Hak Ja Han
August 30, 2018
Special Hyojeong Assembly for Cheon Il Guk Leaders Hosted by True Parents Excerpts
Cheon Jeong Gung
Did you offer a lot of devotion and receive heavenly grace the past three days? How long has Heaven believed in and waited for you? Has the rainy weather been helping you to remember that Heaven has longed for you? I said to cease everything and start anew. The weather has been with us on our journey to wash away anything that could become an obstacle or flaw.
You are happy people. The providence of restoration has lasted six thousand years. How sorrowful and miserable was our Heavenly Parent to believe in and wait for humanity, only to experience betrayal once again? Even so, God worked whole-heartedly and loved without any reserve so that today, you could come to know the heart of God, your Heavenly Parent, through True Parents.
I have been thinking about this for a few days. In order to be the homeland of the providence blessed by God, this country had to go through much preparation. The difficulties that we have overcome and the good ancestors we have become mustn't be forgotten. Even before Heaven chose it, this nation developed a refined culture that worshiped Heaven, loved nature, and hated war. Due to this, people focused their lives on heaven and on God's will and they worked hard. However, for two thousand years, the Korean people experienced much suffering. Korea had a brilliant civilization, but this country paid indemnity until True Parents could manifest through the appearance of God's only daughter….
Moving through danger
Korea liberation came in 1945. I was born in 1943. With liberation, Korea divided into South and North. The North implemented a communist system and the South, a democratic system, but the communist North progressed faster. At that time, I was in northern Korea. Christianity had only entered the country a hundred years before. Some groups believed that the returning Messiah would return in Pyongyang, which is why my family did not think of leaving our hometown. Yet heaven knew that I needed a period of growth as God's only daughter, and since I could not grow properly there, Heaven guided me to head south. I was six years old at the time. If you calculate the direct distance between Anju [True Mother's hometown] and the 38th parallel, it is about two hundred kilometers and there weren't any direct roads then.
Therefore, for some days, my family walked southward at night and at the point where the 38th parallel came into view, I caught a cold. I wanted to drink some water. My grandmother went to fetch some from the locals, and as I was drinking the water, we were caught. A young woman ran as if she was running from death and crossed the border, but our family could not run like that because I was only six years old. Thus, we were caught. We were just women, so the officer said, "Go back to your hometown." As you know, we could not just return home. So that very night, we crossed the 38th parallel. It feels just like yesterday, but that was seventy years ago.
Revival and dream seeking
When we look at the providence today, the status of True Parents must start from a foundation on the national level. However, Christianity could not establish a foundation. Several people were prepared, but they could not act. Many of their ideas were human-oriented and unrelated to Heaven's providence. That is why, in 1960, we came to the position of True Parents but we started in an environment without any foundation laid.
The manifestation of True Parents revives and resurrects fallen humanity through True Parents to fulfill God's dream. Those who are not reborn again cannot enter into God's presence. Due to that, we call True Parents' work "blessing." In the early days, True Parents continued to bless from three couples to thirtysix couples, seventy-two couples, a hundred and twenty couples, four hundred and thirty couples, until seven hundred couples….
This year marked the fifty-eighth anniversary of the Holy Wedding. Almost sixty years have passed. Particularly during the Seonghwa Festival, when True Parents are planning to host the Blessing Ceremony, all of humanity needs to know they must be reborn with new life once again through the blessing bestowed by True Parents. These seven billion people living at the same time as True Parents do not know who True Parents are. They were not even able to hear the term "the blessing." Why does fallen humanity not know that they are living in the time when they can return as Heavenly Parent's children? Why could they not participate in the blessing?
How many human beings will go to the spirit world still harboring resentment? When you think about it, you cannot just pretend that you have fulfilled all your responsibility for today and sleep. You can't be satisfied with that. If so, what should we do? Be responsible! True Father's wish until his ascension was for everyone to fulfill his or her responsibilities as tribal messiahs. I started the fire of tribal messiahship a long time ago, but not all of you could internalize it. However, is this year, 2018, different? Or is it not different?
The homeland of faith, starting from Korea, has changed! During that time, I revealed several times the truth of the great works and the providence and you replied incoherently. You did not feel desperate. It took six years [for you to feel desperation]. Do you know now? Do you not know? If you know, you must fulfill your responsibilities.
Ascend the peak
The finish line is right before your eyes. Reclaim victory for the day that this country can be nationally restored and the Cheon Il Guk flag can wave. Do you understand? Now, we have promised in Heaven's presence to be victorious by 2020 and not even two years remain. I will believe in you once again and hope earnestly to see that day of victory. I also will not stop to rest! The mission headquarters divided Korea, Japan and the United States into five districts. I ordered that to spur a sense of responsibility toward tribal messiahship. Now, only six months remain [before the anniversary of Foundation Day].
I heard over eight hundred families in Korea have completed their tribal responsibilities. I would like the five appointed sub-regional leaders to strengthen their sub-regional management to support people who have proclaimed victory as tribal messiahs in assuming greater responsibility. I will leave the methodology to the discretion of the sub-regional leader. Do you understand? I hope not a single member will be left behind and all will be victorious as tribal messiahs for the Family Federation for a Heavenly Korea, Japan, United States and others. I have already instructed that Heavenly Europe, Latin America and Africa divide into five subregions with a leader to renew and strengthen the organization. It is also the same for Asia. Not one person or tribe should fall behind, so everyone should make effort to become citizens of Cheon Il Guk whom Heavenly Parent can embrace...
United with me, you have participated in the completion of this immense providence and its various aspects. Through that, you can become central figures, and register as good ancestors of humankind at the Cheon Bo Won Genealogy Center. True Parents have given you this great blessing. Will you fulfill your responsibility or not? I hope you will lead lives with no regrets. Do you understand?