Declaration of Return to the Home Country

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
August 1, 1993
Tarrytown, New York
Translator: Sang Kil Han

The word "Israelites" means those that are dedicated to standing on the heartistic foundation of God, in the realms of lineage, ownership and heart. Therefore, they must be set apart and dedicated to God. The mission of the Israelites is to live with God on the individual as well as the family level. Simple as that may seem, it will automatically expand to tribes, nations and the whole world.

Adam and Eve were God's second generation. God was supposed to be able to dwell with the third generation and call them His own, but because of the fall this did not materialize. God has to restore the third generation from the fallen world.

High ideals

How lofty are the aspirations of the spirit? The spirit wants to attain the greatest heights possible. Both men and women want to be the best in the world. How can there be eternal peace and happiness if each individual wants to be the highest? Because of the fall it looks as if there can never be peace, happiness, nor the absence of struggle. Since we lost God at the fall, the proper solution to this aspiration is to make God our own.

We reach as high as we can go, and at the pinnacle we find God. Should only one person be eligible to attain that point? The question is how every human being can reach that point. There must be an immense sphere, encompassing both the highest pinnacle and the greatest expanse. Everyone has lofty ideals, and the universe is big enough to encompass all of them. The ideal is to become as tall as possible, as wide as possible, and as long as possible in order to embrace the huge universe.

Like our aspirations, God's embrace extends to the far reaches of the cosmos. God says to us, "You can have as much as you want." Our thoughts and desires have to expand, and we must have an object through which we can accomplish our goals. Through give and take between mind and body, we become bigger. Through give and take with our spouse, we become even larger. There is no limit to how much you can expand.

You may think you have achieved a great deal as an individual, but there is an even further realm for you to reach. God is embracing the universe, so you should at least be able to embrace your spouse. Suppose there is a woman whose mind is so narrow that she chases her husband out after one year. Compare such a woman to the universe, which is so big that it can embrace anything. Would the universe respect her or laugh at her for being so small? [Father makes a spitting noise.] It would despise her.

The ladder of love

For each person there is a ladder enabling him or her to reach true love. How many steps does your love-ladder have? If you say, "I care only about my family," you have attained one step. If you say, "I care only about my own country," you have climbed two steps. Don't American people typically limit themselves to one or two steps? Some don't even go one step, because they don't have a family. God has a ladder of love, too. We want to take after God's ladder of love.

If your mind keeps stretching and you can act on that expanse, what you encompass becomes your property. The bigger your thinking and the more you can carry it out, the greater person you become.

Man and woman should become one so they can expand their realm and embrace a larger area. The man's eye and woman's eye, the man's mouth and woman's mouth constantly have give and take. Mind and mind, part and part revolving, so excitement. As we go round and round, we are excited and uplifted.

Do you fight with your spouse in the morning? When you get up, do you think about what you want your spouse to do for you or what you can do for your spouse? Between man and woman, which one wants to be served by the spouse? [Male voice: woman!] When an American woman sends her husband off to work in the morning, does she expect him to come and kiss her, burdening him, or does she run to kiss him? Which one? You American women: which one? Does it take so much effort to move a few steps to kiss him, instead of asking him to come and kiss you? When a husband comes to work in ecstasy, floating on the clouds because his wife came and kissed him, the office people will notice. If there are three or four people in the world like that, the world will become a different world-Kingdom of Heaven.

If you want to be able to expand or contract at will, you need this. [Father huffs and puffs.] Did you know that the earth itself expands and contracts? It is never the same size. It expands and contracts, like breathing.

All things in existence need not only vertical but horizontal deployment. You can test this theory-take something that you love very much, give it to someone, and see how much more joy you get out of it. By giving, multiplication begins. What you keep to yourself does not multiply. If you give with a true heart, the recipient will want to return to you something bigger. Then, of course, you want to return something even bigger.

Seek to give rather than receive

The country I am speaking about needs both upper and lower spheres, right and left spheres, and front and rear spheres. The country encompasses individuals, families, property and hundreds of thousands of years of history. Here on earth we have to be concerned about three major things: food, clothing and shelter. In the spirit world, there is no need for these. According to your level of achievement, you have enough to eat and wear, and a place to live in the spirit world. You cannot go below or above the realm which you deserve. If you want to reach a higher place, you have to go through the necessary steps.

Certain groups of people are more frequently on welfare. Whatever the reason may be, they are people who work less than others. In the spirit world, however, there is no welfare. People may think that they can receive money without working and be well off. However, no matter how much money you get for free, you will never become well-to-do. If somebody gives something to you, you should return something, or at least serve them.

Those who love to receive and hate to give will end up in a dark realm of spirit world. Those who join the Unification Church for personal benefit will drop away when there is nothing more to gain. In contrast, those who join the Unification Church with the desire to expand it will never perish.

New emphasis: home country

Now I am declaring the return to home country. Home country is naturally bigger than homeland. Many homelands will make one home country. Three years ago I declared homeland. Now I am declaring home country. Did you go to your homeland? I said tribal messiahs should go and serve God in their homeland.

[Father writes on the blackboard.] First is land, second ancestors, and third, living with God. This is our homeland. God must have the land upon which He can love Adam and Eve and where they can live with God. However, this process did not happen because of the fall. Now we must go back and do it. We must return to our home country with our tribes. Both here on earth and in the spirit world, we must bring our family back to the country. We cannot go alone.

After forty years in the wilderness, the Israelites returned to their country. When Jesus lost his body [from this point, Father gave the rest of his sermon in English], the Muslim world took over the home country of the twelve tribes of Israel. The loss of Jesus' body represented the loss of the blessed land.

Kim Il Sung said, "I am the father." Reverend Moon says, "I am the father." The parents separated into two blocs, and the fathers fight. How can they combine into one? Not by pushing power. My mission will be accomplished by surrounding Kim Il Sung, Satan's [chosen] father.

No one opposed us

In Texas, David [Koresh] was fighting the government with weapons. I stood up. All American leaders proclaimed: "This is a dangerous time. Father, don't do that." However, this is our chance, the time and place for resurrection. Do you understand? [Translator: Where there is death there is also resurrection.] Reverend Moon, the real Second Advent, marches on. You can analyze which is the good one, and which is the bad one.

Members objected to me talking about the Completed Testament. I spoke the truth. The fifty-state rallies were victorious. Not one man stood against us. High level people are going down, down, down. Compared to them we are going up, up, up. Ultimately we will surround the Christian world. Who did it? Not Father only. Mother too. This is the victorious foundation. No one can deny us this. Not Satan, not any country, not any organization. Our concept embraces every kind of historical concept.

Where is America headed?

The world is a dungeon of hell. There is no cooperation. The world tells American people, "Yankee, go home." Do American people have a home? No home. Husband and wife don't have children. They are separate, sad. Homosexuality is the terminal point of secular humanism. This is homeland? American people themselves don't like that. I proclaim that kind of concept WRONG!

Everywhere I visit, the older people turn around. They know where this country is heading: to the dungeons of hell, to rolling perishment! Ask American people, "Is there hope for your country?"

I stand here as the central pillar, in the elder position. Americans lost their parents, their family, their nation and their world base. They want to take everything freely. [Father makes spitting noise.] This is the reality in America. I went to the main cities to cast a heavenly bomb. A new age is coming to America. I made the rally on Capitol Hill.

No matter how proud Americans are, they are going down a dead-end road. America doesn't have the real family system. America doesn't have the real nation. I have the formula for both. The grandparents are in the position of king and queen of the past, the parents are in the position of present king and queen, and the next generation are the princes and princesses. The family system is set up centering on True Parents' ideal. The Completed Testament is coming. The sun is rising all over the world. All creatures receive light from the sun.

In America everything that is alive will prosper, center on True Parents, and connect with one center. This is not a concept. There is already a victorious foundation in fifty states, blessed by God. Bring in the roots this morning and connect to True Parents. The individual kingdom foundation, family kingdom foundation, tribal kingdom foundation, and national kingdom foundation will be centered on God and True Parents.

August first is a memorial day

This ceremony is on the first of August. We are starting again. This is a memorial day. Now is the Unification Church's time. The sun is rising.

People can compare and choose. Unification Church members cannot compare with secular people. American people don't have tribes, so I made tribes.

After World War II, Christianity should have taken the Christian concept and occupied the whole world, unifying it under the slogan, "One world under God." From the beginning the purpose of the Christian world was to establish one world under God. Who is the owner? The Second Advent. The Second Advent is God's side, the true son king, the true family king, the true tribal king, the true national king, the true world king and the true cosmic king. God has all authority, and He bequeathed it to the Second Advent. He is the owner, fulfilling the real purpose of the individual. He is making the real family, real tribe, real race, real nation and real world. He is making the real cosmic king's victorious family foundation.

God is following not America, not Christianity, but Reverend Moon. When everything was lost, I had to reclaim True Parents' position. There was no easy way. Satan occupied four thousand years of history. I had to reclaim it. It was a heavy mission, to restore the individual, family, nation, world. How serious a situation it was, you don't know. Mother doesn't know. The children don't know. I had to make a highway for the world.

Who owns that foundation? The first owner is God, the next owner is me, and the third owner is true mankind. No matter how much people oppose my teaching, there is only one way for the world to move forward. When did you pay indemnity on the individual level, tribal level or national level? You didn't pay restitution even for the individual base. I did everything. Why? This is the parents' mission. Adam and Eve made mistakes, so payment must be made by parents.

God made a foundation that never changed. We have to make that kind of absolute system and teach that concept. The parents' mission is to restore the Old Testament (all things) and the New Testament (children). The Completed Testament means parents, and based on parents, property is decided. We must restore all things, restore children, restore parents and restore God's position. This is the kingship of parents, and from this kingship will emerge true childhood and peoplehood. True Parents represent the authority position, connected to the original family of Adam. We represent the vertical height and horizontal breadth of the ideal world, centering on true love. We represent hope.

Plant God's seed on earth Since you also have that individual value, you can start making that kind of family. Be a tribal subject, a national subject, a world subject and a cosmic subject. Mankind inherits God's living seed and can plant it on earth, horizontally making God's children, God's seed on earth. The bigger family has the most blessed foundation. When the conjugal heart, the parental heart, the brotherly heart and the children's heart become complete, they form a sphere, representing God.

The fruit of everything is marriage. God originally created everything centering on love. Man represents the east hemisphere; he is half completed. No matter how handsome he is, man needs the opposite partner, the woman's hemisphere. Man is the representative of God, who has the life seed.

American women say, "I don't want to marry, but I want to have a child." Why did American women come to that kind of miserable situation? Incest. The American family system has turned upside down. The grandpa occupies the granddaughter. For a woman to receive that kind of treatment is worse than anything. [Father makes spitting sound.] She says, "I don't like man." The grandpa has sexual intercourse with his granddaughter or his niece. She casts aside her parents, grandparents and brothers, saying that she doesn't need them. She is against men. But she cannot live alone. When the woman absolutely doesn't like men, or the man doesn't like women, the comforting partner for the man is man, and for the woman is woman. In this way, incest leads to free sex. How can you call that the original world?

The homosexual man puts his "stick" in this hole. Think about it. [Father spits.] The sexual organ is the most precious place, the love palace. Palace means "the starting house." The original starting house must not change. God wants to dwell in that center. It is the connecting root for the ideal parents, ideal family, ideal nation and ideal world. By falling, mankind lost that and lost everything.

When the woman meets the man she feels an exciting power in her mind and body. When she touches the man close, there is a connecting current, an electric power. Centering on love, man's life and woman's life connect. Man and woman are blessed to be one body, centering on love. The sexual organ is the love palace and the life palace. In that life palace you connect with happiness; you connect with the nation. It is the place of true parenthood, true ownership, true teaching. You can freely connect in sex intercourse in the unified, ideal couple's world.

When man and woman's body and mind mix, their lineages mix and connect into one. With shooting power you conceive children. During her first experience of love the woman feels stimulating, high-level excitement. "Ah-h-h-h. I am happy as a que-e-e-n!" The man says "I am as happy as a king!" All five senses focus here: pf-f-f-f-f! After such a course children appear. Here you find formation, growth, perfection.

The tide is changing

The true language ultimately makes up the true cultural background, true habits and true lifestyle. It takes three generations to make a complete change.

No man can deny that my words are correct. When you go to the spirit world you will find the exact concepts I am teaching. Americans talk about freedom and being joyful. I am telling you to become an ant! American people like dancing and joking. You don't want to be an ant. You are proud of your cultural background, but you don't have a value system. The Japanese always occupy everything. You don't have ownership, because it is changing to the Eastern world. The tide is changing due to heavenly destiny. This time compares to the Korean War. The spirit world is coming, so I am pushing.

Universal existence combines both vertical and horizontal dimensions. America doesn't have a vertical pillar. Americans need ninety degrees and Koreans need ninety degrees. They should combine. Germany, Japan and America were enemies, so they should make combinations with each other.

People have horizontal and vertical characteristics. The mind is vertical and the body horizontal. There is only one central, vertical position, that of true love. True love is the royal pillar. It takes the subject place forever. If you take such a position, everybody will automatically connect with it.

Home nation is our purpose

I sent you back to hometown. Hometown is not our purpose; home nation is. The Israelites had hometowns, but they didn't have their home nation. They needed to connect to the Messiah to found their home nation.

America represents the Christian world because it inherited the Israelite family system. However, after World War II they did not connect with the Second Advent. For the first time in history, the real husband was in this world. He appeared in order to find the real wife. The unity of Cain and Abel is the foundation for the bride's position. After World War II, England was in Eve's position, America in Abel's position, and France in Cain's position. Anglo-Saxons connected with England founded America. Eve, Abel and Cain were planted on the individual level, and the harvest was on the world level. The enmity between mother and son and between brother and brother bore fruit on the national level. England fought America, and England fought France. However, during World War II they became Allies. God made the fruit. On the other side, Japan was Eve, Germany was Adam, and Italy followed, like an Archangel.

The Old Testament contains the promise of the Messiah. The Israelites had absolute faith in that promise. Elijah, the heavenly-side Cain, came to clean up the way for the Messiah. Elijah ascended nine hundred years before Jesus in a fiery chariot to heaven. Then John the Baptist came in the heavenly Cain position, and all Israel could have followed him to the Messiah.

Jesus said John the Baptist was Elijah, meaning that he himself was the Messiah. The Old Testament portrayed the Messiah as a powerful figure, a king. Jesus was the son of a carpenter; they did not see that as a messianic position. Also, everyone knew that he was the fruit of illicit love.

Who was Jesus' father? Christians say that Jesus was born to a virgin. Without man is it possible to conceive? [Impossible.] Who is Jesus' father? [Zachariah.] Who taught that? [You did.] Several times in six months I said that. Who is Jesus' father? Zachariah.

Now America is in the Cain position, Korea is in the Adam position, and Japan is in the Eve position. Japan and Korea were enemies, and Japan and America were enemies. Do you like Japan? [Silence, then laughter.] Do you like Japan? [Yes.] Forty years ago they were your enemy. The Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament centering on God made a new foundation. I am in the bridge position between the secular world and heaven. This is God's secret, not mine. The owner is God. Centering on true love, everything becomes complete. The Messiah stands as the owner, inheriting everything. You can inherit ownership by following the formula way. Have absolute faith. Those who analyze everything to see how it can benefit your viewpoint cannot endure indemnity. Get rid of your concepts and connect to God's side. Follow Adam's way. Follow the Eve nation. Don't just follow but dedicate yourself to Japan and the Adam nation. Take the servant's position.

The corruption of God's ideal

You don't like it when I say that America and the Western world stand in an archangel position. The archangel position didn't have partnership. Free sex denies partnership and disconnects people from the family system, losing grandparents, parents, conjugal love and children. Satan takes people to the dungeon of hell. The mission of the satanic archangel position is to destroy the original ideal base, corrupting the ideal of creation. America is the exhibition hall of free sex, homosexuality and lesbianism. One generation can wipe out humankind. If Satan makes all humankind crumble, even God cannot remake the ideal world.

American husbands say, "I cannot go back home. My wife is like a devil." Parents cannot go home because their children took over ownership, like a devil. People completely deny their parents. Satan made this foundation.

Christianity received so much persecution throughout two thousand years. They achieved prosperity. After World War II, America was in the king's position of the free world. It held the leader's position, enjoying great prosperity and absolute ownership. This one independent nation should have formed one world under God. It had a glorious, valuable position. After World War II, the victorious free world turned back to Satan's side. The Korean War represented a complete breakdown. How could one small Korean guy connect to all the world? Nobody could believe it.

Regardless of the opposition, the Messiah is correct in God's viewpoint. God's side is hit first and then takes over. For forty years, every individual, family and nation opposed me. Did America or any nation say, "We will help and follow Reverend Moon"? No. Pf-f-ft. After Danbury I ascended into heaven, just like Jesus. Now, seven years after Danbury, that position is restored.

The proper positions

The American government denied me, but it will ultimately recognize me. It cannot oppose me forever. Is my way declining or prospering? [Prospering.] Will it end or keep marching on? [Keep marching on.]

America and the Christian world failed to make the worldwide bride foundation, chasing me into the wilderness, like Jesus. John the Baptist did not connect with Jesus, so he lost everything. Jesus went to the wilderness, and the nation of Israel was chased into the wilderness, too.

Cain and Abel must combine and connect with Eve. This is the time of the Second Advent. All nations will become one, making one world under God. For the first time in history, religious and cultural backgrounds will unite to form the national base for the ideal, peaceful world. Those countries have to unite with God's side and connect to the Messiah.

In this country, man is in the archangel position. Centering on man in the fallen position, people cannot find the Messiah. Man's fallen position keeps people from finding the ideal world. American women deny archangelic men and pursue free sex. In American families, women are like queens, grasping all the power in the family. The husband is like a servant, saying "I want money. I want to spend this much today." The angel gave Eve that authority.

The true husband went through training from World War I to World War II. But women did not meet the original husband and chased out the Second Advent. Now the second generation in the Christian world oppose God. After World War II there has been a vacuum in the free world. God permitted it. Kh-kh-kh! Satan corrupted God's ideal. Americans like sexual jokes. Satan completely occupied this territory. No one can take a stand against that kind of phenomena. People deny the nation, the society and the family.

Did I sit down and disappear after that release from the dungeon of hell? No matter how much I was pushed down, I didn't die but was lifted up. For seven years the Western world opposed this new world. During the seven years I made the victorious foundation.

Stand at the zero point

The crossing point between the two worlds is the zero position. To stand in the center you must have no concept. The Japanese women need to say, "I am not Japanese." If you are recognized as a Japanese woman, think of that as being connected to Satan's tradition. The same applies to Americans too. When people ask if you are Jewish, say that you belong to the heavenly race.

The zero point is the place of change. Those who are off the zero point are Satan's type. Those who are completely on the zero point are God's type. Even one percent difference distinguishes between Satan's world and God's world. No matter how difficult your situation is with fallen ancestors, unless you reach the zero point and pass through it you cannot connect with the Kingdom of Heaven.

Don't say, "True Parents never taught me." I am teaching the correct system. How can you take the individual viewpoint, family viewpoint or tribe viewpoint, as opposed to the cosmic viewpoint and God's heart? If you lose everything, will you blame your difficulty on me?

You have to realign yourselves and make a complete foundation. True Parents are raising the vertical ladder which fallen people need to climb. Keep looking up. It's fearful, isn't it? The only straight ladder is True Parents' ladder.

On April 10, 1992, women representatives gathered from seventy-two nations in Seoul for a victorious conference. From there we proclaimed women's liberation all over the world. Which direction should liberated women take? Mother's way. There is only one way, and Mother is following me. People change their minds and change the color of clothes they wear. Everywhere Mother goes she wears pink. Wear the color pink, and connect with Mother.

There is one women's tree. Mother is the central root and central trunk. [Father draws on the blackboard.] Satan has a deep root, but Mother's root is deeper. If you connect with that, growing will be no problem. For the first time, the world's women are connecting with my teaching. All women ultimately need to connect with Mother. Their lines are thin and they need to connect with Mother's big line. Women all over the world connect to the Women's Federation for World Peace. It is the most powerful women's organization in history, because it connects the providential viewpoint to women's organizations.

When all womankind comes to God's side, they represent one woman. God looks at all humankind as one woman and one man. Man represents the archangel position, the woman Eve's position, and I the husband's position. This is the horizontal expansion of the family foundation.

Expansion of messiahship

The center of the nation is the family. I sent out tribal messiahs. The foundation to stand as a tribal messiah is the family messiahship. The family messiahship is the formation stage, tribal messiahship is the growth stage, and national messiahship is the perfection stage. This is horizontal restoration, connecting family, tribe and nation. The world "Messiah" is the trunk position. There is one trunk position. That is my position. I made the original victorious trunk: the family trunk, tribal trunk, national trunk and worldwide trunk. It expands horizontally as Mother connects with all women.

After World War II, the Christian world was standing in the heavenly archangel position. The Christian world was in the Abel position and the free world in the Cain position, making preparations for the bride, the queen, the owner of the earthly palace. However, they opposed the Second Advent, following the pattern of the Old Testament Age.

In 1992, Mother made a victorious foundation, a national base, as she fought to digest the Christian world. This year she extended it to fifty states. No one stood against Father and Mother. This means that the lost archangel is now welcoming Eve and the Second Adam.

The American archangel is following Mother, restoring the original situation of Adam, Eve and the archangel. Now the archangel is being influenced. In the US capital, True Parents and the Completed Testament Age was proclaimed. Next it will be proclaimed to all the embassies, restoring the lost foundation after World War II centering on America. The free world will come back to me again.

Go to the senators, representatives and ambassadors and explain this. American couples should contact organizations that can teach this kind of concept. Otherwise, American families and the American nation will disappear.

Do you have my guts?

This is the crucial confrontation. Japan and Korea are making noises. I say, "I don't care." How about you? Are you connected with me? Do you have my guts? Huh? Huh? Do you have my guts? You did not cross the forty years of wilderness. Centering on me, you will restore the home town and home nation. We have to build the nation. Restore your personality, your dignity and your position. You have to complete your tribal messiah mission and then register in the heavenly nation.

Through the women's organization, Mother embraces the children. Once the center is set up, to embrace children is no problem. From now on, women have to take this position and connect with the original husband. Your husband is in the archangel position. The children stand in the position of Adam's seed, connecting to Eve. When Cain and Abel unify, they can connect to the Father's position and become one with True Parents' family. When the mother and children welcome the Messiah and completely follow him, they can be blessed and move to God's side.

The worst fallen archangel did not overturn my victory. Father and Mother are the center. At the time of the fall, the archangel took the mother to his side. Now the archangel must connect to the Eve nation and help it. Mother goes in September to Japan. On Capitol Hill, the fifty states of America welcomed Mother. If Japan goes against that, Japan will be a barbarian nation. Those who don't know the Christian concept are barbarians.

Japan should combine with Korea. The Archangel, Eve and Adam nations should combine. Who made the separation on the Korean peninsula? America and Japan. America represents God's archangel, China the Asian archangel, and the Soviet Union the worst archangel. Those three archangels, along with Adam, want to occupy Japan. I am the original husband. I surround those three archangels and ask, "What are you doing? Do you have ownership?" Only I can make a peaceful world. They cannot unite in their opposition to Japan. The outside world cannot deny the actions of the Unification Eve. The secular world will disappear. [Father spits.] Eve, the archangel and Adam will connect in an unbreakable partnership.

The starting point for the new nation

Korean women are the elder sisters, the Japanese women the younger sister, and the women of the world the youngest-three generations connected by one line. The women and children combine to form the family foundation. For the national foundation, Mother and the archangel connect with the Father. All individual, family and national foundations will connect, and South Korea will be stirred up, centering on me. Ultimately, North Korea will be no problem. Satan, the fallen archangel, will connect with the heavenly archangel position, centering on America, Red China, and Russia, and Eve's country. Their position is getting narrower, while my position is expanding. Unless he follows me, Kim Il Sung will pass away. China says that after Kim Il Sung dies, they will no longer recognize North Korea as a country. Through this kind of phenomena we can unify the Korean peninsula.

Go through Satan's side, through Cain and Abel, and through the fighting world. No matter how severe the situation in front of us, we will pass over. You have to have that confidence and that determination. Today, August 1, commemorates that determination. After July, all this area [Father writes on blackboard] is turning. Eve is the center for Cain and Abel. The archangel follows Eve, and then the Eve nation and Adam nation connect. Today, August 1, is the exact starting point of that nation. This is the parents' world and the Completed Testament age. The world will welcome me and the Unification Church, and within several years, the world can be put in order.

We have to save the nation. Today's motto is, "New Family, Independence, Home Town." Every country will follow our example, and there will be no persecution. I am making a three-level organizational system. You need to be trained according to that orderly system. You have to have tradition, education and action. Carry out God's tradition and True Parents' tradition, connecting with God's viewpoint of history. Following my example, you have to construct something yourself, without help from anyone. Be independent, and then help others. Don't take a debtor position. No matter how difficult it is, add something to the heavenly side every day. Follow God's tradition working and adding to the other side. Then you will be welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven.

For the sake of the nation, we march on. The mission of blessed couples is to form the ideal nation. How important the tribal messiah mission is! Without connecting with this mission, you cannot stand on the earth world or spiritual world. After you complete your tribal messiah mission, you have to register as citizens of the nation. How big your tribe is will connect with the happiness you will possess forever in the heavenly world.

Children connect with Parents' foundation

True Parents made a proclamation and got the victory in fifty states. Shouldn't children connect with the parents' foundation? In the twelve cities where I spoke, True Parents' children have to inherit that tradition. Especially in the three biggest cities-New York, Los Angeles and Chicago-they should proclaim what True Parents taught. My children, as the Abel-position children, will now take that role. You, as Cain-position blessed couples, should connect with that base. In this way, families in the Cain position will connect with families in the Abel position and True Parents' family to make a worldwide foundation that will eliminate Satan's settlement on the earth. Your couple and your children have to do this. For the first time I am teaching that all blessed couples have to go this way. This is the tradition that the family, nation and world have to follow.

Centering on Father's family, four blessed children and their families-representing East, West, South and North-will make a sacrifice. No matter how difficult the situation of their family is, they want to protect Father's family. You have to obey the principle, sacrificing and dedicating yourself one time without complaint in order to protect Father's position. If you don't have that kind of tradition, you have to set it, centering on True Parents' blessed couples. The Cain-side blessed couples have to inherit the tradition through True Parents' family blessed couples. From there you will automatically connect to the direction of twelve tribes and seventy- two elders. Otherwise, you cannot enter the world of the Israelites.

No matter how hard you worked in the past, the final purpose of the tribal messiah mission is to save one hundred sixty people, representing the one hundred sixty nations (like the one hundred sixty nations that participated in the Seoul Olympics and the one hundred sixty member nations of the United Nations). At the time of the Seoul Olympics, all one hundred sixty nations passed the period of indemnity, centering on True Parents.

No matter how difficult your situation is, you have to live in your hometown three more years. Why three years more? You need to eat and digest the elements from the original land. Like a child, drink the water and eat the food there. That is Abel food, not Cain food.

Did I end my work here in a diminished way or a victorious way? [Victorious.] Now you clearly know the way. You have to save your children and your husband, connecting them to True Parents. With that victorious foundation, you can connect with the country, the original ideal world.

[The translator prayed, and then Father invited everyone age fifteen and older to East Garden.]

[Edited for Today's World.]

Be the Standard Bearers for True Parents and the Completed Testament Age

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
June 27, 1993
Seventeenth Commencement Address
Barrytown, New York

Distinguished guests, parents, graduates, alumni, administration, faculty and staff, ladies and gentlemen: On this happy and joyous occasion of the Unification Theological Seminary's seventeenth graduation exercises, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to the forty-three new graduates. At the same time, the administration, faculty and staff of the seminary, who have helped these graduates complete their academic program, also deserve to be congratulated.

On this special occasion, I would like to speak to you regarding your future and the problems of the world today. The year of 1993 is the most significant in human history because it ushers in the new age of God's providence called the Completed Testament Age, which will consummate God's ideal for His creation of the universe and human beings. This new dispensation has already been proclaimed to people throughout the world. It is shocking to some, others rebel against it, and still others don't know how to react to such a radical proclamation. This is especially the case among religious leaders of the Judeo-Christian faith and other main religions. Actually, these people have no idea how to deal with my unprecedented proclamation.

Heavenly Father does not want to delay

When we look back on religious history at the small group surrounding Jesus two thousand years ago, we find a parallel between that time and ours. A similar proclamation was made to the Jewish people and religious leaders of that time. The religious leaders of that time were shocked. They investigated Jesus and his message and they still did not know how to react. They did not know what to do about his claim to be the Messiah for whom they had been waiting for four thousand years, as described in the Old Testament. The exact same pattern is found in this century as my wife and I proclaimed ourselves as True Parents and the Messiah in the Completed Testament Age. You and I know this situation and circumstance very well, don't we? During our Thirty-three City Tour, Mrs. Moon and I proclaimed God's message for the new age, and most of the people responded positively. Some groups were negative about what we said, but whether people like it or not, accept it or not, I have to make this proclamation because God commanded me to do so.

Heavenly Father does not want to change or delay His dispensational plan and timetable to restore the world and the people now under Satan's control. That is the reason why we are boldly proclaiming God's providential plan and new message to all humankind and all religions. There is no other way to save the corrupted world, to save the lost souls from the earthly hell where we now live.

Let us look at the religious and political worlds. Major religions, all claiming to be centered on God, are not united. Rather, they are divided and fighting with each other, even to the point of using violence, as we see in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, to justify their narrow-minded doctrinal orientations as they interpret the ideals of the founders of various religions. How can this happen in the name of the same God? If God exists, how can this happen? I say to you, you need to give a clear explanation of these phenomena in order to persuade today's young people. The political world is also divided, into right wing and left wing as well as into secular versus sacred value systems. Political corruption is everywhere. We have to eradicate political corruption as well as religious disharmony, both within denominations of Christianity and among the great religions of the world, so that people can receive the coming Messiah as True Parents in the Completed Testament Age.

In the past we have continuously done inter-faith work among the major religions, so that we may work together under the banner of True Parentism with messianic ideals. We have also been working to bring unity in the political arena between the extreme right and extreme left. We have been working in both areas. Since the Cold War ended, finally the ideal of True Parentism can bring harmony and cooperation among differing political ideas and lead to the emergence of solutions to end the political confusion and conflict now brought about by emphasis on national, ethnic, and racial purity and separatism. Even during the post-communist era new measures to solve all these problems should be explored and developed into practical solutions to bring global peace at this time. Today there are no clear moral and sacred values in the world, even though communism has ended.

The model family

In order to bring a halt to this situation of chaos and confusion of ideological wars in the religious and political arenas, I would remind you of my teachings of the four great heart (shimjung) spheres of heavenly love and the three great kingships. What does this mean? What is shimjung? Shimjung can be defined as "a strong emotional desire to obtain happiness and joy through love." In other words, Shimjung is an uncontrollable, irresistible stimulus to feel nothing but the desire to love. God created the world and human beings to love as His objects because of His own shimjung . He created everything only out of the desire to love creation and human beings.

There are four shimjung spheres: parental (to children), conjugal, sibling's, and children's (to parents). However, shimjung, the desire to love, is meaningless if it cannot be, or is not, acted upon. In this sense shimjung is the other side of true love, just like the other side of a coin or the other side of a piece of paper. Thus, we can say shimjung is equal to true love. However, neither shimjung nor true love grow automatically. Just as a baby growing in the midst of a family receives parental love gradually and grows stage by stage until adulthood, shimjung and true love must grow gradually through effort and time. Among the four great shimjungs it is conjugal shimjung/true love that is representative of the other three. This means that within conjugal shimjung there are aspects of the other three types. However, all four types must be experienced by, and grow within, each and every family, thus creating the world of four great heart (shimjung) spheres of heavenly love.

Then, what are the three great kingships? I must say that there are also three great queenships, but for ease of speaking I include these in the explanation of the three great kingships. Those of you who have studied the Divine Principle know that every object has three purposes: to relate to each of the other three positions in the four- position base through shimjung and true love from the position of object. In the same way, there are three subjective positions and purposes-to relate to each of the other three positions in the four- position base through shimjung and true love from the position of subject.

The head of the family is in the king's position, the subjective position, the position of parent. The position of husband/father in the family is that of a king within his own family. In the same way, the king (or leader) of a nation is also in the parent position to the people of the nation, and holds both subjectivity and authority. This also applies to the school, work place, country and world.

So why three kings? This means three generations: grandparents, parents and children, three generations of kings. Then, how can one family have three kings? In actuality, only one king rules, but the grandparents represent the kings of the past and Heavenly Father, the parents represent the present king, and the children represent the future kings who will one day be parental kings of their own families. Why this royal title? Simply said, God wanted the ideal family, the school, the work place and the world to give the highest honor and respect to these three identities. There is nothing like this in the existing society and world, so we have to work very hard to reach this standard and ideal which God had already planned before the fall.

God's ideal family is revealed in my teachings of the Unification Principle. The family must maintain total focus on Heavenly Father and True Parents in order to realize the four great heart (shimjung) spheres of heavenly love and the three great kingships. The realization of all these things begins at the family level as the basic unit which leads to the clan, society and world levels. This is why I emphasize the heavenly, ideal family unit on earth as a new concept of family centering on Heavenly Father and True Parents. This family is the only center of the clan, nation and world. This is the absolute, Golden Rule. This is our philosophy and way of life, to be a model to the people of the world, living daily with Heavenly Father and daily attending True Parents. This is the model family in the Completed Testament Age.

Tribal messiah mission

In the Divine Principle, the blessed family is the cornerstone for the creation of God's ideal on earth. We have now, throughout the world, over fifty thousand blessed couples in our Unification family. In order to realize God's ideal for creation and humankind, we must set up the heavenly tradition through new education and training for those blessed couples throughout the world. You must work hard to recruit new citizens for the new age so that they can be blessed and become honorable citizens of the ideal world. You have to work harder. When you are bravely proclaiming this new age of the Completed Testament even in the face of difficulty, hardship, rejection and opposition, you have to work hard to bring the people. There is no alternative to fulfill God's will in the Completed Testament Age, there is no other way to save the world.

I already gave all the members of the Unification family a mission which we call "tribal messiahship," in which you have to work very hard to save your family and clan even though they may not be ready to accept the new dispensational plan and message to restore the individual, family, clan, national and world-wide levels. This is God's proclamation and my proclamation: to bring the heavenly tradition to the people of the world; to restore God's lost children; and to bring back God's innocent and pure lineage. Based on God's shimjung and God's true love we are building God's ideal on earth centering on the coming Messiah, that is, the True Parents of humankind.

I have completed the necessary conditions and made a strong foundation on which you are able to accomplish your God-given mission. My part has already been completed. That is the reason why the proclamation of the Completed Testament Age is needed now. Your only job is to work hard as tribal messiahs, the highway to heaven has already been constructed by me. Therefore, you must follow my footsteps, spread the new message for the new age, and proclaim the arrival of the Completed Testament to all people centering on Heavenly Father and True Parents on earth.

Seminary graduates' role

As seminary graduates your role is enormous, your mission is risky and requires sacrifice for the sake of the world. You have studied, academically, all the religions of the world. You have also experienced the living God during your time in Barrytown, you have now become experts on the Divine Principle, and Unification Theology and Thought, and you know the heavenly lifestyle. You need to know how to establish the four great heart (shimjung) spheres of heavenly love and how to fulfill the positions of the three great kingships within your families, clans, nations and the world. To help you do this, I want you to utilize the incredible book, World Scripture, which I published for the education of the world's religious and political leaders.

Do not talk about differences among religions, but work together based on the commonalties found in each religion which came from God as He worked throughout history to bring about the Completed Testament Age. Also, bring harmony among the differing political ideologies by applying shimjung/ true love so that political leaders can become God- loving and God-fearing, holding to sacred values in their political work. Then the world will find great hope for the future centering on true love. You have to teach others the message of True Parentism, the message of the Completed Testament Age, to bring about the supra- religious, supra-racial, and supra-national goal that is to be obtained in the twenty-first century. I hope that you are marching on with the new banner of the new age of the Completed Testament. Then Heavenly Father will be with you even in difficulty, under hardship, and in the face of the severe opposition that you will face.

Your role as Unificationists is to maintain oneness within the spheres of vertical and horizontal relationships by being vertically one with Heavenly Father and one with your mind and body, and being horizontally one as husband and wife, and one with your family, clan and neighborhood centered on the true love of Heavenly Father. When you form these vertical and horizontal relationships to bring oneness, that point immediately becomes God's dwelling place, a living temple of God as described in the Bible. This formula can be applied to the religious and political worlds to bring eternal world peace centering on Heavenly Father and True Parents.

Be brave, bold, courageous

I have already shown the standard and example for you to follow. Now I am giving you the mandate to be the pioneers in accomplishing Heavenly Father's will and True Parents' will on earth. You are the standard bearers for True Parents and the Completed Testament Age.

In Isaiah 46:11, God said "I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it." God is absolute and unchanging. Therefore, He will definitely make His providence succeed, under any circumstances, no matter what. You must have confidence in your future mission and bring total victory, overcoming any difficulties, hardships, rejections and opposition that you may encounter. Heavenly Father and I will back you up. You have nothing to fear. I will always back you up. Be brave, be bold, be courageous in fulfilling your heavenly mission as commanders in the battle between God and Satan.

I trust you completely to bring total victory for God and True Parents. God bless you. Thank you, very much.

Be the Standard Bearers for True Parents and the Completed Testament Age

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
June 27th, 1993
Seventeenth Commencement Address
Unification Theological Seminary
Barrytown, New York

On this happy and joyous occasion of the Unification Theological Seminary's seventeenth graduation exercises, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to the 44 new graduates. At the same time, the administration, faculty and staff of the Seminary, who have helped these graduates complete their academic program, also deserve to be congratulated.

On this special occasion, I would like to speak to you regarding your future and the problems of the world today. The year of 1993 is the most significant in human history because it ushers in the new age of God's providence called the Completed Testament Age, which will consummate God's ideal for His creation of the universe and human beings. This new dispensation has already been proclaimed to people throughout the world. It is shocking to some, others rebel against it, and still others don't know how to react to such a radical proclamation. This is especially the case among religious leaders of the Judeo-Christian faith and other main religions. Actually, these people have no idea how to deal with my unprecedented proclamation.

When we look back on religious history at the small group surrounding Jesus two thousand years ago, we find a parallel between that time and ours. A similar proclamation was made to the Jewish people and religious leaders of that time. The religious leaders of that time were shocked. They investigated Jesus and his message and they still did not know how to react. They did not know what to do about his claim to be the Messiah for whom they had been waiting for 4,000 years, as described in the Old Testament. The exact same pattern is found in this century as my wife and I proclaimed ourselves as True Parents and the Messiah in the Completed Testament Age. You and I know this situation and circumstance very well, don't we? During our 33-city tour, Mrs. Moon and I proclaimed God's message for the new age, and most of the people responded positively. Some groups were negative to what we said, but whether people like it or not, accept it or not, I have to make this proclamation because God commanded me to do so.

Heavenly Father does not want to change or delay His dispensational plan and timetable to restore the world and the people now under Satan's control. That is the reason why we are boldly proclaiming God's providential plan and new message to all humankind and all religions. There is no other way to save the corrupted world, to save the lost souls from the earthly hell where we now live.

Let us look at the religious and political worlds. Major religions, all claiming to be centered on God, are not united. Rather, they are divided and fighting with each other, even to the point of using violence, as we see in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, to justify their narrow-minded doctrinal orientations as they interpret the ideals of the founders of various religions. How can this happen in the name of the same God? If God exists, how can this happen? I say to you, you need to give a clear explanation of these phenomena in order to persuade today's young people with this century's mentality.

The political world is also divided, into Right Wing and Left Wing as well as into secular versus sacred value systems. Political corruption is everywhere. We have to eradicate political corruption as we]l as religious disharmony, both within denominations of Christianity and among the great religions of the world, so that people can receive the coming Messiah as True Parents in the Completed Testament Age.

In the past we have continuously done inter-faith work among the major religions, so that we may work together under the banner of True Parentism with messianic ideals. We have also been working to bring unity in the political arena between the extreme right and extreme left. We have been working in both areas. Since the cold war ended, finally the ideal of True Parentism can bring harmony and cooperation among differing political ideas and lead to the emergence of solutions to end the political confusion and conflict now brought about by emphasis on national, ethnic, and racial purity and separatism.

Even during the post-communist era new measures to solve all these problems should be explored and developed into practical solutions to bring global peace at this time. Today there are no clear moral and sacred values in the world, even though communism has ended.

In order to bring a halt to this situation of chaos and confusion of ideological wars in the religious and political arenas, I would remind you of my teachings of "The Four Great Heart (Shimjung) Spheres of Heavenly Love" and "The Three Great Kingships." What does this mean? What is ShimJung? Shimjung can be defined as "a strong emotional desire to obtain happiness and joy through love." In other words, ShimJung is an uncontrollable, irresistible stimulus to feel nothing but the desire to love. God created the world and human beings to love as His objects because of His own Shimjung He created everything only out of the desire to love creation and human beings.

There are four Shimjung spheres: Parental (to children), Conjugal, Sibling's and Children's (to parents). However, Shimjung, the desire to love, is meaningless if it cannot be, or is not, acted upon. In this sense Shimjung is the other side of True Love, just like the other side of a coin or the other side of a piece of paper. Thus, we can say Shimjung is equal to True Love. However, neither Shimjung nor True Love grow automatically. Just as a baby growing in the midst of a family receives parental love gradually and grows stage by stage until adulthood, Shimjung and True Love must grow gradually through effort and time. Among the Four Great Shimjungs it is Conjugal ShimJung/True Love that is representative of the other three. This means that within this one type of (conjugal) Shimjung there are aspects of the other three types.

However, an four types must be experienced and grow within each and every family, thus creating the world of "Four Great ShimJung Spheres of Heavenly Love."

Then, what are "The Three Great Kingships"? I must say that there are also "Three Great Queenships," but for ease of speaking I include these in the explanation of the "Three Great Kingships." Those of you who have studied the Unification Principle know that every object has three purposes: to relate to each of the other three positions in the Four-position Base through Shimjung and True Love from the position of object. In the same way, there are three subjective positions and purposes--to relate to each of the other three positions in the Four-position Base through Shimjung and True Love from the position of subject.

The head of the family is in the King's position, the subjective position, the position of parent. The position of husband/father in the family is that of a King within his own family. In the same way, the King (or leader) of a nation is also in the parent position to the people of the nation, and holds both subjectivity and authority. This also applies to the school, work place, country and world.

So why three Kings? This means three generations: grandparents, parents and children, three generations of Kings. Then, how can one family have three Kings? In actuality, only one King rules, but the grandparents represent the Kings of the past and Heavenly Father, the parents represent the present King; and the children represent the future Kings who will one day be Parental Kings of their own families. Why this royal title? Simply said, God wanted the ideal family, the school, the work place and the world to give the highest honor and respect to these three identities. There is nothing like this in the existing society and world, so we have to work very hard to reach this standard and ideal which God had already planned before the Fall.

God's ideal family is revealed in my teachings of the Unification Principle. The family must maintain total focus on Heavenly Father and True Parents in order to realize 'The Four Great ShimJung Spheres of Heavenly Love" and "The Three Great Kingships." The realization Of all these things begins at the family level as the basic unit which leads to the clan, society and world levels. This is why I emphasize the heavenly, ideal family unit on earth as a new concept of family centering on Heavenly Father and True Parents. This family is the only center of the clan, nation and world. This is the absolute, Golden rule. This is our philosophy and way of life, to be a model to the people of the world, living daily with Heavenly Father and daily attending True Parents. This is the model family in the Completed Testament Age.

In the Unification Principle, the Blessed family is the cornerstone for the creation of God's ideal on earth. We have now, throughout the world, over 50,000 Blessed couples in our Unification Movement. In order to realize God's ideal for creation and humankind, we must set up the heavenly tradition through new education and training for those Blessed couples throughout the world. You must work hard to recruit new citizens for the new age so that they can be Blessed and become honorable citizens of the Ideal World. You have to work harder. When you are bravely proclaiming this new age of the Completed Testament even under difficulties, hardships, rejections and opposition, you have to work hard to bring the people. There is no alternative to fulfill.

God's will in the Completed Testament Age, there is no other way to save the world. I already gave all the members of the Unification Movement a mission which we call "Tribal Messiahship," in which you have to work very hard to save your family and clan even though they are not ready to accept the new dispensational plan and message to restore the individual, family, clan, national and world-wide levels. This is God's and my proclamation: to bring the heavenly tradition to the people of the world; to restore God's lost children; and to bring back God's innocent and pure lineage. Based on God's ShimJung and God's True Love we are building God's ideal on earth centering on the coming Messiah, that is, the True Parents of humankind.

I have completed the necessary conditions and made a strong foundation on which you are able to accomplish your God-given mission. My part has already been completed. That is the reason why the proclamation of the Completed Testament Age is needed now. Your only job is to work hard as Tribal Messiahs, the highway to heaven has already been constructed by me. Therefore, you must follow my footsteps, spread the new message for the new age, and proclaim the arrival of the Completed Testament to all people centering on Heavenly Father and True Parents on earth.

As seminary graduates your role is enormous, your mission is risky and requires sacrifice for the sake of the world. You have studied, academically, an the religions of the world. You have also experienced the living God during your time in Barrytown, you have now become experts on the Unification Principle and Unification theology and thought, and you know the Heavenly lifestyle. You need to know how to establish "The Four Great ShimJung Spheres of Heavenly Love" and how to fulfill the positions of "The Three Great Kingships" within your families, clans, nations and the world. To help you do this, I want you to utilize the incredible book, The World Scriptures which I published for the education of the world's religious and political leaders.

Do not talk about differences among religions, but work together based on the commonalties found in each religion which came from God as He worked throughout history to bring about the Completed Testament Age. Also, bring harmony among the differing political ideologies by applying Shimjung/True Love so that political leaders can become God-loving and God-fearing, holding to sacred values in their political world. Then the world will find great hope for the future centering on True Love. You have to teach others the message of True Parentism, the message of the Completed Testament Age, to bring about the supra-religious, supra-racial, and supra-national goal that is to be obtained in the 21st century. I hope that you are marching on with the new banner of the new age of the Completed Testament. Then Heavenly Father will be with you even under difficulties, hardship, and severe opposition that you will face.

Your role as Unificationists is to maintain oneness within the spheres of vertical and horizontal relationships by being vertically one with Heavenly Father and one with your mind and body, and being horizontally one as husband and wife, and one with your family, clan and neighborhood centered on the True Love of Heavenly Father. When you form these vertical and horizontal relationships to bring oneness, that point immediately becomes God's dwelling place, a living temple of God as described in the Bible. This formula can be applied to the religious and political worlds to bring eternal world peace centering on Heavenly Father and True Parents.

I have already shown the standard and example for you to follow. Now I am giving you the mandate to be the pioneers in accomplishing Heavenly Father's and True Parents' will on earth. You are the standard bearers for True Parents and the Completed Testament Age.

In Isaiah 46:11, God said "I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it." God is absolute and unchanging. Therefore, He will definitely make His providence succeed, under any circumstances, no matter what. You must have confidence in your future mission and bring total victory, overcoming any difficulties, hardships, rejections and opposition that you may encounter. Heavenly Father and I will back you up. You have nothing to fear. I win always back you up. Be brave, be bold, be courageous in fulfilling your heavenly mission as commanders in the battle between God and Satan.

I trust you completely to bring total victory for God and True Parents. God bless you. Thank you, very much.

We Are the Kingdom of Heaven for All Things

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
June 20, 1993 Kodiak, Alaska

Originally mankind didn't need these kinds of major holidays, but we need them because of the dispensation of the restoration of history. Without the fall of man, the entire physical world and spiritual world would have been totally united centered on true love. There would have been only one celebration day-the first one and the last one-True Parents' Day. In that ideal, God would have become our vertical parent and the True Parents our horizontal parents. With both vertical and horizontal parents, the spiritual and physical worlds would have been totally united in true love. When the vertical father, who is God, and the horizontal parents, who are True Parents, meet and unite in one central, ninety degree angle, each individual family can orient themselves around them and have the same kind of relationship with God and True Parents.

Just as in heaven there are many different levels, in the physical world there will be levels of hierarchy, from the family to the clan, tribe, nation, and world levels. However, since that pattern was not established, the dispensation of restoration was needed.

The three providential ages

The Old Testament Age was the preparation period for receiving the Messiah, and when the Messiah was received, the New Testament Age started. Therefore, I established Parents' Day first, upon the completion of the Old Testament Age or national level foundation, in 1960.

At the consummation of the New Testament Age and the new beginning of the Completed Testament Age, I proclaimed True Parents and the Completed Testament Age. This is like circular movement, returning to the original point of establishing God's ideal. Of course, in the meantime, I established Children's Day and Mamul ui Nal, or Day of All Things, and God's Day. By establishing God's Day, on January 1, 1968, I established the condition in this physical world to conditionally receive God.

Today is the thirty-fourth Day of All Things. If God's dispensation continues to progress this way, by the year 2000 the entire world will be under God's dominion. All nations will follow the tradition that I set, because they will gradually come to realize that there is no alternative for this decaying, sick society but to follow my tradition. That day is not far away.

The proclamation of True Parents and the Completed Testament Age makes your families tremendously valuable and precious. The family encompasses parents, children and all things. Just as I established Parents' Day, Children's Day, Day of All Things, and God's Day on the worldwide level, each of you should be able to establish those days in your family and completely unite with God. Otherwise, we cannot build the ideal world-the Kingdom of Heaven on earth-which God desired in the beginning. We must be able to create families that show the total unity and harmony and beauty which God desired in the beginning when He created Adam and Eve.

God is revealed visibly by True Parents

Husbands and wives in particular must be able to inherit True Parents' tradition and implant it in your family, demonstrating an exemplary life. You may not be able to see True Parents' family in this physical world all the time; however, when you join the spirit world you will be able to see True Parents' family on a horizontal level continually. God is our vertical Father, but He is revealed only through True Parents, because in True Parents' heart is where God dwells. Therefore, through True Parents' heart, you will be able to connect all the families in the world on the horizontal level.

Even when you join the spirit world you won't be able to see God. When God created the universe, He created all things first and then Adam and Eve, because God wanted to show Himself in this physical world through all things. God created Adam and Eve as His hyung sang and wanted them to dominate this entire world and bring the result back to the spirit world. The same thing will happen when True Parents enter the spirit world. True Parents will have God dwelling within themselves, and in the spirit world you will be able to view God only through True Parents. Just as true love brings our mind and body into unity, true love is the only factor that can bring God and human beings into total vertical and horizontal unity.

Therefore, where true love is, there is God. Where true love is, there is eternal life. Where true love is, you can enjoy eternal happiness and peace. In the spirit world, True Parents' family will be totally united with God, since God will be dwelling within the True Parents. You also have to establish that kind of exemplary family unit in this physical world, because without experiencing a true love relationship between husband and wife, you can't find true, eternal life, eternal happiness, or true ideals. True love has the power to bind together the whole cosmos.

When you know these truths, can you fight with your husband or wife? Can you think of falling in love with anybody besides your spouse? When God created His children, there was only one man and one woman. Nobody else was around. You must be able to create and establish that kind of perfect, harmonious family in this world. If you can't become an object to that kind of standard, you will be in big trouble when you join the spirit world, because the standard of the family unit in the spirit world is so high.

I sometimes hear of fighting between husband and wife in which the woman, because she is more muscular and strong, beats up her husband. That's not the Principled way. To be perfectly centered on true love, you absolutely need your object. The object is crucially important. Before you can even think about true love, you must focus on developing the subject-object relationship. To attack the subject- object relationship means to go against the universal power and God's ideal. Therefore, the only place where true love can settle comfortably is not in a man's mind or a woman's mind, but where the man and woman experience perfect harmony and unity.

When you create such a relationship between husband and wife, you can declare that the entire universe resembles you and resembles your family. As we learned from Divine Principle, all levels of plus and minus -from atoms to minerals to plants and animals-are totally united, not because of any kind of force, but centered on true love. True love is the key. Because we need true love, we need subject- object relationships; because we need true love, we need the family unit.

The word "family" already includes children and parents and all things. In your family, once husband and wife unite as parents, your children will revolve around you as the planets revolve around the sun. Your children will be circling around the parents, and then all things will revolve around your family, just like the universe. What is the chain that connects all these elements? True love. True love is the only power.

The goal of all things

Throughout the universe, all things exist for the subject, the center. The center of the entire world is human beings, so all things exist, develop and progress for the purpose of serving human beings, who are at the center, like the nucleus. For example, when you eat breakfast, you must think that you are eating love-the original love which God put into all things at the time of creation.

Everything that we take in fulfills its purpose by being eaten by a higher dimensional being, a human being. In this way it makes a quantum leap from its horizontal level to serve the higher level of love, taking the vertical route of love back to God. Of course, when all things are taken by human beings, they are happy because the human being's purpose is higher and because through them they fulfill the higher level of love.

All things want to become part of the cells which feel love, because they are the most sensitive part of the human being. Which part is that loving part of the human being? The sexual organs are where man and woman become totally one with each other and one with God. Because of the fall, those particular parts have been considered as the worst and dirtiest, yet they are the most holy places. For both men and women, when the love gate is open the entire world is open; when the love gate is closed the entire world is closed. In other words, the opening of that gate determines happiness and peace. Where do you expect God's true children to be born? From those organs which are totally united with God and centered on true love.

Of course, all things want to be part of that particular section of the human being's body. However, once there is total unity centered on true love, not just that particular part, but the entire human being's body becomes like that particular loving organ. Your mind and your body and all your cells will be totally united and join in cheering Mansei. The purpose of all the created things in this world, from the smallest particles on up, is to become a portion of such a holy body and reach the level of unity and harmony that will eventually lead them to God Himself. Each of the one hundred seven or one hundred eight elements in this world is heading for that goal. Just as human beings don't want to die for no reason, nothing in creation wants to die unless its death serves a greater purpose. When particles and atoms are taken in by higher things, for them it is like they are going into the Kingdom of Heaven. That's the definition of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Again, the final goal of all things is to reach the spot where husband and wife experience total unity centered on true love. That is how all things can set a condition of contributing their portion of responsibility toward building the ideal world, toward making this entire world totally united with God.

When the wife puts on makeup and wears beautiful clothes, she is seeking to elicit a good feeling from her husband and build unity with him. Husbands seek to be attractive for the same reason. The same principle applies to all things in the world: they do things to please human beings and create unity with them.

Then why has the world of all things been crying up to this point? Because they lost the base upon which they could reach the Kingdom of Heaven. Even in the Bible it says that because of the human fall, man lost that base, so all things are crying. That very base upon which the Kingdom of Heaven was supposed to be built for the sake of human beings and all things was destroyed. Therefore, the dispensation of God's restoration had to begin and has been continuing.

Serve the public purpose

When you know these principles, you cannot bring anything or any money that was illegally or unethically obtained to provide for your wife or children. It's a sin. If you do that, your body will start shrinking. To do that is worse than forcing poison into your children's mouths. Therefore, you must learn how to respect public life and public things.

In the world, and particularly here in America, individualism is rampant. However, it is very important to develop this public concept. Satan has been running away from this public concept and forcing everybody down to the individual level, or individual ideal. However, God takes the individualistic ideal and extends it to the public and worldwide level, in order to reach the central point, chasing Satan out in the process. Satan got kicked out of the worldwide level and went down, down, down, finally to the individual level. Once he gets kicked out of this individual level, Satan will just disappear. Sometimes on a fruit tree, unhealthy fruits will fall before they get ripe, while the ripe ones remain until the end, ultimately producing new seeds for the next generation.

You must learn a lesson from this. Suppose you are working for a company, a private company or a public company, and you steal some things-money or whatever-in order to try to provide for your family. That is a manifestation of fallen nature. You can never run away from fallen nature. In contrast, you should try to bring valuables from your home to serve the public purpose. That is how you can get closer and closer to the Kingdom of Heaven up in heaven.

Don't be ashamed in front of all things. They all have eyes and feelings. They are looking forward to reaching the Kingdom of Heaven through you. However, when you misuse public things, they know the road is blocked.

Your eyes, nose and mouth are part of one system, representing God. What you take in through your mouth helps your eyes, nose and ears survive. Breathing air through your nose keeps your mouth, ears and eyes alive. If your eyes were fixed in one direction for eternity, you would not be able to survive. However, your eyes have the ability to move around in order to help protect your entire body. Every organ of your body exists for the sake of the entire being, not just its particular section. By the same token, each family exists not for itself, but for the sake of all families. Therefore, we must not destroy the entire base where the Kingdom of Heaven can be built, as was done before. That's why all things have been crying until now. We must not repeat the same mistake.

All things, human beings, and God are all one system, not isolated existences. God is the axis around which parents, children and all things revolve. That's the way they form the pair system. Then, does man need woman? Does woman need man? To say that the entire universe is created because of true love means that everything is connected to you, not separated. All things are as close to you as a strand of your hair. When you scrub your skin, sometimes you see the dirt and dead skin rubbed away. New skin grew and the old went away.

In the Old Testament Age all things were sacrificed. In the New Testament Age the children were sacrificed, with Christians being martyred. In the Completed Testament Age the parents are sacrificed, because parents have been heartistically burdened and have endured much suffering. You can see the chain reaction: for the sake of children, God sacrificed all things, for the sake of parents God sacrificed His children, and for the sake of God, True Parents have been sacrificed heartistically. That's the way they all became one. Therefore, the responsibility of the parents' position was so difficult. We had to attain an even higher realm of heart than Adam and Eve. Think about the course of indemnity True Parents had to walk up to this point, going through the levels of the individual, family, clan, tribe, nation and world. In order to reach a position higher than that of Adam and Eve before the fall, we had to go through such a difficult course of heartistic indemnity. That path was so thorny that it can be called the "heartistic cross."

This is the first time I have ever explained this to anybody. On this thirty-fourth Day of All Things, I want you to know that we are the Kingdom of Heaven for all things. I could explain this only because I already proclaimed the True Parents and Completed Testament Age.

America and Japan used to be enemy countries, but because of the love relationship and unity between one Japanese husband and American wife here, all things can look at this beautiful couple and cheer Mansei!

When you open the gate, open it wide so that nothing is in the way. Unite your mind and body, build unity between husband and wife, and raise your true love flag all the way to the Kingdom of Heaven up in heaven. You should each make such banners of love.

With its homosexuality and drug abuse, America is like a garbage bin or toilet bowl. Even to think about it makes me angry. Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't fit. For the sake of love, men and women die. For the sake of love, parents or even children can give their life. Even the absolute and omnipotent God cannot disregard the law of true love. God has to respect and obey the law of true love. Who is higher, true love or God? God is lonely without an object; therefore, God created human beings as the object of true love. Man alone feels lonely, woman alone feels lonely. What are they looking for? Man goes after woman, and woman goes after man. Even grandfathers and grandmothers hang onto that loving organ to sustain their life. Father and Mother do same thing. We all do that. Nobody can dismiss this kind of universal law. This is the law of the universe, which is eternal. Everybody has to obey it, whether you like it or not. When we know this principle, do you think America will survive if it continues the way it is going?

Man's love-organ is a one-way street; it seeks after one particular thing, wife's sexual organ. How can you make the foundation to connect with everything? Through the most important organ of a man or woman: the most holy place, the love palace, life palace, blood lineage palace. When you understand this very precious principle you can produce precious children. They will be princes and princesses in this world and the spirit world. They will become the bridge upon which God will walk to rebuild the world.

Do you understand that the Kingdom of Heaven for all things is right here with you? Some people may think that for a church leader to talk about the human sexual organ is not good, but you need a clear understanding of the truth. When you have a complete understanding of the significance and preciousness of your sexual organ, you will recognize it as the origin of the love palace, the life palace and the blood lineage palace. If you accomplish this task, you can go into the Kingdom of Heaven directly without any trouble. However, if you have any difficulty in doing that, then you are in trouble.

Heavenly love-making

The secular world now is giving a lot of sex education to the children, so I want to ask you a question this morning. When you make love, who has to have the upper position, husband or wife? Among American people, most of the time the woman takes the upper position. Because the man is usually heavier than the woman, it may seem easier for the woman to be on top. If you want to do that, you have to think about God, heaven and earth revolving, and maybe today it is your turn to be up. That way you are following the Principle. Another question: when you are about to make love who takes the lead? The man shouldn't just take initiative and put his organ into the woman's organ, but when the woman is ready, she should lead the man's organ into her organ. The man can't see the way. When the man is ready to act, if he goes alone into the place he is like a robber; the woman should take the lead and bring him in and receive him. That's one of the reasons why husband and wife shouldn't fight. If your wife is still upset and doesn't want to lead you, there is no fun.

In lovemaking, there must be absolute unity and harmony. If you really have an urge to hit your wife, she can say, "Just wait one minute and after we make love, if you still feel like hitting me, then go ahead and hit me." However, after the lovemaking, that feeling will be gone. That's the medicine that can cure any kind of disease. It's true. No matter how angry or upset you may be, just be patient for several minutes and make love. Then all the negative feeling will be gone. It is truly a panacea, isn't it?

On this Day of All Things I am giving you a holy talk, but actually it's the truth, and we are dealing with it in reality. Therefore, when husband and wife make love, you can make any kind of noise. You can be noisier than the pigeons. You can make noise like lightning and thunder, and it's okay. Up to this point, this kind of sex has been considered dirty or shameful, but when all humanity truly understands and accepts sex as precious, enjoyable and holy, what a wonderful world we can have! When that time comes, the children will hear their parents making noise at night and that will be their sex education. You can tell them, "When you grow up and live with your wife, you can make that kind of noise too." It's natural, open education. That's much more effective than the sex education that is going on right now.

Do you understand that all things are waiting for the real owner to arrive, touch them and eat them, or whatever they want to do? From particles to atoms to minerals, all things have a long way to go in order to reach God. Plants are eaten by animals, which are eaten by man in order reach God. Therefore, we should have pity on them. We should comfort all things. When you have perfect, harmonious love- making with your wife, you can tell all things, "We did it for the sake of you." Then all things will be happy.

Now you understand why all things have been crying. After my talk today you can go out and to relate to all things with a fresh feeling. You can see the preciousness and usefulness of all things. Even poisonous snakes, which may be harmful to human beings, have a medicinal purpose. Snake meat promotes health and vitality; in addition, it makes men more virile.

Salmon are examples of true love

One of the reasons I love salmon, and king salmon in particular, is because of its bravery. The king salmon travels all five oceans of the world and comes back. Even without adding salt or any seasoning, you can roast it and it is tasty. You can't even imagine how brave the salmon is.

Salmon leave the river of their birth and return to exactly the same place in four or six years' time. After Adam and Eve's fall, it took six thousand years for mankind to return to the original place where they fell. Just like humankind, salmon make such a circle. The salmon have the concept of returning to the original love place, making love in the same river and same spot where they were spawned. For the sake of their offspring they make love and they die.

They sacrifice themselves for love.

The Unification Church is like the love race, following such a concept. If asked whether they are willing to sacrifice their life for the sake of their children, not many people would say yes. When you catch a king salmon, you can tell the fish, "I am sorry to catch you, but I will use you to serve greater purpose." Think about how wonderful such a world is. Unification Church members must inherit this kind of concept. The salmon's final destination is not a comfortable place; rather, it is a cold place which people don't particularly care about. Silver salmon even spawn in the winter weather of December and January. Nobody likes cold weather, but when I consider all the facts about the king salmon and other salmon, I think the Unification Church members should love the salmon and learn lessons from them.

The word "salmon" can be interpreted as "salvation Moonie." Therefore, I hope that all Unification Church members take after salmon, particularly blessed couples. Suppose husband and wife go out together to the ocean, catch a beautiful salmon, and say to it: "We are sorry to catch you today, but we have a greater purpose. We want to emulate your lifestyle and even sacrifice our life for the sake our children and for all of humanity." If you mount the fish and place it where you can look at it, every time you see that fish you will be reminded of those goals.

Think of God as a fisherman with a fishing pole, trying to catch a human being. Suppose I am the king of the king salmon, and God is trying to catch me, following me everywhere.

Think of America as big and strong like a whale, and think of me as the king of the king salmon, hunting and striking this big whale. King salmon vs. the whale: what a match! That's the way I am trying to awaken this country America. It is like the battle between David and Goliath.

The preciousness of your family

On this special ceremonial day, please remember how precious your family is. Through your family, heaven and earth can be united and harmonized. The world of God's original creation would have prospered naturally without any negative element, had it not been for the fall of man. We would have been able to join the spirit world naturally, without being concerned about restoration. However, we still have to restore ourselves and the entire world.

In order to serve me and follow my footsteps all these years, Mother had to pay tremendous indemnity. Your task as a tribal messiah is nothing compared to what Mother had to do and what True Parents had to do.

Please build happy families and raise your children properly. Your family must serve grandparents, even if you don't have your own physical grandparents. In the future, I may distribute some Oriental grandparents among your families. To form the ideal family model, three levels must connect as one. Three generations-grandparents, parents and children-must be united to form the four position foundation. This is the formula course. Satan destroyed this formula course, so I rebuilt it. Satan knew God's ideal; that's why he separated parents and children, destroying every level.

Now America has come to know my value. From today again, Mother is resuming her speaking tour, and soon she will speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The time is not far away when the royal palaces in Great Britain and in Japan will welcome Mother. Those two countries, like Cain and Abel, will hear True Parents. Then the world will be restored.

Actually, America has the key to restore this entire world. However, if America rejects me, I will go to Moscow.

Therefore, I am giving you the blessing to build a beautiful family where God, all things, and all people will long to come and dwell. This is the blessing on this particular Day of All Things from True Parents. Will you do that?

True Parents and the Completed Testament Age

Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon
32-City U.S. Speaking Tour
May 13-June 27, 1993

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Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:

I wish to thank you for coming to this invitational address. My subject today is "True Parents and the Completed Testament Age."

Today, we are at a crucial crossroads of history. Therefore, if we are to take the road to a bright future, it is essential that we understand God's original purpose for creating humankind.

God's ideal in creating the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, was that they perfect themselves through true love so that they could then create a good family of true love, true life, and true lineage. Such a good family would have been formed on the basis of unified heart and mind among family members in front of God.

In general, all people want their loved ones to be better than themselves. All parents want their sons and daughters, for example, to look better and achieve more than themselves. This tendency comes from God. God wants His children to be better than even Himself.

Similarly, God wants to give limitlessly to His children. God is not content in giving just 100 percent. God's desire is to give a thousand times more than what He has. The nature of God is to give love completely and then forget what He has given. Unlike some who calculate how much they have given and decide that it is enough, for God enough is never enough.

Moreover, God's purpose in creating the world was to have an object of love. His purpose in creating parents and children, husbands and wives, and all things in this world in complementary pairs was to substantiate true love throughout His creation. Likewise, parents are to live for their children, and children for their parents. Husbands are to live for their wives, and wives for their husbands. All beings in creation are to live for and give to others.

If God's ideal of true love had been realized through Adam's family, that family would have become the beginning of the heavenly kingdom. It would have expanded throughout all of history to the clan, to the nation, and thence over all the earth. This would have been the world of true love, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Furthermore, there would have been a parallel expansion of the heavenly kingdom in the spiritual world.

Human History's False Start

If God's original ideal had been realized, then there would have been no need for a Messiah or for God's providence to save humanity. Adam's family, though it was merely a single family, would have been the center of the clan, of the nation, and of the world. It would have been the blueprint for all families in the future. It would have been the model for the realization of God's ideal world.

Because of the fall of the original human ancestors, God's work of salvation had to begin. Salvation history had to be repeatedly extended through the complicated and suffering courses of the Old Testament Age and the New Testament Age, culminating in today's Completed Testament Age. God's ideal of the true family and the heavenly kingdom, which He wanted to realize through Adam's family, was destroyed because Adam and Eve fell away from God.

Due to the Fall, this present world is far from the good world of God's ideal. Today's world is, in fact, a "false" world, in that it is flooded with self-centered love. This came about because Adam and Eve became false parents based on false and self-centered love with Satan. They multiplied evil rather than goodness, creating a false family and passing on false life and a false lineage to their descendants. Thus, false clans, false nations, and a false world came into being.

Formula for Reconciliation

Therefore, the key goal in God's dispensation of salvation is that a man and a woman, representing Adam and Eve, should be restored as True Parents centered on God's true love, so that the true family can be formed. From them would eventually flow the true clan, the true nation, and the true world. In other words, the seed from which God's true love, true life, and true lineage can grow must be created.

My dear friends, have you ever wondered how a world filled with such evil and corruption could come from a God of love and goodness?

If you read the Bible carefully, you will see that the fall of man involves the loss of Adam's entire family. First, the position of parents was lost through the fall of Adam and Eve. Second, the position of children was lost as Cain murdered Abel. God's "blueprint" for an ideal family and world perfection was lost. Therefore, to restore the original family, God works in reverse to reclaim the positions of Cain and Abel, and then the positions of True Mother and True Father. This pattern of reconciliation of Cain and Abel as the foundation for restoring the True Parents has been God's consistent formula throughout the history of restoration.

The separation of fallen mankind into a Cain-Abel division occurs over and over again in Judeo-Christian history. Therefore, God first of all separated fallen mankind into two "brotherly" sides of Cain, symbolizing Satan, and Abel, symbolizing God, to work out the hatreds resulting from the Fall. God used the method of having Abel be hit first and sacrificed. As a result, Abel could stand on that very foundation to embrace Cain and recover the blessing given to the elder son. For example, the religion that most advances the purpose of salvation always receives Satan's most severe persecution. It walks the path of constant opposition yet continues its sacrificial effort to save the sinful world. Likewise, good people always stand in the position of being struck first and sacrificed.

Looking almost anywhere in our fallen world, it is easy to notice struggles between good and evil, similar to the struggle between Cain and Abel. These struggles start in the conflict between each individual's mind and body. The mind, which represents the Abel side, struggles to overcome the body, which represents the Cain side. The struggle within individuals has expanded to the family, nation, and world. As a result, humankind has always been divided into two opposing camps, one good, or Abel-like, and the other evil, or Cain-like, locked in struggle at every level. It has always been God's intention, however, that both sides be restored, not that one triumph over and destroy the other.

Some examples of this division are: the thief on the right side of Jesus on the cross, representing Abel, and the thief on the left, representing Cain, and South Korea versus North Korea, which represents the last conflict between right wing and left wing on the world level. Moreover, there is the Christian-Muslim conflict in the Middle East. So the key issue in God's work of salvation has always remained how to unify such divided sides, based on His ideal, in order to build a foundation on which to reclaim the True Mother and True Father.

Ladies and gentlemen, if a family is not centered on God's ideal of love, there will be conflict among the members of that family. Without God's love as an absolute center, such a family will ultimately breakdown. Moreover, a nation of such families will also decline. Because illicit, self-centered love invaded the first family, selfishness and greed have continued to dominate human history from the individual to the family, society, nation, and world. For this reason, God's work of restoration begins at the individual level. Since Satan knows this, he focuses his efforts also on the individual level.

It is not by chance that self-centered individualism has become the dominant way of life in these last days. People feel increasingly alienated from those around them, and bear little sense of responsibility for the well-being of their country, society, or even their own families. Rising divorce statistics indicate that husbands and wives feel little responsibility toward their marriages; parents do not take responsibility for their children; individuals, devoid of any sense of human dignity, fail even to take responsibility for themselves.

America has seen such phenomena at work beginning with the youth movement of the sixties. Idealistic youth rejected the materialism around them in order to seek love and peace, but in the process, they also abandoned morality and responsibility. Unable to attain the true love which they sought, many disillusioned young people resorted to suicide, drug abuse, and free sex.

True Love vs. Free Sex

Of all these, what pains God most is free sex. A world of free sex is absolutely contrary to the will of God. Love comes from the stimulation of unblemished emotion, but free sex is totally devoid of purity or true emotion. How many of us have been touched by the cruelty of infidelity and divorce? Where is God in all the one-night stands? What about the nightmares of the children who are sexually abused by a parent? Is free sex worth the price of a broken child? Where there is homosexuality, free sex, drugs, and alcoholism, the world of true love is far away.

In this world, Satan openly tells people, "Drink! Smoke! Take drugs! Have sex!" Those who do God's Will, on the other hand, live a lifestyle that is 180 degrees different from this. Throughout history, those who chose to walk a spiritual path of self-sacrifice have been bitterly opposed and persecuted by the rest of the world. It is only God's love and blessing which have allowed the Unification Church, despite worldwide opposition, to prosper. The fact that our church has risen from obscurity in war-torn Korea to become a world-level religious movement in only 38 years testifies to God's continued guidance and support.

There are those who continue to oppose the Unification Church, spreading wild rumors or trying to prevent our teachings from being heard. Again, Satan's way is always to attack that which is most precious to God. Yet those who go against the will of God can never prosper. The principle holds true that those on God's side, who can endure unjust persecution, will win the right to take back the blessing. God's strategy is always to be hit first and then take back what is rightfully His.

Restoring True Love

Ladies and gentlemen, the Bible teaches that Eve first disobeyed God and entered into a relationship with Satan. Due to the Fall, not only Eve, but also Adam and their sons Cain and Abel, inherited Satan's lineage, based upon selfishness and false love. As the descendants of the original couple which was compromised by Satan, we have all inherited a satanic lineage. This is why Jesus said in John 8:44, "You are of your father, the devil."

The Old Testament described a process of restitution according to the formula "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." In the Divine Principle, we refer to making restitution for a wrong as "paying indemnity." To make restitution for her wrong actions, fallen Eve needed to take the entire responsibility upon herself. She should have reversed the actions of the Fall and made spiritual and physical restitution for each step of the Fall.

It was God's Will that Eve assist her younger son, Abel, to unite with the Will of God. We know from Genesis that Abel's offering was accepted by God. However, this was not all that was expected of Abel. Through Abel's love, Cain was supposed to recognize Abel as God's chosen person and unite with him.

If Cain and Abel had united, the second of the two problems of the Fall could have been solved. God would then have addressed the problem of Adam and Eve. Eve was meant to stand as the first mother of humanity. She should have united Cain and Abel, and worked to establish a foundation for True Parents. Eve, however, did not fulfill this mission in her lifetime, and history had to wait for another woman who would pay fallen Eve's restitution.

Rebecca: A Model Case

In the Bible, one of God's great heroines is Rebecca, the spouse of Isaac. As the mother of Jacob and Esau, Rebecca held the same position in Isaac's family that Eve held in Adam's family. Unlike Eve, however, Rebecca understood God's providence and helped her second son, Jacob, representing Abel's position, to gain the blessing destined for the first son, Esau.

Just as Cain killed Abel, Esau wanted to kill Jacob when the blessing went to his younger brother. But with Rebecca's help, these brothers eventually reconciled in a warm embrace, rather than resorting to violence.

This reconciliation was a major victory for God. This victory, nevertheless, was not complete, since the reconciliation represented only a symbolic purification of blood lineage. The substantial purification of blood lineage had to be accomplished in the womb. This is the reason for the paradoxical story of Tamar.

By understanding that Tamar, like Rebecca, was in the position of fallen Eve, it becomes possible to understand why Jesus was born of her lineage, the tribe of Judah.

I am sure that many of you have read the story about the birth of her twins. She conceived with Judah, her father-in-law, the twins Perez and Zerah. The Bible tells us that the two sons struggled even in the womb for the position of first-born. During Tamar's labor, Zerah's hand emerged and the midwife tied a red string around his wrist. Then, Zerah's hand disappeared back into the womb and Perez, the younger, was born as the elder! Thus, the positions of Cain and Abel were restored even before birth took place. It was from this point that the Israelite people became the nation chosen to receive the Messiah.

In terms of conventional morality, the stories of Rebecca and Tamar would be questionable at best. Why God blessed them was a theological mystery until today. As we now see, God needed to reclaim His lineage from Satan so that Jesus could be born. Purified, true-love blood lineage was the point from which the Israelite nation started expanding. The word Israel also means victory. Their victory was the purification of blood lineage.

Mary's Life-Risking Course

The lineage of Judah developed for generations, expanding to the levels of tribe, society, and nation. From this same lineage, Mary was born in Israel two thousand years later.

Mary had the responsibility to unite Cain and Abel figures on the family, clan, and national levels through paying appropriate indemnity and restoring elder sonship. Mary responded to God's call and conceived Jesus even though, in the eyes of others, she had betrayed her parents and Joseph, to whom she was engaged. At that time, it was customary to stone to death any woman who became pregnant out of wedlock. However, Joseph, standing in the position of Adam, courageously protected his fiance and resisted abandoning her.

Because of Mary's faith, and the work of Rebecca and Tamar, Satan could not claim sovereignty over Jesus in Mary's womb. Jesus was born in the position of a true son under God's complete, direct lineage. He is the first true son of God after the purification of the fallen blood lineage. That is why Jesus is the saint of all saints and the ancestor of the true blood lineage. His birth represented the conclusion of the Old Testament Age at the national level and the dawn of the New Testament Age at the worldwide level.

Mary, in the position to restore fallen Eve, had to build a unity between Jesus, who was in the position of Abel, and his elder cousin, John the Baptist, who was in the position of Cain. This unity was essential for the people of Israel to identify Jesus as the Messiah.

John was the elder. He had a great following and was widely respected. As Jesus explained to his disciples, the ministry of John was the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy that Elijah the prophet would return to "make straight the way of the Lord."

But did John fulfill his role in God's providence? The Gospel of Luke tells us that John came "in the spirit and power of Elijah." John, however, denied that he was Elijah, and doubted the Messiahship of Jesus even after he had received a clear revelation at the Jordan River at the time of Jesus' baptism. John was a well-respected religious figure, while Jesus was seen as only the illegitimate son of a poor carpenter. Without the support of John, it was impossible for the Jewish people to believe in and follow Jesus. Alone, Jesus undertook the difficult path of proclaiming himself.

John the Baptist should have helped Jesus reach the religious leadership of Israel. If John had fulfilled his role, then Judaism, in the position of Abel, and the nation of Israel, in the position of Cain, could have united centered on Jesus.

This would have laid the foundation for the Marriage of the Lamb. Jesus would have stood as the True Father of humanity, and his bride would have stood as the True Mother of humanity.

In less than seven years, his teaching would have expanded rapidly to the worldwide level, winning Asia and Rome to his side before he was 40. Eventually, Jesus and his bride would have achieved the individual heavenly kingdom, family heavenly kingdom, clan heavenly kingdom, and national heavenly kingdom.

A Dream Unfulfilled

However, this glorious destiny could not be realized. It was the religious people themselves who rejected Jesus' words and called for his crucifixion.

Confronted by the faithlessness in Israel, Jesus determined to give his life to achieve spiritual salvation for humankind. However, he would have to come again in order to bring physical or earthly salvation in addition to spiritual salvation.

This is why the mind can draw close to God through Jesus, but the body continues to be tempted by evil. Even Saint Paul anguished over the contradiction of the desires of the flesh and the desires of the spirit. Many great Christian evangelists have also suffered because of this contradiction. At the dawn of the Completed Testament Age, the crucial challenge is to accomplish both physical salvation and spiritual salvation.

Because of Jesus' death on the cross, the conflict between left wing and right wing appeared. This is like the separation into Cain and Abel necessitated by Adam's fall. Likewise, Islam and Christianity appeared and began struggling. Because such separation was caused by the crucifixion of Jesus, Christ will work for unity at the time of the Second Coming.

The Unity Imperative

God's preparation for the Second Advent required a world-level foundation of successful Cain-Abel reconciliation. This dispensation was carried out through the events surrounding World War II. The Allied countries of Britain, America, and France represented Christianity and were in the position of Abel. The Axis countries of Germany, Japan, and Italy were under the influence of nationalistic militarism and stood in the position of Cain. This war represented the expansion of the conflict between Cain and Abel to the world level.

Immediately after the Allied victory, great strides were made toward creating a world of peace centered upon Christianity. With Britain in the world-level position of Eve, and America and France representing Abel and Cain, respectively, these Allied nations stood ready to receive the Lord of the Second Advent.

Despite all of this preparation, God's dispensation was not fulfilled at that time. God's representative came to bring His word and was met with tremendous persecution and almost universal misunderstanding. This paralleled Jesus' situation two thousand years ago. Just as the Israelites of Jesus' time awaited the Second Coming of Elijah on a chariot descending from heaven, Christians awaited the Second Coming by expecting Jesus himself to descend on a cloud from the sky.

In Revelation, Jesus reveals to the Apostle John that he will come with a new name. This foreshadowed that Jesus would come again through another man, just as Elijah had done.

At this crucial time after World War II, then, God instructed me to bring a new message of truth to Christians in Korea. Korean Christian leaders, however, rejected the possibility that I, a humble young man, had been chosen to bring this new message. Because the New Testament Age is an extension of the Old Testament Age, they could not believe that the Second Coming would be born as a man on earth any more than the Jewish people could believe it at the time of Jesus.

If I and the Christian churches had become one, the heavenly kingdom would already have been established on earth as well as in heaven. During the seven-year period from 1945 to 1952, when the New Testament Age ended, the entire world could have united in accordance with the providence of God.

A Thorny Path

Instead of uniting with me, however, these religious leaders became jealous of the growing number of my followers. They blindly opposed me without hearing me out. They even spread lies about me. Rumors of sexual misconduct and greed, the very antithesis of my teachings, were used to assassinate my character.

God had expanded Christianity and had raised up a mighty Christian nation like America for the purpose of preparing the way for the Second Coming. Whether they realized it or not, those ministers in Korea represented all of Christianity. Because America and worldwide Christianity failed to unite with me after World War II, they began to decline in their power and moral authority.

After World War II, the United States and Christianity stood on a victorious foundation of Cain-Abel unity. The time was ripe to receive the Second Coming. However, this opportunity failed to materialize and the whole world opposed my work. Therefore, I was expelled into the wilderness. I was forced to the bottom and have been climbing back up ever since.

Thus, the Cold War began. The world separated again into two worldwide spheres of Cain and Abel, just as it had during World War II. Denying God, just as the thief on the left denied Jesus, communism represented the Cain-type world. Christian democracies, which affirmed the existence of God, represented the thief on the right, and the Abel-type world.

It was God's Will that the Messiah of the Second Coming should unite the two hostile blocs. That is why I mobilized my church to help settle conflicts between the right wing, represented by the free world, and the left wing, represented by communism. We have also worked on behalf of Christianity and Judaism as a peacemaker with our Islamic brothers and sisters.

During the Cold War period, I fought to break down barriers on the individual, family, clan, national, worldwide, and cosmic levels in order to rebuild the lost foundation to receive the Messiah. This required a minimum indemnity period of 40 years. Since I cannot live for 4,000 years or for 400 years, I knew that I would have to indemnify all of history in just 40 years. During this period of four decades, I restored the 4,000-year history before Jesus, and the 6,000-year biblical history since the Creation. After this indemnity was paid, the Cold War ended through the unity of Cain and Abel countries. This was consummated by the Unification Church at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where 160 nations of the world came to Korea.

For decades, I have been completely misunderstood. For three years, I was imprisoned in a North Korean communist concentration camp. Altogether, I have been wrongly imprisoned six times for doing God's work. Moreover, the media have mocked me as a monster who brainwashes the young for self-benefit. Can anyone disagree when I say that Reverend Moon is the most persecuted religious leader in the world? My heart is broken when I think of how God has suffered to see His messengers rejected time and time again. My only desire has been to comfort His heart, yet I find that it is God who always comforts me.

I have walked a path of indemnity, or restitution, in order to restore the failures of the past, including those of the Old and New Testament eras. Korea can be compared to the Old Testament Age, while America, a mostly Christian civilization, can be compared to the New Testament Age. For the first 20 years, I walked the road of indemnity of the Old Testament Age, centering on the Korean nation and the Unification Church, representing the positions of the Israelite nation and Judaism, respectively. On the foundation of this work, I established in 1960 the Holy Wedding of True Parents on the national level. Then, in 1971, my wife and I came to America. Over the next 20 years in the U.S., I walked the path of indemnity to fulfill the New Testament Age and to begin the Completed Testament Age. Thus, I established the True Parents' family, the origin of true love, true life, and true blood lineage, based on God.

The reason why America is essential in the providential dispensation is because of her close ties with the Christian churches, Judaism, and Israel.

Even though America has dismissed and opposed my work, my wife and I continue to pray for America to realize her providential responsibility. It is our sincere desire that America avoid repeating her failure. A failure to unite with God's Will would create the need for further indemnity and would deprive America of the blessing that God wishes to bestow upon this great nation.

Rome thought that the world existed only for the sake of Rome. She did not realize that God had raised her up for the purpose of uniting with the Messiah and serving the world.

America faces a similar situation today. People must realize that God blessed America not for herself but for the sake of the world. America's Pilgrim Fathers did not come here for wealth. They came here to attend God. If America fails to remember the purpose for which she is blessed, then her blessing will cease and she will perish. I desperately want to prevent this. I must save America.

For twenty-one years I have struggled in this country, trying to bring God's message to the American people. American leaders, prominent Christians, and other leading figures of the world have only a faint idea of the forces that shape the future. Therefore, they can offer little insight, hope, or guidance to their people. In these chaotic times, humankind is longing for a true direction and purpose, yet America and the churches have no confident answer. God has granted me an understanding of the forces involved in His providential history. Thus, I know the direction that humankind must go, and I, with the help of God, will lead the world there.

What the Unification Church Offers

The truth which God has revealed to me is contained in the Divine Principle. Looking at the history of humankind and the stories of the Bible from the providential viewpoint, the Divine Principle unlocks the answers to questions unsolved for thousands of years. Those who have sincerely studied its contents have found it to be a true gift from God, providing the only solutions to the problems facing our society today. Even in the formerly communist C.I.S., Soviet leaders and thousands of young people have found their lives renewed through their studies of my teachings. Finally free from the oppression of communist ideology, they are hungry for the spiritual truth to guide their nations. Russian classrooms where our members are teaching "Godism," or "Head-wing Ideology," are overflowing.

There are countless other testimonies to the power of the Divine Principle to give hope and new life to young people. Last year, in Korea, we held a wedding celebration for 30,000 couples, all dedicating their lives to one another, to God, and to the world. In most families today, parents cannot effectively guide their children, especially on such intimate matters as love and marriage. Yet, my wife and I brought together young people from 131 different nations and realized their most cherished dreams of love in a historic way. This was indeed a great miracle of the modern world. In the future, as people come to understand the value and quality of these precious families, millions will seek such marriages. Through them, God can restore the family that Satan has destroyed. Such restored, God-centered families are the very building blocks of an ideal nation and world.

My dear friends, when Jesus taught the coming of the Messiah, he told the parable of the virgins who were awaiting the arrival of the bridegroom. According to the book of Revelation, Christianity is portrayed as a bride. America, representing Christianity, can also be seen as a bride nation.

Women's Crucial Role

Therefore, America must take the responsibility of creating a foundation for worldwide unity upon which the bridegroom can finally be received. This signifies the restoration of the original positions of man and woman, restored Adam and Eve, to the realm of true equality. At this turning point in the history of restoration, a woman in the position of True Mother must prepare the world to receive the True Father.

When Christianity failed to meet her bridegroom the first time, God's dispensation had to be delayed 40 years until 1992. During this time, I have worked and prayed to bring about the unity of Korea, Britain, America, France, Japan, Germany, and Italy.

That is why, in April 1992, my wife and I founded the Women's Federation for World Peace. Last year my wife, as True Mother, visited these seven countries, as well as Russia and Oceania. She gathered together the women of these countries to form chapters of the Women's Federation for World Peace. With these events, the nations that had been the worldwide Cain and Abel countries since World War II united together to receive the True Mother and prepare again the foundation for meeting the True Father.

Based upon this foundation, my wife and I can now stand on a worldwide foundation as the first True Parents. As the world enters the Completed Testament Age, we will live with God again.

At this historical turning point, we have to practice on the worldwide level the principle that an individual's mind and body must be united centered on God. To facilitate this, we have founded two organizations working for world peace. The Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace represents the world mind, and carries out the internal mission of uniting all the world's religions on the basis of God's love. The Federation for World Peace, on the other hand, represents the world body, and pursues the external mission of building up ideal societies with leaders in the fields of politics, economics, media, academia, and science.

Completing the Family Foundation

During the last 40 years, I broke down all of Satan's obstructions, traveled into various parts of not only the physical but also the spiritual world, crossed over many world and national barriers, and have now reached the present family stage.

Through the law of indemnity, all the problems of the world will be solved by establishing the family ideal centered on God's true love.

Looking at the vertical perspective of love, Adam and Eve should have related directly with God by developing in themselves the four types of love: children's love, brother-sister love, conjugal love, and parental love.

Therefore, Adam and Eve should originally have gone through the four spheres of the heart, centering on God's true love, as completed children, completed brother and sister, loving couple, and perfected parents. In this way, they would have achieved the completed family.

Adam and Eve should have become the role models for all in their family. Their children would have looked to their parents as ideal role models. They would have become brothers and sisters who loved each other as their parents loved them. Then they would have become married couples resembling the husband-wife relationship of their parents. Finally, with the birth of children, they would have established their own completed families, identical to that of their parents.

By setting up ideal, unbreakable families that fulfill the vertical and horizontal unity between parents and children, brothers and sisters, and husband and wife, we can finally build the eternal basis for God's kingdom on earth as well as in heaven. Thus, all the families in the world originating from the same God-centered ancestors, Adam and Eve, would have equal, divine value.

Extension of the Messianic Ideal

Ladies and gentlemen, at the dawn of the Completed Testament Age, the time has come for each family to take up the messianic mission of completing the work of salvation all over the world. After restoring your family, the next step is to restore your community, tribe, and nation. We call this process "tribal messiahship." In the Completed Testament Age, the mother's role will be crucial. She must unite her children and her husband, and link her family with the True Parents. Already, we have sent thousands of Tribal Messiah missionaries around the world. Soon, the original ideal of the family will be achieved worldwide.

In the completed family, grandparents will be in the position of kings and queens representing God. Parents will be in the position of kings and queens representing present humanity, and children will be in the position of princes and princesses representing all future descendants. When all three generations are united, past, present, and future will live together in harmony.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great privilege to announce to you the establishment of the first True Family. My wife and I, together with our 13 children and 24 grandchildren, are absolutely dedicated to serving God and humanity. With three generations in one family, we have achieved, on the family level, the central root, the central trunk, and the central bud of the "Tree of Life" mentioned in the Bible. It is our sincere hope that you will symbolically graft into this lineage by joining us in our efforts to create an ideal nation and world. This marks the beginning of the Completed Testament Age.

The Completed Testament era is the age to live together with God. Realizing this, we must accomplish the unification of our mind and body, parents and children, and husband and wife. Then we can establish ideal families centered upon God's love.

Based on this foundation, we should try our utmost to realize the ideal clan, the ideal nation, and the ideal world. From this point, the world of true freedom, peace, and happiness will spring forth.

It is my hope that all Christians, and people of all faiths, will understand this message with a deep heart and an open mind. I sincerely pray that, by upholding the Will of God, we can all reach the place of God's blessing.

May God bless you and your families.

Thank you very much.

Father's Prayer at Twin Peaks

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
May 24, 1993, 11:00 p.m.
San Francisco, California
Translated by Do Wan Kim and Yang Lan Lee

Father spoke to overflow audiences in the first twelve cities of the Thirty-three City Tour (May 13-24, 1993). After he finished he prayed at the San Francisco, Twin Peaks holy ground which he established in 1965. At this point the tour became Mother's and she continued on to the remaining twenty-one cities where she was to speak. Father went to Kodiak, Alaska.

Loving Father! Today is May 24, 1993. Twenty-eight years have passed since I established sixty-two holy grounds in America, originating from these Twin Peaks in San Francisco and heading straight for the terminal station of God's providence. Overcoming all the difficult internal and external situations in Korea, I have come back here from my final providential speaking tour-True Parents and the Completed Testament Age-in twelve major cities in America. Thank you so much, Father, for your divine preparation and support throughout this event.

Due to the failure of human responsibility, heaven struggled so many times in pain and suffering. Corrupt human beings took the abominable and shameful course against God's providence. Grieving Heavenly Father always gave a painful indemnity course to the Abel-side believers instead of the Cain-side sinners. Father, we are so grateful to You for putting the Unification Church through this bitter and severe indemnity course.

Looking back over forty years of my public life, from my youth through manhood and into old age, I am truly thankful to You, my Father, that You have put me into countless painful and agonizing struggles against Satan. Having finally acquired the heavenly authority and pride on the foundation of eventual victory, I could proclaim the accomplishment of True Parents and the Completed Testament Age to humankind. Father! Thank You so much for leading me into this great era of the Completed Testament Age.

With all aspects of necessary conditions prepared, heaven started a new providence in these final days of the twentieth century. The secular, satanic world has been confronting heaven with forceful means, resulting in destructive, bloody, immoral, and chaotic phenomena. Going against Your will, today's world cannot find any ideology or religion to solve its dilemmas. Only the messianic teaching of the Unification Church can clarify the beginning and ending of God and the one and only way to restore corrupt human beings. Father! I am sincerely grateful that You proved this sole, universal restoring way of humankind through me and that You opened a new era-the terminal station of the providence-which is the heavenly kingdom for all humankind and the eternal domain of victory centering upon True Parents.

Oh, pitiful tribes of Israel scattered all over the world, myriads of miserable Christians, and opposing people who are ignorant of this great era! Father! Please let all those people be connected to the rope of True Parents' love centering upon the bond of brotherhood. Looking at the painful corrupt reality, I feel keenly to the bone marrow the exhausting experience of Heavenly Father in setting up the heart of True Parents. Father! I cordially ask You to bless the Unification Church members to be completely united, proudly dedicating their whole heart and loyalty, in the course of restoration. May they become the main axis-the pivotal point of this transitional age that pushes people back to heaven. Here is the son who came to this land alone twenty-eight years ago and founded the holy ground at these Twin Peaks. I was thinking of Your tearful children who were going the suffering path while no one was aware of it. Some disciples faded away from this path with lamenting sighs and took the opposite course, persecuting me. There are many who lost the way in confusion and don't know which way to turn to escape the opposite side and their regretful situation. Father! I dare ask You to have a generous heart toward those pitiful people so they can have the chance to sit even on the very edge of the original world.

Thank you, Father, for being with us from New York to New Jersey, Washington, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, and Seattle until San Francisco. The proclamation of True Parents and the Completed Testament Age, which only heaven knew and nobody had ever thought about, pioneers the way for heaven and earth and builds a milestone in this new era for the devastated world. Thank You, Father, for setting up the pivot upon which all humankind can turn around.

Heavenly Father! I desperately ask You to give more power and blessing to those who care for the Unification Church with their whole heart, those who think of me-the core of the Unification church-as True Parents, and those who sincerely love You-the core of True Parents.

Leaving America up to You, Father, for the time being, I am now launching on the remaining indemnity course, along with the Korean nation, for the future of Asia. I know I have the responsibility to cope with the situations of Asia in order to achieve the unification of North and South Korea-the urgent motto of this age. I also must make straight the way to liberate those pitiful African people so that they can restore their capability to lead the world. Those two points are very important tasks that I have to achieve throughout the rest of my life. Father! with this solemn analysis of my remaining mission, I am redetermined to climb up from the dungeon of hell. Please let me accomplish the True Parental mission to lead the pitiful fallen people into Your bosom.

Please be with Mother

I have finished the Twelve-City Speaking Tour, and True Mother right now will continue the mission of speaking throughout twenty cities in America. Mother's way is not smooth. Father! Please be with her when she speaks for the next twenty days. How huge the mission of True Parents is! No matter how hateful or difficult it is, we must go on. Please allow Mother to face the twenty cities with a true attitude representing Your parental heart, which can appeal to nothing higher. As a couple full of regrets and grievances, we will be separated tomorrow, one heading east and the other heading north. However, we know that the only remaining way for us to go is to be completely faithful in true heart to the fateful mission of proclamation, since the heavenly will remains to restore and embrace humankind. Heavenly Father! We desperately ask You to be with us.

Even though the satanic world persecutes us so much, I know nothing can stop us. Father! I cordially ask You to make the Unification Church members resemble True Parents who are desperately longing for the final and eternal day of glorious victory and are hastening to run tirelessly to return ultimate joy to You. Please let our sons and daughters run and run and run ceaselessly for You.

Now "Act One" has come to an end, and America is about to launch "Act Two." Father! Please let America be born again while going through this "Act Two." Even though the sins committed by this country for the past forty years cannot be forgiven, I have to embrace her again because, Father, You have been loving Christianity so much throughout the bloody, suffering Christian history of martyrdom. Thinking of those who became the living sacrifices on the cross and those who loved You unconditionally and yearned for the Lord's coming, I feel Your unforgettable and unchangeable heart toward them. Father! That's why I want to ask You again to throw open the new gate for America to receive the good ancestral help from the spirit world so that Christendom can be born again here and so she can newly lead all the religions. Please let the glorious light come down on this land from the spiritual heaven so that America can accelerate the liberation of all humankind.

To establish one nation

I sincerely desire, Father, for You to throw open the blessed way for the union of Heung Jin Nim and Jesus to speed up the time to establish one nation with the lineage of True Parents on earth.

Father! Please remember San Francisco. All the people are thinking of this holy ground of San Francisco. I cordially ask You, Father, to throw open the blessed door of heaven, along with the one hundred twenty holy grounds connected to this holy ground of Twin Peaks, so that the forty nations scattered over the world can be dedicated as unified, sacrificial nations in Father's bosom.

Father! I humbly want to ask You to allow all the universal, overall plans that we are going to make from now on to achieve rapid progress. Let us make a strong determination to go forward to the day filled with magnificent victory, glory, and praise.

Father! I would like to offer to You all the gratitude and victory that You have shown to me, and I pray that Mother can get the same support from You when she succeeds in my mission to speak in twenty cities in America. Please let Mother's remaining rallies be successful.

I pray that all the facts that I have reported to You can be also acceptable to spirit world and the whole universe. Finally, Father, I ask you as a favor to please promise to be continuously responsive to all the contents that I prayed for. I pray all these things in the name of True Parents. Amen. Amen. Amen.

Blessed Couples = Tribal Messiah

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Father's Speech to Members at Shimjeung Gardens
May 24, 1993
(Unofficial Notes)

What is the meaning of messiah -- True Parents. Because of the Fall we have a term called messiah; without the Fall the only thing necessary is True Parents or Original Parents.

The Messiah is bringing True Love and the seed of True Life. Because of the Fall we have all had a wrong seed to life--therefore the messiah comes to transfer to a heavenly seed from a Satanic one-- create a heavenly lineage. Because we have the wrong lineage then the messiah must come. At the consummation of restoration history we need True Parents, not the messiah.

People are talking about the Fall of man, but they don't really understand clearly the Fall of Man. Therefore they don't comprehend the term True Parents -- seems to be a strange word. Because of Father's discoveries of the Fall of Man's hidden meaning then confusion is being cleared up.

The History of Restoration is to find the messiah who can rise up out of humanity, reach God, then go back to the people as God's instrument of love. God has been separated from mankind so far away, with no way to relate to man. The messiah is the one to go everywhere to bring God down to humanity all the way down even into your own living room, your home.

After W.W.II Great Britain was chosen as Eve, Cain and Abel were France and America. However, we know that because of the failure and rejection of the messiah the world also rejected God. Therefore God and Father felt the same rejection, were cast out of this world together.

Father had to reconstruct the same situation that existed right after W.W.II. That was the moment that the Proclamation of the Messiah should have been made. However, we know that never happened in 1945 and was delayed until this moment.

After W.W.II the Christian nations were in a position of supreme power and if they had received the messiah at that time then the age of True Parents would have begun at that time. Now 48 years later Father is making that declaration to the world. Father's task now is to unite North and South Korea. Kim Il Sung is a Satanic messiah. In North Korea he is called Father.

The US role is very important, together with Japan.

Those who oppose Father in the future are getting weaker and weaker. Do not fear opposition. If Father was not so victorious then it wouldn't get people from the opposing camp so worked up. People in the audience were ashamed of the reaction of those people who tried to disrupt the event. We took those people away for their own protection because the audience was so upset at them.

What should Blessed Couples do from now on?-- Tribal Messiahship. We don't need any Headquarters, we don't need any big organization, just Tribal Messiahship.

Humanity has sprung forth from a satanic root. Father has now brought forth the Tree of Life, now this tree needs branches, that is the blessed couples. Now Father is being Messiah on a worldwide level, national level etc.

If there was no Fall where would the messiahship begin? --Not from the world, nation or tribe, but from the family. Family level messiahship is the beginning. The messiah and True Parents are the same thing. Your job is relatively simple to become branches of the tree of love. The tree had to establish itself vertically including planting deep roots which couldn't be shaken. This involved rooting out the false tree-- restoring all of the history of fallen mankind to establish a true Tree of Life. Now our mission is the establishment of the horizontal foundation, i.e. as branches of the Tree of Life we have three level of ancestors. Formation: our own parents, Growth: Jesus, Completion: True Parents. This is our vertical lineage.

Father has completed the victorious realm of each level of human ancestry-- therefore Satan s accusations have no basis and cannot stick. As we know the Fall took place in the growth stage. Now Father has proclaimed the Completion stage and therefore out of Satan s realm of accusation.

Within the success of True Parents there are three levels of victory: Completion: True Parents, Growth: Jesus, Formation: Adam and Eve. Victory on each level.

Now through Tribal Messiahship we are on the same level that Jesus was on. We have the same kind of role as Jesus. We have the position and authority as blessed couples to go out and save people-- bring salvation to people.

Jesus wasn't blessed. There was no Marriage of the Lamb. Since we are blessed, we have completed the Adam and Eve level. Now we can go out and save our own parents, our own brothers and sisters, and bring them to the blessing.

Three generations shall join together with you. Even though you are younger your grandparents, parents and elder brothers and sisters will recognize that you are the new ancestor of your lineage. Physical age has nothing to do with it, you are spiritually their elder, engrafted onto to True Adam's family.

Father raised us up, likewise we can raise up those of our lineage all the way to perfection. Adam and Eve were in the parent position. Jesus was in the parent position. True Parents are also in the parents position. Now we must fill the same role as Tribal Messiah because of our blessing. We must understand the value of our blessing -- we have a chance to do over what Jesus himself couldn't do and after 2000 years of Christian history still no way for him to accomplish. Our blessing has that kind of value because we are engrafted to the True Parents.

Jesus was to have conquered Rome and the whole world, but wasn't able to go that far.

The mission of Tribal Messiahship is to first of all restore your ancestors. Without restoring your ancestors, you are alone, just your family by itself. As Tribal Messiah you must first of all restore your own parents, that is your first job. Unless you do that you cannot restore others. Your own family is first.

Our second mission is to restore our hometown. Our parents have been living in the fallen hometown. As we restore our parents, we must restore everything connected to our parents. This represents property or ownership.

When you have 160 families registered in your tribe you have the completed Tribal Messiahship. T.M. must be done even at the price of your life-- it cannot be done lightly. Even Jesus is in Paradise, having not completed everything and must come down to be engrafted onto the True Parents. Likewise if we don't accomplish the realm of perfection of earth then we must go back after going to spirit world.

As Abel you must love Cain at the price of your life-- love Cain before you love your own children or else Cain will be jealous and want to kill your children. You must give up everything to practice loving your enemy.

Restoration of Ancestors, i.e. Adam and Eve Restoration of Hometown, Adam and Eve's surroundings Attend and live with God-- realm of heart.

The Kingdom of Heaven is when the dwelling of God is with you and your family. Then your hometown is no longer a dwelling place for Satan but for God and the kingdom of heaven of your tribe on earth. If you are failing in your Tribal Messiah mission then you are restricting God from being in your hometown. Therefore is T.M. a mediocre responsibility or an absolute responsibility? It is the same thing with Father. Throughout his entire life Father has been desperate to fulfill his mission. Today is the Declaration of True Parents and the Completed Testament Age, that is nothing more than the completion of the purpose of creation. What is the Completed Testament Era? It is where the ideal of creation has been accomplished. Who is at the center of that ideal?-- True Parents. Tribal Messiahship is that important for the blessed couple. By doing your Tribal Messiahship work you are actually preserving your blessing. We may be worrying about mundane things, my children need to go to a good school, I have to get a job, etc., but compared with Tribal Messiahship which is more important-- mundane things or Tribal Messiahship? If your husband doesn't want to do it what should you do? Kick him out? How about your children? Kick them out. I am not trying to figure out a strategy of how I can push you to work harder. This is the truth and it is entirely up to you. When the Exodus happened 600,000 people all came out wanting to go to Canaan. The bigger the tribe you can bring into the promised land the more blessed you will be. Once you get the Tribal Messiah foundation started it is without end, a chain reaction, one family is connected to another and it spreads out, on and on.

Talking about it is wonderful, but doing it is not easy-- it takes all of your effort. When you go to your hometown you should exceed the record of serving set by any of your ancestors, because you are the first ever Tribal Messiah for your hometown. So you must set the standard. There is absolutely no room for complaint as T.M. Can you do it?

It is 28 years after establishing the first Holy Ground. Tonight's audience was just like a Moonie audience. Father practiced his speech so many times and also prayed many hours in preparation. That is the standard you must use before giving lectures in order to have spiritual power.

Tribal Messiahship

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

These are excerpts from Reverend Moon's speech given on the evening of May 24, in Berkeley, California, after his final speech in America this spring. He spoke to some 150 members from the area. At the conclusion, he asked that his talk be published and made available to all members. The speech he gave that night is in a summary of the main points of the evening talks he gave to members in each of the cities of his tour. Printed here is about one-half the speech; for a copy of the entire speech, please send a check or money order for $5.00 to HSA Speech Department, 4 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036. Note order number 93-05-24-18. You may want to inquire about the Speech Subscription Service, at the same address.

What is the meaning of Messiah and True Parents? Only because of the fall do we have the term "Messiah"; without the fall, the only thing necessary is True Parents or Original Parents. The Messiah is bringing true love and the seed of life. Because of the fall of man, all humanity has received the satanic lineage. Humankind has been born under the wrong lineage, from the wrong seed, creating the wrong life. Therefore, the time has come to transfer the lineage from the satanic one to the heavenly one.

Because this lineage transfer was never accomplished, the lineage of humankind is wrong. This is why the Messiah is necessary. The Savior has to come. The Savior is necessary and has to come for the purpose of salvation. When that is accomplished, he will be elevated to the position of True Parenthood.

People talk about the fall of man, but they do not know its real meaning. That's why they cannot comprehend anything beyond that. As a result, "True Parents" is a very strange word to them. It is only because of the birth of our True Father that all these hidden truths have been revealed to humanity. This has lifted the entire confusion and made everything completely clear. The truth has been given.

The work of the history of restoration is that the Messiah comes, goes through humanity to reach God, and then comes all the way back to humanity, into reality, with God's truth, God's love and the seed of life. That is exactly the history of restoration.

God has been moved so far away, He has had nothing to do with humanity. The Messiah goes everywhere in the place of God, and brings God down, all the way down to your own living room.

After World War II, Great Britain was chosen as the Eve nation; France and the United States were Cain and Abel respectively. They were the primary nations for those providential roles. However, because of their lack of acceptance of the Messiah, Father had to reconstruct the entire foundation, taking 40 years, in the name of the Unification Church. God has been working for 6,000 years for the individual, family, clan, tribe, nation and world. Because of the failure of Christianity, all this work of God was thrown into the wastebasket; so God was thrown out into the wilderness. Father had to reconstruct all that was lost.

When the world rejected Father, it rejected God at the same time. So when the world cast Father into the wilderness, the world cast God into the wilderness. Therefore, God has been always with Father, and the world has been without God. So the foundation of victory of World War II, which was God's foundation of victory, was lost. It didn't accomplish a thing; it completely went into the wastebasket. Therefore, Father had to reconstruct a victorious base by himself.

The True Parents' declaration should have been made immediately on the heels of World War II. Because of the failure of Christianity, it was delayed until now, 1993. After World War II there would have been no objection. The whole world could have united into one camp. The United States, a Christian nation, was the supreme nation at that time, and this supreme power could have been exercised around the world. Under those circumstances, the Messiah should have been accepted by Christianity. Then he would have announced True Parenthood to the world. True Parenthood should have come at that time.

Because that was not done, what is happening 48 years later? Father had to re-declare the declaration that could not come in 1945. Now Father has declared to the world the True Parents. This is my declaration.

Everything is there. Father is the cosmic Messiah, the worldwide Messiah, the national Messiah and the tribal Messiah. Everything is in place. Only one messiahship is missing: that is, family Messiahship, the family Messiah. That is the True Parents, Father and Mother. If there had been no fall, where would the messiahship begin? Not from the tribe, not from the nation. Family Messiahship would have been the beginning point. In that case, the Messiah and the True Parents would have been the same thing.

Until now the providential center was the Judeo-Christian world. Until now, it was all placed on Satan's side. From there the individual was connected, the family was connected, and so forth. After this, God could completely control everything. That means Satan's world perishes and Satan is finished.

Your job is simple. In the Old Testament era and New Testament era, we have been working vertically. Vertically, Father now has completed the way, from the deepest root to the highest bud. All you have to do is become a branch of the Tree of Life, the tree which Father created. The job which remains for you is horizontal, attaching to the tree to become a branch.

You have three levels of ancestry. The first is your own parents. They are the formation level. Jesus is your growth level of ancestor. True Parents are the completion level of your ancestry. The vertical line is completed for you. When Father refers to the Completed Testament Age, he means not only the completion of Father himself, but also that Father completed Jesus and Adam and Eve. Their perfection also has been accomplished. Father completed the victorious realm for Adam and Eve, the victorious realm for Jesus, and, of course, the victorious realm for True Parents.

For that reason, Satan has no way to accuse Father. Vertically and horizontally, Father has made the victorious foundation which Satan has no power to invade. Horizontally, Adam and Eve's realm and Jesus' realm are connected to the True Parents. Satan cannot invade any of those. Vertically, the formation and growth stages are connected to the perfection stage. As you know from studying the Divine Principle, the fall of man came in the growth stage. Father has now proclaimed to the world the Completed Testament Age. That is above the growth stage, so Satan has no power to reach it. It is beyond the range of Satan's power.

Within the successful foundation of True Parents there are three layers: True Parents' victory, Jesus' victory and Adam and Eve's victory. Now Father is holding out the realm of Jesus' victory and giving it to you in Tribal Messiahship. That means you are in that role. In that position, you include the perfection of Adam and Eve. Therefore you can be a messiah; you can go out and save others. You have that power as a blessed couple; you have the power to bring them salvation.

Jesus could not have the blessing; there was no Marriage of the Lamb. However, you are blessed. That's why you can go to your hometown. You can reach your parents, your father and mother, who are in Adam and Eve's position. You can restore them; you have the power to do so.

You inherit messiahship. Can you imagine: you are given the title of messiahship because you are blessed couples.

You do not know the value of the Blessing; you have no idea. Your blessing, your holy wedding, is of more value than anything done by Jesus Christ or during the 2,000 years of Christian hard work. It fulfills the Marriage of the Lamb which was talked about in the Bible. Your level is much higher than the Marriage of the Lamb, because you are blessed by the True Parents. Jesus was supposed to have conquered Rome and then the world. Jesus could not go as far as receiving the blessing.

What is first and most important is the tribal messiah's mission of restoring your ancestors. Without the restoration of your ancestors, you are all by yourself; you have no foundation for your family. The family foundation is lost. The family is the center, the base. On top of that there is the tribe and on top of that is the nation. You are first of all restored into the family messiah, to recreate the family, which Father said is the most important level. The tribal messiah first restores the parents. From the family foundation, you connect the tribe. Once you complete the tribal messiah mission, then you can go to the level of nation messiah and world messiah.

Your first job is to go out there and restore your parents. Your first job is that of family messiah. Your whole life in the satanic world is a life heading for hell. By accepting the True Parents, your direction is reversed and you are heading toward heaven - then you are blessed and you are given the mission of tribal messiahship.

So what is the first mission of the tribal messiah? [Restoration of ancestors.] Second? [Restoration of hometown.] But when you restore your father and mother, your physical parental position, you have to go out to restore your hometown. You must restore the rights over everything that is connected to your parents. This means the lineage, ownership and heart. So, there are three areas. The restoration of lineage is first. The second is restoration of ownership, property. The third mission of the tribal messiah is to let God dwell with human beings. This is shimjung - heartistic restoration.

As Abel, you are to love your enemy as you love yourself. You must love Cain before you love your own children. Otherwise, Cain will become jealous and try to kill your children. That's exactly what happened in the Garden of Eden. This is why God said to love your enemy. This is not just a simple word; this is a message that has to be lived.

Look at Father. Father has given everything, give up all his property, relatives and family in Korea in order to come to the United States. He gave up his nation and came to the United States. America is in the Cain position; American people want to kill me. However Jesus said, "love your enemy." Father practiced this truth here in the United States.

True love gives out, creating a low pressure system. Does high pressure go into low pressure, or low pressure go into high pressure? [High pressure to low.] High pressure to low. This cures everything, creating true ownership.

To summarize, tribal messiahship, first of all, is restoration of ancestors; second, restoration of hometown.

What about the third mission of tribal messiahship? The third is to attend and live with God. God has to come down, and the dwelling of God is to be with you and your family. That is the Kingdom of Heaven. Thus, Adam and Eve's family and your hometown have the same value. God's dwelling place is the hometown of Adam's family. That place is God's dwelling place, all the time.

Your hometown will no longer be in the satanic realm. It will be a town where God can come freely, all the time. The dwelling of God will be with you, in your home and your hometown. If you fail tribal messiahship, then you cannot attain the restoration of your ancestors, you cannot restore your hometown, and you cannot have God with you.

I'm not trying to push you to work; I'm not trying to kick you out to work harder. I'm not planning any strategy for you. This the truth I am giving you; it's up to you to fulfill it. When the Exodus was conducted, 600,000 Jewish people came out of Egypt. This 600,000 was just a group of families, parents and children walking hand in hand; they came out together. They wanted to go to the land of Canaan. The bigger the family you can bring into the land of Canaan, the more you will be blessed, the more deserving you will be. Through tribal messiahship there is a chain reaction, of which there is no end. One family becomes two, which becomes four, which becomes eight, which becomes thousands of families, tens of thousands. This is how the United States can be restored. Including your in-laws, it reaches everyone all over the world. Can you do that? Talking about it is good, but doing it is not easy.

When you go to your hometown, you should exceed the record of serving set by your good ancestors, because you are the first tribal messiah for your hometown. You must set the standard.