I have returned after five days, having gone thoroughly round every part of South Korea. I passed through Daejeon, and through Jeonju, and through Gwangju, and by way of Masan through Daegu to Samcheok, then through Jecheon to Chuncheon, and so returned.
What I Felt Through the Tour
What I felt while making the tour this time is that now is a time when we must fight. Seeing that our young men and women in the provinces are holding a tremendous resolve, I regard that the fight of this period will bring a result of victory. Yet what I thought of with an aching heart this time was that our members walk several hundred ri to the place the Teacher says he will go. Though the people of the world have much money and could ride in cars, they do not come here because they dislike coming; yet our Unification Church young people come walking several hundred ri.
When I went to Gwangju, they said they had come walking for two or three days without distinguishing night or day from Mokpo or from Muan. When I saw such a thing, the thought came that the Will our church aims at and seeks to establish will be accomplished.
Those who, for the sake of one time and one Will that God desires, do not mind the difficulty of their own single bodies but rush in and drive away any hardship and move, are not people who have social experience. Moreover, they are not people bound by personal circumstances, nor people who hold some personal consciousness or knowledge. When one comes to see the figure of young people around twenty stepping forth, without knowing it themselves, resolved to offer their lives for the Will, one cannot know how admirable it looks. There are truly many such members.
Generally, they have more spirit than the young people here at headquarters. When one compares the members of Seoul and the area of Gyeonggi Province centered upon headquarters, that is, you who are present here now, with them, they have a spirit in their earnest mind toward God and in their loyalty in seeking to follow the Will that you cannot follow. I felt that if you do not fulfill your responsibility, they will tread over you and cross beyond and fulfill that responsibility themselves.
Having made the tour throughout this period, my throat has grown very hoarse. It is because in every place I went, I spoke the Word for nearly three or four hours or more, and spoke with members I met for the first time without knowing that the night was passing.
Once there was such a matter as this. I was to arrive at Samcheok at nine in the evening, but the car broke down on the way, and after passing that night, I arrived at twenty-five the next dawn. So how long must the Samcheok members have waited? They were quite exhausted. We held a meeting at dawn, but because it is the East Sea, the guard is strict, so we could not talk long. After about an hour I went by way of Wonju to Chuncheon, and so I have come to meet you this morning.
When such a thing happens, what do you think the Teacher thinks of, and what sort of prayer does he offer? This year our young members have received the Teacher’s command and have gone out to witness, and are suffering to feel God’s Will as a common mission and accomplish it. In fact, there were also things that were very difficult. Being anxious about such things, I prayed that they would know that I pray to stand in the stead of your difficulty. So I even slept a night away from home.
The members in the provinces and we are one brotherhood. We are one flesh and blood. All are people without whom it will not do. Even with a member you face for the first time, you will feel that the heart is the same. That is what Unification Church members desire. We use a noun that is easily misunderstood in the world, and that is the noun “family members” (식구).
In fact, we are family members. Family members, just as the word says. With a member one sees for the first time, even one word communicates completely. A natural bond is formed among us that is closer than the flesh and blood of the world, in which one can lay open one’s heart and speak, and, if one has an earnest longing, can lay open that longing and ask. This is something utterly impossible by any means or method or by any planned organization. This is a natural thing. It is a bond formed centering upon God without our knowing it. This bond is a bond connected even as far as God.
If there is a company that moves by such a bond, no one can break that company. Satan cannot, and man all the more cannot. Only God can break it. Then in what case will God break this bond? It is when you do wrong. Bear in mind that He breaks it when you do wrong.
The Provincial Members, Who Are of Heart
If there is anyone present here as a regional leader, raise your hand. You regional leaders around Seoul, you know the circumstances of headquarters well, and moreover, if I wish to see you, I can go in the jeep and meet you. Yet, going forward, centering upon God, it does not communicate merely because one knows a face well by seeing it with the eyes. It is not relevant to be in a near place and be able to see and meet. The more one is in a near place and in a position of having taken responsibility, the more strictly and the more importantly one must take responsibility. The regional leaders in the near places centered upon headquarters have a more important responsibility.
It is the Teacher’s mind to wish to let the members scattered in the provinces be in a place near headquarters, and to send the members who are in the place near headquarters to the far end of Jeju Island, or else to the far end of Ulleung Island, and going further to the Cape of Good Hope at the far southern tip of Africa.
If one has taken responsibility, one must be able to bear it. Moreover, one must become a person who thinks it a boast and knows it as glory to have taken responsibility. Is it so, or is it not? Would it be good if it were so, or would it not?
From now on, if a difficult matter arises in the Unification Church, it will not do to entrust it to the provincial members. For the Teacher’s command to be conveyed to the provincial members, it must pass through several stages, first, second, and so on. So how pitiful are the provincial members? When one looks at the people here near Seoul, they are all sleek and smooth. The girl students will at least all be putting on cream. The boy students over there will be putting it on too. It seems quite likely.
If one goes right down south to Jeolla Province, our members are there too. They, too, are members like me and like you. Yet in heart they are more earnest than you and are ahead of you. When the Teacher quietly observes, there is a rumor that the members at headquarters are wretched young men who only quarrel because of the sleek young ladies; I should like to make these Seoul sophisticates suffer to their heart’s content. Among these Seoul sophisticates there will be many of a crowd who say, “What do I care about the Will or anything? When did I ever know the Teacher? Does the Unification Church die without me?”
Seen by the destiny of the nation, or by the destiny of the world, or seen by heavenly fortune, of course in reality one may hold more possessions, and may hold a few more pennies in one’s purse, and may have behind one a person who can vouch for and protect one; but those things are not the problem. The person himself is the problem.
A person who slips out this way and that at even a little difficulty—such a person perhaps be able to go out into society at once and be one who does well in the field he desires. Yet when one would design and bring to completion a great cosmic and universal aspiration so that it leans or tilts to no one side, such a person cannot be used. Rather, a country person whose face is swarthy but who is dependable is far better. Those who say let others look if they would look and not look if they would not, and let the sun set if it would set and not set if it would not—when one says, “Who will work for the Will?” they all raise their hands, you and I alike; but among the Seoul sophisticates, even if one tells them to raise their hands, there is no one who raises them.
Seen by percentage, these Seoul sophisticates are a minus. So these Seoul sophisticates must be treated as a special case and dragged down and educated. It means that the members in the provinces are better than you at headquarters. You are these little things, and the provincial members are those honored ones. I think so. Is this a good thought or a bad thought?
Though you come to this place, which does not even take a day, with your faces made up and wearing good clothes and putting on luxury, they have within themselves a heart that explodes. The floodwater of heart that flows out from them is tremendous. You cannot match it. So if you do wrong, you will be pushed aside.
Training Begins From a Place of Suffering
If God exists, between a person who eats and lives well and a person who cannot eat and lives badly, to whom would His mind go more?
When one says, “Have you eaten?” His mind goes more to the one who says, “Yesterday I saw rice…” than to the one who says, “Yes. I ate yesterday and ate today and shall eat tomorrow.” Far from eating, he did not even see it, so undoubtedly he has not eaten. It seems that even if I were God, my mind would go more to the person who has not eaten. God will be distressed at seeing a person who has not eaten.
Anyone who has a conscience and wishes to live rejoicing eternally together with the law of public righteousness wishes to be close to a person who lives in the midst of such a difficult environment and seeks to protect such a person. This is the principle of heavenly reason.
Therefore, if there is a true parent and he has planned to make his child a worldwide figure, from what sort of place must he send that son?
First, one must give training, and one must not give training beginning from eating rice well. It will not do to give training beginning from eating rice well, playing well, fighting well. One must give training in overcoming, beginning with not eating, not playing, and what others dislike. One must make him able to say, “Ah! It is all right even if I cannot eat. Barley rice alone is all right. Even a dog’s food is all right.” One must make a person who says, “From beginning to end, from the lowest to the highest, I can digest anything well.” Only then does he become a person who can guide both high people and low people in heart.
When one looks at the men of government of our country today, they say that one must have graduated from university. Yet among them there are many shabby people. There are many in a crowd who, if one struck their breast once, would fall over backward with a thud. Such people are nothing compared with conscientious people who are innocent and unlearned and love the earth and live according to the law of nature, taking the conscience as their property.
If there is a God who carries out the Providence through history, what sort of person will inherit from God the great blessing of the heavenly order?
A person who boasts that he knows everything readily? By no means. It means that He hands the inheritance not to such people but to innocent people. Look at history once. The great men of the world were the children of people who shed blood and sweat together with nature and liked the scent of nature and sang while taking nature as their friend, and were anxious for the nation and lived bearing some ideal. Children born beneath such parents became great. That is why great men are almost all of rural birth. They are people born in the midst of a natural environment.
Self-Training and Self-Boasting
You seek to boast even of a small thing, and boasting is good. Yet boast when you are alone. It means to boast alone, saying, “Hey, eyes! You are truly well made. Of course you are well made. Hey, ears! You are truly splendid. Well made. Hey, your face too is well made. Of course it is.” It is even better if one has God attend there.
If one says, “God! Thank you for making my eyes so pretty. Thank you for making my ears so well. My body too is so sturdy, and my face too is so splendid. I thank you for making all these things without defect as a son or daughter of the Father,” God, because He is the Creator, will be truly pleased. This is not a lie.
Yet those who do not even hold content to boast that God could rejoice in swagger about, saying they will lift themselves and boast. That will not do. So the young men and women of the Unification Church must boast, but must hold a mind that can boast while hanging it upon the Father.
If one cannot do so, one must not boast. Just as, seen over a day, there is day and night, so for a person too, seen over a whole life, there is a period of taking the figure of an ill-favored one. This period is a period like night. Yet when the night passes, and it becomes morning and becomes day, at that time one must absolutely not yield to another any responsibility one has taken charge of.
Today this world is still staying in the period of night. It has not greeted a time like this day. So all the humanity of the whole world must not be arrogant and must not exalt themselves. Human beings think as though they have greeted the day, but it is still night. That is why one is told to be gentle and humble and to go to a low place. Yet once one has received God’s command and goes forward having taken responsibility, one must act with the greatest authority. No one, whatever the reason, must find fault with that person. If it really will not do, one must do it even at the cost of thrashing the body.
Since man is not yet standing in a position where he can boast of himself, one must train oneself in a humble place. Thereafter, it means to boast of yourself. Yet there will also be people who have no content to boast of because their faces are as wretched as a pumpkin in the backyard. Even so, it is not that that person truly has nothing to boast of. Because the mind of love is a lofty thing, it is enough if one holds a mind broader and deeper and gentler than others and can exert a good influence upon everyone one meets. If one has such a mind, the Father will directly be together with one.
Do you know why I say such words? It is because, when you go to the provinces in Seoul this summer, you must not become a crowd that slyly avoids foul work and flicks off dust with the fingertips, but must go the opposite road. That is why I am telling such a story. Do you understand?
Just because there is a difference between the provincial members and you, you must not despise the provincial members even a little. You must rather take them as your model. Even though you go to a farming village and work, when you face them, absolutely do not stand in a position of boasting. When you face children too, you must take hold of them and embrace them, saying, “Hey, you are perfect!” When one goes out to the provinces, there are many people who are quite an eyesore. There are many people who only boast of themselves. It means do not boast only of yourself alone, but take hold of them and boast, saying, “You do truly well.” If one makes them able to say, “It is good,” everything is so arranged as to communicate.
What sort of One is God?
If one examines God’s attributes, He truly likes to boast. There is no one in the world who likes to boast so much. God’s boasting has no end. Since He is One who even created, it cannot but be so. God likes to boast the most.
If you wish to boast to the people of your village, you must equip the content you wish to boast of inwardly and outwardly, and move them with it, and then boast. Then, however much one is made like a pumpkin and looks like a blockhead, the people of the village will come to regard one as a lump of blessing. God makes it so. God makes the ill-favored person into more than the best-favored person and boasts of him before the people of the village.
So if one would boast, one must boast, setting the Father before oneself. Then it is all right. If one would boast, one must first say to God, “I shall boast a little,” and then do it. It will not do to do it alone. One must boast in the Father’s name.
God, Who Wishes to Boast Even When Man Does Only a Little Well
When you go out this time, you must boast. Yet you must do it with the Father’s name. Though one does not know what the Father looks like, if one only boasts with the Father’s name, even if one makes a mistake, the Father is pleased.
What the Teacher has felt while walking this road until now is that God wishes to boast. And if one holds the heart of love, one naturally comes to wish to boast. The more one holds a great and broad and high and deep love, the more it is the original heart to wish to boast. Is it not so? Most parents are so. Even a beggar in the slums, though other people do not even look at him, says that he simply loves his sons and daughters to death. That is a mind that flowed out from love, and it is because there is such a mind that one wishes to boast.
If God had a more vicious and more hideous mind like a devil’s, He would not have carried out the history of the Providence of Restoration toward fallen human beings for six thousand years. Yet because God is a God of love, if human beings do only a little well, He wishes to boast, saying, “Hey, look at my son and daughter.” Even if some family does only a little well, He says, “Hey, look at my beloved family,” and makes even Satan acknowledge it. Yet even after boasting thus for a bout, if human beings cannot keep it up, it collapses with a crash. He boasted of an individual and, because he could not keep it up, crashed; boasted of a family, crashed; boasted of the people of Israel, crashed; and again boasted of Jesus for a bout, crashed—it collapsed in this way.
It is God’s heart to wish to boast even when one does only a little well. Just as the heart of parents is so, God’s heart too is so. So if one only makes Him glad a little and does well, one can receive love entirely. Knowing such a thing, you must go out to experience such material for the Father’s boasting. Do you understand? What did I say you should go out to experience? Material for boasting? Yes. One must go out to experience material for boasting. Just as one does business and earns money, you must make much material for boasting.
If you hold much material for boasting, what will become of it? Will God boast only to the thirty million populace? He will boast before all the people under heaven, before the heavenly world. How thankful a thing this is! Knowing such a thing, I ask that you certainly come back holding much material that God can boast of. You understand, do you not?
What time did I tell you to come today?
Then what time did I arrive here? (They answered that it was ten past ten.) Then it turns out that I broke it by seventy minutes. In fact, a person who has not kept a promise has no qualification to come out here and speak. He has no qualification to speak the Word. In that sense, I apologize to you. Knowing it thus, you too must keep time well hereafter.
The People of Israel, Who Disbelieved Jesus
At the marriage feast in Cana, when his mother Mary said there was no wine, Jesus said, “Woman, what have I to do with thee?” Seen humanly, she was his mother, but seen by Heaven’s public law, she was an enemy. That is why Jesus could say such words. You perhaps say, “That would not be a fact. What an absurd thing to say,” but it is a fact. Those are words spoken because one does not know Jesus’ heart. Do you understand? Even I would have been so.
Jesus wished to say to his parents what he said to his disciples. Moreover, he wished to say it to his brothers too. Yet he could not and left home. Then how did he die in the end? He died, driven as a traitor to the people and a destroyer of social order. How much must they have hated him that they said to exchange him for the murderous robber Barabbas! The Jewish people regarded Jesus as an enemy. How miserable is this! You are believing in the Jesus who died so miserably. Yet omitting all such facts, your ears are attentive to words about his coming again riding on clouds in glory and saving you. Not knowing what one ought to know, and not doing even what one ought to do, and you say you will go to paradise? Paradise is not a place such people go to.
The people of Israel are the traitors of four thousand years of history. If the whole people, from the chief priest downward, had taken hold of Jesus and said, “Take me away. Take me and, whether you kill me or let me live, do according to your will.
If you tell me to go east, I will go east, and if you tell me to go west, I will go west, and if you tell me to go south, I will go south, and if you tell me to go north, I will go north. If you told me to dig a pit and go in, I would have gone in; Jesus would not have died. He would have lived and unified all under heaven. God drove out Moses too and had him occupy the seven tribes of Canaan; could Jesus not have unified all under heaven? Yet Jesus ended by dying.
Yet if Jesus had not died, he would have taken the people of Israel as an offering and, centering upon the sanctuary especially given, become the high priest. And thereby he would have unified into one the heaven and earth that had been divided. Moreover, he would have torn down the wall of sin of this heaven and earth, that is, the wall of sin in which people and people regarded one another as enemies, and the wall of sin driven deep into the breasts of all people, and offered a sacrifice of atonement.
If Jesus, as high priest, had offered a sacrifice of atonement and placed all under heaven beneath his dominion, God’s providential history would not have been extended for two thousand years. Yet all this turned to failure. He could not take the people of Israel as an offering, and could not work centering upon the temple. Because he could not stay in the defiled temple, Jesus went the road of an offering, and that place is precisely from the garden of Gethsemane to the summit of Golgotha.
That is why Golgotha is the worldwide temple. You must know this. Where did I say the worldwide temple is? (They answered that it is Golgotha.) Yes. It is Golgotha. Where is the worldwide ground of resurrection? It is Golgotha. Where is the worldwide ground of death? It is Golgotha. Where did I say the place that decides life and death is? It is Golgotha. This Golgotha became the holy place and the holy of holies after Jesus came and went. Know this clearly.
What is bitterly resentful is that Judaism remains upon this earth. That Judaism, which caused the Messiah to die, remains until today, two thousand years later…. We must set that in order with our hands. In setting it in order, one does not do it with armed force or with power but must do it according to reason.
Six hundred thousand of the people of Israel who followed Moses too, when they betrayed Moses and betrayed God, became food for crows in the wilderness. Likewise, the people of Israel who betrayed Jesus, the worldwide leader, are becoming worldwide food for crows.
Now is the time to make a new organization. That is why a reconstruction movement is unfolding these days. What will become of it? You will be curious. Hereafter, there will be a worldwide Israelite movement. It will be full of interest. You must set out holding a hidden weapon in your minds.
If One Would Become the Lord’s True Bride
What was the motive by which Israel came to perish?
They perished while seeking to prosper. It means that they said, “Alas, I dislike suffering, so the Messiah must come.” They thought that from the day the Messiah came, happiness would come without seeking. Yet from the day the Messiah came, what became of it? Just as before dawn (미명, 未明) it is darker, it is clearly written in the Bible that there is a seven-year great tribulation in which the flames of extreme hardship sweep through.
These days there are many deluded people who say they will greet the Lord as bridegroom. There are many people who say they will greet the Lord as bridegroom without doing the work they ought to do. Where is there such nonsense? Do they know where and how the Lord who comes as bridegroom comes, and what He likes? Do they know? Generally, as for bridegrooms, there are beggar bridegrooms and all sorts. Yet do they seek to make the Lord into such a beggar bridegroom? In that figure, in that sorry state, you say you will greet the Lord? Those who commit robbery and do every sort of thing say they will greet the Lord as bridegroom?
The Lord is God’s prince. Do you seek to drag God’s prince away and make him the bridegroom of a person like yourself? What would one do making such a bridegroom? The Lord is One whom God likes and embraces, One before whom all the people under heaven must bow their heads. Because the Lord is One who has embraced all under heaven, He is One equipped with the virtue of glory that can move all under heaven with a single fingertip. If one were to attend such a One as a bridegroom, one must become more than that. One must suffer more than He.
If I go on talking like this, there will be no end. Yet such words are truly precious words. They are not the Teacher’s words but fact.
If anyone is dozing, I shall not speak. As for one who dozes, I shall take off my jacket and spread it here and attend to him and lay him down. It would be splendid if the ladies were all lying down in a row. Do not think such a thought as, “Hey, the Lord is coming as my bridegroom.” It means do not hold such shabby thoughts.
All of you, if you go out into the street, there are filthy A-frame carriers whose hair is a mess and whose hands are smeared black. Go to them and embrace their necks and kiss them. They will be utterly astonished and at a loss as to what to do. However much you singe and fry and smear, God or the Lord cannot look at it and say, “Ah! Beautiful.”
Consider it. Though one has put in everything one has to make oneself pretty, what would it be if the Lord took no notice…? Only when the Lord can look and say, “Ah, it is good. This too is mine, and that too is mine. Everything of yours is mine,” can one become His bride. Only when one can say that everything of yours is mine is one a fine bridegroom. All of you, would it not be so?
If the Lord looks at you, He will be disappointed. He will say, “Oh dear, these things call themselves brides…. I shall be defiled. I shall be defiled. Do not even say the word, Lord.” With a butcher’s mind, they are saying, “O Lord, do according to my desire.” So would He play the part of Lord? It is because minds are thus wrong that the Lord comes to correct them. The Lord absolutely does not grant the longing of such people. Why? Because the longing of such people is a desire through the habitual propensity (습벽, 習癖) of the Fall.
So one must deny all such desires. One must knock them all down. If, without doing so, one meets the Lord and is glad and says, “Lord, where are you going?” He will say, “Leave off.” One must consider what one has done and hold a mind of being sorry. And thereby one must arouse a mind of sympathy in the Lord. And while doing so, one must be able to shed tears and, even when beaten, say, “Lord!” Only by becoming such a person can one at last make a new departure as a bride. Of course, only such a person can become a bride. Before that, it will not do. That is why the Teacher drives you out. He drives you out to make the figure of beloved sons and daughters, and the figure of a beloved bride.
The Disciples, Who Could Not Guard Jesus
In driving out, where does he drive out?
He drives out to the slums where Satan swarms, and drives out to the site where Satan is lodging. It means go and see. Do you say you will retreat there? Because the Lord is coming behind, if one would live, one must stake one’s neck and cross over. Jesus crossed over Golgotha.
All of you, where did I say the holy place and the holy of holies are? (They answered that it is Golgotha.) That is right. It is Golgotha. For us too, the road of Golgotha remains. One must hold the resolve that even though I leave behind a groan that shakes heaven and earth because of the suffering of a thousand hardships and ten thousand pains, I will go toward the summit of Golgotha; that bearing a cross of suffering more than three times the cross Jesus bore, I will go a hundred times. One who is not so cannot go even to the backyard of Golgotha.
Because such a road of hardship remains, though the saints have toiled and awaited the Lord for two thousand years, the Lord has not come. Yet if today upon this earth there is a company that crosses Golgotha, more than the twelve disciples who followed Jesus, more than the hundred and twenty disciples, more than the priests of Israel, the Lord cannot but come. If even so He does not come, we can write a petition before God and say, “Please send Jesus.”
Why is that? Jesus came even to the unfortunate place where there were only three disciples and came even to the despised place where there were only twelve disciples and came even to the place from which the people of Israel drove him out. Then when a company more than the priests who represented Israel in olden times has crossed the summit of Golgotha, why would He not come? If there is such a company and one says even now, “Lord, come,” He ought to come like a thunderbolt.
Yet today Christianity has become in name and in fact a worldwide religion, and yet because there are no true disciples who can cross back and forth over the summit of Golgotha without hesitation under a resolve that can put to shame Peter, John, and James of old and can put to shame the seventy disciples and the hundred and twenty disciples, it means that the Lord who ought to come still cannot come.
It is not too late even now. It is not too late even now. We believers of the Unification Church, though we be in a place of taking reviling and being driven and mocked and receiving the curses of enemies, must guard the holy ground of Golgotha, and must protect the Lord who was victorious there, crossing the hill of death. Not such ones as Peter, not the twelve disciples who fled in fear, not such a company as the seventy disciples and the hundred and twenty disciples who gathered after Jesus died, but we must become a company that can lay down its neck and guard and fight in the place of death.
If the company that followed Jesus had become such a company, Jesus would not have died at that time. He would not have died. Do you know why I say such words? I say them because I am indignant. If one were to tell the facts, there would be no end.
Jesus, Who Is Praying in the Heavenly World
Facing the Christianity of the world today and facing the apostles who believed well and have gone to the heavenly world, there is something I wish to ask with dignity, and what is it? It is, “How did you build the temple of Golgotha?” How did Jesus go to the summit of Golgotha? What was the standard of the heart of Jesus, who offered sacrifice before God at Golgotha as a priest? No one knows. None but the Son and the Father know.
We must be able to laugh at the apostles and laugh at the prophets who came to this earth. We must hold content by which we can boast before the spirit individuals of the heavenly world and the saints upon earth. For that, we must know God and Jesus.
If it becomes so, there is no need to pray about miscellaneous things. Salvation is a later problem. The immediate problem is to know the method of entering the holy of holies, and the law of entering the temple and offering the prayer of atonement in the stead of all people before the mercy seat.
It is a time when one must offer prayer of confrontation and pray through the night to know this, and yet they are saying, “Come riding on clouds.” It means that they are holding delusions and dreaming. Try praying however much—whether He comes. If by chance what I have said here seems a lie, after I die hereafter, summon me and ask, “It is what a certain one of the Unification Church said…” I will answer you. I will answer you so that you cannot stir at all.
We must cross over. We must certainly go. From the garden of Gethsemane to the summit of Golgotha is the road the Lord pioneered in thirty years of life, so we must certainly go. That the Lord who went to the summit of Golgotha could not become the morning sunlight that shines upon all the world but became a withering evening glow—how bitterly resentful a fact this is!
Then when and where does Jesus come?
You must know that he comes walking the night road. Because he is a Jesus who could not become the morning sunlight and vanished as evening light, he comes walking the night road. The period of this walking the night road is two thousand years. Not knowing this, does it seem one will become a son of God? By no means. Because he went without having fulfilled even the mission of high priest upon earth, he is still offering sacrifice. He is still praying. Jesus is walking the night road and, wandering over all under heaven, is seeking Heaven’s sons and daughters.
With such steps, he came seeking the individual, and came seeking the people, and came seeking even the world. Now the time before dawn is passing. It has become possible to distinguish which clothes are red and which are white. It is becoming a time, a bright time, in which one can surmise which thing is wrong and which thing is ideal, which thing is unfitting and which thing is fitting. In this sense, today is the Last Days. Because Jesus could not rise as the morning sunlight and vanished as the evening glow, and it has become an age of rising again as the morning sunlight; now is the time of the end, the Last Days. Do you understand?
Then by what road will the Lord who comes come?
Since he went by the road of Golgotha, he comes by the road of Golgotha. Then what sort of place is the worldwide Golgotha, this Golgotha that the saints must cross in the Last Days? Golgotha means the place of a skull, the place of a skull. It is a place where the true sons and daughters of faith groan, a place where at the crossroads of life and death they vomit blood and fall away. Such a place is Golgotha.
Then where would the worldwide Golgotha be in this world where left and right are confused? Let him who has ears hear. Let him who has a head think. If I have talked that much, let him who has a mind feel. What sort of place is the worldwide garden of Gethsemane? It is a place where the chosen company did not live. Do you understand what I mean? It is a place where the chosen people did not even come near. It is a place where onlookers gather. It means it is a place where onlookers gather and sneer, saying, “He dies well, he suffers well.”
The Lord Who Went by Golgotha Comes by Golgotha
The saints of the Last Days, the true sons and daughters of the Last Days, must go seeking the final Golgotha, and that road, just as the disciples who followed Jesus fled, is not a road everyone can go. It is a road gone while receiving the mockery of onlookers who say, “He dies well; he plays well,” and of enemies. It is a road gone by a company that, even while nailed to the cross in a place where enemies look on and shedding blood and groaning, embraces the Father and cries, “Abba, Father! Why hast thou forsaken me?” and goes seeking into the depths of the Father’s heart. The road Unification Church members must go is such a road of Golgotha. Do you understand?
At the last moment of settling the decision of life and death, with that breathless and tense moment before you, you must quickly hear the earnest sound of weeping of Jesus, who kept vigil through the night in the garden of Gethsemane and appealed while shedding blood and sweat, and must go that road of hardship in his stead. One must prepare, saying, “I will become this body that bears the cross in the Lord’s stead.”
If it becomes so, you will become a company driven and pursued as an enemy before the people; do not be aggrieved at becoming like the company that in olden times was pursued by the priests and driven by the denomination. I intend to drag you and go down such a road. In going this road, you must shed tears as Jesus shed them in the garden of Gethsemane and must shed blood and sweat.
You must know that Golgotha is the place where Jesus, who came as the prince of atonement who atones for the sin of the whole universe and as the high priest, offered his body as an offering in the miserable figure of a priest and, leaving behind the promise of the Second Advent, died upon the cross.
The altar where the prince of Heaven offered sacrifice, that place where he offered an offering, is the garden of Gethsemane and Golgotha. However much the world says it is not, that place is the temple and the holy of holies. “O you who beat your breasts at that sound of weeping of atonement heard from Golgotha, gather here.” This is the new warning of the Last Days.
Jesus ought to have been born in a glorious place as a prince of Heaven, but was born in a manger. The Teacher knows Jesus’ circumstances well. Though the Teacher did not live in the same age as Jesus, he knows Jesus’ circumstances better than anyone in this world. Though he did not learn it from the history of the world, he knows it well. Analyze whether what the Teacher says here is a supposition or not. Jesus, who vanished as the dew of Golgotha two thousand years ago, would have burned with a sense of mission and would have burned with a sense of justice and would have earnestly longed for one day of judgment that could drive away the enemies at a single blow.
Jesus, Who Invoked Blessing for His Enemies
At this time when one must cross the summit of worldwide Golgotha, at this time when democracy and communism confront one another and good and evil must be judged, you must know that the prince who comes as an offering of hardship is the Lord who comes again. In this age when one must cross the worldwide Golgotha, one must become a person who knows how to hear a cry like that voice of Jesus—Jesus who, even in the midst of a harsh wind and whirlwind blowing from left and right, alone took hold of Heaven and prayed in the garden of Gethsemane; Jesus who, holding Heaven’s heart, cried out to love the enemy even while shedding blood upon the summit of Golgotha. Only then does one become the Israel that is victorious in the new age.
Then what must one do to go such a road? What must one do to go the road Jesus went? One must follow as far as the garden of Gethsemane. Having gone, one must not doze. From there one must go again as far as Golgotha.
The one who cries out here today too seeks to cross the garden of Gethsemane and appear before these people. He seeks to go the road of Golgotha until the day these people publicly acknowledge it. He seeks to receive the public acknowledgment of the spirit world in every aspect upon earth.
In the spiritual world too, there is a road of Golgotha. At the same time as there is a place of a skull in the physical world, there is a place of a skull in the spirit world too. To fill up Golgotha entirely, one must fill up even the place of a skull in the spirit world. Do you know what sort of place the place of a skull in the spirit world is? It is a place Satan is occupying. Do you know what sort of place the place of a skull in the physical world is? It is a place that Satan is ruling and where, therefore, human beings suffer and groan. A worldwide tribulation remains in which one must cross such places. One must pass through all such processes.
Today human beings are in the position of having betrayed God and lost God. In this unhappy position, what must one do if one would seek God? One must meet a master who can digest everything bad and everything disliked. Jesus is precisely such a One. Even when He was set in a place of being driven as the worst person under heaven and undergoing capital punishment, He thought that He was sorry. Even when He was put out in the most grievous place, He thought that He was sorry. That is why, when He came to be in such a place, He was silent like a person who, though He had a mouth, did not speak, and though He had eyes, did not know how to see, and though He had ears, did not know how to hear. He thought, “Since I have not fulfilled the responsibility entrusted to me, I deserve to be reviled and deserve to be despised. Since thousands and tens of thousands of lives have come to die because I did not fulfil my responsibility, I deserve to die as the recompense for it.”
All of you, let us think of the mind of Jesus, who could truly invoke blessing toward his enemy. Jesus’ having invoked a blessing for the enemy was not acknowledging the enemy. Jesus first thought of how greatly God had toiled to entrust him with responsibility. Jesus knew that God’s toil and hardship were the matrix of the blood and sweat and tears of the forebears. That is why you must know the heart of Jesus, who, though he himself vanished like dew while suffering, could not but forgive and pray for the people who said they would inherit at least the ground of the holy merit of God, who had toiled for four thousand years.
If One Would Attend God
You would not have known that finding the lost God is so hard. Though Jesus, at the crossroads of life and death, said that I am the Father’s and even offered his body as an offering, you must know that upon this earth there is still no evidence of having attended God. So he must come again and settle the accounts of all the bundles of suffering and sorrow upon this earth. Only then can one approach God the Father. Without the bundle of sin being settled, one cannot attend to God upon this earth. That is why the Lord at the Second Advent seeks to inherit that mission from Jesus and, bearing all sin and becoming a priest, to carry out the work of atonement and thereby receive atonement from God. Because the One who comes in order thus to attend to God the Father as a Father of glory is the Lord at the Second Advent, Jesus is until today offering devotion and preparing for the day when that Lord at the Second Advent will come.
Because, though he toiled to pioneer a road by which God could come upon this earth, he could not completely pioneer that road; the Father in His way and the Son in His way are doing that work. It means that Father and Son are dividing the mission and doing it. Do you understand what I mean? It means that Father and Son are doing the same work. Setting the same purpose before them, the Son Jesus is working in heaven too, and the Father God is working upon earth too. Thus, Father and Son are striving together.
Though God, who has much ability, toiled for as long as six thousand years, He could not find a son whom He could love, and human beings, who ought to have become God’s beloved sons, likewise could not find a beloved Father. They could not greet one day of happiness of being able to say “my eternal Father” and “my eternal son.” So to find God, one must believe in Jesus. Believing in Jesus and meeting God, one must go seeking the place of resurrection. Is it not so? That is why we go the road of Golgotha.
Who is God’s enemy? Who is Satan’s enemy?
Satan is God’s enemy, and yet God forgives Satan’s children. Yet with Satan there is no law of forgiving. If a son or daughter of God is once caught by Satan, there is not even any broth. That is why for six thousand years he has been gripping everything and saying, “It will not do.”
Then who is the one Satan loves most? It is his brood. On the other hand, who is the one Satan hates most? It is the children of God. Would it not be so?
The Road the Men of Faith Have Walked
What do you seek to become? What will you become?
Will you become Satan’s brood, whom Satan likes most, or will you become God’s children? Of course you will long to become God’s children. Try becoming God’s children once and see how it is. If one is born as a child whom God loves in this world where Satan’s brood are many, whose enemy is one? One is Satan’s enemy. Moreover, one becomes the enemy of Satan’s brood. One is the person Satan hates most. One becomes the person whom Satan’s brood hates most.
Since they hate one, what would happen? When you go, do you think they will say, “Welcome. We have prepared a feast for you, so let us play splendidly for a day.” By no means. They will drag one to a secluded place and put a noose on one’s neck and say, “Will you become God’s child or not?” Would it not be so? A child of God is Satan’s enemy and the enemy of Satan’s brood. Since he is a child born to overturn this wretched world, what would Satan do? They put one’s neck on the gallows and say, “Will you become God’s child or not? Will you surrender or not? It is finished if they only snatch one away. You must know that a man of faith comes forth fighting from such a position of having his neck on Satan’s gallows. Is it so, or is it not? You must know that whatever region or whatever environment you go to, it is the road of your recompense.
In the enemy’s nation there is no law of forgiving. You must know that for several thousand years our forebears underwent harsh persecution to such a degree, and shed blood and sweat and even suffered massacre, and yet did not vanish but propagated the race. When will the day come to avenge this enemy? Though it is the responsibility of the Christians scattered throughout the whole world to judge them all, appointing one day of victory, these are asleep. You must know that we are the company of unification who must awaken these sleeping Christians.
Now we are Heaven’s flesh and blood, so we must be resolved to be nailed and fall at the summit of Golgotha. You are pitiful, and I too am pitiful. Whether the denomination is large or small, the companies belonging to denominations are all pitiful companies. A denomination is a bloodline torn into branch after branch, and the blood of many people is stained upon this denomination, so we must not regard them as enemies but must become a company that can be beaten in their stead with the beating they are to receive and receive in their stead the suffering they are to receive. Only when many such companies come forth in heaven and earth can one topple the fortress of the enemy Satan all at once and greet one day of victory, and can one build an eternal Kingdom of Heaven. You must know that only then can one find Heaven’s side land and people and sovereignty.
To whom are God’s beloved sons and daughters now bound by the neck? They are bound by the neck to Satan. Bound by the neck to Satan, they are awaiting the time of death. In such a field, God’s breast is tight with anxiety. This is a fact. It is not a made-up story. God, after a thousand hardships and ten thousand pains, set up one person to save all people, and Satan killed him. He set up one family to represent the family, and Satan seized and killed that family. He set up a people to represent the people, and Satan likewise seized and killed those people. The believers who now remain are the people left over after Satan killed and killed.
Even so, under the name of children who in name and in fact belong to God’s side, several billion believers are now scattered throughout the world.
The Place Where One Can Meet the Father
Now the world is divided into two: God’s side and Satan’s side. The present age is an age in which these two are waging a confrontation, an age in which one must gather the outward environment and at the same time carry out inward reorganization.
What must you, who are placed in such an age, do?
You must know what the Father is doing. When the chosen Jewish people could not fulfill their responsibility and fell, God set up Christianity as the Second Israel. Then for what did He make this Christianity? He made it so that it might become the new Israel, that is, the chosen people, before the Lord at the Second Advent, who will come as king in the new age, and made it so that it might attend the Lord at the Second Advent, who comes bearing the responsibility of high priest of all nations. What must become the offering and the altar before the Lord who comes, transcending the feeling of a people and transcending the feeling of a nation and honouring the bond of flesh and blood of being one brotherhood beneath one parent, is the present Christianity.
The Christianity of Korea is doing every sort of thing to drive out the Unification Church, and this is a sorrowful thing but on one side a thankful thing too. Why? Because, since they could not become Heaven’s altar as the Second Israel, we can become that altar and can become the offering; moreover, since they could not fulfill the responsibility of priest, we can advance as far as the position of priest. It is so arranged.
Then where is the place where one can meet God?
It is not a place of praying in secret. God goes seeking when His sons and daughters are in a place of dying. It means that when His sons and daughters are seized by the enemy and, wearing shackles, are about to vanish as the dew of the gallows, God, who is the Father of love, goes seeking while wailing aloud. It means that God goes seeking, saying that even at the cost of passing through a thousand hardships and ten thousand pains, through a difficult and rough road, He will certainly see at least the figure of His son dying. You must know that God is such a Father.
The place where one can meet face-to-face with that Father is Golgotha. It means it is upon the cross. We Unification Church members know that although Jesus wore only a single crimson robe, a shabby garment stained with blood and sweat and tears, by becoming a holy offering before the Cosmos and going the road of atonement that washes away the rotten blood, the bloodline of death, that had continued for tens of millions of generations, a new bloodline of life came to be connected.
Though Jesus closed his eyes in the evening light, we now long for him to appear, on the contrary, as the bright light of a new morning. We are standing at such a solemn instant. Even though we die, we must see God the Father and die; and even though we live, we must meet God the Father and live together. Though Jesus met God in the place of dying, we, by the merit of the blood Jesus shed, can meet God while we are alive. This is the longing of the saints of the Last Days. Though Jesus, in the place of death where his body was torn and he vomited blood, said, “Father! Why hast thou forsaken me?” and went, leaving behind the promise of resurrection; we today are standing in a place where we can say, “Father! Why dost thou welcome me? So you must become those who say, “Since this body is upon the summit of Golgotha, where it can attend the Father, I am overwhelmed with awe.”
The Road the Believers of Unification Must Go
What Heaven desires is that, in a place where death and life turn upside down, embracing not dead sons and daughters but living sons and daughters and forgetting even His own dignity, He may say, “My son, my daughter! Now the grip of the enemy is gone. The han of six thousand years is at last resolved.” And the longing of the children too is that, forgetting their plight of having been bodies of sin, with eyes and nose and mouth all made one, they take hold of God and say, “Father! I wish to live together with Thee for a thousand years and ten thousand years. I will hold Thee and be together with Thee eternally. Now, if we go, let us go together.” You must know that this is the final destination of longing that fallen human life must go to.
What sort of place is the place where one can meet God?
It is the summit of Golgotha, where death and life cross. The road that goes to this summit of Golgotha is the final road that Christian believers must go on, the road of Restoration that one cannot but cross. Yet Christians, not knowing this, are asleep, so we must awaken them and drag them as far as that place. Because it is so, the marrow of our bones must melt. That this teacher too, gathering you who are ignorant, is crying out while bathing in sweat, is so that your dead bodies may be resurrected and, beholding Golgotha, the garden of heart, may resolve the han of Jesus who died and, with holy bodies, may inherit God’s undertaking—it is to make you sons and daughters of God.
You must not forget the fact that the place where one can meet God is the garden of Gethsemane and the summit of Golgotha.
Hereafter we must wage a fight; and just as the people of Israel who walked the course of the wilderness had the seven tribes of Canaan before us, who are the Third Israel walking the worldwide course of Canaan restoration, there are tens and hundreds of millions of enemies, and they are watching our movements. So when the sound of the marching trumpet is heard, whether night or day, transcending time, transcending circumstances, transcending personal longing, one must advance. The time has come when one must pour out everything for the attainment of the purpose and march.
We are now seeking the lost Father. Man has fallen into a state of dying because of the Fall, and even upon the road of death, if one seeks the Father, the Father who promised will come seeking. Try calling upon the Father in a place of collapsing from hunger. Our Father is alive. The Father is the good shepherd.
You must become those who, being anxious for the destiny of the people and the destiny of the world, can say, “O Father! How greatly hast Thou suffered until now to come seeking us who are ill-favored? Now I will bear in their stead the sin of this people, and I will take responsibility for the suffering and sorrow of the people, and I will take responsibility for the suffering of this world, so do Thou certainly rest through me.”
The teacher who is crying out here is now saying words hard to say. You must, holding the resolve that what does it matter if I fall upon the summit of Golgotha, and what han would there be if I vanish as the dew of the gallows, awaken this people who are asleep in every corner of the three-thousand-ri land, and drive Satan, who has trampled upon Heaven until now, out of this people and this land. Moreover, you must know that the road the driven believers of unification must go is a road one must step forth upon, holding the resolve that I will fill up with my body the thorny road by which God comes seeking, and that if I cannot fill it up while alive, I will fill it up even after death.
Therefore, one must say, “However much I am despised and have the agony of vomiting blood, whether by day or by night, drive me out.” If, while doing so, one falls and sheds blood and even utterly perishes, if one perished for Heaven’s sake, a tower of victory will without fail be erected there. We must not forget the fact that we have gathered for the sake of such a Will.
The Highest Standard of Happiness Is God
What I chiefly spoke of while touring every part of South Korea this time is such content as this. I said that I hope they will become such men and such women. It is not that I did so before them to gain some profit. It is because their road to life is there. If there is a road for you to leave, I will become your friend and will let myself be used ten million times.
This road is the road you must go on. You must go down this road and become dauntless, qualified ones who can meet the Father.
The Teacher holds such a history. I think of the time when, being lonely while going upon the road, God the Father called me and exhorted me, saying, “So-and-so, am I not here?” Then the lonely place does not become a problem. Saying, “I thought I was alone, but Thou art together with me,” I walk on vigorously. At some times, on seeing a beggar going along the road, there have been times when I wailed and wailed, thinking, “What would I do if that beggar were the figure of the Father who has come seeking me?” You must become those who, holding such a mind, know how to take the hand even of a beggar in however ragged clothes and wail unknown to others.
The Teacher has passed through many such places, and in a lonely place of being alone in the midst of suffering and distress, I also had such thoughts as, “The Father is truly heartless. The Father is merciless too. He only entrusts responsibility and does not look after anyone.” Yet each time, God said, “So-and-so, when you were holding a beggar, I was together with you. So-and-so, when you shed tears together with a pitiful person in the midst of distress, I was together with you.” So could one not go this road? That is why Jesus too said, “When you gave food to the hungry, and received the stranger, what you did to the least of these you did to me.”
We have not had a place where we can attend to God freely. So one must go seeking God, holding in the mind, “How sorrowful must be the steps of the Father who comes seeking Golgotha?” And while doing so, one must bless many people, telling them to become God’s children. By receiving blessings, you too can live.
You must know that it is a great sin not to know God’s heart and to seek to drive God out. The source of all the sin of the world is in oneself. You must clearly know that all sin begins with oneself. You are no better than a murderous robber full of sin. You are no better than a vicious element. God has toiled for six thousand years to save such as you. I knew such a fact and grasped such circumstances of God through experience (체휼). You, too, must enter into an environment in which you can communicate with Heaven’s circumstances.
You must become those who stand in God’s stead. And if one does not go the road of God in His stead, God does not come seeking one. Because the highest standard of happiness is God, one must seek God, but without going the road God went, one cannot find God. One must go standing in the stead of God’s body and in the stead of God’s mind. One must go in God’s stead, recalling the God who came seeking love for me, the God who looked after all the pitiful people. Thinking of the God who wept when He was sorrowful, one must consider how much I have done such work and how much I have built an altar of prayer for such people, and how many conditions of atonement I have set up. I hope that certainly this period may become a period of atoning for all sin. It means that this witnessing period can be such a period. Do you understand?
The Doctrine of the Heavenly People of the New Age
Who bears the cross of Golgotha and goes?
It is not the parents who bear it and go. It is not God who bears it and goes either. It is you yourselves who bear it and go. When you bear the cross and go, you must absolutely not become indebted to anyone. Since it is my responsibility that I must take charge of, one must resolve that I will bear it. I must bear my portion of the cross and go. And thereby, one must certainly meet the Father face-to-face.
In the course of thus fighting forward, you must not become betrayers like Peter. Nor must you become a company that flees, unable to bear the cross together with Jesus like the twelve disciples.
We must know that we are one flesh and blood with Jesus. We are one flesh and blood whose blood is the same and whose flesh is the same and whose bones are the same. So we must become those who take responsibility for the mission Jesus left behind. Jesus could inherit God’s undertaking, but he went the road of death. Yet I hope that we will not die but will inherit all the glory under heaven and become the second ancestors of victory, the origin of a new nation and a new history. You understand what I mean, do you not? (“Yes.”) In seeking God, the most important thing is precisely to become such a person.
Jesus came as the Messiah, and what sort of person is the Messiah? He is a responsible person who has taken upon himself suffering. Then for what did I say God laments? It is because the bundle of sin under heaven is staying just as it is. Then what would the bundle of sin be? It is a bundle of suffering and grief and tears. You must be able to take responsibility for such things. When one goes into some village, one must think that all the bad bundles in that village are mine.
Then what sort of doctrine must the doctrine of the heavenly people (천민, 天民) hereafter be? It must differ from the doctrine of the sinful world of today. Let us compare this doctrine of the heavenly people and the doctrine of the sinful world. The people of the fallen world today, if there is a good thing, each says it is their own. They seek to take possession of a good thing, staking their lives.
If one fights with such a doctrine, one is caught in Satan’s chains and comes to perish. Yet the doctrine of the new age, the doctrine of the heavenly people, is a doctrine of saying that the bad thing is mine, that sorrow and suffering are mine. It is a doctrine in which each fights to take the bad thing.
If a company that fights to take possession of that appears in this heaven and earth, this heaven and earth returns to them. Do you understand what I mean? What doctrine did I say? It is the doctrine that the bad thing is mine. One must fight to take the bad thing from one another. If one fights to take the good thing, one is so arranged as to be smashed to pieces in the end.
What did Cain and Abel fight to take away?
They fought to take the good thing, that is, to take possession of God’s blessing. In the end, they fought and perished and made a world such as today’s. To restore this, one must pass through the opposite course. One must hold the mind of disliking what the younger brother likes and of saying that I will take what the younger brother thinks is bad.
Until now, God the Father has done so. That Father stood even in a place of death to save His child. Saying that it is not yet the time to give the good thing, so endure until then; He stood even in a place of death in His son’s stead.
Having thus reared these sinful ones and made them Unification Church believers, they go about swinging their arms, simply saying it is good. It will not do to seek to do only good things. If one fights to take possession of a good thing, one perishes, but there is no law of perishing by fighting to take possession of a bad thing.
Sublime Living
You must take, in this world of death, what people fear most. You must digest within your life what they find most loathsome and dislike most. Just as one eats rice every day. In doing such work, whatever becomes of oneself, even if one goes without rice, even if one sheds tears, even if one vomits blood and falls, one must say, “Thank you!”
How must one act to become such a person?
One must know God’s historical heart thoroughly. One must know what will become of one’s own descendants and of the world of later generations through ten thousand ages. If one knows the value of the world to come hereafter, one will not feel attachment toward the present reality. Because the value of present reality is like a thread, it can fly away.
To make such a company, God has given a new doctrine to the pitiful Korean people. That is precisely the ideal of unification. Does unification seem easy? We must take upon ourselves the sin of the world. Since sin is the basis of what is bad, one must become the responsible person who removes it. Can you, all of you, be made one with such a standard?
When you enter such a place and suffer, you must not hold the thought that you are suffering. It means to hold only the mind that the bad thing is mine. Even when one is beaten, one must think that one is beaten not for that village but in the stead of the two billion seven hundred million humans.
Pray, “In exchange for my being beaten with this beating, indemnify the sin of humanity.” Even though one goes without one meal, it means praying, “Resolve the han of the countless humanity who are starving. Since the Father has walked forth upon such a road, I will take that heart as my model.” How sublime a love is this!
In such a place, one must look about one’s surroundings and say, “O all things that have longed to behold the figure of the Messiah! O, all things that have longed for the heart of a master! At what one time have you been treated with affection before the hand of a true master holding such a heart, and have you spent even one night embraced in the bosom of that heart?” When one comes to hold such a mind, one becomes a person who can truly treat even a single blade of grass with affection. Have you become such?
You must not bring out the antiques in your house and say that this was handed down by our forebears, and is a treasure of the Yi dynasty and this and that. One must not boast of such trifling things. One must love and boast of the things of heaven and earth that God made with heart. They are what God made to make His beloved sons and daughters live well. They are precious relics of creation that one could not buy even by giving gold and silver and treasure. Yet those relics have been despised and disregarded. That is why the things of heaven and earth are now lamenting. When one looks at a mountain, the mountain is lamenting; when one looks at a field, the field is lamenting. Even the blowing breeze is lamenting.
A New Recognition Concerning All Things
Now you must become sons and daughters who attend God at Golgotha.
Thereafter, one must become masters of all things who take responsibility for all things with the qualification of sons and daughters of God. You must become those who can love everything entirely, taking as their model God’s heart—the heart of God who for six thousand years came seeking us who are full of sin and did not cast us away but loved us. Whether anyone is there or not, you must be able to take hold of a single blade of grass and say, “Father! When Thou madest this grass, Thou madest it holding such and such a mind, didst Thou not? How much must Thou have wished to take this grass and show it to Thy beloved sons and daughters and boast of it? How much must this grass that the Father made have longed to boast of itself before the beloved sons and daughters? Yet since it has not greeted such days, how pitiful is it?”
Moreover, try saying, “Now the time has come, so in the Father’s stead I shall embrace you and treat you with affection, so forget all the lamentation of past days and live together with me for long and long.” And one must face all things while saying, “You are precious lives to be handed over for ever and ever, relics of creation and treasures to be handed over to the descendants of ten thousand ages, which cannot be bought however much money one gives.” One must thus cherish even a single blade of grass.
If one becomes such a master, how splendid a master he is! One must try holding the feeling of saying, “O mountain! I have come here. O water! Flow while looking at me.” Would God, seeing such a person, rebuke him, saying, “Hey, look at this fellow. I like it and I shall wish to see it; will it do for you to do so?” No. It means that God says, “Yes, all right. Then I shall give it all to you.
If it is something you like, I shall give it all to you.” It means that He says, “From this single blade of grass to all things under heaven, I shall give them all to you entirely. I shall give you even the throne of Heaven entirely. I shall make it yours. If I do not give to sons and daughters I love this much, to whom shall I give?”
In this way you must stand as victorious princes of Heaven’s side, and the created world must bow its head before you, and it must become a world in which each lives singing of the value without which the other cannot be. This is precisely the original world in which the ideal of creation has been accomplished and is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. To make such a world, what you must know is that you must become sons and daughters of God.
What is the highest standard of happiness for man? It is not money, nor property, nor knowledge. The highest happiness of man is to become a son or daughter of God.
Because God is the Lord of Hosts, there is nothing He does not have. Because He is One who is all-knowing and all-powerful, He is equipped with everything. He creates any amount of what is called “good.” Even now, if beloved sons and daughters conceive of something more beautiful than all under heaven and say, “I desire this; please make it for me.” God says, “Yes,” and creates it instantly. How splendid it is!
Yet He does not create bad things. Because the necks of beloved sons and daughters are hung upon bad things, God has toiled until now to loosen this. Now I too know how to lose this. I know the method of handling this too. So now I shall sweep away this satanic world.
The Significance of the Forty-Day Witnessing
We must inherit the undertaking Jesus left behind. Inheriting the undertaking Jesus left behind, we must become Jesus’ younger brothers and sisters. Satan took away entirely Jesus’ own brothers.
Since the fact is so, you must be careful. It means do not receive support from anyone whatsoever. When the Teacher thought that I alone remained, I did not pray to God to save me. I did not say, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” When I confronted Satan alone, just the two of us, with three or four words I made Satan tumble down a thousand fathoms and ten thousand fathoms. When the Teacher sees our little maidens going boldly into a place swarming with tough men, with men of every sort, and confronting them dauntlessly and winning, I feel excellent.
The women here must be all the more careful. Adam and Eve too fell at sixteen or seventeen years of age. Our members here who are of such an age must become people who are unshaken, however Satan may tempt them with whatever means. Rather, you must become those who raise spirit and splendidly push Satan aside and set them on Heaven’s side. One must be able to say, “What do you take us for, that you do this? It is out of the question.” I ask that you become such victorious young ladies. You understand, do you not? (“Yes.”)
And our young men must do work that is a plus to such work. Fundamentally, who is Satan? He is the very one who has made us suffer through blood lineage for six thousand years. Even if one is made to fight with such a Satan, one must say, “You wretch, you snatched away Heaven’s right of dominion and exercised it for six thousand years, but now it will not do.” You must become dauntless men who can seize Satan by the collar and strike him. Do you understand? (“Yes.”)
The Teacher went around every part of South Korea with such a mind and prayed for you. Moreover, since now is a complicated time, you must be careful in your speech. Furthermore, a matter you must without fail be careful about when you go to the provinces is that it will not do to think of the forty days only as forty days.
One must think that it stands in the stead of the four thousand years of history from Abraham until now and stands in the stead of the forty-year period of the wilderness. This year, 1961, is, even among the three-year period, a year in which one must make a general advance. We must have our outposts even as far as each township unit. And thereby we must keep watch on Satan, who takes hold of human beings and makes them flounder, and drive him out at a stroke. Next year we are planning as far as the village unit. You know too, do you not?
For the sake of such a Will, you must be able to say that, though your bodies are young, you will become an offering. So one must prepare firmly and resolve firmly.
Now, if you pray, the spirit world cooperates. Go to a village and call the village people together and try doing it diligently. Heaven will cooperate.
The Front Line and the Rear, Which Must Carry Out a Joint Operation
Until now the Teacher has had no rear. It was always the front line. Wherever I went, Satan’s arrows flew from all four directions. Yet now the time has come when the Teacher must stand in the rear. You must work diligently and become the Teacher’s fence. For you too there is no rear. By your standing in the front line, a rear comes into being for us.
When you go out to witness, you must not go alone. You must without fail carry out a joint operation with the people who could not go out to witness. And thereby, the front line and the rear must carry out a joint operation. Those in the front line must fight in front, and those in the rear must devote every sincerity and cooperate spiritually and materially. There must be such devotion. This time, even if unavoidable members do not go out to witness, all must set up the condition of having taken part together.
Those who remain in the rear are in the position of the unfallen archangel, and those who have gone out to the front line are in the position of the unfallen Adam and Eve. From such a position, all fight with fallen Satan. Because those in the rear are in the position of the unfallen archangel, they must not first give money to those fighting on the front line. The sons and daughters fighting in the front line must rather empty their pockets and use it. Only then is their dignity established before them. One must bring Satan to submission with one’s own sweat and one’s own blood. Only after Adam and Eve have found their position again does the archangel attend to them. This is the principle. It means that the reasoning of Restoration is so. The position of you who are in the rear is the position of the archangel. If those who go out and fight in the front line are in the position of Adam and Eve, you who are in the rear are in the position of the archangel.
We are fighting with Satan two to one. We must accomplish the Four Position Foundation, centering upon God, and drive out Satan. Holding the conviction that the satanic world will without fail collapse, one must give all loyalty. Just as the Teacher is loyal before God, you too must give all loyalty to the Will.
Since God has walked such a road, you too must go such a difficult road. When you witness, do not think that you do it for the Unification Church. Think that you do it for the Will. Do you understand? When you face the words of the Principle too, do not think that they are the Teacher’s words. They are Heaven’s words.
The Teacher has until now taught you the secret method by which you can possess everything. Since I handed it over without recompense, the Principle too is yours, and the church too is yours, and this nation too is yours, and heaven and earth too are yours. Going further, God too is yours. So you must attend to God, and you must love all under heaven. One must live holding the mind, “Ah! These people are also my people, so I must love them. The people of this village too are my parents and my brothers, so I must love them.”
For whom is such a life?
Overall, it is a life for me. For me, for me, for me—it means a life for me. Since Jesus too died without being able to do all such work, he must do it at least in the heavenly kingdom. It is the same with Moses. Since he too could not fulfill the mission he was to do on the people’s level, he must do it even after death.
One must have the conviction, “I will do it.” One must hold the conviction, “Even if the two billion seven hundred million humans should disappear, I will do it.” Elijah too, with such a mind, said, “I only am left.”
The Teacher too had such a period. Though I set out alone from the first, I did not tell such a story. I thought it was all right even alone. In a fight, there is hope only if one wins. Is it not so? So one must love God and love humanity, and love all these things as one's own.
Seeing the figure of you going while shedding sweat, God will rejoice. By following the road God went, one must inherit the traditional undertaking. And thereby, when one steps forth before God, God wishes to give such sons and daughters everything entirely. It means that He wishes to give and give again and keep giving.
One Does One’s Own Work and Goes One’s Own Road
You are doing your own work. Who gives a salary when one does one’s own work? If you wish to receive a salary, I will give it, so if there is anyone who wishes to receive it, raise your hand.
Who gives money when one goes one’s own road?
One must work, shedding one's own sweat and tears. If it will not be done by shedding sweat and tears, one must do it even by selling one’s blood. The young men and women of unification must work until the Teacher looks and says, “It is done.” Though the Teacher commands you, he does not command only in words. The Teacher too has walked such a road in the past. At such a time, God did not pretend not to know me. Therefore, if you too go such a road, God will without fail remember you. Thinking that you will become such sons and daughters, you must rejoice. Hereafter, when our members become many, I will have them work in important posts of this nation without receiving salaries. I will without fail do so.
You must not spare your blood and sweat but pour them out. Even though one can eat only one meal of rice a day, one must work diligently. Even so, one does not die. One does not die. You have the confidence for that, do you not? (“Yes.”) Try training for about a week. One does not die. One must suffer while one is alive for the sake of my nation and my land. One must make the place clean so that one can attend to a God who rejoices.
One must do work of which one can boast, telling everyone from the thirty million people to the whole world’s humanity to take our movement as their model. One must show such sincerity before these people and make them hold attachment toward Heaven. Only then does a road open by which these people can come alive; otherwise, it will not do. It is so with the revolutionary government of today too.
The problem is how one raises a revolution of consciousness, in other words, a revolution of spirit. We are already crossing over several stages beyond that. We alone are going. Do you understand? (“Yes.”)
Even if we are beaten while going this road, we must not resent them. God too thinks so. Mustn't these wretched Satanic forces be mobilized for one to indemnify quickly? Is it so, or is it not? It is so, is it not? If one would settle the matter, one must fight. If one would fight, one must do it doggedly. Only when the Satanic forces all withdraw does one win the fight. Yet will it do to stay still? Will one be acknowledged that way?
The Road of Becoming One Who Stands in God’s Stead
You must first fight with Satan and receive a certificate that you have won against Satan. Before receiving that certificate, one has no qualification to become a son or daughter of God. One must receive a certificate of having been victorious over Satan from both Jesus and from the Teacher. If only it becomes so, we can drive out the communists upon earth at a single stroke. Such a thing as the communists is no problem at all.
It is enough if one goes forward holding God’s heart. It is enough if one offers one’s own body as an offering, and one’s own tears and blood and sweat as an offering. It is enough if one offers oneself as a living offering that has not died. Moreover, it means that it is enough if one sets up an heir who can become such an offering and, becoming a priest, bears upon one’s own single body all the conditions of lamentation in heaven and earth and says, “Since I am here, whip me. God, resolve Thy han through me.”
You have all learned the Principle of Restoration, of how Adam fell and how one comes forth indemnifying it, have you not? You must add even this teacher’s han to God’s han and give it. Only then can the Teacher face you. Moreover, since God has promised that He would bless such sons and daughters, I can say, “I offer them as Thy sons and daughters, so receive them.” Only then will you receive the Blessing, will you not? Only then does one at last go forward to the place of receiving the Blessing. Do you understand?
The road the Unification Church goes is simple. It is the road of becoming those who stand in God’s stead. Since God has toiled so greatly for our sake, we must toil in God’s stead and repay it. Only then will God rest, will He not? I first must become God’s child and become His people. We bear a joint responsibility. So each must become one who stands in God’s stead.
God came to earth holding a parental heart and wearing the body of a servant. When all people shed tears, God too sheds tears, and when all people shed sweat, God too sheds sweat. Moreover, when all people stood in a place of death, He shed blood in the stead of all people. One cannot know how many tens of millions of times God became an offering in my stead. One cannot know how many times God played the part of a priest with His own hand. Since He came forth doing such work from the individual level to the family, people, and world levels, how great must His suffering have been! He sought to send His Son and have him do this mission, and even that failed, so God could not but do even the Son’s mission.
Originally God wished to set up a true son, one who stands in the stead of heaven and earth and can form a relationship with Heaven, and by him, have all people cross the road of hardship and be reborn. Thereafter, He sought to bless them.
What ought to have made such a thing possible was Jesus’ mission. Yet since Jesus could not fulfill the mission, we today must take responsibility for that mission. With a parental heart, one must wear the body of a servant and shed tears and blood and sweat and become an offering. Of course, one must become a victorious offering. One must not die. It means that one must not become a dead offering. One must become a living offering and fulfill the responsibility of a priest.
If one would become a priest, there must be a temple, and there must be an altar, and there must be a people. The altar exists because of the people, and the offering and the priest exist for the sake of heaven and earth. So you must now go forward to the position of priest.
For what is it that you go about seeking villages? It is to build an altar. If you would become priests, there must be a temple. That is why, when one goes to a village, one must pile up a foundation and build a temple. Next, one must build an altar. What is an altar? It is that village’s holy ground of tears. One must make the altar that is necessary until the Will is accomplished.
If One Were to Fulfil the Mission of a Priest
You must choose a special person in that village and offer offerings of three generations and twelve kinds of offerings. Why is that? It is because the number three is the number that becomes the foundation of the number twelve, and the number twelve is the number that stands in the stead of the whole. If one finds and sets up the number twelve, one can be victorious standing in the stead of the four directions of east, west, south, and north. That is why Jesus too sought to play the part of a priest with twelve disciples. Because he failed at that, he unavoidably set up three disciples. The three people were an offering that could make it possible to look toward only one direction among east, west, south, and north: the east, where the sunlight rises. That is why he set up three disciples and offered an offering.
Then how did the three disciples become an offering?
Jesus himself fulfilled the responsibility of the first Adam and the second Adam, but when, through the mistake of the disciples, the Will was not accomplished, he hung up the name of the third Adam of longing, the Lord at the Second Advent, and set up three disciples and had them offer sacrifice. Yet Peter, James, and John made a mistake. That is why Jesus has come forth toiling to restore their mistake, and is coming forth preparing from the position of a priest until the Lord at the Second Advent comes. Do you understand?
Therefore, you must resolve the han of Jesus and the han of God. Before Jesus’ han is loosed, God’s han too is not loosed. So one must first lose Jesus’ han, and for that, just as Jesus had a three-year public course, you too must go a public road for three years.
Could you not witness to a hundred and twenty people in three years?
If one offers devotion, it can be done. Thereafter, one must build a temple and make an altar and make an offering and become a priest. Only after setting up the condition of having been victorious in this way can one at last receive the Blessing as a son or daughter of Heaven. One goes forth restoring the family form from Noah’s family to Jacob’s family. When it becomes so, you can at last become the ancestor of an individual clan, like a tribe of Israel. It is simple. This is the road we must go. Do you understand?
Therefore, one must begin quickly, quickly, from the time you are young in years. On this road there is no room to say go or do not go. Since, when one learns the Principle, one comes to know that it is an undeniable fact, one cannot but go and cannot but do it. Since it is a road one must go oneself, one must not become a defeated one upon that course but must be victorious.
Since the Teacher too has fought alone until now and yet has a standard of victory, you too can be victorious. As long as the Teacher is here, do not be anxious but fight to the very end, and victory will be yours. The Teacher can be confident.
Knowing it thus, let us charge forward vigorously with confidence. Do you understand? Will you vow so? Those who will vow, raise your hands. Now then, let us make such a pledge with the Teacher.
Let Us Advance With Confidence in Victory
Until now, facing Jesus and facing the Will, I have had every sort of thought. I also knew that the road of going to seek God is hard. It will not do unless it is hard. Is it not so? The hard road is the road of receiving blessings. Saying that I will take responsibility for the difficult thing is the shortcut to becoming a son or daughter of God. The Teacher too has done labor and has become a person who begs for food and has been beaten in a group beating and has been despised. I have lived by going into the slums too and have helped beggars too.
Even so, I am not a cheap teacher. Wherever I went, I did not lose the integrity and dignity of being a son of God. Do you understand? However harsh a persecution the people of the world may inflict, our Unification Church members must not protest before the Teacher. It is so arranged that one cannot protest.
In sending you out to the pioneering fields this time, the Teacher thinks with the most aching heart of not being able to go to each place where you are. I explained the reason the other day, did I not? When going to seek the places where you are mobilized, how could I go empty-handed from the position of a teacher? Two thousand are mobilized and go out as teams of two or three, and even if one gives only a thousand won to each person, two million won is required.
Moreover, if one were to tour for forty days, one cannot but ride in a car, and the cost of petrol alone comes to fifteen thousand won a day. Moreover, if one were to go about from dawn until late at night, further expenses would follow.
If one reckons an average of thirty thousand won a day, for forty days it costs one million two hundred thousand won. Last year I gave money at each place I visited, and when I gave much, I gave as much as fifteen thousand won. When one thinks of this and that, no less than five million won is needed. Is there such money? Because there is not, I unavoidably cannot go.
Knowing it thus, it means absolutely do not be aggrieved that the Teacher cannot go. In exchange, the Teacher will pray for you. I shall pray without even eating rice. I am doing my utmost for the many young people who must go out to witness. I intend to encourage you with all my strength before you go out to witness. You must all take part in the witnessing without departing from the heart of the Teacher who asks this. And thereby, I ask that you become one who can boast before God.
