We Must Reveal the Truth

This speech was delivered at the 2013 Global Leaders Assembly on December 15, 2013, at Cheong Shim Peace World Center, Korea.

Distinguished guests from home and abroad, Ambassadors for Peace and beloved blessed members from around the world, welcome! This year, 2013, has been historic and unprecedented, starting with Foundation Day.

We have now reached the point at which we must wrap up this year and prepare to usher in the new era and hope of 2014, which is about to begin. However, things happening in the world around us have left us feeling freezing.

Let us have a heart to love God, love people, and love our nation

Why is history accompanied by so many difficulties?

Even though people have sought goodness according to the workings of their conscience throughout our long history, today we face an indescribably complicated era rife with problems of race, religion, ideology, territory and national borders, national defense, and many others.

We cannot stand still. We know that God is working hard, without rest, to carry out the providence. These problems have arisen because humankind has deviated from the main track, and the providence of restoration through indemnity has been necessary to enable people to return to the original path through their efforts.

However, this has been a difficult task for human beings to accomplish by themselves. Throughout the history of all religions, especially Christianity, the messianic figure came to us as per our ultimate hopes.

What kind of person is the Messiah?

The Messiah is supposed to resolve everything that has gone wrong with humankind. For this reason, the Messiah must come as the True Parents. They must give rebirth to all people who have fallen.

Without such a process, there is no hope of resolving humanity's complicated history. We are grateful and amazed that the True Parents have appeared on earth. Distinguished guests who have gathered here today, and particularly Ambassadors for Peace, please fulfill all your responsibilities on the front line.

Heaven's providence does not wait for us; there is a right time. We have reached an important point in time when we should be in the position of true and devoted children who attune themselves to this time.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon has been educating people under the motto, "Love God, love people, and love your country." Even if a person is not aware of the deeper providence, he or she will naturally be loyal to the nation if that person has a heart that reveres Heaven and loves people.

I sincerely hope that politicians in charge of their nations will think of ways to help their countries and love the people instead of merely pursuing their interests. The mission of the Ambassadors for Peace is significant.

Ambassadors for Peace from Korea and all other nations must take the lead in guiding others to the path toward a world of peace. If not only the people of your own country, but also those of neighboring countries, have the heart to love Heaven, love the people, and love their nations, would they be able to act selfishly?

We are now concerned about the situation in Northeast Asia. What will happen if we approach it with this kind of heart? In Isaiah 2:4, it says that a peaceful world can be realized when swords are beaten into plowshares.

Yellow sand and micro-dust currently being blown in from China are threatening our health. This threatens the health of all living things in Korea. However, this is what I want to say to this country: we should follow the lead of the Bible when it suggests changing the implements of war into tools for caring for the land.

Astronomical amounts of money are being poured into military expenses; if only a third of those funds were invested in supporting a fertile land movement to plant trees in areas that have been deforested, which constitute about 30 percent of the plains of China, what do you think would happen?

Peace will surely spread from Asia to the world if the countries of Asia can unite in feelings of love for God, love for people, and love for their countries.

The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, along with the Ambassadors for Peace, should invest in true family activities and pure love campaigns. These activities will help to solve youth and family problems and the problems of crime around the world.

We must attend True Parents

We must reveal the truth for this reason. The truth is that both Heaven and humanity on earth have longed for and hoped for the True Parents. All nations must attend True Parents as brother and sister countries.

Only by achieving a culture of deep heart, in which nations live for each other's sake and love each other as brothers and sisters in front of True Parents, can world peace be possible. The place we will be heading to after living such a life is the eternal world, the Kingdom of Heaven.

O matter how long our earthly life may be, it will not pass 100 years. The reality is that our chance to live here on earth is on loan from our Creator, the original owner, who is our Heavenly Parent. Do you understand what I am saying? We cannot claim any ownership.

Having borrowed our place on this earth, we should use it well and return it in the state Heaven desires. Only by doing that can we enjoy eternal freedom, peace, and joy in that other world. I hope that you can realize this point. What should we do to live such a life? We must stand up. We must run out.

It would be even better if we could fly. We do not have much time left. How can we fulfill all that God wills on earth and be complemented by our Heavenly Parent saying, "Thank you, my son, my daughter, of whom I am proud!"? Let us all dash forward together with all our might until the day we achieve the hope of Heaven and all people.