The Providence of the Cheon II Guk Era

1. As we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly historic turning point. It is a point of decision between realizing everlasting world peace or repeating the twentieth century's bleak and oppressive history of war and conflict.

The twentieth century was a period of ceaseless struggle, including nations scrambling to gain colonies, the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War, to which the United Nations mobilized the forces of sixteen nations. They were mobilized to the Korean peninsula under God's providence to regain God's homeland of peace.

Even after that, however, humanity had to endure a period of conflict and hostility during the Cold War between East and West. Living through this era, I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.

I have always prayed sincerely that the United Nations, founded after the Second World War, would be an institution for peace, and that it would uphold God's Will for the realization of eternal world peace.

2. The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to peace since 1945. Nevertheless, around its sixtieth anniversary in 2005, there was a broad consensus, both inside and outside the organization, that the UN had yet to discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes.

The number of member states approaches two hundred, but the offices of these states do little more than represent and even insist on their interests. They seem inherently unable to resolve conflicts and achieve peace.

The emergence of the Universal Peace Federation

3. Throughout history, people have worked continuously for peace based upon human effort alone. Consider the confrontation between democracy and communism. Outwardly, the difference between the two is the extent to which they recognize and assure individual rights and freedoms.

Yet from the viewpoint of God's providence, communism and democracy are like children who have lost their parents. The two divided into the positions of Cain and Abel, respectively, and became trapped in the chains of fraternal conflict.

Throughout history, peace movements inevitably reached their limit and failed because imperfect human beings carried them out. This is why the United Nations, although launched with the splendid dream of realizing world peace, today must admit its inherent limitations and confess that it can no longer give hope to humanity.

This is simply because the UN was launched during the era before the time when God could govern the unfolding of His providence in history directly.

4. Now, however, it is entirely possible for the Universal Peace Federation to fulfill its mission to unite heaven and earth and form the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. This is because it represents God's victory and the fruit of the True Parents' blood, sweat, and tears.

Therefore, the Universal Peace Federation is the world's cherished hope. It will carry out the role of an Abel-type counterpart to the existing Cain-type United Nations, to renew the UN and provide the leadership for a new sovereignty of universal peace, Cheon II Guk.

5. The Universal Peace Federation will now stand in the Abel position to the existing UN. It will not be an arena of competition like that between the member nations and departments of the UN. Instead, on a pan-global level encompassing heaven and earth, it will carry out a history-shaping revolution for the peace and welfare of humanity.

Unlike the UN, which focuses on superficial issues and slogans, the Universal Peace Federation will fulfill the messianic mission that genuinely benefits humankind on a fundamental and substantive level.

With this purpose in mind, on October 20 last year, while in Ukraine during my world speaking tour conveying the inaugural message of the Universal Peace Federation in 120 nations, I proclaimed before the world the inauguration of the global peace kingdom police force and the global peace kingdom corps.

These two organizations will play roles corresponding to those of the red blood cells and white blood cells of our bodies. In all corners of the world, they will nourish and protect the blessed families who have made a new beginning by engrafting into the lineage of Heaven.

They will be sentinels, defending, protecting, and cultivating this beautiful world, this Garden of Eden given to us by God, for which we need to be grateful.

6. To build the ideal kingdom of heaven that is God's desire, I am promoting the world's most ambitious project, which is to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait. This will be part of the International Highway of Peace that is to connect all oceans and continents and allow people to travel freely around the globe.

The United Nations, which began with the noble ideal of realizing world peace, is now only a shadow of what it was meant to be. Unable to turn my back on this sad reality, I am promoting the renewal of the UN.

Supporting these efforts, I have founded the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) as the new Peace UN, or Abel-type UN, with the belief that we need to pour new wine into fresh wineskins. UPF will guide humanity into the revolutionary era in which a new and universal civilization of peace will begin. It is already active in more than 120 nations.

7. The Mongolian race makes up 74 percent of the world's population; it is the largest racial group in the world. We should inspire all five billion of them and generate a climate of true love on this planet. You and I were born on the Korean peninsula; we share the same cultural background.

You are the peace ambassadors and envoys of Heaven who are conveying my teachings and educating others to establish exemplary families of true love, true life, and true lineage.

You, who have become ambassadors for peace, please go forward with conviction and dignity, as prophets who come with Heaven's truth and have no fear of death. Go out as Heaven's envoys, and God will certainly grant you eternal life.

8. The Mongolian birthmark, which we have in common, is not merely a physical mark of the Mongolian race. It is the mark Heaven gave the Dong-Yi tribes long ago, by which the True Parents would inspire and unite all humanity at the arrival of the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven.

Furthermore, the Korean race, standing at the center of the Mongolian people, is chosen to stand in the forefront of the world's 6.5 billion people. Its mission is to convey True Parents' tradition on their behalf.

9. You should join the proud ranks of the global peace kingdom police force and the peace kingdom corps in service to the lofty aims of the Universal Peace Federation, for the sake of God and humanity.

The more than 280 family names of Korea should become one, transcending clan and location, uniting proudly as a people God has chosen in this era. Please bear in mind that this is the God-given mission that you have as leaders representing the Korean clans and race.

10. Ladies and gentlemen, you each stand in the position of a leader representing the 1.2 million ambassadors for peace around the world, spearheading the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. You are Heaven's emissary responsible for ensuring the peace and happiness of humankind in the future.

You have the dual missions of the Peace Kingdom police force and the Peace Kingdom Corps. Therefore, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad, as well as hundreds of generations of your ancestors, have mobilized to watch your every move.

Your mission is now as plain as can be. First and foremost, you should declare to every member of your clan and to all your acquaintances that the world has now entered the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven, the era for the establishment of Cheon II Guk. You are responsible for educating them about the providence God is carrying out on the global level in this era, led by the True Parents.

A project for peace

11. I am deeply moved by the hundreds of non-governmental organizations, national ambassadors, and religious leaders who stepped across the borders of race, nationality, and religion, and gathered here in one place to fulfill the dream of one family under God.

12. I have dedicated my entire life to teaching the path of living for the sake of others through the practice of true love. This is a basic principle that surely applies not only to individuals but also to the family, the society, and the nation.

13. Leaders from throughout the world, today we are marking the long-sought conclusion of God's providential history. Let me take this opportunity to repeat the proposal I have made for a truly providential and revolutionary project.

This project is for the sake of the kingdom of peace, which is the culmination of the providence for God and humankind, and also to establish God's homeland and original hometown.

14. Satan created the historical divisions of our world into East and West, North and South. I propose that we build a passage across the Bering Strait that separates the North American and Russian landmasses.

This passage, which I call the World Peace King Bridge and Tunnel, will link an International Highway of Peace that allows people to travel on land from Africa's Cape of Good Hope to Santiago, Chile, and from London to New York, across the Bering Strait, connecting the world as a single community.

God is warning us that He will no longer tolerate separation and division. By carrying out this project, we will bind the world together as one village. It will tear down the man-made walls between races, cultures, religions, and countries, and establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world that has been God's cherished desire.

15. The United States and Russia can become as one. The European Union, China, India, Japan, Brazil, and all nations, and also the world's religions, can combine their energies to make this project succeed.

The success of this project will be decisive in establishing the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where people no longer wage war against each other.

16. Ladies and gentlemen, some may doubt that such a project can be completed. But where there is a will, there is always a way, especially if it is the will of God.

The science and technology of the twenty-first century render it possible to construct a tunnel under the Bering Strait. The construction costs are also not a problem.

Think of how much money the world is wasting on war. Humanity needs to realize that we are committing fearful sins in front of history and our descendants.

17. Let us take one example: How much money has the United States spent on the war in Iraq during the past four years? It is already 400 billion dollars. That budget would be more than enough to complete the Bering Strait project.

War is the most immature and destructive means of resolving conflict. It will never lead to lasting peace. Now is the time, as the prophet Isaiah taught, to beat our swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks.

We should end the perverse cycle of war, which only sacrifices the lives of our children and squanders enormous sums of money. The time has come for the countries of the world to pool their resources and advance toward the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world desired by God, the Master of this great universe.

The fruits of God's providence are evident in history

18. On three occasions in 2009, once on January 15 and twice on January 31, we held the history-shaping “Coronation with the Authority of the Liberation of God, the King of Kings and Golden Anniversary Celebration.”

On January 31, we held this ceremony at the Cheon Jeong Peace Palace in Korea, representing the East, and again in New York City, representing the West. In this way, we set a record by offering to Heaven a historically unprecedented, never-to-be-repeated providential event on the same day in both the eastern and western hemispheres.

19. In April 2009, my wife and I celebrated the fiftieth commemoration of the day of our Holy Wedding. In 1960, students on the Korean peninsula were crying out in resistance to dictatorship.

On the sixteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar in that year, my wife and I received Heaven's seal and embarked on the arduous course in the providence of restoration that the True Parents, True Teachers, and True King and Queen of humanity have to take.

How can I even begin to explain the path of the providence of restoration through indemnity that my wife and I have had to follow for the past fifty years, to finally bring complete liberation and freedom to God and to attend Him as the King of kings? Many years from now, historians will verify and announce what I cannot explain at this time.

20. You are probably not aware of the profound providential significance of the true Parents' coronation and the golden wedding anniversary. Due to the sin of humanity's first ancestors, God's true lineage was lost, and history fell under the dominion of Satan's false bloodline.

I am sure you have learned about this reality through studying the Principle. This corrupted bloodline has been part and parcel of history. Isn't it because of this that the physical world, and even the spirit world, became completely mired in antagonistic, confrontational, good-versus-evil, Cain-Abel relationships? No one has found a resolution to this tragedy, and history's problems have gone unresolved to this day.

21. Times are now changing, however. On the occasions of the True Parents' coronation and golden wedding anniversary, the doors to the realm of complete unity between Cain and Abel are opened.

We have entered the realm of grace where human beings can be restored to the level of completion and perfection. At this point, we can inherit and share the original nature of God's heart. In other words, we can reach the human state as originally intended, without a trace of the Fall.

Using “O” for correct, and “X” for incorrect, we have entered the new era when the good governance of God, who is “O,” can completely embrace and digest the evil governance of Satan, who is “X,” leaving virtually no trace.

The new era is beginning in which the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven is expanding substantially before our eyes, and when there is no longer the need to distinguish between the True Parents, who work as the embodiment of God, and the incorporeal God Himself.

22. On this occasion, which has that unique significance, my wife and I celebrated our coronation and golden wedding anniversary and successfully held the Round Ball Peace Cup Cain-Abel Cosmic Harmony Tournament for thirteen days, starting on April 21.

Someday, this will be a festival of peace for all humanity, surpassing even the Olympics. The Atlético Sorocaba football club from Brazil contributed greatly to this first tournament. They set aside everything else to come here at True Parents' invitation.

Sorocaba won the 2008 FA Cup championship in São Paulo, Brazil. During this brief visit to Asia, they played against four teams, representing North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and China. They displayed an excellent standard of skill and demonstrated the soul of Latin American football. Would you please give a warm round of applause to encourage the Sorocaba team!

23. You are now living in the age of blessed marriage and its fruits. The kingdom of heaven on earth, God's ideal of creation, is being established before your eyes. I have dedicated my life of more than eighty years to Heaven alone.

It has been a lonely path, stained with blood, sweat, and tears. Yet now it is bearing mature fruit for the sake of the world's 6.5 billion people.

From the spirit world, the founders of the world's religions, tens of thousands of saints, and good young ancestors are watching your every move. They will punish you a hundredfold old as you stray from the heavenly path.

The Declaration of the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven

24. I have declared this year, 2007, a jubilee year in God's providence. God has greatly blessed this holy year. It is a jubilee year the likes of which God and humankind have never experienced in thousands of years of history.

God's heart has been in pain throughout history because humanity has been imprisoned under Satan's dominion. Humanity endured oppression under the sovereignty of evil throughout the Era before the Coming of Heaven. That time has finally come to an end! Beginning this year, the gates to the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven are open wide.

We are ushering in the time of a new sovereignty of goodness, in which humanity can serve and attend God as the Central Being. Without your being aware of it, Heaven's providence has expanded in extraordinary ways.

Now, ambassadors for peace in 185 nations, numbering in the tens of thousands, have received my teachings and are working day and night in response to a special decree of God.

25. Ladies and gentlemen, because I have spent my life discovering and disclosing the crimes of Satan, it was inevitable that I would face persecution. At times, the intensity of my suffering was utterly beyond words.

Now, however, I am victorious over all obstacles. I can therefore declare the Era after the Coming of Heaven, the age when the power of Heaven becomes manifest. On this foundation, I am building a worldwide Abel-realm that brings together religions and nations representing 78 percent of the world population.

To create a corresponding worldwide Cain-realm, I am bringing together all those born with the Mongolian birthmark, which includes some 74 percent of the world's population.

26. Now these two, the worldwide Abel-realm and the worldwide Cain-realm, have to become one and unite with the Universal Peace Federation, which has been initiated as the Abel sovereignty.

To establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, we have to transcend religious affiliation and nationality and remove all blockages between entities such as nations.

I would like to emphasize that this is the only way humankind will be able to achieve the original ideal of creation. It is our destiny to fulfill this responsibility. By doing so, we will establish the original right of ownership lost through the Fall of Adam and Eve.

27. Ladies and gentlemen, by Rev. Moon's devotion to the path of Heaven throughout the more than eighty years of his life, a new world is emerging. On this foundation of victory, I have proclaimed the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven.

We are now living in the age of heavenly fortune, an age in which all people can be liberated and delivered from the quagmire of sin. It is the era in which we can establish the world of freedom and happiness, the ideal world as originally envisioned at the time of the Creation.

28. There are several clear reasons why Heaven designated the person standing before you, Rev. Moon, as the True Parent of humankind, and thereby opened up a new era. First, I have succeeded in practicing the way of living for the sake of others.

That is, throughout my life, I have practiced the values of true love, emerged triumphant, and offered that triumph to humanity. All people are born to live for the sake of others.

However, because of the ignorance that resulted from the Fall, people practice the opposite of selfish individualism. I revealed this truth of Heaven and have imparted this knowledge to humankind for the first time in history. God is completely aware of the journey my life has taken, through thick and thin.

29. Second, I have dedicated my life to overcoming all obstacles and laying a victorious foundation. Through the education provided by the actual practice of true love, I have fulfilled all the conditions necessary to recover and establish the parent-child relationship between God and humankind.

I have opened the way for human beings, who became the children of the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love, and who have lived as slaves to false love, false life, and false lineage, to be reborn and resurrected into the true lineage of God, the source of true love.

In other words, I have opened wide the path for people to reach full spiritual maturity as individuals and to establish true families, tribes, peoples, and nations, and a true world, through leading lives of true love.

Our mission in the Era after the Coming of Heaven

30. The Era after the Coming of Heaven that God and True Parents have begun is a time of dramatic change. You have the mission to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory.

I have said that in this age we have to recover the true lineage that was lost when Adam fell, by receiving the marriage Blessing through the True Parents. The providence of the marriage Blessing should be perfected in five stages: that of the individual, family, tribe, people, and nation.

31. You are now advancing into the era of liberation and complete inner freedom, which is the providential era of the fourth Adam's realm of heart, that is, the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven.

Through restoration through indemnity, we have passed through the Era before the Coming of Heaven, consisting of the Old, New, and Completed Testament ages, and into a time when, metaphorically speaking, the sun is directly overhead and no shadow is cast.

The present time corresponds to the era before Adam's Fall, the era of building the original ideal world. It refers to the era of true love that is all-encompassing, all-powerful, and of overall authority.

It is the realm of the heart in which the spirit world and the physical world are bound together as a unified realm centering on the True Parents, the King, and Queen of Peace. In other words, it is the era of the kingdom of peace and unity in heaven and on earth.

32. I have explained that within the realm of God's grace through the True Parents, the way is prepared for all people to change their lineage through the holy wine ceremony, to receive the Holy Blessing, and to establish true families.

The ultimate way to establish a peaceful, ideal world here on earth is to perfect a life that embraces absoluteness in the marriage relationship through the cross-cultural marriage Blessing.

The cross-cultural Blessing is the grace by which you inherit Heaven's lineage. You have come to know clearly that God has called you to the mission of teaching these things without fail. As an heir and actual representative of the True Parents, you now have to move beyond your concepts and level of awareness to fulfill the responsibility to which you have been called.

33. It is truly regrettable that you cannot perceive with your eyes this precious Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. It has never been seen before and will never again be repeated. This is because you are relying solely on your five physical senses.

I hope that you will open your five spiritual senses as quickly as possible so that you may perceive how the providence of Heaven is unfolding in this era. You live in the era of heavenly fortune, which you have received without offering anything on your part. Yet please bear in mind that the providential opportunity proceeds according to an absolute timetable and will not be available to you indefinitely.

34. Now, the time has come for you to unite as the representatives of the ambassadors for Peace, who have preserved the spirit of the Korean people and our pride as the “white-clad people.”

There is no time to waste. What does it matter whether your name is Kim or Pak? Is there any reason for Gyeongsang Province and Jeolla Province not to harmoniously unite? The pro-Seoul Korean Residents' Union in Japan (Mindan) and the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chochongryon) each have their roots in the same Korean peninsula.

What of South and North Korea? Aren't we all brothers and sisters, sharing a common lineage? At this time, we should bear in mind that we are the descendants of the “white-clad people” and of Heaven.

We have been raised to establish the lofty ideal of advancing the welfare of humanity. We are kinsfolk, a people God has called, selected, and anointed to stand at the forefront, building the peace kingdom in this, the Revolutionary Era, after the Coming of Heaven.

The advent of the era of the peaceful, ideal kingdom

35. You are now living in the most blessed and exalted time in history. We are in the Era after the Coming of Heaven! I proclaim the beginning of the long-awaited new heaven and new earth, for which billions of your ancestors in the spirit world who came and went in history yearned.

This is the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. The four great religious founders and billions of good ancestors have come to earth to guide you on the blessed path of heaven.

The age when the fallen and corrupt world wreaks havoc on humanity, allowing evil people to live better than others, is passing away.

36. We should seek and establish God's kingdom and His righteousness, for it is everyone's ultimate destination to live in a nation that serves and attends God as its center.

What is meant by God's kingdom?

It signifies the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. It is a nation that resembles the form of a model true family with three generations living together in harmony, trusting, respecting, and supporting one another, and becoming one in love. In short, it is the nation for which humanity has longed throughout the ages, the utopia where God is sovereign.

37. Then what is meant by “His righteousness”? It signifies the heavenly way and heavenly rule. Each of us on earth is commanded to pass judgment, with the heavenly authority of true love, upon this evil world that suffers under scheming, treacherous regimes.

We must establish the ideal, peaceful world of true love, a liberated and free world based on justice and truth. After all, humanity is destined to become one family.

The remarkable advances of modern science are contributing greatly toward making this world one global village. The time has come to establish the beautiful kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where whites and blacks, Easterners and Westerners live together in harmony as one great family.

38. This means that we need a movement to realize a society of interdependence, mutual prosperity, and universally shared values. We need to make humanity one great family by breaking down the walls in our hearts and eliminating the barriers between nations.

This movement begins with each family. Therefore, each of us should bear in mind that it is our providential calling to establish a true family. This is the way to advance the establishment of the universal peace kingdom on earth.

39. Indeed, all this is coming to pass. In the Middle East, one of the world's tinderboxes, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have found the resources in my philosophy of peace to engage in a new dimension of dialogue. In past decades, my Unification Thought played a decisive role in ending the Cold War.

Now I am successfully leading behind-the-scenes efforts to bring about the reunification of my homeland of Korea. But I am not yet satisfied because I began my life's work at the command of Heaven.

I have come as the True Parent of humankind with God's anointing, and I am determined to keep my promise to Him. I am determined to obliterate all national divisions and barriers that have poisoned this earth, and to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where all people everywhere can join hand in hand.

40. Rev. Moon, who received the seal of Heaven, has come as the True Parent of humanity and the King of Peace. I will be true to my promise to God. I will bring to fruition the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world on this earth, without fail.

Therefore, please bear in mind that all of you gathered here today are central figures in establishing the eternal kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world on this earth, in attendance to the King and Queen of Peace, the True Parents.

Under the banner of the Abel-type UN, let us sweep away the absurdities and evils of this world through the power of God's true love. Let us become the proud peace kingdom police and peace kingdom corps of the Universal Peace Federation, and protect the blessed families of the world.

Let us fulfill our roles as the sentinels watching over this blessed land that is our planet. Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live together with God, the eternal Peace King, the True Parent of humanity.

To create the glorious kingdom of peace and prosperity, let us each live up to our family duties as children of filial piety, patriots, saints, and holy sons and daughters.