Section 1. God's Providence And Search For The Ideal Country
1. Why Do We Need An Ideal Country?
In this day and age there are millions of people living upon the earth but they have been unable to find the ideal country and the way to live righteously that God had wanted. Therefore, you must realize that finding the ideal country and the way of righteousness is not only the desire of mankind in the present day but has been the desire of our ancestors and all humanity throughout the thousands of years of human history.
So how did finding the ideal country and the way to live a righteous life become our ultimate goal? This was due to the fall of mankind. As a result of the fall, God and mankind who were intended to be the center of righteousness ended up in a situation where God and humanity could not establish any kind of relationship at all. In other words, we became the kind of people who could not recognize God as the center of righteousness and we could not realize the ideal country. So through, out history, God has been making efforts to awaken humanity to the truth and to reveal who is the True Father of all mankind. This is why finding the true way of righteousness and realizing the ideal country became the ultimate goal and desire of mankind.
There are many countries in our present world and these countries represent many different races. But unfortunately, among these countries there is not one that God truly loves. Not one of the countries that exist upon our earth is the country that God originally wanted. Due to the human fall they are all going against the will of God. Our present situation is not what God originally intended. Therefore, the necessity to recreate a godly country has become the purpose of God's providence for the last 6,000 years.
The world has became an evil place. That is why God has been searching for a special country at this time. Among Satan's countries, there are some that he is more proud of than the others, right? Which countries are the ones Satan loves most? The Communist countries. Therefore, in the last days, if God cannot manage to establish even one country that can follow God's will and He can be proud of in front of Satan, then God would be called incompetent. God would be more incompetent than Satan!
Today, this fallen world is in the midst of grief and there is no lasting joy to be found. Our world has seen a history of grief, a history of disappointment, and a history of sin. So now the situation of our country is a vital issue. This is the reason why a true religion must be the center of the country. What kind of country do you want to have? It is not the kind of country in which you are living in now, and, as a matter of fact, you must say good-bye to the country that you a living in now. If you have any ties to that kind of country it is a tie of sin. You all know very well that from the beginning, you were born as a descendent of a fallen man who could not establish a relationship with God, so there is a connection between the providence of God and the goal of your country.
In this present time, what we must do is find the ideal nation. We know that there is no country that has realized God's will. So can we say that we truly have a home? There are no true homes. The Japanese can say that they live in Japan but from God's perspective, since God has no country and no sovereignty, then no one can be registered as God's people.
Without a country there can be no nationality. Without a country, there is no reason to have our names entered into the registry. We can enter the Kingdom of Heaven only by establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and living together with our own families and relatives as triumphant sons and daughters who have inherited a truthful and good lineage from their patriotic parents. That is the principle.
Only with this new kind of country, can we finally leave our tradition and our endeavors soaked with our blood, sweat and tears. We will be able to leave a glorious monument which will enable Heaven to celebrate our efforts. Without this ideal country, everything will come to nothing. Christian civilization is destined to be set adrift and destroyed if there is no country where God can reside. Now everything is falling down and becoming prey to Satan. That is why you must know that establishing God's ideal country is an important matter.
You have to proceed with confidence. You must be confident that your family is the one that can receive parent's love, that this country can love with sincerity, and that can be guaranteed by Heaven. Through this, I can be a filial son or daughter to my parents and, as a loyal subject, I can fulfill my faithful duty towards my country.
You have to receive love both from True Parents and God. However, without your country, you cannot receive God's love. Originally, Adam, though one person, was the beginning of the country. To have God's love we should have a better country than any in the Satanic world. We have received God's love yet we are not in the position to receive this love directly, only indirectly. However, in order to receive God's direct love, we must have our country. Why is this so? Because Satan and the Satanic world still remain. We have to excel. You have to know for sure and understand that this is the path we must follow.
2. The Ideal Country Is Our Most Cherished Desire
We will regard God's heavenly country with love and respect. Why? Because it is where love is. Not a love which is temporary but where eternal love can exist transcending time. Also, it is where we can elevate ourselves and our worth can be appreciated one hundred percent. It is where we can be happy forever. That is why people miss and yearn for a heavenly country.
The way we are supposed to go is the direction that we truly want to go, and the ideal country we are supposed to find and establish is the place where we want to live forever and ever. The possessions we own are ours as well as God's. They will belong to the past as well as to the present, and are guaranteed to belong to the future. We also have to have the dignity and knowledge to grieve and rejoice when Heaven and Earth grieve and rejoice. This is the greatest hope and desire for fallen mankind living in this age.
People should live in their own country. This is the desire of all human beings. Everybody, without exception, should lead a life of justice for the sake of the country and the goals of the country. Do you have that kind of country? Since you do not have that kind of country shouldn't you search for and establish that kind of a country? What kind of country is that? It is a country where ideal unification exists. This is the country where all people can go. In order to establish this country the family, tribe, nation, and world should cooperate and then we can unify all individuals, families, tribes, nations, and our world.
God should fulfill His Providence on this earth. So what does it mean for God to fulfill His providence? When God's providence is fulfilled then He can have sovereignty over all the people of the world. This is the goal of God's providence. If you fail to restore the ideal country on earth within your lifetime then you cannot be a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. When you enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you should have as your accomplishment having been governed by God's sovereignty. That is the original criteria of creation.
There is nothing on this earth that I envy. From a worldly perspective, I have nothing to envy. I do not have any interest in the mundane world. Money, property, homes. . . I have no interest in these things. Even a tiny room, if it is in my country, is where I want to die. I want to die in the country that God can protect. If I do not live in accordance with this rule, what kind of life would it be? Wouldn't that life be a miserable one? So, don't we have to search for the ideal country before we die? Rev. Moon has had this desire his entire lifetime. Our True Father is marching toward that day with the determination to sacrifice even thousands of days. Even if you take a rest, then I will continue on my way. If you cannot accomplish it, then I have to inspire foreigners to make it happen. If Korea cannot do it, then by an encircling operation through foreign countries, we still have to accomplish this.
The goal of our religion is to become God's people. Unless you become God's people then there can be no way to be loved as children of God. Those who do not have the ideal country are vulnerable to be attacked. They will be in a pitiful situation. They will helplessly encounter disaster. Therefore, it is important to find the country that God desires and the place that can be God's stepping stone.
The reason why we work for this nation is to create the eternal Kingdom of Heaven and to fulfill a Land of Promise that our descendants can admire through eternity. This country will be where the direct descendants, centering on God, will honor the providence and have dominion over the kingdom. There will be no democracy or communism. Once being formed, the country should remain as an eternal national system. When you think of it, don't you think it will be regret table if you cannot belong to this ideal country? You should lament for not being able to live in this country.
You should lament for not being able to own that unchangeable sovereignty. To establish this kind of country and territory, mankind has to set up a sovereignty. You also have to know that during that process, many people died, many were sacrificed. Many countries perished, and many sovereign rights were replaced. All those people who were sacrificed and who were on heaven's side, or those sorrowful spirits who were sacrificed for the providence, will wish to establish this ideal country and world.
3. God's Search For The Ideal Country
We all know that since the fall of mankind to the present, our history has been the history of evil. We also know that this history has not been governed by God but by Satan. The ruler of this world is supposed to be God, but it is not. If the family had consisted of children who were connected to God through love, then with these families as the center, the nation, country, and the world would have been governed by God. Then God would have been able to govern the world, the country, the family and the individual. Due to the fall the whole world became the enemy of God and that has been the history of our world.
God has always been guiding the fallen world towards His original ideal. The world has been full of fallen countries and yet no place has been found for God to reside. The country of God's desire has not been established. Still God continues to influence and guide and move throughout history to establish the ideal country while humanity has remained ignorant of what He has been doing.
God has had one desire and that is to lead the family, society, nation and world through one perfected individual. That is why he created Adam and raised him to reach perfection. Since the fall of Adam, however, God's original history was disrupted. The continuous effort to save and correct that disruption is the history of restoration.
Since Adam was the ancestor of all mankind, then the loss of Adam corresponds to the loss of the whole. We have no choice but to revive or recreate Adam. The one who can be a substitute for Adam should be the one who can sacrifice his race, his nation, working only for the sake of God's providence.
Noah, though he belonged to a certain race did not want to belong to only one. Though he belonged to a country, he rather freely searched for his ideal country. To do this he had to struggle through all kinds of trials and adversities. Noah had his own family and people but he was more concerned about God's providence. God's desire to create a righteous way of life and to save the country. just imagine the painful situations that Noah had to face and overcome through his 120 year course. His family deserted him and he faced so much persecution and blame. Yet he remained faithful to God's providence. He knew the principle that before we eat or drink we must work to save the country.
Later God appointed Abraham and Sarah and had them leave the land of the Chaldeans. They did not know that Haran was the place they would live. They just left with an attitude of pure faith and obedience. Sarah, even when she was taken by Pharaoh, did not reproach Abraham. Their hearts, while headed for the land Of hope, did not alter in the face of all these ordeals.
Jacob as well, had such a strong faith in the promised land, in the promised people, in the blessings God had bestowed upon him, that no one was able to discourage his strong faith.
So as you can see, the providence expanded from the individual level to the family level, to the national and worldwide level.
Jesus, was not trusted by his own people, the Israelites, and so became a wanderer without a country and therefore could also not accomplish the unity between the body and soul. The Messiah is the one who comes with the mission to break down the barriers separating Heaven and Earth and unite them into one.
The ideal country should be reorganized centering upon heavenly laws. This is God's providence. The desire that God had instilled in Adam was not only within Adam, or the individual, but also in the formation of family, race, nation, and country. The country that Jesus had cherished so much and tried to establish was not established due to the distrust of the Israelites. As a result Israel perished. The purpose of the Second Coming of the Messiah is to complete Adam's mission and fulfill the mission of Jesus as well. That is, the completion of the purpose of the race, nation and world.
God, by sending his beloved sons and daughters on earth, has been progressing to establish one absolute country. However, at the present time, there is no foundation to restore one country. Still, after each failure God continued to send people to promote and establish one absolute country.
The history of restoration is a vertical one if viewed from a national standard. Therefore, judging from the present national standard, we can tell that if a country can be the foundation to expand to the worldwide level. Up until now, since our history has been one which has been trying to raise its standard up; when we failed, we had to fall back to the bottom only to re-indemnify our past failures.
God's principle is that we have to appreciate God even if we have to sacrifice ourselves, our families, and our people. Furthermore, we should be ready to sacrifice our nation and our country to appreciate God. The world can only be saved through an ideal country. If the ideal country does not emerge, then the sacrifice of individuals, families and the sacrifice of one's race will continue.
Likewise, God has continued throughout history to search for the ideal country. Therefore, He is looking for the individual who can think about and work for that country. Today, we can ask ourselves, "Why were we born?" The answer is to love the ideal country. The purpose of God's providence is to love the ideal country.
4. Jesus Christ And His Country
A people living in a country without sovereignty are pitiful people. Therefore, Jesus said "Do not worry, saying, what shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or what shall we wear? For the pagans run after all these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them."
What did Jesus say? To save your son or to save your country? He told you to save the country; God is looking for that. God's providence to find the ideal country can only be accomplished through a human being, and not through breaking off human beings and creation. It will be accomplished through the assimilation of God and creation through truthful human beings. That is why God sent Jesus to the fallen people of this earth as a substitute for God and as a person who could represent the Heavenly lineage. That is, Jesus was the first one who came to this earth to accomplish God's historic purpose.
After four thousand years, it was Jesus who was sent to the earth as a descendant of Joseph's family centering upon Judaism. At that time, Satan's side had already established a country that attacked the heavenly side. Heaven's side had no ideal country. That is why God worked so hard for four thousand years to organize one country. Based on God's hard work and achievement, the Israelite people were supposed to accept Jesus and secure a stepping stone to accomplish the worldwide salvation on this earth where God and Jesus could be the center. However, because of Jesus' death only the spiritual side of this was accomplished.
During Jesus' three years of public ministry, centering upon Judaism, he desperately attempted to restore through indemnity everything that had been lost. But he failed due to his crucifixion. That is why Israel, which had been established as God's stepping stone on this earth, perished. Through Jesus' death Christianity could only keep the spiritual foundation for the ideal country. The Israelites lost their country and were in a miserable situation wandering from place to place. They became the laughing stock of Satan's world. Therefore, today, the Lord of the Second Advent must restore through indemnity all that had been lost due to the distrust of the Israelites who were ignorant of God's four thousand years of preparation for their country.
Jesus came to this earth to search for his country, to establish one country for God. However, he could not establish the country with both his body and soul but was able only to establish a spiritual foundation, That explains why today's Christians do not have an ideal country as an entity. It means that God cannot call any country or any people on this earth His country and His people. It also means that no foundation has yet been established for the Kingdom of Heaven on this earth. If Israel had become one centering upon Jesus, then God could have been able to restore the whole world with Israel as its center. However, since the foundation to unite body and soul together on this earth was lost due to the death of Jesus, only spiritual restoration had been possible.
Therefore, till today, Christians have been in a similar position of being a people without country and sovereignty, and have been martyred wherever they went. Christianity grew to its prosperity only through the bloody death of religious martyrs. Why? Because it was the way Christianity was born. Without the bloody sacrifice of the Christians, Christianity would not have prospered. Now the period of persecution and bloody sacrifice has ended, yet, based on the spiritual foundation of Christianity the search for the lost country continued as had the anticipation of the Second Coming of Christ.
Jesus is still waiting in Paradise. You have to know that Jesus could not proceed to the heavenly royal throne. Jesus should have established the country that had the authority to communicate directly from Earth to Heaven. Nevertheless, since Jesus could not establish the country God desired, Jesus could not stand in front of God. That means that Paradise is a waiting room to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, a waiting room! Also, no individual, alone, can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, their family could have gone into the Kingdom of Heaven. Isn't that right? Sons and daughters should come together. Otherwise, we cannot enter Heaven.
To restore through indemnity the past two thousand years until now, Christianity had to fight to establish the groundwork to unite the world. Who is going to succeed in establishing this foundation on the earth where no true country is available? To make this happen, God prepared a new religious movement centering around Christianity and other conscientious people.
5. The Sufferings Of The Second Israel
John the Baptist's position was that of a spiritual adopted son, physical adopted son, and Archangel. However, due to Jesus' crucifixion, Christianity could not unite spirit and body, and was only based on the spirit. In this sense, Christianity ranks lower than Judaism.
You have to know that Judaism was based on the foundation of the unity of body and soul while Christianity had only a spiritual foundation. Therefore, though Christianity accomplished the right of the adopted children, they did not establish the ideal country. Do Christians own their own country? No, they don't. They do not have a country, The Israelites who followed Judaism as their central religion were in the position of a servant but they owned a physical country and had a foundation to establish a spiritual country as well.
Why do we need a country? If we had a country, we could have an embassy to stand on equal terms with the Satanic world and if we had a country nobody could attack us at their own discretion. However, because Christians did not have a country they had to face contemptuous treatment, and encountered miserable deaths. Despite all that, they accomplished a worldwide development. You have to know that it was Jesus' original mission to establish a worldwide foundation and Christianity succeeded in this mission through their sacrifice and bloody martyrdom.
So why did Christians live and work where they could not survive? Because there was no family, society, or country that would cooperate with them. In other words, they were a people without country. If they had owned a country, even if they were in opposition to other people, they could have survived under the protection of that country. Yet, why do you think those religious people suffered persecution and become a bloody sacrifice? It is all because they did not have their country. Only when you have the ideal country and sovereignty, can you boldly say "This is the righteous way." A people without a country cannot say this.
Many Christians therefore went through martyrdom and were massacred because they did not have a strong sovereignty with Christianity as their central religion. If Christianity had had a country to confront opposing countries, Christians would not have experienced this persecution and martyrdom; they would have been protected. If we the followers of the Lord of the Second Advent do not establish sovereignty, we will not be able to repulse persecution. When many Satanic countries start to oppress and persecute us, we should be ready to confront them and counterattack and establish Heaven's country. Otherwise, the followers of the Lord of the Second Advent will be subject to persecution wherever they go.
What should the spiritual Israel, whose center is Christianity do? Christianity today is not in the same position that Israel was in the past. In Christian countries we may find many individuals, families, races, and countries who say with longing "Jesus, please come to our country," yet no one and no country can claim that Jesus will come to their country. No country is in the same situation that Israel was two thousand years ago, when Jesus came. No country can claim "Our country is prepared to greet Jesus. Jesus will surely to come to our people, to our country." No sorrow can be compared to that of a people without a country and yet we find ourselves in that situation.
Today the worldwide Christian culture which completed the course of spiritual restoration is the democratic world. God sent Jesus to the country of the Israelites who were God's chosen people but today we do not have a country such as this. This explains why Christians have always been searching for a country. Christianity was driven to the west when it was expelled from the east. From east to west, from south to north, or from north to south, they wandered, and in life and death situations, it has grown to its worldwide prosperity.
Is there any country on this earth God can use as a stepping stone to give His marching orders? Before Jesus came, whenever the Israelites made mistakes, God punished them, brought them to repentance and then helped them to win over the foreigner whenever they were attacked. But, now do we have a country that can be used by God. After the death of Jesus, which country became the central country and did the same job as Israel had done? None. Why? Because Christianity was established on a spiritual foundation, not a physical foundation, and God could not unfold his providence on this earth.
6. The Sorrow Of A People Without A Country
We should not remain a people without a country. I lived through the time when there was no country. I will not forget the time when I was about to leave for Japan, the enemy country, and how I cried, gazing at Korea. While crossing over the bridge of the Han River, I cried so hard that my eyes were swollen and my nose and lips ached. We cannot live without a country. Ladies and Gentlemen, do you have a heavenly country?
Israel emerged to greet the Messiah with Judaism as its center, however, we have already passed this phase. We are people, yet we do not have a sovereignty. We have churches, yet God does not have a sovereignty and we do not have a country.
Without our own country, any other country can come and destroy us. However, if we have our own country with God at its center and we are faced with opposition, it would become an international matter. With the help of the UN we could fight against the opposition. Christianity did not have a country so they had to endure terrible suffering. That is why we must search for and establish our own country.
No matter what kind of happy and faithful families we have. No matter if we have faithful tribes, or we are a faithful race, we can all be sacrificed without our country. Most religious people do not understand this. If communism seizes the sovereignty of the whole world, would they kill all the Christians or not? Christians are ignorant of the fact that they would all lose their heads.
Then, what is God's wish? God's wish is to meet His beloved sons and daughters. God's wish for this fallen world is to have a country where His sons and daughters cannot be falsely accused. Even though God sends out His beloved sons and daughters, He is not just wishing for success on the individual level. What God wants is to have the foundation excel over Satan's world. God's son who does not have this foundation, cannot behave as God's son. You have to know that since Jesus could not have this foundation, he was doomed to die after being driven out of his country.
Our reality is that we, Unification church members, do not have a country. Democracy today is a product of God's efforts over the past 6,000 years. If you had been born in Israel during the time of Jesus you would have been killed. We would have disappeared long ago, without leaving a trace. Satan has his substitute working on the worldwide level; that is Communism. They are fighting their final battle to obliterate religion. "Do we Unification Church members have our own country?" (No, we don't) -- Are we children of scorn or not? Haven't we been treated as children of scorn? We should never forget this indignity.
7. The Lord Of The Second Advent And His Country
When has God gained the victory on the individual level? He sent His son, Jesus and yet He could not even gain a complete victory on the individual level and instead ended up losing the foundation He had wished for. Originally, God's wish was not just to gain an individual victory. He lost the victory on the national level, racial level, family level and individual level. He was victorious only on the spiritual level. You must realize what a miserable situation this is.
Where is the foundation for victory? Not on this earth. That is why God still had to fulfill His desire to have victorious foundations on the individual level, family level, racial level, and national level. That is the reason for the coming of the Lord of the Second Advent. Christ must return.
Who is the Lord of the Second Advent? He is the one who can achieve this victory, on the individual level, family level, racial level, and national level. When compared to Satanic world, God's world must excel. It should never be in a lower position.
Then what will happen in last days? In last days, the individual, family, race, people, and nation on God's side must be better than those in the Satanic world. Without a true individual victory, is it possible for the family level to be victorious? No?
Religion must serve the representative of God, the Lord of the Second Advent. Centering on the ideology of the Lord of the Second Advent, the new individual, family, race, people, nation, and the formation of a new world will emerge. That is why the ideology of the Lord of the Second Advent is fundamentally different from all other ideologies. Then, who is going to be that representative person? He should be able to take the decaying corpses from this world of death and use them as fertilizer for new growth. This person has been given a personality having the power to use things as fertilizers from this Satanic world for good. He is one who cannot be conquered by this Satanic world.
The one who came to rescue mankind is the Lord of the Second Advent. Heaven will be able to be on the offensive whenever this standard is set up. We have to take the offensive. Even so, it is not like Stalin, who killed and butchered people. Instead we must bring Satan and our enemies to their knees. We can do this first through the ideology, secondly through people, thirdly through sovereignty, and lastly through territory. People, without exception, long to have money, power, friends, and an ideal centering on God.
Since God created Adam and Eve and nominated them as the first parents, He suffered one failure after another. However, this will be indemnified on the horizontal level after the culmination of 6,000 years of human history. Therefore, God has to restore Adam and Eve, and Adam and Eve have to restore mankind. What the Lord of the Second Advent, who are the True Parents must do is to restore mankind. They must recreate mankind.
However, if we succeed on the national level, everything can be taken care of by the law. Do you think we can make this possible? Can the Lord of the Second Advent make this happen? Even God could not accomplish this despite His 6,000 years of efforts? However, what does the Lord of the Second Advent bring with Him? He comes with the law and he comes with justice. He comes with the authority to judge. Therefore, he is going to cut off the villains with heavenly law, justice, and authority. What kind of standard do we need? Unless the country centering on God is established which is superior to the country that Satan has been proud of, Heavenly law cannot be established.
8. The Ideal Country And Unification Church Members
What kind of country do Unification Church members wish to have? The Unification Church does not want to have a world where the materialistic view of Communism and the idealistic view of Democracy fight against each other. Transcending this world, we are going forth to have the country where God's heart and love can govern.
Where is your country? It is God's country. When Pilate asked Jesus, "Where is your country," he said, it is God's country. Now, where is your country? In Jesus age, it was to be the Kingdom of God; in our own age, it is the Kingdom of God on Earth. (Applause). Do you know what it means? It is not the Kingdom of God in your mind, it means the real Kingdom of God, substantially. That is why it should be the Kingdom of God on Earth.
The Unification Church does not have the ideal country yet. Neither do you. All the members of the Unification Church throughout the world are in the position of orphans. Since we have not established our own separate tribal society, if a country decided to oppose us, we would be unable to do anything.
Do we have a country? (No.) Yet, we do have churches. Now, the churches should exist for the country. Again, if the country were established, the country should exist for the sake of the world, not for the country itself. If America became God's country, America should exist for the sake of the world. If America exists only for itself then America will be ruined. If not, God does not exist.
When we are sure of God's existence, we cannot but follow God's providence. What is God's providence? The ideal is to make mankind into the people God can love, the earth into the territory God can love, and to make one sovereignty by combining the people and the territory. Do you understand what this means?
Who is coming to handle the sovereignty of that ideal world? The Lord of the Second Advent and God will jointly establish one ideal sovereignty. If you enter into that place, since you are in the realm of direct dominion, if that time comes, it will be a time when everybody can feel God through the spiritual world.
So far, God, though He exists, has not had even one chance to show His ability. Up until now, God always had to play the role of the one who was driven out, sacrificed, and chased away. Therefore, He could not become the God who could govern and judge the world of Satan. Why? Because God had no country that was superior to Satan's, then God could not play the role of God.
The reason God sent Jesus was to establish one sovereignty which was superior to all the Archangel's countries in the Satanic world. This was to be done by centering on the worldwide level nation which was superior to any country in the Satanic world. And then, Adam, who was created as an owner, can govern and preserve his dignity God can then govern it and save His honor. Otherwise, if God has to come to the family, race, or country, which are inferior to those in the Satanic world, He would lose His dignity and prestige.
Therefore, what is the purpose of sending the Messiah? Religious people do not know the fact that Jesus came to the earth to establish a national sovereignty. If both Judaism and Israel had become one with Jesus as their center, and had formed an absolute sovereignty, they could have absorbed the Roman Empire.
Since it failed, God caused it to reappear and come all the way up here. Therefore, what he has accomplished is the present Christian culture, which is rather a national form of soul, not a combination of soul and body. There are many countries whose state religion is Christianity, yet those countries cannot be called the ones God established.
Therefore, until we restore the standard to the one before Jesus' failure by establishing the foundation for new a nation on this earth, on the basis of the Christian culture which did not establish a foundation for a nation on this earth, we could not own one country God could manage, and the ideal heaven will not be manifested. This is the mission of our Unification Church.
The Unification Church is in a hurry because we have our goal to accomplish. Imagine how complicated our life would have been, being obliged to indemnify the historical course of life within tens of years. Without tears of blood, we cannot proceed on this course, and this course is to search for the true Heavenly nature of the ideal world. That is why the Bible said, "Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." To have left those words in the Bible, you can imagine how tough it might have been. Therefore, they say your family is the enemy. Who sided with you when you decided to go this course? Maybe your mother was against it, maybe your sons and daughters were against it, maybe the country was against it too.
Therefore, we all know that going in the opposite direction is the right direction to lead us to Heaven. (Yes). Therefore, God wants us to save the world and establish one country for him. This is the wish God has for human beings. (Yes).
Then, who is going to solve God's wish towards human beings? What can accomplish this? It is not a country, but a religion. However, Christianity could not do it; the Unification Church, the new sect growing out of Christianity, which stands for God's love, must accomplish this. That is why the Unification Church gathers individuals, families and races together. Therefore, the Unification Church is to establish one country under the national ideology of the equality of love for all the world's people. You have to know that the purpose of God's restoration providence is to make a model country which God can govern with the sovereignty of good.
What kind of church is our Unification Church? This church emerges to make a new determination for that country. Do you understand? Even so, I am telling you, please do not boast about our strength. If the Unification Church were boastful about bodily strength, then it would be ruined. You should be proud not because you have brains, but because you have love. Love this country among all the others, more than any other historic loyalties, and love the people in the world more than any other saint. Love more than anybody in the world.
Love more from the individual level than anybody else. This standard of love should be worldwide. Love most from the highest position, the kind of love no saints ever had. This is the starting point of the Unification ideology.
9. Restoration Of Sovereignty Centering God
If the sovereignty with God as a center were restored, we could set up embassies in all the countries of the world. Then, in the future, the Unification Church and the Christian Church can become one.
Because God is going to cooperate with Abel, naturally, Cain is supposed to be cared for. God, unlike the Satanic world, carries out His providence with a worldwide religion as its center. The whole world can attack and elaborate a plan of operations together against Cain for the sake of one purpose. How fast can it be? If we proceed based on the ground paved with highest authority in the field of ideology and religion, the world can turn around in a brief instant.
Though the communists played the game of criticizing the bourgeois class and put them in place forcefully, when the time comes, the game that will be displayed would be the one whereby God will gather special people in one place and form an ideal nation. Then, the game will move to another nation and then to every nation. In other words, in the communist world, the communists transferred the bourgeois forcefully; in Gods world, any volunteers from one country or from the whole world are welcomed to come to the nation, and they will cooperate to establish an ideal world.
Therefore, the important thing is to have a country. Now, can the Unification Church send out ambassadors? At present, the missionaries are at the bottom while the embassy is at the top. That is why if the prime minister or president becomes one with the ambassador, the nation will turn around completely. One nation can be turned around completely. By simply fixing the educational policies and by the instillation of a good ideology, we can turn the nation around at once. (laughter). I want you to remember that the day will come soon.
The restored nation is representative of the world. Applying this as a formula, when the day comes to search for the new country centering on this restored nation, the world will be restored. When can the Kingdom of Heaven be accomplished? When that day comes, the ambassador can convert the president, then the king. When you come to the royal family and preach the ideology to the king face to face, and if the king would be charmed with it and said "Ah!, that ideology should be our national ideology," then the people will be restored at once. The people will be restored quickly. That is why the country is important.
If the omniscient and omnipotent God can find this good country, and if the country were attacked by an evil country, God could strike back. When we regain the country, then we can govern it with good laws. This is the way to do it.
Until now, do you know why Christians suffered such miserable deaths? Because they did not have their own country. If they had had a country, they would not have done any missionary work. Even if they proselytized, they would have done it through an embassy converting the king. Then they are supposed convert the royal family of the kingdom. The reason we have a royal family is because they were successful in keeping a good historical tradition. Once the king is converted and restored then the whole nation will be restored automatically. Then the whole world will be restored to God's world of at once. We have not understood this.
We are a group without a country and a race without territory and without people. If we can find the sovereignty God has searched for, we can start to preach the gospel. We can convert not just individuals but the embassy and through the embassy, we can convert the king and the president of that country. Once the king or the president are restored, that country can be restored at once. That time is now.
If that country were found, the restoration of the world could be accomplished at once. If three more countries were restored, then it would become four countries. Then, since the worldwide four position foundation would be established, it would play as a defense fortress to safeguard against Satan's invasion. Only then, the world of peace and the land of heaven can be formed. We have to remember very clearly that place, the world of peace, the land of Heaven, is the original hometown our Unification Church has been working towards. We also have to remember that we, the Unification Church members, are the group who gathered together to devote our passion and to invest our youthful lives for this providence. It should also be remembered that we, the Unification Church members, are the group who have to firmly pledge to analyze, dissect, pull out, and punish the evil power, no matter how strong the evil power which stands in our way may be.
To search for the country, you must indemnify from the individual level to the family, race, people, and national level. You have to go forward from the individual indemnity course, to the family indemnity course, and to the race and world indemnity courses. Otherwise, there cannot be found a path to the world. Likewise, since the country should be the center, unless each country follows the central country, no country can follow this path. You have to remember this.
If you die before the restoration of the country is accomplished, you have to spiritually reincarnate on this earth but you will only be able to support the individual and family. You will not have the power to influence them. In other words, you would not be qualified to fight against Satan and conquer the Satanic world. Therefore, we have to establish our own country in order to register. Have you registered? You have probably registered as a Unification Church member but you have not registered as a citizen of God's unified country. Can you be a people when you have not a country?
That is why the wish of all the spirits in the spiritual world is to know how to cooperate with the people of the earth. If we can own the country, the spiritual reincarnation phenomenon will happen horizontally. Because it will happen horizontally, your hard work will remain as its evidence. Yet, until we establish that country, no matter how much indemnity we have accomplished, once collapsed, our hard work will be gone. This will happen again and again, yet, once it starts happening horizontally, then our accomplishments will remain horizontally forever. Once again, the course of restoration is the age when our hard work will be as a condition of indemnity, however, once we establish our country, then our hard work will no longer be as a condition of indemnity, rather it will remain as our accomplishment.
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Section 2. The Way To The Restoration Of Independence Of Our Motherland
1. The Origin Of All The Countries
What nationality are you? Most people must be Americans so America is your motherland. Is that right? What is Reverend Moon's motherland? It is Korea. What is Mr. Kuboki's motherland? Japan. What is Mr. Orme's motherland? England. Mr. Paul Werner's? Germany. We all have various nationalities. Then, what is God's motherland? He does not have one now.
Where does the origin of all the nations come from? Are they from God or from somewhere else? The historical origin of all countries has become an important matter.
All the countries were separated due to war. When there are two countries, it can be found that there are extreme grudges about the boundaries between those countries. We all know that it is an historical fact that those countries whose boundaries are adjacent fight more fiercely and shed more blood than a third or fourth country whose boundary is further away. So the wall between these two countries and two people is the highest.
Since olden times, two countries who are adjacent, engage in fighting across the boundary. That is why it is easier for you to fight with your next door neighbor. It is because we are fallen people. The reason why we fight with our neighbors is the result of the human fall.
What is the human fall? There arose a feud between God and mankind and there arose a battle between God and Satan, and between humans and Satan. We can conclude that because there are so many countries in the world, that there have also been many fights, battles and wars.
All countries pursue a world of peace, yet do you think they can all go to the world of peace? This is the common task of all mankind. The world of peace should be the world of consequence, then it would be logically wrong that we can reach the world of peace with a false start and a false cause. Therefore, by unfolding the movement to overcome the origin of those battles, we can find the starting point to pursue the ideal world. It is logically right that because the cause is perfect and starts with peace, it can go through the peaceful course and arrive at a peaceful purpose.
From this perspective, we can never reach the peaceful world if adjacent countries continue to hate each other. As long as we continue to hate each other, we can never attain a peaceful world even if we are longing for it and proceed to the ideal world. In order to change this ugly history, we need a movement which has the content to change the direction of the false history.
2. The Motherland We Have To Establish
We are just like the people who do not have a country. Have we ever had a country in the past? We have never had such a country. Was it because there had been no one who tried to search for a country? No. It was because they could not find the country based on the external and internal standard of that age.
The country we have to search for is not the country which has such a history and tradition that we see in the today's world. The country we are looking for is essentially on quite a different level from any other country. In order to find that country we should become the people with a sense of sovereignty and independence in ideology. The independent ideology must be in accordance with the Creators' ideology. In order to find a country that the Absolute Creator wants, we should want the country to be centered around a sovereign and where the country and the people can be in harmony. The country should be equipped with that kind of personality and form.
In order to form one country, there should be a sovereign, a people, and a territory. The same may be said of God's country. The sovereign is replaced by parents and the people by sons and daughters. We can not be missing one of these three elements in our country. That is an absolute rule.
What is the most important thing? It is to serve the world and the nation. We will never be ruined if we can do that. The place where we can never be ruined is called the upper limit point. If there is someone who died for their country, even after their death they remain as citizens of that country. They will remain there until the country disappears.
In order for the country to be formed, the requirement would be territory, people, and sovereignty. Those who manage the country should relate to God and govern it while all the people have fallen asleep. Then, the sovereign should become one with the people. After becoming one with the people, then, he too has to remember that everything he owns is not for himself but for the country. If that happens that country will flourish.
In order to form a country, it should have its own sovereignty. It should have its own people. It should have its own territory. From this perspective, when it comes to the matter of realizing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, who would be the owner? Who would be the sovereign? It is for sure that God would be the sovereign. Then who would be the people? The people in the Kingdom of Heaven would be all the people of the world. Then where would be the territory? It is this earth.
A country should have a sovereignty as we have a mind, the country should have people as we have a personality, and the country should have a territory as we have our own belongings. Under this fundamental rule, territory is controlled by people and people are governed by a sovereignty. The three fundamental elements are surely territory, people and sovereignty.
When we look at a human being, it shows the principle that mind controls body and body controls the natural world. This principle proves the decisive conclusion that the world is like a gigantic human being.
No matter how large the society, or the country, it should take after a human being. It is because God loves the idea that things take after him. Then, what does a human like most? It is what takes after him.
Then, what does the ideal world take after? (Humans.) It should take after humans. It means it takes after the humans of heaven and earth.
The motherland, as a terminology in the Unification church, does not mean one country like Korea, rather it means the worldwide country. We do not feel comfortable to use the word worldwide because it is used in the Satanic world. We, the Unification Church search for this motherland country.
The mother country is not the Republic of Korea. The mother country God has wished for is not Korea, nor America, nor any country in the communist world. The mother country is the country which God wants, but we have to establish and complete the history of the mother country. In order to establish a new ideal mother country, we should set up a new standard. We have to change our lifestyle.
The ideal world is quite different from the current world. The terminology is also different. Do they know such words as the sovereignty of principle, a common base, a common foundation, the providence to lay the foundation of restoration. They do not. That is why we are different.
After we establish the country that the Unification Church has cherished, we must take away the sign of the Unification Church. And, after we establish the ideal world that the Unification Church has cherished, we must throw away the country that the Unification Church built. We have to throw away the cultures which are only for one ethnic group, such as the Korean culture and the Korean personalities. The religion that is for the world will remain forever.
3. Restoration Of The Independence Of God's Country
What kind of assertion does He have to make if there is a man who wants to inherit God's providence? We cannot insist that he should follow the path that ordinary people like. On the contrary, we would insist he should follow the opposite direction. The ideal slogan for this is "Love the enemy with the heart of love." "Love the enemy." These words can restore our mistaken history to the right path. It is just like an anchor and anchor rope to the boat which is adrift in a typhoon.
Nobody has carried and practiced this word throughout the history of the resurrection providence. If such persons exist, those persons should organize a system and secure a worldwide domain. Who do you think God loved most until now? It was Jesus Christ. He presented a new teaching to the world where fighting was rampant. His philosophy was to destroy the wall of hostility between the ruling country and its subjected countries. Jesus thought "Though Rome is trying to conquer me by force, I will subjugate you with love." That is why he prayed for his enemies even on the cross. You also have to know that his ideology emerged with his surprising declaration to the Roman soldiers, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." By living up to his own teaching, he presented himself as a great model, that all countries in the world can overcome their hostilities and cross over the border between countries. Jesus knew that there are not only individual enemies; There are family enemies, tribal enemies, people's enemies, national enemies, and worldwide enemies everywhere. What this means is that lots of enemies are waiting for those who follow him and are willing to follow after his course.
In other words, within the family, there are going to be family enemies waiting and in the tribe, tribal enemies will be waiting, which might lead to a fierce fight. Whenever that happens, the teaching is, you love the enemy. With this spirit, we will win eventually.
Then, how do we restore the independence of the country, which is the realization of God's ideal country. It starts from the individual with the heart to love even their enemy. Therefore, as long as God exists, there is no wonder that Christianity became a worldwide religion who presented themselves as embracing their enemies by taking down the border with love and jumping over the barriers of the environment and culture. If you plant a bean, a bean will grow, and plant a red flower seed, then a red flower will bloom. Likewise, if you plant revenging Satan's evil seed, then a revenging evil tree will grow, yet, if you plant a good seed which loves and embraces the enemy, the same kind of good tree will grow. And this is the law of nature.
From where and through which path do you think God's country is coming? The truth is God's country is coming through the path of loving ones enemies, of loving the enemy of the individual, of loving the enemy of the family, and loving the enemy of the tribe, and of loving the enemy of the nation and the world. Therefore, leave a tradition of love. Otherwise, God's nation will not appear.
Even without friends, I am confident that I can obtain the victory overcoming all the opposition. Because the stronger the opposition, the bigger our heart of love for the enemy; we do not have to be disappointed at stronger opposition.
The law of nature is if one place has low pressure, the other place is supposed to have a high pressure. Likewise, if one place has a high pressure, the other place will be low pressure. Though insulted and disgraced, and since I did not choose to fight, but rather to love them, those who insulted and disgraced me became my friends, my family friends, tribal friends, and national friends.
You have to know that if there appears the country which consists of those whose spirit is loving the enemy, then that country can become the ideal scene God has wished for, that ideal territory.
I, Reverend Moon, am not a good-looking man at all. Am I right? Though you would say "Yes," the world would think of me as a not good looking person. Yet, God likes me. Even though the world treats me as a stupid person, since God recognized me, I can attack the world from a dignified position. There is nothing we cannot do as long as we have love for the enemy in our hearts.
Do you know what can be accomplished if I, alone, work actively with enthusiasm? Because of this, there will be young adolescents that God can be pleased with. There can be variegated colored racial families that God can be pleased with and there will be a formation of people God can be pleased with. By God's restoration an independent country can be realized.
Since you are told to love the enemy, you are supposed to love the person you hate most. If the most handsome man were paired with the most ugly woman, they should love each other more than they could love their enemy. Those are the candidates who proceed with the flag of the highest royal prince as far as loving the enemy of this world is concerned. If those people already exist, imagine how wonderful it would be. Those are the people who can jump over racial borders.
You have to know that if we lead our lives with the heart of love, all the barriers can be broken down and the history of restoration of the providence will be shortened. Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is coming close to us.
Reverend Moon's philosophy is simple. He has tried everything. He has become a farmer and a laborer. He has done everything he could do. I could even be a fisherman and catch tuna. I have been living this life for the past 60 years like that, thinking that I was by myself. Then one day when I looked back, I found Englishmen, Americans, and millions of people from all over the world following me. Though I pushed them hard, they would come back soon, and follow me again. That is why no matter how difficult it was to research the Unification Church still all the detailed contents cannot be known.
4. Unification Ideology For Independence
Now, what road are we supposed to take? To you, there is no country. Therefore, even though there is a race, as long as the sovereignty does not center around Heaven, anybody can persecute you. Am I right? Therefore, we have to search for the country that Heaven can welcome. Today, on this earth, the first Israel is the one that Heaven can welcome, and the individual, family, race, people, and church can welcome. Yet, do you think that the first Israel is in the position to be welcomed from the perspective of the Unification Church, the Christian Church, or the Republic of Korea? The direction is wrong. The path the Republic of Korea is going is outward. Right? Not making God as its center, but the world as its center. The Republic of Korea is going outward. There is no main stream thought for the country.
Therefore, we have to form the new national philosophy equipped with vertical and horizontal contents by making the main stream thought its center and connecting it to Heaven. Then, unless we apply that newly formed national philosophy to our country, we cannot have the restoration of independence.
What kind of country should it be? That country is the one whose people should have undergone a miserable course and the character of the people should relate to the Principle of Restoration through indemnity, and should have established the historical tradition.
What kind of country should it become? The country should be completely unified. What should the Republic of Korea do to become like that? Just as Israel was divided into north and south, Korea, also divided by north and south should be unified. Just as Cain and Abel, Korea has been divided by north and south. So, unless we unify these two countries, no victorious Israel country will emerge.
Then, in this country, making the Republic of Korea as its center, how can the south and north be unified? Without the new world view it cannot be unified. To prepare for this time, the Unification thought that the Unification Church is maintaining is the way.
Now, we have to do two things. First, we have to form a unified people. The other is to establish a religious country united with faith. Centering on this thought, the south and north should be a unified country. Otherwise, God's country and the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Heaven will not come into the world. This is the number one goal that today's Unification Church members should accomplish.
If we cannot find our mother country, we cannot own one country. Then we cannot make Heaven its center and we cannot be superior to the Satanic countries. Unless we have that one country, we cannot strike the Satanic countries. We cannot push them out. We cannot make that happen with religion or the Unification Church. With the Unification Church as the center, the country should go forward in the right direction. We must know these problems are still left for us to solve. From this point of view, just as the spiritual pillar of Israel was Judaism, the thought of the Unification Church will be the main ideology in Korea.
5. We Are Emissaries God Is Sending To The Satanic World
Today, those who are working for God are like secret emissaries to the Satanic world. Though different in size large or small, wide or narrow, high or low, our individual should never be far away from the life of a secret emissary. We always stand on the threshold of life or death. At the slightest slip, we could come near the situation in which our eternal life is swayed.
We can not lead our lives as a secret emissary unless we have a strong commitment to restore our mother country which in turn, can make it possible for us to support and protect our eternal lives. With a heart of remembrance we can end the bitter history of our mother country and all the people will be delighted. Then the day of independence will come and our accomplishments will be revealed. We should be able to overcome the present difficult situation. Without a faithful heart we cannot accomplish the mission of a secret emissary. Only when our desire for the restoration of independence of the mother country is ten thousand times stronger than our desire for life will we even be able to perform our duty as a secret emissary.
Even if you were sacrificed through an unexpected accident, a new responsible person can be dispatched again for that position. Even if he dies, people who can be on your side and become your friends and will come into being. Even though he were sacrificed, because he led his life setting a model, lots of people who can be on his side will remain. As long as these people remain, God can send a substitute based on that foundation. However, if he died without that foundation, no matter how hard he had worked, that would be the end of it.
In this new age, what kind of attitude should you have towards this situation? The faith in the restoration of independence for the mother country should blaze passionately in your heart. As a pioneer and one of the members of a crack contingent leading the advance, you should feel proud of who you are, being responsible for these enormous missions. You have the solemn responsibility to carry this once in a lifetime mission which so many people who came and went wished to have.
Therefore, your entire life, eating, sleeping, coming and going should be to establish independence for the mother country. How impatiently God has been waiting for those who could come forward and promise to carry out the mission? Till now, we have been terribly persecuted and chased out. We have to establish God's providence which can create the mother country.
In that country there are sovereignty, territory, and people. There is also the blood lineage of a united people, connected to each other, and a history no other nation could have. As soon as you accomplish your own mission, the foundation for the restoration of the independence of the mother country is coming near. We are paying the price today for the restoration of independence and it is near at hand. When you think of this fact, you should proceed with the determination that you must fulfill your mission as a secret emissary. Otherwise, we cannot greet the worldwide blessing and Heavenly fortune which God will bring to us in the future. (29-40)
We have to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on this earth. We can save our honor only if we bring back to God what He has hoped for, by searching for and becoming one with the center of the country. Do you have the country? When you think of that, you can't even die even though you want to. The question is where you will go after you die.
After you go, how can you avoid humiliation and disgrace? Since the length of my life is limited, how busy I would be to accomplish it within that limited time? To make it more difficult, the evil Satanic environment is against us and our enemy is blocking our way. To penetrate this, we cannot avoid the pilgrimage of the secret emissary. You have to remember that this is the way the Unification Church member should go. You also have to remember that I am also giving my life, to restore the country and to achieve the merit for a national foundation. I am carrying that mission, nominated as a secret emissary from heaven and coming on this earth.
How wide do you want your influence to be? Individual, family, national, or worldwide? How do much do you want to influence?" In order to step up to the worldwide level you cannot do it alone. You need a country. But, do you have a country?
Therefore, we are eating, sleeping, and leading our lives, day and night, only thinking about the country. You have to lead your life making a firm vow to Heaven and Earth that you were born for that purpose. Even while you are sleeping, you must have the thought that you are sleeping, and gathering all the beds of all the people from all over the world and placing them on the top. You must have the thought even when you see a dinner table. Wherever you are, you should not think that you are alone. You should cherish the thought that you are sitting on a royal throne gathering all the various races from all over the world. The son of God should be like that.
You have to remember that the life of sons and daughters of God should be one which excels the authority of the Satanic world. These kinds of sons and daughters are the ones God can love. If God loves sons and daughters who are inferior even to Satan, he will lose His dignity. You have to make a fresh determination that you will lead your everyday life with the conviction that you grappling with the whole world. We can say that as far as that goes, the Unification front-line battle is getting stronger.
You have to think that "even though I am in the realm of the Satanic world, I am a secret emissary. I am an ambassador of heaven." When a secret emissary communicates it can be connected directly to the king of that country. Others may not know that, yet you must proceed with the conviction that you are living for the mission and the dignity of the secret emissary. You have to know this for sure. The king of the country is waiting for the news of the secret emissary, isn't he? It is all the same. When we perform that mission, God is also waiting for our report.
Therefore, in the position of a secret emissary, if I request something what urgently needed to be sent, wouldn't God make every effort, running a risk, to send that to us? Likewise, when you have that kind of conviction, recognizing that you are privileged sons and daughters of a glorious God, then God will answer your prayer. Then you can find that God is alive and see how God is working.
Only if you do that, can you become a leader, can you cure a patient, and God can help directly when you are in trouble. Through that life, you have to learn a lot. Only then can you break through everything with confidence. Only then, can we proceed with the conviction that God is on our side.
6. We Are The Leaders Of Independence
Where is the place we are heading for? To search for one individual is not our goal. To search for the family is not our present destination. The way we are heading is to search for the country. Whoever it is, either mother, father, or children, they must search for this. Yet, some of today's Unification Church members, blessed families and their tribes are saying. I do not care about country, church or whatever." If this is the case then everybody is a failure. But, if we are searching for the country with all our heart, then the time should come we can truly hold a festival and celebrate and sing in triumph.
When indicating a direction, it is one, not two directions. If requested to go, we should go. Are we ready to do that or not? We are not playing games in the Unification Church.
Now, in North Korea, they are reconstructing a family register, even for families in the south. Do you know what that means? The Satanic world is taking the first move. For the country, you can mobilize even if you leave behind your own husband, wife, parents, children, and everything. Otherwise you cannot find the country of hope. When you find that country, you can find your parents as well. If you cannot find that country, you have to watch your parents, wife, and children suffer and bleed. Where can you find a more miserable scene than this? That is why you cannot love your wife, your parents, nor your children until you find that country. This is the path the Christians should follow, and the Unification Church should follow.
You should become a person who can deny yourself for the sake of the country and justice. No matter how difficult the situation, if you are thinking about what the father desires for the cherished children, you should become a person who can fight against and win over the environment. Only then can you say that you finally become God's true sons and daughters.
Then, what kind of person can construct God's country? He who is the one who can deny himself and honor Heaven with an aching heart. The one who honors society, nation, country, and world, while denying himself, is God. Furthermore, he who esteems Heaven while denying country and nation is the one who can establish the Kingdom of Heaven. Also, no matter how sorrowful the situation you meet, you should be the person who can be sorrowful not for yourself but for the society, for the country, and for the world, and one step further, you can be sorrowful for Heaven. Then you can establish the Kingdom of God.
Moreover, during the course of your search for the country of God and the justice of God, you should be able to win the battle against Satan.
Then you can connect the family, society, nation, country, and world into one. That is, wherever you are placed, you should become the person who can win the battle against Satan. When you go forth into the society you should win the battle against Satan, despite any social situation and when you go forth into the country you should win the battle against Satan, taking responsibility for the most difficult problems in the country.
Do you think, Satan, who has been giving a very hard time to God for the past 6,000 years, would pull out gracefully, lowering his eyes?. Satan will never pull out gracefully. That is why Satan challenges us to battle. Therefore, we should put ourselves in the center. Even, Reverend Moon of the Unification Church himself, if he deviates from the center, would be broken and thrown off. Unless the direction is correct, there will not be any development.
Therefore we must search for the country day and night. Searching for the country is to search for the world, and searching for the world is searching for heaven. Then what? We keep going forward to escort God to this earth and settle down here. Then all countries on earth return and dedicate the glory to God. We have to remember that to battle that is the mission of the Unification Church.
The Unification Church member should establish the country barefoot. Can we save this country with leftovers? How can we devote ourselves to what we eat, wear, and ride? Let's carve out our future with empty hands and bare feet. The place to do this kind of thing is the Unification Church (14-201).
Are you a brave man who can search for the mother country or a loser who will ruin everything? A brave man is a man who can represent the country and do things that nobody else can do. He who does things anybody can do is not called a brave man. He is just a soldier. He who accomplishes things when other colleagues are retreating can be called a brave man. A brave man should be the one who can run faster than anybody else and can therefore avoid the bullet. He who does things that anybody can do cannot be regarded as a brave man.
In establishing the country, who can be the general of the advance guard to become a brave man? They are the leaders in the Unification Church. Now you are the chief of the church. In the past you were the responsible person in the city or so called district leader.
Then, where is the foundation upon which we can establish the country. To establish a country, we need to have sovereignty, territory, and people. Then from the perspective of Heaven what can be the foundation for the country? That is the property of the church. Right?
Who are the people of God's country? They are the followers of Unification Church. Who is the sovereign then? You are. You are the substitute for the head of a village, for the head of the town, for the governor, and for the provincial governor. You have to run forward before anyone else when they come loaded with a bomb from the Satanic world. Do you have that spirit? Spend every penny to expand the church, to extend the territory and to concentrate the people. The leader of the church is to take the place of the sovereign. To take the place of the head of a village and of the mother, or the father. You have to leave this kind of tradition.
What kind of country is to be established in Korea? When we circulate and interchange with each other, then which will there be? Will there be a Communist country established, or will today's Republic of Korean still remain, or will a totally new country be sought after? When we can see this kind of question arise we feel that our time is coming near. If you are one of the followers of the Unification Church who can control and be responsible for this, how much responsibility do you have and to what extent are you determined to sacrifice yourself? Are you sure that you can do it?. By crossing the 38th parallel to go into North Korea, and by making cities and counties of the 5 capital cities in North Korea as its center, we have to prepare our base, don't we?
Who would be the leader of jongju township, the territory of North Korea. Have you ever thought? Have you ever been such a person who prepared for 10 or 20 years to become a head of the church, let say in jongju, jongju township? And if it seems difficult, then have you ever been such a devoted person who could die, leaving a will to your descendent, saying "you should study really hard so that when the time comes, you can become a head of the church in jongju, in my place taking the place of Heaven." Reverend Moon has been thinking and preparing for this.
When you think of that, are young fellows supposed to go back to their hometown and live in comfort? Even after you die, you should leave the will behind. You should leave the country to your children, shouldn't you? So you have to make a fresh determination.
Think about leaving for one small country of the Soviet Manchurian border and becoming a head of the Church, being vigilant, while putting heads together with the Communist party and hearing shots day and night. Even if no one or no country recognizes it, even if we have to forfeit our life, our heart of faithfulness for the love of the country will not change. You have to be able to have determination like this. It is all right if the country does not recognize it. It will all become known when you go to the spiritual world.
When you think of it, you have to understand how weak a person is. You have to know that even if a person is weak. God's heart is to have them wander around in the territory of the North Korea and blow a trumpet. It is beyond comprehension that a young man of 20 or 30 years with a young heart and body and sensitivity cannot convey the truth of the Principle. You have to study even if you cannot sleep a wink at night, so that your eyes become festered and broken. You have to be prepared even if you become a mere skeleton because of hunger. Those whose bodies are mere skeletons can receive God's love completely. God can pin all his hopes onto that one slender man.
7. Our Attitude For The Accomplishment Of Independence
Jesus came to establish a country. It is pitiful to be without the mother country. Since they had no mother country, the religious men were miserable. The mother country is our last hope. In that mother country there are included people, race, family, and individuals.
Has all Korea become our mother country? Since it has not, we have to make it happen. To establish the mother country that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit have wished for, we all have to work hard with single-hearted focus.
What is good? The individual sacrifices himself for the family, the family sacrifices itself for the race, and the race sacrifices for the independence of the mother country. If everybody sacrifices for the independence of the mother country, it can be accomplished and everybody can become a patriotic loyal subject. If you are loyal to the standard of the country, you can be recognized. The basis for this idea is to be absolutely loyal to God. Then, all the courses will be acknowledged.
What should the Unification Church members do? Jesus said, "Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will." Here, my will is the world's will and your will is God's will. You, as a member of the Unification Church, what have you done? Have you come forward with accomplishments by becoming a loyal and moral subject? You have to be prepared for combat, individual, familial, racial, national, and worldwide, after fully performing your filial duty. Jesus came with the mission of sacrificial offering. You should be doing worldwide battle, therefore solidifying a foothold for the people. You have to be worthy to be called a disciple of the Messiah. While the leader is developing the world followers should pave the way for the people. Many people died wishing for the path of Independence for the mother country. They died with the conviction that the time would surely come.
The Unification Church members have paved the way from the standard of the individual, people and country. Now, we have to mobilize all the people and all the countries from all over the world. We have to search for the days of Independence for the mother country, for freedom, equality, and happiness. No matter how hard the road may be, we still have to go. This is the perspective of God and our True Father. Jesus died while going toward that standard. Mankind on this earth should go forward led by the Unification Church members. Even if the time comes when only the Unification Church members can accomplish it, we still have to continue to work hard. Until we succeed, we have to set up the tradition shedding blood and sweat. We have to remember that we still have the condition of restoration through indemnity to fulfill.
We have to take responsibility for Korea. With our unchangeable resolution and conviction for the establishment of the mother country we have to satisfy our sadness in not being able to establish our mother country, the country of Jesus, of the Holy Spirit, of the patriots of old, and of God. Otherwise we cannot save our faces.
We have to search for the mother country. We have to live for that country. Those who cannot live for the mother country, they cannot search for the country. You should make the world your own mother country and live for the world. He who can do that can establish the mother country. Eating, sleeping, walking, and everyday life and behavior should be for the establishment of the mother country.
That is why we are fighting against Communism with the determination of even being willing to be hit by the thrust of a knife. We have to love our mother country more than anybody else. What I am saying is, when you eat, you eat for the mother country and even when you marry, you marry for the mother country.
Now, I have a group who listen when I talk and who move when I give them a direction, yet I am not someone who can feel happiness because of this. We have to remember that even if we have to sacrifice the Unification Church we have the mission to expand the foundation to promise the independence of the mother country. There should be the religious association, the people, and the country who can support the family which has established the providence of the past 6,000 years. However, because it was all broken into pieces, we are destined to patch things up again. To patch these up we have to run, taking the lead.
Even when going to bed, you should go to sleep hoping for the country. Though we do not have the country, yet as one of the members of the country, we have to go to bed for that country, and wake up with only one wish for the establishment of that country. All senses such as seeing, hearing, and feeling should be focused on the mother country. Until that day comes, you should not die. Until that day comes, we should be busy as a bee. To accomplish that, we should overcome any cruel suffering and adversities.
If you have things to do, you should finish it no matter how late it gets at night. When you think of the fact that the restoration of independence to a mother country can be sought only after excessive sacrifices, can you sleep peacefully and stretch yourself after a sound sleep?
Wake up and pray, bending yourself forward! Heavenly Father, I am feeling the miserable lonely path of a solitary man heading towards tomorrow's rest and the nest you are searching for, the ground of the victorious country which can govern the world Heavenly Father wanted. I myself am feeling this way, so how much more can you feel this misery?
Even when you die, you should die for the country. Therefore, if you happen to be in the situation where you are destined to die in your old age then you should be able to leave the following words, "I have done everything I could for God. I have done everything I could for the country."
Jesus said, "Do not worry, saying, what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear? For the pagans run after all these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them." The main idea of the Bible is God's Kingdom. It is not the idea of searching for ones own happiness. As people of the country, if you had a husband, that husband is a representative husband for the country. Therefore, first love the country, then love your husband. Since your wife is a representative wife for the country, you should love the country first, and then love your wife. Even when you die, you should be able to request to die at that place and time where you can say you have done everything while your energy lasted, so you cannot do any more. You must not die saying, "I should have done this."
That explains why you are supposed to be busy even if you have accomplished something. You have to go again and again. We should go one step further while others are resting. We should be able to say, "Satanic world, rest! Satanic world, idle away your time, we will keep going for the sake of the country." (50-245)
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Section 3. Restoration Of Hometown And Rebuilding The Temple - Part 1
1. What Is The Original Homeland Like?
1) The Place Where we Must Go at any Cost
We have a place to go. It is hometown. We should see our parents there and should follow their standards. We, on their behalf, should fulfill their responsibility, and by connecting them in heart and through establishing a tribe, a people, and a nation, we should guide all mankind to the true way of life and build the Kingdom of Heaven.
Did this nation become a peaceful one? Centering on Korea, did it make all mankind and the world happy? No. From now on, Korea should prepare such a path.
The path that we should walk, the path that God also goes is the path of restoration, and we must go down that path at any cost. We should meet our parents and build that nation and restore the world. This is a path that heaven and earth must go, no matter what.
When we go to our homeland, what shall we do? We should meet our parents. Even if we arrived at our homeland, if we are not connected to our parents, that is not right. Even if our parents passed away, we should be connected through them to our homeland.
However, that nation should not be centered on itself alone. On behalf of your father, you should become a person who can fulfill the duties of loyalty and filial piety with parental heart, not being afraid to go anywhere. Then, Satan will run away.
The place where heaven and earth must go, whatever it takes, is the homeland, And, once they get there they must become one. (35-232)
We must go to the original homeland. Whether old or young, mate or female, regardless of whoever they are, all mankind must go to that land of hope. We should go to the land of Korea. We thought that what had already belonged to us is precious, but that is not so. (119-336)
What is the first thing that humans should find? It is the homeland of love. Religions were created for that purpose. What is the "compassion" of Buddhism and the "humility" of Confucianism? We must clearly understand that this is nothing but a teaching and use it as a means to restore the foundation for the homeland of love. (19-292)
All people throughout the world will long for a tribe, a people, and a nation that is close to the land of hometown. In the case of a Korean, he or she not only has Korea as his or her nation but also has a hometown. Likewise, if all mankind throughout the world can miss their own physical hometown, they will also miss that hometown. If Korea or America is that homeland, people throughout the world will think of it more precious than their own physical hometown or fatherland. Therefore, at any cost, that homeland should appear. (23-75)
We should establish the original homeland. You must want that original land. In order to establish a homeland that all humanity will desire, we need an original homeland. Such individuals and a family should be united as one, and then establish a tribe. Then, heavenly protocol will be established for a tribe, a nation, the world, heaven and earth, and love. Using such logic, no matter how ignorant they might be, with this formula there is nothing that cannot be done. In each country, fruit will be harvested. Revolutions will take place. We should become people who can deal with the problems of our people. It is for sure that the original land will be established when the number of such individuals, families, tribes, peoples, and nations grow. (29-?)
2) What is the Original Homeland Like?
The Kingdom of Heaven is a place where, centered on God's love, a completely united couple can enter along with their children. That is, a family, a tribe and a people who are united as one. Even Jesus who could not start a family on earth cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven but is remaining in Paradise. People who were not brought together by the love of God cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a world of relations. Therefore, the entire family should go together, and so should all of the tribe and the people of the nation. Then, the Kingdom of Heaven can be finally built.
So far, no one could enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Everyone is waiting in the waiting room because the gate of God's love is not yet open. In order to open this gate to heaven, Jesus came to earth, but he could not find a substantial partner on earth. In other words, Jesus could not find an object for his love. This is why Jesus has been anxiously waiting for the day when the gate to the Kingdom of Heaven will be open, walking a course of hard work during the past 2,000 years. On the day of the Second Advent, he will open the gate of love, by choosing a bride from among all humankind. Christians who do not know this are true heretics. Someday, they will be in trouble for this. (18-381)
What is the original homeland like? It is an eternal world of unity where people can sing songs of happiness centered on the original love of God, after severing from the evil in this world. But is there anyone living in such a place? No, not even one person. Countless people throughout human history pursued such a world, but it was not built on this earth. Although many people talked about this world, no one could actually build it, by living the word.
The same is true after Confucius and Jesus. Jesus came to earth in order to create and build the original homeland, but he left his earthly life without being able to do it. He said: "The Kingdom is in your heart." (Luke 37:21) But he actually did not see it himself. No matter how great, no one among the saints and sages who came and passed from the earth could see heaven. Thus all people who inherited the evil blood lineage from the fallen ancestors could not have any relationship with this original homeland. That is why all people are looking for the ideal world, which is the original homeland. Then, what is that world like? It is not a world where people would be unhappy with the happiness of others in jealousy and discord. It is a place where people are happy for one person's success and joy, taking this as their own success and joy. Therefore, if one person rejoices, the whole will rejoice, and if one person is pleased, so will be the whole.
2. We Are All Looking For Our Hometown
A hometown is a place where our parents are living. The place where we were born to our parents is called our hometown. That is what you should understand.
Originally, the hometown given by God to humans was one place, where Adam's family lived. Then, who was the master of that hometown? It is God. Further, who was another master of that hometown? It was the true parents centered on God. Had Adam not fallen, he would have become the true parent, by becoming one with God. And the place where he lived would have been the original hometown of all humanity, as the starting point where the realm of the true parents' love is substantiated. Then the mother and father would have become one, and also they would have become totally one with God. Further, their children would have been totally united with their parents as well. However, the opposite took place. Due to the fall. Eve drove Adam to the way of death by tempting him, and Cain, an elder brother, transformed that place into a battleground by killing his younger brother, Abel. Therefore, they started their life as false parents in a false homeland, building a false nation and a false world.
Thus, this world fell under Satan's dominion. And, whenever good people who wanted to took for the original homeland appeared, Satan killed them all. That is why religious people have been persecuted. It is only natural that, until now, starting from Abraham who passed away while wandering, Jacob, Moses, Jesus, the Israelites and even Christianity all became wanderers. Because they did not have their own nation, when they sought for truthfulness and goodness, they were persecuted, killed, and sacrificed.
Today, Rev. Moon and the Unification Church are being persecuted and are being pushed around. Where can we stand? We should become brothers and sisters as soon as possible. Actually, all the people in the satanic world are also our brothers and sisters. They are either our elder brothers and sisters, or our younger brothers and sisters.
Then, what is God grieving for? The original hometown. What is Jesus grieving for? The original hometown. What is the hope of so many righteous people? The original hometown. Then, next is to restore the original nation. This is the hope of all religious people and all humanity. This, you must understand. Do you understand what I mean? [Yes.] The way we can restore them is only when we have the following heart: "Satan, when you work for 24 hours a day, I will work for 25 hours a day." Or "If you treat me with hatred, I will treat you with love." That is incredible.
The word "hometown" stimulates our yearning heart, without making us realize it. A traveler sleeps in a different room every night, but out of thirst, when he wants to drink some water in the middle of night, although he is no longer sleeping in the same room as before, he goes in the same direction where a water faucet was yesterday. Then he realizes that he is not at the same place as yesterday. As such, hometown is a place that we all of a sudden think of whenever we are faced with a different environment. Everything about hometown is appreciated wholeheartedly. For this reason, travelers can never forget their hometown.
Fallen humanity is walking a course of a traveler, who is destined to find his hometown. Therefore, they do not know where they can leave their hearts. If they can leave them anywhere, they will not be able to return to their hometown. Today, since we are in the position of a traveler, we must return to the original hometown. But when we return, we should bring something that can be helpful to the hometown, something that we can be proud of before our family members, or something that we can leave behind for them. Only when we return to our hometown, after making such efforts can we truly experience the real taste of hometown.
Until the present time, religions made great contributions in seeking for the original homeland. They say that we need to go to Kingdom of Heaven, or the ideal world, or paradise. But these places are unlike the place where we are now living. They are the eternal homeland for us to live for eternity. That is why I am saying that religions made great contributions to humankind. Then what is that place like? It is a place where everything is prepared for us. It is a perfect, flawless place where our mind and body do not feel anything lacking. That is the place that all humanity is seeking.
Today, the reason why we long for our hometown is because that is the place where our parents who are closer to us than anyone else, our brothers and sisters, and our close relatives are living, always guiding us, welcoming us warmly and giving joy to us. Whenever we are faced with difficulties, they would comfort us, giving us their hand. Without that, even if we visited our hometown with a yearning heart, such a heart will dissipate. On the contrary, you will come back with a lamenting heart. In the hometown, there must be people who must receive us warmly. (23-80)
Today, we fallen people live away from our hometown. We are living in an age when we lost our fatherland. Therefore, we must find our hometown and fatherland. If someone was prepared by God to receive us, we must go to the original homeland where we can live forever with that person, For this, you must start the preparations from here on earth. You must leave your earthly life with a story of how and when you met the Lord and what you did afterwards. You must understand that you are faced with such a destiny. (23-81)
3. Our Attitude Towards Restoration Of The Hometown
1) Time of Returning to Hometown
You must return to your hometown in the position of God. You should restore your hometown. Since Rev. Moon laid a victorious foundation on the national and worldwide level, you must now go back to your hometown. Why do you do so? It is because through paying indemnity on the worldwide level, a foundation that can restore the Cain realm was laid. Before then, individuals could not return to their hometowns. In order for the individuals to return to their hometown, the restoration of Satan's world must be done first. They cannot return to their hometown alone.
Without laying conditions that can have an individual, a tribe, a people, a nation, and the world surrender, you cannot return to your hometown. It is because everything such as an individual, a people, a nation, and the world was lost due to the fall of Adam. The mistake of an individual, Adam, resulted in a mistake of the whole. In the course of restoration through indemnity, the Messiah should start his path, on the foundation that is beyond the worldwide indemnity conditions. He should be above the realm of the fall of Adam and Eve, not below it. Until now, due to the realm of Adam's fall, the way to return to the hometown was blocked. The Bible states that Adam left the Garden of Eden, and God blocked their way with a flaming sword and cherubim. Thus, humans were blocked from going back to their hometown. Therefore, in order to go back to that hometown, someone in the position of Adam first must lay an indemnity condition on the levels of an individual, a tribe, a people, a nation, and the world. Otherwise, we cannot return.
Adam lost everything through the fall, which was centered on fallen love. Therefore, blessed families at this time should gradually lay indemnity conditions, being connected to True Parents, centering on God's will. You must clearly understand that you are not in the same position as Adam and Eve who started a fallen family. Adam's fall took place on the top of the growth stage, but in the age of restoration, centered on True Father, we are now in the stage where we can go over the top of the completion stage. Because we are standing in such a position, you must understand that you are no longer in the realm where Satan and his people can make accusations against you. You returned to the family attending True Parents. It can be compared with Israelites returning to the hometown centered on the second generation.
The standard of returning home is not the top of the growth stage, where Adam fell, but is conditionally the top of the completion stage. Therefore, you must understand that this is not yet substantial. However, in order to make it substantial, one remaining thing that needs to be done is to unite North and South Korea, which are now divided. When South Korea sacrifices itself, making special conditions for North Korea without reserving tears, sweat and blood, Satan himself will automatically retreat. When three times more effort and work than what has been done so far is made, your good ancestors who went to the spirit world will receive the benefit of salvation.
Even when you visit your own hometown, you need to continuously make effort in order to attend True Parents in glory and honor. You must cultivate yourself to become the kind of person who can live a life in which you will experience a yearning heart for True Parents. Even in the spirit world, after having gone a way of living sacrifice where you shed tears and your blood circulates more vigorously whenever you thought of them. You should understand that, in the future, your life of faith will lead you only through attendance. Your exemplary life must even be recognized by Satan. This is the age of returning to your hometown! This is the first event such as this that has ever happened throughout human history. As we enter the age of returning to our hometown, all religious people should go back to their hometowns.
Blessed families of the Unification Church in Korea are about to start returning to their hometowns. As church members throughout the world are about to start joining this providence, Korean members are doing it first. Thus, if you fail to restore your hometown, how could it be explained to all other members throughout the world? And, you must establish a tradition of success, at any cost, by doing your best to make it work with special conditions. From a providential viewpoint, entering the age of returning to your hometown is inevitable and essential.
You should not forget your responsibility that the Unification Church in Korea is the first one that opened the age of returning to their hometowns as representatives of all Unification family members throughout the world. The restoration of your hometown can be done only through true love, in which you sacrifice yourself with tears, sweat and blood. By doing so, you must establish a family and restore your elder-sonship. Because the power of true love corresponds to the essence of God, in the course of restoration, the only way that you can overcome any barrier is through love. You must not forget this.
When you return to your hometown, you must do it with a joyful heart. You must not forget even for a minute that you are representing God and True Parents. When you return to your hometown, you are supposed to plant seeds of true love and have them deeply rooted in the ground. Based on the axis of vertical love, you must apply your axis of horizontal love, making them into one.
Upon returning to your hometown, based on all the merits that you established so far, you will come to face judgment. That is the time you will stand at the crossing point of victory and failure. I wish that all of you will gain a victory. I am saying that you should transform the victories of God and True Parents into your own. God created the universe, but, until now, since it is under the dominion of Satan, He has been shedding tears, yearning for His lost children and creation. This, you must remember. We must restore hometown and fatherland. By so doing, we should liberate Him from sufferings.
2) Our Attitude for the Restoration of Hometown
Now, you understand why you should return to your hometown. Then, how should you look when you return to your hometown? The question is how you can lay such hard indemnity conditions towards True Parents, True Family, and the Unification Church, in order to set a right tradition? The era when the Unification Church was opposed is over. The era when your own physical family members became your enemies is over. We are now in the era when no one else but Kim Il Sung and communists in Russia can strike us. We are already going over the wall of the nation. We no longer have enemies on the national level like in the past.
The time will come when someone who opposes the Unification Church, will even be attacked on the street. This means that the time when the Unification Church is opposed is past, and instead, a time when it will be welcomed is arriving.
If you go back to your hometown this time, your parents who once decided to disown you long ago when you joined the church will welcome you. Especially if you return in the name of God, holding a flag of victory, all the people of your hometown will welcome you. Now, you must understand that we entered the providential realm in which the Republic of Korea will welcome you. You should realize that you are shouldered with the historical responsibility of yearning for True Parents, loving them, and fulfilling their will, thus alleviating their grief. You should be able to reach the original standard, offering tears, sweat, and blood for this purpose. And you should return to your hometown with such total confidence.
You may not have known this before, but you should become a person who can go in place of Father, who has been walking such a path, knowing God's heart. You should plant God's heart in your hometown instead of God and True Parents doing it. From now on, the goal is not to pay indemnity, but to plant heart. In the past, we climbed up through paying indemnity, but we are now in the era of planting true love.
You should be grateful to be given a chance to visit your hometown, benefiting yourself by doing so. You should move one step higher. To bring about the unification of North Korea and South Korea, you should go back to your hometown.
When you go back to your hometown, you should stand in the position where you can erect a vertical love in your mind, as Adam and Eve had prior to the fall, by inheriting God's love. Next, you should be able to set a standard in which you can connect it with a horizontal love in 9o degree angle.
Similar to the study of Job in the Bible, Father has been walking a path of restoration, not complaining even once about any tribulations. Job's faith towards God was unchanging and immovable. We should restore our hometown with such an absolute faith. When talking about all the history of the past indemnity course, with all of my heart and mind, I should make preparations for the time when I can visit my hometown, so that all the people and the nature in the town will be able to look forward to that day, welcoming me. You should not forget even for one moment that you are returning to your hometown carrying such a mission. When you see your tribe, you should make an indemnity condition, shedding tears for them. You are not, shedding tears for your own spouse or sons and daughters, but for your tribe in your hometown. When you return to your hometown, if you offer all of your heart and mind for your tribe for six months or so, not even necessarily for three years, you should be able to restore them all. But, for this to be done, you should invest more effort for them than for your own physical family members.
Since your path can also represent the world, it will be a chance when you can enter the realm of Father's blessing. In your hometown, you should connect the axis of God's vertical love and the axis of your horizontal love for your tribe. Due to the fall, God's original blessing was transferred from an elder son to a younger son. Thus, as the younger son inherited the eldersonship, there has been a limit in reaching God. Therefore, this is the time when we should restore the original eldersonship. This restoration should be done through restoring your hometown.
So far, a younger son subjugated an older son, by fighting Satan on the frontline. For this reason, the younger son was burdened with double responsibilities that required him to reach the standard of eldersonship. However, we are now in the age where we should restore the original eldersonship. Such a historical standard should be achieved during the process of restoring your hometown.
Father has been laying victorious foundations through the indemnity of tribulations on the level of an individual, a family, a tribe, a people, a nation, and the world, and I desire to make an inheritance of that foundation to you. That is why I want you to go back to your hometown and restore your hometown, centering on your parents, brothers and sisters, and other relatives.
The path of restoring your hometown will be a path for your future. That is a path that you should go as an individual, as a family and as a tribe. Next, that is a path that all the people of Korea should go. Further, that is a path that all humanity should go. Even if you do not walk the path of ordeals that Father had to walk in order to bring victory against Satan, you shall be able to inherit Father's victorious foundation thorough restoring your hometown.
Father brought victory against Satan on the level of an individual, a family, a tribe, a people, a nation, and the world. Therefore, if you fight as Father's representative centered on God, you will lay a victorious foundation. For this you should march forward with absolute love and absolute obedience before the vertical and horizontal standards.
You must love God. And, you must love True Parents. The depth of that love should go beyond what you can offer to your parents in the secular world as a filial son or daughter. In front of True Parents who became the center of the tribe, you should do your best to fulfill your duties as a filial son or daughter in the horizontal position.
As far as your country is concerned, you should be more loyal than anyone throughout history. Unless you can go over that standard, you have no place to stand. You should not be accused by loyal subjects in the satanic world. With the conviction that the time when people in your hometown opposed the Unification Church is gone, and instead that the foundation that can welcome you is now established, please work hard. Satan's fortune is declining, whereas our fortune is getting ripe for the liberation from Satan. Understanding this, I am asking you to do your best for the restoration of your hometown. In Satan's realm, depending on your effort and endeavor, you will be rising up. And even if you are standing on the level where your ancestors fell, since all of the indemnity has been paid on the worldwide level, if you can only establish a reciprocal relationship, your entire tribe can be restored at one time. You should understand that you entered an era in which, centering on you, your family, your tribe and your people can be restored, and they can even stand together on the national level. Once you stand on that standard, by making appropriate indemnity conditions, this will be connected to the whole, from which the foundation that was rooted in fallen love will break down. Since we entered such an era, you must go back to your hometown and restore it.
A hometown is a haven in life, where your grandmother and grandfather worked hard with sweat. If you go back to your hometown, you should love it more than your ancestors did. As your parents cultivated dirt with shovels and weeded with hoes, you should also love dirt and also sweat for it. You should grow vegetables in the field, look after animals and plant trees, and love your hometown more than anyone else who has been living there. Only then can your ancestors can participate in the returning resurrection. In other words, by having spirits of people who used to live in that hometown come back to that land and their relatives, you should restore that place to God. If you go back to your hometown (in North Korea), you should have an idea of reorganizing your family members and offering them as sacrifices through which even communists can be liberated in the communist world.
You should fulfill your responsibility of restoring your hometown. By so doing, you let True Parents restore their hometown and nation. Through the restoration of your hometown, you will be able to liberate North Korea and bring the unification of North Korea and South Korea. The restoration of your hometown is possible only thorough true love, and that true love can come into being at the place where God's vertical love and your horizontal love can come together. As Jacob went back to his hometown with material that he accumulated during the 21-year course of his hard work as offerings, you should plant a deep-rooted tree by shedding tears and sweat as an offering.
Today, on June first, I am again instructing everyone to go back to your own hometown. Once you have returned to your hometown, you should sweat for your land, tears for your tribe, and blood for heaven. Everything you do is eventually for your sake, that you might receive God's love and grace. It is also to inherit the victorious foundation that True Parents have already achieved. Please become people who can fulfill your mission for the restoration of your hometown.
3) Make Korea the Homeland of All Mankind
What I felt upon my return was: "Father, can Korea truly be the homeland of all mankind?" This country should become not only a homeland of all mankind but also that of Heavenly Father. People of this country are loved by God as children of loyalty and filial piety, and they are responsible for laying the foundation that can connect an ideology through which the entire world can be saved. It is difficult to face the cold wind blown from barren mountains and fields, while thirty million people (of South Korea) are suffering, but on top of it, that to make Korea, the homeland of God and the fatherland of all mankind is even more difficult. Please think of this.
We cannot become responsible for our nation, by fighting only for our nation. That people and nation should take responsibility to comfort God's heart and lay a foundation, by making the thorny path that God is walking into a smooth one.
Where is the fatherland that God desires? Where is the original homeland of all mankind? The hometown where True Parents were born will become a historic, universal and worldwide hometown. We should inherit the thoughts and tradition of our ancestors. Otherwise, we shall be treated as stepchildren. However, through that inheritance, we should stand in the position of son or daughter from the position of stepchildren. Such a great event should take place in this nation. Father has turned everything inside out. Koreans should be a chosen people. If Korea is the original homeland and fatherland, all cultures and civilizations blossom in Korea. In order for us to make Korea the original homeland, today, we should be determined to become a sacrificial offering through loyalty, heart, love, and sacrifice. Otherwise, Korea shall lose its qualifications to become the original homeland. To create something good requires practice. Even if it takes blood, sweat, and tears, it must be done.
Even if Korea expels Rev. Moon of the Unification Church, this will remain throughout history. No matter how much Korea persecutes him, this people is still chosen by God. Therefore, we should love Korea where such a people are living. That is why Father prayed, even vomiting blood in the prison to seek the will of God and its fulfillment.
In order to become the person who God wants us to be, we should understand God's heart. Now, we should become a holy sacrifice in the way of the will, with a mission of a people.
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Section 3. Restoration Of Hometown And Rebuilding The Temple - Part 2
4. Father's Hometown
1) The Original Homeland, Jung Joo
I said that the original homeland of the Unification Church members is Jung Joo. What is it? Actually, the original homeland is Korea. If a question as to the location of the original homeland is asked to worldwide church members, they would answer that it is Korea. If I ask them "What part of Korea is it?" they cannot answer, just winking their eyes. They do not know about Jung Joo, although you know about it because you live closer to that place. If I ask a question where the original homeland is to the people who are living in Korea they should know the answer.
If interpreting it from the meaning, who do you think is the one who named that particular town? [God.] We do not know who decided to name it, but someone among our ancestors did. When it was named as such, perhaps, that person received a revelation.
My father and mother loved me very much. Of course, all mothers love their children, but my mother loved me in particular. If I talk about all of it, you will find many tearful scenes. Although she loved me so much, why did I come to the South, where I could not see my loving mother in my hometown? That is the question.
Why did I come alone to the South, not bringing my parents with me? My parents always belong to me. Isn't it true? They do not belong elsewhere or to someone else. Whether I am in trouble or in joy, or I am in suffering or happiness, regardless of when or where, my mother will be always there so that I can attend her.
Yet, South Korea is different. I cannot always see it whenever I want to. Tribes there are different. For this reason, in order to save this nation, to save the South, I did not bring my own family with me. Then, what was I going to do in South Korea? What was it?
I should make the South into one, and by expelling communists from North Korea, I should make the Republic of Korea a free place to live, without the fear of attack from the North. From the providential viewpoint, the birthplace of Father is the original homeland. It is a holy place. Unless I see the day when I can visit that place, offering gratitude to God, I cannot save this country. That is the way it is. In order to restore the Korean peninsula, there must be a day when I can visit North Korea and offer a prayer to God in gratitude. Otherwise, I cannot restore that peninsula. That is, unless I symbolically bring unification between Northern Israel and Southern Judea in the position of Cain and Abel, alleviating their grievance, caused by their division, and offer them to God, carrying a flag of victory, it is impossible to restore the world.
You cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven without attending the Parents. If Christianity is totally united, it can attend the Parents. So all Christians who wanted to visit Jerusalem will come to visit Father's hometown instead. You should understand that the birthplace of Father in North Korea is a holy place. When people from all over the world shout from the four directions: "Let us go to North Korea," Kim Il Sung will retreat. If he does not, China or America or Japan will pressure him. Whether they like it or not, unless China accepts me, they will not be able to obtain modern technology that is 20 to 30 years more advanced than theirs. I already established that foundation. I plan to make scientific technology equal on the worldwide level. I am in the process of reconciling the struggles between Israel and Middle East through the Professors World Peace Academy Despite some ridicule, I am doing the job that cannot be done through ambassadors.
2) My Memories and Love for my Hometown
Hometown is a place where you want to return to. I want to die in this hometown, not somewhere else. Then, why do you want to return to that place? It is not because that is a place where you can live well with good food and a comfortable life.
But it is a place where your unforgettable feelings are imbedded in your memory. By going there, you can recollect the love that you received during your childhood, and centering on such love, you can go back to old memories in the same environment of nature. Since a hometown is the place where your life started and where your relations were brought together, it is so precious to you. I have an unforgettable memory that happened in my hometown. It was when I was about 7 or 8 years old. One day, I went to visit my maternal grandparents' home. They steamed sweet potatoes especially for their grandson, me, and I found they tasted very delicious. Often people express their appreciation for good food by saying, "One of two people would not know even if the other one dies while eating together." Anyhow, that is how good it was. Even now, I can never forget the taste of those sweet potatoes. When I ate them for the first time, I was too busy to eat, and I did not even peel them. Even now, when I eat something unusual for a special occasion, I am reminded by the time when I ate those sweet potatoes at my grandparents' home. As such, the first experience is always precious to people. People can usually remember memories of things that they experienced in their mother's bosom.
The memories do not come alive based on your intellect: but based on your emotional relationships with them. When people go to their hometown, they recall something emotional about their past. That is why, wherever they go, they miss everything about their hometown. And when they go to their hometown, they can usually remember almost everything about their past. Because they have some subjective, emotional memories, they have a special relationship with the hometown. Further, centering on the individual, a family or the entire village, they are involved, and they cannot forget their hometown. There is an expression: "Returning home in golden clothes," which refers to returning home with a success in their life.
Actually, even if you return to your hometown, none of your family members may be there, having already passed away. Nevertheless, you still would like to go back and relive all the joy that you feel in your hometown. The same is true for me. I went through all kinds of experiences in foreign countries, but what if I return to my fatherland, bringing all of them with me. Although Kimpo Airport is already part of my fatherland, when I arrive in Korea my mind already travels past Seoul and lands at a small country town, Jung Joo in Northern Pyung Ahn Province. It is only a mountain town located by the ocean, but why do I miss it so ardently? Since my life began from there, I would like to meet everyone living there and see everything there. Centered on what? It is centered on emotion.
My hometown is located on the other side of the DMZ. There are many things that I would like to go and visit once I get to go to my hometown. As I walk slowly over the DMZ, whenever I take a step, I would like to visit many different places. After taking several steps, I would like to roll down, and then I again would like to look around slowly. For this, I would like to visit my hometown.
In my hometown in North Korea, pinenut trees were planted, and in my childhood, I used to peel the pinenuts and eat them. That is why I like pinenut trees more than other trees. The memories of the pinenut trees in my hometown made me love those trees, and whenever I see them, they bring me back to the olden days in my hometown, full of memories.
I cannot visit my hometown in North Korea. When considering this, how fortunate you are, having a hometown near you that you can visit whenever you desire to! Your returning to your hometown and restoring it is necessary to open an era of the Unification of North Korea and South Korea, and is also to restore my hometown. At my house in my hometown, there was a 20-year old chestnut tree. It may have something to do with my being born in the Year of the Monkey, I was very good at climbing up trees. If the branch that I climbed on bent, I quickly sat on a lower branch, and I struck chestnut burrs with a stick. I had so much fun doing it. I still remember those memories, but those who did not grow up in a country town would not understand what I experienced.
In front of my home, there were several acacia trees, where magpies always sang. People normally say that magpies bring good luck. Right? I sometimes quickly climbed up to that bird-nest and quietly watched the shape of it. By so doing, I could tell from which direction the wind would blow a lot that year. It is because magpies build their nests against the direction where it was going to be windy. By the way, the design of their nest is amazing. It is truly a masterpiece, and I wonder who taught them that skill. Soon after completing the nest, magpies lay eggs, which are very pretty and colorful with bluish lines. The size is about a quarter of chicken eggs. Before laying eggs, those magpies do not mind people approaching them, but once they do, they make big fuss if someone comes near. Further, if someone approaches closely to their nest, all magpies in the village would gather together and do a loud demonstration against that person.
Due to my unique hobbies, I observed all kinds of things. That is why I am so knowledgeable about the nature of birds. Magpies lay eggs as many or more than ten at a time. As they got used to my climbing up and down to watch their nest and found out that I was not a danger to them, some interesting things happened. If I showed up before them, as if they were thinking, "Here he comes again," they greeted me, by making some noise.
I would make a similar sound to greet them in return. Then I looked into their nest and came down. Sometimes, when it was rainy, I would not go up. But when they saw me outside, they flew near me, making some noise as though they were asking me why I did not visit them that day.
Even birds come to like humans. Those who do not have such an experience may not understand this to be true, but I am not lying to you now. Also, I did some mischief to the birds. Once the mummy bird hatched eggs, I placed them in a nest that I made. Then that mummy bird came to my nest to feed her babies. Looking at it, I was amazed by her love towards her chicks. I think that there are many things that humans need to learn about loving their children from it. Through those experiences, I discovered that the world is operated based on the emotion of love. Then, where did that emotion come from?
The village where I grew up in childhood is a small country town. The environment was that whenever a season changed, all kinds of birds flew in and out, and all kinds of flowers bloomed and withered. When I was a child, each season was distinctive wherever I went, and I could see the beauty with the change of each season.
However, today in Seoul, even if I walk all day long, I cannot meet real nature. It is only a barren city with artificial views, which makes me sad. People who grew up in such an environment of a large city are dry in their personality, and because they hardly have chances to experience the beauty and the mystery of nature, their personality is inclined to be cruel and brutal with selfishness. This, we must understand. I could experience many things in nature and learn a lot from it. In the midst of it, in my own way, I came to realize what true love is and what true happiness is. The world of nature taught me something more fundamental about life than in schools. When I saw beautiful birds that flew in, due to the change of a season, I chased after those birds and observed carefully how they make their nests and how they live. Sometimes, it took a week just to find a nest of those birds, and it took over 10 days to see how they lay eggs and hatch them. As I was looking at pretty little baby birds that resembled their parents, I verified the mystery of God and the depth of His love.
The hometown where I was born, the field and the village where I played during my childhood, I would like to use all of them to be educational material for you. [Yes.] Before you die, if you could hear from me in person all of the things about my childhood during which I played in the river and on the fields, you will be able to understand my personal history more clearly. Now, you do not know how I grew up, right?
3) Jung Joo: Where We Should Go
Would you like to visit my hometown, Jung Joo? [Yes.] From my home in Seoul, the distance to Jung Joo is about 150 miles. What is that distance in comparison to a place here in South Korea? Kim Chun, it should be about the distance to Kim Chun. If driving a car it will take about two hours and a half. Only two-and-a-half hours. If you cannot restore my hometown, I will not be able to face my father and mother after going to spirit world. Now, I have to visit my hometown and my mother and father, and pray for them. That is the providential viewpoint. (154-343)
Should you go to North Korea or not? Communist spies are doing underground activities, and what are you going to do yourself? You should always keep that in mind. I returned after visiting the North for such a purpose.
My hometown is Jung Joo in the North. Would you like to visit there? Why would you like to go there? When we go there, there are many stories that I would like to tell you. I have many anecdotes about my childhood. Therefore, you should visit there at least once. If you do not, you will be ashamed in spirit world. In the future, Unificationists will think of it as the supreme Mecca like Jerusalem for Christians.
As you are living in this country, in your lifetime, if you go to spirit world without visiting my hometown, do you think that you can lift your face up? They will point their fingers at you and ask what you did, not visiting my hometown.
The unification of the North and South must be fulfilled. You must understand that if you go to spirit world, not being able to visit my hometown, your heart will be left grieving. You should go there and taste the water that I used to drink when I was growing up, and walk the hill that I used to play on.
Then, when your own sons and daughters toast before God with a loud voice and praise Him and His holiness, you will be able to alleviate my grief by making an indemnity condition to restore what you could not do, offering congratulations at my birth and attending me in my lifetime. If you cannot go to my birth place before you die, you should understand that you will leave a grievance behind as a Unification Church member. [Yes.] Consider it as your special mission. And until the day of the unification of the South and the North, I again ask you to continue fighting, standing on the frontline, marching forward with courage and conviction for the victory. (63-177)
When we talk about the fatherland, what is it? Is it South Korea? Where is it? As far as the Unification Church members are concerned, isn't it my hometown, my birthplace? Since the North is separated from the South, at any cost, we Unification Church members must take that land back.
I should go back to my hometown. Who are you? You are like and daughters who were born through me. When Jacob returned home, when he visited his older brother, Esau, all of his children followed after him, right? [Yes.] So should you.
Thinking of my hometown as your own, whether you are from Chulla Province or Kyungsang Province, even if you cannot go there, the fact that you are determined to visit my hometown is truly revolutionary. It is historic. Truly, this will be a once in a lifetime event throughout all of human history. The time when you can go with me to my hometown, the original homeland of all humanity, will be only one era throughout all of human history.
Where is the place where the 36 families should go? It is the homeland, the Kingdom of Heaven. The 36 couples should have come from the Kingdom of Heaven, from God's love, through the lineage of the Parents in the original homeland. Then, even if the love that started that way had flown to the secular world, it would have been circulated.
If you go to Alaska, you will see salmon. There are five different kinds. One kind is pinkish-colored, and another is reddish-colored. Anyhow, there are many different kinds of salmon. After approximately one year or so, if you let those with a size of one-palm length out, within several months, they will spawn in fresh water and go to the ocean, at which time 4,000 to 5,000 of them will travel throughout the five great oceans. Then in four years, they will reach the time to spawn.
Where would a mature male salmon meet a mature female salmon as its object of true love? They already had an agreement to meet each other at their birthplace. Such is their protocol. Who is the one who started it? Would it be salmons themselves? This is a mysterious question.
With whom would you go when visiting my hometown? Alone or with your spouse? What about your children? How and where would you feed them if everyone comes together at one time? I am not going to allow people to build any structures in my neighborhood. If all merchants gathered together, they would do all kinds of things.
5. Rebuilding The Temple
1) The Reason for Building the Temple
When looking at the history of Israel, the Israelites led an impoverished life, dying in the wilderness for 40 years. Their physical conditions during their life in the wilderness were extremely meager. But when they arrived at the land of Canaan, the seven tribes there lived an abundant life. Although they were serving idols. Then they came to desire living a comfortable life as well, by living with Canaanites. However, they should have thought of building their nation, superior to that of seven tribes of Canaan.
In order to found a nation, they should have first built a temple of God. Then, that temple could have become the foundation that could save their nation. Through oneness with that temple, establishing a foundation of spirit and thought on the national level, they could have completely established spiritual subjectivity at the center. Then they could have formed an object realm of an environmental system on the national level. What they should have done first was build a temple that could educate their nation. It was not so that they themselves could survive, but so that they could save their nation.
Why did they come to the land of Canaan? It was to found a nation that could be superior to Egypt. They should have understood this. They should not have thought of returning to Egypt, reminding themselves of their ordeals and miseries that they had experienced there. With that attitude they should be prepared so that even if in Canaan seven tribes appeared in front of them, they could overcome them, with a conviction that they should build a greater fatherland of their own. How?
With God, centering on the temple. That is the reason why they always carried the ark with the tablets of stone with them, right? That is the most important thing. It was a movement to unify people centered on the ark. Do you understand what I mean? [Yes.] That is what they should have done.
With spirituality in the subject position, a political people's federation should have been prepared in the object position. A nation should have been founded. By so doing, if mind and body were totally united centered on God on the national level, everything that is necessary for it could have been mobilized in the name of God. This is what the Israelites should have done in the course of restoring the land of Canaan.
Then what should the people have done after returning from the captivity of Babylon at the time of Malachi? They were to start a movement to rebuild the temple. That is what should have been done. The temple that was neglected should have been totally cleaned. Centered on the temple, the Israelites attend God, who can appear as the subject of that people's spirituality. God desired to reveal the subjectivity not only on the national level but also on the worldwide level. Don't you agree? You must understand that this was God's will, that He wanted to see fulfilled by the Israelites who were in the realm of revival.
Yet, when the Israelites entered the land of Canaan in hunger, the Canaanites were well established and settled. As they saw Canaanites in the possession of flocks of sheep and other material wealth, fully fed, comfortably situated and enjoying themselves, how envious they must have been! Then, they did not think of building the temple that God wanted. Instead of using that nation as a stepping stone, using it as fertilizer, due to their temporary hunger when Canaanites gave them some cake or some extra meal, or even some meat, they thought: "This is the best. Why were we brought out of Egypt anyway, troubling ourselves with so much suffering and pain?" This was the beginning point where they became sick.
However, even if they begged for food due to their starvation, they should have educated their second generation. Nevertheless, they let their children marry the children of Canaan. Why? Because they thought that it was the best way for their children to secure their life there in the future. They were truly a group of people who were to perish. It would have been better to have sent their children to the desert when they did such a thing. Nonetheless, when they allowed even their second generation to follow their bad example, they had no choice but to perish. First, leaves fell, then branches were pulled down. Eventually, even the root got rotten.
Then, nothing was left. The same applies to your case as well. As the Israelites who returned from Babylon should have done, you should establish a right tradition. If you escape from this task, you will perish. What I have done during the past 43 years centered on the Unification Church was to take after the same revival movement of Israelites. Through this, 4,000 years of history was indemnified.
That is why I was not here in this country. For 15 years, I had to work for this purpose. During my absence, while I was in America, the Unification Church in Korea became impoverished. The reason why I came back to Korea with a victorious foundation on the worldwide level is the same reason that the Israelites went back to Israel after being liberated from Babylon. What should we be careful about at this point? It is coming back with what? It is not money that you return with. It is to restore the temple of God. It is to build a temple in which you can attend God. [Yes.] It should be a temple that can move a nation.
2) Let Us Build the Temple at Father's Hometown.
When Israelites entered the land of Canaan, they all perished. Why? The Israelites who traveled for 40 years in the wilderness envied the customs and material possessions of Gentiles although they should have built a temple for God, transcending them. Even before Israelites and their children settled in that land, they should have first built a temple and attended God. Next, they should have resolved the problems concerning the nation, and finally settled in that nation. Nevertheless, they forgot about the nation and did not build the temple for God. On the contrary, they settled first.
We are now in the same era. That is what I am is doing through this visit, building the temple. We should first build God's temple more beautiful than anything else in town, and along with it, a nation should be restored. And next, we can settle down.
I have to revive impoverished North Korea, and restore its temples as well. Then, both North and South Korea will be restored back to God's bosom. Centering on the temple within that nation, at the place where the nation is located, people should settle, but without doing it, can they settle first? If they do, they will perish. You should know the right time well.
Among you, those who are from regional areas, please raise your hand. You should take responsibility for your own area no matter what, even if you should sell your land or something else. Then you can save your face and be blessed. As Abraham looked for a tomb, returning to your hometown which is the base of your heart, you should also build a temple where you can serve and attend Heaven and value it more than your own house.
What I said this morning is to build a temple first, then next, a school, and then, your own house. Do you own your house? Then, you should have your own land as well. Right? You should build a temple even tearing down your own house. Do you understand what I mean?
3) Invest Everything for Building the Temple
What is the direction I gave you during this visit? It is to take care of the second generation. All the contacts whom we cultivated so far, such as professors, their sons and daughters, etc., that is the first thing to do. What is next? It is to save your hometown. To save Korea is not something unusual. It is to return to hometown with the youth.
Once you return to your hometown, centering on God's love, you should repent that you did not love your parents. You should also repent that you did not love your neighbors, relatives, etc.
The Israelites who returned from the captivity of Babylon built a temple of God. That is also the founding spirit of America. What did the settlers first do upon their arrival? They built a church in the name of God. Then, they built a school to educate their second generation. Then, finally they built a house where they could live with their second generation. This is considered the traditional American founding spirit centering on their missionary zeal.
Likewise, the Israelites should have built a temple upon their return to the land of Canaan from Egypt. They should have attended God, Next, they should have built a school where the second generation could be educated. Then, centered on God, they should have built a house where they could live with the second generation. This is the right order. For this reason, I asked members to restore their hometown with the second generation. They should return to their hometown together. This is returning to their hometown with the second generation who can represent the ideal of family church that is mentioned by the Unification Church. If each person can bring 10 to 20 young people to his or her hometown, and do whatever they are asked to do by the villagers for 24 hours a day, the villagers will not be able to oppose him or her.
In fact, the entire world is gradually being transformed in the atmosphere in which members' parents cannot oppose Rev. Moon. Everyone is supposed to say, "Good." Actually, things can change very quickly.
When you go back to your hometown, you should not accuse or oppose the Christian churches. We should teach God's thought, the principle, in the Christian Churches. Now, national messiahs, you will be elected as a mayor or a city council through the local self-governing assemblies. What are we going to do? In the name of God, we should build God's temple. For this reason, I have given you an instruction to build 1,500 temples.
Ladies and gentlemen, you who claim that you are starving and are going through hardships, you might wonder why I am not helping you with your financial situation. That comes later, after we save the nation. For the sake of our nation and God's nation, we should first build temples. Then, next, we should build educational institutions. That is the reason why I asked you to purchase middle and high schools this time.
Then, at the temple, with all of your hearts and minds, you should repent your unworthiness. You should bring the youth and educate them. And on that foundation, you should bring anyone, such as your neighbors, village chiefs, etc. They all should be united with the youth who follow God and His will. The youth should be centered. By so doing, you should make the youth in the position of Abet and attend them like ancestors who restored an eldersonship. Then, this nation can revive. This is the course of restoration.
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Section 4. One World
1. The Unified World That Religion Has Been Seeking
Originally if Adam and Eve had not fallen, what would have happened? Adam would have become the chief of his tribe, and at the same time, the chief of his race, and the king, representing his nation. In this way, the world would have become one under the ideology of Adam. All of the useless ideologies have to be cleared away. We have to totally get rid of all these ideologies, because they are distorting the world.
Originally, the ideology would have been Adam's ideology, the language would have been Adam's language, the culture would have been Adam's culture, the tradition would have been Adam's tradition, the lifestyle would have been Adam's lifestyle, the system would have been Adam's system. Everything would have been the system of Adam's nation. This ideology has to be one with God in God's mind. This ideology is what we call Godism. (20:123)
In unfallen Adam and Eve's family, would the family have existed for the sake of just two people, or for the sake of the whole universe? Now for God, to whom would the nation belong? Would it be God's nation? Adam and Eve's nation? Just Adam's nation? Just Eve's? Would that nation belong to God and Adam and Eve, who all have a common purpose? That nation would belong to Adam and Eve, who are centered upon God. If that nation expanded to the world level, then that nation would be the world centered upon God. You have to understand this.
What does Satan's world consist of? There are so many various nations. They have not been united as one. God wants to wipe them out. This is the way for people to go. Even though Satan has opposed us by every possible means, in the end, if we do not establish such a God-centered world, then we cannot bring about the ideal. Therefore, if everybody becomes like God, then Satan cannot exist. If we can see God's existence in each person's character, then a perfected man, a worldwide family and a worldwide nation- can be achieved. Everything will be achieved if we can become that kind of person. (161:243)
Until now, what has Christianity been thinking? What has Christianity been yearning for? It is to meet God, to meet the bridegroom as a bride, and to meet their children and to establish a tribe with them, and to build one worldwide nation by establishing the race that can restore the world.
This is the reason why religious people tried to witness to even more people. We have to unify the world centered on the truth. So all religious people have to build up the chosen people by witnessing, then unify the world as one hometown, making the people of the world their own relatives as God's people. The Korean race is in the position of descendants of the elder son. They are the descendants who have believed in religion as well as the descendants of the elder son. You Koreans have to become one with Westerners, with white people and black people. The thing that can unify us is love. It is love that can connect us with God's flesh and blood. (8:110)
What God likes most is the culture of love. Does God need money, power, or knowledge? To design and build a good house requires many materials, such as bricks and doors. But the most important thing is to have the essence of total beauty and harmony. What God desires from people is not that they have a lot of money or become scholars. In the Bible it says, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind." This is the first commandment. The second commandment says, "You must love your neighbor as yourself " These are amazing words.
I Corinthians Chapter 13, the chapter on love, speaks of faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." But people did not understand this. What does it mean to love with your whole heart and mind and soul? It means that you have to love even risking your life. All of you, have you experienced loving someone completely? Have you loved your husband completely? Have your loved your teacher completely as his disciple? Have you loved your nation completely? Nobody has loved anything completely. So we need a model person. We need a model of a true person. By doing this, true people who follow that model can be expanded into the world.
You cannot establish the ideal or the unified world if you yourself are imperfect. It cannot be accomplished in ignorance. So, God tried to send one perfected person in Israel who had a total understanding of God's providence, and He tried to connect the Israelites to him. That is why God made a promise to send the Messiah, centered on God's sovereign nation. It had to start from Jesus. It was possible to build it only when Jesus and the Israelites united absolutely. Through accepting the Messiah, immature people had to perfect themselves; complete the family, race, and nation and obey all of Jesus' will and entirely unite with it. The Israelites who met the Messiah did not understand that God sent him not only for themselves but also for the world. (54:41)
The goal of Unification Thought is to establish one nation centered on God. This is the nation of one sovereignty, one people, one land, and one culture. They are connected by one blood lineage centered on True Parents. In such a nation, everyone can fulfill the pledge to become an ideal heir through establishing the one realm of the heart. We can fulfill the Bible's commandment to "love your enemy." (1983.4.3)
Until now, religion has emphasized leaving your home. But the last religion, the worldwide Unification Church, emphasizes leaving your nation. White people have to go beyond white people, black people have to go beyond black people, yellow people have to go beyond yellow people. This is happening for the first time, because of me. So you must understand that whatever I declare is the final commandment.
Japanese members have to come out of Japan if I say, "Give up Japan and come out." When I go to Africa, I may say, "Leave America and come to Africa." Everyone should come without any excuses. To say "Oh, I don't like it. I want to stay here," is just the same as Lot's wife. It is exactly like life in Sodom and Gomorrah.
To which group do you belong? God's will is for one nation and one world. We are proud of one sovereignty, one people, and one nation. Everything we do is to fulfill that. We pledge one parent, one tradition, and one blood lineage. Where do you belong? You belong to heaven. You are already in paradise. You are not Americans, you are the people of heaven who do not belong to the earth. The earth is completely filled with all kinds of worthless junk.
Where are you heading? We are going to the heavenly family, heavenly race, heavenly nation, heavenly world, and heavenly universe. We have to go until we reach that level. If someone considers the whole world as his nation and all of the people as his brothers and sisters, and inherits this tradition, then he can surely go to the nearest place in the heavenly nation. That is the theory.
When you go to the Kingdom of Heaven, don't think, "I am going to take my mother and father and sons and daughters." You must think that you want to take the nation to heaven with you. I have lived for that purpose until now. That is why I can become the central person in the spirit world. This is the way that God thinks, True Parents think, and the way true children and you should think. (161:225)
There are no boundaries in the world that God wants to create. There would be no conflict between the black and white races, or between good and evil. Everything has been divided, even in the family, between husband and wife, between parents and children, as well as between black and white. Good and evil people have fought. From this situation, the Lord of the Second Advent has to make one world that does not have any boundaries, through overcoming racial problems. He has to unify the family that has been divided, and he has to build the peaceful Kingdom of Heaven on earth. (53:72)
What is the Kingdom of Heaven? What will the Kingdom of Heaven on earth be like? It is the world where the church stays with God always, where there are no communists, and where nobody doubts God's existence. In that world, everyone believes that God is his own Father, and there is no Satan, and none of Satan's temptations. The world that God rules is the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the world where God lives with us. (79:304)
2. All Mankind Me Brothers And Sisters, One Family
Your true feeling is that you are longing to live in the Kingdom of Heaven. In the heavenly nation, are there any boundaries? Are there two languages? Are there racial differences? Then what is the Kingdom of Heaven? All mankind are brothers and sisters to one another because everyone was born from the bosom of God, centered on God. All people are His sons and daughters, so they are brothers and sisters. Centered on the Kingdom of Heaven, they are the people of the nation, and citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. (66:281)
Where was I born! Weren't you born from Korea? When you say you are Korean, why are you a Korean? If you search for where your ancestors came from, they came from China, Mongolia, or somewhere else. There is only one origin; all of them came from one origin. If you follow that origin, you will find the very first ancestor; the original being who made the original ancestor has to exist. His existence is not obscure. So who is the original being, the very first ancestor? It is God. When I took at you attentively, you are so mysterious. Why does a woman look the way she does? For a woman, you may think, Why does a man look the way he does? You are used to each other. Think about it seriously. Why do people look the way they do? (166:212)
Who is the owner of America? It is God, because He is the one who loved this land even before people arrived here. Who is the owner of Korea? It is God. He loved Korea before He raised up the Korean race on Korean land. He has loved it steadfastly even though it was in the worst situation. Therefore, He is the owner. So if you can become steadfast sons and daughters of His, the American land will be yours and the Korean land will be yours, too. You can claim that the world is yours. This is possible centered on love. (18:90)
What kind of person is a perfect person? He or she has to become a person of the world that is one with God. Which nation do you come from? All of you came from various countries, such as America, Germany, and Korea, but where did your country come from? It came from planet earth. So the earth is my nation. Where is my hometown? The earth is my hometown. I don't have any barriers between white people or black people and myself.
Everybody is God's child. From this viewpoint, the world becomes good. I ask you Americans, Who are the American people? And I ask you, What do you prefer, America flourishing or the world flourishing? (The world.) You can answer like that because you are members of the Unification Church, but other American people don't like that idea. That is why they say I am a heretic and other things. Who is going to win? Who is going to lead the world and history? The American people cannot do it. We know that Americans have come to be expelled and isolated from the world. So we are the only ones who can protect the world.
Which nation do I come from? (Korea, God's nation.) God's nation. I wanted that answer, but I don't like the word Korea. Korea has opposed me for the last thirty years. Even though I abandoned Korea, I am going to save the world. "Even though I abandoned the yellow people, let's save the white people and the black people. After I restore the white people, I will come back to you." This is the way I think. That is why I came to America, even though Asia and Korea are in an emergency. So, where do I come from? I came from my Fatherland. When you are asked whose son you are, or which country you are from, you have to answer, "I come from God. When you are asked which nation you come from. You have to say, "I come from God's nation." You have to say that you are a person from heaven.
I found greater things than Korea, which is my motherland. I found a greater way than the way my mother and father lived, and greater things than my brothers and sisters who live in my hometown. That is why I gave up everything and learned the process to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. To do that, you need to prepare your papers. For common people to get a green card, the process is very complicated. Do you think it is easy to become a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven? (79:247)
The Principle is the truth that has never changed throughout history. No one can change it with his authority or power. Even the world and God cannot change it. If it is the unchanging truth from the past to the present and on into the future, then it must have the value of the ideal that human beings were originally seeking. If people resurrected by the principle go beyond their nation and the world, then they are all brothers and sisters. They will not have any concepts about white people or black people or yellow people. Let's consider it. The only difference with black people is their skin color. Everything else is the same. The bone structure and skin and blood are the same. The only difference is the skin color. It is caused by the weather and life's circumstances. It is inevitable.
Let's look at the pine tree, for example. From the frigid zone to the temperate zone, the species of tree change depending on the environment where the tree is planted. Also, it depends on where it started and what its history is. And let's look at the bear. The bears in the North Pole are white. Because of the environment, they have to be white for protection. What about the white race? We can compare the white race to the white bear. And we can compare the black race to the black bear in the tropics and the temperate zone. This is the only difference. Can the white bear and the black bear say to each other, "Because you are white, or because you are black, I cannot be with you."
If the white race has that kind of concept, then the white people could be surpassed by black and yellow people. The white population is only one-third of all humanity. At this time, when communism rages, if you have such a concept, you will be attacked relentlessly.
Everyone has to become one in the Unification Church. We hold international marriages. Eastern and Western people marry each other. The most beautiful scene in history is people loving each other transcending race. From now on, my declarations will be recognized as having been farsighted after ten, twenty, or thirty years. If we don't have a worldwide ideology that advocates these principles, then mankind will perish. Centered on God, all people are brothers and sisters. Before God, there is no reason not to be united. The spirit of the Founding Fathers of America is "One Nation Under God." It is going toward that direction. (1975.7.13)
Black people and white people are all human beings. Suppose that someone married a black woman and she gave birth to a black child, and then later he married a white woman and she gave birth to a white child. He is the father of the black child and the white child. In other words, for the children, the father is the same. Anyway, unless we reach the point of knowing that we are all born of one Father, so that we are all brothers and sisters, then it is not possible to unify the world and all the ages. (18:111)
I need white people. Why? I have to save the Western people. I need black people because I have to save the black people. I need yellow people. Why? Because I need to save Asia. So, what am I going to do? Not divide people into black, white, and yellow but bring unity. To do that, we have to establish one absolute standard from the starting point, which is my ideology. So, I have thought that in the future I want to live with people from twelve different countries.
I am going to try to live with people who come from a few of the countries of the white race and a few of the countries of the yellow race and a few of the countries of the black race. If someone says, that it is wrong that Reverend Moon is living with black people," then I will push him out. I will push the Western people out with the white race and the black race. Do you think that God says, "Oh, I only love Western people but I cannot love yellow and black people"? The poorer the children are, the more the parents sympathize with those children. Who would reject such a parent's love? This is the principle of love. So, I am going to send all of the talented members from America to the underdeveloped countries to save them. How can we achieve that? That kind of education is what God wants. (74:36)
3. International Marriage Is The Short Cut To World Unification
Until now, the North and South have fought. America is not an exception. The North and South fought as enemies in America's Civil War. The East and the West have fought each other, not only between nations but also between families and groups. They have always fought.
What would make me victorious? Removing all the causes of conflict and unifying the people. I am trying to do this, even on the small Korean peninsula. The North Koreans and South Koreans have been hostile to one another under opposing political systems. They have hated each other historically.
But in the marriage of the Unification Church, North and South can be united. Suppose in the beginning a bridegroom from the North and a bride from the South fight as enemies, just as two knights fight. But after a while, the two people exchange a smile and fall in love and become the happiest couple. Then even though both their families were enemies, without realizing it they will become filled with the bridegroom and bride's joy.
So, in Korea many young people now ask, "When will the mass wedding take place? I would like to participate." They are so inspired. This phenomenon is growing, like a small wave that becomes a great tidal wave. The same thing is happening in Japan. Even though in the beginning they were against it, now they are watching the happy couples who are married in the Unification Church.
In America it is the same. People are watching my every move with their own colored spectacles. They ask, "When will the next marriage take place?" What is the reaction of American young people? Someday they will surely understand it. The shortest way to unify all the races is international marriage. One man and one woman who come from totally different cultural backgrounds have to be harmonized with God's love. This is perfect harmony and unity.
We are the ones who bring the ideal into reality. We have to search for the enormous power of love to accomplish great things. Such a power can only come from the greatest love. Not love that depends on social trends and circumstances but the greatest love. We can go beyond the boundaries of race, nation, culture, and knowledge. (93:38)
In the future, how can we unify the world? Also, how can we make the foundation for heartfelt communication? Those are the main issues. I am going to match the Japanese to the Koreans internationally. It is one thing that God wants to do. God does not want to see a Korean crouching within the boundaries of Korea. God wants everything to be done within the territory of His ideology.
The greatest desire of women in communist countries is to marry a proletarian man, a laborer. So the Unification Church sisters have to think in a better way than those women. (17:43)
From now on, in the spirit world, you can be proud of how many descendants of your blood lineage can unite with another race. Therefore, in the future, your sons and daughters should marry internationally. It will happen gradually. Whether you are a man or a woman, it is good to try it.
4. The Necessity Of Unity Between East And West
I had various experiences in America. I saw that even though American members devoted themselves in their life of faith and worked very hard together for a long time, if they left the church, they disappear secretly without saying good-bye. Also, they rarely come back to the church. Oriental members are different. When they leave the church, they express their opinions clearly, and many of them come back. I think this phenomenon is the result of different educational systems. The more the providence progresses, the more American people need strict training. American people advocate liberalism centered on themselves. Because everyone claims his own freedom, America is in confusion. But Oriental thought is different. Everyone is in the relative position of being submissive to a central person. The American educational system was good in the early pioneer days, but now it causes problems in the time of unification. Now, the time of worldwide pioneering has passed. We are entering into the time of unification.
From this viewpoint, I think Unification Thought is necessary in the present Western civilization. It is a great thing that we influence the nation and the world to become unified like this. So, Oriental people are innocent and pure in some ways. They are not so changeable. On the other hand, American people are changeable. This is one reason why American young people tend to yearn for the Orient. Oriental people think that American women change their mind every day. In some ways it is true. In America, the divorce rate is very high. Women initiate divorce more than men. In the Orient, it is the opposite. Therefore, if we exchange them, isn't it ideal, because it is totally opposite. Also, when Oriental people have a meal, they talk quietly or do not talk, but in the West, people talk while they eat. This is opposite.
So, to establish an ideal world, we must bring the Orient and the West together. We can conclude that we absolutely need one religion that has the spirit of unity. (1975.7.13)
God is fair. America became a representative country among all countries with a blossoming material civilization as a result of God's blessing. Therefore, it is difficult for American people to change rapidly from the external standard to the internal standard. On the other hand, in the Orient they respect the spiritual aspect more than the material aspect. In the West, they have received the external blessing but are lacking in internal blessing. In the Orient, they have received the internal blessing but are lacking in external blessing. So God is fair like this.
In three to seven years from now, it will be roughly balanced. Young American members of the Unification Church have changed a lot. You have learned to sit on the floor for a long time without moving. You never even dreamed of being able to sit without a chair.
If we emphasize the spiritual aspect centered on religion, we can overcome the material condition. The Orient has rejected the external standard in favor of emphasizing the spiritual culture. Western people have taken what the Oriental people have thrown away. This is the reason why Western countries, including America, became wealthy. They developed Western civilization and became wealthy externally because they received Oriental material support. But now it has reached its limit, and the spiritual civilization of the Orient has reached its limit. In the Orient, a more Western material civilization is required, and in the West, a more Oriental spiritual civilization is required. So, we are standing at the crossing point, and now both cultures are in a position to give and receive.
If the ideal is realized, everyone will live without any problems wherever Oriental or Western people go. To achieve that, the standard of life, thought, and purpose has to be united. Oriental people used to think that if they study in America, they will succeed. But now they don't think that way. Instead, they think that if they study in America, they will become bad and nothing will be achieved. Many American young people became hippies. They experienced all different lifestyles, like different ways of drinking, eating, and living. As a result, nowadays they claim to want to go back to a primitive lifestyle, rejecting all material things. Because they are seeking spiritual things, their interest in the Orient has increased.
5. Building The International Highway
We have a written record of my proposal of the International Highway in 1981. I sent it to university presidents and government institutes in 140 countries around the world. All of the letters have been preserved. The plan was for an international highway to equalize technology. The developed countries have exploited the minor powers through technology. They have exploited them with the power of technology and politics.
With that common base, the powerful countries have united and controlled the minor countries in their own way. At the time I sent out the proposal, all the professors of the Professors' World Peace Academy laughed scornfully at the idea of an international highway. They did not know that I was going to suggest that plan. Actually, those professors of the World Peace Academy should have thought of suggesting the international highway themselves. When I suggested it, their leadership did not like the plan. If they don't feel good, so what? What are they doing? They talked a lot about it. Now, I am taking it on. (162:156)
In 1981, I announced the construction of the International Highway. At that time, even though scientists and the leadership opposed it, I proclaimed it because it had to be done. They don't understand the Asian situation. They have to listen to me. We must do it. I completely ignored the leadership's opposition to the plan and announced it publicly. Otherwise, it would have been no use now.
Now the high-ranking people of China doubt my intentions. When Japan built the railway in Manchuria, their aim was to make a base to conquer Manchuria. So they are doubting whether perhaps I intend to conquer the Chinese continent. When we had a conference of high-ranking people, they would not believe the International Highway plan, because they think it is absurd and not reasonable. (1985.12.29)
Japan must build the International Highway to the cross the Chinese continent through North and South Korea. (1986-6.1)
To build the International Highway we will need much. Recently they started excavating, competing with one another. "Please give us a chance to do it. Let our company do it. We will pay the expenses," they said. So this will become the public opinion of the world. People will think it is amazing. They will find out that Reverend Moon's background is incredible. They will find out in the academic world, the political world, in Europe, South America, and North America. The word will spread and be amplified like a trumpet call. (166:29)
6. Let's Build The Highway To The Kingdom Of Heaven
For human beings, what is the most difficult path to go? It is the path to the Kingdom of Heaven. In this whole universe, the most difficult path is the one to the Kingdom of Heaven. Did Jesus go to the Kingdom of Heaven? He is in paradise. This is the waiting station for the Kingdom of Heaven. So you can imagine how difficult it is. Does God live in the Kingdom of Heaven? The answer is no. Since human history began, has anyone lived in the Kingdom of Heaven? God does not live in the Kingdom of Heaven. His son does not live in the Kingdom of Heaven. So who can live in the Kingdom of Heaven? There is no one. That is why it is so difficult. It is the most difficult path.
You have joined here with the determination to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. There are many ways to become president of the United States. It can be done. Which do you suppose is easier, to become president of the United States, or to go to the Kingdom of Heaven? You have to think about it. The most difficult thing is to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. It is the most difficult thing. On the other hand, it is a good thing, not a bad thing. Even though it is the most perilous and farthest way to go, do you have confidence to be able to go there? Well, try it.
To do that, you have to run through America and go to the world. To go to the Kingdom of Heaven you must break through the satanic world in the spirit world. You have to go with that attitude. Can you win over the spirit world? Then you have to know what it is. You cannot go there if you don't understand. Even though the Kingdom of Heaven is the hardest place to get to, you cannot avoid going there. Even after you die, you have to keep on striving to get to there.
So from this viewpoint, it is a big job for even God to get to the Kingdom of Heaven. To shorten the way, God had to send His central figures throughout history, and His chosen race and the Messiah, so that they could take responsibility and sacrifice themselves. God has leveled the path with these people. They were sent to level the path. That is why so many saints came to earth, to fill in the road by their deaths. The reason why many nations flourished and perished was to fill in the deep valleys. That is the purpose of history. So history is the history of the rise and fall of nations. By doing this, the road that was high became lower, and the road that was low became higher. Now, that road has become equally flat. Equality means peace. Through this course, equalization has occurred.
Then, who can do this? It is only God and man. Satan cannot do it. How can God achieve this? It can be achieved not by holding onto life but by cutting and sacrificing oneself to fill in. Sometimes God has to raise up a people, pulling up those who are not ready. That is why we find up and down -- rise and fall, dead and alive -- in history. What is the purpose of this? It is to open the way to the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the purpose. To build the highway to go to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Then, who designs the highway, and who executes the plan? God made the blueprint, and Jesus was to execute the plan. He had to cut down the mountain at the time when he needed to cut it down. The owner of the mountain should not be against it but should say, "Please do it." So, he had to build the nation of Israel. By cutting down all the mountains, he could start to make a highway. If he asked to demolish your house with a bulldozer, you would have to say, "Yes!" Also, if there were a beautiful lake and he asked you to cover the lake, you would have to agree with it. Today, we have to make an exemplary country. Then when people from other countries see that everything is great, they will say: "We want to do it, too." That is the way we are going to do it.
Once such a road has been paved, cars can go where they need to go in a moment. That car is the human being. By driving man as the car, we are going to the Kingdom of Heaven. If God rides in a human car and drives him, then the human has to run wherever God drives. Are you that kind of person? Do you think the car can say, "I don't want to go." Can you say that? You cannot say that. The car has to go if God holds the steering wheel and steps on the accelerator. The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place where a woman can go by her own desire. God as the driver controls you and enters the Kingdom together with you. That is the Kingdom of Heaven. You must understand that the Kingdom of Heaven is the place where the Messiah as the representative of God comes, and everyone enters the Kingdom under his guidance. The Messiah comes as the owner of the car, and it is he who drives to the Kingdom of Heaven first, once he has established the highway.
Then, what are we supposed to do? We are the ones who build the highway. We have to fill in the low places. So, we have to put ourselves into those places. We have to put ourselves there. If we cannot fill in the holes, who can do it? We have to do it by sacrificing ourselves. By widening the road, we can cross over America. We need to run with a torch to make that kind of foundation.
When you go on the highway, if you have to go by taxi, it will cost you. For us, the same thing can happen. Furthermore, how difficult will it be for us? We have to look for the difficult things. Can you do it? Who are we? We are not the people to drive but those who will fill in the road. What kind of road will it be? The quality of the road will be directly proportional to the effort of those who build it. We have come to under, stand this. (72:253)
To pioneer this road, sometimes we have to go into the ditch, fill up the lakes, dam a river, or dig a hole. So there should not be anything that a Unification Church member cannot do. Nothing. We need technology, too. Unification Church members have to take responsibility for this. You have to be able to do many various things. American young people can do only one thing at a time. They think, "After I finish one thing, I will do the next," but in our case, we cannot do it like this. While we are doing one thing, we have to do two or three other things at the same time. I have been doing this. That is why I have suffered. To save everyone, I cannot do things one at a time. You have to understand this. To save everyone equally, I cannot avoid doing it like this.
So is it OK for you say, "I will do only what I want to do"? No. I know that there are more things that we don't like to do than things that we do like to do. However, we are the only ones who understand what needs to be done, and we are the only ones who can do it. We cannot avoid doing it. So, don't you feel bad? Do you like it? Are you grateful? If you can do it, then we can surely build the highway by ourselves. We can cross the world with our ideology. Then this highway will become the highway to go up and down, vertically and horizontally, and to turn the whole world around. If we can build such a highway, how wonderful it will be. (72:257)
7. The Unification Of Language
Even though in both America and Korea pigs grunt with the same sound and sparrows squawk with the same sound, human beings don't speak the same language. Whenever I traveled to different countries, I encountered all kinds of languages. It is so difficult to communicate even basic things like asking for food. Because of this, we human beings became the dumbest among the dumb. Who caused this? It was caused by the Fall. How can we say that we are the Lord of the universe if we cannot even use the same language to become unified. How regrettable it is. There are so many things that dumbfound me. (20:124)
Centered on God's absolute love, man and woman have to unite absolutely into one and establish one absolute culture. To establish one absolute culture, we have to have one unified language and one alphabet. So I have emphasized many times for you to learn Korean and the Korean alphabet, because the creation and development of a unified culture must be conveyed through language and letters. (1985.11.12)
Language is a problem. I speak in Korean. In the future, if you don't have an interpreter, what can you do? Do you have to learn from me, or do I have to learn from you? Why? If you learn Korean, which I am speaking, you can learn much more deeply and possess valuable things through me. That is more valuable than anything else. That is why we can conclude that you must learn Korean.
Those who really wanted to understand what Jesus spoke in the Bible tried to learn Hebrew and Greek. That is because his words in the Bible are precious. How did the Renaissance conquer the world in the Middle Ages? Several famous philosophers appeared who were able to offer direction and precious value to lead humanity. They studied Greek to be able to follow that thought. It is simple. In the future, which language will be the original language? It will be Korean. If some problem occurs with a quotation, the original language will clarify it. Because we have to bring everyone in the right direction, in the future we will hold important conferences only in Korean. This view is correct. So, do you feel the need to learn Korean? You have to team Korean. In the future, when you go to the spirit world, you will speak Korean.
If the children of True Parents cannot speak their own parents' language, then they are like mutes. I will say they are mutes. The world will go toward that direction.
I stirred up Western society since I came here. You have to understand that this is a new threat to religion, a new problem. It is true. The Korean language will be the one that people will study as the original language. No matter how many times you say "Aha" while you are reading it in English, if it differs from the Korean original, then you will have to fix it every time.
That is why unchanging things are valuable. It is the same in this case. Don't you think so? So you have to study Korean. (74:33)
The Koran language and letters were made in Korea and used in Korea. The term "True Parents" was coined in Korea. Centered on True Parents' love, God was able to be engrafted to True Parents for the first time in history. In other words, because Korean is the first language that God was able to start speaking on the foundation of true love, we can communicate with God most directly in Korean. The origin of the term "True Parents" is absolute. That's why we have to learn Korean. Also, you have to learn Korean letters, which is the means of expressing the Korean language. You have to understand that Korea is the first place that God was able to speak words of love. Because I used the term "Cham Bumo" (True Parents) for the first time in Korean, the origin of the term "Cham Bumo" is in the Korean language.
Cham Bumo is not English or Chinese, it is Korean. Therefore, Korean is the language of the loving fatherland of the Unification Church members. Because Korea is the beloved fatherland, you have to seek your fatherland. That is why you have to team the Korean language and letters. I can say that the heart to want to be blessed with a Korean man or woman comes from the desire to go closer to your original hometown, because God expressed His first love in Korean. (1985.11.12)
Since I was born in Korea, all of Unification Thought and my speeches are published in Korean. The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Speech Series are the sermons given on Sundays. More than 200 volumes will be published. I am expecting many scholars to study them. If you don't read them in the original language, you cannot be an authority on them. Everyone needs to understand that these volumes contain the guiding ideology that cannot be omitted in any aspect of the new history, world, and culture.
I have worked hard for God's providence. I have not heard of any occasion in history when God's providence could be completed through the politics, economics, or culture of this world. Nowadays, the number of scholars who study Korean has been increasing. It is because they want to read my speeches in Korean. If you translate my speeches, then their authority is decreased. Do you understand what I am saying? (Yes.) You must read them. Don't you think you have to read them in the original language?
Over the past 40 years of Korean independence since World War it, these speeches have progressed with the advances of history. In the future, if a scholar asks you questions, what are you going to answer? If he says that in Reverend Moon's speech it refers to this or that, then what are you going to answer?
From 1990, I am going to hold international conferences in Korean. How many years is it until then? (Three years.) Without religious power, we cannot become unified. If everyone could communicate in Korean, then this one book would be enough. But if we have to translate it into 120 languages, then that would require 120 books. What a big waste that would be. And what a big loss that would be for the future world. Without me, no one can achieve unity. Do you understand what I mean? (Yes.) Study Korean! Study very hard! With brains like yours, you could succeed within one year. (161:289)
The Korean language contains philosophy. It has the background of the principle of the universe and its harmony. There is a famous scholar in America who received a doctoral degree in linguistics on Korean phonetics. Doesn't my translator, Mr. Han, have good English pronunciation? If someone can speak English well, you cannot distinguish whether he is Korean or American. If a Korean can speak Chinese well, then people cannot distinguish whether he is Korean or Chinese. So these days, many Japanese tend to learn Korean first before teaming other languages. The Korean language includes a very high level of religious language. The way of expression is very deep and delicately detailed. No other language can match this. That is why Korean people have good brains. (1988.1.3)
Look at the Korean language. The expressions correspond to their meaning, like "jji kuk, ijae kuk" to imitate a bird, or "wat-da kat-da" to mean coming and going. Why don't people say just "wat-da"? Why do they also say "kat-da"? Also, "ji ji go boko," which means frying. Everything corresponds. No other language is formed like this. Also, ilhui chung, hui chung" or "dol-long, dol,long, dal-lang, dal-lang" signify the ding dong of a bell, and "hi-hi-he-he" imitates laughter. Everything corresponds.
In this way, Korean is the best language in the world. God taught the best language in the world to Koreans. No language other than Korean can express universal harmony. That is why I was born in Korea. (Laughter.) When Koreans hear this, they will be pleased, but if Westerners hear this, they may not be so happy. Even if they are not happy, I cannot help it. (63:127)
If you learn the Korean language, Korea will become good. Are you studying? It is easy to learn. You can memorize the Korean alphabet within thirty minutes. On the other hand, it is difficult, very difficult. I think the pronunciation of other languages is easier. The reason why Korean is excellent is because God gave Korea the blessing. The Korean language is better to team than Japanese and Chinese among the Asian languages. (161:287)
For the future to be connected to Asia, you need to understand Korean. Unless you understand the Korean people, you will not be able to understand Asia, because Korea has been trained by the powerful countries such as the Soviet Union, China, and Japan. Koreans are able to understand everything, including the special characters of other cultures. Without understanding Korea, you cannot understand Asia. That is why I tell you to learn Korean, even though Korea is just a small country.
Geopolitically, Korea has such an enormous thought that can influence both the economic and political worlds in the future. It is good for you to keep in mind that Korea has such a background and to study it. For Japanese, if they learn Korean when they are young, they will never forget it. If you learn Korean, you can be connected to the world. So you have to study. (161:29)
Each nation should reinforce the education of their mother tongue. In each nation, education in the mother tongue has to be emphasized. By which language can we bring unity? (The Korean language.) Why do we have to unify language? All of you, do you study Korean? From now on, I am going to send someone who can teach you Korean. I am going to send someone who can teach Korean to at least twelve developed nations within this year or next year. Did you finish publishing the books? How are you doing now? As soon as possible, we are going to publish books from which you can learn Korean. We will publish them by ourselves. It will be the best book to learn Korean. (1988.1.3)
Now, I have to hurry to arrange for Korean teachers to be sent out. From 1990, 1 will not use a translator. I will speak only Korean. So from this year, 1988 to 1990, for three years, I have to send teachers to force members to learn Korean. Eventually you have to do it. No one can do it for you. Only you can do it. It is the principle. If you don't, you will have problems in the spirit world. If you meet your ancestors in the spirit world, they will ask, "You worked with a Korean teacher. Did you communicate with him in German, French, or English!" If you don't say, "In Korean," you will be punished. (1988.1.3)
We are heading for the unification of the world, so you have to be able to read my speeches in the unified language. Where are my speeches? These 74 books contain my speeches. Now 74 books have been published. We will keep on publishing them. What are you going to do without reading them in the original language? The original language, not in English or German.
So, you don't need to worry about sermons from now on. These books contain the sermons I gave throughout my life. In the spirit world, the time will come when someone will question you about them. Are you going to say, "I have never seen them and never read them"? From the beginning, I am not going to translate into English. I think it would be good if we could use Chinese characters. If you go to the spirit world without reading Chinese characters, you will face a big problem. If you leaders don't read them, you will have big problems.
In future generations, will I go to your house, or will my speech be in your house? Think about it. Which one is it? My speeches will be in your home. (1988.1.3)
8. Lets Trust, Love, And Live Together
What is your wish? You wish that someone could trust you. You wish that someone would love you and live together with you. If you can achieve those three wishes, you will be happy. Surely, those are your wishes. If Heavenly Father can trust you and love you and be with you, then what in this world would make you happier than this? Everyone in this world wants to be happy. First of all, to be happy you need a companion to trust you. You should live with someone whom you can trust and have give and take with forever. Those who can achieve these things and live like this through all their lives are the ones who are truly happy.
If we ask a woman what kind of husband is a good husband, she will answer, "The husband whom I can trust to be steadfast forever is a good husband." For a man, it is the same. For God, it is the same, too. God wants that kind of person. If someone can be trusted and receive love as God's partner, that person is the purest person. If we become the purest person and believe in God, then God will be really appreciative. And if those people live on with such an attitude of trust, loving each other, then God will want to live together with them. Someone who has achieved that kind of standard can become a responsible person.
Who did I say the happiest people are? Those who trust, love, and live together with others are the happiest people. If a couple live like that, then God will stay with their family and they will establish a happy family. If a race wants to become happy, then they have to trust, love, and live altogether with other races. They should have those wishes. How about the president of a nation? When all people wish to trust him and love him and live with him, then he can be an ideal president. When we think about the world centered on God, it is the same. God can feel happy when all the people of the world wish to trust, love, and live together.
In conclusion, what is the criterion of a true and pure person? Someone who can be trusted, giving love with an unchanging heart and wishing to live with others together. That is the criterion. How can we become such people? We can become such people with God. (1975.7.13)
God created human beings and believed in them with an unchanging heart. No matter how much humans have changed, God has been keeping that standard transcending history. Even in the fallen world, parents believe in their children, even though the children deceive them. Even though the children cannot be trusted, the parents trust them again. This is God's heart. You might wish that you could marry a man or woman like God. All human beings think the same.
If you trust someone who cannot be trusted, and love someone who cannot be loved, and don't give up on someone whom you cannot stand to live with, then what will happen? Even if the person leaves you, if he becomes convinced of your unchanging heart, then he will be deeply moved and come back. God has passed through the way of restoration providence with such a heart.
The reason why people call Jesus a saint is that he gave blessing even to his enemies and loved them. That is a motive force that can move history and touch all the people of the world. In the 66 books of the Bible, there are so many words recorded, but when you summarize them, trust, love, and live together" is the overall meaning.
Who do you think is the purest and the most trustworthy person? That person is the one who constantly trusts and loves and lives for someone as God does, even if he is in the situation in which he cannot trust and love and live with them. Such a person will be victorious over those circumstances. (1975.7.13)