The Hope of Humankind

1. There have never been true parents in all the history. Because there were only false parents on the earth, there were no true parents in the heavenly world either. God is called the Parent of humankind, but what position is God in? For God Himself to become a true parent, He must have true children.

If He does not, He cannot be a true parent. Therefore, when we look at God's position, we see that even though He created us, He could not take the position of the True God, the one who created us. In other words, because the first human ancestors fell, God was unable to become the True God.

If human beings had attained perfection, the true family of humankind with True Parents at the center would have emerged, and together with this true family, the true tribe, true people, true nation, and true world would have emerged.

If this had happened, people would have had blood ties to the True God and would have inherited the heart of the True God. Being related by blood to the True God, they would have formed the people of the True God.

Based on that one person, one nation under God's direct governance would have been established. (83-038, 1976.02.05)

True Parents are the hope of history

2. Because we are fallen people, we are an extended family that has lost its true parents. Since we lost our true parents, we could not become true children.

Even though the highest ideals of goodness that God intended to establish at the time of creation – true parents and true children – all broke down, God has vowed that He will bring true parents into being, even if a course of historical hardship is necessary, even if He has to endure endless hardship and suffering.

At the same time, God is working to restore true children, true husbands and wives, true siblings, true nations, the true world, true humankind, and the true cosmos.

God did not work by coming into the hearts of fallen people from the outset; He started working from a distance. First He connected to fallen people through all things and then through His true Son.

Now He intends to come into the heart of each individual to become the Father of heart. This is the final goal of the providence of restoration. (10-126, 1960.09.18)

3. The history of the fallen world shows us that the parents born into this world are fallen parents.

Fallen parents have created a fallen world. We live in a world connected to false parents. It has nothing to do with the world of the original ideal that God had envisioned and the True Parents envisioned.

Countless people have lived and died during the world's long history, but not one could proudly proclaim to the universe, “I am so happy that I was born as a human being! I have succeeded in all aspects of being human.” (137-081, 1985.12.24)

4. All people in history have hoped to receive and attend the True Parents. God founded the nation of Israel and the religion of Judaism so that they could receive the Messiah. The Messiah is the True Parent. God created Christianity and Christian culture to receive the Lord at his Second Coming.

The returning Lord comes as the True Parent and the third Adam. (51-354, 1971.12.05)

5. What is the hope that we should nurture? We should hope that we can genuinely attend the True Parents who come to the earth on behalf of Heaven. We should not want to attend the True Parents only after they are victorious when all people look up to them and respect them.

Furthermore, we should want to attend them while they are passing through their sorrowful course. Your ancestors feel deep sorrow because they could not attend the True Parents during their course of suffering. It is the hope of all humankind to truly serve the True Parents.

Therefore, you should become true, filial sons and daughters, willing to serve the True Parents in miserable circumstances rather than in glorious ones. (13-291, 1964.04.12)

6. At the time of the True Parents, advent, the nations of the world were relating to each other as brothers and sisters. At the end of the Second World War, the victorious nations liberated the nations that they defeated.

The former, in the position of the older brother, had defeated the latter, in the position of their younger brother. Then these victorious nations blessed the nations in the younger brother's position.

Had they not, the victorious nations would have been held accountable by the Heavenly Parent? That is why this unprecedented historical phenomenon took place.

History has been yearning for the encounter with the True Parents. Religions came about for the sake of that encounter. Furthermore, all the nations of the world are looking for True Parents. Thus, religions and nations emerged with the mission to prepare the way for the True Parents. (51-354, 1971.12.05)

7. The True Parents are the symbol of all hope, the symbol of absolute hope for fallen people. They are the fruit of history, the center of all ages, and the center of all the nations of the world.

True Parents are the starting point of a future that connects to the ideal world. What have our ancestors wished for throughout the ages in history? If the world were united, whom would it wish to find? It would wish to find the True Parents. In other words, it would wish to relate with the True Parents eternally.
(35-237, 1970.10.19)

8. No one in history was able to call out the name “True Parents.” They never even conceived of it.

But today you are in the glorious position of being able to call their name, know them, and attend them. So you are in a happier and nobler position than anyone in history: Many people throughout history toiled and made tremendous sacrifices to lay the foundation for the victory of the True Parents at their coming, and to this day, they are still toiling.

Considering this, you should know that the words “True Parents” that we speak today signify the greatest blessing for humanity. It is because the True Parents are the ones who bring healing to the chaos of history; they are the starting point of our advancement toward a new world; they are laying the internal conditions that can subjugate Satan; and by conquering Satan, the being that has ruled the external world, they are establishing the center that will liberate God.

Therefore, you should first be thankful for this amazing grace by which you can live together with the True Parents, receiving and carrying out their instructions.
(43-144, 1971.04.29)

9. The True Parents represent the greatest hope and the greatest foundation of victory in history. As they are the central point of hope in history, all people must seek them.

The place of historical hope is neither a nation nor the world. Outwardly it may appear to be a nation or the world, but you cannot solve the external world's problems by working through the external world alone.

The purpose of God's providence is to save the world and to do so, He must send good parents to the earth to create a perfect foundation. Without that foundation, there is no way to create a perfect nation or to save the world.

Therefore, the overall hope of history is neither a nation nor the world; it is the True Parents. In this context, people can have neither their ethnic views nor their worldviews.

Ethnic views should emerge only after the True Parents, lineage has been bequeathed to humankind. Tribes and peoples should be organized after inheriting their lineage, and then the world can be restored to God.

Without True Parents, none of these is possible. Without receiving the True Parents, nothing can work. (55-153, 1972.05.07)

10. What has history been searching for? What have all ages been searching for? What should the future search for? It is True Parents. Unless everything is connected to them, we cannot find the standard for real happiness in the course of history or the universe.

As for love, originally its vertical and horizontal foundations, centering on God and human beings, both have to be the same. Ever since these foundations were separated, fallen humankind has yearned to make them one again.

Therefore, Christianity seeks the relationship of the bridegroom and the bride centering on Jesus. (26-199, 1969.10.25)

11. We are seeking our purpose now, not a thousand years in the future. The purpose we have found now is one that even our future descendants will look back to. That purpose is the True Parents. True Parents belong to the past, and also to the present and the future. They are eternal.

Based on this understanding, you should not only welcome True Parents in the coming world; you should yearn to attend True Parents in the present. Although you are living in the present era, you should also become the fruit of the past and the origin of the future. The three eras – past, present, and future-must become one.

Living in the present era, you should become a person who can unite the past that is behind you and the future that is to unfold. By what means will they be united? It is by True Parents' love. With whom should they be united?

It is with their sons and daughters. Who are these sons and daughters? They are those who make True Parents love their center, like the sons and daughters who would have been born of Adam and Eve had they not fallen. They would have come forth from Adam and Eve as the sons and daughters of Heaven.

Hence, when you become a son or daughter of the True Parents, you will be connected to the love of the three ages. Even though you are a fallen people, you must retrace the course of history and regain that position. (26-200, 1969.10.25)

12. If we understood that our original parents, the parents of original nature, were dead, and found a way to bring those parents back to life, we would have to offer indescribable devotions without words to pioneer that path.

Even if we felt wronged and humiliated, with our heartstrings rent and broken by the sorrows of Heaven, we would want to offer unchanging loyalty for their sake. We must prepare the way so that our parents can revive. It is our duty as filial sons and daughters. It is our responsibility.

We must pioneer this way without caring whether we live or die. We shouldn't care about the good things in the world or be dismayed by the bad things, even if the world persecutes us, and we have to go the path of death. Furthermore, we must cleave to the way of loyalty and filial piety to pioneer this way. (20-123, 1968.05.01)

Becoming a son or daughter of the True Parents

13. Today we are attending True Parents in this world where we live. However, this earth is inhabited not only by True Parents* sons and daughters but also by the children of fallen parents.

Originally, all people were to have been God's beloved children, descended from the flesh and blood of True Parents, but due to the Fall, they became fallen sons and daughters instead.

So the Savior must come again as the Lord of the Second Advent to rectify and clear away all the wrongdoing stemming from our first ancestors.
(210-360, 1990.12.27)

14. Jesus was to be the True Parent who had nothing to do with the Fall. He came with the mission of the True Parent. Since Adam and Eve, our first ancestors, fell and created a fallen lineage, they could not become one with God in the original ideal world of His desire, the world that had never experienced the Fall.

They were unable to become the True Parents who give birth to sons and daughters of God's direct lineage. Instead, they had a relationship with Satan and became his minions, giving birth to children who were spiritually dead.

All humankind today is descended from those false parents. You must therefore deny the lineage of the false parents and receive the True Parents.
(14-280, 1965.01.03)

15. The Fall sowed the false love, false life, and false lineage of the devil. People have the love, the life, and the lineage they received from their ancestors. Each is a fruit of the love, life, and lineage inherited from his or her ancestors throughout history.

Because we received Satan's love, Satan's life, and Satan's blood, each of us stands as an enemy of God. Peace on earth cannot come about until we

disengage from, disown, and discard our connection to Satan. That is why I have brought up the ideal of the True Parents.

The True Parents are fighting to eliminate this false love and completely clean away the evil elements that obstruct the work for peace so that individuals, families, tribes, peoples, and nations can be separated from Satan.
(217-185, 1991.05.27)

16. You do not know the innumerable sacrifices Christianity has made to build its current worldwide foundation. The miserable screams of those who were sacrificed and offered on the altar of martyrdom permeate Christian history; they have been heard in every corner of the world. We should know that these bloody altars still exist.

That historical sorrow is right in front of our eyes, and it is our solemn task to resolve it. We must liberate God. What a wretched history Christianity has suffered, from its inception until now! We must liberate it.

America and Christianity have been caring for all humanity as the subject-partner nation and the subject-partner religion representing the cosmos. But now they must not only do that but also receive the right of the victorious prince – the right of the eldest son – for generations and generations to come. (210-361, 1990.12.27)

17. What is the desire of all people? What are their ideals, their hopes? Which of them is their culmination? Which of them do you think comes first?

The greatest hope a person can have is to become a son or daughter of God, and the next is to be a son or daughter who receives God's love. Thereafter, it is to inherit all that belongs to God. There is nothing greater than these.

Each person hopes to become a child of God, to become a son or daughter who receives God's love, and to inherit all that belongs to God. (91-242, 1977.02.23)

18. What is happiness? We human beings lost our parents, and have been orphans for six thousand years; hence happiness is to find our parents for the first time. What could be more joyful than this?

We follow a religion to find such parents. The parents we believed to be lost for eternity can come back to life. If our parents can be brought back to life, we would do whatever it takes to bring them back. Would money be an obstacle in the way of finding our parents? Would our relatives be a problem?

Would our nation or the world pose an issue? Nothing would stand in the way. We should put everything aside and offer all our devotion and effort toward finding our Parents. (20-122, 1985.05.01)

19. God lost His beloved true son and daughter, whom He wanted to love to the fullest. From the viewpoint of the man-woman relationship, the God-centered husband and wife were lost.

From the viewpoint of the child, the true parents were lost. By a single fallen act, God lost these three. How can these three types of love be recovered simultaneously through the principle of restoration through indemnity? How can a standard that God can approve of be established? These are the issues.

First, the standard of a true son and daughter who can be loved by God must be restored. When the son and daughter who have gone through that process come of age, they should unite as husband and wife with God's love at their center.

Then they must give birth to good children to form the four-position foundation that God desires and that can bring Him joy. (22-204, 1969.02.04)

20. All humankind hopes to meet the True Parents. This encounter with the True Parents is the fruit of history, the center of this age, and the foundation for the future. You who are engrafted to them will become their branches.

Up to this point, all the hopes of the ages in history have focused on the future, but the opportunity to connect with True Parents during your lifetime happens only once in eternity. This is a precious chance that comes only once. Your ancestors did not have it, nor will your descendants.

Your hopes do not lie anywhere else. You are to become the devoted sons and daughters of the True Parents. In the future, the True Parents will hold the position of the King of kings on earth. That is why the place where you meet True Parents is the center where all hopes come to fruition, be it the hope of humanity, the hope of history,y or the hope of the present era. Your hopes do not lie elsewhere. (46-168, 1971.08.13)

21. What is the desire of all people today? It is to meet the True Parents, and after that to welcome one global nation. From whom would your future descendants want to be descended?

Your sons and daughters would want to be born through the lineage of True Parents. I am saying that the True Parents will become the starting point of a new future. Those who can fully love True Parents can rightly claim that they completely love history.

They are the ones who truly love the world and who are worthy of loving their descendants in the future. Therefore, you should be grateful to receive love from True Parents, even if you have to sacrifice your life. Then you will be worthy to inherit True Parents' love. (35-237, 1970.10.19)

22. Though we human beings were created by God, we are unable to act as His sons and daughters.

The first reason for this is that God is prevented from freely loving us as His sons and daughters.

Since God cannot love us in that way, we cannot receive love as God's sons and daughters. The second reason is that we are unable to marry as God's beloved sons and daughters.

The third reason is that we are unable to form heavenly families with God's love at the center. If human beings had been able to fulfill these three, they would not have become as miserable as they are today. Therefore, people must seek the place where in the end all will be reunited and where all will abide.

The nations of the world must find their original homeland, the numerous peoples of the world must find their original hometowns, and the numerous tribes must find their original parents. This has been the objective of God's providence to the present day. (21-042, 1968.09.01)

23. Salvation means returning to one's original state. Then, there should be some standards that determine what it means to be restored to one's original state. What is that standard?

Humanity is made up of both men and women. Therefore, the first standard of restoration is not only to become a son or daughter of God. After going through the role of a child, we should form a husband-wife relationship and become true parents so that we can establish a new lineage.

This is the purpose for which God created us and the standard from which our history can begin anew. Therefore, the problem is not one particular nation, people,e or tribe. The concern is also not a specific son or daughter. The issue is that we need True Parents.

The greatest concern for God is to find and establish the True Parents, who are the manifestation of God in the flesh. The greatest concern and purpose for humanity is how to meet the True Parents whom God establishes. (025-173, 1969.10.04)