Third 7.8 Jeol
Father speech on August 17, 1999 (July 7 by the lunar calendar) in Kodiak, Alaska
Beloved Father! Today is the August 17, 1999, and this morning, we celebrate the day that commemorates the 3rd celebration of 7.8 Jeol. In order to restore this world You have had to repeat providential history through many ages. And throughout that time, the center that had to be set up was the perfected family of Adam as parents of heaven and earth, able to wholeheartedly represent the family of love before, during, and after the creation, and with whom God and children on earth can find settlement. We know that it has been Your hope to bless this family, Father.
Because the fallen descendants did not know about Your suffering, in place of humankind You Yourself have had to carry the incredible and destined mission of going over the heavenly elder-sonship, parentship, and kingship, and had to lay the foundation of the True Parents to succeed Your course; we deeply repent and regret for Your toils while at the same time feeling boundless gratitude.
We also give You heartfelt gratitude for granting the religious sphere of the True Parents, where the flag of victory was raised after going beyond the numerous chosen religions and overcoming the peak of tribulation. Centering on the True Parents, in order to unite heaven and earth, You have focused on the cultural sphere of Christianity, which has been fighting as Cain and Abel, and You wanted to see the unification of the victorious spiritual foundation of Christianity and physical foundation of the nations of the world upon the advent of the Third Adam.
As the Catholics and Protestants failed to unite as brothers, with the Holy Spirit and the True Mother as the substantial incarnation of the true Holy Spirit, it was Your Will to initiate a new heaven and earth and establish the ideal realm of love through the parents on earth. Although You desire to bring the spiritual and physical worlds together, You are not free to realize Your wishes. Hence, You have established a son to accomplish that task and raise the flag of victory, and after this to hand the victory over to You so that You can perform a parade of cosmic sovereignty and sovereignty of love through all of heaven and earth.
Centering on the relationship of heart between husband and wife and parent and child, and centering on the perfected family that unites heaven and earth, You wanted to initiate the heavenly kingdom in heaven and earth. Centering on the True Parents who pursued the sorrow-stricken course of the Messiah, You desired to unite all of humankind under the lineage of the True Parents and establish the foundation of the chosen people so as to order and re-organize the satanic world.
This will has not been fulfilled even after fifty years, however, and You have had to keep prolonging it until now. How much pain You must have felt in Your heart as You searched the way alone! You desired that Your true son on earth unite Your internal heartistic world and the external world, manifested as the spiritual and physical worlds. You wanted to establish the unity of mind and body throughout the nation and world, and bless and build a substantial foundation on top of the spiritual foundation instead of working through the cultural realm of Christianity.
Because this Will has not been fulfilled, however, the spiritual and physical worlds failed to unite, and as a result the future of both worlds became blocked. But You created channels through which the water drops trickling down the mountain could reach the valley streams, and the streams reach the ocean, joining together as one great sea of true love. In order to create the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven and on earth, You had to pass through a history of hardships, suffering and blood, and You know that the True Parents feel ashamed about this. Heavenly Father! You are the king of kings presiding over heaven and earth. You are the very center of love, the parent of all humankind, the teacher, and the owner of the kingship of love. As You have been following Your lost child, You had to go through such a suffering course without being able to make it known. But You willingly persevered and in order to go beyond this You established on this earth the 7.8 Jeol. For this we sincerely thank You.
We thank You that on July 7, 1997, True Parents` 77th birthday, and on the exact hour, minute, and second, the 7.8 Jeol could be declared, on which basis everything blocking God on this earth can be pushed aside, and the foundation of grace and unification transcending time and space that can split the curtain of darkness with love can spread on this earth.
Father! Your heart has been full of sorrow, but You can now face Satan and with Your dignified march towards heaven and earth is inevitable in this age. In the year of Adam`s becoming eighty years of age, and in the last of the four specially declared years, a new realm of liberation and victory can be reached through the perfection of the True Parents, of parents in heaven, and of parents on earth, and with the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven and on earth. Before Your Will to establish a sovereignty of love, glory, victory, and praise, we can pledge each day to fulfill the responsibility of the solemn summons, and we are truly grateful for this liberation. As we return all glory to You, please grant the day when Satan`s entire authority is overthrown, and everything can be offered to You.
Father! You have declared many celebration days after liberating all lost things, children, family, nation, world, the entire cosmos and even Your realm of liberation.
I know that these days of declaration are not going to be buried, but they will become a base that lets Your realm of heart shine greater and higher than the bright sun and everything else in the heavenly realm. In order to lay the foundation of love You have made many declarations.
In that way You proclaimed the 7.8 Jeol, which has established that one great hill has been overcome, and Satan can never undermine or erase these declaration days. But on the occasion of the True Parents` having attained seventy-seven years of age, and on the exact second, minute, hour, day, month, and year, we went over the satanic hill of number fourteen through completing human responsibility, and shattered Satan`s blockage based upon the limitation of number fourteen, which represents the top of the growth stage, whereupon You declared a day of free settlement and rest of the parents of heaven and earth. This child of Yours declared this day because I know that this is a day of historic commemoration and day when we can praise to the depth of our bone marrow the liberation of all humankind.
Since that day there was a three-year course in which everything on earth and in heaven had to be re-organized. During that urgent time the declaration and celebration ceremony for the cosmic victory of parents of heaven and earth could be held. On the 27th of last month, for the sake of all religions, I declared the original holy ground, root holy ground, and victory holy ground so that we can return to the original land of freedom. By following the vertical line of the eight steps and by climbing up the eight-step bridge shown by the True Parents, we can stand in front of God of liberation. The level foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven and earthly foundation will become one, and we give gratitude to You for allowing this cosmic liberation to take place so that the great victory of the Parents of Heaven and Earth can be declared on a cosmic level.
Starting from that, in June, July and August, You gave Your approval for blessing the entire spiritual world. You even blessed spirits who had gone to the spiritual world as children and they held the three-day ceremony. Because of this special grace, there is now an express highway of blessing reaching from hell to heaven, and we are deeply grateful to You for this. Now we are going over the final peak of the entire physical and spiritual world in order that all the tribes on earth accomplishing a tradition of love and representing the families of Adam, Noah and Jacob may eradicate the satanic lineage and establish the authority of Heaven through the connection of the True Parents’ blessing. With the victory represented by the 400 million established blessed families, the beginning of this connection, the decisive initiation of the blessing of 400 million youths under God’s blessing will completely cut Satan’s lineage. By fighting through the final wall centering on this year’s motto “The Cosmic Expansion of the True Blessing and Rooting Out of Satan’s Blood Lineage,” a foundation of great leaps can be laid. The task is right in front of us around the time of my becoming eighty years of age.
Today, when we can raise the flag of victory throughout the whole nation representing the entire ceremony of blessing, we celebrate the 7.8 Jeol on a foundation representing Russia and Canada in the northern part of Kodiak. Korean, Japanese and American members will become one with the True Parents in the center, and these three nations will unite as one nation in heart, rising as the center of all nations and establishing this authority from the bottom of hell to the top of the heaven. We sincerely thank You that all the declaration days including the 7.8 Jeol can be declared this time in God`s name, in True Parents’ name, and in the substantial realm of God established by the True Parents on earth.
Upon the declaration of this day, the freedom and victory have been returned to You whereby the march of Your all-transcendence, all-immanence, all-sovereignty and all-capability can commence in heaven and earth. Hence, from now on please take dominion over the entire universe and, instead of standing in the sorrowful position of being pushed around and chased after, embrace the entire world on the foundation of families that reside under the sovereignty of victory and love. We thank You that You have allowed this declaration to mark the day to regain the unification of heaven and earth, the sovereignty of love, the liberation of the entire cosmos, God, parents, and the authority of glory and victory.
Together with the 3.7 Jeol, we ask You to allow that the liberation of Your all-transcendence, all-immanence, all-sovereignty and all-capability be declared in heaven and earth in Jehovah’s name and that all be accomplished as You have allowed. I report the True Parents’ accomplishments while offering everything to You on this day. I pray all this in the name of the True Parents. Amen. Amen. Amen.