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1. To this day, no one has been able to register as a citizen of the heavenly kingdom. The heavenly realm did not have a nation, nor did it have a family. When a ten-member family went to the spirit world, the family members were scattered all over the place.
However, from now on, it will not be that way. Originally, if human beings had not fallen, the kingdom of heaven would have been the place where people lived with their clan, including their mother and father.
Had people's grandparents, parents, their couple, and their children become one through true love and inherited God's true love, then even God would obey their clan. In the world of living for the sake of others, in submission to the tradition of such love, no power would be able to forestall the emergence of the foundation for peace. (210-355, 1990.12.27)
The opening of the Cheon Il Guk registration era
2. Soon the era of registration will arrive, and you will have the opportunity to register. But have you come to resemble God and True Parents, as God's sons and daughters? It is easy to say, but not to fulfill. Whether sleeping or awake, it should always be on your mind.
This thought has to accompany you wherever you go, whatever you do, even when you are eating or sleeping. To fulfill it, you need to experience living in our homeland before you pass on to the next world.
Does this not indicate that you should learn Korean? Originally, human beings were not to have had multiple languages; they were to have had only one language. (201-235, 1990.04.22)
3. Jesus when he came to the earth was unable to finalize the Will of God. He should have found his bride in his time installed the True Parents, erected human beings as true children, and prepared, on his authority, a certain standard on this earth for establishing the kingdom of heaven.
That standard was to have these children register into the kingdom of heaven and acquire the right to claim their inheritance. Yet, he passed away to the spirit world without having done so.
Would he have wanted people to register as servants? If he could not see them register as children of direct descent, he would have at least wanted them to register as adopted children so that they could receive the right of inheritance from God. At least with this status, they could partake in God's inheritance.
(155-309, 1965.11.01)
4. From now on, you will return to your hometown and compete over who can best expand relationships in your community and with your tribe. You will compete in this matter.
It does not matter which tribe you belong to; you need to return to your hometown and organize your tribe based on the roots and then let it branch to the east, west, north, and south.
Eventually, those branches will have family records in a family archive. Then problems such as racial prejudice and imbalance between the developed nations and developing nations will disappear. (189-224, 1989.04.06)
5. Your birthplace is not your hometown. The time has come when the kingdom can be your hometown. When you go to the other world, national boundaries will disappear.
Currently, in your hometown you face limitations, but once you fulfill all your responsibilities, you will be able to connect to your hometown without any barriers when you go to the spirit world.
Your hometown will become the foundation for the kingdom of heaven on earth. The kingdom of heaven on earth is the land of original hometowns, where you can make connections everywhere. There, when you register in the registry of your nation, you will automatically be transferred to the registry of the heavenly kingdom.
Just as had the Fall not happened, the hometowns of all people would have been the hometown of God's kingdom, everyone, once engrafted, will enter the kingdom of heaven from a position of having been born in it. (216-134, 1991.03.09)
6. In the future, you will register. When South and North Korea are unified, Unification Church blessed families throughout the world who qualify will register and move beyond the tribal level. I am talking about the time when South and North Korea were unified based on True Parents' merit.
I plan to propose a law to allow loyal followers of the Unification Church throughout the world to serve as representative people, surrogate mothers When I do that, no one will be against it. (197-214, 1990.01.14)
7. The time is coming when the Unification Church will establish Korea as its homeland, and we will register centering on Korea. There will come a time when all those who were hitherto mobilized for God's providence will be able to purchase land in the Republic of Korea.
This will come about if the Republic of Korea follows me. There will come a time when you will want to sell everything you have in the West and exchange it for even just a small hut in the Republic of Korea. (185-252, 1989.01.08)
8. Once South and North Korea are unified, and blessed families establish our nation, we will enter the era of registration. Those who can enter the era of registration are those who have inherited True Parents' lineage.
At that time, all people far and wide will receive the Blessing simultaneously, and then they will register.
This will make them the ancestors of tens of thousands of generations of their lineage. Even though they will all receive the Blessing on the same day from the horizontal perspective, there will be many gaps among these thousands of generations of ancestors. A frightening time is coming. (252-247, 1994.01.01)
9. You were not born because you wanted to be. If you do not know God, you will end up in hell, no matter how wonderful your spouse may be and how comfortable your life may be. You have to register as God's people.
The president of Harvard University may be famous, but he or she will be in hell unless he or she is registered and lives as a citizen of God's kingdom. But to enter the kingdom of heaven, there must be the condition that your family, society, nation, world, and humanity welcome you. (278-263, 1996.05.26)
10. For a woman, the happiest and most precious thing is to gain a husband. For a couple, the greatest joy is to have children. The children do not belong to their father or mother, but to the world, to the heavenly kingdom.
Their genealogy is in God'ss kingdom. Your children are your children externally, but they also have their nationality; this means that they are citizens of the kingdom. Likewise, their sons and daughters are also sons and daughters of the heavenly kingdom.
Within a couple, the husband represents the heavenly kingdom and the wife represents the heavenly kingdom. When you register you should have such a heart; only then can you adjust to the rhythm of the heavenly kingdom's standard.
(233-212, 1992.08.01)
11. Once we have resolved all the failures of the past, from the age of Adam through the age of Jesus, and established our family, we can realize the realm of God's blood kin.
That is why registration has to take place. By registering, we become households in the same tribe, where each family member is born centering on True Parents.
You cannot register unless you have the foundation of a family. Since True Parents established the world-level family foundation based on the families who received the Blessing, you need to form a realm of partnership with them by receiving the Blessing; then you can register and record the births in your family.
(269-056, 1995.04.07)
12. You are not yet registered in Heaven's nation. Since you do not have a nation, your birth cannot be certified, your marriage cannot be registered, and your death certificate cannot be issued.
This is why the path of religious believers has been one of lamentation. If someone pushed them, they had no recourse but to fawn. If someone wanted to kill them, they had no one to whom to appeal. My course has been a clear example of this. (283-224, 1997.04.12)
13. Since the heavenly kingdom had not yet been formed, registration into the heavenly kingdom had to be on hold, even for those who were born as God's sons and daughters.
Thus, you should have a heart that yearns to be a husband, receive a wife, form a family, and have children who are citizens registered in that heavenly kingdom.
But for this, you need to be time-sensitive to gain victory in every fight against evil every day, every hour, every second, asleep or awake. Never forget, this is how you should live all the time. (122-281, 1982.11.21)
14. Certifying your birth is registration. For example, if you are Japanese, you are registered as a citizen of Japan born in a certain place. Until now, God's kingdom did not exist. No families centered on True Parents have appeared, neither are there tribes nor nations centered on True Parents.
We needed to indemnify all this, and thereby recover the family, tribe, people, nation, and world from Satan's nations and world. Based on the religious realm, we have to unite the entire non-religious world and return to God's side everything that has belonged to Satan.
If we do not achieve this, we cannot live comfortably in the spirit world after we have passed away. To develop relationships in the physical world is much more difficult when one is in the spirit world, than when one is in the physical world. (250-112, 1993.10.12)
15. If you were to die without having restored God's nation, you would be able to return to the earth only to support individuals and families, but would not be able to work with authority and dignity.
This means that you would not be qualified to fight for the subjugation of Satan's world. Accordingly, you can register only after this nation emerges. You have registered with the Unification Church, but not with God's Unified Nation. Can you be citizens if there is no nation? No. (054-282, 1972.03.26)
16. Once we have recovered God's nation, all of you have to register. Do you know what registration is about? It is to draw up a genealogy. In the future, when people register into God's nation, they will need to draw up their genealogy centering on the Unification Church.
When you draw up your genealogy, you are to return everything you own to God, giving everything from your life, whether a modest amount or a large one. As it represents the life you have led, offering it all means that you dedicate your life to God's kingdom. (101-289, 1978.11.07)
17. In the future, there will be a new task: registering in the kingdom of heaven by entering your name into the family registry. But before you do that, the nation has to emerge. If there is no nation, there is no place for registration. This helps us understand how important it is to establish God's nation.
When God has a nation, it will be a nation in which God can work freely. Furthermore, it will be a foundation upon which we can pass beyond the realm of persecution that is Satan's world.
Therefore, regardless of what you are engaged in, regardless of what you are doing, you always need to be thinking about establishing God's nation.
(054-230, 1972.03.24)
What we should do in the era of registration
18. You need to revise your family register, to make it anew. The family registers of Satan's world are going to ruin. They belong to the realm of hell. For that reason, you need to register anew in the family registry of the heavenly kingdom.
You need to clearly understand that today and from this day forth you need to get yourself together and work hard to spread this truth to those around you.
(251-273, 1993.10.31)
19. The day in which we can live in a God-centered sovereign state will be most precious. We hope to see you that day. We would not exchange it for anything. Not one person who has passed on to the spirit world has lived in a God-centered nation. I know this. As Unification Church members, do not just think about the hardships I have put you through.
Instead, consider your value as people who possess the original image of God, living in dignity as people in the presence of the Sovereign Lord in the realm of the providential nation, after we recover it.
This is the standard by which I have lived my entire life. Though I called many people to a path of hardships, I did so as part of my fight for that day of glory. On that day, I will offer up everything in which I invested my whole heart throughout my life of attendance to God, the Sovereign who lives for the citizens of that nation. (164-217, 1987.05.16)
20. You need to organize your life. Repent for your rash, unrighteous behavior. If you do not repent, you will face the judgment of public righteousness one can stand before the governing law of love. At that time, I will serve as your defense attorney.
My family and clan members will serve as your attorneys, and all who guide you in the Unification Church will serve as your attorneys. We will defend you. Even God would want to stand as your attorney and defend you.
If the scope of your defense exceeds that of the accusation against you, you will be welcome to register as a citizen of the heavenly kingdom. (147-331, 1986.10.01)
21. You members of the Unification Church must not live casually, doing whatever you want to do. Can you deceive your mind? As much as you cannot deceive your mind, you cannot deceive the family register in heaven.
Everything is recorded. Every action you take, even the raising of your hand, is recorded on video. It is possible to record everything in this world, so don't you think it is possible in the heavenly kingdom?
If we want to find out how a particular blessed family is doing, it requires nothing more than the press of a button. We will be able to see not just their childhood, but also their ancestors. It will be instantaneous.
It will not take any time at all. Time is a constraint on Earth, but in the spirit world, it will be said and done in the blink of an eye. (148-292, 1986.10.25)
22. Blessed families have to be serious about everything about their lives from now on. Husband and wife should write a diary. Then you should obtain an official stamp of approval from your sons and daughters and be registered. You should clear up everything to go to the next step.
When this is done, Satan will not follow you. A time this serious is coming. So all blessed families should write diaries from now on. Do not try to find some clever way around it. (208-041, 1990.11.15)
23. Even if you are so old and weak that you stare out the door mouthing the words, “Alas, I am old” you still should go out witnessing. If you have not yet added your mother and father to your heavenly register before you go to the spirit world, you will encounter a serious problem.
The blessed families of the Unification Church have entered an age when their work can shape history, through their mothers and fathers, their ancestors, brothers and sisters, relatives and kin. (186-167, 1989.02.01)
24. Until now, so that you maintain your dignity, I have been encouraging you to go out and bear witness. I am trying to make you tribal leaders so that in the future when the new era of registration arrives, you will be part of that registration.
If you have no accomplishments, how can you register? It is the same in the kingdom of heaven in heaven. Not just anyone can go there. Your results will decide whether you can enter. (194-096, 1989.10.17)
25. In the future, all people throughout the world will have to register, centering on the twelve tribes. When you register, you will have to record in detail everything about your life, in particular, what you have done since you joined the Unification Church.
If you have taken even one small thing from the church, even, say, a piece of cloth, you will have to report that. If your report does not match the record in the computer in the spirit world, you will not be allowed to enter.
(212-059, 1991.01.01)
26. What do you think will be your assets in the kingdom of heaven? Because there are yet no people in the kingdom of heaven, your assets will be the people you bring with you. To bring people, there is no way better than by resurrecting them through witnessing.
Your assets in the spirit world will be the people you bring to the kingdom of heaven; there are no other assets to be had. You cannot just assume your children are your assets. You have to find a way to make all the 120 million people of Japan into God's people.
If you only bring your natural sons and daughters, how can you get this enormous number registered as people of the kingdom of heaven? Keep in mind that it is your spiritual children who will be the cornerstone of your settlement in the spirit world.
Without them, everything you did, even serving as a president of the Unification Church for several decades, will be in vain. Witnessing on this scale has been impossible until now because the Unification Church has been persecuted, but now it is possible because I am respected worldwide. (228-121, 1992.03.26)
27. When you unite with the True Parents, you inherit their tradition. When your family has the tradition and character of a subject partner, and thus establishes the foundation for governing all nations, you can register into the realm of the royal family in the heavenly kingdom.
Then you will be able to enter the kingdom of heaven. Not everyone enters the kingdom of heaven. Three generations need to follow this path. Grandmother and grandfather, mother and father, husband and wife, and children together make up four stages, but the nucleus consists of three generations of couples.
(228-295, 1992.07.05)
28. Now the path you are walking will no longer lead to persecution. I have prepared everything for you. I blocked that which could harm you and tore down everything that could be a barrier for you. That being so, how much should you honor me?
Unless you bequeath to your descendants a family tradition that leads them to honor me hundreds of times more than you have during the time of persecution, it will be difficult for them to register at the registrar's office in the heavenly kingdom. If you do not lay a foundation upon which your sons and daughters can attend me several times better than you have, they will fall away or be crowded out. (184-244, 1989.01.01)
29. In the future, the era of registration for God's kingdom will come. People hope to be part of the 144, 000, don't they? Do you know who the 144, 000 are? To be entitled to advance toward the era of registration and then be registered in that era, your tribal realm should be like the homeland in the heavenly kingdom. The era of individual salvation will pass.
If the president of a nation joins the Unification Church and pledges him or herself before God, the people of that president's nation will also become the citizens of the heavenly kingdom. Simply by the president participating in a ceremony officiated by the church, all the people of his nation will be freed from Satan's realm. (219-100, 1991.08.25)
30. When the era of registration comes, just being a citizen of Korea will not be enough. We have to win all people with love. To achieve this, you first need to deny your attachment to your family, tribe, society, nation, world, and even hell in the spirit world and the devil.
All of these relationships are registered under the Fall. To reverse the process by which we plummeted down, we need to climb back up. (259-223, 1994.04.10)
31. Blessed people stand in a position more fortunate than that of Jesus, who was unmarried. Thus, the time has come for tribes not to oppose me but rather to welcome me. On this foundation, nothing should be easier for you than bringing together 160 families as their tribal messiah. It will be easy; no problem whatsoever. So you need to quickly get this work done.
If you fail to accomplish this task, you will have to do it elsewhere. When so many people in the world line up to register, what will happen to you?
Once the number of people waiting to register in Korea overflows its forty million capacity, if you want to fulfill your tribal messiah mission, you will have to pack up and move to a place where you can fulfill it, such as Africa or South America, where conditions may be difficult, but many are open to the Blessing. The time is coming when you will move. A tune of great migration is coming.
(274-175, 1995.10.29)
32. Once we have a nation, we can register. Then births, marriages, and deaths can be certified. Though numerous Unification Church members have received the Blessing, they cannot go through the procedures of certification at present. It is because God's nation is not yet here.
So please understand that registration will have to be done anew, and then a great migration will follow. People from the North will move to the South, and vice versa. In the future, I may have you participate in a process by which your nationality and tribal affiliation will change. I am predicting that a great migration will take place. (278-328, 1996.06.23)
33. Once Heaven's nation is built on earth, we will have to bring in the whole world. Then the unification of the world will be inevitable. Yet nothing and no one can force you to participate. It will be voluntary.
This will lead up to the day of registration. When it is your tribe's turn to register, if you register first, you will become their first ancestor. Then they will bow their heads before you. (219-214, 1991.08.29)
34. Now is the time to inaugurate the realm of the tribe. However, it is not God who will take the lead for this; the era has arrived when you will guide and lead your tribe into the kingdom of heaven.
Through the works of their ancestors, people will come to the Unification Church without knowing why. Nothing compels the leaves to emerge when spring comes; it happens naturally.
Likewise, a world is arriving before our eyes, rising like the morning sun. Please keep in mind that your duty and mission is to go forth boldly and upbeat as the great owners of heaven and earth and God's liberated children.
(202-257, 1990.05.24)
35. Up to the present, we did not have a nation and so you received the Blessing at the level of the church. But from now on, you will have to register with God's nation. You can do so only when you fulfill your responsibility as tribal messiahs.
After registering with God's nation or even with God's world, True Parents as the subject partner and blessed families as the object partners have to become one.
Then you need to dedicate your family so that they also will be people who attend God. Only then can the cosmic ideal of blessed families be formed. This is the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. (269-065, 1995.04.07)
The settlement and flourishing of Cheon Il Guk
36. Cheon II Guk is God's kingdom. God's kingdom is unchanging and absolute. God is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. God has these four attributes. No one can ever change that.
Once these elements are secured on Earth, they will remain for eternity. Today, the fallen world is moving in various directions, but God's ideal of creation is that human history will have one tradition. That is God's original ideal.
(373-145, 2002.03.31)
37. The Parents of Heaven and Earth flourishing in unity! In this proclamation, flourishing means that after you settle you establish your livelihood. After this comes the realm of the Sabbath, in which everything can rest, enraptured in the ideals of the heavenly kingdom.
It is a realm without conflict or unrequited desires. Everyone is attuned to the harmonious environment of the heavenly world and enjoys eternal life. This will be the realm of the Sabbath. Please understand where you stand. You are in the era of liberation, the victorious realm, the subject partner nation, Cheon Il Guk.
(383-283, 2002.06.29)
38. The heavenly kingdom does not yet exist. Nonetheless, I was able to conduct the inauguration of God's kingship and the Rally for the Settlement of God's Homeland.
Then I proclaimed Cheon II Guk, the Nation of Cosmic Peace and Unity. We are now entering the era of settlement, and not just the era of settlement but of flourishing. “Settlement” means that we have been on the way and are arriving at our destination, fulfilling the purpose of our venture; “flourishing” means that we already have safely arrived at our destination and now we can rest.
To bring such prosperity to God's kingship, God's homeland and God's Cheon II Guk, body and mind must not fight. They have to be one. (364-056, 2001.12.31)
39. Your body and mind are like two people. If these two people cannot become one, you cannot become a citizen of Cheon II Guk. The kingdom of heaven has been something vague until now because the individual's body and mind were in conflict and so no individual could serve as a foundation for the nation of Cheon II Guk.
Cheon II Guk refers to the settlement of a family based on unity – unity of an individual's body and mind, unity of husband and wife, unity of parents and children, and unity among brothers and sisters. If there is no unity, there will be no settlement. (360-086, 2001.11.12)
40. Happiness, peace, and freedom in Cheon II Guk does not imply only settlement; it implies flourishing. By settlement, I mean moving towards a destination and arriving and staying there. However, flourishing implies that upon completing settlement we establish our livelihood.
Settlement requires unity between the individual's mind and body, unity within the couple, unity between parents and children, and unity among siblings. Neither father nor mother, neither son nor daughter, can exempt themselves.
They need to establish a parent-child relationship such that their children receive the Blessing, are married life, have children, and settle. It requires three generations for a family to settle. (364-073, 2002.01.01)
41. As Cheon II Guk unfolds, in time it will be an independent nation. We can also call it ju-che Guk, the subject partner nation. We are in the era of liberation that is based upon the foundation of the self-governing nations' victory.
Therefore, I am proclaiming that this is the era of the kingdom of heaven and the time to build the subject partner nation. While Cheon II Guk is the era for the liberation of the subject partner nation, the era following it will be the era of unity and spherical oneness.
The era of unity and spherical oneness signifies a return to the origin. Again, we are the ones who should put all this together ourselves. We should bring about unity; God is not going to deliver it to us. (378-164, 2002.05.09)
42. We are now in the Last Days. We are in the era of Cheon II Guk, the victorious realm in which we will form a self-governing nation called the subject partner nation.
The victorious realm of the subject partner nation is the victorious realm of a self-governing nation with God at its center; it is also the victorious realm of a self-governing nation that centers around the returning Lord.
God is the original center of the era of liberation and the center of the victorious realm of the subject partner nation. Now that this era of liberation has come, we are to return to spherical oneness, which is the original world of unity. This is the omega. (372-285, 2002.03.23)
43. I proclaimed Cheon II Guk, the reign of peace and prosperity, on the foundation of God's kingship. Cheon II Guk will flourish on this foundation. Following this, we will welcome the era of liberation and the victorious realm of a self-governing nation.
Then, since everything will have been liberated, the unified world of spherical oneness will emerge. The unified world will be a world adjusted to God's fundamental and original ideal of creation. Who will make that adjustment for unity? It is not God, but we who should do it.
To adjust to the world, we have to attain the standard of perfecting the family. This will usher in the era of unity and spherical oneness. Then we can confidently put on our name tags and gain admittance to the garden of Eden, the kingdom of heaven in the era of liberation. (381-236, 2002.06.14)
44. Cheon II Guk will lead to the world of liberation, the victorious realm of a self-governing nation. This in turn will usher in the unified world of spherical oneness. It is at this point that we will attain unity.
The realm of liberation arrives when everyone in the world is on an equal footing and can be liberated together. Then east and west, south and north, front and back, and left and right will reach the original spherical oneness. For that original spherical oneness, God set up His original laws of creation.
They include the plan, the design, and the implementation in practice. Everything should fit together. But God will not perform that fitting together. That is something we have to do. Only after doing it can we go to the kingdom of heaven. That is the formula. (388-294, 2002.08.02)
45. We are in the era of liberation and the victorious realm of the self-governing nation of Cheon II Guk. It is the era of liberation, when all created beings return to their original position the Fall, and praise the victorious realm where they have autonomy as individual embodiments of truth.
Now that the era of liberation has come, we are returning to the world of spherical oneness. We are going back to the original world on Earth where Satan does not exist. Instead of a multiplicity of nations, there is only one nation. In other words, there is only Adam's tribe, Adam's people, Adam's nation, Adam's world, and Adam's cosmos, rooted in Adams's household.
It is a nation of humanity as one, based on the absolute lineage, unique lineage, and eternal and unchanging lineage, as well as the absolute life, unique life, and eternal and unchanging life, which come from God's absolute love, unique love, unchanging and eternal love. It is like one single tree. (378-255, 2002.05.16)
46. Cheon II Guk is a nation where two people become one. When there are three generations, they will form the nation of spherical oneness, Won Il Guk. This will be one nation, il guk, that takes the round form of a circle, won.
Next comes the world of unity, Tong Il Guk, which takes the form of a single nation. We need to advance in the following order: Cheon Il Guk, Won Il Guk, and Tong Il Guk, the nation of unity.
To establish the nation of spherical oneness, we are required to perfect the four-position foundation and the three object-partner purpose, where above and below, front and back, and right and left are completely one. (398-342, 2002.12.17)
47. Welcoming Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il, the Day of the Victory of the Number Ten Combining Two Halves signifies that God now owns the days, the months, and the four seasons. He is the Owner and the King of love; He is the Owner and the King of true parents.
Based on His kingship on this earth and the unity of heaven and earth, God is the owner of all. With God as your owner, you can be a kind of love; with God as your owner, you can be a king of true parents; with God as your owner, you can be a king of true teachers.
We are ushering in the era of the King of true kings. Hence, we need to completely forget about what ethnic group we came from and the background tradition by which we lived.
Please understand that we are standing at the apocalyptic turning point, based on a revolutionary foundation. On this foundation, we can achieve God's perfection, True Parents' perfection, and the perfection of the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, and these can settle on earth.
We have to proceed toward the world of love's eternal sovereignty. Such is the new heaven and new earth in the new era, the Era after the Coming of Heaven.
(456-258, 2004.06.30)
Sun Myung Moon