Based on extracts from his speeches throughout his life
Part 33
Earlier installments are available for reading.
The Spirit-Led People Prepared in North Korea
In North Korea, God prepared special religious leaders who could respond to Father and make the condition for Christianity to receive the returning Lord. But they would need extraordinary insight and unity with Heaven’s guidance. Otherwise, they, and Father, would pay the price.
If you dedicate your best effort when you are in the position of being treated like a servant, restoration continues to take place. I was going through a testing period so that I could say with absolute conviction, “This is the Principle.”
As I was going up from the servant’s position I would say, “God’s loving servant has come” and later, “the adopted son has come.” You have to restore the blessing like this, going up through stages. In order to reverse the Fall, in relation to a woman, Adam has to reverse the realm of dominion. It’s the same principle.
So through that grandmother, I had to start from being in the servant’s position, to being in the adopted son’s position, and then the illegitimate son’s (son of a second wife) position, until the direct son’s position. And when that happened, I could testify saying, “I am the leader of the heavenly nation.” Next, I could testify, “I have surpassed Jesus, who has the supreme power of the heavenly nation.” And then, “I am the substantial object-partner to God.”
She was to bless me as being Heaven’s superintendent, Jesus’ representative and God’s representative at the same time. She should have made a declaration. After that ceremony of declaration, I would have secured my autonomous position and turned everything upside down. Adam’s authority, which had been trampled upon, was restored when [the new] Adam established the conditions of indemnity. That is why everything had to be done completely in the opposite way in order for someone to stand in the position of Adam.
Grandmother Pak’s lack of faith
It was only after I had done all this that I said to her, “Serve me in the same way I have served you.” Until then I had served her from the position of a servant of servants and had done things that no one else would do. Yet to suddenly testify to myself, establish my authority and then tell her to serve me as I had served her was like a bolt out of the blue. I asked her to accept what I had testified to and immediately bow down to me. This was the reversal of dominion for the purpose of restoration.
The tables were turned. She exclaimed, “You have been following me. You have sought to serve me. How can you now order me to do such a thing? How can you just order me about as if I am a servant?”
But this came from just a humanistic perspective. If someone has reached the standard Heaven has set, yesterday’s disciple can become today’s teacher and even be elevated to become Heaven’s prince. If your son became a crown prince or your daughter became a crown princess overnight, as his or her parents, you would be in a position in which you would have to bow to your own child.
In the aftermath of Pak Eul-ryong’s rejection
After this, the group was divided into two factions—those who followed Grandmother Pak and those who followed me. Grandmother Pak didn’t follow me, and those who sided with her didn’t follow me. The group was thus split in two. From then on, Grandmother Pak became mentally unstable. She said that Moon so-and-so was a traitor to Heaven and a thief who had stolen everything in the world from her.
Because of this, Satan took her over completely. All manner of things started happening. She incited her husband, her sons and her daughters and threatened to kill me with a big stick. After this, her husband suddenly died. Heaven struck him. If a person doesn’t fulfill his responsibility to Heaven, Satan can invade. He died in quite a frightening way. He was chasing me with a big stick to beat me when he suddenly collapsed and died. He had red marks all over his body, and it swelled up so much it wouldn’t fit in a coffin.
Because I had obeyed her and helped her, it was only natural, according to the way things go in the world, for her to do the same for me after I had declared who I was. But she didn’t do it. It didn’t matter how much she had worked for God and prayed before that day, her failure to follow me meant she lost everything. Everything that she had done, all her good deeds, were transferred to me. She should have thought about whether this all began from heaven or from earth. She should have been able to discern whether this was something where God was the center or whether she was the center.
Tested in the spirit world; God’s seal of approval
I had to go through a forty-day test in the spirit world. All the spirit people there sided with Grandmother Pak against me. Even Jesus came to me and begged me, saying, “Grandmother is Jehovah’s wife. She is a daughter God cherishes dearly. Please serve her well.” Nevertheless, I fought them based on the principles of heavenly law. For forty days, with truth, I fought alone against the whole spirit world, against all the spiritual leaders who had come and gone throughout all of history and even against Jesus and God.
Because I couldn’t make heaven and earth a battlefield, I believed that when the forty days were up, God would have to reveal His final decision. I said, “If this is not Heaven’s principle, heaven and earth will perish. This path, which I have discovered, is absolutely correct.” In the final, decisive battle, the verdict went my way; I was deemed victorious. God proclaimed me the victor. He declared that what this person called Moon was advocating, which had been opposed and attacked by Jesus and everyone else in the spirit world, was the true principle that could relieve grief and resentment on the path of restoration. God gave His seal of approval, declaring that the principles I had uncovered revealed the deepest secrets of heavenly law. In this way, I reached the standard to bring victory.
Many people claim to be the Messiah, the Lord at his Second Advent, don’t they? They say I am in the position of John the Baptist, and they are the Messiah. How would they answer if asked if they have God’s seal of approval? If they were the Messiah, they would have to be recognized officially, with the seal of approval from God and the whole of the spirit world.
The inheritance of heart from women
I had to find a person of similar status to that woman, so that the mission could be passed down through different stages. Beginning with a person in the position of God’s wife, and in order to find a person standing in the position of the original mother, I had to begin that task again from someone of eighty years of age. Based on that standard, the mission passed down through people of different ages, down to Mother’s age. Because Grandmother Pak opposed me, I had to find someone who could replace her. I could do this because there is a principle that Eve must be re-created.
Because I had been unable to establish the family-type standard, I was sent to prison on February 22, 1948, where I spent two years and eight months. Having been unable to complete the John-the-Baptist mission, I had to travel down a path like that of Jesus going to the cross.
While I was in prison, Mrs. Kim [Kin In-su] was incarcerated. Mrs. Kim was in the position of Rachel. Grandmother Pak was in the position of Leah, and there was another lady, Mrs. Na. These three women should have cooperated with me. In order to restore the three phases of heart—the lost daughter, sister and mother—women from a grandmother’s age down to one’s twenties had to be restored. I had to go the way of crucifixion of the heart in order to establish the standard to restore women at these three stages. External suffering is nothing compared to this.
Once such a standard for restoration, the standard for the reversal of dominion, is created, it must be substantially followed through. These things have to be recovered down to the position of the servant of servants of humankind. So in order to recover this, I had to start from the lowest position, which is a prisoner. I had to open doors, beginning from in prison.
To be continued.