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1. Before this time, people in the spirit world could not know God as our Father or Parent because they were of a different lineage. God, who is in the spirit world, is the Cosmic Parent. The True Parents, who are on the earth, are the True Parents of Heaven and Earth.
The Cosmic Parent and the True Parents of Heaven and Earth are one. Hence, royal authority is given to the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind in their substantial individuals. No one can settle on Earth without the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.
Because the Cosmic Parent, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind stand in the same position, each one of us now has to become a perfected person representing Ada and stand in the position to inherit the unified, victorious supremacy of heaven and earth that has nothing to do with the Fall. Then, as the Family Pledge states, we can be called owners of Cheon Il Guk.
The providential background of the birth of Cheon Il Guk
2. As a prerequisite for the founding of Cheon Il Guk, we had to usher in an era where conflicts between mind and body, conflicts within the family, tribe, people, nation, and world, conflicts between heaven and earth and God and Satan, and all other conflicts, are resolved. By doing so, we moved beyond the standard of the Inter-religious and International Federation for World Peace and established the Peace UN. By finally establishing the ideal nation and world here on earth with God, who is the King of peace, Owner of peace, and Teacher of peace, at the center, and by receiving the Blessing of rebirth, the Blessing of resurrection, and the Blessing of eternal life, we have realized the foundation to enter God's kingdom. Thus, we finally proclaim Cheon Il Guk. (429-015, 2003.12.23)
3. We opened the gates of Cheon Il Guk through the ceremony entitled the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk.
We opened the individual gate, family gate, tribal gate, people's gate, and national and world gates. Finally, even the spirit world, as Earth's counterpart, has been blessed, so Satan can no longer interfere.
Individuals in the spirit world can now be blessed and form tribes. Since it was false parents who brought about division, it will be True Parents who restore everything to its original position. Thus, we have absolute faith in the True Parents and follow them. (405-207, 2003.02.11)
4. We held the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God on January 13, 2001, conducted the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk on February 6, 2003, and established the Family Party for Universal Peace and Unity on March 10.
When I created the Family Party, politicians expected me to speak about Korea or the state of the world; instead, I spoke about the registration of marriages and births, I did not say a single word about politics.
If a marriage is not registered, parents cannot register the birth of their child. This is because no family registry would exist for them. For a family registry to exist, one needs a nation. Therefore, in the first year of Cheon Il Guk, I proclaimed the establishment of God's kingship and announced the nation of Cheon Il Guk.
(437-091, 2004.02.09)
5. The Ceremony to Return the Realm of the Lineage of the Fourth Adam made possible the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God. The Parents needed to register their marriage, but there was no nation in which to register. That is why I established Cheon Il Guk.
How grateful we should be for Cheon Il Guk, a nation where two people become one! With two people gathered as one, religion and politics will become one as well. When these two become one, Cheon Il Guk will be fully realized.
(407-255, 2003.05.17)
6. We restore Cheon Il Guk through the perfection of the first Adam, the second Adam, and the third Adam, the course of the history of re-creation centered on Adam. Cheon Il Guk perfects the standard of a nation and ushers in the era of liberation and complete freedom by which we become one. It is our homeland and the ground of our hometown. (430-256, 2004.01.03)
7. The conflict between Cain and Abel in Adam's family ultimately grew into the worldwide conflict between communism and democracy. In the great transitional period of the twentieth century, I was successful in establishing the providentially required indemnity conditions at all stages.
On this basis, I proclaimed the era of Cheon Il Guk as the era of Abel's dominion of true love. We then held the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God in 2001. In 2004, based on our qualifications as the True Parents of Humankind, I was enthroned as the international and inter-religious King of Peace through coronation and enthronement ceremonies held in the United States, the Second Israel, in Korea, the Third Israel, and throughout the world. Based on this series of providential victories, in 2005.
Humanity entered the second stage, or growth stage, of the establishment of Cheon Il Guk and received the command to complete the Cheon Il Guk registration providence by marching forward toward the three great goals of changing our lineage, changing the ownership, and inheriting the realm of heart.
(487-144, 2005.02.14)
The Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon II Guk
8. Because we conducted the Enthronement of the Cosmic True Parent and the True Parents of Heaven and Earth as the King and Queen of the Blessed Families in Peace and Unity, Cheon Il Guk could finally begin on Earth.
We have to bind heaven and earth together through conditions. These begin in God's family, advance to His tribe, people, and nation, and ultimately to the spirit world where we have to educate and bless the saints.
Spirit individuals have been unaware of God's existence. They could not believe in God because they could not see Him. True Parents have to educate them. By receiving education in the Principle, they can come to realize that God is the Parent of heaven and earth. Alone, they cannot find this Parent; they need the help of True Parents. Thanks to True Parents, God now can freely move in the spiritual and physical worlds. (407-2657 2003.05.20)
9. The Holy Marriage Blessing opened the gates of Cheon Il Guk, and God's nation was finally established. This is the significance of the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk.
After we formed the nation of Cheon Il Guk, the Enthronement of the Cosmic True Parent and the True Parents of Heaven and Earth as the King and Queen of the Blessed Families in Peace and Unity fulfilled the next stage.
This meant a king and owner could finally appear in the family. Adam should have attained this position at the age of twenty-one but, due to the Fall, the event was delayed by tens of thousands of years.
This is an important truth. Now, at last, we can attend the King and Queen of the families because we accomplished the Enthronement of the King and Queen of the Blessed Families in Peace and Unity, centered on the true love of God as our Cosmic Parent and the true love of the True Parents of Heaven and Earth.
(425-047, 2003.11.08)
10. Through God's course of restoration through indemnity, we have brought down all of our enemies' fortifications. By setting indemnity conditions, we have attained the internal standard that has liberated us from the confines of the walls between the mind and body, within the family, within the world, between tribes, peoples, and nations, and between heaven and earth.
Thus, Cheon Il Guk could appear. It is the nation where two people unite to become one, and it begins with the unity of Adam and Eve. Even if only two or three people meet and pray together, God wants to be with them. Thus, Cheon Il Guk is a nation where two people become one. (418-232, 2003.09.25)
11. Through the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, we could finally establish a nation and open the way to register our marriages and the births of our children.
Because everything broke down on the earth, the Enthronement of the Cosmic True Parent and the True Parents of Heaven and Earth as the King and Queen of the Blessed Families in Peace and Unity had to take place, centered on True Parents.
Then everything could become one and the nation could begin. On that foundation, you have to register your birth again. By registering your birth, you prepare the foundation for the perfected family for which your ancestors long.
However, the question remains whether you can substantially realize the kind of family Adam and Eve would have had if they had not fallen but had received the Blessing. Are you confident to do that? You have to repent; every cell in your body must cry out. (406-291, 2003.03.12)
12. Now is the time for you to work with me to bring about the settlement of God's kingdom and God's homeland, and to register in God's nation, Cheon Il Guk. Now that a nation exists, we can begin registration. We need birth, marriage, and death certificates. The nation maintains and protects these records.
Our birth, marriage, and death will be registered in the nation. Because we have a nation, we can now be registered for eternity in the spirit world. Through the registration of births, marriages, and Seonghwa ceremonies, all citizens move into the kingdom of heaven.
As stated in the fifth pledge of the Family Pledge, the spirit world is in the subject position, and we have to live to agree with it each day. This is not a vague concept. By living in this manner, the spirit world and the physical world can connect, with no barriers between them. (363-213, 2001.12.25)
13. Since we conducted the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk on True Parents' Birthday, we could finally register marriages.
Then, the Enthronement of the Cosmic True Parent and the True Parents of Heaven and Earth as the King and Queen of the Blessed Families in Peace and Unity rendered it possible for us to inherit God's kingdom and establish a king on the family level.
The family king then becomes a tribal king, a people's king, a national king, and a world saint. From the position of divine son, he goes on to inherit God's position. (417-180, 2003.09.07)
14. The Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk was conducted on the True Parents' Birthday in 2003. The True Parents' Holy Wedding took place centered on Cheon Il Guk.
God and True Parents finally became one through true love, true life, and true lineage, and upon the foundation of the Holy Wedding, we have arrived at the world level. Now we have to adjust everything to that standard.
We can proclaim Cheon Il Guk only on the foundation of the change of lineage of the nation representing the First, Second, and Third Israels through the marriage Blessing.
The kingdom of heaven is a realm in which people are united in heart, but this world, because of the Fall, is not a realm where people are united in heart through true love, life, and lineage. It is a realm where unity can be attained only through indemnity.
Therefore, to realize the realm of unity upon which the kingdom of heaven can be established, I conducted the Unification Blessing Ceremony to Register the Blessed Families that Formed the Four-Position Foundation at the Great Transition of the Three Ages.
Following the proclamation of this Blessing and the proclamation of Cheon Il Guk, all blessed families in the spiritual and physical worlds now can register.
(428-248, 2003.12.21)
15. We carried out the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God during the first year of the third millennium, on January 13, 2001. Originally, I should have conducted the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk in 1980, when I turned sixty, but it had to be postponed until True Mother was sixty.
We held it on her sixtieth birthday in the third year of Cheon Il Guk. On that date, the new Cosmic Parent and Parents of Heaven and Earth could become one and the date of the Holy Wedding anniversary could be fixed.
Through the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, the True Parents were enthroned as the King and Queen of the Cheon Il Guk families. (428-249, 2003.12.21)
16. The Holy Wedding of the Parents of Heaven and Earth could not have taken place if Cheon II Guk did not exist. The Holy Wedding and birth registration would not have been possible if the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God had not taken place.
If we had not had a nation, we could not have conducted these events. We conducted the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk on True Mother's sixtieth birthday, a full two years after the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God.
It was possible to conduct this Holy Wedding Ceremony only after God and True Parents had finally made a foundation for God's homeland. Thereafter, we held the Enthronement of the Cosmic True Parent and the True Parents of Heaven and Earth as the King and Queen of the Blessed Families in Peace and Unity. For the first time in history, the position of the King of the families is occupied.
(430-123, 2004.01.01)
A great providential transition point
17. In this era of the revolution of the conscience, we have to bring our bodies to complete submission under the authority of our mind. This is an absolute requirement. People who cannot unite their minds and body cannot enter God's kingdom.
They will not be able to inherit God's three-generation lineage and achieve the original standard of the kingdom of heaven. After a revolution of the conscience, when three generations join as one in the cultural sphere of the revolution of God's heart, they can enter the kingdom of heaven.
I bestowed upon you the Unification Blessing Ceremony to Register the Blessed Families that Formed the Four-Position Foundation at the Great Transition of the Three Ages. Based on that, three generations have to unite.
If they do not, they cannot enter the Cheon Il Guk family nor the liberated Cheon Il Guk nation within God's realm of heart in the age of settlement of the culture of heart. From now on, your mind has to win the absolute surrender of your body. Never follow your body's whims. (430-255, 2004.01.03)
18. You must wonder where we stand today in the course of providential history. Though it is invisible to the human eye, we are in a time of great transition.
Especially since 2000, divine providence has been advancing toward its completion at great speed.
I have founded numerous organizations and groups to expedite the providence. Among those groups, the Inter-religious and International Federation for World Peace and the Peace UN are to embrace Satan's realm and, in the Abel position, work together with the Mongolian People's Federation for World Peace, in the Cain position, to liberate Satan's realm and bring about a unified world. These groups have to take full responsibility to ensure that discord and conflict between the Cain and Abel realms no longer plague history. (487-145, 2005.02.14)
19. The term Cheon Il Guk did not appear by chance. Throughout history, people had to accomplish restoration through indemnity. Building on the victorious foundation of World War II, we had to work as a movement to bring together nations, religions, and non-governmental organizations to the point where no condition for accusation remained.
Only then could we establish Cheon Il Guk. The world can no longer deny the work I am doing. I began my work in the provinces of Korea, advanced to As, IA, and from there to the entire world. It is difficult to do such work for forty years.
It is like a dream to think that we have succeeded in setting up God's kingdom. To do so, we had to conduct the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God. There could be no enthronement without a nation, and now we have finally conducted the Blessing ceremony that opened the gates of Cheon Il Guk.
(411-014, 2003.07.07)
20. In 2004, True Parents were crowned as the King and Queen of Peace in a United States Senate building and at the Korean National Assembly. Following these coronations, I established the Universal Peace Federation in New York in 2005.
On that victorious foundation, we conducted the Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony and Coronation of True Parents, the King, and Queen of Peace, in Heaven and on Earth, on June 13, 2006, substantially establishing Cheon Il Guk.
Looking back at my eighty or so years of life, I have been imprisoned six times as a result of persecution and false charges in the process of carrying out God's Will.
Today marks the twenty-first anniversary of my victory over the hardships of prison life, my release from Danbury Prison, where I spent the last of my six incarcerations.
To commemorate this day, and to celebrate Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon's return after her successful completion of a 180-city global speaking tour representing me, I organized the historic Rally for Victorious Complete Freedom on the Return of Heaven and Earth, the Homeland and Hometown of Cosmic Peace, to God. Mrs. Moon, with the authority of True Parents, has spent the last six months ministering to the world, conducting the Holy Marriage Blessing, and conveying peace messages.
With the completion of this revolutionary journey, we can open the Era after the Coming of Heaven and proclaim the Settlement of the Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World, which God has longed to see from the very beginning. (536-041, 2006.08.20)
Sun Myung Moon