God's Providential View of History

1. Everything that exists, regardless of its size, originated from a single root. This is difficult to perceive because the Fall severed all relationships and plunged humanity into ignorance.

Nonetheless, all things of creation, including the sun, desire to live in the realm of true love within the realm of the true lineage. They desire a world in which each entity creates a realm of resonance, and in which each lives for the sake of the other while attending the True Parents and True Family according to its standard and form.

This is a world of natural order where all things, throughout the universe, live with humanity centered on God in equilibrium, where there is no circuit overload, as they say in electrical engineering. This is a world where everyone in the universe wants to establish the kingdom of goodness and live in it peacefully for eternity.

The Coronation of the King and Queen of Cosmic Peace

2. This is the venue of a tremendous event in the history of God's providence, an event unprecedented and never to be repeated. It is the day, the King of Peace finally ascends in glory.

Please recognize that, although they may not be visible to you, thousands and tens of thousands of good ancestors of blessed families are here. They are above your head now, joining with you in celebration of this wonderful moment.

All nature is rejoicing, and heaven and earth resound with choruses of hallelujah! If you truly understood the infinite value of this day, you would not be able to sit still. You would go throughout the world singing hymns of joy and dancing in ecstasy.

3. Do you know the significance of January 13, 2001? It was the day of the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship. For countless years, Heaven had been waiting with eager anticipation for that event, the greatest, most exalted celebration ever witnessed.

On that day, Rev. Moon, who had received the anointing as the True Parent of all humankind, who traveled a path of indescribable suffering and pain until he gained the final victory, offered his entire foundation to Heaven. For tens of thousands of years, God endured an existence filled with lamentation and grief, even as He conducted His providence with a parental heart.

When that presentation was offered to God, it marked His long-awaited moment of liberation and inner freedom. On that providential day, we declared to all heaven and earth that we would attend God as the vertical True Parent and great King of Heaven and Earth, that we would unfurl and raise high the banner of Cheon II Guk, and that the new sovereignty of Heaven had begun.

4. For the following three years, we, the True Parents, held firmly to the helm while the winds of Heavenly fortune swirled around us like a typhoon. We dashed forward as though each day were a thousand years.

Then, on the foundation of True Parents' victory, we declared May 5, 200,4, the Day of the Victory of the Number Ten Combining Two Halves. On that day, the True Parents brought to a close the Era before the Coming of Heaven, with its long years of grief, and opened the Era after the Coming of Heaven, the new age when we can build a new heaven and a new earth.

This marked the beginning of a great, history-shaping revolution that will return the earth to God in substantial reality.

5. These victories that I attained through blood, sweat, and tears, and the unity of the True Parents with all humanity, laid the foundation for a series of historic proclamations. The first took place in Jerusalem in 2003.

With the affirmation of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim clergy, I had Jesus proclaimed the King of kings before heaven and earth. Following this, on 20,04 my wife and I were installed as the King and Queen of Peace in a United States Senate building and at the Korean National Assembly. Finally, on June 2, in June 2,006, we conducted the coronation ceremony of the King and Queen of Cosmic Peace.

6. Today, you are receiving amazing grace. You are participating in the coronation ceremony of the substantial King and Queen of Peace in heaven and on earth, and you are registering as citizens of Cheon II Guk. Not only you, but also your ancestors by the tens of thousands are receiving grace along with you. They will thank you for eternity.

7. The Bible says, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness.” (Matt. 6:33) Today, you are witnessing the miracle of miracles: the establishment of Cheon II Guk, the substantial sovereignty in the Era after the Coming of Heaven.

God truly works in mysterious ways. By the first day of the new millennium, God had already surveyed the land for Cheon II Guk.

Who could have imagined, though, that they would see the day when the King of Peace in heaven and earth would ascend to his throne? You thought it was just a dream, but you are witnessing it in your lifetime.

The providential era and the anointed representatives (boonbongwang)

8. Humanity is now entering a new era, the era of heaven that turns the world upside down. It is a time God will work through the anointed representatives (boonbongwang) that, in my capacity as King of Peace, I am sending to every part of the world. In other words, this is the time we will complete God's kingdom of Cheon II Guk.

9. If John the Baptist had fulfilled his responsibility about Jesus, Judaism, and Israel would not have opposed Jesus, and Jesus would not have gone the way of the cross. With John the Baptist at his side, Jesus would have led the people of Israel to inherit the authority and power of Rome, which God had prepared over thousands of years.

With this foundation secured, Jesus would have sent his anointed representatives on the roads leading from Rome to all corners of the earth. They would have been the representatives and ambassadors of Jesus, the King of Peace, and would have fulfilled their mission as his anointed representatives, inheriting Heaven's Will.

They would have created Cheon II Guk, reigning over the earth free from walls and barriers, the kingdom of peace, liberated and completely without evil.

10. We know well that for the past two thousand years, humanity was unable to free itself from Satan's deception and had to walk a path of restoration through indemnity.

The mistake of one person, John the Baptist, who failed to unite with Jesus and then died a miserable death, was behind this. Nonetheless, by heavenly law, God's providence is neither permanently impeded nor abandoned due to human error.

Today, God has chosen this land of Korea to become the homeland in which His providence comes to fruition. It is because this is the True Parents' homeland. They were born here and received the spirit of this land at their birth.

11. I am working hard to send my anointed representatives to all nations. The era in which they live is one in which mistakes such as that of John the Baptist will never be repeated. Unlike Jesus, whose time ended abruptly through his going the way of the cross, I surely will complete the restoration of God's homeland on this earth, as I have received Heaven's seal as the King of Peace.

With God and the King of Peace as the central axis, I shall lead the anointed representatives sent throughout the world and so create the original ideal kingdom of everlasting peace.

The course of the development of history

12. God desires to save humankind from evil and sin, and to actualize the ideal He envisioned for all His creation. In the context of God's providential plan, the Korean War was not a simple war merely involving this country and that country.

It was a just war that shaped history by bringing God's providence to fruition. This understanding is an important principle and tradition for the Abel UN. Due to constraints of time, I cannot explain in detail today the profound providential plan God has had for my life's work and the Korean peninsula. I will therefore speak about some aspects of God's providence that I have recently announced, related to the Pacific Rim.

13. If you carefully examine the progress of history, you undoubtedly can discover God's plan and sense His presence as He tirelessly worked behind the scenes.

Consider the history of civilization, which began centering on four of the world's great rivers.

We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization that flourished along the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Harappan civilization on the Indus River, and early Chinese civilization on the Yellow River.

14. The center of civilization shifted over time to the shores of the Mediterranean, where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished in Greece and Rome.

History continued to progress, and the European continental civilization emerged. This continental civilization, in turn, gave birth to an island civilization, Great Britain, which flourished in the Atlantic sphere.

The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as “the empire on which the sun never sets,” passed its splendid culture on to North America. We know these facts from history.

Civilization on the North American continent raised the banner of democracy, which was rooted in Christianity. It bequeathed to the world the principles of freedom of religion and respect for equal human rights as it led the struggle against fascism and communism, which had established atheistic, evil sovereignties.

Through the victories of the First and Second World Wars, and the third, the Cold War, it triumphed over totalitarianism and communism. However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great.

The development of human civilization does not stop here. Victory came because God chose the United States of America as the Second Israel, by His providential plan, and raised and trained the American people through Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to its present stage of fruition.

15. Ladies and gentlemen, the present time marks an important milestone in the development of civilization. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has now arrived on the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

Its course has come to the point in God's providence where it will conclude in the Pacific Rim region. No force can stop God's providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the Era before the Coming of Heaven, nothing now can prevent the rise of the Pacific Rim era. Herein lies the special reason that Heaven declared this a jubilee year.

Building a new civilization

16. Ladies and gentlemen! The arrival of the Pacific Rim era signifies many things.

What do you think the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his lifetime on earth?

Jesus came as the Savior and Messiah to save all humankind. He did not come just to save the people of Israel, a small nation located on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome was ready to rule the seas.

Heaven earnestly wished for Jesus to first teach and transform Rome and then rule over her empire. Heaven was eager for a civilization that could bring salvation to all humanity by employing Rome's strength. Yet, Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through the biblical record.

17. After thousands of years of preparation, God was finally able to send Jesus to the earth as His only Son. There is no way to fathom God's heart as He anxiously watched Jesus' every action.

Jesus' death was a tragedy that broke God's heart. It brought Him anguish even more extreme than the time when Adam and Eve, whom He created as our first ancestors, were lost from the Garden of Eden due to the Fall.

During the two thousand years since the cross, God, in the background of history, has walked a path of suffering beyond human imagination. Through this course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the nation of the Second Israel.

As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and Protestantism as well as the Orthodox world, the United States' mission is to bring harmony and unity among all Christians as soon as possible and, in the twenty-first century fulfill the responsibility that belonged to the Roman Empire, but which was not realized in Jesus' time.

18. On America's shoulders rests the responsibility, within God's providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world's 6.5 billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world. These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven's decree.

Then how can we unify Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev. Moon, the True Parents of humankind. God gave me the supreme commandment to practice a life of true love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit world to which we go after we die, and to establish a model, ideal family, a true family.

The future of humanity in the Pacific Rim era

19. Peace-loving leaders! Among the 6.5 billion people on the earth today, almost five billion are our neighbors, relatives, and brothers and sisters belonging to the Pacific Rim region. In other words, many of our fellow human beings share the same root as the sphere of the Mongolian peoples.

After we receive the marriage Blessing and pull together, centering on God's ideal for peace, there is nothing we cannot do. The future of humanity is in our hands.

20. God's providence has now spread from the North American continent and blossomed on the island of the civilization of Japan, which is in a position similar to that which Great Britain once held, but on the other side of the world. It is now about to fulfill its destiny as it reaches fruition on the Korean peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents who have emerged on the earth as the Savior of humanity and the returning Messiah.

The Korean peninsula stands in a position like Rome in Jesus' time. Although it is a place of religious and political conflict, it is here that the problems of the entire world can be solved.

From the geopolitical standpoint, at this time when world peace is to be settled, the Korean peninsula is prominent as the point of most radical confrontation.

21. The principles of restoration through indemnity make it inevitable that civilization will bear fruit in the Pacific Rim region, centered on the Korean peninsula. Fortunately, during the Korean War, UN forces, led by the United States, mobilized on the peninsula. Yet, they did not fulfill God's will and recover the homeland and hometown of God's desire.

They left the job half done. As a result, global conflict and strife emerged, thereafter called the Cold War. During this period, the Korean people were deprived of their possessions and displaced, and this led them to search for God.

To restore this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation. I then reorganized the Peace Kingdom Corps and peace kingdom police force, comprised of the heavenly women who have received the marriage Blessing, who love peace, and who are willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of the Universal Peace Federation.

I have taken the lead in educating these organizations. These peace organizations stand at the forefront of actualizing a God-centered world of peace. They will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires.

22. You may not be aware of this, but I have been assisting behind the scenes of the Six-Part Talk currently being held for the sake of resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, reconciling democratic nations with communist nations. I am presenting a new solution and plan based on the principles of peace and harmony rooted in Heavenly Parentism.

At such intense times, what exactly should be the role of America and the United Nations? Hawaii, in the Pacific, and Norfolk, Virginia, on the Atlantic, bridge East and West, link North and South, and represent the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and all the great oceans of the world.

With the support and protection of the American continent, the Korean peninsula should become the homeland that protects and defends the Pacific Rim region by bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies in the preservation of the Pacific Rim region centering on Korea, Japan, and the United States.

23. As I was well aware of Heaven's plans for this region, I invested thirty-three of the prime years of my life in the United States, beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace. While on my way to meet Kim Il-sung of North Korea in 1991, I first visited Hawaii and prayed there, at that critical moment, to bring the Cold War era to an end.

On that victorious foundation, I returned to Korea, where I am working to complete the providence of establishing God's homeland and hometown. This year, in particular, a jubilee year in the providence, I again prayed in Hawaii as the first stop on a visit to America.

24. Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you carefully analyze the current state of affairs in the world. Although the days of communism are gone, powerful nations such as China and Russia, even now, are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to pursue their interests aggressively at the expense of small and powerless island nations.

No small island nation by itself can handle these powerful nations and their ambitions, which are economic, political, and even military. They are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they could dominate a small nation in a single day, without shedding blood.

25. Only when we settle peace and security in the Pacific Rim can we guarantee peace for all humanity. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves cannot contend with the great tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region.

The time has come, therefore, for these small island nations in the Pacific Rim sphere to unite as one and build the homeland of the new civilization.

The small island nations dispersed in the northern and southern regions of the Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, should become as one country, forming a union to sustain peace throughout the Pacific Rim civilization.

This will secure peace and stability for all people. What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm, a lifeline upon which humanity's future depends, from environmental destruction and conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield its natural resources for the sake of peace in the future.

26. During the past eighty-some years, I have upheld the commands of God and dedicated myself wholeheartedly to establishing the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, that is, a world of peace, the ideal God envisioned at the Creation. I have visited all corners of the world many times over to disseminate Heaven's message.

Notably, as we entered the twenty-first century, I revealed this teaching about Heaven's providential direction and the future of humankind centered on the Pacific Rim, which is God's final blessing and warning to all people. There is no other way to realize a world of peace.

Following the commands of God, the True Parent of humankind, I have embraced the world. Establishing the Abel UN, I am actively pursuing and practicing the providence of salvation.

Unless people uphold Rev. Moon's teachings, there is no hope for the future of humanity. Please engrave this message, which is Heaven's ultimatum, in your heart, and hold on to it as the standard by which you will lead your life.