Father’s Speech On April 18, 1996, At World Mission Center, New York, New York
I lit the candles and cut the celebration cake before giving my message because I want to connect this victory to God first. [Applause.] [Father speaks for some time in Korean.] From now on, we will light the candles and cut the celebration cake before the message is given.
Thirty-six years have passed since True Parents’ holy wed-ding. The number 36 represents the three sets of 12 couples included in the 36 blessed couples. There are 12 couples representing Adam’s couple, 12 representing Noah’s couple, and 12 representing Jacob’s couple. According to the solar calendar, each year has 365 days. However, according to lunar calculation, each year has 360 days, and every sixth year has an extra month. The number 360 represents the entire sphere or completion.
Four more years remain until the year 2000. This four-year period is very significant and providential. The entire world will eventually have to follow True Pa-rents into the Kingdom of Heaven. There is only one entrance, not two. Consequently, you have to make sure that you follow True Parents very strictly and that all humanity will eventually follow your foot-steps. After the year 2000, you will have to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as blessed couples. This is the great significance of the 3.6 million-couple blessing which will occur next year. The fulfillment of this goal has to be our new determination.
Adam and Eve were supposed to form a perfect family upon the foundation of their individual completion. However, they failed to form an ideal family, and consequently, all five billion people of the world belong to Satan. But due to the grace and victorious foundation established by True Parents, the entire world is within the realm of True Parents’ grace. All blessed couples have the mission to spearhead the way and to lead all five billion people so that they can enter the new millennium with True Parents as blessed couples. The new era of resurrection is coming. This resurrection process will lead us to the Kingdom of Heaven in the spiritual world.
Connect with True Parents’ blood lineage
What is the meaning of True Parents? Because Adam and Eve failed to establish the ideal family, the entire world has become satanic. Now, with the advent of the True Parents on this earth, you all have to follow the perfected Adam’s family. No one can enter the Kingdom of God without True Parents’ grace. You have to follow our footsteps. By doing so you will be engrafted into the True Family’s lineage. Then you can claim to belong to True Family’s lineage. Once the lineage is connected, we can establish the relationship of parents and children. That is the role of blessed couples.
Due to the fall, the entire family was turned upside down. In this age, because of True Parents’ grace, and the perfected Adam’s family, we can now turn all the families right side up. The only way you can receive the grace to enter the Kingdom of God is by following True Parents. But first of all you have to be qualified to register as heavenly citizens. As blessed couples you have to follow True Parents. Adam and Eve were sup-posed to become True Parents, but after the fall they became the worst kind of parents; they connected all humanity to Satan’s blood lineage. How can this be erased? Through the power of True Parents’ love. True Parents’ blood lineage is in the perfection stage, whereas Satan’s blood lineage reaches only the perfection level of the growth stage. Once True Parents’ line-age is established here on earth, Satan will be unable to go over that place. No matter how much Satan’s world opposes this, they cannot change this principled position. Eventually they have to follow the position of perfection.
True Parents’ lineage can connect to all humanity and turn this world around to God’s side. True Parents are the true ancestors, and the True Family’s foundation connects to the tribe, nation, world, cosmos, and ultimately to God. This is the Kingdom of Heaven. Until we reach this place there is no unification. Without this place of unification there is no family, no brotherhood, no tribe; there is only the individual viewpoint.
Satan is in the position of the archangel. The archangel can-not take the blood lineage. God did not designate partnership and property ownership to the angels. Therefore, Satan does not own blood lineage or property.
The bride must welcome the bridegroom
Americans tend to be individualistic and focus on their private lifestyles. The Christian world is the base of the bride culture and is supposed to welcome the bridegroom, the Lord of the Second Advent.
During World War II, England, a Christian country, held the position of the mother and bride. The bride’s position is only spiritual, because Jesus’ body was lost. No matter how difficult it may be, Eve must restore the lost body. America was born out of England and stood in the position of Abel, while France stood in the position of Cain, the enemy of both England and America. Centering upon the mother, England, France and America were to combine into one, forming the worldwide base. On Satan’s side, Japan stood in the position of Eve, Germany was Adam, and Italy was the archangel.
Man stands in the position of king, or subject. Woman is not subject, because no matter how proud a position she possesses the object cannot control the subject. Women need to follow their husband. I can feel that American women don’t welcome that idea. No matter how you may feel, you have to take the opposite way from now on. America needs Divine Principle. This is not my viewpoint; this is the divine perspective. Women have wide hips, like a cushion, whereas men have narrow hips and wide shoulders. Thus you see they complement one another. Combined into one they make a square box, a secure foundation.
Beautiful American women have been much admired, but from now on things will be different. Be careful, you American women. Do you understand? (Yes.] The woman’s role is to make the foundation for an original family.
The fallen starting point has created so much ignorance. How can people choose the correct way? In the Last Days this ignorance will be eradicated and a new starting point, based on ideal family life, will emerge. In the Last Days, the absolute, love-centered husband emerges as the True Father of mankind.
Reform this fallen world
True Parents are the source of true love, true life and true lineage, and humanity needs to become engrafted onto them. After the fall all humanity connected to a seed of false love, false life and false lineage. Is this clear? [Yes.] We have to turn this right side up. No matter how famous, powerful and knowledgeable the people of this world might be, they are all under the fallen realm of Satan. The way to reform this satanic world is through True Parents’ true love, true life and true lineage.
No matter how powerful America may be, no one can save it except God and True Parents. Americans are heading towards hell. All five senses of all of humanity are in agony. They don’t want to hear, see, smell, taste or feel this fallen reality. Does the animal. world practice free sex? [No.] The concept of free sex doesn’t exist in the creation. It is the result of fallen human beings. Originally a woman was responsible for this bad action. Once Eve shared her love wrongly, all kinds of hell resulted. This terrible practice of free sex in today’s world stems from that original action of Eve.
The women of this fallen world may appear very beautiful and enticing externally, but it is all the manifestation of a snake. Do you women understand me? [Yes.] Satan is the king of sex. He has broken the ideal world and expanded the world of free sex. Free sex is completely connected with Satan. Do you understand? (Yes.]
How can people be restored to the original position of ideal husband and wife? The fallen world cannot accomplish this. God has to send the true love owner, the true husband. At the Second Advent, the true love owner and God connect. The Messiah comes as the complete Adam. How can true divine love and true human true love connect in one place of settlement? It starts with the act of marriage between ideal husband and ideal wife, and then God, the love owner, descends vertically into that union. The fountain of lineage and the original starting place of true love is the human sexual organ, and parents of true love connect with that palace of ideal love. This is the original starting point of God’s true love, true life and true lineage
Make a true vertical connection
The original axis of the ideal world is where the vertical and the horizontal meet at a 90-degree angle. However, after the fall the angle of the axis became 91 or 89. The only true settlement place is 90 degrees. The original love settlement is always 90 degrees. This pillar connects at every level all the way up to God. No one realized this. God could not teach this. God owns the harvest of true love; however, because He lost the starting point at the fall, God has not been able to harvest the fruit of true love. Only True Parents understand this; we clearly understand Satan’s secret and God’s secret. The mission of True Parents has been to rebuild a straight highway back to God.
The worst parents, our original ancestors, sowed the seeds of ignorance through the fall. True Parents re-established the one clear direction of God’s true lineage again on the earth. This truth is now available to all humankind through True Parents’ victorious foundation. People have the opportunity to connect with the original, true blood lineage of God. The five senses can dwell in the realm of God’s absolute, unchanging and eternal love. Every woman desires an absolute, unchanging, true love partner, and every man desires an absolute unchanging true love partner.
The sexual organs of a true man and a true woman contain true love, true life and true lineage. The true Kingdom of Heaven on earth appears from this point, and God’s original ideal begins at this very point. This place is more precious than any-thing, more precious than life itself. This is the starting point of the Kingdom of Heaven. Men’s and women’s freedom de-pends upon the integrity and absolute purity of their sexual organs. The abuse of this most precious place is the worst crime. The world we see today is the kingdom of hell because of the abuse of this sacred place. You have to know clearly that be-cause of the fall, all human beings are prisoners in Satan’s jail.
True love liberates God
God has suffered in misery, unable to embrace His children until now. The liberation of God and humanity begins with the establishment of a true love couple, true love family, true love tribe, true love nation, true love world and true love Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Otherwise, God can never be liberated. Humankind dwells in the realm of the lost, fallen love, fallen blood lineage, and fallen life. There is no freedom in this realm of death. This is not my concept but the historical, universal concept. For thousands and thousands of years God has endured such misery. Because of whom? Woman and man. The providential history of restoration seeks to liberate men and women.
I devoted my entire life to re-establishing God’s original ideal of creation on the earth. Satan has hated me the most and has persecuted me at every turn. However, I have never been defeated. Throughout my life, every level of society has opposed me and considered me and my followers their worst enemies. Satan’s world has protested loudly against me, but I have never been defeated by their opposition. I have only grown stronger and continued to expand my victorious foundation. America has not been victorious over me in spite of the infamous court case against me and my unjust imprisonment. I have only triumphed. Day by day, people are beginning to understand this better.
The purpose of humanity is to restore the family. In order to discover this purpose, people have to find True Parents, the true ancestors. There is an overwhelming attitude of uncaring. Therefore, the atmosphere of free sex and homosexuality can prevail.
Subject/object relationships promote stability
In God’s heavenly order, which relationship do you think is first, father/son or mother/daughter? [Father/son.] Why? Father and son are the vertical relationship and mother and daughter are the horizontal relationship. Women represent the earth, so a woman feels like a cushion. [Laughter.] This is true.
Ever since I declared True Parents’ Day 36 years ago, we have been celebrating this day each year in order to find the true son. Without a true son, True Parents have no meaning. Without True Family there is no foundation for a true nation. Without a true nation there is no way to build a true kingdom. Without a subject/ object relationship nothing can exist. Parents are in the subject position, and children are in the object position. When they unite they can exist for eternity. Everything within the universe operates within this subject-object relationship.
When we walk there is some coordination between legs and hands. We have two eyes, and they always move in unison. We use both nostrils to breathe in air. Our mouth contains up-per and lower lips, and the two operate together. Sound filters in through both of our ears. When you want to lift a heavy object you use both hands. Nothing is stable without a subject-object relationship.
Children need their subject. As long as children have their parents as their subject, their history can develop. Without the parent/ child relationship there is no foundation upon which history can stand. Whether you are male or female, if you practice free sex then your lineage will become extinct within one generation. Those families and nations that consume drugs will be destroyed. What kind of benefit can you obtain by ta-king drugs? Do you ever gain anything from becoming an alcoholic? Do you gain anything from smoking? In today’s society, there is no smoking in public places.
What are we doing in the Unification Church? [Practicing true love.] Then what is true love for? [For God.] Then what is God for? Unificationists are forming unique, unchanging, absolute couples centered upon true love, creating a peaceful Kingdom of Heaven. Unification requires subject and object. People gather at church to be educated; therefore, the Unification Church is where the teaching of unification is offered.
In the Unification Church we build unity between subject and object. Who is subject? [True Father.] The name Reverend Moon is more famous than the term True Parents. In general, the world hates the name of Reverend Moon the most. How-ever, Unificationists love that name the most. [YES.] When we make a big noise here, we are creating one very loud subject-object relationship.
You need to fully understand True Parents
Do you know True Parents? [Yes.] Of course you all claim to know True Parents, but there are perhaps a thousand varying levels of knowing and understanding True Parents. Americans usually proclaim that a person’s privacy should be respected, so you may feel that the degree to which you understand True Parents is your own private matter. As long as you cling to your privacy, however, you may get stuck and be unable to get out of your situation.
Whose standard shall we apply in order to understand True Parents? [God’s.] Everyone without exception will want to understand and know True Father from God’s level. There may be a thousand different individual levels of understanding me, so your crucial task today is to raise your level of understanding of True Parents to God’s level.
Suppose God is looking out of only one eye; then when He looks at True Parents don’t you think He would open both of His eyes with excitement and joy? However, when God sees how little you understand True Parents even when you observe us with two eyes, God might close both of His eyes. As I observe God’s situation, don’t you think that I would want to close my eyes also? If I close both my eyes, that means you are abandoned. It is a serious matter.
Welcome the king of patience
Do I appear handsome or ugly? [Handsome.] You American women may want to grab onto me, but if you do I will push you away.
American women have a high nose and large deep-set eyes. A high nose indicates pride in yourself; large, deep-set eyes also indicate arrogance. You have the hidden mind of thieves. Because your eyes are set deep it means you don’t want people to observe you from the side. It is as if you are hiding. This is fearful, actually. In my way of interpreting Western features, your nose represents the tip of Satan’s spear and your eyes represent Satan’s warehouse. Don’t you agree that you are greedy? If any struggle or feud goes on in your town you never want to lose.
Is there any American mother here who can claim to have had no conflict or fight while you were pregnant? If so, I want to record it. During pregnancy does your baby sleep or jump around? [Both.] That is the answer of an American woman, but it isn’t the answer of a real mother. Most of the time the baby is resting. While the baby is sleeping in their womb, mothers may forget about their baby and start arguing and fighting. If you have such an attitude with your precious baby in your womb, he or she will inherit a nervous and agitated personality, ultimately risking the future of your nation.
If I gather all the women of the world for a competition of silence, which nationality will be the first to become impatient and quit? [American.] That is true. If God wants to choose one child out of all the children born from women who participated in such a competition, would He choose: the son of the woman who runs away because she cannot endure the silence, or the son of the woman who remains until the end? [The second one.] Really! You know this. From that place we can create a hopeful turning point towards the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
According to common sense, a Chinese woman should win such a competition. However, I said it would be the Unification woman because all Unification women are the product of international and interracial marriages. Because of the barriers of language and culture, they have to carry their burden in their heart and thus are trained to be patient. Therefore, eventually the Unification women would win. Are you all determined to become the kings and queens of patience? Would you welcome the kingdom of patience?
God has endured in silence
True Parents have the most powerful fighting skill. God is the most powerful, omnipotent Being, and I have power as His son. Do you imagine God to be silent or talkative? Heavenly Father is the king of silence. During the 6000 years of human history millions and billions of people have cursed God. They have complained against God and have done every possible evil against Him. Some have claimed that there is no God. In spite of all of this God has done no harm to humanity. Why do you think God has endured so patiently? He has been waiting for true human beings to appear and turn all of humanity into the true children of God. This is the mission of Unification Church members. [Applause.]
For half a century I have been working publicly for the sake of humanity. However, I have had to endure an incredible amount of abuse, negativity and misunderstanding. Yet I have never taken revenge on those who treated me wrongly, because I want to save and restore all people who have opposed me. Some people wonder why I am so quiet in the face of unjust persecution. I know that all of the negativity which comes through our five senses will eventually disappear. This is only a temporary phenomenon, and if I deal with this temporary phenomenon it will create a scar on my eternal life. Therefore, I have not paid attention to it.
America was originally in the position of the bride country. If America had received the Lord of the Second Advent as the bridegroom, the world could have been restored. However, America and Christianity have failed. America has been like an enemy nation towards me, but when I came to this country I poured out every ounce of my energy, sweat and blood for the sake of this country while enduring silently. Therefore, when I made a declaration to the people of America in Washington, D.C., two days ago, God, who has been watching me in silence all of these years, was there to support me. God has been following me all these silent, lonely years.
Wherever I appear, God will always be there. Whatever I say will be God’s message. There will be an immediate response from God to whatever happens. God is the Creator of the en-tire universe. You must understand that God is an all-powerful Being. Even after Adam and Eve fell away from God, He could have created a world 100 times greater than the one He originally created for Adam and Eve. Yet God has been patiently waiting until now. Finally, the son of God, the Lord of the Second Advent, is here. When I try to create something, God is fully supporting me, so instant miracles can occur now with God’s constant support.
This is the time of liberation
Because of Satan, I have been living an imprisoned life. Now God has every right to liberate me and give me the privilege to do whatever I want to do. Amen. [Applause.] You must know that the history of the Unification Church centered upon me has been the history of han (sorrow, longing, sacrifice, hope, humility). However, a new spring era is dawning. All possible life is germinating and spreading throughout the world. We are heading towards summertime in God’s providence. The seed of God and True Parents is equalizing everything, and it will expand forever.
Do you want to establish such a family? [Yes.] From such a seed a sprout will spring up and eventually blossom into a beautiful flower. Can you do that? [Yes.] To do so, you have to forget about American citizenship; you have to go to the zero point and become the pure soil that can be re-created. No American concept or American tradition exists in that place. Without reaching the zero point you cannot follow the path of absolute love. Today is a cosmic turning point. Therefore, you have to come to the place of absolute denial.
Do you want to be alive or dead? [Alive.] Then no matter how difficult it may be, you have to reach the zero point. God originally created starting from the center point, which is zero. That point is one, not two. Without that kind of standard we cannot be recreated. This is the providential viewpoint of restoration.
God is seeking that original zero point. This is the Divine Principle viewpoint. You have to deny yourselves and come to that point in order to be re-created. [Father writes on the board.] After the fall everything went in the opposite direction from God’s ideal. This is Satan’s place [indicating the board]. How can we go back to God’s place? The zero point is the dividing line between God’s world and Satan’s world, and now Satan’s world is declining. This is the dividing point of humanity.
Satan has occupied humankind’s flesh and has turned everything upside down. The body has taken the subjective position, and this is unprincipled. The fallen world has to pass through this zero point in order for the original humanity to be re-created. Do you understand? [Yes.] Therefore, no matter how much difficulty you may experience, you have to pass through this point. Without doing so God’s world will note-merge. Is this clear? [Yes.]
Has True Parents’ Day been observed in this world? [No.] Unificationists celebrate True Parents’ Day, but this day is not celebrated on a national or worldwide level. The Unification Church possesses everything. There is no politician who can see the future and direction of this world like me; no economist can predict the future of the world’s economy as I can. In every single field of life, the Unification Church sits on top. There is no field which I have not touched.
No individual is more loved by God than me. No one else knows God more than I do. If you don’t want to, don’t trust me. I don’t care whether you believe me or not; it is entirely your choice. But don’t you agree that there is no one else in this world who knows as much about God as I do? [Applause.] Once someone knows all the secrets of God he has only two choices: either to manipulate that knowledge or to become God’s true son through practicing this truth. True Parents have chosen the way of practicing the truth. This is the true way for humankind.
Our goal is one world under God
Even though I have been walking God’s true path through-out my entire life and have established blessed couples and tribes, my role has been contained within the Unification Church. We need a heavenly sovereignty of at least one nation which can deal with God directly. We are still pursuing this goal. Eventually this one nation under God will be expanded to one world under God.
One nation under God is the motto upon which America was founded. However, America’s goal was to create one world under God through receiving the Lord of the Second Advent. Due to its failure to receive the Lord of the Second Advent right after World War II, America didn’t understand the notion of one world under God. Therefore, if America continues on its present path it will have no future. America still has a long way to go in order to reach one world under God. The Unification Church has not only the notion of one world under God, but also the understanding of one love under the cosmos, because God Himself bows down to love. True love under the cosmos is our final destination.
The Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven reaches the cosmic, eternal level. If you let individualism and privacy rule your lives you are committing suicide. In reality, thousands of young people are ruining their lives. We must understand that we have such an important task. Even this True Parents’ Day celebration has to move through different stages, from the individual and family levels to the levels of society and nation. Ultimately, it has to reach the worldwide level, because True Parents have already established a victorious foundation worldwide. You have to follow True Parents’ directions in order to accomplish your final goal.
Have you ever seen silk worms? The silk worm produces silk from its mouth just before it is transformed into another stage of life. In other words, the silk worm is at the point of death when the silk is produced. The silk is the substance which forms its cocoon. When the time of maturity arrives it makes a hole in its cocoon and emerges as a butterfly. Unification Church members are now like silk worms who are fully grown and mature, and we should have enough silk inside our wombs to produce our cocoon. The silk produced by silk worms is so good that nothing can penetrate it except the butterfly’s own teeth chewing it from the inside. This is a special power that we have. Do you understand? [Yes.]
We are now in the end time, surrounded by protection which nothing can invade. Do you understand? Then eventually we can emerge as butterflies, flying freely. Once we are liberated, we can fly up to God’s throne without any difficulty. That world of freedom is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. What beautiful children you will be! Once we are able to make a hole in our cocoons and fly freely, then we can truly celebrate True Parents’ Day. [Applause.]
We have to think about who we are. Can we be separated from the entire universe and the origin of the creation? No. Whether we like it or not, we are a part of the universe. We are a product of the creation, one of the millions of eggs in existence in the universe. Such seeds can expand to the cosmic level. This wonderful seed represents manhood and womanhood which, when combined into one through love, represents God’s hyung sang and sung sang. Such seeds can expand all the way to the cosmos and back to God again. Each level of expansion has the same eternal value as the seed. Is this clear? [Yes.]
Now you understand True Parents’ Day. That means any-time True Parents come, you should clean your house and welcome us more than kings or presidents of the United Nations. In that place there are no secrets. Your center is True Parents. Therefore, as individuals and families you have to absolutely follow True Parents. Your opinion cannot stand against True Parents. Then there will be no problem. Other-wise, we will not be able to restore the ideal. This is not my concept; it is the universal viewpoint.
Establish the proper standard
Do you welcome this concept or not? [We welcome it.] How can you make your home True Parents’ home? How can you establish the standard to inherit True Parents’ formula? Without establishing such a family, you cannot enter heaven. Abel’s family has to re-create Cain’s family through the power of love. The power of love can embrace every kind of power on earth. You need to unite 160 families and then register in the Kingdom of Heaven. Without such registration you can-not enter heaven.
Even though you and your spouse may have many children, if you do not have your restored nation you will not be able to register your family name. Do you under-stand? When you are asked where you come from, you should be able to reply, “I come from heaven.” Are your family, tribe, nation and world worthy of dwelling with True Parents? Once we reach the tribal, national and worldwide levels, all the smaller levels will be included. We must go after the world. Once we understand this ultimate truth, our goal is the restoration of the entire world.
I have blessed international and interracial couples, and through such marriages you experience life at the worldwide level. Through this you are establishing foundations from the individual to the worldwide level to receive True Parents and build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. In the Kingdom of Heaven we will sing our songs and seek the truth and beauty of the world God originally desired.
The blessing of 3.6 million couples will be on the cosmic scale. Originally, Adam and Eve were supposed to receive God’s blessing in marriage. However, due to the fall they received Satan’s blessing in marriage. In the Last Days, when God looks down and sees me bestowing His blessings upon millions of people, He will say that I am even greater than He is. Without the fall, God would have given only one blessing to Adam and Eve, and that blessing would have naturally continued and multiplied. The potential power of 3.6 million blessed couples exceeds God’s power of blessing. How wonderful it isl [Applause.]
Mediums who truly wish to understand me should go through seven days of fasting and prayer, and then they can realize my value, although they may still be unable to fully grasp who I am. If they cry and pray continuously for another seven days-or even 40 days-they may discover the agonizing heart of God and True Parents.
I am the king of kings, but I don’t want to become a king; instead, I want to make all of you kings and queens. In that way I can receive glory as the parent of all the kings and queens. Now that you understand the responsibility of True Parents, you need to understand the meaning of the true son.
You want to become the center of your family, but that is possible only when you take the subject position in interpersonal relationships with other family members; you cannot do this alone. Furthermore, you want to become the central per-son among your relatives, but in order to take such a position you have to be humble, invest yourself in them, and influence them in a good way. As your body side goes down your family side will go up. There is no other way. God Himself applied this very principle of investing and forgetting eternally.
Who is the center? Man and woman are the center. Only the power of true love can create unity between man and woman. We erase all fallen viewpoints by passing through the zero point and connecting with the ideal of true love. The fallen world doesn’t have the power to re-create this ideal. Only the loving power of the king of kings is able to recreate this ideal.
There are no limits or boundaries in the one world under God; it is the Kingdom of Heaven. Are you able to occupy that place? [Yes.] Is that an easy way or a difficult way? God has persevered for thousands and thousands of years to realize this ideal. Once you recognize that reality, you will realize how long your restoration may take. God understands, and that is why He sent the Messiah to shorten this course of restoration. That has been God’s purpose.
Learn from historical figures
In the Garden of Eden there were Adam, Eve and the arch-angel. The fall proceeded from the archangel to Eve and from Eve to Adam. The restoration process takes the opposite direction. God promised to send the Messiah as the new Adam. Then restoration flows from Adam to Eve to the archangel.
Christianity is in the position of the bride. America, representing worldwide Christianity, should have welcomed the bridegroom. Then America would have stood in the position of the queen. This could have begun after World War Il.
There are two kinds of mothers and children. In the original world of creation there was only one mother. Fallen mothers and children are going down. How can they go up in order to get into heaven? There fa one way to reach heaven, and that involves mother and children and elder child and younger child. Restoration means turning 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
Jacob’s mother cooperated with him to prevail over the elder son and father in order to gain the birthright for Jacob, who stood in the position of the younger son. The elder son-ship was lost in the Garden of Eden through Eve’s mistake. In order to restore that, the young son, Jacob, took the birth-right of the elder son, Esau. This is the principled viewpoint. Until now no one has understood this. However, before Jacob could return to God he was challenged by the archangel. Even though his hip bone was dislocated by the angel, still Jacob would not give up until the angel gave him his blessing. At last the angel bowed down and blessed him.
God’s side can create a restored family when the elder brother becomes the younger brother and vice versa. This was Jacob’s course. God could connect with the seed of Jacob and restore. Abel’s family. Jacob was 40 years of age when this happened.
Then there is the story of Tamar, who lost two husbands without bearing children. She was denied marriage to the third brother, and so she prevailed upon her father-in-law to have a relationship with her. From our perspective, this is the worst action, how could God allow blessing to come to such a line-age? No one could understand this until now. Why should God bless Jacob? How could God protect the action of Tamar with her father-in-law? In Tamar’s womb twins fought each other, and she prayed to God to know why. God clearly explained that within her womb were two nations and that the power and blessing would go to the younger son.
God has always been with the younger son providentially. From the lineage of these families, Israel emerged. Israel mews victorious race.
The Roman Empire spread to a worldwide base, resenting the elder son’s nation on Satan’s side. However, God’s settlement was not in the elder son’s position. God worked to purify the lineage in order to send the Messiah. Israel was in the position of Cain to Judaism, which was Abel Without unification between Cain and Abel there is no foundation for the Messiah.
Historically, Cain and Abel have failed to unite, and this has caused tremendous problems in God’s providence. Satan has always invaded due to this disunity. Even though Israel was God’s chosen nation, when they failed to recognize Jesus and unite with him as their Abel, they lost everything and fell under Satan’s dominion. The same applies today to America, as a representative of Christianity: if it fails to recognize and unite with the Lord of the Second Advent it too will end up in hell.
The Christian world and the Communist world united against me; however, neither of them has been victorious. Only I have emerged victorious. America has been an enemy country. The Christian world also stood as an enemy, especially during the Carter administration. However, Unification Church missionaries were sent out to 120 nations and my foundation spread throughout the world from 1976. Eventually the Carter administration was expelled from power.
Today we are celebrating the thirty-sixth Parents’ Day. The day before yesterday, my speech in Washington, D.C. was shown on C-SPAN. The eyes and ears of America have to be opened. They cannot stand in front of my foundation of truth. They have to follow me or be against me. No matter how much people have persecuted me or complained about me, I have only gone forward.
Learn from Jesus’ family
Adam is God’s elder son. At the time of their engagement, Joseph was in the position of elder son. Joseph’s father approved of his son’s engagement to Mary. He hoped there would be a new Jami.ly and peace centering on the father and son. But Mary conceived Jesus before the marriage took place. Once this happened Joseph’s father didn’t want Joseph and Mary to marry, even though Joseph did nothing wrong. Actually Mary took the opposite direction to Eve in God’s providence, she denied both the father and the elder son.
Without Joseph’s protection, Mary and her unborn child would have died. How could he protect them? God came to Joseph in a dream and told him not to be afraid to take Mary as his wife. Thus he protected Mary and the child within her womb. Mary was in the position of the handmaiden of the Lord, obeying God’s direction absolutely. In Zachariah’s family we find representatives of elder sister and younger sister as well as Cain and Abel. How could these relationships be turned around to the original position? In Jacob’s family the same phenomenon occurred at a different level, and Leah and Rachel were unable to unite with each other. Without creating the foundation of unity the Messiah could not come.
The mission of Elijah was to cleanse the environment in order to welcome the corning Messiah. The Old Testament promised that Elijah would appear before the Messiah. At the time of Jesus, Elijah appeared in the form of John the Baptist. The mission of John was to cleanse and purify the chosen people in preparation for the corning Messiah; his position was that of the heavenly archangel.
At the time of Adam, the blood lineage became stained. There-fore, it was Jewish tradition for male children to be circumcised. At the time of Adam, Satan invaded man’s sexual organ. At the time of Jesus cleansing was to take place through the power of love. This is the restoration course. Then a new breed of people could emerge centered upon John the Baptist.
John the Baptist gathered the people and urged them to purify themselves through baptism and repentance. Therefore, John and his followers stood in the position of Cain awaiting the corning of Abel. Jesus came as the second True Parent of mankind. The original first parents were Adam and Eve. If Jesus had not been killed, Judaism and Israel could have united centering upon the mother position. The Messiah comes in the position of parent and king, but the king needs his queen. Jesus stood in the position of the bridegroom, and his 12 disciples, 72 apostles and 120 elders were all in the position of the bride. Once the bride and bridegroom positions united, then it was possible to return to the original true lineage. How-ever, neither Israel nor the Christian world realized this.
True Parents come for all humanity
Both the first Israel and the second Israel mistakenly believed that the Messiah comes exclusively for them. However, the Messiah comes for the whole world. True Parents come for all humanity, not for a particular denomination, religion or church. God’s salvation purpose is one. Today so many Christians still believe that the Second Advent will take place only for them. It is a completely wrong concept.
We say God is our parent, but the parent/ child relationship is based on blood lineage. Without blood lineage there can be no parents and children. Blood lineage results from the unity between the sexual organs of a man and a woman. Woman was born to connect in love with man’s sexual organ. Is this true? [Yes.] The sexual organs of a man and a woman are the palaces of true love.
Why is man subject and woman object? Because the man carries within him the seed of life. The woman does not contain the seed of a baby. Women’s breasts are the property of her babies; her hips are the home of her babies. [Laughter.] Who likes woman’s face? [Man.] A woman’s face exists for her husband. In God’s ideal there is only one father and one mother. In Satan’s world there are many different mothers and fathers in one family, and the children are miserable.
We have to clearly understand the divided family system of two mothers and two children and how to unite them from the historical viewpoint. Unless such a united family appears on the earth, history cannot be cleansed. It is a serious matter. Do you understand? [Yes.]
Mary took great risks to conceive Jesus
Zachariah represented God’s position, the result of the cleansing of the blood lineage in the mother’s womb. Mary acted contrary to Joseph and Joseph’s father as well as her own parents; this was to restore the fall of Eve. In restoration, the younger sister becomes the elder sister, and the elder sister becomes the younger sister. The younger sister stands in the mother’s position and the older sister stands in the position of the daughter.
Mary stood in the position of the second wife to Zachariah. Why in the Last Days does God permit divorce? In the hippie culture, there is no home, no partner, no property, no traditional birth, and no virtue. Those who followed the path of the Unification Church out of this culture have turned around 180 degrees. Unificationists have a connection to everything, just as God does. God desires such a love partnership, so every human being should uphold the concept of kingship and queenship, because that is your connection to God.
The fallen history of humanity has been one of lost value; instead of heaven, fallen people have inherited hell. You have to know that. How can we permit Satan to continue in this world? No matter how difficult our situation might be, we have to clean up our actions and our concepts. God cannot clean up this world by Himself; He needs the cooperation of His children. God has endured agonizing suffering waiting for this time to come. The Principle does not allow God to take action on the earth without the appearance of True Parents: true man, true woman, true love, and true ideal centered upon God.
Two thousand years ago, John the Baptist testified to Jesus. He understood who Jesus’ father was, because they shared the same father. The fall produced two roots and two directions. Restoration means re-establishing one root. That can happen only when the elder brother welcomes and serves the younger brother.
John the Baptist did testify to Jesus at the Jordan River. Heaven opened, and he received the revelation from God and saw the dove descend upon Jesus’ head. When he felt the spirit of God he testified to Jesus. However, afterwards he allowed him-self to think from his own viewpoint.
Elizabeth was like Mary’s elder sister. God claimed back the elder sister’s husband through Mary, but Mary could have been stoned to death because of this action. That is the kind of atmosphere that surrounded Elizabeth and Mary.
During her three-month visit Mary conceived Jesus through Zachariah. Mary was in the position of the second wife. John the Baptist understood that Jesus was the son of his own father. The original wife, John the Baptist’s mother, suffered so much agony through this. From a human viewpoint, John the Baptist felt unable to recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
Jesus should have married John the Baptist’s younger sister
Furthermore, Jesus spoke of having to marry within the family. In Eden Satan took Adam’s younger sister, so in the course of restoration, the true Adam, Jesus, had to take back that younger sister. This was the same situation, only 180 degrees different. John the Baptist was in the position of Cain, and his younger sister was to be Jesus’ bride. This younger sister stood in the position of Eve, while Jesus stood in the position of Adam, or elder brother and John stood in the position of the Cain-side elder brother. Jesus was the first true father to appear on the earth, and Jesus’ wife would have been true mother. Once the true father and true mother embraced as one then the true tradition would have been established.
Had Jesus’ family established such a foundation, it would have automatically expanded to the tribe, nation, world and cosmos. Adam’s position is that of king, and through the true Adam God would have dominion over the whole universe. Such a God-centered foundation could have easily overturned the Roman Empire. Satan divided the world at every level; however, God is the pillar of absolute settlement for the one true love world.
Which side did Mary stand on? Mary, Zachariah, Elizabeth and John the Baptist were all obstacles to Jesus and caused him to travel the road of indemnity. That whole family was supposed to automatically follow Jesus. Mary’s mission was to help him in his marriage. Seven times Jesus explained his marriage situation to Mary. He urged her to assist him.
Originally Mary risked her life in order to conceive Jesus ac-cording to God’s directive. Mary could have been stoned to death, so she declared that she had conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. Who guided her to explain it that way? Zachariah. It was not Mary’s desire. While Mary was engaged to Joseph, she traveled to visit the family of Zachariah for three months. When she returned she was pregnant. Automatically Joseph asked whose baby was she carrying. It is natural that he would. God intervened by giving Joseph a revelation in a dream not to be afraid to take Mary as his wife. Therefore, Mary and Jesus were protected initially.
Because Joseph took this kind of action the Bible refers to him as a righteous man. It was God’s desire that Zachariah, Elizabeth and John the Baptist surround and protect the Messiah, no matter how difficult their family situation might be. However, none of them wanted to protect Jesus. Zachariah, Elizabeth and John the Baptist all knew how Jesus was conceived, and they all were opposed to Jesus marrying the younger daughter.
The lost positions have to be restored
America represented the Eve nation at the Second Advent. Fallen Eve had two sons: one representing the spiritual fall with the archangel, and the other representing the physical fall with Adam. The restoration of these two positions is essential in order to return to the Kingdom of Heaven. In the Last Days we are witnessing the phenomenon of the fall taking place among young teenagers. This is the harvest of illicit love. Everywhere we see this fallen action; this is Satan’s work Satan claims in front of God that the children of men and women belong to him.
The phenomenon of free sex that is rampant in today’s world is Satan’s last-ditch effort to destroy God’s ideal through fallen men and women. Satan’s aim is to destroy the true order of creation and form the kingdom of hell. Free sex and homosexuality, are creating the worst kind of hell on this earth.
In Jesus’ family God lost the positions of mother and daughter. How can this be restored? Eve killed her husband three times in history: in Adam’s family, Jesus’ family, and at the Second Advent. Christianity, as the worldwide bride, chased out the Second Advent to the wilderness. That world-level sadness cannot compare to Adam’s family-level sadness. After the fall of Adam, it was so difficult for God to create the world-wide base. How miserable it was for God and the Lord of the Second Advent to have that foundation destroyed by the unfaithfulness of Christianity in the position of the worldwide bride! Do you understand?
During the 40-year wilderness course, the Lord of the Second Advent had to endure immense agony in order to re-create the lost 4000-year foundation. How could I re-create the lost heart of children, brothers, spouses, and parents? In one fallen action all of these were lost. Every woman needs to find the true man and true children. The Second Advent is the time to reconnect to the true Adam, true brother, true husband and wife, and true parents.
The Lord of the Second Advent comes in the position of the true father, true husband and true king. In Adam’s time the elder brother was killed. In Jesus’ time the true parent was killed. In the Last Days, the worldwide king of kings was knocked down. You have to restore this. No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
Multiple roles are restored in the family
I created the Women’s Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don’t need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, hus-band, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. Without connecting to God and True Father in the family, you cannot connect many women. Do you understand? [Yes.] This is a happy indemnity mission.
Now you have to hold this content within you; otherwise, you will not be able to go over the place of liberation into freedom. True Parents connect to God’s original purpose of creation. True Parents represent true love, true life and true lineage. You have to respect that position. From the position of the true Adam comes the seed of the children.
Adam’s mind and Eve’s mind unite at the core, and then they become God’s body. When people embrace, their mind connects first and then their flesh. You have to be clear about this. The owner of love is not Adam. Adam is God’s flesh body, because of the vertical connection between the mind and God. Centering upon true love, there is one body and one mind.
Marriage is where children’s love, brotherly love, conjugal love, and parental love are perfected, centering on the man’s and woman’s sexual organs. Such a marriage belongs not to Adam and Eve but to God. It is God’s marriage. Is this clear? This is the connection to the original blood lineage. The thunder and lightning of the natural world are equivalent to the action of love between man and woman in marriage. All the cells of the body are filled with excitement and joy. Everything bursts out like thunder and lightning when man as plus and woman as minus connect. Why are you laughing? [From joy.] Joy? That’s good. [Laughter.]
This is the most precious place, but through the fall it be-came such a dirty place. The human love organ that originally was the most precious place has become the most dirty place. Can you understand? [Yes.] When your husband arrives home with a sweaty smell, do you welcome him with a grateful heart? Love has the power to lift every creature up. Every morning when you sit on the toilet the smell is not so good, actually, but you don’t feel that your own waste is smelly. The reason is that it is all a part of yourself.
God created love partnership, life partnership, lineage partnership and conscience partnership. In such an embrace there are no boundaries. I like the power of love. How about you? [We like it.]
God’s original principle can never be changed. The seed of sons and daughters originated in Adam. What kind of Adam position? [Immature Adam.] If the fall had not taken place, man and woman would have grown to perfection and formed a family and eventually one nation. This would have expand-ed to the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and God would have reigned as the eternal king.
In the spiritual world you don’t need cars and food production. The spiritual world is full of many kinds of fragrant flowers connected with a true love atmosphere. This is God’s fragrance.
Who is God? The original True Parents, original true teacher, and original king of true kings. The Second Advent combines these three concepts and unites the individual viewpoint, family viewpoint, and national viewpoint. There should be no boundaries. This is the love ladder that we climb up to God’s throne. It matters not whether you are young or old; there is no limit of time or space. There is a limitless supply of every-thing centered upon true love. You have to reach this original ideal purpose. You have to begin changing your concept to the ideal concept of God. Do you understand? [Yes.]
Bring 3.6 million people to the Blessing
Next year True Parents will bless 3.6 million couples. So many of you feel that it is an impossible number. That is a conceptual problem, not a real problem. You need the conviction that you alone could bring 3.6 million people without any difficulty. Do you have that conviction? You American people, how many couples are you intending to bring? One night my speech was broadcast over C-SPAN, and the whole country could see and hear me. If this continued for six months, how much would this nation change its direction? It wouldn’t even take six months. Within 40 days it could be turned upside down. No problem.
How can we connect the world foundation to the ideal marriage foundation? Only I can bless 3.6 million couples. The world has never witnessed such a phenomenon. In God’s eyes 3.6 million couples is far too small; 3,600 million couples would be better. How about that? [Applause.] No problem. It can be done. The worldwide family base has been lost. Now the family can connect again to God. We can build an ideal family, ideal nation, ideal world and ideal universe without any problem, centering upon true love. This is a happy, happy foundation. Will you do it? [Yes, Father.] Will you do it? [Yes, Father.]
Your homework is to create God’s sovereignty on this earth. Today the march starts. Those who pledge to do so raise both of your hands please. I believe in your determination. Thank you, and God bless you.