Based on extracts from his speeches throughout his life
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Part 69
The Momentous Year of 1960
The first seven-year course is for perfecting the foundation of the conjugal relationship. It leads to the perfection of the foundation on the family level; thus it applies to Mother as well. Some aspects of her personality will differ from aspects of mine, but a time will come when we’ll gradually come to be in accord with each other. We need to let go of those parts that cause discomfort and start fresh with those we feel comfortable with. That’s one purpose of the seven-year course. In short, in the first seven-year course, Mother and I have to set conditions through which we can become one centered on the providence.
We need to be united in faith…. Then, we need to be united in body, that is, in substance. Then we need to be united in love. Centered on God, we need to become one in faith, in substance and in love.
The foundation of the unity of my heart and Mother’s is also what can bring together all the things in the world that are divided from each other. We had to try to achieve that because we had to stand on a foundation of heart that can unite the world.
True Parents’ family-level cross
Only when the seven thousand years of history are brought to a conclusion can we go beyond the realm of the Sabbath and start fresh with the number eight. This is to be done in the first seven-year course, and not by anyone else. During this time, I am meant to lay a foundation for my family. After the Blessing Ceremony, that is, the Holy Wedding, it was not a joyful time for our couple, because we had to bear the family-level cross. Until a banner of victory is held high, proclaiming that a family has borne the family-level cross and triumphed, there is no path for your families to follow, because yours are the secondary families.
Centering on my family, I have expanded the ground for the four-position foundation. As that ground expands, others can be restored. When you consider the names of the True Children, who are right here, you’ll see they are all related to the history of restoration.
All my children need to be born in the midst of this, to be obedient to Mother and unite. During this time, many things will happen in my family that will need to be indemnified. The children themselves cannot grow up in safety during this period when many unexpected incidents will take place in my family. When the children come into a room where Mother is, the children are little gods. With regard to love, they are closer to God. Yet they need to be absolutely obedient. When they call, “Mom!” she has to answer the children with a smile, “Yes?”
Though I have not been able to take care of my children, with the four older ones, I went into their rooms every night, even after midnight, to kiss them good night and to pray for them. Though I failed to guide them in every way as their parent, I prayed for them morning and evening because I have a responsibility to keep them safe…. Unless the parents, the children and all created things are united, they cannot reach God’s realm of love. That’s why Mother trained for seven years, why Mother and our children were persecuted and why there was so much commotion. They were going through that course.
Through the Fall, the man failed to fulfill his responsibilities as the husband and as the son, and the creation was lost. That all needs to be indemnified internally, which is why I have undergone this process and indemnified it all by designating the Day of All Things, Children’s Day and Parents’ Day. I did this all within those seven years. Thus, at the end of the seven years, I was able to establish God’s Day and climb over the mountain of indemnity.
Three couples engaged before the Holy Wedding
What is the central issue in restoration? In the providence centering on Noah, his three sons were important. In 1960, when Parents’ Day was to be established, it was necessary to establish three families like those of Noah’s three sons. By doing so, it became possible to save the spirits of the people who had died during the period from Adam to Noah and to establish the family of Jacob on the foundation of this victory.
These three families represent the families of Adam, Noah and Abraham. They represent the restored Cain-type families. They also represent the Cain-type children in the age of the Second Coming and replace the disciples who had opposed Jesus in Jesus’ time. Therefore, they must be in the position of restored archangels by attending the Second Coming of the Lord.
Jesus represented Adam, and the Second Coming of the Lord represents Jesus. Therefore, the rule is that unless the Second Coming has three absolutely obedient children of faith, he cannot achieve the status of the True Parent. He needs to have three disciples who will be loyal to him and follow him through persecution, even at the risk of their lives. In April 1960, I restored three such disciples that I had found.
Chosen as the resurrected figures of Cain, Abel and Seth in Adam’s family, they established the relative condition upon which Father and Mother could go beyond the level of engagement and become parents substantially through the Holy Wedding. The fact that the parents and three children in Adam’s family, who have always been a source of grief to God, could finally unite, and moreover, that the first time it had been achieved on earth in history was in Korea, is truly historic. It can even be said that the fortune of a new future began to spread from that moment in Korea.
Blessing three couples
Before my Holy Wedding in 1960, three couples out of the thirty-six couples were engaged, and after our Holy Wedding, we blessed them.
You may know that in the course of the providence of restoration, there must be parents at their children’s wedding. That is why the purpose of the six-thousand-year history of God’s providence of restoration also lay in first setting the central condition, and then blessing His children from then on. He has yearned for such a moment to come for a very long time.
Besides, in order to hold a wedding, the children must first go through a ceremony that enables them to stand in front of God as His children. In other words, a ceremony is needed to confirm that they are His children. They need to receive the blessing from the parents and stand in front of God. Next comes the reading of the vows and affirmation of the vows. Then they are blessed, and the first part of the ceremony is over. At the end of the ceremony, the brides and bridegrooms will make their entrance here wearing holy robes.
A position determined by principles
The first of the three couples, who represent the thirty-six couples, is Kim Won-pil and his wife. History cannot establish just anyone in that position. Unless a specific background based on a specific program had been set up in the spiritual world, he couldn’t have been established in the position of the firstborn son. Kim Won-pil was able to stand in that position. In the second position is Eu Hyo-won, and Kim Young-hwi is in the third. You know them as Won-pil, President Eu and President Kim, don’t you? I didn’t appoint Won-pil president of the church. Why not? Won-pil himself may be aware of this, but he has to be in Adam’s position.
The great thing about President Eu is that though he has weak legs and is deficient in many areas, he has been absolutely obedient to the providence and to me. He has practiced absolute obedience. Won-pil, too, always absolutely obeys what I say. How about Kim Young-whi? He has a certain innocence. They need to unite, and once they unite on the individual level, their families also need to unite. Unless these three families unite, the individual, the family and the tribe will all suffer on their account, and they will also cause trouble in my family. That is why these three couples are very important.