Hak Ja Han
April 30, 2017
Hope for Korea! National Harmony and Unity Spearhead Rally
Ilsan, Korea
Let us think about how we can solve all the dark and gloomy problems that are occurring on earth today. The topic I hope to speak about to you today is "Heaven's providence and Korea's mission seen from the history of human civilization."
Originally, God the Creator made all things and then made Adam and Eve, who would become the ancestor of humankind, and he said that it was good. God gave Adam and Eve, who would become the ancestors of humankind responsibility. That responsibility was to go through the growth stages and live a life united with God's absolute position. However, during the growth stage the greed to look towards themselves formed. The greed of thinking "I can be the same as God" formed. Before the time was right, they made a mistake. Through that, the history of humankind ended up becoming the history of the Fall.
Almighty God
The omniscient and omnipotent God could not just stand back and watch fallen humankind. According to the principles underlying the Creation, he is a being in which the beginning and the end are the same. God cannot use the word "failure." That is why God had no choice but to begin the lonely and difficult history of the providence of restoration through indemnity to reach humankind.
Among the numerous fallen human beings, he chose the Israelites whom we could call a good people relative to others. How difficult must it have been that it took four thousand years to reach the standard from individual, family, tribe, race and nation? Then what happened when God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, who could have been the first ancestor that humankind longed for and who could realize God's dream of the purpose of creation? The Israelites, figures in Judaism, even Mary who gave birth to Jesus, and Zachariah's family could not fulfill their responsibilities. To protect Jesus, who came as the only son of God was their responsibility. In order for Jesus to become the True Parent, he had to meet the only daughter of God. Mary should have fulfilled her responsibility to create that foundation. Mary should not have had [her own] family while Jesus was still living alone. We must make right this errant past.
Jesus left us with a promise
Jesus, who had lost the foundation, had no choice but to go the way of the cross. Therefore, he said he would return He would return and hold the marriage supper of the Lamb. Jesus promised absolutely to realize the position of True Parent that he had been unable to realize in his lifetime. In order to do that, on the foundation of Christianity, believers had to fulfill the responsibility of giving birth to the only daughter of God. When God works through an individual or nation, he does not reuse a people that did not fulfill its responsibility. This is because the people that did not fulfill their obligations have indemnity they must pass through. Through history, we can see what kind of life the Israelites had lived.
Heaven chose a good people to give birth to the only daughter of God. That people is what is today the Republic of South Korea. In light of that, you all have responsibilities. We cannot repeat the mistake of the Israelites who were unable to fulfill their obligations. This is because your descendants would be left with indemnity. Do you understand? After Jesus died on the cross, it took around three years for Christian culture finally to be accepted.
The Christian culture, which began centered on the Italian Peninsula passed through Europe and arrived at the island nation of Britain, through which the age of the Atlantic Civilization developed. Through that, Britain "spread" to the world centered on the sea. "The sun never sets on the British Empire" was a means of describing Britain's power. However, people of the Christian faith, who did not know Jesus' true nature could not cast aside selfishness, even though they spoke of love. As a result, they had no choice but to retreat.
Jesus' essence
The true nature of Jesus is true love. True love, is love that gives and give, forgets it has given and gives again. Though the European nations that achieved the realm of the Atlantic Civilization must have given something to the colonies they occupied, they made more effort to take. As a result, an environment developed in which the Atlantic Civilization could no longer be powerful.
It is also true, though, that all the European nations received the world's culture and through the Industrial Revolution were able to live prosperous lives. Yet, that was not a life lived for the sake of others. The mission of Christianity was to listen to Heaven's promise, when Jesus said he would return and hold the marriage supper of the lamb as he died on the cross, and prepare for that.
For those who represent Korean Christianity, obligation to fulfill that responsibility was theirs. However, there is no truth to Christianity. They do not even understand Jesus' true nature or how Heaven's providence is progressing. How can Christianity, which human thinking produced, crucify Jesus, who should have been attended as the True Parents, and leave him on the cross for two thousand years whey saying they will be saved? This is disloyal and impious. However, they do not realize this. Now, on earth, the longed for wish of humankind, the only daughter of God and only son of God, the True Parents, have been born.
Under those circumstances, what must you do? There can be no perfection in ignorance. You must be aware of that. True Parents have been teaching you for fifty-some years, since the holy wedding, and have been teaching all the people of the world. At that time in 1960, the world had only around 3 billion people compared to the 7.4 billion now.
We are moving quickly
Do you see hope for the future? On your own, you cannot find hope. When you go forward united with True Parents, you have hope for the future. Do you understand? We proposed the IAPP in 2016! In only around ten months until we had spread throughout the six continents.
In the US Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, around three hundred people came, all legislators. Around eighty US legislators participated. There, I said that the way to peace is through me! I proclaimed that they must unite with the only daughter of God, the True Parents. These are amazing, revolutionary words -- the words that Jesus should have said two thousand years ago in the Roman Senate.
I have created this external foundation. Even though this nation had been facing difficulties and the world was in confusion seven hundred legislators came to this nation. Why did they come? I told them the way to peace is for each of them to return to their own nations where I asked them to fulfill their responsibilities as tribal messiahs. I told them to become messiahs. The establishment of IAPP chapters is continuing toward 120 nations. A few days ago, they inaugurated one in India, a nation with 1.3 billion people. Neither Christianity nor all of Buddhism has not been able to gain influence over Hinduism in India. However more than 120 legislators came and held a victorious inauguration.
They do not know how urgent this circumstance is but we can recognize that there are many people looking for the true owner! The True Parents. That is so. The wish of fallen humankind is to go through the process of rebirth through the True Parents and become children of God, our Heavenly Parent.
Become the light of the East
How difficult of a course of waiting must Heavenly Parent have gone through? The six thousand years in the Bible is a long time, but the history of humankind is even longer.
Now those of you here today must rise and teach the citizens of this nation about the advent of True Parents. Do you understand? Your dream is to see North Korea and South Korea unite and to live in a peaceful world. The achievement of that dream cannot come through the power of politics, religion or a particular ideology. Only True Parents can trod that path.
One hundred years ago, the poet Tagore wrote a beautiful poem about us when we under colonization. It was prophetic: "In the golden age of Asia, Korea was one of its lamp-bearers and that lamp is waiting to be lighted once again for the illumination of the East." What is light? Light is the true word, the truth. It is through the True Parents that the truth became true.
That is why I would like to say this: Korea alone cannot resolve the problems in Korea. We have received the blessing of being God's homeland. Thus, all of us must fulfill our responsibilities. We must do it. We must show it through our actions.
Then this people, this nation, can stand upright in this world as a nation where the only Heavenly Parent and True Parents can dwell. The poem says we will become the light of the East, so together with the other nations of Asia, we must open the age of the Pacific Civilization and spread to the world.
If the age of the Atlantic Civilization, two thousand years ago, was a providence that collected and took away, the age of the Pacific Civilization will achieve the world humankind wants and Heavenly Parent wishes for, a world of one human family under God, which living for the sake of others centered on True Parents will achieve. Will you make that resolution and put it into practice? Let us advance and continue to advance until the day when with a heart of hyo jeong, we can give joy and praise to Heavenly Parent.