Sun Myung Moon
August 27, 2008
Proclamation Ceremony of the Day of Complete Rebirth, Complete Resurrection and Complete Eternal Life (Fortieth day after True Parents’ helicopter accident)
Cheon Jeong Gung, Korea
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Distinguished guests from one hundred and ninety nations, who have come to celebrate this significant and providential day:
I would like to begin by offering my heartfelt gratitude to God, who protected my wife and me and all who were accompanying us. I sincerely thank all those who prayed and offered devotions on our behalf.
Today I feel truly humbled. Through the more than eighty years of my life, I have gone through countless ordeals, incarcerations and innumerable life-or-death situations solely for the purpose of fulfilling God’s providence. Although the rest of the world does not know this, my life has been a continuum of intense battles with Satan that I have fought alone.
Ladies and gentlemen, God truly carries out His providence in mysterious ways. At the time of the helicopter accident, which no one could have imagined, Heaven mobilized the spirit world and made sure Satan dare not harm my wife and me, the True Parents. Even in the eyes of ordinary people this incident was extraordinary, a miracle among miracles. It is being recorded as an amazing wonder, incomparable to any other in history.
I have publicly announced that January 13, 2013 is the day when the restoration of the homeland is to be fulfilled, and I am devoting my entire being, day and night, for that purpose. Could Heaven abandon me? As God’s representative in the flesh, I have accomplished His Will on earth. So if not with Rev. Moon, with whom will God be able to work in perfecting His providence and returning humanity to God’s bosom?
As my wife and I can once again stand here before you today, thanks to God’s tremendous grace, our hearts are bursting with emotion. We were called by God and anointed as the True Parents of humanity. Human beings are born into the fallen lineage without true parents. They are orphans who have wandered aimlessly for thousands of years. We have received the great mandate from Heaven to save all people and bring them back to God.
With four years to go, and in the final leg of our drive toward 2013, I proclaimed the combination of two halves (Ssang Hab), the combined jubilee years, which are the seventh and eighth years of God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk. As I did so, I ordered the spirit world and the physical world to advance in all directions.
It was at that very point in time that I was involved unexpectedly in the helicopter accident. Yet, through this accident, Heaven once again revealed to the ignorant and unenlightened human race that God is very much alive and active. Join me now in carrying out an explosive revolution of true love and true families.
Let us never forget, even for an instant, that we are positioned at a very urgent point in time, when we have to bring every single person in this world to become part of a blessed family.
The providential era centered on the anointed representatives
Ladies and gentlemen, on this momentous day, I would like to convey a message from Heaven to you who have come from around the world. It is a message I delivered at a seminar held in both Texas and Washington, DC, from April 30 to May 2, which brought together leaders of nations from North and South America. Humanity is now entering a new era, the era of heaven that is turning the world upside down. It is a time when God will work through the anointed representatives (boonbongwang) that, in my capacity as King of Peace, I am sending to every part of the world. In other words, it is the time when we will complete God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk.
Ladies and gentlemen, if John the Baptist had fulfilled the responsibility he had in relation to Jesus, Jesus would not have been opposed by the leaders of his religion or his nation, and he would not have gone the path of the cross. With John the Baptist at his side, Jesus would have led the people of Israel to win for God all the authority and power of Rome, in accordance with God’s preparations over thousands of years. Had such a foundation been secured, Jesus would have sent out his royal representatives, over all the roads leading out of Rome, to all corners of the world. They would have been the representatives and ambassadors of Jesus, the King of Peace, and would have fulfilled their mission of bequeathing to the world the Will of Heaven. They would have thus created Cheon Il Guk, the kingdom of peace, throughout the world, a kingdom without walls or barriers, liberated and completely free from evil.
However, we know quite well that humanity has been unable to free itself from Satan’s deception, and instead has walked a path of restoration through indemnity for the past two thousand years. The mistake of one person, John the Baptist, who failed to unite with Jesus and then died a miserable death, led to this disastrous result.
Even so, heavenly law does not allow God’s providence to be permanently interrupted or abandoned due to human error. Today, God has chosen this land of Korea to become the homeland in which His providence will come to fruition. This is because it is the homeland of the True Parents, who were infused with the spirit of this land at their birth.
I have already appointed and announced special anointed representatives for the three central nations of this providence. I appointed Dr. Chung Hwan Kwak, chairman of the Universal Peace Federation, to represent Korea, which stands in the position of the father nation in the providence. Rev. Hideo Oyamada, chairman of the Universal Peace Federation of Japan, was appointed to Japan, the mother nation; and Mr. Dong Moon Joo, chairman of The Washington Times, to the United States, which stands as the providential eldest son.
I am initiating a peace movement to unite the Americas. I would recommend someone such as former United States President George H.W. Bush as a special representative of North America, and someone such as former President Julio Maria Sanguinetti of Uruguay as a special representative of South America. As a special representative of the Republic of Korea, the providential homeland, I have selected Dr. Cheol Seung Lee, whom the people of Korea respect as a great elder statesman.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am working hard to send out anointed representatives to all nations of the world. They live in an era in which mistakes such as those committed by John the Baptist will never be repeated. Unlike Jesus, whose time on earth abruptly ended on the cross, I will surely complete the restoration of God’s homeland on earth, as I have received Heaven’s seal as the King of Peace. With God and the King of Peace as the central axis, I shall lead the anointed representatives sent throughout the world and thus create the original ideal kingdom of everlasting peace.
Please unite your minds and bodies and engrave in your hearts the heavenly message that God is revealing to you. Please remember that this message speaks of the heavenly path that will guide your activities and life from this day on.
The Era after the Coming of Heaven: A Time of the Sovereignty of Goodness
Respected President George Bush of the United States, President Julio Maria Sanguinetti of Uruguay, former and current heads of state from Central and South America, ladies and gentlemen: First of all, I would like to extend my appreciation to you, on behalf of my family, for taking part in this International Leadership Conference despite your busy schedules.
I also wish to express my deep appreciation to the United States of America and to all those nations that participated in the Korean War, and especially for the sacrifices your veterans made on behalf of the founding ideals of the United Nations and the noble cause of world peace. Knowing that this was related to God’s Will, I express my heartfelt gratitude to you.
Ladies and gentlemen, God’s desire is to save humankind from evil and sin, and to actualize the ideal He envisioned for all that He created. From the viewpoint of God’s providential plan, the Korean War was not a simple war involving one country. It was a historic, righteous war that played a decisive role in bringing God’s providence to fruition. This understanding will become an important principle and tradition for the Abel UN. Due to constraints of time, I cannot explain in detail today the profound providential plan God has had for my life’s work and for the Korean Peninsula. I will therefore speak about some aspects of God’s providence dealing with the Pacific Rim era that I have recently announced.
Distinguished guests, I have declared 2007 and 2008 as jubilee years in God’s providence. God has greatly blessed these holy years. It is a time of jubilee, the likes of which God and humankind have never experienced in thousands of years of history.
God’s heart has been in pain throughout history because human beings have been confined under Satan’s dominion. Human beings endured oppression under the sovereignty of evil throughout the Era before the Coming of Heaven. That time has finally come to an end. From this year on, the gates have been opened wide to the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven, ushering in the time of a new sovereignty of goodness in which humanity can serve and attend God as the Central Being.
Without your being aware of it, Heaven’s providence has been expanding in extraordinary ways. Now ambassadors for peace in one hundred eighty-five nations, numbering in the tens of thousands, have received my teachings and are working day and night in response to a special decree from God. Hence, today I would like to convey to you Heaven’s message, which is entitled, “A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God’s Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World.” It is a declaration of God’s plan for His dispensation and the direction humanity needs to take.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you carefully examine the progress of history, you will undoubtedly discover God’s plan and sense His presence as He worked tirelessly behind the scenes. Consider the history of civilization, which began centering on four of the world’s great river basins. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization that flourished along the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Harappan civilization surrounding the Indus River, and the early Chinese civilization around the Yellow River.
Over the passage of time, the center of civilization shifted to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished in Greece and Rome. History continued to progress, and the European continental civilization emerged. This continental civilization in turn gave birth to the island civilization of the United Kingdom, which flourished in the Atlantic sphere.
The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as “the empire on which the sun never sets,” passed its splendid culture on to North America. We know these facts from history.
Civilization on the North American continent raised the banner of democracy, which was rooted in Christianity. It bequeathed to the world the principles of freedom of religion and respect for equal human rights as it led the struggle against fascism and communism, which had established atheistic, evil sovereignties. Through victories in the First and Second World Wars and the third international conflict, the Cold War, it won victory over totalitarianism and communism.
However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great or that it was the ultimate development of human civilization. Victory came because God had chosen and raised the United States of America as the Second Israel, in accordance with His providential plan, and had raised and trained the American people through Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to its present stage of fruition.
Ladies and gentlemen, the present era marks an important milestone in the development of civilization. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has now arrived on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. History’s course has come to the point in God’s providence where it has to be concluded in the Pacific Rim region.
No force can stop God’s providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during the course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the Era before the Coming of Heaven, now nothing can prevent the rise of the Pacific Rim era. Herein lies the special reason that Heaven declared this a jubilee year.
Ladies and gentlemen, the arrival of the Pacific Rim era signifies many things. What do you think the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his life on earth? Jesus came as the savior and Messiah, to save all humankind. He did not come to save just the people of Israel, a small nation located on one end of the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome was ready to rule the seas. Heaven earnestly wished for Jesus to teach and transform Rome first and then rule her empire. Heaven was eager to bring salvation to all humanity by working through Rome’s strong civilization. Yet Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through the biblical record.
After thousands of years of preparation, God finally had sent Jesus to earth as His only Son. There is no way to fathom God’s heart as He anxiously watched Jesus’ each and every action. Jesus’ death was a tragedy that broke God’s heart. It brought Him anguish even more extreme than He had felt at the moment Adam and Eve, whom He had created as the first ancestors of humankind, were lost due to the Fall in the Garden of Eden.
During the two thousand years after Jesus died on the cross, God, in the background of history, has walked a path of suffering beyond human imagination. Through this course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the nation of the Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and Protestantism as well as the Orthodox world, the United States’ mission is to bring harmony and unity to Christianity as soon as possible and, in the twenty-first century, to fulfill the responsibility that had been the Roman Empire’s, which was not realized in Jesus’ time. On America’s shoulders rests the responsibility, within God’s providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world’s 6.5 billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world. These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven’s decree.
Then how can we unite Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev. Moon, the True Parent of humankind. God has given me the supreme command to practice a life of true love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit world to which we go after we die, and to establish a model, ideal family, a true family. Then what kind of love is true love? And what kind of family is a true family?
Ladies and gentlemen, God’s absolute true love does not instill a desire to have one’s partner exist for one’s own sake. Rather, true love’s essence is giving, living for the sake of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True love is sacrificial love, such as that of a devoted son who finds his greatest satisfaction in dedicating himself to his parents with all his body and mind.
When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually increasing our joy in each other’s company. The attraction of true love brings all things in the universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can compare with the value of true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen people have created between nation, race and religion.
The main attributes of God’s true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal. Whoever practices true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to participate as an equal in His work. A life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love, is the absolute precondition for entering the kingdom of heaven. This is the new way of life in a family where the members live together peacefully, centered on God. It is the ideal model of peace for all creation.
The path is now wide open for humanity to establish true families. God’s true family establishes the pattern for people to live for the sake of others. The warm environment of oneness based on true love and respect between true parents and true children, mutual fidelity and true love between a true husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings, is what is created by the model, true family.
This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love. In this manner, the three generations of true grandparents, true parents, and true children live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see such families, and it is your responsibility as tribal messiahs, ambassadors for peace, and anointed representatives to seek after and establish families of the kingdom of God.
If only the entire world were filled with such true families! It would be an orderly world where people govern themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no need for lawyers, prosecutors or judges.
True Parents’ great achievements
Peace-loving leaders, among the 6.5 billion people on earth today, almost 5 billion of our neighbors, relatives, and brothers and sisters belong to the Pacific Rim region. At the same time, a large segment of our fellow human beings share a common root with the Mongolian peoples. If we receive the marriage Blessing and pull together centering on God’s ideal for peace, there is nothing we cannot do. The future of humanity is in our hands.
God’s providence has now spread from the North American continent and blossomed in the island civilization of Japan, which is in a position similar to that once held by the United Kingdom on the other side of the world. This providence is now about to fulfill its destiny by reaching fruition on the Korean Peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents, who have emerged on earth in the position of the savior of humanity and returning Messiah. The Korean Peninsula stands in a position similar to that of Rome in Jesus’ time.
Religion and politics have the mission of resolving the world’s problems, yet the current conflict on the Korean Peninsula transcends religion and politics. From a geopolitical point of view, the Korean Peninsula persists as an arena of most intense confrontation, despite ongoing efforts to secure peace.
The principle of restoration through indemnity indicates that civilization will bear fruit in the Pacific Rim, centered on the Korean Peninsula.
Fortunately, during the Korean War the United Nations mobilized international forces, led by the United States, to defend the peninsula. According to God’s Will, however, the UN forces were to recover the homeland and hometown of God’s desire. They did not do so, leaving the job half done. As a result, global conflict and strife emerged, which became known as the Cold War. During this period the Korean people were deprived of their possessions and displaced, leading them to search for God.
In order to restore this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation (UPF). I then organized the peace kingdom corps and peace kingdom police force, consisting of women of Heaven’s side who have received the marriage Blessing, who love peace, and who are willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of the Universal Peace Federation. I have taken the lead in educating those involved with these organizations, which stand in the forefront to bring about a world of peace centered on God. They will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires.
I have been assisting the six-party talks currently being held to resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and to reconcile the democratic and communist nations. I am presenting a solution based on the principles of peace and harmony rooted in the new philosophy, the “Way of the Heavenly Parent.”
At this intense time, what exactly is the role of America and the United Nations? Hawaii in the Pacific and Norfolk on the Atlantic bridge East and West, link North and South, and represent the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and all the great oceans of the world. With the support and protection of the American continent, the Korean Peninsula would become the homeland that protects and defends the Pacific Rim region by bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies in the preservation of the Pacific Rim region centered on Korea, Japan and the United States.
As I was well aware of Heaven’s plans for this region, I invested thirty-three of the prime years of my life in the United States, beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace. In 1991 when I was on my way to meet Kim Il Sung in North Korea, I visited Hawaii and prayed there, at that critical moment, with the purpose of bringing an end to the Cold War era. On that victorious foundation I returned to South Korea, where I am working to complete the providence of establishing God’s homeland and hometown. This year in particular, a jubilee year in the providence, I again prayed in Hawaii on the first stop of a visit to America.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in the world. Although the days of communism are gone, even now powerful nations such as China and Russia are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to aggressively pursue their own interests at the expense of the powerless and small island nations. No small island nation by itself can deal with those nations and their economic, political or even military ambitions. Those nations are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they could dominate any smaller nation in a single day, without shedding blood.
Only when peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can we guarantee peace for all human beings. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves cannot contend with the incredible tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region. The time has come, therefore, for these small island nations in the Pacific Rim to unite and build the homeland of the new civilization. The small island nations dispersed in the northern and southern regions of the Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, need to become as one nation, forming a union to sustain the peace of the Pacific Rim civilization. This will secure peace and stability for all people.
What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm, which is a lifeline on which humanity’s future depends, from the environmental destruction and conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield its natural resources for the sake of peace in the future.
Distinguished guests, I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of inexpressible suffering and tribulation. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even as I walked a thorny path, on the razors edge between life and death, I received Heaven’s seal and was made fully aware of the destination of God’s Will. Thus, I held dearly to Heaven’s command to bring salvation to humanity. Although beaten down many times, I rose up like a phoenix and continued my demanding work.
In America and throughout the world, leaders of religion, academia, politics and other fields have come to recognize me as the champion in eight areas of spiritual knowledge and discipline.
The first has to do with knowledge of God. Until now, people have believed in God only as an allknowing and all-powerful Being. People have been thinking that God is sitting on a throne of honor and glory as the absolute Master, having nothing to do with the created world of all things. There is more to God than this image. From the time I first embarked on a journey to fulfill God’s providential call, I came to know that the relationship between God and human beings is that of Parent and child. I learned that God has been the Parent of pain, sorrow and lamentation ever since He lost His first children, Adam and Eve. Throughout my life, I have been doing my very best to dissolve God’s pain and sorrow and bring liberation and total freedom to His heart. Finally, on January 13, 2001, through the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God, I was able to restore His throne of glory and power and offer it to Him.
The second area deals with the reality of Satan. Throughout history, people have not known the identity of the devil, Satan, who caused the Fall and spawned all kinds of evil. For fourteen years, I labored desperately through many bruising spiritual battles to discover all the truths of the spirit world. Finally, I discovered the real identity of Satan, the origin of evil. Taking it one step further, I exposed and repudiated Satan’s strategy and tactics for multiplying his power.
After I discovered Satan’s strategy of defiling the human blood lineage through the Fall, I became totally committed to restoring God’s original lineage. The heavenly strategy developed for this purpose, and now widely known throughout the world, is the international and cross-cultural marriage Blessing movement.
I have the intuitive ability to look into the hearts of men and women and predict their destiny. That is why many young people from around the world come to me, hoping to be matched with an ideal spouse.
The third area has to do with understanding the human condition.
Where are we from, how should we live, and where will we go? Why are our minds and bodies fighting, and why do we struggle in conflict? What is the meaning of life and death? Does the world after death truly exist? If so, how are we to live while we are on earth? The answers to these questions and others are expounded in detail in the Divine Principle, which God revealed to me.
The fourth area encompasses knowledge and understanding of the spirit world. The spirit world, the world after physical death, is a world that actually exists, and to which all people are bound to go as an extension of their earthly life. Human life is one continuous stream from conception and life in the womb all the way to an eternal life, after physical death ends our earthly life. When their physical lives have ended, those who have received the marriage Blessing, which eradicates the original sin and opens the way to spiritual perfection, go through the sacred ritual of ascension to the spirit world (Seonghwa). Thereupon they are welcomed and celebrated on their path to the heavenly realms, where they will enjoy eternal life.
We need to understand clearly that the numerous saints and sages who have lived on earth throughout history are living in the spirit world. They are assisting God’s providence on earth, having been reborn as absolute good spirits after receiving the marriage Blessing from the True Parents. Each moment in our earthly life is recorded in the spirit world exactly as it takes place. On the day we cross over to the spirit world, our life’s record becomes the basis for our judgment. That is why we all need to practice a life of true love, sacrificing ourselves for a greater cause.
The fifth area concerns knowledge of Jesus. I came to understand the terrible tragedy of the crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus came as God’s Son, the Savior and Messiah, but he was rejected and opposed, even by the people God had prepared. It was God’s Will that Jesus, the second Adam, fulfill the model of a Godcentered ideal family and engraft all human beings onto himself.
Christianity became the foundation of Western civilization through Rome, and then became the center of the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean civilizations. It has always stood in the position of the bride to receive the Lord at his Second Coming. In particular, Christians need to comprehend the sorrowful heart of Jesus, who was driven to the cross, unable to carry out the primary Will of God. My teachings clearly explain the truth about Jesus’ mission, the limit of salvation through the cross, and the reason and purpose for his return.
The sixth area is in the knowledge of the core contents of the Bible and other religious scriptures. These are books of revelation that enable human beings, trapped in ignorance after the Fall of the first ancestors, to return to God. Many of the important issues in scripture are described in metaphors and symbols. Only the Messiah sent by Heaven can clearly reveal the meanings of these metaphors and symbols. Hence, Jesus was able to disclose the core contents and deep meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures. Likewise, my teachings are now revealing God’s truth regarding His providence of salvation, contained throughout the Bible. The Bible is a book of revelations that contains the truth of God’s ideal for the creation, the Fall, and the path of restoration. The Divine Principle, which God revealed to me, lucidly answers all the questions that have not been clearly explained by the world’s scriptures.
The seventh area is in the knowledge and understanding of the goal of human history. History is not merely a sequence of events that occurred by coincidence. It flows in a clear direction and with a clear purpose. It is a history of the providence for the re-creation of human beings in their original state, a history of restoration through indemnity and of human salvation.
Based on these insights into the origin and direction of history, I was able to predict accurately the sudden end of communism and dialectical materialism, which I proclaimed in a speech at the 1985 Professors World Peace Academy conference in Geneva, Switzerland, a time when the Soviet Union was still at its peak.
Today, I am declaring that it is time for all nations and religions to break down the barriers dividing them. Through this, the era of one family under God will arrive and last forever. God is leading history. With the help of heavenly fortune, under the auspices of the Abel UN, we will now make rapid progress toward a world transcending religions and nations. It will be God’s kingdom on earth, which in Korean we call Cheon Il Guk.
The eighth area concerns true family values. God’s ideal of creation is to build God-centered true families. It is the goal of His salvation providence to restore the ideal of the true family, the ideal that Adam could not fulfill in his own family and, in this way, to establish the foundation for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. The marriage Blessing, which is at the core of the movement I have been leading, is not an ordinary wedding ceremony. It is a sacrament through which to eradicate the original sin and engraft people to the true lineage of God. True families are the wellspring and foundation of true love, true life and true lineage. The true nation, true world and true kingdom can be built through true families. Families centered on the True Parents can be the base for the perfected relationships within the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships, and the foundation for the kingdom of heaven.
On September 12, 2005, I founded the Universal Peace Federation. Then, in order to build one family under God through the twin strategies of proclaiming God’s Word and conducting the marriage Blessing, I completed three worldwide speaking tours with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, our children and our grandchildren. In this way we were able to substantiate three generations within one family fulfilling the marriage Blessing ideal.
Afterwards, one hundred Christian representatives in America as well as twelve hundred religious leaders and twelve thousand ambassadors for peace from across the world traveled simultaneously throughout one hundred and ninety nations. They represented their own nations as they spread the peace messages of the True Parents and shared the marriage Blessing. These tours helped spread true family values as the universal values that will establish a new, God-centered civilization.
Even though I have become well known as a champion in these eight areas, we who are working for this cause cannot complete this work by ourselves. The support of all humanity is urgently needed for everything to be fulfilled. With God’s grace, we will soon win the victory!
Inheriting True Parents’ victorious tradition
These victories that I attained through blood, sweat and tears, and on the basis of the unity of the True Parents and all humankind, laid the foundation for a series of historic proclamations. First, in Jerusalem in 2003, I had Jesus proclaimed as the King of kings before heaven and earth, with the acknowledgement of representatives of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Following this, in 2004, my wife and I were acknowledged as the King and Queen of Peace in a United States Senate office building and then at the Korean National Assembly. Subsequently, in June 2006, we held the Coronation Ceremony of the True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in heaven and on earth.
Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly historic turning point. We are at a point of decision. Can everlasting world peace take root, or are we doomed to repeat the twentieth century’s dark and oppressive history of war and conflict? The twentieth century was a period of ceaseless conflicts, including the struggles of colonized countries to gain independence, the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War in which sixteen nations took part under the banner of the United Nations. The UN forces were mobilized to the Korean Peninsula under God’s providence, for the sake of regaining God’s homeland of peace. Even after that, people had to endure a period of conflict and hostility during the Cold War between nations of the Eastern and Western Blocs.
Living through this era, I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely that the United Nations, founded after the Second World War, would be an institution for peace, and that it would uphold God’s Will for the realization of eternal world peace. The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to peace. Nevertheless, around its sixtieth anniversary in 2005, there was a broad consensus both inside and outside the organization that the UN had yet to discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes. The number of member states approaches two hundred; however the offices of these states do little more than represent and even insist on their own interests. They seem inherently unable to resolve conflicts and achieve peace.
Ladies and gentlemen, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God’s providence to flourish. It is now possible for UPF to serve as an Abel-type counterpart to the Cain-type United Nations in the Era after the Coming of Heaven. It will renew the United Nations and lead the way for millions of ambassadors for peace throughout the world who have taken up my teaching, the “Way of the Heavenly Parent,” which consists of the principles of true love and the ideal of true family. Absolutely they will fulfill Heaven’s will to re-create the world as one family under God.
Ladies and gentlemen, through the international and cross-cultural marriage Blessings that transcend religious denomination and nationality, the UPF will be in the vanguard of the great revolution to restore the original lineage of humanity, hearkening back to Adam before the Fall. Some may scoff and say that this is impossible. Yet where there is a will there is a way, especially if it is God’s Will. Please think about this: What do you think will happen if people from the United States and Russia marry across national boundaries through international and cross-cultural marriage Blessings, according to the teachings of Rev. Moon, who does God’s work on His behalf? The two nations will belong to one family under God, the eternal, absolute Lord of all creation. How could anyone harbor antagonism toward, much less point weapons at, a nation where millions of their grandchildren make their home?
Distinguished guests, you who have been called by God, the holy task of building the ideal kingdom of heaven, the sacred reign of peace on earth, is being carried out enthusiastically in all corners of the world, through the recovery of our ideal homeland and hometown. This is God’s hope for engrafting the 6.5 billion people of the world to the lineage of the true tribe. At this very moment, people are competing to hold the premiere assemblies to hear the teachings of peace and receive the marriage Blessing. In all, we will fulfill this responsibility in twelve thousand locations in one hundred eighty-five nations.
Ladies and gentlemen, you are attending a truly meaningful occasion today. Please do not miss your chance to ride on the surging currents of heavenly fortune during this important and sacred jubilee year. Take the lead in protecting and developing the realm of the oceans, which cover more than seventy percent of Earth’s surface. Where else will we access the treasure stores of natural resources by which we can resuscitate the planet Earth, fulfilling our promise to end pollution and resource depletion?
The oceanic era has begun. It represents the universal era of women. The culture of the oceanic sphere constitutes the original women’s culture, transcending all nations and crossing all oceans. To create this culture, all women need to unite in heart and take concerted action under the guidance of True Mother. You need to fulfill your mission and take the lead in overcoming every obstacle to give birth to a new civilization that transcends the Pacific Rim civilization. Please take this to heart.
On this meaningful occasion, please engrave this message in your hearts. The families of your good ancestors in heaven are already blessed. Numbering in the billions, they have come to earth today to listen to this message with you. This is because it is only through you, their descendants, that they can perfect themselves and advance to the positions of true parents, true teachers and true lords and owners.
Furthermore, they must become one in heart and body with the True Parent, the King of kings. From the original position before the Fall, they have to uphold the True Parents’ standard absolutely, take an active role in carrying out their work, and be mobilized for the creation of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven through a life of service and attendance. Please remember that the spirit world and the physical world are to unite in this way as one living entity, and move and breathe together.
There is one more special request I would like to ask of you today. Please immerse yourselves in the contents of my peace messages, to the point where you know them virtually by heart, and make them the guidelines for your life. These messages of peace are a summary of my teachings, which are contained in the more than one thousand volumes of True Parents’ speeches. God will stand at the forefront. The spirit world and the physical world will unite to protect and aid you in creating the peaceful, ideal world of God’s desire, in which you can enjoy eternal liberation and complete freedom.
Our responsibility in the Era after the Conning of Heaven
Your families now need to find their place in history by fulfilling their mission as members of the peace kingdom corps and peace kingdom police force of the Abel UN, which is advancing God’s providence in the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. History will forever remember you for leading a noble life of devotion to the wellbeing of humanity and world peace. I am now developing globally the peace kingdom corps and the peace kingdom police force, which I founded. Who else but you and your family can stand at the forefront of these two organizations under the banner of UPF, the Abel UN?
Ladies and gentlemen gathered from different nations, at this critical juncture in human history, what will you do to complete the providence of building God’s homeland? It is to be the culmination of history. Will you live foolishly for the rest of your life, based on extreme selfishness and individualism, in vain pursuit of your own comfort and self-interest?
Whether you like it or not, you are now called by Heaven. You will be guided under the shining banner of the Abel UN, which was proclaimed before heaven and earth and launched on September 23, 2007. You therefore need to work quickly to complete the reformation of the existing United Nations and also fulfill the mission of the Abel UN. In this way, we will unfold God’s ideal of creation in politics, economics, culture and education, with God’s realm of heart as the axis.
No nation can be exempt from this. All the blockages and barriers are to break down before the heavenly fortune of the conjoined jubilee years of 2007 and 2008, the seventh and eighth years of Cheon Il Guk. Please become the owners of the era of God’s realm of heart, by inheriting the foundation of victory brought by the True Parents of Heaven and Earth. With our own hands, we will surely build God’s homeland.
Do not forget that democracy is a philosophy of brotherhood. Democracy serves a transitional role in reaching the age of true parents and true families, the era of the civilization of God’s heart. So quickly take a revolutionary leap over the hill of democracy.
Esteemed leaders, there is one more thing you need to know. From a providential viewpoint, the Universal Peace Federation is in the position of Abel, and another new organization, representing the secular world, the Family Party, is in the position of Cain. Those who are running for office in the eighteenth general election campaign in Korea will have to inherit the tradition of the True Parents, who have already obtained a cosmic level victory.
The Abel UN was established with the participation of one hundred ninety-four nations. In order to allow the Republic of Korea to fulfill its role as the homeland on this stage, all of you need to be active in the forthcoming presidential, congressional and local elections. Help decide the county heads, mayors, governors and so forth, and also the appointment of government officials. Please succeed in this. Your task is to bring all political parties in each nation together as one, so that we can regain our homeland on earth through public servants who represent God.
I have proclaimed and launched the Korea-Japan undersea tunnel and Bering Strait bridge-tunnel projects before Heaven. Please succeed in these projects as owners who have accomplished True Parents’ will and who support the goal of regaining the homeland.
Cheon Il Guk and the Abel UN stand as Abel. The United States and the existing United Nations stand as Cain. These two sides can create a cosmic equilibrium when they are bound together as one. All of you need to become one in heart and body with God, the great King of kings, who is the axis, with the True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace, and with their special representatives. You have to complete the creation of the original Garden of Eden, which is untainted by the Fall; that is, you have to complete the building of our homeland.
Ladies and gentlemen, each of the entities that exist in this universe, regardless of size, originated from a single source. This is not easily perceived because all relationships were severed and human beings fell into ignorance due to the Fall. However, all things of creation, including the sun, wish to live in the realm of true love, within the realm of the true lineage. This realm is a world in which every entity creates a sphere of resonance, and in which everything lives for the sake of the other according to its own standard and form while attending the True Parents and True Family.
Ladies and gentlemen, through the Fall, Adam and Eve yielded their spiritual and physical bodies to Satan. Jesus lost his physical body through the tribulation of the cross, although he blazed the path for all humankind to save the spiritual body by achieving spiritual resurrection after the victory of the forty-day resurrection period. From this standpoint, this helicopter accident has tremendous providential significance. Amid an all-out attack by Satan, True Parents obtained the complete, substantial victory, both spiritual and physical, and enabled three generations of the True Family, which had been lost in the history of the providence, to be restored and firmly established without shedding a drop of blood.
On that unforgettable day, July 19, the day of the helicopter accident, rebirth was completed. On the twentieth day after the accident, August 7, the anniversary of Chil Pal Jeol, resurrection was completed. Now it is the fortieth day following the accident, and as we conclude this victoriously, I am proclaiming the day of the perfection of eternal life. I proclaim the new day of eternal life, on which we can sing praises of eternal liberation and complete freedom by opening up a new heaven and earth, the final ideal realm of the providence centered on God.
January 13, 2013, which promises a new time and a new nation, is coming. Let us march on toward the day of the nation of Cheon Il Guk, the substantial kingdom of peace in which we may enjoy the eternal jubilee year by preserving God’s lineage and complete Blessing and by attending the original God as the Parent of all humankind.
May God’s blessings and grace be upon you, your families, and the divine task of regaining our homeland! Aju!
Thank you very much!