The Wilderness Course and the Day of Victory of Love

True Parents and the wilderness course

Today, this morning, is the beginning of a new day when Mother turns 40 years old. She is young, but she has been attending to her husband hers who is like a teacher or a parent, or sometimes like an older brother to her.

Father, please pour out Your love on Mother, who has endured well while walking the bloody path to establish the Unification Church as we know it today. She has a big heart. She has loved the children of the enemy, and she has stood in a position to love her children as well.

Now at the beginning of this second 21-year course, because of the historical mission of uniting the blessed families with True Parents' family, Ye Jin's family and Hyo Jin's family, I come before You, Father, with the sincerest gratitude that the surprising event of this engagement and marriage can take place according to Your Will.

Father, the families of this son and daughter are not fully aware of their historic mission of becoming unified families. Surrounded by the blessed families, these two couples, whom the angelic world cannot defeat, are working wholeheartedly to resolve historical resentment; they are forming a barrier around everyone, coming before Heaven with seriousness and showing filial piety.

Thus, they can stand in the position to teach others. Through this work, and through achieving the standard of peace centering on the realm of the family, the realm of the tribe, race, and nation can be realized.

Only then can the parent family pass through the standard of national True Parents and go through the course of the world-level Parents.

They can then become the True Parents' family of heaven and earth. The foundation for God's love can then be established, as well as the foundation for God, liberated from eternal pain, to rule as the king in that nation. Please think about this wonderful truth once again. Father, please bless this precious time as we enter the year 1982. (116-167, 1982.01.01)

The mother's role is to help her two sons unite. She has to make the older son into the younger son and the younger son into the older son. She must embrace Abel with her right arm and Cain with her left and go to Adam.

Mother did this before she was 40 years old. She took her children and the Cain children and took them together to Father. After that, she brought them to God. (116-200, 1982.01.01)

Mother is now a distinguished person. Therefore, I am giving her full authority over everything. (124–257, 1983.02.20)

Heung Jin's sacrifice and the Day of Victory of Love

In December 1983, I spoke in eight major Korean cities at Victory over Communism rallies to unite the citizens of the Republic of Korea in defense of their nation.

I also assembled 72 national delegates from the Professors World Peace Academy, representing the world and Christianity. I had a fierce battle with Satan as our rallies swept the nation.

The entire nation of Korea was caught up in our activities. Through these rallies, I intended to subjugate Satan, who was working through North Korea to invade the South.

At that time, my own family was under extreme duress. As the representatives of the entire world, my family was under attack. Since Satan could not attack me directly, he attacked my son, Heung Jin.

During the last Victory over Communism rally in Gwangju, while I was speaking, my son was involved in an automobile accident. It was like the nation was the father and the church was the son.

In this situation, Christianity was completely opposed to us. All this had to be indemnified, so a great ransom had to be paid; an extraordinary sacrifice was required.

For that reason, God allowed Heung Jin, one of the precious sons of the True Family, to serve as that sacrifice. Due to the opposition of Christianity on the earth, the path for Christianity centering on Jesus in the spirit world to cooperate with the earth was lost.

This means that the Christian spirits in the spirit world, centering on Jesus, cannot come down to the earth and cooperate if there is opposition from Christians on the earth. Therefore, the spiritual and physical worlds must be connected through offering a sacrificial condition.

Then the organization that gave the sacrificial offering, through its surroundings or through the physical world, can develop and move forward as the replacement for the foundation that was lost, using the vertical connection to the spirit world to spread horizontally on the earth.

Many things were accomplished through Heung Jin's sacrifice. In life, he was the most filial son, but now this most sincere and pure child is in the embrace of God.

If it were not for Heung-jin's sacrifice, there could have been two very unfortunate developments. First, the North Korean military could have invaded South Korea; second, my earthly life could have ended.

Already, because of the success of the Victory over Communism rallies in Korea, Satan could no longer attack South Korea. Satan still tried to attack me, but instead, at the exact time when we were harvesting victory in Korea, he ended up claiming Heung Jin, and my son became a sacrificial offering. (130-289, 1984.02.07)

On December 31, 1983, we, as True Parents, visited the hospital and conducted the Unification Ceremony. That ceremony placed Heung Jin above both the communist and democratic worlds.

It was a serious moment. Even though this robust son, whom we loved more than anyone else, was about to pass into the spirit world, we could not allow ourselves to shed tears.

During the three days after the Unification Ceremony, when we instituted the Day of the Victory of Love, we were unable to shed tears. Since we were marking his victory over death while standing as the True Parents of humankind, we were unable to permit ourselves to be sad.

By their mistake, Adam and Eve built a high wall that would separate human beings from God. This created the valley of death, the hell of death, hell in the spiritual war, and hell on earth. Standing at the highest point, we put everything in order and offered up our son.

You cannot imagine how serious we were. As a parent, if I could have slowed the passage of time, I would have. But at a time like that, I had to send Heung Jin off without any hesitation and keep a steady heart in front of Heaven. I even had to tell Mother that if she cried, she would invite misfortune.

Only after we had held the Seonghwa Ceremony in Korea and sent him off to heaven, could we cry as his parents. Only after the ceremony was completed did I shed tears, but those tears of grief were mixed with tears celebrating his victory. (408-293, 2003.06.17)

Heung Jin passed away, but he is not dead in the physical or spiritual world. I believe he will bring about the realm of the resurrection of love. This means that though he went there through death, he will resurrect love through his death.

He will hold on to the spirit world and the earth and proclaim the realm of resurrection of love.

Through this, he will depart from the realm of death. You should not think that my son overcame the indemnity conditions and died for the sake of proclaiming this Day of Victory of Love.

Putting aside his bodily death, you must know that this was a fight for the sake of God's love. You must think of God's love more than a mother and father think of their child who has passed away.

You must think about a love that can win over the realm of death. I take full responsibility. That is why we decided to perform the Unification Ceremony.

I told Mother, "At this time, you and I should stand as parents that Heaven can be proud of, that all the ancestors in the spirit world can be proud of, and that the spirit world, angelic world, the thousands of apostles, saints, and sages can be proud of.

We have to create a mood in which all humankind will bow to us because they can see that there is no mistaking that we have the authority of love that can rule over the realm of death. We have to make all humankind testify to us, saying, 'You are indeed the center of God's love.'"

Even after sending my son off, I hold aloft the banner of love and move forward into action for the sake of a new world. You must understand that the Day of Victory of Love is the day of a new beginning that commemorates this.

It could become the standard for establishing the new direction of love nationally and worldwide. That is why we give this day the name "Day of Victory of Love," as proclaimed at four o'clock on January 3, 1984. (130-203, 1984.01.15)

You must understand that people in public positions must maintain a strict standard. I told Mother, "Mother, you must know this! The shoots on the very top of the tree are very high, so when the wind blows, they have to overcome the most dangerous circumstance.

However, even while doing so, the shoot must grow. No matter how painful it is, even if there is a storm, and it finds itself shaking, the shoot must continue growing to drive the roots deeper." Therefore, we have overcome the realm of death, and the world that we are entering from now on is one centered on the Day of Victory of Love proclaimed by True Parents.

Now is the time when we can establish the condition by which the realm of death cannot reach beyond this wall. As long as you love me more than your own life, Satan cannot attack here.

This is because Heung Jin passed away in your place. Based on that, if you become people who can love True Parents more than Heung Jin did, then Satan cannot move at all. Until now, Satan ruled over love, but from now on, God rules over love. (130-205, 1984.01.15)