The 1980s

To, develop full-scale home church activity, True Parents announced home church-related mottoes for four consecutive years, from 1980 to 1983, at the World Mission Center in New York.

The motto on January 1, 1980, was “Home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven.” He continued with “Home church is my kingdom of heaven” in 1981, “Victory of home church” in 1982, and “Home church is our land of settlement” in 1983.

Beginning in 1984, the theme of the mottoes was building a God-centered homeland, “Creating and building the fatherland” in 1984 and 1985, “Creating and building the kingdom of heaven” in 1986, “Unification of the fatherland” in 1987 and 1988, and “Unification of Korea” in 1989.

Home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven

1. Where will members of the Unification Church go in the 1980s? From 1981, we must develop full-scale home church activities. By the end of the third seven-year course, we need to have a fully developed home church, and everything in our church must be operated based on the home church system. This is what I see; we have to do it from the viewpoint of the Will.

Accordingly, in 1979, you worked with the motto that was given at the beginning of that year, “Home church and the completion of the kingdom of heaven.” During this year, 1980, you will work with the motto “Home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven.”

Without a home church, the kingdom of heaven cannot be accomplished. Without it, we cannot accomplish our ultimate goal. This is why I am saying that the home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven.

What is the kingdom of heaven?

The place we call the kingdom of heaven is a place where we can rest, where happiness dwells, and where love dwells. It is a place of peace. When we rest, would we want to rest all alone, only by ourselves?

Naturally, we would want our parents, our children, and our family to be resting there with us. Furthermore, we would want our tribe and our people to be there. We would want even the entire world to be included in that place.

However much we as individuals want to rest, if our parents cannot rest there with us if our spouse and children cannot rest there with us, we will not be able to truly rest.

Looking at the Unification Church, since you are attending True Parents, if they are in a position where they cannot rest, then the people who heed the direction of the True Parents also will not be able to rest. (106-266, 1980/01/01)

2. The statement “Home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven” is not just some casual phrase. You do not know how much indemnity I paid to open the path to my home church.

The great physical suffering from religious people through the ages, who shed their blood and tears, was ultimately to open the way to home church.

Until the day the words “home church” could be introduced to the world, God heaved great sighs of anguish. Now, with the introduction of my home church, I can spread my wings and confidently stand tall in heaven and on earth.

With a home church, the Unification Church moves into a realm where it can stand proud. Therefore, you, too, should take pride in your home church. You should boast enthusiastically about the home church even more than you boast about your mother and father, your siblings, your beloved, or even your children.

Then you should do home church work; once you do it, it will become gradually easier and easier. You will see the difference between this year and next. It will become easier. (108-120, 1980/07/01)

Home church is my kingdom of heaven

3. The motto for 1981 is “Home church is my kingdom of heaven.” You should think, as a Unification believer, “I must accelerate my home church activities.”

Should you, as messiahs, stay at home? Just as Jesus went out from his home for the sake of carrying out his mission, you also must go out from your home. In one 81, you must all do home church because this is the time for it.

I have been teaching you about home church for three years, 1978, 1979, and 1980. I have taught you about it at every opportunity.

Now, the preparations have been completed. Therefore, you must go out of your home and do home church work. (111-339, 1981/03/09)

4. All members of the Unification Church must fulfill home church activities, reaching 360 homes. By yourselves, you cannot go beyond the individual level to complete the indemnity conditions for the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmic levels.

Therefore, True Parents decided to create a home church as a microcosm of the world, where you can complete world-level indemnity conditions. As a microcosm of the world, the home church provides a place where you can make decisive conditions in front of God and Satan.

This means that even though you may do other things very well if you do not fulfill your home church responsibility, you will not be able to go to the kingdom of heaven.

When we say the kingdom of heaven, it means an environment where Satan has no grounds to accuse, that is, a place outside the realm of Satan's accusation. The place to create that environment of the kingdom of heaven is the home church.

What caused Adam to fall? It was because he did not have an environmental kingdom of heaven. If you can establish such an environment on the tribal level, the family kingdom of heaven is automatically included.

God's original ideal is to realize the family kingdom of heaven. Where there is a tribal kingdom of heaven, the family kingdom of heaven forms naturally.

Thus, the home church is where you can secure the realm of victory to expand the environment of the kingdom of heaven. You joined the Unification Church to attend True Parents, but if you do not do home church activities, you cannot attend them or connect to heaven. (110-264, 1981/01/01)

5. The period that starts from 1981 is your time. Now, your time has come. Now, all the responsibility that True Parents undertook on behalf of God is being passed on to you. Wherever you are, you carry out your Parents' work. Hence, the time has come when what you do will realize the Will.

This is the third year of the three years from 1979 to 1981. Therefore, the time has come for you to work entirely for your home church. I gave the first motto about home church in 1979, “Building the kingdom of heaven through home church.” In 1980, it was “The home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven.”

You have been preparing for two years with these mottoes. On this foundation, the motto for 1981 is “Home church is my kingdom of heaven.” In this motto, the phrase “my kingdom of heaven” is not the True Parents' kingdom of heaven.

It is the kingdom of heaven with you at the center. It's not True Parent's kingdom of heaven, but the kingdom of heaven centering on you.

Until now, we aimed to reach the standard collectively, as expressed in the mottoes “Building the kingdom of heaven through the home church” and “Home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven,” but now we have entered the era when each of you can fulfill it directly, with you at the center. (110-257, 1981/01/01)

Victory of home church

6. The motto for 1982 is “Victory of home church.” Home church is necessary because fallen parents came about. Jesus came as a parent for the sake of restoring those parents, but instead, he died because the family of Zechariah and the family of Joseph failed to unite. This must be indemnified. If we do not indemnify that sin, we cannot enter the heavenly kingdom.

Will home church be the end of our work? Will it be the final level we need to reach? We will need the home church to expand to churches encompassing the tribe, the people, the nation, the world, and the cosmos. (116-192, 1982/01/01)

7. When you bring victory in your family, centering on God, you can go on to establish the foundation for your tribe. The way you build the foundation for your tribe is the home church. With the successful foundation of your family, you should advance to build your tribal foundation.

You can succeed in establishing your family as the Abel family by uniting the Cain family with your Abel family.

The next step is to advance to the Abel tribal realm and set up the tribal foundation; only then will your family be perfected. Unless your family has the protection of the tribal foundation, there is no safe place for it.

This is what I mean when I say that your family can only be perfected after you set up the tribal foundation. You have to restore the tribal foundation for your family to settle securely.

This way, you can provide a safe place for your sons and daughters. This is why, even though you have completed your family and can rest, the work is not over.

You must go to the next level and achieve tribal victory. Having achieved victory in your family, you must continue to bring victory to your tribe.
(116-292, 1982/01/02)

The home church is our land of settlement

8. The motto for 1983 is “Home church is our land of settlement.” This is not just a daydream. The home church was set up, and we have been advancing it for this very purpose.

As a global citizen in the future, to enter the kingdom of heaven and bring others with you, you need to become a teacher of the Unification Principle, a teacher who works to unite religions and overcome communism with Unification Thought.

Those who enter the kingdom of heaven on earth transcend religion and communism.

The mainstream teaching for this is not knowledge, power, or money. It is love. Up to now, human love has been self-centered love, but God's love is sacrificial. This is a simple truth.

This is why we, as True Parents, have been sacrificing to this day in America. We are doing it to plant seeds of love. We are doing it to leave behind the tradition of loving the enemy. (123-300, 1983/01/06)

9. Now, True Parents must settle. We have completed our responsibility toward the free world. You, too, should be able to settle, and the way to do that is through your home church foundation. Therefore, 1983 is a significant year. Soon, the entire world will study the Unification Church with new, fresh eyes.

We have made all the necessary preparations, and the time has come for us to go over this new hill. The sun is rising for us.

Perhaps I will mobilize the world's famous scholars and theologians and hand everything over to them. If mainstream white American scholars do not do the job, I will bring scholars from Asia and ask them to do it, or I will seek scholars from among the minorities in America and invite them to take on the task.
(123-176, 1983/01/01)

10. The motto for 1982 was “Victory of home church,” but was there a victory? In 1981, I set forth the motto, “Home church is my kingdom of heaven,” but how much did you love the people in your kingdom of heaven?

In 1980, when the motto was “Home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven,” how seriously did you think about it? Furthermore, in 1979, it was “Building the kingdom of heaven through the home church,” but how much effort did you invest to build it?

I have given a direction to mobilize all the blessed families in Korea. The blessed families in Japan will also be mobilized, as well as all the blessed families in America. If you do not participate in this, you will all end up like gypsies, forever wandering around.

You will not be able to settle. Even in the spirit world, you will not be able to come and visit True Parents. Instead, you will find yourself in a family-level paradise realm, just like the individual paradise where Christians go. In that family paradise, your spouse and your children will accuse you.

The accusation will not come from Satan. Your wife or husband, sons, and daughters will accuse you. You must understand how miserable this would be. (123-177, 1983/01/01)

Creating and building the Fatherland

11. The motto for 1984 is “Creating and building the fatherland.” We all belong to our nations in the world, but they are not places where we can settle peacefully. We are wandering like modern-day gypsies.

All of us are still hoping to settle in the land of eternal happiness and looking forward eagerly to the fatherland, which is True Parents' nation. Recently, we could see that because of True Parents, Christians from many denominations are participating in activities for harmony and unity.

Imagine the scene in the Last Days when they all come to me and ask earnestly for forgiveness for their mistakes of the past. Who among you will be there to participate in True Parents' complete victory? The difference between participating and not participating is as great as that between heaven and earth.

The year 1984 marks a significant turning point in providential history.

We are running along the highway of victory. In March 1983, I organized mobile teams for outreach throughout America, mobilizing all members. That evangelical work was a huge, new, far-reaching undertaking. It was for the sake of establishing our fatherland, the True Parents' nation. (130-278, 1984/02/07)

12. Will you go to the kingdom of heaven through the Unification Church people, the Unification Church nation, or the Unification Church world? Before there is a world, there must be a nation, and before there is a nation, there must be a people. Now, we are a people, but we have not built our nation.

The nation I am talking about gathers people together from all over the world. Hence, it will be the nation that transcends national borders, transcends peoples, tribes, religions, and races.

It will be the kingdom of heaven on earth that God desires. Accordingly, our goal is to create such a nation. Once we have created God's nation, we can create God's world and then God's cosmos.
(130-110, 1984/01/01)

13. Now, True Parents have recovered the standard for restoring the elder son, based upon the Cain-Abel relationship that has existed throughout history. True Parents have completed all the preparations to begin their worldwide indemnity course.

We have come to the day of blessing when centered on True Parents' worldwide family; we elevate the second son to take the authority of the first son on the world level. How eagerly do you think God and True Parents have looked forward to this day?

How eagerly do you think humanity has looked forward to it? It is the starting point for the establishment of our fatherland. It is where the first streak of daylight shines for the establishment of our fatherland.

Now is the time. It is a new era. If you look carefully, you can see that, externally, everything is falling into place. Everything necessary for the external environment that I have been talking about is ready.

Hence, all that remains to accomplish the kingdom of heaven is that you become completely united and that there be no struggle between the first and second sons in our Unificationist family. Then, we can begin realizing the ideal of the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Only when this unity is achieved can we finally begin home church in our family? I have taught you that the home church is the base of the kingdom of heaven and that it is the land of settlement of the kingdom of heaven. Its accomplishment is essential. (134-336, 1985/08/16)

Creating and building the kingdom of heaven

14. The motto for 1986 is “Creating and building the kingdom of heaven.” Last year, it was “Creating and Building the Fatherland.” There is a formula for establishing the kingdom of heaven. This formula requires that we deal with the Cain and Abel problem that has existed throughout history.

If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have become the first son and first daughter and the direct children of God. But because of the Fall, the position of the first child was lost. After the Fall, Satan claimed the position of the first son.

Hence, God has been in a position where He could only exercise sovereignty over the second son. Therefore, the first-son position must be reclaimed, but it cannot be recovered by force.

Since God lost the authority of the first son because of Satan's love, to reclaim it, heaven's people must have greater love than Satan's love. Without that, there is no way to take back the authority of the first son.

All the types of love in the fallen world, whether the love of parents or the love of older siblings belong to Satan's realm.

Love in Satan's realm is love that belongs to the realm of the first son. To this day, the love of people who belong to the world, whether it be the love of husband and wife, of parents or children, is love that belongs to the fallen realm, the first-son realm.

Because of this, to go over this fallen realm of the first son, we must restore through indemnity from the position of the younger son and reverse the positions. Indemnity cannot be paid without making the proper conditions. A price must always be paid. (137-014, 1986/01/01)

15. If one talks about the fatherland in the secular world, it refers to one's nation, not the kingdom of heaven. Before we can establish God's fatherland, we must first establish the Abel realm in this earthly world. Next comes “Creating and building the kingdom of heaven.”

To realize the kingdom of heaven, there must be unity between Cain and Abel. Unless we stand in the position where the earthly world and the spirit world, the nation on earth, and the nation in the spirit world unite by resolving the positions of Cain and Abel, we cannot build the kingdom of heaven.

Now that 1985 has passed and 1986 has started, as a result of that prayer, the world has begun turning in the opposite direction. If we say that the world turns like the hands of a clock, we can say that it has made one full revolution clockwise but now has started to turn counterclockwise.

Until now, the Unification Church has been trampled upon in the world, but from this year, 1986, the time has come when the Unification Church will appear on the world stage. (137-036, 1986/01/01)

Unification of the Fatherland

16. The Unification Church motto for 1987 is “Unification of the fatherland.” You should not think vaguely about the unification of the fatherland.

If we were to say that this is a world-level or cosmic-level motto, that would be a big problem. The formula to follow this path can be expressed like this: the individual must win over the family, and the family must win over the tribe, the tribe, the people, the people, the nation, the nation, the world, and the world, the cosmos. I have been demonstrating this formula in the providential course of the Unification Church.

The perfection of the individual and the perfection of the family go hand in hand. For an individual to attain perfection, he or she must overcome the struggle between mind and body.

From an internal perspective, the mind and body must overcome their struggle and create unity. Only then will the individual be able to influence positively the external realm of the family.

This is why we have to resolve the struggle between mind and body before we can advance to the family level. Likewise, we have to resolve all the difficulties within the family before we can advance to the tribal level. Again, unless we resolve all the issues and make unity within the tribe, we cannot advance to the level of a people.

With this in mind, does the motto for 1987, “Unification of the fatherland,” refer to the national level or the world level? If we can deal with the inner aspects of America's national character that have become a problem, then we can advance to the world level.

When we step forward and resolve all the suffering of the nation, we will then be able to digest the situations of the world. This is what it means to follow the formula course.

Likewise, when we say we are going beyond the worldwide level to the cosmic level, it means we must first resolve all the problems on earth. Once we have overcome all the problems of the regions on earth, then we can digest all the problems in the spirit world and finally enter the realm of God's love. (161-093, 1987/01/04)

17. I gave the same motto for 1988 as I did for 1987, “Unification of the fatherland.” If you ask why, it is because the unification of North and South Korea remains before us.

While investing all of your utmost sincerity to carry out this work and move the spirit world, we must also work on strengthening the social fabric of South Korea.

By our preparation, the political climate of North Korea will change.

The reunification of the fatherland is a task that both North Korea and South Korea are destined to fulfill. It will involve the combined efforts of us all.

The division of Korea into North and South was not the fault of the Korean people. It came about because of the world's major powers.

Therefore, the reunification of Korea cannot be done through the efforts of the Republic of Korea alone or of North Korea alone. Unless we open a way for the major powers to cooperate in reunification, even if North Korea brings unification by “liberating” South Korea, that unification cannot last.

However, North Korea claims that South Korea has been liberated. Likewise, even if South Korea unifies North Korea by the strength of its military power, that unification also will not last.

I tell you, the only path that can lead to permanent unification is when we unify North and South after weaving in the involvement of the great powers. This viewpoint conforms even with that of providential history. (171-144, 1988/01/01)

18. When today's Koreans understand the astonishing fact that the land of Korea will become the base for restoring the fatherland of God, will they remain asleep?

They will invest their lives day and night even if you tell them not to.

Financing North-South unification is not a problem. There is no doubt that when the people of South Korea bear such a sense of duty to accomplish reunification, it will lead them to invest everything they have and everything that South Korea has.

My desire for the unification of the fatherland is not because I believe that the nation will go to ruin without it. It is because this is what God is seeking. It is because, with the liberation of the fatherland, God

wants to build a nation that transcends the nations, one such as has never existed in human history. This is why I am trying to achieve reunification by equipping you with a teaching that can digest everything, by setting up a system of education that can transform society, and by raising people with the “subject-partner principle” to take ownership of every situation.

For this reason, communism should not be a problem, and neither should democracy. This is the reason communism and democracy both fear me. They think I may completely devour them.

Now, at the start of 1988, I set up the motto “Unification of the Fatherland.” The fatherland I am referring to is the fatherland that God, the original subject partner, wants to see.

The entire universe should be one nation. This world should be the foundation upon which all people of God can live together. The spirit world should be one ideal house and nation in which we all can live together forever.
(172-042, 1988/01/03)

Unification of Korea

19. Until now, however much we shouted for the liberation of our fatherland, we did not know where that country was, but now we know. Now, with 1988 having passed, the time has come to reveal that the fatherland is Korea.

For that reason, I declared that this year is a providential turning point for the nation of Korea and proclaimed the Foundation Day of the Nation of the Unified World.

About the time of the Seoul Olympics, I proclaimed that we are now at a turning point where we can move forward toward a world of hope based on the condition of internal solidarity between the youth of the world and the second generation of Unification Church members.

This foundation was made not only by people in the earthly world but also by those in the spirit world. As a result of this proclamation, it is now possible for the Japanese ancestors to come to Korea and help us.

Since we have come into the age of love when even enemy nations can love each other, the good Japanese spirits can come and work for the unification of Korea, even if it means they have to sacrifice Japan.

Furthermore, a foundation of spiritual power has been created on earth such that the good spirits of America, England, or any country of the world can come and offer support for the sake of Korean unification. (184-300, 1989/01/01)

20. What must we do today to bring about the reunification of Korea? There are numerous denominations, organizations, families, and political parties, but none is behaving in a way that will create harmony.

They are not investing themselves in each other's benefit in a way that resonates with love. Individual political parties need to take the path to benefit the whole nation to increase its wealth and prosperity. If they pursue only their party's self-interest, the nation will come to ruin.

Because Korea does not have this kind of center, I am going to bring Unification Church members from all over the world to establish a new tribe and connect them to new social organizations that will promote unification activities for the sake of Korea.

We have to move the hearts of South Koreans to enter a realm of resonance filled with love. We must begin this work today, the first day of 1989. This will lead to the birth of a united Korea.

There is no other path. When we accomplish it, God can finally come to visit individuals, families, tribes, and the people of this nation. (184-310, 1989/01/01)