True Mother’s Message at 70th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of HSA-UWC and FFWPU which was held on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at the main hall of HJ Heaven and Earth CheonBo Training Center, Korea
I am thankful to you that we can be together on this day to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of our church.
Two thousand years ago, people did not know the essence of our Creator, our Heavenly Parent, or of Jesus, with the result that Jesus had no choice but to die on the cross. Neither Mary nor Jesus’ disciples were with him on the cross. There was a thief to Jesus’ right and another thief to his left. The thief on the left mocked Jesus, but the thief on the right scolded the thief on the left, saying that the two of them were being crucified for their crimes, but that Jesus had committed no sin. Jesus then told the thief on his right that he would be with Jesus in paradise. Jesus said “paradise” rather than “the kingdom of heaven.” This is why Jesus said he would return, and that on his return he would hold the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. Christian history began with people waiting for Jesus’ promised return following their resurrection through the Holy Spirit, yet without really knowing the essence of Jesus’ mission. Christianity is the same today.
However, our Creator’s beginning and ending are one and the same. As our Heavenly Parent must see things brought to completion, he therefore had to save fallen humankind. Heavenly Parent thus chose the people of Israel and carried out the providence of salvation. How hard it was that it took 4,000 years to go from the level of an individual to that of a family, tribe, ethnic people and nation.
If the providence is prolonged as a result of the people’s failure to unite with a central figure whom God has established, Heaven works in such a way that progress can only be made after indemnity has been paid. Four thousand years of history went by. How endlessly, persistently, Heaven strove to realize the original ideal envisioned at the time of creation! Through the principles of creation, however, God set it up so that a person must achieve perfection through his or her own effort. This is why it took 6,000 years before a victorious man and woman emerged from fallen humankind.
After 4,000 years, through the people of Israel, God sent Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son whom God could call his own. Nevertheless, Mary, the mother of Jesus, Zacharias’ family, the Jewish leaders, and the people did not understand Jesus. Indeed we know what kind of indemnity offering was made by the people of Israel after Jesus went to the cross. The only begotten Daughter could not come through the people of Israel. Heaven therefore selected a new chosen people through whom to carry out the providence. This is the Korean people. In 1943, the only begotten Daughter was born among the Korean people. This nation must therefore fulfill its responsibility to complete Heaven’s providence. It was in the environment of the Second World War that the only begotten Daughter was born. The United Nations forces divided Korea into northern and southern parts in 1945 at the end of World War II. This was because the Soviet Union was involved.
While the North prepared to invade the South, centered on the Soviet Union, South Korea remained less prepared. In this situation the Korean War eventually broke out. How could 16 UN member states intervene in a conflict in a small, unknown country? God was working. Under God’s principles of creation, Heaven had to allow the only begotten Daughter time to mature, as she needed to accomplish Heaven’s will. At that time, most of the soldiers from the 16 countries who came to fight were in their late 20s. From the world’s perspective also, they were good people. However, despite the efforts they made for this country, it is unfortunate that the Korean people—who have a responsibility to fulfill—even now do not know Heaven’s providence. Today, inter-Korean relations are not heading toward reunification. Therefore, as members of the Unification Church and Family Federation Unification who know Heaven’s providence and will, your role is crucial.
Therefore, I have been rushing forward to complete the providence. I proclaimed Foundation Day and the firm settlement of Cheon Il Guk. By this 12th year of Cheon Il Guk, I have created the environment and completed the temple in which we can attend Heavenly Parent. In just ten months we will hold the Entrance Ceremony for Cheon Won Gung, where people will be able to actually attend Heavenly Parent. Heavenly Parent has spent 6,000 years in sorrow, waiting and toiling to embrace fallen humanity. Christians have not been able to attend God, our Creator, as their Heavenly Parent during the 2,000 years of Christian history. It is the same for all religions. They have developed centered on men. The principle of creation, however, says that there should be a man and a woman. Heavenly Parent’s dream is that a mature and perfected man and woman will establish a true family, honor and attend Heavenly Parent, and live together in harmony on earth. True Parents’ devoted efforts have been for the realization of this dream.
Suppose the Unification Church had not placed the Messiah first at the outset, but rather had educated more broadly about Jesus, about his true nature and essence, and why he promised to return. Then would Christianity have called us heretics? We are trying to teach them what they do not know and seek a solution together. Where is the heresy in such a process? Until the Protestant Church emerged from the Catholic Church…. The Protestant Church has a variety of denominations, yet they all coexist. Therefore, why should the Unification Church be a problem? We speak and teach about Jesus’ essential purpose, which they are unaware of. I feel sorrow over this.
As the True Mother and only begotten Daughter who must pass through the extremely difficult wilderness course to see the completion of the providence, I feel infinitely sorry and apologize in my heart in front of Heavenly Parent. With a desperate heart, I did not rest for a day, pushing beyond my physical limitations in order that Heavenly Parent should not wait any longer. God has therefore been with us. I offer my deepest gratitude and all glory to Heaven for enabling us, in this 12th year of Cheon Il Guk, to complete the Sanctum in which we can attend Heavenly Parent.
As I stated, the Korean people, who should be the center of the providence, must fulfill their responsibility. They must uphold Heaven. However, in order to attend Heavenly Parent they must know True Parents. Specifically, they must know and understand the True Mother, who is the only begotten Daughter and substantial Holy Spirit.
Realizing that it is this people whom Heaven has blessed as the chosen people and understanding the chosen people’s responsibility, all the people and politicians of this nation should unite, attend True Mother, the Only Begotten Daughter, during this remaining short period of ten months, and lead the establishment of a heavenly unified Korea and heavenly unified world.
In view of the situations arising around the world, and the natural disasters occurring, the people of the world who are living today need to open their minds to an enlightened view. We cannot make unity based on human-centered thinking, ideas or systems. The center of the universe, the owner of the Earth, is the Creator, our Heavenly Parent. If there are any problems, we should focus our efforts in a direction that will solve the problem in attendance of Heavenly Parent.
The same goes for this nation. Today, as with the problem of Northeast Asia, people cannot become one because they still do not know Heaven’s providence, and think about and evaluate things in a human-centric way based on nationalistic and individualistic views. At this time when we are seeing the completion of the providence, this country’s leaders and people need to be able to hear the voice of God. We must pray and offer our sincere devotions for Heavenly Parent to show us a way to solve all problems. The same goes for our neighboring country, Japan. We must not be people who do not know the Heavenly Parent, the owner of the universe. The same goes for America.
Serving Heaven first, listening to God’s voice and acting on what we hear is, in this era, the victorious path to the future. Otherwise, as we know from looking at the history of Israel, nations or peoples that cannot serve Heavenly Parent at this time when Heavenly Parent is working on earth have no future. We must not be a nation that acts in such a way that we have to offer indemnity.
Today you will have heard many good testimonies from leaders around the world regarding the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Unification Church. This is the time. In this unprecedented time in providential history and human history when people live in an environment in which they can live with and attend our Creator and Heavenly Parent, they must not be ignorant of Heaven’s providence. Do you understand? I especially ask you, the blessed families of the Unification Church and Family Federation, to invest your best effort for the nations of the world in this golden age when you are together with True Parents, such that no one is left behind.
To prepare for the Heavenly Parent’s Entrance Ceremony next year, therefore, my intention has been to establish a new organizational system centering on Cheon Jeong Gung. I have therefore established Cheon Mu Won and its various offices. As I said a long time ago, the Family Federation will go forward in the Spirit and the Truth. It will advance through Cheon Shim Won and through the global mission. This is why all our organizations are centered on these two axes.
Of particular note additionally, there will be a special department where True Parents’ words will be translated for the sake of the global providence. In this way, we can quickly share the providence of True Parents with all humankind in this time when we can make connections within one second. I am seeking to give all 8 billion people of the world living in the Cheon Il Guk era the opportunity to participate in the realization of Heavenly Parent’s dream and True Parents’ hopes on earth. So I said I would establish 6 main offices in Cheon Mu Won. Senior Director Lee [Lee Cheong-woo, Senior Director of the Mission Policy Office] will come out and report on the simple organizational structure. I would like to conclude my message here.
