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1. Knowing that you are heavenly princes and princesses and citizens of the heavenly kingdom, you need to acquire the proper set of rules for dealing with any situation in your life and full have ill the duties appropriate to your position. Yet, even blessed members do not know about this.
What, from now on, must Unificationists do? You must establish the family tradition appropriate for and aligned with God's Day. You must establish the family rules aligned with Parents' Day.
You must establish the standard by which you order your life in alignment with Children's Day. To celebrate these days, you need to offer more devotion and welcome them with greater joy than you would any other holiday celebrated on earth. Parents' Day, Children's Day, Day of All Things, and God's Day must become the basis of your family tradition.
In your family, you have to establish the tradition of celebrating these holy days as the rule for Heaven's family, a rule that is passed down to your descendants for thousands or even tens of thousands of generations. Based on this family norm, you must go straight from Parents' Day to Children's Day, from there to the Day of All Things, and finally to God's Day. (22-026, 1969.01.01)
True God's Day
2. We must create a circuit of giving and receiving based on God's heart, a high standard that cannot be invaded by Satan's world. Its first foundational foothold is the tradition of the holy days celebrated in the Unification Church. To welcome and commemorate these days, you must be able to align your entire life with them.
Moreover, you must cleave to these days with all your loyalty and sincere devotion. Then, when you celebrate these days, you will become children who can uphold the purposes and norms that Heaven has established. Finally, after six thousand years, God's Day has been created. It is the day when God can rejoice.
All the fortune of heaven and earth was gathered for this day. It is a day unprecedented in history. Therefore, we have to welcome and celebrate this day with our sincere offering and sincere devotion. (22-027, 1969.01.01)
3. The days that human beings long to celebrate more than any other are not the days when they were born or when they married. Nor is it the Independence Day of their nation or the day when their nation recovered its independence previously lost to another nation.
God's Day and Parents' Day are the days that humankind truly longs for and supremely hopes to celebrate. Those days had only been hoped for, but now they are established on earth. Once God's Day and Parents' Day were established, they naturally connected to Children's Day and the Day of All Things.
(92-253, 1977.04.18)
4. No one previously living on earth ever witnessed God's Day or Parents' Day; neither had anything in the created world. The most important days among the 365 days of the year are God's Day and Parents' Day.
Through them, any problem can be resolved. These days are the royal days among all days, and the years they were inaugurated are the royal years among all years, among all the years that ever were. (92-253, 1977.04.18)
5. Before restoring True Parents, that is, before finding the family of Adam and Eve that did not fall, no one could have unfallen descendants or a world of creation unaffected by the Fall. Unless human beings can take the position to freely govern the world of all things, that is, the created world, God cannot exercise His authority as God.
That is why, based on the year 1960, I established Parents' Day, and subsequently Children's Day and the Day of All Things. Only when there are True Parents can there be true children, and only when there are true children can there be dominion over all things.
To take dominion over all things, we must first be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth. Adam and Eve were not supposed to govern all things by themselves. Children are the horizontal foundation, and parents are the vertical foundation. Parents therefore stand in God's position on earth.
Only after laying this vertical foundation can people have dominion over the world of creation and all things. Therefore, in the Unification Church, after inaugurating Parents Day, Children's Day was established, and afterward, the Day of All Things was established.
These holy days β Parents' Day, Day of All Things, and Children's Day β abide in the realm of God's dominion, not in the realm of the Fall. That is to say, their position is extricated from the realm of Satan's accusation. Hence, they can establish for us a direct relationship with God. (28-014, 1970.01.01)
6. The year 1960 was the year when we reached the completion level of the growth stage, namely, the level at which Adam and Eve fell. From the completion level of the growth stage, it required seven years more to reach the realm of perfection. This was the first seven-year course.
When we reach the standard of perfection, we can enter the realm of God's direct dominion. When I say the word βdirect,β I mean direct. Thus, we can also have direct dominion over the heart realm of life.
However, in 1960, the year our Blessing took place, the task of reaching that standard of perfection remained. I was still amid the realm of the Fall, the realm of Satan's dominion that resulted from the first Adam's Fall.
Nonetheless, a family had finally appeared that could destroy the realm of Satan's dominion. Then, during that seven-year course, Satan made an all-out attack on this family.
However, I fought with Satan, clashed with him, and by paying indemnity I drove him away and established the four major holy days: God's Day, Children's Day, Day of All Things, and Parents' Day. (22-197, 1969.02.02)
7. By inaugurating God's Day, I was able to establish the standard by which God could dwell on earth. Therefore, the Unification Church will now rapidly accelerate its growth on earth. With this standard achieved, the Unification Church, based on the truth, will develop using liberating the spirit world as well as the physical world, and even liberating hell.
Because we established God's Day, the annihilation of hell and the downfall of Satan have become inevitable. Therefore, with the establishment of God's Day, I have completed my mission. (22-194, 1969.02.02)
8. You do not know how hard it was for me to establish God's Day. The time leading up to the inauguration of God's Day was the most difficult.
Although I had established Parents' Day, until I had established Children's Day to underpin Parents' Day, Parents' Day could not accomplish the role of Parents' Day. By the same token, although I had established Children's Day until I had established the Day of All Things, Children's Day could not take up its responsibility as Children's Day.
Therefore, God's Day, Parents' Day, Children's Day, and the Day of All Things have to become completely one and be under the dominion of God. The fact that this has not yet been achieved is reason for us to lament. God's Day, which was proclaimed worldwide on the first day of the first month of 1968, will be fully established when it is connected to these major holy days. (28-015, 1970.01.01)
9. Because Adam fell at the completion level of the growth stage, he must inevitably lead his family back to the completion level of the growth stage. Nevertheless, that is not the point of completion.
Moreover, because Adam and Eve fell at the completion level of the growth stage, I had to start from the completion level of the growth stage and go up through a seven-year course. Then I was able to proclaim God's Day, on the first day of the first month in 1968.
Only after I completed the seven-year course and entered the realm of God's direct dominion could I inaugurate God's Day. Through the inauguration of God's Day, I indemnified all the days whose loss had caused incredible sorrow to God throughout the ages of history β Parents' Day, Children's Day, and the Day of All Things. I could then embark upon a full-fledged beginning on the global level. (122-105, 1982.11.01)
10. Having established God's Day, we should be able to march forward toward a higher level in new arenas in front of heaven and earth. History so far has been a history of indemnity.
Even though we have worked hard, shedding sweat and sacrificing ourselves, all of it was only to pay indemnity; God could not truly take delight in it. Nonetheless, from now on, all the results that we bring through our hard work, shedding tears, blood, and sweat, will no longer just flow away to Satan's world as indemnity conditions.
From now on, our efforts will be connected to ourselves, and we will harvest them as our results. We have entered such an era. That is to say, the era has dawned when God can recognize all our efforts and hard work as His victory.
Because God's Day established the boundary of the era wherein God can experience joy, we have entered a glorious era, an era when, based on our conditions, God can intervene. That is why I established God's Day.
(19-178, 1968.01.01)
11. Now with the inauguration of God's Day, I have completed my first seven-year course centered on God. You can now begin your seven-year course, and I can go on to complete my twenty-one-year course. Now I am beginning my second seven-year course.
When my twenty-one-year course is completed, the world will enter the era when God can directly lead us centered on Heaven's family. Please consider this seriously. The reason we are to establish tribes connected to Heaven's family is to save the Korean people.
This is God's mission. He has therefore vested in us the mission of restoring our tribe for the sake of this people. At the church level, the persecution is already gone. The tiresome and arduous era of indemnity has passed, and the era has arrived when we can reap what we sow.
For this, we must give thanks to God. Now the era has arrived when if you make ten times the effort you can harvest ten times the result. This can be a matter of endless pride before God, and a matter of endless and bitter regret for Satan. Thus, today, January 1, 1968, at three o'clock in the morning, I hereby proclaim God's Day.
On this day, we must offer everything we have with utmost devotion to express our sincere gratitude to God and return glory to Him. Our descendants from generation to generation forever will praise this day.
We will always praise this day, for it was the day when God's presence was made known to us. (19-178, 1968.01.01)
12. People celebrate their birthdays, wedding days and anniversaries. Nations celebrate their national holidays. Now the era has come when certain days are being celebrated globally.
However, among the countless days that have been celebrated up to the present, there has not been even one day when we could attend God by sincerely celebrating God's day.
From the Principle, we are well aware of how great has been God's sorrow and how piercing and bitter His grief over this situation. God's Day could not be established as long as the barriers erected by the fallen world were standing in front of God.
Therefore, to establish this day, I had to restore the standard by making indemnity conditions. Because fallen parents had emerged on earth, I had to indemnify them. After indemnifying the fallen parents, I established Parents' Day as the day of that victory. (19-176, 1968.01.01)
13. God's Day, which we welcome today, is the day of hope. It is the culmination of all that we desire. Furthermore, this event, which you are participating in, is incomparably greater than any event that the twelve disciples could celebrate in Jesus' time.
God's Day has such incredible significance and value; it is the culmination of all days. That being so, what should be your attitude and your heart when celebrating this day? What kind of heart should each of you have? We should be able to bring Abel, who was murdered at the time of Adam and Eve, to celebrate this day.
We should be the children upon whom our grandfather Noah would give his benediction, saying, βI praise your amazing spirit!β Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the three patriarchs of faith, should also be able to praise you, βThe hard toil and suffering we endured were ultimately to welcome this day, and we truly praise your amazing achievement!β
Moreover, the people of Israel should praise you: βThank you for preparing the realm of Israel for us, the realm that we were unable to realize even after we went through so many trials and tribulations with Moses while crossing the wilderness to recover the nation.β
From this or that perspective, you need to think, as you receive this day and celebrate it, about how much loyalty was demonstrated, how much suffering was endured, and how great a price was paid in sacrifices for this day.
(28-028, 1970.01.01)
14. How much did you prepare yourself to receive this day of feasting that is called God's Day? Did you prepare more than you would prepare for the wedding of your only son?
Ladies, on your wedding day, you must have made every effort to beautify yourself as best you could, washing yourself again and again and scrubbing all the dead skin off your body, before you entered your bridegroom's chamber. Did you make more preparations than that for God's Day?
You men, did you prepare yourself to attend God's Day with a heart more joyful than the heart with which you welcomed your bride? You may have overcome numerous obstacles, crying out, βI will die if you do not become my wife!β You may have surmounted difficult and even hopeless circumstances before finally achieving your desire to become her bridegroom.
How much more extensively should you have prepared for this one-and-only holy God's Day ceremony, for which humankind has longed for six thousand years? You who are attending here must admit to yourselves that your sincerity and heart are lacking. This is not an event that you should merely attend.
Rather, you must come having cultivated your heart in secret, unknown to anyone else in the Unification Church, striving to offer the highest level of sincere devotion. You should have the heart to sit at the place that is closest to God, not back in the middle of the crowd. (28-040, 1970.01.01)
15. More than anyone else, you must become aware of the profound significance and great value of God's Day. Each of you needs to take this day as a barometer as you pioneer and lay the groundwork for a life that can be glorified on this day. Further, you must remember this day as you fulfill your responsibility as Unification Church members.
You must fulfill your responsibility to the Korean people and continue to advance unceasingly until they attend this day as their eternal God's Day. Now that God's Day is inaugurated, the time has come for numerous spirits from the spirit world to descend to earth, and with their assistance, we can fight in earnest for God's desired Will.
Until the present time, caught by the conditions for Satan to accuse, God has been paying compensation to Satan and defending Himself against him. However, now the conditions are established for God to claim Satan's world.
Now the time has come when He can go on the offensive. The arena has opened for numerous saints and sages in the spirit world to descend to earth and freely carry out their work. (19-179, 1968.01.01)
True Parents' Birthday
16. Because of the Fall, the True Father had to emerge first, before the True Parents together. Today, believers in many religions surely wish that their founders were the True Fathers, but God takes a different viewpoint.
The person in the position of the True Father is to be born in the religion of religion. The True Father is the person who is qualified to procreate true children, that is, he is qualified to turn fallen children into true children.
(83-043, 1976.02.05)
17. A historic time of transition is coming to the entire world. It is historically significant that today we celebrate True Parents' Birthday.
Not only we Unification Church members but also spirits from the spirit world β Unification Church members who went to the spirit world, Christians in the spirit world, and all good spirits β have entered the realm where they can celebrate this day together with us. We human beings on earth must serve as guideposts to lead heavenly fortune in one direction.
Today, people who follow moral rules and who believe in religion must take responsibility to fulfill this. Yet, few among them are even dreaming this in their dreams.
Most of them think they will go to the heavenly kingdom based on blind faith. In light of this, the fact that we are celebrating True Parents' Birthday today has cosmic significance. In the future, only those who genuinely celebrate True Parents' Birthday will be able to celebrate their birthdays. (83-113, 1976.02.05)
18. It is a wonderful fact that people of all five races have gathered here to celebrate my birthday. Who made this possible? It was not I. God's Will and God's love made it possible. Other people do not know, but you people know God's Will and you know God's love that dwells in the hearts of Unification Church members.
Although the world opposes us and although this nation opposes us, we who know these things must march forward to accomplish God's Will, grateful to the end even if we must sacrifice everything we have. We know that doing this has the most significant value; therefore nothing can deter us.
We may encounter great trials and tribulations, but we must overcome them, no matter how difficult they are. Even if we are bombarded with things of no value in this world, we will nevertheless defend God's Will at the cost of our lives. We must be proud that we are investing our lives in seeking God's love.
Today all of you are congratulating Mother and me on our joint birthday. Although I am grateful to you for that, before doing so you have to resolve to unite all five races of humankind in front of God's Will and His love. Then you can celebrate this day on which Mother and I are united and also offer praises to God. (096-268, 1978.02.12)
19. In this chaotic age that is the Last Days of human history, it was inevitable that God was preparing to establish a new history. Therefore, ever since history entered the period of global conflicts at the time of the First World War, it was foreseeable that global issues would arise that would determine humankind's direction β whether all the people of the world would rise or fall.
From the perspective of the Will, if the Western world chooses a direction leading to its downfall, and if Western thought takes the path of decline, God will necessarily seek to maintain balance by elevating teaching from the opposite hemisphere, the East.
History goes in cycles, just as Earth revolves around the sun changing its position morning, noon, evening, and night. Therefore, if Western society is headed for its downfall, God will surely seek the path to a new morning in the Asian world. We can observe that today's Western world is enamored with Asian civilization.
When did God begin such preparations in the East? God began them around the time of the First World War. Generally, within three years of a major event, everything comes to the surface. I was born in 1920. (103-041, 1979.02.02)
20. I heard that when I was in my mother's womb, some people were keeping themselves alive by eating the bark from pine trees. They scraped the trunk to get at the edible tissue inside the tree. I thought that God loved me, but why around the time of my birth did He drive the history of my country to such terrible depths?
Furthermore, at the time of my birth, my immediate family and clan suffered through many disastrous situations. I can understand the meaning of all these incidents because I know the law of indemnity. If I did not know this law, I might have thought that all those awful stories were made up.
All of my family members and relatives had to pay indemnity β my cousins and their cousins; even more distant relatives paid the price. My family and clan were completely devastated just because of my birth. Until I reached the age of fifteen, they were never free from tribulation. (141-030, 1986.02.16)
21. You cannot imagine how much blood was shed whenever Korea was invaded by the powerful nations that surrounded it. Due to its geographical location, these invasions happened frequently.
Throughout its bitterly sorrowful history, how many young men were drafted into armies, and how many young women were taken as slaves? Korea did not seek such a course of pain and suffering, in which countless individuals and families were sacrificed, young men and women were sacrificed, its land was devastated, and its sovereignty was trampled upon.
You do not know how much humiliation my nation had to endure. Observing the things that happened within my family, I can see that all those tragedies did not occur just by chance. They were necessary, even though they were unimaginable, even in dreams.
Based on the law of indemnity, to receive the Abel of all humankind, all the providential debts incurred throughout history had to be paid off by that one family in four directions β front, back, right, and left.
From this perspective, you cannot deny that my family was called to be in a fateful position. Inevitably I had to be born from such a background.
(171-262, 1988.01.02)
True Parents' Day
22. If the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, had not fallen, humankind would have already welcomed Parents' Day long ago. However, because they fell, for humankind to welcome Parents' Day, first the True Parents had to come to earth, and only then could Parents' Day be inaugurated.
Then, only after True Parents had given birth to children based on the standard of that day, could Children's Day be inaugurated. Once those days were inaugurated, we could also welcome the day that established our dominion over all things. God promised such days to the unfallen ancestors of humankind.
However, as a result of the Fall of the human ancestors, the days to celebrate parents, children, and all things, which are all part of God's ideal of creation, could not be inaugurated.
God is the being who most wants to see the purpose of creation in heaven and on earth. Yet even He could not welcome these days on which He could rejoice and be proud.
Of course,e we know that, due to the Fall, Adam, and Eve fell into a state of having lost God. However, we should know what God lost due to the Fall of Adam and Eve. He lost Parents' Day, Children's Day, and the Day of All Things. God lost all these days, which He had hoped for. (16-177, 1966.03.22)
23. Because all people today are born of the fallen lineage, they are fated to moan in eternal misery. People may hope that they can attend God and enjoy happiness and glory while they are on earth. But what is the highest hope among hopes?
It is to welcome Parents' Day. Without welcoming Parents' Day, we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven; nor can we go to God. Christians hope to see the day of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, but that day is none other than Parents' Day. Parents' Day is a day of hope for all humankind. (16-184, 1966.03.22)
24. The world needs God's sons and daughters who, on God's behalf, liberate all humankind and bring happiness to all people. Here we find the purpose for which Jesus came to earth. Parents' Day is the very day that heaven and earth have been hoping for.
The hope of present-day Christians all over the world is to see the day of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. That day has come; it is Parents' Day. Even though physically we are already fully grown, we must receive our Parents and be born again.
Regardless of how deep our faith was, before Parents' Day we could not stand in a position closer to God than adopted children. When Jesus comes again, he will come with the Father's mission; he comes as the True Father to make us true children. (16-185, 1966.03.22)
25. People of all races and nationalities throughout the world celebrate their many holidays. But up to now they were unable to celebrate Parents' Day. Only in 1960 was Parents' Day established, in Korea.
That day should be more joyful than the day of Korea's liberation. It should be more joyful than any other day when the world rejoices. This special day, Parents' Day, was established by the Unification Church, even as we were being pushed around and driven into a corner.
Had this day not come, there would be no way to dissolve the bitter sorrow of heaven and earth. Had this day not been inaugurated, God could not have established a foothold of victory on this earth that is still Satan's world. It is the day when God determined His day of victory.
Furthermore, it is the day when believers can be liberated. It is the day when all the hopes held by all the ideologies in the cosmos are brought to a singular fulfillment and the day when heaven and earth are re-created. (16-185, 1966.03.22)
26. We should feel joy when we celebrate Parents' Day, and from the joy that we feel we should be able to reach the standard to be reborn. Hence, in addition to being the day to proclaim the Parents, Parents' Day is also the day to proclaim in front of heaven and earth that their children will soon be born.
God created Adam and Eve as His children and blessed them to have dominion over all things. You have taken the courses of restoration based on such a bond of the heart. Hence, after you can relate with the True Parents, you must take the position of their children and, thereafter, receive the blessing to govern all things.
Thus, Parents' Day is truly significant. Establishing Parents' Day led to Children's Day, and establishing Children's Day led to the Day of All Things. These three holy days emerged based on Parents' Day as the standard. (16-199, 1966.03.22)
27. The concept of Parents' Day was originally God's central concept in His ideal for the creation. After creating all things, God created human beings to have dominion over all things.
The reason God blessed them to govern all things was none other than to make it possible to inaugurate the True Parents. Originally, Adam and Eve should have become the True Parents by uniting with each other centered on God.
Then Parents' Day would have been naturally established, and the universe would have offered hymns in the name of the Parents. Thus, Parents' Day should have been a day of joy, with the universe offering hymns together in the name of the Parents. (13-280, 1964.04.12)
28. Parents' Day was never meant to be a day just for the Unification Church. Nor can we be satisfied with a Parents' Day that is just for Korea; nor can it manifest its full meaning if it is only for the earthly world.
As the day the entire cosmos can finally come into harmony, Parents' Day must be a day when the whole universe rejoices with God. We should not conceive of Parents' Day only on a personal level.
We must make the individual-level Parents' Day into the tribe-level Parents' Day, the tribe-level Parents' Day into the people-level Parents' Day, the people-level Parents' Day into the national-level Parents' Day, the national-level Parents' Day into the world-level Parents' Day, and the world-level Parents' Day into the cosmic-level Parents' Day. (16-195, 1966.03.22)
29. All people should be in the position to receive the True Parents. To do so, they must prepare everything based on True Parents' love. Thereby they can possess both the Parents' love and children's love. It requires that we, as brothers and sisters loved by True Parents, become one on the earth.
This is how we can prepare everything and move forward. With True Parents as the center, we must resolve the bitter sorrow of history.
Therefore, people of all five races must praise the joy of receiving True Parents, and with hearts bursting with love, they must erase the endless suffering of this world. Only then can God finally take His Sabbath. (16-188, 1966.03.22)
True Children's Day
30. After God created all things in heaven and on earth, He was to have welcomed a Children's Day centering on Adam and Eve. If He could have welcomed Children's Day at that time, then He would have gone on to establish Parents' Day, the Day of All Things, and God's Day.
In light of this, what is Children's Day all about? It is the day when we can be victorious as children and reach the position of universal glory. However, because the human ancestors fell, ever since the time of Adam not even one person has entered the glorious state that God would have permitted them to enter had they succeeded in aligning themselves with God's Will.
Until that day, the purpose of history has been to restore humankind, or to save humankind, by pulling them back and placing them in the original position where they were at the beginning. This has been God's providential history of restoration.
We should not celebrate Children's Day simply because it is a day different from other days.
Children's Day is when we children celebrate that we, who due to the Fall could not enter the state where we could partake in God's glory, can finally for the first time in history abide in the state where we can participate in His glory.
(21-181, 1968.11.20)
31Toto have Children's Day, we must enable the children who have gone astray to cling to God from the point where they went astray until they had corrected their wrongdoing.
The establishment of Children's Day signifies the appearance of sons and daughters who can rectify the fact that they lost God due to the wrongful actions of God's children.
Once those children emerge, they must find God using establishing Children's Day. Then God can rise to His place of glory and rejoice. When God rejoices, His sons and daughters rejoice, and all things rejoice as well. (21-186, 1968.11.20)
32. Why do we need Children's Day? We need Children's Day because we lost that day. Who lost that day? Adam and Eve lost it. Therefore, it is Adam and Eve who must recover it. Since Adam and Eve made a mistake and created a hole, they must patch it up.
So while the first Adam was the one who ruined things, the second Adam became the one who corrected things. The first Adam became the Father who brought things to ruin, and the second Adam, Jesus, became the Father who brought salvation. (21-190, 1968.11.20)
33. That we inaugurated Children's Day in the Unification Church means that we dug up the sinful seeds sowed by Adam and Eve and made the foundation to liberate all humankind from evil. Before this, because Children's Day had not been established, all things of creation could not be liberated.
They languished in the realm of lamentation, and God Himself also languished in that realm. As long as Children's Day was not inaugurated, we could not seek and find the Day of All Things, and all things of creation could not reach a position to be glorified.
This left all things in bitter resentment. Moreover, God could not rejoice in seeing the arrival of His day of glory. All these outcomes resulted from not having established Children's Day. (21-186, 1968.11.20)
34. For fallen human beings, Children's Day is the greatest among the holy days. It is greater than Parents' Day because it is the day for Parents to recover their authority. Satan had trampled on human history for six thousand years, but on Children's Day, we chase him out and hold up the flag of victory.
Fallen people must receive that day if they are to enter the heavenly kingdom and attend the Heavenly Parent. We Unification Church members cannot attend the Heavenly Parent only by ourselves. To attend Him, we must build a bridge for others to do the same.
Furthermore, we must build a bridge for those who have gone to the spirit world, both men and women. This day is not only for Unification Church members; it is a day for all people of the world to mark and celebrate forever and ever. Children's Day is indeed the most blessed day for fallen humankind. (21-202, 1968.11.20)
Day of All True Things
35. The Day of All Things is the day that dissolves the bitter sorrow of all things of creation. However, human beings are qualified to dissolve the bitter sorrow of all things only if they stand in the position of Adam and Eve before the Fall. From the beginning, dominion over all things of creation should have had True Parents' love at the center.
This is a principle of heavenly law. Without True Parents' love, there could be no Children's Day. As children were supposed to be born only through the love of True Parents, the Day of All Things could emerge only from the love of True Parents.
What qualifications must we have to welcome the Day of All Things? We must stand in a position higher than Adam and Eve were before they fell. That position can be created only through the love of the True Parents.
However, we were born in the position bound to Adam and Eve's fall, and hence, contrary to our desire, we came to live in the realm of Satan's dominion.
(18-205, 1967.06.08)
36. The Day of All Things was inaugurated to resolve the bitter sorrow of the world of all created things. It took place after the inauguration of Children's Day in Korea, for the historic resolution of humankind's bitter sorrow.
That, in turn, resulted from the historic resolution of bitter sorrow with the inauguration in Korea of Parents' Day. These three holy days secured a firm foundation for God's power, which Satan cannot expel from the earth. They firmly established the foundation for launching God's final providence on earth.
The Day of All Things is like a wall that blocks Satan. It must grow higher and higher. The more people we have on Heaven's side, the larger the wall to block Satan will grow.
When the power of God's side grows as more people rise to His standard, His side will be victorious and the kingdom of heaven will be established. I am looking at the matter from this perspective. That is why I established the Day of All Things in 1963. (18-206, 1967.06.08)
37. Originally, all things were created for human beings and were meant to be under their dominion. However, due to the Fall of the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, all things have not been governed by original human beings but instead came under Satan's dominion. As a result, God could not establish relationships with all things.
All things were put under the realm of Satan's dominion as a result of the Fall of the human ancestors. Therefore, it is up to us to eliminate Satan's authority, which invaded even the realm of all things on earth; otherwise, they cannot return to their original position.
Because we human beings drove all things into the realm of lamentation, the responsibility to liberate all things is on our shoulders. (23-328, 1969.06.15)
38. What had to be done to establish the Day of All Things? Because it was the Fall of human ancestors that caused all things to fall into Satan's realm, the True Ancestors of humankind would have to emerge to restore them. Then, based on restoring God's relationship with His children that He had originally given to Adam as a blessing, all things could be restored to the realm of the dominion of God's children.
Based on the vertical bond between Parents and children, we were able to connect horizontally. In this way, we established the standard for having dominion over the entire created world.
That is why, in the Unification Church, Children's Day was established based on Parents' Day, and then on the foundation of Children's Day, the Day of All Things was established. Therefore, the Day of All Things must not be a day that people commemorate by themselves, but one that they celebrate together.
(23-329, 1969.06.15)
39. We have welcomed Parents' Day and then Children's Day. However, we cannot achieve complete restoration with only parents and children. When God blessed the first human beings, he asked them to be fruitful, multiply, and subdue all created things.
Thus, as there are parents and children, there must also be all things of creation that can come under their dominion. Therefore, as we celebrate this Day of All Things, let us first resolve to connect all things to Heaven centering on the Unification family.
Then, after realizing our own true family, we can bring all things into total unity. This is how we can connect ourselves with Heaven. (23-333, 1969.06.15)
40. As we welcome the Day of All Things, consider the fact that even though we established God's Day, we have so far been unable to link with all things and bring them into the position where God can have dominion over them.
Therefore, today, all things of the created world must not remain the possessions of this or that individual. Until they belong to God, they have to pass through the stages of restoration, by our offering them in the name of True Parents.
(23-332, 1969.06.15)
Foundation Day for the Unified Nation of Heaven and Earth
41. Today is National Foundation Day in the Republic of Korea. It is year 4321 of the Dangun Era, 1988 by the solar calendar. Today, I inaugurate the Foundation Day of the Unified Nation.
When, as you attended your siblings, this Korean holiday became the Day of the Unified Nation, all your wishes were fulfilled. Indeed, have attained all your hopes. What are the hopes of fallen people? I gave you God: You did not know even whether He existed, but now you know the true God.
I brought you to the knowledge of God. I gave you God as a gift; I gave you True Parents as a gift; I gave you a true spouse as a gift; I gave you true sons and daughters; and I allowed you to build a true tribe.
I have given you everything. I am allowing you to create even a true nation, and now all that remains is a true world. That is why I am launching today as the kick-off day for the true Nation of the Unified World. This is the starting point of the Foundation Day for all nations of the world. (181-240, 1988.10.03)
42. During the Seoul Olympics, the external standards of heavenly law, a four-position foundation, were met in virtually every way. This year is year 4321 of the Dangun Era. The fact that the year ends with the number 21 is remarkable. In Korea, today is National Foundation Day.
Foundation Day means that it is the time for heaven to be opened. Why do we call this βthe day of the opening of heaven,β Gae Cheon Jeol? The first syllable is gae (ι ), meaning open. The second syllable is cheon (倩), meaning heaven. Gae Cheon Jeol means the day of the opening of heaven.
Hence, as this is the time to open heaven, once the individual gate to heaven is open, we must open the national-level gate and then open the world-level gate. Having done so, the fortune of Korea will continue rolling toward the world, internally, externally, and in all directions β front and back, and left and right.
That is why today is the Foundation Day for the Nation of the Unified World. Further, since this day is in accord with the perspective of the Unification Church's teachings on history and its experiences, there should be no dispute if we call it the day when we open the gate to the era of hope.
It is the Foundation Day for the Nation of the Unified World, which is the heavenly kingdom. The Nation of the Unified World is the heavenly kingdom on earth. This is the Day of the Opening of Heaven for the heavenly kingdom on earth.
(181-294, 1988.10.03)
43. The Old Testament Age was the era when material things were sacrificed; the New Testament Age was the era of the children's sacrifice. The Completed Testament Age is the era when the Parents sacrifice themselves. The Parents are the ones who sacrifice everything.
That is why I am carrying the cross of love on my shoulders. Because I know the entire philosophy of love, I hope I will lead all humankind to the world that we all dream of. However, Satan has been trying to block me in every way possible from going on the path to realizing such a world.
Satan desperately tried to stop me from building that bridge. Nevertheless, despite indescribable struggles, due to Heaven's support and my loyalty to the sake of the Will, today, based on the standard of paying all indemnity on the global level, I can declare the Day of the Unified Nation.
There is no news more joyful than that. When we look into the three ages, the Old Testament Age, New Testament Age, and Completed Testament Age, God gave Satan everything that He considered most precious. (181-331, 1988.10.03)
44. Only after securing for God the authority of unified ownership can a unified world that is aligned with the standard of God's heart come into existence. Only when we restore the authority of God's ownership can we move forward to a unified world β one world led by the True Parents, in heaven and on earth.
Based on their foundation, the world's authority of ownership must surely be returned to God's authority of ownership. Even if your mother and father oppose it because we have arrived at a propitious time when we can offer everything in front of Heaven, everyone in the Unification Church must accept this as a tradition.
Circumstances are such that when your clan accepts it as a tradition, that clan will be completely liberated. On that basis, you on earth will be in the position of Adam and Eve, all believers in the heavenly world will be in the position of the archangels, and you will become their ancestors.
After living on earth and giving birth to children, you will become the grandfathers and grandmothers of thousands of generations and have thousands of generations of descendants. This is how God's work of opening the gate to the heavenly kingdom will take place. (181-333, 1988.10.03)
Chil Il Jeol (Declaration Day of God's Eternal Blessing)
45. Today is Chil Il Jeol (7.1 Day). Chil Il Jeol is the Day of the Declaration of God's Eternal Blessing. Human beings have not yet fulfilled the three great blessings that God bestowed on them after He created them. God's hope throughout history is that, through the providence of salvation, God's blessings will be fulfilled at some point.
Unless this is concluded at some point, human happiness and God's ideal world can never be realized. Therefore, unless God's promised blessings can be revived and established as eternal blessings, the eternal ideal world of humankind cannot be realized. Someone must take on this task.
That someone is not just anyone. It is possible only when the right person comes, the one chosen by God to accomplish the ideal of the original perfected Adam who has nothing to do with the Fall. In other words, we can conclude that this task can be done with the coming of the True Parents. (232-007, 1992.07.01)
46. Why have God's eternal blessings not been realized? The three great blessings were not fulfilled due to the emergence of the false parents of humankind. To restore that through indemnity, the True Parents of humankind must come and stand in the position to settle accounts for everything in providential history.
Then they must declare, βWe are standing in the position where we can shout 'mansei' for God's eternal blessings.β Otherwise, those children, tribes, nations, and the world under their command cannot stand confidently in front of God.
For this reason, I am declaring that God's eternal blessings are once again available to humankind. This is Chil Il Jeol. (232-009, 1992.07.01)
47. In 1991, just before the beginning of 1992, I completed forty years of my life. Through that course of trials and tribulations, I re-indemnified what I initially did as I walked through the seven-year course from 1945 to 1952. In this way, I finally cleared everything, all the debts of human history.
Therefore, the time is coming when I will be able to introduce Mother as the Mother of this world, and Mother's children as the children of the world. All this can be done through Chil Il Jeol.
This is what Chil Il Jeol is about. We lost the realm of the chosen people, the First Israel, and we lost Christianity, which is also the realm of the chosen people, the Second Israel.
What was lost must be restored. By restructuring the family, we must restore families, tribes, peoples, and even nations so that they can belong to Heaven. For this, we must reach up to the national level in Satan's world.
(286-036, 1997.07.01)
48. Due to the Fall, humankind lost God's three great blessings. In this course of restoration, before God's substance appeared, I had to proclaim that these were begun again. That is what Chil Il Jeol is for. Hence, as we ended the year 1991 and entered 1992, I had to proclaim this.
Foreseeing that this transitional point in history was upon us, I settled all the accounts in biblical history. I have definitively settled all accounts. The first words that God gave to human beings were the βthree great blessings.β
Therefore, everything had to be cleared up to set the standard for God's Word to be given, and I had to stand in a position that was beyond the standard of everyone's past investments.
Only on that foundation could I announce the Completed Testament Age along with the declaration about the True Parents. In other words, God's purpose in leading the providence with all kinds of programs thus far was only to see this time. (248-074, 1993.07.01)
49. Today, on this occasion of Chil Il Jeol, I again promise you God's eternal blessings. Therefore, there must be no Fall from now on. Although the Fall occurred at the time of Adam and Eve, henceforth the Fall must not happen. Now that the promise of eternal blessing has been proclaimed, the Fall must not occur in this era of history.
Adam and Eve must attain their central position by growing from the level of little children to the level of adults. They must grow until they reach perfection. However, eventually, there is still Adam and Eve's five-percent portion of responsibility, which they must accomplish within the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle.
Only when they are connected with God through love in both spirit and body can they do as they wish, being in a direct relationship with God both internally and externally? Until that connection is made, they are still separated. They are not yet fully united.
However, now that I have proclaimed the True Parents as well as the Completed Testament Age, based on the foundation of your unity with the Parents, the unification between the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle and the realm of God's direct dominion has been realized in the family.
I am saying that the era has arrived in which God can directly intervene in both the realm of direct dominion and the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle. (248-077, 1993.07.01)
50. Today, July 1, is Chil Il Jeol. As July is the number seven, it corresponds to the jubilee year. It means we have entered the historical age of liberation. Throughout history, women have been held in captivity in the most miserable ways.
That is why I established the Women's Federation for World Peace, to unite all women of the world for their liberation. Who is leading it? Mother is leading it. Mother is its representative.
We should be grateful that Mother could emerge, and this is thanks to the establishment of Chil Il Jeol. With that, I could dispatch tribal messiahs, meet Kim Il Sung, and win him over. Afterward, when I returned to South Korea, the public finally recognized my name. (232-050, 1992.07.01)
51. God blessed Adam to fulfill the three great blessings in his family, βBe fruitful, multiply, and have dominion over all things of creation in heaven and on earth,β but he was unable to fulfill them.
However, for the first time since the beginning of history, I recovered God's blessings. Then, standing on top of the world, I victoriously proclaimed His eternal blessings for humankind. On the foundation of this proclamation, Mother could finally appear in public on the world stage.
While it took forty to fifty years for me to reach this position, Mother reached it in only nine months. Based on the standard that Mother attained by uniting with me in absolute obedience, I could then present Mother and proclaim women's liberation.
Now, in front of Mother's perfected historical standard, we men and women on earth can be in complete oneness with True Parents based on God's true love. Thereby we can establish this victorious foundation all over the world.
Amazingly, we can proclaim the victory of God's eternal blessing, after years in the trenches undergoing circumstances of opposition from nations and the world. Chil Pal Jeol (Day of the Declaration of the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth) (232-035, 1992.07.01)
52. At seven minutes and seven seconds past seven o'clock in the morning of the seventh day of the seventh month of 1997 by the lunar calendar, we fulfilled the goal of this year's motto, βLet us love True Parents and be proud of True Parents by accomplishing the 3.6 million couples, Blessing.β We did this by completing the Blessing of 3.6 million couples.
Father, You sent True Parents to the earth, and they are standing before You. Through them, You can now express Your heart and educate all humankind about Your inner reality, of which they were ignorant throughout the ages of Your arduous and sorrowful history.
As a result of losing Adam and Eve during the period of their adolescence, You came to face the breakdown of the family. When they were but sixteen years old, they succumbed to Satan's plot and ended up leaving a sad history behind them.
This is because Adam, who should have been related to God by blood, instead formed a blood relationship with Satan. To erect the new history of the heavenly kingdom, You established the religious realm and began cleansing the lineage of the archangelic realm, namely, Satan's lineage.
Your providence to bring individual salvation was to recover the eldest son in the archangelic realm. On the foundation of going beyond the Old Testament and New Testament Ages, now in the Completed Testament Age we are attending the Messiah in the realm of the chosen people.
In this age of the Second Advent, where salvation has reached the worldwide level, we have entered a tremendous age when we must, on the world-level path, clean up the young people's distorted views on ethics and end the family breakdown that was caused by the first Adam. (286-078, 1997.08.09)
53. The heavenly kingdom has been empty. Adam's family could not enter it, nor could all the generations of our ancestors. The True Parents, by being perfected as the world-level ancestors of humankind, must reorganize the first, second, and all subsequent generations, and fill the hitherto empty heavenly kingdom.
Once they have done so and reversed the way the world moves by 180 degrees, God can be as active as He pleases in the heavenly kingdom of freedom and liberation because Satan will be gone.
Chil Pal Jeol is the day to declare the realm of liberation, where God has no obstacles in His coming and going from the individual to the level of the physical world and the heavenly world. It is the day we proclaim the Realm of Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth. (286-112, 1997.08.09)
54. August 9, 1997, is the βDay of the Declaration of the Realm of Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth.β Heaven (Cheon), in the term Parents of Heaven and Earth (Cheon Ji Bumo), symbolizes the Father. Heaven, the Father, is eternal. The Father is eternal.
Accordingly, fathers must have great dignity. You should become such fathers. Mothers must be thoughtful and pay attention to detail. Then even as a mother and her sons and daughters build a home in a father's bosom, his heart will have room to take on more responsibilities.
We can get through anything with true love. When you reach the heavenly kingdom, you have to enter through a gate. As long as you can show your true love token, you will have no problem passing through it. (286-124, 1997.08.09)
55. Once we recover our family, we can form our tribe upon it. Once we build our tribe, a people can emerge upon that base. Based on one person, we can establish a nation. Finally, once we establish a nation, we can arrive at the realm of freedom where we can create the world and the heavenly kingdom on earth and in heaven.
Because I gave the Blessing, the standard of which transcends nation, race, and religion, the world can no longer oppose us. Hence, Satan's world will be shut down, and even he will have to swallow it. No one but the True Parents can handle this matter.
That is why I can say that the era has come when we need to resolve to perfect the individual, the family, the tribe, the people, the nation, the world, and the heavenly kingdom on earth and in heaven according to the original tradition of God. We have come to a point when we can practice all this all the time.
Satan cannot oppose us because we have reached this standard. Now, having gone this way, we have laid the foundation to establish this realm of victory and this environment of freedom. On this foundation, we can declare the Realm of Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth. (286-168, 1997.08.09)
56. An ideal home is a place where God can visit and take His Sabbath rest. To make your home an ideal home, first, you must get rid of the concept that your home is yours personally. Instead, you must make it the home of your couple.
Then God can dwell in your place and also dwell in your spouse's β your wife's or husband's β place. The greater the love your couple shares, the greater will be God's desire to visit your home. It does not matter if the husband and wife come from different traditions and have different characters, different viewpoints, and different shapes.
Regardless, that family should be able to attend God. Their unity as a couple tightly bonded as one, although they are 180 degrees different from each other, inspires God to want to visit their home as a place to take His Sabbath. Your couple must make your family a place where God can take His Sabbath.
The invisible God should be able to come in and, as the subject partner, He should become like the couple's loving mind. The couple, like Adam and Eve, should become His substantial body.
Then they should reach the standard of oneness in mind and oneness in body that will join God to their Sabbath rest in the place of their love, where their minds and bodies are united.
When a couple creates a place for Sabbath rest on the foundation of the love of man and woman, they make a place where God can take His Sabbath rest in their family. (286-164, 1997.08.09)
57. We must find a place to take our Sabbath rest. We must find a home where you as an individual can take your Sabbath rest and where you as a couple can take your Sabbath rest together. When you as a couple of give birth to children, and they live with you, then your home should become a place of Sabbath rest through the subject partner-object partner relationship between parents and children.
This is what is the most important. In the family, you must fulfill the formation, growth, and perfection stages. Hence, if one is missing, if either you are not there or I am not there, it means that God cannot find a place to rest. It means that without you, God cannot perfect His love even after myriads of years.
Therefore, you must become one with Him and become filial sons and daughters who can attend Him for myriads of years. You must know the depth of God's bitter sorrow for not having been able to meet His filial sons and daughters, and by resting with your couple He should be able to wash away even the root of that bitter heart.
You must resolve that you will make a foundation to live forever with God and attend God as your Father; on that foundation, you should be able to induce God to pledge that He will live with you. Where should you go next? You should go to the family-level place of Sabbath rest.
Only then can your home become a place where you can fulfill the formation, growth, and completion stages β an individual, a couple, and children. Then, in the children's homes, God can dwell forever, in the couple's home, God can dwell forever, and in each individual's home, God can dwell forever.
The entire family can dwell forever amid God's love. That is why, at this point, we can witness that the family is the starting point of the heavenly kingdom on earth and in heaven. (286-165, 1997.08.09)
Sun Myung Moon