and Abel tribes, and then when you come back to the home ground with True Parents you will be installed as parent of your tribe. I am in the position to restore the free world as the Abel tribe and the communist world as the Cain tribe and on that foundation I will ascend to God's dwelling. I am always working for both of these and the same principle that works for me works for you.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

Father has brought you here and talked to you so seriously. He told you interesting stories but he has always made the conclusion that this is serious, so you must understand. When you do this with the utmost power then Heaven will recognize you, but if you don't work so hard and die somewhere, what meaning will you have? Even if you die while witnessing you must really witness as if it is a matter of life and death. We must understand why it is a matter of life and death, just as Father has explained.

You cannot have time to play, you cannot have time to sleep, you must succeed or else. Do you think that Father is too harsh when he gives you this reprimand? Should he say, 'My dear sons and daughters'; should Father say that to you now? (No.) Can your spirit now awaken? Father is always serious; he can joke and say many things. but he is always serious in front of God. We must never forget that.

Maybe there is another way for the individual who has perished, but what about Father and what about God Himself? What about the heavenly self? So many people depend on you, so you are not an individual. Do you know for sure why we must do this, and what we must do? (Yes.) Those who understand for sure now, as of this moment: instead of raising your hand, take off your watch and put it on the opposite wrist until you accomplish your mission. You must wind up your watch with your left hand, which is very inconvenient. You occasionally listen to the watch, and when the watch ticks, it is telling you, "Don't forget home church, don't forget home church." You must understand that the watch is ticking that message to you. What if you don't accomplish here? If you don't fulfill now, then later when you get blessed you will have to bring your whole physical family to live in the home church area and do the work. it is a formula, and a formula is like a law. Even a president comes under the law if he does wrong. There is no exception. Those who changed their watch, raise your hand. Now you understand for sure, don't you? If you still don't understand, and are not anxious to understand, then Father will really get angry with you.

If you forget your home church mission one day, then don't eat with your right hand. In the evening you must eat with your left hand if you have not fulfilled the standard that day. We have to be like crazy people. How much is "working hard"? We should work so hard that God will look down on us and He will cry; we must work that hard. All our ancestors will cry because we are working too hard. All the Satans who oppose us will cry, too. Once Satan cries, then he will no longer fight against you; he will go away, saying, "Carry on God's work." So we understand that God must cry over us before Satan will leave. Do you understand?

In the Divine Principle the archangel should not have made God cry in the very beginning. In order to indemnify that we have to make God cry this time for good reasons. God must cry over us in a positive way. This is why Father had such incredible persecution. He knew that it would be better to be persecuted than to fail to accomplish his mission. He thought, "I must do my mission first, even if I have to die." Father felt just like a cow, like a prisoner about to be hanged. What if Father had lost that fight? What if Father had spoken but the people had not understood what he said, and denounced him? What would happen to Unification Church? Father was so serious. We must understand and do exactly the same before we can establish a true indemnity condition.

When Father went to Gloucester for tuna fishing, it was not physical tuna that he was interested in. He was laying a foundation. He was always fighting, always thinking, "How am I going to win this Washington Monument fight?" Everyone went to the boat and slept, but Father did not sleep. He stayed wide awake all the time and tackled the tuna. When Father went to the bathroom, he did not even know where the bathroom was. He thought he was at the toilet bowl, but he did the toilet on other places. Do you understand? You have to be very serious if you are missing the toilet. This is the way of indemnity.

Nobody understands the Unification Church without Father. Father worked so impossibly hard, and was so pitiful, that God helped Washington Monument. Father has been working all throughout his life this way. If we work only three years this way, it is nothing; especially when we are very young, nothing matters. Do you understand for sure now? (Yes.) Do you still say, "I don't understand, Father?" Can you say that? (No.) Even if Father leaves here are you going to work as you are working now? Those who are determined and can say, "Father, I will not work as I have been working; I will work much harder," raise your hand.

We eat and we sleep, but actually there is no time to do that unless the 360 homes are in your mind, and you are confident to accomplish the task, You know how much sacrifice Father has made. He has had many sleepless nights. Many times he felt hunger. How much Father prayed to God, "I will surely have revenge on this Satan!" Father went without food for many days, and yet he really felt that strongly. Nobody knows Father, except God. This is why, when he was in peril, in the most dangerous situation, about to die, God always rescued him. When Father did not have anything to eat, and was very hungry for several days, God would always bring food through someone. Many nights when Father could not sleep God came and encouraged Father to endure, and consoled him. We must be in the same situation where we work so hard that God takes pity and says, "You must persevere because your Father was that way."

We must think about 360 homes before we wash our face in the morning, before we put on our clothes, before we do anything. We must always think about 360 homes. We must do this for three years, our utmost best for heaven. Now we know for sure, don't we? It is simple, isn't it? Why have we not been successful so far? Why haven't we developed very much until today? You did not know what to do? Has it been vague all the time, what we are going to do? You did not have a clear image; therefore, you did not have a clear determination. That means that we failed to follow Father's detailed instructions; Father told you to do this, after this do that, and after that, do this. We did not pay enough attention. Do you understand? Father was never a back-seat general. He always fought at the front line, and he knows what the front line is like. You think that your method is good. But Father could have done that a long time ago, without your help even. He tried everything and this is the conclusion. if you do not follow this conclusion step by step, 100%, then actually your work has not much to do with the dispensation. Maybe you are working for your own sake. God also cannot help if you do not follow step by step.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
5.9.78, London

How blessed you are that I can give you the home church dispensation! You can be stationary and deal with 360 homes. Through this you can still achieve the same level that I achieved. This is truly the blessing! Compare it to the branch of a tree. one tree has many branches. Each of us will be responsible for one branch, and the effect will be the same: wherever you are, you belong to the one tree. I want you to understand that the next seven years is almost like indemnifying my life of sixty years. You should think, "I want to go out just like Father, receiving the same persecution." Then go ahead and suffer; you asked for it. By going out to serve people, you will taste my sixty years of service. That's what you can experience in the next seven years. Then you shall become victorious.

World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center

It remains for you to live up to what heaven has shown you; you don't need me to lead you by the hand. Unless you go forward on your own, you can never be independent. in doing home church you will be doing exactly what I have been doing on earth, so you are stepping into my shoes, into what has already been established on a world scale.

Parents' Day and This Age
4.5.81, World Mission Center

Yesterday Father gave you his Parents' Day message. As you recall, Father announced that yesterday was the consummation of the first three seven-year courses and, at the same time, it is the beginning of the second three seven-year courses.

The most important basic understanding should be that the first three seven-year courses have been fulfilled by the True Parents. We could say that the main role played in the first three seven-year courses was by the parents. However, the leading actors and actresses of the second three seven-year courses should be the Blessed Couples.

The third three seven-year courses will be walked by your children. There are three different levels -- one walked by the parents, one walked by us, and the other walked by our children.

Father walked such an arduous and incredibly difficult path to pay indemnity for all of mankind. When we do the same, we are entitled to achieve the same level as Father did, even though we work less and pay less indemnity, because Father already set the condition. By the same token, by your good standing in this second three seven-year courses, your children will be affected.

Home church is your ground for paying indemnity. You pay the debt through working in your home church. That condition is being set for God to be able to recognize that you have done the same thing throughout the world. in other words, home church is the microcosm of the world. If you are in good standing as a member working to accomplish the fulfillment of home church, it will eliminate the necessity of your children paying this indemnity. Your children will then be free to enter into heaven. . . .

Do you want to do it all within seven years instead of going through the entire twenty-one years? By doing so, you would eliminate the need for your children to make this condition.

Actually, as you know, Father originally walked three consecutive seven-year courses. Yet even Father could have shortened this indemnity period and cut it into one third. If there had been true unity between Father and Korean Christianity, it would only have taken seven years. In the early days of Korea's independence, Father could have done incredible things.

In other words, if the sovereignty of Korea and the Christian churches of Korea had united with Father, then there would have been a total unity between Father, the government, and the church in Korea, and Father would not have needed to work for 21 years.

But this didn't happen. Since the Korean government and the Korean Christian churches came against Father instead of making unity, a total disunity was created. Father, therefore, had to pay extra indemnity by going through both a second and a third seven-year course. At this particular time we have completed the circle because we have now completed three seven-year courses. Father is now readily accepted by the Korean people, the Korean government, and Korean Christianity . . .

Father knew the time was ripening . . . . Therefore, one month ago Father instructed Mr. Bo Hi Pak, as his special envoy and representative to Korea, to meet all those important people in the government and in the field of politics. I came back a couple of days ago and reported to Father. Father knew precisely what would happen. It did, just as he had expected. That is the reason Father could declare yesterday that the first three seven-year courses have been culminated. Yesterday, he announced the termination of the 21-year course. It was successfully consummated; otherwise it could not have been announced. . . .

Father would not or could not announce the initiation of a second three seven-year course unless the atmosphere was ripe or enough conditions had been met. Therefore, Father successfully consummated his mission in the first three seven-year courses. Now it is your turn. With home church as your arena, you can begin your battle. If you do well in your home church, then through the next seven years, you can affect events throughout the entire world. . . .

The prayer that Father offered yesterday at the Parents' Day meeting must be translated so that you can read its contents yourself. It was a tearful prayer. How can all of you reach that level of heart? You have to walk. You have to walk. Your principle is a simple one: you should walk that path that our Parents have walked.

Who made Father suffer? God did. He ordered it, and Father obeyed. Now the Parents encourage you to go that same suffering path. It is the most natural thing for you to walk the same suffering path as your Parents did. If you were unwilling, then the Parents' tradition would be demolished. Actually, the tradition of God would also be demolished. Your failure would be Father's failure. Father's failure would be God's failure.

This past 21-year course has been comprised of three seven-year courses which Father and Mother walked. It is the True Parents' course. Now there is another identical three seven-year course set aside for us to walk.

Father entered the perfection stage on the worldwide level. Father has practically gone through the entire world and is working on the worldwide level. You will set the same condition by working within your 360-home area. How easy that is compared to what Father did! For you, the 360 homes will comprise your entire world. . . .

You are in an infinitely better position than Father. While Father walked all courses, even going to the worldwide level, your area will be limited to 360 homes. If you cannot accomplish this in seven years, then it is just as if you resign yourself to decline.

Father prolonged his seven-year course into three seven-year courses, but God was very sympathetic to him. God knew what a hard and incredibly lonely path it was. Where can you get this same sympathy? God, your parent, knows that you are in a favored position. Yet if you still cannot do it in seven years, don't expect to receive sympathy from Father or God.

You also know Father was opposed by every government and the Korean government. Father was opposed by every church as well as the Christian church. Father already mentioned that the time has come when the government will not persecute but will be favorably impressed instead. Furthermore, the persecution from the Christian churches will also decrease. What excuse will you use? . . .

This is your chance. If the government and the churches are dying to accept yet you fail to give them the truth, then it will not be their responsibility any more. it will be your responsibility. Furthermore, God only gives you responsibility for 360 homes. If you cannot even accomplish the restoration of 360 homes you will have absolutely no excuse in the sight of God. Do you follow? Don't even request the support of God and True Parents. Determine that you will do it all by yourself, with your own strength.

You are just like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. At that time, there was no one to oppose them. They were absolutely free. Their responsibility was simply to obey God and march forward. They did not do it. But this time there is no way those representing their position can fall again.

Does this just seem to be the case, or do you know this is true? Three hundred sixty homes will become the site of your life and death showdown.

It is perfectly logical. Perhaps it seems like a dream, but it becomes reality. By serving in your 360 homes, you can influence the world. Your area is your world; if you win there, you win the world. Secondly, you also win the entire spirit world. Thirdly, you win the heart and love of God.

God sent Father to this earth in order to initiate this providence. No one else could finish this except Father. Father came to this world and has walked that path. He won victory. Now he is directing you to follow by doing the same. No matter how treacherous the path is that you walk and no matter what tribulation you face, nothing can compare with Father's tribulation and hardship.

Yet no matter how much Father suffered through, nothing could compare to the suffering which God went through. However, God was patient and silently walked that path. He felt all the pain without complaint. Father followed that example. Now it is your turn.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

Considering the pressure and burden of the mission, it is a miracle that I have survived this far. I could have died many times over, but if I had died, there would be no more kingdom, no more hope and no victory. But today we are celebrating the great victory that I survived under those adverse conditions. Many times I used my own life like a bomb, throwing it into the enemy camp. Only because God protected me could I survive. If I had fought with only my own strength, I would have been dead a long time ago.

Now your job is a small one: 360 homes. You don't have to go through the tribulation I went through. All you have to do is conquer your home church by love in seven years. Then you will be entitled to a victory equivalent to what I have won. Complete and consummate your mission within your lifetimes. Don't drag it down to other generations.

It is truly an historical victory that I pronounced at the end of my 21-year course. During my three seven-year courses I had sole responsibility, but now, upon this victorious foundation, I can announce the three seven-year courses that will be walked primarily by you. Your job is very easy compared to mine because I have built a big highway; all you have to do is follow my example. I fought on the worldwide level, facing the American government and facing communism. All you have to fight for is victory in your home church. That is your world. I have been accused and persecuted, but your day will be different. Later on you will not be persecuted any more. You will be welcomed by the people.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

Each of you must pay a certain amount of indemnity by doing home church. I have come through the entire process and I have erected such a powerful foundation that those hostile to me have a frenzied desire to kill me. But in your case, you encounter no such drastic opposition. Compared to what I have faced, your persecution is very minor; in fact, doing home church is an easy job. Do people try to kill you? You are not risking your life by doing home church. However, as I work in the United States there is a constant danger to my life. No one besides me is clearly declaring a war against communism; for that reason, the communists consider me their archenemy. . .

I have been doing this mission at the risk of my life, but you don't have to risk your life in the same way. I have created a safer way for you to go. You must become a tribal messiah in your home church in order to save your own family; the tribe is the strength of the family. When your home church is protected by the tribe, nation, and all the other layers, nothing can invade your home and family. When you willingly take up the cup of persecution in your home church area, trying to win the people, no power can invade you.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1. 1. 82, World Mission Center

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Our Attitude

I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne . . .

Revelation 3:15-21

When you go to home church, your utmost desire, hope and prayer should be for True Parents to visit your home church and stay overnight at your home. I would visit either the most controversial home church or the most successful home church, the one where you have won over every home and are welcome in every house. The book of Revelation clearly states how I feel: don't be lukewarm; be either hot or cold. Cold means controversy and hot signifies complete welcome. Don't be greedy and want your home church to be hot from the beginning; start out cold and make your home church hot. When people despise you and try to tear you apart, you should rejoice and dance. When someone says, "Don't come here, don't show up," you should appear every day. When people demand service, do it willingly. If a negative person still opposes you, God will mobilize all the neighbors and they will protest to him, "I have never seen such a man as that home church person; how come you persecute him? You are unrighteous. If you doff t like him, you go away." They will kick him out, not you.

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

This morning the two central words are gratitude and home church. Once the home church providence is begun there is no room for complaint. When I came to America I never complained at all, even though it has been hostile here. I will always be grateful to God instead. Even though I have been persecuted constantly, no one can beat me. My territory is constantly growing.

Reflection Upon Life
6.1.79, Belvedere

I created the home church system to give you an arena in which to be persecuted and to realize what your position is, to feel gratitude and really live the heart of God. You must have a grateful heart and really understand the life we are living at this time in history. We know the most precious truth under the sun so now we have a great responsibility. The entire world is like a rag that we must mend, and even though our hands are roughened and hardened by mending this dirty rag, we will be grateful.

Thanksgiving to God's Will
7.8.79, Belvedere

Imagine that one day the New Yorker kitchen prepared breakfast as usual but no one came to eat because they had already gone out for home church witnessing. Would that be a very annoying phenomenon or a happy phenomenon? Usually everyone gets home at a certain time each night but suddenly none of them are returning because they're still at their home churches. Is that good or bad? You must set a condition that will be superior to the past, present and future. If you come in so late that the dining room is closed already and there is no more dinner, do you feel, "I worked late and came back hungry and they didn't save anything for me. What kind of church is this?" or would you say, "Thank you Father. I'm making history now."

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

If a bird chirps in your area, you can realize that he came out to welcome you, and that God feels the same way toward you. If you go to bed very tired but there is a noisy party going on next door, think that people are making all that noise in preparation for welcoming you. If you have a loving mind, you automatically come to interpret things that way.

Life of Experience in the Realm of Heart
3.15.81, Belvedere

This morning I want you to learn that we must simply be aware of being grateful for what we are bestowed with. When you wake up in the morning and see the sun shining you must be confident that the sun shines for you and not only for someone else. You can even think that if you did not exist the sun would have no more use. The birds sing and even the insects buzz to please you rather than anyone else. You have to feel, "The stars twinkle and the moon shines just for me." We each have to feel like that.

Each person should make it a custom with himself to be grateful for the many things that he has been taking for granted. "That exists solely for me and if I don't appreciate it then it is all wasted, which is just not right." Wherever you go, feel grateful that these things exist for you. Even if it takes much conscious effort to understand, we have to learn this lesson of being grateful for every situation. . . .

Many good people have been sent to prison who did nothing evil. If you find yourself in prison even though you may not have done anything wrong, it will be a totally new and broadening experience. That should serve as a source of gratitude too. When you go door to door and witness you cannot just start out and expect to be welcomed by the people. You have to be really content within yourself, and before you set out, think, "What kind of people am I going to meet today? Definitely I'll be meeting all different kinds of people -- short, tall, people with smiles on their faces, people who leave a bad taste in my mouth." Just think that they are there for your own enjoyment. First of all you have to be contented; then as you visit them you will be able to receive all their different sentiments.

Let Us Be Grateful
6.18.78, London

You should be very grateful for this home church providence for this is where you can unite with the entire spirit world and physical world and become perfected Adam and Eve.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79. Belvedere

Do you understand what a welcome word "home church is, and how much indemnity was paid in order to make home church possible at this time? If you truly know the value of home church through learning the depth of Divine Principle then you will come to the point where even if you just see the words "home church," tears of gratitude will roll down your face. You will bow down to those words, saying, "Thank you, Father, that I can read 'home church' and have home church."

Now home church is available for all mankind. I have done everything on a global scale to pay for the past 6,000 years and now I am asking you to take care of one little corner of the land with 360 homes. Can you say you cannot do it? if you say you refuse this task then you are entitled to the worst hell, not heaven. That is true because it is so obvious that home church can easily be done.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

Those 360 homes will almost be your resting place. They will be like your reservoir of tears. I want you to know absolutely that New York is the front line. You are like a savior to your 360 families. I am asking you to represent me and go door to door since I cannot go myself to each of those people. You have so much to talk about and so much to tell them. The media has spread all kinds of misunderstandings about me, particularly in New York City, so you have much to straighten out. You are not the only ones assigned to your particular area; God has assigned spiritual assistance there also. You have spiritual counterparts working together with you. Without fulfilling your responsibility, how can you come back and lie down and sleep at night? America is lying dead and the world is going downhill. You young people of America who have learned the truth, how can you be so complacent? How can you say that you are members of the Unification Church and that you are the sons and daughters of God? God is not resting. You must repent today.

When your head gets tired, accuse your own head, "You have been working for Satan for so long and now for the first time you are exerting yourself for the sake of God!" That's the determination to have. Go out today with the same feeling with which Jesus Christ prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. it was a most serious, heart-rending prayer that Jesus offered. From today on you are going to pray with the same seriousness for your 360 homes. You may falter at some point but because of your prayer those 360 homes will have a chance to see salvation.

If I were in your position and hadn't fulfilled my responsibility to those 360 homes I couldn't possibly lift up my face or eat and sleep. Have you done well or poorly? How can you lift up your face in the sight of God? Don't you feel these words as reality? Why should you feel repentant? By living like that you are becoming the possessors of the love of God which is big enough to share with 360 homes and more. You are becoming the hosts of the love of God and that shall bring resurrection to your 360 homes. People accuse you but that's all right. Let them persecute you. Persecution is your blessing in a way.

You American people know the truth and have been given the opportunity and materials to do the job but you haven't used your blessings. if God had poured this much effort into Africa the whole continent might have been turned around by now. All kinds of miracles can happen right now if you lay the foundation. if you had laid the foundation of tears, the people in your 360 homes would be embracing you and saying that they hadn't understood before what you were doing. If your responsibility had been fulfilled then the adversaries of our Church and the negative parents would have already started to learn the truth about what we are doing. Will you do the job or not? Even if you must give up eating and sleeping? Which is more precious for your life? You must make up for the failures of the past by keeping this high standard in the future.

Once again you have heard that we must do it with tears. I have trusted you but now you are shaking my confidence. Get up early in the morning to pray because you are the messiah to 360 homes. You must pray for those people and have mercy upon them in tears. You can become a close friend to them and if they have a problem they can come to you for help. Then New York shall become our home and be dominated by the truth and love of God and He can work a tremendous dispensation through this system. New York is the worst type of evil city but that is why we made the front line right here. If we can overcome this city and turn it around the impact will be gigantic. Your shoes may wear out and your clothes may be worn and soaked with sweat; your eyes will be swollen with tears as you travel about but if you are to save this city you must be single-minded and not think about anything else. Before you eat and before you sleep, think about the mission.

The Return to Tears
10.16.77, Belvedere

Anyone who scoffs and says that home church is not necessary is very wrong. If Americans don't fulfill this work, I will give it to the Africans.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

When worldly law is broken a person goes to jail, and when a person violates God's words he is punished to prevent him from violating them again. Home church is a heavenly law. Are we free to follow it or not as we please?

Unification Church and Heavenly Law
3.1.79, Belvedere

Should I just say nice things and make you happy or should I let you know how important this is, even though it makes you unhappy? I must force you to understand how important it is to achieve this number of 84. If you do your 5% then you will inherit many things, such as the 95% which I did for you. it can all become yours. How can you complain, "Father, this work is too hard"? Are you doing it for me or God or for yourselves? Am I saying these things just because they are convenient or because they are based on the laws of history and restoration through indemnity? This is all true, down to the smallest historical detail.

This is why I am so furious at hearing that some people have only brought two spiritual children after five years in the Church. How can a leader who is responsible for members say that? How can we have such low standards? Everyone has violated this law. . . but now we must enforce it. This is why we haven't much time to eat or sleep or even die, because if you die now you are in serious trouble! How could you finish what you need to do if you die now? Could you come back again? I know very well that you are not thinking seriously enough. What I had to do was unbearably difficult but I finished it after 20 years, in 1976. I was even able to shorten the time period because of my seriousness. Even now if I go to spirit world I can say I have accomplished everything that I needed to do. The dispensation will never suffer because I left anything undone; there will be no postponement or lengthening of restoration now.

You can be grateful that this is not impossible or even very difficult because now there is less persecution. Once you go back to your homes you can do everything in three years or even three months. The world is already in an accepting mood. Already persecution is lessening and when you go back to your own home and country people will welcome you because you are a member of the Unification Church. They will listen very carefully; then they will understand and accept you and in a few weeks they will all follow you.

Now you are going back and forth between two countries, one where you feel confident and another where you are not so confident. You are not appreciated very much now, but later when the work becomes easier it will not be so valuable. The spirit world will be very grateful to you for what you can do now. Also, what you do now is helping to fight the same war I am fighting. If I am the general then you are all soldiers and we will fight together. Later when there is no persecution and the work is much easier you will not be a participant with the True Parents.

What is the privilege of fighting the same war with the True Parents? It means that this is the one time in history when you can eat in the same place and live in the same place with me, but later you cannot have this privilege. We are standing right on top of the hill. You must really understand what a glorious campaign this is to be participating in. Spirit world and your children will applaud you because of what you can do.

The Start of the 40-Day Witnessing Condition
7.4.78, London

History will record your tearful trips from house to house and town to town and God will keep a record of where you have shed tears. if you must leave your area without seeing result there, you should not blame the people. Instead you should shed tears on the last day of witnessing there and say, "Father, do not blame them; please give them your blessing." If they do not receive God's blessing then it is not wasted but comes right back to you permanently. Spiritual law governs these matters. Jesus said to love ones enemy and this is the same principle we are following now.

The Age of Repentance
9.1.78, London

I want to warn you that the second stage is always the most difficult. You are in the second 21-year course. Abel, the second son, died, and Abraham's second son, Isaac, was almost killed. Adam was the first stage, and Noah the second stage. Of Noah's three children, the second son, Ham, made the mistake. Jesus was the second Adam, and he was crucified on the cross. That's why I warn you that it is not going to be easy, but it can be done. It is relatively easy for you because you have removed yourself from where Satan can accuse you individually. Until just recently you had to wander all around to find just one person. Now you don't have to do that because you know where to go.

For over sixty years I have gone this path. You can do it in six years. In the Unification Church, home church is your lifeline. This is where life or death is made, where victory or failure is going to be made. I'm sure from time to time you will have lots of difficulties and sometimes you will become despondent, but all these things will blow over.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

When I was beginning the movement in Korea and persecution was coming to us, I never thought to ask God to stop it because we had had enough. Instead, I told God that I knew we would get the same persecution in Japan, America and Moscow but it would never stop me. Even if God gives me the cross, I would do it for you and your children. When you see me and realize that I have gone through incredible suffering, do you think I look sixty? Even though I suffered, my mind is still young because there is more to be done. if you do home church with this spirit it won't take even three years, but maybe only three months.

To the MFT
1.2.80, World Mission Center

You should feel that God has been preparing this area for many years for you, that nothing is there accidentally or haphazardly, and that this is the most significant activity in all history. Think of how far history had to come so that finally this area would be waiting for you there, to be connected to True Parents and God. If you think that way then you will have a completely new outlook.

Life of Experience in the Realm of Heart
3.15.81, Belvedere

It is not very easy to win at home church. You need to do three things: think differently, plan differently and act differently. Your way of life must become different. Instead of walking the normal way at a normal speed you need to be shouting out and running down the highway. If you have that kind of stamina then I can see some hope in you to win the home church championship here in America.

Home Church Is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

Spring is the time when everything lives again. Like the spring season in nature, I want you to have life welling up in you again. I want you to start a new life from now on. You may have an old idea of home church, but throw it away like winter clothing and have a bright, new home church idea, knowing the relationship of yourself, God and the dispensation.

The Dispensation of Restoration and Myself
4.6.80, Belvedere

This time is like the moment before the sun rises. The dawn is gathering, and the sun is just about to show itself. With this confidence you can do home church. That sun will never be hidden by the clouds, but will shine over all the world. This is what I have worked for throughout my life, and what God has wanted to see throughout thousands of years of history, and what all mankind has waited to see. Unification Church has gone through much suffering just to see this one day. We will focus on uniting and on doing home church.

Where would you like to view the sun rise? In home church you will see the sun rise.

Declaration of the Ceremony of Unity Between Spirit World and Physical World
3.28.82, Belvedere

You must have the attitude that you will accomplish a total victory in your home church area, leaving nothing for others to finish later. Don't expect True Parents to assist you; instead, have the attitude that you will invite the True Parents to come and receive joy and glory at the successful completion of your home church work. With such confidence, you can call upon the spirit world and receive their direct help. Since you are in the subject position, you must work hard and feel responsible for your area; only then will the spirit world be able to assist you.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

Would you choose to be the Moonie who is dragged but still won't do it, or the one who will insist that God come to help him 24 hours a day since there is so much to do? Are you that second way? You always say yes! I have never seen Unification Church members come to complain that home church work takes too much of their time and is so difficult. But neither have I seen the member who thinks I should start nation church instead of puny little home church. Now you say "Amen" because I said this, but why didn't you say it first? . . .

. . . Should we start world home church or universe home church? Absolute God church! We can visualize many steps ahead of us now and think of universal church. Will the person who thinks home church is already too difficult prosper or sink? If he is huffing and puffing over home church then he will really struggle when he has nation and world church ahead of him.

You are destined either to rise or fall centering on your home church. Will you be on the side of prosperity or decline? Our future and destiny lie on the way to God's home, so the secret is to observe all 360 homes at one time and then digest them. Forget about liking or disliking a certain home and just observe everything and then digest it all. If you cannot do that then they will digest you, so go and let them like you instead.

Are you in a position to prosper or decline? Wouldn't it have been better for you if you had never heard of home church? Isn't it true that though you think of home church all the time, your feet are heavy when you are actually walking in your area? Do you have home church always in your mind and no room for anything else? Haven't you older sisters worried instead about when you will get married?

If you are completely full of the home church idea then your feet will be walking even without your knowing it. Have you ever experienced that?

Then your standard can be approved by God and He can begin to help you. Have you been to your area once or twice and then felt you had to think about it more, or did you have confidence that you wanted to keep on doing it?

The Way of Prosperity and Defeat
3.11.79, Belvedere

From now on, be like pool balls for seven years; when you hit a ball with the stick, it dashes straight toward the goal without deviation. There's no taking a moment to think about it. For the next seven years we will dash toward the goal. in heavenly pool the ball has a different route: when you strike a ball in heavenly pool, the ball will go first to 360 homes, round and round. Then it will ultimately go to the final goal: the Kingdom of Heaven. It starts out from hell, and goes to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Would you be a ball which hits several homes and gets tired, and doesn't want to go any more? Do you want to go to 360 homes? Raise your hands if you want to go.

History of the Providence Through Restoration by Indemnity
2.10.81, World Mission Center

The stony path of death must be overcome. Your world is 360 homes, but in finishing that dispensation you will receive recognition just as if you had done it for the whole world. If you don't like to shed tears or don't want to go to home church, then you have rejected your chance for blessing and you must inevitably decline. You want to go over the hill, don't you?

Stony Path of Death
4.27.80, Belvedere

At some point there won't be enough home churches to go around because so many people will want to be involved. You are early-comers so you have this privilege now, but in the future there will be many more people of better quality, and many of you won't qualify to get an area. The newcomers in the future will be more anxious than you are to do home church. When you are going up a hill in a heavy truck it is hard going, but once the truck reaches the top and starts down, no effort at all is needed to drive forward.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

Is it natural for home church to be difficult in the beginning? Would you prefer a difficult or an easy course? You should prefer hardship because that is what will polish you and strengthen you. Once I completed the individual level, the family level awaited me, and then the more difficult tribal level. But you can do all this at one time and as you become more experienced in dealing with people, it becomes easier and easier. As your dispensation progresses it will become easier, because I already have indemnified the reverse way where every step became more difficult.

You must give your 5%; otherwise, Satan will never leave you or God alone, but will constantly be blaming you. If there is one house that strongly opposes you, go after it and solve that. Don't think, "I wish I didn't have to go back there." Be joyful to go. This is the best way to win over them. When I have completed 359 degrees. I expect the last degree to be the most difficult.

You must come completely into unity with home church and after that you will shoot up like a rocket. Where will you land? In the heart of God. You can do in six months what has taken God 6,000 years to accomplish and what has taken me sixty years to accomplish. Then the only question left is how hard you must work to do this. Can you work as casually as you have done in the past? If your love of home church is slightly more than your deepest desire to see your parents or your fiancée or children, then you have a passing grade. But as long as you don't feel that longing, you wont be successful. You can't go to home church after you have eaten well, or slept or loved someone. You must go before doing all those things. It takes first priority. You are not losing anything this way; by postponing these things they will acquire a much higher standard later.

The second three seven-year courses are your era. Should that be cause for crying or rejoicing? You can go everywhere with rejoicing and jumping.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

The purpose of doing home church is to send the people there to Heaven first, and in that way to go to Heaven yourself. Only an attitude of true love can enable you to do this. You must feel the desire to pass along all the blessings you have received. With such a heart -- of sacrifice, service and true love -- you will be able to accomplish victory in home church. This is the Principle. We must be welcomed on earth before we can expect to be welcomed in the spirit world. So far, the Unification Church and Reverend Moon have not been welcomed in this country; we must turn that tide.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

Father is now proclaiming the conclusion, the consummation of the three seven-year courses, and is now announcing the beginning of your three seven-year courses. Do you feel this is a happy and momentous occasion or a gloomy, miserable one? Of course it is happy, but there is one reservation. He is still worried because of you. Would you like to take that worry from Father's heart? Do you want Father to trust you?

If you promise Father today that you will accomplish, then he wouldn't have to stay in the United States. He would just pack up and go away, perhaps never coming back to America, if he could trust you to fulfill and bring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth for sure. Are you ready? Can you do it?

If you have the complete Principle and an undying spirit, you can do it. Father asked that our film crew make sure to record everyone's face during this conference. Everyone should later be able to recognize his own face in the movie to be made about this day. Later on, what will happen? This is the children's era. Another generation will come. Everyone will want to be filmed. People will look at this movie in years to come and find that certain ancestors succeeded and certain others disappeared. Some people will be proclaimed as heroes and so forth. Your children and that generation will feel all kinds of mixed emotions. it is an extremely important day and conference. So lift up your face and look dignified! Smile and show your happiness! Make up your mind that you will stay that way for eternity.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

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Inheritance

Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on their harps, and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth. It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.

Revelation 14: 1-6

The mark of true love will be upon your forehead; this will be your passport to the Kingdom of Heaven. You will have gained true love in an arena of 360 degrees, so you will be able to go anywhere with your true love. At that point, you will no longer need the law for you will have transcended it. You and the law will be one. True love will give you the special privilege to go beyond the law. When you obey and practice true love, you are entitled to live in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Victory of Home Church (Morning Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

What are you Unification Church members and why are you here? You are searchers for true love, but true love is not contained in the Unification Church; it has been stolen by Satan. We must go out to the satanic world, plant the seeds of true love in the soil and harvest it. That is our mission. in home church you are actually creating a tribe, and once you obtain it you can go all the way to heaven. What you have in home church is a microcosm of the world, and by practicing there what I have done on the worldwide scale you are entitled to receive what I have inherited from God.

Day of All Things
5.26.79, World Mission Center

The heirs of the True Parents would feel they could sacrifice anything necessary to preserve that great honor. How much the people in the present and the future would be envious of that position. When they are not only born in the True Parents' love but also raised in that love, what could their happiness be compared to? . . .

Why do you go to home church? Because you want to bring this ecstatic joy and privilege and share it with someone. The people will be envious of what you have and want to be part of the True Parents' love through you. That's home church. Wherever you go, people will want to follow, whether you go east or west, or even to the bathroom. if you doff t sleep for 24 hours, they won't want to sleep either. That kind of person is surely entitled to share your joy, and part of your joy will become his. Whether you live or die physically won't matter.

I know you share that desire to be with me wherever I go. if you really feel that then we are connected and can become one. Home church is the means to make that connection. Home church people will envy you.

The Present Time
2.4.79, Belvedere

This is the great conclusion of the Divine Principle, that the whole purpose of creation is the completion of the four position foundation. You have received a tremendous treasure without even knowing how valuable it is, yet it is given to you unconditionally. Once you become principled men and women you will be the center of the universe wherever you go, whether to Mars or to the moon, to the spirit world or physical world. . . .

. . . You are creating the heavenly four position foundation. Without it the universe will crumble and salvation cannot be brought to the world. It is the purpose of your life to start the living tradition of that foundation. That's why you need your wife or husband and children -- not for your own security and enjoyment, but to fulfill the heavenly foundation. You are becoming the point of stability in the universe and because of you the world will be stabilized. . . .

At this particular juncture of history God is using me to be a mediator of this true love to disseminate the example of a true individual, true family, true ideal society, nation and world. The Unification Church, therefore, is the place where you will receive it because I am the mediator to do that. Eventually you will receive God, and He will find His dwelling in you. Do you think you have received this inheritance or are you still receiving it? If you have received it are you really taking care of it? Are you using that inheritance in your own life? . . .

. . . Today you undoubtedly received the inheritance of the true love of God from His mediator, the True Parents. Then what can you do? You have to give it to others. Go to your home church and give it away, and go to your nation for True Parents and God. At the beginning of this sermon you couldn't answer the question, "What do you have?" But now you can answer that you have the true love of God.

What Kind of Thought Do You Have?
6.10.79, Belvedere

There are many ideologies in the world, but nothing that surpasses this Godism that I am proclaiming. All the great professors and theologians are entitled to inherit these things, but the inheritance is going elsewhere instead. The inheritance of the blessing is one thing, but fulfilling the responsibility that comes with it is the problem. You can do it, however, because the message is a simple one. No one is asking you to lecture at Harvard University; all God is asking you to do is to practice true love.

There is a specific way to practice our love of God, and your 360-home area is your battleground. This is your university curriculum. You should receive at least eighty points of credit, so in order to make this grade at least 288 homes in your area must say, "Yes, you are truly my tribal messiah. You are a great savior and subject of love." What kind of men and women should you become in your home church? Suppose there is a newly married couple who have just come back from their honeymoon. If they are in the bedroom when you knock on the door, then they should want to jump up to greet you.

The amazing thing in the Unification Church is that wherever I go, no matter how much a couple love each other, they follow me rather than each other. You should also be followed and respected to that degree. if you truly represent God then your home church people should respect you that much.

Thanksgiving to God's Will
7.8.79, Belvedere

In the small world of the home church you are going to demonstrate that you love the people in your area more than anyone else in history. You must be superior in heart to everyone -- past, present and future -- in loving that small world. if you can love them more than anyone else in history then you can certainly love it more than Satan. Then God can say, "Yes, my son, you have fulfilled that qualification. Come to receive my inheritance."

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

Now you can clearly understand the meaning of the Day of the Victory of Heaven. This is the historical day which marks my victory over Satan and payment of all the debts of the world, just as Jacob struggled with the angel at the ford of Jabbok and finally won. I have restored the name Israel, which means victor, on the worldwide and universal scale. That is the meaning of this day.

We have laid a firm foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Even if all of us except one person were to die, leaving that one person to carry the banner, he would succeed in building the Kingdom of Heaven. But we will not die; we shall win and the Kingdom of Heaven shall be a reality, not a dream. Since the Day of the Victory of Heaven, unity between God, Adam and Eve, and the archangel has taken place. In the garden of Eden they were all divided, but here they arc united and restored. . . .

. . . I want you to understand the true meaning of this day. Before this day was declared, the spirit world was in the subject role and here on earth we were in the passive role. But the establishment of the Day of the Victory of Heaven reversed these roles and now people on earth are the masters over the spirit world. It is we who are in command, not the spirit world.

What is the gift which the Day of the Victory of Heaven brought to you? What will home church bring to you? God's providence has prevailed in heaven and it shall prevail on earth; the priority has been reversed from spirit world to physical world. A new age has dawned. Why do we proclaim this new age? The old history has been terminated and the new age has begun. The direction of God's work has been changed from heaven to earth, and God will dominate directly. The highest of the satanic positions has been taken over by the heavenly side. . . .

Rebecca, Tamar, Mary and others really gave up their lives to serve God. Do you think I did that too? Would you inherit that tradition too? From this time on God is with you. Home church is your life-giving duty, and unto your life you should do home church. In home church you will indemnify everything that was lost in history -- all the things of creation, all the love and heart which was lost, all of God's personality which has been lost.

Day of the Victory of Heaven
10.4.79, World Mission Center

First came the age of worshipping through material, then through man, and finally worship of the true God. Now we can combine everything together and fulfill it, so combine everything in history in yourself and go for broke. Know you will succeed. Because of the weight of the true words you have, you will be heavier and tip the balance to your side. . . . Heavenly law is working here. If evil attacks good, but goodness does not yield, evil will become weaker and weaker, and that side will get lighter and lighter. Every time you meet persecution you can become stronger and stronger. . .

Now I can tell you to forget about history and concentrate on your own seven-year course. Now that you have inherited everything, you can give it away. What if I told you that you don't need home church? The authority to do home church rests with me, but what have you to do with me? The main problem is how you inherit the correct pattern from me in your own area; you have to have proof that I should give it to you. Actually you have no right to receive it, but if you can say that you are a son or daughter of the True Parents then you can say that I must leave it for you to inherit. Then I will agree.

Persecution and Blessing
5.1.80, Belvedere

. . . God's work will be expanded through the person who works hardest and gives his heart the most. All my life I have been working, even after my responsibility was finished. I only want to add to the foundation that has been built, not to live off it. God does not follow the person who expects recognition, but He follows the person who does more than his share and still continues to give. That is the mainstream of the Unification Church.

This is the tradition the True Parents leave behind, and is what I want you to inherit; it has much more value than leaving you money or property.

I am entitled to rest now, but I don't, so no one else is entitled to take things easy either. This tradition is the best gift I could give you. It is the result of my sweat, and through home church you can distribute this to the world.

If I had only given orders in my capacity as Abel, then Unification Church progress would have been very slow. But instead I carried out everything myself and showed the members through my example. That is my tradition. Now the leaders have seen this clearly -- not by being taught, but by seeing me do that first-hand. if they follow my tradition then many people will follow them. if you follow my direction in this then your members will more easily follow you.

I have no choice -- that is the Divine Principle way. If the grandfather does that, then the parents and children must also go that way. There is no exception. This is the precious tradition you are to receive and follow. Now under my authority you carry this out in home church, shedding sweat to leave the best tradition. If you don't do that, then the next generation will have to do it.

. . . If True Parents come in the name of God, then the individuals they authorize can travel freely anywhere. This is the only way anyone can go all the way from the family to the national level.

Do you want to qualify for this passport? You have to meet some standard first. If you finish home church successfully, then you can have a passport clearing you to go to any level. Everyone has to meet the same standard in order to get that pass. Do you think American citizenship exempts you from that qualification? Do you need Unification Church? Do you need Reverend Moon, who is an Oriental? How can you say it doesn't matter if my eyes are black and yours are blue? We can say so because the color of love is the same for everyone. Since you all need love, you need parents.

Parents Day and This Age
4.5.81, World Mission Center

I accomplished home church on the worldwide scale, and now that tradition has been freely granted to you. In sixty years I erected this tradition, setting the victorious standard. I give it to you free of charge; everything I have done is given to you.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

The indemnity condition for mankind to enjoy free passage throughout God's creation is home church. Therefore, the family of perfected Adam, True Parents' family, is necessary as a base for restoration. Through the True Parents, all of mankind can inherit the right to travel freely, since whatever the parents own, the children will inherit. Satan knows this law better than anybody else. Therefore, you are doing home church not because each of you is highly capable but because you are the children of the True Parents. When you go to home church, you are telling the people the good news -- that they can be proud of the True Parents, proud of their heavenly family and proud to be related to God. in this way, you inherit the position and heart of True Parents and free yourself from any accusation of Satan. Only you can do it; God cannot do it for you.

This is why I push you out to do home church. I want you to get that free pass, that heavenly I.D. card, which will allow you total freedom. Since I have passed on to you this inheritance, you must share it with your home church members; otherwise it will go nowhere. Any way you look at it, home church is a necessity.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

It is imperative that all Unification Church members know what position we stand at in history today. To come this far, I had to indemnify all levels of the individual, family, clan, nation, world, and spirit world. I want to pass this on to all Unification Church members, so that you can stand in my position; but in order to inherit the advantage of this time, you too must first go the path of indemnity. Then you can stand in my position and be free to go anywhere. In a nutshell, this inheritance comes in home church.

Declaration of the Ceremony of Unity Between Spirit World and Physical World
3.28.82, Belvedere

When you visit your area you can think that one part represents Korea, another part Japan, and divide up your area to represent the six continents of the world. When white, black and yellow people all reject you, you can rejoice because you have received persecution from the whole world. It took me sixty years to lay this worldwide foundation, but if you really work well you can do it in your area in six months. By working in home church successfully you can raise yourself up beyond the realm of the fall. Who has given you that kind of power? True Parents. That is your inheritance from them.

True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center

Why am I pushing the home church providence so much? It is your way to become messiahs. I have done so much to win my victory and I want you to be qualified to inherit this glorious foundation. Home church is that qualification. Your 360 homes are your own world, both internal and external. You begin with the internal dispensation but ultimately will win them externally too. The spirit world will be linked with your work and spiritual phenomena will happen there. Home church is where you will win your victory, and then you will move into the national and world levels and be liberated. If you try to bypass home church you cannot be a world citizen of the Kingdom of God. You are creating 360 homes of your own in your area.

I am the one who has paid all the indemnity for the sake of the individual, family, nation, world and spirit world. Now I want to share all these assets with you. Even if it takes seven years, you must determine to fulfill the home church providence. If you cannot, it will be extended 21 years. In my case, because of opposition from Korean Christians my seven-year course was extended to 21 years.

When the third seven-year course is over I will be traveling and not be here much. I will be going to many famous places and doing many things. . . . Who will accompany me when I travel? It is most natural that the home church champions among you will come with me. We will all be able to travel freely because no passports will be needed. When Harvard Ph.D.'s join the Unification Church they will do home church. If they want to come to my home, they will have to come through even a small member who is a home church champion.

Historical View of the Dispensation
9.18.79, Belvedere

Father won this foundation of victory in the dispensation. This can apply for everyone of us if we do the same as Father. Father is trying to inherit them, to connect them. This is what the 360 homes are about.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

The engagement this month was an extraordinary event, the grand finale of a year of engagements around the world. What is your determination going to be? it should be that you will receive the inheritance from your own True Parents and walk on their foundation. How can you tell the world that you have received this inheritance? By proving how worthy you are through home church. I have completed the home church mission throughout the world, so I assigned you one small microcosm of the entire universe, 360 homes, and by doing what I have done in home church you will prove to God that you should receive my inheritance.

The True Parents suffered all their lives, but by following their tradition and receiving their inheritance you can go over that level of victory with much less suffering. No one who retreats from doing home church is qualified for that blessing, though. in some cases your wife or husband may be hesitant to do home church, but push them out. For three years you must erect a victorious stand in home church. for that is your arena to win victory.

True Couple
5.27.79, World Mission Center

The True Parents come to this world in the messianic mission and in three different seven-year courses they lay the foundation of the home church. Now that mission comes to you and you reap the suffering of the True Parents on the foundation they have laid for you. The highway has been built on which you will run and gather the essence of the world in the name of home church. This is your present duty.

The Completion Period for the Dispensation
11.12.78, Belvedere

There are many steps beyond just home church. After that, there is the clan church, the tribe church, the nation church, the world church. You have to pass through all these levels. Doing home church is not easy, but doing tribe church and nation church are even more difficult. No individual is capable of doing all these levels; therefore, True Parents came to this earth to do it for everybody else, for you and all your posterity.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Where does God reside, then? He is far from where we are, far from the satanic domain, but still waiting to accomplish what He originally intended. From the individual, family, clan, society, nation, world and spirit world, there are seven layers. We have to advance through each layer, higher and higher, but how do we do that? A family, for instance, must go higher and higher until it reaches God's domain. . . .

It is simply impossible for the individual to cross all the barriers. All individuals cannot reach the highest level alone, but if the parents accomplish it then they can bequeath that to all those who are their children. Home church is the place where I can leave to you everything I have accomplished.

Is it easy to go each individual course historically? It is impossible, but now I have done it. Now you can pass quickly through it by doing home church. A completely new world will emerge, bigger and better than this country, and the old world will vanish. You should be the happiest person when you hear the words "home church." To reach heaven you must go around all 360 degrees once.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

Why did I create the home church crusade? Simply because I would like to take you along with me to the kingdom of heaven. I want you to stay with me, and I want you to go to the same place with me in heaven. That's why! Don't you like that?

. . . Right now there is not even one single day that I do not stand with my two feet on the ground declaring the victory upon the accumulation of all the conditions in the universe that I ever paid. I stand on and claim every place, the family, the tribe, the nation, the universe, everything. Every condition that I ever paid accumulates in one place, and then I stand upon that place and claim it as my own. I have that land. But you don't. I want you to inherit it. The place to inherit everything is on your home church area. This is the way you inherit. I have been paying so much indemnity for the sake of the family, tribe, nation and world. I want to give it to you freely. Anyone can receive it and can stand on my foundation. All you have to do is to receive it.

World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center

Your family responsibility can be done to perfection without any more help from me. You are now going beyond just "man's portion of responsibility." God took 95% responsibility to man's 5%, yet as man fulfills his responsibility he earns a total dominion over the earth. Symbolically I had 95% of the responsibility for home church and you had 5% but you will receive 100% of the credit because you will be the one to actually do it. I am not going to help you do it.

In Search of Our Home
7.11.82, Belvedere

When I finish the third seven-year course my responsibility is finished. If you just follow faithfully for seven years then you can inherit the same result that I worked for thirty years to obtain. During these seven years you are indemnifying 7,000 years all at once.

The Age of New Dispensation
5.14.78, London

The third seven-year course is not primarily for the True Parents, but for their children. It is the children's responsibility, and the consummation of the total will of God shall climax at this point.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

Actually, home church was initiated here in America, in the last part of 1977. The home church dispensation has existed for less than five years. Since I have given this formula for home church for the restoration of all people around the world, my mission is all done; that is what God has been wishing for 6,000 years, what I have wished for sixty years, and it is what you can do in six months or six years.

In 21 years I have completed all the spiritual foundation for restoration. Now it is your time, your children's course. I have made a spiritual foundation, and now I want to create a worldwide economic foundation in the next seven years. That is why I went to Germany. I have been a controversial figure in the religious field, and now maybe I will be controversial in the economic and business fields. When that foundation is completed in seven years, the foundation for the Moscow rally will be done.

Now it is your turn. Do not lose this golden opportunity I have given you to meet the condition in seven years. Attack it and fulfill in seven years. This is a new era and now you are in my role. If you don't do well in seven years, your course will be expanded to 21 years, and I know you don't want that. We are marching toward the final goal.

Make a determination to take off as servant of servants. In order to fulfill that role a person must be willing to give his life at least three times, but people in the free world are not quite ready to do the things that God wants them to do. You will be going to the satanic world seven times at the risk of your life, then moving to another stage. That's why Jesus said that the person who was ready to lose his life for Jesus' sake would find it. Jesus also taught that the members of your own family are your enemy if they block the way.

Have you ever heard in all history of parents kidnapping their own children? That has happened to the Unification Church, however. Jesus' supreme teaching was to love your enemy, meaning not just someone in your family who doesn't like you, but any person trying to attack and kill you. You are working to pass the examination on the family and national levels, and then you should move on to the worldwide level. . . .

Shall we do home church? I have given you everything you need to know, so actually I don't need to meet you frequently. You know how you can defeat Satan, how to pay indemnity. in your heart you know what my position is. Do you want the easy way out or the hard way? The luxurious way, or the sacrificial way? Do you want to go to a friend's home, or an enemy's home?

I have given sixty years of my life in obtaining this victorious foundation, and now you can inherit the entire thing in six years. What a bargain! Do you think you can do it? After you know this truth, all you have to do is pack your bag with Divine Principle and a video-cassette and go to your home church. You don't need . . . Rev. Moon. Just dig down in your home church.

Core Love and Indemnity
10.22.81, World Mission Center

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The Value of Home Church

The sun shall be no more your light by day,
Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you by night;
but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land for ever,
the shoot of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation;
I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.

Isaiah 60: 19-22

We come to realize, therefore, that we actually have a great privilege in being able to build and live in home churches. We are going back to the garden of Eden and building the structure of God's ideal creation from the very beginning. In God's original concept He wanted Adam and Eve to perfect themselves and create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, beginning in their own home, multiplying a host of children, and then opening heaven in spirit world. Then all the generations on earth would automatically follow their parents' path to heaven.

Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.79, World Mission Center

You must become individuals of true love, multiplying into true love families, tribes, nations, universe and spirit world. This will be wonderful. How can you become true love individuals? I have given you the greatest gift, home church, where you can be resurrected into the realm of true love. There is no greater power than home church, where you can attend True Parents, bring in new brothers and sisters and create the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth.

Victory of Home Church (Morning Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Home church is a far more precious gift from God than becoming heads of state or kings and queens. Once your home church people welcome you wholeheartedly, the entire spirit world will welcome you. Suppose you should drop dead in your home church area. Don't worry, because you are not really dead; you will be resurrected into the highest place in spirit world, where everyone will glorify you. You would like to dwell in the same place in spirit world as I do, wouldn't you? Even though I may be letting you endure suffering at this time, my ultimate plan is to take every one of you with me, arm in arm, to the Kingdom of Heaven. At that time, you will be a true victor. You can take off, non-stop, to the Kingdom of Heaven.

When you declare your victory, following in the footsteps of Rev. Moon, and you ask God to accept you, God will say, "Amen!" In that case, every place is your dwelling place; everything that God and True Parents possess shall be yours, as well. There will be no separation between God, True Parents and yourself. When you go to spirit world, you will encounter the martyrs, whose suffering on earth was much greater than yours. What will qualify you to go to the Kingdom of Heaven before them? Why will you be entitled to go to a place that those people are not? Your one qualification that is superior is that you met the True Parents in your lifetime; and you did this in the realm of home church. Spirit men do not have home church, but you do. This is an incredible blessing, one which is hard to believe.

Victory of Home Church (Midnight Address)
1.1.82, World Mission Center

Unless you are smarter than me, you have to follow my example. This is why I have been going such a difficult, foolish-looking way, and I know that everyone will thank me in the future. This is where you meet God and where you meet the True Parents. What more could home church offer?

When you know this, you can hardly complain that things are difficult. Whoever completes home church is already in the family of the heavenly kingdom, on earth and eternally in spirit world. There is nowhere such a person cannot go. Even after you go to spirit world, you cannot work freely on earth without the foundation of home church. Jesus had to return to earth because he did not have a foundation on earth. But if you have that foundation, you can freely visit.

While you are doing home church, imagine the history you are making of the royal kingdom. There is nothing else to be proud of, either here or in spirit world. I have set an historical record and you will set a record also in home church. That will be your source of pride. Once you are successful your name will be registered in the book of the heavenly kingdom. Do you need home church or not? Can you go to heaven any other way?

Also it will represent your graduation from Unification Church; you won't need Unification Church any more. You should feel that you don't need to have someone looking after you. If you know what you should be doing, why do you need someone giving you direction? If you really carry this out with confidence, it is the same as praying and you will get instant cooperation from God. Certainly you will find God in home church.

Home Church and Myself
12.14.80, Belvedere

Imagine God looking over the four billion people around the world. Imagine Him hand-picking them one by one. Suppose God or the spiritual world hand-picked you and gave you this chance to do the home church providence. Now, I am hand-picking you to do the home church providence! Don't you feel honored? You should be very grateful. You should continue to say, "Yes, God hand-picked me!" How precious it is! Father has walked the entire home church providence and fulfilled and accomplished it. He has had so many experiences; he knows precisely how to do it. Now he is allowing you to inherit the same experiences. You should be all the more grateful. You should be crazy about it.

Through this microphone, everything will be recorded for history. Today, the day after Parents Day of 1980, you are hearing Father's own words and you see him in the chapel of the World Mission Center. You are hearing everything unmistakably clearly. A photographer should come to capture this historical moment. No one has any excuse. Today all of us are hearing clearly about the home church providence. We will keep a record of this most historic day. It is an historic declaration. You will be tremendously blessed just by the mere fact that you attended this meeting.

Conference
4.16.80, World Mission Center

I want you to go ahead 24 hours a day, and set the record. That has to be your determination. This kind of treasure is greater than any treasure. It is greater than any diamond. This kind of treasure is even greater than the entire earth. Still you cannot imagine the value that we have here. How many of you really know the value you are going to have in your home church area by representing me? Many may even disregard that value and say, "Well, my family is more important, my Ph.D. is more important, my savings are more important."

In that case, you must repent for one thing. "Father, it is such a beautiful spring, yet I couldn't shed enough tears for your mission." When summer comes, "I want to shed more tears in my home church area. The fact that I couldn't do it in my country makes me so regretful. This autumn I didn't do it enough. Not even in winter. My deepest regret is not having done enough in my home church area. I didn't receive enough persecution every minute of the day."

World Conference
2.25.80, World Mission Center

I worked my whole life to complete the home church foundation. I did it throughout the world, but even though you just do it locally, you can establish the same condition. When I gave you permission to do it, I gave you the most precious present in the whole world, the most important thing I have. Don't think that home church is a passing thing. It is the precious result I worked for.

Our Duty, Our Mission
10.5.80, Belvedere

This is a transitional period: we are entering into a new era, a new plateau and history of faith. Therefore, this is a critical moment for you and God. Last night I spoke to the department heads about the true meaning of home church. Home church is the greatest gift God and True Parents can give mankind. It has never existed before and will not again in the future. When you make this gift yours by fulfilling it, you will definitely become a son or daughter of God. I have prepared this precious gift for you for my entire life of sixty years and now I freely give it to you. You can make it yours in six months. This is an incredible opportunity.

The Importance of Prayer
4.15.79, Belvedere

When you go out to home church, always think that you are escorting God and True Parents to your home church area as your guests. When God walks down the most miserable alley of your home church, what will He think? God's eyes will flood with compassionate tears. How many thousands and thousands of years have passed before home church could emerge? I have spent my entire life in creating home church. The home church system is set up to bring all of mankind into brotherhood. As mankind becomes one brotherhood then the dwelling of parents becomes a reality. Think about that fact when you have your home church; there mankind and the Parents and God are dwelling in one brotherhood. How happy, how wonderful! That is the consummation of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

When God goes back to spirit world, you can go there with Him. You must have a close relationship with God, like a wife following her husband. Then God can never leave you. This is the special pride of the Unification Church which no one else has. We have sought the True Master and we have found the True Master, and we have a practical method of having the True Master dwell with us -- home church.

Seeking the True Master
11.29.81, Belvedere

Your homeland is the place where your parents and true love live, and where there is a longing for true brothers and sisters. There is complete freedom in that homeland. Today it's true we don't have that freedom in the Unification Church. Because we have a mission to complete we are working in a disciplined crusade. Not only you are bound by your mission; I am too. At this time, living within this discipline is freedom and brings substantial tranquility because when you finish the mission you will have the entire homeland and father world at your fingertips. Then you can live and breathe it and enjoy it for eternity

Therefore, home church is infinitely precious. It's almost like landing on the final terminal of God's dispensation. You can't even compare it to Armstrong's landing on the moon because then four billion people on earth watched. But when you land in the home church, all the billions of people of history will be watching from spirit world. You were not anyone special before, but by meeting with me and the Divine Principle, you have become an historical person, a great saint. You can be proud. Is there anything you can't spare for this?

When you open your eyes, you will realize there is nothing more precious. No amount of dollars or diamonds could buy this life and no accumulation of earthly money could equal your worth. Compared to your position in history, the president or monarch of a nation has no honor and appears worthless. You are the universal Moses of the modern day, leading mankind into Canaan as the tribal messiah. Moses didn't even know clearly why he had to do the things he did, but you know because you have the truth.

Let Us Restore Our Homeland and Fatherland
1.14.79, Belvedere

Don't you see that the simplest member is better than the president of Harvard, or the president of a nation? Why then are you powerless? Why is something still unresolved in your brain? Now do you know what you are? You can feel that by doing home church you will be the best leaders of America. Don't you feel that your home church area is too small? You can get a loudspeaker and wake people up with your speaking, and go around America. If you really understand your situation, you would say 360 homes is too few; you would ask for a national or world church.

Persecution and Blessing
5.1.80, Belvedere

I want you to know that the term "home church" is a most precious one. Many, many saints, wise men, prophets and Christian martyrs have waited for the day of home church but they did not have the luxury of seeing it. They did not have anyone to set the highway straight by paying back all the necessary indemnity. There was no way home church could start before I came. Only because I have paid all past debts can we now undertake home church. I want you to know how precious the gift of home church is.

In the future being deprived of the right to do home church would be the worst sentence to pass on anyone, worse than prison or electrocution. The age has come when home church is that precious. Everyone will be so eager to have a territory for home church that if they can't have their own area they will feel they are in the worst hell. Do you clearly know the value of home church? Do you know that in order to establish the foundation of home church God and I have worked desperately hard to pay all the indemnity? Many, many saints and martyrs have shed blood in order to achieve the home church dispensation.

Home Church is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven
1.1.80, World Mission Center

The worst punishment that could be passed on you by the Unification Church would be depriving you of the right to do home church.

Total Self Re-Evaluation
9.14.80, Belvedere

God's ideal failed to be realized in the garden of Eden and again at the time of Jesus. This is our opportunity to restore those past failures. In order for you to have this home church territory, however, great sacrifices have been made. God, Jews, Christians and all of mankind have been paying terrible indemnity for this home church dispensation even to start, but all their sacrifices shall bring resurrection.

The Birth of Jesus and the Consummation of God's Will
12.24.78, Belvedere

. . . What is the price tag of all this? Actually human history has lasted 800,000 years, not 6,000. For 80,000,000 years the world evolved and the population of the earth has been in the billions. During this time God and mankind together could not raise up even one perfected Adam. How much sacrifice was paid during that time? You have no idea.

God had to restore one Adam; Adam had to restore one Eve, and Eve had to restore Cain and Abel, who then must restore all the tribes of the world. Could they ever figure out how to do it without knowing the Divine Principle? Finally in the 20th century one man was born through whom God has accomplished the restoration of all history, and also through whom the course of home church was given so that everyone has a way to get to heaven. All this was done in one short lifetime. This is an incredible victory! This is so valuable that you couldn't exchange it for the whole planet.

What price tag can you put on that victory? If one person dissents and says he doesn't want to go that route, would the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven be shaken? Never. If each member has 360 homes, less than two million members could reach all mankind. Later on when people can't find 360 homes nearby, there will be a great movement as they look for an area for themselves. It is such an incredible story that it is hard to believe; you can believe it if you want to, but whether you say yes or no, or good or bad, it doesn't count any more.

Core Love and Indemnity
10.22.81, World Mission Center

This year our motto is "Victory of Home Church." We appreciate home church because it is the result of 6,000 years of religious history. Going through the home church providence enables us to launch ourselves like a rocket back to our source, God. It literally took thousands of years to arrive at the point where we are. If you wanted to, you could spend another 6,000 thousand years retracing the steps of Biblical history, but if someone could guarantee that by going in a certain direction you could get back to God in a shorter time, wouldn't you jump at the chance? This is the value of home church.

The Deep Desire of Our Original Nature
2.14.82, Belvedere

How much do you feel responsible for following my words? I have been using all kinds of analogies and explanations, but how many days during the past week did you go to your home church area? Home church has more meaning and value to your life than anything else; if you don't live up to this responsibility now, you will be judged severely later. Throughout history, religious people have made tremendous sacrifices; millions have been martyred for their belief in God. Because of the cumulative merit of all that sacrifice, home church is now possible.

Total Completion of the Ideal
2.28.82, Belvedere

You are in the position of Adam and Eve. That means that all the sacrifices of history have occurred because of you. Christians were tortured for 400 years for you, for the consummation of your blessing; the attempts to exterminate the Jewish people were for you; the Christians who are suffering and dying under the yoke of communism do so for your perfection the perfection of Adam and Eve.

When we reach the consummation on this kind of foundation, we must turn around and bring liberation to all. Spiritually, we are responsible to liberate our ancestors; physically, we have to liberate our posterity and the present and future generation. You are in the position of bearing the sins of the universe, and you must liquidate them. You are bearing the cross. However, I hope you won' t do it out of duty, but voluntarily, because you want to.

So do you now know the value of home church? You are alive and strong; how can you say you cannot do it? How many of you can say, "I definitely need home church"? Who will say, "Yes, Father, I will do it at once; on July first, I will make a new beginning"? You will spend your honeymoon in home church.

The most important thing is to gain spiritual children. I have told you how to restore your relatives and parents by writing them letters. Write to your physical brothers and sisters, your relatives and friends. Don't dismiss this suggestion lightly and say you tried but had no results.

Blessed Family
6.20.82, Belvedere

When you think about 360 homes really cry and really be serious. How important it is, how sacred it is. You are crossing a bridge between the satanic world and the heavenly world. You become a bridge so that people can go through you; everyone in hell can go through you to the heavenly world. You must understand that Father has spent all of his years and God has spent 6,000 years just to make this bridge between the satanic world and heavenly world so that everyone in the satanic world can cross this bridge and go to heaven. That is exactly what you are doing.

Father Speaks to the Crusade
9.5.78, London

Who is going to break down the barriers in the spirit world? They won't be broken down up there, but only when we do certain things here on earth. The key is on earth, not in the spirit world. The Unification Church is doing this job here on earth, breaking down the barriers between the different compartments of denominations, tribe and race. We do certain things in the dispensation to make this schedule work, and to explain the meaning of home church. When we unite the central religion vertically and unite the tribe horizontally, this unit together will cover the entire earth. Certain indemnity is paid for the sake of the world, in the world microcosm which is home church. God will recognize what you do in your home church system and give it value for the sake of the entire world. Therefore, what you do in the small home church system will have universal value.

Mainstream of the Dispensation of God
11.19.78, Belvedere

If something happens within your home church area it is not just an isolated, local incident. It is literally a world affair and even a universal affair. If someone sprains his ankle in your area, it is as significant as if some prime minister sprained his ankle. The time has come when God's attention is focused upon the small home church areas; those areas are the most important to Him. Just as with the Falklands which is such a tiny place with more sheep than people -- why are the leaders of the world so excited about it? If the United States President loses sleep over the Falkland islands, certainly it is not strange that God would be very excited and interested in home church.

Let Us Protect Ourselves
5.1.82, Belvedere

Home church is the public way. I have given you the best present mankind has ever had. With this weapon and this food, you should never be defeated. Today, jogging is in fashion, and that's good. Like dedicated runners who jog each day, you should jog to home church. You will destroy the walls between individuals and families, the walls white people put up to keep out other races, and you will enable everyone to move back and forth freely.

The Public and Private Way
1.11.81, Belvedere

You have all kinds of people in home church in America, but in Korea every person has black eyes and black hair. Here each person looks different, however. On the other hand, American home church is difficult because of negative public opinion. Furthermore, there is no longer a real American tradition and culture; today people are individualistically oriented. But that's why doing home church is a worthwhile opportunity. Will you just be spectators, or will you do it?

Cross Over the Boundary
6.1.80, Belvedere

You will see much jealousy and even hatred in your home church area, but that is just an expression of love in a wrong direction. It is love, albeit deviated love, so once it is re-directed in the correct way, it will be equally as strong. How good it will be when it is turned around 180 degrees.

Life of Experience in the Realm of Heart
3.15.81, Belvedere

The amazing privilege is that we can do this work together with our loved ones. In the history of God that was never allowed until now. Jesus died on the cross 2,000 years ago a lonely man. Now not only your own husband or wife but your children are with you. The time will come when you will go to restore your parents. That time will be hastened when you do well with your home church members for they are in a position to assist you. You must fulfill the home church of Cain before you go back to your hometown and tackle your Abel home church. Therefore, this is the hope for the salvation of your own tribe. It is unprecedented in history to be able to build the Kingdom of Heaven with your wife or husband, children and parents together. Did such a luxury ever exist in human history? No.

This special privilege is bestowed upon you but if you are just sleeping and don't know anything about it or its value, it will be shattered into pieces. How many Christian clergymen and theologians are seriously studying Unification theology? You have no idea. Soon Korean ministers will come to the United States and try to evangelize for us. A Christian minister from India came to New York, studied Divine Principle and was completely amazed by it. He became a member and now his ambitious goal is to shake the Indian continent. He has that faith and ability. Unless you do it now, you will have to give up your place to those who are coming last.

In Africa there is a special Christian group with five million devotees. If these people become united with me and want to do home church in Africa, the entire population of Africa will not be enough for them because there aren't enough homes for 360 each. Then the Africans will go to Europe, Asia and America. How can you not wake up when you hear this kind of news?

Today is the emergency turning point in the dispensation. People were martyred even for individual salvation, but now you can save the tribe and the nation at one stroke. For this, what would you hold back? Nothing. Is your mind bubbling with enthusiasm? Once we do this, there is no question that America will be revived and see the day of resurrection. The goal of achieving eternal world peace is close at hand.

The Critical Turning Point of the Dispensation of God
12.31.78, Belvedere

Now, when you are young you will visit a great variety of homes and have the precious experience of learning about human beings and human affairs. By associating with many different types of families you can experience many different things which you will then call your own. If you are with a beggar you will be able to relate to him because you have learned what it is to be a beggar. You will treat rich people in certain ways because you understand them. You will understand the working people and the uneducated people because you have associated with them. By going through every kind of experience you can become a harmonizer, bringing people together from every part of life.

Only someone with a wealth of experience can harmonize the nations, the poor and the rich, the learned and the uneducated. I have experienced all these things so I see into your hearts.

The Ones Who Can Receive God's Love
10.1.77, Pasadena. California

The messianic hope is that rope. For thousands of years the Jews waited for that life-line. Christianity has been waiting for 2,000 years. We are all chained to the ground by the world that holds us, so even if we grab the rope there is a chain preventing us from taking off. Our job is to be prepared by cutting the chains so that we are always ready to take off. That is the spiritual victory we must win. . . .

Once every several thousand years the rope passes overhead. The Unification Church is that rope, so we are the ones who grabbed it. It is a once-in-a-million opportunity, so would you just casually grab it with one hand? Or would you bite it and wind it around and around your body and legs so you cant be separated? You all have the rope, so how intensely would you become one with it? You are winding it not only around your body, but around your 360 homes, and even the root of the rope will come down-that is home church.

When you wind the rope around your home church area, you will experience every conceivable type of human affair here on earth, all the sad and joyful stories, tragedies and loves. When you hear all these situations and cover them with the blanket of God's love, it will all be healed. It is truly good fortune that God has given us such a privilege and responsibility

Liquidation and Blessing
5.18.80, Belvedere

Then it doesn't make any difference where you go. You can go to the dungeons of hell and still have spring all around; I will be there with you and God will be there with you and you will never be alone. Spiritually I will take you by the hand and lead you in each direction. That discovery of new value and the sense of permanent love cannot be found in a comfortable classroom. That kind of experience can only be obtained through knocking on the door of the Harlems of this world. By that experience alone can you taste love, which is why I am pushing you out.

The Tradition of the Unification Church
12.11.77, Belvedere

Success hinges upon this one project -- home church. By succeeding here, you have already loved God and the world. You are trying to become the atomic bomb of love, pouring love out in your home church area so much that you totally forget yourself When you hear the word home church you will remember that you suffered for it, but also that this is where you fulfilled and won your own victory. This is the place of hosannas. Since you suffered, the shining glory will be more valuable for you. No one can take away that love because you earned every bit of it through your suffering.

Home Church and the Battle of Love
1.7.79, Belvedere

Father's Prayer

Father's Prayer

January 1, 1982, Midnight
World Mission Center

Loving Father,

This is the very starting moment of the new year! We have left 1982 in Your care, and now, from this moment forward, we enter the new year. We thank You for giving us Your protection and direction and surrounding us with Your love throughout the providential course.

Even though countless forefathers have made sacrifices throughout the long and tiresome course of restoration, still it is the destiny of us today and of our descendants to go through the way of indemnity. We thank You when we think of how hard You had to work on account of the fall of Adam, in order to enable us to transcend the time differences of past, present and future.

Also we thank You when we reflect on how hard You have worked to achieve the perfection of Adam on the individual, family, society and national levels, by sending the second Adam. Because of Adam's fall, mankind had no true first ancestor. To restore this through indemnity, Jesus came to Israel in the position of True Parent; therefore, Israel and Judaism should have become one in order to receive him. To accomplish his mission and fulfill Your will, the Messiah had to go through three years of public ministry. But since Jesus died on the cross, for two thousand years You have been raising up Christianity as the new religion. These two thousand years of Christian history have been filled with blood and sacrifice. Thus, by going through the way of death, the Christian church wove the history of indemnity.

After World War II, Korea, America and England should have joined together to carry out world restoration, uniting Christianity and the Unification Church. This destined course was hindered, however, by the Christian church's repeated prolongations. When we think of this disastrous way of indemnity, again we come to realize how hard You have been working.

Here I stand as Your son to restore through indemnity Your goals. Your expectations for the 1930's and 1940's have had to be postponed until the 1970's and even 1980's. Now we are at the end of 1981, having victoriously finished the first three seven-year courses. We thank You for allowing us to begin the second three seven-year courses. Loving Father, at the dawn of 1982, please allow us to gather here in the spirit of oneness.

In this place, we the five races of mankind, become one representing all the races from around the world. This is also the place where the Unification Church built the foundation of victory centering on our True Father and True Mother. Now on this worldwide base, we have been able to begin our dispensation of home church activity, to open the way through which our children can inherit the victorious foundation on the family, society and national levels. At this moment, we are moving one step forward into the transitional stage of history, having overcome Satan's persecution; we are marching forward to another stage of worldwide welcome.

Father, I am asking Your permission for 1982 to be the year in which the Unification Church makes home church its center forming a new historical era which will be the source of the establishment of a new tradition.

Through home church, we will be able to resolve victoriously the deep resentment of our ancestors on every level. I ask you to allow us now and our descendants in the future to realize the seriousness of this way of victory.

Now we have gone past the position of servant of servants, past the position of adopted children, and past resentment, becoming able to bring joy to Heaven. Thank You for placing us where we can build an era by living for seven years centering on home church activity.

I ask Your blessing on the second three seven-year courses. In 1982, when the new home church movement is being ushered in, I ask for Your permission to establish a new tradition. Now the world which is centered on Your love will again have to take up a fighting course of love in order to overcome everything and receive Heaven's blessing. Heaven, give us your blessing. The time of sadness, fighting and struggling is past; thank You for making this era's atmosphere one of vision and longing. Father, please give us Your blessing.

Now in front of Heaven, this Unification Church can lift its face and receive praise from everyone in this four-dimensional era which we are passing through as in the twinkling of an eye. Father, I beseech You to give us Your blessing.

Forgetting the long hard course of restoration through indemnity, now I give my blood, sweat and my most sincere heart on the stage of home church. Wherever my feet have not touched, may I touch those places and enter all doors with the most sincere heart, in order to make You the master of the environment. After they become one with me, I will bring all things of the universe and all of Cain's children before You.

Also today we are entering the new year, the year when Mother becomes forty years old. Though young in years, she has been like a teacher and a parent; she serves her husband, who is sometimes like her parent or elder brother. Today You cannot help but love her, for she has undertaken and endured so well the burning way of the Unification Church. With her big heart, she has been in a position to love many children in addition to her own.

Now at the beginning of this second three seven-year course, because of the historical mission of uniting the Blessed families with True Parents' family, Ye Jin's family and Hyo Jin's family, I come before You, Father, with sincerest gratitude that the surprising event of this engagement and marriage can take place according to Your will. Father, the families of this son and daughter are not fully aware of their historical mission of becoming unified families. Surrounded by the Blessed families, these two couples, which the angelic world cannot defeat, are working whole-heartedly to resolve historical resentment; they are forming a barrier around everyone and coming before Heaven with seriousness and showing You filial piety. Thus, they can stand in the position to teach others.

Please bless the children True Parents have been longing for -- children who are in a fighting and lonely position, sharing the same mind with them, we are moved to tears. If there are heavily burdened people on the course of indemnity, I repeatedly ask Your blessing on them.

Now, facing a new land in which we can dwell in love, we must go out, according to Your order, asking Your blessing for the world of home church. Please bless our home church areas with Your glory and divine protection. I pray for Your glory and divine protection throughout 1982, from beginning to end, and I thank You for all the things You have taken care of throughout the past year, 1981.

All these things I submit to You and ask of You.

Introduction

This book is a collection of Father's words about home church from 1976 to 1982. It was compiled in order to educate brothers and sisters about the purpose and significance of the home church providence. Passages were taken from Father's sermons, leaders' meetings, and special talks to Blessed Couples.

I am convinced that Father holds the record among all the great men of history for the number of hours he has spent in teaching and giving spiritual guidance. Except for a few occasions, such as the science conferences, Father has always spoken extemporaneously, not using any prepared notes. He focuses so consistently on achieving God's will through daily activity and hard work that his spiritual awareness is very keen, and he can be continually receptive to spiritual inspiration. Such intense concern and inspiration are the foundation for him to be able to speak this way. He possesses the highest and purest ideas in the realm of religion and philosophy, but he has had to begin the course toward their realization from the lowest level of human society, while enduring persecution. Because of his vast life experiences under the guidance of God, he is virtually a living textbook of the history and struggle of all mankind. He may at times concentrate on speaking about the dispensational meaning of our present situation, but his heart is deeply rooted in God's suffering past, and already dwelling within the ideal world of the future. His thinking encompasses the past, present and future.

All of Father's heart and inspiration concerning home church has been rendered to us through translators. Father's translators are excellent; however, their work is very difficult. They must translate sophisticated concepts from Korean into concise English at a very fast pace, with no forethought or prepared text. There is a great difference between Eastern and Western systems of thought, language and culture. In many cases an English word which corresponds correctly in meaning to a Korean word simply does not exist, or cannot be found quickly Furthermore, translators are not machines: they may miss a segment, misunderstand it, or mistranslate it. The best thing to do is to learn, or at least refer to, the original Korean.

Therefore I urge you not to judge or to react quickly to Father's words. You may encounter some difficulty in understanding. Word by word, you may not grasp the meaning. Instead, think broadly, receive Father's words heartistically, and view them in terms of their context.

Home church is the most important and honorable gift passed on to us by Heavenly Father and True Parents. It is the means for us to inherit our T)rue Parents' accomplishment and to begin the building of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth as spiritually mature men and women. I hope that your study of this book will help you to fulfill your home church responsibility successfully.

Finally, I want to express my sincere gratitude to Leslie Holliday for her work in compiling and editing this volume, to Barry Cohen, Janine Jessop, and Eric Feldt for their careful proofreading and advice, to Masamizu Ozaki for his assistance with translation, and to Sarah Davati for her delightful illustrations.

Reverend Chung Hwan Kwak