The Mission of Japan and God's Providence in the History of Human Civilization

This statement was delivered at the 2017 HyoJeong Cultural Festival in Tokyo on May 14, 2017, at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo.

Respected ladies and gentlemen, beloved Peace Ambassadors, and all the members of the Family Federation! I thankfully received all of your beautiful hearts sent to me today on this Mother's Day.

The title of the speech I will give you today is "The Mission of Japan and God's Providence in the History of Human Civilization." They say that the world today is hopeless and dark, that the world has no owner.

In that sense, we must come to know what the truth is about the providence of history.

The 2,000-year history of Christianity prepared the only-begotten daughter.

In the beginning, God created all things and then created humankind's ancestors, Adam and Eve.

God wanted to fulfill his dream through Adam and Eve; however, they were unable to fulfill that responsibility during their growth stage.

Therefore, God had no other choice but to again find and reestablish humankind's ancestors, through the providential history of restoration through indemnity.

God established one nation, and it took 4,000 years before God could hope to send the people to that nation who could become the True Parents. After 4,000 years, God sent the only-begotten son, Jesus Christ, with whom He could relate directly.

Mary did not fulfill her responsibility. Zechariah's family, Judaism, and the people of Israel did not fulfill their responsibilities. The central figures should have created the environment in which Jesus could have expanded God's Will.

In the end, they were unable to do this. For this reason, Jesus had no choice but to go the way of the cross. As he died on the cross, Jesus said that he would return. He also said he would conduct the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Jesus came to become the True Parents; therefore, Christianity must develop the foundation for the birth of the only-begotten daughter whom Jesus must meet on his return. Christianity began through the works of the Holy Spirit.

Christianity was acknowledged by Rome after the passage of 300 years. It then spread from the Italian peninsula across Europe to reach the island nation of Britain, and the Atlantic Civilization began to blossom.

The island nations looked for opportunities to advance, as they envied the peninsula and the continent geographically. The countries adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, centered on the United Kingdom, which is an island nation, expanded the Christian territory to a worldwide level by creating colonies across the globe.

However, since they did not understand the essence of Jesus Christ and did not understand their role as stewards, rather than helping those colonies, they took precious things from them. A new faith movement arose when King James of England had the Bible translated into English in the 17th Century.

However, it was not easy for Heaven's Will to be respected fully within the institutions created by man. For this reason, many mistakes were made within the realm of Christian culture.

Communism materialized from within its midst. Some Christian faithful who wanted to freely worship God headed for the Americas. Heaven blessed them. This was the blessing to establish the environment for the Messiah who would come in the future.

The environment for democracy was created after eliminating the history of mistakes made by one dictator after another. Democracy was born with the blessing of Heaven. Heaven also made preparations on the Korean peninsula, setting up the foundation for the only-begotten daughter that was necessary to actualize Jesus' promise.

Simultaneous with its liberation from Japan, Korea was divided into two parts, one governed by democracy and the other by communism. When North Korea, whose regime was controlled by Kim Il-sung, was preparing to invade South Korea, South Korea was still not yet fully settled as a democratic nation. In that situation, the Korean War broke out in 1950.

The reason Heaven mobilized UN forces at that time to support South Korea was so that Heaven's dream could be accomplished through the True Parents, who would become the human ancestors.

Heaven mobilized the UN forces because it was crucial that Korea not be communized. This is the truth of history.

Become a nation like a mother that embraces the world

Christianity had to prepare the environment to welcome the returning Lord.

However, unfortunately, Christians did not know God or the essence of Jesus. God intended that Jesus would establish the True Parents, the true ancestors of humankind.

Humankind must be newly reborn through the True Parents so that they can stand as true children before God.

That is an integral step in God's providence of family salvation, which goes beyond individual salvation. 2,000 years ago, Mary was supposed to prepare the environment for Jesus and should have fulfilled that responsibility, but she did not know who Jesus was. She did not know or understand his mission.

However, Dae Mo-Nim, who gave birth to the only begotten daughter in our age, fulfilled her responsibility. Therefore, Japan received the mission to fulfill the responsibility as the mother nation and the Eve nation before True Parents.

For that reason, all of you must love Chung Pyung and stand in the position to receive Dae Mo-Nim's victorious foundation. In so doing, as we welcome the age of the realm of the Pacific Rim Civilization, unlike in the past during the realm of the Atlantic Civilization, many nations in Asia, centering on Korea and Japan, must experience the cultural revolution of the heart, centered on true love.

Today, 4,000 young people have gathered here. There are plans for 10,000 young people from various nations in Asia to attend Top Gun workshops.

They will become leaders who go out to do providential work in Asia, as well as throughout the world. Japanese youth should also participate in these workshops. Now, you must know the True Parents.

To resolve all the difficult problems in the world, we must also attend to the True Parents.

The movement to attend to our Heavenly Parent, the Creator, is precisely the mission of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Through attending True Parents, we can realize the ideal of one family under God.

Japan has a role in realizing the dream of all people of one family under God. As the mother nation, Japan must invest all its energy to educate the son and daughter nations and bring them together as one family. In other words, you must embrace the world with a mother's heart.

I sincerely ask all of you here to become great historical leaders. It is my sincere hope that you can lead the 130 million people of Japan to practice true love and to embrace the entire world as the mother nation.