Based on extracts from his speeches throughout his life
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The 1970s: Vision of the Global Mission
Father and Mother turned their focus increasingly toward Western nations, most notably the United States, from late in 1971. European nations with members enough to mobilize also received instructions to create mobile teams. And Father made plans to speak publicly.
Part 92
Kim Il-sung will be sixty years old in April 1972. So for Kim Il-sung this is also the crest. Whether North Korea will invade South Korea will also be decided. The North Korean Communist Party and the people are strongly united with Kim Il-sung. Therefore, if we are to prevent their invading South Korea, our members and our blessed couples must be united with me even more strongly. If our side is united and surpasses Satan’s side, they cannot invade. Korean members are now dedicating themselves and offering special prayers to prevent this. Whether you American members are united with me more strongly than the communists are united with Kim Il-sung is the question. With our members more strongly united than those who are centered on Satan, God’s side can overcome the communist nation. We don’t have a nation. Without that nation, we are always open to attack from Satanic sovereignties.
If we had so many members that we could exchange all the front-line troops with our members, then what could we offer? And when the American government pulls out the American forces from Korea—even at that time, if American members stayed there on the front-line of Korea—then what will the American government do? Then, the nation of Korea will soon decrease. We have to know what a grievous result was brought about by the federal democratic Christians who are in the positions of responsibility in this democratic world. . . . Not only American members, but members of every other country want to go to Korea to hold the front-line; then how will Kim Il Sung of North Korea attack . . . without even fighting, we can save South Korea. Therefore, our most important thing is to influence the Christians and give them the truth—that is the most important thing. And evil always attacks when the equilibrium is lost.
Launch of the One World Crusade during the Third World Tour
The position of the Unification Church global team is one of having to sacrifice and do the mission in the place of worldwide Christianity and all the world’s people. I have decided to make a global-level organization in America and call it the One World Crusade.[1] Its headquarters will not be in Korea but in America. It is under my direct supervision. This name is to be registered in Washington, and these leaders should report to me every week.
Mobile teams will be made not just in Korea but in Japan, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Members from those five countries will form the mobile teams in order to restore those five countries in front of Heaven. What are those mobile teams? They are Heaven’s peace army. They are the pick of the troops and can decide the fate of those nations. Old people don’t go to the army; nor do they go to the mobile team. The mobile teams are formed as groups of people with the fire of new determination lit in their hearts, such that they are able to say to others, Come join us!
The American mobile team
I mobilized eighty-five members in America. I stationed leaders in thirty-five of the fifty states and made mobile teams with the remaining members. I divided them into two teams of twenty-five people each and bought two buses for them.
My plan is to mobilize four hundred people this year and two thousand people next year so that we can have at least one mobile team in each state.
The German mobile team
The German people have a strong sense of self-reliance. If we teach the German people Unification Thought and heat them with fire that causes an explosion in their hearts, Europe will not be a problem. The Germans are diligent and they are a group that works like bears! [Laughter] I want to establish four countries—Japan, America, Germany and England—as the vanguard.
I visited the German headquarters in Essen and noticed a bullet hole in the big glass front door. When I asked how this happened, I was told that it had been done by communists two weeks before. The communists had made various threats, had tried blackmail and had made many accusations through the courts to try to destroy our church. When we see this, we must realize that the German members are fighting to accomplish their objectives even at the risk of their lives.
That’s why I made the mobile teams and bought them six vans and six caravans that could seat twelve people each. They already had nine vehicles, so that made twenty-one. We have to restore Germany within a certain amount of time. Having given this special direction, there was no more talk of day or night. I sent them out to march and fight, beating drums and playing trumpets.
Because there weren’t enough members in Germany, I transferred the Austrian members to make up the numbers for this mobile team. The leader of this team, Paul, had been a drill instructor in the Hitler era. The team is experiencing nothing like the usual standard of living. They generally eat one meal a day. However, despite this partial fast, they are sounding the trumpet in the vanguard.
Our calling to save Cain
From Father’s speech in Canada on December 14, 1971
We are taught about the problem of Cain and Abel in the Principle. Abel should have separated himself from Satan, or Cain, and then come into the love of God. Then by feeling and experiencing God’s grief and his brother’s grief he should have been willing to sacrifice himself their place and save his brother at the risk of his life, at the very cost of his life¡¦
Our members are in the position of Abel. So you must first be able to fight against Satan and separate yourself from the satanic world. That means you have to come into God’s love. But that is not all. From then on you must be willing to sacrifice yourself in order to relieve God’s grievous heart and that of the brothers and sisters in satanic bondage. At the price of your life, your sacrifice, you must be willing to take and save them from the satanic world.
God chose America to take the main role in building the kingdom of heaven on earth. However, the Christian spirit is collapsing, and waves of worldliness are rising here. Without a great spiritual change or reform, America will not be able to complete her mission. I have come to set alight a new fire in the heart of this country’s withering spirit, and I intend to bring about reform that will revive the Christian spirit. I arrived in Washington on December 18, 1971, the same day that we actively started to expand our movement in America. The day you awaken to the reason I came to America will be the day of true hope for America. I came on God’s instruction and with God’s Word.
In order to spread the Word of God, I intend to hold large public lectures in the major cities in America. I plan to do this in at least seven cities. This is the start of my course of publicly proclaiming God’s Word. I also plan to hold such meetings in Germany and England. This is my third global tour, so I must speak in person. I have been waiting eagerly for this day.
To be continued…
[1] The One World Crusade is said to have been first organized during the 1972 seven-city speaking tour and to have developed from there.