Father’s speech on May 1, 1997 at training center in Tarrytown New York. Father begins by writing the title of the sermon on the board and asking who understand Korean.
The first part says, HSA-UWC. Repeat after me: Saegae Kidokyo Tongil Silyoung Hyuphoe. That is HSA-UWC in Korean. Now the second part is Saegae Pyonghwa Tongil Kajung Yeon-hap. That is Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Next I wrote Belvedere Horne Church, repeat after me:
Belvedere Kajung Kyohoe. The message is really rich this morning already.
Following the Principle view, since I came to America, I have been carrying out the providence based on this American holy place, Belvedere Church. Two years ago, I moved to South America. Now the providence is centered on South America. After centering on the South American providence for a while, I went back to Korea and I have been doing a lot for the providence in Korea. I started many new projects and have been taking care of all the work there.
A NEW FOCUS
Now is the time for all the old church or church-related signs to come down; a new form should emerge. The church era focuses on individual salvation; however, it is time to rise from the individual level of salvation to the family level, because the family is the cornerstone or basic unit for building a nation.
What happened in the family of Adam and Eve at the time of the human fall? Not only individuals but the entire family collapsed. Therefore, the providence of restoration involves restoring mind/body unity, unity among family members, and then unity within the tribe, society, nation and so forth. Because of the fall, the human race started with a false blood lineage, and it expanded into families, tribes, societies, nations and a world; that is the world we are facing every day. Therefore, True Parents come to save humanity and change this blood lineage into the heavenly lineage; we have to expand this worldwide. This is the period of equalization, centering on True Parents. Do you understand? The worst parents appear and break down everything, causing separation in every direction. In this time, True Parents appear and bring mind/body unification and perfection of man and woman, who are connecting with one another to create a perfect family. This can expand horizontally into a unified world. Do you understand? This is the opposite of the fallen way where individuals separate and families separate. Satan has been occupying the whole world.
Rebirth is needed. True Parents appeared and connected the true individual base, accomplishing complete unification of mind and body. The authority of that kind of man and woman, centered on their perfected family, extends to the Kingdom of Heaven. The period of religion is passing away, because the purpose of the major religions was individual salvation. That is why the signs of all religious organizations, not just the Unification Church, should come down sooner or later. If Adam and Eve had been totally united with God to begin with, do you think religion would have been necessary? What about the history of restoration? No. Everything was supposed to be accomplished at that time.
Because of the human fall, all of humanity throughout history has been suffering from fall sickness. Therefore, True Parents come to bring the new serum of truth. When you get a shot or injection from True Parents, you are engrafted into the heavenly lineage. It is like receiving a vaccination during an epidemic. That is why receiving the Blessing is the most important thing in your life.
TRIBAL MESSIAHSHIP
We are in the position of restored Adam and Eve, working towards the level of perfection. Centering on blessed couples, the entire world has to be restructured and reorganized to meet the criteria of the Kingdom of Heaven. That is why I gave direction to blessed couples to play the role of tribal messiahs. If you perform the tribal messiah role properly, you should be able to bring 160 families, including your relatives and your immediate family, to the Blessing. By doing so, you will set a condition to restore your entire tribe. Based on this tribal restoration, the nation can be built, restoring the failure at the time of Jesus Christ. The families of John the Baptist and Joseph will be restored; all the foundation will be laid, then the nation will be formed. Then we will continue building the world centering on God.
As you know, already in 185 nations, national messiahs are forming this center. Your responsibility is to do tribal rnessiahship where you are living and carry out your mission. Once we accomplish the three levels of family messiah, tribal messiah., and national messiah, and fulfill our responsibility properly, then Satan cannot interfere in our work and in our life. Once all these levels are completed and the national messiahs are totally united and the worldwide level is prepared, they will be called “world messiahs.” All humanity will be in the position of the original Adam and Eve who have completed the eight different stages and will be called “perfected.”
While you were not aware of what I was doing, I laid all the necessary ground work to dispatch these national messiahs to the world. No matter what nation it may be, if four national messiahs can be totally united centering on God, then the entire world can be restored. After four nations, the next stage will be twelve nations. The four position foundation will be elevated to restore twelve nations and then the world. People tend to keep their old habits from before they joined the church, but while you are still struggling with your old habits, the time line of God’s providence has progressed so fast that it makes you dizzy. You don’t know how fast it is traveling, but soon it will be beyond your reach; thus, you have to be fully alert.
STAGES OF RESTORATION
There are eight different stages horizontally and eight different stages vertically. Through shrinking the satanic realm I .from the worldwide level to the individual level, in eight different stages, we can get rid of it. Right after World War II, if people had connected with God’s blessing centering on the Lord of the Second Advent, this process would have been completed by now. Then it would have expanded vertically centered on God’s direction, the heavenly line, not the satanic line. It is like establishing and rebuilding the Garden of Eden again. But that did not happen.
The Lord of the Second Advent would have become the True Parent to the entire humanity, but because of the failure of the allied countries and Christian!} the True Parent was kicked out of this world. I, who was supposed to build this vertical original world, was chased away to this satanic world level, into the wilderness. So I started from scratch, from the zero level again, to complete these eight different stages. At each stage, I had to get the Cain and Abel representatives to unite. Finally, True Parents won victory on the worldwide level here. That is why, after I won the victory in Korea, I moved to America so that I could work with world-level Christianity centering on Catholicism and Protestantism, which represent Cain and Abel and are like a mind/body relationship.
The United Nations represents only the body, the minus, because it is a political organization. It does not have the plus. It represents world politics; therefore, it needs a woman figure. In other words, Eve and Cain and Abel figures are need-ed. I am preparing this very foundation for the sake of the United Nations. Just as our body always puts pressure on our mind and tortures our mind, the United Nations has been putting pressure on religion and putting down religion, which represents the mind. That is why body centered politics, such as these do not have anything to do with God or God’s original purpose. Mind and body have been separated in the history of restoration; they have to reverse this course in order to meet the original point. Once I reach the worldwide victory, I will bring the entire world to this original point. There have been two different battles, internal and external, because of the battle between the good spirits and the evil spirits in the spirit world. And also, in the physical world there has been a struggle between evil parents and True Parents. The satanic individual base has extended to the worldwide base, and battles have taken place from the individual level to the worldwide level.
Up until recently, the entire world, including the democratic world and the communistic world, mobilized to oppose and attack me. However, that era is over. I set the indemnity conditions and restored 4,000 years of human history in 40 years. The Old Testament era, which was the first Israel, the first Messiah era, and the New Testament era, which was the second Messiah era, ended in failure, and I had to restore those 4,000 years of the history of failure. The spirit world and the physical world are now united with True Parents. So once I reach the worldwide victory level and embrace the entire world, this entire world will go through the engrafting process, the process of rebirth, and the Kingdom of God will be built on earth. These eight horizontal stages of completion will be established vertically, too. During the last 40 years, the entire spirit world and the physical world joined together and attacked and persecuted me. That time is over. Satan is losing his dominion of the entire world. There is a new world, nation, tribe, family and individual, because at this point, we meet with our own mind and body.
THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
Americans say that America represents the free world and is the supreme nation of the world, but suppose the entire world disappears and America alone exists. America is the kingdom of extreme individualism, the kingdom of free sex. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve became the ancestors of extreme individualism, selfishness, and free sex. You will reap what you have sown. That was the season of spring, and we are reaping the results as the harvest. The country that represents Satan’s harvest is America. The original individual personality, family values, tribal base, national base and worldwide base were lost. This is reality, not a concept. Do you understand?
America does not have anywhere to go now. As American brothers and sisters, do you have enough resources and power to rule the world? You lost your grandparents, your parents, your siblings; there are no relationships. Relationships became complicated and were lost. Can anyone deny that? So, centering on America, there may be twelve major nations in the world that are leading world affairs. These countries are repeating the same mistakes that Adam and Eve made in the Garden of Eden at the time of the fall.
How can we say that our tribe, our nation, and our world are centered on God? Even your view of life and way of life is based on this selfish and extreme individualism. That is why you lost everything from the individual level to the worldwide level. This is a result of free sex. Incest is taking place in this world. Incest is not connected to God’s side, but completely connected to Satan’s side. This has been the reality.
You have to turn back 180 degrees otherwise, there is no hope. The world, with its nations, tribes, families and individuals, have all been connected to Satan’s side. Now Satan’s work is collapsing. True Parents restore all that was lost through-out human history and establish it on a vertical level. All levels and viewpoints have to be reestablished centered on God, through True Parents-from the universal views to the world views, national views, family views, and individual views. By establishing home church, you are in the position to inherit everything. Everything connects to that direction. Do you understand? Adam connects to the individual viewpoint and to the viewpoint of the family, tribe, nation, world and cosmos, centering on God’s love. Is that right? (Yes.)
We take things away from Satan. The first thing we have to accomplish is the restoration of the elder son’s birthright. Then once Cain and Abel have reached unity, they have to be united with the mother figure. Then, when they join the United Nations work and unite as plus and minus, as Cain and Abel, the restoration of kingship will take place. For that reason, I established the Women’s Federation, Religious Federation, Youth Federation, and all the federations to work with the United Nations for world peace. The day that the United Nations declares True Parents’ Day to the world, the entire world will celebrate. Also, the United Nations should invite True Parents to take the position of Secretary-General for eternity. When that kind of tradition is set, then restoration of the world will be completed. Then we can proclaim not just one nation under God, but one world under God! [Clapping]
THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS
America cannot control the United Nations. Recently, the Republican party had an agenda to somehow pull America out of it. But I used the Washington Times to stop that evil attempt. I mobilized many ambassadors from around the world to exert their influence to stop it. Many Ambassadors and American ambassadors met to discuss how to solve these problems. The Washington Times pointed the direction for the future. You were not aware of that, were you? Because each nation sends ambassadors to the United Nations to America, I mobilized both ambassadors from each nation and worked with them. As individuals, we consist of mind and body. The same principle applies to the organization of the United Nations. Because we lost on the individual level the elder sonship, parentship and kingship, we have to restore the elder sonship, parentship and kingship on the worldwide level, centering on the restoration of Cain, Abel and Eve. I am told that the United Nations is in debt for about 3 billion dollars, but I am confident that we can take care of that debt if we truly mobilize the Women’s Federation for World Peace, Family Federation for World Peace, Youth Federation for World Peace, HARP and CARP, and all organizations under my wing. The family of Adam included the father, Eve, Cain and Abel. What was lost in the family of Adam should be restored before we attempt to restore the world. That is why we have to make sure that the elder sonship, parentship and kingship are restored, centered on God.
Where is the base or very place for advancing God’s providence of restoration from the individual level to the world? The home church, the family church. Suppose everyone in a nation, from the president and the cabinet members to all its families, establish this family church; then national restoration comes automatically.
Suppose that by the end of August of this year, with only three months to go, we reach our goal of 3.6 million couples. Then I will proclaim to the world that beginning from September 1, we will march forth toward the goal of reaching 36 million couples. Once that happens, the entire world will be stirred up.
The family is clearly the starting point, the direction, and the terminal point. It is the clear cause and clear result. Churches and religions did not have a clear starting point, a clear direction, or a clear destination. They have lost their direction. The Unification understanding offers a clear purpose and direction for the individual, family, tribe, nation, world and cosmos. It clarifies God’s starting point, direction and purpose. At last we will be with God. All humankind and everything in the cosmos will be centering on God and will become new creatures with a clear direction. Then they can embrace God and God’s true love place. Everyone will enjoy dancing and singing. People of all tribes and nations will be dancing and singing. The cosmic Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven will be an enjoyable world of dancing and singing. That is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Is that right? (Yes!) How great everything will be when race and color are no problem! Love power is the strongest power. Think of the power of blood lineage when it is directed towards unity. Do you understand?
Because such a time has now come, I took down the sign for HSA-UWC. It is reborn as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Through the course of the Old Testament and New Testament eras, we lost everything from the family to the worldwide level. Since we are in the time of world level, I started from the worldwide level and went to the family level; so now we are establishing family church.
Although Jesus Christ was crucified 2,000 years ago, his power and influence ha e been felt all over the world. But suppose Jesus Christ had not died, but rather had established his family. If his children had multiplied, how long do you think it would have taken to restore the entire world? Not more than 600 years. Do you understand? Jesus’ family would have been the mainstream family of the world. The mainstream is like the true olive tree. The fallen world’s wild olive tree would have been cut down at the starting place, making that true olive tree and influencing the whole orchard. Then God would have been able to dominate the true olive orchard, Is this clear? The wild olive trees need to be engrafted with True Parents’ blessing. The trunk has to be cut down and then engrafted with a new branch. The new branch is the new blessing. This engrafting process takes place through receiving the Blessing. In this way, the very family that was lost in the Garden of Eden will be restored on the worldwide level.
No matter how much America may try to harm the Unification Church, it will not be destroyed. Even if Germany or the entire European continent is mobilized, there is no way for them to achieve it. The entire nation of Japan was mobilized to get rid of the Unification Church, but they found no way.
The conclusion, at this point, is that unless we take down I this sign which deals with religion, we cannot accomplish restoration of humanity because this very sign limits salvation to the individual level. Do you want salvation to remain on the individual level, or do you want to see family-level, national and worldwide-level salvation?
ASSISTANCE FROM THE SPIRITUAL WORLD
Just as at the time of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, now at the Chung Pyung Lake workshops, the spirit world is coming down and working at our physical level.
Good angels are coming down and chasing the evil angels and evil spirits away. Once we establish this foundation by chasing away these evil spirits on the family level, then couples in the spirit world will be liberated too. What is the basic unit of the Kingdom of God? The family. The Kingdom of God is within God-centered blessed couples who are connected through the family-level true love foundation. Do you understand? Without making that family system, one cannot get into the Kingdom of Heaven. That was God’s original ideal of creation.
Until now, everyone was separate. The archangel had no spouse. On the individual base, everything is separate. Now True Parents have made the ideal family base which is victorious on earth and in heaven as well. The two worlds will be liberated completely, centering on this year’s Blessing in November. The true love family base will expand to the nation and world, connecting people everywhere with the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and in heaven. Everything will be liberated. Mansei, Mansei, Mansei!
This plan is not imagination; it is not science fiction. It is reality. It is a very logical process. That is why I already declared that newspapers should be established in 185 nations. Centering on these newspapers, I am organizing investigative bureaus in each nation which will mobilize many former intelligence agents to become investigators of righteousness. I also formed the Martial Arts Federation for World Peace. These three legs will form the front line to deal with the reality of society and the satanic power of the media, investigative bureaus and the Mafia, which have been blocking God’s power everywhere.
I recently spoke to writers from the Orient. I am now planning to form a federation for world authors. Through such organizations, I am going to lay the foundation to build the new heavenly culture for the 21st century so that we can educate young people and lead them to grow up for the sake of the entire humanity and God’s providence. Writers should produce novels and books centered on Godism, not secularism anymore. Do you follow me?
Therefore, please do not feel bad or sad about the disappearance of the HSA-UWC sign. This has been transformed into the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. This is a much better and higher-level sign. Because of this, you have the blessing to conduct your family church.
What era are we living in? This is the Completed Testament era. The Old Testament and New Testament eras, which dealt with Christianity and other religions, have passed. This is the era of completion, the Completed Testament era. Now we can deal with families. This is the way families will be saved. It is a different and higher dimension. The family base all over the world will connect all humankind, automatically, into family churches, tribal family churches, national family churches, and a world family church. That will be the Kingdom of Heaven the ideal family, ideal tribe, ideal nation, ideal world,
ideal creation of God. Everything will be completed so that at last God will be liberated, too. Wow! It will be the first time for God.
I want to sing some kind of famous song; I will dance so that God will enjoy everything. Singing groups, dancing groups, ballet, academic projects, etc.—everything will be liberated, in every corner of the world. Do you like that? Wow, what a wonderful time has come on earth! Wow, we are laughing with loud voices, we are dancing, we are stirring up all of space. A wonderful time has come for you, your family, your world-God’s Kingdom of Heaven! Do you like that?
A NEW SPRINGTIME
I have suffered too much persecution for the past forty years. You don’t know that. If I had not been here, what kind of result would there have been? The time of persecution and hesitation is over. Utilize every ounce of your energy and do your absolute best to fight and march forward. Will you do that? (Yes.) So, that is our main active purpose. Do you like that? (Yes.) And you like Father? [A small child shouts, “Yes!”] Young people have more power. Youth have more power, more than you and I. So should we have that goal and hope? (Yes.)
This is May, and we will see everything prospering and blooming. New life emerges. New buds form. All the birds and animals start moving. In springtime, freedom and liberty are dawning for the sake of the entire Unification Church movement. You should have a burning desire and new determination to follow True Parents to restore the entire world so that we can build the Kingdom of God on earth. Amen. (Amen!) One baby’s voice is stronger than all voices. That means the third generation is more hopeful and is coming to us.
The details of this transition from HSA-UWC to the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification have already been explained through various speeches; so you will be informed of the details. However, I want you to understand the crux of why this new era begins with this new name. Don’t you feel obligated to go out and bring more couples to the coming Blessing? (Yes.) Bring the king of your nation. Bring your grandparents, your father and mother, your children, and your grandchildren, your families. Then your entire nation will be restored at once. It is not a lie. The lineage is now changing. When foreigners come to America and go through proper procedures to become American citizens, it takes some work. Which is more important, precious and more valuable: becoming an American citizen or becoming a Unification Church blessed couple? God’s blessed couple. With this blessing card, you can go everywhere, for it will be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. There are no boundaries for blessed couples. Free, free, too much free! I can sleep and take a long, long rest-forty days or forty years. How wonderful! What a wonderful time for me, too!
So, do you feel excited? This is the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of HSA-UWC. After 430 years, the Israelites restored the land of Canaan. This is the worldwide time. Christianity is the expansion of these Israelites, and worldwide Christianity is being restored after 43 years of HSA-UWC. The failure of the Israelites has been restored centered on the unity of Christianity and now this new era has been formed. This is why I gave the mottoes: Let Us Be Proud of True Parents and Love True Parents, as last year’s motto, and this year, Let Us Be Proud of True Parents and Love True Parents by Accomplishing the 3.6 Million Couples Blessing. That way, we can even fly. Is that a problem for you or not? (No.)
Thinking of the size of America, your responsibility is to bring 360,000 couples; that should be a piece of cake. So is America going to accomplish this or not? Thumbs up or down? (Thumbs up!)
I am planning to leave the country on May 5. Sunday is May 4. Do you want me to come here to speak on Sunday? (Yes!) [Cheering and clapping] Do you want me to come to headquarters today and speak at the celebration there, or do you want to wait until Sunday for me to give a new message?
BRING YOUR RELATIVES TO THE BLESSING
Please study the detailed explanation of this transition and remember what I told you this morning. This is the time that you have to bring your immediate family members and your relatives to the next Blessing. You have authority as elders, parents and kings. That is the subject position. The subject can control the object with no problem. Do you understand? You are the elder brother; you can bring your younger brothers to the Kingdom of Heaven. At last they will be thankful for their elder brother. You did great, they will say, thank you very much! Satan’s side is using force to get people into hell. We go the opposite way. Do you understand?
Until now your family, your tribe, and your nation were against us. You should now reverse this and use your power as subject to connect people with God and True Parents. Satan’s power cannot combat this original power. They will ultimately follow. They must go the way of the Blessing, beginning with your family, your tribe, and your nation.
Can you do it? Really? Can you do it? (Yes!) Your mind says that first. Mobilize all ten of your senses to do it, then swear to God. Show your determination through mobilizing not only your five physical senses but all ten senses. Become seventy times stronger than the opposition and persecution from the satanic world. Use seventy times mote power than they did in the past to bring your relatives and immediate families to the next Blessing. You will not be violating heavenly law.
Satan will bow down at last. Even Satan will bow down to you and say, “I want to be saved, please.” Do you understand? We have to root out the entire tree of Satan and throw it into the dungeon of hell. Your relatives and the people of your nation should be saved and separated from Satan. You understand clearly. Get them away from Satan. You will do it absolutely? Open your big eyes, open your mouth and ears, and you can clean everything up at once. God wants that kind of person. Do you understand? Our time has come. You will not lose. Will you do it? Will you do it? This is May 1. My message needs your determination, right? Let’s do it.
Please do not feel sad because my message is short this morning. In the near future, it may not even take five minutes. Please join me in prayer.
[Mr. Peter Kim’s prayer] Our most beloved Heavenly Father. What a morning and what a message! The entire creation, all of nature is showing us the sign of life, the sign of new lineage. On this day, May 1, on top of that, we truly, truly are grateful that True Parents are here with us in America at Belvedere to give us new life, to share with us new truth. Father, now we are emerging out of the HSA-UWC era and into the era of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, therefore, we have to become new persons. Our mind and body must be united, and centering on that, we must build our original family on our family level, Father. That is the basic unit to build the Kingdom of God on earth, our Father says. Heavenly Father, this is our goal. Our goal is based on our family. We have to bring 160 families to the next Blessing. For that, we received Your inspiration, we received Your blessing, we received energy and power from You through True Parents this morning. With this power, this energy, this inspiration, Father, we are ready and more than ready to go out and hit the road to do our mission. Therefore, please whip us if we are still asleep, so that we can be fully aware of what You want from us from this point on. Father, please give Your strength, wisdom and heart and power to our True Parents so that they can be up in heaven, and spiritually and physically leading us without doing actual physical work, Father. We will carry out the mission here on earth, Father. Heavenly Father, thank You very much for this precious message You have given us this morning. Centered on True Parents, we are more than determined, more than pledged to do our absolute best to mobilize every ounce of our energy to complete our mission. We again thank You, thank You very much, and we pray all of these things in the name of our True Parents. Amen.
Please rise for Mansei four times. Hananim, Mansei! Cham Pumonim, Mansei! 3.6 Million Couples Blessing, Mansei! Family Federation, Mansei!