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Three-year mobilization
All blessed wives,, from the 36 Couples to the 777 Couples, were mobilized for three years from December 1, 1970. A total of 1,200 women, divided into teams of 10, worked in 120 locations across Korea.
True Parents said that women were being sent out to the front lines because it was Eve originally who broke up the family. He said that while the wives were undergoing hardships for their country, the husbands. And children should also focus on loving their country, and And then could they be made whole as restored families.
In particular, True Parents asked blessed wives to offer special prayers and conditions in their mission places so that the Irnjin River would not freeze over.
Were it to freeze over, there would have been an opportunity for North Korea to attack the South again.
Later, this tradition of offering devotions and prayer was passed on to all other blessed wives in the 1,800 Couples, 6,000 Couples, 6,500 Couples, 30,000 Couples, and so on.
1. When I set out on the road for my indemnity course, I left my family behind. I set out for North Korea, but you, in contrast, from the position of women, had to leave your homes for the sake of South Korea.
What this means is that to deal with Satan's world, North Korea, a man left his home behind, and similarly, to deal with the Cain world, South Korea, women left their homes behind. Jesus hoped to prepare the family-level foundation during his three-year course of public life. As Jesus was the Second Adam, the foundation for the Second Eve should have been built in his presence.
Had this happened, the Second Eve would have fulfilled God's Will by attending the historical Jesus. But that did not happen. The three years of full-time witnessing by blessed wives indemnifies that three-year period. Herein lies the reason for sending the blessed wives out for three years. (038-033, 1971/01/01)
2. What is the reason for the December 1, 1970, mobilization of the blessed wives? It was because of women that Jesus could not accomplish the Will while walking his three-year course, and so he lost the people and the nation.
Therefore, the blessed wives have to walk this three-year course to prepare the foundation to recover the people and nation that Jesus had lost and also recover the world. This course resolves the sorrows of Jesus' three-year course of public life. Then, they can achieve the standard of the Bride for whom Jesus had so long awaited.
Only when this comes to pass can we see new families spread out horizontally, centered on heaven, and sing of liberation while free and unconstrained. This is the Principle.
This is why you have to walk the pioneering path for these three years until 1972.
This period is parallel to the three years of my imprisonment in North Korea. While you are not being imprisoned and are in the free land of South Korea, you are walking a road similar to my life in the North Korean prison.
This period is important in that, through it, you can resolve the fact that I had to follow a course of suffering because Christianity and Christian women, whom God was ready to bless, did not support me.
Knowing this, you should offer all your sincere devotion for this nation, centering upon God's Will. (036-154, 1970/11/25)
3. To restore the world, you need to love your tribe more than your family, love your people more than your tribe, and love the world more than your people. We need to make haste to restore the world.
After the 777 Couples Blessing, all blessed wives should mobilize for three years until 1972. Why should they mobilize? As of now, you have passed through the age of individual indemnity.
While you were passing through the age of individual indemnity, True Parents had already passed through the age of family-level indemnity.
Because we passed through the age of family-level indemnity, we were able to establish God's Day, Day of All Things, Children's Day, and Parent's Day. However, you have not reached that level, so you need to mobilize. (035-247, 1970/10/19)
4. The 1960s was a time when the individual pledged victory, but the 1970s and onward was the time when families needed to carry the cross.
From 1960 until 1967, specifically until the time when I established God's Day, I carried the cross of the family. I had to indemnify and go beyond everything that caused problems in the family.
Three years later, we ushered in the year 1970, and since it marked the third year of the second seven-year course, you should have completed the foundation for victory on the family level.
However, you were unable to complete this, so there is no other way but for you, as blessed families, to walk the path of the cross again. That is why I am announcing to the 777 Couple blessed wives that, from the first day of December 1970, you must fully mobilize. Not only you; I will mobilize all blessed families centering on you. (035-302, 1970/10/30)
5. In every historical age, the Will of the Providence of Restoration prepares a family base as the most important providential foundation. The family is the center, not the individual. The individual is necessary to find the family and to pass through the course of vertical indemnity.
That is why we need to start vertically, centering on the family. Based on the viewpoint of the Principle, since Eve, a woman, destroyed this vertical starting point, it is only appropriate that women stand at the forefront.
That is why I said that, for three years, from December 1, 1970, all blessed wives should fully mobilize.
After doing so, provided that the sons and daughters visit their mothers and the husbands visit their wives, restoration comes about.
Only when families, in the course of indemnity, establish the condition that the husband loves his wife because she is suffering for their country and that the sons and daughters love their mother for the same reason can they settle anew as restored families? (036-033, 1970/11/08)
6. An individual needs to seek the path of life for the sake of the country and the world. Thereafter, a family needs to do the same. That is why I asked the blessed families to go out. The family needs to walk the path of loving the country. It is not enough for the husband alone to love the country.
The wife and children also need to establish the condition that they love the country. This is the condition to be fulfilled by the entire four-position foundation. When has an entire family ever really loved God and their country?
This has never been accomplished, so the Unification Church has no choice but to mobilize all the blessed wives. Therefore, we prepare the one origin of love that encompasses the four-position foundation at this time, as the age of the reunification of Korea is approaching. (036-080, 1970/11/15)
7. If you, the blessed wives, go out to the districts, what do you think will happen? By your mother's going out and leaving your husband and children behind, the four-position foundation of your family is divided.
The father will educate the sons and daughters about the work their mother is carrying out, and the children will come to adore their mother. The father can educate his children in a new direction to respect their mother, telling them, “Your mother is out there fighting for the country and the will of heaven.”
Indeed, it is a wonderful opportunity to fulfill the standard of mother-child unity. In addition, it is a good opportunity for couples to cooperate and be perfected. In other words, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the four-position foundation of the family to cooperate and achieve the goal for everyone at the same time.
God has worked for 6,000 years to lay the foundation for mother-child cooperation. Now, we have the opportunity to conclude the foundation of cooperation and complete the four-position foundation, not only between mother and child but also through the complete cooperation between husband and wife. (036-146, 1970/11/25)
8. From December 1, 1970, the blessed wives need to fully mobilize. The men who think, “Since only the wives are mobilizing at this time, it has nothing to do with me,” will become people who have no connection with their wives.
The wife and mother are mobilizing as representatives of their family, and not only for their family but also as representatives of the church.
Furthermore, since the Republic of Korea is not fulfilling its responsibility, those women are mobilizing as representatives of Korea. And not just for Korea; they are also mobilizing as representatives of the world.
Finally, they are mobilizing as representatives of their ancestors and of the spirit world. Therefore, you must feel the benefit of being part of this mobilization.
(036-027, 1970/11/08)
9. When sending families out to the front line, the wife rather than the husband should go out. The origin of the Fall was not Ada but Eve. Because Eve became one with the archangel in an unprincipled way, she destroyed the way of becoming one with God, the way of becoming God's child, and the way of becoming an eternal, ideal couple with Adam. She destroyed God's country and world.
Eve was the one who caused all this. Because Eve brought about this result, today, the Unification Church-blessed wives have to go to the front line to restore the families of Satan's world. This is the reappearance of the family's position at the stage before Eve fell with the archangel.
I dispatched 1,200 blessed wives to 120 locations, which represents all numbers. These 120 places are in the Republic of Korea, but they symbolize all the countries of the world. (038-023, 1971/01/01)
10. The course of the three stages of formation, growth, and completion exists even in the pioneering course of women. Why is this so? God has carried out the 6,000-year providence of restoration in three parallel periods, centering on men.
This was to liberate women. Because men have indemnified the vertical aspects, women need to stand in front and indemnify the horizontal aspects. In other words, they need to carry out vertical conditions of indemnity horizontally.
God had to restore the individual, the family, the tribe, the people, and the nation through these three courses in the providence. That is why women need to go through three pioneering courses leading up to national restoration. Without this, the course of the fundamental principle of indemnity cannot be concluded.
(036-153, 1970/11/25)
11. No matter how difficult the path is, the blessed wives should always be united as they go through this three-year mobilization period. Our hoped-for foundation can be laid in three years, from 1970 until 1972.
By establishing that foundation, when we get into the decade of the 70s, Korea will have no cause to worry. Today, God is the only one who can support Korea and the only one whom Korea can trust. North Korea is completing preparations to invade the Republic of Korea by force. Moreover, China and the Soviet Union are behind North Korea.
The Republic of Korea faces this northeast Asian communist realm. In addition, Japan is hand in hand with China at present. In light of this, the way for Korea is blocked front and back. When the people of Korea realize that they are surrounded by hostile nations, they will not want to live a life of ease. (040-191, 1971/02/01)
12. Jesus walked a three-year course of public life. What was the purpose of that course? What was Jesus seeking through this? He was seeking to restore Eve and then a family. He sought to restore a family to restore a tribe, to restore a tribe to raise a church, and to create a church to restore a nation.
For his three-year public life course, this was Jesus' highest hope and anticipation. Now, we have entered the age when the realization of this hidden hope, the uppermost limit of that hope, is no longer hidden. The time for this to happen is now, 1971.
The issue is whether blessed families have become completely centered on True Parents' family. The issue is not whether they are beyond Satan's accusation but whether they are completely united with each other and one with True Parent's
family. By uniting completely, they go beyond national borders. They need to fight against Satan and break through the final boundary line. (040-207, 1971/02/01)
The blessed wives
The blessed families' mission locations were determined by drawing lots. Wives began their work under the leadership of the wives of elder couples, 36 and 72 Couples, who were team leaders.
True Parents said that the wives were supposed to go to their mission places alone, but because the environment in the world is perilous, they were sent out in teams of ten members each.
True Parents also emphasized unity to indemnify the disunity of Jesus' 12 disciples and to complete the foundation of their organization as clan leaders on behalf of the d team members should leave their old lifestyle behind and unite.
On the victorious foundation of the official recognition that Korea cannot survive unless the Korean people work together with the Unification Church members, True Parents have branched out to the rest of the world through the United States.
13. The families whose wives are willing to follow the path of God's Will for the nation and the world while leaving their beloved husbands and children behind will come to dwell in the presence of God.
God certainly is with those who, as delicate women, leave their husbands and children to stand on the front line and march forward for the sake of the country and the world.
When we resolutely called blessed wives to mobilize, we did not have even the smallest pangs of conscience. We did not do it so that we could live comfortably. If there is profit, the profit is not ours but is the profit of the country, the world, history and humankind, and the joy of God.
That is our hope, and that is the summit we need to reach. Therefore, that joy should not stay inside the Unification Church. It should remain as the joy of the people, the country, and the world, an object of reverence and remembrance.
Because there is no other way, True Parents resolutely moved this task forward. (037-201, 1970/12/27)
14. When the blessed wives mobilized to the front line, I especially commanded that they should not take their children with them. I told them that if they had no mother or father to entrust their children to, they should go out after entrusting them to relatives.
I knew that the Unification Church would be criticized for doing this. The parents and relatives of some wives were bound to speak ill of them, asking how they could think of going out for three years as soon as they were married.
I told the mothers who had children to entrust their children to their mothers and fathers, and if they did not have mothers or fathers, to leave the children in the homes of their uncles, and if they did not have uncles either, to entrust the children to their husband's parents and then to go to their mission places.
If they did that, like it or not, the relatives would take care of their children. They would not leave the children to die. By raising those children, they would receive grace.
Because those families otherwise are destined to perish, for them to receive blessings, you should entrust your children to them, even if they are unwilling. You should be ready to listen to all their harsh words about you.
If you do that, even while speaking ill of you, they will come to have concern for the child. Even after abusing you, they will grow fond of the young child and come to realize that they have been too harsh.
Thereafter, the near and distant relatives will show interest in you, and the nation will become interested.
Even the world will come to be interested in how women can set out to save the world. Furthermore, the cosmos, all created things, and the angelic world will take an interest. The Unification Church is doing something that has never before been seen in history. (039-216, 1971/01/10)
15. When I went to the Sutaek-ri workshop for mobilizing blessed wives on November 1, 1970, someone asked me, “We have been told that we should leave our children behind in our homes when we are mobilized. What should we do?” I answered, “You know very well what you need to do.”
You know better than I what you need to do. That path is not the path for me to go. I have already passed through all the paths that I needed to walk. On the path I walked, I met with calamities, troubles, and storms, but I passed through them all.
As the seeds, you should now be sown in spring. To become the fruit, you need to adjust your circumstances completely. A fruit that is attached to a sparse tree is not insignificant. No fruit is insignificant.
You need to plant something pure. A family should plant its most worthy person. The most worthy person in a family is neither the father nor the sons and daughters, but the mother. That is why the mothers were mobilized.
(036-031, 1970/11/08)
16. In 1970, all blessed wives of the Unification Church mobilized across Korea. I said to the blessed wives, “Since the fate of this country has met with misfortune, and we are in a state of emergency, you must walk the path to enable the Korean people to live and by which this country can be protected, even if it means sacrificing your family and children.”
With this assertion, I asked them to entrust their children to others, and I sent them out for three years, looking like beggars. They left behind tragic stories, such as receiving insults from relatives with whom they had left their children. “This boy is my son, and I am leaving for three years, so please take care of him until I come back.”
With this, they set out on the path of their mission and fought their way through. Even with people who curse the Unification Church, we have to implant an idea that will cause them to think to themselves,
“Even though the Unification Church seems bad, if all Korean people came to be like the Unification Church members, this country and its people would not perish.”
During the flow of history, and heaven and earth having no certain destination, I stand unwelcomed and persecuted as I give commands with the hope that they will result in something that will be remembered in history. I am a miserable man. (085-123, 1976/03/02)
17. In the 1970s, we needed to carry out our work in society, and this should not be restricted to a few people. All members need to mobilize and participate in this work so that we can fully cross the finish line. Blessed wives are mobilizing for three years, beginning December 1, 1970.
Moreover, we regard this as a period that will determine our victory or defeat as we strive to realize and complete everything we have invested into this work until now. That is why the wives have formed groups of ten and have gone out to 120 witnessing posts.
They need to be dispatched to every district headquarters, regional headquarters, and even provincial headquarters so that by 1972, we will have welcomed more than 120,000 top-notch internal church family members.
If the existing family members witness at least one person a month, we will more than double our numbers. (036-205, 1970/12/01)
18. You are mobilizing as blessed wives, but you are not going out alone. Originally, this was that one should walk alone, but since society is rather dangerous, you are going out to the locations with your church sisters.
Therefore, there are no conditions by which your situation can be invaded. The foundation of mutuality where you can cooperate for God's Will is in place.
Problems will arise if you act in a self-centered way and begin to fight or complain. The team leader needs to take responsibility for any trouble on the team.
The team leader must work at the forefront. The first thing you need to do as a team leader is unite all the members. You need to indemnify the divisions that occurred among the 12 disciples of Jesus in the present day. Women should accomplish what men failed to do on their behalf.
Therefore, you need to be completely centered on the Will, with 10 wives corresponding to Jesus' 12 disciples. Originally, I was going to organize groups of 12 so that you could create unity and become one in front of heaven, representing Jesus' disciples who divided.
It was also to represent the foundation of the patriarchs of Israel, who were unable to unite and instead divided. Understanding that you have these dual missions, the first thing you need to do is make unity. (036-155, 1970/11/25)
19. Because the blessed wives who mobilized in 1970 succeeded, True Parents could stand on the national level. In three years, the climate changed. Public opinion spread throughout the nation, saying, “The Unification Church is a truly patriotic organization, and unless we become like their members, our country will perish.”
We sacrificed more than the citizens of the Republic of Korea and more than those of the Christian faith did. Those who sacrifice more receive blessings and come to own the road of tradition. The people who only seek comfort, the people who only think of their own, fall behind.
We established the standard of national indemnity within three years and fought Christian opposition by establishing a national standard greater than that of Christianity. On that foundation, we were able to advance to the world stage and connect to America. (161-076, 1987/01/02)
Sun Myung Moon