True Mother, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
In attendance to Heavenly Parent and also to celebrate the 1000-day memorial of the ascension of True Father we have gathered here in Las Vegas on this special day. We are so lucky and happy to be here today from all over the world; presently many Unificationists are remembering that special day. All Blessed Families, are you happy to be here with us?
When we move to a new house, to adapt to the new house, we need a lot of time to adapt to the new surroundings and that’s how we feel today; this new home is our home, in our hearts and bodies.
Today is the 1000-day memorial. It is a special service of Jeongseong (devotional offering) for the True Father’s ascension memorial. Of course, when you think about it, you realize how much Heavenly Parent and True Father have yearned and prepared for this very moment. Have you thought about it?
Expanding the Sphere of Goodness
Until now, the history of the providence of restoration through indemnity has been carried out by the Heavenly Parent. The Heavenly Parent is omnipotent and omniscient. He needs to be welcomed and attended by humanity as a king of kings.
However, He has been lonely. Why is that? Because His beloved children fell.
Can you speak of a king without the people? Yes or no?
So as we celebrate the 1000-day memorial of True Father I hope that all of you will be able to liberate your ancestors in the spirit world. True Father has mentioned that you need to liberate 210 generations. So what is the meaning of Father’s words?
We have to liberate up to 420 generations of our ancestors. The spirit world has, until this point, followed the fall. It has taken 6000 biblical years to get to this moment. What a long period. The spirit world is filled with fallen history.
The fallen people do not know God’s Providence, but thanks to the True Parents we have received the Marriage Blessing, and as Blessed Families, are you aware of the providence or are you ignorant of the providence?
If you are aware of it, my hope then is that all of you can liberate all your ancestors and lead them to the Marriage Blessing and I hope you can accomplish this mission of making your ancestors absolute good spirits.
This is the responsibility that you have been blessed with as Blessed Families. Do you understand? That is why we need to expand the good spiritual heavenly sphere, and we do this by increasing the people who are on the side of God, the people who are living centered on True Parents.
This is our blessing, our responsibility. Depending on whether we accomplish this responsibility or not, True Father can expand his influence all over the world and be more active around the world.
Restoring God’s Dream
There are 7 billion people in the world who do not know True Parents, and to these people, we need to show them the life path, the path to love all over the world.
More and more people are being born, but we are also witnessing more natural calamities. For example, in Nepal, there was a terrible disastrous earthquake, but also in the Philippines, there was a great typhoon. In America, we also had many natural disasters.
When we see these things happening, how do we think about dealing with them?
Will we be self-centered?
Are we going to think about our personal lives and our families?
Are we just going to put our comfort as our priority? Do you think that living such a life will lead you to an exalted position in the spirit world?
God had such a wonderful idea when He created the universe. He wished to realize His ideal through humanity. He expected human beings to become True Parents.
However, this incredible dream by God was destroyed by Adam and Eve.
Because of the fall of human beings, it took 6,000 years for the True Parents to appear, however, despite this setback, heaven could not let go, not forsake humankind; the beginning and end must be the same. Therefore, when God created human beings He had an ideal, and therefore He carried out the providence of restoration.
The providence of restoration was so filled with pain and was so difficult that it was so painful to find one person who could be called God’s son. You have no idea how painful and difficult it was for Heaven to raise that person going from the individual, the family, and the tribe to the nation.
To raise the national foundation, heaven had to suffer through 4000 years of painful biblical history. Heaven underwent this painful history and Heaven tried to work through the chosen people and God sent His begotten son to that people; however, what happened?
The messiah could not be recognized around the world; instead, he was crucified on the cross and promised to come again. And when he comes again, what will he accomplish? He would host the Marriage of the Lamb. That means that the Messiah wanted to hold the holy marriage, and to have this marriage you need a partner.
That’s why when we look at the 2000-year history of Christianity, it’s been a history to find the only-begotten daughter of God. You need to be aware of this.
America’s Blessing
Dear brothers and sisters, as you know from Divine Principle, whether it’s the individual, tribe, or nation, if heaven grants a mission to a person and the person fails in his responsibility that person is not used anymore. We know this very well from the Bible, and we also know that when heaven does work, it does so through indemnity. For a long time in history, heaven has worked in the Orient and prepared the Korean peninsula.
When we look at the 2000 years of Christianity, it began in the Italian peninsula, expanded through the European continent, went to the island of England, it flourished in the European continent and among these people, and we can see that American history traces its roots back to this continent. Isn’t that true? When we look at the American continent, it is blessed with this responsibility.
What is that responsibility?
It is not for America to live for its own sake but to live for the sake of the world, and for others, that is why God blessed this nation of America; however, America has had many challenges in fulfilling this responsibility. That is why True Father came to the American continent and worked to help America fulfill this heavenly responsibility. For 40 years True Father invested his blood, sweat, and tears in America.
All of you are the children standing before the True Parents.
When you look at your personal lives how exemplary life of filial piety have you led?
We need to repent for our shortcomings. When we look at the history of providence, providence has worked throughout the American continent, and it has expanded across the Pacific civilization back to the Pacific Rim and on to Asia through Japan, which is the Eve nation, an island nation.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
Heaven selected Japan and thereafter, the Korean peninsula, which was selected as the fatherland of faith, as the fatherland of God. Heaven prepared these nations through the history of the Providence, however, this history of the Providence was filled with pain and suffering. This is the 70th anniversary of Korea’s independence. It is also the 70th anniversary of the founding of the UN. This is the year of the 70th anniversary.
Think about it, how many people are aware at this moment of heaven’s providence?
The UN was founded with the mission of welcoming and testifying about the only-begotten son of heaven, the True Father. This was heaven’s plan for the UN. At that time, True Father launched the history of the providence, and he went back to North Korea, facing difficulties. He risked his life and was even imprisoned in North Korea.
He went to Heungnam Prison. He was liberated the day before he was scheduled to be executed. The UN liberated him following the WWll.
So at that time, China was a great communist nation and America represented the democratic world by itself. If heaven had not worked this miracle at that time, the 16 nations of the UN could not have come to the rescue of Korea after WWll. When we look at the providence of restoration and True Father, True Father had the mission of completing and perfecting the entire history of the providence. Unless the True Father did that, God could not be liberated.
I would rather not make any political statement however I believe that America has the responsibility to preserve Korea as one united Korea. Korea should not have been divided. I believe this is another mission America has been blessed with.
Fulfilling Your Blessed Responsibility
When we look at heaven’s history in the providence, heaven is always victorious in the end. That is why all the blessed families around the world at this moment need to be at the mainstream of God’s providence. We need to be at the mainstream of the world with confidence and testify about the True Parents to the world.
We have to reveal that True Parents are on this earth, and centering on True Parents the history of the providence is taking place. That is how humanity and this world can be saved; that is how this world, that is how the future of this earth, that is how the future of humanity can be connected with True Parents, and we can have hope for this entire universe. Do you agree with me?
Following the human fall so many peoples and civilizations have been formed; however, among all these nations, do you think any country compares to America?
Do you think that these nations listen to the UN?
In one way, all the nations of the world are brotherly nations and at the center, we need to have the True Parents who can unite all these brothers, all these nations, and when True Parents stand at the center they can solve all the world’s problems. We need to be aware of this.
Furthermore, America stands at the forefront of the providence. It is the elder nation, it is the eldest son, and when America fulfills its God-given responsibility to all of the world, all of humanity can unite and in so doing, we can have one united world centering on Heavenly Parent. It can become One Family Under God. This will take place without fail.
To bring this day forward I hope that we will all work together. We can all resolve to do this. So, will you do it?
Today is a special day. True Father is here with us, and he is looking at all of you with a pleased heart. He wishes all of you can fulfill your blessed responsibility and will, without fail, be centered on the Heavenly Parent and together realize one world centered on the Heavenly Parent. We are going to do our very best! Do you resolve to do so? Thank you!
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon