World Mission Center, Grand Ballroom
The slogan for 1985 is the same as last year, which shows a continuation of God's dispensation: “Creation and Building of the Fatherland.”
A Stony, Graveled Path
I have missed you for a long time, and I am pleased to see your bright, shining faces. You are happy and full of vitality. Our path is a pioneering one. The pioneering path is not easy; it is stony and graveled. It is difficult.
Occasionally, the pathway can only be opened by a dynamite explosion. That is the way we have to go. Nobody has understood history, especially the history of restoration. I have been pioneering the path of restoration.
We have come this far, and I say to you that we have won a great victory up to this moment.
So many people in history have come to this earth and have undertaken the pioneering path. The path of the spiritual pioneer is always difficult, but the pioneering course of the Unification Church today is the most difficult; it is the path of supreme difficulty.
The Unification Church path, which is also my path, has a universal meaning. It started from the bottom of hell and has been ascending into the highest part of heaven. Thus, it contains the highest possible theological dimension.
I want you to understand that God would not give you a precious gift without asking you to fulfill a certain responsibility. We are about to receive the most cosmic, eternal gift from God; thus, our responsibility is equal to that.
We cannot expect such a blessing to come to us easily. Those who deserve the highest place here on earth and in the spirit world are only those who are earning it by pursuing the most difficult and thorny path. That is the way we come to deserve God's blessing.
What is the worst kind of hell one can find here on earth?
Externally speaking, we could say that prison is the bottom of hell in any society. I have known all kinds of prisons. I experienced Japanese prison, and I was in the dreadful prisons of communist North Korea.
After I went to South Korea, I experienced the prisons there. From my experience in North Korea, I knew what kind of prisons the Soviet Union had, so in a sense, I even experienced the Soviet Union's prison hell. I knew that to graduate from prison, I had one more place to go, and that was the prisons of the United States.
Miracles After Great Indemnity
Most people go into prison with a despairing heart.
However, when I went to prison, I was filled with expectation and enthusiasm, knowing that God can always bring great miracles after great indemnity. I was eager to see what sort of things God would do.
Since most people enter prison in despair, there are two major aspects of daily life there. One of them is that people are always complaining about everything.
“Why is that man's face so dark? Why is that man's face so pretty?”
Secondly, there is often fighting, since the men there have so much time on their hands. They constantly curse each other and complain about each other.
That is the reality of prison life. But my life in prison has been different. I know the law of restoration by indemnity. I knew that I was paying a significant amount of indemnity by being in prison, and after that payment, there must come a blessing.
I thought about how I could prepare for that blessing, how I could distribute it. I have been in and out of prisons, including this time, on six occasions.
Maybe there is one more prison awaiting me, in the Soviet Union or Red China. No matter what, I am always preparing and ready to receive the incredible blessing and inheritance from God and to dispense it to the people who deserve it and who have earned it. Those who are to be the recipients of that blessing must prepare themselves to become worthy containers.
What would you do to receive that blessing?
There is only one way to go: You must be able to naturally subjugate the people in hell. They must come and bow down before you. You must become the men and women who deserve such a surrender from the satanic people.
That is the road of restoration. Restoration cannot come without the indemnity being paid. I did not go to Danbury prison just as Reverend Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, but I entered as a representative of the universal mission, for the sake of the world, not only this physical world but also the spiritual world. I was always standing before two entities, God and Satan, and they were the ones who were the judges of my deeds. I was always mindful of being worthy of God's blessing.
If you are trying to turn a stage, you cannot do that from the high ground. You must go down to the lowest level, to the first floor, and then you can turn it.
Thus, our efforts are always from the bottom upward, not from the top down.
But if you are all alone trying to make your upward movement, you can never succeed. You must be supported by your entire environment. The important question, therefore, is how to create the kind of environment that can support you.
Your problem does not have anything to do with lawyers, judges, and government.
The problem is how you can gain the support of the people. That is the only way we can achieve a secure restoration and pay the indemnity. We have to turn the world around 180 degrees. By my entering the prison, the entire world was thrown into commotion. The United States has been thrown into deep controversy.
Until I went into prison, negative attitudes were predominant among the people of this country. But once I went to prison, many people's attitudes changed 180 degrees. Their eyes began to open to the truth.
Now, any decent, thinking Americans must find themselves in the position of supporting Reverend Moon.
The Gates of Persecution Will Have To Be Closed
It is almost like Reverend Moon has taken off one layer of his skin, like a snake shedding its old skin. Amazingly enough, I don't have to move. People come and take off that old skin, trying to see for themselves what is really inside.
When the external world is doing that, those people who are inside the prison with me are also seeing the true nature of Reverend Moon. When this is done, I will become a truly free man. Then the path of the Unification Church and Reverend Moon will no longer require persecution.
The gates of persecution will have to be closed. Actually, this particular process was supposed to have been done in Jesus' time so that he could enter the Roman Empire and go through the same steps that I have gone through.
If that had happened, Christianity would never have had to suffer the way it did.
The time will inevitably come when the United States ambassadors all over the world will be in a position to recognize and welcome me.
Can you understand this?
We have the mission to save America and to save the world. Where do you go to save America? You go to the worst possible place there.
When you suffer together with the people there, willingly going there, the blessing will come to you afterward. I am sure that among you Moonies, there are those who have a complaining and discouraged attitude. “I have been here too long, and I can't see any changes. I'm getting old, and my duties are getting more and more difficult. You have even more burdens after receiving the blessing.
What happens?
You have a baby, and then you have to worry about him.
You worry about when you can get together with your spouse or how you can support your children. All kinds of worries such as that plague your mind.
For me, whenever I am pushed into a hellish place, I determine to turn it into heaven. I know that these words I am giving you today are not satisfying your curiosity. I can look into your eyes, and I can see that you are wondering what things are like at Danbury, what kind of life I am living, and so forth.
You know I have been in prison, and you know the tradition I am laying. When you inherit that kind of tradition, you will never decline or perish. I always volunteer for the work chores, even at my age, in the prison. That is because my goal is to transform that hellish prison into the Kingdom of Heaven.
When I first entered the prison, everybody was looking at me funny, wondering, “What kind of a man is he?” But when I walked out a few days ago, many people waved goodbye to me.
You call yourselves Moonies because you follow Reverend Moon, but I am not a Moonie myself! I originate from God; therefore, I might be called a “Goddie.”
Why? It is because Rev. Moon is one man who is totally devoted, completely crazy about God, and his resemblance to God is that he is the absolute image. That is the way people see him.
I Entered Prison to Save America
Even now, I know that many of you do not know the real history of the Unification Church, particularly my history. Not very many truly know me.
It is very difficult for American young people to understand me, since this is such a free, individualistic society.
As you know, if I had wanted to, I could have avoided going to prison. People of the world are wondering why Reverend Moon went willingly into prison, although he could have avoided it. They wonder for whom he is doing it.
I entered prison to save America, and those who are going to work to save America. It was for your sake that I did it. Among all the young people of America, you Moonies are the ones who are ardently burning with the desire to save this country.
Isn't that true?
I would like to bequeath to you the tradition and the spirit that will never be removed from you, the true spirit. This particular spirit of Danbury is not needed by me; I already have it, but it is needed by you. I want to demonstrate it to you to be the example for you. I want to see the birth of young people who will say, “For the sake of America and the world. I will not avoid even prison itself. I can go to prison any time for the sake of this country and for the salvation of mankind.” I want to see that kind of young person blossoming in this country.
I know that every one of you walked a very difficult path up to and including 1984.
I know that you only have one prime time in your life, and you gave up the best part of your lives for the sake of your mission. But then, I know that God has been waiting for such young people, those who were willing to give the prime of their lives for the sake of the world.
History has been waiting for the birth of such young people. You know, I was very handsome when I was young! But I was willing to give up my youth, my prime. I would like to become the foundation, the launching pad, for many people to take off.
I want to see many people use me as their stepping stone to get into heaven.
Actually, I was never ambitious for fame. But inevitably, God pushed me into places of prominence.
The year 1984 was truly a painful and sad year for the Unification Church. It started with the sacrifice of Heung Jin. I went to Korea for the crusade, even though I knew that a time of turbulence and even sacrifice was coming to my family.
I wanted to create seven million IFVOC members in Korea and the same number in Japan. I want to see 45 million in the United States and 70 million around the world.
Since Satan knew all these plans, he certainly could not just stand still. Satan has always been trying desperately to stop me or discourage me in any way possible.
This was the year of my going into prison, and it was a historic event. Many people thought that the Unification Church would be finished once Reverend Moon was incarcerated. But how wrong they were!
While I have been in prison during these past months. I have continued to work and make great achievements. I have met critical people, knowing that those people did not come to see me while I was on the outside. There have been visits by some well-distinguished scholars, ministers, and diplomats.
When those people came to see me, I would speak to them about my ideals; I taught them with a lot of power, and they were very positively impressed. They could not reject what I was giving them.
Life Is Like an Olympic Game
Life is like a marathon or an Olympic game. Until you have won the contest, you are not taken very seriously by others, but once you have won the marathon, others look up to you automatically.
The year 1985 is a brand-new year, and we are all going to be busy. I want to push you out. To jump up high, you have to bend down very low first. I operate according to that principle. I am simply preparing to jump, and when the right moment comes, I will move up to higher ground.
But you, too, must be prepared to jump forward so we can take leaps and bounds together. In a way, I was longingly expecting to go to prison because I knew that while I was in there, great and incredible things would be happening to the Unification Church.
What has happened?
Since I have been in prison, great numbers of formerly negative Christians have turned around.
When I was in Hungnam prison in North Korea, I could not preach to the other prisoners directly.
However, I gained many disciples from among them, without ever preaching directly to them. By the same token, when I come out of Danbury prison, I will have a long line of disciples who will be asking me to take them with me.
Where would you like to go for your pioneering?
Would you like to go to prison, or would you prefer a nice, open, free place with lots of opportunity?
Well, we don't need you in prison. I am there, and I will pay all the indemnity for prison. You say “Moscow”? That is good; we must go to Moscow. How about Africa? That would be a great place to make an extraordinary record for history.
When I was in prison in Korea, many people thought I must have been finished, but I was filled with hope for the future, specifically for America. At this time, many people think I am finished, but I am filled with hope for the next step.
The entire spirit world is filled with hope for the future. What about you? Can you have any complaints in front of me?
Do you want to follow your dispensational path, just thinking, “How many more years do I have to go?” Or will you say, “God, I am destined to go. I born for this mission”?
I wrote the motto today, which is the creation of the fatherland.
Why is that slogan so important?
It is because we have not yet gained our country. I want you to understand that God has not yet had His own land and country here on earth. That is why Satan is so strong and can always accuse; he has power over all the principalities of the world. This is why God is still suffering. He does not have His own country.
My desire is always the same—how can I restore that one country for God?
How can I restore the fatherland for God?
But the fatherland must be a place in which people go beyond races, creeds, and cultures. This is the reason I mingled all the races together in the mass weddings.
There has been great controversy because of them, but meanwhile, there is one race of God being created. It is not easy; in fact, it is very difficult. I knew that it would be. It is even more difficult for God because He does not have any physical form.
God is spirit, so how very difficult it is for Him to move this physical world. In that sense, I am in a better position than God since I have a physical body. Therefore, I decided to undertake that mission on behalf of God to do it for Him.
The Year of Showdown
This year is the fortieth year since I began to walk the dispensational path. So you see that we have every reason to believe that 1985 will be the year of decision, the year of showdown.
To show the true position, I wanted to begin the year in prison. I was sent to prison in 1984, and I wanted to start dramatically in 1985, in these circumstances, and then go on to win the greater victory. What about you? Are you going to follow in my footsteps?
You must grab the helm of the United States and fight. You are not going to retreat, are you?
You came here today and welcomed me since I just came back from Danbury. This is not an ordinary occasion; this is an earnest, monumental moment in history.
So we will not let this moment pass in a mediocre or half-hearted way. I am now going the road of resurrection. You are, too.
Let's say that this circle represents the solution to the salvation of America. This X represents the destruction of America. Let's say there is a decisive moment of showdown between the two, and there is only one way to win.
You would become desperate because you want to save America. In that case, you would not hesitate to grab any person and show them the truth. But you would rather not become that kind of person, would you? “In that kind of game, I just want to be an observer.” Is that what you say? I would like to have every Moonie be dramatic.
Those who say, “Yes, Father, I want to become that kind of Moonie,” raise your hands, please.
Even though I have been in prison, when I look at your hands going up like that, I would go to prison ten times. I will still thank you. I am grateful. You know, I am different now. Why is that? Before, I was just “Father” to you. But now that I have come back to you from prison, you know that I have been through suffering.
You used to say things without much sincerity, even sometimes lying or making up excuses. But now you will be different, and you will be honest with me, won't you? Do you want me to trust your word this time? Those who will say, “Father, this time it's real. You can trust me.” Raise your hands, please. Thank you.
The Messianic Concept
Even though the Messiah comes, he cannot fulfill his mission all by himself. He needs support from both the physical and spiritual worlds. Christ comes as the true olive tree and as a bridegroom, so he will take a bride.
What is the bride's relationship to the bridegroom?
It is one of engraftment: a wild olive tree is grafted into the true olive tree. That is the whole concept of Christianity.
So, to graft onto the new olive tree, where do we have to be cut and reconnected?
At the neck or the feet, or where?
We should be cut at the neck, where our head or mind connects to our body, because it is actually our spiritual root, which has been wrong.
So then this wild olive branch should be planted into the new spiritual root of the messiah, the true olive tree. That is what we call the engrafting process.
Originally, we were supposed to be born as the true olive tree. But because of the fall, we all became wild olive trees, growing from a faulty root. Therefore, we have to go through a process of transferring to the root of the true olive tree.
We need to cut ourselves, and at the very stem of our being, engraft into the new root. God is trying to cut all the wild olive trees to carry out the engrafting process. But the land of wild olive trees is controlled by Satan, and Satan won't let God near.
So, to approach the wild olive trees, God's side has to lay certain indemnity conditions and has to have a strategy so that Satan will permit God to enter. The best thing would be for God to own the wild olive farmland; then, even though the trees were wild, he could control them.
This is where the concept of a chosen people comes from. To transfer from the nonreligious sphere to the religious sphere is always a bloody battle, so we need to make a particular conditional offering. In the Old Testament era, man set the condition through material offerings. In the New Testament era, the Son of God made the condition of offering his life.
Our era is the new era, or the Completed Testament era, of True Parents. They bear the cross and offer the condition for humankind.
There must be a certain formula through which all people can be grafted together into the family of the True Parents. That is found in the Principle.
Through the fall, Satan planted the seed of satanic love in the first generation and all succeeding generations and families. The only way that this can be restored is for God to plant the seed of God's love and help us to engraft to the heavenly root as part of a true family. Therefore, the Unification Church has mass weddings and holy weddings.
What is their meaning?
It is the moment when you separate yourself from the satanic world and graft yourself into the True Parents' family. Then you become an extension of the True Parents.
At the time of the crucifixion, there were two thieves beside Jesus, one on the left and the other on the right. On the worldwide level, too, some are false, and those that are true.
I have announced that we have become a new race, the “love race” or “Adam race.”
This means that we have already cut ourselves off from the sin-infested root.
The New One World Culture
What does it mean to inherit the tradition of God and of the true Adam?
We are going to create a new cultural sphere and a new era that is centered upon the love of God and the tradition of the True Parents.
Our culture was supposed to be that way from the very beginning, but this ideal was lost. Therefore, we must restore it.
This culture is the one-world culture centered upon the love of God and True Parents. In the love of God, there are no races, no black, white, or yellow; there is no such thing as black love, white love, or yellow love: they are all one.
Furthermore, there is no past, present, or future; in that culture, we can communicate with the spirit world limitlessly.
You must decide where you belong, what kind of olive tree you are. Are you still a wild olive tree, hesitating to be cut, or have you already changed your root and your citizenship?
The American culture is not God's true olive tree culture. You may be disturbed to hear that, but you must, because it is the truth. You would rather not inherit the seed of that culture.
The culture of America today is trying to push everything physical and sensational, for example, drugs and immorality.
It is pushing itself along the road to self-extinction, even trying to legitimize perverted forms of sexual behavior such as homosexuality.
The root of such a culture is of satanic origin, and the American people are absorbing it. It is becoming more and more destructive. Satan is promoting it, and the American people are buying it! Do you follow me?
The American culture is standing upon Satan's love; the Unification culture is standing upon God's love. In our God-centered culture, there will be no room for free sex or incest or any other perversions such as those described by the Bible in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. God just will not permit it.
The Mission of Spirit World
What is the mission of the spirit world?
The spirit world should provide support and assistance in God's program to make this world right, coordinating the cooperative efforts of the spirit and physical world.
The spirit world has a good and an evil sphere. The good spirit world is taking the initiative to move the evil spirit world to the side of goodness. There is dialogue and communication going on.
As the individual, family, tribe, and nation transfer to the side of goodness in the spirit world, this shift will be reflected on the earth. When this exodus occurs in the spirit world, the same phenomenon will happen on the earth plane.
We have witnessed shocking evil phenomena manifesting here on earth. For example, when Father first came to the United States, men and women were “streaking,” running naked all over the place.
After a while, that subsided, but then the older generations became more frivolous and promiscuous. Now today, a shift is taking place where young people have become quite conservative and idealistic and reject the sins of the older generation.
The fallen world calls Unification Church members “heretical.”
But what are we really?
The Unification Church is the special task force of God, working on the very spearhead of God's frontline. We should be able to revolutionize this world, cut all the wild olive trees, and engraft them into the true olive tree.
Heavenly Love and Satanic Love
There is a difference between satanic love and heavenly love. Satanic love tastes very sweet, but you get bored with it rapidly. A couple may call each other “darling” and “sweetheart,” but a few weeks later, each other repulses them. Satanic love always grows narrower and narrower.
Yet our mysterious world of love always grows wider and wider. Moonies do not want to marry by themselves but wait for me to match them.
Heavenly love is tiring and difficult, but once you get into it, it becomes very tasty, and you begin to perceive something permanent and eternal.
You might think that the most beautiful white women would expect to marry the most handsome white men.
On the contrary, a curious phenomenon is taking place. These beautiful white women are saying, “Father, can you match me with an African Black, a yellow Asian, or an Arabic Muslim?”
The North Pole is reaching out to the South Pole; the east is reaching out to the west. Once you plug into this mysterious power, such phenomena occur.
Satanic love starts with great fanfare but then grows smaller and smaller.
Heavenly love starts very tough, salty, and dry, but then gets tastier and tastier all the time.
Where in the United States do you find a church where people gather without chairs?
The answer is, only here; this is the love church. Here, when you sit, you touch everyone on all four sides of you.
The person in front of you is black, the person behind you is red, the person on your left is yellow, and the person on your right is brown. Five colors are assembled in the form of a cross.
Instead of moving out of there, you want to move closer and be touching even more. Touching is important. So what do you think: Is Rev. Moon's method of education good or bad?
A Universal Patent
In this world, when you make a discovery or invent something, you obtain a patent, which gives you special authority to make money from your idea and become rich. The spirit world is the same.
When Father discovers some special law, there is a patent for it, but that patent is not good just for white people. It is a universal patent. That law can apply anywhere.
Founders of religions have been trying to obtain just such a secret spiritual formula and patent, but they couldn't. Then I came along and somehow I got it.
With this law or formula, the spirit world can come under Father's direction, and Father can set the condition for liberation and unification. Father is controlling the traffic in the spirit world, tearing down walls and barriers.
As the family, tribe, and nation all move to God's side, the earth will inevitably follow this pattern.
Furthermore, the secrets and mysteries of the Bible have been solved; Father has revealed how much of God's promise has been fulfilled and what remains to be done. The spirit world is under Father's direction, but the earthly plane is the problem.
Until this world becomes one, then indeed certain sacrifices will have to be made.
Jesus was such a sacrifice 2,000 years ago; he died on the cross at the age of 33, completely abandoned, all alone. People living after Jesus can receive certain benefits, but no barriers were really broken down.
Jesus entered the spirit world but cannot come back to the physical world to free it.
Breaking Down Barriers
I prayed for 30 minutes for Heung Jin Nim in the memorial service upstairs today.
That prayer should be translated. The whole picture concerning why such a sacrifice is necessary is explained in that prayer. In short, even though Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, he could not break down all barriers.
Somehow, these partitions must be broken so that all traffic can flow freely. No one but the direct son of the True Parents can fulfill that kind of role.
Heung Jin Nim's sacrifice is the most extraordinary sacrifice the world could ever offer. It will tear down all these walls. The boundaries between nations are being eradicated.
The barriers between religions and between the Unification Church and Christianity are being erased. The blockades between the spirit world and the physical world are also tumbling down. The members are receiving spiritual messages.
Occasionally, Jesus Christ appears, and then Heung Jin Nim appears as the new messiah in the spirit world. Members are flabbergasted.
Christianity in America has been either very hostile or apathetic toward the Unification Church. It would rather not pay any attention to me.
Within just a few months, that has changed; new top leaders of Christianity are petitioning the government on my behalf, speaking out, and trying to liberate me from Danbury.
When you used to tell these Christian leaders that you were a Moonie, they wanted to spit in your face. Not anymore. Now they ask, “What is the secret of Rev. Moon?” They want to know about the Unification Church and about me.
While I am in Danbury, there is a special dispensation going on. Three hundred thousand ministers are receiving the Principle videotapes, the Divine Principle book, and a special book containing Rev. Moon's message from prison.
We could never have imagined that that would happen, but the curiosity about Rev. Moon has grown so much. I am a strange man, that's for sure!
Ordinarily, if a person went to prison, he would feel despair, but I went to prison saying, “What's the next chapter?”
Since my going to prison must inevitably bring some benefit to God and to humanity, I will not prevent myself from going there. That is the rule I live by.
It doesn't matter where I go; the goal is always the same. I am always opening doors, and now I am opening the prison door to the truth. I am a universal man.
Here, you have been waiting for my furlough for a long time.
Now that I am with you, the time is going by so quickly! Back in prison, however, the inmates miss me already, and for them, each day is like a million years! These are good and heavenly phenomena.
Extraordinary Events Have Taken Place
Many people just don't understand why good, smart Americans are so drawn to me, a Korean evangelist. Yet they don't know that an even greater phenomenon is happening, that the whole spirit world is tumbling upside down.
What is happening in this world is just part of the whole picture. While I have been in prison, several extraordinary events have taken place. First, North Korea began a peaceful dialogue with South Korea. Secondly, Red China denounced Marxism, saying that Marxism is antiquated and doesn't work anymore.
The entire world was shocked. Furthermore, all of a sudden, Pope John Paul II cut liberation theology out of the body of the Catholic Church. Liberation theology has become rampant in South and Central America, but the Pope stressed that anyone involved with liberation theology is no longer a Catholic. Christians, including the Catholics, have regarded Rev. Moon as a heretic, but recently representatives of the Catholic University of La Plata in Argentina came all the way to New York to give me an honorary doctorate.
Finally, Christians here in America are no longer persecuting me but trying to rescue me from prison.
All of this means that the time has come for you to go on the offensive. You have a lot to talk about with ministers and friends. We have been defensive too long.
Recently, I even proposed the gigantic concept of uniting all the states of Latin America. Many influential people in the region are enthusiastic about this dream for 300 million Hispanic people.
I also proposed that leaders of all the major religions of the world come together and create an ecumenical Bible for all six major religions. It's a fantastic idea, and they all agreed! Consider the media.
The agencies of mass communication have been brainwashing the American public and the world, giving me a bad reputation, but now media people are coming out and saying that the future of the media lies in the hands of Rev. Moon.
Last year, 1984, was an extraordinary year for both God and Satan. It brought about an incredible showdown. I offered Heung Jin Nim's most pure and beautiful sacrifice on January 2, and on July 20, I entered prison. There has been so much debt to pay, but now all is being cleared.
Nobody else can pay this debt. We have to give enough so that Satan himself will declare that he is satisfied. After Heung Jin Nim's sacrifice and my sacrifice, Satan will confess that he has no more accusations.
The book will be closed. For Rev. Moon, who knows the truth, the prison is not a prison; it is a way of achieving God's will.
Heretofore, we were desperate to find anyone who would listen to our teachings—oftentimes, all we could find were drifters, drug addicts, or people with spiritual problems. But now we can freely witness to top-level people: heads of state, congressmen, clergymen, lawyers, lawmakers, professors, and university presidents.
The Christian ministers are in the Cain position, and you are in the Abel position; you are behind me, and they are behind you. So, please, grab them and pull them; move them forward. You must take the initiative and provide the leadership.
How can you connect yourself with 120 ministers this year?
Jesus Christ needed 120 disciples, but his disciples were not united, centered upon him, so the crucifixion became inevitable.
Now, however, if you link up with 120 ministers, nothing will be impossible.
After the end of World War II in 1945, I set upon a 40-year course. That course is culminating in 1985; this year, that course will be consummated. Israel gained independence in 1948, and Korea, as the new Israel, also gained independence in 1948.
In 1988, it will be 40 years since these two nations gained their independence.
The United States is the foremost representative of Christian culture, and Israel and Korea must unite with America, lining up in a single, dispensational line, moving together into the new Canaan, the sphere of the new source of culture.
Korea has a unique opportunity now to advance to a position of worldwide influence, but President Chung does not have the necessary wisdom. He needs to talk to me.
The leader of the free world, the president of the United States, is now coming to a critical moment when he must decide how to deal with Red China and the Soviet Union.
That will require extraordinary wisdom, so again, a dialogue would be most desirable. If this fails to come about, however, I have prepared certain measures that will prevent catastrophe.
By 1988, if we each have 120 ministers linked, trained, and organized, we will have the kind of leadership that can make an impact on the entire world.
All You Need To Do Is Harvest
Even if those ministers know the Bible by heart, they do not know the heart of the Bible if they do not know Principle. That's why I am sending them videotapes.
When I leave Danbury prison for good, then I will travel around the country meeting ministers. I will go to all the universities and share the answers I have found to life's questions.
You may have trouble now understanding why my instructions are absolutely imperative, but at that time, you will know why. By then, people will know the truth about Rev. Moon, and they will open their eyes.
You are committing yourselves to go beyond 1985, beyond all difficulties on the family level, and win 120 ministers. By doing so, all that I have described this morning will become a reality.
From now on, you don't have to pay any indemnity; I paid it. All you have to do is harvest.
Then, by the year 1988, I won't even need to remain in this country. I want to go back to North Korea, to my hometown, and do home church. It will not be easy, but nothing I do is easy.
Everyone who pledges to follow my instructions and harvest 120 ministers in 1985, raise your hands! Thank you.
Sun Myung Moon