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At North Garden in Kodiak, Alaska, on August 20, 1989, the 4th anniversary of True Father's release from Danbury Prison, True Father proclaimed the Providential Age of the Grace of Love.
On that day, in a sermon entitled “The Completion of the Providence of Salvation and the Providential Age of Love,” True Parents clarified that until then, we had been in the providential age of salvation by restoration through indemnity.
From that point on, however, there would be no power opposing the Unification Church. We had entered the providential age of love.
On August 31, 1989, the True Parents' Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages (Pal Jeong Shik) opened the age when indemnity no longer would be necessary.
The Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages refers vertically to the stages of the servant of servants, servant, adopted child, stepchild, child, spouse, parent, and God, and horizontally to the stages of individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and God.
The Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages announced that True Parents had established the victorious foundations necessary to restore, through indemnity, these eight vertical and eight horizontal stages.
1. The day when I proclaimed the Providential Age of the Grace of Love was August 20, 1989. This means we are coming to the end of the period of the historical providence of salvation in which people shed their blood as indemnity. We have entered the age of love. True Parents appeared and we entered the age of love.
Because of this, we have advocated that the providence of salvation be centered on love.
Then, on August 31, I proclaimed the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages. I must consummate vertical indemnity and horizontal indemnity. Accordingly, I proclaimed this in the northernmost region, Alaska.
Next, on September 1, I announced the Age of Heavenly Parentism, and on February 27, 1990, I proclaimed the Parents of Heaven and Earth. The establishment of the Parents of Heaven and Earth is the same as the establishment of kingship, which I announced at that same ceremony.
Through the coming of the kingship of heaven and earth, we entered the age when True Parents have authority. (204-281, 1990/07/11)
2. The Providential Age of the Grace of Love means that we entered the age when God will have dominion. After declaring the abolition of the age of indemnity, on July 13, 2003, we fully entered the Providential Age of the Grace of Love.
Removing whatever has fallen, we have entered the great transition to a new world centering on God, in which God governs according to the ideal of creation.
The providence of salvation will come to a complete end only when the UN is renewed. Religions and countries will disappear. The fighting between religions and between countries will disappear. It will be the age of family love. By bringing true life together with God's true love at the center, we will possess true lineage.
Because that is fully realized in the father-son relationship, humanity will be one great family. All the people of the world will be brothers and sisters. Where do we find the origin of this? We find it in the family.
Many thousands of years ago, all people were supposed to be brothers and sisters, but that relationship was lost. As time passed, those close sibling relationships were lost. Hence, people of the East and West, and North and South, will have to be brought together. When this happens, we can live in the age of one great family of humankind. (414-220, 2003/08/02)
3. The providential age of heaven has transitioned into the age of True Parents and the age of love. Now there will be no more death associated with the history of religion. There will be no more tears.
If you want to become a doctor, you must receive an education in medicine. In the same way, if you enthusiastically and continuously follow the path of the Principle, you will perfect your character, internally and externally.
Accordingly, we are entering the Providential Age of the Grace of Love. From the viewpoint of the Principle, we passed through the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle and entered the standard of God's direct dominion, in which we can become one with God's love.
Because children and parents are connecting in the age of restoring parental authority, I must announce tribal messiahship. I sacrificed everything, including myself, for the sake of the providence that God has been carrying out for 6,000 years, and I finally restored the family of the fallen Adam.
Therefore, those men who married as they pleased can become restored Adams at the formation stage.
Your tribe becomes the growth-stage Adam, and Father, centering on the nation, becomes the completion-stage Adam. This era automatically expands worldwide. We have entered the era to gain the right to inherit the position of parents.
Parents and children are becoming one, and Satan's world cannot meddle in that. (193-100, 1989/08/31)
4. When I say that I have bestowed upon you a special authority from heaven, it means that I have raised you to the position of a messiah. This is higher than the position of your parents who gave you birth.
After you become tribal messiahs, you establish your parents, who represent Jesus, in the position of Adam and Eve. By establishing the righteous parents of your family in oneness, with this restoration of Adam and Eve, you inherit the parental authority of the family, tribe, people, nation, and worldwide messiahs.
In Divine Principle terminology, this is the transition from the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle into the realm of God's direct dominion. In the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle, you have to complete your portion of responsibility by restoring the authority of the elder son.
Then you can inherit the foundation of restoration from me, who has subjugated Satan on the world level. By hoisting the flag of victory as the elder son, you should take dominion over Satan directly, so that Satan will say to you, “Now you have become the children of heaven. I am the archangel, and I need to serve you.”
At this point, you can act freely in the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle. You are doing that based on the restoration of the authority of the elder son.
The firstborn child and second-born child are both the children of Adam and Eve.
They are God's children. Therefore, because the providential age to which we have returned is one in which children centered on their parents connect their family and blood relations with God at the center, we call this age the Providential Age of the Grace of Love. (193-091, 1997/08/31)
5. Jesus came as the second parent to restore the descendants of fallen Adam and thereby save the world, but that was not fully accomplished. Therefore, at his Second Advent, the Lord comes as the third parent.
Because Christianity could not fulfill its mission, the True Parents came, and they had to establish a foundation of victory by restoring the authority of the elder son through indemnity a second time, over 40 years. They had to restore all the failures at the time of Jesus and at the time of Adam.
Therefore, based on True Parents, Adam's family is restored, Jesus' family is restored, and each nation is restored. When Korea is restored, it will be the central nation of the world.
In truth, borders between nations will disappear automatically when centered on the Returning Lord – that is, the True Parents – worldwide parents, national parents, tribal parents, and family parents are established. We can look for nations, but they will not exist.
The blessed families, who are family messiahs and tribal messiahs, have to save the nation while in the family position, which is similar to the situation when Jesus was resurrected.
The mission of Jesus was to connect Israel, Rome, and the world, but the world became divided internally and externally; that is, into Cain and Abel. You have to end that division using love. (193-087, 1989/08/31)
6. I started from the position of a servant of servants. I did all those things, such as collecting waste materials in a Japanese slum. For three years at least, I fasted on my birthday and wore tattered clothes even when giving sermons. This was restoration. Even when in the position of servant of servants, I was persecuted worldwide.
I had to go from the position of servant of servants to the position of servant, and after that to the position of adopted son. An adopted child has a different lineage.
And I had to complete the portion of responsibility that Adam had to establish the tradition. Because the responsibility of Adam, who failed in establishing that tradition, needed to be fulfilled, I had to complete Adam's portion of responsibility after enduring and overcoming even agonizing situations.
Furthermore, I had to create the foundation for Eve to become completely one with the children. To restore the cosmos, I established the authority of the elder son through Eve. Eve, who received the responsibility of restoring the elder son, must become one with the elder son and the second son. (193-093, 1989/08/31)
7. Because the Returning Lord fulfilled the entire vertical standard and reached the standard at which everything can be equalized, indemnity is no longer necessary.
Accordingly, all that is necessary is to engraft the eight stages; that is, the restoration of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and God's position.
Since God prepared the Christian cultural realm so that His authority would encounter no opposition, the goal of that realm was to attend to the coming Lord.
However, even though everything had been restored through indemnity, both vertically and horizontally, all that accomplishment was completely lost. God fully prepared the standard based on vertical and horizontal indemnity on a worldwide scale. But because the Korean people and Christianity did not support Father, everything was lost.
For that reason, the Cain, Abel, and Eve nations on Heaven's side, and the Cain, Abe,l and Eve nations on Satan's side, along with Korea, became seven enemy nations. After Satan gathered these seven nations, he intended to eliminate the Father.
However, having gone beyond the national level, expanding the realm of the Blessing with the holding of the 777 Couples Blessing Ceremony, and after the three-year missionary mobilization of blessed wives, the foundation was made for me to go to the United States. Since then, I have been working to expand the foundation by indemnity through the eight stages up to the world level.
(199-157, 1990/02/16)
8. We have to pass through eight vertical stages: servant of servants, servant, adopted child, stepchild, child, spouse, parents, and God. Then we have to go through eight horizontal stages: individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and God.
The Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages brought together and settled all these stages. I proclaimed this on August 31, 1989, in Alaska.
Accordingly, we are entering the age in which people no longer need to pay indemnity. It means that wherever a Unification Church member goes, or I go, and whatever we do, no one can persecute us.
Now when we do any kind of work, no one can accuse us. The Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages is the ceremony for settling into that new environment.
After performing this ceremony as the foundation, I declared Heavenly Parentism on September 1, 1989.
The age to restore the elder son was before the completion of the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages. By restoring the authority of the elder son to the side of heaven, we entered the realm of the worldwide summit in which Satan can no longer oppose us. (193-207, 1989/10/04)
9. There has never been a true woman who lived for the world that God intended to build. For this purpose, I conducted the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages. The providence for the restoration of God must pass through the eight stages to reach God.
It has to pass through the stages of the servant of servant, servant, adopted son, stepson, son, mother, father, and God. This course is the basis for understanding that God has been looking for the true woman.
The Lord who is the Bridegroom has to be born on earth and find the victorious woman. Representing Adam, Abel emerges and finds her.
The mission of the Bride after passing through thousands of years is to establish a unified worldwide foundation on earth. This is done for the sake of completing the ideal of Adam and accomplishing God's Will for the Bridegroom.
Without that foundation, Abel cannot appear on earth as the victorious Bridegroom. Even if he were victorious on the national level, the world-level Satan would cling to him to beat him down.
Therefore, until the time we can go over the worldwide realm of liberation, we must establish the realm of the Bride while preparing for the Bridegroom. For God to make Adam was simple. However, re-creating Adam has had to proceed through thousands of years of history, from the Fall of Adam and Eve until now.
(242-243, 1993/01/02)
10. The Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages! In God's providence, the number eight could not settle. The number eight symbolizes the circle in heaven and the circle on earth. The month of August 1989, which is the first year after proclaiming the Foundation Day of the Nation of the Unified World, has special importance.
There is important content behind the announcement of the cosmic settlement at the close of August this year. In this providential age, the restoration of the authority of the elder son along with the authority of the parents is established, and through the restoration of the authority of the parents, the restoration of kingship is established.
The age of democracy is passing and the world of love is coming. Can democracy buy God and True Parents? Can you be voted into a relationship with God and True Parents? The way of love is the only way.
I have made these pronouncements, but that does not mean you do not have to pray. If you do not, the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages cannot reside on earth and in heaven.
I proclaimed the settlement by offering prayers as the representative of all the members of the Unification Church, all people, all nations, and all things in heaven. (193-110, 1997/08/31)
11. I conducted the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages in Kodiak, Alaska, a point on earth close to the North Star. I broke down all the barriers between the earthly hell and the heavenly kingdom, both the vertical and horizontal obstructions.
I broke down and cleared away the walls in the human world that block individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, the world, and the cosmos. As long as these barriers exist, Satan can reside temporarily on this earth.
When I see Satan residing in the spirit world and the earthly world, I say, “You have opposed me worldwide. I have loved humankind more than you have. I have taught God's heavenly way to all people when you taught them to be defeated and led them to ruin.”
Satan bows his head in front of the leadership of love. It is the love of the mother trying to restore her unfilial son from the life of a bandit to a righteous life. Only love can make the sinful devil surrender. That is why I emphasize love.
(193-299, 1989/10/08)
12. Before Adam and Eve fell, everything was their possession and the possession of God. Accordingly, offering the nation and the world before receiving the Blessing is the general rule, but one is unable to do that in the course of restoration.
Today's Blessing is the Blessing for people within the Unification Church. In the future, we will return to the original standard by creating one nation and blessing that nation and world.
Heavenly parenting starts from there. Heavenly Parentism will prevail when the world is level under God and holds a global marriage ceremony. That is the content of True Parentism.
Because of the Korean War, the world entered the era of two poles. However, these two poles became one centering on the Seoul Olympics. The Moscow Olympics and Los Angeles Olympics were in the era of two poles, but they became one at the time of the Seoul Olympics.
At that time, the Little Angels participated in a celebratory performance and I said, “l will donate 2,000 cars to Moscow. Please take them, but take them through North Korea.” I suggested this so that the material and spiritual could unite.
At the Seoul Olympics, the young Unification Church missionaries became one with Cain-type young people in Satan's world. Accordingly, Unification Church members cheered for those countries that did not have an embassy in Korea, by holding those nations' flags. They united and cheered them on.
At the end of August 1989, I declared the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages based on those conditions. I built that idealistic foundation for young people, and based on that foundation I established a day with great significance. (287-125, 1997/09/19)
13. August 31, 200 is the 10th anniversary of Pal Jeong Shik, the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages. It is a precious day when, for the restoration of lineage, we mark True Parents' having gone through all eras of the eight stages, horizontally from the individual to the family tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and up to God, as well as vertically beginning from the servant of servants.
Hence, as True Parents have come, by uniting with them, people can begin to settle in the world. This is the importance of the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages.
Because I proclaimed this in Kodiak, Kodiak is the starting point and standard from which we move forward. Kodiak is an island in the sea between Russia and America. Therefore, settlement of the eight stages began in the ocean, proceeded through a peninsula, arrived on a continent, and, for the first time, reached the world level.
Eight stages, the age of the servant of servants to the servant, adopted child, stepchild, child, mother, father, and God were thoroughly indemnified and connected vertically and horizontally. As a result, Heavenly Parentism could be declared on September 1, 1989. (596-242, 2008/08/31)
14. The truth of God and True Parents is called Heavenly Parentism. Finally, today is the new day of origin when heaven and earth become one based on true love, and this realm expands from the family to the world. This day has that kind of meaning.
The Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages was proclaimed on the foundation of True Parents passing through all the experiences of bitter pain and grief, vertically and horizontally. Until now, heaven could come neither vertically nor horizontally.
But after we connect vertically and horizontally with the new family, with True Parents as the center, we can advance to the world that God desires. Heavenly Parentism would not emerge without this Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages.
The blessed families are the center of this worldwide expansion. Standing on the territory of a world family centering on blessed couples, from 30,000 Couples to 360,000 Couples to 3.6 Million Couples, the way the family of True Parents is going is beyond the vertical and horizontal stages, and God can dwell on the earth.
Therefore, I proclaimed the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath of the Parents of Heaven and Earth. The 30,000 Couples, 360,000 Couples, and 3.6 Million Couples fulfilled the formation, growth, and completion stages, ushering in the age when Unificationist families of the world can be welcomed and their activities proceed without obstruction. Therefore, wherever God goes, He can rest.
(287-108, 1997/09/19)
15. As a result of completing the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages, the authority of Parents has been recovered, and their pain and sorrow dissolved. The philosophy of Heavenly Parentism is spreading. In the position of True Parents, I have liberated Adam's family and I have liberated Jesus from the sorrow of being unable to fulfill the work of a tribal messiah.
The time has come when you, as tribal messiahs, can remove whatever wrongs your parents and relatives have done. For the first time, each of your hometowns can be transformed into the hometowns of heaven's nation.
Having the form of a nation, the hometown territory will be the place where we can connect with True Parents and receive their governance, and your fathers' and mothers' birthplaces will be designated as hometowns within God's nation.
Accordingly, in this age, your hometowns can be acknowledged as hometowns of God's nation. They have been liberated from hell.
Now the people who were living in hell are all going through returning resurrection, so three generations must be centered on the tribal messiah, and this forms a condition in front of heaven. A grandfather, a father,r and an older brother center on the tribal messiah.
This is the root of the spiritual work of restoration. You are liberating God, liberating True Parents, and liberating yourself.
(193-213, 1989/08/31)
Authority of the elder son, parents, and king
On the foundation of having proclaimed the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages, True Parents proclaimed Heavenly Parentism at North Garden in Kodiak, Alaska, on September 1, 1989.
Now fallen human beings could welcome True Parents, and True Parents could love Cain and Abel completely. As a result, the era of the principles of Heavenly Parentism opened up.
True Parents said that as the authority of the elder son, the authority of parents, and the authority of kingship had been restored, we had reached the world-level growth stage at which Satan could not oppose us. They said the time had come when, if we pushed boldly and strongly, even the communist world would move.
16. How can we establish Heavenly Parentism? It is established and centered on the family. Originally, generations of people should have propagated from unfallen Adam's family to become an unfallen tribal-level family, unfallen people-level family, unfallen national-level and world-level family.
Prom that one set of human ancestors, humanity has expanded. This was to have been the basis of Adam's kingship. However, because this expansion began from the fallen human ancestors and proliferated into the spirit world, the first ancestor did not become king.
Instead, the king will be the restored Adam. Only when the restored Adam's kingship is established will the descendants that have multiplied over tens of thousands of years form one unified world. (194-114, 1989/10/08)
17. We had to rise through eight vertical stages. The Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages achieved that. Next, I announced Heavenly Parentism.
Heavenly Parentism is the principle of the family applied everywhere. Godism is the principle of the family centered on God.
Nevertheless, we received worldwide persecution while expanding to a true people, a true nation, and a true world centered on True Parents. Satan's world opposed it, but heaven and earth, God and True Parents, men and women and children were all elevated nonetheless. (287-146, 1997/09/14)
18. How do we liberate all that is under Satan's dominion? The world's parents are like the fallen Adam and Eve. But by establishing them in the unfallen perfected position, Father and Mother are restoring the value of unfallen, perfected Adam and Eve.
Accordingly, they became the Adam and Eve over whom God can have direct dominion. Because of this, the kingdom of heaven, even the hometown where sons and daughters were born and are living, is coming about.
Accordingly, I have dispatched tribal messiahs, and now I am educating families. What have True Parents been doing here on earth for 40 years?
True Parents sent out tens of thousands of couples and blessed families into Satan's world, centered not on the individual domain of messiahship but rather on the worldwide domain. After giving them the Blessing centering on God, we sent them out on missions of family messiahship.
The era of individual witnessing is passing. It is the age of family witnessing. You must find each person since each person's mind-body relationship has been lost.
You find your counterpart based on the relationship between the subject partner and the object partner. As a man, you need to have a partner. A woman has to unite as an absolute object partner with her husband, who is the subject partner and, after becoming one with him, receive true love from him. If you are going to possess the true qualifications of perfection, the man, and woman must become one in true love.
When East and West unite and form a horizontal relationship through marriage, God comes down on the perpendicular and dwells here. God descends, and the realm of the oneness of the four great realms of the heart is achieved – the heart of parents, of husband and wife, of siblings, and children.
From this perspective, history is the battle to find brothers and to find the authority of the elder son. What remains then is the age of parenting.
(245-154, 1993/02/28)
19. Because I restored the authority of the elder son and proclaimed the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages, from now we are in the era of Heavenly Parentism. We have entered the age of parentism; we have reached a major milestone. Therefore, there is no persecution.
Now that the realm of completion has been achieved through these indemnity conditions, the Adam realm should expand horizontally. It encompasses the formation-stage Adam, the growth-stage Adam, and the completion-stage Adam.
From the historical viewpoint, the formation-stage Adam is fallen Adam, the growth-stage Adam is Jesus, and the completion-stage Adam is the Returning Lord.
The Old Testament Age was the age of sacrificial rites based on material things. The New Testament Age was the age when the Son was sacrificed. Thereafter, the Returning Lord, in the position of True Parents, came to this earth and became the offering for the sake of restoring the Parents of Heaven and Earth.
The Old Testament Age was the age of sacrificing material things for the sake of attending the Son. The New Testament Age was the age of sacrificing the Son for the sake of attending to the Parents.
Upon the liberation of Korea, when the True Parents came, if everyone had become one on that foundation and the country had united, God would have come down and dwelt there.
However, it did not work like that, so True Parents suffered while restoring this foundation through indemnity a second time, and again made preparations to attend God on earth. (199-097, 1990/02/15)
20. We cannot guide the world by holding on to democracy. What is the difference between democracy and communism? Communism is satanic, and American democracy is archangelic. Neither side has parents.
Because brothers shed blood at the start of history, even in a democracy there is bloodshed. At the time of harvest, the world divides in two because that seed was sown at the beginning. There is nothing to harvest from either the communist world or the democratic world.
The authentic democratic world has not been realized, so American youth are lamenting. The American government and American leaders are just staring at this; they cannot handle it.
No one can liberate America, which is going to ruin. Who can solve this affliction? It is not possible for anyone apart from God. That is why we do not cling to democracy. There must be Parentism, Heavenly Parentism.
(205-176, 1990/09/01)
21. Because of Heavenly Parentism, the era of restored kingship will come by uniting the democratic and communist worlds through headwind thought. God cannot work without a vertical foundation.
When your conscience becomes upright and like a mirror in front of the original standard, the vertical God will be there. This is the base for God to work with you.
Unless you have that, you will have no path by which to expand horizontally, and God will be unable to enter the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle. Then there will be no foundation for your perfection on earth. (193-217, 1989/10/04)
22. On August 31, 1989, in Alaska, I declared the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages. I have consummated the eight stages of vertical and horizontal indemnity. On the first day of September, I announced Heavenly Parentism. It is parentism and at the same time the teaching of grace through love.
Love is the purpose of parentism, and Satan cannot oppose love.
At this time, there is no place of settlement. Settlement has to be done through the restoration of Canaan.
Canaan's seven tribes need to bow their heads in surrender. This is why we have been holding banquets since 1989 on the occasion of returning to our childhood homes in glory.
Sent out from the gates of our hometown in tears, we have returned holding the flag of victory and have held banquets with our relatives, beginning with our father and mother. After fully preparing such a foundation and proclaiming tribal messiahship, we are restoring all our relatives to heaven's nation.
(199-158, 1990/02/16)
23. If your heart is not one with True Parents, you will not be able to restore the authority of the elder son.
Even if you were to say that you have restored the authority of the elder son, in the absence of oneness with the heart of True Parents you will be unable to advance to the position of tribal messiah.
When the sphere of your heart is united with True Parents, you are in the unfallen position and God comes in vertically. True love, which unites in the realm of the heart of God and True Parents, travels the shortest and most direct route.
Therefore, love that connects to the top is vertical. The shortest and most direct route is the vertical line, which connects to the horizontal line at a 90-degree angle.
Where is the uniting point of the heart where we can unite heaven and earth? That place is nowhere apart from where there is a 90-degree angle with the central line.
When we achieve this based on the love of upper and lower, front and back, and elder and younger brothers, we have 1,2, 3,4,5,6, and 7. Seven points. Because the number 7 represents the integrated core of love, and because it expresses the completion of love, we call it the number of completion. (215-128, 1991/02/06)
24. Father has restored the realm of brothers. Although the restoration of the realm of brothers had been completed based on Christianity at the time of World War II because we lost that foundation, I had to restore 4,000 years of history.
Now I have restored the authority of the elder son. I have the power and system necessary for that throughout the world. Having restored the realm of brothers with the United States in the central position, now I must restore even the Soviet Union. (205-183, 1990/09/01)
25. Through Heavenly Parentism, the position of parents has been restored. This means that I will establish your physical parents in the position of Adam and Eve. I placed you in the position of Jesus, while I am standing in the position of the Lord at the Second Advent.
Then looking horizontally, your parents can stand in the position of restored First Adam and Eve, and accordingly your hometown can belong to the hometown of the heavenly nation. If the hometown where you were born becomes like that, we can establish the heavenly nation.
Therefore, the three generations of grandfather and grandmother, father and mother, and sons and daughters all must become one. (205-192, 1990/09/01)
26. After you restore your siblings and parents, you have to seek your family's kingship. Only then will you connect to the great, eternal, cosmic kingship. You're doing so connects the foundation of your small victory to a great victory, and you will become a grateful and happy person. That is why you need to be a tribal messiah.
After I connect to you, when you become one with your family you too will be able to enter Father's position. When you do that, your mission of tribal messiah will end and you will possess tribal kingship.
It is not me but you who will possess it. Then the land of your hometown will become the kingdom of heaven.
Heavenly Parentism is needed to digest Satan, who remains active in both the communist and democratic worlds. You have to digest all the diverse cultural backgrounds in the world utilizing Godism, Heavenly Parentism, and true love.
Thereafter, we should establish kingship. The people that can digest them will become the owners of the kingship.
These teachings are like trustworthy walking sticks that we can lean on to clean up all the problems of the past so that we can establish kingship. When we have done this, the history of restoration will be spotless and complete.
(205-193, 1990/09/01)
27. I restored the authority of the elder son. I restored the authority of Parents. Next what I need to do is restore the authority of kingship. Because I have restored the authority of Parents, I have sent out tribal messiahs, just as God sent Jesus and then the Lord during his Second Advent. Finally, we will be able to clean up everything.
Here I have settled the three vertical standards: the eras of Adam, Jesus, and the Returning Lord. Because I was completely victorious in preparing these standards, we have to step forth and expand in the era of the Returning Lord.
Accordingly, a model has appeared for you to establish your family. The Third Adam came to save the First Adam and the Second Adam. As he sends you out in the position of the Second Adam, your mother and father will rise to the position of the First Adam.
Once that is done, religions will no longer be necessary and the entire world will enter the realm of the chosen people. The whole world will be connected through one set of True Parents. Therefore, the land of the hometown where you were born will become the nation of heaven, the kingdom of heaven, and your father and mother in your hometown will become true ancestors. (201-130, 1990/03/27)
28. If your family stands on heaven's side, the worldwide territory centering on True Parents connects to it. Your original hometown should be where I was born, but every tribe's hometown cannot be Jeongju. It has to be the actual place where you were born.
The hometown where the God-centered parents were born is the Garden of Eden.
As your good descendants are born centering on that original, unfallen Garden, they will step forth, spread out, and face the world. Through all of you connecting with my clan, you will go forward united as a part of my lineage.
You must love what is vertical more than you love your relatives. Then Satan cannot take possession.
Now all the conditions have been established to make the restoration of kingship possible. (201-131, 1990/03/27)
29. The Unification Church is not just another church. It is to create a true person, a true husband and wife, a true family, a true tribe, a true people, a true nation, a true world and a true new heaven and earth.
Just because you say you have achieved salvation as an individual does not mean that heaven and earth will be liberated. On the contrary, we seek the salvation of heaven and earth, and this will bring about the liberation of the world, nations, peoples, and families, down to the individual.
Salvation is achieved in reverse order; it is fundamentally different from the concept of salvation in the world of conventional faith.
You cannot go to heaven holding only an individual foundation. In the kingdom of heaven, the world and cosmos are included. The concept of the kingdom of heaven until now has not been correct.
Where can you create the original ideal kingdom of heaven? The kingdom of heaven is realized when you pass through the levels of yourself, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and God. You must realize this here on Earth after you find the central being. Unless you do so, you will not be liberated.
(205-167, 1990/09/01)
30. Everyone says, “I want the best of everything!” But that best must be able to truly represent everything. To represent everything, you have to stand in the position of God's object partner.
God is the subject partner in the capacity of plus, and we are in the position of His object partners in the capacity of minus. The standard that all people want is the form of the original creation, which is like that.
God gave this great gift to human beings, but it is not individually oriented. Even if you have received the Blessing, and you and your spouse attend church regularly, that is not enough by itself. You have to become the representative of your tribe and the representative of your people. Accordingly, you are called a tribal messiah.
Next, we say that you must restore the authority of the elder son, restore the authority of parents, restore the authority of Heavenly Parent, and restore kingship.
That is not an individual viewpoint. The entire providence is global and historical. We have to go from parentism up to Heavenly Parentism. From here we need to achieve even the kingship of the kingdom of heaven.
That is your responsibility. As God's representative, I had to establish the providential conditions that Satan cannot accuse. Eventually, you will have to take this path. (205-169, 1990/09/01)
Sun Myung Moon