Most high and noble Heavenly Parent!
I bow in front of You in infinite gratitude, within the endless grace of the 6th year of Cheon Il Guk. The new year of the pig that we are welcoming marks the 100th anniversary of the day, in March 1919, when Christian democrats and students shouted in front of the world for Korean independence. This brings us closer to the unification of this nation.
Though many righteous people and pioneers sincerely longed for the independence of this nation throughout its history, their devotion, and effort could not prevent Korea from being divided into North and South.
And we have come to the point where we see that political, religious, or human effort alone cannot undo this division. In particular, today, these people, whom You have since long ago embraced and raised until now to bring about the completion of the providence, must know about the truth of that history.
The unification of Korea, which we so longed for, cannot come about based on human effort alone. The true unification of Korea can only take place from a position in which we attend God, our Heavenly Parent, Creator, and the Owner of this universe, and in which we have received the Blessing of the True Parents.
I sincerely pray that humankind today will come to realize that the only way to establish a world with no war or conflict that all people have sought to realize, and the only way to bring down all man-made barriers, including the religious, cultural, and racial barriers, is through You, God, the true Owner of this universe and our Creator, and that without welcoming the perfected True Parents, who have come to realize Your wish and dream, in this fallen world, people cannot become Your sons and daughters.
Through the past that You have shown us, please enable this nation to understand that only when Korea is unified and fulfills its responsibility as a people blessed by Heaven, and becomes a heavenly unified Korea that attends Heavenly Parent, will this nation have a future and have hope.
With only one year left until 2020, the year about which the 20,000 blessed families here today made their commitment before Heaven, I sincerely pray that this nation will become a central nation in front of the world that fulfills its responsibility as a people who know who the true Owner is, and as a blessed people who are citizens of Cheon Il Guk.
I offer You my sincere gratitude for the infinite love and grace You have shown these people, remaining with them amid numerous hardships and difficulties. This people now need to know. This person must not become a person who misses the time of the completion of the providence.
Two thousand years ago, You sent Jesus Christ through the people of Israel, whom you had raised for 4,000 years. The people of Israel, however, did not know the essence of Jesus, and thus they paved the way for his tragic crucifixion.
What happened to these people?
They were dispersed and lived without a country for two thousand years. During World War II, 6 million were massacred.
We all know about the history of indemnity they had to go through. This is the consequence that befalls a people that fails to welcome the True Parents of humankind, whom Heaven prepared to send through investing much effort over time.
Heaven chose the Korean people and made preparations to send His only-begotten daughter, who would complete the providence. Despite the hardships it was going through, this nation continued to hold on to You, our God in Heaven.
You know the pain of a people without a nation. At a time when democracy in South Korea stood helpless as the Korean War raged, we saw a miracle of God in the sending of the UN forces and the protection of democracy.
Just as You gave all people a period of growth following Your principles of creation, You protected me, Your only-begotten daughter, until I reached adulthood. As a result, in 1960, we could take our position as the True Parents.
Without the Christian foundation to support us, True Parents had to start from the very bottom. And I thank You from the bottom of my heart for Your work and for the infinite protection you provided us during the ensuing 50 years until we could establish a foundation across the world.
Since Your Will must be accomplished without fail, the True Parents, who have borne that responsibility, have invested their everything for that until now.
As we usher in the final year of the Chinese 60-year calendar cycle [cycle of ten heavenly trunks and twelve earthly branches] and prepare to begin a whole new cycle with the year of the rat in 2020, this nation must accept Heaven’s Blessing, become a nation that fulfills its responsibility, and become a nation of whom Heavenly Parent can proudly say, “Truly, this is my homeland where my beloved sons and daughters live.”
As a nation, that Heavenly Parent is to work through and a nation that is to become Heaven’s homeland, all the blessed families that have gathered here today should completely invest themselves in educating its people so that our country can stand strong as God’s homeland in front of the world as God desires.
When all people in this nation, without exception, receive the Blessing and Heavenly Parent can wholly embrace our country, what will there be to worry about? I sincerely pray that all blessed families will become proud blessed families of the Unificationist community that, through this nation, can show the world the realization of the dream of one great family under Heavenly Parent, a dream that this nation and the world have longed to see come true.
O Heavenly Parent! Though this nation remains inadequate in front of Your tremendous and infinite grace, I pray and proclaim in front of You, Heavenly Parent, and front of this nation and world, that Korea will do its best to accomplish Your dream without fail.
Sun Myung Moon
True Mother’s New Year Speech
National Prayer to Open the Era for a Unified, Heavenly Korea January 1, 2019 – Cheongshim Peace World Center
Beloved blessed families and members here and watching through the live broadcast around the world: I love you! I proclaim that we are proud blessed families standing at the forefront who will fulfill our Heavenly Parent’s dream and what humanity has longed for.
Heaven’s providence is astonishing. There are twelve signs in the Chinese zodiac.
This year [of the pig] is the last year of the cyclical rotation of the zodiac signs. In 2020, a new cycle will begin. Although you have gone through difficult circumstances, among our blessed families in Korea, several of you have ancestors whom you can be proud of, since they pioneered our nation. Unfortunately, they did not fully understand Heaven’s providence.
All of humanity yearns for a peaceful world, but not even once throughout the six thousand years of biblical history was there an era without war or conflicts. That is because our beginning was steered incorrectly. We know what caused the Fall.
Since we know the cause, we must educate those who are unaware of it. The original owner of the universe is the Creator, God. There are more than 200 nations in today’s world. Large and small nations want to possess the universe’s resources for themselves.
Hak Ja Han Moon
However, nothing is theirs. The Creator, God is the owner. Unless God recognizes a nation, that nation cannot claim anything for itself. Only people, who are in the position of God’s children, can possess what God bequeaths to them.
We need to help people understand God. Our Creator God made all things in heaven and on earth and then created a man and a woman capable of becoming humankind’s good ancestors. He gave them special privileges.
During their growth period, they were to grow in absolute unity with God; after receiving God’s blessing, they would have been in the position of humankind’s true ancestors, the True Parents, in whom God would have dwelt substantially.
God bequeathed this blessing to them, but they lost the qualifications to become humanity’s true, good ancestors. Therefore, God had no choice but to restore through indemnity and the history of the providence of salvation.
How difficult must it have been for God to send His only-begotten son, whom He could call “My son,” after a period of four thousand years when nobody understood Jesus—not Mary, who had conceived Jesus, nor the central figures at that time, nor even the people of Israel?
Today’s two-thousand-year-old Christianity believes that Christians will receive salvation through the blood of the cross. After Jesus was crucified, he said he would return, and when he returned, he would host the marriage supper of the Lamb.
If there had been someone wise, that person would have searched for where, when, and how the only-begotten daughter, who was to become Jesus’ partner, would be born.
God is an omnipotent and omniscient being. His beginning and end are the same. So, God must be victorious. However, giving humans special privileges became problematic, so God waited for six thousand years for the True Parents to arise from fallen humanity to bring victory back to God.
While waiting, God blessed this peninsula, the Republic of Korea.
In that case, shouldn’t the citizens of the Republic of Korea receive True Parents’ blessing?
You have to fulfill your responsibilities. With blessings come responsibilities. If you cannot fulfill those responsibilities, the indemnity owed will increase.
One year is the time we have left. Do you understand? In the Year of the Pig, we will achieve national restoration without fail! Please push for the citizens of the Republic of Korea to qualify as citizens of Cheon Il Guk.
Hak Ja Han Moon