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The Holy Marriage Blessing Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk
The Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk was held at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center on February 6, 2003.
It was True Father's 83rd birthday and True Mother's 60th. The purpose of the marriage Blessing ceremony, which began with True Parents' Holy Wedding in 1960, is to realize God's hope for the salvation of all people. In particular, through the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, True Parents opened the path for all people of the world to be registered as citizens of Cheon Il Guk.
On that day True Parents expressed their sincere desire that all humanity become citizens of Cheon Il Guk, worthy to inherit heaven and earth, and they urged us to do so.
1. Currently, we have no heavenly nation. It is through the marriage Blessing that we can establish it. We must claim it back from Satan by creating an environment beyond the national level in which he and his evil forces can no longer exist anywhere in the world.
Because we have been involved in false love, we must recover everything with true love based on the marriage Blessing, on all levels, from the individual to the family, tribe, people, and nation. This is what we have to do in Parents to build the heavenly nation.
However, we cannot stop only at the level of forming a nation. The fallen parents created hell in the physical world and the spiritual world. Therefore, the True Parents must recover all levels: the individual, the family, the tribe, the people, the nation, the world, the spirit world, and even the archangel in the spiritual realm.
The way they must recover them is by engrafting their lineage, the lineage of the true olive trees, onto the wild olive trees of the fallen lineage. In this way, they will eliminate all the wild olive trees by having them become one with the true olive trees.
Even though you have not yet gone over the national level, True Parents are now leading a movement to unite the spirit world. I have given the Blessing even to those in the spirit world.
Your ancestors are in the position of the Cain angelic world, but I am now giving the Blessing to those people, who have done too like angels without the ideal of an eternal partner. Once they receive the Blessing, then as blessed families and clans they can enter Cheon Il Guk. (405-206, 2003/02/11)
2. God could not conduct the Holy Wedding because He did not have His nation. This is also the reason His children could not be registered in the heavenly nation. Adam's Fall caused God to lose His nation, and because He had no nation in which to conduct the Holy Wedding, it could not be held.
Because there was no Holy Wedding, God could not register His son and daughter as His true children, and there is no question that Earth became Satan's household, over which Satan could exercise virtually absolute authority.
This situation must be overcome, not by force but by digesting it and then by bringing Satan to voluntary submission. Only when such a foundation is secured can God return His original ideal for which He had created heaven and earth with His love at the center to its starting point and then expand it to every corner of the world. This is the way He can claim supremacy over heaven and earth.
With Adam's Fall, everything fell away from God. Therefore, Adam, after reaching perfection, had to hold the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship. Based on this, he conducted the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk. (408-061, 2003/05/30)
3. Heavenly Father, we the True Parents, embracing the cosmos, have joined as husband and wife in marriage through the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk.
In this way, we can establish the tradition of True Parents, who, in realizing the original ideal of creation both in heaven and on earth, are fulfilling the hope that You have long cherished in Your heart.
Having already taken steps to liberate heaven and earth, now with this ceremony, we have begun building the framework of the heavenly nation, where blessed families can enter for the first time.
All blessed families on earth, having inherited true love, true life, and true lineage, are in the position of Abel. The blessed families in heaven and all the human ancestors are in the position of Cain.
May those in the spirit world support the blessed families on earth. May God and all the saints, sages, and good spirits in heaven also support the blessed families on earth. May all blessed families on earth, in the position of the younger brother, attend all those in the spirit world as their older brother and bring the total victory of oneness between heaven and earth.
May the entire creation receive them, the blessed families bonded in lineage with the True Parents who can embrace the whole cosmos and all its creatures from the smallest to the largest, granting their ensuing generations of offspring eternal liberation and the supreme victory of love.
Through them, may all creation experience the joy of original life and the abundance of original happiness!
O God, You gave us life so that we could become True Parents. May You absorb even our bodies, if that is what it takes to bring unity among all the blessed families who are centered on True Parents' love, and bring unity between them and all others in the entire universe, that they may be as one.
We thank You that we can offer us as Your created beings so that we may cross the threshold of a new age, and so that we may bind ourselves to Cheon Il Guk, the liberated realm of the Blessing.
The Holy Marriage Blessing ceremony held today is a joyous event in the spiritual world and the physical world. The Parents of Heaven and Earth rejoice in their liberation. The incorporeal Parent of the Cosmos also rejoices in this victory, for it brings Him liberation.
May all the blessed families of Cheon Il Guk, in both the spiritual world and the physical world, unite centering on the ideal of oneness in heart, oneness in body, oneness in thought, and oneness in harmony and move forward toward the ideal fatherland that You have longed for.
May they all become citizens worthy of Cheon Il Guk, who can inherit the blessed heaven and earth based on the original standard of God's ideal of creation. May they all achieve liberation and complete victory. I proclaim all these things in the name of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth, with their special authority and power. (404-282, 2003/02/06)
4. Heavenly Father, on this day, February 6, 2003, may all the blessed families in the spiritual world and the physical world enter Cheon Il Guk, as these two worlds establish a sibling relationship, following the way of the heavenly Principle.
May all ancestors in the spirit world, who stand in Cain's position, as well as all families on earth, in Abel's position, receive the marriage Blessing and become siblings in the True Parents' bloodline.
Thank You for allowing us to welcome this day, when we open heaven and earth to Cheon Il Guk. It marks a new dawn of hope, the start of the recreation of heaven and earth, when the spirit world ancestors in the elder brother's position become the descendants of those in the physical world in the younger brother's position, while those in the physical world become the ancestors of their bloodline based upon their merit as blessed families. (404-284, 2003/02/06)
5. Heavenly Father, I truly want to open the gate to Cheon Il Guk, so all families will follow the True Parents' traditions and inherit everything from them their name, their words, their accomplishments, and their victories.
Those families will strive to fulfill the ways of filial children, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters. I sincerely wish and hope that as they strive to fulfill this ideal, everything that the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth desire will be realized. I humbly ask You to make all this happen.
I ask that You give the marriage Blessing so that these children may become Your heirs and descendants, worthy to inherit the realm of the original kingship, the realm of liberation for all, and enter the heavenly nation of unity, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.
Then, finally, your single-minded desire to fulfill the ideal of creation will be liberated. I report this in the name of the True Parents. (404-285, 2003/02/06)
6. You blessed members are now like the fruit. Your marriage Blessing has been recorded in the heavenly nation. You have registered your birth in that nation, as True Parents did.
Hence, you can now advance to the position of True Parents' direct sons and daughters, become complete seeds, and bear the fruit of the heavenly nation wherever you go. Therefore, you are now the owners of Cheon Il Guk.
Due to the Fall of Adam and Eve, human beings today have fallen on every level, from the individual to the family, tribe, people, nation, and world. Even so, True Parents set all the conditions necessary to reach the level that even Jesus was unable to reach.
Now that you are registered in the heavenly nation and have recorded your marriage Blessing in that nation, you, like True Parents, can inherit everything from God.
Since the time has arrived when you can stand in the same position as the True Parents, if you can move to the United Nations, then wherever you go you will be able to enter the heavenly kingdom. I am not talking about the formation-level heavenly kingdom or the growth-level heavenly kingdom.
We are now in an era when we can go beyond those. This means that even apart from God and True Parents, you yourselves have been given authority, as the fruit of the true olive trees, to engraft others and transform them into perfect seeds. This is why you can claim to be the owners of Cheon Il Guk.
The heavenly nation that was vacant for thousands of years can now be filled with citizens, of the first generation, the second generation, and on and on for thousands of generations. With the emergence of the true human ancestors, the first, second, and succeeding generations can emerge and continue forevermore. (410-109, 2003/07/02)
7. As blessed central families and owners of Cheon Il Guk, you are now liberated from the providence of salvation. Therefore, you can represent the True Parents and walk the path for the Will even without God's help.
You will no longer need to pray for divine assistance. You are called the owners of Cheon Il Guk because you stand in a position equal to True Parents.
Thus, henceforth, even if we leave you alone and do not help you, you should be able to build the kingdom of heaven. As we the True Parents have been building it, you should do the same.
You need to recover your nation and even the world by spreading the marriage Blessing. In so doing, you need to overcome the challenge of connecting them to the realm of resurrection and the realm of eternal life. We already overcome all the challenges on every level.
As True Parents' children, you are assuredly the same fruit as us, a fruit that is manifesting as the owners of Cheon Il Guk.
Since we have sown our seeds in your families, you naturally will be able to give birth to members of the royal family and thus build the kingdom. This is why, undoubtedly, you own Cheon Il Guk. (408-114, 2003/06/03)
8. The Blessing you are now receiving is your registration in Cheon Il Guk. It is only because the word 'registration' is included that this Blessing makes you citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Since you fell away from the heavenly nation, you must return to it. This is what is achieved through the Registration Marriage Blessing. Through it, everything can be fundamentally resolved. (464-127, 2004/08/08)
9. This is the time for all to register. It is the time to simultaneously reconnect everything that was divided – the East and the West, heaven, and earth, up and down, right and left, parents and children, man and woman, and siblings. It is the time when everyone can be born again by connecting to True Parent's already overcome lineage through the Blessing.
Even families that lived several thousand years ago can be reborn and registered. They are not reborn by their stepfather and stepmother but by their direct Father and direct Mother. Once they are reborn, they can enter the heavenly world that has been vacant and fill it all at once.
However, to make Parents to who have this happen, you need to reach the standard that you love your enemies as your brothers and sisters because God and True Parents love them and want you to love them on their behalf. Unless you can stand in that position, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
(409-183, 2003/06/25)
The Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth
On February 6, 2003, True Parents held the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity, following the True Parents' Holy Marriage Blessing Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk.
This inaugurated the True Parents as the family king and laid the foundation to advance toward their becoming the peace king, the king of kings, on every level of tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmos.
This ceremony was the fruit of the 6,000-year providence of restoration, and by it True Parents established the substantial foundation for the new era of Cheon Il Guk. Thereby they completed the era of the providence of salvation and restoration through indemnity. Then they're building committed themselves to substantially building Cheon Il Guk, God's homeland.
10. Up to now, we have given the marriage Blessing to 400 million couples, even blessing multitudes of couples in the spirit world. However, entry into the kingdom of heaven also requires that you participate in the Unification Blessing Ceremony for Registering the Four-Position Foundation at the Transition of the Three Ages. That is a step of preparation.
At the time we inaugurated that ceremony, I proclaimed we must enter the age of noon settlement.
There the sun will shine directly above us, whether in the morning or the afternoon. No shadow will be cast. Nor will there be any shadow in the evening or at night. Only when you enter the age of noon settlement and live without casting any shadow, 24 hours a day in all seasons – spring, summer, fall, and winter – can you become princes and princesses in the heavenly nation. God is in the position of noon at all times, so you also should be in that position. You will then belong to His extended family. (415-186, 2003/08/14)
11. On True Parents' birthday, the 6th day of the 1st lunar month of 2003, we held the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, and then the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity.
Where must we, the True Parents, go now? We still have to climb to the summit and then go over it. If we only climb to somewhere in the middle and come down, our ascent will not have been complete.
Where did we go after completing the year 2000? The summit we reached then was the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship. However, God still had no country to call His own. In preparation for Cheon Il Guk, on September 26, 2000, we held the Unification Blessing Ceremony for Registering the Four-Position Foundation at the Transition of the Three Ages.
You have to be registered in the heavenly nation. This is why I gave the directions to make Cheon Il Guk registration cards and have you register to receive them. If you regard your registration card as you regard True Parents and cherish it as much as you cherish God, things will work out for you wherever you go. You will shine like a diamond, like a luminescent stone. (424-142, 2003/11/06)
12. The Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity was a significant event.
By this ceremony, God and True Parents now stand as the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, and reign over the family. Further, they have finally established a nation where God reigns as King over the tribes, people, and nations of the world for the first time in history. This means they can all become one.
In the spirit world up to now, God had no form. Messages from the Spirit World stated that the incorporeal God is not visible, but the True Parents appear on the right-hand side of God, who manifests as a pillar of fire. (429-025, 2003/12/23)
13. The time will come when God will give me an award. When He does, I will pass that award to Mother. Then, all blessed families and all Unification Church members in heaven and on earth also should honor Mother by offering her an award for her victory.
With the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity, the incorporeal God assumes corporeal substance as the True Parents, the image of God; also the True Parents, who live in the earthly realm, ascend to the throne of the incorporeal Parent in the heavenly world.
Originally, this should have happened at the time of Adam and Eve, after they perfected their family. Now with the True Parents ascending to their thrones, the blessed families of the world will become the princes and princesses of the heavenly nation, and God will be able to settle within both the spiritual world and the physical world. (429-025, 2003/12/23)
14. After the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship, and after the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, we held the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, and later that day the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity.
If I am truly the Savior, Messiah, Lord at the Second Advent, and True Parent, as God says I am, then what I am doing must be right. Adam and Eve could not become the family king and queen centering on God.
Hence, God also could not proclaim Himself to be the Family King. Therefore, we, the True Parents, had to do all this. (431-151, 2004/01/14)
15. We held the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, and later that day the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity. Since the gates of Cheon Il Guk were opened, God's family can finally go forth. All 12 gates of pearl have been opened.
Based on the opening of these gates free from the Fall, the Lord at the Second Advent can begin as the family king. This is what happened on February 6, 2003.
Although I am now the family king, I must become the tribal king. Satan, by his false love, captured the summit, centering on love, and claimed the three stages: the formation, growth, and completion realms.
Thus, for us to escape from him, the Third Adam had to come as the Lord and open those gates.
However, he could not do it alone. To open the gates to the heavenly nation, he had to make it so that the blessed families, who received persecution throughout the world, were able to pass over 12 peaks.
This is how the gates of Cheon Il Guk opened, and we could hold the Enthronement Ceremony of the Family King.
From this time forth, we can live a normal family life as you do. Hence, not only should we be able to recover the world, we should be able to enjoy life with our children and grandchildren.
This is necessary for the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth to become the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.
(489-017, 2005/02/25)
16. Now that we have opened the gates of Cheon Il Guk, you have to register in that nation. Even our beloved Heung-jin in the spirit world asked me to let the spirit world be part of that registration, and I immediately granted his request.
Once you are registered, you must not show any traits of your fallen nature to those who are also registered. In the spirit world, you cannot hide anything. This is why I am saying that to live in the kingdom of heaven you must not demonstrate any trace of your fallen nature. You must cut it all away.
Further, you need to relinquish the right to own your possessions. This is why you must conduct the Holy Burning Ceremony. All of you must pile up your clothes, burn all of them, and then go over the hill of fallen nature.
You should be able to say, 'Farewell, fallen world. I have no more attachments to you.' Lot's wife looked back due to her attachment to the world. That is why she turned into a pillar of salt, becoming a symbol of regret in history.
You must leave everything behind, put aside attachments to your brothers and sisters, and overcome every obstacle by single-mindedly thinking of others first. You need to begin a brand-new life; otherwise, you cannot enter the kingdom. This is why I was so serious while pursuing my path. (460-181, 2004/07/17)
17. Cheon Il Guk was formed after the establishment of the Fourth Israel. With the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, we as the True Parents could hold our Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony.
That ceremony is what established God's nation. During the ages of Adam, Jesus, and the Lord at the Second Advent, Cheon Il Guk did not exist; in those ages, the spirit, and flesh were not united. To create Cheon Il Guk, where the physical and spiritual worlds are united, it was necessary to proclaim the Fourth Israel.
The day was October 20, 2002. We had just concluded the Holy Burning Ceremony. Through the Ceremony for the Unity of the Physical World and Spirit World, and after symbolically burning everything of the fallen world, True Parents could finally take root on earth.
Then, to usher in that new age, on the day after completing the Holy Burning Ceremony I announced the Fourth Israel. Upon that foundation, we could proclaim the Nation of the Fourth Israel and then hold our Holy Marriage Blessing.
After the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship on January 13, 2001, we held the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk on February 6, 2003, and later that same day the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity. That is how we became the family king. (430-013, 2003/12/30)
18. If we are only the family king, we cannot proclaim God's fatherland. To proclaim God's fatherland, I traveled from the bottom of hell to the summit of heaven, undergoing trials and suffering almost to the point of death.
This is how, on May 4, 2003, I was able to proclaim the transition from the realm of Satan's dominion to the realm of God's dominion based on God's ideal of creation.
From that day on, since it was necessary for us to establish the fatherland, I mobilized everyone to work with all our strength. This is how I came to announce the abolition of the ages of restoration through indemnity, the end of the ages of indemnity.
That day was July 13, 2003, in the month before August, the 8th month. Thus, before going over the number 7, I proclaimed the abolition of the providential age of restoration through indemnity.
This means that the nations and religions of the world will come to an end. After all, as a result of the Fall, the nations that now exist are within Satan's domain. Furthermore, if not for the Fall, there would be no religions.
Thus, now that the providence of restoration through indemnity is abolished, the ages when people need religion and politics are coming to an end, and the age of God's nation, the fatherland of His sovereignty, is at hand. This is a fair and logical conclusion from the standpoint of the Principle. (430-123, 2004/01/01)
Sun Myung Moon