Father’s speech at the international leaders’ conference on January 2, 1992 at World Mission Center, New York
Father wants to sit in front of you so he can see your faces very clearly. There are ninety-six nations represented here in all. Regardless of race, color, age or sex, the most important questions people ask are: Who am I? What am I doing? and What is important to me? We have a built-in desire to become the central figure and to make a central family. We want our tribe, clan and nation to become the center of the entire world.
However, even though everyone thinks like that, has anyone fulfilled that desire? o one has. Has even a head of state, President Bush for example, fulfilled that totally central position in terms of the world, nation, society and family? Not quite. Human desire is based on an eternal timetable. The United States presidency lasts only eight years, at the most.
We must recognize the core reason for this innate desire of men and women. History did not start with you, so the origin did not come from you. There was a beginning. This desire exists not only within yourself, but it will exist in the millions and millions of people who will come after you. It extends eternally into the future. This desire originated in the Creator who start representing heaven and earth. You are representing all of humanity.
When you act truly as a representative of the entire world and heaven and earth and humanity, people in the world will look up to you and respect you. A couple, husband and wife, is like a pinnacle on the tree of families that came before you. That husband and wife center upon their clan and the clan, the nation. That’s how the different races, skin colors and creeds have prospered.
It is like a big tree. A tree always has a central stem or trunk. At the same time there is a multitude of branches both big and small. There is a central love, central root, central trunk and a central bud. You need the bud. Everyone wants to be connected to the central line. Even if you are a branch, you want to be connected to that central trunk line because by doing so you are connecting to the source of life. However, where you are doesn’t make any difference. Every branch, the leaves and buds are all connected to the central trunk line where they receive life. Without it, the branch will die. The only difference is that the trunk has a strict vertical line.
The tree is engaged in one life. Everything on that tree shares the source of that one life. If one branch is broken off, the en-tire tree feels pain. When Father pulls this brother’s hair, where does he feel pain? Does only the hair say ouch? Your hair is pulled, but your mouth says ouch. Isn’t that funny? It means there is some relation between your hair and your mouth. You share one life.
Where does life come from? It comes from love. Love is the source of life. You are the fruit of the love of your parents. Everything comes from love. When you go way down to the base of the root, you will find that love is the source of everything. All things germinate from love and are permeated by love. Here at the center, the central nerve is love. Everything else, such as your body and your life, surrounds that. There-fore you are also love because your axis penetrates down to the very bottom, which is love.
LIFE, BLOOD, LOVE HEATING UP
When you are in love with someone, your blood heats up. That love stirs you to action centered on love. Man and woman come together in a head-on collision, but it isn’t destructive. These three elements do not move separately, but harmoniously together. When the blood heats up, life is exciting and love is germinated.
How can life multiply and be extended? By blood. You never say life lineage; you say blood lineage. Blood heating up, blood in action and blood handed down from generation to generation. New life comes from your blood. Your parents are the past and you are the present. Without that past there would be no future. The children are the future. Those three are one category. They cannot be separated.
What is the power to do this? It is the power of love, life and blood. Where does it come from? Originally, it comes from God. You can boldly say, “In my body, I have God’s love. In my body, I have God’s life. In my body, I have God’s blood. Therefore, I am a total representative of God.” That is the true way of human rights. That is where true human value and dignity come from.
Our life comes from love and our life is handed down through the blood. The blood is separate in woman and man, but they come together, and that connection leads to the expansion of humanity. You are the representative of the historical blood lineage of God. “I represent historical life. I am rep-resenting historical love. I represent God Almighty, the Creator. I am His child, His being and His representative. This is my pride and value and right. God is the center of love, life and blood and I have inherited those three things. Therefore, I am representing God in this world and in eternity as well.”
Even the smallest cells multiply. They are productive all the time. By the same token our life should be that way. Each cell has the elements of the entire tree: the root, trunk, branches and buds. Everything exists within each individual cell. My pride comes from the fact that my blood is the same as God’s blood. My life comes from God and my love comes from God. They are the same; I am not foreign to God. If I pull a hair from this lovely brown head, who is that hair? It is me. It represents me. In this respect the universe is a place of equality because every one of us has inherited from God the same qualities of love, life and blood lineage.
When God hears us saying, “I am a representative of God and representative of the universe and world and nation,” He would not say, “What a blasphemer! That guy is talking too big!” God won’t say that. He will call you His son or daughter.
One’s life will multiply. Because of time and other factors involved, there will be some variation in how far it will go and how wide an area an individual’s life will cover. However, in terms of value, all men and women will be absolutely equal. Your life pattern is one of two possibilities: you are either giving energy to the tree or taking energy away from the tree. Would you like to be a burden or a contributor to your family, neighbors and world?
Productive societies are made up of individuals who feel, “I need to contribute to society. I don’t want to become a bur-den to the tree. As much as God invested every ounce of energy in creation, I want to give to others.” We are not going to be pushed down. In other words, this world of ours is not going to see us struggling with each other. We are going to receive universal blessing all together like sunshine coming upon every man. In the same way, the life of God, the love of God and the blood lineage of God will come down upon every man.
When you become a true representative of the universe and God, where will you go? Do you pluck the apple and eat it? That would be like committing a crime. If you represent the Creator, you are a co-creator, so everything in the creation belongs to you. It is your prerogative and right to enjoy the creation. The universe would not push down that kind of man. The universe will protect and admire that kind of person just as the universe has lifted up God. It is the same thing. You will be a walking God.
Father came to America, not with the ambition to take over the United States. On the contrary, when he came to America, he wanted to multiply true life, true value and true lineage among Americans and lift them up so that they could become co-creators. The saintly life is to commit yourself like God. God’s life has been one of commitment. God is committing His love, life and lineage to the creation. By the same token, your life has been designed in such a way that every day you are committing your love, life and lineage to humanity. You can indeed become a true image of God. God operates under that principle too, so you are a co-worker of God.
LIKE CHUNKS OF DIRT
Father visited North Korea and Kim Il Sung. Do you think Father went there to take something away from him? Or was Father pulling energy from the precious lives of the young American members of the Unification Church-their life, love and energy-to give to Kim Il Sung and the twenty million poor people in North Korea for their survival, re-creation and prosperity? Is Father’s way of thinking a crime? What are the communists? They are like a chunk of dirt. There is no soul, no love, no blood lineage in communism. In order to recreate communists, you have to give a lot of love, a lot of blood and lots of life. Where will Father get that? From you! Father is even thinking that for that purpose we should even divert great resources from expenditure in America. How about that? That money can be invested in North Korea for the sake of life, love and blood lineage. The whole universe would be thankful forever.
What a glory for the American members, to give life, the source of energy, love and blood as investment for the people of North Korea! Those twenty million people could spring out into new life and new prosperity and a new well-being. It would be a new nation. What a great fulfillment that would be for our projects in America! You couldn’t hope to do anything better than that in the United States. Kim Il Sung has an original mind and will see that Father did not come to take anything away from him. Instead Father came to give him the source of life, love and blood. What will Kim Il Sung do? He will just bow down.
GOD WILL RESUPPLY
This is Father’s spirit, to even mortgage himself to have as much money as possible to do the work of God for the sake of humanity. Those on the receiving end are trying to get one more penny, a higher salary and more benefit from their organization. That is a crime. Those who follow Father’s principle shall remain, survive and prosper, but all those who go against it shall decline.
Without receiving a salary would you stay here fighting or would you run away? I’m looking for that kind of champion, the type of men and women who would be absolutely dedicated, giving every ounce of their energy for the recreation of man and the world.
God is the Creator. Father is the recreator. The creation principle applies to the recreation. For that reason, the purpose is so much the same that Almighty God is ultimately responsible. If we run out of money or energy, God is the one who will supply it. That is Father’s conviction. Father always goes one step short of the edge of the cliff. However, he goes that far with the absolute faith and belief that God is coming and that if he runs out of energy, God will supply it. The more people understand Father’s goal in life, the more people will come to aid and support Father, financially and spiritually and academically.
Within your blood, right now, God’s life, love and blood is living. God is asking and waiting for this particular individual body, which is the true image of God, to blossom and explode and multiply so that God’s creation goal can come through you. By bringing men and women together they have the pow-er of multiplication. They will multiply another image of God, which is children. Love is the origin and motivation of all creation. True Love means to invest your life, then forget it. Even if you lay down your life, you forget it. God wants you to multiply love. Do you think God wants that love to be even bigger than Himself? [Yes!] How do you know? By looking at yourself you can see it is true. You always want a love bigger than yourself. Does anybody want their love object or partner to be smaller than themselves? How much bigger do you want them to be? So big that you cannot even handle them. You will be completely crushed by them. You would like to see south and north, east and west completely filled with that kind of love.
Does any parent want their children to be inferior to them-selves? You want your children to be even bigger than God. That is love’s true nature: to have a bigger partner and bigger object. That is exactly the way God feels. When God created His partner of love, did He want to make someone inferior to Himself or bigger than Himself? How can you make something bigger than one hundred percent? You do that by investing one hundred percent, and then forgetting, and then giving more and forgetting again. That is how you will get a bigger partner and love object. True love started out beyond the level of life; beyond life is where true love begins.
IN THE LION’S MOUTH
When Father entered North Korea do you think he went with the feeling of going on a picnic, or was he serious to the point of thinking that even if something happened to his life, he would have no regret but would still go there to fulfill his responsibility? If they wanted to, the North Koreans could have done anything to Father. Father was not only in the lion’s den, but inside the lion’s mouth. Even in those circumstances Father was not intimidated. Father was proud. Father was the representative of God. God cannot be intimidated under any circumstances. The North Koreans were the ones who were intimidated, asking, “Reverend Moon, how can I serve you better?”
At a meeting in the gigantic congressional building, there was a conference room in which they planned to preach juche, their “self reliance” ideology, to Father. We called it a brain washing session. They prepared a brainwashing session for Reverend Moon! They gave a very polite, but very strong, propagandistic, scientific message to Father. Father listened and smiled, then he said, “Bo Hi Pak, give them a shock.”
So Dr. Pak reported the things Father has done in the last twenty-five years for the sake of America and the world, for peace and anti-communism. Then all of a sudden Father stood up. They said, “Reverend Moon, why are you standing? Please sit down.” Father said, “No, I am going to stand. Please bring me my water.” He drank the water and then the Belvedere style teaching began! Father spoke about true love, God-ism and the headwing ideology. Father spoke with the same conviction with which he is speaking to you today. Finally, Father began to criticize the juche ideology, which is considered sacred in North Korea.
By that time Dr. Pak was thinking, “Oh no, Father, we’re not going to survive here!” Father was pounding the table, saying “You have to follow heavenly Godism! Otherwise there is no way for you.” Father’s conviction was “I must do my responsibility. I came here to tell the truth. My life is in the hands of God. Whether I die here or go back home de-pends on God’s decision. Let God make the decision but I will do my duty.”
Father was really giving with creative energy, like God at the time of creation. Father has been thinking of North Korea, that he would go to that country for the re-creation of that nation, society and the human beings who live there. God works in strange ways.
Father told them, “You are talking about the juche ideology, the self-reliant, central ideology. But who is central? God is central and I represent God. So I am the juche ideology, not you. Yours is wrong, mine is correct.” That was a declaration! Father was not only pounding the table, but he had his finger pointed at the chairman sitting in front of him. Father told him, “You are the first one who should obey this ideology.” He happened to be the chief of the entire propaganda organ of North Korea!
Father is living this Principle. He just practiced it in North Korea. It wasn’t a special time, though; Father’s life has always been like that. In North Korea he just lived his natural way. He represented God. God’s blood and life and love are within me and I represent Him. How should I be intimidated by these people? I have compassion for them.
It is the opposite there now. A crack was made in the dam so it can break open. What happened to Gorbachev after meeting Father? Only eighteen months later, Gorbachev and the Soviet Union are completely demolished. Within eighteen months something great will happen in North Korea. It will be a constructive, good thing for God and the sake of the world.
COMMITMENT FOR REPRESENTATION
Your commitment to representation is necessary. Those who say, “Yes, Father, I am going to be a representative of Heavenly Father and a representative of His creative energy, a representative of the great spirit of His love, life and blood,” please raise your hands!
“I am a representative of this great United States of America. No matter how much it comes against me I will take that attitude and action and push.” In the United States there was a confrontation: the United States of America versus Reverend Sun Myung Moon. That was actually what the trial was all about. Speaking spiritually and physically, who won? What about communism? One man, Father, versus worldwide communism. Father did not come here to enjoy a glorious life in the United States. When he came to this country, he knew he might end up even in prison, yet he knew it was the only way he could shake up and save this country. Father gave his life to this effort. It is only by the grace of God that Father survived.
When Father became an inmate in that prison, anything could have happened. The United States government pushed him into that situation. They could have washed their hands, saying, “We’re not responsible.” As late as 1988, the KGB, together with Kim II Sung, had a plot to kill Father. Even the United States government would not protect Father from this plan. Only by the grace of God Father survived.
In April of 1990 Father was sitting in the Kremlin face to face with Gorbachev. Father said the two pictures in Gorbachev’ s office, one of Marx and the other of Lenin, must come down. Father also made a special television interview with Novosti and emphatically stated that all of Lenin’s statues had to come down. Father then said Lenin’s body should be taken from the mausoleum and buried. In the eighteen months following, all the things Father ordered have been fulfilled. Not only that, but the former Soviet Union is like a phantom that disappeared.
The government of South Korea thought Father should not have signed a joint communique and so forth, but what happened? After Father left North Korea, there was a meeting between the prime ministers of both Koreas. For forty-six years the only thing they ever accomplished was agreement about the height of the flag pole. Every day was filled with confrontation. Then all of a sudden Father came out of North Korea and the North Korean prime minister hurriedly went to Seoul and nervously said, “Let us agree on something. Let us make a joint statement and have a signature ceremony.” Father signed a joint communique in North Korea on December 5. Eight days later, on December 13, North and South Korea signed a joint agreement after forty-six years of struggle.
TIGER BABY VS. CAT BABY
So, are you the baby of a tiger or of a cat? [Tiger!] You look like cat babies! [Tiger!] No, no! This year’s slogan is what? “The Unification of the New Nation.” Proclaim it standing confidently. That is your mission and responsibility, just like Father. Do you understand? A tiger roars and all over the mountain other animals want to escape. You must make a powerful proclamation like that. Then the world will change. When your frame of mind changes, the world will change. It is up to you. Those who have absolute confidence, raise your hands.
One tiger named Reverend Moon shook the entire universe. There are a thousand tigers in this room. You can tum the world upside down ten times. If that does not happen it means you are still cat babies. What would a tiger do? A tiger would eat up a cat baby. Father wants to see tiger babies. There is a second generation in the secular world out there. There are a lot of tiger babies in the second generation out there. All they need is channeling to the proper ideology. They need a proper education and they can all become tigers. If you are cat babies, they will come in and eat you up. Your position will be demolished and you will become nobody. Many of you are way behind the world’s standard. You are fearful and timid and act like old men and ladies. You have no power. Your eyes are like three-day-old fish eyes. It’s true.
You saw at yesterday’s entertainment program a video of the twenty and twenty-one year old Russian college students who are teaching the Divine Principle. Father saw them as tiger babies! Are you tiger babies too? The first become the last and the last become the first. The former Soviet Union people started late but they might end up first. I see great signs of that. They will come up and quickly become tigers themselves. They will eat you up. Father does not see you as tiger babies yet. I may go to Latin America. I will go work with one university and tum it upside down to make a Divine Principle university. Do you think Father’s teaching would be blown away? Do you think God will bring another new ideology with the next generation? [No!]
Father went to Korea and activated a generation change. The old leaders have completely moved out of the picture and have gone to the hometown providence. New church leaders, right out of college, have been assigned. Father is going back to Korea and he is going to lead those young people to become absolute tiger babies, then let them do their work. Father is saying I have done my job here in the United States. What about the money we’re spending in the United States? What if, from now on, we spend it in North Korea? What do you think that would do? When Father came to the United States in 1971, he had no resources. All he had was his commitment, his brain, his shining eyes and two bare hands.
Which nation are we talking about when we talk about the new nation? We’re not just talking about Korea; we’re talking about the United States. You are becoming the new national leaders. America must become a new nation. You must become a contributor to the work of God. God has been working and accumulating energy and resources, material, spiritual energy and so forth for the sake of this one day. You must not become a plunderer of those things.
A REMARKABLE LIFE FOR GOD
Let me ask this question. Have you ever really lived a remark-able God-like life? Have you really lived risking your life, sticking your neck out? How many hours, how many days did you live like that? Father began this ministry with his life on the chopping block. Knowing God’s will, Father always stuck his neck out. He always risked his life, even looking forward to prison because he was determined not to retreat. Did Father ever retreat? [No.]
The news of Father’s indictment reached him just as he arrived in Korea from Germany. Just as he arrived, he received a telephone call from America telling him, “Your indictment has been issued.” Father was supposed to be in Korea for a prolonged period, but after hearing about that indictment and knowing the arraignment was coming up, Father immediately, without even unpacking, turned around and came back to the United States. There are many, many rich people who have tax evasion problems and do whatever is necessary to escape prosecution. American lawyers recommended that since America had no extradition treaty with Korea, Father had no obligation to return and face trial. They told him to stay in Korea and be comfortable. Father said, “I am not abandoning my mission in the United States. God asked me to go to the United States.” Father knew he was innocent, but Father also knew he was going to go to jail because of the media and public opinion. Knowing that, Father still came back to the United States.
Since Father came to the United States in 1971, he has been in danger, with his life constantly being threatened. He had to go beyond life. Furthermore, he brought all his resources to the United States to do the mission. America is deeply indebted to Father. How long will it take you to pay him back? Father will not be here for a long period of time. I laid a foundation of tradition. The United States would not be faltering if it followed Father’s Principle and tradition.
America has hope. Do you know why? Because of you. If you become a tiger baby America has hope. You are the hope of America. Like a farmer, you have to turn the field completely upside down. You can plough the field of America and make it so new life can germinate upon this beautiful land.
If you listen to my message today and live up to it, America will not decline. If you feel you are representing this great nation and its great heritage and especially if you represent the Creator God in America, America will not falter. This particular eye represents God’s eyes. Millions of billions of eyes have come down here on earth and made God disappear. They did not see the correct way. But this eye, your eye, must see the correct truth, unlike the millions and billions of eyes in the past. “I am the God-approved central person. I am the center of the universe approved by God. Therefore, what I see, God sees and what I hear, God hears. Where I am going, God is going.” That should be your thinking. Then you will become the center of this nation, the center of society, the center of the gathering, no question about it. Have you been living like that?
INCREDIBLY CRUCIAL MESSAGE
Today you have heard a very important message. This morning you heard one [Day of Victory of Love speech, see Today’s World February 1992] and this second one is equally important. Father sees that this new year of 1992 is going to be the most important crucial new year, so Father is giving the most incredibly crucial message to you. Father is urging you to commit yourself with an absolute iron will.
Father helped to bring the national tradition in the right direction in America. In a way, the liberal world represents satanic tradition. You represent God’s tradition so you will be known as God’s conservative forces. You shall be the hope of America and the hope of the world. You will have a central role in this country.
All the missionaries must realize that though your situation may be lonely and difficult, compare it to Father’s situation in 1971 when he came as a missionary to this country. The turmoil, confusion and difficulty that Father faced at that time makes your problems look like peanuts. Missionaries, did you hear Father? [Yes.] Please raise your hands and show Father.
These are the missionaries. In 1974 and 1975, I sent out missionaries all over the world. I have not written you one letter yet. Why? Spiritually, I am looking at you all the time. No one really deserves a letter. I want you to be top of the national leadership, dealing with your president and speaker of the house, ambassadors, embassy personnel and so forth. I see you are not even climbing above ankle level. When Father came to this country as a missionary in 1971, the first thing he did was knock on the doors of all the big people: the senators, congressmen and secretaries, even the president in the oval office. At that time, I was looked at very scornfully. I remember the particular treatment they gave me. I said to myself, “You just wait ten or twenty years.”
COD’S MISTREATMENT
When Father was mistreated by the United States, he thought of God and how much God has been mistreated by ignorant human beings. He has been mistreated by the United States ten times, a thousand times, a million times more than I have. That is the way Father felt. There was a time the United States was like an unsinkable aircraft carrier. It is not so any more. The Roman Empire fell and all the great empires, one by one, faltered. The United States is no exception. Unless this nation wakes up in time it will falter too. American people are complacent. They have been satisfied with their lives while Father was fasting and going without sleep and working double and triple time.
America really did harsh, painful things to Father. Your own parents treated me harshly, but actually your parents must be grateful to me. What Father has been trying to do is make their children, which is you, into better sons and daughters, better and more decent than any other Americans, ever. Father wants to create a God-fearing America, a moral America and dedicated America. Father is sure of one thing I am giving you an education that Harvard University cannot give. I am giving you a real spiritual education of heart and soul. Man is remade and re-created. All I’m telling America is to wake up before it is too late.
In 1971 America looked good, but today, in 1992, America looks very bad. You know that. The American family must wake up. Those senators were so snobbish and arrogant, as were the leaders of the economy and religion. Unificationists look like nobody, but they are really the soul of America. You represent the soul of America because I put the soul into you. Any community leaders you are assisting have a very special privilege. You are not cheap. Unlike those famous people, Unificationists listen to Father. Let’s say you are secretary of state; it still doesn’t matter. If Father asks you to pack it up and go to Zaire as a missionary, you would take off. That is the kind of people I created. It is not easy, because you are not zombies. Those who have that commitment and devotion to Father, those who are absolutely confident they could do that, raise your hands, please, and show Father. Only those who can risk their life one hundred percent, saying that even though that may be the cost, I would undertake that mission, tackle it and become successful, those who have that determination, please raise your hands once again and say, “Yes, Father.” [Yes, Father!] Now you have raised your hands and answered clearly. The walls have heard your statement, the whole building, even the entire universe is looking at you. Don’t forget this commitment. Do you understand? [Yes!]
Father wonders how much other ministers have become Unificationists. The important thing is they cannot just be by-standers. Do you want to just sit in a comfortable chair and watch the show or do you want to do the show? That is your mission from now on. There are all kinds of shows. However, nobody will cry, no tears will come from looking at a half-hearted show. Tears come only from watching the show of someone who is committed. Whether there is a salary or not, whether there is honor or not, whether there is criticism or not, whether there is controversy or not, I shall go and do. That is the kind of commitment needed from the men who will rebuild America.
Why didn’t God stand in the forefront? That would mean God is doing it, not His son doing it. God wants to give all credit to His son; therefore, God stays behind. Afterwards He will say, “Bravo, my son. You did it. It is your accomplishment, your success.” I want to push you from behind so the credit will go to you and not to me. I am not seeking credit. You shall be the hero.
PUSHING YOU TO THE VALLEY
Father is the universal messiah and you are the tribal messiahs. You are the seeds of the messiah and you can grow into greater messiahship. You can grow in fertile ground. The ground will be covered with fertilizer. Fertilizer is a dirty thing. This smelly place is where I want to see you germinate and bear fruit. Father knows exactly how to use fertilizer. He does it by not giving you honor every day or sunny smiles, but by pushing you to the valley.
There is so much wastefulness in the lifestyle of white people. If you can cut that waste in half, nobody would be hungry. There would be no famine. America is wasting food. Wasting food alone has brought the world into famine. You have to teach how to farm and raise stock in Africa and developing countries. America has not been teaching this. America has been plundering instead of teaching and giving. You have to give more.
The African continent was plundered by the European white countries. South America has been the target for the United States. There are a lot of grievances in Latin American nations against the United States. I do not condone America’s treatment of South America. I am on the side of the poor nations. I want to create a commonwealth of the Unified Nations of South America so they can deal with the United States bet-ter. AULA (Association for the Unity of Latin America) is the harbinger of such an attempt. If the United States comes against me too much, from now on I have another recourse. I would rather go to a headquarters in South America and bring those countries together. We will make the United States behave better. I think that is the peacemaker’s role. Do you follow?
How many years has it been since you missionaries came to see Father? Did you come last year? Those who haven’t seen Father for two years, raise your hands. For the first time in three years, raise your hands. First time in four years? Those who saw Father last year raise your hands please. I know it would provide a great deal of strength if Father wrote you a letter individually, praising you for your good work and cheering you up. So far he has not done that, but he is willing to do it. I hope you deserve it.
Look up to the pinnacle, don’t look down. From now on you will not have much persecution. Persecution will become less and less. You shall be honored and recognized more so you can deal with the leaders of your country. Educate them and work with them. Do you follow? Even if you’re going to be criticized, you would rather be criticized by the head of state. Father’s opponent has been the United States of America and the entire communist bloc, the former Soviet Union. They are the top of the world, there are no others bigger than they. By the same token, they are number one in the satanic world. Father went all the way to the top, knowing Satan’s secret and using it as a weapon. All kinds of opposition and accusation and criticism never bothered me. I have come to the point where there is no such thing as my enemy. There is no enemy out there for me. At least in my heart there is no enemy.
DEAL WITH THOSE AT THE TOP
So you should deal with those at the top. Do you understand? Teaching Principle to the embassy is a very good idea, as your channel for your testimony and witnessing. Father sent out three people from three nations to make each missionary team. One Japanese member, one German member and one American member. You can mobilize the Japanese embassy, the German embassy and the American embassy. They are the most powerful and influential groups in your mission country. With the three ambassadors in a position to help you out, you can do a lot.
What happened was that there was no unity among the three missionaries. However, Father said the unity of those three was the key to success in that country. You can carry your witnessing to your embassy. It is the place of your national language. Make those three embassies into one and you can automatically teach the nation, no problem. People of your own nationality are in your mission country. Disregarding those people, to whom would you go? In developing countries like the African nations, if the ambassadors from the United States, Germany and Japan got together to help you out, it would almost be like the whole country. Do you follow? Deal with your embassies even now, it is not too late. You don’t know where to start. You have been pushing the cart, but it was the wrong cart.
In restoration by indemnity we know we have to pay indemnity to restore anything. All the communist countries have been brainwashed for over seventy years by Marxist ideology. You can turn them around with a three or four-day workshop. Then they go on to twenty-one day and forty day workshops and they become lecturers themselves. You saw proof of this last night. That is the power Divine Principle and Godism has. God’s armament is very powerful.
There is no single, beautiful, easy way you can win a lot of people. There is only one way and that is to give your single-minded, wholehearted devotion. Particularly you must start with prayer. Your offering table, with your candles and picture of True Parents, must not be dry. Your tears should constantly be making it wet. Let’s say your holy table cloth has been wet with your tears for ten years. In the meantime, without your even knowing it, an incredible amount of wealth has been accumulating. That is the power of your energy. It may be invisible but you have accumulated it. Do you follow?
Try sometime to pray for one single person every day for three years. See what happens to that person. You can test the power of prayer. Amazingly, that person will one day happen to pass by your house and even though he may want to go away, he will not be able to. His feet will automatically turn toward your house and bring him inside to meet you. This is the mysterious power of prayer. It works.
When Father visited North Korea he started from Hawaii. Father already knew exactly what was going to happen. He already knew exactly how he was going to deal with the situation. Of course the other staff who went along had absolutely no idea. Father has an invisible antenna. Father is absolutely following the way the antenna signal points. Those people who do not have antennas are trembling and saying, “Oh Father, don’t do that. It’s fearful.” If Father followed that kind of advice, what would have happened? That is just one example, but therefore I did not listen to anybody’s advice. I know they don’t have my antenna. I receive a signal but they don’t. If I follow their advice, I will always be misled.
At least you have been following me for many decades. Even though you may not have an antenna, you at least have the virtue of obedience. Following that long, you have been testing Father many times. I know you have been, that is the American nature. After these many years, now you come to truly believe in me and that what I am saying will come true.
What would you do if Father passes away? You should be truly grateful that you have been under the leadership-correct and wise, committed and faithful, God-centered leadership. It is an absolute blessing. When you are in despair and have no hope, there you will find hope. It’s almost like a ship finding a lighthouse. You harbor hope and follow it and not only live a rich, worthy life, but also you have tremendous hope for the future. That is real happiness.
NO MORE MARTYRS
Father has educated five thousand elite university students under this new value system-the ideology of Godism-in the former Soviet Union. Father has done the job and the former Soviet Union will be all right because of it. Father has educated one thousand professors in all fifteen republics of the former Soviet Union. These people know precisely where they are headed.
Now the People’s Republic of China’s young people have been invited to Japan. The seminars are so popular that by leaps and bounds more young people are coming from China to Tokyo to the CARP center to become reborn. North Korean students will soon be joining the Chinese. Soon that will hap-pen, and North Korea, China and Japan will all be working together. Eventually Father would like to invite them to the United States as well.
Christianity has been filled with martyrdom for two thou-sand years. However, from now on Unification Church history will not require martyrdom. Put yourself in Jesus Christ’s position, looking down from spirit world on the face of the earth at his own disciples. One after another was martyred for no reason except for following Jesus. How heartbroken Jesus must have been. Can you imagine? After Father goes to spirit world he does not want to see people martyred for following him over the next one thousand or two thousand years.
If Jesus could have avoided the crucifixion and entered the Roman Empire, he could have spoken to the elders at the law-makers’ houses and made proclamations. There would have been welcome from the Roman Empire in his own lifetime instead of four hundred years later. There would not have been a history of martyrdom. For that reason, Father came to the modern-day Roman Empire, the United States of America. In his own lifetime this nation will come to realize the value of Father to America.
The greatest martyrdom could have come about through the expansion of communism. The communists would kill all of you without a moment’s notice. That is what communism is all about. That is why communism had to disappear within Father’s own lifetime. We see it has happened. Another problem is in the Muslim world. Some are very militant and could create all kinds of disharmony. I would like to ease that situation by bringing the Muslim world into unity so they can ask my blessing upon their world. This is happening now.
Within Father’s lifetime, he is laying enough foundation so that there shall be no martyrdom after Reverend Moon’s era is finished. Within your lifetime, therefore, while Father is here on earth, you are the ones who must be bold and strong, marching on all over the world. Are you doing this?
No religious leader such as Father has ever come on the face of the earth. No one has had this kind of ambition; no one has done so much. As the founder of a great religious movement, has Father fulfilled his mission? Father has accomplished both internally and externally. Internally Father has blocked and eliminated the way of your death so that you will not have that kind of suffering. And externally, Father has laid the foundation through organizations such as the Federation for World Peace and the InterReligious Federation for World Peace. They will be a shield to protect you. So you have an internal and external shield. That means our golden age has been ushered in. This is not a daydream; it is real and it is happening.
THE SACRIFICE BELONGS TO GOD
Wherever you go, that is your house, your podium. Your podium is not only your church. Wherever you are standing or wherever you meet people-that is your podium. Where was Jesus’ headquarters church? Where was the secretary of his staff? Wherever Jesus dwelt was his headquarters. Wherever he worked with his disciples was his meeting place. Amazingly enough Father doesn’t even have one office of his own. He has no secretary and no special telephone dedicated to his use. He doesn’t have any of those. Every day, Father is offering him-self. Wherever he is and no matter what he is doing, that is the place for offering sacrifice. Sacrifice belongs to no one but God.
You were selected as a sacrifice. Abraham, for example, selected a pigeon, a heifer and so forth. Those animals that were selected may have come from Mr. Jones’ house, but they are not Mr. Jones’ sacrifice. Once you are selected as an offering you belong to God and no one else. By the same token, Father does not have his own identity. I am an offering to God. Wherever he is, Father gives himself on the offering table. There are i10 excuses. It is very important that we don’t have any attachments; you do not operate out of organizations. As far as Father is concerned, your primary mission is a spiritual mission and the revival of established Christianity is crucial.
Our church alone cannot save the country. Christianity must be rejuvenated. All Christian ministers must be re-educated to become new Christians. Unity with Reverend Moon is of vital importance, no matter how much they may do. You should be a champion for the teaching of the Divine Principle. You should be able to teach and testify much better than anyone else because you have that background.
American Christianity needs resurrection. After World War II the greatest revival came to American Christianity, but it did not do any good. The United States continues to go further down to a difficult position. Without Father that resurrection cannot be a true one. I am telling you this as a historical testimony. Your success will be determined by God, and this is God’s desire. If you want to test Father, please go ahead. Dedicate yourself in forty days of single-minded prayer. Ask God for an answer by fasting and praying for forty days. Father is not speaking to this country as a bystander or guest. I am speaking from the central position.
I am destined to go to Asia. I would like to see American champions take over the United States and be the real masters of this nation so I can go to Asia freely. Three billion people in Asia are waiting for me. They are one hundred times more miserable than the people of the United States, but I abandoned them and came to America to dedicate my most productive time during the last thirty years to this country. However, I really belong to them.
ALLIANCE WITH ESTABLISHED CHRISTIANITY
I abandoned Korea and came to the United States because of the importance of working on the world level. This is a key important statement: an alliance between established Christianity and the Unification Church is absolutely vital. It is a life or death matter for this country’s future. It is not easy be-cause of public opinion and the media, but this is God’s will and it can be done. American Abel-like champions will spear head this work. I think you are here, not because of your own will, but because this is God’s will. You have been divinely ordained, hand-picked by God to be here, and each represents a different segment of Christianity. For that reason, you have a crucial role to make that alliance between established Christianity and the Unification Church. Do you follow?
I know those words are harsh and difficult to hear. I am registering this as a testimony to God and the world. I am not trying to embarrass you at all. Nobody else in the entire world would say anything like this. Father, with absolutely no personal ambition, is saying this to you because he is living with a parental heart.
Established Christianity in the United States has done the most evil against me, but I have only sympathy. I want to bring life to this country; that is my sole desire.
Therefore, I want to have some champions in the United States to take responsibility and move this country. You can do the job. Your catch phrase will be that American Christianity needs resurrection more than revival. Let us resurrect American Christianity. It is crucial to the survival of this nation and the world.
New York is a rotten place, you know that. Forty-Second Street is a living hell. Father would like to have Eighth Avenue up to Forty-Second Street cleaned up. Only by resurrection of the Christian spirit can this be accomplished. You follow?
Time has passed very quickly, but Father is satisfied in his heart because Father has been assured that the heavenly musketeers will do the job. Father looks at them almost as heaven-ly locomotives pulling the train of America in the right direction. They are locomotives, but not electric ones, they are like choo choo trains. Father likes that sound. Wake up, America! What is a better way to wake someone up than by making a locomotive noise? I feel very confident that even though I may not be here all the time, if you trust these three musketeers and unite with them and join with them and work together toward the goal, I am sure you will fulfill a great victory here in America.
Get the videotapes of Father’s midnight message, the God’s Day morning message, this morning’s message at the Day of Victory of Love Main Ceremony and this leaders’ conference. These four videos should be in each center. If you study these, it will take the place of instruction Father has written for you.
This is the holiday season. We are celebrating the new year as well and making a new commitment. Father is very confident that we have a great new year ahead in 1992 with the slogan, “The Unification of the New Nation.” We are going to create a new nation. Every nation shall become new. This new crusade will take place from today. God bless you and God bless your families.
Most important of all, God bless your mission. Let’s have three cheers of Mansei!