True Father’s speech at the Banquet for the Cheon Jeong Gung Museum Opening Ceremony on June 13, which he had aslo given on June 1, 2006 at the Rally of the Federation of the Unified Clans to Save the Homeland of Universal Peace
Distinguished representative leaders of the Association of Unified Korean Clans; ladies and gentlemen: Thank you for honoring us with your presence today. With the powerful proclamation of the new millennium still ringing in our ears, this day marks the beginning of the second year since the declaration of the opening of the revolutionary time after the coming of heaven. This declaration instilled a promise of new hope for a new future in the hearts of the 6.5 billion people of the world. The hectic period of the construction of God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk, when a day feels like a thousand years and a thousand years feels like a day, is continuing.
As we usher in this precious and providentially significant time, I would like to take this opportunity to convey to you a special message from Heaven regarding your mission in light of God’s calling to Koreans and your standing as leaders representing the Associatioin of Unified Korean Clans. The mission of the clan messiah in the revolutionary time after the coming of heaven is the topic of my speech today.
The hope of humanity
Ladies and gentlemen, if there were a dream common to all people regardless of their sex, age, time or place, what would it be? One and all have long yearned and waited for the realization of the ideal of world peace. However, everlasting peace in which Heaven could take delight has never once been achieved in human history. That this has been a constant is the source of our historical sorrow and anguish.
What went wrong? What brought about such a reality? Humankind descended into ignorance of the objective God had for His creation. Perfection cannot be found in ignorance, even if one waits for ten thousand years.
How did human beings, created as the children of the omnipotent and omnipresent God, come to descend into such a state of total ignorance? The first ancestors, Adam and Eve, followed the false parent, Satan, along the path of the Fall. Indeed, this is the first tragedy and the most mortifying and lamentable shame in human history.
God cannot forsake human beings. They were created as His children and absolute counterparts in true love within His grand ideal of creation. Thus, He has borne the long years of history with a heart full of bitter pain and anguished grief. He is the eternal true parent of humanity who has persevered through a situation of imprisonment in the shadows of history. No one has known this reality.
Limitations of human effort alone in pursuing peace
Throughout history, humankind has continually inched toward peace on the basis of human effort. The confrontation between democracy and communism is a prime example of this. The core difference between the two is the extent to which individual rights and freedoms are recognized and ensured. Communism and democracy are like children who lost their parents. The two divided into the positions of Cain and Abel respectively and were entrapped in the fetters of fraternal conflict.
Human beings without exception are the children of Satan, born inheriting Satan’s lineage. Consider yourself for a moment. In every moment and every affair of daily life, good and evil are fighting within you to gain the upper hand, aren’t they? Peace movements have always encountered limitations and failure throughout history, because they are carried out by imperfect human beings. This is the reason that the United Nations (UN), launched with a splendid dream of realizing world peace, today has to confront its innate limitations and confess that it can no longer give hope to humanity. Simply put, the UN was launched during the era prior to the time in which Heaven could be directly involved with the unfolding of history in God’s providence.
Ladies and gentlemen, by virtue of Reverend Moon’s devotion of eighty some years of his life to the path of Heaven, the times have changed. On this foundation of victory, the revolutionary time after the coming of heaven has been proclaimed. We are now living in the age of heavenly fortune, wherein all people can be liberated and delivered from the quagmire of sin. It is the era in which the world of freedom and happiness, the ideal world as originally intended at the time of the Creation, can be established.
There are several clear reasons why Heaven designated the person standing before you, Reverend Moon, as the True Parent of humankind and thereby opened up a new era. First, it was on the foundation of my having successfully put a lifestyle of living for the sake of others into practice. That is, I applied the values of a life of true love, emerged triumphant, and imputed that triumph to humanity. All human beings are born to live for the sake of others. However, because of ignorance resulting from the Fall, people practice the complete opposite, selfish individualism. I have revealed this secret of Heaven and imparted that knowledge to humankind for the first time in history. God is more than aware of the path my life has taken, through thick and thin.
Second, I have dedicated my life to overcoming all obstacles and laying a foundation of victory. Through the education provided by the actual practice of true love, I have fulfilled all conditions necessary for the recovery and establishment of a parent–child relationship between God and humankind. I have opened the way for human beings, who became the children of Satan, the adulterer and enemy of love—and who have lived as slaves of false love, false life and false lineage—to be reborn into the true lineage of God, the source of true love. In other words, I have opened wide the path for people to reach full spiritual maturity as individuals and the path to the establishment of true families, true clans, true peoples, true nations, and a true world, through lives of true love.
What human beings are to inherit
Ladies and gentlemen, as we make our way in the world, we find that many connections and relationships inevitably influence our lives. Most of these connections come about through our own choices, of our own accord even while they are formed of necessity due to the environment or the conditions in which we find ourselves. These connections are human-based relationships that can be changed or erased whenever we like through human effort.
On the other hand, heavenly relationships bequeathed to us from the moment of birth by God lie outside the realm of choice since they are connections of blood. Even though you may dislike your parents or siblings, for example, you cannot change them by choice or vote them out of office, because they are connected to you through ties of blood. Once you are born into the family with the surname Kim, you have to live forever as part of the lineage of the Kim family.
What is the reason humankind has still yet to escape from the snare of sin? It is because people are born inheriting the false lineage of Satan from the outset. However, this is not an innate, principle-based blood connection bestowed by Heaven in accordance with the providential will and purpose, but an acquired relationship going against the principle. It was brought about by human error.
In other words, though we have been reduced to the position of orphans who have lost their parents through the Fall, the fundamental parent–child relationship endowed by Heaven remains intact. Human beings have become ignorant beings in a vegetative-like state through the Fall and so cannot recognize their own Parent even though He is right there in and beside them.
Therefore, all human beings belong to the fallen lineage regardless of who they may be, and they must without exception be born again through the conversion of lineage. This is the only way to be restored into the originally-intended blood relationship bequeathed to us by God.
The value of the exchange marriage blessing
Furthermore, the best way to restore humanity to the position of the children of God through conversion of lineage is the inter-cultural “exchange” marriage blessing. It is the greatest of moral acts, creating the Heavenly lineage on an entirely new level, transcending the walls of race, culture, nationality and religion. It is an act that severs all links of enmity. It is the sacred ritual of the conversion of lineage, through which all can be re-created through the True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace, the substantial manifestation of God who enable Him to exercise His providence in the present world.
Beloved representative leaders of the Association of Unified Korean Clans: Ponder this in yourself quietly. Is there any other way to deliver this world from the war and conflict we see around us? Is there a way that would be more certain than by becoming one big family, where there is no hatred between family members, through exchange marriage between enemy clans, or, even going a step further, between enemy nations?
As the representative leaders of clans representing hundreds of thousands, or even millions, you each stand in the position of a “clan messiah.” Your ancestors going back tens and hundreds of generations have been mobilized to watch your every move. Hence, your mission has now been made as plain as plain can be. Primarily, you will need to make it known to every member of your clan that the revolutionary time after the coming of heaven, that is, the era for the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, has now arrived. It means that you have the responsibility to educate them about the providence God is carrying out on a worldwide level in this era, centering on True Parents.
You will need to teach them without fail that the exchange marriage blessing is the ultimate means to the realization of a peaceful, ideal world here on earth, so that your families and clans can all join the holy ranks of those blessed through the inter-cultural marriage.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is truly regrettable that you cannot sense with your own eyes this precious revolutionary time after the coming of heaven, never before seen and never to be repeated. The reason for this is that you are relying only on your five physical senses. It is my heartfelt hope that you will open your five spiritual senses as quickly as possible, so that you may definitely perceive how the providence of Heaven is unfolding in this era. There is one thing you need to know for sure, however. Because of the providential time, this era of heavenly fortune, which you have received without giving anything for it on your part, will not wait for you infinitely.
Now the time has come for you to unite into one as the representatives of the Association of Unified Korean Clans who have preserved the spirit of the Korean people and the pride of the “white-clad race.” There is no time to waste. What does it matter whether your name is Kim or Pak? What reason is there for the Gyeongsang Province and the Jeolla Province not to unite in harmony? The pro-Seoul Korean Residents’ Union in Japan and the pro-Pyeongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan each have their roots in the same Korean Peninsula. How about South and North Korea? Aren’t their people all brothers and sisters, sharing a common lineage? At this time, we should bear in mind that we are the descendants of the white-clad race and the kinsfolk of a people called, selected and established by God in this era.
Our ultimate purpose is to find and establish the nation and the will while serving God as the center. What nation would be the nation? It refers to the peaceful, ideal kingdom, similar in form to a true family with three generations living together in harmony, trusting, respecting and supporting one anotherand becoming one in love. In short, the nation is the nation where God is sovereign.
Then what is meant by the will? It signifies the heavenly way and heavenly rule. The command has been given to us on earth to judge, with the heavenly authority of true love, this evil world that suffers under scheming, treacherous regimes and to establish the ideal, peaceful, truly loving world, a liberated, free world, based on justice and truth. After all, humanity is meant to become one family. The striking advance of modern science is contributing a great deal to making this world one global village and family. The beautiful, peaceful, ideal kingdom, wherein whites and blacks, and Asians and Westerners, come together in harmony as one great family will be established on earth.
The advent of the Universal Peace Federation
In this transition, the Universal Peace Federation and the Mongolian People’s Federation, which I have founded, will play important roles. The Universal Peace Federation will now stand in the Abel position to the existing UN. It will not pursue the self-interest of any one people or national self-interests as the member nations of the UN have. Instead, it will carry out a sublime revolution for the welfare of humanity and peace on a pan-global and universal level. Rather than the UN clinging to external and perfunctory relief aid, it will fulfill the messianic mission, which is genuinely beneficial to humankind on a more fundamental and substantial level.
With this purpose in mind, on October 20 last year, while in the Ukraine during my world speaking tour propagating the inaugural message of the Universal Peace Federation in 120 nations, I proclaimed before the world the inauguration of the World Peace Kingdom Police and World Peace Kingdom Corps. These two organizations will play the same role as the red blood cells and white blood cells in our bodies. In all corners of the world they will protect blessed families who have made a new beginning by engrafting to the lineage of Heaven. They will also fulfill their duties as sentinels of this beautiful world, for which we must be grateful, this Garden of Eden given us by God, by defending, protecting, and cultivating it.
The Mongolian Peoples’ Federation for World Peace
Ladies and gentlemen, the Mongolian race, making up 74 percent of the world’s population, is the largest racial group in the world. We should muster all five billion of them and generate a climate of true love on this planet. You and I were born on the Korean Peninsula; we share the same cultural background. You should therefore become the peace ambassadors and special envoys of Heaven, conveying my teachings and educating others in how to establish exemplary families through true love, true life and true lineage.
The Mongolian birthmark is not merely a physical mark of the Mongolian race. It is without doubt the mark given by Heaven long ago to function as the sign by which True Parents would rouse and unite all humanity with the arrival of the revolutionary time after the coming of heaven. Furthermore, the Korean race, standing at the center of the Mongolian peoples, should be in the forefront of the 6.5 billion people of the world, fulfilling its mission of representing True Parents.
You should join the proud ranks of the Peace Kingdom Police and Peace Kingdom Corps in obedience to the lofty aims of the Universal Peace Federation, for the sake of God and for humanity. People having one of the more than 280 surnames in Korea should unite, regardless of their surname or clan affiliations, and establish a shared prestige as the race chosen by God in this era. Please bear in mind that this is the God-given mission that you, as the leaders representing the clans of the Korean people, the Korean race, have been given.
Please do not forget that the building of the ideal, peaceful world, which God envisaged at the time of the Creation, and that He desired when He created humankind, is now being realized right before your eyes. If this is not a miracle, what is? All over the world, the couples blessed in the exchange marriages are putting down roots of the true love of Heaven. The new heavenly lineage is bearing fruit. The day draws near when the beautiful earth will become the original Garden of Eden, where we will enjoy lasting peace and happiness and for innumerable generations our descendants will shout “Hallelujah! for Cheon Il Guk”
May the great blessings and grace of God be with you, your clans, and the Korean people. Thank you.