Spirit-led churches that prepared Heaven's new providence
In the land of Korea, God has been conducting spiritual work focusing on Christianity.
Focusing on certain spirit-led Christian churches, God prepared a foundation in the 1930s and 1940s before Korea's liberation from Japan. To prepare to receive the Returning Lord, those Christian churches had to understand God's internal circumstances and attend to His internal Will.
God led this work through numerous families and pioneers. In Cheolsan, Pyongyang, and Wonsan, they did everything they could to prepare a good environment for the time of the Lord's return.
Since Christianity was called to fulfill the Will to receive the Lord, God had these faithful believers prepare a spiritual environment to receive him. (028-058, 1970.01.03)
Among people doing this spiritual work was Rev. Kim Seong-do, who lived in Cheolsan. Another spiritual leader at that time was Rev. Baek Nam-ju from Hamheung, who was granted authorization by the Japanese governor-general's office in Korea to lead the Holy Lord Church.
This was possible only because of guidance from the spirit world. The spirit world gave a message to Rev. Baek to walk barefoot from Hamheung to Cheolsan and meet Rev. Kim. Although the distance was some 240 to 280 kilometers, he walked barefoot and met Rev. Kim.
In this way, the spiritual foundations of the east and west sides of the Korean Peninsula were united. God prepared this foundation of unity so that the Returning Lord would not be persecuted when he arrived. That is how the Holy Lord Church (Seongju Gyo) was formed.
Its name takes seong (聖), meaning "holy," from Kim Seong-do, and ju (主), meaning "the Lord," from Baek Nam-ju. However, a problem arose: Kim Seong-do viewed her position as higher than that of Baek Nam-ju and others. Kim Seong-do said, "Since I am the one whom Heaven taught about Eve's mission, I am the one who must attend the Lord when He comes." (223-211, 1991.11.10)
When Rev. Kim Seong-do and her family failed to fulfill their responsibility in her mission, it was transferred to a woman who faithfully attended her, Rev. Heo Ho-bin. Rev. Heo's whole life was focused on the Returning Lord.
Heaven taught her how sin could be removed, how to live a daily life of attendance to the Lord, and how children should be raised after the Lord comes. Rev. Heo set up all the necessary traditions for living in attendance to the Returning Lord. Rev. Heo had to make these preparations before Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945.
The Principle of Restoration is such that she needed to do this work during the seven years before the liberation. Then, God's plan for the Returning Lord could have been fulfilled at the time of the liberation.
The Messiah could have inherited the foundation that she had built and initiated a new history. Rev. Heo stood one level lower than the Returning Lord. She did not stand in the same position as the Lord; rather, she stood in the position of symbolically giving birth to him.
Through her, the Lord could be born symbolically; this is according to the Principle of Restoration. Thus, her mission symbolized that of Mary. (008-223, 1960.01.06)
Hak Ja Han Moon
True Mother inherited the foundation of devotion of the spirit-led churches
Mother's family trusted in Heaven. Three generations of women, with Dae Mo Nim in the middle generation, were mobilized to attend the coming Lord. There were not many members in her family.
So she grew up beautifully. Heaven gave Mother a strong will and ambition. The environment while she was growing up was quite difficult and lonely. Her mother, Dae Mo Nim, spent a lot of time traveling all over the Korean Peninsula, searching for the coming Lord, and went through a great deal of suffering in preparing to meet him. (585-184, 2008.01.30)
Dae Mo Nim's entire life of faith and devotion had only one objective. We must especially remember that from the beginning, she was part of the new providential work that included proclaiming that the Returning Lord would be born on earth as a human being. She participated in the new churches that God created for that purpose. Rev. Kim Seong-do, founder of the Holy Lord Church, was the first generation; another line was represented by Rev. Heo Ho-bin of the Inside the Womb Church.
Their work laid the foundation that was bequeathed to True Mother. They formed the mainstream history from which Dae Mo Nim inherited the tradition of faith, but she was the first of these forerunners to attend the Returning Lord. By giving birth to True Mother, Dae Mo Nim completed the work of these women who had labored through three generations to carry out the role of Eve.
She made preparations discreetly, knowing that the Will would bear fruit in True Mother's generation. Words cannot describe all the hardships she endured. The many ordeals she had to bear throughout her life are beyond description.
No one, not her siblings, her relatives, or her friends, was ever able to understand her. As she walked her lonely path of faith, she even subsisted on raw pine needles. Yet her belief never changed, and her faith never wavered as she established the foundation for True Mother to meet me. (265-009, 1994.11.07)
The Inside the Womb Church believed that the Returning Lord would come in the flesh, and that he would select his Bride and 12 disciples. Hence, the church trained its members in how to attend to the Lord. True Mother was trained in that special spiritual group.
The mother of the founder of that church called Mother when she was six and gave her a special blessing. When I met Mother, I realized that she had already received all the blessings necessary to become the Bride. Also, it was fitting that no men were involved in her spiritual preparation and that in her family, she was the only daughter. (191-254, 1989.06.25)
Rev. Lee Yong-do was one of the representatives of Christianity who had been prepared to welcome the Returning Lord. When the existing Christian churches expelled him, he founded the New Jesus Church. He connected to Rev. Kim Seong-do in Cheolsan, at the time when Rev. Baek Nam-ju connected the spiritual churches on the eastern and western coasts of Korea.
That is how, in Dae Mo Nim's family, her husband attended the New Jesus Church founded by a man, while Dae Mo Nim attended the Inside the Womb Church founded by a woman. Dae Mo Nim was a leading figure in that church.
While Dae Mo Nim was attending the Inside the Womb Church, she even left her home to search all over for the Lord. She received blessings from the pastors of the New Jesus Church and also from the Inside the Womb Church.
This is what I discovered when I looked into True Mother's family. It had to be that way. (403- 239, 2003.01.23)
To attend the Messiah, Mother's mother made many conditions of devotion; Dae Mo Nim worked harder than anyone else in Korea to meet the Coming Lord. She was a member of a church that said that the Lord would come in the flesh.
Mother had this kind of Eve-like responsibility; she received many blessings through devout grandmothers who knew her family and who represented all of Korean history. (184-294, 1989.01.01)
Grandmother Hong received her education from important leaders of the spirit-led churches that were preparing to meet the Returning Lord. Then, shortly before they came down to South Korea, Heo Ho-bin's mother blessed Mother, saying that she would become the Bride of Heaven. (220-337, 1991.10.20)
Rev. Kim Seong-do's church was on the west coast of North Korea. After she died, Rev. Heo Ho-bin became its leader. True Mother's mother, Dae Mo Nim, was a devout member of that church. She first brought Mother to that church when she was four years old, and Rev.
Heo's mother gave her blessing to Mother when she was six. That blessing symbolized the bequeathed to Mother of the mission to attend the Returning Lord.
When I first met Mother, I already knew about this succession. Everything that God had prepared was realized in 1960; that is how True Parents were able to emerge today.
Based on this, it became possible to bestow the marriage Blessing on the church members to make them God's children. (052-186, 1971.12.29)
Hak Ja Han Moon