The Role of the Tribal Messiah

1. You need to become a tribal messiah and return to your hometown. As a tribal messiah, you have to recover your hometown and your ancestors and serve God.

What is first? It is the earth, the homeland. Second are the ancestors and third is the true realm of God's heart, where we can live together with God. The land where you were born and grew up is not part of Heaven's realm, nor are your father and mother the ancestors from Heaven.

That is why we cannot dwell with God. The land of the unfallen, original Adam and Eve is both their land and God's land, and they are the ancestors of humanity and the ancestors of God. With God dwelling there, that would be the kingdom of heaven on earth.

As of now, we have not realized this original homeland. It will not come unless you fulfill tribal messiahship. You have been following me, but when you return to your country you need to do so as a tribe, just as did the Israelites.

You are meant to enter heaven only with your family; this is true whether it is the kingdom of heaven on earth or in heaven. The kingdom of heaven is the place you enter with your family and relatives, as did the Israelites. Without them, we cannot recover our nation. (248-099, 1993.08.01)

The tribal messiah mission

2. Returning to one's homeland requires three conditions: life, love, and lineage. Fulfilling them requires that you put your life on the line. I often had to risk my life as I overcame countless obstacles.

If you put your life on the line for an endeavor, the sun's morning rays at the daybreak of the new nation will shine brightly upon your efforts. It is God's love that shines as sun rays fall upon the nation.

That sunshine will be cast brilliantly upon the tradition that will continue from generation to generation for eternity. You can attend God eternally and receive His sun rays only if you inherit the eternally unchanging lineage from Him. The sun represents God, the origin of human life, and the Parent.

You need to inherit the tradition of the Parent, Heaven's tradition, and transform your life for the providence of restoration. Once you feel confident that you have reached that level as a subject, and that no worldly threat can endanger the new self you have inherited through that transformation, you will begin a new day. (225-318, 1992.01.26)

3. For you to begin a new personal existence, a new, and a new nation, you need to become a tribal messiah. You need to achieve this objective by investing in yourself completely. I am freely bequeathing to you the path of faith I pioneered, as well as all the fruits of God's labor for the past hundreds of millions of years since the creation. Please inherit this completely.

This means that you will envy nothing of this world, but rather will honor the power of one great family that unites heaven and earth. There can be nothing more virtuous and nothing of greater value.

If you go forth toward the world of peace and attain this value, a way to return to your hometown will open to you, as well as a way toward the unification of the new nation. (225-319, 1992.01.26)

4. One task of a tribal messiah is to help one's father and mother achieve the position of Adam and Eve before the Fall. Next is to restore kingship by recovering and establishing the hometown. When that happens, isn't everything finished?

First, by restoring the hometown and the kingship, you as the tribal messiah will stand in a position equal to your parents. Then your hometown will be in the heavenly kingdom.

You must have your parents in the heavenly kingdom to have your hometown in that kingdom. The mission of the tribal messiah is to bring your parents to belong to the heavenly kingdom. (194-122, 1989.10.17)

5. Just as you shed sweat for Heaven, you need to shed blood for it. You should seek the bloody hills of tribulation in history with a joyful heart. You have not yet understood that you have to invest this much for your liberation.

You might have thought that others would do everything, and it had nothing to do with you, but this is not the case. You have to return to the origin. You are responsible for dismantling your current base to return to the homeland.

You must understand this and straighten out your roots. Due to the Fall, the father and mother took a wrong turn, and the first son went the wrong way as well.

Therefore, centered on True Parents and True Children, you need to turn around and adjust in the opposite direction, going toward the original right of the parents and the original right of the eldest son. You will never make this connection the way you are; you can do it only after you turn yourself around 180 degrees.
(178-099, 1988.06.01)

6. Up to this day I have taken responsibility for everything, but henceforth you have to take responsibility for your extended family. If you align yourself with this mission and attune your heart to God's at a ninety-degree angle, you can bring oneness on the levels of the individual, family, and tribe.

Nothing in your life whether it is eating, sleeping, getting up, or anything else should revolve around your desires. Your life should be for your extended family, your clan.

If you are part of the Kim clan, give your life trying to resolve the issues of the Kim clan. The Unification Church needs to prepare for this. This is the way to give life to the people and to give life to the nation as well. Please advance relentlessly in your tribal messiah mission. (187-180, 1989.02.05)

7. After you achieve victory as an individual and form a family, your family should overcome the levels of tribe, people, nation, and world. Therefore, your wish as an individual should be to mold your family into one that stands on the side of Heaven.

After establishing such a family, however, your attitude may become, “I have gone through hell and beyond for the matter of the Blessing and have overcome all the obstacles. I have reached my goal now that I am married.” You then may try to take a nap and enjoy your life.

If you do, Satan will lay siege through the world, the nation, the people, and the tribe to engulf you. The individual needs a family to settle. Thus, we have been struggling to establish families. But by the same token, a family without a tribe cannot settle.

Your tribe should serve as a hedge that protects you and your family from blasts of wind and other adversities. Without creating such a realm that can serve this purpose, you cannot live as a peaceful family. The way to do that is to become the tribal leader for your relatives. That is the objective of the tribal messiah mission. (056-312, 1972.05.18)

8. The family is the textbook of tribal messiahship. Your grandfather and grandmother stand in the position of ancestors, your father, and mother stand in a position representing the present, and you represent the future.

These three generations encapsulate the tribal messiah's textbook of love. Based on the heart that unites these as one, you can live wherever you go in the world – north, south, east, or west. The world consists of people who are like your grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, or siblings. So if you can relate to them all with warm feelings, you will become a person possessing Heaven's love and have no problem entering the kingdom of Heaven.

If you create an environment in which you can engage with strangers as if they were your parents and siblings, you will link to the spirit world immediately. This is how you should live at your home.

To create such an environment, you need to return to your hometown as a tribal messiah. This is your mission, so please overcome any hardships that prevent you from doing it, no matter how hard it may be. (215-310, 1991.02.21)

9. Jesus could not become a tribal messiah on earth. You, however, are living in the age of completion, and if you succeed in this mission you will qualify to become a daughter or son of the True Parents.

On the Home Church altar, we can restore every mistake our forebears made. We can combine everything in history, everything in the Old and New Testaments, as the formation and growth stages, and offer it like a burnt sacrifice.

If you become victorious and complete this, you will receive a pass allowing you to come and go wherever you wish in this world and the spirit world. (122-127, 1982.11.01)

10. Blessed families are formed based on absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. Thus, they possess Heaven's right of ownership and embrace all Heaven's nations and the world. I went to the heavenly realm and restored the lineage with the heart of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.

I fulfilled the change of absolute lineage, the change of the realm of absolute ownership, and the change of the realm of absolute heart. I recovered them all.

When tribal messiahs fulfill the change of absolute lineage, the change of the realm of absolute ownership, and the change of the realm of absolute heart in numerous tribes, the nation will automatically be saved. That is the end of everything, and everything will be made clean and clear.

All these results hinge on your confidence in carrying out tribal messiahship. You have to work with the confidence that success will come through your activities carried out with energy.

Please realize that you are the sons and daughters of the True Parents who can gather the entire world of their victory and claim, on their behalf, ownership over all that for which they have paid the price.

This is the national restoration that tribal messiahs need to fulfill, and once you gather the entire world you will offer it to True Parents. (269-097, 1995.04.08)

Our mission in our hometown

11. You become a family member of the heavenly kingdom just by hanging True Parents' picture and raising the flag of the Unification Church. I will make you a family member of the heavenly kingdom.

Several people suffered tragedies because they cursed the Unification flag. There was a mysterious incident in which someone pointed his finger at me and his hand became diseased. He had to repent and pray for several nights to recover.

Why do such incidents occur?

The individual's fortune cannot affect the advance of heavenly fortune. The path of heavenly fortune is a destiny that cannot be changed. Just as the Israelites survived if they looked at the bronze serpent that Moses held up, you will live if you bow each time you see the Unification Church flag or a photograph of True Parents. (219-091, 1991.08.25)

12. When you put up the Unification Church flag, it is a signal to members passing by that they can enter your house and rest if they are tired or have lunch if they are hungry before they go on. Therefore, you should always be prepared to receive guests. You should make such preparations on behalf of True Parents.

You could keep one room for this purpose. You are saved by attending the Parents. However, since the Parents do not come in person, you should attend to your guests as if they were the Parents.

This practice represents the ideal of equalization of the highest heavenly standard. For this reason, attend to your guests as if they were God or True Parents. Both you and they will surely be blessed. (169-221, 1987.10.31)

13. You should hold family revival services. Family revival services, while held focusing on your extended family, represent all tribes. You should think of each revival service as representing not only Korean tribes but also the tribes of blessed families around the world.

Then the people of the world will participate in such revival services. The Unification Church members in Korea today can hold revival services representing the world, focusing on the tribal foundation, with Korea as the base. You do not know what a great blessing this is. (185-141, 1989.01.03)

14. If you host revival services for your tribe once you have returned to your hometown, those services will go down in history Your revival services will be more astonishing than the March First Mansei Movement, the independence movement through which Koreans tried to take back their nation.

They will create a welcoming environment within which Heaven's law can work. You should be able to mobilize your tribe within this environment. It took me forty years to reach this level. It is how the path of indemnity works.

On the global level, we have to separate from everything Satan can accuse. After making a full circle, we can protect ourselves on the national level and then establish the realm of tribal messiah. This is to connect the world that extends north, south, east, and west. (186-233, 1989.02.05)

15. You should now return to your hometown and set up a lighthouse. Lighthouses shine brightly at night. What would be the purpose of your lighthouse? It would be to shine for North-South unification and East-West unification.

We need to keep the light on at the holy ground and ensure that it never goes out. Make it like the flame used at the Olympic Games and burn it so that it can become the lighthouse of unity between the north, south, east, and west. If you burn a flame at the main holy ground, it will be like a lighthouse at night.

Every time you light it, it will bring to your mind that this is the flame of life that liberates the miserable souls coming from the north, south, east, and west. For this, you should unceasingly offer prayers and conditions of devotion, with the determination that you will be the wick and the fuel that sustains this flame. You have to guard our church until this light is no longer needed.
(181-296, 1988.10.03)

16. You have to plant a true heart in the original homeland. The inability to do this led to the Fall. Since the time now has come for you to return to your original homeland, you need to plant your true heart quickly. You need to devote yourself completely to doing this.

This is the point of my saying you should become the lead family in your clan. For this, you need to return to your hometown, make sincere offerings, sow seeds of true love, and move toward the dawning of the homeland of hope.
(177-081, 1988.05.15)

17. The time has come for you to understand clearly who True Parents are. Unless you know True Parents clearly, you will remain ignorant of the tradition and will be unable to own it. The Heavenly Parent and True Parents have set indemnity conditions throughout history.

I have walked this path and stand in the position of the ancestor of the world. Thus, you also have to walk this path to inherit the tradition and become the ancestor of your tribe. Because you have to set up a tradition for your tribe, I counsel you to know and own the tradition. (131-064, 1984.04.01)

18. When you return to your hometown, what should you do? Inspire the people to unite with you. The method to achieve this is simple. Sons should become teachers who can demonstrate through example the heavenly tradition.

Thereby you will be teaching, “The kingdom of heaven will be realized when you do such and such a thing.” Furthermore, mothers and fathers should show other mothers and fathers in the neighborhood that “by doing this, the village will become heavenly.”

The family of love, in which the husband loves the wife and the wife loves the husband, the parents love the children and the children love the parents, is what you hand down to them. (135-035, 1985.08.20)

19. You need to return to your hometown, shed tears, and offer conditions of devotion. Truthfully, we have lived away from home up to the present. Just as the Israelites had to work in Egypt for four hundred years, we have been doing this work for forty-three years, far from home.

Now is the time for us to return to our hometown and become the root of love. You have to love God, your parents, and your brothers and sisters. By doing so, you cut off the source of false accusations the world-level Satan raises against you. The Israelites did not establish the ideal kingdom of heaven in the promised land of Canaan; they proved incapable of building it.

Learning from them, do not expect any support from Satan's world. Even if we have to keep traveling with our belongings bundled on our backs, we are the best people in God's eyes. Even if at night people curse us and dogs in the village bark at us, we are the best. (178-141, 1988.06.01)

20. You stand in the position of true children in front of True Parents, so I can bequeath the right of inheritance and of equal standing. Please believe completely in these special privileges that Heaven has bestowed upon you, and invest everything within the sphere of love.

Just as God invested Himself totally, you ought to invest yourselves completely. This is the way you will resurrect your clan and, by extension, your nation. There is no path other than returning to your hometown. (177-162, 1988.05.17)

21. All of you who have returned to your hometown stand in the position of the Israelites who entered the promised land of Canaan. You should never envy those in your hometown who are richer or more powerful than you. You must not let secular or materialistic aspirations influence you. Instead, educate others properly.

The best tradition is the one by which we love God, our descendants, and our people in the realm of Israel. Especially those of you who carry your children to the church, do not let yourselves be swayed by rich and powerful people. Bear in mind that you are returning to your hometown and that this is the first time this has happened in a thousand or ten thousand years.

Feel the excitement of returning to your homeland; flood your hometown with tears that shake every cell of your body and bone marrow. Let your hometown be recognized as a holy land infused with Heaven's tears and the blood that you have shed. That is where the kingdom of heaven begins. (177-229, 1988.05.17)

22. When you love people, start with the most pitiful little children and move on to middle-aged people. There are many conscientious people among those who live in difficult circumstances. Unification Church families should love those who are in the worst circumstances.

Even though people who are enduring hard times are stuck in the world of the devil, you will see that in the future, from among those people will emerge some who can inherit the fortune of God. (175-032, 1988.04.06)

Building the original homeland and the nation

23. Which path will you follow? To welcome the historic day of the liberation and independence of the homeland, you have to follow the path that leads to the lost original homeland.

To receive this day is the hope of all people, of all eras and countries throughout history, the ultimate purpose of every culture, and the greatest wish of all humanity.

Therefore, this day of liberation has to come. If it does not, all the effort people have made will have been in vain. Wealth, even ethics and morals, will all have been in vain. (155-022, 1964.10.06)

24. Up to the present day, humanity has been without its original homeland and all people have been without their original nation. Hence, God, who has carried out the providence of restoration among us to this day, will surely send the Lord of the Second Advent in the Last Days.

When He does, it is to recover the original homeland. Then what will He do once He finds the original homeland? He will recover the group of original brothers and sisters and then do the work of engraving them for the tribe and the people. He will expand this foundation to the nation and the world and thereby restore the original homeland. (155-322, 1965.11.01)

25. We are the group that advances the liberation of the homeland. When the Messiah returns to the Earth, he will bring judgment. Through whom will that judgment take place? It will take place through those who are standing in the position of a sacrificial offering.

Without fail, this is the process by which it will be done. Hence, I call the Unification Church members to stand in that position about the Korean peninsula, the thirty million people of this nation.

Do not be swallowed up by any hardship. Have as your mindset, “No evil shall conquer the truth and heart that I possess. No hardship will stain my integrity.” This is how you ought to seek your original homeland.

If we are the ones who are seeking the original homeland and who will get there we need to assemble as a people and create the original nation. We need to find our original hometown and recover our homeland. (155-023, 1964.10.06)

26. We do not yet have the original nation. The country where you are living is not it. The nation where you live was founded by fallen ancestors. It is not the nation God wants.

Thus, you are bound to say goodbye to it and forget about it. We have to purify the fallen nations at the levels of individual, family, tribe, and people, beginning with hell on earth and in the spirit world up to paradise. Unless this takes place, God's original homeland, the original hometown, cannot emerge.

In the Last Days, all people of faith need to unite, transcending denominational, religious, and national boundaries. Furthermore, they have to unite as a new humanity and know God's final Will to liberate the homeland. Recovering the one unified nation, we will attend God as its Parent, as its Teacher, and as its King. (398-146, 2002.12.09)

27. What is the cause of bitter sorrow for humanity on earth? It is not a lack of money or national sovereignty or a shortage of people or land. It is that the world is not a place where we can find joy and happiness in our hearts and minds. This world does not bring joy to our hearts.

This land and this society do not bring joy to our hearts. If we as human beings could find joy and happiness in our hearts within this land and this society, we would have no such feeling of bitter sorrow. (155-032, 1964.10.06)

28. Is there anyone who wants to attain wealth to end up in ruin? Is there anyone who practices patriotism too to destroy his nation? Although we may not recognize the connection, when our actions are not in accord with the Principle by which the universe operates and are not accessing its source of energy, things go to ruin. But when they are in accord with the Principle, things develop.

That is why, even though people have had only vague and abstract concepts of God since ancient times, they have been upholding Him. What is it that humanity seeks in the present day? We know that the world in which we live is not our original homeland.

It is not the world of freedom, where we sing of equality, peace, and happiness. It is not the open and eternal world where the mind and body can fly the flag of freedom. If God were strong in the realm of the conscience, the world would not be this way. But why is it this way?

It is because of the Fall, which prevents human beings from reaching perfection. Human beings fell before reaching perfection. This is why the world is broken. (155-033, 1964.10.06)

29. What have we Unification Church members done? We have overcome persecution and oppression from society. However, we should not overcome persecution just as individuals, but with our family, our tribe, our people, and all thirty million citizens of this nation of Korea.

This is the Unification Church faith. This is why we are trying to move these thirty million people from the state of saying, “No, " to saying, “Yes, let's do it!” We follow them into their hiding place and guide them, as their leaders. Everything we do should be the opposite of what they do.

We say, “You might enjoy wining and dining, but we enjoy fasting. You may enjoy flying in airplanes, but we are happy even if we have to walk to our destination.” This is how we have advanced. As we advance, we cannot afford to collapse because we have to persevere until the day this nation is restored, until everything is resolved.

What is true and what is strong will remain standing. That is heavenly law. Further, God allows whatever is on His side to last to the end. Hence, we have to register ourselves with God's side.

While we walk this path, if our families oppose us, we have to sail over our families. If society opposes us, we have to sail over our society. We have to arrive at our destination, the original homeland. (155-035, 1964.10.06)

30. We need True Parents. Thus, we need a religion that will introduce us to them, a movement to seek the Will and the original True Parents, one that will guide the billions that makeup humanity to the original homeland. Humanity did not descend from True Parents; it descended from false parents.

Humanity therefore has to establish a relationship with True Parents, whom God supports. Confucian, Buddhist, and Zen teachings include a concept similar to the parents of heaven and earth.

We all have to build a relationship with True Parents and go through the gate to the path they have established. In this way, all people will become true siblings to one another. To become true siblings, we have to inherit the lineage of True Parents and unite completely with them in heart, circumstances, and hope.

For those of us who hold this philosophy of sibling love, no matter how close we have been to our blood relatives up to now and no matter how happy, once we are connected with the True Parents' flesh and blood, everything is changed at once.

That encounter with True Parents, once made, cannot be compared with your connection to your natural parents. Even your natural parents must find the True Parents. If they do not, they will be lost. (155-035, 1964.10.06)

31. Your conscience knows the way to life. You like pleasant aromas, don't you? Why do you like them? It is because your sense of smell is designed to appreciate good fragrances. It is the same with your heart and mind. Your heart senses good just as your nose senses fragrance.

This is why you can be spontaneously happy. No one needs to advertise what is inherently good. This is why you are happy when you are on the way here, and why you miss me when you do not see me. This is why in the modern world people groan in their hearts, “I wish I could go to the original homeland!”

This desire swells within. Even though we don't understand why or what it is exactly, our heart seeks the path leading to our original homeland. Why do our minds and hearts want to go to that original homeland?

It is because our father and mother, our brothers and sisters, our relatives, and our nation are there. It is our promised land and our place of Sabbath rest. That is why our heart yearns for that original homeland. (155-036, 1964.10.06)

32. God is the One for whom everyone yearns. His dwelling place is where all people want to visit and live. What is it like in that place of happiness, the ideal original homeland?

Simply speaking, it is a place to which we long to go. In that place, our beloved parents and siblings live.

This is why we want to visit this original homeland and live there together in joy and happiness for all eternity, without ever leaving. We human beings lost this original homeland. Hence, we must find that place and go there without fail.
(155-036, 1964.10.06)