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1. To create a nation, there has to be sovereignty, people and land. The same holds for the heavenly kingdom, where Parents represent the sovereignty, sons, and daughters represent the people, and its territory represents the land. None of these can be left out; it is an ironclad rule. (035-279, 1970.10.25)
2. For the formation of a nation, there must be sovereignty, people, and land. When building the kingdom of heaven on earth from this perspective, who would be its lord? Who would be its sovereign?
Undoubtedly, God would be its sovereign. Who would be its people? All humankind. Then what would be its land? It would be the entire planet Earth. (096-015, 1978.01.01)
The foundations of Cheon Il Guk are sovereignty, people, and land
3. Once people come to know that God exists, they will naturally follow His Will. Gods. Will is to make all humanity, His beloved people to make the planet Earth, His beloved land, and by bringing these together, to make a sovereign nation. This will be the ideal world. (056-192, 1972.05.14)
4. To establish a nation, there needs to be land, people, and sovereignty. What establishes the sovereignty? It is a relationship with God, the Origin. For instance, those who govern the nation are required to conduct the affairs of the f state by connecting to God, even after most people have fallen fast asleep. In this manner, the leaders will be one with their people.
Thus united, they will know that everything set before them is not for their use, but for the sake of the nation. With this in place, the nation will prosper.
(030-088, 1970.03.17)
5. The reason we shed blood and tears for our country and our people is ultimately to build the eternal heavenly kingdom, a blessed nation that our descendants will applaud for all eternity. This will surely be a country where children of direct lineage rule with an authority that represents God.
It has the authority of God's kingship, which is neither communism nor democracy. Once we form this country, it will endure forever with this national structure. As I come to think of this, I lament that I could not become a citizen of that nation.
You, too, should lament that you were unable to live in such a country. We all should be lamenting that we were unable to have such a nation. We should repent for not having established this one unchanging sovereignty.
(392-234, 2002.09.21)
6. God sent His beloved sons and daughters to this earth in His endeavor to establish one true nation. But to this day, we have not prepared the foundation upon which to restore this nation of oneness.
After each attempt to achieve it ended unsuccessfully, God continued to send His people to earth to initiate, conduct, and conclude His work successfully. God has worked through history for this purpose. (030-010, 1970.03.14)
7. People whose nation has lost its sovereignty are in a pitiful plight. This was what Jesus meant when he preached: “Therefore, do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
For the Gentiles seek all these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.” (Matt. 6:31-33)
What did he say you should seek first: your children or His kingdom? He told you to seek the nation that God is seeking. (034-337, 1970.09.20)
8. Even Jesus is waiting in paradise. He was unable to establish the throne of Heaven on earth. Jesus cannot yet stand in front of God with the foundation of the sovereignty of a nation. He could not govern a fully established nation whose people could go straight from earth to the kingdom of God in heaven.
Thus, they had to remain with Jesus in paradise, which is like a waiting room. The kingdom of heaven in heaven is a place you cannot enter alone.
If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have gone there together with their family. The kingdom of heaven in heaven is a place you go in the company of your family, including children. Without them, you cannot possibly enter.
(056-201, 1972.05.14)
9. God's sovereignty of love is absolute, unique, eternal, and unchanging. Such is the case with the sovereignty, the people, and the land of God's kingdom.
Therefore, we need to reorganize everything. This includes registering anew as absolute, unique, eternal, and unchanging citizens. All things should be reorganized as well, with everything reclaimed.
God's kingdom consists of sovereignty, people, and all things, united absolutely with God. We see that in each family, parents represent sovereignty children represent the citizens, and possessions represent the creation.
Each family needs to offer itself to God as a small-scale foundation. The larger nation and world will come about on this basis and this basis alone.
(304-258, 1999.11.08)
10. For us to form a nation, we need sovereignty and then people. In the future, we will provide all citizens of the heavenly kingdom with a registration card. This foundation, on which its people, its citizens, will stand, centering on Heaven's full authority and sovereignty, is being prepared for Cheon Il Guk. At that point, you will be honored based on the number of people from your tribe you brought to heaven. (364-131, 2002.01.01)
11. We have to build one nation under the sovereignty of God. The time has come for you, as the people who can exercise the authority of True Parents centering on God, to take financial responsibility by paying taxes for the restoration of our homeland on earth, the Nation of the Unified World.
I am not supposed to help you personally, so I cannot provide all the resources for you. You need to follow God's Will. To achieve this, Korea has its responsibility, Japan has its responsibility and America has its responsibility. Providentially, the three of them are one country, although each represents one position as father nation, mother nation, and eldest son nation. (303-157, 1999.08.17)
12. Why have the saints faced difficulties? It is because they pioneered faith without support from their family, society, or nation. They were a people without a nation. If they had had the support of a nation, they could have survived even if their tribe opposed them.
Yet, this rarely happened, and hence those whom God called usually were persecuted wherever they went and many walked the path of a sacrificial offering, shedding blood.
Again, this is because they did not have their nation. If they had had a sovereign and a nation to support them, there would have been no need for them to go the sacrificial way. They were a people without a nation. To this day, the truth did not have a people or nation, and even those who followed it did not know the nature of the nation that God was hoping to see. (056-159, 1972.05.14)
13. How many heaven-bound sons and daughters have you gathered? You should not do anything else apart from that. You may live affluently with billions of dollars worth of gold, but that will pass away. Invest your material resources, your knowledge, and even your life from the fallen lineage for this work.
Do not invest them a little at a time, but rather all at once, out of a heart to create citizens for God's kingdom. Accumulate such investments; their value appreciates exponentially. (230-031, 1992.04.15)
14. The Unification Church is marching toward the ideal of the kingdom of heaven within the family. The nation, world, heaven, and God are nestled in that family. You have been engrafted to the True Parents' lineage, so do not act like wild olive trees. Take the seed of the true olive tree and bear its fruit wherever you take root in the world.
Transcending nations and peoples, the fruits are the same. Bear them and bring them forth as the holy people of the kingdom of heaven, manifesting God's ideal of creation.
Unification Church-blessed families are responsible for increasing the population of the kingdom of heaven, which is a free and liberated realm with no history of indemnity. Never forget that this is your mission. (202-257, 1990.05.24)
15. Unification Church members do not have their nation. The democratic world we see today is the fruit of God's six thousand years of endeavor. Had you been born in Israel at the time of Jesus, you would have been executed. A man like me would have been done away with, leaving behind not even the smallest trace of his existence.
We have to be aware that there are unrighteous representatives of Satan on the national level as well as on the world level. In particular, communism, which is the embodiment of evil on the global level, is desperate. It is preparing a final act of aggression to wipe out religion. (055-209, 1972.05.09)
God's right of ownership and the Cheon Il Guk citizenship card
16. Until now, God has been unable to assert His right of ownership. Even True Parents could not assert their right of ownership over true children, a true nation, and a true world.
Satan has claimed everything: nations, peoples, and the material world. Satan usurped the entirety of God's right of ownership. Because no true person, no true man, and no true woman, arose to take possession of them, God's right of ownership was not established. (186-118, 1989.01.29)
17. To this day, God has been unable to establish His right of ownership. The devil has been the owner, and God's children were unable to take ownership. The devil and his children have posed as the owners of God's creation and caused great harm.
Therefore, everything has to be reclaimed. The entire creation has to be returned to the original Parents – to true parents, true children, true tribes, and the true nation. (203-186, 1990.06.24)
18. Socialism, that is, communism, is seeking to make one totalitarian nation. Because Satan knows that the era of the restoration of ownership based on God's ideal will soon arrive, he is trying to prevent God from taking ownership of the world through communism.
Satan did all that he could. Nonetheless, I have reclaimed everything for God's side. That is why Satan's side is defeated in both theory and practice. No power can stand in opposition to God and me. (229-158, 1992.04.11)
19. The matter of ownership is a big problem. In communist socialism, the state is the sole owner. In democracy, the individual is the owner. So who should be the owner? The whole world belongs to God; thus, the world belongs to His children, and they belong to His family.
Therefore, God's children need to bring everything together so that they can offer Him ownership of the world. God should be the sole owner. Only when He becomes the sole owner, having the right of ownership, can He bequeath it to the True Parents and, through them, to the children. Then the world can be considered to be owned by God. (183-082, 1988.10.29)
20. You do not own your possessions, your children, or your spouse. You are standing in the position of the archangel. Hence, you need to pass through a period when you deny owning anything.
Socialist communism, sensing that such an era is dawning, denies ownership to individuals. That is why they speak of everything as belonging to the state or some other collective. This development is not by happenstance. The ideal world of creation is unfolding based on God's providence of restoration and the process of re-creation. (200-303, 1990.02.26)
21. Cheon Il Guk needs to have sovereignty, land, and people. The Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship accomplished the restoration of sovereignty. The rallies for the Settlement of God's Homeland signified the restoration of the land.
Next, you will register as a citizen of Cheon Il Guk and acquire a Cheon Il Guk citizenship card. (476-281, 2004.11.23)
22. Once the nation of Cheon Il Guk is established, everyone can go to heaven and become a citizen. That is why I am asking that everyone acquire a Cheon Il Guk citizenship card.
Please take this seriously. You will be in trouble if you take it lightly. Try to have your relatives receive citizenship cards even if they are not interested in doing so. (361-125, 2001.11.22)
23. We have created a passport for the heavenly kingdom. Once Cheon Il Guk passports gain currency, people will no longer need visas. You should value this Cheon Il Guk passport more than a Korean or American passport. You should value it more than certification by the UN. The Cheon Il Guk passport is not an ordinary passport that anyone can easily acquire. (368-296, 2002.02.01)
24. Even the saints and sages in the spirit world must acquire Cheon Il Guk citizenship, so of course you too should acquire a Cheon Il Guk citizenship card. The reason for this is to build one world one country, one people, one culture, and one language under God. For this, we have to become children, couples, and families who resemble the one God's character. (390-141, 2002.08.08)
25. You cannot enter God's kingdom without a Cheon Il Guk citizenship card. The way to acquire one is by willingly offering your life, your property, and even your nation to God, and then receiving them all back as your inheritance.
(522-155, 2006.03.28)
26. We do not have a nation. Though there are many sons and daughters of blessed families, we have yet to establish the ideal nation that God desires. Even though you have children, there is no place to register their births in the ideal nation, nor is there a place to register marriages or deaths.
If we do not have a nation, we cannot find a settlement. That means that we have no place to settle down. In the secular world, if you do not have a passport from your nation, other nations will not recognize you. In other words, they will not acknowledge that you are a citizen of a particular nation. (277-251, 1996.04.18)
27. I have also decreed that the absolute good spirits in the spirit world, the blessed family members in the spirit world, may register as citizens of Cheon Il Guk by grace.
When these people receive their Cheon II Guk citizenship cards, will that not be worth rejoicing over in front of heaven and earth, in front of God, and front of the saints? (398-038, 2002.12.06)
Sun Myung Moon