Sun Myung Moon
January 1, 1972
Our Leader's New Year Message of 1972
Washington DC Unification Church
1972 translation
Seoul Family Members are on the street witnessing during the period from Dec. 20, 1971 to Feb. 29, 1972. Shown above is witnessing in the Seoul Station Plaza.
It is my great honor to greet the New Year and God's Day here in America. Now I am praying for all the Unified Families throughout the world including in Korea. Last year we fought and made much progress in propagating God's Providence under the slogan "Let's insure the Unified Front!" For this year's motto, I chose "Let us protect the Unified Front!"
Look at the current situation of the world. No one can deny that the democratic countries entrusted with the external mission of the Providence are in a crisis threatening to destroy them. They are being enveloped by the menace of Communism. All the religions of the democratic countries, particularly Christianity, have been in charge of the external mission of the Providence.
Then what is meant by the external mission of the Providence? It is activities for victory over Communism, the enemy of all the religions and God. Unfortunately no established churches have taken on this mission.
The mission has been forced on the group entrusted with internal mission of the Providence. That group is our Unification Church.
Our Unification Church has appeared for the protection of religions and to fulfill the missions of the democratic nations and religion. We have a systematic theory far ahead of Communist theory. We are prepared to fight against the Communist menace.
From the Providential viewpoint, the Unification Church is the final and unique defender of God. We must, at all costs, protect every individual, religion and democratic country from Communism. If you know God's Providence, it is easy to understand the reason why I chose "Let us protect the Unified Front!" as our motto for this year.
Meanwhile our Unification Church is also entrusted with a Providential, world-wide and historic internal mission. We must fulfill our entire mission, both internal and external, to accomplish our responsibility.
Then which mission do you think is more important, the internal or external one? Of course internal one is more important. The internal mission is for God whereas the external mission is for man.
God's providence was to make a foundation to triumph over Satan through an individual connected with God; a family connected with the individual; a society connected with the family; a nation connected to the society.
However, due to the rebellion of the Israelites, the chosen people, God's providence was postponed. So we must restore the foundation of the chosen people to triumph over Satan. To do that our Unification Church has stepped forward to work with the messiah at the Second Coming. To accomplish our work each one of you must have more faith than Peter, James or John. You must overcome all the temptations of Satan on the family, tribe, race and national level to protect the messiah at the Second Coming.
Mr. Bo Hi Pak, President of the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, is reporting the world tour performance of the Little Angles at the reception held at the Headquarters, on Jan. 6, 1972
From God's viewpoint, it is better for you became a member of the Unification Church to protect the messiah at the Second Coming rather than to be individually saved. So far have I been paving the way for your family, your tribe, your race and your nation. From now you have to take charge of protecting me and forming the base of our world-wide activities. After my foundation is set, forming the foundation for all the blessed families will follow. Then we will expand to set the foundation for our nation. Then the formation of world-wide foundation will only be the question of time.
I have been persecuted by the race and the nation. Now is the time for us to prepare for persecution by the world. By being persecuted by the world we can protect the nation. Our Unification Church has been persecuted by families, societies, tribes, the established churches and the nation. This means that we, the Unification Church, have to form the external base of protection.
Now in Korea we are entering the phase for our church and the established churches to restore our Abel and Cain relationship. To try to overcome their resentment, I made the Union of Churches, consisting of churches in China, Japan and Korea. It was not for the destruction of the established churches but for their salvation. And in expectation of rebellion, I am going to form the world-level Union of Churches.
As I told you before, now is the time to accomplish national restoration. Unless we complete national restoration, we cannot restore the world. This is the reason why I have been making in Korea, the base for the world restoration.
From the providential viewpoint you are not Americans, but members a new formed tribe. Until the national restoration in Korea is accomplished, you must support it. To accomplish world restoration, every member of the entire Unification Church should be united closely with one another. In other words, Cain's individual, family, tribe, nation should support Abel's family, tribe and nation. The main reason for Jesus' failure was that the Israelites relied on Jesus without making their own effort.
This is also the case for the blessed families. It is not permitted for a blessed family to stop activities because they are Blessed. They are Blessed for the defense of Abel's family centering around our Leader.