True Parents' Work for Peace

Sun Myung Moon
September 23, 2007
Excerpt
NY, NY
A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World - Peace Message 13

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Distinguished guests, I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of great suffering and tribulation. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even as I walked that thorny path, often coming very close to death, I received Heaven's seal and was made fully aware of the destination of God's will. I held dearly to Heaven's command to bring salvation to humanity as I returned like a phoenix and continued my turbulent life.

I have come to be recognized by various leaders of religion, academia, politics and others, both here in America and throughout the world, as the champion in eight areas of spiritual knowledge and discipline.

The first has to do with knowledge of God. Until now, God has been known only as the omniscient and omnipotent Being. People think God is sitting on the throne of honor and glory as the absolute master, having nothing to do with the created world of all things.

However, from the time when I first embarked on a journey to fulfill God's providential calling to me, I came to know that the relationship between God and human beings was that of parent and child. I learned that God became the Parent of pain, sorrow, and lamentation ever since He lost His first children Adam and Eve.

Throughout my life, I have been doing my very best to dissolve God's pain and sorrow and bring liberation and total freedom to His heart. Finally, on January 13, 2001, through the coronation ceremony of God's kingship, I was able to restore His throne of glory and power and offer it to Him.

The second area has to do with the reality of Satan. Throughout history, human beings did not know the identity of the Devil, Satan who caused the human fall, leading to all kinds of evil. For fourteen years, I labored desperately to discover all secrets of the spirit world through many bruising spiritual battles. Finally, I came to find out the real identity of Satan, the origin all evil. Taking one step further, I also came to uncover Satan's strategy and tactics to multiply his power.

After I discovered Satan's strategy of defiling the human blood lineage through the Fall, I became totally committed to restoring God's original blood lineage. The heavenly strategy developed for this purpose, and now widely known throughout the world, is the "Cross-cultural and International Marriage Blessing movement."

The third area has to do with understanding of the human condition. Where are we human beings from, how should we live, and where should we go? Why are we fighting between the mind and the body, and struggle in conflicts? What is the meaning of life and death? Does the world after death truly exist? If so, how should we live on earth?

These questions and others are expounded in detail in the Principle of Creation revealed to me by God.

I have the intuitive ability to look into the hearts of men and women and predict their destiny. That is why many young people throughout the world come to me hoping to be matched with an ideal spouse.

The fourth area has to do with knowledge and understanding of the spirit world. The spirit world, the world after physical death, is a world that really exists, and to which all humans are bound to go as an extension of earthly life. Human life is one continuous stream from conception and life in the womb all the way to an eternal life, after physical death ends our earthly life. We should understand clearly that the numerous saints and sages who have lived on earth throughout history are now actually living in the spirit world. They are assisting God's providence for the earth, reborn as absolute good spirits after having received the Marriage Blessing from the True Parents.

Each moment in our earthly life is recorded in the spirit world exactly as it takes place. On the day when we go to the spirit world, our life's record will become the basis for judgment. That is why all human beings should practice a life of true love and sacrifice themselves for a greater cause.

The fifth area has to do with knowledge about Jesus. I came to grasp the terrible tragedy of the crucifixion of Jesus. He came as God's son, the Savior and Messiah, but he was rejected and opposed, even by the people that God had prepared. It was God's will that Jesus, as the second Adam, should fulfill the model of God-centered ideal family, and engraft all humankind to him.

Christianity became the foundation of Western civilization through Rome, and then became the core for the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean civilizations. It has always stood in the position of the Bride to receive the Lord of Second Coming. Therefore Christians in particular must comprehend the sorrowful heart of Jesus, who was driven to the cross, unable to fully unfold God's will for him.

My teachings clearly explain the truth of Jesus' mission, the limitation of salvation through the cross, and the reason and purpose why he should return. The sixth area is in knowledge of the core contents of the Bible and other religious scriptures. These are books of secret revelation that enable human beings trapped in ignorance after the fall of the first human ancestors to return to God.

Many of the important issues in scripture are described in metaphors and symbols. The meaning of these metaphors and symbols are to be fully revealed only by the Messiah sent by Heaven. Hence, Jesus was able to disclose the core contents and deep meaning of the Old Testament. In the same way, all the secrets of God regarding His providence of salvation, including the ideal of creation, the Fall, and the path of restoration are now being revealed by my teachings. The Divine Principle lucidly answers all the questions that are raised in all the various scriptures.

The seventh area is in the knowledge and understanding of the goal human history. History is not merely a record of events that take place by coincidence. It is flowing toward a clear direction and purpose. It is a history for the providence for restoration of human beings through indemnity, and a history for restoration for their salvation. Because of this insight into the origin and direction of history, I was able to successfully predict the sudden end of communism and dialectic materialism, in a speech delivered at the 1985 Professors World Peace Academy Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, a time when the Soviet Union was still at its peak. Today, I am declaring that it is time for all nations and religion to break down their barriers. Through this, the era of "One World under God" will arrive and last forever.

God is leading history. With the help of heavenly fortune, centering on the Abel UN, we will now make rapid progress toward a world transcending religions and nations, the Cheon Il Guk God's kingdom on earth.

The eighth area concerns true family values. God's ideal of creation is to build God-centered true families. It is the goal of His salvation providence to restore the ideal of true family, the ideal that Adam could not fulfill in his own family, and in this way to establish the foundation for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.

The Marriage Blessing movement that I have been leading is no ordinary wedding ceremony. It is a sacred ritual through which to eradicate the original sin and engraft human beings to the true lineage of God.

True families are the wellspring and foundation of true love, true life and true lineage. Through true families the true nation, true world, and true kingdom can be built. Families centered on the True Parents can become the base for the perfected relationships of the Four Realms of Heart and the Three Kingships, and become the foundation for the kingdom of heaven.

On September 12, 2005, I founded the Universal Peace Federation. Then, in order to build 'One Family under God' through the twin strategies of proclaiming God's Word and conducting the Marriage Blessing, I completed three world speaking tours with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, our children and our grandchildren. In this way we were able to successfully have three generations fulfilling the Marriage Blessing ideal within one family.

Afterwards, 120 Christian representatives in America as well as 1,200 religious leaders and 12,000 Ambassadors for Peace from across the world traveled consecutively throughout 190 nations, representing their own nation by spreading the Peace Messages of the True Parents and sharing the Marriage Blessing. This tour helped spread true family values as the universal values of humankind as we establish a new God-centered civilization.

As mentioned above, I have become well known as a champion in each of these eight areas. The support of all humanity is urgently needed for everything to be fulfilled. With God's grace, we will soon win the victory!

In Jerusalem, in 2003, on the foundation of the victory attained through such blood, sweat and tears, I had Jesus proclaimed as the king of kings before heaven and earth with the acknowledgement of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Following this, in 2004, I was acknowledged as the king of peace both in a United States Senate office building and at the Korean National Assembly. Subsequently, in June 2006, we held the Coronation Ceremony of the True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God's providence to flourish. Now, it is certainly possible for UPF to serve as an "Abel-type" counterpart to the UN in the era after the coming of heaven.

UPF will help renew the "Cain-type" UN and lead the way for millions of Ambassadors for Peace throughout the world who have taken up my teachings, centered on the Heavenly Father's principles of true love and the ideal of true family, and, without fail to fulfill the heavenly will of creating "One Family Under God."