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1. Why do we have the term “tribal messiah”? The messiah is in the position of parents. Now, unless one becomes a subject partner of true love, the term “parents” does not apply.
The realm of the parental heart, which is to love one's children and do whatever one can for them, is the only original reality that remains in the fallen world. It is diminished, but it is a heart whose true nature and essence have remained, like a live coal, since the creation of the world. (199-186, 1990.02.16)
The meaning of and standard for the proclamation of tribal messiahship
2. Where do we go to recover the family? In the providence of restoration, by making indemnity conditions in the tribal realm, we can move toward the restoration of the family. I have set indemnity conditions on the levels of a people, nation, and world.
This being so, what do you need to recover?
Each of you needs to go to the realm of your tribe. You need to go to the realm where Jesus tried to work but was unable to. In your tribal-level realm, you pursue Home Church activities. Even if you are opposed and called names, you need to love the people with tears.
Then you go to your family. The purpose of the Home Church activity is to train you to love more. You need 360 homes to endorse you as a son or daughter of God.
Then, when you return to your family, to restore your clan, you need to love your family members hundreds of times more than you loved your Home Church.
(104-064, 1979.03.28)
3. You need to unite with the victorious Messiah and sow the seeds of true life. After indemnifying the disunity of Eve, Cain, and Abel in the garden of Eden, you should plant such seeds. The family needs to create an environment for such seeds, and that is the mother and the brothers and sisters.
This is where we can declare the starting point of the ideal love and ideal life of the original Adam and Eve who have nothing to do with the Fall. To create such a family, I declared tribal messiahship. Jesus came to recover the family.
For this, the Cain household and the Abel household had to unite. In the case of Jesus, Joseph's clan and John the Baptist's clan should have united and formed one family. Jesus' family should have been formed in this way.
Then Satan could not have invaded. Had this been done, Jesus would have embraced his clan as the tribal messiah. Then the original standard of the unfallen family, which the people of Israel were unable to establish, would have been restored. (235-111, 1992.08.29)
4. Unification Church members constitute a tribe. My blood is flowing within each of them. Thus, all tribal members should be able to cry when I cry and rejoice with me when I rejoice. We are kin, bound by blood. We are a unified people.
We go over the barriers of color separating the five races and the differing cultural backgrounds separating various national standards, to create and build the new heavenly kingdom. The heavenly kingdom will manifest when we as a people become divine.
The world will open up when we live as a people of the divine nation. The cosmic kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven will come down upon that world. Just talking about it will not make it happen.
The individual has to make the final decision and then pro-claim it in heaven and on earth. It must be proclaimed again centering on the family and once more centering on the tribe. (168-136, 1987.09.13)
5. Now is the time to make the final proclamation centered on the tribe. To lead such a work, I have to set absolute conditions of victory, taking a single direction, the same in heaven and on earth, representing all peoples and all nations.
Without doing so, I cannot enter the nation, gather all the tribes, and make the proclamation for the final liberation by the laws of public righteousness. Based on this condition, if you command, “Satan, be gone” your ancestors can come into, and serve as the head of, your family. Changes will come. Pray like this: “Our family loves Heaven.
Thus, we are willing to sacrifice conjugal love, our love for our children, and all our possessions. Representing our tribe, we are willing to make our entire family a sacrificial offering. As Heaven's family, we are raising our tribe to accomplish the liberation of our people.
So please accept our offering!” Such a prayer will be received. For the sake of the liberation of these people, the Unification family needs to determine to be the sacrificial offering to Heaven on the family level. (168-142, 1987.09.13)
6. You are tribal messiahs. When you recover your Cain tribe, you will automatically recover your Abel tribe. This is why you need to do tribal messiah activity. Only if you do this can your ancestors and good people in the spirit world come to the earth and set indemnity conditions to benefit themselves.
This is not possible without the foundation of your Home Church. Without that foundation, even if one of your ancestors was to help you, your family would remain on the family level. You would not connect to the tribe, people, or nation, even though I made all that possible for you. Based on this, while I was in Danbury prison, I opened the gates in the heavenly world and hell and paved a highway from hell to the throne in the heavenly world.
I established a highway so that any good spirit within a realm that receives God's benefit could come to the earth, witness to people, and elevate them step by step. Many walls appeared because things went wrong due to the first parents.
The True Parents had to break down these walls and open the gates. I have opened all of them and thereby demonstrated how it is done. Home Church is a base with which to connect the earthly realm with the heavenly kingdom.
A rocket flies to its destination based on the flight parameters that are set at the launching pad. Home Church functions like that launching pad.
(148-177, 1986.10.08)
7. Now is the time to set the standard of the ideal family that Jesus could not establish. For that reason, I am dispatching family messiahs. Where will you be sent as family messiahs? To your blood kin, your relatives. I have walked the path of indemnity for the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world to connect them to Heaven.
You don't need to walk the same path of indemnity I have walked. I am sending you as tribal messiahs, in the same position as Jesus. Through the Blessing, you are in the position of having married. You have that foundation.
The Blessing connects the individual, family, and tribe and makes them one. I have walked the path of indemnity to connect everything to Heaven. You have not traveled that course, but even so, I have given you the Blessing.
The fact that you received the Blessing signifies that your position is better than that of Jesus. Satan cannot accuse those who have received the Blessing because you are connected to the True Parents through lineage.
Satan cannot accuse you on any level – individual, family, tribe, people, nation, or world. That is how God sees it. Satan absolutely cannot accuse you. You are in a state of total freedom. For these reasons, I have proclaimed tribal messiahship at this time. (189-147, 1989.04.01)
8. The fact is that I have declared that you are tribal messiahs. This means that when you fulfill your responsibilities on behalf of me, the spirit world will support you. In the past, when I was pioneering and in difficulties, the spirit world assisted me. The spirit world is certainly working now as well.
Despite persecution, I developed the Unification Church to enter the age of tribal-level restoration; so now, with no persecution, how much more can we develop? It was to restore the eldest son's position, in the era for the restoration of the right of the eldest son, that the Unification Church members went the way of the cross and were persecuted up to this day.
During the era of restoring the eldest son's position, you suffered so much. This being so, in the era to restore the mother and father's position, should we suffer more or less than we suffered in the era to restore the eldest son's position?
We should suffer more. By doing this, the tribal messiahs will liberate Jesus from his bitter sorrow and me from mine. (185-242, 1989.01.08)
9. You have to proclaim to your clan that you are their tribal messiah. Whether they listen to you or not, you have to proclaim it. If you do not fulfill the responsibility with which you have been entrusted, who will be struck?
Heaven will be vulnerable on behalf of you. That day is coming. That is why I have proclaimed tribal messiahship. I proclaimed tribal messiahship to go over that time. Hence, now is the time to begin your tribal messiah activities.
You have to return to your hometown. If you cannot go to your hometown, you have to work to save the nation. If you are unable to go back to your hometown, you have to live for the sake of North and South Korea.
If you cannot fulfill your responsibility as a tribal messiah, you have to take the responsibility of a people-level messiah who can save North Korea. If you make that effort, you can go beyond the realm of tribal messiah. (207-165, 1990.11.09)
10. Jesus was a tribal messiah. At the same time, he represented his people and nation. However, he died because he could not obtain his parents' rights in his family. Hence, now that the Unification Church has liberated the older brother's rights, we have to liberate the parents' rights.
I have designated you tribal messiahs. Today, by establishing tribal messiahship, I am proclaiming with the divine authority of the heavenly kingdom that after you resurrect the situation created by your parents' opposition to the Unification Church, and the failure of the fallen Adam and Eve, you will be a restored family.
This is the purpose of the tribal messiah proclamation. Why is this necessary? If you cannot establish the position of unfallen Adam and Eve based on the standard of True Parents, there is no way to establish the hometown where you were born as a home-town of the heavenly kingdom. If you had been born in the original, unfallen hometown, you would have been born of the original Parents.
However, due to the Fall, the order is reversed, and you should engraft your parents instead. That hometown also has to establish the standard of the unfallen Adam, who should have been born as the original Parent representing the right of the kingship, and who should have reigned over the world. (193-307, 1989.10.08)
11. It is just like the time when I pro-claimed tribal messiahship; a similar time is approaching. Hence, Please return to your hometown without any hesitation or reservations. I also would like to go to my hometown now.
I would rather not live here in Seoul. When your influence surpasses the influence of North Korea as a result of your hard work in your hometown, my hometown naturally will be elevated. Without fighting, it will just happen.
Therefore, the mission of Unification Church families is to establish the land of Canaan, a hometown of the heart, by making more devotional offerings than North Korea does. That is why I am telling you to be tribal messiahs.
(187-194, 1989.02.05)
12. Do you know why I proclaimed tribal messiahship around the world, starting in Korea? It is because when I do it in Korea, all the countries of the world will unite under my leadership. Think how many people from the spirit world will be mobilized.
They are eager to come down to the earth. They are thinking, “This is the time!” with their eyes gleaming because the time has come when liberation can be accomplished. Thus, we can indemnify thousands and tens of thousands of years of history. (188-063, 1989.02.16)
13. I placed blessed families as tribal messiahs and set the standard of perfection for three generations of ancestors: Jesus, blessed families, and Adam. Thus, we can enter an environment in which we can freely embrace the people of the earth. This is why I proclaimed tribal messiahship.
This is good news in God's providence. This is the Last Days of human history when the day of liberation will come. The unification of North and South Korea will not occur just by itself. It is possible only when all of this is woven together.
Once the family level and the tribal level are brought together, they will link to the national level. Then the Unification Church and the government should be one. (219-097, 1991.08.25)
14. Because Jesus was unable to complete this mission, I appointed you as tribal messiahs and granted you the authority to bestow the Blessing upon your parents who, like fallen Adam, married as they wished.
Thanks to God's grace, your parents could be raised to the position of unfallen parents. This is just wonderful! It is like a dream! I proclaimed tribal messiahship to announce that I had made this possible.
Jesus was sent alone to be the tribal and national messiah, but I have proclaimed that all blessed family members worldwide are tribal messiahs.
(228-174, 1992.03.27)
15. You are officially recognized by Heaven's side only when you are approved by True Parents. You can only receive the Blessing when True Parents see your sincere effort and loyalty and can say out of compassion, “Fine!” after you are officially recognized by Cain, Abel, the Parents, and God.
This is why you need God to make it possible. You cannot cross the bridge and receive the Blessing unless God makes it possible. This is the meaning of rebirth through True Parents. There is no way to gain rebirth without True Parents.
Hence, if the tribal messiah misses the chance to build a bridge as the family messiah, the opportunity for rebirth will be blocked. I was aware of this, so I established and proclaimed tribal messiahship to liberate humanity. This is a revolutionary event on a global scale.
It is a special grace and a privilege to receive. Please understand how miserable Heaven has been for thousands of years, due to Eve's fatal mistake of one day. How hard Heaven groped for the path of restoration, and at what cost Abel-side individuals sacrificed throughout thousands of generations, to reach the time of True Parents! This has been the course to restore Adam and Eve in history.
(265-133, 1994.11.20)
The conditions for tribal messiahship
16. I now have given you the name of messiah. Each of you is a tribal messiah. What should you do as a tribal messiah? I have prepared everything that you may need to become a national messiah, world messiah, and cosmic messiah. I have prepared a mountain of treasures for you.
You will inherit them once you become a messiah. They will pass down to you as water flows through a pipe. If you are unable to inherit these things, your descendants will accuse you. (189-248, 1989.04.09)
17. God will not help you, nor will I, my children, or other church members. Still, follow me. Walk the same path I walked in the past. Afterward, you will have freedom. Afterward, a new heaven and earth will unfold. Up to now, there was only one male Messiah, but from now on, we shall have the family messiah.
Up to the present, the single Messiah was severely opposed. However, now, with the family messiah well secured, the accusation will end and without fail you should return to your hometown, take responsibility as a tribal messiah, and proudly proclaim, “I have returned as a tribal messiah!”
This is for you and your descendants. It is like the time when the people of Israel were divided into twelve tribes. We have entered the land of Canaan.
(189-249, 1989.04.09)
18. Do not think only of yourself. Take care of your grandfather and grandmother. Be the last one to go to sleep. Shed blood, sweat, and tears and support not only your sons and daughters, your immediate family, but also your extended family.
This is like the wilderness course. Among the six hundred thousand people who followed Moses, anyone who had food must have wanted to feed only his family. But he or she had to offer that food to Moses.
It did not matter what tribe the person belonged to; his or her heart had to be such that he or she would willingly die together with the others. Even if a hundred days' worth of food would be gone in one day feeding all the others, Moses' twelve tribal leaders had to offer their food to Moses.
Unless you live this way of life, you will not be able to bind people in relationships of heart, from the family to the tribe, people, nation, and world.
Although I established the base to bind together the nations and the world by setting a standard of restoration through indemnity, I cannot set up the base for your tribe. This is your responsibility as the tribal messiah. (187-180, 1989.02.05)
19. The Israelites adopted the culture and traditions of the seven tribes of Canaan, and this was a problem. It led the Israelites to ruin. This is a critical point. Nonetheless, it is different now. We are the center. There is no hope in the outside world, which is declining. The world is looking at you as their only hope.
Starting now, unite and complete your responsibility as messiahs. Just as God said to Joshua and Caleb, I am telling you to be bold and strong. You now have the Parents, Heaven, and a foundation of all the things on earth necessary to restore the right of the eldest son.
Hence, just move forward with all your strength. From behind, God will support you, and the power of True Parents and True Family will protect you, just as they do today. All you need to do is march ahead on one path. That is the way that will lead to victory. (189-252, 1989.04.09)
20. Do not continue to live with the habits you inherited from your mother and father. From now on, be serious about teaching your sons and daughters. If you just leave them the way they are, the Blessing you were given will fall to ruin.
This is why I cannot help but dispatch you, making you take responsibility as messiahs. Don't you know you are living in the greatest time in history? The spirit world and physical world, heaven and earth, are watching you.
The entire universe is watching you. You are called to become the owners who can lead an era of such wonderful love! (189-253, 1989.04.09)
21. A tribal messiah stands as the center of the family and thus is very precious. I am the center of the world-level nation, but you do not have such a position. With you, the five-percent results are not there.
Therefore, I am telling you to love yourself, your spouse, and your family in the way you love God, just as I have loved the world and the nation. Love your extended family the way you love your children and love your family members the way you love your spouse. I am already connecting the nation and the world, so if you do this, you will be connected to them naturally. (187-177, 1989.02.05)
22. You are on a path to establish a base that connects the realm of the heart of the individual to the realm of the heart of the family, tribe, nation, world, and cosmos. I hope you can understand the importance of the level of tribal messiah.
If we look at the family as the formation stage, then the tribe is in the growth stage, and the nation is completed. Beginning with the nation, the nation is formation, the world is growth and the cosmos is completion.
Beginning from the world, the world is formation, heaven, and earth are growth and God is completion. Love is what connects everything. When we look at the principle of development through three stages, the tribal messiah level is crucial to recovering the nation. (187-178, 1989.02.05)
23. If you belong to the Kim family, you have to fulfill the mission of messiah to the Kim family. You need to think that you are the messiah who represents your clan to establish the heavenly kingdom – if you are a Kim, then in the Kim family, and if you are a Park, then in the Park family.
You need to think that you are the savior who can save your clan. To do so, you have to fulfill your responsibility as the high priest representing your clan.
(155-265, 1965.10.31)
24. Selfish individualism is ruining the free world today. How can we save the free world from selfish individualism? The answer is simple. It is by living for the sake of others. We can save the world by doing just one thing, which is to live for the sake of others.
Can the Unification Church unite all religions?
By living for them, we will unite them. We need to live for the sake of others. What is the final destination? What is the solution? To break down the barriers and benefit everyone, what should you do?
You should become a tribal messiah. Only by doing this throughout the world will we eliminate the conditions upon which people accuse us on every level – individual, family, clan, people, nation, and world. (189-110, 1989.03.19)
25. Do you know how fearsome the term “tribal messiah” is? If messiahs cannot fulfill their responsibility, they should be willing to die. Unless you are so willing, you should not come back. With this heart, you need to fulfill the messianic mission. You must not reject the authority of Messiahship.
I am saying that even if you lose your life or your household, do not abandon the authority of Messiahship. Your mother and father cannot kill you, can they? They cannot nail you on the cross, can they? That is your blessing. Had Jesus had such a blessing, how much better it would have been? (197-375, 1990.01.20)
26. Who, by fighting the world and making indemnity conditions, established the tradition of the return to the hometown? I opened and prepared the way for you to establish the tribal realm and even go to the family. Have you walked the course of indemnity for the sake of world-level issues?
You have to become a servant of servants and then, like Abel, a son or daughter. Then, connecting Eve's realm and Adam's realm, you need to return to God. You have to return to God, the Lord of all creation. Such a time is coming. The one, unified vertical realm of the heart has been recovered.
On that foundation, you need to find the realm of heart and enlarge your heart to embrace the individual, family, clan, people, nation, and entire world.
Please keep in mind the wonderful blessing you have received through my overcoming history's thousands of years of bitter pain and sorrow and establishing the realm of tribal messiahship for restoration through indemnity. (197-375, 1990.01.20)
27. I am dispatching the blessed families as tribal messiahs because you represent the families of the world. Hence, please be aware that you men and women are setting the pace for all couples in the world.
The sons and daughters who are born from such responsible men and women become the ancestors of a different lineage, different from the people who have lived on earth up to this time.
Thus, you need to become individuals who can enter the kingdom of heaven directly, as God's sons and daughters. You have to believe in God absolutely, believe in True Parents absolutely, and love humanity absolutely, with both horizontal and vertical love.
When you love with that kind of love, you will settle in the center and secure that place as your own. If you are unable to, you will be unhappy. That is why I exhort you to focus on fulfilling your mission and responsibility on the family level, building an exemplary family, one that stands out. (188-319, 1989.03.01)
The position of a tribal messiah
28. Tribal messiahship, simply speaking, is the work to elevate the Father and Mother to the position of King and Queen. Then, based on the initiating love of our Parents, we can return to the original hometown in which we were born, the original hometown of the kingdom of heaven.
Without doing this, we cannot have the hometown. If we do not fulfill it, there will be no hometown for us, Without that hometown, we will not have the Parents. Only when we establish this hometown will the hometowns of all people who have lived in Korea connect with the hometown of the heavenly kingdom.
Wherever a person was born, it was the place where his or her parents lived. All birthplaces eventually have to belong to the heavenly kingdom. Thus, those parents can inherit the position of parents who have nothing to do with the Fall.
(194-121, 1989.10.17)
29. As a tribal messiah, you are the leader who guides a tribe to its hometown within your lifetime. You are the leader just as Moses was during the Exodus. You should not do this blindly. Your destination is your hometown. However, by the Principle Y, you cannot enter your hometown without recovering Cain.
Since your older brother's tribe remains in Satan's world, you have to save your older brother and have his tribe join yours. Otherwise, they will stay with Satan and be separated from your tribe. When you save your older brother, he will protect you like a hedge.
Then, when you go to your hometown, you can save your extended family. If this achievement is not in place, even if you witness your father and mother, Satan will capture them again. They will be taken again.
Although you witness to your father and mother, to your relatives, and even to the people of your hometown, Satan will drag them away again. Because of this danger, God has no choice but to lead this kind of providence.
(102-265, 1979.01.14)
30. On behalf of God, I dispatched tribal messiahs to the world. Even if I die now, tribal messiahs are engrafted to the vertical world and are bound to expand to the worldwide domain. That is why I am now calling tribal messiahs to become the ancestors of Abel-type families.
These ancestors have the seed of life. Messiahs are the parents, and they have the seed of life. Your family and relatives, including your father and mother, were born from the seed of Satan's world. Hence, if you bring the seed of life and engage actively with people wherever you go, you will be victorious.
(198-269, 1990.02.04)
31. The fact that I gave you the right of tribal messiahship means you inherit the righteousness and results of the religions that have existed throughout history to this day.
Although you know nothing of its value, it means that I have given you the ages of history that have been brought into the position of liberation as if Adam did not fall, Noah did not fail, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did not fail, Moses did not fail, Jesus did not fail, I did not fail, and there were no crosses of suffering and no historical or-deals.
Amid those names, countless martyrs cry out in the hope that the blood they shed may serve as a foundation for their resurrection as good spirits. Those spirits were persecuted and sacrificed while seeking the Way. Through the blood they shed, they serve as a base for Heaven on the horizontal plane.
Their passion to build the kingdom of heaven on earth is in their spilled blood, which is interwoven with the hope of humanity. Tribal messiahship is the culmination of all blessings.
Using the Unification Church and the authority of my victories to condense the mistakes of Judaism and Christianity that have passed down vertically, I am bequeathing all the blessings that believers in other religions, including Buddhism and Confucianism, want to receive. This is what tribal messiahship is about.
(198-273, 1990.02.04)
32. The word “messiah” means the ancestor of the hometown where the clans in the horizontal world dwell. God is the center that holds everything in place. Of primary importance is that God works to establish that place through True Parents.
That is why, when I return to Korea from the United States, the center moves to Korea. When I am not here, you feel something is missing. And when I return, all the empty places are filled again, and you surely feel hope in all directions. A tribal messiah is a tribal king.
The tribal messiah's position is the position of the second parent, which is Jesus' position. The position of those who have received the Blessing from me is higher than that of Jesus.
Thus with pride, you can say, “True Parents have dispatched me as a tribal messiah.” And after you save your tribe, you can be elevated to the position of Adam. (217-125, 1991.05.12)
33. Tribal messiahs are given the Blessing and thus are the seeds of all things in the created world from far back in time, of the men and women of humanity, and all families. They are the seeds. Many families have emerged, but they were not the families that heaven and earth needed or that God needed.
They are not the seeds. When I tell you to go out as tribal messiahs, it means to go to your clans and plant new seeds. Because false, wild olive trees grow there, you have to engraft the true olive tree to them and make an orchard of true olive trees.
This is the greatest fortune possible to come to your household and kin. It is more precious than gaining the nation, gaining the world, and gaining heaven and earth. (197-208, 1990.01.14)
34. With the new experiences and training you have had in unfamiliar lands, and with a new mindset and attitude to work hard for the Will, you should bring change to your entire neighborhood. Do not be a follower.
Invest yourself as God invested Himself in creating from nothing the realm of His object partners of love. So bring your neighbors to unite with you. The spirit world will cooperate as you attain the highest position among the people of your hometown. (179-028, 1988.06.15)
35. Are you going to the place closest to God or the place far away from Him? You are saying you want to go to a place close to God. You've been studying for this purpose, to be close to God. How does studying allow you to do that?
You study so you can absorb the elements that will enable you to become a seed, that is, a seed to transform a broad spectrum of your environment. To achieve this you must transform everything, not by force but naturally.
Only then can people be attracted to you? This is why you should live for the sake of others. Live a life through which you can say, “I am empty. So come into me!” By doing that, don't you think you will connect to life, become a seed, and establish yourself as the one who will endure as Heaven's representative?
With this understanding, go to your hometown as a person who can become a seed. Moreover, through planting more seeds, you will be able to leave behind an environment that Korea, heaven and earth, and God would like to visit.
When you go to the spirit world after having fulfilled this, you will surely be loved as sons and daughters of the heavenly kingdom. You need to set up such a course, beginning now. (197-221, 1990.01.14)
36. Returning to your hometown is like sowing seeds. Since the seed of Adam and Eve turned bad, I am trying to show a new seed and grow a new root through you. When planting new seeds, one needs to spread fertilizer. So you should go out and be ready when people hurl profanities at you.
Prepare to be cursed for a good cause, to endure much suffering. Try it for about three years. Come to think of it, you will not need three years. It is possible to do this in six months. (219-159, 1991.08.29)
Sun Myung Moon