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Our duty in the second course
True Parents said that the first seven-year course, which was completed at the end of 1967, was the parents' course, and the second seven-year course, which ended in 1974, was the children's course.
During the first seven-year course, they devoted all their energy toward laying the foundation for national restoration, as can be seen in the annual mottoes during this period, “Let us make an all-out advance,” “The victorious unified front,” “Securing the foundation for unity,” and “Safeguarding the front line of unity.”
The second seven-year course was the period in which blessed families needed to fulfill their duties as tribal messiahs to restore their position as the ancestors.
Father said that during this period they needed to first restore their tribes as a foundation to restore a people and a nation.
1. In the first seven-year course, from 1960 to 1967, parents directly prevailed, focusing on the vertical standard. The second seven-year course is your era. During this era, it is you who must fight, horizontally.
The second seven-year course is the growth period. In history, decisive battles often were won in the second round. In the same way, the question of what will happen to Korea depends on the second seven-year course.
Before this second seven-year course ends in 1974, Korea must cooperate with God's Will and support the Unification Church. If this fundamental rule is violated, and Korea blocks our way, God will not forgive Korea. We need to march forward centering on this kind of foundation.
By the time the second seven-year course ends, we should have surpassed the national standard, and then, by the time we complete the third seven-year course in 1981, we should have surpassed the world standard. This is because, in restoring through indemnity the orbit of the Principle, we must recreate history horizontally. (025-235, 1969/10/04)
2. Through the first seven-year course, we established God's Day, Parents' Day, Children's Day, and the Day of All Things. In so doing, we set the standard based on which we can fulfill our responsibility in the role of parents, something Jesus was unable to accomplish.
Thereafter, on the victorious foundation of having fulfilled our responsibility as True Parents, the children also need to unite as one, both internally and externally, until God's nation can be established. Only then can we complete the original Will that Jesus wanted to realize when he lived on Earth?
Following the victorious model of True Parents, children need to pave the way to the point where they too can surpass the national level. This is the second seven-year course.
So the seven-year period from 1968 to 1974 is the time when the entire nation could go beyond the level of opposition that Jesus faced from his religion and nation. (065-268, 1973/01/01)
3. The period from 1968 is the time when we have to carry the family-level cross. During the 6,000 years of history, each of us had to carry his or her cross as individuals. The period to bear the family-level cross remains. Until now, no one tried to carry that cross. Jesus too had to bear the cross on behalf of his people and his nation and then form a family, after which he would have gone out into the broader world.
He died while he was still bearing the cross of the people and the nation, and we need to indemnify this.
Both the path of the individual cross and the path of the family cross remain, and because the 6,000 years of history have progressed along such a thorny path, we need to establish indemnity conditions of both types. To do so, I walked the path of the individual cross from 1946 until 1960.
This 14-year course was the same length as the 14-year course that Jacob walked. We can form a family, take hold of our position on earth centering on the four-position foundation of that family, and expand in all directions only after we have passed through such a period. (030-333, 1970/04/06)
4. The first seven-year course is the period in which we need to carry out the work of connecting a perfected man to a perfected woman, that is, Mother. This is the period of setting up the family standard of Parents.
So, during this time, Parents formed a family centering on God. Only then was I able to construct a family base on this earth, which is the restored form of the four-position foundation? Centering on the Parents' family, the blessed families need to unite completely.
The period in which they need to do this is the second seven-year course. The second seven-year course is the period during which, centering on the Parents' family, the families that have received the Blessing need to unite completely as one, thus forming the unified realm of Abel. They then need to establish the standard that the people can recognize. (075-010, 1975/01/01)
5. During the second seven-year course, which lasts until 1974, we need to restore the Republic of Korea and build the foundation for the heavenly kingdom. Restoration needs to be done, centering on both spirit and body. Accordingly, we must inspire people spiritually, centering on the Word in the church, and physically, centering on ideology in the world.
That is why the Unification movement expresses an ideology of victory over communism, which the democratic world lacks. These correspond to the pillar of fire and the pillar of cloud that led the Israelites when they departed with Moses from Egypt.
Centering on these symbolic pillars, externally we are leading the communist realm to surrender, and internally, we are establishing the law of the family. When this expands and connects to the world stage, we will complete the kingdom of heaven on earth. (025-240, 1969/10/04)
6. When a man and a woman are restored, they need to marry. When they have thus established their position as true parents, they need to form a true tribe and a true people centering on true parents and continue the work of restoration. To do so, we walked the first seven-year course.
After accomplishing this, we are to set indemnity conditions on the national standard and thereby enter the age in which we cross over national barriers. Since Korea has come to stand in the position of Abel, heavenly fortune has arrived, enabling us to move from the national level to the world level.
We now need to carry out a unifying movement through which the external world of Cain and the spiritual world of God can be a of united country. Humankind is now entering a new age where people can cooperate to fulfill this responsibility.
Therefore, from this time forward, the sorrowful, miserable historical course traveled by Unification Church members will no longer continue. In the second seven-year course, we must get beyond the critical point of worldwide restoration.
I am telling you that you just carry out your responsibility and go beyond the critical point in restoring the people. All who have received the Blessing need to complete their responsibility as family-level messiahs.
(019-224, 1968/01/07)
7. The first seven-year course you walked until now was used as the condition of restoration through indemnity to liberate Jesus from his sorrows. We are now entering an era in which you can restore through indemnity yourself, to fulfill your hopes.
Therefore, every one of you needs to become a tribal messiah and go into the world. In this current situation, as you follow your mission path into the world, instead of being opposed as you teach the Will of God, you will be welcomed. We have progressed into such an era.
While this was the critical point of worldwide restoration centering on True Parents, on the foundation of these seven years we have gone beyond that standard. (019-224, 1968/01/07)
8. The second seven-year course began in 1968. The children's course also began at that time. Children need to take the courses walked by their parents. They need to restore lost spiritual children and receive the blessing of their parents.
After this, they even need to receive the blessing of all creation. Then they can pass their mission on and take a sabbatical year. If you cannot do this during the seven years beginning from 1968, it will be extended to 21 years.
Since God's Day is the day on which True Parents appear as the substantial manifestation of God, it is also the day when Satan, who did not surrender to humankind, surrenders to True Parents as the substantial form of God.
Through the establishment of God's Day, the condition was established, and the angel surrendered to Adam, and Cain surrendered to Abel.
The second seven-year course is the period in which we start from the position of restored elder son. In the past, we had to claim the place of the elder son from the position of the second son, so we were persecuted.
But now we can distribute blessings from the position of the elder son, and therefore no one will hate or persecute us. Such a time has come. Now, if people refuse, we as the elder son have the mission to correct them to restore them as children of heaven.
Just as True Parents carried out the mission of the Messiah in the first seven-year course, in the second seven-year course you need to fulfill the mission of the messiah for tribal restoration. (023-190, 1969/05/19)
9. The second seven-year course is the path on which we must find the people whom heaven did not choose, the group that was expelled from heaven, and save them.
This is the foundation that Jesus would have established if he had not been cast out. Today, God's sons and daughters in the Unification Church have mobilized to walk this path through the second seven-year course. Now is the time to restore tribes.
True Parents ordered you to move forward boldly and strongly. That is because now is the time parallel to the time when Jesus found the fishermen and made them his disciples.
At the time, he had to move forward boldly and strongly after establishing a church and forming a family. I issued such an order because now is such a time when the preparation has been made on earth. Furthermore, the spirit world can cooperate, enabling us to carry out a perfect operation.
By performing Blessing ceremonies in the period from 1960 to 1963, I established the standard of family restoration. Therefore, church members also need to establish this standard for the second seven-year course for three years from 1968 until 1970. (020-344, 1968/07/20)
10. In the second seven-year course, you must restore your parents, siblings, and relatives with a loyalty that is greater than the loyalty you showed for your nation. That is to say, you have to restore your whole tribe and bring them before God. Until now, your ancestors have had no way to have a relationship with the providence of restoration.
However, when you restore your tribe, you can complete the mission of tribal true parent and special grace will be given by which the saints in the spirit world can participate in returning resurrection through you.
In this way, countless numbers of your good ancestors can come to earth again. Because such an age is approaching, Satan's world is gradually disappearing and the fortune of unification is gradually being transferred to a new world.
Therefore, from the viewpoint of the Principle, depending on how we act until 1974, I anticipate that we will see rapid development. (019-166, 1968/01/01)
11. After achieving victory on the national level, I put blessed families on the front line during the second seven-year course. I had to teach those families how they should establish themselves for their nation, and how they should dedicate themselves according to the people and walk the path of public life.
Since the second seven-year course is a family-level course, all blessed families were mobilized. As we entered the 1970s, the blessed wives had to leave their children and husbands to go into action for three years. This was because they had to walk the same road as their Mother.
If a wife leaves her home where she lives with her husband and children, her husband and the children become her enemies. That is why the wives had to consider their family members in advance as their enemies.
However, because they had already made this determination, their family members did not enter Satan's side even when the family members became enemies. They were not caught in Satan's trap. That was love.
The words recorded in the Bible, "Ones enemies will be members of one's own household" (Matt. 10:36), literally came true in the Unification Church.
These are not mere words. That is how history works. (106-269, 1980/01/01)
12. In 1974, the last year of the second seven-year course, we connected the second seven-year course, which is external, to the first seven-year course, which is internal. This remains until 1974.
When all is said and done, it is the time when blessed families of the Unification Church have to go out to the front line and confront Satan with full force. That is why, during the three years of 1970, 197,1, and 1972, all blessed wives have left their children, their husband, and their homes, and have gone out. On that foundation, True Parents prepared the spiritual starting point, where parents and children can finally unite as one on the world level.
On that foundation, we have been able to carry out our activities in the United States. The fact that True Parents were able to come to the United States and do this work is analogous to Jesus having entered Rome victoriously, not dying but conducting major evangelical activities on the foundation of the nation of Israel and the religion of Judaism having united with him. (069-302, 1974/01/01)
13. The two seven-year courses until 1974 are the periods that correspond to the 14-year course of Jacob.
Through these 14 years, Jacob formed his family, setting his anchor in heaven and on earth.
Similarly, by going through the second seven-year course, the Unification Church can set its anchor firmly on earth, centering on the family.
The time is coming when it will be recognized officially that blessed families of the Unification Church are happier than other families, that they love their families and country more than anyone else, that they uphold the Will of God, and that they are a group of people who love the world and love humanity.
When that time comes, our families will finally have the authority of Israel and will settle in this world.
On the day when we complete the second seven-year course, the blessings of God will be concentrated decisively on the Unification Church and the Republic of Korea.
Then the Unification Church will come to stand on an equal footing with the Republic of Korea and Christianity, even though they opposed us in the past, just as the nation of Israel and the religion of Judaism opposed Jesus.
The Unification Church will go beyond merely being equal to them; it will come to stand above them. If the Christian churches and the nation do not follow us, they are doomed. (056-323, 1972/05/18)
14. The three-year period before the end of the second seven-year course is the preparation period to advance toward the third seven-year course, the world-level course. In other words, the period before the second seven-year course draws to a close is the time to prepare for the world-level seven-year course.
Spiritually and providentially, this is parallel with the moment when the living Jesus could have unified Judea and Rome. Then what is the difference between Jesus' time and now? The time of Jesus was a national-level age, and today is a world-level age.
That is the difference. America represents the democratic world, and by traveling there and establishing a foundation through a three-year course, I proved that I can be victorious. This is the historical significance of this time.
(071-012, 1974/03/24)
15. If we call the democratic world the Abel world, the world of God, then the communist world would be the world of Satan, Cain's world. When we prevail in the United States and complete this second seven-year course, we will reach the spiritual level where Satan's world will have to retreat. Communism possesses a substantial worldwide foundation, and we have not been able to attain a foundation of those proportions.
Nonetheless, without your realizing it, even as the Cain-like communist world opposes our movement, True Parents are seizing on the offensive. The democratic world is confronting the communist world from the position of Abel.
The relationship of these two camps is analogous to the divided spirit and body. We need to occupy them first spiritually so that we can form a relationship with them, and then engage them physically. In that way, we can achieve victory.
(071-012, 1974/03/24)
Our responsibility in the third course
True Parents established the third seven-year course, which ran from 1975 to 1981, saying it was the period to lay the foundation for world restoration. The three seven-year courses were periods of sacrifice to create the providential foundation on the family level, national level needs, and world level.
Thus, True Parents emphasized that everyone should be living offerings for the providence.
They also explained that, on the foundation of spiritual victory, in the third seven-year course we are moving toward needs unified world by creating a substantial standard. Since the spiritual victory was achieved through True Parents, the Unification of family in the position of children needs you to achieve substantial victory.
They need to do so by uniting in heart and soul to meet the external standard, centering on the internal standard that True Parents govern. They emphasized that we will need to sacrifice to transcend the democratic and communist worlds, and that this is the condition necessary to establish the victorious realm of heaven.
16. The beginning of the age when you can attend Mother in 1960 marked the completion of the Old Testament Age and the realm of the Bride in Jesus' age. After this, going beyond the standard of the Fall at the top of the growth stage, we must cross over the third seven-year course to achieve the world-level standard of completion.
That is why the 21-year period of formation, growth, and completion in Adam's family, the three seven-year courses from 1960 until 1981 centering on the True Parents' family, was necessary on earth.
That course of 21 years was the condition to transcend the 6,000 years of history from the age of Adam through the age of Jesus to the age of the Lord at the Second Coming. All vertical conditions need to be settled horizontally.
(266-063, 1994/12/11)
17. The first seven-year course is the time when we take responsibility as True Parents. It is the period when the True Parents' family completely secures its place.
The second seven-year course is the period when the families of the children complete their foundations. The third seven-year course is the time when the tribe and the people take root and settle down. For the nation of Korea to take root and establish itself, the world needs to cooperate with it and become a wall of protection for its security. (068-020, 1973/07/23)
18. Our mission is to restore the nation and the world while I am here on earth. The 21-year course is carried out through three stages, and by the third seven-year course we must be known to the world. Just as Jacob brought about the surrender of the spiritual angel and then subdued his physical brother Esau, who represented Cain's side, today we must bring about the surrender of the spiritual Satan on a worldwide scale and then accomplish the submission of the communist world.
Just as Jacob was victorious after he had risked his life wrestling all night with the angel, so we too have to fight at the risk of our lives. Just as Jacob suffered many hardships, the Unification Church also must endure sacrifices. If we do not have that determination, we will not be able to save the world.
The path of providence should have begun with glory in my lifetime. However, due to Christianity's disbelief, we had to indemnify the suffering path walked for the last 2,000 years by the people of Israel. We are doing this through the 21-year course, which can also be described as three seven-year courses.
(054-227, 1972/03/24)
19. The third seven-year course remains, during which you must go forward, on the foundation of True Parents' victory, which they won when they took responsibility for everything and fought directly to gain success. Now we have the foundation on which we can work freely, centering on the United States for the next seven years.
As you restore humanity from its fallen position in the world, you can become citizens of God's country and sons and daughters of God.
You can do this by representing the world, as you set the condition to restore the United States to the side of heaven and establish one global nation. I set up the third seven-year course on the world level to grant you this privilege. You need to become the founding patriots of the heavenly country. The world turns on the axis of this fundamental principle. (071-018, 1974/03/24)
20. Starting in 1975, we entered the time when the Unification Church could advance to the world stage, focusing on both body and spirit. Gates are opening through which we can march into the communist world. True Parents have set the conditions that enable us to go beyond even the world level.
In 1975, we began the third seven-year course. During the first three-year period of this course, Unification Church believers have to generate controversy, just as I did at Madison Square Garden in the United States. You need to walk this three-year course in actuality. (073-254, 1974/09/22)
21. Until 1981, when the third seven-year course ends, we bear the historic duty to become completely one with the center. We have to advance on this path with gratitude in our hearts, even if we have to sacrifice ourselves in the process.
We need to push forward against every obstacle to accomplish this work. We do not know if this will happen in the nation of America, some other nation, or even the world.
Will you be able to build such a foundation by 1981? This is a serious and difficult path. However, because God exists and because of the Principle, this is bound to happen. The question is how completely you can unite and move forward with True Parents. This will determine whether you can do it. You may collapse on the way, but True Parents cannot. (065-274, 1973/01/01)
22. No matter what sacrifices we have to make, by the end of the third seven-year course we need to stand
higher than both the democratic and the communist worlds. If we do not rise to this level, we cannot establish the victorious realm of heaven. In short, we cannot win. To put it another way, if the communist realm invades, even if they say it is temporary, it is Satan's invasion, so we need a foundation superior to worldwide communism.
In this regard, through the third seven-year course, True Parents are preparing the United States to attain complete victory. We have to substantiate the internal foundation with both houses of Congress so that they will strengthen the system of education about the reality of communism throughout the nation.
How are we to lead the nation? This is the mission we need to fulfill through the third seven-year course. (083-020, 1976/02/05)
23. I believe that during the third seven-year course we need to strengthen our organization and activity centering on the United States. If we have not established our worldwide foundation by 1981, Korea will have no future.
By 1981, because it completes the 21-year period of the three seven-year courses, we have to have built a base to go beyond the nation and expand into the world. If we do not go through such a worldwide indemnity course, our movement will not be able to manifest itself as a global religion.
For God to carry out the providence through the Unification Church, we must follow this formula, of course, to our responsibility to meet His conditions. If we do not keep up our momentum in fulfilling our responsibility, and invest with all our devotion, we will not become citizens of the ideal nation or world.
That is why we are now engaged in this fight. (063-200, 1972/10/14)
24. It is truly a great thing to gain recognition as a participant in the third seven-year course. When you succeed in your home church as tribal messiahs in this period, you will become ancestors that your descendants can be proud of for generations to come.
If you successfully conclude the third seven-year course and accomplish registration in the new nation, you are following the True Parents.
You will have the privilege of succeeding with them automatically and going beyond the boundaries between nations, tribes, and peoples. If you are victorious in the third seven-year course, you can stand before the world.
This is not an opportunity that comes at just any time. Knowing that you are facing this incredible age, you have to fully devote yourselves to this third seven-year course. (103-070, 1979/02/02)
25. During the third seven-year course, you need to head toward the world level, no matter what it takes.
Not only God but also Jesus and the numerous saints in the spirit world are saying, “You have come this far, so please take one more step. You can go on to the next level with just this one more step.” To this end, just as we pray to support, the spiritual world, the spiritual world is praying for the physical world.
That is the reason unification will be realized. Until now, we have worked to help the spirit world, but now the spirit world is helping us. (081-116, 1975/12/01)
26. You need to have the same feeling as I had in my heart on December 18, 197,1 when I came to America. Before the third seven-year course ends, you need to influence others with the same determination I had when I made a solemn pledge as I stepped onto American soil.
That is why I told the young people who went out into the world as missionaries that they should not return to their country if they failed to fulfill their missions and responsibilities. You, too, should work with the conviction that you will significantly influence the state for which you are responsible, even if True Parents do not support you financially.
You are doing this work for America, for the Unification Church and True Parents, and yourself. You should never retreat, no matter what. (089-285, 1976/12/04)
27. You are walking the third seven-year course, and this course will last until 1981. I go in advance of you. I have not been shouldering my responsibility but the responsibility of the world.
You want to call us your True Parents, but you can do so only after you have completed this seven-year course. What must you do during this period?
During the 7,000 years of history, God restored creation, people, and, finally, heart. So during this seven-year course, you need to restore finances and people, and thereafter, you need to find your love.
(093-279, 1977/06/11)
28. What did True Parents do after deciding on the third seven-year course? We resolved to advance toward the completion of the purpose of restoration. We determined to bequeath to history a starting point of love that can serve eternally, even if it meant we had to deny the family, deny the nation, deny Asia, and deny the world. Are those things going to remain?
Will we be able to return with dignity? In what capacity would we return, and by what means? We would not come back as powerful officials, but instead as victors of love. In the end, this is the only standard for which I have striven, true love.
You need to love your parents more than you love your children. You need to love your tribe more than you love your parents. You need to love your people more than you love your tribe. You need to love your nation more than you love your people. And you need to love the world more than you love your nation.
(112-140, 1981/04/12)
Sun Myung Moon