천주는 내 고향과 조국
Father’s speech on December 26, 1999 at Belvedere International Training Center
What kind of God is God? He is the True Father God, the True Children God, and hence the True Love God. He is the Father of True Love. Whose Father is He? He is the Father of humankind. We have come to know, because of True Parents, the relationship between human history and humanity, and between humanity and God. What kind of parent is He? He is a God of character, of intellect, emotion and will, who is seeking truth, beauty and goodness. Because of that, God can make a connection with humanity. Centering on love, that relationship between God and humanity leads us to have intellect, emotion and will, seeking truth, beauty and goodness. We know the God of personality. Because of this, it is possible for us to share everything with God and for there to be no distance between us.
When husband and wife make love, it is like the phenomena of thunder and lightning. When husband and wife come together, it is like east and west coming together, like different sets of clouds. They all come together and create this explosion. God cannot be dozing when this happens. Parental, conjugal and children’s love come together and create this love. Bright light and sound are produced. Then all things surrounding them welcome it and want to resemble that couple.
God’s love can be explained as having three levels, parental, husband and wife and brother and sister, and they are all join together and make a big, round sound, and strong light. The entire universe will react in awe because the light is so bright and the sound so loud. What, then, will God say? Will He tell us to make that love spark every day or fight every day? God may not ask us to make it every hour, but at least every day. Then God will join us and He and the universe will laugh with joy. God will smile and dance. (Father does a joyful dance and the members applaud.)
Farmers work in the fields so hard and wait for the rain, and it starts to rain. Then they go inside and take a nap. Do they need a mattress, or just lie on the wooden floor? Usually they don’t mind and lie on the wooden floor. They are a little bit wet, so they don’t go into the bed, but lie on the heated floor or tatami. Nature makes him stop working and he lies down. Then he gets hot from the floor so he takes off his clothes and is naked, but just lays his jacket over his lower parts. During that happy and contented nap, his loving wife approaches him. Or it could be vice-versa. Will he kick her away? What if she pulls off the jacket so that he is completely naked. Will he kick her away and curse her, or will the two become one and the love spark ignite?
When, because of their hard love work, they have no more energy and cannot even move one muscle, will God not smile and stay with them? He will be very happy. God will help them close their eyes and will lie down and sleep with them. When there is strong lovemaking between husband and wife, don’t you need to rest afterwards? Maybe you need an hour’s nap. That is like the blue sky after the thunder and lightning.
True Parents’ responsibility is to teach human beings the relationship between nature’s spark and human beings’ spark, and the completion of human beings’ responsibility in the providence. What is the mainstream? Life, love or lineage? Love is the mainstream, the origin. The mainstream is absolute, unchanging, eternal and unique love. Only that can make a being of true dignity. Now you understand my title and my sermon is over.
A train has a locomotive in front then as many as a thousand passenger cars. When the locomotive starts moving, the front might reach the station but the rear end has not yet reached there. The connection between the cars is love. We are connected even though our lives may be on a different time or speed, so eventually we will go to the same place. To move all the cars instantly together, each needs its own engine. You know the way and direction. You understand God and the family and how to reach God’s ideal.
You yourselves have not been able go through the eight stages successfully, but we can piggyback on the True Parents. To that end we are embracing the spirit world and physical world, east, west, north and south. This is the era of liberation: not just on the family level do we get a photo, but also on the national and world levels.
To fulfill the eight stages you need absolute faith, love and obedience. Then you can go over the eight stages. The 40-day workshop indemnifies four thousand years of restoration. You study the word of God there, through which you go through the eight stages. You learn what Father has done. You realize Father did these things to save you. You have to deny the entire satanic world. Seven generations and 180 families should come under you and then you can register in the Kingdom of God on earth. You will then have nothing to do with Satan. Heavenly fortune will be with you. This is what we call the era of the fourth Adam. All the thousands of years of history are indemnified and there is no concept of indemnity: this is the meaning of the era of the fourth Adam.
Even if you are an American, as long as you fulfilled the 40-days and Total Living Offering, you can go anywhere and you should consider it your own nation because we are one family and there is no real separation. We are connected by the one internal content that we share. That is the way all these blessed couples can embrace the planet earth. We have to purify the lineage of all human beings by leading them through rebirth and resurrection to eternal life. That is why this 40-day education period is so critical. There you learn Father’s tradition, even if I am not with you. You study my words and complete your responsibility and establish a good enough foundation to build your own hometown and initiate the Kingdom of God on earth. At Jesus’ time they needed 120 families to form a tribe, but we need 180. Seven generations times 180 families is 1,260 families, required to form a tribe. This process began in 1997 and will take seven years, until 2003. Even in spirit world this is taking place.
Once we reach that goal, there will be no racial bias or national boundary. Everything will be equal and that is the real Kingdom of God on earth. Even in the spirit world, enemies are being matched, murderers and saints. In Adam’s family, Cain and Abel were brothers. Criminals and saints came to be so by different paths, but they are at the same level now and there are no boundaries. The children of saints and of criminals can be matched. National boundaries create the concept of enemy nations. So I matched people between such countries. That is a shortcut to reaching the Kingdom of God on earth. As long as those people in the Cain position serve Abel and their own parents and elder brother, everything will work out well. They will have the same value.
Adam made a mistake, so as true Adam I am straightening it out this way. Then, when I ask God to receive this, He will do so. I will pull Lucifer behind me and take him to God. I will accuse him before God and say I’ve straightened him out. I must stand as perfected Adam who restored the one who caused the problem, and ask God now what should I do with him? God will say, do as you like. What else can God say? Even if God doesn’t want to forgive him, because of God’s grace, He will. There is a battle between God and Satan. Who can separate them and bring a cease-fire? God has true pride and Satan has false pride. This new, perfected Adam comes with him, showing that he straightened the troublemaker out, then God has to accept it and proclaim that he can go to the Kingdom. And everyone will shout out Aaaaamen! Man mansei! (Applause.)
True Parents have completed this responsibility in view of God’s providence. (Applause.) This is the elimination of hell and the opening of the gates of the Kingdom! (Applause.) This is logical. It is the culmination of all the logic and theories of this world because no matter what they are, the sought-after conclusion is this one. Do you think this teaching is good enough and true enough for all the heads of different fields, economy, politics and business, to learn something that they do not know? [Yes.] (Father writes on the board:) Palship nyun shigan chunchae chae chulbal wansung haebang eui kigan io’d-dah (This eighty years has been the period of total completion, new beginning and complete liberation.) Amen! This will end at the end of 1999 and the year 2000 is the new beginning. Liberation has been achieved. Eighty also represents eight thousand years. In this eighty years of my life, eight thousand years of human history have been indemnified and restored.
Who are in the position of the Kingdom’s ambassadors? Blessed families. So where will you go? The enemies have surrendered. They are defeated; you just have to harvest them. The competition among blessed couples over who brings back more will determine your position in the Kingdom.
After World War II, seven nations were to have united and worked together, including Korea. America should give full support to the father nation, and then the other nations will follow suit. America is responsible to unite the Christian denominations and thereby clean up its society, so that the younger brother nations will follow and allow the Kingdom of God on earth to unfold.
(Indicating one Japanese sister:) This woman is a branch of True Mother. She should offer her milk, love, flesh and bone to America. That way you can raise your elder son. You may not speak English, but by working three times harder than American members, you can qualify to be here in America. By restoring three sons, you can stay here. A mother has responsibility to feed her son even if she is dying of starvation. A true mother will make sure the baby survives even if she dies. That is the number one mother. So go and meet the Christian people. Find three spiritual children, like restoring Adam’s, Noah’s and Abraham’s families. You Japanese missionaries cannot shed tears missing your hometown, but should be proud to be building the ideal kingdom and serving True Parents here. They are the parents of parents and king of kings. Until we prepare a foundation to receive True Parents in that position, along with God, we cannot die. Japanese missionaries, please stand up. Will you take the mother’s responsibility? [Yes!] God and I have been shedding tears to receive you, so you should not shed tears missing your hometown and parents.