October 23, 2013
Translator: Lymhwa Kim
Edited by Krista Moon
One of the topics True Mother expanded upon was the course of providential history.
The final stop of ‘The Rally for the 55th Anniversary of the Arrival of Missionaries in Japan – West Japan’ was held at the Kobe World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Japan on October 22, 2013 with 6,500 participants including blessed families, church members, peace ambassadors and community leaders in attendance.
The last stop of True Mother’s Revival Rallies in Japan finished at Kobe, Japan, at which 6,500 came to listen to her speech.
True Mother knew that this event was being broadcast throughout Japan and around the world, so she included global topics, as well as covering her main message about Japan’s role as the ‘Mother nation’ to the other countries of the world. She encouraged all participants to be grateful to God, our Heavenly Parent, and to True Parents who prepared for this event with behind-the-scene prayers. She also reminded everyone to remember and appreciate the efforts and the sincerity of elder members and people who worked in the field to make the foundation for the current [Unificationist] church in Japan. “We need to remember that through True Parents special blessing we now have 40,000 rising ‘stars’, in the secondand third-generation of Unificationists in Japan,” she said.
She explained God’s long course to find the True Parents and talked about God’s sorrowful heart and suffering in the course of the history of restoration to restore the fallen humankind. “The cause of God’s sorrowful heart is that humankind didn’t follow God’s words and instead connected to Satan’s blood linage,” she said. “The Messiah is the person who reveals the Truth of God and spreads goodness and becomes True Parents in order to realize God’s wish — to become one with humankind.”
True Mother and church leaders wave flags and cheer during the finale of her speaking tour.
True Mother also elaborated on God’s 4,000 years of history of sorrowful heart and suffering He endured before sending the Messiah to Israel to save humankind. She also solemnly explained that Jesus’ crucifixion was a result of the people of Israel’s inability to create a proper environment to serve Jesus.
After Jesus’ crucifixion, providential history centered on Christianity. She explained the reason why the dispensation moved from Rome to Europe and then from Great Britain to the United States. The reason God gave the blessing to those nations was to establish God’s sovereignty together with the Second Coming of the Lord. He bestowed the blessing not only for the nation’s own sake but for all people. “This is why it is so important to know God’s heart and providence,” she said.
True Mother especially emphasized that Japan received the mission and blessing after Great Britain and the United States in order to become unified with those nations, centered on Heavenly Parent and to meet the Messiah, to embrace the world and to live for sake of the world and to love the world.
More than 6,500 participants at the Kobe World Memorial Hall cheer with flags after the conclusion of True Mother’s speech.
The reason for God’s blessing moving from one nation to another was because the original nation did not understand the restoration providence and fell into selfishness, nationalism, ideological chaos and higher incidence of dysfunctional families. True Mother listed Great Britain and the United States as examples of nations from which God’s blessing was transferred. She pointed out that those nations did not keep their promises to God. She also said, “As a result, if a person or nation makes themselves distant from God’s providence, it causes all sorts of problems.” Then she explained the history of the Lord of the Second Advent becoming the True Parents. She emphasized that salvation history can only conclude when True Parents appear and that True Parents have the responsibility to teach ”how to live in order to unite with God.”
She explained that True Parents made indemnity conditions to establish God’s sovereignty on a spiritualand physical level. True Parents and God were able to give the blessing to establish Korea as the father nation and Japan as the mother nation.
True Mother added, “When the father and mother are united, the family is harmonious. Just like that, the father [nation] and mother [nation] should become one and bring fallen children in the world to True Parents. Through this we need to find the hometown that God wished for. Where is that hometown? It’s True Parents’ hometown. So, Japan and Korea should work on the unification of Korea with one heart. This is the only way that Korea and Japan can become the center of the whole world community of seven billion people. And it’s the way to find and fix the difficult problems of all humanity.”
She finished her speech with a request: “Japanese blessed families and church members please spread God’s words and blessing and unite with True Parents so Japan can be honored and loved by other nations.”
After the speech the some honored guests presented a gift to True Mother. The rally successfully finished with three cheers of Eok Mansei led by Mr. Young Oon Seo, leader of district nine.