For the victory celebration at the conclusion of the American leg of the World Speaking Tour, Father invited leaders and members to East Garden immediately following Mother’s speech in Secaucus, New Jersey (just across the Hudson river from New York City) on April 11, 1999. True Parents cut a congratulatory cake, and testimonies were heard from those who had played central roles in the success. Father himself spoke, and further developed the themes of that morning’s speech.
Blessed couples are now being educated at the international educational headquarters in Jardim so as to qualify to enter the Kingdom as a family unit, not just as individuals. As you know, Korea and Japan used to be called the Adam and Eve nations but I re-positioned them as the father nation and the mother nation. On April 19 last year, prior to the Madison Square Garden blessing, True Parents invited all the good Christian ancestors from America and all Christianity to receive the blessing and to work with their Christian descendants in this country. Thus on June 13, 1998, we gave the blessing to hundreds of millions of people in the spirit world including, as you know, more than thirty important providential figures-good as well as evil. I assigned them to come down and work with their descendants in this physical world, centering on True Parents.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORLD SPEAKING TOUR
Upon this foundation, America, which has been like a black sheep nation for many years because of its failure to welcome the Lord of the Second Advent at the end of World War II, could finally be blessed as the elder son nation. Although Korea, Japan and America all failed from the standpoint of the providence, upon the victory of the 360 Million Couples Blessing that took place in Korea this year, True Parents could finally bring a new level of blessing to all humankind. That is why we initiated this 80-city global speaking tour.
I spoke in eight cities in Korea, and on that successful foundation, Mother went to Japan where she spoke in sixteen cities, wining victory after victory. Upon this victorious foundation of the father and mother nations, Mother then came here to America where she has now completed a 24-city nationwide speaking tour. This means a new level of blessing for humankind.
The significance of this 80-city speaking tour Mother is now undertaking is that all the failure of the Adam nation of Korea, the Eve nation of Japan, and of America and Christianity has been indemnified by True Parents’ victory initiated and won by True Father in the father nation and True Mother in the mother nation. True Mother then brought this victorious foundation to the elder-son nation. According to the Principle, mother and son should completely unite and then go together to the father and unite with him. Mother won the 16 city victory in Japan and 24-city victory in America, a total of 40 victories in 40 cities. Through this success, as the True Parents of all humankind, Mother and I have now established a new starting ground to restore and liberate all humanity. That is why together with True Parents, you in America, the people of the Elder-son nation, have to reach all the Cain and Abel nations of the world centering on Christianity and save them.
Upon this victorious foundation, as you remember from this morning’s service at Belvedere, I declared “The Completed Testament Age and the Completion of the Kingdom of God in Heaven and on Earth.” This proclamation was made to all humanity. I explained that the meaning of the Completed Testament Age is the perfection of married life. Accordingly, I have already given the blessing to people in the spirit world.
THE BLESSING IS UNITING HEAVEN AND EARTH
There are three different categories of blessed couples, reflected in how the 36 Couples are categorized. The first group are Adam-type-those who received the blessing from God and True Parents as already married couples. The second group are Noah-type blessed couples, or Jesus-type from the world viewpoint. These are couples who had in some way experienced married life prior to the blessing-perhaps just a contract for marriage, or who had lived together. The third group we call Jacob-type blessed couples who are those receiving the blessing as single, virgin young men and women. These three types of couples have expanded from the 36 Couples and are being brought together now in both the spiritual world and the physical world.
This year we must secure our goal of 400 million couples. But even prior to completing this goal I have already directed that at Chung Pyung the blessing should be given to all the young men and women waiting in the spirit world. Can you imagine how many billions of children and even infants have passed into the spirit world since the beginning of human history?
Through this, we will finally be able to liberate God, because since the beginning of history God has been, in a way, confined in a cell. No one has ever understood this. We must make sure that with the 1.6 billion couples from the spirit world we accomplish our goal of securing 400 million couples for blessing by February of next year. Then the physical world and the spiritual world will become one. There will be no difference, no separation.
As you know, these blessings known as the spirit world and physical world blessings are now taking place regularly. Through this we will be able to inherit God’s vertical lineage-by utilizing these couples in the physical world and spirit world. That way God will be able to move back and forth between the spirit world and the physical world. In addition, those blessed partners in the spirit world will be able to move freely between the spiritual and physical worlds, so that they become one world.
The time has come in which once we reach that goal, even without setting indemnity conditions, and we will be able to push all humanity in the direction of God and True Parents’ desire–the restoration of all humankind. In other words, every single soul should be able to receive the blessing from True Parents.
The question is what degree of determination we have. We have to make sure that we go forward with the determination of absolute faith, love and obedience. That is the key.
Had there been no fall, Adam and Eve could have been in the position to give directions to the archangels. If the archangels did not listen to them, Adam and Eve would have had the authority to punish them immediately. If Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden had become one with God through their love relationship with Him and through God’s lineage, they would not have needed to possess anything, but at the same time all things would have become their possessions. One thing we must remember eternally is that the most precious thing we can possess or own is true love and the true lineage from God and True Parents. As long as we have this, there is nothing we should be envious of or desire, because this is what can solve all our problems, give us complete satisfaction and provide us with whatever we need. Because Adam and Eve lost this, we should not pursue material wealth or possessions in our daily life here. Everything should be given back to God, even every penny.
In the position of world-level messiah True Parents have already sent out national messiahs, tribal messiahs and family messiahs. All these different level messiahs should be totally united with True Parents, the world-level messiah, and follow them. It will be like a movement of these messiah families.
The time is coming when True Mother will have to focus on restoring our spiritual fatherland. By then, Mother may say to all blessed couples worldwide that it is time to actually start registering in the Heavenly Kingdom’s registry. It may mean you would need to sell your property to go there, register your family and also help in the restoration of the homeland.
As a blessed couple and family you go to Jardim and participate in the educational program our True Parents are offering there, make a conditional and symbolic offering and also receive the proper education to be qualified as a family with citizenship in the Kingdom of God. Registration begins at that place.
I may invite all the blessed couples to pack whatever they have, sell whatever they own and move, perhaps to Korea. Then everyone could come and work together for the reunification of Korea, and once unification takes place, we will for the first time be able to claim that we have our own homeland. The entire world will eventually follow our footsteps and such a national-level foundation can be expanded to the worldwide level. Then all humankind can be restored.
So again, the providential countries such as Korea, Japan and America all failed. But if I abandon this way, eventually all humankind will perish. Therefore, with their total authority True Parents have rebuilt the foundation for Korea, Japan and America. Now True Mother will take this out to the entire world, laying a brand new foundation. This is the significance of True Parents’ worldwide speaking tour.
God never ordered me to give the blessing to all the murderers and evil people in the spirit world. But in accordance with the Principle, in order to save this satanic world, isn’t it the right way? Therefore, I must give them the blessing. I have to liberate them. This is how I could open the gates of hell.
I have given permission to Daemonim at Chung Pyung to allow couples who have received the spiritual-physical world blessing to have their three-day ceremony. Although one of the spouses is in the spiritual world and the other on earth, they must still participate in the three-day ceremony.
There could be enemies of the Unification Church and of mine in the spirit world, but I have given a blanket pardon to all those people. They could therefore receive the blessing with their spouse still alive in this physical world, and can now also have their three-day ceremony. I have opened the gate for every level of the spirit world. The saints and sages as well as the evil people in the spirit world are permitted to receive the blessing, and then later also to have their three-day ceremony. Because of this foundation, all those who went to the spirit world and who are over sixteen years of age are also now able to receive the blessing. A providential revolution is taking place.
So again, there should be no single soul either in the physical world or the spirit world who does not receive the blessing. True Parents have paid the indemnity to restore the ground upon which all the people who have passed into the spirit world since Adam and Eve’s fall can now receive new life, and receive the blessing. It is like the building of a superhighway for every human being to enter the Kingdom of God. This is the foundation True Parents have laid.
THE KINGDOM WILL NOW BE BUILT
God has almighty power in His hands again, from the very smallest level to the cosmic level. He can do whatever He wants with no resistance and no accusation. What is happening now is “the cosmic expansion of the true blessing and the rooting out of Satan’s lineage.” In this way, by the year 2000 when I reach the age of eighty, all blessed families in this world should be ready to enter the Kingdom. Satan must be cast out from both the physical world and the spiritual world.
Just as the Israelites made an exodus from Egypt at the time of Moses, now all the blessed couples in the world have to be united with True Parents and follow them to Canaan to build the Kingdom. Just as the Israelites had to follow Moses, by the same token the Unification Church blessed couples must be ready to follow True Parents who will lead us. You have to establish the right condition, however. If necessary, you might need to sell everything and carry whatever wealth you have with you so you can build the new Canaan together with True Parents. If the time comes, you may want to carry just one backpack.
After the Israelites who followed Moses tasted life in the wilderness, many of them remembered the easier life they had enjoyed in Egypt. Some wanted to go back. But what happened? They all failed.
As blessed couples and tribal messiahs you should be able to mobilize your tribal families and go together with them. Then the entire world can be turned around immediately. The ideal is for all the people in the world do this, so that all that belonged to God to begin with can be returned to God centered on True Parents and can be distributed fairly to all the blessed couples and families in the world. That will be the beginning of life in the Kingdom of God.
That is why one title of True Parents’ speech this time is “The Textbook Inherited from True Parents for Our Eternal Life.” It means if you study these words and follow them, the entire spirit world will be mobilized and the resurrection of Adam’s original family will take place in your lifetime. In other words, the entire world can be united and restored, from the individual to the cosmic level. If anyone objects and refuses, they will be left out. When the time comes that you are to enter the Kingdom of God, it should be together with your entire tribe. I have given you blessing as family messiahs, tribal messiahs and national messiahs. You must there-fore make sure that you restore your tribe so that you can all enter together into the Kingdom. Do you understand?
Please remember that the significance of this 80-city tour being carried out by True Parents is a condition on the basis of which, once successfully completed, they can actually start building the Kingdom of God. It will become the era of God’s jeonchae, jeanban, jeonneung and jeonkwon. We have to work with and inspire Christianity.
Do you understand what kind of providential time we are living in now? We should not just focus on our own individual life or family life. We have to make sure that our focus is always on the cosmic level and on what God is planning to do in this particular time. This is the time that God wants to build the Kingdom of God here on the surface of the planet Earth.
Up until now you may have taken it easy in response to instructions that came. But from now on you have to take them seriously. You American blessed couples-and all other blessed couples in the world-should therefore hurry to Jardim for the 40-day education so that you can be qualified to enter the Kingdom and also have your family photo taken with True Parents _ This is my direction. It does not matter who says something to the contrary-even the president of the church in America, or regional or state leaders-just fol-low my direction to go through this 40-day workshop. If a father cannot go, then the mother should go with the son in the father’s position. We must do this; the sooner the better. That is the step you have to take in order to register.
We have to know that liberation is taking place now in both the spirit world and the physical world. This realm of liberation is the realm of God’s love. This is the time that God can use His total authority for whatever purpose He chooses.