Excerpts from Father’s speech at “The Second Anniversary of the Coronation Ceremony for the Kingship of God” held on January 13, 2003 at Cheonseong Wanglim Palace, Korea
God formed the ideal of creation centering on absolute love, absolute life and absolute obedience. Centering on these three standards of God’s inner nature, and centering on absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal love, we should be able to connect to individuals, families, tribes, nations and the entire universe and become the owners who can love and embrace the entire universe. How much should we invest to realize that? What is the standard of absolute faith? By nature people want to be owners in the most humble as well as in the highest places. To be owners, the most important element is love. Love, true love, is the most precious thing in the entire world of creation….
God’s salvation can be complete as soon as He saves one couple of original people like Adam and Eve. Wouldn’t that do it? Although God knew that, He hasn’t been able to do it. Everything was taken away from Him. Satan must serve God and Adam as his masters just as he used to do before the fall. He must find his place by serving Adam as his owner with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. He must beg for forgiveness for having caused the sorrow and pain of the fall.
He must crawl on his belly to pass through three stages, passing through the barriers. After passing through three stages, he might end up stretched out in a ditch. If this happened, someone might kick him and ask, “Is he dead or alive?” Satan would be weak with hunger and dehydration. If we were to leave him, he would die. In that situation, if God had a heart of love He could forget Satan’s past sins. Without having done something that would make God forget one’s past sins, there would never, in all eternity, be any way for anyone to be forgiven; there would be no way to bring salvation. Therefore, in the providence of salvation God told us, “Love your enemies.” To what degree? Although Satan took the queen-to-be of the eternal heavenly nation and her husband, who were to be God’s object partners, and destroyed their entire family, the nation and the creation, if he repents and comes back to God, crawling on his belly and asking for God’s forgiveness, while gasping for breath, God can then love him. God doesn’t want anything to perish. As God has a deep heart of compassion, He can forget about the fall, and restoration can begin from that point….
We will celebrate Mother’s Hwoegap (see explanation on page 24); Mother will turn sixty-one [by the Korean way of counting age]. I wanted to raise her without having her go through any difficulties. Do you think it was easy or difficult for me to raise Mother, who was a mere child, and to make her obey me absolutely, so that I could entrust her with heaven and earth? Do you think Mother has her own view of what the Messiah should be like? Do you know? Mother knows the essence of what an individual and an owner of a family and of a nation should be like from my teachings, because she is wise. Do you think she memorizes the content of the numerous points in my teachings? If she didn’t, she would be foolish. But Mother is wise. When I tell her one thing, she understands two things….
God Himself must testify as to who the Savior, the Messiah, the Lord of the Second Coming and True Parent is. Why? Because I held the Coronation Ceremony of God’s Kingship. It was one of the most important things I have done. Do you know how enormously significant it was?
What did we do after that? We held campaigns for the Realm of Life of the Unity and Completed Settlement of the Parents of Heaven and Earth. What was that? Not only did God completely settle, but, in turn, we also can create the basis for living with God, and pass down that tradition to our sons and daughters just as God and True Parents have. What did we call the events for the Completed Settlement of the Parents of Heaven and Earth? They were the Realm of Life rallies. What came next? The Rally for the Harmony and Unity of Heaven and Earth. What was it for? It was to create one world by harmonizing both heaven and earth. In the evening of the day, we held The Holy Burning Ceremony for the Peace, Unity and Liberation of Heaven and Earth. Through burning something of value we were to achieve the position of having gone over the summit.
After having passed the summit, we came to the Age of Equalization of the Peace and Unity of the Parents of Heaven and Earth. The spirit world and the physical world came to be equal. The horizontal lines, all the individual strands, are converging together with the world. It is the age of everyone becoming one. If you follow me, you can definitely realize the perfection of individuals, families, tribes, nations, the world and the cosmos–not only on earth but also in the spirit world–because the spirit world also wants to introduce saints, sages and God to us to completely balance with the physical world in the relationship of subject and object. So I matched and blessed saints and murderers. Do you think God would ask me to marry saints to murderers? Would God ask me to do such a thing or not? He would never say such a thing.
I know all of that. If God could have told people about the fall at anytime in history, He would have done so long ago. God could not treat me in any special way. Although God didn’t teach people directly, in order to recover those who are spiritually dead, and to unite his children, He has to save people centering on those who are already saved–those who are Abel. That’s why you Unification Church members must sacrifice yourselves for your enemies. In that way, you can return to the original position. Because of this, passing through the first, second and third stages, everyone can be connected to each other at the same place based on the blessing, even saints and murderers. If I told you everything, it would be too long a story. The founders of the five great religions in the spirit world held seminars and pledged to follow me. They didn’t just create a written resolution. They made a pledge and declaration. Everyone including God prompted them to do so.
So God sent me a letter. After I received the letter, I greeted God: “Your son has come.” When I told God that I had come with victorious supremacy, with the authority of His son and with all the privileges to liberate Him, who had lost that supremacy, He ran to me, covering ten thousand steps from His throne of imprisonment in one second. Who do you think cried first? Did God or did I? Only when God, standing in front of me, cries for me, receives me by acknowledging my hard work, and brings me to sit on our [True Parents’] throne, can restoration be achieved. You must know this.
That’s when I can be acknowledged as the Savior, Messiah and the Lord of the Second Coming for the world and the captain of heaven and earth together, based on the authority of True Parents. I must serve God in the palace of the house of Yahweh by building the nation of God’s hometown. I must build the palace for God’s throne in the physical world as well as in the spirit world. Therefore, even if I have to sacrifice the people of Cheon Il Guk, I must build a palace tens of times more beautiful and brilliant than that of any kingdom in the satanic world. When I know what my responsibility is, would I feel a sense of urgency or complacency? What do you think? I pour all my heart toward my responsibility. There are many people here. How good would I feel if all of you were true, loyal subjects, saints and holy people? With blood and tears, I must educate you again. Otherwise, you’ll never move. The Ambassadors for Peace here would have felt disappointed if I hadn’t shown up today, wouldn’t you? People must listen to me to substantiate the reunification of Korea. If they did, a clear change would be seen within forty days. But they aren’t listening and that’s a problem. When you read my speeches, have you ever felt that you could unify the whole world or that you could rise in the world by applying the things I’ve said to you? Have you ever felt excited over that? Those who are ignorant never feel that, but those who know it, when they read my speeches, feel the excitement of having treasures that they couldn’t have had even if they had had ten thousand lives. They lose track of time trying to memorize the things I say, even doing so under their blankets at night. Do you know what kind of suffering I went through to discover the things I’ve told you?…
What does the writing say? It says, “House of Families for the Peace and Unity of Cheon Il Guk.” The word, “dang” [one word in the Korean name] does not mean “party” here, but “house.” Now we should be parents who can teach the government and opposition parties, so that South Korea can make a foundation to embrace and digest North Korea….
You must create hoondok clubs. Don’t you have mountain hiking clubs and all kinds of other clubs? You have tried to satisfy yourselves, but now you should try to fulfill your duties as children of filial piety, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters of God. You must be elder brothers and sisters who can be of benefit to the world by being saints, patriots and holy people for God. That’s how our nation can be the center of the liberation of God’s homeland and the leading nation of the world….
True Parents must find a nation. Everything fell apart because of an improper marriage; we must find true people with the heart of devoted children and patriots who can be registered before God. After that, we must unify the religions. Then, we must have Jesus, who was chased away from villages in the first Israel, become the owner of the heavenly nation. We must digest the first, second and third Israels. We must unify them all.
Since we don’t have that foundation, I have let down the barriers between the physical world and the spirit world and have broken down borderlines surrounding paradise and hell. Now, I have opened the way to bring monstrous people to heaven. They hadn’t been able to get near the threshold. Now nobody goes through the gate without my approval. That’s what’s happening. Do you think I’m lying? It may sound like a lie, but it’s not. Those who can believe the unbelievable and put it into practice absolutely will be protected by heaven….
Your families are the owners. When you recite the family pledge, you say that you are the owners of Cheon Il Guk. Aren’t your families pledging to lead the world in the right direction? What is the motto this year? It is “Let our family perfect a true family of filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters in Cheon Il Guk, through true love.”
What does that mean? You should be the kind of people who can realize a substantial world without injustice. Then the reign of peace will continue forever and ever and be respected in every household, in every village and in every province. You should have people be taught the way of unification and reveal everything about the equalized and unified families of Cheon Il Guk. These are the blessed families. You should inherit the tradition of the parent from me. Don’t you feel awkward to have the responsibility and authority of Ambassadors for Peace and to be called the owners of Cheon Il Guk? I was afraid that I would not be able to use such a phrase. I can’t die until I see the nation. Shouldn’t I die in the position of an owner? You can be a child of filial piety through becoming an owner in a family, a patriot by becoming an owner of a nation, a saint by becoming an owner of the world and a divine son or daughter by becoming an owner of heaven and earth. When you receive the blessing as an owner of heaven and earth, you can inherit heaven and earth.
The traditional view of life must not be lost. It must be realized and I must leave something behind. No one knows when I’ll go. My own sons and daughters are suffering in the spirit world on my behalf. Although they don’t know anything, they just follow my commands and testify about me in the spirit world. I’ll sort it all out there all at once. The cries of spirits in hell won’t be heard any more once I go there. God is capable of building a heavenly kingdom tens of times better than the one He was going to build at the time of the creation of Adam and Eve, were a perfected Adam to ask God to do so. Do you understand what I mean? God can pave highways from the solar system to the end of this great cosmos and to the end of the spirit world. One can fly around the entire universe in one second. Love is the fastest thing of all.
What Ambassadors for Peace must do is to follow the way of patriots. As long as they do so, their nations won’t perish.
Among upper, middle and lower, the most important part is the middle. Upper, middle and lower must be vertical. All three ages must stand vertically. With upper, middle and lower; left, middle and right; and front, middle and back; the middle is the center of all these. That’s why now is an important time. Do you understand?
Because True Parents are the Saviors, we must save the world. We must save nations. Because we are the Messiahs, we must unify religions. Because we are the Lords of the Second Coming, we must unify the world even if we are chased away for doing so. We must resolve all the problems false parents created. We must straighten out all the problems that have accumulated for tens of thousands of years in one generation. If we don’t do that, there can be no True Parents…
Because I have paved the unified highway of the liberated heavenly kingdom on earth through God’s coronation ceremony, it is your responsibility to build the ground on which I can settle. The nation of True Parents must be realized. Don’t you think so? If you don’t, you might as well die. Don’t ever think that you deserve good treatment without having accomplished this.
I’ve given up material possessions and my own sons and daughters. In the Old Testament Age, material possessions were sacrificed. In the New Testament Age, the Son was sacrificed. In the Completed Testament Age, Parents have to be sacrificed. Yet, I did not perish. My children were taken away by Satan, and my possessions were given up, but Satan can’t invade me. Centering on my sons and daughters, things will be restored.
If a former convict became the president of the United States, he could enter the White House. Once he pays indemnity by doing his time, he could become president. That’s the way you should think.
How can you be forgiven without having made the proper conditions? Without your parents’ permission, and despite strong opposition from your parents, relatives and neighbors, I have put you through hardships. However, when the time comes, you will walk the path of devoted children and be peacemakers in your communities beyond the national and world levels. You’ll be able to complete the liberation of all peoples, the liberation of God and the liberation of the heavenly kingdom on earth and in heaven! Amen! There will be cheers of mansei.
You should remember that. You should fulfill your responsibility as the archangel, as the mediator, to find your own nation. You must fulfill your church responsibilities. I’ve paved the way for you.