Parents Day and I, Evolution Theory

Parents Day and I

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, March 27, 1990

Speech given at World Mission Center

Evolution

I have always rejected the theory of evolution because there must be give and take between plus and minus in order for advancement to take place. The order of advancement is: advance, give and take between plus and minus, advance. There is no way a lower life form, such as an amoeba, by random action or whim, can become a more advanced animal.

The division of species is an absolute boundary that God created and has protected with clarity. Therefore, the theory of evolution is really a satanic theory.

In every multiplication, love is involved. Love moves toward one ultimate destination: the love of God. Without this loving action, no creature can be brought upon the earth. The purpose of creation is for the lower creatures to come closer to God through the higher creatures. Therefore, when man eats an animal, that animal becomes part of his body. Since man is the closest creature to God, that animal would rejoice to be eaten, because he is getting closer to the love of God. This is absolutely the law of love. Similarly, we should be willing to sacrifice ourselves to be close to God's love which is the highest level we can attain. When true love appears on the earth, the universe seeks to harmonize with it and then to protect that unity.

God's love moves along the vertical line and always comes down at the same place. For men and women to move closer together, they have to be on the same line. The formula is absolute: the vertical line and horizontal lines must cross making a 90-degree angle at only one point. We are absolutely going to pattern our lives using this true formula. Anyone who does not is destined to hell.

The unity of your mind and body must be a 90-degree angle. Your body was to have been produced by your horizontal true parents with your mind produced by God as your vertical true parent. Therefore, your mind is your vertical self and your body is your horizontal self. Their unity can only be achieved when you have true love. That means the spiritual and physical worlds must connect centered upon true love. When the physical and spiritual parents of someone connect, the horizontal world will protect that person.

The vertical line is narrow, but the horizontal line is broad-based. Here on earth you can multiply. Multiplication in the spirit world is not possible for there is no horizontal. God's first purpose of creation was to find His object of true love. The second purpose of creation was for God to project Himself into a physical form, for God is without form even in spirit world. But True Parents, who were created to be the image of God, will always be seen here and in the spirit world.

The third purpose of God's creation was to produce the citizens of God's kingdom. Since there is no multiplication in spirit world, God wanted to see His people multiply here on earth. Each person would grow up and live in heaven on earth and then in spirit world, never needing a savior or salvation. Because the human race fell, we lost that true love. Now the mind and body dwell at different angles. Restoring that original 90-degree angle is the purpose of religion. In living a religious life we take a path which is 180 degrees opposite to the secular world in order to completely separate from Satan and be restored to our proper position.

I have undertaken a five-city tour, teaching the Koreans that religion's purpose is to subjugate man's body to the will of the mind. After three to five years of practicing this way of religion, the body will be subjugated to the Will of God. In this way, new habits and disciplines can be formed.

Another way to subjugate the body is to receive a powerful input of energy from the vertical line that will completely overwhelm its surroundings. This is also another way in which religion serves the purpose of restoration and why I have been asking you to follow this path exactly which should enable you to bring your body under the Will of God. The body is Satan's dwelling place and that is why this war is the most serious one in history. Only the Unification Church and the Divine Principle can achieve this victory. Learning the Divine Principle means that your mind and body will ultimately be united in true love, thereby fulfilling the original purpose of creation. When you make that kind of foundation, then God and the rest of the universe will welcome you.

Another question being asked in the secular world is "Does consciousness precede reality or does reality come before consciousness?" Did the human eye come into this world knowing that it would be seeing sunlight? No, the eye had no way of knowing what to expect so it was formed by some Will with the ability to see the sunlight.

Also, the eyes are protected by eyelashes. Some consciousness knew there would be dust in the air which the eye needed to filter out, so the eyelashes were created. Did the eyelashes themselves have some prior knowledge of this world? How about the tear ducts, which provide constant moisture for the eyes? Who knew the eyes would be in a warm environment that would cause moisture to evaporate? Someone behind the scenes understood everything that would be needed and set up the perfect situation for the eyes. That means concept was first, not reality. Therefore, God does exist.

We are moving toward God's ideal of creation. When each person's mind and body become united in absolute oneness, then a man and woman become absolutely one in love, God's true love comes on the earth. We are making absolute couples centering on God's love. No matter how difficult it may be, fallen man must return to this original point. Otherwise, we cannot live in heaven on earth or in spirit world.

Therefore, we must be absolute and say, "I have only one life, one focus for my smell, touch, hearing and vision. One mind, one body, one love." This is what God wants. Whoever follows this way of life will be protected by the universe and given prosperity. The Unification Church is now teaching the original true love way and through the power of true love we can save all of fallen humanity. The true love way is the fastest way to the goal. When you have true love and pass into the spirit world, you will be able to go anywhere immediately--time and space will be no barrier.

True love has three attributes: one is infinity. The second is unity. The third is its existence and participation in everything. God created man centering on true love, with the desire that man participate with Him, even to trade places with Him in this universe. You can only change the American nation if you attain this absolute true love. Then when you stay in one place, all the universe will gather there. When I go anywhere, that place automatically becomes Unification Church headquarters. People around the world will welcome Moonies because they come to serve the people and to love them with a parental heart. Those nations will say, "Please come to our country, True Parents." There is only one couple who are the True Parents and when you are taught by them, how precious and truly priceless that education is, so you must work hard to share your precious gift. Action is the only way to get result.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Parents' Day. This anniversary is particularly significant for True Mother. Thirty was the age Jesus began his public ministry. Although he was unable to accomplish his mission on the national level, I have set the conditions for the consummation of the True Parents' mission, fully accomplishing my mission. After 30 years together, Father and Mother as the True Parents have completely laid the worldwide and universal foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

I declared in Pledge Service this morning that the accomplishments of True Mother, who represents womanhood, have given women of the world complete freedom. They can take a more front line position to unite and restore women of all nations. Women must become truly heavenly instruments.

Another thing which I declared at Pledge Service was that I am the first founder of the Unification Church and Mother is the second founder. Women can now stand side by side with the men. If Mother alone should visit one of the Unification Churches around the world, no one can say, "Why did Mother come alone? Where is Father?" Because Mother, all by herself, represents and is the founder of the church.

If I had to proceed alone from here, God's dispensation would go forward. If Mother had to proceed alone, the same is true. God's dispensation will be consummated! The outside world is talking about Reverend Moon being seventy years old. "Who is going to be his successor?" people ask. But I tell them there is no need to worry because Mrs. Moon, our True Mother, is only 47 years old! And after us there are the true children to carry on God's Providence.

Throughout my dispensational mission, my first effort was to restore the elder son's birthright. That has been accomplished. All the Cain and Abel situations and their birthrights have been completely restored. I have been in the Abel position to the United States, who was in the Cain position. Now they should heed the advice I have given them or they will have no hope in the future.

Today our declaration is not only about the liberation of women and the elevation of Mother's position as second founder, but that all blessed families around the world are inheriting the power of True Parents. When you completely unite with the spirit of True Parents then, just as the universe and God have been protecting the True Parents, so also will you be protected wherever you work. Therefore, be bold and strong as you go out to the front line. Do not retreat. Proclaim to the world, "I am a proud member of the Unification Church. That means I belong to the True Parents. I am a child of the True Parents." Don't try to hide that. Anyone who takes a hiding place is automatically welcoming Satan. From now on you must say proudly, "I am a child of True Parents and Satan cannot touch me!"

Now the True Parents have accomplished the restoration of three very essential rights. First of all, the birthrights and special positions of the elder and younger brothers. The Soviet Union has been in the elder brother's position or Cain. The second right which has been restored is that of the True Parents. When I get to the Soviet Union on April 9, I will declare the same message I have given here today.

Until now, most of America's 240 million people have been against me. Reverend Moon is just one man taking that abuse. Someday I will leave here, without doubt. Can you claim that Reverend Moon belongs here and should stay here forever? Certainly not! My purpose is to save the whole world and the biggest part of the world is the communist world. The Soviets are larger and more numerous than the Americans. The Soviet media people who visited the United States and Korea at my invitation advised me, "You have been working for 40 years in the free world and have many followers. But if you came to the Soviet Union and printed the Divine Principle in everyday Russian, we could distribute 30 million copies within a matter of months. You will have far more members in the Soviet Union than in all of the free world!"

China's highest leaders have come to respect me as a "Chinese hero" and have invited me to visit. Centering on Reverend Moon, that foundation belongs to God. Before the coming of the victorious True Parents, God could not make such a foundation in history. You understand that on the path of restoration and recreation, the key element is not God but man for made the fallen world. Therefore the center of the restoration course is man. So no matter how great is God's power, His situation has been so miserable without a center for restoration on earth. Only Reverend Moon has known this secret truth--not traditional Christians. Now I am teaching it all over the world. Therefore you can follow the Principle and achieve the restoration of yourself, your family, tribe and nation.

The democratic world, corrupt and almost perishing, must turn back from ruin. How? True Parents are willing to sacrifice their own lives to protect God's children and turn back disaster. This is the way of the Unification Church. Our teaching is spiritually powerful in organizing the spiritual world. Satan's world is breaking up because of the wonderful truth of Divine Principle and the work of the Unification Church.

The Lord of the Second Advent comes as the third Adam which is the position of True Father. As God sent the Lord of the Second Advent to the world, the victorious True Parents can send you as a tribal messiah to your hometown. Horizontally, where there are parents, there is automatically the tribe's foundation which, in turn, automatically connects to the nation. After the parents are saved, Adam and Eve's position will be fulfilled which means that religion is no longer the means of salvation and traditional religious work is not needed since the entire world will enter the restored realm.

Vertically speaking, you have only one True Parent connecting all three levels of true parents--Adam, Jesus and the Lord of Second Advent. But horizontally speaking, the whole restoration is being united and multiplied with one parent. One parent becomes one tribe, then one nation. Once you restore your hometown, your physical parents become true ancestors, not fallen ones. With the parents standing on the side of God, the whole family will be standing on the side of God. The True Parents are then the vertical center and you are the horizontal center. This horizontal parenthood unites the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament eras into one so that your hometown becomes the Kingdom of Heaven. From here, the new generation will begin to prosper. True Parents' family creates a vertical line while your family creates an interconnecting horizontal line. The vertical comes first, therefore you must place the love of True Parents' family before the love of your horizontal relations--your own family, tribe, and nation. When that is the case, Satan has no way to invade.

Now that I have restored the position of True Parents, the Kingship of the Kingdom of Heaven has also been restored. That is because once Adam and Eve are consummated, they are not only the father and mother of that family, but also the king and queen of that family. Therefore, the consummation of the True Parents means the restoration of Kingship. On February 27, 1990, I declared the restoration of the Kingship on the worldwide level.

I always asked members of the Unification Church to go the road of suffering, so that you could be separated from Satan. I realize that this is not the American way of freedom, happiness and having fun. But you have to know where Satan dwells and how to get rid of him. Satan prospers in a world where people are centered on having fun. The way of Reverend Moon is to go down into the dungeon of hell and clean it up so that God doesn't have to see Satan's dirty standard. Reverend Moon has been teaching, "Go down. Take the way of persecution." And finally Satan has been stopped.

Historically, Satan has stood before God and accused mankind. But I understood Satan's strategy and took a path where Satan could not follow me. The safest way for completely separating from Satan was always the most difficult way. I follow this way to clean up everything. When I take this deep righteous way, then Satan can never accuse.

What kind of situation are you American blessed couples taking? Some of you have children which means you need a nation to protect your family from Satan's national power. No matter how difficult it may be, you have to establish a national foundation. Otherwise, all Unification tribes will crumble. The purpose of our entire life is to establish a national foundation for God so that we may take ownership of God's original purpose of creation.

Should we take the way of saving the nation or saving the family? The nation must come first. Between the nation and the world, which should we work for? The world. Between God and the world, which one should we work for? God. We must achieve the liberation of God, centered on true love.

When the Messiah came, he grabbed both sides of this world and God took the front position. Right behind God are the True Parents, leading the new race of humanity back to the original ideal world. Heaven is now appearing on earth and in the spiritual world.

Today's gift from True Parents is true love and true parenthood. When you are absolutely centered on the True Parents, you will resemble them. True love is the one thing to which even Almighty God is obedient. Absolute love means total investment of self, total giving.

When you have received true love as a gift, you have received everything. You control God, all humanity and the world. Universal fate follows true love; God follows true love; humanity follows true love. Satan doesn't follow. How can I say that? I have been going the way of persecution my whole life. That is how I have achieved prosperity. By taking persecution, God's side inherits Satan's ownership and returns it to God. We are in the Third World War for the ideal world. Just as in the other world wars, Satan struck God's side first and so Satan's side will lose.

Today is a very special Parents' Day in which I explained the significance of the thirtieth anniversary of the installation of the True Parents. Today I have given you the gift of true love. As long as you follow true love and the True Parents who follow the true God, you can control the entire world--even the satanic world. Then the Kingdom of God will become a reality and we will be living there forever as the God-centered, chosen people. Eternal life begins right here and goes on forever. Amen! Those who pledge your absolute loyalty to true love, raise your hands please.

Parents Day and I

Parents Day and I

Sun Myung Moon

Speech given at World Mission Center, March 27, 1990

Everything in this world exists in pairs. You have two eyes, two nostrils, two ears. In addition, there are two types of functions for each organ. Although you have only one mouth, you can use it to speak good things or bad. From the same eyes, you can watch good things or bad. You have only one body, but it is able to carry out good acts and bad.

This sort of dichotomy or opposition throughout the world must be overcome or brought into unity. Why does this separation exist? It is due to the Fall of man which was an opposing action to the ideal of creation. The core of the creation ideal is the love of God who doesn't want to dwell alone. He wants to prosper. In order to secure that prosperity, He must have His own posterity or His own blood lineage.

Our title today is "Parents Day and I," because the central problem is always that "I". If there had been no fall, then the love of God, the life of God and God's blood lineage would have been united. When you speak of yourself, your "I", you are the fruit of your entire lineage, the offspring of your ancestral tree. A large tree has numerous branches and trees, with just one main trunk. However, everything is connected--from the root to the trunk, the trunk to the branches, the branches to the leaves. When the tree blossoms with flowers and bears fruit, that fruit represents the essence of the entire tree--the root, trunk, branches and leaves.

You are like the fruit of that tree. Eventually you become a seed, too. In order to do that, you first have to bloom with flowers, then pollination of the male and female flowers must take place. In this way, you are the fruit of your own mother and father whose love created you. Those parents also had their own parents, who had their own parents, and so on, all the way back to the beginning. If you want to become a parent, you too must become part of a pair. No man or woman can become a parent all alone.

Looking at the modern-day perverted culture of the United States, we see so much homosexuality and lesbianism. If this alone continued, it would mean the end of the human species. There must be some original model or tradition that would always blossom and produce the ultimate fruit which would always represent the origin--the beginning point.

Everyone in the world should be participating in the original love, life and lineage. True love, true life and true lineage are the cause and the world should be the result. Thus through the pair system, we can become the recipient of that original love, life and lineage. That is an absolute formula with no deviation possible. The pair system is necessary for fruit to be produced, for without parents there can be no multiplication.

Love in particular is vertical; therefore, in order to be a recipient of love, you have to be standing right below that vertical line. The ideal love line is a straight, vertical line for true love always moves along the shortest path. In the Bible we read about the fall of man, which damaged the very root of the tree of mankind. In the ideal of God, there was to be no fall of man, which would allow the original true love, life and lineage to come down from generation to generation forever. The fall of man was an attack against true love through illicit love. When true love was nearly mature, illicit love invaded from the side, knocked down the tree of true love and sowed the illicit seed.

Since the tree of God's love and lineage was taken over by Satan's lineage, man's lineage has been rooted in Satan, never travelling a straight line, but creating perversions of human life and love. People who engage in illicit love want to do it in secret. This is because everyone has a conscience and, when they engage in illicit love, their conscience bothers them. But even man's conscience deviates from the straight line.

American society today is rampant with free sex, an act totally unacceptable in the eyes of God. The first seeds of illicit love were planted during the teen years. The Last Days are its harvest time, which is why we see so much free sex among teenagers. This illicit love line has to be cut and a new lineage has to be planted.

Is the Divine Principle, the teaching of the Unification Church, correct? The Divine Principle is a formula or principle for all humanity to live by. What is a formula? It is a rule, which applies to every circumstance. This is a very important statement. Without learning and following this principle, no one can become a truly perfected human being. The Divine Principle is bringing light, so that no one can remain in darkness. It teaches what went wrong and how it actually happened. With this knowledge, one's own judgment can tell right from wrong. Since people are intelligent, they will move in the right direction. The focus of the right way is true love, true life, and true lineage. These three are a unit and you cannot remove one of these elements from their trinity.

You must realize that God's love, life and lineage are going to prosper forever through you and generations of your descendants. If no fall had happened, each one of you would be able to say, "I am the result of the love of God, the life of God and the lineage of God." However you are not in that position because of the fall of man. Rather, each person is the recipient of satanic love, life and lineage. Satanic love is always self-centered. The love of God is always for the sake of the whole and for the sake of others. The United States today is a kingdom of individualism and that fact alone clearly explains why this nation belongs to the satanic lineage and why free sex has become so widespread. This is the satanic strategy to destroy God's love and truth. Free sex and all the perverted actions of satanic love are the worst deeds against God's true love.

The free world and the communist world had been moving in their own direction, but now they are coming together. Today the economic systems within the communist world are crumbling as seen in China, the Soviet Union and all her satellite nations. That doesn't mean that God has won in the world or that His work is finished. What has happened is only an external phenomenon. There must also be a true revolution within the human heart. So far, human history has been led by Satan. Where has he been leading mankind? Into hell. There are many kinds of enemies, but the very worst enemy is the enemy of love--those who deprive us of love. God has been teaching us to love our enemies. But why couldn't God love Satan? God can forgive and love satanic men and women, but God cannot love Satan himself. Satanic man can be changed to the side of God, where he is saved and there is hope for him. Instead of all human beings becoming children of God, they became the victims of Satan through the fall. Therefore, there is room for love and forgiveness by God. But Satan himself is the one who destroyed the very root of the love of God, so he cannot be forgiven. Satan is the enemy of God's love, God's life and God's lineage. Each fallen man lacks God's love, life and lineage; all he knows is Satan's love, life and lineage. Consequently, God cannot have prosperity and the whole world is controlled by Satan. Truly, we have to completely change this world.

We know the answer to the fundamental question "Why did God create this world?" God created this world for the sake of love. If God is all alone, what sort of enjoyment could He have? He is not happy. Therefore, He created in order to have a recipient of His love. Even though God is absolute and almighty, He too would like to have His own subject to whom He could be obedient. If this were not the case, then by creating others He would be doing something selfish. In His omnipotence, He would have created this world just for His own benefit. But since He created this world for the sake of love, God Himself is obedient to true love. This is why God can command His creation, including mankind, "You must absolutely obey Me in true love." Therefore, all creation exists for no other reason than for the sake of love. God's investment in the creation was total. He gave every part of Himself for He wanted His object to be even better than He. The characteristic of love is that the loving one wants his object to be even better than himself. You want to have your spouse and your children to be better than you, right? Where did that characteristic come from? We inherited it through the generations from God. This is a logical answer and follows the law of cause and effect because the cause and result have the same characteristics.

We are making an extraordinary statement today from the Divine Principle that even God, when He created His own object, made it better than Himself. God invested His totality for the sake of His object. The absolute object centered upon true love, is always the focus of love. Therefore, love is not coming from me, but from the object. If you want to receive love, you have to be humble, receiving it from a lower position. Following this principle, men and women are in the horizontal position to God's vertical love. God's love comes down and hits between them--right in the center. Because true love takes the shortest way, there is only one point where God's vertical line can connect with the horizontal. This is absolute that true love travels a vertical line and lands at one point, with no deviation. God's love landed at that one true love point, resulting in the birth of Adam and Eve. They were supposed to travel 90 degrees and, upon coming to maturity, they were to travel a horizontal line, meeting at its center. That was the original ideal.

Man represents the east, woman is the west. Men and women are travelling horizontally toward the center and collide head-on. The head-on collision of true love makes the two parties dance with joy. Vertical love hits right at the center turning this way. The earth turns from east to west. True love turns in the same direction. That kind of ideal turning involves no reservation or resistance. It is completely smooth and welcome everywhere, from the top of heaven to the bottom of the earth. In true love, all humanity is turning. God should be in the center, as the axis for this turning motion. God, enjoying the motion, says, "How wonderful. Everyone resembles Me." Then God can receive joy from humanity.

Are you in that state? True love serves as the vertical line for the sake of the universe. When you search for true love, you must think of the universe and say, "I represent the universal love, life, and lineage." When the world asks you to surrender, you give everything. True love is coming down the vertical line to connect with you. Therefore, your supply of true love is infinite because it is coming from God. So when you constantly give love, you will never cease to be replenished. Whoever lives with this vertical, universal true love, are the true sons and daughters of God. Wherever true love is, there is also true life. Wherever true life is, there is also a true lineage. This lineage comes through marriage, not through single people. When you inherit true love, true life and true lineage from the Tree of Life, then that tree becomes your tree: its root, trunk, branches and leaves are all yours. This means that people in any nation throughout the world are your brothers and sisters and we truly have become one family of man. In a tree, all the nutrients and energy flow from one part to another freely, without resistance. In the same way, the tree of the human family should be sharing energy without any boundaries or resistance. True love breaks down all the barriers of the world and the universe because it is an absolutely giving love, a love of commitment and investment in others. That is the way of life of the Unification Church, where there is no national, cultural or racial barriers in our marriages or our citizenship. We are people of the Unification country. When absolute love is in motion, infinite energy is activated and absolute power is available forever. Now you can become the greatest people!

This principle works on every level. The United States was at the apex of world power after winning World War II. God wanted the United States to adopt a universal attitude, serving the rest of the world and all of humanity. Instead, this country became very self-centered and adopted a self-serving national policy. Similarly, Israel was the chosen nation 2,000 years ago, yet Jesus Christ was crucified in their midst. Why? They had a self-serving attitude. They thought once the Messiah came to their nation, they would become the most powerful rulers in the world. However, Jesus taught the people to embrace the rest of the world and serve them. Instead, Israel became weak because they didn't follow Jesus' universal teaching. The universal power could not protect and promote the Israel nation.

By the same token, the Unification Church is not going to govern and stand above the world. The Unification Church is going to embrace the world and universe. Our entire love, heart and effort is going to be given for the sake of all humanity. That is the teaching of Reverend Moon and the way of the Unification Church. The final solution to the world's problems is the united true lineage, the united true love and the united true life. It is the only way to solve the terrible evils in the world today: racial division, moral breakdown, poverty and disease. Only by living and working for others, while centering on true love can we solve the world's problems. Centering on others will automatically bring prosperity. This is the way of creation and exactly follows the path of original love, which the universal power will protect and promote.

This concept is really rather simple to apply. It is God's strategy to take persecution and be hit, then to take over as the true owner. I am the same. All of my life I have taken the persecution of Satan's world, but God's universal power has protected me and prosperity has followed. This has been a secret until now, but now you know. You, who have been trained by me, are so precious to this country. As long as you are here, this nation will not crumble or be destroyed.

Since God began the policy of serving and living for others, every form of His creation must also follow that way. Therefore, every created being is seeking for its object of love that is better than himself. Every atom has the give and take of true love, where the horizontal and vertical lines are always crossing and existing in pairs. Molecules exist in plus and minus, ions and cations. When those two come together, a greater molecule comes into existence. Even God cannot force the union of plus and minus, it must occur naturally.

Part 2

Loyalty during Times of Great Difficulty

This extract of the speech was sent to the United States National Headquarters by the Unification Church World Mission Headquarters. It was given by True Father on February 12, 1961 at the Old HQ Church in Cheon Pa Dong, Seoul, Korea.

True Sons and Daughters who have Loyalty during Times of Great Difficulty

February 12, 1961 (Sunday), Old Headquarters Church, Korea

God warned humankind that there would be seven years of great chaos in the Last Days. During this time of great difficulty, the faithful will collide with the sorrowful circumstances of Heaven over the course of the six thousand years of history. 

They will be faced with circumstances in which the bonds between human beings will be severed completely, and they will be unable to trust anything. 

It will be a time when you will not be able to insist that you are following your course of life based on your conscience, no matter how much you have lived faithfully according to your conscience. It will be a time when you cannot insist that the course of your life is based on faith or on some ideology. Anybody who embraces God’s will and is awake will feel pain whenever he beholds what is around him. 

When such a time comes, that will be within the seven years of great chaos in the Last Days. That will be a time when hope is shaken. That will be a time when the center of the faith that we believe in is shaken. That will be the time when leaders who had followed in faith will waver. Everything will be shaken. It will be a time when everything—ideologies, religion, conscience and the parental heart—will be shaken.

Why, then, was God compelled to bring about such a world? It was so that He can bestow value on us for our having participated with the God who has worked so hard throughout history, with the true God. God has seen countless tragedies in the course of six thousand years and has endured numerous situations. 

In the Last Days, people will face a situation where they will be unable to establish their center with their conscience or ideology or faith. 

Such a time will come when God will seek true sons and daughters who can love God despite such chaos, who are ready to live with God even amidst such difficult circumstances.

That is why, do not be sorrowful if you see the church sway; do not be sorrowful if you see an ideology create disturbance; do not be sorrowful if you see a sovereign collapse; do not be sorrowful if you see your parents change; do not be sorrowful if you see your brothers change and fall away. Even if everything in the world that you have relied on and trusted should sway, your hearts should be composed. You must know that God is unswayed, and even at this very minute He is coming to you. 

You must understand that He gives us pain because it is part of a great promise to connect us with that day, which He treasures, and with the pain that He had gone through. Such a time is needed in the world in order to find a person who can grasp onto Heaven in such circumstances and call out to others saying, “Let’s go together. Let’s fight together. Let’s take action together.”

Therefore, do not be discouraged if you see that the path ahead is blocked. Do not lose heart if you see your nation falling into disorder. God is not dead. Do not lose hope even if the world is in uproar. God is not dead. He will surely come to us. Even if everything is in chaos, do not waver in your single-mindedness toward Heaven. Your heart of depending on Heaven and looking toward Heaven with hope must never change. Even if God should place you in a painful position to change that heart, you must remain fervent and be able to call upon the Father in such circumstances. 

No matter what kind of situation you find yourself in, you must make effort to hold on to God’s heart as a lifeline and climb up from that position. Even if you have to undergo the pain of falling into hell, if you can stand in a position of being with the Father, knowing the Father’s pain, believing that the Father will recognize your pain, and move forward, fully understanding your responsibility and duty, with the determination to go into such circumstances, you will not perish.

There are countless Christians today, but among them how many can be believers of this type? When we attend the Father, we should not attend the Father who sits on His throne in heaven; we should attend the Father who is working hard to find His true sons and daughters amidst the surging waves of death. We should regard Him as our own Father, and make the Father’s affairs our own, make the Father’s heart our own, and make the Father’s wish our own. We should gallantly go forward to that Father who seeks us, and confidently say:

“I know that Your wish is to find Your son. What matters to You is finding that son who resolves all Your historical circumstances. Your heart desires to embrace and love Your lost son. Even if I find myself in misery, chaos and difficulty, I will be the substantiation of Your hope, the substantiation of what You are feeling, and the substantiation of Your heart.” 

You must understand that only in this position can you become the Father’s son and the one who can attend the Father.

Selections from the Sermons of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Vol. 11 p. 97 (Korean)

True God's Day in Brazil

True God’s Day in Brazil

Sun Myung Moon, January 1, 1997
Translator, Jung Choe

What is this year's motto? Please recite this year's motto Let Us Love True Parents and Be Proud of True Parents by Accomplishing the 3.6 Million Blessing. Last year's motto was Let Us Love True Parents and Be Proud of True Parents. This theme will continue until the year 2000. Since this motto expresses our purpose of being proud of True Parents, it should not be changed until the year 2000.

I decided on this year's motto because I want you to keep in mind the 3.6 million couples Blessing. If the 3.6 million couples Blessing is accomplished this year, it will be a historical event in heaven and on earth. If this goal is completed, the next Blessing will be 36 million couples. Do you think 36 million couples and 360 million couples are easier than 3.6 million couples?

Twelve months are twice as many as six months. That indicates two of Satan's numbers, representing the formation stage and growth stage respectively. Thus if the goal of 3.6 million couples is surpassed this year, the foundation to surpass Satan's number of completion will be established on earth. If the 3.6 million couples Blessing is accomplished, the next Blessing will be 36 million couples. How long will it take to extend the Blessing to all humankind?

The unchanging family formula

Every man and woman, including Adam and Eve, has needed a family. The family formula will never change. It applies to any time and any historical situation. You should know the unchangeable truth that man and woman should be united following the ideal of Adam's family.

Adam and Eve are God's substantial, visible body. We can't see our mind, but we see our body. Likewise, when God dwells within Adam's body, God and Adam become one like mind and body. The marriage of Adam and Eve fulfills God's will because God dwells within them. Adam is the substantial object partner of God's subjective and masculine sung sang, while Eve is the substantial object partner of His hyung sang. Therefore, the marriage of Adam and Eve who are united with God is like God's marriage.

God's ideal of creation is consummated when Adam and Eve make love for the first time after receiving the Holy Blessing. This is the unity of divine love and human love and the beginning of the settlement of the family centering on God. People didn't know about this until now. Our Unificationists have to know the word and practice it.

If Adam and Eve had become one by completing true love without falling, and if they had loved their sons and daughters and raised them to become parents, their love would be the same as God's. People inherit Adam's God-centered family tradition by following the example of Adam's family. Because God is absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal, God's love is also absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal, and God's object of love is to be absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal.

The nature of love

Only love can make two people become one body centering on True Love, father and son, husband and wife, and father and mother can make one body. When brothers unite centering on True Love, they become one body. Only True Love can make unity and oneness. This is not the love of receiving, but the love of giving.

True Parents are in a position to give eternally and then forget; then they give again for the sake of their children. It is the same with true spouses and true brothers. Therefore, True Love is the love of continually giving, forgetting and giving again. In the Blessed family, all relationships-such as the vertical relationship of father and son, the lateral relationship of husband and wife, and the sequential relationship of brother and brother-can be unified centering on True Love that is absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal. The positions of up and down, right and left, and front and back, centered on yourself, all form the number seven, which is the number of completion.

Unless the domain of the number seven is formed, existence has no value and relationships will be destroyed. This is why each of us has to form relationships corresponding to up and down, right and left, and front and back. You will lose the foundation for settlement if grandparents, parents and children are not completely centering on you. This is the four position foundation which the Unification Church teaches, and it needs to be completed.

If you are asked what the completion of God's will is you should know that it is the completion of the four position foundation. All human beings need parents, an object partner, and children. The family-level four position foundation consists of the three stages of children, parents and grandparents.

The family seed

The four position foundation is like the family seed. A seed is the combined body of the past, present and future. If such a seed is planted, your family including your grandparents' couple, your parents' couple and your couple can expand horizontally to the world. If the seed of Adam's family is planted it will produce hundreds or thousands of seeds which can expand the three-generation family horizontally to the world. A seed is the fruit of the past, the starting point of the present, and the connection to the future. Common sense tells us that the seed contains the past, present and future.

If God and humankind become one and form a family in accordance with True Love, it will develop eternally according to the family formula. One seed of a pine tree can produce numerous seeds and multiply into a great number of pine trees all over the world, and every one of those pine seeds will have the same value. Likewise, if Adam's family is the seed of the human family, all families multiplied from that seed have the same value.

Although the blessing of God, Adam and the future family start from the same standard, God's position is that of the past while Adam's position is that of the present and is the starting point of the future family. What is the center of all those positions? Adam and Eve united with God. Grandparents represent the spiritual world, while sons and daughters represent the future.

Then, if all positions are unified centering on Adam and Eve, Adam would be the king of the Kingdom of God on Earth. Adam represents God and is in the position of God because he has experienced all these positions. Vertically, God's position is the past, Adam's is the present, and his sons and daughters are the future.

Grandparents dwell within the family as substitutes for God; Adam dwells in the family as a king, and his descendants will become kings of the future. In this sense, the three generations must be inseparable from one another. Thus, your father and mother are in the position of king and queen, representing the kingship of all humankind. However, since the present kingship is connected to the past, the father has to be united with the grandfather, and since kingship is linked to the future the present family members should work to develop the future.

What is God's desire? Although God loves Adam as a son, it is God's position to love His grandchild more than His son. Three generations should be connected, but because Adam's family fell God was able to love only the second generation, Adam and Eve, and not their sons and daughters.

As God's grandchildren, the children of Adam and Eve should have received two kinds of love: that of the present king and queen and that of the past king and queen. Because of the Fall they became unable to receive two kinds of love. If the three vertical stages of grandfather, father and son are not connected, there will be no place for husband and wife or elder and younger brothers to meet. Since something must pass through three points to be completed, it is logical that if God has never loved the third generation, His grandsons and granddaughters, He cannot complete His love.

The position where the elements of the four-position foundation become one is the receiving position, the position of grandson and granddaughter. A living body cannot bear a seed without receiving horizontal and vertical love. The vertical connection with eternal life gives the seed its historical significance.

What is the most necessary requirement for giving birth? It is the parents' vertical love. The relationship between grandfather, father and son form the three stages which connect past, present and future. If there is no such axis for three stages to be unified within the family, there is no central point for unifying left and right or front and back.

The family as God's dwelling

So what is God's ideal for the family? It is the place where grandparents and parents are united centering on True Love and the place where parents and their children become one. Adam and Eve were to grow and become husband and wife, relating to each other as left and right. Then they were to expand by having children and developing the relationship of front and back. When a couple is united front and back and vertically and horizontally, they are an ideal family where God can dwell.

How can God dwell in your family? Where is the central line that establishes six unified positions in the family? Within God Himself are grandparents, parents, siblings and children. God has grown from being a brother and sister to being a husband and wife, and parents.

When Adam and Eve grew into adulthood, they needed an object partner, a love partner. Oneness in love is achieved by combining concave and convex. For a man and woman to combine concave and convex means to be one. Without combining concave and convex, man and woman cannot find love or produce a lineage connected with history. When concave and convex are combined, the love of man and woman is completed. Man and woman as individuals cannot accomplish true love, even though they know what it is; therefore, they look for an eternal love.

God is absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal. Concave and convex have to be absolutely united in a unique and eternal bond. Eternal love starts from the joining of sexual organs. Concave and convex combine to complete love, connect with the blood lineage, and create life.

Without a place where concave and convex can be combined, people are ignorant about love and life. The combination of concave and convex forms the base for forming a perfect individual, a family, a nation, an ideal world, and the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. An eternal tradition linked to history starts from there. Parents and grandparents should be completely united in upholding this ideal.

Please do not think that it is strange that I speak a great deal about the sexual organ. When you completely understand about the sexual organ, you know about perfect love, the complete life, the complete blood lineage, the perfect family, the perfect nation, the perfect kingdom of God, and the perfect God.

The problem is how to control your sexual organ. Concave exists because of convex, while convex exists because of concave. Therefore, the woman's concave part belongs to the man's convex part, while the man's convex belongs to the woman's concave part. You are not the owner of your sexual organ; you are just the manager.

How to find fulfillment

These concave and convex parts were created to find love and fit together in love. Since they are related to love, if concave and convex are combined in search of love, they can seize God's love. When they join as subject and object in the lower position, the invisible God as the higher subject unites with them centering on love.

Men and women wish for absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal partners. On finding love, the husband and wife become one and seek God's love. Man and woman can completely unite through joining their sexual organs. This place where concave and convex are combined needs to be completely and vertically united with God, who is the subject of love. Without this unity with each other and with God, man and woman are not whole. If concave and convex are not combined, the existence of man and woman has no value and their lineage will disappear.

Once a true man and a true woman are fulfilled as individuals and as a couple, what should they do next? Marriage means to seize God, who is the subject of love, through loving Him. Men as well as women absolutely need love. They need absolute love. In the highest ideal of love, man and woman become eternally, unchangeably, uniquely and absolutely united centering on absolute love. When they get married as subject and object, they form an absolute, unique and unchangeable relationship through these attributes of God. There is no second absolute and no second uniqueness in their marriage. Unique means one. Unchangeability does not mean that two elements vary according to circumstances; it is a result of being absolutely one.

When Adam and Eve shake hands, theirs is a unique, unchangeable and eternal handshake. Nobody knew that love is based on these preconditions. In the Unification Church, those who get Blessed not only meet their object partner but also exchange an absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal handshake and kiss. Every hug and interaction between such a couple becomes eternal, absolute, unique and unchangeable.

In each of the 360 degrees, Adam is the eternal subject partner of Eve and Eve is the eternal object partner of Adam. They are in a 100 percent perfect relationship of subject and object. If another subject tries to unite with Eve before Adam and Eve are absolutely one, Adam will strongly repel it. Therefore, to Eve, Adam is an absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal husband and to Adam, Eve is an absolute, unchangeable and eternal wife.

If their marriage becomes absolutely united with God, they complete their purpose of creation. This is how God, Adam, Eve, their children, blood lineage, the eternal nation and the eternal Kingdom of God are completed. This is how the eternal Kingdom of God becomes ours.

The beginning point of kingship

When Adam and Eve become parents and then grandparents, the elder sonship and parentship are completed and kingship starts. Thus True Parents are the foundation for the True King.

Adam's descendants form many families, and his lineage becomes a tribe, a nation, and the world. This means that Adam's seed contains all the families, tribes and nations. It contains the world, the Kingdom of Heaven and even God's whole ideal for the creation. Moreover, you should know that because Adam's family had the potential to be substantially united with God through love, it represented Heaven and Earth.

Adam is not only the king of the family, but also the king of the tribe. Moreover, as God becomes the king of the tribe, the nation, the world, and the cosmos, He becomes parents and the owner of this expanded world. If Adam's descendants prosper, they will expand into a family, tribe, nation, and world centering on the family. In other words, Adam is the core of the outward expansion of the world.

Even though by the ten thousandth generation Adam's family is numerous, the seed of your united family has the same value as Adam's family seed. In his position as family-level king, the father has the same value as the national-level king and the world-level king and even the heavenly king. Therefore, we conclude that all families have to advance and occupy the royal palace of the heavenly kingdom. If Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters, their younger children should marry the sons and daughters of their eldest son. In this way, the ideal of kingship expands to the clan and tribal levels.

Family etiquette

Now you know how much difference there is between God's ideal family and today's fallen world. You women who live in South America, do you absolutely need your husband? (We need them.) Do you absolutely need them? (Yes!) You have only one husband, not two. Is he unique? (Yes!) Unchangeable? (Yes!) Eternal? (Yes!) Once you have made the promise of marriage, it is absolute. You should know that other people cannot interfere with the relationship between husband and wife.

I heard that Brazil has the second highest number of AIDS patients in the world. Phew! Will this country be destroyed or will it develop and advance? Where does a nation start to perish? It starts from the individual and the family. If the family is destroyed, the society and the nation perish. The fundamental problem comes from the family.

Because Adam's family was destroyed and his sons and daughters were overturned, the whole world was destroyed. In the same way, today's world has lost absolute love, and the foundation of God's eternal, unchangeable ideal family cannot help being destroyed like Adam's family.

You women should absolutely praise your husband! When all women in South America answer, "Sim" (yes), then all created things of South America will say, "That's right." Women should bow to their husband. (Applause.) Which husband do you want to see: one who is welcomed by his wife with a full bow, or one who cannot be trusted and who falls into free sex? Your cells are trembling all over. Love is not to be used freely as you wish. It is heavenly law that the woman's love door should be opened with the key of her real and true husband. Moreover, before you open your love door you should be an absolute woman.

Men, suppose that after you are blessed, the most beautiful woman happens to stand beside you. Do your eyes and five sensory organs turn to her? Do your hands try to hold her hand or body? There are a lot of beautiful women in the world. Don't try to get away from beauty; instead, you should train yourself so that your mind and body can ignore her attraction and you desire to touch your wife instead.

Women, suppose that after you are blessed, you happen to meet a handsome man on the street. Is your mind attracted to him? If so, you are a slut!

Like God, love is absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal, and God has been looking for men and women with such qualities. However, there is not any house on earth in which God can dwell because the family standard was not established. There is no house in which God as the subject of sung sang and hyung sang could settle down and find the ideal woman as the object of His love.

The palace of life and love

Your sexual organ is an original palace of life and love. You should prepare palace sites extending in all 360 degrees from the true and pure original palace. That should be the palace where God can always dwell, centering on your house, and coming and going to your whole clan.

What should be like that palace? My sexual organ is the original palace of love. Please repeat after me. (My sexual organ is the original palace of love.) My sexual organ is the original palace of my blood lineage. (My sexual organ is the original palace of my blood lineage.) Only when it becomes like that, can it be the palace where God can dwell.

Because God is the King of kings and it is God who has to dwell in the palace, in order to attend God, your sexual organ should be the original palace of life, blood lineage and consciousness. Amen! Please say Amen. (Amen) What is the meaning of amen? It means that we wish that the word will be done.

Your sexual organ is absolute. You have an absolute part, the palace of your sexual organ. Although it may not look that special, if the sexual organ is used wrongly, the world, history, family and everything is destroyed. Man's sexual organ is made to be erect vertically. Vertical! Man should remain faithful to his cause rather than to woman. Because Eve did not keep her chastity, she fell and seduced Adam. This is the very problem. You have to deny this.

Then what is marriage? Through marriage, a man and a woman, who are each half, combine their sexual organs and become completed. A man becomes perfect through a woman centering on love, and he makes a woman complete. Through true love, they become complete and fulfill the unity of love. Through the joining of their sexual organs, man's blood and woman's blood united in one melting pot. From that place sons and daughters are born. You should know that that place is more precious than children, spouse or God.

Because I talk like this, I seem to be a heretic! What is that place? It is more valuable than children, spouse and parents. Without that place, even parents, spouse and children are worthless. Because it is so valuable, you should tightly lock the door of your sexual organ so that nobody can see it. It is like a valuable treasure which you should preserve throughout your life. There are only two keys to the door: the wife keeps her husband's key, and the husband keeps his wife's key.

Are you women of South America going to take the key of only one man? Free sex is when you take ten or 100 keys! An opened door through which everybody comes and goes incessantly is a door that has no lord. To act like a slut is to ruin your house of love.

The value of the Blessing

In order to remove these evils, True Parents come to Earth and celebrate a Blessing. The Blessing is the most valuable thing. The Blessed family cannot be exchanged for anything because it has a limitless, unique and eternal value.

Centering on the absolute, unique, unchangeable and eternal God, Adam's family has objective value before the subjective God. However, since everybody has a sexual organ and love is practiced through this organ, the sexual organ enables man to share his joy and sorrow together with God centering on love.

As I mentioned before, because the value of each seed is equal, regardless of whether 1,000 or 10,000 years has passed, in order for ideal families to be established, a family with the same seed as Adam's family should be made. When such a seed is found in a good father and mother, then their ancestors and even God let them match their seed with the origin. As long as they connected through the center, each of those seeds has the same value as the seed of Adam's family, even though they lie in different directions. This is the family that God wants to form.

Restoration through indemnity

Because of the fall, the providence of salvation was begun, and the providence of salvation is the providence of restoration. Nothing can be restored without paying indemnity; thus, the providence of restoration is the restoration of indemnity.

I have come to remove all historical indemnity. Even though you have met me, you also have to remove the contents of this indemnity. In order to advance, you have to remove all kinds of indemnity in your ancestry. Indemnity is removed through sacrifice.

The Unificationists of South America do not know restoration through indemnity. If you have a debt, you have to pay it. If the parents or ancestors have a debt, the descendants have to pay it. Do you know what I mean? This is restoration through indemnity.

If you fulfill restoration through indemnity as a family and as a nation, I do not need to go through such hard times. Because you don't know the way of indemnity, I have taken care of the indemnity on all eight stages from the individual level to God. Because True Parents have made the expressway of restoration through indemnity by connecting ladders of the individual, family, tribe, nation, and world, you have to follow this pattern in order to advance. Those who dislike going up the ladders of eight stages from the individual level to God and follow the Unification Church without removing indemnity will fall into hell. Even in the spirit world, there are still ladders for advancing.

True Parents are making a bridge to remove all the ladders of the eight stages, and we are climbing them for your sake. Since this is so, are you going to disobey my direction? If you try to do as you like, you will be destroyed. I will expel such a person.

The end of historical indemnity

Where are we now in the providential time line? On November 1, 1996, in Uruguay, I declared the settlement of the Family Federation for World Peace and the end of indemnity. Nothing more remains to be indemnified. After receiving persecution for 50 years, I have removed every bridge from the individual to the worldwide level and have brought it to the higher level.

The Unification Church was established on a level plane. Therefore, wherever I go, everyone, whether old or young, man or woman, should follow me, saying "Father! Father!" People should not follow me out of dislike. Instead, they should follow me with joy and a smile.

I have been persecuted my whole life. Nobody knows the story behind that persecution. I developed God's providence while receiving persecution from the worst men in the fallen world. Individuals, families, nations, and the world have opposed me, kicking and stepping on me and treating me as an enemy. Because all persecution has passed through these stages over 40 years, and the family of True Parents has been drawn up to the worldwide level; everything is leveled out and there is no more need for ladders. All the historical indemnity from Adam until now has been removed, and you should know that the foundation of hope for this world which God was expecting to be formed in Adam's family has emerged again on the worldwide level.

Who is Adam? Adam is the eldest son of the elder sons. Adam became the eldest parent after growing up as the eldest son. Based on being the royal son he became the royal parent. Finally, Adam is the king of kings. I am the son who gained the victory of eldership before all humankind as the worldwide Adam. In God's thinking, there is only one son, not two. There is absolutely one son.

Who is the True Father? He is the father of fathers, the royal father. There is only one set of True Parents, not two. Adam was the elder king of kings and True Parents are the coming king of kings.

To be a representative eldest son, True Parents should digest the democratic world and the communist world. I destroyed the communist world with the thought of victory over communism. Because I saved America which had been destined to destruction, I am the eldest son before God. Therefore, the realm of elder sonship was established.

The left wing and the right wing represent Cain and Abel in Adam's family. The right-wing was all Abel-type people and the left-wing was all Cain-type before Jesus. However, due to Jesus' failure in fulfilling the mission of True Parents, the right-side robber and the left-side robber became right-wing and left-wing respectively. This expanded to the worldwide level, and True Parents came to take the responsibility to lead the two realms.

The bride culture

The world that Jesus did not unify at the national level has to unite and receive a bride on the victorious foundation of establishing the elder sonship. Christianity is the bride religion.

Then where does the worldwide elder sonship go? To the realm of the worldwide Eve nation. The son establishes kingship after receiving a bride. Although Christianity is the bride culture, it is divided because of fighting between Cain and Abel. That is why True Mother has not fulfilled her responsibility yet. Even God cannot go to Christianity when they are fighting one another. Satan's side also claims dominion over them. Our task is to connect the victorious foundation of North America, where most people are Christians, to South America and people of a lower culture and unite them. I cannot go back without establishing the foundation to receive True Parents in the Christian realm of a lower culture. Following that, Europe should be united centering on the unity of South America and North America. Then Judaism, Christianity and Islam should be united

The terminal of the way of world restoration is the position of parents centering on the brothers who were divided into left and right in Adam's family. The terminal of the way of world restoration goes beyond the family-level fight between the children of Rachel and Leah in Jacob's family and beyond the national-level struggle in Zechariah's family and Jesus' family.

Because the right side is the right-wing and the left side is the left-wing in Satan's fallen world, you have to go to the right side to turn the world around and restore it. Who goes first in the returning process? Because Cain goes first and Abel follows him, Abel is always hit, and Satan persecutes him until the Last Days. In the Last Days as Christianity in the bride position becomes united, England as Eve, America as Abel, and France as Cain will be united centering on the position of Eve. These nations represent the Cain and Abel who were lost in Adam's family.

Christianity had lost Jesus' body, and in spite of getting spiritual salvation, Christianity suffered attack in order to find the body. Thus, World War II was caused by the attack of three nations on Satan's side (Japan, German and Italy) on England, America and France. Heavenly fortune allowed the world the opportunity to unite centering on Christian culture and receive the Lord of the Second Advent in the position of the united mind and body of Jesus. If the second Messiah had that foundation of unity, the Unification Church would not have suffered, the democratic world would not have collapsed, and humankind would not have been damaged by communism.

If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.

After World War II, the Christian bride culture did not receive the True Father's ideal of true love, which is the bridegroom culture. Thus, the Lord of the Second Advent was expelled to the wilderness where there was no foundation. Out of the wilderness, God and I had to rebuild the Christian bride culture that had been prepared for 4000 years. That is why the suffering course took 40 years.

God lost the providential foundation of England, America and France due to their failure. God cannot reuse what has failed, and they could be restored only through the second generation. I reestablished the realm of Eve, Archangel and Abel, choosing Japan as the Eve nation, America as the Abel nation, and Germany as the Archangel nation. The process of establishing the realm of bride nations has been miserable and tragic.

The fact that Korea in the position of Israel has opposed me on the national level for 20 years has to be restored. Because Korea and America represent the Old Testament age and the New Testament age respectively, I prepared for 20 years to restore the Christian bride culture centering on America, which is in the position of the second Israel. Since America, Japan and Germany did not receive me at the worldwide level, they became enemy nations in opposition to me.

True Mother's role

However, because the Protestant culture is in the position of the subject to lead the Christian culture to receive the Lord of Second Advent, Eve has the responsibility to save those enemy nations so that they can receive the Lord of the Second Advent. Therefore, I spent 20 years in America preparing the way to restore heavenly tradition by uniting enemy nations such as America and Japan, Japan and Germany, and Japan and Korea. During those 20 years, there was unimaginable suffering.

America, Japan and Germany have opposed me to the end. Now True Mother stands as the bride embracing Christianity and uniting these nations. Until 1992, I was alone. True Mother could not stand beside me. She could not appear until the circumstances were created to enable Catholicism and Protestantism to unite as Cain and Abel. Therefore, the Women's Federation for World Peace was established in 1992, centering on True Mother, and the movement to liberate women was proclaimed. The time of women was opened.

This happened 40 years after 1952. The bride's realm should have been completed by 1952, seven years after 1945, but because it failed it took another 40 years, from 1952 to 1992, to restore that lost foundation. After passing over that period of suffering, True Mother could emerge.

One reason why the realm of Christian culture could not receive the Lord of the Second Advent is because it was said that Jesus would come to earth on the clouds. That prediction came about because John the Baptist's failure should be indemnified when the Lord of the Second Advent comes to earth with a substantial physical body and passes through the indemnity course.

Restoring post-war failures

If the Allied nations had united with me after World War II, Mother and the True Children would not exist today. They are sons and daughters who were not supposed to be. If Korea had unified centering on Christian culture, without any persecution, the Moon clan and the Choi clan would have been the center, establishing the position of parents starting from sons and daughters. A peaceful world centered on one true family and one blood lineage would have been realized. However, I lost every foundation because of Christianity's failure.

Everybody came to Satan's side. I was alone. I went through sorrow and suffering not just because the family of Adam and Eve was lost but because I lost the whole foundation that had been prepared from before the creation. The sorrow and suffering could not be recovered by wailing.

Originally, blessings like those that are taking place now should have happened in the 1950's. The purpose of the International Wedding Ceremony of the Unification Church is to establish a heavenly nation based on blessed families. Thus, 14 years before, under the opposition of Christianity, Korean spiritual groups having the name of bride had made organizations knowing that the Lord of the Second Advent would come to earth, and they prepared to receive the Messiah. I have to indemnify all those conditions.

What did I do for 40 years? The realm of conflict between Cain and Abel was mobilized centering on my generation, and the dominion of Cain over the individual, family, tribe, nation, the world and the universe has been controlled by one person for 40 years. Do you know what I mean? I was alone! After my Holy Wedding in 1960, I restored the standard of national messiah in 14 years, something which Jesus had not fulfilled.

Based on the victorious foundation of those 14 years, I moved to America with True Mother to complete the bride realm of the Old Testament and of the New Testament, centering on the worldwide messiah. For the past 21 years, True Parents have fought to complete the bride's realm. The whole world was mobilized to kill me, because if the only Lord of the world is killed, the world will be Satan's.

Raising up True Mother

When the Holy Wedding was held, Mother was 17 years old and I was 40. Why did I marry such a young virgin of 17? Eve fell at the age of 16. Mother's course was to obey me absolutely. True Mother does not know the way of restoration.

The way of True Father is to follow the way of the Divine Principle. Who is True Father to True Mother? Because three generations of grandfather, father and brother were lost due to the fall, Mother has to be able to embrace three generations. Historically, Eve killed three husbands: Eve expelled Adam, killed Jesus and expelled the Lord of the Second Advent to the wilderness for 40 years. Therefore, the bride of the Messiah came from a lineage where for three generations there was only one daughter.

Because the Lord of the Second Advent was coming to Korea, the mission of women spanned three generations and 40 years, in preparation for the bride to meet the Lord of the Second Coming. These three women were Sung Do Kim (Jung, Soo Won's grandmother), Ho Bin Ho, and then True Mother. Those groups knew that the Lord of the Second Advent would come as a man. However, they didn't know who the Lord of the Second Advent was because nobody went to teach them. I met all those spiritual groups and had a spiritual relationship with them. However, they did not recognize me; they betrayed me, just like John the Baptist. Because God's side is hit first and then takes from Satan's side, I was opposed by those groups, but then inherited all their foundation.

Under the rule of Japanese imperialism before the liberation of Korea, I was a leader of the underground movement centering on Christianity. Based on that indemnity condition, I chose True Mother. Even though I blessed Mother, Mother could not be raised in those circumstances. She should have been a representative bride. So what is God's blessing? Because the ideal of the bride is taught to every religious body and order in Christian culture, bride candidates of all ages from 12 to 80 emerged as representatives of their groups before the Lord to come.

Thus, many women received the revelation that they were the bride of the Messiah and believed it absolutely. Those women had sleepless nights because they wanted to meet such a man as me. In the providence of restoration, I am the only qualified man.

What kind of bride should be the mother of the universe and True Mother: a virgin or a grandmother? She should be a virgin. Why? Because she should bring the harvest by receiving the bridegroom's seed.

Because the fallen Eve attracted Adam and made him fall, at the time of restoration does the Lord listen to Eve or does Eve listen to the Lord? The bride has to follow the Lord absolutely. Who chooses the bride? The bridegroom. The bride had to be restored at the age of 17, because Eve fell at the age of 16. Therefore, it is the standard of Divine Principle that a virgin younger than 20 years old has to become the bride.

If I am such a person, are you going to obey absolutely? It took 14 years to choose True Mother. Although the Holy Blessing took place, I could not restore Mother immediately because of jealousy and envy. Therefore, Mother was protected centering on Daemo Nim (great mother). Daemo Nim was accused and persecuted because women thought that she had deprived them of their fortune and had given it to her young daughter. True Mother lived separately from me for three years.

Daemo Nim was so great that she received a revelation of my daily schedule from the spiritual world and talked to True Mother every day. True Mother's greatness was in obeying my direction absolutely. During the three years of separation, every grandmother, old woman and middle aged woman opposed Mother out of jealousy. However, owing to the support of the women of the second generation, True Mother could be liberated and live with me in three and a half years.

Women who received a revelation that their daughters would be the bride came into Mother's room and put their trinkets in the room, complaining that this room was theirs. There was all kinds of jealousy at that time. True Mother had to overcome all those things. Even though I had never given them any sign of love, these women hated True Mother without having any special reason. In the midst of such a situation, the Blessed couples formed a fence to protect True Mother. Through this process, those who felt they deserved some privilege could be put in order. The way of True Mother was also expanded through the international Blessed couples.

Mother can stand at my side

By passing through the course of restoration of the individual, family, tribe, nation, country and the world until April of 1992, and proclaiming the liberation of the world centering on WFWP, True Mother was able to stand beside me.

Since coming to America, True Mother passed over the standard of the restored realm of Eve and within 20 years she could stand in a position to surpass America. Because every delegation of the bride realm is in America, True Mother addressed the American Congress and then the United Nations.

After Mother spoke at the United Nations, Parents' Day was officially established. The worldwide Christian culture became the base on which True Parents could settle down, centering on the foundation of bride. Thus, True Mother restored the lost foundation of Christianity.

The UN is like the palace of the liberal world. Thus, it should be occupied to make all 185 countries commemorate Parents Day. Now is the time to unify the kingship of the world.

Such victorious supremacy should be engrafted into Japan. This victorious supremacy also has to be engrafted into Korea.

The settlement of the family

True Mother began her lecture tour of the world, proclaiming the liberation of woman and announcing True Parents and the Completed Testament Age. Then came the settlement of True Parents and the Completed Testament Age. This was to inherit the realm of the victorious foundation of True Parents. In order for the world family to be able to settle based on the family settlement of True Parents, True Parents are teaching the world the idea of family settlement. Through this teaching came the time of international blessing.

Following the appearance of True Mother, there was a 30,000 couple international Blessing ceremony. This was the blessing of the formation stage of the worldwide level, because for the first time True Parents could conduct the Blessing on an equal level. The 360,000 international Blessing is the growth stage, and the 3.6 million international Blessing is the perfection stage. The 30,000 couple Blessing opened the way for all religions and all nations to receive the Blessing. At the 3.6 million couple Blessing, even people who do not believe can receive the Blessing on the same level.

The biggest problem of the world is the breakdown of the family and juvenile delinquency. Children follow the way of their parents. The family at the end of the world commits the same sin as Adam's family. Because God could not interfere in the fall of Adam's family, no economic, political, ideological or religious organization has been able to stop the decline of the family or end juvenile delinquency. Because false love, false life and false blood lineage were produced due to the fall, True Parents have returned to organize Adam's family and restore everything centering on true love and life. We are removing what is false according to the principle of restoration through indemnity. We are uniting the bride's realm centering on the Christian Federation for World Peace and turning it back to follow the direction of Abel.

The family-level elder sonship, parentship and kingship centered on True Parents have to be connected to the worldwide level. Thus, by removing false lineage and connecting to the Blessed family, Adam's family, Jesus, the Lord of the Second Advent, and all humankind will be completed. Therefore, the time has come for all humankind to receive the Blessing and enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The ultimate religious movement is to establish the Kingdom of Heaven by means of the Blessing.

Be proud of True Parents

This is a very important year. What is this year's motto? (Let Us Be Proud of True Parents and Love True Parents by Accomplishing the 3.6 Million Couples Blessing.) To fulfill this motto, you should love and be proud of God centering on True Parents. I love God and am proud of God. Thus, to love True Parents and be proud of True Parents is love God and be proud of God. It is a heavenly tradition.

If I am the Messiah of the world, then national messiahship is the only way to be able to be proud of True Parents. To be proud of True Parents as a national messiah, you need tribal messiahship. To be proud of True Parents as a tribal messiah in front of your descendants and before ancestors, you need family messiahship. This is the concept of the messiah and the way of True Parents.

What is the Messiah? It is True Parents. The family should be proud of their parents centering on God, following the tradition of the messiah. Because such love and pride in the family is in accordance with that love and pride in Heaven and on Earth, such a family can live in the realm of liberation as a family of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Because the national messiah receives the Blessing after fulfilling the family and tribal messiahship that Jesus had desired, the national messiah replaces the realm of Israel with the goal of unifying the whole Roman empire without Satan's accusation. The national messiahs who were sent to 185 nations are in the position to unify the Holy Roman Empire.

The Messiah and True Parents come to the world based on the family. Based on the messianic foundation that I have made, True Parents achieved the victorious family in the place of Jesus and can connect to the kingship of the world in the Roman Empire. You have to know that for certain.

Liberate Jesus' heart

Jesus' heart has to be liberated, and his will has to be accomplished. Jesus lost the whole foundation of family and nation that could control the Roman Empire. Jesus failed because Zechariah's family was not united with him. Thus, Jesus' will could not be accomplished. Because there is no way to progress without resolving Jesus' broken heart, we have to reorganize and to make a bridge to go forward.

Centering on Paraguay, 33 people have been sent all over the country, representing the 33 years of Jesus' life. Jesus lived a solitary life because he was rejected by his brothers, his father, his church and his nation. His short life must have been miserable and solitary. Thus, those 33 people represent each year of Jesus' life, and allow him to have a subject each year.

True Mother has to connect 16 nations in order to liberate Jesus' heart that had not controlled a nation; this will establish the foundation of Israel, centering on 33 people and John the Baptist's family. And then, based on those 16 nations and the associations that include congressmen and those 33 people in each nation, True Mother has to expand this foundation to Korea by way of America. Because Jesus did not find the realm of national Eve centered on six government departments, he failed to hold the Blessing Ceremony centered on 120 followers.

As tribal and national messiahs bless what Jesus could not bless on the national level, I come to bring the blessing on the worldwide level, based on the foundation of fulfilling what Jesus failed to do.

If the members of each national messiah group establish 120 Blessed couples on the national level and make 160 or 180 Blessed couples in the worldwide period of the Lord of the Second Advent, then the mission of national messiah will be finished. The Adam nation and the Eve nation will be restored if 120 people of the Eve nation each bring 180 Blessed couples; then they will be completely liberated. If the worldwide realm of liberation is accomplished, then messiah groups will also come into the realm of liberation. As national barriers are removed, the Lord of the Second Advent and messiah groups can go all over the world. The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth begins with the establishment of the realm of God's liberation.

This year, the most important thing is to accomplish the 3.6 million couples Blessing. I love God and am proud of God. I have invested all my heart, mind and energy into indemnifying every historical wrongdoing. On that foundation the Family Federation for World Peace was established and the ceremony was held to proclaim the end of indemnity. All through the world people will come to think of the Blessed family of Unification Church as the ideal family.

3.6 million couples Blessing

Equalization begins with the unification of God and True Parents and the unification between True Parents and you. This occurred at the moment of change from 1996 to 1997. Even a few minutes before the end of last year, I had removed indemnity. Because all indemnity was removed from the restoration of indemnity, from now on you need to be proud of True Parents rather than just True Father. If you are doing more than being proud of and loving God, it will be nothing to accomplish the 3.6 million couples Blessing.

Therefore our motto is, "Let Us Be Proud of True Parents and Love True Parents by Accomplishing the 3.6 Million Couples Blessing." With the 3.6 million couples Blessing will come the new realm of liberation. If all Blessed families, including the 3.6 million couples, start to talk about the Blessing there will be nobody who does not know of the Blessing.

Who made the wall of persecution? It is the swindlers of the press and political circles. I established the newspaper of righteousness. However, the press calls the Washington Times a conservative newspaper without my permission. Such propaganda makes the Washington Post the liberal newspaper. A liberal paper like New York Times is attempting some reforms because of the Washington Times.

Newspapers should stress family protection and oppose prostitution. This should be the main direction. They should oppose whatever prevents people from fulfilling their purpose. I will respond in opposition to it strongly, no matter what kind of thing it is.

Each of you should reach out to 33 people who can lead at least ten others. In other words, 33 people should lead 330, 330 people should lead 3300, 3300 people should lead 33000, etc. If this continues seven times, the total will be 33,000,000. Then, every thing will be completed. Everybody has relationships with at least ten people, including friends, parents, brothers and sisters. Therefore, if we can connect people in series, the world will be restored automatically.

If the national messiahs in 185 nations bless 185 couples, the Japanese women should bring 150 couples, and other countries 120 couples. If this blessing is carried on through two generations it will reach 480,000,000 couples. Then, the restoration of the world will be finished. If 3.6 million couples are blessed this year, the 36 million couples Blessing will be accomplished easily. Our future goal will be 360 million couples. If such a goal is fulfilled, the Blessing Ceremony should be held all over the world. Then, the heavenly nation will be established and people will be interested in the national registry.

Today, because national messiahs were especially invited to attend this meeting, I am emphasizing 33 people. Hold lectures centering on them for other important figures and connect them to our organizations. The Women's Federation for World Peace has to work centering on the Youth Federation for World Peace, which is the Cain-type association, and the Student Federation for World Peace, which is the Abel-type association. If women and young people join the Family Federation for World Peace, the men will automatically follow their wives and children because they are in the position of archangel. Western countries will follow this formula.

If a national workshop is accomplished, the nation will be restored completely to God's side.

As the 3.6 million couples Blessing approaches, world leaders will begin paying attention to me and want to meet me. The motto of our exhibition is the equalization of technology and most countries have a deep interest in inheriting technology.

If a national workshop is held centering on the cabinet members, the nation will be restored. After True Parents' Birthday this March, we will focus on seeing which country in Latin America will be the first to hold such a workshop. The national messiah groups have to accomplish this. Do you understand? Those who are confident that they can fulfill that mission, raise your hands and say mansei! (Mansei!) May God bless each of you.