Why did I carry out a global tour?
You know about the holy grounds, don’t you? I did the tour to distribute worldwide the standard of success that I have established so far. The mission I have accomplished in Korea is the standard I have set up centering on Korea, and I needed to convey that to the world’s people.
When I select a holy ground, it is to be in a condition similar to that of heaven and earth before the Fall. It is also similar to the condition of all things during the period before the creation of humankind.
If there is a holy ground, the angels can cooperate with God in the creation of Adam, which is how the foundation on which the spirit world can work on earth can be established.
When the children of God, who have the victorious realm of Adam in the position of Abel and the standard of heart before the Fall, are sent to those holy grounds, the re-creation of the substance of the word and the beginning of the standard of heart can be achieved centering on them. That is why I am trying to send out missionaries worldwide as quickly as possible.
The holy grounds were established between December 31, 1964, and January 4, 1966. The establishment of the holy grounds had to involve three different years.
The selection and establishment of a holy ground is done according to the principle of restoration through indemnity, based on God’s laws of creation.
After God created the universe, He created Adam and Eve. Through Adam and Eve, He connected everything that He had created to Himself.
People who accompanied True Father
When I established the holy grounds, Ms. Choi Won-pok, Miss Kim Young-oon, and Mr. Choi Bong-choon were with me. From the point of view of God’s will, Mr. Choi represented the Eve country, Japan, and Miss Kim represented the United States, the world-level archangel nation.
Because this made a four-position foundation centering on the Adam nation, these four people did the global tour together. A man represented the Eve country, and a woman represented the archangel country.
Everything seemed to be the wrong way around. But when you look, this is symbolically aligned with the internal Adam and Eve.
Later, when you go to the spirit world, you will have a chance to feel what I felt during the world tour. What I did mostly at the time was visit the nation’s government buildings and museums, to try to observe the connection between their history and their current sovereignty.
As I toured around the world, I mainly visited such places, choosing the holy grounds. I placed the stones and earth I had brought from Korea at the corners of the holy grounds, and I brought back stones and earth from those nations.
What do the earth and stones signify?
God not only lost Adam through the Fall, but the whole world was seized by Satan.
However, now the base for God to recover the world exists; the age when we can recover the earth has arrived. Because of this, the earth and the stones at the holy grounds have become the foundation God needs to dwell on earth. You need to understand that this is why I proclaimed the holy grounds.
We are connecting the Korean earth to these holy grounds. We are planting Korean earth and stones in them. These symbolize the human mind and body. The earth represents the body; the stone represents the bone. They symbolize heaven and earth.
Ceremony dedicating holy stones
Summary of the Prayer: I dedicate to You the stones and earth brought from a hundred and twenty holy grounds in forty nations, symbolizing heaven and earth, so please accept them as the condition of dedicating those forty nations.
Through this ceremony, please let all authorities come to the side of Heaven, and let the power of the satanic world crumble.
[Afterward, True Father gave a thousand won to each of the districts in Seoul.] Put this money in a bank, as if you were saving it in my name. Every month, at least twelve people should add something to this bank account, and no one should take anything out.
You cannot go past this stage without putting aside some money in the bank. If no one else is there, the church leader should do it. By doing that, you set the condition of restoring sacrificial offerings on the world level. I began this global movement from the time of the world tour.
Seventeen European countries (July 9–August 24)
I prayed in front of the Vatican Palace. “God, after two thousand years, here is a church with over 600 million members. However, when I think about what will become of them, I cannot help but feel anxious. Let the countless separate denominations be united, as is Your wish, Heavenly Father.”
The Middle East leg
During the world tour, I travelled through the Middle East region—through Jordan, Israel, and Syria, and took a good look at them because I wanted to find out how the spirit world had been moving in the background in those nations.
When I visited Egypt, which at the time was under military authority under Nasser, because I could not discover how much they had developed industrially in their capital city, Cairo, I visited Alexandria, which was about a hundred miles from Cairo.
The Jerusalem holy ground (August 31, 1965)
At Jesus’ tomb, you will see people from all races visiting and starting to cry, quite unexpectedly, and you will feel in your heart, “Oh, this is why he is so great.”
Though history passes by, leaving no traces, as you try to follow in Jesus’ footsteps, you will find that your very bone marrow resonates. You will shed oily sweat from deep within you, and you will face him with a grave heart that fills your very being. In light of this, we cannot deny that Jesus is indeed a great figure and the son of God.
In Jerusalem, I found plaques marking the points where Jesus stumbled and fell on his way up Golgotha. As I walked up that hill and saw the twelve places where Jesus had stumbled, I thought, So this is the path of indemnity Jesus walked.
At those places, I prayed, “How heartbreaking Jesus’ situation was at that bleak time, two thousand years ago, when he was starting on his new heavenly mission in the middle of a desert wilderness!
I understand that Heaven disregarded the larger, richer nations and came to this insignificant and exceedingly dry land of Israel to dispel, even a day more quickly, the bitter resentment that impedes the restoration of this people because You had no alternative.” Anyone who visits that place feels naturally compelled to comfort Jesus.
Half the land there is desert. Israeli grape vines are only about an arm’s span in height. The heat of the sun in the daytime shrivels about a third of the vines.
However, as hot as it is in the day, heavy dew falls both at night and in the morning, which revives the plants. Just as the plants that grow in Israel wait for the early morning dew, the Jewish people are waiting for dawn.
I could feel that they are people who cry out in prayer to God in the silent hours of the early morning. If you look carefully into their eyes, you’ll see that they are full of emotion.
The songs they sing with deep emotion are great cries to Heaven, prayers that contain the soul. I felt that this is why history had to start anew from there.
For those Jewish immigrants who have just arrived there, there is temporary housing, which could be called a camp.
These people have returned to the land where Abraham was blessed all those years ago, with their ideology of restoration, to restore their sovereignty.
When I saw that, I felt that no one could take that ideology away from the people of Israel. Their belief in themselves as the chosen people is strong and complete, regardless of what difficult situations they might find themselves in.
Sun Myung Moon