Jesus and Us

Korea, Former Headquarters Church.

Thanks to your putting in devotion and praying, I have returned safely. Today is the first Sunday greeted since returning home, so I hope that all of you this hour may be filled with grace within the sphere of the Word that has been granted. And for those who have come to this place for the first time, today it seems it will take a long time, so, though it be tedious, I ask you to bear with it.

This hour, it is not that, having toured the world and returned, the Teacher gives a report of all the things done in the world; rather, because it is now a time when we must, facing the purpose, make a new resolve, I will speak on the overall content centered on our purpose.

Though the countless Christians scattered throughout the whole world say, until now, that they believe in Jesus and seek the road of salvation, among them are many who do not know the clear content of what kind of mission Jesus came to this earth with and what kind of road he had to go.

Furthermore, the question of what the highest purpose was for which God sent Jesus to this earth is vague to them, I say. So this hour I will speak with the title “Jesus and Us.”

Jesus, Who Came to Resolve God’s Overall Providence

Our family members know well that the providence of salvation is precisely the providence of Restoration. Restoration means to return. In returning, one must return to a place surpassing the standard before the fall of the human ancestors Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Our family members know such things well through the Principle.

Jesus, coming to this earth, had to find again all the content that Adam lost through his mistake. And thereby he had to achieve a single nation and achieve a single world. This was the overall mission of Jesus, who came to this earth. But to find that again, one must return. In returning, one does not just return with no content whatsoever. One must, without fail, return through the road opposite to the course of the fall.

Jesus, sent four thousand years after Adam’s fall among a specific people called Israel that God had chosen, did not come to do some mission of his own single individual. He came to resolve the overall providence of Restoration—that is, the content of God’s overall providence.

The very life by which Jesus came to this earth and began to propagate the gospel was not for his own single individual but for the whole world. We must know that it was a life that set out to bear the mission in the stead of the overall history. Such a Jesus, laboring in a limited environment called Israel through a three-year public course, was hung on the cross and died.

Considered centered on God, that Adam and Eve fell was, for God, a grievous fact beyond words. So, to restore this, He sent Jesus to this earth; but since Jesus came to this earth, failed to achieve the purpose, and died on the cross, this too became, for God, an immeasurably grievous fact.

How Jesus Differs From Other Religious Leaders

Then why did Jesus fail to achieve the purpose?

Without clearly knowing this content, the content of Jesus and our content does not become clear, and at the same time, the relationship between Jesus and us does not become clear.

God, after setting up Mary and Joseph, sent Jesus into that family. After Mary conceived Jesus, receiving the protection of Joseph, she gave birth to Jesus.

Looking at the Bible, it is recorded simply that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit. But that is not simple content. For Jesus to come to a fallen world, he had to come from a standpoint having no relation to original sin.

Then how did it come about that Jesus, born through the womb of Mary, stood in a standpoint having no relation to original sin?

This is a problem that cannot be resolved even theologically. Why? Mary herself was without a doubt a descendant of the fallen ancestors, so how is it that Jesus, born receiving the blood and flesh of such a Mary, has no relation to original sin? Seen from this perspective, though we say Jesus is one without original sin, we don't understand why Jesus is one without original sin.

Upon this earth, there are countless religions and the founders of those religions.

Among them are religious leaders who set up their purpose and grew it into a worldwide religion. Then the problem of how such religious leaders differ from Jesus—that is, the problem of why it is that all people, since they cannot be saved without believing in Jesus, must believe in Jesus—has not, until now, been clearly made plain, I say. The countless religions upon this earth each assert, centered on their doctrines, that the world will hereafter become one.

Then, seen from the standpoint of a believer, what is the point at which Christianity differs from other religions?

What is the standard by which it can be said to differ? It is whether there is original sin or not. Seen by bloodline, the countless religious leaders too were born as descendants of the fallen ancestors, and Jesus too seems to have been born in the same standpoint.

Of course, it is said that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, but the fact that he was born through the womb of Mary, a fallen descendant, is undoubtedly so.

How is it that Jesus has no original sin?

We know that, when we were born upon this earth, we were not born through good parents whom God loves, through parents who live within God’s purpose and uphold that purpose. That is, we were born through fallen parents. That is why, according to the doctrine of Christianity, one must be born again. Though one was born, one was born wrongly, so one must be born again. In being born again, one is born not through those old parents but through new parents who are not those parents.

Only by Being Reborn Through the True Parents Is There Complete Salvation

Then what kind of parents are the new parents?

Adam and Eve, who fell in the old Garden of Eden, are fallen parents, but the parents who must hereafter give birth to humankind anew are the original parents who, in a place not fallen, in a standpoint united with God’s purpose, can receive God’s acknowledgment. They are parents who can stand in that original standard by which, not falling and perfecting the purpose, centered on God’s love, they form an ideal family in God’s bosom and can multiply children of goodness. Those parents have no relation to the fall.

That is why being born again does not mean being born again through the flesh-and-blood of parents who are the descendants of the fallen Adam and Eve; it means being born again through the flesh-and-blood of parents who have no relation to the fall. Otherwise, one cannot return to God. Because the fundamental root of sin began with Adam and Eve, without treading over and crossing beyond this—that is, without equipping the qualification of having been born in a place having no bond with original sin—one cannot return to God’s side.

Seen thus, what kind of savior is the savior that fallen humankind requires?

It must be a savior who will give birth to humankind not from the standpoint of fallen parents but from the standpoint of true parents who, in the same standpoint as unfallen Adam and Eve, become one with God’s purpose and can receive God’s love and God’s blessing. Otherwise, the human being cannot ascend to a standpoint having no relation to original sin.

Where lies God’s purpose of wishing to save us, humankind?

Below the sphere of the fall, however much one tries to save, salvation does not come about. So God sends again to this earth true parents surpassing unfallen Adam and Eve, and, through those parents, has humankind pass through a course of being delivered anew so that they have no relation with Satan forever and Satan cannot accuse them, try as he might, so that God alone can govern and God alone can intervene. Without humankind being born again in such a place, the human being who has original sin cannot return to a place without original sin.

What is it that Christianity differs from other religions?

Even though other religions teach the content of a savior, the content regarding the savior differs. Looking at other religions, some religions came with the mission of a servant before God, and others came with the mission of an adopted son before God. But Christianity is not so, I say. Centered on the Son of God, it was sent to this earth from a standpoint standing in for the parents through whom God can give birth to humankind anew.

Such a religion is the final religion among religions, and cannot but be the last religion among the countless religions God has sent to this earth. A religion that does not hold such content cannot save the countless humankind of the world, I say. Seen from this point, Christianity is a religion that stands in such a standpoint.

Then what is the purpose for which Jesus came to this earth?

Before saving the nation and saving the world, first Jesus himself must stand in the standpoint of unfallen parents, not the standpoint of fallen parents. Jesus himself must stand in such a standpoint. This is the difference.

Today upon this earth there are countless human beings, but because that humankind is a humankind multiplied from the fallen ancestor, they have all branched out from the root of original sin. There is not one person who was born into the world through true parents who, crossing over original sin, stand in a place not violated by the fall. There is not one, I say.

How Keenly Do You Feel That You Were Born of False Parents

If a person has fallen ill, the illness must be cured.

If a weak person has fallen ill, one must not cure only up to the weak state before the illness. One must cure to a state healthier than that state. In the same way, because the fall is a breakdown of the human being and a falling into the world of evil, one must repair what broke down and pull it up to the place before it fell, or there is no salvation. Salvation is precisely Restoration.

In carrying out Restoration, one must restore not to that old standard before the fall but to a place surpassing that standard. Therefore, humankind, born through false parents who have original sin, must be born again through true parents who have crossed over original sin.

That is why one person who can stand in the standpoint of true parents to give birth to all humankind anew must come. That one who comes must not come to a place below that standard where Adam made his mistake. He must come to a place above it. Considered centered on the Principle, the True Parents must without fail be born in a place having no relation to original sin, upon a foundation that has passed through the process of indemnity. This is content that general religions do not have, that Christianity alone holds.

What is that?

It is the content concerning Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel came out one by one, separately, and the brothers fought. And yet, in reverse, the younger brother is to rule the elder brother. As you know well, having learned the theory of the fall, originally, because we human beings fell, we came out receiving the blood of false parents. In other words, we came out receiving the flesh-and-blood of Satan. You do not keenly feel this fact, but whether one keenly feels this or not decides the question of whether one can clearly liquidate original sin hereafter or not.

We were born of false parents, and with original sin, I say. Looking at the words given in metaphor in the Bible, Jesus himself is the true olive tree, and we are the wild olive tree, he said.

What differs between the true olive tree and the wild olive tree?

The shape is the same. But the content differs. Then what must be done for the wild olive tree to become the true olive tree? It must be grafted. It must not just be connected to that root.

However fine and good its outer appearance, its fruit forms no relation whatever with the true olive tree. That is why one must cut the wild olive tree and graft it onto the true olive tree.

Why must it be grafted?

It is because the human being fell. The human being became a wild olive tree because he fell, you see. Had the human being originally not fallen, he would have become a true olive tree. But by falling, he became a wild olive tree.

If the human being had not fallen, Jesus too would be unnecessary, and religion too would be unnecessary.

The Meaning of the Word That One Must Be Grafted Onto the True Olive Tree

Looking at the Bible, Cain and Abel fight each other, and that too is because Adam fell. Because Adam fell, the human being came to be placed in a middle standpoint from which he can face God and can also face Satan. That is why God cannot carry on the work of salvation—that is, Restoration—centered on Adam and Eve, I say. Why? Because they are the very ones who fell.

As you know from hearing the Principle of our Unification Church, what is the reality of the fall?

The words of the Bible that they fell by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are a metaphor (比辭). That people have, until now, believed it just as it is is truly a marvel. Seeing that, even holding such a blind standard of faith—that eating the fruit was the fall—Christianity has until now developed worldwide and founded twentieth-century civilization, one can know that God greatly assisted from behind. But what kind of result will come from content that is not clear? From ignorance, perfection cannot come.

What is the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil?

Is the fruit just a fruit?

In the Bible, it is made mysterious. The question is why, after eating the fruit, they covered their lower parts with the leaves of the fig tree. Why, of all things, did they cover the lower parts? They covered them because they were ashamed. Then the question is why they were ashamed.

If, holding the customary notions of today’s fallen society, we say, “They were ashamed because they thought it shameful,” that makes no sense.

If it is shameful, why are only the lower parts shameful?

If it is shameful, are the eyes not shameful, the nose not shameful, the ears not shameful, the head not shameful, the hands and feet not shameful?

Also, in the Bible, there are words that one must be born again. The words that one must be born again mean that one was born wrongly. When a person is born into the world, through what is he born? Is he born through a fruit? No. He is born through love. A person is born through the love of his parents. But our human ancestors, though they were born through love, were not born through the love of joy that God can love and boast of and proclaim to the whole universe. They were born through a love that God grieves over exceedingly and that Satan delights in exceedingly.

The human being is born through the love of a father and mother. But because that love went wrong, the being born is also born wrongly. That cannot be helped.

Because, by being born through such wrong love, one became a wild olive tree, one must completely cut off that branch and graft it onto the branch of true love of the true olive tree. One must completely cut off the branch of the wild olive tree that has grown for thousands of years and, putting in devotion, graft it onto the true olive tree.

To be born again, what must be done?

Christians say one must receive the baptism of fire through the Holy Spirit. Then what is this baptism of fire that one must receive to be born again? Not even trying to find out such things, Christians today are told to believe everything, from one to ten and ten to a hundred, in a slapdash, blanket way.

Thus, Christianity today, failing to form a relation with the developed scientific civilization that continually analyzes and finds out cause and effect and failing, in the living aspect, to form a close bond with human living, is gradually declining in the present world. That is why Christianity now stands in a criticized standpoint.

God, Who Has Carried On the Providence of Changing the Bloodline

Then why was the human being born wrongly?

Because he did a wrong love. If he had done a love that was not wrong, what would have become of humankind? It would have been born well. What is the fall? It is having done a wrong love.

Looking at the Bible, in the Old Testament age, to become God’s people, one had to receive circumcision. Then what is circumcision? Why is it that by receiving circumcision one becomes God’s son or daughter and God’s people? It is so by the law of indemnity. When something breaks down, only by repairing the broken part is it fixed. Otherwise, it is not fixed.

Looking at the history in the Bible, the firstborn did not receive the blessing. Why did the firstborn not receive the blessing? To answer, “The firstborn was set up not to receive the blessing, so he did not receive it,” is simple. Then why did the second son receive the blessing? “The second son was set up to receive the blessing, so he received it.” But it is not so. The human being was born wrongly. That is why one must overturn all of this wrong birth. Because the start went wrong, one must drive the wrong start back and overturn it. Upon this wrong earth, one must make a true start again.

Is that start made to repeat the wrong road? No. Doing so would only lead to an incorrect result. It cannot bring a true result. So the start itself must be different. That cannot be helped.

That is why circumcision was done in the Old Testament age. When one receives circumcision, do they not say the children too are pure and good? You will have heard such words. Why is that? That is the point, I say. To say it in a word, it means one reaps as one sows. Every result appears without fail through a cause. Then did the human ancestors, when they first sowed, sow well? They sowed wrongly, I say.

What did they sow wrongly?

They did not sow the tree of the knowledge of good and evil wrongly. They did not sow wrongly the seed of some tree that bears some fruit. They sowed a wrong love, I say. Since they sowed a wrong love, on the last day the fruit of that wrong love is bound to be reaped worldwide.

At what time did Adam and Eve fall?

They fell in the period of adolescence, I say. In the period of adolescence, they sowed a false love. It was not a principled love that they sowed, I say. Through that false love, humankind was born. That is why the time must come when it must be reaped.

Wherever in the world one goes today, the greatest social problem is the ethics problem of adolescents. Why do these young fellows commit the acts of the fall as they please? It is because the seed Adam and Eve sowed like that has borne fruit, and now the time has come to reap it. It is because what Adam and Eve so planted must, by the law of cause and effect, bear its result just as it is, be settled, and be passed over. Because the law of the universe is so, this phenomenon is appearing worldwide.

Thus a false love was sown. Because they were born through false love, all were born as false sons, I say. So, to save the humankind that became false sons, God must send a true son. It is absolutely not that the moment God sends a true son, He can save this whole world all at once. It must be done through the bloodline.

Because they came out multiplied, receiving Satan’s bloodline, one must cut it off, tread over it, disregard it, and be born anew. That is why God has, in the historic process, carried on the work of switching that bloodline. The work of switching the bloodline….

Before the Subject of Love, It Is the Principle to Be Governed

Considered centered on the one person, Adam, God, as the Creator who created Adam, is in a standpoint from which He can take him by the Principle. How did Satan come to stand in a standpoint from which he can take Adam? Does he drag him off because he ate the fruit? He cannot drag him off. Because Satan formed a relation with Adam centered on love, Adam could not but be dragged off, try as he might not to be.

Originally, considered by the principle of creation, when a bond of love is formed, one is bound to be governed by that partner. One enters within his sphere of governance. When a love relationship is formed, it is so, I say.

For example, if in some village a young man forms a love relationship with the eldest daughter of a rich house, even though that young man is a shaggy-haired lad doing servant’s labor in another’s house, that rich house’s eldest daughter is bound to be caught by that young man with no escape. However much she denies it and tries to break free, she cannot break free.

If that young man only makes one declaration, however much she is a rich house’s eldest daughter, she is bound to be governed with no escape. The law of love is that one is governed—that is the principle. The principle of creation is so, I say.

But centered on love, Satan formed a relationship with the human being first. Because Adam and Eve formally entered within Satan’s sphere of governance, Satan could boldly assert that Adam and Eve are mine. Then God, who is in the principled standpoint, in the standpoint of the Owner who created them, must make Adam and Eve completely God’s own; but since Satan, at the side, having formed a love relationship, holds the content by which he can completely govern Adam and Eve, here the fight between God and Satan breaks out. The two are each claiming, over Adam and Eve, that he must take them.

That when a bond of love is formed, one is bound to be governed is the Principle, and God Himself, who set up this Principle, cannot deny the Principle.

If, just because Satan illicitly intervened, He were to strike and do away with Satan, it would be to do away with the very principle of love that God Himself set up. So it cannot be helped. All the historic problems have broken out from here.

So the work of separating Adam and Eve and repairing what broke down into the same standpoint as what did not break down is the history of the providence of salvation.

The one who loved first governs the partner—that is the principle. This is the law of love. Then who loved first? The archangel and Eve did first, I say. And thereafter, Eve and Adam formed a bond. Considered centered on the principle of creation, God is in a standpoint from which He can govern Adam and Eve, but centered on love, Satan cannot govern.

The Purpose of the Providence of Separation From Adam’s Family

Then what must be done?

Since the law of love was reversed, this must be recovered according to the principle and the rule. To do so, one must divide Adam into God’s side and Satan’s side, but because dividing Adam directly would kill him, one cannot but divide through Adam’s sons. Because Adam’s sons are the fruit of love, they are in a standpoint that God too can govern, and Satan too can govern, so Cain and Abel must be set up divided, respectively, into Heaven’s side and Satan’s side. So, because the first love was the love of the archangel and Eve, the firstborn Cain was set up as the sign-body of that love on Satan’s side, and because the second love was the love of Eve and Adam, the second son Abel was set up as the sign-body of that love on God’s side.

Victory or defeat in this fight is not decided by God or by Satan. Though the fall was accomplished by Satan, because the very one who fell is the human being, the victory or defeat of the fight depends on that human being himself.

According to how the person acts, it is decided whether the providence of salvation is achieved or not. So God began the providence of salvation from Adam’s family.

Originally, Adam is God’s son, and the archangel is God’s servant. God’s servant must completely obey and submit to God’s son. But the servant, the archangel, who should have been governed by the son, Adam, became a topsy-turvy thing.

The archangel came to govern Adam and Eve. That is, governorship was inverted (顚倒). So this must be restored.

Originally Adam, who stood on God’s side, was to govern Eve and the archangel with the principled right of governance centered on God’s love, and set up the principle of the heavenly order. But because Adam fell, from the standpoint of the principle of creation, God is in a standpoint from which He can take Adam, but centered on love, Adam came to be placed in a standpoint from which Satan can take him.

To find and set this up again on Heaven’s side, what must be done?

Because the archangel, who should have been governed, in reverse governed Adam, he must, on the contrary, enter a standpoint of being governed and restore the original standard.

So Cain, set up on Satan’s side, must in reverse submit to Abel, set up on God’s side. If he does not submit, there is no Restoration. This is the first trace of the providence in God’s providential course.

And yet, not knowing this, people say this and that because Abel offered a blood sacrifice, but it is not so. Why is a blood sacrifice needed? Because of the fall. Because of the fall, a blood sacrifice is needed, you see.

Then how does one return to before the fall?

Fundamentally, the standpoint must be switched. So Cain must go before God through Abel, and the archangel too must go before God through Adam. That standard that became topsy-turvy—in other words, the fact that the archangel, who should have been governed by Adam and Eve centered on God’s love, in reverse governed Adam and Eve, so that governorship was inverted—must be found and set aright.

So the work has been carried on of setting the firstborn, who was born first on Satan’s side, and the second son, who was born later on Heaven’s side, and, to set aright what was born wrongly, switching the later-born for the earlier-born.

Then, placing the humans of the fallen world and Jesus side by side, the humans of the fallen world are all descendants of the fallen Adam, so in the end they are in the same standpoint as the fallen Adam—that is, the standpoint of Cain. But Jesus is in the standpoint of Abel, born as the second Adam—that is, the latter Adam. So through Jesus, the standpoints of Cain and Abel are switched.

Because Satan first, from the standpoint of the firstborn, exercised the right of governance centered on love, he can automatically govern the younger brother too. So God carried on a history of taking back. Jacob took the birthright of the firstborn from Esau with lentil stew; how did such a cunning swindler-like Jacob become the very one who could receive from God the holy blessing of the God of three generations—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob?

When one looks into it, Jacob is a swindler; why did it come out so? Because only so is restoration through indemnity done. Because the elder brother spoiled it, the younger brother must restore it.

Without Holding the Authority of Having Subjugated Satan, One Cannot Go to the Kingdom of Heaven

Not even knowing that all sixty-six books of the Bible are interwoven with such content, you say that if one only believes in a blanket, “eyes-shut, peekaboo” way, one goes to the Kingdom of Heaven?

Not on your life. If one could go to the Kingdom of Heaven by blanket believing, the Teacher would not be doing this performance, receiving opposition and persecution until now, I say. It is not that the Teacher does this performance because he is inferior, I say. I dug and dug, broke through and broke through, found out and found out. It differs from the content they know from the very origin of thought. Without clarifying this and setting that root aright, the purpose of the providence of the salvation of humankind is not achieved, I say. In other words, humankind cannot be saved. Therefore, the firstborn must be repelled, and the second son must take the firstborn’s right, I say.

So in Adam’s family, it was sought to achieve this, centered on Cain and Abel, but because Cain killed Abel, it became a result that repeated the content of Satan’s invasion of Adam. So the purpose was not achieved but was prolonged. Why has the absolute God, until now over six thousand years, failed to achieve the providence of salvation and come to hear from human beings, “God is powerless,” “God is dead”? Why did He come to stand in a standpoint of being unable to move?

What kind of God is that God?

God too is squarely caught, I say. Even a nation’s president, after enacting a law and promulgating it before the citizens, cannot himself step outside the law.

Because Cain, on Satan’s side, killed Abel, on Heaven’s side, the problem broke out. Originally, Abel should have made Cain obey and submit and set him up in the standpoint of having subjugated Satan before the human being, but he failed to do so, and on the contrary, because Cain, on Satan’s side, killed Abel, the person on God’s side, it repeated a standpoint the same as the archangel’s fall of Adam.

So, without finding the point of resolution of history, the purpose has been prolonged until now. And God is again carrying on the providence of Restoration until now.

God tried to carry on the providence of Restoration centered on Adam’s two sons and failed. So what is repeated is Esau and Jacob, centered on Isaac. Jacob first took the birthright of the firstborn from Esau by promise, with lentil stew, and then took it back in substance. The twenty-one years of life in Haran were the period of the fight to take that back.

And thus, when the younger brother Jacob returned to his homeland, the elder brother Esau was to welcome him. But in Jacob’s being welcomed, he could not just be welcomed.

So, at the ford of Jabbok, wrestling with the angel and subjugating the archangel, he had to indemnify and restore the human ancestor Adam’s having been subjugated by the archangel. Without a person subjugating the angel, he cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven, I say. Because Jacob thus set up the standard of having fought the angel through the night at the ford of Jabbok and subjugated the angel, the road opened by which the human being can return to God’s side. Without a person holding the authority of having subjugated Satan, he cannot return as God’s son or daughter. And not only Satan; without subjugating the countless angels in the spiritual world, he cannot return as God’s son or daughter.

Then why is Satan fearsome?

Originally, Satan is the archangel, and we human beings are God’s children, so the angel is our servant. Then why is the servant fearsome, I say? It is because it went outside the principle and the rule.

However much one is a rich house’s son, if he commits sin and is driven out, he falls into a standpoint lower than a servant. That is why the human being must indemnify his having been subjugated by Satan and, at some time, subjugate Satan again. If such content is not in the Bible, the Bible cannot be a Bible that can save humankind.

The Reason Esau and Jacob Were Born as Twins

But Jacob, fighting the angel through the night at the ford of Jabbok and winning and receiving the blessing from the angel, thereby set up such a condition.

But why did the angel strike Jacob’s thigh (환도뼈)?

Of all the many bones, why of all things did he strike the thigh, I say? It is because the human being fell by using the thigh wrongly. That is, because he fell by doing love wrongly, I say. In the Bible it is recorded that when the Israelites made a certain oath, they laid a hand on the thigh and swore, and that too was all for such a reason. It is that they would never again stand in the same standpoint as when the human ancestors, by doing love wrongly, fell and betrayed God. That is, it symbolically shows that Adam fell by doing a wrong love. Before God, it is all the same.

Today they say “Reds” and “leftists”; “leftist” means the left side, Satan’s side. And “Red” means dangerous. That must be confessed straight before God. If one tries to speak of such content, there is no end.

Cain and Abel were born separately and fought, but when it came to Jacob’s time, they were born as twins and fought. The form of the fight changed a little. In Cain and Abel’s time, Restoration was sought centered on brothers born separately, but in Esau and Jacob’s time, Restoration was sought centered on brothers born as twins. Then, by winning there, is God’s purpose all achieved? It is not.

Originally, when a human being is born, he is not born as a twin. To be born alone is normal. Then why were they born as twins? Because the son on Satan’s side struck down the son on God’s side, so that in the end the second son had to take the firstborn’s place, the place of the one born first.

In Adam’s family, Cain and Abel were born separately as elder and younger, and the distance between them is great, I say. But with twins, the difference is only a matter of a few minutes. God shortened the distance between elder and younger that much.

The human being, in being born, is born from within the mother’s womb. Then why does God work through twins? Cain too is Adam’s son, and Abel too is Adam’s son, but because they were divided into Heaven’s side and Satan’s side and became two branches, He put them into one womb again and had them fight. There the younger brother must win and come out onto this earth from the standpoint of the firstborn and set up the standard by which he can govern everything. To fight and win, one must in the end trace back into the womb. Without tracing back, step by step, down into the womb and finding and setting up the standard of having won there, the standard of the restoration of the firstborn is not set up.

So one can see that the history of the Bible was a history of driving into the womb.

So Esau and Jacob differed from Cain and Abel. And thus Esau and Jacob came out fighting from within the womb as twins. So if the younger brother on Heaven’s side subjugates the elder brother on Satan’s side, it is automatically restored.

Today, the words “believe in Jesus, believe absolutely” are none other than the words “absolutely subjugate Satan.” You were born later than Jesus, but seen by bloodline, since you were born receiving the bloodline of Adam, who fell and became of Satan’s side; you belong to the fallen Adam. To put it in terms of a tree, Adam is an old tree thousands of years old, and you are the leaves of that old tree, I say. However much someone swaggers, saying he is fine, he is one of that lot, I say. Even if it hurts, it cannot be helped.

Jesus is one who came two thousand years ago, but placed by that fundamental standpoint of his birth, he is in the standpoint of the younger brother, born later than us. Therefore, we must submit before Jesus, who is the younger brother, as our elder brother and attend to him as the King of kings. Though there were many kings in the fallen world, Jesus is the King among kings and the King of kings. And he was the father of all humankind. That is, he is in the standpoint of the parent, I say.

With Jacob’s Victory a New History Unfolded

When Jacob wrestled with the angel at the ford of Jabbok, what would have happened if he had lost?

He would have been beaten to death by his elder brother. But because there he subjugated the angel spiritually, the countless ancestors of the spiritual world also came to stand on Jacob’s side. And thus, because Esau welcomed Jacob, who stood upon a foundation of spiritual victory, the standard was set by which one can uphold and carry on God’s purpose. Because Esau welcomed Jacob, Jacob could restore Esau’s birthright of the firstborn.

In the old days, Cain beat Abel to death, but because Esau, rather than beating to death such an enemy-like Jacob, welcomed him, from there history could turn back.

In the history where the root of death had been prolonged by brothers fighting, by Jacob and Esau becoming harmonious and one, a new page was adorned, and from there the name Israel came out.

Jacob and Esau were born, grew up, and then fought, and Jacob won. But originally one must fight and win from within the womb, before being born. That is why, looking at the Bible, the history of Tamar appears. Tamar conceived Perez and Zerah through Judah.

Here, who is this woman Tamar?

She is Judah’s daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law waited by the roadside where her father-in-law would pass, played the part of a harlot, formed a relationship with her father-in-law, and conceived.

All of you, do you know why such a harlot unfolded history from the standpoint of a mother in the history of the Bible, in the history of Christianity? The birth of King Solomon is also so. King Solomon was born through David’s seemingly illicit act of taking the wife of Uriah and forming a relationship with her.

You don't understand why that was so, do you?

When one asks Christians such things, the pastors and theology doctors talk big, saying, Can a human being know God’s purpose? To cut off and crush the ignorance of such people utterly is the mission of Teacher Moon of the Unification Church, of which I am speaking here.

And yet they say they are orthodox and the Unification Church is heresy. So it is appalling. To hear that talk is appalling enough to make one’s ears rot, I say.

Among you, too many came into our church after attending an established church, and when I think of those who came in after believing in an established church, the veins on my forehead stand out. There are many unsightly, unseemly people who, having until now believed as they pleased and grown exhausted and shaken their heads, came in of necessity because they had nowhere to go. Hearing that the Teacher has been somewhere and come back, they say, “Let’s go take a look,” and just barge in.

So, having come, how is it?

Even looking like this, I am better than you, am I not? You must learn, and I am the teacher who teaches, so the teacher cannot but be better than the disciple. Those who came for the first time may feel hurt, but it cannot be helped. How much have the people who believe in Jesus persecuted and reviled the Teacher?

Today it seems many have newly come here from the established church, and many reviled the Teacher; are there not? Did you revile me or not? You cannot say it out loud, but inwardly you will say, “I reviled him a lot.”

The Result of the Providence of Restoration in the Womb Centered on Perez and Zerah

Then why did the woman Tamar have to do so?

It is because the bloodline had changed. Because the seed of lewdness had been sown, without passing again through God’s hand there to find a new seed and make a new start, Restoration cannot be done.

Looking at the Gospel of Matthew, four generations of lewd women appear: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and the wife of Uriah. Seen by the Bible, they are all lewd women. No one knows why such people were recorded in the Bible, and at the very head of the Gospel of Matthew at that. And then they say that to save all people, because even evil people must be saved, God providentially could not but do so; the words sound plausible. But in fact it is not that. It is because, when the human being fell, he fell into it like that, so without passing through such a process, one cannot save, I say. So God’s work was carried on through the tribe of Judah, connected through Tamar.

Then why did Jesus have to be born through such a tribe of Judah?

Who is the ancestor of the tribe of Judah? It is precisely Judah. Judah’s eldest grandson is Perez, born through Tamar, and the question is why Jesus had to be born through the bloodline of that eldest grandson born through Tamar. You may say, “Why so? God had him born so, so he was born so”; but such an answer will not do. It is so because it could not but be done so. That Perez and Zerah were born through Tamar from an illicit standpoint is because Adam and Eve, when they fell, fell like that. When Adam and Eve fell, they fell in the shade of a tree; did they fall in some bedroom of some brick house?

So Perez and Zerah fought each other in Tamar’s womb. Read once the words of the Bible, Genesis chapter 38. Looking there, it is appalling. When the mother came to full term and the midwife came and waited, in the womb the brothers fought each other. And then the younger brother pushed aside the elder, who was coming out first, and came out first. Because he thus pushed his way out, the name Perez was given. Because thus, in the womb, the younger brother Perez pushed aside the elder brother Zerah and came out first; there the work of Heaven cultivated the foundation of substantial Restoration. The Bible is truly made interestingly; would it be made so just for Teacher Moon of the Unification Church to have something good to say? In the matter of a person’s being born, the foundation on which God’s son could be born first upon this earth was cultivated there.

Adam, after falling, became the ancestor of the loser, but Jacob became the ancestor of the victor, called Israel. It is not the standpoint of Cain and Abel, who inherited the bloodline of Adam, who did not have a foundation of victory in the womb; rather, because a history unfolded of subjugating the elder brother from within the womb, from there, centered on Jacob’s son, the family of Israel began.

Thus, carrying on the history of restoration in the womb centered on the two generations of Jacob and his sons, because the son on Heaven’s side was born first as the firstborn, the younger brother born next is set to obey that elder brother absolutely.

So, because a foundation was cultivated on which one can automatically obey and automatically submit, from there God’s providence at last came to have a foothold upon this earth.

What is this?

It is the history of switching the blood—that is, the bloodline. Such a fact no one who has read the Bible can deny. Not a theology doctor, but even a grandfather of a pastor cannot deny it, I say. In Korea, even when so-called theology doctors and the like come seeking the Teacher, no one meets them. Before the Teacher needs them, he does not meet them, I say.

This time too, when I went to America, many so-called theology doctors and pastors came seeking me, so I met them. They are fellows with bright-yellow hair and deep-blue eyes. Over there too, one has come and is sitting. When I speak with such people about the Bible, when the Teacher talks, they are drawn in without their even knowing it, I say. When I cite the verses of the Bible and speak of them one by one, from the pressure of it, they have no way to deny it. So, though at first it seems an unbelievable lie, later they cannot but believe.

Because Perez, whom God set up, subjugated Zerah in the womb and was born, at last the foundation of victory on which God’s sons and daughters can be born was cultivated even in the womb. Therefore, Jesus’ bloodline differs from that of fallen humankind.

Jesus, Who Has No Relation to Original Sin

Upon a foundation of victory from within the womb, centered on the bloodline of goodness, inheriting such a tradition of the ancestors, inheriting the devoted successive generations of the women of the Israelite people who gave their loyalty, two thousand years later it reached Mary. Mary, inheriting the bloodline tradition of victory in the restoration in the womb centered on Tamar, at last conceived Jesus.

For ordinary people, the moment a baby is conceived in the womb, Satan already accuses. And he asserts, “This place is my place, and the one conceived here, because he was all conceived through a wrong love, is entirely mine,” I say.

But Jesus, by the principle of restoration through indemnity, was born through Mary’s womb upon the bloodline foundation on which Perez, on Heaven’s side, had won in Tamar’s womb. Therefore, for Jesus, from the very time he was conceived in the womb, there was no condition by which Satan could accuse. That is the point at which Jesus differs from general religious leaders. The root of his birth differs. Because Jesus was born having subjugated Satan and set up the standard of the firstborn upon a foundation of having fought Satan and won from within the womb, even though he was born as God’s son, there was no condition by which Satan could accuse. And thus at last, after two thousand years, Jesus was born into this world.

Then why was Jesus born after two thousand years?

Restoration is the restoration of Cain and Abel—that is, the restoration of brothers—and the nations of the satanic world are the Cain-type nations, born first. To restore these Cain-type nations, an Abel nation must newly come into being. This Abel nation is precisely the nation of Israel. So God raised the Israelite people for two thousand years to form a single Abel-type nation, to subjugate the countless Cain-type nations of the satanic world.

Originally Jesus was born from a standpoint where he need not receive Satan’s accusation, so he ought not to have died. But then how did he come to die on the cross, I say? People say he died to atone for the sins of us human beings and to save sinners, but stop such trivial talk, I say.

Can God’s son not save without dying, I say?

Placed by Jesus himself, though he was conceived and born from within Mary’s womb, because he was conceived and born in a standpoint that had swept away entirely all the content by which Satan could accuse, upon a historic foundation of victory, there is no condition whatever by which Satan can accuse. That there is no condition by which Satan can accuse means there is no original sin.

What is sin?

They say sin is violating God’s Word, but presenting a condition by which Satan can accuse is sin. Sin is not believing God’s Word, you say? Presenting a condition by which the enemy can bite and hang on is a sin. So if one goes against the principle, against the rule, even God cannot help it. One is caught by Satan, you see. Because Jesus was born in a standpoint that had escaped the place where Satan could accuse, he is one without original sin. Being in contact with Satan within Satan’s sphere of governance is original sin, but because Jesus is one born crossing over not only the condition of Satan’s accusation but every condition, he has no relation to original sin.

For this, the history of switching was carried on. Switching in Esau and Jacob’s time, and again switching in the time of Jacob’s son Perez, switching inside and out, the foundation of victory was cultivated. So the Israelite people came into being.

Israel means one who has won, and when we ask in what he won, now one sees it was not simply that Jacob wrestled with the angel at the ford of Jabbok and won. It is that he found the key to unravel all the entangled accounts of heaven and earth.

So Jesus was born upon this earth as a person having no relation to original sin. You must know such content.

To Become Jesus’ Bride

Furthermore, what becomes a problem here is whether Jesus has a father or not. This teacher intends to tell you all about it ten years or twenty years later. After our Unification Church has cultivated a foundation from Korea all the way to worldwide, I will explain in full detail how Jesus was born. It is still too early to speak of this, I say. Just know that he was conceived by the Holy Spirit, I say. Believing without knowing is also critical. But if you fail to restore the world quickly, the Teacher may go to the spiritual world without making that content plain.

If I unravel it all this way and that by the Principle, Teacher Moon of the Unification Church would rise one step higher, but it is still too early, and lest a side effect break out, I cannot speak of it.

Without knowing Jesus, how can one become Jesus’ bride?

In some rich house of the neighboring village, they are raising an only son like gold, like jade, and if all of a sudden some servant’s daughter of that village comes and makes a fuss, “That person is my husband, my bridegroom,” does he become her husband by that?

To become his bride, what must be done?

If one gathers and displays everything he likes and, having equipped the content by which he can laugh and the content he can delight in, hangs out a fine signboard, then he is bound to come even if told not to come. And even if told not to laugh once he comes, he is bound to laugh, and even if told not to become the bridegroom, he will try to become it. Only by making such preparations and welcoming him does he become my husband, my bridegroom, I say.

But today’s Christians are all fakes, I say. With no preparation whatever, they just say, “Jesus, who has become the bridegroom, will come seeking me.” This is living as one pleases, and when Sunday comes, going to church and mumbling a few words in what is called prayer, then coming out again and quarreling, and going to church and praying, “Aigo, God! I have sinned again. What shall I do?

Since I live in a sinful world, how well can a human being living in such a world do?”—doing this, can one become Jesus’ bride, I ask? What bridegroom would take such a bride? If you were the bridegroom, would you want to take such a bride?

Jesus is God’s son and the Prince of Heaven. Would such a Jesus, lacking a bride, go and take a bride worth only a few pennies if reckoned by price, I ask? Such a woman is not even taken by the son of the village headman. And yet, not knowing this, Christians think the Kingdom of Heaven is inside their mouths and inside their bellies. They are all swindlers. Swindlers, you see.

The Power of Thought

It is because the time has come when I can attack the established church that I say such things. Since the pastors of the established church have for decades opposed beating down this Teacher Moon of the Unification Church, that is enough now.

This person, Teacher Moon of the Unification Church, did not budge, whatever the established-church people said. It is only now that I speak.

Now, if they will not listen to words, I must make them listen even by confronting them with force. That is why now they fear Teacher Moon of the Unification Church.

Some people say all sorts of things about the anti-communist movement we do, saying that Teacher Moon of the Unification Church is running some party-forming movement to make himself president or organizing a political party; but if they want to revile, let them, I say. Just watch and see what we are trying to do, I say. The Teacher will do no other work until he has subjugated Christianity.

You did well to come seeking this place at an important time. Do you think Teacher Moon of the Unification Church will be pushed over easily? Just look at the Teacher’s eyes. I absolutely do not listen to anyone.

Even when I attended school, I was the best at making the teachers squirm. When I asked some questions, the teachers could not budge. The teachers would say, for instance, Archimedes’ formula is thus, so do not ask, just believe—why can you not believe?—but it was precisely that which they told me not to ask about that I wanted to know. So those teachers were even worried that I might become a traitor to this nation, but as it turned out, I could not become a traitor, and became a Unification Church teacher like this.

This time too, while touring the world, the Teacher gathered the American rascals, the German rascals, the French rascals, the English rascals, the Italian rascals—they are all rascals—and said, “You fellows, would it be good for your mothers and fathers to marry you off, or for the Teacher of the Unification Church to marry you off? Now, let those who say it would be good for the Teacher to marry them off raise their hands,” and they all raised their hands, saying, “Ah, the Teacher must marry us off.” Displeasing, but raising their hands was well done. Right? One should raise one’s hand until it is pleasing.

Until now, have Western people ever done such a thing for any Eastern person?

Even a person who has graduated from some famous university and is following some master’s course or doctoral course, once he comes into the Unification Church and hears the Word and is caught by the Principle, since he cannot marry as he pleases, seeks to attend the Teacher and receive the Blessing. But does the Teacher go to that place? It is a very interesting thing.

Even when an Asian, an Eastern person, goes and gathers Western people and says, “You fellows!” they can answer “Yes, sir!”—the Teacher has cultivated such a foundation that if told to die, they can die, and if told to leave, they can leave. And they entrust and follow the Teacher with the most precious matter of their lives, the marriage matter. Even if they do not listen to their fathers and mothers, even if they do not listen to their nation’s president, they listen to the Teacher, I say.

If the Teacher only draws a line, anyone follows well. As the Teacher said before, but was again astonished by, what is it? Thought is truly a splendid thing, I say. When one turns the people of the world once by thought, it becomes truly splendid, I say.

That is, what can set on fire and pump up all the young men and women, from one corner of Asia all the way to the Western continent, is thought, I say. So this time the Teacher married many off and came back.

Now, quietly thinking it over, since I married people off while doing this performance of indemnity and whatnot, in the end I became the king of matchmakers. I am dreadfully displeased. In the world too, the one who suffers most is the matchmaker. When a marriage goes well, they say they live well because they themselves are fine, and when it goes badly, they say they live badly because of the matchmaker.

In that case, would they not have to say that living well too is because of the matchmaker and living badly too is because of the matchmaker? Only so would it be a little more fair, I say. (Laughter.)

Having gathered such people all in a row, I felt that thought is truly a fearsome thing. Seen from the outside, the Unification Church seems to be nothing, but it is weaving a worldwide net that cannot be cut with a knife or burned with fire, I say. With that net, one must keep hauling in and scoop out Japan too, scoop out America too, and scoop out the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere entirely. And then, after scooping them all out, if one binds it tight with cords like a cage and hangs it on God’s shoulder and hauls God out, worldwide Restoration is simple, I say. It may be a discourteous thing to say before God, but in fact, if only it could be so, how good it would be! How good it would be if we could live dragging God about, I say. God too would like to be dragged so. That it cannot be so is a han. The Teacher is now doing this to do that work for Him.

Established Believers Oppose, but We Are Doing What No One Could Do

Why have you gathered here?

You came in to be caught by the nose by this Teacher Moon of the Unification Church. Right? Is it so, or not? “It is so.” Really? So? “Yes.” Your faces are truly well-formed.

Do I do this work lacking anything to do?

Had the Teacher wished to study something and become a doctor of learning, he is not a man who would be satisfied taking one or two doctoral degrees. He is a man who would set out, having sworn, driving in a knife, that unless he took at least three or more, he would rather die. Had he done so, by now he would have become greatly famous worldwide.

Even now the Teacher has amassed a little money, but even in amassing money he would have amassed more than now. But this work that no one even dreams of, this work that no one in the world can do, the Teacher has done.

Since the Teacher, as a Korean, has done what no one in the world can do, seen for Korea, is it well done or ill done?

If there is a person who, as a Korean, says it was ill done, that person is a traitor to the people. What does Korea have to boast of to the world? Will it boast of its outhouses? It has nothing, I say.

Even when the Teacher, an Eastern person, gathers the young men and women of the West and pairs them up so they marry, they do not contact their parents.

Because for them, once they are over eighteen, everything is free; they do not interfere even in a matter like marriage. They think that parents are required for bearing a child, but parents are not needed for marrying, I say. That is why, even when holding a wedding, some contact their parents, and some do not; it is quite a shambles, I say.

If it were in our Korea, to hold a wedding, one would even set up watchmen, but in a society like America’s, while they advertise it nationwide in broad daylight, they send their parents a telegram saying they will marry on such a month, day, and hour, so come if you wish and do not if you do not. Even so, those parents come well to the wedding place by airplane, I saw.

America is a wide land, so one cannot come and go by train as in our country. One must go by airplane. Even so, since a telegram is sent telling them to come, they come, saying they must attend the holy wedding of their son or daughter, which happens only once in a lifetime.

Shall the Teacher tell an interesting story?

When the 36 Couples held the group wedding in our Korea—that son-in-law too is now in this place—a certain person came seeking me. He said both his daughters had been caught in the Unification Church. He was the principal of some school, and said he had picked out such-and-such teachers as good sons-in-law and that he absolutely could not let them be married in a group wedding. But the Teacher said, “If you want to oppose, oppose. Your daughters I will marry off myself.”

For the wedding, since it would be revealed if one held it without contacting them, I asked them to send a telegram telling him to come. But I asked them to attach a condition to his coming. What condition? That he come wearing white clothes.

Since this is a place where holy people take part, I said he must come wearing white clothes. In that case, those who came not wearing white clothes were people who had not put in devotion and were of the opposing lot, so I said not to let them in through the front gate. It is not that, just because it is the place where his son and daughter marry, he can enter as he pleases wearing a suit without white clothes.

However much he shouted, coming in a suit, the young people guarding the gate did not yield an inch. So in the end, what could he do? At last, weeping and wailing, he said, “Please, do lend me some white garments.” In the end he submitted. And thus, wearing the white clothes just over his black suit, he came into the place of blessing and watched.

Having entered that place, since he was, after all, a person with some signboard in the world, he could not behave in an ignorant, blind way.

Anyway, when the ceremony was thus finished and his daughters came out leading young men they had never even dreamed of, what could he do?

By then it was all too late to break up the affair. When the Teacher was about to bless his daughters, he poured out reviling, but if he wanted to revile, let him, I say. Because blessing them was the purpose, someone reviling and so on is, to the Teacher, the same as a dog of the neighboring village barking. The Teacher thought: now he reviles so, but just watch. Within three years, will he or will he not come to me and say that although Teacher Moon of the Unification Church did ill in holding the group wedding, at least he obtained a good son-in-law for us—just watch. And so it turns out that person was sitting right here in front.

What happened then is vivid, and now he is beside himself to boast of that son-in-law. So did the Teacher do well or poorly? It seemed ill done, but it was well done. The Teacher has worked while receiving various criticisms and hearing various rumors in Korea, but all of that was absolutely not done to ruin Korea.

Until now, people have thought the Unification Church would sell out the established church and sell out the nation, but the day will now come when they owe the Unification Church a great deal.

Also, hereafter more money will come to our Unification Church. Then, to go out into the world, connecting Asia, the American continent, and Europe, if one pulls from here, however big the world is, it will gradually move. And thus, having made the world one, to resolve the han of God, who was sorrowful and lonely for six thousand years, crossing back and forth over the road of death and the road of life and giving our lives to work—that is our Unification Church.

Will such a Unification Church perish?

It absolutely will not perish. It absolutely will not perish, I say. Someone tried to kill me, so I entered the place of death several times, but I did not die and lived, and the one who tried to kill me died away. The Teacher knows that well.

The Unification Church, Which Has Acted to Save the People and the World

The Teacher, however much an enemy, never even in a dream thinks of cursing him to be struck by lightning. I think it is because he does not know that he does so. What a dramatic fact it is, I say.

If such things are drawn as a drama a hundred, several hundred years later, it will become content over which the countless conscientious people of the world will wail. Holding such a mind, thinking it a splendid work, I have fought until now.

From now on, before long, the Teacher will raise many worldwide events. Thereby, let us save Korea.

During this tour period too, when I stopped in Japan, I met people said to be great and talked of various things. They are set to listen well when I talk. People who, in their estimation, can hang out a signboard and boast in Japan, when the Teacher headed for the airfield to come to Korea, made a fuss trying to carry the Teacher’s luggage and follow all the way to the airfield, bringing out their secretaries and wives and all. Seeing such things, it seems I am not a bad person.

Ten years ago, when the Teacher secretly sent missionaries to Japan, giving various instructions at Gapsa in South Chungcheong Province, I foresaw that ten years later it would surely become a plus before these people and Japan. That was because at that time—that is, in the Liberal Party age—entering Japan was legally restricted, but, worrying over God’s purpose and the fate of the people, I did so at the risk of danger; and now it has become a foundation on which the Republic of Korea can be grateful and the Japanese government can be grateful to the Teacher, so the Teacher has done all the work worth doing in Asia, I say.

So, all of you, will you listen to the Teacher’s words or not? “We will listen.” Will the women listen well? “Yes.” How much will you listen? Will you listen as much to your son’s word or as much as to your husband’s word? If told to remarry, will you remarry? (Laughter.) That must not be. That does not fit reason. After the husband is dead, it might be another matter.

If I keep talking like this, it seems there will be no end. I could have concluded in five minutes, but already an hour and twenty minutes have passed. Still, since I will speak more and more precious Words the more time passes, let those who want to doze off go to the back seats and keep dozing, and let those who want to go home go quickly. You are hot too, but so am I.

Jesus, Who Had to Become the True Parent

Be that as it may, Jesus was born two thousand years ago, and in his being born, for the first time worldwide, historically, he was born from a standpoint having no relation whatever to original sin. Then, as said a moment ago, because we were born wrongly, receiving the blood of false parents, we human beings have original sin; so what was the work that Jesus, who has no original sin, had to do upon this earth? It was the work of becoming the True Parent. Then, to become the True Parent, what must be done?

Can Jesus alone become a parent?

There must be a bride. There must be a bride. To become a parent, since Jesus came as the bridegroom, he must greet a bride, I say. What is a bride? A wife. Then are there two wives or one? The bride must be one person. But since all Christians say they will become Jesus’ bride, how must a bride be chosen?

How must she be chosen?

So they are passed off wholesale. Seen from the outside, they all look similar, but a bride who has this and that condition just as Jesus wishes, and so fits Jesus a hundred percent, cannot be two persons.

You are now looking at me. I am now sweating a little because it is hot. I sweat while talking because of you, so you ought to feel sorry. Some see from the left, some from the right, some from the front, and if there are people behind too, there will be some seeing from behind. Thus, from many places, you are looking at Teacher Moon of the Unification Church. And looking, you will think about how the nose is formed, how the eyes are formed.

Even when I speak, I speak so fast that others cannot make it out. That my speech is fast means I have a temperament that, once I set out to find one thing, cannot bear not to find it out by any means.

On the day I lay a hand on something, I must see it through to the end. In appearance my body is a bit stout, but my nerves are keen. My antenna is exceedingly high. But the person who can truly look straight at me is only one.

There cannot be two, I say. The person who can gaze directly at me on one straight line is only one, I say. The person who can be said to have truly seen me cannot be more than one.

The First-Rate Bride Is One Person

In the same way, in the course of the history of Christianity, all sorts of priests and pastors and countless people came out, and there were many people bride-like, but the person who can truly become the bride is only one, I say. Those who go out as the representative athletes of each country to the Olympic Games all go out saying they will take first place. People gathered from dozens of countries of the world all say they will take first place, I say.

Then how is first place decided?

To decide it just so, a fight breaks out, I say. Olympic Games and all, a killing and dying affair would break out. But to decide first place, one must actually run.

So when they actually run, all sorts of people appear: one who collapses before even ten ri, one who gives up halfway, one who quits at about two-thirds, one who falls one step short of the finish line, and so on. Can a person who fell one step short of the finish line become first? However well that person ran until then, he cannot become first, I say.

In the same way, the established church has now come almost to the finish line and is trying to leap over the worldwide goal point, but it has fallen, I say. Is the established church now advancing? Or has it fallen over backward? First, let us say the Unification Church takes first place.

Since the weather is hot too, let us think so at least for good cheer. (Laughter.) And in fact, what else can it be but that our Unification Church takes first place?

Now, how many hundred denominations worldwide say they will become Jesus’ bride? Can those many denominations become the bride all at once? Can they all take first place? Then, if there is in this world a person who can individually become Jesus’ bride, and a church that can churchwise become Jesus’ bride—if this person standing here and the Unification Church were counted second, I would not do this work. I absolutely would not, I say. When I went to America before, I said such things to the theology doctors too, but before real ability, what can they do? Before real ability, they lose, I say.

The Teacher, when it comes to “sport,” there is no sport he cannot do. It is a temperament that cannot bear it if, in some contest, he fails to place at least within the top three. In the old days, the Teacher was a wrestler famous in the village and the township.

When I lost a wrestling match to some person from the village, I would embrace the great trunk of the acacia tree inside our house’s fence and, without eating through the whole night, say, “You fellow, someday you will lose to me.” So in the end, only after wrestling that person again and winning did I eat and sleep at night.

What Is a Good Bridegroom and Bride?

The Teacher, on the day he lays a hand on anything, sees it through to the end. I intend to ruin the Ford company of America too. Is that good or bad? Since there are American people here, they will be displeased. I will, without fail, ruin it. I will make an automobile company surpass it too.

You too, since you have come into the Unification Church, must not live in the very manner you have lived until now. Then a life of faith is impossible. It will not do; it will not do. Coming back after some months, the Teacher sees there are many who have newly come in, and you must know that the Unification Church you have known until now, and the Unification Church in which you face the Teacher directly and are guided by the Teacher differ. Do you understand? One thing is certain: if Teacher Moon of the Unification Church cannot be your bridegroom, he will at least make it possible for you to meet a bridegroom.

So make up your minds firmly and follow along, I say. All the more, if the young people make up their minds firmly and go forth for the sake of the world, the road ahead for the Unification Church will open even more greatly.

Furthermore, the Unification Church absolutely will not perish. Even if the Republic of Korea should say it will beat down and kill the Unification Church, the Unification Church will not die, I say.

Now, even if the Teacher should collapse and die in the street in broad daylight, the thought the Teacher has asserted and the foundation he has cultivated, no one can occupy.

Knowing this, the family members who have newly come in now must undergo no ordinary training to become sons and daughters loved before God and to stand in the standpoint of the bride before the Lord who comes as the bridegroom.

You understand, do you not?

For that, one’s looks too must be well-formed. An ill-formed person must not even think of becoming a bride. (Laughter.) In being well-formed, where must one be well-formed? Not the outside, but the inside must be well-formed.

If the inside is well-formed, it is fine, I say. And the frame too must be good. The disposition too must be good. And thus one must do worldwide work. Those women who, like a frog in a well, are always quarreling over small things and fretting three or four days over a single needle—what kind of bride are they? Such people are not even the shoes the Lord wears on his feet, far less the Lord’s bride, I say. Such a person can never become a bride, I say.

This time when the Teacher went to Japan, I told the Japanese family members, “If you do not listen to my words, Japan will surely perish seventy or eighty years from now.” And when I asked the young unmarried women family members of Japan, one by one, whether they wanted to get a good bridegroom or a bad bridegroom, they listened so tenderly and warmly that they shed tears out of gladness. How about you? You young women here, do you want to get a good bridegroom or a bad bridegroom? And you men, do you want to get a good bride or a bad bride? For the thief-like men, there is no need even to ask. (Laughter.)

Then what kind of bridegroom is a good bridegroom?

A good face, a good frame, a graduate of a first-rate university—in Japanese terms, about a graduate of Tokyo University—that is a good bridegroom, right? Is it? Some people will say, “That’s right.”

However much he is a first-rate university graduate as a bridegroom, if he does not believe in the Unification Church, one absolutely cannot marry that person, I say. Right? Do you want to meet a first-rate university graduate bridegroom who does not believe in the Unification Church, or to meet a mere farm-village porter who, not knowing whether he will live or die, is loyal to the Unification Church? Which do you want to meet? Without even asking, you will say you will meet the porter who is loyal to the Unification Church. It is set to be so, I say.

So when I asked the young Japanese women whether they would marry the most ill-formed man if he were the most loyal to the Unification Church, they hesitated whether to answer. But what could they do? They could not but answer. In the end they answered, “I will go to the most ill-formed man,” I say. People are without error, you see. This is a fact without error.

Continuing, when I said, “Then there is the person who believes best in Japan, and the Black person who believes best in Africa; the African Black is ill-formed, but if that person believes in the Unification Church more than ten times better than the Japanese person, where should you marry? Answer!”—in a small voice she answered, “I will go to Africa.”

The One Who Loves Jesus Most Is the Highest Bride

In Japan, an island country, a population of one hundred million now lives, and from now on the population will increase by geometric progression. So thirty years from now, it will be a population approaching 170 million to 200 million.

Accordingly, once fifty years pass, it will exceed 200 million, and seventy or eighty years later a population of 400 million will live on Japanese soil. But do you think 400 million people can all live in a narrow land like Japan?

Will they make land on the Pacific Ocean and build houses and live, or make land in the air and scratch out a living?

When that time comes, the Japanese emperor will have no choice but to go abroad, bow his head, and negotiate emigration, saying, “Please receive just a few thousand, a few hundred of our Japanese people into your country. Please save us a little.” But on the day that does not go well, what will they do? It is a grave matter, I say.

Placing this problem before us, considering even Japan’s future within a hundred years, the thought of the Unification Church is needed, I say. So, breathing in our thought, we intend to launch in Japan a movement to marry them out into the world. The only road for Japan to live is that, I say. (Laughter.)

I met a distinguished figure of Japan and talked about birth control, and however much they tell the people not to bear children, the people will not follow; they say. Human greed is not set to be satisfied with just one son or one daughter, I say. Even bearing a few, they try to bear at least about two sons and one daughter, I say. They wish for their children to be more numerous than themselves, I say.

Then, considered centered on God, who will become Jesus’ bride?

Will it be some blonde white beauty living in Europe with eyes like lakes? No. As said a moment ago, the one who loves Jesus most becomes his bride. The one who loves Jesus most becomes his bride, you see. Do you understand?

In this place there will be many who are married and keeping house. Let those who are married raise their hands. So, is married life interesting? Is it interesting? Is there anyone who can say, with mouth wide open, “Ha—of course it’s only interesting; just look at me”? There is none, I say.

Should Jesus, who comes as the bridegroom, live in such a world?

It must not be, I say. And when the bridegroom Jesus comes seeking, if we have become Jesus’ bride, how good must that relationship be? Have you thought about that? Jesus and the bride must live so interestingly as to fly off before the sesame even spills out.

What kind of couple is the ideal couple spoken of in the Unification Church?

A couple who can unfold the highest art in substance. A couple who can unfold the highest literature. Before touching the highest ideal, the world’s highest cultural world, the sweet love a couple gives and receives with the highest love must become the world’s highest work of art. That itself must become the highest literary work, and that itself must become the substance of literature.

The bride who can stand before that one who comes as the highest Prince of Heaven must be the highest bride among the highest. To become such a bride, what must her heart be?

Jesus has loved for two thousand years and worked for two thousand years, and one must not fail to know the account of Jesus, who so labored for two thousand years.

Not only that; through what kind of ancestors was Jesus born?

Also, what does Jesus like, what does he find tasty, what pleases him if done in what way, and whom does he delight to meet—one must know all these things. But do today’s Christians know such things? Then does Teacher Moon of the Unification Church know them? Would the Teacher say such words to you not knowing them?

Since Jesus came as the bridegroom, he must find a bride. But did he find a bride, or not? He did not. Then why does he seek a bride? Because, since Adam and Eve fell and, as true parents, failed to give birth to humankind, Jesus, greeting a bride and forming a couple, seeks to give birth to humankind anew. That is, to become the True Parent, I say. You must know this clearly.

The True Parents Are the Highest Standard of the Savior

Because you were born from a standpoint having no relation to the True Parents, receiving the bloodline of false parents driven out from before Heaven, to escape from this bloodline, you must tread and tread on the bloodline and pull it out. And thus, without fundamentally changing the bloodline, one cannot go to the heavenly kingdom.

Into the heavenly kingdom, one absolutely cannot enter individually. When the Teacher looked into it, the Kingdom of Heaven was not such a delusional place as Christians until now have believed.

Originally, the Kingdom of Heaven is a place one is set to enter as a unit of the family. The family is set to go, I say. The family goes, you see. A place where father, mother, sons, and daughters go together and can live together centered on God is the ideal world. But if the father goes to hell, the mother to the Kingdom of Heaven, the younger brother to the Kingdom of Heaven, the elder sister to hell—if it becomes so, would you be glad that you went to the Kingdom of Heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven is entered as a family. The family goes.

Then from where will the starting point of the Kingdom of Heaven break out?

It begins with true parents. The place where the true parents and the sons and daughters born from them live upon the earth is centered on God’s love, and then, just as they are, pack up the household goods and move and live; it is the Kingdom of Heaven. But because the human being fell, he cannot enter. A fallen family cannot enter. All humankind that received the bloodline of the fall has no relation whatever with the Kingdom of Heaven. They cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven, I say.

Then is Jesus in the Kingdom of Heaven?

Because I say such words, they call it heresy, but just die and see, I say. Whether Teacher Moon of the Unification Church’s words are right or not, or whether he told a lie, one will know by dying, I say. Do not just oppose, but die and see, I say. But since, once one dies, one cannot come back to life, that will not do.

All of you, Jesus comes again to this earth to find a bride. Because Adam, who should have stood in the standpoint of the True Parent six thousand years ago, fell and failed to stand in the standpoint of humankind’s true parent, and that is God’s han and humankind’s han, the mission of resolving the han-filled heart of God and the han-filled heart of humankind must be borne by the savior God dispatches to this earth. The savior, the savior—who is the savior? In the savior’s coming, if he drags along even sons and daughters, he cannot be the true savior.

With what kind of qualification do you wish to attend the savior who comes?

However much I am dead, if he comes and saves me in the qualification of a servant whom God loves, I feel bad, I say. Nor will an adopted son whom God loves do. Even as a son whom God loves, he cannot completely save. Think about it.

If one has loving parents, would one wish the parents to save one, or the son to save one? Or would one wish an adopted son or a servant to come and save one, I ask? The highest standard of the savior is the true parents.

The savior who comes as the true parent is the last savior that humankind longs for. He must not come as a son savior, an adopted-son savior, or a servant savior, I say. Because originally the ones who fell are the parents; a brother or a sister cannot save. Because the ones who fell are humankind’s ancestors, because the parents fell, one must come as the savior—that is, as the parents—and indemnify and restore the parents’ fall entirely.

Coming with the mission of the true parents, as the parents, one must save humankind on this earth. And thus, the person who does not taste the joy of the one day of greeting liberation, freedom, and resurrection, buried deep in that bosom fragrant with the love of the true mother and father, cannot receive true salvation. You must know this. It is not that one just believes in Jesus and goes to the Kingdom of Heaven, I say.

Jesus, Who Had to Form a Family

Then, since there can be only one bride before the bridegroom Jesus, who is that bride?

Jesus is the father, and his bride is the mother. You must know this. Then why does God send us Jesus and his bride again—that is, the father and the mother? Because we were born through the bond of false parents. Because we hold the han of not having had true parents, at some one time we must find the True Parents, receive the love of the True Parents, and go all the way to the nation the True Parents lead. Otherwise the kingdom of peace does not come upon this earth, I say.

Then what must Jesus do?

What must Jesus, the bridegroom, do?

Must he take a wife, or must he have one come as a bride? Taking a wife is good, and having one come as a bride is good. In any case, the point is that Jesus must marry. Then the established believers again will say, “Aigo, our holy Lord must marry?” But if he does not marry, it perishes, I say. Those who oppose his marrying are villains.

Suppose Jesus married. You who have come to this place for the first time from the established church: if Jesus married and had a son, would God love or not love that son born riding on Jesus’ bloodline?

If Jesus is God’s son, what is Jesus’ son?

God’s grandson. So would God like having a grandson, or not having one? What is there to ask? That old men all like their grandchildren is because they resemble God. God too wants a grandson, I say.

Would God not want a family?

He wants a family, you see. So when a family is formed, whose family is that family? It is Jesus’ family and, at the same time, God’s family, I say. God wants not only the family but also the kindred, and He wishes, through Jesus’ clan, to form a people and form a nation. And thus, to save the whole world centered on that nation is God’s desire.

Therefore, eventually, that Jesus must marry does not go amiss, even when seen theoretically. So those who oppose this are all heretics. You may feel bad, saying that today you went to the Unification Church, and the Unification Church teacher, sweating, said Jesus must marry; but if you want to feel bad, feel bad, I say.

The Teacher too, when he learned such content in the old days, did not feel good. And after learning it, I even doubted it. It is not that I do this work because I am inferior to you. I have prayed more than you. I have even prayed until calluses formed on my knees. I have seen, heard, and analyzed the spiritual world. It is because I have done so that I do this work. In fact, the good-for-nothing louts who oppose the Unification Church, knowing nothing, are empty cans, so that when you kick them, the sound is only loud and clamorous, while inside there is nothing whatsoever, you see. Not knowing that they themselves are empty cans, they take the Unification Church for a can, I say.

The people gathered in our Unification Church—for what have they gathered?

They are a company gathered to prepare Jesus’ wedding feast. Is it so, or not?

Then if Jesus comes to this earth and holds a feast, how great a feast will he hold? He will want to hold so great a feast that all the people of the world topple over in astonishment, and even the children not yet born from the womb want to rush out to watch.

If an eight-month-old baby rushed out from the womb, sprang up, and said it would go to watch Jesus’ wedding feast, would God be pleased or displeased? He would be pleased, I say. It is to make such preparations that we even hold group weddings.

Then in the end, why did Jesus come to die?

Because he failed to have his family. Before Jesus came to this earth and made the Israelite people his subordinates, before he took the Israelite nation into his hand centered on that Israelite people, before he stood in the standpoint of priest before Judaism, what was the very first mission he had to do? It was to form a family. He had to form a family. Without first finding and setting up a family before Heaven, becoming a priest would be in vain, and even if the whole Israelite nation became one centered on Jesus, without resolving the fundamental problem of having to form a family, it would be of no use.

The Reason Jesus Died

Though Jesus passed through the three-year public course through a thousand hardships, this time, while touring, when I stopped in Jerusalem, the Teacher climbed the Mount of Olives and saw the olive trees standing there, three thousand years old. Two thousand years ago, when Jesus led his three disciples, Peter, John, and James, up to the Garden of Gethsemane and offered his third prayer, the three disciples, Peter, John, and James, perhaps dozed off under that tree.

Since that place is the place where they were rebuked by Jesus, and the place where his disciple Judas came and sold Jesus away, it is an appalling place, I say. And yet everyone who comes to that place thinks, “Our Lord came here to die and died for me, so he died well.” It is a truly appalling place.

If God had sent Jesus into this world to have him die, why on earth would He have chosen and set up the Israelite people and raised them for four thousand years, I ask?

If He was going to send Jesus to this earth to have him die, why did He not send him to a nation where only villains and robbers live, but send him to the Israelite people whom He had labored to raise for four thousand years, I ask? And was it to kill Jesus that He raised the Israelite people with all devotion as a chosen people for four thousand years, I ask?

God raised them for four thousand years, saying, “A Messiah is coming to your nation. He will come with the royal authority of the King of kings and rule the world, so equip your expectation and put in devotion”—so would He have said to kill Jesus when he came, I ask?

Villains seized and killed Jesus. It is not that Jesus himself died voluntarily; villains seized and killed him, I say. When Jesus prayed to God,

“Abba, Father, if it be possible, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Mark 14:36),

Was it that things went well, that he prayed so out of gladness? Or that he prayed so out of misery?

To set aright the history of Christianity, whose root has gone awry, and make a Christianity that fulfills a worldwide mission is a dreamlike task. That, as the last day draws near, Christianity comes to receive social criticism worldwide and to go under the shade in the ideological world, is because God drives it into such a place. It cannot but be so, I say.

Now, placing it thus, was Jesus’ death a death because the Israelite people fulfilled responsibility? Or a death because they failed to fulfill responsibility? “He died because they failed.” Then from now on, I will speak a little about that account.

If Mary had done well by Jesus and Joseph had fulfilled responsibility, would Jesus have died?

What would have happened? And whether he died because the Israelite people did ill or because Joseph’s family did ill—let us first look into this.

Joseph’s Anguish

These days many young fellows go around, in the name of love and whatnot, philandering in the streets. Once one has come into our Unification Church, it absolutely cannot be so, but there may be some who were like that before coming into the church.

Until now, when a woman who loved some man, upon a better man than the one she loves appearing, has her mind turn away completely and turns her back on the one she loved until then, saying “goodbye, goodbye,” would that feel good or bad? “Bad.”

How bad would it be?

Probably that man would want to smash things and blow that man away. Such is the mind of men. A person who says it is not so is not a man. Women too are the same. Though a woman has loved her husband so, if the husband comes to love another woman, would that woman feel good or bad? A person who says she feels good had better just die. There will be none such. Think about it.

With a man’s face at stake, while his wife is behaving so, would he just sit and watch?

Even if he stabbed her with a knife, only seeing the woman fall would make his heart feel relieved. A man who only groans inwardly is not a man. That is probably the same for the Teacher too.

Then, is Joseph a man or a woman?

He is a man who had everything a man must have, I say. He was a man who could think, whose eyes were set aright, whose four limbs and hundred bones were sound. And the society of that time was a society in which an adulterous woman was, by the law, stoned to death. Then, when Joseph’s betrothed Mary all of a sudden was with child, would Joseph have felt good or bad? He would have agonized until his blood boiled and his bones went numb.

While he was so agonizing, an angel appeared in a dream and said that Mary had conceived by the Holy Spirit, so do not agonize but bring Mary. Since among dreams there are true dreams, and worthless dreams, and trivial dreams, one could think it just such a dream, I say. When Joseph woke from the dream and quietly thought it over, on the one hand, it seemed like a worthless dream, and on the other hand, it seemed his ancestors, fearing he might die from agonizing so, had shown him such a dream to console him, I say.

Thinking this thought and that thought, all sorts of thoughts, he would not have felt good. Overall, after much agony, he brought Mary; but did the two live interestingly? They could not live interestingly, I say. As a month, two months passed, Mary’s belly swelled, and though he forgave it all and brought her, he wanted to know whose child the child in Mary’s belly was. Men, would it be so, or not? One cannot bear it for curiosity, I say. People’s minds are all the same.

You too, when Heaven works history, and you go out receiving Heaven’s command, overcome the difficulties, but when it is over, and you look back, it seems like a dream, I say. It is a feeling like the sun suddenly appearing after a storm has passed, I say. What does this mean? It is like being able to see when the sun rises, the house collapsed and broken. So it is appalling, I say. It is not that the Teacher speaks of what is not. It is that the fact is so.

Then how does the Teacher know it?

I know it because I met Jesus spiritually and turned up all the hidden secrets. The Teacher is the first to speak such words, which are not in history. But there is not one lie in it. The Teacher knows well that if he tells a lie, he stands in the standpoint of a sinner when he goes to the spiritual world. And the Teacher knows well that if the Teacher tells a lie, you will not follow me.

Joseph, Who Was Ignorant of the Formulaic Providence of Restoration

Then would Joseph have asked Mary about such a matter, or not?

Would Joseph, who has the mindset of a man, not have asked such a thing? Think about it. If he did not ask, that person is a fool, I say. A fool. Such a person does not even count among people, I say.

So Joseph asked Mary, and depending on the time, sometimes he would have asked tenderly and sometimes in anger. Each time, Mary answered, “I do not know. I only conceived by the Holy Spirit.” Would Joseph have believed those words?

If you were in Joseph’s position, would you believe?

Let a man who would believe raise his hand. If there is a person who says he believes, that is purely nonsense. Nonsense. But Mary answered that she had conceived by the Holy Spirit, that it was undoubtedly. However hard Joseph pressed, and though he threatened to kill her, Mary kept crying out only “the Holy Spirit.”

Joseph, who was in such a standpoint, was at that time Mary’s only protector. There was no one but Joseph to protect her.

If Joseph had denied and disowned it, Mary was in a standpoint where she could not but be stoned to death. According to the law of the Old Testament age at that time, a woman who had committed lewdness was to be stoned to death. To such a Mary, Joseph was a benefactor of her life, a protector. But though Joseph repeated the same question countless times, the conclusion was always the same, and Joseph could not believe it. Did Joseph see her conceiving by the Holy Spirit?

So, without others knowing, there were many quarrels between Joseph and Mary, I say. You must know that. It is content that is not in the Bible.

Such a thing cannot be written. Even if Jesus had known it, it could not be written. To develop Christianity, such content must not be written down.

If it were written down, on the contrary, a complicated problem would arise, I say. But now that the last day has come and it is time to make it plain, Teacher Moon of the Unification Church makes it all plain. In other words, there were many quarrels between Joseph and Mary, I say. Quarrels.

Then, in the history of restoration through indemnity, all of you think about it once.

If Mary had married Joseph and conceived Joseph’s child, could Joseph do so to Mary? He could not. Restoration through indemnity is a formulaic course.

Adam and Eve, Who Were to Become the Substantial God

Then what did Satan do?

Forming a love relationship with Eve, he went further and fell even for Adam. That is, Eve governed Adam, I say. That is why, until now, to indemnify this, historically countless women have been trampled upon by men. Women may feel bad, but that is a fact.

There is one problem I must speak plainly and pass over to you, and it is the question of who Adam and Jesus are. Before, I heard someone say that Jesus is the Creator, and that perhaps in the Unification Church they confuse Jesus the Creator with Adam. But it is because they all do not know that they talk such nonsense. That is why the Teacher will set it aright.

Then what differs between Jesus and Adam?

If the human being had not fallen, Jesus would be unnecessary. Accordingly, the Savior is unnecessary, I say. If a person is not even ill, is a doctor needed?

If one has diarrhea, one must take diarrhea medicine; is it good to take the aspirin one takes for a cold?

In the same way, if Adam and Eve had not fallen, the Savior is unnecessary, I say. Though the Teacher, shedding blood and sweat his whole life, has found such content and tells you, since you say, “Ah, could that be true?”, the Teacher feels bad and does not want to tell it, I say. Shall I tell it, or not? Do you really want to hear it?

Let those who do not want to hear or want to oppose stop up their ears in advance. Go to the spiritual world and see whether it is true or not, I say.

Why on earth did God make Adam and Eve?

It would have been better not to have made them; what did He make them for? Looking at the Bible, it is recorded,

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Cor. 3:16).

Even the people whose bodies have fallen must pass through the work of salvation—what is the body called? It is called the temple of God. The temple means the place where God is present.

Even though the people who fell and must pass through the work of salvation become a temple in which God can be present, between unfallen Adam and those people, who is better? Unfallen Adam is better, I say. Then would God dwell in Adam’s mind? Without asking, He would dwell there a hundred years, a thousand years, I say. Then what on earth is Adam? You must know that. In governing the created things of heaven and earth that God created, if Adam and Eve were dolts who knew nothing, they could not govern. That is, without an ability like that of the engineer who created heaven and earth, one cannot govern. Then who will give the ability to govern? It is precisely God. That is, only when God enters Adam’s body and mind and controls Adam does he move properly, I say. When it becomes so, Adam becomes a being who wears God’s substance, I say. How is it? Does it feel good?

Seen thus, Adam, made as the body of God wearing substance, becomes the ancestor of the human being. In other words, Adam is the substantial God. For the formless God to govern the substantial world, He must have a substantial body to see and hear with, so the one made as God’s substantial body is Adam, I say. Do you understand? Then who is Eve? Eve is Adam’s wife. What wife? The substantial wife. Therefore, if Adam is God wearing substance, Eve is the wife of God wearing substance. You may say it is appalling that the holy God takes a wife, but Adam was made as the body of God wearing substance, and Eve was made as the wife of God wearing substance, I say.

Then what must such Adam and Eve do?

Resembling exactly the inner nature of the invisible God, they must form one body and bear the fruit of love. Then whose sons and daughters are those sons and daughters?

Who are Adam and Eve’s sons and daughters?

They are God’s sons and daughters, I say. Through true love, one must make Adam’s son and at the same time God’s son, I say. But that they failed to set up the bond of love upon the normal orbit is the han history of a hundred million generations, and this present miserable history of the fall, you must know.

It Was a Han That the Normal Bond of Love Was Not Set Up in the Garden of Eden

What is love?

It means that one man and one woman mature and, by the law of nature, become one with each other. Animals too, when they mature, the male seeks the female, and the female seeks the male.

In the same way, people too, once they are over twenty-one, automatically come to long for each other. That is why the original human beings, by passing through puberty, reaching the highest point at which they can join with each other emotionally (情的), must marry centered on God. This, until now, people do not know, I say.

In today’s religions, God is spoken of as a holy being, and the human being as the dirtiest thing, and to say one will become God’s son or daughter while unable even to connect these is all a logical contradiction. Then by what can God and the human being form a direct relation? It is love. Love does not come into being alone, without a partner standard. Therefore, because God’s love too cannot come into being on its own, God created the human being.

Then what kind of beings are unfallen Adam and Eve?

They are the same as God’s substance. Therefore, inwardly becoming one with God and outwardly Adam and Eve becoming one—what kind of family is the family they form? It is precisely God’s family. Whose sons and daughters do the sons and daughters born in that family become? They become precisely God’s sons and daughters, I say.

But Satan violated Eve and fell even Adam. At an ignorant, unknowing time, like a sixteen-year-old teenager who knows nothing, when they knew nothing about love, Satan invaded, I say. And thus an illicit bond of love was formed, and Satan entered the place where God should have been present. Then who becomes Adam and Eve’s father? It becomes Satan. That is why, in the Bible too, facing fallen human beings, Jesus said, “Ye are of your father the devil,” and also said, “generation of vipers,” and John the Baptist too called them the offspring of vipers. What the serpent spoken of in the Bible is precisely the human ancestor, I say.

That is why God and Satan are enemies. But since God is the God of love, however much Satan is an enemy, if He forgave him, the kingdom of peace would easily be achieved; then why can God not forgive Satan? While telling human beings too to forgive one who has sinned seventy times seven, why can God not forgive Satan, I ask?

The False Bloodline That Must Be Pulled Out

All of you, what is Satan?

He is God’s illicit lover. An illicit lover. Illicit lover means not some company executive, but that, regarding God, he is the enemy of love, the illicit lover (姦夫), I say. Therefore, because forgiving this would go against the principle of the heavenly order, it cannot be forgiven.

So, though the human beings of today’s satanic world can be forgiven a hundred times, a thousand times, Satan alone absolutely cannot be forgiven, I say. That is why there is the great judgment. Whom does the great judgment judge? It judges not the person, but Satan presents as if the master is within the human mind.

When you pray, what do you call God? Do you call God master or father?

You call Him father. Originally, all of you should have been born riding the bloodline of God’s direct sons and daughters, to live eternally within God’s love, but because Eve was violated by the enemy Satan, you were born into the world receiving a false bloodline. The children Satan had born, having killed the original father and taken the mother, are the humans of today’s fallen world.

However bad it makes you feel, this is a plain fact that cannot be helped. Therefore, in all your blood and flesh flows the blood of Satan, God’s enemy. The blood of God’s enemy flows, I say. Because this must be drawn out and done away with, today’s religions tell one to beat the body down.

So, as a movement of beating the body down, they say, “Strike the body! Sacrifice! Fast!” The nearly three billion people of the world living upon this earth today are all Satan’s seed.

Then, if Adam and Eve had not fallen, what would have happened?

They would have risen to God’s standard and, centered on God, become a trinity (삼위일체). And thus the children born from here would all become sons and daughters who can go to the Kingdom of Heaven. In that case, why would prayer be needed, and for what would religion be needed? That is, the noun “faith” would not have been needed for the human being.

Do you believe in your father?

Why beg your father as savior to save you? You can just leap into your father’s bosom and sit astride your father and pluck his beard—so what is this “believing”?

The Standpoint of Jesus and Mary

That these things could not be clearly made plain and, left half-done, fell to this earth—that is today’s religion, I say. Therefore, to find them, one must return to the original place, I say.

Because the trinity centered on God was broken, this must be found and set up again. So the being set up in the stead of Adam is Jesus. Because Adam failed, Jesus came to fill the empty place of the failed trinity. But, not knowing even such content, they say Jesus is God?

Does God pray to God? Can He pray, “Abba, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me”?

So are there two Gods?

Then when Jesus was nailed to the cross and died, was it not God Himself who bore the cross? Since they believe and profess faith in such fake, contradiction-riddled things, they cannot but be pushed aside by today’s intellectuals.

Originally, if the human being had not fallen, who would become the father?

God. God becomes the father, I say. But now who has become the father? Satan. Because of the fall, Satan has become the father, I say. Therefore, all must be restored as God’s children, I say. Because this world, unfolding centered on Satan, is entirely an enemy world not united with God’s purpose, one must overturn it all and, centered on sons and daughters equipped with the original form, make the original nation and world. It was to do this that Jesus came. But should Jesus have died?

Then, coming to this earth, how must Jesus indemnify and restore?

Examined by the principle of restoration through indemnity, first Satan drew in Eve and then drew in Adam. To indemnify and restore this, what must be done? One must restore it just so. Since Eve was taken, one must find and bring back the taken Eve. But because, by the principle of the creation of heaven and earth, Eve was made following the model of Adam, to restore through indemnity there must be a work like the creation of Adam. That one is Jesus, sent upon the foundation prepared for four thousand years.

Jesus is the second Adam, unfallen, re-created to restore what Adam lost. As recorded in 1 Corinthians 15:45, the first Adam was made a living soul, but the second Adam a quickening spirit, I say. Then what is the second Adam? He is the unfallen parent. Seen from this point, Mary is in a standpoint standing in for Eve.

Therefore, because Eve killed Adam, to indemnify and restore that, Mary, standing in Eve’s standpoint, must bear again Jesus, the one standing in for Adam, I say.

Then what standpoint is Joseph in?

The standpoint of the archangel. The standpoint of the archangel. In the Garden of Eden, the archangel was in a standpoint of having to attend and serve Adam and Eve centered on God, so Joseph, standing in the standpoint of the archangel, must, centered on God, attend and uphold Jesus and Mary according to the principle of restoration through indemnity.

The principle of restoration through indemnity is set to be so, I say. Then must Mary and Joseph live together, or not? They must not. Originally they ought not to live together, I say.

Joseph’s Standpoint

Joseph had to uphold and attend, from the standpoint of the archangel, Mary, who, having borne Jesus, who would become the ancestor of humankind, was in the standpoint of the mother of humankind. Because Joseph is in the standpoint of the servant, he must indemnify and restore Satan’s having seduced Eve and formed an illicit love. Mary and Joseph, being in such a standpoint, absolutely must not become one. Seen by the Principle, this cannot be denied. That is why Joseph has no right to ask Mary whose son she bore, whoever it was.

And yet, since Joseph brought Mary and lived with her, always bickering and quarreling over whose son this was, would Joseph’s relatives and the people around not have known it?

Even without that, since he brought and lived with an unmarried woman who was with child, and they had many quarrels, all the people of the village could not but look on with strange eyes.

Accordingly, there was much talk among the neighboring village people, I say. That being so, would the relatives too not have mocked Joseph, “Hey! You fool. How useless you are, that you do not even know whether the child in Mary’s belly is your child or not, ”or not? Probably all sorts of things happened. Not only that; even the parents knew all of this, and all the relatives knew it, I say.

Though this seems like a tale Teacher Moon of the Unification Church has made up, seen even from the physiological standpoint of a human male, you think it is a thing that could well happen, right? Now the Teacher intends to make this plain to you, centered on the Bible. You must clearly know this fact. To what I have said about this until now, I ought to add three more things and pass on, but because the time has not yet come, I will not speak of them.

Then what is it that Jesus, come in Adam’s stead, must find upon this earth?

It is precisely to find unfallen Eve. He must find a bride like Eve, born of a clean bloodline. And thus to decide the standard of parents not violated by the archangel was Jesus’ mission, but he died having failed to fulfill this mission.

What was the motive that made him unable to do it?

It was because the mother and father failed to fulfill their responsibility. Jesus, from before he was born, was born in a standpoint where he could not help but receive mockery and be pushed around by the village and the surrounding relatives. And Jesus, as he came of age, knew that the relationship between Joseph and Mary was not good, and grew up only watching their mood. And the relatives around them all failed to understand Jesus.

Originally, in Joseph’s family, because Jesus is God’s only begotten Son and the Prince of Heaven, Joseph and Mary should have joined hearts and cultivated the total foundation on which a new family could be built, so that he would appear as the Messiah upon this earth in the future. Because Jesus was born upon the foundation of blessing that God prepared by raising the Israelite people for four thousand years, had Joseph and Mary become one and protected Jesus like an iron fortress and fought, staking their lives for him, Jesus would not have died so miserably. Had it become so, Jesus’ three-year public course would have been unnecessary.

And had it become so, Jesus’ bride could have been chosen from among his relatives. Originally it was not that he wished to choose the beloved twelve disciples as a wretchedly ill-formed, lowly lot.

Even today, two thousand years later, if one’s occupation is a fisherman, it is difficult to be treated as a person at all; so what would it have been at that time?

The Teacher went to the Sea of Galilee too, and it is wretched even now. The house Peter is said to have lived in was a wretched dugout. It was such a worthless Peter that he chose him as chief disciple, wishing to raise the history of the gospel in this world.

So, because Joseph’s family failed to fulfill responsibility, how mortified was the situation of Jesus, who had to lose entirely the foundation prepared for four thousand years and start over again? You must know that fact.

Originally, what must Joseph and Mary do?

Centered on Jesus, born as God’s son, they must set up the heavenly order from within that household. For that, Joseph and Mary must put in devotion to Jesus, born as God’s son, offer him a meal-table every morning, and worship morning and evening. But since, even without that, rumor had spread through the whole village and their relationship was not good, could they do so?

All of you, think about it. That Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem in the land of Judah, Christians take for just a good thing, but in fact it is a mortifying and grievous thing, I say. That the Messiah, whom God prepared for four thousand years and promised to send to the Israelite people, was born in a stable—how miserable a fact is that? When the Teacher went and saw, that manger was a pit dug out of stone, a pit! It is appalling, I say.

Mary and Joseph, Who Failed to Fulfill Responsibility for Jesus

Even as Mary and Joseph went toward Bethlehem, Mary herself knew all about when Jesus would be born. But when the belly was at full term and the day of delivery was imminent, tomorrow or the day after, she just went with no preparation whatever; so can it be said Mary fulfilled responsibility? And can Joseph, who followed behind pretending not to notice, be seen as having fulfilled responsibility? Mary, seeing Joseph with whom the relationship was bad, could not, try as she might, say, let us make some preparation, I say.

The distance between Jerusalem and Bethlehem is about twenty ri. On the way to Jerusalem, in Bethlehem, Jesus was born amid a state where there was not a single room of a house, not a single garment to clothe him, not a single diaper prepared. Why? Because of the family discord, Mary could not, try as she might, speak to Joseph. Not knowing there was such an appalling account, today in Christianity they say that Jesus, the King of kings, as the Prince of Heaven, was born in a stable to save us sinful and lowly human beings; what performances are those?

To send the Prince of Heaven to the satanic world is mortifying and grievous enough, but the Prince of Heaven came to use the scraps of rag that the children of the satanic world had used and thrown away, so would God, beholding that, have felt good? However well-adorned the clothing, He would feel bad. But the Son of God was greeted with swaddling cloths and diaper-scraps that the tribe of Satan had used over four thousand years of history, so would He have felt good? The Israelite people did not know that, I say. And thus, for the sin of killing Jesus, the Israelite people had to wander for two thousand years, paying back the price of blood. You must know that fact. Did Jesus come to die? It was because there was no other way that it became so.

It was when Jesus was twelve years old. As you know from looking at the Bible, from Nazareth to Jerusalem is a road of about four hundred ri. It is a far place, taking more than three or four days on foot, about five or six days. Joseph and Mary took Jesus along that road; they went on foot, and once they got there, what happened? The mother and father lost Jesus for three whole days. And that only after Joseph and Mary had gone a day’s journey did they say, “Aigo! Jesus is not here!”—what a slipshod performance is that? Why did such things happen? You must know that fact.

Joseph knew from the start that Jesus was not there, I say. Mary too knew from the moment they turned back, I say. But Mary could not tell her husband Joseph that Jesus was missing, I say. Because to Joseph, Jesus was a being he felt bad about, though he knew full well; he deliberately did not ask, I say. But only after they had come back a day’s journey, since it would not do, they could not but go back to Jerusalem to find Jesus.

When they returned and saw Jesus in the temple and said, “Why are you here?”, Jesus retorted, “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Thus the mother and father, Mary and Joseph, failed to fulfill their responsibility for Jesus.

Jesus’ Han and the Mission of the Unification Church

Jesus, upon this earth, before loving the Israelite nation, should first have loved his own mother and father, but he could not love that father and mother, could not love his brothers, could not love his kin, could not love his own people, and, going further, could not love the Israelite nation, I say.

You must know the situation of the Prince of Love, who, coming to this earth, holding God’s love, could not love his mother and father.

Think once of Jesus, who, though he wished to love his brothers with that love, was driven into an environment where he could not love them, and even in a standpoint of receiving misunderstanding and being pushed around, unable to receive the love of his relatives, lived day by day hiding his own purpose. Jesus knew all too well that, in Joseph’s family, he himself was the cause of the discord.

Thus Jesus, standing in a standpoint where he could not love his father and mother, could not love his relatives, could not love his younger brother—could he love the nation? Could he love the church?

A person who has not loved his own parents cannot love his children; a person who has not loved his children cannot love his relatives; a person who has not loved his relatives cannot love his people; a person who has not loved his people cannot love his nation. Though this is the principle of the heavenly order, Jesus could not love them from the standpoint of a parent.

Today in Christianity, not knowing even such content, they say Jesus came to die. Such a good-for-nothing lot call the Unification Church heresy, but whether it is heresy or not, just watch and see, I say.

Until now the Teacher has been pushed around and around by Christians, gone into prison, undergone all sorts of cruel tortures, but, not dying, has fought until now. You must clearly know Teacher Moon of the Unification Church, I say.

Then, thinking centered on today’s title “Jesus and Us,” what is Jesus’ han?

He could not love his father and mother, could not love his brothers and relatives, and also could not love the clan and the people, the church and the nation. We, having come to know such a pitiable plight of Jesus, cannot but wail.

Jesus was in a plight of being mocked as an illegitimate child (사생아) by the whole village, even by the eighth cousins of his in-laws. His cousin John the Baptist too heard that rumor, I say. That is why Jesus’ course of the cross broke out from here. But that today’s Christians, knowing none of this content, think one is saved by just believing in the cross, is because the Catholic priests of old Rome made it so.

Therefore you must renew this afresh, pass through God’s law of the heavenly relation, set up upon this earth the heart-bond of parents whom God can love, and, centered on God’s love, resolve the han of Jesus, who could not love his brothers, and resolve the wish of Jesus, who could not love his relatives, his people, his nation.

You must not fail to know the fact that such a tremendous han history dwells in Jesus’ cross. You must know how important the mission of the Unification Church is, which must make this plain.

The Reason Jesus Set Out on the Public Course

Jesus is a person who, coming to this earth, did not have a father and mother, a person who did not have true brothers, a person who did not have his own people and his own nation. Outwardly he had them all, but he had no parents, brothers, relatives, or nation who truly shared the purpose, I say.

Who knew the fact that such a twisted, ill-fated history lay behind Jesus?

Today the person called Teacher Moon of the Unification Church, hearing himself called a heretic and undergoing all sorts of disgrace, has come out making plain all these hidden twists. But just watch. Truth is set to rule history. Conviction may rule for a time, but truth rules eternity. That is why we have gathered in this place to resolve that han.

Jesus, to resolve upon this earth the han-filled heart of God accumulated over hundreds of millions of generations, sought to form a family of love. But where went the wise men who testified to Jesus, and where vanished the prophetess Anna and John the Baptist?

Though it was their mission to testify to and attend Jesus, where did they all go, I ask? If they had testified to Jesus and given their lives to serve him, would Jesus have been pushed around?

God, holding a sorrowful situation that no one can imagine, to achieve the origin of love, through a thousand hardships preparing for four thousand years, sent Jesus upon that foundation. He sent Jesus to propagate God’s inner heart upon this earth and fill the pit of historic han, but who knew that Jesus’ plight would become like that? Whenever the wind blew, he tried to make that wind his friend; gazing at the flowing waves, he chanted the han of his living; when a migratory bird came, he made that bird his friend and lived telling it his account.

You must think once of the life of the pitiable Jesus, who, hiding his account like this, was driven into an environment where he could not, try as he might, speak to anyone.

Jesus’ thirty-year life was not the life of a spineless weakling. He silently worked as a carpenter’s assistant in Joseph’s family. Jesus, who had not one friend, not one brother or relative who recognized him, who had no church to recognize him and not even a nation—his heart only God recognized; where was there a comrade who could dig out this situation of Jesus one by one and recognize and console the han-filled heart knotted in his breast, I ask? He was a pitiable Jesus standing in a standpoint of being rejected even by parents, brothers, and their relatives, and by the church and the nation, I say.

So Jesus grasped his mother Mary and pleaded desperately. “Mother, do you not know?

Since I came as the Prince of Heaven to accomplish the building of the Kingdom of Heaven, the building of the Kingdom-of-Heaven family must be made from this Joseph family. That is, only through you, Mary, can the law of the heavenly family be set up,” Jesus said earnestly. But since Mary herself was in a plight of clinging to Joseph, watching his mood, and, driven by the environment, was in a plight where it was hard even to conduct herself, though she knew about the son who appealed to her with tears, she could not follow as Jesus said. Jesus knew well such a pitiable situation of Mary, but because he was Jesus with the mission of setting up the law centered on the new heavenly family, he earnestly urged Mary until he was thirty years old. And yet Mary failed to fulfill her responsibility.

Until he reached thirty, Jesus longed and waited and endured to set up such a foundation of the heavenly family, but because he knew it could not be found and set up in Joseph’s family, he packed a bundle and set out on the road. That is precisely Jesus’ three-year public course. You must know such a fact.

When the foundation of the fundamental family God prepared for four thousand years all broke apart, and Jesus set out from home, Satan would have said, “Hey! This is good, Jesus!” When the Son of God could not but be dragged off by Satan and tempted, Jesus shed tears, I say.

The Ill-Fated Three-Year Public Course

Then why was he dragged off by Satan?

Satan said,

“Jesus, since I have taken over the household of God’s four-thousand-year history that you are seeking, if you would find it again, you must win in the fight with me.”

Jesus, making his victory in this fight with Satan a condition, had to set up the condition of the gospel and build God’s nation, but, failing to achieve this substantially and dying on the cross, he achieved only spiritual salvation.

When, at the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, Mary said to Jesus that the wine had run out, he said at that time,

“Woman, what have I to do with thee?” (John 2:4).

In the course of going the road of the purpose after leaving Joseph’s house, he rebuked her: Is it merely that the request you make on meeting me? Those words were a retort, meaning: not knowing the earnest situation of what I request, does Mother make such a mundane, human request of me?

By the custom of the Jews of the time, there is no such unfilial son in the world. But it could not but be so, because Jesus, who knew all too well that it was because his mother Mary failed to fulfill her responsibility that he had set out on this road of suffering, spoke such a declaration. “Woman, what have I to do with thee?” means there is no relation at all. It was a rebuke, meaning, “It is you who made me into this state.”

Thus, that the ill-fated course walked to gather the scattered foundation of the family, the scattered foundation of the people, the scattered foundation of Israel again, was precisely Jesus’ three-year public course—you must clearly know. Clearly.

God, passing through much careful preparation, found and set up Joseph’s family. Making Joseph’s family a shield, He prepared everything so Jesus could unfold the purpose. That is, He sent John the Baptist, Jesus’ cousin, as a prophet of Israel and prepared it so that the whole of Judaism could uphold and attend him. Had such a John the Baptist testified to Jesus as the Messiah and attended him, Jesus would not have died miserably.

John the Baptist’s Disbelief

But John the Baptist, this fool of a fellow, only testified to Jesus and failed to believe and follow him. For what did he practice asceticism in the wilderness, eating only locusts and wild honey for his three meals?

It was to meet Jesus. And having met the Messiah and testified to him, he should have packed a bundle, shouldered it, and followed and attended to the end; but Jesus went about on his own, and John the Baptist went about giving baptism, and in the end, caught up in the trivial King Herod’s love affair, he came to die. Only then did John the Baptist send his disciples to ask Jesus,

“Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?”

Read the Bible, the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 11.

Jesus said, “What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? … they that wear soft raiment are in kings’ houses….”

In the end, John the Baptist, who sent them to ask this, and his disciples, who had been with him when he testified to Jesus—that is, the disciples who came to ask—are all the same, I say.

And Jesus said, “Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist”;

What does that mean?

Does it mean that John the Baptist came not through a woman but from the belly of a cow? It does not mean that. Because a prophet has the mission of preparing for and testifying to the Messiah, it means his responsibility to fulfill is greater than any person in the world. Whereas the countless prophets of the past prophesied, hanging it on the generations hundreds and thousands of years later, John the Baptist could testify directly to Jesus as the Messiah; so seen from this standpoint, John the Baptist is the greatest figure, I say.

Then what does it mean that he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John the Baptist?

It means that the countless spirits who died until now—that is, even the robber who died—know Jesus is the Messiah and wish to attend him, while John the Baptist became the very last in attending Jesus.

So the words he said, going into prison, that he must, after all, wait for another—no, what performance is that? When did he testify, and again this doubting—what performance is that?

In Matthew chapter 11, verse 12 and following, there is the content that from the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

So had John the Baptist only believed in and attended to Jesus, the seat of Peter as chief disciple would have been John the Baptist’s, and the twelve disciples, the seventy followers, and even the 120 followers could have all been set up from among his kin; but because John the Baptist failed to fulfill responsibility, Jesus came to die, I say.

If John the Baptist had fulfilled his responsibility, because the Jewish people of that time all believed in and respected John the Baptist, those Jewish people and the church would have come over wholesale to Jesus.

Originally, Jesus’ twelve apostles were not to become a lowly lot like fishermen. It must be accomplished soundlessly through the kin household. And thus, after achieving the restoration of the clan and the restoration of the people entirely, one must connect with the church. The ones who were to prepare so that this connection with the church could be made were John the Baptist’s company, but because this prepared foundation all collapsed, Jesus could not but be pushed around.

Thus Jesus was pushed around by the church, pushed around by the nation, pushed around by his relatives, by John the Baptist, and also by his brothers, and pushed around even by the mother and father of Joseph’s family.

So did Jesus have anywhere to go?

Because the whole situation changed like this, he could not but be hung on the cross. Jesus died away like that, so—well, did he die well? Search the Bible, I say. Whether Teacher Moon of the Unification Church’s words are wrong or right, search with your eyes ablaze, I say. Not knowing such fundamental problems, you say you will go to the Kingdom of Heaven by some slapdash means?

Jesus should have indemnified and restored centered on Joseph’s family, and there found and set up a bride. Furthermore, centered on Jesus, the apostles should have become of one accord and shared life and death, and John the Baptist’s company should have united Judaism and the Israelite people all into one.

Had Judaism and the Jewish people at that time united and become one centered on Jesus, the Roman Empire would have been occupied within forty years and more. Since the dead Jesus took four hundred years to occupy Rome, the living Jesus occupies it within forty years, I say.

The Meaning of Our Calling One Another “Family Member”

That the Roman Empire at that time, centered on the Mediterranean cultural sphere, cultivated a foundation from which it could command a worldwide dominion is because the Roman Empire was set up as the representative Cain-type nation of the satanic world. Here, by setting up Israel as the Abel-type nation and subjugating Cain, the Roman Empire, thereby indemnifying and restoring the nation and the world and achieving the longed-for Kingdom of Heaven, was God’s purpose. This has repeated for two thousand years, and today America stands in that standpoint, I say. And so, was Jesus’ death a good death?

Today in the Catholic Church they say they will believe in Mary and go to the Kingdom of Heaven; so can one go to the Kingdom of Heaven believing in Mary? Can one go to the Kingdom of Heaven believing in Peter? It is appalling, I say. There is a whole crowd of good-for-nothing louts who say they will become the bride while not even knowing such content of heart, I say. All of you, look quietly at the Bible, how it is. The history of Restoration cannot be helped. So, was Jesus’ death well done or ill done?

Then why, today in the Unification Church, do we call one another “family member,” and from where did that noun come? Young people especially must know this clearly.

Jesus had a younger brother but could not love the younger brother, had parents but could not love the parents, had relatives but could not love the relatives. Had a church, a nation, and a people, but could not love them—we must resolve Jesus’ han.

A person of the same age as Jesus’ mother, when facing the young people, must love them like a parent and completely indemnify and restore Joseph and Mary’s failure to love Jesus from the standpoint of parents. Standing in the same standpoint as Mary, with a parent’s heart, one must cherish and care for the young family members more than one loves one’s own son or daughter, I say.

The young people, like Jesus, must, standing in the standpoint of a prince God sent to restore this nation and the world, move, staking their lives; and those standing in the standpoint of an elder brother must love more than their own elder brother, and, resolving the han of Jesus, who could not love his elder brother, restore the seat of the elder brother, I say. Those in the standpoint of a younger brother must, departing from the standpoint in which Jesus’ younger brothers reviled him, resolve the han of Jesus, who, in God’s stead, had no beloved younger brother.

Grandmother, grandfather, whoever—or relatives, church, nation—one must love in Jesus’ stead, and, reproducing an environment in which one can be loved in Jesus’ stead, restore the standard of the bride centered on Jesus. Thus, the ones who must live to indemnify and restore the han-filled heart left because Jesus lost the standard of love are precisely the family members; you must know.

In that sense, you must think about how precious the Unification Church’s word “family member” is, I say. That is why, whoever comes into the Unification Church, becoming a brother who is not a brother by blood, must love more than a blood brother.

If this cannot be done, you must pack a bundle and leave here. Leave Teacher Moon of the Unification Church quickly, I say. Those who are old must grasp the young ones who are like grandchildren and, just as a grandfather and grandmother had to love and attend to Jesus, hold a loving heart that worries and cares for the family members. If such love does not dwell here, the Unification Church is a fake, I say.

To Resolve Jesus’ Han

For you to resolve Jesus’ han, centered on Teacher Moon of the Unification Church, you must love Teacher Moon of the Unification Church more than anyone. Grandmother or grandfather, man or woman, all must love Teacher Moon of the Unification Church, I say.

So, if there is anyone who says he loves, raise your hand once. Put it down. Without forming a bond of love that cannot be tasted in any organization or any family in the world, one absolutely cannot resolve the han knotted in Jesus, I say. But if this is not resolved, the history of Restoration cannot be achieved, so God’s purpose is not achieved, I say. That is the reason the Unification Church came out upon this earth. If the Unification Church did not have such a great purpose, I would have replaced it long ago.

That is why, to restore Jesus’ han, you must stand at the head and go the road of death in the Teacher’s stead. And, to indemnify Peter, John, James, and the others betraying their master with Jesus’ death before their eyes, you must, even though you be in the place of death, in the Teacher’s stead, bare your chests and fall, saying you will block the bullets, I say. Do you have that confidence?

How many times did Peter swear?

Even that Peter, who vowed that though all others changed, he alone would never change, denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed at dawn. But can you really die for the Teacher? “Yes.” Then die right now? (Laughter.) Until now, whatever I commanded you, the Teacher commanded only after knowing, seeing, and first practicing it all himself. Because I learned the Principle without others knowing and practiced it without others knowing, it became a problem. That is why no one can be the founder-leader of the Unification Church. No one can lead the Unification Church, I say. It cannot be done except by Teacher Moon, I say.

Therefore, before the Teacher dies, he must set up a worldwide tradition of history. You, too, must burn with such a sense of mission, moving busily today and tomorrow, every hour precious, and, knowing your road is time-sensitive, fight while wishing tomorrow’s work to appear this very evening. You must know that that is the road of unification.

The road the Unification Church goes is a narrow road. Because it is narrow, one cannot enter sideways and cannot enter alone. In going, one must be born again.

Then how must one be born?

Not coming out headfirst, but coming out turned upside down, in reverse. Thus, because the road of indemnity must be gone in reverse, the road the Unification Church goes is a hard, difficult, narrow road.

However much one is a doctor of learning, one must pass through the formulaic road of the Principle. Otherwise, all are caught here. Thinking thus, the Unification Church, if fearsome, is exceedingly fearsome, and if strong, is an exceedingly strong church.

Whatever anyone says, the Principle of the Unification Church cannot be denied. Therefore, the mission the family members of the Unification Church hold is to accomplish the resolution of han (해원성사) as the second resurrection-body of Jesus, resolving the han Jesus left in dying—you must know.

One Must Know Jesus’ Heart

Then what must Jesus, come in Adam’s stead, do upon this earth?

He must indemnify Adam’s failure to fulfill responsibility as a parent. That is, since humankind fell from Adam’s family and came down, they must rise again, I say. This is precisely the history of Restoration.

What Adam and Eve failed at, it was sought to be restored, centered on Cain and Abel, but it failed to be restored, and even Seth failed to stand in the original place and fell, so that must be restored.

How did God choose the eight persons of Noah’s family?

In Christianity, they say Grandfather Noah was chosen because his faith was good. The words sound glib. But why must it be eight family members? Why must there be forty days of the judgment of the flood?—They do not know. God is a scientist.

God, who created this world so that today’s scientific civilization can all sound out its results through formulaic laws, is the highest scientist and the king of wisdom. Therefore, to find all that was lost, God could not but carry out such a providence.

Then whom must Jesus come in Adam’s stead to find?

He must find the bride (Eve). He must find her hanging history upon it. After finding the bride, he must find the three sons (Cain, Abel, Seth), and they are precisely the three disciples Peter, John, and James. You must know the heart of Jesus, who could not but stand in such a standpoint.

The Teacher often gives discipline to Peter in the spiritual world. If I say such a thing, there may be people who make a fuss, saying what Teacher Moon of the Unification Church is; but the Teacher has such a qualification, I say. Even Jesus has content by which he must bow to the Teacher, I say. If Christians hear it, they will be sick with envy…. If they are sick, let them be sick.

Because human history is a history of Restoration, the human being must indemnify this, I say. Before that, one cannot go to God’s nation, I say. So into this must go two thousand years of history and six thousand years of history. To resolve this, Teacher Moon of the Unification Church has undergone deadly hardships until now. I had to receive the persecution of three or more nations, had to receive the persecution of three or more sovereignties, and had to receive the persecution of three or more denominations. More than three times 1.2 million—more than 3.6 million—had to oppose the Teacher. It was not done in some slapdash, rough-reckoning way.

Considered centered on Jesus, what Jesus must restore is to restore what Adam failed to fulfill. That is, Jesus (from Adam’s standpoint) must find the bride (Eve) and form a couple, and, forming a family centered on this couple, form a clan, and form a people, a nation, a world. Here, connecting just one representative on the straight line at each stage, worldwide conquest could have been simply achieved, I say.

Do you understand what I mean?

That is, if before Jesus, in Adam’s standpoint, just these seven persons had been found—the bride in Eve’s standpoint, and Joseph representing the family, John the Baptist representing the clan, the priest representing the people, the Jewish king, the Roman emperor—then without lifting a single finger, worldwide conquest would be achieved of itself, I say.

Originally it was not meant to be done so laboriously. But was there before Jesus one person who fulfilled responsibility? Was there such a person in the family?

What did John the Baptist, the representative of the clan, do? All opposed from the very top, I say. Because everything went awry like this, throwing it all away and making a new start is precisely Jesus’ three-year public course.

Then here is what Jesus must do.

He must form a new family. Then what must he do next? He must restore all the content the brothers opposed. Next, he must restore what John the Baptist opposed, and also newly make Christianity before the Jewish people and subjugate Judaism. Had Christianity at this time, from a single Abel standpoint, subjugated and restored Judaism, which was in the Cain standpoint, this world could then have been completely restored.

Christians Who Were Martyred for Failing to Find a Nation

Then how must you go to the Kingdom of Heaven today?

You believe that when the Lord comes, you will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, do you not? So, does the Lord come riding a cloud? Lacking anything to ride, would he come trivially riding a cloud?

What is a cloud?

Does it mean one must find in the cloud what the human ancestors lost upon this earth?

Can Restoration be done that way? What was lost on the earth must be found on the earth, so the Lord must come to the earth. However much you believe the Lord comes riding a cloud, a hundred million years may pass, and he will not come, I say.

If the Teacher’s words are wrong, cut off my neck. Actually, when you go to the spiritual world, you will not be able to meet the Teacher, try as you might. You think the arch-heretic Teacher Moon of the Unification Church will be down at the bottom of hell, but he will be in such a high place that you cannot meet him, try as you might. (Laughter.)

If one is going to have such faith, the Teacher would not do this work, I say. The Teacher has the confidence that whatever he did right now, he could live well enough. And yet, that I do this work, receiving persecution and reviling like this—do you think I do it because I want to, because I like it? Because I seek to indemnify and restore what Jesus failed to achieve, I cannot but do this work.

Because Jesus, in the three-year public course, sought to indemnify and restore, centered on Judaism, all that was lost, but was hung on the cross and died, Israel, which had been set up as one substance upon this earth as God’s foothold nation centered on spirit and flesh, all broke apart. That is, the foothold of Israel prepared through four thousand years of providence broke apart, I say.

In the end, by the killing of Jesus, Christianity came to have only a spiritual foundation of the nation; the Israelite people became a people without a nation and a wandering plight, and became the laughingstock of the satanic world. That is why today there is nowhere a Christian nation embracing both spirit and flesh, I say. Therefore, the Lord who comes again must restore what the Israelite people, not knowing and disbelieving God’s providence which prepared and made the nation of Israel for four thousand years, lost.

Jesus came to find a nation upon this earth. He came to find a single nation, I say. But Jesus failed to find that nation embracing both spirit and flesh and found it only spiritually. That is why today Christianity has no substantial nation upon this earth, I say. This means that God cannot, upon this earth, centered on any nation or people, call it my nation that I love, my beloved people. It means that until now the foundation of God’s nation has not been set up upon this earth.

Had the nation of Israel at that time become one centered on Jesus, because that nation centered on the Son Jesus is God’s nation, God would have restored the world centered on that nation. But because the foundation that sought to connect both spirit and flesh centered on this earth was lost by Jesus’ death—that is, by the loss of substance—it was restored only spiritually.

Therefore, until now, because Christians are in a standpoint like a people without a nation and without sovereignty, they were killed wherever they went. They developed by shedding the blood of martyrdom. Why is that? Because it is so sown, it cannot develop without shedding such blood of martyrdom.

Now the period of shedding blood and being persecuted has ended, but that does not just die away; centered on the spiritual foundation of Christianity, to find and achieve worldwide the lost substantial nation, longing for that nation and awaiting the Lord—that is precisely the thought of the Second Advent.

Therefore, when the Lord comes to this earth, what must he do?

Centered on one nation, he must achieve worldwide indemnity. For that, centered on the Lord, he must form a family so that God can love that family. Going further, centered on that family, he must form a clan, so that God can call that clan my clan, and the people formed centered on that clan my people, and the nation formed centered on that people my nation as well—a nation that can be held up before the satanic world. You must clearly know that that is precisely God’s providential history.

The Mission of the Unification Church

For the Unification Church, from such a standpoint today, the president is not the problem. Saving the world is the problem. Meanwhile, how the intelligence agency has harassed us! We received all sorts of misunderstandings, such as that the reason for forming the Victory Over Communism Federation was to expand the Unification Church. But if they want to strike, strike; if they want to beat, try beating, I say. The one who is struck first never perishes.

Just watch now, I say. The time comes when the Unification Church, which people thought would be crushed—as those in high positions throughout the whole world are broken off, and it is trampled, mocked, and wrapped in curses in a low place—forms a worldwide nation and waves high the banner of the world’s victory. When that time comes, the people who opposed, saying, Do not go, do not go to the Unification Church, will, because others are coming into the Unification Church, come into the Unification Church of necessity, I say.

That is why, hereafter, the people in Korea must decide on one of two things: either cut off the neck of Teacher Moon of the Unification Church and the necks of the family members of the Unification Church, or all believe in the Unification Church. If they want neither this nor that, they must pack a bundle and flee.

Hereafter, the Communists of North Korea too must all be subjugated. What the Teacher wants to say is that if things could go well even though thirty million people all opposed the Unification Church, it would be fine for the Teacher to go a road of hardship for a thousand, ten thousand years. But it cannot be so, I say.

Then what must you, who must go bearing a new mission before this people, do?

Above all else, you must launch worldwide a movement to resolve Jesus’ han. To do so, what must be done? One must cross the ridge Jesus could not cross. Because Jesus failed to become one with the Israelite people, he was pushed around here and there and lost entirely the seventy followers and 120 followers centered on the clan.

Originally, Jesus sought to set up three disciples among these twelve, form a family, and indemnify and restore the eight family members lost in Adam’s family. They were precisely Peter, James, and John. Thus, had Jesus in his lifetime greeted a bride and the three disciples Peter, John, and James received the Blessing from Jesus, it would have become the standard of restoring the eight family members lost in Adam’s family, but this all broke apart, I say.

Today, Teacher Moon of the Unification Church has also staked his whole life on this. God too has labored six thousand years because of this, and Jesus too labored, caught on this. Therefore, since you too are caught on this, you must at least, at the family standard, find the eight family members lost in Adam’s family. Only so can you resolve Jesus’ han; otherwise there is no relation whatever with the heavenly kingdom.

You must receive the Blessing in the Unification Church. What the Teacher has, until now, blessed worldwide, is that he has cultivated the road by which you can go out into the world. That is, what Jesus should have achieved in one generation but failed in responsibility, the Teacher has restored it all, I say. Therefore now the Unification Church will not perish. Even if the Teacher should die homeless in the street, the thought of the Unification Church will more than rule the world.

Now, before you, the road of persecution has collapsed, and all the walls of the satanic world that blocked you have collapsed. Therefore, in a free environment, one need only voluntarily obey the formulaic law the Teacher has cultivated. One need only obey the formulaic law the Teacher has cultivated.

Since the Teacher fought the nation, fought the world, fought countless enemies, repelled them, and cultivated the ground, you, amid a state where all those outward enemies are gone, need only follow along the formulaic orbit, I say.

All the more, because for you the environment in which you can restore your family is freely opened, you yourselves must meet those conditions and resolve Jesus’ han. Thus, you must clearly know the fact that, without setting up the eight family members at the family level, which Adam failed at, one cannot cross over the road of Restoration.

By finding and setting this up, the original intent of having believed in Jesus ends here; the standard by which one can win and enter the Kingdom of Heaven through Jesus is decided here, I say. Clearly knowing this, all of you of the Unification Church must go this road.

What does this mean?

It means that, man or woman, one must witness to three or more people. That is, just as Jesus sought to choose three disciples from among the twelve and, centered on them, form the family foundation, you too, centered on such content, though they are others’ children, putting in more than three times the devotion you put in for your son and daughter, must fulfill responsibility so that you can bless them and bless even the sons and daughters they bear.

You must clearly know the fact that without fulfilling such a responsibility, one cannot enter the heavenly kingdom.

In the end, what was it that God, over six thousand years, carried on the providence of Restoration to find? Before finding a nation, or before finding a people and a church, what had to be found? The family. That is, it was to find one’s own partner and find a family. For one nation to be formed, there must be families. Accordingly, what is the foundation of the whole? It is the family.

The Three Children of Faith Who Must Without Fail Be Found and Set Up

Jesus too should have formed a family upon the foundation of four thousand years of history, but he failed to find Eve, the foundation of the family—that is, the bride.

Furthermore, though he set up three disciples who were the children of faith, because they, in a Cain-like standpoint, failed to attend to Jesus’ direct sons and daughters, and failed to achieve the standard by which, representing the three ages of formation, growth, and perfection, and the age of Adam, the age of Jesus, and the age of the Second Advent, one could indemnify and restore at the family standard what Cain opposed, Jesus died away.

That is why, unless you become a person of authority who can, within your sphere of living, separate off and expel Satan, you cannot cross over the standard by which Satan invaded the Garden of Eden.

If you fail to cross it, you cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven—you must clearly know. Therefore, in your living, though this road may seem like that road and that road like this road, you must be able to go that road straight.

The Kingdom of Heaven begins from the family. That Jesus is in paradise is the reason. Because Jesus failed to form a family, he cannot but be in paradise. Paradise is a waiting room for going to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Only when Jesus comes again, finds a bride, and finds and sets up sons and daughters, indemnifying and restoring all that Adam failed at, can he enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Therefore, centered on such content today, to cultivate the foundation family-wise, people-wise, nation-wise, and going further worldwide, is precisely the road the Unification believers go. Therefore, you must know that the road the Unification Church goes today is a historic course that repeats the road Jesus went while being persecuted. But though Jesus failed, we must not stand in the place of failure. We must stand in a standpoint of doing greater work than Jesus, I say. Though upon this earth Jesus failed to find it, we will find and set up the heavenly family upon this earth, plant on the ground the signpost by which one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and go straight on.

For that, upon this earth one must bear sons and daughters without original sin. To be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, attending God as Father, without passing through the nouns “religion” and “savior,” one must set up the condition of having borne such sons and daughters. Otherwise one cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven, I say.

So you must bear sons and daughters who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven without believing in Jesus. Only so can one cross over the standard of the stage before Adam and Eve fell.

Then how must it be done to bear such sons and daughters?

That one must learn from Teacher Moon of the Unification Church. That is why the countless spirits of the spiritual world make a fuss to testify to Teacher Moon of the Unification Church.

Now you must achieve the mission Jesus failed to do: console Jesus, and stand in for Jesus as his guide. Only when you bear that mission can the mission of Jesus and us be brought to completion—you must clearly know that fact.

Prayer

Father, people thought that this historic work that broke out in one corner of Korea would be pushed around and driven off and vanish away like flowing water, but now it has spread worldwide and is raising problems in Japan, in America, in Germany, in the whole world. But we know that this is not to ruin this world, but to ruin the satanic world. We know that it is a historic event not to ruin humankind, but to expel Satan himself from upon this earth.

Since we are Heaven’s warriors who bear such a tremendous mission of Restoration, grant, we pray, that we may be strong and bold. May the Father always be together with us. We have come to know that behind us the thousand-thousand-ten-thousand saints of Heaven are always drawn up in a last-stand formation. For us there is only advance, so we must go for the sake of this nation, and we must go for the sake of this world. Since we have clearly come to know that a tremendous mission of even liberating the spirits throughout the whole Cosmos lies in our course of Restoration today, grant, O Father, that we may follow this road to the end—I earnestly hope and desire.

If there is anyone attending here for the first time today, grant that he may clearly know that without resolving Jesus’ han one cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Grant that he may experience in his living that this is rational and demonstrable, and may actually feel Jesus’ sorrow, and grant that he may grope after and grasp through experience the state of Jesus’ spirit, who, even while reaching the summit of the cross, writhed to console the Father. Grant that he may know Thy heart, which, gazing upon the human beings who defiled Thy face amid the darkness and the han knotted in Jesus’ death, was heartbroken. Rather, making that heart an encouragement, grant, we earnestly hope and desire, that Thou allow them to become Thy sons and daughters, and make them princes and princesses of Heaven.

Thus a tremendous new right path of history has appeared upon this earth. Since a new organization has begun to spread upon this earth, the world in which the whole world is thrown into a whirlpool of emotion and, raising the banner of victory, can praise the Father, must come quickly. Since we are bodies that have put in our lives and everything and resolved for its sake, command and order us as the Father wishes. We will cross even the great ocean without hesitation, and we will traverse the continents.

Be together with Thy hand of peace on the road we go. Since we know that the shield of victory is around us, grant, we earnestly hope, that in every place we go, an event may break out that can show the Father’s glory and the Father’s demonstrable form. Since each time we come to visit the countless nations, we come to know how busy and how urgent our mission is, we must be all the more loyal to the Father.

Now the time to live for this people has passed. The time has come to live for the world and for the Cosmos. Therefore, crossing beyond our individual living environments, centered on the Father, who is the source of life, the source of love, and the source of the ideal, we earnestly ask and desire that Thou grant that the whole of us, within our sphere of living, come in contact with the Father and become victors.

Father, we earnestly hope that Thou grant that the children who attended here may not become a minus. For the time that remains too, be Thyself together with us. All these words I have spoken upholding the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.