Sun Myung Moon
February 23, 1977
Excerpt
God’s Will and the World - Today in the Light of Dispensational History
(Unofficial Translation)
The Bible says that the ones who endure to the last shall be victorious. Not just one person came against me, not just one nation came against me, and not just this world came against me. In the course of my ministry, the entire spirit world has come against me, and at one point even God came against me and said, "I don't know you." While you are working on your mission, God opposes and tests you. But you must withstand to the last, surviving even the test of God. Then God surrenders and says, "This is my son to whom I can leave my entire kingdom."
Then God and you will make a covenant. God says, "You are the son I have been seeking, the one who can begin my eternal history. Now you are here." And you say, "I have been searching for you, and finally I can know that you are my father in heaven, and I am your own son." After that, both God and you make a covenant—covenant as father and son is made this way.
God does not easily give the title "Son of God." First, that person must become the victor over all human history. He must be in a position to pay all the debts of history. He is a rare individual. God took several thousand years to find that one man, and finally He has found him.
I have nothing to be proud of, except that I know that God is my father, and I am His son. I am proud that I am to receive the entire love of God, and that I have become a channel of that love. Finally, I can be proud to inherit God's kingdom.
The first and greatest human desires that Adam and Eve were supposed to fulfill in the Garden of Eden were to become the son and daughter of God, who were given the right to receive the love of God. They were to inherit God's entire kingdom. However, this was all lost by the fall of man. I can now proclaim to the world, however, that the original human desires and God's original plan have been achieved by man through the law of indemnity and the process of restoration.