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Sacrifice of the second son
From December 14 to December 23, 1983, True Parents led Victory Over Communism rallies in eight major cities in Korea. These rallies were held to thwart North Korea's growing ambition to unify the Korean Peninsula under communism.
At the final rally in Gwangju, True Father delivered his speech amid rising tensions due to reports that a group had been sent there to assassinate him. On that same day Heung-Jin Moon, True Parents' second son, was badly injured in a traffic accident in the United States.
His injuries proved fatal, and he passed away on January 2, 1984. At a time of opposition from that Christian nation and the increasing danger of communism, his death became a sacrificial offering.
1. In December 1983, I spoke in eight major Korean cities at Victory Over Communism rallies to unite the citizens of the Republic of Korea in defense of their nation. I also assembled 72 national delegates from the Professors World Peace Academy, representing the world and Christianity.
I had a fierce battle with Satan as our rallies swept the nation. The entire nation of Korea was caught up in our movement. Through these rallies, I intended to subjugate Satan, who was working through North Korea to invade the South.
At that time, my family was under extreme duress. As the representative of the entire world, my family was under attack. Since Satan could not attack me directly, he attacked my son, Heung-jin.
During the last Victory Over Communism rally in Gwangju, while I was speaking, my son was involved in an automobile accident. (161-080, 1987/01/02)
2. When I went to Korea in December 1983, both America and Japan paid careful attention to what I was doing. These three providential nations were leaning toward communism.
However, as much Satan wanted to destroy me, he could not do so because I had established victorious indemnity conditions. Although the democratic world opposed the Unification Church, I had already made the indemnity condition to triumph over the groups that were attacking me there. However, Heung-Jin, who represented the children, lived in America, and he became Satan's target.
Satan always seeks a way to strike. Just as the Victory Over Communism rallies in eight major cities were ending with great success, Heung-jin was seriously injured in a car accident. This happened while I was delivering my speech at the last rally in Gwangju. My speech began at 11:00 in the morning, but the arena was already packed by 10:00.
There were assassins in the audience plotting to harm me, but the hall had become so crowded that they were unable to carry out their plot.
The space was filled so tightly that people could not move freely. Thus, the conditions in the arena naturally protected me from them. As Satan could not attack me directly, he took my most beloved son. (130-196, 1984/01/15)
3. When I returned to Korea, I held Victory Over Communism rallies. The last venue was Gwangju. At that time, some spiritualists warned me not to go because the communists were sending agents to get me.
But should I not go just because they told me not to? A public person should be willing to risk his life at any time. So I went, and heaven worked. At the rally, the aisles were crammed with people so that those sitting down could not get up and move around.
That was how I was protected. A serious incident took place, however; the car accident that claimed Heung-jin's life occurred at that very moment.
(212-092, 1991/01/02)
4. Many things were accomplished through Heung-jin's sacrifice. In life, he was the most filial son, but now this most sincere and pure child is in the embrace of God. If Heung-jin's sacrifice had not occurred, there could have been two very unfortunate developments.
First, the North Korean military could have invaded South Korea; second, my earthly life could have ended. Already, because of the success of the Victory Over Communism rallies in Korea, Satan could no longer attack South Korea.
Satan still tried to attack me, but instead, at the exact time when we were harvesting victory in Korea, he claimed Heung-jin and my son became a sacrificial offering. (130-289, 1984/02/07)
5. Heung-jin, my second son, was always extremely concerned about my safety and security. He had the mindset that if an assailant came to shoot me, he would jump in front of me to take the bullet for me. He organized the blessed families in East Garden and trained them to have this mindset.
At night, he would station blessed family members and stage surprise attacks to keep them alert. He was so concerned with my safety that he went through all this effort to train and test the security staff to make them into real bodyguards.
Furthermore, at the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences in Chicago, Heung-jin stayed up and stood guard all night alongside the official bodyguards. He did not fully trust the bodyguards.
In his mind, they had not reached the standard of heart that they considered me to be their father the way he did. Heung-jin felt that if I were in genuine danger of assassination, the bodyguards might flee. He said,
“I am not like that!” That is why he gave mental and physical training to my security staff, so they would protect me properly. He was always ready to offer his life for me. (137-293, 1986/01/03)
6. I visited the scene of Heung-jin's car accident. I learned that a truck driver had hit the brakes to slow down as he was going down a hill, and his truck skidded into the oncoming lane.
The truck could not go straight and veered diagonally, blocking the road. Heung-jin was driving up the hill and headed toward the truck. His natural reaction as a driver facing danger would have been to turn the steering wheel reflexively to avoid injuring himself.
But Heung-jin did not do that. Instead, he kept his car at a slight angle toward the truck, swerving his car so that the truck struck it on the driver's side where he was sitting.
Why did Heung-jin do that? He did it because he loved the brothers who were riding with him. Their father had passed away many years ago, and he deeply loved them. When they studied together in the evening, if they said they were hungry, Heung-jin would go to the refrigerator and find something for them.
He wanted to show them his love. He would say, “I need to take care of these brothers because their father is gone.” Because he loved them like that, he turned the steering wheel to take the impact on their behalf.
When I saw this, I was truly grateful to have had such a son.
(137-291, 1986/01/03)
7. When Jesus died on the cross, there was a thief on his right side and a thief on his left. They represented the democratic world and the communist world. Communism says there is no God.
Democracy says there is. This time, there were two young men in the car with Heung-jin. Although Heung-jin lost his life due to the car accident, both the young men survived.
Heung-jin's good deed was a great thing. He could have swerved the car in the other direction. But why did he steer the car, so his side would receive the impact? This is the question.
The car rammed into a corner of the truck. The two young men riding with Heung-jin said he turned the wheel as he did because he was thinking of them so that they would receive less impact.
We can understand from this that Heung-jin passed away as a sacrificial offering for both the democratic world and the communist world. The two other young men represented the democratic and communist worlds, in the same position as the two thieves on Jesus' right and left sides.
Heung-jin passed away instead of them. In Jesus' time, all three died. In my time, because Heung-jin made himself a sacrificial offering, those two young people remained alive. This opened the way to liberate both the democratic world and the communist world. (130-199, 1984/01/15)
8. Heung-jin's sacrifice stands on the national foundation of indemnity that I established in Korea for the sake of the free world and the communist world. His sacrifice connects these two worlds to this national foundation.
Although the accident happened in America, he was buried in Korea. His body was returned to his homeland and buried there. Thus, Heung-jin stands on the victorious national foundation that True Parents established.
Because he stands on this national foundation, although Heung-jin dwells in the spirit world, he also has a spiritual foundation to settle on earth. This means that Heung-jin's sacrifice restored through indemnity what Jesus could not accomplish on the national level, and at the same time it laid the foundation for Jesus to interact with the earthly world on a higher dimension. Heung-jin made such a connection between the two worlds. (130-200, 1984/01/15)
9. My court battle in America, up to and including the US Supreme Court, is the same as Jesus being hung on the cross. However, we are no longer living in an age to die hanging on a cross; rather, it is the time to advance while bearing the cross.
At the time of Jesus, Judaism, and Rome foundered, but now in the time of my legal battle, rather than colliding with me, Christianity and America are uniting with me.
This means we have come to a time when we can restore through indemnity all the failures of Jesus' day.
Why was Heung-jin caught up in this indemnity condition? It happened because this was the time when True Parents were bearing the cross, and hence Heung-jin was automatically in that realm as well. If you look at the positions of God and Jesus, God is the Father and Jesus is the Son.
It is not God who must bear the cross, but the Son. In the present age, True Parents are in the position of n representing God, and Heung-jin is in the position of Jesus. For this reason, his sacrifice corresponds exactly to the indemnity condition that requires him to bear Jesus' worldwide cross as the son.
After Satan struck Jesus down, God resurrected him. In the same way, when Satan struck Heung-jin down, True Parents resurrected him for the world-level providence.
Whereas Jesus after his death opened the gate to spiritual salvation, Heung-jin opened a gate to the physical world. Hence, now the time has come for a new Pentecost on the world level that can unite spirit and body, like the Pentecost that occurred after the death of Jesus.
This is restoration through indemnity. Because Christianity opposed us, its failure had to be indemnified.
On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came down to where 120 disciples had gathered on earth after Jesus' death and launched Christianity. Over the next 2,000 years, Christianity expanded to form the Christian cultural sphere.
If that foundation had been offered to the Returning Lord, a new Pentecost would not have been needed. But because they opposed us, everything was shattered and had to be rebuilt. (131-231, 1984/05/04)
The victory of love
At 4:00 a.m. on January 3, 1984, at the Belvedere Training Center, True Parents proclaimed January 2, the day when Heung-jin Moon ascended to the spirit world, as the Day of the Victory of Love.
They were able to make this proclamation because when he went to the course of a sacrificial offering and triumphed over the realm of death, Heung-jin Moon embodied the standard for a new beginning in which God could take dominion over love.
10. On December 31, 1983, we, as True Parents, visited the hospital and conducted the Unification Ceremony. That ceremony placed Heung-jin above both the communist and democratic worlds. It was a serious moment.
Even though this robust son whom we loved more than anyone else was about to pass into the spirit world, we could not allow ourselves to shed tears. During the three days after the Unification Ceremony, when we instituted the Day of the Victory of Love, we could not shed tears.
Since we were marking his victory over death while standing as the True Parents of humankind, we could not permit ourselves to be sad.
Adam and Eve by their mistake built a high wall separating human beings from God. This created the valley of death, the hell of death, hell in the spirit world, and hell on earth. Standing at the highest point, we put everything in order and offered up our son. You cannot imagine how serious we were.
As a parent, if I could have slowed the passage of time, I would have. But at a time like that, I had to send Heung-jin off without any hesitation and keep a steady heart in front of heaven.
I even had to tell Mother that if she cried she would invite misfortune. Only after we held the ascension ceremony in Korea and sent him off to heaven could we cry as parents. Only after the ceremony was completed did I shed tears, but those tears of grief were mixed with tears to celebrate his victory. (408-293, 2003/06/17)
11. Satan cannot invade you as long as you love your True Parents more than your life. This is because Heung-jin died in your stead. Moreover, if you love True Parents more than Heung-jin did, then Satan will not be able to do anything to you.
Until now, Satan was controlling love, but from now on, God will reign with love. Since Heung-jin became one with God based on this standard, I proclaimed the Day of the Victory of Love.
Now Satan will retreat proportionally to your activities. Therefore, based on the spirit of the Day of the Victory of Love, you must work hard day and night for three years. You need to push yourself to do so.
Heung-jin is not resting day or night. He is working hard in the spirit world to mobilize all his juniors and elders so that they will move the young people of the communist world and democratic world. You, too, should work so that you achieve no less. You should have that kind of determination.
With the Day of the Victory of Love, the time has come when Cain can welcome Abel. In the past, if you loved Cain, you had to pay indemnity, but now if you love Cain, you will receive blessings from him.
In the past when Cain loved Abel, he suffered hardships from Satan even to the point of death, but now that time is over. The time has come when God will pour out blessings. (130-206, 1984/01/15)
12. By setting up the Day of the Victory of Love on January 3, 1984, we broke down the barriers that Satan's love had erected in the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle (the realm of indirect dominion) and in the realm of God's direct dominion.
Now that they have been broken down, with God's love we can dismantle any barrier anywhere, including in hell. Spirits in heaven can descend even to the dungeons of hell and then ascend. When they do so, since they belong to God's realm, the spirits in Satan's realm are bound to surrender to them. This is why we call it the Day of the Victory of Love.
God's love represents the past, present, and future. Hence, it can remove the realm of death in Satan's world. That is why we could claim victory. That is why we could set up the Day of the Victory of Love.
At that time Mother and I were in a difficult position where we were not supposed to think any sad thoughts about our son who had become an offering. We had to walk such a path.
Your church leaders should resemble Heung-jin. Work just like him. People say that Heung-jin resembled me. Just as God never rests, I am working single-mindedly for world restoration 24 hours a day.
You need to practice this lifestyle. So clean yourself up. Put yourself in order. You need to live and work like Heung-jin. (171-274, 1988/01/02)
13. In the spirit world, Heung-jin is now an owner and conveys love. He is in the realm of God's direct dominion. Because of the way he died, separating himself from the realm of the Fall, God can call him His son and can love him unreservedly, saying, “This is my son. This is my son who overcame Satan's world.” I was unable to fully love Heung-jin when he was young, but now God is redeeming that situation.
God's love for Heung-jin is His love for True Parents. Because Heung-jin made the condition that he loved his True Parents with his life, all the situations where God's love could not be manifest can be solved.
Hence, Jesus will be liberated, and the conditions can be fulfilled that will alleviate my pain and sorrow, that in the past I was unable to receive God's love at the completion stage.
Because Jesus died at the age of 33, young people under 33 years old could not receive benefits from Jesus when they entered the spirit world.
But now with Heung-jin's entry into the spirit world in his teenage years, all people who died as teenagers can enter that realm of love. By connecting teenagers as a group to the top of the growth stage, they can now enter the realm above the realm of indirect dominion where Satan could interfere.
The completion level of the growth stage was the level that Adam and Eve were at in their teens when they fell. But now that teenagers are connected to a realm that has no relationship with the Fall, others can also enter that realm.
This is the result of what Heung-jin indemnified. Therefore, the time has come when Satan no longer has authority in the realm of indirect dominion, the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle. Now he cannot exercise his power there and must retreat. This applies on earth as well.
From the viewpoint of the Principle, Satan did not have a condition to demand that I hand over my son to him. He should not have been sacrificed. In the same way, God didn't need to hand over His Son, Jesus. However, God handed him over to save Israel, Judaism, and Rome.
Likewise, although there was no need for True Parents to deliver Heung-jin to Satan because Christianity had been faithless, we handed him over for the sake of Christianity, the free world, and the whole world. (131-234, 1984/05/04)
14. If the Christian spirits in the spirit world are going to come down to help Jesus on earth, what must they do? In the case of Christians on earth who are opposing the Unification Church, those in the spirit world cannot help.
However, based on the sacrifices that we as a group are making, when Christians make a horizontal relationship with us on earth, spirits can descend to them and help.
Before Heung-jin's ascension, none of the True Parents' blood relations who went to the spirit world were able to form a direct relationship with the spirits there. Therefore, the wish of spirits was to connect in a relationship of heart with True Parents on earth.
But few Christian spirits were able to do that because their descendants on earth were opposing me. Now, having sent my son Heung-jin to the spirit world, those spirits can establish a relationship with him, and through him, they can descend to earth and cooperate with the movement to assist and transform Christianity.
Thereby, with Jesus at the center, the environment can arise where the Christian spirit world and the entire spirit world can return to earth and attend True Parents. (161-080, 1987/01/02)
Marriage and eternal life
On February 20, 1984, 50 days after Heung-jin Moon's ascension, True Parents conducted the marriage Blessing of Heung-jin Moon and Julia Moon (Hoon-sook Pak) at the Belvedere Training Center. This marriage ceremony brought unity between heaven and earth.
True Parents had promised their son as he lay dying in the hospital that he would be blessed and have children by adoption. On the foundation of the Unification Ceremony and the Day of the Victory of Love, they gave him the Blessing; moreover, they bestowed on him the titles of Ambassador of Love and Commander of the Spirit World and charged him with the mission of liberating the spirit world.
15. Jesus died in his thirties, but Heung-jin passed away when he was 17. This became the condition to connect the two realms, the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle (the realm of indirect dominion) and the realm of God's direct dominion.
Heung-jin can receive God's love through the love of True Parents who stand in God's place. Because of this, he is beyond the realm where Satan can interfere. He is within the realm of indirect dominion, but he is also under the protection of True Parents and the archangels. This is why I can give him the Blessing on earth.
Jesus wanted to set up a path whereby Christians in the spirit world could go through True Parents on earth, but due to the disbelief of Christians on earth, that path was blocked.
However, Heung-jin has set the indemnity condition based on True Parents' life on earth, and he has been resurrected within True Parents' realm of love. Hence, he does not need to deal with Satan's interference.
I bestowed the Blessing on him 50 days after his ascension, which connected his offering to the earth. This is a wonderful thing. It is what Jesus has wanted to accomplish for 2,000 years.
This is equivalent to the Second Adam receiving the Blessing within the realm of the Principle and attaining the standard of perfection, the very standard that the First Adam failed to attain. When Adam fell, he was at the completion level of the growth stage, but this is the time when the Second Adam can connect directly with True Parents at the completion stage and enter the realm of direct dominion.
Accordingly, we now have entered a time when the spirit world is bound to submit to and follow Heung-jin. (131-233, 1984/05/04)
16. Today, February 20, 1984, is the 50th day after Heung-jin's ascension ceremony. It is comparable to Pentecost at the time of Jesus. After the Holy Spirit descended in tongues of fire to 120 people in the upper room, they began doing wondrous spiritual works among the people of every nation.
Likewise, today with the Blessing of Heung-jin and Hoon-sook, we will witness the beginning of a movement where the departed rulers of 120 nations will descend to earth, be resurrected, and perform spiritual wonders worldwide. This represents the Pentecost.
Rulers from 120 nations in the spirit world with their sovereign authority will now be present on earth and move their nations toward unity with True Parents. Even if only one nation from among the 120 nations on earth attends True Parents, the gates of the kingdom of heaven will open from that nation. (131-016, 1984/02/20)
17. Look at Heung-jin's wife, Hoon-sook; she lives alone, is devoted to God, is a filial daughter to her parents and a filial daughter-in-law to True Parents.
So your blessed families no longer have any justification to complain about your three-year course or your seven-year course. By making these conditions, you establish on earth a point of origin and a tradition for breaking free from Satan's accusation. This is pleasing news for you.
So, are you in a position to complain when your spouse is with you here on earth? I am giving you a gift that will protect you from Satan's accusation. If you are spiritually one with Hoon-sook, then Satan will not be able to invade your family.
If you have a mindset that you are living on behalf of Hoon-sook and Heung-jin, then you can purge Satan from your life. What an incredible result! This is why I strongly commanded the blessed families to begin their married life with a three-year course of separation. (131-017, 1984/02/20)
18. Today is the day of Heung-jin's Blessing. Blessed husbands and wives who were given a solemn direction to begin a three-year course of separation but have fallen short need to embrace each other and repent to each other. Then from tomorrow, they need to make a new point of departure on that path.
The important points are these: First, if Heung-jin does not have a wife, then the kingdom's authority cannot be established.
Second, the people and kings with royal authority in the spirit world, which is in the position of the angelic world, must come to earth, to Adam's world, wrest Satan's foundation away from him, and completely bequeath to us on earth the authority of the kingdom of heaven.
Just as the angels were supposed to protect and nurture Adam and Eve before the Fall by the fundamental rule of the Principle, the people, and kings of the spirit world must protect and nurture this earthly world. God and the angels who attend Him must expel the angels who oppose God.
The time has come when this is possible because now, centered on True Parents' love, they can assert their authority to occupy and lead the realm of indirect dominion, based on accomplishments through the Principle.
Third, in Hoon-sook and Heung-jin, a lighthouse has appeared that shows the way to good fortune. They have created the bridge of true love between the spiritual world and the physical world. Satan can no longer interfere. This is the viewpoint of the Principle. (131-017, 1984/02/20)
19. When you look at the realm of the heart of Jesus and Heung-jin, Heung-jin is in the position of Jesus'
elder brother. Jesus went to the spirit world first, and he had been in the position of the elder son in heaven. However, on the foundation of Heung-jin's realm of heart connected to the True Parents, Jesus needed to hand over his authority to Heung-jin, the younger son.
By doing so, he could connect to the original standard centered on True Parents' love. This was the essential step for opening the gate to enter the kingdom of heaven. It created the path between paradise and the kingdom of heaven.
That is why the holy wedding of Heung-jin in heaven and Hoon-sook on earth, held on the 50th day, established the condition through which Jesus could come to earth. I made this connection with Earth through their Blessing.
(137-188, 1986/01/01)
20. The Blessing of Heung-jin in heaven with Hoon-sook on earth built a bridge of love between heaven and earth. This opened the way for Jesus to come and assist the True Family and the Unification Church.
Because I opened this path for him, Christianity centered on Jesus now needs to become one with the Unification Church on earth. Therefore, Christian spirits, in the position of the archangels, are helping the Third Adam and Eve as they direct the course of re-creation on earth.
According to the principle that the archangels were to help Adam and Eve, these Christian spirits will assist in creating the bond between the Unification Church and Christianity on earth.
Further, based on the oneness of the heart created between heaven and earth, all the good Christian kings and rulers in the spirit world will create links among all nations, which are currently divided one from another.
Thus far it was impossible to achieve the goal of forming one unified realm transcending nations, centering on the realm of the heart of God's love; the gap was just too great.
However, now it is possible because we have entered the age of grace when we can establish a realm of partnership that connects the realm of heaven's heart with the realm of earth's heart. Now we can create the realm of unity between the two.
This is all possible because I gave the Blessing to Heung-Jin and Hoon-Sook.
(140-055, 1986/02/01)
21. All the members and leaders of the Unification Church who came and went up to now have fulfilled indemnity on the church level, but have not fulfilled the indemnity conditions required for the nation or the world. However, Heung-jin's case is different. He achieved the national level.
That is why he could become the commander who represents the just cause of the heavenly kingdom. That is why he could become the subject partner of the spirit world, able to connect the spirit world to Earth.
Had he been married when he made his sacrificial offering, he could not have done it. It was possible because he was not yet married. As of now, people in the spirit world remain unmarried.
Since I knew all this, I promised Heung-jin, “I will find a child for you to adopt.” I can find him one because he achieved the national level. To find a child to adopt, I first had to find him an ideal partner.
In the spirit world, where people are like unmarried men and women who want to marry, Heung-jin with his wife became the center. He became the commander of that world.
In the Unification family, the way we drive all the fortune of the world is by making ourselves an offering and taking the position of a sacrifice. That is what Heung-jin did. Therefore, you need to love Heung-jin and his family. (130-201, 1984/01/15)
22. I concluded the Unification Ceremony on December 31, 1983. Then, on the day before Heung-jin left for the spirit world, I prayed and promised, “Even if you leave this earth, I will find a child for you to adopt as if you were on earth and I will regard him as your actual son.” If I am going to do this, I must give him the Blessing on earth. Otherwise, it would be impossible.
God sent the Messiah to earth to save the physical world. However, in my case, to save the spiritual world, I sent the Prince of Love as my ambassador with full authority on behalf of True Parents.
Even Jesus could not reach that position in the spiritual realm. For the first time in history, God has come to have a son in his teens, whom He can call His own and love as His own. (131-014, 1984/02/20)
23. A report came from the British church leader. He shared a report given by one of the blessed wives about Heung-jin's activities in the spirit world. She reported about St. Francis of Assisi that after he died in Italy he had not been able to return there, not even once.
But as a result of Heung-Jin's arrival in the spirit world, for the first time,e he could go and visit Italy. He expressed how overjoyed he was that he could return to his country.
Furthermore, a bishop from southern Germany died in Germany but had been unable to go back to his country after his death. However, after Heung-Jin took charge, that bishop was sent to Germany to supervise his nation, and he now has the wonderful blessing of cooperating with the work of True Parents. He was pleased with this as well.
Her report that I received through her church leader coincides with what I have said. People in the spirit world at first did not know who Heung-Jin was. They wondered about him, saying, “Who is that Asian boy?”
They wondered all the more when they saw that Jesus was humble in front of him. So Heung-Jin introduced himself to them, “I am Heung-Jin.”
And then Jesus said, “I am the older Christ, and Heung-Jin Moon is my younger brother Christ.”
(131-205, 1984/05/01)
Sun Myung Moon