This speech was given at the Hope Korea National Rally for Harmony and Unity, on April 30, 2017, at KINTEX, Goyang, Korea.
Distinguished guests, Ambassadors for Peace, beloved blessed families, ladies and gentlemen, let us think about how we can solve all the dark and gloomy problems occurring on earth today.
The topic I would like to speak about today is "The Mission of Korea and God's Providence in the History of Human Civilization."
Jesus' return and the responsibility of Christianity
Originally, God the Creator made all things and then made Adam and Eve, who would become the ancestors of humankind, and He said that it was good. God gave Adam and Eve, who would become the ancestors of humankind, responsibility.
That responsibility was to pass through the growth stages and come to live a life united with God in His absolute position. However, during the growth stage, they developed a selfish attitude and focused on looking out for themselves. They became greedy and thought they could be the same as God.
Their mistake was acting before the time was right. Through this, the history of humankind ended up becoming a fallen history. However, the omniscient and omnipotent God could not just stand back and observe fallen humankind.
According to the principles underlying the Creation, He is a being in whom the beginning and the end are the same. God cannot use the word "failure." That is why God had no choice but to begin the lonely and difficult history of the providence of restoration through indemnity to reach humankind.
God chose the Israelites from among fallen humankind and placed them in a position of relative goodness, preparing them to receive the Messiah. Starting from the individual and moving to a family, tribe, people, and nation, it was 4,000 biblical years before the world was ready to receive the Messiah.
Then, what happened when God sent his only-begotten son, Jesus Christ, who could have been the first ancestor whom humankind had been longing for and could have realized God's dream of the purpose of creation?
The people of Israel, the Jewish leaders, even Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, and Zachariah's family could not fulfill their responsibilities.
It was their responsibility to protect Jesus, who came as the only-begotten son of God. For Jesus to become the True Parent, he had to meet the only-begotten daughter of God. Mary should have fulfilled her responsibility to create the foundation for Jesus to meet her.
Mary should not have given birth to and raised other children while Jesus was still living alone. We must set things right, these mistakes of the past. Jesus, who had lost his foundation, had no choice but to go the way of the cross.
Therefore, he said he would return and conduct the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Jesus thus promised absolutely to realize the position of the True Parents that he had been unable to realize during his lifetime.
To achieve that, on the foundation of Christianity, believers had to fulfill the responsibility of giving birth to the only-begotten daughter of God.
When God works through an individual or nation, He does not use for a second time people who could not fulfill their responsibility. That is because the people who did not fulfill their obligations have an indemnity they must pay. Through history, we can see what kind of life the people of Israel have lived.
Heaven chose a good people to give birth to the only-begotten daughter of God.
That people are those who are today the people of the Republic of South Korea. In light of that, we must not repeat the mistake of the people of Israel, who were unable to fulfill their obligations.
That is because our descendants would be left with indemnity. After Jesus died on the cross, it took some 300 years for Christianity to finally be accepted. The Christian culture, which began centered on the Italian peninsula, passed through Europe and arrived at the island nation of Britain, through which the age of the Atlantic Civilization developed.
Through that, Britain expanded its influence throughout the world across the seas.
"The sun never sets on the British Empire" was a way of describing the power of the British Empire.
However, those people of the Christian faith, who did not know Jesus' true nature, could not put aside their selfishness even though they spoke of love. As a result, they had no choice but to retreat.
The true nature of Jesus is true love. True love is love that gives and gives, forgets it has given, and gives again. Though the European nations that established the realm of the Atlantic Civilization should have focused on giving something to the colonies they occupied, the more prominent result of their efforts was one of taking from them.
As a result, an environment was developed in which the Atlantic Civilization could no longer be powerful. It is also true, though, that European nations became the center of the world's culture through the Industrial Revolution, and the people of those nations were able to live prosperous lives.
Yet, those were not fundamentally lives lived for the sake of others. The mission of Christianity was to listen to Heaven's promise that Jesus conveyed as he died on the cross when he said he would return and hold the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and to prepare for that.
For those who represented Korean Christianity, the obligation to fulfill that responsibility was theirs. However, Christianity has lost track of the truth. They do not understand Jesus' true nature or how Heaven's providence is progressing.
Now, the ones whom humankind had long wished for – the only-begotten daughter of God and the only-begotten son of God, the True Parents – have been born on earth. Under these circumstances, what must you do?
There can be no perfection in ignorance. True Parents have been teaching you for more than 50 years since their Holy Wedding and have been teaching all the people of the world. In 1960, the world had only around three billion people, less than half of the 7.4 billion of the present time.
When you go forward united with True Parents, you have hope for the future. In 2016, I proposed the creation of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace. Within only ten months, we had established IAPP on all six continents.
At the IAPP Inaugural Assembly in the U.S. Senate's Kennedy Caucus Room, some 300 legislators came, including about 80 U.S. legislators.
I told them that the way to world peace is to unite with True Parents. These are wonderful, revolutionary words, words that Jesus should have said 2,000 years ago at the Roman Senate.
True Parents have created this external foundation. Even though their nations are facing difficulties and the world is confused, 700 legislators came to the World Summit in February 2017.
I told them the way to peace is for each of them to return to his or her nation, and I asked them to fulfill their responsibilities as tribal messiahs there. I asked them to become messiahs.
The establishment of IAPP chapters is continuing toward 120 nations. A few days ago, IAPP was inaugurated in India, a nation with 1.3 billion people.
Neither Christianity nor all of Buddhism has been able to gain influence in India due to the strong foundation of Hinduism. However, more than 120 legislators came and held a victorious inauguration for IAPP.
They do not know how urgent the circumstances are, but we can recognize that many people are looking for the true owner, the True Parents. The wish of fallen humankind is to go through the process of rebirth through the True Parents and become children of God, our Heavenly Parent.
How difficult a course of waiting Heavenly Parent must have gone through! Those of you here today must now rise and teach the citizens of this nation about the advent of True Parents. Your dream is to see North Korea and South Korea unite and to live in a peaceful world.
The achievement of that dream cannot come through the power of politics, religion, or any particular ideology. Only True Parents can open that path. One hundred years ago, the poet Tagore wrote a beautiful poem about Korea when we were under Japanese colonial rule. It was prophetic: "In the golden age of Asia, Korea was one of its lamp-bearers and that lamp is waiting to be lighted once again for the illumination of the East." "Light" means the true word, the truth.
This light is the truth about True Parents. Korea has received the blessing of being God's homeland. Thus, all of us must fulfill our responsibilities. We must do it. We must show it through our actions.
Then this people, this nation, can stand upright in the world as a nation where the Heavenly Parent and True Parents can dwell. Together with the other nations of Asia, we must open the age of the Pacific Civilization and spread it to the world.
If the age of the Atlantic Civilization 2,000 years ago was a providence that collected and took things away, the age of the Pacific Civilization will realize the world humankind wants to see and Heavenly Parent wishes for, a world of one human family under God.
Living for the sake of others, centered on True Parents, will bring about such a world. Let us advance and continue to advance until the day when, with a filial heart, we can give joy and praise to Heavenly Parent.