1. I have restored the right of the eldest son, and on that foundation, the returning Lord comes to claim the right of the parent.
For this, the returning Messiah represents the position of Abel at the levels of individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world.
He fulfills the responsibilities Christianity and America left undone. He also brings down communism and establishes an environment conducive to the unity of the world. On the foundation of fulfilling these conditions, the returning Lord sends forth tribal messiahs.
Therefore, just as Heaven sent the returning Messiah, True Parents on behalf of God are sending you as tribal messiahs. They bequeath to you the foundation of the realm of mainstream religion that was prepared to receive the Messiah, which began with Israel four thousand years ago. (198-339, 1990.02.11)
Home Church and spiritual children
2. Each tribal messiah is to embrace two clans, Cain's and Abel's that is, Cain's family and his or her family. Jesus should have embraced Joseph's family and Zechariah's family.
The disunity between these two families set the stage for Jesus' death. This is the background of the Home Church and tribal church of today. Jesus was to stand on the united foundation of Joseph's family and Zechariah's family.
The Messiah, based on these families' attendance of the tribal messiah, was to lead to national restoration. In the same way, your Home Church is a Cain-type church foundation of your tribal messiahship, and your family and relatives are an Abel-type church foundation. You are to unite these two.
After accomplishing this, you will complete your mission as a tribal messiah. Now there should be no problem bringing unity to your tribe. Furthermore, the time has come when nothing in the larger world will create concerns for us.
Nevertheless, my appointment of tribal messiahs does not mean that the Home Church will disappear. Even if all people were saved, the Home Church remains important. Just as the mind and body need to unite, and the entire world needs to unite, the Home Church needs to unite people both inside and outside the tribes. (210-188, 1990.12.19)
3. If you like to fulfill your responsibility as a tribal messiah, you have to restore your Cain-type tribe and your Abel-type tribe. When you offer devotional conditions and find 120 followers who are willing to work, giving their lives and assets, these followers will address your parents and say, “You toiled so hard to raise your son or daughter!
Your son or daughter in turn has toiled so much to save us!” When these 120 people gather as your clan for a banquet and exchange these words of appreciation, everything will turn around in one night. (046-137, 1971.08.13)
4. You need to return to your hometown and become tribal messiahs. But this does not mean the Home Church movement, which has been active these past years, should disappear. Your Home Church foundation is the Cain Foundation and your foundation with your extended family is the Abel Foundation.
If you shed tears, sweat, and blood to establish your Home Church foundation, your extended family will turn around automatically. If you return to your extended family after having saved one hundred people through your Home Church, they will welcome you as a hero or heroine.
The entire neighborhood will be able to turn around in one evening. Your record will speak for itself. (210-338, 1990.12.27)
5. Fallen Adam and Eve are restored through Abel. Blessed parents become perfect through their children, which is similar to fallen parents being restored through Abel. In this way, restoration takes place through indemnity.
Therefore, if you do not have spiritual children, you should not conceive and give birth to children. You can give them birth, but you can't truly love them. This is the implication of the Principle.
The Fall transpired by people going in a direction opposite that of the Principle. Thus, restoration transpires through blocking, adjusting,g and correcting that opposite direction in an airtight way. Thus, you need spiritual children.
(055-149, 1972.05.07)
6. Unification Church members become Abel when they understand the providence and receive God's love. When they establish this standard, they can form the position of Abel centering on their good spirit world.
People stand in the position of Abel depending on their age group: those in their twenties stand in the Abel position to those who are in their twenties; those who are in their thirties stand in the Abel position to those in their thirties; and those who are in their forties stand in the Abel position to those in their forties.
If you witness someone from a particular age group, the standard of Cain and Abel will be restored based on that age group. Since young people also need to be restored, however, you need to do so through your children.
Therefore, to achieve complete restoration, you have to establish the tradition in which three of your spiritual children devotedly attend to your physical children from their birth until their marriage. I have to follow this path if I wish to establish a worldwide foundation of victory, and you also have to follow this path.
I am one level ahead of you. If my mission is on the world level, your mission goes up to the national level. Accordingly, when I realize a victorious foundation at the world level, you each need to achieve a victorious foundation at the national level. (055-150, 1972.05.07)
7. On what basis did the love we know in this world begin? It began with the archangel, Satan. Therefore, restoration entails recovering the children whom Satan took, raising them as your spiritual children, and loving them. After doing that, you can return to your original self.
By following the example of True Parents, you can return to your original self. In the realm of fallen love, we have to recover the love that began with Satan. Since Satan stole love away, the mission of your three spiritual children entails restoring the stolen love in Satan's realm by standing in the position of an obedient and victorious archangel.
You need to stand in the position of having saved your spiritual children and loving them in the same way God would. Since the Fall took place due to an issue that arose from love and led to its loss, the love we give them has to surpass that which Satan's world gives them.
So how much should we love our spiritual children? We must love them more than parents in the secular world love their children. If we do not love our spiritual children to that extent, we will not be able to restore them. (055-160, 1972.05.07)
8. Unless we love others to a degree greater than physical parents in the secular world love their children, people will not be attracted to our path. It is only through love that we can restore people who were lost because of love.
We need to do this to the extent of bringing three spiritual children to the Principle. Thereby we establish a victorious foundation of love that will permit us to love our physical children.
This is a formula, and I have been living according to it. If we do not apply this formula, we cannot have a foundation for perfection. Therefore, even if you have children, completely restore spiritual children before you live with them.
God sent His beloved Son Jesus to the earth to restore humankind through indemnity, and He endured his plight as he walked the way of the cross. Similarly, we have to love our spiritual children the way God loves humanity.
Therefore, if you do not make a foundation upon which your spiritual children sacrifice for your children, the path to love your children will not open up.
(055-160, 1972.05.07)
9. We each need at least three spiritual children. We are to have two types of children: spiritual children, of which you require three, and our natural children. If you look at today's world, you will see sons and daughters who are in the position of God's direct children, and fallen human beings who are in the position of adopted children.
Salvation doesn't exist for the sake of the individual. Salvation cannot exist outside the structure of the family Therefore, each of us is to have three spiritual children and is to lead them to become one with our natural children. This is the formula. (052-129, 1971.12.26)
10. Who originally was meant to guide Adam and Eve? It was the archangel. It was not God but the angels who were meant to protect and nurture Adam and Eve until they reached maturity. Likewise, it is spiritual children who are meant to support the spiritual parent's path to heaven.
When, with the support of your spiritual children, you receive the Blessing of heaven, they will follow you into heaven on the merit of their support for you as their spiritual parent. This is how the three angels in the angelic world are restored, how the three children of Adam are restored, and how the three sons of Noah are restored.
This is how the condition of having gone through three stages as Heaven's representative is achieved. What does becoming totally one mean? It means the oneness the three angels in the garden of Eden should have had, focusing on unfallen Adam. When the three angels become one, they are elevated into the realm of God's Blessing. (127-053, 1983.05.03)
11. Before the Fall, the three archangels looked forward to the day Adam and Eve would marry after receiving their complete support. Likewise, your spiritual children will yearn ardently to see you receive the Blessing.
The mistake of one archangel affected the others. Hence, when your spiritual children support you substantially, they are setting indemnity conditions required by heaven and earth. For that reason, spiritual parents need to maintain a standard of heart toward their spiritual children that is higher than that of parents in the fallen world.
You cannot stand on Heaven's side or ascend to the realm to receive Heaven's blessing if your standard of the parental heart is lower than that of the fallen world.
When you reach that level you can receive the Blessing, give birth to children, and love them completely. Then Satan's world will not be able to accuse you or require you to pay indemnity. (127-054, 1983.05.03)
12. Because I overcame on the national level, you can be free from persecution. We stand at the level where the Republic of Korea can uphold the Unification Church. Therefore, what remains is simply for you to choose your relatives and appoint them to represent you.
We have entered the stage at which they can do so as your spiritual children. Now, what should such spiritual children do? They have to be ready to sacrifice their lives for your sake and your children's.
How will you inspire them to come to this point? Will you succeed in this task? You can inspire them to come to this point through the Principle. This will become our tradition. (133-125, 1984.07.10)
Forming a tribe through witnessing and through the Blessing
13. Your family will live for the sake of the nation only if you keep Heaven in your heart and live for the sake of Heaven's family. You can acquire the nation only when you follow that family alone.
Since Heaven's family stands in the central position and lives for the sake of the world, the way for you to reach the world is through this family. Thus, you need to follow and attend to this family as the center of the world. This is the path of the Principle.
If you wish to follow the Principle and represent me, you first need to have three spiritual children, then twelve apostle-like sons and daughters, seventy disciples, and 120 people you bring to the Blessing.
Only then will you be able to pass freely, night and day, through the twelve pearly gates of heaven. The guards at the gates will not ask, “Who are you?” but will say, “Welcome!” and guide you in.
If you have only three spiritual children, you will be able to enter and exit only through one gate. You will not be able to go through the other gates.
(058-074, 1972.06.06)
14. The most pressing matter is for you to accomplish your tribal messiah mission. To achieve this, you need to return to your extended family, find twelve disciples, and bring them to the Blessing. Then you need to find seventy followers and then increase that to 120 followers.
This means you have to assemble 120 people as soon as possible. I have paid all the indemnity for the central families, the 36 couples, and 72 couples. I also paid all at once the indemnity for 120 couples.
The totality of what you have to do is to bring 120 people together. If you do this, you will be able to fulfill the vertical and horizontal indemnity conditions.
Therefore, every Unification Church family is responsible for gathering 120 people from among their family and relatives. (084-158, 1976.02.22)
15. You need to form a new Israel through your spiritual children. I found and blessed twelve couples and on that foundation blessed the 36 couples, the 72 couples, and the 120 couples. I ask you to follow my example. Furthermore, I began this work for a reason. Jesus walked the tragic path of death to resolve this issue, and God suffered through six thousand providential years to resolve it.
The path I am walking differs from yours only in scale and scope. My path is at the national and world levels, but in essence, it is the same as yours. There is no difference in terms of what you and I should do in our lives.
Because Christianity persecuted me, I could not follow the tribal messiah course as you can. Still, I had to recover that foundation. To do so I loved all of you – people whom I met like passers-by on the street more than I loved my parents, my wife, and my children.
To raise spiritual children who are willing to sacrifice their lives for you, you must invest yourselves, as I did, three times more than it takes to raise your children. (046-132, 1971.08.13)
16. You need to bring 120 people to the Principle. You have to bring them to the Principle and even see to their marriage. I mean that you should give them the Blessing.
If you fulfill this you will become the representative of the world, the representative of the nation, and the representative of the family on earth and in heaven, and your clan in Heaven's realm naturally will exist wherever you go.
Can you lift your head when you have not brought even three people to the Principal? If you are in such a position, you are as good as dead because it is as if, for you, heaven and earth are separated.
Without these three people, you have not established a four-position foundation and cannot build on that standard. Hence, you need to witness. No one can do it for you; you need to do it. It is not for the sake of the Unification Church or me that you witness. You witness for your own sake. (066-142, 1973.04.22)
17. God's work has been the work of re-creation. In your daily life, you need to stand in the position that represents God's work of re-creation. So how shall we restore 120 families? This is an important issue.
These will include twelve disciples, seventy apostles, and more. Following Jesus' resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon 120 disciples. They received the Gospel and conveyed it throughout the world.
Likewise, you need to bring down this spirit on the family level, restore the family, and bind its members together as one. This is how you can accomplish your mission as a tribal messiah. Once you accomplish this, you need to bless them. You need to preside over the wedding ceremony on my behalf. Why is that?
It is because you will become your family's ancestor. Henceforth there is nothing else you need to do. The nation is already united with me and the entire world is following me.
When each of you completes your tribal messiah mission, the formation of the nation and the world will follow in short order. (210-172, 1990.12.19)
Sun Myung Moon