Father’s Speech On God’s Day, January 1, 1995 At Sutaek-Ri Training Center Seoul, Korea
THIS is a historic year. It is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II and marks half a century. As we face this historic time, both global events and the development of providence are facing an amazing time of transition. On the other hand, the secular world is facing a decline. In this age, society in general and even individuals have no center. The center of the families, tribes, nations and even the world has been lost. The secular world is at the brink of a bottomless cliff and is about to fall into the pits of death and hell.
If God has been working His providence to save this dying world, He must have prepared a new method of salvation which can deal with this difficult time. Humankind, however, does not know the existence of such a providence. Numerous religions have emerged throughout history to carry out the providence. However, even the religious world has lost its center and is wandering in confusion.
In the middle of all this, a new denomination called the Unification Church began. The word “unification” has no meaning for a single individual. The Unification Church means a congregation which teaches people how to unite. However, what ideology or standard can form the basis for the teaching of unification? Such a teaching cannot be based on human relationships or any human ideology.
Historically we know that the type of unification woven by human beings has been only temporary; it has never had an ideology or world view which could sustain it for eternity. Thus we know that human connections cannot sustain a relationship with the eternal world.
If there is a transcendent God who is absolute and eternal, the internal foundation of unification and the ideology of unification centering on that God will be eternal and unchanging. If there is a living God and if there is a way to link the internal and external foundations of unification centering on God, that will fulfill all human hopes and achieve the purpose of all humanity. That will bring the results which people in the past longed for and will provide the starting point for our descendants to build their future.
From this point of view, the name “Unification Church” was not the result of the will of one person named Moon. You should know that the Unification Church became the Unification Church through the foundation of teachings woven from the internal relationships developed during God’s dispensation.
Unification does not occur on its own. Unification cannot take place without a horizontal standard, such as the relationship between subject and object. Liberty can exist only on the base of unification. Happiness can be eternal only on the base of unification. Only upon the base of unification can human dreams, hopes, peace and happiness last eternally.
Conflict is a result of lack of balance. However, conflict will fade away, along with the history of turmoil. When we understand this, we realize that liberty, happiness, peace and ideals cannot last eternally without a unified foundation.
Everything that exists in this world has a dual structure. Your eyes, nose, mouth, ears and various body parts are balanced centering on a reciprocal relationship. Balance refers to horizontal position. The proper horizontal position provides an absolute, safe zone for all three-dimensional beings. Whatever is in equilibrium, existing in balance among all directions, can last longer.
Liberty is the result of progressively unifying all levels from the individual, family, clan, people, nation, world and cosmos. The liberation of the individual, family, clan, people, nation, heaven and earth is possible.
THE WORLD HAS CHANGED
The Unification Church started centered on this vast internal situation. Moreover, because God established it in order to replace the decaying secular world, the Unification Church must contain within itself all the internal situations which can replace the ruins of the secular world. This is the conclusion of thoughtful people.
Humanity has looked upon this miserable environment with despair, unable to prevent the downfall of this secular world which lacks any center.
God’s dispensation for the salvation of humankind, on the other hand, would come to an end unless God can prepare a way to replace the secular world and develop a true world without limits. If religion becomes unified, the nation and everything else can be unified. Unknown to everyone, in this sense, God prepared the Unification Church to replace everything.
You may think that it is just me saying this. I have been treated as the worst person in the world. People have said that the most fearful villain is the Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I have been scorned as the lowest person, but now I am receiving a different treatment. I say this because when I meet politicians and world-famous businessmen, they say, “Without Reverend Moon, an ideal economic system cannot be accomplished.” I realize that the times have really changed when people who are famous in political and academic realms show their respect to me.
I established many international academic conferences, and they have all become famous. I have brought the news media, academic, political and religious worlds together. When I started these conferences I planned the events and funded them. I oversaw the conferences, yet I was treated as a servant. People pointed their fingers at me and said, “He does not know the reality. He is wasting precious money on these things.” How-ever, the world has changed. These people are now saying that without Reverend Moon, nothing can be accomplished. When I see many people like this, I am amazed at how the world has changed. Now that I have reached the highest pinnacle, perhaps I should go down! If you don’t think like this you will be ruined.
Goo HAS MADE THE DIFFERENCE
I have been waging this fight with no teacher to guide me. In establishing this ideology, I did not receive instructions or expert opinions from scholars. That is not the way I formed the Unification Principle. I did it all by myself. It was God who made the difference. Therefore, what I say will not fade away along with this fading world. In this withering world, I am speaking words that will not wither and fall. Even I have been surprised to see that everything I said about this serious situation has come true.
Don’t you think that I am a strange person? People in the world call me nicknames such as the “mysterious man” or the “unknowable man.” However, when you do not see me, you feel lonely. No human power has that effect on you. The power of the conscience governs me, and the people in the Unification Church are people who are governed by the force of conscience.
No matter how ugly a woman may be, she would want her spouse to be a hundred thousand times better than she, even a million or a billion times better than she. Do you think I want my loving disciples to be worse than I am? I want them to be better. Therefore, you should have greater guts and courage than I do. You should say, “I will do what the teacher couldn’t do.” Then I will be interested in you. Do you understand? Would you become better than me or worse than me? I can guarantee that God will love and protect those who are determined to surpass me and who carry through that determination. They will succeed even if they do not want success.
The whole world opposed the path I have walked. Throughout the world, individuals, families, clans and nations mobilized to oppose me. They opposed me for half a century. However, did I become tired or did my opponents? My opponents. My opponents said it was unethical to take away other people’s children and then send their parents an invitation to the wedding. They called me a traitor of my people and sponsor of suspicious world level conferences. Did I do many terrible things? I warned the traditional churches, which boasted of their supreme authority.
A BRIGHT NEW MORNING
Full of hope, we are now welcoming in the bright new morning of 1995. I, a bright person, am welcoming in the bright new morning, with bright feelings and talking about bright things.
All the people in the world predicted my ruin and destruction. When I was young I was famous as a smart student. I was very healthy and strong and had the reputation of being a champion in wrestling, running and many other sports. If I could not win at least the number three spot, I would not start a race. I have many talents, even in artistic fields. My children did not receive formal art training, yet they can create ingenious paintings. The young children receive gold medals. They are also very good at sports. Just one day of training makes them better than many others. Isn’t that exciting? Whatever I do, I am confident that I can do it better than someone with ten years of experience.
From this perspective, I am a man of many talents. I could finish ten years of work within three years. If a person is totally focused and concentrates mentally, he can do amazing things. I have memorized ten pages a day. How could I lose to other kids in school? I memorized Korean text books from the first grade to the sixth grade. After a while, I could see what was written several pages down.
There are people who ask, “What difference is there between people? Everyone seems alike.” Do you feel the same way? You should follow me.
When I need to learn about the world’s difficult problems, I raise my antenna high, to the peak of the triangle, and concentrate. Then I can find out what I need to know. That is how I have been able to do important work.
When I say something will surely happen, it does. When I say that the unification of North and South Korea will be accomplished in such and such a way, it will happen. However, I have not revealed such words yet. I said that communism would not last more than 73 years, and it did not. I said that America would decline if she did not listen to me and that eventually she would listen to me. Now they are beginning to follow me. Do you know these things?
RETURNING TO HOMETOWN
Do you want me to talk specifically about this year’s motto, “Let Us Inherit the Victorious Realm of True Parents,” or about True God’s Day? I already spoke generally about this year’s motto in the midnight speech. You can inherit the victorious realm of True Parents if you fulfill the Family Pledge. Centering on whom was the Pledge made? God and I teamed up, dueled against Satan, and overcame his supremacy. Do you understand? Hegemony is the authority of the champion. That is why the Pledge contains all the important titles.
The first paragraph of the Pledge has to do with returning to hometown. Have you heard about the hometown providence? In the religious world, there was no provision for returning to hometown. Everyone had to leave their homes. They had to abandon their homes. They could not just get married and go to their husband’s home. They had to leave their home and their hometown. A person could not succeed in religion by remaining in his hometown. Religion requires the denial of self and the denial of one’s spouse, children, parents, tribe, nation and world, because the fall resulted in having the wrong self, wrong family, wrong tribe, wrong nation and wrong world.
The eschatological phenomena in the fallen world today are evidence that its ruin is at hand. The history of the fallen world developed through conflict, and conflict brings destruction. If two entities are struggling, they will keep declining. If a family is in conflict, it will be ruined. If there is conflict between two nations, they will decline. If the world is in conflict, it will fall into hell.
Who is the king of conflict? It is the Devil. He is the cause of conflict. Because he opposes God, who desires to bring peace, he promotes destruction, which is the opposite of peace. He seeks to bring about hell.
What Satan destroys, God puts back together and enables it to aspire to a higher and nobler world. Therefore, evil is destroyed as it fights, and good prospers as it fights. Good gets struck first by evil, and it eventually wins. On the other hand, evil strikes first, yet it eventually loses. These are the strategies of good and evil. Because I knew this, I received much persecution. An insignificant person does not get persecuted. Significant people get persecuted, because this world is evil and it seeks to pull down good people.
THE INSPECTOR FROM HEAVEN
The reality is that persecution is inevitable, because the nature of society is to wish for the worst. I received persecution for my whole life. Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
All the families of the world were allied against me. Now, did the families who opposed me get defeated or did I retreat? The villages and clans of the world mobilized to prevent me from entering their town. When I entered a town, people would hold secret meetings to drive me out. I was driven out from many places. You have witnessed some of those experiences, haven’t you? People would say, “Reverend Moon came to our town. Let’s drive him out!” They chased me out. Only people who experienced such a tearful, miserable situation can under-stand this. However, although people wished to chase me out and ruin me, I was never destroyed.
You know the Korean saying, “The secret royal inspector has arrived.” Who knows whether Reverend Moon is the secret royal inspector from heaven? The whole world teamed up against me, centering on America, and mobilized 25 other nations in an effort to eliminate me from the face of this earth. They sounded the trumpet, hit the drums, danced, broke open the champagne bottles, cheered their victory, and rejoiced, thinking they could rest well at night. However, just when they thought that Reverend Moon was dead, I came out.
After being released from Danbury prison, I prevailed over the U.S. Congress within seven years. Do you understand? I prevailed over the United Nations General Assembly in seven years. I made the leaders of the biggest denominations in America listen to me.
Many people in the established churches of Korea prayed for my death. It must have driven God to confusion! Wondering about such a trouble-maker, God looked for me, but when He found out that I was the one son He needed, He brought me to heaven, taught me all the secrets of heaven and earth, and sent me to save this world. You do not know this, do you?
All the world which opposed me is in ruin, while the one who received all the opposition is blooming. This is reality, not some fantasy or imagination.
THE GOD’S DAY LADDER
Now I will talk about God’s Day. Because Satan occupied this world, I established God’s Day as a vertical ladder which can pierce this occupied world from the individual level up through all levels. It is now the 28th God’s Day. The reality of the unspeakably miserable God’s Days in the past shall no longer be permitted. Have you thought about the coming of a happy, joyful, glorious and historical God’s Day?
Whenever I looked for an individual, Satan mobilized the family, tribe, people and nation to destroy him. When I over-came the obstacle of the family, Satan mobilized the tribe, people and nation to destroy it. When I overcame the obstacle of the nation, the world and the cosmos sought to destroy it. There-fore, I established God’s Day by going through a reversal course, pioneering a paradoxical course which others would not be able to pursue.
After overcoming all the hills and reaching the highest peak, would I go down, or would there be an unending open field leading from that zenith to the liberated and ecstatic God’s Day? I established God’s Day with such a time and purpose in mind. Do you understand?
Although God has received the sorrowing and grieving God’s Days until now, He has been longing for us to offer Him a happy and joyful God’s Day. In order to have such a day, the Old Testament and New Testament Ages had to be cleansed, and the Completed Testament Age had to be ushered in. No one in either the Old Testament Age or New Testament Age knew about God’s Day. Only after the advent of the Unification Church did people realize about God’s Day. God’s Day is not an occasion to make God cry with sorrow and pain. It should be a day when God can sing and dance in happiness, glory and radiance. However, the world was not prepared to receive such a God’s Day.
In the Old Testament Age and the New Testament Age, there was no God’s Day. After the appearance of the Unification Church, Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, and the Day of All Things were declared. God’s Day represents the combination of all the other holy days. God’s Day is the day when God can do anything He wants. If God cannot do what He wants during that day, what kind of day is it? If you are going to
call a day “my day,” will you take orders from your parents? “My day” is a day in which even your parents celebrate centering on you.
A JOYOUS GOD’S DAY
If God’s Day is a day of sorrow and hardship, God cannot call it His day. God’s Day should be the day when all of God’s wishes are fulfilled and God can sing and dance freely, saying, “Oh, this is such a joyous day!” This is the logical conclusion.
Was there ever a day when God could be so happy that He would laugh and say, “Ah, this is my day! I am so very happy! Ha, Ha, Ha”? Has there ever been a day since the human fall when God could sing and dance to the tune of “Aha, rub-a-dub, my love”? The phrase “Aha, rub-a-dub, my love” is a good one. Anyway, the issue is whether God ever had such a joyous day.
Because of the fall, God chased out Adam and Eve; not even their shadows remained. Although God is the great owner who created heaven and earth, He had to drive out those whom He created to be His objects of love, because everything went wrong with them. For that reason, God’s treasured and beloved Adam and Eve could no longer remain in the realm of His garden.
Is God a miserable God or a happy God? He lost everything. God has never had a joyous day in which He could experience all shades of emotion and love. Without a single man or woman who can stand before Him, God has been sorrowful. God cannot accept people unless they have achieved some-thing more significant than what caused Adam and Eve to be expelled. This is the law of heaven and earth.
Do you know what caused the expulsion from the Garden? Do the established churches know? They do not. Therefore, there is no way for them to return. You can come back into the Garden only when you truly recognize the evil of the cause for expulsion from the Garden and when you have become better than Adam and Eve. Then you can come back over the fence. If God says to you, “Why did you come back, you rascal?” you should be able to answer, “When I was expelled, I was like this, but now I am a hundred times better. I think You would like me. Would You like to taste me?” Then God may say, “Oh, yes!”
Think how lonely God might be. If you are even slightly better than those who fell, God would run out and say, “Oh, you finally came!” He would embrace you with tears in His eyes. He would jump the fence and take you into His room. That is the parental heart. If you are in better shape than when you were expelled, God will welcome you. However, if you come back looking worse than when you were expelled, with a scorched back and blinded eyes, God will say, “You rascal! Go away. Go away.”
INVISIBLE TREASURES
Do you think Adam and Eve were better and purer than you? Do you have the confidence to become God’s child and climb the fence back into the Garden of Eden? What will you do it with? [True love.] Have you seen love? Have you touched love? If you have it, why cannot you see it and touch it? [It is invisible.] Have you seen life? Have you touched life? You cannot.
Lineage is also invisible. Lineage is made in that secret room, in the bedroom of the loving couple. You cannot see with yo1V eyes the sperm and egg when they meet and form a life, when the lineage becomes connected. You have never seen lineage, but you know it exists.
Have you seen your conscience? You never saw it or touched it, yet you know it exists. You recognize it by its action. Conscience works to push you toward goodness. My conscience always urges me to seek the higher and nobler world, even if means I have to go over the North Pole or climb the steepest hills. It surely guides me in that unchanging direction.
Action does not occur by itself. Which comes first, action or force? Action. When you become a loving couple, do you say, “Kiss me,” as soon as you meet? At first your eyes meet, then your breath, then your ears, then your scent. The words you hear, the scent you smell, and the touch you feel are so good that you say, “Oh, I cannot live without you.” Thus action comes first.
GOD NEEDS AN OBJECT
A person without an object is miserable. If I did not have an object, I would be miserable and lonely. If human beings are this way, wouldn’t God also need an object? What would God do all by Himself, as an eternal being? If He just sat in the highest throne and talked with Himself for millions and billions of years, would He be happy? We have not finished the task of restoring God’s Day through indemnity, climbing up the reversal course. Restoration progresses through eight stages, including individual, family, tribe, people, nation, etc. You should know that God is waiting for the day when the historical climb is completed, when all four directions are connected horizontally to the center, and when God’s Day is glorified and praised everywhere.
The Old Testament Age did not walk that path. Neither did the New Testament Age. The Completed Testament means the fulfillment of the covenant which constitutes God’s ideal of creation. It means the lost Adam and Eve are returning to God as the son and daughter of God’s side. It means welcoming God’s individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world.
Because such a world was lost, after we gain the victory on the worldwide stage, we should achieve the national victory and the victory on the level of the people, tribe, family and individual. This is the reverse course, and only by going through it can we return to God’s ideal. When that returning path is established, God can move about freely and live everywhere.
You should know that there never was a day which could be called God’s day of liberation, freeing Him over every restriction. There has never been a day which resolved the division between heaven and earth. There has never been a day which God could call His day.
THE MEETING PLACE OF TRUE LOVE
At the end of World War II, the unified Christian culture, centering on America, represented the bride culture, and it unified the world. The Lord of the Second Advent comes on that unified position as the perfected Adam. To be perfected Adam means to be substantial God, or second God. God would be the first God, and Adam would be the second God. The first God is the vertical True Parents, and the second God is the horizontal True Parents.
The love of the vertical True Parents and the horizontal True Parents, perfected Adam and Eve, should have one common starting point. If there were two such points, there would be two directions and two worlds of purpose. I pondered deeply about the location of the starting point which could bring about a true settlement. If the ideal of creation was centered on love and if the purpose of creation was love, the point of settlement should be one, not two.
As I was struggling with this problem, a voice came to me and said, “True love always pursues the straightest and shortest route.” That was the answer. How do we interpret that answer? If true love travels the straightest and shortest route, and if God’s love travels the straightest and shortest route, it is logical that love between human beings would also travel the straightest and shortest route.
Then where is the meeting place? If God’s love is vertical and Adam’s love is horizontal, the natural meeting place would be at a ninety-degree angle. When there is a ninety-degree angle, the relationships of front and back, right and left, and upper and lower become three-dimensional. In relation to this angle, there would be twelve sides. When upper is placed next to lower and left is placed next to right, everything matches perfectly and symmetrically. Someone who is on the South Pole can be placed on the North Pole, and someone from the East can be placed in the West, but the right angle is always maintained. There is no loss.
This is the ideal. All the concepts of equality, unification and ideal start from this point, centering on love. God, Adam and all people are to meet at the same right angle. Centered on God’s love, both upper and lower sides of human love can meet and match perfectly. Going and coming match. Since all directions and distances match, there is no loss.
Whether you go north, south, east or west, there can be unification. The environment can be unified, since the root is the same. Therefore, the point at which God’s love and human love meet is one. I know it is not appropriate for an eighty-year old man to talk about these things, but I have no choice.
Do you think it is easy to move 5000 people? I should shout my lungs out and make such exaggerated gestures, even making a hole in the wall, so that the person near the back may feel my heart and nod in agreement. The frequency and width of a wave are proportional to its force. Therefore, you have to speak forcefully and rapidly.
WE ARE WALKING ON FLAT GROUND
I have walked a paradoxical course, searching for the woeful God’s Day for the past 28 years. Now heaven and earth can be unified, and True Parents can settle in the Completed Testament Age.
Because of Adam and Eve, the Completed Testament Age was not accomplished. Because of evil parents, it failed. Thus, with the name of True Parents, I made the world a horizontal plain. The foundation of completion is the world. We are walking on flat ground. The roadway of the world is no longer difficult. By keeping the same pace, starting from the individual we can reach the end of the earth. The path is not steep or difficult. The farther we go, the more joyful we will feel. In the past I had to fight fierce battles from the individual level on up. However, everything is flat now, and I can laugh because I no longer need to fight; I can manage them in my hand. I can go anywhere freely and without restrictions. No one will oppose my advancement.
Does God like freedom or restrictions? When God, the king of freedom, comes to this horizontal human world, visiting individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, world and cosmos, will He be happy when he is welcomed with cheers?
The human fall resulted in eight levels or walls separating God and human beings. Then I appeared and paved a highway connecting them.
In places like East Garden and Belvedere, when I come in the morning to speak, there are men and women with blue eyes and blond hair. Their nose is distinct like a mountain, and their faces are not flat like most of yours. Their features are all very distinct. Their eyes are so deep. When one flies in an airplane near the North Pole and looks at the polar lakes, the color is blue like the eyes of Western women. It is so captivating. Think of white land with a blue lake. Blue eyes in a white person’s faces are so fascinating!
A JOYFUL GOD’S DAY
Although I am almost eighty years old, I have the spirit of a young man. If I were to wrestle with most of you here, I would win almost eighty percent of the time.
No one can be a revolutionary without training his own body. If you are ill, you cannot cause a revolution. You should be able to control your body and maintain its health. When I was about eight years old, I lay sick in bed. However, that has never recurred, even though I am nearly eighty years old. Do you understand?
I know how to maintain my health. You would like me to teach you the secret, right? I researched it in prison. I had to develop a special training method to survive that deadly place in which eight out of ten people died. Therefore, each morning I still do my seven-minute workout, which would be equiva-lent to a three-hour workout for another person. Do you have any idea how miserable and difficult my journey so far has been?
As you welcome True God’s Day now, you should ask yourself the crucial question whether you can joyfully welcome it as a person who is unified with the heavenly way and prepared to welcome God. How many hours could I spend with God, who wants to receive a joyous True God’s Day? Could I have that kind of True God’s Day, not only as an individual but with my family, my relatives, my people, and my nation?
Where is the nation that can welcome True God’s Day as a national holiday? Where can as many as forty million people (the population of Korea) or even seventy million people (the combined population of North and South Korea) cheer together for God? That is the problem.
Beyond the nation, where is that kind of world? Nowhere. Because it does not exist, God needs to liberate the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos to receive such a day of celebration, a God’s Day that can open wide the door to the heavenly world and welcome everyone. Without such a day, the ideal Kingdom of Heaven unifying the earthly and heavenly realms cannot be formed.
Does such a God’s Day come automatically? Should God be the one to make that day come true, since it is for His happiness, or should fall human beings create the day that liberates God and brings joy to Him? How can we establish a God’s Day in which God can be happy for a month centering on my family? How can we establish a God’s Day that could last a whole year? There would be no greater happiness than to establish a God’s Day that would last for eternity.
Where are the happy man and woman who can welcome a joyous God’s Day that transcends nationality and that can endure for eternity? This is a serious question. Do you want to welcome God’s Day on the family level or the national level? Do you want to prepare a national God’s Day or a cosmic God’s Day, in which the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven is unified and all people of the past, present and future can create cosmic joy by singing together with all things of creation? What level of God’s Day are you going to offer to God? As you commemorate this day, you should ingrain this solemn task deeply in your mind. Do not just ingrain it in your mind, but carry it out. God is looking for such a woman and man. You should realize that our celebration of God’s Day becomes meaningful only if there are people who can take such a responsibility.
Have you had one hour or one day in which you could attend God in your daily life and bring God true happiness? I will teach you the secret to having such a God’s Day. The secret is to worry more and work harder than God. Unless you can live that way, you cannot welcome such a God’s Day and you cannot liberate God.
A filial son is a person who bears the difficulties of his parents as his own, goes over the hill of sacrifice, and liberates his parents. When someone stands in that position, he can be called a true filial son. Likewise, if someone joyfully walks a path of even greater suffering than God to establish God’s Day, God will surely visit that person and welcome such a joyous day.
A COSMIC GOD’S DAY
Have you thought about these things? How many people are willing to dedicate their lives for God’s Day and for the unification of North and South Korea, keeping in their hearts the sorrowful agony of this nation? I believe there is no one except myself. The only person whose heart aches and cries out about the division of Korea and who fights the lonely battle on behalf of God is Reverend Moon.
Someone has to appear who will struggle to fulfill the duty of a son of filial piety, a saint and a holy son, opening the door to the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven, thus attending the liberated God. Without such a dedicated person expressing gratitude for this mission even at the moment of death, God’s Day cannot be fulfilled on the cosmic level.
When you think like that, don’t you become serious? We call God our Father and the liberator of all nations. Now we know what kind of situation God is in. We know God has been trapped, held down, and kept from coming and going as He wishes. Someone has to break down these barriers and pave the highway that runs from the individual level to the cosmic level without stopping.
What good is money? What good is fame? If you die, not even dogs want to come near you. What good is knowledge? Everything except this is meaningless.
God needs a person who can pioneer God’s Day on this earth and introduce a hopeful direction, step by step opening up a path for God. God wishes to visit you, but have you pioneered the path between yourself and God, or have you led the kind of life that blocks that path?
As we welcome in 1995 as a year of liberation, a vast plain lies before us and the door to the ideal world is being opened. Each of us must reflect on our lifestyle and ask ourselves how much of a foundation we have created to connect God’s Day to the environment of our life, our tribe and our people. This more serious than eating breakfast when we are hungry. This is more serious than fighting a fatal illness. This is more serious than facing death.
Have I been liberated yet? No. My responsibilities as the leader of the Unification Church include welcoming God’s Day, welcoming the day of unification of North and South Korea, welcoming the day of the unification of all nations, preparing the environment where the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven can harmonize in one rhythm, and set-ting the direction that this nation and all people must follow until the year 2000. This responsibility remains. I cannot rest one moment until this is achieved. I cannot die until this is achieved. This path remains, and like a harsh tyrant I must command my tired legs to keep going. How shall I go over the Himalayas? How shall I scale Mount Everest? How shall I handle the fateful and dutiful responsibility of overcoming the environment in which the sun is setting and darkness is beginning to permeate? I cannot stop for either day or night. Yes, I finally overcame all those resentful hills created by the fall and the various persecutions along the way.
I am calling you to establish God’s Day in a new way, with this new meaning. I asked all of you to inherit the victorious realm of True Parents. That victorious realm is not on the individual level. Do you understand?
NO COMPROMISE WITH SATAN
Those of you in the second generation of the Unification family should never forget your duty to become a soldier among soldiers. Raise this torch of hope for the future with gallantry and confidence. Become proud children in front of True Parents, who fought the battles with cosmic responsibility as your forerunners. If you truly understand what I said, you cannot defile my heart and my pioneering course.
If you ever slacken your footsteps and lose the intensity of a pioneer working night and day in a remote village, you will not be able to attend God eternally in that village or in your family. People who have no connection to God are headed for hell. It is one or the other. There is no compromise. Compromise cannot exist between good and evil. The Devil and God are 180 degrees different. They are total opposites. There is no compromise.
I have pioneered alone until now, without making any compromise with the secular world. Do you understand? It is amazing that I established God’s Day on this earth. Moreover, Parents’ Day, Children’s Day and the Day of All Things have been established. The house I have is not mine but God’s. The land that I live on is not mine but God’s. Everything before the fall belonged to God.
After clarifying all these things, God’s Day can come to your family. The lineage was reversed by the fall. Therefore, a change of blood lineage and ownership is necessary. You should know that you cannot welcome Jesus’ Day and God’s Day unless you transcend the sacrificial standard of Jesus, who prayed for forgiveness of the Roman soldier, as he was dying on the cross. A person who lives with an idle lifestyle, eating and sleeping like everyone else, cannot find God’s Day.
If we permanently cut out the evil flowing in our environment and make true connections with the nation and world, God will come to us and rejoice at finding a place that belongs to Him. Please do not forget that only through making God’s Day the day of God’s revival can we liberate God.
THE ENVIRONMENT FOR GOD’S DAY
Go back to your places and create an environment suitable to receive God’s Day in my place. If you do that, I will want to live there. I would keep wanting to go there. If I go to a place where a member prayed very hard and invested himself heartistically, I would enjoy eating just a plate of rice and salt, or even just a plate of barley and soy sauce. I would feel the heart there.
What would God need? Would He want rice, money, or knowledge? When a person prays and invests himself heartistically, filling in the valleys of God’s tears and struggling to connect the valleys of love as God’s child, God will come to visit and give this person the blessing. It is possible to welcome such a day of blessing.
You should not live according to an ordinary lifestyle. When you realize that God is fighting on the hills and crossroads of life and death, when you volunteer as a pioneer determined to take responsibility and resolve God’s hardship, God will come to you, and you can make a relationship with Him.
When that occurs not just one day or one year but for your whole life, and when such an environment transcends the family and national levels and reaches the worldwide level, such filial piety and loyalty will truly welcome God’s Day.
Prayer
Loving Father, I, Sun Myung Moon, am standing on the podium of Sutaek-ri hall, 1 am grateful that You gave us this hour of celebration for God’s Day. When I realize the agony and the resentment in the human world caused by the fall has continued through the history, I realized that I cannot welcome eternally God’s Day if I cannot bring peace in the battle between my mind and body in me.
I also realize that we can welcome God’s Family Day when we form the unified family connected with the peaceful true love as husband and wife become one and children unite with their parents. I understand that we can welcome the day of Your liberation, proclaim the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven to all nations, and establish the sovereignty of the final victory on this earth only when we can connect the mainstream of heartistic flow to not only family, but to the tribe, to the people, to the unification of North and South Korea, to the unification of the world, and even to the unification of the spiritual world.
The whole of Unification Church with its relationship to True Parents should live for the fulfillment of this responsibility, this duty, with an urgent and desperate heart, continuing the path of struggle night and day, investing its whole life. I know there is hope for the Unification Church members who live such a life and I earnestly ask that their lives can be the continuation of God’s Day.
I sincerely ask that we can be connected to God centering on this day, that we can connect all 365 days as God’s Day, making this God’s year, the year of liberation in which God can rejoice. We want to connect North and South, heaven and earth, and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven, so that the world of liberation can come in which God has the autonomous royal authority and in which He can travel freely.
I earnestly hope that these children can be the courageous soldiers who are determined to march on, centering on Your longing will, until the day the Kingdom of Heaven on earth is perfected. May they walk ·the path of filial piety and loyalty and become the children You cannot help but bless and love, longing to live together with them eternally, so that You may grant them the day of God’s Children. I ask all these things in the name of True Parents. Amen, Amen, Amen.