Father’s Speech on January 1, 1992 at World Mission Center
Father has written the new year’s slogan. The motto for 1992 is the Unification of the New Nation: Sae Nara Tong-ii. Sae is new, nara is nation and you know tong-ii well.
Father has also written another calligraphy of seven Chinese characters. The meaning of this one character represents congratulations or celebration. The paper reads, “Congratulations for North-South Cosmic Unifi-cation.” This represents unification of the Fatherland, South Korea and North Korea. The unification of North and South Korea represents cosmic unification. Father intended to write this particular calligraphy on December 25, 1991, which was Christmas Day. As you know, President Gorbachev resigned as president of the U.S.S.R. on that day. Communism has been banished on a worldwide scale. That point is the beginning of the cosmic unification which will happen by uniting the Korean peninsula.
Father can write such an authoritative statement because of his recent meeting with Kim 11 Sung, who represents the first generation. The first generation era will be finished and time has now moved on to the second generation. Even in the satanic land, Kim Il Sung’s power will gradually be handed to his son, Kim Jong Il. The second generation belongs to the heavenly realm, not to Satan. The first generation was taken to Sa-tan’s side but has been restored. The new generation belongs to heaven. Father completed the dispensation in 1991. Based on that most incredible victory 1992 has now begun. Upon this foundation Father has given a motto for this year. The unification of the new nation has begun.
THE THIRD ISRAEL
This is a cosmic, historical day. As you learned through the Divine Principle, the first Israel failed. The second Israel, which is the Christian world centered on the United States of America, was given a great opportunity by God after the victory of World War II. That opportunity passed without success. Upon those two failures God has now begun the third Israel dispensation. If the second Israel had united with True Parents in 1945, God’s dispensational goal which Father is celebrating today would have been accomplished within seven years, by 1952. The new nation’s unification would have occurred in 1952.
Because of the failure of the second Israel, God’s dispensational history was postponed and four thousand years of history had to be re-indemnified in Father’s forty-year course. In the sight of God, established Christianity lost every-thing by failing to unite with the True Parents. True Parents have been alone, left in the wilderness to build their own foundation through their own efforts.
The third Israel, which is Korea, has been divided. The north was taken by communism. Father’s arduous task of restoration had to occur within the enemy land. For that reason, right after the liberation in 1945 Father went to North Korea. His ministry was begun in prison. Although Father returned to South Korea, it entirely opposed Father leaving no base or foundation on which Father could stand, even in South Korea.
In 1948 independence came to the southern part of the Korean peninsula. Only half of the nation could become independent. Since 1948 two nations have dwelt within this one peninsula. That struggle has been going on for forty-six years. In 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea. Because of that, the United Nations took part in a peacekeeping operation. Through that attack, Kim Il Sung became an enemy to the entire free world. Through the Korean War, an extreme polarization occurred.
Father has been all alone. There were no allies for Father or for God. Father was cast out to the wilderness by the satanic forces. From the very bottom he began to build the foundation which has come this far.
THE IDEOLOGY OF TRUE PARENTISM
The history of God has been the history of failure. Adam failed, Noah was a failure, Abraham failed, then Moses and Jesus. All through history the central figure has failed again and again. The only person to learn the depth of the heart of God, as well as the dispensational history and what needs to be done, with-in his own lifetime, is True Father. Actually God has prepared a tremendous foundation for the restoration work: the United States. However, the second Israel was entirely lost through the failure of the Christian nation. The process of recreation must be accomplished within Father’s own lifetime, because he is the only one who knows the entire dispensational purpose and history. For that reason, Father began that process and has been victorious in it.
[Father draws on the board.] As Father mentioned, the Korean liberation came in 1945. Seven years is one cycle in which the entire creation can be completed. According to the Bible, it is seven days, but the seven years from 1945 to 1952 had the same significance. Therefore, 1952 would have been the year God’s dispensation was completed. The entire Christian realm centered upon America, which was to make ready for the coming of the Messiah, the True Parents.
With True Parents on the top, there are two wings. One is the national sovereignty wing, the other is the religious wing. Sovereignty has spread to become one hundred and eighty nations and there are several major world religions. Religion is in the Abel position and the nations are in the Cain position. These two must be united like mind and body. Religion represents the mind and national sovereignty represents the body. What ideology can religion and national sovereignty center on? There is only one: True Parentism.
However, this foundation was lost. Therefore, in 1985, after forty years of Father’s struggle to lay the foundation, it was completed a second time. Seven years added to 1985 gives us 1992. This year, 1992, is equivalent to 1952. Now, forty years later, Father has accomplished and fulfilled the same level of success through his own foundation.
By 1952, the original concept of religion and politics uniting centered on True Parents was lost. For that reason, forty years later, the same situation must occur. With True Parents at the center, religion and sovereignty must be united into one world and one family. Once the True Parents are united and consummated they are the ones guiding the future and direction of the world. Therefore, the center of the universe is not the president of the United States or any national sovereign, but the True Parents. The United States of America today has one way to survive and prosper. That is to follow the True Parents’ way. There must be one ideology that will unite the entire sixty-six books of the Bible. At the same time, he Old Testament and New Testament must be united, and Catholicism and Protestantism must be united. There is no other ideology besides True Parentism that can do this.
UNITING THREE REALMS
The concept of right wing and left wing began at the time of the crucifixion. The right side was represented by the United States and the left side was represented by the communist world. At the second advent, the left and right must be united. Furthermore, the third element, the realm of Barabbas, must also be united. No one can bring unity between left and right except the coming Messiah. That era has arrived with our True Parents.
The religion of Islam represents the third realm. It does not belong to right or left. There were three thieves actually: there was one on the right and one on the left, and Barabbas was the third. He was given the opportunity to conquer an entire area that was left in the hands of the chosen nation, the Israelites. The twelve tribes occupied a great deal of territory but bit by bit it was taken away by Islam. The thieves on the left and right both died on the cross. Only one criminal survived and that was Barabbas. Therefore, that particular realm has been prospering for the last two thousand years.
The destiny of the world is the reunification of religion. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the three major religions, must become one and unite the world headed toward one goal. Some important leaders of Islam are represented in this congregation. Father is saying that before the coming of the True Parents those three religions were like brothers. When there are no parents, brothers fight among themselves. For the last two thousand years there have been many fights between Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Unity can only come when the parents appear. When the brothers follow the commands of the parents then the fighting will cease.
The Islamic realm has spread throughout the world, but primarily among the black race. The Bible tells about one black man named Simon who carried Jesus’ cross to Calvary because Jesus was completely exhausted. In a way the black race has been representing physical dynamism. Most boxing champions and a great many Olympic gold medalists are black. The black race has an incredible dynamism and physical force. At the same time there are a great many problems within the black race.
There has also been un-reconcilable fighting between Judaism and Islam. The reconciliation of these two religions is going to be a very important part of the world providence. Communism has faltered and been completely defeated by the power of the Messiah’s ideology. In April 1990, only one-and-a-half years ago, there was a symbolic subjugation of the communist world when President Gorbachev welcomed Father to the Kremlin.
What about the right side? Father has been a dominant force in the United States during the time of the four consecutive presidents starting with Nixon. Father has been working under God’s dispensational will and this particular Principle.
Father created the two most important worldwide organizations last year in Korea. They are the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace and the Federation for World Peace. Six-ty nations were represented at the foundation of these two organizations. Father really only needed forty nations to meet the dispensational requirement. The Religious Federation represents the mind side of human affairs. The Federation for World Peace represents the physical side; it is generally concerned with political affairs. Religious persecution throughout history was usually carried out by political leaders. The body is always in the position to torment the mind and destroy the mind’s will. Father sees that the unification between the religious and political world is almost exactly like the unity of the mind and body. When there is unity, there shall be peace.
TRUE LOVE, THE ESSENCE OF UNITY
What is the core essence to bring this unity? It is true love: cham sarang. True love is not the love of oneself. The power of true love enables you to love the one that you could not love. True love always aspires to create something better than yourself. You aspire for your children to be better; a husband aspires for his wife to be better than himself and a wife looks forward to having a husband better than herself. That is true love. There is no jealousy. Where does that characteristic come from? It comes from God. Therefore, we come to this most cardinal principle that even God would like to have His children be better than Himself. God is subject but He wants His object to be better than Himself.
Let’s say God has one hundred percent energy. If you just invest one hundred per-cent it is nothing special. What God has been doing is investing one hundred percent in His object and then forgetting the investment. Then He gives another one hundred percent investment and forgets again. This is how true love works. God gives and for-gets. Then he accumulates more energy and gives more and forgets again. This is how the true love concept was born. True love is always aspiring for the object to be better than the subject.
CLEANSING THE LINEAGE
Love is greater than life. Therefore, for the sake of true love, you are able to give up your life. Particularly in the fallen world, true love begins when you give your life as a sacrifice. The Bible says those who give their lives for the sake of others will gain true life and those who try to gain their life will lose it. The first of the two greatest commandments Jesus gave was to love your Lord God with all your heart, mind and soul. When you do that you actually are giving your life to love someone.
Human history has been flooded with the blood of war. The appearance of satanic and evil nature brought the concept of struggle or the dialectic into human history. How can we make this world of struggle into a world of peace? Throughout history, there are people and groups who have been claiming, “I am the best, the first, the highest … ” with a very arrogant attitude. Communism was like that. Certain religions claim that their religion is the best. This is satanic nature, therefore those who make such a claim one by one, will falter. Satan has stained the human line-age. That was the worst work of Satan. What about the free sex that is going on right now? It is a contamination of the blood. It is the most incredible crime because it is passed from generation to generation, making the blood lineage filthy.
Love, both spiritual and physical, is given purely as God’s gift for the preservation of the human race and for God’s dispensation. Can it also be utilized for your own joyful physical desire? That is absolutely unforgivable. What is the mission of the second coming of the Messiah? He is coming to cleanse the human blood lineage. Furthermore, all the concept of struggle and fighting will stop.
What is God’s strategy? God’s strategy has always been to receive attack and then claim more territory. That has also been Reverend Moon’s strategy. For a seventy-year period he was hit, persecuted, attacked, jailed and tortured, but each time Father was able to claim more territory. America even sent him to Danbury, trying to dishonor him to the degree that would make the Unification movement collapse. Instead of allowing the United States to become an enemy, by going to Danbury, Father continuously served and worked to save this nation.
What about communist countries like the Soviet Union or Kim II Sung’s North Korea? They have been trying to kill Father! However, instead of taking revenge, Father has been giving them true love and trying to save them. This is Father’s strategy for winning the world. Father comes to liberate humanity from satanic thought and satanic sovereignty.
Satanic thought is always selfish, so Father is creating a revolution from selfishness to unselfishness. At the same time, satanic de-sire is always dirty, it always has something to do with sex and lineage. Satanic people are mixing together and staining the blood lineage. Father has come to cleanse the lineage.
Although you are an individual, above you there is your ancestral lineage. During the many thousands of lifetimes within your lineage, imagine what an incredible mix of confused situations occurred. They are linked through you. Think of how many times they accused God and rebelled against Him. You are the heir and result of that lineage, but God is not looking at you as the enemy. God looks at you as a son or daughter and tries to save your life and bring you to heaven. You can see that when God is thinking like that there is no concept of struggle. There is only the concept of existing for the sake of others.
What is the definition of a true man or woman? True men and women are giving and investing themselves throughout their lives for the sake of others. Even if they invest their own life, still they are not finished. They go further and further. How can mind and body be united? This is the key question Father has been asking over and over. True love alone can bring the mind and body together. What is the greatest power even in the fallen world? The power of love. You can win everything and everyone with the power of love. Age makes no difference; love wins them. This works even in the fallen world so how much more it must be so in the true world. How powerful true love must be to conquer everything!
SUBJUGATION BY TRUE LOVE
About two thousand people are gathered together here at this new year’s celebration. If even two thousand people tried genuinely to live for the sake of others, how much power they would have to lift up New York City and even the American nation. It is not easy to live that way so why should we live such a difficult life? Why did Reverend Moon give his entire life? Why didn’t he tell us, “Go ahead and enjoy yourself. Do anything you want”? If that would bring happiness, he would do so. But it will not because there is such a thing as eternal life and the spirit world. Father would like to give you an eternal life that is brilliant. Spirit world is the place where the more you resemble God, the greater your heaven will be.
Father had an historical meeting with Kim Il Sung, the president of North Korea. Kim has tried to destroy Father so many times: in prison, with torture, and by sending out assassins. But when Father met with him, he had no feeling that Kim Il Sung was his enemy. Father looked at him as a brother with true love. He loved the one who was unlovable. That is how Kim II Sung surrendered. A natural subjugation occurred through the power of true love. After Kim II Sung met Father a message came to Father that Kim Il Sung said, “I must see Reverend Moon once again because he makes me so brilliantly happy.” He was beaming ear to ear after meeting Father. He is not a lonely man anymore. With Father on his side he is now a happy man.
How can Father not harbor a mind of revenge toward the worst enemy among enemies? Kim 11 Sung needs parents too. Look at him from a parental point of view, as the father or mother of Kim Il Sung. Even if the son is the worst criminal there is no way the parent would ever say, “I will just cast him out.” Parental love is the closest thing to true love. Faced with such love, Kim Il Sung, impossible dictator though he may be, would be grateful to his father and mother. By the same token, as soon as he felt that same love from Father, he responded in the same way.
The United States of America has committed the worst evils against Father but he looks at America and the two hundred and forty million people living here with a parental heart. Father looks at them as his own children. How can he feel hatred towards them or castigate them? Father has been thinking that his parents have been giving parental love to him and he was brought up in it. By the same token the two hundred and forty million people have a multitude of parents. From their point of view, the American people are the children. Father is always teaching that the family is greater than the individual because the family includes parents. The nation is greater than the tribe because the nation has so many more parents. When Father looks at a poor, miserable or disabled person, Father looks at that person with a parental eye. That son or daughter is so precious. A parent thinks so mercifully toward his dis-abled son. In that case, Father cannot hate them.
True Parents have been crowned at the pinnacle of the mountain. President Bush is not leading this country; actually True Parents are leading the entire world and the United States is a part of that world. It used to be that the very concept of True Parents seemed so strange. But from 1992 and on, True Parents are at the pinnacle. Therefore, True Parents’ presence is going to be shining all over the world.
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
Father predicted communism could not go beyond seventy-three years and that is precisely what happened. The disappearance of communism from the face of the earth is not the end of the struggle though. The more difficult struggle has been the struggle between religions. I have been warning about the danger of religious bloodshed among Islam, Judaism and Christianity. The most senseless killing is going on in the name of religion. Father has been promoting a great deal of reconciliation between Judaism and Islam through ICUS (International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences). When Islam and Judaism are fighting which one is on the side of God? We cannot say. Both are right and wrong. The important thing is that God’s will is to bring harmony. In the Bible it says that those who bring harmony and reconciliation will be blessed. The one who can do it is truly a son of God.
In the entire history of the world, no one has done more for the reconciliation and harmony of humanity. We have distinguished representatives of Islam sitting here with us. This never would have happened before, but they are coming here for forty days workshop on the Divine Principle. This can hap-pen because Reverend Moon is a unifier, peacemaker and reconciler. I am sure you are not having an easy time. However, I would like you to understand how much I have been working and preparing behind the scenes to pay the price in order to create a foundation for you to be here. God and I together laid the foundation for the sake of religious unity of the religions and now you are here as the champions of that particular fruit. This is absolutely historical!
The most important thing is that we are not orphans. We have True Parents! Once we have parents nothing is lacking. We are full and fulfilled. We can go to our hometown because our physical parents’ hometown is our hometown. The Bible says that unless you are like a child you will not be admitted into the Kingdom of Heaven. What is a child’s character? A child is single-minded. There are only two words that are important for a child: Mom and Dad. Even though you are grown up, be like a child. Even if you get married and go away from the parents’ home, when you visit you are like a child, just like the good old days. Who is the big Dad? God! He is the vertical, most giant Dad. True Parents are the horizontal parents. Both are Mom and Dad, therefore you feel great intimacy with God and intimacy with True Parents. Do you like that? Therefore, whatever the parents want, that is the center of everything. You can go to your hometown; you can have anything and live a full life.
The conclusion: by laying such incredible indemnity conditions and through intense suffering, Father and Mother are accomplishing the liberation of humankind. Why is that? Be-cause through the liberation of humanity, God can be liberated. No one is trying to persecute Reverend Moon anymore. That means liberation has occurred. Even Kim Il Sung, who had the most evil mind, has disappeared. Even the CIA and KGB have disappeared. The entire world is now saying, “Welcome Reverend Moon. Welcome Father and welcome Mother!”
SPEAK THE TRUTH
What is our remaining job? There is only one job: talk. Speak the truth. Speak good words and what will happen? Just talk about life and you will meet people. You will give and take with feeling and heartistic relationships will occur. The end means sense and discernment. You can judge a situation. You do not even need to tell them, because once they see good behavior and a good result they are going to follow you.
What do you Unificationists think? If you go out, do you have a story or don’t you? [We do.] When you tell your story are you going to be overpowered by the other side or will you overpower them? [We’ll overpower them.] When Father went to North Korea, they mobilized the intellectuals to overpower Father ideologically and philosophically, but Father saw their weaknesses immediately. Father asked them several questions and they surrendered. They could not open their mouths. This is not just somebody’s tale; Father experienced this a few days ago in North Korea.
By the unification of the new nation, the day has come for the liberation of humankind and the liberation of God. Amen!