As you all know, today is the fifth Parents’ Day we greet.
The ideal of Parents’ Day was originally the central ideal within God’s ideal of creation. The purpose for which God, after creating all things, created man to have dominion over those things and blessed man to have dominion over them was precisely to establish True Parents.
Parents’ Day and God’s Providence
Originally Adam and Eve ought to have become one body centering upon God and become True Parents. Then Parents’ Day would have been established. If it became so, the whole universe would offer praise together with the name of the Parents. In this way, Parents’ Day is a day of joy on which the whole universe offers praise together with the name of the Parents.
To greet this day was God’s longing. Yet because the human ancestors fell, Heaven too lost such a Parents’ Day, and earth too lost it. That is why God has carried out His dispensation until now to accomplish what He originally planned: to find Parents’ Day.
If one would greet Parents’ Day, one must first greet True Parents. Those True Parents are the central beings who must judge history, have dominion over the present, and pioneer the future. That is why what man has historically longed for too was to greet True Parents.
What sort of Ones are the True Parents who must appear upon this earth in the stead of God’s Will?
They must, in the stead of all things, fight with the satanic world and gather a position in which they can have dominion over all things, and they must, in the stead of man, destroy the Satan who is having dominion over the human world, and they must confront the spirit world too and construct an absolute position in which they can have dominion even over countless spirit individuals. True Parents have such a mission. That is why God has until now paved a road by which He could send True Parents to restore the fallen world, to restore one world connected to all things through man as far as Heaven.
We have learned through the Principle of Restoration that in order for True Parents to appear, there must be true sons and daughters, and that in order for true sons and daughters to appear, there must be a true servant. And if one looks at God’s course in the history of Restoration, one can know that God has worked so that one could pass through the age of the servant and pass through the age of children and greet Parents’ Day.
Moreover, we have learned through the Principle that, during the restoration from the age of the servant through the age of the adopted son and the age of children as far as the age of the Parents, the spirit individuals in the spirit world too have cooperated.
Before a worldwide foothold is equipped outwardly, crossing beyond the standard of one nation, True Parents cannot come to this earth. That is why God, after a providential period of two thousand years passing through Noah and Abraham, at last had Jacob cultivate a foundation upon which the people of Israel could be formed. And He had a nation formed through that people. It means that until then He toiled while passing through countless courses of history.
To do so, one must confront and be victorious over Satan in God’s stead from the position of an individual and must fight and be victorious over Satan in God’s stead from the position of an adopted son and must fight and be victorious over the satanic world in God’s stead even from the position of a directly lineal son or daughter. Otherwise, one cannot greet True Parents. That is why the providential history has come forth through a long history from the age of the Old Testament through the age of the New Testament until now.
Thus, upon a foundation on which the position of the servant has been restored and the position of the adopted son has been restored, God’s purpose in sending the Messiah upon this earth was to restore the position of the directly lineal son or daughter, that is, having cultivated a foundation of victory, to establish the bond of True Parents.
God’s Purpose in Sending the Messiah
Through the disbelief of the people of Israel, the foundation of the servant that God had prepared for four thousand years collapsed, and the foundation of the adopted son also collapsed. That is why Jesus, who came two thousand years ago, had to fight and be victorious from the position of a servant and fight and be victorious from the position of an adopted son and thereby advance to the position of a directly lineal son. We know that this was Jesus’ position.
God’s purpose in sending Jesus was that, after passing through the position of an adopted son and the position of a directly lineal son, he should establish the bond of True Parents, taking the people of Israel as his foundation, and then go.
Moreover, that was the mission Jesus had to do coming to this earth. Yet because Jesus died hanging upon the cross, he could not cultivate a foundation of victory upon an overall standard and has come forth, pioneering the bond of True Parents, centering upon the spirit world.
Yet until now the individual place, the family place, the people-level, and the national places have not been secured. We who know the Will know that He has only come forth going round and round until now while setting up an individual and family and people and nation that face Heaven’s Will.
Greeting this worldwide age, Heaven will certainly, just as He promised, send the Lord who is the bridegroom when the Last Days come. And thereby He will choose a bride and cultivate a true foundation of victory. Because the place of True Parents is the place of the original purpose of creation, God has fought for six thousand years until now to cultivate such a place.
That is why it is no exaggeration to say that the six-thousand-year history of the Providence of Restoration is a history for finding these True Parents. Those True Parents are Ones who stand in the stead of the whole six thousand years of providential history. That is why we must know that not having found those True Parents stands in the stead of the whole sorrow of humanity and stands in the stead of the whole suffering and stands in the stead of the whole grief.
If it is asked what sort of history human history is, one can say it is a history of the restoration of True Parents. Without restoring True Parents, there can be no true children, and before establishing the bond of true children, there can be no true family and true tribe and true people, nation, world, Cosmos. God has toiled for the long span of six thousand years until now to establish this standard.
Jesus, who came two thousand years ago, was the One who came for the first time upon this earth with the glory of True Parents. Yet in order for Jesus to appear as True Parents—that is, because True Parents are a historical fruition—in order for Jesus to stand as a historical fruition, it means that it will not do to be victorious only on one side. It means that it will not do to do only the mission of a son. It means that he had to do the mission of the Parents.
Jesus had to pass through a course of restoring the position of a son physically upon this earth and had to pass through a course of restoring the position of the Parents spiritually. Thus, fulfilling his responsibility from a two-sided position, he had to establish a base point at which he could become one with God.
Only then does that base point become the foundation of an individual Israel and become the foundation of a family-level Israel and become the foundation of a people-level Israel and become the foundation of a national Israel. Had it become so, he could have established the standard of True Parents spiritually and physically; yet because the people of Israel disbelieved Jesus, that standard could not be established.
The Lord Who Comes Again, Who Must Inherit Jesus’ Spiritual Foundation
Originally, True Parents, seen by the Principle of Creation, must be people who have received God’s blessing spiritually and physically. Yet Jesus, because of the disbelief of the people of Israel, could not become True Parents. It means that Jesus, even after going to the spirit world, has come forth, cultivating a foundation upon which one can attend to True Parents.
What do these words mean?
The Lord who comes again to this earth must restore the position of spiritual Parents and must restore the position of physical Parents. Jesus, who knows this, therefore—if it is asked what he has done for two thousand years until now, having gone to the spirit world—cultivated a foundation upon which the Lord who comes again would not receive persecution from the spirit world and would not be trampled upon. He cultivated a spiritual, social, national, and worldwide foundation centering upon Jesus.
Because Jesus has carried out the Providence not upon earth but in the spirit world, it means that people who believe in Christianity have all come forth, forming a bond with spiritual Parents.
The Lord who comes again to this earth must inherit from Jesus the spiritually individual, family, people-level, national, and worldwide foundation that Jesus has cultivated in the spirit world, just as Jesus inherited all the blessings from John the Baptist. It means that without passing through such a position, one cannot establish the bond of True Parents upon this earth.
It is the principle to establish the standard of spiritual inheritance upon earth. If the Christians upon earth had become one with it when Jesus handed over the spiritual foundation to the Lord who comes again, the standard of inheritance could have been cultivated upon earth; yet because the Christians until now have not established such a standard, it means that the foundation of spiritual victory could not be transferred entirely before the True Parents who come. For that reason, it means that the True Parents who come again could not but pass through a history of struggle to restore once more the standard of spiritual inheritance and restore the standard of physical inheritance.
Originally, God’s carrying out the Providence for six thousand years was to prepare a foundation for the True Parents who come and to have them cultivate a foundation of victory in their generation; yet because the saints upon this earth could not follow the command of the spiritual Parents in united solidarity, because they could not keep step with that command, it means that until now the standard of handing down to the Lord who comes again the spiritual foundation Jesus cultivated has not been established.
That is why the Lord who comes again, the One who is to become True Parents, must undergo, in the spiritual world, from individual testing to family, tribal, people-level, national and worldwide testing. Because without being victorious over that testing, without establishing a standard of inner victory, one cannot establish a substantial standard of victory upon earth; it means that he could not but come forth waging an inner fight.
Then what is the Principle of Restoration?
It is the principle that can make one victorious in the fight in the spiritual world, that is, in crossing the crisis of the inner cross. Moreover, it is the principle that can make one restore all the sorrowful things that were spoiled historically.
Because a substance that can connect the victory upon a spiritual standard to the earth is established upon this earth, one can at last set out again upon the worldwide course of Canaan restoration that was to have been set out through Jesus two thousand years ago.
Centering upon the True Parents who come, a fight must be unfolded in the spiritual world and the substantial world, yet until now such a fight has not been unfolded in earnest upon earth.
The Trials the True Parents Who Are to Come Must Pass Through
There must be two persons of True Parents. It means that without two persons, one cannot stand upon the standard of True Parents. And even though one has established a standard of victory in the spiritual fight, if substantial True Parents are not established upon earth, a standard of victory is not established in the substantial world.
However much one has accomplished conditions of victory in the spirit world, it means that if True Parents are not established upon earth, one cannot cultivate upon this earth the foothold corresponding to that foothold of the spiritual world.
That is why it means that the True Parents who come hereafter cannot but offer their lives for this and fight in the stead of earth and Heaven. We must know that the period of such a fight is the forty-year period.
Then what sort of fight must the True Parents who come in these forty years pass through? First, they must pass through spiritual trial in the spirit world. Next, they must pass through a substantial trial upon earth. Only by not falling even in the midst of such things and stepping forth holding a center can one, at last, spirit and body joined, establish the bond of True Parents. That is, one can accomplish the longing of six thousand years of providential history.
We set Parents’ Day in 1960, and what sort of day is that day?
It is the day on which, spirit and body joined, a true base point of victory was secured and the day on which the ideal of True Parents was set out. So that day is no more than one day, and the bond of that day is no more than a partial bond, yet this bond will come forth, passing through a cosmic-historical bond.
And it means that God, taking that day as a base point, could put a plan into practice simultaneously in the spirit world and the physical world. That is, it means that a foundation that could respond to the spirit world, a foundation upon which God could at last fight, was cultivated.
Because a foundation of victory has thus been cultivated, it is enough if one only cultivates the family-level foundation, tribal foundation, people-level foundation, national foundation, and worldwide foundation that accord with it.
Just as Jesus, through the opposition of the people of Israel, could not complete the overall mission and, having gone to paradise, gathered Israel spiritually and stands in the position of spiritual Parents, if it is asked when is the time when one can cultivate upon earth a worldwide domain of victory, it means that it is the four-year course.
It means that on the day when, during this four-year course, the spirit world and the physical world accord and establish a base point of victory, the whole world, all humanity, enters within a sphere of the benefit of the age in which it can march into a spirit world beyond paradise.
Yet in passing through such a process of history, it means that the True Parents who come must, at the stage where they must bear the individual cross, bear the cross of the world’s humanity in their stead; and at the stage where they must bear the family cross, bear the cross of the world’s humanity in their stead; and at the stage where they must bear the tribal, people-level and national crosses too, bear the cross of the world’s humanity in their stead.
The Significance of the Three-Year, Four-Year, and Forty-Year Courses
If one looks at the history of the people of Israel, Jacob, because he was victorious in the individual struggle with Esau, could set up a condition of individual restoration. And then, going to Laban’s house, because he was victorious in the family-level fight amid Heaven’s cooperation, he could find a family.
Thereafter, Jacob’s descendants entered Egypt, which is the satanic world, to form a people, and there, rescued by Heaven’s cooperation, they could enter Canaan and could destroy the seven tribes of Canaan. Thus, the people of Israel, while passing through the forty years of the course of Canaan's restoration, could at last attack the satanic world.
Before the forty-year wilderness course, there was a three-day course. It means that the people of Israel could at last carry out the Canaan restoration only after passing through the three-day course. And the people of Israel, having entered Canaan, had to find and establish the number forty once again.
Because the Providence of Restoration has passed through such a course, it means that until now the Teacher too, after passing through the forty-year course, must walk a three-year course and must walk a four-year course. That is why we walked the three-year course and are again walking the four-year course. If one adds the three-year course and the four-year course, it becomes a seven-year course.
Only by passing through such a process can one at last conclude the history of Restoration and establish Heaven’s sovereignty. Jesus too originally had to walk a seven-year course from the age of thirty-three and establish the standard of Parents that God desires and from there establish the standard of the restoration of all things and conclude everything at the age of forty and accomplish Heaven’s Will. This was Jesus’ mission, but because Jesus could not accomplish this Will and died upon the cross, this Will came to remain just as it was.
That is why, because the True Parents who come again cannot but take responsibility for the inner and outer fight, they pass through forty years of preparation, or a period of struggle. Outwardly, that forty-year period was a period of preparation, but inwardly it was a period of struggle. Thus, having cultivated a foundation of victory spiritually, they at last prepared a base upon which a substantial foundation joining spirit and body could be cultivated on earth.
One must pass through the three-year course in which True Parents go as the center and must pass through the period of the restoration of all things, that is, the four-year course for being equipped with four-directionality. And so it means that one must conclude restoration through indemnity as a seven-year course.
Set against the course of history until True Parents are found, the three-year course, the four-year course, and the forty-year course are short courses, but they are a period of restoring through indemnity, in their entirety, all historical sorrows; a period of restoring through indemnity, in their totality, historical indignations; and a period of restoring through indemnity, in their entirety, the historical crosses. It means that without establishing an absolute standard of not having submitted to all historical sorrow and suffering and indignation, one cannot greet the day of True Parents, the day of the victory of True Parents.
That is why our Unification Church, which comes forth taking responsibility for and upholding the Will in the stead of Heaven and in the stead of the bond of True Parents, is bringing such trial upon itself and undergoing it. In that process, without establishing oneself as distinguished from the satanic world, and without establishing the standard of true children who can take one model of the victory of True Parents and judge the satanic world, and without establishing the tribal, people-level, and national standards, one cannot accomplish on earth the original Will concerning True Parents.
You who are fighting together with me in this period are the individual representatives of True Parents, the family-level representatives, the people-level representatives, and the national representatives. As such representatives of the Parents, you have until now gone out to every part of South Korea and are fighting. It means that now it is your responsibility to go out toward the worldwide stage and take responsibility and fight.
Seen from this perspective, what is the sorrow of the spirit world and the physical world until now? Originally, if True Parents appear upon this earth, from that day heaven and earth ought to sing of peace, and the whole Cosmos ought to enter within the sphere of happiness, and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth ought to be accomplished centering upon God. Yet it means that this earth on which we live is not the Kingdom of Heaven.
It means that we are still staying on the course of advancing toward the Kingdom of Heaven. It means that we are passing through the individual, family, tribe, people nation and advancing toward the world.
Now, having passed the forty-year course and passed the three-year course, we have come to walk the four-year course in which we can face the seven tribes of Canaan. What becomes the problem here is how one restores the Korean people, who stand in the stead of the seven tribes of Canaan. You must clearly know this.
The Difficulty of the Restoration of the Parents
You who go centering upon the restoration of Korea must know that, though you are each individuals, it is not a road that you as individuals alone go. You who go centering upon the restoration of Korea must bear in mind that you yourselves go in the stead of True Parents. It means that otherwise one cannot prepare a tribal, people-level, or national foundation for the victory of True Parents.
For you to rightly go in the stead of True Parents, you must clearly know that if True Parents go forth to establish a worldwide spiritual standard of victory, you must go forth to establish a national standard of victory. Because the standard of the victory of True Parents has been established spiritually, one must establish the standard of the victory of True Parents upon earth, and it means that you are acting on behalf of the responsibility of True Parents to cross beyond the people-level standard.
If one explains this from another aspect, if you cross beyond the people-level standard and go toward the worldwide standard, it means that the True Parents who come must establish a cosmic standard of victory spiritually. The Lord who comes bearing the bond of True Parents cannot but pioneer the cross spiritually; we must bear and go, being victorious substantially and taking responsibility for everything. You must know that this is the difficulty of the restoration of the Parents.
Then when one looks around upon Heaven and earth and man today, has Heaven at any one time attended victorious True Parents? Until now, it has not attended them. Has the earth attended to them? Until now, it has not attended them. Has man attended them? Until now, he has not attended them. We are on the course of it.
Then is it enough if one only attends True Parents?
It is not so. After attending True Parents, one must restore a true family, tribe, people, nation, world. What was prepared for this was the people of Israel.
To stand as true children before True Parents, there is an individual course of restoration of the children, and there is a family-level course of restoration of the children, and there is a tribal course of restoration of the children, and there is a people-level course of restoration of the children, and there is a national course of restoration of the children.
Only by completing the individual, family, tribal, people-level, and national courses of restoration of the Parents and the individual, family, tribal, people-level, and national courses of restoration of the children and establishing the standard that Parents and children became one body and were victorious can one at last conclude the people-level restoration and make a new departure toward the worldwide stage.
If one looks at Heaven’s six thousand years of the history of Restoration until now, the six-thousand-year history of Restoration is at once a history of the restoration of the Parents and a history of the restoration of the children. That is why, if the Parents have built a foundation of individual victory, the children too must take that victory as their model and build a foundation of individual victory; and if the Parents have formed a foundation of family-level victory, the children too must take that victory as their model and form a foundation of family-level victory.
If the Parents have prepared a foundation of individual, family, tribal, people-level, and national victory, the children too must form a foundation of individual, family, tribal, people-level, and national victory. You must clearly know that only when the Parents’ foundation of victory and the children’s foundation of victory thus accord can one form a national standard of victory, a national standard of Restoration.
What is the standard we set while walking the three-year course? Is it not “With the heart of parents, wearing the body of a servant, shedding blood and sweat and tears, let us go the road of Restoration”? That is why it means that though you yourselves stand in the position of children, you must go holding the hearts of parents.
When one looks at the Unification Church centering upon the ideal of the Parents, the Blessed Families are forming Heaven’s tribe, and the whole membership centering upon the Blessed Families is forming Heaven’s people. It means that in that way we are facing these thirty million people. Here, not only the people-level standard but also the tribal standard, the family standard, and the individual standard are included. It means that we are going forward from a position in which such a vertical standard has been unfolded horizontally.
Yet when one looks at you now, you are still in the figure of the time of departure, and the manner in which you are now active too is that manner of the time of departure.
The Mission of the Unification Church
Though you yourselves are individuals who have not cultivated a right foundation of victory through the bond of True Parents, if you only set up the condition of being made one with True Parents, you can cultivate a foundation of individual victory, family-level victory, tribal victory, people-level victory, and national victory. It means that such a period is the seven-year course.
So if one establishes a national standard of victory centering upon the bond of True Parents, from that time God can at last make the first departure of having dominion over all things. Moreover, it means that He can have dominion over all things, and establish Heaven’s family, and establish one sovereignty that cannot be moved in heaven and earth, and establish one people, and establish one territory. From that time, God can rest for ever and ever, and from there, judgment unfolds.
When one looks at Jesus, Jesus is One who was sent upon the foundation of one nation and one people. Yet were the people of Israel, who ought to have been such a foundation, the people of Israel whom God had toiled for four thousand years to establish as a foundation of individual, family, tribal, people-level, and national victory, in a position of attending Jesus? The people of Israel could not be so.
Because the Lord who comes is the center representing the spirit world and the substantial world, the people of Israel ought to have become one with the Lord.
Only when the people of Israel, from a position of being one with the Lord, prepared a foundation of individual, family, tribal, people-level, and national victory and found and established the bond of True Parents could one at last make a worldwide departure. Yet the people of Israel could not become one with Jesus and disbelieved Jesus. So it means that Jesus could not but die upon the cross.
Then what is the mission of the Unification Church today, and in what position are you who have joined the Unification Church? You who have been called to this Unification Church centering upon the Teacher are in a position of having to unfold horizontally and substantially the sorrowful six thousand years of vertical history.
What resolve must we now make?
Where is the goal we must go to? We must establish the nation of True Parents upon a worldwide foundation. We must establish a worldwide nation of True Parents. Sorrow and suffering and tears remain in this world, and we must settle the accounts of these as quickly as possible. We must know that this is the responsibility and mission the Unification Church bears today.
That is why, since you have now set out upon the road you must go, just as when the people of Israel went forth toward Canaan, you must not look back. One must be so in mind and must be so in body too.
True Attendance Toward True Parents
Now what is the longing we must hold?
We must long truly to attend the True Parents who come to this earth in the stead of Heaven. In attending, one must not wish to attend after a foundation of victory has been accomplished, in a place where all people look up and all people revere. It means that one must wish to attend True Parents, who pass through a sorrowful history.
It means that the forebears regard it as a han their not being able to attend True Parents who pass through a sorrowful history. To attend True Parents truly is what all humanity longs for. Therefore, rather than seeking to attend them in a glorious place, one must become a true filial son and true filial daughter who attends them in a miserable place.
To become such a true filial son and true filial daughter, even though one stands in a difficult place, a place where one could be disheartened, a place so miserable that one could scream, one must be able to say, “O Heaven, O Heaven, who guidest me, since True Parents go a road of the cross of hardship even greater than Jesus’, it is only fitting that I, who attend the Parents, should bear whatever aggravated cross. I praise it, so let Heaven not be anxious because of me.” It means that one must become a person who knows how not to lay the anxiety and suffering and sorrow that come upon oneself before Heaven, but to indemnify them himself and go forward. Only then can one be grafted, upon an individual standard, onto the individual bond of the victory of the Parents.
Then those people for whom a foundation of individual victory has thus been prepared receive the Blessing and form a family, and what must they do to cultivate a foundation of family-level victory?
However much they have formed a family, when it is asked whether they have at any one time attended True Parents, if they have not attended them, it becomes a historical han and Heaven’s han and the Cosmos’s han and humanity’s han; therefore, to stand in a position of attending the Parents in a family way, it means that however great a difficulty there may be and whatever things there may be to regret and sorrow over, one must not become a husband and wife who turn that sorrow over to Heaven.
Because Heaven is still bearing a cross, and because True Parents are still bearing a greater cross, one must hold the mind that this cross we bear is one we ought fittingly to bear. And even though one attends to the Parents in a sorrowful place and attends to the Parents in a difficult place, one must hold the mind that one will not treat the Parents shabbily and will not make the Parents sorrowful. Only then can one establish the standard of having attended the Parents in a family way.
At present in our Unification Church, the Blessed Families are spread throughout every corner of the three-thousand-ri land. Why have the Blessed Families been spread throughout every corner of the three-thousand-ri land?
The Reason the Blessed Families Were Sent to Every Corner of the Three-Thousand-Ri Land
Heaven carries out the Providence centering upon the thirty million people and the three-thousand-ri peninsula, and it means that True Parents come to these thirty million people on this three-thousand-ri peninsula. And it means that the three-thousand-ri peninsula, every village and every valley, and of course the mountains and fields all wish to attend the True Parents who come. That is because attending to True Parents is a historical longing.
That is why, from the position of children, one must set up an individual standard of indemnity and set up a family-level standard of indemnity, and as representatives of True Parents, substantial representatives of True Parents whom that village and that hamlet can wish without regret to attend, one must go. Of course, the True Parents who have come are in the central place and form relationships with everything spiritually, but because the substance is one, they cannot face the whole. That is why what has been set up in the position of facing all people in the stead of the substance of True Parents is the Blessed Families.
True Parents have a responsibility to bear the worldwide cross, crossing beyond these people. Therefore, it means that the people-level cross must be borne by the Blessed Families who are spread through the provinces and stand in the position of true children. It means that only when the whole of the Blessed Families become one tribal foothold, one people-level foothold, can Heaven’s history cross the hill of victory centering upon this people.
The road we go on has not yet ended. You have received the Blessing with gratitude before Heaven. It means that you must not forget that you have received the Blessing not only individually but also representing your tribe—the Kims if it be the Kims, the Paks if it be the Paks—and going further, representing the thirty million people and representing the world’s humanity, and you must not forget that value. Moreover, it means that you must know that you have inherited the responsibility that True Parents must do on earth.
Why must the Blessed Families inherit that?
It means that if the Blessed Families are passing through the process of people-level restoration, True Parents must pass through the process of worldwide restoration. That is, it means that they must go one stage ahead. Yet because a victorious standard of people-level restoration is not established, True Parents cannot go the worldwide course; one must inherit the responsibility of people-level restoration to make True Parents able to go the worldwide course. That is why you must bear the responsibility of people-level restoration and go until you die, until the han of this people is removed.
The True Parents who come, when they behold a sorrowful people, will go seeking with tears and will go seeking with blood and sweat. Therefore, you must become the substances who stand in the stead of those True Parents and shed tears for the people. Even though one is beaten by the satanic world and falls in True Parents’ stead, one must rise again and take on the responsibility of bringing the enemy to submission. You must know that this is the mission of the Unification Church members toward these people.
It is enough if one only crosses this hill. Just as He prepared the people of Israel for four thousand years for the Jesus who was to come, these people today is the problem. In doing the responsibility too, these people are the problem. The Christianity spread throughout the whole world is not the problem, and the Christianity spread within the country today is not the problem, and the three billion humans are not the problem; the thirty million are the problem.
When one looks today, everything that has been in the whole world and in history is revealed in a complicated way inwardly and substantially. On the day one gathers this up and sets it right, this becomes world-historical.
It means that for these people a road to leave does not open through any leader of this land. It means that without relying upon Heaven there is no road to leave. What does this mean? It means that unless there are true sons and daughters centering upon the bond of True Parents, unless there are people who work facing Heaven’s Will, which seeks to set them up as greater ones, there is no road for these people to live.
It Must Become a Cosmic Parents’ Day
For what is it that we now disregard individual living and disregard family living and disregard social living? You must know that it is all to find these people.
For what is it that we seek from these people?
It is to make these people attend victorious True Parents. And it is in order, without receiving accusations from the satanic world, standing in the stead of Heaven and in the stead of humanity, upon a national standard, as filial sons and filial daughters before the whole Cosmos, to accomplish a free heaven and earth and truly attend True Parents.
Until now we have attended in a sorrowful place and attended in a place of suffering, but from now on we must attend in a place of joy, in a free place. Only when God can be together with our minds does it mean that, when we rejoice, God says, “Yes, your joy is my joy.” And we must establish a standard at which all humanity says, “Your gratitude is our gratitude.”
For what is it that our Unification Church believers spread throughout the whole world today seek to witness with all their devotion? It is to witness to Korea. You must know that the purpose of our struggle is to encircle and attack (missionize) Korea layer upon layer.
Today is Parents’ Day, and only when you truly establish this Parents’ Day as your Parents’ Day, and establish it as your family’s Parents’ Day, and establish it as society’s Parents’ Day, and establish it as the nation’s Parents’ Day, is it established as the world’s Parents’ Day. Only by establishing it as the world’s Parents’ Day and then establishing it as the Cosmos’s Parents’ Day is the ideal of creation by which God originally sought to establish True Parents completed, and can the han of not having established Parents’ Day because man fell be resolved. Going further, it means that only by establishing Parents’ Day throughout this whole heaven and earth is the han of Restoration completely resolved.
We have established Parents’ Day and established Children’s Day, but they have not been established from an individual Parents’ Day to a family-level Parents’ Day, a people-level, national, worldwide, cosmic Parents’ Day, and it is the same with Children’s Day. The Day of All Things is likewise, and only when Parents’ Day and Children’s Day and the Day of All Things hold worldwide character and enter within a sphere where they can be governed before a standard of having been victorious is the original purpose of creation of God, who created heaven and earth, completed.
Only when it becomes so does Parents’ Day at last become man’s Parents’ Day and, at the same time, Heaven’s Parents’ Day. Moreover, Children’s Day and the Day of All Things too become man’s Children’s Day and Day of All Things and, at the same time, Heaven’s Children’s Day and Day of All Things. When one comes to stand in such a position, it means that at last a time comes when one can say from Heaven that all is accomplished.
One must establish an individual Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, Day of All Things, and establish a family-level Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, Day of All Things, and establish a people-level and national Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, Day of All Things. Only by setting Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, and the Day of All Things upon the standard of one nation can these days become that nation’s central days and become worldwide days. This is the problem.
Today you must clearly know how precious the responsibility for the four-year course is. When you were out witnessing in the provinces, when did you ever, from the position of standing in True Parents’ stead, touch the ground and farm for the farming people? When did you ever walk the road of returning glory before Heaven with the heart of True Parents, and when did you ever go round house by house in this village, house by house in that district, through these fields, and by these mountains and streams, attending the Parents?
God and True Parents Go Ahead of Us
What must you who have attended this place now do?
You must go out to the provinces and cultivate the foundation of True Parents.
True Parents must cultivate Heaven’s foundation. God paves the road True Parents are to go before True Parents, and True Parents pave the road you are to go. Therefore, it is enough if you follow True Parents.
It means that God goes one stage ahead of the True Parents who come. That is why, when one looks at the Providence of Restoration, there is the age of the Providence of the foundation for Restoration, the age of the Providence of Restoration, and the age of the completion of the Providence of Restoration.
Heaven cultivated this foundation without True Parents’ knowing it. Moreover, True Parents cultivated this foundation without our knowing it. You, too, must cultivate a foundation without your descendants’ knowing it. And thereby, one must cross beyond the national standard. And one must cross beyond the worldwide standard too.
If it becomes so, it means that God crosses beyond the cosmic-historical standard. It means that if our members cross beyond the national standard, True Parents cross beyond the worldwide standard, and God crosses beyond the cosmic-historical standard. In this way, taking God as the principal thing, all humanity must cross beyond the cosmic standard.
Seen thus, you are two stages behind God. That is why you, who are two stages behind, cannot stand in a position of being disheartened and growing exhausted. Before the road I go, True Parents go for my sake, and before those True Parents, God is going for my sake. God’s toil and True Parents’ toil are toils that cannot be repaid by anything, not even by death. You must know that you go bearing such a debt.
True Parents inherit God’s Will, and you inherit True Parents’ Will, and you must not lose that traditional thought. What is that traditional thought? Because man was born receiving the lineage of the enemy Satan, after removing this lineage of the enemy Satan, one must carry out a lineal restoration centering upon God and centering upon True Parents. For that, one must be made one with God in heart.
Upon a foundation of oneness in heart, one must receive Heaven’s lineage and become one branch and one leaf of the tree whose root is God and, becoming a substance in God’s stead, must establish upon earth an absolute standard by which one can bring Satan to submission. You must know that only then is the history of the Restoration pushed forward.
God will certainly not abandon the history of Restoration. It means that even though you cannot do your mission, God does not abandon this earth.
Now is a time of entering within the sphere of the benefit of the age worldwide. It means that the whole world is coming within one sphere of the age. The individual age has already passed, and the family-level age too has passed, and the tribal, people-level, and national ages too have come to be passing. Because we have entered an age in which the countless peoples spread throughout the whole world can be connected individually, family-wise, people-wise, and nationally, it means that the formation-stage standard here is automatically gathered.
If you accomplish a living of attendance that can be harmonious before the bond of True Parents and oneness of heart with True Parents, oneness of living, oneness of action, and oneness of goal, the more the days pass, the more you can cross beyond the individual age and cross beyond the family-level age and cross beyond the tribal, people-level, and national ages.
Even though you have walked the wilderness course and crossed the Jordan, if you fall upon the course of fighting the seven tribes of Canaan, it means that that is not a death of victory. It means that only by bringing the seven tribes of Canaan to submission and establishing there a new nation of Israel does one become an original person who can be set up before God. Otherwise, it means that it is the same as remaining in paradise. It means that one cannot enter the heavenly kingdom.
Even though we grow exhausted, it is enough if we grow exhausted after crossing beyond this standard. Even though we are disheartened, it is enough if we are disheartened after crossing beyond this standard. Today we are placed in an age of crossing over. Because we are placed in an age of crossing over toward the people and crossing over toward the nation, one cannot know how important this four-year course is.
It means that this period is a period in which what you have toiled at until now can bear fruit and a period in which the whole of six thousand years of history can bear fruit. Moreover, it means that it is a period in which the whole of what the Teacher has come forth fighting for until today can bear fruit.
Then how must we today spend this period?
How must we gather these people in my stead? You must perform the sorrow of this people. You must undergo sorrow and suffering greater than the sorrow anyone among this people has undergone, greater than the sorrow any forebear has undergone.
And we must take responsibility for all the tribulation of these people, that is, individual tribulation, family-level tribulation, social tribulation, and national tribulation. One must go forward holding the single thought that if not us, it will not do. You must hold the conviction that you can judge the world in God’s stead.
The conviction that this must be accepted and that must be cast away, that one will be a model for the sake of goodness and will judge evil, must be thoroughgoing in your living.
Unification Members, Who Must Take Responsibility for the People’s Tribulation
If there is a good person in the place where you are witnessing, you must stand on the side of that good person.
Moreover, if there is a person in a grievous position or a person in sorrowful circumstances, you must shed tears together with them, and if there is a person undergoing suffering, you must know how to take part in that suffering.
If there is still among the company of the Unification Church a person who does not clearly know the Will, it means that he is a person who has not been grafted before the Will of the Providence.
Our Unification Church members must go while closely watching the miserable social conditions of Korea. Yet since with my one body I cannot stand in the stead of the whole, the miserable figure of society must appear upon the stage of the living of the Unification Church. So our members must take responsibility in their stead and go a miserable road.
Our Unification Church members must unite in solidarity to establish a national standard of victory. Whether man or woman, old or young, one must not go a different road. One must go the same road. It means that the countless spirit individuals who have gone to the spirit world too are aiming at one purpose. Therefore, on earth too, one must go forward toward one purpose, likewise.
Those who cannot now stand and move in the front line must either pray inwardly for the people who go out and are active in the front line or help outwardly those who go out and fight. That is, toward the Abel-type members who go out and fight in the front line, one must either stand in a Cain-type position and attend to them, or add strength in the spiritual aspect by prayer, or give economic backing in the outward aspect. It means that otherwise one cannot be connected to one centering on Heaven.
We bear a grave responsibility, and yet we are now staying in a state of stagnation, so what must be done about this? The purpose of our thus holding a joint assembly lies in training you with a view to the attack we must make hereafter. By being active in such a worldwide fortress of faith, one can have confidence concerning world witnessing.
It means that even though we are starving, we can give for the sake of the world’s humanity. It means that however sorrowful a position we are in, we can give for the sake of these people. It means that if we cannot give substantially, we can give what they need at least spiritually. Yet if one can give neither outwardly, that is, substantially, nor inwardly, that is, spiritually, one perishes. Only by being able to give either inwardly or outwardly do you remain within this sphere of fortune.
Our Unification Church members must not be disheartened even though they are placed in a sorrowful environment of living. If there is a Blessed Family of ours suffering in some region, that family is not individual. It is a family that stands in the stead of the people. Even though there is an individual suffering, you must know that that individual suffers in the stead of the people.
Even when you eat rice, just as God has until now given wealth to Satan’s side, to the evil side, you must give to them first and then eat. This is the living we must do. Despite that, we are not living so. We must repent.
The principle is that if there is a person who bears the cross at the head and fights in God’s stead, one must suffer more than that person. It means that it will not do unless one suffers more than that person.
When one looks at the thirty million people now, though they say they live well with nothing to envy in others, it means that it is the same. It means that outwardly they seem joyful, but inwardly they live because they cannot die. When the people of the world look at us, we seem to be equipped with nothing in the outward aspect and equipped with nothing inwardly either, but it means that we can give to unfortunate people outwardly too and can give to unfortunate people inwardly too.
You must stand in such a position. It means that the people of the world seem to be equipped with everything outwardly, but inwardly they are suffering. It means that this four-year course is a period in which one must go forward holding the conviction that one can give in Heaven’s stead and can give in earth’s stead. So we must join hand in hand and go forward united in solidarity.
The Road of Indemnity Is a Road Gone While Giving
Hereafter, the regional leaders and district leaders must know that if there is a member within their region who has toiled exemplarily representing the whole, and they again make that person go hungry and suffer, the region or district will not develop.
When I pray for a region or district in the provinces, I do not pray for the responsible individuals of that region. I pray for the members who give all loyalty to the responsible person and who form a relative standard with that responsible person and work diligently. Only then does our Will gradually develop.
It means that when a district leader has fulfilled his responsibility, one must praise not the district leader but the members who made the district leader receive praise. Hereafter, the responsible individuals must pray for the members who have cooperated with them. It means that it will not do to be in debt in the aspect of the heart.
If there are suffering members who are fighting on the front line, one must know how to take up one’s spoon with tears even when eating rice and swallow the rice with tears, thinking of them. The prayer, “O Heaven, look after them,” must come out of itself. It means that if such a heart is lacking, one does not develop. Such a regional leader will suffer all along.
By this principle we must behold the thirty million people. One must bear in mind that there are miserable people among these people. Even while eating a spoonful of rice, even while drinking a spoonful of soup, one must pray earnestly, “Since among these people there are people who cannot even eat this, O Heaven, give it to them. All the things of this universe are Thine, so give them.” Such an earnest mind that wishes to give must stretch out as far as the far end of these people. It means that you, who ought to be so, must not move to receive.
When one quietly observes our Unification Church members today, among the members who have until now come forth following God’s Will, there are members who seek to secure a place, taking themselves as the principal thing, and that will not do. It means that before God secures a place, one cannot secure a place. It means that because a course remains to be gone, one must not yet settle down.
One must set out as an individual and lead the family, and lead the family and gather the tribe, and after gathering the tribe establishes the people, and after establishing the people cross even the national, worldwide, and cosmic hill. Even in going, one must go not to receive but to give. One must go while giving. You must know that this is the road of Restoration and the road of indemnity.
It means that Jesus thought that even though he was placed in a lonely plight, he must give. It means that he thought that even though he was driven by the people and placed in a tear-filled environment of living, and even while walking the slope of the Mount of Olives bearing han, he must give to the people. It means that he thought that even while fleeing, he must flee while giving. History bears witness that this is the attitude a representative of Heaven who has taken responsibility for the Will must hold.
When you feel that something is hard, you must regard that hardship as hardship not because of me but in the stead of these people. It means, since this people has walked a wretched road, think that by my going such a road too, by my receiving suffering, the sorrow and han and hardship of this people is reduced. In this way, one must walk in a people-level way.
And my going for the people’s sake is for the sake of the world, and going for the world’s sake is for the sake of the Cosmos, so one must go forward holding the conviction that before accomplishing all this, one cannot close one’s eyes and die, even if one dies. It means that Jesus too has endured for two thousand years until now. It means that Jesus set the goal of worldwide restoration and, beholding it, has come forth fighting for two thousand years together with the Holy Spirit and has come forth fighting for God and for that Will. You, too, must go forward from such a position.
In giving, how must one give? The Teacher did much of such work in the past. I prayed every day for the people who had a bond with me. I prayed, “Father, set them up as representatives of historical longing.” And when a fight they had to fight broke out, I fought for them at the head.
Likewise, you too, when you go out to the provinces and witness, must first accomplish oneness with the people of that village in the inward aspect. Inward oneness means oneness of heart. Next, one must connect the standard of oneness of living and oneness of ideal.
If One Would Attend True Parents
You must know that upon the stage of reality you must become one in mind and body, centering upon God. That is, it means that the body must submit where the mind is made one with God. Only then can one connect the three points of formation, growth, and completion. Not only must one go so individually, but one must also lead these people and go so as well.
You must know that there is God’s Will for this age, and if you have taken responsibility for that village, you must not think that it ends there but must raise it one stage and say that you will take responsibility for that township.
Next, having taken responsibility for the township, one must drag the county and cross over; and having taken responsibility for the county, one must drag the province and cross over; and having taken responsibility for the province, one must drag the nation and cross over. One must go forward, setting it one stage ahead. Though the stage of the fight is an individual stage of fight, in mind and conviction one must cross over centering upon the nation.
Only by standing in such a position can one, at least spiritually, remain in a position of preparing Heaven’s road ahead. It means that one can set up at least a relative condition upon the foundation Heaven has prepared.
That is why whether you develop or not depends upon you. When you fight an individual fight, you must think of the family, and when you fight a family-level fight, you must think of the tribe, and when you fight a tribal fight, of the people; thus, one must unfold a national and worldwide fight. It means that a person who thus sets the fight ahead, a person who thinks of and prepares for a stage of fight one step ahead, absolutely cannot grow exhausted. We must hold such a spirit.
That is why True Parents, who have come bearing the responsibility of restoring this fallen world, must, even while bearing the individual cross, think that they must bear the family cross to widen the bond of True Parents.
Moreover, they must stand before children who come seeking to bear the individual cross and the family cross. That is why it means that the True Parents who come must truly give. What must they give? They must give heart and must give flesh and blood and must make for them a substance that can be victorious before Satan.
You must know that because you do not yet, in such a place, completely hold the heart of children and do not hold the lineage of children and have not cultivated a foundation of victory before Satan, you are not in a position where you can attend to True Parents but in a position of having to become indebted to True Parents.
When one comes to think of such things, you must know that you are sharing a destiny with historical han. It means that the sorrowful things happening in the world are not sorrowful things happening apart from me. It means that sorrowful things are happening together with me. Moreover, it means that the wretchedness of these people is not a wretchedness apart from me. You do not know, but I am praying, setting the actual state of Korea before me.
You must think about how you will bear and cross over the overall responsibility for the spiritual world and the physical world, rather than the present responsibility for this nation and this people. It means that though the sovereignty of a nation flows away, the Providence of Restoration must go back upstream.
Moreover, you, who must attend True Parents, must think about at what time I can stand in the position of a son or daughter who can attend True Parents. One must be anxious about when one can receive from Heaven public acknowledgment as a son who can attend True Parents.
Your having learned the Principle of Restoration is not learned merely by speaking with the mouth. It means that when you hear the Principle of Restoration concerning Adam’s family, the men must think, “I must bear Adam’s responsibility.” It means that one must think that one is in the position of Adam, who must strike down the sin of this world. The women too must think, “I am in a position where, in Eve’s stead, I must pull out the seed of the sin of this world.”
In this way you must say that you will resolve for Heaven the grievance that hovered centering upon Adam’s family and will remove the conditions of Satan’s invasion from my stage of living. Heaven hopes for this.
You who are in this place are not separate from the figures of the Providence of Restoration. It means that one must think that the fall of Adam’s family is my fall, and that the offering Abel offered is one I ought to have offered, and that the hundred-and-twenty-year course in which Noah toiled is a course I ought to have gone. One must think such thoughts and put them into practice. And thereby, one must receive from Heaven public acknowledgment that one has restored it through indemnity.
If you think that you walk the course of the restoration of the people of Israel in their stead, in what position must you first stand? One must stand in the position of standing in Moses’ stead. It means that one must think that at all times I am standing in the position of standing in Moses’ stead. Since it is a position of standing in Moses’ stead, one must undergo sorrow in Moses’ stead.
One Must Say One Will Take Responsibility for the Responsible Person’s Suffering
If the responsible person undergoes sorrow first, then people perish. If one would become a victorious people, one must know the responsible person’s suffering as one’s own suffering and seek to undergo it before the responsible person. Likewise, we must say that we will take responsibility for the sorrow of the thirty million rather than turning it over to the responsible person of these people. Only when there are many people who hold such a sense of responsibility do these people prosper.
Where lies the cause of Moses’ ruin?
It is because the people of Israel turned all the sorrowful things over to Moses. Cain must attend to Abel. In what sort of place must he attend him? He must attend him in a place of indemnification. Why is that? Because if Abel’s standard has been established, Cain must strike himself.
It means that the people of the Unification Church today must not make the Teacher, who is guiding the Unification Church, suffer. It means that the road you go on ends there. It means that it becomes the end there.
One must become a person who says that he will take responsibility for the Teacher’s suffering and take responsibility for humanity’s suffering. Toward the God who is anxious, one must become a person who can comfort God, saying, “God, do not be anxious. I will take responsibility.”
If the people of Israel had not disheartened Moses, the people of Israel would have reached the land of Canaan at once.
What is the integrity we who stand upon the course of Restoration today must hold? It means that one must hold the integrity of saying, “Though I be sorrowful, I will not make God sorrowful; though I be beaten by the thirty million and die, I will not let God stand in such a position.” If Jesus had had such disciples, he would not have died.
Seen from this perspective, since you have stepped forth bearing the responsibility of individual, family, tribal, people-level, national, and worldwide restoration, you must think that, though the position of my self before the world be shabby, one is fighting forward to establish a worldwide personal character. Even though one collides with a sorrowful thing, it means not to handle it by oneself alone.
One must first think of the Father and think of how the Father would resolve this matter if He met it. It means to attend to the Father and consult the Father. The Father will undoubtedly guide you. Thus, one must at all times receive the Father’s direction and resolve matters and must absolutely obey that command.
By thus gathering one’s own stage of living and gathering the environment, it means do not fall away while passing through the individual age, family-level age, social age, people-level age, national age, and worldwide age. It means to steadily walk one’s own road and climb. It means climb steadily until the Will is accomplished.
In the individual age of old, people rejoiced while suffering, but upon entering the family-level age, it is not so, and this is a great matter. In the old days, when there were only one or two members spread through the provinces, they shed blood and sweat and did not mind difficulty, and their minds were earnest; yet when the number grew to many, one comes to see that it is not so. The more the number grows, the more one must not lose heart. Is it not the bond of true members that, having seen them, one wishes to see them again, and having heard news, one wishes to hear it, and one wishes to hear news that that member is doing well?
Today, having organized the districts by province, the members have become provincialists (도주의). The members are curious about news of the members of the church to which their district belongs but are not curious about the members of other districts. This will not do. You must cross beyond your district and wish to see the members of other districts. You must be anxious about the circumstances of the members of other districts and must be curious about the movements of Unification Church members throughout the whole world.
Why is it necessary to hold such a thought?
It is because only by holding such a thought can one follow Heaven’s overall Providence. If it is not so and one is cut off and does not have interest in the members throughout the whole world, one comes to die.
A people that has no interest in the new age perishes. If it be some organization, all the personnel of that organization must wish to know about and long for the overall activity of the person who is taking responsibility for that organization. The more it is so, the more that organization develops.
The Importance of Oneness of Heart in the Providence of Restoration
When, centering upon Moses, they left Pharaoh’s palace and went toward the land of Canaan, it means that the people of Israel ought to have wished to know Moses’ actions and sought to take those actions as their model. It means that even when they first slipped out of Pharaoh’s palace, Moses’ actions were reflected in their actions. It means that when Moses rejoiced, they rejoiced together, and when Moses sorrowed, they sorrowed together.
Yet it means that after coming out into the wilderness, it was not so. When the provisions ran out, they resented Moses. They regarded Moses, the responsible person of the people, as less than the representative of the twelve tribes. Moses fell below the leader of one tribe. So how could they have entered the land of Canaan?
It means that you must not forget the heart with which, in the old days, while spread throughout the whole country and isolated and lonely, you longed for the members. You must have an earnest mind of wishing by whatever means to see the members more, and of wishing by whatever means to make time and be together even when there is absolutely no time, and of wishing to add whatever one holds, and of wishing to form a bond with them, and of admiring one another.
You must know that if such a mind is lacking, you grow gradually more distant from God. Moreover, you must feel that you become a self that cannot keep step with Heaven as Heaven develops.
Hereafter, if our Unification Church members do not make a figure of being made one from such a perspective, Heaven’s overall fortune will be taken away. It means that fortune returns to the foreign members.
If there is a great tree, the larger the branch that stretches out from that tree and the nearer the branch is to the trunk, the more it must admire the trunk and seek to become one with the trunk to grow normally. This is the principle. So it means that it will not do unless the people who are in the near place, the members within the country, wish to know about and are curious about what the Teacher does more than the foreign members. It means that it will not do unless curiosity arises.
Now one year of the four-year course has passed. Within the coming three years we must attain the intended purpose we have aimed at, and the problem is how one recovers that heart of the early days. Though I am now in Seoul, it means that I know everything about how the provincial members are doing. You must know that a great problem is how one recovers that mind with which you first faced the Will, that mind in which you resolved to become a loyal subject of Heaven and a faithful woman and a filial son or filial daughter.
The Teacher’s mind is with the provincial members. It is with the members of the regions rather than the members of the districts. When I think of the Blessed Families, I become anxious. The Teacher’s mind is so. Since these have formed a bond with one another and become partners to one another, they must become one body for the Will and fight. It means that among those who have given all loyalty to people who bear a greater responsibility for Heaven, there is no one who has perished.
It means that we today, inheriting such a tradition, bear the grave responsibility of connecting from the individual to the family and tribe and forming one unified people, one Israelite people, and crossing beyond the national standard. And it means that we are placed in a grave position of having to complete the responsibility of routing the enemy.
Heaven’s six thousand years of the history of the Providence of Restoration is a providential history for restoring the Parents. It is a providential history of restoring the Parents and thereby restoring the children. It means that upon such a course of the Providence of Restoration, the Parents and the children bear the same responsibility. Since the Parents are walking a course of the cross of seven stages—the individual cross, the family cross, the tribal, people-level, national, worldwide, and cosmic cross—you who are the children too must walk such a seven-stage course of the cross.
It means that though there may be a difference of long and short in the period, and though there may be a difference between going ahead and following behind, the content of the conditions of indemnity is the same. It means that if, when the parents sorrow, the child does not sorrow, it is unfilial; and if, when the parents are undergoing suffering, the child rejoices, it is unfilial.
Since God is walking the course of Restoration until now, the Teacher is so too, and you too, whether you die or live, must establish a people-level standard that can stand in the stead of the people of Israel and establish a denominational standard that can stand in the stead of Judaism and the Christianity of the whole world and set a victorious Parents’ Day and make it a worldwide victorious Parents’ Day. You must know that it will not do unless one establishes such a Parents’ Day and goes. It means that though you are not going, God is going.
The Person God Requires in This Age
It means that the foundation of Parents that God has awaited and pictured until now while walking a course of a thousand shapes and ten thousand forms—individual Parents, family-level Parents, tribal Parents, people-level, national, and worldwide Parents—has not been cultivated. So it means that one must cultivate it up from the very bottom. It means that Heaven too suffered, and the Parents who came too had to suffer from the bottom.
So one has climbed upon the individual, family, tribal, and people-level standard. Now, because we have entered the time of establishing a national standard, we have come to be able to criticize everything about the evil world and command and push forward as God plans. A time has come when, if we push against the satanic world, the satanic world can be pushed back.
Then, though God toiled to pioneer the individual course of the restoration of the Parents, has God’s toil ended? It means that it has not. Has Heaven’s toil in establishing the family-level standard of the restoration of the Parents ended? It means that it has not. We must hold the same heart as God and toil to establish the national standard of the restoration of the Parents.
It means that God’s inner suffering is the same whether He pioneers the individual course of Restoration, or He pioneers the national course of Restoration. In the past He toiled to cultivate an individual foothold of victory, but now He is toiling to cultivate a people-level foothold of victory. If a people-level foothold of victory is cultivated, one can fight forward for worldwide victory.
Then what sort of person is a wise person? He is a person who can produce the effect of ten by toiling to the measure of one. If it is asked what sort of person Heaven requires in this age, it is precisely such a person.
That is why the nearer the time comes, the more one must gradually return to the mind of the time of departure. This is the road the heavenly Parents and the sons and daughters of Heaven must go. It means that it will not be done unless one accords with this principle.
We are bodies that have stepped forth resolved upon death for the sake of humanity. Originally children must either carry the parents upon their backs and go or attend them and go. It means that if one is a filial son, one must be so.
I have taught you all the Principle. I have taught you all about what sort of being Satan is before heaven and earth and where the road you must go is and how one must go the road of atonement. Therefore, now you must attend the Parents and go the road of the cross. You must go the road of individual, family, people-level, national, and worldwide restoration.
Today we are saying the words that one obtains salvation by attending. If so, you must actually attend the Parents. However much sorrow and suffering may follow, one must make a condition that God can remember. Though it be a small condition, one must make a condition in which God can rejoice.
One must make a condition of joy that cannot receive Satan’s accusation and cannot receive Satan’s invasion. Only when that grows and becomes a family-level foundation of joy and becomes a tribal, people-level, national, and worldwide foundation of joy is the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven at last formed upon earth. It means that it will not be done unless such a foundation is formed.
For what is it that the Parents who come desire children?
It is to entrust responsibility to them in their stead. For what is it that God has until now desired of True Parents? It is to entrust responsibility to them in His stead.
What responsibility does He entrust? Because man committed the Fall, one must take responsibility in man’s stead for all human suffering. If it be the people, one must take substantial responsibility for all the hardship and adversity of the people and cross beyond the people-level standard that Heaven has entrusted. This is the road Unification Church members must go.
You must set your minds alight again in this period and go. And thereby you must be able to take responsibility for the people.
We must rouse ourselves. Because the ancestors of humanity, by their mistake in the Garden of Eden, spoiled Heaven’s heart and left behind grievance and thus made God sorrowful for thousands of years, we must indemnify this.
We must restore Heaven’s sovereignty. And we must unify the ideal. Next, we must carry out the restoration of material things. We must hold the conviction that we will take responsibility for all such overall things.
God is calling us. He is calling each of you individually. Is He calling you upon a family-level standard of Restoration? Or is He calling you upon a tribal, people-level, or national standard? No. God is calling you upon a worldwide standard. Therefore, we must bear the cross and go as far as that place.
If Jesus had feared the final hill of the cross at the end of the three-year course, he could not have set out toward the worldwide stage. It means that these people today too must not be disheartened in going forward toward this standard. It means be strong and dauntless. Even though the nation opposes, if one fights forward and cultivates a foundation of victory, holding the conviction that one will accord with the spiritual standard that Heaven has cultivated, and fights forward with a firm mind whether one dies or lives, the Cosmos is restored.
Therefore, our members spread throughout every part of South Korea and throughout the whole world must go forward as one mind and one body. Before standing outwardly, one must stand inwardly. Otherwise, one collapses. It means that the more complicated incidents arise, the more one collapses. This world today is becoming entangled in complicated problems. The more it is so, the more this world keeps going down and Heaven keeps going up.
Thus, as you now climb from the individual toward the family, tribal, people-level, national, and worldwide standard, you must establish an inner standard by which you can be made one with True Parents. And we must cultivate strength by which we can remove all the evil of the satanic world. We must cultivate strength by which we can judge the satanic world.
Holding such a conviction, we must establish a people-level Parents’ Day as a worldwide Parents’ Day.
You who have remembered Parents’ Day and come seeking this place must become people who can be remembered before Heaven. Moreover, I hope you will become one of those who represent these people and one of those who remain for a long time.
