Restoration through Indemnity
You learned the word, "Restoration through Indemnity." Restoration through indemnity means that you will indemnify large issues by making a small condition.
For example, there are one hundred people who need to be forgiven. If there is one person who only loves and longs for God, while embracing the ideal of Heaven in his heart without a word of complaining, despite being beaten by Satan as a representative of the one hundred, the sins of the one hundred people would be indemnified in exchange for his suffering and beatings.
A human being who stands to go through the indemnity course must be resolved to love and long for God and the Heavenly Kingdom in his heart, resolute only for Heaven born for Heaven, living for Heaven, and dying for Heaven. He must know that he was initiated from Heaven, to go through the process of Heaven, and return to his final destination, Heaven. With this conviction, as he goes over the beatings, the sins of the one hundred people will be forgiven.
In other words, it is restoration through indemnity that as one person is chosen to stand in the position to represent the one hundred people and is beaten in place of them, those one hundred people will be spared from being beaten, and they are elevated from the evil position to the position of goodness. Do you understand what I am talking about?
Then, how can you find this history that is the history of restoration through indemnity?
You will know that it is true if you see the providence of God. Human history is the history of restoration through indemnity. Therefore, I can proceed with God's work only by using and centering on four or five true persons here. Do you disagree with my word?
I have been living according to this principle. If I go to Japan, all the local churches will call me throughout the night by phone telling me, "We will repay thousands and tens of thousands of times for your grace to us; please, just drop a letter of greeting to us." I don't even ask for them to do this, but they can't help it. No one at Headquarters even knows about this.
So, what kind of period are we going through now?
We are going through the period of the restoration through indemnity. Also, this period corresponds to the time of outreach or witnessing. What is the purpose of this witnessing period? It is to connect the worldwide providence of setting up 120 holy grounds centering on the forty providential nations that I selected. Through witnessing, you will create relationships with these nations. Rev. Moon has been contemplating and conducting various things over the last three years for the purpose of this restoration through indemnity.
In human history, you find good events and evil events. There were good societies and nations, but they did not last forever. After a certain period passed, an evil period became predominant. This is the same principle that applies to the time of indemnity.
It is human nature that people offer their sincerity before important events when they are facing major problems. Also, when you set up your purpose, you invest your sincere effort to achieve it. You may set up a one-hundred-day prayer or other prayer period and then offer your sincerity. Especially, believers of religions ardently offer their sincerity. Then, why do people give their utmost sincerity? It is for the sake of indemnity.
Sincerity and Indemnity
You must know that you should not allow Satan to invade important tasks that you must accomplish for the future. Nor, should you allow the chosen people to be expelled from their respective positions. To keep away from these possibilities, you must indemnify all the evil elements beforehand, while putting yourself in the position of being willing to receive indemnity to rid yourself of all elements regarding evil and sins.
This is why you must always give your utmost sincerity. When you want to offer your sincerity, you cannot do it while you casually conduct your life by eating and sleeping.
It is impossible to offer your sincerity when you are in the position of having all you want to eat, sleep as much as you want, and wear clothing that you enjoy wearing. For this reason, in preparing to face an important event, you must put yourself in the position to conduct a showdown with Goin D. You must be prepared to be hit beforehand.
If God does not punish you, you should even initiate to punish yourself, on your own. If you get punished, what will happen? You will place yourself as the object to God. This is the principle of restoration by which God advanced throughout history.
Seeing from this standpoint, I consider this time now as a special providential period. So, as much as I can I would like to visit all holy grounds within a certain period. I don't think of anything else. Even when I have visited our factory several times, in my mind I am always thinking, about the path that we all must go, what I must accomplish at such a time as this. On top of this, all members overseas depend on and expect our country to achieve great things. However, our Korean members are not even dependable. Ourexpectmembers have an extremely high opinion of Korean members here at the Headquarters; so much so that you cannot even imagine. They think you are of the highest possible human existence that they can imagine.
Let me give you some examples. They think I can go up and down stairways as if I am on some kind of cloud. Also, when I eat food I don't use my chopsticks with my hand but food would miraculously convey to my mouth. Or, they believe that I don't need to go to the bathroom. As soon as they come to know God's will, they start thinking of Korea and me as the highest possible existence. Because of such a view of me, whenever I see overseas members, I feel naturally embarrassed. Why am I telling this story? I feel embarrassed and, somewhat, become self-conscious in my heart. Where else can you find such a story under the sun? So, you must offer your sincerity much greater than those overseas members. When they offer donations or any other offerings, they bow tens of hundreds of times and pray deeply.
We, Korean members,s must know this fact. When you receive donations or offerings that were given with such sincerity, if you treat them casually without appreciating their value, you will be judged by the offerings. You must understand this point clearly.
Even a good king who does not act properly namely, if he treats carelessly those who serve him with deep sincerity will face a destiny of ruin. By the same token, if the staff people who follow the king mistreat the subjects who offer their sincerity, they will be cast out as rebellious traitors of Heaven. For this reason, I never treat those, who give their sincerity. Carelessly. So, I will visit holy grounds as much as I can find the free time, in this period (to reply to the sincerity offered to me).
Then, what will I do next? I will reflect on my deeds thinking of what God has done for me in my past life. So, by reflecting on my past, I will share all the grace that I received from God since He called me and assisted me when I was dealing with certain tasks. All members who gathered here have various and unique processes of spiritual growth. In the same way, as you move toward the gate of Heaven, every one of you will go different paths.
Since all of you go different paths, I walk the path of restoration through indemnity in order that all of you can be connected in your heart. I have a responsibility to offer all of you before God by connecting all of the members by the grace of God's heart that was given to me as He assisted me throughout my life. This is the reason why I am visiting holy grounds in this time period.
Requirements in the Course of Indemnity
While my head was being shaved when I entered the prison, I prayed to God. I prayed that my head is not shaven because of my desire, but rather it is being shaven forcibly by my enemy against my will. You would never know how bright my eyes were with my determination. Watching my hair fall as my head was shaved, it was a miserable moment to abandon my desire for happiness.
An even sadder thing was that it was forced upon me by the hands of my enemy. As you pursue the course of restoration, you face adverse circumstances that are filled with bitter pain and sorrow. When you are experiencing such situations, you will be confronted with resentful feelings. However, as I passed through them, I realized that God remembered every second of my suffering so that I could overcome these challenges and hardships.
As I was tortured repeatedly day after day and fell to the floor being beaten and whipped by my enemy, it was still the same. When I was whipped, was b not for my own sake but for the sake of my people. And I shed tears not for my misery but for my people's pain as the representative of my people. My tears were the tears for indemnity.
I embraced God while trembling as I went on this course. I had to go through this course of indemnity until I could receive God's compassion. I went this path by myself. I had to overcome this path all alone. I know Jesus went the same path with the same attitude. While he walked the path of restoration through indemnity as the representative, the tears he shed were not the tears resulting from his concern for his death. Jesus shed tears out of his concern for his people's demise. As people who were to follow him, Jesus shed tears concerning them as they were destined to face the final judgment from Heaven as the result.
When I visited Jerusalem, I saw the signs that indicated the places where Jesus fell as he walked to the top of Golgotha. Looking at the twelve places where Jesus fell, I told to myself, "He had to go such a path of indemnity."
Therefore, I prayed while following his path to the cross, "How miserable and painful the situations that Jesus faced as he visited places like the desert and the wilderness, in darkness while carrying the new Heavenly Mission two thousand years ago? Ignoring all wealthy peoples of the world, Jesus visited the scrawny Israel nation and people instead. In this place, I know there was the desperation of God's situation, trying to resolve the resentment of the Israel people quickly."
Everyone who visits this place must offer a prayer of consolation for Jesus knowing his situation walking to the cross. Then, Satan is worried and God will be consoled. Because of such prayers, Satan cries with sorrow while God cries tears of joy.
When God wept in sorrow because Adam fell, both Satan and Adam shed tears, too. Satan shed tears because he was chased out after he had betrayed God. And Adam shed tears because of the fall. This is the reason why Jesus shed tears, Satan shed tears and Adam too shed tears. Because of this, at the hill of the course of restoration, restoration cannot be achieved without both God and Satan shedding tears. You, yourselves, too must shed tears. Unless you shed tears that move God to tears and make Satan cry, restoration is not possible. You must know that this is a required condition in the course of restoration.
You must know how lonely I have gone through carrying the Heavenly Mission and dealing with the major problems in the world. I am not saying this to get your sympathy. I am a very lonely man. You may not realize this because there are so many people who have been following me. However, in my heart of hearts, I am a lonely person. I am a very lonesome man, who can receive no sympathy from anyone.
As no one gave sympathy to Adam and Eve, so, too, I do not get any sympathy from anyone. I am not pitied by Satan nor do I not seek sympathy from God. If I seek any sympathy, it is to find comfort in my wisdom and in knowing that I am struggling in the place where I give my tears, blood, and sweat, while offering my utmost sincerity to God. You must know my course going through this path fil, led with bitter sorrow. You must know this as the path you must follow today and tomorrow. Moreover, you must engrave in your hearts that you go on this path for the course of world restoration, a purpose, race, and people.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
