# Category: Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## THE DAY OF THE VICTORY OF HEAVEN

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### October 4, 1985
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

The people gathered together here this morning are members of the worldwide Unification Church. The word “unification” in English doesn’t convey the full meaning. The Chinese characters for unification, pronounced Tong Il in Korean, convey a meaning that includes education leading toward a unified goal. Kyo he means church and that is comprised of two Chinese characters. He means meeting or congregation and Kyo means teaching or education. Thus the literal meaning is a congregational meeting for education. The education of what? Teaching the religious truth.

What is religion? In Korean we call it Chung Kyo and that is again comprised of two Chinese characters. Chung means the backbone or the beam, so religion is the beam teaching, or the teaching of central truth. Therefore, when we say Tong Il Kyohoi, or Unification Church, within that name is contained all the implications of what we stand for: highest and deepest teaching for the purpose of unifying toward one goal. That is the literal meaning of the Unification Church.

Once you understand the full meaning of the Unification Church, you know that it is bringing the central truth of all religions. Furthermore, Tong Il Kyohoi truly means the meeting between God and people-the congregation. Who is at the center of the congregation-the members of the Unification Church or God? It is God. Therefore, wherever we go, the center of our activities and meetings is God.

In the traditional Christian churches, who is the center- God or Jesus? Many cannot answer that question; they are not sure about it. But we know that Jesus did not come to earth by his own will; he was sent here by God. Always there is a subject and object relationship; that is how everything is manifested.

What is the purpose of your life? Now that you have learned the meaning of the Unification Church, how do you answer that question?

Is there any individual who is perfected in the eyes of God? Are there any societies or tribes that are perfected? What about nations? The world? Since nothing is perfected, everything has to be reanalyzed. Even among all the saints in history, can we see any who were truly perfected according to the Unification Church’s concept of perfection? That is a big question. Do you mean that God has been working throughout human history, but there is not even one individual, much less one family, one society or nation that is perfected according to the will of God? That is a big problem, then.

Even the pope, the head of the hundreds of millions of Roman Catholics, is not perfected according to the viewpoint of God and the Unification Church and Reverend Moon.

When God created human beings, He created not only men but also women. Did He create woman simply to give man a friend. to keep him from being lonely? Or was Eve meant to be more than just a friend to Adam? No matter who, even the celibate pope, has to answer, “God created man and woman so that they could become a pair, get married and form a family through which they could multiply and expand their love”

Why were men and women born? To be educated in the purpose of life; to marry, or to accomplish unification; and then were to go forward into a fulfilling life. This is the path of perfection.

No matter how powerful a king of some nation may be, if he is all by himself in the palace, he is a miserable man. He’s got to have a queen; without a queen, he cannot even think of having a family. All people were meant to be educated about the purpose of life, to grow up centered upon God and to be unified in marriage, leading to a fulfilling life. For what ultimate purpose? The ultimate goal is joy. God will be joyful, creation will be joyful, spirit world will be joyful; everything will be joyful. But the word “joyful” will never tee fulfilled unless man and woman come together in unified and harmonious give and take.

What is God’s purpose? What is Satan’s goal? God is trying to create a joyful world and Satan is trying to create a sad and miserable world. What is shameful or sad, according to God’s ideal? In a world in which men and women are living together in harmony, someone all by himself is a sad sight to see. Can a man say, “I’m totally self-suffcient. I don’t need anybody else”? Is that a joyful situation? He may figure that he can cook his own meals and eat them all by himself, but God does not pay attention to that kind of “society” God is interested in the society of give and take on the individual, family, society, national and worldwide levels.

I feel as though I have been on a journey for the past year and, now that I have come back, I see that all of you have become spotted with dirt; so now I want to clean you off.

The meaning of joyful does not include the individual by himself Joy means harmony and harmony means give and take; that requires more than one party. Among all the actions of people, the most beautiful is the action of true love.

If you were smiling and talking all by yourself in a room, other people would think you were crazy. There must be a subject and object relationship for joy to exist. God is trying to create a totally joyful world, while Satan wants to destroy joy and create the opposite kind of world. When these two opposing elements come into their most heated confrontation, that is what we call the end of the world. Satan would like to destroy the world in one final strike.

The joyful world begins with a man and woman, but it must spread outward to the surrounding people. There must be children and grandchildren, as well as an entire society, relating in joy. Some people might ask, “Why do we need children; why do we need grandchildren?” It is to create the mainstream of joy connected to the past, present and future. Only in the family can we find the past, present and future flowing together-in the grandparents, the parents, the children and grandchildren. That formula cannot be changed by the passage of time; it will never change.

When we talk about something ideal, we do not mean just one dimension, like a flat sheet of paper, but in all directions, like a globe. The ideal, wholesome joy can only be found in the system of the family. God can ask Adam and Eve, “What do you have to show me that you are very proud of?” They can answer, “Family joy” That is wholesome, total joy; it includes front and back, left and right and up and down. Joy emanates in every direction. The secret, as well as the formula, for joy is centered on the family which God is trying to install. Satan knows this truth, too; therefore, he is trying to destroy the family and create misery.

What kind of people are gathered here? You are Moonies, mostly American Moonies, while I am a Korean Moonie. Most American people want to say, “We are first-class people of the number one country in the world” But I am asking if American pride is justified. Let’s look at the families of America. Do the young people love and take care of the older people, the so-called senior citizens? The American people have failed that first test. I have been rejected, in a way, by the American people because I have been speaking honestly. But the universal law remains the same, whether people listen to me or not.

You women tell me, are American families passing or failing, according to the definition of the joyful family which I have been speaking of? Satan knew God’s purposes well, so he determined to destroy the true family formula all over the world. Satan has especially targeted the American family; you must know that clearly. Many American young people are saying, “I don’t need a spouse; I don’t need to have children” Is that a joyful society? Who guides this kind of life style? It is none other than Satan. Satan’s AIDS attacks homosexuals.

American society, the so-called leader of the world, is becoming a destructive satanic weapon, from God’s point of view. This society which virtually rejects old people and whose young people don’t want to take responsibility for their marriages or their children is simply becoming Satan’s weapon. But in order to fight this weapon, a new weapon has been created by God-the Unification Church. Satan has laid his traps throughout America, while those who are uncovering them and shattering them to pieces are the members of the Unification Church and Reverend Moon. That is what the Unification Church revolution is about.

God is watching what the Unification Church is really doing. Are the members becoming victims of Satan’s traps or are they victorious over them? God is watching to see whether Unification Church members will be swallowed or will swallow those traps, digest them and create a new society.

America has been going in the wrong direction and that is why Reverend Moon came and attacked that satanic tradition. I am challenging and struggling not for my own sake but for the sake of humanity and the ultimate fulfillment of God’s goal. America has become an influence of corruption to the rest of the world and I came to stop that.

In so many places throughout this country, lonely old grandparents are living all by themselves, pale and miserable, with nothing to smile about. Men and women are going their different directions, not even meeting each other. Children are on their own, running around all by themselves. This is the saddest situation, these sad families of America.

This is shameful in the sight of nature, too. The male and female birds sing to one another in love; even the insects make the music of love. All those creatures were meant to be appreciated by people; we were supposed to be inspired by the reflection of ourselves through the beauty of creation. The creatures sing with joy just as men and women are supposed to sing in joy, centering upon God’s true love. Do you want the rest of the world to follow the American way of life? That will only lead to disaster and that is why we are trying to revolutionize this country.

The means by which we will do this are simple: the law of restoration by indemnity. America will be restored through indemnity. Therefore the young white people should love an elderly black couple as their own grandparents. Extremes should come together and if the different elements can really overcome and be joyful under those circumstances, America’s problems will be solved. Since this is what God wants, Reverend Moon came to America to accomplish it. Many people have thought that Reverend Moon came to destroy America, but I am doing the opposite. We are working to see God’s will being done in America; that is salvation.

What is your citizenship? Would you rather be a United States citizen or a Heavenly citizen? You are greedy for goodness, aren’t you? I have been conducting a leadership conference at East Garden for the past several days for regional directors and European and Asian leaders. East Garden is like a special training center. Some members have complained, “Father is an Oriental and we don’t like that style” Many leaders have come to the conclusion that I chastise America because I am an Oriental.

When you go to the spirit world, who will you look for first? Will you say, “Where are the True Parents?” Even though you met the True Parents on earth doesn’t mean that you will be automatically connected with them in spirit world. Unless you do the will of God and the True Parents, you will be a stranger to them up there.

American people are chastised by me and you think, “Oh, Father doesn’t love us” But you should think about a schoolteacher. Does the good teacher allow his students to work only 25 minutes and then the rest of the hour to play and goof off? No, a good teacher is stern and always pushes you to accomplish more, saying, “Why are you one minute late? You must do all your homework! If you don’t answer correctly, you must stand up” He is stern because he is working to ensure a good future for his students.

You have no idea how stern God was in training me. God is an incredibly disciplined teacher, so if I wanted to go this way, God would push me in the opposite direction. If I wanted to slacken up a little bit, God would push me to the limit. So you can understand my viewpoint. I am always looking at things with my eyeglasses of unification, my Tong n Kyo He eyeglasses.

I have already spoken for one hour and ten minutes and I have just warmed up! The most important theme so far is why God created the world: He wanted to have a joyful, loving world with the family as the foundation. Love is at the center of past, present and future. The oldest, great, great, great, greatest grandparent is God. When you dig deeper and deeper, you come to the place of God. And the youngest offspring are within the mainstream of this joyful system. The only unit that connects the extremes of old and young is the family, not the nation. This is the formula and the yardstick of measurement. It doesn’t matter what your nationality is, whether American, Korean, Japanese or whatever. Everybody is measured according to how you fulfill the family ideal. You will be elevated to the highest heaven or lowered to the lowest hell in spirit world according to this standard.

Through this formula, the harvest ripens and is put into a beautiful storage place. That storage place is called the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven. There is quality control there-first quality, second quality, inferior quality and flunked out. Everybody will eventually be put into some category.

God has been judging from this standpoint throughout history and nobody has passed so far, so no one has entered the highest Heaven. Many have been consigned to the trash cans of hell. There is a better grade called Paradise, but that is not Heaven. In the Principle we say that the Kingdom of Heaven is empty because no one ever fulfilled the requirements to enter those gates.

People commit sin with their eyes, nose, mouth, ears and body. The person who looks at his spouse with a hateful eye and not a loving one will find himself blinded in spirit world. People who listen to satanic sounds will be deaf in spirit world. Those who speak evil all the time will find that they have no mouth. Whatever you use to commit sin on the earth will be damaged and disfigured when you go to the next world. You cannot deceive anybody in spirit world; whatever you have sown, you will reap.

Americans have thought they were number one citizens of the world, but they will find in the Kingdom of Heaven it is not so. Many American ministers have not wanted to hear Reverend Moon speaking the truth and have tried to get me to leave this country, but I will continue to speak because nobody can stop the truth. Let anyone oppose me who wishes to; let us see who is victorious in the end.

When America sent me to jail it was almost like a wrestling match, in which America was trying to throw Reverend Moon and defeat him once and for all. But I was never thrown, and by the time I came out of prison there were many American people saying, “Hooray for Reverend Moon!” like a band of cheerleaders.

So far I have spoken clearly about my mission; you know that in pursuing my mission I came to America. America sent me to jail and thought it was finished with me. On the contrary, Reverend Moon resurrected stronger than ever. Now after my return from prison, on this Day of Victory of Heaven, I would like to speak clearly about the dispensation in America.

This is the 45th day after my release from prison, so a total of 44 days have elapsed since then. The number 44 represents the heavenly four-position foundation, which has been dominated by Satan until this time. I am trying to restore that number on the basis of the family. That is why I have spoken about the ideal family and also about the joyful world and the goal of God.

Your grandparents, your spouse and your children are like your three guiding angels to get you into Heaven. We learn from each of these relationships. That is the real family tradition. What is marriage? It is education in unity. The man learns about the woman’s realm and the woman learns about the man’s realm. Neither of you can know about these things until you get married, so marriage is like entering the school of the opposite sex. If you get a good report card of 100 points, then both the husband and wife will be absolutely happy and fulfilled.

Having children is another level of education. By loving your children, you learn how to love the world; also you connect with the future. Through your grandparents you connect with the past and also to the spirit world. You can learn from them about tradition and your family history. Every level of education, whether through your spouse, your children or your grandparents, is centered upon one thing- love. With this love you can travel into timeless space, from past, present, and future, almost like blood running in the bloodstream. Blood runs everywhere, from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head. By the same token, with love you can travel through timeless space. How wonderful is the authority of love!

What is the road to happiness? It is to become the servant, even the slave, of love. A stately, dignified grandfather might find the husband and wife fighting and say, “Oh, my children, you shouldn’t do that. Let me help you overcome your differences” Likewise, he might find the grandchildren quarreling and say, “My grandchildren! I love you so much! Please don’t fight!” The grandfather in that case is serving everyone in the role of mediator.

Perhaps a wife has the habit of nagging all the time. The good husband doesn’t fight with her. Instead, he says, “Darling, I understand” The good husband is the servant, even the slave, of love.

From this perspective, we can understand God. God is the greatest, highest possible king, with the essence of love. Therefore, God walks the road of a servant. That is why I have taught you to go forth, “With the heart of the Father, in the shoes of a servant” That is the basic philosophy of God, of Reverend Moon and of the Moonies.

That has been exactly my attitude. After the American government sentenced me to prison, did I say, “I’ll beat you! I’ll destroy you!”? No, I said, “America, I will continue to serve and love you” When was The Washington Times created? It was during the time when the government was prosecuting me. That is one way I have shown my love for this country. In the future, all Americans will weep when they realize this.

There were two other publications that were formed during my Danbury time. One was the national weekly newsmagazine called Insight. A new issue of this comes out every Wednesday. At the same time, I directed the creation of a seven hundred page monthly magazine called The World and 1, something unprecedented in this country.

Why did we create this new monthly magazine? The American media is a fast moving realm, with no principled direction. Everybody moves from one subject to another, one crisis, one event after another. But the world needs to be educated and guided in the right direction. There are certain principles that the society, nation and world need to follow and the media is one means of leadership. Thus we assembled highly esteemed academic people and writers to produce this magazine and to point to the proper direction. We have already formed the academic organization called PWPA in many nations around the world. All these things are the fruits of the love I have for America and the rest of the world.

What and who is God? As we said, He is the servant of love, the slave of love, coming down to accomplish the happiness of mankind. God must teach His philosophy to mankind, so the challenge is one of education. God must install a certain system by which He can educate mankind centered on this love.

Within human society there are different levels and entities, such as the family, and there is a certain system of organization. There has been no true connection between these levels, however, because satanic love always divided us. God wants to unify the whole divided social system under true love; Satan divided them under satanic love.

The Day of the Victory of Heaven has incredible meaning. When we talk about such a victory, then we are talking about one thing-the victory of God’s love. Wherever satanic love is governing, that territory belongs to Satan; wherever God’s love is governing, that territory belongs to God. There has been a territorial dispute in the world. Our question is: how can we claim more and more satanic territories for God? How can God install His system of love? How can we become unified? We need a textbook to learn from. We have many textbooks but no true textbook for the reconstruction of love.

We must reconstruct eight different levels, beginning with the very bottom of the social level, which is servant of servants. Next is servant, then adopted son or daughter, then stepson or stepdaughter, then Eve, then Adam, then God, then true love. Every echelon was attacked by Satan; they all became alienated from each other. Our task is to break through each barrier and to unify them with the higher levels. Ultimately we reach true love through these eight degrees. The Principle teaches us the path of restoration, which is not centered on money, knowledge or power but only upon love.

What is the central point of faith? One can have faith in many things. Some people have faith in science or culture. Many people have faith in God, but what must be at the center of that faith? It must be true love. Any religion which does not teach this point will wither away.

The religion that will survive and prosper and go on forever must teach love centered on the family. Every religion has its own scriptures, but the Christian Bible is the greatest. Why is that? The reason is simple: the Bible describes God as a Father, as in the center of a family. And Jesus is described as His only-begotten son, or the number one son. Furthermore, the Bible depicts humanity in a bride’s position, with Jesus as the bridegroom. The Bible uses the language of the family and exalts it.

The Bible also predicts the most joyful day for humanity- the day of the Marriage of the Lamb. What is that? That is the wedding day between the bridegroom and the bride. As you know, this was supposed to have been accomplished in the Garden of Eden, between Adam and Eve. But since that marriage was attacked and broken, God wanted it to be restored in the time of Jesus. Christianity is truly the central religion of the world because it is centered upon love within the family. That is also why Christianity became the dominant worldwide religion.

God wanted the Christian teaching to guide the world, and He gave us one great opportunity right after World War II through the dominance of American Christianity. What is America’s responsibility? It is very clear from God’s viewpoint: as the representative of world Christianity, America must create a society and lead the world to become a place where true love permeates and prevails and where unity of all the social levels can be realized. The American nation has that chosen position from God to save the world.

After the end of World War II in 1945, if humanity and the world had accepted Reverend Moon, God’s ideal could have been established within 40 years. Within less than seven years time, the Principle could have been propagated to the whole world. We would not see the corrupted society we see in America today. Communism would have no power or influence. It would be an entirely different world.

Unfortunately, that God-given opportunity right after World War II was lost. Therefore, I had to rebuild the foundation from scratch, following the law of restoration through indemnity. Through the next 40 years, I built the Unification Church, the new foundation upon which the dispensation of unity could be established.

After World War II, the six thousand years of fallen biblical history had to be restored; this is the mission of the Unification Church. If the Unification Church does not fulfill this mission, the future will be dismal for the world; the world would be governed entirely by Satan. We are seeing nowadays among some theologians the “God is dead” philosophy. The God denying ideology of communism is rampant, trying to take over the world. Secular humanism is strong in the Western world, where people say, “We don’t need a savior. Everybody is equal. There is no God; religion and morality are useless; everybody should just do what he wants and follow his own desires”

These anti-God attitudes such as secular humanism, communism, and the “God is dead” theology are making it impossible for God to find a foothold on earth. Religion has become corrupted and impotent; families have been broken and divided; society is becoming more and more diseased; and the young people are being destroyed. God had to do something and that something was the Unification Church and Reverend Moon.

The eight levels of society have to be restored in these 40 years. Within the democratic world, we have come up step by step during my lifetime. God is actually preparing a textbook of true religion. God Himself walked the path to restore these eight levels. He gave His example and model and had it written into the textbook of religion.

Look at the Old and New Testament. In the Old Testament, man started out from the servant of servants level, coming up to servant. Then the New Testament recorded the rise to the adopted son’s position, then stepson’s position, then the point of the true son. The Unification Church’s responsibility is to go from stepson’s position up to true love.

What is a stepchild? He lives with one parent and another person who is not his real parent. As with Cain and Abel, there is one family with two kinds of children. That is what the problems of our society can be boiled down to-the Cain and Abel separation. Since you already know the Principle, I don’t have to go into detail about this.

Even though the truth was contained in the Old and New Testaments, no one was able to fully interpret it. For that reason, God had to send the Messiah to earth to clarify the truth and describe it clearly, step by step, all the way to the top.

Jesus absolutely followed the God-centered tradition, as epitomized in his prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, “Not my will, but Thy will be done, Father” During Jesus’ time, there was supposed to be unity between Joseph’s family and Zechariah’s family through the Marriage of the Lamb. But that did not take place and instead was broken into pieces, and the result was the crucifixion. At this time of the Second Advent, therefore, the two brothers are represented by the Western world and the Oriental world.

If there had been no crucifixion, Christianity would have traveled from East to West; but history was turned around and went from the Western world-the analytical, physical, scientific world-to the spirit centered Eastern world. If Jesus had not been crucified, then he would have united 12 tribes under him, and the Arab world could have become unified within his lifetime. Then the dispensation would have moved to the Indian culture and to the Chinese culture. All the religions of those areas would have come under Jesus Christ’s teachings. With that formidable power, they could have confronted the Roman Empire.

However, because of the crucifixion, the Arab world and the Jewish world are still divided. Furthermore, the Christians had to go to the Roman Empire and endure terrible persecution and martyrdom. After spreading through the Western world first, now Christianity is going back to the Asian world.

At this time, the Western world is turning toward the East for inspiration. Young people are interested in all the fashions and cultural trends coming out of the Orient. Why has Japan become so powerful and respected, not only in the economic realm but also in the political, cultural and social realms? The reason is that the time has come when world attention must be given to the Orient.

Satan knows what God’s will is, so he wants to prevent the West from uniting with the East. He doesn’t want to see the United States becoming more friendly with Japan and the other Asian nations. It is in Satan’s interests to cut off trade with Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and the Asian sector, to isolate the United States through protective trade barriers and so forth.

Who is running the United States government today? Who are the people most influential over American public opinion? They are left-leaning people with secular values, such as we find in the liberal media. These are the people who promote God-denying principles and policies which are ultimately favorable to Satan. I know this very clearly and I know that God had to do something to prevent this situation from continuing. God’s solution was to send Reverend Moon to this country to stop these things.

Furthermore, Reverend Moon has the mission of restoring the sovereignty of love here in America, as well as to bring unity between the United States and the Asian sector. Satan has always held the sovereignty over love and thus he came to control the church and the family. The mission of Reverend Moon and the mission of the Unification Church are the same-to plant the love of God back in this country, to restore the family system and the churches. Those are our three fundamental goals.

We are in the midst of the battle right now. Satan is trying very hard to break down unity between the East and West, particularly between the United States and Korea. Japan and Korea are the only two Asian nations who have not been deeply influenced by communism. If that beachhead is lost, all the Asian territory will be lost and I cannot let this happen. I worry about communist China, a gigantic country with one billion people. I have been praying about how to turn that country around and my prayers are being answered.

The communists are also working to aggravate racial tensions between the Anglo-Saxons and Latin American people. As you know, the United States Congress at one time rejected 14 million dollars in aid for the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, wanting to close the door on Central America. But that meant Central America was destined to become another Vietnam. Thus The Washington Times made a historic announcement and pledged to raise the 14 million dollars itself, if the government refused to do it. Because of that, the White House and the Administration and Congress were ashamed and later 27 million dollars were approved for the Nicaraguan rebels.

The American media are hateful toward us and don’t want to report our successes, but I don’t care whether they report them or not. It’s already written in the book of God’s history, the Unification Church history, and United States history. That time was the turning point for the survival of this nation because if the United States is defeated in Central America, the next target will be Mexico and then this country. I knew that if this country became that vulnerable, worldwide salvation would not be possible.

I would like to see Unificationism influence the American government and public opinion, as well as bring unity among the established Christian churches. On the day of my release, August 20, 1985, great unity was made. A dispensational miracle is occurring now. Forty years ago, on August 15, 1945, unity with Christianity was supposed to have occurred, but things happened entirely differently. So within forty years I laid the foundation which included suffering in Danbury, the modern Crucifixion. Finally that moment has come again so that this nation and Christianity can embrace the True Parents for the first time. Reverend Moon, in the name of True Parents, restored at once the national and historical worldwide victory.

At the Mount of Calvary with Jesus’ crucifixion, all the foundation was lost; but now it has been restored. Two thousand years of Christianity became the foundation for the new Abel-type Christianity, which is the Unification Church. Ronald Reagan is president of the United States, but he doesn’t know how to lead the world. Only one person knows the direction of God and the key to the survival of America and the free world-that is Reverend Moon!

This is the time of juncture between East and West. From now on, Western civilization will continue to decline and the new culture centered upon God, the Unification civilization, will continue to rise. People may laugh at my statement today but you will see in the future that this is true.

History was begun in the wrong direction by Adam, Eve and the archangel, as well as by Cain and Abel. Now at the time of the end of the world, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel are all enemies on the world level. The appearance of the four primary dispensational nations is inevitable: Korea is the Adam nation; Japan is the Eve nation; the United States is the Abel-type archangel nation; and Germany is the Cain-type archangel nation. Originally, centering upon the second coming of the Messiah, England was supposed to have been the Eve nation, America would have been in the Abel son’s position, and the Cain nation would have been France. However, all these things were changed because of the failure of the dispensation at that time.

Everything had to be reorganized and thus Japan became the Eve nation to Korea. America and Germany became the two archangel nations. As you know, France and England have had a long history of enmity, and so have France and Germany, and Germany and England. Because of the failure of established Christianity after the coming of the Lord of the Second Advent, the four enemy nations-Japan, the United States, Germany, and Korea-came together in this historical role.

Where should this unity be accomplished? In the United States of America, because this is the central Christian nation. Therefore, I have brought together all the leaders of our worldwide church to America, and together with me they are serving this cause. Those four dispensational countries have to make a unified foundation in one country.

After the Korean and Japanese leaders came here, many of you said, “We don’t need them!” Is this right or wrong? No matter how difficult it is to become citizens of God’s Kingdom, we must make this foundation in America; otherwise, we can’t march on and build the Kingdom of Heaven. That Kingdom will be built upon the unity of the four enemy nations.

In the world today, Korea is divided between North and South and Germany is divided between East and West. This is a symbol of the division between the first Cain and Abel. There are two different world brothers-communism and democracy. They also represent the thieves on either side of Jesus on the cross. At that time, the good thief and the bad thief argued with each other. At this time, the Abel realm of the world asserts that there is a God, while the Cain realm denies God.

I have been studying English but it is very difficult for a man of my age to retain what he learns. I study the dictionary and memorize new things, but the next day I wake up and it’s all gone from my brain! You are young people, so you can learn much more quickly and better than me. After 1990, you have to know Korean. Otherwise, you won’t be able to come to Korea. You think about that. Moonies are the people who are following me, following the Unification course, so Moonies who cannot speak Korean will not have any excuse. This is the viewpoint of Principle. Do you understand that clearly?

The enemy nations have gathered together under one teaching-that of true love and the True Parents. Now where are we going? We are going to find our own land, the land of Canaan. This is what the mobilization is all about at this time. The Unification Church must be able to educate and lead the world. All the world’s countries are represented in America.

We have a mission ahead of us to promote the election of a President of the United States whom God approves. Also we must promote senators and congressmen who are God loving. The same is true for local officials, such as mayors. How can we do such a thing? It is very simple: Christianity and the Unification Church have to become united; that will bring the desired result.

We have an IFVOC membership in Korea of more than seven million and even more than that in Japan. Through this formidable strength, God’s will can be taught throughout these countries to the politicians and governments.

Now in the United States, a truthful viewpoint can be promoted through The Washington Times. When the President is wrong, The Washington Times will say so; when the Congress is wrong, The Washington Times will say so. When the Times accused Reagan, saying, “You are not the Rambo president; you are the Gumbo president,” Reagan got mad. Let him get mad; he deserved to get mad. Meanwhile, the rest of the media wonders what The Washington Times is doing.

Some people think that these are crazy acts; they say, “Reverend Moon is just throwing his money away” But I am not crazy and I am not throwing money away. You will see. Secularism in America is losing its power. Reverend Moon has been changing the direction of the United States. The government has not been able to stop the Moonies, nor could it eliminate Reverend Moon’s influence. In fact, more and more American people are rallying behind me.

At Jesus’ crucifixion, the two thieves were far from united and were arguing with each other. At the time of Danbury, which was my crucifixion, Christianity was divided into two poles-one is conservative, represented by Jerry Falwell, and the other is liberal, represented by Joseph Lowery. These two sides have fought like cats and dogs on virtually every issue, but on the issue of Reverend Moon, they have united. That is providentially important.

Likewise, established Christianity and the Unification Church are united centering on me, which was represented at the August 20 banquet. With the unity of the Unification Church, established Christianity, and the government of the United States, God’s providence will be fulfilled and completed. We will make it happen! I have the plan; when I was in Danbury, I knew how to make that happen.

As you know, the goal of our mobilization now is to meet with 70,000 ministers. Multiplied by three, that makes 210,000. Multiply that by three and you have more than 600,000. Moses’ people who left Egypt numbered 600,000; today, in the wilderness of the 20th century Canaan, I am again organizing a movement of 600,000.

After 40 years, the Israelites entered Canaan. Now we are going into Canaan on the worldwide level. This is the first time religious leaders have been taught such a thing. We are bringing new direction to them. When they understand this direction, they will follow. We are bringing order to the country and we are marching on, always moving. You must go out now and take the persecution; this is not the time to stay home. If you don’t go out now, I will be the one to accuse you and say, “Why don’t you work for the ideal world?” Even if you are not being persecuted by others, I will persecute you! I don’t want to see mankind failing to move at this crucial time, the culmination of all providential restoration history. Those who understand God’s providence clearly, please raise your hands.

The Day of the Victory of Heaven was actually installed on October 4, 1976. The fulfillment of that providence was supposed to unfold within seven years; however, because of the court battles and other opposition, the dispensational moment was delayed. This is the eighth year after the installation of the Day of the Victory of Heaven, so we are marking a new beginning today.

1945 was supposed to be the time when established Christianity and I could unite, and upon this unity, God would have unfolded His dispensation. Since that was not done, I initiated the Unification Church movement and created the new foundation which has been developing now for 40 years. Today the Unification Church and I are united and we are declaring truly the Day of the Victory of Heaven. Based on the Danbury victory, today, October 4, 1985, 1 am marking the final chapter of the dispensation and the new beginning of the Day of the Victory of Heaven.

History is repeating today the events at the time of Moses. Joshua and Caleb led the second generation of Israelites into the land of Canaan with the slogan, “Be Bold and Strong” Today our slogan is exactly the same; fortunately, the first generation today doesn’t have to fall in the wilderness. The first and second generations can go together into the promised land upon the restoration of Cain and Abel. Because my own family has restored that situation, now we can all be united and enter Canaan together.

Our movement has to educate the leaders of this country. We are essentially an educational movement. If the political parties in America continue along the path they are going, this country will definitely decline. Our job is to educate them in the love of God. We have already educated thousands of ministers and, secondly, we must reach out to the lawmakers and politicians. We are doing this through the CAUSA programs. Eventually we will be able to teach the national senators and congressmen.

No matter what the politicians may say now, eventually they will have to listen to our message. Even though many Americans are boastful today, saying, “We don’t need a prophet, particularly from the Orient. We don’t want to be told what to do,’ they will change. American people are basically big, open-minded people. They are willing to listen to black people, Hispanics and Asians, and we are bringing together all these different kinds of people under the one ideology of Godism.

According to biblical teaching, what is the role of a prophet? The prophets received the message from God and then taught the king and the rest of the country. If the king listened to the prophet, their country prospered. If they didn’t, they suffered. Today is no different. The role of the prophet is the same, no matter whether the people like what he says or not. You must know this very clearly. My message today shall be called the Belvedere Declaration. It is the most significant message I have given since leaving Danbury. I want to give a historical analysis of our entire situation and give you clear direction as to what to do.

I am working to see the unity of the twin brothers-East and West. Once Reverend Moon is accepted, unity on every level will be possible. When twins are in the mother’s womb, are they back-to-back or face-to-face? Are they in different positions, one upside down? They are both facing each other and in the same position. That means they are not fighting; within the womb, twins are face-to-face and united.

Between the twin brothers of East and West, who is the elder? It is the East. The origin of all the major religions is in the East, even Christianity. The East is in the subject position. What about Jesus? Was he an Italian? No, he came from Israel, which is part of Asia Minor. The Unification Church came from Asia, as did the other major world religions.

God is like a gardener who not only planted a tree but also created it. When the tree is grown, along comes a little monkey who climbs up and says, “This is my tree!” He becomes boastful. God laughs at him and says, “You monkey, what are you doing? That is my tree, not yours!” Many Western people are like that monkey, wanting to control and claim everything as theirs, disregarding God.

In the past seven years, we haven’t given proper treatment to the Day of the Victory of Heaven. On this eighth observance, we are going to renew our celebration and resurrect the meaning of this day.

I could not call for all the state and city leaders to come here today because our activities would be disrupted. Therefore, I invited all the business leaders from around the world, including Japan, Korea and Europe. Also I asked all the regional directors in America to come to East Garden. I have been meeting with them since September 30.

This is the fifth day of the conference; for the first two days, they listened to me at East Garden and everybody was so happy. But by the third day, everybody had a backache. They were all thinking, “Oh, Father, haven’t we listened to you enough?” So I thought, “l have educated them wrong!” I let them rest last night so they could listen to me today without falling asleep. I want them to hear this message on the Day of the Victory of Heaven so that we can make a new beginning. I am really sweating today, making a very strong speech.

Six thousand years of fallen history need to be indemnified. In order to do that, there must be a showcase or model. That model has been erected during the past 40 years by me, but actually God is the pioneer. God has been showing the example of how to overcome and break the barriers on each level. The prophets in history showed how to do it, people like Noah, Abraham, Moses and especially Jesus Christ. But people haven’t been able to understand the pattern, so during these 40 years I have been summarizing a clear-cut pattern, giving you a textbook.

So far I have been fulfilling the role of Abel, but that role was supposed to have been filled by Christianity. I have been showing Christianity what the true Abel is like, on a worldwide scale. In the past, prophets came on a national or a tribal level, but I have been giving the model on the worldwide level. From the worldwide level, I am giving a model for the individual, family, tribe, society, nation, world and cosmos. The cosmic level covers everything, even hell.

The Danbury dispensation created a highway from hell into heaven, in a way. That was the purpose of Danbury and that has been fulfilled. What does that mean? It means the satanic world has to retreat.

When the harvest season arrives, everybody goes out and harvests the grain; otherwise the grain will be lost. Rain might come and ruin it, so the father and mother and even the children go out and bring in the grain. By the same token, we are in the middle of our harvest season now. This is our mobilization time. When you understand the historical dispensation, you know this is the final showdown for God.

Why do you hold on to Reverend Moon? That is the way you can go over the hill of indemnity. Holding on to me, you can go all the way to the top, through all of Satan’s barriers. My mission has been to break down all those barriers and unite each level with higher levels.

In every realm there are Cain and Abel divisions. In the democratic world there are Cain and Abel; even in the satanic world there are Cain and Abel. The Unification Church has the power to penetrate all directions, not only within the democratic world but also the communist world. That is why our movement is going to Moscow and the Soviet satellite countries.

Why do you need me? I am a model, an example for you. I am the only one who can show you how to walk each level and be victorious so that you can unify at a higher level. Because the first parents were the prey of Satan and, therefore, became false parents, only the True Parents can bring God’s unity.

There is no one else who knows the true dispensational meaning of the Unification Church, including all the church leaders. They are in just the same position as you in that respect. Nobody but the True Parents knows. The position of Father and Mother is like that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. There was nobody else to listen to, except the archangel who led them astray. True Parents cannot listen to anybody at this time or discuss things. Do you understand? Many American members think that I listen to Korean or Japanese leaders at East Garden and that I am influenced by them, but that is wrong.

American leaders try to tell me, “Americans think a different way. That won’t work in America” Let me ask you: Is America the Garden of Eden or anywhere near Heaven? At this time, the true man and true woman have made a couple and must forge the vertical way. Everybody else must follow that vertical way, then make the horizontal way. This is the way of Principle. Do You understand?

The Oriental world writes up and down, vertically, while the Western world writes from left to right, horizontally. Oriental people usually sleep on their backs, while Western people often like to sleep on their stomachs. When Koreans beckon for someone to come forward, they gesture with their hands pointing downward, while Americans do it with their hands pointing up. Likewise, the grammatical construction of the language is entirely different. In English, you always put the verb before the object of the sentence, such as, “I go to the park” But in Korean and Japanese, they describe everything and then put the verb last. There is more description.

I was surprised when I came to the West and saw so many left-handed people. In the Orient, if anybody writes with the left hand, he is considered a disabled person. Another difference is in the way people eat at the dinner table. In the Orient, when you drink soup at someone else’s table, you are expected to make noise as a sign of enjoying it. But in the West, you are supposed to be absolutely silent. You have to be sneaky, practically hiding behind your bowl.

Who made all these contrasts between East and West? God did, in order to make the world more interesting and to harmonize it in a more interesting way.

Now let us draw our conclusion. I said initially that perfection must be attained on every level-individual, family, tribe, nation, and world. Ultimate perfection means the creation of a joyful world centered on the love of God. Satan does not want that world to happen, so he has divided the world, creating misery and corruption. In these final days, God has brought true love to counteract Satan’s false love. Reverend Moon is pioneering true love on every level, both in the spirit world and the physical world. I have gone down to the lowest position and brought true love there. I have been showing the world how God Himself walked each step of the way. In the past 40 years, starting from the position of servant of servants, I have shown how each level can be conquered and I have been demonstrating to the world how to walk every step.

Beginning from Day One of these forty years, there was opposition. Korean Christianity doggedly opposed us and they will continue until the final day. God must allow Satan to do his utmost until the last moment. The opposition reached the world level in 1976, its highest point. All the tactics of that opposition, as well as the basic materials, were provided by Korean Christianity. Through the use of such materials, the United States government tried to finish off Reverend Moon, but they were unsuccessful. Even though they did their utmost and even put me into Jail, I have now been resurrected and am victorious.

The Job I still have to complete is that of dealing with the communist world, in particular the Soviet Union. When I was in prison, there were various declarations to the world that communism has lost its power. The book, The End of Communism, was such a declaration. Interestingly, Soviet citizens in Beirut were kidnapped for the first time ever; always before, only Westerners were kidnapped. Also, high ranking officials in the KGB in Britain have defected and exposed the Soviet-European spy network. Dozens of spies were caught and deported. KGB plants and spy rings have been exposed in the United States and also in West Germany. The secular media have not been reporting the truth but instead have distorted things many times. Therefore, we have founded our own truth-centered media.

The enemies of our church just don’t know what to do about us. When they sent me to Danbury, they thought they could say a final “Mansei!” Just as 2000 years ago, Satan’s forces thought they had their final victory when they nailed Jesus to the cross. However, when I came out of prison, I came out as a hero and a martyr, a symbol of freedom to many people. Now many American people and even the media are supporting me, so our dedicated enemies don’t know how to deal with this. They are trying to make some counterattack, but they are saying, “Where are our weapons?”

I know that anything I say at Belvedere can be heard by the KGB almost simultaneously. Likewise, American intelligence can learn everything I say. That is fine. Let them listen. Our headquarters are listening, too-that is the headquarters of the Heavenly Kingdom and God.

The die is cast, the showdown is done. Our destiny has been decided, no matter what else Satan may do. We have won the victory. Period.

Now many nations will ask me to come and stay with them. People will say, “Reverend Moon, we want you to come to South America,’ and I will say, “No, thank you” Others will ask me to come to Europe but I will also say no. What about America? When American people ask me to come here, what will I say? I will give you a condition, upon which I will return to America. If Americans recognize God’s goal to bring unity between Korea, Japan and the United States, then I will be here.

The Moonies are working now in America, showing others how to unite East and West. When the American people welcome and follow the Moonies, they will be welcoming everybody. I’ll be there, then. When America, Japan and Germany are united, the physical, external construction of the Kingdom of Heaven will be easy, since those three nations have some of the most powerful economies on earth. The foundations are there. Reverend Moon has a very good brain. If somebody doubts me, just wait and see. We have already laid the foundation to make the Kingdom of Heaven on earth in the scientific world, as well as in the realms of culture, media, and technology.

During this East Garden conference, I have given tremendous educational materials to you. This is the first time many leaders who have been following me for decades were all gathered together. Many of them were astonished to learn about all the things our movement is doing.

Who is following the vertical path at this time, after 40 years? Only the Moonies. There are two poles-the vertical and the horizontal. To connect them both, we must make a perfect circle. Centering on God’s love, we make that circle on the individual level, the family level, the tribal, national, world and cosmic levels. Everything must go through that central point of God’s love or it doesn’t have any power. Anything which is centered on this point of God’s love can have the power to continue to go on and on. That is Principle.

You can ask yourself, “Am I standing on that true love point, or somewhere opposite that point? Am I standing on true love individually, as a family?” I ask myself the same question.

What is our tribe? It is our Unification family. At East Garden, we have many different people working hard, centering on the same True Parents. I am not working now on the level of America; I am working on the world level. At this time, you don’t have your own foundation on the family, tribal, national, world or cosmic level. I have indemnified all the historical situations, so I have that kind of foundation. I want to see all Unification members moving out to the world level. I don’t want to see you focusing on the individual or family situations. I want to see only the world as your focus. You should say, “I want to imitate Father’s level of indemnity”

I want to bring the Unification Principles to the whole world. If you don’t move out to the world level, we cannot do that. This is the last chance. You must think about that.

I have spoken today about the true meaning of the Day of Victory of Heaven. It was supposed to have been fulfilled years ago. If President Nixon had listened to my advice, this country would not be in this position. Vietnam would not have ended up the way it did. Also, Carter would not have had the opportunity to get elected.

The 1980 presidential election was a crucial one, in which Reagan won a landslide victory. Only one newspaper in the country predicted that-the paper owned by Reverend Moon. The 1984 election was also a crucial one. In the recent past, no president has held office for two full terms. Nixon didn’t, Ford didn’t and Carter didn’t. The Mondale and Ferraro team were virtually undermined by the expose printed in the New York City Tribune and The Washington Times.

The Day of the Victory of Heaven was installed upon the victory of the True Parents. Therefore, I have become the symbol of victory. Nobody can get into Heaven without following the model, the symbol.

As you know, because of the victory in Danbury, all the persecution has lost its power. If Jesus Christ had been able to enter the Roman Empire himself and speak in their government assembly, giving his message at that time, 400 years of Christian suffering would not have been necessary after his death. Knowing that, I conquered every possible potentiality for persecution through the Danbury victory.

This will affect not only the United States but the whole world. The Unification missionaries in all our mission countries will reap the same kind of victory. The spring is dawning and persecution is coming to an end.

What seeds shall we sow in the warmth of the spring? The seeds of God’s love. Our field is the world and there we must sow the love of God and the True Parents. We must connect the lineage of the world with that of God. We must create the God-centered, true lineage. That is our job.

How can we make that kind of change in the world’s lineage? It can only come through the Blessing given by the True Parents. Fallen mankind has been centered upon Satan’s love but now we have God’s lineage of true love. This is not just a concept-it is reality! Are you making the true lineage within yourself, your family, tribe and nation? You must think about that.

Are you living centered upon God’s love? You have to deny all of Satan’s inheritance in order to inherit God’s lineage. You have to cut from Satan’s realm on every level-individual, family, tribe, nation, world. You have to cut from everything connected with Satan, including your self-centered ideas and concepts.

Adam and Eve didn’t know about anything in the beginning except what was connected to God. They didn’t have any concept of property, power, knowledge, family or love centered upon self; but they could possess everything because they possessed God and true love. But when they entered the perfection stage, they didn’t go with God’s love.

You have inherited the fallen nature. You say, “I have this and that possession. I am a scholar and I have a family. I am a religious man” But that is from Satan’s concept. First of all, you must deny everything. The key words are serving and sacrificing. That is the only way to get back to God’s concept.

Why am I teaching you this serious way? It is the only way you can get back to God. Nobody wants to go the way of denial; nobody likes it. But it is the only way to go. God has allowed the persecution to come against us in the past so that we could automatically learn self-denial and sacrifice. Regardless of who we are, including the Korean and Japanese leaders, nobody enjoys self-denial. But that is the way to move out of Satan’s comer and move into God’s corner. Therefore, I have welcomed the world’s opposition. In 1976, that opposition reached its peak.

Even from within the Unification Church, I faced persecution, as well as from the Christian world, the Jewish world, the secular world, the government-all of these came against me and pushed me into a comer. Reverend Moon became like a rat in a comer, pushed into a hole, and that hole opened up into the Kingdom of Heaven.

After hearing this speech today, you can know clearly the meaning of the Day of Victory of Heaven.

Now should you connect to the world or the Unification Church? What is the purpose of the Unification Church? It is to connect to the world. Now is the time when you can connect your parents, your tribe, your nation. Persecution is coming to an end so you will have an easier way. God has made this atmosphere.

Now we know clearly the direction of our march. I have spoken today for four hours and thirty five minutes; it is almost noon. Why did I pour out so much heart and energy to you today? Because the meaning of the Day of Victory of Heaven is so significant now. I am deadly serious about the situation. That is the reason.

I have not spoken just to the people at Belvedere but to the whole world. You are participating in this glorious work, going out to do the new mission. Unlike me, who received nothing but persecution, you are going to be welcomed. Your home town, your parents, your relatives- aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters-will not reject you any more. They will be ready to listen to you. The time has changed entirely; a new era has begun.

Today we shall make a new beginning, a new commitment. Let us pledge to march forward in obedience to God. Let us pledge to be victorious!

## CAUSA SEMINAR SPEECH

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### August 29, 1985,
Manhattan Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Have you been studying well during the last couple of days? We are gathered together as members of the Unification Church. What is the Unification Church? It is a religious organization pursuing a noble goal: the unity of all religions. You realize that is no easy task; it is so difficult. But God’s will and desire is the unity of all religions and eventually the unity of all ideologies-such as communism and democracy-under one understanding of God.

This is the United States, and most of you here today are American citizens. There is much diversity and mixture of people and problems in America. Unity is relatively easy if you lower yourself, but not so easy when you elevate yourself. Europe is a community of nations encompassing a great diversity of cultures and peoples. To try to elevate all of Europe to a higher level and then to unite everyone is quite a difficult task. But God exists and we must consider His standard. Is He content with the present level? No, He desires something much higher, the highest possible level. When you attempt to raise the world up to God’s standard and unite it, you encounter immediate problems. To try to bring unity while maintaining the status quo, without altering the current ideologies and philosophies, is virtually impossible. Every country has its own idiosyncrasies; its people are proud and stubborn. Americans, for example, feel that the United States is number one. Europeans think they are tops. Such attitudes make it impossible to form a harmonious body out of these nations.

Still, if only human factors were involved, we might keep hoping for unity. But another element exists: the invisible but real influence of Satan. The forces of Satan in our world push mankind in the opposite direction of goodness and try to block people from ever reaching it. God has His own will or purpose, people and nations have their own goals, and the forces of Satan have their own agenda. All three factors or parties-God, mankind, and Satan-play a role, and their responsibilities are intertwined. Eventually, they must reach a consensus, or common understanding.

Were those three parties originally destined to be divided and operate in conflict with each other? If so, unity would be hopeless. We must understand the difference between good and evil. All three parties began heading in the same direction, goodness. But mankind, in the middle, turned toward the left and became evil. Satan was originally an archangel, one of God’s creatures. God’s will cannot be fulfilled unless mankind, in the center, participates in His dispensation. Likewise, Satan could not accomplish his goal without mankind’s cooperation. Present divisions stem from the deviation of God’s original concept in the Garden of Eden. When God instructed Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, He warned them that the consequence of disobedience was death. There, good and evil divided. To obey God’s will and achieve what God desires is good; to disobey God and go away from Him is evil.

Only the Unification Church understands deeply how mankind’s lineage was transferred to Satan because of the fall. Having started as a good archangel, Satan also longs ultimately to return to his original position. The central criterion for determining good and evil is God’s will. The consummation of God’s will is, naturally, good. Therefore, whoever totally fulfills the will of God is a complete, or perfect, person. Such a person is one with God.

The purpose of the Unification Church is to unite the religions and peoples of the world centering upon the will of God. I am the founder of the Unification Church, but that does not mean it exists to do my will. No, I live for God’s will. I work day and night to unite the religions of the world, centered upon God’s will, not my own. I only obey the will of God and walk the providential road.

Then what is God’s will? The average religious person seldom has a clear idea what it is. But the Unification Church has a crystal-clear answer: to fulfill the ideal or purpose of creation. The ideal of creation is the completion or perfection of humankind and the universe. When men and women are perfected, the universe will also be perfected. Also, the ideal of creation includes the completion of the heavenly four-position foundation. That begins with one God-centered individual, whose mind and body are united under God’s own lineage. Such a person becomes God’s man or woman. That is the first stage. Such a man and woman can create a family, becoming God-centered husband and wife, and giving birth to God centered children.

If this is God’s concept, is there any room for separate American, Soviet, or European ideologies? Can each hold onto his own way of thinking and preserve his well-being? Is there room for a Japanese or Korean way of thinking, for Oriental and Occidental ways of thinking? God’s mind totally focuses upon the completion of this heavenly four-position foundation. He does not consider whether something is distinctively American, Korean, Japanese, or whatever. He cares only for the perfection of Adam and Eve within the Garden of Eden.

God longs for people to fulfill their human portion of responsibility, to climb out of God’s indirect dominion into His direct dominion, and to become totally one with Him. That is God’s one fervent desire. But people sometime object, “All we really need is our freedom. Why should we be bound by ‘human responsibility? Why worry about setting all these conditions? Why is the heavenly four-position foundation so necessary that we should give up our freedom for it?”

God’s supreme desire after creating the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve was to see people fulfill their responsibility and reach perfection, or completion. Can any of you confidently say, “Yes, I will follow God’s desire and fulfill human responsibility whatever the cost”? Raise your hands if you can. Supposedly, you have volunteered to fulfill God’s will. Do you realize that you should become the champions in achieving it? Or do you think you don’t need my sermons, since you are Americans and have all that is necessary? How much have you Americans been thinking about human responsibility? Please reflect on it. Of all the people in the world, I am taking human responsibility most seriously. I am putting my life on the line in order to fulfill it.

God and Satan separated during the period for fulfilling human responsibility. If human and angelic responsibilities had been properly fulfilled, do you think Satan would have emerged? No, Satan has mankind in a choke hold, telling people, “Until you fulfill your human responsibility, you don’t belong to God; you belong to me. I’ve got you by the neck.” There is a certain protocol among the three parties; Satan and God know it, but human beings have been unaware of it. Only at my coming has mankind’s ignorance been conquered. Now human responsibility has been clearly defined.

Once a person fulfills his human responsibility, Satan can never conquer him and God will never abandon him. Satan and God made that agreement. Everything hinges upon human responsibility. Whether we follow God’s will or Satan’s will depends upon one thing: the fulfillment of our responsibility.

For example, Dr. Durst is the president of the Unification Church of America. He met me and followed my will, traveling throughout the country to promote our movement. He knows the American way of life, and he is absolutely confident that he is doing God’s will to the maximum of his ability. But is that the entirety of human responsibility? Is that sufficient to fulfill God’s will and please Him? The answer is no. The American way is very trivial in relation to the universal will of God. Even though you may have completed lots of workshops and seminars on the Principle, including leadership courses, and you think you know the Principle, your nose is still hooked by a wire, and that wire is called human responsibility.

I am a smart man. If human responsibility were not required, I could have chosen a very easy path and become popular wherever I went. Think about it. There are plenty of experts and PhDs in the world, each looking for better ways of achieving human fulfillment. Do I concentrate on such things less than they do? I put a lot more thought into it. Do you think I am so dumb that I just picked the wrong route, causing so much persecution and misunderstanding? Do I enjoy that kind of persecution? Then why has it happened? Why did I have to go through such adverse situations? Because there is no other way, in heaven or on earth. I had to take that course and overcome it.

Even if our parents reject us, we must follow this way. Even if our wife and children reject us, we must continue. If our own nation and people reject us, still we must go on. If the entire world and the universe opposes us, we persevere. That is the road of survival. That is the destiny we were born to fulfill. That is the covenant between God and Satan, the rules upon which they have agreed. We don’t have the option to digress from these rules; we must follow them.

Those of you sitting in the front row have been CAUSA lecturers. Have you been truly serious, investing all your effort into your commitment, paying indemnity and trying to fulfill your responsibility in a manner acceptable to both God and Satan? Even if nuclear war broke out today and the entire world were demolished, still human responsibility would remain. It will never go away. Therefore, what people should dread the most is not necessarily an atomic bomb or nuclear warfare; it is unfulfilled human responsibility. For the whole United States of America to be demolished in one second, or for your entire family to be incinerated, would be less fearful than unfulfilled human responsibility.

While Adam and Eve were fulfilling their responsibility, were they supposed to have children? Before completing their human responsibility, they should not have turned to each other and said, “I love you; I want to kiss you and make love.” This is why Jesus told his disciples, “A man’s foes shall be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.” (Matt. 10:36-38). Does that make sense to you? Is it realistic? Have you had such a serious attitude? Have you made a life-and-death commitment to bear the cross and follow the Lord, wherever he leads?

What elements interacted to cause human responsibility to fail? Illicit love and the acquiring of satanic blood lineage have prevented mankind from fulfilling human responsibility. If people’s bloodstream and lineage had remained connected with God’s original lineage, human responsibility would have been automatically completed. Because of the human fall and unfulfilled human responsibility, a new will of God went into effect: salvation and restoration. Only after the fall did those concepts emerge.

Once His children had fallen, God could no longer deal directly with them. He could not reach out to mankind, and mankind could not reach out to Him, because the fall occurred during God’s indirect dominion. God can exercise His power only when people reach His direct dominion. Otherwise, God has no way to deal with us.

Can people traveling the course of God’s providence focus on having lots of fun and a wonderful time now, and still achieve salvation? How wonderful if it were the case! That is basically the way American young people- especially women-think. So what can we do? Men and women who think that way should be kicked out as detriments to the dispensation.

The Principle works to bring fallen generations back to God’s direct, unstained, pure and original bloodstream, restoring mankind to God’s original lineage. Only after you fulfill your human responsibility can God’s lineage flow into your bloodstream, transforming you into a new person. Our ultimate goal is to be linked with God’s lineage and become His true children. How can we bring Adam and Eve into oneness? How can we create that unified heavenly four-position foundation? How can we inherit God’s lineage? By centering on God’s love.

Does anyone here have a different idea? You are very wise people, but much of your energy has been spent in complaining and trying to dodge the mainstream work. Yet you still want to reap the benefits. Have you ever said, “I completely accept my human responsibility”? Can you say it with confidence? Since you have not fulfilled all of your human responsibility, are you in God’s direct or indirect dominion? Who controls the indirect dominion, God or Satan? You remain in Satan’s realm until you enter God’s direct dominion. Is this clear?

The important thing is not to run around all over the place, but to be enrolled in a certain course. You have to be clearly registered and connected with the professors who teach that course. Then, upon its completion, you will receive a certificate.

I have proclaimed the goal of uniting the peoples and religions of the entire world. God’s game plan, or formula, is quite simple. First of all, God gives you the chance to fulfill human responsibility, and then comes the harvest. Those who fulfill will receive God’s new lineage and enter heaven, like the grain. Those who fail shall remain in this hellish world, like the chaff that is thrown away.

Every person is destined to go this course, even though it might take billions of years in spirit world to finish it. All people must fulfill their responsibility. Your best opportunity is on earth. According to the principle of creation, human responsibility is supposed to be completed on earth, or in the spirit world. Have the major religious leaders, such as the Popes, cardinals and famous ministers, fulfilled all the requirements and attained God’s direct dominion?

Suppose you worked throughout your life on earth, giving your very best, but you discover when you reach the spirit world that you had not completed the necessary courses? What would happen if you said, “I just want to stay here”? The rest of the spirit world would kick you out and tell you, “There is no place for you here.” They would send you back!

You joined the Unification Church and have done your best. Now that you are blessed and have children, you might think of relaxing. But you still have responsibility, and if you fail to fulfill it, when you enter the spirit world, you will be judged by that failure. Your own children shall be your accusers. They will grab you and say, “Why didn’t you do more and fulfill your responsibility?” Also, the wife might say to her husband, “Didn’t you know the truth? Why didn’t you treat me in a more disciplined way while we were on earth? You weren’t serious about Father’s dispensation, and so we ended up in hell. Why weren’t you more stern and demanding? Why didn’t you take human responsibility more seriously?” How tragic if the wife becomes her husband’s accuser!

I know this absolute rule and principle. While I am here on earth, I have to teach it thoroughly and without compromising even one iota. Whatever the consequence, whether persecution or imprisonment, I must lay down a straight rule. Even though the United States opposes me, I will confront it squarely and fearlessly, because I have a job to do. Not even the strongest earthly power can prevent me from fulfilling my human responsibility. That is my mandate from God and my firm resolution.

You are my disciples and children, aren’t you? In your position, can you say, “I don’t care about human responsibility. Let Father do it?” Regarding indemnity, perhaps you rationalize and say, “Backward people from countries such as Korea might live that way, or Japanese people can do it. But we are American citizens. This is a free country, and we have everything we need.” You are free, that is true, but you are not free from human responsibility.

How deadly in earnest God has been! He lost all His saints and martyrs, and He wants to restore this world using their blood sacrifice. This world has always been running away from Him. He is so serious now! But even God could not clearly specify what human responsibility is, because finding that out is also part of our responsibility, according to the Principle. If God could have led people by the hand directly to the goal, the world would never have become like it is.

Satan is always taunting God and saying, “People have to learn human responsibility and prove by the way they live that they are worthy of being Your sons and daughters. But none of them are doing it! That shows that all men and women on earth are my children. Don’t touch them, God!” And God has to agree with Satan.

Once we go to the spirit world, the truth of this will become crystal clear. But it will be too late then. The tragedy will be even greater when men and women who knew about their human responsibility while on earth still failed to fulfill it.

I know clearly what has to be done and how to do it, and I can lead you by the hand. But sometimes I feel disgusted when I stand before you, because it is so impossible to lead you. I issue emergency instructions, but you take them lightly, saying, “Well, I’ll do my best, I guess.” And some people waste their time, just wanting to have fun. What a tragedy when God declares an emergency but none of His soldiers take it seriously enough to tackle it! I am speaking particularly to you leaders, you “big shots.” l wear special eyeglasses of human responsibility, and I use them to check your movements and behavior, to see whether you pass their approval.

The great blessing of God’s love is waiting to be bestowed, but no one is deserving, because your blood lineage is not pure enough to receive it. You have received the Blessing, but none of you really understands its importance a.d value. Sometimes this makes me feel deeply hurt and full of regret. My feelings about the Blessing are so deep: is it an immeasurable, priceless gift. But you handle it like an old pair of shoes. Those who have been blessed, raise your hands, please. Do you think the Blessing was just a simple child’s game we played? On the contrary, it is a life-and-death showdown. The Blessing came to you upon my lifelong sacrifice. I paid an incredibly high price to give it to you, in order to connect the heavenly lineage to you.

Have you felt that your blood is different now? Have you been reminding yourself, “I am connected to the heavenly lineage; now my whole body is God’s?” That is such a poignant realization. Have you experienced it? Only when you go beyond human responsibility can you deserve the Blessing. In a way, the truth is simple and clear.

Human responsibility has eight different levels, starting from the individual level and extending to the family, tribe, nation, world, universe and cosmos. God inspired the creation of the various religions of the world and has been cultivating them like wild olive trees so that when the Messiah came, He could engraft his lineage onto them. That is the entire purpose of the chosen people and the chosen religion. The Messiah is the one who first fulfills human responsibility and brings the heavenly lineage with which to engraft the wild olive trees, so that they can become true olive trees.

The Unification Church culture, centered upon True Parents, who represent true love and God’s true lineage, shall be propagated to all of humanity, creating a new culture and a new world. That is the essence of the Unification Church culture and the mission of the Unification Church. Only through this channel can the Kingdom of God become a reality on earth. Only as we spread the truth and overcome the world’s ignorance, gaining acceptance of the True Parents, can the Kingdom of Heaven emerge on earth.

This is the mission of the Messiah and the Unification Church. The heavenly four-position foundation lost to Satan must be restored. Therefore, wherever the Unification movement goes, Satan and God inevitably have a showdown, because that is where life and death, heaven and hell, and the victory of God or Satan are determined.

You Unification Church members sometimes think you have nothing to do with Jesus. That is erroneous. Actually, the Unification Church was born at the time of Jesus, who came to be the True Parent 2,000 years ago. Had he been able to fulfill everything without going through the crucifixion, the Unification Church would have begun in his time. Moreover, the Roman Empire would not have fallen; the world would long ago have been united; and there would have been no room for communism on earth.

The close of World War II was another ripe opportunity. The United States of America, as the key Christian nation of the modern world, could have led the entire world and heralded the coming of the Messiah at that time.

A wondrous miracle has taken place. Through discovering the Principle, I was able to telescope 6,000 Biblical years of fallen history, and particularly the past 2,000 years, into 20 years. I have condensed a long dispensation into a short time-making a long story short!

My efforts until the Holy Wedding in 1960 were to restore the position of Jesus. Therefore, I had to walk his path, because as Jesus’ heir I could not move forward unless his position was completely vindicated and restored.

The 25 years from 1960 to 1985 has been the era of the True Parents. In 1960, the age of True Parents dawned. From 1960 to 1972, 1 laid the national foundation in Korea, which became the cornerstone of the worldwide foundation. During those 12 years, I declared the four heavenly holidays, set the pattern of true patriotism, and through the various organizations which we founded, laid a substantial foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. I also sent out all the blessed couples to the field, offering them as sacrifices for the redemption of the country. From 1970 on, I have encountered worldwide opposition, which was expected and normal.

During the 12 years from 1973 to 1985,1 expanded the foundation from the national to the worldwide level, centering upon the United States. We mobilized all the races of mankind and extended our foundation throughout the earth, in preparation for the global conflict with the worldwide satanic forces. This has been the time for planting the new tradition for the democratic world and the new tradition for international blessed families.

The pattern of struggle has been the same in both periods. On the national level in Korea, there were daily threats against my life. Now, in the United States I have faced tremendous opposition and persecution on an international scale, as you are well aware.

Actually, what is happening now in 1985 was supposed to have happened in 1945. Had established Christianity accepted me at the close of World War II, what we are now witnessing would have occurred then. But because established Christianity failed, I spent 40 years in the international wilderness and finally volunteered for the crucifixion of Danbury. Because I was resurrected rather than defeated there, I opened the way for a new era of total religious and international unity. I have succeeded in restoring every level of the dispensation-individual, family, tribal, national, worldwide, universal and cosmic.

The Cain-Abel relationship is the classic pattern of providence. So far, Cain has tried to control everything. When established Christianity is Cain, the Unification Church is Abel. But attitudes have been gradually changing, particularly after my incarceration at Danbury; now established Christianity is approaching the position of a Cain who accepts the leadership of Abel. The United States government is Cain to the Christian churches, who are Abel; but the government has been more powerful and has been exerting its will over the churches. In world affairs the United States has been trying to control everything. The democratic world, centering on the United States, is Abel, and the communist world, centering on the Soviet Union, is unquestionably Cain; but both Cain and Abel have been lost and filled with chaos.

So the Cain-Abel relationship clearly exists on every level, even within the Unification Church. According to the Principle, unless unity between Cain and Abel is restored, the parents cannot emerge. After World War II God gave an unprecedented opportunity to the United States, a Christian nation, to assume the leadership of the entire world. At the close of World War II, the Christian churches were filled with inspiration and glorified God for bringing them the victory. But they should have clung to God, remaining humble and praying for him to send His anointed one to lead America and the whole world. That should have been the focus of their prayers. They should have been waiting to receive the Messiah, the True Parents. Had all this happened 40 years ago, restoration would have been accomplished in virtually one stroke.

I was a young man at that time, but already I had uncovered the entire Principle. Conditions were as ripe then as they are today for leading the world back to God. Had the True Parents been accepted 40 years ago, with the nations and churches (as Cain and Abel) united and welcoming them, it would have taken only seven more years to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Communism would never have become so strong. However, the United States surrendered its responsibility and abandoned the world, and communism, which had been feeble, amassed power and took over nations one by one.

Korea was in the position to accept the True Parents first, but it opposed me instead. Established Korean Christianity became a tool of Satan and totally turned against me, and the Korean government immediately joined in the persecution. Thus, Satan snatched that opportune time.

Not only did Satan divide the Unification Church from the larger Christian community, but he also preyed on Christianity itself. Today Christianity in America has been infiltrated by godless attitudes, such as liberation theology and secular humanism. The world has become a wilderness and Satan is devouring it, left and right. It has become the target for Satan’s rampant attacks.

Just as in the time of Moses, 40 years is the period for changing generations. The first generation which followed Moses died without entering Canaan. Likewise, the first generation after World War II which rejected the True Parents, has mostly passed away. The second generation is now ready to accept and embrace me. I had to pay the indemnity to make a link to his second generation and open the door to them.

For that reason, I trained Hyo Jin to be the Abel, or second generation leader, by having him direct the blessed children’s workshops around my time in Danbury. The first was held a year ago, and the second one just finished in Korea on August 15. There are various Cain-Abel relationships within our church. When I am Abel, you’re Cain. But the second generation is Abel to the first generation, as Cain. Your children, for instance are Abel and you are Cain. In my family, Hyo Jin and the second generation are Abel and I am Cain.

Now that the victory has been won in Danbury, I am setting up a clear channel of command, with the emergence of Hyo Jin as the second-generation Abel. My victory at Danbury also has meant my own resurrection, both physically and spiritually. I am now in the position of Lord of the Second Advent to the world. A new era has begun, in a way, so one of the most important issues now is the leadership of the second generation.

My period of incarceration at Danbury was also comparable to Moses’ 40 days on Mount Sinai. Much confusion and chaos prevailed before I entered prison. But with my emergence as the victorious Lord of the Second Advent for the world, a new order has come into being. You have a new opportunity to renew your connection with the True Father. The Unification Church, established Christianity, and the whole world are being renewed through that relationship. My mission has also been renewed. The bond between the True Father and the second generation has been renewed. Moses himself died in the wilderness, unable to cross over into Canaan; only the second generation actually entered the promised land. Now Moses is resurrected physically and is personally leading the first and second generations together into Canaan!

During the Exodus, the Israelites had a simple direction: to follow Moses. They could survive by following him. By the same token, after my emergence as the new world leader, people will say, “A new Moses has arisen, the Reverend Moon. Our survival depends on following his direction.”

Blessed couples have an absolutely crucial mission. All the Korean blessed couples went out to witness for three years, from 1970 to 1972, setting a new tradition for the national foundation in Korea. This time, the international blessed couples are going out to witness to the world, especially in America. During these next three years, we will set a worldwide foundation and tradition. I have already paid all the indemnity necessary to restore human responsibility on all levels from the individual to the global scale. Furthermore, I have planted God’s true lineage on earth and laid its foundation and set its tradition. I am standing upon that foundation today.

You received the Blessing at your present level of the restored growth stage. But I want you to know that even though you are blessed, your indemnity condition and your human responsibility have not been fulfilled. One more stage remains before you can enter God’s direct dominion. Chaos, misunderstanding and faithlessness may all occur during this final period. But when you finish that last step and enter God’s direct dominion, Satan’s accusation will leave you permanently These next three years until 1988 will be absolutely vital. If you blessed couples throughout the world unite with me and follow my instructions and fulfill your responsibility, we will all cross that final completion line.

The world is filled with confusion now. The Soviet Union is desperate. August 15, 1985 marked the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. Before that date, I wanted it declared to the world that communism was coming to an end. Prominent academic leaders at the Second International Congress of the Professors World Peace Academy this summer predicted the end of world communism. I already foretold the decline of the United States 12 years ago. So the end of communism is near and the United States and the free world are declining. So who shall survive? Only those who uncompromisingly follow the will of God. They will be the remnant, the survivors.

Men and women who fulfill their human responsibility and receive the True Parents’ direct lineage through the Blessing are the remnant, the grains which shall be harvested. You can carry out that task by going to the satanic world and subjugating it. You have inherited my tradition and the charge to teach it to all of America. This is the age for you and your families to take up the responsibility. Therefore, all the blessed couples shall be mobilized. Whoever is not involved in this mobilization has nothing to do with True Parents. Now is the time to cross the Jordan River. You can enter Canaan or remain in the wilderness. You need to be bold and strong. The two key words are bold and strong.

This country desperately needs a God-centered president, senators and congressmen. America’s intellectual establishment is liberal, godless, secular, humanistic, and anti-religious. We are declaring war against three main enemies: godless communism, Christ-less American liberalism, and secular-humanistic morality. They are the enemies of God, the True Parents, the Unification Church, all of Christianity, and all religions. We are working to mobilize a united front against them. While I was in Danbury, I focused on uniting all religious people-regardless of their faith or denomination, race or culture-in a common cause.

Do you feel in your bones that established Christianity has turned towards us? This is the blessing I expected immediately following World War II. Because of the failure of established Christianity at that time, the road of providence has passed through 40 arduous years of indemnity. But after completing a huge circle, we have returned to that original time of blessing. In these 40 years of journeying in the wilderness, I re-indemnified everything through my blood, sweat, labor, and tears. If established Christianity had responded properly at first, that blessing would have swept across the country and throughout the world. Since I have re-indemnified everything, that opportunity has returned. Now, when you go out you will have a sweeping effect nationwide. You should expect to harvest an incredible victory.

Do you feel what I am saying in your bones? No matter what, we must remain committed during these three years. Please rise above all difficulties, opposition, persecution, and internal struggles. You blessed couples must set the tradition on the worldwide level; then you shall reap the great victory for everyone. We shall return this world to the original, unpolluted condition of the Garden of Eden and to the pure, unstained heavenly four-position foundation. That is our mandate for these next three years. We will leave no room for the opposition to invade.

Several major external events are scheduled for 1988: presidential elections in the United States and Korea, the election of a prime minister in Japan, and a change of leadership in Germany. The four major providential nations, representing Cain, Abel, Eve and Adam on the worldwide level, will decide their destiny in 1988. Korea is the Adam nation, Japan the Eve nation, the United States the restored heavenly archangel, and Germany the fallen archangel. This is the dispensational significance of these four nations.

Germany is divided vertically, between East and West; the East belongs to satanic communism and the West to the free world. Korea is divided horizontally, at the 38th parallel, between North and South. In North Korea, Kim II Sung has taken the position of satanic parent of the nation, while in the South, there are True Parents. By overcoming North Korea and East Germany in one way or another, we will make the condition to solve the world’s problems and end the struggle between communism an the free world. Who shall bring that solution? Secular national leaders cannot solve these problems. Only leaders who know God’s will and God’s mandate can do it. That day is at hand.

Shall we work to receive this blessing and eliminate the need for indemnity? Shall we take the final leap forward-or give up our mission now? What do you think? We shall fulfill human responsibility and create a sphere free of indemnity. We shall build a True Parent centered society. We shall create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and make our final settlement. God’s people have never been able to settle. Final settlement must come. We have been the objects of ridicule wherever we have gone. But that shall change. In the next three years, Moonies shall become honored, respected and revered.

Your children shall be free from persecution and opposition; they will not need to pay indemnity for the past. They will truly live in the Kingdom of Heaven from birth on and will automatically enter the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world. That is the kind of foundation you as a parent can lay.

Did you hear my plans to mobilize 7,000 people to go to Korea: We have already educated more than 7,000 Christian ministers. Imagine bringing 7,000 American ministers following Reverend Moon to Korea, under the banner of CAUSA! That would have an impact on the entire nation.

The fallen archangel, Germany, must follow the United States, the heavenly archangel. The United States must follow Japan, the Eve nation. Japan must follow Korea, the Adam nation. The ultimate showdown will take place in Korea. Therefore, the United States cannot pull out of Korea; the archangel must save Adam. At the fall, the archangel turned against Adam, instead of serving him. God’s side and Satan’s side are both moving in the same direction. North Korea is in the position of satanic Adam, Red China is satanic Eve, and the Soviet Union is the satanic archangel. When the four nations on God’s side unite, the satanic side will split apart. Red China is already rebelling against the communist ideology and will inevitably turn in God’s direction.

If Korea, Japan, the United States and Germany unite and move together during these next three years, incredible things will happen. The Occidental cultural sphere is moving towards the Orient. The sun rises from the East and goes to the West. World culture as well is moving toward the East. The Cain-type cultures of the West have taken the subjective role around the world, while the Abel-type cultures of the East have been in the objective role. But the subject and object positions are now reversing; the United States and the Christian cultures have begun to admire and strive to emulate the Oriental cultures. The Unification culture is the Adam culture towards which everything is moving.

Today the United States is trailing behind Japan in many fields, including technology, scientific research, computers, and automation. This is how God is turning the world. At the fall, Eve handed her entire power over to the archangel. Now the archangel is returning its power to the heavenly angel and to Eve; through Eve, Adam will be restored. This is happening today on the worldwide level.

Eventually I would like to see Koreans, Japanese, Americans and Germans living together in the same building. There will be condominiums to house international families and communities. The children of families in the same complex will intermarry and live as part of a larger community, like one great family growing up together. This will be our tradition. Such communities will be our tribes. Without a pattern of tribal life, we will never be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you understand? We have not yet set this heavenly tradition.

You international blessed couples are very precious. International couples will become highly respected and valued. The era of white supremacy is past. Whoever still harbors feelings of white supremacy in the Unification Church has a satanic attitude.

A great providential opportunity is at hand. Now that you know the complete picture, God and True Parents are giving a mandate to all members of the Unification Church-especially blessed couples-to be mobilized. Marching orders have been issued. We are going to the front line. The day will come when even if you volunteer for the front line, there will be no more mobilization. There are growing numbers of people who, although they are not even members of the Unification Church, are investing much time, effort, and even tears in the study and propagation of the Principle. What is the difference between you and them? Even though they study Principle so much harder than you, unless they pay a certain amount of indemnity they cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven. Your indemnity is your advantage.

Who will conquer the worldwide Satan? Ultimately, it is up to you. You have to confront Satan. True Parents can give you all the guidance and direction you need, but you will force the ultimate showdown-not us. When the world totally embraces the Unification Church and no longer opposes us, you should volunteer for labor camps and coal mines! We will have to create some indemnity course within our own system! I will give directions about that.

When the world accepts the Unification Church, should we become self-satisfied and boast, “Our day has come! Hallelujah!”? Not at all. Do you think your children, the second generation, will have their own portion of human responsibility, they too shall be accused; they may not end up in hell, but heavenly law will chastise them, because the law of indemnity still applies.

We are now assembling like the Israelites at the time of Moses. You have been given your marching orders. Please don’t complain like the ten faithless spies. Be like Joshua and Caleb and cross the Jordan River to challenge the city of Jericho with victorious faith. This is the standard and tradition that the blessed families in the United States should establish.

I will pass on to you the fruits on my 40 years of indemnity during these next three years. God suffered for 6,000 biblical years. Through my 40 years of indemnity, I could receive from Him a great inheritance, which I am ready to give to you, upon the completion of your three years of service.

Centered upon God and the True Parents, the heavenly four-position foundation has already been erected. The final heavenly four-position foundation will be composed of God, the True Parents’ family foundation, the True Children’s family foundations, and your own blessed family foundations. That heavenly four-position foundation by families is the ultimate foundation. Within that, there is no room for Satan. Does the Principle indicate that Satan can invade such a foundation? This is the absolute foundation-absolute God, absolute True Parents, absolute faith of the True Children, and absolute faith of the blessed couples. That leaves no loophole for Satan.

In the Garden of Eden there were no boundaries. Eventually national boundaries shall also disappear. In the ideal world you can go anywhere. The whole of modern technology developed to help fulfill God’s ideal. We have been expecting this time. Our only responsibility is to make one final jump, set out on the one final march. You blessed couples have been given your marching orders.

Those who will respond by saying, “Now I am determined to carry out the True Parents’ wishes. I will fulfill that goal. I will accomplish God’s will”-please stand up. Raise your hands. Do you pledge before me to fulfill your human responsibility and to live up to my expectations?

Yes or no?

Yes or no?

Yes or no?

Thank you.

## VICTORY CELEBRATION

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### August 21, 1985,
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

I feel sorry for those of you who have been waiting here since morning! I knew all along that you were here, expecting me to come. But as you know, last night’s banquet and program in Washington DC finished around 10:00. Then we drove back to East Garden, arriving after 2:00 this morning. After only a short rest, I began to receive the many reports from the major leaders. Before I give directions and a vision for the future, I wanted to hear each of the reports. I didn’t waste even one second to get to you today. You understand, don’t you?

If I began to give a sermon, it would probably continue throughout the night! We have many things on our agenda today, so I will give you only a short talk, and then you can listen to other reports, in order to get an overall view of what has been happening, particularly the events of yesterday.

The essence of my course to fulfill God’s providential will has been restoration through indemnity. As you know, when I came to the United States, I came as a lone individual, unnoticed, unassuming and unrecognized. But what happened? I built our movement up to the worldwide level, reaching a peak in 1976. Step by step, I have been winning victories for the restoration. But there should be some moment of ultimate victory, a grand finale for God’s whole dispensation for the United States.

The U.S. government’s intention in indicting me was not so much to wage a court battle, but to scare me out of this country. The indictment was issued while I was out of the country, and the Department of Justice hoped that I would not return. But their expectations were totally wrong. To avoid that battle would have meant acknowledging defeat without putting up a fight. They didn’t know that I have always taken the path of restoration through indemnity. I will never shy away from indemnity. Therefore, I willingly returned to face the battle. Furthermore, many outstanding people in history have been wrongly condemned through a court decision. I didn’t try to escape because I knew that I could not avoid any battle, small or large, if I expected to turn around the destiny of history.

Jesus Christ was condemned and crucified by the government of his time. Many saints were persecuted and condemned by evil governments. History has been stained as evil continually tries to stop righteous people. Thus, some champion must finally come forward and win the victory, not only for himself but to vindicate providential history and all the saints who were victimized by the evil political systems of their time.

In this modern day, I have set the record for defying the established order of this evil world, struggling not just for my own sake, but on behalf of all good people of the past. When I came to the United States, I presented a challenge to this gigantic country, to its three branches of government, and to its people. I acted out of a historical principle, to ensure the future survival of this country.

Two thousand years ago, Satan and his forces celebrated at Jesus’ crucifixion. “By George, we finally got him!” they rejoiced. “That man Jesus has disappeared from the face of the earth and from history as well.” The day that I entered prison, Satan and all those who look upon me as their adversary thought, “By George, we got him! Finally, we have locked him up in Danbury. He is finished. Now we can relax!” But what happened? God had the power to resurrect Jesus from the tomb. Because I know God’s tremendous power, I, too, was anticipating a great historical victory. “Danbury is the modern-day crucifixion,” I told myself, “but I will turn the hill of Danbury into the hill of victory and resurrection.”

I was released from Danbury on July 4, 1985, America’s Independence Day. Thus it became my independence day as well. So in a way, I took over American history! The following 43 days were the resurrection period. I declared to the American members and leaders that those 43 days were the time to restore and resurrect all the wrongdoings of the past. We started an educational program, including newspaper advertisements, to present the truth about the case against Reverend Moon to all America and the entire world. This time period was exactly comparable to the 400 years during which the Roman Empire defied Jesus’ followers before finally accepting Christianity. So this time period indemnified the first four centuries of Christian history.

Furthermore, even though Jesus Christ was resurrected, his foundation was only a spiritual one, because he was physically crucified; he founded the spiritual movement of Christianity. But my resurrection is not only spiritual but also physical; therefore, the new victorious path we are beginning shall be not only spiritual but also physical.

Jesus’ crucifixion of 2,000 years ago began a period of incredible persecution for his followers, because their power was only spiritual; the physical world remained in the hands of Satan. But we are different. Because my resurrection was both spiritual and physical, I will conquer all persecution and truly bring in a new era of welcome by the United States and the world for our movement.

I thoroughly understand the law of indemnity. Therefore, I knew precisely what I had to do. No one else could take my place in the Danbury dispensation. Step by step I fulfilled all the requirements. In the meantime, I found a way to make a link with those established Christian leaders who had formerly opposed us. These things happened not because you worked very hard-although I know you did-but because God’s timetable called for them. The trend of history has reached this level. Therefore, when you push that trend forward with boldness, strength and determination, you shall win a great victory. You can push over the wall now, and no one will persecute you.

For example, the Washington Post, that Satan of Satans, that servant of servant’s newspaper, has tormented our movement and criticized us continually. But when they reported on yesterday’s banquet, they were like angels. They became completely obedient to the Holy Spirit, even printing an attractive picture of Mother and me!

Everything has its own time. I came to America as a prophet, vehemently predicting her decline unless she underwent a spiritual revolution. This was my first warning. The second warning was given through the academic circles. Three hundred prominent scholars announced the imminent end of communism at the Second International Congress of the Professors World Peace Academy held in Geneva August 13 through 15.

Everybody today is desperately searching for some ray of hope. They are looking for leaders who can bring salvation to America, and they haven’t found any. But once they come into contact with me, they take heart and sense that only Reverend Moon and his teaching can bring hope to the United States. Many young people are confused and directionless. But the youth who belong to the Unification Church, under my guidance, are bright and confident, going forward with determination. It is amazing how others see hope for America through you. Many ministers from traditional churches have become burned out spiritually, but upon hearing our message they come alive. Finally they see a ray of hope.

I know clearly that many people in this country have come to the private belief that the only future hope for politics, business, finance, schools, and other aspects of this society will come through Reverend Moon. They may not say it, but they have concluded that Revered Moon will ignite the spiritual revolution that will save this country. Many young people have been rebellious, even violent at times, in their quest for new excitement and direction. They have organized demonstrations against various forms of the establishment. They have experimented with drugs. But none of these things has brought them satisfaction. Finally they are concluding that they need to examine Reverend Moon, since he is the one avenue left.

People observe a different quality in the young men and women who follow me; they see purity and goodness, as well as determination, and they wonder what causes it. They are also coming to realize clearly that members of the Unification Church are not robots; they are bright and intelligent people. When they saw you fundraising and working so hard, they used to think that you were just foolish or brainwashed. But they have found that Unification Church people are some of the brightest people under the sun, and they want to know why you do what you do.

People are also trying to understand me through CAUSA activities. Thousands of ministers have learned about my worldview, and many have concluded it is the answer. In the academic world, prominent scholars who had become discouraged found new hope when they studied my teaching. Many political and business leaders have come to the conclusion that I am their hope. So not only religious leaders, but people from all facets of our society have begun to realize that the free world can survive only by following Reverend Moon’s way.

Am I just dreaming all this, or is it happening? Who made it happen? Suppose a rich family is giving a wedding reception for one of its members. For whom is that banquet being held? No matter how noble and great that family may be, the principal figures are the bride and bridegroom. Even an ugly bride or a crippled groom is the central figure on his or her wedding day.

Likewise, a gigantic banquet is being prepared in the Western world, and everybody is invited. God is hosting this banquet. I have been the object of controversy and persecution wherever I go, but for God, who is most important at that banquet? What kind of affair would last night’s God and Freedom banquet have been without Reverend and Mrs. Moon? You and God have been putting forth all your efforts to bring it about, but still, there must be a central figure. The True Parents occupied that position, so True Parents made it a success.

The entire communist world today fears me most because they know that I alone have the strategy and ideology that can defeat them. Within the communist world there is one group which really hates communism: the children of the communist bosses. They know the failure of communism, to which their parents have been devoted. They know that their parents have been trying to discredit and destroy me, so they automatically consider me their ally. That second generation of the communist world will eventually have no recourse but the True Parents. Here they will see a new age dawning.

So the end of communism has been declared. Secular humanism cannot solve the world’s problems, and the United States cannot survive as it is. Therefore, Godism- which is neither democracy, nor communism, nor secular humanism-is the wave of the future.

I have a problem! The United States has been coming after me, trying to grab me; likewise, the communists are trying to grab me. Should I run away now? What do you mean by “NO”? I see a lot of work ahead. People are grabbing at me, always asking me for something. They are like the two thieves with Jesus on the cross, one on his left and one on his right. Now on a worldwide scale thieves are coming after me and trying to grab me! I am overburdened; a lot of energy is needed to pull both sides of the world. Do you still want me to suffer? I am already struggling with the burden of trying to save the United States, and now the communist world wants me to save them. What shall I do? Central and South Americans, Africans and Asians are pleading with me to save their country. What can I do? Suppose there is only one rice cake and hundreds of people are asking for a piece of it? I cannot mistreat everybody, so maybe I should go away and hide!

But God’s thinking is different. He is beaming from ear to ear and rejoicing, “Finally, my day has come. I know that my son can take care of them, so now I can go and take a nap!”

Under such circumstances I cannot say, “God, I’m running away! You give me too much, I cannot bear it.” If I did that, the whole world would suffer. Unable to turn aside, I will say to God, “All right, then, but I have one request to make. You know, Heavenly Father, I have been working tirelessly for 40 years. These crops I have produced took 40 years to nurture. You know it takes time to transform people and to raise them up to be true soldiers of heaven. So how much time will You give me?”

I know God so well. His temper is quite short-far shorter than mine. He longs for this whole fallen world to be transformed into heaven in a flash, but I don’t have a large enough foundation yet to do that. On the other hand, I cannot ask Him for another 40 years. This whole first generation would be gone by then, and I would have to start out with new babies to raise and train as soldiers over the next 40 years. I couldn’t do that. So I have to find some prepared people, arm them with the truth, and send them out to proclaim it. God needs such soldiers. Imagine what it would take to feed the four billion people in this world. To give each one three spoonfuls would require 12 billion movements!

I must push the so-called elders of the Unification Church down to the ground. When they are pushed like that, what kind of position do you have? You may be thinking, “Boy, Father told us that good times are ahead, and we’ve been waiting for them. But Father, what are you saying now? More indemnity?”

I told you that a good time was coming, and what I meant was the end of persecution. That does not mean you are going to be idle; I never promised that. The time has come for Moonies to have pride in themselves. That is the true good time. It is good to be proud of being a Moonie, but when you see the size of the task before you, you may feel like running from the avalanche! As I said, I feel like hiding somewhere. Are you thinking that way too?

I truly feel that my worldwide indemnity path is over. God knows it, and I am sure that He is ready to give me a vacation. Not only that, but also a bonus ticket to go anywhere and buy anything I want! But I would have to say to God, “I have a problem. I can’t take a vacation. Look at my children, the Moonies. They all want to accompany me wherever I go!” Is that true?

An infant needs frequent bottles and diaper changes, so I can understand when a baby cries out to be with his mommy or daddy wherever they go. But you are all grown up now; you no longer need bottles or diapers. So if you try to follow me, I will push you away and protest, “Why are you trying to follow me and make me suffer more? Don’t you know I already suffered enough?” That is how I feel today.

This is a critical moment for the Unification Church because we are on the threshold of a gigantic liftoff. If we misjudge things, we will crash. Mount McKinley is the highest peak in the United States. But such an imposing mountain must have extensive roots. A high mountain needs a corresponding foundation underground. So, too, you must have a spiraling effect and encompass larger and larger areas, embracing whole countries, such as the United States, in your circle. To save people means to embrace them.

Have you lost your courage? Those who attended the banquet last night, how did you feel? It was an incredible scene. Mother and I had not time to eat! The ministers were supposed to be eating, but they weren’t either. They were continually coming to have their pictures taken with us, to shake hands with us. I observed a contrast between the Unification Church members and the ministers last night. The ministers were trying to reach out and touch my hand. One told me, “Reverend Moon, I must embrace you.” But when the Unification Church members came up, they just stood humbly with lowered heads, as if asking, “Father, what is the indemnity today?”

You say I always send you out to do fundraising and witnessing, but it is precisely because of those activities that today’s phenomena are occurring. Aren’t you proud of what you are? Those ministers wonder how in the world I can train such bright and capable young people to do such a drastic thing as fundraising! They are amazed, and they feel that the same order will soon come to them. They are trying to get ready! Soon they will seek out people to teach them fundraising techniques. Who are those teachers? You are. Will you be ready when they ask you to teach them?

You have to be able to exercise authority. You need to be able to educate ministers. Can you? You want to be trusted, don’t you? So I must test you. The next several months will be your test. Can you pass it, or will you make excuses and try to escape things like fundraising? You know, you have lied to me many times. So often, you have answered yes. You have said, “Trust me, Father,” and I trusted you, over and over again. But your promises always ended up empty.

Even after all my persecution, I feel no bitterness. Now I want you, too, to be vindicated and to be in a position to forgive others. I want to be able to present you proudly to the world as my fruit. I knew that while you were resting, if I didn’t do certain things, this nation would go down the drain. I could not expect somebody else to do it. I had to do it myself. So I poured out my energy, and tens of thousands of our members elsewhere made incredible sacrifices as well.

It is so amazing that even the communist countries have now become helpless and unable to unravel their own problems. They see me as their only help. Red China is one example. Even leaders in the free world are thinking that way. They have tried every possible solution and nothing worked; so now they see me as their hope.

I knew this would happen, so I did not want to be dependent on any nation or government. Many nations in the free world have a lot of power. But I always felt that I would build up still greater strength. Even in the fields of scientific research and technology, I am becoming very influential. There is a lot you don’t know about in this area. You don’t realize what I am really doing.

At the head table last night, there were about 40 people, most of whom I had just met for the first time. But they felt they had known me for ten years. There were scholars, politicians, ministers and other types of people. They were aware of what I had been doing in different fields.

Do you want me to run away and hide somewhere? There is one simple solution. When only one person bears a burden, it is huge. But if we chop it into pieces and each one of you picks up one piece, we can carry it, right? Will you ask for the smallest or the largest piece’? The Japanese people are very logical and clever, so they may think that since their bodies are smaller, they naturally deserve a smaller piece. Are you Americans saying, “We are big people, so give us a big piece”? The clever Japanese know that the more results they bring, the more their storehouses will be filled. So they will work like ants, trying to bring in the largest pieces of responsibility into their granaries. Will you Americans stand back and say, “We Americans are very noble and dignified; you Japanese go ahead and take it”? What kind of dignity is that? If your wife is taken away, your children are starving, your country is in flames, and all the people are being destroyed, what dignity will you have? What will you do then?

All this time, the Japanese people have been ahead of everybody else, always going to the front line. Don’t you want to change that now? You Americans should take the front line now, don’t you agree? Those Americans who want to be on the front line, please stand up. I want to see you. All right, sit down. Those who did not stand up, stand up now.

Should I stay here or go away? It is a pleasure to stand back and watch you do the front-line work; then I am in a sort of retired position! I am in vacation attire today. I took off my sock. If that were the way to save the world, how easy it would be! I could take off both socks. If I could deliver a sermon wearing only swimming trunks and save the world that way, I would do that. If disco-dancing would bring salvation, I would do that.

I told the Japanese members they may disco-dance, as long as men and women do not touch each other. They are holding an international dance contest. Healthy and beautiful men and women are dancing, but without touching. There shall be no disco conference for the United States movement yet. I have allowed it in Japan because the Japanese people have been working just like ants!

So you Americans please listen to me. Would you like to be defeated in a contest between the American and the Japanese movement’? Do you want to challenge them? The contest will be one of achievement. When you answer yes, what you are actually saying is, “Father, we will take over your job. If you go away, there will be no problem. If you stay here, we are happy.” Is that right? In a way, you are inheriting my mission. I have earned this inheritance over the past 40 years, and I would like to turn it over to you in three and a half years. Of course, there are less than three and a half years remaining, but in this short time left, I would like to be able to bestow this inheritance upon you.

This is Canaan time. On the universal scale, we are entering the land of Canaan. Therefore, this is the crucial time. Yesterday I spoke about this. Please don’t look back to Egypt. We must look forward to the new tradition of Canaan which we need to establish. That shall be done by 1988.

The heavenly four-position foundation must be firmly grounded in the land of Canaan. Two threads alone cannot form a strong rope; at least three are needed. Then multitudes can be added to it. Each time we twist the rope, it will become stronger. The heavenly four positions are the core of that rope. When the four-position rope is turning, you can add anything to it and it will be absorbed. Societies, races, nations and the world can all be entwined and digested.

Upon my return from Danbury, a new era of family mobilization has begun. The past was the era of individual mobilization. But now we will mobilize families. I know that many people have said negative things about mobilizing entire families, but you will see the incredible results in a few years. Once we win the victory of Canaan as family units, the international settlement will take place. We will be able to transform this world into a heavenly one.

The time has come. This is a wonderful time for witnessing. Witnessing used to be your daily cross; you suffered constant rejection. But not any more. People are hungry and waiting for your message. You will be welcomed and the name of Reverend Moon will be respected. The name Sun Myung Moon has been resurrected. This is the final stage of the dispensation. Therefore, if you can fulfill it successfully, the era of paying indemnity will end and restoration will be consummated.

I always take the initiative. I determine to work with my own hands to save any situation-any community, society, nation or world. You should feel that way too and make the same determination. Do you want me to stay here and see what great things you are doing? Must I watch over you, or can I leave without any problem? Our international church leaders always come to me and beg for my help. But that era is over. You are now on your own two feet. You leaders must feel you can do it. Do you follow? Do you want to help me? How much? It is easy to say yes, but the deeds are difficult.

Please pledge to be responsible for 360 homes, for your community. Please make a resolution with your hearts to mobilize totally for this final march toward the land of Canaan.

Those who say, “Yes, Father, we want, to mobilize for this march into Canaan,” stand up, please. Now we have stood up.

Those who say, “Father, we are absolutely sure that we can do it,” raise your hands. Thank you.

## HOLY WATER CEREMONY

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### August 20, 1985, 1:00 A.M.
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Thank you for your support and prayers. Because of them, I have successfully and victoriously completed the entire providential course in prison. However, instead of sharing my experiences in prison with you, I would like to spend this time giving you a special message about Il Seung Il, or Total Victory Day, which I proclaimed on August 16.

As you know, God’s providence in history has been one of restoration. Since the fall involved the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, only someone in their position can fulfill the restoration process. Since the fall, people on every level have been divided into enemy camps: parents vs. children, husband vs. wife, brother vs. sister, nation vs. nation, race vs. race. All the relationships that God originally created degenerated into enmity. These enemy camps can return to the heavenly side only through a restoration process.

God needs a chosen people to spearhead this process and to fulfill a special mission. The history of restoration focuses on the chosen people. The first victor over Satan was Jacob, so he received the name Israel. From him, 4,000 years of restoration began. Then, 2,000 years later, the Messiah came to the world. The Messiah is the one anointed with the mission of consummating restoration. That mission includes restoring Abel-type fallen people to the heavenly lineage. To be liberated from Satan’s camp, our lineage has to be transferred from its satanic origin to a heavenly origin. This is the basic flow of providence. The Messiah bears the pure heavenly lineage, into which we need to be engrafted.

Providence can also be summarized as the restoration of Cain and Abel. As you know through the Principle, we have to pass through God’s indirect dominion in order to enter His direct dominion. Originally, the elder son should have guided people through the indirect dominion. Had the fall not happened, the elder son, Cain, would have led his entire family into God’s direct dominion. However, the fall occurred at the top of the growth stage, so everything below that level was invaded and claimed by Satan. Satan violated God’s indirect dominion and also the elder son. Therefore, the responsibility was passed on to the second son, although that was not God’s original ideal.

Thus, in the course of providence, the birthright must be restored by the second son, Abel, who has to go to the satanic world and claim the birthright of the elder son; then he can return to God’s side and rise to the position of first son. The restoration process means that the elder son must take the lower position of second son and the second son be elevated to the elder son’s position. Although this is unnatural, the fall made it necessary. Only through such a process can the second son fulfill the principled role of elder son. Originally, the task of fulfilling human responsibility rested primarily on the elder son, although there would have been no fundamental distinction between the two, since both would have been on God’s side and had equal value. However, because of the fall, Satan took over the elder son’s position.

This pattern also applies to the relationship between your physical body and your spiritual body. God created the physical body first, so it is in the “elder son’s” position, and Satan always works through it. The spiritual body is in the “second son’s” position. The physical body can relate with all things of creation, since it has elements that correspond to the physical world. But if you merely follow the desires of your physical body, which has been invaded by Satan, you will never be able to restore yourself. You have to deny your physical body. This is the reason why all major religions have taught the subjugation of the body to the will of the spirit. Within this indirect dominion of God, there is no true freedom. Absolute freedom can be found only when we reach God’s direct dominion.

God’s children forsook their original position and went to dwell in Satan’s realm. The basic struggle of history has always centered upon the second son’s efforts to win the elder son’s position. Only when that process is successful can people rise to another level in the providence. This is obvious in the story of Jacob, who first claimed the birthright of his elder brother, Esau, and finally overcame him with love-not force-winning his elder brother’s love in return. Jacob was the first person to successfully subjugate the elder brother. Jacob could not merely buy the birthright; he went to the satanic world (the land of his uncle Laban) and struggled there for 21 years in order to gain the physical victory by becoming prosperous and establishing his family. That physical victory was an absolute requirement for returning home and winning his elder brother over.

Jacob’s pattern became the classic one, followed by later providential figures. Jacob started from the individual level; what he accomplished was later expanded to the tribal and national levels. Jesus’ mission was to fulfill Jacob’s dispensation on the national level. The descendants of Jacob, the chosen people, were physically removed from their original land and taken into the enemy land, Egypt. Only after a long struggle there could they head back to Canaan. Even then, they had to fight and destroy seven enemy tribes in Canaan before they could settle the land.

God wanted to teach a major lesson through the history of the chosen people: when the Messiah comes as the True Parent, the elder and younger brothers must unite and serve him. The original ancestors were supposed to give birth to pure, heavenly children-first son, second son, and so forth. But the fall of Adam and Eve brought the Cain-Abel division into the world. Fallen parents gave birth to fallen children, who fought like enemies, culminating in Cain’s murder of Abel. As the True Parent, Jesus should not have had to deal with Cain-Abel struggles; such divisions should have been healed before the Messiah came. Before meeting the True Parent, Cain and Abel should resolve their differences and be able to stand in an unfallen position. Thus, the resolution of the Cain-Abel conflict is a crucial condition for welcoming the Messiah.

What kind of situation did Jesus encounter? The nation of Israel was in the external Cain position, and the Jewish faith in the Abel position. According to the Principle, the nation, Israel, should serve the religion, Judaism. The same applies to the situation in the United States today. The U.S. government is in the Cain position, while Christianity is in the Abel position. Who should serve whom? The nation must serve Christianity. Although that is the ideal, in reality, the government has become negative towards religion and the churches, trying to bring them under subjugation to civil authority. If the Cain-Abel unity had been achieved during the time of Jesus, Satan would have had no condition to accuse anything. The critical part of Jesus’ mission was to establish the position of True Parents, enabling all humanity to be reborn through them and the Cain-Abel conflict to be totally resolved.

But Jesus was crucified before he reached the True Parents’ position. People rebelled. instead of aligning themselves with God, Cain and Abel were used by Satan to fulfill his will. Furthermore, they united with the Roman Empire, which was in the position of fallen archangel. When all three joined in opposition to Jesus, the foundation on God’s side was lost. Therefore, history took a different direction.

After Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, he spent 40 days on earth, creating the realm of spiritual salvation. In the name of Christianity, that realm has expanded during the past 2,000 years, spreading throughout the world. Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ came as the bridegroom, but he could not take his bride. So the Holy Spirit took that position, the role of Eve, and through the spiritual give and take between Jesus and the Holy Spirit, fallen people have been receiving spiritual rebirth, and the providence has expanded to the worldwide level. Day by day, God’s providence has been growing spiritually, as Christianity expanded from a small community to a nation, to a bloc of nations, and finally to the worldwide level.

Christian prosperity reached its climax right after World War II, which was the crucial time to act to welcome the messiah. Then, Christianity was in the Abel position and the United States and the free world in the Cain position. If Cain and Abel had united and if Cain had been obedient to the direction and will of Abel, they would have formed the foundation to receive the Messiah, and the Kingdom of Heaven would have been established at that time. It would not have been prolonged until 1985. In God’s original timetable, the foundation would have been completed during the seven years following 1945. But established Christianity and the nation rejected the Messiah, duplicating the failures at the time of Jesus.

Four thousand years have passed since the time of Jacob. Until 1945 my struggle was an internal, spiritual one. I inherited the entire mission of Jesus. After setting the spiritual conditions and inheriting the mission of Jesus spiritually, I began the physical dispensation, trying to link the spiritual and physical spheres. The time was ripe; if established Christianity had united with me and the United States had accepted me, the providence would have advanced very rapidly. Even before seven years were over, the whole plan of God could have been fulfilled! But one rejection followed another, and I had to physically indemnify the whole 4,000 years since the formation of the chosen nation of Israel-all in 40 years’ time.

Since established Christianity and the United States could not fulfill their God-given responsibility, I founded the Unification Church, to substitute for Christianity, in a way, and to do what Christianity was originally supposed to have done. That has been my task over the past 40 years. My mission was to inherit Jesus’ responsibility spiritually and expand it physically to the worldwide level. Because of the rejection by established Christianity and the civil authorities of the various nations, I had to rebuild everything from scratch. Starting from the very bottom, I had to work all the way up to the worldwide level, spiritually as well as physically.

Actually, I should have been able to take the baton from Jesus and dash with it all the way to the worldwide level. But because of the rejection I encountered, I inherited not only Jesus’ national mission but also his experience of rejection. I was rejected as much as Jesus was, and beginning my mission under adverse conditions, I erected a new foundation, spiritually as well as physically. True Parents existed spiritually, but we had to lay the foundation to become the physical True Parents.

I began my ministry on the national level, and by 1974, I elevated it to the international level. I came to the United States in 1971, and for the next three years laid the worldwide foundation here, because this country represents the whole world. At that time I was welcomed by representative Christian and civic leaders. In 1975, I took the victorious international foundation back to Korea-in the form of the support of the Christian churches. By linking that international victory with Korea, I erased Korea’s former rejection and restored Korea to the victorious position.

An extraordinary thing occurred in Korea that year. The established Christian churches opposed us very strongly, but they also were against the government. The Korean government took the position of uniting with me. The Korean government and the Unification Church together won a landslide victory over the Christian churches! Through this, we achieved tremendous gain-parallel to Jesus being accepted by the government of Israel. With such a victory, I returned to the United States and launched an unprecedented campaign here.

After linking Korea with the international spiritual victory, I was ready to share the spiritual blessing with the world. But a blessing should be physical, not just spiritual. Therefore, a physical confrontation with the U.S. government occurred after I returned from Korea-a heated battle in which the U.S. government and established Christian churches in America opposed the Unification Church. In Korea, we had won over the Korean nation, the government and the people. In the United States, we waged the same kind of offensive battle, culminating in the Washington Monument rally of 1976.

I have been the champion on God’s side, and I am always amazed at how everyone has been uniting against me-the government, secular humanists, and even communists. They have joined hands in a common purpose: to fight against Reverend Moon. With the help of those factions, including various left-wing and communist elements working behind the scenes, the U.S. government succeeded in putting me in jail, believing that they would finish me off that way. Under such incredible odds, I entered prison. However, from the beginning of my incarceration a new power was given to me, a new spiritual weapon with which I launched an even greater spiritual offensive. During these past 13 months, up to this day, I have been able to transform an apparent setback into a victory.

Today I am truly in the position of worldwide Abel, and American Christianity is in the Cain position. Now Cain and Abel are going to meet. Today is the historical day when the 20th-century Jacob and Esau will reunite. In the Unification Church, I am Abel and you members are Cain. Over the past 40 years, members in the Cain position have totally united with Abel, making it possible for God to intervene and exercise direct dominion. That was the history of the Unification Church over the past 40 years.

Jesus was resurrected three days after his crucifixion, and he carried out his resurrected mission on earth for 40 days before ascending into heaven. All together, 43 days passed from Jesus’ crucifixion to his ascension; during that time he laid his foundation on earth. This year the United States is celebrating her 210th anniversary. Twenty one is a crucial number. I was supposed to be released from Danbury to the halfway house on July 8, but my strategy was for them to release me on July 4, which is the United States’ Independence Day. Since the period from July 8 until today, August 20, is 43 days, this has been my universal resurrection period. Jesus’ disciples could receive the benefits of his resurrection. However, because of my universal position as the True Parents, when we are resurrected today, not only the members of the Unification Church but also all other righteous Americans shall be resurrected, along with people in the Christian cultural sphere throughout the world. Americans totally misunderstood me. They thought I represented some kind of evil or satanic force. But after 13 months, the entire spirit world has come down, people have been educated, and Christianity has begun to realize that I am a true champion of God-not an enemy of the United States. They can see that I am actually the only hope for saving America.

These 13 months have been a very significant period. The number 13 has not been considered a very good number in Western tradition, but according to heavenly tradition, it is a great number. Thirteen represents the 12 apostles centered upon Jesus. Thirteen months represent 12 months plus one. Our situation today is entirely different from that of 40 years ago. In 1945, the Unification Church was completely rejected. Since then, people have tried their own ways of salvation, and they haven’t worked out. The entire world has lost hope. People tried democracy, but it couldn’t solve their problems; people tried communism, but it couldn’t solve their problems either. The only remaining hope is the Unification Church and Reverend Moon. Therefore, even though many enemies still surround us, they have collapsed internally and are awaiting their salvation, too.

Providentially, today is a very crucial day. August 20 marks a new beginning for the Unification Church, a new era for history. From this day on, all we have to do is just march forward and be bold and strong. True Parents are truly established now. Total unity between Cain and Abel was a prerequisite.

My own children represent sinless Adam’s family. Therefore, they can follow the original pattern-elder son, second son, etc. But because of the fall, all humanity other than the True Parents’ family still belongs to the satanic lineage; they still need to restore the positions of Cain and Abel. True Parents’ family, which follows one pattern, and the fallen world, which follows another pattern, must be linked, through the True Parents’ children (in the elder son’s position) and the children of the blessed couples (in the second son’s position). The second generation of the True Parents’ family is headed up bye the eldest son, Hyo Jin. He has been working as the second generation leader, particularly through the international CARP movement. According to God’s timetable, before 1985 ended, I needed to unite all the second generation members in our church from Korea, Japan and the United States. The order and discipline of the second generation must be established.

Those who entered Canaan after the Exodus were from the second generation. The first generation pioneered the way, but they all faltered in the wilderness. Even in the case of Christianity, Jesus and his disciples were the first generation, spiritually speaking, and all the Christians after them are in the second-generation position. Thus Christianity is, in a sense, a second-generation culture.

So second-generation unity between True Parents’ children and the international blessed children was necessary. This now establishes the true order of True Parents’ tradition, the one which should have been established under sinless Adam and Eve. Now it will no longer be necessary for the second generation and beyond to go out and fight in the satanic world to bring the victory. Cain and Abel must be united for the proper installation of the True Parents’ position, but no longer will it be necessary to struggle to switch the positions of Abel and Cain, because the right order has been established: the True Children are in the elder son’s position and the blessed children are in the younger son’s position. They are automatically elder and younger brothers. Upon that unity, the True Parents can stand.

This summer extraordinary things happened. I sent Hyo Jin to Korea to direct a special workshop for the second generation, uniting them for the first time. Previously, each was heading in his own direction, and there was no discipline among them. But now they have been brought together in a certain order. It is significant that this happened while I was serving my prison sentence, because after Jesus’ crucifixion, all his disciples separated and ran away. Now, during my incarceration, the blessed children from around the world came together, to the central point, instead of running away.

At the time of the True Parents, everything has been won back and consummated during my stay at Danbury, representing the crucifixion. This is vitally important. August 15, 1985 was the 40th anniversary of Korea’s liberation. I sent Hyo Jin back to Korea to lead a 40-day workshop for the second generation. Not only did they unite centering upon the True Parents, but their parents also are united. The same thing happened in Japan. Hyo Jin went to Japan and spoke at the international CARP convention, leading an extraordinary ministry there for ten days, bringing revival to the entire Japanese movement.

I instructed him to return by August 15. Then on August 16, I held the ceremony which signified the victory. Upon the victory of Hyo Jin, particularly the unity of the second generation, True Parents can finally be settled; our position is truly installed. Previously, our foundation was shaky, but the second generation’s victory enabled True Parents to be truly established. Therefore, the Unification movement will advance by leaps and bounds. During the next three years, not only will opposition cease, but avalanches of people will throng to our doors!

Before August 15, another important declaration needed to be made: the dissolution of communism. This was accomplished through the second Professors’ World Peace Academy Congress in Geneva. The assembled scholars declared to the world that communism is ended! What is communism? At Jesus’ crucifixion, two thieves hung beside him, one on the right and one on the left. The thief on the right is represented today by the democratic, Christian culture of the Western world; the thief on the left, who cursed Jesus, is represented by godless communism. The Bible states that the sheep will be divided from the goats at the Lord’s coming. Today, the world is divided into two camps: the sheep, who understand and follow the shepherd, and the goats, who do not recognize the shepherd. Governments have been in the middle position; sometimes they do the greatest evil, because they bring the right and left together. The U.S. government has actually been persecuting religion and, most directly, the Unification Church.

The Unification Church and the True Parents are in Jesus’ position on the cross. The thief on the right is established Christianity (which is being more supportive of me.) The thief on the left, instead of being communism, is now the American people, who are no longer in a position to oppose me. The two sides are joining to welcome and accept me. This is happening today.

The same thing is occurring worldwide and also within the Unification Church. On my right side are my own children, and on my left side, the members of the Unification Church. Both are uniting in support of True Parents. This follows God’s timetable, which called for internal and external unity upon my release from prison. Following my victorious liberation and return from prison, American Christianity and American people are welcoming me externally, while internally, my children and the Unification Church members are coming together. Thus, both internal!) and externally, the True Parents are welcomed and glorified.

We are drawing a gigantic cross within the great circle embracing the Unification Church, both True Parents’ family and members, and the entire world, both Christianity and the world’s people. All are encompassed within this huge circle. Now that I have overcome the crucifixion today, no further major opposition will come from any source.

On August 16, 1985, I conducted a ceremony at East Garden called Il Seung Il, meaning One Victory Day. “One” represents the totality, so we can translate it Total Victory Day. Now the time has come for you to take charge, in a way. Today, I proudly declare that the entire mission which God ordained for me to accomplish in the United States has been victoriously fulfilled. We are entering the land of Canaan. What remains ahead are just battles of words-proclamations, in a way. We are still waging war, but using true love as our only weapon. When you become the embodiment of true love, the entire world shall be conquered. Satan fears the power of true love, because nothing can prevail against us.

Because of the fall, 12 tribes on Cain’s side opposed 12 tribes on Abel’s side. There have been divisions on all levels. But now is the time for unity. Upon my victorious foundation, the 12 tribes each of Cain and Abel shall become one system. No longer shall we have separate Cain and Abel systems. Whatever is bound on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever is loosed here on earth shall be loosed in heaven-that is the Principle. Once tribes are reorganized under the True Parents, the spirit world shall be reorganized that way as well. The 12 tribes of both worlds shall be united. In the spirit world, everybody has been an individual; no one could enjoy family life. However, the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven is the family. Once the family organization is made here on earth, the spirit world shall also be organized into families.

Please guard your attitude. When the Israelites were first pulled out of Egypt, their spirits were strong for the first few days because they were so excited. The Red Sea had parted for them, and everything was thrilling. But as soon as they entered the Sinai desert, they began to complain and long for their former way of life in Egypt. What happened? As long as they yearned for the old satanic culture, they could never be accepted in the land of Canaan. Therefore, those born in Egypt all perished before reaching Canaan.

Likewise, what we need is a total detachment from the past. Don’t long for your previous ways of life. Follow the new tradition totally, creating a brand new system. In order to make this turning point more obvious and dramatic, I held a special ceremony on August 16 at East Garden, called the Holy Water Ceremony.

As you know, the human body is approximately three fourths liquid, or water. By receiving this Holy Water, we can spiritually cleanse our bodies from the past and become new creatures in God’s sight, totally acceptable to Him. At your Blessing, you receive the Holy Wine, which signified your transfer from the satanic lineage to the heavenly lineage. Although such a change did happen, still your body has been living in and interacting with the satanic world. The possibility always existed for your body to be attacked and even violated by Satan, as you know.

You still have your old attachments. You say things like, “Oh, I just can’t live without a hamburger!” or, “I have to get some ice cream!” or, “That leader is an Oriental and I don’t like him!” All such statements are traditions from Egypt-not Canaan traditions. Do you understand? The American way of life appeals to people: “Let’s have fun! Let’s be happy! Why not?” But seeking fun alone cannot bring about any true accomplishment. I want to see especially you American members filled with longing for the Canaan culture, having no desire for the traditions of Egypt. We are living in a tragically mixed up world. None of you deeply understand the meaning of the situation of Cain and Abel. So I want to simplify it and explain several key principles which you can follow.

Where shall the Kingdom of Heaven begin? Up in the air? In spirit world? No, the Kingdom of Heaven begins on earth, with True Parents. Next come the True Children. True Parents and True Children must not live in fear of communism, or the Mafia, or secular humanism! We can never be victorious with such an attitude. We have to take charge and proclaim the destruction of evil. We have to take the initiative, and not remain passive. We will not beg others for help or mercy. The satanic tradition always seeks to exploit others and take things away from them, but all that the True Parents are giving has its root in true love.

You are now ushering in a wonderful new era. By 1988, world communism will be more than 70 years old; its power cannot go beyond 70 years and take over the number 8, which signifies a new beginning. By 1988 we will be capable of transforming the United States into a truly heavenly nation. The task is yours, as well as mine. At the same time communism is decking, we will realign America in the right direction.

I often have had to suffer by myself, including this most recent incarceration. If you want to reach and even surpass my standard and my achievements, then the restoration of the United States will pose no problem. Now I am issuing your marching orders. Anybody who opposes us does so out of ignorance. We have to confront them and educate them, showing them the truth about ourselves. This is how we can win.

When I came to the United States, I laid a very strong tradition. Now you must inherit and embody that tradition and dash forward with it. This is your time to run. This is the meaning of the Il Seung Ceremony, or Holy Water Ceremony.

Tonight we are going to conduct this ceremony. Those couples who are not eligible should not partake of the Holy Water. You should repent and be cleansed if your relationship with your spouse has been terrible. If you have wished that he or she would drop dead or just never come home, you should repent very strongly. With such an attitude you are in no position to receive this water.

Through the Holy Water you will inherit what I gained during the past 40 years. By bestowing this Holy Water, I am passing on to you this victorious legacy free from any accusation by Satan. Satan’s tactic is always to divide and conquer, but ours is to unite and harmonize.

This ceremony is to bring husband and wife together, to bring families together, and to bring spiritual and physical children (who are in a Cain-Abel relationship) together. In order to fulfill the Cain-Abel providence, I could not love my Abels before I had loved my Cains. My whole effort was focused on loving Cain, so I had no time to pay attention to Mother or my own children. Now upon this victorious foundation, I can embrace my own family, and you can too. You can now love your spiritual children and your physical children. Until now, we have all been working as individuals, leaving the family behind and letting them bear the cross while we go out and witness. But from now on, families will work together as a unit, going out to witness and fulfill your mission.

What do you blessed families want me to do now? I am sure you would want me to bless the land. Everybody longs to return to their hometown. So far, the policy of the Unification Church has been to leave our hometowns, like Abraham, and go forth as sojourners. At Christmas time, I have asked you not to go home. But from now on, you may. Still, please remember that you need to be qualified as a tribal messiah when you go home. You have to uphold that position before your family and exemplify True Parents’ way of life. You men should live as a good father, you women as a good mother, and your children as good children. Then people can observe you and learn from you. Since the family is the school of love, you need to take that school to your hometown and teach people there how to love one another, particularly how to love their husband or wife.

So I should also return to my hometown! I am in the same position as you. You no longer need True Parents, since you already organized into your families. You can manage without us, can’t you? When there is no opposition, you can gain instant results.

When you go home, you will do home church. Furthermore, you have to restore your tribe. If your family name is Smith, go and witness to the Smiths and restore them. If you are John Doe, go and bring the Does back. The job of witnessing is infinitely easier when you are not opposed. We have the message of true love; we have the tradition of the True Parents and true family. How much easier it will be when there is no opposition!

The conditions are now set up so that when you preach the Principle, people will be ready to accept and follow it. God has sent the Messiah, but had there ever been a Messiah who reached the level of True Parents and completed the heavenly four-position foundation? (No.) All humankind has been subconsciously longing for the consummation of the heavenly four-position foundation. Through you, they can meet the Messiah who has perfected it and learn his tradition. You yourselves have consummated the four-position foundation. With that foundation, you can win everything back from Satan. That is clearly the Principle view. That is true. Amen!

In conclusion, I have sent family unit messiahs throughout the world. So I am like a messiah factory, creating lots of messiahs-not just on the individual level but on the family level! The messiah must be a family unit, because Satan is powerless to infiltrate such a unit. In a family united around one God-centered messianic message, Satan can find no foothold. That is the powerful blessing coming to you now through this Holy Water. Human history has never witnessed such a thing before.

Today, August 20, is not just my day of liberation. It is also the day of your rebirth. You have passed the judgment, and now you must become powerful new messianic units, going forth to the world as its judge. You are being empowered by God and the True Parents to be the judge of the world. Once you are equipped with true love and anchored upon God, no power under the sun can prevail against you. You husbands and wives who are totally confident that you are centered upon the True Parents’ tradition and that your way of life fulfills this standard, please raise your hands. Why are you laughing? In order to give you this inheritance, I have gone to prison six times during the last 40 years. More than five years of my life have been spent in prison. Only upon such hard work and sacrifice could I give you this blessing tonight. How precious that is!

I worked myself to the bone to lay this deep foundation. That is the reality. I fear no nation or government. I have absolute confidence in this truth because I have lived it. It came through my very bones.

Spirit world is right next door, within our reach. Scientists have revealed that the size of the universe can be measured only in light years. They calculate its span as 221 billion light years. How can you control such a universe with this clumsy physical body? It is impossible. Only by the spirit can it be done. The universe is our stage. God created it for us. Are you interested? If I didn’t have my wife here on earth, I would rather go upstairs and live in that vast world!

I am a very dramatic and romantic person, but my life has been spent in total sacrifice, under the rule of indemnity. There is only one way you can realize how amazing I am. God is intoxicated with me and tells me, “My dear son, do whatever you want. It’s up to you.” The challenge is falling upon you. This is your time. Take up the challenge and claim the land. Claim the world. Do you follow?

Home church has been virtually forgotten. Who shall become the world’s parents? You must. Whatever your age, whether young or old, you are in the parent’s role. Would you like to receive this inheritance from me tonight? Once this blessing is given, the 12 tribes will be organized. Then we will move on to obtain heavenly sovereignty- one nation under God and True Parents.

If you fight with your husband or wife, you should ask your children-both spiritual and physical-to come to you; then you should bow down and repent before them. That is the only proper way to reconcile family quarrels. When the children do something wrong, they should apologize to their parents. If the husband makes a mistake, he should ask his children to go with him to the mother and bow down and apologize to her. And vice versa. In the heavenly four-position foundation, all four positions must work together, harmonized and bound together through the power of true love. According to the Principle, that four-position foundation must not be divided or separated.

Those couples who have fought among yourselves, please raise your hands. You wives who have been slapped or hit by your husband, raise your hands. Sometimes you may be struck because of your lips. The body’s first criminal is the lips-those two thin lips! The second criminal is the eyes. The man is different. You husbands who have been hit by your wives, raise your hands.

I want you to know that today is a momentous day. My physical release from prison has an incredible vertical meaning. Therefore, I would like to present you with a gift. It is not a simple one, but a historical, everlasting gift. Now your challenge is how much you can expand your tradition within your lifetime. That will determine your territory in spirit world. So far, nobody has had any territory or ownership in the spirit world. You must go there and stake your claim. Many years from now, we will all be up in heaven. I will have a palace there, and you will be able to come and see me. I don’t want you to come to me in need. Please earn your spiritual assets here on earth. That is why I have worked so hard here on earth. Until I became victorious here, nothing could be victorious in spirit world.

This morning I told the leaders at East Garden that they can be proud that they are elder, blessed members of the Unification Church. But at the same time, they need to be able to go down to the very bottom. Don’t just try to enjoy your position at the top of the mountain. Every mountain has a low valley. Every big tree has deep roots. You also have to anchor yourself with deep roots. The most dangerous time for the Unification Church will come when the United States and the rest of the world welcome us. If nobody is persecuting you, God and the True Parents will have to persecute you! It’s good that you respond by saying, “Thank you.” Say it over a hundred times.

I instructed Rev. Kwak and Bo Hi Pak to consolidate all their offices. I would like to make Mr. Pak an MFT leader-or a simple van driver. By pushing him down to the ground, I can help him deepen his roots. There is no other way. Then a new tree and new life shall spring forth. That is true. That is how nature operates.

Some blessed couples have very complicated thinking, longing for a nice apartment, perhaps. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve didn’t have an apartment! And God gave them “number 11” automobiles-their two legs. They did not need to worry about machinery. They lived in utmost simplicity. With their number 11 car, they could go everywhere. When you think in simple terms, you need not worry about anything. When judgment fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah, God gave clear instructions to Lot and his family not to look back. But Lot’s wife did, and at that moment she turned into a pillar of salt. By the same token. if I feel some attachment to Belvedere or East Garden, I should worry about becoming a pillar of salt. If I am watching myself that way, how much more you need to guard your attitude!

Do you want to embody the right tradition and receive the heavenly inheritance of true love from the True Parents and God? You understand tonight’s message, don’t you? Upon the foundation of this truth, a great time of victory is coming our way. We shall meet this new challenge. Our families shall become messianic units and go forth to the world. Shall we win the world?

Now we will conduct the Holy Water Ceremony, following the tradition of the ceremony which I held earlier with Mother and the True Children at East Garden. Husbands and wives who are here together can drink out of one cup. I will initiate this ceremony by blessing a representative of the True Children, Hyo Jin, and giving him the Holy Water. Then Mother and I will return to East Garden and you can hold the ceremony.

Let us pray.

## PARENTS’ DAY

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### April 7, 1985
World Mission Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

You make me feel very good today. Everybody looks young and bright. Today is the celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of Parents’ Day and the twenty-sixth return of this holiday. Actually, Parents’ Day falls on April 20 this year, but because of various circumstances we are gathered here today to celebrate it.

There are many organizations and churches in the world, but there is only one Unification Church. The teachings we follow are deep and profound and the things that we do are also quite deep and profound. The Unification Church has an aspect of mystery to it. For that reason, unless one actually joins the Church, he cannot fully understand it. We have our own unique celebrations and holidays based on the different aspects of our understanding of the universe and of God; an example is Parents’ Day.

Most ordinary people do not seek or require a great deal of depth or universal significance in their beliefs. They do not usually worry about the salvation of the world, but rather they are more concerned about their own salvation, their own little “cubbyhole” upstairs. That is the self-centered attitude toward salvation. Another common belief is that salvation can come only by following one’s own particular creed or doctrines.

Different religions seek salvation in different ways; Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam are trying to give the world a certain manner or way of salvation. They each look at God from their own point of view. What about the Unification Church? The Unification Church believes in a God who is the God of the universe, the God of all people. We are trying to bring together all religions into one common understanding of that universal God, into one universal faith.

Let’s say there is a mountain, like the one I have drawn on the blackboard. There are many different people climbing that mountain and many different ways to get to the pinnacle. While they are climbing, the people do not see any other ways to get to the top. But once everyone arrives at the top, they say, “Oh, these other people are here, too. They were seeking the same goal as we were.” When everybody reaches the top goal, centering on God, all humanity will arrive at the same destination. Therefore while we are striving for the pinnacle, we must try to embrace and unite with each other.

Everybody wants to claim that his religion is the closest one to God. For instance, established Christianity or Islam or Buddhism try to claim the closest position to God. However the time will definitely come when we all arrive at the pinnacle and meet each other.

Human beings fell from their original position; from that point the journey of humanity began and it has continued to this day. That journey is destined to arrive at its ultimate terminal. When humanity arrives at that terminal, everyone will realize that all people have a common destiny. Then the question arises: are there several different kinds of salvation, or only one? If anybody thinks there is more than one kind of salvation, he is denying the unique and absolute nature of almighty God. If God indeed exists as the Creator of all, then He must have one ideal, one purpose of creation, not two or three. Thus He has absolutely one, and only one, plan of salvation and one purpose, one goal.

If you ask most religious people, “How many purposes of salvation does God have?” they will not be able to answer. Not only that, they will not expect to hear such a question. Most people have never thought about such a thing. However, there is one God, one purpose and one salvation. God has His own purpose, His own ideals, and therefore God has His own destination or goal to achieve. That is what we call His dispensation.

As far as God is concerned, there is only one purpose and one will to achieve but people can look at that will from many different levels. People can say there is the individual purpose, the family level purpose, the national level purpose and the purpose on the level of the world. Also different religions interpret God’s one will according to their own viewpoints: the Christian way; the Islamic way; the Buddhist way, for example.

If there is one God, one will, and one salvation, would the individual path be different from the family path or the national path? Would they all go in different directions or should they all go in one direction? When we come to the final destination, the mountain top, then we can see whether the dispensation level is based on the individual, the family, tribe, nation, or world, centered upon the same axis. The circle gets bigger and bigger, but the center is always the same.

We might draw a diagram representing this. You can see that different sizes of circles can be drawn, but they always share the same central point so many different circles can surround the same center. If God exists, then He must be at the center point. We can draw a line representing the vertical line from God down to the earth. Everything shares the same vertical line, the same axis. The individual is represented by a small circle while the world is a large circle, but they have the same axis coming down from God to the earth.

Since God is in the center coming down in spirit to the earth, that line is a straight vertical line. God is at the top position and man is in the lower position. But then you can draw a horizontal line intersecting that vertical line at a 90 degree angle. On a graph, you would have four 90 degree angles, making a total of 360 degrees. In that case, God would be on the right and man on the left. There is always a complementary, subject/object relationship-either vertically or horizontally.

With that one vertical line and one horizontal line, you can draw circles. The individual level is represented by a small circle; the family level is a larger circle; then the tribe, nation, and world are larger and larger circles. Within the dispensation of God are contained the salvation of the individual, family, nation, and world. That is reflected in the actual happenings here on earth. The same thing on the vertical level is true on the horizontal level.

When we have lots of different and complicated kinds of circles all over the place, where should their center be? Should it be way up in the sky, or what? And what do you think, should the overall form be like a square, or a perfect circle, or what? The circle is always an ideal shape. All the actions of the different size circles should come together and create a larger circle. When the horizontal line comes to its limit, it has to turn around in a circular motion; it cannot just shoot backwards.

In the movement of the heavenly bodies, for example the solar system, there is a certain pulling and pushing force that creates a harmonious circular motion. Scientifically speaking, the ideal motion is circular because that is a permanent, perpetual motion. Therefore, everything that moves in the universe is trying to achieve that circular motion.

God created many kinds of motion and dispenses many types of energy. What is the most powerful form of energy that God dispenses, besides the power of love? There is the power of life, or the maintenance of existence. What else is a form of God’s energy? There is a certain energy to pursue the ideal; that is another form of power. People continually aspire to find something better; we always pursue goodness, moving toward absolute goodness. Even when we reach absolute goodness, we don’t want to come down from it; we want to continue in that absolute state forever.

Thus God has these types of power: the power of ideal, the power of existence, and the power of love. Among all these powers, which do you think is the central power, the core of God’s energy? It is the power of love. What is the difference between true love and not-so-true love? Basically everybody is pursuing love. A young person will say, “I am in love. I would give up my life in order to achieve the fulfillment of that love.” But the question is, is that person pursuing true love or another kind, a not-so-true love? We have to ask that question. What is the quality of love that a person is pursuing?

What is the definition of true love? First of all, in order to be truly loved, you need someone else with whom to have give and take. You cannot be in love all by yourself. This principle applies even to God. God cannot derive joy from love when He is all by Himself. God doesn’t sit on His throne and say, “I am almighty and I am enjoying absolute love.” No matter how hard He might try to be happy all by Himself, He couldn’t find happiness. If God didn’t need an object, would He be a normal or an abnormal God? He would be abnormal, even a crazy God. The normal way is to need an object; if God did not feel the need for an object, He could not succeed. He would be a crazy God. Do you want the love of a crazy God? No, you want the normal, absolute and true love. Why is that?

In order for God to be the absolute God of true love, where should you be in relation to Him? You should be object to God, as your subject. Because God as a subject needs an object and without that object cannot fulfill His love, you are in the position to be the object of God’s love.

As we have said, God has different kinds of power, the power of existence, the power of ideal, and the power of love. Are these three powers going in different directions, or shouldn’t they be harmonized and pursuing one common direction? Who determines their purpose? I want you to understand that in order for God’s power of existence to have meaning, it must have a center, a common purpose, a goal. That should be the ideal. Where can we can we find that ideal state, in terms of existence and this ideal power? It can be found in true love. Therefore, love determines the goal, the purpose; love is the center.

When you are sincerely pursuing the goal of true love, even though you may be living all by yourself, all things will come and fulfill you. For example, if a husband and wife must live separately but they have a common purpose and ideal in fulfilling their love in their relationship, they can always feel that someone loves them. They can feel an exhilaration because of that.

Even the energy of existence is always saying, “I want to exist for some purpose.” The energy of existence must have some motivation and that motivation must come from love. Furthermore, the energy to seek the ideal must also have a certain motivation, a certain desire to perpetuate itself for eternity. What will ignite or provide such a motivation? What will give you such a central purpose? It is only true love that can give such incredible power of motivation.

Happiness cannot come until one’s existence and ideal meets with the permanent ideal of true love. Then you are in a position of object so that you can have permanent give and take with the permanent subject, in terms of true love. That alone can engender happiness for every man and woman. You recognize the absolute Being as the subject who has an absolute purpose for existence. The purpose for the ideal, and then when you make yourself the object to that entity, you can truly talk about happiness.

Even the ideal, absolute God needs an object in order to fulfill His ideal purpose. He cannot fulfill His joy without an object. Thus He had to either go out and find His object or create one. Do you think God has a shopping center in which He could buy an object for His love? What about this-suppose there were two Gods, one to play the role of object and the other the role of subject. How about that? If that were the case, there would be two Pluses in the universe. Plus repels plus, so there could not be harmony and unity unless one God were the minus God, or the object God. Thus, what God needs is a minus God and since He has no shopping center to buy such a thing, He decided that since He was almighty, He would create His own. That is what almighty God determined to do. The creation is none other than God’s effort to create for Himself a minus God with whom to have a relationship.

Which is plus in the terrain: the tall mountain or the valley? It is the mountain. Harmony is the key word. Harmony cannot be created with just flat terrain. You need both the valley and the mountain. Likewise, when a person dances, one arm moves in one direction while the other arm moves in a complementary direction. Rhythm gives harmony; one is up and the other is down, one is front and the other is rear. Harmony creates joy.

What about you women? You are created to be in the position of minus. Why is that? Do you have some philosophical reason for it? I have already given you the answer: it is for the sake of harmony and oneness. If everybody and everything were identical, men and women, God and human beings, and so forth, there would be no harmony and no joy. There must be up and down, there must be differences between plus and minus in order to create harmony.

What about two extremely beautiful women having a loving relationship with each other, touching each other’s hands and so forth? Is it natural for two women to say, “We have so much in common. Your hands are soft and so are mine. Your skin is like silk and so is mine. Your voice is high and soprano and so is mine. That is why we are in harmony and we should love each other.” Is that true? No, it isn’t.

Harmony in the human body comes with the combination of flesh and bone. Flesh is soft and bone is hard. Absolute harmony engenders absolute oneness. In order to create harmony you must bring together contrasting components and unite them. That is why God created male and female with their own special characteristics. Men are supposed to be masculine and women are supposed to be feminine. When two hard objects come together and clash, what happens? Both objects can be shattered into pieces. However, when one soft and one hard entity come together, they wrap around each other. The part that wraps around on the outside is the soft minus part, while the part that goes inside, like the bones, is the hard masculine part. That is the universal formula. We cannot change that. Everything has to follow that law, even if you may not like it.

Now we shall get back to our main theme. God, in an effort to fulfill His position as plus, needed to create what we might call His minus God, which is men and women. Once He created that minus God, they turned out to be very greedy! They wanted to completely possess their plus God. What about you, do you have that greediness? All together, men and women are in the position of minus God. That is the way God created us. Therefore we are in the position of soft ground, like a soft field of love, where the hard center of love can impact. We are supposed to wrap around God.

Within God there is an internal character; He has both male and female character within Him. Basically, within the essentiality of God there is the subject portion and the object portion, the plus portion and the minus portion- internal character and external form, as you all know. These all harmonize and create one giant Plus character. By the same token, within the human world, there must be a subject character and an object character, a plus character and a minus character, an internal character and an external form. When these come together, they create a great minus for that great Plus.

Human beings have the duty to reflect God’s image in perfection. So within mankind, there is the plus aspect- men-and the minus aspect-women. Therefore, men are in the subject position and women are in the object position. That is the natural order. In order to imitate God. we must relate in that way and create harmony. Women are destined to be the object. No matter how beautiful a woman you might be, you must search after your subject of love. Even if that man is ugly, the object needs its subject, according to God’s concept. Thus a contrast might exist-one might be absolutely beautiful and the other absolutely ugly. What do you American women say to that?

The perverted love between people of the same sex is never a true love; such relationships were never supposed to exist, according to God’s thinking. We must create an ideal formula that will live up to God’s expectations. That is the duty and responsibility of human beings. The ultimate destiny of man is to receive the love of God. our ultimate subject. In order to reach the love of God, we must come together as plus and minus. This is why men need women and women need men: so that together we can create the harmony with which we can reach the love of God. That is the entire purpose of creation.

The horizontal line exists only because of the vertical line; it provides a place for the vertical line to come down and intersect. The man’s position and the woman’s position are far apart and they want to meet each other. Therefore, they have to meet in the center. There may be a lot of squabbles and fights but then when they meet at the center, true love unites them and melts them together. The desire for true love brings men and women together; no other power can bring them together. You get excited when you are ignited by true love.

God is like a guiding system for men and women, who are like missiles. He has to push them and guide them, “Your direction needs to change 50 degrees this way. You woman, you must move 10 degrees this way. Now come closer.” Finally they meet and they create a tremendous explosion, but it is not a destructive explosion; it is an explosion of love. That impact is the greatest of all. When the plus and minus come together, they need certain protection; otherwise they will be shattered into pieces. That is when God comes down. When men and women impact, they would be shattered if they didn’t have God as their cushion. God gets squeezed in between the two. Not only that, God Himself is ignited with true love. Once God is ignited in that way, there is no limit to the action that can take place.

When God is squeezed by the true love of men and women, does He cry, “Ouch! I must run away!”‘? Or wouldn’t He feel intoxicated with joy’? When God is wrapped around by the true love of men and women, everybody in that embrace is permanently welded together -God, man, and woman. They never want to leave each other. God feels, “How wonderful are man and woman!”

Actually, in this sense, man can educate God because with that experience, God can know the impact of true love for the first time. Even though God is almighty, you can say to Him, “You cannot be fulfilled without us.” And God will say, “I have learned a lesson from you! I have seen that true love is even mightier than I am! True love can do something that I could not do.” But that will not cause any unhappiness for God; it will make Him totally joyful. God will have found the state of joy that He has always been seeking. Once He finds the reality of His true love He can say, “Now I have become truly almighty, having fulfilled perfection and the purpose of creation. I feel my accomplishment fully.”

Such a fulfillment of God’s true love never happened before in the entire history of creation. Why is that’? Men and women were supposed to return that true love to God but they fell. Since the fall of Adam and Eve, men and women have not been restored. That is the reason God never before came close to fulfilling His true love in the manner we have described it. Therefore, God has never fulfilled His true love through His creation. The world became satanic, completely filled with untrue, self centered love. Thus, God’s purpose has been to restore the original state of joy.

There is an incredible amount of dirtiness in mankind. We might say there is a lot of laundry to do. For that reason, God has been washing and washing the dirty linen of mankind throughout human history. The stains are so severe that a simple washing cannot suffice. God has had to unthread the fabric and reweave it with new threads. Thus God needs a factory in which He can do this remaking work. Making mankind whole has been the work of religion throughout history. We could call religion the tool of God, almost like a laundry factory. However, so tar no factory has been complete.

Each religion has been working on a different part of man. Symbolically, one religion might be redoing the right leg portion; another religion might be redoing the left leg; another religion might be doing the arms; another doing the ears; another doing the eyes, nose, and so forth. This is how the whole process of remaking was divided into different religions. All this time each religion has been working independently, without any interrelationship. Thus the left leg religion or the right leg religion thought they were the complete religion. But now the final days have come, and it is time for the complete religion to emerge.

So far in history, there has been great separation between the black and white people of the world. The white people have been in a position like the top of the mountain while the black people have been like the valley. God wanted that distinction between white and black until the time when the Messiah should come, so He allowed the two groups of people to go their individual ways in order to perfect their particular characteristics. But once the Messiah comes, he can bring them together into one beautiful, harmonious relationship. When there is a division between white and black, where would God place the axis or the center line? Of course, the center line is a horizontal line, in between. When the time comes, everybody will move toward that central horizontal line, which is the line of harmony. They will seek that line of harmony.

The world of God is a world of rhythm, so the white people should be able to come down and cross that central line and experience the valley. Then they should be able to recross the central line and go up again to the mountain. Therefore, the white people have to be prepared to come down; the black people have to be prepared to go up. This is the only way the ideal of harmony can be achieved. Oneness between black and white occurs at the point of that horizontal line. That is the meeting ground; the place for unity. This principle refers not just to the black and white relationship, but it can be expanded to all other relationships, such as Oriental and Western.

When this meeting takes place, the vertical line comes down from heaven and the center point is created. The Bible says that a person should be like a child in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven because this is when a childlike mind is necessary. A white person goes down, a black person goes up and they see each other as brothers and sisters, members of the same family, loving partners. They can weep and laugh together; they can eat together and share everything. The best way to achieve harmony between black and white would be to have a black and a white baby sucking at the breasts of the same mother.

In order to create such a total, beautiful love atmosphere, True Parents are needed. Only through the infusion of parental love can the ideal be realized. Thus the Messiah must come in the position of a True Parent. This is most crucial. Without this basic, fundamental structure of love coming down from heaven, there is no way to create harmony between such groups as black and white.

Looking at religions like factories for the recreation of true human beings, how can they transform people into truly loving human beings? It is only if people are fed by the milk of love from True Parents. That love has the power to transform the most beastly person into a true man or woman.

In a way, the Unification Church can be described as the final remaking factory for human beings. Thus when people first come here, they will be given rough treatment, like raw material, because you have to be divided into pieces; you have to give up your former self. Then you are fed by the milk of True Parents’ love for the first time in your life. Ultimately, a new person will emerge. This is almost like a beast being transformed into a new human being. This is what the Unification Church is all about.

The restoration of love is the central task for the Unification Church because that is where mankind went wrong. God gave Adam and Eve the commandment: “You can eat of all the trees, but do not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” Today’s established Christian churches do not understand that that fruit represents love. God asked Adam and Eve to maintain their purity until such time as He gave them the Blessing. When they broke that commandment, the fallen generations began.

Men and women were originally intended to be the princes and princesses of God, His own sons and daughters. But what happened? Man joined with Satan; ultimately mankind became a part of the satanic lineage. This is the reason Jesus said, “You brood of vipers. You want satanic love instead of heavenly love.” That is why people have had to shed their blood in order to cleanse it, and that is why the history of Christianity has been a history of suffering and martyrdom.

We need the final phase of the process of remaking people into whole people. The stained blood lineage of Satan must be cleaned up by that process. You have to know clearly what is the responsibility of the Unification Church: we must liberate mankind and God with true love.

Therefore, the greatest of all revolutions has been ignited by Reverend Moon. He is teaching the way to eliminate man’s satanic lineage and restore the heavenly lineage. But of course Satan does not want Reverend Moon to succeed; the satanic world hates Reverend Moon and thus they put him into jail in Danbury. It is quite an irony that I had to come out of prison in order to speak to you on Parents’ Day. They thought that by putting Reverend Moon into Danbury they would finish him and the Unification movement. But on the contrary, I have been using Danbury as my heavenly weapon to facilitate our progress. A great victory has already been won through Danbury. Danbury has been a powerful weapon for God. Now God is directing mankind to the new way of salvation. This new way of salvation requires the unity of Cain and Abel.

Where should we go? In the original concept, God and the archangel, Cain and Abel, and Adam and Eve were all supposed to be united. But instead they became divided against each other and enemies, because of the fall. The Cain and Abel struggle has grown now to the worldwide level, with the free world representing the Abel camp and the communist world representing the Cain camp. The central nation in the free world is the United States of America; within the United States, Christianity is in the Abel position and the government is in the Cain position, virtually trying to exterminate Christianity. This is happening because these are the Last Days.

Unless Cain and Abel arc united, there is no way for humanity to return to the True Parents’ ideal. Therefore, what is happening in our world today’? All the barriers on every level-religious barriers, national barriers, racial and cultural barriers-are being torn down. Thus people can more easily communicate and become one. Satan knows that we are approaching the final stages of restoration and therefore he is administering his final blows through the destruction of love. Love has become extremely degraded and perverted. Free sex is completely opposed to God’s morality and that is one way Satan is trying to block God’s dispensation. Knowing that this is the time of total destruction of the love tradition of the world, the Messiah is pursuing this most crucial aspect of recreation. The Unification Church and Reverend Moon have been trying to accomplish the restoration of true love within this society.

There is a certain order and discipline which God is trying to restore. For example the relationship between men and women, especially here in America, has been confused. But in God’s world there is no confusion. Man is in the position of subject and woman is in the position of object. This is a universal truth.

Both men and women are necessary in God’s creation; it is like a cosmic miracle. If there were no women or no men, humanity could not continue. Marriage within the Unification Church has an extraordinary meaning. A man represents the plus part of the universe; a woman represents the minus part of the universe. When God brings them together into harmony, the fulfillment of His joy can come about. The mass weddings of the Unification Church are guided by this particular philosophy and purpose.

When a man and woman come together in love, a tremendous universal spark is created but that spark requires the input of God. Human love alone is like the horizontal light, the simple light. When man’s love combines with woman’s love, it creates a base for the vertical love to come down and hit that horizontal love. Then it is like a rainbow of light and spreads all over the world. Everything in creation will open its mouth and joyfully welcome that light, crying, “Oh! Come into me, beautiful light!” Only that perfect light can fill up everything, everywhere.

Love is precious but no one has truly known how precious until Reverend Moon came. Love is something we cannot buy even with the whole universe. People never knew that the proper cosmic beginning could not be made. That proper beginning had to be centered upon the love of the ideal man and woman. Through Reverend Moon, this secret was revealed in detail and Moonies came to be convinced of its validity. That’s why the Moonies can be so strong and brave.

Wherever true love goes, it causes recreation and transformation. No matter which continent it touches- Africa, South America, Asia-it does the same thing. Therefore, the Unification Church is bringing rebirth and regeneration to humanity. Without experiencing true love here on earth, no one is allowed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world. For that reason, the Kingdom of Heaven has been empty until now. The keys to that Kingdom were given to Peter while here on earth.

The entire teaching of the Bible is centered upon one key point: the fulfillment of true love. Jesus came to expound on true love. True love can never be possible here on earth unless True Parents are here. This is a key truth. The fulfillment of true love means the fulfillment of the ideal of the True Parents here on earth.

The Bible teaches that in the Last Days the bridegroom and bride must come. That means the basic contents of the Bible require the restoration of the original love place. The Bible teaches that in the Garden of Eden, there were two trees, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. Established Christianity has not understood clearly what these two trees symbolize, but we know that they symbolize ideal men and women and father and mother-the parents.

At the time of the Exodus, when Moses was leading his people through the wilderness, they were guided during the day by a pillar of smoke and by night by a pillar of fire. These pillars symbolized the True Parents, the father and mother who would come to lead humanity to the promised land. Furthermore, when Moses went up to the top of Mount Sinai and received the Ten Commandments, they were inscribed on two tablets of stone. Why were there two tablets? They symbolized the father and mother, the True Parents, the full embodiment of the word of God.

The dispensation for that time, the time of Moses and the Exodus, was parallel to and symbolic of this time of the True Parents. For example, they had a tabernacle and they carried the tablets of the Ten Commandments inside of it. That tabernacle represents the temple of God and within that temple were the symbols of the True Parents. There was also the manna that came down from heaven, by which God fed the people. Moses used his staff to guide them along their way. That is symbolic of heaven and earth coming together-man and the things of nature coming together.

The Exodus of Moses was symbolic of the course of the True Parents. God knows that the only way to fulfill His dispensation is through the True Parents. Thus Moses’ course was like a symbolic teaching for humanity, so that they could be prepared for the coming of the Messiah. Of course, the Messiah they were looking for at that time was to be Jesus. God educated the Israelites in that fashion so that they would be ready for the advent of the Messiah, Jesus, who was supposed to fulfill the ideal of True Parents.

As God taught during the time of Moses, absolute faith and obedience were necessary ingredients for the fulfillment of the Messiah’s goal. But that faith and obedience were not exhibited at the time of Jesus and thus everything was destroyed. The ideal of True Parents was not fulfilled and only spiritual salvation was possible. Since physical salvation could not happen, the Messiah had to come again; that is the Second Advent. It was the tragedy of humanity that we had to wait for the Second Coming.

Who is Satan? He is the criminal who stole love away from God; he became the enemy of God’s love. Therefore, for that crime there can be no compassion, no forgiveness. The fundamental point of the battle within our society is the struggle for love. Satan is trying to pervert love and make it his, while God is trying to restore love into its heavenly and pure state.

If anybody is proud of himself, then I want to ask him to ask God about himself. God will say, “You cannot be proud of yourself. You were born of satanic lineage.” Reverend Moon is not a mediocre and compromising man. God needs people like Reverend Moon because I am absolutely committed to His work. Many people might say that I am too harsh or too strong, but that is the prescription this world needs. People come into the Unification Church with spiritual stains on them and Reverend Moon takes them and pounds and pounds on them until they turn into pure, clean seed.

Reverend Moon has tested this formula and it works. We can use ginseng extract as an example. The roots of ginseng are white, while its extract is black and has mysterious power. That is like black people, who have spiritual power. Black and white combine into one and what results? Together they restore the white color.

There are many holidays which people celebrate, but there has never been a day with universal value, representing the central theme of the universe, until Parents’ Day was proclaimed. There are many different days that people can commemorate, such as their anniversaries or special days of happiness; also, there are memorable days for a nation. But until this time, God has not had His own special days to remember. You have to think about that. God doesn’t have happy days to remember. Until now, God has agonized throughout history.

Originally God created man but the result was fallen people. From that point on, there were no more real men; that is why God started His recreation, His history of restoration. God wants to meet that kind of real man; He is looking to celebrate such days as Real Man Day. Real Woman Day, Real Couples Day. He is looking for the people who can combine human love and God’s love and then multiply to the family, tribe, nation, world and universe. Where can we meet this kind of person? God has been working on this throughout history. No one has understood God’s situation. There have been many philosophers on earth but they have never been able to understand the meaning of history; they have made up a lot of complicated theories.

I have not received this understanding by my own power or by the power of armaments’ but only with true love power. I have been finding disciples one by one. You have to know how much agony and how many tears are behind this Divine Principle. I have gone to jail six times; it will be almost five years all together. I am not a bad person. I know very well the pain and difficulties up to this point but you don’t know them. Now people can understand the Divine Principle doctrine given to them from God. This is a priceless gift.

You must come to realize what a precious gift you have, in terms of the Principle, the truth you have found through the teaching of Reverend Moon. It is so precious that once you realize its value, you cannot simply stand still. You should be virtually knocked over by it, thrown into a faint. That is the kind of gift you have received. Also you must know how much the True Father suffered to dig out that truth for the sake of humanity. You are the first recipients of that truth. You have to come to the realization that you are not living a normal kind of life, compared with other men and women. You are in an extraordinary, blessed position.

Through the word of God, you met the person in whom that truth is embodied. In this case, it is Reverend Moon. Through the personification of that truth, where would you go next? Your next goal is God, your ultimate destination. You must find and grab onto God. Also, every person is destined to one day become a personification of true love. But how do you really experience true love? The woman will find it through a true man, her husband; but first she has to help her husband become a true man. Then husband and wife can share true love and together become true parents.

But which level of true parents do you want to reach: the individual level, the family, tribal, national, worldwide or cosmic level? The level of cosmic true parents is the best. Have you loved humanity and the universe with the cosmic level of true love? The smaller levels of love are absorbed by the larger levels: the individual love will be integrated into the family level; the family into the tribe; the tribe into the nation. True love for the country can be fused into true love for the world; true love for the world will be absorbed by true love for the universe.

You might declare to Satan, “You cannot compete with the quality of true love that we practice:’ but Satan will laugh and say, “Are you so proud of your true love?” Further, he will say “People in the secular world celebrate their birthdays; they have parties for that purpose. What about you who regard yourselves as godly people? What is the day of your birth?” You will say, “My birthday is such and such a day.” Then Satan can say, “On that day, your parents gave you birth, didn’t they? Those parents are fallen people, so that birthday is mine, not yours, because you come out of my own lineage.”

Also, Satan will ask you, “Do you have a day on which you can celebrate your dominion over all the things of creation? Is there a day on which you were given stewardship over all things?” Even though you may consider yourself godly, you cannot say yes to that. But Satan can say, “Look, all this is mine. I can claim them and I can use everything. It is all under my domain.”

The established Christian churches cannot say, “The world is ours. Yes, we have a true birthday and we have true parents.” But Satan will say, “I claim all the nations around the world. That is my sovereignty. Where is yours?” Satan will even go to God with the question, “Do those people have their own nation?” The Christian world cannot give an answer to that. Satan will say, “I have Hell under my domain; I can put people into Hell. But what about you’? Where is your domain and your people?”

You godly people can be further confronted by Satan, who will say, “What have you accomplished? How have you succeeded’? Show me what you have done in this society.” He will say further, “Everything is in my power and under my domain. I have great loyalty from people. There are many people who have died because of their loyalty to my power. Where are the people who are giving their lives in loyalty to God? Where are those who receive decorations for such deeds?”

America is supposed to be one nation under God; that is the noble concept under which it was begun. But where is today’s America’? This country is centered upon material values and that is Satan’s domain. Virtually all of society is being influenced by moral degradation; drugs are rampant; free sex and homosexuality are commonplace. This is the basic reason why one Christian nation after another has fallen into the hands of communism. Where is the power of Christianity today? Satan laughs at God, “All right, God, show me where is Your country, where are Your people’? I know You created this world to the realization of the Kingdom of God on earth; and You said You were going to restore it and bring it to that ideal. But where is it being restored’?”

What is the day of judgment? It is the final showdown between Satan and God. It is the time when Satan will show all his cards and God will do the same. God must prepare so that when Satan shows his joker or his ace, God can pull out His card-true men and women. Then Satan will be stunned and say, “Oh, I didn’t expect that!” He will begin to retreat at that point.

Satan can show how he has destroyed family after family through his power, then he will challenge God, “Where are the families under your power?” Satan has completely divided the world-all the races, everyone and created chaos and contusion. He is triumphantly saying, “God, where is Your world’!” Don’t you think God needs a winning card to challenge Satan’s trump? Don’t you think God wants to have that kind of super trump card?

As soon as Satan sees God’s super trump cards, he will say, “Oh, no, those aren’t the right kinds of cards. You are trying to play a different game!” But God will say, “Yes, they are two different cards. My cards are the cards that will save the world. But your cards are selfish cards; you only worry about your well-being at the sacrifice of others.” And for the first time, Satan will come to realize that there is no match between him and God because their cards are entirely different. Satan has to admit that he is one of the created beings of God, and he is the one who has fallen. God will say to him, “Who are you, after all?”

Those who are working only for their own well-being, whether individuals, families, or nations, will become Satan’s trump cards. They will never become God’s super trump cards. When God displays His unselfish cards, Satan’s cards will be blown away, completely scattered. In the beginning of this card game between God and Satan, Satan had ownership of all the chips-the whole world of creation and humanity were in Satan’s camp.

Satan will show his cards first and then demand to see God’s. God will say, “Let me see your cards. Well, that card is self-centered and only worried about himself, trying to sacrifice everyone else for his own benefit. I see now very clearly that your cards are evil and fallen. In fact, they are not real cards; they are imitation. My cards are true cards. Isn’t that correct?” Even Satan will have to admit it and say, “Yes, you are right, God.”

What about the United States? is it God’s nation or Satan’s nation? It is under Satan’s domination. This whole world is under Satan’s domination. Thus people are born under Satan’s yoke; that is a fact. God lost everything to Satan; for that reason, there is no God’s day in the satanic world. There is no True Parents’ Day; there have never been any true children walking on the earth and therefore they have no Children’s Day. There has been nothing that God could claim as His own. This is the great tragedy of God: He created everything, but then He lost everything. Where is God’s nation today in the Christian domain? Is God’s Day the day on which His beloved son was killed on the cross’?

Blind faith will not work. People cannot just believe, without any scientific evidence or verification. Today everybody tries to be scientific, except when it comes to the truth about God. As twentieth century men and women, how can we abandon science when we speak about God? Many people have respect for me simply because of the logic of my teachings. I have met many theologians who lack a fundamental understanding about God. Many philosophers totally change their concepts after one meeting with me. There is no way for scholars to go except toward the Divine Principle. Many times I have asked them questions and they could not answer.

What is the Unification Church? It is a new entity. It is the new trump card that God can use against Satan. Whatever cards Satan presents, this new card of God can wipe them out. What kind of cards are you? Do you have a number? Are you an ace, a king, jack, or what? You may have a special number, let’s say an MFT card. In order to move to another department, you can receive another Unification card. But I don’t want you to turn in your card for a satanic card. Our cards have a different backing; they are coated with true love. Satan doesn’t worry about the number so much; the most important thing is the true love coating because that is what will completely defeat him.

For the first time, we can celebrate God and His day. God’s Day alone would not be sufficient because God needs to have True Parents here on earth. Therefore, we must also have Parents’ Day because that represents the victory of God here on earth. Without True Parents, there is no true love. Satan will say to you, “Do you have that kind of day? Show me your cards, then.” When you show your cards, at first they will not appear different from Satan’s cards; there are diamonds, hearts, and so forth. But when you turn them over, you will be able to show that they are coated with true love. Perhaps they aren’t completely covered, but if even one corner is coated, that will be good. Satan cannot digest that true love coating so he will draw back and retreat.

We have many unique celebrations in the Unification Church. Besides God’s Day and Parents’ Day, we have Children’s Day, Day of All Things, Foundation Day, and others. Basically, the Unification Church is centered upon two things: God and His true love. God and His true love were never fulfilled here on earth until the True Parents were established. For that reason, the Parents’ Day celebration is special. Based upon the true love of God, Parents’ Day has been installed.

Upon the victory of the True Parents and Parents’ Day, true children came into being and therefore Children’s Day came into being. Now the ownership of all things can be transferred to God and therefore the Day of All Things came into being. On that foundation, the Day of Family, the Day of the True Nation and the Day of the True World will come, even the Day of the True Cosmos. Satan says, “I have Evil Parents’ Day, Evil Everything Day.” But God can say, “Look at Reverend Moon. How wonderful he is!”

Are you excited and inspired by what I am saying? What are you stimulated by? True love? Do you have true love? Show me. Have you been educated by Reverend Moon? What is true love? You say it is God-centered, True Parents centered and so forth, but in plain language, what is true love? I will give you the answer: True love has no end; it never gets boring. You want it to continue forever; you always want more. After a hundred years, you will still want to be with your beloved. There is no way you can lose interest in one another. That is true love.

There is no hell with such love; hell becomes heaven. There are no boundaries of time, either. In the love of God, there are no dirty or ugly places in the beloved. The love of God doesn’t change, even in the bathroom. Do you think that is true’? Today’s Christianity does not really understand true love. Every individual has his or her own most holy place. The man has his most holy place and the woman has her most holy place within their own temples, their physical bodies. That holy place is the sexual organs. That is why it is so important not to misuse that area and why the punishment is so incredibly severe when you misuse it.

Individuals have to worship that holy place. Satan is attacking sexual morality so strongly and encouraging illicit love because he is trying to destroy humanity in this way. Therefore, God must restore the holy places of men and women and make them truly holy. The Blessing of God blossoms through these holy places. The key to your holy place belongs to your spouse. The holy relationship between husband and wife is completely sacred and beautiful; it must be pure and it must be disciplined.

My own life has been full of suffering, particularly since I learned the overwhelming truth. I have been trying to live that truth and to do that, I have gone to the lowest, most miserable places in human society. Sometimes I have felt as if I were a prisoner of God, but God has always comforted me. While I was giving all my effort to set the tradition of true love, my youth passed away; now I am in my sixties.

Today I am celebrating Parents’ Day as an inmate of a U.S. prison. America may be my enemy, the free world may be my enemy and the communist world may be my enemy, but I will not hate them. I must love America and love and forgive the American government. I will liberate the entire satanic world. This is the way of Reverend Moon, the way of True Parents.

Who has ever understood the heart of Jesus? Nobody has known the real purpose of Jesus the Messiah, who came to earth after long preparation. Followers of Jesus went to Rome and they inherited his sacrificial tradition. They have been expanding their realm around the world for 2,000 years. Directly after World War 11, Christianity became the dominant influence in the world. However, at that particular time the established Christian leaders of Korea and the Korean government failed to listen to Reverend Moon. For that reason, I embarked on a sojourn in the wilderness, starting in 1945. This year, 1985, is my fortieth year of life in the wilderness.

I knew I could not go back to my homeland without having a superior foundation. Therefore, when I was crossing the 38th parallel I pledged that I would return on the worldwide level. No matter what race you belong to, you should keep in mind that we are working to create our fatherland during these final three years by giving our very best. Now is the time of the final showdown. The final persecution has come by my being thrown into Danbury Prison.

This time is comparable to the time when the Israeli spies went into Canaan to analyze the situation there. When they came back, Joshua and Caleb were appointed the leaders into Canaan. Today I find myself in a land that has treated me like an enemy, and I am trying to restore my position here; at the same time, I am reconnoitering. At the time of Jesus’ crucifixion, the goal of world physical salvation was impossible so only spiritual salvation was achieved through his great sacrifice on the Mount of Calvary. But today, at the “Mount of Danbury” I am regaining my own family, my own disciples, my own nation and people. The chosen nation of America and the free world will eventually turn to Danbury as the mount of resurrection, both physically and spiritually.

Since I have gone to Danbury prison, many significant historical events have taken place. Forty days after I entered prison, they had an open house there for the first time. Outsiders could come in and mingle with the prisoners and see what it was like. At that time, crowds of people came to visit. Most were not interested in the prison itself, but were trying to get a glimpse of Reverend Moon. After seventy days of my prison term, a dialogue was begun between North and South Korea. Some time later, Red China started to criticize Marxism and began to adopt free market economic policies. Furthermore, hundreds of ministers have been attending the seminars which our church is sponsoring and they have praised Reverend Moon as the “twentieth century prophet of America.”

Of course, the United States government has taken the position of enemy to me as well as to God, but I have no animosity toward the government. I made a clear statement of forgiveness to the U.S. government. At the same time, I have been loving the American people more than ever, knowing that God loves and needs this country.

The one great power that tears me the most is the Soviet Union. They thought that once Reverend Moon went to jail, it would be the end of him and his church, but on the contrary, Reverend Moon is becoming much stronger. When I entered the prison, I was considered by the government as an enemy of America, or a controversial leader at best. But the Soviet leaders can clearly see that on the day when I come out of the prison, it will be as a hero and a champion fighting against communism. For that reason, who is the most threatened by me? It is the Soviet Union and international communism. Everyone else is joining with me more and more every day. Do you understand?

It was Satan’s plan to send me to jail but it was God’s plan to use that jail as a tool to win the greater victory. Prison is the worst possible internal hell on earth and I am winning the internal victory there. You are in the external hell, which is the fallen world. Therefore, you must win the external victory in order to be parallel with me and make oneness with me. I want you to understand the clear goal, as expressed in our motto for this year, “Creation and Building of the Fatherland”-God’s homeland here on earth. That is my goal and I am achieving the victory even in the worst possible hell on earth, the prison. You must win the same victory.

No matter what, I cannot feel any personal animosity toward America or the United States government. We cannot be defeated by Satan or by communism. For that reason, I must forgive the United States government and work with them, striving to embrace them. There are brothers and sisters who are now fighting and even dying in the Soviet Union and other satellite countries. They are becoming martyrs for the Unification movement. Therefore, we must be serious; not only that, we must have no complaint. The one who decides to give up his life for God and the True Parents’ sake will find it.

This is eternal truth. God’s people should be willing to die for God’s sake; if they are willing to do that, God will find His Kingdom here on earth. When people are giving their lives, transcendent of culture or skin color for the sake of God’s Kingdom on earth, we shall find that Kingdom. Today, at the culmination of our celebration on Parents’ Day, we must pledge to march forward toward the ultimate battleground for the final victory. That is the true meaning of this celebration. This is not just a day to be happy and merry. We have to recommit ourselves to that final goal.

In one hand, we must grasp the United States of America. In the other hand, we must grasp the Soviet Union and international communism. We must make a showdown and we shall be victorious. Remember, God is playing His extraordinary and final “card game” with Satan. God is holding onto one trump card: that is Reverend Moon and you. Let’s say that Reverend Moon is God’s ace card; you all represent the rest of the cards. Together, we will create God’s trump and win every round for God.

Therefore, there is no choice but to become united and totally committed. There are fifty two cards in a deck; we have all the cards we need for every eventuality, for every different direction. Can you say that you are a card in God’s hands? I want you to be the best cards; if not an ace then at least a seven, eight, nine or ten. Therefore, you have to be different from other people. Your eyes should have a different shine; your focus should be different. You should not focus on earthly, material things but on spiritual things instead. We have no time to just walk; we have to run. We can’t sit down and eat, we have to eat on the run. Every form of behavior should be different when you are a child of God. Tell yourself, “I am different because I am a child of God and I have True Parents.”

Do you know how old I am? Am I 25? I feel like it; that is because of my purpose. I am constantly busy. I always yell at my own legs, “How can you be relaxed? There is no time!” If my body tries to lie down and rest, I say, “What are you doing? This is an emergency! How can you rest now?” I always battle with my own body, my arms, legs, eyes, and so forth.

Do you think Satan likes to see people trying to imitate Reverend Moon? Satan hates to see that. I voluntarily went to prison although I could have avoided it. There were many different things I could have done, besides returning to the United States. But I chose to go to prison for one purpose: for the sake of saving America, shaking up America and turning it toward goodness. Patriotism and the love of God have been lacking in this country and I want to revive those attitudes. There was only one way to do that: I went to prison to show myself as a person who loves America and to show how to love God. That is the only way to awaken America and now it is happening. Even though I am not a citizen of this country, I love it so much, Americans will become ashamed and will begin to love their own country more and also to love God.

What about you, are you a true American or a false American? Are there more of God’s Americans or Satan’s Americans in this country today? There has been very little patriotism in this country and the love of family, clan and society are severely lacking. Furthermore, drug abuse is almost out of control. Virtually ninety percent of young people are affected by the drug situation, even students in elementary school. Thousands of those young people lose their minds due to drugs. That is certainly not the effect of patriotism or the love of God. We are physicians with our own spiritual medicine. We have to give a special injection into the American body that will dissolve the poisonous effects of these drugs. We have to inject this nation with the love of country and the love of God.

I went to jail and some people thought, “Reverend Moon, you cannot influence those inmates.” But what happened? Reverend Moon went to the most hellish society of prison and the inmates there began to be transformed. Even though I cannot openly preach the Principle, the inmates are being transformed by their direct experiences with Reverend Moon and his way of life. I want you to understand that there is a special destiny for me to go at this time at Danbury and I will fulfill it. People have said it is impossible to restore America but I will bring a great awakening to this country. We will return great patriotism to America and great love of God, so that this nation will truly become God’s instrument to save the world.

Today for this Parents’ Day celebration, I ask you to make a commitment to win your external battle as I have won my internal battle, and become extraordinary men and women. You will bring this nation to patriotism and the love of God and by doing so, you will bring salvation to the world. Those who pledge that to me on this Parents’ Day, raise your hands and say, “I am like Joshua and Caleb, going into the land of Canaan. I will bring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and march forward to great victory.” Amen! Amen! Amen! God bless you!

## TRUE PARENTS’ BIRTHDAY

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### February 25, 1985
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Everybody was hoping that we would have nice weather today but it was chilly and damp this morning. However, as the day progressed it became warm and bright for our celebration, so this is the first blessing from Heavenly Father today. Since the weather is so beautiful and everybody feels wonderful, I have to talk about something wonderful.

I’m sure that everyone of you has heard news about Danbury from Mr. Kamiyama, as well as hearing his testimony. Those who have not yet heard his testimony should get copies of it.

As you know, I am a totally free man but because of the circumstances of my environment there are many limitations upon me. Someone might ask me, “Looking back upon your life, have you lived according to your own will?” What do you think? Do you think that I have lived my life entirely according to my own will?

When we speak of God’s will, we speak of two different aspects of it. First of all, there was the original will of God before the human fall. The other aspect of God’s will is what we call the restorational will, which arose only after the fall of man. Which one do you think God has been living by-the first or the second? Certainly, He has been living according to the second. When God must live according to His restorational or dispensational will, can there be any room for His followers to do things according to their own wisdom or whim?

What kind of a life is it when you are living without true freedom, for the purpose of restoration by indemnity? What about a beautiful woman? Do you think that such a person would be able to live her entire life according to her own whim, doing everything she might want to do? The answer is clearly no, but there is a serious issue involved in that question. Suppose you were the husband of a beautiful, loving wife. How much do you think you would be able to freely express the depth of your love, doing everything you want to do with your wife?

Let’s say that each spouse is calling out to the other- “Husband, please come here” or “Wife, please come here.” Do you think that they could always drop everything and go, especially considering the circumstances of society today? These are rather serious questions.

Let us ask another serious question. How many people in the world have understood that God’s will has had to be divided into two parts, before and after the fall of man? There have not been any people before who understood this fact about God. Therefore it is obvious that without a person who is capable of explaining these different aspects of God’s will here on earth, there is no way we can even expect that the will of God can be done on earth. If no one even understands God’s will, how can that will be done? That is a logical conclusion.

Let us look at Adam, the first man in history. Do you think Adam knew completely what he had done wrong after his fallen action and what damage had been done to the will of God? How about Cain and Abel? Do you think Abel knew God’s will precisely? Noah was a faithful and obedient man, but did he know precisely what God was doing? What about Abraham? Abraham didn’t know God’s will fully and precisely; neither did Jacob, Moses, or John the Baptist.

Therefore, until history welcomes the person who really understands the will of God, the fulfillment of religion is virtually impossible. Jesus as the Messiah must have known God’s will. Although he was rejected by the people of his own time, why didn’t he give the whole message for the sake of the people of the future? Some true Christian today could be in the position to say, “Jesus, why didn’t you tell us the full will of God, so that we could know our direction and we could have avoided this confusion and chaos?” This is the question: “Jesus, what exactly were you? Why didn’t you tell us everything?”

There must be some reason why Jesus couldn’t tell the whole truth, the naked truth. The important point is this- the will of God must be fulfilled first by God, then by the direct children of God. The direct son and daughter of God must be in the position to not only know the will of God but also to fulfill it.

God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in order to fulfill His purpose of creation. When did God want that purpose to be fulfilled? What was His timetable? Did He expect them to fulfill that purpose immediately after their birth, while they were crawling around as babies?

What do we mean by fulfilling the will of God? The fulfillment of God’s will would produce great joy and ecstasy in God. Furthermore, husband and wife were involved in that, but what kind of husband and wife are we talking about? This is the very problem. We are talking about true men and women with perfected love.

That means the man and woman are completely one, harmonized in every direction-vertically, horizontally, front and back. How can we make true oneness, true unification? It is only through true love. True love is the method by which we can bring about total oneness, total harmony, total unification.

The kind of oneness we are talking about has a certain orderliness or logic to it. All the components have their own positions. That is, the head is in the head’s position; the arm stays in the arm’s position and doesn’t try to take the leg’s position, or vice-versa. There must be a certain order and according to that order, proper harmony and unification occur.

God had a certain concept of order, so when He created Adam and Eve. He didn’t tell them that anything they wanted to do was just fine. There was a certain discipline, a certain order they had to follow to do His will. This is why God gave them the commandment not to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

When Adam and Eve were created they were given the opportunity to learn how to become the Lords of the earth, to take dominion over the earth. Thus they had to know all about the creation. Without going through this educational process, they could not take their position of dominion.

Were there birds in the Garden of Eden? Yes, there were. How about butterflies, ants, and so forth? Of course they were all in the Garden of Eden. What is your goal in life? Do you want to become an ant, or a bird, or a butterfly? No? You say you want to become a true child of God? What is that? Well, in the first place you have to be a human being. Your desire therefore is to become a true human being, a true man or woman, correct?

What is the definition of a true man or a true woman? The true man is, first of all, centered upon God; furthermore, he is centered upon love and in that way becomes united forever, for eternity. That is true man and true woman. Do you follow? The first component of a true man is God. The next is love and then, absolute unity. That kind of man or woman is a true man or woman.

As you might expect, the next question is, are you true men and women? Is this a gathering of true men and women, or of false men and women, or what? You are in training and you want the training, but you always flunk- that’s the problem! Since you are under training and you don’t want to flunk, do you want me to really push you hard and teach you today? “No matter how much hardship I may have to bear, I want to become a true man or woman. Father, please do anything you must do with me,” those who say that, raise your hands please. You are so greedy!

The definition of true man and woman is rather simple; the truth is always simple. The problem is how to live and fulfill it. In the morning you get up and go out to your work, thinking, “I want to live as a true human being.” But that effort is an enormous challenge, isn’t it? And it is always very serious. Who should become a true man? Each person must say “I shall become a true human being.”

The most crucial question of people in history has been how to become true human beings. Once this question is solved, all the other questions can be solved. What about your own ancestors? Did they want to become true men and women? What about your children and posterity? will they want to become true men and women? Of course, they will want that. Thus this is a serious issue.

Will we become true men and women only after we die and go to heaven? Or will we do it on earth? What about Jesus-was he a true man? How do you know he was? The true man must be filled with true love: with that love he is inspired to unify with others, with all of humanity. We know that Jesus came in the position of the second Adam. Thus there must be someone in the position of second Eve. Did he find his Eve in his time?

Did God create true man for his sake alone, or to serve true woman? The “commodity” called man was created for the purpose of service to woman. A woman should have a husband who is eternally united with her, centered upon God and true love. The woman will say, “This is the man who is going to love me forever; I know he will not leave me but will always be with me, centered upon God.” In that way, that man becomes a true man, from the viewpoint of the woman. She can say, “You are my ideal man. You will never change. You will maintain your purity, your unselfishness.”

When the man looks at that woman he sees beyond the externals of face and so forth and recognizes that she possesses purity of love, an unchanging quality and desire to serve him with joy. He can see that she is going to remain with him forever and that they will be one forever, centered upon God.

Therefore, the man is the one who gives the diploma to the woman as a true woman and the woman gives the man his diploma as a true man. And when they are united, only then does God become a reality. It is that simple.

Let us return to a very important question: Why didn’t Jesus tell us the whole, unvarnished truth? He knew the whole truth and he was in the position to tell the world, but he couldn’t tell the world. Why? It is because there was no model for him to present, no material. He was not able to give the formula. That is why. Jesus knew the truth but he could not fulfill it, so he could not speak it. He could not leave behind him the tradition of true men and women. He had to fulfill certain stages, certain steps of that truth.

That is why the only alternative for Jesus was to come again. By the fact that he said, “I must return,” it shows that he knew the truth but he could not fulfill it in his own time. It is realistic that when he comes again, he will seek his own bride for the fulfillment of the Marriage of the Lamb. Jesus was indeed the Messiah, the son of God, without question. His qualifications were absolute.

When Jesus comes again, first he must become a true man himself; furthermore, he must find and raise up a true woman. And they must unite together as husband and wife, receiving the eternal blessing from God and dwelling in the unbreakable bond of true love. At that point, God will say, “I have fulfilled my will.”

Thus Jesus must have a wife and that woman must be in the position to say, “Jesus is my husband; he is an ideal man and he is a true man.” That particular statement must be uttered by a woman. Jesus must be in that position. Then God will say, “That is indeed my son and my daughter, united together.”

How would they become one in love? First of all, the man and woman must each become the embodiment of the love of God so that God’s love is burning within them. When you are burning with that love, you cannot sit idly. The man and woman are so completely united that when God is in between them, He will be totally embraced. That will be His fulfillment. There is nothing more. Men and women have the natural urge to embrace each other and become one, but the problem has always been that they did not have God within them. Suppose two beauty queens are hugging each other and expressing intimate love. Is that natural? If other people see such a thing, they are repulsed and they look away. The skin of a beauty queen is soft and spongy. When such skin rubs against another soft, spongy woman’s skin, that is unimaginable. It is almost as if God had created people with soft bones, just like the flesh. Think of it! That would be very strange.

Is there any woman who desires a husband who is boneless? Naturally you women are opposed to a soft, boneless man. What kind of man do you want? You like a man with a lot of muscle, strong bones, lots of hair on the skin. When his strong hand grabs yours, your hand just melts inside of it. That is the way nature is; that is the blueprint of God. Men and women are supposed to be different.

Some American women are saying, “We want to be in the bone position. Let the men become the soft, spongy flesh.” Today America is suffering from terrible confusion; people have no understanding of right order, who is subject or object, who takes initiative, who is responsive. What about you American Unification women, are you different? Who are the subjects, men or women?

In America, many women pull the men around behind them, shaking their hips and the men just follow timidly. I have never seen so many boneless men as in America- “Yes, darling, whatever you say.” Do you women like that kind of man? If you women don’t change that trend, there can be nothing but darkness for the future of this country. There must be God’s order and sequence. We must maintain that discipline.

There is no one else saying this kind of thing except Reverend Moon, so no one can educate American women except me. Do you accept that? You do, and then you listen to me. You feel compelled to listen to me, recognizing the logic of what I say. Those who have been blessed, raise your hands please. Who gave you the blessing? How expensive was that blessing? It is beyond price and you cannot exchange it for the entire world.

Sometimes I feel regret for having given the blessing, rather than fulfillment. I want you to know why I have given you the blessing. It was so that you could become true men and women, uniting as model husband and wife, and model family in the sight of God.

Thus no one has the right to say, “I do not like that type of person for my spouse. Even though Father gave the blessing to us, I don’t really see its value.” Who made that decision, God or you? There is no room for that self centered, horizontal kind of thinking. In order to make one heavenly matching possible, there was martyrdom and suffering for the 2,000 years of Christian history.

I want you to understand that although human history is represented in the Bible as 6,000 years, scientifically it is closer to many millions of years. All of this time, God has been seeking after His one day of fulfillment, that day of true marriage between men and women. That is the historical, critical importance of the blessing.

Don’t you think Jesus Christ wanted to be able to give the blessing to his own disciples? I want you to understand that in religious history, marriage was frowned upon in a way. Celibacy was always elevated as the most noble way of life. But only within the Unification Church, in the name of the True Parents, are we making marriage the culmination of human history.

What is the meaning of the word “unification”? It means the unification of the love of God with the love of husband and wife and the love of humanity. This is why the word unification was adopted for our church. When you join the Unification Church and accept the teachings, how do you look at Reverend and Mrs. Moon? They are the True Parents to you. No religion before has ever spoken about the True Parents; we are the first. What are the True Parents? The True Parents are the fulfillment of the will of God, the fulfillment of the unification of His love. That is why the advent of the True Parents is so historically important.

But you do not know the real implication of the words “True Parents.” You do not know the long, hard path necessary to come to the point where those words could be spoken. Behind the words ‘True Parents” and ‘Unification” is a hidden history of suffering which you have not known about. Only upon the victory in the incredible showdown with the satanic world could the word ‘Unification” become a reality.

You also do not know how much heaven and earth have already changed in the last seven months since I have been staying at Danbury. I want you to know that I am not wasting time at Danbury. That is the place of the showdown between heaven and earth and I have been working harder than ever there. The power of evil has been steadily declining during this time while the power of goodness has been going up. Eastern civilization has been going upwards and Western civilization has been harmonizing and unifying with the East:

The day of my release will come and after that people will realize that Reverend Moon was innocent, that there was no justification for him to have been put into jail by America. On the day that I went into Danbury, people thought they were getting rid of the trouble making leader of the Unification Church. But on the day that I come out of Danbury, the world will see not just the leader of the Unification Church but a man making history. Furthermore, America will find new hope. America will have no more excuses before me.

There are so many people who are changing their attitudes toward the Unification Church. People who were formerly ardent enemies as well as leaders of the academic and religious communities have come to visit me in Danbury. In many cases, the first words they spoke were, “Reverend Moon, on behalf of my government, I apologize. I am ready to listen to you. You are a great man. You are serving our country, preserving our religious freedom, protecting us from the dangers of communism.” One leader after another has spoken like that before me and Mother.

The prison is the place for plain talk. There is no need for adjectives. I simply spoke the naked truth to them and said, “Will you do it, or not? Do you agree with this or not?” Everybody, even some important men, pledged in front of me. They used the word “pledge,” and said, “I pledge this before you, Reverend Moon.”

God certainly works in mysterious ways. If I had never gone to Danbury, those kinds of men would never have come to see me in the first place; in the second place, they would not have humbled themselves; and in the third place, they would not have pledged. This is the incredible miracle that is happening every day.

The first thing I did after going to Danbury was to ask Reverend Kwak to send out video tapes to 300,000 ministers: “God’s Warning to the World.” I feel very good because that is all done now. That was an incredible operation. If you study Biblical history, you will see that some of the greatest things happened to people in prison. Much of the New Testament was written by people in prison, such as St. Paul. The videotapes were my message sent from the prison.

Today I am feeling fulfilled. Earlier this morning, I prayed for a long time with Mother at the Pledge Service. In that prayer, I asked God to give me the opportunity to create a broad highway here on the earth so that anybody who got on that highway could go to heaven. This is a hellish world and Danbury is one of the worst places on earth. The prison represents hell on earth and from that place I am creating a highway all the way to heaven so that anybody can go to the goal.

When the Israelites had been wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, they selected twelve representatives to infiltrate Canaan and reconnoiter. Ten of them came back and said, “It is impossible to win.” Only Joshua and Caleb said, “If God is with us, what should we fear? We can win!” God blessed their faith and they were the only ones of the second generation to enter Canaan. All the rest perished in the wilderness. You know about that history. You are in the same position today. This is the end of our forty years wandering in the wilderness. The final three year crusade has begun. Who are going to be the Joshuas and Calebs? This is the question.

The second of the final three years, which was 1984, was the most crucial. At the beginning of that year, Heung Jin was taken. Also I entered prison in July of that year. However, I knew that we would turn each situation into great victory through that indemnity. Heung Jin’s Seung Hwa became much more than just a simple death. I offered it as a most crucial sacrifice to heaven, for the sake of unification. That is why the Unification Ceremony was conducted. The same is true of my own difficulties at the present time.

At the time of Heung Jin’s death, I wanted to make the sacrifice a most victorious one. For that reason, until Heung Jin passed on I never shed one tear. Everything I prayed for in the Unification Ceremony has become a reality, one point after another. The members of the Unification Church around the world know exactly the meaning of Heung Jin’s sacrifice and the role he is playing in spirit world today. 120 nations are coming into unity.

Like the accumulation of small streams flowing into one large river and culminating into a giant waterfall, this power cannot be stopped. What has happened since my incarceration? American public opinion has been changing, day by day. Many people were happy when they first heard that Reverend Moon was going into prison, but now more and more newspaper articles are coming out expressing a totally different attitude.

Furthermore, great numbers of ancestors are coming down from spirit world, helping people to see the truth. Reverend Moon has become a fearful character. Even the U.S. government approached my recent parole hearing like it was a “hot potato.” Those people who were responsible for my being prosecuted and put into jail are now in a state of fear and insecurity, due to this change in public opinion. If they weren’t that way on their own, spirit world would torment them until they felt that way.

The members of the Unification Church today, every one of you, are the modern day Joshuas and Calebs. You are in the position to tell the people, “Be bold and strong.” That is going to be our slogan: Be Bold and Strong. This is wartime so You Unification Church members cannot be

shaken or become fearful and restless. You must not say, “Let’s forget the mission. I want to go back home and take care of my father’s business.” Or, “My uncle has just died; I’ll go and bury him.” There is no time for that.

An amazing thing will happen. Now that 300,000 ministers have received the Divine Principle videotape and book, every day they will be more and more motivated to look at it. They may not want anybody else to know, so they may read it secretly.

This kind of a project would normally cost $20 million or more but because we are doing it ourselves, day and night, we are spending much less money and we are making a great impact around the country. The ministers now are in a very good position. When you shout out, “Let’s go to the land of Canaan! ‘ all they have to say is “Amen.” They can follow and we can all enter that land of Canaan together.

Now you know why Jesus, even though he was the Messiah and he knew the will of God, could not give the truth completely and precisely. What about the message that Reverend Sun Myung Moon has been speaking during these past decades? Is that a complete revelation, more complete than what the Bible has revealed? Jesus was capable of doing that, but he did not have the momentum or the time. How could Reverend Moon do it? It is because Reverend Moon is capable of creating his own environment. Furthermore, this time in history is a more universal time. We are working on the worldwide stage; at the time of Jesus, it was a national stage.

God’s hope is always universal so He is always trying to create the momentum for His worldwide dispensation. There was only one time in human history when that particular environment was ripe and that was right after World War 11. At that time, the churches in Korea were divided between Cain and Abel. One part of the church was underground-those who worshipped the true God secretly because of the Japanese domination. But there was also a church which cooperated with the Japanese in order to survive. I was a member of the underground church.

At that time, I tried to educate several key political leaders. If they had listened to me then, the world situation today would be entirely different. The dispensation has always required unity between Cain and Abel. At that time, the Cain was the established Christian churches and Abel was the Unification Church. Both were supposed to unite.

Division between the original Cain and Abel began because of the failure of their parents, Adam and Eve. The Cain and Abel conflict started from Adam and Eve on the family level. But that conflict has grown to the clan, tribe, national, and worldwide levels. World War II was the worldwide struggle between Cain and Abel. Actually, that was the biblical Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation, in the sight of God.

According to the dispensational scheme, this work of uniting with the worldwide Abel should have begun when I was between the ages of 20 and 30. Within the Abel camp, there is always another level of Cain-Abel. Thus I had to win the Cain camp, one by one, and unite them into a larger Abel camp. If that had been successful, that is if the established Christian churches had united with and accepted the ideal of the True Parents at that time, everything would have been done. That means there would have been no room for communism to rise up in the world.

But what happened? Within the Abel camp, established Christianity never responded to the Unification Church. That is why that time was a total failure. Since that foundation was shattered, I had to go out into the wilderness for forty years where I had to gather up any remnants of people who could follow. Originally God had expected that circumstances and environment would welcome me everywhere, but on the contrary, after that time of failure I was rejected everywhere I went. Thus I had no choice but to go into the wilderness where I had to build up my own foundation, starting from the family, tribe, nation and world. That was done by pulling Abel-type remnants into our camp in the wilderness.

Our world today is divided into three main components: the free world, the communist world, and the Unification world. Until today, nobody has welcomed the Unification world, neither the free world or the communist world. Amazingly enough, the free world put Reverend Moon into jail and said, “Reverend Moon is our enemy.” Of course, the communists declared me their enemy a long time ago.

What is our weapon? It is an ideology, a worldview which centers upon God. It is an ideology of love which we call Godism. With this ideological strength, we are pushing hard at both the free world and the communist world. You are in the position to push the world away, pulling God into our camp. Are you doing that? We have two possible destinies: we are in between the two other camps so they will either crush us between them. or we will push them away. Which will it be?

The most important thing is that since we are at the center, we must remain like a rock, not moving one iota to the left or to the right. We cannot cry, “The enemy is coming so let’s take cover!” We must remain steadfast at the center. Satan thought, “Since the center of this ideology of Godism is Reverend Moon, let’s pull him away from the center and put him into jail. Then the Unification movement will collapse and perish. We will melt them!” But are we being melted?

When the enemies are pushing us from both sides, should we try to make a little elbow room and push them away, or should we continue to be squashed in the center? Would you like to use every ounce of your energy to push the enemy away, or just do it in a halfhearted way? Shall we work with sweat, or shall we tremble with fear? Shall we say, “My legs are tired so I think I’ll take a vacation”? Or shall we continue to push ourselves forward harder than ever? Shall we go forward or backward?

Who is your model for this fight? So far, I have been fighting this giant America all by myself. I have been called every bad name and have received every form of persecution but I have never faltered at all. Finally I went to prison but I began a new fight with renewed vitality once I went there. I did not relax one iota in prison.

I have been fighting for forty years. Since the liberation of Korea in 1945, I have spent the past forty years in the wilderness, pursuing this battle, and now the time has come for the consummation. Moses, after his forty years’ struggle in the wilderness, was not able to enter into Canaan. He could only look upon it and then he died in the wilderness. However, Reverend Moon will not falter outside of Canaan. He will move forward like Joshua and Caleb and finish the task of building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

A few weeks ago, a prominent young man came to visit me in Danbury. He represented the young people of America. He said to me, “Reverend Moon, I have witnessed the most amazing phenomenon during these past five years-many young people between the ages of 16 and 25 have become very conservative and anticommunist. Young people are turning against the hippie attitudes and are embracing patriotism and traditional values. I couldn’t have imagined such an incredible thing happening five years ago.” I told him, “I predicted such a thing.”

Here in America the conservative movement is growing. Reverend Moon appeals to those people. Christianity is the Abel group within the American conservative movement; therefore I am working to reach the ministers. You have heard about the Common Suffering Fellowship? They are the ministers who pledged themselves to suffer on behalf of Reverend Moon for one week apiece. I have a plan to educate 7,000 Christian ministers with Godism. Each of those 7,000 leading clergymen will unite with 10 peers apiece, meaning that 70,000 ministers will be mobilized. They can do it. The last time I spoke to you, I explained that each of you was responsible to educate 120 ministers

Another incredible chapter in the history of restoration has occurred during the past week. We invited 130 retired generals and admirals from the six continents to come to Paris to attend a conference called international Security Council. Those 130 generals and admirals came together under the sponsorship of Reverend Moon and talked about a worldwide strategy to stop the spread of communism and the Soviet Union. It was very successful. Americans are worrying about American security, but I am organizing a global security council. Actually, the U.S. government should be doing more but they are not; that is why I am doing it.

In order to strengthen this kind of posture for God, I am uniting with the Christian ministers. That is because they are the Abels of the Abel camp. At the same time, we must unite with such people as those retired soldiers, the police forces, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and other such organizations. The people most capable of understanding communism are the veterans who fought against it, defending their country. Christianity is often quite ignorant about communism so they need to be educated.

This is how we must unite the Abel people around the country. We need to tie them together with a “cable”. We are going to unite with the Christian world as well as these retired soldiers and veterans and others.

I came to America with the commitment of my life and my sacred honor. I walked into my court trial willingly, knowing that jail was most likely my destination. I walked out through the jail doors this morning and I will go back through those doors this evening, but I feel no shame. I am proud to be in that jail, proud to be doing good for the sake of God and humanity. If going to jail is the way to do that, I would go to jail a hundred times. How about you? Would you do the same? Will you follow my example?

Yes, I was totally abused in America, although I came here to save this country. They put me in the clothes of a criminal and put me in jail. But that is all right. They can do that, but they must pay the price. Danbury is no jail for me; those doors do not shut me in. From Danbury Hill, the rays of salvation will shine out to the world; the new gospel will be heard by all of humanity. God works in mysterious ways. He has a new strategy; God will make gains under any circumstances. God is the victor, even of Danbury.

Are you committing your lives? This is the year of our declaration and thus I asked the CAUSA members to prepare the CAUSA Manifesto on Godism.

Dr. Pak: Father has asked me to read this paragraph from the CA USA Manifesto in conclusion: “CA USA does not hide its goals or aims. We seek the end of communism. We also seek to end, by a moral revolution, corruption and exploitation in the free world. We proudly proclaim our goal to liberate Moscow. Let the communists tremble before the march of Godism. They have nothing to lose but their chains. With God, we have a world to win.” Communism has always said, “Workers of the world, unite.” Now Father has declared to the world, “Believers of the world, unite.” And there is a separate page upon which everybody in the conference signed the proclamation. Father asked me to put these words in the final sentence of that proclamation, “In the name of God, we commit our lives and our sacred honor to the accomplishment of this noble imperative.” Those retired generals and admirals had already committed their lives to fight against communism, so Father was saying to them, “flow can you not do it?” How about you?

Father: Each of you must decide. I do not want to decide your life for you. It is your life, after all. I made my own decision for my life so you must do the same. Have you committed your life? Raise your hands if you have.

From the center, we must push out completely on both sides. I want you to know that I will not remain in the United States all the time. I may go away somewhere. I came to America for the sake of the world; now I can go back to Korea to save my own country. Of course, I will leave behind millions of people in America who will commit their lives, as I have. But I cannot abandon Korea much longer; I will go back.

The time will come for you to lose your Moses, but Moses has to go Moses’ destiny. Moses has a mission for Moses to fulfill. I will not leave this country until such people as those generals and admirals, those new heavenly soldiers, are dedicated to guiding America and saving the world That is the foundation I am making now; I will fulfill that mission before I leave here.

Do you feel that without our work, this world will perish? We must be responsible for this world-do you feel that to the bone? You haven’t known my strategy. I have initiated 250 IOWC’s around the country, moving around from state to state, and now they are settling down. They are becoming the fortresses of our movement, linking us to the established Christian churches. Everything has been worked out.

While I was fighting my legal battle, I also created the NCCSA, the mobile IOWC, and so forth. You didn’t know why. Even now you don’t know many of the things I am doing. Therefore don’t try to say, “I should know everything before I move,” because you would never move in that case. You must move, then find out.

We are also going to unite people on a worldwide basis. The PWPA, a fine intellectual organization, is in every country. Also the World Media Organization will link together media people around the world. Furthermore, a new magazine project affiliated with the Washington Times will be published for the purpose of education of the world. I want to create a magazine that professors would be proud of; at the same time, it should be something which students would want to keep, like an encyclopedia.

This is, in a way, our heavenly cultural revolution on the worldwide basis. You didn’t realize this. You must listen to what I say, follow the directions I give you and pray hard, crying out to God. In the meantime, everything will be accomplished step by step. When you go out to meet the ministers, sometimes they will treat you with scorn. But then you must cry more and go out again. Continue to do that. It is much more exciting to turn around those ministers who were opposed to you. You feel a great sense of triumph.

America is a tremendous challenge; therefore, I feel great excitement at the prospect of taming this country and turning it around. That is manly work, truly masculine work. All you men should harbor that kind of ambition. You women have the job of supporting and applauding the men as they go out to fight. When the men are defeated, you have to cry.

Today is my birthday but you are keeping me here for such a long time-you cruel people! You said you have committed your lives, didn’t you? For what mission? For the sake of God and humanity. My mission is the same- for God and humanity. That is because Satan is holding humanity.

Noah made that kind of decision himself. Abraham made that decision; he was willing to sacrifice his own son for the sake of God’s will. The beauty of that sacrifice was the obedience of Isaac, who never rebelled but accepted his fate at the hands of his father. That was true father/son unity in faith and through that Abraham was given the honor of becoming the father of faith.

Suppose Isaac had said, “Dad, what are you trying to do to me? Go get that lamb and kill it. How can you be so cruel? I will run away.” If Isaac had run away, Abraham’s family would never have come into being. Thus they truly committed their lives. Think about Jacob’s life. He spent 21 long, hard years working in the land of Haran. Do you think he risked his life or not? He was deceived by his uncle 10 times. Moses stuck his neck out every day, from the time he left Egypt through the forty years in the wilderness. He was risking his life every day. God always works with people who commit their lives.

John the Baptist also stuck his neck out, initially. What about Jesus? Did he risk his life? He gave his life. Today Reverend Moon is risking his life and that is why God cannot leave me. God is always working with me. I have experienced six different jails. All together I have spent five years in jails. Now every time I move on, I go to greater challenges, the worldwide jail.

In 19761 proclaimed our march toward Moscow and the world laughed. But I was determined that even if I lose my life in Moscow, I shall march there. That was my decision. I want you to know that today, right now, your brothers and sisters are working underground in Moscow. Some of them arc in prison right now. How can I reject the road to the jail when my young people are suffering in jail themselves?

At one time I received a message from a member that he was sentenced to execution, at a certain time and date. When that hour came, I solemnly prayed and remembered that person in tears. I pledged to God, “With my hands, I shall liberate Moscow.” I prayed for that brother and I told him spiritually, “Be bold and strong. Fear not for your death. I shall recover your body and bring it to Korea. In my will, I declare that you shall be buried in the same ground as the True Parents.”

The Unification Church is not a fun place. If anybody has been mistreated, it is I; so l could be very cruel in return. But in the name of God, I decided to forgive and love in return. We sent a missionary to Red China eight years ago. We are opening those doors steadily through Japanese professors and so forth. Many people never even thought about such things, as they have been eating well and sleeping and doing what they wanted. But meanwhile, I have been doing all these things. The very rocks at Belvedere know more than you. I have shed so many tears at that Holy Rock.

American youth may not realize now, but I will awaken them. I want to give clear direction to American youth, even though I have to suffer in prison. I have no regrets to stay in this country in order to map the proper direction for America. You cannot give me any greater birthday gift than if even one hundred of you will make up your minds and say, “I shall follow precisely Father’s path. I will walk this way unto my life for the sake of the other countries of this world. As Father has worked for America, I will work for the world.”

If you American young people will come to that commitment, America will truly save the world. The world will survive and prosper. That is God’s way, not only Reverend Moon’s way and therefore you will never perish by going that way. You will prosper.

When Mr. Kamiyama was staying with me in prison, I gave him certain information that even the 36 couples never heard, because I could not know what sorts of dangers might be near. I told the whole truth to Mr. Kamiyama.

A very serious ceremony was held at Pledge Service this morning. I prayed for the unity between heaven and earth. I prayed for a highway between heaven and hell so that we could achieve total unification of humanity in the name of God and His true love. In January I gave you the goal of meeting with 120 ministers. Now you have to do it. Run after it and accomplish that goal. Will you do it?

The title of this sermon was “True Parents’ Birthday.” We do not have much more time today since I have many things to do before I leave. We don’t know when we will see each other again but it doesn’t really matter. You have received the message; you know your responsibility. I trust that each one of you will do it.

God is alive. That God wants to live with each one of you. You must think, “The living God is with me.” Say it aloud, “God is alive. He is dwelling with me.” Say it again. Therefore, be willing to do anything. Raise your hands and say, “Yes, Father!” God bless you.

## ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEUNG HWA CEREMONY OF HEUNG JIN MOON

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 1, 1985
World Mission Center
New York City
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

At this time, I would like to commemorate the one year anniversary of Heung Jin’s Seung Hwa Ceremony. There are many things that people cannot understand from a worldly point of view. Certainly some of the things that we do within the Unification Church could never be understood from a worldly point of view. People must be able to understand the interaction between spirit world and physical world; that is basic and fundamental.

The world of spirit is an absolute reality; even though most people don’t perceive it, it is there. I want you to understand that even in spirit world there is an ongoing struggle between good and evil. Good spirits are trying to influence evil spirits and bring them into the sphere of goodness. Likewise. evil spirits are trying to influence the good spirits toward the sphere of evil.

Evil spirits have a certain power and dominion over the people of the physical world. Furthermore, even though there are good spirits in spirit world, none of them are perfect; no one ever had the chance to be perfected while they were living on earth. However, good spirits are making a unified effort to bring the world over to the side of goodness and the forces of evil are trying to block that. In this battle the evil world has an advantage because the evil spirit world and the evil physical world have unlimited communication.

Those people who lived a good, God-centered life while here on earth are in the category of good spirits in the spirit world. Jesus Christ came to this earth to save. What does that mean? It means to transform people so that they can go to the good spirit world. However, that mission has not been fully completed and that is why Christ must come again.

We could compare the actions of spirit world with farming. Spirit world is trying to farm the earthly plane. One farm is a wild olive tree farm, governed by evil spirits who dwell there. Then the good spirits come and strive to cultivate those olive trees, trying to have dominion over them. The world fell into the sphere of evil dominion but still God has been working through the good people on earth, trying to cultivate wild olive trees that can come under the domain of God and goodness. God has been continuously striving to make true olive trees out of the wild olive trees. God knew that there had to be one central model, one seed for the true olive tree, and that is the Messiah.

Even though the Messiah comes, he cannot fulfill his mission all by himself. The Messiah needs support, specifically from the good spirits and from a bride. Jesus Christ came as a true olive tree and was called the bridegroom. What is the bride’s relation to the bridegroom? The bride is engrafted to the bridegroom, like the wild olive tree being engrafted to the true olive tree. That is the whole concept of Christianity.

When a tree is grafted, where is it cut? It is cut at the branches, like cutting its neck and putting its head onto a new root. Originally everyone was supposed to be born as true olive trees but because of the fall everyone became wild olive trees. Thus everyone must go through the grafting process in order to transfer themselves to the true olive trees. God is cutting all of the wild olive trees and grafting them into the true olive tree.

However, the wild olive tree farm is controlled by Satan. Even though God is trying to cut those trees, Satan is blocking Him. He won’t let God come near. In order to approach the wild olive trees, God’s side has to have a certain strategy to get around Satan. One by one, each tree has to be approached according to a certain condition. The best way would be for God to own the farm. Even though the olive trees would still be wild, at least God would own and control the farm. Then He could freely go and cut and graft the trees. This is the basic concept of the chosen people.

To be allowed to transfer from the satanic sphere to the Godly sphere is always a bitter battle. In order to do it, we must have a certain offering. In the Old Testament era, man set the condition through material offerings. In the New Testament era, it was through the physical offering of the son of God. This is the era of the Completed Testament and at this time, the True Parents are setting the conditions for mankind.

There is a certain principle of love by which mankind can be grafted together and this is what we call the Divine Principle. Since Satan was the one who first planted love-satanic love-the only way it can be restored is by planting true, heavenly love. Therefore the Unification Church has mass, holy weddings. These holy weddings arc symbolic of the grafting process, by which you separate yourselves from the satanic world and graft yourselves into the family of the True Parents.

What was the fall of man? It was the planting of evil in the lineage of man. Thus we must be changed over and be engrafted into the true lineage-into true parents, true brothers and sisters, true family. Therefore, individuals must cut their relationship with the realm of Satan and make a new relationship with the True Parents. You must become a new race of Adam, cutting yourself off from the evil root.

What is the tradition of Adam? It is to inherit God’s tradition and be centered upon the love of God as a part of the True Parents family. We are creating a new cultural sphere centering upon this tradition of the True Parents. This will be the culture centered upon God and True Parents, which was supposed to be the culture of humanity from the very beginning. But since that was lost, we must restore it.

There is no distinction of race in the love of God. There is no such thing as the black love of God, the white love, or yellow love. They are all one. Furthermore, there is no separation between past, present or future so we can communicate in spirit world beyond the boundaries of time.

You must decide where you belong and what kind of olive tree you are. Are you still hesitating to be cut and grafted onto the true olive tree? Or have you already transferred your lineage?

What is going to be the Unification Church culture in the future? That will be the one world culture, centered upon the love of God and the love of the True Parents. What about the American culture-is it God’s true olive tree culture? No, that is the seed you don’t want to inherit. Perhaps this stark truth is too difficult for some of you to hear. However, you must hear it because it is the truth. Some may think, “Father is coming out of prison so he will speak differently now.” But you have found that I’m just the same as before.

What is the mission of the spirit world? They are the assistants or supporters to make this world right. Spirit world is assisting in God’s program. American culture today is centered upon sensational and physical experiences such as drugs and promiscuity. Furthermore, there is a growing subculture promoting the perverted sexual behavior of homosexuality and lesbianism. They are trying to make it legitimate. These things have their roots in a satanic origin and the American culture is buying it, absorbing it. Satan’s love culture is an evil love culture. Satan is promoting it and America is buying it.

However, the Unification Church is standing upon God’s love culture. In our culture there is no place for free sex or immorality. Sodom and Gomorrah was a thoroughly satanic love culture in which incest was particularly prevalent. The Bible describes the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God just could not permit it.

The world at large is saying to the Unification Church, “You are heretics.” However, what do you think? The Unification Church is the special task force for God on the forefront of God’s work. That’s what the Unification Church is all about. We should be able to cut all the wild olive trees and graft them into the true olive trees.

Reverend Moon brought the secret that the worldwide Satan cannot accuse. Reverend Moon’s secret is this: the spirit world has two spheres, one of good and one of evil. The good spirit world is taking the initiative so that the evil spirit world has to move toward the good. There is communication between them. When this occurs on the level of spirit, it is reflected in the physical world

Reverend Moon is using a secret method: we will win the spirit world to our side and this will be reflected here on earth. We will shift the evil family, tribe, nation and world levels in spirit world to the good side and then it will begin to happen here on earth. When this change occurs in the spirit world, sooner or later the same thing will happen here on this plane.

We have seen many evil things coming and going here on the earth. For example, when I first came to the United States, I heard a great deal about “streaking,” or naked men and women running around in public places. But that died out after a while. Another amazing thing is that the older generation is becoming more fun-loving, more promiscuous, while the young people are turning very conservative and idealistic. They are saying, “We young people don’t accept that. We don’t buy your sins.” This is actually happening in the United States today.

There is a great difference between satanic love and heavenly love. Satanic love tastes very sweet at first but you get bored with it very quickly. Heavenly love is tiring and difficult at first but once you get into it, it becomes more and more tasty. For example, when people are engaged according to secular standards they are ecstatic for a while, but eventually they repel each other.

Now the Moonies are saying, “I am not going to marry according to my own tastes. I am waiting for Reverend Moon to give me the best spouse.” We seem like weird people to the rest of the world. Furthermore, when Unification people get married, it’s hard to tell-you never see them kissing each other; you never see them taking a honeymoon. Some never even see each other for three years! Although such a love is very difficult at first, once you get into it, it is something permanent. It is eternal and it is very beautiful.

You are like “hot plates” of love-you are producing and motivating the heat of love. Our mysterious love world gets wider and wider while the satanic love world gets narrower and narrower as time goes by. Does a beautiful white woman or anyone else come to Reverend Moon expecting to be married with the most handsome white men? On the contrary, she will say, “Father, please match me with an African brother or someone from Asia or South America.” Within our church, the north pole is trying to reach out to the south pole; the Far East is merging with the West. There is some mysterious power here!

Satanic love starts out with great fanfare but then gets smaller and weaker. Heavenly love starts out with a tough, salty foundation but then becomes tastier and wider and continues to grow. You might not have the most ecstatic laugh on your wedding day, but when the days pass by your smile grows bigger and your laugh becomes truly joyful.

Where will you find a church in the United States where people gather without any chairs to sit on? A church such as that is the true love church. In that church, you touch everybody around you. You white people are touched by the black person in front of you, the red person behind you, the yellow person on your left, and the brown person on your right. Five different colors are included in that arrangement. What do you think? Is Reverend Moon’s method of education good or bad?

This is a spiritual world and I want to explain to you how to master the spiritual principles. Is Reverend Moon an American? No, I am an Oriental man; I cannot escape being Korean. However, I have discovered a special kind of law so I have a special kind of patent which gives me a certain kind of authority. My discovery has universal application. It is not just good for white people but for black people and all people.

How can you be sure that I am trustworthy? You may not see the patent itself but you see that it is working. People of all different cultures are coming together and are moving in one direction. Something is bringing them together. When God sees this, He will not say, “Reverend Moon, you cannot try that. You shouldn’t help these people.” Instead, God will say, “Reverend Moon, you’ve got the secret formula, so go ahead and propagate it all over the world.”

No matter what a person’s earthly position, whether he is a king or a great leader, it doesn’t make any difference when he goes to spirit world. Each person must have a certificate signed by Reverend Moon.

If you are a student seeking for a PhD, you must go through incredible difficulties. You must serve your professors and do whatever they say. They are the masters and you are the student. You cannot protest, “Mr. Professor, I am better looking than you and I am smarter, too. You are trying to block me from getting my Ph.D.” If you do, the professor will say, “Get out of my sight! You are not going to get your PhD!” That person’s signature is necessary on your certificate.

Many people thought Reverend Moon would be destroyed by all the opposition against him, but even my going to Danbury will not stop me. I know what the people have said but it doesn’t matter at all. The time will come when those people will have to come for my signature. For that reason, I am absolutely confident and relaxed. The time will come.

Some people may say, “I have a special route to go,” but when they go to God, He will say, “Did you get Reverend Moon’s signature?” Even Satan himself will have to submit his certificate with Reverend Moon’s signature.

Words are cheap but the reality of obtaining that kind of authority is not easy at all. No matter what they say, the entire world including spirit world has to come to that route. When the time comes, I will declare to the world, “Now it is my turn.” At this time the U.S. government thinks it has won the battle against me but they are wrong.

When I was in the courtroom I spoke only one thing, “Your honor, I am not guilty.” Later, when the probation officers came to interview me, my lawyers advised me that maybe I should try to make friends with them, telling them I may have made some mistakes here and there. But I told them, “No, lawyers, I am not guilty.”

I am an expert on the spirit world. I know how to control it, how to maneuver, what is right, what is wrong. No one knows their ways better than I do. Once I am able to control spirit world, this world will inevitably follow the pattern of spirit world. For 30 years I have been controlling the activity of spirit world, taking down the barriers. So there was an emergence from the family level to the tribal level; tribal level to societal level. At every level, I have been tearing down those barriers.

Furthermore, through the teaching of Reverend Moon alone, the mysteries of the Bible have been cleared up. I have explained how much of the Bible has already been fulfilled, how much remains, and so forth

Spirit world is under my direction, but this physical world is the problem. Until this world becomes one, certain sacrifices indeed will be required. Jesus was such a sacrifice 2,000 years ago; he died on the cross, alone. He entered the spirit world and cannot come back to the physical world to free it.

I do not intend to explain everything today. The two most important things today were the prayer this morning at the Pledge Service and then the prayer for Heung Jin in the memorial service. That 30-minute prayer is going to be translated and the whole picture will be seen, such as why that sacrifice was necessary. It is all explained in that prayer.

Even though Jesus Christ sacrificed himself on the cross, he still could not break down the barriers of the Roman Empire or all the other nations. Today we must break down all those barriers. Nobody else can fulfill that kind of role except the direct child of the True Parents.

The sacrifice of Heung Jin is the best gift, the most extraordinary sacrifice for the sake of the world. It is the thing that will break down all the barriers of the world. There are British members receiving spiritual messages, including those from Jesus Christ. Now they are also seeing Heung Jin in the spirit world. They are flabbergasted and they don’t know why they are receiving these messages.

The time has come, because of Heung Jin’s sacrifice, that the barriers between spirit world and physical world are breaking down. The barriers between different religions are breaking down as well. Likewise, the barriers are breaking down between nations and between traditional Christianity and the Unification Church.

Established Christianity in America has been hostile to the Unification Church in the past, not wanting to pay any attention to Reverend Moon. But within these past few months, many leaders of the Christian community are mobilizing and speaking out to the government on behalf of Reverend Moon. Once, when you told them you were Moonies, they would want to spit in your face. But not any more. Now they are saying, “What is the secret of Reverend Moon?” They want to know more about the teachings of the Unification Church.

While I am in Danbury, there is a special activity going on. We are sending videotapes to 300,000 Christian ministers. These are lectures of the Divine Principle, condensed into three tapes, along with a message from me from the prison. Already there is so much curiosity about Reverend Moon. People are saying, “Who is he, anyway?”

I am a strange man, that is certain. Ordinarily when people go to prison, they are filled with despair. But when I went to prison, I was asking, “What’s next’? What good things are going to happen in the future?” It doesn’t matter where I go, I am always the same. I always open doors, wherever I go. Now I am opening the doors of prison to true love.

You have been waiting for my furlough very eagerly but the men in prison are thinking, “When is that Reverend Moon coming back? I miss him already!” They asked me if they could call me. I told them not to, but just to wait. You are with me for this one day and you feel like the time is slipping away too fast. But the men in prison are feeling just the opposite. Both of these things are good phenomena.

Many people simply cannot understand why smart, good looking Americans are following this Korean clergyman. They cannot see any reason, but they don’t know that the whole spirit world is tumbling upside down and that this world is just a part of that phenomenon. Since I have been in prison, several extraordinary things have happened. First of all, the worst communism, North Korea, began a peaceful dialogue with South Korea. This has never happened before. Also, Red China has spoken out against Marxism, calling it an antique philosophy and saying that it isn’t working. One of the tenets of communists is that Marxism is the most scientific law for society, but communist China is denying that. The entire world is shaken.

Now those Christians who once looked at Reverend Moon as a dreadful heretic are trying to get me out of

prison. Furthermore, “liberation theology” has been rampant in Latin America for many years and all of a sudden, Pope John Paul 11 said, “No more. The person who follows liberation theology cannot call himself a Catholic.” Likewise, although the Catholics have looked at Reverend Moon as a heretic, the Catholic University of La Plata in Argentina conferred an honorary degree upon me.

That means the time has come for you to take the offensive. We have been on the defensive for too long. Now when people ask, “What’s going on with Reverend Moon’?” you can say, “Did you see the videotape? Did you hear what the Catholic University of La Plata did?” You have so much to talk about.

Reverend Moon proposed something that most people haven’t dared to dream: to unite the states of Latin America. Also I have proposed that the heads of the major religions of the world come together and edit an international world Bible-one Bible for the six religions. Everybody has applauded this idea.

If I continue like this, you will all get so inflated you will just blow away! But to make a long story short, Reverend Moon is an extraordinary, mysterious man, isn’t that true! In virtually every area, including technology and the media, people are realizing that Reverend Moon is a most valuable person. Maybe the CIA and the FBI don’t want me to continue to talk about these things; perhaps they are too frightened!

The inmates at Danbury always see me scrubbing the floor, working in the kitchen, playing pool, and so forth, but they never imagined the true role of Reverend Moon. If they came here and saw our huge gathering today, half of them would have a heart attack! One rule that guides my life is that no matter how unpleasant a situation, if it will bring benefit to God and to humanity, I will not hesitate to go there, including the prison.

1984 was an extraordinary year for both God and Satan. They had an incredible showdown. Therefore I offered Heung Jin as a pure sacrifice on January 2. On July 20, I entered Danbury prison. There was so much debt to pay but now that debt is becoming cleared. Nobody else can pay that debt.

We have to give enough that Satan himself is satisfied. After the sacrifice of Heung Jin and my going into prison, Satan will say, “I have no more accusation. I am satisfied.” Thus the books will be closed. For Reverend Moon, who knows this truth, prison is not a prison. It is a way of achieving God’s will.

Our time of victory has come. No longer do we have to deal with “street people,” vagrants and spiritually strange people. Now we are going to be working with ministers, lawyers, leaders of government, professors and university presidents. All of you will be standing behind me. Those Christian ministers and such will be standing behind you. You are the ones in the Abel position to those people; therefore, you are the ones who take the initiative. You provide the leadership.

How can you link yourself to at least 120 Christian ministers this year? Jesus Christ needed 120 disciples to unite with him and because they did not, the crucifixion was inevitable. But once you link together 120 ministers behind you, nothing is impossible.

I want you to understand that at the end of World War 11 in 1945, I declared the 40-year course. That 40-year course is culminating this year. Furthermore, independence came to Korea in 1948. Likewise the new Israel came into being in 1948. From the two Israels, the 40 year course will be consummated in 1988.

Korea has a unique opportunity now to advance on the world level. Likewise the United States is at a very important juncture and has to learn how to deal with Red China and the Soviet Union.

Reverend Moon, all by himself, has prepared certain measures that will prevent catastrophe. We will organize and train Christian ministers all over the country. By my going to Danbury, such great opportunity has been created.

Even if those ministers know the Bible by heart, they do not know the heart of the Bible if they do not know Divine Principle. That is why I am giving them the videotapes. When I come out of the prison, I will go around the country to meet ministers. Likewise I will go to universities and speak. By then they will know the truth about Reverend Moon.

You are committing yourselves to go beyond 1985, beyond all the difficulties of the family, and educate 120 ministers. By doing so, all these things I have been describing will become a reality. From now on, you don’t have to pay the indemnity; I have already paid it. All you have to do is harvest. Then by the year 1987, I won’t have to remain in this country. I want to go back to North Korea, the place of my birth. I would like to do my home church work there.

Those of you who say, “We will follow your instructions. We are going to reach 120 ministers in the year of 1985,” raise your hands please. Amen!

## CREATION OF THE FATHERLAND AND GOD’S DAY

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 1, 1985, Morning
World Mission Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

The title of this morning’s message is Creation of the Fatherland and God’s Day. As you know, today is God’s Day and at the same time New Year’s Day. This is the eighteenth anniversary of God’s Day.

If there had been no fall, God’s Day would have been established first and then Parent’s Day. Children’s Day, and then Day of All Things. However, that order was reversed and God’s Day was installed last. If there had been no fall, the first family-that of Adam and Eve- would have become the center of all things. God’s Day, for example, would have been centered upon that family. The entire universal center would have been based upon Adam and Eve’s family.

Adam and Eve’s family was supposed to be the one central family in heaven and on earth, representing the ideal of God. God’s nation and world would have been centered upon them. When Adam and Eve walked, that was supposed to represent the path that all of humankind was to walk. When Adam and Eve took a walk, don’t you think that God would be interested in that? Wouldn’t He want to go walking with them?

Think about God in terms of air. You cannot see air but it fills everything; there is no place without air. Air is composed of certain elements which can be analyzed scientifically, but God is like “super air” or spiritual air. He is more invisible and more free than air. For that reason God is truly ubiquitous, or everywhere.

Many people think that material things are solid but when one looks at them under an electron microscope there are great spaces between the molecules of that material.

The human body is a universe of cells. When you walk, you should think that the entire universe is walking and moving. Why would the whole universe be attracted to Adam and Eve when they took a walk? If Adam and Eve were united into one, walking as one entity, then the universe would pay attention to them. Everything in creation would say, “We want to go walking with them.” That is because they can feel excited and joyful to be with Adam and Eve.

God is no exception. Why do you think God wants to walk together with Adam and Eve? Have you ever read anywhere in the Bible that God says, “I love money.”‘? Have you read anywhere in the Bible where God said, “What I need is knowledge.”? Or “I need power.”‘? Certainly not. Those things are not important to God because He already has all that He needs. By the same token. He could create more of them, as much as He might want.

Money, power and knowledge are valuable only as tools in the consummation of love. They were never meant to be our goals or our purpose in life. What is the one thing that God has been desperately searching after? It is true love

Where does true love come from? It can never be fulfilled by yourself alone. It must come to you through the opposite sex. Love flows from the object, through your give and take. Your duty is to give and then love comes to you from others. That is the dynamic of love. Thus we have to serve and live for the sake of others.

As you know, God is the Creator and we are His created beings. But even God needs an object with which to fulfill His love. Without the give and take action of love, God Himself cannot fulfill His love. For that reason, the position of human beings is equally important to that of God’s. The object is just as important as the subject.

Think of it: God created Adam and Eve for the sake of love and they were His most lovely, charming creatures. Where would God want to take them-to hell or to heaven? Certainly God would want to take them to the highest possible heavenly throne. Do you think that God would want to sit upon His heavenly throne and look at His creatures, saying, “Adam and Eve, you are so lowly, don’t come near me! Go outside and just bow down to me. ”Would God say that?

No, God would say, “Adam and Eve, my beloved ones, please come here. Sit right beside me and let me embrace you.” He would want Adam to be on His right side and Eve on His left, with perfect freedom to turn around in any position. Turned in one direction, Adam would be in the front; in the other direction, Eve would be in the front. They can turn in any direction but they will always be one. There is no real value difference between Adam and Eve.

God is a being with dual essentialities. Adam represents one characteristic and Eve represents the other. By uniting together, they can represent the complete image of God. That is why God wants to bring them together into one. He knew that Adam would grow up to become a handsome man. Adam’s heart would start pulsating and he would naturally want to reach out for love.

Eve was destined to grow up, too, and become a teenager with the capacity to feel love. She would look at Adam and think, “I used to think of him as just my elder brother, but somehow my heart is beating faster. Why is that’! Something is happening.”

Look at God’s universe as His museum: everything within it expresses an aspect of His love. How wonderful a Creator we have! Now you know about the true love of God. Does it sound like a good thing for a family to enter into that love of God and dwell forever in it? Not only families but also nations want to dwell in that love. The entire world wants to enter into and dwell forever in that kind of love. All things in the universe, from God all the way down to the smallest level of the creation, want to dwell in the state of true love.

Therefore the most important doctor of all is the doctor of true love. Who is that true love doctor.’ God is that doctor, along with the True Parents. No matter where you go with true love. whether to the lowliest dirty places or among the hungry, everybody will say yes to true love. There is only one entity who will say no and that is Satan. He is the only one who doesn’t want to be around true love.

Are you becoming good students of true love? Even those who are just thinking about true love are on God’s side. All of those who are actively pursuing true love are on God and the creation’s side-the side of the universe. In fact, even those who are fighting over the subject of true love are still on God’s side. Those who don’t care about true love are on Satan’s side.

When you wear the same shoes all day long, they give off a strong odor when you remove them at night, don’t they? That is particularly true of men. You women, when your husband comes home from a long, hard day of work and he takes off his shoes and socks, it smells like the devil, right? Will you say to him, “Get out of my sight! I can’t stand it!”? Or are you able to kiss that smelly toot’? With true love, you can even do that. That’s why true love is a mysterious power. God works in mysterious ways and true love creates mysterious tastes.

Now we have come to understand the law of the universe, the principle by which God operates. Life here on earth is the training ground for true love. That is what this life is all about. That’s why the Unification Church is teaching people to live for the sake of others, to go out and work for the sake of the world. By giving love unconditionally to the world, you will receive the entire world to yourself.

This is why Jesus taught people to love their enemies. By doing that, people can perfect their love. By perfecting your love, you will become one with the entire universe. The earthly life is your training ground. Once you have perfected your love here, you can go to spirit world and have unlimited freedom of movement. You will live harmoniously in the eternal world of spirit forever. That is the way God designed this world; that is God’s original ideal.

However, because of the fall of man, that beautiful ideal has been shattered into pieces. Instead of becoming God’s children, men and women transferred their lineage to Satan. People received the satanic blessing and became satanic children. That is the most tragic thing that Could have happened. Everything has been occupied by Satan.

The pillar of love was supposed to be the central pillar of the Kingdom of Heaven; instead hatred became the pillar of the Kingdom of Hell. Somebody has to come to unwind all the wrongdoings of mankind and restore them.

God is the one v ho has been searching after the fulfillment of true love, agonizing day in and day out. I want you to know how brokenhearted God has been. When He looks at this universe which He created, the universe which was supposed to be His museum of true love, He sees that it has been plundered and filled with hatred and conflict.

Perhaps some person would say to God, “Why don’t You just destroy the world? You are almighty and You have all the power You need. You could just wipe out mankind and start over again.” In other words, God has all the power in the universe, so what is the problem? Perhaps that person would also say, “I will be the one to fulfill where Adam and Eve failed; I will be a hundred times more powerful than they were, more powerful than the fallen angels. I will not betray You.” What do you think God would answer to that?

On the other hand, suppose some person tells God, “I can cleanse this world. You don’t have to wipe out mankind. I have a stronger love than anyone and I will liquidate all of Satan’s power.” God will certainly tell such a person, ‘My son, go right ahead! My son, do your will. I will assist you with all the power at my disposal.”

In such a case, that son is in an even greater position than God, in a way. Why is that? When God first created the universe and humankind, He was doing it purely out of joy. But today in the fallen world there is no lasting joy, only broken-heartedness. Under such circumstances, when someone can transform the world into heaven, that work is indeed greater than the original work of creation. The person who is thinking about that kind of thing is the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Therefore, that work has become the ideal and challenge of the Unification Church. We are not here to search after joy or to experience greater joy. No, this world has no lasting joy; it is full of despair and hopelessness. In a situation of despair we want to exercise our faith and loyalty and with that power transform the world into a truly joyful world. Have you committed yourself to restoring true love or are you just thinking about doing it?

When you are really pushing yourself, single-mindedly dedicated to your mission and exercising your faith, loyalty and true love, then Satan has no power to keep up with you.

You must realize that a typhoon is blowing out there. You can’t just sit around and relax. There isn’t time for that. The work of God has been the work of recreation. Fallen man is being recreated into perfected man, perfected families. perfected clans and tribes, perfected nations and world. God’s will is to create a new breed of humanity, new men and women.

A major problem of this world is disunity among the five different colors of skin-the racial barriers of the world. But Reverend Moon is the one who is uniting all the races into one in true love. Those who have participated in the Holy Weddings, raise your hands’ please. Imagine how shocked and dismayed Satan must feel to see all those hands going up. Satan has to declare an emergency. He has been working for many thousands of years to achieve division among people according to race or religion. He has created division between heaven and earth, between spirit world and physical world. He has been very successful in achieving division on every level.

But all of a sudden, a new group called Moonies came along, making holes in all of Satan’s barriers like little worms. They have been going around everywhere. just eating up those barriers. The Moonies are like caterpillars- they have a strong bite, capable of chewing any walls and laying eggs everywhere. Those eggs are true love eggs.

The Moonies make a hole and create a transparent true love window. Then Satan comes along and tries to go through that window but he bumps against it. He can’t get through. Moonies are not stopped by any barriers; they can go anywhere-Germany, England, Africa. South America-without any limitations.

Satan is looking at the work of the Moonies and is totally dismayed. All his work of thousands of years is breaking down around him. “What can I do?,” he wails, and he is becoming more and more desperate and frantic. Finally, Reverend Moon was put into jail, which is the hell of the United States and Satan thought, “Now I can breathe for a little while!” But all of a sudden he sees that a big hole is being chewed in the prison. In fact, there are holes everywhere in the prison!

But the Moonies are not standing still or stopping there. When they have dug a hole large enough for one person, they say, “That hole is not big enough. Let’s have two people going out at the same time.” Then they make that true love hole bigger and bigger.

People are going through those true love holes, holding the hands of their spouses. Will they look at their partner all of a sudden and say, “Oh no, you are not like me! You are white and I am black.”? Would they even have time to do such a thing? There is no such distinction as white, black, or yellow in the Unification Church because everybody is the same “Moonie color.” Furthermore, when people are going through that hole of true love they have to close their eyes so they can move like bullets.

So far we have created true love holes around the world that are large enough for families to get through. But the hole digging process is not finished. We have to return to our hometowns. All our ancestors and our tribes are waiting for us to make a big enough hole so that they can all come through.

The United States is one nation: we are digging one big hole for the people of this country to pass through. Our people will grow in numbers by leaps and bounds and once we reach that point, nothing will be impossible for God. When we have that much strength and influence. even if we don’t have our own nation, East Garden will be filled with lines of prominent people coming from all around the world, trying to meet with the True Parents, asking for their advice. That is because we can literally save the world-spiritually and physically.

What is the Fatherland? The Fatherland is the place where true love can dwell and make its permanent home. It is the Fatherland of true love. In Korea we have already come up to the level that they would not have survived without having had Reverend Moon’s leadership and aid. The time has come to reach that level in Japan. Soon the time will come that, even though I am now in prison, the United States will be no exception.

Thus we want to see the creation of the Fatherland, centered upon true love. In order to make that happen, we celebrate God’s Day. This is the meaning of this celebration. Do you Moonies love me? Does it make any difference that I am in prison? The True Parents are the holders of the Moonies’ milk, the mother’s milk. I want you to be proud. You are not ordinary people; you are the new breed.

Why do we need one physical Fatherland? It is because the Moonies can travel all over the world, but not Reverend Moon himself. I am too busy and there are so many negative forces out there trying to block my advancement. They certainly don’t want Reverend Moon to come to their own countries. But then once we have our own territory, our Fatherland, it will be a sovereign nation and they will have to deal with it. They will have to have relations with that nation, they will have to have diplomacy and trade with it. This one land will be different, however, because it will be centered upon true love. Love will be everything in that land.

This world will not be made into one by conquest, infiltration or aggression but only by true love. The ideal world and the ideal of God will be fulfilled when the Fatherland of true love is declared. There you will find the spiritual parents and the physical parents coming together. There you will find your permanent Fatherland, regardless of your origins, race, skin color and so forth.

Are you Moonies ready to follow me all the way? Perhaps I will not live too long. what about that? For that bond, we need a Fatherland, one territory where we can all settle and feel at home.

If there had been no fall of man, the creation of the Fatherland centering upon true love would have happened automatically. But because of the fall, it has been lost and never regained. When Christianity came out of Israel, the giant Roman Empire tried to block the spread of Christianity but it couldn’t do it. Of course, Christianity had to pay the price. Today the Unification Church is being blocked by many negative forces out there, but they will not succeed.

The United States is a powerful nation with influence all over the world, but there are many anti-U.S. forces shouting “Yankee, go home!” I want you to understand that nowhere will people shout “Moonie, go home.” Instead they will write on the walls and shout. “Moonie, welcome!” And they will erect statues of Moonies everywhere. But when they want to welcome the Moonies, there won’t be enough Moonies to go around. Thus they will have to come to where the Moonies are.

You will see. Your families-your parents, brothers and sisters who have been opposing you all this time- will turn around and follow you. They will say, “Let me go with you to your church.”

When I entered Danbury prison, I entered as the leader of the Unification Church; but when I come out, I will come out as a spiritual leader of the entire world. Thus I still have an uphill battle to complete; I have not yet been set free. I have come out to see you on this day, but the battle still remains to be finished.

You don’t have to go to Danbury but you have to create your own Danbury. I actually created my situation at Danbury. I didn’t have to go there but I willingly took on the challenge. Danbury is like a giant ship from which I can drop the anchor of universal love.

I am in Danbury because that is the shortest cut to build the Fatherland of love. I knew the ideal world of God was coming and I wanted to hasten that day. Even though my body is here speaking to you today, my mind is still in Danbury because my mission is still there. That is the hellish place. When I make a big spiritual hole in Danbury, the whole nation will be shaken. The conscience of America and the world shall be shaken. Then we will no longer have to witness on the individual level. Instead we will bring them in nation by nation. One nation after another will be restored.

My sermon today is entitled, ‘Creation of the Fatherland and God’s Day.” This is to remind you that our goal on God’s Day is to pledge ourselves to championing the creation of the Fatherland of true love. Today my pledge to you and my command to you is this: We have two primary barriers, one of which is the spiritual and the other is the physical. You are fighting against the physical barrier of America and I am fighting against the spiritual barrier of America. Danbury hill is the ultimate showdown place.

Danbury is the place to unite; it is the place where we can break down all the existing walls and barriers between the physical battle and the spiritual one. When we tear all those barriers down and unite them at Danbury, that is the dawning day of the Fatherland of love.

I want you to understand that the barriers between mind and body at the tall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden have not been rectified during all this time. We have come to the point where we are going to break down that most fundamental barrier as well and bring them together, whole men and women, totally united under God in true love. That is the challenge ahead of us in 1985.

You are going to be the victorious troops who are going to break down all the spiritual and physical barriers. We will never bring down those barriers by power or money or knowledge, or by any other physical force. No amount of military power can do it. Our only weapon is the God-given one of true love. With the power of true love alone we can break down the barriers.

For the goal of the creation of this ideal-breaking down the barriers and the creation of the Fatherland of true love-the members of the Unification Church all over the world are marching forward to victory. Amen! Amen! Amen!

## THE BUILDING AND CREATION OF THE FATHERLAND

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 1, 1985, Midnight
World Mission Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

The slogan for 1985 is the same as last year, which shows a continuation of God’s dispensation: The Building and the Creation of the Fatherland. I have missed you for a long time and it makes me happy to see your bright shining faces. You look happy and full of vitality. Our path is a pioneering one and the pioneering path is not easy; it is stony and difficult but that is the way we have to go.

Until now, nobody has understood history, especially the history of restoration. I have been pioneering the path of restoration. We have come this far and we have won great victory up to this moment. Many people in history have come to this earth and have undertaken the pioneering path. The path of the spiritual pioneer is always difficult, but the pioneering course today of the Unification Church is the most difficult; it is the path of supreme difficulty. The Unification Church path, which is also my path, has a universal meaning. It started from the bottom of hell and has been ascending into the highest part of heaven. Thus it contains the highest possible theological dimension.

I want you to understand that God would not give you a precious gift without asking you to fulfill certain responsibilities. We are about to receive the most cosmic, eternal gift from God; thus our responsibility is equal to that. We cannot expect such a blessing to come to us easily. Those who deserve the highest place here on earth and in spirit world are only those who are earning it by pursuing the most difficult and thorny path. That is the way we come to deserve God’s blessing.

What is the worst kind of hell one can find here on earth? Externally speaking, we could say that prison is the bottom of hell in any society. I have known all kinds of prisons. I experienced Japanese prison and I was in the dreadful prisons of communist North Korea. After I went to South Korea, I experienced the prisons there. From my experience in North Korea I knew what kind of prisons the Soviet Union has, so in a sense I even experienced the Soviet Union’s prison hell. I knew that in order to graduate from prison, I had one more place to go and that was to the prison of the United States.

Most people go into prison with a despairing heart. However, when I went there I was filled with expectation and enthusiasm knowing that God can always bring great miracles after great indemnity. I was eager to see what sorts of things God would do. Since most people enter prison in despair, there are two major aspects of daily life there. One of them is complaint. People complain against everything: “Why is that man’s face so dark?” Or, “Why is that man’s face so pretty?”

Secondly, there is frequent fighting because the men have so much time on their hands. They constantly curse each other and complain against each other. That is the reality of prison life. But my life in prison has been different. Because of the law of restoration, I knew that I was paying a great amount of indemnity by being in prison and after that payment there must come a great blessing. I thought about how to prepare for that blessing and how I could distribute it.

I have been in and out of prisons, including this occasion, six different times. Maybe there is one more prison awaiting me in the Soviet Union or Red China. No matter what, I am always preparing to receive the blessing and inheritance from God and to dispense it to the people who have earned it. Those who are to be the recipients of that blessing must prepare themselves to become worthy containers.

What would you do in order to receive that blessing? There is only one way to go: you must be able to naturally subjugate the people in hell. They must come and bow down before you. You must become the men and women who deserve such surrender from the satanic people. That is the road of restoration. Restoration cannot come without the indemnity being paid.

I did not go to Danbury prison just as Reverend Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, but I entered as a bearer of the universal mission for the sake of the world, not only this physical world but also the spiritual world. I was always standing before two entities, God and Satan, and they were the ones who were the judges of my deeds. I was always mindful of being worthy of God’s blessing.

If you are trying to turn a nation around, you cannot do that from the high ground. You must go down to the lowest level, to the ground floor, and then you can turn it. Thus our efforts are always from the bottom upward, not from the top down. If you are all alone trying to make your upward movement, you can never succeed. You must be supported by your entire environment. The important question, therefore, is how to create the kind of environment that can support you.

Your task does not have anything to do with lawyers, judges, and government. The problem is how to gain the support of the people. That is the only way we can achieve a secure restoration and pay the indemnity. We have to turn the world around 180 degrees.

By my entering into prison. the entire world was thrown into commotion. People of the United States have been engaged in deep controversy. Until I went to prison, negative attitudes were predominant among the people of this country, but now many people’s attitudes have changed 180 degrees. Many decent. thinking Americans are finding themselves in the position of supporting Reverend Moon.

It is almost like Reverend Moon has shed one layer of his skin, the way a snake does. Amazingly enough. I don’t have to do anything-people are coming to me and taking off that old skin, trying to see for themselves what is really inside. While the external world is doing that. the people who are inside the prison with me are also seeing the true nature of Reverend Moon. When this is done. I will become a truly tree man. Then the path of the Unification Church and Reverend Moon will no longer require persecution.

Actually this process should have been completed in Jesus’ time. He was supposed to have entered the Roman Empire and walked the same steps that I have gone through. If that had happened. Christianity would never have had to suffer the way it did.

We have the mission to save America and the world. Where do you go to save America? You go to its worst possible places. When you willingly suffer together with the people there, the blessing will come to you afterwards. I am sure that among you Moonies there are those who have a complaining and discouraged attitude. thinking, “I have been here a long time and I can’t see any changes. I’m getting old and my duties are getting more and more difficult.”

You have even more burdens after receiving the blessing. What happens? You have a baby and then you have to worry about it. Or you have to worry about when you can get together with your spouse. How to support your family and all kinds of worries like that plague your mind.

You know that I have been in prison and you know the tradition that I am setting. When you inherit that kind of tradition, you will never decline or perish. Even at my age, I always volunteer for the work chores in prison. That is because my goal is to transform that hellish place into the Kingdom of Heaven. When I first entered the prison, everybody was looking at me funny, wondering, “What kind of a man is he’?” But when I walked out a few days ago, many people waved a friendly goodbye to me. Whenever I am pushed into a hellish place I determine to turn it into heaven.

I know that these words I am giving you today are not satisfying your curiosity. I can look into your eyes and see that you are wondering what things are like at Danbury, what kind of a life I am living, and so forth.

Even now many of you do not know the real history of the Unification Church, particularly my own history. It is very difficult for American young people to understand me, since this is such a free and individualistic society. As you know, if I had wanted to, I could have avoided going into prison. Many people of the world are wondering why Reverend Moon went willingly into prison. They wonder for whom he is doing it.

I entered into prison to save America and those who are doing the work to save America. It was for your sake that I

did it. Among all the young people of America, you Moonies arc the ones who are ardently burning with the desire to save this country. Isn’t that true’! I would like to bequeath to you a tradition and spirit that will never be removed from you-the true spirit. This particular spirit of Danbury is not needed by me because I already have it. but it is what you need. I want to demonstrate it to you and be the example for you.

I want to see the birth of young people who will say, For the sake of America and the world, I can go to prison anytime. I will not avoid it.” I want to see such young people blossoming in this country.

I know that every one of you has walked a very difficult path up to and including 1984. I know that you only have one prime time of youth in your life, and you gave up the best part of your lives for the sake of your missions. But then I know that God has been waiting for such young people, those who were willing to give the prime of their lives for the sake of the world. History as well has been waiting for the birth of such young people.

You know that I was very handsome when I was young! But I was willing to give up my own youth. I would like to become the foundation, the launching pad, for many people to take off I want to see many people using me as their stepping stone to get into heaven. Actually I was never ambitious for fame but inevitably God pushed me into places of prominence.

1984 was truly a sad and painful year for the Unification Church. It started with the sacrifice of Heung Jin. Even though I knew that a time of turbulence and even sacrifice was coming to my own family, I had gone to Korea for the crusade. I wanted to create seven million IFVOC members in Korea and the same number in Japan. I want to see 45 million in the United States and seventy million around the world.

Satan knew all these plans, so he certainly could not just stand still. Satan has always tried desperately to stop me or discourage me in any way. 1984 was the year of my going into prison and that was a historic event. Many people thought that the Unification Church would be finished once Reverend Moon was incarcerated, but how wrong they were! While I have been in prison during these past months, I have continued to work and make great advancement. I have met important people, people who did not come to see me while I was on the outside. I have been visited by distinguished scholars, ministers and diplomats.

When those people came to see me, I spoke to them strongly about my ideal. They were very positively impressed and they could not reject what I was giving them. Life is like a marathon or an Olympic game. Until you have won the contest, you are not taken very seriously by the other runners. But once you have won the marathon, the others automatically look up to you.

1985 is a brand new year and we are all going to be busy. I want to push you out. In order to jump up high. you have to bend down very low first. I operate according to that principle; I am simply preparing to jump at this time. When the right moment comes. I will move up to higher ground; but you must be prepared to jump forward. too, so we can take leaps and bounds together. In a way, I was looking forward to going to prison because I knew that while I was there, great things would be happening to the Unification Church. What has happened? Since I have been in prison, large numbers of formerly negative Christians have changed completely.

When I was in Hung Nam prison in North Korea, I could not preach to the other prisoners directly; however I gained many disciples from among them. By the same token, when I come out of Danbury prison I will have a long line of followers.

Where would you like to go for your pioneering? Would you like to go to prison or would you prefer a nice. free place with lots of opportunity? well, we don’t need you in prison. I am there and I will pay all the indemnity for prison. You say “Moscow”? That is good. We must go to Moscow. How about Africa? That would be a place to make an extraordinary record for history.

When I was in prison in Korea, many people thought I had to be finished but I was filled with hope for the future, specifically for America. At this time also many people think I am finished but I am filled with hope for the next step. All of spirit world is filled with hope for the future.

What about you? Can you have any complaint in front of me? Do you want to follow your dispensational path, thinking, “How many more years do I have to go?” Or will you say, “God, I am destined to go. I was born for this mission.”

I wrote the motto a little while ago which is “Creation and Building of the Fatherland.” Why is that slogan so important? It is because we have not yet gained our country. I want you to understand that God has not yet had His own land and country here on earth. That is why Satan is so strong and can always accuse-he has power over all the principalities of the world. Thus God is still suffering because He does not have His own country.

My desire is always the same: how can I restore that one country for God, the Fatherland’? But the Fatherland must be a place in which people transcend barriers of race, creed and culture. This is the reason we mingled all the races together in our mass weddings. There has been great controversy because of that. but in the meantime one race of God is being created.

It is not easy; in fact, it is very difficult. I knew that it would be. But it is even more difficult for God because He does not have any physical form. God is spirit so how very difficult it is for Him to move this physical world. In that sense. we are in a better position than God because we have a physical body. Therefore I decided to undertake this mission on behalf of God, to do it for Him.

This is the fortieth year since I began to walk the dispensational path. We have every reason to believe that 1985 is going to be the year of decision, the year of showdown. In order to show the true position, I wanted to begin this year in prison. I was sent to prison in 1984 and I wanted to start off dramatically in 1985, in these circumstances, and then go on to win the greater victory. What about you? Are you going to follow my footsteps? You must grab the helm of the United States and fight. You are not going to retreat, are you?

You came here today to welcome me on my return from Danbury. This is not an ordinary occasion; it is a very serious and significant moment in history. We will not let this moment pass in a mediocre or half-hearted way. I am now going the road of resurrection and you are, too.

This is a decisive moment of showdown which will determine either the salvation of America or its destruction. There is only one way to win. If you were completely desperate because you wanted to save America, you would not hesitate to grab any person and show him the truth.

But you don’t want to do that kind of thing, do you? Do you say, “In that kind of game, I just want to be an observer.”? I would like every Moonie to be dramatic. Those who say, “Yes, Father, I want to become that kind of Moonie: raise your hands please.

When I look at your hands going up like that, I would go to prison ten times over. I am very grateful to you. You know, I am different now. Why is that? Before, I was just “Father” to you, but now that I have come back to visit from the prison, you know without a doubt that I have been through suffering.

You used to say things without much sincerity, even sometimes Lying or making up excuses. But now you will be different and you will be honest with me, won’t you? Do you want me to trust your word this time? Those who will say, “Father, this time it’s real. You can trust me.’ raise your hands please. Thank you.

(Reverend Won Pil Kim leads everyone in the first cheers of Mansei for 1985.)