On True Parents’ Day 1980 (April 15, 1980) and the following day at the State Directors’ Conference Father gave this significant message on the home church providence and our relationship to it.
Today I declare the end of the first twenty-one-year course. This is a momentous day. Today another twenty-one-year course has begun, and in this time our movement will grow physically as well as spiritually and we will be strengthened in every way. We must deter the advance of communism and we need the power to liberate them. Even for the communists I am in the position of father, but it is your position actually to win over them and be victorious. You shall be superior in God-centered character and in strength of knowledge, experience, and organization.
The communists are determined to destroy the free world and take over, but we will save the free world and also the communist world. That is our goal. The Unification movement is here for re-creation. The original will of God was corrupted, so we are here to re-create the world. We are that force and movement which will liberate the entire world centered on the true love of God. Our method is home church, through which you can contact everyone.
Your home church area is a little world which represents the entire fallen world and history in miniature form. When you win your battle there, God will consider that you have won the entire battle and inherited my victorious tradition on the universal level. Your goal, then, is to become a tribal messiah to home church. When there are home messiahs, then tribal messiahs under the worldwide Messiah, all shall be accomplished and fulfilled.
A dynamic, explosive era has dawned today. The second twenty-one-year course has begun. If you give all your heart for your task, however, you can accomplish everything in the first seven years. Then you will be finished and have no more seven year courses. You will enjoy the fruits of your effort and not have to endure more tribulation and hardship. Jesus’ spirit was always centered on love, and he demonstrated that love on the cross. He sacrificed himself as a single person, but today we have the privilege of bearing the cross as husband and wife. In the next seven years husband and wife will do this as one unit.
Many blessed couples think they have worked hard and now I should help them. But I tell them it is their responsibility. Even if I help them, their own responsibility remains of becoming victorious on their own. That’s the criterion. God will give ample blessing, including material blessing, after you set the standard and tradition. If God gives blessing before then, you will be accused by Satan and he will steal it. God does not want that.
The Messiah given to the world by God will not receive God’s help every minute of the day. God will leave him alone to do his own responsibility. That’s the way Mother and I suffered, but in that way we could become victorious over hardship and Satan can no longer accuse. When you become a personification of the true love
of God, the rest of your problems will be solved automatically, including your food, housing, clothing. The Bible says so, and I say it again-if that is not true, then I am an imposter.
The title of today’s message is “Completion of the Providence and Parents’ Day.” The True Parents set the tradition, and now you are to follow and set the same tradition and standard on your own. Then you shall be at the same level as True Parents in God’s sight. This next seven years is the time for you to demonstrate what you are and what you can do. Any organization or system that hampers this movement or your achievement will be demolished. Home church is the primary dispensation and anything else is secondary. I am declaring to Unification Church members all over the world that this is the Parents’ Day which ends the first twenty-one year course and begins the second twenty-one-year course.
You are independent messiahs, and whatever you do is your own responsibility. You are to bring the Kingdom of Heaven in home church. Traditionally I have rejected any outside help, whether from nations or government agencies, but I offered to help any government that needed it. I don’t want the American government to help me, but I want to help the American people. I am pouring all my blood and sweat, and my money and knowledge into this nation.
Many foreigners come to America to create a fortune and take it back home with them, but I came to this country to pour everything I have into saving this nation. I am truly the most precious visitor to come to this nation, but the people and government treated me in the worst fashion. I could easily feel hatred and want revenge, but I have never felt that. I want to embrace America with love. Every day my effort is to love and educate America. If America rejects this love and education, then this country won’t have to try to get rid of me-I will leave on my own. But that will be a tragic day for America because thousands of people will follow me in tears. America will be devastated if I leave because many significant people will no longer love this nation.
Argentina has been mistreated and misrepresented by America, struggling for its own freedom and survival against communism. I see there is a great opportunity for God to help Argentina restore its freedom.
We know today that we have an inner, spiritual strength that is tougher than iron. Now we are building physical strength that includes manpower and money, organization and publicity. If anyone opposes Moonies, don’t let the opportunity go by, but demand that they say what’s wrong with us and what they really do know about us. We know what we are, but how much do they know? I can endure being cursed and persecuted, but I want you to be respected by the nation and world.
This afternoon we have a martial arts demonstration and I would like you to see these champions in action. They will demonstrate what the mind and body can do, and how we can be strong not only in spirit but in body. You should know about the communists. They will come against you with dirty tactics, just like they have done in Argentina, and you should be ready in every way. If a thief comes in your door and tries to stab your own father, would you just stand by and watch? If an evil man slaughters the good people of your town, would you just try to escape?
The same thing can be said about nations. Today many South American nations are on the verge of being murdered, but America is trying to look away and say it is none of this nation’s business. Is that how to follow the commandment to love one’s neighbor? It is my lifetime dream to create a tribe and nation that can be strong and stand up for righteousness without fear of death. That’s the kind of courage we need to liberate the world from the evil ideology of communism. It is certainly not my ideology. This is God’s ideology. Even if I falter at this moment, millions of other Reverend Moons will arise because this ideology is immortal and eternal.
Today we declare the beginning of the second twenty-one-year course, in which we shall become superior in every way over the evil ideology of communism. Our goal is to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and in order to do that we must liberate mankind from sin. We are committed to rise to the challenge without compromise. If you promise that to me, raise your hand. We11 see you in Moscow.
I am sure that in a few minutes the State Department will know what I have said, and even sooner than that the Kremlin will know. Actually I want them to hear.
Many people are trying to kill me because I speak out very clearly. The other day a person came to our CARP center. He had carried a pistol for three years waiting for the chance to kill me because he thought I was an enemy of America. But after reading the CARP newspaper he realized that I was the best friend of America. He came to surrender his pistol and join CARP.
You can see that my freedom of movement is hindered. But at the same time I have given my entire life, giving my youth for the mission of erecting the Church, never even looking after my own family in my concern for the world. Now it is your turn. My main responsibility now is to set up the model family of heaven, the tradition of true love. I set the world tradition, national tradition, and tribal tradition, and now I must set the family tradition.
So far it has been my tradition to love the members more than my own children and wife. Some of the 36 couples are sitting here, and if they don’t recognize and appreciate my love then they are really traitors. I have loved them more than anyone. I will go home and set the family tradition because this is my remaining responsibility, but you cannot go home until you assume my role on the front line.
I cut all the satanic ties and overcame this world, returning to the beginning point and setting the pattern of the heavenly four position foundation. Now you are taking over and it is your turn to build your own tribe, nation and world. You inherit my tradition now and make it your tradition. Erect your own family, tribe, nation and world tradition. You should be the bulwark in the heavenly fight, the leaders who can say, “Follow me.” Will you do that? Do you know this to the bone?
To send a rocket into space you need a launching pad, and your 360 homes will be that launching pad for you. As much as you long for me, let them long for you so much that they cannot live one day without you. Satan fears home church because unconditional love is your weapon and Satan has no defense against that. We should march for that goal, giving true love and true education. These are the two most basic goals. You have to digest this yourself and endure all hardship. Don’t get diarrhea in assimilating this.
When you move fast you have more energy and the other side will be shattered, not you. Whether you go fast or slow, the opposition will have the same strength, so it is a far better tactic to move quickly because it will penetrate their defenses. This is why I don’t believe in working piecemeal, but going all out. That’s why in 1975 I sent out missionaries to 120 nations all at once. They were lightning rods for persecution, to get it over all at once and end it.
Before I undertook any task in this country I met the major leaders here-such as most of the Senators, including Senator Kennedy, and President Nixon. I met former President Eisenhower. Go to the famous people and well-known people in your area. You should feel that you will contribute more to your area than they do and love it more than anyone. You can say proudly to the parents that you love their children more than they do, and to the children that you love their parents more than they do. You love them more because you love with the unselfish love of God.
Very definitely people will be moved and inspired by you. In the beginning they will stand firm against you, but know that before too long they will be melted by your love. No other power is greater than your God-centered love. You have a weapon as powerful as an atomic bomb. No other power can compete with the power of love. The best people are either hot or cold. Those who oppose you will be your target because they will be your best members when they are turned around.
Your parents did not like me too much, but I loved them more than you loved them and eventually they will be melted. This is our principle strategy. This morning I have showed it plainly to you. The greatest weapon we have is the power of love. The entire world will be influ-enced by it and bow down to you. What is needed are people who will initiate home church, and when that is all done you will register as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. But that registration will be conducted by families, not individuals. This is not my concept, but God’s.
Since this is God’s original concept. I have no choice except to follow that tradition. You have no one to blame or complain about. If you are not making good marks at school you can’t complain about anyone except yourself. Do not ever think you are working; for the Unification Church; you are working for your own church. You are not working for the Unification Church nation and world, but your own nation and world. But it happens to be my nation and world as well.
Why are that nation and world needed? For you and me. Actually you are working for yourself, so it is your responsibility. The leaders should never think I will solve their problems, but should confront the hard questions themselves. There shall be no complaint because what you earn is what you get. That is the property you will earn and can leave to your children. The more of yourself you empty out, the more you will receive.
Do not ever think that I am taking a holiday from now on. I want to buy one airplane, but not for a vacation. Have you seen me take one day or week of vacation in my whole life? Do you have any objection if I buy a plane? The plane will be for me to take the hard-working members to visit many places. Would you want me to buy it, or will you do that for me? OK, buy it right away!
Mother is a very ugly wife, isn’t she? No, she is known for her beauty, but she married an ugly husband, didn’t she? One thing is for sure-I treated her as though she were an ugly wife and never paid attention to her. I want to have at least a little time to show her the rest of the world.
I have four more years before I reach what you call the retirement age of 65. If you can let me retire four years in advance because you will take up my job, then that is your pride. But I have an insoluble problem. There is no place I could go where I would not be recognized and besieged by people. Even if I don’t send notice in advance, spirit world lets people know! When I go to Japan and Korea, the moment I arrive there is a hectic schedule. My real problem is that there is no sanctuary for me.
I am now appealing to spirit world not to send a message that I am coming so that I can have peace and quiet for a few years. But actually I am just kidding. I have much work left to do. Before I finish my life on earth there is much more I must do on my own. In my own writing I must set down all the heavenly rules and regulations of life in Principle. No one else will do that after I die. I want you to pay more attention to your mission of home church than you do to me. Will you promise me that?
I have gone over the hill but you are still coming up. If at some point you no longer see me it is because I will already be on the other side. That’s natural and you shouldn’t worry about it, but just keep climbing and doing your mission of home church. Every nation has more hills to cover, including America, Argentina and Korea. Americans should have the will power to climb over that hill.
We are laboriously pounding in stakes at each step now, but later we will build a cable car so that everyone can just ride quickly to the top. Will you do that? God bless you.
State Director’s Conference
Yesterday I gave you my Parents’ Day message. As you recall, I announced that yesterday marked the consummation of the first three seven-year courses and, at the same time, it is the beginning of the second three seven-year courses.
The most important understanding should be that the first three seven-year courses have been fulfilled by the True Parents. We could say that the main role played in the first three seven-year courses was by the parents. However, the leading actors and actresses of the second three seven-year courses should be the blessed couples.
The third three seven-year courses will be walked by your children. Thus, there are three different levels-one walked by the parents, one walked by you, and the other walked by your children.
I have walked such an arduous and incredibly difficult path to pay indemnity for all of mankind. When you do the same you are entitled to achieve the same level as I did even though you work less and pay less indemnity, because I have already set the condition. By the same token, by your good standing in the second three seven-year courses, your children will be affected.
Home church is your ground for paying indemnity. You pay the debt through working in your home church. That condition is being set for God to be able to recognize that you have done the same thing throughout the world. In other words, home church is the microcosm of the world. If you are in good standing as a member working to accomplish the fulfillment of home church, it will eliminate the necessity of your children paying this indemnity. Your children will then be free to enter into heaven.
In order to cover the entire territory of Japan and the United States by the home church system, we need about 84,000 members in Japan. Each of these 84,000 would have 360 homes allocated to them as their own responsibility. This would entirely cover Japan. At the same time, when you have double the number of Japanese members, or 164,000, in the United States, they will be able to cover the entire territory of the United States through the 360 house home church system.
When public opinion is changed, people will say that Sun Myung Moon is a good man and that he is doing a good thing for America. Eventually, everybody will take this for granted. When everybody recognizes that Sun Myung Moon is doing good, everything can change. This society will become good overnight. America only a few schools would say that CARP is doing a good thing for America at present. This change does not need to take more than seven years. Even within three to four years time we can make a showdown. American students have lost direction and don’t know where to turn. The Principle is the only alternative remaining to them. Where else should they go?
Do you want to do it all within seven years instead of going through the entire twenty-one years? By doing so, you would eliminate the need for your children to make this condition.
Actually, as you know, I originally walked three consecutive seven-year courses. Yet, even I could have shortened this indemnity period and cut it to one third. If there had been true unity between myself and Korean Christianity, it would only have taken seven years. In the early days of Korea’s independence, I could have done incredible things.
In other words, if the sovereignty of Korea and the Christian churches of Korea had united with me, then there would have been a total unity between me, the government, and the church in Korea, and I would not have had to work for twenty-one years.
But this didn’t happen. Since the Korean government and the Korean Christian churches went against me instead of making unity, a total disunity was created. I, therefore, had to pay extra indemnity by going through both a second and a third seven-year course. At this particular time we have completed the circle because we have now completed three seven-year courses. I am now readily accepted by the Korean people, the Korean government and Korean Christianity.
Anybody who wants to run for the presidency in Korea wants sympathy, help and blessing from me. Politicians in the past always asked for my help. Yet they held out only one palm; in their other palm, they hid daggers or a knife. They reserved one arm to always be ready to attack. But now they have totally collapsed, and they come to me with both hands outstretched saying, “Father, can you help us?” I have laid such an incredibly strong foundation. I am in the position where I can sway the destiny of those candidates at will.
I knew the time was ripening for this very thing to happen. Therefore, one month ago I instructed Mr. Bo Hi Pak as a special envoy to Korea, representing me, to meet all those important people in the government and in the field of politics. He came back a couple of days ago and reported to me. I knew precisely what would happen. It did happen, just as I had expected. That is the reason I could declare yesterday that the first three seven-year courses have been completed. Yesterday, I announced the termination of the twenty-one-year course. It was successfully consummated; otherwise it could not have been announced.
You can imagine that in the dispensation of Jacob and Esau, after all Jacob did to Esau it was not easy for Esau just to bow down, embrace and love his younger brother. Yet that is all that was needed for success. It is actually only a small thing, but through it the condition for the whole dispensation was met. Abraham had tried to fulfill the dispensation but he couldn’t do it. Isaac also tried to accomplish it, but couldn’t. Yet, by winning the heart and love of Esau through the act of a simple embrace, the whole thing was accomplished by Jacob and Esau.
I would not or could not announce the initiation of a second three seven-year course unless the atmosphere was ripe or enough conditions had been met. Therefore, I have successfully consummated my mission in the first three seven-year courses. Now it is your turn. Through the home church as your arena, you can begin your battle. If you do well in your home church, then through the next seven years, you can affect the events throughout the entire world.
In The Principle we can see that Adam and Eve fell from God during the growth stage. When we are restored to this point, blessing can be given. I was supposed to cover the stages of formation and growth and go through the perfection period all within seven years. I reached the top of the perfection level not in the first seven years but within three seven-year courses.
What is perfection? To say that I have reached perfection means that Satan has absolutely no way to infiltrate into my life anymore. By announcing the completion of the three seven-year courses, I stand at the top level of perfection. No satanic infiltration or accusation will be possible. Nothing will break my position, no matter what happens. In other words, even if the nation comes against me, it will not matter. If the entire world comes against me, it will not matter because nothing can alter the victory I have already won.
I have even earned a certain reputation. People feel that no one can be compared to Sun Myung Moon. No president or prime minister nor any person in the religious world can be compared to me. No one can compete with Sun Myung Moon! People are beginning to resign themselves to the reality that to oppose me will not benefit them at all.
Even if Christian churches come to oppose Sun Myung Moon, they will only get hurt. They have no way to affect the destiny of the Unification Church. They cannot destroy the Unification Church. If they come against me, they will be the ones who become victims; they are the ones who will be defeated.
When the entire nation comes to unite with me, even if Christianity tries to harm or destroy the Unification Church, the Christians will eventually be the ones to be hated by the people.
We are fast approaching the time when no one in Korea can persecute us. No one has the guts or ability to persecute us. I am a person with such vast thinking. I could visualize this all this time and a long time ago I knew this was coming because I knew God’s Principle.
You can clearly understand this. This is the reason I announced the beginning of the second three seven-year course. It is so wonderful! You must be jubilant and rejoice over the occasion and the fact that I can make such a proclamation, for unless I had won victory and completed my own mission, I could not do so.
What is the dispensation? The periods of formation, growth and perfection are called the indirect dominion of God. God dominates us in the indirect dominion through The Principle. I stand above these three stages; where do you stand? 1 stand in the direct dominion of God. I come under His direct dominion. Who can oppose the direct dominion of God?
Why do I announce that from now on I will take it a bit easy? Throughout these years, I have aggressively kept going. There are so many people who have come to oppose me, but they are the ones who are going to be destroyed. In order to show mercy upon them, I should not engage in battle. In this sense, I am too sympathetic and merciful to put them in a position where they could oppose me. Therefore, if I rest more, the world will benefit. Yet at the same time, I ask that you be the aggressors against communism. I want the world to know that communism is the enemy of man and God.
That is why I ordered that CARP march forward to the camp of communism. I told our CARP members to be aggressive in attacking the communist ideology. This is what they are doing. This is why the communist world in this country is crumbling.
In this restoration course there are always ups and downs. You find both low and high points but you are generally still going upward. There is always some rhythm up and down. During the last twenty-one years, there has been a great deal of upheaval in my own dispensation. Certain things I have instructed didn’t work out well. In many cases we had to retreat and start over again in new things, new projects. All of us can recognize that we have done that even within the last seven years.
Yet it was allowable during this period. In a way it was flexible. If there had been no flexibility, none of you could have stayed.
In the first three seven-year courses, when I was the primary focus, Satan had a good opportunity to attack. Satan was allowed to attack and attack and attack me. However, this was also a good period for all of you. Each of you is given a chance to begin again. Even though you have failed, you can pick yourself up and start again.
Who has suffered the most? I have. I was lonely in suffering during the last three seven-year courses. This was my sacrificial period. I have loved the people and given everything. I knew God’s Principle so deeply. When I sit down to pray and call the name of God, tears automatically stream down my face, because I understand the seriousness of calling upon the name of God. You don’t know what my life has been like.
The prayer that I offered yesterday at the Parents’ Day meeting must be translated so that you can read its contents yourself. It was a tearful prayer. How can all of you reach that level of heart? You have to walk. Your principle is a simple one: you should walk the path that True Parents have walked.
Who made me suffer? God did. He ordered it, and I obeyed. Now the True Parents encourage you to go that same suffering path. It is the most natural thing for you walk the same suffering path as True Parents did. If you don’t, then the True Parents’ tradition would be demolished. Actually, the tradition of God would also be demolished. Your failure would be my failure. My failure would be God’s failure.
This past twenty-one-year course has been comprised of three seven-year courses which Mother and I have walked. It is the True Parents’ course. Now there is another set of identical three seven-year courses set aside for you to walk.
I have entered the perfection stage on the worldwide level. I have practically gone through the entire world and am working on the worldwide level. You will set the same condition by working within your 360 house home church area. How easy that is compared to what I did! For you, the 360 homes will comprise your entire world.
The time will come that, when governments accuse and persecute Sun Myung Moon or the Unification Church, the Korean government and Korean ambassadors in all different countries will respond: “Why do you persecute Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church?” Instead of getting angry, they will protect me. They will be in a position to fight for us. This time has come!
You are in an infinitely better position than me. Furthermore, while I have walked all courses, even going to a worldwide level, your area would be limited to 360 homes. If you cannot accomplish this in seven years, then it is just as if you resign yourself to decline.
I prolonged my seven-year course into three seven-year courses, but God was very sympathetic to me. God knew what a hard and incredibly lonely path it was. Where can you get this same sympathy? God, your parent, knows that you are in a favored position. Yet if you still cannot do it in seven years, don’t expect to receive sympathy from me or God.
You also know that I was opposed by every government and the Korean government. I was opposed by every church as well as the Christian church. I have already mentioned that the time has come when the government will not persecute but will be favorably impressed instead. Furthermore, the persecution from the Christian churches will also decrease. What excuse will you use?
Actually I gave instruction to the Korean government and the Korean churches. They were given proper direction and guidance as to what their mission is. But they are also the ones who failed to follow that instruction. They are the ones who failed their mission. They even failed to receive it. I was not at fault.
Both the government and church failed to respond to me, even though I did my absolute best. I was absolutely righteous in my position. God was indirectly responsible. God made those churches and God created those governments. God had to be sympathetic to me. God could not stand in a position to say: “Sun Myung Moon, you failed.” He couldn’t say that because indirectly God Himself is responsible. He knew I would do exactly what I was supposed to do. Yet it was the government and the Korean churches that failed to respond to me. Therefore, God could help me. However, your position is entirely different.
This is your chance. If the government and churches are dying to accept yet you fail to give them the truth then it will not be their responsibility anymore. It will be your responsibility. Furthermore, God only gives you responsibility for 360 homes. If you cannot even accomplish the restoration of 360 homes you will have absolutely no excuse in the sight of God. Do you understand? Don’t even request the support of God and 1rue Parents. Determine that you will do it all yourself. with your own strength.
You are just like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. At that time, there was no one to oppose them. They were absolutely free. Their responsibility was simply to obey God and march forward. They did not do it. But this time there is no way those representing their position can fail again.
Does this just seem to be the case or do you know this is true? Three hundred sixty homes will become the site of your life and death showdown. Furthermore, the path to restore these 360 homes is given to a husband and wife together. This mission is given to each couple.
There are all kinds of couples in the world. Yet each of you with your mate is a representative of all the couples of the entire world. That is the role of the Messiah and the messianic family.
The worst judgment you can receive is that you as a couple, whether engaged or blessed, don’t work in your 360 homes.
I have told you very precisely time and again why you need to work within a 360 home area. If you still don’t understand, then forget it. There is no other way for you. Somebody else should just take away your 360 homes.
If you have 360 homes assigned to you, yet you are not working in them, then people will come to accuse you and ask you to release them. They will tell you that they don’t need your kind of messiahship. They will tell you that they need an active messiah.
That is the key they are talking about to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus gave the key to Peter. Home church is that key. You can use it to open your way to heaven. That is the vindication of Jesus Christ. Before his crucifixion, Jesus Christ gave his key to Peter and told him to open it. Whatever you open here on earth shall be opened in heaven. “Whatever you open here on earth” means home church. Actually, when you do home church you are fulfilling Jesus· wish.
This path and responsibility includes all the 36 Couples as well. Now it is your turn to suffer. I have given these same precise instructions to Mr. Young Whi Kim, the president of the Korean HSA-UWC. I would like to send this particular tape to all the national leaders because they must know these points on home church. Today you should clearly understand why home church is so important.
To those who are blessed or engaged, I want to remind you that you have not yet reached the level of perfection. You are at the top of the second stage where you receive the Blessing. You still must go through the period of perfection. I have walked this way myself in accordance with The Principle.
It is perfectly logical. Perhaps it seems like a dream, but it becomes reality. By serving in your 360 homes, you can influence the world. Your area is your world; if you win there, you win the world. Secondly, you also win the entire spirit world. Thirdly, you win the heart and love of God.
God sent me to this earth in order to initiate this providence. No one else could finish this except me. I came to this world and have walked that path. I have won victory. Now I am directing you to follow by doing the same. No matter how treacherous the path is that you walk and no matter what tribulation you face, nothing can compare with my tribulation and hardships.
Yet no matter how much I have suffered through, nothing could compare to the suffer-ing which God went through. However, God has been patient and silently walked that path. He felt all the pain without complaint. I have followed that example. Now it is your turn.
Sometimes when you open your mouth complaints seem to come out easily. You don’t need that kind of interaction between your tongue and teeth. You have no right to complain. Even if you die a hundred times, there is still no cause for any of us to complain. This is the reason that even when I face incredible things, I continue to endure and be patient. Do you follow? You must listen to this focal point of my message very deeply.
You are so blessed. You can do it! All you have to do is follow the instructions. There is no doubt that you can reach perfection. I am so sure of that; all you have to do is follow the instructions.
If you cannot complete this, you will have no choice but to leave the task to your own children. Your children will have to walk the same path of suffering. Would you like to leave it behind?
Yet if this mission is left for them to do, they will accuse you. There is no way they will accuse me; they will accuse you. If you do not fulfill your responsibility, they will have to.
It will not only be your children who will accuse you. I will also come to accuse you. Even God will come down to accuse you. There is little room for forgiveness. How can you be forgiven; you already know what must be done and your responsibility. Where can there be room for sympathy? If you are conditionally forgiven by God and the True Parents, where will your excuses lead you?
When you look at your own fiancé you feel uplifting joy. However, that is the time to realize that before you love your home church and fulfill your own mission you have no right even to love your own fiancée. You will realize that you must earn the right to love your own fiancée.
However, if the two of you work together incredibly hard for seven years and arrive at the top stage, you will be able to rejoice. How happy you will be then!
I have told this to Mr. Kuboki and asked him if he understood. Mr. Kuboki replied that he did. I asked Mr. Kuboki to repeat what I had told him. I again asked Mr. Kuboki if he could do this and teach others. Mr. Kuboki told me that he could.
You, too, should be able to convey this message to others. This is the true beginning of the real dispensation of home church. I have been preaching about home church for three years. I began in 1977 and then in 1978 and 1979 and now in 1980. This is the reason that at this time I would like to start full strength to do home church. You need a full understanding so that you can save time and walk the path beginning now.
After hearing about the mission of home church for many years, do you now understand its purpose and mission? That is why you are so precious. It is not easy to understand home church. I have suffered so much in order for home church to become a reality. But if you can understand this now, then you are very precious people in the sight of God.
As long as we hang on to home church and keep doing it, there is no doubt that the satanic world will completely crumble. Do you have confidence that by doing it the Kingdom of Heaven on earth will become a reality? We all say “yes” so easily. God says “yes.” True Parents say “yes.” You should say “yes.” Your children say “yes.” Yes! We can build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
I announced on God’s Day this year that the motto for 1980 is: The Home Church is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. What is the base? The base means something like Cape Kennedy. The home church, then, is a launching pad. I have been aiming at this target for 20 years. Before the twenty-one-year course started, I already aimed at such a target. I am almost like Apollo, aimed at the sun and the moon. But in less than twenty years, I hit a bulls-eye. I hit the target in the center in the year 1976. I made history in that year.
I have completed this and reached the target. Now I am giving you the key. Now it is your turn. You must be the ones to open the door. You go out to your home church area and serve. You really only need to do this in one area. That is the way you fulfill. You must set the condition. In the meantime, I will go around the entire world.
The time will come when we will only need to do broadcasting on television and radio in order to reach many homes. This will help the home church providence immensely. Three hundred sixty homes can be connected to a wire which will be hooked up to a certain circuit and you can organize closed circuit television to your houses. You can be your own broadcast company.
You don’t even need to take seven years. That is too long a time. You could probably even do it within seven months. If I had a 360-home area, I would go out to the front line in order to fulfill my home church dispensation. I would have done it in far less than seven months.
In the future, twenty-one-day training sessions won’t even need to assemble. We can send the contents of twenty-one-day training through television. People can receive the workshop in their own living rooms. They will also take a test by reading the questions on the television screen. They will then write the answers, mail the test and receive their results in the mail.
In this advanced era, the things that at one time would have taken seven years to do you can do quickly. In ancient times, even years was quite a long time, because these things were not at one’s disposal. However, today, it is so easy to do things within even the short span of seven months. A few years ago, I initiated Frontier ’78. This was the nationwide media offensive. Yet it was still not powerful enough. I am now asking CARP to take up the mission and move forward.
The important thing is our seriousness and determination. We need to choose real fighters who invest their entire might, heart and soul. We need true commitment. Before there was always a lack of commitment. There was always a lack of true commitment to bring such offering to me. This is why the most important standard for CARP is total commitment and seriousness.
This is one reason why I hand-picked the 36 couples. Tiger Park is a member of the 36 Couples. He is in charge of CARP. I also hand-picked the Reverend Kim, also a member of the 36 Families, to head up home church.
There is nothing for you to complain about. I have done everything possible to make your job easier. There are no excuses. Do you think that I am trying to threaten you, or am I trying to teach you so that none of you will fail? You must accept my teaching with gratitude.
Imagine God looking over the four billion people around the world. Imagine him hand-picking them one by one. Suppose God or the spirit world hand-picked you and gave you this chance to do the home church providence. Now, I am hand-picking you to do the home church providence! Don’t you feel honored? You should be very grateful. You should continue to say, “Yes God hand-picked me!”‘ How precious it is! I have walked the entire home church providence and fulfilled and accomplished it. I have had so many experiences: I know precisely how to do it. Now I am allowing you to inherit the same experiences. You should be all the more grateful. You should be crazy about it.
Through this microphone, everything will be recorded for history. Today, the day after Parents’ Day 1980, you are hearing my own words and you see me in the chapel of the World Mission Center. You are hearing everything unmistakably clearly. A photographer should come to capture this historical moment. No one has any excuse. Today all of you are hearing clearly about the home church providence. We will keep a record of this most historic day. It is an historic declaration. You will be tremendously blessed just by the mere fact that you attended this meeting.
You just never realized that even though you loved me and thought you knew me, you truly never knew me.
Now you should ask yourself whether you can cope with this mission. You must ask yourself whether or not you should do this. What is your answer?
When the cities surrounding Sodom and Gomorrah were judged by God and the angel, it was done with fire and brimstone. Lot was given a warning that people were to leave but he was warned not to look back. Lot’s wife was doubtful and unsure inside, and she turned around and looked at the judged city. She became a
solid statue.
That is the way I have lived, almost like coming out of Sodom and Gomorrah. We must always step forward and never look back. Never look back in regret but always be grateful and thankful. If you truly know the providence of home church, you can walk that path without tears.
Home church is located on the other side of crucifixion, beyond the Mount of Calvary. It is located beyond the hill of the crucifixion. Home church is located beyond the 2,000 years of Christian history. Home church is also beyond my suffering life. It is far beyond it.
Even if you could walk the path going through a hundred deaths, you still should be grateful. But I have laid the foundation in such a way as to make your road very flat. so that you can walk it without the crucifixion. How lucky you are! How grateful you should be!
This is the culmination of The Principle. By doing this, you learn the entire Principle. The family is the focal point of the issue. The family is the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven. How have I come to understand all these things? It is incredibly clear now how the Kingdom can be attained.
You keep saying that you will be loyal and display filial piety to the Parents. Can you say with confidence that you have actually been loyal to your Parents? This is Heavenly Father’s pattern. First He fulfills and then He shows Himself. He accomplishes something first, and then He talks about it.
I have done the same. First I fulfilled and then I told you about it. It is not theory any more. It is not mere opinion. It is the principle that I have lived and experienced myself. That is why I speak after things have been completed. I have experienced things first and then tell you how to go about it.
If one were to look at me from a worldly view, one could see that actually I have been in a very pitiful situation. Yet, no matter how miserable I might be, this is the responsibility that Adam must take. When you all know this, then you can truly come to the conclusion that Sun Myung Moon is father to mankind and your father, because he stands in the position of true, perfected Adam. That is the greatest posssible treasure. Now you know it for sure.
Seven years from now all families will be registered. You will then have a nationality. Just as the father reached perfection, so should the children. In order to enter into Heaven, there must first be a united Cain and Abel. The Cain and Abel dispensation must come first.
In the same way, you must first do your Cain type home church. When you fulfill the Cain type home church, then the Abel type home church will come automatically. What is meant by your Abel type home church is your own relatives, your clan, your cousins and so on. You should organize your rosters and lists for the registration of Heaven. In other words, you are given a sort of birth certificate and you are organized into certain tribes. You know that you eternally belong to a certain tribe and you will know to which tribe you belong. Seven years from now everything will be decided by family registration.
There will be a serial number assigned for twelve different tribes, which will be lined up in accordance with whether or not they completed the home church providence. You will discover that the faster you walk. the sooner you reach the goal. the more quickly you can be registered.
These twelve tribes will be linked to the entire world. In other words, the entire world population, one way or another, will be linked to these twelve basic tribes of heaven. It is logical. Even from the point of view of The Principle it should be this way. When I proclaim the perfection and the completion of the mission, it means that I can be registered as a victorious True Parent. God will put His seal of approval on it. Satan will attend the ceremony and will bear witness. Even he will admit that the True Parents achieved the goal.
I see that you have not met a certain standard. You still have not done enough. If you continue on this course, you will decline. I am the judge. Whatever I pronounce will happen. I have told you that communism will decline. Now you will bear witness to it. If I say that America will decline and her residents will not continue to prosper, then America will decline. This is truly a fearful age.
Judgment is now at hand.
The Bible talks about seven years of tribulation. This is it. I have spent twenty-one years in tribulation. Your condition will be to go through these next seven years of tribulation. The Bible spoke of such tribulation as the time to meet the Lord. When people meet the Messiah, they are put in an incredible position, to receive incredible persecution.
Yet if you know you are going the right path, even when temptation comes, if you don’t change your love or your focus and just hang on to it until the end, then you will surely win. You will see. Perseverance is the quality we need. Then you will come to fulfill that prophecy the Bible speaks of. Then God’s Will will be done. My wish will come true and everything will be fulfilled.
What kind of dispensation is home church? It is the conditional seven-year dispensation. I was supposed to walk seven years of tribulation but it was prolonged to twenty-one years. During those years, incredible temptation came but I withstood it all until I finally achieved perfection and completed everything. I went all the way to the end. And I did it with love. I never lost sight even for a moment. I was always there with love.
America is enemy territory in a way. She is truly trying to destroy me and has placed herself in the position of my enemy. Yet I don’t think in those terms. I love America. Jesus prayed on the cross for God to forgive the people because they didn’t know what they were doing. He asked for the forgiveness of his own enemies. But we must move on; we must go over the Mount of Calvary without dying, without being killed. We must bear the cross as we live. It is essential that we keep on going.
You must be thankful to me. Let us also be thankful to God.
Are you fearful of this seven-year course? It is almost like an immunization. You must be given the shot. There is no way to bypass it. It will take seven years. Don’t try to find a short cut. Don’t be wishy-washy.
All of you are like lepers. There is only one cure. It is perseverance, living through the seven-year course. That alone shall cure you of leprosy. That is the absolute condition. You must learn how real this is.
Are your eyes wide open and awake? Are your eyes looking straight ahead? Are you aiming them at the bulls-eye? Are you looking at the goal? You should look at me from the eyes of the spirit world and appreciate me. There is no way you can describe this in words. The entire spirit world looks at me. God also looks at me and shakes His head, “My son, I don’t know how you did it. I don’t know how you did it. But you did it. You have done it. You achieved it. Bravo!” That is what God says. This is the kind of thing for which even God is appreciative. Do you feel this, too?
The world is a desert. It is such an incredibly evil world; but you found one man who has the secret capacity of perfection. Furthermore, you inherited his entire treasure. You received it free. Your teacher is appealing to you to listen and to understand and fulfill your part. This ambition of mine is two-fold: first, that you shall receive extraordinary blessing from God; second, that the world will benefit because of you. That is why I am giving you such exact instructions. That is why I am pouring out my heart in such an extraordinary way.
If you truly know the heart of God and my heart, and you hear this without being brought to tears, you are like a stone, you are not an emotional person. When you walk to your home church area, tears will fill your eyes and streak down your cheeks because you appreciate the privilege and blessing to be able to do it.
This is our path. It is the homecoming. I have returned home this way. Each of you must feel that you are now following in my footsteps. Each of you must feel that you are going home. You must feel that in the footprints that you make, God Himself can return. You are creating the path for God to return.
You should return to your original home. You will be joyous, dancing and singing. You will find no limit. Once you fulfill, then for the rest of your life you will have nothing; much to do. You will rejoice over it. The rest of your entire life will be a celebration. Every day will be a banquet. You will have achieved so much that nothing will diminish. This is lifetime joy.
I have instructed that New Future Films take a picture of not only my face, but of the faces of all the rest of you. This picture will later become a witness for those who participated in this important and historic meeting. Lift up your face and show it!
I would like to make a movie: “The Final Proclamation on Home Church” or “The Final Declaration on Home Church.” The title must be ‘The Children’s Seven-Year Course: Why we should walk it.” Father is expounding this theme.
Home church is upon your shoulders. When would you unload this burden? This burden will never leave your back. Even if you die, this burden will still be with you. What will you do in this case?
When you go to the spirit world, you will be stuck. Without fulfilling the condition of home church, you will be stuck. That is The Principle. It would not be fair if everyone just automatically passed into Heaven whether or not he did home church.
It doesn’t make any difference. As long as they have not qualified, they cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It doesn’t matter whether it is Reiner Vincenz, Martin Porter or Mr. David Kim: even if I wanted to give you an extra special pass, it would not be possible. Your own deeds shall decide your future.
– In the history of re-creation, you have many strings attaching you to Satan’s world. Now if you cut everything off, you are in the position to grow by leaps and bounds, jumping out of your place and landing at your goal. If such a thing can happen, how exciting it will be! Would you do this? If I told you not to, what would you do then?
Many people think it is wiser to just follow behind me wherever I go, even to the other end of the earth. Perhaps you think that God will love you even if you sleep a long time. “I have not slept for so many nights. What if I sleep for one month?” If you think this is all right, then go ahead. Go to bed and sleep for one month. But ask your conscience if it is comfortable. Where do you want to go? Would you rather follow me during my travels all over the world, or go to home church? Why should you go to home church?
You would want to go to home church in order to bring liberation. You should become an ancestor, a forefather of mankind and a forefather of the home church. If you make a mistake there will be tremendous accusation from your own clan and your generation. Do you think that what I am telling you now your children will automatically be able to understand? Do they understand now? How about in the future? Will they be able to understand then?
Your children will know. They will ask their daddies and mommies why they failed in home church. They will ask where the home church is. “You were there, at the final declaration. You listened to Sun Myung Moon. Yet still you don’t have a home church?”
Suppose the instruction was to shed tears and live a tearful way of life for the restoration of home church, because that is the truest expression of my love. Then your children will ask you how many times you were in tears. Your children will say: “Even if you had to neglect me, even if you didn’t feed me, even if you abandoned me, you should have followed God’s instruction, God’s way of life, and Father’s instructions. Why didn’t you?” Your children will accuse you in that way. What will you say? There will be no answer.
There are two types of ancestors that you can become. One type is appreciated by their descendants; the other is not. Wouldn’t you want to be the kind who is appreciated and who inspires them?
You were taught The Principle. You have come before me. But the question is, will you follow my instruction? You know precisely that I have fulfilled everything in advance. I have sacrificed my entire life for you, for your posterity. The Principle is the absolute truth. The world cannot survive without it.
How could I have known twenty years ago that would be in this position today? Even after I made the decision to follow Heavenly Father, I passed through this dispensation and such an incredible period of tribulation, it was almost like crossing an entire sea of rough waters in a tiny boat shaking like a leaf.
There was a movie made about a man who fled from prison. He was nicknamed Papillon, which is the word for butterfly in French. When I saw the movie Papillon I felt it was my own story. It was so real to me. Actually, the physical abuses which the prisoners had to go through in that movie are nothing compared to what I have experienced. Still, it refreshed my memory about my days of suffering.
I am now proclaiming the conclusion, the consummation of the three seven-year courses, and am now announcing the beginning of your three seven-year courses. Do you feel this is a happy and momentous occasion or a gloomy, miserable one? Of course it is happy, but there is one reservation. I am still worried because of you. Would you like to take that worry from my heart? Do you want me to trust you?
If you promised me today that you would accomplish, then I wouldn’t have to stay in the United States. I would just pack up and go away, perhaps never coming back to America if I could trust you to fulfill and bring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth for sure. Are you ready? Can you do it?
If you have the complete Principle and an undying spirit, you can do it. I asked that our film crew make sure to record everyone’s face during this conference. Everyone should later be able to recognize his own face in the movie to be made about this day. Later on, what will happen? This is the children’s era. Another generation will come. Everyone will want to be filmed. People will look at this movie in years to come and find that certain ancestors succeeded and certain others disappeared. Some people would be proclaimed as heroes and so forth. Your children and that generation will feel all kinds of mixed emotions. It is an extremely important day and conference. So lift up your face and look dignified! Smile and show your happiness! Make up your mind that you will stay that way for eternity.
You missionaries attending this conference are lucky people, aren’t you? You are so grateful to me. But your responsibility is heavy. By your attending this meeting, your responsibility will double or triple. You are supposed to be the Abraham of your country. You must become a forefather of your nation. Do you realize that?