Restoration through Indemnity

1. Life is precious. Jesus said, “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul?” (Luke 9:25) One can be qualified to become the owner of the universe only after experiencing the truth of these words.

Have you become an owner with that qualification? When did you love God so much that even Satan praised you? When did you do something that moved even Satan's heart? Because you did not do these things, God, out of His love for humankind, pioneered the course of indemnity and taught that we must follow it until the time we can return to the original world.

That is the teaching of the Divine Principle of the Unification Church. The course of restoration is a course you have to seek and then accomplish by following the Principle.

My life has been a course of seeking the path of restoration through indemnity. This means that all you have to do is take the courses that I have already found. (18-176, 1967.06.04)

Why do need restoration through indemnity?

2. Why did restoration through indemnity come about? We understand that it was a result of the Fall, but for what purpose did it appear? If there were no portion of responsibility, there would be no need for the term, “restoration through indemnity.”

Human beings feel that fulfilling their portion of responsibility. At that time, human beings handed over the realm of the portion of responsibility to Satan. It was taken by Satan. Therefore, we must regain the realm of the portion of responsibility. (143-079, 1986.03.16)

3. If God had not established the portion of responsibility, the term “restoration through indemnity” that the Unification Church teaches today would not have appeared. Restoration could have occurred without having to pay indemnity. Why does indemnity have to be paid?

It is because human beings have a portion of responsibility. The first human ancestors failed to fulfill their responsibility, and we, their descendants, have yet to fulfill it. To accomplish our given responsibility, we must overcome all the obstacles in Satan's world, and stand in a position to rule over Satan.

That is, we must reach the point where we can eliminate the environment in which Satan opposes us and enter the state in which we can receive the love of God with dignity. When that happens, Satan will fall away. (143-078, 1986.03.16)

4. Restoration through indemnity cannot be avoided. Why do we need to separate from Satan? It is because we need to fulfill the original portion of responsibility and establish the foundation for an environment of freedom.

Then Satan cannot accuse us, and we will stand in a place where Satan can have no relationship with us. That is why, logically speaking, restoration through indemnity and fulfilling our portion of responsibility cannot be avoided. That is why we must separate from Satan.

Thus, we must have the attitude that even if we go without eating, we will have no relationship with Satan's world. That is the dividing point, the borderline.
(148-204, 1986.10.09)

5. All of you have lived until now without knowing the importance of the human portion of responsibility. Restoration through indemnity is to provide us with an environment of freedom in which we can accomplish our portion of responsibility. Satan seeks to invade, so we must protect ourselves against him.

To protect ourselves against Satan, we must love God and humankind more than we love Satan. Satan hates God and humankind, but we must be able to say, “We love God and humankind.”

We cannot separate from Satan unless we stand in the position of human beings who have nothing to do with the Fall and meet the standard whereby we can fulfill our portion of responsibility according to the original way. (148-156, 1986.10.08)

6. To fulfill our human portion of responsibility, conditions of indemnity are necessary, and I have already made these indemnity conditions. Therefore, if you adopt my viewpoint and purpose of life when you stand proudly as flag bearers of love in your nation, you will become patriots; when you go to your family, you will become filial children; and when you take your place as husbands and wives, you will be virtuous husbands and wives.

In relating to the world, you will walk the path of saints, and you will attain even the position of princes and princesses who live by the laws of the Heavenly Palace.

There is only one way to freely pass through all these gates: by a life of offering everything willingly for love. This is a wonderful truth. (169-094, 1987.10.25)

7. Restoration through indemnity is not restoration that is merely conditional. I paid conditional indemnity. Now I am making actual indemnity conditions. This is not written in the Divine Principle.

You may be hearing these terms, “conditional indemnity” and conditions which are for “actual indemnity” for the first time. When we look at the course of restoration to the present, we see that God repeatedly raised individuals from Satan's world who were most conscientious. Noah was precisely that kind of person.

God called Noah upon the foundation of that one individual's life of absolute faith and settled His providence through Noah's family. Today as well, God needs such men of absolute faith. He also needs women of absolute faith and four-position foundations of absolute faith. (183-164, 1988.10.31)

8. The way of restoration through indemnity is the way to separate from Satan. We need to separate from Satan to recover the realm of the portion of responsibility. Originally, Satan did not exist in the realm of the portion of responsibility. That was Adam's realm.

According to the original standard, Satan should not have invaded the realm of Adam's portion of responsibility. Each of you needs to bear this concept in mind as you take this path.

You must complete your portion of responsibility and be engrafted amid God's love. If you like to be engrafted amid God's love, you have to separate Satan. You must separate everything that is related to Satan. (148-197, 1986.10.09)

9. Why do we need restoration through indemnity? It enables us to create a realm of freedom wherein we can fulfill our portion of responsibility. Why must we separate from Satan? This is to restore the original environment of freedom, untainted by the Fall, in which we can fulfill our portion of responsibility.

This is logical. I, too, am bound by this responsibility. That is why I receive opposition worldwide. I am being persecuted and attacked on the world level. By suffering this worldwide persecution, I can separate Satan on the world level. That is what I did based on my incarceration in Danbury.

In Danbury, I loved my enemy and loved my enemy's nation. With love, I attended God on the frontline and set all the conditions to declare that I loved humanity more than Satan did. Because of that separation, I declared that I had attained the realm where I could fulfill the human portion of responsibility.
(148-200, 1986.10.09)

The eight stages of restoration through indemnity

10. Because of His heart of love, God, rather than considering the archangel His enemy and ordering him around, has been enduring Satan since the time of Adam.

Due to humankind's ignorance of the secrets of Heaven and Satan, people have been living confused; but now the True Parents have come and revealed all those secrets.

That is why I say that pursuing the course of restoration means finding the way, while pursuing the course of the Principle means following the way. I had to fight my way throughout the restoration, but you can speed along the path as though you were driving on a highway.

We are entering the age when we can speed through in just a few hours which once took many decades. I have made everything clear; it is all based on this principle. (407-104, 2003.05.13)

11. How grateful are you to be going the way of restoration through indemnity, the destined way to fulfill your portion of responsibility? You should not say, “I like the words of the Principle of the Unification Church, but I don't like restoration through indemnity!”

To be admitted to a university and be allowed to walk through its gates, you must take an exam. That may not be something you want to do, but unless you make it through, you cannot enter the school. It is the same with us. The course you must walk in the Unification Church is not easy. (138-121, 1986.01.19)

12. The Unification Church has been walking the way of restoration through indemnity. To restore everything, I created the foundation that we have now. It required me to go through indescribable circumstances in my life.

I endured and prevailed without being destroyed and without being caught by Satan's hooks. I made this foundation not for my own sake but for the sake of humankind. It is not to be kept within the Unification Church.

The Unification Church will disappear in the future because everyone will belong to God's sovereignty. This is what all religions have hoped for.
(161-086, 1987.01.02)

13. Persevering and overcoming means you must patiently endure. No one likes to patiently endure. However, we must do so, even if it requires unbelievable effort. It is difficult because human beings were not originally meant to patiently endure hardships.

People have to patiently endure because of the Fall. It is because we must offer restitution. I didn't tour first ancestors' fall because they patiently failed to endure. So to restore this through indemnity, we have no choice but to patiently endure.

That is the rule of indemnity. Satan is helpless in front of those who persevere, and in the end, he will surrender to them. So be patient and endure until the very end.

It is for this reason that God, our Father, has endured everything for six thousand years.

We have inherited His heavenly character and His flesh and blood, so we must become like Him. Therefore, our philosophy of life in this fallen world has to be one of patience and endurance. Who is this for? It is for God. The ways of filial piety and loyalty start from this.

It is where the movement to liberate the nation and the world begins. That liberated world will be a place that both the good world and the bad world will welcome, and thereby hell will disappear. That is why under this principle, we must be patient and endure. (044-027, 1971.05.04)

14. The six thousand years of history unfolded from the individual level to the levels of family, tribe, people, nation, and world. The Unification Church is going through eight stages to restore love, on the level of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and finally God.

When we pray, we should do so focusing on these eight stages. Individual restoration takes place within the family, family restoration occurs within a tribe, a tribe's restoration occurs within a people, a people's restoration takes place within a nation and a nation's restoration occurs within the world.

The restoration of the world occurs within heaven and earth, and the restoration of heaven and earth is completed with the love of God. This means that everything in heaven and earth should become one, centered on God's love.
(61-075, 1972.08.27)

15. Although we may live for the sake of our families, we must also become people who live for the sake of something greater, our tribe. And although we may live for the sake of our tribe, we also must strive to live for the sake of our whole people. In this way, we need to climb step by step.

We need to continue climbing, even beyond the world. The world in which we live is the fallen world. In it, there are realms of fallen individuals, fallen families, fallen tribes, fallen peoples, fallen nations, a fallen world, and a fallen cosmos.

We can reach God only when we have gone beyond these seven stages. How great it would be if we could leap beyond these stages all at once! That would be ideal. If Adam had gone beyond the twenty-one years of his growing period without falling, he would have gone through all these stages at once, automatically.
(126-113, 1983.04.12)

16. The reason we human beings start from the position of the servant of servants is that we need to walk an internal course of separation from Satan through indemnity. Satan will not have a condition to attack if we fulfill all the vertical indemnity conditions that exist in Satan's world.

That is why I have walked the course of restoration through indemnity through all the positions, starting from servant of servants to servant, adopted child, and stepchild. Thereafter, I had to restore the son and the mother to arrive at the position of Adam.

One man and one woman have to reach the highest position possible as a man and a woman; only then can they fulfill the position of the Parents. This does not just happen. They must completely fulfill the requisite internal indemnity conditions. (161-209, 1987.02.04)

17. During restoration, world-level persecution and even bloody sacrifice are inevitable. To rise from the position of servant of servants to that of servant, or from the position of servant to that of adopted child, you will have to face persecution.

The same principle applies through all seven stages of restoration, and if God is included it becomes eight stages. People change, but God never changes. Thus, among the various religions of the world, there are religions in the position of servant, servant, adopted child, stepchild, son, mother, father, and true parents.

Religions have remained at these different stages, even as they continued through their long histories. In the Last Days, the religion of true parents centered on the True Parents will emerge. (124-069, 1983.01.23)

18. The Unification Church explains that we return to God by going through the stages of the servant of servants, servant, adopted child, stepchild, child, mother, father, and God.

These eight stages constitute the vertical standard. The horizontal standard consists of the restoration of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and God. These vertical and horizontal standards must match. We must set the standard of indemnity for both.

You do not know all this, but if I did not know it, there would be no way to restore this world. It would turn into a den of the devil. I am doing everything possible to survive while the devil is coming at me from all four directions. He is trying to destroy me.

Satan is in the position of the father, based on lineage, and he is the chief of all the enemies who oppose God. Yet people act as servants of this Satan, without knowing where they originally came from. Now I have come and finally revealed the root of Satan. I am now leading the movement to lay bare the roots of history. (183-111, 1988.10.15)

19. We have to go through the eight-stage restoration process, even if we do not complete it. Have you ever been in the position of a servant of servants, as taught in the Unification Church?

When you are a servant of servants, a servant is your master. You follow the orders not of the master, but of his servant who is above you, while longing to be in the position of a servant. Once you reach the position of servant, you have to move on to the positions of adopted child, stepchild, and child of God's direct lineage.

Then you have to pass through the stage of the mother, and then the stage of the father as you are climbing to the stage of God. Only when you reach the stage of God and unite with Him can you enter the world?

The kingdom of heaven is the world of love. Longing for that final stage, you should overcome and go over all the preceding stages and enter the world of love. (142-167, 1986.03.09)

20. What is the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages? It is a ceremony that marks the victorious completion of eight vertical stages the servant of servants, servant, adopted child, stepchild, child, mother, father, and God, and eight horizontal stages the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and God.

The Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages signifies that I have gone through the vertical and horizontal courses of indemnity according to those eight stages, and settled, and thereby the restoration of the right of the first son is completed and the course of indemnity for all the people of the earth is resolved.

That is the result I brought by conducting this ceremony. The right of the elder son is restored, and True Parents can embrace all humankind. This ceremony brings an end to the history of wars and struggles that were necessary to restore the right of the elder son in the realm of the True Parents' love.

Now the time has come when indemnity is no longer needed, and we can have harmony in love. To achieve this, I had to hold the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages.

Through this ceremony, True Parents forgave both the older and younger sons, so we can now enter the age of the realm where fallen parents are forgiven.
(193-172, 1989.10.03)

True Parents' course of restoration through indemnity

21. Most people who go to prison feel despair and discouragement from the first moment they step inside. However, I was quite interested in what would result from my time there.

You all have learned about restoration through indemnity, so I think you understand why I wondered what would happen after I surmounted each obstacle.

Therefore, to me, the pain I would have to go through was not a problem; instead, I always thought about what new historical gift might come after the pain.
(133-301, 1985.01.01)

22. Through the sin of the human ancestors and their failure to fulfill their portion of responsibility, a deep abyss of death came to exist. That is why I am now going beyond the national level in the course of restoration through indemnity, even though the whole world stands against me.

I must establish the foundation created by this world-level condition of indemnity when the United States, as the center of the Christian cultural sphere of the democratic world, comes into oneness with the original line of equilibrium, the realm of God's direct dominion. Then the restoration of Cain and Abel will be accomplished. (137-251, 1986.01.03)

23. Unification Church members have to stand in the central position in their nations and the world. The Divine Principle and the teachings of the Unification Church must become the center of the nation, the world, and heaven and earth. So what does that have to do with you?

If you are to rise to the top and become a leading family, you need to stand in a central position and eliminate everything that came about as a result of the Fall. This is necessary. We cannot recover the nation unless we eliminate everything related to the Fall.

Even if you are standing at the bottom, you have to rise again to the top, beginning with your family. Earlier in my life, I was unable to finish the seven-year course on the family level. Hence, I had to go through the eras of the individual, family, tribe, people, and nation, and then re-establish a family in the ideal position by fulfilling the responsibilities of a filial son, patriot, saint, and divine son.

Because I went through this process, I had no family during that time. I have done that course over again to recover the family. This has taken me forty years. (483-137, 2005.01.18)

24. I have forgotten the names of all my enemies. When I go to the spirit world, who could be my enemy? You must love the sons and daughters and the tribe of your worst enemy. That is the way I have lived my life. When the children of my enemies had no money to pay for school, I sent them money.

When they had nothing to eat, I bought them food. So my enemy's curse against me has no place to go.

Even if my enemy curses me, it does not affect me. Since he will have to pay the debt created by my heart of love for him, his descendants will have to follow me, even if his clan comes to ruin.

They will have to serve me as servants while wailing in repentance for his sin. So my enemies are people to be pitied.

Because God feels pity for them as well, He chose me to save them to be the eternal center, the central person who could set today's world straight and, with God on high, regain the world. (305-288, 1998.08.27)

25. Make one thousand spiritual sons and daughters, and take the position of their ancestors on behalf of God. Your role as their ancestor is to embrace all your spiritual children and live for their sake every day.

That is the way I have lived my life. Because of this, I have shed many tears that no one knows about. I have shed tears for individuals, families, and tribes. I have shed tears not only for humanity on earth but also for all humanity in the spirit world and also for the liberation of God.

Still, paying indemnity is not a simple matter. It is like water that has fallen to the ground and flows toward the ocean.

Nevertheless, if people do not have grateful hearts for the Parents of Heaven and Earth, who have made such a contribution to history, I cannot be responsible for their ingratitude. (382-146, 2002.06.21)

26. The fulfillment of the providence of restoration means the fulfillment of restoration through indemnity. True Parents have been taking responsibility for it because I know that God cannot intervene or take responsibility unless True Parents take responsibility.

Likewise, you have to walk your course of restoration by paying your indemnity. You can shorten the history of six thousand years to sixty years or even six years. You can do it during your life on Earth. I have taught you everything. You must believe absolutely in what I taught you, and love True Parents more than you love your father and mother.

You must resolve that, as sons and daughters who were born in the state of purity that has nothing to do with the blood of Satan, you will make heaven and earth your homeland, your ideal nation.

You also must resolve that among your family, you will establish people who will become filial children, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters by attending True Parents. By accomplishing this, your entire clan will enter the kingdom of heaven, beginning with your family. (379-275, 2002.05.30)

27. Fortunately, I came into this world. You have no idea how hard it has been to sort out all the tangles of mistakes in the bitter grief of human history. This wretched history has been rolling on incessantly, so the question is, who will pave the way and turn it back to Heaven?

Behind the few years of Unification Church history stretches a human history that spans thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of years. All that history is connected to the history of our church. Please keep in mind that the Unification Church has embraced the bitterness of indemnity to restore this sorrowful history.
(143-038, 1986.03.15)

28. God's eternal hope, the moment that God has been yearning for, the one moment that all religions in human history have awaited, has arrived within your lifetime.

That long-awaited moment is the moment when the True Parents, who represent Jesus Christ, come into the world. Therefore, it is your responsibility to offer sincere devotion and to welcome that moment without any wavering. Many nations fell, many religions rose and fell, and many sages and saints were sacrificed to welcome the Enthronement Ceremony for God's kingship.

Moreover, the Lord at the Second Advent had to take on the portion of responsibility that Jesus, who came as the only-begotten Son, had left for his return, and conclude restoration through indemnity. Amid all this misery, God has been unable to maintain His dignity as the Creator.

Yet, you must know that He is none other than our True Father. He owns love, the owner of life, and the owner of lineage. His relationship with us is destined to become a relationship of Father and children, a relationship of inseparable oneness. (352-329, 2001.09.01)

29. Except for Jesus, even the founders of religion never considered God to be their Father. We understand that He is, but the more serious question is, how shall we take this reality and experience Him as our Father?

I can represent heaven and earth today because, ever since I knew God and the spirit world, I followed Him, enduring any kind of persecution as if it were nothing. Unless you also live such a life, you cannot become the people whom God will remember forever as victors.

True Parents are in this position. As the Savior, this has been their life course. You who received the Blessing also have to follow this course. (352-329, 2001.09.01)