The Coronation Ceremony for the Kingship of God was officiated by True Parents On January 13, 2001, at Cheonseong Wanglim Palace at Cheong Pyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center. True Parents had arrived in Cheong Pyeong three days previously to direct the ceremony preparations with great enthusiasm, taking an interest in every detail.
Two separate offering tables with chairs were prepared on a tiered stage. An upper one for God, and below, chairs for True Parents at a separate offering table. The preparation of every minute detail meant that teams of people stayed up through the night making sure everything was perfectly arranged.
True Parents officiated at the ceremony. Participating in person were: the four True Children in the spirit world centering on Heung-jin nim; members of the True Family on earth: Hyo-jin nim, Hoon-sook nim, Yun-ah nim (Hyo-jin nim’s wife), Dong-sook nim, Shin-il nim, Shin-mi nim’s couple, Shin-sook nim (Sung-jin nim’s wife and children); the four great saints’ couples; four thousand family members in the main auditorium and perhaps equal or greater numbers in other rooms and hallways. Music heralded the start of the ceremony just before 7:00 a.m.
A hundred and twenty couples, eighty of them Korean national messiah couples, lined the sides of the center aisle that led from the rear entrance of the hall to the stage. They wore robes in light and dark pink. At 7:20 a.m. it was announced, “True Parents will now enter.” Hoon-sook nim and Yun-ah nim came in first, carrying crowns and royal gowns. Just behind them was Rev. Hwang Sun-jo holding a golden scepter. True Parents then entered the hall. Midway down the aisle, True Parents stopped to offer the first of three prayers during the ceremony.
The First Prayer
Beloved Heavenly Father: Today, on the 13th day of a new millennium, as we hold the Coronation Ceremony for the Kingship of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, may all the creation in heaven and on earth and all blessed ancestors in the spirit world and their descendants on Earth become one in mind and body. As we are in the era of heart, the realm of the fourth Adam, going over the time of indemnifying historical grievances, we have entered an age in which we can open the gate to the Kingdom of Heaven by connecting a new heaven and new earth.
Because of the false parent, Satan, men and women have endured self-centered marriages. Thus, throughout human history You have been toiling and undergoing a shameful experience of grievance in which true love, true life and true lineage have been opposed and rejected. As a result, although You are Jehovah, the Lord of all humankind, our Father, Teacher, Master and King, until the present time, You have endured a course of indemnity and a path of restoration.
However, after True Parents came to earth, they took responsibility for all the wrongdoings of the false parents. They established conditions of victory on eight stages by traversing the history of indemnity, all the while looking forward to the day of hope. Through this, God could claim everything that was the sphere of activity of the false parent, Satan. Now, centered on True Parents’ victorious foundation, through the blessing ceremony that changes the blood lineage from the lowest stage to the highest, we have linked that victorious foundation to all nations and the cosmos. Due to the grace of the blessing bestowed out of love, we laid foundations for the liberation of the struggling mind and body, the liberation of husband and wife, the liberation of siblings, and the liberation of a nation. And through this, we tore down all barriers between the spirit world and physical world. Now, You are standing on the victorious foundation after having paid all indemnity and are looking at the world of freedom and liberation [that is to be fully realized]. Now, a new Kingdom of Heaven can be united from the Earth to the spirit world through a true family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos. Through connecting the authority of the victorious True Parents and True Teacher, who linked Your Kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven to the True Master who is the Creator of heaven and earth, which represents the entirety of true kingship, I again would like to offer everything to You through this ceremony, and I plead with You to accept this with joy.
The spirit world has established a relationship of siblings centered on earth, between all the heavenly soldiers, angels and blessed families in the spirit world, and all blessed families connected to the central families that are linked to True Parents on earth. As we have restored the elderson-ship, the elder son now has possession of the earth. Centered on the special authority of True Parents, the fallen world has inherited a triumphant realm of liberation, reversing dominion on every level from the individual to the cosmos. Through this, the liberated True Parents, centered on the True Parents of heaven and earth, and the liberated True Children on earth have become one in mind and body. Now to indemnify and liberate Your will and desire, which has the absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal subject nature of true love, we, as True Parents attending You, would like to offer You the ceremony of joy in which we can enthrone You according to the original standard.
With a joyful heart, please forget the history of human sin, and stand on the victorious foundation of liberation. Centered on the realm of victory, where we can be united as one by heart in the ideal of love, we offer You this congratulatory ceremony. Through this You can exercise Your authority upon the nation and the entire universe. This is to liberate Your transcendence, immanence, full authority and almightiness, and restore You to Your original position. And thus wishing that You would rejoice in accepting this, I sincerely report all of this in the name of True Parents. Amen! Amen! Amen!
At 7:11 a.m., Hoon-sook nim and Yun-ah nim received the scepter from Rev. Hwang, and placed it, and then also the crowns and royal gowns, on the chairs reserved for God. True Parents said, “Now God will come down and sit on His throne, attended by Heung-jin nim, blessed relatives of True Parents in the spirit world, the saints and their families.” True Parents took seven steps forward to light the holy candles. There were two special holy candles and the seven traditional holy candles on God’s offering table. They then offered full bows to God, followed by a proclamation prayer:
The Second Prayer
Beloved Father! In order to restore what was lost in the fall of Adam and Eve, the True Parents traversed the hills of indemnity on the eight stages from the level of the individual to that of the family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos and God. Going beyond the national level that Jesus desired to establish, we even went over the level of the world. And now, centered on the United Nations, based on the foundation of non-governmental organizations, representing all humanity, through which God can reign, the course of education is completed. Centered on the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO), we connected the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP) and established sovereignty, a people and a land that represent the Heavenly Kingdom on earth. By so doing, we prepared a foundation for the restoration of Your fatherland on earth and in Heaven.
Based on this foundation, at Cheong Pyeong in Korea, blessed families on earth are inheriting their ancestors’ merit and are receiving the grace of the registration blessing. This takes us over the boundary of the division of South Korea and North Korea, transcends the level of Jesus’ victory on the realm of Israel, and allows a world-level registration that takes us beyond the world and its history of offering material (the Old Testament Age) and sons and daughters (the New Testament Age). Now, centered on the blessed families, we have separated from the world of Satan and, as the heavenly lineage, we have entered a new age. In this new age we can become a model and set the standard of ownership centered on the standard of Your love expressed from the individual level on up through the eight stages.
Through this, the True Parents have restored through indemnity everything that the false parents destroyed on earth. They have opened countless doors that had been closed on earth and in the spirit world. And by True Parents being equipped with the authority of liberation, all humankind, including individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations and the world, have come to one point, connected to the True Parents in a relationship of heart. We are so grateful that we could offer everything to You on this 13th day of the new millennium, in the name of the True Parents, centered on the condition of the Total Living Sacrificial Offering, in which all of the lost creation was restored through indemnity.
Heavenly Father, You can now settle in peace. You can exercise Your authority, not just in the position of the master who has dominion over the creation. You also stand on the foundation of kingship, transcending the spirit world and physical world, and the past three ages. You stand in a free and autonomous position through the foundation of accomplishing all You wanted to fulfill in Adam’s family. This accords with the original ideal of creation, at the point where heaven and earth became one. In the coronation ceremony of kingship, let the blessed families belong to the realm of Your love and authority. As we enter the age in which we can be liberated, Heavenly Father, please receive the glory of the ages and fill the entire cosmos with the glory of Your victory. I sincerely, sincerely, sincerely wish and pray for this in the name of True Parents.
At this hour, the True Parents have restored through indemnity the authority that comes with coronation through the coronation ceremony of kingship. We offer it to You in the position of Your original standard of authority. Father, we are grateful that we could offer You this ceremony. We plead with You that through this day; the self-governing, liberated Heaven may be connected within the realm of Your love. Here, True Parents can act and exercise authority in every way in accord with the promised and proclaimed standards.
Again, I express my gratitude that You joyfully have accepted everything that has been prepared during this ceremony. Please guide all the blessed spirit world and blessed families on earth to unite. I offer everything directly to You, centered on the tradition. It is the tradition through which God’s will–whose subject nature of true love is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal–is fulfilled. It is centered on three conditions: the True Parents’ blood lineage that will continue for ten thousand generations, all relationships among people, and all things that are public. I proclaim that you are the King of Kings and that You can bring peace and prosperity for eternity, as the lord of the coronation ceremony of kingship, with the heart of the True Parents transcending ten million years of history. I plead that You would let the proclamation be fulfilled as proclaimed.
With an earnest mind and heart of True Parents, I am reporting and proclaiming all of this. Amen!
At 7:30, True Parents said, “Please be the Lord of Kingship, in the name of True Parents” and offered bows before God. They then lit the holy candles on True Parents’ offering table. True Mother then offered a full bow to True Father.
At 7:37, Rev. Chung Hwan Kwak spoke as follows: “The first part of the Coronation Ceremony for the Kingship of God has been concluded. No one other than True Parents fully understands this ceremony, and no one other than True Parents could have fulfilled it. Since no one else is qualified to officiate, True Parents have supervised the entire ceremony themselves.
On the foundation of the lives of True Parents as filial children, as loyal servants, as saints and as a holy man and woman, they have held this ceremony and liberated God. As sinful and wanting as we are before the Parents of Heaven and Earth, we are not qualified to participate in this ceremony. Thanks to the tremendous forgiveness and love of the Parents of Heaven and Earth, however, we are allowed to participate. Therefore, we must bring limitless honor to God, who has regained the original Kingship, and pledge to resemble the Parents of Heaven and Earth in our absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
We will begin the second ceremony, through which we will offer our deepest thanks to our honorable True Parents who have enabled God to regain His throne as our almighty and all-capable God.”
At 7:39, representing heaven and earth, Hoon-sook nim and Yun-ah nim offered bows. Heung-jin nim, Young-jin nim, Hye-jin nim and Hee-jin nim in the spirit world, and Hyo-jin nim’s couple and the other True Children came out before the offering table to make full bows. These were followed by full bows from the Old and New Testament age representatives, 72-couple representatives, 124-couple representatives, Completed Testament age and future “Sadu” [a special priestly position conferred only by Father] representatives, representatives of the central nations in God’s providence, representatives of the six continents, representatives of the major religions in God’s providence, representatives of the world mission countries, representatives of True Parents’ relatives, representatives of the Abel realm, representatives of the Cain realm, and finally by all the participating members. Everyone then recited the Family Pledge together.
The Third Prayer
We stand in front of the Beloved Heavenly True Parent. Humanity on earth is united as one, and the True Parents on earth and the blessed families both in spirit world and on earth are united with the True Parent as one mind and one body. This is centered on the year 2001, which is the beginning of the third millennium. This was expressed through this year’s motto: “May the absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal will, which is the subject nature of true love, be accomplished through the liberated Parents of Heaven and Earth and children uniting in one mind and one body.” It was also expressed in the speech given on True God’s Day. Let all beings accept these words as the words that are spoken by God and the True Parents on earth, united in one mind and body before all humanity. Since the physical world on earth has received the time that became a root in which God can now be crowned as King, blessed families at the present time have come to stand in the position of perfected Adam from the direct lineage of God. They can attend the kingship of heaven and earth. Therefore, from the standpoint of the people of all nations, as this report is being made we receive a new historical age in which we can close our prayer by reporting in our personal name as a central blessed family.
When we look back, we understand the lamentable situation of the Old Testament Age, in which God and Satan had to share physical materials together. We understand the lament of the New Testament Age, in which the mind and body of Jesus Christ had to be divided, leaving still to be united the spirit world in the position of mind and the physical world in the position of body. After World War II, the spirit world and the physical world should have been united, restoring this fallen world as an original ideal world, through indemnity. Further, in the name of the True Parents, the coronation ceremony of kingship should have been held then, liberating the Heavenly Parent thereafter. The disunity of the Protestant churches and Catholic Church, and of the oriental and the occidental worlds immediately after World War II has now been indemnified. On that condition, after I reached eighty years of age, in the year when two thousand years had passed, and in the first year of a new third millennium, the history of Jesus’ grievance is now erased through the number thirteen. The number thirteen comprises the number 12 (Jesus’ 12 disciples) plus the center number, one. However, not just because it has passed over the level of Rome and even of the world, but because this ceremony of coronation has also been held by determining the center number thirteen, it sets a condition to bring liberation to both heaven and earth.
We now have the last stretch to go until the year 2010 or 2012. During this period, we are making the Total Living Sacrificial Offering in order to [symbolically] return everything that we have received on earth. We do this until You, Heavenly Father, can claim Your homeland, by bringing the planet earth into unity and proclaiming the restoration of Your fatherland. Until then, we are in the breathtaking stage of investing every ounce of our energy and heart to bring the unification of South Korea and North Korea. Through this we are to organize our final days, in which the unification of the United Nations and of the spirit world and physical world connect on a lineal axis.
Because we have crowned God through the coronation ceremony of kingship, please mobilize the entirety of the religious realms of spirit world. As You have entered the age of self-disclosure–in which we can receive the blessing of peace on earth–exercising transcendence, immanence, full authority and almightyness, let the True Parents on earth keep the self-disclosed authority over the spirit world and physical world. As You look forward to the age of victory and liberation that aligns heaven and earth, let the newly blessed families this January throughout the world and in the spirit world become one body and mind centered on You. We have now entered the age of a new creation. It holds the position of the [fourth] elder son, based on the earthly foundation of Adam’s realm. Now the settlement on earth and the spirit world in the position of the parent and kingship can restore eldersonship and youngerson-ship and thus enable the authority of the younger son to replace that of the elder son in relation to the standard necessary for connecting their generations.
God was cast to the farthest corner. The True Parents have now raised Him to the highest pinnacle through the Coronation Ceremony. Further, all of the words that You desired to speak were finally proclaimed, and all matters from the salvation of the Heavenly Kingdom to the unification of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos are known. Thus, please exercise Your full authority and substantiate Your realms on earth. And in the name of True Parents, please allow the blessed central families, who obtained the authority from the final victory, to enter the age of liberation on the cosmic level, the final stage that consummates everything.
Centered on the sovereign nation of the True Parent in heaven and the True Parents on earth, through this opportunity, the True Parents wish and pray that the children of the direct lineage, as the royal family attending God with everyone in the spirit world in accordance with Your original ideal of creation, would bestow the same blessing upon the earthly blessed families, through the triumphant condition of kingship that is now established, and thus bring eternal peace and prosperity to humankind. Accordingly, with Your own authority and privilege as the One sitting on the throne of kingship with the power to give blessings to all humankind, we earnestly, earnestly wish and pray that You would realize all of this, and Your promise as well.
Starting from the first year of this new millennium, from tomorrow, in whatever we embark upon, please allow all of the Unification blessed families to wave a flag of victory. In the name of heavenly ambassadors and heavenly governor-generals, who can govern all nations, let them become liberators achieving victory upon victory. While humbly and earnestly requesting all of this, as being united as one between the Heavenly Parent in heaven and the True Parents on earth, through this opportunity, we report, report, report and report, and proclaim, proclaim and proclaim. Amen! Amen! Amen.
At 8:07, the Parents of Heaven and Earth were presented with the congratulatory telegrams, plaques of appreciation and gifts from various present and former heads of states and other dignitaries, from WANGO (World Association of NGOs) and other organizations, and from the representatives of the mission nations.
At 8:09, second-generation 36-couple Chung Jin-hwa and Lee Hye-un offered flowers as an expression of gratitude to the Parents of Heaven and Earth. After True Parents cut the celebration cake, everyone joined in three cheers of Mansei, for God’s Coronation, , the victorious Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Liberation of the Cosmos.
At 8:13, there was a ceremony for God to receive what was on the offering table. True Father said, “In that the ceremony of God’s coronation is being held, God’s Kingdom on earth can come about. Do you understand?” True Father gave rice cakes first to Mother, then to Hyo-jin nim, Yun-ah nim, Hoon-sook nim, Dong-sook nim, Shin-il nim, Shin-mi nim and Shin-sook nim. From the offering tables, food was then shared with the men and women attendants and with all those in attendance.
Father’s Words (Excerpts)
What are we celebrating today? (The Coronation of God!) Who did the coronation? (God!) Can True Parents do this by themselves? We can hold this ceremony because all the people on earth and in heaven were blessed and form a homogeneous nation.
Therefore, to do that, religions from Judaism, to the second Israel centering on Christianity, to Korea, went through the realm of the first, second and third Israel and the Old, New and Completed Testament eras. The Completed Testament is the era of the blessing of all. Because of the fall of the human ancestors, the creation made by God in the beginning could not stand in the realm of blessing. God taught people by establishing numerous religions, leading them through the salvation providence and raising them step-by-step to the era of the Completed Testament.
The people of the peripheral religions were not aware of this. Only Judaism and Christianity paved the road of serving God as our Father. And in the failed history of Adam and Eve, only one son was born on earth whose blood lineage God could love. The elder son was born. Although the son was born, no “only daughter” appeared. God struggled greatly throughout the four thousand year salvation history. It can be said that God created Adam again. After making Adam, God created Eve as Adam’s counterpart. God created Eve by imitating Adam, applying the same principle and blueprint used when creating Adam.
The Bible says that God created Eve by taking the rib of Adam. It means that God adopted the core of Adam to create Eve. God found His only son through the direct lineage of love, but did not find His only daughter. After finding Eve, God would have restored fallen history through a family. God prepared Jacob, twelve tribes thought of as the chosen people and Israel, to establish the nation. Jacob’s twelve children gained ground and expanded the area of victory. This was the nation of Israel and Judaism until Jesus’ advent.
The nation of Israel was external and Cain-like, while Judaism was internal and Abel-like. The mother would be chosen on the foundation of Cain and Abel. After that, by serving Jesus, Israel and Judaism would unite as Cain and Abel. Then, centering on the blessed family, a clan and nation would have been established. Nobody can deny this. Even though Rome dominated the world, it would have been no match for this. External things are like flesh, while internal things are like bones. Flesh cannot defeat bones. Centering on Israel, the unity of all nations and the liberation of God would have been achieved two thousand years ago. But, because Jesus couldn’t form a family by restoring Eve, Israel and all prepared things were destroyed.
Because the foundation of people was lost, Israel perished. And in the seventh century, the religion of Islam emerged among the central people. Muslims were brothers but became adversaries. Ishmael and Isaac were direct descendants of Abraham. But they became enemies and fought throughout history. They fought centering on Jerusalem, and Israel was lost.
If Cain and Abel had achieved peace in Jesus’ time, the history of war between the left wing and right wing on the national level would have been solved on earth and in the spirit world. But because the prepared nation, Israel, failed, Christianity became the second Israel. Because Jesus lost his body, Christianity representing the spirit world expanded its influence worldwide. After World War II, Christian culture unified the world. By unifying the world, the era in which the mind and body can become one arrived. Satan was completely conquered. The allied nations and opposing nations could have been restored to God. Centering on this foundation, if Catholics and Protestants had became one representing Christian culture and welcomed the Second Advent of the Messiah; the world would have been united by 1952, seven years after 1945. The Coronation Ceremony for the Kingship of God would have been held at that time…
So, who can bring order to this world? God could not interfere with the fall as it took place in the Garden of Eden. Further, God could not interfere with Satan’s marriage. Likewise even in the Last Days, there is no way God can interfere. If one is sick, one cannot survive without eliminating the root source of the disease. Since false love, false life, and false parents were created, True Parents have to reject these and restore love, life and lineage through indemnity. What does it mean when one says, “those who seek death will live”? Until the indemnity is complete, those who live in the world of death and who walk to the edge of death with the spirit and energy to say, “even if I die, I will still have the energy to live,” will live. There is no resurrection for those who find death sad and fearful and run away.
That is why the Bible says that those who seek death… (…will live!) And those who seek life (…will die!). That doesn’t sound too good. Then, what about God? What if God takes the position where He seeks death? (He will live!) He will live. If God seeks to live then there is no consummation. What about me? It is the same. If I decide to live, I will die, and if I seek death…? (You will live!) That is the case. Do you think about whether Reverend Moon of the Unification Church thinks about being the Messiah or True Parents? If I did, I would have to die every day. What do you think? If we seek death, there would be a huge commotion everywhere, everyday. But it makes sense to say we should seek death, even in the environment where it is not possible. Those who seek death should form ties that are closely associated with Heaven and Satan, according to the time periods of three stages….
What about those who want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Is it the same? [Yes, the same.] Because I wore a heavy crown this morning, my head hurts, so please answer quickly! In order for Him to save even one man, even God must go through circumstances of death. He must throw down a rope and pull up the one who has fallen off the cliff, with all His might. For God and us to live, we must have that standard.
God has gone through death so many times. Those who want to go to the Kingdom of Heaven must be able to go through such hardships. So in the end, God must tire out before you. Who is older, God or you? God is the oldest, right? We must cling to the rope and reach the highest ground. How difficult would this be? By the time we make it to the top by climbing up the rope, God will collapse from the exertion. Then what should we do? Should we carry Him on our backs and take Him to the hospital? If there is no hospital, we must do whatever we can on our own to save Him. We can pray, or we can go over the hill of suffering.
Who is the Messiah and Savior? Should he relax and enjoy life, or should he go through suffering so that God can rest? Can a person who enjoys life and allows God to die as a result be the Messiah? So, if I suffer, should Unification Church members play around and enjoy life? Should people who play around go to the Kingdom of Heaven or to Hell? [Hell.] Life and death are at hand, and they just want to live a comfortable life. We should say that we all will die together. If we do, then we all can live. A person should not say that only he should live.
If it is absolutely certain that a father wants to give his life to his son, that son must follow that father to the end. If he does not, in the end they will separate. If the father wants to die and the son wants to live, what will happen? Will they separate or not? If the father’s act is different from the son’s act, it becomes an act of Hell. The grandson born through that kind of son cannot even come to his grandfather to give him a kiss.
Among the Unification Church members, is there anyone who wants to suffer more than me? Western members in particular must desire to receive more persecution than I have. Did you come here to go sightseeing? Or did you come here to listen to me and go through a suffering course?…
What is today’s topic? The coronation of God’s kingship. The speech before the coronation is finished now. No matter what, you must go the way of suffering. You must learn what the course for you is after God’s coronation. So the problem is lineage. Say “Pit-chul” [Pit-chul] What does it mean in English? Blood lineage. Say “Blood Lineage.” [Blood lineage.] That is the most important. Kingship is not important. Parentship is not important. Society and government are not important. School is not important. The many nations of this world still belong to Satan and not God….
From now on, whether you like it or not, no matter how you look at it, whether you are oriental, a westerner or black, you must listen to me because you are having a lot of trouble. You decided not to stand in a place of difficulty. Today you decided to stand with me and your determination should not change. You must have affection.
The clothes you are wearing (light and dark pink gowns) look like the color of the flowers in Jesus’ paradise. This symbolizes Jesus Christ. White symbolizes God. Green symbolizes the Holy Spirit. That is why nature is green. The ocean is blue and the mountains are green. The sky is blue. Pink flowers and white flowers look fine together. You are wearing such a symbol. You should not be ashamed of yourselves. You must have strong shining lights so that bees and butterflies are attracted by you. This is my sincere wish. (Amen!) Please try!
A person who prays, “I pray in the name of a central blessed family” must resolve all the problems with families, tribes, people, the nation, world and cosmos. Centering on my clan and tribe, we can guide our nation.
If there is a palace in Satan’s nation, we must build a better palace. Don’t you agree? [Yes.] The blessing offering fund cannot be touched. Even I will not touch that fund. I will spend that money to build a palace where all your descendants and all people can freely settle, and a place of government, a parliament…
What is a filial son? He is a son who dies for his parents. What is a patriot? He dies for his king. It is the same for saints and sages. You should write this important teaching in your notebook. What is this year’s motto? The liberated Parents of Heaven and Earth, True Parents and liberated children tightly unite into one. There is no gap in this union, no gap for water to enter. There is no gap for air to seep in. There is no gap for light to come in. After uniting into one, then what? [True love.] Indeed, true love comes next. After the Parents of Heaven and Earth become one and parents and children become one, true love can come alive. True love is one mind and one body. Within true love, the center is the subject. May we accomplish the center of subjectivity. This is not only one year’s motto, but every one must practice this truth for a three-thousand-year period.
Do think this motto is good or bad? Am I dumb? Through this time, blessed families have the registration ceremony for the transition of the four-position foundation over three eras and three generations. This is all you need. Today all things of the new millennium are liberated, but God is not yet liberated and True Parents are not yet liberated. Nonetheless, the Parents of Heaven and Earth and children are liberated, so you should not be afraid. Even if you are locked up, you must not be afraid. I am so curious about heaven that I want to go to the Kingdom of Heaven as quickly as possible….
Today, by having God’s kingship ceremony, the nation has changed. For the providence, should we be worried or not? (Not.) Then who should be worried? God has been pained with resentment. We need to be the supporting force so that God can do whatever He wants to do. Why does God do that? This morning I had a very busy schedule so you should have wakened me and come with me. Sons and daughters should prepare for parents to have the kingship ceremony. Now God must have full authority centering on this kingship…
You should not follow your bodily desires. “My body, my body.” Even if my body bursts into tears, you should just be grateful. Why tears? If you don’t want to die, pray to be willing to die. Jesus went the same way…
From now, you have to abide by an immutable law, even to the point of dying. This is the law that one must not stain the blood lineage.
The second point is not to infringe upon human rights due to a mistake in the area of personnel changes. Male or female, black or white, everyone is equal. One must not discriminate or violate human rights. For this reason, the leaders of the Unification Church have convened here. Regional leader or national messiah status doesn’t mean that you have the right to change someone’s position according to your own desire.
There are plenty of people whose ancestors are better in nature than the ancestors of the regional leaders and national messiahs. Hence, I hesitate to move people around. When I do, however, I select from the highest level. Do not infringe upon human rights. Wherever I go, I do not discriminate against blacks or those who did not complete college. The person who practices true love, realizing human rights in the correct way, possessing love for the sake of others, is in the mainstream. The creation of heaven and earth began from that point. I cannot forgive the act of diluting and squandering this main current of thought. This is the second of all sins.
The third point is to refrain from stealing public money. It means not to use public funds to fulfill selfish desires. There are three types of sin, and of those who go to jail, at least 70 percent go for this reason. Will you understand this only after being put into jail? Human rights infringement and lineage violation are problems concerning men and women. Then come the money problems. Following these are the problems dealing with power. Money, knowledge and power have ruled.
Article I of the constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven is that you will not stain the blood lineage. The purpose is to preserve the lineage, keeping it completely clean. It means to maintain the purity of blood lineage for eternity. From this point, the blessed blood lineage that has been inherited through God’s love and God’s life cannot be contaminated by actions immersed in the habitual pattern of the fallen world. Can you abide by the rule? (Yes.) All those couples that are certain to follow the rule, regardless of whether you’re a man, even if you are not sitting with your spouse, all those who are willing to keep your lineage from being stained, close your eyes so that only God can see you and make a determination. Raise your hand firmly and pledge.
You must not forget this memorial day. Even if there is a quarrel between a husband and a wife, if you provoked it, you must resolve everything by January 13th. Once you understand this, you must abide by this principle even if you have to die one thousand times. Think of this moment as a time of making unbreakable, impermeable determination.
The second point is not to violate human rights, and the third point is not to steal public money, using public property for yourself. When you see something you desire, even if gold falls from a building, you’re committing this sin if you use it to purchase something. You cannot use it for your own desire. It is public money. Even if you bring it to me as a church offering, I would not accept it. Even if I received it through Mother, I would not spend it. This is more fearful and terrible than poisonous drugs. You will surely be caught when you go to the spirit world.
If there is anyone here to whom this applies, you should repent for everything before this year passes. The most fearful thing is Article I of the constitution, which is to maintain the pure lineage. You must not stain it. There are many possessions of women that can be taken away (but not that). If you women carry a knife, you must stop the act by stabbing any part of the enemy’s body within reach of your hand. Don’t take his life, but if he still continues the behavior, defend yourself strongly. Lineage is more precious than life.
What’s the first? Purity! Second? Abuse of human rights! Third? Misuse of public money! On this memorial day, in order to maintain the sovereign power, the kingship of heaven, and to stand before it as a people, parents, wife and children, and brothers and sisters, this is absolutely necessary. Therefore, you cannot neglect your older brother. You cannot neglect your younger brother merely because he is handicapped. You cannot neglect in-laws or relatives. The world neglects everyone, doesn’t it? You who graduated from a university neglect those who only completed high school. This violates human rights. Following that offense is the misuse of public money. The misappropriation of national property! This is a sin having to do with public money.
You already took a large amount from the public funds, didn’t you? You all don’t do work yet are hoping that I will allow you to go home once a month, or once a week, right? The poor new Unification Church members. They come to this place and what is it to which they are contributing? All the troublemakers gather here seeking a comfortable place to sleep, without even following the rules and regulations. That completely destroys the public environment. This is equivalent to misuse of national property. It is horrible. Those who lead such a lifestyle will not succeed regardless of how much they try to live a good life. Try living such a way. No matter how much you pray to God, you will not be able to evangelize effectively. Even if you bring a guest, he or she will come as far as the front door and turn back and leave.
The whole universe dislikes those who incur a debt. Do you like to be in debt? Within your clan, if one person from the Kim clan induces a problem for everyone else and causes the clan to fall into debt, who would like it? Later on the Kim clan will nail him upside down. This time will come.
So do you understand the three points? (Yes). Count the number of determinations you have made in your heart, one, two, three… one, two, three… one, two three… try it a several times. Do you pledge to do that? Purity, equality for all people, and never misappropriate national property. You must understand everything well and make it your habit. You will avoid such mistakes only when you reach the stage in which, as soon as your mouth and eyes open, these words come out.
There is no doubt you will face these challenges in life. There will probably be many such circumstances, but if you make an effort to abstain from violating the law, the challenges will turn you into a victorious person; therefore I won’t have to tell you anything. Amen! [Amen.] This is the conclusion.
So, what do we do next? Where are you going to reside? You want to live well, right? Do you consider living alone to be a good life? (We have to live together.) Of what does a life lived together, a happy life, consist? I ask you, for a good life built based upon the official law of God, with what group of people must you live and in what kind of environment? It is simple. There are three answers. The parent-child relationship, conjugal relationship and brother-sister relationship, with brothers and sisters in the position of children to the parents.
This is why one’s family has a mother and a father, then from that couple there are sons and daughters. Therefore you have the brother-sister relationship because you stand before the same mother and father. In my eyes, third cousins, the in-laws and all the cousins, and so on including all people are related, having a brother-sister relationship.
Therefore, once the parent-child relationship and conjugal relationship are connected, brothers and sisters will automatically come to exist. The relationships within this wide range of humankind may be called brother-sister relationships. They must live a good life in harmony. To live a virtuous life, guidance is necessary. Each person has to be an example for the others. That defines virtuous living. If you cannot become a model for others, you are not leading a true life. This turns your life into a debt. If you serve as a good model, if your life can serve as an example before the mother and the father, the husband and wife, and children, then you are living a virtuous life.
The day will come when the king of heaven and the king of the earth will visit the family that is living an exemplary life. The time will come when the nation will recognize the family within its borders living the best life. The family receiving recognition will have three generations that form a perfected four-position foundation.
The time will come when the president will present an award in a family’s home. There are three relationships, those of parent and child, husband and wife, and among the children. Brother-sister relationships are a consequence of the harmony of all these relationships. Therefore, whether in a brother-sister relationship or children’s relationship, to become a person standing in the position of subject, you influence others positively such that not even one person can live without you. If it is true say “Amen” and if it’s not true say “No-men”. [Amen!]. Raise your hands and say it again. [Amen!]. A-men! A-men! Mansei to the enthronement of Heavenly Father!
No matter what you may encounter, even if you are confronted with death, even if you are accused as a traitor and executed, if you keep these things absolutely, then your family will belong to the heavenly royal family that possesses unabated freedom, unity and liberation. I want you to remember this clearly. Keep these as a motto. In the motto of the third millennium, I mentioned pure lineage, then the equality of human rights, and next the preservation of national public assets. That means do not be thieves. What is next? Be an example! Be an exemplary parent, exemplary spouse, exemplary children and exemplary siblings. If your cousins, nephews, relatives are doing well, then your children will follow their example. If you form such a family, people in your village will say, “We should follow that person. I want to live with him.” Then that person is surely a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven and Heaven will remember him.
I am also living that way. Wherever I go, whenever I see a grandpa or grandma, I want to serve them and buy them a meal, because I was not able to attend my own grandparents. So, it is not an easy life, but my foundation becomes bigger and bigger because God is on my side. More and more people flock around me and are concerned about me wherever I go. Many years have passed and now even grandpas and grandmas, old people who are almost about to die, await me. Even the village dogs do not bark but want to follow me around.
If you live a life of goodness to the degree that dogs do not bark at you but want to be coddled by you, then people will be close to you also. Why would people oppose the master of love? They want to be close. You have to make it so. Even the passing birds would feel the same. Am I right or wrong?
I explained to you on this historical day, the day of the Coronation Ceremony for the Kingship of God, the three most important things that humankind must uphold and by which you can be truly liberated in your family and in your nation. Thus, I hope you can remember these memorable points and keep them as the goals of your life. [Amen!] (Applause.) May you realize all the things to which you say “Amen.”Amen!