Rev. Peter Kim. The following contents are excerpted, from a seven-hour speech given by Father to New York area members at Sunday morning service on November 15, 1998 at Belvedere New York.
ALTHOUGH we are doing Hoon Dok Hae, the texts we are using are mainly taken from older speeches, some from over forty years ago. Today, instead of Hoon Dok Hae, I want to give a special speech to convey what I am teaching at New Hope East Garden. People can receive education and develop their characters there so that they can build the Kingdom of Heaven in the future. We have to develop our characters so that we can fit into the society of the Kingdom of Heaven. Adam’s family could not achieve the four position foundation, so they could not go to Heaven but went to hell. Parents and children were lost as a result of the fall.
At Jardim, the essential theme is the establishment of the four position foundation. This means the restoration of 1 the position of Adam’s family. I Adam and Eve’s family lost this position because of the fall of man. This is the providential time when we have to restore the original four position foundation. That is why Father declared 4.4 Jeol.
1 As blessed couples, you I must understand the significance of this teaching or you will not be able to transcend the fallen world. It is so important. I am giving this message under a special title: Hananim gwa janyeo eui julde chuin gwa, soyu-kwon wanseong haja. “Let us perfect the absolute ownership and absolute right of possession of God and His children.” [See end note.]
Do you all want to become absolute owners? We must accomplish this all the way up to the level of God. Do you want to be a higher being than God, or a lower being? [Higher being.] We all have that desire. Our thumb represents God-so when we indicate “number one” with our thumb it means we want to become higher than God. By raising our thumb up we penetrate the horizontal line and connect to the vertical.
All parts of our body symbolize some aspect of the universe. Human beings go through three stages-the water stage (mother’s womb), the physical world and the spiritual world. Our head represents Heaven. Our mouth represents the water stage and also the horizontal. We breathe through our nose which is one step higher. Our nose represents the physical world and also Adam and Eve. God breathes through Adam and Eve. Without Adam and Eve, God cannot breathe. One more step up are the eyes, which represent God. The eyes keep looking, and God is looking for love-He has everything else. This is because love cannot be accomplished alone. No matter how absolute God is, He still needs to be one with His object.
We inherit our bones, flesh and blood from our parents, particularly our mother. Our father gives us our bone structure, and our mother our flesh. Thus, as we received everything from our parents, we can claim nothing as our own. Where then did the idea of extreme individualism come from?
The 4.4. Jeol Declaration was possible on the foundation of the four Jardim proclamations. It can be considered the fifth declaration. The first Jardim proclamation emphasized absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. The second spoke of absolute parents, children, couples, and brother-hood. It also spoke of absolute family, the four position foundation. Have you become absolute parents and absolute children? [No.] What about absolute couples? What about brothers and sisters? Absolute means 180 degrees opposite from the fallen world. The tribe, nation, world, and cosmos were all to be connected in an absolute cosmos. However, ownership was lost. Where is the absolute owner? God could not have absolute property. Who caused this complicated problem? Man and woman. God lost His position as owner and He lost His property. What kind of ownership? In relation to children of filial piety. God wanted to see filial piety on the earth. Patriots, holy men and saints have taught us this. In His absolute position, God is seeking absolute children in the fallen world, which is owned by Satan.
The tragedy for humankind is that no one has understood God’s heart. It is as if God has been under house arrest since He lost His only children at the time of the fall. We have to know this. For thousands of years since the start of history, God has been following behind humankind rather than leading them, with all this tragedy, and millions of martyrs in God’s name. God’s heart is nailed with the longest nail. Who can pull this nail out of God’s heart? Even if it takes millions of years, God must fulfill His responsibility to restore human-kind. No one has known this. God has been suffering and struggling doubly. He has to mend the broken creation.
Engrafting The True Olive Tree
Thus, in time God sent His only son, a son of filial piety and patriotism, to enable humanity to be engrafted and re-stored. Does this mean engrafting the wild olive tree into the true olive tree? No, the wild olive tree must be cut down to the root. Thousands of generations of the wild olive tree can be eliminated by cutting it off. Then what is the mission of the Messiah? Should he merely say that everyone should follow Moses’ tradition, or, rather, that they should turn around 180 degrees? There is no connection between good and evil. They are always separate. At the time of Abraham, the family of Lot was told to cut off everything when they left Sodom and Gomorrah. The condition they were given was to not look back or be turned into a pillar of salt. What about the Israelites leaving Egypt? They cut off from everything.
We must remember that when the Messiah comes we need to be able to cut off from our children, family and wealth and just follow him, or they may become obstacles to us. Once the wild olive tree is cut down completely, a bud of the true olive tree can be engrafted into it. It then takes three to four years for the new bud to be fully engrafted and bear fruit. From this new bud, a true olive tree root and trunk will grow. The true olive tree energy will go down even to the root level. It will cut off the old stump which will become the fertilizer for the new tree. Even though the wild olive tree will be cut off, it will help the true olive tree grow and reach perfection. America is similarly in the position of the wild olive tree. So we should not abandon America, but should cut America off from the satanic lineage and use its power, knowledge and wealth as fertilizer in which to grow the true olive tree bud. As Unification Church blessed members, you should be pure white in color. But when I look at you, I see that you are all stained. Can you deny this? [No.] That is the reality.
Have you ever seen a Christian pastor come down from the pulpit and knock someone in his congregation on the head like this? [Laughter.] I am the parent of this congregation and I behave like your parent. There is a difference be-tween one’s congregation (who are like students) and one’s children. What position are you in? Are you Father’s children or his disciples? [Children!] With your golden hair and white faces, how can you resemble me? Your physical appearance may be different from True Parents’, so if you want to truly resemble God and True Parents you have to completely abandon your past way of thinking and way of life and align yourself with God and True Parents completely. People say Reverend Moon is a dictator for saying such things and should go home. No matter how much they oppose Reverend Moon, however, these words will stay with humanity for eternity. I have absolute confidence in the liberation of God and the entire world. [Applause.] Do we want this to take thou-sands of years or a shorter time? [A short time.] But you are not ready yet.
Heavenly Ownership
Do you all want to become owners? Absolute owners or ordinary owners? To secure absolute ownership with God we must be absolutely united with Him. It is a logical and eternal formula that we must become one with God if we are to secure absolute ownership. We must practice a lifestyle of giv-ing-offering our life even one hundred times. On this foundation we can finally reach the stage where we can say we are one with God. This is an eternal and unchanging rule.
We were born in the wrong way and were taught wrongly. We started with a false owner. So we have to turn ourselves around 180 degrees. What is the indicator that God gave us the ability and character to do that? It is our conscience.
God is the parent of parents. The original concept of parents was put into our minds before the fall. God is first our parent and secondly our teacher. But He is not an ordinary teacher. The world has many teachers, but God is the one who enables us to learn about love. He is the teacher of divine love. That is why our mind tends to seek absolute love. Isn’t it true? God planted that kind of mind within us. God is, thirdly, the original owner of humanity. That is why we have a mind that constantly desires to become the owner of the entire world. Even though we belong to this fallen world, because God originally planted such a mind within us, we still seek to become the original king, the original parents, original teacher and original owner. That is the force of our original mind. However we lost that We should feel this is a tragedy and should lament because of it
When it comes to the laws that govern electricity, if the input of electricity is measured as 100, the output will be something less, say 95 or 80; there is always some waste. But in the sphere of absolute love, if the input of love is 100 the output will always be 100. There is no waste because the lines of love are all connected with and go through the center. All the lines intersect with the center at perpendicular angles. When we observe the universe, therefore, we see that eternal beings always form a sphere. True love makes this possible. Therefore even if tens of millions of lines intersect this point there is no opposition and waste because there is no friction. It is true love’s center point. That is why all things always want to go through this center point, which is God.
The time has come when we can absolutely declare the era for the liberation of our minds. As we reach a certain level, absolute unity with God is reached. What is the property of our mind? Our body. The mind alone cannot be happy. It needs the body, because together the mind and body form the absolute being in which God can dwell. Our mind should absolutely become the owner and subject of our body. Then our body becomes the property of our mind. Our conscience and our body absolutely should become one centering on true love. Then the right level of ownership comes about That is why true love is necessary. When we reach this level, the mind and body can then exchange positions. But it is a prerequisite that there be absolute oneness between them. When this is achieved, ownership and property as subject and object become equal.
Beginning Point of God’s Kingdom
No matter what it may take, the completion of restoration requires that our mind and body become one. This is the fundamental key to our life. Once you reach such a level, either body or mind can claim ownership. Because in true love the subject and object are absolutely equal, the ownership is therefore one. Once the body becomes one with the mind, together they become one unified being. In other words, when our flesh turns south, north, west, and east through 360 degrees it should not do so by itself. After becoming one with the mind it can travel anywhere with the mind as the center. That way the vertical world and horizontal world can be connected. This connecting point is the beginning of the Kingdom of God on earth as well as in heaven. Husband and wife represent a family. True love is giving and then forgetting; as long as a selfish concept of oneself apart from one’s husband or wife exists, there can be no absolute center and no harmonized family. A world of peace and unification cannot emerge from there. Husband and wife should not have separate ways of thinking as man and woman. They should become absolutely one so that their positions can even be exchanged. With I this kind of oneness between husband and wife there exists the base unit of the family which is the center and beginning point of the Kingdom of God.
God prepared the nation of America in order to unify the entire world centering on Christianity. He wanted to see Catholicism and Protestantism become one and work together to unite the world centering on God’s love. God’s concern is how to love the archangel who became the enemy, and restore Adam’s original family before the fall. That is why Reverend Moon advocates a universal heavenly love, saying that we have to embrace and love even our enemies. At the Blessing on June 13, I offered this kind of love to all the people of the world, including the saints and sages and even the worst people in the spirit world. Embracing humanity with a true love power greater than Satan’s power can digest all problems. Without the concept of loving the enemy the unified Kingdom of Heaven on earth cannot be built. Love your enemy!
When a blessed husband and wife in the position of enemies love each other, a peaceful world begins for the first time, with a blessed child. To eliminate animosity between Koreans and Japanese, for example, Father has married thou-sands of Korean-Japanese couples.
You know now that the mind is the absolute owner. When your body becomes one with your mind and becomes the property of love, God is the absolute owner. When God created human beings, the main purpose was that He wanted to have “love property.” From today on, we have to make a new determination and pledge to honor our absolute mind as the absolute owner of our absolute body.
Those who do not believe what I am teaching this morning, please wake up and think about it seriously. For women, your eternal subject is your husband. He is the one who is to become your eternal owner. Only on the basis of becoming absolutely one with your husband can you claim to be the owner too. We have to teach our children that parents are in the position of owner of the family and of mind, and children are in the position of body. Between mind and body there should be absolute unity. Just as we learned to unite our mind and body and to unite as husband and wife, our children have to learn how to unite with their parents.
Children learn from their parents’ way of looking at and treating them. They are sharp enough that even if their parents pretend to offer their love in taking care of them, if they realize it is not true love they will shake their heads. They will realize it immediately. Your children learn from you by how you treat others—your father-in-law, your husband, your neighbors. Gradually, without even knowing it, they can lose their confidence and respect. Even infants learn to discern among true love, false love and mediocre love by looking at their mother’s face and eyes as they nurse. When at a very young age if, for example, they make a mess on the floor, they learn what kind of love their parents have. They expect help and love from their parents. Yet if the parents do not look after them properly, and instead of loving them, spank them or do something wrong out of emotion, what kind of education are they giving their children? When they reach ages 5 to 71 if children see their parents fighting, they learn. that way of behavi01; and when they grow up they do the same. They test their parents and eventually see no hope in them and leave home. Whose responsibility is that? Is it the responsibility of the children or of their parents?
Who is the owner? [God.] What about in this earthly world? Our mind should become the owner of our body in the position of property and then become one with the body. Then between husband and wife, the husband is in the position of subject and eventually becomes owner of the couple. When they become absolutely one, husband and wife share ownership. By the same token, parents should be in the position of owner and subject of their children.
A wife should long so much for and miss her husband, her ideal husband, and long to receive this husband so that she can bear a child. After the fall, God sought the way to restore and perfect His son. How long He waited! Thousands and thousands of years. How much God yearned, how much He prayed, how much He invested until at last the Messiah, the perfected third Adam appeared! You have to have this aspect as a woman. Just as God longed for that kind of son, a woman should long to bear such an only child of God with her own body.
Can we find such a wife among American wives? What about you? If you do not acknowledge this and become one with your husbands, can you fit into this original eternal formula? Do you American blessed wives feel this way? As blessed wives, whom do you think you must love more be-tween True Father and your husband? [True Father.] No, no, no! Of course you offer your love to True Parents, but the love relationship between True Parents and you is a vertical relationship, while your relationship with your spouse is a horizontal one in which you and your spouse share conjugal love. Soon a horizontal level you have to love your husband more. Isn’t that so?
Once one secures absolute unity between mind and body, this will extend to the relationships between husband and wife, parents and children, family to family, tribe to tribe, nation to nation and to the world and cosmos. Eventually this cosmos will be absolutely one with God. It will be the realm of total liberation of heaven and earth. There you will call God your own God and the entire world your own world.
Water seeks equalization. And air also. After we have gone through the water stage of life in the womb and the air stage in this physical world, eventually when we reach the spirit world we breathe the air of love. There, love too seeks equality. When we reach that level we will have eternal peace and happiness, which will be the Kingdom of God. As we pass through each of these three stages of water, air and love, it does not mean the previous stages close down. They should be kept open, like our mouth, nose and eyes are all kept open together. When you have a stuffed nose you have to blow it to create a clear channel. If the mind and body are not united, it is like having a stuffy nose and not being able to breathe well. The same goes for the rest of the body. If the lips are not completely parallel, but even just two degrees off, then one cannot pronounce words well. The shoulder line should be straight. The same holds true for the legs and the chest line. The navel should be in the center, and when you draw a line from the forehead down it connects to the love organs.
When we know how to do something we can simply do it. By the same token, now that we understand the meaning of absolute ownership and right of possession, is it easy for us to fulfill this or is it difficult? As we know about it, can we do it or not? Once we logically understand something, we can do it with no problem. Then, is reaching perfection a problem or not?
Father’s Present Course
Had Catholicism and Protestantism totally united at the end of World War II, centering on Christianity the entire world was to receive the Lord of the Second Advent and through him be embraced and united. The right wing, the left wing, humanists, materialists-they were all to be united and build the Kingdom of God here on earth within seven years, between 1945 and 1952. But due to the failure of the free world, particularly of Christianity, even though in many segments of the world people were prepared physically and spiritually-for example in royal families, and in the traditions of Catholic nuns and priests-somehow they failed overall. The Lord of the Second Advent was chased out into the wilderness and went through forty years of suffering and struggle, paying indemnity. He then came back up restoring step by step the original family of Adam lost at the beginning of history.
Father’s wilderness course was indemnifying four thousand years of lost history. During this 40-year period, Father paid indemnity and started building the ideal family on the family level, then came up to this level again [ referring to chart drawn on blackboard]. In the seven-year period from 1992 to 1999 Father is completing his indemnification of four thousand years of history. That is why Father is now blessing couples on the worldwide level. Of course, ideally the heavenly blessing should be received based on the tradition of the value of the blessing, but because of the failures of Korea, America and Christianity, the blessing is given out now as a token to people all over the world. If we think about the value of the blessing, it is supposed to be dealt with very inwardly and with internal value. But it is as if a royal family member is being finally cast out of the royal family and marrying a beggar on the street. This much devaluation of the blessing is occurring. But God still embraces both extremes. By being embraced and pushed forward by God, oneness can be made.
The Messiah Casts His Net Wide
The Pantanal is a place that can be described as a world of swallowing. Small fish are eaten by bigger fish and they in turn by bigger fish yet. Because there is very strict observance of the food chain, no fish can complain. The fish in the Pantanal did not have to go through the flood judgment at the time of Noah’s Ark, so they are the original ones.
There are some unspoken rules when it comes to fishing in the Pantanal. Whoever catches the first fish of the day should release that fish as an offering to God. Also, I do not eat the fish I catch. The Bible says that the water being sat on by the harlot is the secular world. Peter was a fisherman. Likewise, I am fishing for all humanity, trying to catch the smallest to the biggest fish. In places such as the Amazon or the Pantanal region you can find every type of God’s creation. There are so many different species of insect. On the water you can see a lot of floating plants, on top of which many insects are living. Small fish follow constantly underneath the plants so as to have a better chance to catch and eat the insects. The chain continues in this way.
When an alligator catches a big animal or fish such as a shark or a snake, the alligator first just makes sure that he swallows it. Of course birds and animals have fur, skin and bones and all kinds of dirty stuff, but they are just swallowed. There is no cleaning process. I came to understand then that God is the king of swallowing. It is like casting a net and catching everything. It does not matter whether small or large, dirty or clean, God is casting a net to swallow every-one, evil people, good people, and mediocre people. Like-wise, when I give the blessing to the world, as for example at the Madison Square Garden Blessing Ceremony, I cast my net out to the entire world. Whoever comes into the net, even if they may have been criminals or murderers, is swallowed. That is why two thousand years ago God gave the message through Jesus Christ to love one’s enemy. God’s representative can swallow everything from the individual to the cosmic level, including the cosmic Satan, without a problem. Can you do that? As long as you have such a swallowing spirit, even if you joined the Unification Church as the daughter of a president, and then even if I match you to the son of a street beggar you can swallow that, can’t you?
The Culminating Point
Wherever I go and whatever I do, there is always controversy surrounding me. In the beginning when I went to South America people were crying and shouting, saying, “Why did you come to Jardim? We don’t want you here.” But within, three years they have open arms and welcome me. After receiving my education, the people in that region came to understand my purpose in being there. Once South American countries become united, America will not be a problem; they can show America the way. Would you like that? Originally, as you know, South America is a Catholic continent, and was thus in the elder son oi: Cain position. 6ut centering on, True Parents, North America stands in the elder son’s position. Once South America is completely united with True Parents, therefore, that continent will be in the younger son’s position. Centering on the parents, when the younger brother unites with his parents, the elder brother will bow down. Once I turn through 180 degrees the positions can be switched. The elder son’s position can be restored. It is the parental position that determines who can become the elder son and who the younger son.
It took Father forty years to reestablish what was lost at the end of World War II from the individual level all the way to the world level. Now Father has reached this level again
[referring to the blackboard] and can fulfill what was supposed to be fulfilled at this point. Now I am giving family level education so that we can restore what was lost here. This is the culminating point. Because of the failure of the world at the end of World War II, the separation between God and True Parents is now culminating here at this point. God is guided into this point, and the universal messiah, national messiah, tribal messiah and family messiah are all culminating here together and we will have the 360 million couples blessing. The culminating point is the Ideal Family Education Center for World Peace in Jardim. All the heavenly essence is culminating there. There are no satanic forces or satanic walls there. However, not all the 360 million couples who received the blessing are fully ready yet to come here and meet God and True Parents.
The liberation of the cosmos and building of a world of peace take place based on this 4.4 Jeol. Father has given the first, second, third and fourth Jardim declarations, and this fifth declaration at Kodiak. We need to understand these different proclamations. What is the first proclamation? [Absolute faith, love and obedience.] This was not conjured up out of thin air and then became ours. Rather, this was the very concept God had originally, and which He gave to us.
Understand the Spiritual Reality
You must understand the value of this teaching. We have to cut off from the secular world’s concepts and ideologies they are not connected with eternity. All the couples in the spirit world who received the blessing have come down to the physical world and are working with us. They occupy the physical world. These spirit world couples coming down will confront their relatives who are opposing the ideal of the blessing and force them to receive it. Many times spiritual phenomena occur in contradictory ways. If someone is blocking the way he will be removed from the path. Spiritual phenomena will occur. Up until now, without their ancestors’ interference, people would not feel the difference, but now with their ancestors coming down and shaking them they will be unable to avoid feeling some kind of unease and urgency in their hearts. This time period is a very dangerous one. Who knows? Without intending to, you may end up being seduced by a beautiful woman and later die from AIDS.
Through the blessing you received an ideal spouse, but in your eyes she may be the ugliest person, and not ideal at all. So you run away and find someone in the secular world-someone you feel is ideal. But you do not understand that the spouse given by God and True Parents was not just given to you as an individual, but also on the level of your ancestors and descendants, and is the ideal one, the one who is like the offering table for your lineage-an altar of love, sanctified and dedicated. Do not forget that the concept of indemnity must be included in your marriage.
No matter who they are, if an ugly couple have absolute unity and a beautiful relationship of heart, when they go to the spiritual world they will appear as a young and very beautiful couple. One’s mind never ages. If one enjoys and feels happiness through one’s mind, one becomes younger and more beautiful. Dr. Lee testifies that there is no comparison between the most beautiful woman in this world who is not connected to God and the ugliest person who is close to God. External ugliness does not mean anything. So those who are not married should seek out the ugliest possible spouse! [Laughter.] I expected True Mother to be big and fat, but God gave me the most beautiful woman. As the Lord of the Second Advent, in a position to save even the lowliest person in the world, how could I say no if God had instructed me to marry even a very fat lady?
A spouse given by God is the ideal spouse. To me, True Mother is too good. This is a problem for me! Mother’s heart is so big I cannot measure it. [Father tells about how Mother gave away all his neckties to visiting leaders.]
Dr. Lee said that in the spirit world when husband and wife make love, everyone can observe them, but a mysterious celestial power comes down and covers them, enrapturing even those who are watching. You have not really believed my teaching about the spirit world. Dr. Lee was in the same situation. He was not totally sure, so he had a “wait and see” approach. When he realized everything I had taught him was true, he had a strong urge to share this reality with the members. Dr. Lee confessed out of shame that he had not believed my teaching 100 percent. So we must become serious. In the Completed Testament Age we must understand the spirit world first. We must be fully aware of the reality of the spirit world and keep marching straight forward.
Because of this teaching, Father was persecuted when he came to America. Do you think it was easy? [No.] The culmination point is here again because of the support from families in the spirit world. Now, centering on God and True Parents, national, tribal and family level messiahs all working together can now progress with God upward from the individual to the cosmic levels and restore the lost positions. That is the Kingdom of God. Because of this, I declared 4.4 Jeol this year. The Ideal Family Education center in Jardim is where heavenly education is offered to families so that they can receive a pass to heaven. That is why when the blessed couples come they should ideally come as a four position foundation-as a family. Unless you go through the process of ideal family education, you cannot receive a pass to heaven and will have nothing to do with True Parents when you enter the spirit world. So I am opening my arms and asking the 360 million couples to come and receive their education.
Cutting The Strings That Tie You
I know many of you are saying, “Well, I have my job, my children. Why can’t we do this at Belvedere?” The reason is that we have to go to the original point where we lost every-thing. We lost everything at the North Pole so we must go to the South Pole to restore everything. If the competition be-comes too strong, we may not be able to accommodate every-one in Jardim all at once.
Should you go as soon as possible or wait? [Go quickly!] You need to cut the strings that are attached to you and go. How do you cut them? You have to think that you must grab onto God and True Parents and glue yourself to them so that you never separate, like a small fly hanging on. You must continue holding on like that until the final destination. Even if you almost die from fatigue, you will still arrive there. You can make a quantum leap with True Parents. To cut off the indemnity strings and stick with True Parents you need an offering. This is the time we have to secure the pass that signifies total indemnity. What we need to make is a complete, living sacrificial offering: Chong saeng-chuk hun-nap chaemul. This offering will decide who is going to take ownership-God or Satan-and what level of ownership.
Without liberation there can be no unification or peace. We have entered the Completed Testament Age. This is the era to perfect the blessed couples. If not for the fall of man, a world of peace, unification and happiness would have come about. In this Completed Testament Age we received the blessing on the family level but must go one more step, the stage of peace, liberation and unification. This means we have to complete the Old Testament Age, New Testament Age and Completed Testament Age, and even this era of liberation, peace and unification. That is the significance of this offering.
In the Old Testament Age, the method of offering was to cut all things in half to divide God’s things from Satan’s. They always had to divide the offering into good and evil or God could not accept it. They offered all things on the altar-to prepare to receive the sons and daughters of God, the original Adam and Eve. On that foundation, when Jesus Christ came, Judaism, in the position of Abel, was meant to unite with Israel, in the position of Cain, in absolute faith and love, and receive Jesus. Then, as the foundation nation, they should have connected with the world. The original son and daughter position could have been restored. Due to their failure, however, Jesus in the position of king divided himself-into spirit world and physical world. Therefore Christianity does not have its own nation, and its history has been one of martyrdom and sacrifice.
Jesus Christ’s sacrifice prepared the road to receive the True Parents. So the Lord of the Second Advent came as True Parents at the end of World War II. Catholicism and Protestantism, representing Judaism and Christianity were supposed to receive him, but instead True Parents became the sacrifice for the liberation of God and the unification of the world. In order to open the era of unification and liberation, I had to walk the difficult periods of Old Testament era, New Testament era and Completed Testament era.
Many failures have attached themselves to humankind throughout history. To pass the sacrificial stage of offering we have to cut all the strings that are attached to us. Did Adam and Eve have possessions before they married? [No.] What about you? Before the blessing we also carried historical strings attached to us. These were our family, our home, our nation, the entire world and even hell. Isn’t that so?
[Yes.] So we had to cut them off and focus on achieving the goal of absolute ownership and absolute right of possession. The Old Testament era represents all things, the New Testament era represents the children and the Completed Testament era represents the husband and wife. We have to indemnify all these and place them on the altar of the Completed Testament era. Now we have to make our offering to God, not by killing and dividing, but by making a living offering of all things, our children and our spouse. That is what is considered a complete offering. If we do this, when we reach the level of becoming completely one with God, the absolute original owner, the blessing will come down upon us again and we will regain our belongings: husband and wife, children and all things belonging to us. This is the way to secure_ God’s blessing.
Make A Complete Offering
Originally, at the time of your blessing you were supposed to surrender everything: your family, your belongings, your wealth-whatever you had. But you could not do that. Now the time of liberation has come and it is God’s blessing and grace that blessed couples can go through this time period and receive the eternal blessing of God. When it comes to our possessions, our wealth, when we go through the point of transferring ownership we have to go down to the absolute zero level.
This kind of all-embracing education is now being given at the Jardim education center. You must go through this type of education and receive your diploma. You must restore 160 families. The leaders who come to the Pantanal to participate in fishing training are instructed to catch 160 fish, 40 each of 4 different species. This is because the fish were not judged at the time of Noah. By catching these fish, we can be connected to God’s sacrifice. We somehow have to align our offering with the number 160.
The gate of heaven is open. By setting up the needed condition now we can take our entire tribe and enter the Kingdom together. Restoration through indemnity will be completed. Amen! This is the completion of the history of restoration through indemnity. Amen. [Amen! Loud applause.]
Whatever library you go to, the congressional library or wherever, you will not find this kind of teaching. You will only find this truth in the library of Reverend Moon’s heart.
[Rev. Peter Kim prays:] Our most beloved Heavenly Father, and our loving True Parents, What a blessing and what a message we received this morning, Father. When we think of Your providence, Father, we always think we know enough to do our mission here. But when we sit in front of True Parents, as we are this morning, we are constantly reminded that we have turned our back against You so many times. We have been self-centered so many times, Father. Please help us to wake up out of this nightmare and to fulfill our responsibility, which is building the Kingdom of God here on earth along with our True Parents.
We must unite our mind and body first. We have been taught about this again this morning, Father. Please let us make absolute determination this morning in front of You, God, and our True Parents that we will make sure that our minds and bodies will be absolutely united from this moment on as we continue doing our mission in our daily lives, Father.
Please give Your abundant blessing and abundant guidance to our True Parents, Father. They are always standing on the front line where no one knows what they are doing, and no one knows how difficult it is, but they do not back off from this challenge. They persistently continue marching forward, leading and embracing all humanity.
Father, please let us fully understand the significance of the Ideal Family Education program going on at the Jardim training center. Although we have not all participated in this training yet, Father, we will prepare to participate so that we can secure the ticket and pass to enter the Kingdom of God together with our children and all things surrounding us.
Father, thank you very much for giving us such a blessing and such an opportunity in our lifetime here again. We pray all of these things in the names of our True Parents, amen.
[Editor’s note: In this speech, and in many others, Father uses the Korean word chuin to indicate the position of an owner. The Korean word is broader in meaning than the concept of ownership in Western cultures. In family relations it denotes a level of heart and responsibility beyond mere ownership as we generally under-stand it in English. It is rooted in the relationship of love between God and humankind in which God is our Parent and Creator and we are His children and His creation.]