Sun Myung Moon
December 21, 1958
Humankind Wanders In Search of the Truth: Selected Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Volume 5
Unofficial Translation
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You are a sacrificial offering representing 6,000-year history. In order to be the sacrificial offering representing 6,000 years, you must know of the heart of God, who has made humankind offer sacrifices for these 6,000 years.
How did Adam and Eve react when they were cast out of the realm of God's love, after they had fallen in the Garden of Eden? They grieved over their miserable selves who were being chased out. This became the origin of the tears of humankind and the beginning of pain and suffering. Yet the sadness of Adam and Eve was not all there was in the garden. God's Heart endured even greater suffering for Adam and Eve than what they experienced while being cast out the garden.
Thus, you belong to the tribe that was cast out of the realm of God's love; and you became their descendants. While we, humans are grieving centered on our own feelings, God is grieving even today, looking at each one of us who were cast out of his love.
How can human beings, who were cast out because of their betrayal of Heaven centered on themselves, be restored? You all must become a group of people who can shed tears for God, while holding onto God's sorrow, pain and feeling of frustration, after denying everything about yourselves like your own sorrow, your frustration and your life or death. Otherwise, you cannot be restored.
For this reason, Christianity taught you to "repent." What means "repent" is to "wail." In other words, we must seek and find the origin of history that began with tears. To do that, you must not cry over your own sorrow. You must burst into tears while holding on to God -- who has embraced human beings that had descended to the line of death for 6,000 years, and who shed tears and grieved in pain for them, even though no one knew His tears of suffering.