The 13th Commencement Address from True Father given at the graduation ceremony on June 30, 1989 at Barrytown, New York, read by President David 5. C. Kim
On this happy and joyous occasion of the Unification Theological Seminary’s 13th graduation exercise, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to 40 new graduates. At the same time, the administration, faculty and staff of UTS, who have helped these graduates complete their academic program, deserve to be congratulated.
Furthermore, I am pleased to receive a report from your beloved President, Dr. David S.C. Kim, that 22 of last year’s graduates officially received the diploma for the Master’s degree in Religious Education. These MRE degrees were conferred by the New York State Board of Regents and the President of New York State University on March 17, 1989.
You are greatly honored to receive this kind of prestigious Master’s degree from the Empire State of New York. Therefore, my third “congratulations” goes to the 22 MRE degree recipients who are the Unification Theological Seminary’s first degree holders.
I recognize this event as a sign of the Seminary’s continuous advancement as a new age educational institution. I acknowledge the UTS Board of Trustees, the faculty, the administration, the staff, and the students for their steady effort and progress. I, the Founder of this Seminary, deeply appreciate this progress made under difficult circumstances.
REVIVAL OF CHRISTIANITY
May I call attention especially to the significance of this year in which you are graduating. On this happy occasion I would like to directly address you graduates regarding the urgent need for the revival of American Christianity, as part of God’s dispensation and the need for a global revival of world Christianity based on the revival of America. Who is responsible for these revivals? It is your mission, as graduates, to be responsible for the future destiny of America and the world.
The land of America was richly blessed by God so it could develop rapidly. This phenomenon did not just happen by chance. In the course of God’s providence, the nation of America was chosen for the sole purpose of restoring this troubled world to God’s side. This nation was founded on the Christian ideal; therefore, America inherits the position of the second Israel from Christianity.
God’s plan was to let America become a world power, and then lead the free world of theistic countries in confronting atheistic communism. Thus, centering on America as His chosen nation, God hoped to restore the free nations to the “ideal” according to His original will.
However, the people of America, not knowing God’s providence, went in the wrong direction, especially after 1945 and the victory of World War II. They did not fulfill their heavenly responsibility for restoration to God’s side.
Thus, since that time, America and the free nations have lost, the ideal, bringing about the moral corruption of their young people. Such moral corruption can be seen by the existence of free sex, drug and alcohol abuse and homosexuality, not only in America, but throughout the world.
CONFRONTATION WITH COMMUNISM
In addition, they have been plunged into a worldwide confrontation with the rising evil force of communistic power, which has now taken more than half of this world in their global conquest. Now America is at the crossroads of “life and death” and is on the verge of complete collapse. If America fails, God will have to raise up a third Israel to restore this failure and to save America and the world.
Therefore, we must work hard to revive America from a dangerous coma and the condition of “near death.” Since the “heavenly doctor” has not yet pronounced America and the free nations dead, there is some hope.
How can we revive America from its present dying condition? That is the question. First, the nation of America and the American people must return to the ideals of God: to serve God, to believe in God, to pay awesome reverence to God, and to worship God. Second, they must recognize God as their Heavenly Father and all of humankind as their brothers and sisters. Based on Judeo-Christian faith, morality, ethics and values, they have to repent for their past failures and reject the present secular, satanic values. The most urgent thing we need to do is to revive the people of America and return to the Judeo-Christian value system.
Originally, Christianity was never intended to become individualistic, but it has developed into secular humanism and extreme individualism, abandoning the original values of the family and community. The family structure and the societal system have been separated to the detriment of both. We need to bring them back together based on the original Judeo-Christian ideal that this nation’s Founding Fathers envisioned in the Constitution and fought for with their lives in the War of Independence.
RETURN TO GOD
If the people of America return to God and revive their original values, then the free nations will automatically be revived and the rest of the world will be restored. With a high standard of value, the free nations can easily influence the communist nations, where changes are already taking place. Russia, China and the Eastern satellite countries are now waging a battle to gain a democratic system, and a “prodemocracy movement” is taking place throughout the world.
I have much hope for the near future; a global revival and restoration is within our reach under God’s providential scheme and timetable. Then, all peoples of the world will know God as their Heavenly Father and will understand His dispensation and His will. So, it is up to the people of America whether or not the world can be revived and restored to God, fulfilling the ideal world on earth which God had originally planned.
So, where do we begin? First of all, the revival of Christianity must come in America. Then, we must arrest the spread of worldwide communism and expose their global conquest strategy. Furthermore, we must stop the moral decay of the young generation in the world, and tackle the worldwide “mafia gang” operation that adds to the destruction of our youth. Finally, we need to mobilize the over 400 Christian denominations to protect their young generation as future leaders through interfaith and ecumenical action. Instead of fighting with each other over doctrinal differences and denominational insistence, they must form a united front, fighting social evils in the community and the world.
I have established the Interdenominational Conferences for Clergy (ICC) for the purpose of giving direction to American ministers to help America. You graduates can teach other Christian ministers about the infinite existence of the spiritual world of heart and love as a reality in our life of faith. Let your colleagues, Christian ministers, rediscover this religious sphere.
TRIBAL MESSIAHSHIP
We cannot sit back and watch the nation of America and the world perish. We must stop it now! Revive them; restore them to the original ideal and condition! When you go out to your mission you will immediately engage in a war between good and evil. With the help of your fellow alumni, I believe that you shall win over this war and bring victory to God.
I am even more convinced that you shall bring total victory in your mission because in 1988 I began the “Tribal Messiah System.” This system is your opportunity to restore this nation by becoming a messiah to your own family. By creating God centered tribes, each of our movement’s more than 20,000 Blessed families can become tribal chieftains and messianic families. The extended family structures established by these core families will develop into community and societal structures that can turn America around to fulfill its providential mission for the world.
Once America is revived, the other free nations will follow, and once the free nations are revived, atheistic communism will turn around and begin to move towards God’s direction. In this way, America and the world can be restored based on the Tribal Messiah System. The Tribal Messiah Concept is God’s thought and system. It is God’s providence for America and the world. Thus, the construction of the Kingdom of Heaven starts through this Tribal Messiah System. In this way, we can restructure the original Judeo-Christian values so they can be revived.
Tribal Messiah thought, or ministry, is practiced by me in my own daily life of faith, and has been proven as a valid system. In this way, I have made God’s thought and system my own. I have created this supranational “Historical Tradition” so that you may accomplish your mission in America and the world. I am the incarnation of Heavenly Father’s thought, the Tribal Messiah Concept. You can learn this concept by studying me; this is your challenge.
I pray that Heavenly Father’s love, grace, mercy and protection be upon you in your future mission, and I hope that you can bring great and total victory in the “Revival of America and the World.” One more time, my sincere congratulations to you graduates who will inherit God’s Kingdom on earth.