CSG 13.3
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1Ladies and gentlemen, looking back, my life has indeed been like a dream. At the youthful age of sixteen, with nothing but the buoyant spirit and aspirations of youth, I was called by Heaven and began to live for the will of God. This left no room in my heart for any worldly ambitions I may have cherished. It has never been an easy path, but I have followed it for more than eighty years, looking nowhere but straight ahead. This was the life I was destined to lead, with no choice but to shake off the embrace of my beloved parents, brothers and sisters, who clung to me, wanting me to stay with them. They endured great self-sacrifice and walked a thorny path of sorrow and suffering for my sake.
2Mine has been a journey through a wilderness that no one among the 6.5 billion people living on earth can ever comprehend. Even as I persevered through the hardships of prison life six times, I never let go of the key to the providence. Such has been my life. This was all because I came to know only too well how anguished, aggrieved and full of bitter sorrow was the heart of God as He waited for thousands of years to find us. I realized that if God, who is the origin of billions of people and the Creator of everything in the universe, is not relieved from His sorrow, human life will remain completely without value.
3My life for the past eighty-eight years, dedicated to the completion of the mission of True Parents, has been one of sorrow, marked by inexpressible suffering and persecution. As the third Adam, the True Parent, I need to restore through indemnity and complete everything that the first and second Adams came to do. I am responsible to complete not only the mission of the Savior, the Messiah, and the Lord at his Second Coming, but also the missions of the major figures from whom religions have sprung.
4Bearing similarities to God's creation of the universe, where not even the smallest error is permitted, my life has constituted the great work of re-creating humanity. It has been a lonely course that I cannot discuss fully with anyone. Life took me down thorny paths through the wilderness that I had to follow while utterly alone. Not even God could acknowledge me. Frequently hovering in a state between life and death, even vomiting blood, I had to rise again like a phoenix to remain true to my promise to God.
5Though innocent, I had to endure imprisonment six times: for working in the underground independence movement in my early days while studying in Japan; for propagating the will of God in Pyongyang, which was under communist control immediately after Korea's independence from colonial rule; during the Syngman Rhee administration after Korea had been reborn as a free nation; and even in the United States, which proudly presents itself to the world as a model of democracy. No one on earth can understand my eventful life, which I lived for the sake of perfecting the model of absoluteness in conjugal love. It has been a life of misery. By biting my tongue, I have endured for the sake of our God, who deserves pity, and for the sake of the salvation of the world's fallen people, who are suffering in the realm of death. Even now, if someone were to look into my heart and speak but one word of sympathy, I would burst into tears; they would flow like a waterfall.
6Once someone becomes an old man of eighty-eight, he normally looks back on his life and quietly prepares to enter the next world. Yet, my life begins from now. It is not because I am encumbered by attachments to this life. No, it is because God called me to be the True Parent and save people who are suffering in and unable to escape from the fallen realm, and I have yet to fulfill that mission.
7We have now arrived in the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven, the time of harvest. This year, I will continue to guide you in carrying out this universal revolution for the restoration of humanity. Please do not hesitate! Let us hold hands and together uphold the heavenly decree in fulfilling our calling and responsibility! How can we avert our eyes from the situation in which tens of thousands of our brothers and sisters are dying helplessly while waiting for salvation?
8After inaugurating the Universal Peace Federation in New York, on September 12, 2005, my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, and I went on to convey our inaugural message through a global tour of 120 nations. On this foundation of True Parents' victory, my wife took the baton and completed a second world tour this spring, during which she held rallies to proclaim a message of peace in 180 nations. It was a tremendous victory in which two generations of the True Family -- True Parents and True Children -- worked together proclaiming this message of peace. This victory, in which the children of the Cain-type realm and Abel-type realm came together on a universal level and offered themselves as the foundation for True Parents, returned the providential realm of ownership to God.
9On the basis of this victory, on June 13 of this year, heaven and earth were unified. God and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind were firmly established in their rightful positions through the Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony and Coronation of the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth. These events constituted a glorious victory, unprecedented in history. On this day, God, who had walked the course over countless years in the providence, alone, in bitter sorrow, in tears, behind the scenes of history, was liberated, set completely free, and firmly settled into His position as the King and Master of heaven and earth.
10The victory of God and True Parents, who have entered the Cheon Jeong Peace Palace, is linked to an outpouring of tremendous grace through which the 6.5 billion people of the world can return to dwell within Heaven's household. On August 31, 2006, the True Parents, True Children and also the True Grandchildren assembled for a third world tour to convey God's Word and the Blessing. I personally launched this tour here in Korea. The three generations of the True Family bestowed the Blessing in forty nations. They have returned on this happy day, victorious after their long journey. This world tour was outstanding in particular because of the active participation of three generations of the True Parents' family.
11Upon founding the Universal Peace Federation, in order to build one family under God through proclaiming God's Word and administering the marriage Blessing, I completed a world speaking tour with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, our children and our grandchildren. In this way we successfully modeled three generations fulfilling the marriage Blessing ideal within one family. One hundred twenty representatives of Christianity from America, 1,200 other religious leaders and 12,000 ambassadors for peace from across the world traveled simultaneously throughout 190 nations. They represented their own nations by spreading the peace message of the True Parents and sharing the marriage Blessing. These tours helped establish true family values as the universal values of humanity that will expand a new Godcentered civilization.
12These leaders made up a corps of the peace kingdom of heaven and earth, an army restoring a nation a day with the truth and Blessing. The Word and Blessing, proclaimed simultaneously each day in twelve major cities of each nation, brought the greatest joy to all humanity. The mobilization of the three generations of the True Family is an event that will be renowned for eternity. It is something that no saint ever imagined, a miracle that will be praised forevermore as a victorious liberation of Heaven.
13Today, October 14, 2006 is yet another day of history-shaping victory that I will never forget. It is the anniversary of the day the United Nations forces liberated me and I became a free man after spending two years and eight months in a North Korean labor camp. The communists took over North Korea shortly after the liberation of my country. I had been conveying Heaven's message to the people living under the communists and, as a result, was unjustly imprisoned. October 14, 1950 was a perilous day, and Heaven was compelled to create a miracle. It was on this day that I, the person with the seal of the True Parent of humankind, was to be publicly executed. There was no way that Heaven could ignore this. I declare this day, which bears such great providential significance, to be a historic day of victory. Through it, as the True Parent of humankind under the protection of God, I offer glory and respect to Heaven and blessings and love to the earth.
14Please do not forget that our mission is to elevate the Universal Peace Federation, now one year old, to the position of the Abel-type UN. Heaven is instructing us to develop the Universal Peace Federation as a new international peace organization. At the same time, we are to reform the United Nations, which stands as a Cain-type institution, by promoting the establishment within it of a peace council. It would have the same rank as the current UN Security Council, but be free from Satan's realm. This council would be a legislative body consisting of religious leaders from around the globe, under the protection of God. I am saying that we have to establish a peace council that will work not for the interests of nations, as the UN presently does, but for humanity's true welfare and peace, based upon a perspective that goes beyond national interests. The concept of the Universal Peace Federation, which was launched according to God's ideal purpose of creation, could not have emerged from the wisdom of one human being. It is the unsurpassed, supreme blessing Heaven has given humanity as we usher in the new millennium. Thus, it is my hope that the Mongolian People's Federation will recognize and fulfill its duty as a partner of the Universal Peace Federation in achieving these noble goals bestowed by Heaven.
15I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of inexpressible suffering and tribulation. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even as I walked a thorny path, on the razor's edge between life and death, I held on dearly to Heaven's command to bring salvation to humanity because I had received Heaven's seal and was made fully aware of the objectives of God's Will. Though beaten down many times, I rose up like the phoenix and continued my exhausting work. Now leaders of religion, academia, politics and other fields, both here in America and throughout the world, recognize me as the champion in eight areas of spiritual knowledge and discipline.
16The first has to do with the knowledge of God. Until now, God has been understood only as an all-knowing and all-powerful being. People envision God sitting on a throne of honor and glory as the absolute Master, having nothing to do with the created world. There is another side to this, however. From the moment I embarked on my journey to fulfill God's providential call, I came to know that the relationship between God and human beings is that of parent and child. I learned that God has been the Parent of pain, sorrow and lamentation ever since He lost His first children, Adam and Eve. Throughout my life, I have been doing my very best to dissolve God's pain and sorrow and bring liberation and total freedom to His heart. Finally, on January 13, 2001, through the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship, I was able to restore His throne of glory and power and offer it to Him.
17The second area has to do with the reality of Satan. Throughout history, human beings have not known the identity of the devil, Satan, who caused the Fall and led us into all kinds of evils. For fourteen years, I labored desperately through crushing spiritual battles to discover all the secrets of the spirit world. Finally, I discovered the identity of Satan, the origin of evil. Taking it one step further, I uncovered Satan's strategy and tactics by which he multiplied his power. Satan's strategy was to defile the human lineage through the Fall. After discovering this, I totally committed to restoring God's original lineage. The international cross-cultural marriage Blessing movement, now widely known throughout the world, is the heavenly path developed for this purpose.
18The third area has to do with understanding the human condition. What is the origin of human beings, how should we live, and where are we meant to go? Why do fallen people's mind and body fight, struggling in continual conflict? What is the meaning of life and death? Does the world after death truly exist? If it does, what does that mean for how we live while on earth? The Principle of Creation that I have discovered provides detailed answers to these questions and others. In addition, I have the ability to look into the hearts of men and women and intuit their destiny. That is why, throughout the world, I have been matching many young people with their spouses-to-be.
19The fourth area has to do with knowledge and understanding of the spirit world. The spirit world, the world beyond physical death, really exists. All people are bound to go there as an extension of their earthly life. Human life is a continuous stream all the way from one's conception and life in the womb to an eternal life after one's physical death. When their physical lives have ended, those who have received the marriage Blessing, which eradicates the original sin and opens the way to spiritual perfection, receive the Seonghwa Ceremony. This ceremony is not for mourning; rather it is to joyfully bid farewell and congratulate the departed on their path to the heavenly realms, where they will enjoy eternal life. We should understand clearly that the countless saints and sages who lived on earth throughout history are actually alive in the spirit world. Having been reborn as absolute good spirits after receiving the True Parents' marriage Blessing, they are assisting God's providence on the earth. Each moment in our earthly life is recorded in the spirit world, exactly as it takes place. On the day we cross over to the spirit world, we will be judged based on our life's record. That is why all human beings should practice true love, and sacrifice themselves for a greater cause throughout their lives.
20The fifth area has to do with the knowledge of Jesus. I came to understand the terrible tragedy of the crucifixion. Jesus came as God's Son, the Savior and Messiah, but he was opposed and rejected, even by the people whom God had prepared to receive him. It was God's Will that Jesus, as the second Adam, fulfill the model of a God-centered ideal family and engraft all humanity. Christianity became the foundation of Western civilization through Rome, and then became the nucleus of the Atlantic and Pacific civilizations. It has always stood in the position of the bride to receive the Lord at his Second Coming. Therefore Christians in particular have to comprehend Jesus' heart of sorrow at being driven to the cross, at being unable to fully live out God's Will for him. My teachings clearly explain the truth of Jesus' mission, the salvation through the cross, and the reason for his return.
21The sixth area is the knowledge of the core contents of the Bible and other scriptures. These are revelations that enable human beings, trapped in ignorance by the Fall of the first human ancestors, to return to God. Scriptures express important teachings in metaphor and symbol. Only the Messiah sent by Heaven can reveal the full meaning of these metaphors and symbols. Hence, Jesus was able to disclose the core content and deep meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures. In the same way, my teachings shed light upon God's message, His providence of salvation revealed everywhere in the Bible. The Bible is a book of revelation that teaches us God's ideal for the creation, of the Fall, and of the path of restoration. The Divine Principle that I discovered provides clear explanations for what the world's scriptures expressed in metaphor and symbol.
22The seventh area is in the knowledge and understanding of the ultimate purpose of human history. History is not merely a record of coincidental events. Human events have been flowing in a clear direction and with a clear purpose. They comprise the history of the providence for the re-creation of human beings to their original state, through indemnity, a history of restoration for their salvation. Because of this insight into the origin and direction of history, I was able to predict accurately the sudden end of communism and dialectical materialism, which I proclaimed at the 1985. Professors World Peace Academy conference in Geneva, Switzerland, when the Soviet Union was at its peak. Today, I am declaring that it is time for all nations and religions to break down their barriers. Through this, the era of one family under God will arrive and last forever. God is leading history. With the help of heavenly fortune, under the auspices of the Abel UN, we will now make rapid progress toward a world that transcends religion and nationality. It will be God's kingdom on earth, which we call Cheon Il Guk.
23The eighth area concerns true family values. God's ideal of creation is to build God-centered true families. The goal of His salvation providence is to restore the ideal of the true family, the ideal that Adam could not fulfill in his own family. This is the way to establish the foundation for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. The marriage Blessing, which is the core of a movement that I have been leading, is not an ordinary wedding ceremony. It is a sacred ritual through which to eradicate the original sin and engraft human beings with the true lineage of God. True families are the wellspring and foundation of true love, true life and true lineage. The true nation, true world, and true kingdom can be built through true ideal families. Families centered on the True Parents can be the base for the perfection of relationships within the four realms of heart and three kingships, thereby becoming the foundation for the kingdom of heaven.
24As I have mentioned, I have become well known throughout the world as a champion in each of these eight areas. Yet, for the victory to be won, all humankind must work together with the help of God.
25Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly historic turning point. It is a point of decision, between settling everlasting world peace, or repeating the twentieth century's bleak and oppressive history of war and conflict. The twentieth century was a period of ceaseless struggle, including nations scrambling for colonies, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War between East and West, and the Korean War, a providential battle to recover God's homeland for which the United Nations Security Council mobilized the forces of sixteen countries.
26I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely that the United Nations, founded in 1945 after the Second World War, would be an institution for peace, and that it would uphold God's will for the realization of eternal world peace. The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to peace. Nevertheless, at its sixtieth anniversary there was a broad consensus, both inside and outside the organization that the UN had yet to discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes. The number of member states approaches two hundred, but the offices of these states do little more than represent and even insist on their own interests. They seem inherently unable to resolve conflicts and achieve peace.
27On September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout heaven and earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God's providence to flourish. It is now possible for the UPF to serve as an Abel-type counterpart to the UN in the Era after the Coming of Heaven. It will renew the Cain-type UN and open the way for millions of ambassadors for peace throughout the world. These individuals have taken up my teachings, the way of the Heavenly Parent, which consist of the principles of true love and the ideal of the true family. Assuredly they will fulfill the heavenly call to create one family under God.
28On this meaningful occasion, please engrave this message in your hearts. Your family's good ancestors in heaven are already blessed. Numbering in the billions, they have come to the earth today and they are listening to this message with you. This is because they can perfect themselves and advance to the position of true parents, true teachers and true lords and owners only through you, their descendants. Beyond that, they need to restore their original selves by uniting in mind and body with True Parents, the King of all kings. Living the life of absolute obedience to True Parents, they have to mobilize completely for the establishment of heaven on earth and heaven in heaven. Please remember that the physical and spirit worlds are alive and are with you every moment.
29There is one more request I have for you today. Please immerse yourselves in the content of my peace messages. Reach the point where you know them virtually by heart. Make them the guidelines for your life. These messages of peace summarize my teachings, which can be found in the six hundred volumes of True Parents' speeches. If you manage to do this, heaven and earth, with God in the forefront, will unite and protect you. You then will establish the peaceful ideal world envisioned by God, and live in the joy of eternal liberation and complete freedom.
30Your families now should fix their place in history by fulfilling the mission of the Abel UN's peace kingdom corps and peace kingdom police force, to advance God's providence in the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. History will remember you forever, for leading a noble life devoted to the well-being of humanity and world peace. I am now developing globally the peace kingdom corps and the peace kingdom police force, which I founded. Who, if not leaders such as you and your families, can stand in the forefront of these two organizations under the banner of UPF, the Abel UN?
31What will you do in this desperate providential time of harvest, when we have to complete and perfect the liberation of God's homeland in Korea? Will you be among the foolish who are trapped in the walls of selfish individualism and elitism? In the Era after the Coming of Heaven, will you remain in the Era before the Coming of Heaven and only live for your own sake? Whether you like it or not, Heaven has called you. It will guide you under the shining banner of the Abel UN, an organization proclaimed before heaven and earth and launched on September 23, 2007. Quickly work both to complete the reformation of the existing UN and to fulfill the mission of the Abel UN. Please thereby apply God's ideal of creation to politics, economy, culture and education, based on the realms of God's heart.
32Agreement has to be unanimous among all nations. The heavenly fortune of the conjoined jubilee years of 2007 and 2008, the seventh and eighth years of Cheon Il Guk of the Universal Peace Federation, will break down the walls and barriers. Please become the owners of the new era of the realms of God's heart by inheriting the foundation of victory brought by the True Parents of heaven and earth. We surely will build God's fatherland with our own hands. Keep in mind that democracy is an ideology of brotherhood. It is part of the transition to the age of true parents and true families, the era of the civilization of God's heart. So, make a revolutionary leap over the summit of democracy without hesitation.
33For the Republic of Korea to fulfill its role as the homeland, on the stage that the Abel UN erected with participants from 194 nations, I want you to be active in the forthcoming elections. Participate in the elections of the president, representatives, county heads, mayors and the like, and in the appointment of administrative secretaries. I want you to succeed at the task of bringing the political parties into oneness. Restore your homeland on earth, centering on leaders representing God. Before Heaven, I have proclaimed and launched the Korea-Japan undersea tunnel and Bering Strait tunnel project. You, as owners who have accomplished True Parents' will, and who support the goal of restoring your homeland, have to see these through to completion.
34Cheon Il Guk and the Abel UN stand as Abel. The United States and the existing UN stand as Cain. These two sides should bind together as one to create equilibrium in heaven and earth. You should become one in heart and body with God, the great King of kings, who is the axis, with the True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace, and with their anointed representatives. Perfect the creation of the original Garden of Eden that knows nothing of the Fall. That will complete the building of our homeland.
35Ladies and gentlemen! In truth, God carries out His providence in mysterious ways. During the helicopter incident, which no one could have foreseen, Heaven mobilized the spirit world and made sure Satan would not dare harm my wife and me, the True Parents. Even in the eyes of ordinary people this incident was extraordinary, a miracle of miracles. It is being recorded as an amazing wonder, incomparable in history. I publicly declared January 13, 2013 to be the day to fulfill the glorious restoration of the homeland. I am devoting my entire being, day and night, for that purpose. Can Heaven possibly abandon me? As God's representative in the flesh, I have accomplished His will on this earth. With whom can God work to perfect His providence and return humanity to His bosom, if not Rev. Moon? As my wife and I today are able to stand again here before you, thanks to God's tremendous grace, our hearts are bursting with emotion.
36God called us and anointed us as the True Parents of humanity. Human beings are orphans, born into the fallen lineage without true parents. They have wandered aimlessly for thousands of years. We have received Heaven's great mandate to save all people and bring them back to God. With four years to go in this final leg of our drive toward the year 2013, I proclaimed the combined jubilee years, the seventh and eighth years of God's kingdom of Cheon Il Guk, and issued the order to both the spiritual and physical worlds to advance in all directions. The helicopter incident happening during such a significant time period showed us again, clearly, that Heaven is alive and working for the sake of humanity. Now you must not forget, even for one second, the desperation attached to the time frame in which you are standing. You have to work with me hand in hand to carry on the explosive revolution of true love and true families, through which you will transform humanity into blessed families.
37Ladies and gentlemen, through the Fall, Adam and Eve yielded their spiritual and physical bodies to Satan. Jesus lost his physical body through the tribulation of the cross, but he blazed the path of spiritual salvation for all humanity by achieving spiritual resurrection through the victory of the forty-day period after the cross. In this context, this helicopter accident has tremendous providential significance. Amid an all-out attack from Satan, True Parents obtained the complete, substantial victory, both spiritually and physically. This restored and safely settled the realm of a three-generation true family, which had been lost in the history of the providence, without shedding a drop of blood.
38On that unforgettable day, July 19, the day of the helicopter accident, rebirth was completed. On the twentieth day after the accident, August 7 (Chil Pal Jeol; 7.8 Day), resurrection was completed. Now it is the fortieth day since the accident, and we consolidate this victory by proclaiming the Day of the Perfection of Eternal Life. I proclaim the new day of eternal life. On this day we sing praise to eternal liberation and complete freedom, to a new heaven and earth, the final and ideal realm of the providence centering on God.
39January 13, 2013 is coming with the promise of a new era and a new nation. True Parents' true love will realize Cheon Il Guk through the Parent UN, which will recover the homeland of peace and unity. Let us march on toward the day of the nation of Cheon Il Guk, the substantial kingdom of peace, in which we enjoy the eternal jubilee year, preserving God's lineage and perfect Blessing, and attending the original God as the Father of all!
1Everything that exists, regardless of its size, originated from a single root. This is not easy to perceive, because the Fall severed all relationships and plunged humanity into ignorance. Nonetheless, all things of creation, including the sun, desire to live in the realm of true love within the realm of the true lineage. They desire a world in which each entity creates a realm of resonance, and in which each lives for the sake of the other while attending the True Parents and True Family according to its own standard and form. This is a world of natural order where all things, throughout the universe, live with humanity centered on God in equilibrium, where there is no circuit overload, as they say in electrical engineering. This is a world where everyone in the universe wants to establish the kingdom of goodness and live in it peacefully for eternity.
2This is the venue of a tremendous event in the history of God's providence, an event unprecedented and never to be repeated. It is the day the King of Peace finally ascends in glory. Please recognize that, although they may not be visible to you, thousands and tens of thousands of good ancestors of blessed families are here. They are above your head now, joining with you in celebration of this awesome moment. All nature is rejoicing, and heaven and earth resound with choruses of hallelujah! If you truly understood the infinite value of this day, you would not be able to sit still. You would go throughout the world singing hymns of joy and dancing in ecstasy.
3Do you know the significance of January 13, 2001? It was the day of the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship. For countless years Heaven had been waiting with eager anticipation for that event, the greatest, most exalted celebration ever witnessed. On that day, Rev. Moon, who had received the anointing as the True Parent of all humankind, who traveled a path of indescribable suffering and pain until he gained the final victory, offered his entire foundation to Heaven. For tens of thousands of years, God endured an existence filled with lamentation and grief, even as He conducted His providence with a parental heart. When that presentation was offered to God, it marked His long awaited moment of liberation and inner freedom. On that providential day, we declared to all heaven and earth that we would attend God as the vertical True Parent and great King of Heaven and Earth, that we would unfurl and raise high the banner of Cheon Il Guk, and that the new sovereignty of Heaven had begun.
4For the following three years, we, the True Parents, held firmly to the helm while the winds of heavenly fortune swirled around us like a typhoon. We dashed forward as though each day were a thousand years. Then on the foundation of True Parents' victory, we declared May 5, 2004 the Day of the Victory of the Number Ten Combining Two Halves. On that day, the True Parents brought to a close the Era before the Coming of Heaven, with its long years of grief, and opened the Era after the Coming of Heaven, the new age when we can build a new heaven and a new earth. This marked the beginning of a great, history-shaping revolution that will return the earth to God in substantial reality.
5These victories that I attained through blood, sweat and tears, and the unity of the True Parents with all humanity, laid the foundation for a series of historic proclamations. The first took place in Jerusalem, in 2003. With the affirmation of Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy, I had Jesus proclaimed the King of kings before heaven and earth. Following this, in 2004 my wife and I were installed as the King and Queen of Peace in a United States Senate building and at the Korean National Assembly. Finally, on this foundation, in June 2006 we conducted the coronation ceremony of the King and Queen of Cosmic Peace.
6Today you are receiving amazing grace. You are participating in the coronation ceremony of the substantial King and Queen of Peace in heaven and on earth and you are registering as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Not only you, but also your ancestors by the tens of thousands are receiving grace along with you. They will thank you for eternity.
7The Bible says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness." (Matt. 6:33) Today you are witnessing the miracle of miracles: the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, the substantial sovereignty in the Era after the Coming of Heaven. God truly works in mysterious ways. By the first day of the new millennium, God already had surveyed the land for Cheon Il Guk. Who could have imagined, though, that they would see the day when the King of Peace in heaven and earth would ascend to his throne? You thought it was just a dream, but you are witnessing it in your lifetime.
8Humanity now is entering a new era, the era of heaven that turns the world upside down. It is a time God will work through the anointed representatives (boonbongwang) that, in my capacity as King of Peace, I am sending to every part of the world. In other words, this is the time we will complete God's kingdom of Cheon Il Guk.
9If John the Baptist had fulfilled his responsibility in relation to Jesus, Judaism and Israel would not have opposed Jesus, and Jesus would not have gone the way of the cross. With John the Baptist at his side, Jesus would have led the people of Israel to inherit the authority and power of Rome which God had prepared over thousands of years. With this foundation secured, Jesus would have sent his anointed representatives on the roads leading from Rome to all corners of the earth. They would have been the representatives and ambassadors of Jesus, the King of Peace, and would have fulfilled their mission as his anointed representatives inheriting Heaven's Will. They would have created Cheon Il Guk, reigning over the earth free from walls and barriers, the kingdom of peace, liberated and completely without evil.
10We know well that for the past two thousand years, humanity was unable to free itself from Satan's deception and had to walk a path of restoration through indemnity. The mistake of one person, John the Baptist, who failed to unite with Jesus and then died a miserable death, was behind this. Nonetheless, by heavenly law, God's providence is neither permanently impeded nor abandoned due to human error. Today, God has chosen this land of Korea to become the homeland in which His providence comes to fruition. It is because this is True Parents' homeland. They were born here and received the spirit of this land at their birth.
11I am working hard to send my anointed representatives to all nations. The era in which they live is one in which mistakes such as that of John the Baptist will never be repeated. Unlike Jesus, whose time ended abruptly through his going the way of the cross, I surely will complete the restoration of God's homeland on this earth, as I have received Heaven's seal as the King of Peace. With God and the King of Peace as the central axis, I shall lead the anointed representatives sent throughout the world and so create the original ideal kingdom of everlasting peace.
12God desires to save humankind from evil and sin, and to actualize the ideal He envisioned for all His creation. In the context of God's providential plan, the Korean War was not a simple war merely involving this country and that country. It was a just war that shaped history by bringing God's providence to fruition. This understanding is an important principle and tradition for the Abel UN. Due to constraints of time, I cannot explain in detail today the profound providential plan God has had for my life's work and for the Korean peninsula. I will therefore speak about some aspects of God's providence that I have recently announced, related to the Pacific Rim.
13If you carefully examine the progress of history, you undoubtedly can discover God's plan and sense His presence as He tirelessly worked behind the scenes. Consider the history of civilization, which began centering on four of the world's great rivers. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization that flourished along the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Harappan civilization on the Indus River, and early Chinese civilization on the Yellow River.
14The center of civilization shifted over time to the shores of the Mediterranean, where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished in Greece and Rome. History continued to progress and the European continental civilization emerged. This continental civilization in turn gave birth to an island civilization, Great Britain, which flourished in the Atlantic sphere. The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as "the empire on which the sun never sets," passed its splendid culture on to North America. We know these facts from history. Civilization on the North American continent raised the banner of democracy, which was rooted in Christianity. It bequeathed to the world the principles of freedom of religion and respect for equal human rights as it led the struggle against fascism and communism, which had established atheistic, evil sovereignties. Through the victories of the First and Second World Wars, and the third, the Cold War, it triumphed over totalitarianism and communism. However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great. The development of human civilization does not stop here. Victory came because God chose the United States of America as the Second Israel, in accordance with His providential plan, and raised and trained the American people through Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to its present stage of fruition.
15Ladies and gentlemen, the present time marks an important milestone in the development of civilization. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has now arrived on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Its course has come to the point in God's providence where it will conclude in the Pacific Rim region. No force can stop God's providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during the course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the Era before the Coming of Heaven, nothing now can prevent the rise of the Pacific Rim era. Herein lies the special reason that Heaven declared this a jubilee year.
16Ladies and gentlemen! The arrival of the Pacific Rim era signifies many things. What do you think the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his lifetime on earth? Jesus came as the Savior and Messiah, to save all humankind. He did not come just to save the people of Israel, a small nation located on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome was ready to rule the seas. Heaven earnestly wished for Jesus to first teach and transform Rome and then rule over her empire. Heaven was eager for a civilization that could bring salvation to all humanity by employing Rome's strength. Yet Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through the biblical record.
17After thousands of years of preparation, God finally had been able to send Jesus to the earth as His only Son. There is no way to fathom God's heart as He anxiously watched Jesus' each and every action. Jesus' death was a tragedy that broke God's heart. It brought Him anguish even more extreme than the time when Adam and Eve, whom He created as our first ancestors, were lost from the Garden of Eden due to the Fall. During the two thousand years since the cross, God, in the background of history, has walked a path of suffering beyond human imagination. Through this course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the nation of the Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and Protestantism as well as the Orthodox world, the United States' mission is to bring harmony and unity among all Christians as soon as possible and, in the twenty-first century fulfill the responsibility that belonged to the Roman Empire, but which was not realized in Jesus' time.
18On America's shoulders rests the responsibility, within God's providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world's 6.5 billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world. These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven's decree. Then how can we unify Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev. Moon, the True Parents of humankind. God gave me the supreme commandment to practice a life of true love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit world to which we go after we die, and to establish a model, ideal family, a true family.
19Peace-loving leaders! Among the 6.5 billion people on the earth today, almost five billion are our neighbors, relatives and brothers and sisters belonging to the Pacific Rim region. In other words, many of our fellow human beings share the same root as the sphere of the Mongolian peoples. After we receive the marriage Blessing and pull together centering on God's ideal for peace, there is nothing we cannot do. The future of humanity is in our hands.
20God's providence has now spread from the North American continent and blossomed in the island civilization of Japan, which is in a position similar to that which Great Britain once held, but on the other side of the world. It is now about to fulfill its destiny as it reaches fruition on the Korean peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents who have emerged on the earth as the Savior of humanity and the returning Messiah. The Korean peninsula stands in a position like Rome in Jesus' time. Although it is a place of religious and political conflict, it is here that the problems of the entire world can be solved. From the geopolitical point of view, at this time when world peace is to be settled, the Korean peninsula is prominent as the point of most radical confrontation.
21The principles of restoration through indemnity make it inevitable that civilization will bear fruit in the Pacific Rim region, centered on the Korean peninsula. Fortunately, during the Korean War, UN forces, led by the United States, mobilized to the peninsula. Yet they did not fulfill God's will and recover the homeland and hometown of God's desire. They left the job half done. As a result, global conflict and strife emerged, thereafter called the Cold War. During this period, the Korean people were deprived of their possessions and displaced, and this led them to search for God. In order to restore this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation. I then reorganized the peace kingdom corps and peace kingdom police force, comprised of the heavenly women who have received the marriage Blessing, who love peace, and who are willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of the Universal Peace Federation. I have taken the lead in educating these organizations. These peace organizations stand in the forefront for actualizing a God-centered world of peace. They will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires.
22You may not be aware of this, but I have been assisting behind the scenes of the Six Party Talks currently being held for the sake of resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, reconciling democratic nations with communist nations. I am presenting a new solution and plan based on the principles of peace and harmony rooted in Heavenly Parentism. At such intense times, what exactly should be the role of America and the United Nations? Hawaii, in the Pacific, and Norfolk, Virginia, on the Atlantic, bridge East and West, link North and South, and represent the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and all the great oceans of the world. With the support and protection of the American continent, the Korean peninsula should become the homeland that protects and defends the Pacific Rim region by bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies in the preservation of the Pacific Rim region centering on Korea, Japan and the United States.
23As I was well aware of Heaven's plans for this region, I invested thirty-three of the prime years of my life in the United States beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace. While on my way to meet Kim Il Sung of North Korea in 1991, I first visited Hawaii and prayed there, at that critical moment, with the purpose of bringing the Cold War era to an end. On that victorious foundation I returned to Korea, where I am working to complete the providence of establishing God's homeland and hometown. This year, in particular, a jubilee year in the providence, I again prayed in Hawaii as the first stop on a visit to America.
24Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you carefully analyze the current state of affairs in the world. Although the days of communism are gone, powerful nations such as China and Russia even now are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to pursue their own interests aggressively at the expense of small and powerless island nations. No small island nation by itself can deal with these powerful nations and their ambitions, which are economic, political and even military. They are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they could dominate a small nation in a single day, without shedding blood.
25Only when we settle peace and security in the Pacific Rim can we guarantee peace for all humanity. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves cannot contend with the great tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region. The time has come, therefore, for these small island nations in the Pacific Rim sphere to unite as one and build the homeland of the new civilization. The small island nations dispersed in the northern and southern regions of the Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, should become as one country, forming a union to sustain peace throughout the Pacific Rim civilization. This will secure peace and stability for all people. What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm, a lifeline upon which humanity's future depends, from environmental destruction and conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield its natural resources for the sake of peace in the future.
26During the past eighty-some years, I have upheld the commands of God and dedicated myself wholeheartedly to establishing the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, that is, a world of peace, the ideal God envisioned at the Creation. I have visited all corners of the world many times over in order to disseminate Heaven's message. Notably, as we entered the twenty-first century, I revealed this teaching about Heaven's providential direction and the future of humankind centered on the Pacific Rim, which is God's final blessing and warning to all people. There is no other way to realize a world of peace. Following the commands of God, the True Parent of humankind, I have embraced the world. Establishing the Abel UN, I am actively pursuing and practicing the providence of salvation. Unless people uphold Rev. Moon's teachings, there is no hope for the future of humanity. Please engrave this message, which is Heaven's ultimatum, in your heart, and hold on to it as the standard by which you will lead your life.
1As we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly historic turning point. It is a point of decision, between realizing everlasting world peace, or repeating the twentieth century's bleak and oppressive history of war and conflict. The twentieth century was a period of ceaseless struggle, including nations scrambling to gain colonies, the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War, to which the United Nations mobilized the forces of sixteen nations. They were mobilized to the Korean peninsula under God's providence in order to regain God's homeland of peace. Even after that, however, humanity had to endure a period of conflict and hostility during the Cold War between East and West. Living through this era, I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely that the United Nations, founded after the Second World War, would be an institution for peace, and that it would uphold God's Will for the realization of eternal world peace.
2The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to peace since 1945. Nevertheless, around its sixtieth anniversary in 2005 there was a broad consensus, both inside and outside the organization, that the UN had yet to discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes. The number of member states approaches two hundred, but the offices of these states do little more than represent and even insist on their own interests. They seem inherently unable to resolve conflicts and achieve peace.
3Throughout history, people have worked continuously for peace based upon human effort alone. Consider the confrontation between democracy and communism. Outwardly, the difference between the two is the extent to which they recognize and assure individual rights and freedoms. Yet from the viewpoint of God's providence, communism and democracy are like children who have lost their parents. The two divided into the positions of Cain and Abel respectively and became trapped in the chains of fraternal conflict. Throughout history, peace movements inevitably reached their limit and ended in failure because imperfect human beings carried them out. This is why the United Nations, although launched with the splendid dream of realizing world peace, today must admit its inherent limitations and confess that it can no longer give hope to humanity. This is simply because the UN was launched during the era prior to the time when God could govern the unfolding of His providence in history directly.
4Now, however, it is entirely possible for the Universal Peace Federation to fulfill its mission to unite heaven and earth and form the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. This is because it represents God's victory and the fruit of the True Parents' blood, sweat and tears. Therefore, the Universal Peace Federation is the world's cherished hope. It will carry out the role of an Abel-type counterpart to the existing Cain-type United Nations, to renew the UN and provide the leadership for a new sovereignty of universal peace, Cheon Il Guk.
5The Universal Peace Federation will now stand in the Abel position to the existing UN. It will not be an arena of competition like that between the member nations and departments of the UN. Instead, on a pan-global level encompassing heaven and earth, it will carry out a history-shaping revolution for the peace and welfare of humanity. Unlike the UN, which focuses on superficial issues and slogans, the Universal Peace Federation will fulfill the messianic mission that genuinely benefits humankind on a fundamental and substantive level. With this purpose in mind, on October 20 last year while in the Ukraine during my world speaking tour conveying the inaugural message of the Universal Peace Federation in 120 nations, I proclaimed before the world the inauguration of the global peace kingdom police force and the global peace kingdom corps. These two organizations will play roles corresponding to those of the red blood cells and white blood cells of our bodies. In all corners of the world they will nourish and protect the blessed families who have made a new beginning by engrafting to the lineage of Heaven. They will be sentinels, defending, protecting and cultivating this beautiful world, this Garden of Eden given to us by God, for which we need to be grateful.
6With a view to building the ideal kingdom of heaven that is God's desire, I am promoting the world's most ambitious project, which is to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait. This will be part of the International Highway of Peace that is to connect all oceans and continents and allow people to travel freely around the globe. The United Nations, which began with the noble ideal of realizing world peace, is now only a shadow of what it was meant to be. Unable to turn my back on this sad reality, I am promoting the renewal of the UN. In support of these efforts, I have founded the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) as the new Peace UN, or Abel-type UN, with the belief that we need to pour new wine into fresh wineskins. UPF will guide humanity into the revolutionary era in which a new and universal civilization of peace will begin. It is already active in more than 120 nations.
7The Mongolian race makes up 74 percent of the world's population; it is the largest racial group in the world. We should inspire all five billion of them and generate a climate of true love on this planet. You and I were born on the Korean peninsula; we share the same cultural background. You are the peace ambassadors and envoys of Heaven who are conveying my teachings and educating others to establish exemplary families of true love, true life and true lineage. You, who have become ambassadors for peace, please go forward with conviction and dignity, as prophets who come with Heaven's truth and have no fear of death. Go out as Heaven's envoys, and God will certainly grant you eternal life.
8The Mongolian birthmark, which we have in common, is not merely a physical mark of the Mongolian race. It is the mark Heaven gave the Dong-Yi tribes long ago, by which the True Parents would inspire and unite all humanity at the arrival of the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. Furthermore, the Korean race, standing at the center of the Mongolian peoples, is chosen to stand in the forefront of the world's 6.5 billion people. Its mission is to convey True Parents' tradition on their behalf.
9You should join the proud ranks of the global peace kingdom police force and the peace kingdom corps in service to the lofty aims of the Universal Peace Federation, for the sake of God and humanity. The more than 280 family names of Korea should become one, transcending clan and location, uniting proudly as a people God has chosen in this era. Please bear in mind that this is the God-given mission that you have as leaders representing the Korean clans and race.
10Ladies and gentlemen, you each stand in the position of a leader representing the 1.2 million ambassadors for peace around the world, spearheading the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. You are Heaven's emissary responsible for ensuring the peace and happiness of humankind in the future. You have the dual missions of the peace kingdom police force and peace kingdom corps. Therefore, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus and Muhammad, as well as hundreds of generations of your ancestors, have mobilized to watch your every move. Your mission is now as plain as can be. First and foremost, you should declare to every member of your clan and to all your acquaintances that the world has now entered the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven, the era for the establishment of Cheon Il Guk. You are responsible to educate them about the providence God is carrying out on the global level in this era, led by the True Parents.
11I am deeply moved by the hundreds of non-governmental organizations, national ambassadors, and religious leaders who stepped across the borders of race, nationality and religion, and gathered here in one place to fulfill the dream of one family under God.
12I have dedicated my entire life to teaching the path of living for the sake of others through the practice of true love. This is a basic principle that surely applies not only to individuals but also to the family, the society and the nation.
13Leaders from throughout the world, today we are marking the long sought conclusion of God's providential history. Let me take this opportunity to repeat the proposal I have made for a truly providential and revolutionary project. This project is for the sake of the kingdom of peace, which is the culmination of the providence for God and humankind, and also for the purpose of establishing God's homeland and original hometown.
14Satan created the historical divisions of our world, into East and West, North and South. I propose that we build a passage across the Bering Strait that separates the North American and Russian landmasses. This passage, which I call the World Peace King Bridge and Tunnel, will link an International Highway of Peace that will allow people to travel on land from Africa's Cape of Good Hope to Santiago, Chile, and from London to New York, across the Bering Strait, connecting the world as a single community. God is warning us that He will no longer tolerate separation and division. By carrying out this project we will bind the world together as one village. It will tear down the man-made walls between races, cultures, religions and countries, and establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world that has been God's cherished desire.
15The United States and Russia can become as one. The European Union, China, India, Japan, Brazil and all nations, and also the world's religions, can combine their energies to make this project succeed. The success of this project will be decisive in establishing the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where people no longer wage war against each other.
16Ladies and gentlemen, some may doubt that such a project can be completed. But where there is a will, there is always a way -- especially if it is the will of God. The science and technology of the twentyfirst century render it possible to construct a tunnel under the Bering Strait. The construction costs are also not a problem. Think of how much money the world is wasting on war. Humanity needs to realize that we are committing fearful sins in front of history and our descendants.
17Let us take one example: How much money has the United States spent on the war in Iraq during the past four years? It is already 400 billion dollars. That budget would be more than enough to complete the Bering Strait project. War is a most immature and destructive means of resolving conflict. It will never lead to lasting peace. Now is the time, as the prophet Isaiah taught, to beat our swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks. We should end the perverse cycle of war, which only sacrifices the lives of our children and squanders enormous sums of money. The time has come for the countries of the world to pool their resources and advance toward the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world desired by God, the Master of this great universe.
18On three occasions in 2009, once on January 15 and twice on January 31, we held the historyshaping "Coronation with the Authority of the Liberation of God, the King of Kings and Golden Anniversary Celebration." On January 31 we held this ceremony at the Cheon Jeong Peace Palace in Korea, representing the East, and again in New York City, representing the West. In this way, we set a record by offering to Heaven a historically unprecedented, never to be repeated providential event on the same day in both the eastern and western hemispheres.
19In April of 2009, my wife and I celebrated the fiftieth commemoration of the day of our Holy Wedding. In 1960, students on the Korean peninsula were crying out in resistance to dictatorship. On the sixteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar in that year, my wife and I received Heaven's seal and embarked on the arduous course in the providence of restoration that the True Parents, True Teachers and True King and Queen of humanity have to take. How can I even begin to explain the path of the providence of restoration through indemnity that my wife and I have had to follow for the past fifty years, in order to finally bring complete liberation and freedom to God and to attend Him as the King of kings? Many years from now, historians will verify and announce what I cannot explain at this time.
20You are probably not aware of the profound providential significance in True Parents' coronation and golden wedding anniversary. Due to the sin of humanity's first ancestors, God's true lineage was lost and history fell under the dominion of Satan's false bloodline. I am sure you have learned about this reality through studying the Principle. This corrupted bloodline has been part and parcel of history. Isn't it because of this that the physical world, and even the spirit world, became completely mired in antagonistic, confrontational, good-versus-evil, Cain-Abel relationships? No one has found a resolution to this tragedy, and history's problems have gone unresolved to this day.
21Times are now changing, however. On the occasions of True Parents' coronation and golden wedding anniversary, the doors to the realm of complete unity between Cain and Abel are opened. We have entered the realm of grace where human beings can be restored to the level of completion and perfection. At this point we can inherit and share the original nature of God's heart. In other words, we can reach the human state as originally intended, without a trace of the Fall. Using "O" for correct, and "X" for incorrect, we have entered the new era when the good governance of God, who is "O," can completely embrace and digest the evil governance of Satan, who is "X," leaving virtually no trace. The new era is beginning in which the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven is expanding substantially before our eyes, and when there is no longer the need to distinguish between the True Parents, who work as the embodiment of God, and the incorporeal God Himself.
22On this occasion, which has that unique significance, my wife and I celebrated our coronation and golden wedding anniversary and successfully held the Round Ball Peace Cup Cain-Abel Cosmic Harmony Tournament for thirteen days starting on April 21. Someday this will be a festival of peace for all humanity, surpassing even the Olympics. The Atletico Sorocaba football club from Brazil contributed greatly to this first tournament. They set aside everything else to come here at True Parents' invitation. Sorocaba won the 2008 FA Cup championship in Sao Paulo, Brazil. During this short visit to Asia, they played against four teams, representing North Korea, South Korea, Japan and China. They displayed an excellent standard of skill and demonstrated the soul of Latin American football. Would you please give a warm round of applause to encourage the Sorocaba team!
23You are now living in the age of blessed marriage and its fruits. The kingdom of heaven on earth, God's ideal of creation, is being established before your eyes. I have dedicated my life of more than eighty years to Heaven alone. It has been a lonely path, stained with blood, sweat and tears. Yet now it is bearing mature fruit for the sake of the world's 6.5 billion people. From the spirit world, the founders of the world's religions, tens of thousands of saints and your own good ancestors are watching your every move. They will punish you a hundred-fold if you stray from the heavenly path.
24I have declared this year, 2007, a jubilee year in God's providence. God has greatly blessed this holy year. It is a jubilee year the likes of which God and humankind have never experienced in thousands of years of history. God's heart has been in pain throughout history because humanity has been imprisoned under Satan's dominion. Humanity endured oppression under the sovereignty of evil throughout the Era before the Coming of Heaven. That time finally has come to an end! Beginning this year, the gates to the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven are open wide. We are ushering in the time of a new sovereignty of goodness, in which humanity can serve and attend God as the Central Being. Without your being aware of it, Heaven's providence has expanded in extraordinary ways. Now ambassadors for peace in 185 nations, numbering in the tens of thousands, have received my teachings and are working day and night in response to a special decree of God.
25Ladies and gentlemen, because I have spent my life discovering and disclosing the crimes of Satan, it was inevitable that I would face persecution. At times the intensity of my suffering was utterly beyond words. Now, however, I am victorious over all obstacles. I can therefore declare the Era after the Coming of Heaven, the age when the power of Heaven becomes manifest. On this foundation, I am building a worldwide Abel-realm that brings together religions and nations representing 78 percent of the world population. To create a corresponding worldwide Cain-realm, I am bringing together all those born with the Mongolian birthmark, which include some 74 percent of the world's population.
26Now these two, the worldwide Abel-realm and the worldwide Cain-realm, have to become one and unite with the Universal Peace Federation, which has been initiated as the Abel sovereignty. To establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, we have to transcend religious affiliation and nationality and remove all blockages between entities such as nations. I would like to emphasize that this is the only way humankind will be able to achieve the original ideal of creation. It is our destiny to fulfill this responsibility. By doing so, we will establish the original right of ownership lost through the Fall of Adam and Eve.
27Ladies and gentlemen, by virtue of Rev. Moon's devotion to the path of Heaven throughout the more than eighty years of his life, a new world is emerging. On this foundation of victory, I have proclaimed the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. We are now living in the age of heavenly fortune, an age in which all people can be liberated and delivered from the quagmire of sin. It is the era in which we can establish the world of freedom and happiness, the ideal world as originally envisioned at the time of the Creation.
28There are several clear reasons why Heaven designated the person standing before you, Rev. Moon, as the True Parent of humankind, and thereby opened up a new era. First, I have succeeded in practicing the way of living for the sake of others. That is, throughout my life I have practiced the values of true love, emerged triumphant, and offered that triumph to humanity. All people are born to live for the sake of others. However, because of the ignorance that resulted from the Fall, people practice the complete opposite -- selfish individualism. I revealed this truth of Heaven and have imparted this knowledge to humankind for the first time in history. God is completely aware of the journey my life has taken, through thick and thin.
29Second, I have dedicated my life to overcome all obstacles and lay a victorious foundation. Through the education provided by the actual practice of true love, I have fulfilled all the conditions necessary to recover and establish the parent-child relationship between God and humankind. I have opened the way for human beings, who became the children of the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love, and who have lived as slaves to false love, false life and false lineage, to be reborn and resurrected into the true lineage of God, the source of true love. In other words, I have opened wide the path for people to reach full spiritual maturity as individuals and to establish true families, tribes, peoples and nations, and a true world, through leading lives of true love.
30The Era after the Coming of Heaven that God and True Parents have begun is a time of dramatic change. You have the mission to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory. I have said that in this age we have to recover the true lineage that was lost when Adam fell, by receiving the marriage Blessing through the True Parents. The providence of the marriage Blessing should be perfected in five stages, that of the individual, family, tribe, people and nation.
31You are now advancing into the era of liberation and complete inner freedom, which is the providential era of the fourth Adam's realm of heart, that is, the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. Through restoration through indemnity, we have passed through the Era before the Coming of Heaven, consisting of the Old, New and Completed Testament ages, and into a time when, metaphorically speaking, the sun is directly overhead and no shadow is cast. The present time corresponds to the era prior to Adam's Fall, the era of building the original ideal world. It refers to the era of true love that is all encompassing, all-powerful and of overall authority. It is the realm of heart in which the spirit world and the physical world are bound together as a unified realm centering on the True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace. In other words, it is the era of the kingdom of peace and unity in heaven and on earth.
32I have explained that within the realm of God's grace through the True Parents, the way is prepared for all people to change their lineage through the holy wine ceremony, to receive the Holy Blessing, and to establish true families. The ultimate way to establish a peaceful, ideal world here on earth is to perfect a life that embraces absoluteness in the marriage relationship through the cross-cultural marriage Blessing. The cross-cultural Blessing is the grace by which you inherit Heaven's lineage. You have come to know clearly that God has called you to the mission of teaching these things without fail. As an heir and actual representative of the True Parents, you now have to move beyond your concepts and level of awareness to fulfill the responsibility to which you have been called.
33It is truly regrettable that you cannot perceive with your eyes this precious Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. It has never been seen before and will never again be repeated. The reason for this is that you are relying only on your five physical senses. I hope that you will open your five spiritual senses as quickly as possible, so that you may clearly perceive how the providence of Heaven is unfolding in this era. You live in the era of heavenly fortune, which you have received without offering anything on your part. Yet please bear in mind that the providential opportunity proceeds according to an absolute timetable and will not be available to you indefinitely.
34Now the time has come for you to unite into one as the representatives of the ambassadors for peace, who have preserved the spirit of the Korean people and our pride as the "white-clad people." There is no time to waste. What does it matter whether your name is Kim or Pak? Is there any reason for Gyeongsang Province and Jeolla Province not to harmoniously unite? The pro-Seoul Korean Residents' Union in Japan (Mindan) and the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chochongryon) each have their roots in the same Korean peninsula. What of South and North Korea? Aren't we all brothers and sisters, sharing a common lineage? At this time, we should bear in mind that we are the descendants of the "white-clad people" and of Heaven. We have been raised to establish the lofty ideal of advancing the welfare of humanity. We are kinsfolk, a people God has called, selected and anointed to stand at the forefront, building the peace kingdom in this, the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven.
35You are now living in the most blessed and exalted time in history. We are in the Era after the Coming of Heaven! I proclaim the beginning of the long awaited new heaven and new earth, for which billions of your ancestors in the spirit world who came and went in history, yearned. This is the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. The four great religious founders and billions of good ancestors have come to earth to guide you on the blessed path of heaven. The age when the fallen and corrupt world wreaks havoc on humanity, allowing evil people to live better than others, is passing away.
36We should seek out and establish God's kingdom and His righteousness, for it is everyone's ultimate destination to live in a nation that serves and attends God as its center. What is meant by God's kingdom? It signifies the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. It is a nation that resembles the form of a model true family with three generations living together in harmony, trusting, respecting and supporting one another, and becoming one in love. In short, it is the nation for which humanity has longed throughout the ages, the utopia where God is sovereign.
37Then what is meant by "His righteousness"? It signifies the heavenly way and heavenly rule. Each of us on earth is commanded to pass judgment, with the heavenly authority of true love, upon this evil world that suffers under scheming, treacherous regimes. It is our duty to establish the ideal, peaceful world of true love, a liberated and free world based on justice and truth. After all, humanity is destined to become one family. The remarkable advances of modern science are contributing greatly toward making this world one global village. The time has come to establish the beautiful kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where whites and blacks, Eastern and Western live together in harmony as one great family.
38This means that we need a movement to realize a society of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values. We need to make humanity one great family, by breaking down the walls in our hearts and eliminating the barriers between nations. This movement begins from each family. Therefore, each of us should bear in mind that it is our providential calling to establish a true family. This is the way to advance the establishment of the universal peace kingdom on earth.
39Indeed, all this is coming to pass. In the Middle East, one of the world's tinderboxes, Jews, Christians and Muslims have found the resources in my philosophy of peace to engage in a new dimension of dialogue. In past decades my Unification Thought played a decisive role in ending the Cold War. Now I am successfully leading behind-the-scenes efforts to bring about the reunification of my homeland of Korea. But I am not yet satisfied, because I began my life's work at the command of Heaven. I have come as the True Parent of humankind with God's anointing, and I am determined to keep my promise to Him. I am determined to obliterate all national divisions and barriers that have poisoned this earth, and to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where all people everywhere can join hand in hand.
40Rev. Moon, who received the seal of Heaven, has come as the True Parent of humanity and the King of Peace. I will be true to my promise to God. I will bring to fruition the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world on this earth, without fail. Therefore, please bear in mind that all of you gathered here today are central figures in establishing the eternal kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world on this earth, in attendance to the King and Queen of Peace, the True Parents. Under the banner of the Abel-type UN, let us sweep away the absurdities and evils of this world through the power of God's true love. Let us become the proud peace kingdom police and peace kingdom corps of the Universal Peace Federation, and protect the blessed families of the world. Let us fulfill our roles as the sentinels watching over this blessed land that is our planet. Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live together with God, the eternal Peace King, the True Parent of humanity. In order to create the glorious kingdom of peace and prosperity, let us each live up to our family duties as children of filial piety, patriots, saints, and holy sons and daughters.
End of True Parents and the Era of Cheon Il Guk