Father’s Speech During 35th True Parents’ Day Celebration On April 11, 1994 At Il Hwa Main Auditorium Central Training Center Seoul, Korea
WHAT is the meaning of “True Parents’ Day and the Day of the Perfection of the Love of Heaven, Earth and Humankind”? I have been educating the Japanese members here in Sutaek-ri. How many members are gathered here today? Is there anyone here who is seeing me for the first time? Those who are seeing me for the first time today, please raise your hands. Most of you have seen me before. Seeing you sitting here, wearing your dark suits or brightly colored clothes, even the elderly people’s faces look young!
This hall is over seventy meters long. If I walk up and down its length once, that makes about 150 meters. How many ri [an old Korean unit of measurement of about 400 meters] would I cover if I spoke for seven hours while walking back and forth?
ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUE PARENTS’ DAY
How long have we been celebrating True Parents’ Day? So far, we have said “Parents’ Day” or “Children’s’ Day.” However, starting from today, we shall call these days “True Parents’ Day,” “True Children’s Day,” “Day of All True Things” and “True God’s Day.” Until now, even God Himself could not become True God. Due to the fall of man, He became a God who bears the han of restoration in His heart. That is why those children who failed to cross over the hill of restoration’s han could not become true children either. That also explains why we could not have Day of All True Things or True Parents’ Day.
Today is the 34th year since the establishment of True Parents’ Day. Jesus died at the age of 33. Had the blessing ceremony been held then, he would have lived longer than 33 years. So when we look from the viewpoint of providential history, we have arrived at the time when we could restore Jesus’ being unable to receive the blessing at the age of 33, and achieve the globalization of the blessing centering on True Parents.
That is why we can say that it is time for a new beginning for Jesus to attain the ideal of a worldwide family. One interesting point is that this day 34 years ago was March 1 according to the lunar calendar, whilst it was April 10 according to the solar calendar. It happened to be precisely the day of the establishment of Parents’ Day. From this perspective, we can see that it is a day with providential meaning.
THE PROVIDENCE OF RE-CREATION
When did the phrase “True Parents” begin? But for the fall, it would have come into being from the time of the creation of the first human ancestors. At that time, Parents’ Day should have been “True Parents’ Day” -although we would not have needed to insert the word “true” before it. Because of the fall, we use the word “true” in the process of restoration.
The fall of the first human ancestors resulted in God’s providence of salvation. The providence of restoration means returning to the normal state. We say a person is saved or is cured when he, having been on the brink of death, leaves the hospital and is restored to his normal condition of health.
But for the fall, there would have been no such thing as the providential history of salvation. What should then be done to enable a fallen man to regain his original state? A sick person, to regain his health, must suffer through the illness and be able to pay the hospital charges, cost of medicine and so on. Similarly, there is something that we call “indemnity” that is necessary for the fulfillment of the course of the providence of salvation. Things cannot be restored without any effort. Restoration can only take place on the basis of the appropriate conditions being set up. That is why we call it restoration through indemnity. We call it the providence of restoration through indemnity because we have to pay the price to eliminate what is wrong. In dealing with the history of the providence to save mankind, the Unification Church’s conclusion is that “it is the providence of restoration through indemnity-the fulfillment of which requires a price to be paid. It is the providence of recreation.”
The providence of restoration through indemnity is the providence of recreation. The providence of re-creation cannot go forward without conditions.
THE HEADING OF SUBJECT AND OBJECT
God created a sphere of existence when He created all things. He created the sun, the moon, water, air and land. On the basis of these, all things were created and all things exist as subject and object.
When we want to know the direction in which the main connecting point of subject and object is heading, the answer is “love.” Where does that love go? For what? That is the question. We cannot have a clear view of our own purpose unless we can grasp the purpose for which the universe was created. Today’s communists do not have a clear understanding of purpose because they base their ideas on the theory of evolution. However, as all things exist in subject-object relationships and begin interaction centered only on love, the path connecting subject and object is the path of love.
THE WAY OF LOVE
How should we seek the way of love? All things, from the small ones to the big ones going that way, are meant to go to a higher place. This is accomplished through building bridges by putting small things onto big ones and big things onto bigger ones.
Is that also true for you? In our school education we must attend middle school after finishing elementary school. We keel? advancing through the higher levels such as high school, university, graduate school and doctorate course.
Is this the same with ambition? Desire becomes greater and greater. At first, people say that they will be content sim-ply to graduate from a local elementary school. Next, they want to be the best student; they want to be the top student in the first grade; then in the second grade …. They all want to be the best. In this way, that thing called human desire never looks downward. Do you understand? No one wants to fail an exam. No one wants to be at a lower place.
All things, from minerals to micro-organisms, through the plant and animal kingdoms, develop after connecting with their respective objects. Plants live by absorbing minerals. Is that true? There are about 106 or 107 elements, is that so? Plants grow by absorbing all the elements in the soil and air. Then what happens to them? They are absorbed by animals. There is a chain of such relationships. Plants are eaten by animals, but that does not mean they are completely destroyed. Rather, when we look at the situation overall, we may find that they receive some benefit.
Thus, the lower animals, such as insects or birds, are meant to be absorbed by the larger animals, without exception. There is a difference between the water temperature in the deep sea and near the surface, and there are also hundreds of different kinds of fish who live according to those temperature differences. The small fish live near the surface, the larger ones in deeper water, and the largest ones the size of whales live at the bottom. Thus, the larger ones eat the smaller ones. That is the way things are meant to be.
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
People like Charles Darwin have said that the strong prey upon the weak. That might seem right when we first hear it.
Darwin’s Origin of Species was effectively a denial of God. The theory of evolution says that all things developed through an evolutionary process. However, everything is meant to wear out through being in motion. Nothing is meant to increase through being in motion. Things always diminish in power. As with electricity, input is always greater than output.
From this perspective, an amoeba should become smaller, not bigger, through being active. “Evolution,” as it is referred to by Darwinists, posits that something larger than an amoeba should emerge from its activity. Ho v can. people explain this contradiction? That is the question. TI1ere are thousands of levels in the creation, from the amoeba up to human beings. Each species reproduces only by the “gate of love” between its male and female counterparts. They all multiply through the gate of love between the male and female. Lower levels of life multiply themselves through the gate of the love-relationship at the appropriate level.
SUBJECT-OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS IN ACTION
Which comes first, action or power? Action comes first. Action comes before power. Without being based upon or connected with action, power cannot come. Isn’t that also true for us? When we come to summon our strength, that strength is mustered by a preceding determination and strength in our mind that “I will do this in such and such way.” There is no other way! Thus, for power to be generated, it must be based on action.
Does action take place by itself? This is a fundamental question. Can an action occur on its own? No, it cannot happen on its own. Action, as I have mentioned, needs a subject and an object in a sphere of existence. In the Unification Church this subject object relationship is referred to as a Cain-Abel relationship, a system superseding the established view of history. What matters is how to apply that relationship to history, because history is restored through the principle of recreation. Because history was turned back to front through the original problem of Cain and Abel, and the original origin-division-union became origin-conflict-union, it is natural that this should be restored to its original form. At this point things are going in the wrong direction.
In this universe, action occurs wherever there is power, and that action happens only through a subject-object relationship. Seen from this perspective, recreation through indemnity, which is the providence of restoration and the providence of salvation, cannot be accomplished without effort. There must be an indemnity condition. When a person commits a crime, he is released from prison only after serving his time. It is also the same for restoration through indemnity. We cannot do it without a systematic process. It is not done just as the Unification Church members would like it to be done. There are many Unification Church members who want to have their own way. All things should be in line with the Principle. For example, the Republic of Korea is a country governed by laws. If someone does not abide by the law, that person is sanctioned by the law. He is cast out.
That is why we in the Unification Church say that we must follow the principle of recreation in restoration. What is the principle of creation? A subject and an object within a sphere of existence must unite together. Absolutely, they must become one. If unity were not achievable, there could be no such thing as restoration, and the existing world of natural laws would be totally different.
HEAVEN IS EMPTY NOW
The ideal heaven that God has been dreaming of is empty now because of the human fall. You have to know that. Today, the established Christians are fussing about going to heaven. However, people are meant to enter heaven only after proving they are fit to go there, having followed the right way of life and having kept the laws of heaven.
The heavenly law was in God’s mind when He created this heaven and earth, and all substantial beings exist according to that law. We cannot enter heaven witi1ont following its laws, as heaven was created according to those laws. A gang of thieves cannot live in a peaceful village. You have to know this kind of principle. Go to heaven by just believing? That is really nonsense. Those who say such things are more terrible than a gang of thieves. Let them go to the spirit world and see what has become of Paul.
EQUAL RIGHTS, CENTERING ON LOVE
Women talk about the equal rights of men and women, don’t they? They assert those rights, isn’t that so? However, man and woman are physically different, and the circumstances surrounding them are different. Even in the matter of eating, a woman eats only half of what a man does. Women surpass men only in the size of their hips. How about in height? Can you say that they are the same? Do not talk about equal rights; it is talking nonsense.
I What are equal rights? There is no such thing. All become one when centered upon love. Can you see that? All are equal, centering on love. Can a woman who does not marry insist on equal rights? The ones who talk about the equal rights of men and women are those who work for the women’s rights movement. They are those whose sexual relations are shown to be promiscuous. When I went to America, people said that Reverend Moon is an advocate of men’s rights. Later when I asked some assembled women if they were really on a par with men, they all cringed at the question.
At first, they said that women, not men, were subject and that women had given birth to everyone. That is right. Women are subject when it comes to giving birth to a child: I said, “Yes,” to the question “Isn’t a woman subject when giving birth to a child?” I told them that men are considered subject in the East, while in the West, women are thought to be subject. Which would be right? They replied that the East is wrong and the West is right. However, they have no way of knowing the answer to that kind of question.
Well, then, who is the subject, the one who is being pulled or the one who is doing the pulling? They had no other response than to say that the one doing the pulling is subject.
Why is man absolute subject? Because love originates from a man. Isn’t that a strange thing to say? The pair system is not bad, when a plus and a minus become a pair but then separate, it is bad. When they continue as a pair, then it is good.
UNCHANGING QUALITIES
How does a diamond become a jewel? It is made of carbon. That means it is the same as a burnt tree; not a gemstone. How has it become the greatest of all jewels? It is second to none when it comes to hardness. When it is hardened, it never changes its shape. It stays the same forever. A diamond has value as a gem because its quality of hardness is unchanging.
This unchanging quality is also true for gold. Does gold become as hard as diamond? No, it is so soft, like a piece of wheat-gluten, that it can even be scratched by a fingernail. Gold has value because its yellow color never changes. It remains yellow for thousands of years. That is why gold is a precious metal. Do you understand? Let’s take another example, the pearl. Why do people like pearls so much? It is because all the colors are harmonized in a pearl.
UNCHANGEABLENESS IN HUMANITY
Money, knowledge and power are amongst the things that are changeable. Those who favor such things are destined to go to a changeable place in the spirit world. What is the thing that does not change in human life? Does the original mind change or not? Does life change or not? A man’s name does not change but a person may change. That is why there are many people who want their names to be remembered after they die. Everything changes. What does not change in a person is the original mind and life.
Life is precious whether a person is in his or her early, middle or final years of life. Life always tries to stay with a person, not wanting to be apart. Life has the character of wanting to live together with that person forever, transcending all limitations.
What is next? There is something within us that makes us wish for our country, Korea, to advance continuously. That is the blood lineage of the people. It is the blood relationship which ties people together. As the saying goes, “Blood is thicker than water.” People are connected by their blood. mood does not like change. Everything wants to protect its own blood. Korea tends to protect Korea, a tribe tends to protect itself. This is the same for all the animals, according to their instinct.
What does not change then? Blood ties may be broken, but what is unchanging? Love does not change. Starting from love, connected to an indestructible life, and then united through the strong excitement of the love between a man and a woman, a new “blood” is brought into existence. Love is its origin. What do people mean by “the essence of life,” “tradition,” “blood,” “wife” or “children”? They are all to do with the blood relationship.
Love is the root of life, the original mind and the blood. If that love comes and goes, so do blood and life. If that love is unsettled, so are blood and life. Then it is a serious matter. That is why, however reluctant we may be, we cannot help acknowledging the logic that love should not change. Why? If love can waver, so can the original mind, life and tradition. Thus we are compelled to establish a precious place that never changes. Where should we establish that? Where do you think? On life? Where? On life, on love, on the original life or on the blood? We have to set it up on love.
UNCHANGING REPRESENTATIVE OF LOVE
Well, let us suppose that you are a valuable person. What type of precious person would you like to be? A person precious to Korea, to the world or to the heavenly world?
Today’s title is “True Parents’ Day and the Day of the Perfection of the love of Heaven, Earth and Humankind.” What does that mean? Do you want to be a representative of unchanging love in Korea, in the world or in all of heaven and earth? Or do you want to be a representative of love–which is the source of heaven and earth, the trunk and center of everything and the source of dominion over everything? Which one do you want to be? Would you be an unchanging representative? What kind of representative? What is the meaning of today’s title? It includes heaven’s love, earth’s love and humankind’s love all together.
What is the final destination for a person? It is neither as a prince of knowledge, nor as a billionaire nor as a person who controls the whole world. It is just to stand in a position from which, in front of the heavenly and earthly worlds, you can say to others to follow you centering on love.
At that place, all things in the universe follow love, as they are joined in a subject-object relationship. They follow their own unique kind of love. They are meant to be connected centering on their own love. A mineral is meant to be connected to a mineral centering on a mineral’s kind of love, and plants are meant to connect centering on a plant’s own kind love. Do you understand?
MAKE GOOD USE OF WHAT I SAY
So far I have lived a lonely life. I do not have even one friend, teacher or anyone on whom I can rely. However, I trust myself. I consistently manage to accomplish what I say I will because I believe in myself. Therefore, I have gone beyond the family, the nation and the world.
Mikhail Gorbachev came [to the Federation for World Peace Conference] this time, didn’t he? This time he went home as my brother. After a big meeting in Hannam-dong, the two of us had private talks during which we discussed many confidential matters concerning the world. I am sure you would like to hear about that! This time I got my sworn brother. I said to him, “Since you are more than ten years younger than myself, you are a brother with many brothers.” While traveling by car, he said to Dr. Bo Hi Pak, “I am Reverend Moon’s brother; we are brothers. That is good.” I suggested to the heads of seven countries that they harmonize together and plan something to help Russia. From now on, people will only be able to become famous if they listen to me. How great it would be if, as I have been advocating, a general meeting between North and South Korea could be held. What would it be like if the two Koreas were to hold a rally-a joint meeting-including American, North Korean and South Korean troops at the Demilitarized Zone on the 38th parallel? Would reunification come closer or not?
You can be a hero if you do as I say. You have to make good use of what I am saying before you go to the next world. Well, let’s get back to where we were before.
THE GOD-CENTERED FAMILY
Sons and daughters who were born through unchanging love cannot help but live forever. Such people live eternally. What kind of love do you want, an eternal love or a temporary one? An eternal love, an eternal father and mother. That eternal love is connected with God. As God is the root, a true father and mother’s love that is connected with God’s root is true love, and their children are meant to receive the seed of true life centered on true love. They are meant to live forever, as they received the seed of true life directly from God. This is a natural conclusion. Do you understand? Can you live eternally? Yes, you can. What should you do? You have to have true love. You should be an unchanging woman. Should you marry again or not after having married as a virgin? Are married women meant to play around with love or not? Should a woman, seeing a man whose face is more handsome than her husband’s, have such a thought as “if only I could live with that man for just a short time!” The fact is that there are still many women of that kind.
We cannot do anything with a changing love. Love is not something that can go two ways. It has only one road. When a man and a woman become husband and wife, that woman is the wife of the substantiation of God. That is the way it is meant to be according to the Principle, though in reality the situation is different because of the fall. A husband is God in substantial form. Isn’t that so? Through the process of origin-division-union action, man and woman become substantial plus and minus. They are God in substantial form. If this can be shaken, then there can be no logic that can bring spirit and matter into oneness.
What is the model standard of family life? It is brother and sister, husband and wife, and parents. Where are these from? They all came from God. What does God like the most? He likes sons and daughters the most. A God-centered family is meant to give birth to a baby while the husband and wife live happily together. Then they become a father and mother. Do you understand? Brother and sister, then husband and wife, and then father and mother. Those are the stages through which God Himself grows.
LONELINESS MAKES THE UNIVERSE BOW DOWN
Our original mind moves towards supreme goodness. Whether one lived 1,000 or 10,000 years ago, or whether one is alive today, or will live 1,000 or 10,000 years from now, one’s original mind always yearns for the highest thing. It is in motion. As that motion is based on a subject-object relationship and there is a plus out there, you become a minus. There should be a subject out there. Its name does not matter. Whether its name is God, a piece of paper or sand, it is all right. Unless there is a bonding of subject and object, there cannot be action. There must be subject and object behind the action of the original mind. Through this understanding, we have a logical basis for saying that God exists.
Would God be happy or lonely when He is left alone? I am also lonely when I am alone. So is Mother. We feel lonely when the two of us are apart. That is how people are meant to feel. How about yourselves when you feel lonely because you are separated from your wife or husband? Don’t you want to meet your spouse? You do! We all miss our counterparts when we cannot see them. When a woman weeps for missing her man, the universe bows its head. It lowers its head, wondering why she is shedding tears. Half of this world consists of men, who are “plus.” The other half is women. The universe bows its head because one half is weeping.
God also feels lonely when He is alone. It is beyond question. God is the cause. He is a causative being and we are resultant beings. God is an invisible causative being and we are visible resultant beings. With human beings it is invisible things that are of the most precious value. The original mind, love, life and God: these are the things that are invisible to us. Does this mean that they do not exist? They do exist. They exist, but why do we not notice that fact? It is because they are connected with God. Isn’t this true for all of you? Everyone including God has an original mind. God is the source of the original mind, life, blood and love. We are unaware of the fact that God is behind those things. That is for sure.
PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT THE UNIVERSE
Today is True Parents’ Day. What is that? If a man and a woman, representing all mankind, are linked by love, they be-come people who represent the universe. People can be united in a love that is centered on God. In unifying the heavens and the earth, the left and the right, the front and the rear, unifying all the parts into a perfect spherical shape, one is going to stand in the central position of the world. This is what the concepts of being a representative and in the central position mean. Do you understand?
After ascending to the pinnacle, man and woman will live as one body. When something goes round and round in circular motion, there needs to be a center. Do you follow? A person must have an axis and then he should be the representative of in that position, he will complete the unified world of love with God. Then it is all accomplished. The new and unlimited world will have a history of eternal progress.
SIGNIFICANCE OF TRUE PARENTS’ DAY
Why do people need “True Parents’ Day” on this earth? Because they are fallen. I accomplished all that remained to bring the result. Representing the history of the past, present and future, I then established True Parents’ Day, a day for which God had long been yearning.
What is today? True Parents’ Day. We have called it “Parents’ Day” until now, but now that I have passed through all the crises, it will be called “True Parents’ Day,” and we will not be persecuted anymore.
True Parents’ Day is a unique day that can never be paralleled. We must put world history on a horizontal plane from that day. If we do not do this, the whole creation will inevitably fall down.
ATTAIN HEAVEN ON EARTH
To attain that goal, we must keep the four great realms of heart and three great kingships in our hearts. They express the divine nature of the invisible God-children, brother and sister, husband and wife, parents. God is an in`visible reality. These four are important for establishing the four great realms of heart.
God is divided into two parts, but this is not just a simple division by itself, since, having originally been one, the two parts should be united again. Where then should they be united? In children. Children must ascend, while the invisible God descends, so that God and children can meet the parents, who come horizontally from each end, in the center. God and man are thus brought into perfect oneness. I am speaking about the love of heaven and earth. If heaven and earth’s love become one with humankind’s love, everything will be accomplished. True Parents’ Day makes God’s love and the universe complete. Can you understand? God cannot perfect love without man. Until now, that fact was not known by anyone. No one has understood that man is such a valuable and noble being, and that he has the position, and is called, to enable even God to reach His own perfection through love. Your conscience most certainly wants to conquer God and to control Him as it likes, so that you can exist eternally at the head of the love of God. That is a very natural desire for human beings. What did I tell you to make perfect? God’s love!
You must bring the ideal of creation to perfection. God made human beings because of love. The object that God created through love has a strong desire to be better than even God Himself. Man is the object that enables God to reach His own perfection. Why? Because God wants the object of His love to be more precious than Himself. He needs His object that can perfect the will of His love. The person who can return much glory to God can be called God’s sister. For God, the object is man. God is meant to laugh only through a person. There is no way for Him to do so by Himself. Am I right or wrong? I am right!
WELCOME THE AGE OF TRUTH
Today is the 34th True Parents’ Day. Until now we have celebrated Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, All Things’ Day and God’s Day. From now on, however, we will insert the word “True” in front of all the names of the holy days. The age of truth is going to come. Do you know how to welcome the age of truth? All who live for themselves will inevitably diminish. Living only for oneself is valueless. Even God Himself has been doing His best for men to be a thousand times or 10,000 times better than Himself, because He wants us to do so thousands of times as well as He does. Although God has been going that way for thousands of years, He has been giving and forgetting He has given time and time again. That is why He could forgive us. If He had been unable to give and forget, He could not have for-given us.
You have gathered here today as representatives of many other members throughout the world, if you determine to be-come true sons and daughters who do not feel ashamed in front of True Parents’ Day, raise your hands and say “Amen.” You say that very well, but that is not enough. You should keep your pledges well, too. As I said earlier, since you have not fulfilled what you promised, I have taken full responsibility and succeeded in fulfilling everything. I have taught you things after already accomplishing them myself. I will not forgive those who trample on what I have achieved.
ASSETS IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Do you know what assets you can take to the Kingdom of Heaven? I said that you should enter heaven with others. God longs for you to fill the store of heaven with products from the good olive tree, through engrafting people from the satanic world, and then making the false olive tree into a good olive tree. The people in the satanic world whose lives you turned towards goodness will surely be your assets in heaven.
I will not be responsible for you in the spiritual world. Now, I am doing my best to send missionaries to 160 countries in the world. Do you think I cannot do that? I have suffered oppression, and been threatened with death a number of times to establish 160 nations. What then would you do? You should be crystal clear central figures. You will be welcomed by your entire clan. They will not put you in jail, conspiring to have you killed, as happened to me six times. What on earth can you not do under such circumstances? You go to your hometown to save your relatives who do not know these things. I directed you to return to your hometown as a tribal messiah, having paved the way for your homecoming. Do you know what that is? If you cannot do that, something serious will happen. You will not be able to have your name written in the heavenly register. Is that clear? You must have at least 160 families following you. That task would take me less than one week.
Next, the Women’s Federation for World Peace! You should hold big meetings again all over the country, concentrating all your effort on universities and on junior and senior high schools. All your tribe, parents and students are the objects of your mission.
THE AGE OF THE SECOND GENERATION
This is the age of the second generation. The first generation will perish like the Israelites, who disobeyed Moses. Moses died, and the first generation all perished because they did not listen to Moses’ words when they tried to enter Canaan.
I will not die. I will make a triumphant entry into Canaan with the second generation. This is the land of the second generation, so I intend to take responsibility for them. The first generation opposed me so much that they do not have the gumption to follow me.
The second generation! This is their world. My sons and daughters under Mother’s leadership held meetings in one hundred universities, and from this time I will start to hold meetings in 3300 universities. At this time, until the 21st century, I am responsible to save the students of the world, who are aged be-tween sixteen-the age when Eve fell-and 24. I must do that.
SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF OTHERS FIRST
The conclusion is simple: Individuals sacrifice themselves for their families. If there are eight members in your family, each of them has the same value as you. The person who tries to bring his family to its knees while centering on himself is doing the equivalent of sacrificing the other seven. You must sacrifice yourself. You must be their protector. All of them can then progress to a better situation. If they are under your protection, not only they, but also you, will be better in the long run.
The family is asked to make sacrifices for the tribe. The tribe has a thousand times more things than you have. You must work to be a representative of your tribe by treating its members with respect and good will. It is quite natural that if you live for the whole you will become the central figure of that whole. That is certain. As a result of your overcoming every ordeal and difficulty for the sake of the tribe, people will follow you even though you ask them not to.
Therefore, the Divine Principle says that the family should live for the tribe and the tribe for the nation. That is a natural conclusion. Twelve tribes or more correspond to a nation. The Israelites were made up of twelve tribes. However, they could not form a nation while they were in the wilderness. We cannot say that they were a nation. For a nation to exist, its own land, people and sovereignty are prerequisite. The Israelites entering Canaan had nothing but people. They had neither land nor any-thing that could be considered tradition. They did not even believe in God. Just think of the terrible plight they were in! Because they had lived in the wilderness for forty years, they were almost at the level of beggars, not even owning clothes.
The seven tribes of Canaan, on the other hand, were living affluently. They owned sheep, ranches, houses and so forth. The Israelite women were reduced to begging their bread from here-tics, but they did not feel shame at having to beg. Although they were begging, they should have educated their children to over-come those hardships. The difficulties we are facing at this time now are to restore our homeland. Mothers should teach their sons and daughters that difficulties are for the purpose of establishing God’s nation; they should not blame their husbands for the situations they are in.
A woman must live for her husband, and for her sons and daughters, treating them like a king, princes and princesses. A bad woman does nothing but complain about her husband and relatives. We must fulfill our mission of establishing a nation, by forming tribes made up of families. You should solve the problems of others first and then, even though you go hungry your-self, you must feed those who are dying of hunger. That is the right way to live; but you have lost the ideal that God established. Korea today is exactly the same as Israel was at the time it was perishing.
Please try to sincerely attend True Parents even from today. I have observed pledge service on holy days for 35 years and have personally raised my sons and daughters. Now my sons and daughters ask us, their parents, not to do everything by ourselves, but to share the burden with them. They are now taking the initiative in a university movement in America. My family is famous for that worldwide. There is no other family like this. Do you not think my sons and daughters are excellent? I am not boasting about them: I pushed them into universities because they will have to be leaders of students in the future. Will my family perish or thrive? It is bound to thrive. The family that perishes is not worthy of sympathy. It receives its just reward.
The time has arrived when I will take legal action against wrong-doing. I warn you not to look for me. I do not want to meet people who do not fulfill their responsibilities and missions. Do not even think of seeing me or looking for me no matter where I am. I do not want to see people who have not fulfilled their responsibilities.
From now on, we must send more people to work on the international level, if we do not the worldwide fortune will be lost.
Now each member from our church must receive my signature that you received new education. I am warning you. If you do not receive that signature, you will all perish in the future Unification Church, in front of those who come after you from the 160 nations of the world. Please bear this in mind.