Excerpts from True Father’s speech on February 4, 2006
We have reached the point when all steps in the process can be completed, even in the spirit world. The final goal is the establishment of the peace kingdom. Stepping over the eighty-seventh anniversary of my birth leads to the eighty-eighth anniversary. That’s where we are now, eighty-seven years from the starting point. Therefore, you need to understand that we are at an era of transformation, which will usher in incredible development. You need to understand that point. We will have to clear away the European way of doing things. This is something that was decided even when I was in my mother’s womb. You have to know that the time of conception is important.
Within your own family, you have to complete the responsibilities of clan messiah and national messiah. You should be setting your minds and hearts on those goals and making a new start, just as if you were newborn babies. Sweep everything away; wipe the slate completely clean, and as someone who can restore things for God, become a person who can be the first son or daughter of Heaven in the new millennium, this fresh time at the turning point of the ages. Become that kind of clan messiah or national messiah. You have to do that and make it an offering for the realm of Heaven’s ownership. Until that time, you have no realm of ownership yourself. That’s in line with the Principle. In the Principle, God passes on his realm of ownership to Adam’s family with the intention of creating a starting point by having Adam inherit everything. Now, when you go back home and the topic of your nation comes up, you have to report that you are from such and such a region, such and such a nation, within the six continents, in one of our continental regions; [we’re moving toward] the absolution of nation names. We have settled everything, and we have arrived at a time we’ve waited and longed for, the time of the new millennium, the ideal family sphere, so we have to resurrect everything with the achievement of God’s will and clean up everything else.
Now we have to look at changing people’s positions… rearranging the responsibilities of different regions, dividing things up, in order to prepare for the independent world under God, centering on our eight continental regions…. The number eight represents a new beginning. Each year, the continental regions can become different. It’s not the region’s citizens who will move, but centering on one region, each region will change on the basis of the blessed families in the eight continental regions….
Centering on content that has been unified for the entire planet, we will bundle together and move everything and change things around. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or you are a beggar—everyone’s the same. You have to adopt that life, that lifestyle of change, and with your effort, achieve a family that becomes one with the family that lived there. Do you understand? This year is the sixth year, so in the seventh year it might happen. In this case, the people who move have to thoroughly adopt the concept of being the citizens of Cheon Il Guk. The speech that I gave will become historical reference material. It needs to become the philosophical or ideological model, the kingdom of the ideal world. The time when we are settling down as occupants of the palace of the ideal world of peace is when we go over the hill into the eternal, unchanging world of liberation that is the original ideal of the love of God. Amen!
Originally, the ideal family of God and the model for world peace… That’s the ideal. The peace kingdom becomes a kingdom centered on your families. The day the Universal Peace Federation was established was September 12, in the United States; the inauguration was held in twelve places in Korea and twelve in Japan. That we could not start with perfected [completed] families… How much effort… Centered on people of the new Israel… Bringing in a whole bundle of Laban’s things, won in Haran… Going over the standard of the entire family of all the sons of Rachel and Leah, even bringing out their idols. They exceeded Laban’s standard…. In a life and death struggle, having to win in this wrestling match, having a hip bone broken and getting the name of Israel from the angel… You have to understand this! Jesus could not accomplish the will and died, because the family level had not settled down. In the end, he left behind this great grudge, his painful, unrelieved heart. Because Jesus failed, the providence was extended for two thousand years….
For the Second Coming, this time is the same as when Jesus was here, and as in the past, the view held of the Old Testament is not the correct one. As was true the first time, the Second Coming will not occur in the sky “with the clouds of heaven.” The Lord in his Second Advent has to go over the historical course, which has to be indemnified, and raise the standard of the family. Centering on the nation, he then needs to go over the top. Satan’s is the elder son’s realm. In Adam’s family a tragedy occurred. If you are proud of your achievements, you will mess up. What happens is that you speak proudly of the fact that you have this responsibility, this destiny and then falter. I’m not proud. I’ll go into a deeper valley, face the next challenge, all the complicated problems of this world, the world you live in… With my body as the reciprocal object to God, achieving, God’s ideal, the heavenly kingdom…
You still haven’t achieved the standard of a family that can live as God’s representative. You cannot forget that you have that responsibility; establishing Adam’s family is your mission. On a platform of global victory, you are to establish Jesus and based on having done so, you are to attend God. For me, from the start, the problem has not been the nation but the world. Jesus’ bloodline is entirely different. We thought that his mother was shown this in a dream, but that isn’t what happened. With unified content, in the horizontal era, the substantial era, with a lineage different from that of other people’s, when he made up his mind, he would never give up or yield. What the whole family wants, the village community also has to be involved in. We passed through an era of struggle in which Satan’s entire history manifested.
You can’t imagine how miserably, my uncle, the third son, “Grandpa” Moon Yoon-kook, suffered. He had to live up in North Korea, suffered throughout his life, having to worry about each day. His hope was to live through the suffering and establish the Korean nation. He had a real sense of anger against injustice, but he kept it in and was patient…. He was someone who really understood the tearful experiences of God’s lonely path.
In the Sutaek-ri Central Training Center there was a painting of my mother. It was an unpleasant likeness, very unlike my mother. I cannot forget holding onto that painting and crying. That history, that connection, makes me want to weep. That’s a historical record. My mother was a very beautiful and a healthy person.
If a young virgin woman gets married, her dowry has to be taken along. At the house where she is married, they send two servants. If the land is larger than 3,000 pyong, [9,920 m2], it’s bigger than the land of North Korea. While the family is in the midst of confusion, we’ve known numerous mothers who have passed through a time period that indemnifies the history of the family.
I lived with my friend. I gave him hope. With revelatory content, I have moved ahead while sacrificing my whole extended family. Again, I am someone who has studied so much adversity. In order not to be a burden on my parents… I’ve done all kinds of unusual things. I’ve run messages. I was determined to create the kind of environment that would facilitate the achievement of what I set out to do. Walking down that path was what brought about activities no one else even thought of doing; it was a historic era.
Liberation came, but [it was followed by] the communist encroachment. I tried to wade through that, to pierce that, but I found myself inside a bog. I’d reached a deadlock. I had to move ahead in secret to do those things. I’m talking about history. My older sisters know what my situation was like. I never forgot my mother’s tradition, the conditions she set and her investment for her family—a family of talented children—and how she worked hard, forgetting night and day, with no time to rest. She wasn’t happy to rely on the talent of her children, but invested more.
Among my grandchildren, there is of course a favorite, one I love the most, little Shin-joon, who though he couldn’t even talk would lead others simply by using hand gestures. Because I didn’t have time to spend with him, there were many times when even though I’m the substantial model within our family, even I had to bow my head before his standard when I settled down to sleep.
In order to fulfill God’s will, I am Mother’s owner and master, the original husband. When you think about restoration of the world through indemnity, everything was completely true, nothing was a lie. If I had a friend, I would gather everything from my house—some sticky rice cake, some colorful clothes–pack it all up and go off to the ancestors grave site at Chuseok.[1] The fifth generation ancestors’ grave was forty ri (approximately 15.5 kilometers) away. As I carried the load along, we gave things to the poor folks along the road. By the time we came back, we had given away the offerings altogether. I lived this way in order to leave actual instances behind, a real, solid tradition that could remain for future generations.
So much scorn and derision was directed at my family during the years that Korea was governed as a colony of Japan! It was truly miserable. Even as we shouted against it, we ended up being the last to flee the situation as refugees. I came down to Busan, passing through danger from the Russian forces and danger from the North Korean forces. I’ve really lived the life of a refugee in order to tie off and bring to a conclusion the path of suffering indemnity in this historic era. Many, many times I’ve had nothing but the sky for my blanket and have shed tears from a painful, aching heart. Please, please don’t forget who I am, that I am your father, that my heart is aching, and that I cannot stop praying.
Even though I have the responsibility of liberating my ancestors and of producing descendants who will be unchanging and who can truly excel, I’ve never once prayed, “Please help me; please rescue me,” no matter how difficult it has been. There have been times when you were exhausted and dropped out, when it was “Oh, are you leaving, too?” but I said I would stay. You can’t forget your master, your teacher. I am determined to achieve the goal, even if I have to make the waters of the Pacific Ocean turn sweet. You shouldn’t forget your teacher. You must not forget the things I have said. I remember the time—I long for it!—when I was perspiring, sweating, as I pushed a patient all the way to the hospital, and someone gave me a drink of water….
You shouldn’t forget that my character, not to turn around, was a strategy for turning myself around. When I was a youth, I steeled my courage hundreds of times and went in search of difficult challenges and situations. I saw many people who decided they would not follow their own parents. I need to experience that same miserable situation as a parent….
Destroying and wiping away hell, and all the time pioneering the way, thinking how much God must want to re-create his ideal—that’s how I have arrived where I am. Can you see anything in this world worth chasing? This is all I can leave behind. It’s a precious treasure, which will retain its value for thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years. The families who have this book are bright stars among other stars, big bright stars. It’s far away, so it looks small, but… It’s something that can produce the light of the sun…
Do you think God made the sun first, or did he make the stars first? There are 1,200 people here? I wanted to speak about these things with the people who came yesterday [to attend True Parents’ birthday celebration]. I don’t look at photographs of my hometown, and I don’t have photographs of my mother on the wall. I managed to find a photo of my grandfather, but I couldn’t find one of my grandmother, or one of my father. I gave the blessing to my brother in the spiritual world. If you want to come and take a stroll through the palace, you have to have a card; you cannot just walk on through as you wish. Because I understood that, I had to walk a path of suffering and indemnity.
[Apparently to the True Children, Hyun-jin nim, Kook jin-nim and Hyung jin-nim] I loved the sons and daughters of the Cain world more than I loved you. Have your babies and then raise them. You just don’t know the situation. God is really the most miserable, and you too are miserable, so that needs to be indemnified.
You have the mission of tying off and neutralizing the family tradition that created an ocean of blood when the three sons didn’t become one, which left nothing but bloodstains. You also have to make it so that the joyful sound of your children’s laughter reaches Heaven. That is something that will remain forever.
Don’t be indebted. Why should you resent this? You can persevere and love others even more than I have. Whom will these people [indicating the FFWPU leaders making up the audience] believe in and follow? Will they follow you?
We are starting anew. You have to understand how much I have longed for the day when we could build the palace and I could distribute our foundation. Your elder brother and Father and Mother have worked very hard. Don’t forget that, and together as husband and wife, you have to feel fresh determination. This is the first time I’ve told you this—and it might well be the last time, too.
Members of the Unification Church have to believe in you in the same way that they have believed in me. If they can’t, a hard, dark future awaits your descendants. You have to think of God and think of the heavenly spiritual world, and if there is someone you feel like cursing, you have to buy them an umbrella if they need one. Without having that kind of thinking, what kind of a clan messiah could you be? What kind of a national messiah could you be?
I’m telling you the truth. You have to leave descendants of the Unification family tradition that can live this way. For me, I cannot ask God to extend my life longer than it should be. I have to go to the spiritual world and liberate it. Am I an extravagant person or a person who likes a life of luxury? I know what good things are, and I know what big things are. My line, that is—you–also have to have that kind of thinking. Much of the world’s population is starving. Every day sixty thousand people die of starvation.
You have to know this very clearly. You have to attend your parents in this way. That’s the only way the door of happiness can be opened. Our ancestors…they couldn’t do it.
[1] The Korean harvest festival on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar when Koreans honor the efforts of their ancestors by visiting their grave sites (which are small, individual, earthen mounds), offering food and drink and bowing.