Sun Myung Moon
January 13, 2001
Excerpt
Chung Pyung Heaven and Earth Training Center
True Parents arrived on January 10 to direct the preparations, taking an interest in every detail. Two separate offering tables with ornate chairs were prepared on a tiered stage -- an upper one for God and one for True Parents below. Teams of people stayed up through the night to arrange everything perfectly. Four thousand family members filled the main auditorium and an equal or greater number filled other rooms and hallways. Music heralded the start of the ceremony just before 7:00 am. A hundred and twenty couples, eighty of them Adam-nation national messiahs, lined the sides of the center aisle in robes of light and dark pink. True Father spoke at great length, praying several times and then continuing to speaking.
What are we celebrating today? [God's coronation] Who conducted the coronation? [True Parents] Can True Parents do this by themselves? We can hold this ceremony because all the people on earth and in heaven received blessings and form a homogeneous nation.
Therefore, to do that, religions from Judaism, to the second Israel, centered on Christianity, to Korea, went through the realm of the first, second and third Israels and the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament eras. The Completed Testament is the era of the blessing of everyone. Because of the Fall, committed by our human ancestors, the creation God had made in the beginning could not remain in the realm of blessing. God taught people by establishing numerous religions, leading them through the salvation providence and raising them gradually to the Completed Testament era.
The people of the peripheral religions were unaware of this. Only Judaism and Christianity paved the road of serving God as our Father. In Adam and Eve's failed history, God could love the bloodline of only one son born on earth.
Jesus' lonely course
The eldest son was born. Although the son was born, God's only daughter did not appear. God struggled greatly throughout the four-thousand- year history of salvation. One could say that God created Adam again. After making Adam, God created Eve as Adam's counterpart.
God created Eve by imitating Adam, applying the same principle and blueprint used when creating Adam. The Bible says that God created Eve using Adam's rib. This means that God used Adam's core to create Eve. God found his only son through the direct lineage of love, but did not find his only daughter. After finding Eve, God would have restored fallen history through a family. God prepared Jacob, twelve tribes (which we think of as the chosen people) and Israel, to establish a nation. Jacob's twelve children gained ground and expanded the extent of victory. This was the state of Israel and Judaism until Jesus' advent.
Jesus' environment
Israel was external and Cain-like, while Judaism was internal and Abel-like. The choice of the mother would have come on the foundation of Cain and Abel. After that, by serving Jesus, Israel and Judaism would unite as Cain and Abel. Then, centering on the blessed family, the establishment of a clan and nation would have followed. Nobody can deny this.
Even though Rome dominated the world, it would have been no match for this. External things are like flesh, while internal things are like bones.
Flesh cannot defeat bones. Centering on Israel of two thousand years ago, they would have achieved unity of all nations and the liberation of God. Nevertheless, because Jesus could not form a family by restoring Eve, destruction befell Israel and all that had been prepared.
The loss of Israel
Because the foundation of people was lost, Israel perished, and in the seventh century, Islam emerged among the central people. Muslims were brothers but became adversaries. Ishmael and Isaac were direct descendants of Abraham, but they became enemies and fought throughout history. They fought centering on Jerusalem, and Israel was lost.
If Cain and Abel had achieved peace in Jesus' time, resolution would have come to the history of war between the left wing and right wing on the national level on earth and in the spirit world. As it happened, because Israel, the prepared nation, failed, Christianity became the second Israel. Because Jesus lost his body, Christianity representing the spirit world, expanded its influence worldwide.
Post-World War II
After World War II, Christian culture unified the world. By unifying the world, the era in which the mind and body can become one arrived. Satan was completely conquered. Restoration of the allied nations and opposing nations to God could have occurred.
Centering on this foundation, if Catholics and Protestants had united representing Christian culture and welcomed the Second Advent of the Messiah, the world would have united by 1952, seven years after 1945. The coronation for the kingship of God would have taken place at that time.
God cannot intervene
Who can bring order to the world? God could not interfere with the Fall as it occurred in the garden of Eden.
Further, God could not interfere with Satan's marriage. Likewise even in the Last Days, God has no possibility of intervening. If one is sick, one cannot survive without eliminating the root source of the disease. Since false love, false life and false parents came into being, True Parents have to reject these and restore love, life and lineage through indemnity.
Spiritual life or death
What does it mean when one says, "Those who seek death will live"? Until the indemnity is complete, those who live in the world of death and who walk to the edge of death with the spirit and energy to say, "Even if I die, I will still have the energy to live," will live. For those who find death sad and fearful and who therefore run away, resurrection is not possible. That is why the Bible says that those who seek death... [will live!] and those who seek life… [will die!]. That does not sound too good.
What about God? What if God takes the position of seeking death? He will live. If God seeks to live, there is no consummation. What about me? It is the same. If I decide to live, I will die. What if I seek death? [You will live!] That is the case.
Do you think about whether Reverend Moon of the Unification Church thinks about being the Messiah or a True Parent? If I did, I would die every day. What do you think? If we seek death, a huge commotion would occur everywhere, every day. Nonetheless, to say we should seek death, even in the environment where it is not possible makes sense.
What do you think of those who want to enter the kingdom of heaven? Is it the same for them? [Yes, the same] Because I wore a heavy crown this morning, my head hurts, so please answer quickly! In order for him to save even one man, even God must go through circumstances of death. He must throw down a rope and pull up the one who has fallen off the cliff, with all his might. For God and us to live, we must have that standard.
You should surpass God
God has gone through death so many times. Those who want to go to the kingdom of heaven must be able to go through such hardships. In the end, God must tire out before you. Who is older, God or you? God is the older.
We must cling to the rope and reach the highest ground. How difficult would this be? By the time we make it to the top by climbing up the rope, God will collapse from the exertion.
Then what should we do? Should we carry him on our backs and take him to the hospital? If there is no hospital, we must do whatever we can on our own to save him. We can pray, or we can go over the hill of suffering.
Parents sacrifice for children
Who is the Messiah and Savior? Should he relax and enjoy life, or should he go through suffering so that God can rest? Can a person who enjoys life and allows God to die as a result be the Messiah? So, if I suffer, should Unification Church members play around and enjoy life? Should people who play around go to the kingdom of heaven or to hell? [Hell] Life and death are at hand, and they just want to live comfortable lives. We should say that we would all die together. If we do, we all can live. A person should not say that only he should live.
If it is certain, absolutely, that a father would willingly give his life to his son, that son must follow that father to the end. If he does not, in the end they will separate. If the father wants to die and the son wants to live, what will happen? Will they separate or not? If the father's act is different from the son's act, it becomes a hellish act. The grandson born through that kind of son would not even come to his grandfather to give him a kiss.
Among Unification Church members, does anyone want to suffer more than I have? Western members in particular must desire to receive more persecution than I have. Did you come here to go sightseeing? Or did you come here to listen to me and go through a suffering course?
The centrality of bloodline
What is today's topic? The coronation of God's kingship. The speech before the coronation is finished now. No matter what, you must go the way of suffering. You must learn what the course for you is after God's coronation.
The problem is lineage. Say "pit-chul" [pit-chul] What does it mean in English? Bloodline, say bloodline.
[Bloodline]
That is what is most important.
Kingship is not important. Parenthood is not important. Society and government are not important. School is not important. The many nations of the world still belong to Satan and not God. From now on, whether you like it or not and no matter how you look at it, whether you are an oriental, a westerner or a black person, you must listen to me, because you are having a lot of trouble. You decided not to stand in a place of difficulty. Today you decided to stand with me, and your determination should not change. You must have affection….
Three crucial points
You should not follow your bodily desires -- my body, my body Even if my body bursts into tears, you should just be grateful. Why tears? If you do not want to die, pray to be willing to die. Jesus went the same way. From now, you have to abide by an immutable law, even to the point of dying. This is the law: One must not stain the bloodline.
The second point is not to infringe upon human rights due to a mistake in the area of personnel management. Male or female, black or white, everyone is equal. One must not discriminate or violate human rights. For this reason, the leaders of the Unification Church have convened here. Regional leader status or national messiah status does not mean that you have the right to change someone's position according to your own desire.
Many people exist whose ancestors are better in nature than the regional leaders' and national messiahs' ancestors. Hence, I hesitate to move people around. When I do, however, I select from the highest level. Do not infringe upon human rights. Wherever I go, I do not discriminate against black people or those who did not complete college. The person who has true love, recognizes human rights in the correct way and possesses love for the sake of others is in the mainstream.
The creation of heaven and earth began from that point. I cannot forgive the act of diluting and squandering this main current of thought. This is the second of all sins. The third point is to refrain from stealing public money. I mean do not use public funds to fulfill selfish desires. These are three types of sin; of those who go to jail, at least 70 percent go for this reason. Will you understand this only after incarceration? Human rights infringement and lineage violation are problems concerning men and women. Then come the money problems. Following these are problems dealing with power. Money, knowledge and power have predominated.