Irish brothers and sisters, stand up, please. Some of you came from New York, others from Great Britain or other countries. Among the Irish brothers and sisters, are there any who brought VIPs and guests to my speech last night and got some response from them? Give your name, please. [Members speak, but their voices are not audible on tape.] Anybody else? Is it a common characteristic of Irish people not to stand up and share their feelings in detail?
[One member: In the audience last night we had eight heads of convents and religious houses. They were contacted by mail. It was a surprise to us to have such a response, but we feel the result was because of prayer. People called our office, very inspired by our literature mentioning the importance of the family and women’s role in the world. Now we have to do follow-up work. We also had four or five ambassadors, mostly from Muslim countries, in the audience.]
Those eight people from convents were women? [Yes.] Please keep contacting them and looking after them. Sometimes, when the time is right, you should be able to bring them to a Divine Principle workshop. Since I spoke last night, and they were there, you can naturally contact them and ask about their response. By doing so, you can develop a good relationship.
Do you truly know how incredible and precious the work is that we are undertaking right now?
It is not just an ordinary proclamation that I am giving. It is as revolutionary as an atom bomb exploding. The proclamation explains to every single human being the entire six thousand years of [biblical] human history, ever since God’s creation, particularly the two thousand years since Jesus Christ.
As you know, Europe developed on the foundation of established Christianity. Have you heard established Christians speaking against this proclamation? I have not seen a single person, up to this point, oppose my speech. Nobody could come up with any opposing argument.
This proclamation turns human history upside down and proclaims True Parents to all mankind. Therefore, if there are any ardent Christians who are strongly against my proclamation, they will stand up and say something against it.
However, they have the general feeling that “That is right, that is the way human history has to end. They are the ones we have been expecting for six thousand years.” They may not have that assurance right away, but they start thinking that way.
Particularly while I was giving this speaking tour in the United States, I felt that the time had come. People might have hesitated to come to my speech.
Occasionally, they came because one of our members reached them. They came from different circumstances. Yet, once they sat in the audience and listened, people were drawn into my heart and spiritual power and the precious, powerful contents of this proclamation.
I want to give you an analogy. Most of you are blessed couples with children. Let’s talk about your children. Who taught the infant where to find the mother’s breast and how to get milk from her? They naturally follow their instinct. Babies are born with that talent and instinct, and so they grow. Similarly, our heart naturally directs us to the right place.
I started this speaking tour in America this past May. I spoke in fifty states, as well as on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations. I then went to Japan and gave twenty-seven speeches. From there, I went to Korea, covering 40 universities.
Finally, I am giving this speaking tour in Europe.
I feel that people are naturally following their instincts to obtain Mother’s milk.
Now audiences are following my heart wherever I go. The people are ready. The time has come. In other words, people’s minds and hearts are spiritually prepared to connect to True Parents, as well as to you.
Therefore, your responsibility is ongoing. You have to contact all the people who came to my speech, not just here but wherever I go, and lead them to the next blessing.
Even An Enemy Got The Message
In Luxembourg, the head of an anti-cult movement had been making accusations against our national leader, who is a judge and very active in politics. Our national leader’s wife, who is the chairwoman of the Women’s Federation in that country, started defending him, saying, “You may not like my husband, but he is my husband.
Why do you criticize him and accuse him in front of everybody?
She was just fighting his attack, and that conversation became the opening for her to invite him to Mother’s speech. He came to Mother’s speech and afterward told the national leader that he truly appreciated what he had heard and that he was inspired. Even an enemy came and got the message.
Therefore, our responsibility is to keep delivering this message to every single person until no one has heard it. Particularly in Ireland, which is experiencing religious warfare, it is time-sensitive that everyone should be educated with Divine Principle. The Divine Principle has to be taught everywhere.
Therefore, the Irish members must work ten times harder, even one hundred times harder, than members in other countries. Never forget that even at this very moment, without knowing that the True Parents already come and the Completed Testament era had been declared, people are devoting themselves to the sake of the IRA and this ridiculous religious warfare, and eventually many of them will give their lives.
Who is responsible for that?
If you do not fulfill your responsibility here well, even to those extremists, when you meet them in the spirit world they will accuse you for not letting them know, for not teaching them the Divine Principle while they were in this physical world. They sacrifice their lives because they think that by doing so they can bring independence to their nation. Our goal is a thousand times greater than theirs.
There is no reason whatsoever that you should be criticized and accused by them.
You should go out and reach them, giving them a greater goal than what they are now seeking.
Is there any brother or sister here who receives revelations from the spirit world?
I see only one. If you do not have those kinds of experiences, you do not sense what is coming. Do you have any idea what I feel as I go around the world and give this speech everywhere? As I told you, babies instinctively know their parents. Even in this fallen world, people’s original minds always direct them to goodness. Do evil people teach their children to become bad? Even criminals do not want their children to become like them. That is the parental heart.
Think about God’s struggles
When God created Adam and Eve, He had a great ideal and plan for the entire world. However, because of Adam and Eve’s fall, for six thousand years God has been suffering. We call His suffering heart than in Korean. Even though my speech last night was only about one hour long, it explains the difficult path God has endured through these six thousand years of restoration.
Why did it take six thousand years?
There have been many hundreds of saints and sages throughout human history. In Christian history, there have been many prophets. Yet none of them solved the problem that has existed for six thousand years according to God.
Think about God’s struggles. For four thousand years God labored to raise Israel and on that foundation, He sent His only son, Jesus Christ. What suffering and difficulty God went through for four thousand years! How He longed to see Jesus Christ proclaim to all humanity, “I, Jesus Christ, am the True Parents of mankind, and the Completed Testament Age has come”! That was what God was waiting for.
You know, because you understand the Divine Principle, that God is our Parent. God’s four-thousand-year dream was eliminated because of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.
What about the two thousand years of Christian history since then?
Have you ever thought about how many innocent lives have been sacrificed since Jesus Christ’s crucifixion?
This foundation of sacrifice is the root of today’s established Christianity. Millions and millions of people have been sacrificed, but what is Christianity doing right now for mankind and God?
In a way, today’s Christians in general have been abandoning God, abandoning their families and even abandoning themselves. If this trend continues, the entire human race, including Christianity, will become extinct.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
Don’t you realize the seriousness of the problems experienced by teenagers and the challenges of homosexuality and AIDS?
Just because you are a blessed couple, can you be confident to remain intact, no matter how bad things get out there?
On the foundation of two thousand years of suffering and sacrifice, including the Second World War, God finally sent the Lord of the Second Coming to the entire world. However, the world again failed to recognize the Lord.
As you heard yesterday from me, when Father came as a single person, a humble young man giving this new truth to all mankind, Christianity in Korea, which at that time represented worldwide established Christianity, failed to receive him as the Messiah.
Therefore, Father had to walk the indemnity course. Because Christianity in Korea failed to receive the Father as the Messiah and True Parent, what has been happening to Christianity and the world? Suppose, because of this hard life and persecution, Father had given up his mission.
What do you think would have happened?
To be frank with you, it doesn’t matter if you are blessed or a single member, if life gets tough, and you cannot handle it, there is still a possibility that you might run away from this movement.
However, True Parents carry the entire responsibility of the history of restoration for the whole of mankind, so regardless of what circumstances take place, we cannot even think about running away.
Earlier I shared my feelings while doing this speaking tour. I don’t know any proper word to express my thanks and gratitude to God, firstly, because even though human beings throughout history have betrayed God millions of times over, God never gave up on man. He constantly took care of a man and has been patiently waiting up to this point.
Finally, Father was sent by God, and even though he has gone through tremendous, incredible suffering, difficulty, and persecution, he finally won the victory. Because of that victory, he finally could proclaim True Parents and the Completed Testament Age.
This is a tremendous blessing for mankind. Therefore, my heart is full of thanks. I feel like I am living a dream. My heart is full of gratitude and appreciation to God and Father. No matter how tired I get or how tight my schedule may be, from my mouth one sentence automatically comes out: “Thank you, God, thank you, Father.
Everything is a blessing
My desire right now is to deliver this message to every single person in this world, until no one can say, “I did not hear Mother speak.” Since this message I am giving is just impressive, I do not know how to explain what an impressive, unimaginable blessing is being given through this proclamation of True Parents.
You should gladly deliver this message to every single, possible person. Go around and teach this message to the people. To witness new life being restored right before your eyes will be your joy and happiness.
To experience that kind of joy and happiness every day, you should feel an urgency in your heart that twenty-four hours a day is not enough. You should want to work even twenty-five hours a day, every day, to do this mission. That kind of determination, joy, and happiness should surge in your heart all the time and push you everywhere.
Do you all know that our physical life is limited?
Do you also know how old Father is physically? Yes. Father’s life has been a one-way street. He never thinks about his age, whether it is fifty or sixty or seventy.
Even now, at seventy-three, Father isn't concerned about his physical situation whatsoever. He kept pushing himself to the extreme, and I started worrying about his health.
Yet, Father keeps seeking to give new birth to even one single life a day, by teaching people. That has been Father’s life pattern, even as a young man. Father’s life has been that extreme all these years. Of course, God gave Father special strength and spirit, yet Father still wears a physical body just like we do, so there are limits.
I wonder if you are doing your tribal messiahship mission well. Suppose you have a student in third or fourth grade who got an “A” or an” A+” in school. Who would that student go to tell first? His parents. Again, I am emphasizing that we are living in a historical time, maybe the greatest time in human history.
Yet, eventually, we will all have to join the spirit world and deal with the kind of result we bring there. The result we harvest in this world will determine where we will go in the spirit world. There will be a place in the spirit world where generation after generation will praise you and glorify you, and you will have happiness for eternity.
There is another place where you would be subjected to criticism, persecution, accusation, and all kinds of blame. Your destination depends on your result. In this time, you will determine what kind of result you will take with you.
As a leader of any field or as a tribal messiah, don’t you wish to fulfill your responsibility so you can live with True Parents, not just in this physical world but in the spirit world as well?
Last night you witnessed Father and Mother talking on the phone, conversing, and sharing happiness and joy Even though that was just for a moment, think about what it would be like to live in such a joyful, happy place with True Parents for eternity, without any worry whatsoever. Don’t you want that? [Yes.]
Again, this time will determine whether you will be eligible to live with True Parents in eternity or whether you will be cast out. Therefore, as leaders and as tribal messiahs, you must fulfill your responsibility, regardless of the cost, so you can spend eternity with True Parents.
Please understand the preciousness of the time we are living in and the reason we have to fulfill our responsibilities at this particular time. Will you do that?
No matter how young and energetic you may be, you cannot catch up with the career and foundation made by True Parents. If you tried to do that, you would just get exhausted; it is impossible. However, it is okay to determine in your heart and mind to do even more than True Parents. Do your best.
Every day as you wake up in the morning, and before you go to bed at night, study the Divine Principle and this proclamation. Set your goal of how you want to resemble True Parents during that particular day. You have so much material, so many gifts from True Parents, to help you resemble True Parents.
Therefore, there is no excuse whatsoever for anyone to say, “I did not know; I did not have enough knowledge; I did not have enough teaching material.” I want you to make this year the best, the most precious year of your entire life, creating the most precious tower, or pagoda, that you can. Will you do that? [Yes.]
As we raise our precious children, we exercise our parental love towards them. On the other hand, we realize how precious parents are for their children. When famous dignitaries come, people try to get their autographs to keep as souvenirs.
Would you compare True Parents to one of those VIPs whom people go after for their autograph? People treasure the autographs of famous people and keep them proudly for their descendants. At a victory celebration like this one, after you achieve your goal and fulfill your mission, suppose you pose with True Parents for a picture proving that you fulfilled your mission.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
How precious that photograph will be to your descendants, generation after generation!
Don’t you have that kind of wish?
[Yes.] The road will be wide open for you; all humanity will welcome you if you do your mission. It is up to you whether you achieve that goal or not. Nobody else will interfere. It is your responsibility.
You must be different from now on, different from what you were yesterday. Don’t you feel that? [Yes.] Go out and proclaim True Parents bravely and courageously.
Do not hesitate. Will you do your best witnessing to people, gaining members? [Yes.] Each nation, no matter how small, should have had at least a thousand solid members. That is the minimum standard. You have the most precious treasure in your possession here.
Do you want to keep that treasure just among yourself or a dozen people?
Once people know about this treasure, everyone without exception will want to possess it. As you experienced last night, those who came to my speech were happy. So, let’s work hard.
I am telling Rev. Kwang Kee Sa to work even harder, since, as a Korean, he should set an example.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
