Hak Ja Han
April 6, 2019
Peace Starts With Me rally, City of Refuge Church, Gardena, California, USA
Respected dignitaries, ladies and gentlemen, my beloved religious leaders and all of you blessed families that have received the blessing from True Parents, I welcome you all. Family Federation members from all around America, I am happy to meet you.
Today, we have gathered to realize Heavenly Parent's dream and all humankind's desire. Through receiving the blessing from True Parents, the door by which you can stand in the position of true children in front of our Heavenly Parent has opened. Today, I wish to speak to you on the topic, Christianity's mission from the viewpoint of God's providence and United States' responsibilities."
Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ came to earth as God's only son. Unfortunately, he could not complete everything, and as he went the way of the cross, he prophesied that he would come again. Afterward, through the resurrecting work of the Holy Spirit and the Apostles' work -- as is recorded in the Bible -- the Christian cultural sphere expanded. However, in the church's early days, Christianity received severe opposition and passed through unimaginable difficulties.
Then, in 313 A. D., Christianity was officially permitted by the Roman Empire. It expanded from the Italian Peninsula, through continental Europe to the British Isles.
Mission work and exploitation
Then, from the United Kingdom, Christian missionaries went out into the world. Unfortunately they didn't understand Jesus' essence. They did not understand the principles through which God created the universe nor the principles through which he led the providence. In Jesus' teachings, it reads, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Unfortunately, these missionaries, who went out in Christ's name, placed their nations' interests and their self-interests first. In other words, rather than a culture of giving, they established a culture of taking away from others.
In the seventeenth century, King James translated the Bible, which was written in Hebrew and Greek, into English, and as a result, many ordinary citizens gained access to God's word. To this day, because they failed to understand Christ's essence, they have emphasized secularism and secular traditions even among religious believers, creating many mistakes. For example, from the midst of the Christian sphere, communism emerged claiming God was dead. This is humanity's mistake.
At that time, ordinary believers did not wish to practice a secular faith. They wanted to worship God freely in their own homes. In wishing to do so, they crossed an ocean and settled in a new continent.
This is the genesis of today's America. However, even they could not understand Heaven's providence. Originally, God created the heavens and the earth in his own image -- and then created the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve. God gave human beings responsibilities. During their growth period, they had to grow to perfection while maintaining absolute oneness with God. However, during their growth period, Adam and Eve became self-centered and allowed greed to consume them; that is the origin of today's fallen humanity.
Christianity's expectation
God, through our human ancestors, wished to become the Heavenly Parent of humanity, but Adam and Eve ruined that dream. Nevertheless, since God, had created based on the principles of creation that the universe is eternal, God has had to go through the unwanted and painful history of the providence of restoration through indemnity.
In the Bible, it is written that God chose the people of Israel, who being in the position of indemnifying everything over a long period of four thousand biblical years, established a national-level foundation. God waited until that time and finally sent his only son Jesus and proclaimed, "This is my beloved son."
Still, even Jesus' mother, Mary, Zachariah's family, the Jewish leaders and the Israelites, did not fulfill their responsibilities in relation to Jesus. Through Jesus, God wished to realize his dream. Jesus knows how painful it was for Heaven to see, once again, such a sad and painful outcome. That is why he said, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." [Matthew 26:39]
Once again humankind brought sadness to God that could not be atoned for. God had created a man and a woman in accordance with the principles of creation. As Jesus went to the cross, he prophesied that he would come again. Today's Christians, however, say that they are saved by the blood Jesus shed on the cross. Do you know how far this viewpoint is from Heaven's providential view?
Since God created us to be eternal, Jesus prophesied that he would come again to host the marriage supper of the Lamb. So whom should Christianity await today? Prior to waiting for the True Parents, they needed to meet God's only daughter, the person who was to become the True Mother.
Korea's course
God raises central figures and nations and when they fail in their responsibilities, Heaven finds and establishes another chosen people. Just as you saw through the video today, God's only daughter was born in 1943 in Korea.
Korea's situation was extremely difficult during that time. Righteous men and women wishing for Korea's independence, notably Christian believers (when Christianity had not yet even celebrated its centenary in Korea) and young students, rose up during the March 1 Independence Movement. This year marks its 100th anniversary. The wish of all these students and Christian believers was for Korea's protection.
According to the principles of creation, God sent his only daughter and granted her a time period through which she could reach maturity. In 1945, Korea was liberated and in 1950 the Korean War erupted. At that time, Korea was powerless. It was divided into the communist North and the democratic South.
South Korea at the time had embraced a democratic regime, but it took time for that system to fully develop. That is why, in 1950, when North Korean communist forces invaded South Korea, South Korea was unprepared. Like a miracle,
