If parents have a good thing, rather than holding it themselves, they seek to hand it down as an inheritance to sons and daughters who can hereafter stand in their stead, whom they can entrust with things, whom they can trust, whom they can love. This is the mind of parents.
Moreover, if there is a monarch who loves his people, that monarch, likewise, if there is a method by which one can live well, wishes to teach it to the people. It means that it is the mind of a true monarch, if there is something precious, not to make that precious thing the possession of himself alone but to wish to make it the possession of the whole nation.
The Heart That Wishes to Give a Good Thing Is the Original Mind
Seen in this way, what sort of person is a good person?
He is a person who holds a mind that does not make what is precious and good his own alone but makes it the possession of the whole and wishes to connect that value to the value of the whole.
Then if there is a God who created heaven and earth, what sort of One is He?
He is an excellent One, One who is the foundation of all things, One who is the subject of love. So that God, if there is a person whom He can truly trust and love and entrust with everything, will wish to hand over the most precious thing entirely. From this we can surmise by inference that the mind that truly wishes to give what is most precious to oneself is the principle of heavenly reason and the original mind of man.
How do happiness and unhappiness divide? They divide according to whether one can give and receive at will or cannot. When there is a mind that wishes to give but there is no object to receive, and when there is a mind that wishes to receive, but there is no subject to give, one is unhappy. In giving, one must be able to give one’s most precious thing without hesitation and must give the most valuable thing among what one holds without receiving the restriction of any environment. To wish to do so is the original mind of man.
That is why God, after creating all things of heaven and earth, wished to give to man all the precious things of the whole universe. In giving, He wished to give without receiving the restriction of any environment or any limitation of time.
Then has God until now so given to man, and among them to the saints and sages or the leaders of the Way (도, 道)? It means that He could not.
When God gave to the human world the precious thing of which there is only one in heaven and on earth, there was not one person in the human world who received it as a thing of infinite value and returned the merit before God. If at that time there had been such a person, that person would have come to stand in a position where he could have dominion over and rule everything God set up. Yet because such a person has not yet come forth, one can see that God, coming forth through the course of history, is seeking a person to whom He truly wishes to give all the precious things of heaven and earth.
Seen from such a perspective, God will undoubtedly wish to give individually and wish to give in a family way, or as a tribe, people, nation, world, and even cosmically, and going further, will hold a mind of wishing to give even the love that comes forth from His inward heart. Yet it means that until now, at no one time, could He give such a true heart to an individual and a family, or to a people, nation, world, Cosmos.
To restore such things, God comes forth, pioneering a course of fighting against the enemy. Even when one looks behind the Providence He worked, centering upon Noah, God, who wished to give to Noah, sought to attain that intended purpose over a long period of a hundred and twenty years.
That is why, without Noah’s toiling for a hundred and twenty years, God too could not accomplish that promise. God’s purpose in choosing Noah was to widen the scope more and more, second and third, upon the foundation on which such a promise was kept and to develop it onto a worldwide stage. Yet, although Noah attained the first purpose, because he did not have a standard by which he could attain even the second and third purposes, Noah’s family failed. For that reason, it means that until now God has not had a foothold upon which He can stand.
God’s Longing and the Purpose of Jesus’ Advent
Then what must God do to stand in a happy place?
He must give His most precious thing entirely to a beloved individual or family, society, nation, world, or to the sovereign if it be the sovereign, to the people if it be the people. Yet it means that until now He has not had one day of being able to give and receive gladly with a mind at ease. This is a matter of course, inferring from the actual state in which the Providence of Restoration has not yet ended.
Then what is God’s longing?
It is to have a worldwide foothold on which He can truly give. God longs for a place that is truly free and peaceful and happy, in which, in giving, no one can accuse and, in receiving, no one can present a condition. It means that the intended purpose God seeks to gather is to widen such a place worldwide and to make all the people live there. Despite that, God, who has not yet had such a place, is the greater mind that wishes to give and the mind that wishes to receive.
In this process of history, God, who must give from the individual as far as the Cosmos, seeks to shorten this distance for giving. Even when He wishes to give the most valuable thing, He seeks to give it not at a historical distance but directly. It is God’s heart to wish to give and receive not in a place of commanding and receiving teaching but in a place where hearts communicate, a place where one can praise God’s glory and the value of the whole universe. We must know that to prepare such a place, God has until now set up countless prophets and martyrs.
Seen from this perspective, among the countless Ways (도, 道) that were established in the course of history, there will have been a Way that could communicate with God’s circumstances, and there will have been a Way that played a vanguard role that could take responsibility for God’s mission in His stead, and there will have been a Way that appeared in a thousand shapes and ten thousand forms in each field in the stead of God’s ideal. Among those Ways there must be a Way that holds a directly lineal relationship with God and can stand in the stead of God’s heart. The protagonist who was to establish that Way was precisely the only begotten Son, Jesus.
Then among the countless Ways that have paved the road of the heavenly Way, what was the mission of the Way that Jesus came bearing?
Other Ways came bearing only the mission of their own corresponding field, but Jesus came bearing the mission of restoring humanity, which, having fallen and formed a lineal bond with Satan, stands in a position where it cannot form a relationship with God. He came bearing the mission of cutting off the lineage with Satan and unfolding the bond of father and son with God and thereby restoring humanity to the position of God’s children—that is, the mission of setting humanity up as sons and daughters whom God can love, as sons and daughters who can attend God as Father. The One who came upon this earth bearing the most important problem of the heart, the problem of love, which cannot be found in any Way or in any religion, was Jesus.
In the human world, Ways were bearing each their mission in various fields—a Way that could communicate with God’s circumstances, a Way that could introduce the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven, and so on—but by Jesus’ coming upon this earth all people at last came to be able to call God Father, and God came to be able to call all people sons. From that time, human beings came to discuss God’s heart and came to be able to form a relationship of father and son with God.
Seen from this standpoint, what God sought to give to man through Christianity was that He sought to give the gift of finding humanity as true sons and daughters and setting them in a position where they could call God Father. We must know that Jesus came upon this earth to give such a gift, of which there is only one in the human world.
Then among sons too there will be filial sons, and there will be unfilial sons. The unfilial son is one who, whether there is a providence of salvation or not, and whether the Messiah dies upon this earth or not, does not care and stands in a place with no bond whatever with the merit God has set up. Jesus’ purpose in coming upon this earth, and God’s purpose in sending Jesus upon this earth, was to smash such a place of unfilial conduct and restore all to the place of filial sons and filial daughters.
If the People of Israel Had Acted Together With Jesus
Then when one looks at all the historical forebears who have lived and gone upon this earth and at Christian believers, what sort of person would be the true worldwide representative whom God is seeking, the victorious qualified one who could not be exchanged even if one gave the whole Cosmos, the son, or daughter to whom God can give a true gift, the son, or daughter who can receive God’s true undertaking and stand in heaven and earth? One must consider what sort of person could indeed become a true son or daughter.
Seeing centering upon Jacob, Jacob brought Esau, who stood on the enemy’s side, to submission and thereby established the title Israel. Moreover, by cultivating in the land of Haran, that is, in the bosom of the enemy, a foundation of victory that God could publicly acknowledge and that could receive God’s blessing, Jacob’s family came to be victorious. Because Jacob’s family, thus victorious, had to advance toward a people-level victory, they entered Egypt. There, having formed a people and undergone four hundred years of hard servitude, they formed a foundation that God could trust and that God could bless; by bringing the enemy to submission, they received God’s blessing and set out toward Canaan, and that walk is the course of Canaan restoration.
Thus, they were victorious in establishing a people-level foundation, but they could not establish a national sovereignty. In order for the people of Israel, who had been victorious in Egypt, to cultivate a foundation of national victory, they had to fight and be victorious against the seven tribes of Canaan. A company that fights and perishes cannot receive blessings. When the people of Israel fundamentally swept away the enemy and came to hold the authority of one who has dominion, God sought to give them a precious national blessing. Why? Because the people of Israel are the chosen people.
The mission of the people of Israel and the Jewish believers of that time was to pave a road by which they could receive worldwide blessings, taking Jesus as their principal thing.
If Jesus sorrowed, the people of Israel and the Jewish believers too ought to have sorrowed; if Jesus was lonely, the people of Israel and the Jewish believers too ought to have been lonely. Thus the Jewish believers and the people of Israel ought to have become one with Jesus and, sharing action and living together with him, cultivated a foundation upon which they could unfold an offensive toward the worldwide stage of the enemy, that is, toward the Roman Empire.
If such a foundation had been cultivated at that time, there would have been no such event as Christianity’s receiving persecution for four hundred years. It means that if Jesus had been alive, so long a period would not have been necessary to bring the Roman Empire to submission.
If the people of Israel and Judaism, holding the conviction that the historical God, that is, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, had promised that He would establish our Israel and make it govern all people, and that He had sent the Messiah to accomplish this so that they were rightfully entitled to receive God’s blessing, had acted together with Jesus and advanced onto the worldwide stage, worldwide victory would have been gathered long ago. Yet because that did not come about, after Jesus, Christianity became a religion of hardship.
The Mission of Christians in This Age
God sought to send the Messiah upon a foundation that had been victorious individually and victorious in a family way and victorious as a people and victorious nationally and thereby to prepare a foundation of worldwide victory. So He sent Jesus, and the people of Israel drove such a Jesus into the road of death. That is why Christianity had to pass again from an individual age through family, tribal, people-level, and national ages. That is, it had to unfold the four thousand years of vertical Israelite history once again as horizontal history.
Therefore, the Second Israel must walk from the road of the individual cross to the road of the family cross, the road of the tribal cross, the road of the people-level cross, the road of the national cross, and the road of the worldwide cross and fight with Satan and be victorious.
Only one who has been victorious in the individual fight and holds the conviction that he will fight for the family can receive an individual blessing; and likewise, only one who has been victorious in the family, tribal, people-level, and national fights and holds the conviction that he will fight for the world can receive a national blessing. We can know by inference from historical fact that there is such a principle.
Then, seen by such a principle, what must the Christians of the present, who are greeting the end, do? They must not be stained by the evil world but must rather rule the evil world. However great the suffering and distress and misery one collides with in reality, and however many the bitterly resentful and infuriating facts, one cannot but guard oneself here. You must know that a person who cannot do this cannot gather the present age and therefore cannot receive even the blessing of the new age that will come crossing beyond this age.
That is why the Christians of the whole world today, who are placed in the Last Days, must hold the conviction that, during worldwide tribulation, they will not only gather their own single bodies but also gather the family and gather the tribe and gather the people and gather the nation and cross the crisis of worldwide trial. Unless all hold such a conviction and unite and become a company that can take responsibility for and settle the accounts of the stage of living and the stage of environment, however many blessings God wishes to give you, He cannot give them.
Then what will God seek in this age today?
Among the many Christian churches spread throughout the whole world, He will seek a church that can appear as a worldwide religion. Moreover, He will seek a family that can appear as a worldwide family. That is, you must know well that He is seeking an individual and family, tribe, people, or nation that can go beyond the present course of hardship, the course of the cross, and judge and settle the accounts of everything.
If such a nation came forth, what sort of traditional aspect must the people of that nation be equipped with? If they are the people of that nation, whether the highest person or the lowest person, all must be able to overcome it even if they enter the worst place in the present world. Today we must be able to judge this world and build the Kingdom of Heaven, which is the world of a new ideal. God does not call and bless a person who cannot be so. Do you understand?
God wishes to set us up as individuals as victorious sons and daughters and to give in a family way, tribally, as a people; nationally; and worldwide. Thus, God, wishing to give, made a promise, but it means that in history there has not been one individual or family or tribe or people or nation that put that promise into practice and cultivated a foundation of victory. What God awaits is to distribute worldwide blessings to all people quickly through the ideal of such a nation. We today must know that this is the distressed heart of God, who has carried out the Providence for six thousand years until now without resting even a day, and His sorrowful circumstances.
God’s Thirsting Heart Toward This World
Has God, at any one time, in a place free from cosmic-historical accusation, set up an individual and blessed him, saying, “You are my sons and daughters whom I can embrace and love for ever and ever, so this too and that too are all yours. All this is what I have prepared for you through the past, present, and future, so take this and enjoy happiness for a thousand ages and ten thousand ages.” Has He set up a family and blessed it and set up a tribe, people, and nation and blessed them? It means that until now He has not been able to do so.
Then what must our longing today be?
It must be to drive the three billion humanity together quickly and kick away the world of tribulation and, upon a free foundation, cause to appear upon this globe a movement that can march toward a new Kingdom of Heaven, and to build the Kingdom of Heaven and attend God there.
If human beings who have lived centering upon Satan in the twentieth century, which boasts of the highest civilization today, are to live in a place of receiving God’s blessing, in what sort of place must they attend God?
They must attend Him upon a foundation more precious and more excellent than the historical position of Satan and than the position of our historical forebears. Until now, has there been a person burning with the conviction that he would do so? There has not yet been.
Seen in this way, what must our Unification Church members today do?
You are now living in this age, but since it is an age that must pass in any case, rather than living and attending to God in such a limited environment, one must make the three billion people of humanity build a world of a new ideal. Standing in this place where one can cross beyond twentieth-century civilization, when one asks, “Is there among the Unification Church members anyone who holds a mind of longing for a place where I can receive what God wishes to give and hand it down entirely as God’s undertaking before our descendants for a thousand ages and ten thousand ages?” it means that there is none.
God wishes even now to kick away this world and go to a world of a new ideal. God wishes, by cultivating with victory the individual, family, tribal, people-level, national, and worldwide foundation He has longed for until now, to build the eternal and everlasting world of the ideal of creation that He has planned for a thousand ages and ten thousand ages. We must know that He is a God who, the stronger such a mind is, the more He is pierced with an urgent heart. So you too must think, waking or sleeping, that the place I must go is such a world.
We, Who Must Resolve the Vertical History of Indemnity
God, to do the responsibility that the chosen Israelite people and the Jewish denomination, which was their ideological center, could not do two thousand years ago, set up Christianity again as the Second Israel upon a worldwide standard. Yet because Christianity too could not do the mission of Judaism, He has today made the Unification Church inherit that mission again. Therefore, we must gather the people within the sphere of democracy spread throughout the whole world and attend to the Lord who comes in a comfortable place. One must make a foundation upon which one can attend to God individually, in a family way, tribally, as a people nationally. That is the original purpose for which God created man and the original mission man must do.
Waking or sleeping, pierced through with that ideal, we must say, “However great the tribulation that strikes me, can it compare with the four hundred years of hard servitude that the people of Israel underwent in Egypt?” Rather, since we have come to a worldwide age greater than that time, there ought to be a tribulation greater than theirs; yet God, on the contrary, makes for us the condition of having crossed a great hill through a small tribulation, so we must give infinite thanks.
If you regard it as a han that you do not know God’s historical heart, you will wish to know that historical heart with which the people of Israel who passed through four hundred years of Egyptian servitude, or the Christians who passed through four hundred years of Roman persecution, shed blood and sweat even in the midst of tremendous persecution and tribulation and, without having their tradition trampled upon, came forth establishing it.
If so, you must hold a mind that regards it as a han that you could not receive such persecution in that environment and in such a place at that time.
We must become companions of historical hearts and those who know how to raise historical hearts from a worldwide position. And one must become a person who knows how to fear lest he himself fail to stand upon the course of all the historical environments and persecutions in which good people have received persecution and been trampled upon in the midst of worldwide tribulation.
The people of Israel of old ought to have held the mind strongly that they must go to the land of Canaan even though the trial they would undergo in the blessed land of Canaan should be greater than the trial in Egypt.
We Unification Church believers today too must know how to be thankful for this, however great the historical tribulation and the tribulation of the age may be. Now one does not undergo trial over several hundred years and several thousand years as in the past. It means that God sets us upon a course of world-historical trial and, shortening that period, seeks to indemnify the whole at once. We must know how thankful we are for a thing like this.
Even though the people of Israel cultivated a foundation of individual victory, it does not end with that because the hill of the family cross remains; they must be victorious in that too. Otherwise, the foundation of individual victory is broken.
Moreover, even though they cultivated a foundation of family victory, if they cannot cross the hill of the tribal cross, the foundation of family victory is broken.
Thus, even though one has cultivated a foundation of tribal victory, one must cross the hill of the people-level cross again; and even though one has crossed the hill of the people-level cross, one must cross the hill of the national cross.
Moreover, behind the national cross, the worldwide cross remains, so one must cross this too. God says that He will shorten all such tremendous and immense hills of the cross that must be crossed and indemnify them all at once.
God has until now been indemnifying vertically at a historical distance. God has carried out a vertical history of indemnity for as long as six thousand years until now but has not yet completely resolved it. Then who must resolve this? We must do it. Precisely the period in which this vertical history must be indemnified is our Unification Church’s three-year period and four-year period.
The Reason God Called and Set Us Up
Knowing such a thing, however difficult a course of persecution and however miserable a course these three years and four years may be, one must think, “Can it compare with the distress the people of Israel of old underwent in Egypt?
Can it compare with that suffering the Christians of old underwent in the Roman Empire?”
They, even while adorning altars of blood upon the course of pioneering, cast away their single bodies like straw to establish Heaven’s tradition and keep their integrity toward Heaven. Beholding the Kingdom of Heaven with longing, they died without knowing when it would be accomplished or even the road to take. Yet now is different from that age.
God seeks to compress such a tremendous historical course of indemnity and unfold it horizontally all at once and indemnify it. Since God has set you up to accomplish content of value in which no one, whatever, has yet been victorious, you must know how much toil God has taken to set you up as one person today.
Because you are thus set up before the Will today, not one person among you can be exchanged for Noah, nor exchanged for Abraham, nor exchanged for Moses and the whole people of Israel.
However many Christians there may be throughout the whole world, if it is asked whether they hold this ideal we hold today, it means that they do not hold it. God has called and set us up to give a worldwide gift upon a foundation that could not be exchanged even by giving Jesus and the countless spirit individuals of the spirit world and, of course, the countless men of the Way upon earth and all the denominations.
Since God has called and set us up to give, now we must receive. In receiving, we must receive something great. And to receive something great, one must cross the great hill of the cross.
That is why it is unavoidable that Korea today comes to be placed in a miserable environment. It is the same, too, that the world today comes to be placed in the midst of division and struggle and confusion between left and right. Seen individually, this is a tremendous matter. When one asks how one will find the road by which one can gather the individual and gather the family and gather even the tribe, people, nation, and world, it means that it is pitch dark. Yet when this age passes, and it becomes the time when one can stand upon a foundation of victory, the road the individual, of course, and the family, tribe, nation, and world must go on will clearly be revealed.
At that time, we must receive, as true filial sons and filial daughters, before the heart of God, who wishes to give in the Kingdom of Heaven of longing. Then, at the hour when God sets beloved sons and daughters before Him and hands down everything of His own as an inheritance, all things in heaven and on earth bear witness, saying, “May it be eternal for a thousand ages and ten thousand ages.” Not only the archangel of the angelic world, but also all beings in the world of existence, and even Satan, who has trampled upon this world, must all bear such witness. What must one do for us to be so borne witness to? Although Satan has infinitely invaded the principled standard, we must gather it up not from the position of an enemy but rather by centering upon God.
If One Were Able to Go and Live in the Land of Blessing
Although Satan, before God, has followed along, raising a banner of revolt from the position of an enemy in every historical aspect, God has not thought of His own dignity and face but has always gathered things up through the way of the heavenly order and widened the foundation of victory.
Likewise, we today too must become a chosen people holding a traditional ideal by which we can gather things up from the same position as God, facing the enemies. Otherwise, one cannot become a people who can enter and live in the world God has blessed and cannot become a family that can receive blessings. You must clearly know that one cannot become an individual who can receive blessings.
Because there is such a principle, Jesus invoked blessings for his enemies even upon the cross. Seen on a plane, Satan is an enemy who absolutely cannot be tolerated, but seen through God’s heart behind history, one must forgive him. There is such a principle. That is why Jesus, upon the cross, as a son who had inherited a historical heart, invoked blessings for his enemies. In this way, Jesus fulfilled that responsibility.
Here Jesus could receive individual public acknowledgement and could receive family-level, tribal, people-level, and national public acknowledgement. That is, because before Jesus, who centered upon God’s heart, the Satan who persecuted individually submitted, and the Satan who persecuted in a family way, tribally, as a people and nationally submitted, the door to building the worldwide spiritual Kingdom of Heaven was opened. That is why we must know the fact that, as the ages passed, this world has been gathered through Jesus’ ideals.
Since our present position is such, where must we go?
Where must I go? Even though you wish right now to go out into the world and prepare a foundation of worldwide victory, it is not so arranged that one goes out onto the worldwide stage in a single bound.
Then what must one do?
First, one must go seeking the family. It means that from the position of sons and daughters one must go seeking one’s parents. After seeking the brothers and seeking the parents, one must go toward a world in which the people can live. One must go to that place even at the cost of forsaking one’s native land. To say it again, just as the people of Israel had to go toward the land of blessing where they could live, it means that we must go toward the place where we can live. This is the principle.
That is why, if hereafter there is one nation, one sovereignty, one people, one territory that can receive blessings as a worldwide Israel, the individual must go together with the brothers, and the brothers together with the parents, and the parents together with the tribe, and the tribe together with the people, and the people together with the nation.
If there is such a nation, the sovereignty of that nation is a sovereignty that stands in the stead of the sovereignty of the world, and the people of that nation are a chosen people that stands in the stead of all the people of the world, and the territory of that nation is a territory that stands in the stead of the territory of the world.
Accordingly, because all people cannot but make every decision through that nation, that nation naturally comes to rule the world.
If so, you will think that you wish to go quickly to such a nation, that you wish to pioneer such a road quickly. Yet in going, one cannot go as an individual. One must without fail seek the brothers and go attend to the parents. One must go, standing in a position of being filial before the parents and of being there for one another among brothers. In order for you hereafter to build a people, you must long for the people of longing more than for your family.
Going further, one must have the heart that, for the sake of this one, can cross beyond even the affection of brothers. Only then can one enter within the tribal and people-level sphere, and from there one can pave a road by which one can cross beyond one's national standard again. We must clearly know this.
Noah’s Faith, Which Could Overcome Trial
When one considers that the road Unification Church members are walking today is the course of restoration through indemnity, you cannot but follow this road the Teacher walks. The Teacher, too, in the past, had an age when he did not know God’s Providence as he faced it. Now he is in a position of guiding you who do not know God’s Providence. And it means that now the Teacher bears even the responsibility of unfolding the future Providence. You do not know. Yet hereafter it is enough if you simply follow as you are led.
As I said before too, if you stand in the central place that God loves, God wishes to give to you infinitely. In giving, He wishes to give not falsehood but truth. Then in what sort of place will He give truth? Will He give it in a palace of great peace, in a place of singing songs? The value of truth appears not in an ordinary place but in a loathsome place. It is something whose figure does not change in whatever environment.
Why is gold precious?
It is because gold has an essence that does not change whatever action it receives. Truth, too, does not come into being in a free environment. Only by passing through conditions of trial can one possess truth. So to cleanse fallen man who is upon the course of Restoration today, in one respect Satan too is necessary.
That is why, seen centering upon you as individuals, one can see that world history today seeks to give the most precious gift in the world by polishing the individual and making him equipped with a foothold of worldwide victory. Moreover, if this is the demand of world history and the demand of the Providence, how will one overcome all historical trials? The problem of world history hangs upon you as one person.
Here there are all sorts of things, such as dying or perishing. Satan seeks to knock me down and swallow up this place, but I, in my way, must stand in that place. It means that though my body collapses, my ideal must not retreat one step. Jesus, too, receiving historical testing, had his flesh collapse upon the cross, but in circumstances and heart, he advanced one step. That is why he could be victorious spiritually.
If you had been in the position of Noah’s sons and daughters, what would you have done? When Noah said to follow unconditionally, would you have done so? You would have said, “The people of the world are all living, pursuing their pleasure, and I have become such a wretched thing. It is truly a desolate wasteland.” If Noah sorrowed at that time, a world-historical sorrow would have been contained in it.
Noah would have had indescribable difficulty in the aspect of living. Yet for a hundred and twenty years, not minding whatever became of his plight, his single thought of longing developed. Since God said to build the ark for a hundred and twenty years, after building for ten years he said, “The longing of ten years has been accomplished”; after building for twenty, thirty, or a hundred years, he said, “The longing of twenty, thirty, or a hundred years has been accomplished”; and after building for a hundred and twenty years, he said, “The longing of a hundred and twenty years has been accomplished.” Though it was an environment difficult beyond bearing, because there was an ideal of value in his mind, he could hold down that environment and cultivate a foundation of victory. And thereby Noah remained for a hundred and twenty years.
If God taught you the course of restoration through indemnity, which does not even communicate in this age, and said, “Let us go the course of Restoration that has taken well over six thousand years from Adam’s family," could you take part in that? I mean, could you follow without becoming indebted?
In carrying out the Providence of Restoration, if God had taken hold of only the one Abel of six thousand years ago and come forth to the end, what would have become of it now? Yet God, each time the central figure He set up could not fulfill his responsibility, came forth, replacing him with another figure. Because it was so, you too can exist today.
If One Would Enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Because the road of Restoration is a road on which, if one falls along the way, anyone can go in his stead, we exist today. In going through the course of Restoration, at first everyone likes it. Why? Because the heart of seeking the lost Father is bound to all people. That is why at first one follows without knowing whether it is fire or water. Yet when one grows exhausted along the way, one goes out again into the world.
When one thinks of such a thing, if you had followed forth upon God’s road of Restoration from six thousand years ago, please be confident that you would have followed forth without causing God anxiety. When the Teacher quietly observes, if you had been so, you would have pasted the nameplate of “traitor” upon your forehead, and pasted it upon your breast, and pasted it upon your toes. You are such a crowd. Look quietly into your own minds once. And consider whether I could indeed receive God’s blessing. How is it? Cut open one another’s insides among yourselves and criticize one another. Could God, looking at that mind, say it is holy, holy, and be utterly captivated?
Even so, God says He will take hold of such a mind of yours and carry out the Providence. How pitiful is it! How on earth did God come to this? Even in the world, if a millionaire had lived well and then met a fortune in which things were overturned so that he came to go without rice, his sons and daughters would wail, saying, “How on earth did our father come to this?” Yet when one thinks that God, the Lord of heaven and earth, is thus….
If there is a nation that follows the road of the original homeland, you must follow that nation and pass through the world. Otherwise, one cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven. The nation Jesus goes to is not a nation one goes to holding the ideal of this or that church, such as the Presbyterian or the Methodist, which are spread throughout this world. The true meaning of the content Jesus carries is what can be communicated individually, in a family way, tribally, as a people, nationally, worldwide, cosmically. He goes carrying such content. Why can Jesus not come? It is because a Christian foothold from which one can go worldwide has not yet been established upon this earth. Christians do not know this. They are only saying, “Lord! Come and make us victorious.”
We must enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Then how must one do to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? One cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven without passing from the individual through the family, tribe, people, nation, world, Cosmos.
From the beginning, there was a road to the Kingdom of Heaven, but until now there has been no one who has entered the Kingdom of Heaven. Why is there none? It is because there has been no one who, from the course of the individual cross to the course of the family, tribal, people-level, national, and worldwide cross, brought the Satan of each stage to submission and established a foundation of victory.
You must know that Jesus, too, because he came to this earth and could not establish such a foundation of victory, could not enter the Kingdom of Heaven and is in a position of praying in paradise.
The Position in Which the Unification Church Stands
Then what is the ideal of the Second Advent?
It is to pioneer beginning from the individual environment. Yet that does not mean that one goes, fleeing this world sunk in tribulation, and cultivates the Way in the mountains. One may cultivate the Way in the mountains, but one must pioneer from the very bottom of hell and certainly receive the surrender of the earthly hell and pass through the heavenly hell. Only then can one enter paradise. What is hell? Hell is a place we do not desire. It is a bad place. It is a loathsome and miserable and wretched place.
Because there has not yet been an individual who entered the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no family that can live enjoying eternal life and blessedness in the Kingdom of Heaven, and no tribe, people, or nation that can live establishing Heaven’s sovereignty forever and ever. One must organize such a family, tribe, people, and nation, and it will not do unless one does it upon earth. Because only when it is accomplished upon earth can it be accomplished in heaven, the One who comes to organize this is the Messiah.
You must know that the One who comes must bear the individual cross and cross the worldwide Golgotha and bear the family cross and cross the worldwide Golgotha and bear the tribal, people-level, and national crosses and cross the Golgotha of each stage. This does not end by crossing one stage. Even though one has been victorious individually or in a family way, a greater trial remains that one must cross tribally, as a people, and nationally.
Then how far has our Unification Church now come?
We are still bearing the cross upon the worldwide Golgotha. You must know this. We who are within such a sphere bear a tribal, people-level, national, and further worldwide responsibility. That is why every cross, all the tribulation, and Satan’s intervention spread throughout this world pass through the Unification Church. How many among you will be those who remain even in the midst of such things?
Then what must a person who has come in at this time of passing through the people-level process do? Because the departure is from precisely that place, it is enough if one attends as Abel to all the people who have suffered until now. It is simple.
If hereafter all Korean people stand before the Will and cultivate a foundation of national victory, all foreign peoples will receive the benefit of the age and gradually come to know that Will so they can attend to the Korean people like Abel and continue their march toward the worldwide stage. Do you understand what I mean? That is why one must carry out unification.
Then how does one make Abel’s sovereignty, Abel’s land, and Abel’s people advance toward the worldwide stage centering upon this Republic of Korea, this three-thousand-ri peninsula? To make that, the Republic of Korea must once again collide with a worldwide trial. Korea is now, seen socially, in the midst of a confrontation between communism and democracy. God has made such a historically miserable environment in the Republic of Korea to set the Republic of Korea up on Abel’s side.
At such a time, who is the one who will gather us up and save us?
The one who was to save the six hundred thousand populace of Israel who were persecuted in Egypt of old was not Moses but God. At that time the people of Israel, the more persecution was aggravated upon the people of Israel and the more they stood in such an environment, they ought to have said, “Father, tolerate the sin of our forebears.” Yet it means that they did not know that that road of the cross was the recompense for the sin of their forebears and, at the same time, a people-level indemnity, a worldwide indemnity. Since we know, we are at least somewhat better off.
Even when one prays, if one does not do it with a true mind, that prayer cannot be accomplished. The people of Israel, in the midst of countless persecutions and trials, at last came to know the sin their forebears had committed, and thereby set up a condition of repenting. Yet if at that time the people of Israel had prayed even once, “Let all this suffering of ours stand in the stead of worldwide tribulation and set it up as a condition of world-historical indemnity,” they might not have fallen in the wilderness.
The Will in Giving a Trial to the Korean People
How must we today cross the people-level trial for indemnifying all historical sin from the past until now?
One must pray, “Since this people has been set up as good flesh and blood for the sake of a new world, for the sake of a Kingdom of Heaven of a new ideal, sacrifice this people and indemnify historical sin.” You must offer such a prayer. One must certainly do so.
Where lies the reason that in this age God, not to anyone among the humanity of the world, not to any tribe, but to these thirty million people, has set a process of trial of several decades or several hundred years and is tempering them? Seen from one side only, it is miserable, but seen from another side, God has made a worldwide altar to give us infinite blessings. You must know that He has tempered us for this.
Then what must we do? One must become a priest who wears mourning garments and fulfills the mission of Restoration, or else an officiant (제관, 祭官). And thereby one must be able to repent of the past before God in the stead of this people and offer a sacrifice of atonement. To offer such a sacrifice, one must become a priest, so you must take part when the people walk the road of trial. This is the principle of facing God.
Therefore, you today, in going the road of people-level trial, must not go for your own individual sake. One must stand in a position where one can say, “Since I know that the Father has a Will He seeks to accomplish by setting up this people, entrust that responsibility to us.” It means that one must offer a prayer saying, “With the left hand I repent of the past, and with the right hand I am an offering that seeks to gather the age. Even if one divides it in two, it is not an offering Satan can take. Even if one divides it, one part is a historical offering and one part is an offering of the age, so, O Heaven, receive it.” Only then did Satan, being unable to take it, come to submit.
Then at this time when a worldwide trial is imposed upon these people, to what sort of place must we go forth? If God beholds all the wretched scenes (참상, 慘狀) in every street, He will be disheartened. Therefore, we too must possess God’s heart through such facts. In this difficult destiny, the only road by which this people can live is the road of taking hold of God. The people of Israel took hold of God and appealed in a desperate situation, in an environment without longing. Because that appeal indemnified the people’s history of sin and kept step with God, who advances toward the future, they could set out upon the wilderness course toward the land of Canaan.
We Who Must Be Awake
In our Unification Church today, too, a trial like the trial of that age passes through. You must not submit to this and must not complain. Unification Church members must be awake. God has indignation. Knowing this, we must fight based on righteousness and live based on righteousness; and when such a living is invaded, we must bring the wicked band of unrighteousness to submission.
A wind of trial is blowing upon these people. Korea today is surrounded on three sides by the communist sphere. In Jesus’ time of old, Satan pitched camp on all four sides, centering upon Jesus as an individual; today, centering upon this chosen nation, which steps forth holding a national ideal, the enemies are surrounding it. Communist China is so, and the Soviet Union is so. And now Communist China seeks to join the United Nations, so what will become of Korea’s destiny hereafter?
Here we must not die. We must not be frustrated here. We must hold the mind of a warrior who can kick away all these things and lift the nation of Israel and praise the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven and step forth. Otherwise, God cannot set up before this people heavenly children who can bring worldwide Satan to submission. To bring this enemy to submission is our difficulty. One must not lose to the enemy’s attack that is now being inflicted upon this world, but must rather bring that Satan to submission. One must bring Satan’s side, Cain, and Heaven’s side, Cain, to submission all at once.
Hereafter, you Unification Church members will come to collide with a gradually more urgent environment of living. It will sweep through everything world-historical once. Yet it will not pass through for ten million generations. On the day when, centering upon God, spirit and body are joined and one steps forth raising the flag of victory, things come to go as we planned. To say it again, it means that since one has walked the road of the cross, blessing comes seeking.
A time is coming when this nation, these thirty million people, can receive all of Heaven’s treasure as Heaven’s people; and as those who go forward beholding this time, it means let us cross just one crisis well.
The Teacher has until now walked Heaven’s road. He has walked from the position of Adam’s family and walked from the position of Noah’s family, or from the position of the families of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and walked from the position of Moses and the people of Israel. Though in body he is at a historical distance, it means that in the world of mind he has come forth ahead of them.
The Teacher has guided with a heart more earnest than the heart with which Jacob longed for the blessed land of Canaan while living a miserable life for twenty-one years in Haran, and with a heart more earnest than the heart Moses held while guiding the people of Israel.
The Teacher has the confidence that in the spiritual standard he will not lose to any forebears whatever in history, and the confidence to stand before them and command dauntlessly. You too, when you step forth holding such a heart and saying you will find the lost heaven and earth, must not be afraid but must be able to embrace all of it and cross beyond. When such a foundation is secured, the next blessing comes.
Now, you who are young, where will you go?
Going this way is a road of suffering, and going that way too is a road of suffering. If one goes home and lives, one suffers all the more. Some people say, “How can one go that long and loathsome road of the Unification Church?” Yet one must overcome that. If you turn your back on God and go, you will feel suffering several dozen times and several hundred times greater. Here in Daegu too, there are many such people. Since it is a road one must go on in any case, does it seem one will become comfortable by going out?
If you were to go this road as individuals, it would be more difficult than now. Now, since there is a center, it is enough to revolve around it; but if one grows distant from the center, even to make one revolution, the distance is that much greater.
God, Who Works Centering Upon the World of Heart
That is why God carries out the Providence of Restoration centering upon the world of heart, and in the Unification Church too we have come forth teaching you the restoration of heart. How could an individual bear this?
If one indents at the center, making one revolution is simple.
If one is near the center, one hardly knows even that one is revolving. Yet the more one grows distant from that center, the greater that distance becomes. Do you understand what I mean? That is why God, in carrying out the history of Restoration, comes forth adjusting the focus. He comes forth, adjusting the individual focus, the family focus, the tribal focus, the people-level focus, the national focus, and the worldwide focus. When one sets these upon one vertical line, the nearer one stands to that center, the simpler one’s road of life becomes.
You consider life to be a road of hardship. You envy, saying, “Ah! That house has a car too, and the sons and daughters are all excellent, and they live with nothing in the world to envy; why does our house only suffer so? Yet history is impartial.
When I look at your eyeballs, they are just like buttons. Do not be aggrieved at my saying eyeballs. If one does not know how to see, they are not eyes but eyeballs.
God carries out Providence over several hundred years and several thousand years. It means that His scale is that great. Despite that, do you complain over a mere ten or twenty years? Do not complain. God is an impartial One. He is impartial. Those who live well now are so because their forebears of old lived badly, and those who live badly now are so because their forebears of old lived well. Because you were born in a descending fortune, you live badly. At such a time, the more quickly one goes down, the more quickly one receives blessing.
How will I guide the Unification Church members hereafter?
To uphold heavenly fortune, I will make the Unification Church members suffer for decades or even centuries. I will send them into the very bottom and make them suffer thoroughly. Do you understand what I mean? So however loathsome it may be, you must suffer. Then the descending fortune changes into an ascending fortune. Indemnity is done in that way.
Throughout the course of history, God set up new sons and daughters, or a new religion, and made them suffer. Why would He have done so? To ascend normally from the downhill road of the historical course, there must be sacrifice over several thousand years and several tens of thousands of years. To shorten this, the world must pass through a stony road, and each time God sends a representative to save the world and has him walk that road in its stead.
That is why historically all great men have come forth through a confused age. That is God’s strategy for shortening the downhill road and making an ascending fortune. It means that God does this strategy too impartially.
The Road We Must Go for the People and for Our Descendants
When one quietly observes our Unification Church members, even so, there is no one of bad fate. There is a Will in all of it. It is because there was something that one has come in here with. You, too, speak of the merit of your forebears, do you not? That by the merit of forebears one has come within the sphere of the benefit of the age. This means one knows something.
Until now, has there been a person who guided the descendants of several hundred tribes? There has not been. Jesus too could not do it. Yet Teacher Moon of the Unification Church has done it. Though countless peoples cannot all together become an offering, several hundred people must become an offering in the stead of each people.
One must put a lid upon this hell, which is the worldwide valley of darkness, and bar it eternally. One must grant to ten million people the qualification of family members and heavenly value and make them one lump.
Will one not do this?
Those who do not do this are all thieves. They are people who have nothing to do with God. Today our people have come to a valley like the place of a skull. We are now going to pour life and oil and living water here and make a sphere of resurrection. All of you, do you feel this?
Why is Korea placed in a historical whirlpool?
Why is it so miserable? Before one takes off the old clothes, one cannot put on new clothes. In taking them off, one does not take them off in the heavenly kingdom. Since they are clothes one puts on in the evil world, one must change into new ones in the evil world and march toward a new heaven and earth. And thereby, if one comes forth, paving the people-level road, there will be a time when these people shine upon the world. Do you understand?
We are people who are waging war silently. We are people who are silently pioneering the fortress of the future. If we avoid this place today, our forebears will lament, and these thirty million people and our descendants will suffer several dozen times and several hundred times more. Despite that, to say that we will not take responsibility makes no sense. Do you understand what I mean? So even if you weep, absolutely do not weep alone.
Jesus came upon this earth and shed many tears. He shed tears longing for a family, shed tears longing for a people, shed tears longing for the world. Since it was Jesus who said,
“The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head (Matthew 8:20),”
How miserable a plight was it!
How did the Messiah’s plight come to be so?
What was there for Jesus to take upon the foundation God had toiled for four thousand years? If there is a member who, even while living a miserable life, appeals with such a heart of Jesus and appeals to find the lost Kingdom of Heaven and gives all loyalty to the Will, you must attend to such a member as Abel and go forward.
Because God faces one chosen people that must go forth pioneering the road of the cross of the age, He absolutely cannot depart from that chosen people. So we who are the chosen people must go this road silently.
However much we have a native land we long for, it means that we must go because there is an unavoidable circumstance in which it will not do unless one goes this road. Then, having gone all this road, what must one do? One must settle the accounts of all the loathsome misery and make the course of trial of the sinful cross vanish eternally from before this people-level stage. One must make this people-level wretchedness vanish eternally from before these people. For the sake of a day when one can do so, we must go forward to the very end.
If One Were to Be Victorious in the Worldwide Fight
If we, standing in a worldwide position, shed tears, the world sheds tears; and if we rejoice, the world rejoices. Moreover, if we curse, the world too comes to curse. Therefore, you must go forward holding conviction.
If one bears historical responsibility and burns with God’s public indignation, what could one fail to restore? One must go forward holding the heart of saying, “Let us see once whether I perish or you perish.”
Then at what time will God give a prize to a family, and at what time to a tribe, and at what time to a people?
That time is the time of being victorious upon the course of worldwide tribulation, that is, when one comes to hold a foundation of national victory as God’s own. God reveals such a nation and makes countless nations praise it, and reveals that people and makes countless peoples praise it, and reveals that family and makes countless families praise it, and reveals that individual and makes the three billion humanity praise him. Because God hopes for this, He needs us.
I say it often, but the Teacher sets the Blessed Families at the head. Yet it is useless if the Blessed Families do not suffer and do not live a life of shedding tears for heaven and earth. A person who lives without tears is false. In the Last Days one will know. We today, likewise, must shed tears. Yet one must not weep because of food. One must weep to fulfill the responsibility one has taken charge of. We, who are confronting the enemy, must shed tears, unable to sleep at night because of that responsibility, as responsible individuals who have received a special command to occupy the enemy’s foundation. Since one must bear such responsibility, how could one not be serious?
We have spent one year of the four-year course that was set out with the watchword “Victorious Master” without having done anything. Now, within the remaining three-year period, what must we do? Since the crisis of trial that these people must undergo has all passed, we must from now on be able to say, “O thirty million people of the Republic of Korea, sing a song of peace! O all people of the world, praise our toil! Praise the road of the cross we have walked! Since we went in your stead, now think of how miserable we were and beat your breasts, and think of how grievous we were and wail aloud!” In this way, one must make the world feel the sorrow of Korea’s past. However much one speaks of the grievance and indignation of the past, if there is no company in this age that can shed tears over it, one can neither repent nor develop.
That is why God seeks to drive us into a miserable place and weave a miserable history. Korean history has been more miserable than Israelite history. The Unification Church members today, even though they are placed in a miserable situation like that of the people of Israel, who became wandering sojourners in the wilderness for forty years, must by no means betray. It means that one must absolutely not become a company that longs again for the land of Egypt. One must not think of having eaten well and dressed well in my house in past days. If one does so, one perishes.
Hereafter, the Republic of Korea must follow us. Only then does it live. Even if anyone here cooperates, one must not become indebted. When one is asked, “Could you drive the thirty million people so that they can go a miserable road?” one must be able to say with confidence that one can. And one must go forward saying, “Follow the road we go. This road is the road of receiving God’s love.” If one thus becomes victorious individually, at some one time one receives individual blessing; and if one becomes victorious in a family way, at some one time one receives family blessing.
The reason the individual is needed is to find the family, and the reason the family is needed is to find the tribe, and the reason the tribe is needed is to find the people, and the reason the people are needed is to find the nation, and the reason the nation is needed is to find the world. So before one finds the world, one must without fail be victorious nationally.
However much a nation may have a general who wins a hundred battles out of a hundred, if he is defeated in the last fight, in which the destiny of that nation is decided, he becomes the defeated.
In the end, the problem here is conviction. There is nothing but that. Without conviction, one will fail in the worldwide fight. However much one may collapse, one ought to say that one will collapse only after doing one’s utmost for these people and the world. Yet it means that such a person has not yet appeared. You must hold a resolve to find the worldwide stage.
Value Is Determined by One’s View of Purpose
God has called out, stretching forth His hands, for as long as six thousand years. He has come forth calling, not for a day but for six thousand years, “Where have my beloved sons and daughters gone? Where has the family gone that ought to receive blessings and be accomplished, and where has the tribe gone, and where have that nation and sovereign, or that world, gone?” He is our miserable Father who has thus wandered seeking. The Father is sunk in anxiety and is lamenting while shedding tears. If you behold such a figure of the Father, you must hold an earnest mind that knows how to forget this and that place and environment and go writhing lest, whether one dies or lives, one miss that voice. Only then is the road one must go bright.
The Teacher has fought until now to pioneer such a road. Yet because a road remains to be gone, the Teacher cannot be disheartened here and cannot grow weary. When one goes out toward the world, taking Korea as one’s foundation, even though one cannot fulfill one's responsibility, the Teacher must do his responsibility.
The Teacher longs for a company of unification that can boast for ten thousand ages, that can receive blessings for ten thousand ages. Moreover, he awaits that one day when these people will receive the blessing that all people can receive, and when the sovereign of these people can receive the blessing that all sovereigns will receive. This is the road a filial son who is for God must go, and the way a loyal subject and faithful woman who attends God must establish. Thinking of such things, we must fulfill our responsibility to the very end. And thereby one must be able to say, “Give the joy and the prize that will be ours tomorrow as the possession of all people.” Moreover, one must be able to say, “Let this that I have received remain as the possession of all people.”
To give what is precious and blessed to all people, God has borne not only the individual cross and the family cross but countless historical crosses until now. Because the Teacher knew this, if he had received a blessing, he would fall ill unless he gave that blessing to all people. If I do not witness even for a day, I cannot live. You, too, must think for the people or live thinking of what is public, and must not live centering upon yourselves.
Value is determined by one’s view of purpose. For what were we born, and for what do we live, and why do we die? It is not to become the wife of some husband, nor to become the husband of some wife. We were born for one purpose. Whether one becomes a wife or becomes a husband, that purpose must be one. Only when the purpose is the same does the value too become the same. Therefore, husband and wife must be ideal partners joined by the same view of value. Such families must exist for the sake of the people and for the sake of the nation.
You have inherited the tradition of God, who wishes to give. Being so, when will you individually give for the sake of this thirty-million populace, and when will you give for the sake of the three billion humanity?
One cannot know how greatly God awaits the coming of such a day. When have you given for the sake of the thirty million people, and when have you given for the sake of the three billion people in humanity? Have you ever given for the sake of heaven and earth and given for God’s sake? Though one has been distressed and writhed, saying one would give, one has neither been able to give nor been able to receive.
God, Who Does Not Abandon One Who Has Taken Responsibility
Since one would thus hold an earnest mind that wishes to give and wishes to receive, and cultivate the way of loyalty and filial piety toward God and prepare to stand in a great place, much time and effort are necessary. Not only that, it means that sacrifice must follow. You must clearly know that proportionally to such effort and sacrifice, everything God wishes to give is backed up.
Among you gathered here today, how many will be those who remain some years hence? Many people have followed this road the Teacher has walked until now and then departed. Even so, the Teacher continues to go. Outward trials came too, and human trials came too, and personal desires came too, but the Teacher was not seized by them and did not become their captive. So they have all passed by.
Would the Teacher be occupied by a national trial such as that of the Republic of Korea? It is not so. Following God’s longing, following that Will God has left behind, toward the nest where God can dwell, my body and mind run.
If among you there is anyone who cannot now be so, one must at least be equipped with the figure of writing and fulfilling the way of the mind, saying that one will comfort God in a historically sorrowful place and will fulfill such responsibility until before I die. At such a time God can bless, saying, “Since it is the land where you are, since it is the place where you shed tears…,” even though it be a Republic of Korea that deserves to be cursed, even though it be a land that will perish. Only then do the people remain and humanity remain.
If there is an individual who appears holding such a bond, in which the mind of man communicates with the mind of Heaven, and having cultivated a foundation of victory, that individual will receive the reverence of all people; and if there is such a family, people, or nation, it will receive the reverence of all the nations of the world. If it becomes so, a worldwide central place is secured, and only then does the world take its place and turn properly.
Then what is the course we are going on?
We are now doing work. When one comes to think that that work is the work of organizing Heaven’s side Abel, this is a tremendous fact. On the day this grows large, this nation will live and this world will live. When we think of this point, we must do whatever it may be here with enthusiasm.
And thereby you must not disappoint God, who has come seeking with the longing that wishes to give, and send Him back, but must comfort Him. One must make Him able to be at ease because of me. Though the command was ten, if one acts and takes responsibility to the measure of fifteen, it means that God takes responsibility for the measure of five. You must know that God is together with such a person.
If our Unification Church today says that it will take responsibility in their stead for what these thirty million people say it cannot do, God will not abandon us. The Teacher knows well that Heaven sympathizes proportionally with the responsibility one says one will bear.
The Blessing One Has Received Must Be Returned to All People
When one has received the blessing God wishes to give, one must return it to all people. Yet from now on, do not distribute the blessing one has received. It is because, if one distributes blessings before one has paved the road, one cannot pave the road even if one would. You must clearly know the reason one cannot distribute blessings now. Do you understand what I mean?
Jesus too came upon the foundation God had prepared for four thousand years to distribute blessings. You must know that our Unification Church today too has appeared upon a foundation God has cultivated for forty years to distribute blessings. To this foundation, all the historical background of six thousand years, all the bonds of heart, are connected.
Now that a foundation on which one can distribute has been prepared, you, who must appear as representatives for distributing, must not defile this historical foundation. It means that you must make preparations for distributing. Only by your being able to receive well and return well during this period of preparation do you come to stand in a glorious place where you can receive and distribute blessings in the age to come. That is, one becomes a true filial son or filial daughter. Do you understand what I mean?
In mind, one must hope for the inheritance of longing, and in action, one must be able to give. You must give through the individual for the family and through the family for some township if it be a township or some region if it be a region. It is the principle that one must give to one’s own hometown and one’s own parents and be raised with.
Countless people have come in history, but all have passed by. Yet I hope that at least you will become a company that fulfills this solemn responsibility and remains as victorious sons and daughters of God, as an organ of blessing that can distribute blessings to all the people of the world. You understand, do you not? Let those who will try doing so raise their hands.
