The Beginning

A difficult passage

The purpose of the third world tour was for True Parents to begin leading world mission activities from the United States. However, from the time they left Korea, they encountered difficulties, and these continued as they passed through Japan and Canada. Finally, however, they arrived in America and began to lead the global mission centered on the United States.

1. In 195,9, I dispatched missionaries to America to prepare the worldwide foundation. If the missionaries had fulfilled their responsibilities, they would have become quite influential.

They would have made the foundation for victory without my having to go through a brutal three-year course there. I knew the urgency of God's Will and my heavenly mission, but I could not realize this in America using only these missionaries. They were incapable of managing so great a task as America.

That is why I left for America in 1971, promising to God that I would break through there as I had in Korea and Japan. (078-316, 1975/06/10)

2. We left Korea to go to Japan one day before the Korean government declared a state of emergency. We knew that the situation was serious and we needed to depart, but because it was a Sunday, we could not go through the regular procedure.

I needed approval from the head of immigration under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but his office was closed.

As time was running out, I contacted the passport section chief and received a letter of authorization a mere 30 minutes before departure. This was the work of heaven. (060-225, 1972/08/17)

3. I did not say this to our church members, but I departed for America in 1971 because I had God's command to carry out the historic world mission, and I felt an urgent responsibility to do so within three years.

I knew that God's Will was for me to set the direction for Americans to follow within three years. I had to create a new path of faith and a new Christianity. That is why I went to that huge country on my own.

Difficulties arose from the outset, beginning with my departure from Gimpo Airport. They were blocking my departure, but thanks to a special connection I had formed, they gave way.

Then, at my layover in Japan, I faced another problem. I needed a United States visa, and the authorities would not issue it. Nonetheless, it was God's Will that I go, so when traveling to the United States did not work out, I went to Canada.

There, Unification Church members went to the United States Embassy to ask why the State Department denied my entry. The report the embassy received stated, “Reverend Moon cannot enter the country because of his history of cooperating with the Communist Party since 1967.”

Someone had given them such a report. Right away, United States senators and congressional representatives were contacted and asked to communicate with the United States embassy in Canada. This led the embassy to contact the State Department, and it became a major issue. It created a problem even for the Korean Embassy.

Finally, when it was revealed that the report they had was false, they had no choice but to issue the visa. (070-034, 1974/02/08)

4. If I had been delayed a few more days in Canada, I would not have been able to enter the United States.

Through this experience, I saw how Satan's forces were trying in every way possible to block the advance of God's Will. From Canada, I had to travel to Washington DC, but no flight fit my schedule.

I had promised to attend the Tittle Angels performance, which was scheduled at the Kennedy Center on December 18, 1971.

No matter what, I had to be there for that, so I ended up riding a twin-engine plane for a six-hour flight, crossing mountains and valleys at a very low altitude. That is how I entered America. (070-035, 1974/02/08)

Background of the World Mission

December 18, 1971, is the historic day on which True Parents entered the United States to begin the world providential course in earnest.

During the three years from 1972 to 1974, they worked very hard, investing all their energy into establishing the United States as the center of the providence. There, in the Abel nation on God's side, they established a strong foundation for world mission work.

5. To establish the authority of the tribal messiah, I first need to reclaim the national standard and the world standard. To dispatch messiahs as God's representatives, I need to go beyond the level of family and nation to that of the world.

When God chooses people, and they fail in their responsibility, He never gives them a second chance. This was true with the Israelites. When the first generation failed, He waited 40 years and then worked through the second generation.

Because Christianity failed to become one with me, Satan claimed the formation stage of the Old Testament Age and the growth stage of the New Testament Age. Now, after 40 years, Israel's realm of the Old Testament and Christianity's realm of the New Testament can be reformed, and the completed realm of the Completed Testament can be established.

The completion stage is established only after the formation and growth stages are established. Since these moved to Satan's world, they needed to be reclaimed. This work could not be carried out alone.

We needed to fight to reclaim the United States because True Parents chose it as the Abel nation on God's side. Since we chose the United States, we needed to liberate it.

During this period, we needed to connect the United States, the present-day Rome, to the world through Korea. The United States is the extension of Israel and Rome and thus is a world power, but it needs the national and family foundation before it can establish itself as a true world power. (234-152, 1992/08/10)

6. The second seven-year course is the national level period. The third seven-year course is at the world level, so I am walking a course of world restoration. Accordingly, as part of my work around the world, I can stop by Korea, but the era in which I had to come to Korea to fight has passed.

During the present three-year period, I need to fight more fiercely on the world stage than I did in Korea, lust as I set the direction for Korea, I need to move the government and people of America. I need to lay a foundation in these three years because America, the leading nation of the democratic world, has lost its way.

On the day we complete the 21-year course in America, with the Unification Church and True Parents' family at the center, the victory of Unification Church families will be known worldwide. Since this course is organized through families, we must enter the era when we can expand the family realm to the world level. (079-117, 1975/06/22)

7. On the day we complete the nine years remaining after 1972, the Unification Church will come to stand as a global religion. This is not something that you are doing alone. True Parents are working with you.

We have to work together. Until now, I have planted stakes here and there, tied ropes to each stake, and put flags on those stakes to mark our presence in the United States.

This year, we bought a house in New York from which to conduct witnessing campaigns in America, and in the future, we will have a house in Washington, DC, to carry out education worldwide.

That is why I am connecting with United States senators and distinguished citizens and why I will work with university professors to organize an Asian affairs council and a world affairs council. I am protecting America from becoming an arena for communist activities. (063-200, 1972/10/14)

8. Restoration has to start with the external. Even if you have an internal standard, if you lack an external or physical standard, restoration cannot take place. The Roman Catholic Church represents the body, which is external.

Protestantism, on the other hand, is internal. Therefore, Protestantism receives opposition. But over the last 200 years, America, which represents Protestantism, inherited everything from Europe, which represents Catholicism.

Then, a complete shift took place during World War II, and world Protestantism and Roman Catholicism united. The external or physical world side and the spiritual or internal world side united during this war, and in this way, the Christian cultural sphere emerged victorious.

For the first time in history, the internal and external aspects united. It was only this one time that the internal and external aspects united, centering on God. Thus, the foundation for unification was established. The only time the external and internal worlds were united in the name of Christianity was right after World War II.

That is why America's hope was “One nation under God.” This was also the hope of Jesus. Jesus' hope was for Israel to be “One nation under God.”

Because it was not, he tried to unite Judaism and the people of Israel, representing Cain and Abel respectively, to establish that nation.

He could not accomplish this, so he has been searching for such a nation on the world stage. That is the background of the words “One nation under God.”
(311-115, 1999/08/29)

9. When I left my country and the Korean members behind to come by myself to America, no one knew my profoundly determined heart as I prayed, “I ask You to place this continent of America in my hands by Your Will.

I will be strong and bold. I will restore this nation for You, Heavenly Father, not for my glory but for the sake of the democratic world.” Even if a strong storm rages or the path of suffering comes in front of me again and again, I will not avoid them but will move straight forward.

If necessary, I am prepared for the FBI and the CIA to put me in prison.
(085-131, 1976/03/02)

10. In 1972, soon after I arrived in America, I met prominent senators and other people I needed to meet.

On that foundation, I pioneered a path of faith to this day, praying over how best to move the White House and senators and representatives. I need to arm all of America with God's teaching.

This is because the vast communist forces worldwide consider America their biggest opponent, and today, they are shooting arrows at her from every direction. To defend herself, the United States, as God's representative nation, must be strong in spirit.

Communists deny religion, but they act like a religion based on Marx's theoretical worldview and economic structure.

The communist path lets them take the same authority as God but is based on materialism. They act like satanic demons to fulfill their wishes.

They are merciless on the path they are walking. They destroy anything that stands in their way. To prepare for them, America, which is on God's side representing the democratic nations of the world, must be strong in spirit. That is why I met these American leaders and was strong with them.
(070-100, 1974/02/09)

11. I have remained the same, whether I was active in Korea or I worked in America. Nothing has changed. The heart is the same. I am in America, but I am not here as a person from Korea.

My perspective is different. I think to myself, “Even though my hair is black, and I have a yellow Asian face, my heart is that of a pure American who lives for the sake of God and the world.” That is why I am here for the sake of America, even though I do not belong to America.

My perspective is different. This being the case, I will happily endure all suffering that comes my way in America. I take responsibility for all of America's difficulties. I treat them not as someone else's problems but as my own.
(071-123, 1974/04/29)

12. When I stepped on American soil in 1971, I declared, “Why do you think God blessed America? It was so that America, as the representative of the democratic world, could prepare a world of oneness that could welcome the Lord at his Second Advent. God blessed America with this in mind.

Nonetheless, America is about to perish.” I went on to say, “Christianity in America now has no hope. I was born in Korea and was pitifully treated, but you still need me, don't you? Whether you like it or not, you have to do as I say!”

Affirming this, I came all alone and set foot on the American continent. Even while my people were clinging to me, I knew my destiny was to love the people of America even more than I love my people.

I was not born for my own sake. Be it night or day, I never lived for my own sake, and I will not die for my own sake. I am welcoming with joy the stage that has appeared in front of me, on which I can live for the sake of God and humanity. I welcome it with joy. (077-120, 1975/04/01)

13. I went to America and said, “We will build the base for world peace in America as Jesus, during his three-year public course, was hoping to do in Rome.

Jesus did not succeed in those three years, but I will guarantee that everyone, even a little child, will know who I am. Just as Jesus was accused of being a traitor to his people and was killed, I will reach the stage where Americans will wish to kill me.” This was the fastest way, and everything unfolded as planned.
(114-086, 1981/05/17)

14. There remains a three-year course ahead of us, during which we need to grab the Korean people and the world communist realm and pray desperately to God.

Facing this urgent problem, we need to expand the base of our activities worldwide. Therefore, in the fall of 197,2, I am going to create task forces in at least 12 nations. I will manage them.

I cannot stay long in Korea. I was born as a son of Korea and was more patriotic than anyone else in Korea. No patriot can hold a candle to my loyalty. After the completion of the second seven-year course, those who work diligently will become global figures.

I am responsible for working in the United States, training itinerant workers and supervisors who can guide the advanced countries of Europe.
(056-224, 1972/05/14)

15. Since we have much to do and are running out of time when I give commands, you must follow them and produce actual results. If you fail to do so, you will receive reproaches, not forgiveness.

You have to be willing to make historic and unimaginable sacrifices, sacrifices no ancestor in the history of the world was able to make. And you need to obey absolutely. While doing so, you need to accept everything with humility.

At present, you come here to Belvedere to meet me, but I intend to meet you on the front line. In other words, I intend to go on a speaking tour. At this time, I have met most of the United States senators and representatives whom I wished to meet.

Next, I plan to meet with a few world-class scholars. Then, I will go out to meet those of you who are working on the front line. Whether you are awake or asleep, you need to achieve unity with me. (066-071, 1973/03/17)

16. I am meeting leaders in the United States to have them lay a foundation on which America can move the spirit world. To move America through its senators, we need to mobilize their ancestors.

Since these senators represent states, they can be said to be Cain-type individuals. When we make them interested in my work, the spirit world can become their object partner and a foundation whereon we can expand the providence will be created.

If there is even one person who submits to Abel, the foundation can begin to take root. For this reason, I am meeting influential people. (066-217, 1973/05/07)

17. Jesus' view was that the people of Israel needed to become one with him, and then Judaism needed to unite within itself and become one with him. Nonetheless, both the government and religion opposed him.

Therefore, our highest priority is to build a foundation that will prevent the current leaders of America, who are like Israel's political rulers, from opposing the Will. To accomplish this, I am meeting American political leaders and church leaders. After meeting with political leaders, I will call upon the most prominent church leaders.

We need to devise a plan and convince the people in the government who have the power to actively support my plan. By doing so, there will emerge a foundation for the spirit world to cooperate with the earthly world.

This initiative will create a path for church and state to harmonize, and on this foundation, the spirit world will be able to communicate with the earthly world. This is like Cain and Abel communicating with each other.

Achieving this through my efforts will accomplish the stages of formation, growth, and completion horizontally.

Then, the spirit world of the Old Testament Age, New Testament Age, and Completed Testament Age will cooperate with us. We should make such a foundation and make it now. I consider this to be the most critical issue.
(066-218, 1973/05/07)

18. Since 1972, I have spent 27 years in the United States. This means I have spent more than half of my lifetime's 40-year restoration course in America. Why did I set my country aside and come to America at such a crucial time? This period was most important to me because of Christianity.

Christianity is Jesus' worldwide foundation. It needed to be brought to fruition. I came to America because of Christianity, which is Jesus' foundation.

Christianity is divided into Catholicism and Protestantism. They need to unite. The work of the Holy Spirit is the work of the Mother, and the work of Jesus is the work of the Father.

Jesus and the Holy Spirit, in the position of parents, created Christianity, so those brothers need to unite. (311-114, 1999/08/29)

19. I am launching a grand revival tour this year. I will hold it for over seven months, from September until April of next year. It should rouse the interest of the important leaders of the government and churches so that we can relate with them horizontally.

We do this to make a foundation to move the United States. As these senators form relationships with me, they naturally will relate with you in their districts. Then, Cain-Abel restoration can naturally come about in those districts.
(066-218, 1973/05/07)

The Victorious Day of Celebration

True Mother acquired her United States permanent residence status on February 26, 1973, and True Father acquired his on April 30. This was the basis for their world mission work centering on the United States.

True Father stated that the three-year period from 1972 to 1974 corresponded to Jesus' three-year public ministry and that during this time, he had to connect it to the world level.

On July 1, 1973, at the Belvedere Training Center, in the presence of representatives from ten nations: Korea, Japan, the United States, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria, True Parents declared a victorious day of celebration, commemorating their laying the cornerstone for worldwide victory in the second seven-year course.

20. You must live for the sake of the world. This is why I make you go forward all over the world and make you suffer. How pitiful this is!

These are circumstances you cannot understand. I am still alive and doing this work because I know the Principle. What did I indemnify by doing so for three years from 1972?

Jesus could not become a parent and have children during his three-year public course. Those three years became a source of his sorrow. In these three years, we set the standard to remedy this.

Because you now can appear on the family foundation, representing the nation of Israel and its people, True Parents can make a start on the world level. This was the foundation on which True Parents could enter America.
(067-076, 1973/05/20)

21. The Germans and Japanese were America's enemies. However, Japanese and Germans are coming to America and putting their lives on the line to save it. I brought mostly Germans and Japanese to America, and it created a sensation. It drew those who opposed me to find out what was going on.

I knew what they were thinking. If we failed to establish a foundation in one and a half years, they would expel the Japanese and German members. I, too, would be expelled.

This could not happen. That is why, after finishing my first and second speaking tours, I was granted permanent residency on April 30, 1973. Thus, I completely established the foundation in one and a half years and could hand it over to Americans.

While developing our economic foundation, I also contributed to international harmony through the Japanese and Germans, who formerly had a hostile relationship with America but now were educating American youth.
(114-087, 1981/05/17)

22. Through the acquisition of green cards in 1973, True Parents has indeed established the standard for resurrecting the spiritual foundation for the global Christian domain. This accomplished all victorious standards throughout the spirit world.

Having now connected the Christian cultural realm from Korea to the world, we needed to attach substantial results to this victory. This was why I mobilized Ko Korean-blessed families and, on the foundation of their achievements, went to the United States in 1971.

I planned to settle there by 1973, but for this settlement, we needed a victorious foundation in America. We could not do so without this foundation of victory.

By laying that foundation, which was a spiritual foundation, we acquired green cards in April 1973 and returned to Korea on December 24, 1974. We laid down a decisive foundation in 18 months. (165-029, 1987/05/19)

23. I am carrying out this providence centered on the United States because the United States, which is the spiritual foundation of the world and the center of world Christianity, is being eaten away. The cause was the Christian opposition to the Unification Church.

However, when the United States did not oppose the Unification Church but welcomed it in the early 1970s, I was able to resurrect Christianity. Korea opposed us on the level of a nation, but the United States welcomed us on the world level.

Therefore, I could come back to Korea and redress that national-level failure. This allows us to live. I went on a speaking tour across the United States in 1972 and held rallies that connected it to Europe to lay the external world foundation.

I need to complete, in the shortest time possible, everything that Christianity, or anyone else, was unable to achieve in the United States.

On the day the people of the free world under the leadership of the United States raise banners and welcome us, they will receive a blessing on the world level, centering on the Unification Church.

If, on the other hand, they oppose us, they will suffer great damage. , I began revival meetings, and that is why I received the green card on April 30, 1973.
(110-129, 1980/11/10)

24. I came to this earth as the Lord at the Second Advent and Bridegroom. I have to find the Bride who is to become the Mother and, together with her, begin anew from the place where Adam and Eve fell.

Based on the Unification Principle, Adam and Eve fell at the completion level of the growth stage and multiplied their children through their love relationship from that position.

Therefore, I cannot start from the realm of God's direct dominion. I cannot build upon a standard of having perfected the realm of God's indirect dominion.

By beginning at the completion level of the growth stage, which is before the standard of completion, we have to go through a seven-year course in Satan's world, form a family, and experience trials and suffering. It is the era in which True Parents' family is made into a sacrificial offering.

We received much persecution in America. We have to go through the same position as Jesus, who died without being able to realize the Will. We need to indemnify this on the foundation of being a united people, nation, and world.

Without setting this condition of eliminating Satan, there is no way to connect the path of heavenly law to the standard of natural law. That is why True Parents had to go to America, carrying the fate of this historical providence.

I did not consult anyone before going there. No one knew except God and me. When I set foot on American soil in 1971, I was a nameless young man, but I had on my shoulders the mission to turn the United States around in three years and to bring it to heaven's side in 12 years.

What was it that I did in America? Representing human history, I loved Abel more than anyone ever has.

And on the practical level, I had to attain complete victory. No one has prayed in greater earnest for God and the earth. As a Son who can bring God to tears, I had to hold on to humanity and the cause of God's pain and sorrow. I had to fight fiercely to liberate humanity from this position. (136-239, 1985/12/29)

25. On July 1, 1973, I established the historic day of commemoration, the “Victorious Day of Celebration” in America. Until now, I have established many such commemorative days in Korea, but this was the first such day celebrating a world-level victory.

This day marks a new beginning in the history of the Unification Church. I could establish this victorious day of celebration because I went beyond half of the three-year period that remained in the second seven-year course. We are celebrating the fact that I was able to overcome all hardships.

From now on, the more Satan opposes us, the more he will be destroyed. It is different from the past. Shortly, the Unification Church will raise a storm across this nation. We have established a foundation that American power cannot take away. (068-159, 1973/07/29)

26. We started working as soon as we came to America, and within a year, we completed the foundation for the American church. With this foundation to carry out our activities, I established the Victorious Day of Celebration on July 1, 1973, to celebrate our victory.

We have reached the focal point of victory, by which we can establish our foothold in this world, centering on the heart of God. To establish the victorious standard internally in the world of God's heart, first, there must be victorious external results.

That is why, in 1973, we carried out our activities across the United States. By giving public speeches in 40 cities in 1973 and 1974, I became quite famous. I reached a point where I could establish on the national stage a personal relationship with the President of the United States. (072-277, 1974/07/01)