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1. God's kingdom is the place where true freedom, faith, and ideals bear fruit; the place occupied by true families who have achieved true love, true life, and true lineage.
We are marking the beginning of God's millennial kingdom overflowing with eternal true love and true happiness. I have promoted true family values because the family formed by a union between a true man and a true woman, where God can dwell, is the center of the realm of the Sabbath throughout heaven and earth.
Through such families, we will realize, here on earth, the Garden of Eden described in the Bible. (315-218, 2000.02.02)
What kind of place is God's kingdom?
2. God's kingdom is the place where heaven and earth are united. “God's people” refers to all the people in the spirit world and on earth. A country in this world normally considers all the people living within its territory its citizens.
In the same way, all the land within the borders of a country is considered that country's territory. God's kingdom, however, includes heaven and earth, the tangible and intangible worlds under God's sovereignty, as its territory.
In addition, the countless spirit selves who lived God-centered lives on earth, those living God-centered lives in today's world, and their future descendants will all be citizens of the heavenly kingdom. No one can deny this because it is a part of God's eternal, unchangeable, cosmic Will.
Therefore, you should center your life on this Will and this ideology. The entire universe has collectively waited for this ultimate accomplishment; hence, once this transition occurs, the universe can finally be unified. (014-297, 1965.01.10)
3. all people hope to establish God's kingdom. It is the realization of this goal that we call the kingdom of heaven. Your country is not of this world but in heaven. Human beings should not live for the present world but should live for the heavenly kingdom. Furthermore, you are not owners of the countries within this world, but owners of the heavenly kingdom. (024-226, 1969.08.17)
4. We long for God's kingdom because it is the place we find love. It is the place where, rather than temporary love, there exists the eternal love that transcends time.
It is also a place where we can receive praise and acknowledgment for the entirety of our value. Furthermore, it is the place where people are eternally happy. This is why all people yearn for the heavenly kingdom. (025-284, 1969.10.05)
5. The new millennium is the time for the completion of the six-thousand-year providence of salvation and the time to build the original heavenly kingdom based on the ideal of creation. This is the Completed Testament Age, through which the promises of the Old and New Testaments are fulfilled.
This is the age of the new heaven and new earth, where there are no more tears or death, or sad, painful cries to be heard. This is the age of unconditional true love, in which the water of life, as clear as crystal, is freely given and shared.
This is the age when the spirit world and earth become one and God's kingdom is established both in heaven and on earth. This is the time when the new age of full transcendence, full immanence, full authority, and omnipotence will open through the realm of the eldest son, the parents, and the king. It is the time in which the direct dominion of the living God is realized. (315-218, 2000.02.02)
6. The earth is the hometown of all humankind and the spirit world is the eternal homeland, where all people are destined to arrive after achieving perfection. The time has come to realize the global family ideal on earth, centered on the Heavenly Parent, and thus to move from “One Nation under God” to “One Heaven and Earth under God.”
Accordingly, we have to bear in mind that the fundamental relationship between God and humanity is that of Parent and child and that, upon that foundation, we each have an active role to play in transforming the cosmos, that is, the spiritual and physical worlds, into our homeland and hometown. (315-219, 2000.02.02)
7. Jesus came to establish the homeland of God. The prophets and patriots of history worked to build this same homeland. To establish the kingdom of heaven, one perfect man must appear.
This man must gain the recognition of heaven and earth, marry, have children, and then establish a tribe, a people, and a nation. He must restore the relationship between Cain and Abel, engraft them to himself, and build the homeland of God's dominion in this world. The prophets and patriots of history yearned for this throughout their lives.
However, they were unable to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth that begins with an individual and expands to the family, tribe, people, nation, and world. Therefore, we have to abandon the path along which we have been heading and move forward in the right direction. (015-278, 1965.10.30)
8. Since the eternal kingdom of God follows one direction centered on a single purpose, its light cannot help but radiate powerfully in a hopeful and pleasing manner. Even if gray clouds roll in, that light will pierce them. Shadows appear when clouds block the light of this world.
However, the light of the heavenly kingdom can pierce through the clouds. Just as intense heat burns away impurities, when the light and heat of the heavenly kingdom strike them, the clouds will disappear. (086-304, 1976.04.11)
9. Where does God's kingdom start? It starts from a perfected person, from the center of that one perfected person. When that happens, God will be dwelling within the center of our hearts. You know from the Principle that God dwells where subject and object partners, or inside and outside, are completely united. At that place, the center is formed.
Then, those subject and object partners come to a position where they collaborate with God. All beings engaged in subject and object relationships are to relate with God.
It follows that God would feel happy when Adam and Eve feel happy and, in the same way, Adam and Eve would feel happy when God feels happy. In summary, we can say that entities in a relationship are to share common feelings and experiences. (092-216, 1977.04.17)
10. God's kingdom is a world that is composed of true love. Hence, whether one feels distant or close in heart depends on one's sensitivity to love. A tree receiving generous sunlight will grow rapidly and become large. Flowers will bloom abundantly on this tree and it will bear plenteous fruit.
When it comes to feeling love, we stand in the same position as that tree. When we all feel the elements of love, and they flow in and out through us, we can feel the joy that resonates throughout our environment. How closely our joy corresponds with God's standard of joy determines our relationship with God.
(050-029, 1971.10.24)
11. God's kingdom is a place of goodness and righteousness. It is a world overflowing with such an atmosphere, a place that is always full of joy, happiness, and love. Then what kind of person can enter God's kingdom?
Only a person who has a heart that is suitable for this atmosphere can enter. This is a natural conclusion. This is the kingdom of heaven for which we are seeking. (087-258, 1976.06.13)
12. God's kingdom starts from a heavenly family. That family starts with one man and one woman who are aligned with God's Will. In the end, they become the center of not only a family, but also a country, and the entire universe. Therefore, it isn't the country that needs to be perfected first, nor is it the family. It is one man and one woman.
This idea of one perfected man and one perfected woman connects to all of you here today. The idea of perfecting one man and one woman remains the same in the past, present, and future. It is unchanging. (115-039, 1981.10.28)
13. What kind of person goes to God's kingdom? A person in the original position before the Fall, a person living by the original principles goes there. An original person is not someone who tries to receive love from others. Nor does this person try to receive God's love.
He or she is someone who already lives intoxicated in God's love. The heart of parents loving their children is beautiful. Everyone bows their head in front of the love of parents who suppress their hunger as they feed their children, giving food to them after thawing it with their body heat.
The universe will certainly support the sons and daughters of these parents. The entire world will bow down to such love. People think that children succeed because they are smart, but that is not so.
It is because they have embedded in them, their parents' love and merit of living for the sake of others. Because no one can ignore these things, the descendants of such parents succeed. (148-327, 1986.10.26)
God's hope is the liberation of His homeland
14. Where is God's homeland? It is the place where True Parents and the True Family reside. Where is the True Parents' original hometown? It is the place where God and His sons and daughters reside.
Where is the True Parents' homeland?
It is where God and all His children, the subject, and object partners whom True Parents love, are dwelling, the place where you can find the love of subject and object partners.
If this were so, then where would you find the homeland of the children? It would be a place where they can love their parents with God as the subject partner, and where the children can receive love as the object partners. Such a place is the original homeland of the four-position foundation as taught by the Unification Church.
That is the ideal homeland. Why is it the ideal homeland? It is because, in it, we find the love of the True God, the love of True Parents, and the love of True Children. The world that develops from there on that basis will be ideal. Such a principle is to be found in the four-position foundation. (124-268, 1983.02.27)
15. The homeland is the nation of the mother and the father. It is the nation of our ancestors. It is the nation of the first human ancestors. Furthermore, it is a nation handed down from, and loved by, the first human ancestors.
Since the love of the first human ancestors is unchanging, then that nation should be unchanging as well. When you consider the historical course of those who claimed their nation as their homeland, you can recognize that there has not been a single nation that could maintain itself as the parents' beloved homeland. That homeland has been lost, over and over again. (173-168, 1988.02.14)
16. The people who live for the sake of Heaven today are Heaven's secret emissaries sent into Satan's world. Everyone is different, so an emissary may be big or small, stout or thin, tall or short, but his or her lifestyle cannot deviate from that of an envoy.
This is because life and death are always hanging in the balance. They are posted in a situation where even the smallest mistake can determine the issue of eternal life. Therefore, the secret emissary's spirit of working for the homeland, the homeland that can support and protect eternal life, has to be hundreds of times stronger than their environment; otherwise,e they cannot live as a secret emissary.
A secret emissary has to ignore their present situation by thinking of how the people of the world will rejoice when all resentment has been erased. They have to look to the glory of the homeland and, while they create a new history, think that the world will know and applaud their efforts on the day that witnesses the birth of the homeland.
Without such a mindset, they cannot carry out a secret emissary's mission. In other words, to overcome all resentment and execute their mission, they have to live in hope for the dawning of a homeland that is ten thousand times greater than their present reality. (029-040, 1970.02.16)
17. For the liberation of God's homeland, we have to take down the barrier between North and South Korea at the 38th parallel. Then this homeland has to rise as Asia's new fruit, a fruit that we can proudly display to the whole world. Our mission is to overcome the devastation wrought through the history of the Korean people and form a new culture.
Therefore, even though we have been weakened, we have to clasp each other's hands, move forward, and make a pledge while raising our hands toward Heaven.
Please know that this is the moment to create a new culture and prepare for tomorrow with an alert mind. We have to guide the environment with love for the country and the world. (036-201, 1970.11.29)
18. Where is the original hometown and homeland? Of course, we usually consider a homeland to be a single nation, but humanity's homeland desired by God is, in fact, the entire earth. Many generations of our ancestors walked the path of sacrifice.
What was the hope they proclaimed to Heaven as they walked that path?
They shouted, “May the time of the long-awaited homeland come soon!” We should establish one nation of God, to repudiate Heaven's archenemy Satan, eradicate evil from the world, and build the peaceful kingdom of heaven on earth based only on goodness.
This is the desire of God, the desire of Jesus, and the desire of the ancestors who made great contributions during the providence. (155-323, 1965.11.01)
19. The time has come for all countries in the world to dedicate all available resources and focus completely on the establishment of the peaceful, ideal kingdom that God desires. Humankind has reached a dead end. It is no longer possible to live without accepting my teachings on the peace ideology of true love, true life, and true lineage.
Your good ancestors will be fully mobilized, and when the heavenly authority of the Era after the Coming of Heaven surges, even the most powerful countries and peoples will yield to the fortune of heaven and earth. (509-179, 2005.09.23)
20. A world without the Fall is one where God directly rules all nations with the highest royal authority. That world is a place where God and True Parents can attain perfection together with the perfection of True Parents' kingdom; hence, it is the ground of our original hometown in our glorious restored homeland, where we find only peace and happiness.
Remembering what they had lost, lamenting, and looking at their history of painful sorrow through the ages of darkness, all created beings have been hoping for the time of True Parents' perfection when everything that was lost is restored.
Can you imagine God's pain while waiting patiently for this through such a miserable history? (595-053, 2008.08.01)
Sun Myung Moon