In a prayer before his sermon during morning pledge in the Hanam-dong residence on July 1, 1992, True Father mentioned that it was the second Declaration Day of God's Eternal Blessing (Chil Il Jeol) revealing that Chil Il Jeol had been proclaimed a year earlier. The following are extracts from what Father said on July 1, 1991, also in the Hanam-dong house. He made no direct mention of Chil Il Jeol during the sermon but made three reference to its proclamation in the benediction afterward. He prayed, “Father! By having declared all proclamations as of today, everything that the providential history represented and all the conditions that Heaven worked to establish have been settled,” and “This is a time through which I proclaim that the family is the basis for the course of fulfilling our five percent portion of responsibility” and “As of July 1, everyone can apply to become tribal messiahs around the world,” thereby proclaiming July 1 as Chil Il Jeol.
Note: This speech has been translate and edited by TP magazine team, and published in July 2014 issue of True Peace magazine.
I have just come from Alaska. This time, my visit there had special significance. The first day of July this year is not just another first day of July. From the point of view of the providence, this year is central to the three-year course and is a historic turning point. All circumstances and the flow of history must change now. The democratic world, the communist world and the religious sphere have all lost direction. All foundations that mankind had proudly looked upon have collapsed.
Heaven’s stance
Whether a fruit is a true fruit or a false fruit becomes clear in autumn. A false fruit will fall to the ground and rot while a true fruit will be harvested. From the perspective of the providence of restoration or the providence of salvation, however, there are not different kinds of fruit. Religion has not been seeking many types of fruit, only one. Many religions, such as Buddhism and Judaism exist, but they are not aimed at two kinds of fruit, only one.
Who, then, is the owner of that fruit? It doesn’t belong to the founder of any religion or to any nation. The ruler of a nation cannot harvest this fruit nor can the major, ruling, religions harvest this fruit and keep it as their own. A fruit that has grown, representing all religions, must be harvested and accepted as God’s fruit.
What religion would God want that fruit to come from? The providence of salvation is the providence of recreation; in light of that, why does God need the fruit that is harvested after recreation? He is looking for fruit that has Heaven’s lineage. In order to find it, a tradition that has this connection of love centered on God must be established.
Today’s fallen humanity has inherited Satan’s lineage. This is the problem. Having Satan’s lineage running in it, how difficult would it be to cleanly return the lineage within humanity to Heaven? Heaven’s stance is more or less like that of a man that has lost a lover and ends up having to love the child of another man born from his lover. Would Heaven, however, be able to have the heart to accept children born in that manner as his direct children?
A man loses his loving wife who is taken away. Later, he brings to his home the children born to his wife and another man; he loves them more than his own children to make them into his own blood children. Have you ever seen such a thing in the world? Blessed families, in particular, should be well aware that receiving the blessing isn’t everything. It is conditional. We have now ushered in the era through which we can inherit God’s realm of heart; hence, we should know that God worked hard to establish this historic tradition.
It has been seven years since I announced that you must become tribal messiahs and establish family churches. I have taught you about this for seven years. However, is there anyone that was determined to achieve this, investing effort and even staying up nights for this? When Heaven chose Jacob, how anxious would Jacob have felt as he fought with the angel throughout the night by the River Jabbok until he won? You can’t imagine how taken aback he was when the name Israel was proclaimed on earth.
Even though True Parents are on earth, the world has treated them anyhow they wished. Everyone tried to use me and I have been used. Today, at this time, on the first day of July, you should truly lament, feeling ashamed to the point where you can not steady yourself from the pangs that you hear from your conscience and you should repent. You should know that you are in a position to repent even if you must wail while doing so.
I have left behind not only my siblings but also my parents. I have also left my country behind. I threw away everything for God. Does God have a nation? Does God have parents, or not? Does he have children, or not? I have served only God instead of my country, my parents and my siblings. I have followed my way in confidence. Now, I have overcome everything, which is why I must proclaim that ceremony today.
Until now, religious people have shed a lot of blood. However, they do not know where their sacrifices would yield fruit. That fruit is the True Parents. The religious sphere, the political sphere, the democratic sphere and the communist sphere should all unite through True Parents. Today is a time to break through locally and establish families. These were my directions. It is a serious fight, one in which our lives are at stake and one in which we either obtain or lose the whole world. Can you just stand by during such a grave time?
True Parents’ special right
God is trying to become the owner of love and life through me, through the True Parents. I am calling on you to even liberate Satan. We have waited for this era in which we can liberate even hell; I have given you authority so that you can invest effort to even save the archangel, who was supposed to protect Adam and Eve from falling. This is the course of restoration. I have proclaimed a victory that can liberate even Satan’s realm. Thanks to this proclamation, the world will begin to move centered on your families.
You all know how you are supposed to live. If you do not understand something, read my sermon volumes. How I have lived until now is all described within those volumes. Your parents represent the six billion people on earth. A husband and wife… Parents are all owners. The owners are represented by the family. Those representatives are the parents. The sons and daughters are the descendants. This is the ideal form of love in which the past, present and future are all represented. Therefore, when a son or daughter-in-law assert something centered on love, the grandparents, the grandchildren and everyone, without exception, become one. They follow that assertion. This is the right thing.
Where are the three generations heading to? Is the stem going in a zigzag or in a straight vertical direction? This is a serious problem. I am a smart person. I have settled everything in this vast, confused world and have made a strong ladder up which humanity can climb. Once people begin climbing, they can move up hundreds of floors. No matter how hard you look around, no other way is to be found. I cut down all other ladders. There is no other way up. Now that I have carried out this ceremony proclaiming this unification, please move forward full of confidence, knowing this.
If it is love, a love investing and forgetting, a love living for the sake of others, a love of recreation centered on God, that a grandchild asserts, even the grandparents would say it is right and bow their heads to it. One can become the owner of life only when one establishes the above foundation of love representing the nation, tribe and world, forms a family that is centered on love and stands in the position of an owner centered on love.
No matter what other people say, I am the global hero of this generation. This tradition must be able to shine within your family. Even if you cut off twigs or sprouts growing from me in all four directions instead of the sprout at the top of the main stem to graft to another stem that twig or sprout will also grow to become like the main stem.
If you understand this, you will know how important the entire ceremony is today, on this first day of July.
By carrying out the ceremony which God, all religions, all nations and I have hoped for and by making this proclamation, all problems will be resolved centered on this standard from now on. Just as all creatures became what Adam called them in the beginning, everything I name or proclaim will also become so because I stand in unity with God’s will and am in a position away from the opposing environment. This is True Parents’ special right./